it for his future residence. (History of Philip II. p. 11, ed. London, 1855.) As Mr. Stirling remarks, there was no palace or hunting seat of the crown near enough to the Vera of Plasencia to make the emperor familiar with so remote a spot as Yuste; nor do the annals of the monastery, or those of Plasencia, contain any record of an imperial visit. But though there is no direct evidence to show why Charles V. chose Yuste as his retreat in preference to other pleasants spots in Spain, yet it is not improbable that when the emperor made a pilgrimage to the shrine of our Lady at Guadalupe in 1525, or when he spent a few days at Oropesa on his way to Seville the following year, he may have heard of the natural charms of the place. The fame of the beautiful Vera of Plasencia, with its nine leagues of pasture and forest, "ubi ver est purpureum et perpetuum," says Mr. Ford, "where river, rock, and mountain; city, castle, and aqueduct, under a heaven of purest ultra-marine, combine to enchant the artist," may indeed have frequently reached the ear of the emperor. But Mr. Ford (Hand-Book for Spain, vol. ii. p. 497, 1855), suggests another motive why the spot was selected. It seems that when the emperor's son Philip was on his way from Spain to England to marry our Queen Mary, he was requested by his father to visit Yuste, and to send him an account of the place. This shows that the emperor had himself never visited the spot, though Robertson, in his Life of the Emperor Charles V. (book xii.), states it as a positive fact that his majesty, in passing through Plasencia, visited the monastery, and was so struck with its delightful situation, that he observed to some of his attendants, "This is a spot to which Diocletian might have retired with pleasure." The Monastery of Yuste is often erroneously called, "The Monastery of San Yuste, St. Just, or St. Justus," as if the place was named after a saint. This mistake is made even by some Spanish writers as well as French and English. But it is certain that Yuste is not a saint's name, but a small stream, which descends from the sierra, behind the walls of the monastery, which was inhabited by monks of the Hieronymite order. (See El Retiro, Estancia, y Muerte del Emperador Carlos Quinto, en el Monasterio de Yuste, por el Señor Don Tomas Gonzalez) preserved in MS. in the Archives of the Foreign Office, Paris. I may mention that the present proprietor of Yuste is about to restore the venerable old buildings, in consequence, it is said, of the interest excited in the spot by recent writers, more especially by Mr. Stirling. This I mention on the authority of the Rev. Richard Roberts's Autumn Tour in Spain in the Year 1859, p. 225. Norwich. JOHN DALTON. ORGANS IN ITALY. I remember six organs in St. Peter's, and am not sure there are not more. There are two very large ones in what we very incorrectly call the choir, but which is known there by its proper designation of the Tribune: two in the choir, an immense chapel on the left-hand of the nave as you enter; one in the Chapel of the Sacrament, and one in the Sacristy: those in the Tribune stand upon large platforms, on which also the singers, the conductor (Maestro di Capella), and some double-bass players are placed. The whole is moved on immense rollers according to the number of the congregation or space intended to be occupied. The largest I could not get access to. The smaller, or ripieno organ, had one row of keys, fourteen stops, among which were metal diapasons to a large scale, and two octaves of pedals. In almost all large churches in Italy there are two organs, one on each side, which are played in duo concertante by two players. One perhaps will take the string band part of a composition, while the other plays that of the wind band, and sometimes they will play duets on the solo stops. The effect is extremely fine, the most like that of an orchestra I ever heard, and the organists among the best in Europe. They play with extraordinary fire and vigour, and at the same time with great breadth of style. The same man will play a fugue of Palestrina's, and immediately after the last favourite motivo of the opera equally well. However incongruous this may appear to our ears, both are equally well done. Organists elsewhere either seem to have their fingers tied, or to scramble over the notes, as if playing on the piano-forte. The Italians are masters of the instrument in any style. In the large Jesuit church at Rome there are three organs. Two, as before described, and one over the entrance door, raised as high as possible, in fact, close to the ceiling. This third organ is mainly of large reed stops, resembling in fact trombones, and comes in at intervals in the performance with splendid effect. The most I ever saw in any church combined together