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CONTENTS.-No. 268.

NOTES:-Diary of William Oldys, Esq., Norroy King-atArms, 121-The Badge of a Yeoman of the Crown, 124Slang in 1787: The Shakspearian words "Gallow" and "Micher," 125- Dryden's Prefaces, Ib.-Richard Hooker: on the First Edition of the "Ecclesiastical Polity," Book MINOR NOTES:-A Parallel with a Moral-Early Allusion

V., 126-Modern Apocryphal Apocalypse, 127.

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Notes.

DIARY OF WILLIAM OLDYS, ESQ.

NORROY KING-AT-ARMS.

(Continued from p. 104.)

Aug. 28. Mr. Vertue called upon me, and we appointed to go next Sunday to Mr. Ames. Told me he had been at Penshurst, the Lord Leicester's, again; took a copy of Sir Philip Sidney's picture, and that he saw in the library Sir Philip's Apology for, or Defence of, his Uncle Robert Earl of Leicester, written with his own hand in five or six sheets of paper, in answer to some libel then written or published against him, which I imagine to have been Father Parsons his green coat, after·wards called Leicester's Commonwealth, 4° and 8°, 1541; and he observed that the said defence or apology ends with Sir Philip's challenge to maintain with his sword what he had herein asserted with his pen against the said author of the said libell, if he was a gentleman, in any part of the world.1

Aug. 29. Dined with Mr. Ames; saw his collection of old Title-pages, and Mr. Lewis his intended Title-page for his Life of Maister William Caxton,

1 Sir Philip Sydney's Defence of his Uncle is printed in Collins's Letters and Memorials of State, fol. 1746, vol. i. pp. 61-68.

"Life of Mayster Wyllyam Caxton, of the Weald of Kent, the first Printer in England." By the Rev. John

4

our first printer, which I could in very few of the particulars approve of; it being too circumstantial, and giving us most of the private history of the man in the first page of the book. Besides, the subjoining a poetical motto in French, from a modern French poet, and that a translation rather on the propriety, too foreign, noways honouring his art of writing than printing, is too great an imworthy or his work, nor becoming the course and character of an antiquary. Therefore, I recommended rather one from Mrs. Weston's Latin poem of typography.3 Supped with Mr. Thompson at St. Saviour's, and borrow'd his Caxton's Tully de Senectute for the fifth number of The British Librarian; was witness to his paying a legacy to Hasselden of 307. Sent a letter to Mr. Ames about the title of Mr. Lewis's Life of Caxton, and about the twenty hundred weight of waste books, at 25s. per cwt. Wrote an answer to Mr. Anstis at Mortlake about the MS. collections, relating to the Order of the Garter, which he thinks is the same book with that he formerly borrowed of a noble peer, with the arms of Mr. Ashmole upon it, and which had been missing some time out of the said nobleman's library, whom he promises shall make a recompence suitable to what it cost, if it be his, and is restored to him; further desiring direction how to behave himself to discover the person who took it away.

Sep. 1. Saw Mr. Wm. Jones's curious library, and fine collection of shells, fossils, &c., at his house next the Salt Office, in York Buildings. Lewis, of Margate. Lond. 1737, royal 8vo. 150 copies were printed with a fictitious portrait of Caxton.

Elizabeth Joanna Weston, a learned lady of the sixteenth century. The poem is printed in her Opuscula, 8vo. 1724, p. 147.

4 Sir Peter Thompson, Knt. was the third son of Capt. Thomas Thompson, of Poole, co. Dorset, in which town Sir Peter was born Oct. 30, 1698. Sir Peter was engaged in mercantile pursuits more than forty years, during which period he chiefly resided in Mill Street, Bermondsey. He was elected F.S.A. 1748; appointed highsheriff for Surrey, 1745; and represented the borough of St. Albans in parliament from 1747 to 1754.768, he withdrew from commercial affairs to enjoy the pleasures

of studious retirement. He died on October 30, 1770. His valuable library and museum became the property of his kinsman Peter Thompson, who in 1782 was a captain of the company of grenadiers in the Surrey militia. Sir Peter collected, at great expence, all the antient records that could be found relating to the town of Poole, which he liberally communicated to Mr. Hutchins for his History of Dorsetshire. His materials for the Life of Joseph Ames were used by Mr. Gough in the Memoirs prefixed to Mr. Herbert's edition of the Typographical knowledges his obligations to "his ingenious friend Mr. Antiquities. Mr. Oldys, in the British Librarian, acPeter Thompson, for the use of several printed books, which are more scarce than manuscripts; particularly some, set forth by our first printer in England; and others, which will rise, among the curious, in value, as, by the depredations of accidents or ignorance, they decrease in number."-Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, v. 258. 511. 5 Father of Sir William Jones..

2. Sent another letter to Mr. Anstis, accepting his invitation to Mortlake, promising to be with him next Wednesday. Mr. Booth, when he called yesterday, said he had manuscripts enough to supply several British Librarians, and that he would bring me the old Record relating, as I remember, to the Forest of Delamere, when Mr. Holmes 6 of the Tower had transcribed it.

