LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1913. CONTENTS.-No. 184. · NOTES:-Ralph Wallis, the "Cobler of Gloucester," 1Dotheboy's Hall Anticipated, 3-Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 4-Charles Lamb and "Dog Days," 5 -The Deaf Adder that stoppeth her Ear-The Lord of Burleigh and Sarah Hoggins - Leghorn: English Merchants there in 1702-Thatch Fires, 6-A New Circus" for London, 7. QUERIES:-Bruce of Airth-Inigo Jones--Elford Family, 7-St. John of Bletsoe-Authors of Quotations WantedJane Cromwell, Fradswell-St. Paul at Virgil's Tomb, 8"Auditious"-Louis Alexis Chamerovzow-Bearsdenhall-Pickett's ' London Improvements - Illegitimacy in the Middle Ages-Canadian Pacific Railway-Matthew Henry Barker - Demolition of the Kennels of "Dog Kennel Lane," 9-Horace Smith's Verses on Surnames, 10. REPLIES:-Theatre lit by Gas, 10-"Star-ypointing," 11 NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Horace Walpole's World'-'Sion Notes. but this is, I feel confident, earlier by twenty years than anything Wallis wrote. Lowndes also records 'Rome for Good News,' but treats it as anonymous. Neither Watt. Allibone, nor Halkett and Laing mentions it, while the authorities of the British Museum were unaware of its authorship until I informed them. The pamphlets known to have been written by Wallis are:- 1. Rome for Good News.' No date. 2. More News from Rome : or, Charta.' 1666. Magna 1668. 3. Room for the Cobler of Gloucester.' The second of these would suggest that an earlier work had been written, and the following is the full title of the tract now under notice : "Rome for Good News, | Or | Good Newes from Rome | In a Dialogue between a Seminary Priest, and a Supposed Prote- stant, at large. | An Exhortation to Bishops. | Whereunto Is also annexed a Discourse between a poor Man, and his Wife. | London, Printed for ths [sic] Author." The book is small quarto, its collation being as follows: Title, one leaf; the Epistle 'Your very effecDedicatory, signed tionate [sic] Husband, Consilio Iuvans," two leaves; 'Rome for Good Newes,' curious reference to Canada, which seems In the Epistle is the following pp. 1-26. to have been placed in the wrong latitude :A Traveller told me that he was in a place called Canida some part of the West Indies where the Beares all the Winter when the Ground was frozen hard did lye in their Dens." From the same Epistle we learn that Wallis had four children, and that his wife would RALPH WALLIS, THE "COBLER OF neither let him keep inns (of which several GLOUCESTER." (See 2 S. x. 7; 5 S. viii. 388, 494; ix. 157.) IN the extracts from the Calendars of State Papers (Domestic)' given by the late J. J. Powell, at 5 S. viii. 494, the tract Good News from Rome' is mentioned, and the same source is used for the reference to it in the article on Ralph Wallis in the 'D.N B.,' written by Rev. Alexander Gordon, who The tract tells me he had not seen a copy. is not, so far as I am aware, referred to elsewhere, but it is almost certainly the same as 'Rome for Good News; Or, Good Newes from Rome,' and it may be of interest to give more precise information relating to this probably the scarcest of Wallis's writings-and incidentally suggest an earlier publication for his other works than extant copies imply. Lowndes mentions a pamphlet entitled 'Newes from Rome,' 1641, were offered him) nor become a preacher, though he had 66 many small calls to the Pulpit, some of them not exceeding eight pounds per annum, some 261. nay 301. per annum, with my dyet, and the use of a Study of Books." Keeping an inn and becoming a preacher were to Wallis" the two last shifts many men undertake." 264993 |