was at San Antonio at Padua. There are four large organs there, occupying the four sides of the main supports of the great central dome. On grand festivals they are played on in concert by the four best players that can be had. The tradition is, that Saint Antony of Padua was a great lover of music, and an excellent organist himself. It is not improbable that, from the circumstance that he is always depicted with a hog following him, the saying about "pigs playing the organ" has arisen. It is, however, a very curious fact, that while the Pope says mass no instrumental music whatever is permitted. In the Sistine Chapel there is no organ; and at high papal masses at St. Peter's no music accompanies the mass itself, although a splendid wind band is stationed high up in the dome, kept quite out of sight, and occasionally breathes out strains of music with magical effect. The former circumstance would lead one almost to believe the Presbyterians are right in saying that instrumental music was forbidden in the early Christian church. Be this as it may, the Italian organists certainly stand very high in the rank of musicians. A. A. Poets' Corner. THE REGISTERS OF THE STATIONERS' (Continued from 3rd S. iii. 2.) xxviijo Dec. [1594].-Tho. Millington. Entred to him, &c., a ballad Shewinge the treason lately wrought against the Frenche Kinge, who was by a Jesuite of younge yeares suddenlie wounded in the face, who had thought to have murdered him. vjd. iij Januarij [1594-5]. Richard Jones. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intituled Pan his pipe, conteyninge Three pastorall Eglogs in englishe Hexamiter, with other delightful verses This work was by William Warner, who in 1586 published his Albion's England, often reprinted. The probability is that he had previously written Pan his Syrinx or Pipe compact of seven Reeds, because such a work was entered by T. Purfoot on Sept. 22, 1584. (See Extracts from the Stat. Registers pr. by the Shakesp. Soc. ii. 192.) Here we find it recorded, on the same authority, in 1594-5, and it was most likely published, or republished, at that date. Therefore the edit. to which Ritson seems to refer in 1597, and which certainly then came from Purfoot's press (because copies of it were sold at the White Knights and Roxburghe auctions), may have been a third impression. We know of no copy of any date printed by Richard Jones, who above claims it.] Tho. Millington. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad, The Execution of John Chastell, that sought to murder the frenche Kinge with a knife vjd. xvijto Januarij. Tho. Creede. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad called The Saylers joye, to the tune of heigh ho hollidaie, &c. vja. [We do not find any trace of this early naval song, but the tune is sometimes mentioned in humorous tracts of the time.] Richard Jones. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intituled A glasse for vayneglorious Women, conteyninge an envectyve againste the fantasticall devises in Women's apparell vja. [This we take to be a re-entry of Gosson's attack upon the female sex, which had been entered to Millington on the 28th Dec. preceding (see p. 3). Nevertheless, that may have been a distinct work; and it is quite clear that the above registration applies to Gosson's Glasse to view the Pride of vainglorious Women, &c., which, in both the impressions of 1595 and 1596, bears the imprint of Richard Jones. It is a most curious piece.] [In the margin is written" Kempe," so that we may be sure it was a theatrical "jig," which consisted of humorous singing and dancing. Kemp, the famous comedian, who performed in several of Shakespeare's a Broom-man, who carried and sold brooms in the streets, when he sang and plays, was doubtless dressed as acted this "jig." We believe that the only specimen of this kind of dramatic entertainment now extant was by Tarlton, the immediate predecessor of Kemp. It is called Tarlton's Jig of the Horse-load of Fools,-a severe attack upon all classes, but especially upon the magistrates of London, because they were enemies to plays and players.] xvij die Januarij.-Humfrey Lownes. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intituled Cynthia, with certeyne Sonnettes, and the Legend of Cassandra. vja. [The work of Richard Barnfield, some of whose supposed poems, in 'a subsequent publication, were in fact written by Shakespeare. They were surreptitiously introduced into Barnfield's Encomion of Lady_Pecunia, Pilgrim, 1599, and honestly excluded by Barnsfield when 1598, were assigned to Shakespeare in The Passionate he reprinted his Encomion in 1605. Thus the claim of our great dramatist is established. Barnfield's earliest work was his Affectionate Shepherd, 1594, which was "printed by T. Danter for T. G. and E.N.," and not for Lownes, like his Cynthia. In the interval, Barnfield had changed his publisher.] xxj Januarij.