NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. v. JA>-. e, IQIS.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S ' SKETCH-BOOK '
<11 S. iv. 109, 129, 148, 156, 196, 217, 275).
3. " Darkness and the grave " (p. 109). This appears to be a misreading of the ' Sketch-Book.' In ' The Broken Heart ' Irving quotes the half -line " darkness and the worm " from Young's ' Night Thoughts ' :
The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave ; The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm.
Night IV.
9. 'Corydon's Doleful Knell' (p. 129). In my copy of Percy's ' Reliques ' it is stated that the poem Corydon's Doleful Knell ' is given, "with corrections, from two copies, one of which is in ' The Golden Garland of Princely Delights.' " The author, I believe, is quite unknown. 14. When this old cap was new,
'Tis since two hundred yeare. P. 129.
Some versions of this song are signed with the initials " M. P.," supposed to indicate Martin Parker, for an account of whom see the ' D.N.B.'
33. The ship sailed " and was never heard of more " (p. 148). A quotation evidently from ' The Castaway Ship,' an extremely popular and formerly much admired poem by John Malcolm. The closing lines are as follows :
It may not be ; there is no ray By which her doom we may explore ; We only know she sailed away, And ne'er was seen or heard of more ! The author, a native of Orkney, served as an officer in the Army, and died com- paratively young. His poem ' The Cast- away Ship ' appears in several Scottish school-books of fifty or sixty years ago, and is painfully associated in my recollec- tion with the tremulous tones of scholars in terror of the teacher's taws. Malcolm published three volumes, mostly in verse, and contributed largely to periodical literature, but does not find a place, strangely enough, in the ' D.N.B.,' where, without doubt, he should have appeared.
38.^ Apparition in the Tower (p. 148). See ' The Romance of London : Super- natural Stories,' by John Timbs, in the
Chandos Classics," pp. 18-26.
39. Lyly's writings perpetuated in a proverb (p. 148). Is not the allusion to Lyly s ' Euphues,' which added to the English language a new word, " euphu- ism," commonly employed to designate
- n affected or inflated style of writing ?
41. ' Hue and Cry after Christmas ' {p. 148). The author is probably un-
known. There are several publications
with somewhat similar titles. In 1651
the Rev. Richard Culmer wrote ' The
Minister's Hue and Cry.' ' Hue and Cry
after the False Prophets and Deceivers of
our Age ' was written by Edward Bur-
rough in 1661. Somewhere I have seen
a title, ' Hue and Cry after the Christian,'
but have mislaid my note of it. There are
several other similar titles, but the refer-
ence by Irving does not seem to apply to
any of them.
44. ' Cupid's Solicitor for Love ' (p. 148). Richard Crimsall was the author of ' Cupid's Solicitor of Love,' presumably the same publication as that mentioned by Washington Irving. W. S. S.
'THE CATALOGUE OF HONOR' (11 S. iv. 488). I subjoin a copy of the title-page of this book on heraldry and genealogy, &c., by Thomas Milles. It is a folio volume, pp. x + 100, viii+36, and ii+1131. There is an engraved title-page by Renold El- stracke, six engravings of the costumes of the nobility (pp. 33-49), a portrait of the King in State (p. 61), and a plate of the King in Parliament (p. 69). Pp. 493-4 are usually mutilated, but in my copy they are perfect.
" The | Catalogue of Honor | or | Tresury of True Nobility, peculiar and | proper to the Isle of Great Britaine. | That is to say : | A Collection historicall of all the Free Monarches ] as well Kinges of England as Scotland (nowe | united togither) Avith the Princes of Walles, | Dukes, Marquisses, and Erles ; their wives, child: | ren, Alliances, Families, Descentes, & Achievementes of | Honor. ] Wherunto j is properly prefixed : A speciall Treatise of that kind of (Nobility which Soverayne Grace, | and favour, and Contryes Customes, | have made meerly Politicall | and peculiarly Civill (never so ] distinctly handled before). | Translated out of Latyne into English : | London. | Printed by William .laggard. | 1610."
CHAS. L. CUMMINGS.
This no doubt is the work by Thomas Milles of 1610, folio, printed and published by my namesake-ancestor, of which an exemplar may be seen at the British Museum. A copy, annotated throughout in MS. and illuminated in colours, is in my collection of Jaggard-printed books.
WILLIAM JAGG ARC.
Avonthwaite, Stratford-on-Avon. [MB. ROLAND AUSTIN is also thanked for reply.]
MAID A (11 S. iv. 110, 171, 232, 271, 334, 492). I can raise no objection to MR. RHODES making use of any books or army lists which he thinks proper, and I only
