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1 


LOMDOir,  BATUBDAr,  JANUARY  7^  1881. 


CONTENTS.— N«  106. 
KOTIBt-OibirtI,  BUhop  of  Verona,  ADd  the'^Oibtttl  Fran, 
1— Lord  HnaM7  and  the  Linoolnshlre  Sabellion,  S^Oemnde 
Yiunll7~81r  ThomM  Lawrence's  Father,  5— Death  of  Sdward 
of  LaaeMtar— B««ngaria,  Oneen  of  Richard  L— Irish 
PopBlar  Balladfr— Danish  folk-lore,  6— Mamping  Day^-Oa 
the  Works  of  Michel  Angelo— "Fools' paradise "^A  Mls- 
'  t~"P!nciuhlon  Inn  "—A  ProTerb^Christmas  Day  on  a 

QITEEnS:.-€onrte«7  TiUes,   7  — Daicy  Famllj— *«Tmpa 
tree "— DifferanelnK  Arms— " Daaothy  flail"— 8JLEdninnd 


Fknllj— "Was  cnuifled.'' &o.~Klng  Gannte— Numismatic 
—Biinie  of  BroomhiU— Fonts  of  the  Sestoration  Period,  0~ 
Ottrcr  GramweU's  Mother— Oharterhonse  School— Christmas 
Owds-i^nthon  Wanted,  10. 

BBPLISB:--A  Proteetant  Indnlgenoe  of  the  SoTtnteenth 
Ceatonr,  10— The  Battle  of  Trafalgar— "  Tristram  Shandy," 
11— "Maze"  (the  Sea),  Ac,  12— Modem  Prophecies— Snnff- 
bozes-St.  Paoi's  Cathedral,  ▲.]>.  2190,  18— MisUetoe  and 
Christmaa— Morant,  the  Topographer— Glastonbury,  "the 
town  of  oaks  "— WhiskeitsMonstaches-Sin  to  Point  at  the 
Mooo,  14— Antiqoary,  lie.- English  Translation  of  "  Horn 
a  Viiginia"— The  great  Gale  at  St.  Helena,  15-Cardinal 
Heiso&itl— Birch  of  Paradise— ** Beyond  the  Church'  — 
"Fourth  EsUte*'— "Let  me  light,"  *c,  16>The  Hare  an 
listar  Kmblem— Names  for  the  Coinage— Numismatic— A 
FflDdng  Match,  17—"  Adeste  Fideles^-Sir  G.  GrilBth-Sir 
B.  Bingham— Morris  Dancers— Earls  of  Chester— Church 
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Botteei  to  Coneipondents,  Ac 


GIOVANNI  MATTEO  OIBERTI,  BISHOP  OP 
VEBONA,  AND  THE  GI6EBTI  PRESS. 

Mb.  Clarke,  Id  hii  interesting  aoconnt  of  the 
litnttT  of  Qae«[i'8  College,  Oxford  (6^  S.  iy.  441, 
mqq,),  has  incidentally  mentioned  a  specimen  exist- 
bg  there  of  the  pnvate  press  of  a  very  distin- 
Koished  Italian  pidate  of  the  Reformation  period, 
sad  of  which  probably  bat  few  specimens  are  in 
this  ooantiy.  Aa  I  happen  to  haye  spoken  of  the 
Giberti  Press  in  a  paper  on  "  Veronese  Typo- 


wsdenof«N.&Q.» 

One  word,  in  limin$^  as  to  the  bishop's  name. 
It  vas  Giberti,  as  I  haye  pUMwd  it  at  the  head  of 
the  present  note^  not  Ghiberti,  as  written  by  Mr. 
CujucB.  I  hftye  before  me  the  elaborate  and 
.;nlniUe  monograph,  Ddla  Tipojrrq/ia  Veroneu, 
*Wo  StaricO'LetUrario  (Verona,  Tip.  Merlo, 
I871),.by  Mgr.  G.  E  Carlo  Gonte  Gioliui,  Canon, 
SBd  lAbnrian  of  the  Chapter  Library,  as  an 
Mthoritj  alike  for  the  orthography  of  the  bishop's 
taje  and  for  the  pablioationB  of  his  press. 
Tin  works  named  by  Mgr.  GiaUui  as  haying 
Ntpohliihed  under  the  dixeotion  of  Bishop 


Giberti,  besides  the  Chrysostom  of  1629,  are  the 
following : — 

''Rossetti  Blasii,  Libellus  de  Radimentis  Muaices, 
VeroDSB,  MDXXix.  mense  Septemtrio  [sic]  per  Stepha- 
num  et  Ifratres  de  Nicolinis  de  Sabio,"  &o,    4 to. 

The  printers  of  this  book,  as  of  the  Chrysostom 
and  other  works  of  the  Giberti  Press,  were  inyited 
to  Verona  hj  the  bishop,  who  established  his 
press  in  the  immediate  yicinity  of  the  cathedral, 
and  famished  his  printers  with  new  type,  both 
Roman  and  Greek.  The  Chrysostom  bears  date 
''  quarto  Ealendas  Jalias,"  1529,  so  it  woold  seem 
that  not  much  time  was  lost  in  bringing  oat 
Rossetti's  book,  the  aathor  of  which  was  organist 
of  the  cathedra],  and  dedicated  his  work  to  the 
bishop.  After  masic  came  the  tarn  of  grammar, 
the  next  issue  of  the  Giberti  Press  being  the 
following : — 

"  Qrammatica  Lttina  in  Yolnre.  In  Verona  xdxxix 
per  Maestro  Stephano  Nicholini  et  FratelU.  Adi  23 
l>ecembrio  [«tc].'^    4to. 

This  work  is  of  anknown  authorship.  Maffei 
thought  it  the  first  Latin  grammar  published  in 
ItaUui. 

The  year  1530  saw  some  important  issues  from^ 
the  Giberti  Press,  both  as  regards  typography  and 
subject-matter.    It  opened  with  :— 

"Entbymii  Monacbi  Zigabeni,  Oommentationes  in 
omnas  Psalmos  de  Qrasco  in  Latinum  conyemo  per 
R.  D.  Pbilippum  Baulum  Episc.  Bmgnateusem.  Yeronn 
per  BteDbanum  NicoUnum,  Ac,  iCDXXX.  menie 
Janoario.^'    Pol. 

A  splendid  edition,  says  Giuliari,  in  beautifal 
type,  and  with  ample  margin.  It  is  dedicated  to 
Clement  VII. 

The  next  work  published  in  1530  belongs  to  the 
pastoral  side  of  Bishop  Giberti's  character,  and 
throws  a  light  upon  the  ecclesiastical  history  of 
the  times : — 

"Giberti  Gio.  Mattheo,  Breye  ricordo  di  quello  che 
hanno  da  fare  i  CUerici,  masumamente  Curati,  eeo. 
In  Verona  mdxxx.  per  Maestro  Stephano  eco.  habita 
presso  il  Domo,  nel  mese  di  Aprile."    4to. 

This  is  the  first  book  in  which  the  locality  of  the 
Giberti  Press  is  stated.  It  is  also  the  first  pub- 
lished by  the  bishop  on  matters  connected  with 
the  goyemment  of  ms  beloyed  church  of  Verona, 
as  Giuliari  writes.  It  was  brought  out  in  yiew 
of  the  bishop's  first  diocesan  yisitation,  held  in 
1530. 

To  this  year  belongs  also  another  Veronese  pub- 
lication, Fracastori's  yery  highly  praised  Morbui 
OaUicus  (Veronse  vdxxz.  mense  Augusto), 
which,  howeyer,  bears  no  printer's  name,  and 
eannot,  therefore,  be  certainly  accounted  a  work 
of  the  Giberti  Press.  But  the  negatiye  argument 
adyanced  by  Giuliari,  that  no  other  contemporary 
printers  are  known  in  Verona,  is  a  strong  one. 
Scaliger  placed  Fracastori  at  the  head  of  the 
modem  Latin  poets,  aiid  lus  poem  ran  through 
six  editions  dunng  the  sixteenth  centoxy  alone. 


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From  1530  we  pan  on  to  1531,  and  from 
physical  Bcience  we  turn  to  theology : — 

"  Johannia  Damaweni,  da  Side  Orthodoxa,  et  de  iis 
qtu  in  fide  dormiemnt.  gmce.  Votoiub  apnd  SUpfaa- 
nuiD,  etc.  manw  Majo.  kdzzxi."  4to. 
Like  the  Ohxyaostom,  this  is  the  tditio  prineepi  of 
the  Greek  text,  and  is  edited  by  the  same  editor, 
Bernardino  Denato,  and  dedicated  to  the  same 
Pontiff,  Clement  VII. 

A  few  montha  ptM  away,  and  philosophy  has  its 
torn  at  the  Giberti  Press  :— 

**  Turrii  Jnlii  Blarci,  De  feliciUte  ad  Panlinam  Soro- 
rem.  YeroD»  xbxzxi  die  zy  mense  NoTexobTi  per 
Stephanum  et  fratree,"  &c.    4to. 

This  is  printed  in  what  Gioliari  caUs  a  cnisiTe 
character,  Hke  Fraeastori's  poem. 

With  the  year  1532  patristic  theology  comes  to 
the  front  once  more  : — 

"  Ezjpoeitionea  aatiqu*  ac   valde   utiles Ez  di- 

▼ersis  Sanctor.  Patrum  Comxnentariis  ab  CBcmnenioo 
et  Aretha  collectss,  frc.  YeronsB  xpxxzu  apnd 
Stephanom  etc.,  mense  febmario."    Fol. 

A  magnificent  edition,  says  Gioliari,  like  the 
OhiTsostom  for  the  beauty  of  its  type  and  paper, 
and  likewise  edited  by  Donate,  and  dedicatea  to 
Clement  VII.  The  text  is  Greek  thionghont^ 
and  unaccompanied  by  a  sinde  note  or  transktion. 
On  this  circumstance  Mgr.  Giuliari  has  a 
characteristic  passage,  which  I  may  perhaps  be 
allowed  to  dte  from  my  former  peper  {Tratuac- 
tiotu  K  8.  Z.,  Tol.  xi.  pt.  L  New  Series) : — 

'*  In  those  days  only  the  few  studied  Qreek,  but  at 
any  rate  they  vere  to  be  found  in  erery  town,  and  their 
knowledge  of  the  Unguage  was  thorough.  Nowadays  it 
is  taught  in  all  the  public  Oymnaaia,  but  hardly  one  can 
be  found  who  understands  it  without  a  lexicon  I " 

I  must  be  content  myself,  like  most  of  the  undis- 
tinguished herd  of  the  nineteenth  century,  to 
comess  my  great  obligations  to  Liddell  and  ^tt 

Another  Gredst  of  the.  day,  Nogarola,  follows 
suit,  of  whom  I  shall  hare  to  spleak  more  specially 
in  connexion  with  a  subsequent  work  of  his  : — 

"  Nogarolsd  LudoTici,  Joannis  Damasoeni,  libellus  de 
his  qui  in  fide  dormierunt  e  grseoo  -in  latinum. 
Yeronss  iCDXXxii  apud  Stephanum  etc.,  mense  Mar." 
4to* 

Leone  Allacci  censured  Nogarola  for  haying 
attributed  this  work  to  St  John  Damascene,  but 
Maffei,  with  a  touch  of  irony  not  inapplicable 
to  other  such  cases,  remarks  that  if  Allaodhad 
liyed  in  Nogazola's  day  he  would  probably  haye 
done  just  the  same. 

I  should  like  to  take  this  opportunity  of  calling 
attention  again  to  the  fact  that,  a  mass  of  MS. 
matter  of  Nogazola's  composition,  whidi  formed 
part  of  the  Saibante  collection,  u  known  to  haye 
reached  this  countiy,  but  all  the  researches  of  the 
late  Sir  Antony  Panim  were  unayailing  to  trace 
the  collection  beyond  the  bookseller  who  was  the 
first  purchaser.  Who  knows,  asks  Mgr.  Giuliari, 
in  what  English  lord's  house  these  MSS.  are  now 


reposing  1  If  any  ^  Lord  Inglese  "  feels  that  the 
cap  fits,  he  will  do  good  seryice  by  letting  us  know 
it  through ''N.&Q." 

The  next  Veronese  publication,  and  probably, 
but  not  certainly,  also  due  to  the  Giberti  Preas, 
is  an  impwtant  original  work  by  Nogarola,  to 
whidi  I  specially  drew  the  attention  of  my  col- 
leagues in  the  Boyal  Sodety  of  literatore  as  b«ng 
directly  connected  with  the  contemporary  history 
of  England: — 

"  NogaroIsB  LudoTici,  Disputatio  super  Beginse  Britaii- 
norum  diTortio,  «.«.«.  (Yeronss  1582  apud  Steph.  etc.)." 
4to. 

A  yery  rare  tract,  says  Giuliari,  of  twenty-four 
pages,  and  one  which,  though  without  any  note^ 
must  be  held  to  haye  issued  frt>m  the  press  of  the 
brothers  Nicolini  about  the  year  1532.  The 
grounds  for  this  attribution  are,  as  before,  the 
absence  of  our  knowledge  that  any  other  press  was 
then  in  existence  at  Verona. 

NogaioWs  correspondence^  which  waa  in  the 
now  dispersed  Saibante  ooUeoUon,  already  alluded 
to,  would,  if  we  may  judge  from  a  sample  cited  by 
Mgr.  Gialiari,  throw  not  a  little  li^ht  upon  the 
methods  used  to  obtain  opinions  m  fayour  of 
Henry  VIIL  on  the  sreat  diyoroe  qnestion.  I 
think  the  passage  may  be  worth  reproduction. 

*'  It  is  now  a  year/'  wrote  Nogarola  to  Cardinal  Clesio, 
''since  an  euTOy  of  the  King  of  Britain  came  here  to  us, 
and  sought  to  work  upon  all  the  jurisconsults  of  this 
town,  by  promises  both  of  heaps  of  money  and  the  king's 
favour,  to  approye  and  establish  by  arguments  and 
reasoning  the  diTorce  that  he  wished  to  obtain  from 
ChUherine,  daughter  of  the  late  King  of  Upain." 

Nogarola's  opinion  was,  howeyer,  unfayourable  to 
Henry's  wishes,  so  it  may  be  presumed  that  he 
got  neither  ''heaps  of  money''  nor  ''the  king^ 
fiivour." 

But  one  more  Veronese  work  attributed  to  the 
Giberti  Press  remains  to  be  mentioned : — 

'*  Donatl  Bemardini,  Oratio  babita  in  funere  B.  0. 
Ludorici  Canossii  Episcopi  Bajocensis."  4to.  «.«.». 

Mgr.  Giuliari  urges  that  this  extremely  rare  tract 
of  eight  unnumbered  pages  should  be  referred  to 
the  Giberti  PMss  and  to  the  year  1532,  the  period 
of  the  death  of  the  Bishop  of  Bayeux,  who  waa  an 
intimate  friend  of  Bishop  Giberti  The  only  known 
copy  of  this  work,  when  obtained,  after  long  and 
frutless  search,  by  Marquis  Ottayio  di  Ouioasa, 
shortly  before  the  publication  of  Mgr.  Giuliari's 
book,  was  immediately  presented  by  the  fortunate 
purchaser  to  the  Giyio  Library-  in  Verona— a  good 
example  to  his  fellow  citizens,  truly  obseryes 
Giuliari,  who  has  himself  I  may  add,  set  a  similar 
example.  The  present  Bishop  of  Verona,  it  is  not 
unmterestang  to  note,  is  a  member  of  the  same  ! 
distingoished  hoose  of  Oanoesa,  from  which  Michael 
Angelo  claimed  descent 

Of  Bishop  Giberti,  as  an  enlightened  patron  of  \ 
letters,  enoogh  has  been  said,  I  hope,  to  establiah 
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jffaphen.    Of  his  chamoter  as  a  prelate,  it  may  be 
«DfMigh  if  I  dte  some  of  my  own  former  words. 

"OioTanDi  Matteo  Giberti/*  I  wrote  (TVaiu.  /L  S,  L^ 
ioc  dL),  "  entered  upon  his  episcopate  in  1528,  full  of 
I  feelings,  ana  an  eager  desire  that  the  Church 


should  benefit  by  the  adTaoce  of  science  and  the  progress 
of  eiTilization.  By  the  Church,  says  Mgr.  Giuliari,  him- 
■elf  a  canon  of  Oiberii's  cathedral,  the  bishop  under- 
stood the  people  as  well  as  their  pastors,  and  he  opened 
the  hosptt«lities  of  the  palace  not  only  to  theologians 
but  to  cultirators  of  every  branch  of  science,  arts,  and 
letters.  In  those  halls  learned  ecclesiastics  like  Lodoyioo 
di  CanosM,  l)el  Bene,  Donate,  &c.,  met  such  laymen  as 

Frmcastoro,  Flaminio,  Delia  Torre,  Bernia. Giberti  was 

a  prelate  of  the  gentle  school  of  Contarini  and  Sadolet, 
and  some  of  his  works  on  questions  connected  with  the 
reforme  which  he  considered  necessary  had  a  very  large 
cireolatioD  in  Italy." 

I  do  not  think  that  I  can  bring  my  present  note 
to  a  better  close  than  by  repeating  the  words 
written  to  me  by  a  distinguished  author — ^his- 
torian, poet|  and  art  critic— the  late  Earl  of  Craw- 
ford and  Balcarres,  with  which  I  dosed  my  paper 
before  the  Royal  Society  of  Literature  : — '^  Verona 


I  a  wonderful  place,  both  in  art  and  typography, 
and  the  stamp  of  its  greatness  is  on  it  stilL* 

C.  H.  £.  Caiucichael. 
17ew  UoiTersity  Club,  S.W. 


LORD  HUSSET  AND  THE  LIKCOLNSHIBB 

BBBELLION. 

{dmeludedfrom  6th  S.  iv.  531.) 

We  learn  from  Stow*  that  the  rebellion  in  Lin- 
colnshire first  manifested  itself,  early  in  October, 
1536,  at  an  assize,  held  in  yarious  parts  of  the 
oonnty,  for  collecting  the  king's  subsidy.  The 
rebels  nambered  together  nearly  20,000  men;t 
these,  the  chronicler  tells  us,  ^'tooke  certaine 
Lordea  and  gentlemen  of  the  country  causing  them 
to  be  swome  to  them  upon  certaine  .Ancles, 
which  they  had  devised";  such  as  refused  to  swear 
the  rebels  kept  prisoners.  Learning  of  the  re- 
bellion, Henry  quickly  despatched  a  considerable 
foroe^  under  the  command  of  the  Duke  of  Suffolk, 
upon  the  appearance  of  which  the  rebels  seem 
wisely  to  have  laid  down  tiieir  arms  and  crayed 
saidon ;  thdr  captains  were,  howeyer,'  Appre- 
hended and  executed.  Now,  from  Stew's  account, 
it  would  certainly  seem  that  the  captains,  or  chief 
men  of  the  oonn^,  who  were  comparatiyely  inno- 
cent of  the  whole  affair,  as  they  were  forced  to 
join  the  rebels  by  means  of  actual  yiolence,  were 
punished,  whilst  the  rebels  themselyes — ^with  a  few 
exceptions];— escaped  scot  free.    Whether  or  not 


*  8tow*s  Chrontde,  p.  573. 

t  It  will  be  seen  later,  from  the  Indictment  taken 
against  the  rebels,  that  their  number  nerer  really 
amounted  to  more  than  12,000. 

X  On  March  29, 1637,  twelre  Lincolnshire  men  were 
drawn  to  Tyburn  and  there  hanged  and  quartered.  One 
of  these  was  an  abbot  (Dr.  MackrelW See  Stow's  Chnm., 


Lord  Hussey  was  one  of  those  ^'Lordes,*  who, 
Stow  tells  us,  was  '* caused"  to  join  the  rebel 
muster,  we  cannot  say,  but  in  the  second  of  the 
three  documents*  under  notice—the  account  which 
he  himself  gaye  of  his  action  in  the  rebellion — ^he 
certainly  giyes  his  deniid  to  the  charge  of  treason, 
with  all  appearance  of  truthfulness.  This  docu- 
ment is  addressed  to  Cromwell,  and  must  haye 
been  written  after  Lord  Hussey's  conyiction.  We 
wiU,  therefore,  first  consider  the  charges  of  which 
he  was  found  guilty. 

Lord  Hussey  was  indicted  at  Sleaford  on 
May  12, 1536.  In  the  indictment  his  name  heads 
the  list  of  some  half-dozen  persons,  mostly  "  gen- 
tlemen," who  were  charged  with  *' traitorously 
conspiring  to  depriye  the  king  of  his  dignity, 
rights,  and  title,  yia.,  of  beins  supreme  Hmd  of 
the  Church  of  England,"  and  who,  on  October  2  in 
the  same  year,  at  Louth,  '*  by  the  aid  and  abet- 
ment of  the  Lord  Huse,"  leyied  war  against  the 
king, ''  made  proclamations,  and  caused  bells  to 
be  rung,  by  means  of  which  they  raised  the  people 
to  the  amount  of  4,000  persons,^  and  so  continued 
for  two  days.  After  which,  with  '*  arms  and  im- 
plements of  war,"  haying  taken  oaths,  chosen 
leaders,  and  increased  their  number  to  6,000,  they 
proceeded,  "  with  banners  displayed,  to  Caister," 
and  there  compelled  "  Sir  Robert  Tyrwhit  Enight, 
and  other  Justices  of  the  King,  then  sitting 
in  full  sessions,  to  fly  for  fear  of  death,  and 
took  some  of  the  said  justices  prisoners."  The 
indictment  further  states  that^  at  **  the  instigation 
of  the  Lord  Huse,"  the  rebels,  then  numbering 
12,000  persons,  finally  marched  upon  Lincoln, 
and  that  throughout  the  insurrection  Lord  Hussey 
**  compassed  and  imagined  the  death  of  the  king," 
and  "  aided  and  abetted  **  in  raising  the  rebellion. 
Lord  Hussey  pleaded  '*  Not  guilty,"  but  the  ytrdict 
of  '*  Guilty"  being  unanimously  returned,  judgment 
was  found  as  in  cases  of  high  treason — *'  Execution 
to  be  had  at  Tybome."t  So  much,  then,  for  the 
indictment.  INow  let  us  see  what  Lord  Hussey, 
then  awaiting  his  execution,  writes  to  Cromweu. 
It  se^ms  that  the  secretary  had  desired  that  he 
should  furnish  him  with  all  particulars  of  the  re- 
bellion in  Lincolnshire,  and  of  that  which  broke 
out,  almost  at  the  same  time,  in  Yorkshire.  In 
reward  for  such  information  the  secretary  had  pro- 
mised a  pardon  of ''  lyffe,  lands,  and  goodes,"  but 
we  shall  see  by  what  follows  that  Lord  Hussey 
could  ffiye  no  particulars  of  the  "  rising,"  and  pro- 
bably for  the  yeiy  good  reason  that  he  was  totally 
unconnected  with  it,  or  else  that,  after  all  arrange- 
ments for  it  were  completed,  he  was  forced  into 
taking  a  part  in  the  proceedings.  After  promis- 
\n^  to  state  '*  the  truth,  and  the  whole  truth,"  he 
wntes: — 

*  Amongst  the  State  Papers  for  the  year  1537-8. 
t  Bee  BiHsa  de  Becretis,  Pouoh  x.,  Bundle  2,  29  Hen. 
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"  I  neTer  knewe  of  the  begyning  (of  the  rebellion)  in 
nether  of  the  placet,  otherwise  than  is  conteyned  in  the 
bill  that  I  dide  deli?er  to  S'  Thomas  Wentworthe  at 
Windsoure,  nor  was  I  nerer  preyie  to  these  acts,  nor 
nerer  biddyd  them  (the  rebels)  in  will,  worde,  or  dede, 
but  if  I  myght  hare  hade  f7?e  hnndreth  men  I  wolde 
hare  fought  w<  them,  or  ells  I  forsake  my  parte  of 
heren ;  for  I  was  nerer  traitor,  nor  of  no  counsaile  of 
treason  against  his  Rrace,  and  that  will  I  take  my  dethe 
uppon  when  it  shall  please  God  and  his  Highness. 

•  Now  at  mydsomer  shalbe  thre  yeres,  my  lorde  Darcy, 
I,  and  8'  Rob'  Counstable,  as  we  satt  at  the  borde,  yt 
happenid  that  we  spake  of  S'  Fraunees  Bygott,  and  his 
Priste  in  his  sermonte  lykenede  O'  Ladie  to  a  poding, 
when  the  meato  was  ought*  with  many  wordes  more ; 
and  then  my  Lorde  Darcey  said  that  he  was  a  noughty 
Priste,  let  him  go ;  for  in  good  faith  I  wilbe  noe  heri- 
tyke.  And  so  ssdd  I,  and  lykwise  8'  Robert  Oounstable, 
for  we  will  die  Oristen  men.  And  as  for  any  worde  of 
the  Kinges  matters,  I  harde  none, 

"  8yns  that  tvme  I  never  harde  worde  of  that  matter, 
nor  of  no  nother,  nor  never  sawe  them,  butt  ons,  and 
then  they  spake  no  worde  of  that  to  me,  nor  I  to  them. 
My  Lorde,  come  lyffe  or  dethe,  here  is  all  I  ever  sayd. 

"All  theis  considerede,  I  humblie  beseehe  yor  good 
Lordeshippe,  in  the  bono'  of  God,  to  be  good  LoTae  to 
me,  my  wiffe,  and  my  children.  ^^  John  Husb." 

For  some  reason,  howeyer— possibly  beoanse 
the  kinff  found  it  more  oonTenient  to  disbelieye 
Lord  Hassey's  plea  of  innocence — ^Lt  did  not  re- 
ceiye  credence,  and  in  the  last  of  the  three  docu- 
ments selected  for  notice  we  find  Lord  Hassey, 
ahnost  on  the  eye  of  ezecation,  praying  ihe  king 
that  those  of  his  (Lord  Hossey's)  ozediton  who 
had  not  already  receiyed  payment  of  iheir  debts 
might  not  suffer  by  his  forfeitare.  The  following 
petition,  read  in  oonjanotion  with  the  will— by 
which,  as  we  haye  seen,  the  testator  was  so  oareftd 
to  proyide  for  the  comfort  and  welfare  of  his 
&mily  after  his  decease— giyes  as  some  insight 
into  the  personal  character  of  Lord  Hossey,  and 
shows  him  to  haye  been,  as  well  as  an  affectionate 
husbuid  and  father,  an  upright  man  of  business, 
who,  in  the  midst  of  troubles,  eyen  on  Uie  point 
of  dying  a  cruel  death,  did  not  forget  tiiose  to 
whom  he  was  indebted.  The  petition,  wldch  is 
addressed  'Ho  the  Einges  Highnes,"  runs  thus : — 

"Firtl  that  it  may  please  his  Grace  of  his  Charitie, 
and  for  the  Iotc  of  God,  to  discharge  such  my  sureties 
as  stand  bounden  for  me  to  his  Highnes  for  the  paye- 
ment  of  certain  sumys  of  money  yet  not  paid,  nor  the 
dayes  come,  howbeit  some  are  past ;  or  elles  tliat  the!  may 
recoTer  suche  land  as  I  hare  appointed  for  the  discharge 
of  the  same.  And  I  shall  pray  for  his  grace,  for  I  nerer 
offendid  his  grace  in  wyll.  dede.  or  thought  in  any 
treason,  by  the  dethe  that  I  shall  dye,  and  as  I  wold  be 
saryd. 

"  Item.  I  hare  paid  to  his  grace  the  sumys  of  thre 
thousand  pounds,  as  it  shall  appere  by  my  boke  signed 

*  The  practice  of  likening  the  Blessed  Virgin  to  "  a 
saffron  ba;,"  was  frequent  about  this  period;  and  is 
similar  to  the  idea  of  likening  her  "  to  a  poding  when 
the  meate  was  ought ":  as  a  bag  in  which  saffron  has 
once  been  contained  becomes  so  impregnated  with  it 
that,  eren  when  emptied  of  its  contents,  it  still  retains 
some  of  the  properties  of  saffron.  i 


with  the  hands  of  his  grace's  treasouren  of  his  chamber^ 
the  specialties  whereof  remaynes  in  the  hands  of  hie 
said  grace's  treasourers,  for  the  which  some  his  grace 
gaye  me  my  pardon,  redye  to  be  ehewid  so  it  towchid  no 
thing  of  his  words.  Notwithstanding  my  pardon  my 
Lord  Cardynall  compellid  me  to  paye  it  at  that  tyme.  I 
moTid  his  grace,  and  his  highness  promysid  me  tliat  it 
shuld  hare  hadd  remedy e.  Now  in  the  bono'  of 
Criste's^assion  hare  petye  of  my  synfull  aowle  and 
forgoTO  all  my  defaults  and  necligence,  bat  treaeoniL 
and  for  that  I  wyll  aske  no  pardon  for  as  I  be  savid  I 
neyer  offendid  his  grace  in  treason. 

"  Item.  That  his  grace  wyll  be  so  gracious  unto  me  thai 
my  detts  may  be  paid  that  hereafter  ensewith. 

*'  First  to  one  Gowper  of  Westmynster,  xx". 

"  Item.  To  the  executors  of  one  Thomas  Roberteon  of 
Boston,  xx". 

"Item.  I  was  executor  to  one  Lowe  of  Waltham  which 
he  and  I  chargid  to  spend  xl"  on  a  waye  called  fionye 
Lane,  I  spent  as  yet  but  x".  And  I  spake  with  the 
warden  of  the  Graye  Freers  at  Ware  to  have  gotten  mo 
some  honest  man  to  haye  lookyd  upon  it  for  this  xxx^ 
and  that  to  spend  upon  the  same.  (Beseching  your 
Grace  in  the  waye  of  Charitie  it  mi^  be  paid.) 

"Item.  I  did  sell  to  one  Jamys  Meryng  certain  woods 
at  Kynsall,  and  receyyd  of  hym  fiftie  pounds,  which  wood 
as  yet  stands :  in  my  most  humble  manor  I  beseehe  his 
highness  ether  that  he  xnay  haye  his  wood  or  his  money. 

"Item.  I  do  owe  to  Wylliam  Walhedd  batllf  of  the 
same  xl  marks. 

"  Item.  I  do  owe  to  my  Lord  of  Lyncoln  xx"  or  xzx", 

"  Item.  To  one  Wyll*m  Cawdron  of  Uekington  xxy". 

<'i(m.  To  Sir  John  AUen  Knight  xx>. 

"Item,  My  Aunte  Marmyon  and  I  was  thorotigh  Itie], 
and  I  to  paye  hyr  dawghter  viii'"  \  yerely  xl",  and  that 
she  shall  delyyer  all  suche  plate  as  she  hadd  of  mjne, 
which  was  worths  a  good  C  markes  and  iarther  hadd  hyr 
horde  with  me  ix  or  x  yerys. 

"  Item.  The  prior  of  Spalding  zl"  that  I  borrowid  of 
Prior  Boston. 

"  Item,  To  one  Mr.  Sentpole  zx^  that  I  borrowid  of 
hym. 

"  Item:  To  John  Soutte,  Tailor  to  the  Qwene,  Tiii». 

**Item,  To  Mr.  Richard  Orossand  of  London  zzii*^. 

"  Item.  To  my  seryaunte  Nicolas  Fetherston  for  iibylls 
which  apnerith  dewe  by  me  to  paye  which  the  said 
Nicolas  dia  laye  owte  for  me. 

"  Item.  To  one  Tonge  Tailor  Flelestrete  ti" 

"  Item.  To  my  seryaunte  Peter  SeynthiU  clero  of  my 
Eechin,  as  apperith  by  a  byll  signed  and  sealid  with  my 
hand  wch  he  laide  owt  of  and  for  the  charge  of  my 
house  yiii". 

"Item,  To  John  Clement  of  Folkingham  y". 

"Itens,  To  Maistres  Damold  in  Woodstrete  iiij»». 

"  Item.  To  one  Thomas  Tipkyn  of  Saint  Katheryas  iaSp. 

"  Item,  To  one  Poynter  of  Lymehouse  y". 

"Item.  To  one  Thomas  Webster  of  Willowghby 
yi"  xiii*  i?*. 

"  Item.  To  the  Susters  of  one  Grymsby  (whose  tytle  as 
I  remember  one  Wentworth  hath  by  maryage)  for  the 
purchase  of  Bytham,  to  my  remembraunce  xzy".** 

**  Item.  I  beseehe  his  grace  to  be  good  unto  a  dawghter 
of  myne  wch  is  called  Dorothe  Huse,  which  was  hande- 
fasted  and  bytrawthid  to  one  Thomas  'VVymbusshe  by 
their  owne  accorde*  and  agrementes  before  sufficient 
Record.  Which  Thomas  Wyrahusshe  was  warde  unto 
his  grace  and  I  bought  hym  of  his  highenes,t  Beseching 


*  An  addition,  apparently,  in  Lord  Hussey's  own  hand. 

t  See  Pat.  Roll,  24  Hen.  VIII.,  p.  1,  grant  to  Lord 
Hussejr  of  the  wardship  and  marriage  of  Thomas,  son 
and  heir  of  Christopher  Wymbuehe,  deceased. 


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hM  gsMe  tliai  the  mAmge  may  take  effecte  for  the  diB- 
cha^Sfiiig  of  tbdre  conBciencei, 

"  Your  humbell  serraunte, 

"JOHH  Hufi." 

Stow  does  not  i^ive  ns  tlie  exact  day  on  which 
Lord  Hosaey  suffered  death,  bat  it  was  some  time 
m  the  Jane  following  the  outbreak  of  the  Llnooln- 
ahire  vebellion,  t.e.,  Jane,  1537.  It  will  haye 
been  notioed  that  in  the  extract  from  the  Baffa  de 
SecretiB,  the  place  of  execution  was  fixed  to  he  at 
Tyburn ;  Stow,  howeyer,  tells  us  that  it  took 
pbce  at  Lincoln.  Probably  the  chronicler  is  cor- 
rect; for  some  reason  it  may  haye  been  incon- 
Tenient  to  remoye  Lord  Hossey— who  was,  as  we 
haye  seen,  tried  at  Slealord— to  London. 

WiLLiAJC  John  Hardt. 


Tbe  Gerukdb  Family. — The  earliest  recorded 
ancestor  of  this  family  is  Turstin  de  GirundCi 
who  at  the  time  of  the  Domesday  Suryey  held  of 
Bishop  Odo  one  yoke  in  Buckland,  Kent,  together 
with  the  manors  of  Foxcote  and  Dodiugton,  Bucks 
(Domesday  106  and  144&).  From  him  descended, 
we  may  presume,  Hamo  de  Girunde,  who  was 
possessed  of  these  lands  temp,  Ri&  L  This  Hamo 
Drings  BuU  against  Giles  de  Merlay,  Noyember  6, 
6  Bie.  L,  1194  (Hot  Our.  Beg.  L  34);  and  in 
9  Bio  L  he  saes  Walter  de  la  Hale,  through  Philip 
de  Gimnde,  his  son,  to  make  him  pay  for  one 
koight's  fee  he  holds  of  him  in  Foxcote,  Bucks. 
The  said  Walter  pays  him  fiye  marks  of  silyer  and 
one  bUu;k  horse,  ^'Bausein"  (Ped.  Fin.  i  160). 
In  the  following  year  it  would  appear  that  Hamo 
was  dead  and  ms  son  Philip  in  possession  of  his 
Luida  (Ped.  Fin.  L  174).  Philip  de  Girunde  in 
1201  pays  fifteen  marks  de  ohlat.  and  holds  three 
knights^  fees  of  the  honour  of  Peyerell,  London 
(Bot  Oblat.  et  Fin.  161).  In  1199  hejMjB  two 
and  a  half  marks  of  silyer  to  Bichard  Fitzwalter 
for  one  hide  of  land  in  Dodington,  Bucks,  and  in 
1102  he  pays  forty  shillings  scutage  for  land  in 
Backs.  In  1210  there  are  entries  to  his  name  of 
seyeral  sums  of  money  de  prestito.  Sept.  16, 1216, 
the  Sheriff  of  Bucks  is  ordered  to  giye  to  William 
de  Gatesden  '^  terram  quae  fait  Philippi  de  Girunde 
com  pertin.  in  Dudinton  qui  est  cum  inimicis 
domini  Begis  "  (Bot.  Lit.  Claus.  2885).  He  died 
before  1222,  in  which  year  '*  Bosamunda  quae  fuit 
uxor  PhiL  de  Girunde"  pEiys  twenty  marks  fine  to 
many  whom  she  pleases  (Excerpt,  ex  Bot.  Fin.  i.  81). 
Next  oomes  Nicholas  de  Girunde,  probably  the 
son  and  certainly  the  heir  of  PhUip,  who  in  5 
Hen.  nr.  had  permission  to  hold  a  market  on  his 
manor  of  Ashurst,  Kent  (Bot.  Lit.  Glaus.  4446). 
He  died  in  1268,  and  the  writ  of  Inq.  p.m.,  tested 
at  Westminster  March  28  of  that  year,  certifies  that 
he  held  one  knight's  fee  of  the  king  in  Wrenstede 
and  Ashurst,  Kent,  and  a-iordship  of  two  knights' 
fees  in  Foxcote  and  Dodington  Bucks,  and  that 
his  heir  was  his  eldest  son  Hugh,  aged  thirty  years. 


Sir  Hugh  de  Gerund e,  son  and  heir  of  Nicholas, 
pays  homage  for  the  lands  his  father  had  held  in 
1268  (Excerpt,  ex  Bot.  Fin.  ii.  470).  In  21  Ed.  L 
he  was  excused  from  attending  the  assizes  "  propter 
aetatem  et  infirmitatem."  He  died  26  Eld.  X.  in 
possession  of  the  aboye- mentioned  fends,  his  heir 
being  his  son  Hugh,  aged  twenty-four  years  and 
oyer.  Preyiously  to  his  decease  he  had  settled  his 
manor  of  Wrenstede  on  Hugh,  his  son  and  heir, 
and  Maigaret  his  wife,  for  the  term  of  their  natund 
Ryes,  ms  widow  Margaret  married  Stephen  de 
Tedemers  (Bot.  Pari  i.  276).  Hugh  de  Gerunde, 
son  and  heir  of  Sir  Hugh,  pays  homage  for  the 
lands  his  father  had  held  27  Ed.  I.  He  was  sum- 
moned to  appear  with  horse  and  arms  at  the  muster 
at  Berwiok-on-Tweed  June  24, 1301.  His  Inq.  p.m. 
was  held  1  Ed.  II.,  but,  baying  access  only  to  the 
Calendar,  I  am  unable  to  state  who  was  his  heir. 
I  presume,  howeyer,  that  this  was  John  de  Gerund, 
who  in  1316  was  certified  lord  of  Foxcote  and 
Dodington,  Bucks,  and  Ashurst,  Kent.  This  John 
died  16  Ed.  II.,  and,  as  appears  from  a  probat. 
2Btat.  in  7  Ed.  III.  (Gal.  Inq.  p.m.  iy.  439),  left  a 
daughter  and  heiress,  Matilda,  wife  of  Sir  Henry 
de  Ohalfonte,  of  Ohalfonte,  Backs,  which  Sir  Henry 
was  high  sheriff  of  Bucks  in  1341,  and  knight 
of  the  shire  from  1348  to  1350.  He  died  in  43, 
and  his  wife  Matilda  in  46,  Ed.  III.  Their  son 
and  heir  was  Thomas  de  Chalfonte,  who  died  in 
9  Bic.  IL,  when  his  heirs  and  next  of  kin  were, 
according  to  Hasted,  found  to  be  John  Bedeford, 
Boger  l^imonr,  Sibille  Jarconyille,  and  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Walter  atte  Style.  Berry  giyes  Sir 
Henry  and  Matilda  de  Chalfonte  a  daughter. 
Christian,  wife  of  Thomas  Waller,  of  Groombridge. 
but  I  am  unable  to  find  any  trace  of  her,  and  shomd 
be  greatly  indebted  for  any  information  on  this 
point.  I  should  also  be  glad  to  haye  information 
concerning  the  relationship  of  John  de  Girunde 
to  the  Hugh  de  Grerunde  whose  Inq.  p.m.  was  held 
in  1  Ed.  II.  There  is,  so  far  as  1  am  aware,  no 
pedigree  or  account  of  this  family  either  in  print 
or  in  MS.  Christophxr  Johnston,  Jun. 

82,  Franklin  St,  Baltimore,  Md.,  U.S.  A 

Ths  Father  of  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence.— The 
story  of  the  precocious  childhood  of  Sir  Thomas 
Lawrence— how,  before  he  was  five  years  old,  he 
used  to  recite  long  pieces  from  Milton  and  CoUins 
to  his  father's  customers,  and  draw  their  portrait^ 
--is  well  known. 

In  Chlumella;  or,  the  Distressed  Anehoret^  a 
CoUoquial  Tale,  2  yols.  1779,  a  scarce  and  yei^ 
readable  old  noyel  by  Bicbard  Graves  (the  friend 
of  Fielding,  Pope,  and  other  celebrities),  who  held 
the  rectory  of  Clayerton,  near  Bath,  for  two  gene- 
rations, I  find  the  following  reference  to  the 
father  of  the  eminent  painter ;  it  indicates  that 
the  struggling  inn-keeper  retained  an  unusual 
relish  for  literature  to  be  thus  publicly  noted ;  it 


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[6th  8.  V,  Jam.  7, '82. 


may  be,  howerer,  that  Grayes  knew  his  father, 
who  was  a  clergyman  : — 

**  We  arrived  at  the  Black  Bear  in  Bevizes,  wliere  we 
were  politely  rjceiyed  by  the  public-spirited  Mr.  Lau- 
rence [^ne],  -who,  notwithstanding  the  sarcastical  reflec- 
tions of  his  Chippenham  antagonists,  and  their  vaunted 
superiority  in  being  two  miles  nearer ;  Mr.  Laurence,  I 
say,  is  the  only  man  upon  the  road  for  warm  rooms, 
soft  beds,  and  for  reading  JUiUon,^* 

The  public  spirit  for  which  Mr.  Lawrence  is 
here  commended  has  reference  to  the  erection,  at 
his  own  expense,  of  signal  posts  (painted  white) 
across  Salisbury  Plain;  they  were  12  ft.  in  height, 
and  were  stationed  at  intervals  of  half  a  mile. 
Tourists  of  the  period  make  frequent  mention 
of  the  landlord  of  the  Bear  Inn  and  of  his  "  in- 
genious family"  in  t^rms  of  praise.  Madame 
D'Arblay,  staying  at  the  Bear  in  April,  1780, 
writes  to  a  friend:  "Mrs.  Thrale  and  I  were 
much  pleased  with  our  hostess,  Mrs.  Lawrence, 
who  seemed  something  above  her  station  in  her 
inn.''  Pecuniary  embarrassments  compelled  Mr. 
Lawrence  to  leave  Devizes  the  following  year. 

At  the  time  of  his  illustrious  son's  birth  he  kept 
the  White  Lion  Inn  at  Bristol,  but  his  business 
failing  there,  about  three  years  afterwards  ho  took 
the  Black  Bear  at  Devizes.  The  future  painter 
was  ten  years  old  when  Graves  wrote  CdumeUa, 
Ch.  Elkin  Mathews. 

7,  Hamilton  Boad,  N. 

The  Death  of  Edward  of  Lakcaster  at 
Tewkbsbdry. — This  event,  which  occurred  on 
May  4,  1471,  is  variously  narrated,  as  may  be 
seen  in  ordinary  histories.  But  a  new  light  is 
thrown  on  it  by  the  record  of  the  Norwich  cor- 
poration book.  This  city  was  strongly  Yorkist, 
and  sent  forty  men  ec[uipped  and  paid  to  Tewkes- 
bury field.  The  register,  under  the  year  1470/1, 
thus  speaks  of  the  event,  ^^  Ad  guerram  Tewkes- 
bury, ubi  adjudicatus  fuit  Edvardus  filius  Henrici 
nuper  regis  anglise  et  mater  ejus  capta."  The  use 
of  this  word  by  a  contemporary  scribe  seems  to 
me  to  indicate  that  Edward  of  Lancaster  was  cap- 
tured, tried  by  a  military  tribunal,  and  executed. 
I  may  note  that  in  the  same  year,  but  in  a 
previous  entry,  the  corporation  record  their  ex- 
penditure in  receiving  and  protecting  (?)  the 
Sueen,  Elizabeth  WoodvUle,  and  her  daughter, 
llizabeth  of  York,  for  three  days  and  three 
nights  ;  and  in  the  next  year  present  the  "  egregius 
princeps,"  Bichard,  Duke  of  Gloucester,  with  lOZ. 
in  a  gilded  purse,  besides  making  presents  to  his 
"  histriones ''  and  an  attendant  of  his.  At  the  same 
time  they  imprison  two  persons  in  the  Guildhall 
for  abusive  language  held  against  the  king  and 
the  duke.  English  history  at  this  time  is  so  dark 
that  every  scrap  of  contemporary  fact  is  of  service, 
and  one  of  the  for^  may  have  told  the  fact. 

Jaues  £.  Thorold  Rogers. 
Oxford. 


Bbrsngaria,  Qubsk  of  Richard  L— She  is 
said  somewhere  to  have  been  the  only  queen  of 
England  who  never  visited  this  country.  What 
does  this  leoord  mean,  then  ?— 

<*  London* — Domina  Berengaiia  Regioa  reeepit  in 
propria  persona  ma,  anno  iiii^  Begis  Henrioi  tertii,  posi 
Tranriationem  Beati  Thome,  mille  marcas:  et  frater 
Waltems,  monachns  de  Penenia,  reeepit  mille  marcas 
pro  ea,  in  festo  Omninm  Sanctorum,  anno  v**  Regis 
ejusdem." 

This  is  from  the  Memoranda  RoUs,  5  Hen.  ILL 
The  queen  must,  therefore,  have  received  per- 
sonally at  the  Exchequer,  in  July,  1220,  1,000 
marks,  and  on  All  Saints'  day,  same  year,  sent  a 
monk  of  the  Cistercian  Abbey  of  Persigne  (in 
Maine)  for  another  thousand.  I  believe  Exchequer 
payments  were  only  made  at  the  Exchequer. 

J.  Baif. 

Irish  Popular  Ballads.— In  "  N.  &  Q.,"  6* 
S.  iii.  185,  you  allowed  me  to  say  a  word  on  this 
subject  Now  that  the  open  organization  of  the 
Land  League  has  been  suppressed,  may  I  record 
that  there  was  published  last  year  (1881)  in  Dublin 
a  small  12mo.  of  sixteen  pagesy  called  Layt  of  ike 
Land  Ltague,  by  T.  D.  S[ullivan]  1  This  contuns 
four  songs:  L  "Murty  Hynes";  2.  "Our  Vow"; 
3.  "Plant  the  Branches";  4.  "Griffith's  Valua- 
tion ";  and  "  Hold  the  Hsrvest,"  by  Fanny  PamelL 
These  are  all  good  exsmples  of  the  historical 
nature  of  the  Irish  ballad — a  point  to  which  I  drew 
attention  as  above.  "  Griffith's  Valuation^"  being 
set  to  one  of  the  Irish  melodies,  has  beoome 
popular  among  the  Irish  in  England,  being  fre- 
quently sung  at  their  concerts  ana  entertainments. 
Were  I  not  afraid  of  encroaching  upon  your  spaoei, 
I  would  ask  permission  to  reprint  it  in  "  N.  &  Q.," 
as  subsequent  events  have  shown  that  it  may  be 
regarded  as  in  some  respects  prophetic.  Can  any 
one  give  me  the  history  of  Harvey  Jhiff  f  It  is  an  air 
with  which  newspaper  readers  have  become  familiar 
in  consequence  of  the  offence  which  it  gives  to  the 
Royal  Irish  Constabulary,  and  of  the  arrests  which 
have  taken  place  on  account  of  its  being  sung  or 
whistled.  Also,  may  it  not  be  well  to  place  on 
permanent  record  that  the  Land  League  news- 
paper. United  Ireland^  was  seized  by  the  Govern- 
ment on  the  publication  of  its  nineteenth  numbeTi 
bearing  date  Dea  17, 1881  ?     Jamxs  Britten. 

Isleworth. 

Danish  Folk-lorb. — I  send  you  the  following 
curiosities,  gathered  from  a  servant  of  this  nation- 
ality, whose  native  place  is  on  the  border  of 
Schleswig-Holstein : — 

Tou  are  sure  to  be  lucky  if  when  starting  on  a 
journey  you  meeteithera  flockof  sheep  or  a  black  cat. 

If  a  crow  caw  near  a  house  some  dreadful  cala- 
mity is  sure  to  befall  the  inhabitants.  She  did  not 
know  we  had  those  creatures  in  England ;  she 
thought  they  had  been  confined  to  Denmark ! 


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rabU 


ThoDgh  there  is  no  objection  to  sewing  on  a 
Sonday,  yet  it  is  very  wicked  to  do  so  on  Christ- 
mas Ere,  when  the  day  ought  to  be  spent  in  burn- 
ing candles  to  the  three  kiogs — this  it  is  "holy** 
to  do.  I  may  add  that  the  girl  is  a  Lutheran,  and 
the  root  of  this  idea  stretches  far  beyond  pre-Refor- 
mation  times,  down  to  the  eldest  of  all  idolatries, 
that  worship  of  the  sun-god  which  was  pre-emi- 
nently rife  in  Scandinavia. 

If  I  "come  across "  any  further  oddities  of  this 
kind  I  wiU  report  them  if  they  seem  worth  it. 

HXHMSMTBUBX. 
tThorpe*!  Iforihtrn  Mythology  should  be  oonralted.] 

MuxpiHO  Day.— SL  Thomas's  Day  is  known 
by  this  name  in  Lincolnshire,  and  the  old  widows 
are  said  to  "  go  a-mumplng  "  on  that  day.  I  think 
that  I  heard  the  same  term  in  Herefordshire  years 
ago,  though  the  ordinaiy  phrase  in  that  part  of  the 
ooantry  was  **  going  a-gooding.''  Numbers  of  poor 
women  duly  obeerTed  the  rites  of  "Mumping 
Day  *  on  Dea  21,  1881,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln. 

CuTBBBBT  Beds, 

Oh  the  Works  of  Michel  Akoblo. — 

BoonaiToti !  Am  Lather's  darinf?  ■pirit  shook, 
Sven  to  its  foundations,  the  belier  of  men 
In  UuDgi  they  had  deem'd  sacred;  so  the  Arts  forsook 
With  thee  beaten  paths  for  others  long  forgotten, 

ght  to  learn  from  Truth  the  source  of  the 
blime. 
I  thy  idol  through  ]<mg  years  of  toil.    And  when 
Her  lessons  had  been  leam*d,  and  with  the  flight  of 

time 
Onided  bj  them  came  insp' ration,  it  was  then — 
If  to  set  forth  joy,  grief,  lore,  hate,  rirtue,  or  crime — 
Shown  by  thy  hand  in  Tornu  and  features  which  express 
More  than  we  know  or  feel.    For,  like  the  eagle's  ken. 
Thy  mind  reaeh'd  farther  than  oars;  and  thy  works 

impress 
With  awe  that  makes  the  little  that  we  know  seem  less. 
Balph  N.  Jambs. 

^'Fools'  paradise.'^— A  writer  in  the^li^emBuin, 
Dee.  24^  pi  846^  seems  to  think  that  John  Day  is 
the  first  English  writer  who  used  these  words. 
This  is  not  correct ;  there  are  several  earlier 
instances.  N.  Udell's  translation  of  the  Apoph- 
iktgmu  •/  JBnumtu,  1542,  contains  at  least  two  ; 
see  pa  202  and  342  of  the  reprint,  1877.  See  also 
hb  Farapkrase  upon  Luke  (1548)  :^ 

"  For  oft  tymes  we  be  afeard  to  beliene  the  thyng 
whidie  we  do  rather  then  our  Hues,  wishe  to  be  tme,  as 
men  feaiyng  leste  we  should  cast  onr  selfes  into  some 
fooieM  paradiig,  or  false  ioye.  wherof  to  be  anon  after 
dspriaed  again.'^—F.  193. 

B.  R. 

Boston,  Lanoolnshire. 

A  Misprint. — ''N.  &  Q.**  has  from  time  to 
time  chronicled  strauge  misprints.  The  following 
cutting  should  certainly  be  added  to  the  number  : 
^Bridal  of  Triermain,  or  the  Veal  of  St  John,  in 
3  Cantos,  12ma  half  bound,  Is.,  1813."  The  word 
italicised  should,  of  course,  be  Vale,   I  haye  culled 


this  beautiful  error  from  a  eeoond-hand  book 
catalogue  which  reached  me  yery  recently.  I  am 
too  merciful  at  this  happy  season  to  mention  the 
name  of  the  centleman  who  has  issued  it.  If  he 
should  haye  detected  it,  I  am  sure  he  will  haye 
been  as  much  amused  as  I  was  when  I  came  upon 
it.  Anon. 

"  Pincushion  Inn." — This  title  is  not  given  in 
TKe  History  of  Signboards,  It  is  the  name  of 
an  inn  at  Wybertou,  near  Bostou,  Lincolnshire. 

CuTHBERT  Beds. 

A  Proverb.  —  In  Mereurius  MelanchoUcui^ 
under  the  date  Sept.,  1647,  alluding  to  the  trained 
bands  and  auxiliaries,  is  the  following  :  "  As  wise- 
as  Waltham's  calf,  that  went  nine  mUes  to  suck  a 
bull  and  came  athirst."      Edward  Hailstone. 

Christmas  Day  on  a  Sundat.— If  we  giye 
credence  to  the  proverbs  of  particular  days,  we* 
may  this  year  look  out  for  squalls : — 
"If  Christmas  day  on  a  Sunday  fall, 
A  troublous  winter  we  shall  have  all.*' 

William  Platt. 
Gallia  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

A.D.  1881. — Do  let  us  put  on  record  in 
"N.  &  Q  /'  which,  I  hold  as  an  article  of  faith,  is 
to  survive  all  other  printed  matter,  the  following 
letter,  addressed  by  £.  S.  D.  to  the  Spectator  of 
Dea  31, 1881  :— 

"  Is  it  worthy  to  be  recorded  in  the  last  number  of  the 
Spectator  for  the  year  1881  that  this  year  is  notable  for 
the  largest  census  ever  taken  in  the  British  Islands,  th» 
largest  Volunteer  review  ever  held  in  the  British  Islands, 
the  hottest  dav  and  the  coldest  ever  scientifically  recorded 
in  England,  the  greatest  number  of  comets  ever  seen  in 
the  same  year  in  Enghmd,  the  highest  high  jump,  the 
quickest  qoarter-mile  run,  and  the  lurgest  score  at  cncket 
ever  made  by  one  batsman  in  one  innings  ;  the  quickest 
sea-passage  on  record  between  England  and  Australia, 
and  between  England  and  North  America)" 

The  editor  adds,  '^It  was  also  remarkable  for 
the  largest  amount  of  'bore'  ever  suffered  by  a 
civilized  community,''  and  aptly  observes  that  his 
correspondent  '^evidently  touches  life  at  a  good 
many  distinct  points."  W.  E.  B. 


We  must  request  eorrespondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


CouRTBSY  Titles.— The  eldest  son  of  a  peer 
above  the  rank  of  a  viscount  and  enjoying  more 
than  one  dignity  is  commonly  known  by  courtesy 
under  his  father's  second  title.  But  what  authority 
is  there  for  an  earl's  eldest  son  assuming  the  title 
of  a  lord  in  conjunction  with  his  family  name,  or 
being  known,  in  fact,  by  courtesy  under  a  title  non- 


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existent,  or  in  abeyamce,  or  no  longer  belonging  to 
the  father  ? 

To  cite  cases  in  point.  The  eldest  son  of  the 
Earl  of  Lindsey  is  styled  Lord  Bertie,  although 
the  earldom  is  the  sole  title.  The  son  and  heir  of 
the  Earl  of  Devon,  who  is  without  a  second  title, 
since  the  Barony  of  Courtenay,  if  not  still  under 
attainder,  woula  now  be  in  abeyance,  is  styled 
Lord  (not  Viscount)  Courtenay.  The  eldest  son 
of  the  Earl  of  Huntingdon  is  known  as  Lord 
Hastings,  although  the  earl  has  no  second  title, 
and  the  Barony  of  Hastings— that  of  1461 — is 
possessed  by  the  Earl  of  Loudoun,  while  there  is 
furthermore  a  second  true  Lord  Hastings,  actually 
known  under  this  title,  the  holder  of  the  honour 
created  temp,  Edward  L  The  Earl  of  Guilford's 
eldest  son  is  known  as  Lord  North,  although  the 
Barony  of  North,  which  fell  into  abeyance  on  the 
death  of  the  third  earl,  who  was  also  ninth  Lord 
North,  is  now  vested  in  the  Baroness  North,  and 
the  earl's  only  second  title  is  that  of  Baron  Guil- 
ford. On  this  fact,  under  the  announcement  of 
the  third  earPs  death,  in  the  Annual  Register  for 
1802  (p.  604),  I  find  the  following  comment  :— 

'*  If  the  present  lord  should  marry  and  have  a  son,  he 
would,  by  the  courtesy  of  Eng:Iand,  take  the  second  title, 
which  would  be  that  of  Guildford ;  a  strange  coiooidence 
in  the  annals  of  heraldry,  as  in  that  case  both  father 
and  son  would  bear  the  title  of  Guildford.*' 

If  there  must  be  two  Richmonds  in  the  field,  in 
the  last-named  case,  perhaps,  less  confusion  would 
ensue  between  a  Lady  North  and  a  (by  courtesy) 
Lord  North  than  between  two  Lords  Guilford. 
But  again  I  ask,  is  the  rule  in  regard  to  courtesy 
titles  elastic  enough  to  cover  and  justify  such 
instances  as  those  just  quoted,  and,  if  so,  what 
precedent  can  be  shown  for  it  ?  H.  W. 

New  Univ.  Club. 

Fauilt  of  Darct. — I  want  information  about 
Henry  Darcy,  who  lived  in  the  time  of  King  John. 
So  far  as  I  can  make  out,  he  was  either  brother  or 
first  cousin  to  Thomas,  great-grandson  to  Norman 
Darcy,  who  came  to  England  with  the  Conqueror. 
It  is  recorded  of  Heniy  that  he  died  without 
children,  and  his  property  was  divided  amongst 
"  sex  pauperes  sorores  suas.*'  I  cannot,  however, 
find  any  record  either  of  his  birth  or  death.  I 
have  by  me  a  copv  of  a  charter  of  Philip  Darcy, 
bearing  date  7  Edw.  II.,  which  Philip  must  have 
been  (judging  from  the  charter)  some  relation  to 
the  above  Henry,  but  what  I  cannot  say.  I  should 
be  thankful  for  information  not  only  about  Henry, 
but  the  early  history  generally  of  the  Darcy  family. 
J.  GouLTON  Constable. 

Walcot,  Brigg. 

"  Ympe  tree."— What  was  meant  by  this  term 
in  the  romance  of  Sir  Orpheo  in  Ritson's  Metrical 
Bomaneee,  IL  67,  163,  377  ?  Tmpe  usually  means 
a  graft,  but  in  the  passages  cited  it  must  have  been 


intended  to  specify  some  tree  more  distinctly.  Is 
it  a  mistaken  renderiog  of  Ital.  ginepro  or  Span. 
ene&ro,  a  juniper?  B.  C.  A*  Prior. 

Heraldry  :  Differencing  Arms. — Geofiiy,  a 
second  son,  who  died  in  1478,  charged  his  family 
coat  of  arms  with  the  crescent  for  difference. 
There  was  no  second  son  of  any  of  his  descendants 
who  left  male  descendants  any  of  whom  are  still  in 
existence  until  a  descendant,  dying  in  1712,  left 
an  elder  son  James  and  a  second  son  John,  lineal 
male  descents  from  both  of  whom  have  continued 
to  this  day.  How  should  the  lineal  male  de- 
scendants of  James  and  John  respectively  difference 
the  family  arms  ?  Am  I  right  in  assuming  that 
the  descendants  of  James,  the  elder  son,  should 
continue  to  bear  the  crescent  for  difference,  whilst 
the  descendants  of  John,  the  second  son,  should 
charge  a  second  crescent  on  the  first  ?  The  son  of 
John  had  also  a  second  son  Charles,  whose  descent, 
again,  has  continued  in  the  male  line.  How  should 
his  descendants  difference  the  arms— by  charging 
a  third  cceicent  on  the  second?  Ought  tnese 
differences,  if  adopted,  to  be  record^  in  the 
College  of  Arms  ?  J.  H.  J. 

"Danothy  Hall.**— Not  far  from  Thirsk,  in 
Yorkshire,  stands  a  house  marked  on  the 
Ordnance  map  as  '^Danothy  Hall.**  Near  this 
place  I  was  located  for  eighteen  months.  It  is  an 
old,  red-brick,  roomv  house,  with  double  walls, 
now  occupied  by  a  farmer.  A  ghastly  stor^  was 
told  me,  in  various  versions,  as  to  the  origin  of 
the  name ;  the  chief  point  being  that  there 
formerly  lived  here  one  Busby,  whose  servant, 
Dan.  Otty  (or  Auty),  was  a  coiner.  Busby,  dis- 
covering this,  murdered  him  and  appropriated  the 
money.  He  in  turn  was  found  out  by  a  maid- 
servant, whom  he  treated  in  the  same  way  as 
he  had  previously  served  Dan.  Otty;  but  eveiy- 
thinc  coming  to  light,  the  aforesaid  Busby  died 
suddenly  of  asphyxia,  in  the  presence  of  some 
aveneers  of  the  majesty  of  the  law,  at  cross  roads 
on  the  way  to  Topcliffe  station.  The  place,  a 
favourite  meet  for  the  hounds,  is  known  now  as 
"  Busby  Stoop.**  Can  any  one  tell  me  where  I 
can  read  a  true  account  in  print  ?  I  can  find  no 
trace  of  the  execution  of  Busby  in  any  criminal 
records.  Fred.  W.  Joy,  M.A« 

Cathedral  Library,  Ely. 

St.  Edmund  of  East  Anolia. — At  Toulouse 
are  said  to  be  preserved  in  a  shrine  of  silver  the 
remains  of  this  prince,  which,  it  is  stated,  were 
removed  from  his  shrine  at  the  dissolution  of  Bury 
Abbey  and  taken  to  the  above  city.  Is  there  any 
historical  or  contemporaiy  evidence  of  such  re- 
moval ?  Perhaps,  also,  some  correspondent  famUiar 
with  Toulouse  will  kindly  cive  particulars  as  to 
the  location  and  condition  of  the  shrine,  and  the 
tradition  belonging  thereto.  N.  S. 


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Eablt  Dated  Book-Plate. — I  have  a  book- 
plate with  the  inscription,  "  William  Vndrill  his 
Booke  :  1633/'  surroonded  by  a  border.  I  am 
told  this  is  the  earliest  English  dated  book-plate 
known,  and  I  shall  be  very  clad  to  know  if  this 
is  really  the  case.  F.  B.  Ellis,  M.A. 

Wenlock  Vicarage. 

**  Wonder.**— Was  wonder  used  as  an  adverb 
by  English  writers  in  the  sixteenth  century  as 
founder  is  in  modem  (xerman  ?  I  believe  Leland 
80  OSes  it.  E.  S.  Dodgson. 

Fitney  House,  Teovil. 

BoBBRT  Letticb  Hooper,  Lord  Chief  Jus- 
tice OF  THE  Province  of  New  York.— Is 
anything  known  of  his  personal  history?  He 
died  (where  T)  in  1739.  To  what  branch  of  the 
Hooper  fiAmily  did  he  belong  ?  B.  P.  H. 

PUNISHKENT      FOR       HlOH      TREASON     TEMP. 

Outer  C&okwell. — ^It  is  said,  and  I  believe 
truly,  that  during  the  time  that  Oliver  Cromwell 
was  sapreme  rukr  of  these  nations  the  horrible 
high  treason  punishment  was  never  put  in  force^ 
but  that  culprits  were  hanged  or  beheaded  with- 
out torture.    Is  there  positive  evidence  of  this  ? 

Anon. 

Barnabas  Oley. — I  shall  be  glad  to  receive 
any  information  as  to  the  familv  of  Barnabas 
Olie^  and  his  benefactions,  in  addition  to  the 
ardmary  references.  J.  T.  F. 

Bishop  Hatfield's  Hall,  Ihirham. 

The  Gahe  of  '*  Platepere.^ — In  Hilary  Term, 
7  Edw.  L,  a  boy  of  ten  years  of  age,  William  son 
•f  Peter  the  mason,  playing  with  Bobert  son  of 
William  Bussel,  in  the  town  of  Newcastle-on- 
Tyne,  at  this  game,  in  throwing  his  stone  at  the 
mark  hit  WilSam  Bussel  (the  father)  on  the  head 
and  killed  him.  What  sort  of  game  was  this  ?  A 
boy  of  ten  could  not  throw  a  very  large  stone,  one 
would  think.  People  seem  to  have  been  verjr  easily 
killed  in  those  days,  perhaps  from  being  insuffi- 
cienUy  fed.  Many  instances  could  be  given  from 
the  Assize  Bolls,  from  which  the  above  record  is 
taken.  J.  Bain. 

The  Boxtffionac  FAinLT.— Can  any  one  tell 
me  about  the  Bouffignac  family  of  Languedoc? 
They  were,  I  believe,  Huguenots,  and  a  section  of 
them,  after  the  revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes, 
fled  to  England,  when  some  of  them  ultimately 
settled  in  Cornwall  At  the  same  time,  it  seems, 
a  portion  of  the  family  of  the  Kings  of  Yvetot 
fled  to  England,  some  of  them  a&o  going  to 
Geneva,  I  believe.  The  Vautier  family,  I  under- 
stand, claim  to  be  descendants  of  these  titular 
kings.  Also,  can  any  one  tell  me  of  an  English 
Terse  translation  of  B^ranger's  famous  song  '^  Le 
Boi  dTretot."  W.  S.  L.  S. 


"  Was  crucified,  dead,  and  buried."— Can 
another  example  be  given  of  a  similar  use  of 
the  words  vjat  dead  in  the  sense  of  "  expired "  ? 
It  can  hardly  be  an  adjective="  was  a  dead  man,** 
as  this  would  be  far  too  equivocal  for  an  article  of 
faith  ;  nor  can  it  be=''  being  dead,"  as  this  would 
require  the  transposition  of  the  conjunction,  thus  : 
"was  crucified,  and  being  dead  was  buried." 
Similarly  it  cannot  mean,  '*  till  he  was  dead,"  as 
this  would  need  the  use  of  the  adverb  then  in  the 
last  dause,  "He  was  crucified  till  he  was  dead, 
and  then  he  was  buried."  It  must  mean,  "  He 
was  crucified,  [actually]  died,  and  was  buried,"  so 
that  the  adjective  dead  is  used  as  a  verb—'*  was 
deaded,"  was  "  made  dead," — "  He  was  crucified, 
was  deprived  of  life,  and  was  buried."  Your 
readers,  no  doubt,  know  that  the  word  dead  does 
not  stand  in  the  early  forms  of  the  creed,  nor  in 
the  Oriental  form.  It  is  an  innovation,  and,  as  it 
appears  to  me,  is  a  most  objectionable  way  of 
stating  an  important  fact. 

£.  Cobham  Brewer. 

EiNO  Canute. — Is  there  any  historical  or  tra- 
ditional authority  for  considering  Canute  the 
Great  a  parricide  ?  Accuracy. 

Numismatic— I  have  a  siz|>ence  of  Victoria, 
1840,  which  on  the  obverse  is  countermarked 
upon  the  neck  of  the  bust  with  a  circular  stamp  ; 
lion    walking,     showing    left    cheek.       Legend 

encircling    it,    " Litada-Por-El-Gobiemo." 

Wanted,  an  explanation  of  this  stamp. 

W.  Stayenhaoen  Jones. 

79,OsrltonHiU,N.W. 

Birnie  of  Broomhill. — On  the  title-pace  of  a 
book  dated  1553,  in  my  library,  is  a  book-plate  of 
the  above  family,  viz.,  Gu.,  a  fesse  arg.  between 
a  bow  and  arrow  in  full  draught  in  chief,  and 
three  men's  legs  oouped  at  the  thighs  in  fesse  pale- 
ways  of  the  second ;  crest,  a  lion's  head  erased  gu.; 
motto,  "Sapere  aude  incipe,"  and  supported  by 
two  priests.  "  Burden  sculp."  Underneath  is  the 
autograph  of  B.  Birnie,  in  a  sixteenth  century 
hand.  Can  any  collector  give  me  about  the  date 
of  the  book-plate  ?  I  could  send  the  title-page  for 
inspection,  with  other  autographs  of  the  family 
thereon,  as  it  is  quite  loose. 

Edward  J.  Taylor. 

Bishopwearmoutb. 

Fonts  of  the  Bestoration  Period.— How  is 
it  that  so  many  country  church  fonts  bear  dates  of 
the  early  period  of  Charles  II.'s  reign  ?  We  meet 
with  accounts  of  the  old  font  stone  being  sold  and 
replaced  by  a  new  one.  Were  the  former  ones 
damaged  in  the  turmoil  of  the  Civil  Wars  or 
during  the  Cromwellian  rigime,  or  were  they  after- 
wards considered  desecrated  on  account  of  having 
been  used  by  unordained  ministers,  and  thereby 
unfitted  for  sacred  uses  ?  Curiosity. 

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Oliver  Croicwbll's  Mothkb.— Is  there  in 
eziBtenoe  an  original  portrait  of  her  t        G.  W. 

Chartbrhousb  ScHOOL.--It  has  been  the  cns- 
iom  here  for  at  least  160  years  to  have  a  dinner  of 
old  Carthusians  on  Founder's  Day,  Dec.  12.  We 
haye  a  record  of  these  festivities,  sometimes  in 
great  detail.  In  1727,  amongst  other  things,  it  is 
stated  that  130  flasks  of  claret  were  consumed, 
and  that  they  cost  3«.  9d.  each.  I  want  to  dis- 
cover what  the  size  of  these  flasks  was.  John 
Wesley  was  one  of  the  stewards  that  year.  They 
drank  also  five  dozen  of  red  port  and  white,  at 
Is.  6(2 ,  and  two  gallons  of  arrack. 

Carthusian. 

Christmas  Cards. — As  the  custom  of  sending 
Christmas  cards  has  become  so  universal,  would  it 
not  be  well  to  place  on  record  in  "  N.  &  Q.''  the 
date  of  its  commencement  ?  Has  the  custom 
obtained  more  than  half  a  century  ? 

Carolinb  Fishwick. 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted.— 
On  a  gravestone  in  the  churchyard  of  an  adjacent 
parish  in  Suffolk  are  inscribed  the  following  lines,  which 
scarcely  seem  to  owe  their  origin  to  any  local  poet  or  to 
have  come  from  the  stonecutter's  book  :^ 

•<  Far  from  these  narrow  scenes  of  night 
Unbounded  glories  rise, 
And  realms  of  infinite  delight, 

Unknown  to  mortal  eyes. 
Fair  distant  land  I  oould  mortal  eyes 

But  half  its  joys  explore, 
How  would  our  spirits  long  to  rise, 
And  dwell  on  earth  no  more  I " 

JOHH  PlOKFOBD. 

Newboume  Bectory,  Woodbridge. 
"  Quae  m  loeem  protulit 
Sole  radUnUor  Luna.'*  M.  N.  S. 

"  Supprimit  Orator  quas  Rustious  edit  inept^" 
Quoted  by  Jacques  Bernard  in  the  NowhIUm  de  la  Ri- 
pvJbliqut  d€t  LeUru,  Jan.,  1709.  W.  £.  Bucklbt. 


A  PROTESTANT  INDULGENCE  OF  THE 

SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY. 

(6«»  S.  iY.  464,  614.) 

It  will  appear,  I  think,  on  reference  to  the  text  of 
the  statutes,  that  some  of  your  correspondents  haye 
drawn  large  inferences  from  inadequate  premises. 
I  will  briefly  state  the  effect  of  the  enactments,  so 
far  as  they  illustrate  the  licence  to  Bichard  Cart- 
wright  and  its  confirmation  by  royal  letters  patent, 
as  well  as  the  extracts  from  episcopal  act-books 
and  parish  registers. 

The  statute  25  Henry  VIII,  c.  21,  entitled 
"  The  Act  concerning  Peter-pence  and  Dispensa- 
tions,*' proTides  as  foUows:— 

''Section  8.  Neither  the  Icing  nor  any  of  his  sab- 
jecU  shall  sue  to  the  Bishop  of  Rome  for  Uoences,  &c. 


**lbid.    The  Archbishop   of  Canterbury  shall  have 

Ewer  to  grant  to  the  king  all  such  licences,  &c.,  as 
TO  been  accustomed  to  be  obtained  at  the  see  of  Rome, 
and  all  other  licences,  &c^  necessary  for  the  honour  of 
the  kin^  and  the  wealth  of  the  realuL 

**  Section  4.  Tfae  archbishop  shall  hare  power  to  grant 
to  the  king's  subjects  all  manner  licences!,  Jcc.,  for  any 
cause  whereof  such  licences,  Jcc,  have  been  accustomed 
to  be  had  at  the  see  of  Rome,  or  by  the  authority  there- 
of, or  of  any  prelate  of  this  realm. 

'*  Section  6.  No  licence,  &c.,  under  this  Act  being  of 
such  importance  that  the  tax  of  the  expedition  thereof 
at  Rome  extended  to  four  pounds  or  above,  shall  be  put 
in  execution  till  confirmed  t>y  the  king  under  the  Great 
Seal  and  enrolled  in  Chancery ;  this  act  being  sufficient 
warrant  to  the  chancellor  to  confirm,  by  letters  patent, 
in  the  king's  name,  the  aforesaid  writings  under  the 
archbishop's  seal ;  and  licences  for  which  the  tax  at 
Rome  was  under  four  pounds  shall  pass  by  the  arch- 
bishop's seal,  and  shall  not  of  necessity  be  confirmed  by 
the  Gfreat  Seal^  unless  denred  by  the  procurers. 

'*  Section  15.  This  Act  shall  not  be  prejudicial  to  the 
Archbishop  of  York,  or  to  any  bishop  or  prelate  of  the 
realm ;  but  they  may  lawfully  dispense  in  all  cases  in 
which  they  were  wont  to  dispense  by  the  common  law 
or  custom  of  the  reahn  afore  the  Act." 

This  Act  of  Henry  VIII.  is  still  in  force,  and, 
0.  ^.,  "  special  licences  to  marry  at  any  convement 
time  or  place "  are  granted  under  its  authority, 
which  is  recognized  in  section  20  of  the  Marriage 
Act,  4  Geo.  IV.,  a  76. 

The  statute  5  Eliz.,  c.  5,  entiUed  '^An  Act 
touching  Politick  Constitutions  for  the  Mainte- 
nance of  the  Navy,"  provides  as  follows : — 

"  Section  15.  (For  the  benefit  and  commodity  of  this 
realm  to  grow  as  well  in  maintenance  of  the  navy  as  in 
•paring  and  increase  of  flesh  Tictual  of  this  realm)  from 
Pentecost  next  it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  eat  any  flesh 
upon  any  days  now  usually  observed  asflsh-days,  or  upon 
any  Wednesday  now  newly  limited  to  be  obeerved  as 
fi$h-day,  on  pain  of  forfeiture  of  three  pounds  for  every 
oflfence,  or  three  months'  close  imprisonment. 

**  Section  17.  The  prohibition  is  not  to  extend  to  any 
person  having  special  licence,  ufMn  causes  contained 
In  the  licence,  and  granted  according  to  the  laws  of  the 
realm. 

"  Section  18.  The  licence  is  to  be  void  unless  it  con- 
tain a  condition  for  payment  to  the  poor  men's  box  of 
the  parish  as  follows :  in  the  case  or  a  lord  of  parlia- 
ment or  bis  wife,  26«.  &£.;  of  a  knight  or  a  knight's 
wife,  Idf .  id,;  and  of  a  person  under  that  degree,  df.  8cL 
yearly. 

"  Section  19.  No  licence  is  to  extend  to  the  eating  of 
beef  at  any  time  of  the  year,  or  to  the  eating  of  veal  from 
Michaelmas  to  1st  May. 

*'  Section  20.  Persons  enforced,  by  reason  of  notorious 
sicknoM,  for  recovery  of  their  health,  to  eat  flesh  shall 
be  sufficiently  licensed  by  the  bishop  of  the  diocese,  or 
by  the  parson,  vicar,  or  curate  of  the  parish,  &c.;  the 
licence  not  to  endure  longer  than  the  time  of  the  sick- 
ness ;  and  if  the  sickness  continue  above  eight  days  after 
the  licence  granted,  then  the  licence  to  be  registered  in 
the  church-book. 

'<  Section  28.  Such  persons  as  heretofore  were  or  ought 
to  be  licensed,  bv  reason  of  age  or  other  cause,  by  order 
of  the  ecclesiastical  laws,  shall  enjo^  the  same  privilege 
and  accustomed  licences,  anything  m  this  Act  notwith.- 
standing. 

"  Sections  39, 40.  And  because  no  manner  of  person 
shall  misjudge  of  the  intent  of  this  estatut^  limiting 

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orden  to  eat  fiah  and  to  forbear  eating  of  flesh,  bat  that 
tbe  mna  is  porpoeely  intended  and  meant  nolitickly  for 
tha  increaee  of  oahennen  and  marinen,  ana  repairing  of 
port-townt  and  navigation,  and  not  for  any  iaper»tition 
to  be  maintained  in  the  choice  of  meata :  Be  it  enacted, 
thai  whoeoever  shall  by  preaching,  teaeliing,  writing,  or 
open  speech  notify  that  any  eating  of  fish  or  forbearing 
of  flesh  mentioned  in  this  statute  is  of  any  necessity  for 
the  aaring  of  the  soul  of  man,  or  that  it  is  the  service  of 
God  otherwiee  than  as  other  politick  laws  are  and  be, 
thai  then  such  persons  shall  be  punished  as  spreaders  of 
false  news  are  and  ought  to  be." 

The  Act  was  to  continae  for  ten  years,  and  these 
pTorfisiouB  were  farther  continued  from  time  to 
iime,  the  last  continuance  Act  being  that  of 
16  Charles  I.  c.  4 ;  and  they  were  not  remoyed 
from  the  statute  book  until  repealed  by  the  Statute 
Law  Reyision  Act,  1863.  It  is  probable  that  the 
licence  to  Bichard  Cartwright,  as  it  was  to  have 
eflTect  for  a  whole  lifetime  and  to  extend  to  guests, 
was  one  which  would  haye  coat  at  Rome  more 
ilian  four  pounds,  and  therefore,  according  to  the 
statute  of  Henry,  required  confirmation  under  the 
Greai  Seal ;  or  it  may  be  that,  the  point  being 
doubiful,  it  was  deemed  prudent  to  haye  the  con- 
firmation. 

It  is  obyions  that  the  memoranda  cited  from 
episcopal  act-books  and  parish  registers  haye  no 
reference  to  any  exercise  of  ecclesiastical  *' dis- 
cipline," or  to  "any  superstition  in  the  choice 
of  meats,"  as  if  it  were  ''of  any  necessity  for 
ihe  saying  of  the  soul  of  man,"  or  as  if  it  were 
**  the  senrice  of  God ";  but  that  they  are  merely 
records  of  licences  granted  under  the  authority  of 
the  law  of  the  land,  by  which  priests  as  well  as 
laity  were  bound.  It  is  further  apparent  that 
where  confirmation  was  necessary  under  the  Act 
of  Henry  YIII.,  it  was  not  the  king's  "personal 
iBiificaiion  and  approyal"  that  were  to  be  obtained, 
btni  merely  the  perfunctory  sealing  by  the  chan- 
cellor in  the  king's  name,  under  section  6. 

B.  B.  DxB8. 

WalUend. 

liXKORISS    OF     THK    BaTTLB    OF    TRAFALGAR 

(6*^  S.  iy.  503).  —  The  Christmas  number  of 
"^  N.  &  Q."  contains  an  interesting  account  of  the 
experience  of  the  surgeon  of  the  Tonnant  during 
the  battle.  The  following  extract,  from  an  account 
written  by  one  of  the  lieutenants  of  that  ship,  may 
be  acceptable  by  way  of  supplement  to  it,  espe- 
cially as  showing  the  courage  of  the  gallant  fellows 
on  whom  it  was  the  duty  of  the  surgeon  to  operate : 

"  We  had  hoisted  our  coburs  before  the  action  in  four 
different  places,  at  the  ensign  staff,  peak,  and  in  the  fore 
and  maintopmast  shrouds,  that  if  one  was  shot  away  the 
others  might  be  flying.  A  number  of  our  fleet  had  done 
the  same,  and  sereral  of  the  enemy  followed  our  example. 
The  French  admiral's  ship,  who  lo  gallantly  attempted 
to  board  us,  had  his  hoisted  in  three  phtces.  One  of  our 
mtn,  Fitzgerald,  ran  up  his  rigging  and  cut  away  one  of 
them  and  phced  it  round  his  waii^  and  had  nearly,  after 
this  during  exploit,  reached  his  ship,  when  a  rifleman  | 


shot  htm  and  he  fell  between  the  two  ships  and  was  no 
more  seen.  The  principal  signalman,  whose  name  was 
White,  and  captain  of  one  of  the  euns  on  the  poop,  had 
his  right  great  toe  nearly  seTcred  from  his  foot.  Ho 
deliberately  took  his  knife  and  cut  it  away.  He  was 
desired  to  go  below  to  the  doctor.  '  No,  eir,»  was  his 
reply ;  *  I  am  not  the  fellow  to  go  below  for  such  a 
scratch  as  that ;  I  wish  to  give  the  beggars,'  meaning  the 
enemy,  'a  few  more  hard  pills  before  I  haye  done  with 
them.*  Saying  this  he  bound  his  foot  up  in  his  neck- 
handkerchief  and  served  out  double  allowance,  until  his 
carronade  was  dismounted  by  the  carriage  of  it  being 
shattered  to  pieces ;  he  then  hopped  to  another  gun, 
where  he  amused  himself  at  the  Frenchman's  expense 
until  the  action  ceased.  ^We  had  fought  on  nearly  empty 
stomachs.  At  the  time  we  began  the  action  it  was 
dinner  time,  t. «.,  twelve  o'clock :  a  small  proportion  of 
cheese  had  been  given  out  and  half  allowance  of  grog. 
During  the  latter  part  of  the  action  the  captain,  who 
was  lying  on  a  cot  in  the  purser's  cabin,  sent  for  me.  On 
entering  the  cockpit  I  found  fourteen  men  waiting  am- 
putation of  either  an  arm  or  a  leg.  A  marine,  who  had 
sailed  with  me  in  a  former  ship,  was  standing  up  as  I 
passed,  with  hU  left  arm  hanging  down.  'What's  the 
matter,  Conellyl'  said  I  to  him.  *  Not  much,  sir,'  replied 
he : '  I  am  only  winged  above  my  elbow,  and  I  am  wait- 
ing my  turn  to  be  lopped.'  His  arm  was  dreadfully 
shattered  by  a  grape-shot.  I  regret  to  mention  that  out 
of  sixteen  amputations  only  two  survived.  This  was  m 
consequence  of  the  motion  of  the  ship  during  the  gale. 
Their  stumps  broke  out  afresh,  and  it  was  impossible  to 
stop  the  haemorrhage.  One  of  them,  whose  name  was 
Smith,  after  his  leg  was  taken  off,  heard  the  cheering  on 
deck  in  consequence  of  another  of  the  enemy  striking 
her  colours,  and  cheered  also.  The  exertion  he  made 
burst  the  vessels,  and  before  they  could  be  agam  taken 
up  he  died." 

The  whole  account  is  yery  interesting.  The  writer 
remarks  that  the  disposition  of  the  fleet  before  the 
action  was  soon  made,  and  was  as  simple  as  possi- 
ble, so  that  there  could  be  no  mistake. 

"  A  cordon  of  frigates  were  ordered  to  repeat  "ign*!* 
to  us  from  the  one  nearest  the  shore,  whilst  we  kept 
nearly  out  of  sight  of  the  land ;  and  all  our  ships  sides 
were  ordered  to  be  painted  yellow  with  black  streaks, 
and  the  masts  yellow." 
Ho  obseryes  on  their  arriyal  at  Spithead:— 

«  Some  of  the  fleet  had,  we  thought,  made  mther  a 
show  of  their  shot  holes;  but  our  commander  declared 
that '  good  wine  needed  no  bush,'  our  shot  holes,  of  which 
we  hs3  a  good  share,  were  painted  over,  and  not  per- 
ceptible at  any  distance." 


St»rwe'b  «  Tristbam  Shandt  "  (6«»  S.  ly. 

— 1.  «*The  elephant"  refers  to  Uncle  Toby's  map 
of  the  siege  of  Namur,  the  title  of  which  was  pre- 
sumably engrayed  on  a  cartouch,  as  tos  common 
in  old  maps,  among  the  ornamento  of  which  an 
elephant  was  introduced.  Near  this,  on  the  marpn 
or  vacant  space,  certain  histoncal  or  Btatistioal 
documente  seem  to  haye  been  engraved.  ^P^." 
maps  will  supply  seyeral  illustrations  of  this 
practice,  e.g.,  Rutlandshire  has  two  peacoclra  intro- 
duced ;  Nottinghamshire,  two  peacocks  with  cupids 
shooting  at  them  with  crossbows ;  Deyonshire,  two 
herons  ;  Huntingdonshire,  a  hunter and^a  falconer; 

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Essex,  two  owls  with  two  hounds  barking  at  them ; 
the  margin  being  filled  with  divers  sabjects  relating 
to  each  county.  Sterne  may  have  seen  a  map  with 
an  elephant ;  or  if  constructing  an  imaginary  one 
he  would  adopt  the  prevailing  fashion,  and  hit  on 
the  elephant  by  choice  or  chance. 

2.  "  Their  doctors/'  &c.,  are  the  partisans  of  the 
several  theories  as  to  the  material  of  the  stranger's 
nose.  "  ^  'Tis  a  nose  of  parchment/  said  the  bandy- 
leg'd  drummer,  '  I  heard  it  crackle.'  '  'Tis  brass/ 
said  the  trumpeter.  '  'Tis  made  of  fir,'  said  the 
master  of  the  inn,  'I  smell  the  turpentine."'  As 
Sterne  sets  these  doctors,  the  Parchmentarians, 
Brassarians,  and  Turpentarians,  in  array  against 
the  Popish  doctors,  he  was  perhaps  obliquely 
ridiculing  the  divers  sectaries,  like  the  Anabaptists 
of  Mflnster,  who  sprang  up  in  Germany  and  else- 
where in  the  sixteenth  century. 

3.  '^  Didius,"  &c.— These  are  fictitious  names  of 
certain  friends  of  the  author,  like  Eugenius,  by 
which  appellation  he  designated  his  friend  J.  Hall 
Stevenson.  See  Ferriar's  lUustratumi  of  Sterne, 
chap.  ii.  p.  35,  ed.  1798;  p.  53,  ed.  1812,  and 
Sterne's  preface,  vol.  iii.  p.  87. 

4.  "The  herb  Hanea,  of  which  jElian  relates 
such  effects,"  is  one  of  the  many  passages  borrowed 
verbaiim  from  Burton's  Anatomy  of  Melancholy, 
in  the  second  edition  of  which  work  it  was  first 
introduced  (part  iiL  sect  2,  memb.  6,  subs.  1). 
Burton  took  it  from  uEUan's  Natwal  History, 
ix.  26,  where,  speaking  of  the  shrub  "Ayvos  (the 
Agnw  ccutw,  a  variety  of  the  Vitex),  he  says : 
rovToy  Toi  koI  cv  Sccnxot^opot?  €v  rats  0Ti/?a<rt 
TCI  -^^vvttia  Tot  'AttwcoI  vjrofrropwvraL'  rj&rj  8c  Kat 
opfxrjs  d<t>pQ8i<riov  K^kvfid  core.  Dioscorides 
and  Galen  state  the  same,  and  Pliny,  Nat.  EUL, 
xxiv.  38,  "  Vitex,  Gr»ci  lygon  vocant,  alii  agnon, 
quoniam  matrons  Thesmophoriis  Atheniensium 
castitatem  custodientes  his  foliis  cubitus  sibi 
Btemunt."  The  word  "Hanea"  seems  to  have 
been  coined  by  Burton  to  represent  the  Greek 
ayv€ia,  chastity.  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  it 
in  any  dictionary  or  other  work. 

6.  The  reference  here  should  be  to  vol.  vii.  p.  97 
(not  viiL),  and  in  the  original  edition  the  name  is 
Sequier,  not  Siguier.  No  author  of  this  name  is 
mentioned  by  Brunet,  but  there  is  no  reason  to 
doubt  that  some  M.  Sequier  may  have  written  an 
account  of  Auxerre.  The  only  St.  Maxima  I  can 
find  is  one  martyred  in  Africa  a.d.  258.  There 
may  have  been  another  subsequently,  as  St.  Ger- 
main died  at  Ravenna  and  was  brought  back  to 
Auxerre  in  448,  after  which  the  St.  Maxima  in 

Question  "  came  from  Ravenna  to  touch  the  body." 
s  it  possible  that  Sterne  invented  St.  Maxima,  or 
changed  the  name  of  some  other  saint  to  Maxuna 
for  the  sake  of  introducing  the  joke  that  "  she  and 
St.  Maximus  were  two  of  the  greatest  saints  in  the 
whole  martyrology"  ?  It  is,  perhaps,  more  pro- 
bable that  he  was  told  of  some  local  St.  Maxima, 


whose  name  suggested  "  the  popping  in  with  his 
St.  Maximus,"  of  which  name  tnere  are  many  in 
the  calendar.  W.  E.  Bucexbt. 

The  sources  of  information  usually  referred  to 
for  notices  of  the  S^guiers  are  French  biographical 
dictionaries  of  an  early  date  and  the  general 
histories  of  the  Thirty  Years'  War.  The  more 
prominent  members  of  the  family  appear  to  have 
been  the  Chancellor  Pierre  Siguier,  the  undeof 
Cardinal  Pierre  de  B^ruUe ;  the  Advocate-General 
A.  L.  Siguier ;  a  Pierre  Siguier,  described  as  a 
religious  enthusiast ;  and  John  Siguier,  the  travel- 
ling botanist,  and  fellow  labourer  with  the  Marquis 
MasseL  F.  Petbr  S^xtibr. 

Highgate  Road,  N.K 

^'  Mare  "  (the  Sea)  and  Words  for  Death 
(6*  S.  iv.  268,  453,  497).— Your  correspondent 
St.  Swithin  wishes  to  know  why  Bopp's  deriva- 
tion of  inare  from  Sansk.  vdri,  water,  should  be 
condemned.  The  reasons  are  not  far  to  seek.  The 
derivation  is  arbitrary,  and  not  in  analogy  either 
with  the  history  of  the  root  or  with  sound  philo- 
logical deduction. 

The  labial  aspirate  v  when  initial  in  a  root  does 
not  usually,  if  ever,  change  into  a  nasaL  Ordi- 
narily in  the  cognate  tongues  the  v  is  preserved. 
Thus  Sansk.  vins&ti  =  Lat.  viginti,  Sansk.  vid  = 
Lat.  vid-eo,  Sansk.  vira  =  Lat.  vir,  Qec,  toer,  &c. 

In  the  Cymric,  where  initial  mutations  abound, 
m  changes  to  v,  never  the  reverse.  Thus  Llcu^vair^ 
the  church  of  Mary,  Llan-figadf  the  church  of 
Michael. 

The  absence  in  Sanskrit  and  Greek  of  an  equi- 
valent for  mare,  as  applied  to  the  sea,  b  very 
significant,  as  I  will  endeavour  to  show. 

The  presence  of  the  same  radical  word  for  the 
sea  in  all  the  Indo-European  or  Western  Aryan 
nations  indicates  a  common  origin,  and  that  the 
term  was  adopted  under  circnmsSinoes  common  to 
them  alL  The  Eastern  Aryans  had  their  own 
term  for  the  ocean,  samudra;  but  this  amongst 
the  wandering  tribes  in  the  north-west  of  India 
would  natursdly  fall  into  disuse,  and  as  their  wan- 
derings led  them  westward,  into  contact  with  lam 
oceans,  whether  the  Caspian,  Black  Sea,  or  Mem- 
terranean,  a  new  term  would  have  to  be  coined  or 
an  old  one  adapted.  With  the  exception  of  Bopp 
and  his  follower  Br.  Wm.  Smith,  so  far  as  I  am 
aware,  all  writers  on  the  subject— e.^.  Fick,  Pictet, 
and  Max  Miiller — derive  mare  and  its  congeners 
and  equivalents  from  the  root  mAr*  ttir^en^  ver- 
derhen,  to  die,  perish.  Hence,  says  Max  MiiUer, 
"  We  can  haidly  doubt  that  their  idea  in  applying 
this  name  to  the  sea  (the  Mediterranean)  was  the 
dead  or  stagnant  water  as  opposed  to  the  running 


•  See  Fick,  Vergl  F3rt«-5«<*,  i.  172, 892, 717 ;  Pictet, 
Orig,  Indo'Europhnnei,  i  110;  Max  Miiller,  Leelurti, 
Second  Series,  820. 


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fltTeams  {Peau  vive)";  as  Fick  puts  it,  todies 
Watser, 

I  ooncar  in  tbe  derivation  from  the  root  mdr, 
bat  for  the  yenr  opposite  reason.  It  is  true  that 
Sansk.  mri,  doabtless  a  corruption  of  the  root  mdr, 
has  the  neater  signification  of  dying,  perishing, 
bat  in  ita  active  or  causative  form,  mdrci^yati,  it 
carries  the  meaning  of  destruction,  oecidere,  zer- 
malmmj  zerbrechetiy  &c.  CertaiDly  the  bright 
speokling  waters  of  the  Mediterranean,  especially 
where  dashing  upon  the  rocky  coasts  and  isles  of 
the  ^gean,  convey  anything  rather  than  the  idea 
of  todies  Wasur,  Byron's  notion  of  the  ocean 
when  amongst ''  the  blue  Symplegades  "  was  more 
consonant  with  this  derivation  : — 

'*  Man  marks  the  earth  with  ruin—his  control 
Stops  with  the  shore ;— upon  the  watery  plain 
The  wrecks  are  all  thy  deed/'  &c. 

I  conclade^  therefore,  that  mare  and  its  congeners, 
aa  applied  to  the  ocean  by  all  the  Indo-European 
races  except  the  Greeks,  are  derived  from  the  root 
mdr  in  ita  active  causative  sense. 

Mdru  in  Sanskrit  means  an  arid  desert  without 
water — a  strange  term  to  apply  to  the  ever-moving 
active  liquid  sea.  It  would  be  lucus  b,  non  lucendo 
with  a  vengeance. 

It  is  a  singular  phenomenon  that  the  Greek 
hinguage  should  be  destitute  of  this  expression ; 
fuip-aivta  in  the  neuter  sense,  and  fidp-vafjiai  in 
the  active,  seem  to  have  a  connexion  with  the  root 
mdr^  but  never  applied  to  the  sea.  The  origin  of 
Oakaa-fra  is  very  obscure.  The  derivation  from 
aAg  is  nnsatisfactory.  At  all  events,  it  seems  to 
indicate  that  the  Latin  and  Greek  immigrations 
into  Europe  were  distinct  and  separate,  the  former 
in  some  way  connected  with  the  Celts,  Teutons, 
and  Slavs.  J.  A.  Picton. 

Sandyknowe,  Wavertree. 

Modern  Prophecies  :  Cazottb  (6^*^  S.  iv. 
428). — A  question  as  to  the  supposed  prophecy 
of  M.  Gazette  appeared  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  4«»  S.  ii.  8, 
from  Mr.  W.  E.  A.  Axon,  when  he  took  his  account 
of  the  anecdote  in  which  it  is  related  from  the  Me- 
fnoirt  of  Madame  du  Barri,  vol.  iv.  p.  291,  LondL, 
1831.  An  answer  from  Lord  Arthur  Eussbll 
was  inserted  at  pp.  45-6,  from  which  it  appeared 
that  the  story  first  was  published  in  the  (IJuvret 
FoMumes  of  La  Harpe,  vol.  L,  Par.,  1806,  and 
was  a  simple  invention  of  his,  which  was  stated  in 
a  MS.  of  La  Harpe's  own  composition  not  pub- 
lished, but  preserved  by  his  executor  M.  Boutard. 
Further  details  were  stated  to  be  given  in  Beuchot, 
Journal  de  la  Librairie,  p.  382, 1817;  E.  Fournier's 
E$prU  daru  VHistoirej  p.  251,  note ;  Sainte- 
Beave,  (knueriei  du  Xrunat,  voL  v.  p.  110;  and 
La  Hflirpe'a  own  account  of  "  Gazette's  Prophecy," 
in  Didot'a  Biogr.  QMraU,  art.  "  Cazotte."  The 
stoty  may  be  read  in  English  in  Dr.  Neale's  The 
Unum  World,  Night  xi.  pp.  192-8,  Lond.,  1853, 


where  some  (insufficient)  reasons  for  its  being 
considered  authentic  are  given.  M.  Jal  states 
that  Gazotte  had  nothing  to  do  with  it  {Diet.  Grit,, 
Par.,  1872,  "Oazotte").  Ed.  Marshall. 

Snuff-boxes  (6*^  S.  iv.  445)  in  France  have 
been  sometimes  used  politically.  Thus  the  Bona- 
partists,  during  the  banishment  of  their  chief  to 
Elba,  and  while  plotting  his  return,  filled  their 
boxes  with  violet-scented  snuff,  the  violet  being 
Napoleon's  distinctive  flower,  and  when  offering 
a  pmch  would  significantly  inquire,  "  Do  you  love 
this  perfume  ? "  Talleyrand  argued  that  snuff- 
taking  was  essential  to  all  great  politicians,  as  it 
gave  them  time  for  thought  in  answering  awkward 
questions,  while  pretending  only  to  indulge  in  a 
pinch  ;  or  a  proper  management  of  the  box  enabled 
them  to  adapt  themselves  to  many  temporary 
necessities  of  diplomacy.  The  author  of  the 
Finch  of  Snuff,  1840,  says  :— 

"Of  the  importance  of  snuff-boxes  as  a  means  of 
keeping  up  friendly  relations  with  foreign  powers,  we 
need  only  quote,  from  the  account  of  sums  expended  at 
the  coronation  of  George  IV.,  the  following  entry: 
'  Messrs.  Bundell  and  Bridge,  for  snuff-boxes  to  foreign 
ministers,  £8205  15  5/' 

William  Platt. 

CaUis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Tiianet. 

St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  a.d.  2199  (6"»  S.  iv. 
487,  517). — In  the  future  index  this  query  and 
reply  should  come  under  the  head  of  '*  Thomas 
Lord  Lyttelton.*'  They  awake  the  echoes  of 
<^N.  &  Q/*  of  1853,  where  Sir  F.  Maddest  asks 
almost  the  same  question  (1*^  S.  viii.  33).  It  may 
interest  your  correspondents  on  this  subject  to 
know  that,  in  my  copy  of  Letters  of  the  late  Lord 
Lyttdton  (two  vols,  bound  in  one ;  vol.  i.,  sixth 
edition,  1783 ;  vol.  ii.,  1782),  the  following  manu- 
script note,  in  the  handwriting  of  the  late  Thomas 
Samuel  Jolliffe,  is  written  on  the  fly-leaves  :— 

«26*»«  Pebry.,  1786. 

"Lord  Wesfccote  told  me  this  day  after  dinner  at 
my  brothers  in  Argyll  8^  that  he  believed  the  letters 
published  as  his  nephew's  were  spurious ;  and  that  the 
Executors  of  the  late  L**  Lyttelton  (he  is  one]  inserted 
an  advertisement  in  the  newspapers  upon  tlieir  first 
publication,  to  inform  the  world  or  their  inauthenticity, 

••  '  ^  ' —  ^^ — ow  with  a  declaration 

their  being  the  genuine 

_^ .1  would  shortly  appear. 

Jut  no  such  proof  has  appeared.  Upon  the  production 
of  the  2'''  Vol.  the  Executors  repeated  their  advertisement 
which  never  was  answered.  Xord  Westc**  also  added 
that  he  believed  the  author  of  the  letters  in  question 
was  some  person  acquainted  with  his  nephew,  y'  late  L'' 
Lytt"  from  whose  conversation  were  gathered  materials 
for  this  work.  My  own  personal  knowledge  of  his 
Lordship  inclines  me  to  think  this  may  be  the  Fact 
The  story  of  the  extraordinary  Sportsman  in  L'*  21, 
Page  141,  Vol.  1,  Lord  Westcote  added  used  to  be  told 
by  the  late  Lord  Gage  as  to  have  happened  in  Glouces- 
tershire. T.  S.  JOLLIFFB." 

Htltok. 
Ammerdown,  Badstock,  Bath. 


publication,  to  mrorm  tne  woria  oi  vneir  inausoei 
which  was  answered  from  Glasgow  with  a  decli 
that  certain  indisputable  proof  of  their  being  the  g 
production  of  L^  Lyttolton's  pen  would  shortly  f 


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MiSTLBTOB  AND  CHRISTMAS  (6**  S.  Iy.  609).— 

Will  it  help  Mr.  Mathbw  to  bear  in  mind  that 
as  the  early  Christian  miBsionarieSi  with  very 
qaestionable  polioj,  associated  the  natiyity  of 
Christ  with  the  old  festiyal  of  Yule,  so  the 
mistletoe — probably  from  its  healing  Tirtues, 
specially,  it  has  been  said,  in  puerpenJ  eases- 
was  anciently  sacred  to  Freya,  the  Saxon  Yenns  ? 
It  is  not  at  all  unlikely,  therefore,  that  this  plant 
was  used  to  shelter  and  sanction  the  lores  of 

?onths  and  maidens  in  far  pre-Christian  ages, 
'he  sacredness  of  the  mistletoe  may  haye  Men 
deriyed  from  its  being  bom  and  sprouting  from 
the  bark  when  the  parent  tree  was  in  its  winter 
decay.  The  word  nas  by  some  been  spelt  mii- 
tUtan  or  fn%8seld%n$y  and  deriyed  from  mistl 
(different)  and  tan  (twig),  it  being,  as.  Bacon  says, 
*'  a  plant  utterly  different  from  the  plant  whereon 
itgroweth."  Q.  L.  F. 

MORANT,  THB  ESSBX  ToPOORAPHBR  (6^  S.  iy. 

449). — In  Thompson  Cooper's  Biogravhieal  Die- 
Uonary,  1873,  is  giyen  (p.  882,  s.n.)  this  brief 
notice  of  the  learned  antiquary  : — 

"Philip  Mopant,  P. 8. A.,  was  bom  at  St.  Saviour's, 
Jersey,  6  Oct.,  1700 ;  and  edacaied  at  Pembroke  College, 
Oxford  (M.A.  1724).  He  obtained  •uccesBirely  teyeral 
livings  in  Essex,  the  principal  of  which  was  that  of  St. 
Harv's,  Colchester.  He  died  in  London,  25  Nov.,  1770. 
Mr.  Morant  published  the  History  of  Colchester,  folio,  and 
the  Sistorv  of  Essex,  2  vols,  folio.  He  was  also  one  of 
the  compilers  of  the  Biooraphia  Britanniea;  and  was 
apnointed  by  the  House  or  Peers  to  publish  a  copy  of  the 
roils  of  Parliament,  which  work,  at  his  death,  devolyed 
to  his  son-in-law,  Mr.  Astle. " 

Cf.  also  Watt's  Bibl  Brit,,  "Authors,"  yoL  iL 
p.  681,  0.  p.,  for  a  list  of  his  works. 

William  Platt. 
CaDis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

If  Mr.  Walford  will  refer  to  Robert  Watt's 
Bibliotheca  Britanniea^  published  in  1824,  or 
Nichols's  Literary  Aneedotei,  pp.  201-6,  he  will 
find  a  much  longer  account  of  Fhilip  Morant  and 
his  works  than  is  to  be  found  in  Allibone's 
Dictionary,  Watt  and  Nichols  both  giye  the 
year  1770  as  the  date  of  Morant's  death. 

Arthur  Mtnott. 

About  three  years  ago  I  searched  the  parish 
register  of  Aldham,  Essex,  for  Glascock  or  Glass- 
cock, and  I  remember  noticing  at  the  time  that 
Philip  Morant  was  for  some  time  yicar  of  the 
parish.  His  entries  were  dearly  and  carefully 
written,  contrasting  very  favourably  with  the  pre- 
ceding and  snoceediog  vicars. 

J.  L.  Glasscocb:,  Jun. 

He  was  bom  in  1700,  and  wrote  his  Christian 
name  "  Philippe."  He  is  mentioned  in  Chalmers's 
Biographical  LMionary,  Didot's  NouvelU  Bio- 
graphic UnivernUe,  Rose's  New  Biographical  Die- 
tionary,  and  Michaud's  Biographic  UniverseUc 
Edward  H.  Marshal^  MJL 


Glastonburt,  '^thb  town  of  oaks"  (6^  S. 
iv.  329). — In  spite  of  what  Mr.  Mathew  urge^, 
there  is  a  good  deal  to  be  said  in  favour  of  the 
name  Glastonbury  being  connected  with  the 
Comu-British  word  glckitanen,  later  on  glcutan  = 
an  oak.  It  would  seem  that  for  a  considerable 
time,  possibly  till  the  reign  of  Egbert,  the  Coma- 
Britons  extended  into  a  part  of  Somersetshire ; 
and  even  after  their  conquest  by  the  West  Saxooe 
it  is  not  impossible  that  some  of  their  names  of 
places  may  have  remained.  The  mun  argumeoit 
against  Glastonbury  having  this  deriyation  is  that 
aU  derivations  composed  of  two  distinct  langoagee 
ought  to  be  regaraed  with  suspicion.  Bury  in 
Saxon,  ergo,  it  may  be  urged,  aUuton  ought  to  be 
Saxon  also.  But  in  Cornwall,  not  unfrequently, 
a  combined  English  and  Celtic  root  is  to  be  found, 
eg.  J  Ciistle-an-Dinas,  where  Cattle  is  English,  cm 
and  Dinas  are  clearly  Cornish.  The  aignment  of 
Avallon  being  used  tells  both'  ways,  but  I  think 
more  strongly  for  the  oak  derivation.  Both  point 
to  a  tree,  i,e.  '^  the  GListonbury  thom,"  connected 
with  the  early  legendary  history  of  the  town. 
Thus  it  seems  that  a  word  expressing  the  peculiarity 
of  the  town  exists,  meaning  that  peculiarity  in  a 
language  which  was  most  probably  used  byits 
ancient  inhabitants,  i,e.  the  Comu-British.  Why 
should  we  assume  that  such  a  word  cannot  be  the 
origin  of  the  name  now  used  ? 

W.  S.  Lach-Sztrxa. 

Whiskerb=Moustachk6  (6"*  S.  iv.  406). — 1 
think  Macaulay  was  quoting,  and  must  have 
known  the  meaning  of  the  word  t^ujberedw  The 
best  passage  I  remember  on  the  subject  is  the 
following : — 

"  My  Beard  I  had  onoe  soffer'd  to  grow  till  it  was 
about  a  quarter  of  a  Yard  long;  but  as  I  had  both 


Sctssars  and  Razors  sufficient,  I  had  cut  it  nretty  short, 
except  what  grew  on  my  upper  Lip,  Wnich  I  had 
trimm*d  into  a  large  Pair  of  Mahometan  Whiskers,  meh 


as  I  had  seen  worn  by  some  Turks,  who  I  saw  at 
Bailee ;  for  the  Moors  did  not  wear  such,  tho'  the  Turks 
did ;  of  these  Mu9chatoes  or  Whiskers,  I  will  not  say 
they  were  long  enough  to  hang  my  Hat  upon  thtm ;  bat 
they  were  of  a  Length  and  Shape  monstrous  enough, 
and  luch  as  in  England  would  hare  pass*d  for  frigbtftd." 
— Robin'Ofi  Crusoe  (Qolden  Treasury  edition),  p.  152. 

But  we  have  ouly  to  look  at  a  cat  to  know  that 
whiskers  and  moustaches  were  once  the  same. 

0.  W.  Tanoogk. 

A  Sin  to  poikt  at  the  Moon  (6**  S.  iv.  407), 
— I  find  a  superstition  preyalent  here  which  must 
be  nearly  akin  to  this  ;  viz.,  that  it  is  a  sin  to  try 
to  count  the  stars.  Both  superstitions  have  ttie 
same  origin ;  nor  can  it  be  said  that  the  worship  of 
the  sun,  moon,  and  stars  has  quite  died  out  in 
England,  as  long  as  many  grave  old  gentlemen 
touch  their  hats,  while  little  girls  curtsey  three 
times,  to  the  new  moon.  At  this  period  of  extreme 
anxiety  as  to  agricultural  mattera,  I  feel  that  it 
would  be  useless  to  remonstrate  with  my  chuich- 


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vwden  for  tiying  to  catch  sight  of  the  new 
mocn  oyer  his  right  ahoolder ;  especially  as  he 
might  poeaibly  detect  me  in  turning  oyer  my  money 
three  tunes  at  the  same  moment. 

W.  D.  Parish, 
admeston,  Siuiex. 

For  a  long  time  I  haye  known  a  similar  saying 
as  to  the  new  moon.  Its  longest  form  is  this,  heard 
firom  a  pore  Londoner  of  Welsh  extractioo,  *'  It 's 
ao  unlucky  to  look  at  the  new  moon  through  a 
glass  that  you  should  always  shake  the  money  in 
joar  pocket.''  But  its  local  habitats,  in  some 
nch  roim,  are  more  extensiye.  From  some  other 
oonnty — in  all  probability  Deyonshire — I  haye  had 
it.  It  is  onlucky  to  look  at  the  new  moon  throush 
a  irindow,  though  not  unlucky  to  look  at  it  with- 
out an  intenrening  medium.      Br.  Nicholson. 

I  was  under  the  impression  that  my  nurse,  a 
Lioolnshire  woman,  warned  me  that  some  people 
■aid  it  was  not  right  to  stare  at  the  stars  ;  I  now 
begin  to  think  that  the  impropriety  I  was  cautioned 
against  may  haye  been  that  of  pointing  at  them.  To 
point  at  a  person  is  so  often  a  sign  of  want  of  respect 
or  of  actual  scorn,  that  it  is  not  surprisiug  it  should 
be  considered  irreyerent,  and  therefore  wrong,  to 
point  at  anything  so  intimately  associated  with 
our  conceptions  of  the  gloiy  of  Qod  as  the  star- 
■ownheayeiuk  St.  Swithin. 

AsTiQUABT  :  AirriQUARiAN  (6**»  S.  iy.  309). — 
AmHquany  and  arUimiarian  appear  to  haye  run 
ride  ny  ude  from  the  beginning  of  the  seyenteenth 
eentnry.  The  former  occurs  in  Grafton's  CAro- 
niels,  yoL  i.  pt.  yii.,  where  Leland  is  spoken  of  as 
*^.tlie  excellent  antiquary."  Here  the  meaning  is 
a  keeper  of  records  or  antiquities.  Sir 
E^erne,  in  his  Blazon  of  Omtrie,  1586,  p.  131, 
Bays,  *'What  shoulde  a  poore  aniiquarie  inter- 
medle  of  so  honourable  a  matter?"  From  this 
time  the  word  is  common.  Antiqiuirian  occurs  in 
Holland's  Camdm's  Britannia,  1637,  p.  6,  "I 
refene  the  matter  full  and  whole  to  the  Senate  of 
A%tiquarianiy  for  to  be  decided";  and  is  found 
regularly  since.  Of  late  years  antiquarian  seems 
to  haye  become  more  common  than  antiquary, 
bat  it  certainly  has  not  superseded  it.  I  do  not 
find  any  difference  in  the  use  of  the  two  words, 
fiuiher  than  that  antiquary  appears  to  carry  with 
it  a  more  technical  sense.  Xit. 

Bishop  Warburton,  writing  to  Hurd  in  a  letter 
dated  July  5, 1752,  says  :— 

**  Too  talk  of  Jaokaon*8  Ckronoloay,  on  which  occasion 
JOB  qoote  a  line  of  Mr.  Pope,  wnich  he  would  hare 
'   I  yoa  the  application  of;  and  wonid  certainly  hare 
I  a  new  character  of  a  diving  antiquarian  for  tlie 
lie  of  applying  this  line  to  him.'' 

Todd,  in  his  second  edition  of  Johnson  (1827), 
■ajB  that  "this  word  is  improper,  and  is  now 
tmty  if  at  all  used.''.    In  spite  of  Todd,  how- 


eyer,  the  word  is  more  frequently  used  in  the 
present  day  than  its  fellow  noun  substantiye  arUi^ 
quairy.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

Dr.  Murray,  or  one  of  his  readers,  could  pro- 
bably give  a  full  answer  to  C.  M.  I/s  question. 
As  one  of  them,  I  am  able  to  tell  G.  Al.  I.  that 
Sir  Walter  Scott,  who  used  the  word  antiquary 
as  the  title  of  one  of  the  Waverley  Noyels  in 
1816,  is  found  ten  years  later,  in  another  of  them 
{Woodstock),  usin^  the  words  antiquary  and  anti' 
qu^rian  (substantiye)  in  the  same  paragraph. 

In  1778  Dr.  Johnson  wrote,  "  Percy's  attention 
to  poetry  has  giyen  grace  and  splendour  to  his 
studies  of  antiquity.  A  mere  antiquarian  is  a 
rugged  being"  (Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson,  ed. 
Routledge,  1867,  ch*  xzxyii.  p.  338). 

B.  H.  C.  FitzHkrbbrt. 

English  Translation  op  "Hoiue  B.  Vir- 
GiNis  "  (&^  S.  iy.  407).— Southwell  is  one  of  my 
fayourite  •*  sweet  singers."  Supposing  these 
hymns  to  have  been  earlier  pieces  by  him  than 
any  now  extant,  and  allowing  for  the  ''woorde 
by  woorde*^  necessities  of  translation,  I  must  yet 
think — though  one  would  like  longer  examples — 
that  the  rhythm  is  not  sweet  enough,  and  that  the 
language  is  beneath  his  powers  and  feelings — 
especially  in  the  '*  Stabat  Mater."  Could  **  mourn- 
full  moode  "  be  his  rendering  of  the  "  hicrymosa  " 
of  the  agonized  Mother,  or  eyen  "  passing  doleful " 
of "  dolorosa,"  or  could  he  haye  translated  those 
most  beautiful  first  three  lines  by  the  three  lines 
giyen?  Neither  are  these  hymns  {teste  Grosart) 
m  the  Stony  hurst  MS.— one  written  under  South- 
well's superintendence  and  corrected  by  himself 
But  who  "  are  said  to  point  to  Father  Southwell 
as  the  author  "  ?  These  words  are  oyer  yague.  Is 
it  a  tradition  originating  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
or  the  guess  of  one  in  the  nineteenth  who  has  heard 
that  Southwell  was  an  Elizabethan  Roman  Catholic 
poet  ?  I  had  written  thus  far  when  certain  dates 
recurred  to  my  memory.  Southwell  was  tried  in 
Feb.,  1594/5,  being  then  about  thirty-three. 
Therefore,  according  to  this  un-ffolden  legend,  he 
must  have  written  ^*  Maiy  "  in  toe  collect  for  the 
queen  three  years  before  he  was  bom  ! 

Br.  Nicholson. 

The  Great  Gale  at  St.  Helena,  1821  •(6*  S. 
iy.  408).— The  storm  at  St.  Helena  on  May  6, 
1§21,  when  the  Emperor  Napoleon  was  on  his 
death-bed,  is  thus  mentioned  m  the  Journals  of 
Sir  Hudson  Lowe,  edited  by  Mr.  Forsyth,  yoL  iii. 
287 :  "  While  he  was  dyinff  a  yiolent  hurricane 
swept  oyer  the  island,  whicn  shook  many  of  the 
houses  to  their  foundations,  and  tore  up  some  of 
the  largest  trees."  Edward  Sollt. 

The  following  extracts  from  Las  Cases's  Memoirs 
of  the  Emperor  Napoleon  (transition,  Oolbura' 


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1836),  vol.  iv.  pp.  386,  387,  bear  some  relation  to 
the  Babject  of  Anon.'s  queiy.  While  in  Belgium 
Las  Cases  receiyed  a  letter  from  London,  which 
ended  thus, "  It  was  on  the  6th  of  May,  at  six  o'clock 
in  the  evening,  at  the  yeiy  instant  when  the  gun 
was  firing  at  sunset,  that  his  [Napoleon's]  great 
soul  quitted  the  earth."  Being  in  the  habit  of 
keeping  a  diary,  says  Las  Oases, 

'*  I  hastened  to  turn  to  the  5th  of  May,  to  tee  where  I 
was^  what  I  had  been  doing,  and  what  had  happened  to 
me  at  that  fatal  moment.  And  what  should  I  find  1 
Sudden  itorm;  shelter  under  a  $hed;  awful  clap  of 
thunder.  Taking  a  ride,  towards  evening,  in  the  country 
bejond  M alines,  the  weather  being  delightful,  there 
came  on  suddenly  one  of  those  summer  storms,  of  such 
violence  that  I  was  obliged  to  seek  shelter  on  horseback 
beneath  a  shed ;  and  while  in  this  situation  there  was  a 
thunder-clap  so  tremendous  that  it  seemed  to  be  close  to 
me.  Alas  1  and  what  was  passing  elsewhere,  at  such  a 
distance,  at  the  same  moment  1 " 

W.  G.  Stonb. 

It  is  mentioned  by  Timbs  among  other  omens  in 
French  history : — 

'*  At  the  period  of  Napoleon's  dissolution,  on  the 
4th  of  May,  1821,  the  island  of  St.  Helena  was  swept  by 
a  tremendous  storm,  which  tore  up  almost  all  the  trees 
about  Longwood  by  the  roots.  The  6th  was  another  day 
of  tempests ;  and  about  six  in  the  evening  Napoleon  pro- 
nounced Teie  d'armee  and  expired." 

WlLLIAX  PlATT. 

CalHs  Court,  8t.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Sir  Walter  Scott,  in  his  Life  of  Napoleon  Bona- 
parte, vol.  ix.  p.  298  (1827  edit.),  has  the  following 
passage  : — 

"  As  if  to  mark  a  closing  point  of  resemblance  betwixt 
Cromwell  and  Napoleon,  a  dreadful  tempest  arose  on  the 
4th  May,  which  preceded  the  day  that  was  to  close  the 
mortal  existence  of  this  extraordinary  man.  A  willow 
which  had  been  the  exile's  favourite,  and  under  which 
he  had  often  enjoyed  the  fresh  breeze,  was  torn  up  by 
the  hurricane,  and  almost  all  the  treet  about  Longwood 
skated  the  same  fate.  The  5th  of  Ma^  came,  amid  wind 
and  rain.  Napoleon's  passing  spirit  was  deliriously 
engaged  in  a  strife  more  ternble  than  that  of  the  ele- 
ments around.'' 

See  also  Hodgson's  Life  of  Napoleon  Bonaparte, 
p.  604.  G.  F.  R  B. 

Cardinal  Mezzotanti  (6*  S.  iv.  612).  — I 
have  a  copy  of  the  Catalogue  of  the  Library  and 
also  of  the  Italian  translation  of  Russell's  Life  of 
Cardinal  MemiofanU,  the  frontispiece  of  which  is 
an  engraving  from  a  bust  by  T.  Giungi,  in  which 
an  earring  appears  in  the  lobe  of  the  right  ear.  If 
Mb.  Sstmour  has  not  seen  the  book  the  latter 
part  of  the  title  may  interest  him: — 

"  Vita  del  Cardinale  Giuseppe  Mezzofanti  e  Memorie 
del  pin  chiari  poliglotti  antiohi  e  modem!,  opera  del 
Prof.  Quglielmo  Russell,  era  dall'  Inglese  Recata  in 
Italiano,— Accresciuta  di  Bocumenti.  Bologna,  1859. 
Tipografia  di  G.  Monti  al  Sole." 

I  saw  Cardinal  Mezzofanti  in  1847,  but  do  not  re- 
member any  earrings,  nor  do  I  remember  any  on 


the  bas-relief  over  his  tomb  in  the  convent  of  Sant* 
Onofrio,  at  Eome.  £sTs. 

Birmingham. 

Thb  Birch  of  Paradise  (6**  S.  iv.  427). — 
Sir  Walter  Scott  has  the  following  annotation  to 
the  passage  quoted  by  your  correspondent: — 

"  The  notion  that  the  souls  of  the  blest  wear  garlands^ 
seems  to  be  of  Jewish  origin.  At  least  in  the  '  Maaae- 
book/  there  is  a  Rabbinical  tradition  to  that  effect."— See 
Jewish  Traditions,  abridged  from  Buxtoff, 'hondon,  1732^ 
vol.  ii.  p.  19. 

I  quote  from  the  BaUad  Mimtrelsy  of  Scotland 
(Bell  &  Daldy,  1871).    F.  C.  Bxrxbbck  Tebbt. 

Cardiff. 

The  stanzas,  in  a  slightly  different  form  from  that 
given  by  your  correspondent,  occur  in  the  ballad, 
**  The  Clerk's  Twa  Sons  o'  Owsenford,"  in  The  Booh 
of  British  Ballads^  edited  by  S.  C.  HaU:— 
**  The  hallow  days  o'  Yule  were  come, 
And  the  nights  were  lang  and  mirk. 
When  in  and  cam'  her  ain  twa  sons. 
And  their  hats  made  o'  the  birk. 

It  neither  grew  in  syke  nor  ditch. 

Nor  yet  in  any  sheuch  ; 
But  at  the  gates  o'  Paradise 

That  birk  grew  fair  eneuch."^?.  349. 

JOHK  PlCK70RD|  M.A* 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

"BBTOisrD  THE  Chxtrch"  (6*  S.  iv.  427).— The 
authorship  of  this  anonymous  novel  is  ascribed  in 
Halkett  and  Laing's  Dictionary  of  the  AnowgmouB 
and  Pseudonymoiu  LiteraJtwre  of  Oreai  Britain, 
voL  i.,  to  Frederick  William  Bobinson. 

J.  C.  H. 

Thb  "Fourth  Estate"  (6*^  S.  iv.  428).— A 
ps^sace  in  Carlyle's  fifth  lecture  on  Heroes,  Hero- 
Worship,  and  the  Heroic  in  History,  1841,  makes 
Burke  the  author  of  this  expression :  "  Burke  said 
there  were  three  Estates  in  Parliament,  but  in  the 
Reporters'  Gallery  yonder,  there  sat  a  fourth  Estate 
more  important  far  than  they  alL" 

William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

"  Let  me  light  ut  pipe  at  tour  ladyship's 
EYES  "  (6**»  S.  iv.  347).— Such  an  idea  might  occur 
independently  to  many  minds.  It  is  not  vety 
likely  that  the  Irish  labourer  had  read  Mrs.  Mon- 
tagu's letter,  or  that  either  of  them  was  acquainted 
with  the  two  Latin  lines, — 

"  lUiuB  ex  ocnlis,  quum  vnlt  ezurere  divos, 
Accendit  gemlnas  lampadas  acer  Amor," 

which  are  in  TibuUus,  bk.  iv..  Carmen  ii  5,  6, 
though  the  authorship  of  them  is  uncertain.  In 
a  somewhat  similar  strain  Theocritus  describes 
Cynisca  blushing  so  deeply  "  that  you  mighty  light 
a  torch  at  her  £ce  " — cvyxapccos  k€v  ait'  avras  Kal 
Xvxvov  aypavi  (Idyll.,  xiv.  23).  A  severe  critic 
like  LoDginus  might  possibly  regard  these  conoeits 


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as  inatftnoes  of  the  t^  ijrvxpov  (see  sect.  ir.  of  his 
TrmHu  on  ik€  SMinUf  with  which  may  be  com- 
pared Aristotle,  Ehitoriey  iiL  3),  though  in  behalf 
of  the  Sicilian  poet  it  may  be  alleged  that  this 
idyl  is  written  in  imitation  of  the  mimes  of 
Sophron,  and  would  therefore  admit  of  such  an 
expression,  like  the  scene  in  1  Henry  IV.,  III.  iii., 
where  Fabtaff  indulges  in  a  rich  vein  of  comic 
exaggeration  about  Bardolph's  nose. 

W.  E.  Buckley. 

The  Hare  ak  Easter  Emblem  (6^  S.  It. 
388}.— Perhaps  the  following  notice  of  a  curious 
custom  obtaining  at  Hallaton,  in  Leicestershire, 
mentioned  in  Lewis's  Topographical  Dictionary 
(1840),  iub,  voCf  may  interest  your  correspon- 
dent : —  4 

"Hallaton  is  distiDguiihed  by  a  Bingular  annual 
custom,  which  is-  ihns  described :  on  erery  Easter  Mon- 
day the  inhabitants  meet  on  a  piece  of  ground  which 
was  bequeathed  to  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  rector, 
who  then  provides  two  hare  pies,  a  quantity  of  ale,  and 
two  dosen  of  penny  loares,  to  be  scrambled  for.  Attempts 
baT0  been  made  to  put  down  this  custom,  and  appro- 
priate the  bequest  to  charitable  purposes;  but  so 
attached  are  the  inhabitants  to  it,  that  these  efforts 
hare  always  failed,  and  on  one  occasion  a  riot  was  the 
nsalt*'-Yol.  iLSSS. 

In  Blount's  Tenures  of  Land  and  (hutoms  of 
JVofi^wv,  edited  by  W.  C.  Hazlitt  (1874),  is  an 
aeeoant  of  the  same  custom,  under  "  Hallaton,  co. 
•f  Leicester  ";  but  it  is  stated  there  that  the  pies 
aie  now  made  of  veal  and  bacon  instead  of  hare, 
and  that  a  procession  is  made  from  the  rectory  to 
ft  plaoe  in  the  parish  named  Hare-Pie  Bank. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Newbonme  Bectory,  Woodbridge. 

A  correspondent  in  WiUu^s  Current  NoUt  for 
Harch,  1856,  says  :— 

"  Blount  obserres.  They  hare  an  ancient  custom  at 
OoIsshiU,  in  Warwickshire,  that  if  the  young  men  of  the 
town  can  catch  a  hare,  and  bring  it  to  the  parson  of  the 
parish  before  ten  of  the  clock  on  Easter  Monday,  the 
pctfion  is  bonnd  togire  them  a  oalfs  head,  and  a  hundred 
of  eggs  for  their  breakfast^  and  a  groat  in  money." 

He  asked  for  the  origin  of  this  singular  custom, 
but  no  reply  was  giyen. 

Eterard  Home  Colemak. 
71,  Bre^nock  Boad. 

In  German  nurseries  it  is  belieyed  that  Easter- 
eggs  are  laid  by  hares.  St.  Swithin. 

Popular  Names  por  the  Coikage  (&^  S.  iy. 
327). — The  earlier  form  of  Uatteror  teeter  is  teeton, 
of  which  Cowel  (in  his  IrUerpreter  of  Law  Terme) 
says :  "  A  sort  of  Money,  which,  among  the  French, 
did  bear  the  value  of  18.  Denar,  But  in  Henry 
the  Eighth's  time  being  made  of  Brass,  lightly  gilt 
with  Silyer,  it  was  reduced  to  12(i.,  and  in  the 
beginning  of  Edward  the  Sixth  to  9(2.,  and  after- 
wards to  6dJ*  Tester  is  found  in  Shakespeare, 
2  Hsn.  IV.  IIL  ii.  295-6  :  «  WeU  said,  i'  faith. 


Wart ;  thou  'rt  a  good  scab  :  hold,  there 's  a 
tedur  for  thee.''  Shakespeare  has  ietirU  as  well, 
Tw,  N.  II.  iiL  32-6 :  "  Sir  To.  Come  on  ;  there  is 
sixpence  for  you  :  let 's  have  a  song.  ^tV  And. 
There's  a  tM^rtZ  of  me  too:  if  one  knight  giye  a — ." 
Halliwell  and  Nares  haye  no  reference  to  Shake- 
speare, 8,V,  F.  C.  BlRKBBCK  TeRRT. 
Cardiff. 

Numismatic  :  Bawbee,  William  and  Mary 
(6"*  S.  iy.  389).— In  answer  to  this  query  I  beg  to 
suggest  that  the  halfpenny  without  '^Fr."  must 
be  one  of  the  spurious  coinage  of  this  reign  with 
which  the  kingdoms  were  deluged.  The  style 
upon  all  the  English  gold  and  silyer,  the  Scottu^ 
silyer  and  Irish  copper,  true  coinage,  before 
the  death  of  Queen  Mary  was  *'Gulielmus  et 
Maria  Dei  Gratia  Mag.  Br.  Fr.  et  Hib.  Bex  et 
Regina."  On  the  English  copper  the  reyerse 
bears  only  "Britannia,"  with  the  date.  After 
the  death  of  the  queen  the  Boman  numerals  were 
added  to  the  king's  name  in  the  English  gold  and 
silyer  money,  but  the  copper  has  "tertius"  at 
length,  while  on  the  Scotch  coins  there  is  no 
numeral  distinction.  It  is  to  be  kept  in  mind 
that  he  was  third  of  England,  second  of  Scotland, 
and  first  of  Great  Britain  and  of  Ireland.  The 
copper  and  smaller  silyer  coins  of  Scotland  bore 
the  legend  "  Nemo  me,"  &c 

In  1698  there  were  large  quantities  of  copper 
tokens,  in  imitation  of  the  current  halfpence, 
imported  into  Ireland  from  Scothmd  and  the 
Continent,  far  exceeding  the  whole  coinage  of 
Ireland,  intended  for  the  withdrawal  of  the  silyer 
coinage  in  exchange,  which  caused  the  Lords 
Justices  to  issue,  on  August  13  of  that  year,  a 
"proclamation  forbidding  importation  of  such 
false  money  under  pain  of  being  proceeded  against 
according  to  utmost  strictness  and  seyerity  of 
the  law."  The  excessiye  amount  of  the  copper 
coinage  had  become  so  intolerable  that  on  May  12, 
1698,  further  coinage  was  forbidden  for  twelye 
months. 

I  haye  examined  the  fiye  guinea  (gold)  of 
William  and  Mary,  1691  ;  that  of  William,  1699  ; 
the  half-crown  of  William,  1698,  haying  "  Mag. 
Br.  Fr.  et  Hib.,"  for  England  ;  and  the  following 
Scotch  (gold  and  silyer)  of  William  and  Mary, 
60s.,  1692  ;  40«.,  1694  ;  20s,,  1693  ;  10«.,  1691 ; 
6s.,  1694;  and  of  William,  40«.,  1695;  20«., 
1695  ;  10«.,  1695  ;  5«.,  1695,—all  of  which  bear 
"  Mag.  Brit.  Fr.  et  Hib.,"  and  are  in  the  Museum 
of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  Scotland. 

Seth  Wait, 

A  Fencing  Match  in  Marylebone  Fields, 
1714  (6**»  S.  iy.  445).— I  subjoin  a  still  more 
curious  announcement  (date  August,  1723)  of  a 
match  in  Marylebone  Fields.  Women  in  those  days 
claimed  some  rights  not  now  generally  clamoured 
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'*  At  tho  Boarded- House  in  Marybone  Fields,  to  Mor- 
row being  Thundaj,  the  8th  Day  of  Auguit,  will  be  per- 
form'd  an  extraordinary  Match  at  Boxing,  between 
JoAKNA  Hktfikld,  of  Nowgate  Market,  Basket- Woman, 
and  the  Gitt  Ghaxpiohiss,  for  Ten  pounds  Note.  There 
has  not  been  such  a  battle  for  these  20  Years  past,  and 
as  these  two  Heroines  are  as  brave  and  as  bold  as  the 
ancient  Amazons,  the  Spectators  may  expect  abundance 
of  Biyersion  and  Satisfaction,  from  these  Female  Gom- 
batants.  They  will  mount  at  the  usual  Hour,  and  the 
Company  will  DO  diverted  with  Gudgel-plaving  till  they 
mount.  Note  a  scholar  of  Mr.  Figg,  that  challenged  Mr. 
Stokes  last  Summer,  fights  Mr.  Stokes's  Scholar  6  Bouts 
at  Staff  for  Three  Guineas ;  the  first  Blood  wins.  The 
Weather  stopt  the  Battle  last  Wednesday." 

I  shall  be  greatly  indebted  to  any  of  your  oorre- 
spondents  who  may  indicate  to  me  any  old  views 


€kirdens,  Cupel's  Gardens,  or  Rauelagh 

J.  Eliot  Hodqeiit. 
Bichmond,  Surrey. 

The  "  Adestr  Fideles"  (4*»»  S.  xi.  76,  219  ; 
5"»  S.  xi.  265,  298,  331,  372,  418  ;  xii.  173,  357, 
467 ;  6*^  S.  i.  85,  141,  160,  224  ;  ii.  434,  487  ;  iii. 
49,  410;  ir.  111).— Christmas  time  emboldens 
me  to  ask  the  favour  of  a  repetition  of  my  two 
questions.  What  is  the  origin  (1)  of  the  words,  and 
(;2)  of  the  melody,  of  the  Adeste  Fiddes  ?  Of  course 
it  will  be  unnecessary  to  repeat  what  has  already 
been  written  in  "  N.  &  Q."  on  the  subject. 

James  Britten. 

Isleworth. 

Sir  Gborqb  Griffith,  Ent.,  of  Whighuorb, 
Suffolk,  and  Burton  Agnes,  York  (6**>  S.  iv. 
348,  462,  641).— A  pedigree  of  the  Skeffington 
fGimily  in  the  Visitation  of  Leieesiershirey  1619, 
Harleian  Society's  edition,  p.  110,  gives  "George 
Griffith  do  Wichmore"  as  having  married  Elizabeth, 

daughter  of  Thomas  Skeffington  and  ,.  his 

wife,  daughter  of Hasilrigge.      This  Thomas 

is  stated  to  have  been  the  third  son  of  Sir  William 
Skeffington,  Ent,  by  Ann,  his  seoond  wife, 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Digby,  of  Eettleby  ;  also,  Sir 
John,of  London,  Ent,  the  second  sod,  is  said  to  have 

married ,  daughter  and  heiress  of Peck, 

and  died  without  issue ;  the  first  son  is  not  named. 
How  is  this  1  Would  not  Sir  John  be  the  first 
son  and  Thomas  the  second  1  and  which  of  the  two 
was  the  father  of.  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Sir  George 
Griffith,  Ent.?  I  shaU  be  glad  to  know  the  fuU 
names  of  the  wives  and  their  parents  of  both 
Thomas  and  Sir  John  Skeffington,  Ent 

Thos.  W.  Skevikoton. 

Toft  Yilla,  Shipley,  Yorks. 

Sir  Richard  Bingham  (6^  S.  iv.  513). —The 
portrait  of  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  which  still  re- 
mains at  Binghams'  Melcombe,  was  exhibited  at 
the  National  Portrait  Exhibition  in  1868  (see 
Catalogue  of  the  Third  and  Concluding  Exhibition 
of  National  PoHraitSf  p.  131,  No.  643).  A  long 
acooont  of  him  will  be  found  in  Hutchins's  Dorut, 


last  edition,  voL  iv.  p.  376  ;  this,  as  well  as  the 
rest  of  the  information  there  given  relative  to  the 
Bingham  family,  was  from  the  pen  of  the  late 
Rev.  C.  W.  Bingham,  whose  death,  ere  the  hist 
note  from  his  pen  had  appeared  in  the  pages  of 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  we  have  very  recently  had  to  deplore. 
It  is  only  a  few  months  ago  that  he  told  me  he 
had  sometimes  contemplated  writing  a  memoir  of 
Sir  Richard  Bingham,  adding  that  he  knew  more 
of  his  history  than  any  one  else.  I  think  it  is, 
therefore,  pretty  certain  that  no  biography  is 
already  written-  G.  W.  M. 

Morris  Dancers  (6*  S.  iv.  349,  524).— Queen 
Victoria   succeeded  her   uncle  William  IV.    on 


or  newspaper   cuttings   relating  to   Marylebone  j^^^  20, 1837.    Very  soon  thereafter  a  great  fair 


was  held  in  Hyde  Park.  The  exact  date  of  this 
fair  I  have  no  clue  to,  and  there  is  no  mention  of 
it  in  Haydn's  Dictionary  of  Dates.  But  I  was  in 
the  merry  throng,  and  1  saw  at  that  fair  two  com- 
panies of  morris  dancers.  They  were  spoken  of 
at  the  time  as  '^  London  roughs,"  but  I  am  pre- 
pared to  say  at  this  moment,  from  my  remem- 
brance of  their  style  and  demeanour,  that  they 
were  real  country  cousins,  and  surpassed  aU 
possible  London  roughs  in  naturalness  of  move- 
ment and  true  rustic  grace.  I  remember  that 
one  company  had  short  staves,  that  were  crosaed 
and  clasned  at  intervals  in  the  danoe  ;  and  the 
other  company  had  white  handkerchiefs,  with 
which  similar  movements  were  made.  I  was  too 
young  to  ask  what  counties  or  districts  these 
companies  represented,  but  not  too  young  to  take 
the  pretty  pictures  they  made  into  my  heart  and 
my  memory,  where  they  still  abide. 

Shirley  Hibberd. 

The  Earls  of  Chester  and  Hugh  De- 
SPENSER  (6^  S.  iv.  428).— The  manor  of  Alk- 
borough,  in  the  north  of  Lincolnshire,  was  part  of 
the  possessions  of  Lucy,  Countess  of  Chester,  wife 
of  Ivo  Taibois,  and  from  her  descended  to  Ralph, 
Earl  of  Chester.  This  Ralph,  called  "  De  Blunde- 
ville,"  died  in  the  year  1132.  We  find  in  the 
Hundred  Rolls  that  this  earl  possessed  the  whole 
village  of  Alkborough,  but  that  during  his  lifetime 
he  gave  half  the  village  to  Hugh  Despenser.  May 
not  Ralph,  Earl  of  Chester,  have  given  to  Hugh 
Despenser  possessions  in  addition  to  the  half  of 
Alkborough?  Has  W.  G.  D.  F.  ever  studied  the 
Hundred  Rolls?  J.  Goulton  Constable. 

Walcot,  Brigg. 

Sloping  Church  Floors  (6"»  S.  iiL  228,  392, 
417,  477  ;  iv.  37,  173,  473).— The  floor  of  All 
Saints'  Church,  Binfield,  Berks,  slopes  from  west 
to  east.  There  is  a  step  down  into  the  chanceL  I 
may  add  that  there  still  remains,  attached  to  the 
pulpit,  which  bears  the  date  1628,  a  curious 
wrought-iron  bracket  and  hoar-glass. 

W.  L.  Nash. 


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''Sivoui  SpncH  Hamilton"  and  Junius's 
LcTTBRS  (6*^  S.  ir.  425).— Single  Speech  Hamil- 
ton once  confeeied  to  an  intimate  friend  "  that  he 
ooald  have  written  better  papers  than  those  of 
Jnnins.*  At  another  time,  when  a  particular 
peasage  was  imputed  to  him,  he  flew  into  a  passion, 
and  protested  that  "if  he  had  written  such  a 
as  that,  he  should  haye  thought  he  had 

feited  all  pretensions  to  good  taste  or  oom- 
poBition  for  oyer"  (See  Ed.  Bw.,  Oct.  1829,  p.  165). 

WU.   FfiESLOVE. 

Bvrj  St.  Edmunds. 

AuTHOBS  OF  Books  Waktkd  (6**  S.  iv.  538).— 
SytUma  AgrieuUura. — In  Lownda  (Bohn)  I  find,  mb 
u&mtns,  "Woriidge,  John.  Systama  Agricultune,  the 
Ifptenr  of  Husbandry  DiiooTered,  by  J.  W.  Lond., 
Iw9,  folio,  oaii.  An  esteemed  work.  Lnnd.,  1675, 
folio,''  and  some  later  editions.  Mabs  DsviavB. 

AUTBOBS  OF  Qt70TATI0NS  WaNTBD  (6'*^  S.   iv. 

489).— 

•'  Qigsntie  daughter  of  the  West ! " 
Alfirsd  Tennyson :  puhluhed  in  the  Examiner, 
'  r  the  signature*' Merlin." 

C.  F.  8.  Wabash,  MA. 


N0TB8  ON  BOOKS,  &a 

Tki  Holy  SibU.    With  an  Explanatory  and  Critical 

Oommentary  and  a  SeTition  of  the  Translation.    By 

Bishops  and  Clergy  of  the  Anglican  Church.    Edited 

hy  F.  G.  Cook,  M.A.,  Canon  of  Exeter.     Vol.  X., 

heing  VoL  lY.  of  New  Testament    (Murray.) 

All  wno  eoioyed  the  adTantage  of  being  personally 

•cqoainted  with  the  late  Lord  Osiington  (better  known, 

pmape,  as  Mr.  Speaker  Denison)  must  experience  a 

loelnkg  of  deep  regret  that  that  kindly  and  accomplished 

I  was  not  spaiid  to  see  the  tuccenful  completion  of 


this  great  work,  which  owes  its  original  conception  to 
his  intelligent  foresight  There  now  lies  before  us  the 
tenth  and  final  Tolume  of  a  commentary,  the  merits  of 
which  hare  been  reco^ized  not  by  Churchmen  only, 
tmt  by  intelligent  Christian  scholars  of  all  denomina- 
tiona.  The  i&a  on  which  this  commentary  is  founded 
is  an  admirable  one ;  and,  thanks  to  the  liberality  of  the 
publisher  and  the  judicious  selection  of  the  band  of 
•minent  btblical  scholars  to  whom  the  carrying  out  of 
the  saggestion  of  Lord  Ossington  was  STentually  en- 
trarted,  the  result  is  a  work  which  we  Tenture  to  predict 
mat  shortly  find  a  place  not  only  on  the  library  thelyes  of 
ersry  professed  theologian,  but  also  on  those  of  all  well- 
ednoated  and  thoughtful .  students  of  Holy  Scripture. 
The  great  importance  of  the  suggestion  of  the  proposed 
eoBunentary  was  immediately  recognised,  and  much 
time  was  deyoted  to  considering  the  manner  in  which  it 
might  be  most  effectually  carried  out.  The  reader  of 
the  prefikca  by  which  Cuion  Cook,  the  general  editor, 
introdnoes  the  present  Tolume  will  see  how  wisely 
employed  were  tne  eight  years  which  elapsed  between 
the  oii^nal  conception  and  the  publication  of  the  first 
Tolune.  When  that  yolnme  dia  appear,  it  met  with  a 
reception  from  the  religious  press  of  the  whole  country 
—not  only  of  the  Established  Church,  but  of  that  of  all 
denominations— which  marked  the  Bible  with  the 
Speaker's  Commentary  as  one  of  the  greatest  successes  of 


the  day.  We  therefore  most  heartily  congratulate 
Canon  Cook,  his  distinguished  band  of  commentators, 
and  Mr.  Murray  on  haying  brought  this  important  work 
to  so  happy  a  conclusion. 

The  Haias  of  Benurtyds :  a  Family  Siitory,    By  John 

Kussefl.  (Blackwood  fc  Sons.) 
Scottish  literature  is  rich  in  family  histories.  The 
records  of  the  sister  kingdom  are  less  ancient  than  ours, 
but  they  haye  been  more  thoroughly  oyerhauled,  and 
the  charter-rooms  of  her  great  nobles  haye  giyen  up 
their  contents  in  a  generous  fashion,  which  we  long  to 
see  imitated  on  this  side  of  the  Border.  But  few  men 
of  letters,  however,  are  fitted  for  writing  a  continuous 
family  chronicle,  and  so  it  has  oome  to  pass  that  while  a 
few  of  the  Scottish  family  histories  are  works  of  which 
any  nation  might  be  justly  proud,  others  are  about  the 
most  unmitigated  trash  that  has  ever  been  given  to  the 

Srinting  press.  We  cannot  be  too  thankful  that  the 
uty  of  compiling  a  chronicle  of  the  lairds  of  Bemer- 
syde  has  fallen  into  good  hands.  Mr.  Russell  knows 
the  hidtory  of  Scotland  well— far  too  well,  indeed,  to 
encumber  his  pages  with  anything  beyond  the  necessary 
threads  of  current  events  by  which  the  lives  of  the  suc- 
cessive lairds  are  made  Intelligible.  How  old  the  race 
of  Haig  may  be  and  how  long  it  has  been  settled  at 
Bemersyde  are  facts  which  we  shall  never  be  able  to 
settle.  The  darkness  of  the  early  time  is  upon  them, 
and  it  is  almost  impossible  that  any  future  discovery 
of  evidence  should  enable  any  future  inquirer  to  carry 
back  the  genealogy  to  an  earlier  date  than  Mr.  Bussell 
has  done.  This  darkness  was,  however,  no  hindrance  to 
the  antiquarian  dreamers  of  former  generations.  They 
boldly  asserted  a  Pictish  origin  for  the  house  of  Haig. 
and  their  dreams,  or  falsehoods,  have  been  servilely 
followed  by  those  who  have  been  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  genealogical  books  of  reference  in  quite 
modem  timea  We  trust,  now  that  the  pedigree  of  one 
of  the  very  oldest  houses  in  Scotland  has  b^n  put  on  a 
thoroughly  historical  basis^  we  shall  hear  no  more  of 
these  Picts.  They  have  been  to  the  antiquaries  of 
Scotland  as  great  a  snare  as  the  Julian  line  hiss  proved 
to  the  pedigree-makers  of  Italy.  It  is  quite  as  impossible 
to  trace  any  existing  house  up  to  one  as  to  the  other. 
Scepticism  is  ever  useful  in  matters  genealogical,  but  in 
this,  as  in  other  sciences,  it  may  be  carried  too  far.  It 
by  no  means  follows  because  Petrus  de  Haga,  who 
flourished  circa  1150-1200,  is  the  first  of  the  family  of 
whom  we  have  authentic  evidence,  that  he  was  the 
founder  of  the  race.  In  all  probability  he  was  not; 
but  who  were  beyond  him  Is  mere  conjecture.  Mr. 
Bussell  is  so  well  armed  at  all  points  In  the  history  of 
the  house  he  has  studied  that  we  are  sorry  to  call  his 
conclusions  In  question  on  any  point  whatever.  We 
must  do  BO,  however,  as  to  the  derivation  of  the  name. 
It  is,  as  he  well  knows,  a  form  of  haaa,  kage,  a  fence 
or  a  fenced  enclosure.  He  would  derive  the  family 
name  from  La  Hagw,  in  Normandy,  as  he  says,  "  No 
place  bearing  this  name  is  to  be  found  either  in  Scotland 
or  England.*'  This  is  dearly  an  error.  There  are  two 
places  called  Haigh  in  the  parish  of  Darton,  in  York- 
shire, and  a  house  called  Hague  Hall  in  the  parish  of 
Eirby,  in  the  same  county.  A  search  through  the  topo- 
graphical literature  of  the  north  of  England  would 
furnish  us  with  many  more  examples.  It  is  much  more 
probable  that  the  nrst  Haig  took  his  name  from  some 
one  of  these  English  Haighs  than  that  he  came  from  far- 
off  Normandy.  Is  it,  however,  needful  to  entertahi 
either  of  these  almost  gratuitous  fancies  t  May  not  the 
first  Peter,  or  his  unknown  ancestor  who  had  the  name 
given  to  him,  have  received  it  from  the  fenced  enclosure 
of  his  own  dwelling  at  Bemersyde  1 


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The  Chrontdes  of  the  Collegiate  Churdi  or  Free  Chapel 
of  All  SainUf  Derby.  By  the  Rev.  J»  Charles  Cox 
and  W.  H.  St.  John  Hope,  B.  A.  Illmtrated  by  Qoorge 
Bailey.  (Bemroee  &  Sons.) 
Mb; -Cox  has  been  too  long  engaj^ed  in  looking  at 
churches  and  describing  them  not  to  know  how  to  make 
the  most  of  so  good  a  brief  as  has  been  put  into  his 
hands  and  into  the  hands  of  his  jantor,  Mr.  Hope.  To 
say  that  thejb^haTC  made  the  best  of  their  case  is  to  say 
no  more  than  was  to  be  expected.  In  truth,  we  have 
rarely  seen  so  excellent  a  monograph  as  this,  and  the 
only  regret  that  comes  upon  us  as  we  read  the  book  is 
that  AU  Saints'  Church,  Derby,  in  its  present  state  is 
not  more  worthy  of  so  exhauBtiye  a  volume  as  Mr.  Cox 
has  managed  to  produce  upon  the  ideal  church,  which 
the  present  composite  edifice  stands  for.  As  for  the 
fabric  itaelf,  iti  early  history  is  a  perfect  blank.  The 
authors  of  this  volume  have  found  almost  nothing  about 
it.  They  cannot  tell  when  the  magnificent  tower  (which 
is  the  leading  feature  of  the  structure)  was  begun  or 
finished ;  but  it  seems  probable  that  it  was  built  in  the 
sixteenth  centuxy,  and,  if  so,  it  is  one  of  the  most  suc- 
cessful Tudor  towers  in  England.  The  nave  and  aisles, 
which  were  at  one  time  the  natural  appendages— if  the 
expression  may  be  allowed— were  pulled  down  in  1728 
in  the  most  audacious  manner  by  a  certain  Dr.  Hutchin- 
son, a  grandson  of  Bishop  Hacket,  who  in  an  evil  hour 
had  been  elected  minister  of  the  church  by  the  corpora- 
tion a  short  time  before.  This  high-handed  gentleman 
seems  to  have  carried  things  his  own  way  by  sheer 
impudence,  and  we  have  a  most  extraordinary  story  of 
his  proceedings  in  the  destruction  of  the  old  church  and 
the  erection  of  the  new  in  this  volume.  Nothing  but 
the  mass  of  masonty  and  its  great  height  appear  to  nave 
saved  the  very  tower  from  demolition  at  the  hands  of 
this  autocratic  church  restorer.  The  Puritans— those 
convenient  persons  for  laying  the  sins  of  our  forefathers 
upon— are  credited  with  the  destruction  of  the  chancel, 
the  smashing  of  the  stained  glass,  and  a  great  deal  else 
in  the  way  of  vandalism;  but  the  doctor  of  divinity 
with  episcopal  blood  in  his  veins  outdid  all  the  Puritans 
of  his  own  or  any  former  time.  Great  difficulty  was 
experienced  in  getting  together  the  money  for  building 
the  new  edifice,  and  it  seems  that  the  expedient,  sup- 
posed to  be  of  modem  invention,  of  sending  circulars  to 
all  likely  persons  was  resorted  to,  and  that  even  Sir 
Robert  walpole  and  Sir  Isaac  Newton  were  among  those 
who  were  induced  to  send  subscriptions.  The  carrying 
out  of  the  architect's  designs  and  the  rebuilding  of  the 
church  on  new  lines  was  a  much  more  successful 
achievement  than  might  have  been  expected,  for  the 
story  of  squabbling  and  quarrelling  is  more  than 
ordinarily  discreditable  to  most  of  those  concerned; 
and  some  care  must  have  been  taken  to  preserve  the 
principal  monuments  which  were  in  the  old  church,  and 
which  have  been  transferred  to  the  new  one.  By 
far  the  most  curious  of  these  is  the  unique  wooden  effigy 
and  part  of  the  tomb  of  one  of  the  canons  who  served  the 
church  before  the  suppression  and  spoliation  of  con- 
ventual and  collegiate  establishments  by  Henry  VIII. 
The  chapter  on  the  bells  of  the  church  is  very  well  put 
together,  and  really  worth  reading  bv  other  than  merely 
local  antiquaries;  and  the  churchwardens'  accounts 
and  books  of  orders  have  a  value  and  interest  for 
those  who  know  how  to  read  between  the  lines.  The 
volume  is  splendidly  got  up,  and  the  illustrations  are 
excellent  and  reflect  the  hignest  credit  upon  the  artistic 
skill  of  Messrs.  Bemrose  k  Sons,  whose  lithographs  of 
Mr.  Bailey's  drawings  it  would  be  very  difficult  to  sur- 
pass. We  have  very  rarely,  if  ever,  seen  more  exquisite 
specimens  of  lithography  than  are  to  be  found  among 
the  ornaments  £rom  the  bells  in  plate  xvL    In  the 


happy  combination  of  softness  of  tone,  distinctness  of 
outline,  and  delicacy  of  colour,  it  would  be  difficult  to 
match  them.  The  publishers  are  to  be  congratulated 
on  the  appearance  of  this  splendid  volume :  a  book 
which  is  likely  to  help  on  materially  the  new  fashion 
—happily  on  the  increase—of  getting  together  all  the 
information  that  is  to  be  collected  on  the  history  <^  a 
parish  church  and  printing  it  for  the  l>ehoof  of  posterity. 
What  would  not  some  of  us  give  if  our  ancestors  had  done 
this  kind  of  thing  for  us  five  hundred  years  ago  ? 

The  Rev.  F.  St.  John  Thackeray  has  reprinted  in  a 
neat  quarto  volume  the  papers  on  Jsion  CoUege  Library 
which  he  recently  contributed  to  our  columns.  A 
photograph  of  the  library,  and  a  few  additional  notes, 
including  one  on  the  Pote  collection  of  Oriental  MSS., 
have  been  added.  It  cannot  but  form  a  pleasant  re- 
miniscence to  Etonians  past  and  present. 

Mr.  Bbktlst  is  about  to  issue  a  new  edition  of  Mim 
Ferrier's  novels.  Marriage  vt  the  first  instalment,  the 
whole  of  the  omissions  in  previous  reprints  being  now 
given. 


AxoNO  their  forthcoming  publications,  Dumolard 
Brothers,  of  Milan,  announce  tne  second  volume  of  De 
Rossi,  La  Meiearologia  Bndogena,  with  plates  and  litho- 
graphs, forming  No.  xxxi.  of  the  International  Scientific 
denes;  also  a  study  by  Prof.  Penci,  Omero  e  DanU: 
Schiller  e  il  Dramma  ;  and  a  small  work,  likely  to  be  of 
use  to  the  tourist  as  well  as  the  archseologist,  Baszero, 
Le  Armi  Antiche  nel  Afuteo  Pairio  di  Ar^tolcgia  in 
Milano^ 

LoBD  FiTZHARBivoB  has  given  his  consent  to  the  very 
valuable  MSS.  of  John  Smythe,  the  antiquary,  written  in 
the  early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  the 
ancient  MS.  register  of  the  Abbey  of  St.  Augustine,  at 
Bristol,  which  are  preserved  in  the  muniment  room  at 
Berkeley  Castle,  being  printed  by  the  Bristol  and  Qlou- 
cestershire  Archasological  Society.  They  will  be  edited 
by  Sir  John  Maclean,  F.S.A. 


fintitti  to  CorrfiTponlffittif. 

Mil.  R.  Poole  Hooper  writes:— "I  am  collecting 
materials  for  a  pedigree  of  the  Hooper  familv.  Wifi 
your  correspondent  the  Rev.  Richard  Hooper,  of  Upton 
Rectory,  and  Mr.  James  Hooper,  of  Denmark  Hill,  give 
me  any  ud  in  the  matter  1 " 

FiRxus  ET  FiBXLis.— You  will  find  the  legend  in 
Swainson's  Weaiher  Folk-lore,  or  Brand's  Popular 
Antiquities,  vol  i.  p.  875  (Bohn's  edition). 

R.  F.  FoLLETT.— The  words  of  the  song  were  given, 
in  response  to  E.  P.  D.  E.'s  query,  in  "N.  &  Q."  for 

W.  B.  C— The  term  is  very  common  in  the  sense  yon 
mention. 

G.  H.  W.  H.— The  Clergy  £u{  mentions  no  such  chapel. 

J.  L.  F. — Look  out  the  word  in  any  Latin  diotionaiy. 

CoRRiaEHDUM.— 6*  S.  iv.  545,  col.  2,  L 18  from  bottom, 
for  **  Statesman  "  read  Statetmen. 

KOTJOJS. 

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munications which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not  print;  and 
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JOSEPH   GILLOTT'S 

STEEXi    ySITB, 
Sold  by  all  Dealers  throughoutthe  World. 


ROWLAND'S  MACA8SAB  OIL  has  been  known 
fn  the  laat  eighty  jean  aa  the  best  and  safest  pre- 
aarrer  and  beautiHer  of  the  hair ;  It  oontains  no  lead 
or  minoral  inmdients.  and  is  espeelally  adapted  for 
thehalrofehildren.    Bold  in  usual  four  sises. 

ROWLAND'S  ODONTO  is  the  purest  and  most 
firagrant  dentlfriee  ever  made ;  it  whitens  the  teetb. 
prsrents  deoay.  and  ciTos  a  pleating  ftagranoe  to  the 
breath,  and  toe  faot  of  ite  oontaining  no  aoid  or 
mineral  ingredients  specially  adapts  it  for  the  teeth 
of  children.  Ask  any  Chemist,  Perfumer,  or  Hair- 
dresMT  for  Rowland's  attielee. 


OLLOWAY'S  PILLS.— The  digeases  common 

to  oar  rigorous  ollmate  whleh  endanger  the  oonstitution  will 

alwsvs  exist,  though  many  okay  be  mitigated  and  their  effeots  remoTed 

by  timdy  aid  appropriately  applied.    uoUoway's  Pills  are  aeknow< 


H 


kdgcd  tu  aoMd  wide  to  be  the  moat  cffeotiTe  purifier  of  the  blood,  the 
X  ocrtain  regulator  of  disordered  oiiaas.  and  the  safest  and  surest 
...     - ^  jjj 


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MARION'S  ACADEMY  CAMERA.    Complete,  with  IS  prcparvd 
Plates,  4SS. 
AMATEURS'  NKOATIVSS  Printed.  EnUrged.and  Reproduoed. 
COLLECTIONS  of  PHOTOGRAPHS  Completed.  Mounted,  and 
Bound. 

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HOLLOWAY'S  PILLS.— Liver  CompUinta  and 
Disorders  of  the  Rowels. —It  is  impoisible  to  exaggerate  the 
extraordinary  Tirtue  of  this  medicine  in  the  treatment  of  all  aiTections 
of  the  lirer  or  irregularittes  of  the  bowels.  In  cases  of  depraved  or 
superabundant  bile  these  Pills,  taken  freely,  hare  ncTer  been  known 
to  fsiL  In  bowel  oomplalnts  they  are  rqually  efBoaoious,  though  they 
should  then  be  taken  ratber  more  sparingly,  for  erery  medioiue  In  the 


form  of  an  aperieot  regnlres  eautiun  when  the  bowels  are  disordered, 
althottsh.  at  the  same  time,  a  gentler  or  more  genial  aperient  thui 
these  l^ls  in  moderate  doses  has  nerer  yet  been  diseoTered.    If  takeu 


according  to  the  printed  instructions,  uiey  not  only  eure  ths  oom- 
plalntk  bttt  improTS  the  whole  system. 


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CONTENTS.— N*  107. 
NOTKS  :-Ilw  SUny  of  LiUo*!  "  FaUI  Cnriotlty/*  21-EnglIdi 
JEooun  CathoUe  VLaxijn,  23— The  "OftthoUeon  AngUenm," 
34  — PhlUp  Jones,  1588  —  Mil prlnta  —  Longerlty  of  Pro- 
fMilOBal  H«n— "  Beturn  of  Momben  of  PArliament/  Ac. 
25— MnemoBlcft  of  (Eeoinenical  ConDcUfl— A  Momoiiai 
Tabtal— "JBaUwm7"-Th«  PhUologlcal  Sooiet/'i  Neir  Bng- 
liflh  DietioBaty.  26. 

QUESnS;  — DoTo-ft«i1  — BotwelPf  "JobnBon,"  26— Ffr'g 
**PanfeOKmpU»*'— Koel«dMUcal  Plate-Sir  A.  Leslie— The 
Irish  SainU-GuTick  and  Janlns— Old  Scottish  Ballad - 
The  Yardleys  of  Eoglaad-^The  Task"  of  a  Parish,  27- 
fieloe-Fraak  Pledge— Bitaon's  Letters  to  J.  0.  Walker- 
Ool.  Peter  Beekford-"  BaeUl  "—Milton  a  Freethinker- The 
KlBfs  of  Corawall—'* Straight  as  a  loltch"— "Art"— 
▲ntbon  Wasted,  2& 

BEPLIES:— Charles  IL's  Hiding-Places,  28— Hare,  Baron  of 
Ooleraine.  20  — Anstey  Family,  80- Wray^UdaU- John 
Tapling.  81— Toads  Poiionons?—*' Tin  "—Money— Heine's 
"EngUsh  Fragments**— Song  of  Solomon.  82— Nlshan-i- 
Imtlas— Dividing  Copy- Whig  and  Tory— Henry  VII  J.  and 
the  Fanncis— "  Chaise  Marine**- '*  Remillion  "— **Heigham." 
38— Antttaumy —Effervescing  Drinks  —  "  Boarer  ' — West*s 
Poctialt  of  ^Jmn— "  Century  **  White,  8A— "  Medicos  carat," 
Ac— TalUes-St.  Lnke  zzilL  18,  85-'*  Drowe  "— Eplsoopal 
Wig— •*  Pknis  de  Hastrinello  "— Maiy  Queen  of  Scots— Por- 
irali  of  W.  Irring— Sisge  of  Chepstow— Palnling  of  the 
Flight  into  ^rpt—  "  Too  too/'  86 — *'  Sate  " — Statue  at 
Bfcaaenose  College— Privy  Coundl— Boon-Days— Indigenous 
Treea  of  Britain,  87— Cordlner's  "Antiquities,**  Ac-T. 
DnisI],  RA.— "Bod^"- "Manchet  Loaf,"  88-**  Diary  of 
an  Irish  Gentleman  "—"Rock  of  Ages"— *' John  Dory  "— 
FendBg  Match-Authors  Wanted.  80. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS:— Tuer's  '*BartoIosri**— Smith's  "Old 
Toikshire  "—Cotton's  "  Brom^rove  Church,"  Ac. 

I^otleas  to  OoRiapODdBiita,  Ac. 


THE  STOBY  OF  LILLO'S  "FATAL  CUEIOSITT."* 
The  Ntnu  Freie  Fruu  of  Vienna,  early  in  Jane, 
1880,  gaye  cnnency  to  the  following  narrative  of 
cnme  : — 

''Fifteen  yean  ago  a  young  Viennese  parted  from 
liU  mother  and  two  brothers  to  seek  his  fortune  in 
America.  No  newi  ever  came  of  him ;  he  was  supposed 
to  be  dead,  and  lamented  as  such.  Last  month,  how- 
ever, the  two  brothers  received  the  Tiiit  of  a  stranger  who 
was  no  other  than  the  supposed  defunct.  The  delight  of 
the  recognition  may  be  imagined,  and  we  may  be  sure 
that  it  was  not  diminished  when  the  wanderer  spread 
oat  oa  the  table  before  hie  brothers'  eyes  the  300,000 
florins  which  he  had  brought  back  with  him  from 
Amifflfia  They  would  not,  however,  keep  their  re- 
covered brother  ezclusivelv  to  themselves,  and  told  him 
that  their  mother  kept  an  Inn  in  a  neighbouring  village. 
It  was  agreed  that  the  long-lost  son  should  not  at  once 
reveal  himself  to  his  mother,  but  should  first  go  to  the 
place  ineognUo,  and  that  then,  after  he  had  spent  two 
^ays  nnder  his  mother's  roof,  his  brothers  should  rejoin 
him  there  to  witness  his  revelation  of  himself  to  his 
mother,  and  celebrate  the  reunion  of  the  family  by  an 
impramptu  festival.    But  the  fifteen  yeafs  of  absence 


*  The  chief  sonroes  of  information  consulted  have 
been  Biograpkia  DramaHca,  by  David  Erskine  Baker, 
Isaac  Beed,and  Stephen  Jones,  London,  1812, 8 vols: 
BibUotkeea  Contmbiensit,  by  George  Clement  Boase  and 
WiUiam  Prideanz  Goortney,  London,  1874, 2  vols. 


bad  so  changed  the  son  that  his  mother  did  not  recog- 
nise him,  and  when,  before  going  to  his  room  for  the 
night,  the  young  man  begged  bis  hostess  to  take  charge 
of  his  300,000  florins  for  him,  she  had  no  idea  who  it 
was  that  reposed  in  her  such  extraordinary  trust.  Never 
in  her  life  had  she  seen  such  a  mass  of  gold;  'she 
could  not  sleep  for  the  demon  of  cupidily  gnawing  at 
her  heart,  and  yielding  at  last  to  the  temptation,  she 
took  a  razor^  crept  up  to  the  traveller's  room,  and 
severed  his  carotid  artery  with  a  single  stroke.  The 
body  she  concealed  in  a  comer  of  the  cellar.  Two  days 
afterwards  the  brothers  arrived,  and  asked  if  a  strange 
traveller  had  not  come  to  the  inn.  The  mother  grew 
horribly  pale,  and,  pressed  by  questions,  ended  by  a  full 
confession.  When  told  who  had  been  her  victim,  she 
ran  to  deliver,  herself  to  justice,  crying  out  in  the  midst 
of  her  sobs,  *Kill  me,  miserable  that  I  am;  I  have 
murdered  my  son  1  * " 

It  will  strike  those  who  are  familiar  with  a  once 
famous,  but  now  almost  forgotten,  play,  that  this 
is  the  exact  plot  of  G^rge  Lillo's  Fatal  Ctirioiity. 
Lillo's  piece  was  first  performed  at  the  Little 
Theatre  in  the  Haymarket  in  1736,  and  in  the 
following  year  it  was  printed  as  "  a  true  tragedy 
of  three  acts."  It  was  frequently  acted,  and  in 
1782  George  Colman  brought  out  an  adaptation 
of  it.  In  1784  another  adaptation  was  produced 
at  Covent  Garden.  It  was  from  the  pen  of  Heniy 
Mackenzie,  who  prefixed  the  title  of  The  Ship- 
wreck to  that  given  by  Lillo.  The  play  was  the 
subject  of  high  praise  by  James  Harris,  who,  in 
his  FhUologieal  Inquiries^  says,  that  in  thia  tragedy 
we  find  the  model  of  a  perfect  fable,  of  which  he 
gives  the  following  analysis  : — 

"  A  long-lost  son,  returning  home  unexpectedly,  finds 
his  parents  alive,  but  perishing  with  indigence.  The 
young  man,  whom,  from  his  long  absence,  his  parents 
never  expected,  discovers  himself  first  to  an  amiable 
friend,  his  long-loved  Charlotte,  and  with  her  ooacerts 
the  manner  how  to  discover  himself  to  his  parents.  It 
is  agreed  he  should  go  to  their  house,  and  there  remain 
unknown  till  Charlotte  should  arrive  and  make  the 
happy  discovery.  He  goes  thither  accordingly ;  and 
having,  by  a  letter  of  Charlotte's,  been  admitted,  con- 
verses, though  unknown,  both  with  father  and  mother, 
and  beholds  their  misery  with  filial  afieotion ;  complains 
at  length  he  was  fatigued  (which,  in  fact,  he  really  was), 
and  iMgs  he  may  be  admitted  for  a  while  to  repose. 
Retiring,  he  delivers  a  casket  to  his  mother,  and  tells 
her  it  is  a  deposit  she  must  guard  till  he  wakes.  Cu- 
riosity tempts  her  to  open  the  casket,  where  she  is  dazzled 
with  the  splendour  of  innumerable  jewels.  Objects  so 
alluring  suggest  bad  ideas,  and  poverty  soon  gives  to 
those  ideas  a  sanction.  Black  as  they  are,  she  com- 
municates them  to  her  husband,  who,  at  first  reluctant, 
is  at  length  persuaded,  and,  for  the  sake  of  the  jewels, 
stabs  the  stranger  while  he  sleeps.  The  fatal  murder 
is  perpetrating,  or  at  least  but  barely  perpetrated,  when 
Charlotte  arrives,  full  of  joy,  to  inform  them  that  the 
stranger  within  their  walls  was  their  long-lost  son." 

To  this  analysis  Mr.  Harris  adds: — 

<*It  is  no  small  praise  to  this  affecting  fable  that  it  so 
much  resembles  the  (Sdimu  Tyrttnnus  of  Sophoclea  In 
both  tragedies,  that  which  apparently  leads  to  joy,  leads 
in  its  completion  to  misery;  both  tragedies  concur  in 
the  horror  of  their  discoveries ;  and  both  in  those  great 
outlines  of  a  tmly  tragic  revolatien,  where  (aocording  to 


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the  ntrroiu  lentiment  of  LiUo  himaelf)  we  sm  the  two 
•xtremef  of  life,— 

The  hlffheit  happineti  end  deepest  woe. 

With  all  the  sharp  and  bitter  aiggra?atioiis 

Of  luoh  a  rest  transition.*' 

It  was  this  ealogj  which  led  both  Colman  and 
Mackenzie  to  avail  themselTes  of  the  beauties  of 
the  piece  whilst  endeaYouriDg  to  remoTe  its 
blemishesL  Lillo,  it  will  be  seen,  calls  it  a  trae 
tngedy.  In  fact  his  play  was  founded  upon  a 
pompmet  called, — 

"  Newei  from  Peria  in  Comwall,  of  a  most  bloody  and 
unexampled  Morther,  Tery  lately  committed  by  a  Father 
on  his  owne  Sonne  (who  was  lately  returned  from  the 
Indyes),  at  the  Instigation  of  a  merciless  Stepmother, 
Together  with  their  seferal  most  wretched  Endes; 
being  all  performed  in  the  Month  of  September  last. 
Anno  1618."    4to.    B.  L. 

The  only  copy  known  of  this  tract  is  in  the  Bodleian 
Libmy.  The  eyent  is  recorded  also  in  William 
Sanderson's  CompUcU  History  of  the  Lives  an<2 
lUigns  of  Mary,  Quesn  of  Scotland^  and  of  her  Son 
James  (London,  1656),  and  in  Thomas  Frankland's 
AnnaU  of  James  L  and  Charles  L  (London,  1681). 
From  the  last  named  Baker,  in  his  Biographia 
DramaHcOf  giyes  the  following  quotation: — 

*'The  father  had  been  blessed  with  ample  possessions 
•ad  fruitful  issue,  unhappy  only  in  a  younger  son ;  who, 
L  his  father's  bounty,  and  with  a 


taking  liberty  from 

of  like  condition,  that  were  wearied  on  land,  they  went 
Toring  to  sea;  and,  in  a  small  Tessel,  southward,  took 
booty  from  all  whom  they  could  master,  and  so  increas- 
ing force  and  wealth,  ventured  on  a  Turkoman  in  the 
Stnuts ;  but  by  mischance  their  own  powder  fired  them- 
•elTos ;  and  our  gallant,  trusting  to  his  skiKul  swimming, 
got  ashore  upon  Rhodes,  with  the  best  of  his  jewels 
about  him,  where  oifering  some  to  sale  to  a  Jew«  who 
knew  them  to  be  the  goTcrnor^s  of  Algier,  he  was  appre- 
hended, and  as  a  pirate  sentenced  to  the  gallies  amongst 
other  Christiana,  whose  miserable  ilaTery  made  them  all 
studious  of  freedom ;  and  with  wit  and  valour  took  oppor- 
tunity and  means  to  murder  some  officers,  got  aboard  of 
an  English  ship,  and  came  safe  to  London,  where  His 
If^esty  and  some  skill  made  him  servant  to  a  surgeon, 
•ad  sudden  preferment  to  the  East  Indies,  there  by  this 
means  he  got  mooey,  with  which  returning  back,  he 
designed  himself  for  his  native  county,  Cornwall;  and 
in  a  small  ship  from  London,  sailing  to  the  west,  was 
oast  away  upon  the  coast;  but  his  excellent  skill  in 
swimming,  and  former  fate  to  boot,  brought  safe  to 
shore ;  where,  since  his  fifteen  years  absence,  his  father's 
former  fortunes  much  decayed,  now  retired  him  not  far 
off  to  a  country  habitation,  in  debt  and  danger. 

"  His  sister  he  finds  married  to  a  mercer,  a  meaner 
match  than  her  birth  promised ;  to  her  at  first  appears 
a  poor  strsDger,  but  in  private  reveals  himself,  and 
withal  wliat  jewels  and  gold  he  had  concealed  in  a  bow- 
oase  about  mm ;  and  concluded,  that  the  next  day  he 
intended  to  appear  to  his  parents,  and  to  keep  his  disguise 
till  she  and  ner  husband  should  meet,  and  make  their 
common  Joy  complete. 