-Raffe Blower. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intuled A Communication sett forthe by R. Birde . . vjd. [If R. Birde had been W. Birde, the old composer and organist, there would have been great appropriateness in the selection of Blower for his stationer: we know nothing of R. Birde or of his work intuled (as the Clerk hastily wrote) 4 Communication. No doubt this was not the whole of the title, but it is all the functionary at the Hall apparently had time to copy. R. Birde might be a descendant of W. Birde, and there was a much employed actor of that name in Henslowe's Company. See his Diary, passim.] John Wolfe. Entred for his copie, &c. these three Bookes followinge, viz. one intituled the Sheppherdes prattles; the second, The Reward of the Mercyfull; the third, The estate of Christians lyvinge under subjection of the turke. xviij. [These were not ballads, but "books," and we may guess the first to have been a pastoral or pastorals. Many authors of the day, including W. Rankin, Gosson, Eedes, &c., wrote pastorals, but their works in this kind have not come down to us. Of the two other pieces, all we know of them is from this registration.] xxx die Januarij.-Abell Jeffes. Entred for his copie, &c. the first parte of The Divells holding a parliament in hell for the providinge of statutes vjd. against pride; the same being a ballad 99 iiijto die Februarij.— Edward White. Entred for his copie, &c., A pleasant Jigge betwene a Tinker and a Clowne vjd. [Doubtless a theatrical "jig" in which two comic actors took part-very likely by William Kempe; but no name is in the margin of the register, as was the case with Kempe's Jig of " the Broom-man on 16th Jan.] to die Febr.-Thomas Gosson. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad entituled a Lancashire man's joye for the late marriage of the right honorable the Erle of Derbie. vjd. [Ferdinando, Lord Derby had died in 1594, and Stow gives a long account of his illness. It was his widow who was married to Sir Thomas Egerton (afterwards Baron Ellesmere) in 1600. Ferdinando was succeeded by his brother, William Stanley, and it was in celebration of his marriage that this ballad was written. Stow's notice of this wedding runs thus (Annales, p. 1279): "The 26 of January, the Earle of Darbie married the Earle of Oxford's daughter at the Court, then at Greenewich, which marriage feast was there most royally kept."] xvijo Febr.-Tho. Gosson. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad of Cuttinge George, and his hostis, beinge a Jigge vjd. [Jigs at this date, and with such comic actors seem to have become very favourite performances. It is possible that "Cutting George" was George Peele, who appears to have led a very irregular life. Cutting Dick " flourished soon afterwards; and it was about this time that the word "Cutter " came into general use.] 66 xxviij die Februarij.—Thomas Man and John Porter. Entred for their copie, &c. a booke entituled The arreignment and Conviction of Usurye by Myles Mosse. vja. [Moss is an abbreviation of Moses; and it would seem strange that a Jew, or the descendant of a Jew, should write sermons (there were six of them) against Usury. Perhaps Miles Mosse, whose first name does not seem to have been known (see Lowndes, p. 1304) had been conHis volume verted to Christianity and from usury. bears date in 1595.] xxi die Febr.-Cutbert Burbye. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke shewinge The Miraculous Judgement of God showen in Herefordshire, where a mightie barne filled with corne was consumed with fyre, begynninge last Christmas Eve, and duringe fuftene dayes after. vjd. Cutbert Burbie. Entred alsoe to him for his copie a ballad of the same, &c. . . vja. [This was considered a judgment upon a hoarder of corn, the price of which in 1595 (Stow, p. 1279) had risen from fourteen shillings to foure markes the quarter."] xxiiijto die Febr.-Tho. Creede. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad intiteled the First Parte of the Merchaunte's daughter of Bristoll, &c. vja. [This ballad, remarkable for its graceful simplicity and other excellences, may be seen at length in A Book of Roxburghe Ballads, 4to, 1847. It is in two parts, but here we see only the first part entered. It is mentioned as Maudlin, the Merchant's Daughter, in B. & F.'s Monsieur Thomas, Act III. Sc. 3. The Rev. Mr. Dyce did not ascertain the date of the ballad, because he was not [We have never heard of any earlier impression of this translation than 1602, 4to, by A.M.; and the second part bears date in 1609. The two parts were reprinted in 1639, published by B. Alsop and T. Fawcet. The whole was republished in 1664, and this was the edition Southey used in his version. He finds great fault with Munday and his assistants; but Southey's MS., now before us in fifty divisions, shows that from beginning to end, he did little more than alter his predecessor's translation. Every addition and improvement is in Southey's hand-writing on an interleaved copy of the impression of 1664, "Printed by R. I. for S. S. to bee sold by Charles Tyers at the three Bibles on London Bridge."] x die Marcij.