SILVER POLISH RING.-S. J. T. is informed that the following is the correct reading of the legend on his ring in Polish, and the translation in English. Wolnosc. Calosc. Niepodleglosc. Dnia 29, Listopada 1830, Roku. Freedom.-Unity.-Independence.-(the watch-word of the Revolutionists,) 29th day of November, 1830th year (the day of the breaking out of the Revolution in Warsaw). B. W. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.-The case of Thomas Long is mentioned by Blackstone in his Commentaries. It appears that he was not unseated. Vide" Hallam's Constitutional History," vol. i. p. 267. BATTLE OF CHEVY CHASE.-One Rychard Sheale, was the author. Vide Introduction to this ballad in "Percy's Reliques." J. H. SCOTT. PAROCHIAL INTERMENTS.-I have a recollection of having in some place read the following story. Many years ago a corpse was left by the tide on a piece of, then, poor unprofitable land between Battersea and the next parish. The other parish refusing to bury the body, it was eventually interred at the expense of the parish of Battersea. This poor land having in course of time become valuable, it was claimed by each of the abovementioned parishes, and after long discussion by the Judges of the day, awarded to Battersea as a recompense of its ancient charity. Can any of your correspondents inform me where I can find this account? I ask the question, as there is an opinion almost universally prevalent in this part of the country, that if a corpse is found on a piece of disputed land, and buried by one of the parishes, that parish may immediately take, inclose and keep the land on which the body was found The above story may perhaps have originally been the foundation of this otherwise unaccountable idea. Gisborough. H. G. F. DIRTY DICK'S SHOP.-The front consisted of two bow windows, with a door between, the windows when I last saw them were in a most dilapidated condition, the panes that were whole, and they were but few, were quite opaque with dirt, and against the broken panes were placed pieces of wood, old rusty battered iron tea trays and waiters, with broken tea caddies and firescreens, to keep out the wind and rain. This was in 1802, in which year I left England for a long period, and on my return Time had carried off Dirty Dick, and modern improvement had swept away his dirty_shop. Edgbaston, Birmingham. J. S. B. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Sir J. S. A, the Punning Epitaph on Thomas Greenhill in Beddington Church is printed in Brayley's Surrey, iv. 65. S. J. Tucker is referred to Moule, Bib. Herald. 38. Egerton Brydges, who has noticed the Booke of Honor' in the Censura Literaria, has attributed it to Jhones the printer, from his signing his name to the dedication, but according to Anstis' Register of the Garter, i. 399, the real author was W. Segar, who afterwards reprinted it with considerable additions, under the title of Honor Military Grenville Library in the Brit. Mus. and Civil,' fol. 1602. Copies of both editions are in the Magog, thanked. A sketch of Dirty Dick's House will appear in our next. smuggling as running' kegs of French brandy. J. S. A. Running, Wool was once as common a feat of Assignats, (C. N. ii. 82), for 1802 read 1795. H. M. The letter is a forgery. It contains as many anachronisms as the famous Dutch painting, which represents Abraham about to sacrifice his son Isaac with a pistol, T. K. Browne. Grammatical Inflections in Language will appear in our next. Literary and Scientific Obituary. ARNOLD, Rev. Thomas K. March 9. Aged 53. Edu cational Works. Works. BURGES, Rev. George. January 24. Aged 89. Religious DUCIE, Henry George Francis, Earl. June 2. Agriculture. GALANOs, M. A distinguished linguist and Professor of OLIVER, Thomas, late of the firm of Oliver and Boyd, publishers, Edinburgh. Aged 77. April 26. ROGERSON, William, of the Greenwich Observatory. Author of the popular almanack, Temporis Calendarium. April 26. TRUEMAN, John, of Edmonston, the Nottinghamshire Entomologist. May 4. No. XXXI.] FOR THE MONTH. "I will make a prief of it in my Note-Book."