**  Being  come  to  his  parents,  his  humble  behaviour, 
suitable  to  his  suit  of  clothes,  melted  the  old.  couple  to  so 
much  eompassion,  as  to  give  him  covering  from  the  cold 
season  under  their  outward  roof;  and  by  degrees  his 
travelling  tales^  told  with  passion  to  the  aged  people, 
made  him  their  guest  so  long,  by  the  kitchen  fire,  that 
the  husband  took  leave  and  went  to  bed ;  and  soon  after 


his  true  stories  working  compassion  on  the  weaker 
vessel,  she  wept,  and  so  did  he ;  but  compassionate  of 
her  tears,  he  comforted  her  with  a  piece  of  gold,  whicb 

gave  assurance  that  he  deserved' a  lodging,  to  which  she 
roaght  him :  and  being  in  bed,  shewed  her  his  girdled 
wealth,  whicn  he  said  was  sttfficient  to  relieve  her  hus- 
band's wants,  to  spare  himself ;  and  being  very  weaiy, 
fell  fast  asleep.  The  wife,,  tempted  with  the  golden  bait 
of  what  she  had,  and  eager  of  enjoying  all,  awaked  her 
husband  with  this  news,  and  her  contrivance  what  to  do  ; 
and.  though  with  horrid  apprehcindons  he  oft  refused, 
yet  her  p^ing  fondness(Eve s  enchantments) moved  him 
to  consent,  and  rise  to  be  master  of  all,  and  both  of  them 
to  murder  the  man ;  which  instantly  they  did,  ooverins 
the  corpse  under  the  clothes  till  opportunity  to  convey  ft 
out  of  the  way.  The  early  morning  hastens  the  sister  ta 
her  father's  house,  where  she,  with  sisns  of  joyv  inquires 
for  a  sailor  that  should  lodge  there  the  last  night :  tha 
parents  slightly  denied  to  have  seen  any  such,  until  she 
told  them  it  was  her  lost  brother;  by  that  assured  scar 
upon  his  arm,  cut  with  a  sword  in  his  youth,  she  knew 
him,  and  were  all  resolved  this  morning  to  meet  there 
and  be  merry. 

"  The  father  hastily  runs  up,  finds  the  mark,  and,  with 
horrid  regret  of  this  monstrous  murder  of  his  own  son, 
with  the  same  knife  cut  his  own  throat. 

'*  The  wife  went  up  to  consult  with  him,  where,  in  m 
most  strange  manner  beholding  them  both  in  blood, 
wild  and  aghast,  with  the  instrument  at  hand,  readil j 
rips  up  her  own  belly  till  the  guts  tumbled  out.  The 
daughter,  doubting  the  delay  of  their  absence,  searches 
for  them  all,  whom  she  found  out  too  soon,  with  the  sad 
sight  of  this  scene;  and  being  overcome  with  horror 
and  amaze  of  the  deluge  of  destruction,  she  sank  down 
and  died ;  the  fatal  end  of  that  family. 

*<  The  truth  of  which  was  frequently  known,  and  flew 
to  court  in  this  guise ;  but  the  imprinted  relation  con- 
ceals their  names,  in  favour  to  some  neighbours  of  repute, 
and  akin  to  that  family. 

"  The  same  sense  makes  me  silent  also." 

Dnnlop  mentions  the  same  story  as  told  by 
Yincenzo  Rota  in  one  of  the  late  novelle^  written 
early  in  the  last  oentaiy  bat  not  printed  until 
1794.  Here  the  murder  is  located  at  Brescia. 
Dunlop  mentions  another  version,  ^irhere  the 
tragedy  is  said  to  have  happened  at  a  Normaa 
inn.  He  also  states  that  Werner's  Ttoeniy-fourtk 
of  February  is  founded  on  a  similar  incidentp 

Lillo's  play  has  been  both  printed  in  Germany 
and  translated  into  Qerman  in  the  last  century. 
These  circumstances  seem  to  warrant  us  in  sup- 
posing that  the  Viennese  horror  is  due  to  the  in- 
genuity of  some  purveyor  of  news,  who,  for  motives 
best  known  to  himself^  but  still  not  diflicult  to 
guess  at,  has  passed  off  an  old  tragedy  as  police 
news. 

How  accurately  he  had  gauged  the  public  taste 
may  be  judged  from  the  fact  that  his  story  was 
copied  in  a  great  number  of  newspapers  in  Europe 
and  America.  London,  Philadelphia,  Manches- 
ter, and  Constantinople  were  alU^e  interested. 

But  had  the  pamphlet  on  which  Lillo  bases  his 
plot  any  foundation  in  fact?  The  Cornish  his- 
torians are  not,  indeed,  silent  upon  the  subject ; 
but  all  rest  their  case  upon  the  pamphlet,  which 
has  all  the  air  of  one  of  those  imaginatire  newi 


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I  kten  io  which  the  writer  draws  upon  his  fancy 
r  far  his  fkcta.  If  this  surmise  be  coihrect,  it  must 
bf  tdmitted  that  in  this  case  his  imagination  has 
Krred  him  welL  William  E.  A.  Axoif. 

An  Baak^  Higher  Brouihton,  Manchsster. 


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SNOLISH  BOMAN  CATHOLIC  MARTYRS, 

] 535-1681. 

Names  of    the   353  English  Roman  Catholic 

smyts,  from  a  MS.  headed. "  Catalogus  Seryorum 

Dd  ex  prooessa    Ordina'rio  Westmonasteriensi/' 

vbich  was  eent  to  Borne  by  the  English  Roman 

Chkbolic  hierarchy  in  1880 : — 

In  1535. 

1.  Joannes  HouRhton     1 

2.  Angastinna  Webster    >  Cartbuuani. 

5.  Robertoj  lAorence     J 

4.  Ricardua  Reynolds,  Ordinis  Saneto  Birgiits. 
&  Galielmus  Exmew  ^ 

6.  Hnmphrediw  Middlemore    >  Cartbuiiani. 

7.  Sebastianiu  Newdigate        J 

8.  Joannes  Rsher,  Episcopns  Roffensis  et  Gardinalir. 

9.  Thomas  Moms,  ADglia  Cancellarius. 

In  1537. 
1 


10.  Joannes  Rochester 

11.  Jacobin  Walworth 

12.  Galielmoa  Qreenwood 

13.  Joannes  Paty 

14.  Robertas  Salt 

15.  Goaltems  Pierson  >  Cartbuiiani. 

16.  Thomas  Green 

17.  Thomas  Scryren 

18.  Thomas  Redyng 

19.  Thomas  Johnson 
90.  Ricardtts  Bere 

21.  Antonlus  Brookby,  FranciscanuB. 

In  1538. 

22.  Joannes  Forest,  Franciecantts. 
13).  Thomas  Belchiam  )    i3i,«„„:«.««; 
84.  Thomas  Cortas       j   FranciBcani. 
2S.  Joannas  Stone,  Augostinianui. 

In  1539. 

28.  Gfyffitb  dark,  Saeerdos  seculariF. 
27.  K Waire,  Franciscaous. 

28u  Adrianns  Forteacue  et 

29.  Tbomas  Dingley,  Equites  S.  Joan.  Hieros. 
90.  Joannes  Travers,  Saeerdos. 

31.  Hofco  Paringdon,  Abbas  Redhigensis. 
^GnlielmiM  Onion     )    Sacerdotes. 

33.  Joannes  Roeg         J 

34.  Ricardos  mitinff,  Abbas  Glastoniensis. 

H.  jSSr^aom'  }  MonscbiQlastonienses. 

In  1540. 
37.  TbonasAbel  ) 

33.  Sdnardns  Powel  >  Sscerdotes. 

ltd.  Ricardos  Petheraton  ) 
4^  Edmnndus  Brindbolm,  Saeerdos. 

41.  Olesnani  Philpot,  Laicas. 

42.  Golielmns  Home,  Carthusianns. 

In  1541. 
43w  DaTid  Ounston,  Eques  Hierosolymitanus. 

1554. 
44.  Joannes  Urke*') 
45i.  Joannes  IreUnd  > 


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I  uterqna  e  Soctatate  Jsfo. 


Laid 


46.  Germanns  Gardiner,  Laieus. 

47.  Thomas  Ashby,  Laioua 

1677. 

48.  Catbbertos  Mayne,  Saeerdos,  protomartyr  Semina- 

riorum  pontificiomm. 

1678. 

49.  Joannes  Nelson,  Saeerdos. 

50.  Thomas  Sherwood,  L^cus. 

158i; 

51.  Ererardas  Hanse. 

52.  KdmunduB  Campion 

53.  Alexander  Bryant 

54.  Rodulpbus  Sherwin. 
55 Bimock,  Laieus. 

56.  Joannes  Cooper        > 

57.  GolielmuB  Tyrwhit  j 

1582. 

58.  Joannes  Payne,  Saeerdos. 

59.  Thomas  Ford.  Saeerdos. 

60.  Joannes  Short,  Saeerdos. 

61.  Robertas  Johnson,  Societatis  Jesu. 

62.  Galielraus  Fllby  ) 

63.  Lucas  Kirby  V  Sacerdotes. 

64.  Laurentias  Richardson  J 

65.  Thomas  Cottam,  e  Societate  Jesn. 

66.  Gulielmns  Laey,  Saeerdos. 

67.  Rioardus  Eirkman,  Sseerdos. 

68.  Jacobus  Tompson,  Saeerdos. 

1583. 

69.  Gulielmns  Hart,  Saeerdos. 

70.  Ricardns  Thirkeld,  Saeerdos. 
7J.  Joannes  Slade,  Laieus. 

72.  Joannes  Body,  Laieus. 

1584. 

73.  Georgius  Haydock 

74.  Jacobus  Fenn 

75.  Thomas  Hemerford 

76.  Joannes  Nutter 

77.  Joannes  Munden        . 

78.  Gulielmns  Cnrter,  Laieus. 

79.  Jacobus  Bell,  Saeerdos. 

80.  Joannes  Finch,  Laieus. 
8t.  Ricardus  White.  Laieus. 
82 Ailworth,  Laieus 

83.  Gulielmns  Chaplain,  Saeerdos. 

84.  Thomas  Cotesmore 
Robertus  Holmes 
Rogerius  Wakemen 
Jiicobus  Lomax. 

1585. 
Thomas  Alfield,  Saeerdos. 
Thomas  Webley,  Laieus. 
Hugo  Taylor,  Haoerdos. 

91.  MarmaducuB  Bowes,  Lucns. 

92.  Thomas  Crowther 

93.  EduarduB  Pole 

94.  Joannes  Jetter 

95.  Laurentius  Yaux 
1586. 

96.  Eduardus  Sfcrancbaluud   ) 

97.  Nicolaus  Woodfen  j 

98.  Margarita  Clithero,  Laica. 

99.  Richard  Serjeant      ^ 

100.  Gulielmns  Thomson  f    a^.-dot«a. 

101.  Robertus  Anderton    f  H»««"^o*«»- 

102.  Gulielmns  Marsden    ) 

103.  Franciscns  Ingolby.  Saeerdos. 

104.  Joannes  Finglow,  Saeerdos. 
106.  Joannes  Sandys,  Saeerdrs. 


Sacerdotes. 


85. 
86. 

87. 

88. 
89. 
90. 


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108.  Ricardas  Dibdale,  Sacerdos. 

109.  Robertas  Biokerdike,  Laicui. 

110.  Ricardul  Ltneley,  Laicas. 

111.  Joannes  Harriion,  Sacerdos. 

1587. 

112.  Thomas  Pilchard,  Sacerdos. 

113.  EdraunduB  Sykes,  Sacerdos. 

114.  Robertas  Sutton,  Sacerdos. 
11.5.  StepbanoR  Rowscbam,  Sacerdos. 

116.  Joannes  Hamblej,  Sacerdos. 

117.  Qeorgius  Douglas,  Sacerdos. 

118.  Alexander  Crow,  Sacerdos. 

119.  Martinus  Scherton,  Sacerdos. 

120.  Gabriel  Thimelby,  Laicoa. 

EvERARD  Green,  F.S.A. 
Reform  Club. 

{To  5<  eofUinued,) 

rSee  "N.  &  Q.,"  fiih  s.  x.  121,  202.  for  two  papers  on 
<'  The  History  of  the  Ganpowdrr  Plot,"  which  contain 
lists  of  persons  who  suffered  death  on  account  of  religion 
in  the  reigns  of  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  In  the  latter 
paper  the  list,  said  to  be  taken  from  "an  old  sheet 
without  date,"  gives  several  of  the  names  mentioned 
above,  with  a  few  in  addition.] 


THE  "  CATHOLICON  ANGLICITM." 
The  CaihoUcon  AngHeum,  recently  published 
by  the  Early  EDglish  Text  Society  under  the 
editorship  of  Mr.  S.  J.  Herrta^e,  is  one  of  theveiy 
few  boobs  of  the  kind  of  which  it  is  possible  to 
speak  in  terms  of  almost  unstinted  praise.  It  is 
a  worthy  companion  of  the  Promptorium  Parvu- 
lorum,  a  work  which  has  been  described  as  a 
cyclopaedia  of  medisBval  lore  as  well  as  adictionaiy. 
In  reading;  through  Mr.  Herrtage^s  notes  a  few 
facts  haye  occurred  to  me,  whidi  I  haye  jotted 
down  for  publication  in  the  pages  of  "N.  &  Q.'': — 
Bane  of  a  flay,  20.— In  the  churchwardens' 
accounts  of  Leverton,  near  Boston,  Lincolnshire, 
extracts  from  which  are  given  in  Arckonlogia, 
vol.  xli.,  the  following  passage  occurs:  '*To  maister 
holand  of  Swynsted  &  ye  plaers  of  the  same  town 
whan  the!  rood  &  cryed  thar  bayne  at  leu'ton " 
(p.  349).  In  the  churchwardens'  accounts  of  Louth, 
in  the  same  county,  the  following  passages  occur, 
1527-8:  "The  players  of  Gremysby  whan  thay 
spake  thaire  hayn  of  thaire  play  ij»  yiij*  "  1648, 
"  Payd  for  a  pot  of  aylle  when  wydeme  hayne  was 
her  vij*." 

Chymney,  63,  xxxv.— There  are  chimneys,  using 
the  word  in  its  modem  sense,  in  Conisborough 
Castle,  which  is  a  Norman  building.  In  the  Holy 
Island  accounts,  printed  in  Dr.  Raine's  History 
of  North  Durham^  is  a  charge  under  1362,  "for 
making  a  chimney  (eamtni£«)  of  our  own  iron."  To 
this  the  learned  editor  has  attached  the  following 
note:  |*The  fire  was  at  this  period,  and  for  three 
centuries  afterwards,  generally  made  upon  the 
hearthstone  upon  a  level  with  the  floor,  and  that 
it  was  a  fire  indeed  ib  abundantly  proyed  from  the 


wide  chimney  ranges  which  may  still  be  se^i  in 
our  ancient  houses.  Occasionally,  however,  an 
iron  grate  was  used  b^  the  higher  classes.  This^ 
which  they  call  their  iron  cAtmney,  was  not  a  fix- 
ture attached  to  the  wall  like  our  modem  fire- 
grates, but  loose  and  movable  from  room  to  room. 
The  iron  ckimiMy  was  so  important  an  article 
of  fumiture,  that  it  is  frequently  entailed  by  will 
upon  son  after  son,  in  succession,  along  with  the 
Flanders  chest  and  the  over-sea  ooverlid  "  (p.  101). 
In  the  same  book  there  is  an  extract  from  the 
Tweedmouth  Court  Bolls  of  1616,  from  which  ii 
seems  that  Margaret  Crane  took  proceedings  against 
Jane  Grates  for  wrongfully  detaining  a  chimney. 
The  verdict  was,  "  We  fynd  the  chimley  dewe  ta 
the  heires  of  W»  Cnyne ""  (p.  243).  In  a  roll  re- 
lating to  the  Hospital  of  Saint  Edmund,  at  Sprot- 
borough,  near  Doncaster,  the  handwriting  of  which 
is  of  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century,  we  find 
this  word  used  in  its  modem  sense:  "j  new 
chimnay  of  lyme  and  stone  with  ij  harthes  and  i^ 
doubill  pype  iij^."  The  document  is  printed  at 
length  in  Archaologia,  xlii.,  398-404. 

Eland,  112. — ^There  is  a  hamlet  in  the  parish 
of  Croule,  in  the  Isle  of  Axholme,  called  Ealand. 

Fortier,  139,  xli.— In  the  Court  Roll  of  the 
manor  of  Scotter,  Lincolnshire,  for  1578,  foster  is 
used  for  "  forester  "  without  any  mark  of  contrac- 
tion. "  Item,  that  no  man  shall  breaks  -any  other 
•man's  hedges  or  gett  anie  woode  in  the  Lordea 
woode  without  leave  of  the  Lorde  or  his  lawfoll 
fibster,  in  payne  of  euery  one  founde  in  the  same 

defalt xij^  "  {Archaologia,  xlvi.,  384).    FoiUr 

is  a  not  uncommon  surname  in  Lincolnshire. 

Lapps,  208,  xlviiL— The  editor  says,  "  We  find 
this  word  used  as  late  as  1641."  It  occurs  in  Sir 
Walter's  poem  of  Harold  the  DauntUss  (Canto  L 
St.  XX.): — 

**  Tears  after  years  had  gone  and  fled. 
The  good  old  Prelate  lies  lapp*d  in  lead." 
The  word  frequently  occurs  in  The  Anatomy  of 
Mslancholy,  e,  g,,  speaking  of  much  of  the  literature 
of  his  time  he  says,  the  sheets  "  serve  to  put  under 
pies,  to  lap  spice  in,  and  keep  roast-meat  from 
burning  **  (sixth  ed.  p.  7).  <«*«<». 

Msdylle  erthe,  238.— This   word   is    used   on 
several  occasions  by  Sir  Walter  Scott,  e.  g, : — 
^  That  maid  is  born  of  middU  tarik 
And  msy  of  man  be  won, 
Though  there  hare  glided  since  her  birth 
Fi?e  hundred  years  and  one." 

Bridal  of  Tritrmain,  Canto  I.  st.  ix. 

Stokfyehej  365.— I  belieye  that  the  people  who- 
speak  our  dialect  are  quite  ignorant  of  what  a 
stockfish  is  or  was.  The  phrase  as  stiff  as  a  stock- 
fish isy  however,  often  employed  to  describe  the 
effects  of  rheumatism. 

Talghe  lafe,  377.— This  probably  means  what  is 
known  here  as  "leaf  fat"  in  a  pig,  and  which 
commonly  bears  this  name  in  the  other  animals 
which  are  killed  for  human  food. 


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Waphmanj  406.  — Befora  the  reform  of  the 
mnnicipal  corporations  the  chief  magistrate  of  the 
town  of  Ripon  bore  the  title  of  Wakeman. 

Wolds,  406. — The  Wolds  exist  in  Lincolnshire 
as  well  as  Yorkshire,  forming  what  has  been  called 
ihA  backbone  of  the  county. 

Edward  Pisacoci:. 
Botiesford  Hsnor^  Brigg. 


Philip  Jonxs,  Minister  of  Girxngistir, 
oo,  Glougistxr,  158&— I  htfre  a  oopy  of  a  scarce 
little  black-letter  yolame,  entitled  Certaine  Ser- 
vunu  preaehMd  oflaUat  Outer,  in  the  eaufUie  of 
Olooiter,  vpon  a  portion  of  the  firet  Chapter  of 
(he  Epiitle  of  lames,  Ac.,  by  ''Philip  lones, 
Preacher  of  the  word  of  God  in  the  same  Towne/' 
and  '*  imprinted  at  London  [at  the  three  Cranes 
in  the  Yintree]  by  T.  D.  [Thomas  Dawson]  for 
Thomas  Batter,  1588."  The  sermons  were'*  penned 
at  the  earnest  requests  of  diners  well  affected  In- 
habitantes  of  the  place ;  and  now  pubfished  as 
well  for  the  yse  of  others,  as  for  the  farther  profit 
of  that  particular  congr^tion.''  Jones  was  author 
likewise  of  Certaine  Briufe  and  tpeciall  Insiruc- 
tianefcT  QenUemen,  MerchanUi,  Students,  Soldiers, 
Marnners,  Ac,  employed  in  Services  abrode,  or 
ame  leoy  oteaeioned  to  eonuerse  in  (he  Kingdimies 
and  Owemmentes  of  Forren  Princes,  London, 
1589,  4to.  Can  you  give  me  any  particulars  of 
liiin  and  his  writings,  or  refer  me  to  any  sources 
of  information  ?  I  am  anxious,  for  a  particular 
parpoee,  to  know  more  about  him.  I  have  never 
met  with  the  latter  of  these  publications,  and 
therefore  can  say  nothing  respecting  it.  But  the 
fonner,  of  which  I  possess  a  copy,  is  dedicated  to 
**  the  right  Beuerend  Falher  in  God,  lohn  [Bul- 
lingham],  nowe  Bishoppe  of  Glocester,  and  Com- 
mendatarie  of  Bristow,"  to  whom 

**  Philip  Tones  wisheth  the  increaie  of  til  good  graces 
fit  for  the  discharge,  and  answering  of  so  great  a  aJIing 
in  this  life  and  in  the  next,  the  fruition  of  those  ioyes, 
whieb  are  eaerlsating  in  Christ  leios." 

The  "  Epistle  Dedicatorie  "  is  rather  lengthy,  and 
one  extract  mast  suffice: — 

"  BeiDg  prened  with  the  importunities  of  many  good 
bntkren,  who  being  present  at  the  preaobing,  haue 
made  report  of  the  frnit  k  benefit  they  therby  reaped, 
h  therefore  would  take  no  answere,  bat  the  graunt  of  a 
pablike  rm  of  the  same,  for  their  further  eomfort,  and 
the  profit  of  othersy  I  poulde  not  in  eonscience  or 
carttne,  denie  so  reasonable  a  reouest  proceeding  from 
■Qch  Christian  &  odmendable  minas.  And  hauing  at  the 
last,  for  their  contentment  in  this  one  part  (though  leau- 
mg  them  discontented,  for  the  rest,)  yeelded  to  the  mul- 
titade  of  reasons,  wherewith  thej^  yrged  me,  I  haue  taken 
this  coarse,  and  made  this  choise  in  the  publishing  to 
Tie  your  fieoerend  name,  and  patronage  for  the  same. 
Wherunto  besides  sundrie  effectuall  motiues  inducing 
me,  (which  for  some  respects  I  here  suppresse)  one  is  of 
good  consequSce,  meete  m  this  place  to  bee  introduced, 
and  specified  :  and  that  is,  an  earnest  desire  wherewith 
I  haue  for  a  season  trauailed,  to  baue  you  tborowly 
acquynted  with  the  state,  and  tmeth  of  oertaine  actions 


of  mine,  which  by  reason  of  the  practises  of  suche  aduer- 
saries,  as  luda  and  Beniamin  sometimes  had,  in  a  matter 
not  muche  different  in  nature  though  somewhat  in  otr- 
cumstanoe,  are  so  farre  from  beeing  entertayned  with 
lawfull  fauoar,  as  that  they  are  prosecuted  with  extreeme 
displeasure  Tnder  you,  yea  and  by  you,  (as  of  late  in  your 
heate  and  passions  openly  appeared)  to  the  great  in- 
couragement  of  the  common  enemie,  and  no  little  £s- 
comfort  of  manie  that  prof  esse  sincerely  anddiscreetely." 

I  cannot  find  any  mention  of  the  author  in  any 
work  on  Cirencester.  Abhba. 

M18FRIVT8. — A  more  amusing  misprint  than 
that  mentioned  in  "  N.  &  Q."  {ante,  p.  7)  occurred 
in  the  first  issue  of  the  volume  of  Alison's  History 
of  Europe  containing  an  account  of  the  Duke  of 
Wellington's  funeral,  where  the  list  of  general 
officers  who  acted  as  pall-bearers  closed  with  the 
name  of  Sir  Peregrine  Pickle,  meaning  Sir  Pere- 
grine Maitland.  The  page  mia,  of  course,  imme- 
diately cancelled  by  the  publishers.  But  the 
lapsus  penncs  made  me  look  oack  to  the  chapter  in^ 
a  former  volume  containing  a  review  of  contem- 
porary literature  and  science  to  ascertain  whether 
the  accomplished  author  had  mentioned  Sir 
Roderick  Random  as  the  President  of  the  Geo- 
graphical Societv  and  Sir  Humphrey  Clinker  as 
the  inventor  of  the  safety-lamp.  A.  C.  S. 

LoNOKViTT  OF  PROFESSIONAL  Mkn.— The  fol- 
lowing extract  from  the  Daily  Chronicle  of  the 
3rd  inst.  is  worthy  of  insertion  in  "  N.  &  Q.": — 

"  The  following  eminent  members  and  fellows  of  the> 
Royal  Colleges  of  Phvsicians  and  Surgeons  have  died 
during  the  year  just  closed  at  the  ages  indicated,  ris. : 
Dr.  John  Metge  Bartley,  98;  Dr.  Archibald  Billing, 
F.B.C.P.,  P.R.S.,  90 :  Dr.  E.  0.  Griffiths,  90 ;  Dr.  Thomas 
M.  Oreenhow,  of  Leeds,  F.B.O.S.,  89;  Mr.  Thomas 
Radford,  of  Manchester.  F.R.O.S.,  88 ;  Dr.  J.  J.  Bigsby, 
F.R.aP.,  P.R.8.,  88 ;  Mr.  William  Knott,  retired  army 
surgeon,  88:  Dr.  R.  Shettle,  of  Reading.  87;  Dr.  William 
Scott,  P.R.C.P..  87 ;  Mr.  William  Gwillim,  of  Burton-on- 
Trent,  M.R.C.8..  86;  Dr.  Toulmin,  F.R.C.P.,  85;  Mr. 
Charles  Whyte,  Inspector-General  of  Hospitals,  86 ;  Mr. 
Richard  Thomas  Gore,  of  Bath,  F.R.C.S.,  83 :  Mr.  James 
Luke,  F.R.S..  late  President  of  the  Royal  College  of 
Surgeons,  82:  Dr.  Addison,  of  Brighton,  F.R.C.P., 
P.R.S.,  80;  Mr.  John  Merriman,  M.R.C.S.,  80." 

W.  Swan  Sonnsnscheik. 

Ths  "Bbtu&n  of  MsifBKRS  OF  Parliahskt*: 
Skgrbtabiss  of  Stats  for  the  Northern  and 
Southern  Departments. — It  is  perhaps  worth 
noticing  in  "  N.  &  Q.**  that  the  lists  of  Secretaries 
for  the  Northern  and  Southern  Departments  which 
are  prefixed  annually  to  the  Foreign  Office  List  are 
erroneons  in  almost  every  particular.  If  the  two  lists 
were  transposed  they  would  be  very  nearly  accurate. 
This  very  slovenly  editing  is  not  creditable  to  a 
public  department,  which  ought  to  have  materials 
at  hand  sufficient  to  ensure  perfect  correctness, 
especially  as  those  who  are  not  "  experts  **  in  such 
detaUs  naturally  accept  statements  in  official  or 
quasi-official  puhlications  as  decisive  of  any  dis- 
puted points.    I  wonder  how  many  students  in 


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the  twentieth  centnry  will  refer  to  the  Return  of 
Members  of  Farliament,  isaaed  a  year  or  two 
since,  as  to  an  iufiillible  oracle.  If  any  living 
inquirer  believeB  in  the  value  of  this  latter 
authority,  at  least  as  regards  Ireland,  may  I  ask 
him  to  read  my  note  upon  it  in  the  fourth  part  of 
Mr.  Foster's  Collectanea  Genealogica  f 

Alfred  B.  Beaven,  M.A« 
Preston. 

Mnemonics  of  CEcumenical  Councils. — I 
send  you  a  mnemonical  hexameter  which  you  may 
think  worth  inserting ;  for  although  it  may  be  said 
to  be  "  well  known,"  still  it  may  be  unknown  to 
some,  and,  withal,  it  might  be  useful  to  young 
students  and  readers— the  more  so  if  they  would 
write  out  the  verse  and  put  the  date  of  the  year 
over  the  name  of « each  council.  Of  course^  the 
same  number  of  oecumenical  .councils  is  not 
accepted  by  all.  Here  we  have  seventeen,  viz. : — 
»  "  KiCoB,  ChalCoCo,  NiCoLa,  LaLaLa,  LyLy Vi,  Plo  Tii." 
To  save  reference,  the  names  represented  are  as 
follows  : — Nicea  (1),  Constantinople  (1),  Ephesus, 
Chalcedon,  Constantinople  (2,  3),  Nicea  (2),  Con- 
stantinople (4),  Lateran  (4),  Lyons  (2),  Vienne, 
Florence,  Trent.  F.  S. 

Churohdown. 

Memorial  Tablet  to  a  Ringer  in  Bradford 
Church,  Worcestershire. — The  following  seems 
worthy  of  record  in  the  pages  of  "N.  &  Q.":— 

^  In  memoir  of  Charles  Bavenscroft,  who  died  Sept.  18, 
1812  :- 

Ah,  Charlei  !  tby  ringing  now  is  o'er, 
Thou  'It  call  the  merry  peal  no  more ; 
To  Single,  nor  to  Bob  direct 
To  give  each  change  its  due  eifect; 
Nor  teach  the  inexperienced  youth 
The  course  to  range  with  ease  and  truth. 
Of  this  no  more  !  give  up  thou  must, 
And  mingle  with  thy  parents'  dust 
Into  its  place  the  bell  is  come. 
And  ruthless  death  has  brought  thee  Home." 

H.  T.  E. 

"  Railway." — A  curious  use  of  this  word  occurs 
in  Miss  Edge  worth's  Madamu  dt  Fleary^  ch.  iiL  :— 

*'  Clinging  fast  to  the  banisters,  she  resisted  with  all 
her  might ;  she  kicked  and  screamed,  and  screamed  and 
kicked ;  but  at  last  her  feet  were  taken  prisoners ;  then, 
grasping  the  railvay  with  one  hand,  with  the  other  she 
brandished  high  the  little  whip." 

Defniel. 

Plymoath, 

The  Philological  Society's  New  English 
Dictionary. — Quotations  for  the  following  words 
are  wanted  for  the  New  English  Dictionary  of  the 
Philological  Society.  The  printing  of  A  begins  in 
March  next,  and  all  contributions  for  that  letter 
should  be  in  the  editor's  hands  before  that.  Send 
them  direct  to  Dr.  Murray,  Mill  Hill,  London, 
N.W.  A.  Quotations  of  any  date  for  allogamy, 
allogeneity,  idlograph,  allomerism  •ous,  allonymons, 


allopathetie  -ally,alloquy,  allotrophic,  allotropize-d, 
alluminate,  allumine,  alluringness,  alluTian,  al- 
mariol,  almud,  almuged.  B.  Instances  after  the 
date  annexed  of  allongation,  1666;  allotteiy,  1581; 
allowment,  1579;  allnrance,  1587;  allurant,  1614; 
allure,  sb.,  1760;  allusory,  1679;  almacle,  1551; 
almadel,  1652.  G.  Instances  before  the  date 
annexed  for  allodial -urn,  1656;  allodialist,  1818; 
allodiality,  1848;  allodtaiy,  1875;  allodification, 
1879;  allonge  (to  a  bill),  1862;  allonym,  1867; 
alloptath -y -ic -ally,  1842;  allopathist,  1865;  allo- 
phylian,  1851;  alloquial,  1841;  allotropic -ism, 
1851;  allotropy,  1854;  allowance,  yb.,  1848;  alla- 
mette,  1848;  alluvial  -ium,  1802;  almanac,  1391; 
almuten,  1681. 

We  must  request  eorrespondente  desiring  infonnatloii 
on  family  matters  of  only  prirate  interest,  to  affix  th«r 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


Dove- TAIL. — Is  the  generally  received  derira- 
tion  of  this  technical  term  correct?  I  do  not 
reipember  to  haye  seen  any  other  suggested  ;  and 
turning  to  the  only  English  dictionary  within 
ready  access,  I  find,  "  Dove-tail,  joint  in  form  of 
a  dove-tail  spread."  It  seems  probable  that  the 
word  is  no  more  derivable  from  ^'dove"  than 
"  rabbet  "—another  term  of  carpentry — from  "  rab- 
bit," but  is  one  of  many  familiar  technical  terms 
borrowed  from  the  French.  The  French  douve 
(which  appears  in  German  as  daube)  is  a  cask- 
stave,  and  is  connected,  Littr^  says,  by  Ducange 
with  L.  Lat.  doga^  a  vase,  a  cup, — the  transition 
from  doga  to  douve  being  normal  So  "  dove-tail,* 
if  douve-tailU  as  surmised,  would  have  meant  suc^ 
"cutting"  (Fr.  iaUler)  as  was  applied  to  cask- 
staves.  Whether  such  staves  are  precisely  doye- 
taUed  affects  the  question  but  little.  Their  joints 
were  necessarily  watertight,  and  thus  a  very  close 
joint  may  well  have  been  called  a  ^'  dove-tail."  It 
is  right  to  add  that  the  compound  word  douve4ailU 
(possibly  obsolete)  does  not  appear  in  any  of  the 
several  French  dictionaries  I  have  consulted. 

Hbnrt  Attwsll. 

Lausanne. 

Boswell's  "Johnson." — In  the  edition  of  Bos- 
well  issued  by  Murray  in  1^35  is  the  following 
note  by  the  Bev.  Hugh  Pailye,  Canon  of  Lich- 
field :— 

"  I  certainly  am  in  possession  of  Dr.  Johnson^s  watch, 
which  I  purchased  from  his  black  servant,  Francis 
Barber.  His  punchbowl  is  likewise  in  my  poaseesion, 
bought  by  John  Barker  Scott,  Esq.,  who  afterwards 
presented  it  to  me." 

Where  are  the  punchbowl  and  watch  now  ?  Some 
years  ago  I  saw  a  watch  in  the  Lichfield  Museum 
which  was  said  to  have  been  Dr.  Johnson's,  but 
I  ascertained  that  it  never  belonged  to  him  at  all. 


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I  hftYe  ako  seen  a  Dunohbowl  which  bean  his 
name  and  has  the  date  1762  inscribed  on  the 
ailfwmoant.  £.  Q. 

Fry's  ^  Pahtoohaphia."-— Does  there  exist  any 
leoent  reprint  of  Fry's  PaiUographia  f  If  so,  I  shall 
be  glad  to  know  the  name  of  the  pablisher,  and  its 
rdatiTe  correctness  in  comparison  with  the  original 
edition.  In  the  issue  of  1799  a  "  Ranic  **  translation 
of  Uie  Lord's  Prayer  is  given,  bat  it  appears  to  be 
mediseyal  Swedish ;  an  ^  Ancient  British "  trans- 
lation reads  like  a  modem  Welsh  dialect ;  and  the 
orthography  of  Bassian  words  printed  in  roman 
type  is  conducted  on  a  plan  very  different  from 
that  adopted  in  English  scientific  and  medical 
joomals  when  similar  Bassian  periodicals  are 
quoted  by  nama  Alban  Dorak. 

SI,  Seymour  Street,  W. 

EccLssiASTicAL  Plats. — A  sllyer-gilt  oyal 
bowl-shaped  dish  has  recently  come  into  my  col- 
lection, of  seyenteenth  century  workmanship, 
without  a  hall  mark,  but  with  "  o  .  t  .  fecit " 
beneath  the  rim  on  one  side,  and  s  .  a  .  o.  upon 
the  other ;  and  underneath  the  centre,  in  an  oyal 
cartouche,  a  shield  untinctured  charged  with  a 
human  heart  pierced  by  three  arro?rs,  two  in 
aaltire  and  one  in  pale,  surmounted  by  a  hat  with 
eight  tassels  at  each  side.  I  have  also  a  silver 
eeaJ,  with  open-work  shank,  haying  the  hat  of  an 
archbishop  with  ten  tassels  at  each  side  of  a 
dacally  crowned  shield,  bearing  Az.,  a  flame  issuing 
from  a  human  heart  pierced  with  two  arrows  in 
aaltire  ppr.,  and  in  the  exergue  the  initials  J.  L. 
To  what  religious  orders  are  to  be  assigned  these 
arms?  Bobbrt  Dat,  Jun.,  F.S.A. 

Ooric 

Sib  Albxandbb  Lbslib,  of  Baloonib,  Eniqht, 
Gkvkral  of  thb  Scottish  Arvt.— Who  was 
this  officer  ?  He  signs  the  following,  the  original 
being  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Charles  Stirling  of 
CUorat,  Bart,  to  whose  ancestor  it  was  granted: — 

^WherM  Gapitane  Mango  Sfcirling  in  my  Lord 
Btkine's  Begement,  is  going  to  Sootland  for  fourtein 
dayw  about  the  diipatohe  of  his  affaires,  Thairfor  this 
shall  be  ane  sufficient  forloffe  for  him  and  his  serrant  in 
their  gwng  and  rataming  wk>at  stope  or  hinderance  of 
any  of  the  Guards  belonging  to  the  Scottishe  Armie. 
Pmtad  at  Newoattle  the  8  of  June  1691  yeires. 

"A.  Lbslib." 

Hie  general  is  not  named  in  Douglas's  Pierage  of 
SeotkLnd(nxt.  ^'Le^en  and  Melville ")>  According  to 
that  work,  Alexander  Leslie,  second  Earl  of  Leven, 
died  at  Balgonie  on  July  15,  1661.  His  two 
daughters  were  suocessiyely  Countesses  of  Leyen, 
and  died  childless.  David  Leslie,  second  Earl  of 
Melyille,  became  third  Earl  of  Leven.  He  was  a 
soldier  of  some  distinction,  and  Governor  of  Edin- 
bfugh  Oaatle  in  1689  ;  thus  a  contemporary  of  Sir 
Alexander,  who  was  dearly  a  man  of  note. 

J.  Bain. 


Thk  Irish  Saints.— I  should  feel  thankful  for 
some  information  regarding  the  nature  and  date  of 
compilation  of  the  FeHre  of  Aengus,  and  oUier 
lists  of  Irish  saints.  I  also  desire  some  informa- 
tion about  Selgrave's  Catalogue.  Both  works  are 
referred  to  by  Dr.  Beeves  in  his  work  on  the 
Ouldees.  Jambs  Ballanttnk. 

122,  North  Frederick  Street,  Glasgow. 

Garrick  and  J(7Nius.^The  following  anecdote 
is  from  a  scrap-book  about  forty  years  old.  Is  it 
authentic?  During  the  zenith  of  the  fame  of 
Junius,  and  when  all  the  world  was  in  full  cry  to 
identify  him,  Garrick  believed  that  he  had  dis- 
covered the  person,  and  in  consequence  wrote  to 
Mr.  Bamus,  page  to  the  late  king,  to  call  on  him 
at  his  house  in  the  Adelpbi.  When  he  came, 
Gkrrick  informed  him,  with  profound  caution, 
what  he  conceived  essential  to  be  immediately 
communica^  to  his  Majesty.  On  the  ensuing 
day  Garrick  received  the  following  note  : — 

"Sir,— I  admit  your  peripicuity  in  managing  the 
affairs  of  the  Drama ;  but  your  attempts  to  diteover  me 
are  in  vain  and  nugatory.  I  shall  take  leave  of  you  now 
by  assuring  you  that,  when  I  have  done  with  the  real 
monarchs.  I  shall  henin  with  mock  Potentates,  of  which 
you  shall  form  the  head.    Till  then,  adieu. 

"JUHIIffl." 

Garrick  was  accustomed  to  relate  this  anecdote 
with  murks  of  astonishment  and  apprehension. 

Bar-Point. 
Philadelphia. 

Old  Scottish  Ballad,  "  0  Loon  o*  Bdchan.*' 
— Where  are  the  words  and  music  of  this  old 
ballad  or  song  to  be  found,  and  who  was  its 
author  ?  Twenty  years  ago  I  have  heard  it  sung 
at  Peterhead  and  its  neighbourhood,  in  the  dis- 
trict of  Buchan.  Bather  to  my  surprise  and 
regret,  it  is  not  to  be  found  in  Traditional  BaUad 
Aire,  edited  by  the  Very  Be  v.  W.  Christie,  Dean 
of  Moray,  a  copy  of  which  has  come  into  my 
possession  owing  to  the  kindness  of  a  valued 
friend.  John  Pigkford,  M.A. 

Newbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Thk  Yardlkts  of  England.  —  In  Bay  ley's 
Beautia  of  England  and  Wales,  vol.  vii.,  it  is 
stated,  "  The  manor  of  Yardley  was  given  by  King 
Athelstan  to*  the  Canons  of  St.  Paul's,  London." 
Assuraing  this  statement  to  be  true,  the  name  of 
Yardley  must  have  had  a  place  in  English  local 
historv  nearly  a  century  and  a  half  before  the  Nor- 
man Conquest.  It  would  be  gratifying  to  a  reader 
of  **  N.  &  Q."  in  the  United  States  to  know  who 
first  bore  the  name  of  Yardley  in  England,  and 
after  whom  the  aforesaid  manor  in  Hertfordshire 
and  the  parishes,  &a,  in  Worcestershire  aad 
Northampton  were  called.  G.  E.  Y* 

Philadelphia. 

"Thr  Task"  op  a  Parish.— In  the  19th  of 
King  Henry  VII.  one  Alice  Dix  settled  by  deed 


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all  her  messuages  and  lands  in  Icklingham,  Suf- 
folk, in  feoffees  for  certain  purposes,  directing  that 
the  residue  of  the  revenues  be  appliecb 
^  To  the  diicharge  of  a  great  part  of  the  Task  of  both 
parishes  of  the  Towb  of  Icaliogham  m  often  m  it  falleth 
If  it  may  be  bom,  and  this  to  be  done  and  ordaioed  in 
manner  and  form  foIloT? ing ;  that  is  to  nj,  that  as  many 
as  be  oessyd  to  pay  to  the  Task  the  sum  of  12d.  and 
underneath  that  those  persons  to  be  diseharge  of  the 
Task  for  erer  as  farr  as  the  s*  residue  of  the  s^Lirelode 
wiU  stretch,"  &c. 

What  is  the  nature  of  this  impost,  and  who,  pro- 
bably, levied  it?  In  a  decree  of  35  Hen.  YIII.  it 
is  called  the  "  Eyngs  task." 

The  original  of  the  document  from  which  I 
quote  was  said  to  have  been  '^moet  curiously 
adorned  with  pictures  of  our  Saviour  and  the 
Virgin  Mary,"  &a  It  has,  since  1830,  disappeared 
from  the  parish  chest,i  where  it  was  deposited, 
and  I  should  be  glad  to  know  of  its  whereabouts. 

Ht.  p. 

Bvry  St  Edmunds. 

Helok. — This    word  occurs  in  Cotgrave,  ed. 

1611,«.i?.  "Ooiff6":— 
"  n  est  nd  tout  coiffS.  Borne  rich,  honourable,  fortunate ; 

borne  with  his  mothers  kercher  about  his  head ;  wrapt 

in  his  mothers   smocke,  eav  we,  also,  hee   is  verie 

maidenlie,  shamefae'de,  heloe. 

Is  the  word  hdoe  used  at  the  present  day  in  the 
above  sense  in  any  northern  dialect  ?  What  is  its 
etymology?  A.  L.  Mathxw. 

18,  Bradmore  Boad,  Oxford. 

Frank  Pledos. — Cowell  commences  this  sub- 
ject with  the  words  "  Franci  plegium,"  a  few  lines 
lower  he  uses  the  words  ^*  de  franco  plegio."  The 
following  is  a  line  from  a  thirteenth  centurv  roU. 
How  am  I  to  extend  the  first  word  ?  "Fnc'^pleg' 
present'  g  Bo(ij)gs'  (d)le  Parker  no*  ven'  io'  in 
mU*."  Y.  B. 

Birmingham. 

,  Ritson's  Lbttsbs  to  J.  0.  Walker.— Where 
are  the  originals  of  these  letters,  especially  those 
written  before  1790?  A  few  of  them  were  in- 
dnded  in  Kitson's  Xsttsrs,  2  vols.  8vo.,  1833. 

CD. 

Col.  Pbtsr  Beckforb,  Govsrkor  of  Jamaica. 
— ^Who  was  his  wife  ?  Also,  who  was  the  wife  of 
his  fftther,  Peter  Beckford  ? 

GOMSTAKCB  BUSSSLL. 
Swallowfield  Park,  Seading. 

''Racial."— How  old  a  word  is  this?— 
"  Mr.  A.  L.  Green,  writing  from  the  Synaffogae  House, 
says,  'The  Jews*  true  to  iheir  racial  and  religioiis  in- 
stmcta."— Quotation  from  the  Time$  in  the  (?i(arcitaii 
for  Jan.  26, 1881. 

P.  J.  F.  Gantillof. 

MiLToy  A  Frkkthinkbr.— Are  there  any  pas- 
sages in  Milton's  works  which  point  to  the  sup- 
position that  he  was  a  freethinker  ?      C.  E.  R. 


Thi  Eikos  of  Cornwall.— Is  there  any 
authentic  list  of  the  ancient  kings  of  Cornwall  ? 
I  am  aware  of  the  imperfect  list  of  Oarew — Cador, 
Blederic,  Ivo,  Bletiua,  &a;  also  of  Kings  Solomon 
and  Constantino  of  Cornwall.  What  has  been 
done  recently  by  modem  criticism  on  thu  subject? 
It  would  seem  that  in  the  new  cathedral  of  Cornwall 
some  memorial  of  these  ancient  kings  ought  to  be 
put  up.  Most  of  them  were  Christians,  and  some 
fought  for  the  Christian  Church  against  the  Saxons. 

W.  S.  L.  S. 

[Our  correspondent  may  be  glad  to  refer  to  the  paper, 
by  the  authors  of  the  Bmiothtea  Ckmuffuntis,  on  the 
names  to  be  attached  to  the  stalls  of  the  canons  in  the 
choir  of  Truro  Cathedral,  which  appeared  in  "  N.  &  Q.,'* 
6*  S.  U.  142.] 

^  Straight  ab  a  loitoh." — This  expression  has 
been  in  common  use  in  this  part  of  Yorkshire  from 
time  immemoriaL  It  is  used  to  express  the  per- 
fect straightness  of  anything.  What  is  a  ''  loitch"? 

W.  COLBKCK  DtSON. 

Batley. 

''Art."— The  use  of  this  word  to  mean  fine 
art  only  is  recent.  How  recent  ?  Can  any  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  a  date  of  its  use  before  the 
Reform  Bill  of  1832  t  Hbnrt  Colb. 

Authors  of  Books  Waktid. — 

A  Plain  and  Familiar  Explanation  of  the  moiC 
diffienlt  Pastaget  in  tJu  Book  qf  Psalmi,  [?  H.  O.] 
London,  1831«l2mo. 

PioMtiana;  or,  ReeolUaiont  of  the  late  Mn,  Piotti, 
London,  1888,  sm.  8vo. 

Journal  of  a  Tour  through  Egypt^  the  PeninnUa  of 
Sinai,  and  the  Solw  Land,  in  1838,  1839.  London, 
18il-2,  2  vols.  8to. 

Sketehet  of  Obteure  Poets,  vilh  Speeiment  of  their 
WrUiugs,    London,  1883, 12mo.  Abhba. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted.— 
"  RiTer,  river,  shining  river." 
These  lines   appeared   flrtt  in  Blackwood's  Magann€ 
aboat  sixty  years  ago  with  the  signature  **  C." 

H.  LSSLIE. 


CHABLES  U.'S  HIDING  PLAGES. 
(e^  S.  iv.  207,  498,  622.) 
I  am  unable  to  tell  the  authority  for  several 
of  the  statements  made  by  Mr.  Scott  (6^  S. 
iv.  522).  There  are  (so  far  as  Sussex  is  con- 
cerned) three  accounts  of  the  king's  escape  : — 
1.  That  dictated  by  the  king  to  Pepys  at  New- 
market on  Oct  3  and  5, 1680  (reprinted  in  The 
BoKobel  TracU^  edited  by  J.  Hughes,  A.M.,  pub- 
lished 1830) ;  2.  That  of  Col.  Gunter,  in  MS.  in 
British  Museum,  Add.  MS.  9008  (printed  in 
Parry's  Cooit  of  8u$ux,  published  1833) ;  3.  That 
in  Baker's  Chronida  of  the  Kingt  of  England^ 
p.  641. 


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The  first  of  these  accounts  is,  to  a  great  extent, 
oaed  by  Mr.  Harrison  Ainsworth  in  his  ingenious 
norel  Ovingdean  Orange.  The  last  account  was, 
I  think,  partly  furnished  by  Oapt.  Tettersell,  as  it 
relates  facts  connected  with  himself,  his  conver- 
sation with  his  wife,  the  sailor,  &c.,  which  could 
hardly  be  known  to  any  other  person. 

By  patting  all  these  accounts  together  we  find 
that  the  king  was  at  the  house  of  Mrs.  Hyde  at 
Heal  (three  miles  from  Salisbury)  for  some  days 
^  the  beginning  of  October,  1651.  On  Saturday 
the  11th  GoL  Gunter  made  the  bargain  with 
Francis  Mansell,  of  Oyincdean,  to  provide  a  vessel 
for  the  king's  escape.  I^ext  day  (Sunday)  the 
idng  was  informed  of  this  by  Col.  Philips.  On 
Monday  <(13th)  CoL  Gunter  with  Lord  Wilmot  met 
the  king  near  Winchester,  and  that  night  they 
slept  at  Hambledon,  at  the  house  of.  Gunter's  sister. 
At  daybreak  of  the  14th  they  left,  and,  passing 
by  Arundel  and  Houghton  (Howton),  came  tnrough 
Bramber  to  Beeding.  Here  CoL  Gunter  left,  and 
went  on  alone  to  the  George  Inn  at  Brighton, 
where  he  met  Mansell,  the  king  and  Lord 
Wilmot  arriving  later,  and  together  supped  with 
Capt  TetterselL  At  2  A.M.  on  the  15th  (so  Gunter 
aaysy  but  Charles  II.  told  Pepys  4  A.M.}  they  left 
the  Greorge,  embarked  at  5  (Baker),  and  sailed  at 
7  A.M.  (Charles  says,  but  Gunter  8),  reaching 
P^camp  10  A.]f.  next  day.  The  journey  from 
Hambiedon  to  Brighton  only  occupied  one  day, 
not  too,  as  Mr.  Soott  says,  whilst  neither  account 
mentions  Maudlin  Farm,  New  House,  or  South- 
wick.  I  have  carefully  examined  the  Clourt  Bolls, 
but  cannot  trace  that  there  was  any  George  Inn 
in  West  Street  before  1754,  though  there  was 
in  1656,  on  the  east  side  of  Middle  Street, 
**  an  Inne  called  the  George."  It  probably 
occapied  the*  site  of  No.  44,  Middle  Street  (at 
present  the  residence  of  Mr.  C)has.  Catt),  and  this, 
there  can  be  little  doubt,  was  the  place  actually 
▼isited  by  the  king.  The  present  ^[ing's  Head 
Inn,  West  Street,  was  not  even  known  as  the 
George  until  1754^  while  that  now  known  by  that 
sign  is  evidently  the  third  house  of  the  name. 

It  is  impossible  for  the  king  to  have  visited 
Ovingdean.  Sir  Wm.  Burrell  mentions  the  fEu^t 
as  mythical,  and  there  is  no  doubt  it  oriprinated 
from  that  place  being  the  residence  of  Francis 
^lansell.  The  hitter  did  not  die  before  the 
Bestoration,  as  Mr.  Ainsworth  makes  him  do,  but 
was  appointed  Customer-Inwards  at  Southamp- 
ton, and  granted  a  pension  of  2002.  a  year,  which 
in  1664  was  300Z.  in  arrear  {Calendars  of  State 
Papers,  1660-1,  pp.  108,  141,  and  438 ;  1661-2, 
pp.  21  and  286  ;  1663-4,  p.  552). 

I  should  like  to  correct  a  mistake  made  by  Lord 
Braybrooke  in  editing  Pepys's  Diary,  Under  date 
Feb.  20,  1666/7,  Pepys  says  :— 

*  With  the  'Chequer  men  to  the  Leg  in  Kinff  Street 
«...  jmd  there  was  one  in  company  with  them;  that  wu 


the  man  that  got  the  yessel  to  carry  over  the  king  from 
BredhemioD,  who  hath  a  pension  of  200/.  per  annum, 

but  ill  paid this  poor  man  hath  received  no  part  of 

hiB  money  these  four  years,  and  is  ready  to  starve/'  &c. 

In  a  foot-note  it  is  stated  this  refers  to  Nicholas 
Tettersell,  but  it  is  to  be  observed  that  Pepys 
does  not  say  the  man  who  "  commanded,"  but 
who  '*got"  the  vessel  Moreover,  Tetterseli's 
pension  was  only  1002.  a  year  (State  Papers, 
Vomestie,  1663,  vol  84,  p.  176),  while,  as  already 
noted,  Mansell's  pension  was  200Z.,  as  Pepys 
states.  Tettersell,  in  addition,  was  then  receiving 
his  pay  as  a  captain  in  the  navy,  and  can  hardly 
have  b^en  nearly  starving,  while  the  note  quoted 
before  shows  that  in  1664  Mansell's  pension  was 
in  arrear.  It  is  clear,  therefore,  Pepys  referred  to 
Mansell;  and  not  to  TetterselL 

Frederick  E.  Sawyer. 
Brighton. 

Besides  the  instances  mentioned  by  your  corre- 
spondents, there  is  a  tradition  that  King  Charles  II. 
when  on  his  way  to  Charmouth,  whence  he 
attempted  to  escape  to  France,  paid  a  visit  to  the 
manor-hCuse  of  Pilston,  or  Pillesdon,  as  it  was 
then  called,  a  small  village  about  seven  mOes  from 
Bridport,  in  the  county  of  Dorset,  then  the  pro- 
perty of  the  Wyndhams.  The  old  house,  now  a 
fiirnihouse,  still  maintains  a  dignified  appearance 
in  its  quiet  retirement,  though  shorn  of  much  of 
its  beauty  and  size.  A  neighbouring  copse.  King's 
Moor  or  More,  is  said  to  have  derived  its  name 
from  the  circumstance  of  this  visit 

J.  S.  Udau 

Inner  Temple. 

I  am  much  obliged  for  the  valuable  information 
respecting  the  above  subject.  I  was  unaware  that 
any  vestige  of  White  Ladies  still  remained  ;  but 
have  heard  that  there  still  exist  near  its  site  some 
ruins  of  a  nunnery  called  Black  Ladies.  Can  Mr. 
Burgess  clear  this  up,  and  also  kindly  give  the 
date  of  the  destruction  of  Moseley  Hall,  which 
must  have  been  within  the  last  twenty  years  ?  At 
Little  Molford,  about  eight  miles  from  Long 
Marston,  I  believe  the  manor-house  yet  stands, 
where  there  is  also  a  tradition  that  Charles  II. 
was  concealed  in  an  oven,  which  is  possible,  as  his 
route  is  rather  vague  after  leaving  Long  Marston. 
Perhaps  H.  P.  M.  confounded  Little  Compton 
with  this  house,  and  not  Little  Woolford. 

Allan  Fea. 

Highgate,  N.W. 


Hare,  Baron  of  Colbrainb  (6*^  S.  iv.  536). — 
Hugh  Hare  was  a  personal  friend  of  Charles, 
Prince  of  Wales,  and  hence  on  the  death  of  King 
James,  in  1625,  and  the  accession  of  Charles  L  to 
the  throne,  it  was  a  very  natural  and  gracious  act 
to  ennoble  his  young  friend.  The  king's  age  was 
twenty-five,  that  of  Hugh  HareJ  was  nineteen. 


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(6»i»S.V.Ja».M,*^ 


According   to   the   Irith   Compendium  he  was 
^'  well-known  to  the.  king,  and  a  great    floriBt." 
That  in  subseqaent  years  he  was  a  devoted  and 
loyal  friend  to  the  king,  history  makes  very  dear ; 
and   at   the  Restoration  English  honours  were 
offered  to  him  ^  Charles  11,  and  declined.    His 
great-grandson  Bfenry,  the  third  and  last  Baron  of 
Ooleraine,  died  at  Bath  on  August  10,  1749,  and 
was  buried  at  Tottenham  (8eot$  Magazitu,  p.  406). 
He  married  Anne,  daughter   and   co-heiress  of 
John  Hanger,  Esq.,    governor  of  the  Bank  of 
England,  who  inherits  a  fortune  of   100,000L 
The  marriage  was  anything  but  a  happy  one  ;  bis 
wife  left  him,  and  would  not  be  reconciled.    By 
his  will  he  left  a  great  part  of  his  estate  to  a 
natural  daughter,  Henrietta  Rosa  Peregrina  Hare. 
His  will  was  disputed,  and    occupied'  the  law 
courts  for  several  years.    On  June  10,  1754,  his 
widow  died  of  gout,  and  in  the  following  year  a 
note  in  the  OenUeman^i  M<igazine  (1755,  p.  329) 
states  that  *^  the  great  cause  that  has  been  long 
depending  concerning  the  estate  of  the  late  Lord 
Coleraine  was  finally  determined  in  Chancery  in 
favour  of  Mr.  Knight   and    the  heiress-at-law." 
In  order,  however,  that  the  heiress  might  fully 
enjoy  the  properties  thus  left  to  her,  she  being  an 
alien,  it  was  found   necessary  to  apply  to  Par- 
liament, and  two  special  Acts  were  passed  to 
^regulate  Lord  Coleraine's  bequests,  in  1763  and 
1764  (see  for  full  details  Robinson's  HUiory  of 
TotUnham,  L,  Appendix,  p.  41). 

On  December  1,  1761,  Gabriel  Hanger,  nephew 
of  the  late  Lord  Coleraine's  widow,  and  probably 
her  heir,  was  raised  to  the  peerage  of  Ireland,  as 
Baron  Coleraine  of  Coleraine,  in  the  county  of 
Londonderry,  by  order  under  the  privy  seal,  his 
patent  bearing  date  Feb.  26,  1762.  This  title 
became  extinct  in  1824,  on  the  death  of  his  last 
surviving  spn,  Ceorge  Hanger,  the  fourth  and  last 
baron,  unmarried.  Much  information  respecting 
the  Lords  Coleraine  is  given  in  Nichols's  Literary 
Anecdotes,  especially  in  vol.  v.  pp.  347-52.  A 
good  portrait  of  Henry,  Lord  Coleraine  (or  Cole- 
rane),  painted  by  Ridiardson  about  1714,  was 
presented  to  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  by  his 
lordship's  daughter,  who  had  married  Alderman 
Townsend.  Edward  Solly. 

Henry  Hare,  third  baron  Coleraine,  died  Aug.  10, 
1749.  I  am  not  aware  of  any  special  reason  for 
the  creation  of  this  peerage ;  it  may  probably  be 
accounted  for  by  the  relationship  subsisting  be- 
tween the  first  peer  and  the  Earl  of  Manchester. 
Earlier  instances  of  Irish  peerages  and  titles 
conferred  upon  English  subjects  are  those  of  Sir 
John  Yaughan,  created  Lord  Yaughan  of  MuUin- 
gar,  July,  1621 ;  and  Sir  George  Calvert,  created 
Lord  Baltimore  in  February,  1625. 

Alfred  B.  Biayxv,  M.A 

Preiton. 


I  have  in  my  possession  a  record  paper  signed 
byElizabetb,  Lady  Coleraine,  as  executrix  to  Henry^ 
liord  Coleraine.  The  record  is  dated  Oct.  13, 
1714  ;  the  date  of  the  signature,  Nov.  15, 1714. 
It  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  lend  the 
document  if  it  is  considered  of  any  use. 

Emilt  Colb. 

Teignmoath. 

Henry  Hare,  third  and  last  baron  of  Coleraine, 
died  Aug.  4,  1749  (QentUman's  Magatin€  1749, 
xix.  380) ;  died  Aug.  10,  1749,  from  inscription 
on  his  tomb  in  Lysons's  Environs  of  London^  iiL 
p.  550.  L.  L.  H. 


The  Anstkt  Family  (6«»  S.  iv.  324).— Will 
you  allow  me  to  add  a  few  facts  to  Prof:  Mator'^ 
account  of  Christopher  Anstey?     When  Anatey 
first  came  to  Bath  to  reside  he  lived  in  a  house 
near  the  site  of  what  is  now  St.  James's  Square. 
Wood,  the  younger,  was  just  then  building  the 
Royal  Crescent,  one  of  the  houses  in  which  Mr. 
Anstey  purchased,  and  became,  in  fact,  one  of  the 
earliest  residents  in  that  palatial  pile.    One  of 
Mr.  Anstey's  daughters  married  Mr.  Bosanquet,  of 
Hardenuish  House  (commonly  pronounced  Hctr- 
nish)f  and  whilst  there  on  a  visit  died,  as  Peof. 
Mator  says,  on  August  3, 1805.    A  grandson  of 
Mr.  Anstey,  Mr.  John  Thomas  Anstey,  still  re- 
sides at  18,  Lansdown  Crescent,  in  this  city.    This 
gentleman  had   two    sons,    both    of   whom   are 
deceased.     Besides  the  poems  contained  in  the 
quarto  volume  edited  by  John   Anstey    of  his 
father's  works,  he  wrote  a  satirical  poem,  entitled 
The  Journey  of  Dr,  Robert  Bongout,  and  his  Lady^ 
to  Bath,  Performed  in  the  Year  177—,"  published 
by  Dodesley  in  1778,  and  soon  after  suppressed, 
so  that  it  is  very  scarce.    When  the  MS.  of  this 
poem  was  sold  some  years  ago,  it  wus  described  as 
jQever  having  been  published.  The  poem  is  charac- 
terized by  the  humour  and  wit  of  the  New  Bath 
Guide,  The  subject  of  the  satire  was  a  well-known 
physician,  who  was  reputed  to  be  a  great  gourmand. 
Opposite  to  the  title  is  a  portrait  of  the  doctor, 
whose  countenance  is  indicative  of  good  nature 
and  sensuality.     Unless  I  am  mistaken,  Lowndes 
makes  no  mention  of  this  book.    Anstey  himself 
would  never  admit  the  authorship,  though  of  the 
fact  there  was  no  doubt.    The  reasons  for  its  sup- 
pression might  also  have  been  the  reasons  why 
John  Anstey  omitted  it  from  the  collected  works 
of  his  father— at  any  rate  it  is  difiKcult  to  conceive 
any  other,  inasmuch  as,  compared  with  some  of  the 
poems  contained  therein,  it  is  less  coarse  and  in- 
delicate, bad  though  it  be.    The  local  historian  of 
Bath,  the  late  Kev.  Richard  Warner,  seems  never 
to  have  heard  of  this  book.  Dr.  Bongout,  nor  of 
The  Priest  Dissected,  thougli  he  was  a  man  remark- 
able for  his  accuracy  and  research.   In  his  LUsrary 
BceoUections,  vol.  ii.  p.  17,  he  says: — 
"  It  is  somewhat  singular  that  the  author  of  a  work  lo 


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vitfy,  fo  nttiricft],  and  noTel,  ai  tbe  Ntw  Bath  Guide, 
•boaU  haTe  laft  behind  him  merely  this  lolitary  monn- 
Aient  of  his  lirely  fancy  and  peculiar  genini;  but  no 
ocbor  pnblioation,  lare  thii^  aa  I  am  aware,  baa  been 
attiiboted  to  him." 

John  Biitton,  in  his  edition  of  the  New  Baih 
Ouids^  makes  no  mention  in  the  memoir  appended 
to  it  of  Dr.  Bongouty  and  had  never  seen  a  eopy 
nniil  I  showed  him  one  a  few  years  before  his 
death.  The  history  of  The  Priest  DietteUd  and 
the  reasons  for  its  suppression  are  little  known. 
A  sharp  criticism  of  Anstey  and  his  works  having 
appeared  in  a  small  quarto  form,  Anstey  attributed 
the  authorship  to  a  well-known  local  clergyman, 
and  retaliated  in  The  Prieet  Diaected.  On  the 
very  day  after  its  publication  he  discovered  that 
he  had  been  too  rash,  and  that  the  *'  priest "  whom 
he  had  so  cruelly  dissected  was  not  nis  assailant, 
and  he  therefore  suppressed  the  publication  after 
eighteen  copies  had  got  into  circulation.  One  of 
these,  together  with  a  copy  of  the  attack  (I  cannot 
quote  the  title  without  seeing  it,  which  is  not 
practicable  at  this  moment),  I  had  in  my  posses- 
sion until  I  disposed  of  them  to  Capt.  Philp,  of 
Timsbury,  near  this  city,  in  whose  possession  they 
are  at  present.  R.  £.  Psach. 

Bath. 

I  note  briefly  the  entries  of  this  name,  of  which 
there  are  no  less  than  ten,  in  the  Bughy  School 
JUgieter,  The  list  is  headed  by  Charles  Alleyne 
Anstey  (the  well-remembered  ^assistant  master), 
who  was  entered  with  his  brother  George  in  1811. 
His  two  sons,  Charles  Christopher  (whose  afterlife 
is  traced  by  Prof.  Mayor)  and  Heniy,  entered  the 
school  at  the  early  ages  of  ten  and  eight,  in  1836. 
In  1841  followed  John  Filmer  Anstey,  afterwards 
of  Oriel  College,  Oxford,  and  in  holy  orders ;  and 
in  1848  Francis  Senior  Anstey,  a  third  son  of  the 
master's.  Finally  were  entered,  in  1855,  Thomas 
Benry  and  Arthur  Newland,  in  1863,  Henry,  and 
in  1865,  Edgar  Olifant,  tbe  four  sons  of  George 
Alexander  Anstey,  of  London.  H.  W. 

New  University  Club. 

The  last-named  member.  Rev.  C.  C.  Anstey, 
was  the  eldest  son  of  Rev.  C.  A.  Anstey.  The 
second  son.  Rev.  H.  Anstey,  M.A,  graduated 
(2nd  Class,  Lit  Hum.)  at  University  College, 
Oxford,  1850,  was  afterwards  chaplain  at  Queen's 
and  Merton,  and  assistant-lecturer  at  St.  Mary 
Hall ;  he  has  been  since  1874  rector  of  Slapton, 
Backs  {Annotated  Rugby  BegUUr,  i.  195  ;  other 
members  of  the  family  mentioned  in  the  index).  I 
can  fancy  that  I  hear  Rev.  C.  A  Anstey — may  his 
ante-Liddell-and- Scott-days  nickname  of  '*Don- 
negan"  be  lovingly  recorded—giving  out  to  his 
form  a  portion  of  Qsk-fs  Bare  and  Many  Friende 
to  be  tortured  into  Latin  elegiacs.  I  possess  a  copy 
of  his  grandfather's  version  of  several  of  the  fables, 
in  the  title-page  of  which  is  "Dono  Interpretis, 
1801.'  P.  J.  F.  Gawtillok. 


Christopher  Anstey,  B.D.,  was  presented  by  the 
king  to  the  rectory  of  Armthorpe,  near  Doncaster, 
in  1768.  Believed  to  be  tbe  father  of  the  author 
of  the  New  Baih  Guide.  Died  rector,  "  suddenly,*' 
June  17, 1784,  aged  seventy-three ;  buried  in  Don- 
caster  Church.  Anne,  his  wife,  died  in  1777,  aged 
fifty-two.  To  him,  or  his  son,  is  attributed  tho 
authorship  of  an  amusing  ballad  upon  the  Arm- 
thorpe Church  bells,  which  was  printed  in  the 
Doncaster  paper  of  Jan.  19, 1788. 

Charles  Jackson. 

Poncsster. 

Wrat=Udall  (6^  S.  iv.  429).— I  must  apolo- 
gize to  C.  J.  H.  for  not  having  answered  his  direct 
inquiry  of  me  before  ;  and,  moreover,  I  am  afraid 
I  can  be  of  little  assistanoe  to  him  now.  I. cannot 
find  the  name  of  Wray  in  connexion  with  any 
pedigree  of  UdaU  or  Uvedale  (as  it  would  pro- 
bably be  called  at  that  period)  that  I  am  acquainted 
with.  C.  J.  H.'s  inquiry  is,  however,  very  in- 
teresting to  me  as  (if  accurately  ffiven)  it  shows  an 
earlier  instance  of  that  form  of  the  name  than  any 
I  had  known  before.  I  had  always  looked  upon 
Nicholas  XJdal  or  UdaU  (the  author  of  the  first 
English  comedy,  BeUj^  Roister  Doieter^  produced 
circa  1553),  who  was  a  descendant  of  the  Uvedales 
of  Wickham,  oo.  Hants,  as  being  the  earliest 
undoubted  instance  of  the  name  in  that  form. 
The  Uame  of  Vidal  I  have  always  considered  to  be 
distinct  firom  that  of  Udal  or  UdaU  (conf.  Peire 
Vidal,  a  French  troubadour  of  celebrity,  who 
flourished  sevend  centuries  ago),  though  I  should 
be  fflad  of  further  iiibrmation  upon  this  point 

J.  S.  Udal. 

Inner  Temple. 

P.S.— -The  lady  in  question  may  (the  marriage 
being  a  Yorkshire  one)  be  one  of  the  famUy  of 
Uvedale  who  owned  Marrick  Priory,  in  that 
county  (see  Nichols's  ColL  Top,  et  Oen,^  vol.  v. 
pp.  241-5),  though,  apart  firom  the  MS.  therein 
quoted  by  Nichols,  I  know  of  no  evidence  con- 
necting any  one  of  the  name  with  Yorkshire. 

joHH  Tgplino  (6»»*  S.  iv.  543).-— MisspeUing, 
even  in  respect  of  one  letter  only,  ia  not  to  be 
endured  in  "N.  &  Q.";  and  as  I  possess  and 
prize  the  Folioue  Appearances^  and  was  a  customer 
of  their  worthy  author,  and  wrote  the  account — 
or  one  of  the  accounts — of  him,  to  which  R.  R. 
refers,  I  desire  to  announce  that  he  was  not  John 
Tuplin,  but  "John  Tupling,"  with  a  smaU  j  in 
front,  mind  you,  and  with  a  g  behind,  to  give  the 
proper  note  of  diminution  to  his  Tup.  He  was  a 
man,  was  this  John,  who  might  in  time  have  be- 
come another  deUghtful  "  shadow  of  an  old  book- 
seUer"  to  literary  foUc,  if  he  had  only  stayed  in 
the  old  country  instead  of  getting  drowned  in 
leaving  it.  No  one  could  know  him  without 
respecting  his  kindly  enthusiasm  for  books ;  and 


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I  think  na  one  can  read  hia  little  book  withoat 
catching  some  of  that  pure  fire.  A.  J.  M. 

Are  Toads  Poisonous  ?  (6'*»  S.  iv.  429.)— The 
following  quotation,  from  the  late  Mr.  Frank 
Backland's  Curiosities  of  Natural  Hwtory("Hunt 
in  a  Horse  Pond  *^\  seems  to  show  that  the  toad  lb 
a  poisonous  animal: — 

**  Toads  are  generally  reported  to  be  poisonous,  and 
ibis  is  perfectly  true  to  a  certain  extent.'  Like  the 
lizards,  they  have  glands  in  their  sicin,  which  aecrete  a 
white  higbly-acid  fluid,  and  just  behind  the  head  are 
seen  two  eminences  like  split  beans ;  if  these  be  pressed 
this  acid  fluid  will  come  out—only  let  the  operator  mind 
that  it  does  not  get  into  his  eyes,  for  it  generally  comes 
out  with  a  jet  There  are  also  other  glands  dispersed 
throughout  the  skin.  A  dog  will  never  take  a  toad  in 
his  month,  and  the  reason  is  that  this  glandular  secretion 
bums  his  tongue  and  lips.  It  is  also  poisonous  to  the 
human  subject.  Mr.  Blick,  surgeon,  of  Islip, .  Oxford- 
shire, tells  me  that  a  man  once  miade  a  wager,  when  half 
drunk  in  a  Village  public-house,  that  he  would  bite  a 
toad^s  head  off;  he  aid  so,  but  in  a  few  hours  his  lips, 
tongue,  and  throat  began  to  swell  in  a  most  alarmins 
way,  and  he  was  dangerously  ill  for  some  time.  He  had 
probably  bitten  right  through  the  centre  of  the  glands 

behind  the  head,  and  had  got  a  dose  of  the  poison A 

small  animal  that  I  inocmated  with  it  was  not  in  any 
way  affected.*' 

G.  J.  Dbw, 

Lower  Heyford,  Oxon. 

I  have  seen  it  stated  in  books  of  natural  history 
that  the  only  foundation  for  the  belief  that  toads 
are  poisonous  is  that  there  is  an  acrid  secretion 
from  their  skin,  which  is  painful  to  a  dog  if  he 
takes  the  toad  in  his  mouth.  But  I  have  heard 
from  two  perfectly  competent  witnesses  that  toads 
clo  sometimes  spit  their  venom.  When  a  boy  I 
was  told  by  a  schoolfellow  that  he  once  was  teasing 
a  toad  when  it  spat  at  him  ;  he  was  painfully  but 
not  dangerously  ill,  and  described  some  yery  un- 
pleasant symptoms.  And  not  long  ago  I  was  told 
by  a  gentleman  of  good  education  and  some  scien- 
tific knowledge  that  a  favourite  dog  of  his  had 
been  killed  by  a  toad,  the  symptoms  preceding 
'death  being  similar  to  those  described  by  the  boy. 
They  are  too  offensive  to  be  worth  describing 
except  in  a  medical  work ;  but  the  fact  that  toads 
are  venomous,  under  some  circumstances,  is  worth 
making  known.         William  Hknrt  Simcox. 

"Tin"=Monet  (60*  S.  iv.  289).— Dio  Cassius 
derived  his  name  from  his  father,  the  Roman  senator 
Cassius  Apronianus,  and  not  from  any  partnership 
of  his  own  in  the  Cornish  mines.  As  for  the  word 
itself  {cash\  I  should  think  it  safer  to  take  what 
Liddell  and  Scott  say  {Qruk  Lex,,  1861)  under 
Ka<r<riT€pos : — 

"  The  Sanskrit  same  is  hattira,  said  to  be  deriTed  from 
Jo^h  (lueere) :  and  as  much  tin  is  found  in  the  islands  on 
the  coast  of  India,  it  has  been  supposed  that  the  Phoeni- 
cians first  got  the  name  with  the  metal  from  thence,  and 
afterwards  gare  the  name  of  Kaffffinpidte  to  Oornwall 
(there  is  a  Cauitir  Street  in  Bodmin),  and  to  the  Scilly 


Islands,  when  they  began  to  bring  tin  from  them, 
Lassen  in  Bitter's  Erdtunde,  5, 439.  The  Arabic  name 
is  katdir,  probably  from  the  same  source." 

As  for  the  name  cath  being  **  manifestly  derived  ^ 
from  tin,  it  is  quite  differently  stated  in  common 
dictionaries,  as  in  Ducange  : — 

*' Cassia— Capsaargentaria;  caiue,  eofreforL  Cassiam 
imponere,  imponere  tributa  et  Tectigalia,  quorum  pro- 
yentus  peonmarii  in  cassia  quadam  pubUca  repone- 
bantur.'^Abr.  by  Migne. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

So,  according  to  Mr.  Joseph  Boult,  of  Liverpool, 
the  Homeric    icao-o-irepos,  tin,  may  be   purely 

Celtic,  being  ca^-sith'er,  '*  the  great  money for 

peace  **;  the  Roman  name  Cassius  is  possibly  *'  the 
tin  man";  and  the  modem  word  cash  is  manifestly 
cognate  with  the  same  Celtic  word !  Fancy  a  com- 
pound Irish  word  occurring  frequently  in  the 
Iliad — it  is  really  too  absurd  !  In  order  to  see  the 
absolute  baselessness  of  these  groteisque  derivations 
it  would  only  be  necessary  to  consult  ordinary 
books  of  reference,  such  as  Liddell  and  Soott,  $,v, 
Kao-frCrepoSi  and  Skeat's  DicL,  9,v,  "  Cash." 

A.  L.  Mathkw. 

Mr.  Boult's  pamphlet  must  be  admirable  indeed 
if  there  are  many  statements  like  that  which  is 
quoted,-*--"  CouM(mdes,  I  apprehend,  is  purely 
Celtic.''  All  authorities  have  made  up  their  minds 
that  it  is  Sanskrit  hoMra,  As  for  Dio  Cassius 
being  in  the  tin  tnde,  really  it  is  delightful ;  bat 
why  he  more  thi^  Caius  Cassius  ?  lily's  lAUin 
Grammar,  yoL  L  pp.  363-5,  might  be  consolted 
with  advantage.  As  for  caih,  money,  formerly  a 
box  (a  cash:— a  cash-box,  which  is  a  modem  duplica- 
tion),  it  is  from  French  cosh,  a  case,  formerly  a 
box,  as  in  casseUt,  Lat.  oapsa.  For  this,  as  usual, 
if  authority  is  needed,  see  Skeat,  Etym,  Did,  It 
is  impossible  to  suppose  any  rektionship  between 
the  words  which  Mr.  Boulc  has  curiously  taken 
together.  O.  W.  Tahooce. 

Norwich. 

Hbinb's  "Enqlish  Fraomxnts"  (6^  S.  It. 
610). — Let  us  not  be  very  severe  on  Heine  for  his 
confusion  of  memory  as  to  what  was  to  him  the 
history  of  a  foreign  country.  Errors  like  unto  this 
are  constandy  cropping  up  in  our  own  literatare, 
e.  ^.,  Mr.  G.  Webb  Appleton,  in  Caicking  a  Tartar^ 
a  three-volume  novel  published  in  1879,  tells  as 
that 

« this  irritating  discoyery  was  shortly  heightened  by  a 
knowledge  tiiat  that  peculiar  form  of  misdirected  loyalty 
called  Jacobitism  had  sent  the  family  plate  to  the 
Oxford  Mint"~yol.  i  p.  184 

A  NOTBLIST. 

Song  of  Solouon,  il  6  (6**^  S.  iv.  637).— The 
Hebrew  word  "  ^shishah,"  translated  here  in  our 
Authorized  Version  "flagons,"  expressed  in  the 
Septuagint  by  fivpois,  and  in  the  Vulgate  by 
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ndaliis  or  dried  grapes.  The.  same  word  is  used 
in  2  Samael  tL  19,  in  1  Chronicles  xri.  3,  and  in 
Hosea  iiL  1.  In  each  case  the  Authorized  Ver- 
sion has  a  flagon,  or  flagons,  of  wine  (a  marginal 
lenderinff  in  the  last  suggesting  the  rather  un- 
intelligiUe  "flagons  of  grapes").  In  each  case 
the  true  meaning  is  a  cake,  or  cakes,  of  com- 
prasMd  raisins.  The  reriving  power  of  dried  fruit 
18  well  known,  and  an  instance  of  it  is  mentioned 
in  1  Samuel  xxx.  12,  when  such  was  given  to  the 
Egyptian  lad  who  fell  into  the  hirnds  of  David 
whilst  parsuing  the  Amalekites.  In  the  passage 
in  Hosea  where  the  same  expression  is  used  it 
seems  to  refer  to  cakes  of  dried  fruit  used  in 
idolatrooB  feasts.  W.  T.  Ltkv. 

BlAcUKatb. 

PtoL  Lee  says  of  the  word  rendered  flagofu, 
**  What  it  was  no  man  can  now  say  particularly. 
It  probably  was  a  sort  of  cake  soaked  either  in 
honey  or  wine  ^*;  and  he  refers  to  2  Samuel  tl  19, 
and  to  the  Targum  of  Jonathan  on  Exodus  xri.  31. 
Dr.  Adam  Clarke,  in  loco,  has  a  curious  note  : — 

^  I  beliere  the  original  words  mean  some  kind  of  cor- 
dials with  which  we  are  Tmaeqnainted.    The  TorsionB  in 


flagons,  comfort  me  with  applet,  for  I  am  rick  of  love/ 
•at  down,  perfectly  OTenrheimed  with  his  own  feolingi, 
and  was  not  able  to  proceed." 

G.  L.  Fknton,  M.A. 
fisnBemo. 

NiSHA9-i-IxnAZ  (6*  S.  It.  612).— This  order 
of  merit  was  instituted  by  the  late  Sultan  Abdul 
Ariz  in  1865.  The  first  class  was  conferred  on 
the  late  Lord  Balling  (Sir  H.  Bulwer)  and  some 
few  othen,  but  no  second  or  third  class.  Under 
the  present  Sultan  it  was  last  year  reviyed. 

H.  C. 

DiviDiKG  Copt  (6*  S.  iv.  610).— The  first 
edition  of  James  Harrington's  CommoiP-weaUh  of 
Oouma  was  printed  at  three  presses.  The  title 
bean  the  date  1666.  The  "Epistle  to  the 
Bcader  "  contains  the  following  statement  :^— 

"  If  ihia  writing  be  not  acceptable,  here  is  already 
enough  and  too  much  of  it,  but  if  it  be,  it  is  but  a  rough 
dnuight;  for  I  have  nft  been  yet  two  years  about  it, 
nor  ever  law  all  or  halfe  my  Papers  together :  and  now 
in  the  bringing  them  to  light  they  hare  been  dispersed 
into  three  Presses,  where,  because  I  could  not  be  pre- 
■ent  at  them  all,  1  was  present  at  none." 

Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Whig  awd  Toby  (e**  S.  ir.  403).— In  con- 
nexion with  Mr.  Hailstons'b  note  on  this 
sabject,  I  transcribe  in  extenso  the  title  of  a 
anions  book  (small  folio),  which  opens  by  a  Tory 
aooosting  a  Whig  and  demanding  his  purse.  The 
term  Toary  had  only  three  or  four  years  before  the 
date  ci  this  book  been  introduced ;  and  the  word 


dpubtless  still  retained  its  early  Irish  meaning, 
and  it  was  therefore  quite  characteristic  and  fitting 
for  a  Tory  to  open  a  dialogue  with  such  a  sinister 
demand  : — 

*'  The  I  History  of  Whiggism,  |  or,  |  The   Whiggish- 
Plots,  I  Principles,  and  Practices,  |  (Mining  and  Counter- 
mining f  the  i  Tory -Plots  and   Principles)  |  in  |  The' 
Beign  of  King  Charles  the  First,  du-  I  ring  the  Conduct 


of  Affiures,  under  the  In-  |  fluence  of  the  Three  _ 
Minions  and  |  FsTOurites,  Buckingham,  Laud,  |  and  Straf- 
ford :  I  And  the  Sad  Forre-runners  and  Prologues  to  that 
Fatal-year  |  (to  England  and  Ireland)  |  41.  |  Wherein 
(as  in  a  Mirrour)  is  shown  the  Face  of  the  Late  (we  do 
not  I  sar  the  Present  Times.  |  Eccles.  8.  5  [quoted]  | 
Lege  Historiam,  ne  fias  Historia.  |  London,  printed  Tor 
E.  Smith,  at  the  Elephant  and  CasUe  in  ComhUl.  1682.' 

The  date  of  extract  from  the  Key.  Oliyer  Hey- 
wood's  diaiy  is  one  year  earlier  than  the  date  of 
this  book.  Oh.  Elein  Mathbwb. 

7,  Hamilton  Boad,  Highbury,  N. 

Hekrt  VIII.  akd  the  Farmers  (C^  S.  iy. 
409).— Ftie  Hall's  Chronide,  p.  744,  ed.  1809, 
and  fiapin's  England,  yoL  L  p.  779,  ed.  1743.  I 
see,  howeyer,  no  express  mention  of  "farmers' 
in  either  passage  referred  to,  bat  only  of  mer- 
chants, olotniers,  and  common  people. 

H.  W.   COOKES. 

"Chaise  marine"  (6"^  S.  iy.  449).— Littr^,  in 
his  Dietionnaire  de  la  Langue  Fran^aiie,  1863, 
describes  the  word  in  the  following  terms:— 
"  Sorte  de  si^  dispose  de  mani^re  k  affranchir 
da  roalis  et  da  tangage."  This  in  English  is 
nothing  more  than  a  swinging  chair,  and  if  I  may 
hazard  a  gaess  I  shoald  say  that  the  word  inscribed 
at  the  toll-gate  was  used  to  imply  any  kind  of 
spring  cart.  O.  F.  R.  B. 

"Bemillion"  a  Female  Christian  Name 
(6**  S.  iy.  449).— Possibly  a  diminutiye.  Cont 
the  French  snmames  Remel,  Bemillet,  Remilleax, 
Bemilhe,  Remilly;  and  It<&milly,  name  of  nine 
places  in  France.  B.  S.  Charnock. 

Ia,  Adelphi  Terrace. 

"  HsioHAM  "  (6^  S.  iy.  409).— This  place-name 
is  from  hay,  hedge,  Sax.  hoig,  an  enclosure  by 
hedge,  for  a  game  preserye ;  so  that  it  was  the  home 
in  the  hay.  See  Blomefield's  Hist,  of  Norfolk, 
yoL  iy.  p.  260  ;  yoL  x.  pp.  244,  283 ;  and  yoL  xL 
p.  54.  In  yoL  i.  p.  2,  there  is  a  "hagh''  men- 
tioned in  temp.  Canute.  See  also  last  number  (8) 
of  Warvfickahire  Antiquarian  Magazine  (Cooke, 
Warwick),  in  which  this  term  is  explained  in  an 
article  by  me,  on  a  small  estate  of  my  awn  called 
the  Haye,  which  was  formerly  in  the  Forest  of 
ColesUlL  See  also  Domesday  of  Norfolk,  in 
which,  I  think,  seyeral  hays  are  mentioned. 

Chris.  Chattogk. 

To  make  Mr.  High's  uncertainty  trebly  un- 
certain, may  I  suggest  another  root,  yiz.,  Hege,  an 
endosure,  which  may  recommend  itself  the  mora 


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to  him  because  (a)  Heigham  was  called  "  Hecham  *' 
in  Domesday  Book,  and  (b)  of  enclosures  we  have 
a  legion  in  place-names.  The  benefit  of  it  might 
be  extended  to  the  not  yery  distant  pansh  of 
Heydon,  which  lies  in  a  hvd  district,  and  can 
boast  of  no  rising  ground  around  it  (much  less  a 
height)  nearer  than  a  mile  to  the  north.  Analo- 
gous transformations  of  the  root  hege  are  to  be 
found  in  the  old  substantives  Hayboot,  Hayioard, 
and  in  the  place-names  Heywood  (Lane),  Bound- 
hay,  Rothweli  Haigh,  and  Haye  Park  (York),  &o. 
Alphonsk  Estoclet. 
St.  Mary's  College,  Peckham. 

Antimony  (6">  S.  iv.  366).— Littr^,  in  his  dic- 
tionary, 8.V.,  tome  i.  p.  166,  col.  1,  points  out  the 
doubtful  origin  and  etymology  of  this  word  :— 

"Mot  dune  ori«inc  douteuse.  On  Ta  fait  Tenir 
daprfis  aa  composition  apparcnte,  d'a»<i»k)ta«,  c'eat-a- 
dire  contraire  aux  moines.  Mais  cette  ^tymologie  ne 
se  fonde  absolument  sur  rien,  aucuno  anecdote  de  quelque 
authenticity  ne  noua  apprenant  comment  un  pareil 
sobriquet  aurait  pu  €tre  donn6  &  ce  m^tal.  Quelques- 
nns  le  font  Tenir  de  avrl  et  de  fiSvoc,  parce  que  ce 
m£tal  ne  ae  trouYe  jamais  seul ;  certains,  d'dvriuivtiv 
parce  qu'il  fortifie  les  corps.     Aniimonium  se  trouTe 

oo,  ^fr**  ^®  Constantin  TAfricain,  De  Gradthus, 
p.  881,  mddecm  salernitain  qui  Yiyait  k  la  fin  du  Xl« 
si6cle.  D'autres,  arec  raison,  ce  semble,  tirent  ce  mot 
de  larabe  alhmoud*  ou  ichmid,  Athmoud  est  devenu 
facilement,  dans  le  latin  barbare,  afiUmonium,  D'un 
autre  c6t6,  la  forme  propre  de  Tarabe  est  ilhmid,  et 
▼lent  sans  aucun  doute  du  grcc  ffri/ifii,  qui  est  dans 
»<tWtf;  de  sorte  que,  par  un  jeu  singulier  de  ralt6ration 
des  langues,  antimotTie  et  ttibie  sentient  un  mot  identique." 

^  ,„  ^  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Islo  of  Thanet. 

As  not  only  Brachet,  but  also  Littr^  and  Prof. 
Skeat,  have  considered  this  word  as  of  unknown 
ongm,  I  thought  that  the  very  doubtful  derivation 
quoted  by  your  correspondent  had  received  its 
quietus.  Webster  says  that  the  word  is  "  most 
probably  corrupted  from  the  Ar.  aUthmidun,  or 
aUuthmudun,  antimony."  The  derivation  in 
which  the  monk  Basil  Valentine  plays  a  part 
would  seem  to  have  been  unknown  unto  Minsheu 
for  he  thus  derives  the  word  :  "Grse.  dvTifi6viov, 
♦.  q.  ai/T4  Saifwviov,  contra  damonium  hu  dia- 
bolum,  against  the  Diuell,  quiaprodest  dcmoniacis, 
because  it  is  good  for  the  Demoniackes,  or  pos- 
sessed  with  a  Diuell."    Ingenious  Minsheu  ! 

Cardiif.  ^'  ^'  ^''^'^^^  Terry. 

Effervjcscing  Drinks  (C*»»  S.  iv.  90).-Sitirns 
should  consult  How  Champagne  wis  first  Dis- 
cwererf,  and  How  the  Wine  %$  Made,  by  Henry 
Vizetelly  (London,  Ward,  Lock  &  Co!,  18791 
The  author  attributes  the  origin  of  effervescent 
champagne  to  Dom  Perignon,  cellarman  of  the 

^J^Lapls  ez  quo  collyiia  parantur,  *aiit»i '» (Preytag, 


Abbey  of  Hautvillers,  near  Epemay,  plaoei  the 
date  at  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  ceBtoiy,  and 
states  that  it  was  used  by  Louis  XIY. 

Frederick  £.  Sawtkr. 
Brighton. 

"  Roarer"  (6^  S.  iv.  488).— JJoarsri  or  Boring- 
hoys  were  the  fast  men  of  the  period.    In  another 
work  Brathwaite  himself  describes  them  fully  : — 
"  If  to  be  deem'd  a  Tume-baU  roring  lad, 
Of  all  the  straines  that  be  there 's  none  so  bad : 
'  These  glorie  in  deformed  shapes,  and  thirst 
After  that  guize  which  doth  beseeme  them  worst: 
But  wouldst  thou  know  themt  then  attend  to  me. 
And  I  in  few  words  will  describe  them  thee. 
Their  pealc't-mouchatoes  bodkinwise  oppose 
Each  other,  and  stand  brauing  of  their  nose : 
They're  blustering  boyes,  and  whatsoe're  befall. 
If  they  be  three  to  one  they  'le  haue  the  wall. 
Thev  haue  a  mint  of  oaths,  yet  when  they  sweare. 
Of  death  and  murder,  there 's  small  danger  there  : 
Buffe-yerkins  say  their  souldiers,  (but 's  not  so,) 
For  they  were  prest  indeed  but  durst  not  goe. 
They  weare  a  Cutler's-shop  euer  about  them : 
Yet  for  all  that  we  need  not  greatly  doubt  them. 
For  tak  't  from  me  by  this  you  soon'st  may  know  the, 
They  weare  the  desperat'st  blades,  yet  dare  not  draw 

them. 
They  're  Panders  by  profession,  men  that  get 
A  slauish  meanes  out  of  a  seruile  wit : 
They  're  euer  soaking  of  a  pipe,  whose  smoeke 
Makes  them  contort  &  wreath  their  wainskot  look 
To  euery  fashion,  they  are  monstrous  proud. 
And  what-soere  thev  speake  they  sweare  its  good : 
They  neuer  goe  to  Church,  vnlesse  it  be 
To  man  their  whore,  or  for  formalitie. 
They  are  and  are  not :  seeming  men  by  sight. 
But  beasts,  becomming  slaues  to  appetite  : 
I'heir  waike  is  not  where  Vertue  bath  recourse, 
(For  to  discouri^e  of  Vertue  is  a  curse) 
To  Horing-boyet ;  their  Jlende-^9oue*t  Ttbb  CalUt 
Her  shrowd  their  shrine,  their  walk  's  in  QardeK-aUiea 
Dost  see  these  (youngling)  ?  pray  thee  sec  and  mark, 
A  whore  enticing,  and  a  god-lesse  sharke 
Attending  her,  haue  a  good  eye  to  him. 
Pray  thee  beware  he 's  instrument  of  sinne : 
Ooe  not  along,  let  my  aduise  enforce. 
Least  thou  retume  (my  boy)  by  weeping  crossa.* " 

Bratbwaite's  Strappado  for  tkt  DeuUl,  1(515 
(reprint,  1878,  pp.  52-3). 

R.  R. 

Boston,  Lincolnshire. 

West's  Portrait  of  Btron  (6*  S.  ir.  637), 
—If  Mr.  Edocumbe  likes  to  call  here  I  will  show 
him  the  portrait  of  the  Contessa  Guiccioli.  This 
picture  and  the  compaDion  were  sold  at  some 
private  sale  previous  to  1874.  We  sent  commifl- 
sioDs  for  both  pictures,  but  the  Byron  portrait,  I 
believe,  fetched  a  rather  high  price,  and  we  lost  it. 
If  I  am  able  to  track  the  sale  I  will  do  so ;  bat  at 
present  there  is  no  clue.      Algernon  Graves. 

6,  Pall  Mall. 

"The  First  Century  op  Scandalous  Malig- 
nant Priests":  "Century"  White  (4*''  S.  ▼!. 
371,  445).— There  is  a  very  curious  mistake  at  the 
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and  al  the  seoond  on  that  of  Mr.  W.  Durrant 
OooFBR,  which,  I  think,  ha^e  never  heen  noticed. 
The  John  White,  M.P.  for  Southwark,  aathor  of 
Tlu  FirU  Century  of  Scandaloui  Malignant 
FrieiU,  is  identified  with  the  person  of  the  same 
name  who  represented  East  Grinstead  (being  also 
letamed  for  Rye)  in  the  Short  Parliament  of  1640, 
and  Rje  in  the  Long  Parliament,  until  *' disabled" 
ht  deserting  to  the  king.  Obyioasly  they  would 
Boi  be  identical,  inasmuch  as  the  two  boroughs 
(Southwark  and  Rye)  continued  to  be  represented 
by  "John  White"  until  1644,  whereas  a  yacancy 
would  have  been  created  in  one  of  them  had  this 
ume  designated  bat  one  person  ;  and  moreover 
ifc  is  evident  that  the  aathor  of  The  Cmtury  of 
Seemdahus  Malignant  Priests^  published  in  1643, 
was  not  likely  to  be  found  in  attendance  on  the 
king,  nor  woald  a  Royalist  have  been  "  buried  in 
tbe  Temple  Church  with  great  funeral  solemnity  " 
in  Janaary  or  Febraary,  1644/5.  Again,  the  writ 
lor  Soathwark  was  issued  in  August,  1645,  in  the 
room  of  "  John  White,  deceased,"  whereas  that  for 
Bye,  in  the  following  month,  was  in  the  room  of 
•*  John  White,  disabled."  "  Century  "  White  was 
not,  I  think,  a  member  of  any  parliament  previous 
to  that  which  assembled  in  November,  1640. 

Alfred  B.  Bbaven,  M.A. 
PmloB. 

*'MroiCfU«  CURAT,"  &c.  (6*^  S.  iv.  388, 436, 457, 
477,  495).— Deeply  as  I  feel  obliged  to  A.  C.  for 
his  reference  to  Galen  in  *'  N.  &  Q.,"  6^  S.  iv.  495, 
I  humbly  submit  that  the  aphorism  he  quotes 
from  that  ancient  writer,  albeit  it  may  be  the 
mnote,  is  not  the  imrMdiate  original  of  what  I 
am  in  qaest  of,  that  is,  of  the  aphorism  at  the 
head  of  this  note,  as  I  find  it  quoted  in  Dr. 
Seoieeby- Jackson's  well-known  NoU-Booh  of 
MaUria  MedicOy  pt  L  third  edition  :  ^  The  Latin 
phrase  is  probably  near  the  truth,  which  says 
Medieui  eurat^  NcUura  sanat  morhos,**  &c.  It  is 
this  I  still  want  to  get  at.  Unfortunately,  Dr. 
Jackson  is  dead,  and  cannot  now  be  referred  to. 
I  do  not  agree  with  A.  C.  in  regarding  this  form 
as  "a  silly  attempt  to  make  a  paradox  of  the  sen- 
tanoe  of  Galen."  For,  as  well  by  its  brevity  as  in 
the  eontnst  intended  by  the  verbs  made  use  of, 
curare  and  eanare,  it  wiU,  I  think,  compare 
faroaimbly  with  Gralen's. 

In  ease  it  ^ould  interest  any  of  your  readers,  I 
hero  aj^nd  my  stock  of  analogous  phrases  : — 

"  Madieoi  etirat/*  &o.,  as  above.— (?) 

"  NatoFa  est  operatrix :  Medicua  vero  ejus  minister." — 


"In  the  ministry  of  healing,  Nature  is  the pontif a 
,  Art  tbe  curste  of  this  high  priest.'*— (i) 


"Jc  le  psBisy;  Diea  le  |ni6rit"— Ambroise  Par^. 

*'L*ofgantnne  sa  gaitit  lm-m6me ;  le  m6dectn  ne  fait 
«•  le  plaeer  dans  det  coDditions  faTorables  au  retour 
am  mode  de  fonetionnement  regulier.*'— Qubler. 

"A  doplice  errore  cavere oportet,  neqae  vires  NatorSB 
,  neqoe  nimis  religiose  colere/'— Gregory. 


*'  [A  few  specifics  apart,  four  or  five  in  all,]  the  bene- 
ficial action  of  all  remedies,  in  diseases  which  admit  of 
cure»  is  only  auxiliary  to  the  provUiofU  of  Naiwrt  for 
their  tpontaneoun  cure.'^ — Alison. 

"Qod  healeth :  but  the  physician  hath  the  thanks."— 
George  Herbert. 

X.  Y.  Z. 

The  principle  involved  must  be  carried  back 
beyond  Galen  to  Aristotle,  who  implies  it  in  the 
following  passage  of  the  Nicomadiean  Ethict: 
A-cyo)  8k  KaTa  <rvfJi.p€PrjKbs  vB^a  TalaTpeuovra'  on 
yap  orvfiPaivit  larpevta-uaL  tov  v7rofJL€vovT09 
vyiovs  TrparrovTos  rt,  8ia  tovto  'qSv  Sok€i  cfvai, 
bk.  viL  16,  7  (Oxt  text).         W.  E.  Bqcklet. 

Tallies  (6«»  S.  iv.  209,  434,  492).  — Those 
described  in  my  friend  Mr.  Hartshorns'^  ac- 
count as  like  hedge-stakes,  from  eighteen  inches 
to  four  feet  long,  must  have  been  of  an  extra  size. 
I  have  one  before  me  much  more  portable.  It  is 
eight  inches  long,  half  an  inch  broad,  and  a  quarter 
thick,  and  is  marked  on  the  stock  "  a*  r.  E.  xix.," 
i.  e.,  19  Edward  I.  Tbe  character  of  the  writing 
is  decisive  as  to  the  reign.  At  the  other  end  there 
is  a  notch  one  and  a  half  inches  long,  with  ten 
neatly  cut  minims,  which,  according  to  Mr.  Platt's 
definition,  mean  the  ten  parts  of  a  larger  sum.  On 
the  smooth  broadside  is  an  inscription  (the  first 

half  illegible),  thus,  *' de  Ade  de  S'oo  Laudo 

de  fine.  Line*."  This  Adam  de  Sancto  Laudo,  or 
St.  Lo,  was  Sheriff  of  Lincoln  7  and  8  Edward  L, 
and  the  existing  records  show  that  his  executors 
accounted  at  the  Exchequer  for  money  due  by  him 
while  in  office,  and  corroborate  in  a  very  interest- 
ing way  this  fragile  relic,  now  600  years  old.  It 
has  borne  a  charmed  life,  for  it  seems  to  have  been 
much  blackened,  perhaps  charred  in  the  fire  of 
1834,  and,  after  possibly  being  rescued  by  some 
"Old  Westminster"  of  an  antiquarian  turn,  has 
escaped  all  the  risks  attending  its  deposit  in  the 
lockers  of  successive  generations  of  boys,  and  was 
found  in  the  school  a  year  ago  by  one  of  the  present 
Queen's  scholars.  J*  Baik. 

St.  Litkb  xxin.  15  (6*»»  S.  iv.  465,  498).— My 
friend  Mr.  Woolrtch  must  bear  a  questioning  of 
his  dicta  (1)  that  the  Revision  rendering  "done 
&y  **  is  correct  as  "  an  undoubted  fact,"  and  (2) 
that  "  the  dative  following  the  passive  [of  Trpao-oxo] 
could  not  mean  a  thing  done  to  a  person."  The 
sentence  is  one  as  to  which  no  one  can  be  without 
any  doubt.  The  old  rendering  arose  probably 
from  wide  consideration  of  all  the  circumstances 
and  from  regard  to  the  usual  force  of  the  dative 
case,  which  primarily  is  not  rendered  "by."  In 
Acts  xvL  28  is  a  very  similar  construction  in  the 
active  voice,  pLrjSkv  Trpd^ys  o-cairr^.  Doubtless 
"  by  him  "  is  a  more  easy  reading,  but  if  a  reference 
to  Herod  be  intended  (i.s.,  as  to  anything  done 
against  his  jurisdiction),  then  ''by"  would  not 
cover  that.      The  dative  following  the  passive 


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Barely  could  me&n  a  thing  done  to  a  person. 
Ilpd<r<r(o  does  not  always  take  a  double  occasative, 
as  the  text  first  quoted  shows ;  and  the  revisers 
have  largely  rendered  the  dative  by  "  to."  Hence 
I  think  my  friend's  '*  consensus  of  so  many  autho- 
rities "  for  the  old  reading  is  of  more  weight  than 
the  revisionists'  change ;  yet  an  alternative  marginal 
reading  might  be  good.  W.  F.  Hobson. 

Woodlay,  Covei  Famborougta. 

"Drowb":  "Draob*  (6**  S.  iv.  328,  478, 
498). — Drage  is  a  coarse  kind  of  barley,  probably 
the  same  as  here  {Hordeum  teirouiu^on).  It  was 
never  a  common  kind  of  grain  in  England,  though 
hundreds  of  entries  of  it  are  to  be  found  in  the 
first  two  volumes  of  my  Hittory  of  Agriculture 
and  Pricis.  It  was  used  for  fattening  swine  and 
for  manufacturing  a  cheap  malt.  After  the  middle 
of  the  fifteenth  century  it  disappears  from  English 
agriculture.  BuUimung  is  a  mixed  crop  of  oats 
and  vetches,  and  was  frequently  grown  in  Essex, 
of  course  for  horse  feed.  Drage  went  out  of  use 
because  the  necessaries  of  life  were  very  cheap, 
wages  were  relatively  very  Ulgh  in  the  fifteenth 
century,  and  there  was  no  ne^  to  use  the  com- 
moner kinds  of  grain.  In  the  same  way  the  use 
of  rye  is  generally  abandoned  at  nearly  the  same 
period.  Jauss  E.  Thorold  Bogsrs. 

Oxford. 

The  Episcopal  Wio  (6"»  S.  iv.  427,  493,  546). 
— I  have  ever  been  under  the  impression  that  the 
celebrated  Dr.  Blomfield,  Bishop  of  London,  was 
the  first  to  doff  the  episcopal  wig.  The  DictionaTy 
of  Words,  Facts,  and  Phrases  confirms  this.  The 
author  states  that  '*  wigs  were  worn  by  bishops  in 
the  House  of  Lords  until  1830,  when  Blomfield, 
Bishop  of  London,  obtained  the  permission  of 
King  William  lY.  for  the  Episcopal  Bench  to 
discontinue  the  practice."  I  first  came  to  London 
in  1835,  and  often  used  to  hear  the  bishop  preach 
in  St.  James's  Church,  Piccadilly,  and  also  heard 
other  members  of  the  Episcopal  Bench  in  various 
churches,  or  whilst  presiding  at  religious  meetings. 
I  never  saw  one  wearing  a  wig  except  on  an  occa- 
sion when  the  late  Dr.  Howley,  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury,  presided  at  the  distribution  of  medical 
prizes  at  King's  College  in  1837  or  1838.  His 
grace  then  certainly  wore  a  wig,  but  by  no  means 
a  large  one.  My  impression  is  that  Bishop  Blom- 
field was  calling  to  pay  his  respects  to  the  king 
soon  after  his  accession  to  the  throne^  and,  the  day 
being  very  hot,  he  obtained  permission  from  his 
Majesty  to  put  off  the  wig,  and  I  think  then  and 
there  had  leave  to  discontinue  it  always.  I  heard 
the  bishop  preach  the  sermon  upon  her  present 
Majesty's  coronation,  and  certainly  his  fine  ex- 
pansive forehead  was  not  obscured  by  an  ugly 
wig.  In  Copley's  masterpiece,  "The  Death  of 
Chatham,"  the  lords  spiritual  are  represented  in 
the  House   of   Lords   as  wearing  wigs,  but  of 


much  smaller  dimensions  than  those  worn  by  oar 
judges  at  the  present  day.      John  Colsb&ook. 

"  Pakis  db  Hastrinello  "  (6**»  S.  iii.  309,  496; 
iv.  258,  330). — After  Mr.  Tancock's  severe  stric- 
tures upon  me — not,  I  must  confess,  altogether 
undeserved — for  having  too  temerariously  rushed 
into  the  domain  of  etymology,  I  hardly  venture  to 
write  again  upon  this  subject.  But  I  should  like 
to  ask  whether  "  wastell  '^  (a  word  used  by  Chaucer) 
can  possibly  be  derived  from  gateau,  formerly 
spelled  gasUaUy  the  French  word  for  a  cake  ? 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 

Mart,  Quben  op  Scjots  (6*  S.  iv.  148, 196). 
— I  saw  many  years  ago  a  ring  which  was  said  to 
have  been  given  to  Sir  R.  Melville  by  Queen  Mary 
shortly  previous  to,  or  at,  her  execution.  It  had 
a  ruby  between  two  diamonds,  and  inside  was  en- 
graved, "  Mary  to  Melville,  1587."  It  belonged 
then  to  a  member  of  the  Balfour-Ogilvie  family. 
I  forget  its  previous  history,  nor  am  I  aware  where 
the  ring  is  now.  Williav  Dsavb. 

Portrait  of  Wabhiwoton  Irving  (6**  S.  iv. 
447,  490,  524).— My  friend  Mr.  Gossb  will  find  a 
good  steel-plate  portrait  of  Irving  in  the  first 
volume  of  the  ^'.Ajnerican  Men  of  Letters"  series 
(Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1881),  which  is 
a  Life  of  WaShingion  Irving,  by  Mr.  Charles  Bud- 
ley  Warner.  J.  Brakdbr  Matthbws. 

Stuyvetant  Square,  N.Y. 

Siege  op  Chepstow  (6*"*  S.  iv.  307, 365, 476). — 
Is  Colonel  Morgan  the  same  as  General  Sir  Thomas 
Morgan,  who  was  constable  of  Chester,  governor  of 
Jersey,  and  commander  of  his  Majesty's  forces  in 
Scotland  at  different  periods?  His  place  was 
Kinnesley  Castle,  Herefordshire. 

John  Cheese.* 

Amersham. 

A  Painting  of  the  Flight  into  Egypt  (6*^ 
S.  iv.  428,  472).— There  is  only  a  very  slight 
misspelling,  or  misreading,  in  the  name  of  the 
artist.  Join  the  two  parts  into  one  word,  change 
e  into  t,  then  you  get  Fourmestraux,  Of  that 
name  I  find  in  J.  Hondoy's  Histoire  ds  la  C4- 
ramique  LUloise  (Paris,  Aubry,  1769),  at  p.  136, 
mention  made  of  Antoine  Fourmestraux,  who  was 
employed  as  a  modeller  (mouUur)  in  the  porcelain 
works  founded  at  Lille  by  Leperre-Dnrot,  while 
carried  out  during  the  great  French  Bevolution  by 
his  partner  Gaboria.  The  name  is  French,  and  of 
frequent  occurrence  in  French  Flanders.  The 
artist  inquired  after  might  easily  be  identified  by 
searching  the  now  reprinted  or  reprinting  cata- 
logues of  the  Lille  Fine- Arts  Exhibitions. 

V.  J.  Yaillant. 

Boaloipie-tur-Mer. 

«  Too  too  »  (&^  S.  iv.  266,  313).— Will  not  the 
modern  aesthetes  be  somewhat  surprised  to  learn 


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tbat  this,  their  pet  shibboleth,  is,  after  all,  only  an 
old  pioTincialism  rerlTed?  In  Ray's  Complete 
CoUtctian  of  EngluK  ProverhSf  fifth  edit.,  London, 
1813, 1  find  this  proverb,  *<  Too  too  will  in  two 
(Cheshire},"  with  the  explanatory  note,  *'  Strain  a 
thing  too  much  and  it  will  not  hold/' 

Mars  Demiqus. 

A  still  earlier  nse  of  too  too  is  to  be  met  in — 
"  Since  which,  those  woods,  and  all  that  goodly  chaie 
l>otb  to  this  day  with  wolves  and  thieves  abound : 
Which  ioo-(oo  true  that  land  in-dwellers  since  hare 
found." 
Spenser's  L^gtnd  of  ConsianeU,  canto  vi.  55. 
Alfhonsb  Estoclbt. 
Peckham. 

"Sate"  for  "Sat"  (6*  S.  iv.  190,  395,  477). 
— In  all  the  three  readings  cited  by  Mr.  Mar- 
shall it  appears  clear  to  me  thaf  sate"is  the 
perfect  tense  of  n't,  not  the  past  participle.  First 
comes.  *'  Rachel  had  taken,"  the  pluperfect  tense  ; 
secoualy,  *'  and  sate,"  the  perfect  Jaydee. 

I  am  surprised  that  none  of  your  correspondents 
hare  pointed  to  the  famous  lines  of  Milton  : — 
"  High  on  a  throne  of  regal  state,  which  far 
Outshone- the  wealth  of  Ormus  and  of  Ind 
Satan  exalted  sste." 

Richard  Edggumbb. 
33,  Tedworth  Stjuare,  Chelsea. 

The  Statue  iir  Brasbnosb  College  Quad- 
RAKOLB  (4^  S.  iii  83  ;  6*  S.  iv.  617).— It  is  cer- 
tunly  most  amusing  to  read  the  quotations  on  this 
sdbject  from  the  "  Oxford  local  press  "  which  are 
cit^  by  Fama.  Christopher  Smart  has  an  "  Ode 
on  an  Eagle  confined  in  a  College  Court,"  pub- 
lished in  the  Oxford  Sausage,  and  in  that  work 
there  is  also  a  poem  on  ^  The  All  Souls'  Mallard," 
bat  no  mention  is  made  of  the  '*  Brasenose  phea- 
sants*" In  an  old  and  now  forgotten  novel, 
GUberi  Gumey,  by  Theodore  Hook,  the  practical 
joker  Daly  risits  Oxford,  and  has  it  in  contem- 

ation  to  blow  up  with  gunpowder  the  statue  of 
In  and  Abel  at  Brasenose.  The  following  is 
the  passage  from  Heame's  Diary  concerning  the 
destruction  of  the  garden  in  the  quadrangle  and 
the  erection  of  the  statue  on  its  site  : — 

"1727.  Oct.  25.  Last  week  ihey  eut  down  the  fine 
pleassnt  garden  in  Brasenose  coll.  quadrangle,  which 
was  not  only  a  great  ornament  to  it,  and  was  agreeable 
to  the  quadrangle  of  our  old  monasteries,  but  was  a 
deUgfatfttl  and  pleasant  shade  in  summer-time,  and 
made  the  rooms  in  hot  seasons  much  cooler  than  they 
otherwise  would  have  been.  This  is  done  by  direction 
oi  the  principal  and  some  others  purely  to  turn  it  into 
a  grass  plot,  and  to  erect  some  silly  statue  there." — 
ToLiiLp.  3,  edit.  1869. 

John  Pickfobd,  M.A. 
Newboume  £ectery,  Woodbridge. 

The  Pritt  Council  (6*»»  S.  It.  408,  449,  495). 
— In  reply  to  Mr.  Mason  I  may  say  that  I  hope 
some  day  to  publish  my  MS.  list  of  Priyy  Coun- 


cillors as  part  of  a  larger  work,  similar  to  Beatson's 
Political  Index  and  Haydn's  Book  of  Dignities, 
but  covering  a  wider  field.  Possibly  I  may  issue 
the  Privy  Council  List,  as  Mr.  Mason  suggests, 
in  a  separate  form,  with  not  only  the  dates  of 
admission  and  of  death,  but  also  a  statement  of 
the  various  public  offices  held  by  each  Councillor. 
I  have  made  large  collections  for  that  purpose^ 
which  require  time  for  arrangement. 

Alfred  B.  Beaybn,  M.A. 
Preston. 

Boon-Dats  (6*»»  S.  iii.  449 ;  iv.  13,  55,  368, 
545). — Within  the  last  five  years  I  have  heard  a 
road  surveyor  in  Lincolnshire  threaten  a  small 
farmer,  "  I  will  not  boon  your  road  for  you,"  ».«., 
'^  I  will  not  mend  your  road  gratuitously  and  at 
the  expense  of  the  parish."  Compare  Lay  of  the 
Last  Minstrel,  iiL  29  : 

'*  And  Lothian  heard  the  Regent's  order. 
That  all  should  bowne  them  for  the  Border," 

i.  e.,  prepare  themselves.  M.  G.  Watkins. 

Indigenous  Trees  of  Britain  (6*^  S.  iiL  468  ; 
iv.  91,  217). — Boileau's  quotation  from  Higden 
relative  to  Pengwern  (not  Penquem),  the  old 
Welsh  name  of  Shrewsbury,  is  interesting,  but  it 
can  scarcely  be  accepted  as  proof  that  ahiei  is  the 
"alder."  It  rather  implies,  what  there  is  other 
evidence  for,  that  gwtm  was  formerly  used  in  a 
sense  which  is  no  loDger  attached  to  it.  About 
its  general  meaning  there  can  be  no  doubt.  It 
exists  in  all  the  Celtic  dialects,  W.  Bret,  Com. 
gwem,  Ir.  and  GkieL  feam  (old  form  fern),  Manx 
faamey,  and  in  all  means  an  alder-tree.  These 
forms  point  to  what  Fick  might  call  an  "  urkel- 
tisch "  vemos,  which,  in  fact,  appears  in  Pliny's 
(iii.  4)  Gaulish  river- name,  Vemodubrwn,  a  word 
clearly  equivalent,  as  Williams  (Lexicon  Comu-' 
BriL,  S.V,  "  gwem'*)  suggests,  to  W.  Owemddwfr^ 
Alder-water,  Alder-stream.  According  to  all  the 
authorities  gwem  is  the  common  alder-tree,  Lat. 
alnus.  On  the  other  hand,  abies  is  rendered  by 
W.  Ffynnidwydden,  which,  according  to  Davies's 
Welsh  Botanology  (London,  1813),  is  the  "Pinus 
Syhairie;  Scotch  fir." 

But  the  word  had  also  apparently  a  more  ex- 
tended meaning.  Thus,  Dr.  Dawes's  Wdsh-LaHn 
Dictionary  (1632)  gives  ''Owem  and  Gwemlle 
and  Arm,  Gwemeg,  AhietumJ'  Again,  in  Welsh, 
Cornish,  and  Breton,  gioem,  gwemen  means  also 
the  "  mast "  of  a  ship.  And  in  the  old  Cornish 
vocabulary,  the  Cotton  MS.  of  which  (Yesp.  A 
14)  dates  from  the  thirteenth  century,  and  is  pro- 
bably a  copy  of  a  much  older  original,  while 
'* alnus"  is  rendered  by  guemen,  "mains"  is 
represented  by  guem.  The  Irish  Fearna  also 
means  "a  mast."  From  all  this  it  appears  that 
gtpem,  fbm,  vim,  once  meant  something  other,  or 
more,  than  "  alder,"  a  tree  which  does  not  appear 
very  suitable  for  a  "  mast"     Thovas  Powell. 


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Oordiner's  "  Antiquities  awd  Scbnsrt  **  &c. 
(6*^  3.  ii.  447  ;  iii.  72).— It  wjw  published  in  1780, 
and  its  exact  title  is  Antiquitiei  and  Sunery  of  the 
North  of  Scotland,  in  a  Series  ofLetterg  to  Thomas 
Psnfumt,  Esq.,  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Oordiner, 
Minister  of  St.  Andrew's  Chapel,  Bamff  (tie),  Lon- 
don, 1780.  It  is  a  quarto  volume  of  173  pages, 
exclusive  of  eleven  pages  of  index,  contents,  &c., 
and  is  illustrated  by  "  two-and-twenty  plates  of 
ruins  and  the  most  romantic  views  of  the  north," 
of  which  most  are  signed  by  P.  Mazell,  as  engraver 
after  drawings  by  Cordiner  himself,  a  few  are 
signed  by  Ingleby,  Basire,  and  Watts,  while  a  few 
more  have  no  signature  either  of  drawer  or 
engraver.  It  may  be  interesting  to  mention  that 
in  the  Earl  of  Fife's  library  at  Duff  House  there  is 
a  copy  of  this  work,  further  "embellished  with 
twenty  original  drawings  by  the  author,"  and  with 
seven  "  small  sketches,"  by  the  same.  These  draw- 
ings are  not  the  originals  of  the  engravings  proper 
to  the  work,  but  may  be  originals  of  engravings  in 
Cordiner's  other  work,  Remarkabls  Ruins,  &c., 
which  I  have  not  seen.  If  they  are  wanted  by  any 
reader  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  I  shall  be  happy  to  supply 
the  names  of  these  drawings.  Besides  them  I  find 
also  in  the  Duff  House  copy  three  engravings  in- 
serted which  are  not  to  be  found  in  the  published 
form  of  the  work,  with  its  two-and- twenty  plates. 

A.   W.  BOBERTSON,  M.A. 
Aberdeen. 

Thomas  Danibll,  R.A.  (6«*  S.  iii.  308,  417). 
— Pallet  inquires  about  the  paintings  of  this 
distinguished  artist.  I  have  the  two  large  pictures 
painted  by  his  nephew,  William  Daniell,  R.A.,  and 
engraved, ''  The  Loss  of  the  Kent  East  Indiaman, 
1250  tons,  in  1826,"  the  one  picture  vividly  por- 
traying the  first  boat-load  leaving  the  ill-fated 
Kent  on  fire,  and  the  other,  the  last  boat  arriving 
alongside  the  Cambria  brig,  which  vessel  was  owned 
by  my  uncle,  the  late  Sir  John  Hare.  Both  pic- 
tures tell  in  a  wonderfully  graphic  manner  the 
narrative  of  this  gallant  rescue  by  the  Cambria, 
only  200  tons,  of  so  very  large  a  number  from  fire 
or  a  watery  grave— in  all  554  souls,  including  the 
3l8t  Regiment.  When  a  child  I  remember  Capt. 
Cook  of  the  Cambria  telling  me  the  story,  and  how 
anxious  he  was  as  to  whether  his  store  of  food 
would  be  sufl&cient  for  such  a  largely  increased 
number  ;  but  fortunately  his  vessel  was  well  sup- 
plied for  a  long  outward  voyage,  and,  returning  at 
once  to  England,  he  contrived  to  make  it  last  out. 
Sholto  Vrre  Hare. 

Knole  Park,  Almondsbury,  Qloucestershire. 

"Bo8h"  (3"1  S.  viii,  100,  148;  6*»»  S.  i.  389; 
ii.  53,  478  ;  iii.  75,  114,  173,  257,  378).— I  would 
call  your  attention  to  Jaydbe's  inquiry  (3'^'^  S. 
viii.  148):— 

"What  18  the  Student,  >o  curtly  mentioned  by  the 
dictionarj  writer  ?    Can  any  Cirretpondent  of  '  N.  &  Q.' 


verify  the  reference  which  is  said  to  prove  that  hosk 
was  in  use,  as  a  slang  word,  in  1760? " 

And  to  the  editorial  remark  : — 

"ITke  Student;  or,  the  Oxford  and  CamhridM 
Hfonthli/  Miscellany,  2  vola,  was  published  1760-1. 
Tbe  word  both  doef  not  occar  at  p.  217  of  the  second 
volume.— Ed.J." 

Johnson's  Dietionary,  by  Todd,  London,  1818, 
gives  :  "  Bosh,  n,s.  This  is  a  provincial  word  of 
Norfolk,  in  which  *  to  cut  a  bosh '  is  to  make  a 
figure.''  It  seems  to  have  a  similar  meaning  in 
the  following  passage  : — 

"  A  man  who  has  learned  but  the  both  of  an  argument, 
that  has  only  seen  the  shadow  of  a  syllogism,  and  but 
barely  beard  talk  of  rhetoric  and  poetry,  may,  by  the 
use  of  tbis  soience  and  a  little  modem  effrontery,  baffle 
one  of  real  learning,  silence  genius  itself,  and  put  the 
most  exalted  merit  out  of  countenance."— i9<iKfea<,  ii. 
287. 

A  reference  to  p.  287,  as  given  by  Todd,  not  to 
217,  may  perhaps  give  the  proof  required.  "  Bosh,** 
writes  the  Editor  of  «  N.  &  Q."  (5«»»  S.  i.  389),  "is 
the  name  in  Holland  and  Flanders  for  butter 
adulterated  with  salt  and  water."  The  origin  of 
this  name  is  thus  explained  in  the  Joumai  of  the 
Royal  Agricultural  Society  of  Europe,  second 
series,  vol.  xviL  p.  434  : — 

*^The  district  around  Hertogenboscb  (Bois-le-Doe), 
commonly  written  Bosch,  the  capital  of  the  proTinoe  of 
North  Brabant,  for  many  /ears  sent  to  the  Londoa 
market  an  inferior  quality  of  Dutch  butter.  That  par- 
ticular brand  has  disappeared  under  the  influence  of  the 
artificial  butter  which  is  chiefly  made  in  and  about  that 
region,  and  in  the  London  market  is  quoted  as  *  Bosh.'  * 

The  plural  form  boshes  was  in  my  early  dayv, 
and  is  still  (teste  Encydoposdia  Briiannica,  ninth 
edit.,  vol.  xiiL  p.  298),  applied  to  the  place  of 
greatest  diameter  of  the  bhist  furnaces  for  smelting 
iron.  Llanbllt« 

"  Manchbt  Loaf  "  (6«»  S.  iii.  430  ;  iv.  15, 396, 
418,  496).-~G.  F.  R.-B.  at  the  last  reference  is 
mistaken  with  regard  to  Mr.  Sawyer^s  note  (6*'^  S. 
iv.  396).  Mr.  Sawyer  refers  to  the  **  Six  Carpen- 
ters' Case/'  in  Leading  Cases  done  into  English,  by 
an  Apprentice  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  p.  2,  second  ed., 
MacmiUan  &  Co.,  1876. 

F.  C.  Birkbeck  Tbrrt. 

In  "A  Lay  of  St.  Nichoks,"  one  of  the  Ii^ 
goldsby  Legends,  the  Lord  Abbot  makes  the 
following  promise  to  the  *' Pilgrim  Grey,"  con- 
ditionally, that  is,  if  he  will  recount  the  most 
wonderful  sight  that  his  eyes  have  seen  in  Pales- 
tine : — 

"  Arede  me  aright  the  most  wonderful  sight, 
Orey  Palmer,  that  ever  thine  eyes  did  see, 
And  a  nuinekette  (sic)  of  bread,  and  a  good  vrarm  bed, 
And  a  cup  o*  the  best  shall  thy  guerdon  be." 

A  "  manchette  of  bread"  was  evidently  considered 
a  bonne-bouche.  Frbdk.  Bolb. 

Ashford,  Kent. 

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wlute  loaf,  which  was  synonymoas  with  iimntly 
from  the  Latin  timUcL^  the  finest  part  of  flour,  will 
be  found  at  p.  329  of  Samuel  Pegge's  Curidlia  Mis- 
edlanea.  Ic  appears  from  the  titatutu  of  Eltham^ 
Ump.  Ed  IV.,  that  these  were  then  known  as  **  chet 
loaves.''  In  this  way  the  butchers,  greengrocers, 
bcJEers,  and  cats'-meat  men  of  modern  Bayswater 
announce  themselyes  by  the  respective  designa- 
tions of  cW,  eer,  ker^  and  imeat. 

Calcuttensis. 

"  Thv  Diart  of  an  Irish  Gbktlbman,"  1761 
(6*  S.  iv.  308,  473).— The  kindness  of  a  corre- 
spondent has  enabled  me  to  ascertain  what  I 
wanted,  by  referring  me  to  the  Leiture  H(mr,  1876, 
pp.  228,  250.  Abbba. 

Thb  Htmn  "Rock  of  Agbs":  Toplady  (6**» 
S.  iiL  428 ;  iv.  64,  391,  477).— During  the  first 
year  after  his  ordination  Toplady  published  his 
collection  of  hymns,  over  four  hundred  in  number. 
In  December,  1775,  he  became  editor  of  Th$ 
Oo&p€l  Magazine^  but,  owing  to  illness,  relin- 
quished the  post  in  1776.  Some  of  his  articles  are 
signed  "Minimus,"  others  "Concionator'';  there 
are  also  papers  to  which  his  initials  only  are 
appended.  They  appeared  in  the  volumes  of  The 
Gotpd  Magazine  during  the  years  1771  to  1776. 
Toplady  was  also  the  author  of  The  Church  of 
England  Vindicated  from  the  Charge  of  Armi- 
iif oninn,  &c.,  and  some  sermons.  In  1825  his 
works  were  published,  with  a  memoir. 

W.  H.  0. 

"  JoHK  DoRT"  (4»  8.  X.  126,  199,  507,  523; 
xL  84,  100;  b^  S.  i.  299;  6«»  S.  iv.  545).— Since 
writing  my  quenr  I  have  consulted  Narea's 
(Uouarg^  which  I  ought  to  have  done  before. 
There  I  find  that  "John  Dory"  was  a  popular 
song  or  catch,  "  preserved  in  Deuteromelia,  a  book 
printed  in  1609.  It  is  repeated  in  Ritson's  Ancient 
SomgSf  p.  163;  in  Hawkins's  Hiet  of  MuttiCj  &c." 
Also  noticed  as  in  Drunken  Barnaby,  and  else- 
where.   Nares  does  not  quote  Dryden. 

Jatdxb. 

Jatdbb  will  find  much  and  satisfactory  in- 
foimation  about  the  well-known  old  song  "  John 
Dory"  in  Popular  Mueic  of  the  Olden  Time,  by 
W.  Ghappell,  pp.  67,  6a     Juuan  Marshall. 

A  Fbvcimo  Match  in  Martlbbons  Fiblds, 
1714  (6*  S.  iv.  445;  v.  17).— Mr.  Hodgkin  wUl 
find  a  number  of  notices  of  Marylebone  Gardens 
in  A  Book  for  a  Eainy  Day,  by  J.  T.  Smith,  third 
edition,  1861,  p.  41,  et  etq.        Austin  Dobson. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wantbd  (6*^  S.  v. 
10).-^ 

"  Far  from  thefe  narrow  icenes  of  night,"  kc. 
The  aotlior  wai  Miis  Anne  (or  Annie)  Steele.    She  was 
born  in  1716  at  Brougbton,  in  Hommhire,  and  her 
father  was  a  Baptist  minister.     8«e  Lord  Selbome'i 


Book  of  Praise  and  the  BeT.  S.  Christopher's  The  Ifev 
MetkodiU  Bymn  Book  and  its  Writers,  1877. 

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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc, 

BaHohui  and  his  Works,   By  Andrew  W.  Tuer.   2  vols. 

(Pield  ft  Tuer.) 
To  sav  that  Mr.  Tuer's  pair  of  rolomes  are  richly  and 
tastefully  bound,  that  the  paper  is  excellent  and  the 
typography  unimpeachable,  is  only  to  say  what  cannot 
in  honesty  be  left  unsaid.  Outwardly  and  superficially, 
BartoloMti  and  his  Woris  is  one  of  the  handsomest  of 
art  books,  and  neither  Titian  nor  Leonardo  could  have 
complained  of  so  luxurious  a  setting-fortb.  Unfor- 
tunately—and this  obiection  suggests  itself  at  the  outset 
—Bartolossi  is  hardly  on  a  level  with  either  of  those 
illnstzious  men,  and  the  contrast  between  his  personality 
as  an  artist  and  Mr.  Tuer's  pomp  of  drapery  is  almost  as  un- 
satisfactory as  Thackeray's  contrast  between  "  Ludovicus" 
and  **  LudoTicns  Rex."  Kor  is  this  initial  drawback  at 
all  compensated  fur  by  any  special  fulness  of  detail 
respecting  Bartolozzi's  career.  That  Mr.  Tuer  has  been 
at  considerable  pains  to  collect  information,  and  that  he 
has  made  many  minor  rectifications,  we  can  easily 
believe ;  but  the  fact  remains  that,  if  the  catalogue  ot 
works  be  deducted,  thirty  fairly  concise  pages  would  tell 
us  all  we  care  to  know  respecting  the  graceful  and 
accomplished,  though  scarcely  robust,  engraver  wlftm 
he  has  elected  to  dignify.  Having  "  liberated  our  mind  " 
in  this  respect,  we  are  bound  to  admit  that  we  have 
found  what  Mr.  Tuer  has  to  say  about  Bartolozsi 
exceedingly  readable  and  interesting,  although,  para- 
doxical as  it  may  seem,  those  portions  of  his  book  which 
do  not  refer  to  Bartolozzi  at  all,  except  by  courtesy, 
seem  to  us  to  be  even  more  readable  still.  The  detached 
chapters  on  Byland  and  the  Boydells,  on  stipple,  print 
restoring,  art  sales,  book-illustrating  by  inserted  plates, 
deceptions  with  prints,  and  so  forth,  are  full  of  that 
vagrant  and  various  information  in  which  the  true 
collector  delights,  but  upon  which  he  can  seldom  or 
never  lay  hie  hand,  and  we  do  not  doubt  that  they  will 
be  welcome  to  many  who  have  neither  the  inclination 
nor  the  leisure  to  become  collectors  of  Bartolozzi.  As 
to  the  illustrations  in  Mr.  Tuer's  volumes,  they  are 
certainly  not  very  numerous,  but  they  are  choice.  The 
best  are  the  St  Giles's  and  St.  James's  beauties  (the 
two  Miss  Burroughs),  printed  from  the  original  copper- 
plates of  1783,  and  a  pair  of  charming  foSl-leiigthB  by 
Caroline  Watson  of  the  Earl  and  Countess  of  ^nnoulL 
It  is  to  be  regretted  that  Mr.  Tuer  has  given  us  no 
portrait  of  Bartolozzi  himself,  as,  from  the  list  printed  at 
p.  5,  there  should  have  been  little  difficulty  in  procuring 
one.  We  may  add  in  conclusion  that  we  trust  Mr. 
Tuer's  plan  of  printing  his  notes  in  the  body  of  his  text 
will  not  be  extensively  imitated.  Notes  are  an  unavoid- 
able evil ;  but  they  need  scarcely  be  made  an  obtrusive 
one  as  well. 

Old  Yorkshire,     Edited   by   William  Smith.     2  vols. 

(Longmans  k  Co.) 
Fob  some  time  past  it  has  been  the  practice  of  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  Leeds  Mercury  to  publiih  in  the  weekly 
supplement  a  series  of  "Local  Notes  and  Queries." 
These  volumes  are  mainly,  but  not  entirely,  made  up  of 
matter  so  gathered.  The  Lteds  Mercury  has  an  almost 
unique  position  among  the  great  organs  of  thought  of 
the  north  of  Bngland.  It  circulates  very  widely,  not 
only  among  the  upper  classes,  but  also  among  the  more 
refined  and  cultured  artisans  of  the  great  clothing  and 
iron  towns  of  Yorkshire.    Its  editors  have,  therefore. 


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been  enabled  to  preserre  a  large  quantity  of  useful  facts 
and  memories.  It  is  not  to  be  imagined  that  these 
Tolumes,  which  ere  only  a  selection,  contain  nearly  all  the 
antiquarian  matter  that  has  from  time  to  time  appeared 
in  the  Luds  Mercury.  The  selection  has  been,  however, 
made  with  skill,  and  there  are  not  many  pages  in  either  of 
the  volumes  which  we  should  be  willing  to  lose.  Some 
things  therein  are  remarkably  good,  as,  tor  instance,  the 
notices  of  Yorkshire  artists  and  authors  which  appear 
in  the  first  volume.  On  the  other  hand,  we  observe,  as 
was  to  be  anticipated,  a  certain  weakness  when  etymo- 
logical questions  are  touched  upon.  The  second  rolume, 
we  thinle,  is  in  most  respects  the  better  of  the  two. 
It  contains  an  introduction  bv  Canon  Raine  which  is 
alone  worth  the  price  of  the  book.  We  wish  we  had 
room  to  reproduce  in  our  pages  the  canon's  wise  and 
eloquent  words  as  to  the  thoughtless  restoration  which 
has  so  fatally  injured  many  of  our  old  parish  churches. 
To  protest  agidnst  needful  repair,  that  is,  restoration  in 
its  true  and  legitimate  sense,  is  an  absurdity  of  which 
no  thoughtful  man  would  be  guilty;  but  it  is  not  from 
this  that  our  historic  buildings  have  suffered.  The 
craze  of  making  things  uniform  and  pretty  to  our  nine- 
teenth century  tastes  lias  been  the  cause  of  almost  all 
the  mischief.  Where  Latin  is  concerned  the  proof- 
sheets  have  tometimes  been  yery  carelessly  gone  over. 
There  is  a  charter  of  nine  lines  in  which  we  have 
counted  just  the  same  number  of  misprints.  In  a  work 
of  this  kind,  made  up  of  fragments,  it  is  above  all 
things  needful  that  there  should  be  a  good  index.  We 
have  carefully  tested  the  one  supplied,  and  can  discover 
no  reason  for  finding  fault. 

Bronuffrove  Church:  Hi  Hiitory  and  Aniiquitiei,  With 
an  Account  of  the  Sunday  Schools,  Churchyard,  and 
Cemetery.  Compiled  from  the  Parish  Books,  Kegisters, 
and  other  Authentic  Sources  by  William  A.  Cotton. 
(Simpkin,  Marshall  &  Co.) 
This  is  one  of  the  books  which  church  restoration  may 
be  said  to  haye  brought  into  being.  It  is  very  rarely 
indeed  that  any  record  can  be  met  with  which  throws 
light  upon  the  construction  of  our  parish  churches. 
Who  built  them,  and  how  and  when  they  were  raised 
from  their  foundations  to  become  the  wonder  and  pride 
of  generations,  we  seem  never  likely  to  know.  The  old 
buildors  made  no  fuss,  sounded  no  flourish  of  trumpets, 
did  their  work  and  left  it,  thanking  God  that  they  were 
permitted  to  raise  another  temple  to  his  honour.  These 
men  were  content  to  be  forgotten  and  unknown.  Not  so 
the  "  restorers "  of  our  time.  What  is  the  use  of  the 
printing  prens  if  it  is  not  to  be  employed  in  glorifying 
ourselves  1  Wherefore  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that 
Hr.  Cotton  should  haye  found  a  sufficient  number  of 
subscribers  in  Bromsgrove  to  pay  for  the  publication  of 
his  formidable  quarto.  But  really,  to  give  a  yolume  of  this 
character  such  a  grandiose  title  is  a  little  too  bad.  Future 
ages  may  wish  to  learn  how  much  the  weighing  machine 
at  Brom^;roye  earned  per  annum,  and  may,  peradyen- 
ture,  desire  to  read  about  the  election  of  a  sexton  in 
1869,  or  the  rule^  of  the  Bromsgroye  bellringers  in  1875, 
or  the  report  of  the  coroner's  inquest  on  Mr.  John  Rose, 
ha  reported  in  the  Bromsgroye  Mettenger  of  March  29, 
1879;  but  we  suspect  that  future  ages  will  have  some- 
thing better  to  do.  So  far  from  Mr.  Cotton's  yolume 
containing  any  history,  it  can  hardly  be  said  to  contain 
even  such  gossip  as,  under  the  most  fayourable  circum- 
stances, could  find  a  place  among  the  memorabilia  of 
our  gnmdchildren. 

DuxoLARD  Bbothibs,  of  Milan,  have  issued  the  first 
two  numbers  of  a  new  monthly  philosophical  review,  the 
Jtivista  di  FUotcfia  ScierUifica,  edited  by  Dr.  E.  Morselli. 
Among  the  articles  that  haye  already  appeared  may  be 


named  Morselli  on  Philosophy  and  Science,  Sergi  oh  the 
Colour  Sense  in  perception,  Cantoni  on  Galileo's  method 
in  the  study  of  the  Laws  of  Nature,  Ardigo  on  Indi- 
yidualism  in  Positive  Philosophy. 

Wb  have  received  the  following  :-^Endymion,  Modem 
Noyelist's  Library  edition,  and  the  popular  edition  of 
Wood's  Strange  Dwcllingi,  &c.  (Longmans  k  Co.) ;  Miss 
Ferrier's  Tht  Inheritance  (Bentley  &  Son);  a  new 
edition  of  Th^  Vi*it&r*e  Guide  to  Oxford  (Parker  &  Co.) ; 
Part  xvii.  vol.  iii.  of  Helsby*s  Orroerod's  Hutory  of 
Cheshire  (Boutledge  k  Sons) ;  An  Euay  on  the  Com- 
munion of  Sainti,  by  R.  Owen,  B.D.,  being  an  Appendix 
to  Sanclorale  Catholieum,  by  the  same  author  (Eegan 
Paul  k,  Co.) ;  Vol  iv.  of  the  AfUiquary,  and  a  reprint  of 
Mr.  Wheatley's  paper  on  bookbinding  (Elliot  Stock). 


Mr.  J.  GiBBS,  of  Newport  Street,  W.C,  has  at  pri 
in  his  possession  a  most  curious  and  interesting  ooilectioa 
of  prints,  woodcuts,  notices,  bills,  and  quaint  advertise- 
ments relating  to  barbers  and  the  hair.  It  comprises  a 
variety  of  out-of-the-way  particulars  respecting  modes  of 
hairdressing,  devices  in  hair,  female  barbers,  bearded 
ladies,  wig«,  barber-surgeons,  and  90  forth,  illustrated  br 
hundreds  of  portraits  and  caricatures,  many  of  which 
are  seldom  met  with.  Some  of  the  latter  are  by  Eow- 
landson  and  Gillray,  and  we  note  among  them  the  three 
rare  plates  (which  Hone  was  unable  to  procure)  of 
Forster,  the  so-called  *'  Flying  Barber"  of  Cambridge. 
Several  scarce  pamphlets  are  also  included  in  the  series. 
The  entire  collection  is  probably  unique,  and  Mr.  Gibbs 
will  willingly  show  it  to  any  collectors  who  may  desire 
to  inspect  it 

fiatitti  to  €oxxtipon\itnti. 

B.  ("The  Lowland  Sea")-— See  «N.  &  Q.,"  5«i»  8.  vi 
69,  99,  138;  yiii.  260,  SS6,  4S8;  particularly  the  last 
reference. 

E.  H.  W.  D.  ("SparrowofAnglesea").— See  Burke's 
Landed  O entry ,  1879,  «.v.,  where  you  will  find  an  account 
commencing  with  the  marriage  alluded  to.  The  wife 
was  a  Boys. 

E.  R.  V.  ("  N.  or  M.").— You  should  read  the  note  on 
the  subject  in  Blunt's  Annotated  Book  of  Common 
Prayer, 

J.  A.  wishes  to  ascertain  the  names  in  full  of  the 
people  who  held  the  Biddings  farm,  or  the  Bidding  estate, 
in  the  parish  of  Alfreton,  Derbyshire,  from  1670  to  1730. 

G.  L.  G. — Parentalia;  or,  Memoirs  of  the  FamUy  of 
the  Wrens.  By  Christopher,  son  of  Sir  Christopher 
Wren.     Lond.,  1760. 

J.  B.  Carter.— "While  the  trees  are  leafless,"  &c., 
will  be  found  in  a  little  poem,  "  Spring  Flowers^**  by 
Agnes  Strickland. 

Errbst  Bird  ("Good  news  from  Ghent  to  Air").— 
See  "  N.  k  Q.,"  6th  g.  i  71, 174^  298,  418;  ii.  17. 

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CONTENTS.— N»  108. 

aiOTES  t'littlebeniei,  41— A  fipuilah  Sentanoe  of  Ezoom- 
mwirfqitioa,  48— BnsUfth  Armorial  GIml  44— The  Mnieam 
XaMlliig  Boom— *'DeiNtft  "—The  Cxanke— *'  Nocinm."  45- 
Codoos  Guild  Cutom— Two  Strange  Epitaphs— Penny  Poet 
Antlctpaled- BhymeleH  Woida— ••  Walmyth  "— PoU-Bookx 
—A  Supecatltloii— *<Theie  let  Thy  Seirant  be**— The  Ez- 
dumge  of  Book-Plates— Bed  Copy  and  Good  Printen,  46— 
The  Pliilolocleal  Society's  New  Dictlonanr,  47. 


tnii  Wanted,  48— BeT.  J.  Scott— '*  Ttegle,"  *a— W.  H. 
Ainsworth-^FWional  and  Family  Names— Fnrlong  Family 
— W.  Smith,  Clockmaker— Ancient  Mottoes— "  Handsome 
Chsriey  "  —  Gsteley  Park,  Herefoxdshiie,  49  — Authors 
Wanted.  50. 

atEPUBS:- Heniy  Harten,  the  Begidde,  50-A  Jacobite 
Belie— Oaziiek  and  Jnnhis— Bobert  de  Bella  Aqna.  61— 
"The  Wlwle  Dnty  of  Han,"  68—**  Do  "—A  BeUc  of  Thomas 
a  Beckei— *'In  a  brown  study,**  63— "The  ImltaUon  of 
Christ*'— The  Ark  of  the  OoTenant  at  St.  Michael's  Mount 
—air  B.  Bingham— Matrienlatlon  Becords— *'Gaffln''-A 
Sbk  to  Point  at  the  Moon,  64— B.  Phalre— Snpentltlons  about 
Feathers— Lincolnahlre  ProTinciallsms.  66— *'ChristenlDg- 
Aeei*  —  *•  Anywhen"  —  "  Dray *'— Vernon  Arms  —  Fern 
Ashes  —  Thatched  Churches  —  Genealogy  in  France— 
*' Tennis *—*' To  ay  the  mare*— ''Breeding  stones/' 56— 
"To  make  a  leg"— Books  printed  prevlonsly  to  1650— 
"Stark  naught"- Arms  of  Colonial  Bishoprics-" Sweal- 
Ing"— "  Bunker's  Hill."  67— Oxfordshire  Election  of  1754— 
Fnneral  Armour  in  Churches—'*  To  dine  with  Duke  Hum- 
phicy  "  —  Wife  Selling  —  Browne.  Viscount  Montagu— 
—"Ghetto "-"Foreign  Office  List''— Authors  Wanted,  58. 

370TES  ON  BOOKS :— Jesse's  "  George  Selwyn  and  his  Con- 
temporaries "—The  Earl  of  Belmore's  "  History  of  the  Two 
Ulster  Manors  of  Flnagh  and  Coole"— Hedges's  "  History  of 
WalUngfoid"— Moon's  "BcTlsen'  English, "  Ac 


LITTLEBERBIES. 
There  is  at  Mill  Hill,  near  HendoD,  some  ten 
milea  to  the  north  of  London,  in  the  direction  of 
Sdgware,  a  ringolar  mansion,  which,  to  the  extent 
of  my  knowledge,  has  only  receiyed  a  corsory 
notice  from  topographers,  bat  may  be  found,  on 
farther  inyestigation,  to  be  well  deserving  of  atten- 


This  residence,  which  is  called  Littleberries, 
itanda  doee  to  the  public  road,  but  is  sufficiently 
aczeened  from  observation  by  a  line  of  thickly 
planted  trees  bordering  the  lawn.  Th»  northern 
side  of  the  mansion,  away  from  the  road,  abuts  on 
the  brow  of  a  steep  slope,  which  descends  to  a  con- 
aidenble  distance  and  is  broken  into  green  plat- 
fovms  with  two  distinct  pieces  of  water,  one  round 
and  the  other  square,  but  unadorned  with  foun- 
tains, on  different  levels.  The  effect  of  this, 
as  seen  from  the  house,  is  very  pretty,  and 
the  vista  is  terminated  by  an  elegant  summer- 
-hoaae  boilt  like  a  classio  temple^  with  a  pediment 
and  lour  Ionic  columns,  having  aiohed  windows 
between  them.  The  length  of  ground  between  this 
temple  and  the  house  itself  is  bordered  on  each 
«ide  with  thickly  planted  trees,  giving  the  appear- 
aaee  of  green  waUs  or  lofty  hedges. 

The  mansion,  viewed  externally,  is  an  oidmaiy 


square  building  of  red  brick,  with  irregular  cor- 
ners, that  has  been  much  added  to  at  various 
times.  The  entrance  door  is  without  steps,  and 
leads  directly  into  the  hall,  which  has  a  low 
flat  ceiling,  Uie  floor  being  on  a  level  with  tiie 
carriage  dnve  in  front  The  rooms  are  irregular, 
but  they  enclose  a  central  apartment,  which 
appears  to  have  belonged  to  a  former  and 
much  more  important  rtesidenoe,  and  it  is  to 
this  centre  that  our  attention  will  mainly  be 
directed.  Viewed  externally,  and  as  seen  from  the 
summer-house,  this  central  facade  is  surmounted 
by  a  pediment  with  a  circular  window  in  it  and 
three  vases  at  the  comers,  but  without  columns 
or  pilasters.  Three  large  windows  are  prominent, 
the  central  one  of  which  can  be  opened  down  to 
the  ground,  and  may  be  used  as  a  door,  to  gain 
access  to  a  double  flight  of  steps,  descending  to  the 
garden  and  terraces  beyond.  This  central  apartment 
is  not  large,  but  lofty ;  it  is  floored  with  wood,  and 
has  only  one  actual  door,  opening  into  the  staircaee 
haU,  and  facing  the  three  windows  on  the  north 
side.  The  apartment  contains  an  amount  of  rich 
wood-carving  and  mural  decoration  rarely  to  be 
met  with  in  buildings  of  such  a  size  and  so  situated. 
Being  profusely  gilded,  it  is  known  by  the  name 
of  the  Gilt  Boom.  Broken  pediments,  Greek 
frets,  guilloches,  egg-and-tongue  mouldings,  shell 
patterns,  festoons,  female  masks,  and  lions'  heads 
are  to  be  seen  everywhere.  The  tone  of  this  ela- 
borate ornamentation  is  in  the  taste  of  the  first 
half  of  the  eighteenth  century,  from  the  period  of 
Queen  Anne  to  the  dose  of  the  reign  of  George  IL 
The  walls  between  the  dado  and  the  cornice  are 
divided  into  large  panels,  containing  showily  painted 
copies,  full  size,  of  celebrated  pictures  by  Kubens, 
Van  Dyck,  and  other  artists.  The  subject  of  the 
panel  to  the  left  of  the  door  is  the  "  Union  of 
Earth  and  Water,"  consisting  of  two  figures  of 
Neptune  and  a  nude  female.  Terra,  both  resting  on 
a  vase  from  which  water  is  copiously  streaming,  and 
at  their  feet  a  triton  is  sounding  a  shell,  and  two 
youthful  figures  are  bathing  in  the  foreground 
stream.  I^is  composition  is  taken  from  a  fine 
picture  by  Rubens,  which  was  formerly  in  the  col- 
lection of  Lord  Lyttelton  at  Hagley,  in  Worcester- 
shire. It  is  mentioned  in  The  English  ConnMMeur^ 
1766,  p.  72,  under  the  false  title  of  "  The  Marriage 
of  Neptune  and  Cybele."  The  principal  figures 
have  been  finely  engraved  by  Peter  de  «iode.  The 
companion  panel,  to  the  right  of  the  door,  is  also 
after  Rubens,  from  a  magnificent  picture  in  the 
dining-room  at  Blenheim  Palace.  It  represents 
the  Hesperides  gathering  fruity  assisted  by  Cupid 
perched  on  the  nranch  of  a  tree.  Another  com- 
Ijosition   from    Blenheim — "Time   dipping   the 

may 


position   xrom    iSlenheim — "Time   olippmg 
Wings  of  Love,"  painted  by  Van  Dy<i* — i 


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in  London,  having  been  lent  by  the  Dakt  of  Marlborough 


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here  be  recognized  in  a  tall  panel  to  the  right  of 
the  fireplace,  on  the  east  waU.  The  sroup  is 
well  known  by  the  engrayings  of  MoAraell  and 
Valentine  Green.  The  corresponding  tall  panel, 
between  the  fireplace  and  the  windows,  is  oceapied 
by  a  naked  figure  of  Venus  standing  in  a  shell, 
with  a  cupid  cronchinff  at  her  feet»  gliding  oyer 
the  sea,  drawn  by  two  doves,  which  she  goides  by 
silken  reins  held  aloft  in  her  right  hand.  Two 
other  cupids  follow  her,  hovering  in  the  air  with 
drawn  bows  and  a  dart  directed  forwards.    This 

Sictore  was  engraved  as  a  Gorreggio  by  John 
mith  in  1701,  when  in  the  possession  of  the  Mar- 
quis of  Normanby.  It  may  once  have  been  at 
Buckingham  House,  but  I  do  not  know  its  present 
locality.  The  remaining  picture,  which  occupies 
a  conspicuous  place  on  the  wall  facing  the 
chimney-piece,  is  of  a  totally  difierent  character 
from  the  rest  The  others  are  weakly  but  showily 
painted  by  a  timid  hand ;  but  this  one  is  dashed 
off  with  self-sufficiency  and  intense  ignorance.  It 
represents  the  fall-length  figure  of  a  young  lad, 
standing,  in  the  ponderous  robes  of  the  Garter,  with 
the  plumed  hat  in  his  hand,  and  the  subject  clearly 
belongs  to  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century.  It 
is  inscribed,  beneath  a  shield  of  arms  encircled  by  the 
Garter,  in  letters  of  no  great  antiquity,  **  Gharles 
Lennox,  Duke  of  Richmond  and  Lennox,  Bom  29 
July,  1672,  Dyed  27  May,  1723."  This  picture 
seems  to  have  been  inserted  into  the  panel  as  a 
substitute  for  something  else.  Two  smaller  panels 
beside  it^  now  filled  with  looking-glass,  under 
broken  pediments,  may  once  have  contained  pic- 
tures. This  full-length  of  the  youtiiful  knight  of 
the  Garter  is  the  only  painted  portrait  in  the  room. 
The  ceiling  is  flat  in  the  centre,  but  separated 
from  the  projecting  cornice  on  each  wall  by  a  lofty 
curved  surface  decorated  with  shells,  Greek  fret 
and  scroll  work,  as  seen  at  Blenheim,  and  in  some 
of  the  royal  palaces.  On  this  coved  sur&ce,  over 
the  centre  of  each  wall,  is  a  large  circular  medallion 
containing  a  white  plaster  representation  of  a 
crowned  sovereign,  the  size  of  life,  seen  to  the 
waist,  and  spiritedly  executed  in  alto-rilievo. 
These  clearly  form  a  part  of  the  original  decora- 
tions of  the  building.  Above  the  fireplace,  the 
medallion  contains  a  portrait  of  OEuroline  of 
Anspach,  queen  consort  of  George  II.  She  is 
attired  in  royal  robes  with  a  jewelled  girdle, 
raising  her  left  hand  to  sustain  a  long  tress  of 
her  hair,  an  action  introduced  also  in  portraits 
of  her  by  Seeman  and  Sir  Godfrey  Kneller. 
On  the  opposite  wall  is  a  portrait  of  her  hus- 
band, George  IL,  wearing  the  collar  of  the 
Garter,  and  an  ermined  mantle  over  the  state 
tunic,  with  a  square  cape  bordered  with  rich  lace. 


from  Blenheim  to  the  Winter  Exhibition  of  the  Old 
Masters  at  the  Boyal  Academy,  No.  125  of  the  Catalogue, 
aise  69  by  44  inches. 


On  the  side  facing  the  door,  and  over  the  windows, 
the  medallion  exhibits  a  portrait  of  €}eorge  L  in 
similar  attire  to  the  preceding,  but  treated  wiUr 
more  freedom  of  attitude,  bearing  a  strong  resem- 
blance to  the  well-known  standing  figure  at 
Windsor  Castle  by  Sir  Godfrey  Eneller.  Over 
the  door  is  a  well  modelled  relief  of  William  IIL^ 
like  the  portrait  in  a  yellow  tunic  by  Sir  Godfrey 
Eneller.  The  &ces  in  all  these  medallions  are 
turned  in  three-quarters,  and  the  dresses  elabo* 
rately  finished ;  tne  wigs  are  long  and  very  full, 
with  small  arched  crowns  surmounting  them. 
Each  medallion  is  supported  by  two  white  plaster 
figures  of  naked  children,  extremely  well  modelled. 

The  chimney-piece,  which  occupies  the  entire 
height  of  the  east  waU,  deserves  particular  atten- 
tion. It  is  elaborately  carved  in  wood,  with  two 
prominent  figures,  in  full  relief,  of  Justice  and 
Feace  embracing,  surrounded  by  mouldings,  com- 
plicated curves,  and  borderings  in  ultra-French 
taste  of  the  Louis  Qninze  period.  This  hea^masa 
of  carving  appears  to  have  been  imported  from 
elsewhere,  and  rests  on  a  low  square  chinmey- 
piece  of  white  marble  and  more  recent  design. 

Throughout  the  whole  building  there  is  no  in- 
dication, either  by  coronet,  garter,  or  heraldic  cog- 
nizance, that  the  place  ever  belonged  to  any  person 
of  rank  or  distinction.  The  onlj  exception  where 
heraldry  appears  is  in  the  pediment  of  the  sum- 
mer-house at  the  end  of  the  grounds.  There 
the  arms  of  the  Pawsons,  of  Shawdon,  in 
Northumberland,  are  carved  on  a  plain  shield,  and 
may  be  referred  to  a  period  when  the  front  of  the 
building  was  altered,  and  the  spaces  between 
the  columns  filled  in  with  windows  of  coloured 
glass.  The  interior  of  the  summer-house,  both  on 
the  waUs  and  a  shallow  domed  ceiling,  is  highly 
decorated  with  figures  and  ornaments  in  low 
relief,  all  in  white  plaster.  They  include  portrait 
medallions  of  females,  supported  by  sphinxes, 
mermaids,  and  tritons.  These  faces  are  all 
in  profile,  full  of  individuality,  and  probably 
represented  members  of  the  family  who  then 
occupied  the  house.  On  the  east  waU  is  a 
curious  circular  medallion,  containing  a  view  in 
white  plaster  alto-rilievo  of  the  mansion  as  it  for- 
merly appeared  from  this  spot,  showing  the  different 
levels  of  ground,  and  reproducing  the  building  in 
its  original  state,  including  the  Gilt  Boom  and 
steps  leading  up  to  it.  We  see  by  this  that  the 
central  fagade  was  flanked  on  each  side  by 
massive  walls,  large  windows,  and  an  elevated 
root  In  the  sloping  plane  in  front  of  the  house 
there  are  no  basins  of  water ;  nor  is  any  figure^in- 
trodnoed  so  as  to  give  indication  by  the  costume 
of  the  exact  period  when  the  view  was  taken. 
One  piece  of  ornamental  sculpture  in  white 
plaster  remains  to  be  noticed  in  the  house  itsell 
This  adorns  a  niche  at  the  foot  of  the  stairs,  and 
is  hollowed  in  the  thickness  of  the  wall  outside 


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the  G3t  Boom,  immediately  behind  the  pictnre 
of  the  ^  HeeperideB.''  It  was  probably  oomieoted 
irith  a  foontaio.  On  the  upper  part  of  the 
round-headed  recess,  and  clererly  adapted  to 
the  concaye  sorfitoe,  are  two  naked  sea-nymphs, 
seated  back  to  back  on  a  rock,  each  resting 
her  feet  on  a  separate  dolphin.  One  female 
snpports  her  long  tresses  with  her  hand,  and  the 
other  poms  oat  water  from  a  sheU.  The  fignres 
are  pore  in  form,  and  extremely  well  modelled. 
The  featmces  approadi  that  type  which  distin- 
{[oishes  the  school  of  Leonardo  da  Vinci 

There  was  in  "N.  &  Q."  (6*  S.  iv.  48)  a  refer- 
ence to  this  oorions  honse,  associating  it,  bat 
wifthoat  adeqoate  aathority,  with  Nell  Qwynne, 
and  a  Auiher  mention  is  made  in  ''N.  &  Q." 
{(B^  S.  iy.  236)  of  the  medallion  portraits,  attri- 
buting them  to  Charles  II.  and  some  of  his  mis- 
tresses, and  to  William  and  Mary.  It  was  also 
stated  that  the  Dachess  of  Portsmoath  was  be- 
lieyed  to  haye  resided  in  the  house.  The  latter 
coDJecture  may  haye  been  prompted  by  the 
pictore  in  the  Gilt  Boom  of  the  youthful 
Duke  of  Bichmond  and  Lennox  facing  the 
fireplace.  If  this  portrait  could  be  accepted  as 
a  part  of  the  original  decoration  there  would  be 
fur  ground  for  the  assumption,  but,  unfortunately, 
as  I  haye  already  stated,  the  picture  is  an  inferior 
ptoduction,  and  appears  to  haye  been  foisted  in  at 
scnne  subsequent  period. 

There  is  nothing  about  any  of  the  puntings  or 
medallions  indicatiye  of  the  period  of  Charles  II. 
In  one  picture,  howeyer,  that  of  the ''  Union  of 
Lsad  and  Water,"  a  remarkable  deyiation  has 
been  made  from  the  original  by  Bnbens,  which, 
I  now  find,  has  passed  from  the  Lyttelton  family 
to  the  collection  of  Mr.  C.  J.  Nieuwenhuys  at 
Wimbledon.  In  the  latter  picture  two  children  are 
swimming  in  the  foreground  water.  One  of  them,  a 
boy  with  animated  countenance,  buffets  the  wayes 
with  his  extended  left  arm,  and  is  full  of  motion. 
This  figure  in  the  copy  at  LUtleberries  has  been 
eonyerted  into  a  tame  portrait  of  a  black-haired 
young  woman,  a  mere  head,  calmly  rising  from  the 
water  and  looking  at  the  spectator.  This  deyia- 
tion marks  the  period  of  the  copy,  and  represents 
«  lady  certainly  of  a  much  later  time  than 
CSiarics  n.,  bebnging,  in  fkct,  to  the  ktest  works 
of  Sir  Godfirey  Kneller. 

I  haye  already  carried  these  notes  to  so  great  a 
length  that  I  cannot  yenture  to  extend  them 
fiuther.  In  making  these  plain  statements  of 
what  I  haye  seen,  I  desire  to  elicit  from  othera, 
wh6  possess  the  knowledge  and  haye  more  leisure 
than  myself  for  research,  some  historical  exphtna- 
tfton  of  this  yery  remarkable  building. 

Gborgb  Scharf. 

National  Portndi  Gallery. 


A  SPANISH  SENTENCE  OP  EXCOMMUNICATION. 

I  send  you  a  translation  of  a  Spanish  document 
in  my  possession,  dated  1688,  a  sentence  of  ex- 
communication issued  by  the  Archbishop  of 
Granada  against  certain  persons  unknown  who 
had  stolen  the  tithe  wheat  and  barley,  &c.  It 
shows,  at  any  rate,  what  ''good  cursors "  these 
worthy  Spanish  bishops  were,  and  what  was  the 
nature  of  the  curse  by  "  beU,  book,  and  candle."* 

"  We,  Don  Martin  Forrico  de  Pedra,  Councillor  of  the 
Holy  Office,  Administrator  of  Health  for  the  city  of 
Granada,  Prorisor,  Official,  and  Vicar  •  General  la 
spirituals  and  temporals  in  the  holy  church  of  Granada 
and  its  whole  arcniepiscopal  jurisdiction,  to  the  most 
Illustrious  and  most  reverend  Senor  Don  Bernardo 
de  los  Rios  y  Guzman,  Archbishop  of  Granada  by  the 
appointment  of  his  Mi^esty,  &c. 

"  To  all  persons,  inhabitants,  and  residents  being  and 
abiding  in  the  said  city  of  Granada  and  in  all  its  epis- 
copal  jurisdiction  whom  the  contents  of  these  presents 
do  or  may  concern  in  any  manner,  health  and  grace. 

"  We  do  you  to  wit  that  there  appeared  before  us 
the  ^tttorney  of  Don  Antonio  Veles  ae  Monte-Mayor, 
head  churchwarden  of  the  said  metropolitan  church 
of  this  city,  and  by  his  petition  presented  to  us  he  gave 
us  information  to  the  effect  that  the  receirers  of  dues  of 
the  said  holy  church  in  the  present  year  1688  employed 
persons  to  collect  the  grain,  wheat,  barley,  &c.,  the 
proceeds  of  the  reseryed  tithes;  and  they  found  that 
certain  persons,  it  is  not  kno?m  who  or  what  thsy  were, 
with  little  fear  of  God  our  Lord  before  their  eyes,  and  to 
the  great  peril  of  their  seals  and  consciences,  have  made 
away  with  the  said  tithes,  damaging  by  these  acts  of 
impiety  and  dishonesty  the  said  reseryed  tithes,  from 
which  proceeding  has  resulted  great  loss.  And  in  order 
that  the  person  or  persons  who  haye  made  away  with 
this  grain  and  keep  it  concealed  may  restore  it,  and  that 
those  who  know  the  circumstances  may  come  forward 
and  giye  information,  as  is  their  duty,t  he  asked  of  us 
fornuJ  letters  of  excommunication,  and  at  the  same 
time  made  oath  of  the  truth  and  certainty  of  hia  peti- 
tion. 

<*  Haying  regard  to  these  circumstances,  we  hayedirected 
to  be  issued,  and  hereby  issue,  theee  letters,  by  the  tenor 
of  which  we  order  you  and  each  and  eyery  one  of  you, 
within  six  days  following  after  the  time  when  these  letters 
haye  been  read  and  published  in  any  church  or  monas- 
tery or  in  any  other  place  in  the  said  city  or  its  archi- 
episcopal  jurisdiction,  that  in  yirtue  of  your  duty  of  holy 
obedience,  and  under  pain  of  the  major  excommunica- 
tion, you  restore  to  the  said  informant  or  to  any  one 


*  In  Pox*s  Booh  of  Martyrs  an  equally  comprehensi  ye 
curse  by  bell,  book,  and  candle  was  pronounced  upon  one 
Thomas  Benet,  a  Master  of  Arts  of  Cambridge,  in  1531, 
for  pronouncing  the  Pope  to  be  Antichrist,  and  for  saying 
we  ought  to  worship  God  only,  and  not  the  saints.  He 
was  afterwards  burned.  In  that  case  three  candles  were 
put  out.  When  the  first  was  extinguished,  the  people 
were  to  pray  that  he  might  be  condemned  to  hell  fire ; 
when  the  second  was  put  out,  they  prayed  that  his  eyes 
might  be  put  out;  wnen  the  third  was  extinguished, 
they  prayed  that  all  the  senses  of  his  body  might  fail 
and  that  he  might  haye  no  feeling.  Eyerybody  knows 
the  curse  upon  the  jackdaw  of  Bheims  in  the  Ingoldshif 


,  The  former  part  of  this  document  is  in  writing, 
but  from  this  place  it  is  printed  as  a  common  form  of 
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empowered  by  him  all  the  grain  thai  has  been  taken 
away,  or  that  yon  come  and  declare  what  yon  know  of 
the  matter  before  us  or  before  the  notary  whose  signa- 
ture follows,  or  before  the  vicar  or  curate  by  whom 
these  our  letters  shall  have  been  published ;  and  that 
your  declarations  shall  be  in  writing,  to  the  intent  that 
the  representative  of  the  said  informant  may  ascertain 
the  truth. 

"Should  the  fixed  time  expire  without  your  com- 
pliance, we  lay  down  and  promulgate  on  you  and  on 
each  one  of  you  the  said  sentence  of  major  excom- 
munication, and  we  excommunicate  you  in  and  by  these 
presents. 

''And  if  after  the  fixed  period  has  expired  the  said 
persons  hare  not  yielded  compliance  to  the  contents  of 
these  our  letters,  we  enjoin  on  you,  the  vicar,  curates, 
and  other  ecclesiastical  persons  of  this  city  and  its 
archiepiscopal  jurisdiction,  each  one  as  far  as  concerns 
himself,  that  you  pronounce  them  publicly  excommu- 
nicated, and  that  you  do  not  receive  or  admit  them  to  the 
canonical  hours  and  divine  offices  until  they  shall  have 
submitted  themselves,  and  have  deserved  the  benefit  of 
absolution. 

*'  And  if  (which  may  God  our  Lord  not  allow  or  per- 
mit) these  persons  thus  declared  excommunicated  snail 
continue  in  their  pertinacity  and  rebellion,  resembling 
Pharaoh  in  thus  hardening  their  hearts,  we  further  do 
hereby  command  the  said  vicars,  curates,  and  eccle- 
siastical persons  that  they  proceed  to  denounce,  curse,  and 
anathematize  them,  saying, '  May  you  be  cursed  by  our 
Lord  and  by  His  Blessed  Mother !  M^y  a  curse  rest 
upon  the  bread  and  meat  and  other  food  you  eat,  upon 
toe  water  tmd  wine  you  drink,  upon  the  shoes  you  Tfear, 
the  elo^hef  you  »r«  olgtbed  with,  the  bed  you  lie  doim 
lipon,  the  gr6ttiid  y6tt  tr«ad  np^tt  *  tu&y  ydur  prayers  be 
made  sin  to  you ;  may  fire  descend  from  heaven  and  bum 
and  consume  you  alive:  may  the  earth  open  and  swallow 
^ou  un;  may  your  children  become  orphans  and  go 
hrougn  the  world  begging,  and  find  no  one  to  help  or 
take  compassion  on  them ;  may  the  plagues  which  God 
sent  upon  Egypt  come  and  lay  hold  on  you  ! '  And  then 
ringing  the  bells,  and  holding  lighted  candles  in  his 
hands,  he  shall  plunge  them  in  the  water,  saying,  *  As 
these  candles  are  extinguished  in  the  water  so  may  your 
souls  be  extinguished  in  hell.'  And  those  who  are 
present  shall  say  '  Amen.*  These  proceedings  shall  be 
continued  till  such  time  as  these  persons  so  excom- 
municated and  anathematised  shall  proceed  to  comply 
with  what  has  been  enjoined  on  them,  and  shall  submit 
themselves  in  obedience  to  holy  Mother  Church,  and 
shall  deserve  the  benefit  of  absolution,  and  these  written 
declarations  shall  be  sent  back  to  us  in  the  originals 
closed  up  and  sealed,  without  giving  any  translations  or 
notes  to  the  parties.  ^ 

"  Given  at  Granada  the  29th  day  of  July,  1688. 

"  (Signed)    FoR&ico. 
'*  By  order  of  the  Provisor  A  vtohio  Rvbda." 

On  the  back  of  the  document  is  a  cert^ificate,  daly 
signed,  of  the  "publication"  of  the  "forepfoing 
cenaure."  F.  V.  W. 

Ekglish  Abhorial  Glass.— I  possess  several 
coats  of  anns  in  ancient  glass,  mostly,  I  believe, 
contemponiiy  with  the  persons  whose  bearings 
are  depicted.  I  have  attempted  to  assign  the 
arms  to  their  owners  as  far  as  I  can,  and  shall 
be  glad  of  any  information  tending  to  confirm  or 
correct  my  surmises.  I  prefiiz  to  the  description 
of  each  coat  the  approximate  date  of  the  glass. 


1.  Circa  1400.  Gules,  a  lion  rampant  double- 
queued  argent.    (?  Montfort,  Earl  of  Leicester.) 

2.  1401-39.  Gules,  a  fess  between  six  cross- 
crosslets  or  (Beauchamp),  quartering  Chequ6  azuro* 
and  or,  a  chevron  ermine  (Earls  of  Warwick). 
This  shield  is  within  a  garter.  Richard  de  Beau- 
champ,  K.G.,  fourteenth  Earl  of  Warwick,  suc- 
ceeded 1401,  and  died  1439.  Gfl  CourthopeV 
Historic  Purage,  p.  499. 

3.  Circa  1400.  Azure,  semd  of  fleurs-de-lis,  a 
Hon  rampant  or,  impaling  Gules,  a  lion  rampant 
cheque  argent  and  azure.  (?  Beaumont  impalin|^ 
DemefordO 

4.  Circa  1460.  Quarterly^  1  and  4,  grand  quar- 
ters :  1  and  4,  Montagu  quartering  Monthermer  ^ 
2  and  3,  Nevile ;  a  shield  of  pretence,  quarterly, 
1,  On  a  canton  a  rose  (Ingaldesthorpe);  2,  A  cross 
engrailed ;  3,  Azure,  a  fess  between  three  leopards^ 
faces  or  (Pole);  4,  Ardent,  on  a  fess  danoett^  sable 
two  bezants  (?  Burgh).  John  Nevile,  Marquis  of 
Montacute,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bamet  in  1471, 
married  Isabel,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Edmund 
Ingaldesthorpe.  Cf.  Courthone's  Historic  Furag^ 
pp.  70,  327,  and  Blomefield's  Noirfolh,  toL  yIL. 
p.  125. 

5.  Circa  1400-60.  Quarterly,  1  and  4^  Azure,. 
three  cheyrons  interlaced  and  a  chief  or ;  Sand'^ 
Vair,  a  fesa  gules.  (]  Fitz-Hugh  quartering  "SDu^ 
mion.)  Henry  Fitz-Hugh,  third  Baron  Kte  Bqsi 
by  writ,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Robert  de  Grey  by  Ayioe,  sister  and  co-heii  of 
Robert,  Lord  Marmion. 

6.  Cvrca  1655-76.  Barry  of  six  or  and  aznre^ 
a  bend  gules.  Crest,  A  grifi&n  azure.  (?  Quap- 
lode.) 

7.  Circa  1600.  Quarterly  of  nine,  1,  Argent^ 
a  chevron  between  l^ree  goats'  heads  erased  sable^ 
&0.  This  is  the  coat  of  Bunny  of  Newland,  as 
given  in  Dugdale's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire,  pub- 
lished by  the  Surtees  Society,  p.  279. 

8.  1606-11.  Quarterly  gules  and  vair,  & 
bend  or  (Constable),  impaling  Fairfax  quartering^ 
Thwaites  of  Denton.  Dorothy,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Fairfax,  married  Feb.  15,  1608,  Sir 
William  Constable,  of  Flamborongh,  Bart.  He 
was  created  a  baronet  June  29, 1611.  There  is 
no  Ulster  badge  on  this  coat;  it  is  therefore 
evident  that  the  glass  must  haye  been  made 
between  the  date  of  his  marriage  and  the  date  of 
his  creation  as  a  baronet.  It  is  seldom  one  can 
identify  an  old  coat  so  nearly.  Gf.  Burke's  JKc- 
Hnct  Barorutage;  Foster's  VisiiaHons  of  York* 
shirty  p.  97 ;  Herald  and  Qensaiogist,  tL  400. 

9.  Circa  1400-50.  Or,  a  lion  rampant  azure,, 
quartering  Gules,  three  fishes  haurient  argent. 

10.  Circa  1600.  Arms  of  the  see  of  York,  im* 
paling  Vert,  three  stags  trippant  ar^nt  The  coat 
of  Scott  alias  Rotherham,  Archbishop  of  York 
1480-1600. 

11.  Circa  1400.    See  No.  3.     Azure,  a  Hon 


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mnpant  wiihin  an  orle  of  fleun-de-lia  or.  (?  Beau- 
mont.) Roond  the  ahield,  npon  an  interlaced 
KroO,  "  Hec  atacio  manet  indooio  aic  noote  diem' 
IVitlnnt  (?)  et  non  oednnt  mortalia  qneqne.'' 

Ths  MiTSxnx  Bbabino  Kooh.— Mr.  Fagsm,  in 
hia  intereating  Life  of  BW  Anthony  Panizzi,  has 
told  the  fltory  of  the  fiunooB  Beading  Boom,  has 
detailed  the  claims  of  Mr.  Hosking  to  the  honoar 
of  anggesting  this  great  work,  and  has  clearly 
abown  that  Sir  A.  PanicBi  is  entitled  to  the  high 
pcaiae  of  a  practical  and  snocessful  plan.  Mr. 
Pagan  also  gires  a  letter  from  Mr.  Sydney  Smirke, 
dated  April  8^  1858,  which  was  addressed  to  Mr. 
Fsnizzi,  and  which  says  : — 

**  I  feel  no  hesitation  in  complying  with  your  reqnest 
and  stating  that  the  idea  of  a  ciroular  reading  room 
with  »  sorroonding  library,  and  with  the  dirisions 
lonned  whoUy  of  book-casea^  was  perfectly  original,  and 
cntirftly  your  own." 

