Fourth ed.
5. 1622. _ib._ 8vo. The last edition printed during the
Author's lifetime.
6. 1653. _ib._ 4to. Published by T. Jenner with curious plates,
and prose paraphrase.
7. 1688. _ib._ folio. With prose dissertation.
8. 1697. _Dublin,_ 8vo. With Life of the Author, by Nahum Tate.
9. 1714. _ib._ 12mo. Second edition by Tate.
10. 1733. _ib._ 8vo. With Essay by Dr. Sheridan.
11. 1749. _London,_ 12mo.
12. 1759. _Glasgow,_ 12mo. With Life of the Author.
13. 1760. _London,_ 8vo. In Capel's _Prolusions._
14. 1773. _ib._ 12mo. In Davies's _Poetical Works_, edited by
Thompson.

Sir John Davies left behind him a large number of MSS. upon various
subjects, none of which have since been printed. It would be very desirable
that a list, as far as can now be made out, should be put on record.
Anthony Wood says, several of Davies's MSS. were formerly in the library of
Sir James Ware of Ireland and since that in the possession of Edward, Earl
of Clarendon. The most interesting of these MSS. were a Collection of
Epigrams, and a Metaphrase of David's Psalms. The Harleian MSS., Nos. 1578.
and 4261., contain two law treatises of this learned writer, and in
Thorpe's _Catalogue_ for 1823, I find _A Treatise of Tenures touchinge his
Majesties Prerogative Royal_, by John Davies, folio, MS.

Granger does not record any engraved portrait of this writer, and all my
enquiries have failed in discovering one. In Mr. Soame Jenyn's Hall, at
Botesham, in Cambridgeshire (in 1770), was a full-length portrait of an
elderly gentleman in a gown, with a book in one hand, on which is written
"_Nosce Teipsum_." If this is a genuine portrait of Sir John Davies, it
ought to be engraved to accompany a new edition of his poetical works; a
publication which the lovers of our old poetry would deem an acceptable
offering.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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A NOTE ON QUEEN ANN'S FARTHINGS.

The idea that a Queen Anne's farthing is a coin of the greatest rarity,
originated perhaps in the fact that there are several _pattern pieces_
executed by Croker, which are much valued by collectors, and which
consequently bring higher prices. One type only was in circulation, and
this appears to have been very limited, for it is somewhat scarce, though a
specimen may easily be procured of any dealer in coins for a few shillings.
Th