-SHAkspere. THE TROUBADOUR BISHOP. Among the conspicuous characters of the twelfth century whom our English Biographical Dictionaries have neglected to notice, is Folquet, the son of a rich Genoese merchant, established at Marseilles. Born in the Land of Song, he was a poet from his youth. His father died and left him all his wealth. Like a true jongleur, he now sought the courts of the princes who loved the gay songs of Provence, and basked awhile in the sunshine of Richard Coeur de Leon, and the good Raymond, 5th Count of Tolouse. Above all, he attached himself to Barral, Viscount of Marseilles, his "Lord." Like Petrarch, he had his Laura, and wrote chansons in honor of Adelaide de Roquemartine, the Viscount's wife, whom he attempted to win over to his love. He also celebrated the charms of the two sisters of the Viscount, Laura de Sanjorian and Mabel de Pontevez. Alphonsus, King of Castile, honored him with his protection; and when that prince was defeated at Calatrava by the Saracens, and sought aid from the Kings of England, France, and Arragon, the poet exerted himself for his benefactor, and made interest with the barons of the country. But the Countess of Marseilles was virtuous; tired of his love and his verses, she ordered him to retire from her court; the poet was broken-hearted, and went to seek consolation near the imperial daughter of the Emperor Emanuel, consort of William de Montpellier. In the complimentary language of the age she was styled, the head and guide of all valour, all courtesy, and all learning. She accepted his services, and prayed him to write songs for her which he did very willingly. At length, the death of all his patrons, of Richard and of his first love, Adelaide, shed their gloomy influence over his heart; the world now offered nothing but bitter remembrances; Folquet entered the cloister, and became a Cistercian monk. While his friends lived, the poet sought with restless activity pleasure and renown;-they died, and, in austerity and contemplation, he wiped away the stains and errors of his youth. His wife and two sons imitated his example. These particulars are drawn from an ancient manuscript in the Bibliotheque du Roi, where nineteen of his "chansons" may be found. They are addressed to a Lady named Nasimans, doubtless the poetic name given to his mistress-perhaps her of Marseilles. Raynouard has published several of his lays. One has been translated very beautifully by Louisa Costello : If I must fly thee, turn away : Those eyes where love is sweetly dwelling, VOL. III. [JULY, 1853. And bid each charm, each grace decay, That smile, that voice, all else excelling; To lose a gem without compare. "He was Many authors speak of Folquet and his conversion after being a jongleur. "Petrarch mentions him with distinction in his Triumph of Love, and Dante sees him in Paradise amongst the souls of the elect." very handsome," says John of Nostrodamus, "joyous and agreeable." Under the coarse habit of the Cistercians, his muse, however, did not forsake him-he still cultivated the gay "science," but it was no longer profane hymns to Adelaide, Laura, and Mabel; the Mother of our Saviour was the "Lady" of his song. There is one given in the new edition of Vaissette, to which we must refer the reader. Folquet could not have been a monk before 1199, the date of Richard's death. But a few years elapsed before he was ordained a Bishop. He took possession of his See on Sunday, 5th of February, 1206, and preached that day on the Parable of the Sower. At his entrance into Toulouse, he had to contend with many difficulties-poverty and persecution. The Albigenses were so numerous, he hardly dared shew himself in the street. Rabenstens had left the bishopric in debt, and had squandered the revenues in defending processes and making war on one of his vassals. Folquet could get hold of more than 96 sols Toulousain," says William of Puy Laurens, “and he durst not send four mules he had brought with him to water, without an escort-they had water given them from a well sunk in the house." "never He was at last driven from his See. Peter, of Vaux Sernai, a cotemporary writer, relates, that "the Bishop was one day at Toulouse, on the Saturday after mid-Lent, and, according to the custom in Episcopal Churches, wished to administer Ordination on that day. However, the Count of Toulouse was then in the city, who, for his manifold excesses, had been specially excommunicated by the legates of the apostolic see, so that no one could celebrate the divine mysteries in any city where he was present. Accordingly, the Bishop sent a message to the Count, humbly imploring him to leave the city, for the sake of some recreation, and go out walking, until the Bishop had conferred Ordination. The tyrant's fury was roused-sending a knight to the Bishop, he bade him, under peril of his head, leave Toulouse and the Count's territory as speedily as he H