So  &r  as  a  reading  room  is  concerned^  there  seems 
to  he  no  doaht  that  Sir  A.  Pam'zzi  deserves  all  the 
honoar  ;  hat  the  proposal  for  a  libraiy  of  circular 
Ibimy  and  with  **  cuTisions  formed  wholly  of  book- 
cases/' ia  several  years  older  than  Mr.  Panizzi's 
^  fiiat  phm  "  of  1800.  I  have  recently  bought  a 
thin  quarto  Tolume  with  folding  plates,  in  which 
an  ortl  as  well  as  a  circular  l3>rary  is  fully  de- 
■eribed,  and  minute  details  aie  given,  by  M.  Becj. 
Deleasert,  D6puU,  in  the  year  1835,  and  the 
S^QOnd  Mfmoire  is  dated  1838.  The  titles  are  as 
Mows  :— 

1.  "M^moire  snr  U  Biblioth^qne  Boyile,  oi!i  Ton  in- 
diqM  lea  meaues  &  prendre  poor  la  tranaf  j^rer  dans  on 
Uktiaicnt  circulaire,  d*une  forme  nouvelle,  qui  eerait 
constmit  an  centre  de  la  Place  du  Carrooiel :  cette 
UUioih^e  contaendndt  800^000  volames :  elle  aerait 
iacombnatible  ;  d*im  service  et  d'une  iurveillance  faciles ; 
tooi  les  livrei  seralent  renferm^a  sons  des  chAssis  vitr6s 
et  accearible  an  mojen  de  galeriea  et  escaliera  en  fer ; 
eDe  n'oecuperait  tjoe  1,900  toiaes  Garr6ea  et  pourrait  6tre 
— tiM. A  * s-.^  A — -  J — i^  — 1^  Bomme  de 

les  terrains 
6tant  d'une 
Imprimerie 

^* 
S.  **  Second  M^teioire  snr  la  Biblibthdque  Boyale,  snr 
rsBBDlacement  ot.  elle  ponrrait  £tre  oonstraite  et  sor  la 
meiUeiire  dispoeition  i.  aonner  anz  Graades  Biblioth^quet 
PabGoaesL  Aveo  nne  planche.  Paris,  Am6dfe  Gratiot  et 
Gooipie.,  Imprimears  da  Ooll^ge  Boyal  de  France, 
ll^JUedehkMonnaie.    lJain,1838." 

As  these  two  memoirs,  which  are  very  detailed 
and  intereating,  do  not  appear  to  have  been  known 
to  Mr.  Smirke  or  Mr.  Fagan,  they  will  he  interest- 
ing to  many  readen,  in  justice  to  the  memory  of 
the  "true  and  original  inventor"  of  ''circular 
iibrariea.*  Estb. 


calitremcnt  terminte  dans  trois  ans,  poor'la  somme  de 
8  milliMw;  elle  ne  coflterait  rien  h  TEtat 


et  meisons  occnpte  par  la  blblioth&que  aotnelle 
mrigale.    Avec  deox  planches.    Paris,  ] 
de  Henn  Dnpnj,  Bne  de  la  Honnaie,  11.    18S& 


valeor^ 


**I>epaict''  as  a  vbrb  actiyb.  —  Every  ao- 
mind  acquainted  with  the  history  of  the 
''Till  death  us  do  part"  must  receive  a 


shock  at  finding  that  solecism  standing  as  the  title 
of  Mrs.  J.  K.  Spender^s  new  novel.  It  is  even 
worse  than  Dickens's  Our  Mutual  JWend,  for 
which  the  great  novelist  apologized  when  it  waa 
too  late.  It  is  seasonable  just  now  to  call  atten- 
tion to  the  blunder  imported  by  a  careless  printer 
into  our  Marriage  Service,  lliere  is  no  manner 
of  harm  in  the  auxiliary  "  do "  being  employed, 
whether  for  emphasis  or  otherwise ;  but  the 
language  requires  that  it  shall  precede  the  object. 
Either  "  Till  death  do  part  us,"  or  "  Till  death  do 
us  part,**  is  correct ;  but  "  Till  death  us  do  part  '^ 
is  not  good  English.  The  error  of  "  do  part "  for 
^  depart  **  in  the  Marriage  Service  waa  originally 
doubtless  a  printer's  error ;  but  its  retention  has 
been  due  to  the  fact  that  d^rt  as  a  verb  active 
had  become  obsolete.  In  Cfreene's  €froat$u>orth  of 
WU  there  is  a  quotation  from  the  Marriage  Ser- 
vice which  runs  thus,  ''  But  I  am  yours  till  death 
us  depart";  and  in  Churchyard's  Oorgeoue Gallery 
we  have  "  Till  death  us  two  part"  Denari  means 
exactly  part  or  separate.  0.  M.  L 

Atheuenm  Club. 

Thb  Cranks. — In  the  tragico-ludicrous  trial 
across  the  water  we  are  made  much  acquunted 
with— are,  in  fact,  not  suffered  to  foiget — the 
Cranke.  Such  is  the  exact  name  of  a  curious 
specimen  of  spurious  humanity.  Will  you  allow 
me  to  introduce  to  my  cousins  in  America  the 
origin  of  the  Cranke,  who  was,  in  truth,  one  of 
the  rogues  and  vagabonds  of  Shakespeare's  time 
(Viles  and  Fumivall's  reprint,  N.S.S.,  1880)1 
C^ke  is  the  character  name  of  one  who  feigns 
the  falling  sickness,  and  in  the  case  before  me  is 
Harman,  the  counterfeit  Cranke  of  1567.  His 
adventures  are  related  as  follows :— Finding,  so 
to  speak,  the  game  becoming  very  hot,  ''he 
toke  a  skoUer,''  and  was  pulled  over  the  water  to 
St.  George's  Fields.  Overtaken  and  questioned, 
he  damned  himself  over  and  over  ajgain  if  he  had 
any  more  money  about  him ;  but,  as  it  happened,  he 
had  plenty,  and  had  to  produce  it.  He  lived,  he 
said,  "  in  Maister  Hilles  his  rents,  having  a  pretty 
house  well  stuffed.**  Hilles  Rents  was  near  to  one 
of  the  £ear  Gardens,  and  within  sight  of  the  place 
where,  about  thirty  years  after,  "Shakespeare's" 
Globe  was  built.  The  Cianke  was  soon  in  the 
Comter  and  in  Bridewell ;  here  his  true  character 
was  made  known,  he  was  stripped,  and  was  after- 
wards whipped  at  the  cart's  tail  through  London 
to  his  own  door.  W.  Esndle. 

"  NocTOM*'  A  Falsb  Word.— In  a  Visitation  of 
the  Hospital  of  St.  Mary  Magdalene  at  Ripon,  aa 
printed  in  the  M(maMt%cfm  (old),  ii  380  (new.  vL  621), 
and  in  the  Afewiortois  of  Bipon^  which  I  am 
editing  for  the  Surtees  Society,  L  224,  occur  the 
words  "  unam  nodum  camis."  Ducange,  referring 
to  this  passage,  suggests  that  the  word  "  nooium  " 
may  be  oonnected  with  the  English  nodb  or  nai^t 


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"incisara.''  D'Arnis  explaini  it,  '^segmen,  frag- 
ment, morceaa.''  I  meant  to  refer  to  the  original 
MS.  (P.R.O.  Eac.  16  Edw.  Ill,  No.  73),  but  nn- 
fortonately  forgot  to  do  so  before  my  sheet  "was 
printed  off.  Mr.  W.  D.  Selby  has,  howeyer,  been 
good  enough  to  look  at  the  MS.  for  me,  and  he 
has  no  doubt  that  the  reading  is  |)ecut«i,  the  roll 
being  a  little  torn,  and  Dugdale's  copyist  haying 
missed  the  tail  of  the  p  as  well  as  mistaken  the  a 
for  «;  so  that  in  "nocium"  we  haye  a  word  of 
the  same  class  as  that  to  which  Mr.  Knight  Wat- 
son (Proc,  8oc  Antf  second  series,  yii.  394)  has 
shown  eeliis  to  belong.  J.  T.  F. 

Bp.  Hatfield*8  Hall,  Durham. 

CcBious  Guild  Custom.— The  following  is 
worth  a  note : — 

"  Also  if  any  one  shall  call  a  married  woman  a  w , 

and  complaint  be  made  thereof  and  witnesses  be  absent, 
he  may  clear  himself  by  his  own  oath ;  and  if  he  cannot 
make  oath  he  shall  pay  Ss,,  and  he  by  whom  it  was  said 
shall  do  this  iostice,  that  he  shall  take  himself  by  the 
nose  and  say  he  hath  spoken  a  lie,  and  he  shall  be  par- 
doned. There  is  the  same  judgment  as  to  a  widow.*' — 
Dobflon  and  Harland's  FresUm  OuUd,  p.  78.  "The 
Custmnal." 

G.  L.  GrOMME, 

Two  STRANOB  EpiTAFHS. — The  following  are 
copied  from  tombstones  in  the  churchyard  at 
Edwinstowe,  near  Worksop : — 

<'  While  here  interred  the  Tirrins*  ashes  lie. 
Their  deathless  souls  retired  above  the  sky. 
To  which  calm  region  of  eternal  day 
The  eldest  of  them  kindly  showed  the  way." 
"  Enclosed  within  this  humble  bed 
An  Hibernian  woman  rests  her  head ; 
Few  friends  had  she  in  Britain*s  iele, 
I  hope  that  God  will  on  her  smile.*' 

C.  E.  R. 
The  Penny  Post  Anticipated.— On  Jan.  10, 
forty-two  years  ago,  the  uniform  rate  of  a  penny  a 
letter  for  the  United  Kingdom  came  into  operation. 
It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  223  years  since  a 
penny  post  should  haye  been  suggested  by  a 
writer  of  the  same  name  as  the  well-known  pro- 
moter of  that  great  modem  reform — Sir  Rowland 
Hill.  In  the  libraiy  of  the  British  Museum  is 
a  small  book  entitled 

*•  A  Penny  Post;  or,  a  Vindication  of  the  Liberty  and 
Birthright  of  eyery  Englishman  in  carrying  Merchants' 
and  other  Men's  Letters  against  any  Restraint  of  Far- 
mers of  such  Employments.  By  John  Hill.  London. 
Printed  in  the  Year  1669." 

^  .,.  ^  William  Platt. 

Gallis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Rhthelbss  Word8.— I  haye  an  indistinct  re- 
membrance of  haying  seen,  I  think  in  '*  N.  &  Q.," 
a  list  of  the  English  words  which  had  no  rhymes. 
At  all  eyents,  such  a  list  is  not  without  interest. 
Haying  had  occasion  to  read  the  proof-sheets  of  a 
little  book  called  The  BhymuUfy  about  to  appear 
here,  and  containing  a  brief  rhyming  dictionary, 


I  noted  the  following  rhymeless  words  :  months 
silyer,  haye,  bilge,  kiln,  coif,  rhomb,  scarce,  fngae^ 
gulf,  cusp,  scarf,  culni,  oblige,  microcosm,  and  the 
yerb  mouth — sixteen  in  alL  No  doubt  sixteen,  or 
sixty,  more  may  be  found. 

J.  BRANDBR  MATTHSWa. 

Stuyyesant  Square,  N.Y. 

"Walmtth."— In  Hotten's  History  of  Sign- 
boards,  ed.  1866,  p.  381, 1  find  the  following,  '*  The 
Ham  is  the  usual  ^rkman's  sign,  though  at 
Walmyth,  in  Torkamre,  there  is  a  public-house 
sign  of  the  Ham  and  Firkin."  There  is  an  inn  in 
Walmgate  in  York  haying  this  sign.  It  is  nearly 
half  way  down  the  street,  between  St.  DioniB 
Church  and  Walmgate  bar,  on  the  same  side  as 
the  dinroh.  If  Walmyth  is  not  an  error  for 
Walmgate  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  informed  where 
the  former  place  is.  i  yenture  to  send  this  note 
to  '*  N.  &  Q.,**  thinking  that  the  possessors  of  the 
aboye  work  might  be  glad  to  make  the  correction. 

F.  W.  J. 

Bolton  Percy. 

Poll -Books. —I  haye  Cambridge  Uniyeraitj 
polls  for  1727,  1780,  1784,  1790;  also  Oxford 
polls  for  1722,  1760,  1768,  besides  those  of  the 
present  century ;  also  Bedfordshire,  1784 ;  Hun- 
tingdonshire, 1768;  Kent,  1754,  1791;  West- 
minster, 1749,  1774;  Yorkshire,  1741.  Ab  I 
haye  duplicates,  I  shall  be  happy  to  exchange  with 
any  of  your  readers  who  may  naye  others. 

C.  De  la  Pbtiol 

Reform  aub,PaUMaU. 

A  Superstition. — The  cock  in  a  gentleman's 
garden  came  lately  to  the  front  door  and  crowed^ 
whereupon  it  was  said,  '*  We  may  expect  strangers." 
£.  CoBHAX  Brewxb. 

''  There  let  Tht  Servant  be. ''—May  I,  as 
one  of  your  readers,  express  my  thanks  to  A.  J.  M. 
(6^  S.  iy.  633)  for  brmging  these  yerses  to  our 
knowledge  ?  and  mention,  as  a  proof  of  my  thank- 
fulness for  such  soul-moying  words,  that  I  read 
them  at  length  from  the  pulpit  in  my  sermon  on 
the  eyening  of  Sunday,  Januarys. 

W.  D.  Macrat. 

Ducklington,  Witney. 

The  Exchange  of  Heraldic  Book-plates. 
— Will  it  be  possible,  for  the  benefit  of  persons 
interested  in  this  subject,  to  procure  the  addresses 
of  collectors  willing  to  exchange  duplicates!  I 
append  my  own,  being  ready  and  glad  to  carry  my 
suggestion  into  effect 

Arthur  J.  Jewsrs,  F.S.A. 

Mutley,  Plymouth. 

Bad  Copt  and  Good  Printers. — At  the  con- 
clusion of  the  haryest  home  at  SlaughaaLSnssex^ 
the  chairman  asked  permission  of  Dean  Uook  to 
print  ''the  magnificent  sermon  "which  tiie  latter 


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liad  deliTeied  on  the  occasion,  offering  to  copy  it 
Ugihly  for  the  printers.  ''That  will  never  do/' 
answeied  the  Dean  ;  ^  I  will  copy  it  in  a  slovenly 
hand  myself ";  remarking,  with  a  twinkle  of  the 
eye,  that  if  the  copy  were  legible  it  would  be 
giTen  to  the  worst  compositors,  whereas  if  it  were 
written  indifferently  it  would  be  put  into  the  best 
hands,  and  the  work  would  be  well  done. 

William  Platt, 
CaIEs  Court,  St  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Thk  Philolooical  Sociktt's  Nkw  Ekolish 
DiCTioNART.  —  Quotations  wanted  for  the  New 
Kngliah  Dictionary  of  the  Philological  f  '  '  f; 
lend  direct  to  the  editor,  Dr.  Murray,  M:  U, 

London,  N.  W.   A.  Instances  of  any  dJate  o  ic, 

alogotrophy,  aloid,    alomancy,   aloose,   a]  it, 

alopic,  aiphenic,  alphitomorphous,  alphonsin  .), 

alpigene,  alpist,  loron,  altaic,  altarist,  a]  y, 

altereative,  alteim,  alternant,  altematenes; ,  ir- 
natiyeneBS,  altemifoliate  -ous,  alticomous.  B. 
Instances  earlier  than  the  date  annexed  of  aloof, 
1530;  aloofness,  1642;  alop,  1865;  alouatte, 
1852 ;  aloud,  1374 ;  alpaca,  1836  ;  alpenstock, 
1860;  alpestrian^  1861;  alphabet,  sb.,  1513; 
alphabetics,  1865;  alphabetize,  1867;  alpine, 
1607;  alpinist,  1881;  altazimuth,  1869;  alter, 
1500;  alterability,  1856;  alteration,  1500;  altercate, 
1530;  alternating,  1855;  alternation,  1646;  alter- 
natiye,  adj.,  1600;  altematiye,  sb.,  1700.  G.  In- 
alter  the  date  annexed  of  aload,  1601; 


alogy,  1646;  aloiip,  1500;  alow,  yb.,  1600;  alp 
(birdX  1768;  alfmabet,  yb.,  1695;  alphabetary, 
1681;  alpian,  1607;  alpic,  1611;  alterance,  1600; 
alterity^  1678;  altemacy,  1782;  altemal,  1630; 
altemity,  1646;  altify,  1662. 


mnttltt. 
We  must  request  eorrespondents  desiring  information 
OB  fiunily  matters  of  only  priyate  interest,  to  affix  their 
■Hnes  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
aasweis  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Thb  Abbst  of  Fohtbnat.  —  In  the  fifth 
ydome  of  the  Norfolk  Archasology  (1859)  appeared 
a  paper  by  Mr.  John  Henry  Druery,  which  that 
raitleman  entitled  ^  On  the  Retirement  of  Bishop 
Eborard  from  the  See  of  Norwich.**  In  this  paper 
the  writer  speaks  of  **  a  French  antiquary,  Monsieur 
Dupont,"  as  being  then  engaged  upon,  or  as  haying 
already  complete  (for  the  language  used  is  not 
easy  to  interpret),  a  Hittory  of  (he  Abbey  Church 
of  FonUnay,  Lt  Mont-Bard,  C6U  d'Or.  In  the 
extracts  from,  or  references  to^  this  book  there 
occur  some  curious,  not  to  say  startling,  assertions, 
which  I  haye  long  been  anxious  to  yerify,  but 
unhappily  I  can  learn  nothing  of  M.  Dupont  or 
hiB  worl^  After  fruitlessly  applying  for  informa- 
lioii  to  all  likely  sources — and  l  nold  this  is  what 
erery  one  ought  to  do  before  resorting  to  the 


oracular  tripod  of  "N.  &  Q."— I  am  driyen  at 
last  to  your  columns.  Who  was,  or  is,  M.  Dupont ; 
and  did  he  ever  publish  such  a  history  of  the 
abbey  as  Mr.  Druery  alludes  to  ?  If  not,  where 
are  his  MSS.?  What  has  become  of  the  plan  of 
the  abbey  at  Fonteuay  which  this  '^  well-known 
and  most  accomplished  antiquary'*  presented  to 
Mr.  Druery,  and  of  the  drawing  of  that  amazing 
inscribed  stone  which  was  "discovered  by  M. 
Rossignol,  keeper  of  the  records  in  the  department 
of  the  C6te  d'Or,  and  presented  by  him  to  M. 
Dupont"?  Augustus  Jessopp,  D.D. 

Old  Sbrmons. — In  the  course  of  my  book  col- 
lecting I  have  come  upon  a  few  old  sermons,  the 
titles  of  which  are  now  appended.  I  shall  be  glad 
to  learn  something  regarding  their  rarity,  &c. 

"  The  First  |  Sermon  |  of  B.  Sheldon  Priest,  |  after  his 
Conueraion  from  the  |  ttomish  Church :  Preached  before 
an  ho-  I  nourable  Assembly  at  S.  Martins  |  in  the  Field, 
vpon  Passion  |  Sunday,  &o.  i  Psal.  19.  7.  |  The  Law  of 
the  Lord  is  vnspotted,  conuerting  sonles :  the  j  testimony 
of  the  Lord  is  faithfull,  gluing  wisdoms  to  |  little  ones.  | 
Published  by  Authoritie.  |  London,  |  Printed  by  I.  B.  for 
Nathanael  |  Bvtter.    1612." 

This  sermon  is  dedicated  to  "  his  much  respected 
friend,  Sir  Thomas  Gardiner  Knight." 

'*  A  I  Sermon  |  preached  in  Saint  Ma- 1  ries  Chvrch  in 
Oxford  I  March  26.  1612.  at  the  funerall  of  |  Thomas 
Holland,  Do- 1  ctor  of  the  Ghaire  in  Divini-  |  tie,  and 
Rector  of  Exce- 1  terCoIlege,  |  bv  |  RichardKilbie  Doctor 
of  Divinity,  Rector  I  of  Lincolne  College.  |  [An  orna- 
ment here,  on  one  side  of  which  are  the  letters  "AC : " 
and  opposite  "OX."]     Printed  at  Oxford  by  Joseph 


Barnes,  and  are  to  be  I  sold  by  lohn  Barnes  dwelling 
-  ■   ■  ■  -     •  It.    1613." 

f  the  I  Hypocrite.  J  A  Sermon 
preached  in  S*  Maries  |  in  Oxford,  Maij  12.  |  [1616.1 


neere  Hoi-  J  borne  Conduit. 
"The!  Vnmasking 


of  1 


by  j  John  Rawlinson  Doctor  of  Dluinitie.  |  Greg.  moraU 
lib.  32.  cap.  14.  |  Et  spinas  proferunt  Acres :  &  apparet 
quidem  in  |  eis  quod  cleat,  sed  latet  quod  pungat.  I 
London.  |  Printea  by  £dw :  Griffin  for  Ralph  Mabbe,  | 
and  are  to  be  sold  at  the  signe  of  the  Gray-hound  |  in 
Paules  Church-yard.    1616." 

This  last  is  dedicated  to  Sir  John  Egerton,  vho, 
I  understand,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Loid  Chan- 
cellor EUesmere.  It  was  entered  in  the  Stationers' 
Registers  on  May  12,  1616  (Arbor's  Transcript^ 
vol  iii.  p.  688). 

"A  I  Sermon  |  preached  at  St  Ma- 1  ries  in  Oxford 
vpon  I  Tvesday  in  Easter  |  VVceke,  1617.  |  Concerning 
the  AbTses  |  of  obscure  and  difficult  places  of  holy  | 
Scripture,  and  remedies  a-  |  gainst  them.  |  By  John 
Hales,  I  Fellow  of  Eton  OoUedge,  I  and  Regius  Pro- 
fesBOur  of  the  Greeke  |  tongue  in  the  Vniversitie  |  of 
Oxford.  I  [An  ornament  here  exactly  as  mentioned 
above.]  At  Oxford  |  Printed  by  John  Lichfield,  and 
Waiiam  Wrench,  |  Printers  to  the  famous  Vniversitie, 
1617." 

"The  I  Reasona-  I  blenesse  of  Wise  and  I  holy  truth : 
and  the  absurditie  |  of  foolish  and  wicked  I  Brrour.  | 
EccL  7.  27.  I  I  baue  compassed  about,  both  I  and  mine 
heart,  to  knowe  and  to  enquire,  |  and  to  search  wisdome 
and  reason,  and  to  knowe  the  wickednesse  of  folly,  |  and 
the  foolishnesse  of  madnesse.  |  Matth.  11. 19.  |  But  wis- 
dome is  iustified  of  all  her  children.  U[An  omanynt 
)igitized  by  vjOOQIC 


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hen  exactly  the  same  as  twice  referred  to  above.]  At 
Oxford  I  Printed  by  lobn  Lichfield,  and  William 
Wrench,  |  PriDters  to  the  famous  Yniveraitie.    1617." 

The  second  of  these  is  dedicated  "To  the  Right 
Beyerend  Father  in  God,  Arthyr,  Lord  Bishop  of 
Bath  and  WeUes,"  by  the  author  **  John  Terry." 

<<  Paris  I  Oomplunt  |  against  his  |  Natrrall  |  Corrrp- 
tion.  1  With  J  the  Meanes  |  how  to  bee  |  delivered  from  I 
the  power  of  the  same.  |  Bet  forth  in  two  SermoDS  Tpon  | 
the  24  Terse  of  the  7.  chapter  of  |  his  Epistle  to  the 
Bomanes.  |  Oh  wretched  man  that  I  am,  who  shall 
deliner  me  I  from  this  bodie  of  death  1 1  By  me  William 
Teelinck,  Preacher  of  the  |  Word  of  God  at  Middle- 
byrghT  I  London  I  Printed  by  lohn  Dawson  for  lohn 
B^Umie.  1 1621/ 

This  sermon  was  transhited  by  ^  Gh:  Harmar"  out 
of  ''Netherlandish  Datch,"  and  is  dedicated  to 
**  Mr.  Thomas  Nicholas  Eeqaire  ;  As  also.  To  the 
yertaons  Gentlewoman,  Mrs.  lane  Nicholas  his 
wife."  It  was  entered  in  the  Stationers'  Begisters 
on  April  12,  1621  (Arber's  Transcript,  yol.  iy. 
p.  52).  A.  S. 

ASarux  Missal,  ad.  1600.— I  haye  under  my 
chai]p^  a  missal  with  this  heading, ''  Ad  nsam  In- 
signis  eodesie  Sam'  |  missale.  Anno  d'nice  gr'e 
u  I  oococ.  ii.  kl'  Octobris,"  &c  On  the  last  lea^ 
beneath  an  engraying  of  oonyentional  design,  bear- 
ing the  name  of  "  Jehan  dapie,"  is  printed,  "  IT  In 
almanniyenitat«  ^isie'si  finis  impositos  |  esthnio 
missali :  arte  magistri  Johan'is  de  prato  |  eiasdem 
uniyersitatis  librarii  iuratL"  At  the  end  of  the 
calendar  is  written  :  "  Iste  liber  p'tinet  ad  Ba- 
dalphnm  Ghambleyn,"  and  the  death  of  Dame 
Joan  Ohambleyn  is  recorded  opposite  Augnst  23 
in  the  calendar.  The  yolnme  sabseqaently  passed 
into  the  possession  of  one  John  Bacon,  who  roughly 
erased  all  mention  of  the  Pope  ("  pape  ")  and  St. 
Thomas  of  Canterbuiy ;  and  in  folio  xyi,  where 
the  martyrdom  of  the  latter  is  celebrated,  the 
whole  passage  is  scribbled  oyer.  It  bears  cJso  the 
book-plate  of  Sir  Philip  Sydenham,  Bart,  1735, 
as  well  as  these  words,  presumably  in  his  auto- 
graph:— 

«<  Philip  Sydenham. 
O  Jesu,  esto  mihi  Jesns, 
per  cracem  ad  Jesom." 

I  am  told  that  this  missal,  bearing  date  1600,  is 
unique.  It  is  in  excellent  preseryation,  and  is 
enriched  at  intenrals  with  full-page  engrayings  of 
the  Crucifixion,  the  Besurrection,  &c.  Oan  any- 
body enlighten  me  further  on  this  subject  ? 

Frbd.  W.  Jot,  M.A. 

Gathedral  Libiaty,  Ely. 

Thk  SAKDroRDS  OF  HowoiLL  Castlb,  Wbst- 
iiORBLAin). — ^Where  can  I  find  information  re- 
specting this  family  ?  In  Nicholson  and  Bums's 
Bistory  cf  WeOmarktnd  a$id  Cumbmrland,  yoL  L 
p.  388.  mention  is  made  of  a  Sir  Bichard  Sand- 
fordy  Bart,  who  was  murdered  in  London,  1673. 
Did  any  of  the  Sandfords  hold  an  appointment  at 


the  court  of  Charles  1.1  also,  was  there  a  Sir 
Christopher  Sandford,  Bart  I  Amtiquart. 

[See  also  "  N.  &  Q./'  e^  S.  UL  441.]    . 

Frebv AS0K& — I  haye  always  deriyed  the  word 
free  in  this  word  from  the  French  frhre;  but  I 
find  on  p.  240  of  the  yery  excellent  little  book  by 
Mr.  J.  Parker,  the  A  B  0  of  Goihie  Archiieetwre, 
in  an  interesting  aooount  of  the  building  of  Wad- 
ham  College:  "  The  masons  who  worked  the  stone 
for  building  are  called  Free  masons,  or  Freeetone 
masons,  which  is  probably  the  true  meaning  of  the 
term.*'  Surely  it  should  be  Free  stonemosonj,  and 
the  wotdfreeiUme  can  neyer  be  the  due  to  the 
origin  of  the  term.  Jobiphit& 

Dban  Aldrich. — ^In  Brewer^s  7\>pography  of 
Oxfordehiref  p.  327,  Lend.,  1813,  it  is  stated  that 
among  the  works  bequeathed  to  the  library 
founded  at  Henley  by  Dean  Aldrich  there  axe 
some  original  MSS.  of  the  dean  which  are  care- 
fully presenred  in  the  house  of  the  original  clergy- 
man. Haye  these  MSS.  eyer  been  described,  and 
are  they  stiU  in  existence  t        Ed.  Marshall. 

Magathat. — This  is  the  name,  as  commonly 
pronounced,  of  a  hamlet  in  Norton,  near  Sheffield, 
in  1833,  or  thereabouts,  some  ingenious  gentle- 
man suddenly  changed  it  to  MaugerMy,  in 
deference,  probably,  to  Mrs.  Grundy,  who  may 
haye  thought  that  there  was  a  want  of  euphony 
and  an  appearance  of  yulgarity  in  Magathay.  That 
the  older  spelling,  howeyer,  was  nearer  the  truth, 
wiU  appear  from  the  following  twenty  spellings, 
culled  from  the  parish  registers :  Mackerhey,  1661 ; 
Maggarhay,  1611  ;  Maggerhey,  1615 ;  Magger- 
hay,  1621  ;  Magarhaw,  1654  ;  Magarhay,  1666  ; 
Magath-h^,  Magth-hay,  1694  ;  Magarthay,  1709 ; 
Magarth  Hay,  1729 ;  Magarthay,  1733 ;  Margar- 
thay,  1734 ;  Maggarthay,  1752 ;  Maigathway, 
1793  ;  Maigathay,  1795  ;  Magarthway,  1808  ; 
Magatha,  1813 ;  Maogerhay,  1833 ;  Magathay, 
1850 ;  Maugherhay,  1852.  By  interpretatiye 
corruption  the  place  is  called  in  Bhick's  Quids  to 
Deufhyekire  Mag^  ith'  Hay.  The  oldest  spelling  is 
probably  the  correct  <me,  or,  if  not  the  correct  one^ 
the  one  nearest  the  traUu  I  oan  only  compare  it 
with  Madcemeu  and  MwtktrgMyng.  What  does 
the  word  mean,  and  is  it  possible  to  settle  the 
etymology  definitely  so  as  to  remoye  all  doubt  for 
the  future  I  S.  O.  Addt,  M.A. 

Subject  of  a  Portrait  Waktbd. — I  should 
be  glad  if  kdj  one  can  assist  me  to  identify  the 
portrait  descnbed  below.  I  am  aware  it  may  be 
difficult  to  do  so  from  a  mere  description,  but  the 
details  giyen  of  dress,  &&,  may  suggest  more  to 
those  conyersant  with  such  matters  than  they  do 
to  me ;  or,  should  the  picture  haye  been  engrayed, 
some  reader  of  ^'N.  «  Q."  may  be  aoquainted 
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13ie  portrait  if  a  small  whole  length,  and  repre- 
Mnts  a  yonnff  man  of  somewhat  pugnadoos  ooun- 
tcnanoe,  intn  closely  shayen  face,  curassed  in  the 
^oostome  of  abont  the  middle  of  the  last  ceatarj. 
He  is  repreoented  standing  in  a  room,  in  the  left 
(spertator's)  oomer  of  which  is  a  tablc^  partially 
•eoTered  with  a  bine  doth,  on  which  is  a  dock 
inranonnted  bj  a  figore  of  Time  with  a  scythe ;  in 
the  right  comer  is  seen  a  portion  of  a  sofa  and  an 
open  door,  throngh  which  a  flight  of  steps  is 
yudbk,  A  picture  (portrait)'  hann  on  the  wall 
of  the  room.  The  figure  is  holding  a  three- 
-oonered  hat  under  his  left  arm ;  his  left  hand 
-either  in  his  breeches  pocket  or  apon  the  hilt  of 
ihe  sword  which  he  carries  (I  cannot  well  make 
«Qt  which);  his  right  hand  is  thmst  between  the 
buttons  of  his  waistcoat.  The  details  of  his  dress 
are  as  follow:  Own  hair  or  small  wig,  powdered, 
ti«l  bdiind  with  large  black  bow ;  plam-colonr 
<CQat,  red  lined,  reaching  to  knee,  with  gold  frogs 
and  edging;  orange  wairtcoat  reaching  to  thighs; 
orange  or  orange-shot  silk  breeches,  buttoned 
below  knee  and  gartered  there  with  paste  buckles ; 
blue  stockings,  and  dioes  with  paste  buckles ;  lace 
foond  throat  and  falling  over  waistcoat ;  lace  frills 
at  wrists ;  seal  bunging  from  fob.  I  may  add  that 
the  picture  has  always  been  attributed  to  HogartK. 

Ab  collateral  to  the  main  question,  I  may 
fiirtber  ask  if  the  predominance  of  orange  in  the 
colour  of  the  dress  has  any  party  or  national 
significance,  or  if  it  was  common  in  the  dress  of 
tm  period  to  which  this  portrait  may  be  supposed 
to  belong?  Rex. 

Ri7.  Jambs  Scott. — I  seek  for  information  as 
to  his  parentage,  figimily,  &c  His  daughter  Jane 
Eliabetii  married  on  March  3,  1794,  Edward 
Hsdey,  fifth  Earl  of  Oxford,  and  died  in  1824, 
learing  issue  by  him.  Of  what  family  was  the 
BsT.  James  Scott?  Jas.  R.  Scott,  F.S.A. 

Kaowto,  The  Drive,  Walthamstow. 

"Tkaole":  "  Sbctaclb."— What  is  the  den- 
tation of  these  words  ?  The  former  occurs  in  the 
FaeUny  Act  (sect.  5)  as  an  equiyalent  to  the 
hoist  or  lift.  The  term  ''sectade''  is  applied  in 
the  ndghboorhood  of  Halifax  to  the  same  appa- 


Thi  latb  W.  H.  Adtsworth.— Can  any  of 
your  readers  inform  me  where  I  shall  find  the 
report  of  an  interyiew  between  an  American  and 
m  late  lir.  Ainsworth?  It  was  printed,  I  am 
ioformedy  two  or  three  years  ago.         C.  W.  S. 

Pbbsoval  Aim  Family  Nahbs,  Tbutokic 
An>  Ksuna — ^I  should  be  much  obliged  if  any  of 
your  leaders  would  give  me  a  Ust  of  the  best 
aaUioEities  on  the  deriyations  of  the  above ;  also, 
^  the  mnaningB  of  Ohiistian  names. 

Am      TT  •     M. 


Furlong  Fahilt.— ''Done  for  Elenor  Furlong, 
2b^  May,  1780,  who  departed  this  life  10«^ 
February,  1781,  aged  24  years."  This  inscription 
is  on  the  back  of  a  miniature  of  a  lady,  in  the 
dress  of  a  hundred  years  ago,  which,  through  the 
death  of  aged  rdatiyes,  has  come  into  my  posses- 
sion. I  shall  be  glad  to  know  who  she  was.  Had 
she  any  Douglas  connexions  ?    W.  H.  Oottell. 

Fern  Yilla,  WeathaU  Road,  Forest  Hill«  8.E. 

W.  SuiTH,  Glockmakbr.  —  In  the  printing 
office  of  the  Northampton  Mercury  is  a  large  case 
dock  of  considerable  age,  bearing  the  name  of  the 
maker,  "Willm.  Smith,  London,"  but  no  date. 
Can  it  be  disooyered  when  this  clockmaker  lived 
and  died?  The  case  is  ornamented  with  raised 
Chinese  figures,  temples,  &c,  once  aided. 

F.  A  ToLK. 

Ancient  Mottobs.—- Will  any  reader  kindly 
tell  me  of  any  ancient  mottoes  over  entrance  doors 
and  fireplaces,  in  yarious  rooms  of  mediaeval 
houses,  in  English  and  Latin ;  or  if  there  is  any 
book  containing  such  mottoes  in  a  collected  form  ? 

A  Y.  Nutt. 

Windsor. 

''Handsome  Charley."  —  In  the  8t  Luh^s^ 
New  Kentish  Town^  Magaxine,  May,  1874, 1  find 
mention  of 
''  an  old  gentleman  dressed  in  green,  in  the  eat  of  an  old 

court  dreis He  was  treated  with  great  respect  by  the 

upper  classes  of  Somen  Town ;  and  by  the  lower  orders 

known  as  '  Handsome  Charley.'    He  was  tuppoted  to  be 

thelastoftheStaarts." 

This  was  early  in  the  present  century.    I  shall  be 

glad  of  fuller  particulars. 

Harrt  Gbo.  Griffinhoofk. 

Gatelbt,  or  Yatklbt,Park,  Hkrkfordshirr. 
— I  shall  feel  obliged  for  any  pitfticulars  as  to  this 
park,  at  one  time  the  seat  of  Sir  Sampson  Enre, 
Attorney-General  to  King  Charles  I.  John  Euro 
(son  of  Sir  Sampson)  married^  Sept.  26, 1661,  Susan, 
daughter  and  co-heir  of  Sir  John  Tracy,  of  Stanhow, 
CO.  Norfolk,  according  to  a  pedigree  of  Euro  in 
Harl.  MS.  6808,  in  the  hand  of  Peter  le  Neve. 
Dorothy,  the  other  co-heir  (called  Catherine  by  Sir 
J.  B.  Burke,  pedigree  of  Bacon  baronets),  married 
Butts  Bacon,  second  son  of  Sir  Bobert  Bacon,  third 
hart  of  Redgrave.  Query,  Who  was  this  Sir  John 
Tncy  f  Le  Neve  did  not  write  Stanhow  for  Stan- 
way,  CO.  Gloucester,  for  in  the  Royalist  Composi- 
tion Papers  (P.B.O.),  voL  bdv.  No.  667,  which  is 
a  petition  of  Sir  John  Traces,  he  styles  himself  of 
Stanhow,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  and  "  being  an 
aged  infirm  and  weak  man,  very  much  vexed  with 
the  gout,  is  not  able  to  travel  to  London,'*  so  prays 
that  he  may  be  sworn  to  account  before  two  of  the 
nearest  justices,  dated  Sep.  6, 1660.  No.  666  of 
the  same  volume  is  an  account  by  Sir  John  Tracy, 
in  which  he  states  that  Sir  John  Byron,  of  Newe* 


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Bteede,  co.  Notts.,  K.B.,  Dame  Cecily  his  wife,  tod 
Dame  Anne  Byron  his  mother,  had,  for  valuable 
considerations  named,  by  deed  dated  May  6, 163^ 
mortgaf^ed  the  manors  of  Linbye  and  Hacknoll, 
and  subseqaently  other  lands,  to  the  said  Sir  John 
Tracy.  Any  information  relatiye  to  Sir  John  Tracy 
or  John  Bare  will  be  very  acceptable. 

Arthur  J.  Jewbrs,  F.S.A. 
Hutley,  Plymoath. 

Authors  of  Books  Wantkd. — 

The  SainVt  LegaeUt ;  or,  a  CoUedion  of  artadne  Pro* 
fniset  out  of  the  Word  tf  God.  Collected  for  Private  Use, 
but  Publiehed  for  the  Comfort  of  God'g  People.  By 
A.  P.  *•*.  Oxford,  printed  by  William  Turner  for 
MicbMl  Sparke,  1631.    18mo. 

The  Man  in  the  Moon.  Consisting  of  Essays  and 
Crifciqnes  on  the  Politics,  Morals,  Manners,  Drama,  ko., 
of  the  Present  Pay.    London,  S.  Highley,  ISOi.    8to. 

c.  w.  a 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted.— 
*'  Hard  is  the  seaboy's  fate,  his  opening  hours 
Denied  the  shelter  of  paternal  bowers ; 
From  mother's  lips  for  him  no  gentle  tale, 
Uis  cradle  is  the  ship,  his  nurse  the  gale,   ke. 

SUBSOBIBIB. 


Slfyliff. 

HENRY  MABTEN,  THE  BEQICIDE. 
(e^  S.  iy.  449.) 
Henry  Marten  was  the  son  of  Sir  Henry  Marten, 
a  great  faronrite  of  James  I.,  and  Jndge  of  the  Ad- 
miralty and  Dean  of  Arches ;  was  himself  a  gentle- 
man commoner  of  Uniyersity  College,  Oxford,  and 
was  elected  member  for  Berks,  1640.  He  was  in 
politics  a  republican,  and  took  side  with  the 
Parliament  in  its  quarrels  with  Charles  I.,  at  whose 
trial  he  was  one  of  the  judges.  At  the  Bestoration 
he  surrendered  under  the  proclamation  and  was 
tried,  and  he  pleaded  guilty  to  signing  the  death 
warrant  and  attending  the  trial,  but  did  so,  as  he 
said,  without  any  maUcions  intent,  and  only  in 
obedience  to  the  authorities  then  existing.  He 
petitioned  for  pardon,  which  he  obtained  on  con- 
dition of  perpetual  imprisonment.  He  was  sent  to 
the  Tower,  and  afterwards  to  different  prisons, 
being  ultimately  lodged  in  Chepstow  Castle,  where 
he  remained  for  twenty  years.  Southey  made  a 
mistake  in  the  term  of  years:— 

"  For  thirty  years  secluded  from  mankind, 
Here  Marten  lingered.    Often  have  these  walls 
Echoed  his  footsteps,  as  with  OTen  tread 
He  paced  around  his  prison :  [not  to  him 
Did  Nature's  fair  tarieties  exist : 
He  never  saw  the  sun's  deliffhtful  beam, 
Bare  when  through  yon  high  bars  it  pour'd  a  sad 
And  broken  splendour.]  (ti  Dost  ask  his  crime  ? 
He  had  rebelled  acainst  the  king«  and  sat 
In  judgment  on  him." 

The  early  p<»tion  of  Marten's  incarceration  was 
indubitably  rigorous,   although   he  enjoyed  his 


property  and  his  wife  was  permitted  to  lire  with 
nim  ;  but  after  a  lapse  of  years  he  was  allowed  ta 
haye  his  family  to  reside  constantly  with  him,  to 
receire  friends,  and  to  yisit  any  family  in  the 
yicinity,  his  host  being  responsible  for  his  return 
at  the  time  appointed  An  anecdote  is  related  of 
a  yisit  to  St.  JPierre.  A  large  company  was  assem- 
bled around  the  festiye  board,  and  after  the  re* 
moyal  of  the  cloth,  and  the  bottle  being  freely 
circulated,  Mr.  Lewis,  the  host,  jokingly  said  to 
Marten,  '*  Harry,  suppose  the  times  were  to  return 
in  which  you  passea  your  life,  what  part  would 
you  take  in  them  ? "  ^  The  part  that  I  haye  done," 
was  the  immediate  answer.  **  Then,  sir,"  said  Mr. 
Lewis,*' I  neyer  desire  to  seeyou  at  my  table  again"; 
nor  was  he  afterwards  inyited.  Wood  says  of  him : 

"  He  was  a  man  of  good  natural  talents ;  was  a  boon 
familiar,  witty,  and  quick  with  repartees ;  was  exceed- 
ingly happy  in  apt  instances,  pertinent,  and  yery  biting  ; 
so  that  nis  company  being  esteemed  incomparable  by 
many,  would  haye  been  acceptable  to  the  greatest  per- 
sons, only  he  would  be  drunk  too  soon,  and  so  put  an  end 
to  all  the  mirth  for  the  present.  At  length  after  all  his 
rogueries,  acted  for  nearly  twenty  years  together,  were 
passed,  was  at  length  called  to  account  for  that  grand 
▼illainy,  of  baring  a  conuderable  hand  in  murthering  hia 
Prince ;  of  which,  being  easily  found  guilty,  was  not  to 
safer  the  loss  of  nis  li^,  as  others  did,  but  the  loss  of 
his  estate  and  perpetual  imprisonment,  for  that  he  came 
in  upon  the  Proclamation  of  Surrender. 

"  So  after  two  or  three  removes  from  prison  to  prison, 
he  was  at  length  sent  to  Chepstow  Castle,  in  Monmouth- 
shire, where  he  continued  another  twenty  years,  not  in 
wantonness,  riotousness,  and  yillainy ;  but  in  confinement^ 
and  repentance  if  he  had  pleased. 

"  This  person,  who  liyed  very  poor,  and  in  a  shabbed 
condition  in  his  confinement,  and  would  be  glad  to  take 
a  pot  of  ale  from  any  one  that  would  give  it  to  him,  died 
with  meat  in  his  mouth,  Uiat  Is  suddenly,  in  Chepstow 
Castle,  before  mentioned,  in  September,  1680,  ana  was 
on  the  9th  day  of  the  same  month  buried  in  the  Church 
of  Chepstow.  Some  time  before  he  died,  he  made  an 
epitaph,  by  way  of  acrostic,  on  himself,  which  is  en* 
grared  on  the  stone  that  coTsrs  his  remains." 

The  epitaph,  in  capital  letters,  is  a  follows: — 

''Here,  Sept.  9th,  1680. 

was  buried 
A  true  bom  Bnglishman, 
Who  in  Berkshire,  was  well  known 
To  loTe  his  country's  freedom  'bove  his  own; 
But  being  immured  full  twenty  year 
Had  time  to  write,  as  doth  appear— 
His  Epitaph. 
Here  or  elsewhere  (all 's  one  to  you  or  me) 
Earth.  Air,  or  Water,  gripes  my  ghostly  oust, 
None  knows  how  soon  to  l>e  by  m  set  free ; 
Reader,  if  yon  an  old  tnr'd  rule  will  trust. 
Ton '11  gladly  do  and  suffer  what  yon  must. 

My  time  was  spent  in  serring  you  and  you, 
And  death 's  my  pay,  it  seems,  and  welcome  too ; 
Beyenge  destroying  but  itself,  while  I 
To  birds  of  prey  leaye  my  old  cage  and  fly : 
Examples  preach  to  the  eye— care  then  (nune  says) 
Kot  how  you  end,  but  how  you  spend  your  days." 

Wood  says  there  was  another  epitaph,  written  by 
Marten's  daughter. 


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Marten's  remaiDB  were  interred  in  the  chancel 
of  the  cbnrch  of  Chepstow,  but  were  afterwards 
lemoyed  by  a  yicar  named  Chest  into  the  body 
of  the  church,  he  thinking  they  were  nnworthy  of 
lemainiDg  so  near  the  altar.  In  the  dining-room 
at  St.  Pierre  is  the  supposed  portrait  of  Henry 
Marten,  re^ffesenting  him  at  three-quarters  length, 
in  armour.  In  his  right  hand  he  holds  a  pistol, 
which  he  is  about  to  discharge,  and  with  his  left 
grasps  Yaa  sword  hilt ;  behind  him  is  a  page  tying 
on  a  green  sash.  He  appears  about  forty-fiye  years 
old,  of  a  spare  habit,  nigh  forehead,  long  yisage, 
and  dark  flowing  hair  on  the  right  shoulder. 

£.  S.  HORTON. 

A  Jacobpfb  Rklic  (6*^  S.  iv.  463).— Your 
correspondent's  description  of  a  curious  Jacobite 
wine-glass  induces  me  to  send  a  note  of  one 
which  has  been  for  some  time  in  my  possession. 
It  was  giren  to  me  by  a  friend  in  Manchester, 
who  purchased  it,  together  with  six  or  seyen 
Bimilar  ones,  from  two  old  maiden  ladies  liying  in 
a  small  Chediire  town,  in  whose  family  they  had 
liog  been  preserved.  The  wine-glass,  which  is 
reiy  strong  and  of  somewhat  thick  glass,  measures 
6}io.  in  height,  has  a  oonical  bowl  2i  in.  long 
and  2i  in.  in  diameter,  and  stands  upon  a  foot 
2}  io.  in  diameter.  The  stem  is  slightly  tapering 
from  the  bowl  to  the  base,  and  is  ornamented 
with  two  thick  raised  rings,  one  just  below  the 
base  of  the  bowl,  and  the  other  three-quarters 
of  an  inch  lower  down,  the  upper  one  being 
slightly  la^er  thui  the  lower.  A  number  of  fine 
air  tubes  run  in  spirals  down  the  stem,  being 
larger  at  the  top  than  below.  On  the  bowl,  in  a 
m^allion,  is  a  half-length  full-face  portrait  of 
Prince  Charles  Edward,  depicting  him  in  a  tight 
fitting  tartan  suit,  haying  a  star  on  the  left  breast 
aod  a  sash  oyer  the  left  shoulder,  and  wearing  a 
Scotch  bonnet,  ornamented  on  the  left  front  with 
a  qoatrefoiL  Aboye  the  medallion  is  a  ribbon 
bearing  the  motto  "Audentior  ibo."  Springing 
from  the  base  of  the  medallion  on  the  one  side  is 
a  Scotch  thistle,  on  the  other  an  English  rose, 
forming  a  pattern  oyer  the  rest  of  the  bowl^  the 
whole  presenting  a  yery  elegant  design.  May  I 
aak  whether  many  similar  wine-glasses  are  known  1 
J.  P.  Earwaker. 

Gabrick  akd  JxsmxjB  (6«>  S.  y.  27).--Bar- 
Ponrr's  communication  ^giyes  an  incorrect  copy 
of  Jonius's  letter  to  Ga'rrick.  and  an  erroneous 
description  of  the  incident  which  saye  rise  to  it. 
The  followdng  extracts  from  WoodfaU's  Junius 
taow  what  rmlly  occurred.  In  a  postscript  to  a 
wte  to  Woodfall,  dated  Noy.  8,  1771,  and 
"wAed  "secret,"  Junius  writes,  "Beware  of 
wrick;  he  was  sent  to  pump  you,  and  went 
^inetly  to  Bichmond  to  tell  the  king  I  should 
vriu  BO  n^ore.**  To  this  passage  the  editor 
*Ppaids  the  following  explanatory  note  : — 


"Oarrick  had  reoeired  a  letter  from  Woodfall  jast. 
before  the  aboye  note  of  Juniiu  was  sent  to  the  printer 
in  which  Oarrick  was  told,  in  confidence,  that  there 
were  aome  doubts  whether  Jonins  would  continue  to> 
write  much  longer.  Oarrick  flew  with  the  intelligeQce- 
to  Mr.  BamuB,  one  of  the  pages  to  the  king,  who  imme- 
diately conveyed  it  to  his  Majesty,  at  that  time  residing 
at  Richmond;  and  from  the  peculiar  sources  of  informa- 
tion that  were  open  to  this  extraordinary  writer,  Juniue 
was  apprised  of  the  whole  transaction  on  the  ensuing 
morning,  and  wrote  abore  postscript  and  the  letter  that 
follows  it  in  consequence." 

This  is  the  letter  that  "  follows  it,"  referred  to^ 
in  the  note  : — 

w  To  Mr,  David  Oarrick 

"Nov.  10, 1771. 
"I  am  yery  exactly  informed  of  your  impertinent 
inquiries,  and  of  the  information  you  so  busily  sent  to 
Bichmond,  and  irith  what  triumph  and  exultation  it 
was  received.  I  knew  every  particular  of  it  the  next 
day.  Now  mark  me,  vagabond.  Keep  to  your  panto- 
mimes or  be  sure  you  shall  hear  of  it  Med^e  no  more, 
thou  busy  informer  t  It  is  in  my  power  to  make  yoa 
curse  the  hour  in  which  yon  dared  to  interfere  with 

"JOHIUS." 

To  WoodMl  Junius  gives  these  instructions  : — 

*<I  would  send  the  above  to  Garrick  directly,  but 
that  I  would  avoid  having  this  hand  too  commonl^  seen.. 
Oblige  me,  then,  so  much  as  to  have  it  copied  in  any 
hand  and  sent  by  the  penny  post,  that  is  if  you  dislUce^^ 
sending  it  in  your  own  writing." 

Junius  refers  to  the  matter  again  in  the  follow- 
ing passage  of  a  letter  to  Woodudl,  dated  Nov.  15,. 
1771:— 

**I  have  no  doubt  of  what  you  say  about  David 
Garrick— so  drop  the  note.  The  truth  is  that,  in  order 
to  curry  favour,  he  made  himself  a  greater  rascal  than 
he  was.  Depend  upon  what  I  tell  you ;— the  king  un- 
derstood that  he  had  found  out  the  secret  by  his  own 
cunning  and  activity.  As  it  is  important  to  deter  him 
from  meddling,  I  desire  you  to  tell  him  that  I  am  aware, 
of  his  practice,  and  will  certainly  be  revenged  if  he  does 
not  desist.  An  appeal  to  the  public  from  Junius  would 
destroy  him.*' 

Before  coming  to  the  end  of  the  letter  Junius 
changes  his  mind,  and  writes: — 

'<Fpon  reflection  I  think  it  absolutely  necessary  to. 
send  that  note  to  D.  G.,  only  say  praetitet  histead  of 
imp€rHneiU  inquiria.  I  think  you  have  no  measures  to 
keep  with  a  man  who  could  betray  a  confidential  letter 

for  80  base  a  purpose  as  pleasing " 

0.  Ross. 

Robert  db  Bella  Aqua  :  "Etkewng*'  [not 
"Gtkring'Tin  Ruftord  Charters  (6*  S.  iy. 
537)._I  think  there  can  be  little  doubt  that 
D.  G.  0.  E.  has  either  misread  the  authorities  or 
been  himself  misrepresented  by  a  clerical  error.  Oa 
consulting  Dugdale  and  Tanner,  he  will  see  that 
the  phice-name  of  which  he  is  in  search  is  clearly 
Eykering  or  Eykring,  not  Gykring,  and  that  it  ia. 
in  Nottinghamshire.  Tanner,  in  his  NotUia,  s.v. 
Rufford  (Notts,  xyL),  cites  the  foUowing  charter^ 
"  Cart.  13  Edw.  I.  fi.  78,  80,  pro  libera  wwnrena  m, 
Oratele,  Eyhering,  Almeton,  Kirketon,  Tokeeford 


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Foxholes  et  Morton  [Nottingh.],"  &o.  He  farther 
^ites  "Flac  in  hanco^  27  Edw.  I.  rot  18,  de 
gniDgia  de  Ekering,  et  commania  pro  porcis  in 
Winkeborn/'  and  also  refers  to  Thoroton's  Not- 
iinghamthire^  p.  268,  "  of  lands  in  Eykmng."  I 
italicize  the  seyeral  forms  nnder  which  the  place 
sought  for  by  D.  G.  C.  E.  is  presented  to  us  by 
medisBval  and  modem  authorities  respectiyely ; 
the  identity  of  the  place  is  manifest 

With  regud  to  Kobert  and  Dionysia  de  Bella 
Aqua,  it  may  be  well  to  mention  that  Thomcu  de 
Bella  Aqua  is  named  by  Dugdale  among  the 
^benefactors  of  Rufford  {Mon,^  7.  517,  ed.  1825). 
The  date  of  the  charter  cited  by  D.  G.  0.  E.  not 
^eing  giyen,  I  can  only  suggest  the  possible 
identity  of  his  Bobert  with  Bobertus  de  Belewe, 
who  is  recorded  in  the  CaUndarium  Genioiogiewn, 
p.  467,  "  Pro  priore  et  conyentu  Wigom*.  Inq. 
-ad  q,d,^  under  21  Edw.  I. 

Other  bearers  of  the  name  occurring  in  the  CaUeii^ 
^Sariwm  are  Johannes  de  Bella  Aqua,  alicu  Bellewe. 
and  Laderana  his  wife,  with  Isabella  (or  Sibilla)  and 
Johanna  their  daughters.  There  is  also,  wrongly 
•entered  in  the  index  under  the  name  of  De  Bella 
Aqua,  a  certain  ''  Nicholans,"  who  was,  indeed,  one 
of  the  heirs  (*'  consanguineus  et  alter  lueredum," 
Cal,  Om,,  p.  706)  of  Laderana,  but  who  is  clearly 
shown  by  some  of  the  yery  Inquisitions  to  which 
the  index  refers  us  to  haye  been  son  of  Isabella, 
**  fiL  Johannis  et  LadransB,  quondam  uxoris  Milonis 
de  Stapelton'  defuncts"  (Cal  Gm,,  p.  608, 
29  Edw.  I.).  Of.  J6.,  p.  706,  Inq.  p.m.,  34  Edw.  L, 
•of  Bobert  de  Pontefracto, ''  qui  tenuit  de  Nicholao 
^e  Stapelton  (consanguineo,  &c.,  Ladenuue,  qusB 
fuit  uxor  Jolumnis  de  Bella  Aqua)." 

In  a  future  issue  of  the  CaUndarium  (if  we  may 
hope  for  such)  it  would  be  well  to  place  Nicholas 
in  his  true  light,  under  De  Stapelton,  not  De 
'Bella  Aqua.  The  lands  of  John  and  Laderana 
•de  Bella  Aqua  were  situated  principally  in  Tork- 
shire,  according  to  Inq.  p.m.,  i.  169,  29  Edw.  L, 
Ko.  67.  The  error  concerning  Nicholas  is  the 
more  remarkable  firom  the  circumstance  that  he 
-was  the  second  Lord  Stapleton,  and  that  the  Bruce 
lands  of  Carlton,  which  he  inherited  £rom  Laderana, 
formed  the  chief  seat  of  the  subsequent  line  of 
Stapleton  of  Carlton. 

Thoroton  giyes  a'  full  account  of  Eykring 
^omesday,  Echering)  in  his  AntiquUia  of  Not- 
-HnghamihvTB  (Lond.,  1677),  pp.  ZQ6,$eqq.,  under 
the  hundred  of  Bassetlaw.  South  Cky  diyision. 
fiis  account  is  substantially  the  same  as  that  of 
the  Eegisirvm  de  Bvfford,  supplemented  by  the 
escheats,  rolls,  and  other  public  archiyes.  He 
•does  not  giyes  the  date  of  the  '^  floruit "  of  Bobert 
•de  Bella  Aqua,  but  he  mentions  some  others  of 
the  name->Wiliiam,  son  of  William,  and  Thomas, 
«on  of  William,  both  of  whom  relaui«d  lands  in 
JBykring  to  the  monks  of  Bufford. 

Bannlf  Heleweis,  who  was  giyen  with  the  lands 


gifted  by  Bobert  and  Dionysia  de  Bella  Aqua, 
was  son  of  anoUier  Banulf,  luU  Thoroton. 

C.  H.  E.  Carmichasl. 
N«w  Univernty  Clab,  8.W. 

"  The  Wholb  Duty  of  Man  "  (5«*  S.  yiiL 
389,  615  ;  ix.  99,  176;  6«»  S.  iy.  236).— Two  or 
three  days  after  tiie  last  notes  on  this  subject  ap- 
peared I  came  across  a  copy  of  Tht  New  WKm 
Ihiiy  of  Man,  published  in  1752  at  Dublin.  It 
is  represented  as  '*  The  twelfth  edition  with  addi- 
tions," and  on  the  reyerse  of  the  title-page  is  "  An 
extract  of  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Teresia  Constantia 
Phillips  to  the  Bight  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Chester- 
field," which  extract  is  as  follows: — 

'<  If  my  Girl  lires  till  she  is  twenty  I  shall  Teeommend 
to  her  penual  that  celebrated  performance  of  your  Lord- 
ship's, The  WkoU  Dulv  of  Man;  but  at  present  the 
morality  it  teaches,  I  think,  is  matter  for  older  heads 
than  her*s.  Indeed,  haying  the  honour  to  be  pretty  well 
acquainted  with  your  Lordship,  I  am  garprised  when  I 
read  it,*  and  unless  I  had  had  it  from  your  own  mouthy 
that  yon  were  the  Author  of  that  pioos  book,  could  noyer 
haye  belieyed  vonr  lacubrations  eoold  haye  tnnied  upon 
a  svstem  of  religion  and  self-denial  so  fall  of  austerity 
and  mortifications.  Tour  Lordship  wilL  I  hope,  pardon 
my  mentioning  your  being  the  Autnor  of  that  inestmiable 
Piece,  as  yon  enjoined  me  to  no  sort  of  secrecy ;  bat  I 
don't  know  where  to  produce  an  instance,  that  doth  so 
much  honour  to  my  own  opinion,  that  there  is  nothing 
we  are  BO  often  mistaken  in  as  appearances.  When  one 
sees  your  Lordship  with  a  half  down  cast  look,  twirlmg 
your  thumbs^  I  must  confess  myself  one  of  those  heretics!, 
who  heretofore  suspected  your  stifled  thoughts  were 
much  more  goyemea  by  the  flesh  than  the  spirit.  Me- 
thinks  I  now  see  your  Lordship  in  the  yery  position  I 
haye  this  moment  described,  turning  your  thumbs  one 
over  the  other ;  and  that  you  are  as  much  surprized  at 
a  sheet  of  moral  reasoning  from  me,  as  I  can  be  when  I 
turn  oyer  The  Whole  Dviy  of  Man^  and  recollect  Lord 
Chesterfield  to  be  the  author.^' 

Possibly  some  one  will  be  able  to  inform  us  who 
Mrs.  Phillips  was.  Supposing  this  letter  to  haye 
been  addressed  to  Lord  Chesterfield,  whose  Letters 
are,  I  presume,  the  only  writings  of  this  accom- 
plished gentleman  that  haye  ''  liyed,"  how  does  it 
come  that  TJhe  New  Whole  Duty  of  if  an  has  neyer, 
so  far  as  I  am  aware,  been  included  among  his 
productions  1  Further,  is  it  known  that  Lord 
Chesterfield  had  any  peculiar  habit  of  ''  turning 
his  thumbs,"  or  is  the  quotation  giyen  the  only 
known  record  of  this  singular  practioe  ? 

Alfred  Ghas.  Jona& 
Swansea. 

My  copy  of  the  aboye  book  (1719)  has  a  MS.  note 
concerning  the  authorship,  which  says: — 

"This  book  was  written  by  the  Lady  Masham,  of 
Gates,  in  the  county  of  Essex.  She  was  a  daughter  of 
Dr.  Balph  Cudworth,  and  a  woman  of  eminent  piety 
and  learning.  Locke  was  her  friend,  and  eonndend  as 
one  of  her  amily." 

In  a  book  I  possess,  entitled  Tks  Cauag  of  ihs 
Decay  of  ChritUan  Fifty,  &G.,  written  b^  the 
autiior  of  Th»  Whole  Duly  of  Man,  and  prmted. 


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London,  Ij  B.  Norton  for  T.  GarthwaLt,  Sto., 
1668>  is  an  addiefls  to  Mr.  Grarthwait,  and  the  ex- 
cellent aathor  of  both  the  aboye  treatiaea  is  epoken 
«(  bat  IB  BQch  a  manner  as  to  evade  recognition. 
I1iiiaddieniBBigned"H.E.,Januar7,1667.''  There 
foilowf  a  pra£aoey  in  which  are  Latin,  Greek, 
Hebrew,  and  even  a  Syriac  qa^tation  in  proper 
chaiaeterB,  bat  no  clue  to  the  writer.  At  the  end 
an  alio  ^  Private  Devotions,"  but  nothing  similar 
to  those  at  the  end  of  The  Whole  Duty.  On  the 
title-page  ii  a  oopper-[»late  of  a  bnming  ship,  with 
the  insoiption  "Inimicos  homo  fecit  hoc,"  which, 
tram  certain  saggestions  in  the  address  and  the  pre- 
hoe,  may  be  sapposed  to  allude  to  the  recent  Great 
Fire  of  London.  The  Bishop  of  Lincoln  told  Evelyn, 
in  1692,  that  ''one  Dr.  Chaplin,  of  University 
Coll^ge^  Oxon,  was  the  author,  and  that  he  used 
to  nSi  it  to  his  pupUs,  and  communicated  it  to  Dr. 
Stem,  afterward  Abp.  of  York,  but  would  never 
suffer  any  one  of  his  pupils  to  copy  it."  D'lsnieli 
thinks  that  the  modesty  of  the  author  made  him 
(or  her)  effectually  conceal  all  the  possible  dues  to 
identi^.  Adin  Williams. 

Lwsfalsde. 

The  following  I  saw  in  Heame's  Remaim,  edited 
by  Dr.  Bliss.  If  is  an  extract  from  Heame's  Diary ^ 
July  29, 1705.  "  The  Doctor  [«. «.,  Doctor  Oharlett] 
tells  me  that  he  spoke  with  one  who  had  seen  the 
«Dginal  copy  of  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man,  which 
mi  my  old  Lady  Paddngton's  own  handwriting." 

M.A.  Oxon. 

The  Causae  "Do"  (e*  S.  iv.  408).— This 
wge  ii  to  be  found  in  Spenser : — 

"  0  hold  thy  mortdl  hand  for  ladies  sake. 
Hold  for  my  nke,  and  do  him  nol  to  dye.** 

F.  Q.,  L  Tii.  14. 
F.  G.  BiBKBBCK  TbRRT. 

Bb.  Kichoijk>v  will  find  instances  of  this  use 
nmch  later  than  the  date  he  gives.  Bp.  Pilking- 
ton  in  (c)  1585  has :— *'  It  doSi  ue  to  underetarM, 
that  there  is  one  doctrine  of  salvation  to  be 
Csa^ht  unto  all  aorta  of  men."— TTorJb  (Parker 
SooetyX  p.  124.    So  also  Spenser  :— 

"Sometimes,  to  do  kirn  toit^A,  she  would  aeeay,"  to. 
fame  Queene,  It.  vi,  7. 

^  also  Ibid.,  L  vii  14.  B.  Carew,  in  his 
Bmrt^s  Exam,  of  Mem  WiU,  1594,  p.  297  (ed. 
HIQ,  has :— ^  It  behoneth  the  parents  bee  done  to 
^ndmtand,  that,"  &o.  Lastly,  Fairfax  has :— '<  As 
bs&ie  we  were  told  it  was  a  real  eternal,  not  real 
poiitivi^  so  over  and  above  we  are  d/me  to  wit 
thst  tis  an  infinite  not  infinite."— jB«22;  and 
Mftdge  of  the  World,  1674,  p.  22.  Xit. 

The  firequent  use  of  the  causal  in  the  Turkish 
^^  so  near  in  nature  to  the  English,  has  made 
JM  think  of  makef  but  I  have  not  foUowed  the 
wtoiy  as  Di.  KiOHoiaoH  has  of  <eo.     ''Make 


him  do  it,"  ^  I  will  make  him  do  it,"  &a,  have 
a  nearer  causal  form  than  do,  and  may  have 
helped  to  set  it  aside.  Htds  Clarke. 

An  instance  of  this  use  occurs  in  the  Authorized 
Version  (2  Cor.  viiL  1): — "  Moreover,  brethren,  we 
do  you  to  wit  of  the  grace  of  God,  bestowed  on  the 
churches  of  Macedonia."  The  translators  found  it 
in  the  earlier  versions,  and  retained  it  as  not 
obsolete ;  the  Bevised  Version  has  rejected  it, — 
"  We  make  known  to  you."  0.  B.  M. 

Johnson's  Dictionary  gives  two  examples  of  the 
causal  dOf  both  later  than  Dr.  Nicholson's 
instances: — 

<' A  fatal  plagae  which  did  to  dye.—SpeMerr 
"  Nothing  but  death  can  do  me  to  respire.— Spenser.** 
Webster's  Dictionary  adds : — 

"  Take  him  to  do  him  deakd.-~Shai:eip€are" 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 
Library,  Claremont,  Hastings. 

A  Bbuc  of  Thomas  A  Bbgeet  (6^  S.  iv.  635). 
— ^Dr.  Jbssopp  is  slightly  misinformed  as  to  the 
descent  of  die  Stapleton  peerage,  as  the  following 
pedigree  will  show  : — 

StAPLBTOH  of  SlAPLlTOir.  YORKSHiaB. 

Herman,  liviiig  1052. 

A  qao 

Sir  Miles  Stapleton,  first  baron,  ob.  1314 ;  he  was 

sommoned  Jan.  8, 1813,  ao.  6  Ed.  II. 

Sir  Nicholas,  eecond  baron. 

Sir  MUes,  third  baron,  E.G.,  ob.  1373» 


Sir  Nicholas,  ob.  T.p.=3 


Sir  Gilbert  Stapleton» 

Thos.,    Elizabeth, sister  and  Sir    Miles     SirBryan= 

ob.      heir.  mar.  Sir  ThoB.  Stapleton,  of    SUple- 
ap.      Metham,        whose      Ingham,       ton,  E.G. 

representatiyee,  Norfolk,  and 

named  Dolman,  are  eleewbere ; 

clumants    to    the  line  ended  in 

barony.  danghters.  A  quo 


Stapleton  of  Carlton,  Barts.,    Stapleton  of   Stapvltonof 
now   represented  by   Lord       Wighill,  Myton, 

Beaomont.  sc  Barts. 

All  ended  in  females. 
A  branch,  which  settled  in  Ireknd,  still  survives 
in  several  lines.  There  is  Lady  le  Despencer,  the 
Yisooontess  Falmouth,  and  a  fanuly  of  baronets, 
but  with  no  claim  to  the  barony  of  Stajpleton, 
which,  being  by  writ,  descends  in  the  female  line, 
and  the  Norfolk  branch  is  thus  barred  by  the 
descendants  of  Dame  Elizabeth  Metham. 

A.  Hall. 

«Ih  a  browk  btttdt"  (6»  S.  il  408;  uL  64). 
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of  this  j^hrase,  which  may  be  added  to  the 
passages  cited  by  your  correspondent  S.  J.  H.  :— 

''And  in  the  momynge  whan  eneryman  made  hym 
redy  to  lyde,  and  some  were  on  hone-backe  setting 
forwarde,  John  Boynoldas  founde  hia  companion 
jyttyngo  in  a  hrotcne  ttudy  at  the  Inne  gate,  to  whom 
lie  iayd:  for  shame  man  how  syttest  thouT'— iftfry 
ToUt  and  Q^ieke  Ansveres,  Ixxii  (ed  HasUtt,  1864). 

Hazlitt  says  that  the  supposed  oriffinal  impression 
of  these  tales  was  printed  by  Thomas  Berth^et 
without  date  (about  1535).  I  cannot  belieye  that 
the  expression  is  in  a^  way  connected  with  O.  G. 
hraun,  Aug-hraun.  To  me  it  seems  much  more 
rational  to  suppose  that  the  phrase  is  analogous 
with  Fr.  sombre  riverie,  as  Dr.  Brewer  su^[geets, 
and  G.  diitUres  nachnnnen.  Of.  also  the  well- 
known  x^wpoy  a€os,  Shakespeare's  "green  and 
yellow  melancholy,"  Tw.  N.,  II.  iy.  116,  and  such 
lAtm  expressions  as  "  livida  inyidia,"  "pallida 
mors,"  &c.  In  each  case  the  epithet  seems  to  giye  to 
the  abstract  noun  with  which  it  goes  an  appearance 
in  accord  with  the  effects  produced ;  s.  g,,  melan- 
choly produces  a  sickly  complexion ;  hence  its 
epithets,  &c.  F.  0.  Birkbeck  Terrt. 

Gkrdiff. 

"The  Imitation  of  Christ"  (6^  S.  x.  388, 
523).— CoL.  FisHwicK  says  that  the  first  edition 
of  John  Worthington's  translation  was  published 
in  London  in  1677,  but  that  his  name  was  not 
on  the  title-page.  I  have  this  edition,  and  seyeral 
others  of  Worthington's  translation,  but  it  cannot 
be  the  first  edition,  for  the  editor  says  in  it  "  that 
he  has  taken  upon  himself  to  enlaige  the  preface." 
I  haye  a  copy  which  I  fancy  must  be  the  first 
edition ;  the  translation  agrees  word  for  word 
with  the  other  editions  as  well  as  the  preface,  and 
it  IS  easy  to  see  where  the  additions  haye  been  made 
in  the  edition  of  1677.  It  is  "printed  in  London 
by  J.  Redmayne,  and  to  be  sold  by  Mr.  John 
Clark,  m  New  Cheapside,  Moorfields."  It  has  no 
date  on  the  title-page  nor  name  of  translator,  but 
on  the  engrayed  frontispiece,  which  is  the  same 
in  all  Worthinffton's  editions,  there  is  a  date,  par- 
tiaUy  mutilated,  which  appears  to  be  1658.  Where 
can  I  find  any  particulars  of  John  Worthington  ? 
Edmuhd  Waterton. 

The  Ark  of  the  Covenant  at  St.  Michael's 
Mount  (6"»  S.  iv.  348).— Although  it  is  difficult  to 
prove  a  universal  negative,  I  should  be  inclined 
greatly  to  doubt  the  existence  of  any  ancient 
legend  connecting  the  Ark  with  SL  Michael's 
Mount.  There  seems,  however,  from  the  miracle 
plays,  to  have  been  a  great  tendency  amone 
CJornishmen  of  the  Middle  Ages  to  connect  places 
in  their  county  with  events  in  Holy  Writ.  Pos- 
■ibly  this  is  the  origin  of  the  legend  that  the 
Jewiah  slaves  taken  at  the  fall  of  Jerusalem  by 
^tus  were  employed  by  the  Romans  in  the 
Cornish  tin  mines.     I  recently  heard  a  legend 


that  a  mine  near  Godolphin  was  used  to  provide 
the  tin  employed  in  Solomon's  temple. 

W.  S.  Lack-Sztrma. 

Sir  Richard  Binoham  (6**  S.  iv.  613  ;  v.  18)* 
— Referring  to  G.  W,  M.'s  communication,  I  may 
sa^  that  about  six  months  ago  the  late  Rev. 
W.  0.  Bingham  called  upon  me  and  inspected  our 
old  Norman  church.  It  is  thought  Uiat  a  Sir 
Geofirey  de  Bingham,  an  ancestor  of  his,  resided 
in  this  parish  in  the  reign  of  Heniy  I.,  and  gave 
to  it  the  name  of  Bingham  in  addition  to  the  old 
name  of  Soten.  Can  G.  W.  M.  giye  any  par- 
ticulars of  the  history  of  the  Bingham  &mily  in 
connexion  with  this  parish  ?      W.  H.  Heltar. 

Bectory,  Sutton  Bisgham. 

Matriculation  Records  (6*  S.  iv.  306,  459). 
—Entering  the  name  on  the  "  buttery  book,"  as  it 
was  styled,  of  a  coUege  or  hall  at  Oxford  was  a 
perfectly  distinct  act  from  entering  it  at  matrica- 
lation,  though  the  latter  act  succeeded  the  former 
almost  immediately.  The  one  was  the  enrolment 
at  the  particular  college  or  hall,  whilst  the  other 
was  an  -admission  as  a  member  of  the  university 
"  in  matriculam  univenitatis  hujus  hodie  relatum 
esse,**  as  the  admonition  phrased  it,  given  by  the 
vice-chancellor  to  the  neophyte.  It  was,  I 
remember,  a  matter  of  doubt  whether  a  man 
matriculating  on  the  last  day  of  term,  after  con- 
gregation had  been  dissolved,  was  entitled  to  count 
that  term.  To  show  how  different  a  register  of 
Oxford  University  matriculations  would  oe  from 
one  of  Oxford  gnuiuates,  let  me  say  that  the  late 
Dr.  Bliss,  Registrar  of  the  University  from  1824 
to  1853,  once  told  me  that  he  did  not  believe 
that  more  than  one-half  of  those  who  matricu- 
lated ever  graduated. 

John  Picefoeo,  M.A. 

Newboame  Beoiory,  Woodbridg«. 

"  GoFPiN  »  (6^  S.  u.  448;  iii.  94;  iv.  116, 417). 
— ^The  only  time  I  have  met  with  this  word  in 
literature — save  the  mark — ^is  in  a  song  called  "  A 
Norrible  Tale,"  which  was  sung  some  fiye-and« 
twenty  years  ago  by,  I  think,  Mr.  Toole.  It 
affirmed  that 

<*  The  father  was  a  grim  old  gnffin. 
He  never  would  have  no  fun  nor  noffin."  • 
St.  Swithin. 

A  Sin  to  point  at  the  Moon  (6*  S.  iv.  407  ; 
V.  14). — We  have  similar  superstitions  in  Cum* 
berland  with  regard  to  the  new  moon.  It  is  most 
unlucky  to  see  it  first  through  glass ;  and  on  seeing 
it  at  all  the  money  ought  to  be  turned  in  the 
pocket,  or  a  curtsey  made  to  it.  I  once  saw  a 
person  almost  in  tears  because  she  looked  on  the 
new  moon  through  her  veil,  feeling  convinced 
that  misfortune  would  follow.  B.  J. 

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noon  throogh  a  window  alao  obtains  in  Yorkshire ; 
bot^  sccoiduig  to  my  experience,  the  belief  has 
lefennoe  only  to  the  first  new  moon  of  the  new 
year.  This  is  alladed  to  in  Henderson's  Folk- 
Loncfths  Norihm^  CounUes,  p.  114,  ed.  1879, 
whidi  compare.  F.  G.  Birkbbck  Terrt. 

Oudiif. 

BoBKRT  Phairb,  thb  Rbgicide  (5^  S.  xil  47, 
311 ;  6»  a  L  18,  84,  606  ;  iL  38,  77,  150 ;  iv. 
235,  371,  431,  495).— My  best  acknowledgments 
aie  dae  for  yalaed  information  relating  to  the 
fiunily  of  Ferze  of  early  days,  and  to  that  of 
Bobert  Phaire,  who  is  styled  of  Rostillon,  in  co. 
Cor^  Ireland,  in  Dngdale's  ViiiicUion  of  York,  in 
the  year  1665,  as  also  in  the  epitaph,  '*  posteritati 
surom,"  of  Sir  Thomas  Herbert,  Bart.,  attached 
to  a  pillar  on  the  south  side  of  the  chancel  of  St, 
Crax  Church,  York  :— 

MUZABETBAM  BOBIRTO  PHAIBS  DS  KOSTILOIT  IH 
HIBBBHIA. 

The  win,  dated  Sept  13, 1682,  is  headed  "  Testa- 
mentnm  et  codiciilum  Boberti  Phaire,  nnper  de 
Graoge  in  com'  Gorcagno."  The  fact  that  he  and 
hiB  indow  Elizabeth  sealed  their  wills  with  their 
annoiial  bearuun  seemed  condnsiye  that  they 
were  not  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  By  searching 
the  baptismal  register  of  the  parish  of  the  Bey. 
Emanael  Phaire,  the  names  and  dates,  if  found, 
may  throw  light  on  the  parentage  of  Bobert  Alln- 
oon  has  been  made  to  Thomas  Phaer  or  Phayer, 
of  KOgerran,  ca  Pembroke,  Bachelor  of  Physic, 
Pebrotty  6,  and  M.D.,  March  10,  1558  (Wood's 
jPoift).  HiB  will  is  dated  An^.  12, 1560.  <'The 
aid  doctor  left  behind  him  a  widow  named  Anne, 
end  two  dangliten,  Eleanor,  the  wife  of  Gryffith 
apSynon,  and  Mary  "  (Wood's  Athena  Oxonimiu). 
As  Colonel  Phaire  erased  lus  name  from  the 
list  of  those  who  were  to  assist  at  the  execution  of 
Kinff  Gharlesy  and  his  life  was  spared,  I  do  not 
call  him ''regicide.''  G.  A.  Bucklbr. 

SU7KB8TITION8    ABOUT    FeATHBRS    (6^^    S.    iil 

165,  339,  356,  418 ;  iy.  236).— Those  who  justly 
find  fsnlt  with  the  Hindoos  for  carrying  their 
moiibnnds  to  the  margin  of  the  sacred  Gunga, 
and  filling  their  mouths  with  mud,  oTerlook  the 
fiict  that  not  very  dissimilar  methods  of  **  happy 
despatch"  hare  been  employed  in  England  by  the 
educated  within  the  last  fifty  years,  and  probably 
by  the  ignorant  up  to  the  present  day.  It  was, 
within  my  own  xeooUection,  a  general  practice  to 
efler  a  narcotic  to  the  dying.  In  the  case  of  Dr. 
Johnson  the  patient  refused,  saying  that  he  would 
enter  the  presence  of  his  Maker  with  a  dear  brain. 
I  hare  often  wondered  how  Dr.  Badciiffe,  of 
Qaeen  Anne's  time^  who  was  not  a  great  physician, 
"WBs  able  to  predict  the  precise  hour  of  a  patient's 
death,  which  mediad  men  of  the  present  day  can 
-iddom  do.    If  he  followed  this  practice  the  ex- 


planation is  easy.  Going  into  one  of  the  wards  of 
Guy's  Hospital  about  thirty-five  years  ago,  I 
found  the  nurse  remoying  the  pillow  from  under 
the  head  of  a  dying  man.  Upon  my  taking  her 
severely  to  task,  she  replied,  "  Poor  dear,  I  pitied 
him,  he  is  so  hard  a>dying  I "  When  the  head  is 
thus  made  to  fall  back,  the  reyerse  of  "  Marshall 
Hall's  position  "  is  effected,  and  the  occurrence  of 
asphyxia  is  greatly  hastened.  The  notion  of  game 
feathers  went  side  by  side  with  this  practice. 

Calcuttensis. 

LiNCOLNSHIRB  PROyiNCIAXISHS  (6^  S.  iil  364, 
514  ;  iy.  238).— Your  correspondent  B.  B.,  in  his 
reply  at  the  second  reference,  seems  not  to  have 
noticed  the  fact  that  the  word  mess  has  two  dif- 
ferent derivations,  with  the  following  meanings: — 

L  1.  A  dish  of  meat,  as  a  mess  of  pottage.  2. 
A  course  for  the  table.  3.  A  course  sufficient  for 
four  persons.  4.  By  extension,  a  course  sufficient 
for  any  number  of  persons  who  meet  for  the  pur- 
pose of  eating  together.  Derived  from  O.F.  met 
(Stratmann),  I.  me$sa  (Florio,  1688),  M.I.  messo^ 
a  meu  of  meat,  from  L.  mistum,  though  Coleridge 
gives  **  fne«=meal,  mess  ;  A.-S.  muan^  to  eat." 

II.  ''  Properly  mah^  a  mixture  disagreeable  to 
the  sight  or  taste,  untidy ness  or  disorder"  (Wedg- 
wood).* Of:  Prof.  Skeat's  Diet,  for  both  fomuL 
The  word  in  the  second  case  is  a  variant  of  mot^ 

The  use  of  mas  to  denote  number  or  quantity 
would  appear  to  have  been  taken  from  I.  3  and  4. 
As  examples  of  the  usage  of  3,  ct  "  For  at  averse 
table  they  sit  fours  ai  a  messs"  (More,  Utoptct^ 
''The  Seoonde  Booke").  ''  Fours  makes  a  messsy 
and  wee  have  a  m^sss  of  masters  that  must  be 
cozened  "  (Lilly,  Mother  BombUf  II.  L). 

*'  A  msise  of  Rossians  left  us  but  of  late." 

Shakespeare,  L,  L,  L.,  V.  ii.  861. 

Shakespeare  also  uses  the  word  for  a  small 
quantity.  Cf  *'  Coming  in  to  borrow  a  mess  of 
vinegar"  (2  Hen,  IV,,  IL  L  103).  "  I  will  chop 
her  into  muese  "  {Oihdlo,  IV.  L  211).  The  usage 
I.  explains  such  expressions  as  (I  quote  from  Miss 
Bfdcer's  NorthampUmshirs  Glossary)  "  a  nice  mese 
of  pears,"  "  a  mess  of  people,"  "  a  mess  of  sheep," 
"  a  mew  of  buildings,"  **  a  mess  of  mullock  ";  whUat 
'*  to  get  into  a  mess,"  "  to  mess  about,"  "  to  mese 
one's  dress^"  "  to  msss  one's  money  away,"  and  such 
phrases,  will  be  explained  by  II. 

Eodky  and  rook,  both  as  verb  and  noun,  are 
common  words  in  North  Yorkshire.  I  have  often 
heard  the  expressions  "  hadder  and  rook,"  and  '*  it 
hadders  and  rooks,"  rook  meaning  a  thick  mist, 
and  hadder  the  drizzling  rain  which  accompanies 
it.  •  Can  any  one  give  me  the  derivation  of  hadder^ 
a  word  which  is  used  also  in  Cumberland  ?    Book 


*  "  MetcoUnsa,  a  mesb,  a  medly,  a  mingling,  a  miidng* 
a  blending,  a  moiling,  a  hotch  potch,  and  mish-mash  of 
things  confusedly,  and  without  order  put  together'* 
(Florio,  1688). 


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is  not  probably  connected  with  trrodb,  as  yoor  cor- 
respondent at  the  last  reference  supposes^  but  with 
A.-S.  riae,  rie^  G.  rauch^  Do.  rooib,  loeL  reyhr; 
whilst  wrack  or  mdb  is  from  O.N.  nka,  to  dnre, 
refc,  drift,  motion  (ct  Wedgwood's  DicL), 

F.  G.  BiBKBBCK  TkRBT. 

Cardiff. 

A  '*  Ghristbnino  Sheet  "  (6«>  S.  iy.  409,  494). 
— May  not  this  be  the  same  as  the  christening 
"  palice  "  or  "  pane  "?  as  to  which,  see  "  N.'&  Q.," 
b^  S.  ui.  288,  412  ;  iy.  13a  J.  S.  Udal. 

Inner  Temple. 

«  Awtwhbn"  {e^  S.  iv.  367,  642).— Mr.  Pba.- 
COCK  says  that  he  does  not  remember  erer  seeing 
the  aboTe  expression  in  print.  It  will  be  found  in 
a  contribution  to  Funchj  iiL  256,  by  Albert  Smith, 
ft  native,  if  I  am  not  mistaken,  of  Surrey.  A 
Jewish  dealer  in  old  clothes  is  there  represented 
as  saying  that  he  can  come  for  them  "any  yensh." 
P.  J.  F.  Gantillon. 

"Drat''=Sq0irrel'8  Nest  (6«»  S.  iiL  449  ; 


iy.  78,    116,    217).  — White's 


p.  333 


(Bohn's  edition),  states  :  ''A  boy  has  taken  three 
young  squirrels  in  their  nest  or  drey**;  and  the 
following  note  is  appended  :— 

«'  The  sqairrere  nett  is  not  only  called  a  dfw/  in  Hamp- 
niiire,  but  alio  in  otner  counties;  in  Soilblk  it  is  calledfa 
lay.  The  word  drty,  though  now  proTincial,  I  haye  met 
with  in  Bome  of  our  old  imten,^Miifmd" 

Georqs  Prick. 
lU,  Bath  Bow,  Biimbgham. 

It  seems  that  in  Sussex  and  Shropshire  dray  is 
the  name  giyen  to  a  squirrel's  nest  It  is  asked. 
What  IB  its  deriyation  f  Perhaps  it  is  the  Welsh 
and  Gomish  irs,  a  house.  In  the  speech  of  chil- 
dren a  nest  might  easily  be  called  a  house.  The 
Gymro-Geltic  tre  corresponds  to  the  Gaelic-Geltic 
cro.  Thomas  Staatton. 

Arus  of  the  Vebnon  Family  (6*  S.  iy.  165, 
S32). — May  not  the  alleged  remark  of  Diana 
Yemon  haye  some  reference  to  a  quartering  that 
occurs  on  her  family's  shield,  yiz..  Azure,  two 
hautboys,  or  pipes,  between  eight  cross  crosslets 
or,  which  I  belieye  was  deriyed  fh>m  a  co-heiress 
named  Pype?  See  monuments  in  Bakewell 
Ghurch.  Gharlxs  Jacksoit. 

I>onoaster. 

Thb  Use  or  Fbrv  Ashxb  and  Lighbh  (6^ 
S.  ir.  208,  334).— It  may  be  well  to  note  that  Sir 
Thomas  More  knew  that  fern  ashes  were  used  in 
the  making  of  glass.  He  says,  "  Who  wold  wene 
itpossible  y»  glasse  were  made  of  feme  lotys  "  (the 
Warla  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  Knyght,  1667,  foL, 
p.  126.  Edwabd  Peacock. 

Thatched  Ghxtbchse  (6^  S.  ii.  447  ;  iiL  66  ; 
It.  117, 368).— Some  of  the  elders  of  the  present 


generation  may  remember  their  forefisthem  talkiii^ 
of  a  certain  church  in  Linoolnshire  that  was- 
thatched  (and  was  so,  I  belieye,  during  the  memory 
of  liying  men),  and  of  which  the  following  couplet 
was  said  to  be  literally  true : — 

'<  Thatched  church,  wooden  steeple. 
Drunken  panon,  wicked  people." 
To  the  present  day  the  miserable  building  is  propped 
up,  and  is  a  disgrace  to  the  other  fine  churches  in 
the  surrounding  district ;  but  the  parish  is  hapmer 
in  its  present  parson  than  in  days  of  yore^  and  no 
doubt  the  people  are  equally  reformed,  and  will 
soon  wipe  out  the  scandal  of  their  church. 

G.  T.  J.  Moore. 
Frampton  Hall. 

GsNBALOGT  IN  Frakce  (6^  S.  iy.  228,  414). — 
I  recommend  particularly  the  BuUetin  de  l» 
SoeUU  H6raldxpu  ti  Oinialogique  de  .FVanci,  that 
appears  the  10th  and  29th  of  each  month  (2  Place 
du  Danube,  Paris).  This  publication  is  of  the 
greatest  interest,  and  offers  all  the  guarantees  of 
morality,  independence,  and  sincerity ;  and  these 
qualities,  in  such  a  matter,  are  certainly  the  most 
precious.  I  do  not  know  the  price  of  this  period- 
ical for  England,  in  France  it  is  but  ten  mncs  a 
year.  The  publisher  of  the  Bevue  Nobiliaiin  is 
still  M.  J.  B.  Dnmoolin,  13,  Quai  des  Grands 
AuguBtinS|  Paris."^  Idov  Schick; 

^^Tehhis**  (e^  S.  iii.  496;  {y.  dO,  ^14).-Sure^ 
we  need  not  seek  fur  for  an  English  origin  of  this 
word.  Does  not  the  Anglo-Saxon  te^  coizespond 
to  the  Greek  tcivo^  and  is  it  not — in  the  sense 
of  extending,  stretching,  or  drawing  out  the 
mind — the  oricnn  of  the  word  (eM  =  anxiety,  se 
often  used  by  Shakespeare  ?  Doubtless  the  Latin 
Unere  and  the  fVench  ienir  are  connected  words^ 
all  being  from  the  Sanskrit  root  tan;  but  the 
game  probably  had  its  name  from  the  English 
word.  W.  T.  Ltkk. 

Blackheath. 

''To    CRT    THK    VABS,"     A    HaRYSST    GuSTOV 

(6^  S.  iy.  127,  218).— This  hanrest  custom  still 
preyails  in  Herefordshire  and  Shropshire.  When 
the  ingathering  is  complete,  a  few  nlades  of  com, 
left  for  the  purpose,  haye  their  tops  tied  together, 
and  are  called  by  the  rei^ters  ''the  mare.^  By 
flinging  their  sickles,  whoeyer  succeeds  in  cutting^ 
the  knot  cries  out,  "  I  haye  her  !''— "  What  haye 
you?"  "A  mare."— "Whose  is  she?*'  The 
name  of  some  farmer  whose  field  has  been  reaped 
is  here  mentioned.  "  Where  wiU  you  send  her  %  '^ 
The  name  of  some  farmer  whose  com  is  not  yet 
haryested  is  here  giyen,  and  then  all  the  reapers 
raise  a  final  shout  Williak  Platt. 

CiOlis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  IbIo  of  Thanet. 

«  Biusediho-Stohw  »  (6»  S.  ir.  389, 436,  478). 
— ^The  Braidenstone  upon  the  western  heights  of 
Doyer  was  neyer  called  the  **  Breeding-stone."    It 


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is  supposed  to  bo  tho  renuuns  of  %  Bonum  Pharos, 
oomapondiog  to  the  one  in  Doyer  Castle.  Barell 
gires  a  drawing  of  it  temp.  Elizabeth.  Dr.  Harris 
says  npoo  this  stone  were  sworn  the  Lord  Wardens 
of  the  Cinqae  Ports.  The  last  grand  court  of  Shep- 
waj  was  held  here,  in  accordance  with  ancient 
nsage^  in  1861,  when  Lord  Palmerston  was  sworn 
is.  Some  alterations  were  being  made  in  the 
earthworks  of  the  adjacent  redonH  ^^^  ^^^b  the 
fomidations  of  the  original  structure  became 
exposed ;  a  platform  of  rubble  concreted  with  red 
mortar  intenpersed  with  Roman  tiles  showed 
its  origin.  That  part  which  Darell  saw,  and 
which  he  called  the  Ara  Cseearis,  or  the  Devil's 
Drop^  was  not  unearthed.  The  name  is  retained, 
howerer,  in  the  Drop  Bedonbt.  The  authorities 
haye  left  a  part  nnooyered,  and  a  tablet  shows 
the  spot  Dr.  Harris,  Sir  Thomas  Mantell,  Mr. 
LjOD,  Mr,  £.  Knocker,  and  the  Bey.  Canon  Puckle, 
who  haye  written  upon  the  grand  courts  held  upon 
this  stone,  all  call  it  the  Breden  or  Braidenstone. 
One  andent  court  was  the  Court  of  Brotherhood 
and  Gneetling.  Does  this  offer  any  clue  to  the 
OBgin  of  the  name  7  Lajibbrt  Weston. 


"To  HAEB  A  LBO"  (6«»  S.  iii.  149,  337,  376 ; 
iy.  216).— **  Answer  me  not  but  with  your  leg" 
(Ben  Jonson.  Evic.  IL  L  and  y.)*  Compare 
thtarA  (Life  oj  (Auro,  the  Langhomea'  trans- 
lition,  yoL  r.  p.  322,  Lond.^  181d)i— 

"  Imtolm  eame  up  in  a  yery  careless  and  disrespectful 
mimer,  and  said,  'I  haye  no  account  to  give,  but  I 
pnaent  you  with  the  calf  of  my  leg ':  which  was  a  com- 
Bon  ezpresdon  among  the  boys,  when  they  missed  their 
itroke  at  tennis.  Hence  he  had  the  surname  of  '  Sura»* 
which  is  the  Boman  word  for  the  calf  of  the  leg.'* 

£d.  Mabshall. 

In  Sir  Walter   Scott's   humorous  poem.  The 
Seanh  afier  Happinete;  or,  the  Quest  of  SuUaun 
SoUmaiimy  the  phrase  "  To  shake  a  leg"  occurs  :— 
"  Next  door  to  John  there  dwelt  his  sister  Peg, 
Once  a  wild  lass  as  oyer  shook  a  leg 
When  the  blithe  bagpipe  blew." 

And  in  the  same  poem  is  also  the  other  phrase, 
**Tomakealeg":— 

**  The  Sultann  entered,  and  he  made  his  leg^ 
And  with  decorum  curtsy'd  sister  Peg." 

**  Yerbom  non  amplins  addam." 

Fbkde.  Bulb. 
Ashford,  Kent 

Books  PRmrxD  prbviotjslt  to  1660  (6**  S.  iy. 
147, 196,  261,  457).— I  may  add  to  your  list  the 
following,  which  are  in  my  library  : — 
,Ensc^ua,  Be  Eyaogelica  prseparatione,  foL«  1473. 
I«OBhardua  AnrL 

AeopliyUehis  in  17  Eyangelia,  fol.,  1626. 
^Biri  ThomsB  Aquinatis  in  Omnes  Beat!  Paul!  Aposi 
Bpfat  Oommentaiia,  fol.    Paris^  Jehan  Petit,  1641. 

Qiddun  FmetiKMus  libellus  de  modo  Oonfitendi  et 
PeailcBdi,  Syo.,  Imperfect.  Gerard  Leeo,  1600.  (See 
•K.k(l.*4fiis.iy.fi^6.) 


Psalterium  (Rubricated)  et  Libri  Salomonis,  18mo.,^ 
Paris,  1641,  apud  Petrum  Aegnault. 

Lactantii  Inst.  Lib.  Septem.  Tertulliani  liber  Apologe- 
ticus.    Aldus,  8yo.,  1636. 

Dialogi  hi  Amore  Composti  per  Leone  Medico.  8fo» 
Aldus,  1641. 

Between  1660  and  1600  I  haye  seyeraL 

W.  a  Burns. 
Clayton  Hall,  Manchester. 

"Stark  Naught"  (6«»  S.  iy.  89,  275).— Be- 
sides  the  familiar  phrases  "  stark  mad ''  and  "  stark 
naked,**  the  followmg  are  no  less  common,  *'  stark 
nonsense,"  "  stark  blind."  Collier  says,  "  He  pro- 
nounces the  citation  stark  nonteme"  Shakespeare 
uses  the  adyerb  "  starkly  "  in  Measure  for  Measure,. 
IY.  il : "  As  fast  locked  up  in  sleep  as  guiltlesa 
labour,  when  it  lies  starkly  in  the  trayeller's  bones.'^ 
Halliwell  giyes  "stark  giddy,**  Latic  When 
applied  to  madness  the  more  usual  phrase  is  "  stark 
staring  mad.*'  Boeet  giyes  the  word  "stark**  as 
a  synonym  of  "absolute,  positiye,  decided,  un- 
equiyocal,**  &o.  In  boyhood,  "  stark  nonsense**^ 
was  quite  a  household  phrase  in  our  flBunily. 

£.  CoBHAH  Brbwrr: 

The  Arms  of  Colonial  and  Missionary 
Bishoprics  (6**»  S.  iii.  241,  286,  467;  iy.  310).— 
Mr.  Woodward  refers  at  the  last  reference  to 
time  "giyicg  pwwriptiYQ  ftuthority*'  for  using 
armorialbearrngs.  fHiis  seems  open  to  qnes^n;. 
Boutell  (English  Heraldry,  3rd  edit.  p.  30d)  sayr, 
"  The  soU  right  to  arms  is  a  grant  from  the  College 
or  the  Crown,  or  inheritance  by  lineal  descent  from 
an  ancestor  to  whom  a  grant  was  made.*'  In  recentt; 
charters  of  incorporation  to  boroughs  in  Eneland 

Sower  is  giyen  to  assume  arms,  the  same  being 
uly  registered  in  the  College  of  Arms.  Coloniu 
bishops,  as  corporations  sole,  could  only  acquire  the. 
right  to  use  arms  by  grant  or  licence. 

Frkderick  K  Sawter. 
Brighton. 

"SwKALiNO**  (60^  S.  iii.  327,  496  ;  iy.  268):— 
"Before  the  Aryan  nations  separated,  before  there^ 
was  a  Latin,  a  Oreek,  or  a  Sanskrit  language,  there 
existed  a  root  svar.  or  sval,  which  meant  to  beam,  to 
glitter,  to  warm.  It  exists  in  Qreek,  ckXa^,  splendour  ; 
eiKflvfi,  moon:  in  A.-S.  t^Btwelan,  to  bunij  to  sweal;  ia 
modem  German,  tchwul,  oppressively  hot  From  it  we 
haye  in  Sanskrit  the  noun  tvar,  meaning  sometimes  the 
iky,  sometimes  the  san ;  and  exactly  the  same  word  haa. 
been  pieseryed  in  Latin  as  sol;  in  Gothic  as  tauil;  in 
A.-S.  as  sol.  A  secondary  form  of  svar  is  the  Sanskrit 
giirya  for  svdrya,  the  sun,  which  is  the  same  word  as  the 
Greek  f|Xto£.'*--Max  MiiUer,  Ssleetsd  Essays,  x.  60S. 

Mertarid. 

"Buhkbr's  Hill"  (6«»  S,  iy.  48,  256).— There- 
is  a  bank  on  the  north  shore  of  the  estuary  of  tha 
Bibble,  in  Lancashire,  to  which  this  term  is  apphed. 
How  long  the  name  has  attached  to  the  place  I 
cannot  say.  W.  Dobson. 

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Ths  Oxfordshire  Election  of  1754  (6^  S. 
iy.  4,  96,  195). — I  miss  this  from  the  tracts  already 
mentioned: — 

"  Old  Interest,  a  farce  of  Three-and-forty  acts,  as  it 
is  performed  with  great  Dissafection  at  the  Th— •  in 
O— f— d.  By  none  of  his  Majesty  Kiog  George's  servants, 
nor  by  his  Majesty's  Command.  Being  a  true  specimen 
of  Old  Interest  Bieligion  and  Manners ;  and  a  full  answer 
to  an  anonymous  pampblett,  entitled,  The  Circumcision 
of  Sir  E.  T.,  and  to  all  other  scurrilous  Old  Interest 
pamphletts,  letters,  or  ad?ertiiements  that  have  been  or 
ever  shall  be  published.  London,  printed  for  the  use  of 
those  concerned  in  the  election,  and  sold  by  J.  Cook, 
1758. 

<'  To  the  gentlemen  of  the  New  Interest,  friends  to  the 
'  Protestant  succession,  his  Majesty  King  George  II.,  the 
liberty  and  rights  of  their  countrymen ;  men  superior  to 
the  calumnies  of  a  despairing  and  sinking  faction :  this 
is  disinterestedly  presented  by  George  Greenwood. '^ 

The  thing  opens  with  act  xliiL,  High  Street, 
Oxford,  with  a  foot-note  apologizing  for  the  forty- 
•  two  acts  which  ought  to  precede,  on  the  ground 
of  their  containing  only  an  eternal  round  and  re- 
petition  of  slights,  contemptuous  treatment  of 
freeholders,  treasonable  toasts,  disloyalty,  drunken- 
ness, &c  J.  0. 

Funeral  Armour  in  Churches  (6*  S.  ix. 
429 ;  X.  11,  73,  129, 152,  199,  276,  317  ;  xL  73, 
178,  252,  375,  457  ;  xii.  155  ;  6«»  S.  L  446  ;  iL 
218,  477;  ir.  38,  256,  314).— The  church  of  Dray- 
cot  Oeme,  Wiltshire,  may  be  added  to  the  list  of 
those  in  which  funerol  armour  is  stiU  to  be  found. 
On  the  wall  of  the  chancel  are  hanging  two  helmets, 
gauntlets,  a  short  sword,  and  a  banner,  or  surcoat,  in 
tatters,  but  on  which  may  stUl  be  traced  the  arms 
of  the  Long  family,  a  lion  rampant  on  a  field  sem^e 
of  cross  crosslets.  The  villagers  term  this  armour 
"  The  Gianfs  Clothes,"  and  I  have  heard  it  stated 
that  originally  there  was  a  pair  of  silver  spurs,  but 
these  have  long  since  disappeared.       E.  H.  D. 

Portions  of  funeral  armour  are  preserved  in 
Great  Bardfield  Church,  Essex,  but  I  have  never 
inquired  whose— probably  the  Lumleys*.  The 
helmets  are  fixed  on  iron  pikes  at  the  east  end  of 
the  chapels.  In  White's  Hiitary  of  Essex^  pub- 
lished in  1863,  p.  457,  under  Ingatestone  Church, 
is  the  following:  "In  the  chancel  hang  several 

fieces  of  ancient  armour,  and  the  banners  used 
y  the  *  Ingatestone,  Brentwood,  and  Billericay 
Volunteers,'  raised  by  the  late  Lord  Petre  for  the 
defence  of  the  nation  about  the  close  of  last  cen- 
tury." The  ancient  armour,  &c.,  has  been  re- 
moved, and  the  last  time  I  was  in  Ingatestone 
Church,  some  five  years  ago,  the  armour,  in  very 
good  state,  was  in  the  vestry,  or  rather  mortuary 
chapel  on  the  north  side  of  the  chancel  which  is 
used  as  a  vestry.  I  have  visited  a  considerable 
number  of  Essex  churches,  but  do  not  remember 
any  others  near  me  possessing  funeral  armour. 

J.  W.  Savill,  F.R.H.S. 
Dnnmow,  Essex. 


At  the  romantically  situated  little  church  of  SS. 
George  and  Mary,  Cockington,  near  Torquay, 
is  an  old  hdmet.  I  saw  it  lately  resting  upon  the 
inner  sill  of  the  most  eastern  window  of  the  north 
aisle  waUL  Upon  it  are  the  remains  of  some  very- 
graceful  ornamentation  upon  the  vizor.  This 
helmet  is  in  no  way  a  fixture,  and  as  the  church  is 
presently  to  be  restored,  a  note  of  its  existence  may 
ensure  its  preservation.  Harry  Hems. 

Exeter. 

"  To  DINE  WITH  DUKB  HUMFHRET  "  (6*  S.  iv. 

166,  337,  475).— The  <' Ballad  of  the  London 
Ordinarie "  is  from  Thomas  Heywood's  play,  The 
Rape  of  Lucreece,  written,  probably,  in  the  earliest 
years  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  MJL 

Wife  Selling  (6«»  S.  iiL  487,  512 ;  iv.  133). 
—The  Brighton  Herald  of  May  27,  1826,  states 
that  the  Brighton  Market  Book  recorded:  *^  May 
17,  1826,  Mr.  Hilton,  of  Lodsworth,  publicly  sold 
his  wife  for  30«.,  upon  which  the  toll  of  one  shilling 
was  paid."  The  matter  came  to  the  knowledge  of 
the  magistrates,  who  sent  for  the  toll  collector  to 
justify  his  strange  conduct  in  charging  toll ;  when 
he  at  once  referred  the  bench  to  the  market  bye- 
laws:  ''Any  article  not  enumerated  in  the  bye- 
laws  pays  one  MUing'* ! 

Frederick  E.  Sawyer. 

Brighton. 

Browne,  Viscount  Montagu  (3'*  S.  viiL  106, 
158,  292,  344  ;  5«>  S.  iv.  408,  495).— Whose  sons 
were  William  Antony,  John  Antony,  Joseph 
Charteris  Houston  Browne,  supposed  to  have 
died  childless?  Information,  for  the  purposes 
mentioned  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  3**  S.  viii.  106,  rektive 
to  the  arms,  pedigree,  place  of  abode,  &c,  of 
Samuel  Antony  Browne,  co.  I^rrone,  will  much 
oblige,  and  if  sent  direct  to  me,  under  my  initLalSy 
to  10,  Queen  Street,  Cheapside,  London,  E.C.,  will 
be  forwarded  to  J.  McC.  B. 

Hobart  Town. 

The  Etymology  of  " Ghetto"  (6«»  S.  iv.  65, 
255). — In  ramblingabout  Warwickshire  I  found  the 
TiMme  jetty  locally  applied  to  narrow  thoroughfares 
consisting  of  ancient  houses,  just  such  quarters  as 
Houndsditch,  and  which  might  be  plausibly  as- 
signed to  Jews  in  the  Middle  Ages.  The  edifioes 
are  quite  old  enough  for  this  ascription,  and  it 
may  be  in  the  power  of  some  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
to  EAj  if  jetty  is  a  probable  corruption  of  ghetto^  or 
if  it  IS  correctly  spialled  and  used  as  jetty  in  this 
sense.  A«  H.  G. 

"  The  Foreign  Office  List"  (6«*  S.  v.  25)  is 
not  an  official  publication.  C. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6***  S.  L  77, 127). 

Cluhs  of  London.—MMgn.  Halkett  and  Laing,  in  their 

Dictionary  of  Anonymous  and  Femdonymous  LiUrature 


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Oy  ucriba  the  anthorship  of  this  book  to  Charles 
L  and  not  Dr.  Maginn.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

(6ti>  S.  Y.  28.) 

Pi4>tnana;  or,  Reminuoetuea  of^the  late  Mrt.  Pwui, 
wOk  JUmari$  hy  a  Frfend  (the  Ber.  B.  Mangin),  1883. 
8n>.y  reviewed  by  Quarterly  Iteview,  zlix.  247,  and 
Atkmutwm,  1888, 129.  Willluc  Pljltt. 

Thoogh  not  doToid  of  interest,  it  ia  now  superseded  by 
Mr.  Hayward's  memoin  of  that  unhappy  lady. 

W.  P.  COUBTHIT. 

Authors  of  Quotatioks  Wanted  (6^  S. 
iT.  614).— 

'*  C*e8t  Tamour,  ramonr,"  &c. 
This  aong  came  out  in  the  year  1821,  and  remained  Tery 
popular  for  many  years.  It  will  be  found  in  Chantont 
NaHotialtM  et  Pofmlairu  tU  France,  vol.  iL  p.  180,  pub- 
fished  by  G.  de  Godet,  6,  Bue  des  Beaux- Arts,  Paris. 
There  are  four  Torsee,  and  if  Mk  Gokdok  will  fa?onr  me 
with  hit  address  I  shall  be  happy  to  send  him  a  copy  of 
them.  Edoab  MaoGullooh. 

Goemiey.        

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 

George  Selityn  and  his  Caniemporariet,    With  Memoirs 

and  NotesL     By  J.  Heneage   Jesse.    New   Edition. 

4  TolsL    (Biekers  k  Son.) 

Selwth  neTor  destroyed  a  letter,  and  this  habit,  so 

entirely  at  Tarianoe  with  his  general  carelessness,  has 

produced  these  four  Tolumes  of  his  friends'  correspon- 

donee.     They  lift  the  curtain  upon  fashionable  society 

in  the  days  of  its  defiant  licentiousness,  its  abandoned 

eaae,  and   its  profligate  gitiety.     We  take  a  place  at 

tbe  faro  table  at  Brooke  s»  White's,  or  Almacs's;  we 

lovnge    into   the   parks,  Betty's    fruit-shop,   or    the 

Hooae     of    Commons;     with     the     most    exquisite 

of    the   Macaronis    we   ogle    the   company   at    Mrs. 

ComelyB's  or  Yauzhall:  we  drink  the  waters  at  the 

widle»  or  recmit  our  jaded  strength  in  country  houses. 

Here  is  gossip— told  by  such  masters  of  that  art  as 

"Horry"  Walpole,  Gilly  Williams,  Lord  Carlisle,  and 

tibe  Doke  of  Qneensberry—respecting  the  lives  of  great 

pcreonages  and   of  famous    oeauties,    such  as   Lady 

Harrey,  the  "lorely  Molly  LepeV  whom  Pope  idolized 

ae  much  as  he  hated  her  husband,  his  Lady  Fanny  and 

hb  SpCToa,  Lady  Sarah  Bunbuir,  whose  charms  turned 

the  yoatlinl  head  of  George  III.,  and  **  those  goddesses 

the    Onnaaings" — Lady  CoTontry  and  the   Duchess  of 

Hamilton.   Geoige  Sefwyn,  whose  hone  mote  would  equip 

wits,  abhorred  the  country,  and,  like  Jekyll, 


defighted  in  the  clatter  of  hackney  coaches  on  paved 
streets.  His  conntry  house  was  Matson,  two  miles  from 
Glouoester,  orerloolring  the  city  and  the  Severn,  where 
Charln  n.  and  the  Duke  of  York  had  spent  some  davs 
dming  the  siege  of  1643,  and  recorded  their  visit  by 
carringt  on  the  wainscot  The  house  was  good,  the 
sitaation  charming ;  yet  he  rarely  visited  it,  though  it 
gave  him  tiie  command  of  the  Gloucester  elections.  He 
was  also  proprietor  of  the  borough  of  Ludgershall,  and 
as  the  patron  of  four  seats  was  the  deserving  recipient 
of  sinecures.  Unlike  most  Englishmen  of  his  day,  he 
lived  mneh  in  Paris.  An  accomplished  French  scholar, 
with  a  better  pronunciation  than  any  other  living  English- 
man, be  was  the  idol  of  Parisian  seUont  and  the  favourite 
«f  the  queen  of  Louis  XY.  **  The  queen,"  writes  Lord 
March,  "asked  Madame  de  Mirepoiz ' si  elle  n*avait  pas 
beancoop  entendu  m6dire  de  M.  Selwyn  et  elle.'  Elle 
arfoondn,  'Oui,  beaoeoup,  madame.'  'J'en  suis  bien 
rise,*   dil  In    leine."      He  Uved  in   Paris,   said   his 


friends,  among  blind  old  women,  old  presidents,  and*, 
premiers.    They  referred  to   Madame  du  Deffand^  to 
Henault  (of  whom  Yoltaire  wrote,  "Henault  fameux 

pour  vos  soupers et  votre  chronologie ").  and  the 

Pao   de   Choiseul.      It   was  Selwyn   who  Introduced 
Walpole  to  Madame  du  Deffand,  and  Gibbon  to  Madame 
de  Geoffrin.    He  was  not  without  literary  tastes.    He  - 
delighted  in  the  letters  of  Madame  de  S^vign6,  made  a 
pilgrimage  to  Les  Rochers,  vied  with  Walpole  in  his 
worship  of  the   Hdtel   de  Camavalet,  ana,  from  an 
allusion  in  these  volumes,  seems  to  have  contemplated, 
editing  her  letters.    In  the  present  centuir  he  might 
have  become  a  distinguished  antiquary.    One  of  his 
friends  visited  the  scene  of  the  execution  of  the  Mar6chal 
Due  de  Biron,  and  thus  writes  to  Selwyn  :    **  How  many 
anecdotes  vou  would  have  called  to  mind:  how  many 
books  would  you  have  read  the  night  before  to  have 
amazed  the  warder  and  tired  us ;  how  many  memoires 
would  you   have   quoted  1 "    While   in  Paris  he  was 
pestered  with  requests  from  ladies  or  dandies  in  London 
to  send  them  velrets  and  ruffles,  tambour  needles,  bell- 
ropes,  and  clothes  from  Le  Due,  the  fashionable  tailor : 
in  return  he  orders  from  England  chip  hats,  tea,  and 
fans.    The   number   and   variety  of  the   commissions 
which  he  executed,  and  the  contents  of  his  house  at 
Matson,  prove  him  a  man  of  taste,  but  the  articles  he 
was   called  on  to  select  were  as  incons^ous  as  hia 
ruling  passions  for  gambling,  children,  and  executions. 
Lord  Carlisle  gives  a  sketch  of  his  life  in  London:-^ 
"Yon  get  up  at  9;  play  with  Baton  [hu  dog]  till  12; 
then  creep  down  to  White's  and  abuse  Fansbawe;  are 
five  hours  at  table;   sleep  till  you  can   escape  your 
supper  reckoning;  then  make  two  wretches  carry  you 
with  three  pints  of  claret  in  you  three  miles."    The 
famous    panie    quarrie    or    out-of-town-partv    which 
Horace  Walpole  entertained  at  Strawbenyr  Hill  used  to 
consist  of  Selwyn,  Edgcumbe,  and  Gilly  Williams.    The 
scenes  described   in   these  volumes  raise  the  inquiry 
whether  society  is  as  accomplished,  as  witty,  and  as 
lively  now  as  in  the  eighteenth  century.    On  one  thing 
we  may  congratulate  ourselves :  that  in  all  the  externals 
of  morality  we  have  improved.    Would  public  opinion 
now  tolerate  the  First  Lord  of  the  Treasury,  the  Duke 
of  Grafton,  leading  a  Nancy  Parsons  in  triumph  through 
the  opera-house,  or  that  Miss  Bay  should  do  the  honours 
of  Hinchingbroke  for  Lord  Sandwich,  the  First  Lord  of 
the  Admiralty,  or  that  a  Lord  of  the  Bedchamber,  the 
Duke  of  Queensberry,  should  drive  down  to  Newmarket 
with  an  Italian  opera  dancer,  the  rest  of  the  garlic- 
eating  tribe  following  in  a  second  carriage  1    It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  our  egotism  is  more  justifiable  than  that  of 
the  Pharisee.    In  conclusion,  we  strongly  recommend 
these   volumes,   which   are   full    of    varied    interest,, 
illustrated  with  some  excellent  prints,  and  published  at 
a  most  moderate  price. 

The  History  of  the  Two  Ulster  Manors  of  Finagh,  in  the 
County  of  Tyrone,  and  Coole,  othervnse  Manor  Atkin- 
son, in  the  County  of  Fermanagh,  By  the  Earl  of  Bel- 
more.  (Longmans  &  Co.) 
Ibblavd  has  been  neglected  by  local  historians.  There 
are  very  few  good  town  histories,  and  hardly  any  of  the 
rural  districts  which  can  in  any  way  be  compared  with 
what  England  and  Scotiand  possess.  The  Earl  of  Bel- 
more  has  done  what  he  can  to  supply  this  deficiency,  and 
done  it  in  so  modest  a  manner  that  we  have  nothing  but 
thanks  to  offer  him.  The  succession  of  property  has 
suffered  such  violent  interruptions  in  Ireland  that  local 
history  has  to  be  written  there  in  a  manner  widely  dif- 
ferent from  what  we  are  accustomed  to.  Here  we  have 
a  long  series  of  public  documents,  commonly  b<^nning 
with  the  Conqueror's  survey,  which   throw   light  on 


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Blmoit  erory  hamlet  in  England  beyond  the  boundaries 
of  the  fire  northern  ahires.  In  Ireland  the  record  eyi- 
-  dence  is  scanty,  and  the  long  tragedy  of  confiscation  has 
destroyed  historical  continnitj.  JByen  the  names  of 
places  have  perished  and  their  boundaries  been  swept 
away,  in  many  cases  as  utterly  as  the  traces  of  the  Red 
Indian  in  Massachusetts  or  Rhode  Island.  Few  places 
in  Ireland,  except  the  Norman  towns  and  the  fenced 
cities,  hare  a  recoverable  history  earlier  than  the  Re- 
formation. Lord  Belmore  has  acted  wisely  in  not  giving 
us  wild  speculation  in  the  place  of  history,  as  some  other 
Irish  antiquaries  have  done.  He  traces  the  history  of 
his  domains  with  patient  accuracy  by  the  help  of  title 
deeds  and  other  legal  documents,  and  furnishes  us  as  he 
goes  along  with  a  perfect  treasure  of  Celtic  names  of 
places  and  persons.  The  book  is,  of  course,  not  amusing 
reading  in  the  sense  that  a  noTel  or  a  magazine  article  is 
so,  but  it  will  be  found  very  instructiTO  by  those  who 
wish  to  understand  something  of  the  Ireland  of  the  past 
and  who  profoundly  discredit  the  partisan  writers  on  all 
sides  who  have  tried  to  enlighten  them.  I  n  the  appendix 
is  what  we  believe  to  be  the  most  accurate  version  of  the 
Beresford  ghost  story  that  is  extant. 

The  ffistory  of  WaUingford,  in  the  County  of  Beris.    By 

John  Eirby  Hedges.  2  vols.  (Clowes.) 
This  is  a  boox  over  which  immense  labour  has  been  ex- 
pended. There  is  very  much  that  we  might  say  in  its 
f  raise,  and  but  little  to  find  fault  with  except  the  title, 
t  Bhould  have  been  called  not  a  history,  but  materials 
for  a  history,  of  Wallingford.  The  author  has  rantacked 
almost  every  printed  authority  for  information  and  some 
manuscrintfl,  but  he  has  not  woven  his  materials  to- 
gether—they are  for  the  most  part  undigested  as  in  a 
calendar.  We  do  not  find  fault  with  this— it  is  far  better 
than  the  practice  some  persons  indulge  in  of  giving 
us  fine  writing  when  we  want  facts ;  but  it  is  only  fair 
that  the  title  should  accurately  describe  the  nature  of 
the  book.  Much  of  the  first  volume  is  occupied  with 
the  Roman  time,  and  we  cannot  speak  too  highly  of  Mr. 
Hedges's  conscientious  thoroughness  in  putting  the  whole 
e?idence  before  his  readers.  The  Roman  topography  of 
Britain  is  still  a  subject  which  fires  the  temper  of  certain 
enthusiastic  students.  We  must,  therefore,  be  very 
guarded  and  sav  as  little  here  on  the  subject  as  possible. 
We  are  bound,  in  justice  to  one  who  has  devoted  so 
much  time  and  thought  to  the  subject,  to  eay  that  we 
believe  that  Mr.  Hedges  is  right  in  his  conclusions  as  to 
the  site  of  Calleva  Atrebatum.  We  are  sorry,  howe?er, 
to  find  that  he  does  not  speak  quite  positively  as  to  the 
spuriousness  of  the  book  known  as  Richard  of  Cirencetter. 
He  is  not  in  the  position  of  the  old  race  of  antiquaries. 
He  evidently  would  not  trust  the  book,  but  still  is  not 
quite  certain  that  it  is  a  modem  forgery.  It  is  a  matter, 
however,  that  now  admiu  of  not  the  slightest  possible 
doubt  Mr.  Hedges  gives  at  length  the  text  with  a 
translation  of  Henry  II.'s  charter  to  Wallingford.  It  is 
a  highly  carious  document,  and  as  such  was  printed,  in 
the  beginnmg  of  the  hut  century,  by  Brady  in  his  treatise 
op  Burghs.  One  chief  point  of  interest  in  it  consists  in 
the  fact  that  it  contains  a  fragment  of  £arly  Bnglish 
imbedded  in  it  like  a  fossil  in  a  roclr.  The  king  grants 
in  good  law  Latin,  freedom  of  toll  to  all  the  men  of 
Wallingford  in  England,  Normandy,  Aquitaine,  and 
.Amou  :— 

"Bi  Gater  end  by  Strande, 
BiWodeenbiLande." 
Brady's  text,  though  verbally  the  same,  has  some  differ- 
ences of  spelling.  If  the  original  be  in  existence,  it  is 
much  to  be  wished  that  this  early  fragment  of  our  mother 
4ongqe  should  be  giTen  with  Uteral  accuracy.  The  second 
Tolume  oontainf  several  lista  of  public  officen  which  Will 


be  valuable  to  students  of  genealogy  and  those  who  are 
interested  in  surnames. 

The  Revisers*  JBnglitK  By  Q.  Washington  Moon,  F.RJ8.I1. 

(Hatchards.) 
FiFTUK  years  ago  Mr.  Moon  proved  that  a  learned  dean 
was  not  necessarily  a  master  of  the  Queen's  English. 
He  now  demonstrates,  with  his  wonted  clearness  and 
precision,  that  the  revisers  of  the  New  Testament  are 
more  competent  to  unravel  the  mysteries  of  the  Oieek 
tonffue  than  to  write  English  accurately.  Time  has 
neither  abated  the  force  of  his  attack  nor  dimmed  the 
keenness  of  his  vision.  The  Revisers'  English,  as  a  model 
of  verbal  criticism,  is  a  worthy  rival  to  The  Dean's  Eng- 
lish; and  Mr.  Moon  displays  in  both  works  a  delicate 
appreciation  of  the  niceties  of  our  language,  a  polished 
and  accurate  style,  and  an  unusual  power  of  making  his 
points  with  fatal  precision.  The  controversial  character 
of  the  book  gives  animation  to  a  dull  subject,  and,  though 
Mr.  Moon's  method  of  overthrowing  his  antagonists  is 
probably  irritating  to  his  victims,  his  tone  is  uniformly 
courteous.  The  champions  who  maintain  the  revisers' 
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their  own  swords.  The  book  cannot  fail  to  interest  all 
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own  tongue  of  the  New  Testament 

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papers,  contributed  by  him  to  the  columns  of  the  Craven 
Pioneer  (Skipton),  entitled  "  Skipton  Oistle  and  Town 
during  the  Ci?il  Wars." 

Oh  Feb.  4, 1882,  Chamberis  Journal  will  have  com- 
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event  Dr.  William  Chambers,  the  senior  conductor,  will 
offer  to  his  readers  a  risume  entitled  Retniniseences  of  a 
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A  West  Saxon.— See Thisel ton  Dyer's  British  Popular 
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C.  M.  I.  (<* Curtain  Lectures").— See  "  N. k Q.,"  &^  S. 
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CONTENTS.— N«  109. 

FOTKS  :->The  B«lUol  uid  Yaloinoa  FamlUei  and  the  Office 
of  dutmberUln  of  Scotland.  81— Baoon'i  Eaiez-Sonnet,  and 
ntofluon's  £aa7  "  On  Renaeoenoe  Drama,  or  History  made 
Viilble,"  62-]Sarl7  Appreciation  of  Bomi— An  ElUabethan 
Ptajer  Book,  68~Wa8aalling  in  Glonoettershire— Hooper 
Ftmilj:  Barbadoei,  64  — Words  and  Phrases  in  the  Far 
Weit-llaiors  Psalms.  65— Old  Laws.  Ac.  of  Virginia— The 
Aoo  of  Spades  in  Bygone  Days— The  Philological  Society's 
New  Inglish  Dictionary.  66. 

QUERIES :— Hogarth's  only  Landscape —  " The  Contrast: 
Sight  end  Wrong.'  67— Sir  Chrlstoidier  Wren's  Sisters— Jan 
YsB  Tenloo— Gentles :  Mndwall— Bhedarinm  in  Park  Lane 
-fttnbbs  Family— Lord  Brittat— "  Aikermes  ":  "  Gahotas  " 
OostSDm— Jean,  Ao  —  Greeo-hastings.  68— Assize  of  Bread— 
Ser.  Mr.  Leane— Bellars  Pamily—Sboracam— Dedication  of 
Chmeh  Bells  — John  Logan  —  Glllray's  Masterpiece,  60— 
Avthois  Wanted,  70. 

BBPLI^>.The  Mnsenm  Beading  Boom  —  Authorship  of 
"IffliUtlo  Christl.'*  70  -Jennet,  71— Old  Marble  Slab  in  St. 
Mftrgiiet's  Chnrchyard— Bad  Copy  and  Good  Printers.  72— 
JefcoBlah  Clarke—"  Tennis"— Elvaston  Castle— Charles  II. 's 
BidiBg  Places.  73— "Hip,  Hip,  Hnrrah  ! "—Irish  Popular 
BaUsds-The  "  Gathollcon  Anglicnm  "— Halkett  and  Laing's 
^DicUonary  of  Anonymons  and  Psendonymoua  Literature," 
74-Pletnre  of  St  John  by  Morillo- Kings  of  Cornwall— 
Death  of  Edward  of  Lancaster— Blood-guiltiness— **Con- 
tiind*'»Wom  out— Swift  andT.  Adams— Warton's  Ballad, 
"The  Tnmlp-Hoer.'*  7&-" Pomatum "—" Such  which"— 
"Ouriage"  for  **  Baggage  "-Heraldic  Anomaly  — Bule  of 
the  Bosd— Folk-lore  of  Eggs- WUtshire  ProrinciaUsms,  76 
— JL  Tomer  andTeetotalism— The  Devil  and  the  best  Hymn 
Ttoss—  "  Bred  and  bom  *  —  **  Cut  over  "—Conversion  of 
Emily  Xamea,  77— ▲  Fencing  Match  in  Marylebone  Fields 
-"  Sate ••  for  "  Sat "—"  Joseph  and  his  Brethren."  Ac..  78 
fish-books— Provincial  Fairs- Authors  Wanted,  Ac,  79. 

90TES  ON  BOOKS:— Hahn's  ''Tsui  Goam.  the  Supreme 
Bdag  of  the  Hottentots  "-Colvin's  "Landor"— Masson's 
"Be Qninoey "— AsbjOmsen's  "Bound the Tule Log,' &c 


THE  BALLIOL  AND  VALOINES  FAMILIES  AND 
THE  OFFICE  OP  CHAMBERLAIN  OF  SCOT- 
LAND. 

In  the  carrent  number  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Marshall's 

^vMohqist  there  is  an  elaborate  paper  by  Mr. 

I      J.  A  C.  Vincent  on  Sir  Alexander  de  BaUiol  of 

Caven  and  the  Barony  of  Valoynes.    It  is  drawn 

op  with  careful  references  to  nndoabted  original 

I      sQthorities,  and  proves  beyond  question  that  this 

penonage,  who  has  been  strangely  called  by  many 

^ters,  and  cTen  by  Dagdale,  a  hroiher  of  John  de 

Balliol,  King  of  Scotland ,  was  not  so  related  ;  and 

this  by  the  exhaustive  process  of  showing  from  John 

de  Balliors  own  claim  to  the  Scottish  crown,  laid 

Mve  Edward  L  at  Norham  in  1291,  that  his 

Jb*e  elder  brothers,  Hugh,  Alan,  and  Alexander, 

"d  all  died  without  issue.  The  author  of  the  above 

I      pBper,  indeed,  goes  further,  and  shows  that  Alex- 

I      uider  BaUiol  of  Gaveis  (and  of  Chilham  in  right 

I      <rf  his  wife,  the  Dowager  Countess  of  Athol)  was 

^  Mm  of  Henry  de  BaUiol  and  Lora  his  wife, 

J^  with  their  elder  son,  Guy  de  BaUiol,  were 

ml  in  1272,  and  in  whose  right  he  was  a  land- 

^>Ar  m  Norfolk  and  some  adjoining  counties. 

Jrom  my  own  knowledge  of  the  records  during 

w  period,  I  may  observe  that,  except  Alexander, 


the  brother  of  King  John,  who  died  in  1278,  there 
is  no  Alexander  de  BaUiol  known  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  III.  or  Edward  I.  other  than  Alexander  of 
Cavers  (or  Chilham).  But  the  paper  chiefly 
interested  me  as  tending  to  throw  some  light  on 
the  succession  of  the  early  Chamberlains  of  Scot- 
land. Mr.  Burnett,  the  learned  editor  of  the  new 
edition  of  the  Exchequer  Rolls  of  Scotland,  now 
in  progress  under  the  sanction  of  H.M.  Treasury 
(vol.  ii.,  Appendix  to  Preface,  p.  cxvii),  intimates, 
while  giving  a  list  of  these  officers,  the  paucity  of 
accurate  evidence  respecting  them.  He  names 
(among  others)  Walter  de  Berkeley  of  InverkeiUer 
and  Bedcastle,  1165-89;  Philip  de  Yaloniis,  Lord 
of  Panmure,  1190-1215;  William  de  Valoniis, 
also  Lord  of  Panmure,  1215-19;  and  Henry  de 
BaUiol,  1223-29,  and  again,  1241-46;  and  (after 
a  considerable  lapse  of  time)  Alexander  de  Balliol 
of  Cavers,  son  of  Henry  de  Balliol,  formerly  Cham- 
berlain, between  1287  and  1294.  Now  there  was  a 
relationship  among  these  successive  chamberlains, 
which  Mr.  Burnett  states  with  some  unavoidable 
defects,  capable  of  being  now  amended  from  the 
authorities  cited  in  Mr.  Vincent^s  paper,  and 
others  to  which  these  lead.     Mr.  Burnett  says  :— 

"  The  daughter  of  Walter  de  Berkeley  married  Inge] 
ram  de  Balliol  [younger  brother  of  Bernard  BitUinl,  tlio 
great-grandfather  of  John  BaUiol,  the  vassal  king] ;  tho 
daughter  and  heir  of  William  de  Yaloniis  married  Sir 
Peter  Maule,  and  carried  the  lands  of  Panmure  to  hei 
husband's  family.  Henry  de  Balliol  [perhaps  younger 
son  of  Ingelram  de  Balliol  and  the  daughter  of  Walter  of 
Berkeley,  the  chamberlain]  married  Lora,  sister  of 
WUliam  de  Valoniis,  his  predecessor  in  office." 

Now  these  last  two  marriages  are  correct  to  this 
extent,  that  Peter  Maule  and  Henry  de  Balliol 
married  two  ladies  surnamed  de  Valoniis.  But 
these  ladies  were  not  niece  and  aunt,  they  were 
sisters,  And  had  a  third  sister,  and  all  three  were 
great  heiresses,  as  is  abundantly  clear  from  the 
English  records.  Lora,  who,  being  named  first, 
would  seem  to  have  been  the  eldest,  married 
Henry  de  BaUiol,  who,  besides  his  own  property 
in  Scotjland,  acquired  through  her  lands  in  Hert- 
fordshire, Essex,  and  Norfolk.  Isabella  married 
David  Comyn,  to  whom  she  brought  Kilbride,  in 
Scotland,  and  lands  in  the  above  counties ;  and 
Christiana,  the  wife  of  Peter  de  Maudune,  or 
Maunle  (his  name  is  spelled  in  half  a  dozen  ways  in 
the  records),  no  doubt  brought  the  Scottish  lord- 
ship of  Panmure  as  her  portion,  besides  a  share  of 
the  barony  of  Valoynes  in  England.  From  the 
early  date  at  which  they  were  married  (about 
1215)  these  three  ladies  were  probably  sisters 
rather  than  daughters  of  the  last  chamberlain  of 
the  name  of  Valoines,  WiUiam,  who,  according 
to  Mr.  Burnett,  died  about  1219.  The  history  of 
their  succession  to  the  honour  of  Valoynes  must 
be  elucidated  by  some  one  more  familiar  than  I 
am  with  that  famUy.  But  I  think  there  can  be 
little  doubt  that  Alexander  de  BaUiol,  afterwards  t 

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Chamberlain  of  Scofeland,  contemporaneouBly  with 
his  "  coDsangumeas/'  but  certainly  not  brother, 
Kinf^  John,  must  have  had  a  strong  hereditary 
daim  on  that  high  office  both  paternally  and 
maternally.  J.  Baik. 


BACON'S  ESSEX -SONNET,  AND  THOMSON'S 
ESSAY  "ON  RENASCENCE  DRAMA,  OR  HIS- 
TORY MADE  VISIBLE,"  1881. 
The  Intter  is  the  mysterions  title  of  the  first  of 
two  publications  by  a  Melbourne  surgeon,  having 
one  and  the  same  object,  to  establish  the  Baconian 
authorship  of  Shakespeare.  With  the  author*s 
special  craze  I  have  no  desire  to  meddle.  "Thought 
is  free,"  and  it  is  not  always  easy  to  draw  a  hard' 
and  fast  line  separating  fact  from  fiction,  or  a 
speculation  from  a  practical  joke.  But  all  the 
same  it  is  our  bounden  duty  to  safeguard  history 
and  biography,  whenever  the  established  facts  of 
either  are  seriously  assailed ;  and  for  the  nonce 
I  take  Mr.  Thomson's  speculation  au  iirieux, 
I  venture,  then,  once  more,  to  expose  and  refute 
a  gross  misstatement  of  fact,  for  which  the  author 
has  at  least  the  poor  excuse  that  he  has  been 
(apparently)  misled  by  as  culpable  a  misstate- 
ment  on  the  part  of  another  author,  now  no  longer 
among  us ;  viz.,  Mr.  Hepworth  Dixon. 

On  p.  114  of  Mr.  Thomson's  book  he  quotes 
from  Bacon  (but  more  suo  without  any  kind  of 
reference)  an  allusion  to  a  sonnet  written  by  Bacon 
himself,  and  adds,  "This  sonnet  has  never  been 
found  amongst  Bacon's  papers."  On  p.  112  this 
is  called  "  the  sonnet  written  by  Bacon  in  1600." 
On  the  basis  of  these  baseless  assumptions  Mr. 
Thomson  erects  the  monstrous  theory  "that 
Bacon's  [sonnet]  and  the  SonneU  [of  Shakespeare] 
were  one";  in  other  words  that  Bacon  prepared 
the  entire  book  of  sonnets  published  in  1609  as 
Shakespeare's  (or,  at  least,  the  major  part  of  them) 
for  the  express  purpose  of  restoring  Essex  to  the 
favour  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  Anything  so  absurd 
and  monstrous,  and  also  so  contrary  to  all  evidence, 
I  should  not  condescend  to  dispute ;  and  on  the 
present  occasion  I  write  solely  in  the  cause  of 
Bacon,  leaving  Shakespeare  to  shuffle  for  himself, 
if  need  be,  resting  assured  that  no  sophistry  will 
ever  disturb  the  aureole  of  glory  which  rests  on 
his  majestic  head. 

All  Mr.  Thomson's  statements  are  incorrect 
First,  the  sonnet  alluded  to  is  extant,  in  a  hand- 
writing of  the  latter  part  of  the  sixteenth  century  (or 
a  little  later),  and  is  preserved  in  the  Record  Office  ; 
secondly,  it  has  been  several  times  printed  (as  in 
Lives  of  the  Earls  of  Essex,  ii.  601 ;  Speddin^'s 
Letters  and  Life  of  Lord  Bacon,  L  388-9,  and  in 
both  editions  of  Judge  Holmes's  work  on  The 
Authorship  of  Shakespeare) ;  and,  thirdly,  it  was 
not  written  in  1600,  but  is  proved  to  have  existed 
before  Michaelmas,  1599,  and  therefore  before  the 


preparations  for  Baleigh's  second  expedition  to 
Guiana. 

Here  is  the  sonnet  referred  to  by  Bacon  in  his 
Apology  concerning  the  Earl  of  Essex,  and  there- 
fore the  sonnet  on  the  absence  of  which  Mr. 
Thomson  founds  his  theory  : — 

«  Seated  between  the  Old  World  and  the  New, 
A  land  there  is  no  other  land  may  touch. 
Where  reieos  a  Queen  in  peace  and  honour  true ; 
Stories  or  fables  do  desoribe  no  such. 
Never  did  Atlas  sach  a  burden  bear, 
As  she,  in  holding  up  the  world  opprest ; 
Supplying  with  her  virtue  everywhere 
Weakness  of  friends,  errors  of  servants  best 
No  nation  breeds  a  warmer  blood  for  war. 
And  yet  she  calms  them  by  her  majesty : 
No  age  hath  ever  wits  refined  so  far, 
And  yet  she  oalms  [1  charms  or  shsoies]  them  by  her 

policy: 
To  her  thy  son  must  make  his  sacrifice 
If  he  will  have  the  morning  of  his  eyes.*' 

Spedding  prints  it  in  its  place  as  part  of  the 
Attendant's  speech  in  the  Entertainment  of  ih€ 
Indian  Princs,' but,  mystified  by  Dixon,  leaves  the 
"  device "  (where  he  found  it)  among  the  manu- 
scripts of  1594-5.  But  he  does  so  with  his  eyes 
open,  for  he  writes,  '*  The  modem  arranger  of  the 
documents  in  the  State  Paper  Office  [now  removed 
to  the  Record  Office],  being  obliged  to  place  the 
undated    'device'   somewhere,   fixed   upon    the 

17th  November,  1595 The  entertainment 

was  drawn  up  bv  Bacon  for  the  Earl  of  Bssex.'^ 
He  then  shows  how,  by  a  process  of  evolution, 
Dixon's  utterly  erroneous  account  and  the 
State  Paper  docket  grew  out  of  the  fact  that  the 
'* device''  is  undated,  and  does  not  appear  in 
NichoFs  Progresses. 

As  to  the  *' device"  itself,  it  wholly  conoeme 
Essex,  and  apparently  not  Raleigh  Essex  is 
**  Seeing  Love,"  in  the  character  of  an  Indian 

Erince  who  was  bom  blind,  and  who  recovers 
is  sight  on  being  presented  to  the  queen.  At 
the  conclusion  of  the  Attendant's  speech  axe 
these  words,  "Since  in  his  blindness  he  haih 
chanced  so  well  as  to  fix  his  affections  in  the  most 
excellent  place,  let  him  now  by  his  sight  find  oat 
the  most  ready  way."  In  the  part  of  the  speedi 
which  nrecedes  the  sonnet  there  are  unmistak- 
able allusions  to  Essex's  career.  The  countiy 
governed  by  the  prince's  father  and  the  Oastilian 
nation,  though  located  near  the  source  of  the 
Amazons,  seems  to  be  an  allusion  to  Irehind.  Whe 
were  to  act  the  parts  of  the  Squire  and  the  Atten- 
dant I  am  not  able  to  discover,  nor  yet  the  sup- 
posed "  compliment  to  Raleigh." 

From  1599  we  find  no  reference  to  this  sonnet 
till  we  come  to  Bacon's  Apology  (Spedding,  voL  iiu 
149).    Here  we  read  : — 

"A  little  before  that  time  [1599],  being  about  the 
middle  of  Michaelmas  term,  her  Msje«tv  had  a  purpose 
to  dine  at  my  lodge  at  Twickenham  Park,  at  whieh  time 
I  bad  (thoogh  I  profess  not  to^m  a  poe^  prepared  a 

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direetly  tending  and  alluding  to  draw  on  her 
Utoatfn  reconcilement  to  my  Lord,  whicli  I  remember 
abo  I  shewed  to  a  great  person  and  one  of  mj  Lord's 
Bcerest  friends^  who  commended  it ;  this,  thouffh  it  be 
(as  I  said)  but  a  toy,  yet  it  shewed  plainly  in  what 
spirit  I  proceeded,  and  that  I  was  ready  not  only  to  do 
Dj  Lord  good  offices,  but  to  publish  and  declare  myself 
for]iim,''&c. 

By  Bacon's  own  account  the  sonnet  was  not 
nssd ;  so  it  was  never  any  part  of  the  device  per- 
tened  at  York  House  or  at  Bicbmond  in  1695. 
0.  M.  Inolbbt. 

Athmsfwim  Club. 


Early  Appreciation  of  Burns.— In  Scotland, 
aod  wherever  in  the  world  a  leal  Scot  is  to  be 
ibnnd,  there  is  a  rash  of  enthusiasm  in  honour  of 
Bobert  Bums  on  every  25th  of  January.  It  is 
corioos  at  such  a  time  to  come  upon  No.  97  of 
Heniy  Mackenae's  Lounger,  and  read  there  what 
is  described  in  the  table  of  contents  as  an  *^  Ex- 
traordinary Account  of  Robert  Bums,  the  Ayrshire 
Ploughman ;  with  extracts  from  his  Poems.'' 
The  iian  of  Feeling  is  confident  that  he  is  intro- 
ducing to  his  readers  a  man  of  unusual  genius, 
"whose  poetry,"  he  says,  "considered  abstractedly, 
ind  without  the  apologies  arising  from  his  situa- 
tioD,  seems  to  me  fully  entitled  to  command  our 
feelings  and  to  obtain  our  applause."  He  is 
Knnewhat  apologetic  for  tbe  dialect  in  which  most 
of  the  poems  are  written ;  but  he  is  glad  to  say 
tliat  some  of  them,  "  especially  those  of  the  grave 
ityle,  are  almost  English.''  This  leads  him  to 
quote  several  stanzas  from  the  Vinon,  in  which 
M  is  sure  his  readers  will  discover  "  a  high  tone 
id  feeling,  a  power  and  energy  of  expression,  par- 
ticolarly  and  strongly  characteristic  of  the  mind 
ttd  the  voice  of  a  poet."  Despite  difficulties  of 
dialect,  To  a'  Mountain  Daity  is  quoted  entire, 
the  true  and  appreciative  critic  hinting  that  this 
u  no  better  than  many  more  of  the  pieces  in  the 
▼^me  from  which  he  quotes,  though  it  happens 
|o  soit  the  length  of  his  paper.  Curiously  enough, 
M  does  not  seem  to  have  been  specially  impressed 
bj  Thi  Cottar's  Saturday  Nioht,  which  is  simply 
Mmed  along  with  sevexul  others.  But  the  criti- 
^D,  on  the  whole,  is  penetrating  and  just ;  and 
t<w  paper  reaches  a  fine  climax  in  an  appeal  to 
tbe  nation  to  do  something  for  Bums,  in  order  to 
jpevent  him  from  seeking  "  under  a  West-Indian 
ttime  that  shelter  and  support  which  Scotland  has 
^enied  him."  The  date  of  this  appeal  was  Dec.  9, 
1786,  and  the  paper  is  probably  the  first  worthy 
oitidsm  of  Burns.  Tuohas  Batnb. 

An  ELLSABvrHAN  Prater  Book— A  curious 
raysrBook  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  time  lies  before 
HJ^  and  I  think  it  worth  describing  for  the  benefit 
«  the  readers  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  some  of  whom  may 
St  ible  to  throw  more  light  on  it  than  I  am  able 
10  do  in  the  abeence  of  a  title-page.   The  hook  is  a 


quarto,  and  in  its  present  state  consists  of  sixteen 
leaves,  a  to  b  in  eights  (a  iiij,  printed  b  iiij  by  mis- 
take), printed  in  a  small,  good  black-letter  type,  at 
Cawood's  press.  The  title  and  preliminary  matter 
(with  a  separate  set  of  signatures)  are  missing,  as 
also  is  the  top  portion  of  a  j,  which  should  contain 
"  The  Order  where  Mornyng  and  Evening  prayer 
shall  be  used  and  said,"  with  the  corresponding 
Rubric  and  the  Ornaments  Rubric.  The  Matins 
and  Evensong  are  the  same  as  in  the  folio  edition 
of  1561,  except  that  in  the  title  of  "  Benedicite 
omnia  opera  domini  domino"  the  last  two  words 
are  omitted,  and  to  the  title  of  "Benedictus"  are 
added  "  dominus  deus."  In  Evensong  it  is  "  Our 
Father,"  &a,  instead  of  «  Our  Father  which  art 
in  heaven,"  &c.;  and  instead  of  "Or  els  this 
Psalme,"  with  a  side  note,  "'Cantate  domino,' 
Psalm  xcviij,"  it  has  "  Or  the  xcviij  tPsaline, 
'Cantate  domino  canticum  novum,  quia  mirahilia 
fecit.'"  And,  again,  instead  of  the  same  rubric 
with  a  corresponding  side-note,  it  has,  **  Or  this 
Psalme,  'Deus  misereatur  nostri,'  in  Englysh." 
Before  the  Creed  of  St.  Athanasius  the  words 
"  Quicunque  vult "  are  omitted.  The  "  Letanye  " 
has  for  its  0  initial  a  naked  boy  whipping  a  top. 
Before  the  "Prayer  for  the  Queenes  Maiestie" 
comes  the  following  rubric : — 

"  After  the  ende  of  the  Colleote  in  the  Letanie  whyche 
beffynneth  with  these  wordes,  We  humbly  beseche  thee 
O  Father,  &e.,  shall  folowe  thys  Paalme  to  be  sayd  of 
the  Mynister,  wyth  the  answer  of  the  people." 

Then  the  Psalm  "Benedixisti  Domine"  G^^cx^.) 
is  set  out  in  fulL    After  the  Prayer  "  In  the  tin^e 
of  any  common  plague  or  sickenes"  follows  th  e 
Prayer  of  St.  Ghrysostom  a  second  time  (apparently 
in  error  for  the  prayer  "  0  Gk)d  whose  nature  and 

Eropertie,"  &c.);  and  then,  without  any  new 
eading,  "  The  fyrst  Sunday  in  Aduent "  follows ; 
and  in  the  line  below  "  At  the  Communion,"  "  The 
Collect,"  which  formula  is  repeated  after  "The 
Second  Sunday,"  and  so  on  for  all  the  Sundays 
and  holy  days.  After  the  "  Collect  for  the  Twenty- 
fifth  Sunday  after  Trinity"  follows  a  heading, 
"Certayne  Colleotes  to  be  sayde  at  the  Com- 
munion upon  Sainctes  dayes."  The  Gospels  and 
Epistles  and  their  references  are  omitted.  The 
Communion  Service  is  wholly  omitted.  But  after 
the  "Collect  for  All  Saints"  follow  "The  Col- 
lectes  for  the  Quene,"  taken  from  that  service, 
and  the  Confession,  preceded  by  a  rubric,  "A 
generall  Confession  to  oe  made  before  we  receyue 
the  holy  Communion,"  and  followed  by  a  rubric, 
"  A  prayer  to  be  sayd  before  the  receyuing  of  the 
holy  Communion,"  which  is  the  "Prayer  for 
humble  access." 

Rubric,  "  A  thankesgeuyng  vnto  God,  after  the 
receauyng  of  the  holy  Communion."  This  is  the 
collect,  "  Almighty  and  euerlasting  God,  we  most 
hartely  thanke  thee,"  &c.  (slightly  varied  from  the 
1561  book).  ^  T 

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Bubric,  "  The  blessyn^  at  the  departare  of  the 
people,"  "  The  peace  of  God,"  &c. 

Kabric,  *^  CoUectes  to  be  sayde  after  the  Offer- 
tory, when  there  is  do  Commanion."  These  are 
the  six  collects  from  the  Post  Communion.  The 
Post  Communion  rubrics  are  all  omitted. 

So  the  Communion  Service  is  treated  as  per- 
taining to  another  book  (a  missal),  and  we  might 
almost  suppose  that  these  prayers  were  intended 
as  a  companion  to  the  altar,  a  help  to  the  un- 
learned while  the  mass  was  being  said  in  Latin, 
if  it  were  not  that  the  book  is  bound  up  with 
a  Bible,  printed  in  the  same  type,  whicti  is  evi- 
dently the  Bible  of  1569,  No.  "^  in  Lea  Wilson's 
list,  and  no  doubt  gives  the  da^  '>f  the  Prayer 
Book.  The  Bible  begins  (as  the  ..  ree  Cawood 
1669  Bibles  do  in  Lea  Wilson)  on  folio  A  j,  without 
first  title  or  prolegomena.  The  volume  belongs  to 
Mrs.  Hay  ley,  of  Catsfield  Place,  Sussex. 

Henrt  H.  Gibbs. 
Si  Danstan's,  Regent's  Park. 

Wassailing  in  Gloucestershire. — I  have 
just  received  an  account  of  the  above,  from  a  lady 
friend  who  is  at  present  on  the  spot,  which  seems 
to  me  worthy  of  a  place  in  '*  N.  &  Q."  It  appears 
that  there  they  carry  round  not,  as  in  Yorkshire, 
images  of  the  Virgin  and  the  children  Jesus  and 
John,  but  a  wassail  bowl,  and  their  wassail  song 
is  very  inferior,  but  still  too  characteristic  to  be 
lost.  My  friend  sends  me  a  sketch,  and  writes 
as  follows  ;— 

'  The  bowl  is  a  large  wooden  one,  with  two  pieces  of 
irood  arched  over  the  top.  A  hole  is  in  the  centre,  to 
allow  a  green  bough  to  be  inserted.  The  bough  itself 
is  coTersd  with  ribbons,  tied  on  as  it  is  carried  from 
house  to  house  on  Christmas  Eve.  The  bowl,  of  which 
I  made  a  slight  sketch,  came  to  the  Park  on  Christmas 
Eve,  carried  by  two  men.  They  sang  the  accompanying 
song,  and  we  were  expected  to  tie  on  a  ribbon  and  to 
put  a  coin  into  the  bowl  to  supply  the  wassail.  One  of 
the  old  inhabitants  of  Cherrington  supplied  me  with  the 
song,  called  here  'The  Wass-ailing  Song '—a  decided 
accent  on  the '  Wass.'  One  of  our  maids,  wno  is  a  native 
of  Htinchcombe,  says  that  a  very  old  man  carries  the 
bowl  there,  and  that  he  has  done  so  from  his  youth. 
You  will  see  at  once  that  some  of  the  lines  are  forgotten. 
I  should  think  two  in  the  last  verse  have  been  tacked  on 
to  the  other  lines.  I  have  not  seen  any  account  of  this 
custom  in  any  of  the  articles  on  Christmastide,  so  I 
should  think  it  is  confined  to  these  remote  villages  on 
the  Cotswolds.  *  *  •  *  • 

**  P.S.  Mr.  B says  it  is  a  heathenish  custom,  and 

will  have  nothing  to  do  with  it :~ 

*'  The  Wastailtng  Song,  <u  Sung  at  Cherrington, 
Gloucesterikire,  Dee,  21. 1881. 
^'Wassail,  wassail,  all  over  the  town, 
Our  toast  it  is  white,  our  ale  it  is  brown ; 
Our  bowl  it  is  made  of  the  mapling  [or  rosemary]  tree, 
With  the  wassailing  bowl  we  will  dnnk  unto  thee. 

Here  is  to  Cherry  snd  to  her  bright  eye ; 

Pray  God  send  our  mistress  a  good  Christmas  pie — 

A  good  Christmas  pie  that  we  may  all  see, 

With  the  wassailing  bowl  we  will  drink  onto  thee. 


Here  is  to  Broad  and  to  his  long  horn ; 
Pray  Ood  send  our  master  a  good  crop  of  com — 
A  good  crop  of  corn  and  another  of  hay. 
To  pass  the  cold  wintry  winds  away. 

Here  is  to  Whitefoot  and  to  her  long  tail; 
Pray  Qod  send  our  master  a  never  a  horse  fidl— 
A  never  a  horse  fail  that  we  may  all  see, 
With  the  wassailing  bowl  we  will  drink  unto  thee. 

Come,  butler,  fill  for  us  a  bowl  of  the  best, 
We  hope  your  soul  in  heaven  will  rest; 
But  if  you  do  fill  us  a  bowl  of  the  small, 
Down  fall  butler,  bowl  and  all. 

If  here  is  any  maid  in  the  house — I  hope  there  is  some — 
Pray  let  not  the  young  men  stand  on  the  cold  stone. 
But  sl^p  to  the  door,  and  draw  back  the  pin; 
The  fairest  maid  in  the  house  let  us  all  in — 
Let  us  all  in,  and  see  bow  you  do  ,* 
Merry  boys  all,  and  thank  you  too." 

J.  T. 
Bp.  Hatfield's  Hall,  Durham. 

Hooper  Familt  :  Babbadobs. — The  foUowiog 
letters  were  copied  by  me,  some  years  since,  firom 
the  originals,  with  the  permission  of  the  late  Mr. 
Thomas  Frewen.  They  may  be  regarded  as 
interesting  reminiscences  of  the  parties  therein 
named,  as  well  as  of  the  social  habits  of  our 
countrymen  transplanted  to  the  ^*  Garden  of  the 
Antilles."  Robert  Hooper,  the  writer  of  Letter  ii. 
and  the  subject  of  Letter  L,  was,  as  I  take  it,  an 
offset  of  the  Hooper  stock  which  rooted  itself 
drca  1656  at  Boveridge,  in  the  county  of  Dorset, 
and  flourished  there  in  affluence  and  honour  until 
towards  the  end  of  the  last  century.  I  should  be 
glad  to  know  from  what  particular  branch  of  the 
family  tree  this  Eobert  Hooper  derived  his 
origin.  (See  Hutchins's  History  of  DorsU,  third 
edition,  voL  iii.)  He  sealed  his  letter  with  the 
Hooper  arms,  viz..  Or,  on  a  fesse  between  three 
boars  pass.  az.  as  many  annulets  of  tiie  first. 
The  person  addressed  by  him,  Mr.  Richard 
Turner,  was  third  son  of  John  Turner,  of  Falham, 
merchant,  who  married,  1666,  Martha,  daughter 
of  John  Petti  ward,  of  Putney,  Esq.;  died  1669. 
Richard  Turner  died  1706,  s.p,  Henry  Turner 
was  his  eldest  brother,  a  serjeant-at-law ;  died 
1724  ;  married  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  Thomas 
Frewen,  of  Putney,  M.P.  for  Rye,  Sussex,  1678- 
1698  ;  died  1702.  The  Pettiwards  formed  aUiaoces 
with  the  families  of  Turner,  Wymondswold,  and 
Tregonwell : — 

Lnrn  I. 
Daniel  Richardton  to  Mr,  Riekard  Turner, 

Barbados,  6^  November,  1694. 

I  am  told  that  John  Beek  presents  a  Petition  to 

the  Assembly  against  Hob,  Hooper,  alleadging,  I  think, 
fees  taken  on  both  sides,  of  which  I  doubt  not  but  Mr. 
Hooper  may  and  will  clear  himself;  however,  severall 
of  the  Anembly  and  some  of  the  Council,  as  is  reported, 
favour  the  Petition,  or  seem  ready  to  joyn  with  it.  The 
Govern'  resides  now  for  some  time  at  Bell's  plant^n 
(Howell  and  Guy's)  for  health's  sake ;  I  was  there  onoe 
and  heard  a  Petition  of  John  Beek  and  Mrs.  Cleaver^ 
ag**  Mr.  Hooper,  about  a  plea  putt  into  an  aetioa  of 


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Betinae  of  Nigroei^  which  plea  was  Detinet  instead  of 
Jfo%  Ddiiul;  the  prayer  was,  that  Mr.  Hooper  might 
be  fnpended.  Mr.  Hooper  proffered  his  oath  that  he 
Dsrer  saw  the  plaa  till  time  of  tryall  in  Court,  and  sayth, 


that  Nicb.  Seajsrs  made  the  plea,  and  sett  his  name  to 
itas bis  man,  w*^ is  nsoall  for  Clerks:  tiie  hearing  was 
adjooned. 

Ut.  Hooper  tells  me  that  his  letters  sent  yon  by  ColL 
Kendall  are  oome  back,  but  that  hee  will  write  afresh. 
I  think  bee  has  not  lookt  well  since  his  marriage ;  might 
I  adTise  him,  I  would  hare  him  goe  for  Engl**,  as  hee 
talks  of,  and  things  seem  to  concor  to  it" 

Letter  II. 
Frwat  Robert  Hooper  to  Mr.  Riekard  Turner, 

Barbados,  June  y«  25, 1695. 

Mr.  Turner,— You  are  now  indebted  to  me  two  letters, 
iDd  I  long  to  hear  from  you  wth  all  my  heart,  But  I 
most  desire  you  to  be  longer  In  j'  Letters,  and  to  lett 
ne  know  what  news  y*  Town  affords,  and  bow  Innocently 
yon  difert  y'self :  yon  have  Carried  all  j*  mirth  of  this 
dace  away  w>k  yoo,  and  we  are  good  for  nothing  now, 
Bot  to  go  to  bed  at  eight  A  clock,  unless  sometimes  we 
neet  w^  Mr.  Oibbs  and  Co>  Salter  who,  you  know, 
bate  an  Aversion  to  such  hours :  Tom  FouUerton  and  I 
nry  frequently  drink  you  health,  and  Remember  y* 
pleasantness  of  y  ConTersac*on.  ¥•  Attorneys  are  all 
dead  except  Richardson,  who  I  assist  (as  oft  as  he 
•ppljii  bimself  to  me)  In  y'  affaires,  and  shall  always 
be  giad  to  shew  myself         Yo^  assured  f  r' 

and  Humble  serr^ 

,  ^  Ro.  Hooper. 

(Address)— For  Mr.  Richard  Turner 
at  the  House  of  Henry  Turner,  Esq", 
la  Castle  Yard,  In  Holbom,  London. 

T.  W.  Wakk  Smart. 

Words  akd  Phrases  in  Usb  in  thk  Far 
Wmt.— In  the  New  York  Times  of  Sunday, 
December  18,  was  a  letter  from  Miles  City, 
Hontaoa  Territory,  in  which  was  a  glossary  of 
serenteen  of  the  words  and  phrases  in  ase  in  that 
pvt  of  the  Far  West.  As  some  of  them  are 
•lowly  percolating  into  use  further  east,  and  will, 
po  donbt,  in  time  appear  in  England,  it  may 
interest  some  readers  to  see  the  whole  list  :— 


•■y  itretch  of  especially  rough  country. 
iiiS"^***" — ^^  grumble  without  good  cause,  ^mploy^s 
*  bellyache '»  at  being  orerworked,  or  when  they  fancy 
«h«aselTes  underfed,  &c. 

Cimk.-'To  subdue,  to  forcibly  bind  down  and  OTer- 

5«ie.   Thus  it  is  unfairly  said  that  the  Northern  Pacific 

gmpany intends  to  "cinch"  the  settlers  by  exacting 

•nta  prices  for  its  lands.    Querr,  from  Latin  eingere  t 

pwqr-— A  gully.     Erery  ravme  short  of  an  inhabit- 

j        •MenUeyiscalleda*'cooley."    Prom  French  coi«^«. 

I  CWi  Out— To  subdue  by  oTorwbelming  ssTerity  of 

i        g*»«-    "He  cussed  that  fellow  out,"  Ce,,  he  anni- 
UlatedbfanTeilMaiy. 

I  Oo  Dowik—A  cutting  in  the  bank  of  a  stream  for 

eMbfaag  animals  to  cross  or  to  get  to  water. 

%*<  Oat— Same  aa  «•  Skin  out,"  o.v. 
J^^    (noon).  — A   comprehensive   term,   rariously 
■Plyed.    An  expedition  of  erery  sort,  large  or  small,  is 
rw-S?*'"    ^  *'**  *  haying  or  a  lumbering  party,  &o. 
'vvvae  a  person  in  a  buggy,  or  one  pushing  a  wheel- 


barrow. Indifferently  applied  to  a  party  as  a  whole,  or 
to  its  means  of  travel,  its  subsistence,  &c. 

Outfit  (verb  active).— To  <* outfit"  is  to  fit  out  for  any 
purpose  whatever.    *'  We  outfitted  at  St.  Paul." 

Pilgrim.— A  person  recently  transplanted  upon  frontier 
soil;  a  new  arrival;  a  greenhorn.  About  equivalent  to 
"tenderfoot" 

Rustle, — Grappling  with  circumstances ;  rising  superior 
to  all  contingencies  of  "  luck."  Cattle,  in  winter,  "rusde  " 
for  food  by  nosing  through  the  snow  to  the  dried  grass 
beneath. 

RuitUr. — One  who  never  succumbs  to  .circumstances. 
This  is  about  the  highest  compliment  that  can  be  paid 
to  a  man  who,  failing  in  one  thing,  finds  something  else 
available  for  his  support 

Sand. — To  have  "  sand  in  one^s  craw  ";  to  be  deter- 
mined and  plucky.    Equivalent  to  "  grit" 

8lMek.—A  log  cabin.  The  average  '*  shack  "  comprises 
but  one  room,  and  is  customarily  roofed  with  earth, 
supported  by  poles. 

Stand  Off.— To  hold  at  a  distance,  as  to  ''  stand  off 
Indians"  with  one's  rifle.  From  this  belligerent  mean- 
ing comes  the  expression  to  "stand  off"  a  creditor,  a 
dun,  &c. 

Shin  OtU.— To  leave  secretly  and  hastily,  as  when 
pursued  by  an  enemy.  Sitting  Bull  *' skinned  out "  from 
the  Yellowstone  Valley  and  sought  refuge  in  Canada. 

Tenderfoot.— k  new-comer,  fresh  to  frontier  ways ;  one 
who  has  not  been  long  enough  on  the  tramp  to  become 
hardened.  It  is  said  that  in  Colorado  an  Eastern  man 
is  called  a  "  tenderfoot "  until  he  has  been  stabbed, 
shot  at,  engaged  in  a  free  fight,  fallen  down  a  mine, 
been  kicked  by  a  mule,  and  chased  by  a  vigilance 
conmiittee.  No  such  direful  import  attaches  to  the 
phrase  in  Montana,  and  it  would  seem  that  in  adopting 
the  word  Coloradans  have  coloured  its  meaning  with 
local  significance  peculiar  to  their  own  institutions. 

J.  Brander  Matthews. 
Stuyvesant  Square,  N.Y. 

Marot's  Psalms.— "Xm  Pseavmes  de  David, 
Mis  en  Kime  Franooise  par  Clement  Marot  et 
Theodote  de  Beze.  Se  vend  k  Gharenton  par 
Estiene  Lucas,  a  la  Bible  d'Or,  1678."  A  very 
diminative  volume,  with  bordered  pages  and 
prettily  engraved  title  with  angel  supporters.  In 
the  upper  part  David  is  playing  upon  the  harp, 
surrounded  by  angels  and  encircled  by  clouds. 

The  metrical  Psalms  of  Marot  and  Beza  are  fall 
of  interest  to  the  curious.  The  revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes  in  1685  was  preceded  and 
followed  by  great  cruelties  and  oppression  upon 
the  Protestants  in  France.  This  act  of  intolerance 
banished  thousands  from  their  native  country,  and 
the  bulk  of  the  fugitives  found  their  way  to 
London  and  located  themselves  about  Spitalfields, 
where  their  descendants  are  now  represented  by 
the  sUk  weavers  of  that  district  Dickens,  in  his 
Hinuehold  Words,  Dec.  10,  1863,  has  an  interest- 
ing article  upon  the  Huguenots  compelled  to  leave 
their  homes.  In  this  he  speaks  of  the  delight  they 
found  in  singing  psalms,  and  adds,  "  There  had 
been  an  edition  of  the  Psalms  put  into  French 
rhyme,  published  in  as  small  a  form  as  possible  in 
order  that  the  book  might  be  concealed  in  their 
bosoms  if  they  were  surprised  in  their  worship 


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while  they  lived  in  France."  My  little  book  is, 
therefore,  doubtless  that  alluded  to,  and  must  have 
been  brought  into  this  country  by  one  of  the  fugi- 
tives, probably  by  him  whose  name  is  erased  on  one 
of  the  fly-leaves^  which  looks  like  "  jn  du  Lepestre." 
Among  many  of  these  poor  people  who  joined  the 
Marquis  du  Quesne  in  a  scheme  of  emigration  to  the 
French  colonies  was  Francis  Leguat,  who,  with  six 
companions,  was  induced  to  make  his  home  on 
the  desert  island  of  Bodrignes,  in  the  Indian  Ocean ; 
but  after  a  residence  of  about  two  vears  they  all 
returned  to  Europe,  where  their  leader  published, 
both  in  French  and  English,  their  Voyages  and 
Adventure* f  a  highly  curious  book,  in  which  the 
author  relates  how  his  little  band  used  to  assemble 
under  a  big  tree  to  indulge  in  the  gratification 
of  doing  wlukt  was  prohibited  in  their  own  country 
—singing  Marot's  Psalms.  One  of  these  (La  Haye), 
says  Leguat,  ''was  always  so  employed j  whether  he 
was  at  work  or  walking."  How  interesting  a  scene 
this  would  have  appeared  to  most  people— half-a- 
dozen  religious  fugitives  singing  praise  to  God  on 
an  otherwise  uninhabited  island  !  How  much  more 
80  to  the  writer  and  party,  who  suffered  shipwreck 
upon  that  same  island,  and  spent  sixty  days,  in 
1846,  on  the  identical  spot  described  and  pictorially 
illustrated  by  the  Frenchman.  Being,  unfortunately, 
at  the  period  unaware  of  the  interesting  scene 
enacted  thereon  153  years  before,  we  were  deprived 
of  the  opportunity  our  misfortune  would  have 
afforded  us  of  searching  for  some  of  what  Leguat 
calls  the  ''permanent  records"  he  left,  which 
were  to  tell  later  generations  ot  their  earlier 
possession  of  the  island.  J.  O. 

[The  edition  mentioned  by  otkr  correspondent  does  not 
seem  to  be  in  Brunei.] 

Old  Laws,  &c.,  of  Virginia.  — 1632,  No 
person  to  remove  to  New  England  without  leave 
of  the  Governor. 

1632.  One  shilling  fine  for  every  person  each 
Sabbath  he  is  {absent  from  church  without  lawfiil 
excuse,  &c. 

1633.  Marriages  are  required  to  be  solemnized 
between  the  hours  of  eight  and  twelve  in  the 
forenoon. 

1642.  The  Governor,  the  Council,  and  the 
Assembly  speak  very  contemptuously  of  a  republic, 
which,  it  seems,  some  were  inclined  to  tafk  about 

1644.  If  a  man  is  accused  and  convicted  of  a 
crime,  he  shall  pay  no  costs;  if  he  is  acquitted,  he 
shall  pay  costs. 

1663.  Quakers  banished  the  colony  for  their 
tenets. 

1663.  John  Proctor  expelled  from  the  Assembly 
for  his  Quaker  principles. 

1663.  Fine  of  one  hogshead  of  tobacco  for  each 
member  of  the  Assembly  absent  at  the  beat  of  drum. 

1663.  Pmng  it  while  the  House  was  in  session, 
a  fine  of  2(flb.  of  tobacco. 


1666.  Sir  Wm.  Berkeley,  the  Crovemor,  says,  iD> 
answer  to  questions  put  to  him  by  the  Lords 
Commissioners  of  Foreign  Plantations,  "  I  thank 
God  there  are  no  free  uhools  or  printing  preesM^ 
and  I  hope  we  shall  not  have  them  these  hundred 
years." 

1730.  Burning  tobacco  houses  was  excluded 
from  the  benefit  of  clergy. 

1748.  A  negro,  mulatto,  or  Indian  "lifting  his 
hand"  against  ''a  Christian"  to  suffer  dirty 
lashes.  SiL  B. 

[The  source  from'  which  the  above  is  taken  shoold 
have  been  stated.] 

The  Ace  of  Spades  in  Btgonb  Days. — 
In  September,  1863,  the  Commissioners  of  the 
Inland  Bevenue  presented  their  seventh  annual 
report,  and  with  it  some  curious  information, 
resulting  from  the  alteration  in  the  duties  on 
playing-cards.  In  former  times  it  had  been  the 
custom  of  the  Inland  Bevenue  authorities  to  print 
the  ace  of  spades  on  paper,  which  was  then  pasted 
on  the  ckA,  The  way  in  which  this  ace  was 
prepared  rendered  that  important  card  different 
from  the  remainder  of  the  pack.  The  difference^ 
though  slight,  was  readily  perceptible  to  the 
touch,  so  that  the  stamp  duty,  which  was  intended 
as  a  discouragement  to  gambling,  actually  abetted 
tbe  designs  of  our  card-sharpers. 

William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Ide  of  Tbanet. 

The  New  English  Dictionabt  op  the  Philo- 
logical SoGiBTT.— Quotations  wanted  (3) :  send 
direct  to  the  editor.  Dr.  Murray,  Mill  Hill,  Lon- 
don, N.  W.  A.  Instances  of  any  date  of  altigrade^ 
altiloquence  -ent,  altiloquious  -loquy,  altimeter 
-rical  -ly,  altincar,  altion,  altisonous,  aldsaimo, 
altitonant,  altitudinarian,  altivolant,  alto,  al- 
truist, aluff,  aluminize,  aluminate  -ation,  alamy^ 
alutacious  -ation,  alveate  -d,  alveolariform,  alveo- 
lary,  alveole  -iform,  idviduoous,  amacratic,  amand 
-ation,  amarous,  amarulent  -ence,  amassette,  amaa- 
thenic,  amation,  amatorculist.  B.  Instances 
earlier  than  the  date  annexed  of  altitudinal,  1861  ; 
fJto-rilievo,  1717 ;  altruism,  1865 ;  altnuatic, 
1874  ;  altruistically,  1879  ;  aludel,  1610 ;  alu- 
mina, 1814  ;  aluminium,  1836  ;  alumniate,  1879  ; 
alveolar,  1800 ;  amadou,  1830 ;  amain,  1550 ; 
amalgam,  sb.,  1600 ;  amalgamate,  1700 ;  anud- 
gamation,  1612 ;  amarant(h),  1616 ;  amateur^ 
1810 ;  amateurish  -ness,  1865 ;  am&tivenesa^ 
1825  ;  amatorian,  1779  ;  amatoiy,  1600  ;  aman- 
rosis,  1658.  C.  Instances  after  the  date  annexed 
of  alture,  1600  ;  alumbrado,  1671 ;  alumish,  1700  ;. 
alveary,  sb.,  1580;  aly,  aley,  1750;  alytarch, 
1650  ;  amable  -bility,  1677  ;  amaritude,  1700 ;. 
amasked,  1700 ;  amass,  sb.,  1700 ;  amatorian^ 
1779  ;  amazeful,  1620. 


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Ve  aatt  reqneit  oorrespondenfcs  desiring  information 
«i  family  matten  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
ttseiand  addrenes  to  their  qneriea,  in  order  that  the 
anwen  naj  be  addrMsed  to  them  direot. 


Hogaxth's  ovlt  Lamdscaps.  —  Is  there  any 
painting  hy  Hogarth  in  existence  (besides  one 
iereaiter  mentioned)  which  can,  with  good 
nason,  he  considered  to  be  his  work  and  at  the 
same  time  properly  be  called  a  landscape  ?  By 
this  term  I  mean  an  ideal  landscape  as  dis- 
tinguuhed  from  a  copy  from  nature.  I  ask  this 
^neition  with  reference  to  a  small  picture  now  in 
the  Winter  Exhibition  at  Burlington  House 
<Ka  S69),  which  for  the  last  ninety-nine  years 
bas  enjoyed  the  privilege  of  being  called  Hogarth's 
only  landscape.  It  is  a  most  carefully  finished 
Uttle  work,  reminding  us  slightly  of  Qaspar 
Poossin,  and  therefore  inclining  us  to  think  that 
Hogsrth  painted  it  in  rivalry  of  his  friend  George 
lAmbert,  into  whose  landscapes  he  on  several 
<Kxa8ion8  introduced  figures.  Shortly  after  Ho- 
garth's death,  «.«.  in  1781,  it  was  sold  by  his 
widow  to  Samuel  Ireknd,  who  in  1785  made  an 
etching  from  it,  which  he  dedicated  to  .the  Earl  of 
£zeter,as  being  ^  the  only  hindscape  ever  painted 
V7  Hogarth."  The  testimony  of  Mr.  Samuel 
Inland  is,  we  know,  not  always  to  be  depended 
^ ;  bot  in  1785  Mrs.  Hpgarth  was,  if  I  mistake 
Dot,  still  living,  and  she  would  not  have  allowed 
tach  a  published  statement  to  pass  uncontradicted 
tf  untipe.  The  best  evidence,  however,  for  authen- 
ticity in  this  picture  is  from  its  internal  merit  ; 
and  any  critics  who  are  special  admirers  of  Ho- 
fivth,  and  at  the  same  time  well  acquainted  with 
to  touch  and  colouring,  wiU  find  a  visit  to  the 
Fifth  Gallery  of  the  Boyal  Academy  productive  of 
«iprise  as  well  as  enjoyment  At  Irekud's  sale 
a  1801  thu  picture  was  bought  by  Sir  Frederick 
Morton  Eden,  who,  at  his  death  in  1812,  be- 
5^Mftthed  it,  with  several  other  important  imint- 
ttgi,  to  his  friend  Charles  Joseph  Harford,  my 
S>*iMifather,  from  whom  it  has  come  down  to  its 
fnaent  owner.  On  the  back  of  it  there  is  a  note, 
in  the  handwriting,  apparently,  of  Sir  Frederick 
ja«ii,  as  follows  :  **  This  picture  was  bought  of 
Mn.  Hogarth  Jan.  4, 1781,  and  avowed  by  her  to 
be  the  only  kndscape'Mr.  Hogarth  ever  painted.'' 
^  &r  respecting  the  pedigree  of  this  little  picture. 
Sow  to  the  question— which  will,  I  trust,  evoke  an 
«tw€r— viz.,  Is  there  any  other  ideal  landscape  by 
H<«arth  in  existence  ?  For,  in  his  AnecdoUs  of 
•ao^srft,  J.  B.  Nichols  mentions  a  painting,  said 
<•  be  by  Hcwarth,  which  in  1782  was  m  the 
PJJMessbn  of  Mis.  Baynes,  of  Eneeton  Hall,  near 
Ittchmond,  Yorkshire,  and  is  described  as  a  land- 
]^»  4  ft  2  in.  by  2  ft.  4  in.,  oontaininff  several 
«P»ws,  a  man  driving  sheep,  a  boat  on  a  Take,  and 
a  town  aeen  in  the  distance.    Where  is  that  pic- 


ture now  ?  and  can  any  one  who  has  seen  it  say 
whether  it  bears  traces  of  being  altogether,  or  only 
partly,  from  Hogarth's  pencil  ? 