-Tho. Creede. Entred for his copie, &c. a booke entituled Mother redd cappe, her last will and Testament, conteyninge sundrye conceypted and pleasant tales, furnished with moche vjd. varietie to move delighte [Upon this humorous tract, 'in all probability, M. Drayton and A. Munday founded the comedy they wrote for Henslowe's Theatre in Dec. 1597 (Diary, pp. 106, 117), and it was included by the old manager among the stock-books he had bought for his company in March, 1598. We find no other trace of it.] Tho. Creede. Entred alsoe for his copie, &c. a booke called Pheander, the mayden Knight, &c. vjd. [Such a romance was printed in 1661, and it was doubtless a reprint of an earlier impression, which, we believe, has not been recovered.] xiiij Febr.-John Danter. Entred for his copie, &c. a ballad entituled The madd merye pranckes of Long Megg of Westminster] vjd. [It was reprinted in 1814 from a copy dated 1635, and the title may be seen at length in Lowndes's Bibl. Man. p. 1248. No earlier edition is known. It appears from a passage in Nat. Field's Amends for Ladies, 1618, that a play under the title of Long Meg was then popular at the Fortune Theatre, and Henslowe's Diary records it under date of Feb. 14, 1594-5: this was the very day that Danter made the above entry, perhaps in anticipation of a MS. copy of the comedy which he hoped to procure, on intending to have a ballad written upon the subject by some poet in his employ.] Willm. Jones Entred for his copie, &c. a booke intituled The Schoole of good manners. vja. [This might be an early edition of Richard West's little Book of Demeanour, which was reprinted about forty years ago, having come out, as far as we now know, in 1619. The style is, however, considerably older. In 1605 appeared a work, of which we shall have more to say hereafter, under the title of The Schoole of Slovenrie, and, pos. sibly this name was founded upon the above entry of The School of good Manners.] J. PAYNE COLLIER. Minor Notes. NOTTINGHAM TYPOGRAPHY.-I am about to print a list of books and pamphlets printed or published at Nottingham previous to 1790 or thereabouts. If any of your correspondents know of such publications, they would oblige me by first sending the short title, with date and author's name. If I have not the work, the loan of it will then be requested for two days, or instead, a full and exact copy of the title-page, with size and number of pages, would do nearly as well. S. F. CRESWELL, M.A. The School, Durham. A PROPHECY IN JEST.-The following extract from a burlesque article in the New Monthly Magazine for 1821 (vol. ii.), entitled "Specimen of a prospective Newspaper, A.D. 4796," ́is curi ous: "The army of the Northern States (of America) will early next spring. The principal northern force will take the field against that of the Southern Provinces consist of 1,490,000 picked troops. General Congreve's new mechanical cannon was tried last week at the siege weighing 5 hundred weight. The distance of the objects of Georgia. It discharged in one hour 1120 balls, cach fired at was eleven miles, and so perfect was the engine that the whole of these balls were lodged in the space of twenty feet square." A subsequent article in this specimen states that, "by means of a new invention, Dr. Clark crossed the Atlantic in seven days." How little did the writer anticipate that, in forty years, these to him wild fancies, would be almost realised. It is worth notice that a war between North and South was anticipated. H. S. G. ENIGMA.I met with the following enigma several years ago, but have never seen the answer to it. I doubt much if it is not a mere hoax, like others in circulation; but if it can be answered, it certainly will be in "N. & Q.": "In jerkin short and nutbrown coat I live, Poisons from books, and sweets from flowers I cull. F. C. H. THE LUKINS AND THE WINDHAMS. Dr. Lukin, formerly Dean of Wells, a somewhat celebrated divine in his day, married Catherine, second daughter of Robert Doughty, Esq., co. Norfolk. scended, from an ancient Essex family), whose The father of the Dean was Robert Lukin (desecond wife married William Windham, and had by him the Rt. Hon. William Windham, the cele brated statesman, who entailed his estates on William Lukin, eldest son of the Dean of Wells, who in 1824 assumed the name of Windham, and