could. The venerable man, hearing this message, in the warmth of his heart and intrepidity of soul, with glowing countenance, replied, The Count of Toulouse did not make me a Bishop, nor have I been placed here either by him or for him-the humility of the Church elected me, and I am no intruder through princely violence. I will not leave for him. Let him come if he dare-I am ready for the sword, and to arrive at glory by the cup of suffering. Let the tyrant come in his armour, and his knights thronging around him, he will find me alone and unarmed. I await the prize of victory, and fear not what man can do to me.' Folquet coolly remained forty days in the place, and then joined Simon de Montfort at the Siege of Lavaur. He took an active part in the War of the Albigenses, and closed his eventful career in 1231. THE MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF WILLIAM WHITEWAY. (Continued from p. 36.) June. In this month was there a watch appointed in all high ways throughout England, at every cross way, one by day and two by night perpetually, to give notice if any tumult should arise for want of trade; as there did of late in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. 1623. January. This month was much talk of a discovery of the poisoning of Prince Henry deceased by one Mr. Coppinger, a servant of the Earl of Somerset, but now it is vanished again, and they say Coppinger is light headed. November 15. This day, about ten o'clock at night, Squire Williams stabbed the tapster at the George to the heart and killed him, whereupon he fled into Holland, and from thence to France, where he lived at Caen; some eight months after he returned, having a pardon for £1500. 1626.-This winter the church of All Saints in Dorchester was enlarged. 1633, Jan. 1.-This winter Mr. Forbes, a Scotchman, minister of the English Church at Delft, in Holland, having been sent for over by the king returned back into Holland. The king sent for him to employ him about the English Disci pline in the English Churches in the Low Countries, which he flatly refused to do, but said he would hinder it to his power. Whereupon the king told him that, if he would do the king dismissed him of his charge at Delft, having power it he would make him a bishop; and he rejecting the offer from the States to appoint ministers and discipline for the English Churches there. In this conference Mr. Forbes told the king that King James a little before his death sent for him out of Holland, and told him very seriously that he desired him to give him a reason why it came to pass that he had found the Scotch Church good and left it bad, and that he found the English Church bad and should leave it far worse. Forbes said it proceeded from the bishops whose government was anti-Christian. Then King James craved his advice how it might be remedied. Forbes told him it might easily be altered in Scotland, where that Government was not yet so strongly settled, and in EngJames promised to think upon some course to effect it, and land it might be done so it were wisely managed. King to advise farther with him about it, in the meantime he charged him to conceal this their conference. The next news that Forbes heard of the king was of his death. How he came God knows. 1634, March 22.-The Marquis of Fontenelles came Extraordinary Ambassador out of France, and had audience king should enter into a strict league with his Majesty and with the king this day. His demand was, first, that our the Hollanders against the House of Austria. Second, to have our Queen's dowry confirmed by Act of Parliament according to promise. Third, to have the king pay the which the French king makes in Germany. He had but money which he promised to contribute towards the wars cold entertainment, few of the nobility went to visit him. 1626, Nov.-Sir Thomas Richardson, King's Sergeant, paid £18,000 for the office of Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, which had been long void; and had it. 1629, August 3.-This day there was a foul outrageHe committed by the Gentlemen of Lincoln's Inn upon a pur suivant, (coming) thither to apprehend one that had killed one of the King's deer. They shaved him, snipt his ear, washed him in the kennel and kicked him out at the gate. The king took it much to heart. 1629, November 5.-The Earls of Bedford, Clare, and Somerset, and Sir Robert Cotton, were confined and imprisoned at several Bishops houses in London, for reading and publishing a pamphlet, wherein was set out how the king and council laboured to bring in the Excise of Holland, but not long after they were released, and within a month admitted to kiss the king's hand. 1630, July 5.