With  respect  to  Hogarth's  well-known  picture 
of  "  Rosamond's  Pond,"  although  that  is  purely  a 
view  from  nature,  and  therefore  does  not  come 
into  the  field  of  my  present  inquiry,  it  is  necessary 
to  speak  of  it  as  being  next  nearest  to  a  landscape. 
An  etching  of  this  picture  by  Merigot  is  given  in 
the  second  volume  of  Ireland's  Graphic  Illustra- 
tiom  of  Hogarth.  Nichols  speaks  of  it  as  being 
bought  at  Ireland's  sale  by  Mr.  Vernon,  and  after- 
wards bought  at  Gwennap's  sale,  in  1821,  bv  Mr. 
Willett,  of  Shooter's  Hill.  It  measures  5  ft.  by 
3  ft.  4  in.,  and  is  now  in  the  collection  at  Kent 
House  belonging  to  the  Bight  Honourable  Louisa, 
Lady  Ashburton. 

Besides  "Rosamond's  Pond,"  certain  other  views 
are  mentioned  by  Nichols  as  being  probably  by 
Hogarth,  viz.,  a  '*  View  of  the  Treasury  Gardens, 
with  the  Canal,''  and  another  of  St  James's  Park, 
which  was.  formerly  in  the  collection  of  H.R.H. 
the  Prince  Regent.  The  Earl  of  Pembroke  is 
said  to  have  four  views  of  Pembroke  House, 
Blackheath,  by  Lambert,  containing  figures  by 
Hogarth  ;  and  four  views  of  Chatsworth  by  Lam- 
bert and  Hogarth  are  said  to  be  in  the  collection 
of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire. 

There  are  doubtless  several  similar  views  by 
E[ogarth  besides  those  enumerated  by  Nichols. 
To  these  (allow  me  to  repeat  it)  my  present  ques- 
tion does  not  apply ;  but  should  any  member  of 
the  Baynes  family  be  able  to  throw  light  upon 
what  is  now  obscure,  viz.,  the  character  of  the 
picture  formerly  in  the  possession  of  Mrs.  Baynes, 
of  Kneeton  Hall,  he  wQl  confer  a  favour  upon  all 
those  who  take  interest  in  the  works  of  our 
English  masters.        Fredsrick  E.  Harford. 

li,  Dean's  Yard,  Westminster. 

"  The  Contrast  :  Right  and  Wrong."— This 
is  the  title  of  a  card  which  I  have  before  me,  being 
the  third  issue,  in  a  more  complete  form  than  in 
the  two  former,  of  a  comparison  of  the  Latin, 
Greek,  and  English  versions  of  an  old  Latin  moral 
saying.  It  occurred  to  the  editor,  W.  A.  G.,  ta 
trace  the  several  versions  of  the  "  speech"  of  Cato 
the  Censor  at  Numantia,  b.c.  196,  recorded  by 
Aulus  Gkllius  in  some  Unes  at  L  xvi.,  c.  1.  There  ia 
the  early  Greek  version  of  the  Stoic  philosopher, 
C.  Musonius  Rufus,  e,  A.D.  50 ;  the  modem  Latin 
of  Jo.  Pierius  Yalerianus,  and  an  anonymous 
imter  quoted  by  Ph.  Camerarius ;  with  the  Englieb 
versions  of  Queen  Mary,  Gko^e  Herbert,  Thomas 
Nash,  NatL  Wanley,  Bishop  F.  N.  Shuttleworth, 
and  an  anonymous  translation,  presumably  of  the 
editor ;  so  that  there  are  in  all  ten  forms  of  the 
speech.  It  is  a  most  rare  occurrence  that  any 
ancient  apophthegm— for  such  it  is  in  the  original, 
more  properly  than  a  formal  ''speech" — should 


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attract  such  marked  attention  from  persons  of  such 
distinction.  I  think  that  it  may  he  of  interest  to 
noj;e  this.  I  would  at  the  same  time  ask  whether 
anything  of  a  similar  kind  can  be  brought  into 
comparison  with  it.  The  printers  are  Daniel  &  Co., 
Times  Offices,  St.  Leonard's  and  Hastings. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Sir  Christopher  Wren's  Sisters.— It  would 
seem  that  besides  Sir  C.  Wren's  sister  Susan, 
married  in  1643  to  the  Rev.  William  Holden, 
Ginon  of  St.  Paul's  (she  died  June,  1688),  he  had 
•»'' other  sister,  married  to  the  Rev.  Henry  Brunsell, 
\*i^  Brunsdon,  Rector  of  Stretham  and  Prebendary 
.)f  Ely,  eldest  son  of  the  Rev.  Oliyer  Brunsell, 
Vicar  of  Wroughton,  Wilts.  Mr.  H.  Brunsell 
founded  three  exhibitions  at  Magdalen  College, 
Oxford,  and  three  at  Jesus  College,  Cambridge. 
He  died  in  1679.  Dean  Wren's  daughters  were 
Katharine,  bap.  1626;  Susan  (above  mentioned), 
bap.  1627;  Elizabeth,  bap.  1633;  Anne,  bap.  1634. 
There  was  also  another  Elizabeth,  who  died  young. 
I  should  be  much  obliged  for  any  help  in  iden- 
tifying the  lady  who  married  Mr.  Brunsdon,  in 
obtaining  the  date  of  the  marriage,  and  of  her 
death,  jand  in  ascertaining  whether  she  left  any 
children.  L.  Phillimorb. 

Jan  Van  Venloo. — Can  any  one  give  me 
information  respecting  the  supposed  founder  of 
the  second  bell  at  Baschurch,  Salop?  The 
inscription  is  :— "  +  maria :  int  .  jaer  .  ons  . 
heren  .  m.cccc  .  ende  .  xivii  .  jan  .  van  .  venloe." 
The  cross  is  of  double  lines,  with  extremities 
recurved,  and  there  are  two  other  stamps — pre- 
sumably a  lion  and  an  eagle.  W.  H.  J. 

HalTorn. 

Gentles:  Mudwall. — Can  any  one  explain 
(1)  why  the  white  larvae  used  by  fishermen  are 
called  *' gentles";  and  (2)  why  the  bird  apiaster, 
or  bee-eater,  is  sometimes  called  '* mudwall" 
(Johnson)  or  "mod wall"  (Bailey)? 

A.  Smtthb  Palmer. 

Leacroft,  Staines. 

Rhedarium,  in  Park  Lane.— What  was  this? 
In  the  second  sheet  (published  in  1794)  of  Hor- 
wood's  Map  of  London  this  is  the  name  given  to 
an  open  space  near  Park  Lane.  It  was  bounded 
on  the  north  by  Green  Street,  on  the  south  by 
Wood's  Mews,  on  the  east  by  Park  Street,  and 
on  the  west  by  Norfolk  Street.  It  is  now  appa- 
rently occupied  as  stables.  Was  it  a  carriage 
manufactory,  or  a  coach  yard,  or  what  ? 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

Stubbs  Family.— George  Stubbs,  of  Parliament 
Street,  Westminster,  will  proved  1794,  mentions 
George  Kennet  Stubbs,  son  of  George  and  Mary 
Stubbs,  also  his  grandsons  Thomas  William  (who 
IB  to  have  a  commission  in  the  50th  Regiment) 


and  another  George  ;  grand-daughters,  Mary  £s- 
daile,  Elizabeth  Mayor,  and  Charlotte  Anne 
Stubbs,  also  his  friend  John  Philips.  To  what 
family  of  Stubbs  does  this  refer  ?  Who  and  what 
was  George  Stubbs,  senior?  The  names  Kennet 
and  Esdaile  are,  I  believe,  well  known  in  civic 
history.  R.  J.  Ftnmorb. 

Sandgate,  Kent. 

Lord  Brittas. — ^Who  was  this  nobleman  ?  In 
1688  his  name  appears  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of 
Lord  Forbes's  Regiment  (afterwards  the  18th 
Royal  Irish),  but  I  do  not  think  the  title  still 
exists,  and  cannot  find  it  in  any  extinct  peerage. 

A.  R.  S, 

"Alkermes":  "Gahotas."— What  is  the 
derivation  of  alkermes,  and  how  does  one  of  the 
names  of  phosphate  of  antimony  come  to  be  applied 
to  the  liqueur  made  of  "  sugar  and  spice  and  all 
that 's  nice"  in  the  Certosa,  near  Florence  ! 

A  consignment  from  Madeira  brought  to  a 
fruit  shop  here  included  a  vegetable  termed 
gahotas.  It  was  six  to  ten  inches  long,  green 
rinded,  shaped  like  a  ridged  pear,  '^  stove  in  "at 
the  large  end,  and  was  cooked  like  vegetable 
marrow,  which  it  somewhat  resembled  in  taste. 
It  is  no  kind  of  gourd  or  pumpkin,  as  the  seeds 
are  differently  arranged.  The  word  is  not  in  any 
Portuguese  dictionary.        Nellie  MaclagAn. 

28.  Heriot  Row,  Edinburgh. 

CosTANUs,  A  Christian  Name.— In  1600  I 
find  an  incumbent  of  EUand,  near  Halifax,  put 
down  as  Costanus  Maud.  I  do  not  know  of 
another  instance  of  such  a  Christian  name,  and 
I  cannot  find  out  its  origin.  Can  any  of  your 
readers  enlighten  me  ?  T.  C. 

Jean,  Gban,  Jain,  Jane  is  the  name,  under 
different  forms,  of  a  well-known  textile  fabric. 
Can  any  one  tell  me  what  is  the  derivation  of  the 
word  ?  There  are  those  who  say  that  it  has  come 
to  us  from  Genoa  because  it  was  originally  made 
there.  Others  tell  us  that  it  takes  its  name  from 
some  place  in  France.  A  town  in  Spain  has 
advocates ;  and,  lastly,  a  learned  correspondent  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  suggested  to  me  the  other  day  that  it 
might  be  from  jatine=yeUow,  although  jean  at  the 
present  day  is  not  that  colour.  Anon. 

Grbbn-hastings.  — These  were  early  peas. 
Bailey  says,  ''Fruit  early  ripe,  also  green  peas^ 
&c.,"  and  conjectures  the  derivation  as  "  probably 
of  hdUj  French."  Johnson  gives  "  Hastings  (&om 
^a8(y),  peas  that  come  early,"  with  an  example 
from  Mortimer  :  '*  The  large  white  and  green  haist- 
ings  are  not  to  be  set  until  the  cold  is  over.'** 
Webster's  Dictiofiary  follows  Johnson.  So  far, 
good.  But  another  **  local  habitation"  is  given  to 
this  word,  as  to  the  correctness  of  which  I  should 
feel  much  obliged  if  some  of  your  learned  readers^ 


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vookl  kindly  f^ive  me  their  opinion.    The  word 
eocon  in  Hudibras^  "  Epistle  to  Sidropfael,"  L  22  : 
"Or  your  new  nicknamed  old  ioTention 
To  cry  green-hftstings  with  an  engine." 

AlA  the  marginal  note  in  Bohn's  edition  says  : — 

"lo  fonner  times,  and  indeed  until  the  beginning  of 
tiie  prtient  century,  the  earliest  peas  brought  to  the 
London  market  came  from  Hastings,  where  they  were 
grown— it  may  be  said  forced— in  exhausted  lime  pits." 

Is  this  mere  conjecture  ]  I  find  no  mention  of 
Hastings  peas  in  any  of  the  local  histories  which  I 
hiTe  consolted. 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 

ASSIZS    OF   BbBAD,    &C.y    NORTHLSACH. — The 

foDoiring  entry  is  made  in  the  accounts  of  the 
boroogh  of  Northleach  : — 

"Norlach  bnrrowe,  1678.— The  corte  hoUden  by  M'. 
beylife  uid  the  Rest  of  the  borchissis  the  to  &  xx  daye 
of  October,  1578.  A  faut  mad  hi  nyeholas  bront  of 
8towe  of  the  hoUde  [Stow  on  the  Wold]  for  bringing  of 
bred  to  the  marcat  wyche  bred  laoket  weyte,  in  the  peny 
vytt  lofe  weyded  nomor  but  ny teene  unsis. 

**  The  to  peoy  wy tt  lofe  weying  yi  and  xxx  unsis. 

*  The  peny  wetten  lofe  weying  tI  &  xx  unsis." 

What  two  classes  of  bread  are  these?  From 
another  entry  the  weight  of  bread  seems  to  vary 
with  the  price  of  com.  Charges  for  "dowling 
the  downes  and  warning  the  watch,  00.  05.  00," 
and,  in  the  return  of  the  town  armour,  '*  allman 
lyntU"  (see  also  Turner's  lUcarda  of  Oxford) 
MCDT.  Information  on  these  particulars  and 
paallel  instances  will  greatly  oblige. 

David  Rotcb. 

,  Ths  Ekt.  Mb.  Lsanb.— I  shall  be  glad  of 
information  respecting  this  clergyman,  who,  I 
aormise,  had  residence  in  some  village  in  Somerset, 
Cornwall,  or  Wilts,  at  the  close  of  the  seventeenth 
or  hegmning  of  the  eighteenth  century.  His 
aame  appears  on  a  famUy  document  in  my  pos- 
soaion  in  conjunction  with  one  Mr.  John  Lee. 

W.   H.   COTTELL. 

fern  TiUa,  WesfthaU  Boad.  Forest  Hill,  S.K 
[See  "  N.  &  Q.,"  6«»  S.  tL  887.] 

BiLLARs  Family. — In  the  pedigree  of  the 
Cellars  fiamily,  of  Eirkby  Bellars,  co.  Leicester, 
^re  appears  the  name  of  James  Belkrs,  jun. 
Be  wu  son  of  James  Bellars  and  brother  of  John 
Mus.  Hewaasheriffof  Rutland  1414,  and  died 
before  1449;  was  fined  2002.  8  Hen.  lY.,  and  fled 
nto  France  **  pur  doute  de  certains  ses  enemys." 
He  married  Kllen,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of 
Jabn  Snmpter,  who  married  Margery,  daughter 
^oo-heirese  of  Qeoffirey  Brockholes,  who  married 
Blenor,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Roos,  descended, 
^i^  the  Onebys  and  Tatsalls,  from  William 
D'Albini,  of  Stoke  I^Albini,  Northants,  &c.  Can 
^  one  give  the  pedigree  of  Ellen  Sumpter,  or 
Vn  history  of  James  BeUars  or  of  his  descendants  7 
^  he  leaTe  any  children  1     In  the  year  1602 


Thomas  Bellars  held  lands  at  Stoke  D'Albini, 
which  he  states  in  a  Chancery  suit  of  that  year 
were  inherited  by  his  father,  William  Bellars,  from 
his  ancestors  as  heir  male.  William  Bellars  died 
about  1570.  Can  any  one  inform  me  of  his 
ancestors?  Another  Bellars  (Symon),  who  died 
1567,  left  lands  at  Stoke  to  his  son  Fulk.  The 
arms  of  Bellars  of  Stoke  are  recorded  by  Glover, 
Per  pa,  gu.  and  sa.,  a  lion  rampant  arg. 

B.  W.  H. 

Eboracom. — What  can  be  the  possible  orifrijo.  of 
this  name  ?  Htdb  Clarkb. 

Dedication  of  Church  Bells.  —  In  the 
church  of  St.  Mary's,  Acton  Soott,  Salop,  is  a 
ring  of  three  mediseval  bells,  all  inscribed  to  the 
Blessed  Virgin.  Thus:--!  and  2,  "+  Ave: 
Maria:  Gracia  :  Plena:  Dominus  :  Tecum **;  3, 
''Eternis  Annis  Resonet  Campana  Maria."  Can 
any  "  campanist  **  inform  me  of  a  similar  instance  ? 

W.  H.  J. 

Malvern. 

John  Logan.— While  ramblini;  in  Yorkshire 
last  autumn,  I  came  across  the  foUowing  inscrip- 
tion on  a  gravestone  in  the  parish  churchyard  at 
Halifax.  I  copied  it  into  my  note-book,  con- 
sidering it  wor&y  of  preservation  : — 

"  Hera  rest  the  remains  of  John  Logan,  who  died  tbe 
2dtb  day  of  December  1830  aged  105  years.  He  lived 
in  the  reign  of  5  kings  and  for  50  years  of  his  life  was 
actively  engaged  as  a  soldier  in  the  service  of  his  country. 
He  was  twice  married,  and  was  the  father  of  82  children, 
vis.  8  by  his  1**  and  24  bv  his  2»<'  wife. 

"Respect  the  soldier's  dust." 

As  will  be  seen,  he  was  bom  in  1725,  and  there- 
fore lived  in  the  reigns  of  the  **  four  .Ceorges/'  "  the 
good  old  times,"  as  Thackeray  wrote,  and  also  in 
that  of  William  IV.  I  should  very  much  like  to 
know,  and  probably  from  your  numerous  readers 
I  may  learn,  something  more  of  John  Logan — 
whether  he  ever  distinguished  himself  during  the 
long  period  he  spent  in  the  service  of  his  country. 
Abthur  Mtnott. 

Gillrat's  Masterpibce. — Can  any  reader  of 
*^  N.  &  Q."  furnish  a  key  to  the  characters  repre- 
sented in  Gillray's  caricature,  executed  in  1804, 
entitled  "  L' Assemble  Nationale  ;  or,  a  Graod 
Co-operative  Meeting  nt  St.  Anne's  Hill,"  which 
so  annoyed  the  Princ^  of  Wales  that  he  paid  a 
large  sum  for  its  suppression  ;  but  it  was  not  sup- 
pressed? Messrs.  Wright  and  Evans,  in  their 
HUtorical  Account  of  the  Caricatures  of  James 
Gillray,  say  (p.  ix),  "  It  will  be  found  in  the  col- 
lection published  by  Mr.  Bohn";  but  it  is  not 
there.  I  have  both  the  collection  and  the  sup- 
plement published  by  Bohn,  and  it  is  not  in  either. 
But  I  have  a  fine  separate  impression  which  cost 
a  couple  of  guineas.  I  can  make  out  a  number  of 
the  leading  Whigs  who  figure  in  it,  but  not  all ; 
and  I  have  no  doubt  many  of  your  reatbrs  will  bo  , 

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as  glad  as  myself  to  reoeive  a  full  and  aooarate 
answer  to  this  inquiry.  J.  G.  M. 

P.S. — ^While  on  the  subject  of  caricatureSi  may 
I  ask  when  we  may  hope  to  see  another  volume  of 
Mr.  F.  G.  Stephens's  most  yaluable  Catalogue  of 
Satiriodl  Printi  in  the  BriUth  Museum^  which, 
thanks  to  his  notes  and  comments  on  the  prints 
catalogued,  throws  so  much  light  both  on  our 
social  and  political  history  ? 

Authors  of  QnoTATioirs  Wanted. — 

"Densinoubatangui."  J.  W.  0. 

'*  It  is  the  fair  aocept&ncep  sir, 
Creates  the  entertainment  perfect,  not  the  oates." 

8.  M.  P. 
**  Though  to-day  is  dark  and  dreary, 
And  black  clondB  around  us  riae. 
Let  US  halt  not  nor  be  weary ; 
Light  is  looming  in  the  skies." 
Who  was  the  author,  and  what  is  the  precise  meaning 
of  this  expression  9~"  To  read  between  the  lines." 

William  Platt. 

'<  O  Christ  f  that  it  were  possible 
For  one  short  hour  to  see 
The  souls  of  those  we  loTod,  that  they 
Might  tell  us  where  and  what  they  be.*' 

[The  'memory  of  him]  "passed  away  as  the  remem- 
brance of  a  guest  that  tarrieth  but  for  a  day." 

H.  PsLE7nOHB. 


portant  question  affects  the  claim  to 
of  conception  set  up  on  behalf  of  Panizzi,^as  U 
unknown  to  himf  And  this  question  is  easily 
answered,  for  I  have  now  before  me  Mr.  Panizzi's 
own  copy,  presented  to  him  by  the  author,  and 
inscribed  by  him,  *^  Monsieur  Pannizi  [sie]  de  k 
part  de  Tauteur,"  together  with  an  autograph  letter, 

as  follows:— 

«  Paris,  le  28  Janvier,  1896. 

"  MonsnuB, — J*ai  llionneur  de  tous  adresser  nn  ez- 

emnlaire  d'une  Memoirs  sur  h  ~ «      .      . 

d^nre  que  tous  le  llsies  arec  < 

trds  flattd  si  tous  avies  la  compli 

ce  que  tous  pensei  dee  aTantages  et  des  inconT^nieaces 

de  fa  forme  circulaire  que  Ton  propose  de  donner  k  oe 

genre  de  bAtiment 

"  VeuUles  agrier,  Monsieur,  Tassurance  de  ma  con> 
sid6ration  la  plus  distingu^e.  "  Bk.  Pblbbsb&t." 

Had  Mr.  Smirke  known  of  this  letter,  and  the 
Mimoxre  whidi  accompanied  it,  he  would  hardly 
have  written  to  Mr.  Panizzi,  as  he  did  in  1868, 
saying: — 

**  I  feel  no  hesitation  in  stating  that  the  idea  of  a  dr- 
eular  Beading  Boom  with  surrounding  library  and  with 
d'lTislons  formed  wholly  of  bookcases  was  perfectly  ori- 
ginal and  entirely  your  own." 

Fred.  Noboatb. 

7,  King  Street,  CoTent  Garden. 


neplM. 

THE  MUSEUM  BEADING  BOOM. 
(6«^  S.  V.  45.) 
M.  Delessert's  Mimoire,  published  in  1835,  is 
coDclusiye  eridence  that  the  scheme  of  a  library  of 
circular  form  and  with  the  diyisions  formed  wholly 
of  bookcases  is,  as  Estb  says,  "sevend  years  older 
than  Mr.  Panizzi*s  first  plan  of  1850.*'  The  differ- 
ence between  the  two  is,  that  in  M.  Delessert's 
plan  the  circular  space  (occupied  in  the  Museum 
by  the  catalogues)  immediately  surrounding  the 
superintendent's  seat  is  devoted  to  the  readers, 
while  the  radii,  which  in  the  Museum  pbn  form 
the  readers'  desks,  are  composed  of  bookshelves 
C'  galeries  form^es  par  des  murs  dispose  en  rayons 
divergens,  et  des  deux  c6t^8  de  ces  murs  seront 
places  des  corps,  de  biblioth^que  ").  The  advan- 
tage of  Mr.  Panizzi's  plan  is  obvious,  giving  so 
much  more  accommodation  for  readers ;  and  the 
alteration  would  readily  suggest  itself  to  any  one 
who  had  M.  Delessert's  plan  before  his  eyes.  So 
much,  in  fact,  are  the  two  alike  in  appearance,  that 
on  first  unfolding  the  hirge  plate  in  M.  Delessert's 
book  I  mistook  it  for  an  almost  exact  plim  of  the 
Museum  Beading  Boom,  and  only  discovered  the 
difference  I  have  mentioned  on  a  closer  examin%- 
tion.  I  can  readily  believe  that,  as  Estb  suggests, 
M.  Delessert's  Mimoire  was  unknown  boUi  to  Mr. 
Fagan  and  to  Mr.  Smirke ;   but  a  far  more  im- 


Thb  Authorship  OP  thb  "Imitatio  Chribti" 
(6*»»  S.  iv.  246,  335,  358).— Mr.  Ooolidob  infers, 
I  presume,  from  the  words  which  he  quotes  from 
La  Grande  Ckartreute,  ^.  203,  note,  '^Cest  dono 
que  cette  expression  ^tait  employ^  par  tout  k 
monde  et  non  point  exclusivement  en  Allemagne,'* 
that  exUriue,  in  the  sense  of  *'  by  heart,"  was  used 
throughout  the  world,  and  not  exclusively  in 
Germany.  Withdrawing,  therefore,  my  previous 
question  as  to  Carthusian  writers,  and  the  date, 
1430, 1  hope  Mr.  Goolidqb  will  not  be  offended 
with  me  if  I  ask  him  whether  he  knows  of  any 
non-German  author  whatsoever  who  uses  exieriut 
for  "by  heart."  I  am  really  anxious  for  the 
information. 

I  read  Mr.  Ooolidob's  pa^rs  on  Walter 
Hilton,  and  I  came  to  the  conclusion  that  he  had 
never  studied  the  question  of  the  authorship  of 
the  Imitation.  The  numerous  contemporary 
witnesses  who  have  deposed,  beyond  aU  possibility 
of  doubt  or  of  refutation,  and  at  a  time  when  the 
authorship  was  never  disputed,  that  Thomas  k 
Kempis  was  the  author,  form  an  obstacle  whicli 
cannot  be  got  over.  Moreover,  there  is  this 
curious  fact  about  the  Imitation:  the  only  lan- 
guage into  which  it  can  be  translated  literally  and 
idiomatically  is  the  Flemish.  Take,  for  instance, 
the  following  verses  :— 1.  Ecce  in  cruce  totum  ttat^ 
et  in  moriendo  totum  jacet  (I.  2,  c.  12,  §  3).  2. 
Quid  est  homo  inde  melior  quia  reputatur  ab 
homine  major  ?  (1.  3,  c  50,  §  8).  The  Flemish  is 
literal  to  the  very  word.  1.  AUa  bettaet  dan  in 
bet  knusy  en  in  het  sterven  Ugt  aUee.    2.  Wat  is 


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^n  mensch  tr  beter  om,  aU  hy  Tan  een  ander 
meiuch  yoor  groot  gehonden  is? 

The  Geneniflts  meet  the  difficulty  of  the  crucial 
Kin  (xUruu  (si  scires  totam  bibliam  exteriui, 
L  1,  c.  1)  by  leayiug  the  word  out  altogether  ;  and 
nme  of  the  Benedictine  editions  give  it.  Recently 
more  than  one  Gkrsenist  has  attempted  to  show 
that  there  is  an  idiom  in  Italian— fopere  da  fuori 
—for  "  to  know  a  thing  by  heart " ;  and  it  was 
also  added  that  this  form  of  expression  was  in  use 
at  Verona.  Italy  is  very  rich  in  dialects,  and  also 
in  Tocabularies  and  dictionaries.  I  soon  procured 
one  of  the  Verona  dialect,  and  found  that  to  know 
a  thing  by  heart  was  saper  a  nunU ;  but  no  trace 
VM  to  be  found  of  toper  da  fuori,  I  then  wrote 
to  a  courteous  friend  in  Bologna — who  has  an  un- 
imlled  ooUection  of  Italian  yocabularies  and 
dictionaries,  more  than  two  hundred  —  and  he 
kindly  examined  them  for  me,  but  taper  da  fuori 
coQid  not  be  found  in  any  of  them.  The  Vocdbo- 
kno  DeUa  Cruica  (Venet.,  1741)  gives  taper  a 
meiUi  only;  hence  I  conclude  that  the  eyidence 
against  ioper  da  fuori  is  conclusive. 

Scin  txUriuiy  *'to  know  by  heart,"  is  not, 
however,  confined  to  the  ImiteUion,  John  Busch, 
or  Boechius,  in  his  work  De  Viribus  iUutiribut 
Capituli  Windesenuniit^  quotes  a  letter  of  Flo- 
lentios  Badewyns  —  whose  scholar  Thomas  k 
JEempis  had  been  —  to  Henry  Balveren,  the 
ttitiariut  at  Windesem,  which  contains  these 
words:  — "Consulo  tibi  quod  habeas  circa  te 
8pecalom  Monachorum,  aut  Speculum  Bernardi, 
eecandum  quod  omnes  actus  tuos  potes  ordinare  ; 
^aod  etiam  ita  ditcat  exteriut  ut  in  omnibus 
operibos  tuis  occurrat  tibi  quomodo  te  debes 
lutbere."  And  again:— ^'Et  hoc  erit  tibi  leve 
qaaodo  prompta  consuetudine  libellum  text 
eUeriut,"  Edmund  Waterton. 

JEnoT  (6*  S.  iv.  288).— I  think  this  word  can 
^J  00  means  be  treated  as  obsolete,  and  though  I 
<aoDot  give  chapter  and  verse,  believe  it  is  of  not 
infrequent  occurrence  in  recent  fiction. 

As  to  its  origin,  most  etymologists  seem  to  agree 
tbat  it  is  from  the  Spanish.  Bailey  gives  "  Oenet,  a 
kind  of  Spanish  horse,"  and  **  JenruU,  Spanish  or 
Bsrbaiy  mares."  This  is  discrepancy  number  one. 
The  next  dictionary  I  refer  to,  Barlow's,  1772, 
has  "JoMut,  see  Oenrut/*  and  omits  the  latter  word 
altogether.  This  trick  of  referring  from  one  word 
to  a  second,  and  then  omitting  the  latter,  is  not 
very  nnoommon,  and  is  exceedingly  provoking. 
J.  K.'s  dictionary,  1772,  has  **OeMtf  a  kind  of 
Spanish  horse,  or  cat."  Walker's  Dtc^ionary,  1842, 
has  also  an  incorrect  cross-reference :  **Jenn$ty  a 
Spanish  horse,  see  Qennet*^;  but  no  such  word 
appears,  though  we  have  "  Oemt,  a  small,  well-pro- 
Pntioned  Spanish  horse."  '' Qmet^  a  small 
Spanish  pony,"  says  Mr.  Jabez  Jenkins  (Feit 
^ockU  Leteicoi^  1871).    When  spelt  with  a  g,  the 


one  n  seems  most  usuaL  Mr.  Jenkins  gives  the 
same  definition  ofknneL  Chambers's  Etymologicat 
Dictionary  has  "  Jennely  same  as  gend/*  and  under 
the  latter  repeats  Walker's  definition,  adding  the 
derivation,  '*  Fr.  gtnit ;  Sp.  girute^  a  horse-soldier ; 
also  given  as  a  horse  of  Josn,  in  Spain." 

Brachet's  French  dictionary  also  derives  genet 
from  Spanish  ginete. 

The  only  Spanish  dictionary  I  possess  gives 
"Oinetey  cavalier  arm6  d'une  lance  et  d'un 
bouclier,  bon  6cuyer."  But  the  French-Spanish 
definition  throws  more  light  on  the  word :  *^  Oenet, 
rodn  espanol  entero,  y  de  mediano  cuerpo."  Do 
we  not  come  near  the  sempiternal  "  Eozinante  "  in 
this?  "A  name  lofty-sounding,  and  significant 
of  what  he  had  been  before,  and  also  of  what  he 
was  now ;  in  a  word,  a  horse  before  or  above  all 
the  vulgar  breed  of  horses  in  the  world." 

In  Ainsworth's  Englith-Latin  Dictionary  the 
Latin  equivalents  of  genet  are  '^Asturco,  equua 
Hispanicus,  caballus,"  while  the  English  render- 
ings of  Miureo  are  "  An  ambling  nag,  a  Spanish 
gennet  [here  the  two  n's  reappear],  a  pad,  a  pal- 
frey," and  the  word  cutwrco  is  derived-  from 
Asturia. 

In  Italian  the  word  is  giannetto,  translated  "a 
Spanish  horse." 

Hilpert's  Englith- German  Dictionary  has 
"  Genet  (wird  auch  gennet  und  gew.  jennet  ge- 
schrieben),  das  Spanische  Pferd,  der  Zelter,"  and 
"  2,  die  Spanische  wilde  Katze." 

These  few  definitions  may  throw  a  little  li^ht 
upon  the  word,  but  its  history  is  far  from  being 
exhausted.  Jambs  Hooper. 

3,  Olande  Villas,  Denmark  Hill,  aB. 

This  word,  properly  written  genet,  is  found  in 
Spanish  under  ginite  (0.  Fr.  genet,  genate;  It. 
gtandtto).  Minsheu  derives  it  from  L.  genus^ 
"q.d.,  boni  generis  equus,  (i.e.)  stirpis  generosee." 
But  to  arrive  at  the  etymology  we  must  look  to 
an  earlier  meaning  of  ginite  (OataUn,  janet),  viz., 
a  light-armed  horse-soldier.  Littr^  gives  several 
suggestions  as  to  the  etymology  of  the  latter ; 
viz.,  from  Arab,  djund,  "soldat";  from  yvfivrjrrjs, 
"homme  qui  s'exerce";  from  Ginetes,  **name  of 
the  inhabitants  of  the  country  between  Cape  St. 
Vincent  and  the  Guadiaaa,  whose  cavalry  was 
armed  with  lance  and  buckler";  and  from  L. 
gignue,  M.  Dozy  derives  the  word  from  Arabic 
Zendta,  a  Berber  people  renowned  for  the  valour 
of  its  cavalry.  I  would  trace  the  word  genet,  4 
priori,  thus  :  Arabic,  kandt,  a  cane,  a  si>ear ; 
whence  Sp.  ginSta,  a  kind  of  lanoe ;  whence  ginite^ 
a  horse-soldier  armed  with  such  aweaoon  ;  finally^ 
the  horse  itself.  The  Bomans  called  a  f;enet 
oiturco  {aetur  equut),  bo  named  from  Asturia,  in 
Spain,  where  they  were,  perhaps,  reared. 

B.  S.  Gharnock. 

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Prof.  Skeat^  in  his  Etymological  Dictionary, 
sftys  that  this  word  is  derived  from  the  old  French 
\fOTd  gmettef  "  a  genet  or  Spanish  horse,**  and  the 
Spanish  girute,  a  nag.  He  adds,  that  '^the 
original  sense  was  a  horse-soldier,  especially  a 
light-armed  horse-soldier."  The  word  is  traced 
by  Dozy  to  the  Arab  Zenata^  a  tribe  of  Barbary 
celebrated  for  its  cavalry.  See  also  Wedgwood's 
Dictionary  of  English  Etymology,  The  word  can 
hardly  be  said,  I  think,  to  be  in  common  use, 
though  one  may  possibly  find  an  instance  of  its 
use  now  and  then.  A  friend  of  mine  tells  me 
that  Lord  Beaconsfield  made  use  of  it  in  his  Endy- 
mionf  but  not  having  a  copy  of  the  novel  I  am 
unable  to  verify  it.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

This  word  is  in  very  common  use  in  the  south 
and  west  of  Ireland  to  denote  the  offspring  of  a 
horse  and  a  she-ass,  in  contradistinction  to  a 
mule,  the  offspring  of  a  he-ass  and  a  mare. 
Jennets  are,  as  a  rule,  bigger  and  better-shaped 
animals  than  mules,  and  have  much  shorter  ears. 

0. 

An  Old  Marblb  Slab  is  St.  Margaret's 
Churchyard  (6«»  S.  iv.  27,  619,  646).— The  deep 
interest  to  which  the  examination,  the  statement, 
and  the  exposure  of  this  remarkable  relic  has 
given  rise,  has  led  to  a  further  search  for  matter 
which  might  help  to  confirm  the  conjecture  in 
•*  N.  &  Q.,'"  e^  S.  iv.  519,  viz.,  that  this  relic  is  a 
veritable  landmark  of  the  Bomano-British  period. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  William  Stukeley,  the  eminent 
antiquary  and  naturalist,  who  died  in  1765, 
writing  about  the  middle  of  the  century,  con- 
tended that  through  and  from  the  ancient  Roman 
Verulam,  now  St.  Alban's,  the  Roman  road  Wat- 
ling  Street  continued  eastward,  and,  crossing  the 
Oxford  Road  at  Tyburn,  ran  through  Hyde  and  St. 
James's  Parks  towards  the  Thames,  which  it 
reached  at  Old  Pakce  Yard,  Westminster.  From 
thence  to  the  ancient  |jondinum  and  its  tower  the 
access  on  or  beside  the  noble  river  was  easy.  It 
may  be  conceived  firom  this  why  Mr.  Black,  whose 
interest  was  so  much  aroused  by  the  discovery  of 
the  Roman  coffin  in  1869,  became  at  once  entirely 
concurrent  with  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Stukeley,  and 
on  that  faith  proposed  to  search  for  another  vestige 
of  Roman  road,  of  the  pre-existence  of  which  the 
place  of  the  coffin  was  an  infallible  sign.  This 
search,  however,  so  far,  proved  fruitless  ;  but  the 
present  discovery  of  the  shib  gives  a  potent  con- 
firmation of  Dr.  Stukeley's  opinion  of  the  intimato 
connexion  of  Westminster  with  the  Roman  Way 
(the  Forty-Foot  Way  as  it  was  sometimes  called) 
from  a  very  early  period. 

It  is  quite  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  exist- 
ence of  the  Roman  road  led  to  the  choice  of  this 
site  for  the  Confessor's  Saxon  abbey,  and  for 
that  of  the  royal  palace  and  Norman  hsll  on  the 
>ank  of  the  river,  and  to  the  placing  of  St.  Mar- 


garet's Church  where  it  now  is— between  whick 
and  the  abbey  the  Roman  road  may  have  been — 
and  ultimately  to  the  erection  of  the  sanctuary  on 
the  north  side  and  of  the  precincts  on  the  soath — 
and  all  this  because  of  the  great  and  paramount 
advantage  of  an  excellent  Roman  Way,  although 
it  seems  then  to  have  terminated  in  a  thorny 
island  and  a  terrible  desert,  which  was  at  once  to 
become  the  site  of  a  royal  city  and  of  a  grand 
monastery.  If  only  a  small  portion  of  this  series 
of  probabilities  is  accepted  there  is  good  cause  to 
maintain  a  reverence  for  the  relic.  This  will  best 
be  done  by  keeping  it  as  near  the  original  position 
in  the  churchyurd  as  possible.  That  place  is  about 
to  become  a  much  frequented  centre  of  traffic,  and 
there  it  would  be  suDJect  to  wear  and  tear.  But 
a  space  seems  to  present  itself  for  the  reception  of 
the  slab  only  a  few  feet  distant  and  south-east  of 
the  true  spot.  It  is  within  an  angle  of  a  stone 
border  which  encloses  a  grass  plot.  It  is  worthy 
of  note  that  Dr.  Stukeley,  whose  name  is  so  much 
associated  with  this  essay,  saw  the  famous  sanc- 
tuary of  Westminster  on  the  eve  of  its  demolition. 
He  made  a  good  drawing  and  description  of  it, 
and  that  valuable  paper  and  another  on  West- 
minster Abbey  are  two  of  the  earliest  in  ArcfuBO' 
logia.  It  ia  quite  possible  that  his  practised  eye 
may  have  detected  the  Roman  relic  when  it  lay 
almost  alone  in  a  brighter  and  less  worn  state 
than  we  now  see  it. 

An  additional  proof  of  Roman  remains  in 
the  abbey  has  recently  been  seen  in  digging 
the  graves,  first  that  of  the  late  Lord  Law- 
rence and  next  of  Mr.  G.  £.  Street,  where^ 
deep  in  the  earth,  a  solid  concrete  wall  was  en- 
countered, exhibiting  the  materials  of  Roman 
work  converted  into  concrete,  probably  for  a 
wall  across  the  nave.  It  may  have  been  the  wall 
which  was  made  by  King  Edward  I.  for  the 
eastern  termination  of  his,  the  first,  portion  of  the 
nave,  perhaps  his  porch  wall.  There  can  be  little 
doubt  as  to  some  of  the  ingredients  of  the  said 
concrete  being  Roman.  Mr.  Wright,  the  clerk  of 
the  works,  has  carefully  stored  them,  and  is- 
pleased  to  exhibit  them  to  those  who  appreciate 
their  interest.  The  insertion  of  this  paper  in 
'^N.  &  Q."  will  have  established  its  subject  in 
history,  and  will,  with  the  legendary  fame  which 
the  proper  placing  of  the  relic  will  acquire,  help 
to  add  a  slight  ray  to  the  halo  which  surrounds 
that  venerable  fabric,  Westminster  Abbey. 

An  Old  Inhabitant. 

Bad  Copt  and  Good  Printers  (6**  S.  v.  46). 
— I  have  often  heard  this  story,  but  never  se 
circumstantially.  I  think  it  has  probably  been 
repeated  rather  too  often,  as  it  is  a  standing 
excuse  for  bad  writers.  The  morality  of  it  is  more 
than  questionable,  and  it  ought  surely  to  be  un- 
derstood, amongst  gentlemen,  that  a  writer  whe 


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|Wffpo«0?y  writes  illegibly  commits  a  most 
ooiwdly  and  anjustifiable  crime  against  the 
QAfortanate  compositors. 

Walter  W.  Skbat. 

Jbremiah  Clark,  or  Clarke  (6^  S.  ilL  410  ; 
IT.  Hi,  256, 316,  352).--Mr.  Julian  Marshall's 
admitsion  that  CUrke  spelt  his  name  as  I  quoted 
it  would  have  been  quite  satisfactory  if  he  had  not 
dted  three  MSS.  in  the  British  Museum  as  auto- 
mpbs  of  Clarke.  The  anthems  "I  will  love 
Thee,"  "Praise  the  Lord,"  "The  Lord  is  full/' 
are  contained  in  two  volumes  (Add.  MSS.  30,931, 
30,932),  but  they  are  not  in  Clarke's  hand,  being 
copies  made  by  Daniel  Henstridge,  who  was  organist 
of  Canterbury  Cathedral  from  1700  to  1730.  The 
testimonial  givei^  by  Clarke  (see  "  N.  &  Q.,"  6*>»  S. 
ir.  316)  is  taken  from  a  volume  containing  tran- 
Kripts  of  official  documents  belonging  to  Gresham 
College ;  and  as  this  volume  was  mi^e  by  Ward, 
Gresham  Professor  of  Rhetoric  and  author  of  The 
Lives  of  iU  Gresham  Professon^  it  may  be  relied 
on  as  accorate.  In  Blow's  Amphion  Anglicus  will 
be  found  lines  addressed  by  CUrke  to  his  master, 
and  there  he  speUs  his  name  with  an  «.  I  am  sure 
Mb.  Marshall  is  equally  desirous  with  myself  to 
avoid  promulgating  an  error,  and  I  therefore  call 
attention  to  the  mistake  he  has  made  respecting 
the  supposed  autographs  of  the  celebrated  com- 
poser Jeremiah  Ch^ke.         W.  H.  C(7MMINGS. 

"Tbtnis"  (6"»  S.  iiL  495  ;  iv.  90,  214  ;  v.  66). 
—With  respect  to  the  curious  remarks  at  the  last 
reference,  it  is  as  well  to  remember  these  facta 
The  A.-S.  Udn  is  short  for  tiharij  and  is  from  the 
toot  dik,  the  n  being  only  the  sign  of  the  infini- 
tive. This  being  so,  where  is  the  connexion  with 
the  root  tanf  Of  course  a  Sanskrit  i  is  repre- 
sented by  <A  in  Anglo-Saxon,  and  the  English 
word  really  connected  with  tan  is  thin, 

Celer. 

Elvistov  [akd  Alyaston]  or  Atlbwaston 
Castle,  Dbrbtshire  (1»«  S.  vL  510  ;  6«»  S.  iv. 
d21).— It  would  seem  that  we  have  Alvaston  and 
Elvaston  in  dose  proximity  in  Derbyshire,  Al- 
^^n  being  a  chapel  ry  in  the  parish  of  St. 
Midttel,  Derby,  and  in  the  union  of  Shardlow 
snd  hundred  of  Morleston  and  Litchurch,  £1- 
Gaston  a  parish  in  the  same  union  and  hundred. 
The  latter  is  the  one  which  contains  the  castle  re- 
ferred to  by  D.  G.  C.  E.  It  appears  to  me,  on 
looldng  at  the  statements  of  the  various  ordinary 
XHuoes  of  reference  on  county  topography  and 
Boinenelature,  that  the  two  are  probably  simply 
variants  of  the  Domesday  form  given  by  Lysons 
ud  GHover  as  AUwoldeHune,  and  that  both  sites 
v«re  embraoed  in  the  Domesday  manor  of  that 
Bsme,  which  was  held  by  Tochi,  and  was  given  to 
Bale  Abbey  by  Matilda  de  Salicosa  Maie,  a 
dcsoendttit  of  the  founder  of  that  house.    Glover, 


in  his  History  of  the  County  of  Derby  (edited  by 
Thomas  Noble,  Derby,  1829),  gives  the  following 
collection  of  various  forms  of  the  name,  s.v, 
Alvaston  (the  chapelry), "  Edolveston,  Alewolde- 
stune,  Allvadeston,  Alvadestun,  Alvoldeston,"  but, 
unfortunately,  without  citing  the  relative  authori- 
ties. Alvardeston  and  Alveston  occur  in  the  ira- 
quisUionei  p.m.  l-^l  Edw.  III.  Mr.  F.  Davis, 
in  his  Etymology  of  some  Derbyshire  Place-names 
(London,  Bemrose,  reprinted  from  the  Journal  of 
the  Derbyshire  Archaeological  Society,  vol  ii.,. 
1880),  has  the  following:  "  Alvaston  (DD.B.  [i. «. 
Domeoday  Book]  Aleuuoldestune).  The  prefix  is 
from  the  name  of  the  A.-S.  saint  Elvan":  ^'Elvaston 
(DD.B.  iElwoldestune).  A.-S.  Elvan,  a  personal 
name,"  and  translates  both  as  '^Eivan's  town." 
There  is  an  Alvaston  in  Cheshire,  and  an  Alveston 
in  Gloucestershire.  In  Wiltshire  there  is  an  Alves- 
diston,  said  to  derive  its  name  from  a  Domesday 
Aileva.  I  do  not  myself  see  the  probability  of  the 
balance  of  correctness  being  in  favour  of  the  ety- 
mology "  Elvan's  town."  It  rather  seems  to  me, 
pa^  the  higher  powers  in  etymology,  that  we  ought 
to  assume  a  person  called  Ale  wold,  or  Aelfwold,  if 
the  origin  be  personal ;  then  we  should  reasonably 
see  that  person  in  the  Domesday  form,  where  I  do 
not  see  Elvan.  "  iElfwald  Dux  "  witnesses  charters 
of  Athelstan,  and  '^^Ifwoldus  Episcopus,"  temp. 
Edw.  Conf.  (see  Kemble,  Cod,  Dip.y  iL  162,  168 ; 
iv.  158),  comes  very  near  Domesday.     Nomad. 

Charles  II.'s  Hiding  Placbs  (6«>  S.  iv.  207, 
498,  522 ;  y.  28). — I  am  much  surprised  to  find 
Mr.  J.  Tom  Burgess  stating  that  Moseley  and 
Bentley  halls  have  disappeared.  It  is  true  that 
the  old  hall  at  Bentley,  in  which  the  gallant  Col. 
Lane  sheltered  his  sovereign  after  the  battle  of 
Worcester,  has  given  place  to  a  more  modern 
structure,  built,  however,  by  the  family,  who  after- 
wards sold  their  estate  there,  and  now  reside  at 
King's  Bromley  Manor,  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Lichfield.  The  present  CoL  Lane  is  the  lineal 
descendant  of  the  faithful  cavalier  above  men- 
tioned. With  regpiird  to  Moseley  Hall  Mr.  Bqr- 
OESS  is  totally  mistaken.  Though,  owing  to  the 
decay  of  the  timbers  in  its  walls,  it  was  necessary, 
a  few  years  ago,  to  thoroughly  strengthen  these, 
and  even  to  case  them  in  brickwork,  it  is  essen- 
tially the  same  house  to  which,  conducted  by  the 
PendereU  brothers,  the  king  was  brought  froo^ 
Boscobel  and  received  by  my  great-great-great- 
grandfather. The  interior  of  the  house  is  changed 
only  by  the  enlargement  of  one  room  on  the  ground 
floor ;  all  the  others  are  exactly  as  they  then  were. 
The  old  oak  staircase  by  which  the  king  ascended 
to  the  bedroom  where  he  rested  on  his  arrival  is  . 
identical,  as  is  the  bedstead  in  that  room  on  which 
he  slept  The  hiding-phioe,  which  had  been  con- 
structed under  the  floor  of  an  adjoining  closet  for 
the  security  of  the  priest  of  the  family  in  the  days. 


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•of  Elizabeth,  remains  in  exactly  the  same  condition 
as  when  the  king  descended  into  it,  and  the  door 
was  placed  oyer  it  by  my  ancestor  when  the  Round- 
heads visited  the  house  in  search  of  hinL  My 
fiunily  left  Moseley  Hall  for  a  modem  and  more 
-commodious  house  on  the  estate,  built  by  my  father, 
about  sixty  years  ago,  since  which  time  the  old 
house  has  always  been  the  residence  of  a  tenant. 
I  hope  that  this  short  account  may  interest  your 
readers,  coming  as  it  does  from  the  representative 
•of  our  family.  Fba^ncis  Whitoreayk. 

"  Hll^,  HIP,  HURRAH  ! "  AND  THE  JSWISH  WaR- 

•CRT  "Hbp!''  (6^  S.  iv.  346).—The  foUowing 
further  letter,  from  the  Jewish  Worlds  Sept.  2, 
1881,  concerning  the  war-cry  '*  Hep ! "  may  be 
interesting : — 

"  Sib,— In  the  letter  -of  one  of  yoar  correspondents, 
headed  'The  Rev.  A.  L.  Qreen*s  Sermon'  (August  26), 
there  occurs  a  passage  relating  to  the  etymology  of 
'  Hep  1 '  I  do  not  think  it  has  anything  to  do  with 
either  B"y"n  or  3"K"n,  but  rather  that  the  word  is 
composed  of  the  initials  of  the  words  '  Hierosolyma  Est 
Perdita'  (Jerusalem  is  lost),  which  formed  the  war-ciy 
of  the  infuriated  mobs  who  attacked  and  destroyed  so 
many  of  our  people  during  the  Oasades.  With  due 
apologies  for  intruding,— Yours  faithfully,  nnK. 

"  London,  August  26, 1881." 

Jaicbs  Hooper. 

3,  Claude  Yillas,  Denmark  Hill,  S.E. 

Irish  Popttlar  Ballads  :  "  Harvey  Duff  " 
(e*'*  S.  V.  6).— The  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  who 
have  seen  the  play  of  the  Shaughraun  will  remember 
the  character  of  Harvey  Duff,  who  acts  the  part 
^f  an  informer  and  cunning  schemer,  and  of  one 
who  is  ready  to  sell  the  innocent  for  love  of  gain. 
The  tune  set  to  a  song  with  the  refrain  of  "  Har- 
vey Duffi  Harvey  Duff,"  is  not  sung  in  the  play 
which  has  given  this  hero  to  the  world,  but  has 
been  invented  for  the  annoyance  of  that  most 
loyal  and  respectable  force,  the  Eoyid  Irish  Con- 
stabulary, the  inference  being  that  they  are 
like  him  in  their  character  and  acts.  A  short  time 
since  a  young  man  was  arrested  at  a  town  in  the 
<20unty  of  Limerick  for  whistling  the  tune,  who, 
upon  being  brought  before  the  presiding  justice, 
was  charged  by  the  policeman  with  "  using  lan- 
guage calculated  to  provoke  a  breach  of  the  peace.*' 
On  being  cross-examined  he  swore  that  the  lan- 
guage complained  of  was  "  *  Harvey  Duff,'  which 
was  whistled  at  him  in  a  defiant  manner."  The 
tune  has  something  of  the  character  of  an  Irish 
jig,  and  would,  even  without  "Harvey  Duff,"  be 
popular  among  the  Irish  peasantry.  B.  D. 

S,  Sydney  Place,  Cork. 

The  "Catholicon  ANOLictJM"  (e***  S.  v.  24).— 
I  am  very  much  obliged  to  Mr.  Peacock  for  the 
kind  way  in  which  he  speaks  of  this  work,  and 
also  for  the  valuable  notes  he  furnishes.  Since  the 
book  has  been  issued  I  have,  by  the  kindness  of 


friends,  been  enabled  to  clear  up  some  of  the  diffi- 
culties referred  to  in  the  preface.  Thus,  a  hint 
from  Mr.  Hucks  Gibbs  that  wdpe,  on  p.  422,  was, 
as  is  clear  from  the  alphabetical  arrangement,  a 
mistake  for  wolfe^  soon  led  to  the  true  explanation 
of  the  word.  Gouldman  gives,  *'  Wolfe,  a  disease, 
Herpei  exedens,  fhagtdoma"  that  is,  a  cancer. 
LuptHf  as  a  fish,  is,  of  course,  the  pike.  Another 
friend  suggests  that  "  Sprynge,  enervate/*  p.  356, 
is  the  same  as  our  word  to  **  spring,"  when  we 
speak  of  a  bat  being  eprung.  If  Mr.  Peacock 
will  look  at  the  "  Additional  Notes,"  pp.  xxxv  and 
xli,  he  will  find  some  more  on  Chimney  and 
FortUr,  Can  he  furnish  an  earlier  instance  of  the 
word  chimney  in  the  modem  sense  than  that  given 
from  the  Sowdone  of  Bahylone  (c  1400)  ? 

S.  J.  HSRRTAGK. 

MedyUe  erOu. — ^We  have  in  the  Merry  Wives 
of  WindiOTf — 

"  I  smell  a  man  of  middle  earth." 

Act  V.  BO.  V. 

On  which  Steevens  observes,  ^'  So,  in  the  ancient 
metrical  romance  of  Syr  Chty  of  Warwick,  bL  L  (no 
date):— 

'  Thou  mayit  them  slea  with  dint  of  swearde, 
And  win  the  fayrest  mayde  of  middle  erdeJ 

Again,  in  Gower,  De  Confeasume  iimontu,  foL  26: 
*  Adam,  for  pride,  lost  hit  price 
Inmyddellerik:*' 

Malone,  in  the  appendix  to  his  edition  of  Sfaak- 
spere,  remarks: — **  Middle  earth,  says  the  glossarist 
to  Gawin  Douglas's  translation  of  Virgi^  is  only 
the  earth.    Ab.  A-S.  myddan  eard,  mundus.** 
WiLLiAK  Platt. 
CalUs  Court,  St.  Peter*B,  Isle  of  Thanet 

Lappe, — I  have  frequently  heard    this    word 
applied  in  the  North  of  England,  at  the  close  of  a 
day's  fishing,  to  packing  up  the  rods  and  lines. 
Spenser  has  an  allusion  to  its  meaning  the  .enclos- 
ing a  corpse  in  lead  in  the  following  passage,  ia. 
his  Shepheard^e  CaUndar,  published  in  1579:^ 
*^  Bat  ah  !  MsBcenas  is  ydad  in  claje, 
And  great  Augustas  loDg  ygoe  is  doad. 
And  all  the  worthies  liggen  wrapt  in  lead. 
That  matter  made  for  poeta  on  to  playe : 
For  ever  who  in  derring-doe  were  dread, 
The  loffcie  vsrse  of  hem  was  loved  aye." 

^l.  X.  V.  61,  ff. 
John  Piokford,  M.A. 
Newboume  Bectory,  Woodbridge. 

Halkbtt  avd  Laivo's  ^'DionovART  OF 
Anonymous  and  Pseudontmous  Literature  ** 
(6«»  S.  iv.  536).— With  reference  to  Mr.  Mac 
Alistsr's  correction,  I  have  to  say  that  it  is  not 
without  authority  that  Mr.  Laing,  who  took  the 
title  from  the  copy  in  Dr.  David  Laing's  library, 
has  given  the  name  as  *'  Snlton."  An  edition  of 
the  work  in  question,  AnJlhtopophofgue ;  or,  a 
Caption  to  the  OredvUmi,  was  published  at  Aber- 


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deen  in  1620^  and  reprinted  at  Edinbarah,  1696, 
htmng  the  anthor's  name,  Edward  Snlton,  dis- 
tinctly printed  on  the  title-page.  G.  L. 

A  PicruBK  OF  St.  John  by  Mubillo  (6**»  S. 
IT.  427).  —  Vbbna  asks  where  thia  picture  by 
Horillo  now  is.  I  beg  to  sa;^  I  hare  in  my  pos- 
session a  very  old  oU  painting  on  oanyas,  '*  St. 
John  and  the  Lamb/'  size  28  by  30  inches,  the 
groand  and  foliage  ye^  dark.  If  the  original  is 
ndssing,  I  shall  be  glad  to  answer  any  questions 
that  I  can  in  reference  to  the  picture  that  I  possess. 
I  may  say  the  picture  was  brought  to  this  country 
about  fifty  years  ago  by  an  English  gentleman, 
who  is  now  dead.  CT  A.  H. 

Charlotte  Town,  P.  E.  Island,  Canada. 

The  Eivos  op  Cornwall  (6**  S.  v.  28).— I 
do  not  know  whether  it  will  be  superfluous  to  re- 
mind W.  S.  L.  B.  of  Borhise's  Antiquities  of 
Cornwall  (Lond.,  1759),  as  containing  a  catalogue 
of  the  kings  of  Britain  with  the  princes  of  Corn- 
wall. It  can  hardly,  in  any  case,  be  needful  to 
remark  that  there  is  much  in  the  chronology  of 
these  kings  and  princes  which  is,  as  the  excellent 
rector  of  Ludgran  put  it,  "  somewhat  unlikely." 
Reference  may  also  be  made  to  a  more  recent 
account,  in  Gilbert's  Parochial  History  of  Com- 
waU  (Lond.,  1838),  where  the  story  of  the  dukes  is 
given,  from  Dngdale,  in  Appendix  xiL  toI.  iv. 
pp.  346,  uqq.  Nohad. 

The  Death  of  Edward  of  Jjancastbr  at 
Tewkisburt  (6*"*  S.  V.  6).— It  may  interest  Prof. 
BooBRS  to  know  that  this  very  question  was  the 
sabject  of  one  paper,  if  not  of  a  second  also,  read 
at  last  yearns  Archseological  Association  Congress 
at  Great  Malvern.  One  of  the  papers  was  by  my 
friend  Mr.  George  R  Wright,  F.8.A.,  our  accom- 
plished Congress  secretary^  whom  a  letter  would 
nach  if  addressed  to  the  Junior  Athenaeum  Club, 
W.  E.  Walford,  M.A. 

d,  N.W. 


Blood-Guiltiness  (6^  S.  iv.  387).  —  In  the 
Guardian  for  Dec.  21  the  Rev.  H.  S.  Byrth  directs 
attention  to  the  fact  that  Bkukwood  has  somewhat 
hastily  accused  Mr.  Gladstone  of  word-coining. 
The  word  is  to  be  found  in  Psalm  li.  14,  '*  Deliver 
me  from  bhodrguUtiruss/*  in  both  Authorized 
Verrion  and  Prayer  Book  Version. 

F.  C.  BiRKBSCE  Tbrrt. 

"  Contrived ''=WoRN  Gut  (6*>»  S.  iv.  466).— 
There  are  many  other  instances  where  the  verb 
''to  contrive "  is  used  in  its  obsolete  meaning  of  to 
wsar  away,  Spenser,  in  his  Faery  Qtism,  bk.  iL 
c.  9,  says:— 

"Not  that  Mfe  Fylian  die,  which  did  sorriTe 
Three  ages,  such  as  mortall  men  eoturive,''* 

We  find  ShakespcMie  using  the  word  in  the  same 
>  in  th%  Taming  of  tJu  Shrew,  Act  L  sc.  iL  * — 


"  Please  ye,  we  may  eoiUrive  this  afternoon 
And  qaaff  carouses  to  our  mistresB*  health.'' 

In  Edwards's  Damon  and  PUhias  (vol.  L  p.  181  of' 
Dodsley's  Collection  of  Old  Plays)  we  find  :— 

'*  In  trayelying  conntryes,  we  three  have  contrived. 
Fall  many  a  yeare." 
Compare  Terence's  use  of  the  Latin  verb  eontaro  ia 
the  Adelphi^  Act  V.  sc.  v.: — 
"  Contrivi  in  quserondo  ritam  atqae  »tatem  meam." 

G.  F.  B.  B. 

A  Parallblisk  :  Swift  and  T.  Adams  (6^ 
S.  iii.  508). — It  would  be  difficult  now  to  name  the 
"  true  parent  of  the  saying,"  because  it  evidently 
comes  of  a  very  old  family.  The  idea  that  the  idle 
or  solitary  man  was  peculiarly  liable  to  the  assaults 
of  the  devil  seems  to  have  been  pretty  general 
from  very  early  times.  If  we  read  the  lives  of  the 
old  fathers  and  hermits,  we  find  that  when  they 
retired  into  the  desert  or  their  cells  generally  the* 
devil  took  a  very  early  opportunity  of  calling  upon 
them.  Erasmus  says  this  was  why  Christ  went 
into  "  wyldemesse  " : — 

'<  And  this  did  Jesus,  euen  as  one  that  mynded  to  bidde 
the  enemie  of  mankynde,  quickely  to  come  of  and  make 

readie  all  his  craftes  and  ingiena A  place  was  sought 

and  found  apte  and  mete  for  the  temptours  purpose,  and 
that  was  wyldernesfle."— PampAro*«  of  Luke,  1648,  f.  87^ 
verso. 

He  also  says,  on  the  parallel  passage  in  Matthew: 
"  No  man  is  sore  fro*  the  assaultes  of  Sathan  whiche 

lyueth  sluggyshely without  diligent  meditaoion  of' 

holy  scriptures  there  maye  be  dauoger  in  ydle  eoli- 
tarynes.**— ifoWAw,  f.  18,  verso. 

See  many  such  passages  in  the  lives  of  the  fathers 
as  the  following: — 

"  For  as  saynte  Jerome  sayth  I  a  man  that  is  oecupyeth 
in  good  werke  |  is  oonly  tempted  of  one  deuyll  |  &a  maa 
that  is  vdle  hathe  about  hjm  more  than  a  thousande 
deuyls  for  to  begyle  &  deceyue  hym  |  to  thende  y*  he 
maye  be  brought  to  dampnao'on."— Ft^ce  Patrum,  li9& 
Wynkyn  de  Worde,  f.  211. 

R.  B. 

Boston,  Lincolnshire. 

Wartoh's  Ballad  of  "The  Tuenip-Hoer ** 
(6*  S.  iv.  467).— I  have  never  seen  Warton's 
ballad.  There  is,  however,  in  Salmon's  CkronolO' 
gieal  Historian,  8vo.,  1723,  p.  364,  a  passage 
worth  quoting.  Under  the  month  of  August, 
1716,  the  author  records  that — 

'*  Mr.  Matthew  Fern  was convicted  of  drinking  the 

Pretender's  health  and  calling  King  Qeorge  a  TurrUp' 
ffougher,  for  whioh  he  was  sentenced  to  nay  a  fine  of 
fortv  marks,  to  be  imprisoned  for  a  year,  ana  find  sureties, 
for  his  behariour  for  three  years." 

Salmon's  book  contains  many  facts  illustrative  of 
the  extremely  cruel  measures  which  were  resorted 
to  by  the  officials  of  the  new  dynasty  for  the  pur- 
pose of  crushing  those  who  expressed  opinions 
obnoxious  to  the  people  in  power.  Mr.  Peacock's, 
novel  of  Baif  Skirlaugh  contains  a  jingle  founded 
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Addo  had  once  been  a  tamip-hoer.  It  has,  we 
'believe,  no  claim  to  be  considered  a  contemporary 
•effusion: — 

"  Oeordie  was  hoeing  his  turnips. 
When  the  sun  went  down, 
And  up  there  came  an  English  Lord, 

Wha  gaTe  him  a  golden  crown, 
Wha  gave  him  a  golden  crown. 
And  gaye  him  sceptres  three. 
Now  am  I  king  in  London  town 
That  once  was  silly  Qeordie." 

Vol.i.,p.  U5. 
Semper  Eadbh. 

Assuming  that  Hie  Tumip-Hoer  mentioned  in 
Hearne's  Diary  and  The  Hanover  Turnip  (set  to 
the  tune  of  *'  And  a  bowing  we  will  go,  will  go/' 
•&c.)  referred  to  by  Amburst  in  the  Terra  FUius, 
pp.  47-8  (third  edit.),  are  one  and  the  same,  I  may 
tell  J.  R.  B.  that  his  question  was  asked  in 
"  N.  &  Q.J*  !•'  S.  xii.  428,  and  never  answered. 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

"Pomatum"  (6*>»  S.  iv.  8, 137,  318,  395).— In 
Jacob  Mosan's  translation  of  C.  Wirtzung's  Praxie 
MedidntB  Universalisy  fol.  London,  1698,  ^*  Po- 
mada,  sive  pomata,  a  sweet-smelling  salve  made 
of  apples,"  is  mentioned  in  the  third  index,  but  no 
reference  is  given  for  any  formula.  The  first  table 
(or  index)  mentions  "  Pomado  prepared,''  and  the 
reference  to  p.  116  of  the  volume: — 

"  Pomade  is  especiall  good  and  safe.  Take  the  sewet 
of  Hart>  fresh  Butter  or  Barrowes  grease,*  of  each  three 
ounces,  let  them  melt  togither  on  the  fire,  put  thereto 
fower  or  five  small  cut  apples,  also  white  wine  six  ounces : 
let  all  these  seethe  togither,  untill  that  the  apples  be 
soft ;  then  bruise  them  well  togither,  and  put  Camfer 
unto  it,  Cinnamome,  Cloves,  Nutmegs,  of  each  half  a 
drag.f  beaten  small  togither,  also  Muscus  fower  graines, 
Bose  water  two  ounces ;  seethe  these  againe  in  another 
pot  in  boiling  water,  untill  all  the  Rose  water  be  wasted 
away :  afterwards  wring  it  through  a  cloth,  and  wash  it 
so  long  with  Rose  water,  untill  it  be  white.  This  Pomade 
is  also  good  for  all  chops  of  the  hands  and  otherwise. 
For  this  is  the  Poplar  ointment  also  good." 

See  also  Triller's  Thesaurtu  Medicamentorum, 
4to.  1764,  p.  832,  for  formula  of  "  Unguentum 
Pomatum,"  Vienna  Dispensatory :  "  R.  Axungise 
porcinsQ  recentis,  cum  pomis  Citri  et  Aurantiorum, 
et  pomis  Borstorffiensibus,"  &c.  D.  A.  S. 

"Such  which"  (6^  S.  iv.  189,  414).— I  am 
obliged  to  your  correspondents  who,  at  the  latter 
reference,  have  helped  me  to  a  solution  of  my  query. 
I  may  say  that  I  was  puzzled  not  so  much  by  the 
-correlation  "  such  which "  as  by  the  difficulty  of 
estimating  the  syntactical  value  of  the  word 
"vertue."  This,  I  think,  Mr.  Birkbbck  Terry 
has  justly  assigned.  I  would,  however,  suggest 
that  of  the  line, 

''  Of  which  vertue  engendred  is  the  flour," 
another  construction  is  possible,  though  not  pre- 


♦  Hogs-lard,  t.v,  **  Barrow,"  Imper.  Diet, 
t  Prachma,  the  eighth  part  of  an  oonce. 


ferable : "  Of  which  [licour]  vertue  [ 
is  [i.e.  becomes]  the  flour."    Under  all  the  cir- 
cumstances, I  think  the  lines  would  amply  justify 
a  note  in  any  critical  edition.      W.  Thompson. 
Sedbergh. 

"  Carriage"  por  "Baooage"  (6«»  S.  iv.  288, 
371).— I  think  the  use  of  the  word  in  this  sense  is 
not  quite  obsolete.  When  I  was  learning  the  first 
rule  in  arithmetic  it  was  applied— but  whether 
verbally  only  or  in  print  I  cannot  now  remember 
— to  the  figure  carried  to  the  next  column,  and  I 
was  taught  to  write  down  the  "  carriages  "  under 
the  figure  representing  the  sum  in  each  column,  as 
a  guide  to  memory  in  checking.  Ez,  gr,  in  adding 
up  126,  236  and  679,  the  ^sum"  in  the  first 
column  would  be  1,  "  carriage  "  2  ;  in  the  second 
column,  "  sum "  4,  " carriage"  1. 

Alex.  Beazelst. 

Thornton  Heath. 

Heraldic  Anomaly  :  Batltb  Arms  (6***  S. 
iv.  309,  415). — ^The  arms  on  the  brass  to  John 
Baylye,  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Thomas,  Salis- 
bury, inquired  for  by  Mr.  Wells,  are  no  doubt 
the  same  as  those  attributed  by  Edmondson  to  the 
family  of  Bayly  (sic)  of  Bristol:  "  Or,  on  a  fesse 
engrailed  between  three  nags'  heads  erased  az.  as 
many  fleurs-de-lis  or."  J.  S.  XJdal. 

Inner  Temple. 

The  Rule  of  the  Road  (6^  S.  iiL  468  ;  iv. 
34,  154,  258,  278, 316,416).— Your  correspondents 
are  probably  not  aware  that  the  rules  of  the  road 
are  laid  down  by  Act  of  Parliament  for  Ireland. 
In  14  &  15  Vict.  cap.  92,  sec.  xiiL,  you  will  find:  — 

<'  Any  person  driving  any  carriage  whatsoever,  or  rid- 
ing any  horse  or  other  animal,  who  meeting  any  other 
carriage  or  horse  or  other  animal,  shall  not  keep  his 
carriage  or  horse  or  other  animal  on  the  left  or  near 
side  of  the  road  or  street,  or,  if  passing  any  other  carriage 
or  horse  or  other  animal  going  in  the  same  direction, 
shall  not  in  all  cases  where  it  is  practicable  go  and  pan 
to  the  right  or  off'-side  of  such  other  carriage  or  horse  or 
other  animal,  shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  not  exceeding  ten 
shillings. 

'*  Any  person  riding  any  horse,  and  leading  any  other 
horse,  who  shall  not  keep  such  led  horse  on  the  side 
farthest  away  from  any  carriage  or  person  passing  him  on 
any  public  road  or  in  any  street  of  a  town,  shall  be  liable 
to  a  fine  not  exceeding  ten  shillings." 

J.  P. 

Mayo. 

FoLK-LoRE  op  Egos  (6«^  S.  iv.  307, 478).— 
"  Most  persons  break  the  shells  of  eggs,  after  they 
have  eaten  the  meat;  it  is  done  to  preyent  their  being 
used  as  boats  by  witches.**  —  T.  Fielding*s  Proverbs, 
article  on  "  Popular  Superstitions,*'  p.  189. 

WiLLIAH  Platt. 

Wiltshire  Protincialisics  (6**  S.  ir.  106, 
478).— ^arm,  Uate  or  Uaze^  euami  or  suetit,  and  t/tto 
are  well  known  in  Cornwall  and  Devon,  and  used 
as  in  Wiltshire.    Lear  or  Uasry  is  equtdly  well 


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known  there,  bat  used,  perhaps,  with  a  very 
slightly  different  meaninf^.  The  shoots  of  potatoes 
in  store  are  called  cheens  io  Cornwall,  and  the 
person  who  breaks  them  off  is  said  to  ckeen  the 
potatoes.  Wm.  Psnqellt. 

Torquay. 

BxcHARD  Turner  akd  Tsetotalism  (2"*^  S. 
Tj.  145,  218 ;  5^  S.  iv.  429  ;  ^.  18,  137,  398,  457; 
Ti  98, 168,  258,  413,  523  ;  &^  S.  iv,  397,  456).— 
A  fall  acoonnt  of  the  origin  of  the  word  "  teetotal," 
implying  total  abstinence  from  intoxicating  liquors, 
appears  in  a  recently  published  work,  Joieph 
Livaty:  a  Life  Story  ana  lU  Lessons,  by  Joseph 
Sherlock. 

"I  hare  been  asked  seyeral  times/'  said  Mr.  Livesey, 
"if  I  could  give  any  explanation  of  the  origin  of  the 
word  'teetotaL*  Now  I  can  assure  you,  if  any  authoi^ty 
be  required  as  to  the  origin  of  that  word,  none  higher 
«an  be  invsn  than  myself,  for  I  was  present  when  the 
word  originated.  It  was  first  pronoonced  by  a  man 
muned  Dickie  Turner.  At  that  time  (1832)  there  were 
tsmpsrance  societies  based  upon  the  principle  of  absti- 
■ence  from  all  spirits  and  great  moderation  in  all 
fermented  liquors.  Dickie  attempted  at  a  meeting  to 
show  the  difference.  He  deprecated  the  practice  of  drink- 
ing liauors  in  moderation,  and  enjoined  that  of  abstinence. 
He  then  used  the  expression  that  gave  rise  to  that 
actable  word  teetotal,  wnich  has  since  gone  throughout 
the  world.  He  said  that  we  should  be  <te-te-tee-total.' 
We  all  took  up  the  word  at  that  moment,  and  were  glad 
of  it,  for  the  designation  '  abstinence  from  all  intoxicat- 
ing liquors'  was  cumbersome.  We  said  that  was  the 
tiung,  and  from.that  moment  till  now  the  word  teetotal 
denotes  abstinence  from  all  kinds  of  intoxicating  drinks 
in  opposition  to  moderation  in  their  use." 

The  inscription  on  his  tombstone  is  as  snpplied  by 
your  correspondent  Mr.  Marshall.  The  tomb- 
itone  is  in  the  graveyard  of  St.  Peter's  Church, 
F^ton.  Wh.  Dobson. 

Preston. 

Thr  Devil  and  the  best  Hthn  Tcjnes  (6'* 
S.  ii.  309;  liL  16;  iv.  116}.— The  association  of 
popular  tunes  with  sacred  poetry  seems  to  be  a  far 
more  ancient  practice  than  we  have  hitherto  sup- 
posed. Prof.  Robertson  Smith,  in  his  lectures  on 
The  on  Tettammi  in  the  Jewish  Church  (Edin- 
bmgb,  A.  &  C.  Black,  1881),  says  (p.  190):— 

"A  curious  and  interesting  feature  in  the  musical 
titles  in  the  earlier  half  of  the  Psalter  is  that  many  of 
them  indicate  the  tune  to  which  the  Pialm  was  set,  by 
^voting  phrases  like  Aijeletk  hashtkahar,*  or  Jonath  elem 
nc4oiiai,f  which  are  evidently  the  names  of  familiar 
•ongi.  OCthe  song  which  gave  the  tii\9  Altatchith,X 
'Dtfltroy  not,'  a  trace  is  still  nreserred  in  Isa.  Ixv.  8, 
'  When  the  new  wine  is  found  m  the  cluster/  says  the 
prophet,  '  men  say.  Destroy  it  not,  for  a  blessing  is  in 
It.'  These  words  in  the  Hebrew  have  a  distinct  lyric 
rhythm.  They  are  the  first  line  of  one  of  the  vintage 
<oegs  so  often  alluded  to  in  Scripture.  And  so  we  learn 
^t  the  early  religious  melody  of  Israel  had  a  popular 
^ngin,  and  was  closely  connected  with  the  old  joyous 
«<e  of  the  nation.    In  the  times  when  the  last  books  of 


*Psahnzzii.    f  Pialmlri.    {  Psakns  Ivil  and  Iviii. 


the  Psalter  were  composed,  the  Templo  music  had 
passed  into  another  phase,  and  had  differentiated  itself 
from  the  melodies  of  the  people,  just  as  we  shouUl  no 
longer  think  of  using  as  church  music  the  popular  airs  to 
which  Psalms  and  nymns  were  set  in  Scotland  at  the 
time  of  the  Reformation." 

It  appears,  therefore,  that  Rowland  Hill's  idea 
was  carried  out  by  the  Jews  no  less  than  2,00 )  to 
3,000  years  ago.  Frederick  E.  Sawyer. 

Brighton. 

In  the  bio^aphy  of  Rowland  Hill  by  Mr. 
Edward  W.  Broome,  p.  93  ("Cassell's  Monthly 
Library ''),  is  the  foUowins:.  After  quoting  a  hymn 
that  was  used  at  Surrey  Chapel,  the  writer  goes  on 
to  say  :— 

''The  singing  of  these  words  [the  hymn]  to  the 
popular  air  of  '  Rule  Britannia,*  by  the  whole  consrega- 
tion,  which  was  a  regular  custom  at  Surrey  Chapol 
some  years  after  Mr.  Hill's  death,  had  a  grand  effect. 
Mr.  Hill  once  said  that  he  did  not  see  any  reason  whj 
the  devil  should  have  all  the  good  tunes;  hence  somo  of 
them  were  frequently  sung  in  his  chapel." 

Alpha. 

"Bred  and  born"  (6**  S.  iv.  68,  275). --Prof. 
Earle  has  something  to  say  on  this  phrase  in  his 
Philology  of  the  English  Tongue,  sect.  635  :— 

'*  Why  do  people  often  say  '  bred  and  born '  instead  of 
'bom  and  bred,*  except  that  they  like  the  sound  of  it 
better?  There  is  in  most  newspapers  a  quarter  which  is 
thus  headed  :— Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths.  But  in 
convereation  it  is  hardly  eTer  quoted  in  this  form.  The 
established  colloquial  form  of  the  phrase  is  this: — 
Births,  Deaths,  and  Marriages.  Now  it  is  plain  that 
the  latter  does  Tiolence  to  the  natural  order  of  things,  to 
which  the  printed  formula  adheres.  Whence,  then,  has 
this  inconsequence  arisen  ?  Solely,  as  it  seems,  from  the 
fact  that  the  less  reasonable  order  offers  the  more  agree- 
able cadence  to  the  ear." 

A.  L.  Mathew. 

«  Cut  over*'  (6«»  S.  iii.  448  ;  iv.  58,  78,  315). 
— The  following  passage  is  taken  from  the  Epistle 
Dedicatorie  of  S.  Gosson's  The  Schoole  of  Abuse^ 
1579  (ed.  Arber,  1868)  :— 

"  Caligula  lying  in  Praunce  with  a  greate  armie  of 
fighting  menne,  brought  all  bia  force,  on  a  sudden  to 
the  Sea  side,  as  though  he  intended  to  cwtte  over,  and 
inuade  England :  when  he  came  to  the  shore,  his 
souldiers  were  presently  set  in  araye,  himself e  shipped 
in  a  small  barke,  weved  Ancors,  and  lanched  out ;  he 
had  not  played  long  in  the  Sea,  wafting  too  and  fro,  at 
his  pleasure,  but  he  returned  agayne,  stroke  sayle,  gaue 
allarme  to  his  souldiers  in  token  of  battaile,  and  charged 
euerie  man  too  gather  cockles.*' 

F.  C.  Birkbeck  Terry. 

Cardiff. 

Conversion  and  Corruption  op  Family 
Names  (6"»  S.  iv.  166,  333).— Culcheth  of  Lan- 
cashire  has  been  corrupted  into  Kilshaw,  Keel- 
shaw,  and  even  Occleshaw.  A  better  instance, 
and  from  the  same  part  of  this  ooanty,  is  that  of 
Holcroft.  The  local  name  is  now  generally  spelled 
Howcroft ;  bat  a  correspondent  who  claims 
descent  from  Holcroft  of  Hurst,  a  branch  of  the 


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house  of  Holcrofty  spells  his  Dame  Hopcraft.  He 
writes  me  that  in  the  registers  of  Fritwell,  Oxford- 
shire, his  family  name  is  yariouslj  spelled  Hob- 
croft,  Hobtcroft,  Hobcraft,  and  Hopcraft,  although 
for  some  time  it  appeared  as  Holcrofte.  There 
appears  to  be  a  method  in  this  evolution  of  a  new 
surname.  J.  B. 

Leigh,  LsncaBhire. 

A  Fencing  Match  in  Martlbbone  Fields, 
1714  (6"»  S.  iv.  446  ;  v.  17,  39).— Mr.  Hodokin 
will  find  information  on  this  head  in  Mr.  Walford's 
Old  and  New  London^  voL  iv.  pp.  465  and  477. 
The  same  work  will  supply  him  with  information, 
and  possibly  with  old  views  also,  of  Marylebone 
Gardens,  Cuper's  Gardens,  and  Banelac;h. 

Mus  RusTicus. 

«  Sate "  for  "  Sat"  (6«^  S.  iv.  190,  395,  477; 
T.  37).  —  Mr.  EDQcnMBB,  like  another  corre- 
spondent, mistakes  the  point  under  discussion. 
No  one  doubts  that  ^oU  is  the  perfect  of  iit ;  the 
question  is  whether  Macaulay  was  in  error  in  using 
*'  sate  "  as  the  past  participle.  Jatdeb. 

Another  example  of  the  use  of  the  final  e  in 
spelling  this  word  is  to  be  found  in  the  following 
familiar  lines: — 

"  'TwM  at  the  royal  feast  for  Persia  won 
Bv  Philip's  warlike  son — 
Aloft  in  awful  state 
The  godlike  hero  taU 
On  his  imperial  throne." 

Dryden's  AUxander'i  Fiosi,  lines  1-5. 
G.  F.  R.  B. 

"Joseph  atto  his  Brethren  "  (6**  S.  iv.  427, 
494,  524). — There  is  a  dramatic  composition  with 
this  title  by  Richard  Jukes,  published  by  George 
Lamb,  Conference  Office,  Sutton  Street,  Com- 
mercial Road,  St  Gorge's  East ;  Jukes,  printer, 
West  Bromwich.  For  an  account  of  it  as  per- 
formed, see  "Art  among  the  Pitmen,"  in  the 
Church  Times  for  Nov.  6, 1880,  p.  728. 

J  T   F 

Bp.  Hatfield's  Hall,  Durham. 

"Antwhen"  (6^^  S.  iv.  367,  642;  v.  56).— 
This  word  is  used  by  Oarlyle  in  Sartor  EMarttu, 
bk.  iiL  chap.  viii. : — 

<'  To  dap-on  your  felt,  and,  simply  by  wishing  that 
you  were  Any.irA«r«,  straightway  to  be  There  /  Next  to 
clap-on  your  other  felt,  and,  simply  by  wishing  that  you 
were  Any  when,  straightway  to  bo  Then/" 

Jakes  Hibbsrt. 
Preston. 

RoTAL  Salutes  iv  Lomdok  {&^  S.  iv.  47, 163). 
— In  addition  to  what  has  already  been  written  on 
this  matter,  it  ought  to  be  stated  that  the  Park 
guns  are  also  fired  to  announce  the  birth  of  princes 
and  princesses.  What  the  exact  rule  about  these 
observances  is  I  do  not  know,  but  desire  to  put  on 
record  that  the  Duchess  of  Connanght  Lad  a 


daughter  on  Sunday,  January  15,  at  3.10  p.iCy. 
and  a  r^al  salute  of  twenty-one  guns  was  fired 
in '  St.  James's  Park  on  the  following  day  at 
3.50  P.M. — apparently  (for  want,  perhaps,  of  some 
explanation)  a  curiously  odd  time.  Salutes  ar» 
also  fired  to  announce  great  naval  or  militaiy 
victories.  When  was  the  last  of  these  salutes 
fired?  Geo.  C.  Boase. 

15,  Queen  Anne's  G&te,  S.W. 

"  Manchbt  Loap  "  (6*  S.  iu.  430  ;  iv.  15, 39^, 
418,  496  ;  v.  38).— If  Mr.  Birkbeck  Terry  had 
read  carefully  what  Mr.  Sawyer  wrote  on  this 
subject  he  would  not  have  written  as  he  has,  ante^ 
p.  38.  Mk  Sawyer  refers  both  to  the  leading 
case  itself  and  to  Leading  Caui  done  into  English 
{Qf^  S.  iv.  396).  Mr.  Sawyer  only  thought  this 
term  occurred  in  the  leading  case,  and  as  it 
seemed  to  me  that,  in  a  paper  like  "  N.  &  Q.,''  all 
references  should,  if  possible,  be  verified  and  not 
left  to  the  writer's  recollection,  I  searched  for  it^ 
with  the  result  mentioned  in  my  note  (6^  S.  iv. 
396).  That  the  term  occurred  in  Leading  Cas» 
done  into  Engliah  I  had  no  doubt,  for  Mb. 
Sawyer  stated  that  it  was  mentioned  there. 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

John  Worthihoton  (6**  S.  v.  54). — ThsDiarj^ 
and  Correspondence  of  Dr.  John  WorthingUm, 
edited  by  Mr.  James  Crossley,  F.S.A.  (Chetham 
Society).  This  edition  is  spoken  of  in  tftrms  of 
high  praise  by  Masson  in  his  Life  of  Milton. 
Worthington  was  master  of  Jesus  CoUege,  0am- 
bridge,  and  was  the  correspondent  of  Samuel 
Hartiib  to  whom  Milton  addressed  his  tractate 
Of  Education,  I  shall  be  glad  to  hear  if  the 
second  volume  of  the  Diary  and  Correspondence 
has  ever  appeared.  D.  C.  T. 

Eton  College. 

The  Earliest  Dated  Book-Platx  (6^  S.  t. 
9). — Mr.  F.  R.  Ellis  has  been  wrongly  informed 
that  his  1633  book-plate  is  the  earliest  Englidh 
dated  specimen  known.  I  have  the  book-plate  of 
^'Franciscus  Frampton,"  1631,  with  manuscript 
notes  on  and  underneath  the  book-plate.  I 
described  it  fully  in  the  Antiquary,  voL  iv.  p.  110 
(Sept,  1881),  and  asked  for  information  concern- 
ing this  **  Francis  Frampton,"  who  was  (according 
to  the  book-plate)  B.A.  1631  (M.A.  1633),  but  have 
received  no  information.  Can  any  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q.  '^  enlighten  me  ?  Will  Mr.  Ellis  ex- 
change tracings  ?  G.  J.  Gray. 

3«  Pembroke  Street,  Cambridge. 

John  Brecknock  (6**  S.  iv.  467).  —  Several 
notices  of  a  family  of  this  name  are  to  be  found  ia 
the  Vintations  of  Oxfordshire^  published  by  the 
Harleian  Society.  Their  arms  are  said  to  have- 
been.  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  lions'  ffambs 
erased  sable ;  but  in  Lansdowne  MS.  874)  foL  137^ 


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I  find  that  the  following  canting  arms  accompanied 
the  epitaph  of  Margaret  Brecknock  in  Waterstock 
Chnrch,  riz.,  Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  oak- 
stnmpB  eradicated  sable.  With  this  she  impaled, 
i^Qarterly,  1  and  4,  Bany  azure  and  or,  a  chief  of 
the  last ;  2  and  3,  Lozengy  az.  and  or.  In  the 
Harleian  yolnme  the  following  arms  are  said  to 
have  accompanied  an  inscription  in  memory  of 
Richard,  son  of  Eobert  Brecknock  and  Sibill  his 
wife,  yiz.,  Qaarterly,  1  and  4,  Argent,  a  chevron 
between  three  lions'  gambs  erased  sable;  2  and  3, 
Azore,  four  barrolets  and  a  chief  or ;  impaling 
I  Ermine,  on  a  canton  gnles  an  owl  argent  (Fowler). 
I  All  these  appear  to  have  floarished  in  the  fifteenth 
I  centniy,  in  the  early  part  of  which  one  of  the 
family  was  a  David  Brecknock,  whose  Christian 
name  and  samame  both  suggest  a  Welsh  descent. 

W.  P.  Caetbr. 

Fish-hooks  (6*  S.  iv.  467). — An  interesting 
ciuipier  on  the  fishing  implements  of  pre-historic 
man  wiU  be  found  in  Figuier's  Primitive  Mctn 
<Ghatto  &  Windufl,  Piccadilly). 

Alfhonsb  Estoglst. 

Provikcial  Fairs:  Piepowder  Courts  (6** 
S.  vul  248,  337;  &^  S.  L  13,  64,  163;  iv.  235, 
290, 330). — lliese  courts  are  incident  to  fairs  and 
markets,  and  are  thus  described  in  Termes  de  la 
l€y,  p,  478  :— 
I  "  Pipowders  est  mi  Gonrt  que  est  incident  a  chescun 

fkire,  pur  le  determinatioQ  de  differences  fur  contract 
!  et  toatB  diaorders  en  ceo  commie.    Yeiee  pluie  de  ceo." 

I  "  Fipowdere  is  a  Court  which  ie  incident  to  every  fair 

for  the  determination  of  differences  upon  bargains,  and 
all  disorders  committed  therein." 

I         Stephen,  in  his  Commentaries  [1880,  iii  321n], 
writes  of  these  courts  : — 

''There  are  other  courts  which,  though  not  aboliebed, 
he?e  6dlen  into  dienao.  There  are  the  Courts  of  Pied- 
pimdre  (enria  pedis  pulverizati),  so  called  from  the 
dnstj  feet  of  the  snitore,  which  is  a  Court  of  Record 
iaeident  to  every  fair  and  market;  of  which  the  Steward 
of  the  owner  of  the  market  is  the  Judge,  with  power 
to  adnmuster  justice  for  all  commercial  injuries  in  that 
ftir  or  market,  and  not  in  any  preceding  one.'* 

1  am  steward  of  the  manor  of  Lodden  Bacons, 
to  which  one  of  these  courts  is  reputed  to  be 
attached,  and  there  is  still  a  tenement  there,  now 
used  for  other  purposes,  known  as  the  '*  Lord's 
Oige,"  which  doubtless  was  formerly  used  for 
the  imprisonment  of  offenders  under  sentences  of 
this  court.  F.  Danbt  Palmer. 

Gieat  Yarmouth. 

The  Earliest  Iithabitants  of  Lancashire 
(«*  S.  iv.  148,  317).— It  may  possibly  interest 
jour  correspondent  to  be  informed  that  the  river 
tAoe  is  sometimes  locally  pronounced  Loyih.  I 
nmember  some  years  ago,  in  the  course  of  a  walk, 
keuing  a  native  dub  the  Crook  of  Lune,  not  far 
ftom  Lancaster,  "T"  Crewk  o'  Loyn.'* 

F.   G.  BiRKBBCE  TeRRT. 


British  Ststbu  of  Thermometers  (6^  S.  iii. 
507;  iv.  213).— Sgotus  quite  understates  the  case 
against  the  Fahrenheit  scale,  the  use  of  which 
strikingly  illustrates  the  tyranny  of  custom.  The 
centigntde  is  the  only  sensible  scale  in  use,  and 
that  may  be  improved  by  multiplying  its  divisions. 
It  will  be  seen  by  reference  to  the  Crardmer'i 
Magazine  of  Feb.  1, 1868,  that  I  have  carefully 
worked  out  a  millenial  scale  on  the  basis  of  the 
centigrade,  the  boiling  point  in  my  scale  beinjjc 
1000.  In  the  proposals  referred  to  I  adopted  100 
for  freezing,  but  I  should  prefer  now  to  make 
freezing  0,  and  boiling  a  full  1000  above  it. 

Shirley  Hibberd* 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6***  S.  v.  28). — 
A  Plain  and  Familiar  Explanation,  &c.    By  J.  A. 
Gower.  William  Platt. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted  (6**»  S. 
V.  28).— 

"  Biver,  riyer,  shining  river." 
This  is  the  first  line  of  a  poem  by  Caroline  Bowles,  who 
contributed  several  others  to  Blaektoood's  Magazine  under 
the  initial  C.  Hbbmbktbusb. 


mifcrllanfouf* 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 

Tmi  Ooam,  Uu  Supreme  Being  of  the  Hottentots,    Bv  Dr. 

Hahn,  Carator  of  the  Grey  Collection,  Cape  Town. 

(Triibner  &  Co.) 
This  little  book  should  be  read  by  all  students  of  my- 
thology. At  present  those  students  may  be  roughly 
divided  into  three  classes :  (1)  Believers  in  the  philo- 
logical method,  which  analyzes  the  meanings  of  names 
of  gods,  and  infers  that  the  strange  element  in  mythology 
is  the  result  of  unconscious  puns ;  (2)  followers  of  Mr. 
Herbert  Spencer,  who  ascribe  the  theory  that  nature  is 
animated  partly  to  forgetfulneas  of  the  application  of 
certain  nicKuames,  partly  to  other  causes ;  (o)  inquirers 
who  are  content  to  start  with  the  existing  savage  con- 
ceptions of  nature,  as  the  origin  of  much  that  is  odd  in 
mythology,  without  adopting  Mr.  Spencer's  theories  as 
to  how  the  savage  state  of  mind  was  produced.  All  these 
classes  will  be  interested  in  Dr.  Hahn's  attempt  to  prove 
that  two  supernatural  beings,  believed  to  be  ghosts  or 
spirits  of  dead  chiefs,  are  really  Dawn  and  Night,  and 
therefore  mean  the  Infinite.  Dr.  Hahn  has  by  no  means 
convinced  us  that  the  two  beings  were  ever  meant  for 
Dawn  and  Night :  his  philological  arguments  to  that 
effect  are  not  satisfactory.  Still,  whatever  the  origin  of 
the  conception  of  Tsui  Goab  and  his  enemy  Qaunab,  Dr. 
Hahn  has  collected  the  myths  and  religious  rites  con- 
nected with  them  in  a  very  careful  and  meritorious 
manner.  Unlike  most  philologists,  he  sees  that,  how- 
ever much  influence  language  has  had  on  thought^ 
and  so  on  myths,  manners  and  customs  have  also  ex- 
ercised a  very  powerful  effect.  Whether  Dr.  Hahn*s 
readers  do  or  do  not  accept  his  conclusions  depends 
a  good  deal  on  their  prepossessions  in  favour  of  one  or 
other  method  of  interpreting  myths ;  but  all  will  thank 
him  for  a  careful  and  scholarly  collection  of  facts. 

The   Correspondence   of  Rohert   Soulhey  and  Caroline 

Bowles.  Edited  by  KdwardDowden.   (Dublin,  Hodges^ 

Fiffiis  &  Co.) 

The  Dublin  University  Press  has  published  an  interest* 

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^ho  has  prefaced  it  with  a  graceful  memoir  of  Oaroline 
Bowles.  This  lady,  afterwards  the  second  Mrs.  Southey, 
pOBBOBsed  literary  talents  of  no  mean  order,  and  her 
letters  display  genuine  touches  of  humour.  Her  auto- 
biographical poem  TJu  Birthday,  published  in  1836, 
from  which  Prof.  Dowd«n  has  gatnered  the  materials  for 
Idi  pleasing  sketch  of  her  early  life,  suggests  to  him  a 
comparison  with  Cowper;  while  some  of  her  minor 
poeme,  such  as  The  Youvg  Grey  Head  and  The  Murder 
Olerif  obtain  for  her  the  title  of  the  "  Crabbe  of  modern 
poetesses."  To  the  general  public  she  is  best  known  for 
ner  ChapUrt  on  Churchyards,  sketches  of  rural  life 
in  prose  contributed  to  Blackwocd^t  MagoMrte,  Her 
portrait,  which  is  prefixed  to  the  Tolume,  is  photo- 

Sraphed  from  a  crayon  likeness  drawn  by  herself  for 
outhey.  The  face  is  that  of  a  refined^  sensitive,  some- 
what melancholy  woman,  though  a  certain  archness  of 
expression  suggests  that  to  her  intimate  friends  she 
would  have  been  an  amusing  and  agreeable  companion. 
In  1818  her  straitened. circumstances  impelled  her  to 
seek  an  income  by  her  pen.  Southey's  kindness  to  Kirke 
HVhite  encouraged  her  to  consult  him,  though  he  was  a 
total  stranger  to  her.  Thus  commenced  the  corre- 
spondence contained  in  this  volume,  covering  the  years 
1^18  to  1836,  and  an  acquaintance  which  ripened  into 
more  than  friendship  and  ultimafely  into  marriage. 
Southey  befriended  her,  introduced  her  to  publishers, 
suggested  titles  for  her  books,  such  as  Solitary  ffourt, 
and  subjects  for  her  verse,  such  as  The  Legend  of 
Santarem,  and  entered  into  a  partnership  with  her  to 
write  a  poem  on  Robin  Hood.  The  chief  interest  of  the 
volume  consists  in  the  scraps  of  literary  gossip,  the  inter- 
change of  ideas,  plans,  and  ambitions.  8ir  Walter  Scott, 
Mary  Wollstonecraft.  Landor,  Shelley,  Henry  Taylor,  nnd 
a  host  of  minor  celebrities  appear  in  these  pages.  Nor 
are  the  letters  without  interest  in  illustrating  the  political 
sentiments  of  persons  like  Southey  and  Miss  Bowles  at  a 
time  when  Liberalism  was  confounded  with  Jacobinism, 
and  the  premiership  of  Canning  was  regarded  as  the 
dawn  of  an  English  Age  of  Beason. 

JSngluh  Men  of  Letters,— Landor,  By  Sidney  Colvin. — 
De  Quincey,  By  David  Muson.  (Macmillan  &  Co.) 
In  the  admirable  little  paper  which  Addison  wrote  in  the 
Spectator  on  Pope's  Euay  on  Criticism  he  deprecates, 
.  and  wisely  deprecates,  that  praise  of  an  author  which  is 
built  on  the  dispraise  of  another,  and  he  guotes  some 
pertinent  lines  by  Denham  to  this  efifect.  But  without 
being  animated  in  the  present  instance  by  any  spirit  of 
detraction,  it  is  impossible  to  turn  the  pages  of  Prof. 
Cktlvin's  Landor  without  thinking  of  the  Life  by  Forster. 
We  have,  we  confess,  but  little  kindness  for  that  per- 
formance. But  for  the  friendly  zeal  which  prompted  its 
author  to  undertake  it,  the  world  might  have  been  the 
richer  by  his  completed  Life  of  Sw^t.  As  it  is,  the 
latter,  his  cherished  project,  remains  a  tantalizing  frag- 
ment, while  the  former  is  not  warmly  commended  even 
by  his  friends.  Like  the  new  quarried  marble,  it  no 
doubt  contains  the  possible  Landor,  but  it  has  been  re- 
served to  Prof.  Colvin  to  give  us  the  liberated  statue, 
freed  from  stony  encumbrances,  sharp  and  fresh  from 
the  chisel.  His  pen,  measured,  polished,  equable,  and 
sedulously  restrained,  presents  us  with  an  image  of  his 
subject  such  as  we  feel  instinctively  must  be  the  true  one 
when  constructed  by  so  careful  and  moderate  an  observer. 
His  book  is  one  which  is  pleasant  to  read,  but  one  also 
which  it  would  be  pleasanter  to  have  written.  Those 
who  know  Landor  chiefly  by  his  poetry  may  perhaps 
think  tliat  side  of  his  work  too  scantly  treated.  But  we 
are  inclined  to  believe  that  Prof.  Colvin's  sense  of  pro- 
portion has  tightly  served  him  in  this  matter,  and, 
personally,  we  are  obliged  to  him  for  having  quoted  with 


commendation  our  own  special  favourite  from  the  Hd^ 
lenics,  the  exquisite  and  faultless  ArtenUdora. 

Prof.  Masson's  book  is  of  a  dififerent  type,  but  of  equal 
interest.  His  work  is,  perhaps,  more  laborious  and  slow- 
moving,  less  fine  and  intuitive  than  that  of  the  Landor^ 
but  it  is  sterling  of  its  kind,  and  commands  a  respect 
which  qualities  less  genuine  and  weighty  would  fail  to 
secure.  He,  too,  hta  a  biography  behind  him,  the  Life^ 
of  De  Quincey,  by  Mr.  H.  A.  Page  (is  it  not  an  open 
secret  that  the  writer  of  this  standard  book  is  Dr.  A.  H. 
Japp  ?) ;  but  he  has  been  able  to  supplement  it  in  a  very 
important  wa^  by  personal  reminiscences,  and  to  throw 
upon  it  the  light  of  a  thorough  familiarity  with  the 
scenes  in  which  De  Quincey  spent  the  last  years  of  his 
life.  For  the  rest,  is  not  rrof.  Masson  the  author  of 
a  dozen  well-known  works  on  English  literature  which 
are  better  testimonies  to  his  powers  than  any  praise  of 
ours  1  We  need  only  add,  in  recommending  both  these 
new  volumes  of  this  capital  series  to  our  readers,  that 
they  have  special  claims  upon  them,  in  that  they  treat  of 
men  of  very  marked  and  exceptional  individuality. 

Mound  (he  Tule  Log :  Norve(/ian  Folk  and  Fairy  Tales, 
By  P.  Chr.  Asbjornsen.  Translated  by  H.  L.  Brsek- 
stad.  With  an  Introduction  by  Edmund  W.  Gosse. 
(Sampson  Low  &  Co.) 
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he  appears  to  have  the  secret,  Mr.  Gosse  gives  us  a  brief 
but  sufficient  account  of  Asbjornsen  and  his  friend  Jor- 
gen  Moe,  to  whose  joint  labours  this  delightful  collection 
of  fairy  tales  is  due,  although  the  lion's  share  of  the  work 
belongs  to  the  farmer.  Of  the  stories  themselves  we  will 
only  say  that  if  this  notice  of  them  is  somewhat  tardy,  it 
is  simply  owing  to  their  extreme  popularity  in  the  writer^s 
household,  where  they  were  eagerly  appropriated  and  as 
eagerly  devoured.  The  illustrations,  wnich  appear  to  be 
by  Scandinavian  artists,  are  often  very  humorous  and 
sometimes  excellent  as  works  of  art. 


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CONTENTS.— N«  110. 


NOTES :— TIm  UYmxj  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge*  81» 
The  Ma  CoUeeUons  of  the  late  Bev.  It.  W.  Eyton,  82— 
LioeoliuhiT«  Field-Names.  83— *'Scnitln  de  Licte"  and 
"Semtin  d' Axroodissement "  —  The  Character  of  Wll- 
lisBB  II  f.,  84— An  Unknown  Tndor—False  Portraits  of 
Pnbltc  Chaimctexs-PrincesMS  of  Wales—"  Wlgeon,"  86— 
Bdtiih  Mnieam  Reading  Room— To  Bnsiock- A  Belle  of 
the  Irish  Parliament— A  Jemperanoe  Library— The  Philo- 
kgieal  Soclety'h  New  English  Dictionary.  8e. 

QUEKIBS :— TaroU,  86— Baoon  Family  —  Morland  Arms— 
"Sydney."  Ac— 7th  Dragoons— Lord  Mansfield— Bebellion 
of  1745— Coat  of  Arms— Newton  Families,  87—"  Acreme  " 
—"Agitate."  Ac  —Forfeiture  of  Goods  for  Polygamy— Dido 
—The  Deril's  Punchbowl  — C.  Ashbnm— "Much"  and 
•'Great-  — Sparrow    Family— " Malte    money"— Sir    W. 

r  Hedges,  8S-Bp.  Gibson— Albert  Smith— Authors  Wanted, 
89. 

BEPLIE3:— "At  Bay," 89-Peers  signing  their  Surnames, 
SO— Lord  Httssey  and  the  Lincolnshire  Rebellion— Arms  of 
Colonial  Bishops— Lord  Brlttas-"Chuck"— "DeclC*  of 
Cards  — Fishing  Proverbs.  91  — Boufflgnae  Family— Hook 
Fsmi]^— Marrisge  between  the  EngUsh  and  Irish— Charing. 
Kent,  9i— Watte's  **  Divine  Songs  "  — Spiders— W.  Shen- 
stone— ColFee :  Fontenelle  or  VolUireT— "There  let  Thy 
Berrant  be."  93— Penny  Post— Tablet  to  a  RiDger— *'  All 
opon,"  AcL— Poll  Books—"  Come  across  "— "  Howard.;*  94— 
Patience,  a  Man's  Name— Oxford=iBhedydna— Sanctus  Bell 
Cotes— Easter  Eggs— Epigram  on  the  Burser  of  St.  John's, 
fl6— Bood  Screens— "Sepulchre"  in  Churches— " The  grey 
mare.*  *a— "  Cbeyne  •'— The  Hallywells— "  For  Frald"— 
"  Conosdnim ,"  96  —  Kert — Wray ^UdaU— "  Too  too  "—A 
ParaUelJam,  97— Moseum  Beading  Boom— "  Imitation  of 
GbiiBt'*— J.  Worthlngton— Wife  Selling— "Man  proposes," 
Ac.  98—**  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man  "—Authors  Wanted,  99. 

K0T£9  ON  BOOKS:— Gardiner s  *'Fall  of  the  Monarchy  of 
Cfaailcs  L.  1637-1649  "—The  "Beligio  Medici  "-Minor's 
•  Mnrlllo  *— Mollett's  "  Meissonler  "— ''  Letters  of  Charles 


THE  LIBBAET  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE, 
CAMBRIDGE. 
{Continued  from  &^  S.  ir.  484.) 
ObSj  a  few  yeais  later  than  Mentz  in  its  recog- 
nition of  the  new  art  comes  Strasburg,  where  we 
find  John  Mentelin  established  as  a  printer  as 
early  as  1460.  Of  his  work  the  only  specimen 
here  is  the  Etymologia  of  Isidore  of  Seville,  a  large 
thin  folio.  About  Uie  year  1472  a  certain  printer 
curled  on  his  trade  at  Strasbarg,  and  issued  books 
in  a  rotind  Boman  t7pe,  similar  to,  bat  not  iden- 
tical with,  those  of  Mentelin.  Who  he  was,  is,  so 
far  as  I  am  aware,  anknown,  and  the  peculiar  form 
of  his  capital  letter  R  has  suggested  the  name  by 
which  he  is  generally  known,  "the  B  printer.'' 
Of  his  printing  are  a  sturdy  pair  of  huge  folio 
Tolumes  of  the  Latin  translation  of  Plutarch's 
Liceif  still  in  the  original  binding ;  the  Epistles 
of  Seneca,  and  the  Vsdaraiio  Vakrii  Maximi  of 
Dion,  de  Borgo.  Another  early  and  famous  Stras- 
barg printer,  Henry  E^gestein,  is  represented  by 
an  ^ition  of  Gratum's  Decretum,  of  Cicero's  Offida 
<i  Faradoxoy  both  of  1472  ;  and  by  Bede's  Eccle^ 
naaiical  History  and  Ludolph  Ds  Terra  Sancta 
€t  iHnere  Hierosolymitano,  both  undated,  but  of 
ahoBt  the  year  1473. 


A  few  other  books  printed  at  Strasburg  by 
yarious  hands  may  also  be  notioedl  I  single  out 
the  great  Latin  Bible,  with  the  glosses  of  Wala- 
frid  Strabo  and  Anselm  Laudunensis.  A  curious 
point  in  connexion  with  this  Bible  is,  that  for  a 
long  time  it  was  referred  to  the  press  of  John  de 
Amerbadi  at  Basle,  drca  1490.  There  has  comd 
to  light,  howeyer,  a  congratulaiy  Latin  poem, 
addressed  to  'Adolph  Rusch  (who  was  son-in-law 
of  John  Mentelin  and  himself  a  printer)  on  the 
publication  of  a  Bible,  which  is  certainly  the 
present  edition.  The  poem  itself  and  the  cir- 
cumstances of  its  discovery  are  given  in  the 
Serapeum  (Nos.  9  and  15).  An  edition  of 
Persius  may  also  be  named,  which  has  neither 
place  nor  date  of  printing  nor  printer's  name,  but 
which  appears  to  have  been  printed  by  Martin 
Flach  about  1472.  This  is  considered  by  some  to 
be  the  editio  princeps  of  Persius,  because  of  the 
claim  put  forward  in  the  subscription,  '*  Explicit 
ignotus  per  totum  Persius  orbem,"  though  others 
give  the  preference  to  the  edition  without  date 
printed  at  Rome  by  Udalric  Hahn.  Lastly  come 
several  of  the  productions  of  Job.  Qruninger^s 
press,  with  curious  woodcuts,— the  Fanegyrid  of 
Locher,  addressed  to  the  Emperor  Maximilian 
(1497);  the  works  of  Horace,  with  the  notes  of 
Locher  (1498) ;  the  miscellaneous  poems  of  Sebas- 
tian Brant  (1498),  the  author  of  the  well-known 
Stultifera  Navis,  and  the  (six)  comedies  of  Terence, 
with  interlinear  and  other  glosses  (1499).  Speci- 
mens of  tiie  woodcuts  in  the  aeoond  and  fourth  of 
the  above-named  works  are  given  by  Dibdin  in 
his  Bihliotheca  Spenceriana  (ii.  87,  426). 

The  town  which  ranks  next  in  order  of  pre- 
cedence of  printing  is  Cologne,  where  the  art  was 
practised  in  1466.  Of  its  proto-typographer, 
Uiric  Zell,  the  library  possesses  a  fair  number  of 
specimens,  all  undated,  but  to  be  referred  to 
about  the  year  1470 ;  eg.,  St  Augustine  De  Disr 
ciplina  Christiana,  St.  Bernard  De  Planctu 
Beaim  Marios,  and  the  letters  of  that  new  "  plus 
iEaeas,"  Pope  Pius  II.,  "ad  Mahumetem  prin- 
cipem  Turcorum."  About  this  time  there  was 
also  carrying  on  business  at  Cologne  another 
printer,  whose  name  is  unknown,  the  products  of 
whose  press,  while  in  type  almost  identical  with 
that  of  Ulric  Zell,  present  typographical  charac- 
teristics and  modes  of  working  quite  distinct  from 
his.  This  unknown  printer  I  follow  Mr.  Brad- 
shaw  in  calling  the  "  printer  of  the  Historia  8. 
Albania**  that  particular  work  being  taken  both 
as  being  the  commonest  of  the  products  of  this 
press  and  also  because  it  runs  no  risk  of  being 
confused  with  other  editions  more  or  less  like  it. 
Of  this  printer  the  libraiy  possesses  St.  Jerome's 
Ordo  sive  Begula  Vivendi  Deo,  the  only  other  copy 
of  which  known  to  me  is  that  in  the  Bodleian ; 
St.  Augustine's  Sermo  super  Orationem  Domv- 
nicam,  &c.;  and  Mapheus  Yegius,  Dialogus  inter 


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A  Zi^tam  et  ThUaXiXm.  Of  another  printer,  whose 
name  is  nnknown,  but  who  may  be  defined  aa  the 
"printer  of  IM'^i  Cretemia,*'  we  possess  a  work 
01  which  I  know  no  copy  bat  onr  own,  Pope 
Paul  II.'s  LiiUrcB  Apatoliecs  de  PublicaUone  anni 
JubUcBi,  1475,  printed  after  April  19,  1470,  the 
date  of  the  letter.  One  more  Cologne  book  mast 
Boffice,  the  carioas  ohronides  of  Cologne,  with 
qaaint  woodcats,  printed  by  Joh.  Eoelhoff  in 
1499,  "  np  sent  Bartholomeos  arent." 

We  now  pass  to  Aagsborg^  where  printing  was 
first  practised  in  1468  by  Giinther  Zainer  of 
Beutlingen.  Of  this  printer  we  possess  a  collec- 
tion of  minor  work  of  St.  Jerome  and  oUiers, 
beginning  with  the  D$  VirU  Illwtrihtu,  appa- 
rently pnnted  aboat  1470  ;  and  the  EtymologuB 
and  De  Eesponsione  Mundi  of  Isidore  of  Seville, 
both  printed  in  1472.  It  is  perhaps  worth  men*- 
tioning,  as  bebg  a  thbg  which  I  have  not  often 
noticed,  that  in  the  case  of  the  first  of  the  above 
three  works,  one  of  the  two  copies  has  a  list  of 
the  various  opvscula  contained  in  the  volume  on 
a  small  leaf  fastened  on  the  inside  of  Uie  con- 
temporaneous binding,  and  printed  in  the  same 
type  as  the  body  of  the  work.  A  book  of  con- 
siaerable  interest  is  the  old  G^erman  version  of 
the  histoiy  of  Jotaphat  and  Barlaam,  the 
original  Qreek  text  of  which  is  often  ascribed  to 
Joh.  Damascenus.  Of  the  German  version  there 
were  two  early  editions  printed  at  Augsburg,  one 
by  Qiinther  Zainer  about  1477,  and  a  second  by 
Ant  Sorg  about  1480.  The  latter,  which  is  that 
in  the  library,  very  closely  resembles  the  former, 
but  has  smaller  woodcuts.  Of  Ant.  Sorg's  press 
we  also  possess  Die  Hystori  von  dem  Oroisen 
AlUxander  (1463,  "  an  mitwooh  naohst  von  Sant 
Anthoni"),  which  is  a  translation  by  Joh.  Hartiieb 
firom  the  Latin  of  Julius  Valerius,  which,  in  its 
turn,  is  a  translation  from  the  Greek  of  a  certain 
.^!sopu8,  first  published  by  Miiller  in  his  edition 
of  Arrian.  There  are,  further,  a  considerable 
number  of  books  printed  by  Erhard  Batdolt 
This  printer,  a  native  of  Augsburg,  had  carried 
on  his  trade  for  some  years  at  Venice,  his  spe- 
ciality being  mainly  works  of  an  astronomical  and 
astrological  character.  Subsequently  he  returned 
to  his  native  place,  and  there  printed  a  large 
number  of  works  of  a  similar  character. 

A  book  printed  at  Ulm  deserves  notice,  the 
stately  edition  of  the  Coimographia  of  Ptolemy, 
printed  by  Leon.  Hoi  in  1482,  containing  thirty- 
two  maps.  These,  which  were  engraved  by  Joh. 
Schnitzer  de  Armszheim,  under  the  superintend- 
ence of  Kio.  Bonis,  are  woodcuts,  and,  with  one 
exception,  fill  up  each  the  inner  side  of  a  whole 
sheet.  The  little  town  of  Munster  in  Ergau, 
otherwise  known  by  its  Latin  name  Berona,  gives 
us  the  work  of  Oonrad  Thuricensis  De  Comeiie, 
printed  by  Helyas  de  Louffen  about  1472. 

To  Nuremberg,  '^quaint  old  town  of  art  and 


song,*  redolent  with  memories  of  Albert  Diirer 
and  Hans  Sachs,  are  to  be  referred  a  considerable 
number  of  our  early  printed  books.  It  mnsi 
suffice,  however,  to  mention  one  or  two.  A  pre- 
cious book  is  the  SchcUsbehalUTf  oder  8€hrein  der 
warm  Eeuhtiimer  des  EeiU,  printed  by  Ani 
Eoberger  (a  man  with  looser  views  as  to  the  spell- 
ing of  his  own  name  than  most  early  printers)  in 
1491,  and  containing  numerous  woodcuts  by 
Michael  Wohlgemuth,  the  master  of  Albert  Diirer, 
A  more  generally  known  work,  however,  in  which 
the  same  artist  (aided  by  Will.  Pleydenwurff)  has 

S'ven  us  over  2,000  woodcuts,  is  the  famona 
'uremberg  Ckronide  of  Hartman  Sohedel,  printed 
by  the  same  printer  in  1493.  Of  Nuremberg 
books  I  will  further  mention  two  of  those  printed 
by  Joh.  Miiller,  better  known  as  Begiomontanus, 
from  having  been  bom  near  to  Eonigsberg.  This 
celebrated  astronomer  had  opened  a  printing  press 
in  Nuremberg,  probably  in  1471,  and  of  this  presa 
we  possess  two  specimens,  both  thin  folios,  printed 
in  Bbman  type,  without  printed  signatures,  the 
TheoriccB  Nova  Planetarum  of  Geo.  Purbacb,  the 
iustructor  of  Begiomontanus,  and  the  Dialogue 
inter  Viennensem  et  Craeovieneem.  The  latter 
of  these  has  a  further  interest,  in  that  on 
the  verso  of  the  first  leaf  the  Greek  words  (upojir 
icnjfiepiviov  are  filled  in  byhand,  doubtless  by 
Besiomontanus  himself. 

The  town  of  Spires  contributes  a  book  of  some 
degree  of  rarity,  Bern,  de  Breydenbach's  OptLi* 
culum  Sanctarum  Peregrinaiumum  in  MovUsm 
Syon,  printed  by  Peter  Drach  in  1490  ;  and  Lau- 
gingen  a  copy  of  its  one  known  ineunabidum^ 
Augustine  De  Consentu  Evangelittarum,  Th» 
book  was  printed  '*In  civitate  Laugmgen,"  in 
1473,  and  the  next  in  order  of  time  that  is  known 
is  of  the  year  1565.  It  is  reasonable  to  suppose 
the  first  book  to  have  been  the  work  of  traveUing^ 
printers,  on  their  way  from  one  town  to  another, 
with  all  their  impedimenta  with  them,  who  had 
utilized  their  stay  at  Laugingen  by  printing  a 
respectable  folio  of  108  leaves.  Whether  Uiis  be 
so  or  no,  the  name  of  the  printer  is  as  yet  alto* 
gather  unknown.  B.  Sdikkb. 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

{To  he  cofUiniud,) 


THE  MS.  COLLECTIONS  OP  THE  LATE 
REV.  R.  W.  EYTON. 
These  MS.  collections  are  to  be  sold  by  auction 
in  the  spring,  unless  in  the  meanwhile  the  whole 
collection  is  purchased  by  some  public  library. 
They  contain  the  labours  of  the  lifetime  of  the 
greatest  antiquary  of  our  time,  and  it  would  be  a 
great  pity  that  they  should  be  dispersed,  beoaaae 
the  volumes  are  full  of  cross  references,  and  in  re- 
ferring to  a  charter  Mr.  Eyton  usually  referred  to 
his  own  abstract  or  note  of  it  rather  than  to  the 


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▼olame  in  which  it  is  printed.  The  minateness 
and  accQiaey  with  which  hie  proofs  are  worked 
oot  can  only  be  realized  by  those  who  are  familiar 
with  the  method  employed  in  his  Domesday 
stodies  of  Somerset  and  Donet  Amongst  the 
most  important  MSS.,  of  which  no  part  has  been 
printed,  are  five  qoarto  rolumes  containing  a 
digest  and  analysis  of  the  Domesday  surrey  of 
Lineoloshire,  with  a  history  of  each  fief  and  its 
BUOcesaiTe  owners,  so  far  as  they  can  be  gathered 
-from  the  pablic  records.  Lincolnshire  is  still  with- 
oat  a  county  histoiy,  and  these  MS3.  contain 
materials  for  compiling  a  complete  parochial  his- 
tory from  1186  to  1243.  The  Domesday  studies 
•of  Derbyshire  and  Hampshire  are  imperfect  and 
incomplete  ;  but  MS.  xlii.  will  be  found  of  price- 
leas  Tidue  to  Domesday  students.  Amongst  other 
various  learning,  the  judicial  system  of  the  Anglo- 
Norman  kings  is  iUustrated  by  an  exposition  of 
the  different  stages  of  a  lawsuit  between  Wulstan, 
Bishop  of  Worcester,  and  Walter,  Abbot  of  Eves- 
liam,  which  was  settled  in  1086  in  the  presence  of 
tlw  Domesday  commissioners,  then  on  their  cir- 
ooit,  by  an  agreement  between  the  litigants,  ana- 
logous to  the  final  concord  of  a  later  period.  He 
goes  on  to  prove  from  internal  eyidence  how  many 
^eeta  of  comnussioners  conducted  the  great  survey, 
which  counties  were  surveyed  by  the  same  set, 
and  how  Bishop  Odo's  immense  estates  were  dealt 
with  after  his  disgrace. 

The  whole  collection  fills  some  fifty  volumes, 
written  in  a  character  so  minute  and  precise 
4hat  many  readers  will  require  a  magnifying 
glass.  His  MS.  voL  vi.  is  in  itself  a  monument 
<>t  patient  ingenuity,  for  he  examines  in  it  all 
the  undated  charters  of  the  Anglo-Norman  kings 
piinted  in  the  M<m(uticon  and  the  ChronieU 
■of  Abingdon^  and  he  assigns  to  each  charter  its 
tnie  date,  with  a  full  statement  of  his  reason 
ior  fixing  such  date.  The  value  of  this  volume 
for  genealogical  purposes  can  scarcely  be  over- 
estimated, and  this  compilation  explains  his 
iamiiiar  knowledge  of  the  early  baronage,  which  is 
«o  conspicuous  a  feature  in  The  Antiquities  of 
Shropshire,  Baronial  genealogy  was  Mr.  Eyton's 
strong  point,  and  his  MSS.  include  many  volumes 
•ol  p^igrees.  Amongst  them  are  four  folios,  in* 
which  Dugdale's  version  is  copied  on  one  side  in 
tabular  form,  whilst  the  opposite  page  is  full  of 
corrections,  with  proofs  and  illustrations  from 
ebsrters  and  records.  He  himself  set  great  store 
on  this  collection  of  pedigrees,  and  when  his 
failing  health  warned  him  that  his  work  was  done, 
he  determined  to  sell  his  genealogical  collections. 
With  this  view  he  began  a  rough  list  of  the  con- 
tents of  his  favourite  volumes,  to  which  the  follow- 
ing statement  was  intended  to  be  prefixed.  The 
last  utterance  of  this  great  genealogist  will  be  read 
with  mooxnfttl  interest  by  all  those  who  appreciated 


'' COLLSCTIONS  FOR  A  BARONAGE  OF  BNaLAVD. 

"  Long  since  an  urgent  necessity  dawned  upon, 
and  occupied  the  minds  of,  historians,  and  of  that 
more  advanced  class  of  English  antiquaries  which 
recognized  as  its  own  chief  function  and  duty 
that  the  historian  should  be  timely  supplied  with 
the  nobler  details  of  his  meditated  panorama. 
If  we  may  judge  from  occasional  but  unvarying 
tokens  of  opinion,  nearly  as  much  as  from  down- 
right expressions  of  this  antiquarian  view,  the 
holders  and  more  or  less  avowed  advocates  thereof 
have  been  the  late  Thomas  Stapleton,  Esq.^  the 
late  Sir  Harris  Nicolas,  the  late  John  Gongh 
Nichols,  Esq.,  and  the  living,  and,  we  will  trust, 
long  to  live,  Edmond  Ohester  Waters,  Esq. 

<*  But  though  all  of  these  and  many  others,  anti- 
quaries of  repute,  have  left  their  quotas  in  aid  of 
the  work  of  the  future  Ulysses,  Ulysses  himself, 
the  bender  of  the  bow,  the  right  heir  of  immortal 
Dugdale,  has  not  appeared  upon  the  scene,  has 
not  even  hinted  that,  when  called  upon,  he  will 
essay  the  noble  enterprise. 

'*Thefollowingcollections  were  commenced  years 
ago,  with  the  ulterior  hope  that  they  might  some 
day  become  available  for  a  baronage  of  England 
worthy  of  the  greatness  of  the  subject  and  of  the 
literary  heritage  of  Sir  William  Dugdale.  The 
day  will  assuredly  arrive  when  this  great  work 
wiU  be  achieved,  and  it  is  hoped  that  the  barona- 
gian  of  the  future  will  find  something  in  these 
volumes  to  assist  his  progress  and  abridge  his 
labour.— R.  W.  E.'' 


LINCOLNSHIRE  FIELD-NAMES. 
The  following  are  the  names  of  places  in  the 
parish  of  Alkboro,  as  they  occur  in  a  document 
relating  to  Spalding  Priory,  bearing  date  some- 
where about  1280  :— 

Crofto. 

EMt  Oroft. 

Eait  die. 

Wert  die. 

East  LoBkhou.  ,  , 

Loskhou  dale.— This  name,  like  the  crofts  and  the  dies, 
or  dykes,  is  still  retained,  though  now  written  as 
Loscar. 

Kirkdale. 

Litelikedole. 

Follet  uppe  dale. 

Ounhilldale  Dilfield. 

Northermedholm.— Written  in  nil  maps  and  plans  as 
North  Midlands,  but  always  called  by  the  old  people 
Norrermeddum. 

Southermedholm. 

Portermodholm. 

Hollcfleet.— As  early  as  1231  mention  is  made  of  the 
fishery  at  Hollfleet  or  Holmfleet:  "Ibidem  est  situs 
unius  PiscarisB  qui  vocatur  Hulflet,  et  solebat  reddere 
duas  horas."  From  this  date  to  1649  this  fisheir  is 
frequently  mentioned.  The  name  is  now  totally  lost, 
but  in  the  map  made  out  by  the  Enelosure  Com- 
missioners in  1765  Holmfleet  Close  is  shown  as  an  old 
enclosure  by  the  Trent. 


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StockwellgAtf,  Frutwellgate,  Clifgate,  Witengate,  Hal- 
tongate. — Five  rofids:  the  finit  three  are  not  rery 
understandable.  Halton  and  Whitton  are,  howeyer, 
two  neiKlibouring  Tillages. 

Gate  of  the  Green. — In  this  same  document  mention  is 
made  of  Everard  of  the  Green,  Geoffrey  of  the  Green, 
William,  son  of  Everard  of  the  Green  and  Amicia  his 
wife. 

8tookwell. 

8tockwell  headland. 

Elisheadland. 

Peseland. — Meaning  mvch  the  same  as  the  name  Pease- 
howe,  giren  by  Mb.  Peacock. 

Longpeaseland. 

Longiands. 

Wionglands. 

Westland. 

Harland. 

Hildlands.— I  should  like  to  know  the  probable  meaning 
of  Hildlands. 

Land  of  the  Nucs  of  GokewelL 

Land  of  Helias. 

Land  of  the  Countess. 

Land  of  Hithome. 

Landof  JolIePote. 

Land  of  Hitun. 

Nithwell. 

Welldre. 

Well  hill. 

Stainbill. 

Elarpills. 

Swetfores. 

Thurefores. 

Hon. 

Houham. 

Graft. 

Stechtaf.— Certain  land  is  spoken  of  as  on  rtechtai, 
meaning,  I  suppose,  on  the  ridges. 

Stethe.— Land  above  stethe.  showing  there  was  below 
Alkboro  a  stather,  or  landing-place,  as  there  now  is  at 
the  next  Tillage,  Burton. 

Ermitshous. 

The  Wood. 

Ad  Capitem  de  Cursore.— It  seems  impossible  to  explain 
in  English  that  which  ii  apparently  such  a  wretched 
attempt  at  Latin. 

Hetisfurlong. 

Witebeche. 

Walcotbec. 

Walcothirne. 

]tf  ethlinghirne.»Does  this  name  mean  "  drinking  comer**  ? 
The  followlDg,  from  old  snrTeys  and  title  deeds, 

refer  almost  entirely  to  Walcot,  a  hamlet  of  Alk- 
boro.    I  jriTe  them  as  I  find  them  under  their 

respectiTe  dates  :— 

AOhoro,  1325.— Borrowdaile,  Havedland. 

Walcotf  1898.— ChaTshoe.  Bursbec,  DaTeRgrime,  HaTcr- 
dale  (still  so  called),  Waytfurlong,  Langland,  Haithby, 
Scamblands  (now  called  Scambtins).  Brathgate. 

Waleot,  1697.— Norbeck  Clofe,  HaTerdale  Botham,  Great 
Furr  Close,  Middle  lutack.  Nether  lutack,  Wypedale 
Leyes. 

Walcotf  1612.— Wypedales. 

WcUeol,  1629.~Chappell  Garth  (a  chapel  with  a  burying- 
ground  was  made  in  Walcot  in  1147,  but  as  yet  I  am 
unable  to  say  where  it  stood  or  how  long),  Hareby 
Close  (rame  as  Haithby ;  the  name  Hareby  still  con- 
tinues), Westcroft  (still  eo  called). 

WaUot,  1647.— Noddicrofr,  Jackion  dales,  Eastflisld, 
HarebT  Close,  Westcrort  (all  fiTc  still  so  called), 
Scamblands,  Lawood,  Sandfield,  Wypedale. 


Waleot,  1658— Noddicroft,  Westcroft, Tupp  Close, Great 
Hareby,  Little  Hareby.  Scamblands,  Willow  bee.  The 
Lawns,  Jackson  Dale,  Wheat  Close,  East  Field,  Sand- 
field,  Sawers  Close,  Cooper's  Close,  Fisbgarth  in  the 
Trent. 

J.  GouLTON  Constable. 

Walcot,  Brigg. 

[For  former  lists  of  Lincolnshire  Field  Names,  see 
"  N.  &  Q.,*'  6th  s.  iii.  104,  206,  4S6;  It.  423.] 


"SCRUTIN  DB  LISTE"aND  **  ScRUTIN  d'ARRON- 

DIS8SMBNT." — These  two  systems  of  eleotion  are  at 
present  the  subject  of  much  coDtroversy,  and  as  in 
England  they  do  not  seem  to  be  generally  under- 
stood, a  short  explanation  may  be  interesting  to 
some  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 

France  is  divided  into  eighty-six  d^partements^ 
each  of  which  contains  a  certain  number  of  arron- 
dissements  or  electoral  districts.  Every  arrondisse- 
ment  returns  one  member  to  the  Chambre  do 
D^put^,  so  that  a  d^partement  returns  as  many 
members  as  it  contains  electoral  districts.  Paris, 
the  D^partement  de  la  Seine,  consists  of  sixteen 
arrondissements,  and  returns  sixCeen  members  to 
the  Chambre  de  D6put^,  each  member  being 
elected  by  a  separate  arrondissement.  This  is  the 
present  system  of  elections  in  France,  and  it  is 
called  '*  scrutin  d'arrondissement.'' 

By  the  riyal  system,  *'  scrutin  de  liste,"  whicli  "ML 
Gambetta  was  anxious  to  introduce,  each  d^parte- 
ment  would  return,  as  at  present,  as  many  members 
as  it  contains  electoral  districts!,  but  they  would 
be  elected,  not  by  the  separate  arrondissements^ 
but  by  the  whole  d^partement.  In  Paris,  which 
contains  sixteen  districts,  every  elector  would  have 
the  right  to  vote  for  sixteen  candidates,  whose 
names  he  would  inscribe  on  a  list,  to  be  deposited 
in  the  electoral  urn.  From  this  the  system  is 
called  '*  scrutin  de  liste." 

Without  entering  into  any  discussion  on  the> 
merits  of  the  two  systems,  it  may  be  well  to  show 
what  would  be  the  principal  results  of  the- 
adoption  of  "scrutin  deliste":  personal  infliience,. 
except  in  the  case  of  candidates  of  great  eminence,, 
would  be  of  little  avail ;  personal  canvassing 
would  be  almost  impossible;  and  electoral  com* 
mittees,  Ghunbettist,  Radical,  Legitimist,  Im- 
perialist, &c.,  would  be  formed,  which  would  wield 
the  chief  power  at  elections.  F.  G. 

The  Charactsr  of  Kivq  Williax  III.  as  a 
Husband. — The  attacks  so  persistently  made  (as 
in  the  Quarterly  Review,  1849,  and  in  Miss  Strick- 
land's Queens)  upon  the  personal  character  of  our 
great  deliverer  are  too  evidently  inspired  by 
political  or  theological  feeling  to  give  us  much 
concern.  When  the  gossiping  lady  speaks  of 
William  of  Nassau  as  a  "mannikin,''  we  can 
afford  to  smile  at  the  venom.  But  many  who  do 
not  look,  with  Dr.  Pusey,  on  the  Revolution  of 
1688  as  "a sin,"  nor  upon  t^ /monarch  as  » 
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nniTper,  appear  to  have  no  doubt  of  his  conjugal 
infidelity.  I  wish,  therefore,  to  call  attention  to 
a  earioas  little  book  (1705),  in  which  his  character 
not  merely  as  a  man  of  aerioas  and  undissembled 
piety,  bnt  more  especially  as  a  husband,  is 
portrayed  at  length.  After  mention  of  his  court- 
shin,  marriage  solemnities,  &a,  it  is  said,  "  King 
Wuliam  has  professed  to  an  eminent  prelate  who 
is  Btill  living  [Burnet  ?]  that  for  the  seventeen 
years  he  was  married  to  her  he  could  never  see 
anything  in  her  which   he    could  call  a  fault. 

He  was  very  true  to  the  marriage-bed  ;  and 

after  the  queen's  death  he  was  still  in  love  with 
her  memory."  When  urged  to  marry  again,  he 
answered,  with  concern,  "What !  have  the  people 
foigot  Mary  so  soon  ?.  Well,  if  they  have,  I  have 
not.''  Hb  never  failed  to  observe  the  day  of  her 
death  '*in  retirement,  meditation,  and  prayer. 
The  ring  with  which  he  wedded  her  was  found 
hanging  by  a  black  ribbon  to  his  arm  after  he 
WIS  dead." 

I  give  the  title-page  in  full : — 

"The  Boyal  Diary;  oontainiofl:  I.  King  TTilUam's 
leeret  devotioD.  II.  His  practice  of  self-^zamination. 
IIL  His  performance  of  relative  dutiei.  lY.  Enqairiei 
ioto  the  state  of  bis  soul.  V.  Religioas  Conferences. 
YI.  Table  Talk.  YII.  Occasional  Speeches.  YIII. 
The  private  minutes  relatioe  to  his  last  sickness.  Part 
of  the  Diary  was  written  by  King  William,  and  found 
smongst  his  papers  since  his  death.  The  third  Edition. 
To  which  is  prefizt  the  Character  of  his  Royal  Consort, 
Queen  Mary  II.,  with  her  memorable  Speeches  and  Say- 
ings, from  her  Childhood  to  the  time  of  her  death. 
London,  printed  for  John  Marshall,  at  the  Bible  in 
Giace-Chnrch-Street,  mdoov." 

I  should  be  glad  to  know  who  was  the  compiler 
of  this  little  book ;  and  also  whether,  as  to  the 
psrticular  point  to  which  I  have  referred,  there  is 
Kkj  irushoarthy  evidence  to  the  contrary.  Mere 
gonip  and  party  pamphlets  are  not  to  be  relied  on. 

G.  L.  F. 

SukBemo. 

P.SL— I  observe  in  Lowndes,  *^  The  Royal 
Diary,  or  King  WiLlianCs  InUricr  Portraiture 
London,  no  date.**    Was  this  the  first  edition  7 

A  Tudor  afparbntlt  unknowk  to  Gbnea- 
u>oi8Ts.— Owen  Tudor,  who  married  Eatherine  of 
France,  widow  of  Henry  V.,  is  ordinarily  under- 
■teod  to  have  left  two  sons—Edmund,  father  of 
Henry  VII.,  and  Jasper,  afterwards  Duke  of 
Bedford.  But  the  archives  of  King's  College, 
Cambridge,  give  ns  information  of  another  Jasper, 
whose  existence  has  been  unsuspected,  and  whose 
name  was  probably  taken  by  a  yonnger  brother.  In 
1449  the  account  of  the  college  gives  the  following 
items :  «  Ezpensse  pro  Jasper,  6L  7«.  ajd.";  "  Four 
Tvds  of  cloth  for  Jasper,  16a."  But  in  1456  the 
Meoont  of  the  same  college  has  this  entiy :  "  Obla- 
tioaes  pro  obitu  Jasper  fratris  Henrici  regis, 
Bi.  fid"  The  founder  of  King's  had  plainly  charged 
his  ei^ege  with  the  maintenance  and  education  of 


Owen  Tudor's  second  son.    There  is  a  story  that 
Stephen  Gardiner,  the  famous  Bishop  of  Win- 
chester, was  the  son  of  Helen,  a  daughter  of  Owen  * 
Tudor.     If  there  be  any  truth  in  this  statement, 
he  was  a  first  cousin  of  Henry  YII. 

Jahes  £.  Thorold  Boosrs. 
Oxford. 

[See  "N.&Q.,"6«hS.  1.152.] 

False  Portraits  of  Public  Characters. — 
Some  months  since  a  correspondent  mentioned  in 
*'  N.  &  Q."  the  fact,  which  the  print  in  my  own 
collection  confirms,  that  a  small  portrait  of  the 
gentle  Sir  Joshua  Reynolds  was  palmed  off  upon 
the  public  as  a  likeness  of  Renwick  Williams,  the 
"Monster."  Several  instances  of  even  greater 
impudence  might  be  cited.  Thus,  in  1760,  the 
publisher  of  the  Naval  Chronicle  (F.  Fuller),  being 
at  a  loss  for  an  authentic  portrait  of  Commodore 
Howe,  had  a  print  of  the  atrocious  Capt.  William 
Henry  Cranstoun,  who  persuaded  Miss  Marr 
Blandy  to  poison  her  father,  carefully  re-engraved, 
care  being  taken  to  erase  the  military  gorget  and 
other  accessories.  The  date  of  the  Cranstoun 
portrait  is  1753.  If  gallant  "Black  Dick"  was 
a  reader  of  the  New  UnivertcU  Magazine,  he 
must  on  his  return  to  port  have  been  surprised 
to  find  himself  identified  with  one  who,  only  seven 
years  previously,  was  the  most  notorious  villain 
of  his  day.  Calcuttsnbis. 

Princesses  of  Wales. — It  may  be  worth- 
noting  as  somewhat  curious  that,  previous  to 
the  accession  of  the  house  of  Brunswick,  there 
were  only  three  Princesses  of  Wales  ;  that  in  no 
case  did  the  husband  succeed  to  the  crown ;  and 
yet  that  two  of  thene  ladies  became  Queens  Con- 
sort of  England.  The  three  princesses  were  Joan, 
wife  of  the  Black  Prince  ;  Anne,  daughter  of  the 
Earl  of  Warwick,  who  married  Edward,  son  of 
Heniy  YI.,  and  whom  Richard  III.  subsequently 
made  his  queen ;  and  Katharine  of  Aragon, 
married  to  Arthur,  son  of  Henry  VIL,  and  after- 
wards queen  as  wife  of  Henry  YIII. 

T.  Lewis  0.  Davibs. 

The  Etticologt  of  "Wigeon."  —  Just  as 
"  pigeon"  comes  from  pipio,  I  believe  "  wigeon" 
comes  from  vipio,  Pliny,  Hist  Nat,  x.  69,  men- 
tions vipiones  as  certain  small  cranes  from  the 
Balearic  Isles.  The  rather  vague  use  of  the  Old 
French  vigeon  or  vingeon,  and  even  of  the  Modern 
French  gingeon,  for  more  than  one  species  of  wild 
duck  makes  it  unnecessary  to  dwell  on  Pliny's 
interpretation  of  a  probably  Celtic  word,  which 
was  as  unintelligible  to  him  as  it  is  to  ns. 
Saleme,  in  his  French  version  of  Ray's  Synopne 
Avium  (Paris,  1767,  p.  424),  says  Manage  sug- 
gested the  derivation  of  "  vigeon "  from  vipio, 
though  he  prefers  an  onomatopoeic  origin  for  the 
nune.    K  "J  etymology  ^m^.«^  ^I  (gf^ey^gt-g 


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assailable,  there  can  be  no  doubt  tbat  the  correct 
spelliDg  is  "  wigeon/'  not  **  widgeon." 

Hbnbt  T.  Wharton. 
Z9,  St.  George's  Road,  Eilbum,  N.W. 

The  British  Museum  Reading  Rook  and 
Evening  Study.— It  is  worthy  of  observation 
that  Charles  V.,  surnamed  the  Wise,  soTereign  of 
France  (a.d.  1364),  ordered  thirty  portable  lamps, 
with  a  silver  one  suspended  from  the  centre  of 
the  reading-room  of  the  Royal  Library  of  France, 
to  be  illuminated  at  night,  that  students  might 
read  without  interruption  at  any  hour, 

William  Platt. 
•Callis  Court,  St.  Peter*f,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

To  BussocK. — *'  The  peacocks  are  very  fond  of 
btuiocking  there,  sir,"  said  a  man  to  me  some  time 
ago.  He  was  pointing  with  a  rueful  face  to  a 
flower-bed  where  the  peacocks  had  been  making 
holes  and  basking  in  the  sun. 

Edmund  Waterton. 

A  Relic  of  the  Irish  Parliament. — The 
following  cutting  may  be  interesting  to  many 
leaders  of  "  N.  &Q.":— 

"  At  the  sale  yeeterday  of  the  effects  of  the  D'Olier 
Street  Club,  Dublin,  an  old  high-backed  oaken  chair, 
elaborately  carred  with  Irish  embleiDs,  and  described  as 
the  chair  of  the  '  Speaker  of  the  Irish  House  of  Com- 
mons/ was  put  op  for  sale.  An  inrcription  on  a  brass 
plate  on  the  chair  ^stntef  that  it  was  presented  many 
yean  ago  to  the  Dublin  Library  bj  Lord  Cloncurry.  It 
was  bought  for  90^.  by  an  agent  bidding  for  Mr.  Cecil 
Ouinness."— 5/.  Jamet's  Gazette,  Jan.  21, 1882. 

Henrt  G.  Hope. 

FreegroTe  Road,  N. 

A  Temperance  Library.— The  foundation  of  a 
new  library  is  a  fact  worth  noting  in  "  N.  &  Q." 
A  standard  reference  library  of  temperance 
literature,  to  be  called  ''  The  Ellison  Library,"  is 
now  being  formed,  and  will  haye  its  habitation  in 
the  head  offices  of  the  Church  of  England  Tem- 
perance Society,  Bridge  Street,  Westminster.  It 
consists  already  of  about  500  volumes  and  pam- 
phlets— a  number  which  will  soon  be  largely  in- 
creased. The  library  will  be  free  and  open  to  the 
public.  Geo.  L.  Afpbrson. 

Wimbledon. 

The  New  English  Dictionary  op  the  Philo- 
logical Society.-- Quotations  wanted  (4):  send 
to  the  editor,  Dr.  Murray,  Mill  Hill,  London, 
N.W.  A.  Instances  of  any  date  of  ambaginons, 
ambassadorship,  ambidexious,  ambidextrously 
•ness,  ambier,  ambifarious,  ambiform,  ambigenal, 
ambigorical,  ambilogy,  ambiloquent  -ous  -y,  ambi- 
parous,  ambitude,  ambleocarpous,  amblingly,  am- 
blosis,  amblotic,  amblygon  -al  -ous,  amblyopy, 
ambolic,  ambon,  ambosexous,  ambreada,  ambreic, 
ambrette,  ambrite,  ambrology,  ambrotype,  ambu- 
lacrlform^  ambulate.     B.   Instances  earlier  than 


the  date  annexed  of  amazement,  1590  ;  amba- 
giosity,  1824 ;  ambagitory,  1817  ;  ambassadorial, 
1759  ;  ambassadress  (wife),  1716  ;  ambery,  1862  ; 
ambidextral,  1871 ;  ambidextrous,  1646 ;  ambient, 
1620 ;  ambiguous,  1550  ;  ambiguousness,  1837  ; 
ambrosially,  1833  ;  ambulacral,  1846  ;  ambulance, 
1860  (try  the  newspapers  during  Crimean  War). 
C.  Instances  later  than  the  date  annexed  of  am- 
bagiosity,  1824 ;  ambagitory,  1817  ;  ambassiate, 
1580 ;  ambigate,  1633  ;  ambilevous,  1646  ;  am- 
bitionist,  1657  ;  ambitionize,  1600 ;  ambitiosity, 
1535  ;  ambitionsness,  1687;  ambrosiac,  1669. 


IButrtfi. 
We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  prirate  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addreises  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Tarots.— In  a  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  Play- 
ing  and  other  Cards  in  the  British  Museum,  &c., 
by  William  Hughes  Willshire,  M.D.  Edin.,  870., 
printed  by  order  of  the  Trustees,  1876,  as  well  as 
in  the  other  ordinarily  accessible  works  upon  the 
subject,  I  find  rery  full  descriptions  of  the  Tarots, 
and  of  their  real,  or  supposed,  history ;  but  very 
meagre  accounts  of  the  way  in  which  they  were 
used.  AUiette  (Etteilia),  in  his  Manihre  de  se  Bi- 
crier  avec  U  Jeu  de  Cartes  noninUes  Tarots,  Paris, 
1783,  misunderstood  and  misplaced  the  keys  of  the 
Tarot.  So  says  M.  Alphonse  Constant,  who  himself 
goes  nearer  to  giving  the  information  that  I  want 
than  any  author  I  have  consulted.  M.  Constant, 
in  his  work  Dogms  et  Bit^l  de  la  Haute  Magie^ 
par  JSliphas  Livi,  second  edition,  2  vols.  870., 
JParis,  London,  and  New  York,  1861,  vol.  IL 
p.  342,  says : — 

"Le  Tarot  seol  donne  Tinterpr^tation  des  carr6s 
magiques  d*Agrippa  et  de  Paracelse,  comme  on  peut  s'en 
conyaincre  en  formant  ces  ftafimescarr^  arec  les  clefs  da 
Jarot  et  en  lisant  les  hi6roglyphe8  qui  se  trouveront  ainii 

rasaembl^s En  additionnant  chacune  dea  colonnes  de 

ces  carr^s,  vous  obtenez  inyariablement  le  nombre  carac- 
t^ristique  de  la  planete,  et,  en  trouvant  Texplicatioa  de 
ce  nombre- par  les  hi6rog1ypbes  du  Tarot,  vous  cherchex 
le  sens  de  toutes  les  figures,  soit  triangulaires,  aoit 
carries,  soit  cruciales,  que  tous  trouyerez  form^es  par 
les  nombres." 
After  a  description  of  the  Tarot  keys  he  continues : 

"  Telles  sont  les  22  Clefs  du  Tarot,  qui  en  ezpliquent 
tou«  les  nombres,  ainti  le  bateleur,  ou  chef  deit  unites, 
ezplique  les  quatre  as  avec  leur  quadruple  aiunification 
proKressive  oana  les  troii  mondes  et  dans  le  premier 
principe.  Ainai  I'as  de  denier  ou  de  cercle.  c'est  I'&me 
du  monde ;  Tas  d'6p^,  c'est  Tintelligence  militiinte :  Tas 
de  coupe,  c>st  Tintelligence  aim«nte;  Tas  du  bfiton, 
c*est  Tintelligence  cr6atrice ;  ce  sont  ausai  les  pnncipes 
du  mouTement,  du  progr^,  de  la  f^condit6  et  do  la  puis- 
sance. Cheque  nombre,  multipli6  par  une  clef,  donne 
un  autre  nombre  qui,  explique  &  son  tour  par  lea  clefs, 
complete  la  r^T^lation  philosophique  et  religieusecontenue 
dana  chaque  signe.  Or,  chacune  des  56  cartes  peut  ae 
multiplier  par  les  22  clefs  tour  k  tour^l  en  resulte  une 

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a^rie  de  combinaisons  donnant  toas  lea  r^Bulfcata  lea  plot 

surprenants  de  r6v61ation  et  de  lumiere La  maniere 

de  lire  lee  hUrogljphes  du  Tarot,  c'est  de  les  disposer 
Boit  en  carr6,  toit  en  triangle,  en  plH9ant  lea  nombrea 
pairs  en  antagonisme  et  en  lea  conciliant  par  les  impatm. 
Quatre  signea  expriment  toujoura  Tabsolu  dana  un  ordre 
qnelconqoe  et  B*expliqaent  pur  un  cinqui^me.  Ainai  la 
solution  de  toutea  lea  questions  magiques  est  celle  du 
pentagramme  et  touies  les  antinomies  sVxpliquent  par 
rharmonieuae  unit6." 

I  fancy  I  make  out  the  general  idea  of  the  fore- 
going, but  the  exact  modus  operandi  escapes  me. 
Will  any  one  give  detailed  instructions  ? 

Frank  Rede  Fowkb. 

Bacon  Familt. — Nathaniel  Bacon,  of  Gray's 
Inn,  was  convicted  of  the  crime  of  inciting 
another  to  kill  Sir  Harbottle  Grimston,  Master 
of  the  Bolls,  in  1664.  Shortly  after  the  death  of 
Charles  L,  An  Historical  and  Political  Discourse 
of  the  Laws  and  Oovernment  of  England  was 
published.  The  author  of  this  book  (or  rather 
compiler,  for  the  great  Selden  seems  to  have  been 
the  author)  was,  as  appears  by  a  subsequent 
edition,  published  in  1689,  Nathaniel  Bacon,  of 
Gray's  Inn,  Esq.,  which  Nathaniel  was,  I  gather 
from  the  advertisement  to  the  last-mentioned 
edition,  dead  at  the  date  of  its  issue.  Sir 
Harbottle  Grimston,  Master  of  the  Rolls,  says 
Mr.  Foss  (Judges  of  England,  vol.  vii.  106), 
married,  secondly,  Annie,  daughter  of  Sir  Nathaniel 
Bacon,  niece  to  Lord  Bacon.  The  only  lady  who 
in  any  way  answers  to  this  description  in  Burke's 
Peerage  (Ped.  of  Bacon,  Bart.)  is  Anne,  eldest 
daughter  of  Sir  Nathaniel  Bacon,  of  Stiffkey,  co. 
Norfolk,  E.B.,  who  married,  according  to  this 
pedigree.  Sir  Roger  Townsheod,  of  Rainham,  and, 
according  to  the  Townshend  pedigree  in  the  same 
book,  Sir  John  Townshend,  who  was  a  son  of 
Roger.  This  Anne  was  niece  by  the  half  blood  to 
Lord  Bacon.  Under  the  pedigree  of  Grimston  (title 
Yerulam)  it  is  stated  (same  Peerage)  that  Sir 
Harbottle  Grimston  married  Anne,  eldest  daughter 
of  Sir  Nathaniel  Bacon,  of  Culford  Hall,  Suffolk, 
K.B.  1.  Is  Nathaniel  Bacon,  the  inciter  to  kill, 
the  same  person  as  Nathaniel  Bacon,  the  compiler 
of  the  Historical  Discourse  above  mentioned? 
2.  Are  these  Nathaniels  related  to  Sir  N.  Bacon, 
of  Stififkey  ?  3.  Is  Sir  Nathaniel  Bacon  of  Stiff- 
key'  the  same  person  as  Sir  Nathaniel  Bacon  of 
Culford  Hall  ?  4.  Is  Anne  Bacon,  who  married 
Sir  Harbottle  Grimston,  the  same  person  as  Anne 
Bacon,  who  is  stated  by  Burke  to  have  married 
Sir  Roger  (John?)  Townshend?  As  Sir  John 
Townshend  died  in  1603,  Sir  Roger,  his  father, 
in  1600,  and  Sir  H.  Grimston  in  1683,  this  co- 
incidence seems  well-nigh  impossible.  I  shall  be 
glad  of  assistance  in  answering  these  questions. 
F.  Sydney  Waddington. 
[3  and  4.  The  Bacon  pedigree  in  Burke's  Pee^-age,  1882, 
shows  the  two  Sir  Nathaniels  to  hare  been  distinct  per- 
sons, and  80,  of  couraa,  their  danghtera.] 


MoRLAND  Arms  :  "  Swag  of  busks  and 
PATTARAS." — Mr.  William  Collins,  in  his  Memoirs 
of  a  Painter,  viz.,  George  Morland  (London,  1805), 
states  that  the  painter  was  descended  from  *'  the 
great  Samuel  Morland,  knighted  by  Charles  II.*'; 
and  having  mentioned  a  copy  of  one  of  his  works, 
published  in  1673,  he  adds :— 

"  Inatde,  upon  a  blank  on  the  cover,  ie  paated  the  arma 
of  the  Morland  family,  which  ia  a  abield  argent,  three 
wheat  aheavea,  the  armour  and  helmet,  &c.,  of  a  knight, 
aa  far  aa  the  breaat,  upon  which  atands  a  deer  aa  the 
crest;  from  whose  feet  are  the  ornaments  of  h  swag  of 
husks  and  pattaras." — P.  6. 

What  authority  is  there  for  the  arms,  which  are 
not  mentioned  in  Guillim  or  Edmondson  ?— and 
what  is  the  meaning  of  the  last  words,  which  I 
have  italicized  ?  W.  £.  Buckley. 

"Sydney"  AND  " Sydenham.*'— Can  any  one 
who  has — as  just  now  I  have  not^-access  to  an 
Anglo-Saxon  dictionary  kindly  tell  me  the  meaning 
of  the  particle  syd  in  these  names  ?  Is  there  any 
connexion  between  Sydney  or  Sidney  and  the 
Grerman  word  sedenei  (the  herb  savory)? 

Hermbntrude. 

The  7th  Dragoons. — Can  any  one  inform  me 
where  there  is  a  roll  of  the  junior  officers  of  the 
7th  Dragoons  in  1745  ?  The  regiment  was  at  that 
time  under  the  command  of  Sir  John  Cope. 

Rothesay  H. 

Lord  Mansfield. — He  is  reported  to  have  said, 
''  Property  in  land  is  capital  without  income  ; 
property  in  the  funds  is  income  without  capital ; 
property  in  mortgage  is  both  capital  and  income.*' 
Is  this  to  be  found  and  authenticated  anywhere  ? 
It  is  the  tying  together  of  a  good  bundle  of  legal 
ideas.  C.  A.  Ward. 

Mayfair. 

The  Bebbllion  op  1745.— Some  preacher,  appa> 
rently  in  London,  defended  from  the  pulpit  the 
characters  of  some  of  the  leaders.  "  A  manuscript 
paper"  was  "handed  about  town,'*  attacking 
many  points  in  the  sermon.  The  preacher  replied 
in  a  tract,  "  The  Victorious  Stroke  for  Old  Eng- 
land,*' third  edition,  1748.    Who  was  the  preacher  ? 

W.  C.  B. 

Coat  op  Arms. — Can  any  student  in  heraldry 
give  information  about  the  following  coat  of  arms  : 
Argent,  three  lions  passant  gules,  each  holding  be- 
tween his  forepaws  a  helmet  azure.  Crest,  on  a 
wreath  of  its  colours  a  dexter  arm  in  armour,  bent  at 
the  elbow,  brandishing  a  sword,  pommel  and  hilt 
or.  Motto,  **Fulmini8  instar."  To  what  family 
does  it  belong  1  J.  J.  H« 

Families  of  Newton  in  Herefordshire.— 
I  am  anxious  to  obtain  as  much  information  as 
possible  as  to  this  family  in  that  county.  I  am 
already  in  possession  of  a  large  number  of  notes 

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made  in  the  process  of  a  thoroagh  search  in  the 
British  Museum ;  they  would,  I  fear,  unduly 
encumber  your  pages,  but  I  shall  be  happy  to 
communicate  them  to  any  gentleman  who  may  be 
able  and  willing  to  enlighten  me. 

Wm.  Nkwton. 
11,  Mitre  Coart,  Temple,  KC. 

*^  AcitiuB."— In  many  of  the  dictionaries  of  the 
last  century  I  find  the  word  oereme,  which,  accord- 
ing to  Chamber^ 9  Oydopcedia,  1727,  was  ^'  a  term 
flometimes  used  in  antient  law-books  for  ten  acres." 
Can  any  one  tell  in  what  "  law-books  "  it  occurs, 
or  giye  any  information  about  the  word  ? 

"  AoiTATB,  AGITATE,  AGITATE."— When  and  on 
what  occasion  did  the  Marquis  of  Anglesey  give 
the  "  ominous  adyice  "  to  Irish  patriots,  "  If  you 
really  want  success,  agitaU,  agitate^  agitate"? 
Where  can  a  contemporaiy  report  of  the  words  be 
found  ?  J.  4.  H.  M. 

Forfeiture  of  Goods  for  Polygamy.— In  a 
book  of  Steward's  Accounts  of  James,  third  Earl 
of  Berkeley,  from  June  24,  1711,  to  June  24, 
1712, 1  find  the  following  entiy: — 

•<  Memorand.  One  Jackson  ma  conTicted  ftt  Glou- 
cester for  hareing  seyeral  Wifes,  for  w'*'  his  Horse,  kc, 
were  forfeited  to  my  L**,  w*^  my  L**  tooke  into  his  own 
custody." 

^  I  do  not  find  in  Jacob's  Law  Dietionary  that 
bigamous  offences  were  eyer  thus  punished,  nor 
is  there  anything  in  the  same  authority  under  the 
head  of  "  Deodand,"  which  was  payable  only  in 
cases  of  death  by  some  kinds  of  accidents  or  by 
fdo  d$  te.  In  what  way  could  the  offender's 
"  horse,  &c.,"  be  thus  forfeited  to  Lord  Berkeley  ? 

J.  H.  GOOKB. 

Dido. — It  is  known,  of  course,  to  all  readers  of 
Virgil  that  "widow  Dido's"  Tyrian  name  was 
Elissa,  which  is,  I  presume  there  can  be  no  doubt, 
a  feminine  form  of  a  name  corresponding  to  the 
Hebrew  Elisha.  But  the  origin  of  the  word  Dido 
itself  is  more  obscure.  It  is  supposed  to  be 
Phoenician  too,  and,  according  to  Lempri^re, 
means  "yaliant  woman,"  from  her  self-sacrifice 
on  the  funeral  pyre  (not  for  loye  of  the  unborn 
.^neas,  but  to  escape  that  of  Jarbas).  But 
Stephens,  whose  authority  is  certainly  preferable, 
informs  us  that  Dido  in  Phoenician  means  irAan^rts, 
a  wanderer  (female  planet,  if  we  may  so  say),  and 
that  Elissa  was  so  called  from  her  long  wandering. 
Which  of  these  is  correct ;  or  has  any  other  light 
been  thrown  upon  the  meaning  of  the  name  since 
the  time  of  Stephens  ?  One  cannot  help  suspecting 
it  to  be  an  attempt  at  translating  the  originid 
name.  W.  T.  Lynn. 

Blackbeath. 

The  DEyiL^s  Punchbowl  near  Haslembre. 
— Oan  any  one  tell  me  if  the  stone  "  erected  in 
detestation  of   a  barbarous   murder   committed 


here  on  an  unknown  sailor  on  Sept.  24,  1786," 
which  is  now  standing  on  the  lower  side  of  the 
Portsmouth  Boad,  is  the  original  one?  It  is 
certainly  dated,  at  the  back  of  it,  1786.  Hone,  how- 
ever, in  his  Every-day  Book,  yol.  iii.  pp.  145-7, 
states  that  "  the  old  stone  was  destroyed  at  the 
alteration  of  the  road,  but  a  new  one  has  been 
recently  erected  on  the  new  road."  Which  is 
correct,  the  stone  or  the  Every-day  Book  f 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

Christopher  AsHBURN.—In  Strype's  EceU- 
tiatiical  Memorials  I  find  one  Christopher  Ash- 
burn  appointed  Bector  of  St.  Michael's,  Crooked 
Lane,  liondon,  in  1551.  In  his  Memorials  of 
Cranmsr  1  find  him  cited  as  being  a  married 
priest  in  1553.  I  find  a  Christopher  Ashbum 
appointed  Vicar  of  Halifax  in  1559.  Can  an^  one 
inform  me  whether  these  are  the  same ;  and,  if  so, 
what  was  his  condition  between  1553  and  1559 1 

T.  0. 

"Mucaa"  and  " Great*'  as  applied  to 
ViLLAOBS.— In  seyeral  places  in  Hertfordshire, 
where  two  contiguous  yulages  are  called  by  the 
same  name,  they  are  distinguished  by  the  words 
"much"  and  "Uttle,"  instead  of  "great"  and 
"  little."  Thus  we  haye  Much  Hadham,  Much 
Wymondley,  Much  Munden,  &c.  This  use  of  the 
word  "  much,"  I  regret  to  say,  is  fast  dying  out, 
and  the  last-named  yillage  is  now  almost  always 
called  Great  Munden.  I  should  like  to  know  if 
this  word  is  used  in  a  similar  manner  in  other 
counties  besides  Herts.  Hellier  Gosselin. 
Blakesware,  Ware,  Herto. 
[Cf.  Herefordshire;  Much  Marole,  Little  Marcle,  &o.l 

Sparrow  Faicilt  op  Staffordshire.— Can 
any  reader  of  *'  N.  &  Q/'  furnish  any  details  as  to 
this  family)  I  wish  in  particular  to  ascertain  the 
branch  to  which  belonged  Thomas  Sparrow, 
married  circa  1790,  at  some  parish  church  in  that 
county,  the  exact  locality  of  which  I  haye  as  yet 
failed  to  trace.  He  subsequently  seryed  in 
Flanders  under  the  Duke  of  York. 

NicoLAi  C.  Schou. 

Stretford,  near  Manchester. 

"  Malte  MONET." — Oan  any  one  giye  me  infor- 
mation on  the  subject  of  malt  money,  mentioned 
thus  in  a  copy  of  a  rate  for  East  Budleigh,  South 
Deyon,  dated  1600:  ''Here  followeth  a  general 
Rate  of  the  Malte  Money  due  to  the  Church 
agreed  upon  by  those  whose  names  are  hereunto 
subscribed,  and  other  of  the  p'hloners  anno  1600, 
yerely  to  be  paide"?  G.  H.  Fowler. 

St.  Anne*s  Lodge,  Lincoln. 

Sir  William  Hedges,  1688.— An  Indian  anti- 
quary has  lately  met  with  a  most  interesting  MS. 
diary  kept  by  this  gentleman  in  India  and  Persia 
between  1681  and  1684.    He  was  Goyernor  of 


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the  Factories  of  the  E.I.C.  in  Bengal.  It  throws 
important  light  upon  a  hitherto  objure  period  in 
the  history  of  our  settlement  in  Bengal,  as  most  of 
the  records  perished  at  the  time  of  the  calamity  of 
the  Black  Hole.  Hedges  notes  that  Einff  James 
knighted  him,  in  his  bedchamber,  on  March  6, 
1688.  There  is  also  a  note  of  his  second  marriage. 
Further  information  regarding  Sir  William  Hedges 
will  be  valuable.  Galcuttsnsis. 

Edmund  Gibson,  Bishop  of  London,  1720. — 
Whose  son  was  he,  and  whom  did  he  marry? 
How  many  children  had  h'e ;  and  if  he  had  any 
«ons  what  became  of  them  ?  Clarissa. 

Albert  Smith's  '*  Galignani's  Messbnoer." 
— ^Will  some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  kindly  lend  me 
for  a  few  days  a  copy  of  the  original  authorized 
words  of  Albert  Smith's  Oalignani'B  Messengerf  as 
recited  or  sung  by  him  in  his  Mont  Blanc  enter- 
tainment? G.  H.  H. 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted. — 
"Quisuadetsnadet." 
The  Bishop  of  Lincoln  rery  receutly  mentioned  this  at 
lYottiogbam  u  an  old  saying.  En.  Mabshall. 


Vitpliti. 

«AT  BAY." 

{4"»  S.  xL  507 ;  xiL  14, 116 ;  6**  S.  iii.  149  ; 
iy.  363,  412.) 

Though  Mr.  Wedgwood  allows  that  I  am 
right  in  denying  at  bay  from  Fr.  tenir  en  dbhay 
in  its  primary  signification  of  ''to  keep  (the 
dogs)  barking,"  he  is  of  opinion  that  I  am 
wrong  when  1  explain  the  secondary  meaning  of 
'tmir  en  abbay  giyen  by  Ootgraye — yiz.,  to  delay 
or  driye  off  with  false  hopes — on  the  same  principle, 
and  he  bases  his  objections  upon  two  grounds. 
He  contends,  in  the  first  place,  that  my  explana- 
tion is  far-fetched,  because  dogs  at  bay,  and  there- 
fore about  to  rush  in  to  kill  a  stag,  are,  he  says, 
4iny  thing  but  in  the  position  of  a  person  "  delayed 
or  driyen  off  with  false  hopes  "  (1) ;  and,  secondly, 
lie  maintains  that  the  May  in  this  secondary 
meaning  is  not  the  same  word  as  the  abbay  in  the 
first  meaning  (to  keep  at  bay),  and  has  nothing 
whateyer  to  do  with  barking^  but  is  deriyed  from, 
or  connected  with,  the  It.  tenere  a  bada,  to  which 
he  assigns  the  meaning  of  "  to  keep  in  a  state  of 
longing  expectation,*  to  keep  waiting.'' 

With  regard  to  (1),  I  reply  that  when  an  ex- 
pression, primarily  applied  to  a  highly  physical 

*  I  cannot  admit  that  tentre  a  hada  now  means  *'  to 
leep  in  a  state  of  longing  expectation/'  or  that  badare 
means  "to  look  with  longinic  ";  to  keep  waiting  and  to 
watcb,  also  given  by  Mr.  Wedgwood,  are  nearer  the 
trath.  Badare  commonly  corresponds  to  onr  to  attend 
to  a  thing,  to  take  care,  the  Fr.  faxn  oOsiUtoii.  See, 
oweyer,  note*,  p.  90. 


condition,  is  secondarily  transferred  to  an  entirely 
moral  condition,  it  is  by  no  means  usual  or 
necessary  to  restrict  the  secondary  meaning  to 
exactly  the  same  limits  as  the  primary  one.  The 
tantalization  of  dogs  at  bay  is,  no  doubt,  oommonly 
yery  short,  and  their  hopes  are  but  yery  seldom 
ultimately  depeiyed  (though,  of  course,  this  does 
sometimes  happen).^  StiU,  their  tantalization, 
as  long  as  it  lasts,  is  yery  intense,  and  their  hopes 
are  deceiyed  or  ungratified  during  this  interyaL 
It  seems  to  me,  therefore,  yery  natural  to  transfer 
this  expression  to  human  beings  who  are  kept  off 
with  false  hopes,  and,  as  it  were,  kept  barking 
afterf  what  they  will  neyer  attain ;  and  it  seems 
to  me  natural  also  that  such  keeping  off  shoold 
haye  been  extended  from  a  few  minutes  (as  in  the 
case  of  the  dogs)  to  days,  months,  and  eyen  years. 
Just  the  opposite  has  taken  place  with  regard  to 
the  word  tamMiw^  which  I  naye  made  use  of. 
The  false  hopes  to  which  Tantalus  was  condemned 
were  neyer  ending,  but  the  yerb  which  has  been 
formed  from  his  name,  to  tantalize,  is  continually 
used  of  eyen  the  shortest  periods  of  suspense. 

With  regard  to  (2),  I  willingly  allow  that  there 
is,  at  first  sight  at  least,  a  yeiy  remarkable  oo- 
incidence  in  meaning  between  UiMte  a  bada  and 
tenir  en  dbbay  (when  used  figaratiyely),  and  I 
can  assure  Mr.  Wedgwood  tluit  I  had  well  con- 
sidered the  possibility  of  their  etymolocncal  con- 
nexion before  I  decided  to  reject  it.  The  diffi- 
culties in  the  way  were  too  great  for  me.  The 
It.  word  bada  would  undoubtedly  giye  bate  in 
French,  and  Littr^  does  giye  baie,  which  seems 
now  to  haye  passed  out  of  use,  as  meaning  trom- 
perie,  mystification;  and  though  he  does  not 
mention  the  It.  bada,  he  does  oonnect  it  with  the 
Proy.  en  badat=^vi  vaixu  If  this  word  baie  had 
been  used  with  the  prep.  ^  of  which,  howeyer, 
there  is  no  eyidence,  it  might  undoubtedly  haye 
produced  a  yerb  dbbayer^  with  the  meanings 
assigned  by  Mr.  Wedgwood  to  temre  a  bada;  but 
of  the  existence  of  this  yerb  there  is,  unfortu- 
nately, no  trace,  although,  as  Mr.  Wedgwood 
says,  our  word  abeyance  (see  Skeat)  seems  to  point 
to  its  haying  once  existed.  If  this  yerb  really  eyer 
did  exist,  a  secondary  subst  abbaye  or  al>baie\\ 


*  In  the  case  of  English  stags  at  the  present  day 
almost  always,  for  the  stag,  if  a  good  one,  is  sared  alire 
and  kept  fur  another  day,  and  the  dogs*  hopes  are  thus 
nearly  always  cheated. 

t  We  do  not  say  "  to  bark  after  a  thing  "  of  personisto 
desire  it  eagerly,  but  the  French  do  use  aboyer  apris  of 
per8ons=:^2>o«rj«tvr«  ardemmetU,    See  Littr6. 

X  Littre  connects  this  baie  with  the  It.  baja,  bat 
Honnorat  connects  the  Prov.  bada  quoted  by  Littr6 
with  the  yerb  badar=ihe  It.  badare;  whilst  Scheler 
deriyes  this  baie  from  bayer  (see  note  *,  p.  90),  which  is 
allowed  to  be  connected  witn  the  It.  badare^  and  does 
not  eren  mention  baja.  There  is,  therefore,  evidently 
some  connexion  between  baie-tJkd  the  It.  bada. 
As  aboutir  from  a  b<nU, 
Bat  surely,  as  the  simple  form[(aM,  eorrespendhig 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6*  S.V.Feb.  4, '82, 


mighty  no  doabt,  hare  been  formed  from  ie,  as  dM 
from  aboyer,  only  it  would  hare  been  fiminine, 
and  not  mcuculine  as  is  abbay.    Bat  all  this  is  a 

Ct  deal  too  hypothetical  for  me,  especially  as  in 
an,  from  which  the  expression  is  supposed  to  be 
deiiyedy  the  verb  abbadaref  though  it  seems  to 
exist,  is  scarcely  oyer  used,  the  verb  in  use  being 
the  simple  badare,  whilst  we  find  no  secondary 
substantiye  abbada.  Besides,  I  deny  that  the 
coincidence  in  meaning  between  tmere  a  bada  and 
tmir  m  abbay  is  quite  so  great  as  Mr.  Wedq- 
WOOD  represents ;  or,  at  any  rate,  if  the  meanings 
are  a  good  deal  alike,  they  have  been  arrived  at  in 
a  different  way.  Tenere  a  bada,  strictly  speaking, 
means  either  to  make  a  person  attend  to  what  one 
wishes  him  to  attend  to,  and  so  to  divert  his  atten- 
tion, as  in  the  passage  quoted  in  Mr.  Wedgwood's 
Diet.,  S.V.  "Bay,"  or  else  simply  to  keep  him  in  a 
state  of  attention  or  expectancy,  so  that  he  does  not 
get  what  he  is  expecting  or  waiting  for.  Tenir  en 
abbay  me&nB  something  more  than  this;  it  is  liteially 
to  keep  one  barking  after  a  thing  (see  note  t),  and 
expresses  that  the  person  so  kept,  or  rather  kept 
back,  is  not  only  expecting  or  waiting  for  a  thing, 
but  longing  for  it  and  eager  to  rush  in  to  secure  it> 
as  is  the  case  with  dogs  kept  at  bay  by  a  stag. 
Tmere  a  bada  expresses  a  more  passive*  tenir  en 
abbay  a  more  active,  condition  of  mind.  The 
much  greater  force  of  the  latter  expression  is  well 
shown  bv  comparing  the  meaning  given  to  tenere 
a  bada  by  Villanova  in  his  Ital.  Diet.,  which  is 
simply  /aire  perdre  le  temps,  with  that  given  by 
Littr6  to  tenir  en  aboi  (the  modem  form  of  tenir 
en  abbay\  viz.,  repaiire  de  vaines  espirances,  and 
still  better  if  we  compare  the  definition  given  by 
Cotgrave  at  the  beginning  of  this  note,  viz.,  "  to 
drive  off  mth  false  hopes,"  for  the  use  of  the  verb 
to  drive  <af  shows  that  there  is  great  eagerness  to 
rush  in. 

And  last,  but  riot  least,  I  have  Littr^  on  my 
side,  for  he  gives  tenir  en  aboi,  s,v,  "  Aboi"  (from 
aboyer,  to  bark),  and  never  even  hints  at  any 
other  derivation.  F.  Chance. 

Peers  signing  their  Surnames  (6**^  S.  iv 
468).— The  late  Marquis  of  Salisbury  signed  him- 

to  It.  hada,  did  exist  in  French,  the  French  form  of 
ien^s  a  hada  would  haye  been  ienvr  a  bate,  and  not 
tentr  en  aibbay, 

*  This  M  clearly  seeji  if  we  examine  the  etymology  of 
10041,  All  etymologists,  and  Mr.  Wxdowood  amongst 
them,  are  agreed  that  the  primary  meaning  of  the  root 
u  to  keep  one's  month  open,  whether  from  surprise,  stupid 
astonishment  or  expectation.  It  may,  perhaps,  then, 
sometimes  also  hare  expressed  longing,  as  Mr.  Wkdo- 
wooD  suggeete  (cf.  Fr.  hayer,  from  the  same  root,  which 
Littre  sayi  is  becoming  obsolete  in  the  sense  of  desiring 
eagerly),  but  it  is  a  pamve  longing,  which  stands,  and 
stares,  and  gapes,  and  desires,  without  taking  any  active 
steps  to  secure  the  object  desired,  whilst  the  person  who 
IB  kept  en  ahhay  has  a  toit  active  longing,  and  reouires 
to  be  held  back  or  dri?en  off. 


self  ^  Qascoigne-Salisbury,''  having  assumed  his 
first  wife's  surname.  I  find  in  an  old  peerage 
{Dtbretffs,  1844)  I  have  by  me  that  he  obtained  a 
royal  sign  manual  authorizing  him  to  assume  his 
wife's  name,  and  to  sign  it  before  all  titles  of 
honour.  I  have  seen  many  of  his  letters  signed 
in  this  wav.  The  like  privilege  was  accorded  to 
Earl  Temple,  father  of  the  first  Duke  of  Bucking- 
ham, who,  marrying  the  daughter  of  Earl  Nugent, 
took  the  latter  name  with  that  of  Temple,  with 
authority  to  sign  that  of  Nugent  only  before  all 
titles  of  honour.  I  know  of  no  similar  cases  exist- 
ing at  the  present  time.  Henrietta  Cole. 

