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TOWER ROYAL—­CONSTITUTION HILL—­COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE’S
LETTER—­TENNISON’S FUNERAL SERMON ON NELL GWYNNE.

Sir,—­I should be glad to obtain answers to any or all of the following
Queries:—­

1.  What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London locality, and when did our kings (if they ever inhabited it) cease to inhabit it?

2.  When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why?

3.  Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph Williamson?  It first appeared in The World.

4.  Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne?

PETER CUNNINGHAM.

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GROG—­BISHOP BARNABY.

Mr. Editor,—­I hope you intend to keep a corner for Etymologies.

Query, the origin of the word “Grog?”—­And why do the people in Suffolk call a ladybird “Bishop Barnaby?”

If you can enlighten me upon either of these points, I shall feel encouraged to try again.

Yours, &c.

LEGOUR.

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NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, NO.  II.

DR. FARMER ON DRAYTON’S WORKS.

The following bibliographical memoranda, in the well-known hand of Dr. Farmer, occur in a copy of the edition of Drayton’s Poems published in 1619, in small folio, by John Smethwick, which contains “The Barons’ Wars; England’s Heroical Epistles; Idea; Odes; The Legends of Robert Duke of Normandie, Matilda, Pierce Gaveston, and Great Cromwell; The Owle; and Pastorals, containing Eglogues, with the Man in the Moone.”

They may be of use to some future editor of Drayton, an author now undeservedly neglected, whose Nymphidia alone might tempt the tasteful publisher of the “Aldine Poets” to include a selection, at least, of his poems in that beautiful series:—­

“The works of Michael Drayton, Esq., were reprinted in folio, 1748.  The title-page ’promises all the writings of that celebrated author,’ but his Pastorals (p.433. &c., first published imperfectly in 4to. 1593) and many other of his most considerable compositions (Odes, the Owle, &c., see the Appendix), are not so much as spoken of.  See his article in the Biog.  Brit. by Mr. Oldys, curiously and accurately written.

    “Another edition (which is called the best) was printed in 4
    vols. 8vo. 1753.  Robson, 1765.

    “A Poem Triumphant, composed for the Society of the Goldsmiths of
    London, by M.  Drayton. 4to. 1604. Harl.  Cat. v.3. p. 357.

“Charles Coffey was the editor of the folio edit. 1748, he had a large subscription for it, but died before the publication; and it was afterward printed for the benefit of his widow.  See Mottley, p. 201.

    “The print of Drayton at the back of the title-page, is marked in
    Thane’s Catalogue, 1774, 7s. 6d.