-The puppet-players craved leave to play here in this town, and had a warrant under the king's hand, yet were refused. 1631, Nov. 2.-This day I ended the translation of D'Aubigne's History. 1632, April 1.-Dr. Butts, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge, hanged himself in his chamber with a towel: it is said out of discontent because the king shewed much dislike at a play which he had caused lately to be acted before him in Cambridge, full of scurrility against the gravest ministers of the kingdom, whom they call Puritans. MR. TILLY, ONCE THE OWNER OF PENTILLY HOUSE, was a man of wit, and had by rote all the ribaldry, CORNWALL, was a celebrated atheist of the last age. and common-place jests against religion and Scripture which are well suited to display pertness and folly, and to whatever their opinions may be, and are neither intended unsettle a giddy mind, but are offensive to men of sense, nor adapted to investigate truth. The brilliancy of Mr. Tilly's wit, however, carried him a degree farther than we the witty atheist is satisfied with entertaining his contemoften meet with in the annals of profaneness. In general poraries, but Mr. T. wished to have his sprightliness known to posterity. With this view, in ridicule of the resurrection, he obliged his executors to place his dead body in his and to arrange on a table before him bottles, glasses, pipes usual garb and in his elbow chair upon the top of a hill, and tobacco. In this situation he ordered himself to be immured in a tower of such dimensions as he prescribed, where he proposed, he said, patiently to await the event. All this was done, and the tower, still enclosing its tenant, remains a monument of his impiety and profaneness. The country people shudder as they go near it." See Gilpin's West of England, 233. Does the tower still exist? Who was Mr. Tilly? Is the story true? Brentford. HENRY RILEY. GALLINI THE OPERA DANCER. Hogarth, in his Rake's Progress, has severely satirized the infatuation and extravagant folly of the votaries of fashion, who idolize the "quavering exotics" of the stage, and lavish a fortune on some favorite of the hour. "He represents his hero at his levee surrounded by toadeaters and hangers on-a bravo, a jockey, a dancing master, a fencing master, and a poet-a musical composer is seated at a harpsichord, and from the back of his chair hangs a long scroll, on which is written a list of the rich presents Signor Farinelli, an Italian singer, condescended to accept of the English nobility and gentry for one night's performance in the Opera of Artaxerxes." Giovanni Andrea Gallini was the Farinelli of dancing, and won "golden opinions" from all who loved the intricacy of a pas de séul, and appreciated the exquisite refinement of a minuet. According to a biography in the Gentleman's Magazine, he was a native of Italy, and at twenty-five made his appearance at the Opera. It was then under the management of Du Burgh. The ensuing season he was made principal dancer; and, according to Burney's History of Music, "had the honor of being frequently encored-an honor I never remember to have happened to any other dancer." In a few seasons he became ballet master, then stage manager of the Opera House, and gave lessons in dancing. In this character he was introduced into the Earl of Abingdon's family, and gave lessons to Lady Elizabeth Bertie, that noble man's sister. "It being then the epoch of the American War, the gen tleman to whom she was attached, and on the eve of being married, preferred the glory of defending his country's cause to love, and postponed his wedding to a future day, in hopes of returning crowned with laurels, as 'none but the brave deserve the fair.' This, however, had had such an effect on the lady's mind, that she became almost desperate-and Gallini coming at the very moment this sad disappointment took place, found his pupil so little disposed to take her lesson, that, in a fit of despair, she said, 'If I could find any man that would marry me, I'd set off with him immediately.' The dancing master took her at her word, and made an offer of himself, which she accepted. They were soon married, and scarcely had the ceremony been performed, when Gallini wrote to Lord Abingdon that he had become his brother-in-law, and demanded his wife's portion. His poor