The  first  Earl  of  EUesmere  signed  his  name  in 
the  same  way.  See  "  N.  &  Q."  ^^  S.  ii.  252,  336» 
451  ;  5«»  S.  viL  34,  249,  312  ;  viii.  38.  The 
other  day  I  saw  written  on  a  leaf  in  a  book,  which 
was  purchased  by  a  friend  of  mine  at  the  Sunder- 
land Library  sale,  the  name  of  *'  Caroline  Spen- 
cer." This  lady  must  have  been  Lady  Caroline 
Eussell,  who,  in  1762,  married  Geo.  Spencer, 
third  Duke  of  Marlborough.  Surely  her  proper 
signature  was  Caroline  Marlborough,  as  her  hus- 
band had  succeeded  to  the  dukedom  before  hex 
marriage.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

On  looking  over  my  collections  of  franks,  I 
noticed  the  following  examples.  The  ^Marquis  of 
Buckingham,  in  1800,  signs  '*  Nugent-Bucking- 
ham **',  his  son  and  successor,  some  ten  years  later,, 
signs  '' Chandos-Buckingham."  About  the  year 
1770  I  have  two  franks  of  a  Lord  Nugent,  after- 
wards Earl  of  Clare,  signed  respectively  ''  Craggs* 
Nugent"  and  "  Cra^s-Clare."  In  1835  the  Earl 
Beauchamp  signs  '*  Pindar-Beauchamp,"  and  the 
Earl  of  Buckinghamshire,  *' Hampden-Bucks.'^ 
About  the  same  date  the  Duke  of  Porthind  signa 
"Scott-Portland";  the  Marquis  of  Salisbury, 
"  Gascoigne-Salisbury  ";  the  Earl  of  Scarbrough,. 
"  Savile-Scarbrough  ";  the  Earl  ComwalKs  signa 
'*  Mann- Corn wallis";  the  Marquess  of  London* 
derry,  "  Vane- Londonderry  ";  Lord  Holland  signs 
(in  a  letter)  "  Vassall-Holland";  Lord  Vernon,  ia 
1838,  signs  "  Warren- Vernon  ";  Lord  Rivers  signa 
"Pitt-Rivers";  Lord  De  Tajbley  signs  "Warren 
de  Tabley."  I  have  already  mentioned  Lord 
Bayning,  who  signs  his  name  "  Wm.  Powlett-Bay- 
ning.^'  In  all  these  cases  the  surname  thus  added 
to  the  customary  signature  is  one  assumed  by 
royal  licence,  on  account  of  the  accession  of 
landed  property.  E.  Waltord,  M.A. 

The  fourth  Duke  of  Portland,  who  died  in  1854^ 
having  married  the  daughter  of  General  Scott, 
assumed  the  name  of  Scott,  and  in  his  letters  hfr 
signed  himself  "Scott-Portland.''     G.  F.  S.  E. 

Several  letters  now  before  me  addressed  to  Lord 
Cloncurry  and  others  by  the  celebrated  Lord 
HoUand  are  all  signed  "  Vassall-Holland." 


6«»&V,Fm.4,'82.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


91 


Lord  Husbbt  and  ths  Lingolnshiri  Rebel- 
lion (6*  S.  iv.  629;  t.  3).— The  following  ex- 
tracts from  contemporary  letters  are  a  fitting 
addition  to  Mr.  W.  J.  Hardt's  interesting 
articles : — 

"  Lords  Darcy  and  Hasiy  is  [ne]  condemned  to  death, 
and  difere  other  kni|{hti  and  religious  men  in  like 
maner.  Some  thinketh  they  iball  suffre  to-morrow."— 
John  HuMO  to  hit  raiBtre^t,  Honor  Yiacountess  Lisle, 
London,  May  18, 1587 ;  LuU  Papen,  toL  xii.  fol.  24. 

'<  The  ^th  of  this  month  Lord  Huasey  and  Sir  Robert 
Constable  and  Aske  were  deliyered  out  of  the  Tower  to 
Sir  Thomas  Wenetford,  now  Captain  of  Carljle.  who 
with  L  horsemen  took  them  northward.  *Tis  said  the 
Lord  Hussey  shall  suffer  at  Lincoln,  Constable  at  Hull, 
and  Aske  to  be  hanged  in  chains  at  York  or  Notts :  and 
Lord  Barcy  shall  suffer  the  last  day  of  this  month  on 
Tower  Hill.  Eight  of  the  moncks  of  the  Charterhouse 
be  ded  in  Nyweatt." — The  same  to  his  master,  Arthur 
Viscount  Lisle,  London,  June  29, 1537,  ib.,  vol.  ▼.  fol.  18. 

"  The  Lord  Darcy  suffrid  on  Saterday  last  past."— The 
same  to  the  same,  London,  July  ti,  1587,  ib.,  toI.  It. 
foL  77. 

Was  this  Lord  Hassey  a  descendant  of  the  baro- 
nial house  of  Hosee  ?— and  if  so,  what  were  the 
links  between  him  and  Henry,  fifth  Lord  Hosee 
of  Hertyng,  who  was  living  in  1455  7 

Herhentrudb. 

Thb  Arms  of  Colonial  and  Missionary 
Bishoprics  (6^  S.  iii.  241,  286,  467 ;  iy.  310  ; 
y.  57). —Mr.  Sawter  thinks  that  my  statement, 
that  time  giyes  " prescriptiye  authority"  for  the 
nse  of  armorial  bearings  of  this  kind,  though 
assumed  without  the  authority  of  a  direct  grant 
from  the  Crown  or  from  the  College  of  Arms,  is 
open  to  question.  He  will,  then,  confer  a  favour 
upon  me,  and  I  am  sure  he  will  interest  many 
other  readers,  if  he  will  kindly  supply  us  with 
information  as  to  when,  and  by  whom,  the  present 
armorial  bearings  of  all  the  English  sees,  except- 
ing the  modem  creations  of  the  present  century, 
were  granted.  When  he  has  shown  that  the  use 
of  these,  or  even  of  the  majority  of  them,  rests 
upon  a  definite  grant  from  the  Crown  directly,  or 
from  the  Crown  through  the  medium  of  the  College 
of  Arms,  or  upon  any  authority  but  that  "  pre- 
scriptive right''  which  Mr.  Sawjer  thinks  is 
open  to  question,  I  shall  be  glad  to  defend  my 
proposition  upon  other  grounds.  Meanwhile,  he 
may  like  to  know  that  I  am  about  the  last 
person  in  the  world  not  to  be  folly  cognizant  of 
trerything  which  the  late  Mr.  Boutell  printed 
njon  henudic  matters.  J.  Woodward. 

Lord  Brittas  (6**  S.  t.  68).— A  line  in  the 
Indis  of  Hereditary  Titles  of  Honour  of  the 
Index  Society  will,  I  think,  at  the  same  time 
aoswei  this  question  and  give  a  good  illustration 
of  the  use  of  such  indexes:  '* [Title]  Brittas, 
[family  lame]  Bourke.  Irish  Barony,  created 
.1618.  i^inted  1691.  Extinct."  With  this 
reference  (  is,  of  course,  easy  to  find  the  history 


of  the  man  in  the  extinct  peerage  of  Ireland. 
Theobald  Bork,  or  Bourke,  the  third  and  last 
Baron  Brittas,  married  Lady  Honora  O'Brien, 
daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Inchiquin,  and  forfeited 
his  title  in  1691  by  his  adherence  to  James  11. 
His  eldest  son,  John  Bourke,  who  was  in  the 
service  of  the  French  king,  assumed  the  title  of 
Lord  Brittas;  and  after  his  death  the  son  of 
Captain  Bourke,  who  was,  like  his  father,  in  the 
French  army,  also  assumed  the  title  of  Brittas, 
and  endeavoured  to  claim  the  title  of  Castleconnell 
(Burke  or  Burgh  of  Castleconnell),  which  had  also 
become  extinct  in  16^1.  The  courtesy  title  of 
Lord  Brittas,  therefore,  long  continued  to  be  used 
in  France,  though  no  longer  recognized  in  the 
peerage  of  Ireknd.  Edward  Sollt. 

"Chuck"  (6"»  S.  iv.  603).— Mr.  Trollope  can 
at  least  plead  a  good  precedent  for  the  use  of  this 
word,  as  it  seems  to  be  rather  a  favourite  with  so 
great  a  master  of  English  as  Cardinal  Newman. 
In  his  Dream  of  Oerontiui  the  demons  complain 
of  having  been  ''  chuck'd  down  by  the  sheer  might 
of  a  despot's  will";  and  in  his  DifficuUiei  felt  by 
Anglicans,  lecture  2,  §  9,  speaking  of  the  attitude 
of  the  English  people  to  the  Oxford  movement,  he 
says,  "  It  woold  be  little  or  nothing  though  the 

minister ekucksd  away  the  consecrated  wine." 

Jambs  Britten. 

Isleworth. 

"Deck"  of  Cards  (6**»  S.  iv.  509).— In  the 
United  States,  which  have  preserved  many  old- 
fashioned  English  words,  "deck"  is  almost  in- 
variably used  for  a  pack  of  cards ;  and  much 
of  what  we  call  "slang"  is  merely  a  survival 
of  good  old  words  which  have  a  clear  and  de- 
finite meaning ;  "  chuck,"  for  instance,  does  not 
exactly  mean  "toss" — ^you  may  be  tossed  by  a 
bull,  but  not  "  chucked "  by  him  ;  and  a  boy 
would  "chuck"  a  stone,  not  toss  it.  As  for 
"label"  being  obsolete,  what  does  the  railway 
porter  use  but  a  luggage  kbel?  and  postage 
stamps  are  "  price  Id,  per  kbel"    J.  R.  Haig. 

I  think  this  word  is  not  uncommon  ;  in  a  club 
of  Irish  working  men  in  which  I  am  interested  a 
pack  of  cards  is  always  called  a  "  deck." 

James  Britten. 

Isleworth. 

Fishing  Proverbs  (6**»  S.  iv.  467).— Pelaoius 
will  find  something  about  fish  symbolism  in  the 
Hexaemeron  of  St.  Basil,  hom.  viil,  and  the 
HexoMieron  of  St.  Ambrose,  hom.  y.;  in  either 
case  the  work  is  in  the  first  volume  of  the  Bene- 
dictine editions.  The  Polyhistor  Symbolietu  of 
Nic.  Caussin  (Par.,  1647)  has  for  lib,  viii., 
pp.  486-516,  "Parabolarum  Historicarum  Liber 
Octavus  :  Pisces."  In  the  Greek  text  of  ^sop's 
Fahles  (Lips.,  Teub.,  1862)  there  are  six  which- 
refer  to  the  dAievs,  and  five  which  refer  to  ttoa[g 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[|ikaV.FiB.4/82. 


S€k<l>Cs.  In  W.  B.  Marriott's  Teitifnony  of  the 
Catacombs  (Lond.,  1870)  there  is  part  iii.  ch.  ii. 
pp.  120-6, "  The  Symbolism  of  the  Word  IXGYX" 

For  direct  proverbs,  there  are  these  fi?e  in 
Graisford's  Faramiographi  Oraei  (Ox.,  1836) : 
akuvs  TrXTjyels  vovv  oi<r€i,  h(J^^^  vrjxearOai 
SiSdcrK€is,  3cA^(va  v^X5^^^^  3ioaa'K€iSf  0€k<f>iva 
vpo^  Tovpaiov  §€19,  and  ^k<f>iv  KoXvyL^av  <rvfjr 
fio\€V€u  In  the  Adotgia  (Typ.  WecheL,  1629),  a 
collection  from  Erasmas  and  others,  tiie  index 
mentions  twenty-one  proverbs  of  fish  and  fisher- 
inen,  and  the  text  has  references  to  similar  Greek 
proverbs  and  yarious  parallel  passages. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Sandford  SL  Martin. 

Pelaoius  will  find  some  rather  uncommon  pro- 
verbs of  fish  in  Le  JAvre  det  Frovirhes  Fratifais, 
well.  i.  p.  192  (Paris,  1859).  H.  Fishwick. 

Rochdale. 

The  Rouppionac  Familt  (6***  S.  r.  9).  — 
It  happened  that  I  had  just  been  looking  at 
Agnew's  French  Froteetant  Exiles,  and,  as  the  in- 
formation W.  S.  L.  S.  wants  was  most  likely  to  be 
found  in  it,  referred  to  all  the  volumes.  There  is 
a  long  notice  of  the  Vantier  family,  but  no  one  of 
the  name  of  Rouffignac  occurs,  and  it  may  be  that 
the  name  is  BousignaCf  as  this,  if  spelt  with  two 
t's,  and  in  the  handwriting  of  the  last  centuiy, 
might  easily  be  mistaken  for  /.  In  a  list  of 
Naturalized  Refugees,  xxiv.,  March  11,  12  Will, 
III.  (1700),  at  the  head  of  the  list  is  <' Jacob  de 
Bousignac,  Peter  and  Guy  sons.**  Agnew's  Index 
Vol.,  p.  62.  In  the  same  volume,  p.  216,  is  the 
name  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Isaac  Yautier ;  they 
come  in  the  Romilly  group  of  families,  her  father, 
David  Garnault,  being  connected  with  them.  In 
YoL  ii.  p.  262  is  the  longest  and  most  complete 
notice  of  the  Yautier  family: — 

•*  The  Yautier  refugee  embraced  poverty  in  England 
rather  than  apostasy  in  France,  and  brought  no  pe^gree 
papers  -with  bini.  But  be  is  the  fountain  of  the  tradi- 
tion in  England  that  he  tpranir  from  the  French  noblesse, 
and  the  French  genealogical  writers  have  a  tradition 
that  a  cadet  of  the  family,  being  a  Huguenot,  fled  .to 
England.  The  Yautiers  in  old  France  were  a  noble  and 
influential  family,  Princes  of  Yvetot  and  Gomtes  du 
Bellay,  from  whom  descended,  In  the  reign  of  Henry  IV., 
<}i\\eB  Yautier,  ecuver,  Sieur  de  la  Granderie ;  he  was 
the  grandfather  of  Uilles,  Sieur  des  Essards ;  and  his  son. 
Jean  Jacques  Vantier,  has  been  conjectured  to  be  the 
father  of  Daniel  Yautier.  the  refugee.  Daniel,  with  his 
wife  Margaret  and  a  dauffhter  RMchel,  was  naturalized 
on  2l8t  March,  1688  (see  List  xv.)." 

"  NaturalizHtion,  6th  March,  1691,  of  Margaret  and 
Mary  des  Easarts  and  John  des  Essarts  (see  List  xix.). 
The  refugee,  Daniel  Yautier.  was  relieved  at  the  French 
Hospital,  of  which  Daniel  Vautier,  said  to  be  his  son, 
became  a  director.  There  were  two  brothers,  Daniel 
(the  director)  and  Louis.  Isaac  and  Daniel,  two  sons  of 
Daniel  (the  former  married  in  1739  Madame  D'Albiac), 
left  no  descendants ;  but  the  line  was  continued  by  Louis, 
whose  eldest  surviving  son  was  Isaac.  This  was  the 
Isaac  Vautier  (b.  1785,  d.  1767)  who  married  Elizabeth 


Garnault  (daughter  of  Darnel,  grand-dftughter  of  Aim6 
Garnault,  sen.),  and  his  son  was  Lieut.  Daniel  Yautier, 
R.N.,  cousin  to  Sir  Samuel  Bomilly  (b.  1760,  d.  1818). 
His  surviving  daughter,  Harriet,  was  married  to  Samuel 
Golding,  Esq.,  and  his  surviving  son,  Daniel  Yautier, 
Esq.  (b.  1795.  d.  1831),  married  Susannah,  daughter  of 
J.  Golding,  Esq.  Two  of  his  sons  are  heads  of  families, 
namely,  Rev.  Richard  Vautier,  Vicar  of  Kenwyn  (b.  1821), 
and  Joseph  Garnault  Vautier,  Esq.  (b.  1824)." 

B.  F.  S. 

•Touffroy  D'Escharannes,  in  his  Armorial  Universel 
(Paris,  1848),  blazons  the  coat  of  *' Bouffijjrnac  en 
Limousin  **  as  "  D'or  au  lion  de  gueules."  This 
may  put  W.  S.  L.  S.  on  a  track  for  further  informa- 
tion as  to  the  Languedoc  family  of  the  name. 

NOICAD. 

Hook,  or  Hookb,  Family  (6"»  S.  iv.  469).— 
"  7.  James  Hook,  musician,  bom  at  Norwich, 
1746,"  was  no  doubt  the  grandfather  of  the  late 
Dean  of  Chichester,  the  famous  Dr.  Hook.  In  his 
life,  by  Stephens,  it  is  said,  '*  His  paternal  grand- 
father, Mr.  James  Hook,  was  a  composer  and 
teacher  of  music  at  NorwicL" 

Alfebd  Gattt,  D.D. 

Prohibition  of  Marriaob  between  English 
AND  Irish  (6**»  S.  iv.  488\— The  following  is  an 
extract  from  a  letter  which,  in  reply  to  this  query 
copied  from  "  N.  &  Q.,"  appeared  in  the  Northern 
Whigy  Belfast ;  it  is  worth  transferring  to  your 
columns  : — 

<*  The  Act  was  the  statute  of  Kilkenny,  passed  in  the 
reign  of  Edward  III.,  and  under  the  Viceroyalty  of  that 
monarch's  youngest  son  Lionel,  I  think,  in  the  fortieth 
year  of  his  reign.  Under  this  Act  men  having  Irish 
wiyes  were  to  be  half-hanged,  cut  down,  shamefully 
mutilated,  and—I  can  go  no  further." 

J.  M.  S. 

[See  further  the  Norikem.  Whiig  for  Dec  24, 1881.] 

Mr.  Froude,  in  bis  FLisiory  of  England  (yoL  iL 
p.  130,  new  edition)  refers  his  readers  on  this 
subject  to  the  SUUttUs  of  Kilkenny,  printed  by 
the  Irish  Antiquarian  Society.  These  statutes 
were  pissed  in  the  fortieth  year  of  Edward  III., 
and  were,  with .  some  exceptions,  afterwards  con- 
firmed by  10  Hen.  VIII.  c.  8.  They  are  not, 
howeyer,  printed  in  the  authorized  edition  of  the 
Irish  Statutes.*  I  may  add  that  Plowden,  in  his 
Historical  Beview  of  iht  State  of  Ireland  (pp.  35, 
36),  says  that  :— 

"  Nay  there  was  a  law  made  no  longer  since,  than  the 
28  Hen.  VIII.,  that  the  English  should  not  nurry  witi 
any  son  of  Irish  blood,  though  he  had  gotten  a  char^r 
of  denization,  unless  he  had  done  both  homage  and  feftty 
to  the  King  in  Chancery  and  were  also  bounden  V  '*' 
cognizance  in  sureties  to  continue  a  loyal  subject" 

G.  F.  R  B. 

Charing,  Kent  (6**  S.  iy.  489).-— I  asVed  Mr. 
Kobert  Furley,  of  Ashford,  if  he  could  e^c^^ain  the 
traditionary  theft,  and  this  is  what  he  h»  written 
to  me  on  the  subject,  and  also  anent  Cb^ing  : — 

"  The  distich  you  refer  to  I  ](a?e  iiefore  I'Sard.  Tradi- 
)igitized  by  VjV 


8«»aV.P«B,4,'82.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


93 


tion  Bays  the  bell  was  stolen  from  Little  Chart  Church, 
but  I  belieye  it  is  not  credited.  If  it  had  been  taken 
from  the  adjoining  parish  of  Egerton  I  should  not  haVe 
been  surprised,  as  Bgerton  was  a  chapel  annexed  to  Char- 
ing, and  both  held  of  St.  Paul's,  London.  The  loss  of 
Charing  bell  may  be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  in 
1590  the  whole  of  Charing  Church  was  consumed  by 
fire,  which  originated  from  a  gun  fired  at  a  pigeon  sitting 
on  the  roof.  It  has  now  a  regular  and  a  good  peal  of 
bells,  thanks  to  Bishop  Tufneli  (the  present  Vicar  of 
Croydon),  who  acted  as  Curate  of  Charing  throe  or  four 
jearsago. 

'*  In  the  time  of  Richard  II.  tradition  says  that  the 
block  on  which  St.  John  the  Baptist  is  said  to  have  been 
beheaded  was  brought  into  EngUnd,  and  then  kept  in 
this  church. 

"The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  had  a  seat  here, 
which  tradition  also  says  once  belonged  to  King  John. 

'*  There  is  another  tradition  {sea  q.)  that  a  famous 
cross  stood  on  the  top  of  the  hill  near  Charing,  which 
was  carried  to  London,  and  set  up  at  the  end  of  the 
Strand'!'' 

I  hare  giyen  Mr.  Farley's  letter  in  extmsOf 
thiskiDg  that  the  traditions  he  mentions  may  in- 
terest yoar  antiquarian  readers. 

Frsdk.  Bulb. 

jUhford,  Kent 

Dr.  Watts's  "  DiviNB  Songs"  (6"»  S.  iv.  468). 
— Both  tradition  and  Johnson  are,  I  think,  at 
fault  here.     Many  editions  of  the  Divine  Songs 
hare  passed  through  my  hands,  but  I  neyer  saw 
the  verse  otherwise  rendered  than  this:— 
'*  Let  Bogs  delight  to  bark  and  bite. 
For  God  has  made  them  so ; 
Let  Bears  and  Lions  growl  and  fight^ 
For  'tis  thehr  nature  too." 

And  as  I  extract  from  the  tenth  edition,  1729,  my 
oldest,  which  must  have  come  under  the  eye  of  the 
doctor,  I  presume  it  to  be  the  correct  yersion. 

J.  0. 

I  cannot  refer  to  an  old  edition  of  Watts's 
Divine  Songs,  but  at  my  mother's  knee,  seventy 
years  ago,  I  learned  them  by  heart.  From  that 
day  to  this  I  never  doubted  that  the  author  wrote 
and  meant  " For  'tis  their  nature  too" repeating 
the  idea  of  the  second  line,  "  For  God  has  made 
them  so."  In  London,  in  1830, 1  first  remember 
to  have  heard  the  elliptic  infinitive,  which  is  now 
flo  common,  but  which  surely  has  never  been 
adopted  by  any  good  writer.  S.  W.  Bix. 

Bticcles. 

In  an  edition  of  this  divine's  Divine  and  Moral 
Songs,  with  plates  by  Stothard,  published  by 
Charles  Tilt,  86,  Fleet  Street,  London,  in  1832, 
the  last  word  in  the  first  verse  is  '*  too  "  not  *'  to." 

M.A.  0x0 N. 

Though  I  have  not  seen  Dr.  Watts's  hymns 
since  childhood,  recollection  enables  me  to  say 
that  I  never  saw  a  printed  copy  in  which  the 
(so  in  this  first  verse  was  not  properly  spelt  as 
an  adverb=al8o.  No  such  abbreviation  as  that 
sai&  to  be  traditional  by  Mr.  Warren  is  used  in 


the  north ;  if  so  printed,  it  would  have  been 
there  unintelligible  to  children.  When  quite 
grown  up,  I  remember  in  a  word-gossip  with  a 
lady  from  a  southern  county  speaking  of  this  as 
one  variation  from  our  habit  of  speech  new  to  me, 
and  to  my  astonishment  she  said,  ^^Dr.  Watts 
uses  it."  This  I  hardly  thought  to  meet  in  "  N. 
&  Q.,"  and  am  glad  it  can  be  deared  np.  M.  P. 
Cumberland. 

Spidkrs  (6"»  S.  iv.  606).— It  was  formerly  a 
popular  opinion  that  spiders  are  poisonous,  and  I 
have  heard  wild  tales  told  in  this  neighbourhood 
of  cattle  being  killed  by  eating  them  with  their 
food.  Bobert  Burton,  in  the  Anatomy  of  Melan- 
choly, says: — 

"Some  are  too  partial,  as  friends  to  orerween,  others 
come  with  a  prejudice  to  carp,  Tilifie,  detract,  and  scoffe 

some  as  bees  for  honey,  some  as  spiders  to  gather 

poyson.**— Sixth  ed.,  p.  10.  " 

There  is  a  tale  told  in  the  preface  to  Hearne's 
Langtoft's  Chronicle,  p.  cc,  of  three  persons  being 
poisoned  by  the  venom  of  a  spider  ;  two  of  them 
died  and  the  third  was  so  near  death  that  he  made 
his  will.  He  was  eventually  cured  by  water  from 
St.  Winefrede's  Well  Edward  Pk acock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

WiLUAM  Shbnstone  (fi^  S.  iv.  485).— It  may 
interest  some  scholars  to  be  reminded  that  the 
former  of  the  two  English  stanzas  quoted  by  Mr. 
Sturges,  "Venus  fresh-rising,"  &c.,  is  a  para- 
phrase,  or  almost  a  translation,  of  Ovid's  well- 
known  lines:— 

'*  Ipsa  Venus  pnbem,  quoties  velamina  ponit, 
Protegitnr  Isevft  semiredncta  manu.' 


Hampstead,  N.W. 


E.  Walford,  M.A. 


CoyFRB  :  FOHTKHBLLK  OR  VOLTAIRB  1  (6^   S. 

iv.  612).— It  is  more  reasonable  to  give  FonteneUe 
the  credit  of  this  bon  mot  than  Voltaire.  Voltaire 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four,  and  FonteneUe  lived 
to  be  nearly  one  hundred  years  old  (b.  Feb.  11, 
1667,  d.  Jan.  9, 1767) ;  of  his  cheerfulness  at  an 
advanced  age  this  anecdote  is  related.  In  conver- 
sation one  day  a  lady,  a  few  years  younger  than 
FonteneUe,  playfuUy  remarked,  **  Monsieur,  you 
and  I  stay  here  so  long,  methinks  Death  has  for- 
gotten us."  "  Hush !  speak  in  a  whisper,  madame," 
replied  FonteneUe;  ^Uant  mieux!  don't  remind 
him  of  us."  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

In  Meidinger's  German  Grammar  the  hon  mot 
is  attributed  to  FonteneUe.  J*  S. 

"Thkrk  let  Thy  Servant  be"  (6»**  S.  iv. 
633;  V.  46).— The  courtesy  of  my  friend— our 
friend,  let  me  say,  since  she  is  a  valued  correspon- 
dent—M.  P.,  of  Cumberland,  enables  me  to  state 
that  the  editor  of  the  Cumbrian  paper  from  whith^ 


94 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


»S.V.PiB.^'62. 


I  took  these  lines  is  himself  ignorant  of  their 
origin  and  authorship,  and  thinks  that  they  were 
taken  from  some  printed  collection,  or  selection,  of 
Terse.  Thus  the  identity  of  A.  V.  R.  K  and  the 
first  publication  of  the  lines  are  still  to  seek. 
Meanwhile,  I  may  be  permitted  to  own  that  the 
Ebv.  W.  D.  Macrat's  paragraph  on  the  sub- 
ject gives  me  deep  and  sincere  pleasure. 

A.  J.  M. 

The  Penny  Post  anticipated  (6*^  S.  t.  46). 
— The  very  rare  and  curious  tract  to  which  Mr. 
Platt  refers  has  often  been  noticed,  but,  so  far  as 
I  know,  the  means  by  which  John  Hill  proposed 
to  carry  out  his  object  have  not  been  explained. 
I  haye  a  transcript  of  this  little  book,  and  propose 
to  reprint  it,  with  some  particulars  respecting  the 
postal  charges  in  the  seyenteenth  century.  Sir 
Rowland  Hill  knew  of  the  tract,  as  a  transcript  of 
it  was  sent  to  him  by  his  friend  the  late  Dr. 
E.  W.  Gray,  F.R.S.,  Keeper  of  the  Zoological 
Collections  in  the  British  Museum. 

Henrt  B.  Wheatlbt. 

Memorial  Tablet  to  a  Ringer  (6^  S.  y. 
26). — This  inscription  is  in  Bromsgrove  Church — 
not  Bradford.    On  the  tablet  the  last  line  reads:— 
"  And  ruthless  death  hu  brought  the  home.*' 

Of  course  an  error  of  the  painter's.       W.  A.  C. 
Bromsgrore. 

"All  upon  the  merrt  pin"  (6**»  S.  It.  513). 
—As  Cowper,  in  John  OUpinf  uses  this  expression, 
it  was  probably  then  familiar: — 

"  The  Calender  right  glad  to  see 
His  friend  in  merry  pin." 

M.  P. 

Cumberland. 

Poll  Books  (6"»  S.  iv.  208,  433,  477,  624).— 
Besides  an  almost  complete  set  of  poll  books  for 
the  borough  of  Ipswich  during  this  century,  I  have 
those  for  1768, 1784,  and  1790.  I  possess,  also,  a 
very  old  copy  of  the  poll  book  for  Suffolk,  viz.,  of 
the  election  in  May,  1705,  during  the  shrievalty 
of  Thomas  Eerrage,  when  the  candidates  were  the 
Right  Hon.  Lyonel,  Earl  of  Dysart,  and  Sir 
Robert  Davers,  Bart.,  and  Sir  Dudley  Cullum  and 
Sir  Samuel  Bamardiston,  Barts.;  and  another  of 
the  contest  in  1790,  when  three  baronets,  Sir  John 
Rous,  Sir  Thomas  Charles  Bunbury,  and  Sir  Gerard 
WiUiam  Vannecfi  stood.  This  latter  contains 
a  list  of  knights  of  the  shire  from  26  Edward  L, 
1297,  to  12  Edward  IV.,  1471,  and  is  continued 
from  33  Henry  VIIL,  1642,  to  30  George  III., 
1790,  with  a  concise  view  of  the  contested  elections 
for  Suffolk  since  the  year  1702. 

T.  R.  ELKmoTON. 
Ipswich. 

The  eariiest  Nottinghamshire  poll  book  in  the 
library  of   local^  literature  in    the   Nottingham 


Free  Public  Reference  Library  is  one  for  a  par- 
liamentary election  in  April,  1722.  Our  earliest 
Nottingham  Common  Council  poll  book  bmrs  the 
date  1747,  and  that  for  a  Nottingham  parlia- 
mentary election,  1764.  J.  Potter  Briscoe. 
Nottingham. 

"Come  across*'  (6«>  8.  iv.  328,  394,  4i^5).— 
Perhaps  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  will  be  satisfied 
as  to  the  propriety  of  this  expression  when  they 
know  that  it  has  the  authority  of  the  original 
editor  of  this  periodical.  In  his  interesting  and 
amusing  "Gossip  of  an  Old  Bookworm,"  the 
fourth  uiicle  in  the  Nineteenth  Century  for  July, 
1881,  p.  71,  Mr.  Thoms  uses  the  phrase  in  a 
passage  where  neither  *' encounter ''  nor  "meet, 
with''  would  have  suited  his  purpose.  Having 
mislaid  his  copy  of  the  Colloquies  of  Eraemus 
when  he  wanted  to  refer  to  it  (probably  with 
respect  to  some  query  or  reply),  he  started  off  to 
Holywell  Street,  trusting  to  find  one  for  certain  at 
some  of  the  booksellers'  there  : — 

"  But  neither  from  Poole  nor  any  other  of  hit  brother 
bookfellers  there,  nor  from  Bamstead,  nor  Baldock  in 
Holbom.  nor  anywhere  could  I  get  a  copy  of  this  com- 
parativQiv  common  book,  and  1  returned  home  re  in- 
fedd.  When  1  afterwarde  came  across  my  own  copy, 
my  interest  in  the  point  had  Tanished." 

W.  E.  Buckley. 

The  Name  "  Howard"  i&^  S.  iv.  206,  277).— 
In  the  registers  of  St.  Paul's  parish  in  this  town  is 
a  very  decided  proof  of  Prof.  Skeat's  suggestion 
that  the  name  "  Howard "  may  come  from  hay- 
ward.  I  have  lately  been  going  carefully  through 
these  registers,  and  find  the  name,  evidently  be- 
longing to  the  same  family,  as  Heyward,  Hay- 
ward,  Hogward,  Heward,  becoming  by  degrees 
Howard,  which  appears  to  have  assumed  its  pre- 
sent distinctive  form  about  1690,  and  from  that 
time  to  have  retained  it.  The  following  entries  from 
the  registers  will,  I  think,  prove  this.  On  Dec.  27, 
1677,  I  find  that  a  William  Hay  ward  married 
An[ne]  Parridine ;  on  July  6, 1687|  I  find  baptized 
Edward,  son  of  William  Bayward  ;  and  on  Jan.  1, 
1689-90, 1  find  baptized  William,  son  of  William 
Howard.  It  will  be  said.  What  does  this  prove  ? 
and  the  answer  would  be,  Nothing,  if  it  were  not 
for  what  follows.  The  William  Howard  baptized 
1689-90  married  a  Mary  Richardson,  and  amongst 
other  children  he  has  a  daughter,  baptized  on 
Aug.  24,  1718,  by  the  names  of  Anne  Paradine, 
daughter  of  William  Howard,  butcher,  and  Mary 
his  wife.  Paradine  or  Parridine  was  the  name  of 
a  family  of  some  consequence  in  these  parts  in 
those  days,  and  this  William  Howard  showed 
his  appreciation  of  the  connexion  by  naming 
one  of  his  daughters  after  his  mother  i^  full. 
From  these  registers  I  attempted  to  draw  vip 
a  pedigree  of  the  Howard  family,  locally  cco* 
nected  with  this  town,  which  is  to  be  seen  in  my 
Guide  to  Bedford  and  iU  Neighbourhood^  k^^idly 


<aaT.Fn.4,'83.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


95 


reyiewed  by  you,  6'*»  S.  iv.  1B8-9;  and  I  think, 
in  this  cose,  we  may  safely  give  the  credit 
of  the  name  being  altered  from  Hayward  to 
Howard  to  Mr.  Alexander  Leith,  who  commenced 
signing  the  registers  as  vicar  in  the  year  1689-90, 
the  same  in  which  William,  son  of  William 
Howard,  who  was  always  formerly  Hayward,  was 
baptized.  D.  G.  C.  Elwss. 

The  CreMent,  Bedford. 

Patibncb,  a  Man's  Namb  (6*  S.  iv.  168,366). 
— ^Patience  Thomas  Adams,  of  Bushey  Grove,  co. 
H^rts,  Filacer  Exigenter,  and  Clerk  of  the  Out- 
lawries in  the  Court  of  King's  Bench,  was  the 
&ther  of  the  late  Dr.  William  Adams,  of  Doctors' 
Commons.  His  godfather  had  desired  that  he 
should  be  christened  Patience,  and  intimated  that 
his  fortune  depended  on  it.  But  his  godfather 
died,  and  left  him  nothing  but  the  exercise  of 
patience.  His  name  looks  comical  in  Latin,  as  it 
appears  on  the  gravestone  of  his  son  Charles  in 
Aldenham  Church,  ^'Patientise  Thomse  Adams 
filios."  Henrt  H.  Gibbs. 

8t.  Dnnstan^fl,  Kegent's  Park. 

The  Name  of  Oxford=Rhbdtcina  (6**»  S. 
iv.  265,  453). — My  friend  Mr.  Pickford  takes  an 
interest  in  the  lighter  literature  of  Oxford.  He 
mentions  the  use  of '*  Rhedycina "  by  the  poeta 
'tninores  of  the  lost  century.  Will  he  recollect  a 
more  recent  instance  of  its  use  by  Lord  Sherbrooke 
on  the  occasion  of  a  royal  visit? — 

/'  Quid  memorem  quanto  crepuit  domus  alta  triumphol 

•  •  *  *  » 

Boyalty  nbi  ingresBa  est,  super  omnes  scilicet  ilia 
Qaelphiadai  feiix,  dextrmm  Rhedycina  benignam 
Cni  dedit,  accepitque  sinu  propriamque  dicavit." 
Pctma  Canino-Anglico-Latinum  super  advenlH  Sirenissi' 
marum  Prineipwn  non  Canetllarii  prtemio  donaiwn 
autdonandum,  lue  in  Theatro  Sheldoniano  recitcUuw 
aut  recitandum,  p.  4,  Ox.  1832. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Sakctus  Bell  Cotes  (6*»»  S.  iv.  147,  433).— 
There  is  one  on  the  parish  church  of  Wraxall, 
Somersetshire.  Hknrt  H.  Gibbs. 

8t  Danstan's,  Regent's  Park. 

Easter  Eggs  (6'>»  S.  iv.  308,  478)  or  Pasch 
eggs,  from  pascha^  the  Passover,  have  been  given 
in  many  countries  as  a  sacred  observance  of  the 
Roman  Church,  and  prevailed  among  our  ancestors 
before  the  Reformation.  The  egg  was  doubtless 
considered  as  an  emblem  of  the  resurrection,  and 
it  was  usual  to  colour  eggs  yellow,  red,  or  blue, 
it  is  presumed  merely  for  ornament.  The  eggs 
were  blessed  by  the  priest  in  this  form  : — *'  Bless, 
O  Lord,  we  beseech  Thee,  this  Thy  creature  of 
eggs,  that  it  may  become  a  wholesome  sustenance 
to  Thy  faithful  servants,  eating  it  in  thankfulness 
to  Thee  on  account  of  the  resurrection  of  our 
Lord."  There  is  extant  a  curious  book  of 
emblems  (1678)^  with  one   hundred   engravings 


of  eggs  with  devices  within  them.  Ray  has  a 
proverb,  "  I  '11  warrant  you  for  an  egg  at  Easter," 
which  evidently  alludes  to  beginning  to  eat  eggs 
again  at  Easter  after  the  fast  of  Lent,  Egg 
Saturday  (the  Saturday  preceding  Shrove  Tuesday) 
concluding  the  eating  of  eggs  before  Lent. 

Willtam  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

Cremer,  the  toyman  in  Regent  Street,  compiled 
a  pleasant  brochure  on  this  subject,  and  Mr. 
Lach-Sztrma  f(ould  stand  a  good  chance  of 
being  presented  with  a  copy  if  he  were  to  appear 
as  a  purchaser  in  the  children's  paradise  towards 
the  latter  end  of  Lent.  St.  Swithik. 

Epigram  on  the  Bcjrser  [sic]  of  St.  John's 
College,  Oxon.,  &c.  (6**»  S.  iii.  244,  435 ;  iv. 
299). — It  is  plain,  from  the  information  recently 
contributed,  that  there  are  two  distinct  acts  of 
vandalism  alluded  to— one,  the  cutting  down  of  the 
trees  in  the  garden  of  St.  John's  College  by  the 
bursar.  Dr.  Abel  Evans,  which  gave  rise  to  the 
epigram  quoted  (see  6^  S.  iii.  244),  and  the  other 
the  lopping  of  the  lime  trees  in  the  garden  of  New 
College,  which  occurred  many  years  afterwards, 
and  forms  the  subject  of  a  poem  in  the  Oxford 
Sausage,  The  memorial  couplet,  or  distich,  con- 
cerning the  poets  bred  at  Oxford — often  given  in 
slightly  different  forms — must  have  been  written 
in  the  earlier  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  and 
concerning  it  there  is  some  curious  information  to 
be  found  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2»<>  S.  xi.  329,  375,  but  to 
whose  pen  the  couplet  owes  its  paternity  is  not 
known.  It  may  also  be  found  in  Wheatley's  edition 
of  Percy's  Beliques  of  Ancient  Engluh  Poetry ,  iii. 
307.  Dr.  Evans,  the  bursar  of  St.  John's  Col- 
lege, the  cutter  down  of  the  trees,  and  the  writer 
of  epigrams,  who  is  mentioned  in  it,  is  thus  alluded 
to  by  Pope  in  the  Dundad,  published  originally 
in  1728:— 

'*  Songs,  sonnets,  epigrams,  the  winds  uplift, 
And  whisk  them  bsck  to  Erans,  Toung,  and  Swift." 
Bk.  ii.  V.  115-16. 

In  Wilson's  History  of  Merchant  Taylor^  School^ 
p.  906,  there  is  the  following  information  concern- 
ing him,  printed  in  italics  in  a  foot-note: — 

*'Abel  Evans  ordinat.  Oxon.  Disc.  26  Mail  1700,  et 
Presbyt.  Oxon.  22  Sept.  1700,  Vicarius  de  Kirtlinrton 
in  com.  Oxon.  Comitia  Ormondo  sacra  anno  1704, 
Oratione  poluta  c1au«it  Postea  Collegii  Capellanus,  et  in 
anno  1718-14  ad  Yicariam  Diyi.  ^gidii  Oxoniensia 
prsBtentatus.  Rector  de  Btougbton  com.  Huntin^on., 
postea  Rector  de  Gheam  com.  Surrv,  anno  1725,  ubi  obiit 
18  Octob.  et  sepult.  27  Octob.  1737.  Oarmina  qussdam 
Anglicana  edidit  hsBC  more  Satyrico  contra  Tindallum, 
ej usque  lenriles  pedissequos,  intit.  'The  Apparition, a 
Poem/  Oxf.  1710,  8to." 

'*  Vertumnus,  an  Epistle  to  Mr.  Jacob  Bobart,  Botany 
Professor  to  the  Unirersitjof  Oxford,  and  Keeper  of  the 
Pbysick  Garden,  Oxford,  1713,  8to."— Rawlinson's  HiiL 

He  is  thus  noticed  in  the  list  of  head  scholars  of 
Merchant  Taylors'  in  the  same  book  ly-^  i 

Digitized  by  VjOOQIC 


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[CA  S.  V.  Feb.  4,  '82. 


"1689.  Abell  [tie']  Erans,  el.  to  St.  John's,  Oxford, 
1692,  adm.  M.A.  28  March  1699,  6.D.  26  April  1705, 
D.D.  16  May  1711,  Rector  of  West  Cheam,  Surrey,  where 
he  died  1787."— P.  1202. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Newbourne  Bectoryi  Woodbridge. 

English  Fiftesnth  Century  Rood  Screens 
(6*  S.  ir.  247,  450).— Some  reference  is  made  to 
the  screens  of  this  date  in  Oxfordshire,  bat  there 
occurs  DO  mention  of  the  one  at  Hanborough 
(&  1460,  Parker's  Deanery  Chiide,  p.  146,  Ox. 
1846),  which  is -a  Tery  fine  one  ;  nor  of  another, 
which  is  also  a  fine  one,  just  within  the  century 
(c.  1500,  ibid,  p.  11).  The  rood-loft  exists  in^both 
instances.  Another,  which  is  earlier,  may  also  be 
referred  to,  the  Early  English  screen  at  Stanton 
Harcourt  {ibid,  p.  172).  There  are  engravings  of 
these.  Ed.  MarshaliT 

The  "Sepulchre"  in  Churches  (6*  S.  iv. 
148,  333). — In  the  parish  church  of  Hackney, 
Middlesex,  is  an  Easter  sepulchre,  removed  from 
the  ancient  church  of  St.  Augustine.  There  it 
stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  high  altar,  having 
been  erected  in  1519  by  Christopher  Urswyck, 
then  rector.  Qis  brass  is  placed  on  the  table  of 
.  the  sepulchre.  F.  S.  W. 

I  have  read  with  interest  the  notes  on  Easter 
sepulchres  in  '^  N.  &  Q.''  I  believe  I  am  right  in 
saying  that  the  Easter  sepulchre  in  Patrin^n 
Church,  Yorkshire,  is  one  of  tne  most  perfect  in  Eng- 
land. It  is  of  four  stages,  one  above  another.  In  the 
lowest  are  the  three  soldiers.  The  next  compart- 
ment is  vacant,  and  is  probably  that  in  which 
the  crucifix  was  placed  on  the  night  of  Good 
Friday.  In  the  third  the  Saviour  is  represented 
rising  from  the  tomb.  The  fourth  is  vacant.  The 
sepulchre  has  crocketed  pinnacles  on  each  side, 
the  finish  being  a  cinquefoil  niche,  terminating  in 
a  noble  finiaL  At  Easter,  when  a  scenic  repre- 
sentation of  the  Besurrection  was  enacted  in  the 
church,  a  wooden  frame  was  generally  erected 
over  the  arch  surmounting  the  tomb,  and  various 
rites  were  observed. 

There  is  also  an  Easter  sepulchre  in  two  com- 
partments at  Bampton,  in  Oxfordshire,  and  a 
superb  tomb  in  Lincoln  Cathedral. 

George  B.  Thackwrat. 

25,  Alma  Square,  Scarborough. 

"The  oret  mare  is  the  better  horse"  (6**» 
S.  ii.  207,  279  ;  iii.  96  ;  iv.  138,  233,  266,  316, 
466). — Flanders  mares  were  in  repute  for  harness 
even  as  late  as  the  last  Duke  of  Gordon's  time, 
who  had  a  splendid  team  of  four  or  six  for  state 
occasions,  of  which  he  was  very  proud.  He  be- 
queathed  them  to  the  duchess,  that  she  might  not 
lose  that  portion  of  her  dignity ;  but  it  seems  she 
was  rather  to  be  pitied,  for  her  memoir  tells  us 
that  her  head  coachman  so  often  made  it  an  excuse 


that  the  weather  was  either  so  cold,  or  so  hot,  or 
so  wet  that  it  "would  spoil  the  mares' coats  to  take 
them  out,"  that  she  lost  many  a  drive  a  less  illus- 
trious team  would  have  taken  her.  P.  P. 

What  does  R.  R.  say  to  the  following  extract 
from  Archbishop  Abbot's  wiU^  dated  July  25, 
16321— "To  Mr.  Richard  Brigham,  the  con- 
troller of  my  house,  I  give  my  four  coach  mares." 

W.  R.  Tate. 

Horsell,  Woking. 

Grimm's  conjecture  is  illustrated  by  the  follow- 
ing extract  :— 

"  Isti  magni  abbatas  et  abbatissas  debent  in  suis  armi* 
portare  leopardos,  mulos,  burdones,  vel  titros,  pro  eo, 
quod  ipsi  habent  et  portant  instrumenta  episcoponiui, 
ut  mitram  et  cruoem,^  &c.-- Upton,  De  Studio  Rei  MUi- 
tarit,  quoted  in  Fiddes's  Hist,  Collect,,  89-91. 

E.  H.  M. 

"Chetne"  (6«»  S.  iL  367,  520  ;  iv.  56,  417).— 
The  names  of  Cheyne,  Cheyney,  Chesney,  Chas- 
teney,  Kaines,  and  Cahaignes  have  a  common 
origin.  In  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries 
they  were  in  the  old  monkish  Latin  styled  Do 
Querceto  or  De  Caisneto,  the  oak,  chene  or  eheyne 
in  French,  the  chestnut  in  Italian  or  Spanish, 
and  from  which  cattatul.  The  arms  (fifteenth 
century)  of  the  Cheyneys  of  Kent  and  Cheynes 
of  Sussex  were  three  chestnut  leaves,  tinctures  not 
known.  The  oak  and  sweet  chestnut  are  botanio- 
ally  aUied.  Jas.  R.  Scott,  F.S.A. 

Knowie,  The  Drive,  Walthamstow. 

Henry  Halltwbll,  Minister  of  Ifibld,  and 
HsNRT  Halltwell,  Vicar  op  Cowfold  (6"* 
S.  iii.  324,  368,  436  ;  iv.  377,  458).— In  reply  to 
CoL.  Fishwick's  query,  Henry  Halliwell  appears 
as  "  parson  of  Twineham"  in  1634.  The  matter  is 
more  confused,  as  I  now  find  in  the  Index  of  In- 
stitutions (Public  Record  Office),  "Ifeild.  Hen. 
Halliwell,  Sussex,  1«  Mar.  1666.  Fatron,  Hen. 
Pecke,  Ar.''  Sir  Wm.  Burrell  quotes  (Add.  MS. 
6698,  p.  138)  from  Ifield register.  Burials,  "Feb.  14, 
1666,  Mr.  Hen.  Hallywell  late  Min'."  How  can 
this  be  explained,  unless  there  were  two  persons 
of  the  name  t  Frederick  E.  Sawter. 

Brighton. 

"For  Fraid"  (6*>»  S.  iv.  226,  468).— I  am 
familiar  with  the  expression  "  for  fraid  "  (=lest), 
and  also  with  "  for  flayed,"  which  has  the  same 
meaning.  A  comparison  of  the  two  expressions 
inclines  me  to  think  that  they  are  simply  elliptical 
phrases,  "  on  account  of  (being)  afraid." 

W.  Thoufson. 

Sedbergh. 

"Conundrum"  (6"»  S.  ii.  348,  470;  iii.  114; 
iv.  154). — I  am  afraid  that  we  have  not  yet  arrived 
at  a  satisfactory  derivation  of  this  word,  which  in 
FoUer's  Abd  Bedeviyut,  v<^.^^.(ed.  Nichols, 


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97 


1867),  is  spelt  convmbrum:  ''Bat  these  eonxmr 
brumif  whether  real  or  nominal,  went  down  with 
Erasmus  like  chopped  hay,  haying  some  show, 
indeed,  of  solidity,  but  scarce  the  substance  of  a 
mere  shadow."  Ford  uses  conumdrumed,  a  form 
which  I  do  not  remember  to  have  met  with  else- 
where: *'No,  no  ;  you  are  but  a  little  staring — 
there 's  difference  between  staring  and  stark  mad. 
You  are  but  whimsied  yet,  crotcheted,  conum- 
drumedy  or  so"  {The  Lover't  Melancholy,  II.  iL, 
1629).  F.  C.  BiRKBECK  Terry. 

Cardiff. 

Pronunciation  of  Ebrr  (6"»  S.  ir.  69,  255, 
279,  336,  475,  523).— I  must  admit  the  force  of 
the  practical  remarks  of  Mr.  Kerr,  p.  523, 
and  I  haye  also  been  informed,  on  the  authority  of 
g«*»^  who  has  done  so  much  in  the  Oenealogiit 
and  its  predecessors  to  elucidate  the  Scotch  families 
of  the  name,  that  the  common  pronunciation  among 
the  working  classes  is  Kerr,  and  amongst  the  upper 
classes  Earr,  but  that  some  time  ago  Kerr  was 
common  also  with  the  educated,  there  being  in 
these  things  some  fashion,  the  monosyllabic  Forbes 
supplanting  the  For-bei  of  a  generation  back.  I 
still  think  my  statement  is  theoretically  right  as 
to  the  causes  of  variations  in  pronunciation,  and 
point  out  that  if  Kerr  had  anciently  been  the  pro- 
nnnciation,  it  would  have  given  no  trouble  on  the 
soath  side  of  the  border.  The  ordinary  southerner 
does  not  take  Kerr  and  Carr  to  be  the  same  name, 
and  would  pronounce  them  according  to  the  e  or  the 
a  without  hesitation  ;  yet  the  invariable  tendency 
south  of  the  Tweed  was  to  change  the  spelling  of 
"  Kerr "  into  Karr  or  Carr,  Is  not  Mr,  Kerr 
misinformed  when  he  says  "the  Duke  of  Roxburghe 
is  the  modern  representative  of  the  old  border 
family  of  Ker,  or  Kirr,  of  Cessford  "?  The  Earl  of 
Home  is,  I  believe,  the  heir-general  of  the  old 
family.  The  Duke  of  Roxburghe  represents  the 
Gessford  family  of  a  later  period,  the  Drummonds 
and  Inneses  having  successively  taken  the  name  of 
their  maternal  ancestors.  Is  not  the  Marquess  of 
Lothian  the  male  representative  of  the  old  border 
family  of  Ker,  or  Kerr,  of  Cessford?  Why  is 
Canu  the  Latin  form  of  Carr  f  C***. 

Does  Mr.  Kbrr  think  that  the  not  uncommon 
name  Kier  has  its  origin  in  Carr  or  the  many 
equivalents  he  gives  7  Certainly  Kier  is  pro- 
nounced differently  from  Kerr,  at  least  so  far  as 
the  writer's  experience  is  concerned.  With  regard 
to  Ker,  it  may  be  pointed  out  that  among  the 
earliest  records  of  the  name  is  that  of  the  Kers  of 
Kersland,  to  which  I  suspect  the  quotation  given 
refers.  Crawfurd,  in  his  History  of  Renfrewshire, 
mentions  William  de  Ker  (1292).  Now  this  raises 
(of  course)  the  question,  which  is  by  no  means 
new,  as  to  whetner  these  early  personal  names 
spring  from  place-names  or  vice  versd.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  know  the  date  on  which  the 


name  Carr  (so  spelt)  or  Ker  first  is  found  in 
England.  In  the  Rowallan  papers  it  is  mentioned 
that  one  of  the  family  married  a  Schaw  of  Hally, 
"  predecessor  to  the  House  of  Keirs."  This  was 
about  1£98.  There  were  lands  in  Scotland,  if  I 
err  not,  called  Cars,  and  so  spelt,  about  the  year 
1336,  and,  as  before  indicated,  the  lands  of  Ker. 
I  do  not  think  Mr.  Commissioner  Kerr  would  admit 
that  the  pronunciation  of  his  name  is  Car.  In 
whose  possession  is  the  inkhorn  of  Robert  Ker, 
who  figures  so  prominently  with  the  Covenanting 
movement  in  the  West  of  Scotland  (1666)  ? 

Alfred  Chas.  Jonas. 
Swansea. 

Wrat  =  XJdall  (6«»  S.  iv.  429  ;  v.  .31).— It 
may  interest  Mr.  J.  S.  Udal  to  be  informed  that 
the  name  of  Udall,  now  spelt  Yewdsll,  is  very 
common  in  the  two  townships  of  EccleshiU  and 
Idle,  near  Bradford.  Zachary  Udall,  of  Idle,  had 
sentence  of  prcemunire  passed  upon  him  at  a  ses- 
sions held  at  Wakefield  in  1661,  for  refusing  to 
take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  The  same  person  gave 
the  ground  for  a  Friends'  burial  place,  in  wnich 
numerous  members  of  the  YewdaU  family  subse- 
quently found  their  resting  place.  Consult  Cud- 
worth's  Round  about  Bradford,  p.  383. 

Chablss  a.  Fxdebsb. 

Bradford. 

"Too  TOO"  (&^  S.  iv.  266,  313  ;  v.  36).— The 
repetition  for  emphasis  is  not  uncommon  among 
the  earlier  poets  of  the  present  century,  thus  : — 
*'  Ask  nought  so  heavenward,  so  tootoo  high." 

Keats,  Endymxon,  bk.  iil. 
'•  Who  've  made  *  as  youth '  wait  too-too  long  already." 
Byron,  Don  Juan,  canto  L 
W.  J.  G. 

"  My  wife  and  neighbors  were  to  to  sorry  that 
I  would  neds  go  forth,  thinking  I  would  not 
return  alive"  ("The  Examynacyone  and  Impre- 
sonmentt  [1553]  of  Edwarde  Vnderehyll,"  HarL 
MS.  424,  fol.  92).  The  phrase  (used  in  the  sense 
of  very)  was  not  at  all  uncommon  in  the  sixteenth 
century.  I  have  gathered  from  American  talea 
that  it  is  still  in  use  in  the  United  States. 

HXRMSNTRUDE. 

This  expression  is  found  much  earlier  than 
Spenser's  time.  Cf.  N.  Udall's  translation  of  the 
Apophthegmes  of  Erasmus,  1542  (p.  98  of  the 
reprint,  1877),  "  Where  he  seemed  to  manie  folkes 
toto  muche  and  toto  earnest  a  philosophier,"  &c. 
Cf.  also  Thersites  (?  1537),  in  Hazlitt's  edition  of 
Dodsley's  0.  Eng,  Plays,  i.  423  :— 
"  It  is  Uxhtoo,  mother,  the  pastime  and  good  cheer 

That  we  shall  see  and  hare,  when  that  we  come  there." 
F.   C.  BiRKBKCK  TbRRT. 

Cardiff. 

A  Parallelism  :  Swift  and  T.  Adams  (6** 
S.  iii.  608  ;  v.  75).— Since  sei^ding^my  note,  in  thejg 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(6«fc  S.  V.  Feb.  i,  '82. 


course  of  reading  I  have  met  with  another  similar 
passage: — 

"There  is  no  man  alone for  indeed  tboagh  in  a 

Wilderness,  a  man  is  never  alone,  not  only  becauee  he  is 
with  himself,  and  his  own  thoughts,  but  because  he  is 
with  the  Deyil,  who  ever  consorts  with  our  solitude." — 
Sir  T.  Browoe's  Jieiigio  Medici,  1685,  p.  41. 

E.  B. 

Boston,  Lincolnshire. 

The  MnsEuif  Reading  Room  (6^  S.  ▼.  45, 
70).  —  Sir  Anthony  Panizzi  was  undoubtedly 
acquainted  with  M.  Delessert's  plan  for  a  circular 
library,  for  he  not  only  possessed  a  copy  of  the 
book,  but  purchased  it,  as  well  as  M.  Delessert's 
modification  of  his  project  in  1838,  for  the  British 
Museum  in  the  year  1840.  If,  however,  he  had 
derived  his  idea  of  a  circular  reading  room  from 
M.  Delessert,  he  would  unquestionably  have  pro- 
posed it  immediately,  and  not  have  deferred  all 
action  in  the  matter  for  twelve  years,  during 
which  the  need  of  additional  accommodation  for 
printed  books  was  most  urgent.  Assuming,  how- 
ever, that  he  had  it  in  his  mind,  the  stroke  of 
genius  which  converted  M.  Delessert's  radiating 
book-cases  into  radiating  tables  for  the  accom- 
modation of  readers  was  none  the  less  admirable. 
As  indicated  by  Mr.  Norgate  himself,  M.  De- 
lessert's  project  was  not  one  for  a  reading  room, 
but  for  a  library,  of  which  a  reading  room  would 
have  formed  a  very  subordinate  feature.  He 
would  have  crowded  readers,  staff,  catalogues,  and 
books  of  reference  together  under  a  cupola  only 
60  ft.  in  diameter,  and  sacrificed  all  the  rest  to 
the  provision  of  space  for  the  library— an  object 
which  he  would  have  failed  to  effect  after  all,  since, 
upon  his  own  showing,  his  scheme  would  only 
have  provided  for  the  accessions  of  twenty-two 
years.  Of  the  circular  library  he  had  thought 
much  ;  the  circular  reading  room  had  not  occurred 
to  him.  Neither  is  he  entitled  to,  nor  does  he 
appear  to  claim,  any  credit  for  originating  the 
plan  of  a  circular  library.  He  may  not  have 
heard  of  the  Radcliffe  Library  at  Oxford,  but  his 
frequent  employment  of  the  term  panoptique 
shows  that  he  was  well  acquainted  witn  the 
advantages  of  the  circular  system  of  construc- 
tion as  expounded  by  Sir  Samuel  and  Jeremy 
Bentham.  Louis  Fagan. 

Reform  Club. 

"  The  Imitation  op  Christ  "  (6^  S.  x.  388, 
523  ;  6"»  S.  V.  64).— As  I  put  the  question  at  first, 
perhaps  I  ought  now  to  make  this  statement.  I 
have  a  copy  of  what  I  believe  to  be  the  earliest 
edition  of  Worth ington's  translation.  It  is  with- 
out name  and  frontispiece,  but  is  identified  by  the 
preface,  "  London,  Printed  by  R.  Daniel,  and  are 
to  be  sold  by  John  Clark,  at  Mercers  Chappel  in 
Cheap-side,  1657."  Collation  :  16  leaves,  +  pp. 
1-342,  +  6  leaves ;  eight  leaves  to  a  signature ; 


present  size,  5}  in.  by  3).  The  preface  seems  to 
suggest  that  it  is  only  an  amended  edition  of 
previous  English  translations.  W.  C.  B. 

John  Worthinoton  (6***  S.  v.  54,  78). — Short 
notices  of  Worthington  appear  in  Chalmers's  Bio- 
graphical  Dictionary,  Darling's  CydopcBdia  Biblio- 
graphica,  Wood's  Athena  Oxonientety  and  other 
dictionaries.  Part  1  vol.  il.  of  Dr.  Worthington's 
Diary  and  Correspondence  was  published  in  1855. 
There  is  a  long  review  of  the  first  volume  in  the 
Gentleman^i  Magazine  for  1848,  vol.  xxix.  p.  227. 
Arthur  Mtnott. 

«  Roarer"  (6*  S.  iv.  488  ;  v.  34).— Nares,  in 
his  Glossary,  or  Collection  of  Words,  Phrases, 
Nanus,  &c.,  states  that  it  was  the  cant  name  for 
the  bullying  bucks  of  Ben  Jonson's  time.  Like 
the  mohocks  of  Addison's  day,  they  delighted  in 
annoying  quiet  people. 

A  "Rere-Suppbr"  {e^  S.  iv.  488)  was  a  late 
or  second  supper,  taken  when  it  was  time  to  go  to 
rest. 

A  "  Sconce  "  (6'*»  S.  iv.  488)  was  an  ale-house 
or  tavern  at  which  a  score  had  been  run,  and 
where  one  was  afraid  to  go  for  fear  of  being  dunned. 
EvERARD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road,  N. 

Wife  Selling  (6**  S.  iii.  487,  612 ;  iv.  133 ; 
V.  58). — The  following  brief  account  was  taken 
down  by  me  at  the  time,  which  was  February, 
I860.  It  relates  to  a  village  I  know  well  in  the 
North  Riding  : — 

**  The  fine  old  English  custom  of  selling  one's  wife 

was  reTired  at aboat  a  fortnight  ago.     Vendor  and 

purchaser  are  both  labourers ;  the  former  an  old  man, 
the  latter  middle-aged.  The  purchaser  had  long  thought 
of  making  a  bid,  and  at  length  decided  that  the  act  was 
proper  and  lawful.    '  Well,'  said  he  to  John,  groom  to 

of  the  Orange,  'I 'ye  thought  of  it,  and  I  'm  right 

sure    I  can  buy  her,  by  law.'    *  But,'  said  John,  <  our 

master'  ( was  at  the  Bar)  'says  you  ean'L*    'Ah,' 

replied  Hodge, '  your  master 's  not  Been  much  law  lately ; 
maybe  he's  never  read  the  new  DiTorce  Act ! '  John 
being  thus  silenced,  Hodge  went  to  the  old  man,  and 
offered  him  eighteenpence  for  hii  wife,  who  is  a  good 
deal  younger  than  her  husband.  The  price  was  at  onco 
accepted ;  and  the  woman,  who  was  quite  willing  to  be 
sold,  was  handed  oyer  to  her  new  master,  and  is  now 
living  with  him  as  his  wife.  Such,  however,  is  the  in- 
fluence of  modem  refinement,  that  the  whole  village  are 
indignant,  and  have  even  burnt  the  pair  in  effigy  on  the 
green.    Poor  things  !  " 

A.  J.  M. 

"  Man  proposes,  but  God  disposes  "  (1"*  S. 
viiL  411,  552  ;  ix.  87,  202,  384  ;  4«»»  S.  ix.  537 ; 
X.  95,  323,  401,  480 ;  xL  45  ;  5*>»  S.  x.  306,  436  ; 
xi.  206). — I  have  just  (may  I  say  ?)  "  come  across  " 
a  much  earlier  quotation  of  this  saying,  in  bk.  iii. 
of  Orderici  Vitalis  EccUtiastica  Eistoria :  "  Sed 
sicut  scriptum  est.  Homo  eogitat,  Deus  ordinat, 
evenit  mult6  aliter  qu^nynperabatJi  jOrdericus 
)igitized  by  VjOO^ 


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Vitalis  was  bom  "  xiv  Kal.  Martii,  anno  Christi 
MLXXv."  Alphokss  Estoclst. 

St.  Mary's  College,  Peckham 

"The  Whole  Dutt  of  Ma»/'  Published 
BY  JoHif  Eyres,  1731  (5*^  S.  viiL  389,  515 ;  ix. 
99, 176 ;  &^  S.  iv.  235  ;  v.  52).— In  addition  to 
the  above,  I  haye  an  odd  rolume,  containing  : — 

"Th^  OtniUman'i  Calling,  by  the  author  of  The 
Whole  Duty  of  Man  (1687).  and  The  Ladies'  Coiling,  in 
two  parts,  by  the  author  of  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man, 
fifth  impressioD.  'At  the  Theatre  in  Oxford.'  Pub- 
lished  by  Kobt.  Pawlott,  Bible,  in  Chancery  I^tne.  1677." 

G.  H.  H. 

"Diss"  (6«»  S.  iv.  488).— I  think  that  there 
can  be  little  doubt  that  this  word,  as  used  in  the 
North  Riding  of  Yorkshire  for  a  square-cut  section 
of  a  hay- mow  or  a  hay-stack,  owes  its  origin  to 
Scandinavian  influence,  and  is  derived  not  from 
Do.  ituserif  to  gather,  but  from  Icel.  desy  a  hay- 
rick. What,  however,  is  the  origin  of  cancA=a 
portion  of  a  dui  f  In  making  up  a  **  burden  "  of 
hay,  canches  are  taken  from  the  dess  and  placed  one 
upon  another  until  the  requisite  size  is  obtained. 
I  give  these  uses  of  the  words  from  my  own  obser- 
vation. F.  C.  BiREBECK  Terry. 

Caidiff. 

A  "Tender'*  Cat  (6'»»  S.  iv.  486).  — On  re- 
marking  to  one  of  my  servants  some  time  ago  that 
oar  white  Tommy  seemed  to  be  always  shedding 
his  coat,  he  replied  that  the  cat  was  evidently  bom 
late  in  the  year,  for  all  cats  b5rn  late  in  the  year 
did  so  (at  least  here  in  Worcestershire).  May  not 
this  be  another  peculiarity  of  a  "  tender  *'  cat  ? 

J.  B.  Wilson. 

Methyl  and  Amyl  (6*^  S.  iv.  488).— The  word 
amyl  is  derived  from  the  Greek  aifivXov,  "not 
ground  at  the  mill,"  hence  meaning  "of  the  finest 
meaL^  Amyl  was  discovered  by  Frankland,  and 
is  a  compound  radicle,  an  oily  liquid,  boiling  at 
311*^,  consisting  of  ten  parts  of  carbon  and  eleven 
of  hydrogen. 

Methyl  was  discovered  separately  by  Frank- 
land  and  by  Kolbe  in  1849.  It  is  an  inodorous 
sas,  slightly  heavier  than  air,  compounded  of 
hydrogen  and  carbon,  and  burning  with  a  bluish 
flame.  The  name  is  derived  from  the  Greek 
fUdvy  wine,  and  vXrjj  wood.  £.  H.  M. 

Methyl  was  discovered  by  Mr.  Philip  Taylor 
{Quarterly  Journal  of  Science,  xiv.  436),  and  was 
named  after  the  two  Greek  words  for  wine  and 
wood,  being  a  spirit  formed  by  the  destructive 
distillation  of  wood. 

Amyl,  from  the  Greek  word  for  starch,  was  the 
name  used  by  Berzelius,  Gay  Lussac,  and  other 
chemists  of  the  earlier  half  of  this  century,  for  the 
ompoands  of  starch  with  other  bodies. 

J.  Carrick  Moore. 


Authors   of  Quotations  Wanted   (6*"*   S. 
V.  70).- 

"  The^remembrance  of  a  guest." 
Wisdom  of  Solomon,  t.  14,  Angl.  Y.  "  Tanquam  memoria 
hospitis  unius  die!  prietereuntis,"  Vulg.,  v.  15. 

£.  A.  D. 
"Ah,  Christ/' &c. 

Tennyson^s  Maud,  xxtL  8. 
B.  D. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
The  Fail  of  the  Monarchy  of  Charles  /.,  1637-1649.    By 

S.  B.  Gardiner.- Vols.  I.  and  II.)  1637-1640.    (Long- 

mans  &  Co.) 
It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  do  more  than  announce  th» 
appearance  of  the  first  pair  of  Tolumes  of  the  fifth 
division  of  the  great  task  which  Mr.  Gardiner  has 
undertaken  in  order  to  ensure  them  a  warm  welcome 
from  all  historical  students.  And  this  is  sure  to  be  the 
case,  not  merely  in  grateful  acknowledgment  of  the 
author's  unriyalled  position  in  the  field  be  has  marked 
out  for  himself  of  the  diplomatic  and  constitutional 
history  of  the  early  Stuarts  and  the  Commonwealth,  but 
owing  to  the  absorbing  interest  of  the  events  recounted, 
extending  from  the  ship-money  case  and  the  troubles  in 
Scotland  to  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War.  The  narra- 
tive runs  as  smoothly  as  can  be  desired,  whilst  the 
wealth  of  references  at  the  bottom  of  each  page  diows 
that  it  is  based  on  the  best  and  most  trustworthy 
original  sources,  a  short  notice  of  which  is  given  in 
the  preface.  Where  all  is  so  good  it  is  hard  to  pick  oul 
the  plums.  We  may,  however,  draw  special  attention 
to  the  capital  yignettes  of  the  chiefs  of  tne  Puritans  and 
Latitudinarians  dashed  off  in  the  chapter  concerned 
with  the  Romanizing  attempts  of  the  queen ;  to  the 
eloquent  and  pathetic  narrative  of  the  trial  of  Strafford, 
whose  aims  Mr.  Gardiner  sets  forth  so  clearly  while 
pointing  out  their  anachronism  ;  and  to  the  description 
of  the  last  days  of  hesitation  before  the  countiv  was  • 
plunged  into  the  horrors  of  war.  The  sketch  of  Hyde's 
constitutional  views  (ii.  428)  is  specially  worth  noting, 
and  may  be  compared  advantageously  with  those  of  t& 
policy  of  Pym  (ii.  7)  and  of  Strafford  (it  179).  We 
must  not  forget  to  mention  the  coloured  parliamentary 
map  of  England  at  the  commencement  of  the  second 
volume.  It  is  meant  to  represent  the  local  strength  of 
each  side,  though  its  details  would  not  be  •  absiHutelj 
accurate  at  any  giyen  moment  in  the  struggle.  From 
this  it  is  clear  that  the  Parliament  was  most  stoutlv 
supported  in  central  and  southern  England,  the  north 
and  west  going  for  the  king.     Mr.   Gardiner  in  hia 

Sreface  expresses  a  hope  that  he  may  be  spared  to  tell 
iie  tale  of  the  days  of  Cromwdl  and  Ireton,  his 
ancestors.  That  his  wish  may  be.  granted  he  may  feel 
quite  certain  will  be  the  desire  of  all  his  readers. 

RtUgio  Medici.  By  Sir  Thomas  Browne.  Edited  by 
W.  A.  Greenhill,  M.D.  Oxon.  "Golden  Treasury 
Seriea"  (Macmillan  &  Co.) 
Thomas  Bbownb,  "  the  ecstatic  knight  of  Norwich/*' 
was  knighted  by  Charles  II.  at  Oxford ;  but  in  tastes, 
sympathies,  and  tone  of  thought  he  belonged  to  the 
past  generation.  The  lightness,  the  ease,  tne  jests  of 
the  court  of  Charles  II.  were  uncongenial  to  the  phi- 
losopher, student,  and  poet,  who  expressed  his  contem- 
plative devotion  to  the  old  beliefs  with  the  gorgeous 
pedantry  of  a  learned  age.  Wits  and  freethinkers  were 
rapidly  supplanting  the  accomplished  gentlemen  who 
enamelled  "  with  pied  flowers  their  thoughts  of  gold,'* 
and  the  enthusiastic  students  who  garnered  all  antiquitiea 


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[6«»»  8.  V.  Feb.  11.  '82. 


ibis  remarkable  publication,  but  we  mutt  needs  express 
our  bigb  sense  of  the  thorouRhness  with  which  Mr. 
Hetcalfe  has  done  bis  work,  and  of  the  importance  of 
this  new  accession  to  our  stock  of  authorities  for  the 
political  and  religious  history  of  a  period  by  no  means 
rich  in  original  sources. 

Ocecuional  Papfrs  on  Shakespeare:  heing  ike  Second 
Part  of  "  The  Man  and  the  Boohr  By  C.  M.  loRleby, 
LL.D.  (fiirmingham,  Joeiah  Allen;  London,  Trubner 
&Co.) 
It  is  seldom  that  a  coUeotion  of  occasional  papers  has 
Talue  or  importance  greater  than  attaches  to  Br. 
Tnglcby  s  ShaJbespeare :  Uie  Man  and  the  Book,  of  which 
the  second  and  concluding  instalment  has  appeared.  A 
warm  stickler  for  purity  of  text,  and  a  keen  opponent  of 
those  fnnciful  emendations  which  possess,  apparently, 
an  irresistible  fascination  for  a  certain  class  of  mind, 
and  to  Which  the  ripest  Shakspearian  scholars  some- 
times succumb,  Dr.  Ineleby  has  written  one  or  two 
papers  which  are  models  of  clearness,  common  sense, 
and  insight  In  "  The  Tongue  of  Shakespeare,"  which 
opens  the  rolume.  Dr.  Ingleby's  method  is  seen  at 
its  best.  Some  of  the  discoyeries  of  meaning  chronicled 
in  it  are  not  only  satisfactory  in  themselves,  but  are 
proofs  of  extensiye  erudition.  In  the  "Literary 
Career  of  a  8hakesx>earo  Forger"  Ireland  alone  is 
dealt  with,  *<  respect  for  the  liTing/*  as  is  ruefully 
observed,  preventing  any  attempt  to  grapple  with  the 
"more  recent  and  more  skilful  forgeries,  which  have 
been  a  source  of  corruption  alike  to  the  life  and  the 
works  of  Shakespeare  daring  the  present  century." 
Paper  the  third,  consisting  of  **  Metrical  Tests  applied 
to  Shakespeare,"  is  a  valuable  and,  as  Dr.  Ingleby 
says,  splendid  contribution  to  the  volume  by  Mr.  F.  G. 
Fleay.  This  is  the  portion  likely  to  cause  most  con- 
troversy, the  author  himself  disclaiming  his  acceptance 
of  all  Mr.  Fleay's  conclusions.  That  no  Shakspearian 
library  will  be  without  the  completed  book  is,  of  course, 
to  be  assumed.  It  is  pleasant  to  learn  from  the  preface 
that  further  work  of  the  same  class  is  to  be  expected 
from  the  same  source. 

A  Handbook  in  Outline  of  the  PolUical  History  ofSna- 
land  to  1881.  Chronologically  arranged  by  A.  H.  D. 
Acland  and  Cyril  Ransome.  (Rivingtons.) 
Thb  scheme  of  this  little  book  is  excellent,  and  it  is,  on 
the  whole,  well  carried  out  The  first  part  consists  of 
the  main  facts  of  English  political  history  arranged 
chronologically  on  the  right-hand  page,  while  on  the 
opposite  page  are  numerous  valuable  elucidatory  notes 
and  bints,  and  a  few  of  the  more  prominent  events  of 
European  and  colonial  history  of  that  date.  The  second 
part  consists  of  very  useful  outlines  of  the  history  of 
Parliament,  the  Church,  Wales,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Jus- 
tice, and  the  Army,  as  well  as  of  summaries  of  specutl 
periods,  e,g.,  gradual  union  of  England  into  one  king- 
dom, struggle  between  the  kings  and  the  feudal  nobility, 
York  and  Lancaster,  Jacobites,  Catholic  Relief^  Corn 
Laws,  India.  In  appendices  we  have  a  list  of  great 
officials  to  the  death  of  Anne,  and  admirable  tables  show- 
ing  the  numbers  of  the  two  Houses  of  Parliament  at  dif- 
ferent periods,  snd  various  interesting  details  as  to  their 
competition,  the  historical  list  of  constituencies  being 
specially  good.  Though  meant  primarily  for  the  higher 
forms  in  schools,  it  is  a  most  useful  compendium  for  any 
historical  student,  the  numerous  geneiQogies  of  great 
families  scattered  lavishly  throuehont  the  work  throwing 
much  light  on  what  has  been  called  ''  historical  politics." 
We  have  not,  however,  been  able  to  find  any  list  of  the 
original  authorities  for  each  period,  the  addition  of  which 
in  a  new  edition  is  much  to  be  desired. 


Hypermnestra  :  a  Qraeeo- Egyptian  Myth,     By  George 

Gladstone  Turner.  (Longmans  &  Co.) 
Mr.  TuBiTBR  has  chosen  his  subject  well.  Though  clas- 
sical, the  storyfof  Hypermnestra  is  not  hackneyed,  and  in 
itself  is  a  pure  and  pathetic  tale  of  woman's  love.  He 
has  also  fully  redeemed  the  pledge  given  in  the  motto 
on  the  title-page,  and  has  ayoided  those  peculiar  fault» 
which  stain  the  pages  of  the  classical  revivalists  of  the 
nineteenth  century.  Some  of  Mr.  Turner's  deseriptiona 
of  Argos  and  Egypt  are  pretty ;  there  is  pathos  both  in 
the  reverie  of  Danaus  after  he  has  decreed  the  murder 
of  his  sons-in-law,  and  in  the  final  meeting  of  Hyperm^ 
nestra  and  Lynceus ;  and  in  her  appeal  to  his  mercy  for 
her  father  there  is  some  dramatic  power,  though  thi» 
last  is  marred  by  a  doggerel  chorus.  On  the  other  hand» 
throughout  the  poem  we  are  tempted  to  exclaim,  with 
Dangle,  **  Surely  I  have  heard  that  luie  before,"  though 
it  is  rather  the  faults  than  the  beauties  of  other  poet» 
which  Mr.  Turner  imitates.  We  have  Mr.  Swinburne's 
affectations  without  his  force  and  exquisite  power  of 
rhythm,  and  Mr.  Morris's  jarring  rhymes  without  his 
glowing  descriptions ;  while  the  Lamia  and  Hyperion  of 
Keats  naunt  us  in  outward  shadow,  with  the  glory  of 
life  and  soul  gone  from  them. 

The  February  part  of  the  Magazine  of  Art  show* 
unmistakable  signs  of  new  blood  in  the  management. 
Mr.  Robert  Louis  Stevenson's  essay  oh  the  little  PiL- 
^m*s  Progress  illustrated  years  ago  by  Miss  Bagster 
IS  a  contribution  which  can  only  be  the  outcome  of  fine 
editorial  insight  The  Nuremberg  article  is  interesting- 
and  well  illustrated;  so  also  is  the  paper  on  Alnwick 
Castle.  Besides  theae  there  is  a  notable  *<Note  on 
Japanese  Art,"  by  W.  E.  H.,  as  well  as  a  timely  and 
appreciative  sketch  of  poor  Hugh  Robinson  by  Mr.  F. 
Cundall.  Excellent  cuts  of  the  "Boy with  the  Kite" 
and  the  "Piping  Boy"  accompany  this  latter  paper. 

The  February  number  of  the  SL  Jameis  Magazine' 
contains  much  that  is  attractive ;  not  the  least  interest- 
ing paper  is  that  on  the  late  Mr.  Street,  the  architect 

We  have  received  vol.  xvii.  (1881)  of  St,  Bartholomew*^ 
Hospital  Reports  (Smith,  Elder  &  Co.). 


It  is  with  regret  we  announce  the  death,  on  Sunday 
last,  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven,  of  the  Rev.  Jamea 
Stormonth,  the  author  of  the  Etymological  and  Pro* 
nouncing  Dictionary  of  the  English  Language, 

Mr.  E.  B.  Nioholson  has  been  appointed  by  the- 
Curators  Librarian  of  the  Bodleian,  in  succession  to  the 
late  Rev.  H.  0.  Coxe. 

Messrs.  Griffith  &  Farrav  will  shortly  issue  a  new 
and  cheaper  edition  of  Every-day  Life  in  our  Public 
Schools.  The  various  papers  liave  been  revised  and  con- 
siderably  extended. 


^ottreiC  ta  CarrtipavLtitnti. 

R.  R.  (Boston).— In  our  next  number.    There  was  a 
reason  for  the  other  appearing  last  week. 
J.  A.  C.  v.— With  pleasure. 
Joseph  Thompson.— See  ''N.  &  Q.,"  6^  S.  it  470. 

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CONTENTS.— N*  118. 

V0TX8:— PaioohUl  BegUten,  141~The  Bxtinetlon  of  tin 
Buooy  of  Vftloigns,  142— The  Oudm  of  Chen  ftnd  Tablet. 
143-8UTonic  Mjthologr,  144— '*Aald  Bobin  Gray"— 
Bomdele,  146— A  Printer'!  AdrerttMment,  1742— *' The 
XnuttdiMttoii  Oak"*— The  ''Rellglo  Medici  "-The  Channel 
Tonnel— The  New  English  Dictionary,  146. 

QUERIES  :-Heywood  MSS.-Inhabltants  of  Liobfleld  temp. 
WUUam  in..  146-Qnido's  "Aurora"— General  O^SnUiTan 
— W.  Browne.  Poet— A  Statne  at  Brixton- ChimM  at 
Nuremberg— *' Hallaballoo,"  147— W.  Howiion— An  Old 
Seal— "Opiet"— *'A  fortnltona  conearrenoe  of  atoms  "— 
CoUegiam  Qrawipgnm— *'  Jnbar  "—Canadian  Token  or 
Medal-The  Traditions  of  co.  Dorset-Bishop  White,  148— 
OfBce  of  Balliir— Klias  Browne-Edward  VL  and  his  Sisters 
— Capt.  Gordon— Gen.  Gaest— '*  Manifest  "—Hawes  Family 
—Toads  Worshipped  by  the  Molossians— A  Reference  in 
Malone— Spenser  and  Gray's  Heraldic  Bearings— Authors 
Wanted,  140. 

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•cunced  "ar."  150— The  Earliest  Dated  English  Book- 
plate, 151— Thomas  Coutbi's  Marriage—"  Bred  and  bom  "— 
Parkinson,  the  Botanist.  162-Ghosto  in  New  Zealand— 
I^rotestant  Indulgences,  168— "Bnssook''  — "Catholioon 
AngUcum  "— Dido— An  unknown  Tudor.  154-Ouidlemas 
Day— "Danothy  Hall  "—Christmas  Cards— Motto  for  a 
DilnUng  Cup— Surrey  Proverb— Guernsey  Folk-lore,  166— 
Bessels.  oo.  Berks— UsIe^Whitaker— Hearth  Money,  Ac.- 
*'  Wonder**— Punishment  for  High  Treason,  iemv.  O.  Crom- 
well, 160-Hamlet  MarshaU  — Chiswidk  -  "Bosh* — 
"Sepulchre'  in  Churches— The  Two  H.  Hally wells  — 
Maggoty  Johnson,  167— "Sate"— Liyerpool  Gentleman, 
4ke.-Seoond  Sight—"  Belfry.**  168— The  Vicar  of  Baddow— 
Junius  Queries-"  Nonvelles  d'Angleterre"— Burled  aUtc, 
'     Ac.— A  "  Christening  Sheet, "  150— Authors  Wanted,  160. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS :-Glas8C0ck's  "Records of  St  Michael's 
Pariah  Church,  Bishop's  Stortford"— Scharfs  "Catalogue  of 
the  NatlonalPortrait  GaUery." 


finxti. 

PAROCHIAL  BEGISTERSL 
Haying  been  eogaged  at  times  for  the  past 
fifteen  months  in  looking  through  parocnial 
Tegisters  for  genealogical  parpoees,  I  have,  like 
^yery  one  else  of  the  same  experience,  come  to 
the  condosion  that  the  inyaloable  matter  con- 
tained in  them  ought,  without  further  loss  of 
time^  to  be  put  beyond  the  reach  of  destruction 
by  fire,  malice,  careWness,  or  any  other  enemy, 
besides  being  made  more  ayaUable  for  geneial 
use.  Like  many  others,  I  haye  abo  cogitated  on 
a  feasible  and  ready  means  for  making  a  good  start 
in  editing  and  printing  these  manuscripts,  belieying 
that  if  once  a  good  and  general  start  be  made,  the 
«nd  so  ardently  longed  for  will  not  be  far  off. 
As  the  result,  I  yenture  to  suggest  a  scheme 
which  I  belieye  would  be  popuUr  and  com- 
mercially successful,  two  great  elements  towards 
a  satisfftctory  solution  of  the  problem.  My  idea 
is  to  enlist  the  yaluable  seryioes  of  the  local 
press.  The  succejBS  of  the  Oloueettershire  NoUi 
and  QwrUi  and  other  kindred  enterprises,  such 
as  the  Bey.  J.  H.  Stanning*s  publication  of  the 
Lengh  registers  in  the  parish  magazine,  haye 
suggested  thu  to  me.  I  will,  if  I  may  so  far 
tvespan  on  you  yaluable  space,  touch  on  some  of 
tbe  Tirions  pros  and  eons  attendant  on  such  an 


idea,  in  the  hope  that  your  more  experienced  and 
learned  readers  may .  make  such  suggestions  as 
may  perfect  the  scheme  and  put  it  in  operation 
if  it  should  be  considered  at  all  practicable. 

There  is  first  the  consent  of  the  custodians  of 
these  documents  to  be  obtained.  In  some  few 
instances  this  might  be  denied,  bat  they  would  be 
yeiy  few,  for  a  general  appreciation  of  their  yalue 
exists,  and  most  of  the  clergy  would  be  only  too 
glad  to  know  that  the  contento  of  their  registers 
were  put  beyond  the  possibility  of  extinction.* 
Some  might  object  that  by  thus  thromng  them 
open  they  would  diminish  their  fees  ;  but  a  little 
reflection  will  show  that  they  would  be  bringing 
to  light  entries  for  which  search  may  haye  ^n 
made  for  years,  and  that  the  bringing  them  to  light 
would  increase  rather  than  diminisn  the  fees,  for 
many  would  be  only  too  thankful  to  know  of  sudi 
entries  in  order  to  get  certified  copies.  Some 
would,  perhaps,  object  on  the  score  that  it  would 
giye  annoyance  to  their  parishioners,  by  exciting 
the  impertinent  curiosity  of  their  neighbours  in 
the  bygones  of  their  families.  I  think  it  might 
be  conceded  that  the  publication  should  not 
extend  to  a  later  date  than  1800,  and  that  all 
entries  particularized  by  "  filius  populi  **  and  the 
like  should  be  shorn  of  these  comments;  suoik 
precautions  would,  no  doubt,  remoye  any  reason- 
able objections. 

Next  we  haye  to  enlist  the  proprietois  of  the 
papers  themselyes.  I  think  it  can  be  readily 
demonstrated  that  such  an  addition  to  their  con- 
tents could  not  fail  to  increase  their  circulation  ; 
it  would,  I  imagine,  induce  many,  both  rich  and 
poor,  to  subscribe  who  would  not  otherwise  do  so, 
for  the  sake  of  obtaining  information  so  interest- 
ing and  yaluable  of  the  past  history  of  their 
families.  Many  Hying  at  a  distance,  whether  in 
England,  America,  or  the  colonies,  would  be 
grateful  and  yery  ready  to  subscribe  to  a  publica- 
tion that  would  enable  them  (especially  those 
founding  families  in  a  new  country)  to  treasure  up 
and  lay  by  for  their  posterity  such  interesting 
and  yaluable  mementoes  of  their  connexion  with 
and  descent  from  the  mother  country.  Public 
libraries,  archasological  societies,  and  priyate  in- 
diyiduals  at  home  and  abroad  (in  America  par- 
ticularly), would,  no  doubt,  subscribe  to  a  reprint 
of  the  same  in  a  portable  form  ;  and  here  it  might 
be  suggested  that  all  reprints  should  be  of  a 
uniform  size,  for  binding  seyeral  such  together 
and  for  the  greater  oonyenienoe  of  libraries.  The 
publishers  would  soon  see  the  adyantsge  of 
making  use  of  such  a  medium  as  your  own  to  let 
it  be  generally  known  to  those  who  might  be 
interested  in  their  particular  parish  that  such  a 

*  I  hare  found  erery  facility  afforded  me,  with  all 
courtesy,  by  the  clergy  to  whom  I  hare  applied  for  per- 
mission to  search ;  and  this  encourages  one  to  feel  that 
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t6«*8.  V.Fm.  26,'8a; 


work  was  io  proKress  ;  and,  on  the  other  hand,  the 
information  'woold  be  valuable  to  your  readers. 

It  may  next  be  asked,  Who  is  to  transcribe  the 
matter  from  the  registers  ?  for  if  this  is  an  exj^n- 
siye  or  difficult  item  it  will  at  onoe  bar  the  project. 
I  do  not  think  I  can  do  better  than  quote  some 
sentences  from  the  interesting  p^per  in  the  Church 
Quarterly  Ewiew  for  April,  1880,  on  "The  Past 
aiid  Future  of  Parish  Registers  ": — 

"  The  duty  t>f  copying  the  earlier  registers  should  only 
be  entrusted  to  those  who  are  conTorsant  with  the 
orabbcd  and  obscure  writing  of  their  ancestors.  For- 
tunately for  literature,  there  Is  hardly  a  district  in  Eng- 
land, howerer  remote  from  the  central  seats  of  learning, 
or  howerer  destitute  of  natural  attraction,  which  does 
not  contain  some  industrious  antiquary,  compelled  by 
birth  or  some  other  accident  to  live  within  its  borders. 
To  these  gentlemen  the  labour  could  be  assigned  with 
absolute  safety.  Their  sympathies  are  already  enlisted 
in  the  cause,  and  they  would  enter  upon  it  with  eyery 
determination  to  bring  it  to  a  successful  end.  Nor  would 
the  undertaking  be  attended  with  any  serious  expense  to 
the  nation.  Antiquaries  are  not  persons  keenly  possessed 
with  the  desire  of  accumulating  or  spending  money. 
Their  pleasure  lies  in  their  occupation,"  &c. 

I  beliere  this  is  perfectly  true,  and  that  not  much 
difficulty  would  be  met  with  on  this  point.  It  would 
often  be  only  in  the  earlier  portions  of  the  registers 
that  one  skilled  in  old  writings  would  be  required. 
Frequently  the  incumbent  himself  would  be 
willing  and  competent  to  supply  copy,  and  in 
many  oases  the  editor  of  the  paper  would  take 
sufficient  interest  in  it  and  haye  sufficient  know- 
ledge for  the  purpose.  Indeed,  it  is  from  the  yery 
accessibility  and  the  cheapness  with  which  copy 
may  be  obtained,  combined  with  an  increased  cir- 
culation, that  I  yenture  to  think  it  may  be  made 
cammercidUy  a  success.  Where  a  competent  anti- 
quary can  be  found,  who,  for  loye  of  the  work  or 
but  little  beyond,  will  do  the  editing,  he  could, 
from  his  general  antiquarian  knowledge  of  the 
district,  muLe  it  more  interesting,  by  supplement- 
ing the  bare  record  from  the  registers  with  little 
notes  and  anecdotes  of  the  people  and  eyents  to 
be  found  therein ;  but  the  getting  the  mere  matter 
published  in  an  accurate  form  is  Uie  first  considera- 
tion. 

It  may  be  said  that  eyen  if  eyeiy  town  that 
sports  its  own  naper  were  to  take  up  and  print  its 
records  it  would  still  leaye  the  greater  portion  of 
the  country  untouched.  True  ;  but  by  taking  all 
the  laiiger  towns  you  take  all  the  most  yoluminons 
registers ;  besides  which,  when  the  chief  town  has 
put  its  records  in  print,  there  will  be  the  surround- 
ing yillages — which  are  mutually  interested  in 
each  other,  the  town,  and  its  paper — to  gather  in, 
and  it  may  be  a  point  with  some  long-headed 
editors  to  publish  seyeral  registers  concurrently,  so 
as  to  enlist  as  wide  a  field  of  sympathy  as  possible. 
But  eyen  if  the  principal  towns  only  took  it  up 
one  would  hope  that  the  impetus  thereby  giyen 
and  the  interest  excited  would  render  il  ei^,  or 


eyen  imperatiye,  for  the  Goyemment  to  complete 
the  task. 

By  way  of  putting  this  into  practical  form  I 
would  suggest  that  the  Harleian  Society,  or  eyen 
a  society  formed  for  the  purpose,  should  draw  up 
a  short  clear  statement,  showing  the  desirabili^ 
and  feasibility  of  such  a  project,  with  definite  in- 
structions and  suggestions  for  carrying  it  out^  and 
that  a  copy  of  this  leaflet  should  be  sent  to  eyery 
known  antiquary  (subscribers  to  Archffiologi(»d 
TramcLctioni,  &a),  incumbent,  and  newspsper  in 
England—for  in  some  places  it  might  be  Uie  anti- 
quary, in  others  the  newspaper,  or  perhaps  the 
parson  who  would  be  sufficiently  interested  to  take 
the  initiatiye  in  the  moyement  The  society  that 
issues  the  programme  might  be  ready  with  adyice, 
suggestions,  and  examples  to  send  to  those  asking- 
for  help,  and  all  antiquaries  wUIing  to  assist  in 
transcribing,  either  for  loye  or  a  small  fee,  might 
be  asked  to  communicate  their  names  and 
addressea^  to  headquarters,  with  a  yiew  to  iumd- 
ing  them  on  to  such  papers  as  might  not  know  of 
any  one  in  their  lottdity  willing  and  able  to  do 
such  work.  I  desire  to  initiate  such  a  scheme  in 
a  parish  in  which  I  am  interested,  but  before 
domg  so  should  be  glad  to  see  what  may  be  said 
of  the  idea,  and  should  be  glad  of  any  practical 
suggestions  through  the  medium  of  **  N.  &  Q.'' 
J.  Edward  K.  Cotts, 

[Several  papers  on  the  subject  of  the  publication  oC 
church  registers  have,  within  a  comparatively  recent 
period,  appeared  in  '<  N.  &  Q."  See  5*b  8.  vi.  484  ;  vik 
9,  89. 181.  289,  290,  429, 459;  viil  63, 162;  x.  470,  498w 
616 ;  xi.  88, 326,  877 ;  6^^  S.  i.  372,  460 ;  ii.  P,  238.] 


THE  EXTINCTION  OP  THE  BARONY  OF 
VAL0I0N8. 
Being  greatly  interested  in  all  that  relates  to 
the  history  of  the  once  powerful  family  of  Valoigns, 
I,  like  Mr.  Bain  {ante,  p.  61),  was  much  gratified 
by  the  perusal  of  Mr.  Vincent's  paper  in  the 
dlenealogxetj  which  lays  bare  a  serious  misrepre- 
sentation in  the  MemoruiU  of  the  SeotU  of  Seott^r 
HaXL  I  am  the  more  pleased,  inasmuch  as,  by^ 
printing  hereunder  the  record  of  an  important 
early  suit  which  I  happen  to  haye  noted,  I  anr 
able  to  furnish  Tery  material  information— infor- 
mation, moreover,  that  satisfactorily  explains  for 
all  time  the  precise  manner  in  which  this  ancient 
barony  lapsed.  The  suit  in  question  was  heard 
before  the  Justices  Itinerant,  William  de  Raleigh 


*  It  has  often  occurred  to  me  whether  a  list  of  worh" 
ing  antiquaries  mifcbt  not  be  a  valuable  addition  to  such 
a  publication  as  *'  N.  &  Q."  One  often  wants  a  reference 
to  a  library,  inscriptions,  registers,  &c.,  at  a  distance, 
and  a  local  antiquary  would  frequently  supply  the  in- 
formation at  a  less  cost  than  the  railway  fure  would  be 
to  go  oneself,  to  say  nothing  of  tiie  time  inmlTcd.  Seienee 
Gottip  pubHsbes  such  a  list  of  naturalists,  with  the 
speciality  of  each. 


Digitized  by 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


143 


and    his    fellows,    in    Michaelmas    tenn    18-19 
Henry  III.,'^  and  the  text  rana  as  follows: — 

^  Attisa  Tenit  recogn.  ei  Cristianade  Mandeuille,  aoror 
Walter!  filii  Roborti,  fuit  Misita  de  domintco  suo  ut  de 
feodo  de  sepcies  Tiginti  et  quatuor  acris  terre,  cum  per- 
tinenciis,  in  Deningbam  die  etc.,  et  n  etc.;  et  ti  idem 
Walterua  sit  propinquior  heres  etc.;  vnde  Hearicufl  de 
Bailloir et  Lora  Txor  ejui  et  alii  etc.,  et  infra  tenent  etc. 

**Bt  Henricus  et  omnes  alii  reniunt^  per  attornatos 
tuoe,  et  dicunt  quod  aesisa  non  debet  inde  fieri;  quia 
bene  concedunt  quod  predicta  Gri'ttiana  obiit  aic  aeiaita 
de  predicta  terra,  set  idem  Walterua  non  fuit  frator 

Sredicte  Criiitiane  nhi  ex  parte  patrta,  et  terra  ilia 
eacendit  eidem  Criatiane  ex  parte  Qunnore  matria  aue ; 
et  dicunt  quod  Txores  aue  sunt  heredea  predicte  Criatiane 
h»c  racione :  (|i]ia  trea  frstres  fuenint,  acilioet,  Petrua, 
Sobertua,  Philippua,  ex  parte  patrig  et  matria.  £t  pre- 
dictua  Petrua  terram  iliam  tennit,  et  obiit  aine  herede  de 
ae ;  et  habuit  quandam  rxorem  Qundredam  de  Waranna, 
que  terram  illam  tenuit  tota  yita  aua  nomine  dotu.  De 
fitedlciQ  Roberto  exiuit  quedam  Gnnnora,  mater  pre- 
dicte Criatiane,  que  Cristiana  obiit  aine  herede  de  se. 
£t  Philippua  terciua  frater  adiit  Scociam ;  et  ibi  genuit 
^uendam  Willtlmum  le  Valoynea,  qui  fuit  herea  auua ; 


et  de  quo  exierunt  Txorea  predietorum  Henriei  et 
aliorum.  Et  quia  predicta  Criatiana  obiit  aine  herede 
de  corpora  auo;  dicunt  quod  ipai  sunt  propinquiores 
hereded  ipaiua  Criatiane,  et  non  predictua  Walterua,  qui 
non  eat  frater  ejua  niai  ex  parte  patria,  de  quo  hereditat 
ilia  non  deacendit ;  etpetunt  judicium. 

**  Poatea,  coram  Domino  Rege  apud  Woitmonaateriamy 
factum  eat  judicium  :— 

*'Quia  predicta  terra  deacendit  eidem  Criatiane  de 
predicto  Roberto  auo  auo,  ex  parte  matria,  et  iate 
Walterua  eat  frater  ipaiua  Criatiane  tantum  ex  parte 
patria  ex  altera  Yxore,  qui  nichil  clamare  potuit  in  terra 
ilia  niai  racione  predicte  Qundrede  [sic,  but  read  "  Qun- 
nore," aee  aboTe]  Txoria  aue  prime;  et  aula  predicte 
Lora,  Criatiana  et  laabella  exierunt  de  predicto  rbilippo, 
tercio  fratre  ipaiua  Roberti  aui  predicte  Criatiane,  et 
ideo  (aunt)  propinquiorea  heredea;  conaideratum  eat, 
quod  predicti  Henricns  et  Lora  et  alii  teneant  in  pace ; 
et  quod  ipae  Walterua  nichil  oapi(a}t  per  aaaiaam,  et  sit 
in  miaericordia  etc." 

The  genealogical  information  afforded  by  the 
aboTe  may  be  briefly  summed  up  in  pedigree 
fashion  as  follows  : — 


Peter  [de  Valoigna].: 
Died  without  iaaue. 


sOundredra 
de  Warren. 


Robert  [de  yaloigna> 


Pbilip  [de  Valoignal. 
"WenttoScoUand." 


Gunnora  [de  ya1oigna],=Robert  [Fitz  Walter]=4Ro8e,1  aecond 
"drat  wife."  I  I         wife. 


William  de  Yaloignsss 


Cridtiana  de  MandcTilIe. 
Died  without  issue. 


Walter,  aon  of  Robert 
[FiU-Walter]. 


Lora=Henry  de 
BaUuL 


Criatiana.       Isabella. 


The  three  Valoigns  coheiresses  were,  therefore,  as 
now  shown,  really  the  grand- daughters  of  the  great- 
uncle  of  Cristiana  de  Mandeville — the  said  great- 
nnele  being  indubitably  the  quondam  Chamberlain 
of  Scotland — and  their  father  (William  de  Valoigns, 
«on  of  Philip)  it  doubtless  is  of  whom  the  Chronicle 
of  Melrose  relates  that  the  pious  monks  upon  his 
"death  in  1219  took  his  body  and  laid  it  in  their 
church,  next  to  the  sepulchre  of  his  father. 

James  Grsenstrset. 


THE  GAMES  OF  CHES3  AND  TABLES. 
I  have  lately  come  across  a  paragraph  on  the 
sboye  games  which  I  hare  not  seen  quoted  before, 
and  which  may  help  to  elucidate  the  birthplace  of 
the  game  of  chess ;  the  game  of  tables  I  had  not 
heard  of  before,  and  shall  be  glad  to  hear  what  it 
as  like.  In  "N.  &  Qj^S"*  S.  xL  389,  I  drew 
attention  to  what  I  considered  a  game  of  chess  as 
played  by  the  Egyptians,  bat  which  Sir  Gardner 
Wilkinson  asserts  is  a  game  of  drafts.  H.  P.  D., 
in  the  above  yolume,  p.  390,  quoting  Sir  W.  Jones 
and  Gibbon,  says, "  The^ame  was  invented  in  Hin- 
dostan  and  imported  into  Persia  in  the  sixth 
cantarj.'" 

*  **u,  Rolu1u9  de  PUcitia  que  aeqnebantur  dominum 
Reeem  coram  W.  de  Ralegh'  annia  Regie  Uenrici  filii 
Begia  Jobanuia  octauodcciuio  inclpieute  uonodeciuio." 


The  writer  I  am  about  to  quote  inclines  to  the 
Indian  theory  for  its  origin,  and  at  the  same  time 
he  savs  that  some  affirm  that  it  was  invented  at 
Babylon.    He  says  :— 

"  In  this  Eing*s  time  [Kefere  Anuziron  31  King  of 
Peraia]  were  brought  out  of  India  into  Peraia  two  yery 
famoua  Books  of  Philoaophy,  the  one  called  Kelilah  and 
the  other  Wademana  and  the  game  of  Chesa,  which  the 
Indiana  aent  to  the  Peraiana  to  repreaent  the  uncertainty 
and  mutability  of  thia  life  which  ia  a  continual  warfare, 
and  therefore  being  in  perpetual  atrife,  every  man  ought 
to  be  directed  by  Providence  and  Knowledge.  To  this 
Mirkond  aaja,  the  Peraiana  answered,  aending  them  in 
return  the  Game  of  Tablea  and  declaring  that  tho* 
Wiadom  and  Providence  were  requiaitea  for  the  well 
ordering  of  Life,  yet  there  muat  be  aome  Aaaiatanee  of 
Fortune,  as  they  might  perceive  by  that  game.  Both 
Indiana  and  Persiana  uae  Cheaa  and  Tablea  very  much, 
and  many  of  them  underatand  those  gamea  to  perfection. 
Tho'  I  know  how  many  aeveral  opiniona  there  are  con- 
cerning the  flrat  invention  of  Cheaa,  I  ahould  think  it  no 
Ereaumption  to  aay  it  waa  f3und  out  in  thoae  parts,  for 
eaidea  other  reaaona  I  have  for  it,  one  ia,  that  in  moat 
placea  where  the  aame  ia  uded  they  retain  the  aame  names 
the  Peraiana  give  the  aeveral  piecea,  or  at  least  not  much 
altered,  calling  the  King  Scka  and  the  Queen  Wastr, 
being  Uie  next  peraon  to  the  Sovereign;  the  Biahop  Fil, 
that  ia  Elephant;  the  Knight  Alp  or  Farat,  that  is  a 
Horae;  the  Pawn  Peada,  aignifying  a  foot  aoldier; 
what  we  call  Cbeck  they  name  Scha^  which  ia  as  it  were 
giving  notice  to  the  King,  and  for  Cheek  Mate  they  aav 
Sckamate,  importing  in  their  language,  the  Kingia  dead. 
Now  whereaa  aome  affirm  that  the  garnet  Cheis,b]t the 
)igitized  by  VjOOv^IC 


144 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6(iiS.V.Fn.  25/82. 


Penigns  called  Sehaitadk,  that  ii  the  King's  game  or 
DiTertion,  was  inrented  at  Babylon,  it  is  rery  reasonable 
to  beliere  that  we  had  it  from  the  Persians,  Babylon 
haring  been  often  and  for  a  long  time  subject  to  Persia, 
and  so  near  to  it/'—lTufory  of  Ptrna,  by  Capt  John 
Steyens,  pp.  178-9,  London,  1715. 

In  the  Bittoire  de  VArt  Egyptien^  edited  by 
M.  P.  d'ATennes,  there  is  a  plate  containiDg 
^'Fragments  de  Papyrus  Satiriqaea,'*  taken  from 
Mos^  de  Tarin  and  Mus^e  de  Londres.  On 
the  smaller  fragment  is  figured  an  antelope-like 
looking  animal  and  a  lion  ;  they  are  seated 
at  a  table  playing  a  game,  probably  chess ;  the 
pieces  before  the  lion  on  the  board  are  flat  or 
nail-headed  with  broad  base ;  there  are  four  of 
them  on  the  board,  the  fifth  he  holds  in  his  paw. 
The  antelope-like  animal  seated  at  the  other  end  of 
the  table  or  board  has  four  pieces  in  front  of  him, 
three  of  which  are  arrow-headed,  the  fourth  is 
shaped  like  a  ninepin  or  little  doll,  and  one  he 
holds  in  his  foot.  The  yarious  animals  repre- 
sented on  these  fragments,  some  playing  musical 
instruments  and  others  engaged  in  yarious  ways, 
are  most  grotesque,  and  remind  one  of  the  comic 
papers  of  our  own  day ;  indeed,  ihey  would  seem 
to  haye  been  the  Funch  of  the  period. 

Edward  PABnrr. 

Exeter. 


SLAVONIC  MYTHOLOGY. 
As  the  subject  of  Slavonic  mythology  is  more  and 
more  recognized  as  of  interest  and  importance  in 
illustrating  the  beliefji  of  the  ancient  Aryan  popu- 
lations of  Europe,  the  following  alphabetical  list 
of  Prof.  Bandtkic'  (translated  from  his  DtUja 
KroUitva  PoUhiego),  which  I  belieye  has  not  yet 
appeared  in  English,  may  interest  some  of  your 
readers.  Perhaps  recent  researches  may  haye 
thrown  more  light  on  our  knowledge  of  the  myths 
gathering  around  these  personages  of  the  Slavonic 
Olympus. 

List  of  Slavonic  Pagan  Deitiejt, 

1.  Bies,  a  spirit,  generally  evil.  In  Ruthenia 
now  used  for  the  devil. 

2.  Czart,  the  black  god,  or  any  evil  spirit, 

3.  Cudo  Morskie. 

4.  Czur,  the  Deus  Terminus  of  Russia. 

5.  Dazba. 

6.  Dawori,  in  Dalmatia. 

7.  Did,  Dido,  Greek  Anteros.  Probably  an 
Indian  deity. 

8.  Domowe  Duchy,  the  Slavonic  "brownies," 
still  believed  in.  Fidt  Mr.  Naak^'s  Slavonic 
Fairy  Tales. 

9.  Dubynia,  a  giant  bearing  an  oak  (da5,  an 
oak). 

10.  Gerowit  or  Herowit. 

11.  Gorinia,  a  giant  who  threw  mountains;  a 
Slavonic  Titan. 

12.  Jaza,  a  Dalmatian  deity. 


13.  Ipa,  a  deity  in  Prylwic'. 

14.  Kaszczey,  a  sort  of  spectre. 

15.  Korsza,  a  deity  of  Kijow,  thought  by  some 
to  be  a  Slavonic  Bacchus,  by  others  ^sculapius. 

16.  Kikimor  or  Mora  (the  spirit  of  the  night- 
mare 7). 

17.  Kupalo(l). 

18.  Lada,  mother  of  Lela  and  Polela;  the 
goddess  of  beauty,  the  Slavonic  Venus. 

19.  Liada,  a  sort  of  Slavonic  Mars.  Qy.  Is 
not  the  resemblance  of  the  two  names  Lada  and 
Liada  a  sign  of  the  Aryan  myth  represented  by 
the  union  of  Mars  and  Venus  in  Greek  legends  9 

20.  Lei  or  Polel,  a  mountain  deity  who  had  a 
temple  in  Lysey  Gorey  (near  Cracow). 

21.  Makosz,  a  Ruthenian  deity. 

22.  Marzanns,  a  spring  deity. 

23.  Nemisa,  the  deity  of  vengeance.  Qy. 
Nemesis  ? 

24.  Niia,  the  Slavonic  Pluto,  spirit  of  ihe  lower 
regions. 

25.  Opora,  the  deity  of  autumn. 

26.  Perun  or  Piorun,  the  Slavonic  Thor,  the 
thunder  god  (the  Indra  of  the  Hindus).  Among 
the  Prussians  he  was  called  Perkunos. 

27.  Piko,  a  Dalmatian  divinity. 

28.  Piia,  a  lion-like  spirit. 

29.  Porewit,  a  Pomeranian  divinity. 

30.  Poswist  or  Pogwizd,  the  storm  god.  He  is 
still  spoken  of  by  the  peasantry  around  Cracow  as 
a  personification  of  the  storm.  Some  of  the  storm 
myths  of  the  Slavonians  are  like  those  of  the  Celts. 

31.  Przypegala.  Only  mentioned  by  Archbishop 
Adelgot  in  1110. 

32.  Radegast,  the  chief  divinity  of  Retra. 

33.  Rugiewit,  worshipped  at  Karanza. 

34.  Rusialki,  the  Slavonic  dryads,  still  feared 
by  some  of  the  peasantry  in  remote  villages. 

35.  Swiatowit,  much  honoured  in  Bohemia. 
He  had  four  heads. 

36.  Siwa,  seems  to  have  been  adopted  from 
India  ;  a  man  with  a  bird  on  his  head. 

37.  Stryba,  the  wind  god;  a  sort  of  Slavonio 
^olus. 

38.  Swatibor,  possibly  called  from  the  holy 
forest. 

39.  Thor,  adopted  from  the  Swedes. 

40.  Tryglaw,  *'  the  three-headed,"  a  Pomeranian 
god. 

41.  Uslad  (=the  sweetener),  the  spirit  of  hos- 
pitality. 

42.  Woda.  Possibly  Odin,  adopted  from  the 
Scandinavians. 

43.  Wily,  the  nyn^phs,  still  sung  of  in  Dalmatia 
and  Servia.     Vide  Naak^'s  Slavonic  Fairy  Tales. 

44.  Wicher,  the  whirlwind  god. 

45.  Wolos,  the  god  of  oxen.  Qy.  Had  the 
Nioevite  bulls  anything  to  do  with  an  oz  deity? 

46.  Wilkolek.  In  Bohemia  possibly  the  were* 
wolf. 

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47.  Zibog,  at  Prylwic'. 

48.  Zolotaja  Balxa,  **  the  golden  old  woman.'' 

The  chief  deities  of  Lithuania  appear  to  hare 
been — 

1.  Okopirnos,  the  deity  of  heaven  and  earth. 

2.  Swaitessix,  the  deity  of  light. 

3.  AuBchlayis,  the  deity  of  disease  and  health 
(.^scnlapias). 

4.  Atrympo9,  the  deity  of  lakes  and  pools. 
6.  Protrympos,  the  deity  of  rivers. 

6.  Gardoitis,  the  deit^  of  ships  and  fishing. 

7.  Pergnibioe,  the  deity  of  the  vegetable  world. 

8.  Pilwitos,  the  deity  of  riches. 

9.  Perkunos,  the  deity  of  thunder  and  lightning. 

10.  Poklas,  the  deity  of  the  lower  regions. 

I  hope  these  notices  may  be  of  interest  to 
mythologists.  W.  S.  Lach-Sztrma. 


"AuLD  BoBiN  Orat."— Templs  Bar,  in  its 
February  number,  has  an  interesting  article  on 
''The  Authoress  of  Auld  BMn  Oraf,"  There 
was  an  old  oontroTersy  as  to  the  origin  of  this 
quaint,  pathetic  ballad,  but  it  was  completely  set 
at  rest  as  to  the  words,  which  were  clearly  proved 
to  have  been  written  by  Lady  Anne  Lindsay,  of 
the  house  of  Balcarres.  But  the  strange  part  of 
the  oontroversy  consisted  in  the  utter  confusion 
between  the  origin  of  the  words  and  the  origin  of 
the  musie.  The  magazine  writer  has  used  an 
appropriate  term  in  the  word  ''authoress"  as 
applied  to  the  writer  of  the  words,  but  as  to  the 
music  leaves  the  matter  in  "confusion  worse  con- 
founded."   Witness  the  following  sentences  : — 

*'  A  simple  ballad,  which  has  retained  mipreoedented 
popularity  for  mora  than  one  hundred  years,  kc.  Its 
aothonhip,  first  attributed  to  David  Riszio,  was  long  a 
problem  for  the  Scottish  Society  of  Antiquaries,  &c. 
One  day  a  fancy  took  her  [Lady  Annel  to  write  new 
words  to  a  Scottish  air  which  Sophy  Johnstone  used  to 
sing,  the  old  ones  being  unsuited  to  its  plaintive  beauty, 
&c.,  while  Auld  Robin  Chray  was  achieving  a  world-wide 
reputation/'  &c. 

Out  of  this  heap  of  ambiguity  we  deduce  the 
following.  There  was  an  old  ballad  extremely 
popular  in  Scotland  and  afterwards  elsewhere,  the 
words  or  the  music  of  which,  or  both  of  them, 
were  once  absurdly  attributed  to  an  Italian.  Lady 
Anne  Lindsay,  finding  the  old  words  of  this  ballad 
unworthy  of  the  plaintive  melody  to  which  they 
had  previously  been  sung,  composed  fresh  words 
to  the  already  well-known  song,  and  Auld  Bohin 
Gray  achieved  a  world-wide  reputation.  We  can 
now  extract  the  pith  of  the  matter  according  to  the 
magazine,  viz.,  that  Lady  Anne  wrote  new  words 
to  an  old  Scotch  tune,  and  that  the  two  combined 
formed  the  renowned  Auld  Robin  Gray  of  world- 
wide reputation.  But,  unfortunately,  the  con- 
clusion is  a  false  one  !  Lady  Anne  undoubtedly 
wrote  the  words,  but  the  tune  which  made  her 
simple  and  pathetic  words  popular  throughout  the 


world,  and  which,  sung  as  I  have  heard  it  sung  by 
Miss  Stephens  above  half  a  century  ago,  brought 
tears  into  the  eyes  of  the  audience,  was  oompoSed 
by  the  Bev.  Henry  Leeves,  of  Wrington,  Somerset- 
shire, which  fact  \b  stated  on  the  tablet  to  his 
memory  in  Wrington  Church.  M.  H.  B. 

BouNDBLa — I  have  a  perfect  set  of  roundels^ 
made  of  thin  beech  wood,  said  to  be  of  the  time 
of  Henry  YIII.  All  but  one  are  in  good  con- 
dition, with  the  exception  of  a  few  worm-holes. 
Part  of  the  original  box  also  remains.  The  front 
of  each,  as  usual,  is  elaborately  ornamented  in 
gold,  green,  brown,  red,  and  white.  They  bear 
the  foUowing  inscriptions  : — 

1.  After  all  worldlie  paine  and  labor 
Die  7"  shalt  in  love  and  favor 
And  by  the  grace  of  God  Almight 

In  heaven  to  have  a  place  full  bright. 

2.  If  y*  bee  yong  than  marie  not  yett 
If  thou  bee  old,  thou  bask  more  witt 
For  yong  men's  wives  will  not  bee  taught 
And  old  men's  wives  bee  good  for  nought, 

3.  Thou  hast  a  shrew  to  thi  good  man 
Perhaps  an  unthrift  too  what  than 
Keepe  him  so  long  as  bee  can  live 
And  att  his  end  his  passing  give. 

4.  II  shrewe  his  heart  that  maried  mee 
My  wife  and  I  can  never  agree 

A  Knavish  Queane  by  Ihs  I  swear 

The  goodman's  breech  she  thinks  to  wears. 

5.  Beceive  thi  hap  as  fortune  sendeth 
But  God  it  is  tha(  fortune  lendeth 
Wherefore  if  thou  a  shrew  hast  got 
Thinke  with  thiself  it  is  this  lot. 

6.  If  that  a  baob-ler  thou  bee 
Keep  thou  so  still  be  ruled  by  me 
Least  that  repentance  all  too  late 
Beward  thee  with  a  broken  pate. 

7.  Aske  thou  y'  wife  if  shee  can  tell 
Whether  y"  in  marriage  hast  sped  well 
And  let  her  speake  as  shee  doth  know 
For  twentie  ponds  shee  will  say  no. 

8.  Take  up  v'  fortune  with  good  happ 
With  riches  y  doost  All  y*  lapp 
Yet  lese  were  better  for  y*  store 
Thie  quietness  would  bee  the  more. 

9.  Thou  art  the  happiest  man  alive 

For  everie  thing  dooth  make  y*  thrive 
Yet  male  y*  wife  y*  maister  bee 
Wherfore  take  thrift  k  all  for  mee. 

10.  Though  hungrie  meals  bee  put  in  pott 
Yett  conscience  oleane  kept  without  spott 
Dooth  keep  y'  corps  in  quiet  rest 

Than  hce  that  thousands  hath  in  chest 

11.  Y'  sire  is  good  in  word  and  deede 
Whie  mistrust  yee  of  yee  have  dede 
As  himselfe  bee  loveth  his  wife 
Never  to  chang  during  his  life. 

12.  And  he  that  reads  this  verse  even  now 
May  happ  to  have  a  lowrini;  sow 
Whose  looks  are  nothing  like  so  badd 
As  is  her  tonge  to  make  him  madd. 

It  would  be  well  to  publish  all  the  mottoes^of^th* 
sets  of  roundels  whicL  are  known. 

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A  Printer's  Advertisement,  1742.  —  The 
followlDg  announcement,  engraved  on  copper-plate, 
and  pasted  inside  the  cover  of  an  octavo  volume, 
of  which  it  occupies  the  entire  space,  may  appear 
to  merit  preservation  : — 

"  Thomas  Allbh 

Rowllini;  Frets  Printer 

at  Palladio's  Head,  Middle-Row, 

Holbom, 

Prints 

All  Manner  of  Copper  Plates, 

As  Mapps,  Booksellers  k  Stationers  Work, 

Tickets  for  Balis,  Plays,  Funerals,  &c., 

Shop  Bills,  Bills  of  Parcells, 

Hat  Marks,  Wifrg  Marks,  k  Tobacco  Marks, 

At  Reasonable  Rates." 

The  volume  in  which  I  find  this  document  is 
entitled :— 

**  The  First  Book  of  Andrea  Palladio's  Architecture. 
Treating  of  the  Five  Orders ;  and  what  is  most  necessary 
in  Building.  Correctly  dmwn  from  his  OnKtnal  Work, 
publiBh'dby  himself  at  Venice,  Anno  1570,  and  accurately 
engraved  by  I.  Ware,    mdccxlii." 

By  way  of  frontispiece  to  this  pretty  volume  is 
a  charming  head  of  Palladio  within  a  border  of 
wreaths  and  ribbons,  well  engraved  by  J.  Ware 
frompa  design  by  W,  Kent. 

William  Bates,  B.A 
Birmingham. 

"The  Emancipation  Oak."— Situated  in  one 
of  the  most  pleasant  spots  of  Holwood  Park,  Kent, 
once  the  residence  of  William  Pitt  the  younger, 
is  a  very  old  oak  tree,  called  "  The  Emancipation 
Oak,"  under  which  a  stone  seat  has  been  erected  by 
Lord  Stanhope,  bearing  the  following  inscription, 
said  to  have  been  copied  from  Wilberforce's  diary, 
1788:— 

"At  length  I  well  remember,  after  a  conversation 
with  Mr.  Pitt,  in  the  open  air,  at  the  right  of  an  old  tree 
at  Holwood,  just  above  the  steep  descent  into  the  vale  of 
Keston,  I  resolved  to  give  notice  on  a  fit  occasion  in  the 
House  of  Commons  of  my  intention  to  bring  forward  the 
abolition  of  the  slave  trade." 

This  incident  in  Wilberforce's  life,  taking  place 
near  this  old  tree,  is  of  sufficient  interest  for  a 
place  in  the  columns  of  *'  N.  &  Q." 

Arthur  Mtnott. 

The  "Religio  Medici.**— Dr.  Greenhill,  in 
his  learned  edition  of  Browne's  Religio  Medici^ 
has  omitted  one  edition  in  his  bibliography.  It 
will  be  BB  of  his  list,  p.  xllii.  The  title-page  runs, 
**  Religio  Medici^  Hyariotaphiay  and  the  Letter  to 
a  Friend,  By  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  Knt.,  with  an 
Introduction  and  Notes  by  J.  W.  Willis  Bund, 

M.A,  LL.B London,  Sampson  Low,  Marston, 

Low  &  Searle.    1874."  W.  G.  Black. 

Glasgow. 

Is  THE  Channel  Tunnel  danger  only  one  of 
Military  Invasion  ? — The  following  paragraph, 
extracted  from  that  pleasing,  though  now  very 
venerable,  tale,  The  Vicar  ofWahejUld,  seems  to 


claim  a  somewhat  curious  significance  at  the  pre- 
sent moment: — 

'<  It  is  a  proverb  abroad,  that  if  a  bridge  were  built 
across  the  sea,  all  the  ladies  of  the  continent  would  come 
over  to  take  pattern  from  ours :  far  there  are  no  such 
wives  in  Europe  as  our  own." 

0.  Blair. 

The  New  English  Dictionary  of  the 
Philological  Society.— Quotations  (with  exact 
reference)  wanted  (6):  send  to  the  editor.  Dr. 
Murray,  Mill  Hill,  N.W.  A.  Instances  of  any 
date  of  amorphism,  amortify,  ampelideous,  ampe- 
lography,  ampelotberapy,  amphibia],  amphibo- 
iogically,  amphicarpous,  amphicurtous,  araphigean, 
amphigenous,  amphilogism,  amphilogy,  amphip- 
neust,  amphismile,  amphistyiic,  amphitoky, 
amphoral,  amphoric,  amphoteric,  amplexatile, 
amplificate,  amplivagant,  amplivagous,  ampullar, 
amputator,  aropnte,  amnletic,  amurcous,  amur- 
oosity.  B.  Quotations  hffore  the  date  annexed 
for  amoeba,  1855 ;  amoebiform,  amoeboid,  1867 ; 
amomous,  1683;  amorphous,  1800;  amortisable, 
1880  ;  amount,  sb.  1750;  amovible,  1851 ;  amphi- 
bian, 1835 ;  amphibolic  (rhet.),  1873 ;  amphi- 
chroitic,  1878;  amphigoric,  1869;  ampliative, 
1852 ;  amplitude,  1575  ;  amputate,  1800 ;  run 
amuck,  1687 ;  amusee,  1840 ;  amusement,  1700. 
C.  Quotations  after  the  date  annexed  for  amomous, 
1683;  amorosity,  1677;  amor ningp,  1636 ;  amorphy, 
1704  ;  amotine,  1578  ;  amoval,  1700  ;  amovement, 
1650 ;  am  pare,  1598  ;  amplect,  1612  ;  amplexa- 
tion,  1650  ;  amusette,  1776. 


fhwtxitt. 
We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  aflSx  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Rev.  0.  Heywood*s  MSS.— A  gentleman  near 
Manchester  having  favoured  me  with  six  short 
MSS.  by  Mr.  Hey  wood,  I  ask  the  assistance  of 
your  readers  who  may  know  the  whereabouts  of 
any  other  originals  or  copies  before  committing 
the  final  volume  to  the  press.  The  register  at  the 
Congregational  Memorial  Hall,  diaries,  &c.,  from 
Messrs.  Roberts,  I.  Heywood,  and  Stamford 
Raffles  are  safely  to  hand.  Thoresby  and  Hunter 
made  extracts  ;  what  has  become  of  these?  ^  I 
know  of  one  volume  by  Thoresby  in  the  British 
Museum.  J.  Horsfall  Turner. 

I  del,  Leeda 

Inhabitants  of  Lichfield  temp.  Williah 
IlL:  Johnson  Family.— In  the  Hurl.  MS.  7022 
is  "  An  Abstract  of  the  Names  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  the  Oitty  and  County  of  Lichfield."  The  Har> 
leian  Catalogue  supposes  this  list  to  have  been 
made 

**  probably  in  the  early  part  of  Qupe^  Anne's  reign.    In 
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iheet  6,  deteribinff  Sadler 'i  Row,  MMrkefc  Street,  where 
the  Johnsons  IiTed,  we  find  '  Michael  Johnson,  Bachelor, 
36  yean/  Dr.  Johnson  was  born  in  1709.  Supposing 
his  father  therefore  to  hare  been  married  in  1707  or  8»* 
this  most  haTe  been  prerioos  to  that  time,  bat  probablj 
not  long,  fis  he  then  had  an  apprentice  who  is  also 
noticed.    This  nearlj  fixes  the  date  of  the  list.*' 

An  exact  oopj  of  the  entry  here  referred  to  is 

worth  preserving  in  ^  N.  &  Q."  It  is  as  follows:— 

"  Michael!  Johnson,  Batcbelor,  86  years  .  00  Oi  00. 

Andrew  Johnson,  Widd',  82. 

Symon  Martin,  App*"*,  16. 

Ann  Deakin,  ServS  27." 

Andrew  Johnson,  it  maj  be  mentioned,  was 
Michael's  brother.  Now  as  Michael  Johnson  was 
bom  (according  to  his  MI.  at  Lichfield)  in  1656, 
the  date  of  this  document  most  be  about  1692.t 
For  what  purpose  was  this  list  drawn  upl  It 
would  appear  to  be  a  sort  of  subsidy  roll ;  but  why 
was  it  necessary  to  record  the  age  of  each  indi- 
Tidual  ?  I  should  mention  that  to  the  name  of  every 
person  described  as  a  bachelor  the  sum  of  one 
shilling  is  attached.  H.  S.  6. 

GniDo's  "Aurora." — 

"  Qoadrijugis  invectus  eqals  Sol  anreas  exit 
Gai  septem  variis  circumstant  yestibus  Horse. 
Lucifer  anterolat.    Rapid!  foge  Lampada  Solis 
Aurora  umbramm  rictrix  ne  Ticta  recedas." 

Although  the  authorship  of  the  lines  on  Raphael 
Morghen's  print  of  Guide's  "Aurora''  has  been 
twice  the  subject  of  queries  in  **  N.  &  Q."  (l**  S. 
ii.  391;  iiL  287;  4«»»  S.  xii.  447,  521),  they  have 
£iiled  to  procure  a  satisfactory  reply.  Will  yon 
kindly  permit  me  to  repeat  the  inquiry,  Whence 
are  the  above  lines  taken  ?  B.  D. 

Gbnkral  O'Sdllivan.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
give  the  date  and  place  of  death  of  General  O'Sul- 
livan,  who  was  adjutant  and  quartermaster-general 
to  the  Young  Pretender  at  Colloden,  and  after- 
wards shared  his  wanderings  in  the  Hebrides  ; 
also,  any  information  respecting  his  life  and  career 
after  his  escape  to  France  ?  A  man  of  his  dis- 
tinguished military  talents— talents  which  caused 
him  to  be  selected  for  that  post — and  who  is  re- 
ferred to  with  such  personal  regard  in  the  corre- 
spondence between  Charles  Edward  and  his  father, 
should  not  drop  so  entirely  out  of  history  as  he 
seems  to  have  done.  S.  0. 

WiLLiAH  Browns,  of  Tavistock,  Port,  and 
Author  of  "  Britannia's  Pastorals,"  &a— I 
shall  feel  much  indebted  to  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
for  information  respecting  the  family  of  the  above. 
I  believe  Sir  Thomas  Browne,  Treasurer  of  the 

*  Michael  Johnson  and  Sarah  Fo^d  were  married  at 
Packwood,  CO.  Warwick.  June  19.  1706.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Corneliui  Ford,  of  Kingsnorton,  co.  Wore, 
where  she  was  bapt.  April  6,  1669. 

i  Sir  John  Floyer,  Knt.,  who  dwelt  in  St.  John's 
Street,  was  aged  fortj-twa.    He  was  bupt  in  1649. 


Household  to  Henry  VL,  and.  Sheriff  of  Kent  in 
1444  and  1460,  married  Eleanor,  daughter  and 
sole  heir  of  Sir  Thomas  Fitz  Alan,  of  Beechworth 
Castle,  and  brother  to  John,  Earl  of  Arundel,  and 
left,  with  other  issue,  William  Browne,  whose  son 
removed  to  Tavistock.  Was  this  son  the  poet  ? 
Wm.  U.  S.  Glanyillr-Richards. 
Windlesham,  Surrey. 

A  Statue  at  BRiXTON.—At  the  north- eastern 
comer  or  angle  formed  by  the  junction  of  Effra 
Road  and  Water  Lane,  Brixton,  in  front  of  the 
'* George  Canning"  public-house,  is  a  mutilated 
stone  statue  on  a  pedestal.  This  statue  represents  a 
draped  classical  figure,  and  is  said  to  be  a  genuine 
antique,  although  the  **  oldest  inhabitant"  asserts 
that  it  merely  portrays  George  Canning,  toga- 
clad.  Amongst  the ''  improvements  "  which  have 
been  going  on  in  the  locality  this  statue  has  had 
a  narrow  chance  of  beiug  improved  away,  but 
popular  feeling  has  been  decidedly  in  favour  of  its 
retention,  notwithstanding  its  mutilated  condition 
and  the  fact  that  the  pedestal  is  generally  covered 
with  placards.  The  landlord  of  the  ''Gkorge 
Canning"  informed  me  that  the  statue  in  question 
was  originally  intended  to  represent  Diogenes  in 
search  of  an  honest  man,  and  that  when  perfect 
one  of  the  hands  purported  to  bear  a  kintem.  The 
notices  of  Brixton  in  the  county  and  parochial 
histories  (iDcluding  Tbornbury  and  Walford's 
London)  are  most  meagre,  and  it  is  hopeless  to  ex- 
pect to  find  in  them  any  allusion  to  this  statue, 
which  must  have  a  history.  There  was  a  Roman 
causeway  not  far  off,  along  Brixton  Hill  and  Brixton 
Rise  ;  query,  have  any  remains  of  Roman  art  ever 
been  discovered  there  ?  Can  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents clear  up  the  mystery  of  this  statue  ? 

T.   G.   RiDOWAT. 

Chimbs  at  Nurrmbbrg.  —  Some  sensitive 
people  are  complaining,  in  the  papers  of  the  day, 
of  the  noise  made  by  the  church  bells.  Whilst 
reading  Dr.  Burney's  History  of  Mutic  I  met 
with  the  following  passage  (vol.  iii.  pp.  264,  256): 

'*  At  Lansperg  the  same  author  tells  us  that '  the  town 
clock,  like  many  others  in  this  country,  struck  quarters* 
et  dict'OK  qyu  eelui  de  Nuremberah  totu  let  minuies* 
This  is  likewise  an  early  proof  of  chimes  in  Bavaria, 
whence  they  are  said  to  be  brought  into  the  Low 
Countries." 

Dr.  Bnmey  cites  as  his  authority  ''Montague, 
Joum,  d*un  Voyage"  and  adds  tbat  Montague 
travelled  in  Germany  in  1580.  Can  any  modem 
visitor  to  Nuremberg  tell  us  whether  the  chimes 
are  guilty  of  such  terrible  iteration  nowadays  1  If 
so,  our  newspaper  complainants  would  scarcely 
find  that  venerable  city  an  earthly  paradise. 

W.  Sparrow  Simpsov. 

"  Hallaballoo."— Can  any  one  assist  me  to  a 
root  for  kallahcUloo,  or  even  for  halloo,  with  which 
word  it  must  be  connected  ?   We  have  in  Sanskrit 


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hold,  a  noise,  and  in  Hebrew  halol,  with  a  some- 
what similar  meaning ;  yet  it  is  not  clear  how  or 
when  such  words  came  to  be  popularly  used  in  the 
English  language.  W.  E.  Marshall. 

William  Howison. — This  writer  was  a  friend 
of  Lockhart's,  and  is  mentioned  in  terms  of  com- 
mendation in  the  Life  of  Scott  Any  particulars 
4)oncerning  himself  and  his  belongings  will  be 
welcome  to  C.  M.  I. 

Athenntim  Club. 

An  Old  Sbak — Can  any  of  yoor  readers  in- 
form me  as  to  the  origin  of  an  oral  seal  with  the 
Virgin  and  Child  under  a  Gothic  canopy  and  in  a 
compartment  bebw  a  kneeling  figure  ?  Bound  the 
border  is  the  motto,  in  old  Eugli^  letters,  sigillu' 
pRRBBNDARu'  DB  BULiDON.  It  is  used  by  Giggles- 
wick  School,  Yorks  (founded  by  Edward  VI.),  but 
does  not  seem  to  have  any  connexion  with  it. 

J.  J.  B. 

"Opibt":  for  the  Philological  Society's 
Nbw  Diction  art.— In  HoUand's  translation  of 
Pliny's  Nat,  Hid,  (ed.  1634}  occur  the  following: 

**  The  Op!etflor  Wicb-Hazelsare  sown  of  seed  after  the 
same  manner  as  Elme :  in  like  sort  also  are  tbey  to  be 
remoTed  Ic  transplanted  oat  of  their  noaree-plots,  as  if 
they  were  wild,  drawn  from  the  Tery  forrests."— VoL  L 
p.  512. 

*'  Touching  the  tree  (in  manner  of  an  Opiet  or  Poplar) 
called  Rumbotinos,  I  baue  described  it  in  my  treatise  of 
Hortyards  and  Treeplots."— Vol.  ii.  p.  206. 

Can  any  one  give  me  or  refer  me  to  any  informa- 
tion about  an  opiet  ?  W.  J.  Lowenbbro. 
Bury,  Lancashire. 

**  A     FORTUITOUS     CONCOURSE    OF    ATOMS."  — 

This  phrase  occurs  in  the  preface  to  ^  Marciu 
MimMcius  Fdix  his  Octavius :  or,  A  Vindication 
of  Chrittianity  against  Paganism,  Made  English. 
London,  Printed,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  John 
Whitlock  near  Stationer's  HalL  1696."  12mo. 
Can  an  earlier  instance  of  it  be  noted  ?      C.  D. 

COLLROIUM  GrASSINJKUH  :     GUALTERUS   DoN- 

OAMB. — Can  any  one  give  information  about  the 
names  and  place  mentioned  in  the  following  in- 
scription, which  I  found  in  an  old  edition  of 
Seneca's  works,  dated  "Parisiis  Apud  Jacobum 
Dupuys  sub  signo  Samaritanse,  udlxxxvii  "  ? — 

"Ego  infra  seriptus  coUegii  Grassinsei  moderator 
fidem  faeio  nobilem  adolescentem  Qualterum  Dongane 
primum  solatss  orationis  prasnilnm  in  Bhetorica  jure 
men  to  conseoutum  illoq  donatam  esse  die  12  Augnsti 
anni  1682,  in  solemni  prsBmionun  distributione.  In 
cujus  rei  fidem  subscripsi." 

Framert. 

"  JuBAR."— In  all,  or  nearly  all,  our  Latin  dic- 
tionaries, we  are  referred  for  the  origin  of  the  word 
jubar  (the  day-dawn  or  morning  star,  as  in  '' jubare 
exorto")  to  ''juba,"  a  mane,  it  being  sometimes 
explained  that  the  idea  is  the  daylight  expanding 


or  spreading  itself  out  all  round  like  a  lion's  mane. 
Although  there  is  ancient  authority  for  this,  it 
seems  very  fanciful,  and  that  which  is  ancient  is 
not  always  correct.  Now,  Forcellini  suggests  that 
the  true  derivation  is  rather  from  ajScop,  which, 
according  to  Hesychius,  was  a  dialectic  (Laconian) 
word  for  ^(i>$,  the  dawn.  The  authority  of  Hesy- 
chius is  great,  and  surely  it  is  odd  that  our  dic- 
tionaries, so  far  as  I  know,  make  no  reference. to 
this.  Perhaps  some  classical  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
will  be  able  kindly  to  inform  me  whether  any  fresh 
light  has  been  thrown  upon  the  word  since  the 
time  of  ForcellinL  W.  T.  Ltnn. 

Blaokheath. 

A  Canadian  Token  or  Medal  [?]. — A  gar- 
dener, lately,  turning  over  the  ground  in  the 
garden  at  the  White  Cottage,  one  of  the  oldest 
houses  on  the  beach  at  Lytham  (Lancashire), 
found  a  token  or  medal  about  the  size  and 
thickness  of  one  of  the  halfpennies  in  present  cir- 
culation. After  being  cleared  from  incrustation  as 
far  as  possible,  it  could  be  seen  that  the  obyerse 
has  in  the  centre  something  like  an  altar,  on  which 
is  the  word  fell,  and  what  has  probably  been 
a  date  beneath.  Upon  the  altar  is  an  urn,  which 
two  angels,  flying,  are  apparently  crowning  with  a 
wreath.  Round  this  side  there  is  the  following 
inscription,  "  Sr  Isaac  Brook  [or  Brock]  the  Hero 
of  Up  Canada."  On  the  reyerse  in  the  centre  is 
the  date  1816,  with  a  radiating  star  aboye  it  and 
the  same  below  it,  and  the  inscription  round  the 
side,  ''Success  to  Gommerce  and  Peace  to  the 
World."  The  edges  of  the  token  or  medal  are 
plated  with  nickel.  Oan  any  of  your  readers  say 
with  what  eyent  or  place  it  is  connected  ? 

C.  R 

Lytham. 

The  Traditions  op  the  County  of  Dorabt.— 
I  should  be  glad  if  any  of  your  readers  would  giye 
me  the  names  and  publishers  of  any  books  treating 
of  these.  S.  T.  C. 

Thomas  White,  Bishop  of  Peterborough. 
— Where  was  he  bom  ?  He  was  one  of  the  seyen. 
Miss  A.  Strickland  suggests  Abingdon,  Kent ;  but 
though  Ireland  mentions  seyeral  manors  in  Kent 
appertaining  to  the  Whites,  Abingdon  is  not  one 
of  them.  On  the  other  hand,  the  estate  and 
mansion  of  Goldwell,  at  Aldington  or  AUington, 
was  held  by  them  in  connexion  with  the  manor  of 
Bonington  from  the  reign  of  James  I.  till 
Thomas,  Dean  of  Canterbury,  who  in  1690 
married  Grace,  sister  of  John  Lynch,  Esq.,  of 
Groyes,  divided  his  estates  amongst  his  children 
at  his  death,  when  they  became  alienated  by  sale 
and  marriage.  Any  information  that  will  help 
the  writer  to  materials  for  a  memoir  of  the  bishop 
will  greatly  oblige.  Caroline  A.  White. 

Preston  on  the  Wild  Moorp,  Salop. 


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The  Office  of  Bailiff.— On  the  Patent 
Rolls  of  the  fifteenth  und  sixteenth  centuries  I 
find  Yarious  grants  of  the  office  of  bailiff  of  small 
towns,  not  corporations.  Where  can  I  find  the 
duties  of  a  bailiff  given  ?  W.  G.  D.  F. 

Elias  Browne,  Norwich. — I  have  lately  seen* 
a  brass  clock  with  this  name,  &c.,  upon  it.  The 
engraving  upon  the  face  I  was  told  by  the  clock- 
miuLer  in  whose  hands  it  was  marks  the  date  at 
About  1600,  if  not  before.  When  did  Elias 
Biownelive?  H.  A.  W. 

Edward  YI.  and  his  Sisters. — ^They  appear 
to  have  been  on  the  most  cordial  and  loving  terms. 
To  his  godmother  Mary,  Edward,  before  his 
accession,  writes  as  follows: — *'I  love  you  as  a 
brother  ought  to  love  a  most  dear  sister  who  has 
all  the  ornaments  of  virtue  and  honour.  I  write 
to  you  very  rarely,  but  I  love  you  very  much.*' — 
Bllis,  p.  134.  Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
tell  me  whether  Mary  wrote  in  the  same  loving 
fltiain  to  Edward,  and,  if  so,  favour  me  with  a 
few  lines  of  any  such  letter  ?  I  have  no  copy  of 
either  series  of  Sir  H.  Ellis's  works,  but  simply 
quote  the  above  passage  from  Turner. 

H.  W.  COOKBS. 

Astley  Rectory,  StoarporL 

Capt.  Gordon  of  Charles  X.'s  Swiss  Guards. 
— Capt.  Gordon  was  an  Anglo-Swiss.  After  the 
revolution  of  1830  he  retired  to  Lausanne.  He 
was  a  musical  enthusiast,  and  invented  a  new 
kind  of  flute,  of  which  he  published  a  prospectus, 
when  at  Munich  in  1833.  He  visited  London  in 
1831.  Has  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  one  of  his 
£ute8,  or  a  copy  of  his  prospectus  1  I  should  be 
much  obliged  for  any  information  relating  to  him 
or  bis  family.  C,  Welch. 

United  Uoiversity  Clab. 

General  Guest,  1745.— I  wish  to  trace  the 
course  of  General  Guest,  who  died  in  1745,  aged 
about  eighty.  He  entered  the  army  early.  Any 
fMrticulars  respecting  him,  in  addition  to  the 
notice  in  Col.  Chester's  Westmimter  Ahhey 
RegitUrt,  will  be  of  great  interest.  I  wish  to 
procure  a  portrait  of  him.  Where  shall  I  be 
able  to  trace  his  promotions  ? 

J.  Horsfall  Turker. 

Idel,  Leeds. 

"  Manifest."— Richardson's  Dietionary  gives 
the  following  derivations  of  this  word : — "  Propria 
manifegtum  in  quo  manut  fendunt,  hoc  est  inci- 
dnnt ;  sive  qnod  manib ui  fegtim^  seu  cit6  occnrrit" 
(Vossius).  Can  any  other  derivation  be  sug- 
gested? T.  C. 

Hawss  Family,  Sussex  and  Suffolk. — I 
shall  be  glad  of  any  information  respecting  this 
family.    I   am    acquainted  with    everything    in 


Horsfield's  HitUtry  of  Stusex,  and  the  Sussex 
Archaologkal  CoUeetumt.  Sir  William  Bnrrell 
states  that  the  Sussex  branch  were  descended 
from  a  Hawes,  who  was  seized  of  land  at  Wal* 
shum  -  Je  -  Willows,  Suffolk,  in  the  reign  of 
Edward  III.  Are  there  any  pedigrees  of  the 
family?  Frederick  E.  Sawteb. 

Brighton. 

Toads  worshipped  bt  the  Molossians. — In 
an  old  play,  Hehry  Shirley's  Martyr'd  Souldietf 
1638, 1  have  come  across  a  curious  tale,  which  I 
think  I  have  met  before,  but  cannot  remember 
where. '  It  is  not  in  Lucian,  as  I  at  first  supposed  ; 
and  I  should  be  glad  if  some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
would  tell  me  where  it  may  be  found: — 
"  Had  you  as  many  ^oda  as  voa  have  dayes, 
As  once  the  Assyrians  had,  yet  have  yee  nothing  : 
Sach  lerrice  as  they  gave  such  you  may  give, 
And  have  reward  as  had  the  blind  Molossians  : 
A  toad  one  day  they  worship ;  one  of  them  dninke 
A  health  with 's  Qod  and  poyson'd  so  himselfe." 

8ig.  D.  V. 

Who  18  the  authority  for  the  statement  about  the 
"Assyrians?"  A.  H.  B. 

A  Reference  ik  Malonb. — Malone,  in  one 
of  his  manuscripts  in  the  Bodleian,  noting  that 
"  the  company  at  Blackfriars  forbid  to  play  Chap- 
man*s  Byron,  and  some  sent  to  prison,  Aonl, 
1608,"  gives  the  reference  to  what  looks  like 
Bredem,  voL  iii.  pp.  196-7.  I  do  not  think 
Bredem  is  the  name,  but  can  make  nothing  ehe 
of  it.  Perhaps  it  is  some  foreign  collection,  and 
some  of  your  readers  may  kindly  supply  me  with 
the  correct  reference. 

J.  0.  Halliwell-Phillipps. 

The  Heraldic  Bearings  of  Edxund  Spenser 
AND  OF  THE  PoBT  Qrat.— Can  any  of  your 
readers  supply  me  with  these  ? 

G.  Gilbert  Scott. 

26,  Church  Bow,  Hampstead,  N.W. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. — 
**  I  saw  the  laughing  devil  in  his  eye." 

H.  w.  a 

"  Beauty  is  in  the  eye  of  the  beholder." 

OWLIT. 

Hrplieif. 

RUSHTON  HALL,  NORTHANTS. 
(P^  S.  X.  48,  92,  138, 468;  6«*  S.  iv.  510;  v.  115.) 
Neither  Mr.  Julian  Marshall,  nor  Faha,  nor 
my  friend  Mr.  Walford  has  quite  hit  olf— if  I  may 
use  that  term —the  Rushton  Hall  inscription  ;  but 
by  accepting  Mr.  Marshall's  suggestion  for  the 
fifth  line  and  Mr.  Walford*s  for  the  last,  the 
meaning  becomes  quite  clear.  In  1880  I  sent  a 
version  of  the  first  four  lines  to  "  N.  &  Q.";  I  had 
prepared  a  versicn  of  the  reminder,  but  I  could 


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not  satisfy  myself  with  the  fifth  line.  I  now  send 
the  fall  yenion  which  I  then  prepared,  and  on 
which  I  have  just  laid  my  hands ;  and  to  com- 
plete it,  I  haye  taken  Ma.  Marshall's  omnia 
ad  mva  in  the  fifth  line,  and  Mb.  Walford's 
genu  for  gmus  in  the  last  line. 

The  lines  refer  to  the  prototypes  of  oar  Lord, 
and  to  His  Passion : — 

Ecoe  salatifemm  Bignam  Thau  [t.«.,  the  cross  Tl 
nobile  lignum 
Yitn: 

see  the  hymn  Crvx  FidelU  in  the  Office  for  Good 
Friday  in  the  Roman  MissaL 

Serpens  hie  nneas  alter  erat : 
the  brazen  serpent  was  a  figure  of  Christ  cruci- 
fied, and  of  the  efficacy  of  a  lively  faith  in  Him 
against  the  bites  of  the  hellish  serpent.  Cf. 
John  iii.  14,  15,  "And  as  Moses  lifted  up  the 
serpent  in  the  desert,  so  must  the  Son  of  Man  be 
lifted  op ;  that  whosoever  believeth  in  Him  may 
not  pensh,  but  may  have  life  eternal." 

Venditus  hie  Joseph  pro  Till  muaere  : 
Joseph  was  sold  by  his  brethren,  and  our  Lord 
was  sold  by  Jadas. 

Jonas 
Qui  tridao  ceti  corpore  clausus  erat : 

this  representation  often  occurs  in  the  Catacombs. 
Jonas  was  three  days  in  the  whale's  belly ;  our 
Lord  lay  three  days  in  the  sepulchre. 

Hie  aalientis  aquas  fous  : 

cf.  John  iv.  13, 14,  '' He  that  shall  drink  of 

the  water  that  I  will  give  him  shall  not  thirst  for 
ever ;  bat  the  water  that  I  will  give  him  shall 
become  in  him  a  fountain  of  water  springing  np 
into  life  everlasting.'' 

Omnia  ad  asva  aacerdoa : 
cf.  Ps.  cix.,  "  Tu  es  Sacerdos  in  aeternum  secun- 
dum ordinem  Melchisedech." 

Agnus  qui  occitua  Victima  pacis  erat : 
this  line  requires  no  comment. 

Agnua  et  oceisua  prirasBv^  ab  origtne  mundi 
Crimina  qui  lavit  annguine  nostra  auo : 

ct  the  Roman  Missal  in  the  Canon  of  the  Mass, 
''Anras  Dei  qui  tollis  peccata  mundi";  also  the 
words  used  by  the  priest  when  he  administers  holy 
oommanion,   "Ecce  Agnus  Dei,  ecce  qui  toUit 
peccata  mnndu" 
We  now  come  to  the  Passion  of  our  Lord  : — 
0  onam  Judssi  meditantur  inania  multa, 
Et  gentes  manibus  quam  fremuere  suis : 

cL  Psalm  ii.,  '*  Quare  fremuerunt  gentes  et  popnli 
meditati  sunt  inania." 

Hi  caput  attollunt ;  hi  rident,  hi  maledicunt : 
see  the  Passion  in  the  four  Evangelists. 
Sunt  qui  pro  tunici  ludere  sorte  volunt : 
the  soldiers  cast  lots  for  our  Lord's  garment. 

Bst  qui  eor  tenerum  onadeli  percutit  hasti  : 
Longinas,  the  centurion,  who  pierced  the  side  of 
our  Blessed  Lord  with  his  spear. 


Est  qui  vnlt  magnam  toilers  felle  sitim  : 
out  Lord  cried  out,  "  I  thirst,"  and  He  was  offered 
vinegar  and  gall  on  a  sponge. 
Mater  at  o  f  Mater,  lachrymis  compuncta  labascit 

Bed  muliebre  genu  dat  mulieris  opem : 
by  TMdiebre  genu  the  writer  of  the  inscription 
wished,  I  believe,  to  convey  the  idea  of  our  Lord's 
dead  body  being  placed  on  His  blessed  Mother's 
knee— the  Pieta  in  Italy,  the  image  of  Our  Lady 
of  Pity  in  England,  a  most  favourite  representa- 
tion, and  one  which  was  to  be  found  in  almost 
every  church  in  England  in  Pre-Reformation  days. 
It  is  for  this  reason  that  I  prefer  Mr.  Walford*s 
reading,  mulubre  genu.  Edmund  Watrrton. 
Deeping  Waterton  Hall,  Market  Deeping,  Line. 


The  Pronunciation  of  "er"  as  "ar"  (6* 
S.  iii.  4,  353,  393,  457}  :  Parson  :  Person 
(6*»»  S.  ii.  281,  411,  497  ;  iii.  37,  371).— I  must 
say  that  I  cannot  see  that  it  makes  much  differ- 
ence whether  er  is  pronounced  ar,  as  sometime» 
in  English,  or  whether  the  er  has  been  perma- 
nently changed  into  ar^  as  in  the  cases  I  quoted 
in  French  ;  and,  indeed.  Prof.  Skbat's  remark 
about  "  that  singular  habit  of  English  whereby 
er  is  frequently  pronounced  ar"  was  made  by  him 
when  writing  about  the  word  parson,  in  which  the 
er  has  actually  become  ar.  Would  he,  then,  really 
separate  such  words  sa  pareon,  parrot,  partridge^ 
pardon^  marvel,  Harry,  &c.,  in  which  the  er  has 
become  ar  in  English  from  the  other  words,  much 
fewer  in  number,  such  as  chrk,  serjeant,  Derby, 
&c.,  in  which  the  er  has  been  retained  in  writing 
but  is  pronounced  arf  If  fo,  he  must  have 
changed  his  opinion  very  recently,  for  in  his  note 
published  in  *'  N.  &  Q.,"  *6»»»  S.  iii.  4,  he  says,  "  As 
the  pronunciation  of  er  as  ar  is  often  discusssed,  I 
have  collected  more  than  fifty  examples  of  it,  as 
will  be  seen  below.**  According  to  his  present 
view,  these  examples  ought  to  be  all  words  in 
which  er  is  written  and  ar  pronounced  ;  but,  lo 
and  behold  !  thirty  of  them,  beginning  with  ham 
and  ending  with  barheiry,  are  words  in  which  at 
is  now  written,  whilst  in  nearly  all  the  remaining 
examples  in  which  er  is  now  written  the  ar  pro- 
nunciation is  either  obsolete  or  only  heard  amon^ 
the  lower  classes,  as  in  earve,  earvant,  &c^  If 
examples  like  these  last  are  to  be  taken  into 
account— and  I  quite  agree  that  they  ought  to  be 
— then  there  is  no  doubt  that  Prof.  Skbat  is 
also  wrong  in  saying,  as  he  does  (6^  S«  iii  393), 
that  "  no  other  modern  language  [than  English] 
uses  the  written  symbol  er  when  the  pronunciation 
ar  is  intended.'*  On  referring  to  some  notes 
which  I  made  years  ago  with  regard  to  this  point, 
I  find  no  less  than  fourteen  examples  which  I  had 
discovered  in  French,  viz.,  in  Moli^re's  Ftetin  de 
Pierre,  act  ii.,  in  which  two  peasants  (it  is  noli 
said  from  whnt  part  of  France)  are  represented  ns 
talking    together.      These    fourteen    words  are 


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renvardi,  mar,  tarre,  apar^u,  Ftarroty  mvan, 
barlue*  pardre,  tarmonni,  tarvir,  «atT«,  mareiert, 
marks,  partonnesf  (twice),  all  of  which  are  now 
(as,  indeed,  they  were  then  by  educated  people) 
written  with  «r.  And  that  tr  is  still  so  pro- 
nounced even  by  some  of  those  who  are  considered 
to  belong  to  the  educated  classes  (to  say  nothing 
of  the  lower  classes)  in  France  in  certain  cases  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  I  find  argots  and  arhorisU 
given  as  the  pronunciation  of  ergots  and  herhorists 
in  a  very  small  pamphlet  on  Parisian  vulgarisms 
written  by  a  M.  Hamel  (a  Frenchman). 

Though  I  believe  that  we  derived  this  habit  of 
ours  in  a  great  measure  from  the  French,  still  I 
said  in  my  last  note  that  the  same  habit  probably 
prevailed  in  other  languages  to  a  greater  or  less 
extent  quite  independently,  and  of  this  view  I  can 
now  give  some  confirmation.  Thus,  in  the 
Romance  language  spoken  in  the  Eogadine,  &c.,i 
of  which  I  know  but  little,  and  of  which  no  good 
dictionary  has  been  published,  I  have  come  across 
several  words  in  which  er  has  become  ar,  or  in 
which  they  interchange.  These  are  marcau  (Lat 
mereatus),  a  town,  city,  or  market ;  marcadont= 
Fr.  mardiand ;  marveglia  (cf.  Ital.  niaraviglia  and 
our  marvel  with  the  Fr.  merveiUe,  from  Lat.  mira- 
hilia) ;  and  darchiar,  also  written  derMar  (cf.  the 
Span.  derechOf  from  Lat.  dirigere,  direetus),  to 
judge  or  go  to  law  ;  the  prep,  par  (Lat.  per),  with 
compounds  as  pardunar,  parfumar,  &c.;  par- 
dagar  (Lut,  pradicare);  and  in  the  Coire  dialect, 
tiara  (Lat.  terra)  and  tiarm  (Lat.  terminus,  our 
term).  And  I  could  give  other  examples  in  which 
0  not  followed  by  r  has  become  a. 

In  the  Piedmontef>e  dialect  of  Italian,  again,  I 
find  (see  Sant'  Albino's  Diet,)  mared^^mercato 
(market),  marcant  (merchant),  with  other  words  from 
the  same  root;  jartHin,  also  written  4ert7an;  sarpan, 
also  written  serpan  (serpent).  In  one  case  ar  is 
inclined  to  become  er,  for  1  find  both  sarm^nta 
and  sermenta  (Lat.  sarmenium). 

In  pure  Italian  again,  in  addition  to  maraviglia, 
which  I  have  already  given,  there  is  -4rri^o=our 
Hany.§  And  in  connexion  with  this  last  may  I 
mention  that  recently  I  discovered  that  Aiy,  in 
Ary  Schefftr — a  name  of  which  I  had  always  con- 
sidered the  first  part  to  be  highly  poetical,  and  thus 
well  suited  to  a  great  painter — was  nothing  more 
nor  less  than  a  corruption  of  the  Fr.  Henri,\\  and 

*  In  Italian  however,  it  ib  (ar/Minc,  lo  that  I  should 
sot,  perhapf,  quote  tbis  word. 

t  It  is  intereating  to  find  partonne  (cf.  our  panon)  in 
French  afso. 

1  Tbis  languntre  has  been  no  doubt,  and  itill  is.  much 
influenced  by  Oernian  and  Italian,  eipeciaily  by  the 
former,  but  I  cannnt  discover  that  it  baa  ever  been  sub- 
jected to  French  influence. 

f  And  there  are  nu  doubt  other  ezampleti,  though  it 
is  not  by  any  roeani  a  common  chan|2:e  in  Italian. 

n  See  BtwJie  tur  lei  Nom$  de  FamiUe  du  Pays  de 
Liege,  par  Albin  Body,  Liege,  1880,  p.  W. 


so  equivalent  to  our  'Arry  !  Imagine  my  dismay. 

I  almost  resolved  to  leave  etymology  alone  for 

the  future.*  F.  Chance. 
Sydenham  Hill. 

I  am  afraid  that  Prof.  Skbat  has  somewhat 
misunderstood  me  concerning  the  word  starve^ 
but  hope  it  will  not  be  thought  that  I  intend  to 
suggest  that  it  may  not  be  my  own  fault.  But  I 
did  not  say  or  suppose  that  starve  was  derived 
from  the  German  sterbm ;  only  that  they  had  a 
common  origin,  and  that  the  Germans  had  re- 
tained the  e,  whilst  we  had  changed  it,  as  in  so 
many  other  words,  into  a.  Also  I  wished  to 
point  out  that  this  change  had  taken  place  since 
the  time  of  Chaucer.  From  him  I  would  quote 
two  familiar  lines  : — 

"  Alas  !  Cuatence,  thou  hast  no  champion, 
But  He  ihhi  ttar/e  for  our  redemption." 

Starfe  evidently  here  means  died;  it  would  be 
interesting  to  know  when  it  came  to  be  restricted 
in  meaning  to  dying  for  tcant  of  food. 

The  A.-S.  tor  seems  so  frequently  in  modem 
English  to  have  become  er,  and  afterwards  ar, 
that  one's  attention  is  naturally  attracted  to 
a  remarkable  exception.  Steorra,  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  for  star,  has  never,  so  far  as  I  am  aware, 
been  spelt  ster  in  English.  Perhaps  Prof.  Skbat 
will,  if  I  am  wrong  in  this,  kindly  point  it  out. 
In  German,  as  is  woU  known,  the  vowel  is  e,  but 
besides  this  the  word  has  a  finstl  n. 

W.  T.  Ltnn. 

Blackbeath. 

Sheridan's  pronunciation  of  Berks  had  the 
authority  of  a  very  eminent  inhabitant  of  that 
county : — 

"  Tell  at  yonr  Levee,  as  the  Crowds  approach, 
To  whom  to  nod,  whom  take  into  your  Coacb, 
Whom  honour  with  your  hand  to  make  remarks, 
Who  rules  in  Cornwall,  or  who  rules  in  Berks." 

Pope,  Jmitationt  of  Honue,  i.  6. 
Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 

The  Earliest  Dated  English  Book-Plats 
(e"*  S.  V.  9,  78).— A  friend  writes  to  me  that  he 
possesses  in  his  collection  of  book-plates  two 
English  dated  specimens,  the  existence  of  which 
I  certainly  think  deserves  recording  in  the 
columns  of  <*N.  &  Q."  Tbe  first  of  these  plates 
appears  to  have  been  used  to  mark  certaiB 
volumes  which  Sir  Nicholas  Bacon  gave  to  tbe 
University  of  Cambridge,  as  it  bears  this  in- 
scription, "N.  Bacon,  eques   auratus,  &    magni 


*  At  the  same  time  thia  should  teach  ua  to  be  more 
indulgent  to  those  who  drop  their  A'a.  Whv  abould  it 
be  criminal  in  ua  English  to  do  ao,  whilst  the  French, 
Italiana,  and  Spaniards  do  it  tiabitually  without  in- 
curring reproach,  and  the  Italiana  have  even  almost 
abolished  it  in  writing  alao  ?  Tbe  Latin  language,  from 
which  theira  have  been  formed,  po^aeased  a  pronounced  K 
as  much  as  the  languages  of  Teutonic  origin. 


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sigilli  Angliffi  custos,  libram  hunc  bibliothec8B 
Oantabrig:  dicavit  1574."  This  specixnen  is 
described  by  its  owner  as  being  a  woodcat  of 
the  arras  of  Bacon  quartering  Quaplod.  The 
shield  is  surmounted  by  a  helmet  and  mantling, 
above  which  is  the  crest,  a  boar  passant  charged 
with  a  crescent,  the  motto  being  "Mediocria 
firma."  The  other  plate  is  engraved,  and  repre- 
sents a  chevron  vair  between  three  eagles  dis- 
played. The  crest  is  an  eagle's  head  or  between 
two  wings  expanded  vair  ;  above  are  the  words, 
**  Svdney  Sussex  CoUedge,"  and  below,  "  Ex  dono 
Willielmi  Willmer  de  Sywell  in  com:  Northam- 
tonise,  Armigeri,  quondam  pentionarii  in  ista 
Domo,  viz.,  in  an^  Dni  1613."  The  Bacon  plate 
probably  dates  a  little  later  than  1574,  and  the 
Willmer  plate  somewhat  later  than  1613.  Un- 
fortunately we  are  without  means  of  ascertaining 
the  exact  date  at  which  either  was  actually  en- 
mved,  but  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  they  are 
by  far  the  earliest  dated  English  book-plates  yet 
brought  to  light,  the  Bacon  plate  dating,  in  idl 
likelihood,  nearly  a  century  before  the  earliest 
•dated  armorial  plate  heretofore  known,  Mr.  Gratis 
book-plate  of  **  Franciscus  Frampton"  being  simply 
A  '^  name  ticket."         Williah  Johk  Hardy. 

Thomas  Ooutts's  Marriage  (6**»  8.  v.  108, 
139).~Mr.  Pickford  and  G.  F.  B.  B.  have  shaken 
my  unfortunate  note  so  vigorously  that  it  presents 
«  somewhat  dilapidated  appearance.  I  must 
plead  guilty  to  the  sin  of  not  verifying  my  refer- 
•ences ;  but  at  the  same  time  I  appeal  for  mercy 
to  the  readers  of  ''  N.  &  Q."  My  interest  in  the 
point  raised  is  caused  by  the  fact  that  the 
masquerade  took  place  in  St.  James's  Square,  and 
I  lately  found  an  old  note  to  this  effect.  Unfor- 
tunately, when  copying  out  this  note  I  did  not, 
as  I  ought  to  have  done,  look  to  see  if  the  dates 
were  correct  I  do  not  wish  to  make  light  of  the 
blunder;  but  I  may  be  allowed  to  say  that  the 
question  I  asked  as  to  where  the  lines  are  to  be 
found  remains  unaffected  by  the  wrong  dat^s,  and 
has  not  been  answered.  I  hope  that  some  one  will 
be  able  to  give  the  information  I  asked  for. 

Hbnrt  B.  Whkatlt. 

There  is  little  doubt  of  the  lines  written  on  this 
occasion  having  owed  their  origin  to  the  pen  of 
Elijah  Barweli  Impey,  son  of  the  Chief  Justice  of 
Bengal.  According  to  a  little  sketch  of  his  life  in 
Ahimni  WestmotKuUrienses  (ed.  1852,  p.  461),  he 
was  elected  from  Westminster  to  Christ  Church 
in  1799,  and  retained  his  faculty  studentship, 
being  unmarried,  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
on  May  3,  1849.  He  was  the  author  of  a  small 
volume  or  two  of  poems,  and  A  Qratulaioi'y  Foem^ 
wggetted  by  the  Commemoration  at  (Jxford, 
June  30,  1813,  when  it  may  be  worth  noting  that 
his  father's  old  schoolfellow,  Warren  Hastings, 
was  created  an  honorary  D.C.L.    He  also  pub- 


lished Memoirs  of  Sir  Elijah  Impey,  KnU  (1846). 
His  death  was  feelingly  lamented  in  a  copy  of 
elegiacs,  spoken  in  the  college  hall  at  Westminster, 
and  written  by  my  old  friend  the  Kev.  Henry 
Bull,  M.A.,  which  may  be  found  in  Lwus  Alteri 
Wesim>onasterietueB  (1867,  pars  secunda,  p.  247), 
and  is  entitled  *^  In  Obitum  £.  Barweli  Impey."  . 
John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Mr.  Wheatlet  will  find  some  curious  par- 
ticulars in  a  pamphlet  privately  printed  about  the 
year  1820 :  The  Life  of  T.  Coutts,  Esq.,  Banker, 
with  Entertaining  Anicdotee  of  hie  Fret  Wife, 
Betty  Starkey,  &c  Was  not  the  name  of  the 
second  wife  Malone,  and  Mellon  an  assumed  name  ? 

TiKT  Tim. 

"Bred  and  born"(6«»S.  iv.  68,  275;  v.  77, 
112). — The  position  of  these  two  words  is  quite 
correct.  Any  progeny  must  be  bred  before  it  is 
bom.  Bred  is  the  passive  participle  of  the  verb 
"  to  breed,"  which  has  no  other  meaning  than  "  to 
generate."  The  objection  to  the  position  in  ques- 
tion arises  from  a  confounding  of  the  participle 
bred  with  the  entirely  separate  word  bruding. 
This  means  "education"  or  "bringing  up,"  no 
doubt.  But  the  substantive  bt'eed  (whence  the 
verb  "  to  breed  *')  means  "  race."  The  common 
phrase  "  ill  bred,"  though  conventionally  used  as 
meaning  "  badly  brought  up,"  really  means  much 
more.  We  cannot  dispense  with  the  verb  "to 
breed  "or  its  participle  "  bred."  And  as  regards 
the  two  separate  meanings  of  the  words  "  breed  " 
and  "  breeding,"  let  me  give  you  both  from  the 
same  author: — 

*'  Yet  sTery  mother  hreedt  not  sons  alike." 

"  She  had  her  breeding  at  my  father's  charge." 

Shaietpeare, 

J.   J.   AUBBRTIN. 

This  order  of  words  is  as  old  as  the  Iliad,  wheie 

we  read  (A.  251)  of  the  two  generations  that 

rpd^€v  7)8'   eyevovTO  with  Nestor,  and  is  the 

natural  order  for  one  who  goes  back,  step  by  step. 

P.  J.  F.  Gantillov. 

Sir  J.  A.  Picton  might  have  quoted — 
"  Tell  me  where  is  fancy  bred, 
Or  in  the  heart,  or  in  the  head/' 
where  bred   certainly   means   generated    or   en- 
gendered, and  not  edueatui.    I  use  the  Latin  word 
to  prevent  equivocation.     £.  Gobhah  Brewer. 

John  Parkinson  the  Botanist,  of  London 
(2*'*  S.  viii.  495). — At  this  reference  there  were 
inquiries  as  to  this  person,  especially  as  to  his 
family.  The  following  notes  may  be  interest- 
ing, and  may  lead  to  further  investigation.  He 
was  the  author  of  two  works  on  botany— (1) 
Paradisi  in  sole  Faradieue  Terreetris,  published  in 
1629,  and  (2)  Theatrum  Botanicum,  published 
in  1640.  In  the  latter  he  is  styled  *'  John  Parkin- 
son, Apothecary  of  London,  and  King's  Herbalist,'' 


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and  also  ^  Botanicas  Regius."  Beyond  these  facts 
little  or  nothing  seems  to  have  been  published 
about  him.  I  submit  the  following  for  criticism 
and  the  consideration  of  the  readers  of  ^'  N.  &  Q." 
Extract  from  the  pedigree  of  Parkinson  of  Craven, 
Yorkshire  (Dugdale,  1665). 

William  ParkiDflon,s=Margaret,  dan.  of 

d.  1587,  Beg.       I       d.  1595,  Beg. 


Dennis  Parkinson,  de-    John  Parkinson=...dau.  of  — — 
acendants  known,  d.  I      Hyde  of 

1624,  Beg.  Winterbum. 

Bose  Parkinson,  dan.  and  sole  heir, 
wife  (1665)  of  Henry  Jackson,  of 
S:aTeIey,  co.  Derby. 
Compare : — 

John  Parkinson,  the  John  Parkinson,  son  of 
botanist,  of  London.  William  Parkinson,  of  East- 

bume,  in  Craven. 

Aged  sixtjr-two  years  in  William,  father  of  John 

1630   (vide  insoription   to  Parkinson,  died   in  1587; 

portrait    in    Paraditi    in  Margaret,  the  mother,  in 

Sole*  &c).    Living  when  1595;  and  Dennis,  his  bro- 

Th€    Theatrum,    &c.,    was  ther  (leaving  a  family),  in 

published,  in  1640.  1624  (vide  Parish  B^g.  Kild- 
wick). 

Sir  Matthew  Lister  was  Sir  Matthew  Lister  was 
his  friend  (vide  Testimonium  of  the  family  of  that  name 
in  Paradisi,  &c.)  at    Thornton  -  in  -  Craven 

(near  Eastburne).  Dr.  Mar- 
tin Lister,  son  of  Sir  Mat- 
thew, married  in  1668  Anna, 
daughter  of  Thomas  Parkin- 
son, of  Carleton  Hall,  in 
Craven,  and  grand-niece  of 
John  Parkinson  (Davis's 
Lxf%  of  Dr.  M,  LitUr). 

He  had  no  sons  to  trans-       His  sole  child  and  heiress 
mit  his  name  to  posterity,    was  Bose  (suggestive  name), 
In  the  introduction  to  The    wife,    in  1665,   of  Henry 
irUofrHm,    Ac,   he    says :    Jackson  (Dugdale). 
"Oo  forth  now.  therefore, 
thou  issue  artificxall  of  mine, 
and  supply  the  defect  of  a 
naturaU    to   bear,  up   thy 
fathei^s  name  and  memozy 
to  succeeding  ages." 

Would  probably  be  in-  No  trace  of  birth  of  his 
terred  in  or  about  London,  daughter  Bose^  or  of  his 
where  he  resided.  burUd    in    the   parish   in 

which  Eastburne  is  situated 

(Eildwick). 


He  was  in  the  habit,  in 
the  later  years  of  his  life, 
of  going  frequently  to  visit 
some  friends  in  Notting- 
hamshire, and  spending 
much  time  there.  Vide 
statement  of  H.  F.  H.  in 
"N.&Q.,"2«»8.viii.495. 


The  home  of  the  sole 
child,  Bose,  wife  of  Henry 
Jackson,  was  at  Staveley, 
in  CO.  Derby  (Dugdale). 
This  place  is  so  near  to 
Nottinghamshire  that  con- 
fusion of  the  two  might 
easily  be  accounted  for. 


*  "  Paradisus  in  sole  "  is  a  play  upon 
in-sun),  and  lias  long  been  used  as  a  mol 


the 
motto. 


(Park. 


These  coincidences  by  no  means  prove  that 
John  Parkinson,  the  son  of  William  Parkinson,  of 
Eastburne,  was  the  same  person  as  John  Parkin- 
son the  botanist,  but  they  are  very  remarkable 
coincidences  if  he  was  noil. 

The  arms  used  by  the  botanist,  and  given  along 
with  the  portrait  in  the  Paradisic  &c  (Gules,  on 
a  chevron  between  three  ostrich  feathers  argent  as 
many  mullets  sable),  are  the  same  as  those  used  by 
the  whole  clan  of  the  name  in  North  Lancashire  and 
Craven.  They  are,  however,  "  differenced  "  by  the 
botanist  by  a  martlet,  indicating  a  fourth  son. 
This  John,  the  son  of  William  of  Eastburne,  may 
have  been,  since  in  a  meagre  pedigree  like  that 
given  by  Dugdale  it  is  by  no  means  certain  that 
all  the  children  in  any  generation  were  inserted. 
The  arms  given  by  Dugdale  are  not  those  of  the 
family,  and  were  probably  temporarily  assumed 
by  the  member  who  supplied  him  with  informa- 
tion. Paradisus  in  Sols. 

Ghosts  ik  Nkw  Zealand  :  "  Taipo  "  (6**  8.  iv. 
447}.— Mb.  Waddinoton  has,  I  think,  been  led 
into  a  slight  misapprehension;  iaipo'iB  the  New 
Zealand  term  for  the  evil  spirit.  The  spirits  that 
leap  from  a  promontory  near  the  north  Cape  of 
New  Zealand  have  no  affinity  to  water  kelpies. 
They  are  simply  the  spirits  of  the  dead  quitting 
this  world  and  journeying  into  the  next  Wairua 
=*'80ul''  would  be  the  proper  designation,  not 
taipo=^^  devil."  Turning  far  from  New  Zealand 
to  a  country  whence  the  Maori  doubtless  drew  his 
origin,  the  Malay  Peninsula,  I  have  been  here 
assured  that  lakes  exist  in  the  northern  inUnd  part 
of  Pahang  much  frequented  by  fairies,  who  sport 
and  dive  in  the  waters,  and  eat  HufUk,  I  should 
say  an  advanced  type  of  water  kelpies. 

P.  A.  W. 

Singapore. 

A  Protestant  Indulgbnci  or  the  Seven- 
teenth Century  (6*"*  S.  iv.  464,  614  ;  v.  10).— 
Added  to  the  previous  notes  on  this  subject  the 
following  may  be  of  interest,  as  being  recorded  in 
the  register  book  of  the  parish.  On  the  fly-leaf 
of  the  first  volume  of  the  registers  of  Plympton 
St.  Mary,  Devon,  is  written  :— 

"  Wherean  I  certainly  know  that  the  wife  of  Edmund 
Parker  of  Borington  in  P^ish  of  Plympton  8.  Mary  is 
under  such  a  diatemper  of  bodie  that  she  is  not  fitt  to 
eat  any  salt  flest  or  fish  whatsoever,  Wherefore  I  think 
fitt  as  a  Minister  of  said  p^ish,  to  licence  hir  to  eat  flesh 
during  the  time  of  hir  sicknesae  according  to  the  lawes 
and  statutes  of  the  realme  in  that  behalfe^  Given  under 
my  hand  March  4, 1600,  Simon  D.O." 

