104 [Aug. The Mercurius Rusticus.-First Editions of Hudibras. cut of Canterbury minster; and on the side, Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge; together with representations of Sir John Lucas's house plundered, p. 1.Countess of Rivers's house plundered, 11.-A bonfire for the voting down tainty of the first editions of Hudibras, I copy from those which I have got. - Episcopacy, p. 26. Sir Rich. Mynshull's house plundered, p. 31.-Warder Castle defended by a lady, p. 41.Mr. Jones, a minister, carried on a beast, p. 81. And on the bottom, along the whole length, is "Edgehill Battle." This volume contains preface, six leaves and a fly leaf, on which it is said, In the catalogue of persons slaine, those underwritten were forgotten," &c. Then pp. 1-173; a new • title-page, "Mercurius Rusticus, or the Countries Complaint, &c. &c. in the Cathedrall Churches of this Kingdome; (a quotation from Matth. 21, 13.) Oxford: printed in the yeare 1646;" a preface of 24 leaves, and pp. 182-223. Next comes another titlepage, "Querela Cantabrigiensis; a Remonstrance by way of Apologie for the banished Members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge. By some of the said Sufferers. (A quotation from Matth. 10, 17 and 18.) And Basil Magn. Epist. 70. Oxoniæ, anno Dom. 1646." A preface, headed "An Advertisement to every indifferent Reader," 5 leaves; and pp. 1-34, with the Table of Mercurius Rusticus, 2 leaves, and Quèrela, 1 leaf. Then follows, a further title-page, "Mercurius Belgicus, or a briefe Chronologie of the Battails, Sieges, Conflicts, &c. Together with a Catalogue of the Persons of Quality slain on both sides. Printed in the yeare 1646." It begins with the year 1641, and ends 25 March, 1645-6, 31 leaves not paged. These are the contents of my copy.* An account of Bruno Ryves may be seen in Wood's Athenæ Oxon. edit. Bliss, vol. iii. coll. 1110. As there appears in the bibliographical catalogues to be some uncer We have received a similar collation from INVESTIGATOR, who observes, in addition, that his copy has a memorandum on one of its fly leaves, to the following effect: "The edition of Mercurius Rusticus, which came out in 1647, had more in it than that of 46. However, Richard Royston, bookseller, being minded to make another edition, which he made in 1685, hath less in it than that of 47." Hudibras, the first Part, written in the time of the late Wars. London: printed by J. G. for Richard Marriott, under Saint Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet, 1663." 8vo. pp. 268. "Hudibras, the second Part, by the Authour of the first. London: printed by T. R. for John Martyn and James Allestrey, at the Bell in Saint Paul's Church-yard," 1664, 8vo, pp. 216. It has on the title-page a woodcut, with the printer's device, a bell, and the letters at bottom I. M. Hudibras, the third and last part, written by the Author of the first and second Parts. London: printed for Simon Miller, at the sign of the Star at the west end of St. Paul's," 1678, 8vo, pp. 285. The 1st and 2d parts were republished in 1674.. Hudibras, the first and second Parts, written in the time of the late Wars. Corrected and amended, with several Additions and Annotations. London, 1674." 8vo. Part I. pp. 202. Part II. contains pp. 223–412. It appears that there was a second Part of Hudibras published in 1663, 12mo, which Malone says, "is spurious, and not by Butler, and that it is extremely scarce." It was reprinted three times in that year. In the third impression there is a continuation of the 3d canto, to which is added a fourth canto. This I have not. In 1682 Tom Durfey put forth, "Butler's Ghost, or Hudibras, the fourth Part, with Reflections upon these Times. Jacta est Alea. Eras." London, 1682, 8vo, pp. 188. Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh at the Black Bull in Cornhill. It has two cantos, with a dedication, on one page, to Henry Lord Marquis and Earl of Worcester," signed T. D. M.H. Mr. LOWNDES writes to inform Mr. W. WADD (p. 2)-(too late, alas! for that gentleman's satisfaction, who has met his death by a most melancholy accident,)—that he has in his possession the additional canto to Garth's Dispensary, called "The Battle of the Whigs." It is printed by J. Lister, at St. John's Gate, and sold by T. Davies and others in 1768.-The same Correspondent inquires for a copy of "Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry, tending to show the Origin of many English and Foreign Coats of Arms. By a Lady." Printed at Worcester about 1795. 1829.] a Fully Bridge, Oxford.-Pedigree of the Laurences. FOLLY BRIDGE, Oxford. The annexed in Bacon,, pr as it HE engraving represents is commonly called, Folly-bridge, in Oxford. The origin of the latter name may be doubted, but it is certain that the ancient one was derived from the Tower gateway which once stood, on this venerable fabric, the room in which was appropriated by Friar Bacon, and called his study. The superstructure thus historically interesting, has long since been deinolished, and the bridge no longer remains; it was taken down a few years ago, and its place supplied by a plain, and perhaps more convenient structure of stone. The arches were curiously formed, and it was not difficult to detect the additions to the original design-additions made to increase the width of the approach to the University, but which, after all, was dangerously narrow and inconvenient. The old masonry was solid and good, and its appearance, combined with the ancient houses by which it was surrounded, has often recommended it as an interesting subject for the pencil of the artist. C. MR. URBAN, Aug. 6. will no THE considerable additions Winer's "History of Chelsea," the approbation of the public; but the greater the success of a work, the greater is the necessity to correct its errors; and Mr. Whitaker, in his " History of Richmondshire," having given the descent of the Laurences of Ashton Hall in Lancashire, it is surprising that Mr. Faulkner should repeat, without any comment, the genealogical reveries of an inhabitant of Chelsea. During the English Commonwealth (and it is remarkable that no period was more fruitful in heraldic publications), Sir Edward Bysshe printed an edition of Johannes de Bado Aureo, who had been herald to Queen Anne, wife to Richard II.; and in his comment on the Lawrence arms, Sir Edward says, "Hoc est tessera gentilitia Antiquissima et equestris Laurentiorum familiæ in agro Lancastriensi olim et jam Incolæ." This toused Isaac Lawrence, descended from a race of substantial yeomen in Glocestershire. Having married the daughter of Sir John Lawrence of Chelsea, a goldsmith or banker, whom GENT. MAG. August, 1829. 105 Charles I. had created a Baronet, he Gloucestershire the head of all the Lauset about making the Laurences of rences; and composed the pedigree from which Mr. Faulkner has made such extraordinary extracts, both in prose and verse. Numerous copies bad long circulated in private. It is several feet long. The cross raguly, gules, is painted in it more than seventy times. It is entitled, "A Curious Pedigree, copied from an antient Manuscript.' It is, indeed, a curiosity. " After a pious contemplation on the coat of arms, and a learned, disquisition, in which Charles the Fourth of Germany, the learned Bartholus, and Ptolemy King of Egypt, are honourably mentioned, the genealogist informe us that Sir Robert Laurence of Ashton Hall raised a troop of horse at his own expense, and accompanied Richard I. to the siege of Ptolemais. Possibly this troop of horse were yeomen ca. valry. He then gives ten generations of the Laurences of Ashton Hall; but of these the five first have so much resemblance to the five last, that it is probable he has written the same names twice over: having found two lists, he may have copied one before united other names, both William us other. On the hand he has Laurens, who was Senescallus Domi, |