NOTES AND
QUERIES," Vol. ii, p. 373.--W. C. T.)

_Probationary Odes._

Preliminary Discourse. G. Ellis or Tickle. Q.
Thoughts on Ode-writing. Tickle.
Recommendatory Testimonies. Tickle. "I believe all the Testimonies are
his, unless the last be by Lord John Townsend."--L.
Warton's Ascension. Tickle.
Laureat Election. Richardson. "The first suggestion of the vehicle for
Probationary Odes for the Laureatship came (as I understood, for I
was not present) from the Rev. Dudley Bate."--L.
Irregular Ode. Tickle.
Ode on New Year. Ellis.
Ode No. 3. Dudley Bate.
4. Richardson.
6. Anonymous, communicated by Tickle.
7. Anonymous.
8. "Brummell." "Some slight corrections were made by L., and one
or two lines supplied by others."--L.
9. Tickle. "The first draft of this ode was by Stratford
Canning, a merchant in the city; but of his original
performance little or nothing remains except five or six
lines in the third Stanza."--L.
10. "Pearce, (I believe) Brother-in-law of Dudley Bate."--L.
11. "Boscawen, (I believe) afterwards of the Victualling Office,
communicated by Tickle."--L.
12. Lord John Townsend,--"Three or four lines in the last stanza,
and perhaps one or two in some of the former, were inserted
by Tickle."--L.
13. "Anonymous, sent by the Post."--L.
14. "The Rev. O'Byrne.
'This political Parson's a *B'liever! most odd! He b'lieves
he's a Poet, but don't b'lieve in God!'--_Sheridan._
* Dr. O'B. pronounces the word believe in this manner."
15. Fitzpatrick.
16. Dr. Lawrence.
17. Genl. Burgoyne.
18. R----d.
19. Richardson.
20. Ellis.
21. Address. Dr. Lawrence. For "William York" read "William
Ebor."
Pindaric Ode. Dr Lawrence.
22. The Prose and Proclamation, "by Tickle or Richardson."--L.
Table of Instructions. Tickle or Richardson.

_Political Miscellanies._

To the Public. R----d.
Odes to W. Pitt. Fitzpatrick.
My Own Translation, prefixed to Ode 2nd. Dr. Lawrence.
The Statesmen. R----d.
Rondeau. Dr. Lawrence.
In the third Rondeau, for "pining in his spleen" read "moving honest
spleen."--L. All th