4. Dined with Mr. Vertue, and went with him to Mr. Ames in the afternoon. Returned Mr. Thompson's Caxton, and borrowed Sir Thomas Elyot's Governour.8

6. Mr. Vertue shewed me two curious limnings by old Isaac Oliver and his son Peter. The first was of Sir Philip Sidney, in a small oval in a blue ground. His hair light brown, pretty full and dark shaded; his face pale or somewhat wan, perhaps the colours only somewhat faded; his eyes gray, very lively and sharp; his nose gently rising; his beard thin; his dress a falling laced band, with a scollop edging; his vest, or doublet, white sattin corded, and laid along crossways very thickly with silver-lace, with this mark on the right hand 4.10 The other, by Peter Oliver, is of Sir Edward Harley, Knight of the Bath, grandfather to the Earl of Oxford. 'Tis somewhat larger than the other, set in gold, painted on a brown ground, as I remember, black short hair, roundish face, black eyes, picked beard; dressed in a ruff, close jacket or doublet, blue or greyish coloured, and flowered with black, and a red ribbon about his neck. This motto to the right, Ter et amplius, and this mark to the left, PO, both in gold letters. They are both delicate pieces, but

George Holmes, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London: born in 1662, and died 16th Feb. 1748-9. 7 Joseph Ames, Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, was originally a ship-chandler in Wapping. Late in life he took to the study of antiquities; and besides his Typographical Antiquities, 4to. 1749, he published a Catalogue of English Heads, 8vo. 1748, being the first attempt at giving a list of portraits, since followed up by Granger, Noble, Bromley, Walpole, &c. He died in 1759. His library and prints were sold by auction in the following year. Oldys, in his British Librarian, acknowledges his obligations to Mr. Ames, whom he styles a worthy preserver of antiquities," and returns him many thanks "for the use of one ancient relique of the famous Wicliffe." This was an illuminated MS. on vellum, called "Wicliffe's

Pore Caitiff."

8 This work is noticed by Oldys in The British Librarian, p. 261. It is entitled "The Boke named the GOVERNOUR; devised by Sir Thomas Elyot, Knyght. Imprinted at London, in Flete-strete, in the House of Thos. Berthelet, cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum," 8vo. 1553: 216 leaves, besides Tables, &c.

• Vide Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, ed. 1849, i. 176. 221., for notices of these two miniature painters.

10 The celebrated work of Isaac Oliver, formerly at Cowdray, had this same mark. It was a picture of three sons of Viscount Montague. (Walpole, Anec., ed. Dallaway, i. 297.) A miniature of Sir Philip Sydney by the same artist was purchased by Horace Walpole at West's sale for 161. 58. (Ibid. 299.)

the former has the hair more finely laboured, and the skin more tenderly stippled. The latter is freer, bolder, fresher. Mr. Vertue is graving them both: one for the publick, the other for the Earl of Oxford. He shewed me several other miniatures, many of them his own painting. His Queen of Scots, a full-length, seems to have most engaged his pains; and his miniature of Sir Walter Ralegh, in the silver armour, has a nearer approach to the beauty of the original than his print before my Life of him, which makes the face longer, and less graceful.

7. Dined with Mr. Anstis at his seat near Mortlake. Saw the Duke of Montague's letter to him, by which it appears the old heraldical manuscript before-mentioned was his Grace's, and that the gentleman lately dead, a Mr. Grimes, among whose books it was bought, had borrowed it of him. It was the handwriting of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, who died about 26 Henry VIII., in which the statutes of the Order appear at the beginning of that book, who signs at the end his initial letters, Th.Wr. A. R. Greck, that is, Grekelade. All the old illuminations of the Order of the Bath were graved in small compartments in one sheet in Sir Edward Bysse's Upton De Studio militari [fol. 1654]. And the Duke has graved the portraits at length of the old Earls of Salisbury, &c., in this book, which, with some others from other illuminations, make up seventeen plates; and Mr. Anstis has copied much of the arms and badges, &c., of the Knights of the Garter in it, so that the book has now been almost totally ransacked. Saw several curious books, &c., in his library, and his own book of the Order of the Garter, with many manuscript additions interleaved, and written on the Librarian, and his taste is for only old things, the margins. Some talk with Mr. Haslin about and collating editions, distinguishing omissions, alterations, &c.; but I made an objection they could not except against about Dr. Drake's edition of Archbishop Parker's Lives of the Archbishops, wherein is received all the author's rejections, for which indiscrete labour he could con the said editor no thanks. Saw the pictures of Robert Earl of Leicester in a close reddish doublet, half-length, and his brother Ambrose, Earl of Warwick, in the dining-room. Heard that the Yelverton library now is in the possession of the Earl of Sussex, wherein are many volumes of Sir Francis Walsingham's State Papers.

23. Dr. Pepusch offer'd me any intelligence or assistance from his antient collections of musick, for a history of that art and its professors in England.

1 The Yelverton MSS. were all given by the Earl of Sussex to Lord Calthorpe, whose mother was of the Yelverton family, and at his death had not been opened, (Gough MS. quoted in Nichols's Lit. Anec. iii. 622.) A catalogue of them is printed in the Cat. Manuscriptorum Anglia et Hiberniæ, tom. ii., part. i., pp. 118-174.