succeeded to the Felbrigge Hall estate, and was the grandfather of Mr. W. F. Windham, whose name has lately been so often before the public. The Dean had the reputation of being a good liver, and fond of his bottle. He was a great encourager of cock-fighting, which was then carried on to a great extent in Wells. The following jeu d'esprit is from the Dean's pen (written in 1805), which exemplifies the character he bore :"A good slice of buck, and a bottle of claret, With mirth and good cheer, and no trouble to mar it, Makes a Layman to smile,-makes a Parson so sleek; Once a month is too seldom,-it should be each week." INA. Wells, Somerset. Queries. JUNIUS'S LETTERS: COULD FRANCIS HAVE WRITTEN THEM? P. H. S. (antè, p. 6) has contributed a curious fact, showing who among others was assumed by Junius's contemporaries to have been the author of these celebrated Letters. I have just stumbled upon a small paragraph, valuable for the very opposite reason, as showing that at least in the opinion of one of his contemporaries, Sir Philip Francis, whose claims to the authorship of Junius have, during the last quarter of a century, been so strenuously supported, was quite incapable of writing the Junius Letters. It is contained in the pamphlet entitled "Some Observations and Remarks on a late Publication, entitled Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa,' in which the real Author of this Asiatic Atlantis, his Character, and his Abilities, are fully made known to the Public. 2nd Edition, 1782." This pamphlet was written by Joseph Price, and is a violent attack upon the character and veracity of James Macintosh, the author of the Travels in question, who was, he tells us, “An intimate friend and fellow labourer of the famous Colonel Macleane, not unknown in the former ministry of Lord Shelburne, and so much exposed by his Newspaper Correspondence with John Wilkes, Esq." abilities of his patron and friend Mr. Philip Francis. I shall, Mr. Macintosh, take occasion to inform the world that you needed not to have asked leave of that artful man to make a few short observations on his works. If he has written anything to the Honorable Company on the subject you speak of, they are not his own observations. He is, Sir, no better than yourself, a copier or commentator on the works of other men; the custom of writing minutes on political subjects to be entered on the face of the Company's consultations, at the members' own houses, has been the means of raising to Mr. Francis the little credit he has obtained. Whatever the Governor General proposed in council, Mr. Francis objected to, and promised a minute at a future meeting. A copy of the proposition was carried home. Messrs. Shore, Ducarrell, Anderson, Alexander, or Mr. Charles Grant were sent for; the three first on all matters of revenue, or Hindoo laws or customs; the fourth on affairs of the army; and the fifth on mercantile affairs; they digested the minute, and Mr. Francis copied it and carried it to the board. To prove this, I refer to his crude and undigested letters to the Company exhibited in the second report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, namely Nos. VII. and VIII. of the Appendix. He never thought that those curious productions would have been brought forward to the public eye, or he would have got Mr. William Harwood, a very able Company's servant, who came home in the ship with him, to have revised them for him. But he, like his friend Mr. Macintosh, never fails to be caught tripping, when they attempt anything purely from their own knowledge. I shall prove the copartnership by and by.”—Pp. 53—5. Knowing that many who take an interest in the Junius controversy avow that one of their greatest difficulties lies in believing Sir Philip Francis to have been Junius arises from the fact that the Junius Letters are written in a higher and better style, and with far greater power, than anything which is known to have proceeded from Francis's pen, I venture to forward to "N. & Q." the passage which I have accidentally met with, and which shows the low estimation as a writer in which Francis was held by one who seems to have known pretty intimately both the man and his writings. W. O. W. ANONYMOUS. The following is the title of a should be glad to receive information: — pamphlet, concerning the authorship of which I Letters on the Utility and Policy of employing Machines to Shorten Labour; occasioned by the late Disturbances in Lancashire: to which are added some Hints for the further Extension and Improvement of our Woollen Trade and Manufactures. "Upon every invention of value, we erect a statue to the inventor, and give him a liberal and honourable reward."-Lord Bacon's Atlantis. London: Printed for T. Becket, Corner of the Adelphi, Strand, 1780. W. G. A. |