Also  the  next : — 

''Memorand.  That  Mr.  John  Slanning  beinge  sicke 
had  a  licence,  according  to  the  statutes  of  the  case  pro- 
vided, granted  to  him  for  eating  fleth  daring  the  time  of 
his  sickneite.  The  licence  beanng  date  5  NoveoL,  1682. 
Alexander  MoBse." 

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of  Yealmpton.  They  are  late  instances  of  charch 
discipline,  and  the  cause  in  one  case  seems 
apparent : — 

"  Mem*»".  Mary  Vicary  of  the  pariBh  of  Yealmpton 
was  declared  ezcommanicate  Sep.  8, 1727." 

"Mem**».  Mary  j*  wife  of  Richard  Chitrali  her 
former  name  Vicary,  was  restored  to  y*  communion  of  7* 
church  Feb.  7. 1730.'^ 

"  Mem'*".  William  Smith  of  the  parish  of  Yealmpton 
wafa  declared  excommunicate  NoTember  29, 1739." 

Arthur  J.  Jswers  F.S.A. 

Will  Mr.  Debs  kindly  give  qaotations  from 
the  Acts  of  Parliament  prohibiting  the  eating  of 
flesh  in  Lent,  and  state  now  long  these  Acts  re- 
mained in  force  ?  May  I  also  yenture  to  ask  what 
is  the  meaning  of  sect.  19,  as  quoted  by  Mr.  Dkbs 
from  the  Act  5  Eliz.  c.  5,  in  these  words  :  '*  No 
licence  is  to  extend  to  the  eating  of  beef  at  any 
time  of  the  year/'  &c.?  Does  this  mean  that  beef 
might  be  .eaten  at  any  time  without  a  licence, 
even  on  fish-days,  or  does  it  prohibit  the  eating 
of  beef  altogether  ?  ALso,  is  there  anything  in  the 
Acts  of  Parliament  to  compel  or  aathorize  butchers 
to  take  out  a  licence  to  sell  meat  during  Lent,  and 
then  only  to  such  persons  as  should  have  licences 
to  eat  it  ?  I  have  seen  several  applications  for 
such  butchers'  licences,  of  seventeenth  century 
date,  signed  by  the  clergy  and  other  persons  of 
authority  in  the  town  or  village  where  the  butcher 
was  living.  E. 

The  following  are  taken  from  the  churchwardens' 
accounts  of  St.  Michael,  Coventry  : — 

"  Couent  M'.  A  license  was  granted  by  Mr.  Samuel 
Bugge,  Vicar  of  S.  Michael's  and  Trinity  in  Coventry 
Aforesaid,  to  Mrs.  Christian  Hales,  of  the  parish  of  S. 
Michael  aforesaid,  to  eat  flesh  (for  the  preservation  and 
recouery  of  her  health)  for  eight  days  after  the  date 
thereof,  being  dated  Feb.  28, 1631." 

"  February  8,  1636.  M".  This  day  Rowland  Wilson, 
jent.,  did  put  into  tlie  poore's  box  tj*.  viij*'.  for  his 
lycenpe  to  eat  flesh  on  days  by  law  prohibited. 

*'The  same  day  John  Wightwicke,  Esq.,  did  likewise 
put  into  the  poore's  box  yj\  viij".  for  his  like  lycense." 

John  Astlet. 

The  vestry  records  of  the  ancient  church  of  St. 
Helen's,  Bishopsgate,  inform  us  that  Sir  Thomas 
Gresham  paid  the  parish,  for  the  poor's  box,  6s.  Sd, 
for  a  licence  to  eat  flesh  in  1675. 

James  H.  Fennelu 

14,  Red  Lion  Passage,  W.O. 


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"BusaocK"  (6«»  S.  V.  86,  117).— In  recording 
peculiar  words,  it  is,  I  think,  not  only  desirable 
always  to  state  where  they  are  heard,  but  also,  if 
possible,  from  what  county  the  person  who  uses 
them  comes.  It  is  not  in  these  days  of  locomotion 
enough  to  say,  "I  heard  it  in  Surrey ,**  when 
perhaps  a  little  more  trouble  might  lead  to  the 
further  words,  **  but  the  speaker  came  from  York- 
shire." May  I  suggest  that  perhaps  the  spelling 
of  such  local  words,  as  gathered  from  persons  not 


highly  educated,  must  be  received  with  some 
allowance  ?  I  have  never  heard  the  term  bus- 
iocking  applied  to  the  burrowing  of  fowls  in 
the  earth  ;  but  the  word  busking  is  by  no  means 
uncommon,  and  is  recorded  by  HoUoway  as  used 
in  Norfolk  and  Suffolk.  I  have  so  often  noticed 
gardeners  leaving  a  sylUble  out  or  adding  one  in 
words  of  this  sort,  that  I  venture  to  ask  is  not 
busiocking  only  a  modification  of  busking  f 

Edward  Solly. 

I  am  much  obliged  to  Prof.  Skbat  for  his  kind 
reminder  of  my  omission.  I  have  heard  the  word 
bussock  used  several  times  by  my  head  gardener, 
who  is  a  native  of  Suffolk,  not  far  from  Eye,  but 
who  has  been  in  these  parts  for  many  years. 

Edmund  Waterton. 

Deeping  Waterton  Hall,  Market  Deeping. 

The  "Catholicok  Anolicum"  (6**»  S.  v.  24, 
74). — In  the  churchwardens*  accounts  of  Kirton-in- 
Lindsey,  a  transcript  of  which,  made  by  myself,  is 
now  before  me,  the  following  passage  occurs  under 
the  year  1630:  "  To  a  poore  widow,  vppon  Trenitie 
Sunday,  that  bad  a  woulfe  on  her  arme,  xviijV 
This  **  woulfe"  was,  I  presume,  a  cancer.  I  h(^ve 
never  heard  the  word  used  in  that  sense  by  the 
Lindsey  people  of  the  present  day. 

Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Dido  (6^^  S.  v.  88). — By  a  lapsus  calami,  which 
was,  I  feel  sure,  too  obvious  to  bring  upon  me  much 
castigation,  in  referring  to  Yirgil's  anachronism 
about  Dido  and  JSneas,  I  inverted  the  right  order, 
as,  of  course,  the  most  probable  date  of  the  founda- 
tion of  Carthage  was  two  or  three  centuries  after 
the  most  probable  date  of  the  Trojan  war,  so  that 
if  ^neas  ever  was  really  in  Africa  it  was  long 
before  the  birth  of  the  hapless  Elissa.  I  cannot 
help  suspecting  that  the  name  Dido,  like  that  of 
King  David,  is  connected  with  the  Hebrew  ■7^'^ 
=love.  Indeed,  if  Lemprifere*s  account  of  the 
Phoenicians  giving  her  that  name  at  her  death, 
from  her  devotion  to  the  memory  of  Sichseus,  is 
founded  upon  a  tradition  with  any  truth  in  it, 
they  were  surely  far  more  likely  to  call  her 
"  loving  "  or  "  loved  "  woman  than  "  valiant."  As 
to  Stephens  connecting  it  with  a  word  signifying 
to  wander  (the  Greek  7r\avriTL^\  the  idea  was 
new  to  me  till  recently,  and  I  wrote  to  you  in 
the  hope  of  ascertaining  whether  any  Phoenician 
scholars  have  accepted  it.  W.  T.  Ltnn. 

Blaokheath. 


A  Tudor  apparently  unknown  to  Genea- 
logists (6*^  S.  V.  86).— Queen  Catherine,  the  wife 
of  Owen  Tudor,  died  in  1437,  se  that  her  acknow- 
ledged son  Jasper,  Duke  of  Bedford,  must  have 
been  at  least  nineteen  years  of  age  at  the  death 
of  his  brother  in  1456.  I  would  suggest  that  this 
Jasper  was  the  individual  referred  to  by  Prof. 


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Thorold  Rogers  in  the  Cambridge  accounts  of 
1449;  and  that  consequently  the  obit  of  1456 
was  for  his  elder  brother  Edmund,  Earl  of  Eich- 
mond,  who  died  in  1456,  the  name  being  wrongly 
stated.  There  was  also  a  third  son,  called  Owen, 
a  monk  at  Westminster.  Stephen  Gardiner  was 
bom  in  1483,  so  that  his  mother  could  not  have 
been  Queen  Catherine's  own  daughter ;  she,  the 
supposed  mother,  was  rather  daughter  to  the 
aforesaid  Jasper,  Duke  of  Bedford,  which  would 
show  this  most  celebrated  bishop  to  have  been 
great-grandson  to  Owen  Tudor,  and  second  cousin 
to  King  Henry  VIII.  A.  Hall. 

ScjRRBT   Folk-lore  :  Candlemas  Day   (6*"* 
S.  T.  106)  is  more  correctly  given  in  rhyme  : — 
"As  far  as  the  Sun  shines  in  on  Candlemas  day, 
So  far  will  the  snow  blow  in  ajvn  old  May,** 

Then  again  :— 

"  If  Candlemas  day  be  fair  and  bright. 
Winter  will  have  another  flight : 
If  on -Candlemas  day,  it  be  shower  and  rain. 
Winter  is  gone,  and  will  not  come  again." 

Agreeing  with  the  Scottish  :— 

*'  If  Candlemas  is  fair  and  clear, 
There  '11  be  two  winters  in  the  year." 

Both  of  which  have  their  counterparts  in  French 
and  German.  William  Platt. 

I  have  heard  a  similar  remark  to  that  mentioned 
by  G.  L.  0.     On  the  very  bright  morning  of  that 
day  (Feb.  2)  a  shepherd  said  to  me, — 
"  I  would  rather  see  my  wife  on  a  bier 
Than  Candlemas  day  both  fine  and  clear." 

Luckily  for  his  peace  of  mind,  the  afternoon  here 
was  thick  and  dull  E.  Farrer. 

Bressingham,  Diss. 

"Danotht  Hall"  (6"»  S.  v.  8).— The  follow- 
ing evidence  of  a  contemporary  of  Busby,  who 
actually  saw  his  body  suspended  from  the  gibbet, 
will,  I  feel  sure,  interest  Mr.  Jot:— 

**  Along  the  banks  of  Swale  are  the  very  pleasant 
leardens  of  Sir  William  Bobinson,  lately  Lord  Mayor  of 
York,  but  a  few  miles  after  a  more  doleful  object  of  Mr. 
Busby  hanging  in  chains,  for  the  murder  of  his  father- 
in-law,  Daniel  A»ty,  formerly  a  Leeds  clothier,  who, 
having  too  little  honesty  to  balance  his  skill  in  engrav- 
ing, &c.,  was  generally  suspected  for  coininfr,  and  other 
indirect  ways  of  attaining  that  estate  which  whs  the 
occasion  of  hi«  death,  even  within  sight  of  his  own  bou>e." 
—Diary  of  Ralpk  Thoresby,  May  17, 1703,  vol.  i.  p.  426. 

The  letter  n  in  "  Anty,"  as  above,  is  no  doubt  a 
typographical  error  for  u.  The  locale  of  "  Busby 
Stoop  "  is  near  to  Sand  Hutton,  and  I  have  little 
doabt  that  if  the  exact  spot  where  it  stood  could 
be  ascertained,  the  remains  of  the  part  inserted  in 
the  ground  would  be  discovered  on  digging.  There 
is  not  a  particle  visible  above  the  surface  of  the 
soiL  Mr.  Jot  might  also,  if  he  has  not  done  so, 
refer  to  Grainge'a  Vale  of  Motchray,  F.  W.  J. 
Bolton  Percy. 


Christmas  Cards  (6^  S.  y.  10)  were  first 
published  and  issued  from  Summerly's  Home 
Treasury  Office,  12,  Old  Bond  Street,  in  the  year 
1846.  The  design  was  drawn  by  J.  C.  Horsley, 
R.  A.,  at  the  suggestion  of  Sir  Henry  Cole,  K.C.B.| 
and  carried  out  by  De  La  Rue  &  Co. 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

A  Motto  for  a  Drinking  Cop  (6**»  S.  v. 
109).—"  Drink  deep  or  taste  not."  F.  G. 

I  beg  to  suggest  to  your  correspondent  the  fol- 
lowing Irish  phrase,  viz.,  '*  Gra-ma-chree  ma  cruis- 
kin,"  which  means,  **"  My  heart's  love  is  my  little 
cup."  Should  he  prefer  a  shorter  one,  perhaps  the 
Irish  word  "  Slainte,"  which  means  "  Your  health," 
would  suit  his  taste  and  his  cup.  E.  J. 

Ballinrobe. 

"Vreyheit  dogh  met  Vrees  *'  (Flemish).  I  have 
two  old  glass  goblets  upon  which  this  motto  is 
engraved.  I  translate  it,  "  With  freedom  yet  with 
moderation."  Henrt  Godefrol 

MrjBkv  ayai/.  P.  J.  F.  Gantillon. 

A  SuRRBT  Proverb  (6»*»  S.  iv.  635).— The 
proverb  quoted  by  your  correspondent  is  given  in 
Ray's  OoUeetio7i  of  Proverbs  in  a  slightly  different 
form,  "A  light  Christmas  a  heavy  sheaf."  He 
does  not  appropriate  it  to  any  special  locality. 
Apropos  of  the  subject  of  proverbs  relating  to 
Christmas  there  is  a  proverb  about  Christmas 
Days  falling  on  a  Sunday  : — 

*'  If  Christmas  Day  on  a  Sunday  fall, 
A  troublous  winter  we  shall  have  all." 

There  are  some  more  lines,  I  believe,  but  these  are 
all  I  can  remember.      F.  C.  Birkbeck  Terrt. 

Guernsey  Folk-lore  (6*  S.  iv.  636). — Having 
from  my  earliest  youth  had  my  attention  directed 
to  the  folk-lore  of  my  native  island,  I  can  safely 
say  that  the  early  chapters   of   Victor   Hugo's 


Travailleurs  de  la  Mer  are  not  in  any  way  to  be 
relied  on  as  giving  anything  like  a  correct  view  of 
the  popular  superstitions  of  Guernsey.  Many  of 
the  lower  classes,  like  those  of  all  other  parts  of 
Europe,  still  believe  in  ghosts,  haunted  houses, 
witchcraft,  omens,  charms,  &c. ;  but  I  can  venture 
to  say,  without  fear  of  contradiction,  that  no 
fisherman  on  our  coast  knows  anything  of  St. 
Maclou  in  connexion  with  the  remarkable  mass  of 
rock  known  by  the  name  of  '*  Ortach,"  or  has  ever 
heard  of  "  le  Roi  des  Auxcriniers  ";  nor  could  any 
of  our  peasantry  tell  what  is  meant  by  the  word 
"marcou."  As  to  the  assertion  that  the  last 
execution  for  witchcraft  by  burning  took  place  in 
1747,  it  is  totally  devoid  of  truth,  nothing  of  the 
kind  having  occurred  since  the  reign  of  James  I. 
Considering  that  the  talented  author's  residence  in 
Guernsey  extended  over  ten  years,  it  is  surprising 


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how  little  he  seems  to  know  of  the  manners, 
enstoms,  and  mode  of  thought  of  the  people  among 
whom  he  dwelt.  The  specimens  of  the  local 
dialect  which  he  pretends  to  give  here  and  there, 
in  his  novel  are  almost  as  unintelligihle  to  a 
natiye  as  if  they  were  written  in  the  Langue  d'Oc. 

E.  McC— . 
Gaerosey. 

Besskls  or  Bbssklslbioh,  oo.  Berks  (6^  S. 
iy.  537). — Mention  of  Bessds  is  made  in  the 
Berki  Vititaiion  for  1666.  (See  at  Brit  Mus. 
Harleian  MS.  1139,  foL  110.)  Bichard  Feti- 
place  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  heir  of 
William  Bessels,  and  thus  came  into  the  Bessels 
Leigh  property  in  the  reign  of  Henry  YII.  (See 
Clarke's  Hundred  of  Wantage  and  the  Vieitation 
of  Berks  for  1566).  The  arms  of  Bessels  are, 
argent,  three  torteanx  2  and  1.  Lysons,  in  his 
History  of  Berks,  p.  240,  says  :— 

"  BeaiU-Legh,  in  the  Hundred  of  Hormer  and  Deanery 
of  Abingdon,  lies  about  fife  miles  to  the  soath-west  of 
Oxford  on  the  road  to  Faringdon.  The  manor  belonged 
anciently  to  the  family  of  Legh,  from  whom  it  pMsed  by 
a  female  heir  to  that  of  BesiU.  On  the  death  of  William 
Basils,  Esq.,  in  1616,  the  manor  of  Berils-LeRh  deroWed 
to  Bdmund  Fettiplace,  who  married  Elizabeth,  his 
daughter  and  sole  heir." 

According  to  the  Visitation  and  Clarke  it  was 
Bichard,  and  not  Edmand,  Fetiplace  who  made 
this  marriaffe.  Sir  Peter  Besils  made  his  will  in 
1424,  and  left  fands  for  charities  at  Abingdon. 
(See  Lysons's  Berks,  pp.  222,  228.)  Besils  Legh 
now  belones  to  Mr.  Edmund  Lenthall,  a  descen- 
dant of  William  Lenthall,  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Commons,  temp.  Car.  I.,  who  purchased  it  of  the 
Fetiplaces.  C.  J.  E. 

Lisle  =Whitaker  (6**»  S.  iv.  538). — It  may  be 
as  well  to  note  that  John  Lisle  never  was  Lord 
Chancellor  of  England.  He  was  one  of  the  joint 
Lords  Commissioners  of  the  Qreat  Seal  in  the 
time  of  CromwelFs  F^rotectorate^  but  was  best 
known  as  Major  Lide.  W.  E.  B. 

Hbarth  Monet  akd  Smokb-Silybr  (2^^  S.  ▼. 
172 ;  3'*  S.  i.  367,  420  ;  4^  S.  vi.  114,  476,  568, 
581 ;  yiL  112)  — A  list  of  allowances  craved  for 
hearth  money  for  the  king's  castles,  forts,  &c ,  by 
the  farmers  of  the  Customs  in  the  year  1676  is 
given  in  the  third  volume  of  the  Topographer  and 
Genealogist,  p.  141.  To  this  list,  which  is  taken 
from  one  of  the  records  of  the  Irish  Exchequer,  is 
added  a  very  interesting  note  on  the  subject  of 
"  Hearth  Money,"  by  J.  F.  F.  Part  of  this  note 
I  transcribe  below,  for  the  benefit  of  the  readers  of 
"N.&Q.":— 

"  So  early  as  the  Conqaest  mention  is  made  in  Domes- 
day Book  oif  Fumage  (yalgarly  called  Bmoke-farthinip), 
which  was  paid  by  custom  to  the  King  for  every  chim- 
ney in  the  house.  It  is  stated  by  Mr.  Howard,  in  his 
work  on  the  Irish  Exchequer,  that  the  introduction  of 


this  impost  into  IreUnd  ^vas  by  the  statutes  14  &  15 
Oar.  11.  0.  17,  and  17  &  18  Car.  II.  c.  18,  by  which  a 
duty  of  2t.  for  each  fire-hearth,  &g.,  yearly,  was  granted 
to  the  Crown  in  lieu  of  the  Court  of  Wards ;  but  when 
Mr.  Howard  made  this  remark,  he  was  probably  not 
aware  that»  so  far  hack  as  the  10  Rich.  II.  a  mandate  was 
issued  by  the  Lord  Lieutet<ant  to  appoint  collectors 
within  the  county  of  Eildare,  &c.,  '  to  levy  the  money 
called  smoke-silver,  namely,  one  halfpenny  from  every 
house  wherefrom  smoke  arises  for  the  wages  of  watch- 
men.' And  in  the  same  year  Richard  Talbot,  sheriiT  of 
Dublin,  and  John  Fitzwilliam.  junior,  keepers  of  the 
peace  in  that  county,  and  Reginald  Blakebum,  were 
directed  to  appoint  watchmen  (vigilatores)  to  make 
vigils  as  well  by  day  as  by  night,  wherever  necessarv, 
for  the  safety  of  the  marches,  nnd  also  to  levv '  smok- 
sylver'  for  the  payment  of  their  wages.  Subsequent 
entries  appearing  in  the  same  records  show  that  this 
tax  was  levied  up  to  the  time  of  Hen.  IV." 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

"  Wonder  "  as  an  Adverb  (6"»  S.  ▼.  9).— 
*'  But  what  visage  had  she  thereto) 
Alas  I  mine  heart  is  wonder  woe 
'I'hat  I  ne  can  deccriven  it, — 
Me  lacketh  both  English  and  wit." 

Are  not  these  lines  in  Chaucer's  Dream  ? 

Hermemtrude. 

In  the  ballad  of  the  "Battle  of  Babrmnes" 
(Dalyell's  Scotish  Poems  of  the  Sixteenth  Century, 
Edin.,  1801)  oooar  the  lines  : — 

"  They  war  not  manie  men  of  weir. 
But  they  war  vnmder  true.'* 

NORVAL  ClTNK. 
Aberdeen. 

The  following  are  instances  of  toonder  used  as 
an  adverb  in  the  sixtoenth  century  : — 

*'  These  tidings  liketh  me  rcojider  well, 
Now  vertue  shall  draw  arear  area." 

HyckacoTner^  Dodsley's  Old  E,  Plays,  ToL  i. 
p.  166  (Hazlitt). 
**  But,  sirs,  now  I  am  nineteen  winter  old, 
1  wis,  1  wax  wonder  bold." 
The  World  and  the  Child,  1522,  ibid,,  p.  2l8w 
*'  Wonder  wide  walketh  my  fame." 

Ihid.,  p.  252. 

For  still  earlier  instances  consult  Dr.  Stratmann's 
Did,  of  Old  English.    Is   it  not  probable  that 
fi70tind^=very  may  be  a  corruption  of  this  word 
used  as  an  adverb  ?      F.  C.  Bi rebeck  Terrt. 
Cardiff. 

Punishment  for  High  Treason,  tshp. 
Oliver  Cromwell  (6*^  S.  v.  9). — I  beg  to  draw 
Anon.'s  attention  to  the  following  quotation  from 
Clarendon's  History  of  the  Rebellion,  p.  73,  vol.  vi, 
Oxford^  1849,  by  which  he  will  see  that  his  sup- 
position relative  to  Cromwell  is  not  correct  : — 

"  For  besides  the  two  before  mentioned  (Sir  H.  Slings* 
by  and  Dr.  Hewett)  to  whom  they  granted  the  favour 
to  be  beheaded,  there  were  three  others,  Colonel  Ashton, 
Stacey,  and  Betheley,  who  were  condemned  by  the  same 
Court,  who  were  treated  with  more  severity,  and  were 
hanged,  draton,  and  tptarttred  with  the  tUmost  r'l^OMr  in 
several  great  streets  in  the  City  to  make  the  deeper 

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impresBion  upon  the  people.  But  all  mtti  appeared  so 
nauseated  with  blood,  and  so  tired  with  those  abominable 
spectacles,  thut  Ciomwell  thought  it  best  to  pardon  the 
rest  who  were  condemned.'* 

Vide  also  Gaizot'g  CromweUf  p.  432  ;  Whitelocke, 
p.  673  ;  State  Trials,  vol.  v. ;  Forster's  StatesriMn, 
vol.  v.;  Thurloe's  State  Paperty  vol.  vii.;  Noble's 
Memoirt,  vol.  i. ;  and  Crodwin's  History  of  the 
ComrMmwealth,  vol.  ir.  Hbnrt  G.  Hope. 

Freegro^e  Boad,  N. 

Hamlet  Marshall,  D.D.  (6"»  S.  i.  131,  184). 
— It  appears  from  the  episcopal  registers  at  Wor- 
cester that  a  Hamlet  Marshall,  of  the  diocese  of 
Lincoln,  was  ordained  a  deacon  at  Hartlebury, 
March  30,  1572.  Hamlet  eeems  to  have  been  a 
baptismal  name  in  the  family  of  Ratter,  of  Eves- 
ham, in  Elizabeth's  reign,  at  which  time  there 
were  Marshalls  resident  in  that  town. 

Thomas  P.  Wadlet. 

Naunton  Rectory^  Pershore. 

Chiswick,  Chrshunt,  Chishall,  and  other 
SIMILAR  Place- Names  (6^  S.  iv.  127,  356,  430). 
— I  doubt  whether  Mr.  Arnott  has  improved 
upon  the  etymology  of  Chiswick,  which  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  III.  is  found  written  Chesewick. 
Hwl  the  name  been  derived  from  eeosel,  ceosl 
(glarea,  sabnlum,  arena),  it  would  probably  have 
corrupted  to  Chislwick  or  Ohilwick.  The  deriva^- 
tion  from  cheese  is  confirmed  by  such  names  as 
Butterley,  Butterwick,  Butterworth,  and  the 
Scandinavian  name  Smerwick.  If  the  name 
Chiswick  was  derived  from  Ches  or  Chis,  said 
to  be  found  in  old  documents,  it  might  have  been 
so  called  from  a  stream  which  fell  into  the  Thames 
— ^a  name  which  would  square  with  fhe  river  Gresse, 
in  Haute  Garonne.  When  Mr.  Arnott  speaks 
of  the  "  Teutons ''  founding  the  wick  called  Chis- 
wick, I  suppose  he  means  tne  "  Saxons." 

R.  S.  Charnock. 

"Bosh''  (3'*  S.  viii.  106,  148  ;  5"»  S.  i.  389; 
ii.t53,  478  ;  iiL  75,  114,  173,  257,  378  ;  6"^  S.  v. 
38).— I  beg  to  thank  Llanellt  for  correcting 
the  faulty  reference  to  The  Student  given  in 
Hotten's  Slang  Dictionary.  It  was,  however, 
quite  evident  that  the  word  bosh,  as  the  equivalent 
of  **  nonsense"  or  *' rubbish,''  could  not  have  been 
in  use  in  1750,  and  then  have  remained  unknown 
and  unused,  as  it  certainly  did  remain,  until  our 
own  days.  Neither  could  the  word,  in  its  present 
slang  sense,  have  originated  in  the  manner 
described  in  the  Journal  of  the  Royal  Agricultural 
Society  of  England,  as  quoted  by  Ll  a  nelly;  for, 
even  if  bad  butter  had  been  sent  to  London  from 
the  neighbourhood  of  Hertogenbosch,  every  one 
familiar  with  Dutch  knows  that  sch  at  the  end  of 
a  word  is  not  sounded  like  English  sh,  nor  indeed 
is  it  so  sounded  in  any  part  of  the  Dutch  language. 
The  way  to  trace  out  the  origin  of  a  word  is  not  to 
jingle  together  other  words  of  similar  sound,  but 


to  try  and  find  out  how  and  when  it  was  first  in- 
troduced.   Prof.  Skbat  says:— 

**  If  etymologists  will  in  future  always  abstain  from 
suggestions  till  they  can  take  the  pains  to  work  out  the 
history  of  the  word,  especially  from  a  chronological 
point  of  view,  the  study  would  no  longer  be  a  game  of 
chance,  but  would  become  a  science." — 5<i>  8.  ill  114. 

About  the  year  1828  Morier's  Persian  novels^ 
especially  Hajji  Bahaf  gained  a  sudden  popularity, 
hardly  surpassed  at  a  later  period  by  the  writings 
of  Dickens,  and  the  word  bosh,  as  I  well  remember, 
was  caught  up  a;id  at  once  became  popular,  as  did 
also  other  Persian  words  and  several  translated 
phrases,  most  of  which  are  now  forgotten.  I  drew 
attention  to  this  fact  as  long  ago  as  1865  (3'<^  S. 
viii.  145).  Jatdke. 

The  "Sbpulchrb"  in  Churches  (6***  S.  iv. 
148,  333  ;  v.  96).— Note  that  the  brass  to  Dr.  C. 
Urswick  did  not  originally  form  a  part  of  the 
sepulchre,  which  was  prepared  during  that  eminent 
churchman's  lifetime.  The  efi&gy,  which  once 
adorned  a  stone  lying  on  the  pavement  at  the  foot 
of  the  sepulchre  in  the  old  church  of  St.  Augustine, 
was  probably  placed  on  the  table  of  that  elegant 
structure  at  the  time  when  it  was  removed  thence 
to  the  north  vestibule  of  the  modem  church,  viz., 
in  1797.  The  Rev.  J.  W.  Ken  worthy,  late  curate 
of  Hackney,  in  his  chapter  on  "  The  Tombs  of  the 
Ancient  Church,"  appended  to  Mr.  R.  Simpson's 
privately  printed  Notices  of  (he  Parish  Church  of 
St,  AugukiMj  afterwards  St  John^  at  Hackney^ 
1879,  p.  79,  writes:— 

**  Rector  Urswick's  slab  is  still  in  titu  at  the  end  of 
the  choir  and  against  the  north  wall,  'i  he  brass  which 
once  was  sunk  mto  the  grey  marble  slab  has  left  its  sharp 
outline.  This  splendid  slab,  now  in  the  dust  and  moss, 
was  placed  in  1521  at  the  foot  of  the  Easter  Sepulchre 
tomb,  prepaied  in  1519." 

Ache. 

Henrt  Halltwell,  Minister  of  Ipield, 
AND  Henrt  Halltwell,  Vicar  op  Cowpold 
(6«»  S.  iii.  324,  358,  436;  iv.  377,  458  ;  v.  96).— 
Referring  to  Mr.  Sawter's  reply  (6^  S.  y.  96),  I 
think  there  can  be  no  doubt  about  there  having  been 
two  Henry  Hally wells,  and  that  one  succeeded  the 
other  at  Ifield  (6^  S.  iii.  325).  And  it  appears  to 
me  almost  equally  certain  that  they  were  father 
and  son.  The  first  of  the  name  was  buried  Feb.  14, 
1666/7,  and  the  second,  in  March,  1671/2,  dates  a 
letter  from  Ifield.  In  1677  he  is  described  as 
minister  of  Ifield,  and,  to  settle  tbe  question,  Mr. 
Sawter  gives  the  date  of  his  institution  to  the 
living  March  1,  1666/7.  H.  Fishwick. 

Maooott  Johnson,  Fiddler  Johnson,  and 
Lord  Flame  (6«»  S.  iv.  513,  546).— This  eccen- 
tric man  was  well  known  in  Cheshire  in  his  day. 
His  remains  were  interred  on  a  small  hill  sur- 
rounded with  trees  on  the  left  hand  of  the  road 
leading  from  G^wsworth  Church  to  Macclesfield. 

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C6«h  S.  V.  Fkb.  26,  '82. 


The  inscriptioo  on  the  stone  is  very  much  worn 
by  Yisitors  dancing  on  it,  and  is  probably  at  this 
date  obliterated.  I  copied  it  in  1853.  He  is 
thus  alluded  to  in  Barlow's  Cheshire  Hiitorieal 
Sketches,  p.  103,  1855  :-- 

'<In  the  grounds  near  OawBworth  Hall  is  buried  a 
man  of  the  name  of  Samuel  Johnson,  b)it  better  known  in 
his  day  as  Lord  Flame.  Hifi  calling  was  that  of  a 
dancing  master,  to  which  he  added  those  of  jester,  musi- 
cian, poet,  and  player.  He  was  a  licensed  visitor  at  all 
the  houses  in  ttie  neighbourhood,  to  whose  amusement 
he  no  doubt  often  contributed.  A  play  which  be  wrote, 
entitled  Hurloihrumho^  had  a  lengthened  run  at  one  of 
the  principal  London  theatres  in  the  year  1722." 

The  inscription  runs  as  follows  :  — 
"  Under  this  stone 
rest  the  remains  of  Mr.  Samuel  Johnson, 
afterwardd  ennobled  with  the  grander  title  of 
Lord  Flame, 
who  after  haying  been  in  his  life  distinct  from  other  men 
by  the  eccentricities  of  bis  genius, 
chose  to  retain  the  same  character  after  his  death, 
and  was  at  his  own  desire  buried  liere  May  5th 
▲.D.  XDCCLXXiii.  aged  82. 
Stay,  thou  whom  chance  directs  or  ea«e  persuades 
,  To  seek  the  quiet  of  thoM  sylran  shades  ; 
'  Here  undisturbed,  and  hid  from  vulgar  eyes, 
A  wit,  musician,  poet,  player,  lies ; 
A  dancing  master  too,  m  grace  he  shone. 
And  all  the  arts  of  Op*ra  were  his  own ; 
In  Comedy  well  skilled,  he  drew  f^rd  Flame, 
Acted  the  part  and  gained  himself  the  name. 
Arerse  to  strife,  how  oft  he  'd  gravely  say 
These  peaceful  groves  should  shade  his  breathless  clay. 
That  when  he  rose  again,  laid  here  alone. 
No  friend  and  he  should  quarrel  for  a  bone ; 
Thinking  that  were  some  lame  old  gossip  nigh 
€he  possibly  might  take  his  leg  or  thigh." 

Your  correspondent  asks  if  other  instances  are 
known  of  isolated  burials  like  this.  Several,  I 
know,  are  recorded  in  England.  The  only  instance 
in  the  Isle  of  Man,  I  believe,  is  that  of  the  Corrin 
family,  who  lie  buried  on  the  south  side  of  Peel 
Hill,  near  to  which  enclosure  a  lofty  tower  is 
erected,  known  as  "  Corrin's  Tower,"  and  now 
laid  down  in  the  sailing  charts  for  vessels  passing 
the  island.  William  Harrison. 

Rock  Mount,  Peel,  Isle  of  Man. 

[See  "N.  &  Q.,"  l-»  8.  v.  596;  8'*  S.  i.  456;  snd  the 
Catalogue  of  Satirical  Print*  in  tke  British  Museum. 
If  OS.  1884,1869,1902.] 

«*  Satb "  FOR  "  Sat"  (6"»  S.  iv.  190,  395,  477). 
-—The  following  use  of  sate  by  Gray  may  be  of 
interest  to  your  correspondent  Jaydeb: — 
«*  The  court  was  sate,  the  culprit  there. 

Forth  from  their  gloomy  mansions  creeping, 
The  lad^  Janes  and  Joans  repair, 
And  from  their  gallery  s'and  peeping.'* 

A  Long  Stor^,  11.  97-100. 
Dryden,  in  his  poem  A  lexandtrs  Feast,  has  in  the 
first  stanza,  "  The  godlike  hero  saU,"  and  *'  SaU 
like  a  blooming  Eastern  bride.**  This  usa((e  is  not 
uncommon  in  Dryden's  poetry.  CL  also  R.  Green, 
Menaphon,  1589,  p.  22  ( Arber  s  repr.  1860),  "  Post- 


ing from  Arcadia  to  the  Tripos  where  Pithia  sate.*' 
On  p.  33  Green  has  sate  used  as  a  past  participle, 
*'  After  that  they  had  saU  a  little  by  the  fire.'' 

F.    G.    BiRKBECK  TeBRT. 
Cardiff. 

Liverpool  Gbntleuav,  &c.  (6**»  S.  iii.  148, 
314,  476).— As  a  slightly  parallel  instance  of  this 
saying,  let  me  mention  that  Sir  Walter  Scott, 
dedicating  his  Tales  of  My  Landlord,  published  in 
1816,  to  his  "  Loving  Countrymen,''  speaks  of  them 
as  **Men  of  the  South,  Gentlemen  of  the  North, 
People  of  the  West,  and  Folk  of  Fife."  He  is 
evidently  using  terms  often  in  vogue  in  Scotland 
in  his  own  day.  John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Second  Sight:  Mrs.  Booty's  Trial,  1687 
(6«»  S.  V.  105).— "Owd  Boody  and  tha  Devil" 
is  a  well-known  tale.  I  have  heard  it  told  by 
ftirmers  over  their  pipes  fifty  years  ago.  But  as 
they  used  to  tell  it  (and  firmly  believe  it)  *'  Owd 
Boody  "  was  a  villainous  London  baker,  who  used 
to  grind  men's  bones  up  in  his  flour,  and  that 
was  why  the  devil  fetched  him  and  drove  bim 
into  the  burning  mountain.  The  belief  that 
volcanoes  were  mouths  of  hell  is  very  ancient, 
as  will  be  seen  from  the  following  extracts.  I 
am  also  under  the  impression  that  I  have  met 
with  a  similar  account  to  **  Old  Booty "  of  a 
much  earlier  date,  but  at  present  cannot  re- 
member where : — 

"  That  hylie  mount  Ethna  toward  the  southeast  hath 
many  chynnes  and  holowe  dennes  or  caues  within  tbe 
erthe  full  of  brymstoone  /  that  receyueth  moche  wynde 
Hud  engendred  fyre  and  smoke.  In  that  place  ben  seen 
dyuerse  fygures  and  shapes  and  herde  refuU  voysand 
gronynge.  Therfure  some  men  menen  that  soules  ben 
tliere  in  pnyne  /  as  it  semeth  yt  Saynt  Greporye  maketh 
mynde  in  bis  dyalogye.  %  Gir.  in  top." — Polyeronicon, 
1527,  f.  31  verto. 

*'  Of  tbe  bill  ffeda  in  the  He  of  Iceland the  common 

people  of  that  Countrey,  beleeue  the  snyde  place  to  bee 
a  part  of  bell,  because  there  are  diuers  Hpparations  of 
gboates,  that  shew  tbenifelues  Tisible,  and  profer  their 
seruice  to  men.  They  wpprare  fur  the  most  part  in  the 
forme  of  those,  which  by  vyolent  a«fuenture  haue  bene 
killed  or  drowned :  callyng  men  by  their  names,  and 
bidding  them  goe  to  the  Mount  Hecla.  In  the  olde 
time  the  marriners  termed  these  Goblines,  Polantines: 
vpon  what  occasion  I  finde  not  written." — Batman  vpnon 
Bartholome,  hit  booke  De  Proprietatibut  Jterum,  lo82, 
f.  205. 

R.  R. 

Boston,  Lincolnshire. 

"  Belfry  "  (6"»  S.  v.  104).— I  have  only  to  say 
that  I  never  imagined  that  the  change  of  r  into  / 
in  this  word  (which  is,  perhaps,  the  commonest  of 
changes  in  all  Aryan  languages)  originated  in 
England.  What  I  meant  is  that,  whereas  we  had 
two  possible  forms  in  English,  namely,  berfrey  and 
belfry,  the  supposed  connexion  with  beUs  made  the 
latter  universal.    A  little  research  amongst  Eng- 


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lisk  authors  wonld  bare  beeD  much  more  to  the 
parpoee.  The  usual  M.E.  form  is  certainly  bnr- 
frey.  Walter  W.  Sesat. 

Cunbridge. 

'  With  reference  to  Dr.  OHANcas's  note,  I  may, 
perhaps,  be  allowed  to  say  that  the  meaning  he 
attaches  to  Prof.  Skeat's  article  on  this  word  is  not 
the  one  which  occurred  to  my  own  mind.  I  think 
the  professor's  words  fairly  imply  that  "owing  to 
a  corruption"  prevumsly  made  in  O.F.  and  L.L, 
from  btrfroi,  oerfredus  into  bel/roi,  helfredus,  the 
English  form  beljfrey  (for  htrfrey)  induced  a  very 
natural  idea  that  the  word  had  something  to  do 
with  belli,  and  that,  owing  to  this  idea  getting 
established,  the  term  came  to  be  restricted  to  a 
bdl  tower.  At  all  events,  there  is  nothing  in  the 
article  to  necessitate  the  conclusion  that  its  author 
imagined  the  change  of  r  into  I  to  have  *'  origi- 
nated in  England."  Prof.  Skeat  will  doubtless 
explain  the  matter  for  himself ;  I  write  this  merely 
to  show  that  to  at  least  one  of  his  readers  the 
words  do  not  seem  necessarily  to  bear  the  sense 
imputed  to  them.  C.  S.  Jbrrah. 

I  have  not  yet  seen  Prof.  Skeat's  Dictionary, 
From  the  quotation  given  by  your  correspondent 
I  have  little  doubt  as  to  his  being  right  concerning 
the  derivation  of  belfry.  It  is  hardly  accurate, 
however,  to  say  that  the  word  is  now  only  used 
for  a  tower  for  bells.  In  the  local  dialect  of  this 
part  of  Lincolnshire  it  is  of  common  occurrence, 
meaning  a  shed  made  of  wood  and  sticks,  furze  or 
straw,  as  distinguished  from  a  similar  building  of 
stone  or  brick.  A  man  said  to  me  the  other  day, 
^  Squire,  you  Ve  got  plenty  o'  sticks  noo  to  mak 
two  or  three  good  belfries."  In  1873  a  complaint 
was  made  to  me,  as  a  justice  of  the  peace,  that  the 
helfry  of  a  certain  person  was  in  such  a  ruinous 
condition  that  it  was  liable  to  fall  on  passers-by. 
In  the  inventory  of  the  goods  of  John  Nevill,  of 
Faldingworth,  Lincolnshire,  taken  in  1590,  '*the 
belfrey  with  other  wood"  is  valued  at  twenty 
shillings ;  and  in  the  Scotter  Manor  Roll  for  the 
first  year  of  Mary  we  are  told  that  Eichard 
Bobinson,  of  Meesingham,  removed  *Migna  sua 
super  le  helfrey  et  jacent  in  communi  via."  I  am 
informed  that  belfry  is  also  used  for  a  rick  stand, 
when  made  of  either  wood  or  stone,  but  I  do  not 
call  to  mind  ever  having  heard  it  in  this  sense. 
Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Thb  Vicar  op  Baddow  (6**  S.  iv.  612  ;  v. 
117). — There  have  been  many  editions  of  De  Foe's 
Hiitory  of  the  Devil  since  the  first  of  1726,  and 
the  old  ones  have  no  author's  name.  The  reference 
to  the  Vicar  of  Baddow  appears  in  the  English  and 
Irish  editions,  but  not  in  the  Frankfort  edition  of 
1733  ;  the  translator  no  doubt  felt  that  this  line 
would  not  convey  anything  to  the  German  reader, 


so  he  left  it  out.  Little  Baddow,  in  Essex,  was 
both  a  rectory  and  a  vicarage;  the  presentation  to 
the  former  was  vested  in  the  lord  of  the  manor, 
that  of  the  latter  was  vested  in  the  rector,  but 
presentations  were  irregularly  made,  and  Newoourt 
says  that  laymen  presented  to  the  vicarage,  add- 
ing, "  but  how  this  came  to  pass  I  know  not."  If 
the  Vicar  of  Baddow  had  practically  nothing  to 
do,  and  was  of  questionable  appointment,  as  it 
seems,  the  allusion  to  him  is  easily  to  be  under- 
stood. The  Vicar  of  Baddow  in  1720,  according 
to  Gox,  was  John  Gordon.  I  do  not  think  the 
reference  to  Dr.  Bentley  in  the  next  paragraph 
has  any  relation  to  Baddow  and  its  questiooable 
vicar,  but  only  to  the  '*  diabolical "  pride  of  Dr.  B. 

Edward  Solly. 

Junius  Qubriks  (6*^  S.  v.  127).— If  Anti- 
JuNius  will  refer  to  the  Catalogue  of  Satirical 
Prints  in  the  British  Museum,  No.  4314,  he  will 
find  an  account  of  the  print  in  question,  and  sug- 
gestions that  Edmund  Burke  was  intended  by  the 
*'  third  figure"  he  inquires  about.  F.  G.  S. 

"NouvKLLES  d'Anolktkrre  "  (6'*  S.  V.  127). 
— The  book  concerning  which  J.  J.  P.  inquires  is 
a  renrint  by  the  Elzevirs  of  Amsterdam  of  a  work 
of  Madame  d'Aulnoy,  published  in  Paris  by 
Claude  Barbou  six  years  previously.  If  complete, 
the  first  volume  should  have  120  pages,  and  the 
second  1 14  pages,  including  title.  The  titles  should 
have  the  Elzevir  sphere.  Copies  in  fine  condition 
have  brought  as  much  as  fifteen  francs,  and  one 
copy,  in  a  rich  morocco  binding,  fetched  thirty-eight 
francs.  Joseph  Knight. 

Buried  Alive:  a  Tale  of  Old  Cologne 
(6**»  S.  iv.  344,  618  ;  v.  117).— I  have  a  painting 
of  Lady  Katherine  Wyndham,  wife  of  Sir  William 
Wyndham,  who  was  entombed  alive  in  the  family 
vault  at  St.  Decuman's  Church,  near  Orchard 
Wyndham,  Somerset,  the  family  seat.  There  is 
an  old  man  now  living  in  this  parish  (Winford) 
who  told  me  that  he  was  bom  in  St.  Decuman's, 
and  had  often  heard  his  father  "  tell  about  Lady 
Wyndham,"  and  how  that  the  sexton  ran  away 
and  left  his  lantern  behind,  with  which  Lady 
Wyndham  lighted  herself  home.  The  picture 
that  I  have  is  of  large  size,  and  represents  Lady 
Wyndham  with  her  little  son  Charles,  afterwards 
the  first  Earl  of  Egremont,  standing  by  her  side. 
Hknrt  Tripp,  M.A. 

Winford,  near  BristoL 

A  "  Christening  Fheet"  (6**  S.  iv.  409,  494  ; 
V.  56). — Have  any  of  the  querists  seeking  in- 
formation about  this  heard  that  unless  it  is  burned 
within  a  year  of  the  child's  birth  the  child  will 
never  be  able  to  keep  a  secret?  It  has  only 
recently  come  to  my  knowledge,  and  may  be  of 
interest.  J.  F.  H. 


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Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted  (6"»  S.  t. 
110).— 

**  To  be  satpected,"  &c. 
0.  M.  I.  liai  made  a  mistake  in  bis  quotation.    'See 
Oowper*s  TabU  Talk,  11. 141-2.  H.  Shith. 


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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Tkt  Becordt  of  St.  MichatCs  Pariih  Church,  Buhop't 

StoHford.    Edited  bj  J.  L.  Glasscock,  juD.     (Elliot 

Stock.) 
Chubohwabdsns*  accoants  of  an  earlier  date  tban  1460 
Are  of  great  raritj.  The  few  that  ha^e  been  pablished 
in  fall  or  in  abstract  hare  added  materially  to  oar 
knowledge  of  the  life  of  oar  ancestors.  It  is,  indeed, 
much  U>  be  desired  that  all  parish  documents  of  an 
earlier  date  than  the  Restoration  should  be  carefully 
examined.  The  editing  of  these  old  papers  has  evidently 
been  a  labour  of  love  to  Mr.  Glasscock,  and  he  deserTes 
mat  praise  for  the  trouble  which  he  must  hare  taken. 
We  wish,  howsTcr,  that  he  had  giTen  more  copious  notes, 
And  that  he  had  induced  some  antiquarian  fnend  to  look 
over  those  he  has  giren  before  he  committed  them  to 
the  printing  press.  The  four  "cruetts"  purchased  in 
1518  were  almost  certainly  the  yetsels  used  to  contain 
the  wine  and  water  used  at  mass,  not  receptacles  for  the 
holy  oils.  The  grate,  which  is  several  times  mentioned, 
we  are  pretty  sure,  was  not  a  prison,  but  a  grate  over  a 
pit  used  as  a  charnel-house.  The  earlier  accounts  are, 
of  course,  in  Latin.  The  first  of  these  is  given  in  the 
original  tongue,  the  others  in  a  translated  form.  For 
this  we  are  very  sorry,  as  it  much  lessens  their  value  for 
historical  purposes.  We  would  not  wish  to  call  in  ques- 
tion Mr.  Glasscock's  capacity  for  the  task,  but  must 
remark  that  it  is  a  kind  of  work  whicli  no  one  can  do 
in  a  thoroughly  satisfactory  manner,  and  that  it  may  be 
reasonably  presumed  that  any  one  who  wishes  to  consult 
documents  of  this  sort  will  be  able  to  read  them  in  the 
originaL  It  is  our  duty  to  notice  these  shortcomings, 
but  on  the  whole  the  book  is  well  done,  and  will  be  found 
most  interesting  by  those  who  are  curious  about  the 
village  and  town  life  of  the  past  as  it  exhibited  itself  oh 
its  religious  side.  We  have  nere  evidence  of  a  fact  that 
has  been  doubted,  that  Easter  sepulchres  were  sometimes 
of  wood.  The  entries  concerning  the  church  ales  are 
numerous  and  amusing.  To  our  unreformed  forefathers 
they  stood  in  much  the  same  stead  as  the  *'  tea-drinking" 
did  to  the  rural  folk  of  twenty  years  ago.  There  are 
eeveral  memoranda,  too,  as  to  players.  It  seems  certain 
that  plays  of  a  religious  sort  were  performed  in  almost 
all  our  village  churches  before  the  changes  of  the  six- 
teenth century.  There  is  evidence,  indeed,  of  their 
survival  late  into  the  reign  of  Elizabeth.  An  inventory 
taken  in  the  reign  of  Edward  V X.  shows  that  the  church- 
wardens possessed  a  dragon  "  made  of  hoopts  and  couered 
with  canvas."  There  are  few  things  we  should  enjoy 
more  than  seeing  this  monstrous  beast,  if  he  were  still 
in  being.  He  was  no  doubt  used  in  a  plsy  setting  forth 
the  legend  of  St.  George.  A  shriving  house  is  more  than 
once  mentioned.  This  must  have  been  a  movable  con- 
fessional. The  volume  is  enriched  by  several  other  parish 
papers,  carefully  edited.  There  are  also  lists  of  church- 
wardens and  overseers  of  the  poor  from  an  early  period. 

Hittcrieal  and  Dtscriptive  Catalogue  of  the  national 

PoHrait  Oallery,    By  George  Scbarf,'F.S.A. 
It  is  sufficientiv  notorious  how  much  of  the  success  of 
the  National  Portrait  Gallery  is  due  to  the  tact  and 
«neig7  of  Mr.  George  Scharf,  who  has  been  the  keeper 


and  secretary  from  the  beginning.  When  the  gallery 
was  first  opened  to  the  public  on  Jan.  16,  1859,  the 
number  of  the  portraits  was  only  fifty  nix,  half  of  which 
were  donations.  The  number  is  now  645,  and  celebrities 
of  every  date,  from  the  poet  Chaucer  to  Chief  Justice 
Erie,  are  represented  in  the  gallerv.  The  value  and 
interest  of  such  a  collection,  as  illustrating  English 
history  of  everv  period,  are  increased  beyond  measure 
by  the  admirable  catalogue  which  Mr.  Scbarf  has  now 
compiled.  As  a  rule  catalogues  are  dreary  reading ;  but 
the  visitor  to  the  National  Portrait  Galleiy  is  supplied 
for  one  shilling  with  a  handbook  of  English  biography 
which  it  is  a  pleasure  to  read.  It  is  difficult  to  condense 
without  being  dry ;  but  Mr.  Scharfs  lives  are  brief,  full 
of  matter,  and  yet  eminently  readable.  He  contrives  to 
tellusjuAt  what  we  want  to  know  about  the  artist  as 
well  as  the  subject  of  each  portrait,  and  his  biographies 
are  as  exhHUstive  as  they  are  pleasantly  written.  To  give 
an  example,  hiM  sketch  of  John  Speed  is  a  model  of  what 
a  biographical  manual  ought  to  contain ;  and  if  he  has 
ffdlen  into  the  mistake  that  Endymion  Porter  *'died 
abroad  in  the  Court  of  Charles  11./'  he  can  plead  that  he 
was  misled  by  so  great  an  authority  as  Sir  Henry  Ellis. 
In  i>oint  of  fact  Endymion  died  in  London,  in  his  own 
house,  "in  the  Strand,  over  against  Durham  House 
Gate,"  and  was  buried  at  St.  Martin's-in-the* Fields  on 
August  21, 1649.  

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W.  P.— If  not  previously  printed,  they  might  prove 
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CONTENTS. —N*  114. 

NOTES  :~Lett«n  or  the  Coontew  of  Orrerj  and  Othen, 
1740-1746, 161— Engliih  Roman  Catholic  MartTra.  1635-1681. 
16S— Tbo  Rcottlsh  Commnnion  Offiee,  164  —  Tnrken  —  81a- 
▼onic  Mythology— 1  Cor.  iL  IS,  165— The  BlbUograpb/  of 
Sir  FraDcis  Drake— "Arithmology"— Japanese  ProTerfae- 
— "Ball'B-milk,"  106— The  Penny  Post  temp,  Jac  II.— The 
Chaanel  Tnnnel  — Barry  Cornwall  — "Want  ways"— The 
New  BngUah  Dicttonary  of  the  Philological  Society.  167< 

QUBRIES :— An  Old  Honse  in  Leadenhall  Street,  167-King 
Charles^i  Vision- The  Prison  of  '*  Peterhoose**— Nicholaos 
de  Uppa,  6th  Richard  I.— Owen  Rowe— Ballard  and  Herring 
Families— Poplar  Trees— Biacoe  Family— J.  C.  Mangan— 
'*  Roughs  "— CronchmasssC^ristmas — '  *  Lily  of  St.  Leonards  *' 
^A  Coat  of  Arma-T.  Pnrland,  Ph.D.,  M.A..  Ac,  168— 
"Bnglen"  Marriages-*' The  Precepts  of  Cato."  1660— 
'*OoGk-*-I>obbj"— Father  Lobo's  "  Abyssinia  "—Anthoza 
Wanted,  160. 

XEPLISS :-"  Sir  John  Chiyerton."  160-"  Auld  Robin  Gray - 
—Sir  A.  Leslie,  of  Balgonie,  170— St.  Margaret's  Gbnrchyard, 
Westminster— Shipton  of  I^rth  Hall-"Argo/'  171— King 
Oan«te— Clergy  prohibited  from  wearing  Fur  Capes,  Ac— 
Nnmiamatie— Yardlcjs  of  England—*'  Task  "— Exoommani- 
cafioo.  Ac,  17S- Fry's  *'  Pantographia"— Bhymeless  Words 
—  Charles  II.'s  Hiding-places  —  Are  Toads  poisonous  f— 
Portraits  of  Washington  Irrlng— Episcopal  Wig.  173— Song 
of  Solomon— **  Other  half  hnndred''—"Ouffin''— Modem 
Prophecies  —  Thatched  Chnrehes  —  Easter  Sggi,  174  — 
"  Chacfc  ••— "  Howard  "— "  Bunker's  HUl "— Hooke  Family 
— "To  make  a  leg"— "To  dine  with  Duke  Humphrey"— 
Mistletoe  and  Christmas.  I7fr-Whlsker8  »  Monstaches— 
"  Let  me  light."  *o  —Morris  Dancers— Siege  of  Chepstow— 
lodlgenons  Trees  of  Britain— "  Jennet "—"  Pomatam  "— 
Death  of  Edward  of  Lancaster.  176-Faneral  Armour  in 
Churches— Glastonbury,  &c..  177— "Art"— English  Armorial 
Glass.  Ac..  178-The  Causal  "Do."  Ac,  179. 

170TBS  ON  BOOKS  -.-Oaine's  "  Sonnets  of  Three  Centuries" 
— Waraer's  "American  Men  of  Letters ''—" Biffhth  Bepott 
of  the  Royal  Commission  on  Historical  Manuscripts. 


fiatti. 

LETTERS  OF  THE  COUNTESS  OF  ORREBY 
AND  OTHERS,  1740-1746. 

In  tamiDg  over  some  papers  lately  I  pat  my 
hand  on  three  letters,  written  before  the  middle  of 
the  last  centary,  which  seem  extremely  interesting. 
They  were  given  to  me  many  years  ago  by  a  lady, 
into  whose  possesrion  they  oame  through  some 
family  connexion  with  the  person  to  whom  they 
were  addressed.  This  was  the  Bey.  William  Ellis, 
who  was  from  1723  to  1764  incambent  of  the  parish 
which  contains  the  town  of  Clonakilty,  as  the  name 
is  now  commonly  written,  a  parish  of  which  I  was 
myself  the  incambent  for  sixteen  years.  Mr.  Ellis 
was  the  editor  of  Bp.  Peter  Browne's  SermoM  in 
two  yolames,  published  in  1749.  They  are  yery 
nmarkable  sermons,  and  were  bequeathed  by  the 
bishop  to  the  Bey.  Thomas  Bassetl,  who  was  con- 
nected with  him  by  family  ties,  and  was  Archdeacon 
of  Cork  from  1725  to  1745.  Dr.  Maziere  Brady,  in 
his  Clerical  and  Parock4al  Records  of  Cork,  Cloyne, 
and  Rots,  states  that  these  sermons  were  pub- 
lished by  the  archdeacon.  But  Mr.  Ellis  states  in 
his  preface  that  they  were  bequeathed  to  him  by 
the  archdeacon,  who  had  been  deterred  from  print- 
ing by  the  booksellers  having  informed  him  that  no 
b<^k8  were  so  seldom  called  for  as  sermons.  Bishop 


Browne,  who  had  been  Provost  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  was  Bishop  of  Cork  from  1710  to  1735, 
having  received  that  preferment  in  recognition  of 
his  answer  to  Toland's  Christianity  not  Mysterious, 
which  gave  occasion  to  ToUnd  to  boast  that  he 
had  made  Browne  a  bishop.  He  is  now  remem- 
bered by  the  curious  in  book-lore  for  his  tracts  on 
the  impropriety  of  drinkiog  healths.  But  his  sub- 
stantial fame  rests  on  the  answer  to  Toland  just 
mentioned,  followed  by  his  Procedure,  Extent,  and 
Limits  of  the  Human  Understanding,  in  which  he 
controverts  some  of  Locke's  positions,  and  his 
Things  Divine  and  Supernatural  Conceived  by 
Analogy  with  Things  Natitral  and  Human.  A 
large  part  of  this  latter  work  was  devoted  to  con- 
troverting a  part  of  the  A  Iciphron  of  Berkeley,  who 
had,  without  naming  Browne,  controverted  some 
of  his  opinions.  These  works  of  Browne  have  in 
recent  years  been  brought  into  notice  again  by  Sir 
William  Hamilton  and  Dean  ManseL  I  have 
recently  been  shown  by  your  well-known  corre- 
spondent. Dr.  Caulfikld,  a  beautiful  MS.  of  the 
only  part  which  has  not  perished  of  an^  unpub- 
lished work  by  the  bishop  on  the  Arian  con- 
troversy, which,  whatever  its  theological  value 
may  be,  will,  I  hope,  be  published  as  a  literary 
curiosity  and  a  relic  of  a  very  able  and  learned  man. 

The  first  of  the  following  letters,  the  most  interest- 
ing in  a  literary  aspect,  was  addressed  to  Ellis  by 
Margaret,  Lady  Orrery,  the  second  wife  of  the  Lord 
Orrery  who  was  Swift's  friend  and  author  of  the 
wdl-known  translation  of  Pliny's  Letters,  Lady 
Orrery  was  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Galedon,  which 
accounts  for  the  letter  being  dated  from  *'  this  old 
house,"  as  she  describes  Galedon  in  the  county  of 
Tyrone,  her  fiatiier's  place.  The  letter  consists  of 
a  half  sheet  of  letter  paper,  the  outer  half  being 
lost.  It  is  yellow  from  age,  and  nearly  cut  through 
in  the  folds,  the  ink  being  much  faded.  The  hand- 
writing is  bold,  but  very  beautiful  and  antique  in 
the  cut  of  the  letters.  The  occasion  was  to  acknow- 
ledge assistance  which  Ellis  had  given  Lord  Orrery 
in  preparing  his  translation  of  Pliny's  Epistles.  X 
have  not  that  work  within  reach,  but  a  learned 
friend  has  overhauled  it,  and  says  he  can  find  no 
recognition  of  Ellis's  services.  Lad^  Orrery's  letter, 
however,  will  now  render  this  piece  of  literary 
justice,  if  my  friend  has  not  overlooked  any 
aclmowledgment  in  the  work  itself. 

The  second  letter  is  from  Archdeacon  Russell,  who 
was  connected  by  family  ties  with  Bishop  Browne, 
and  was  Archdeacon  of  Cork  from  1725  to  1745, 
as  also  Vicar-General.  The  letter  is  without  date, 
but  as  his  successor  was  collated  in  April,  1745, 
and  it  indicates  failing  health,  it  was  probably 
written  not  long  before  this  date.  The  **  brother 
Guew"  was  Mark  Garew,  of  Dean's  Bock  in 
the  county  of  Gork,  who  was  married  to  Susanna 
Bussell,  the  archdeacon's  sister.  The  appre- 
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realized,  for  he  appears  again  as  liviDg  in  the 
third  letter,  written  in  1746.  The  medic»l  treat- 
ment was  expreasiTely  described,  and  seems  to  haye 
been  snooessfdl,  and  the  ''other  tragical  scene," 
which  the  archdeacon  was  afraid  to  enconnter^ 
appears  to  have  been  enacted  by  himself.  The 
''▼lie  western  road'*  still  exists,  exceedingly  hilly, 
bat  long  superseded  for  general  traffic  by  a  yeiy 
excellent  roiui,  level  bat  somewhat  longer.  If  I 
am  right  in  identifying  the  colonel  whose  death 
was  anticipated,  tiiat  did  not  then  take  place.  The 
expression,  "  unhappy  man,"  points  to  a  circum- 
stance which  disposes  me  to  suppress  the  name 
in  consideration  for  living  persons. 

BuBsell  Wood,  the  writer  of  the  third  letter, 
apparently  connected  with  the  archdeacon,  was 
an  attorney  and  notaiy  public  who  held  lucratlTe 
offices  under  the  Gorporation.  The  bishop  he 
speaks  of  was  Dr.  Jemmet  Browne,  a  relative  of 
the  former  Bishop  Browne.  He  was  appointed  in 
1746,  and  was  subsequently  Archbishop  of  Tuam. 
Between  the  two  Brownes  intervened  Robert  Clay- 
ton, who  was  translated  to  Ologher.  He  was  the 
author  of  A  Vindication  of  ihe  Histories  of  the 
Old  and  New  Testaments  and  the  writer  of  the 
once  feunous  Essay  on  Spirit,  printed  anony- 
mously, but  without  concealment  of  the  author- 
ship. Of  this  work,  Warburton,  writing  to  Hurd, 
Nov.  18,  1751,  thus  speaks,  "The  Bishop  of 
Glogher,  or  some  such  heathenish  name,  in  Ire- 
land, has  just  published  a  book.  It  is  made  up 
of  the  rubbish  of  old  Heresies  ;  of  a  much  ranker 
oast  than  common  Arianism.  Jesus  Christ  is 
Michael;  and  the  Holy  Ghost  Gabriel,  &&  This 
might  be  Heresy  in  an  English  Bishop  ;  but  in  an 
Irish,  'tis  only  a  blunder."  The  heresy,  however, 
was  not  so  much  in  identifying  these  names  with 
the  Divine  Persons,  but  in  the  entire  doctrine  of 
the  book,  and  it  was  not  treated  as  a  blunder  in 
Ireland.  After  some  time  ecclesiastical  proceed- 
ings were  set  on  foot,  which  occasioned  Clayton 
so  much  anxiety  that  he  took  fever  and  died. 

We  find  in  this  letter  Mark  Carew  still  alive. 
His  son,  John  Bussell  Carew,  ordained  in  1762, 
married  a  Mary  Wood.  We  may  fairly  assume 
that  this  was  the  enamoured  Mollv  of  the  letter, 
in  which  case  Frank  Townsend's  bagpipes  appear 
to  have  been  ineffectual  But  from  the  manner 
in  which  she  is  spoken  of,  and  the  gentle  hint 
from  her  mother  to  come  home,  we  may  gather 
she  was  a  very  young  girl  when  the  letter  was 
written.  This  letter  has  a  seal  with  arms— Argent, 
party  per  fees ;  on  chief  three  trefoils  or  flours  de 
lys,  two  and  one  ;  on  base  a  tree  accrued.  The 
crest  is  imperfect^  but  looks  like  a  lizard. 

The  letters  which  are  subjoined  have  an  amiable 
fragrance  about  them,  and  a  delicate  flavour  of 
antiquity.  I  have  no  doubt  they  will  be  read 
with  interest  I  have  endeavoured  to  represent 
them  exactly. 


Caledon,  October  11  tb,  1 740. 

Ref'  Sir, — My  Lord  and  I  joyn  in  sincere  rondolenee 
with  you  upon  toe  loss  of  your  Freind  {sic),  and  certainly 
this  single  consideration  is  tlie  greatest  unhappinoss 
which  attends  long  life,  that  we  must  part  with  those 
who  are  the  dearest  to  us  in  tliis  World. 

The  Gout  has  for  these  two  days  past  risited  my 
Lord's  right  Elbow  which  hinders  him  from  paying  Yon 
his  acknowledgements  with  his  own  hand  for  the  great 
trouble  you  are  at  upon  his  account,  and  testifying 
the  pleasure  your  high  enconragement  gires  him  in 
proceeding  in  the  remaining  Books  of  Pliny.  He  this 
day  received  from  you  the  16, 17,  &  18  Epistfes  with  the 
Notes.  I  believe  his  conversing  so  much  with  his  Freind 
Pliny,  in  his  Study  may  fairly  be  said  to  have  a  great 
share  in  the  tedious  confinement  of  one  whole  month  to 
his  Bed-Chamber,  how  much  then  must  I  be  agitated 
between  the  strong  desire  of  seeing  him  made  immortot 
in  the  Learned  World,  and  the  dread  of  so  close  an 
attention  upon  his  Studies  prejudicing  his  Health  but 
he  premisses  (tic),  that  he  will  Ride  every  day  asson 
(tic)  as  he  is  able,  and  he  is  now  gone  to  take  the  Air  in 
the  Coach  for  the  second  time,  whilst  I  from  this  old 
House  subscribe  myself  Sir 

Your  most  Assured  Freind  and  Obedient  Servant 
Ma&qarst  Obrsrt. 

IL 
To  the  Bev'  M'  Ellis  at  Clonokilty. 
Dear  Ellis— I  came  hither  on  Munday  (sic)  in  the 
Chariot,  greatly  fatigued  &  even  stunned  wti>  want  of 
sleep  &  y*  sudden  alarm  occasioned  by  brother  Carew's 
apoplexy.  God  be  thanked  my  sleep  is  returned  to  me- 
&  my  appetite  is  better ;  but  I  am  still  under  no  small 
apprehension  ab<  that  poor  man ;  f  they  send  me  word 
that  nothing  certain  can  be  pronounced  ab^  a  relapse  till 
fryday  (tic)  is  over.  Shoud  {tie)  it  return,  beyond  doubt 
it  will  destroy  him— and  she  will  immediately  follow. 
Qods  will  be  done  !  Had  I  continued  with  them  it  w^ 
have  affected  me  too  much ;  but  I  shall  wait  here  for  a 
while  f^  fear  of  another  trogical  scene.  On  munday 
(if  things  go  rightly)  I  shall  sett  out  for  Clonokilty,  & 
will  thank  y*  in  person  for  y'  most  friendly  Letter.  I 
admire  that  I  continue  so  well — my  sleep  has  recoverd 
me  beyond  all  expectation.  Jack  Wiloocks  I  send  before- 
as  a  pledge.    Pleurisies  exceedingly  common  &  dan- 

gerous.  We  suppose  Col' to  be  dead  e're  this.  Un- 
appy  man  !  I  have  sent  y*  chariot  home  k  my  chaise 
came  yesterday  Even'  so  that  I  shall  travel  light  over  y*" 
vile  western  road. 

Most  hearty  service  to  good  M*"  Ellis  k  honest  Nancy. 
I  receive  a  message  from  Corke  every  day. 

I  am  D'  Ellis  y"  most  affect»-^ 

Tho:  Russell. 
Bandon,  Thursday. 

III. 

To  the  Reyi  M'  Will"  Ellis  at  Woodstone  near  Cloghni 
kilty  via  Bandon. 

Frank**  Mat:  Deane. 

Corke  May  12»»'  1746. 

Dear  Sir,— First  and  foremost  I  beg  that  good  M** 
Ellis  will  accept  my  hearty  thanks  for  her  kind  present 
of  potatoes,  k  in  the  next  place,  that  you  k  she  with 
Miss  Ellis,  Alley.  Betty,  Billy  k  my  godson  (that  fine 
little  fellow  who  promises  as  well  as  any  Child  can  to 
make  a  good  Bop  will  permit  me  to  asiure  you  all,  that 
my  Wife  joins  with  me  in  most  hearty  k  cordial  services 
to  every  one  of  you.  And  now  Good  Sir.  give  me  leare 
to  tell  you,  that  the  suit  between  the  B*p  and  me  is 
happily  ended,  (I  hope)  to  botl^  our  satisfactions— he 


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sent  for  me  to  the  Chapter  hoose  yesterday  sennight  in 
the  afternoon  after  senrice  was  over,  &  declared  that  he 
considered  M'  Weekes's  certificate  to  be  equitable  £?i- 
denoe  in  my  fayonr  (tho  perhaps  it  might  not  be  legal) 
Jk  that  without  advising  with  Counsel  as  he  at  first  pro- 
posed, he  determined  to  drop  all  further  proceedings, 
And  wou'd  give  me  no  more  trouble,  and  he  declared  him- 
self in  80  genteel  a  manner  that  I  own  he  struolc  me  with 
higher  regards  towards  him,  than  I  ever  had  before  con- 
-ceiTed — he  preached  yesterday  at  8^  Pauls,  and  waited 
on  the  Mayor  to  Church,  &  in  the  Council  Chamber,  fell 
into  Chat  with  me  abt  this  same  affair,  &  told  me,  that 
from  comparing  the  Map,  which  I  before  mentioned  to 

Su,  with  the  certificate,  he  found  the  description  of  the 
Lnds  to  tally  in  each,  &  that  he  was  fully  conTinced 
that  mine  are  not  any  part  of  the  Mensal  Lands— it  gives 
me  great  pleasure  to  have  this  dispute  so  amicably  & 
kuidly  adjusted,  not  that  I  had  the  least  doubt  of  success 
in  it,  both  in  Iaw  &  Equity,  but  upon  other  accounts,  as 
veil  for  his  Lord'ps  sake  as  my  own.  And  I  look  on  you 
to  be  a  happy  instrument  towards  the  accomodation  {$ic) 
of  it. 

I  am  hard  at  work  on  Mark  Carew*s  answer,  k  as  soon 
as  I  have  done  it,  will  set  about  yours,  which  I  think  it 
snost  adviseable  to  draw  separate  from  his,  &  if  I  can 
finish  it  by  next  thursday,  I  purpose  to  send  it  you  by 
that  nights  post  for  your  perusal. 

The  B'p  gaue  an  excellent  charge  at  his  visitation,  & 
was  strict  in  his  £nquiry8— it  held  till  near  six  in  the 
Evening. 

My  Daughter  Betty  is  I  thank  Ood  recovering  fast. 
We  have  got  her  to  Woodville,  which  agrees  greatly  with 
her.  She  and  her  sister  Mancy  desire  to  be  remembered 
to  all  with  yon.  I  suppose  that  between  the  agreeable- 
ness  of  your  good  family  k  the  inchantm*'  of  Frank 
Townsends  bagpipes  (taking  for  granted  that  he  carry'd 
'em  with  him)  Molly  is  so  enamour'd  that  she  will  scarce 
think  of  a  Town  life  for  this  week,  but  my  wife  thinks 
that  the  next  will  bring  her  home. 

Not  a  sylable  (sic)  of  news  stirring  for  some  days  past 
— ^if  there  had  it  should  be  transmitted  to  you  by 
Dear  Sir  Your  most  Sincerely  affectionate 

BussBLL  Wood. 
J.  QUARRT,  D.D. 

Donoughmore  Rectory,  co.  Cork. 


} 


Sacerdotes. 


ENGLISH  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  MARTYRS, 

1635-1681. 

{Continued  from  p.  24.) 

*'  Catalogue  Servorum  Dei  ex  processa  Ordinario 
WestmonaateriensL" 

1588. 

121.  Nicolaus  Oarlick 

122.  Robertus  Ludlam 

123.  Ricardus  Sjmpson 

124.  Qolielmus  Dean 

125.  Henricus  Weble,  Laicua 

126.  Oulielmus  Gnnter,  Sacerdos. 

127.  Robertus  Morton,  Sacerdoa 

128.  Hugo  More,  Laicus. 

129.  Thomas  Holford,  Sacerdos. 

130.  Jacobus  Claxton,  Sacerdos. 

131.  Thomas  Felton,  Ordinis  Minorum. 

132.  Ricardus  Leigh,  Sacerdos. 
188.  Eduardns  Shelley  •) 

184.  Ricardus  Martin     f   » ..  . 

185.  Ricardus  Flower     f  ^**'*- 

136.  Joannes  Roch        ) 

137.  Margarita  Ward,  Laica. 


138. 
139. 
14a 
141. 
142. 
143. 
144. 
145. 
146. 
147. 
148. 
149. 
160. 
161. 
162. 

168. 
164. 
166. 
166. 
167. 
168. 
169. 
160. 

161. 
162. 
168. 
164. 
165. 
166. 
167. 
168. 
169. 
170. 
171. 

172. 
173. 
174. 
175. 
176. 
177. 
178. 
179. 
180. 
181. 
182. 
183. 
184. 
185. 
186. 

187. 
188. 
189. 
190. 

191. 
192. 
198. 
194. 
195. 

196. 
197. 
198. 
199. 
2C0. 
201. 


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Sacerdotei. 


Oulielmus  Way,  Sacerdos. 
Robertus  Wilcox  ) 

Edwardus  Campion       >  Sacerdotes. 
Christophorus  Buxton  J 
Robertus  Wildmerpool,  Laicus. 

Jpannes  Robinson,  Sacerdos. 
Oulielmus  Hartley,  Sacerdos. 
Joannes  Weldon,  Siguserdos. 
Robertus  Sutton,  Laicus. 
Ricardus  Williams,  Sacerdos. 
Joannes  Hewitt,  Sacerdos. 
Eduardus  Burden,  Sacerdos. 
Oulielmus  Lampley,  Sacerdos. 

1689. 
Joannes  Amias 
Robertus  Dalby 
Oeorgius  Nicols 
Ricardus  Yaxley  ^ 
Thomas  Belson  )    «  .  . 

Humphredus  Prichard  |   ^^^ 
Oulielmus  Spenser,  Saceirdos. 
Robertus  Hardesty,  Laicus. 

1590. 
Christophorus  Bales,  Sacerdos. 
Nicolaus  Homer,  Laicus. 
Alexander  Blake,  Laicus. 
Milo  Oerard  \  0-^0^0^- 

Francisous  Dioconson  j"   •'"'^"•oms. 
Eduardus  Jones,  Sacerdos. 
Antonius  Middleton,  Sacerdos. 
Edmundus  Duke,  Sacerdos. 
Ricardus  Hill  ) 

Joannes  Hog  >  Sacerdotes. 

Ricardus  Holliday  J 

1591. 
Robertus  Thorp        )    »-«-: 
Thomas  Watkinson  J   ^"**- 
Momfordus  Scott  )    a^^^^i^^ 
Oeorgius  Beesley  |  S»c«rdot€«, 
Rogerius  Dicconson,  Sacerdos. 
Rodulphus  Milner,  Laicus. 
Oulielmus  Pike,  Laicus. 
Laurentius  Humphrey,  Laicus. 
Edmundus  Oenings,  Sacerdos. 
Swithunus  Wells,  IaIcus. 
Eustachius  White    )   gacerdotes. 
Polidorus  Plasden  j    o»w»"*w««»- 
Brianus  Lacy  1 

Joannes  Mason        >  Luci. 
Sydneius  Hodgson  J 

1592. 
Oulielmus  Patenson,  Sacerdos. 
Thomas  Pormort,  Sacerdos. 
Robertas  Ashton,  Laicus. 
Thomas  Metham,  SocietaUs  Jesa. 

1593. 
Eduardus  Waterson,  Sacerdos. 
Jacobus  Bird,  Laicua 
Antonius  Page,  Sacerdos. 
Josephus  Lampton,  Sacerdos. 
Oulielmus  Davies,  Sacerdos. 

1694. 
Joannes  Speed,  Laica?. 
Oulielmus  Harrington,  Sacerdos. 
Joannes  Cornelius,  Societatis  Jesu. 
Thomas  Bosgrave  *) 
Joannes  Carey        >  Laid 
Patritius  Salmon  J 


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202.  Joannes  Bott,  Sacerdos. 
208.  Joannes  Ingram,  Sacerdos. 
204.  Georgius  Swallowell,  Laicus. 
206.  Edaardus  Osbaldeston,  Sacerdoc. 

1595. 

206.  BobertuB  Soatbwell,  Societatis  Jesu. 

207.  Alexander  Rawlins,  Saoerdos. 

208.  Henricus  Walpole,  Bocietatis  Jesu. 

209.  Jacobus  Atkinson,  Laicus. 

210.  Gulielmus  Freeman,  Sacerdoc. 

211.  Philippus,  Comes  de  Arundel. 

1596. 

212.  Georgius  Enington 

213.  Gulielmus  Knight      i    t^.  . 

214.  Gulielmus  Gibson      ^  ^^"• 

215.  Henricus  Abbot 

1597. 

216.  Gulielmus  Andleby,  Sacerdos. 

217.  Thomas  Warcop        )    ,   .. 

218.  EduarduB  Fulthorp  f   ^""• 

1598. 

219.  Joannes  Britton.  Laicus. 

220.  PetruB  Snow,  Socerdos. 

221.  Rodulphus  Grimston,  LaicuP. 

222.  Joannes  Buckley,  Franciscan  us. 

223.  Ghristopborus  Robinson,  Sacerdoa. 

224.  Ricardus  Horner,  Sacerdos. 

1599. 
226.  Matthias  Harrison,  Sacerdos. 

226.  Joannes  Lion,  Laicus. 

227.  Jacobus  Dowdall,  Laicus. 

1600. 

228.  Christophorus  Wharton,  Sacerdos. 

229.  Joannes  Rigby,  Laicus. 

280.  Thomas  Sprott 

281.  Thomaa  Hunt 

282.  Robertus  Nutter 
288.  Ednardus  Thwing 
284.  Thomas  Palasor,  Sacerdos. 
835.  Joannes  Norton  )    j  .. 

236.  Joannes  Talbot    f   ^^®*- 

237.  Eleanora  Hunt,  Laica. 

Eybrard  Grxsv,  F.S.A. 
Reform  Clnb. 

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Thb  Scottish  Comkunion  Office. — The  fol- 
lowing list  of  the  yariouB  editions  of  this  Kturgy 
has  l^en  compiled  from  a  MS.  by  a  priest  of  the 
Scottish  Churchy  now  deceased,  and  my  own  notes, 
made  over  a  space  of  eight  years,  of  copies  which 
I  have  picked  np  or  seen.  It  is  nnnecessary  to 
l^iye  the  title  in  full ;  in  the  majority  of  cases  it 
IS  '*The  Commnnion  Office  for  the  Use  of  the 
Church  of  Scotland,  as  far  as  concemeth  the 
Ministration  of  that  Holy  Sacrament.'' 

1724.  Published  by  Ruddtroan.  12mo.  (with  altera- 
tions from  the  Prayer  Book  of  1637  by  Bishop  Qadderer). 

1735.    No  place  or  printer's  name. 

1743.  "  The  Communion  Office  for  the  Use  of  the 
Ohurch  of  Scotland,  as  far  as  concemeth  the  Ministra- 
tion of  that  Holy  Sacrament,  Authorized  by  King 
Charles  T.,  1686.  AH  the  parts  of  this  Office  are  ranked 
in  their  natural  order.  Printed  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
1743."  This  is  the  first  standard  edition.  It  was  "re- 
oommended  "  by  the  biahopf. 


1752.  An  edition  without  place  or  name;  few  yaria- 
tions  from  1743. 

1769.    Ditto. 

1755.  An  edition  without  place  or  name.  Most  pro- 
bably edited  by  Bishop  Gerrard. 

1762.  Reprint  at  Edinburgh  fpr  Reid,  bookseller, 
Leith. 

1764.    Reprint  without  place  or  nsme. 

1764.  Edinburgh,  printed  for  Drummond,  at  Ossian'a 
Head.    Edited  by  Bishop  Falconer. 

1765.  Leith,  printed  and  sold  by  Alex.  Robertson. 
Edited  by  Bishop  Forbes. 

1767.    Edinburgh,  Robertson. 
1771.    Aberdeen,  Chalmers. 
1774.    Edinburgh,  Robertson. 

1780.  Aberdeen.  Chalmers. 

1781.  Edinburgh. 

1792.    Horsley's  collation. 

1795  or  1796  ?    Aberdeen. 

1796.  Edinburgh,  Moir,  12mo.  Edited  by  Bishop 
Drummond.    With  variations  and  private  devotions. 

1800. 1801. 1806, 1809.  1814, 1842.  Editions  with  text 
of  1796.    1801  has  a  note  on  **  Spiritual  Body." 

1800.  Aberdeen,  printed  by  J.  Chalmers  &  Co.  for 
G.  Ironside.  8vo.    Edited  by  Skinner  (Bishop  or  Dean  1). 

1804.    Aberdeen,  printed  and  sold  by  John  Burnett 

1804.    Edinburgh. 

1807.    Dean  Skinner's  large  edition. 

1811,  1812,  1815.  1818,  1819,  1824,  1826,  1827,  1884^ 
1835,  1839,  1841,  1843,  1844,  1847,  1861,  1854,  1856. 
Editions  which  appear  to  be  reprints  of  that  of  1800, 
Aberdeen. 

1838.  Elgin,  Brander.  With  some  slight  variation* 
and  morning  and  evening  hymns. 

1844.    Edinburgh,  R.  Grant  &  Son.    Printed  by  Neill. 

1844.  Edinburgh,  R.  Grant  &  Son.  According  tO' 
1796,  for  use  in  St.  Columba's. 

1844.    London,  Burns.    With  musical  notes. 

1847.    Edinburgh,  R.  Lendrum  k  Co.    12mo. 

1847.  In  Bishop  Forbes's  Companion  to  the  Altar, 
which  has  been  frequently  reprinted. 

1849.  In  the  Prayer  Book,  commonly  known  a» 
"  Bishop  Patrick  Terry's  Prayer  Book.''  As  this  book  baa 
become  very  scarce,  some  description  of  it  may  not  be 
amiss.  The  title  is :— The  Book  of  |  Common  Prayer,  I 
and  administration  of  i  the  'Sacraments,  |  and  other  | 
Rites  and  Ceremonies  of  the  Church,  |  According  to  the 
Use  of  I  the  Church  of  Scotland :  |  together  with  |  the 
Psalter  or  Psalms  of  David,  |  pointed  as  they  are  to  be 
sung  or  said  in  Churches ;  |  and  {  the  Form  and  Manner 
of  making,  ordaining,  |  and  consecrating  of  |  Bishops, 
Priests,  and  Deacons.  |  Edinburgh :  |  R.  Lendrum  &  Co., 
Hanover  Street.  |  mdoooxlix."  |  12mo.  On  the  verto- 
of  the  second  leaf  Bishop  Torry  certifies  that  he  has 
examined  the  book  and  found  it  in  strict  conformity 
with  the  usage  of  the  Church  of  Scotland,  and  recom- 
mends it  to  the  clergy  of  his  own  diocese  (St.  Andrew's,. 
Dunkeld,  and  Dunblane). 

1853.    Edinburgh,  R.  Lendrum  &  Co.,  4to  and  12mo. 

1861.  The  Order  of  the  Divine  Liturgy,  according  to 

the  use  of  the  Church  of  Scotland London,  W.  B. 

Painter,  16mo. 

1862.  Aberdeen,  4to.  and  8vo.  Edited  by  the  Rev. 
F.  G.  Lee. 

1863.  Aberdeen,  John  Wilson,  8vo. 

1866.  Aberdeen,  John  Wilson.  Text  of  1792,  edited 
by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Pr&tt. 

1866.  in  Prayer  Book  issued  by  a  commi ttee  of  clergy. 
This  was  merely  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  with  a 
title  page  i>imilar  to  Bishop  Torry's,  the  Scottish  Com- 
munion Office  being  bound  in  after  tlie  English  Office. 
Aberdeen,  A.  Brown  &  Co. 


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1872.  lUprint  of  1866,  bat  withoat  Aberdeen  tiile- 
page.  The  rabric  at  the  end  reiatrding  reeerTation  wae 
altered  at  the  reqaeat  of  Bishop  Forbes  from  **  according 
to  the  uniTersal  custom  '*  to  *'  according  to  an  ancient 
cnstom/' 

1878.    Aberdeen^  D.  Wyllie  &  Son,  n.  d.  4to. 

1881.    Glasgow.    Beprint  from  the  book  of  1687.* 

The  following  editions  either  have  no  date  or  I 
haye  not  yet  ascertained  it. 

The  Scottish  Communion  Office  from  the  Scottish 
Liturgy  of  1637.  Printed  for  R.  Grant  k  Son,  Edin- 
burgh.   12mo.  n.  d. 

llie  Scottish  Liturgy,  with  DoTotions  for  the  Celebrant. 
Printed  by  King  &  Co.,  Aberdeen.    4to.  n.  d. 

Folio,  black  letter  edition,  Pickering,  London. 

An  edition,  12mo.,  with  variations,  edited  by  the  Rot. 
George  Hay  Forbes. 

I  shall  be  glad  if  any  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.**  will 
add  to  the  above,  or  supply  farther  particulars 
regarding  some  of  the  editions. 

J.  P.  Edicond. 
64,  Bonaccord  Street,  Aberdeen. 

TuRKBN. — ^This  carious  word  is.  noticed  in 
Dayies's  Supplementary  Glossary^  where  the  mean- 
ing of  furhiah  is  assigned  to  it,  copied  from  the 
Indjix  to  th€  Parker  S)euty's  Publieatiant,  But  I 
have  found  other  instances  of  it^  and  hare  no 
hesitation  in  saying  that  this  assigned  sense  of  it 
is  the  wrong  one.  The  right  sense  is  ''to  turn 
and  twist  about,''  and  it  is  merely  a  frequentative 
form  of  the  O.F.  torquer,  to  twist  (Ootgrave), 
which  is  obviously  the  Latin  torquere.  Roquefort 
gives  O.F.  torcenouse,  violent ;  iorcenui^  a  torment- 
ing tyrant ;  tor^tmnere^  extortionate  ;  torqueUm,  a 
torch ;  all  from  the  same  source.  I  first  quote 
the  instance  cited  by  Davies,  and  then  two  more 
which  I  have  found  in  Gascoigne : — 

''His  majesty  calleth  for  subscription  unto 
articles  of  religion ;  but  they  are  not  either 
articles  of  his  own  lately  devised,  or  the  old 
newly  turkened";  {.s.^  twisted  about  (Rogers,  On 
the  Thirty-nine  ArtideSf  p.  24). 

''And  for  the  rest,  you  shall  find  it  [a  cer- 
tain story]  now  in  this  second  imprinting  so  tur- 
queued  and  turned";  ».s.,  so  twisted  about  and 
altered  (fiaecoigw^e  Works,  ed.  Hazlitt,  i.  6,  last 
line). 

"  This  poeticall  license  is  a  shrewde  fellow,  and 

couereth  manyfaults  in  a  verse and,  to  conclude, 

it  turkeneth  [alters]  all  thing  at  pleasure "  (Oas- 
coigne,  Extrads  fnm,,  ed.  Arber,  p.  37).  Mr. 
Hazlitt  calmly  alters  turkmuXh  to  iumfXh  (TTorJbs, 
L  505)  without  a  word  of  comment 

Mr.  Davies  notes  that  iurkie  also  occurs.  And 
it  occurs  precisely  in  the  same  sense.  It  is  formed 
from  an  O.F.  pres.  part,  for^tiut-anf,  from  the 
verb  for<^tr,  by-form  of  iwq^atr.  Such  changes 
of  conjugation  are  common  in  French. 

"  Yet  he  taketh  the  same  sentence  out  of  Esay, 

[♦  Eevicwed  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  6«i>  8.  iv.  480.] 


somewhat  turkxetd^  i.  e.,  altered  or  turned  about 
(Bancroft,  Survey  of  Pretended  Holy  Ducipline, 
1593,  p.  6).  Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Cambridge. 

Slavonic  Mttholoot  (ante,  p.  144).— Any 
one  who  is  interest^  in  the  obscure  subject  of 
Slavonic  mythology,  and  is  not  alarmed  by  the 
list  of  forty-eight  "  Slavonic  Pagan  Deities''  trans- 
lated from  the  Polish  of  Prof.  Bandtkic'  by  Mb. 
Lach-Sztrma,  may  be  recommended  to  read  a 
short  sketch  lately  reprinted  by  the  accomplished 
Slavist,  M.  Louis  Leger,  from  the  Bevue  de  VHis- 
taire  dee  BeligumSf  under  the  title  of  "  EsquiBse 
Sommaire  de  la  Mythologie  Slave"  (Paris, 
Leronx).  It  clearly  proves  two  facts :  First,  that 
very  little  is  known  with  certainty  about  Slavonic 
mythology.  Secondly,  that  much  of  the  evidence 
generally  relied  upon  by  writers  on  the  subject  ia 
at  least  suspicious,  and  that  some  of  it  is  un- 
doubtedly fiuse.  Whoever  undertakes  to  tread 
this  field  must  take  heed  unto  his  steps.  What 
with  Mecklenberg  forgeries,  and  Czekh  falsifica- 
tions, and  Bulgarian  mystifications,  a  heedless 
explorer  may  easily  belled  astray. 

W.  B.  S.  Balstgn. 

Mr.  W.  S.  Laoh-Sztrma,  in  his  interesting 
notes  on  this  subject,  having  queried  the  names 
and  meaning  of  several  Slavonic  deities,  permit 
me  to  offer  a  few  illustrations,  taken  from  Eays- 
saroVs  Slavonic  Mythology  (in  German,  12mo.,. 
Gottingen,  1804),  which  may  help  to  clear  up 
some  doubtful  points.  (1.)  Eikimora  is  iden- 
tified with  the  Greek  Morpheus,  looked  upon, 
however,  as  a  fearful  phantom  or  spectre.  (2.) 
Eupalo  was  the  god  of  fruits  and  of  the  harvest 
in  general,  to  whom  they  offered  sacrifices  at 
midsummer  on  June  24.  (3.)  The  comparison 
of  Liada  with  Mare  is  considered  untenable,, 
not  being  confirmed  by  any  ancient  authority. 
Lastly,  tne  two  most  ancient  Slavonic  deities, 
according  to  Eayssarow,  were  Bielbog  (».«.,  white- 
god)  and  Gernogod  (pron.  Chemogod,  ».«.,  black 
god),  the  good  and  the  evil  spirit,  or  the  Slavonic^ 
Ormuzd  and  Ahriman.  H.  Ersbs. 

Oxford. 

1  Cor.  II.  13.— Prof.  Eennedy's  gloss  upon  the 
passage  in  this  verse— TrvcvfuirtKct  irvevfiariKots 
<rvy KpLvovrts— IB,  "  explaining  spiritual  things  to 
spiritual  men/'  in  which  he  clearly  follows  the- 
leading  of  Theophylact  (although,  no  doubt,  un- 
consciously, for  no  one  would  even  suspect  such  a 
person  of  committing  a  wilful  plagiarism),  who* 
says  :  irvcvfiaTiKoU  dv9p<a7roi9  ra  trveufiariK^ 
(TvyKplvovres  kol  StaXvorrcs*  ovroi  yolp  ft^yot. 
Svvavrai  \(op€iv  ravrcu  Hammond's  rendering 
is,  '*  accommodating  spiritual  words  to  spiritual 
things."  Whitby,  criticizing  Le^  Clerc's  exegesis^ 
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tbat  of  Prof.  Kennedy,  writes  :  "Why  doth  be 
limit  what  is  spoken  to  the  spiritual  tnan,  since 
the  JpostUs  spoke  as  well  to  the  unbelieving  Jtw 
and  GewtUe  as  to  the  spiritual  man?"  Alford, 
whom  the  professor  mentions  with  respect,  snys  : 
*<Tbe  masculine  rendering  of  irvcviiariKois  is 
dearly  wrong,  the  two  subjects  of  the  sentence 
being  the  things  reviaUd  (a)  and  the  uords  used 
in  speahing  them;  to  whicJi  two  the  two  adjj. 
must  naturally  refer,  avOponros  being  AtuweUment 
introduced  in  the  next  verse,"  Wesley  {Explanatory 
Notes\  to  my  yiew  the  best  rendering  of  all,  gives : 
'' Explaining  spiritual  things  by  spiritual  trorels" 
— in  strict  accordance  with  what  had  been  just 
said— ''which  things  we  also  speak,  not  in  the 
words  which  man's  wisdom  teacheth,  but  which 
the  Holy  Ghost  teacheth,  ovk  iv  BiSaKrois  dvOpia- 
vCvrjs  a'o<l>Las  Xoyots,  dkX.*  €v  8i8aKTOis  Tlv€V- 
fiaros  [ayiov]" 

I  have  already  made  allusion  to  Wesley's  Notes, 
and,  having  collated  a  good  part  of  his  renderings 
of  the  original  text  with  those  of  the  Authorized 
and  Revised  Versions,  should  have  been  glad  to 
have  placed  the  results,  had  they  been  deemed 
suitable,  in  the  hands  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
I  quite  believe,  however,  that  the  Editor  has 
exercised  a  wise  discretion  in  judging  them  not  to 
be  so.  He  will  permit  me,  however,  I  hope,  to 
say  that,  should  I  find  it  feasible  to  put  them 
forth  in  another  form,  I  feel  pretty  sure  that  not  a 
few  will  be  struck  no  less  forcibly  than  I  have 
been  with  the  remarkable  fact  that  one  man,  and 
a  man  so  fully  occupied  in  other  ways  as  Wesley 
was,  should  have  done  almost  as  much  in  the  work 
of  revision,  and  quite  as  well,  as  has  been  done  by 
the  whole  company  of  scholars  over  a  period  of 
something  like  a  decade  of  years. 

Edmund  Tsw,  M.A. 

The  Bibliographt  of  Sir  Francis  Drakk. — 
I  have  been  asked  several  times  about  the  life  of 
Drake,  and  the  authentic  records  of  his  history. 
Let  me  suggest  the  following  as,  so  far  as  I  know, 
including  the  more  important  of  the  works  on 
this  eminent  seaman  : — 

1.  Expeditio  Francisei  Drtcke  eqaitlB  angU  in  Indias 
OccideriUles,  anno  1585 :  Ij«yden,  1588. 

2.  True  and  Perfect  News  of the  Valiant  Knight 

Sir  Fr.  Drake.    1587. 

8.  Sir  F.  Drake :  bis  Honorable  Life.  FitzgefTrey, 
1596. 

4.  Le  Brye ;  Collection  det  Grands  Voyagei.    1599. 

5.  Voyage  of  Drake  into  the  South  Sea.     1600. 

6.  Le  Voyage  de  rillustre  Seignear  et  Chevalier  Sir 
F.  Drake.    1613  (Louvencourt). 

7.  The  World  Bncompassed  by  Sir  F.  Drake.    1626. 

8.  Sir  FranciB  Drake  revived.    1653. 

9.  Life  and  Dangfrous  Voyages  of  Sir  F.  Drake. 

10.  Prince'a  Worthies  of  Devon. 

11.  Purchaa^B  Pilgrimii. 

12.  Lediard'i  Naval  History. 
18.  Cieza'B  Cronica  del  Peru. 
14.  Stowe's  Annals. 


15.  Life  and  Death  of  Sir  F.  Drake.  By  Clarke.   1671. 

16.  The  English  Hero,  or  Sir  F.  Drake.    1687. 

17.  Leben  dea  englischen  HelUer  und  Ritter  F. 
Drake.    Leipzig,  1720. 

18.  The  fwrnoua  Vojafre  of  Sir  F.  Drake.    1741. 

19.  Life  of  Sir  F.  Diake.    By  Samuel  Johnson. 

20.  Drakes  Leben.    Halle,  1^15. 

21.  Life  of  Sir  F.  Drake.    1820. 

22.  Life.  Vojages,  and  Exploits  of  Sir  F.  Drake.  By 
Barrow,  1854. 

To  these  (most  of  whi6h  I  have  derived  from  a 
French  source,  t.e.,  M.  Chanter)  I  would  add 
Froude's  and  Bankers  History  of  England,  and 
Camden  on  Queen  Elizabeth.  The  literature  on 
Drake  is  tolerably  voluminoup,  and  in  most  of  the 
languages  of  Europe  there  has  been  some  book 
published  about  him.        W.  S.  Lach-Sztrha. 

"  AmTHUOi.OQT"--Ari(hmology  appears  to  be 
such  an  uncommon  word  that  I  trust  you  will  be 
able  to  find  a  comer  for  it  in  "  N.  &  Q."  I  am 
unable  to  find  it  in  the  various  ancient  and 
modem  dictionaries  which  I  have  searched.  I 
have,  bound  up  with  a  copy  of  Thomas  Phaer's 
metrical  translation  of  the  jEneid  (1573),  part  of 
another  book,  without  title-page  or  date,  headed 
Pilgrimage  of  Princes,  one  chapter  of  which  is 
devoted  to  ^*  certen  ethical  Arithmologies  drawne 
out  of  devine  and  prophane  auctorities."  The 
following  is  a  specimen  : — 

"  These  Hie  things  are  rare  seene :  A  faire^  young 
woman  without  lovers,  a  young  man  without  mirth,  an 
olde  usurer  without  money,  a  great  Faer  without 
theeves,  and  a  fat  Bame  without  mise.*' 

C.  L.  Princb. 

[For  "The  Pilarimage  of  Princes,"  see  "N.  &  Q.," 
5»h  S.  ?.  88, 194,  277,  434.] 

Japanbsb  Proverbs. — A  small  collection  of 
Japanese  proverbs  will  be  found  in  Prof.  Dixon's 
Land  of  the  Morning,  pp.  499-501.  The  selection 
is  made  '*  partly  from  a  paper  in  the  Chrysan- 
themum, by  the  Rev.  M.  C.  Harris,  partly  from  Sir 
E.  J.  Reed's  work  on  Japan,  and  partly  from 
information  kindly  given  me  by  a  Japanese 
friend.''  Prof.  Dixon,  unfortunately,  does  not 
specially  distinguish  those  received  directly  by 
himself.  At  p.  225  it  will  be  found  that  a  large 
sound  bush  at  a  shop  door  denotes  the  sale  within 
ofsoibs.  W.  G.  Black. 

"  Bull's  Milk." — The  following  extract  from  a 
lecture  delivered  in  New  York  by  Mr.  James 
Redpath,  on  the  6th  of  May  last,  may  introduce  a 
West  .of  Ireland  phrase  to  "  N.  &  Q."  I  clip  it 
from  a  stray  page  of  the  Irish  World  of  about 
that  date : — 

'*  There  was  a  woman  clad  in  the  most  unwomanly 
rags.  She  was  sitting  at  a  cradle  in  which  was  a  baby. 
Juit  near  the  cradle  was  an  iron  pot  that  was  full  of 
some  white  substance  that  looked  like  milk.  I  asked  her 
what  was  in  it,  and  she  said,  'Bull's  milk.*  'Bull's 
milk/  I  exclaimed,  turning  to  Father  0*MaIIey  for  an 
explanation.    *  Yes,'  he  said,  '  that  8    ha  t^bt^  911  it. 


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It  is  meal  mixed  with  water  and  allowed  to  ferment, 
and  they  use  it  for  "kitchen"  with  the  noUtoes.'  I 
aaked  to  taste  the  'buirs  milk';  and  when  I  did,  I  need 
an  emphatic  ezpretaion  that  Father  O'Malley  said  was 
not  in  the  doctrmea  of  the  Church." 

Jambs  Brittbn. 
laleworlh. 

The  Pbnnt  Post,  tekf.  JAa  II. — I  possess  a 
curious  collection  of  MS.  letters  written  by  an  Irish 
priest)  apparently  a  Jesuit,  to  James  II.,  informing 
him  of  the  state  of  Ireland.  In  one  of  these  letters 
there  occurs  an  early  illustration  of  this  phrase, 
now  so  familiar  to  our  ears.  I  send  the  heading 
of  the  letter  and  the  context.  They  are  all 
eyidently  priyate  copies,  preserved  by  the  writer 
of  this  correspondence  for  his  own  use  : — 
Tke  Copy  of  a  Letter  wU  to  the  King  80  Jan,  85,  vpon 
hit  conferring  the  Title  of  CowUeet  %p<m  Mrt.  ^AdUy" 

S'. — There  has  bin  always  an  extraordinary  privelege 
of  talking  freely  allowed  to  persons  in  Maskerade  and  I 
fancy  a  peny  poet  letter  man  is  a  kind  of  Maskerader 
and  may  be  aptlv  liken*d  when  he  writes  sincerely  to 
his  king  to  a  faythful  spie  abroad  that  makes  it  his  work 
to  discover  the  motions  of  the  enemie.    &c. 

I  may  add  that  in  the  rest  of  this  highly  interest- 
ing letter  the  worthy  writer  clearly  shows  James 
that  he  had  no  possible  objection  to  his  majesty's 
private  relations  with  Mrs.  "Adley,''  but  was 
utterly  shocked  at  his  oonferring  the  title  of 
countess  upon  a  Protestant  mistress. 

W.  Prazhr,  F.R.aS.1.,  MRI.A. 

The  Channel  Tunnel.— More  pertinent  still 
than  the  quotation  from  the  Vicar  of  Wakefield, 
ante,  p.  146,  is  one  pointed  out  by  the  St,  Jameses 
Gazette,  February  24,  where,  quoting  from  the 
''Bubbles  of  1825,"  printed  in  John  BuU  in 
185U^,  the  writer  gives  Theodore  Hook's  lines  as 
under,  which  I  think  you  may  like  to  embalm  in 
"N.&Q.":— 

"A  tonnel  underneath  the  sea  from  Oalais  straight  to 
Dover,  sir, 
That  qoalmish  folks  may  cross  by  land  from  shore 
to  shore. 
With  sluices  made  to  drown  the  French  if  e'er  they 
would  come  over,  sir, 
)       Has  long  been  talked  of,  till  at  length  'Us  thought  a 
monstrous  hare," 

Q.  B. 
Upton,  Slough. 

Barrt  Cornwall. — ^My  old  friend  the  late 
Mr.  Procter,  the  poet,  told  me  that  the  name 
Barry  Cornwall  was  made  out  of  the  letters  of  his 
real  name,  Bryan  Waller  Procter. 

Hbnrt  G.  Atkinson. 

4,  Qoai  de  la  Dooane,  Boulogne-sur-Mer. 

[Anagrams  were  once  very  common.  They  are  still 
frequently  used  by  gaessers  of  double  acrostics  for  nofnt 
deguerre.'] 

"Want  ways."— In  Essex  cross  roads  are 
called  "  want"  (or  rather  "  four-womt '^  ways,  and 
in  Kent "  went "  ways.    It  might  be  worth  while 


to  note,  if  readers  would  kindly  supply  the  in- 
formation, such  other  forms  of  ''  wind"  or  "  wend" 
as  may  be  in  like  use  in  other  parts  of  the  country. 
Henrt  Attwsll. 

Lausanne. 

rSee  "  Pour  went  ways,"  "  N.  k  Q.,"  6t»»  S.  xiL  7i,  118, 
188,  886.] 

The  New  English  Dictionart  of  the 
Philological  Sogibtt.— Quotations  (with  exact 
reference)  wanted  (7):  send  to  the  editor,  Dr. 
Murray,  Mill  Hill,  N.W.  A.  Instances  of  any 
date  of  anachronical,  anachronist,  anaclastic,  ana- 
cock,  anacoluthic,  anacrotic,  anadicrotic,  anadrom, 
ansBsthesiant,  ansBsthesimeter,  anagennesia,  ana- 
graph, analepsy,  analogousness,  anamnestic,  ana- 
morphose,  anandrious,  anandrous,  anangular,  anan- 
therate,  anantherous,  ananthous,  ananym,  ana- 
plastic, anastomosant,  anatocism,  anatropal,  an- 
berry.  B.  Quotations  before  the  date  annexed 
for  anacharis,  1855  (appeared  in  England  c.  1842), 
anachronic,  1807;  anachronism,  1650;  ana- 
chronize,  1870 ;  anachronous,  1866 ;  anaconda, 
1826 ;  ansBmic,  1845  ;  ansesthetic,  1845  ;  ana- 
gogue,  1851;  analogist,  1836;  analogue,  1816; 
analphabetic,  -al,  1876 ;  analyst,  1656  ;  analytic, 
1620;  anamorphouB,  1833;  anapsganized,  1831; 
anapnograph,  1870 ;  anaptotic,  1861 ;  anarchal, 
1846  ;  anarchial,  1651 ;  anarchic,  1790  ;  anarchic- 
ally,  1872  ;  anarthrous,  1879  ;  anastatic,  1865  ; 
anastomose,  1697;  anathema,  1581;  anatomy, 
1541 ;  anatopisra,  1812.  C.  Quotations  after  the 
date  annexed  for  anacephalize,  1701 ;  anachronic, 
1820 ;  anagnost,  1708  ;  anagraphy,  1606  ;  analyse, 
sb.,  1730 ;  anarchism,  1700 ;  anatical,  1671 ;  ana- 
tomization, 1700 ;  anatreptic,  1660 ;  anaxiom, 
1660 ;  ancell  (?  a  steel  yard),  1749. 


€iutriti. 
We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  Information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


An  Old  House  in  Leadenhall  Street.— In 
an  old  magazine  (1801)  I  find  an  ode  to  the  inha- 
bitant of  a  well-known  dirty  shop  in  Leadenhall 
Street,  with  an  engraving  of  said  shop.  The  open- 
ing lines  run  thus : — 

"  Who  but  has  seen  (if  he  can  see  at  all) 
'Twixt  Aldgate*s  well-known  pump  and  Leadenhall 
A  curious  hardware  shop,  in  general  full 
Of  wares  from  Birminitham  and  Pontipool  t 
Begrim'd  with  dirt,  behold  its  ample  front 
With  thirty  years'  collected  filth  upon't,*'  &o. 

In  a  foot-note  the  reader  is  informed  that  the  pro- 
prietor is  Nathaniel  Bentley,  son  of  one  of  that 
name,  who  died  about  1770,  and  that  he  is  "  one 
of  the  most  eccentric  characters  this  day  living.** 
It  appears  his  father  kept  his  carriage  and  lived  in 


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good  style,  and  did  not  neglect  his  son's  ednoation, 
as  we  are  informed  he  speaks  **  not  only  French, 
but  Italian  fluently.''  Prior  to  his  father's  death 
it  woald  appear  he  was  quite  a  man  of  fashion, 
and  that  "his  manners  bespeak  a  gentleman." 
Mr.  Bentley,  it  is  stated,  had  not  had  *'  a  female 
servant  for  more  than  twenty  years."  And  among 
other  particulars  given  it  is  mentioned  that  when 
any  of  -his  windows  were  broken  they  were  never 
mended  ;  that  on  a  gentleman  asking  him  why 
he  did  not  improve  his  personal  appearance,  &c., 
he  said  it  was  of  no  ase,  *'  If  I  wash  my  hands 
to-day  they  will  be  dirty  again  to-morrow,"  &c. 
What  were  the  particular  wares  got  from  Ponti- 
pool?  Does  any  reader  remember  "the  dirty 
warehouse  "  ?  Are  there  any  known  descendants 
of  Mr.  Bentley  living  ? 

Alfred  Chas.  Jonas. 
Swansea. 

Kino  Gharlbs's  Yision. — In  John  Ingle»ani 
there  is  a  notice  of  an  apparition  seen  by  King 
Charles,  and  of  the  attendant  circumstances. 
What  is  the  authority  for  such  an  appearance  of 
Strafford  to  King  Charles ;  and  wlutt  also  for 
its  concurrent  appearance  to  some  one  else^  inde- 
pendently of  information  £rom  the  king  1 

Ed.  m.Rfl&ALL. 

The  Prison  op  "  Pbtrrhousb." — I  find  in 
one  of  the  Calendars  of  State  Papers  that  in  1648 
Capt.  John  Randolph,  having  joined  in  the  Earl 
of  Holland*s  ''rebellion,"  was,  on  being  taken 
prisoner,  ''sentenced  by  Parliament  to  be  im- 
prisoned in  '  Peterhouse '  and  put  in  irons,"  and 
that  on  his  making  his  escape  and  being  re-cap- 
tured, the  order  was  repeated  in  more  severe 
terms.  Where  was  the  prison  of  Peterhouse  ? 
Edmund  Randolph. 

Kyde. 

NicHOLAUS  DE  IJppA,  6th  Richard  L — He  is 
mentioned  in  PlacUa  in  Damo  Capitulari  WetU 
mfmcuteriense.  Is  anything  known  about  him, 
his  ancestors,  or  his  descendants  ?  It  is  probable 
that  the  surname  of  Duppa  is  derived  from  de 
Uppa.  Hubert  Smith. 

Owen  Rowk,  the  Regicide.— Did  he  marry 
a  daughter  of  Thos.  Scot,  the  regicide  ! 

The  Families  of  Ballard  and  Herring. — 
Where  can  I  get  any  information  respecting  these 
families,  especially  as  regards  their  intermarriages 
with  the  Beckford  and  Scot  families? 

Constance  Russell. 

Swallowfield  Park,  Reading. 

Poplar  Trees.— In  North  Wiltshire  I  have 
Heard  it  stated  that  poplar  trees  act  as  lightning 
conductors.  Is  this  owing  to  the  shape  and  height 
to  which  the  poplar  grows,  or  is  it  an  inherent 
quality  in  the  tree  itself;  and  does  topping,  or 


making  it  into  a  pollard,  destroy  its  efficacy;  or  is 
the  supposition  only  "  folk-lore  "  ? 

Home  Farm. 

BiscoB  Family.—- A  small  quarto  MS.  in  the 
handwriting  of  Joseph  Seymour  Bisooe  was  sold 
about  three  years  ago  by  Mr.  James  Wilson,  of 
Bull  Street,  Birmingham,  bookseller.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  tell  me  where  this  MS.  now  is  1 

R.  Dayison. 

Si,  Norwich  Street,  Cambridge. 

James  Clarence  Mangan. — Was  there  ever 

?ublished  an  English  edition  of  this  poet's  works  ? 
should  be  glad  to  be  referred  to  any  work  con- 
taining further  particulars  than  those  published  in 
the  February  issue  of  Timley^  Magazine, 

T.  J.  Hates. 

"  RouGHa"— When  was  this  word  first  applied 
to  the  low  and  dangerous  class  ? 

Wm.  Frebloyb. 
Bury  St  Edmands. 

GRoncHMA8=CHRiSTMA8. — So  we  find  it  in 
Halliwell's  Dtct.,  where  Tusser  is  given  as  the 
authority.  On  consulting  the  glossary  to  Tusser's 
Five  Hundred  PoinU  (edition  1878,  E.D.S.),  I  find 
that  "crowchmas"  occurs  at  50:36,  with  the  side- 
note,  *'  Saint  Helen's  daie."  The  feast  referred  to 
is,  of  course,  May  3,  the  Invention  of  the  Holy 
Gross.  In  Palsgrave,  p.  804,  there  occurs  '^At 
Crowchmesse,  a  h  saincte  Croyx"  (see  also  p.  811). 

A.  L.  Mathew. 

Oxford. 

"The  Lilt  of  St.  Leonards."— I  should  be 
very  much  obliged  to  any  one  who  would  give  me 
the  names  of  the  writer  and  composer  of  this  song, 
and,  if  not  too  long,  a  copy  of  the  words.  It  was 
published  in  London  about  thirty  years  ago. 

Edward  H  Marshall,  M.A. 

Library,  Olaremont,  Hastings. 

A  Goat  of  Arms. — Gan  any  one  name  the 
owner  of  the  following  coat  of  arms?  I  must 
premise  that  it  is  on  a  small  old-fashioned  seal 
(of,  I  should  think,  the  early  part  of  this  century), 
and  there  are  no  tinctures.  On  a  chevron 
between  three  leopards'  heads,  three  pheons.  It 
came  into  my  possession  through  tbe  Wilson 
family  of  Kendal,  but  I  cannot  trace  any  con- 
nexion. Joseph  Braithwaite. 

[If  the  blaxon  has  been  rightly  deciphered,  the  coat 
does  not  occur  in  Papwortb'i  Ordinary,  i.v.  **  Chevron,'* 
and  yre  do  not  find  it  t,v.  "  Wilson  "  in  Isarke's  Oratory.] 

Thb  late  T.  Purland,  Ph.D,,  M.A.,  &c.— 
Gan  any  of  your  readers  furnish  me  with  some 
particulars  regarding  his  life?  He  was  a  great 
literary  collector  and  antiquary,  and  numbered 
among  his  many  friends  the  late  W.  Upcott, 
J.  J.  Fillinham,  Thomas  Wright^  Boach  Smith, 


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and  Mr.  Fairholt.  What  has  become  of  his 
library  and  collections  relating  to  places  of  amuse- 
ment, &a;  partioalarly  the  recollections  of  Vaax- 
htdl  Gardens  from  1814  to  its  close  in  1859,  which 
he  wrote?  J.  B.  D. 

"  RuoLEN  "  Marriaoks.— The  late  Dr.  Doran, 
in  his  recently  published  work  In  and  ah&ui 
DrvLvy  Lane,  says : — 

"A  couple  of  centuries  ago  an  Act  of  Parliament 
Tinted  clandeftine  marriagee  (that  is,  without  banns) 
with  heaTj  penalties  and  imprisoament,  bat  it  did  not 
iuTalidate  the  marriage  itself.  The  Rutherglen  Justices 
broke  the  law,  while  professing  to  maintain  it,  made 
money  thereby,  and  gare  special  delight  to  the  lasses. 
For  example,  a  lad  and  lass  wish  to  be  quietly  married ; 
they  got  a  friend  to  denounce  them  to  a  'Buglen 
Magistrate '  for  having  broken  the  law.  The  offenders 
were  summoned  before  him;  they  of  course  acknow- 
ledged, in  the  presence  of  the  Court,  that  they  were  man 
and  wife,  which  acknowledgment  made  them  so  legally. 
l!hey  were  fined  6*.,  and  were  given  a  copy  of  the  sen- 
tence, which  they  signed,  and  this  was  uniyersally  taken 
«8  a  legal  certificate  to  the  union.  Other  magistrates 
followed  this  lucrative  business.  When  they  told  the 
young  offenders  that  as  to  the  statute  penalty  of  three 
months'  imprisonment  the  Court  would  take  time  to 
consider,  the  lad,  lass,  Court,  and  assistants  all  laughed 
aloud,  and  the  Ruglen  marriage  was  a  legal  one." 

What  other  magistrates  adopted  this  method  of 
increasing  the  fees  of  the  coart';  and  did  the 
practice  become  common  1 

EvERARD  Home  Colxkan. 
71,  Brecknock  Boad,  N. 

"The  Prkcepts  of  Cato,"  1560.— 
''The  Precepts  of  Cato;  or,  the  Wise  and  Prudent 
Sayings  of  the  Seven  Wise  Men.    With  annotations  by 
D.  Erasmus,  of  Botterdam.     Printed  by  Th.  Tysdale 
in  1660." 

Last  Easter  I  was  given,  as  apparently  worthless, 
a  small  black-letter  book,  4  in.  by  2  in«,  which  on 
inyestigation  was  discoyered  to  be  a  copy  of  the 
aboTe.  The  title-page  is  anfortunately  missing. 
The  signature  goes  through  the  alphabet  to  oo. 
There  is  a  tradition  in  the  family  that  it  belonged 
to  Sir  J.  Cheke.  I  should  be  glad  of  any  in- 
formation as  to  its  yalue.  S.  G.  Wbston. 

The  Green  Hall,  Stafford. 

y  CocK-A-DoBBT."— A  hill  near  Sandhurst  has 
this  name  from  fSur-off  days.  Will  any  reader  of 
^*N.  &  Q."  help  me  to  find  the  meaning  of  it? 
At  its  base  runs  a  dry  ditch  (called  Hart's  Leap) 
which  is  the  boundary  line  of  the  old  Windsor 
Ohase.  In  PeverU  of  the  Peak  a  place  is  called 
^*Dobby'8  Walk/'  and  a  note  says  '*  Dotiby  is  an 
old  English  name  for  goblin."     W.  F.  Hobsok. 

Father  Lobo's  "  Abyssiiiia."— Can  any  reader 
of  "N.  &  Q."  give  me  authentic  eyidence  of 
the  existence  or  non-existence  of  a  Portuguese 
odition  of  Father  Jerome  Lobo's  History  of 
Abytiiniaf  published  during  or  soon  after  Lobo's 
lifetime  ?  J.  S.  K. 


Authors  of  Books  Wanted. — 

The  Living  and  (ke  Dead.  By  a  Country  Curate. 
Second  Edition.  London,  Henry  Colbum,  New  Bur- 
lington Street,  1828.— I  shall  be  glad  to  know  the  name 
of  the  author,  and  when  the  first  edition  was  published. 

Cpl. 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted. — 

''  Verse  sweetens  toil,  however  rude  the  sound,"  &e. 
This  line  and  three  others,  quoted  from  memory  by  Dr. 
Johnson  as  composed  *'  by  one  Oiffard,  a  clergyman," 
could  not  be  traced  by  Boswell,  nor  by  his  annotator 
Malone.  Bohn,  in  his  Dictionary  of  Quotations  from  the 
Bnglitk  PoetSf  assigns  them  to  a  poem  by  Gifford, 
entitled  Contemplation,  When  and  wnere  was  this  pub- 
lished 1  Jatdsx. 


"SIR  JOHN  CHIVBETON." 
(6«»»  S.  T.  126.) 
Alpha's  statement,  foanded  npon  the  letter  of 
Mr.  J.  P.  Aston  to  the  Titnes,  concerning  the 
authorship  of  Sir  John  Chiverion,  only  presents 
one  authority  on  the  question.  In  recently  pre- 
paring a  monograph  on  the  early  life  of  Mr. 
Harrison  Ainsworth,  I  have  had  occasion  to  make 
a  dose  investigation  into  the  real  authorship  of 
the  romance  in  question.  The  results  are  these. 
For  nearly  forty  years  the  authorship  had  been 
publicly  attributed  to  Ainsworth,  without  an^ 
public  denial  upon  the  part  of  Mr.  Aston  until 
a  week  after  the  novelist's  death.  I  believe,  how- 
ever, that  prior  to  this  Mr.  Aston  had  made 
privately  some  claim  npon  the  authorship,  and, 
in  order  to  test  that  claim,  Mr.  James  Crossley, 
the  President  of  the  Chetham  Society,  submitted 
a  proof  to  Ainsworth  of  a  passage  in  the  Man- 
cheeter  School  Register  (vol.  iii.  pt.  L  pp.  112-13) 
which  relates  to  Mr.  Aston.  The  proof  originally 
stood  :  '*  In  early  professional  life  Mr.  Aston  was 
not  unknown  as  an  monymous  contributor  to  the 
popular  annuals  and  periodicals  both  in  prose  and 
verse.  One  work,  a  romance  entitled  Sir  John 
ChivertoHf  deserves  especial  mention  as  being 
referred  to  by  Sir  Walter  Scott,"  &o.  In  sending 
the  proof  in  question  Mr.  Crossley  asked  Ains- 
worth to  make  any  necessary  corrections  before 
finally  going  to  press,  as  he  (Mr.  0.)  felt  a  per- 
sonal interest  in  having  the  question  satisfactorily 
settled.  The  proof  was  returned,  and  in  the  sen- 
tence beginning,  '^  One  work,  a  romance  entitled 
Sir  John  Chiwrton,"  Ainsworth  interpolated,  in 
his  own  handwriting,  the  very  explicit  words, 
"written  in  collaboration  with  Mr.  Harrison 
Ainsworth."  Further,  with  the  corrected  proof 
Mr.  Crossley  received  a  letter  in  which,  referring 
to  the  authorship  of  Sir  John  Chiverton,  the 
novelist  remarked  to  the  effect  that  he  had  now 
made  that  matter  right.  I  may  add  that  this 
statement  appeared  a  month  ago  in  an  extensively 
circukted  and  well-known  Mandhestergpumal, 
)igitized  by  VjOCJ*^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6<ii  B.  y.  Ma&.  i,  '82. 


and  np  to  the  present  date  its  accaracy  lemaixiB 
anqnestioned. 

I  have  no  desire  to  extend  this  noto,  but  I  may 
be  permitted  to  remark  that  the  above-named 
private  notification  by  Mr.  AjEiton  that  he  was  the 
author  of  the  romance  was  communicated  by  that 
gentleman  to  Intr.  0.  W.  Sutton,  Chief  Librarian 
of  the  Manchester  Free  Libraries,  in  a  letter  dated 
Not.  13,  1877.  In  that  letter  Mr.  Aston  re- 
marked, ''Mr.  Ainsworth  never  wrote  a  line  of 
Sir  John  CMverUniy  for  which  I  am  solely  respon- 
sible." Referring  to  the  ''sole  responsibihty " 
chdmed  by  Mr.  Aston,  I  find  the  following  note, 
in  the  handwriting  of  the  President  of  the  Chet- 
ham  Society,  on  the  fly-leaf  of  the  copy  of  Sir 
John  ChiverUm  in  Ohetham's  Library  in  this  city  : 

"This  work  has  been  generally  ascribed  to  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Harriion  Ainsworth,  but  in  a  letter  written  b^.  Mr. 
John  Partington  Aaton  to  Mr.  Sutton,  author  of  a  Litl  of 
Laneathire  Avthorgf  and  which  was  read  at  the  Man- 
ohester  Literaiy  Club  two  or  three  weeks  ago,  Mr.  Aston 
elaims  the  entire  property  of  the  book,  for  which  he 
fays  he  is  solely  responsible.  In  cases  of  disputed 
ownership  it  is  always  aesirable  to  be  perfectly  acoorate 
in  making  a  claim,  and  in  order  to  be  correct  to  the 
letter  he  ought  to  hare  excepted  the  lines  placed  oppo- 
site to  the  commencement  of  the  romance, '  £ustace,  sc.,' 
which  I  supplied  Mr.  W.  H.  Ainsworth  with  at  his 
request,  as  a  motto  for  the  tale.  Mr.  Ainsworth,  whether 
the  owner  or  not,  evidently  took  great  interest  in  the 
work,  of  which  his  father-in-law,  Mr.  Bbers,  was  even- 
tually the  publisher.— J  AS.  Gbossuy.    15  March,  1877." 

These  plain  facts  oaght  to  cany  some  weight 
with  them.  In  conclusion  I  may  add,  in  regard 
to  Mr.  Aston's  "  sole  responsibility,"  that  the  very 
beaatifol  poetical  dedication  of  Sir  John  Chiver- 
tony  which  is  infinitely  superior  to  any  other  part 

of  the  contents  of  the  volume,  addressed  "To " 

(Miss  Ebers),  was  undoubtedly  the  production  of 
Ainsworth,  who  at  the  time  was  deeply  in  the 
meshes  of  love  with  the  beautiful  daughter  of  his 
future  father-in-law,  Mr.  John  Ebeis,  the  then 
well-known  publisher  of  Old  Bond  Street  and 
lessee  of  His  Majesty's  Theatre.    John  Evans. 

Manchester. 


"AuLD  Robin  Gray"  (6**  S.  v.  145).— Al- 
though M.  H.  R.  complains  of  the  "confusion 
worse  confounded  ^  which  the  writer  of  an  article 
in  TtmpU  Bar  has  created  by  his  article  about 
the  ballad  of  "  Auld  Robin  Gray,"  he  will,  I  hope, 
excuse  me  for  remarking  that  his  own  explanation 
on  the  subject  is  somewhat  confused.  His  words 
seem  to  imply  that  the  song  became  popular 
throughout  the  world  only  after  Mins  Stephens 
sang  It  to  a  tune  composed  by  the  Rev.  Henry 
Leeves..  I  can  assure  M.  H.  R.  that  the  song 
was  "iftjpular"  in  Scotland,  and,  I  doubt  not,  in 
English  colonies  (which  I  presume  is  the  mean- 
ing of  M.  H.  R.'s  "throughout  the  world"), 
bttoxe  Miss  Stephens  sang  it  I  had  heard  it 
■ung  to  the  old  tune  many  times  before  Miss 


Stephens's  first  appearance  on  the  stage,  which  I 
had  the  pleasure  of  witnessing,  about  1812  or 
1813,  I  think.  The  history  of  the  ballad  is  so 
succinctly  given  in  a  note  to  the  Songz  of  Eng^ 
land,  published  in  1835,  that  I  venture  to  tran- 
scribe it: — 

"  This  tender  song  was  composed  about  the  year  1772 
by  Lady  Ann  Lindsay,  daughter  to  the  Earl  of  Balcarras, 
at  a  time  when  she  was  melancholy  and  amusing  herself 
by  writing  a  few  poetical  trifles.  It  came  first  before 
the  world  as  a  production  of  olden  times,  and  even  some 
of  its  admirers  were  forward  enough  to  ascribe  it  to 
David  Rizzio,  and  had  it  sune  before  the  loTely  Mary 

Queen  of  Scots In  1828  Lady  Ann  Lindsay,  then 

Lady  Barnard,  acknowledged  the  authorship  in  a  letter 
to  Sir  Walter  Scott." 

C.  Ross. 

Sir  Alexander  Leslie,  of  Baloonie,  Kmioht, 
General  of  the  Scottish  Armt  (6**»  S.  v.  27, 
112). — There  is  no  mistake  in  the  year,  clearly 
written  '^  1691,"  in  the  furlough  to  Gapt.  Stirling. 
I  satisfied  myself  of  this  by  personal  inspection 
and  the  opinion  of  the  officers  of  the  Public 
Records.  I  was  much  struck  by  this  date,  being 
aware  of  the  celebrated  Fieldmarshal  Alexander 
Leslie,  who  "bearded  the  grim  Walleostein  afc 
Stralsund,"  according  to  Garlyle,  and  led  the 
Scots  at  Marston  Moor.  Yet  I  thought  there 
might  have  been  a  later  Sir  Alexander— perhaps  a 
natural  son  of  his  or  of  Gen.  David  Leslie — com- 
manding  a  Scottish  army  watehing  the  north  uf 
England  in  1691,  when  William  IIL  was  abroad, 
and  his  troops  in  Ireland  fighting  with  those  of 
James  IL  But  the  silence  of  the  records  as  to 
any  such  man  appears,  as  Mr.  Garmichasi* 
shows,  to  prove  his  non-existence.  The  signature, 
in  a  bold,  upright  hand,  with  half  a  dozen  dashes 
at  the  end,  would  settle  the  point,  if  one  could 
compare  it  with  another.  But  the  letters  (there 
are  only  two)  of  Fieldmarshal  Leslie  in  the 
Calendar  of  Domeitic  StaU  Paperi  (by  Mr.  W.  D. 
Hamilton)  for  1639-40  are  mere  copies.  Th^ 
character  of  the  document,  written  by  a  secretary, 
seems  earlier  than  1691,  and  tallies  noore  with 
what  must  be  the  real  date,  1641.  There  was 
also  then  a  Mungo  Stirling,  younger  of  Glorat, 
afterwards  knighted,  to  whom  the  pass  would 
apply.  He  was  taken  prisoner  at  Philiphaugh  in 
1645,  along  with  Sir  George  Stirling  of  Keir,  and 
young  Graigbamet,  also  a  Stirling.  There  are 
some  interesting  notices  of  the  old  Fieldmarshal 
in  these  Galendars.  He  was  taken  prisoner  by  one 
of  Monk's  officers  at  Alyth,  not  far  horn  Dundee, 
and  sent  to  the  Tower,  about  the  time  of  the 
battle  of  Worcester;  was  released  on  parole  and 
allowed  to  remain  at  Seaton-Delaval,  in  Northum- 
berland, and  afterwards  to  come  to  London  and 
petition  for  his  estates,  probably  confiscated.  The 
last  notice  of  him  is  March  28, 1664,  still  petition- 
ing the  Gouncil  of  State.  He  must  have  died 
about  this  latter  date,  and  ''(i^^^fiBA^lQiu^lyl® 


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says,  *'  ander  his  stone  of  honour  in  the  kirk  of 
his  native  Balg^onie"— a  peaceful  end  for  a 
soldier  of  the  Thirty  Years'  War.  J.  Bain. 

St.  Makoarbt*8  Churchtard,  Westminstbr 
(&^  S.  V.  128).--There  stands  in  this  area,  which 
is  now  undergoing  a  most  agreeable  transforma- 
tion from  a  stony  burying-ground  to  a  verdant 
garth,  pertaining  to  the  abbey  and  the  churoh, 
the  tomb  to  which  T.  W.  W.  IS.  refers  as  bearing 
the  name  of  Tregonwell.  The  following  are  the 
two  inscriptions  thereon  :— 

Here  lyeth  interred  the  Body  of 

Alexander  Dm  vis 

of  Bbary  in  the  Goanty  of  Middlesex  Esquire 

who  dj'ed  July  2^  Anno  Domini  1665 

JSUtis  sun  80 

Here  also  lyeth  Mary  Tregonwell 

Wife  first  of  y"  said  Alexander  Davis 

afterwards  of  John  Tregonwell  of  Dorset,  Esq. 

and  Daughter  of  Ricbaid  Dukeson,  D.D. 

She  was  a  Lftdy  of  Exemplary  Piety  and  Charity 

and  dyed  universally  lamented 

on  the  eleventh  day  of  July,  1717 

Aged  75  Years. 

The  tomb  is  a  low  one,  of  common  stone,  covered 
with  a  thick  moulded  slab  of  black  marble  in- 
scribed as  above.  It  is  surrounded  by  an  iron 
railing,  and  is  always  well  cared  for  by  the 
Grosvenor  family,  «.e.,  by  the  Duke  of  west- 
minster. 

"Sir  Thomas  Grosvenor,  3"*  Baronet,  married  Mary, 
the  only  daughter  and  heiress  of  Alexander  Davies,  of 
Ebury,  co.  Middlesex,  by  which  alliance  the  Orosvenor 
Family  acquired  their  great  estates  in  London  and  its 
vioinity.  Sir  Thomas  died  1700."— Burke's  Peerage, 
The  tomb  has  always  stood  alone,  all  the  others 
being  flat  gravestones.  This  privilege  has  been 
given  because  it  stands  close  against  the  boundary, 
and  so  it  is  out  of  the  way ;  also  because  it  has 
ever  been  kept  in  good  repair  by  an  owner  of 
ancient  name  and  title.    Am  Old  Inhabitant. 

Shifton  of  Ltth  Hall,  co.  York  (6**»  S.  iv. 
369).— Thomas  Dove,  of  Whitley  and  Cullerooats, 


Gent.,  who  built  a  quaint  gable-ended  mansion 
house  in  Cullercoats  in  1682,  married  Elizabeth, 
danehter  of  Bichard  Shipton,  of  Lyth,  co.  York, 
settlements  on  marriage  being  dated  1691,  her 

S>rtion  being  200/.,  and  Ralph  Hedworth,  of 
hester  Deanery,  co.  Durham,  being  one  of  the 
trustees.  This  mansion  house  is  now  surrounded 
by  buildings,  and  has  the  initials  "  T.  &  E.  D."  on 
a  gable,  and  the  date  1682  roughly  cut  on  a 
wooden  door-head.  This  house  was  sold  by  John 
Dove,  the  son  and  heir,  who  was  frequently  de- 
scribed as  of  Wapping,  in  1706,  -  who  married 
Sarah,  one  of  the  four  daughters  and  coheiresses 
of  Enoch  Hudson,  of  Brunton,  co.  Northumberland, 
Gent.,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter  Eleanor,  who, 
marrying  the  Bev.  Gurwen  Hudleston,  carried  the 
estates  into  that  family,  in  which  they  are  now 
vested. 

Thomas  Dove  was  son  and  heir  of  John  Dove, 
of  Whitley,  Gent,  who  appears  to  have  been  at 
that  time  proprietor  of  neariy  the  whole  township 
of  Cullercoats,  by  one  of  his  wives ;  by  another  he 
had  an  only  daughter,  heiress  of  a  considerable 
fortune,  who  married  Henry  Hudson,  of  Whitley, 
Esq.,  and  on  whose  marriage  several  settlements 
were  made  about  1690,  both  of  her  property  and 
also  of  lands  belonging  to  her  husband  by  his 
father  joining  in  such  settlements.  This  Henry 
Hudson  was  younger  son  of  Henry  Hudson,  senr., 
of  Newbiggen,  Northumberland,  Gent.,  and  bro- 
ther to  the  Enoch  Hudson  before  mentioned  as  of 
Brunton. 

The  mother  of  Henry  Hudson's  bride,  the 
heiress  above  mentioned,  was  Hannah  Lascelles, 
sister  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Bichard  Shipton,  above 
mentioned.  They  had  a  brother,  Mr.  Daniel 
Lascelles,  of  Stank,  co.  York,  who  was  ancestor  of 
the  Earl  of  Harewood. 

I  have  a  good  deal  of  information  about  the 
Hudson  famUy,  as  also  about  the  Doves,  and 
should  be  glad  if  your  correspondent  could  carry 
the  pedigree  further  back.    I  commence  with 


s=Henry  Hudson,  the  elder,  of  New-s 
I         biggen,  Gent.    Will  1700. 


Enoch  Hudson,  huried  io 
Sidgate,  NewoasUe,  1715. 


Bath=:Beynold  Hall, 
I  of  Otterburn, 


,  dau.  of  W.  Hutohiuson, 

Alderman,  of  l^ewcaatle. 


Henry  Hudson,  the  younger,  of^aSarah 
Whitley,  Northumberland,  Esq.    Doto. 


I. 


Sarah:=W.  Hicks,  of  Whit<>. 
haren,  High  Sheriff 
of  Cumberknd,  i,p. 


MaryssJohn 
1  Dove. 


Bev.  OurwensEleanor. 
Hudleston.    | 


"  Aroo,"  bt  Alexander,  Earl  or  Crawford 
AVD  Balcarrbs  (6^  8.  iv.  613).— There  are  plenty 
of  references  for  the  fact  that  the  Ai^o  was  made 


HannahssBob.  Ellison, 
I  Bsq.,  of  Ot- 
terburn. 


EHzabethsHenry  Hudson,  of 
Whitoley. 

W.  Adaiison. 


with  wood  from  Dodona;  but  perhap  the  query  of 
Mr.  Tbbobald  is  most  exactly  met  by  ApoUodorps 
(Bibl^  i.  9,  16,  p.  49) :    Karo  8i    r^v   wptap^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6»fc8.V.MAB.4/8 


cvnp/AOGrcv  Adr)vd  (fxavijev  <t>rfyov  Ttjs  A(i)8covi8os 
^vAov,  In  the  Argonautics  of  Orpheus  there  is 
Bimilarly : — 

A17  TOT*  €iri^po/A€ovo-a  Tofiapias  tKXvn  <f>yy6^, 
Hv  ol  inroTpoTrlrjv  "Apyos  ^€T0  vrjl  fuKaivQ 
JlaWdSos  kvv€<rvna'i.v, 

Vf.  264-6,  p.  48,  Lips.,  1764. 
There  is  a  similar  reference  to  the  structure  at 
line  1154.  Tomarian  in  this  extract  is  the  same  as 
Dodonean.  The  effect  of  this  construction  may  be 
expressed  in  the  lines  of  Glaudian,  Dt  Bdlo  Qetico 
(xxvL  17-19,  p.  404,  Lips.,  1769):— 

''Neo  nemoris  tantum  janzisge  carentia  senia 
Bobon,  ied  caeso  Tmarii  Jovis  augure  luco, 
Arbore  prsMaga  tabulat  animasse  loquaces." 

£0.  Marshall. 

King  Oahutb  (6*^  S.  t.  9).— If  the  word  parri- 
cide  is  here  used  in  its  primary  sense  of  killing 
one's  father,  there  seems  not  the  slightest  reason 
for  applying  it  to  Cnut.  So  far  as  I  know,  no 
chronicler,  ancient  or  modem,  has  attributed 
Swegen's  mysterious  death  to  his  son's  instru- 
mentality. No  mention  is  made  of  such  a  charge 
in  Lappenberg's  AngkhSaaoM  nor  in  Mr.  Free- 
man's Old  Englith  History.  E.  H.  M. 

An  Act  op  Parliamsmt  PROHiBiTiNa  the 
Clsrgy  from  waaring  Fur  Capes  or  Tippets 
(6«»  S.  iT.  637). -The  Act  of  Henry  VIII.  is  one  of 
the  Acts  which  regnkte  the  apparel  of  the  clergy 
in  this  respect,  as  a  sumptuaiy  law  enacted  for 
their  benefit.    In  11  Ed.  III.  cap.  4— 

'*  It  is  accorded,  that  no  man,  nor  woman,  the  king, 
^neen,  and  people  of  holy  churcb  which  may  expend  by 
year  an  C.  lib.  of  their  benefices  at  the  least  to  ue  very 
yalue  onlv  except,  eball  wear  no  furre  on  his  clothes 
upon  the  forfeiture  of  the  said  furre,  and  further  to  be 
punished  at  the  king's  wiiL" 

In  37  Ed.  III.  cap  13,  there  is,— 

*'  That  clerks  which  hare  degree  in  any  church,  cathe- 
dral, kc,  that  hath  such  estate  that  requireth  furre, 
shall  do  and  use  according  to  the  constitution  of  the 
same.  And  all  other  clerks  which  hare  ii.  0.  markes  of 
land  by  years,  shall  wear  and  do  as  knights  of  the  same 

rent and  that  all  these  as  well   knights  as  clerks, 

which  by  this  ordinance  may  wear /arr«  in  the  winter, 
tn  the  same  manner  shall  wear  liding  in  the  suomier." 
Then  comes  the  Act  of  24  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  13, 
entitled,  "An  Act  for  Reformation  in  Excess  of 
Apparel,"  at  sect,  15  of  which  there  is,  after  pro- 
vision for  the  dress  of  the  higher  clergy  : — 

"And  that  none  of  the  clergy  under  the  degrees  afore- 
nid  wear  any  manner  of  furree  other  than  bUck  conie, 
budge,  gray  conie,  shanks,  calaber  gray,  fich,  fox,  lamb, 
otter,  and  beayer." 

It  is  the  prohibition  of  expensive  furs,  not  simply 
of  furs,  which  the  Act  provides  for.  The  Acts 
against  excess  of  apparel  were  repealed  by  1  James, 
c«  25.  Ed.  Marshall. 

Numismatic  (6^  S.  v.  9).— The  small  round 
atamp  of  a  lion  walking  west  with  a  Spanish 


legend  encircling  it,  struck  upon  a  sixpence,  was 
referred  to  some  little  time  ago  in  one  of  the  issues 
of  the  Berliner  Munz  BldiUr  as  Noth-Milnzen,  or 
money  of  necessity,  struck  by  the  Republic  of 
Costa  Rica.  The  legend  runs  as  follows,  ^  Habi- 
litada  por  el  gobiemo,"  and  literally  signifies 
qualified,  or  made  fit  for  the  Government.  After 
1848  Costa  Rica  became  separately  independent, 
and  free  from  dependence  upon  the  neighbouring 
republics.  English  shillings  and  sixpences  are 
not  unfrequently  met  with  stamped  in  the  manner 
described,  and  the  time  of  issue  may  be  taken, 
therefore,  as  being  since  1848 ;  they  are  made  to 
serve  as  two  real  and  one  real  pieces,  and  '*  money 
of  convenience  "  would  be  a  better  designation  for 
them  than  "  money  of  necessity." 

W.  S.  Churchill. 
Manchester. 

The  Yardlbts  of  Ekgland  (6**  S.  t.  27). — 
Tardley,  in  Hertfordshire,  is  a  corruption  of 
Ardeley,  arising  from  the  common  folk  using  y 
as  an  affix,  e,g.^  yapron  for  "apron."  The  parish 
yestry,  about  1846,  agreed  to  readopt  the  name  of 
Ardeley,  and  in  the  Ordnance  Survey  maps  it  is 
thus  spelt.  In  Chauncey's  Hittory  of  Hertford- 
ehire^  voL  i.  p.  5,  speaking  of  this  parish,  he  says  : 

"Ardeleage,  Ardeley,  Erdeley,  Yardeley.  It  was  part 
of  the  revenue  of  the  Saxon  Kings,  and  Athelstane,  a 
famous  Prince,  gave  eight  houses  with  Luffenhall  in  this 
Vill  by  the  name  of  Ardaleage  to  the  church  of  St.  Paul, 
London,  by  grant  made  in  the  Common  Council  of  Eng- 
land. This  Vill  was  called  Ardeleage  in  this  grant 
from  the  situation  of  the  Church  and  the  Service  of  the 
inhabitants,  who  are  for  the  most  part  bond  Tenants  to 
the  King—for  the  word  Ar  or  Arde  signifies  in  the 
British  and  Saxon  language  the  same  with  Super  or 
Altui  in  the  Latin,  and  Lay  with  Terra  and  Age  the 
service  of  bondmen ;  for  the  Church  is  built  upon  high 
ground,  and  most  of  the  inhabitants  still  remain  Copy- 
holders." 

So  far  as  Hertfordshire  is  concerned,  I  hope  this 
will  be  satisfactory  to  G.  E.  Y. 

Harold  Malet,  Lieut-Col.  18th  Hussars. 

"Thb  Task"  op  a  Parish  (fi^  S.  v.  27).— 
Old-fashioned  readers  must  often  in  the  present 
day  feel  surprised  to  find  words  which  were  in 
their  youth  used  by  every  Englishman  discussed 
by  the  curious  as  obsolete  archaisms.  For  example, 
"  fend  "  and  "  lap,"  which  are,  of  course,  in  Walker's, 
and  probably  in  every  other  modern,  dictionary. 
Why  should  we  have  to  look  back  to  Burton's 
Anatomy  for  "lap,"  when  every  workman  and 
woman  speaks  of  edges— as  of  cloth,  lead,  or  pie- 
crust— as  "lapping"  over,  and  when  "lappets," 
feathers,  and  diamonds  are  always  indispensable 
at  court  drawing-rooms?  The  ''king's  task"  is 
clearly  synonymous  with  king's  taxes. 

Calccttensis. 

Excommunication  and  Cursing  (6*^  S.  v.  43). 
—The  archbishops  5|{jti|^|^  <^^^  <^u>^  "  better  " 


a>kS.V.MAS.i.'82.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


173 


«ven  than  the  Spanish  bishops.  I  shall  print  a 
very  grand  form,  directed  against  those  who  in- 
vaded the  liberty  of  St.  Wilfrid,  in  the  second 
▼olume  of  the  MemoriaU  of  JRipon,  which  I  am 
editing  for  the  Surtees  Society.  For  other  forms 
see  York  Manual  (Surtees  Soc.,  toL  IxiiL),  pp.  86, 
119,  xyI;  Registr.  Aberdon,  (Spalding Glab),  vol.  ii. 
pp.  31,  36,  and  on  the  subject  generally  Lyndwood, 
lib.  V.  tit.  17. 


J.  T.  F. 


Bp.  Hatfield's  Hall,  Durham. 


FRrt  "Pantooraphia"  (6*^  S.  v.  27).— There 
eeems  to  have  been  only  one  edition  ever  pub- 
lished of  this  book.  Lowndes's  Manual  (1864)  and 
the  Bodleian  Catalogue  (1843)  only  mention  the 
•edition  of  1799.  Nor  has  there  been  any  reprint, 
if  Hodgson's  London  Catalogue  of  Books  publithed 
in  Great  Britain  1816-1851,  and  Low's  English 
Catalogue,  1835-1880,  are  to  be  trusted. 

G.  F.  R  B. 

No  recent  reprint  of  this  work  appears  to  exist. 
I  have  an  interleaved  copy  of  it,  without  title-page, 
before  me,  having  been  printed,  I  presume,  in  1799, 
which  contains  many  corrections,  in  MS.,  of  the 
printed  text.  If  Mr.  Doran  wants  a  more  recent 
4ind  trustworthy  manual,  comprising  the  alphabets 
and  specimens  of  every  language,  he  should  secure 
a  copy  of  Faulmann's  Illustrirte  Oeschichte  der 
Scknft  (Wien,  Hartlebcn,  1880,  8vo.),  which  can 
be  had  at  the  marvellously  low  price  of  12<. 

H.  Krbbs. 

Oxford. 

Bhymelbss  Words  (6*  S.  v.  46).—- Among  the 
«ixteen  words  quoted  by  Mr.  J.  Brander 
Matthews  as  having  no  rhyme  are  rhomb  and 
«oar/.  To  the  former  both  homh  and  ac-eomb 
are  pure  rhymes.  To  the  latter  there  is  no 
word  that  rhymes  both  phonetically  and  ortho- 
graphically;  but  wharf  and  dteof/ would  be  clearly 
admissible  in  any  versification ;  and  laughy  chaff, 
^aff,  half  calf  though  not  poetic  rhymes,  are  in 
consonance  with  scarf  F.  W.  Tonkik. 

Albion  Chambers,  Bristol. 

Charles  IL's  Hiding  Places  (6^  S.  iv.  207. 
498,  622  ;  v.  28,  73).— There  is  an  engraving  of 
Moseley  flail  at  p.  101  of  the  BosceSel  Tracts, 
published  1857,  and  the  editor  remarks,  ^*  There 
is  an  air  of  seclusion  and  weather-beaten  respecta- 
bility about  Moseley  Hall  redolent  of  jack- boot 
and  bandolier,  sack  and  buff  belt  (and  wanting 
nothing  but  the  moat),  which  would  strike  an 
imag^inative  traveller  at  first  glance."  A  work 
published  with  illustrations  in  1867,  entitled 
Charles  the  Second,  an  Historical  Drama,  in  five 
actSy  by  Greorge  Griffith,  contains  a  long  and  care- 
fully compiled  pedigree  of  the  family  of  Whit- 
greave,  the  possessors  of  Moseley  HaU. 

Hubert  Smith. 


Are  Toads  Poisonous?  (6«"»  S.  iv.  429  ;  v.  32). 
— This  was  a  moot  point  in  Gilbert  White's  time, 
and  that  accurate  observer  does  not  attempt  to 
settle  it : — 

''It  is  itrausre  that  the  matter  with  regard  to  the 
venom  of  toads  has  not  been  yet  settled.  That  they  are 
not  noxious  to  some  animals  is  plain ;  for  dacks,  buxsards, 
owls,  stone  curlews,  and  snakes  eat  them,  to  my  know- 
ledge, with  impunity.  And  I  well  remember  the  time, 
but  was  not  an  eyewitness  to  the  fact  (although  numbers 
of  persons  were),  when  a  quack  at  this  Tillage  ato  a  toad, 
to  make  the  country  people  stare ;  afterwards  he  drank 
oW^'-Naiural  History  of  Selbome,  letter  xviL 

Mr.  Jesse,  in  his  marginal  note  to  this  passage, 
mentions  the  case  of  a  gardener  whose  hand  was 
poisoned  by  the  secretion  of  a  toad.  The  Annual 
Begister  gives  two  instances  of  toad-poisoning 
(quantum  valeant),  in  1768  (voL  zL),  and  1809 
(vol.  li.).  Edward  H.  Marshall^  M.A. 

Library,  Claremont,  Hastings. 

As  one  who  has  kept  toads  in  confinement,  and 
carefully  observed  their  habits  in  a  state  of  nature, 
may  I  be  allowed  to  state  that  I  feel  confident 
that  Mr.  Simcox's  schoolfellow  was  mistaken  in 
supposing  that  a  toad  spat  at  him?  Schoolboys 
are  not  often  exact  observers,  and  in  his  excite- 
ment he  would  naturally  not  notice  how  the 
reptile  ejected  the  fluid.  I  have  handled  many 
toads,  and  can  positively  say  that  the  secretion  is 
never  exuded  from  the  mouth ;  and  that  it  is 
injurious  only  if  it  is  spilled  on  a  cut  or  sore, 
and  so  mingles  with  the  blood.  Its  use  is  un- 
doubtedly to  defend  the  otherwise  helpless 
animal  from  attacks  by  lizards,  birds,  and 
small  animals.  There  is,  however,  one  quadruped, 
the  omnivorous  hedgehog,  which  attacks  and 
devours  toads  with  impunity ;  and  the  common 
snake  also  devours  them.  The  frog  does  not 
possess  this  secretion,  as  its  activity  in  leaping 
enables  it  to  escape  its  enemies.  The  secretion  of 
the  toad  is  perfectly  innocuous  to  its  own  species, 
as  is  the  case  also  with  the  venom  of  poisonous 
snakes.  I  may  add  that  when  the  late  Mr.  Buck- 
land  says,  '*  Like  the  lizards,  toads  have  ghuids  in 
their  skin  which  secrete  a  white,  highly  acid 
fluid,"  he  means  newts  or  tritons.  None  of  the 
true  lizards  have  such  glands.        W.  B.  Tatb. 

Horsell,  Woking. 

Portraits  of  Washington  Irving  (6*  S.  iv. 
447,  490,  524;  v.  36).— To  make  the  list  as 
perfect  as  possible,  allow  me  to  add  that  there  is 
a  small  portrait  of  Washington  Irving  in  Chambers's 
CycUypcedia  of  English  Literature  (vol.  it  p.  694, 
ed.  1844).  Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 

Thb  Episcopal  Wig  (6^  S.  iv.  427,  493,  646  ; 
V.  36).-— In  a  treatise  on  the  hair  and  beard,  en- 
titled '*  Trichocosmos,"  n.d.,  it  is  positively 
asserted  that  the  Hon.  Bichard  Bagot,  Bishop  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  was  the  first  bishop  who  fUf • 
)igitized  by  :*lv^ 


174 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  i6«8.v.MAE.i/82. 


peDsed  with  the  wig,  George  IV.,  when  Prince 
Regent,  having  aaid  to  him,  in  a  joke,  "  You  are 
too  handsome  to  wear  a  wig  ;  remember,  when- 
ever I  make  you  a  bishop  you  may  throw  it  aside." 
His  Majesty,  however,  when  reminded  of  his  pro- 
mise by  the  bishop  reluctantly  yielded  assent, 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Song  op  Solomon,  ii.  5  (6^»>  S.  iv.  537;  v.  32). 
—The  learned  Rabbi  S.  Cohen  explains  the  pas- 
sage thus,  '* Fortifiez-moi  avec  des  flacons";  and 
gives  this  note: — 

**  Voy.  □♦{Jf>t2^'K,  Hos.  iiL  1;  2  Sam.  vi.  19  j  1  Cbron. 

xvi.  3.  Vulgate,  fulku  mefionbus.  D.  Calmet,  donnes- 
moi  des  flears  d^une  odeur  forte ;  suivant  lui  I'hfcbreu 
eignifie,80utenex-moi  par  dee  bouteillee ;  maii  il  s'attache 
au  grec  oTfipioaZi  fie  Iv  fivpoiQ,  soutenex-moi  par  des 
parfumn.  On  connait,  dit-il,  une  ])lante  iiommfee  myrrhit, 
qui  est  bonne  contre  les  vapeurs  des  femmee."— Z>t(Wcor., 

lib.  iv.  cap.  iiL  ^ 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Mr.  W.  T.  Ltnk  refers  to  the  "reviving  power 
of  dried  fruit.**  In  illustration  of  this  it  may  be 
of  interest  to  mention  a  statement  made  before  the 
committee  of  the  House  of  Lords  on  intemperance 
in  1877:— 

"Question  9994.  What  forms  of  food  would  come 
nearest  to  the  place  of  it  (alcohol)  in  the  case  of  a  man 
fatigued  from  overwork?— If  1  am  fatigued  from  over- 
work personally,  my  food  is  very  simple.  I  eat  the 
raisins  instead  of  taking  the  wine.  I  have  had  very 
large  experience  in  that  practice  for  thirty  years. 

**  9995.  Is  that  the  result  of  your  personal  experience, 
or  have  you  heard  it  from  others  ]--lt  is  my  own  per- 
sonal experience,  and  I  have  recommended  it  to  my 
personal  friendf.  It  is  a  limited  experience,  but  I  be- 
lieve that  it  is  a  very  good  and  true  experience."— 
Rtfort^  iiu  p.  248,  evidence  of  Sir  W.  QuU,  M.D. 

Ed.  Mabshall. 


"  Other  half  hundred  *  (6"»  S.  iv.  636).— 
The  error  pointed  out  by  your  correspondent  must 
have  been  made  through  inadvertence ;   for  the 
scholarship  of  the  editor  of  Flwriz  and  BlawMShi^ 
flur  (E.E.T.S.)  would  have  prevented  him  from 
making  such  a  blunder.     Any  one  acquainted 
with  an  Anglo-Saxon  grammar  knows  that  the 
method  of  computation  to  which  F.  J.  V.  refers 
is  common  to  both  the  Anglo-Saxon    and    the 
German  languages,  and  also  to  the  Scandinavian. 
Of.  Dr.  March's  Comparative  Orammar   of  the 
Anglo-Saxon  Language,  p.  77  ;  Vernon's  Anglo- 
Saxon  Chtidef  pp.  36-7  ;  and  EasVs  Anglo-Saxon 
Grammar,  by  B.  Thoroe,  p.  44.    Rask  gives  as 
an  example,  "d)yer  healf  bund  biscopa,  150  bishope ; 
)>rydde  healf,  two  and  a  half,'*   Of.  also  Ormulum : 
"  1  [»andl  ta  wass  wel  hallf  feorthe  3er  [=3}  years] 
]>att  oomm  na  rejjn  onn  eorK"  ^^  8619-20. 

For   further    examples    consult  Dr.  Stratmann's 
Diet,  of  Old  Bnglieh,  s.  v.  "  Half."    Cf.,  moreover, 


the  use  of  sesqui  in  Latin"  where  in  combination 
with  numerals  it  helps  to  represent  an  integer 
and  such  a  fraction  over  as  the  numeral  denotes ; 
e.g.,  •«iguioctoi>i«=containing  a  whole  and  an 
eighth  ;  sMtertiw«=semM- teW*ui=two  and  a  half. 
The  Greek  idiom  is  simikr,  as  rptTov  -qfitraAav- 
Tov=two  talents  and  a  half. 

F.   0.   BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 

"Goffin"  (6«»  S.  ii.  448;   iii.  94;    iv.  115, 
417  ;  V.  64).— In  Scotland,  from  the  Cumbrian 
Border  to  the  Spey,  **  guff  "  is  used  as  a  synonym  for 
fool  or  "gowk."    Thus  a  silly  fellow  will  often, 
and    indifferently,  be    termed  a    "bi«  g^>,   » 
"stupid  guff,"  or  even  a  "daft  guff,"  which  last 
is  equiviaent  to  "fool-fooL"    Though  the  term 
"guff"  is,  or  was,  in  common  use  in  Scotland, 
"guffin"  is  never  used  for  "  fooling,"  or  in  any 
other  sense.    With  reference  to  "  stark  mad,   the 
old  Scottish  equivalent  i8"red-wode  mad,"  though 
"  wode  "  has  actually  the  same  meaning  as    mad. 
Thus  Scott,  in  the  last  part  of  "Thomas  the 
Rhymer,"  refers  to  Cospatrick  "riding  down  by 
the  eildon  tree": — 

**  He  stirred  hii  steed  as  he  were  wode  [mad], 
Wi'  gilded  spurs  o*  faushion  free." 

Henry  Kerr. 
Stooksteads,  Manchester. 

Modern  Prophecies  :  Cazotte(6*»»  S.  iv.  428 ; 
v.  13).— It  may  be  interesting  to  relate  the  touch- 
ing and  pathetic  termination  of  the  life  of  Gazette. 
When  the  Revolution  broke  out  he  opposed  it 
strenuously  by  his  writings,  but  was  unsuc^ssful. 
His  correspondence  with  a  Royalist  sgent  having 
been  seized  on  August  10,  1792,  he  was  arrested, 
and  confined  in  the  Abbaye.    After  an  examinar 
tion  which    lasted  six-and-thirty  hours,  he  was 
condemned  to  death.    It  is  said  that  the  public 
accuser  could  not  refrain  from  paying  a  tribute 
of  praise    to    the  man  whose  life  he  sought  to 
take.    "Why,"  he  said  to  Gazette,  "why  am  I 
forced  to  find  you  guilty  after  seventy-two  years 
of  virtue  1"    He  died  courageously  on  Septem- 
ber 25,  saying,  "My  dear  wife,  my  dear  children, 
do  not  weep ;  do  not  forget  me,  but,  above  all,  re- 
member never  to  offend  God." 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 


Thatched  Churches  (6**  S.  iu  447  ;  ill  66  ; 
iv.  117,  368;  v.  66).— It  may  be  of  interest  to 
inquirers  on  this  point  to  know  that  thatched 
churches  are  to  be  found  in  counties  Galway  and 
Mayo.  I  know  of  one  still  used  as  a  church  and 
three  others  converted  into  schools ;  they  are  all 
Roman  Catholic.  None  of  them  are  ceiled,  but 
boards  are  nailed  to  the  rafters  over  the  altor. 

J.  F.  H* 

Easter  Egos  (6«>  S.  iv.  308,  478;  v.  95).-If 
I  mistake  not,  Easter  egsa-were  not  inquired 
)igitized  by  VjOOQ  IC 


r 


«*B.T.MAa.4,'82.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


175 


about ;  bat  why  tbe  bare  as  a  toy  was  so  mixed 
up  with  them  in  German  toy-shops — the  hare^  and 
not  the  eggs,  being  the  point.  Only  one  corre- 
spondent has  hit  the  mark,  and  explained  that  in 
German  nursery  lore  it  is  the  hare  which  is  believed 
to  lay  the  coloured  eggs.  P.  P. 

"Chuck"  (6"»  S.  iy.  509 ;  t.  91).— The  Rev. 
T.  L.  0.  Davies,  in  his  recently  published  SuppU- 
meniary  Engluh  Qlotswry,  quotes  from  Combe, 
Dr.  Syntax,  tour  ii.  c.  1 ;  and  Dickens,  ChuzzUtoit, 
ch.  xlix«,  for  the  use  of  this  word  in  the  sense  of 
to  "  throw."  He  also  gives  the  following  quota- 
tion :— 

"Opinions  gold  or  brass  are  nail. 
We  ehuek  our  flattery  or  abuae 
Called  Gtetar's  due,  as  Charon's  does, 
I*  the  teeth  of  some  dead  sage  or  fool. 
To  mend  the  grinning  of  a  skull." 

Mrs.  Browning,  Died, 
F.   C.  BiRKBBCE  TeRRT. 

The  Namb  ''Howard"  (6^  S.  iv.  206,  277; 
▼.  94).— In  all  courtesy  to  Mr.  Elwbs,  I  would 
suggest  that  he  has  not,  in  his  note  at  the  last 
re^ence,  shown  any  connexion  between  William 
Howard  who  was  baptized  on  Jan.  1,  1689-90, 
and  William  Hay  ward  who  married  An[ne]  Parra- 
dine,  or  with  the  William  Hayward  whose  son 
Edward  was  baptized  on  July  6,  1687.  Mr. 
Elwks's  facts  merely  prove  that  a  William  Howard, 
who  was  a  son  of  another  William  Howard,  had  a 
daughter  named  Anne  Parradine  Howard ;  that 
there  was  a  person  (who  possibly  might  have  been 
the  father  of  William  Howard  the  first  named) 
called  William  Hayward,  and  that  the  maiden 
name  of  his  wife  was  An[ne]  Parradine;  and, 
lastly,  that  there  existed  a  person  named  William 
Hayward,  whose  son  Edward  was  baptized  on 
July  6,  1687.  Suppose  we  admit  that  William 
Howard,  the  grandfather  of  Anne  Parradine 
Howard,  married  a  lady  named  Anne  Parradine 
(and  this  state  of  circumstances  would  place  Mr. 
Elwss's  argument  in  a  more  favourable  position 
than  that  it  now  occupies);  even  then  we  shall 
prove  only  an  identity  of  names  among  people 
living  in  the  same  town.  Upon  so  unstable  a 
foundation  as  a  mere  identity  of  names,  although, 
as  in  this  case,  there  be  no  anomaly  as  to  dates, 
it  is  quite  impossible  to  build  a  theory  of  the 
unity  of  those  who,  primd  facie,  are  distinct 

F.  Stdmxt  Waddinotok. 
8»  Crosby  Square,  E.C. 

"BuKKKR's  Hill"  (6*  S.  iv.  48,  255  ;  v.  57). 
—On  a  hill-top  on  the  south  side  of  the  river 
Irwell,  in.  Brandwood,  North-East  Lancashire, 
there  is  a  farm  called  Bunker^s  Hill.  In  the 
colUei^  districts  of  Durham  and  Northumberland 
there  is  at  least  one  village  of  the  above  name,  as 
well  as  others  termed  Camperdown,  Waterloo, 
S^    The  bills,  farmsteads,  and  villages  were,  no 


doubt,  named  after  the  above  battles.  It  may  be 
stated  that  not  far  from  the  farm  of  Bunker's  Hill, 
above  referred  to,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Irwell, 
is  another  farmhouse,  rejoicing,  or  sorrowing,  in 
the  inelegant  designation  of  "Mucky  Earth"; 
and  not  far  off  is  another  dubbed  "Gkiumless 
End."  *'  Gaumless,"  in  the  Lancashire  vemacuUr, 
is  equivalent  to  foolish  or  stupid. 

Hbnrt  Kerb. 
Stocksieada,  Manchester. 

There  is  a  Bunker's  Hill  near  Hampstead, 
between  Wild  Hatch  and  Spaniard's  Farm.  Why 
so  called  I  cannot  say.  E.  T.  E. 

HooKE  Family  (6"»  S.  iv.  469  ;  y.  92).— In 
Thurloe's  StaU  Paper;  1742,  voL  i.  p.  564,  is  a 
letter  from  William  Hooke  to  the  Protector,  in 
which  he  thanks  the  Lord  General  for  the  favour 
his  son  has  found  in  his  (the  Protector's)  eyes. 
Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  who  this  son 
was  ?  J.  S.  A. 

Basingstoke. 

Will  Branwhitb  communicate  with  me  7 

Charles  Williams. 
9,  Prince  of  Wales  Road,  Norwich. 

"To  MAKE  A  LEO"  (6«»  ^  iu.  149,  337,  375; 
iv.  216;  y.  57).— 

«  UDCOYerinfC  the  head,  making  a  leg,  and  scraping  on 
the  ground,  and  such  like  conrtesy,  when  Jesus  is 
named." — Canne's  Ifwessity  of  Separation,  1634  (re- 
print, 1849,  p.  123). 

"  Rise  up  to  thy  elders,  put  off  thy  hat,  make  a  leg." 
— Comenius,  Jatitta  Linguarum,  London,  1664,  §  901. 

w.  a  B. 

*'  Now  there  we  left  the  milking  paU« 
And  to  her  mother  went ; 
And  when  we  were  come  thither, 
I  asked  her  consent. 
I  doff*d  my  hat  and  made  a  leg. 
When  I  found  her  within. 
With  *  How  d*  ye  dor  and  '  How  d'ye  dol* 
And  '  How  d'  ye  do  ] '  again." 
"  Ballads  of  the  Reign  of  Elizabeth,"  Ohappell's  Popular 
Music  qf  the  Olden  Time,  vol.  I  p.  147. 
A.  B. 

"  To  DIKE  WITH  Duke  Humphrbt  "  (6***  S.  iv. 
166,  337,  475  ;  v.  58).— I  have  met  with  another 
passage  in  which  this  phrase  is  used  :— 
"  Nere  breath,  I  durst  not  use  my  mistretse  fim. 
Or  walke  attended  with  a  baokney-man. 
Dine  with  Duke  Hum/rev  in  decayed  Paules, 
Confound  the  itreetes  with  chaos  of  old  braules.*' 
FoUie*t  Anatomie,  by  Henry  Button,  Dunelmensii, 
1619,  p.  10  (reprinted  for  the  Percy  Society,  1842). 
F.  C.  BiRKBBCK  TeRET. 
Cardiff. 

Mistletoe  ahd  Christmas  (6***  S.  iv.  509  ;  v. 
14).— With  regard  to  the  etymology  of  the  word 
"  mistletoe,"  I  would  observe,  in  reply  to  G.  L.  F., 
that  the  A.-S.  miiteUdn  cannot  possibly^  con- 
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nected  with  mitil,  different  Its  cognates  show 
this.  We  find  in  O.H.G.  mittil,  in  O.N.  miitilieinn, 
bat  in  neither  any  adjective  equivalent  to  A.-S. 
mwtZ,  yarius.  Weigand,  «.t;.  misUl,  says:  "Ur- 
spriinglich  deutsch,  aber  dunkler  WurzeL"  Fick, 
yiL  240,  suggests :  ^^  Besser  fMhsiUa  und  yon  goth. 
maih-ttu-i  (Grundform  mikttu-)  Mist,  weil  durch 
den  Mist  der  Yogel  verpflanzt  ? " 

A.  L.  Matbew. 
Oxford. 

Whi8kbrs=Mou8TAChbs  (6*"*  S.  iv.  406  ;  v. 
14).— The  following  passage  is  from  a  description 
of  Holy  rood  in  Scott's  Al£oty  chap,  xviii.:— 

"There  the  soldier  in  buff  and  steel,  hit  long  sword 
jarring  against  the  parement,  and  his  nfhukered  upper 
lip  and  frowning  brow,  looking  an  habitual  defiance  of 
danger,  which  perhaps  was  not  always  made  good." 

Wm.  H.  Peet. 

"  Let  me  light  my  pipe  at  tour  ladyship's 
byes"  (&^  S.  iv.  347;  v.  16).— Our  Poet  Laureate, 
in  his  A  Dream  of  Fair  Womerif  says,  speaking 
of  0!e<^Mitem's  "  piercing  orbs  ": — 

*' Still  with  their  fires  Love  tipi  his  keenest  darts; 
As  once  they  drew  into  two  burning  rfaigs 
All  beams  of  IiOTe,  melting  the  mighty  hearts 
Of  captains  and  of  kings." 

F.  0,  BiRKBBCK  Terry. 

Morris  Dangers  (Q^  S.  iv.  349,  524 ;  y.  18). 
— On  Plough  Monday  troops  or  "sets"  from 
neighbour-villages  annually  visited  the  town.  In 
the  costume,  which  formed  no  small  part  of  the 
rivalry  of  the  sets,  the  most  noticeable  points  were 
brown  or  black  vcdveteen  coats,  covered  with  bows 
and  streamers  of  bright  ribbons  ;  tall  hats  banded 
from  brim  to  crown  with  ribbon  and  adorned  with 
a  plume  of  feathers.  Each  troop  was  accompanied 
by  a  "  Moll,"  a  swain  dressed  as  a  woman,  gene- 
rally in  white  muslin  or  extravagantly  in  the  ktest 
fasMon.  Dances  were  formed  at  intervals  through 
the  main  streets,  and  largess  solicited.  An  im- 
portant feature  with  some  troops  was  a  wooden 
plough  drawn  by  four  or  six  of  the  company;  this 
formed  the  centre  of  a ''  round  dance."  The  Mad- 
ingley  set  was  famous  (about  1848)  for  their  get- 
up  and  that  of  their  ^'  MolL"  There  was  always  a 
marked  courtesy  shown  to  the  *'  Moll,"  which  may 
have  had  an  origin  in  some  earlier  form  of  morris 
dancing ;  of  this  I  should  be  glad  to  learn  some- 
thing. I  believe  the  custom  is  still  observed, 
though  possibly  with  "  maimed  rites."     W.  R 

Chelsea. 

The  following  account  of  the  Coronation  fair  in 
Hyde  Park  may  be  of  interest  to  Mr.  Hibbbrd: — 

"  For  the  gratification  of  the  multitude,  at  the  loli- 
citation  of  Mr.  Howes,  M.P.  for  Lambeth,  a  fair  was  per- 
mitted to  be  holden  in  Hyde  Park  for  two  days,  Tfaursdsy 
and  Friday  [June  28th  and  29th,  1838],  to  which  two 
more,  Saturday  and  Monday,  were  lubtequently  added. 
The  area  allotted  comprised  nearly  one-third  of  the  park, 


extending  from  near  the  margin  of  the  Serpentine  river 
to  within  a  ehort  distance  of  Orosvenor  Gate.  To  the 
interior  there  were  eight  entrances,  the  main  one  fifty 
feet  wide,  and  the  others  thirty  feet  each.  The  area 
within,  measuring  about  1,600  by  1,400  feet,  was  occupied 
by  theatres,  taverns,  and  an  endless  variety  of  exhibi- 
tions ;  and  the  centre  appropriated  to  lines  of  stalls,  for 
the  sale  of  fancy  goods,  sweetmeats,  and  toys.  On 
Friday  the  fair  was  visited  by  Her  Migesty  in  person." — 
Annual  Hegitter,  1838,  p.  107. 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 
Library,  Claremont^  Hastings. 

Siege  of  Chepstow  (fi*^  S.  iv.  307,  365, 476 ; 
V.  36). — Colonel  Morgan  was  the  same  with 
Genend  Sir  Thomas  Morgan,  of  whom  a  concise 
account  may  be  found  at  p.  187  s<  seqq.  of  the 
Military  Memoir  of  Col  John  Birch,  by  the  late 
Rev.  John  Webb,  printed  for  the  Camden  Society, 
1673.  There  is,  I  believe,  some  slight  inaccuracy 
in  the  pedigree  of  the  Salmons  there  given,  but  I 
cannot  now  lay  my  hand  on  the  correction.  Kin- 
nesley  in  the  query  should  have  been  Kinnersley. 
I  have  copies  of  several  documents  relating  to  Sir 
T.  Morgan's  governorship  of  Jersey. 

T.  W.  Webb. 

Indigenous  Trees  of  Britain  (6^  S.  iiL  468  ; 
iv.  91,  217;  v.  37).— The  Gaulish  river-name  Fsr- 
noduhru^n  rraunds  me  of  Vernon,  name  of  two 
places  in  France,  which  I  have  always  supposed  to 
have  been  corrupted  down  from  a  Vemodunum^ 
Latinized  from  gvfem-4unf  ''  the  alder^tree  hill" 
B.  S.  Charnook. 

"Jennet  "  (6*  S.  iv.  288 ;  v.  71).— Since  writ- 
ing  my  note  I  find  that  it  was  in  Loihair  that  Lord 
Beaconsfield  used  this  word,  not  in  Endymion. 
See  Lothair  (1870),  vol.  L  pp.  18,  19:— 

"  The  dames  and  damsels  vaulted  on  their  barbs  and 
genett  and  thorough-bred  hacks  with  such  airy  majesty; 
they  were  absolutely  overwhelming  with  their  bewilder- 
ing  habits  and  their  bewitching  hats.'* 

I  may  add,  that  in  the  article  on  Loihair  in  the 
Quarterly  Review  for  July,  1870,  the  reviewer 
quotes  the  use  of  the  words  ^*  barbs  and  geneUj^ 
amongst  other  examples,  to  show  that  '^the 
language  is  unnatural,  as  well  as  the  story  and  the 
characters."  6.  F.  R  B. 

"Pomatum"  (6«»  S.  iv.  8,  137,  318,  396;  y. 
76).— Gerarde,  in  his  Herbal  (London,  1633), 
p.  1460,  in  chapter  cL,  "  Of  the  Apple  Tree,"  gives 
this  receipt  for  pomatum: — 

*'  There  is  likewise  made  an  Ointment  with  the  pu1|>e 
of  Apples  and  Swines  grease  and  Rose  water,  which  ia 
vsed  to  beautifie  the  face,  and  to  take  away  the  rough- 
nesse  of  the  skin,  which  ia  called  in  shops  Povnaluni :  of 
the  Apples  whereof  it  is  made." 

Johnson  Bailt. 

Pallion  Vicarage. 

The  Death  of  Edward  of  Lancaster  at 
Tewkesbury  (6"»  S.  v.  6,  75).— It  was  a  local 
tradition  that  the  Prince  was  put*  to  death  ia 


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Tewkesbury,  and  the  house  where  this  is  supposed 
to  haye  taken  place  was  shown :  *'  The  Prince  of 
Wales  is  supposed  to  have  been  murdered  in  the 
house  belonging  to,  and  in  the  possession  of,  Mr. 
Webb,  an  ironmonger"  (Rudder,  Hittory  of 
OlouctsUrshirty  p.  736,  London,  1779). 

£1d.  Marshall. 

