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CONTENTS.- N° 270. NOTES:-Murder of the "Bonnie Earl of Moray," 161-The Plague, 162-A List of Anti-Usury Books, 163-The City Churches, 164-W. Hazlitt's Contributions to the "Edinburgh Review"-Symbols of the Months-Milton and Mr. J. R. Green, 165-Leonard McNally-Primitive Method of Counting-Colour in Disease - Rosemary - "Shroving" The "chapeau de paille" of Rubens-A Good Hint, 166. QUERIES:-St. David's Day, 166–Highland Plant and other Superstitions-Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin-Luther and Cranach-The Ancestors of the Zulu Tribe, 167-" Limb "= Scamp-" Bovgge the Bere"-"England's Day"-Austin Bernher-Frs. Eginton-Scambling Days-Religious Society of St. Catherine's- Leigh Hunt's "Reading for Railways". Latimer and Ridley-Crowe of Meriden, 168-Landeg Family -The Marquis de Fontenay-Heraldry-Parr Family, 169. REPLIES:-Poems on Towns and Countries, 169-Rare Editions of Shakspeare, 170-Divination by Crystals-" Hart Hall, now Balliol College," 171-Bickerton-Lady Anne

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Notes.

MURDER OF THE "BONNIE EARL OF MORAY." The complicity of James VI. in the murder of this nobleman in February, 1591-2, though apparently founded only on popular surmise at the time, has not been denied by historical writers. The cause alleged by rumour was jealousy of the earl's favour with the queen, Anne of Denmark, as is expressed in the old ballad :

of the ministers, made an harangue to them wherein he did what he could to clear himself, and desired them to clear his part before the people. They desired him to clear himself by earnest pursuing of Huntly with fire and sword. A proclamation was made with beating of drums to declare the king innocent, but no word of pursuing of Huntly." So loud did the outcries of the Protestant party become, however, that James felt compelled to take some measures, and Huntly was confined in Blackness Castle from the 12th to the 20th March. He was then liberated, on giving bail for his appearance to stand his trial on receiving fifteen days' notice (which he never received), and made the best of his way to the north.

The following letter from the king to Huntly appears to afford at least a strong probability that the popular surmise as to James's share in the death of the Bonnie Earl was correct. It is No. 5 in a series of "Gordon letters" printed in the third volume of the invaluable Spalding Club Miscellany:

"I troue ye are not sa unuyse, milorde, as to misinterprete my exterioure behavioure the last daye, seeing what ye did ye did it not without my allowance, and that be your humilitie in the action itself, youre honouring of me serued to counteruaile the dishonouring of me be otheris before, but perceauing by my expectation that baith noblemen and counsailloris to uasche thaire handis of that turne, and laye the haill burding upon me, I thocht the hurting of myself and thair looping free coulde be na pleasoure, nor ueill to you; for gif that impediment had not bene, assure yourselfe I ualde fainer haue spoken with you than ye ualde with me, for manie causis that uaire langsume to writte. Alluayes assure yourself and the rest of youre marrouis that I am earnister to haue your daye of tryall to haulde forduart than yourselfis, that be your seruices thaireftir the tirranie of thir mutins may be repressit; for I protest before God in extremitie, I loue the religion they outuardly profess, and hatis thaire presumptuouse and seditiouse behauioure, and for your pairt in particulaire I trou ye haue hadd proofe of my mynde towardis you at all tymes, and gif my fauoure to you ye doubt, ye are the onlie man in Scotlande that doubtis thairof, sen all your ennemies will needis binde it on my bake. To conclude, halde forduart the suiting of youre tryall as the berare will inform you, and use the aduice that I haue commandit him rouis to omitt na diligence in halding forduart this dyet. to giue you in youre proceedingis, and moue your marLet nane see this lettir. Fairueill. Your aulde friend, J. R. I hope to see you or this moneth be endit (gif ye use yourself ueill) in als gude estait as ever ye was in."