lady was very soon so deranged in her mind, that she was confined long before her death in a lunatic asylum." She died August 17, 1804. By this lady he had two daughters, and a son, a captain in the army. Soon after his marriage he went to Italy, where he was honoured with the Knighthood of the Golden Spuran order conferred by the Pope. Returning to England he again became manager of the Opera, and had the merit of introducing Mr. Slinsgby to that theatre. He was manager of the House at the time it was burnt in 1789, and is said to have lost £300,000 by that disastrous event. He subsequently succeeded in building the King's Theatre, but eventually retired, and devoted the remainder of his life to his profession as a dancing master. He died January 5, 1805. The day before, he attended his pupils as usual, and was seen at Covent Garden Theatre in the evening; the next morning he ordered his carriage, complained of not being well, and in a few minutes expired without a groan. He was the author of a Treatise on the Art of Dancing, 1762. "It was very popular for some time, even as a literary performance, until, unluckily for Sir John, all the historical part of his publication was discovered in a work of M. Canusac, published at the Hague, 1754." H. M. LACY. GALLINI THE OPERA DANCER.-A Theatrical Ama teur, p. 28, is informed, that he built a mansion, somewhat in the Italian style, at Yattendon, Berks; and there, I believe, ended his days. There is a monument erected to his memory in Yattendon Church. He was possessed of the Manors of Yattendon and Hamstead Norris, and had estates in both these villages, which were sold only a few years ago by his grand-children. Two or three of his grandsons are living at the present time in this county. He himself was, I believe, a Catholic, as are also his descendants. It is reported that he came from Italy to England a ragged boy, with only half-a-crown in his pocket-and he is said to have boasted of this to some of the poor at Yattendon. I have no doubt many other interesting particulars might be obtained of this venerable old man, if inquiries were to be made amongst his friends and relations. 66 BEN JONSON.- Gifford and all the editors of his Since they had brawne and brain, and were right able The Magi told of a prodigious birth That shortly should be found upon the earth, These worthies nine prepared a wooden horse, Their brave atchievements, and in time to come Of Minos, Eacus and Radamand, Princes of Limbo, who must out of hand Consult 'bout Hydra what must now be done; Who having sat in Council one by one, Return this answer to the Stygian fiends, And first grim Minos spoke: "Most loving friends! Hydra prognostics ruin to our State, And that our kingdom will grow desolate; But if one head from thence be ta'en away, The body and the members will decay; To take in hand what Eacus this task Is such as hare-brained Phaeton did ask OLD ENGLISH GAMES.-Shovegroat or slidegroat, slideboard, slidethrift or slipthrift, are sports occasionally mentioned by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and, according to Strutt, were probably analogous to the modern pastime called Justice Jervis, which is confined to common pot-houses, and only practised by such as frequent the tap-rooms. Shakspeare has more than one allusion to this trivial game Falstaff says in Henry IV. "Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shovegroat shilling." Master Slender, in the Merry Wives of Windsor, had his pocket picked of "two Edward shovel-boards, that cost him two and two pence a-piece." Ben Jonson, in Every Man in his Humour, has thus noticed it, 66 made it run as smooth off the tongue as a shove-groat shilling." Shove-groat is one of the games prohibited in a statute of the 33rd of Henry VIII. It is worthy of notice, that it is there called a new game. Holinshed, in his Chronicles of Ireland, 1528, speaking of the execution of the Earl of Kildare, says, that "one night when the lieutenant and he for their disport were playing at slidegroat or shofleboorde, sodainly commeth from the Cardinal (Wolsey) a mandatum to execute Kildare on the morrow. The Earl marking the lieutenant's deepe sigh, 'By S. Bryde, lieutenant,' quoth he, there is some mad game in that scrole, but fall how it will, this throwe is for a huddle.'" Rice, the puritan, in his Invective against Vices, speaks of "paysed (weighed) groats to play at slip-thrifte:" in another place he asks whether God sent Adam into Paradise to play at it. |