FuKBRAL  Armour  in  Churchbs  (5"»  S.  ix. 
429 ;  X.  11,  73,  129,  162,  199,  276,  317;  xi.  73, 
178,  262,  376,  457;  xii.  156  ;  6"»  S.  L  446  ;  ii. 
218,  477;  ir.  38,  256,  314  ;  ▼.  58).— The  follow- 
ing interesting  examples  of  funeral  armour  have 
oome  under  my  notice  recently.  At  Turvey,  Beds., 
hung  up  at  the  east  end  of  the  south  aisle  are  two 
helmets  (one  supporting  the  crest  of  the  Mordaunt 
family,  a  blackamoor's  head  banded),  a  short 
straight  sword,  a  wooden  shield  gilt,  and  em> 
blazoned  with  a  quartered  coat  of  arms  ;  two 
gauntlets,  a  pair  of  spurs,  two  iron  rings  or  collars, 
and  a  hdton,  black  with  gilt  ends.  From  the  south 
wall  of  the  chancel  at  Chipstead  Church,  Surrey, 
hangs  a  banner  bearing  the  arms  of  the  Stevens 
family,  on  a  chevron  inter  three  demi-lions  ramp., 
as  many  crosslets  ;  above  is  a  helmet  surmounted 
by  the  crest,  an  eagle's  head  and  wings  disp^ 
In  the  north  chancel  at  Willington,  Beds.,  hangs 
a  helmet  with  a  crest  above  ;  a  griffin's  head  and 
wings  gules,  armed  or.  In  the  chancel  is  another 
helmet.  A  short  distance  from  it  hangs  a  tabard, 
but  no  device  can  now  be  traced  upon  it.  At 
Eeigate,  Surrey,  there  are  five  helmets  and  one 
gMmtlet ;  and  one  helmet  at  each  of  the  following 
churches,  Cheam  and  Merton  in  Surrey,  and 
Elstow  and  Bromham  in  Beds. 

W.  A.  Wells. 

Glastowburt,  "  THB  Tow5  OF  Oaks  "  (6'*»  S. 
iv.  329 ;  v.  14). — The  main  argument  against  the 
name  of  Glastonbury  being  connected  with  glattan 
=an  oak,  is  that  the  ChronicUj  the  oldest,  form 
of  the  word  is  GlcBitinga  hurh^  i.  e.,  the  burh  or 
fortress  of  the  Gliesting  clan.  That  there  was  a 
clan  of  Glaestings  Mr.  Kemble  maintains  he  can 
prove  from  documentary  evidence.  See  Grant 
Allen,  AngUhSaaum  Britain,  1881,  pp.  194,  201. 
The  gkutan  derivation  is  merely  a  guess,  and  not 
a  very  plausible  one,  as  it  does  not  take  into 
account  the  termination  -ingctj  which  is  clearly  a 
gen.  pL  of  the  well-known  patronymic  form  ending 
in  ing.  A.  L.  Mathkw. 

Oxford. 

WXLSHMBK  IN  DORSETSHIRE  (6^  S.  ii.  227).— 

There  is  a  pamphlet  on  the  Welsh  in  Dorset  by 
Mr.  Thomas  Kerslidce,  of  Bristol,  published  in  1879. 

Tint  Tim. 

Translations  of  Stranger's  "Rot  d'Yvetot" 
(6***  8.  V.  9). — My  library  possesses  only  two 
Yolumes  of  translations  from  B^mnger.  These  are: 
"  Songs  of  Biranger,  translated  by  the  Author  of 


the  ExUe  of  Idria,  &c.  With  a  Sketch  of  the  Life 
of  B^ranger  up  to  the  Present  Time  "  (t^ickering, 
1837;  dedication  signed  "J.  G.  H.  B.");  and 
One  Hundred  Songs  of  Pitrre^Jtan  de  BirangeVy 
with  translations  by  William  Young  (Chapman 
&  Hall,  1847).  The  latter  only  has  Le  Boi 
d*Yvetot,    The  translation  begins  : — 

**  There  was  a  King  of  Yretot  once 
But  little  known  in  story,**  &c. 

It  is  decidedly  inferior  to  Thackeray's  spirited 
version,  which  I  suppose  will  be  found  among  his 
ballads,  but  I  cannot  turn  to  it  now.    G.  M.  I. 
AtbeDseam  Clab. 

I  think  there  is  an  English  verse  translation  in 
Oxenford's  Illmtrated  Book  of  French  Songs,  pub- 
lished at  the  office  of  the  lUusircUed  London  News 
about  1856  or  1860.  Thomas  Stratton. 

Fonts  of  the  Bestoration  Period  (6^  S. 
V.  9).  —  In  some  exceptional  places  it  is  quite 
possible  that  fonts  of  this  particular  date  are  not 
unfrequently  met  with,  but  they  are  assuredly  not 
general.  The  nuuo  portion  of  England's  old  fonts 
beloBf  to  the  Perpendicular  epoch,  i.e.,  a.d.  1377- 
1546.  Next,  perhaps,  as  regards  numbers,  ar» 
those  pertaining  to  the  Norman  age,  i»e.,  a.d.  1066- 
1154  ;  and  there  are  at  present  existing  almost  as 
many  Early  English  ones,  i.e.,  a.d.  1164-1272. 
As  compared  with  any  one  of  the  three  recognized 
architectural  periods  above  defined,  fonts  dating 
from  Gharles  IL's  time  are  extremely  rare. 

Harrt  Hems. 

Exeter. 

Dove-tail  (&^  S.  v.  26).-— An  etymologist  who 
is  not  satisfied  with  the  received  derivation  of 
dove-tail  must  be  difficult  to  please.  The  likeness 
of  this  form  of  joint  to  the  expanded  tail  of  a  bird 
is  so  obvious  as  naturally  to  give  rise  to  its  name ; 
and  accordingly  this  has  happened  not  only  in 
English,  but  in  other  languages.  The  French  term 
is  "  ^  queue  d'aronde"  {aronde  in  Old  French= 
hirondelle,  see  Littr^),  and  the  German  is 
"  Schwalben-schwanz "  ;  the  only  difference  be- 
tween these  words  and  ours  being  that  the  swallow 
is  taken  as  the  type  instead  of  the  dove.  No 
reason  is  given  by  your  correspondent  for  rejecting 
this  simple  and  natural  explanation  of  the  name 
dove-iail;  and  the  suggestion  that  it  owes  its 
origin  to  a  supposed,  but  hitherto  unheard  of, 
French  word  douve^tailUf  meaning  "stave-cut- 
ting," is  not  calcuhited  to  disturb  the  popular 
belief.  G.  F.  S.  £. 

"Straight  as  a  loitch''(6**  S.  y.  28).— On 
reading  your  correspondent's  query  it  at  once 
struck  me  that  the  simile  quoted  by  him  meant 
"  as  straight  as  a  loach,"  a  small  straight  fish  allied 
to  the  minnow  and  found  in  some  of  the  Yorkshire 
streams.     Mr.    J.    Clough   Robinson   gives    the 

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simile  in  his  Dialect  of  Leeds^  and  in  a  foot-note, 
p.  407,  says,  probably  lareh.  At  p.  353,  however, 
he  a^iveSf  *'  Loitch,  a  small  fresh-water  fish/'  Hence 
I  think  my  explanation  is  the  true  one. 

F.  G.  BiREBscK  Terrt. 
Cardiff. 

Bailey's  Dictionary  has,  **Lotch  (old  stat.),  cod, 
ling,  lob,  &C."     Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A« 

A  ''  loitch  "  is  a  leech.  I  have  heard  the  ex- 
pression used  for  many  a  year. 

Edmund  Waterton. 
Deeping  Waterfcon  Hall,  Market  Deeping,  Line. 

"Art"  {6^  S.  v.  28).— See  note  "On  the 
Modern  Use  of  the  Word  Art "  in  "  N.  &  Q.," 
4«>  S.  vii.  89.  D.  S.  G. 

English  Armorial  Glass  {&^  S.  v.  44). — 
G.  W.  M.  ought  to  have  very  good  reasons  for 
believing  the  arms  to  be  coeval  with  the  bearers, 
as  genealogical  windows  have  always  been  in 
favour.  Winston's  two  volumes  are  of  great  use 
in  discriminating  the  styles  of  various  periods.  I 
have  by  me  the  arms  of  a  mother,  her  son,  and  her 
grandson,  all  of  Tudor  period,  but  the  mother's 
shield  is  in  a  later  style  of  the  art  than  her 
descendants',  and  is  a  fine  sample  of  that  style. 

P.  P. 

A  Superstition  (6*»>  S.  v.  46).— That  the 
crowing  of  a  cock  foretells  the  arrival  of  strangers 
seems  to  be  a  wide-spread  superstition.  It  pre- 
vails in  Devonshire  (see  "N.  &  Q.,"  5"»  S.  vL  397) 
and  in  the  north-east  of  Scotland  (see  Gregorys  Folk- 
lore of  North-East  of  ScoOand,  p.  140, 1881),  as 
well  as  in  the  district  alluded  to,  but  unfortunately 
not  named,  by  Dr.  Brewer.    Wm.  Pengellt. 

Torquay. 

Dr.  Brewer  ought  to  have  given  the  locality  of 
his  "superstition."  The  same  piece  of  folk-lore 
prevails  in  North  Yorkshire.  It  is  also  alluded  to 
by  Mr.  Henderson  in  his  FolkUre  of  the  Notthtrn 
Counties,  p.  123,  1879  :— 

"  A  cock  crowing  on  the  threshold  or  a  humble  bee 
entering  a  bouse  are  in  Buckinghamshire  deemed 
omens  of  a  visitor.  To  turn  the  bee  out  is  a  most  in- 
hospitable action." 

F.  0.  BiREBBCE  Terry. 

Mrs.  Tbrbsia  Constantia  Phillips  (6*»»  S. 
V.  62).— This  once  notorious  lady  published  an 
Apology  for  her  conduct  in  three  volumes,  n.d. 
I  have  also  note  of  Theresia  Constantia  Muilman's 
Letter  humbly  Addressed  to  (he  Rt,  Hon,  the  Earl 
of  Chesterfield,  1756,  and  also  of  Bemafks  on  Mrs. 
Muilman's  Letter^  by  a  Lady.  Portrait  collectors 
are  well  acquainted  with  several  mezzotint  re- 
presentations of  her  impudent  face  and  buxom 
figure.  That  which  was  probably  prefixed  to  her 
Apology  bears  her  autograph.  An  amusing 
account   of  her   life   and  various  marriages  in 


Jamaica  is  given  in  the  GenUeman^s  Magazine, 
vol.  xxxvi.  p.  83.  She  died  at  Kingston  in  1765, 
persecuted  by  creditors^  and  "unlamented  by  a 
single  person."  Calcuttensis. 

Freemasons  (6^  S.  v.  48).— The  most  recent 
authority  on  the  subject  of  Freemasonry  writes  : — 
"  The  word  Freemason  has  been  derived  from  the 
Norman-French  frere  tnof on,  brother  mason,  and 
also  from  the  expression  *  freestone  mason.' "  (Mr. 
W.  C.  Smith  in  Eneydopcedia  Britannica,  1879). 
But,  if  I  may  hazard  a  conjecture  upon  so  caliginous 
a  subject,  the  French  frane-nuigonnerie  and  the 
German  freimaurerei  seem  to  point  to  a  deriva- 
tion— given  by  some  writers — from  the  "  freedom  " 
of  the  early  masons  (by  special  Papal  enactments) 
from  various  laws  and  restrictions  affecting 
ordinary  artisans. 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A« 

The  following  entries  occur  in  the  church- 
wardens' accounts  of  a  parish  not  far  from  Tor- 
quay in  the  year  1696-7: — 

"Ite  paid  to  a  free  mason  for  trymeng  of  2  wyn- 
dowes.  z«. 

"  Item  paid  the  glassier  for  tremeng  of  the  same  win- 
dows, TS, 

Wm.  Pengellt. 

Torquay. 

"Agitate,  agitate,  agitate"  (6*  S.  v.  88, 
116). — See  Torrens's  Life  of  Lord  Melbourne^ 
vol.  i.  p.  320 ;  also  Spencer  Walpole's  Histoty  of 
England,  from  Conclusion  of  ike  Great  War  in 
1815,  vol.  ill  p.  143.    E.  Leaton  Blenkinsopf. 

" Deck"  of  Cards  (6*>»  S.  iv.  509  ;  v.  91, 116). 
— There  is  a  game  called  "  twenty-fives,"  much 
played  in  the  army,  in  which  the  "  turn-up "  or 
trump  card  is  called  the  "  deck- head."  There  is 
an  obsolete  word  used  in  the  same  game,  viz., 
renege,  signifying  to  revoke.  The  word  appears 
in  Antony  and  Cleopatra^  act  I.  sc.  i.;  and  in  the 
edition  of  1826,  annotated  by  Singer,  the  meaning 
is  given  as  "  renounce."  It  is  also  used  in  King 
Lear,  and  by  Stanyhurst  in  JEneid,  II.  Chaucer 
has  a  form  of  the  word,  reneyes.  It  is  curious 
that  the  word  should  now  only  survive  in  a  game 
of  cards.  It  testifies  to  the  antiquity  of  this  par- 
ticular game.  A  variety  of  the  same  game  is 
played  in  Ireland,  called  "  spoil-fives." 

E.  T.  Evans. 

63,  Fellows  Road,  N.W. 

Lincolnshire  Provincialisms  (6***  S.  liL  364, 
514  ;  iv.  238  ;  v.  65).— No  doubt  B.  B.  is  correct 
in  saying  that  thick  and  foggy  weather  is  called 
rooky  at  Boston  ;  but  in  South  Lincolnshire  I 
have  had  the  word  spelt  to  me  rooky,  as  I  have 
already  mentioned,  and  also  rorky,  rooky,  rawhy, 
and  raukeg.  In  fact,  no  one  seems  to  know  which 
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I  fancied  that  rooky  was  from  the  Flemish 
=smoke,  whilst  ratoky  more  resembles  the 
German  raucL  On  the  other  hand,  Heath's  Dic- 
tionary gives  roohy  as  signifying  musty.  A  few 
days  ago  I  gave  directions  for  an  apple  tree  to  be 
removed  a  few  yards  to  a  more  open  site.  It  had 
been  crowded  up,  and  was  ratner  one-sided  in 
consequence.  I  ordered  the  thin  side  to  be  turned 
in  a  certain  direction.  "  You  mean  the  tlack  side 
of  the  tree,  sir,"  said  one  of  the  men. 

Edmund  Waterton. 

The  Causal  "Do"  (6*^  S.  ir.  408  ;  y.  53).— 
As  to  the  instance  given  at  the  former  reference  of 
the  use  of  do  in  the  sense  "  to  cause,"  or  "  to  make," 
I  do  not  purpose  further  referring,  but  I  think  as 
strange  a  meaning  once  attach^  to  that  word 
when  it  was  used  as  an  equivalent  to  put  In 
the  "Shepherd's  Flay,"  from  the  WahfieU 
MyiUria  (1409),  occurs  this  line  (spoken  by  Ter- 
tius  Pastor) : — 
"  Syn  they  maintain  their  tbeft  let  do  them  to  dede." 

Tyndale,  that  grand  and  vigorous  old  writer,  to 
whose  nervous  translation  of  the  Bible  the  Eng- 
lish language  is  much  indebted,  wrote,  in  1538, 
*^  Do  on  him  a  garment."  In  both  these  in- 
stances do  is  used  m  the  sense  of  put  I  cannot 
find  it  appears  earlier  than  in  the  Eandlyne  Synne, 
wherein  the  line  occurs  : — 

*'  To  do  a  man  to  deth  parfore." 

The  use  of  (2o  as  an  auxiliary  seems  relatively 
modem,  yet  we  find  in  King  Alfred's  writinjgs  "  he 
doth  withstand."  In  Somersetshire  and  in  other 
places  it  is  customary  to  say  "  he  do  be  "  instead 
of  "  he  is."  I  do  not  find  a  later  use  of  do  in  the 
sense  otput  than  appears  in  Tyndale's  version. 
BiCHARD  J.  Kbllt. 
Toam. 

Popular  Names  for  the  Coinage  (6^  S.  iv. 
327;  V.  17;.— Of.  also  Green's  TuQuoque;  or,  The 
City  Gallant :  "  A  close  heart  and  free  hand  make 
a  man  admired :  a  testem  or  a  shilling  to  servant 
that  brings  you  a  glass  of  beer,  binds  his  hands  to 
his  lips."  The  foUowing  passage,  moreover,  seems 
worthy  of  being  quoted  under  the  above  heading: 
"  There  is  in  a  curious  old  book— a  biff  and  heayy  book, 
printed  in  the  year  1600  (De  Morgtkn,AritkmeiiealBookMt 
p.  31)— a  Tersified  description  of  the  aliquot  parts  of  a 
ihUllDg:— 

"A  farthing  first  Andes  forty-eight, 
An  halfpenny  hopes  for  twenty-four. 
Three  farthings  seeks  out  sixteen  straight, 
A  peny  puis  a  dozen  lower; 
Dicke  Dandiprat  diewe  eight  out  deade ; 
Twopence  tooke  six,  and  went  his  way ; 
Tom  Trip-and-goe  with  four  is  fled, 
But  Goodman  Grote  on  three  doth  stay ; 
A  Uitine  only  two  doth  take ; 
Moe  parts  a  shilling  cannot  make." 
Sir  J.  Bowring,  TV  Dmmal  Sytlm,  1854,  pp.  110-1. 
F.  0.  BiRKBECK  TbRRT. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &0. 

Sonnets  of  Thret  Centuries :  a  Selection,  including  many 
Examples  hitherto  Vnpvblithed.  Edited  by  T.  Hall 
Caine.  (Stock.) 
The  modern  Bonnet-reTival  appears  to  be  passing  from 
the  enthusiastic  to  that  purely  critical  stage  when 
matter  tends  to  become  secondary  to  form,  and  it  is  pro- 
bable that  we  shall  hear  of  a  good  many  ingenious 
theories  not  dreamt  of  in  the  philosophy  of  the  great 
poets  to  whom  we  owe  our  masterpieces  in  this  way. 
But  whether  a  sonnet  is  written  according  to  the 
straitest  sect  of  the  Italians,  or  condescends  to  the  hope- 
less heresy  of  couplets,  the  final  question  will  still  be,. 
What  is  its  Talue  as  a  poem  1  It  may  also  be  predicted 
with  safety  that  there  will  be  always  more  sonneteers 
than  good  sonnets.  Every  one  remembers  Boileau's 
famous  line  about  a  "  sonnet  sans  d^fauts,"  but  few  have- 
the  courage  to  quote  what  follows  ',— 

"  Mais  en  vain  mille  auteurs  y  pensent  arriver ; 
Et  cet  heureux  ph6nix  est  encore  k  trouver." 
It  may  be  gathered  from  what  has  been  said  above  thai 
we  do  not  find  ourselTes  entirely  in  accord  with  Mr. 
Caine's  somewhat  super-subtle  introduction.  But  it  is 
pleasanter  to  praise  the  evident  sincerity  of  his  views^ 
and  the  patient  research  which  he  has  brought  to  hie 
task,  as  well  as  the  admirable  way  in  which  he  has  been 
seconded  by  his  publisher.  The  get-up  of  this  book  a» 
to  paper,  type,  and  size  is  almost  idesil.  If  there  be  a 
defect  in  the  arrangement  of  the  contents  it  arises  chiefly 
from  two  causes — the  necessity  (dura  neceuitas/)  for 
novelty  and  Mr.  Caine's  position  as  latest  in  a  long  train 
of  sonnet  anthologists.  He  has  endeavoured  to  necure 
distinction  for  his  collection  by  including  unpublished 
work :  and  it  is  obvious  (for  reasons  known  to  every 
editor)  that  no  gathering  from  the  work  of  living  writers, 
much  less  from  the  unpublished  work  of  living  writers, 
can  be  in  any  sense  "quintessential."  For  example,  haci 
Mr.  Swinburne  been  a  deceased  author,  no  judicious 
admirers  of  his  genius  would  do  him  the  ill  turn  of  in- 
cluding among  his  more  laudable  efforts  the  pair  of 
sonnets  on  Carlyle's  Reminucencee,  Nor  can  a  sonnet 
which  contains  such  lines  as 

"Albeit  his  world 
In  these  few  piteous  paces  then  was  furled  " 
be  regarded  as  worthy  of  such  a  justly  acknowledged 
master  of  diction  as  Mr.  Dante  Kosaetti.  Nowhere,  too, 
we  imagine,  but  in  a  "  disinterested  *'  contribution  would 
Mr.  Roden  Noel  be  permitted  to  rhyme  "  laughter  **  with 
"water."  On  the  other  hand,  Sir  Noel  Baton's  <* Mid> 
night  Wind,"  Mr.  W.  B.  Scott's  "  Garland  for  Advancing 
Years,"  Miss  Rossetti's  "  To  Day's  Burden."  Mr.  Watts's 
"  Parable  Sonnets,"  Mrs.  Meynell's  "  Renouncement,'* 
and  Mr.  Gosse^s  "  Importunity,"  are  distinct  gains  to  our 
literature,  and  will  probably  find  a  place  in  future 
anthologies.  Mr.  Caine's  collection  also  includes  some 
examples  of  published  work  not  found  in  previous  col-> 
lections,  but  he  cannot  be  said  to  have  exhausted  the 
field.  It  is  by  accident,  no  doubt,  that  Mr.  Lang's  fault- 
less "Natural  Theologpr"  finds  no  place  in  it.  Mr. 
Caine  refers  to  Sir  William  Hamilton  in  a  note,  but  gives 
us  no  specimen  of  his  powers.  And  is  there  nothing 
of  Ghauncy  Hare  Townshend,  of  W.  J.  Linton,  of  Williank 
Barnes,  of  John  Wilson  ?  Surely,  too,  that  sampling  of 
American  sonnet  writers  is  imperfect  which  gives  nothin^c 
of  0.  W.  Holmes,  H.  Timrod,  Paul  Hayne,  and  Richard 
Watson  Gilder.  But  if  Mr.  Caine  has  not  remembered 
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deoesBon,  and  which,  if  not  precisely  final,  will  alwayt 
desenre  a  place  upon  our  shelves. 

Amtriean  Men  of  Letters— Wctshington  Irving,  By 
Charles  Dudley  Warner.—- i\^oaA  Webster.  By  Horace 
E.  Scudder.  (Sampson  Low  &  Go.) 
This  new  series  is  edifced  hy  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner, 
and  fitly  commences  with  a  life  of  Washington  Irving, 
the  first  American  writer  who  attained  a  European 
reputation.  Mr.  Warner,  who  has  undertaken  the  first 
Tolume  of  this  series,  wrote  the  introduction  to  the 
*' Geoffrey  Crayon"  edition  of  Washington  Irvinir's 
works  which  was  published  some  little  time  ago.  So 
abundant  are  the  materials  for  this  sketch  that  Mr. 
Warner's  difficulty  has  rather  been  how  to  avoid  over- 
crowding his  little  volume  with  interesting  reminis- 
cences. Of  the  charming  style  of  Irving's  writings  the 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  have  no  need  to  be  reminded ;  but 
it  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  his  works  should  be 
neglected  by  the  rising  generation.  The  amiability  of 
liis  character  added  an  additional  xest  to  the  purity  of 
his  style,  and  it  would  be  difficult  indeed  to  find  a 
better  model  for  the  young  literary  aspirant  than 
Washington  Irving.  Few  nobler  instances  could  be 
found  in  literary  history  than  the  abandonment  of  his 
long  cherished  scheme  of  writing  the  historyof  the  Con- 
quest of  Mexico  to  Mr.  W.  H.  Prescott.  With  such  a 
cnbject  we  need  hardly  say  that  Mr.  Warner  has  not 
fuled  to  produce  a  very  interesting  book. 

The  subject  of  Mr.  8cudder*B  sketch  is  that  of  a  very 
different  type  of  man.  Noah  Webster,  who  in  this 
country  is  mainly  remembered  as  a  compiler  of  an 
American  dictionary,  was  bom  in  the  little  village  of 
West  Hartford  on  October  16,  1758.  When  at  college 
he  serred  as  a  private  in  the  revolutionary  army.  During 
the  earlier  part  of  his  career  Webster  supported  himself 
by  teaching.  Unlike  Irving,  he  was  a  typical  American, 
with  all  the  distinct  indiriduality  of  his  race.  A  man  of 
indomitable  will,  extraordinary  persererance,  and,  above 
sdl,  of  unlimited  faith  in  himself.  Though  without  much 
depth  of  learning,  there  was  no  literary  work  that  he  did 
not  think  himself  capable  of  undertaking.  Whether  he 
was  vrriting  on  the  decompontion  of  white  lead  paint  or 
Sk  cure  for  cancer,  or  revising  the  Bible,  his  confidence 
never  failed  him.  Through  the  means  of  his  Spelling' 
Book,  which  was  published  in  1783,  and  his  JHaionary, 
whicn  did  not  appear  until  1828,  he  exercised  great 
influence  on  the  tormation  of  American  orthography. 
He  died  in  1843,  in  the  eighty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  We 
especially  commend  the  attention  of  our  readers  to  the 
chapter  on  the  American  dictionary  of  the  English 
language,  in  which  much  interesting  information  will  be 
found.  The  publishers  of  this  series  are  to  be  con- 
gratulated upon  having  produced  such  readable  and 
handy  volumes,  printed  in  a  clear  type  and  on  excellent 
paper.  If  a  complete  list  of  the  works  of  each  "  man 
of  letters'"  was  added  to  each  volume  we  think  it 
would  still  further  increase  the  usefulness  of  the  series. 

Royal  Commwion  on  Historical  Manuscripts.    Eighth 

Report.  (Stationery  Office.) 
To  write  a  review  of  a  huge  Tolume  such  as  this  is  im- 
possible within  the  lines  at  our  dispoeal.  To  pick  out  here 
and  there  a  fact  for  comment,  leaving  a  hundred  other 
things  more  important  untouched  upon,  suggests  un- 
pleasantly that  we  have  but  opened  the  book  at  random, 
and  remarked  on  the  first  matter  that  caught  the  eye. 
This  would,  in  the  present  case,  be  a  most  unfair  assump- 
tion. We  haTe  read  every  word  of  the  ponderous  folio, 
and  are  quite  sure  that  it  is  of  equal  importance  to 
students  with  any  of  its  predecessors.  The  only  marked 
falling  off  in  interest  is  in  the  portion  devoted  to  the 


MSS.  of  the  House  of  Lords.  There  the  calendarers 
have  got  down  to  the  reign  of  Charles  II.,  and  it  cannot 
be  pretended  that  that  time  of  "evil  days *' and  " evil 
tongues  "  is  equal  in  fascination  with  the  fierce  struggle 
of  the  Ciyil  War.  Though  containing  far  less  that 
appeals  to  the  imagination,  we  are  not  sure  that,  viewed  in 
the  white  light  of  history,  the  disclosures  are  not  as 
important.  We  yet  but  dimly  realize  what  a  sink  of 
iniquity  the  men  of  the  restored  monarchy  lived  in. 
The  papers  here  will  help  to  fill  out  the  picture.  The 
records  of  the  Corporation  of  Leicester  have  been  care- 
fully examined.  They  are  probably  as  important  as 
those  of  any  borough  in  the  three  kingdoms.  The  series 
of  royal  charters  opens  with  two  documents  dated  in  the 
first  year  of  King  John,  and  the  mass  of  papers  relating 
to  the  public  matters  of  the  town  is  simply  enormous. 
The  gild  rolls  begin  in  the  same  reign,  and  we  should 
conjecture,  from  Uie  evidence  we  have  here,  that  they  an 
so  imporisnt  that  every  line  of  them  should  be  published 
with  all  convenient  speed.  In  the  39  Henry  III.  we 
find  a  charter,  printed  in  full,  by  which  primogeniture 
was  substituted  for  the  custom  of  inheritance  known  aa 
Borough  English.  It  is  said  to  have  been  given  '*  assensa 
et  voluntate  omnium  burgensium."  Among  the  letters 
in  the  poffsession  of  the  Earl  of  Denbigh  is  a  document 
written  in  November.  1648,  from  some  place  in  the 
Netherlands,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  writer,  who 
was  a  Royalist,  knew  of  a  plot  to  murder  Col.  Thomas 
Rainborowe.  The  letter  must  have  been  written  early 
in  the  month,  for  Rainborowe  was  killed  in  an  inn  at 
Doncaster  by  certain  adyenturers  from  Pontefract  Castle 
on  October  29.  It  has  been  the  common  opinion  that  this 
cruel  deed  was  conceived  and  executed  by  members  of 
the  Pontefract  garrison  only.  This  letter,  however, 
makes  it  not  improbable  that  they  had  received  instruc- 
tions from  tiie  leaders  of  the  party  beyond  the  sea. 


Mb.  Kershaw,  the  librarian  of  Lambeth  Palace 
Library,  is  engaged  on  Studies  in  Lambeth  Library :  a 
Manual  of  its  History ^  Contents,  and  Literary  AnneUs. 
An  account  of  the  building  and  its  ancient  surroundings 
will  be  giren,  together  with  a  description  of  its  prin- 
cipal treasures.     Mr.  Elliot  Stock  will  be  the  publisher. 

Mr.  G.  L.  Oommv  will  give  an  account  of  books  on 
local  government  in  the  March  number  of  the  Biblio- 
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of  the  south  cloister  of  Westminster  Abbey,  May  17, 1732. 
See  Col.  Qiester's  Westminster  Abbey  Registers. 

AusTRAUAH  Heraldry  (ante,  pp.  104, 123).— A  corre- 
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1Y0TE3:— Charles  Lamb  at  Homa,  241— AhakspearUnat  242— 
Tho  "Bellglo  Medici,"  248 -Early  Oaidea  to  tbe  City  of 
Borne— The  "Cloture"  no  NoTelty.  244— B.  BrocUesbj— 
Cnrioiu  Coitom  of  the  Manor  of  South  Stainlej,  co.  York— 
Anderson's  "  Book  of  British  Topography  "—Sam  Sliekon 
Cumberiaod  Co.,  U.S.  A.— "  JabUe"  for  "  JubUee/  245. 

<)UBBI£S:— "The  Felon's  Wife'— Long  Ashton  Church— 
fihakspeare's  "Passionate  Pilgrim"— St.  White  and  her 
Cheeae- Andersen's  "Story' of  a  Mother,"  Ao.—liorland'8 
"  Kmblematioal  Palette  "  ~  Randle  Cotgrave  — Sir  B.  de 
Cunn,  1620.  240— The  Probable,  &c. — Heraldic— Two  Por- 
traits: a  Medal- "The  manlest '— Ben  Jonson— Song  of 
"The  Cork  L«g''— Gigantology— "The  History  of  aU  the 
Mobs,"  «c.,  247—"  A  History  of  the  Seven. Wise  Masters"— 
Enstachins  Viceoomes—"  Mighty  "  Tom  of  Oxford— Mrs. 
Maaham  and  Sarah,  Dncheaa  of  Marlborough  —  Authors 
Wanted,  243. 

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Bed  Ink— W.  Howlson  -  Lord  Loughborough —Zoophytes  of 
the  Mediterranean— Sixpenny  Edition  of  the  Poets.  253  - 
Ogley  Hay— B.  Sherman— Uibgame— Sleepers  in  Church— 
HallabaUoo- Iteration  of  Chimes,  254 -An  Old  8eal-E. 
Browne,  Norwich—"  Behold  the  roan  "—Dorset  Traditions— 
Oamea  of  Chess  and  Tables-"  Auld  Bobin  Ony."  265— Lord 
Bobert  Stuart— Aver  de  poU— "  Papa,"  Mc.—"  Fonel  "— 
"Colonel"  256— Hereward  le  Wake  —  Place-names  —  The 
Name  James— Ovlogdean  Grange— Memories  of  the  Battle 
of  Trafalgar— "Joseph  and  his  Brethren,"  267— Wray= 
Udali— "  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man' — "  Pomatum  "—Manor 
of  Bast  Greenwich  —  Isolated  Burial,  26S  —  "  NouTelles 
d'Angleterre"— "  A  Sermood."  Ae  —Authors  Wanted,  259. 

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CHABLES  LAMB  AT  HOME. 
I  ayailed  myself  of  Oharles  Lamb's  friendly 
inyitation  ("  N.  &  Q./'  e^  S.  iy.  363)  on  Tuesday, 
Augosfe  5,  1834.  On  reaching  his  oottage — ^whioh 
atood  back  from  the  road  (nearly  opposite  the 
chorch),  between  two  hoases  which  projected 
beyond  it,  and  waa  screened  by  shmbs  and  trees 
— I  found  that  he  was  out,  taking  his  morning's 
atrolL  I  was  admitted  into  a  small,  panelled, 
and  agreeably  shaded  parlour.  The  modest  room 
was  hung  round  with  engravings  by  Hogarth  in 
dark  frames.  Books  and  magazines  were  scattered 
on  the  table  and  on  the  old-fMhioned  window 
•eat  I  chatted  awhile  with  Miss  Lamb — a  meek, 
intelligent,  very  pleasant,  but  rather  deaf  elderly* 
lady,  who  told  me  that  her  brother  had  beien 
l^tified  by  parts  of  my  poem  ("Emily  de 
Wilton  "X  and  had  read  them  to  her.  "Elia" 
eame  in  soon  after — ^a  short,  thin  man.  His  dress 
was  black,  and  he  wore  a  capacious  coat,  breeches 
and  gaiters,  and  a  white  neck-handkerchief.  His 
dark  and  shaggy  hair  and  eyebrows,  heated  (Smc, 
and  yeiy  piercing  jet-black  eyes  gaye  to  his 
appearance  a  singularly  wild  and   striking  ex- 

*  Misa  Lamb  wai  bom  on  Dec.  8, 1767.    She  sarriTed 
her  brother  feveiml  yean,  and  deceased  on  May  20, 1847. 


pression.  The  sketch  of  him  in  Fraseir^i  Mc^a- 
zine*  giyes  a  true  idea  of  his  dress  and  figure, 
but  his  portraits  fail  to  represent  adequately  his 
remarkably  "fine  Titian  nead,  full  of  dumb 
eloquenoe,"  as  Hazlitt  described  it  He  grasped 
me  cordially  by  the  hand,  sat  down,  and,  taking 
a  bottle  from  a  cupboard  behind  him,  mixed  some 
mm  and  water.  On  another  occasion  his  sister 
objected  to  this  operation,  and  he  refrained. 
Presently  after  he  said,  **  May  I  have  a  little  drop 
now  ?  only  a  ketle  drop  ?  *  *^No,''  said  she ;  ^*  be 
a  good  boy."  At  last,  howeyer,  he  prevailed,  and 
took  his  usual  draught  On  each  visit  (that  of 
August  5  having  been  quickly  succeeded  by 
another)  I  found  he  required  to  be  drawn  into 
conversation.  He  would  throw  out  a  playful 
remark,  and  then  pause  awhile.  He  spoke  by 
fits  and  starts,  and  had  a  slight  impediment  in 
his  utterance,  which  made  him,  so  to  say,  grunt 
once  or  twice  before  he  began  a  sentence ;  but  his 
tones  were  loud  and  rich,  and  once,  when  he  read 
to  me  a  passage  from  a  folio  of  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher  (which  his  sister  had  brought  down  to 
show  me  Coleridge's  MS.  remarks  at  the  end  of 
each  play),  the  deep  pathos  of  his  voice  gave  great 
weight  to  the  improssion  made  by  the  poetiy. 
He  would  jump  up  and  slap  his  siBter  playfully  on 
the  back,  and  a  roomy  snuff-box  often  passed  be- 
tween them  on  the  old  round  table.  There  was  not 
that  point  in  his  conversation  which  we  find  in 
William  Hone's  («  N.  &  Q.,"  6*  S.  L  92, 171).  He 
agreed  with  me  that  Moore's  poetry  was  like  yeiyrich 
plum  cake— very  nice,  but  too  much  of  it  at  a  time 
makes  one  sick.  He  said  that  Byron  had  written 
only  one  good-natured  thing,  and  that  was  the 
Vision  of  Judgment,  **Mary,'*  he  added  to  Miss 
Lamb, "  don't  you  hate  Byron  ?  "  "  Yes,  Charles," 
she  replied.  "  That 's  right,"  said  he.  Of  <'  con- 
versational" Sharpe's  Eaays^f  which  had  just  been 
gublished,  and  praised  in  the  Quarterly  Eeview;t 
e  asserted,  ^  They  are  commonplace,  and  of  the 
two  attempts  at  oriticbm  in  them  worthy  of 
notice^  one— that  on  Cowpei^s  ^boundless  con- 
tiguity of  shade'— is  completely  incorrect"  He 
had  a  very  high  opinion  of  Wordsworth,  Baying, 
*'  He  is  a  very  noble  fellow."  I  think  he  under- 
valued Coleridge's  poetry.  He  regarded  the 
Ancient  Mariner  and  Chrittabd  as  Coleridge's  best 
productions  in  verse  ;  the  former,  in  his  opinion, 
was  miserably  clumsy  in  its  arrangement^  and  the 
latter  was  injured  by  the  "  mastiff  bitch  "  at  the 
beginning.  Coleridge  was  staying  with  Lamb  when 
he  wrote  it,  and  thinking  of  Sir  William  Curtis, 
Lamb  advised  Coleridge  to  alter  the  rhyme  thus  : 

"  Sir  LeoUne,  the  Baron  rottnd. 
Had  a  toothleu  maetiff  hound:' 

•  No.  Ixii.,  p.  136,  February,  1885. 

t  LiUen  and  Bstaw,  Prow  and  Vene,  12iaOk  1834. 

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Eli*  ihoaght  litUe  of  James  Montgomery,  who 
had  only  written  one  poem  which  pleased  him, 
and  that  was  among  his  minor  pieces.  Philip 
fxmArtevdde  had  been  sent  him  as  eqoal  to 
Shakespeare.  He  thought  it  was  nothing  extra- 
ordinary. He  had  a  good  opinion  of  Tennyson*s 
poems,*  which  had  lately  been  yery  sarcastically 
condemned  in  the  QuarUrly.f  When  at  Oxford, 
he  saw  Milton's  MSa  of  L* Allegro,  &a,  and  was 
grieyed  to  find  from  the  corrections  and  erasures 
how  the  poet  had  laboured  upon  them.  He  had 
ftmeied  that  they  had  come  from  his  mind  almost 
spontaneously.  He  said  that  to  be  a  true  poet  a 
man  must  serye  a  lonff  and  rigorous  apprentice- 
ship. He  musty  like  the  mathematician,  sit  with 
a  wet  towel  about  his  head  if  he  wishes  to  exceL 
It  was  far  easier  to  scribble  yerses  than  to  hammer 
out  good  poetry,  worthy  of  immortality.  Of  metres, 
Lamb  obeeryed,  there  were  plenty  of  old  ones, 
now  little  known,  which  were  better  than  any  new 
ones  which  could  be  deyised,  and  would  be  quite 
as  noyel.  He  lost  251.  by  his  best  effort,  John 
WoodviL  The  first  edition  of  this  ''tragedy," 
which  he  kindly  gaye  me,  I  still  possess.  It  is  a 
small  thin  yolume,  bound  in  blue  papered  boards 
with  a  pink  bMk,  and  dated  1802.  He  had,  he 
said,  a  curious  library  of  old  poetry,  &c.,  which  he 
had  bought  at  stalls  cheap.  ''I  haye  nothing 
uteful,"  he  added  ;  "  as  for  science,  I  know  and 
care  nothing  about  it."  Coleridge  used  to  write 
on  the  margin  of  his  books  when  staying  in  his 
house.  It  was  during  one  of  his  yisits  that  he 
translated  WalUmtein,  Lamb  thought  the  Lay 
the  best  of  Scotf  s  poetical  works.  He  told  me 
that  he  knew  his  letters  before  he  oould  speak, 
and  called  on  his  sister  to  youoh  for  the  truth  of 
this  story.  He  hated  the  country,  and  loyed  to 
walk  on  the  London  road,  because  then  he  could 
Isncy  that  he  was  wending  thither.  He  was  a 
great  walker.  He  neyer  nad  what  any  of  the 
reyiews  sud  about  him.    He  showed  me  a  copy 


*  Poems  hy  Alfred  Tennveon.  12nao.  1838. 

t  No.  zovii.  p.  81,  183s.  The  Quarterly  rericwer 
begins  his  critique  in  the  following  mock  eulogistic 
laoguage :—"  This  is,  as  some  of  his  marginal  notes  inti* 
mate,  Mr.  Tennyson's  second  appearance.  By  some 
strange  chance  vre  hare  never  seen  his  first  publication, 
which,  if  it  at  all  resembles  its  younger  brother,  must 
be  by  this  time  so  popular  that  any  notice  of  it  on  our 
part  would  seem  idle  and  presumptuous,  but  we  gladly 
seize  this  opportunity  of  repairing  an  unintentional 
negleot,  and  of  introducing  to  the  admiration  of  our 
more  sequestered  readers  a  new  prodigy  of  genius — 
another  and  a  brighter  star  of  that  galaxy  or  milky  way 
of  poetiy  of  which  the  lamented  Keats  was  the  har- 
binger  We  hare  to  offer  Mr.  Tennyson  our  tribute  of 

nnmingied  approbation,  and  it  is  yery  agreeable  to  us, 
as  well  as  to  our  readers,  that  our  present  task  will  be 
little  more  than  the  selection  for  their  delight  of  a  few 
specimens  of  Mr.  Tennyson's  singular  genius,  and  the 
yentnring  to  point  ont»  now  and  then,  the  peculiar 
briUlancy  of  some  of  the  gems  that  irradiate  his  poetical 
crown.-  ^ 


at  Coleridge's  will,  and  obsenred,  with  some  in* 
dignation,  that  the  conductors  of  the  AthencBUtm 
hM  written  to  him  for  reminiscences  of  his  old 
friend.  ''It  was  yery  indelicate,''  he  said,  ''to- 
make  any  such  request,"  and  he  refused.  He 
had  written  a  poem  called  the  Divirs  Marriagi^ 
to  a  tailor's  daughter,  but  suppressed  it  on  fiDding 

that  Dr.  0 ,  the  Vicar  of  E ,  had  similarly 

committed  himself.  On  rising  to  leaye  him,  oir 
my  last  yisit,  I  oould  not  open  the  parlonr  door. 
''Ah,"  he  ezdaimed,  with  a  sweet  smile,  "yon 
can  unlock  the  springs  of  Helicon,  but  you  cannot 
open  Uie  door  ! " 

I  regret  that  I  neyer  saw  him  afsain.  He 
deceased  (as  his  humble  grayestone  in  Edmonton 
Ghurchyanl  records)  on  Dea  27, 1834,  aged  fifty-- 
nine.  Wordsworth  wrote  his  epitaph,  to  th» 
oondnding  lines  of  which — 

"  And  if  with  friends  we  share 

The  joys  of  heaTen,  we  hope  to  meet  thee  there  " — 

I  humbly  and  heartily  sabscribe. 

J.  FULLBR  BnSSBLL,  F.S.A» 
i,  Ormonde  Terraee,  Regent*s  Park. 


8HAESPCARIANA. 
In  King  John,  I.  i.  occur  the  lines : — 

"  Sir  Richard,  Thus  leaning  on  mine  elbow  I  begin^ 
'  I  shall  beseech  you  *— that  is  question  now ; 
And  then  comes  answer  like  an  A.  B.C.  book :— > 
'  O  Sir,'  says  answer, '  at  your  best  comm^tnd ; 
'  At  your  employment ;  at  your  lenrice,  Sir.' 
'  No,  Sir,*  says  question,  *  I  sweet  Sir,  at  yours.' 
And  so  e*er  answer  knows  what  question  would. 
Saying  in  dialogue  of  compliment ; 
And  talking  of  the  Alps  and  Apennines, 
The  Pyrenssan  and  the  rirer  Po, 
It  draws  toward  supper  in  conclusion  so.'* 

''  Saying  "  in  the  last  line  but  three  giyes  no  good 
sense.  Accordingly  Theobald  and  Warburton 
changed  "  saying 'to  "serying."  The  right  line 
undoubtedly  is : — 

"  Salving  in  dialogue  of  Compliment, 
And  talking  of  the  Alps  and  Apennines." 

''To  salye"  is  "to  soften  by  language  which 
gratifies  the  person  addressed."  So  in  North's 
Plutarehf  "Peroeiying  that  his  friends  fell  a 
weeping  to  hear  him  say  so,  to  salye  that  he  had 
spoken,  he  added  this  more  unto  it ; '  that  he  would 
not  leaid  them  to  Battell,  where  he  thought  not 
rather  safely  to  retume  with  yictory  "  (Antoniu9^ 
p.  945).  So,  again,  "Brought  news  back  to 
Mithradates'  Oamp,  the  which  he  thought  to 
salye  as  well  as  he  oould,  saying  that  the  loss 
was  much  less  than  it  was  thonght"  (LueuUus, 
p.  57).  So,  again,  in  Shakespeare  himself,  Menenina 
says  to  Ooriolanus,  whose  language  has  giyen 
offence  to  the  Commons,  "You  may  salye  so** 
{Ooriol,  III.  ii.).  All  the  compliments  just 
mentioned  by  Sir  Bichard  precisely  accord  with 
the  term  applied  to  them,  "  salying."    "  And,"  ia 


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^'and  talkiDg,*'  clearly  connects  ''aalrinff"  with 
« talking." 

In  King  Henry  F.,  II.  iiL,  we  hare, — 

Mn.  QHieklv.  "  For  his  nose  was  aa  sharp  as  a  pen, 
«nd  'a  babbled  of  green  fields." 

This  paaaage  I  hare  correoted  rightly  so  far  as  I 
hare  gone,  bat  not  soffioiently,  in  my  N&w  Read- 
%ng8,  ToL  ii.  The  old  copy,  as  is  well  known, 
xnyes  ns,  <^/and  a  table  of  green  fields,"  which 
Theobald  amended,  with  approval  almost  oniyersal, 
to  "'a  babbled  of  green  fields."  Bat  I  hare 
little  doubt  that  Shakespeare  wroU, — 
^*  For  his  nose  was  as  sharp  as  a  pen,  and  'a  iaUte  of 
green  fields." 

This  reading  only  changes  and  transposes  a 
single  letter  6,  and  therefore  supposes  only  a  most 
natural  oorraption.  The  speech  opens  with  "a 
parted"  for  "he  parted,"  therefore,  of  course,  the 
a  of ''a  table  "is  right  ''A  talked  "*  would  be 
identical  in  form  with  *'  a  parted."  Bat  the  transi- 
tion from  the  past  tenses,  *^  parted  "  and  ''  was,"  to 
the  present  tense,  "  a  talke  "  is  rery  common  in 
fihakespeare's  narratire  style,  and  is  besides 
4mrionsly  and  precisely  exemplified  in  King  John 
AS  to  this  Tery  rerb  to  talk,  thus: — 

*<  Who.  with  his  shears  and  measure  in  his  hand. 
Told  of  a  many  thousand  warlike  Frencb, 
That  were  embattailed and  ranked  in  Kent; 
Another  lean  unwashed  artificer 
CuU  off  his  tale  and  talh  of  Arthur's  death." 
^*  A  talke  "  is  at  this  Tery  time  used  in  Pembroke- 
ehire  sometimes  for  ^  he  talks." 
Hmry  F.,  I.  il : — 

^  Howbeit  thev  would  hold  up  the  Ehdique  law, 
To  bar  your  highness  claiming  from  the  female; 
And  rather  choose  to  hide  them  in  a  net, 
Than  amply  to  imbare  their  crooked  titles 
Usurp'd  from  you  and  your  progenitors." 

The  quarto  editions  of  1600  and  1602  read  "im- 
bace  their  crooked  causes  ";  that  of  1608  gires  ns 
''embrace^;  the  old  folios  read  '^imbane  their 
•crooked  titles";  Bo  we  amended  by  ^made  bare"; 
Theobald,  at  Warburton's  suggestion,  corrected  by 
**  imbare  "  and  was  followed  by  Mason  and  lialone. 
I  hare  in  my  New  Readings,  at  p.  20,  suggested, 
''than  amply  to  unbrace  their  crooked  causes." 
This  amendment  I  still  think  plausible  altogether 
And  right  in  its  purport ;  but  since  so  proposing 
it  I  incline,  on  the  whole,  to  suggest  a  diiferent 
•duunge^  founded  upon  the  language  of  a  passage 
an  Holinshed,  which  has  no  reference  to  the  reign 
of  Henry  V.,  but  which  Shakespeare  probably  had 
read, — "So  when  he  was  possessed  but  not  in- 
teressed  in  the  same  he  uneated  the  croaked  con- 
-ditions  which  he  had  coyertly  concealed,  and  in 
the  end  as  by  the  sequele  you  shall  see  did  pull 
shame  and  infamy  upon  himself"  (Book  y.  chap. 
i.  p.  563).  I  would  suggest,  therefore, — 
"  And  rather  choose  to  hide  them  in  a  net 
^  Than  amply  to  uneate  their  crooked  causes 
YJsorp'd  from  you  and  your  progenitors." 


"  Imbace,"  the  reading  of  the  first  quartos,  is  m 
most  probable  mispnnt  for  ''uncace*;  tm 
being  all  but  identical  with  fin,  h  being  a 
natural  misprint  of  c,  and  the  spelling  ''  uncace  ^ 
for  "  uncase  "  being  a  rery  common  form  of  ortiio- 
graphy.  As  the  word  "  crooked  "  in  Shakespeare 
corresponds  with  ^crooked''  in  Holinshed,  and 
''hide"  in  Shakespeare  with  ''concealed''  in 
Holinshed,  it  is  most  dearly  suggested  that 
"uncase"  in  Shakespeare  corresponds  also  with 
"  uncased  **  in  Holinshed. 

HsNRT  Halfobd  Yaughak. 


Sir  Thomas  Brownk's  "Rblioio  Mbdici" 
(see  ante,  pp.  102, 182).— I  cannot  but  feel  much 
gratified  by  the  friendly  manner  in  which  such  an 
author  as  Dr.  Qrbsnhill  has  done  me  the  iaTOur  of 
noticing  my  remarks  {ante,  p.  182)  on  the  new  edi- 
tion of  the  Religio  Mediei,  and  hope  that  he  will 
kindly  accept  my  reply  in  the  same  spirit  For 
the  sake  of  breyity,  1  wrote  in  the  form  of  notes, 
which  possibly  rendered  my  meaning  less  plain. 
Dr.  Qrebmhill  also  has  referred  to  portions  only  of 
some  of  the  notes,  which  makes  my  remarks  seem 
still  more  imperfect.  I  hope  that  the  readers  of 
''  N.  &  Q."  wiU  not  think  it  too  much  trouble  to 
refer  to  my  obseryations  in  comparison  with  these 
remarks.  I  beg  to  answer  some  of  Dr.  GRBsifHiLL's 
notes  in  reply  to  mine. 

6.  The  "  pazsle"  is  due  not  to  myself,  but  to  the 
Bodleian  Gatalogue,  in  which,  so  &r  as  I  remember, 
I  found  the  work  under  the  name  of  "  Fabricius." 
If  it  had  been  catalogued  under  "  Hildanas "  I 
should  doubtless  haye  so  named  the  author.  I  had 
the  yolume  before  me.  I  used,  in  order  to  find  it, 
the  old  printed  catalogue^  as  being  more  conyenient 
for  use  than  the  fuller  one  in  BiS.  In  Hole's 
Brirf  Biog.  DicL  (Lond.,  1866)  I  find,  "  Fabricius, 
William.    Hildanue,'*  under  '*  Fabricius." 

8.  '*  ApoUonius  of  Tyana "  was  referred  to  as 
being  Keek's  suggestion ;  I  intended  to  imply  that 
he,  Keck,  should  haye  said  "  ApoUonius  of  TyreJ^ 
This  ApoUonius,  as  Dr.  Orbbmhtll  asks  for  a 
reference,  forms  the  subject  of  chapter  cliiL  in  the 
Oeeta  Romanorum;  his  life  is  published  in 
Teubner's  "  Greek  and  Latin  Libraiy  "  as  Hietoria 
ApoUonii  Regie  Tyri,  ed.  A  Biese,  and  the  history 
is  supposed  to  haye  been  the  original  source  of 
Shakespere's  Peridee. 

13.  I  offer  an  apology  for  missing  the  reference 
to  Horace  in  the  notes ;  but  it  does  not  occur  in 
the  index  e.v.  "  Hoiaoe." 

14.  Sir  T.  Browne  referred  to  the  misi>laoement 
of  the  two  emperors  in  the  order  of  their  succes- 
sion as  an  error  of  MaohiayeL  I  meant  to  show 
that  this,  of  which  the  source  was  not  yerified  by 
Dr.  Grbenhill,  was  no  mistake  on  the  part  of 
Machiayel,  but  of  Sir  T.  Browne  himself,  as  the 
actual  succession  was  twice  correctly  stated  in  the 
same  chapter,  but  was  once,  when  MaduaTsl  wai 


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speakisg  of  the  philosophy  of  hiBtory,  placed  differ- 
ently. I  cannot  think  that  Sir  T.  Browne  could 
have  thought  this  an  error  on  the  pait  of  Machiavel, 
if  he  had  read  and  understood  the  whole  chapter. 
He  probably  saw  Uie  passage  upon  which  he 
commented  oy  itself. 

17.  I  proposed  to  found  my  remark  upon  "  the 
music  of  the  spheres"  on  the  curious  circamstance 
that  Mr.  O.  A.  Sala  had  shown  that  the  only 
correspondent  who  had  giren  the  earliest  use  of 
the  expression,  in  Peridaf  V.  l,  was  a  country 
correspondent ;  while  seventy  had  given  the  early 
occurrences  of  the  other  expression,  ^'the  masic 
from  the  spheres."  It  was  in  this  respect  that 
Mr.  Sala's  correspondent  was  "in  adrance'*  of 
Dr.  Oreenhill*8  authority.  Dr.  Oreekhill 
referred  to  Uie  Illusirated  Ntm  in  equally  general 
terms  with  myself,  or  nearly  so. 

18.  It  appeared  to  me  insufficient  to  refer  to 
dictionaries  and  general  histories.  For  my  own 
part,  I  had  not  the  works,  and  a  concise  quotation 
from  an  original  authority  would  hare  better 
suited  me.  I  am  aware  that  it  has  become  the 
practice  with  editors  of  the  highest  reputation 
to  refer  to  Smith's  dictionaries  generally ;  but  it 
must  often  be  Uie  result  that  the  readers  of  their 
works,  from  not  possessing  such  expensive  collec- 
tions, must  be  left  in  ignorance  of  that  which 
might  have  been  conveyed  to  them  concisely 
enongh  by  a  brief  reference  to  original  sources. 
It  seems  scarcely  enough  to  say,  Look  out  the  word 
in  the  best  dictionary.  It  is  different  rather 
when  a  statement  is  made  by  the  writer,  and  he 
wishes  to  shelter  himself  under  such  an  authority 
without  taking  the  trouble  to  prove  his  accuracy. 

£d.  Marshall. 

Early  Guides  to  thb  City  of  Rome.— A 
curious  little  pamphlet  of  fourteen  pages  fell  into 
my  hands  recently  from  a  bookseller^s  catalogue, 
and  may  be  worth  a  note.    It  is  entitled  : — 

''Doscriptio  BrerisBima  Priscas  Yrbia  Romie.  Con 
Gratia  et  PriTelegio.  Yenetiis  apud  Cominum  de 
Tridino  Montisferrati^  m.d.xliiii." 

It  is  probably  the  oldest  of  the  many  visitors* 
handbooks  to  Home.  It  is  in  Latin,  and  it  gives 
brief  notes,  '^De  Portia,  de  Pontibus,  de  Aquse- 
ductis,  de  Thermis,  de  Foris,  de  Arcuhus,  de 
Theatris,  de  Obeliscis,  de  Pirnmidibus,  de  Viis,  &c. 
Another  guide  book,  a  few  years  later  in  date,  is 
more  curious  and  more  complete.   It  is  entitled : — 

**  Le  Coie  Maravigliose  deir  Alma  Citta  di  Roma  Dove 
si  Tratia  delle  CLieee,  Station!,  Indulgence  e  Reliquie 
dei  Corpi  Santi,  che  Bono  in  eesa.  Oon  an  breve  Trattato 
delle  Antichita,  cfaiamato  La  Guida  Roma  et  i  nomi  de 
\  Sommi  Pontefioi,  de  gV  Tmperadori,  de  i  Re  di  Francia, 
Re  di  Napoli,  de  i  Dogi  di  Venetia  k  Ducbi  di  Milano, 
nlitmatamdte  ristampate.    1560." 

On  the  title  is  a  rude  woodcut  of  a  figure  like 
Britannia  offering  a  globe  (?)  to  a  sitting  male 
figure,  and  below,  the  word  *^  RO  ii,"  the  blank  space 


being  left  between  the  Ro  and  the  M— which  m  is 
made  into  an  a.  At  the  back  of  the  title  is 
another  rude  woodcut,  in  three  compartments,  tho 
upper  left  showing  a  church  with  dome  and 
campanile,  the  right  a  figure  kneeling  at  a  cur- 
tained shrine,  and  below  a  wolf  suckling  Romulus 
and  Remus,  with  the  inscription,  **  Qui  seguita  le 
edificazione  di  Roma  &  di  Romulo  I  Re  &  quanto  fa 
la  sua  Grandezza."  Nine  other  rude  woodcuts,  initial 
letters,  pictures  of  St  Peter  and  other  saints,  illus- 
trate the  work,  which  is  printed  in  black  letter^ 
excepting  the  tables  at  the  end.  The  larger  part  of 
the  forty-five  leaves  (a  few  at  the  end  are  missing)  is 
devoted  to  the  churches  and  the  religious  festivals, 
but  the  few  pages  at  the  end  are  especially  curious, 
being,  in  fact,  a  "  personally  conducted "  ramble 
through  Rome  in  three  days,  under  the  guidance 
of  an  early  Cook  or  Gaze  or  Oaygill,  to  see  the 
sights.  The  author  signs  himself  ''Vostro  Sha* 
Kerlay  loglese,"  and  entitles  his  guide, 

"La  Qaida  Romana,  per  tutti  i  Forastieri  cbe  Tfigono 
per  vedere  le  antichita  di  Roma,  a  una  per  una  in 
oelliseima  forma  k  brevity.'* 

He  addresses  himself  to  his  "  Lettori  carissimi,'' re- 
grets that  so  many  of  our  English,  French,  and  Flem- 
ings, and  many  other  nations,  come  to  see  Rome  and 
do  not  see  even  a  third  part  of  the  wonders,  and  asks 
them  to  walk  well  with  him  through  the  streets, 
and  not  to  ask  too  many  things,  but  to  leave 
themselves  to  him,  and  he  will  show  them  the 
truth  in  all  and  with  as  much  brevity  as  possible, 
and  he  hopes  to  their  full  satisfaction.  He  divides 
the  perambulation  into  three  days,  appointing  • 
special  rest  for  dinner,  and  after  dinner  resumes 
the  walk.  So  little  are  the  chief  places  of  Rome 
changed  since  1560,  that  the  little  Quida  would  be 
useful  and  correct  to-day,  as  the  chief  facts  about 
all  the  sights  are  given  in  some  detail.  One  ex- 
tract only  will  suffice,  and  is  given  in  the  original 
Italian  : — 

"Delle  Donne  Romane.  Ma  se  se  con  tutte  qneste 
cose,  desiderate  vedere  le  belle,  e  honoratisrime  Donne 
Romane  come  vaono,  e  in  ohe  habito,  an  date  alia  Pace» 
0  alia  Minerva,  S.  Apostolo,  san  Lorenzo,  o  a  eaa  fllero- 
nimo,  e  vedrete  lor  modo,  e  nobilissimo  andare.*' 

ESTX. 

Birmingham. 

The  **  Cloture  "  yo  Noveltt.  —  There  is  Id 
truth  nothiog  new  under  the  sun.  In  turning  over 
an  old  collection  of  Irish  pamphlets  I  have  just 
fallen  upon  one  entitled  A  Modest  Proposal  for 
the  Prohibition  of  Speech,  Humbly  Offered  to  th» 
Consideration  of  Parliament,  published  in  Dublin, 
and  printed  for  "  Peter  Wilson,  Bookseller  at  Gays- 
Head,  near  Fowns's  Street,  in  Dame  Street,  1743.'^ 
The  pamphlet  is  amusing  and  well  written,  but 
the  particular  portion  which  must  commend  itself 
to  the  legislator  in  the  present  day  is  the  follow- 
ing paragraph: — 

"What  a  happyl  tranquil  Life  would  that  of  a  Prime 


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Minister  be,  prorided  he  waa  not  liable  to  the  aaucy 
Jeits  and  SareaBmB  of  unruly  little  People!  Now-a-days 
there  is  no  going  anywhere  but  what  you  are  immediately 
surrounded  by  a  Tribe  of  impertinent  Coxcombs,  who 
are  making  free  with  their  Betters  and  turning  the  grare 
Measures  of  our  greatest  Statesmen  into  Ridicule  and 
Contempt.  Such  Insults  are  intolerable  and  ought  not 
to  be  offered  to  illustrious  Courtiers ;  but  that  no  worthy 
Men  hereafter  may  be  discouraged  by  the  malicious 
tongues  of  Scurvy  Fellows  out  of  Place,  I  conceire  some 
Expedient  ought  to  be  thought  of,  and  I  do  not  appre- 
hend a  more  pregnant  and  effectual  one  can  possibly  be 
dsTised  than  an  absolute  Prohibition  of  Speecn." 

W.  F. 

BiCHARD  Bbocexesbt. — In  re-cataloguiDg  the 
pamphlets  contaioed  in  the  Medical  Library  here,  I 
came  across  an  anonymous  one,  entitled: — 

**  Reflections  on  Antient  and  Modem  Mosick,  with  the 
Application  to  the  Cure  of  Diseases.  To  which  is  sub- 
joined, An  Essay  to  solve  the  Question,  wherein  con- 
sisted the  Difference  of  antient  Mustek,  from  that  of 
modem  Times.  8^  London:  printed  for  M.  Cooper,... 
1749." 

On  the  fly-leaf  of  the  Tolame  containing  the  aboye 
and  eight  others  is  the  following  autograph  in- 
seription : — 

"The  following  Tracts  were  sold  at  the  late  D* 
Fothergills  sale  of  books  for  12  „  6**. 

"I  was  induced  to  give  that  extravagant  price  for 
them  on  Account  of  my  own  Pamphlet,  Reflexions  on 
Antient  &  Modem  Musick  [written  ?J  whilst  I  was  under 
26  Years  of  Age,  of  w<*  pamphlet,  though  wrote  by  D' 
Broeklesby  Anno  1747  &  published  1749, 1  kept  no  Copy 
farther  than  that  I  reckoned  on  picking  it  up  in  some 
Sale  of  Books  at  market,  k  being  determind  to  have  one 
Copy  I  paid  for  the  same  as  above. 

"RiOHARD  BROOKLBSBT." 

This  was  the  celebrated  physician  who  was  very 
intimate  with  Dr.  Johnson,  to  whom  he  offered  a 
pension  of  1002.  a  year  for  life.  His  tract  on  music 
is  yeiy  imperfectly  mentioned  in  Watt's  Bihlio- 
iheca  Britanniea,  Adrian  Whbbler. 

University  College,  London. 

A  Curious  Custoh  of  thb  Mavor  of  South 
Stainlbt,  CO.  York.— Having  lately  had  in  my 
possession  the  settlement  on  the  marriage  of  Sir 
Henry  Swale  (second  baronet)  with  Dorothy  Cra- 
thome  of  Crathome,  co.  York,  which  is  dated 
Dec.  14,  1663, 1  made  the  following  extract : — 

"  And  also  all  that  free  Bent  of  Eight  pence  of  UwfuU 
money  of  England  payable  by  one  Edward  Cooper  for 
the  freehold  lands  and  tenements  in  Brereton  aforesaid 
houlden  of  the  said  manner  of  South  Stainley  by  the 
payment  of  the  said  free  rent  of  Eight  pence  Yearlie  on 
the  Feast  of  the  birth  of  our  Lord  Qod  And  he  the  s' 
Edward  is  Tearlie  on  that  day  to  make  the  fire  in  the 
Hall  of  the  Mannor  House  of  South  Stainley  aforesaid  or 
els  to  pay  a  pennv  to  him  or  her  that  shall  make  the  fire 
for  him.  And  the  said  Edvrard  Cooper  is  yearlie  to  sitt 
at  the  said  Hall  Table  at  Dynner  Time  on  the  Fetst  day 
of  the  birth  of  our  Lord  Qod  aforesaid  with  a  dish  of 
water  before  him  and  a  stone  in  it." 

This  deed  is  interesting  also  in  another  respect, 
for  it  refers  to  an  "  ancient  deed  of  bounder "  in 
words  that  look  very  like  a  translation  of  part  of 


the  original  grant  from  Walter   de    Gaunt    to 
Alured  Swale,  the  ancestor  of  this  Sir  Henrjr. 
The  custom  I  haye  quoted  does  not  appear  in 
Blount's  Tenures.    John  H.  Chapuan,  F.S.A 
Lincoln's  Inn. 

Anderson's  "  Book  of  British  Topographt." 
— Most  of  our  topographical  books  are  printed  and 
published  out  of  London,  and  yeiy  few  local  pub- 
lishers (and  comparatively  few  writers,  I  fear)  eyet 
think  of  sending  their  works  to  our  national 
libraries.  Hence  the  number  of  omissions  in  Mr. 
Anderson's  new  book  is  enormous.  I  had  no  idea 
before  that  the  British  Museum  was  so  poor  in 
topographical  literature.  Just  to  mention  one 
instance,  I  haye  in  my  own  library  at  least  fifty 
works  relating  to  Leicestershire  not  mentioned 
by  Mr.  Anderson.  I  belieye  that  the  yaluable 
interleayed  copy  of  Cough's  Topography  in  the 
Bodleian  Library  contains  a  yast  number  of  topo- 
graphical works  not  in  Mr.  Anderson's  book.  ^  I 
should  not  be  surprised  to  find  that  the  Bodleian 
Library  is  richer  in  topography  than  the  British 
Museum.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  simplest  plan 
of  getting  local  literature  into  the  British  Museum 
would  be  to  employ  an  agent  in  each  county,  who 
should  receiye  instructions  to  buy  up  local  books 
not  in  Mr.  Anderson's  catalogue,  and  to  see  that  a 
copy  of  eyeiy  topographical  book  published  in  the 
county  is  sent  to  the  British  Museum  in  future* 
Why,  too,  are  not  topographical  writers  more 
careful  about  seeing  that  their  own  works  are 
deposited  in  our  national  libraries  ? 

W.  G.  D.  F. 

Sam  Slick  oh  Cumberland  Co.,  U.S.  A.— What 
the  sagacious  author  of  The  Clochmdker  says  of 
Cumberland  (chap.  xyL,  a  chapter  containing  a 
yery  smart  censure  on  the  British  and  the  Irish) 
is  so  wonderfully  applicable  to  the  disturbed 
districts  in  the  south  and  west  of  Ireland,  that  it 
may  be  admiratiyely  quoted  just  now,  and  should 
be  attentiyely  studied.  Slick  points  to  a  rock- 
maple  or  sugar  tree,  which  "will  bear  tappin  for 
many  years,  tho*  it  gets  exhausted  at  last."  He 
remarks : — 

"  This  Pioyinoe  is  like  that  are  tree  ;  it  is  tapped  till 
it  begins  to  die  at  the  top,  and  if  they  don't  drire  in 
a  spile  and  stop  the  eyerlastin  flow  of  the  sap,  it  will 
perish  altogether.  All  the  money  that 's  made  here,  all 
the  interest  that 's  paid  on  it,  and  a  pretty  considerable 
portion  of  the  rent  too,  all  goes  abroad  for  inyestment^ 
and  the  rest  is  sent  tons  to  buy  bsead.  It'sdramed 
like  a  bog,  &o.  There 's  neither  spirit,  enterprise,  nor 
patriotism  here,  &c.  If  I  see  a  ProTince  like  this,  of 
great  capacity  and  great  nateral  resources,  poTer^- 
stricken,  I  suy  there's  bad  legislation." 
This,  with  a  paragraph  of  more  serious  import,  is 
well  worth  consideration  by  eyery  friend  of  Ireland. 

C.  M.  L 

" Jubilr''  for  "Jubilee."— In  these  days  of 
Scriptural  reyision  it  might  not  be  ambs  to  re- 


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model  the  spellings  of  certain  words.  "  Peny  "  for 
**  penny  **  has  already  been  referred  to  in  **N.  &  Q.," 
hat  I  think  that  "jnbiie"  for  "jubilee"  has  not 
been  noticed.  The  word  occurs  several  times  in 
Lev.  zxY.,  and  is  printed  '*  jubile."  Is  it  governed 
by  the  same  rule  that  applies  to  "peny";  if  so, 
why  should  such  a  misprint  be  repeated  in  our 
authorized  versions  ?  Cuthbbrt  Bede. 


We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  informaiion 
•n  family  matters  of  only  priyate  interest,  to  affix  their 
Barnes  and  addresseB  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
anawen  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


"Thb  Felon's  Wife.— Where  can  I  find  the 
song  called  "  The  Felon's  Wife,"  quoted  by  Dr. 
Guest  in  his  English  Bhythms,  L  302,  as  being 
written  by  "  a  modem  poet "  ?    It  begins, 
"  The  brand  is  on  thy  brow, 
A  dark  and  guilty  spot, 
'Tis  nA*er  to  be  erased, 
'Tis  ne'er  to  be  forgot." 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 
Cambridge. 

Long  Ashton  Church,  Somerset.— I  shall 
le  glad  of  any  information  with  regard  to  the 
tomb  of  the  founder  of  Loog  Ashton  Church,  near 
Bristol,  Thomas  de  Lyons.  A  tomb  formerly 
existed  in  the  church,  and  the  slab  which  covered 
it,  bearing  an  incised  effigy,  is  illustrated  in 
C^llinson's  H%$t,  of  Somenet,  and  he,  as  well  as 
Eutter,  gives  a  description  of  it.  It  then  existed 
in  the  floor  of  the  nave,  the  tomb  itself  having 
been  destroyed.  When  at  Long  Ashton  Church 
fr  short  time  ago  I  could  find  no  traces  of  the 
slab.  Is  it  still  in  existence;  and,  if  so,  where  is 
it  to  be  found?  Was  it  removed  during  the 
restoration  of  the  church  ?  R.  W.  P. 

Early  Editions  of  Shakspeare^s  ^'Pas- 
sionate Pilgrim.''  —  Two  copies  of  the  first 
edition  in  1599  are  recorded ;  one  in  the  Capell 
Collection  at  Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  the 
other  in  the  library  of  Sir  Charles  Isham  at  Lam- 
port Hall,  Northants.  No  copy  of  the  second 
edition  has  been  as  yet  discovered.  With  regard 
to  the  third  edition,  in  1612,  Hazlitt,  Lowndes, 
Bohn,  and  Halliwell  in  his  Shahptriana,  1841, 
ftli  refer  to  one  and  the  same  copy,  that,  namely, 
in  the  Malone  Collection  in  the  Bodleian  Library. 
Are  any  other  copies  of  this  third  edition 
Inown ;  and^  if  so,  in  what  collections  are  they 
preserved?  W.  E.  Bucklet. 

St.  White  and  her  CHEESE.->Can  any  of 
your  correspondents  inform  me  who  was  "St. 
White  **  ?  I  have  been  reading  a  little  16mo.  black 
letter  volume  on  the  epistles  of  St.  John,  of  which 
a  somewhat  similar  copy  is  preserved  in  the  Bod- 


leian Library;  in  the  catalogue  of  which  it  is 
ascribed  to  William  Tyndale,  and  is  dated  1538. 
On  folios  83  and  84  of  this  work  I  have  found  the 
following  curious  references  to  a  saint  whose  name 
is  new  to  me : — 

"  Saynte  Why te  mnste  haae  a  obese  once  in  a  yeare, 
and  that  of  the  greatest  8orte,  whiche  yet  eateth  no 
chese.    It  shat  be  geuen  to  to  the  poore  in  hyr  name  saye 

they Moreouer  they  saye:  It  is  geuen  vnto  saynte 

Whytes  chappelayn What  shall  saynte  Wbyte  do  for 

the  agayne  for  tliat  greate  chese  1  (for  I  wote  wel  it  is  not 
geue'  for  nouKht)  shal  she  goue  abuMaa'ce  of  mylk  to 
make  butter  &  chese  V 

I  hope  to  elicit  from  your  rraders  some  informa-> 
tion  as  to  "  Saynt  Why  te  "  and  her  great  cheese. 
W.  Barclay  Squire. 

[We  find  no  account  of  either  sa'nt  or  custom  in  Alban 
Butler,  Hone,  or  Chamberi.] 

Andersen's  "Story  of  a  Mother,"  and 
E.  Bli^mont's  "Jardin  Ekchantb."  —  The 
Bappd  recently  contained  a  notice  of  a  new 
volume  of  poems  by  M.  Emile  Bl^mont  entitled 
Lc  Jardin  EnchantL  The  reviewer  gives  special 
praise  to  one  poem,  his  epitome  of  which  shows 
that  it  is  identical  with  Hans  Christian  Andersen's 
beautiful  Story  of  a  Mother.  I  am  not  aware 
whether  that  is  an  invention  of  the  Danish  poet  or 
based  upon  some  genuine  folk-tale. 

William  E.  A.  Axon. 

Morland's  "Emblematical  Palette."  — 
Under  this  title  I  have  seen  a  curious  aquatint 
printed  in  colours  and  representing  an  artist's 
palette,  on  which  rest  a  wine-glass,  a  couple  of  long 
clay  pipes  crossed,  and  a  packet  of  Virginia 
tobacco  bearing  an  inscription,  the  only  de- 
cipherable woiding  being  *^ Rebus"  and  ^yoa 
desire."  The  palette  is  charged  with  dabs  of 
colour,  apparently  carelessly  laid  on,  but  resolving 
themselves  on  examination  into  curious  figures 
and  faces.  The  print  was  engraved  by  S.  W. 
Reynolds  and  published  in  1806,  and  is  inscribed 
'*  Engraved  from  the  original,  painted  for  the 
society  founded  by  him  ^led  ^Knights  of  the 
Palette,'  and  attached  to  the  ceiling  of  their 
assembly-room,  under  which  each  candidate  drank 
his  wine  to  the  founder's  health  and  became  a 
member."  It  would  be  interesting  to  know  of 
what  Morland's  palette  is  emblematical  ? 

Andrew  W.  Tusr. 

Randls  Cotgrave.— Where  can  I  find  any 
biographical  details  of  Cotgrave,  the  author  of  the 
well-known  French- English  Dictionary^  published 
A.D.  1611?  I  wish  to  know  particularly  where 
he  was  bom,  and  where  he  spent  the  early  years 
of  his  life.  Encyclopiedias  and  biographical  die* 
tionaries  seem  to  ignore  his  existence. 

A.  L.  Mayhew. 

Sir  Bernard  de  Gunn,  Born  at  Lille  ik 
1620. — After  serving  under  the  Prince  of  Orange, 


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he  joined  Charles  I,  by  whom  he  was  knighted. 
Under  Charles  II.  and  James  II.  he  held  the  offices 
of  engineer  -  general,  quartermaster  -  general,  and 
surveyor  of  the  Ordnance.  He  died  Nov.  23, 
1685.  Sir  William  Gunn  entered  Mackay's  regi- 
ment at  an  early  age,  and  saw  much  service  abro^. 
He  commanded  the  Scots  Brigade  at  the  battle 
of  Nordlingen,  led  the  van  at  a  battle  in  1636, 
and  returned  to  Scotland  on  the  breaking  oat  of 
the  troubles  of  Charles  I.,  when  he  was  second  in 
command  of  the  royal  army  under  Viscount 
Aboyne.  He  was  knighted  and  admitted  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Privy  Council  by  the  king.  Afterwards 
he  entered  the  Austrian  service,  where  he  rose  to 
the  rank  of  maior-seneral.  He  married  a  kdy  of 
Ulm.    I  shall  be  glad  of  any  further  particulars. 

A.  P.  A.  B. 

The  Probable  as  a  Topic  for  Injury  of 
Oharagtbr:— 

"He  has  neglected  the  well-known  maxim  of  a  diplo- 
matic n4se :  '  If  you  want  to  do  mage  a  man,  you  eay 
what  is  probable,  as  well  as  what  is  true.* "— Hazley, 
JStioyi  SeUeted  form  Lay  StrmoM,  ke.,  Essay  ▼.  p.  97, 
Lond.,  1871). 
Who  is  the  sage  1  Ed.  Marshalu 

JOHV    TOWNSEND,   ARCHITECT,   OF    OXFORD. — 

His  two  daughters  and  co-heiresses  married,  the 
one,  Thomas  Stevens,  of  Bradfield,  Berks,  and  the 
other  (Elizabeth),  Bev.  John  Frewer,  rector  of 
Tort  worth,  oo.  Gloucester,  eirea  1765.  Was  this 
John  Townsend  (who  is  said  in  Burke's  Cam- 
monen  to  have  borne  arms,  Az.,  three  escallops 
arg.)  related  to  the  Townsends  of  Newbury ;  and 
if  not,  what  was  his  ancestry  ?  Any  information 
would  be  gladly  received  by  C.  Moor. 

Heraldic— To  whom  do  the  following  arms 
belong  1  I  cannot  give  the  tinctures.  A  fesse 
between  three  mascles;  crest^  on  an  esquire's 
helmet^  a  horse  statant. 

W.  F.  Marsh  Jackson. 

Two  Portraits  :  a  Medal.— I  have  in  my 
possession,  and  they  have  also  been  very  long  in 
that  of  my  family,  two  good  portraits  on  panel, 
the  names  burned  in  on  the  back,  one  of  Sir 
Nicholas  Poyntz,  the  other  Sir  John  Poyntz. 
Size,  12iin.  by  10}  in.  No  date  or  name  of 
painter,  but  traditionally  by  Holbein.  Also,  I 
have  a  silver  engraved  medal  pierced  for  a  necklet, 
James  I.^  encircled  by  the  motto,  ''Give  Thy 
Judgements  0  Qod  unto  the  King";  and  on  the 
reverse,  Charles  I.,  motto^  "  And  Thy  righteous- 
nesse  unto  the  King's  Son."  Size  rather  larger 
than  a  bank  token  for  Is.  6(i,  1814.  I  shall  be 
ghul  of  any  information  as  to  these. 

Wlf.   STtJTFIELD. 

'*  The  iCAMissT." — Can  any  of  your  numerous 
readers  give  me  any  other  example  of  the  use  of 
this  superlative  t   It  occurs  in  W.  Turner's  Noma 


of  Htrbes,  1548,  p.  56  (E.D.S.,  1881):  "Chesnuttes 
growe  in  diuerse  places  of  Eoglande.  The  maniest 
that  I  haue  seene  was  in  Kent." 

F.   C.   BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 

Ben  Jonson.— Is  it  quite  certain  that  the  poet 
was  born  in  Westminster  in  1574,  and  that  he 
was  the  son  of  a  clergyman  1  In  looking  lat^y 
over  some  registers  connected  with  a  family  of 
Johnson  (formerly  Jonson)  who  claimed  Ben  as 
one  of  their  stock,  I  find  the  birth  of  "  Benjaminus 
Jonson  filius  Martini  Aug.  12,  1574."  Martin 
Jonson  was  a  gentleman,  but  not  a  clergyman. 
The  date  exactly  corresponds  with  that  of  the 

goet's  birth  as  given  by  his  biographers ;  and  if 
e  really  was  of  the  Lincolnshire  family  this 
register  at  Sutterton  would  probably  be  his. 
Martin  Jonson  was  a  lawyer,  and  bis  son  Ben- 
jamin may  have  gone  with  him  to  London  and 
settled  at  Westminster,  as  there  were  many  other 
brothers  and  sisters^  and  some  would  probably  \m 
poorly  off.  C.  T.  J.  Moore. 

Fiampton  Hall,  near  Boston. 

SoNQ  OF  "  The  Core  Leo." — Can  any  of  your 
readers  give  me  the  name  and  date  of  the  author- 
ship of  the  words  of  the  above  popular  song  ?  The 
present  publishers  of  the  song  cannot  supply  tha 
information.  T.  R. 

GiOAMTOLooT.— Can  any  one  give  me  the 
bibliography  of  human  gigantology  ?  The  subject 
of  the  physical  development  of  the  human  body 
into  great  relative  size  is  one  of  some  interest. 
Is  there  any  physiological  treatise  on  the  laws 
regulating  the  process  of  growth  of  men  and 
animals  7  I  should  like  also  to  know  if  the  great 
size  of  the  Hales  family  in  Norfolk,  mention^  in 
OianU  and  Dwarfs^  continues,  and  whether  the 
Anthropological  Institute  has  investigated  scien- 
tifically the  alleged  abnormal  size  of  the  peasants 
round  Potsdam  (said  to  be  descendants  of  King 
Frederick's  gigantic  grenadiers),  and  also  of  ths 
Patagonians  (now  said  to  be  no  larger  than  Euro- 

Cns).    I  believe  that  M.  Quatrefages  has  recently 
n  investigating  some  of  these  subsets. 

W.  S.  L.  S. 

''The  History  of  all  the  Mobs,"&c.^Ta 
an  old  volume  of  bound-up  pamphlets  I  find  one^ 
of  sixty-eight  pages,  contaming  much  curious  in- 
formation ;  it  is  entitled : — 

"The  History  of  all  the  Mobs  and  Tamults  and  In- 
tnrreotions  in  Great  Britain,  from  William  theConqaeror 
to  the  Present  Time.  To  which  is  added  the  Act  of 
Parliament  and  Proclamation  lately  publtsbed  for 
Panishing  Rioters.  Printed  for  J.  Moore,  near  fib 
Paurs." 

It  appears  to  have  been  written  in  the  first  year  of 
George  L  Further  on  it  is  stated  to  have  beem 
"  begun  by  Mr.  Ferguson  and  concluded  by  am 
Impartial  hand."    Who  were  the  authors  ? 

W.  H.  Pattersok. 


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**  A  History  of  the  Seven  Wise  Masters." 
— I  am  desiroas  of  seeing  a  copy  of  this  children's 
book,  which  was  in  circalation  during  the  middle 
of  the  last  century.  Is  anything  known  of  its 
origin  ?    It  is  not,  I  think,  the  Seven  Champions, 

G.  L.  GOMMB. 

EusTACHius  ViCECOMES,  T.W.C.— To  what  family 
did  this  Eustace,  who  held  in  Huntingdonshire 
at  Domesday,  belong  ?  C.  L.  W.  0. 

"Mighty"  Tom  of  OxroRD.— The  present 
bell  is  a  recast  in  1680  of  a  large  bell  said  to  have 
been  inscribed : — 

''In  Thomse  laude  resono  Bim  Bom  sine  fraude." 
Did  that  bell  originally  belong  to  Christ  Church, 
or  was  it  one  of  those  brought  from  Oseney  on  the 
dissolution  of  that  house  ?        Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfechan. 

Mrs.  Masham  and  Sarah,  Duchess  of 
Marlborough. — I  should  be  glad  to  learn  what 
is  the  authority  for  the  story  of  the  great  Duchess 
of  Marlborough,  Sarah  Jennings,  by  way  of  insult, 
spilling  a  glass  of  water  over  the  dress  of  Mrs. 
Masham,  the  rising  fayourite  of  Queen  Anne,  and 
thereby  causing  the  downfall  of  the  Whig  Admi- 
nistration and  the  disgrace  of  the  great  Duke  of 
Marlborough.  Nomad. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted. — 

The  Craniad  ;  or,  Sfmrzheim  lUtutrated.  A  Poem,  in 
Two  Parts.  [Motto.]  Edinburgh,  printed  for  William 
Blackwood.  12mo.  1817.— Who  were  the  two  aathors 
of  this  rather  lively  and  amoBins  skit  upon  "the 
physiognomical  tjBimai  of  Drs.  Gall  and  Bpurzheim"? 
My  copy  professes  to  be  a  present  from  the  latter 
gentleman.  A.  W.  B. 

Authors  of  QaoTATioNs  Wanted. — 
"  Qo.  little  book,  from  this  my  solitade ; 
I  cast  thee  on  the  waters,  go  thy  ways ; 
And  if,  as  I  beliere,  thy  theme  be  good, 
The  world  will  find  thee  after  many  days." 

T.  W.  C. 
'^  Our  deeds  still  travel  with  us  from  afar." 

Kate  Lebch. 
"  Seas  which  join  the  lands  which  they  divide." 

P.M. 
**  He  who  plays  at  bowls  most  expect  to  meet  with 
rubbers."  M.  W, 

PAROCHIAL  REGISTERS. 
(6»»»  S.  T.  141,  211,  233.) 
^  May  I  yentnre  to  offer  a  few  practical  sugges- 
tions on  the  subject  of  the   printing  of  parish 
registers  by  subscription,  based  upon  my  own  ez- 
poienoe  as  the  honorary  secretary  of  an  actire 
printing  society,  and  as  tiio  author  of  books  pub- 
lished by  Bubsoription  ? 
In  the  first  place,  it  must  ever  be  borne  in 


mind  that  local  registers,  like  local  histories,  will 
always  hare  the  greatest  attraction  and  interest  for 
residents,  local  and  county  historians,  genealogists, 
&C.  Hence,  when  the  registers  of  any  parish  hare 
to  be  printed  by  subscription  the  chief  support 
must  be  looked  for  in  the  district  in  which  that 
parish  is  situated.  An  exception  to  this  is  the 
case  of  the  London  regtsters,  which,  because  they 
contain  so  many  entries  relating  to  families  be- 
longing to  all  counties,  haye  a  wider  and  more 
geneni  interest,  and  so  may  well  be  printed  by  a 
society  such  as  the  Haneian  Society  (Begister 
Section),  which  has  done,  and  is  doing,  good  work 
in  that  direction. 

Secondly,  no  society  can  eyer  hope  to  grapple 
with  the  hundreds  of  parish  registers  which  there 
are  to  be  printed.  At  the  most  only  two  or  three 
registers  could  be  printed  each  year;  and  I  am 
afraid  there  would  be  considerable  difficulty  in 
getting  together  a  sufficient  number  of  members 
who  would  pay  for  the  printing  of  registers  in 
which  they  had  no  particular  interest  and  which 
they  would  probably  neyer  look  at.  I  also  yexy 
much  doubt  if  the  idea  of  printing  local  registers 
in  the  local  newspapers  would  eyer  be  feasible^ 
and  eyen  then  reprints  in  a  book  form  beoooae 
absolutely  neoessaiy.  Printing  the  registers  in 
the  parish  magazine  has  been  seyeral  times  tried ; 
but  it  is  yery  slow  work,  and  to  sell  they  haye  to 
be  made  up  into  book  form  afterwards. 

The  only  other  way  of  gettbg  registers  printed 
(proyided  Goyemment  does  not  undertake  it,  which 
i  am  afraid  at  present  is  not  at  all  likely)  is  to  do 
so  by  subscription ;  and  I  hope  to  be  able  to  show 
that  not  only  is  this  feasible  but  that  it  is  the  only 
method  by  which  any  impression  can  be  made 
upon  the  great  number  of  registers  which  deserre 
to  be  printed.  This  method,  too^  has  the  merit  of 
appealing  directly  to  those  most  mterested  in  any 
particuli^  register,  and  is  at  the  same  time  basea 
upon  the  now  so  well  recognized  principle  of  co- 
operation. The  modui  iwerandi  may  best  be 
treated  of  under  distinct  headings ;  (1)  the  cost 
of  publication  ;  (2)  the  method  of  publication  ;  (3) 
the  method  of  transcription  ;  and  (4)  the  system 
of  arrangement  for  publication. 

1.  The  cost  of  publicatum, — The  edition  should 
be  strictly  limited  to  260  copies.  This  will  enhance 
their  yalue  in  time  to  come,  and  is  quite  as  many 
as  will  be  required  now.  The  yolumes  should  be 
octayo  in  size,  so  as  to  be  handy  for  reference,  and 
should  contain  about  four  hundred  pages  each. 
They  should  be  strongly  bound  in  doth  and 
lettered  up  the  back  in  plain  letters.  The  cost  of 
settiog  up  and  printing  sixteen  pages  octayo^  in- 
cluding paper,  &c.  (250  copies),  and  including 
corrections,  yaries  from  21.  lOs.  to  3Z.  lOs,  Let 
us  take  it  at  3Z.  A  yolume  of  four  hundred 
pages  will  therefore  cost  twenty-fiye  times  3/.,  or 
752.    Binding,  at  lOd,  per  copy^  will  be  lOZ.  6». 

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Printing  drcalan  and  postage  of  the  same,  say 
122.  103.,  or  under  100^  in  all.  Careful  manage- 
menty  clear  writing,  few  corrections,  and  the  smaller 
ohaiges  made  by  local  printers  as  compared  with 
London  prices,  will  easily  allow  of  this  sam  being 
somewhat  reduced;  but  eren  if  we  tike  the 
total  cost  at  1002.  it  is  obvious  that  two  hundred 
(Bubscribers  at  10s.  6d.  each  would  pay  the  cost  of 
publication  as  well  as  the  postage  of  each  copy  to 
the  subscriber.  There  would  still  be  fifty  copies 
on  hand;  which  would  enable  the  five  great  public 
libraries  to  be  supplied  under  the  Copyright  Act, 
would  enable  a  few  presents  to  be  made  to  poor 
parishioners,  and  would  supply  demands  sure  to 
arise  after  publication  as  the  book  becomes  known« 
Copies  should  also  be  sent  to  the  local  newspapers, 
the  leading  literary  papers,  and  to  ''  N.  &  Q.,"  all 
of  which  will  tend  to  make  the  fact  of  the  register 
having  been  printed  more  widely  known,  and  so 
bring  it  to  the  notice  of  outsiders  who  otherwise 
might  never  hear  of  it.  By  fixing  the  price  at 
10s.  6i.  a  great  man^  persons  will  subscribe  who 
would  demur  at  beug  asked  for  a  guineai  If 
twenty  or  thirty  copies  remain  on  hand  at  the  end 
of,  say,  three  years  luter  publication,  there  are  many 
eecond-hand  booksellers  who  would  buy  them  at 
half  price,  espeoially  if  the  edition  is  strictly  limited 
to  250  copies.  Should  there  be  any  balance  in 
hand  after  defraying  the  cost  of  publication  it  can- 
not be  better  laid  out  than  in  having  the  original 
registers  carefully  and  strongly  bound.  Eich 
volume  of  the  registers  can  be  strongly  bound  in 
vellum,  and  stamped  and  lettered,  at  a  cost  of  less 
than  IL  each. 

2.  The  method  of  jmbUcaUon.^Id9t  us  suppose 
«  clergyman,  a  private  gentleman,  or  a  local  anti- 
quary wishes  to  print  a  parish  register.  In  the 
first  place,  he  makes  the  fact  generally  known 
amongst  his  personal  friends,  names  it  to  the 
principal  parishioners,  the  county  squires,  &a,  and 
gets  as  much  locil  support  as  he  can.  He  points 
out  to  them  the  great  importance  of  having  the 
rfglsters  printed,  and  in  every  possible  way  elicits 
their  support  and  aid.  He  then  draws  up  a  pro- 
spectus, stating  that  it  is  proposed  to  print  by  sub- 
scription the  registers  of  A.  £.  from  their  com- 
mencement in to The  names  of  the  chief 

families  mentioned  in  the  register  should  then  be 
given,  followed  by  a  list  of  those  names  which  are 
of  most  frequent  occurreace.  It  is  then  stated 
(hat  the  volume  will  be  an  octavo,  nicely  printed 
and  strongly  bound,  that  it  will  contain  about  four 
hundred  pages, and  that  there  will  only  be  250  copies 
printed.  A  few  paragraphs  as  to  the  importance 
of  printing  parish  registers  and  of  anything  of 
special  interest  in  connexion  with  this  particular 
one  may  then  be  given.    It  should  also  be  stated 

that  the  register  has  been  transcribed  by  Mr. , 

and  that  the  printed  pages  will  be  carefully  com- 
pared with  the  original  to  ensure  cozrectness.    At 


the  end  may  be  printed  a  list  of  those  who  have 
already  promised  their  support,  and  with  each 
circular  should  be  enclosed  a  reply  form,  which  has 
simply  to  be  filled  up  and  posted.  These  circulars 
should  be  sent  to  all  the  members  of  the  county 
arohseological  society  ^if  there  is  one),  to  all  the 
county  magistrates,  the  chief  residents  in  the 
neighbourhood,  and  to  others  directly  or  in- 
directly connected  with  the  parish  or  county. 
When  say  120  local  names  have  been  obtained  the 
circular  might  be  sent  to  members  of  the  Harleian 
Society,  well-known  genealogists  and  F.S.A89 
public  libraries,  rich  book  collectors,  &&,  and 
with  a  little  trouble  the  two  hundred  names  will 
be  obtained.  A  prospectus  should  be  sent  to  the 
editors  of  all  the  local  papers,  so  as  to  make  the 
fact  of  publication  as  widely  known  as  possible. 
The  list  of  subscribers  should  be  printed—it  pleases 
them  and  it  will  be  a  great  help  to  others  to  know 
where  to  meet  with  support  in  the  case  of  other 
registers  for  that  particular  county  being  printed. 
If  say  two  or  three  registers  in  each  county  are 
printed  on  the  average  each  year,  in  twenty  years 
half  the  registers  in  Eogland  will  have  been 
printed.  By  printing  only  a  limited  edition  the 
volumes  will  always  be  worth  the  published  price, 
and  may  in  many  cases  even  rise  in  value. 

3.  The  method  of  transcription.— It  the  person 
desirous  of  printing  the  register  is  well  up  m  the 
old  writing  much  trouble  Is  saved ;  if  not^  then  the 
services  of  a  skilled  transcriber  or  antiquary  must 
be  secured  and,  if  necessary,  paid  for.  If  the  latter 
is  the  case  this  must  be  allowed  for  in  estimating 
the  cost  of  publication.  Fixing  the  price  at  12s.  eZ 
instead  of  10s.  6<2.  will  provide  for  20Z.  being  paid 
to  a  skilled  transcriber,  which  is  ample  for  a 
volume  of  400  pages.  The  register  should  be 
copied  carefully  and  slowly,  the  faded  writing 
being  revived  by  brushing  over  with  a  solution  (3 
ammonium  sulphide.  This  acts  on  the  iron  in 
the  ink  and  turns  it  black,  and  it  remains  black 
for  some  days,  or  even  longer.  It  is  innocuous^ 
its  only  drawback  being  its  pungent  and  nauseous 
odour.  I  have  had  registers  lent  to  me  in  which 
whole  pages  were  illegible.  These  I  have  care- 
fully painted  over  with  a  camers-hair  brush,  and 
have  been  able  to  read  every  word  that  had  been 
written  there.  I  never  search  a  parish  register 
without  having  a  small  bottle  of  it,  in  a  WM)den 
case,  at  hand  ready  for  use.  All  doubtful  names 
and  dates  should  be  copied  thus  :  "Bobert[?  Roger], 
1645  [?  4]."  It  is  not  necessary  to  add  the  his- 
torical year,  because  it  is  well  known  that  the  new 
year  dated  from  March  25  up  to  the  year  1752,  when 
it  began  on  January  1.  Aiijthing  unusual  should 
always  be  noted  thus :  "  Inserted  in  another  hand*^; 
•*  This  entry  nearly  illegible ";  "  This  entry  has 
been  tampered  with  ";  "  Written  on  the  fly-leaf''; 
"  On  loose  leaves  '*;  "  Half  this  page  has  been  cut 
off";  '^  Several  pages  missuig  here,^'  ^ 
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recognized  abbreyiatione  should  be  allowed^— s.  for 
Bon^  d.  for  daaghter,  b.  for  buried,  cfa.  for 
hristeued  or  baptised  (never  b.  for  baptized),  m. 
for  married,  &c.  AU  titles — esquire,  gentleman, 
clerk,  yicar,  rector,  curate,  piiest,  yeoman,  farmer, 
&c. — should  be  inyariably  copied  in  full,  as  well  as 
all  the  names  of  places,  persons'  ages,  parents' 
names,  &o.  In  fact,  the  entries  should  be  tran- 
scribed literaiim  et  verbatim,  with  the  use  of  the 
aboTO  abbreviations,  and  the  use  of  initial  letters 
to  signify  the  names  of  places  frequently  occurring. 
All  the  abbreviations  used  should  be  clearly 
stated  opposite  the  first  page  of  the  register,  so 
as  to  be  seen  by  every  one,  and  easily  referred  to 
when  wanted. 

4.  The  system  of  arrangtmmi  for  publication. 
Here,  possibly^  opinions  may  differ.  Personally  I 
should  prefer  that  the  printed  volume  should  be 
an  exact  copy  of  the  original  as  far  as  is  possible. 
This,  however,  necessitates  a  careful  index,  but 
by  xnaking  the  index  as  brief  as  possible — thus, 
''Abbott^  2, 16,  20, 36  bis,  52,**  and  so  on  (omitting 
Christian  names)— it  will  not  occupy  much  space. 
I  think  this  method  of  arrangement  the  best^  be- 
cause it  enables  all  the  miscellaneous  and  often 
quaint  entries,  of  much  local,  and  sometimes  even 
of  general,  interest  to  be  jprinted  in  the  very 
position  they  occupy  in  the  original.  The  only 
other  way  is  to  transcribe  the  whole  register,  and 
then  to  cut  up  the  transcript  and  arraoge  it  in 
strictly  alphabetical  order.  This  is  the  method 
adopted  by  the  Bev.  W.  D.  Macray  in  his  Index 
to  the  Begitters  of  Dwklington,  eo,  Oxford,  and 
in  some  cmos,  especially  of  the  less  important 
registers,  it  will  do  very  well  If  it  can  possibly 
be  managed,  I  would  strongly  urge  that  in  a  con- 
cise introduction,  say  of  sixteen  to  twenty-four 
pages,  a  short  account  of  the  church  and  parish 
should  be  giveii,  with  brief  notices  of  the  old 
halls  and  old  Hamilies,  &c.  Exact  copies  of  all  the 
monumental  inscriptions  inside  the  church  and 
the  most  important  of  those  in  the  churchyard 
should  also  be  given,  together  with  notes  of  any 
old  stained  glass,  the  inscriptions  on  the  bells,  &c. 
All  architect  would  probably  be  found  to  help 
with  an  architectural  description  of  the  church,  so 
that  any  features  of  unusu  J  interest  might  not  be 
overlooked.  Such  an  introduction  would  add 
greatly  to  the  interest  of  the  volume  for  general 
readers,  and  so  would  add  to  the  number  of  sub- 
scribers. Correct  copies  of  monumental  inscrip- 
tions almost  equal  in  importance  the  parish 
registers  themselves. 

Those  of  your  readers  who  have  read  the  above 
suggestions  will,  I  think,  agree  with  me  that 
everything  is  made  to  turn  npon  the  obtaining  of 
two  hundred  subscribers  at  10«.  6d  each.  In 
some  isolated  cases  it  may  perhaps  be  difficult 
to  rmch  this  number;  but  my  firm  belief  is  that 
in  the  vast  majority  of  oases  it  will  only  require 


a  little  trouble  and  tact  A  Lancashire  clergyman 
is  now  printing  his  registers  at  ll,  \s.  per  copy, 
and  only  asks  for  one  hundred  snbscribeni,  which 
he  has  got ;  another  is  printing  his  at  18<.  per 
volume.  A  gentleman  in  Yorkshire  recently 
published  some  registers  at  As,  6d.  per  volume ; 
and  I  had  a  circular  the  other  day  from  a  clergy- 
man who  is  printing  his  registers,  and  who  talks  of 
usiDg  ike  profits  (!)  of  the  publication  towards 
the  expenses  of  restoring  his  church.  Surely,  then, 
those  who  want  to  see  their  registers  in  print  need 
only  take  heart  and  make  the  attempt  to  print 
them  "  by  subscription,''  relying  for  their  chief 
support  on  local  rather  than  on  national  interests, 
J.  P.  Earwakeb,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
Pensam,  Abergele,  North  Wales. 

There  is  another  difficulty  in  consulting  some 
registers  to  which  Mr.  Chafhan  has  not  uluded. 
Some  years  ago  I  had  occasion  to  examine  ^for 
literary  purposes)  those  of  one  of  the  leadmg 
London  churches.  Unlike  your  correspondent^  1 
never  presumed  to  ask  for  a  reduction  of  fees^ 
but  I  did  fondly  expect  that  on  payment  of  the 
fees  I  should  be  allowed  to  pursue  my  researches 
in  peace.  The  keeper  of  the  books  in  thi» 
instance  was  a  woman.  I  had  not  been  long  at 
work  when  she  suddenly  exclaimed,  *^Tou  are 
copying !  ^  in  a  tone  suited  to  an  accusation  of 
petty  larceny.  I  humbly  represented  that  I  had 
consulted  many  registers,  both  in  town  and 
country,  and  had  never  up  to  that  time  been 
prevented  from  copying  for  myself.  *'But  1 
could  not  allow  such  a  thing!"  retorted  my 
superior.  ^'Yon  must  show  me  what  you  want^ 
and  I  will  get  you  proper  certificated  copies.'^ 
^'But  I  do  not  want  certificated  copies,"  i 
answered ;  *'  they  would  be  of  no  use  to  me.**" 
The  lady  sexton  looked  as  if  this  idea  were  quite- 
unintelligible,  but  repeated  her  former  assertion 
that  I  could  not  be  aUowed  to  copy.  ''  Why,  our 
books  would  be  of  no  use  to  us  if  we  aUowed  the 
public  to  take  out  just  what  they  liked  ! "  I  waa 
tempted  to  reply  that  I  had  not  been  aware  tha^ 
parish  registers  were  kept  solely  for  the  benefit  of 
their  custodians,  but  I  thought  it  wiser  to  say 
only,  that  if  that  were  to  be  the  case  it  was  of  no- 
use  to  proceed,  and  to  leave  my  antagonist 
mistress  of  the  field.  As  my  object  is  not  to 
gibbet  an  individual,  but  merely  to  add  my 
testimony  to  the  inaccessibility  of  registers,  I  do 
not  name  the  church;  but  I  beg  permission  to 
add  that  it  was  neither  St.  Bride's  nor  St  Clement 
Danes,  nor  yet  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster,  at  all  of 
which  I  received  not  only  courtesy  but  kindness. 
An  amusing  incident  occurred  on  leaving  thi» 
church,  where  a  passing  shower  detained  me- 
under  shelter.  Another  searcher  left  the  ves^ 
at  the  same  time.  While  we  waited  she  said, 
rather  abruptly,  without  a  previous  word,  *^J» 
there  much  property?"    I  awed^an  ex 

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of  ihiB  enigmatical  qaery.  In  a  manner  which 
indicated  that  she  thought  me  extremely  stupid, 
she  said^  '*Yoa  are  trying  to  establish  your 
datm  to  property ;  is  there  much  of  it  ? "  I 
aasQred  her  that  my  researches  were  entirely  un- 
connected with  property  of  my  own  or  any  other 
person's.  She  rewarded  me  with  a  look  which 
seemed  to  show  that  she  felt  a  charitable  doubt 
of  my  sanity ;  so  unintelligible  to  half  the  world 
are  the  motiyes  and  purposes  of  the  other  halt 

Herhemtrudx. 

In  reference  to  the  controversy  about  parish 
registers,  I  yenture  to  send  my  experience  of  the 
way  some  clergymen  treat  literary  searchers. 
Some  time  since  I  wrote  to  the  vicar  of  a  large 
West  of  England  parish  and  asked  him  to  search 
for  burials  from  1660  to  1700,  to  see  if  any  one  of 
four  names  occurred  within  that  period ;  the  sur- 
name was  the  same,  and  the  four  persons  were 
brothers.  Your  readers  may  judge  of  my  astonish- 
ment when  I  was  requested  to  forward,  as  a  fee, 
It.  for  the  first  year  and  ed,  for  every  year  after 
for  each  name,  that  is  to  say,  42.  4«.  Of  course  I 
declined  to  pay  such  an  outrageous  charge,  and, 
moreover,  I  inquired  on  what  authority  such  a 
charge  was  made.  The  answer,  as  usual,  was  that 
the  charge  was  fixed  by  Acts  of  Parliament^ 
meaning  the  Acts  relating  to  the  Begistrar-G^neral 
at  Somerset  House.  These  Acts,  I  need  hardly 
say,  have  nothing  to  do  with  parish  registers. 
The  law  as  to  them  is,  I  believe,  as  follows.  The 
registers  are  kept  for  the  use  of  the  parish,  and  all 
parishioners  are  entitled  to  see  them  free  of  charge. 
That  is  why  they  were  mostly  given  up  to  uie 
custody  of  the  clerks,  as,  by  feeing  the  clerk,  out- 
siders can,  of  course,  get  him  to  search  without 
paying  any  fee  to  the  parson.  If  a  non-parishioner 
goes  to  the  parson  to  inspect,  he  is  entitled  to 
charge  what  fee  he  likes.  I  have  taken  a  good 
deal  of  trouble  to  look  up  the  legal  question,  and 
this  is  the  result  at  which  I  have  arrived. 

Arthur  M.  Smith. 

The  earliest  register  of  Whitwick,  ca  Leicester, 
is  now  being  published  in  the  Whitwick  FarUh 
Magazine.  Should  not  our  local  archaeological 
societies  subscribe  to  all  magazines  issued  in  Uieir 
neighbourhood  which  print  parish  registers  1 

W.  G.  D.  F. 


^SiR  Alexander  Leslie  of  Balgomib, 
Ehiobt  (6«»  S.  V.  27, 112,  170).-!  am  glad  to 
find  that  Mr.  Bain  accepts  my  suggestion  based 
on  the  recorded  facts  of  the  first  Earl  of  Leven's 
history,  and  that  he  treats  the  date  "  1691 "  as  a 
clerical  error.  But  there  are  still  one  or  two 
points  on  which  I  should  like  to  make  some  re- 
marks. The  non*existence  of  the  Sir  Alexander 
Leslie  of  Balgonie,  supposed  by  Mr.  Bain  in  his 
query,  under  the  date  1691,  is  proved,  I  submit,  by 


the  language  of  the  Public  Records,  not  only  by 
their  silence.  I  was  particular,  at  the  risk  of  seem- 
ing pedantic,  in  setting  forth  every  step  in  the^ 
succession  to  Balgonie  after  the  death  of  the  Lord 
General  until  the  inheritance  of  the  Earldom  of 
Leven  by  the  Melville  family  at  a  date  anterior  to 
1691.  I  showed  that  the  special  services  were  in 
the  lands  of  Balgonie  as  well  as  in  the  peerages  of 
Balgonie  and  Leven,  and  that,  therefore,  any  such 
Sir  Alexander  was  clearly  impossible.  Having 
shown  that  the  heirs  male  of  the  body  of  the  first 
Earl  of  Leven  were  extinguished  by  the  service  of 
Margaret,  Countess  of  Leven,  as  heir  to  her  father,, 
the  second  earl,  in  1664, 1  had  really  done  all  that 
was  necessary  to  disprove  the  hypothetical  Sir 
Alexander  of  1691.  Even  had  I,  like  Mr.  Baik^ 
supposed  him  to  have  been  an  illegitimate  son  of 
the  Lord  General,  as  I  never  did*,  I  should  still  have 
put  him  out  of  court  as  ^  Leslie  of  Balgonie  "  by 
the  undisputed  and  indisputable  facts  of  the  suc- 
cession. To  suppose  illegitimate  sons  without 
giving  any  authority  for  their  existence  scarcely 
seems  to  me  to  be  within  the  province  of  genealogy; 
and  I  am  unaware  of  any  authority  for  the  existence 
of  such  sons  either  of  the  Lord  General,  first  Earl 
of  Leven,  or  of  his  kinsman  David  Leslie,  first 
Lord  Newark.  And  no  such  son  of  Lord  Newark 
would  have  been  "  Leslie  of  Balgonie." 

I  am  not  sure  that  Mr.  Bain  sufficientlv  con- 
sidered the  Southron  readers  of  *'  N.  &  Q."  when  he 
quoted  Carlyle,  and  spoke  of  the  Lord  General  as 
having  been  buried  "  in  the  kirk  of  his  native  Bal- 
gonie.**  Mr.  Bain  himself,  of  course,  like  Carlyle, 
knew,  what  English  readers  probably  would  not 
know,  that  this  kirk  was  that  of  Markinch,  the 
^urish  in  which  Balgonie  is  situated.  The  second 
Earl  of  Leven  and  his  countess  were  also  buried  at 
Markinch,  as  was  likewise  the  Lord  General's  first 
countess,  Agnes  Benton  of  Billie.  I  do  not  know 
why  Mr.  Bain  seems  to  dispute  the  date  given  by 
Douglas  in  his  Fttragt  for  the  death  of  the  Lord 
General,  viz,,  April  4,  1661,  which  is  borne  out  by 
the  Retours,  the  service  of  his  grandson,  the  second 
earl,  being  dated  May  16, 1663.  The  Lord  General 
went  down  to  Scotland  in  1654,  after  his  release 
from  the  Tower,  and  crossed  over  to  Sweden  to 
thank  Queen  Christina,  at  whose  instance  he  had 
been  released.  *' Returning  to  Scotland,**  says 
Douglas,  "  he  died  at  Balgony  on  the  4th  of  April, 
1661,  and  was  buried  at  the  Church  of  Markinch 
on  the  19th  of  that  month." 

C.  H.  E.  Carmichael. 

New  Uulfersity  Club,  S.W. 

Adjectives  Pluralizbd  in  English  (6*  Sw 
V.  205).— This  has  been  noticed  before,  and  is,  I 
think,  rather  a  French  idiom  than  a  '<  classicality," 
though  in  Chaucer's  Atirolab*  no  doubt  "  howris 
equales"  and  'Uhise  houris  in-equalis"  are  a 
rendering  of  "boras  equales,"  &aJl^I)r.  Morris, 
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[«*fcS.V.APHiLl/82. 


thauetr,  Prologue,  p.  xxxiii,  Clar.  Press,  writes : 
"  Some  few  adjectives  of  Romance  origin  form  the 
plaral  in  -«,  as  *  places  delitables.* "  Prof.  Skeat, 
Fiert  the  Plotoman,  p.  xxxviii,  Clar.  Press,  has 
"  very  rarely,  plural  adjectives  of  French  origin  end 
in  -M,  I  believe  that '  cardinales  vertaes '  is  the  sole 
instance/'  I  gave  an  account  of  the  idiom,  as  an 
instance  of  a  merely  temporary  influence  of  French 
on  English  grammar,  in  my  Engluh  Orammar 
(Clar.  Press),  p.  22.  It  will  be  found,  I  believe, 
that  these  pluralized  adjectives  occur  somewhat 
flparingly  in  many  writers  of  the  fourteenth, 
fifteenth,  and  sixteenth  centuries,  that  they  are 
not  quite  alwavs  words  of  Romance  origin,  and  that 
they  do  not  always  (though  usually)  follow  their 
flubstantives. 
CI  PiiTs  the  Flowman,  Text  C,  i.  132  :— 
"Amonges  foure  vertaes  most  vertuose  of  vertues. 
That  cardioaleB  ben  called." 

Chaucer,  Boethius,  E.E.T.Soc.,  p.  137,  "sem- 
bleables  progressiouns'-;  p.  152,  "in  the  souereyns 
denynes  substaunces,  that  is  to  seyn,  in  splritz.'' 

Chaucer,  Astrolabe,  ed.  Skeat,  p.  5,  "the  4 
principals  plages  or  quarters  " ;  p.  8,  "  lettres  capi- 
tales";  p.  11,  "sterres  fixes";  p.  41,  "plages 
principalx,*'  but  p.  13  "principal  devisiouns." 

Wiclif,  Select  Englith  Works,  vol.  iiL  p.  297, 
"that  every  soule  be  suget  to  hieris  powers";  but 
^'hi3er  poweris,"  "hei3ere  powers,"  in  Wicliffite 
versions,  Rom.  xiii.  1. 

Wiclif,  E.E.T.Soc.,  p.  246,  "a  wild  pleiere  of 
fiomeres  gamenes,"  i.  e.,  summer  games  (but  here 
possibly  a  possessive  singular). 

Capgrave,  Chronicle,  p.  176, "  he  had  gadered 
many  Musteres  alienes." 

The  Fcuton  Letters,  voL  i.  p.  421,  "  moste  noblez 
lettrez";  voL  i.  p.  421,  "in  many  diversez  be- 
halvez  "  ;  vol.  ii.  p.  66,  "  at  diverses  tymes,"  but 
voL  iL  p.  74,  "for  diverse  thyngs";  vol.  iii. 
p.  169,  "many  and  dy verse  persones";  voL  iL 
p.  164,  "  with  enemys  estraungers." 

Lord  Grey  of  Wilton,  Camden  Soc,  1847,  p.  62 
(a  warrant  dated  1563),  "all  other  his  bagges, 
^^(g^csy  stud  other  his  utensiles  necessaires." 

Palsgrave  in  1530  usually,  I  think,  gives  the 
adjective  a  plural  form  where  it  follows  the  noun  : 
"  verbs  passives,"  "  verbs  actyves  personalles." 

But  the  usage  does  not  seem  to  be  very  common 
at  a  date  so  late  as  Dr.  Nicholson  instances. 

0.  W.  Tancock. 

It  is  strange  that  a  subject  like  this  should 
be  treated  of  without  any  reference  to  Morris's 
Eistarical  Outliius  of  English  Accidence,  where 
it  is  duly  explained  at  p.  104.  It  is  nothing  new, 
being  explained  also  in  Morris  and  Skeat's  Sped- 
mens  of  Early  English,  1873,  p.  xxv;  and  again 
in  my  notes  to  Chaucer's  Astrolabe,  i.  5,  7,  L  21, 
4 ;  pp.  74, 78.  Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Cambridge. 


A  German  Volksbuch  (6**»  S.  iv.  536  ;  v.  115). 
— It  is  right  that  I  should  give  a  caution  to  any 
reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  who  may  be  thinking  of 
buying  a  complete  set  of  the  "  Reutlinger  Volks- 
biicher."  When  Mr.  Thoms  first  asked  me  about 
them,  I  told  him  (trusting  somewhat  heedlessly  to 
an  old  copy  of  the  publisher's  own  catalogue)  that 
there  were  seventy-four  numbers;  and  as  the 
cost  of  the  whole  was  but  a  few  shiliings,  he 
adopted  my  suggestion  to  buy  the  entire  series, 
although  it  contained  many  which  would  be  worth- 
less to  him,  viz ,  modem  tales,  books  on  cookery, 
domestic  medicine,  &c.,  which  could  not  properly 
be  called  "  Volksbiicher  "  in  the  sense  in  whicn  we 
both  understood  the  term.  I  accordingly  wrote 
for  them,  but  when  the  parcel  came  I  found,  to 
my  surprise,  that  the  publisher  had  sent  me,  not 
the  seventy-four  which  I  had  ordered,  but  only 
fifty-eight,  taken  apparently  at  random  out  of  a 
much  larger  collection  (the  numbers  ranging  from 
2  to  173),  and  only  ^ht  of  them  belonging  to 
the  series  given  in  the  old  catalogue.  It  was 
fortunate,  hoyrever,  that  my  order  for  the  '*  whole 
series  "  waft  not  literally  executed,  for  on  receivinff 
a  few  days  later  a  new  catalogue,  which  I  hoped 
might  explain  the  mystery,  I  found,  to  my  stiU 
greater  surprise,  that  there  were  above  six  hundred 
numbers !  At  a  slight  glance  over  the  list  I  soon 
detected  several  instances  of  the  same  work  occur- 
ring twice  ;  and  finding  that  to  ascertain  the 
exact  number  of  separate  works,  and  to  distin- 
guish the  *^  Volksbiicher  "  properly  so  ciJled  from 
the  rest,  would  take  up  more  time  than  I  was  in- 
clined to  spend  in  wading  through  such  a  mass  of 
rubbish,  I  resolved  to  content  myself  with  offering 
to  others  the  hint  that  I  felt  it  my  duty  to  give 
to  Mr.  Thoms—"  Caveat  emptor." 

Frbd.  Norgate. 
7,  King  Street,  Covent  Garden. 

Clement  Walker's  "History  of  Indepsk- 
denct"  (6'*»  S.  V.  203).— We  shall  all  be  glad  to 
see  Mr.  Peacock's  notes  on  the  bibliography  of 
Clement  Walker's  celebrated  book.  The  name, 
whether  Theoph.  Verax  or  Theodoras  Verax,  is  so 
evidently  an  assumed  one,  that  if  there  is  no 
other  reason  for  the  suggestion  that  Clement 
Walker,  who  used  it  to  con(^  his  own  name  when 
bringing  out  the  first  two  parts  of  the  History  of 
Ind^endency,  was  also  the  writer  of  the  Trial  of 
LieuL'Col  John  Lilbwm,  which  was  published  the 
same  year  by  some  one  styling  himself  Theodoras 
Varax,  one  is  rather  led  to  say,  on  the  first  blush  of 
it,  it  is  very  improbable.  Walker  was  fully  occu- 
pied at  the  time  with  his  own  affairs,  as  the  second 
part  of  the  History  of  Independency  was  only  pub- 
lished shortly  before  Lilburn's  trial ;  Cromwell's 
agents  were  seeking  everywhere  for  the  writer. 
He  was  discovered  and  committed  to  the  Tower 
on  November  13,  1649,  that  is^ust  a  fortnight 

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before  the  date  of  Lilbarn's  trial  It  has,  I  think, 
Always  been  stated  that  thongh  Ck>lonel  Lilbam 
was  no  donbt  assisted  in  drawing  up  the  account 
of  his  trial  either  by  his  brother,  Robert  Lilburn, 
or  his  solicitor,  Mr.  Sprat,  who  stood  beside  him 
at  the  bar,  yet  that  he  was  practically  the  writer 
of  it.  This  appears  to  be  borne  out  by  the  fact  that 
when  the  trial  was  reprinted  by  Hills  in  1710  the 

fubliBher  added  a  note:  "There  being  several 
^amphlets  written  by  Lieutenant  Colonel  John 
Lilburn,  besides  this  Trial,"  &c.  Internal  eyidence, 
too,  seems  to  show  that  he  was  the  writer,  for  it 
contains  statements  not  only  of  what  he  said,  but 
also  of  what  he  intended  to  have  said,  but  was 
prevented  from  saying,  a  thing  which  no  one  else 
could  well  pretend  to  state  for  him,  thus:  "Mr. 
Lilburn  here  endeavoured  to  speak,  and  show  the 

Judge  his  mistake but  they  would  not  suffer 

him  to  speak.''  In  reference  to  the  double  dedica- 
tion to  the  first  part  of  the  History  of  Indepen- 
dmcy,  as  this  tract  wajs  a  reprint  of  two  pamphlets, 
it  is  possible  that  the  one  dedication  belonged  to 
the  Mystery  of  the  Two  Junto\  1647,  and  the 
other  to  the  History  of  Independency,  1648  ;  and 
that  when  the  two  were  reprinted,  under  the  title 
of  ReUUiom  and  OhservationSf  in  1648,  the  two 
dedications  were  placed  together  after  the  general 
title-page.  Was  the  book  when  thus  first  brought 
oat  styled  Revelations  or  Relations  f 

Edward  Sollt. 

Red  Ink  (6*>»  S.  v.  109).— The  best  red  ink, 
which  will  not  change  by  exposure,  is  Newman's 
"Liquid  Vermilion'';  or  it  can  be  made  by 
rubbing  a  sufficient  quantity  from  the  cake  of 
scarlet  vermilion  and  mixing  very  weak  gum 
water  with  it.  This  ink  is  always  used  for 
illuminating.  Emilt  Colb. 

Telgomouth. 

I  have  found  H.  C.  Stephens's  "  Scarlet  Ink," 
which  may  be  used  with  a  steel  pen,  the  best  to 
be  met  with,  and  I  think  it  will  suit  the  require- 
ments of  C.  R.  Tint  Tiv. 

SouthBea. 

If  C.  R.  will  dissolve  a  piece  of  red  sealing  wax 
in  spirit  of  wine  he  will  be  able  to  use  it  as  red 
ink,  and  no  sunlight  will  cause  it  to  fade. 

W.  F.  H. 

Try  vermilion  in  form  of  water  colour,  made  as 
wanted  from  a  cake.  J.  T.  F. 

Bishop  Hatfield's  Hall,  Durham. 

William  Howison  (6**»  S.  v.  148),  the  brother 
of  John  Howison,  of  the  East  India  Company's 
service,  introduced  himself,  when  fifteen,  by  his 
Ballad  of  Folydore  to  Sir  Walter  Scott,  by  whom 
he  has  been  so  graphically  described  in  a  letter  to 
Joanna  Baillie,  July  11,  1823,  that  0.  M.  L  need 
onlv  be  referred  to  this  epistle.  Folydore,  origi- 
nally published  by  Sir  Walter  in  the  Edinburgh 


Annual  Rtviero  for  1810,  will  be  found  in  Joanna 
Baillie's  Miscellanies,  1823.  Under  the  assumed 
name  of  M.  de  Peudemots,  Howison  published 
Fragments  and  Fictions  (see  Blackw,  Mag,,  x., 
345).  Also  an  Essay  on  the  Sentiments  of  Attrac- 
tion, Adaptation,  and  Vanity.  To  which  may  be 
added,  A  Key  to  the  Mythology  of  the  An^cienis^ 
and  Europ^s  LUeenets  to  the  Human  Spirit,  Edin., 
1821,  12mo.  (see  Blackw,  Mag.,  ix.,  393-399  ;  x., 
645 ;  XL,  308-316).  A  Orammar  of  Infinite  Forms, 
or  the  Mathematical  Elements  of  Ancient  Philo- 
sophy and  Mythology,  1823, 12mo.;  The  Conquest 
of  the  Twelve  Tribes  (see  Blachw,  Mag,,  xlvL,  694). 

William  Platt. 
Callia  Courii  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Lord  LouGHBORouaH  and  the  "  History  of 
THB  English  Law  "  (6*»»  S.  v.  109).— It  would 
seem  that  no  part  of  this  work  was  ever  published. 
Lord  Campbell,  in  his  Lives  of  the  Lord  Chan- 
cellors, voL  viii.  p.  209  (fourth  edition),  quotes  the 
following  passage  from  the  MS.  journal  of  Lord 
Commissioner  Adam  in  reference  to  Lord  Lough- 
borough's literary  efforts  : — 

''He  had  produced  an  historical  work  which  never 
met  the  light*  although  be  had  taken  great  pains  to 
correct  it— a  Dissertation  on  the  Beign  of  Henry  II.  of 
England.*' 

Lord  Campbell  adds  : — 

"  And  there  is  reason  to  think  thafc  he  printed  anony- 
mously several  political  pamphlets ;  but  the  only  nub- 
lieation  ever  avowed  bv  him  was  a  little  treatise  which 
came  out  in  the  year  1798,  soon  after  he  received  the 
Qreat  Seal,  entitled,  '  Observations  on  English  Pritons, 
by  the  Right  Honourable  Alexander  Lord  Loughborough, 
Lord  Chancellor  of  England.' " 

See  also  Allibone's  Dictionary  of  English  Litera- 
ture. G.  F.  R.  B. 

Lord  Campbell  makes  no  mention  of  the  ''  His- 
tory of  the  English  Law."  Though  Lord  Lough- 
borough had  literature  enough  to  warrant  a 
suspicion  that  he  was  Junius,  he  was  not  a  prolific 
writer.  Lord  Campbell  mentions  only  his  Obser- 
vations on  English  Prisons ;  some  articles  in  the 
early  numbers  of  the  Edinburgh  Review ;  some  pro- 
bably anonymous  pamphlets  ;  and  an  unpublished 
"  Dissertation  on  the  Reign  of  Henry  II.  of  Eng- 
land" (Xives  of  the  Chancellors,  viiL  209). 

Edward  H.  Marshall,  M.A. 

Zoophytes  of  the  Meditbrrakean  (6^  S. 
V.  129). — Jonrdain,  Zoanihaires  du  Golfe  de  Mar- 
seille, Masson,  Paris,  1880.  Du  Plegiis,  Cat, 
Provisoire  des  Hydroides  Midusipares  Observis 
pendant  VHiver  i879-80,  a  la  Stat,  Zool.  de 
Naples;  Mittheil,  a,d,  Zool.  Station  su  Neapel, 
1881,  pt.  2.  Hackel,  SyiUm  dtr  Medusen  (Amer, 
Jour,  Sci,,  vol.  xix.,  1880).  In  answer  to  R.  H.  B.'s 
query,  p.  129, 1  give  the  above  list.     F.  N.  R. 

SixPBNKT  Edition  of  the  Poets  (6*  S.  v. 
110).— The  works  of  Goldsmith,  Gray,  Armstrong, 


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ColliDS,  Otway,  RocheBter,  Smollett,  Johnson, 
Pomfret,  Dodsley,  Lyttelton,  Walsh,  Garth,  and 
Sheffield  V ere pnhlished in  Cooke's  "Pocket  Edition 
of  the  Poets,"  at  sixpence  each.  Thirteen  Yolumes 
were  issued  at  one  shilling,  and  twelve  at  prices 
varying  from  eighteenpence  to  five  shillings  and 
sixpence.  The  books  were  18mo.  size,  and  as 
each  one  contained  at  least  one  engraving,  were 
a  marvel  of  cheapness. 

EVSRARD  HOMB  CoLEMAN. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

This  seems  to  have  been  an  error  of  Leigh 
Hunt's.  He  may  have  picked  up  an  odd  volume 
or  two  for  sixpence  apiece  second  hand,  but  that 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  the  published  price. 
Bohn's  Bibliographer's  Manu<U  (1864),  vol.  iv. 
p.  1898,  has  the  following:  "British  Poets, 
Cooke's  edition,  Loud  :  G.  A.  Cooke,  n.d.  (1798, 
&c.),  18mo.  plates.  Published  in  80  parts  at 
1«.  6(2.  each,  or  on  fine  paper  at  2«." 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

OaLBT  Hat  (6^  S.  v.  128).— J7ay  is  not  a 
common  termination  of  place-names  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Norton  Canes.  Og  may  be  from 
Ugga,  the  lord's  name,  and  the  meaning  would 
thus  be  "  Ugga's  enclosed  meadow."  I  fail,  like 
your  correspondent,  to  see  any  relation  to  Canute's 
Hill,  which  would  be  a  more  probable  name  for 
Castle  Ring,  the  large  fortification  on  the  edge  of 
Lord  Anglesey's  neighbouring  domain  of  Beaa- 
desert,  asserted  by  Camden  to  be  Danish. 

HiRONDBLLV. 

WalBall. 

OgUy,  like  Ugley  in  Essex,  might  translate 
''great  pasture  or  place."  I  take  it  that  Bay 
usually  means  "enclosure";  properly  "what  a 
hedge  encloses";  originally  "a  hedge."  JBay, 
hayiUf  and  hedgt  are  etymologically  the  same 
word.  R.  S.  Charm  OCX: 

BouIogne-sur-Mer. 

RooBR  Shxrmam  (6"»  S.  T.  129).— This  Ameri- 
can statesman  waa  bom  1721,  and  died  1793. 
For  an  account  of  him,  see  Ripley  and  Dana's 
American  Cydopadia.  See  also  Annual  Rtgiiiter, 
xvii.  218  ;  xviii.  266  ;  xxix.  299.         E.  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

Thb  Naiib  Hibgamb  (6*»»  S.  v.  129).— Names 
compounded  of  game^  ghamSf  are  usually  corrupted 
from  ham,  a  dwelling.  Conf.  the  name  Walking- 
hame.  Hib  may  stand  for  Hibbert,  or  be,  i-g., 
lb,  a  nickname  of  Elizabeth  or  Isabel. 

R  S.  Charkock. 

Boalogne-Bur-Mer. 

Slbepkrs  IK  Church  (6««  S.  v.  127).— Richard 
Dovey,  of  Farmoote,  in  Shropshire,  by  a  bequest 
dated  in  1659,  directed  the  payment  of  eight 
shillings  annually  to  a  poor  man  who  should  under- 


take to  awaken  sleepers  and  whip  dogs  out  of 
church,  during  divine  service.  In  the  parishes  of 
Chislet,  Kent,  and  Peterchurch,  Herefordshire,  by 
a  similar  provision  dogs  are  excluded  from  church, 
and  at  Wolverhampton  five  shillinss  is  paid  for 
keeping  boys  quiet.*  In  1725  John  Rudse  be- 
queathed to  the  parish  of  Trysnll,  in  Staffordshire^ 
twenty  shillings  a  year  for  the  same  purpose. 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

The  custom  which  is  referred  to  in  Bishop  Thirl- 
wall's  Letters  was  a  not  uncommon  one  in  old  days. 
Mr.  Blackett,  in  the  first  volume  of  Old  Yorkshire 
(p.  132),  gives  the  following  entry  in  the  church- 
wardens'accounts  of  Barton-on-Humber:— "1740 
—  Paid  Brocklebank  for  waking  sleepers,  2s." 
The  same  custom  seems  to  have  existed  at  Trysail 
in  Staffordshire,  Claverley  in  Shropshire,  Acton 
in  Cheshire,  and  also  at  Dunchnrch.  See  the 
Book  of  Days  (1864),  vol.  i.  pp.  524-5.  This  office 
of  waking  the  drowsy  part  of  the  congregation  was 
often  performed  by  the  same  person  on  whom  the 
duty  fell  of  keeping  all  stray  dogs  out  of  the  church. 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

"Hallaballoo"  (6«»  S,  v.  147).— Dr.  Brewer, 
in  his  Dictionary  of  Phrase  and  Fable,  makes  the 
following  remarks  under  the  head  of  "Hulln- 
balloo":— 

*' Uproar.  Irish  name  for  the  coronach  or  crying 
together  at  funerals.  Same  as  harly-burly.  French^ 
harlu-berlu  (harler-berlue,  to  yell  [like],  a  hair-brained 
fellow).*' 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

When  your  querist  has  first  settled  the  correct 
spelling  of  the  above  polysyllable,  he  may  find  the 
root  of  it  in  Skeat.  s.v,  "  Halloo  or  halloa,"  "  Holla 
or  hollo,"  to  "hale,"  and  "herald";  or  again  in 
CJotgrave,  s.v.  «  Halle"  and  "  Haller,"  in  Grimm's 
Deutsche  Grammatik,  s,  v.  "  Herot,"  or  in  Burgoy, 
s.  V.  "  Haro."  The  unchanging  tenacity  of  the 
latter  is  worth  noticing.  A  late  number  of  La 
Fatrie  newspaper  said  :  "  L'afifaire  n'eut  pas  de 
suite  ;  elle  fut  enterrde  sous  le  haro  public  ;  lust 
as,  more  than  five  hundred  years  ago,Froi88art  bad 

said  :  "La  noise  et  le  haro  monta " 

Alfhomsb  Estoclbt. 

St  Mary's  College,  Peckham. 

Thb  Itbration  or  Ghthbs  :  NiJreiibkro  (6*^ 
S.  T.  147).— Nuremberg  is  not  the  only  city  that 
is  so  tormented,  as  your  correspondent  Dr. 
Sparrow  Simpson  relates,  with  the  chiming  of 
the  bells  at  each  quarter,  half,  and  full  hour.  I 
would  bring  under  your  notice  the  cathedral 
at  Strassbnrg  as  being  just  such  another  tormentor, 
if  not  worse.  The  following  is  its  ordinary  dati  j 
routine.  It  strikes  the  quarters,  halves,  three* 
quarters,  and  hours,  not  alone  ones  each  time,  bat 


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iwicij  nigbt  as  well  as  day.  •  The  minates  we  are 
flfMured.  I  would  further  mention  its  pealing- 
times  in  the  day.  In  the  morDing  from  half-past 
€ight  to  nine  o'clock  at  inteirals  ;  then  at  twelve 
o'clock  for  fiye  minutes ;  next,  at  half-past  two 
o'clock,  off  and  on  till  three ;  next,  at  ten 
minutes  to  four  till  four  o'clock  ;  and  lastly,  most 
aggraTatiog  of  all,  at  ten  o'clock  at  night  till  a 
quarter  post.  I  will  not  relate  the  ringings  on 
Sundays  and  special  days  ;  were  I  to  do  so  I 
should,  no  doubt,  take  up  a  column  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
with  the  details.  I  think,  howeyer,  that  what  I 
faaTe  said  will  suffice  to  console  those  sensitive 
people  who  hare  lately  complained  in  some  of  the 
London  daily  paffers  of  the  noise  made  by  church- 
bells,  that  they  will  consider  themselves  lucky 
ihey  haye  not  a  second  Strassburg  Cathedral  in 
4heir  midst.  A  Sufferer, 

Stxmaaburg  (Alsace). 

An  Old  Seal  (6«"  S.  v.  148).  —  Probably  for 
Bulidon  should  be  read  Balidon  or  Baildon,  If 
I  mistake  not  Baildon  is  a  Yorkshire  name,  and 
Bulidon  is  not.  E.  Walford,  M.A. 

Bampstead,  N.W. 

I  think  there  is  considerable  probability  that 
the  seal  now  used  by  Giggleswick  School  is  a  relic 
of  the  Gilbertine  Priory  of  Bullington,  in  Lincoln- 
shire, founded  in  the  reign  of  Stephen  by  Simon 
de  Eyme,  and  of  which  accounts  will  be  found  in 
Tanner  and  Dagdale.  Nomad. 

Elias  Brownb,  Norwich  (6*  S.  v.  149).— 
The  following  epitaph,  from  St.  Peter's  Mancrofb, 
Norwich,  giyen  by  Blomefield,  Hist  Norf.^ 
ToL  iy.  p.  196,  will  help  to  answer  H.  A.  W.'s 
query  :  "  Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  Elias  Browne, 
ijroldsmith,  some  time  sheriff  of  the  city  of  Nor- 
wich, By  six  of  his  children,  whoe  departed  this 
life,  Oct.  12, 1660,  iEt.  66." 

Augustus  Jsssopf,  D.D. 

"Brhold  the  man  "  (6*  S.  y.  208).— I  do  not 
know  who  the  person  is  who  is  represented  in  the 
engraying  concerning  which  M.  N.  S.  makes 
inquiry.  The  GentUmaWs  Magazine  for  1746 
contains  a  portrait  of  William,  Duke  of  Camber- 
land,  inscribed  "  Ecoe  homo."  When  we  bear  in 
mind  to  whom  these  words  haye  been  applied, 
SQch  a  motto  seems  to  me  little  short  of  blasphemy. 

K  P.  D.  E. 

DoKSKT  Traditions  (6"»  S.  y.  148). —  The 
following  may  be  of  use :  Poenu  of  Rural  Idfe, 
Ml  the  Dorset  Dialect,  vfitk  Disiertations  and 
Oiotaary,  by  the  Key.  W.  Barnes,  1844 ;  CoUee- 
tiont  lUuitrating  the  History  of  the  Catholic 
JUligion  in  the  Counliee  of  Comufall,  Devon, 
DoreUj  Sc,  by  George  Oliyer,  1867. 

R  H.  M. 


The  Qambs  of  Ohsss  and  Tables  (6^  S.  y. 
143). — ''Tables"  was  the  name  giyen  by  the  Anglo- 
Saxons  to  the  game  of  backgammon.  From 
Chaucer  we  gather  that  the  early  name  of  back- 
gammon, or,  at  all  eyents,  its  synonyme,  was 
tables  '^  and  that  the  same  meaning  was  attached 
to  the  two  words  at  the  period  when  Capt.  J. 
Steyens  published  his  History  of  Persia,  is  eyident 
from  a  passage  in  the  Spectator  (No.  77) : — 

*<  When  he  (the  absent  man)  it  playing  at  backgammon, 
he  calls  for  a  glass  of  vine  and  water;  it  is  his  tarn  to 

throir; unwilling  to  lose  time,  he  swallows  down 

both  the  dice,  and  at  the  same  time  throws  his  wino 


into  the  tabUi, 


J," 


William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

The  game  of  tables  is  better  known  at  present 
by  the  name  of  backgammon.  In  order  to  bring 
two  players  of  unequal  merits  nearer  to  a  level  than 
they  would  be  at  a  game  of  pure  skill  like  chess, 
other  diyersions  were  inyented,  in  which  both 
chance  and  skill  were  united,  as  they  are  in  tables, 
which  in  Latin  is  called  tabiUarum,  and  in  French 
tables.  Hence  the  following  line  in  the  romance 
of  Farise  la  Dwhesse : — 

"  Puis  apritt  il  as  tables  et  esohecs  joier." 
"  Then  he  learned  to  play  at  tables t  and  at  chess'' 
(Strutt's  Sports  and  Paetimes). 

Walter  Eireland,  F.B.G.S. 

Eastbourne. 

Tour  correspondent  asks  for  the  meaning  of 
"  the  game  of  tables."  Is  it  not  draughts  or  back- 
gammon, both  played  with  the  same  pieces  though 
on  different  boards  1  Bailey  giyes  "  Tables,  a 
certain  game  played  on  a  table-board."  But 
Johnson  is  bolder,  and  says,  "  Tables,  draughts ; 
small  pieces  of  wood  shifted  on  squares";  fortifying 
his  opinion  with  examples  from  Shakespeare — 

**  Monsieur  the  nice, when  he  plays  at  tables  "; 

and  from  Jeremy  Taylor — "  We  are  in  the  world 
like  men  pkying  at  tables.''  £.  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

«  Auld  Robin  Gray"  (6«»  S.  y.  146, 170,  212). 
—I  think  I  can  set  the  minds  of  both  M.  H.  R. 
and  Mr.  Jonas  at  rest  on  a  few  points  raised  in 
the  recent  discussion  of  this  subject.  The  music 
of  "  Auld  Robin  Gray  "  was  composed  by  the  Rey. 
William  Leeyes  about  the  year  1770,  and  was 
published  in  London  by  Noyello,  Ewer  &  Co. 
My  authority  for  these  statements  is  the  grand- 
daughter of  the  reyerend  gentleman,  who  is  aliye, 
and  has  recently  reprinted  the  piece  as  originally 
composed  by  her  grandfather,  from  an  original  in 
her  possession.  The  Rey.  W.  Leeyes  possessed  a 
house  in  this  place,  in  which  he  resided  during 


*  See  Bohn*s  Handbook  of  Oamet,  p.  881. 

f  Called  tables,  probably,  because  the  game  consists 
in  the  players  bnnging  their  men  baek  from  their 
opponents'  tables  into  their  own. 


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[6th  s.  V.  Apbil  1,  '82. 


*  the  Bummer  Beasons  ;  the  hoase,  with  its  thatched 
loof  and  creeper- covered  walls,  is  still  standing, 
and  is  known  and  honoured  amongst  us  as  Leeves's 
Cottage  to  this  day.  E.  E.  B. 

Weston-super-Mare. 

The  object  of  my  first  letter  on  this  subject 
was  merely  to  correct  a  very  common  notion,  that 
Lady  Anne  Lindsay  composed  a  tane  to  her  own 
words ;  whereas  she  wrote  the  words  only,  and 
the  Rev.  WUliam  Leeves  (I  said  Henry  by  mis- 
take) composed  a  tune  to  them,  which  tane,  I 
maintain,  was  the  only  one  that  ever  attained 
popularity  in  England.  It  would  seem,  from  Mr. 
Ross's  and  Mr.  Mottnset's  letters,  that  the  words 
had  also  been  sung  to  an  old  Scotch  tune^of  that 
I  know  nothing.  I  have  no  wish  to  enter  into 
the  merits  or  demerits  of  either  tune  ;  but  I  must 
decline — as  most  musicians,  I  think,  would — to  be 
bound  by  the  criticism  of  Mr.  Hullah  as  infallible. 
Miss  Stephens  was  so  grateful  to  the  composer 
who  had  enabled  her  to  win  such  wide-spread 
applause,  that  she  sought  for  and  obtained  a  per- 
sonal introduction  to  Mr.  Leeves.  The  Hon.  Mrs. 
Byron,  a  common  friend  of  Mr.  Leeves  and  Lady 
Anne  Lindsay,  soon  after  that  lady  wrote  the 
words  (about  the  year  1770),  sent  a  copy  of  them 
to  Mr.  Leeves ;  and  on  that  hint  he  seems  to 
have  acted.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  musical 
amateur,  played  the  violoncello  well,  and  com- 
posed several  sacred  songs.  I  owe  an  apology  to 
your  correspondents,  as  well  as  to  you,  Mr. 
£ditor,  for  trusting  so  much  to  my  old  memory 
when,  from  knowing  something  of  the  Leeves 
family,  I  might  have  obtained  better  information 
than  I  gave  in  proof  of  the  popular  tune  having 
been  Mr.  Leeves's  composition.  I  can  now  state 
that  an  edition  of  the  balhid  in  question,  "  words 
by  Lady  Anne  Lindsay,  and  music  bv  the  Rev. 
W.  Leeves,"  has  been  published  as  lately  as  1880, 
with  letter- press  following  giving  interesting 
details  on  the  subject.  The  publishers  are  Messrs. 
Novello  &  Co.,  and  the  price  Is.  Here,  I  think, 
the  controversy  may  end.  M.  H.  R. 

Lord  Robert  Stuart  (5**»  S.  viiL  443;  ix. 
73). — I  have  no  doubt  that  the  person  who 
signed  the  precept,  August  16, 1560,  aa^Robertus 
Commendatarius  Sancti  Crucis,"  was  Lord  Robert 
Stewart,  who  was  natural  son  of  James  Y.  by 
Euphame,  dau.  of  the  first  Lord  Elphinstone.  Lord 
Robert  was  Prior  of  Holyrood,  and  was  created 
Earl  of  Orkney  1581.  Euphame  Elphinstone 
afterwards  married  John  Bruce  of  Cultmalundie, 
and  had  by  him  a  son,  Lawrence  Bruce  of  Cult- 
malundie, who  was  thus  uterine  brother  to  Lord 
Robert  Stewart,  and  accompanied  him  to  Shet- 
land, where  he  was  made  Fowde,  and  Admiral 
Depute  of  Orkney  and  Shetland,  and  founded 
the  family  of  Bruce  of  Muness.  It  is  probable 
that  Euphame  Bruce,  wife  of  John  Pennycuick, 


mentioned  in  Mr.  Kennbdt's  notice,  was  a  sister 
of  Lawrence  Bruce,  and  so  uterine  sister  of  Lord 
Robert.  W.  B.  A. 

Aver  db  pois  (6**  S.  iv.  167,  334^.— In  con- 
firmation of  what  is  pointed  out  by  tf.  D.,  I  may 
refer  to  Adelung's  Olossarium  ManuaU  (abridged 
from  Ducange),  "  Averium  ponderis :  merces  omnes 
quae  venduntur  ad  pondus  seu  libram."  '*Aver 
de  pes :  e^dem  notione."  R.  R.  Dees. 

WallfleDd. 

''Papa"  and  "Mamma,"  &c.  (6"»  S.  iii.  107, 
273,  466,  475  ;  iv.  57,  237,  396),— In  Brachet's 
Frenck  Dictionary  both  maman  and  papa  are 
stated  to  be  onomatopoetic  words,  and  they  seem 
to  be  found  in  nearly  all  European  languages. 
St.  Swithin's  quotation  from  Euphues  is  evidently 
itself  taken  from  that  colloquy  of  Erasmus  termed 
Ptierperc^  in  which  the  facete  Eutrapelus  is  up- 
braiding Fabulla  for  failing  to  nurse  her  own 
child,  merely  out  of  deference  to  King  Custom^ 
and  says : — 

"  Cam  infans  jam  far!  meditabiiur,  ac  blandA  balbotie 
te  mammam  vocabit,  quA  fronte  hoc  audios  ab  eo,  coi 
mammam  negarts,  et  ad  conductitiam  mammam  rele- 
g&ris,  perinde  quasi  capras  aut  ovi  BubjeciBseal  Ubi  jam 
erit  fandi  potens,  quid  si  te  pro  matre  vocet  semima* 
tremV 

My  edition  of  the  Colloquies  is  dated  1740,  pub- 
lished in  London,  and  edited  by  Samuel  Patrick, 
Sub-Master  of  the  Charterhouse.  Mr.  Patrick,  in 
a  note  to  the  above  passage,  has  this,  ^'Mamcs 
vulgatissima  vox  est,  qua  infantuli  matrem  vocant 
apud  omnes  Europseanaa  gentes."  In  the  fourth 
edition  of  Bailey's  Dictionary,  mamma  is  derived 
from  French  ma  mhre,  of  Latin  mammOf  my 
mother ;  a  history  of  the  word  which  carries  its 
own  refutation  with  it.  I  cannot  but  think  that 
earlier  references  for  both  papa  and  mamma  will  be 
found  than  those  indicated  in  Prof.  Skeat's  Dtc- 
tionary,  James  Hooper. 

8,  Claude  Villas,  Denmark  Hill,  S.E. 

"FoRREL*'  (6*>»  S.  iil  609  ;  iv.  272,  313,  398>. 
— The  following  is  a  good  instance  of  the  use  of 
forrsl,  fwrtUuSf  in  the  sense  of  "  a  case  ": — 

"Et  poBtea  colloeatua  ect  loculus  in  solito  looo,  et 
potitus  est  super  loculum,  jaztaangelum,/teru/tMqnidam 
i«ricu8,  in  quo  reposita  fuit  soedula  Anglice  scripta^ 

continens  quasdam  salutaciones   Ailnrini  monaobi 

Btatim  scriptum  fuit  et  aliud  breve,  et  in  eodem  funtlo 
reconditum,  sub  hac  form&  verborum." 

The  passage  occurs  in  an  account  of  the  opening 
the  tomb  of  St.  Edmund  the  martyr,  in  the  CkrO" 
nide  of  Joeelin  de  Brakelond  (Camden  Soc.),  p.  84* 

0.  W.  Tanoock. 

"  Colonel  *'  (6**  S.  i.  104  ;  iv.  314,  337,  454). 
— The  earliest  work  in  which  I  find  this  word,, 
spelt  and  employed  as  it  is  now  used,  is  that 
entitled  All  uie  Famous  Battels^  &c.,  printed  by 


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Heniy  Bynneman  and  Francis  Coldock,  without 
date  between  the  yean  1575  and  1587  (with 
which  latter  date  Th€  Second  Part  of  the  Booke  of 
Batlailes  was  printed  for  Grabriel  Cawood),  and 
not  until  the  writer  comes  to  treat  of  "  the  Batteli 
of  Monoontour,  foughte  in  Poitou  in  Fraunce, 
betweene  Henrie,  Duke  of  Anjou,  and  Henrie, 
Prince  of  Beame,  the  tenthe  of  October  in  Anno 
1569/'  It  then  occurs  thus  :  "  The  Colonels  and 
Oaptaines  of  euerie  bande  were  a  little  aduanced 
for  to  encourage  their  men ";  and,  a  little  later, 
"  his  Excellence  aduanoed  himeelfe  so  lustilie  upon 
the  Protestants  that  the  Switzers  ynder  Colonell 
PhifTer  and  their  Generall  Mem,  &cJ*  In  the 
Second  Part^  to  which  I  haye  referred,  mention  is 
made  of 

"  One  GapUdne  Entigne  Colonell,  who  preferring  death 
before  diahonor,  the  which  he  thought  he  should  de- 
■erue  by  rantiuiDg  so  many  raliant  souldioars  slaine, 
wold  not  abandon  one  so  honorable  a  peece  of  silke  but 

with  the  lone  of  his  life I  doe  remember  me  of  the 

Bnsigne  Colonell  of  Cssar  that  bare  the  Eagle  Imperiall 
in  the  ciuile  warres,  &c." 

As  to  the  seyenteenth  century  pronunciation,  vide 
Hudibrat,  canto  i.  11.  12-13  : — 

'*  Then  did  Sir  Knight  abandon  dwelling, 
And  out  be  rode  a  colonelling." 

Alfred  Wallis. 

Hbrkward  lk  Wakk  :  the  Countess  Lugt 
(e^  S.  iil  368  ;  ir.  9,  C9,  136,  466).— In  the 
pedigree  of  Leofric  which  I  sent  to  "N.  &  Q.," 
6^  S.  iy.  9, 1  omitted  to  state  that  my  authority 
for  the  Countess  Lucy  was  Dugdale.  I  haye  long 
since  despaired  of  seeing  a  satisfactory  solution  of 
the  difficulty.  I  had  neyer  come  across  Leofwine, 
brother  of  Abbot  Leofrie  ;  and  I  should  be  greatly 
obliged  if  Mr.  A.  S.  Ellis  would  kindly  giye  me 
the  reference,  or  references. 

Edmukd  Waterton. 

Place-names  (6«»  S.  iy.  166,  356,  457).— For 
the  probability,  by  analogy,  that  finkle  may  equal 
fennel,  as  suggested  at  the  first  reference,  cf.  the 
name  of  the  world-famed  Marathon  in  Attica, 
with  respect  to  whrch  place  Liddell  and  Scott 
remark,  **  Probably  ao  called  from  its  being  oyer- 
grown  with  fennel  (fidpaOov)"  To  the  instances 
already  giyen  may  be  added  Finkle  Street,  in 
Richmond,  Yorkshire. 

F.  C.  BiRKBSCK  Terrt. 

The  statement  that  finkU  is  found  in  con- 
nexion with  castles,  towns,  or  streets  is  not  fully 
correct,  as  "The  Finkills,"  in  Lightcliffe, 
Halifax  parish,  is  a  mere  by-way,  and  has  no 
houses  in  it.  It  may  be  of  Roman  origin,  as 
Roman  remains  haye  been  found  near  it,  at  Hoye 
Edge  and  Lightcliffe.  I  haye  neyer  been  satisfied 
with  the  botanical  e^mology  (fennel)  giyen  in  an 
early  series  of  "  N.  &  Q.,''  neither  does  the  ^*  crooked  " 
idea  apply  to  '*  The  Finkills,"  which  is  a  straight 


road.    '*  Finch  Hills  "  seems  to  me  a  likely  deriya- 
tion. 

Heigham, — "Hey,  an  enclosure,''  is  profcably 
nearer  the  mark  than  the  explanations  giyen. 

Owl  Ing,—A.t  Brighouse  is  Owler  Ing,  which  I 
haye  supposed  took  its  name  from  the  alder  trees. 

J.  H.  T. 

The  Name  of  James  before  1258  (6^  S.  iy. 
308,  354,  374,  393,  476).— In  a  memorandum  of 
the  Tenants  in  Capitein  Gloucestershire  (Testa  do 
NeMl,  p.  77),  certainly  of  earlier  date  than  1215, 
as  William  Fitz  Alkn,  who  died  in  that  year,  is 
included,  will  be  found,  "Jame  de  Noyy  Mer- 
cato"  as  holding  two  knight's  fees  in  Dyrham. 
In  later  rolls  the  same  person  is  referred  to  as 
**  Jacobus,''  any  doubt  as  to  the  Latinizing  of  this 
unusual  name  haying  disappeared.  Eques. 

I  am  glad  that  my  query  has  elicited  so  much 
information.  Still  it  has  not  been  exactly  what  I 
wanted.  I  think  it  is  yery  doubtful,  especially 
after  what  Mr.  Ralph  James  has  related,  that 
the  name  can  haye  been  directly,  or  eyen  remotely, 
connected  with  'lafcco/Sos.  Surely,  then,  there 
must  be  some  trace  of  the  name  in  its  present 
form  before  1258.  I  may  say  that  the  mention  of 
it  at  that  date  is  to  be  found  in  a  proclamation  of 
Henry  III.,  in  which  reference  is  made  to  a  James 
of  AlditheL  It  is  quoted  in  Earle's  Philology  of 
the  Bnglith  Tongue,  p.  72  (second  edition).  I  may 
also  add  that  the  first  mention  of  the  name  in 
Scotland  which  I  haye  been  able  to  disooyer  is 
in  connexion  with  a  James,  Lord  High  Steward, 
who  was  one  of  the  ambassadors  sent  to  bring 
home  the  little  Maid  of  Norway  in  the  year  1290. 

J.  B.  JOHKSTON,  M.A. 

OviNGDEAN  Grange  (e^  S.  iy.  388,  543).— In 
connexion  with  Mr.  Ainsworth's  interesting  noyel 
it  may  be  interesting  to  note  that,  by  a  curious 
coincidence  (probably  unknown  to  the  author),  the 
yicar  of  Oyingdean  (John  Stemp)  was  actually 
sequestered  by  the  Committee  of  Plundered 
Ministers,  on  Dec.  16,  1645,  for  alleged  **  drunk- 
nesse  and  other  scandalous  misdemeanours'' 
(British  Museum  Add.  MS.  15,669,  p.  231). 
Charges  of  this  kind  were,  howeyer,  brought  sa 
recklessly  by  the  Puritans  against  the  clergy  that 
little  weight  can  be  attached  to  resolutions  like 
this.  Frederick  E.  Sawter. 

Brighton. 

Memories  of  the  Battle  of  Trafalgar  (6*^ 
S.  iy.  603 ;  y.  11).— Can  Calcuttbnsis  tell  me 
whether  Dr.  Beattie,  who  extracted  the  fatal 
bullet  from  the  body  of  Nelson,  was  in  after  years, 
1820-1830,  chief  physician  or  chief  medical  officer 
of  the  Royal  Nayal  School,  Greenwich  ?     G.  I. 

"  Joseph  and  his  Brethren  "  (6**  S.  iy.  427, 
494,  524 ;  y.  78).— The  Qentleman'i  Magazine  for 


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[6*  8.  V.  April  1,  *82. 


AugUBt,  1824  (p.  146),  reviewed  "  Joseph  and  his 
Brethren ;  a  Scriptural  Drama,  in  two  acts,  by 
H.  L.  Howard,  small  8vo.  pp.  262  (Whittaker)/ 
The  review  is  ''slashing,"  and  the  specimens 
quoted  warrant  the  adverse  opinion  of  Mr.  Sylva- 
nus  Urban,  who  notes  :  ''  The  drama  opens  with 
a  couplet  in  rhyme,  e.g.: — 

*  In  the  dim  age,  when  jet  the  rind  of  earth, 
Unworn  by  time,  gave  eager  nature  birth/ 

and  then  continues  blank  throughout"  With 
one  other  extract  from  the  review  most  readers  of 
"N.  &  Q."  will  agree, — "Let  the  well-meaning 
Christian  beware,  that  by  the  injudicious  treat- 
ment of  Scriptund  subjects,  he  do  not  give  the 
anbeliever  a  theme  for  derision."  J.  Bosjl 

Leigh,  Lancashire. 

Wrat=Udall  (6«»  S.  iv.  429  ;  v.  31,  97).— 
I  am  obliged  to  Mr.  Udal  for  his  answer  to  my 
query,  and  hope  that  he  will  yet  be  able  to  find 
the  Christian  name  of  the  Udall  married  to  a  Wray 
some  time  in  the  fourteenth  century.  I  derive 
my  information  from  a  pedigree  of  Cleburne  of 
Cleburne,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  Alice,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Cleburne,  married  John  Wray,  of 
Richmond,  and  had  issue  Richard,  who  married  a 
Udall  and  had  issue  Humphrey,  who  married  a 
Warcop  and  had  issue  Robert,  who  married  a 
Danby  and  had  issue  William,  who  married  a 
Jacob  and  had  issue  Christopher,  who  was  a 
reader  at  Lincoln's  Inn  in  1662,  and  a  Serjeant 
at  law  1572  ;  died  1692.  The  English  Barmut- 
4igt  (London,  Wotton,  1741),  vol.  L  241,  gives  the 
marriage  of  Alice  Clyburn  and  John  Wray,  but 
does  not  give  the  date.  Perhaps  the  pedigrees  of 
some  of  the  above-mentioned  families  may  throw 
light  upon  the  subject.  C.  J.  H. 

"  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man  "  (6"»  S.  viii.  389, 
516  ;  ix.  99,  176  ;  6"»  S.  iv.  236  ;  v.  62,  99).— 
I  have  a  folio  copy  of  this  work,  which  is  entitled 
*^  The  Works  of  the  Learned  and  Pious  Author  of 
the  Whole  Duty  of  Man.  Third  Impression.  Printed 
At  the  Theater  in  Oxford  and  London  by  Roger 
Norton  for  Edward  Pawlett,  a.d.  mdclxxxxv." 
It  contains  "  Whole  Duty,"  "  The  Causes  of  the 
Decay  of  Christian  Piety,"  with  private  devotions, 
forming  Part  I.,  pp.  466.  "  Second  Part  of  the 
Works  of  the  Learned  and  Pious  Author  of  the 
Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  containing  "  Tracts  in  this 
Second  Part:  The  Ladies'  Calling;  The  Govern- 
ment of  the  Tongue;  The  Art  of  Contentment; 
The  Lively  Oracles  given  unto  Us,"  pp.  342,  with 
table  of  contents,  and  index  of  Scriptures  in  last 
tract.  At  the  end  of  the  preface  of  the  Second  Part 
is  added  the  following  note  : — 

"  Since  the  time  of  the  writing,  and  also  printing  the 
foregoing  Preface,  there  la  published  a  small  Tract 
«ntitled,  <  The  Art  of  Patience  under  all  Afflictions,  an 
Appendix  to  the  Art  of  Contentment,  by  the  Author  of 
the  Whole  Duty  of  Man,  &c./  which  being  a  new  in- 


stance of  disingenuous  dealing  with  the  memnry  of  the 
Author,  and  enterprising  upon  the   belief  of  unwary 
Readers,  it  seem'd  convenient  to  give  this  notice  of  it." 
E.  Lbaton  Blkmkimbopp. 

The  authorship  of  this  once  popular  work,  first 
published  in  1669,  has  been  attributed  to  three 
archbishops,  two  bishops,  several  clergymen,  and 
a  lady.  On  reference  to  Boswell's  Life  of  John- 
son, the  following  will  be  found  as  foot-notes  at 
p.  269  of  the  royal  8vo.  edition  of  1866  :— 

''In  a  manuscript  in  the  Bodleian  Library  several 
circumstances  are  stated  which  strongly  incline  me  to 
believe  that  Dr.  Accepted  Prewen,  Archbishop  of  Yorl[; 
was  the  author  of  this  work. — Malone, 

"  See  on  the  subject  of  the  author  of  this  celebrated 
and  excellent  worlc,  Oent  Mag.,  yo\.  zxtr.  p.  26,  and 
Ballard's  Memoirs  of  Learned  Ladies,  p.  800.  The  late 
eccentric  but  le&med  Dr.  Barrett,  of  Trinity  College, 
Dublin,  believed,  I  know  not  on  what  evidence,  that  Dr. 
Chafel,  formerly  provost  of  that  college,  was  the 
author.— Orol-tfr." 

Henbt  G.  Hope. 

Freegrove  Koad,  N. 

At  the  end  of  '^  >4  Treatise  of  the,.. Sacrament.., 
By... Richard  Vines.  Third  edition,  London,  1677," 
is  a  list  of  books  sold  by  William  Miller  at  the 
Gilded  Acorn  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard.  The 
last  entry  stands  thus,  "  Perkin^s  whole  Duty  of 
Man."  W.  0.  B. 

Hughes's  History  of  Meltham,  near  Hudders- 
field,  names  Abraham  Woodhead  as  the  author  of 
The  Whole  Duty  of  Man,  and  gives  several 
pages  of  proofs.  J.  H.  T. 

Tdel. 

"  Pomatum  "  (6*»»  S.  iv.  8,  137,  318,  396  ;  v.  76, 
176). — Correspondents  who  have  been  searching 
after  the  origin  of  this  word  seem  to  have  over- 
looked the  Index  to  "  N.  &  Q."  for  1861.  In  the 
volume  for  June  of  that  year  I  quoted  the  recipe 
for  pomatum  from  the  London  Pharmacopoeia  of 
1682  (2»^  S.  xi.  418).  Mr.  Terry,  however,  (6«* 
S.  iv.  8)  inquired  not  for  the  meaning  of  the  word, 
but  as  to  the  period  when  the  word  pomatum  first 
came  into  use.  Jatdkb. 

Manor  of  East  Grkbmwich  (e***  S.  iv.  89).— 
In  ancient  documents  Greenwich  was  called  East 
Greenwich,  to  distinguish  it  from  Deptford,  which 
was  known  as  West  Greenwich  (see  Lambarde's 
PerambnUUian  of  Kent,  1696,  p.  429).  Hasted, 
writing  in  1778,  says  that  upon  the  restoration  of 
Charles  II.  the  manor  **  again  returned  to  the 
Crown  as  part  of  the  royal  patrimony,  where  it 
has  remained  ever  since.''  Some  little  time  back 
the  Prime  Minister  conferred  the  office  of  Chief 
Steward  of  the  Royal  Manor  of  Greenwich  upon 
Mr.  J.  R  JoUy,  J.P.,  in  the  pUce  of  the  late 
Admiral  Baillie  Hamilton.  G.  F.  R  B. 

Isolated  Burial  (6^  S.  iv.  613).— The  only 
cases  of  isolated  burial  I  can  oeJI  to  mind  at  pre- 


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sent  are  a  grave  I  have  seen  among  the  rocks 
at  the  mouth  of  the  river  Dart,  of  a  man  found 
dead  ;  and  also  on  a  moor  in  Derbyshire  by  the 
high  road  a  face  is  cut  in  the  rock,  showing  the 
burial-place  of  a  man  who  died  there  of  hunger. 
I  forget  the  exact  locality. 

Walter  B.  Slater. 
264,  Camden  Road,  N.W. 

"NouvELLRS  d'Anolxtkrrb '^  (6^  S.  V.  127, 
159).  —  This  book  is  duly  mentioned  in  M. 
WiUems's  Xet  Eltevien  (1880),  p.  406,  No.  1585. 

J.  0.  Hudson. 

''A  Sbrmond  hade  before  the  Etnge," 
&a,  BT  JoHAN  LoNGLOND  (6***  S.  ▼.  228).— Most, 
if  not  all,  of  Bishop  Longlond's  sermons  were 
preached  in  English,  but  afterwards  translated 
into  Latin  by  Thomas  Caius,  or  Kaye,  of  All 
Souls,  Oxford,  in  the  library  of  which  college  may 
probably  be  found  perfect  copies  of  the  works  of 
this  learned  prelate.  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

A  copy  of  this  sermon  is  in  the  Library  at  Lam- 
beth, xxix.  3,  17  (2);  cf.  Maitland,  Efiglish  Books 
in  Ihe  Lambeth  lAbrary,  p.  69.  There  is  a  mis- 
take, however,  I  imagine,  in  the  date  given  by 
Mr.  Sinker,  as  the  date  in  Maitland  is  1538,  and 
the  same  date  is  given  by  Ames.  Perhaps,  bow- 
ever,  this  was  another  sermon.     W.  H.  Burns. 

CUyton  Hal). 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6"»  S.  L  77).— 

Comic  Englisk  Oramnar, 

JBngluh  in  India,  and  other  Shetthes, 
^   JBpict  of  the  Ton :  a  Poem. 

Hefsn.  Halkett  and  Laing  ascribe  the  authorship  of 
the  first  book  to  P.  Lee,  and  the  illustrations  therein  to 
John  Leech.  The  authors  of  the  second  and  third  books, 
according  to  the  rame  authorities,  were  T.  H.  Ottley  and 
Lady  Anne  Hamilton  respectirely.  O.  Fjshsb. 

(6tb  a  V.  209, 239). 
The  Orounds  and  Oceationt  of  (he  Contempt  of  the 
Clergy,  &c.— Would  Ma.  Bossbll  kindly  explain  the 
meaning  of  the  initials  "  T.  B."  which  are  appended  to 
the  end  of  the  letter,  together  with  the  date  *'  August  8, 
1670 "  ?  If  Dr.  Eachard  was  the  author,  what  does 
T.  B.  mean  1    Is  the  edition  of  1670  the  first  edition  1 

G.  P.  B.  B, 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted  (6"»  S.  v. 
110,  239).— 

'*  HumansB  sapiential  pars  est,"  kc, 
'*Bx  quo  mihi  inter  virtutes  gmmmatici  habebitur, 
aiigua  nesetrf."— Qnintil.  Inti.  Orator,,  L  Tiii.  21. 

T.  W.  C. 
(6»h8.v.l89,219.) 
"  Si  Christum  bene  scis,"  &c. 
The  author  of  the  lines  seems  to  hare  been  unknown 
in  the  fourteenth    century.    Ludolph  of  Saxony,  who 
flourished    circa  a.i>.  1380  (Cave,  Hitt.  Lit,  torn.  ii. 
p.  81,  Basil.,  1741),  hai:->'*Et  ideo  bene  per  quendam 
sapientem  dicttur : 

'  Hoc  est  nesoire,  sine  Christo  plurtma  scire ; 
81  Christum  bene  icif,  satis  est;  si  cetera  nesci*.* 


Utinam  sapientes  hujus  mundi  hoc  saperent  et  in- 
telligerent,  et  scientiam  suam  in  banc  commutarent "" 
( Vita  Jesu  Christi,  Procem.  sect.  iz.  p.  7,  torn.  i.  Par.» 
1870).    In  the  form, 

"  Si  Christum  di^cis,  nihil  est  si  coatera  nescis : 
Si  Christum  nescis,  nihil  est  si  coetera  discts," 
it  is  the  motto  on  the  title-page  of  the  collection  Car* 
minum  Proverhialium  Loci  Communes,  Lond.,  1679,  a» 
educational  work  which  was  often  reprinted.  In  a  MS. 
note  by  F.  Douce  in  his  copy,  which  is  now  in  th» 
Bodleian  Library,  the  authonnip  of  the  Tolume  is  dis> 
cussed.  En.  Mabshall. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 

The  Making  of  England.     By  John    Eichard  Green ^ 

M.A.,  LL.D.    With  Maps.    (Macmillan  &  Co.) 
Mb.  Oreen  warns  us  at  the  outset  that  his  new  book^ 
now  before  us,  is  only  a  "partial  realization  *'  of  an  old- 
standing  project.     While  we  wish  that  the  principal 
cause  of  tnis  acknowledged  imperfect  condition  of  the 
work  mav  be  removed,  and  that  restored  health  may 
yet  enable  him  to  expand  this  outline^  we  cannot  but  ba 
glad  that  he  has  published  the  results,  at  least  to  some 
extent,  of  his  researches  into  early  English  history.    For 
while  Mr.  Oreen  is  a  faithful  follower  of  the  chief  of  his 
school,  who,  indeed,  long  ago  singled  him  out  as  a  pro- 
bable continuator  of  much  of  bis  own  work,  he  nerer- 
thelesB  has  an  indiTiduality  of  his  own,  and  there  ar» 
subjects  which  he  inTestigates  with  greater  seat  than 
Mr.  Freeman.    Mr.  Green's  Making  m  England  is  thus 
a  totally  distinct   book   from   Sir  Francis  PalgraTC^s 
Anglo- Saxone  or  Mr.  Freeman's  Old  Englieh  Bittoryy 
though  it  ooTers  a  portion— of  course  only  a  portion— of 
the  same  ground.    There  was  naturally  scope  in  Mr» 
Green's  scheme  for  a  certain  amount  of  antiquarian 
treatment,  and  in  the  expectation  of  finding  this  aide  to 
his  work  we  hare  not  been  disappointed.  Boman  Britain, 
as  the  villas  at  Bignor  and  Woodchester  and  other 
Roman  remains  show  it  forth,  stands  out  for  us  in  strong 
relief  in  Mr.  Green's  pages.     We  see  TJriconium,  ths 
'*  white  town  of  the  Talley,"  sung  by  Llrwarch  ;  again 
the  walls  of  the  villa  at  Bignor  glow  with  frescoes,  and 
the  figures  of  Orpheus  and  Pan  gleam  for  us  from  among: 
the  marbles  and  tesselated  pavements  of  Woodchester. 
The  later  and  not  less  important  villa  at  Morton,  near 
Brading,  does  not  seem  to  have  been  known  to  Mr. 
Green,  which  we  regret,  principally  on  account  of  the 
controversy  to  which  the  apparently  Gnostic  charncter- 
of  some  of  its  mosaics  has  given  rise.    On  the  religious* 
side  of  the  history  of  Roman  Britain  Mr.  Green  is,  w» 
think,  less  satisfactory  than  on  its  political  side.    That 
the  political  aspect  of  the  Roman  conquest  of  Britaii> 
may  well  be  summed  up  in  the  two  words  which  Mr. 
Pearson  has  selected  for  that  purpoie— vis.,  that  it  wa» 
"military  and  municipal  "—we  gather  as  clearly  from 
Mr.  Green.    We  find  nim  also  deservedly  insisting  on 
the  falsity  of  the  conmion  attribution  of  cowardice  to 
the  Romanised  Britons.   The  struggle  which  they  main- 
tained against  the  inflowing  tide  of  Teutonic  barbarisok 
was,  in  truth,  both  long  and  obstinate— longer,  indeed,, 
and  more  obstinate,  Mr.  Green  admits,  than  elsewhere* 
But  when  he  comes  to  the  question  of  British  Chris- 
tianity under  the  Roman  sway,  Mr.  Green  contrives  to 
cast  BO  much  doubt  on  his  very  admissicni  that  the 
admissions  themselves  seem  worthless.    We  cannot  seo 
what  is  to  be  gained  by  such  a  course.    The  facts  which 
are  recorded  in  the  annals  of  the  UnlTersal  Church 


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place  tho  existence  of  Brifci3li  ChHstkinity  beyond  dis- 
pute; and  even  in  the  absence  of  such  records  we 
flhould  have  been  warranted  in  inferring  it  from  the 
Christianity  of  other  portions  of  the  Celtic  race,  which 
can  scarcely  by  any  possibility  hare  receired  their  reli- 
gion save  through  Britain.  If  English  historians  still 
«ast  doubts  over  Celtic  Christianity,  living  German  and 
Swiss  writers  give  all  due  honour  to  the  Celtic  mission- 
aries who  penetrated  the  depths  of  Germany  and  Hel- 
Tetia^  It  is  perhaps  characteristic  of  Mr.  Green's  school 
that  we  should  find  him  so  enthusiastic  orer  the  landing* 
place  of  Hengist  and  Horsa  as  to  aver  that  "  no  other 
apot  in  Britain  can  be  so  sacred  to  Englishmen."  Now, 
passing  orer  the  immaterial  circumstance  that  many 
Englishmen  are  not  descended  from  Jute,  Angle,  or 
Saxon,  the  legend  of  the  Jutish  settlement  in  Kent 
opens  almost  at  once  with  a  record  of  treacherous 
assassination.  We  do  not  know  whether  the  legend  is  as 
mered  to  Mr.  Green  as  Ebbsfleet  itself.  We  must  con- 
fess to  a  higher  feeling  of  regard  for  Senlac  and  Runny- 
mede.  We  note  some  progress  in  nomenclature  since 
Mr.  Green's  earlier  works.  We  hear  now  of  "  folk  "  and 
of  *  men,"  not  of  people.  At  p.  125.  indeed,  there 
seems  to  be  a  distinction  between  Saxon  •  speaking 
"  Bedfordshire  men  "  and  "  Engle  "-  speaking  "  North- 
amptonshire folk."  We  find  ourselves  nowadays  face 
to  face  with  the  '<  Engle"  instead  of  the  Angles, 
and  with  «Hild"  instead  of  old-fashioned  8t.  Hilda. 
Thus  reading,  we  wonder  what  will  be  the  next  step  in 
our  education,  fearing  only  lest  we  should  ourselres  be 
improTed  off  the  face  of  the  earth  ere  we  become  suffi* 
ciently  learned  in  Old  English  lore.  We  are  disposed, 
howcTer,  to  regard  these  features  as  accidental,  not 
essential.  The  essence  of  the  school  which  has  adopted 
them  we  belieye  to  be  in  the  main  the  search  after 
truth.  Whaterer  has  been  prored  to  be  the  truth  will 
remain  as  the  best  result  of  the  work  of  (hat  school 
when  ita  peculiarities  of  language,  which  are  many, 
ehall  have  faded  as  the  leaf  in  autumn. 

Chap'BooU  oftht  EtghteefUh  Century.  With  Fac-similes, 
Notes,  and  Introductions.  By  John  Ashton.  (Cbatto 
&  Windus.) 
This  is  unquestionably  a  book  of  considerable  interest, 
but,  we  are  bound  to  add,  one  calculated  to  disappoint 
the  reader,  because  it  is  obTious  from  the  curious  but 
too  brief  introduction  that  Mr.  Ashton  might  have 
added  much  to  the  little  that  has  hitherto  been  done  to 
illustrate  the  literary  history  of  our  chap  book*.  Mr. 
Ashton  treats,  more  or  less  fully,  of  no  less  than  104  of 
these  curious  descendants  of  the  popular  literature  of  old 
times,  while  he  gives  us  many  copies  of  the  innumerable 
woodcuts  with  which  the  chap  books  of  the  last  centurv 
were  illustrated,  taken,  we  suspect,  from  blocks  which 
were  in  many  cases,  we  fear,  but  bad  copies  of  earlier 
works  of  more  artistic  execution.  As  has  been  before 
recorded  in  these  pages,  many  of  these  woodcuts  were 
worked  from  blocks  which  had  been  executed  and  used 
originally  in  Germany  and  the  Low  Countries,  as  a 

fiance  at  the  collection  of  Roxburghe  Ballads  in  the 
tritish  Museum  will  clearly  show.  One  of  these  rery 
woodcuts— that  illustrative  of  The  Wise  Men  of  Ootham. 
at  p.  276— heads  one  of  the  Roxburghe  Ballads,  and 
figures  also  in  Mr.  Payne  Collier's  interesting  selection 
from  them  so  entitled  (p.  126).  That  volume  contains 
also  another,  copied  from  the  same  collection  (p.  146), 
which  obviouBly  waa  imported  into  this  country  after 
having  been  used  aa  a  frontispiece  to  the  German  volts- 
huch  Claut  yarr.  Others  are  clearly  of  EnKlish  origin. 
We  believe  that  which  forms  the  frontispiece  to  TKe  Old 
Woman  of  Ratdife  Way  furnishes  an  early  and  almost 
unique  repreaentation  ox  the  old  ducking-stool. 