of

This letter is undated, as are Nos. 3, 4, 7-10 in the series. All, including the one just given, says the learned editor, the late Dr. John Stuart, obviously relate to the incident known in our annals by the name of the Spanish Blanks" (Pref., p. xx). I think it will be evident to any one who carefully examines the letters that No. 5 should be excluded from this category. The difference in regard to address between No. 5 and the rest ("milorde" in the one, "good sonne" in the others) is perhaps of no importance, though, if the rest do all relate to the Spanish Blanks, would seem to argue that No. 5 was written

a different time from them. But the terms of the letter fit into the circumstances consequent on the death of Moray in such a manner as to leave small room for doubt that the document was penned either between the murder and Huntly's imprisonment, or during his week's confinement in Blackness. "My exterioure behavioure the last daye" no doubt refers to an assumed coldness on the king's part towards his friend in the presence of some of the ministers; he would of course be careful before them to disguise his desire to serve the man who was their principal enemy. The remainder of the paragraph refers to something which James had done with the concurrence of his nobles and counsellors, of which these were anxious to wash their hands and to lay the whole blame on him. This cannot possibly refer to the affair of the Spanish Blanks, neither is it likely to refer to an alleged conspiracy by Huntly in 1589 to co-operate with the Spanish Armada, for there was nothing in these on account of which the Council need have wished to wash their hands. It seems tolerably clear to me, on the other hand, that it does refer to the Commission of Fire and Sword under which Huntly's expedition had been taken against Moray, and which had been issued in the usual way by the Privy Council. This commission was against Francis, Earl of Bothwell, and his accomplices and abettors; and Huntly, the instrument chosen for its execution, who had for some time previously been at feud with Moray, chose to consider that noble as among the abettors, probably with the connivance of the king ("what ye did, ye did it not without my allowance"), and certainly with that of the chancellor. The Privy Council, in granting the commission against Bothwell and his abettors, had of course never imagined that the Protestant Earl of Moray would suffer as an abettor, and they were of course ignorant that the commission was a concerted scheme between Huntly and the chancellor, and no doubt the king himself, to bring about the death of that noble. Consequently, on learning that their commission had resulted in the death of the popular favourite, they would naturally wish to wash their hands of it, or, at all events, of any part in the mode in which it was carried into effect.

The words "youre honouring of me serued to counteruaile the dishonouring of me be otheris before" may indicate a ground for believing that the king was moved by jealousy. Whether they do or not, however, it by no means follows that any blame attaches to the queen.

That this letter relates to the murder of Moray is perhaps open to question, though, as I have tried to show, it is highly probable; but that it does not relate to the Spanish Blanks is certain from the main facts which it states, viz., that Huntly had done some action with the king's permission, although the king was afraid openly to

Perhaps at a time when "The Plague" has a place almost every day in the newspapers, the following document may be of sufficient interest for insertion in "N. & Q." It is copied from a broadside in a volume of "Proclamations and Broadsides" in the Forster Library in the South Kensington Museum. It has no date, but the contents of the volume in question range in time from 1632 to 1688.

A Few speciall receipts composed chiefly for preserving those that are well from the Plague, and also by the helpe of God to cure those which are infected, and some of the said receipts may be used in time of other infectious Diseases.

Preservative from infection: 1. By Smell. 2. By Drinke. 3. By Foode.

1. By Smell. Take white sponge soaked in Herbe of grace water, which water is thus made: Take a quarte of vinegar, halfe a pinte of Rose-water, put in a handfull of Rue, and halfe a handfull of wormewood, and boyle it to a pinte: then take and dip the sponge in it when it is cold, and hold it to your nose when you go abroad: and this is a good preservative.

Another by Smell.-Take of the best Cedar wood, and grate a small Box full, and let the lid be full of holes and smell to it.

2. By Drinke.-Take Wormewood and Herbe of grace, of each five ounces, and steepe them all night in a pinte the Morning fasting two spoon-fulls. of Beere, with a Lemmon sliced, and drinke thereof in

Another by Drinke.-Take a handfull of Wormewood, or by weight ten ounces, and cut it small, and steep it in a quarte of White-wine-vinegar, and after it hath beene steeped 24 houres, let every one of your house take a spoone-full thereof fasting in the Morning, and fast two houres. or an houre after; and this used constantly in time of Infection, will with the helpe of God, preserve you.

3. By Foode.-Take a Wallnut kernall, a corne of Salt, foure leaves of Herbe of grace; cut all very small, and put them in a Figge and roast it, and after it be eaten faste one houre, and so use it dayly.

Another by Foode.-Take a toast of Bread, and spread it over with Treacle and Butter; and Herbe of grace eaten with it is very good.

To cure when infected: 4. By Sweating. ripening the Sore. 6. By ayreing Clothes.

5. By

4. By Sweating.-Take Endive water a quarte, CenBoyle these together gently a quarter of an houre, and tury water a pinte, Ivye berries halfe a bandfull bruised: when you take it from the fire, dissolve therein as much Treacle as the bignes of a Wallnut, and a little Sugar; also put thereunto three spoon-fulls of vinegar. As soone as the patient doth complaine, and nature being warme, and let him keepe his bed, and sweat ten houres yet strong, give him fasting one good draught thereof or something lesse, as the strength of the patient will