Our  Own  Country.  Vol.  IV.  (Cassell  k  Co.) 
This  new  volume  of  Our  Own  Country  is,  like  its  pre- 
decessors, of  very  varied  interest  Its  illustrations  in- 
clude, among  others,  Wells,  Ripon.  Eton,  Ely,  Balmoral, 
Belfast,  Dundee,  and  Limerick.  Meet  of  the  engravings, 
especially  those  of  buildings,  are  clear  and  good ;  but  it 
does  not  seem  to  us  a  commendable  practice  to  introduce 
into  the  foreground  of  pictures  conventional  figures 
which  might  have  been  taken  from  a  fashion  book.  For 
instance,  the  woman  and  child  who  appear  prominently 
in  the  Chine  at  Shanklin  by  no  means  increase  the 
beauty  of  the  landscape,  though  they  truly  indicate 
that  the  natural  charm  of  the  spot  is  marred  b^  the 
universal  presence  of  the  tourist.  The  same  portion  of 
the  book  somewhat  shakes  our  confidence  in  the  accuracy 
of  the  letter-press.  Those  who  know  the  geography  of 
the  Isle  of  Wight  will  be  surprised  to  hear  that  *'the 
park  of  Osborne  descends  to  the  margin  of  the  Medina." 

Canon  Westcott's  contribution  to  "The  Speaker's 
Commentary,"  The  Oospel  according  to  St,  John:  the 
Authorized  Version,  with  Introduction  and  I/^otes,  has 
been  issued  in  a  separate  volume  by  Mr.  Murray. — 
Messrs.  Longmans  k  Co.  have  published  a  cheap  edition 
of  The  Lays  ofA  ncient  Rome,  with  Ivry  and  the  Armada  ; 
and  Mesfrs.  W.  k  R.  Chambers  a  new  and  thoroughly 
revised  edition  of  ChamJbert*s  Etymological  Dictionary. 


We  are  glad  to  note  that  Mr.  Arthur  J.  Munby*s 
Dorothy :  a  Country  Story  has  been  reprinted  in  Ame- 
rica, and  that  it  is  being  welcomed  there  as  it  deserves 
to  be.  That  fine  critic  Mr.  E.  C.  Stedman  especially  has 
spoken  of  it  in  terms  of  the  warmest  praise.  The  fact  is 
toe  more  pleasant  to  us  in  that  the  first  review  of  this 
wholesome  and  unaffected  contribution  to  modern  Eng- 
lish poetry  appeared  in  **  N.  &  Q."  for  Nov.  27, 1880. 

The  forthcoming  number  of  Mr.  Walford's  Antiquarian 
Magazine  and  Bibliographer  will  contain,  inter  alia,  a 

Eaper  on  "Some  Obscure  Words  in  Shakespeare,"  by 
>r.  C.  Maekay ;  an  article  on  "  The  Mar  Peerage  and 
Lord  Crawford  ":  and  another  on  *'  Percy's  Polio  Manu- 
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Mb.  W.  a.  Cloustoh  proposes  to  reprint  by  subscrip- 
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Cambkidgb,  Jan.  22,  1882. 

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VOTBS :— On  the  supposed  Change  of  a  Latin  I  into  u  in 
French,  261— HathemaUcal  Bibliography.  26S->Trayel8  in 
the  Holy  Land,  1788-188S,  SM— The  Prayer  Book  Bnle  for 
keeping  Easter— "The  Correspondence  of  Isaac  Basire, 
D.D.,''  265— Lambeth  Degrees-Kentish  Sayings  and  Folk- 
lore—"Manurial''--"8cockered'':  "Scrinehling"— The 
Atmoepheilc  Batiway— "  Fortnight,"  268. 

QT7SRIE3 :— " Flarb "—"P.  Frandsd  Splnnlae  Hediolanensis 
Opera  "—Heralds  crowned  with  Venrain— Baronetcy  of  De 
Baedt— De  Qnlncey  and  Dickens—"  Twae  Fieirs  of  Berwick  ** 
—The  Bannatyne  If  8.,  267— St.  Angostine  and  Descartes- 
Ancient  Demesne-"  Fenkels  "—Talon—**  Hankin  '*— "  Chi- 
mere"— A  Cmsader  before  the  Cmsades-Oapt.  W.  Cannings 
bam  — "  Be,"  268  — "  Camer  " :  "  Oatward  " — Chief  Jastioe 
Dyer— £pergne— Tnnworth  Manor— Forbea—"  Ode  to  the 
Andent  Britons,"  260. 

BSPLIBS:— An  Old  Honse  in  LeadenhaU  Street,  260— A 
Protestant  Indulgence  of  the  SeTcnteenth  Century,  270— 
Belfry.  271— *«  Was  crucified/'  272-Parochial  Begisters,  278 
—X.  BurkelB  Marriages,  274-B.  Orchard-The  Meams,  275— 
The  Andent  Empire  of  Serria- "Want  ways*'— Miniatnro 
of  the  late  Sir  &  Peel-J.  C.  Mangan-Boundels,  276-"  A 
fi»tuitons  ooDOonrse  of  atoms  "—Edward  VI.  and  his  Sisters 
—"Chapter  and  Terse"- T.  Longden,  277— Fenton's  Trans- 
lation of  Oppian  — "Jubar'*— "TranslTere  patres,"  *c  — 
"  Sero  yenientibus  ossa  "-"  Soribe  "—Earl  of  OevelaBd,  Ac 
—Portraits  of  Washington  Irving—"  Chuck/'  278-J.  Walter 
—Authors  Wanted,  270. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS t—AJager's  "Charles  Lamb *'  —  " Genii 
Monogatari**  — SeweU's  "Sei:ton'8  Wheel,"  Ac. —Lees 
"Belcaro,"  Ac. 

Notloei  to  OonespondMits,  Aa 


ON  THE  SUPPOSED  CHANGE  OF  A  LATIN 
L  INTO  U  IN  FRENCH.* 

Tlu8  sabjeet  was  discussed  very  yigoroosly  rnsny 
Tears  tgo  (1869-71)  in  «  N.  &  Q.^t  It  was  first 
broached  by  Prof.  Skbat,  bat  he  took  no  farther 

rb  in  the  discossion,  which  was  kept  ap  by  Mr. 
Patkb  and  myself.  Prof.  Skbat  and  Mr. 
Paths  maintained  that  in  such  oases  as  those 
mentioned  in  note*  the  Lat.  I  aotaally  became  u, 
and  at  that  time  this  view  was,  I  believe,  held  by 
«yery  etymologist  and  oomparatiye  philologist  of 
lepate,  and  yery  likely  is  so  stilL  I,  on  the  other 
handy  maintained  (and  I  still  as  unflinchingly  main- 
tain) that  the  {  was  not  changed  into  «,  bat  merely 
dropped ;  and  that  the  u  was  due  to  a  modifica- 
tion in  Uie  pronunciation  of  the  Towel  (a,  e,  or  o) 
immediately  preoeding  the  I,  saoh  modification 
being  represented  by  the  addition  of  u,  and  the 


*  When  preceded  by  a  {al),  as,  e.g^  in  roytaxme  (from 
refftM$neti),  the  word  which,  in  the  form  of  the  Eng. 
realm,  fint  gave  rise  (o  this  oontroTer^Tf  and  in 
animaxus;  when  preceded  by  e  {d),  as,  e.a,,  in  mteiu; 
Cfrom  mtlius);  and  when  preceded  by  o  {oi),  as  in  pouee 
(from  poUicem), 

t  4iS  S.  iiL  884,  413,  6W :  v.  406 ;  ri.  96, 895, 614; 
▼ii.  870, 519;  tUI.  535.    8m  General  Index  to  the  aerisi, 


Towels  a,  e,  o  becoming  in  consequence  au^  eu, 
on. 

In  support  of  my  contention  I  addaced  many 
words  in  which  in  Old  French  the  au,  eu,  and  ou 
were  found  together  with  the  ^  as,  e.  g,y  astault^ 
layaulmmi,  chevetdx*  &&  (1) ;  and  many  others 
in  which  the  I  hod  dropped  and.  no  u  been  added, 
as  in  !ehtvax,  hiaXf  mt€X,  fos  and  faxf  (2).  At 
first  it  was  my  opinion  that  (1)  represented  tiie 
ordinary  process,  and  that  the  u  was  commonly 
added  before  the  { dropped ;  but  afterwards  I  saw 
reason  for  belieying  that  the  I  more  usually  dropped 
as  in  (2)  before  the  addition  of  the  u,X  With  re- 
gard to  (1),  Mr.  Patnb  maintained  that  the  u  re- 
presented the  original  Lat  2,  and  that  the  {  was 
inserted  by  '^  ignorance  or  caprice  on  the  part  of 
certain  French  authors  and  grammarians,  mainly 
of  the  sixteenth  century";  and  he  referred  me  to 
certain  carefully  edited  editions  of  certain  old 
French  books  as  being  free  from  this  insertion  of 
the  { ;  but  eyen  in  them  I  was  able  to  show  him 
a  considerable  number.  With  regard  to  (2),  he  said 
the  forms  (ckevax,  &c.)  belonged  to  a  different 
dialect,  but  here  again  I  was  able  to  show  that  he 
was  incorrect,  ui  a  later  note  I  pointed  out 
that  there  were  three  words  still  in  use  in  French, 
yiz ,  ipauU,  tauUy  and  gauU^  and  probably  ahK>  a 
fourth  {QauU=Qtwl\  which  lent  great  support  to 
my  theory,  inasmuch  as  the  2  lutd  always  been 
retained  and  yet  the  a  had  become  au^  so  that 
this  avl  could  not  be  attributed  to  the  ignorance 
or  caprice  of  authors  and  grammarians,  because  it 
was  always,  or  almost  always,  found  from  the 
earliest  to  Uie  latest  writers.  I  also  bade  him 
compare  the  Eng.  saZt,  mokU,  aU,  faU  (pronounced 
MuU^  fnavli^  aulj  faul)  with  the  Scotch  «ziif, 
matU,  a*  (pronounced  ato),  /a'  (pronounoed  /aw), 
and  ask  himself  whether  it  was  not  eyident  that 
in  the  Scotch  words  the  I  had  dropped  and  not 
been  changed  into  u;  and  I  also  noticed  the 
Scotddi  words  atdd  (old),  oatM  (cold),  and  toauld 
(power),  in  which  the  a  had  become  au  (for  the 

*  These  words  afterwards  beeame  at$aut,  loyaufMfU, 
and  chiviux,  and  the  fint  and  third  itill  retain  that 
form,  but  the  aeoond  ii  now  written  loyaUvuiU  (aee 
Littr6. «.«.). 

t  These  afterwards  became  eUvaux,  Matt,  mieux,  fou 
or  fotu  if ot  Kudfox  being  both  ilng.  and  plur.),  and  are 
still  so  written  with  the  exception  of  biau,  which  has 
become  heau, 

t  Very  likely,  however,  the  sound  of  the  vowel  had 
frequently,  or  at  any  rate  sometimes,  become  altered, 
in  the  way  that  was  snbseauently  represented  bv  the 
addition  of  «,  before  the  I  dropped,  whilst  the  I  itself, 
though  still  written,  had  ceased  to  be  sounded  (this 
Utter  point  is  admitted  by  Ma.  Paths,  i*»^  8.  vL  895, 
col.  2,  near  bottom).  Thus  cAevo^i  may  have  had  the 
sound  of  ehivaux  before  it  was  so  spelled.  Cf.  our  balk, 
tali,  walkf  toidfaleon,  where  the  a  has  the  sound  of  au, 
though  no  u  is  there,  and  the  2  is  not  pronounced^ 
though  it  is  still  preserved.  Cf.  also  toUUr,  pronounced 
both  toder  (as  it  is  written  in  the  A.  Y.,  Is.  zll  7)  and 

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words  are  also  found  in  Jamieson  written  without 
ii)  and  yet  the  I  was  retained,  and  so  the  «  oould 
not  oome  from  a  change  of  the  2. 

And  finally  I  took  my  stand  upon  the  Old 
French  word  as,  which  seems  to  haye  come  into 
use  as  early  as  the  deventh  century,  and  was 
ixdusivdy  need  until  it  was  superseded  by  the 
later  aut  and  avx*  of  which  the  latter  is  the  form 
now  in  use  in  French.  I  asked  Mr.  Paths  how 
oif  which  represents  an  older  form  ahf  from 
which  the  I  has  dropped,  could  possibly  hsTe 
become  atu,  excepting  by  the  change  of  a  into 
au;  but  he  judiciously  remained  silent,  as,  indeed, 
he  did  with  regard  to  all  my  later  arguments, 
except  that  he  expressed  surprise  at  my  quoting 
the  Scotch  taut  and  maut,  as  they  appeared  to 
him  not  to  confirm,  but  to  confute  my  hypothesis.}: 

I  still  take  my  stand  upon  the  <u,  because,  so  it 
seems  to  me,  it  irrefragably  proves  the  truth  of 
my  hypothesis  in  one  instance ;  and  if  true  in 
one  instance,  why  not  in  others  ? 

It  may  be  asked,  howerer,  why  I  have  brought 
up  the  subject  again  now.  Well,  one  reason  was 
that  I  think  the  matter  one  of  some  importance, 
and  that  I  felt  that  my  argumente,  scattered  oyer 
fiye  yolumes  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  could  scarcely  be  duly 
appreciated  by^  ite  readers,  and  would  be  more 
likely  to  be  so  if  I  gave  a  kind  of  digest  of  them. 
But  a  much  stronger  reason  was  that  I  haye  some 
additional,  and  I  think  weighty,  evidence  in  my 
favour.  Even  at  the  time  that  I  wrote  my  notes 
I  was  aware  that  there  were  certain  words  in  the 
Romance  language  spoken  in  the  Orisons  (the 
£ngadine,Ooire,&c)  wnich  lent  support  to  my  view ; 
but  I  had  then  never  been  in  that  part  of  Switzer- 
land, I  knew  nothing  about  the  language,  and  I 
was  afraid  that  if  I  q^uoted  these  words  Mr.  Patns 
would  say  that  their  forms  were  due  to  French 
influence,  and  I  oould  not  have  contradicted  him. 
But  afterwards  (in  1877)  I  spent  some  weeks  in 
the  Upi>er  Engadine  (St.  Moritz) ;  I  took  twenty 
lessons  in  this  language  from  a  very  intelb'gent 


*  This  is  stated  to  be  the  case  both  by  Fallot  (Forma 
OrammaiicaUt  de  la  Langue  FtanqaUi  au  XI II*  SiecU, 
Paris,  1839)  and  by  Burgay  {Gramm,  cU  la  Langue 
(TOT/,  second  edition,  1869),  who  are  the  two  chief 
authorities  quoted  by  Mr.  Paths  in  faTOor  of  his  vieir. 
Barguy's  words  (p.  55)  are :  "La  forme  auM,  d6riT6e  de 
Qi,  qu'elle  a  fini  nax  remplacer,  ne  se  montre  qpe  fort  tard  "; 
and  Fallot's  (also,  curiously  enough,  p.  55)  are  almost 
identical.  They  did  not  see,  of  course,  what  they  were 
admitting.  ^ 

f  s=adUlot,  the  steps  being  a  lot  (by  the  dropping  of 
the  d  and  the  t/),  a  Ui,  aU,    See  Brachet  and  Scheler. 

1  I  did  not  put  the  matter  before  him  quite  so  plainly 
as  I  hare  done  in  this  note,  and  so  I  thmk  he  may  be 
excused  for  not  having  caught  my  meaning,  which  was 
that,  as  in  English  in  the  words  toLt  and  malt  we  pro- 
nounce the  a  like  a«,  the  u  in  the  Scotch  taut  and  maui 
must  not  be  taken  to  be  a  substitute  for  the  I,  which  has 
really  dropped,  but  as  giving  to  the  a  the  sound  which 
it  has  in  the  same  words  in  English. 


voung  native,  a  waiter  in  the  Kulm  Hotel,  who 
had  been  a  teacher  in  a  school ;  and  ever  sinoe  my 
return  I  have  subscribed  to  two  newspapers  pub- 
lished in  the  language.  I  now,  therefore,  have 
some  little  aoqnuntance  with  it,  and  can  positively 
say  that  I  have  been  unable  to  discover  the  very 
slightest  traces  of  any  French  influence  upon  the 
language,  although  it  has  evidently  been  influenced 
by  ItaUan,  and  still  more  markedly  by  German^ 
both  of  which  languages  are  spoken  or  understood 
by  the  greater  nnm^r  of  the  inhabitants,  espe- 
cially German.  The  words  which  I  wish  to  quote 
are :  avU,  cauld  (of.  the  Scotch  eauld),"^  caulUchas 
trou8ers=Fr.  chauues\fauU,  savlt  (cf.  our  assault^ 
vaulta  (cf.  our  vault),  firom  the  Lat  aUtu,  calidus, 
calceui  (made  feminine,  see  littr^,  i,v,  ehauue8\ 
faUutf  taltus,  voluta;  also  bawd,  fatUda  (cL 
ItaL  falda,  our  fold),  fauUth,  gault  or  guauH 
^^ood),  from  or  connected  with  the  Germ,  bald, 
FalUf  falich,  Wald,  And  there  is  ako  gaulta= 
cheek,  of  which  I  have  not  vet  been  able  to  make 
out  the  derivation,  but  in  wnich  I  have  no  doubt 
the  original  a  before  I  has  become  au.  All  these 
words  are  still  in  daily  use ;  nobody  can  say,  I 
think,  that  the  I  in  them  is  due  to  the  ignorance 
or  caprice  of  authors  and  grammarians ;  and  the^ 
therefore  seem  to  me  to  afford  very  strong  evidence 
in  support  of  my  view.f  If  there  were  even  a 
decent  dictionary  of  this  language  I  have  na 
doubt  I  should  find  many  more  examples. 

In  this  Bomanoe  language,  again,  a  before  n  has 
very  frequently  become  an,  as  it  so  commonly  has 
in  Old  English.]:  Instances  are:  carstgiaun  or 
carstiaun  (=Grerm.  Mensch),  ehristiaun,  datnaun, 
fontauna,  fnaun,  paun^  plaun,  quaunt,  rauna, 
$aun,  iaung,  tautU,  t;attn=Laf.  chrUtianWj^  de 
mane,  fimtana,  manum,  panem,  planiLt,  quantum, 
ranaf  sanus,  ianguis,  tantumy  vanut. 

A  has  also  frequently  become  o,  a  change  which, 
is  akin  to  the  foregoing,  inasmuch  as  some  words 
are  written  both  ways,  as,  eg.,  quaunt  and  quotU, 
taunt  and  ionL  Examples  are :  avo^  (cf.  our 
avauni),  eomhra^  donn,  fidonxa,  olma,  onda  (our 
auntj  O.F.  ante),  vffont  (child)  ==  Lat  ab  ante, 
camera,  damnum,fidantia,  anima,am%la,  infantenu 


*  The  Scotch  cauld,  however,  of  course  means  cold, 
whilst  the  Romance  cauld  means  warm  or  hoi.  The 
coincidence  of  form  is  remarkable,  and  in  both  the  %  has 
been  added. 

f  I  also  find  auter  (»th6  Fr.  autre,  Lat  alter),  in 
which,  according  to  my  riew,  the  I  has  dropped,  but  this 
is  the  onljr  instance  of  what  is  the  rule  in  French  that  I 
have  yet  noticed. 

t  JE.g ,  aungel,  ckaunce,  daunce,  ke.  This  change  does 
not  seem  to  occur  in  French— I  suspect  because  there 
would  have  been  but  little  difference  from  the  ordinary 
sound  of  a  before  n. 

§^  Carftgiaun  or  carstiaun  must,  I  think,  come  from 
^rittianut.  The  clianges  would  be  ehristi'mu8,eintianus 
(the  Ce^k),  ceniianut  (e  =  l),  cantianus,  carttfan, 
caretiaun.  See  further  on  (in  text)  for  the  change  of  < 
into  e  and  t. 


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S  has  alflo  freqaently  become  o^  as  in  marcath 
vardad,  &a=iii«raitttfn,  verUaiem,  The  very  thin 
Towel  »  has  also  beoome  a,  though  generally 
perhaps  it  has  first  changed  into  e  and  then  the  e 
into  a.  Ex^imples  are  :  anamig  (enemy),  antaUir^ 
•amportar  (also  emporiar  and  importar),  vaseh%n= 
Lat.  inimicui,  inttUigere^  importar&y  ificinus. 

I  haTe  giren  all  these  examples  for  the  sake 
of  showing  that  in  this  langoage,  as  also  in  Old 
English,  the  sound  of  the  original  vovels  became 
Tezy  much  broadened,  and  it  is  to  this  broadening 
4>f  Uie  sound  of  the  original  yowels  that  I  attribute 
that  appearance  of  the  v  where  an  I  had  been, 
which  is  so  firmly  but,  as  I  think,  so  erroneously 
belicTed  to  be  due  to  a  change  of  I  into  v. 

Finally,  I  would  compare  the  Dutch  koud  (cold) 
«nd  oud  (old)  with  the  Irish  cotUd  and  auld,  Oau- 
iiot  oae  see  that  in  the  Dutch  words  the  {  has 
merely  fallen  out  and  not  beoome  «  f 

F.  Chancb. 
Bjdenbam  HilL 


MATHEMATICAL  BIBLIOGRAPHY.* 
{Continued from  6th  S.  i.  470.) 
With  these  papers  I  wish  my  remarks  on  '*  New- 
ton's Treatise  on  Fluxions"  (6^  S.  It.  129)  to 
be  treated  as  incorporated.  The  title-page  of 
Golson's  version  (London,  seventeen-thirty-six, 
'QxuLrio)  I  write  as  follows,  without  attempting  to 
imitate  type  too  closely:— 

"  The  Method  of  Fluxions  and  Infinite  Series;  with  its 
Application  to  the  Geometry  of  GurTO-lines.  By  the  In- 
ventor Sir  ISAAC  NEWTON,  KK  LaU  Preaident  of  the 
fioyal  Soctetj.  Translated  from  the  Author's  Latin 
Original  not  yet  made  publick.  To  which  is  subjoin'd  A 
Perpetual  Comment  upon  the  whole  Work,  Condsting  of 
Annotations,  IllDstrations,  and  Supplements,  In  order  to 
snake  this  Treatise  A  oompleat  Institution  for  the  use  of 
Learners.  By  John  Colsoit,  M.A.  and  F.R.S.  Master  of 
Sir  Joseph  Williamson's  free  Mathematioal-School  at 
Aoehester.  London :  Printed  by  Henrr  Woodfall :  And 
J3old  by  John  Nourse,  at  the  Lamb  without  Temple-Bar 

MDCOXZXTI."  [4tO.] 

The  title-page  is  preceded  hy  an  engraving  (illns- 
tratioff  remarks  of  Colson  at  pp.  273-5)  and  suc- 
ceeded by  a  dedication  (pp.  iii-i?)  to  William 
Jones  Esq ;  F.RS.  Then,  after  a  gap  in  the 
paging,  follow  Oolson's  preface  (pp.  ix-xziii)  and, 
tit  p.  (xxiv),  the  "  contents "  of  Newton's  work. 
Then  follows  the  work  itself,  which  ends  at  p.  140 
and  is  succeeded  by  the  title-page  of  Golson's  Com- 
ment, whereof  pp.  [143]  and  [144]  give  the  '*  con- 
tents."   The  Comment  ooonpies  pp.  145-339,  and 


800 ;  xi  81,  846,  603;  xU.  164,  863, 61 J ;  8-*  S.  i.  64, 167, 
806;  ii.  443 ;  xi.  614 :  4th  s.  iL  816:  6*^  S.  ir.  4C1 ;  xiL 
382:  6>h  S.  i.  469.  For  papers  on  '*  Newton's  Treatise 
on  Fluxions,"  see  «<  N.  &  Q.,"  7^  8.  x.  163, 232, 809;  xi. 
^6 ;  6«»  S.  iT.  401 ;  6*  8.  Iv.  129.] 


the  book  ends  with  an  unpaged  leaf,  the  recto  of 
which  contains  errata  and  the  yerso  an  adyertise- 
ment  of  *'  The  British  Hemisphere,  or  a  Map  of  a 
new  contrirance,''  &&,  as  '*  Lately  published  by  the 
Author." 

Inspection  of  the  Royal  Society's  copy  leads  me 
to  the  following  conclusious.  In  the  process  of 
printing,  pp.  143  and  144  formed  part  of  sheet  T, 
and  the  leaf  containing  pp.  [143]  and  [144]  is  an 
interpolation.  The  exceptional  [T]  at  the  foot  of 
p.  [143]  seems  to  indicate  this  ;  and,  at  all  events, 
p.  [144]  could  scarcely  have  been  printed  unless 
p.  330,  therein  referred  to,  was  m  type.  The 
interpolated  leaf  was  dry  when  laid  on  the  pre- 
ceding leaf,  whereon  no  inkmarks  appear.  But  on 
p.  [144]  there  in  an  impression,  of  course  compara- 
tively faint,  of  the  errata,  and  on  the  page  of  errata 
there  is  an  analogous  impression  of  p.  [144].  The 
inference  is  that  the  leaf  containing  the  errata  was, 
while  yet  wet  or  damp,  laid,  and  probably  pressed 
for  the  purposes  of  binding,  on  p.  [144]  ;  and  that, 
at  the  very  time  when  this  was  done,  Colson's 
Comment  was,  at  least  as  far  as  p.  330,  in  type. 
Here  we  have  a  corroboration  of  De  Morgan's 
statement  (2^  S.  x.  232)  that  there  was  an  issue 
of  the  work  before  the  commentary  was  ready.  For 
although  the  Royal  Society's  copy  was  not  actually 
so  issued,  the  physical  marks,  which  I  have  above 
called  attention  to,  are  evidence  of  an  intention  so 
to  issue  it 

Apart  then  from  theeztemal  evidence  adduced  by 
De  Morgan,  a  mere  inspection  of  the  Royal  Society's 
copy  seems  to  justify  as  reasonable  the  following 
inferences.  The  interpolation  was  not  contem- 
plated at  the  outset,  and  it  was  originally  intended 
Uiat  the  Comment  should  be  followed  by  its  ''  con- 
tents." But  afterwards,  and  perhaps  even  after 
the  whole  book  was  in  type,  the  necessity  for  an 
early  issue  seemed  so  urgent  that  it  was  resolved 
to  issue  the  Treatise  without  the  Comment  For 
this  purpose  a  leaf  (pn.  143-144)  was  detached, 
and,  m  order  that  readers  might  have  notice  of 
the  forthcoming  Comment,  the  interpolated  leaf 
was  substituted.  Meanwhile  the  printing  of  the 
Comment  was  proceeded  with,  and  copies  of  it  were 
inserted  in  suon  copies  of  the  Treatise  as  remained 
in  hand.  This  insertion  was  made  so  speedily 
that  not  only  can  a  faint  and  indistinct  impress 
of  the  Errata  be  seen  on  the  verso  of  the  last  leaf 
of  the  Comment,  but  traces  of  the  dampness  of 
the  paper  can  be  found  as  far  back  as  p.  293.  In 
the  Treatise  no  such  traces  are  apparent  All 
this  indicates  a  haste  which  may  be  well  accounted 
for  by  holdmg  as  txue  that  which  De  Morgan 
suspected,  viz..  that  Colson,  having  notice  of  the 
forthcoming  edition  of  1737,  published  the  transla- 
tion before  the  commentary  was  ready,  in  order  to 
forestall  his  rival. 

The  passage  in  Colson  corresponding  with  one 
which  I  have  tianseribed  (2»^  8.  x.  163}  from  the 


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enonjmons  yersion  nma  thus  :  **  Bat  whereas  o  is 
EQppoeed  to  be  infinitely  little,  that  it  may  repre- 
sent the  Moments  of  Quantities ;  the  Terms  that 
are  mnltiply'd  by  it  will  be  nothing  in  respect  of 
the  rest"  The  title-page  of  the  anonymons 
French  translation  of  Oolson's  Newton  by  Baffon 
(Paris,  scTenteen-forty,  Quarto)  is  :— 

"  La  M^thode  dee  Flaxions,  et  des  suites  infiniee.  Par 
M.  le  GboTalier  Newton.  A  Paris,  Ches  De  Bure  l'atn6, 
Libraire,  Quay  dos  AugostinB,  &  Etadnt  Paul.  M.DCO  XL." 
[4to.l 

The  words  "Mithode,''  "Flmdons,'*  «A  Paris,'' 
and  names  and  the  date  are  printed  in  red  ink  ; 
the  rest  in  black.  The  work  oonsists  of  a  Preface 
(pp.  ii-xxx)  and  a  French  version  of  Newton 
(pp.  1-148) ;  but  Oolson's  Comment  is  not  trans- 
bted.  The^  follows  a  leaf,  in  the  nature  of  an 
imprimatur,  from  which  it  appears  that  de  Man- 

S9rtuis    and    dairaut    reported    favourably    on 
uffon's  translation  and  also,  as  it  would  seem, 
on  Oolson's  version,  though  Oolson  is  not  men- 
tioned by  name.  Jahbs  Cockle,  F.B.S. 
2,  Sandringham  Gardens,  Ealing. 


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since  1819.    88  plates.    2  vols.  imp.  8vo. 

1832.  Mouravieff  (S.).  Voyage  en  Terre  Sunte. 
St.  Petersburg,  2  vols.  8vo. 

1883.  Bracebiidge  (1  Mrs.).  Six  Views  sketehed  in 
the  Lebanon.    Folio. 

1834.  Madox  (John),  Esq.  Excursions  in  the  Holy 
Land,  Egypt,  Nubia,  Syria,  &c.,  including  a  Visit  to...the 
Haouran.    Illustrations.    2  vols.  8vo. 

1836.  Chateaubriand  (Fr.  Rcn6  de).  Travels  to  Jeru- 
salem and  the  Holy  Land  through  Ejcypt  Translated 
from  the  French  by  Fred.  Shoberl.  London  (Colbum), 
2  vols.  12mo.  third  edition. 

1835.  Hogg  (Dr.  Edward).  Visits  to  Alexandria, 
Damascus,  and  Jerusalem.    2  vols.  8vo. 

1835.  Hoskins  (G.  A.).  Travels  in  Ethiopia,  exhibiting 
the  Ancient  and  Present  State  of  that  Country,  and  the 


Antiquities,  Arts,  &c.,  of  the  Ancient  Kingdom  of  Meroe. 

90  plates,  some  coloured.     

William  H.  Sbwbll. 
Yaxley  Vicarage,  Suffolk. 

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The    Prater    Book    Rule    for    KEEPiKa 
Easter.— It  may  be  interestiDK  at  the  present 
time  to  notice  a  singular  superflaity  of  bnguage 
in  the  rule  for  keeping  Easter  as   laid  down 
in  the  Prayer  Book,  and  to  point  out  how  it 
arose.    "Easter Day,"  we  read,  "is  always  the 
first  Sunday  after  the  fall  moon  which  happens 
upon,  or  next  after,  the  twenty-first  day  of  March  ; 
and  if  the  full  moon  happens  upon  a  Sunday, 
Easter  Day  is  the  Sunday  after."  The  second  clause 
is  evidently  quite  superfluous,  as  in  the  first  ckuse 
Easter  Day  is  distinctly  stated  to  .be  the  Sunday 
after  the  full  moon  on  or  following  March  21,  and 
the  word  "  always  "  would  surely  have  been  suffi- 
cient to  prevent  the  misunderstanding  of  supposing 
that  the  fuU  moon  (i. «.,  of  course,  the  artificial  fuU 
moon  of  the  calendar)  occurring  on  a  Sunday  would 
lead  to  any  exception  in  this  rule.    It  was  not, 
however,  to  make  assurance  doubly  sure  on  this 
point  that  the  clause  was  inserted  ;  but  in  making 
the  alterations  consequent  on  the  adoption  of  the 
Gregorian  style  in  1762  an  error  was  noticed  m 
the  rule  given  in  the  Prayer  Book  as  revised  m 
1662,  in  correcting  which  it  was  not  perceived 
that  a  second  clause  thereby  became  unnecessary. 
For  the  rule  thus  stood  before  1751,  when  the  Act 
for  altering  the  style  was  passed  :  "  Easter  Day  is 
always  the  first  Sunday  after  the  first  full  moon 
which  happens  next  after  the  one  and  twentieth 
day  of  March.    And  if  the  full  moon  happens  upon 
a  Sunday,  Easter  Day  U  the  Sundav  after.      This 
rule  was  erroneous,  for  it  excluded  March  22  as 
Easter  Day,  which,  however,  has  always  been  kept 
on  that  day  when  the  calendar  full  moon  has  fallen 
on  the  twenty.first  and  the  latter  happened  to  be 
a  Saturday.    So  the  expression  « the  first  Sundajr 
after  the  first  full  moon  which  happens  next  after 
was  changed  into  "the  first  Sunday  after  the  full 
moon  which  happens  upon,  or  next  after,"  March  21, 
and  it  was  not  noticed  that  this  alteration  made 
the  subsequent  clause  superfluous. 

W.  T.  Ltnn. 
Blackfaeaifa. 

"The  Correbpondehce  of  Isaac  Babire, 
D  D.,"  ED.  BY  W.  N.  Darnell,  1831.— I  have 
lust  observed  a  most  misleading  error  in  a  note  m 
this  work.  The  editor  is  speaking  of  Sir  George 
Radcliffe;  he  says  that  "when  Sir  Thomas 
Chaloner  bad  dUcovered  the  existence  of  alum 
near  Oairuhorough,  it  was  through  Baddiffes  con- 
trivance that  foreign  workmen  were  brought  over 
(p.  66).  "Gainsborough-  is  evidently  a  misprint  for 
Guisborough.  In  David  Lloyd's  Memwret  there 
is  a  quunt  account  of  this  discovery:— 


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«  '*When  Sir  Thomas  Challoner,  tator  to  Prince  Henir, 
bad  found  Alum  near  Qeaburgh  in  this  County  [York- 
shire] ;  on  this  occasion  they  are  the  words  of  an  eye- 
witness,  transcribed  by  my  worthy  friend,  he  observed 
the  leares  of  trees  thereabouts  more  deeply  green  than 
elsewhere,  the  Oakes  broad-spreading,  but  not  deep- 
rooted,  with  much  strength,  but  little  sap,  the  earth 
clayish,  Tariously  coloured,  here  white,  there  yellow, 
there  blew,  and  the  ways  therein,  in  a  clear  night, 
glistering  like  glass;  symptomes  which  first  snggestea 
unto  him  the  presumption  of  Minerals,  and  of  Alum  most 
properly.  Some  Gentlemen  of  the  neighbour-hood  bury- 
ing their  estates  under  the  earth  before  they  could  get 
any  Alum  abore  ground,  until  Sir  George  [Radcliffe] 
contriTod  the  bringing  over  of  forraign  work-men  in 
Hotheads,  to  prevent  discoTery,  from  Kochel  in  France, 
which  advanced  the  discovery  to  a  Mine  Royal,  rented 
by  Sir  Paul  Pinder,  who  paid  yearly 

rThe  King  12500 

To    -{  The  Earl  of  Mnlgrave    1640 

(.Sir  William  Pennyman    600 
Besides  a  constant  salary  of  800  men  at  a  time/'— P.  150. 

These  fignres  have  nothing  to  indicate  what  sums 
they  stand  for.  An  £,  meaning  pounds,  seems  to 
have  been  omitted.  It  is  stated  in  Black's  Pic- 
turetqm  Ouide  to  Yorkshire,  1862  (p.  126):— 

*'  It  is  deserving  of  mention  that  Guisborough  was  the 
first  place  in  England  where  alum  works  were  erected. 
Sir  Thomas  Chaloner  brought  skilled  workmen   from 
Italy  for  the  purpose  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Eliiabeth." 
Edward  Peacock. 

Lambsth  Dborbes.— The  following  degrees 
were  conferred  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canteroury 
in  1881,  "in  prejudice  of  the  two  universities" 
(Blackstone*8  thmmmtarieSf  yoL  L  bk.  i.  cap.  iL 
p.  381,  ed.  1756).— 

B.D.  Rev.  J.  G.  Baylis,  St.  George's,  Montreal. 
D.D.  Rev.  J.  McO.  flussey,  M.A.,  Exeter  College, 

Oxford,  Vicar  of  Christ  Church,  Brixton. 
B.D.  Rev.  W.  Brookes,  Theol.  Associate,  King's 

College,  London,  chaplain  of  Holy  Trinity 

Church,  Cannes. 
B.D.  Rev.  J.  Gritton,  a  retired  Indian  missionary. 
D.C.L.  Hon.  R.  J.  Pinsent,  Judge  of  the  Supreme 

Court  of  Newfoundland 
M.A.  Rev.  J.  J.  Coleman,  Curate  of  Dulverton, 

Somerset. 
M.A.  Rev.  E.  Woods,  Curate  of  Bures,  Suffolk. 
M.A.  G.  J.  Powell,  of  Rugby. 
D.D.  Ven.   H.  J.  Gray,  M.A.,  Christ's  College, 

Cambridge,  formerly  Archdeacon  of  Hong 

Kong. 
B.D.  Rev.  R.  H.  Maddox,  Rector  of  Kirkheaton, 

Yorks,  lately  missionary  in  Travancore. 
B.D.  Rev.  £.  Sell,  Fellow  of  Madras  University, 

master  of  the  Harris  School  in  Madras. 
D.D.  Yen.  R.  F.  L.  Blunt,  Archdeacon  of  the  East 

Riding  of  Yorkshire,  and  Vicar  of  Scar- 
borough. 
D.D.  Rev.  J.  Bardsley,  Rural  Dean,  and  Vicar  of 

Bradford,  Yorkshire. 
D.D.  Rev.  H.  A.  Stem,  lately  a  missionary  in 

Abyssinia,  && 


D.D.  Rev.  E.  BuUinger,  St.  Stephen's,  Waltham- 
stow. 
The  above  may  interest  some  of  your  readers. 

M.A.  Oxon. 

Kentish  Satinos  ahd  Folk-lore.— Spoken 
of  a  lazy  fellow  :— 

1.  *'  He 's  got  St.  Lawrence  on  the  shoulder.*' 

2.  *'  He's  got  the  fever  of  lurk. 

Two  hearts  to  eat,  and  ne'er  a  one  to  work." 

Said,  I   believe,    in    relation    to    things    which 
necessarily  follow  one  another. 

3.  '*  When  you  bend  the  elbow,  the  mouth  opens.** 
These  are  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Molash.  I 
did  not  know  that  St.  Lawrence  was  either  the 
patron  saint  or  the  burden  of  the  lazy.  The  title 
of  one  of  Miss  Edgeworth's  tales,  Lazy  Lawrence^ 
as  that  of  one  of  her  others,  Simple  /Susan,  I  had 
thought  was  chosen  for  the  sake  of  alliteration. 
Our  servant  girl,  my  informant,  also  says  that  the 
bellows  or  the  brushes  on  the  table  are  signs  of  a 
"row."  Br.  NiCHOLSoir. 

"  Manurial." — I  met  with  the  above  word  in 
the  FiM  newspaper  quite  lately.  It  is  new  to  me, 
and  is  in  my  opinion  a  badly  formed  word  which 
is  not  wanted  in  our  language.  The  passage  in 
which  it  occurs  runs  thus  :  "  Experience  demon- 
strates that  half  the  manurial  value  of  guano  is 
exhausted  in  the  first  crop  "(March  4, 1882,  p.  304). 
Surely  *^  fertilizing  **  might  have  been  used  in  the 
above  sentence  without  leaving  any  room  for  caviL 

K.  P.  D.  K 

*'Scockered":  "  Scrikchlino." — The  follow- 
ing passage,  from  the  ConUmpo7ury  Biview  for 
August,  1880,  p.  180,  is  worth  reproducing  in 
"N.&Q.":— 

"  In  the  dialect  of  Suffolk  a  '  scockered '  branch  means 
one  that  is  diseased,  and  a  *  scrinchling '  is  the  small, 
hard,  sour,  imdeveloped  fruit  such  a  branch  produces." 

Anon. 

The  Atmosfheric  Railway.— Coleridge  is 
supposed,  in  his  Ancient  Mariner,  to  have  pre- 
dicted the  atmospheric  railway : — 

*'  For  why  drives  on  that  ship  so  fast, 
Without  or  wave  or  wind? 
The  air  is  cut  away  before, 
And  closes  from  behind." 

William  Platt. 

"Fortnight." — ^What  crime  has  this  good  old 
English  word  committed  that  society  is  endeavour- 
ing to  ostracise  it  ?  Wherever  I  go  I  find  people 
requiring  two  weeks  for  everything  which  used  to 
take  a  fortnight.  Are  we  to  proceed  further,  and 
say  "next  four  weeks"  or  "last  fifty-two  weeks"? 
If  we  must  keep  altering  our  mother-tongue,  may 
we  not  do  it  in  a  poetical  instead  of  in  an  ugly  and 
prosaic  direction  ?  Surely  *'  fortnight "  is  a  more 
elegant  term  than  "  two  weeks." 

Herhbntrude. 


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fBiutxiti. 

We  mnat  request  correspondent  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  priTate  interest,  to  aflSx  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


"  Flarb."— I  do  not  know  whether  "flarb"  is  a 
real  word  or  a  misprint,  and  shall  be  glad  of  any 
information  on  the  subject.  It  is  used  by  Clement 
Walker  in  reference  to  Charles  I.  in  the  dedication 
of  his  Anarchia  Anglieana,  1648.  He  compares 
royal  ambition  to  a  sail :  **  Most  Princes  desire 
unlimited  power,  which  is  a  saile  too  great  for  any 
Tessel  of  mortallity  to  bear ;  though  it  be  never  so 
well  ballasted  with  justice,  wisdome,  moderation, 
and  piety,  yet  one  flarb  or  other  wil  iodanger  the 
over-setting  it.**  In  subsequent  editions  the  word 
"  flarb  **  is  reprinted,  but  I  have  failed  to  find  it  in 
the  ordinary  dictionaries.  If  a  recognized  word, 
what  is  its  meaning  ?  Edward  Solly. 

"P.  Frangisci  SpiNULiE  Mediolahensis 
Opera."— Can  any  reader  of  **N.  &  Q.*'  oblige 
me  with  information  concerning  a  work  entitled: — 

**  P.  Frandsoi  |  Spinulie  |  Mediolanensis  I  Opera.  I 
Poematon  libri  ilL  J  Carminum  libri  iiii.  |  Epodon  liber  i. 
I  Carminum  Secnuurium  liber  i.  |  Eleicormn  libri  x.  | 
Hendecasyllabonim  liber  i.  I  Epigrammaton  libri  ii.  | 
Venetils.    Ex  officina  stella  lordani  ZiletL  |  xdlxiii  "Y 

Each  sepaiate  portion  of  this  work  has  a  fresh 
title-pa^e.  I  can  find  mention  of  neither  book  nor 
author  in  any  dictionary,  biographical  or  biblio- 
graphical, I  possess.  Barbier,  Brunet,  the  NouvelU 
Biographie  Oinhale,  Bayle,  and  Stephens  all 
ignore  both.  Joseph  Kmight. 

Heralds  crowned  with  Ybryain.— It  is 
stated  in  *«  N.  &  Q."  (!>»  S.  xL  461)  that  heralds 
crowned  their  heads  with  vervain  when  declaring 
war.  What  is  the  authority  for  this  assertion,  and 
in  what  country  was  the  custom  prevalent?  It 
would  be  a  picturesque  sight  to  see  a  modem 
"Somerset"  or  ''Surrey  Extraordinary"  so  be- 
decked and  mounted  on  a  hired  hackney,  declar- 
ing war  at  Temple  Bar  (or,  more  correctly  speak- 
ing, at  the  foot  of  the  guardian  griffin  which  now 
occupies  its  site)  between  England  and  the  Trans- 
vaal, mors  an(t4{iio.  G.  W.  M. 

Baronetct  of  Db  Raedt.— In  Burke's  Ex- 
Hnd  and  Dormant  Baronetage  it  is  said  that  **  Sir 
GuaJter  de  Baedt,  of  the  Hague,  was  created  a 
baronet  in  1660,  but  of  him  no  information  can  be 
obtained."  The  will  of  Sir  Dirck  de  Baet,  baronet 
and  burgomaster  of  Ley  den,  which  was  dated  at 
the  Hague  Oct.  15,  1754,  and  proved  in  respect  of 
English  property  in  the  P.C.C.  by  the  widow, 
"Lady  Anna  Hulshout,"  Nov.  26,  1759,  shows 
tbat  the  baronetcy  was  in  existence  nearly  a 
century  later,  but  furnishes  no  further  information. 
Perchance  "  N.  &  Q."  numbers  among  its  corre- 


spondents a  student  of  Dutch  pedigrees  who  could 
supply  the  link  between  the  two  baronets,  and 
say  whether  or  not  the  title  expired  with  the 
latter.  It  would  be  interesting,  too,  to  learn  the 
later  history  of  other  baronetcies  conferred  on 
Dutchmen  of  whom  and  whose  descendants  Burke 
has  been  "  unable  to  obtain  particukrs ";  as,  for 
instance,  Boulen,  Valckenburgb,  Van  der  Brando, 
and  Van  Tromp.  H.  W. 

I?ew  Univ.  Club. 

De  Qdincet  and  Dickens.— In  De  Quincey's 
prose-poem  The  Three  Ladies  of  Sorrow  occurs 
the  following  passage  concerning  the  first  of  the 
three,  viz.,  Mater  Lachrymarum,  our  Lady  of  Tears : 

"  She,  to  my  knowledge,  sat  all  last  sommer  by  the 
bedside  of  the  blind  beggar,  him  that  so  often  and  so 
gladly  I  talked  with,  whose  pious  daughter,  eight  years 
old,  with  the  sunny  countenance,  resisted  the  tempta- 
tions of  play  and  village  mirth  to  travel  all  day  long  on 
dusty  roads  with  her  afflicted  father.    For  this  did  God 


send'  her  a  great  reward.  In  the  sprinjs  time  of  the 
year,  and  whilst  her  own  spring  was  budding,  he  recalled 
her  to  himself.    But  her  blind  father  mourns  for  ever 


over  ker;  still  he  dreams  at  midnight  that  the  little 
guiding  hand  is  locked  within  his  own;  and  stUl  he 
awalcens  to  a  darkness  that  is  now  within  a  second  and 
a  deeper  darkness.'* 

Let  us  imagine  the  man  to  be  old  and  not  to  be 
blind,  and  the  child  to  be  a  few  years  older,  and 
we  have  here  a  perfect  picture  of  Little  Nell  and 
her  grandfather.  Where  and  when  did  The  Three 
Ladiee  of  Sorrow  first  appear?  Might  not  its 
perusal  have  suggested  to  Dickens  the  story  which 
has  inexpressibly  affected  almost  every  reader  save, 
perhaps,  Mr.  Swinburne  ?  C.  M.  I. 

Athenaeum  Club. 

"TwAE  Frbirs  of  Berwick,"  Abbrdbbk, 
1622.— Dr.  Joseph  Robertson,  in  The  Book  of 
Bonaceord,  p.  55,  speaking  of  Edward  Babaa 
setting  up  his  press  in  Aberdeen,  savs  :— '*  In 

that  year  [1622T  he  printed the  tale  of  The 

Twae  Freire  of  Berwiek,**  Have  any  of  your 
readers  ever  seen  this  edition  of  The  Freire  of 
Berwick  f  if  so,  where  can  it  be  seen  or  heard 
of  ?  What  was  Joseph  Bobertson's  authority  for 
making  this  statement?  I  have  not  seen  any 
earlier  mention  of  such  a  work  being  issued  from 
Raban's  press,  but  it  is  amusinff  to  note  how  every 
subsequent  notice  of  Edward  Raban,  ''master 
printer,  the  first  in  Aberdene,"  copies  Robertson 
in  attributing  this  book  to  him.  Will  it  turn  out 
to  be  a  myth  or  a  *'  lost  book"  ? 

J.  P.  Edmond. 

64,  Bonaccord  Street,  Aberdeen. 

The  Bavnattns  MS.— In  a  poem  in-  the 
Bannatyne  manuscript  entitled  "  Ane  New  Teir 
Gift  to  the  Queue  Mary."  1562,  there  is  a  line 
the  meaning  of  which  has  baffled  me,  and  I  should 
feel  obliged  if  any  reader  of  **  N.  &  Q."  would 
help  me  to  its  solution.    I  quote  the  verse  entire. 


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and  the  line  I  wish  explained  is  giren  in  italics 

(Hanterian  Clab  edition,  p.  258) : — 

«For  flom  ar  lene  at  sermonis  semo  sa  halye, 
Singand  Sanot  Dauidis  psalter  on  tbair  bakU, 
And  ar  bot  biblistU  fairsing  full  tbair  beliie, 
Bakbytand  nyohtbouris,  noyand  thame  in  nwikifl, 
Buging  and  raifand  vp  kirk  rentis  lyke  mikit  ; 
As  werrie  waipii  agania  Ooddia  wonl  makis  weir; 
Sic  Chrittianu  to  kU  toiih  Chauceris  hutkis 
Qod  gife  the  grace  aganis  this  gade  new  yeir.** 

Hailes,  Sibbald,  and  Laing  have  each  printed  the 
line  in  qaestion  thus : — 

"  Sio  Christianifl  to  kiu  with  chanteria  kuikis," 
the  first  named  placing  it  under  the  category  of 
passages  not  understood.    The  true  reading  of  the 
line  is  as  given  in  the  Hunterian  Club  edition, 
whateyer  it  may  mean.  A.  S. 

St.  Augxtstinx  and  Descartes.— In  the  life 
of  St.  Augustine,  in  Christian  Biography,  vol.  i. 
p.  219,  it  is  stated:— "We  know  that  he  (St. 
Augustine)  had  the  honour  of  forestalling  Des- 
cartes in  the  expression  of  the  famous  formula 
'[ego]  cogito,  ergo  sum.'"  Where  is  the  passage 
to  which  the  writer  refers  ?         Ed.  Marshall. 

Ancient  Demesne. — Will  any  of  your  more 
learned  correspondents  do  me  the  favour  to  tell 
me  whether,  while  it  continued  so,  it  was 
customary  for  each  of  our  monarchs  on  ascending 
the  throne  to  confirm  any  grants  out  of  the 
Ancient  Demesne  made  by  any  of  his  ancestors  to 
any  charity  school  or  other  charitable  purpose  ? 

H.   W.   COOKES. 
Astley  Rectory. 

"  Fenkels."— In  one  of  Isaac  Basire's  letters  to 
his  wife,  written  when  he  was  in  exile  at  Rouen 
in  1647,  he  says: — ^**Ali  I  can  do  for  you  at 
present  is  heartily  to  pray  for  your  good  speed 
both  about  y'  fifth,  and  about  fenkels."  The 
fifth  means  the  allowance  made  to  the  wives  of 
sequestered  ministers.  I  cannot  at  present  make 
out  what  fenkeU  means.  The  editor,  W.  N. 
Darnel],  says  that  it  probably  signified  some 
arrear  from  crops  at  Finchale.  This  does  not 
seem  satisfactory.    See  Basire  Corresp.^  p.  57. 

Anon. 

Talon.— Johnson  defines  this  word  as  "the 
claw  of  a  bird  of  prey,"  and  derives  it  from  the 
French  talon.  Now  the  present  meaning  of  the 
latter  word  is  heel,  and  I  cannot  find  from  Littr^ 
that  it  ever  had  any  other.  I  am  inclined  to 
think,  however,  that  it  may  at  one  time  have  bad 
the  meanbg  of  claw,  as  I  lately  heard  a  Norman 
peasant  make  use  of  the  expression,  "  II  a  encore 
les  jaunes  talons,''  in  the  same  sense  as  a  French- 
man of  the  present  dav  would  say,  "C'est  un 
b^jaune  **  or  "  C'est  un  blancbec,"  sayings  alluding 
to  young,  inexperienced  birds  whose  bills  have  not 
yet  arrived  at  the  adult  colour.    Can  any  of  your 


correspondents  versed  in  the  Romance  dialects 
tell  me  whether  toZon,  or  a  similar  word,  is  to  be 
found  in  the  sense  of  ffriffe  f  E.  McO — . 

Guernsey. 

The  Name  "  Hankin."— Will   any   of  your 

readers  who  possess  poll  books  for  London  of  the 

period  1700-1800  favour  me  with  the  transcript 

of  notices  contained  therein  of  the  name  Hankin  ? 

0.  W.  Hankin,  B.A.  Oxon. 

49,  Frederick  Boad,  Edgbuton. 

**  Chimbre." — What  are  the  origin  and  deriva- 
tion of  the  word  thiiMTi^  the  black  or  red  garment 
worn  by  bishops  ?  I  cannot  find  it  anterior  to 
Archbishop  Parker's  time,  and  yet  it  sounds  very 
unlike  a  word  of  that  date.  It  is  not  in  Ducange, 
nor,  so  far  as  I  can  find,  is  it  in  any  liturgical 
work  of  the  previous  centuries. 

A.  H.  Pearson. 

A  Crusader  before  the  Critsades.— 
"In  Spain,  as  the  battle-ground  of  Christian  and 
Saracen,  Roger  de  Toeany  sought  at  once  to  wage  war- 
fare against  the  misbeliever,  and  to  carre  out  a  dominion 
for  himself.  Roger  was  of  the  nobleat  blood  of  Normandy, 
boasting  a  descent  from  Malahulo,  uncle  of  Rolf."* — 
Vol.  L  pp.  6U-15. 

The  substance  of  the  above  is  taken  from  Free- 
man's Norman  Conquttt,  This  Roger  was  the 
ancestor  of  one  of  William  the  Conqueror's  com- 
panions in  his  invasion  of  England.  From  him 
sprang  the  Toesnys  of  Hertfordshire,  the  Qresleys 
of  Derbyshire,  the  Fitz-Nigells  of  Cheshire,  and 
the  Grellys,  Greddles,  or  Grad  wells  of  Lancashire. 
I  am  anxious  to  know  if  the  Malahulc  here  spoken 
of  as  Rolfs  uncle  was  brother  of  Rognewald, 
Rolfs  father.  Any  information  on  this  point 
would  greatly  oblige.  Robert  Gradwell. 

Glaughton  Rectory,  Garstang. 

Capt.  William  Cunningham.— Can  any  con- 
tributor to  "  N.  &  Q."  give  me  any  information  as 
to  the  parentage  and  history  of  Capt.  William 
Cunningham  (or  Conyngham),  who  is  said  to  have 
married  into  the  Colquhoun-Grant  family,  and 
whose  son  Thomas  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1760  ? 
He  migrated  to  America,  where  he  seems  to  have 
been  a  person  of  some  substance  and  position. 
Daring  the  War  of  Independence  he  (together 
with  his  son  Thomas)  served  in  the  Britiah  army, 
acting  as  provost  marshal  of  the  forces.  He  is 
said  to  have  been  of  the  family  of  the  Earls  of 
Glencairn,  but  evidence  concerning  him  is  much 
needed.  T.  S.  Cunningham. 

"Be"  as  a  Prefix. — ^What  is  the  meaning  of 
this  prefix,  which  occurs  in  such  words  as  &e- 
imtaredf  bedecked,  &c.?  Bailey,  in  his  Dictionary y 
simply  says  that  it  is  "a  preposition  common 

*  "Will.  Gsm.  vii.  3.  S«e  for  his  exploits  in  Spain 
Ademar,  iii.  65,  in  PerU,  iv.  140." 


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to  the  Teutonic^  Gennan,  Saxon,  EDglLsh,  &o., 
dialects.''  E.  Walfobd,  M.A. 

Hampetead,  N.W. 

"Cambb":  "  OorrwARD.*'  —  Has  any  corre- 
flpondent  of  **  N.  &  Q."  made  a  note  of  the  word 
"  earner/'  a  word  in  frequent  use  in  Cheshire  and 
Shropslure  as  an  equivalent  for  **  nearer  "  ?  I  have 
often  heard  it  used  in  these  two  counties.  There 
is  a  peculiar  use  of  the  word  ^'  outward''  in  West- 
moreland and  Cumberland.  When  a  native  of  these 
counties  is  speaking  of  a  man  of  loose  character, 
he  wUl  say,  *^Aye,  aye,  he's  a  yery  <mtv>ard  man." 
Is  this  expression  common  to  other  parts  of  the 
countiyl  John  Hamsrton  Crump. 

Sir  Jambs  Dter,  Chief  Justice  temp. 
Elizabeth. — Can  you  refer  me  to  any  legal  work 
in  which  allusion  is  made  to  Dyer's  charge  to  the 
grand  jury  in  the  ninth  year  of  Elizabeth,  men- 
tioned in  the  appendix  to  the  second  Tolume  of 
the  new  edition  of  Sir  Thomas  Elyot's  Oovemourf 

C. 

&BRGNE.— In  the  Webster-Mahn  Eng.  Diet, 
the  word  is  thus  treated,  "  [Fr.  ipargne,  economy, 
saving].... An  ornamental  stand  for  a  large  dish  in 
the  centre  of  a  table."  Whence  do  we  get  this 
spelling  of  the  French  word  and  this  silversmith's 
use  of  it?  In  French  Spargne  means  simply 
^*  sparing,"  while  our  ornamental  "^pergne"  is 
called  a  turtaut  {de  table).  The  word  does  not 
occur  in  Skeat's  Etym,  Diet,    A.  L.  Mathbw. 

TUNWORTH  OR  TURNWORTH  MaNOR,  BASING- 
STOKE.— In  1630  this  manor,  with  the  patronage  of 
the  living  of  Tunworth,  was  in  the  hands  of  one 
John  Hall,  whose  father  Eichard  was  the  first 
'^  guardian  "  of  the  Guild  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  as 
established  by  the  patent  of  Philip  and  Mary  in 
1556,  and  who  appears  to  have  accumulated  a  con- 
siderable fortune  by  the  wholesale  misappropria- 
tion of  the  funds  and  lands  of  that  charity.  Can 
Any  one  inform  me  how  or  when  this  property 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Jervoise  family  ?  I 
have  heard  a  legend  that  two  brothers  Hall  sold 
the  estate  to  an  ancestor  of  the  present  owner  and 
insisted  on  receiving  the  purchase  money  in  gold 
pieces.  I  shall  be  glad  to  receive  any  information 
on  this  subject.  H.  F.  0.  H. 

Pronunciation  of  Forbes. — Is  it  optional 
whether  this  name  be  pronounced  in  one  syllable 
or  in  two]  Three  of  my  schoolfellows  were  so 
called,  and  we  always  spoke  of  them  as  Forb-es. 
It  was  very  amusing  to  us,  and  at  first  irritating 
to  them,  when  a  new  master  addressed  them  as 
^'ForVs."  In  Punch's  Almanack  for  1882  a 
gamekeeper  is  represented  as  standing  on  his 
dignity,  and  making  himself  very  funny  by  in- 
sisting that  the  cook  shall  call  him  "Maisther 
Forr-biss."    Now,  whatever  may  be  said  of  the 


worthy  man's  ambition,  it  is  interesting  to  note 
that  his  pronunciation  aims  at  that  approved  by 
Sir  Walter  Scott  when  he  wrote  {Marmionf 
canto  iv.,  Introd.): — 

"  Scarce  had  lamented  Forbes  paid 
The  tribute  to  his  Mmstrers  shade." 
This  was  said  of  Sir  William  Forbes  of  Pitsligo. 

Thomajs  Bayne. 
Helensburgh,  N.B. 

"Ode  to  the  Ancient  Britons."  By  a 
Descendant  of  the  Mawrs  (Bentley's  Miscdlanyf 
1851).— Is  it  known  who  was  the  author  of  this 
ode  ?  Inquirer. 


AN  OLD  HOUSB  IN  LEADENHALL  STBEET. 

(6"^  S.  V.  167.) 
Mr.  Jonas,  of  Swansea,  asks,  "  Does  any  one 
remember  the  dirty  old  warehouse?"  I  think 
that  the  information  I  shall  here  afford  will  be  the 
nearest  answer  which  that  gentleman  is  likely  to 
get  in  reply  to  his  question.  When  a  stripling  I 
was  in  the  employ,  for  a  few  months,  of  a  Birming- 
ham gilt  jeweller,  whose  town  agency  was  at 
69,  Snow  Hill,  City.  My  province  was  chiefiy  to 
go  round  with  the  agent  every  morning  to  the 
Birmingham  warehouses,  of  which  the  "  old  house 
in  Leadenhall  Street,"  was  one;  our  business 
being  to  supply  the  "  Fancy  Department"*  On 
the  first  morning  of  my  engagement,  and  as  we 
were  approaching  ''the  old  house,"  the  agent 
remarked  to  me,  "I  suppose  you  have  heard  of 
Dirty  Dick  ?  "t  I  replied  in  the  affirmative.  "  Well, 
then,"  said  he,  "  we  are  now  going  to  his  house ;  but 
the  name  of  the  present  proprietor  is  Gosling,  Dirty 
Dick  having  died  some  little  time  back."  It  was 
true  that  I  had  heard  of  this  character,  and  a  little 
more ;  for  I  had  previously  seen  in  some  of  the 
public  prints  a  string  of  verses  on  him,  in  one  of 
which  the  reader's  attention  was  directed  to  the 
dirty  shop  window,  where 

—  **  stormy  winds,  and  sleet,  and  rain 
Qain  tbree  admissioDB  at  each  broken  pane ; 
Save  where  the  dingy  tenant  keeps  tbem  out 
By  knife-board,  tea-board,  tray,  or  dirty  clout*' 

When  I,  together  with  my  chief,  the  agent,  used 
to  visit  "the  old  house,"  the  alteration  in  the 
place  had  not  amounted  to  a  transformation,  the 
change  being  simply  the  difference  between 
cleanliness  and  dirt,  the  identity  of  the  house 
being  then  indisputable.  For  the  magazine 
referred  to  by  Mr.  Jonas  bore  the  date  of  1801, 
and  alluded  to  Bentley  as  being  then  in  active 


*  The  name  given  to  the  depository  of  gilt  trinkets, 
viz.,  medals,  clasps,  brooches,  steel  beads,  &c.  This 
department  was  invariably  in  the  rear  of  the  busy  and 
bustling  part  of  the  shop. 

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attendance  in  his  business,  and  seeing  that  my 
yifiits  with  the  Birmingham  agent  were  nearly 
as  far  back  as  fifty-fiye  years  ago,  the  retrospectire 
interval  that  obtained  between  the  "  dirty  ware- 
house "  and  the  tidy  one  could  not  have  been  yery 
long.  Moreover,  the  then  proprietor  had  pro- 
claimed, in  large  letters  over  his  door,  the  name  of 
'*  R.  Bentley "  as  that  of  his  immediate  predecessor. 
I  remember  the  circumstance  as  though  it  wei«  but 
last  week.  The  shop  was  situated  on  the  right 
of  the  street,  as  you  would  proceed  from  the 
Mansion  House,  and  not  far  from  BiUiter  Street ; 
and  its  entrance  was  at  the  east  side  of  its  once- 
disfigured  window.  It  had  the  repute  of  keeping 
the  best  of  goods,  and  of  being  frequented  by 
persons  of  no  mean  degree  from  all  parts. 

H.   ScaLTHORP. 

James  Street,  Buckingham  Gate. 

The  engraving  in  question  forms  the  frontispiece 

to  the  European  Magazine  for  1801,  vol.  xxxiz., 

and  the  ode   to  the   inhabitant   of  the  house 

is  to  be  found  in  the  same  volume  at  p.  45. 

Nathaniel  Bentley,  more  commonly  called  "  Dirty 

Dick,"  the  eccentric  occupier  of  the  house,  ceased 

to  inhabit  it  in  1804  ;  his  lease  expired  in  1802, 

and  Mr.  (Gosling,  who  had  bought  his  business 

and  good  willy  turned  him  out    in  1804.      For 

thirty  years  no  woman  had  been  permitted  to 

come  inside  the  house,  and  it  was  indescribably 

dirty.    When  he  left  Leadenball  Street  he  took 

premises    in    Jewry    Street,  Aldgate,  for    three 

years,  and  then  removed    into  Leonard  Street, 

Shoreditch.    Here  he  became  acquainted  with  a 

woman  of  bad  character,  who  stole  most  of  his 

money,  and  he  then  became  a  kind  of  strolling 

beggar.    In  1609  he  fell  ill  at  Haddington,  died, 

and  was  buried  there.    In  the  Book  of  Wonderful 

Ckaracteri,  Lond.,  1869,  pp.  149-60,  is  his  portrait, 

with  a  pretty  copious  account  of  him.    It  is  said 

he  had  a  disappointment  in  early  life  ;  the  bride 

elect  died  suddenly,  the  room  in  which  supper 

was  prepared  was  closed,  and  no  one  entered  it 

for  years.    Nathaniel  Bentley  had  a  sister  who 

married  Mr.  Lindegreen,  a  merohant  of  Mincing 

Lane,  and  who  after  Bentley's  death  resided  at 

Chelsea.    Pontypool  was  for  a  long  time  the  rival 

of  Birmingham  in  certain  branches  of  the  hardware 

trade,  and  especially  in  articles  of  iron  or  tinned 

plate  lacquered.  Edwabd  Sollt. 

The  first  of  Fifty  Wonderful  PcrtraiU,  a  book 
published  by  J.  Robins  in  1824,  is  that  of  Natha- 
niel Bentley,  "  the  well-known  Dirty  Dick."  In 
the  letter-press  we  read  that  in  early  life  he  was 
**  a  man  of  elegant  manners  and  polished  education.  He 
hftd  visited  most  of  the  coantries  of  Europe,  dressed  in 
the  first  style  of  fashion,  and  was  accounted  a  man  of 
pleasure ;  but  after  succefdinir  his  father  as  proprietor 
of  a  hardware  houra  in  Leadenhall  Street  his  habits  so 
chaneed  that  his  slovenly  dress  acquired  for  him  the 
appellation  of  Dirty  Diek,    For  forty  years  he  Uvcd 


alone,  during  which  neither  brash  nor  broom  wi 
in  his  house,  nor  did  he  ever  wash  his  face  or  hands. 
In  1804  he  was  obliged  to  leave  these  premises,  and 
after  living  in  two  or  three  other  houses,  he  quitted 
business  and  died  at  Haddington  in  1809,  leaving  behind 
him  a  very  small  sum." 

Pontypool  was  celebrated  for  its  japanned  ware. 

G.  F.   BLA.NDFOBD. 

Those  who  are  interested  in  that  eccentric  in- 
dividual Nathaniel  Bentley  should  consult  Kirby's 
3fiiseutfi,  Wilson's  Wondtrful  Characters,  Wonden 
of  Human  Nature,  Granger's  Wonderful  Mueeum^ 
and  Willis's  Current  Notes  for  1853.  Views  of 
both  the  external  and  internal  arrangements  of 
the  house  are  given  in  these  works. 

Eybrard  Homb  OOLSMAir. 

71,  Brecknock  Koad. 

Renuirks  by  the  Editor  of  *'N.  &  Q."  upon  the 
"  great  unwashed  **  of  No.  46,  Leadenhall  Street 
appeared  in  <<N.  &  Q.,"  3*^  8.  t.  482. 

William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 


A  Protbstant  Indulobncb  of  thb  Sbtbv- 
TBBMTH  Cbnturt  (6^  8.  iv.  464,  614;  y.  10, 
153). — In  answer  to  E.,  I  would  add  the  followinfic 
notes.  I  find  no  earlier  statute  than  that  of  8  &  3> 
Edw.  VL  a  19.  It  is  the  first  of  those  referred  t<^ 
by  Lord  Coke^  3  InsL  200,  where  be  sayt  that 
"  before  these  late  Acts  the  eating  of  flesh  oa 
Fridays  was  punishable  in  the  Ecclesiastical  Ooart." 
This  statute  has  a  preamble  to  the  effect  that 
**  all  meats  be  of  their  nature  of  one  equal  purity/' 
but  that  divers,  "  turning  their  knowledge  thereiir 

to  satisfy  their  sensuality, have  of  late  time 

more  than  in  times  past  broken  and  contemned 
such  abstinence,  which  hath  been  used  in  this 
realm  upon  the  Fridays  and  Saturdays,  the  em- 
bring  days,  and  other  dajn  commonly  odled  Tigils, 
and  in  the  time  commonly  called  Lent,  and  other 
accustomed  times  ";  and  then^  "  considering  that 

due  and  godly  abstinence  is  a  mean  to  virtue, 

and specially  that  fishers may  thereby  the 

rather  be  set  on  work,  and  that  by  eating  of  fiab 
much  flesh  shall  be  saved  and  increased,"  the 
king,  with  the  assent,  Aa,  doth  enact,  &e. 

Sect  1.  All  statutes,  laws,  eonstitutioiis,  and 
usages,  concerning  any  manner  of  fasting  or 
abstinence  from  meats,  to  be  roid  from  Ist  May 
next 

Sect  2.  **  No  person  shall  willingly  and  wit* 
tinffly  eat  any  manner  of  flesh  upon  any  Friday 
and  Saturday,  or  the  embring  days,  or  in  Lent, 
nor  at  any  other  day  commoiuy  reputed  as  a  fiah- 
day,  wherein  it  hath  been  commonly  used  to  eat 
fish  and  not  flesh,"  on  pain,  for  the  flrst  offence^  of 
10«.   and  ten  days'  imprisonment  without  flealfe 
meat,  and  for  the   second   and   each   following 
offence  20s.  and  twenty  days'  like  imprisonment 
Sect  6.   The  statute  not   to   extend^to  any 


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person  that  hath  obtained  licence  of  the  king,  or 
to  aged  or  sick  (with  other  exceptions),  or  to  such 
as  haye  obtained  licence  in  due  form  of  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury. 

The  statute  of  5  &  6  Edw.  YI.  c.  3  declares 
(sect.  1)  the  feast  days  to  be  kept  as  holidays. 

Sect.  2.  Erery  even  or  day  next  before  any  of 
these  feast  days  shall  be  fasted  and  commanded  to 
be  observed,  and  none  other  even  or  day  shall  be 
comnoanded  to  be  fasted. 

Sect.  3w  Offenders  to  be  punished  by  the  cen- 
snres  of  the  Church. 

Sect  4.  This  Act  not  to  abrogate  the  abstinence 
from  flesh  in  Lent,  or  on  Fridays  and  Saturdays, 
or  any  other  day  which  is  appointed  by  the  Act 
of  2  &  3  £dw.  YL,  saving  only  of  those  eyens  or 
days  whereof  the  holiday  next  following  is  abro- 
gated by  this  statute. 

Then  comes  the  statute  of  5  Eliz.  e.  5,  already 
lummarized  at  p.  10,  ante. 

Sect  14  ('^  For  increase  of  proyision  of  fish  by 
the  more  usual  and  common  eating  thereof")  pro- 
vides that  every  Wednesday,  except  in  Christmas 
and  Easter  weeks,  shall  also  be  a  fish-day. 

Bat  this  enactment  was  repealed  by  the  statute 
of  27  Eliz.  c.  11.  That  Act  provides  as  follows  :— 
So  much  of  the  statute  of  5  Eliz.  c.  5  as  con- 
cemeth  the  eating  of  fish  and  restraineth  the 
eating  of  flesh  upon  the  Wednesday  is  repealed. 

Sect  4.  To  the  intent  that  the  Fridays,  Satur- 
days, and  days  appointed  by  former  laws  to  be 
fish-days,  may  the  better  be  observed,  for  the 
utterance  and  expense  of  fish  and  the  sparing  of 
flesh,  no  innholder,  tavemer,  alehouse-keeper, 
common  victualler,  common  cook,  or  common 
table-keeper  shall  utter  or  put  to  sale  on  the  said 
days  (not  being  Christmas  Day),  or  upon  any  day 
in  the  time  of  Lent,  any  kind  of  victuals,  except 
it  be  to  such  persons  resorting  to  his  house  as 
shall  have  lawful  licence  to  eat  the  same  (accord- 
ing to  tenor  of  5  Eliz.  a  5),  on  pain  of  bL  and 
ten  days'  imprisonment 

The  statute  of  35  Eliz.  c.  7  reduced  the  penalty 
fixed  by  6  Eliz.  a  5,  s.  15. 

The  enactments  as  thus  altered  remained  on 
tbe  Statute  Book.  They  were  continued  by  various 
atatatee,  down  to  that  of  16  Charles  I.  o.  4,  by 
which  they  were  declared  to  be  "  revived  and  con- 
tinned  ontil  some  other  Act  of  Parliament  be 
made  touching  the  continuance  or  discontinuance 
thereof;  and  no  such  other  Act  was  passed  until, 
in  1863,  they  were  repealed  by  the  Statute  Law 
Berision  Act  of  that  year. 

I  have  not  found  any  statute  affecting  the  trade 
of  batchers.  The  provision  of  the  statute  of  27  Eliz. 
e.  11  as  to  victuallers,  &a,  wQl  have  been  noticed. 
I  should  feel  obliged  if  E.  would  favour  me  with 
the  loan  of  any  of  the  applications  for  butchers' 
licences  to  which  he  refers. 

EL  asks  as  to  the  meaning  of  section  19  of  the 


statute  of  5  EUz.  &  5.  I  apprehend  the  answer  is 
this.  The  licence  is  only  required  for  fish-days, 
i.  «.,  the  days  on  which  the  eating  of  flesh  is  pro- 
hibited. Then  the  effect  of  the  section  is  that 
whilst,  without  a  licence,  no  flesh  whatever  is  to- 
be  eaten  on  fish- days,  yet  even  loith  a  licence  the 
flesh  to  be  eaten  on  fith-dayi  must  not,  at  any 
time  of  the  year,  be  beef,  and  must  not  between 
Michaelmas  and  May  Day  be  veal. 

R.  B.  DxBS. 
Wallsend. 

Bklfrt  (6«»  S.  V.  104,  168,  189).— The  inter- 
pretation  which  Prof.  Skeat  now  puts  upon  hia 
words  is  all  but  identical  with  the  solution  of  th& 
question  which  I  myself  proposed  as  the  most 
probable,  but  I  must  confess  that  I  cannot  see 
how  this  meaning  is  to  be  screwed  out  of  his 
words.  I  gave  what  I  considered  to  be  the  only 
possible  interpretation  of  them ;  Mr.  Jebrait 
gives  another,  which  differs,  however,  but  little 
from  mine;  and  Prof.  Skbat  himself  gives  a 
third.  It  is  sufficiently  clear,  then,  that  the  whole 
sentence  is  very  obscure,  and  Prof.  Skbat  will 
do  well  to  rewrite  it  for  the  second  edition  of  his. 
Dictionary, 

There  is  one  point  which  I  did  not  call  atten- 
tion to  in  my  note,  and  that  is,  that  Prof.  Skbat- 
evidently  was  of  opinion  when  he  wrote  his  article 
that  the  word  lost  the  meaning  of  watch-tower, 
and  became  restricted  to  that  of  bell-tower,  in 
cansequenci  of  the  change  of  r  into  I,  But  this  is. 
not  so,  for  the  same  change  of  meaning  took  pbice* 
in  the  case  of  the  corresponding  French  word,  and 
no  one  can  say  that  it  was  there  due  to  the  change 
of  r  into  L  Prof.  Skbat  maintains  also  that  he- 
never  imagined  that  the  change  of  r  into  I  in  this 
word  originated  in  England,  and  his  apolosist, 
Mr.  Jbrram,  supports  him  in  his  contention.  But 
what  Uien,  pray,  does  ^'  corrupted  from  M.E.  her- 

fray herfrey"  mean  ?   Was  the  corruption  fron> 

one  English  word,  berfray  (or  birfrey),  to  another 
English  word,  belfry,  made  in  France  or  elsewhere* 
on  the  Continent  ?  I  quite  agree  with  Prof.  Skbat 
that  further  investigation,  especially  in  the  direc- 
tion of  E.  English,  is  desirable,  but  it  is  surely  his 
J>Iace  to  make  it,  not  mine.  I  am  curious  to  know, 
or  example,  what  authority  Prof.  Skbat  has  for 
what  he  gives  as  the  original  meaning  of  the  word, 
viz.,  watch-tower.  In  Ziemann's  MM.D.  Worttr- 
&UCA  I  find  btrcvrit  (the  form  given  also  by  Prof. 
Skbat)  explained  as  a  **  befestigter  turm  (der 
zuweilen  mit  einer  glocke  versehen  ist)."*    Now  a 


•  In  MUUer  and  Zarncke'i  large  jr.«.Z>.  WorUrbuch, 
on  the  other  hand,  I  find  two  meanings  given  to  the 
word,  Til,  1.  A  movable  wooden  tower  on  wheels,  used 
for  sieges :  2.  A  tower,  generally  of  stone,  uwd  for  de- 
fence, and  standing  either  alone  or  in  a  Burg  (t.e.,  a 
stronghold  or  castle).  8roa!l  Burden,  they  add,  frequently 
consisted  of  nothing  more  than  a  bfrcvril  and  a  court- 
yard walled  round.     But  not  a  word  of  either  a  watob- 


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fortified  tower  may  be  a  watcb-tower  (tbe  Qerm. 
for  wbicb  is  Wartihurm),  but  it  is  not  necessarily 
one ;  and  tbe  heffroi  at  Amiens,  wbicb  was 
evidently  a  veiy  strong  tower,  probably  was  not 
A  watcb-tower,  as  it  is  tn  the  town,  at  some  dis- 
tance from  tbe  old  ramparts.  At  tbe  same  time, 
tbe  Germ.  Warte,  wbicb  means  watch-tower 
{^=Wartihurm)f  is  also  said  in  Germ,  dictionaries 
to  be  still  osed  of  a  tower  with  an  alarm  bell  in  it, 
wbicb  IB  precisely  tbe  meaning  of  tbe  M.F.  hfffroi. 
And  it  IB  clear,  moreover,  from  my  quotation  from 
JZiemann,  that  these  towers  from  tht  very  first 
sometimes  had  a  bell  in  them.  And  in  English 
hdfry  meant  bell-tower  as  early  as  1440,  for  I  find 
"  bell/ray,  campanarium,"  in  the  Prompt  Parv. 

F.  Ohakcb. 
P.S.— Sir  J.  A.  Picton^s  long  note  (p.  189)  bad 
not  appeared  when  I  wrote  the  above.    I  have  a 
few  remarks  to  make  upon  bis  note,  and  will 
speedily  communicate  them. 

De  Roquefort  gives  the  derivation  of  heffroi  thus : 
"  Beffroi,  cloche  qui  sort  k  eonner  Talarme ;  par  ex- 
tension, clocher,  charpente  qui  eoutient  une  cloche; 
tour  de  bois.  Nicot  et  Pasquier  aroient  reconnu  cette 
oDOinatop6e.  Yojez  Qlots,  de  la  Lang.  Mom,,  tom.  L 
p.  143,  col.  i." 

7his  sends  us  back  to  a  bell  for  tbe  origin  of  tbe 
word.  Something  more  will,  no  doubt,  be  found 
in  De  Roquefort's  Olouaire  de  la  Langue  Romane. 
There  is  also  a  matter  connected  with  what  I  will 
<call  tbe  bell  derivation  that  deserves  considera- 
tion. The  first  alarm  bell  was  probably  a  bell 
attached  to  three  posts,  at  the  top  of  wbicb  was  the 
cresset,  in  which  tbe  beacon  fire  was  lighted.  Now 
the  word  beUhre  meant  not  only  a  bell  which  was 
&stened  to  the  throat  of  a  ram  (htlier\  but  tbe 
ring  by  which  it  was  attached  to  Uie  collar  ;  also 
the  ring  by  which  the  clapper  of  a  bell  was  con- 
nected with  the  bell ;  and  generally  a  ring  from 
wbicb  anything  was  suspended.  It  might,  per- 
haps, be  shown  that  the  word  bdUrs  was  used  for 
some  other  bell  than  that  carried  by  a  ram — for 
a  bell  bung  on  a  ring  to  distinguish  it  from  one 
that  was  fixed  and  struck  with  a  hammer  ;  or  the 
ring  under  tbe  beacon  may  have  been  called 
"'la  beli^re,"  and  the  bell  itself  "la  beli^re 
d'effroi,"  the  bell  of  fear  or  danger,  of  wbicb 
hd/roiaxid  beffroi  would  simply  be  abbreviations. 
If,  as  is  probable,  bdfroi  was  pronounced  "  bel- 
fraie,"  we  get  very  near  to  belfry. 

A  friend  has  pointed  out  to  me  that  it  would  be 
necessary  to  prove  that  the  French  ever  used  the 
expression  "  beli^re  d'eff'roi,"  and  that  they  would 
say  **  cloche  d'alarme."  To  this,  at  present,  I  can 
only  reply  that  they  may  have  used  tbe  first; 
that  the  word  bdier^  being  employed  for  the  ram's 


tower  or  a  bell-tower.  The  lower  seems  originally  to 
httTe  been  made  of  wood,  and  this  agrees  ao  far  with  the 
use  mentioned  in  Ma.  Peacock's  note. 


bell  is  probably  older  than  doche;  and  that  as  to 
oJartM^  if  tbe  French  took  it  horn  tbe  Italian 
M  arme,  it  cannot  be  very  old.  I  may  add  that 
the  French  word  toain  implies  something  that  was 
struck,  and  that  it  seems  natural  that  there  should 
have  been  an  expression  to  distinguish  the  alarm 
bell  from  the  ram's  bell,  both  of  wbicb  must  have 
been  frequently  beard  in  tbe  country  long  before 
docket  were  known.  Ralph  N.  Jakes. 

Ashford,  Kent. 

It  is  worth  while  to  notice  that  in  tbe  collegiate 
church  of  Beverley  there  were  seven  "  parsons  "  or 
canons,  who  were  formerly  called  by  tbe  ^  low  and 
ridiculous"  name  berefdlarii  (sometimes  written 
bdlefarii).  I  cannot  find  what  special  office  they 
had  which  led  to  their  being  so  named,  but  it  is 
not  impossible  that  it  might  have  been  connected 
with  tbe  ''frith/'  or  sanctuary  right,  by  wbicb 
their  church  was  distinguished.  The  name  occurs 
in  Poulson's  Beverleyy  pp.  631,  567-9,  676 ;  in 
most  law  dictionaries,  «.  ^.,  Cowel  and  Wharton  ; 
and  formed  tbe  subject  of  inquiry  in  "  N.  &  Q.," 
1*'  S.  vii.,  viii.  On  bdfry  see  Hunter's  Encydop, 
Diet,  quoted  in  Saturday  Eevieuf,  Dec  31, 1881| 
p.  828.  W.  0.  B. 

"  Was  crucified,  pead,  and  buried  "  (6^  S. 
V.  9). — Tbe  words  "  was  dead ''  occur  twice  in  the 
New  Testament  (St.  John  xix.  33,  Rev.  I  18),  and 
tbe  creed  expresses  an  essential  fact.  Surely  it 
was  ordered  that  the  proof  of  His  actual  death 
should  be  so  strikingly  shown,  as  in  the  former 
text,  and  recorded  by  an  eye-witness,  St  John. 
Dr.  Brewer  is  right  as  to  the  real  meaning  of 
"  was  dead,"  but  not  so  in  saying  that  tbe  word 
dead  is  used  as  a  verb,  "  was  deiuied.''  Perhaps 
it  was  felt  by  the  English  translators  that  "  died  " 
would  have  been  weak  after  "  crucified,"  and  there 
is  force  in  tbe  abrupt  insertion  of*'  dead  "  between 
tbe  verbs  preceding  and  following.  A  use  stipsr 
grammaticam  is  not  an  unknown  fact,  but,  of 
course,  the  full  meaning  here  is  "I  bdiive  in  Jesut 

Christ  who was   crucified    (and  was,  on  the 

cross),  dead"  and  this  is  neither  eanivocal nor  un- 
grammaticaL  The  Greek  was  Oavovra ;  the  Latin 
mortuus;  the  French  is  mourui;  the  German 
gestorben  (the  Lutheran  words  in  Rev.  i.  18,  gss* 
torben  war),  so  that  "  was  dead  "  is  not  without 
justification  in  other  tongues,  and  it  has  tbe  advan- 
tage of  being  Scripture.  The  *'  early  forms  of  tbe 
Creed''  had  not  the  word  " dead,"  nor  had  "tbe 
Oriental  form,"  but  Dr.  Brewer  does  not  specify 
what  forms  he  refers  to.  As  to  the  Oriental,  that 
bad  waOovra  (Nicene  creed)  in  wbicb  the  death 
was  included,  as  in  Heb.  ii.  9  ;  but  nadovra  is  as 
much  (or  as  little)  "  an  innovation  "  as  Oavovra  or 
mortuus,  for  neither  word  was  in  the  earliest 
written  form  of  the  creed.  W.  F.  H. 

Tbe  word  dead  here  used  is  evidently  not  an 
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adjectiye,  bat  a  past  participle.    This,  I  think,  is 
made  plain  by  a  lefeienoe  to  earlier  English  forms 
of  the  Apoetlea'  Creed.    The  Frymer,  e.  a.d.  1400 
(MaskelTs  Mon.  BiL,  yoI.  ii.  p.  177),  has :  ''Suffride 
passioun  undir  poance  pilat :  crucified,  deedy  and 
biried."  This  would  seem  to  be  a  rerbatim  transla- 
tion of  the  Latin:  ''Passus  est  sub  Pontic  Pilato, 
orucifixns,  mortuns,  et  sepultus."     In  The  Lay- 
Foils  Man  Book  (E.E.T.S.)  the  B  text  has:^ 
"  Tnder  pounce  pilat  pyned  he  was, 
Ti  forto  saue, 
done  on  cros  &  d4ed  he  was, 
layde  in  hia  graue  "; 

whilst  the  £  text  has:— 

"  Down  on  )>6  -I-  and  ded  he  was 
and  leyd  in  his  graue.'* 

This  participial  use  of  the  word  is  not  uncommon 
in  Chancer.    Cf. : — 

*'  When  Odenake  was  deed,  she  myghtily 
The  regnes  heeld." 

Group  B,  The  Monhee  Tale,  11.  3617-8. 
"  That  to  his  hody,  when  that  he  were  dud, 
Were  no  despyt  ydoon,  for  his  defame." 

i6id.,U.  8737-8. 
"  And  whan  the  woful  fader  deed  it  sey, 
For  wo  his  armes  two  he  gan  to  byte." 

Ihid.,  11.  3633-4. 
F.    C.    BiRKBECE  TeRRT. 
Cardiff. 

The  Church  of  Encland  has  always  been  con- 
eistent  in  her  use  of  this  expression.  Mr.  Procter 
(Booh  of  Common  Prayer,  p.  233)  gives  an  A.-S. 
version,  "  h6  wses  dead  and  bebyrged."  "  Was 
dead  "  seems  to  have  a  peculiar  significance,  as  ex- 
pressing an  incomplete  action— the  death  of  one, 
whose  death  was  soon  to  be  a  thing  of  the  past, 
over  whom  death  had  no  lasting  power.  The 
A.y.  uses  the  same  expression,  with  this  meaning: 
*^  He  that  was  dead  sat  up  and  began  to  speak " 
<St.  Luke  vii.  15);  "  This  my  son  was  dead  and  is 
alive  again "  (St  Luke  xv.  24);  "  I  am  he  that 
liveth  and  was  dead"  (Rev.  i.  18).  Of  course 
"  was  dead "  occurs  also  in  the  sense  of  "  died," 
fnortuus  est,  as  ^*  David  perceived  that  the  child 
was  dead  "  (2  Sam.  xiL  19). 

E.  H.  Marshall. 

Hastings. 

I  do  not  see  the  difficulty  which  your  corre- 
epondent  finds  in  the  construction.  It  seems  to 
be  ^  was  crucified,  loas  dead,  and  was  buried,"  but 
more  tersely  and  effectively  expressed.  In  the 
Latin  it  is  ''Crucifixus,  mortuus,  et  sepultus";  in 
the  Greek, "oravpcoWKTo,  Bavovra,  KaL  Ta</>€rra." 

HXNRT  H.  GiBBS. 

St.  Dunstan's,  Regent's  Park. 

Parochial  Rboistbrs  (6*  S.  v.  141,  211,  233, 
248).— Mr.  J.  E.  K  Cutts,  in  his  communication 
(ante  p.  141),  speska  of  the  value  of  our  English 

Eftrish  registers  to  those  of  English  descent  who 
ve   in   America,    "especially    those    founding 


families  in  a  new  ooontiy.''  I  had  an  instance 
of  this  about  three  years  ago.  I  live  in  a  snuJI 
country  parish  of  194  inhabitants,  and  oar  parish 
register  dates  from  1630.  A  young  American 
gentleman  came  to  my  friend  the  rector,  and  said 
that  it  had  only  come  to  hu  knowledge  two  daj^s 
previous  that  it  was  from  this  village  that  ms 
father's  grandfather  emigrated  to  America  abont 
the  year  1750,  and  there  laid  t^e  foundation  for 
the  present  wealth  of  his  descendants.  The  gen- 
tleman, with  a  party  of  fourteen,  had  been  fifteen 
months  away  from  New  York,  visiting  the  chief 
places  of  the  Continent,  the  Holy  Land,  Egyjjt, 
&c.,  and  ending  up  with  the  principal  sights  in 
England  and  Scotland ;  and  they  were  to  embark 
from  Liverpool  on  the  following  morning.  He 
had  travelled  specially  to  this  little  village.  Would 
the  rector  be  good  enough  to  refer  to  the  parish 
registers,  and  see  if  his  ancestors  were  therein 
mentioned?  The  rector  did  so — the  ancestors 
were  there  found  in  regular  descent,  from  the 
very  beginning  of  the  register— and  the  genUe- 
man,  in  less  tlukn  two  hours'  time,  was  set  up  with 
a  pedigree  dating  back  two  and  a  half  centuries, 
which  he  said  he  should  have  drawn  up  in 
heraldic  fashion,  and  which  doubtless  now 
adorns  some  room  in  his  American  home.  It 
was  evident  that  the  ancestors  were  of  the  hum- 
blest  class ;   as,  in  another   book,  mention  of 

"  Goody  " was  frequently  made,  as  being  the 

recipient  of  a  tenpenny  charity.  But  the  surname 
happens  to  correspond  with  one  in  the  English 
baronetage ;  and  while  the  rector  was  transcrib- 
ing the  numerous  registers,  the  American  gentle- 
man was  busy  copying  from  Debrett  the  coat  of 
arms  of  the  baronet  in  question — bloody  hand  and 
all !  I  regret  to  add  that  the  rector  never  re- 
ceived a  sixpence  for  his  trouble,  though  he 
might  have  charged  a  heavy  sum  in  fees ;  but  he 
was  restoring  his  church,  and  he  left  it  to  the 
American  gentleman  to  give  some  donation  for 
that  purpose,  either  in  money  or  in  the  form  of  a 
stained-glass  window  or  other  memorial  to  his 
ancestors.  But  the  rural  rector,  like  rusiieus,  is 
yet  expectant,  and  has  remained  in  that  state  for 
the  past  three  years.  I  fear  that  it  will  make  him 
rather  hard-hearted  in  responding  for  the  future 
to  those  who  come  to  him  empty  handed  for 
genealogiod  purposes.  Cuthbbrt  Bjedb. 

Where,  it  may  well  be  asked,  could  the  money 
be  found  for  so  gigantic  a  work  as  that  of  printing 
the  whole  of  the  parochial  registers  in  England, 
even  supposing  so  herculean  a  task  could  be 
undertaken  as  preparing  them  for  the  press  I 
Again,  would  the  result  in  many  instanoes  in  any 
degree  correspond  with  the  pains  that  would  have 
to  be  bestowed  ?  In  most  country  villages  there 
is  not  an  entry  to  be  found  of  the  slightest  general 
interest  or  importance ;  in  many  othen  bat  a  few 


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grains  of  wheAt,  bo  to  speak,  hidden  amongst 
bushels  of  chaff.  In  neither  of  these  cases  would 
the  return  in  the  least  degree  be  worth  the 
outlay.  Yet  there  are,  of  course,  many  interesting 
exceptional  instances,  of  which  the  following  might 
justly  be  regarded  as  one. 

The  interest,  as  I  take  it,  chiefly  centres  upon 
entries  of  burial,  and  it  has  frequently  been  a  sub- 
ject of  wonder  to  me  that  no  antiquaiy  or  member 
of  the  University  of  Oxford  has  undertaken  the 
task  of  either  printing  partly  or  in  their  entirety 
those  of  the  cathedral,  and  also  some  of  those 
belonging  to  the  parish  churches  in  the  city. 
There,  it  must  be  allowed,  would  an  interesting 
field  be  found,  for  so  many  of  her  eminent  alumni 
haye  not  only  found  a  home  but  a  grave  within 
her  precincts.  In  the  cathedral,  for  instance,  lie 
the  remains  of  Fell,  Bishop  of  Oxford ;  of  George 
Berkeley,  Bishop  of  Gloyne,  though  not  an  Oxonian 
by  education;  of  Dean  Aldrioh;  and  of  Robert 
Burton.  _  Not  only  has  the  cathedral  received 
the  remains  of  many  eminent  men,  but  many  of 
the  parish  churches  and,  in  addition,  most  of  the 
college  chapels  have  been  places  of  sepulture — in 
one  case  the  cloisteni,  as  at  New  College,  In  the 
chapel  of  St.  John's  College,  for  instance,  are 
buried  the  founder,  Sir  Thomas  White,  and  Arch- 
bishops Laud  and  Juxon,  both  of  them  former 
Presidents.  At  Queen's  College,  in  a  vault  under 
the  apse  of  the  chapel,  are  deposited,  in  a  chest 
inscribed  ^'Reliquise  Fundatoris,"  the  bones  of 
Robert  de  Eglesfield,  and  those  of  several  former 
provosts,  and  the  wife  of  one  of  them,  Mrs.  Fother- 
gill.  A  sketch  of  this  sepulchre  was  once  shown 
me  by  a  former  member  of  the  society,  who 
entered  it  in  1827,  when  it  was  last  opened. 
Whilst  upon  this  subject,  another  query  suggests 
itself,  namely,  Where  are  the  entries  of  the  burials 
kept  which  have  taken  place  in  the  chapeb 
of  the  different  colleges?  Presumably  in  the 
burial  registers  of  the  parishes  in  Oxford  in  which 
they  are  situated.  The  beautiful  chapel  of  Merton 
College  is,  as  is  well  known,  also  the  pariah  church 
of  St.  John  the  Baptist. 

JOHK  PiCKFORD,  M.A.. 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Having^  had  considerable  experience  among 
registers  in  the  country,  I  am  bound  to  say  that 
the  greatest  courtesy  and  every  possible  facility 
have  been  accorded  me  by  those  of  the  clergy  to 
whom  I  have  applied  for  permission  to  inspect 
and  take  extracts  from  their  registers.  The 
Register  Section  of  the  Harleian  Society  is  doing 
good  work  for  London  ;  but  I  should  like  to  see 
its  publications  appear  a  little  oftener  than  once 
a  year.  Again,  the  suggestion  of  parish  magazines 
is  certainly  a  move  in  the  right  direction  ;  but  too 
often  they  are  not  so  well  supported  as  to  render 
the  originaton  or  publisher  free  from  actual  loss. 


I  should  be  glad  to  see  some  scheme  inaugurated 
to  print  these  rapidly  decreasing  royal  roads  to 
pedigree    making;     it   would   have  my  hearty 
support  and  co-operation.         Jubtik  Sihpsoii. 
277,  Strand. 

Surely,  if  it  is  worth  while  to  print  registers  at 
all,  they  should  be  printed  honestly.  It  u  well» 
perhaps,  to  leave  off  at  1800,  but  shearing  off  such 
comments  as  ''filius  populi"  would  pare  Qiem  into 
worthlessness.  Any  thing  which  indicates  the  rank 
of  the  party  is  most  important  P.  P. 

Edmund  Burke's  Marriages  (6***  S.  v.  205). — 
In  preparing,  a  few  years  ago,  a  new  edition  of 
my  Rambles  about  Bath,  &c.,  I  endeavoured,  for 
obvious  reasons,  to  ascertain  whether,  as  Burke 
married  a  Bath  lady,  his  marriage  took  place  in 
Bath,  and  at  what  church.  The  result  of  a  careful 
examination  of  the  parish  reffisters  proved  con- 
clusively that  the  marriage  did  not  take  place  in 
this  city.  The  marriage,  in  fact,  took  place  in 
London,  and  I  have  amongst  my  notes  a  record  of 
when  and  at  what  church,  but  at  this  moment  I 
cannot  lay  my  hand  upon  it.  As  soon  as  I  find  it 
I  will  send  the  fact  to  you, «.«.,  if  in  the  mean 
time  some  other  correspondent  does  not  furnish 
the  information  required.  R.  £•  Psach. 

Bath. 

In  the  winter  of  1756,  or  early  in  1767,  Burke 
went  to  Bath  for  his  health.  Being  too  ill  to  live 
in  lodgings,  he  resided  with  hie  compatriot  Dr. 
Nugent,  whose  daughter's  amiable  solicitude  soon 
excited  a  passion  in  the  sensitive  heart  of  Burke. 
They  were  married  in  the  spring  of  1757.  The 
register  cannot  be  found,  either  in  Bath  or 
Bristol ;  but  as  it  is  generally  supposed  that  Mrs. 
Burke  was  of  her  father's  faith,  the  marriage  may^ 
therefore,  have  taken  place  in  the  Roman  Catholic 
chapel  at  Bath,  which,  with  its  contents,  was  burnt 
in  the  riots  of  1780.  *' Burke  returned  i0tt/t  ^i» 
bride  to  London,"  vide  p.  34  of  Peter  Burke's  Life 
of  Burke,  1854 ;  p.  176  of  Timbs's  AnecdoU  Bio- 
graphy,  1860  ;  and  p.  49  of  Prior's  J^fe  of  Burks^ 
1872.  HEMitT  G.  HOPB. 

Freegrove  Koad,  N. 

I  am  the  possessor  of  Mrs.  Burke's  wedding 
ring  and  diamond  guard  ring,  in  the  inside  of 
which  is  inscribed  the  date  March  12,  1767.  In 
the  family  Bible,  in  Edmund  Burke's  writing,  is 
the  following  : — 

**  Edmund  Burke  and  Jane  Nugent  mnrried  the  12th 
of  March,  1767.  Tbeir  first  Child,  Richard  Burke,  bom 
at  Battersea  between  7  and  8  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
February  the  9th,  1758.  Christopher  Burke  bom  at 
Wimple  Street,  Carendish  Square.  40  minutes  after  5 
in  the  morning  the  14th  of  December,  1758 ;  died  aa 
Infant." 

I  think  it  rery  probable  that  the  marriage  took 
place  at  Bath,  as  Dr.  Christopher  Kugent  was,  I 
believe,  living  there  at  the  time.    I  should  be 


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glad  to  have  thiB  matter  cleared  up ;  it  always 
struck  me  aa  singular  that  Mr.  Burke  omitted 
the  name  of  the  church  where  the  marriage  took 
phice.  L  MoRETON  Wood. 

Kewton,  Middlewieh. 

RoBBRT  Orchard  (6**  S.y.  227).— The  singular 
person  here  mentioned  was  prohably  a  member  of 
the  family  of  Orchard  of  North  Cornwall.  The 
family  took  its  rbe,  I  believe,  in  the  pariah  of 
Kilkhampton,  and  the  name  may  be  found  abun- 
dantly in  the  registers  of  many  parishes  in  that 
district,  t.g,,  Poughill,  Stratton,  Launcels,  St. 
Mary  Week,  and  others.  I  have  a  large  number 
of  extracts  from  the  registers  of  those  parishes, 
but  I  do  not  see  the  baptism  of  a  Rohn-i 
Orchard.  A  reference  to  the  index  to  my  History 
of  Trigg  will  lead  to  some  information  about  the 
family.  No  pedigree  was  recorded  at  the  herald's 
visitation  of  the  county  in  1620,  but  the  family 
held  a  good  position.  There  were  several  clergymen 
of  the  name,  and  !Paul  Orchard  was  sheriff  of  the 
county  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
In  the  church  of  Poughill  is  a  tablet  in  memory  of 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Charles  Orchard,  **  Rector  of  Cory  ton 
and  vicar  of  this  parish,"  who  was  buried  Jan.  2, 
1756,  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  his  age ;  also  of  John, 
the  son  of  the  said  Rev.  Mr.  Charles  Orchard  and 
Patience  his  wife,  who  was  buried  Jan.  17,  1730, 
aged  two  years  ;  also  of  Patience,  late  wife  of  the 
above-mentioned  Mr.  Charles  Orchard,  who  was 
buried  Jan.  13,  1773,  aged  seventy  years.  Sur- 
mounting this  tablet  is  a  shield  of  arms:  Ar.,  a 
chevron  erm.  between  three  pears  slipped  gu.,  but 
should  probably  be  ppr.  There  is  another  tablet 
in  memory  of  Mr.  Charles  Orchard,  son  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Charles  Orchard  and  Patience  his  wife, 
who  was  buried  March  10,  1774,  aged  forty-one  ; 
also  of  Jane  hitf  wife,  who  was  buried  June  17^ 
1771,  aged  forty-three ;  and  also  of  Jane  their 
daughter,  who  was  buried  Nov.  26,  1773,  aged 
eixteen.  There  are  monuments  also  in  the  church 
of  Kilkhampton.  John  Maclban. 

Bicknor  Court,  Coleford,  Olouc. 

The  omission  in  Bryan  of  the  name  of  W. 
Barnard,  the  engraver  of  this  portrait,  is  supplied 
in  Redgrave's  JHctionai-y  of  ArtisU  of  th$  English 
School,  which  gives: — 

"  William  Barnard,  engraver.  Practised  in  mezco-tint 
In  London  about  the  beginning  of  this  century.  Among 
his  works, '  Summer '  and  '  Winter/  after  Morland,  often 
printed  in  colours,  were  much  Drized.  He  also  engraved 
a  portrait  of  Nelson.  He  was  for  many  years  Keeper  of 
the  British  Institution,  and  died  Nov.  11, 1849,  aged  75." 
Edward  H.  Marsralu 

The  McARys  or  Kincardineshire  (6*^  S.  iv. 
388,  544). — It  is  asked.  What  is  the  meaning  and 
«tymolo^  of  the  Meams  ?  I  have  seen  two  attempts 
to  explain  it,  but  they  do  not  seem  to  be  satis- 
.factory.    One  is  that  it  is  from  Memia,  a  chief  in 


that  part  of  Scotland ;  another  is  from  Meironas, 
said  to  be  a  Kymric  word  meaning  a  district  in- 
habited by  herdsmen.    I  have  by  coach  or  rail 
passed  six  times  through  the  Meams,  and,  so  far  as 
I  recollect,  there  is-  an  absence  of  what  may  be 
called  hill-sceneiy.     The  country  is  rather  level 
as  compared  with  the  district  more  inland  and  to 
the  west.    I  suggest,  for  the  consideration  of  the 
reader,  that  it  is  from  the  Gaelic  magh  (pron.  maw\ 
a  plain,  and  fearann,  land,  country.    As  a  com- 
pound, in  fsarann^  the  /  is  followed  by  A,  making 
the /silent.    Thus,  magh-fhearann  is  pronounced 
matoeam.    People  living  more  inland  and  to  the 
west,  where  the  country  is  hilly,  would  be  likely  to 
give  this  name  to  the  comparatively  level  district. 
It  is  like  HighUnders  referring  to  the  Lowlands. 
I  am  afraid  of  making  this  note  too  long,  but  there 
are  three  other  remarks  to  be  made.    In  Renfrew- 
shire there  is  a  parish,  seven  miles  by  three,  called 
Meams  :  "  the  surface  has  a  great  variety  of  wav- 
ing swells,"  that  is  to  say,  there  are  no  hills.    The 
above  etymology  will  apply  here.    In  early  times 
a  district  in  Argyll  was  called  Morran,  or  Gar- 
morran,  or  North  Morran  ;  the  derivation  here  is 
mor  (great),  and  iron,  headland.    The  district  has 
a  wedge-like  appearance  on  the  map  (see  Skene's 
HighUmderSj  ii.  267).   It  was  called  North  Morran 
to  distin^ish  it  from  South  Morran  or  the  Meams 
(alias  Kmcardineshire).    Of  Kincardineshire  the 
earlier  name  is  not  Meams,  it  is   the  Meams. 
There  are  some  districts  in  Scotland  whose  names 
always  have  the  definite  article  prefixed ;  it  seems 
to  me  that  great  interest  attaches  to  these.  Among 
them  are  the  Stormont  (Perthshire),  the  Machars^ 
the  Rhinns  (of  Galloway),  the  Garioch  (Aberdeen- 
shire), the  Stair,  a  parish  (Ayrshire) ;  anciently  it 
was  called  the  Stair.  The  parish  of  Gaputh  (Perth- 
shire) is  in  Gaelic  called  An  Ceapach ;  as  in  other 
instances,  the  final  Gaelic  eh,  for  some  unaccount- 
able reason,  becomes  th  in  English.    The  definite 
article  is  used  in  Gktelic  but  is  dropped  in  English. 
The  Carse  (of  Gowrie  and  of  Stirling),  the  Loch 
of  the  Lows  (Perthshire^,  and  of  the  Lowes  (Selkirk- 
shire).   I  am  very  familiar  with  the  Loch  of  the 
Lows,  near  Dunkeld.     What  is  the  derivation? 
Lus,  a  plant  (suppose  a  water-plant,  as  lilies),  will 
hardly  do  ;  the  loch  is  more  than  a  mile  long,  it  is 
too  deep  to  have  its  surface  covered  with  water- 
lilies.    For  many  years  I  have  puzzled  over  this 
name  and  the  kin-name  in  Selkirkshire. 

Thouas  Stratton,  M.D. 
Devonport,  Devon. 

Dr.  Charnock  appears  to  favour  the  assump- 
tion, so  freely  hazarded,  that  an  early  form  of 
Oeltic,  called  Pictish,  and  closely  allied  to  Welsb^ 
was  really  vemacular  in  North  Britain  during  pre- 
Roman  times ;  but  apart  from  that  issue  I  wish  to 
point  out  that  hia  expUnation  of  the  name  Meams 
applied,  as  I  understand  it,  to  Kincardineshire 
opens  up  a  curiooa  pandlellBm.    Amoo^  the  tribes 

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allocated  by  Ptolemy  to  North  Britain  we  find 
the  Vaco-,  or  Vaecamagi,  settled  by  him  somewhere 
near  Aberdeen.  Ptolemy's  locations  unfortunately 
are  yagne ;  we  get  a  general  idea  of  the  real  facts, 
but  his  stated  distances  are  so  reiy  misleading  as, 
in  most  oases,  to  spoil  identification.  To  be  brief, 
it  appears  to  me  that  the  Vaccamagi  and  the 
Maerones  are  identical.  We  hare  in  the  first  a 
compound,  the  root  word  for  "oow,"  and  the 
Celtic  maghy  a  field— say  pasture  land.  The  Welsh 
maeron  gires  a  yariety  of  forms  identical  with 
**  dairy  produce,''  only  to'  be  deriyed  from  cows 
on  good  pasture  land.  Meams  or  Kincardineshire 
is  quite  distinct  from  the  parish  of  Meams  in 
Renfrewshire ;  but  it  is  to  be  noted  that  though  so 
widely  apart  in  our  geography,  in  Ptolemy  they 
actually  adjoin.  To  make  an  assumption,  there< 
fore,  from  facts  and  inferences,  I  would  say  that 
Ptolemy  intended  to  place  his  Vaccamagi  in  the 
fertile  yalley  of  Strathmore,  and  it  will  be  seen 
that  the  Meams  or  Kincardineshire  comes  at  one 
extremity  thereot  A.  Hall. 

This  name  is  not  Welsh,  as  suggested  by  O'Brien. 
It  is  Gaelic,  being  a  corruption  of  Mcigh-ghirghin, 
the  field  of  Giigin.  This  "Girgin''  is  the  "  Gircin" 
of  the  Pietuh  ChronicU,  and  we  scene  of  a  battle 
recorded  in  the  Annals  of  Tighirnae,  iuh  anno 
762.  See  Skene's  Four  Andeni  BooJu  of  Wales, 
L  132  ;  also  the  Chronicles  of  the  Fids  and  Scots, 
edited  by  the  same  scholar,  p.  76,  and  other  re- 
ferences giyen  in  the  index,  s,  v.  *'  Gircin." 

Thokas  PoW£LL. 

Bootle  College. 

The  Ancibnt  Evpirb  of  Ssrtia  (6*^^  S.  y. 
209).-- Brief  accounts  of  the  brilliant  bat  short- 
liyed  empire  founded  by  Stephen  Dushan  (1333-55) 
may  be  read  in  Finlay's  History  of  the  Byzantine 
and  Greek  Empires  (Blackwood,  1854),  yoL  ii.  pp. 
544-552 ;  in  Gount  Valerian  Krasinski'sJkf (m<en«^o 
and  the  Slavonians  of  Turkey  (Ghapman  &  Hall, 
1853),  pp.  94-101;  and  in  Bomllet's  Dictionnaire 
d'Histoire  et  de  Oiographie  (Paris,  Hachette). 
Lists  of  the  kings  of  Senria  from  Stephen  Boislay, 
1039,  to  Lazaras  II.  (Brancoyitcfa),  and  Queen 
Helen,  1458-9,  are  giyen  in  Bouillet,  op.  cit.  The 
title  taken  by  Stephen  Dushan  in  1345  was  Em- 
peror (Tsar)  of  Bomania,  Sdayonia,  and  Albania, 
the  kingdom  of  Seryia  being  conferred  on  his  son. 
The  dominions  of  the  Seryian  emperor  were  parti- 
tioned after  hiB  death,  but  Finlay  remarks  that  ''the 
Greeks  haye  neyer  since  been  able  to  recoyer  their 
former  preponderance  in  the  proyinces  from  the 
Valley  of  the  Strymon  to  the  snores  of  the  Gulf  of 
Arta."  AvxRiGUADOR. 

Mr.  Baoot  would  do  well  to  consult  Mr.  £.  A. 
Freeman's  lately  published  work.  The  Historical 
Ckography  of  Europe,  with  its  accompanying  maps. 
It  is  superfluous  to  remark  that  any  information 


giyen  by  Mr.  Freeman  is^  tx  necessikUe,  "  trust- 
worthy." E.  H.  M. 
Hastiagi. 

Gonsult  the  introduction  to  History  of  Modem 
Serbia,  by  Madame  Mijatoyics  (Tweedie^  1872), 
and  her  Kossovo  (Isbister,  1881). 

Htdb  Glarkb. 

«  Want  wats  "  (6«»  S.  ▼.  167).— TTenf,  a  way, 
is  giyen  in  Pegge's  Alphabet  of  Kenticisms  (p.  55, 
E.D.S.),  to  which  Prof.  Skeat  appends  the  follow- 
iug  note,  which  will  be  of  interest  to  your  corre- 
spondent : — 

"In  Somner,  Antiq.  Cant.,  ed.  1640,  p.  20^  we  haye 
'  at  the  meeting  of  the  four  wnts.*  Bee  the  lettera  on 
this  word,  including  two  of  my  own,  in  <  N.  &  Q./  8"* 
8.  xii.  181, 198,  296, 884.  It  it  aometimes  pronounced 
vents,  but  only  by  would-be  refined  speakers ;  not  by  the 
peasantry,  who  retain  the  w.  At  Ighiham,  Seven  Vents 
18  the  name  of  a  spot  where  seven  roads  meet  Cooper's 
Sussex  Glossary  gires  both  tcenl  and  vent,  and  he  in- 
stances FUmweIl-vm(.  Just  as  gate  (from  the  rerb  go) 
means  a  street  in  Old  English,  so  went  (from  the  verb 
wend)  means  a  lane  or  passage.  '  A  teent^  lane,  viculus, 
angiportus*;  Levins's  ManiptUus  Vocahulorum,  ed. 
WheaUey,  p.  66, 1. 8." 

The  word  is  giyen  in  the  Rey.  W.  D.  Parish';! 
Did,  of  the  Sussex  Dialect.  Dr.  Ghamock  has 
the  word  in  his  Essex  Glossary,  and  quotes  from 
Ghauoer's  Troylus  and  Cryseyde,  738  :— 

*'  Is  through  a  goter,  by  a  pryv6  wenteJ' 
Is  this  word  the  same  as  tceen,  which  last  year  I 
heard  applied  in  North  Yorkshire  to  the  passage 
between  two  houses,  a  usage  which  was  quite  new 
tome?  F.  G.  Birkbeck  Tbrry. 

Cardiff. 

A  Miniature  o7  the  late  Sir  Robert  Pebi. 
(6"»  S.  y.  109).— I  haye  carefully  examined  the 
North  wick  catalogue,  but  cannot  find  the  minia- 
ture spoken  of  by  B.  H.  B.  R.  T.  S. 

I  haye  looked  through  the  catalogue  of  Lord 
Northwick's  sale,  from  July  26  to  August  29, 
1859,  and  can  find  no  portrait,  miniature  or  other- 
wise, of  Sir  Robert  PeeL  If  B.  H.  B.  likes  to  call, 
he  can  see  the  catalogue.     Algernon  Graves. 

6,  PaU  Mall,  8.W. 

James  Glarence  Mangan  (6*^  S.  y.  168).— 
There  is  a  good,  octayo  edition  of  his  poems,  pub- 
lished in  1870  by  P.  M.  Hayerty,  No.  6,  Barclay 
Street,  New  York,  with  a  biographiod  introduc- 
tion by  John  MitcheL  W.  F. 

The  catalogue  of  the  London  Library  supplies 
the  following  :  *'  Mangan  (J.  G.),  German  Antho- 
logy, a  series  of  translations  from  German  popular 
poets,  2  yols.  12mo.,  Dublin,  1845."     £.  H.  M. 

Roundels  (6«»  S.  y.  145).-- There  is  a  fine  set 
of  roundels  of  the  time  of  Henry  YIIL  now  being 
exhibited  at  the  Loan  Exhibition  at  Lewes,  whicb 

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I  Tisited  the  other  day.  The  mottoes  are,  with 
one  exception,  all  different  from  those  given  in 
''N.  &  Q./'  as  above,  and  I  have  no  doubt  if 
Toa  were  to  write  to  the  manager  of  the  exhibition 
he  woald  send  yoa  copies  of  them.  They  are  very 
quaint  and  humorous.  Robert  Hooo. 

"A  FORTUITOUS  COKCOURSB  OP  ATOMS**  (6*  S. 

T.  148). — Cicero  has,  in  reference  to  this  subject, 
"  concursu  quodam  fortuito  "  (De  NaL  Deor.,  lib.  i. 
cap.  24).  It  became  a  common  expression.  There 
occurs  :  "  And  also  how  it  comes  to  pass,  if  they 
be  only  moved  by  chance  and  accident,  that  such 
regular  mutations  and  generations  should  be  be- 
gotten by  a  fortuitous  concourse  of  atoms"  (J. 
Smith's  SeUct  DtscourseSj  iii.  p.  48,  Lon.  1660), 
which  is  an  earlier  instance,  as  inquired  for.  A 
somewhat  later  instance  is  in  Bentley's  SertMms 
(Serm.  ii.,  preached  in  1692,  p.  47,  Oamb.  1724), 
"  against  Epicureans,  that  ascribed  the  origin  and 
frame  of  the  world  not  to  the  power  of  God  but 
the  fortuitous  concourse  of  atoms." 

Ed.  Marshall. 

See  Lucretius  passim.  See  also  Virgil's 
Eelogws,  vi.  33:— 

"  ut  his  exordia  primis 
"Omnia,  et  ipse  tener  mundi  concreveritorbis." 
E.  Walford,  M.A. 

Edward  VI,  akd  his  Sisters  (6**  S.  v.  149). 
The  reference  to  the  letter  from  which  Mr.  Cookes 

S notes  is  Ellis,  First  Series,  ii.  134.    It  is  in  Latin, 
le  original  of  the  quotation  (being  the  first  two 
sentences)  running  thus: — 

**  Etsi  HOD  scribo  ad  te  frequenter,  soror  charissima, 
tamen  noUem  (e  putare  me  eise  ingratum  ettui  obliTiscL 
Nam  diligo  te  eque  bene  ac  si  misiasem  crebrias  ad  te 
literas,  et  amo  te  sicut  frater  debet  amare  cbariflBimam 
■ororem  qaas  habet  omnia  oraamenta  virtutis  et  hones- 
tatis  in  se." 

From  Mary  to  Edward  there  is  only  one  letter  all 
through  Ellis's  three  series.  This  is  an  English  one, 
at  p.  176  of  the  same  volume^  which  remonstrates 
with  him  (then  king)  against  his  prohibition  of 

Thomas  Longden,  Alder-=Anne,  dan.   of 

man  1651,  Mayor  1695,  I Owynnett, 

died  1715.  of  Shurdington. 


her  household  mass,  asks  leave  to  continue  it,  and 
proceeds:— 

"  puttyng  no  doubte  but  in  tyme  to  come,  whether  I  live 
or  die,  your  Majestie  shall  perceave  myne  intente  is 
grownded  upon  a  true  love  towardes  you,  whose  royall 
estate  I  beseech  Almigbtie  God  longe  to  contynewe, 
which  is  and  shalbe  my  daylie  prayer  accordlnge  to  my 
dutye." 

0.  F.  S.  Warrbn,  M.A. 
Famboroogh,  Banbury. 

I  cannot  illustrate  the  terms  on  which  Edward 
VI.  stood  with  his  sisters,  but  in  Cussans's  History 
of  Hertfordshire^  under  "Ashridge,"  the  reader 
will  find  an  interesting  letter  from  Queen  Mary, 
showing  that  she  was  on  the  best  possible  terms 
with  her  sister  Elizabeth  until  she  found  out  the 
latter  to  be  plotting  against  herself. 

E.  Walford,  M.A. 

"Chaptbr  and  verse*'  (6**>  S.  v.  206).— John 
Selden  cannot  be  said  to  have  attended  the 
Assembly  of  Divines  for  the  purpose  of  exposing 
the  ignorance  of  its  members.  He  was  a  member 
thereof  himself  (see  Bushworth's  HisL  CoU,,  t. 
337;  Husband's  Orders  and  Ordinances,  ij.  208)» 
Bulstrode  Whitelock,  who  was  himself  a  member 
of  that  body,  says : — 

"  Mr.  Selden  spake  admirably,  and  confuted  divers  of 
them  [the  divines]  in  tbeir  own  learning,  and  sometimes 
when  they  had  cited  a  text  of  Scripture  to  prove  their 
assertion,  he  would  tell  them,  '  Perhaps  in  your  little 
pocket  Bibles  with  gilt  leaves  [which  they  would  often 

SuU  out  and  read]  the  translation  may  be  thus,  but  the 
freek  or  the  Hebrew  signifies  thus  and  thus/  and  8o> 
would  totally  silence  them." — Memorials,  ed.  17S2,  p.  71. 
Edward  Peacock. 
Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Thomas  Longden,  1695  (6"»  S.  v.  110.)--I» 
Mr.  Longdsn  sure  that  the  Mayor  of  Gloucester 
married  Miss  Butt  ?  I  have  no  reason  to  suppose 
that  he  did  not ;  but  the  following  pedigree, 
which  I  had  in  part  from  my  grandfather,  th& 
Bev.  Charles  Crawley,  gives  him  another  wife^ 
It  will  explain  the  relationship  with  Butt. 

John  Lloyd,  of=Snranna,  dau.  of  Thomas 
London,  mer-  Holliar.  Will  dated  and 
chant,  d.  1716.    proved  1726. 


tlion 


Robert  tiongden,: 
b.  1674,  d.  1784 


:Lucy  Lloyd,        Thomas  Crawley,  of==Su8anna 
d.l780.  Flaxley   Abbey,    d.  I  Lloyd,  d. 

1740.  1759. 


Richard  Butt,  of:= 
Arlingham.  I 


:Hannab 
Lloyd. 


John  Longden,  second 
son,  living  1789,  men- 
tioned in  wills  of  Su- 
sanna Lloyd,  1726,  and 
Dr.  John  Lloyd,  1789. 


Thos.  Long- 
den,  third 
son,  living 
1726. 


Longden,=Lucy, 
'    Craw- 


Robt. 

of  Doctors' 
Commons,  mar, 
Feb.  1745. 


ley,  b. 
1716. 


Susanna,  d.  and=sThos.  Craw- 
ley (Boevey), 
of  Flaxley, 
b.  1709,  d. 
1769. 


co-heir  of  John, 
brother  of  the 
above  Susanna 
Lloyd. 


Lucy, 
wire 
of 
Mr. 

Tudor. 


Mary,  wife 

of      Vero, 

Earl 

Poulett. 


Roger  Longden=Giizabeth  Chapman. 
8ft.  Dnnstan's,  Regent's  Park. 


Rev.  Charles  Crawley,  second  son, 
d.  1849,  aged  ninety-three. 

HsNBi;H.  GiBBS. 

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BiTTO  AND  Phainis  (S^**  S.  y.  110)  were  female 
wool-spinners,  working  for  their  daily  bread,  natives 
of  Cos,  and  the  epigram  reads  thus  : — 

BtTTO)  Kol  ^aivkf  <t>C\rj  r]fx€m),  ai  (rvvepiOoif 
at  Tr€Vixpalf  ypalai^  t^8'  €KXi$r)/j.€V  ofiovy 

^Afi<l)6T€pai,  K^ai,  Trpwrai  yevos,  J  yAvKvs  opSpos, 
Trpos  kv)(yov  <f  /jlvOovs  ySofiev  'qixiOetav. 

William  Platt. 
Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Tbtnet. 

Eluah  Fknton's  Translation  of  Oppian 
(6"*  S.  iv.  429). — Excuse  my  once  more  calling 
attention  to  this  "  minor,''  and  now  forgotten  poet. 
Pope  says,  "  I  bear  of  no  remaining  papers  except 
some  few  farther  remarks  on  Waller  (which  his 
cautious  integrity  made  him  leave  an  order  to  be 
given  to  Mr.  Tonson),  and  perhaps,  tbo'  'tis  many 
years  since  I  saw  it,  a  Translation  of  ^*  first  Book 
of  Oppian.''  I  want  to  know  whether  this  was 
«ver  published.  It  is  not  in  Lowndes.  Fenton's 
attention  to  Oppian  was  caused,  mo^t  likely,  by 
his  taking  to  fishing  late  in  life.  I  imagine  he 
was  thinking  of  translating  the  Halieuttca.  In 
Elwin's  edition  of  Pope's  correspondence  I  think 
the  namesake  of  the  prophet  shows  to  advantage 
between  two  shufflers  (Broome  and  Pope  himself). 
The  worst  that  he  is  charged  with  is  a  laziness,  of 
which  Johnson  also  speaks,  which  caused  him  to 
give  up  fishing  because  the  fish  would  bite,  and  he 
had  to  renew  his  bait  so  constantly !      G.  L.  F. 

"  JuBAR"  (6»*  S.  V.  148.)— Doubtless  juhar= 
<ij3a)p=:aurora.  Probably  rjvus  is  another  form  of 
^(opf  the  letters  p  and  s  being  frequently  inter- 
changed. E.  Walford,  M.A. 

Hampstead,  N.W. 

It  would  seem  better  to  refer  juhar  to  the  root 
diy  divy  with  the  extensions  dju,  djau ;  thus  dja-var 
=jubar^  in  which  case  it  is  not  far  from  diovis, 
jovis,  juppittr.  See  GrUchiseh-Lateinuchu  Ely- 
mol,  Worterhuch,  Vanicek,  p.  359,  and  note  43 
on  p.  362.  0.  W.  Tancock. 

"Transivbrb  patrbs,"  &c.  (6*^  S.  v.  227).— 
"  Transirere  patres,  simul  et  transibimas  omnes, 
At  cffilum  patriaxn,  qui  bene  transit,  habet." 

This  is  the  motto,  if  I  recollect  rightly,  prefixed  to 
Hunter's  FamiluB  Minorum  Gentium.  It  differs 
verbally  from  Dr.  Bayen's  version.  Which  is 
right,  and  whence  does  it  come  ?        G.  W.  M. 

"Skro  venikntibtjs  ossa"  (6^^  S.  iv.  349).— 
In  keeping  with  this  incomplete  hexameter  may 
4)0  cited  the  Latin  leonine  distich  : — 

"Qui  faciendo  moram,  prandendi  protuHt  horam, 
Aut  maid  prandebit,  aut  sedii  honore  carebit." 
William  Platt. 
"Scribb"  U8BD  AS  A  Verb  (6">  S.  Iv.  386, 
643). — The  mode  of  marking  timber  referred  to 
bj  EsTE  is  here  sometimes  called  "  scribing "  or 


at  others  "racing";  and  the  marks  indicating  the 
cubical  contents  of  logs  of  wood  are  called  "  race- 
marks.''  Frederick  E.  Sawtsr. 
Brighton. 

Earl  op  Cleveland  :  Lords  Wentworth 
OF  Nettlested  (6*»>  S.  ii.  408  ;  iii.  50,  72,  96, 
115,  153,  227,  271,  312,  333,  414;  iv.  11,  212, 
297,  538).  —  Perhaps  the  following  information 
concerning  another  sepulchre  of  the  Wentworth 
family,  in  the  Retro-choir  or  Lady  Chapel  of  York 
Minster,  may  prove  interesting.  It  is  a  transcript 
from  an  excellent  paper,  "  The  Register  of  Burials 
in  York  Minster,"  by  Robert  Skaife,  F.S.A.,  at 
p.  304,  vol.  i.,  of  the  Yorkshire  Archaologicdl 
Journal  J  1871: — 

**  The  following  list  of  interments  in  the  Strafford 
vault  is  taken  from  a  broadside  in  the  possession  of 
Canon  Raine,  entitled  'A  Walk  in  York  Minster  by 

t.l; 

'  The  corps  buried  in  the  Marquis's  Vault  are  as  follow: 

1.  William  Wentworth,  Earl  of  Strafford.  (No  date 
now.) 

2.  Mary  Stanley,  his  first  Wife. 
S.  A  Child's  coffin.    (No  date.) 

4.  A  Child's  coffin.    (On  the  lid  W.  W.  1718.) 

5.  Thomas  Wentworth,  Second  Son  of  Edward  Lord 
Rockingham.    (He  died  Oct.  6. 1723,  aged  58  years.) 

6.  A  Child's  coffin.  (On  the  lid  D.  W.  1730,  aged  6 
years.) 

7.  A  very  large  coffin.    (No  inscription  on  the  lid.) 

8.  William,  Lord  Higham,  Son  of  the  Earl  of  Malton. 
(He  died  Aug.  16, 1739,  aged  12.) 

9.  The  Honourable  Alice  Wentworth,  Relict  of  the 
Honourable  Thomas  Wentworth.  (She  died  October  2, 
1749,  aaed  77  years.) 

10.  Thomas  Marquis  of  Rockingham,  bom  November 
13. 1693.    (He  died  Dec.  4, 1760.) 

11.  Mai7  Wentworth,  Dowager  Marchioness  of  Rock- 
ingham, died  May  80, 1761,  aged  59  jears. 

12.  Charles  Watson  Wentworth,  Marquis  of  Rocking- 
ham, died  the  first  day  of  July,  1782,  aged  62  years.' 

"  Two  interments  hare  taken  place  in  this  Tault  since 
T.  L.  was  *  among  the  Tombs.*    See  Nos.  260, 265." 

A  reference  shows  these  to  have  been,  one,  that  of 
the  Marchioness  of  Bockingham,  buried  Jan.  9, 
1805,  aged  sixty-eight  years,  and  the  other  that  of 
Peregrine  Wentworth,  of  Newton  Kyme,  in  the 
county  of  York,  buried  Sept  8, 1807,  aged  eighty- 
seven  years.  John  Pickfobd,  M.A. 
Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Portraits  or  Washington  Irving  (6**  S.  iv. 
447,  490,  524;  v.  36,  173).— There  is  a  small 
portrait  of  Washington  Irving,  engraved  by 
Hinchliff,  in  the  first  volume  of  The  Works  of 
Washington  Irving^  published  by  Bohn  in  1859, 
in  fourteen  volumes.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

"Chuck"  (6*  S.  iv.  509;  v.  91,  175).— As 
chuck  is  still  exercising  the  minds  of  the  corre- 
spondents of  "  N.  &  Q ,"  I  feel  moved  to  remark 
that  I  did  not  doubt  its  existence  or  question  its 
meaning,  or,  in  a  general  way,  condemn  the  use  of 
it.    It  IS  a  "  praye  wort,"  but  I  thought  it  and 


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duds  (for  which  one  might  qaote  aathority)  were 
rather  oat  of  their  element  in  the  polite  society  in 
which  Mr.  Anthony  Trollope's  imagination  moves, 
and  that  there  were  other  less  incongruous  terms 
which  would  just  as  well  have  conveyed  his  mean- 
ing.    Foi/a  tout  St.  Swithin. 

J.  Walter,  Paistbr  (6*  S.  y.  208).— This  is 
the  proper  spelling  of  this  painter's  name.  He 
appears  as  an  exhibitor,  1834-1849,  living  at 
Hmchampton,  and  afterwards  in  Trinity  Square, 
Bristol.  He  exhibited  at  the  Royal  Academy  in 
1836  "A  Sea  Piece,"  and  in  1841,  "A  Calm  off 
Port."  He  sent  six  works  to  Suffolk  Street :  1834, 
''Floating  Harbour,  Bristol,"  and  "Shipping  at 
Spithead";  1837,  ''Kingroad,  Port  of  Bristol,  a 
West  Indiaman  casting  from  her  Anchorage"; 
1841,  "  A  Severn  Trough  passing  the  new  Light- 
house at  the  mouth  of  the  Avon,  rort  of  Bristol "; 
1849,  "View  of  Highgate  with  Cattle,"  and 
"Scene— Calm."  Algernon  Graves. 

6,  PaU  Mall,  S.W. 

Attthors  op  Books  Wanted  (Q'^  S.  v.  209). — 
A  Tour  in  ouett  of  Genealogy,  &c. — In  the  OentUmaii's 
MaacLzine,  FeDmair,  1852,  I  made  a  timUar  inqairj  as 
to  the  author  of  this  amusing  work,  and  received  the 
answer  in  the  follewing  number  that  it  was  the  pro- 
duction of  Richard  Fenton,  Esq.,  of  Glynamel,  co.  Flint. 
This  gentleman  published  in  1801  an  Hittorical  Tour 
through  Caernarvonshire.  He  died  in  Kovember,  1821, 
and  a  memoir  of  him  will  be  found  in  Gent  Mag.  (vol. 
xci.  ii.  p.  664).  I  hare  been  informed  bv  a  friend  that 
Mr.  Fenton  was  a  particular  friend  of  Sir  Richard  Colt 
Hoare,  and  was  a  frequent  viBitor  at  Sfeourhead;  and 
that  his  portrait,  by  Woodford,  was  placed  on  the  etair- 
case  of  that  house.  It  is  also  stated  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  3'<* 
8.  ii.  831,  that  R.  Fenton  was  author  of  Memoirs  of  an 
Old  Wig,  8yo.  1815.  He  aasooiated  with  Goldsmith, 
Qlorer,  Oarrick,  &c.;  to  whom  I  may  add  the  name  of 
Lisle  Bowles,  his  frierid  and  associate  under  8ir  R.  G. 
Hoare*8  hospitable  roof.  T.  W.  W.  8. 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted  (6*  S.  y. 
248).— 

"  Seas  but  join  the  regions  they  divide." 

Pope,  Windsor  Forest,  1.  400. 
G.  F.  8.  E. 
"Go,  little  book,"  &c. 
Southey's  Pilgrimage  to  Waterloo,  and  quoted  ironically 
by  Lord  Byron,  Don  Juan^  i.  222.  Fbsdk.  Ruls. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
English  Men  of  Letters,^Charles  Lamh,     By  Alfred 

Ainger.  (Macmillan  &  Co.) 
Tbb  personality  of  Charles  Lamb  is  of  a  kind  so 
rare,  so  tremulouBly  balanced  between  grarity  and 
absurdity,  that  it  is  likely  to  be  misunderstood,  or  even 
misread  altogether,  by  an  unsympathetic  critic.  And, 
indeed,  it  is  often  written  about  in  such  a  fashion  that 
one  can  only  sigh  for  some  impossible  law  of  reprisals, 
by  which  the  reviewed  could  sit  in  judgment  upon  the 
reviewer.     It  would   supply  a  new  and  interesting 


chapter  in  Fielding's  unfinished  Journey  from,  this  World 
to  the  Next,  if  Lamb  could  be  shown  as  a  phrenologist 
''feeling  the  bumps"  of  all  the  Philistines  who  had 
mistaken  his  delightful  quiddities.  Among  this  group 
Mr.  Ainger  would  not  be  found,  unless,  it  may  be,  in 
the  capacity  of  Lamb's  assistant.  Like  Lamb,  he  is  a 
keen  lover  of  Shakspeare  and  the  dramatists ;  he  has  a 
quick  and  ready  appreciation  of  the  fine  dissonance* 
and  nice  vagaries  of  the  Lambesque  mind,  and  being- 
besides  a  reasonable  man,  he  has  consequently  produced 
a  perfectly  fair,  temperate,  and  intelligent  study  of  one- 
of  the  most  precious  (we  are  not  using  the  word  in  any 
"sBSthetic"  sense)  of  English  literary  individualities. 
We  do  not  intend  to  speak  of  his  book  at  length,  be- 
cause it  is  one  which  we  should  wish  to  see  read.  It 
will  do  more  to  rebuke  the  "unhappy  tattle"  of 
Garlyle  than  Tolumes  of  invective  or  centuries  of 
"corrosive"  sonnets.  We  shall  only  add  that  Lamb's 
admirers  will  do  well  to  paste  into  tbe  volume  the  little 
paper  of  recollections  which  the  Rev.  J.  Fuller  Russeli 
contributed  to  the  last  number  of  "N.  &  Q." 

Oenji  Monogatari,  the  Most  Celebrated  of  the  Classical 
Japanese  Romances,  Translated  by  Suyematz  Eenchio. 
(Triibner  &  Co.) 
Japakssb  art  often  represents,  says  Mr.  Suyematr 
Kenchio,  *'  a  lady  seated  at  a  writing-desk,  with  a  pen 
held  in  her  tiny  fingers,  gazing  at  the  moon  reflected  in 
a  lake."  That  lady,  it  seems,  is  the  author  of  Genfi 
Monogatari"  The  book  was  written  at  the  request  of 
the  reigning  empress,  who  had  been  asked  by  the  sacred 
virgin  of  the  temple  of  Ishe  to  procure  for  her  an  in- 
teresting romance,  for  "  the  older  fictions  had  become 
too  familiar.''  So  Murasaki  Shikib  (Violet  Ceremonies) 
retired  to  a  Buddhist  temple,  and  there  spent  a  whole 
night  gazing  at "  the  pale  face  of  the  full  moon  reflected 
in  the  calm,'  mirror-like  waters  "  of  Lake  Bilda.  Then 
and  there  inspiration  came  upon  her,  and  she  produced 
the  JRomance  of  Genji,  a  work  intended  to  give  an  "  insight 
into  the  true  state  of  society."  After  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band, she  led  a  retired  life  till  her  own  death  in  a.d.  992. 
Her  tomb  may  still  be  seen  in  a  Buddhist  temple  in  Kioto. 
As  a  mere  story,  the  Romance  of  Genji,  like  most  Oriental 
fictions,  is  somewhat  insipid;  but  it  offers  a  curious 
picture  of  the  state  of  Japanese  society  nine  hundred 
years  ago,  especially  as  regards  the  position  occupied  bj 
women.  The  literary  capacities  of  the  ladies  who  figure 
in  GenjCs  Romance  are  very  remarkable,  most  of  them 
being  apparently  able  to  improvise  verse  with  the  utmost 
facility.  In  fact,  "poetical  composition  was  then  a. 
necessary  branch  of  a  young  lady's  education."  To  many 
readers  the  notes  with  which  Mr.  Suyematz  Eenchio  has 
supplied  the  novel  will  be  found  the  most  attractive  part 
of  tne  book,  for  they  contain  much  valuable  information 
regarding  Japanese  folk-lore.  There  is  the  legend,  for 
instance,  at  p.  88,  of  the  Weaver  or  star  Vega,  who 
dwells  on  one  side  of  the  Milky  Way,  and  meets  her 
loyer,  another  star,  called  the  Bu11*driver,  once  every 
year.  "  He  dwelt  on  the  other  side  of  the  Milky  Way, 
and  their  meeting  took  place  on  a  bridge,  made  by  birds* 
(jays)  by  the  intertwining  of  their  wings."  And  there 
are  descriptions  of  many  Japanese  customs,  such  as  that 
of  frying  peas  on  New  Year's  Eve  and  scattering  them 
about  the  rooms  of  a  house,  exclaiming  the  while,. 
*'  A  vaunt.  Devil,  avaunt  I  Come  in,  Happiness  1"  There- 
is  also  some  authentic  information  about  ghosts  and 
demons.  The  following  tradition  may  be  taken  as  a 
specimen :  *'  A  certain  courtier,  who  was  passing  through 
a  dark  room  of  the  palace,  was  suddenly  seized  by  some- 
one by  the  end  of  his  sword.  He  could  not  understand 
this ;  but  feeling  about,  he  found  it  was  a  hairy  body» 
with  long  nails.    He  thought  this  must  be  a  demon,  but 


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having  no  fear,  he  told  it,  '  I  am  the  bearer  of  the  im- 
perial ediota.  Who  dares  to  obstruct  my  path  ?  Unlesa 
you  qait  your  hold  vou  shall  have  a  painful  fate.'  On 
this  the  demon  Tanished." 

The  Sexton' t  Wheel  and  the  Lady  Fast :  an  Bceletwlo- 
ffieal  Essay.  By  William  H.  bevrell,  M.A.  (Norvrlch, 
Goose  k  Co.) 
8ox«  yean  ago  oar  old  and  valued  contributor  Mr. 
Sewell  described  in  "  N.  k  Q."  certain  strange  relics  of 
antiquity  which  remain  in  the  churches  of  Long  Stratton, 
Norfolk,  and  in  his  own  church  of  Yaxley,  Suffolk, 
the  explanation  of  which  proved  a  nut  too  hard  to  crack 
for  even  such  tried  ecclesiastical  antiquaries  as  the  Rev. 
H.  T.  Ellacombe  and  the  late  Dr.  Husenbeth.  Mr.  Sewell 
detected  a  representation  of  a  like  object  in  one  of  the 
cuts  of  Sebastian  Brandt's  Ship  of  Fools,  and  found  out 
the  use  of  it  from  Bamaby  Googe's  Popish  Kingdom. 
He  has  now  brought  his  evidence  togetlier  in  the  form  of 
a  paper  with  illustrations  for  the  Norfolk  and  Norwich 
Archaeological  Society,  and  deserves  the  more  credit 
and  thanks  not  only  because  his  explanation  of  these 
"  wheels  "  is  new,  but  because  the  practice  with  which 
they  were  connected  has  hitherto  been  overlooked  by 
antiquaries.  In  this  case  Barnaby  Googe  has  afforded 
a  satisfactory  solution,  but  he  is  a  writer  to  be  used  with 
caution.  Brand  and  others  after  him  have  used  the 
Popish  Kingdom  as  if  it  afforded  a  true  picture  of  the 
Englidi  popular  superstitions  in  the  sixteenth  century; 
but  Googe's  doggerel  is  translated  from  the  Begnum 
Papisticum  of  Thomas  Kirchmeyer,  or  Naogeorgus,  as  he 
chose  to  call  himself,  and  that  describes  the  state  of 
things  not  In  England  but  in  Germany.  Our  ancestors 
had  enough  follies  of  their  own  to  answer  for  without 
haring  those  of  other  people  added  to  the  number;  and 
we  believe  that  they  were  innocent  of  at  least  some  of 
the  meet  offensive  extravagances  laid  to  the  chaige  of 
their  German  contemporaries. 

Beicaro:  Essays  on  Sundry  JSsthetical  QuestioTit,    By 

Vernon  Lee.  (Satchell  k  Co.) 
This  volume  contains  some  charming  essavs,  and,  though 
slighter  in  texture  and  less  ambitious  or  purpose  than 
the  Studies  of  the  Eighteenth  Century  in  Italy,  possesses 
much  of  the  fascination  of  the  earlier  book.  Mr.  Lee 
deals  with  questions  of  art,  but  avoids  the  worst  faults 
of  the  lesthetical  professors.  He  displays  in  a  marked 
degree  a  vividneu  of  fancy,  a  wealth  of  imagery  and 
allusion,  and  a  richness  of  language,  but  he  does  not 
sink  into  mere  rhapsody  or  affectation.  His  stjle  is 
picturesque,  yet  robust;  rich,  but  not  luscious.  He 
writes,  in  fact,  like  a  beiJtby  enthusiast,  and  not  like  an 
effeminate  mystic.  "  Faustus  and  Helena/'  to  single  out 
one  of  the  author's  essays,  that  strange  weird  story  which 
charmed  and  yet  baffled  both  Marlowe  and  Goethe,  is 
an  excellent  theme  for  Mr.  Lee's  imagination  and  learn- 
ing. It  becomes  under  his  treatment  a  subtle  and 
suggestive  study  of  the  supernatural  before  and  after  it 
was  despoiled  of  its  power  by  civilization. 

Thv  Yorkshire  Archssologieat  and  Topographical 
flociety  has  been  engaged  for  some  time  past  in  printing 
in  its  Journal  the  poIl*tax  returns  for  the  West  Riding 
made  in  1379.  A  few  copies  have  been  iaued  in  the 
form  of  a  goodly  octavo  of  upwards  of  three  hundred 
pages— TA«  Returns  for  the  West  Riding  of  the  County 
of  York  of  the  Poll  Tax  Laid  in  the  Second  Tear  of  the 
Reign  of  King  Richard  IL  Nothing  short  of  an  elaborate 
analysis,  whicb  would  be  almost  as  large  as  the  book  itself, 
could  bring  out  all  its  interesting  features.  To  every 
student  of  names  it  will  be  simpiv  invaluable.  We 
question,  indeed,  whether  it  be  not  the  most  important 
luedinval  documsnt  at  present  in  print  bearing  on 


family  nomenclature.  We  sincerely  hope  that  some 
student  who  has  the  proper  sort  of  knowledge  and  the 
requisite  amount  of  time  on  his  hands  will  tabulate  this 
vast  mass  of  facts  so  as  to  give  us  them  in  a  form  that 
can  be  used  at  once.  Such  a  book  without  a  key  of  this 
kind  is  still  but  a  hidden  treasure.  * 

Thb  Boston  Literary  World  of  March  11  may  almost 
be  termed  a  "Browninz  number."  It  contains  a 
characteristic  letter  by  Mr.  F.  J.  Fumivall,  giving  an 
account  of  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  recently  esta- 
blished society,  together  with  a  group  of  papers  on 
"  Browning  as  an  Interpreter  of  Browning,"  **  Browning 
in  the  United  SUtes,'^  "Browning  Before  and  After 
1861,"  &C.,  which  should  tend  to  swell  the  ranks  of  the 
members,  already  numbering  more  than  one  hundred. 

That  special  branch  of  popular  antiquities  to  which 
the  name  of  folk-lore  has  been  given  is  obriously  increas- 
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to  the  Folk-lore  Society  presided  over  by  Earl  Bean* 
champ,  and  by  the  establishment  of  a  similar  society  at 
Seville,  El  Folk-lore  Andaluz.  The  first  part  of  its 
Proceedings,  which  has  just  been  published  under  the 
editorship  of  Dr.  Machado,  we  commend  to  the  atten- 
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literature.  

U5DKR  the  direction  of  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  there 
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Letters  and  Papers,  Foreign  and  Domestic,  of  ih4  Reign 
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BGndstock's  handwriting. 

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Educator  and  Book  of  Sports  and  Pohtimu ;  they  are 
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CONTENTS.— N«  120. 

'  VOTES  :-Napol«on  »t  Elba-Tbe  Site  of  the  BatUe  between 
the  ^rmiet  o(  Soetontiu  and  Boadloea,  281  — Books  on 
BfMcUl  Bubjeets,  282 -Dr.  Bradley  and  the  Reformfttlon  of 
the  Calendar— BoUngbroke  and  Clarendon,  283— Projlng  the 
Date  of  a  Man's  Birth,  284^"  HypoUte,  Comte  de  Daglas  " 
—The  late  Sev  J.  S.  Brewer— vondooism  in  the  United 
States.  2B6-A  Tax-gatherer's  Fate.  286. 
QUKBIE:):— Order  of  Administering  to  Commnnioantt — 
**Legende  Dorfie  des  Freres  Mendlant "—"  Flora  Domes- 
tioa''— If.  Lackitaan— J.  DnffUn -Model  of  an  Indian  Well 
-*Fablan  Smith— HenshAw  «nd  Latham  FamUiei,  286— The 
"  Cheap  Megaslne  "—Yorkshire  Subsidy  Rolls  at  the  PnbUc 
Beeord  Office— '*  A  Bemonstrance  and  ProtostatloQ,"  Ace— 
**W«ra"— "Daify-down-dlUy,"  Ac.- T.  Scarlett —*' The 
Ckscade  "— "  Andaz,  eapaz,"  Ac—*'  Toaehear,"  2S7— "  Cht- 
▼erton's  Book  '*-Bonlton— St.  Mark  ix.  86— Parslow  Family 
—Ammonium  Sulphide  —  Martyrdom  of  King  Charles- 
Charles  Bnller— The  Moon  **  the  Parish  Lantern,"  2S8. 
fiBPLIBS :— "Briputt  CflBlo."  Aa«  288 -The  Valolgns  Barony, 
290  —  RaTenioourt  Park  —  Parochial  Begisten.  291  —  K. 
Brocklesby- Mrs.  Mashsm,  Ac— Date  of  the  First  Eester— 
The  late  T.  Purlaad— A  Coat  of  Arms—**  Coek-srDobby  "— 
"Manifest."  293— Hawes  Family— An  Esthnlan  Funeral 
Oostom— Mesmeriim- King  Charles's  Vision  —  Adjectlres 

•  pluralijed— H.  Marten,  294— Mary  Queen  of  Scots'  Hair— 
Half-binding  —  St.  Margarets,  Westminster —"  Bunker's 
fiUl"— "Felix  quem  faciunt,"  Ac,  295-^SaDetus  Bell  Cotes 
—Book-plates  with  Greek  Mottoes— Bessels—" Boughs"— 
Men  who  have  Died  on  their  Birthdays— Name  of  Oxford— 
The  Episcopal  Wig— Wife  Selling,  296—"  To  make  a  leg  "— 
Toads  Poisonous  T-Nlshant-Imtiax—'nak-o'-tbe-HUl— Belfry 
— "  Book  of  British  Topography."  297-**  The  Felon's  Wife  " 
— Khjmeless  Words— The  Office  of  Bailiff,  298— ''Beynard 
the  Fox  "-Authors  Wanted,  299. 
170TBS  ON  BOOKS:— Jerrold'B  "George  Cruikshank '* — 
Fitch's  ** Lectures  on  Teaching '*— Morell's  "History  of 
Modem  Italy "  — Hudson's  **  Critical  Greek  and  English 
Concordance,"  Ac 


NAPOLEON  AT  ELBA. 

I  send  yon  an  original  letter  respecting  Napoleon 
at  Elba,  written  by  Capt.  Usher  to  Oapt.  Walde- 
graye,  and  given  by  the  latter  to  Mr.  Inderwick, 
father  of  Mr,  Inderwick,  Q.O.,  who  has  kindly 
permitted  me  to  send  it  to  you  for  publication  in 
**N.&.  Q.":— 

H.M.  Ship  Undaunted 

Ma7  20'hl8U. 

My  dear  WaldegraTc,— It  no  donbt  surprised  you  to 
bear  that  it  fell  to  my  lot  to  have  the  care  of  Napoleon's 
sacred  person  &  to  bear  him  to  his  new  kingdom.  Few 
things  naye  given  me  more  satisfaction  as  I  have  had  a 
great  deal  of  very  interesting  conversation  with  him. 
He  is  in  excellent  spirits  &  health.  Looks  very  young. 
Always  active — rises  at  4  o'clock  &  is  constantly  on  horse 
back.  His  Island  is  beautiful,  producing  every  thing  in 
abundance,  &  the  finest  Iron  Mine  in  the  world.  The 
fortifications  are  impregnable,  he  has  therefore  made  a 
better  baregain  than  people  generally  imagine  &  may  be 
comfortable,  if  his  active  imagination  will  allow  him  to 
be  so  in  any  situation.  He  is  building  Palaces,  Stables, 
k.  Aquaducts,  k  will  no  doubt  make  Elba  a  little  Para- 
dise. He  says  he  looks  to  us  for  his  chief  protection— 
that  we  are  a  great  &  generous  Nation,  h  feels  most 
grateful  for  our  attention  to  him.  The  Empress  & 
King  of  Bome  are  to  go  to  him— &  I  am  now  on  my  way 
to  Frejtts  for  his  sister  Paulina.  He  seems  to  calculate 
on  the  Bourbons  being  driven  from  the  Throne.  Speak- 
ing of  Spain,  be  says  he  did  not  enter  it  with  the  in- 


tention of  placing  his  brother  on  the  Throne,  but  to 
Bevolutionize  it,  abolish  the  Inquisition,  give  it  new  laws, 
and  a  character  among  Nations,  he  said  the  Spaniards 
are  as  much  if  not  more  the  Enemies  of  Great  Britain 
than  France.  He  has  the  meanest  opinion  of  his  good 
Allies  the  Yankee's— both  of  their  Kouvernment,  and 
character  as  Individuals.  I  asked  him  if  he  did  not 
issue  his  Berlin  and  Milan  Decreee,  for  the  purpose  of 
making  the  Americans  quarrel,  hd  did  not  deny  it. 
The  Dutch  he  says  are  a  Money  Making,  good  for 
nothing  people,  and  their  Men  of  war  only  fit  to  carry 
horses  to  Ireland,  he  has  a  perfect  knowledge  of  mer- 
cantile affairs,  a  subject  he  was  fond  of  Introducing — 
he  appeared  much  afraid  of  falling  by  assassination  at 
Frejus,  where  he  embarked,  he  sent  for  me  half  an 
hour  before  he  embarqued,  and  I  was  on  shore  with  him 
all  the  Time,  his  Sword  and  Pistols  were  on  the  Table,  a 
large  mob  had  collected  round  his  Hotel,  he  seemed  a 
good  deal  agitated,  and  listened  with  earnestness.  I  told 
him  I  bad  seen  a  good  many  mobs  the  worst  I  had  seen 
was  a  French  one,  when  the  Grand  Marshall  announced 
that  the  carriages  were  ready,  he  turned  round  to  me  in 
bis  usual  quick  way,  said  ''Aliens.'*  The  Stairs  were 
lined  with  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  he  stopped  for  a 
moment  to  speak  to  them,  he  then  hurried  thro*  the 
Mob  to  his  carriage,  and  called  for  me,  who,  he  placed 
opposite  him ;  I  need  not  say  that  I  did  not  much  relish 
my  berth,  for  I  certainly  expected  warm  work,  however 
we  drove  on  at  a  tolerable  rate,  and  arrived  without 
molestation  at  our  boats,  which  were  almost  two  miles 
from  the  Town.  Smith  was  officer  of  the  Boat,  when  I 
introduced  him  he  said,  "  Sjdney  Smith,  Sydney  Smith, 
I  met  him  in  Egypt."  Tho*  Ushee. 

J.  J.  P. 
Temple. 

[Sir  Neil  CampbelPs  NapcHeon  at  FnntainebUau  and 
Blha  contains  many  entries  respecting  Napoleon's  voyage 
to  Elba  and  his  conduct  and  conversation  on  board  the 
Undaunted.] 

THE  SITE  OF  THE  BATTLE  BETWEEN  THE 
ABMIES  OF  SUETONIUS  AND  BOADIGEA. 
The  site  of  this  battle  has  not  been  clearly 
defined  by  Tacitus  or  Dion  Cassins.  Tacitus  says 
only  that  Suetonius  marched  from  the  West  of 
England  to  London,  and  that  he  chose  a  place 
for  the  battle  in  a  narrow  defile,  which  was 
bounded  in  the  rear  by  a  wood  ("  artis  faucibns 
et  a  tergo  silra  dansum  ").  The  place  where  the 
battle  was  fought  may,  howerery  be  determined 
with  almost  absolute  certainty,  and  the  question 
is  important  enough  to  desenre  an  examination  of 
the  evidence  by  which  it  may  be  determined. 

1.  There  was  a  weU-defined  tradition,  coming 
down  to  the  present  centuiy,  that  the  battle  was 
fought  near  London,  in  the  Talley  of  the  Fleet 
river,  and  that  the  place  where  the  two  armies 
met  was  near  the  present  King's  Gross.  About 
scTenty  yearn  ago  it  was  proposed,  on  the  build- 
ing of  a  cross  there,  to  call  it  Battle  Gross,  or 
Boadioea's  Gross ;  but  erentnally  the  present  name 
was  chosen.  There  is  no  record  of  any  other 
battle  fought  on  this  ground,  and  therefore  no 
probability  of  a  confusion  of  two  different  events. 

2.  The  name  given  to  this  neighbourhood  in 
oar  old  maps  is  BaltU  Bridge,  muI  hen  ina 

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formerly  %  bridge  over  the  Fleet  It  bears  this 
name  in  a  map  of  London  (Ump,  Eliz.)  prefixed  to 
Pennant'!  wefi-known  Account  of  London,  The 
name  ia  not  yet  obsolete. 

3.  The  ground  on  the  west  of  Gray's  Inn  Lane, 
which  was  an  open  field  as  late  as  the  leyenteenth 
oentorr,  was  formerly  called  **  the  Welsh  Oamp." 
This  aenotes  the  position  of  the  Britons  when 
they  left  London,  which  then  lay  to  the  east  of 
Ladgate  Hill,  to  giye  battle  to  the  Boman  forces. 
The  tradition  was  handed  down  hj  onr  Anglo- 
Saxon  fore&thers— for  the  term  ''Welsh'*  is 
Teutonic— bat  it  is  not  the  less  certain  that  it 
denoted  the  camp  of  the  Britons.  In  1697  a 
large  mob  of  srtisans  assembled  in  this  part  on 
aooonnt  of  the  import  of  woven  cloths  from  India, 
and  a  contemporaiy  writer  states  that  the  place 
of  the  tathering  was  "  Welsh  Oamp,  a  field  be- 
twixt Cunb's  Oondnit  and  Gray's  Inn  Lane." 
Originally,  howerer,  the  site  so  called  mnst  hare 
been  much  more  extensiye. 

4.  In  the  beginniDg  of  this  centary,  a  monn- 
mental  stone,  recording  the  death  of  a  Boman, 
officer  of  the  twentieth  legion,  was  fonnd  in  a 
field  near  the  Caledonian  Boad.  This  legion,  or 
a  part  of  it,  was  engaged  in  the  battle,  and  the 
monnment  was  probably  a  record  of  one  who  had 
&llen  in  the  fight  and  was  buried  in  the  field. 
Its  position  in  titu  cannot  otherwise  be  accounted 
for,  because  this  legion  was  soon  afterwards 
remoyed  to  Chester,  and  continued  there  until 
the  Bomans  finally  abandoned  Britain. 

5.  The  position  agrees  with  the  scanty  descrip- 
tion giyen  by  Tacitus.  The  narrow  Fleet  yalley, 
and  the  woodedheights  of  Hamj^tead  and  Higbgate 
in  the  rear,  form  a  position  which  answers  to  the 
description  which  the  historian  has  giyen  of  the 
site  of  the  battle.  He  does  not  mention  a  riyer,  but 
the  Fleet,  though  an  important  defence  of  the 
Boman  left  flank,  was  only  an  inconsiderable 
stream,  and  Tacitus  wrote  his  account  of  the 
battle  from  the  reports  of  others,  who  might  haye 
forgotten  this  part  of  the  scene.  The  battle  was 
OMrtainly  fought  near  London,  and  no  other  posi- 
tion thim  this  appears  to  answer  the  description  of 
Tacitus,  and  certunly  no  other  has  any  tndition 
in  its  fsyour. 

If,  then,  we  look  down  the  railway  line  from  the 
Midland  station,  we  see  before  us  the  position  of 
the  Boman  forces ;  the  ground  behind,  as  far  as 
Holbom,  was  occupied  by  the  Britons  under 
Boadiceai  The  extent  of  this  ground,  and 
other  circumstances,  are  entirely  opposed  to  the 
statements  of  Tacitus,  that  the  number  of  the 
latter  was  200,000,  and  that  70,000  or  more  were 
dain.  It  is  not  probable  that  as  many  Britons 
were  engaged  in  the  battle  as  are  supposed  to 
haye  fallen  in  it,  and  the  result  was  indedsiye. 
Dion  Oaisius  giyes  a  more  extended  account  of 
the  fight,  and  he  is  eyidently  better  informed  and 


more  trustworthy  than  Tadtus.  He  says  that 
^e  battle  was  thrice  renewed,  and  that  at  one 
time  the  British  charioteers  droye  the  Bomana 
back  and  pursued  them,  but  that  they,  in  theif 
turn,  were  repulsed  by  the  Boman  archers.  At 
lenffth,  he  adds^  late  in  the  day,  yictoiy  declared 
itsdf  on  the  side  of  the  Bomans,  but  that  the 
Britons,  who  retired  firom  the  field,  intended  to 
renew  the  contest  on  the  following  day.  Boadicea 
died,  howeyer,  suddenly — of  disMse,  he  says,  not 
mentioning;  poison^and  the  Britons  on  that 
account  dupersed.  She  was  probably  brought  to 
a  sudden  death  by  fatigue  and  excitement ;  but- 
though  this  eyent  disheartened  the  Britons,  their 
power  was  not  crushed  b^  the  issues  of  the  battle. 
The  procurator,  Claisicianus,  reported  to  Nero 
that  they  were  exasperated  by  the  aubsequent 
cruelties  of  Suetonius,  and  that  unless  he  were 
remoyed,  the  Boman  authority  in  Britain  would 
be  in  danger.  The  Emperor  was  alarmed  by  the 
report,  and  Suetonius  was  recalled.  J.  D. 

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Bib.  Cur, 

Dr.  Bradlbt  and  thb  Bbforuation  of  tbe 
Oalendar. — In  the  great  work  of  Dr.  Batcher, 
the  late  Bishop  of  Meath,  on  the  Eeclenoitical 
Oakndaff  which  was  published  in  1877, 1  find  an 
old  error  repeated  about  Dr.  Bradley,  Aistronomer 
Boyal  at  tne  time  of  the  reformation  of  the 
calendar  in  1752,  which  I  shoald  like,  if  possible, 
to  be  able  to  trace  to  ita  source.  **  The  death  of  the 
Astronomer  Boyal/'  says  Dr.  Batcher,  *'  who  had 
prepared  the  new  tables  for  the  Groyemment,  and 
which  took  place  shortly  after  the  passage  of  the 
Act,  was  commonly  regarded  as  a  Divine  judgment 
<apon  him  for  his  iniquity  in  shortening  the  lives 
•of  so  many  people."  Bradley  did  not  die  until 
July  13,  1762,  more  than  eleven  years  after  the 
|)as8ing  of  the  Act  for  the  reformation  of  the 
•calendar,  which  received  the  royal  assent  on 
May  22,  1751.  One  would  have  thought  that, 
After  so  long  an  interval  (nearly  ten  years  after 
the  Act  came  into  operation),  the  ignorant  clamour 
about  the  robbery  of  eleven  days  must  have  died 
away.  Prof  Riband,  it  is  true,  in  his  memoir  of 
Bradley,  prefixed  to  his  MisetUaneoui  Works  and 
Chrrupondence,  says  that  "even  several  years 
after,  when  Bradley,  worn  down  by  his  labours 
in  the  cause  of  science,  was  sinking  under  the 
disease  which  closed  his  mortal  career,  many  of 
the  common  people  attributed  his  sufferings  to  a 
judgment  from  neaven  for  his  having  been  in- 
strumental in  what  they  considered  to  be  so 
impious  an  undertaking."  But  he  gives  no 
authority  for  this  statement ;  and  one  cannot 
help  suspecting  that  the  difficulty  of  accounting 
for  such  an  iatprasaion  prevailing  so  long  after- 


wards may  have  led  subsequent  writers  to  an  idea 
that  Bradley  underwent  some  serious  illness  soon 
after  the  reformation  of  the  calendar,  of  which, 
however,  there  does  not  appear,  so  far  as  I  am 
aware,  to  be  any  evidence.  It  is  true  that  sevenl 
years  before  his  death  he  suffered  from  pains  in 
the  bade,  and  that  for  the  last  two  years  of  his 
life  he  was  troubled  with  a  melancholy  fear  that 
he  should  lose  his  mental  faculties.  But,  happily, 
this  latter  dread  was  never,  in  fact,  reiuized, 
and  it  is  well  known  that  he  continued  his 
scientific  labours  until  within  a  year  of  lus  death 
at  the  age  of  seventy.  The  author,  then,  of  the 
account  of  Bradley  in  the  NouveUe  BiograpkU 
OifUrdle  must  have  drawn  a  little  upon  his 
imagination  in  writing  **  depuis  ce  moment  [that 
of  Uie  effervescence  about  the  omission  of  the 
days  in  the  oalendar]  Pinfatigable  astronome  sentit 
sa  sant^  s'affaiblir."  Still  more  must  he  have 
done  so  when  he  gravely  teUs  us  that  the  royal 
addition  of  2502.  a  year  to  Bradley's  income  was 
given  as  a  sort  of  recompence  (didommagmMtU) 
for  the  trouble  which  his  unpopularity  in  that 
matter  brought  upon  him ;  for  that  increase  to 
his  previously  miserably  small  stipend  (which  his 
immedii^  predecessor,  Halley,  did  not  need, 
owine  to  his  having  half-pay  as  a  lieutenant  in  the 
navy;  was  made  b^»uise  he  declined  the  living  ef 
Greenwich,  the  duties  of  which  he  felt  to  be  in- 
compatible with  the  discharge  of  those  at  the 
Observatoiy,  where  was  his  true  vocation.  The 
salary  of  the  Astronomer  Boyal  was  originally 
fixed  at  a  smaller  sum  than  it  would  otherwise 
have  been,  on  account  of  Fhunsteed  being  in 
holy  orders,  so  that  an  idea  was  entertained  that 
it  might  be  made  up  by  putting  him  into  a  crown 
living,  which  was  done  when  he  became  Rector  of 
Burstow  in  1685.  In  those  days,  apparently,  it 
was  not  considered  in  any  respect  wrong  to  do  by 
deputy  all  the  duty  involved  in  such  a  charge ; 
but  Bradley  very  properly  declined  to  be  a  party 
to  a  similar  arrangement  in  1751,  and  from  that 
time  the  salary  of  Astronomer  Royal  was  per- 
manently increased,  though  it  still  remained  very 
far  from  adequate  to  a  position  of  so  much  labour 
as  well  as  responsibility.  W.  T.  Lthv. 

Blackheath. 

BoLiNOBROEB  AND  Clabendok.— Somo  yean 
ago  a  rough  set  of  CUrendon's  Hiitory  of  ike  i2s- 
beUion  came  into  my  hands,  which  I  found  must 
have  been  a  lot  preceding  one  which  I  had  com- 
missioned, and  which,  wanting  a  bidder,  had 
been  ''  put  with  the  next  lot."  While  throwing 
it  out  into  a  rejected  heap  I  caught  si^t  of  some 
writing  on  the  margins,  and  pickwl  all  Uie  volumes 
back  to  look  at  again. 

It  is  the  octavo  edition  of  1707,  three  volumes, 
bound  in  six  parts.  There  is  no  signature  or 
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of  the  first  three  parts  the  margiDal  marking  and 
writing  are  pretty  frequent,  and  on  examination, 
internal  evidence  was  very  soon  oonclnsive  that 
they  -are  by  the  hand  of  the  celebrated  Heniy 
St.  John,  Viscount  Bolingbroke. 

There  are  above  a  hundred  pages  having  such 
notes  and  marks  on  the  margins,  occasionally 
supplemented  in  loose  scraps  of  paper,  besides 
nnderscorings  of  the  text.  They  consist  chiefly  of 
charges  against  the  editors  of  interpolations, 
which  sometimes  include  several  long  paragraphs 
bracketed  by  his  pen.  On  comparing  many  of 
these  with  the  later  restored  text  editions,  the 
impeached  passages  still  remain,  so  that  the 
wnter's  suspicions  of  interpolations  are  evidently 
groundless. 

On  p.  2  in  vol.  i.  he  writes,  "  Query  whether 
Ohancellour  Hide  really  ever  wrote  any  history, 
and  why  they  are  not  obliged  to  produce  a  MSS. 
in  his  own  handwriting  ?  **    Again,  on  the  same 

Sge,  **  Scholastic  words,  not  like  a  lawyer.* 
any  others  have  this  critical  objection,  as  on 
p.  196,  "Savours  much  more  of  Westminster 
Abbey  [Dean  Sprat  ?],  than  Westminster  Hall." 

The  key  to  the  spirit  of  the  notes  may  perhaps 
be  fcnod  in  those  on  the  dedication  to  Queen 
Anne,  prefixed  to  vol.  ii.,  among  which,  "The 
Editors  seem  to  have  been  bribed  by  y*  then  L^ 
Treasurer,  to  oppose  the  Queen's  employing  H. 
S*  John,  since  made  L^  Bolinbroke."  At  the 
end  of  the  dedication  he  refers  to  pages  54  and 
135  of  the  same  volume,  where  he  had  marked 
examples  of  how  a  Saint- John  and  a  Godolphin 
appear  in  the  text,  "so  as  never  to  let  S*  John 
and  Harley,  share  in  your  Counsels  to  y«  prejudice 
of  Your  Trusty  Treasurer  L*  Godolphin,  he 
having  well  paid  us,  &  desiring  to  have  no 
rivals  in  your  favour,  &  so  he  prayed  us  to  tell 
Tou."  Under  an  earlier  page  of  the  dedication 
he  had  written,  "  The  greatest  spleen  of  y*  Editors 
seems  vented  on  y«  family  of  y«  foundress  of  S' 
John's  College,  &  Some  Scotch  Lords,  of  any  of 
y«  Noble  family." 

He  is  particularly  jealous  of  any  of  the  occur- 
rences of  the  names  of  St.  Johns.  Thus,  in  vol.  L 
p.  186,  on  "Mr.  Saint-John"  of  the  text,  he 
writes,  "  The  name  is  S*  John,  but  y*  Editors 
seem  to  have  spelt  it  thus  maliciously,  that  he 
might  appear  less  Saint-like,"  having  reference  to  the 
mention  of  his  having  "  contracted  an  implacable 
displeasure  against  the  Church  purely  from  the 
Company  he  kept";  and  on  the  words  "(being  a 
natural  Son  of  the  House  of  BuUinghrooky  "  This 
lying  Parenthesis  was  plainly  &  grossly  added  by 
y*  Editors  of  y^  manuscript.  No  wonder  they  refuse  i 
now  to  shew  y«  MSS."  The  parenthesis,  however, 
appears  in  the  restored  text.  At  pp.  44  and  64  of 
vol.  ii.  are  several  notes  on  the  name  and  character 
of  Lord  Saint- John. 

The  question,  "Do  not  these  Editors  plainly 


write  booty  ? "  is  ofUn  repeated.  See  booty  in 
Mr.  HalliweU's  Didionary. 

On  p.  542  vol.  i.  Sprat  is  again  gkaeed  at, 
"The  stile  seems  like  that  of  >•  Hist:  of  Royal 
Society."  P.  640,  the  concluding  passage,  begin- 
ning "  Besides,"  is  underscored,  and  the  note,. 
"  How  gross  is  this  addition  of  }*  Editors  ?  Query 
whether  y*  Westminster  Scheie  boy,  who  tran- 
scribed y*  Manuscript  for  y*  press,  did  not  insert 
this?" 

P.   197,    vol.  •  i.    on    "  This   Digression,"   &a 

"  Query,  whether  Dean  S 1  had  not  an  eye  to 

this,  in  his  digression  on  Digressions,  or  if  in  y*' 
Secret  did  not  advise  y*  last  historical  old  Law 
p*  to  palliate  y*  former  Scholastic  p\"  Did  the 
annotator  really  suspect  Swift  as  an  accomplice,, 
or  is  he  here  only  "  writing  booty "  ?  The  first 
edition  of  this  volume  was  1702,  that  of  the  TaZ* 
o/aT«6l704. 

On  p.  390,  voL  i.  he  suggests  that  many  pas- 
sages beginning  with  the  words,  "  The  truth  is,'^ 
are  additions  of  the  editor's. 

The  above  are  only  selections.    At  the  end  of 
each  volume  he  has  sodded  a  list  of  the  pages  h& 
has  marked,  with  a  second  list  "  upon  re-examin- 
ing," and  a  separate  one  of  sixteen  references  headed 
"  0.  S.,"  *.«.,  Oliyer  St.  John. 

Thomas  Eerslakb.     • 

Bristol. 

PRoviNa  THB  Datx  OF  A  Man's  Birth. — The 
Athenosum  of  March  18  contains,  in  a  review  of 
Mr.  Richard  Ussher's  HUiorical  Shdch  of  CroxaU^ 
some  amusing  extracts,  showing  how,  when  called  in 
question,  the  date  of  a  man's  birth  was  established 
in  former  days.  I  have  occasionally  met  with 
entries  in  manor  court  rolls  which,  although  not, 
strictly  speaking,  of  the  same  kind  as  the  probatiO' 
astatis  therein  mentioned,  are  as  similar  as  the 
nature  of  the  case  admitted  of.  There  is  one  in> 
stance,  a  copy  of  which  is  now  before  me,  taken 
from  the  Court  Rolls  of  Scotter,  in  which  my  own 
ancestress  Margaret  Peacock  was  a  witness.  Id 
1602  a  question  had  been  raised  as  to  whether  a- 
certain  William  Fish  was  of  the  full  age  of  twenty- 
one  years  at  the  time  when  he  surrendered  certain 
copyholds,  and  a  copy  of  a  register  had  been  pro- 
duced by  which  "it  appeareth  that  the  said 
William  fiyshe  was  not  xxj  years  of  age  at  the- 
time  of  the  said  surrenders."  On  October  3, 1603; 
evidence  was  taken  on  oath.  Thomas  Storr,  of 
Skawthorpe,  aged  fifty,  deposed  that  Fish  was 
bom 

"  in  August,  and  he  knoweth  the  same  to  be  trewe  for 
that  he  perfectlye  remembereth  that  John  ITjsh^  father 
of  the  said  William  flyabe,  cam  to  bim,  this  deponent,, 
where  he  was  mawing  berlie,  to  request  him  to  be  a 
wytnese  at  the  baptiime  of  the  said  William,  and  further 
he  saith  that  the  said  William  ffishe  was  zzj  vears  of  age 
and  more  when  he  deliuered  the  said  surrenders..^. and 
be  knoweth  the  same  to'  be  trewe  bjr  the  croppa  of  eorn» 
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"  Margarett  Peacock,  wyffe  of  William  Peacock,  of 
thage  Ivj  yean  or  thereaboutes,'' testified  to  the 
same  effect,  and  affirmed  that 
'*  she  knoweth  the  lune  to  be  irewe  by  the  birthe  of 
Ellyii  Peacock  her  doogbter,  who  was  borne  at  or  near 
about  Candlemae  next  after  the  birth  of  the  said  William 
fPjrsh." 

Johanna  Craven,  wife  of  Peter  Oraven,  aged  forty 
years,  said  the  same,  and  she  knew  her  testimony 
was  true  becanse 

*<she  was  the  keper  of  his  mother  when  she  lay  in  cbilde 
bedd  of  the  said  William*  and  that  it  was  Tpon  Bartho- 
lomews day,  which  letted  her  going  to  Stockwith  fare." 

The  jary  found  in  farour  of  Fish,  and  presented 
that  the  register  **  ifl  false  &  vnperfect  both  towch- 
ing  the  age  of  the  said  William  fftshe  &  also  in 
many  other  pointes.*'  ^  Edward  Paacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

**Htpolite,  Oomx  db  Duolas."— In  Mr. 
Qoaritch's  yery  interesting  Catalogue  of  Bomancet, 
lately  published,  there  is  an  entry.  (No.  7866)  of 
a  copy  of  this  curious  little  romance,  with  this 
Bote,  '^The  author,  although  he  claims  to  have 
been  a  trayelled  man,  knew  nothing  of  English 
habits." 

Of  course,  this  is  only  a  trifling  error  of  the 
compiler  of  the  catalogue,  for  ereiy  one  knows 
that  the  author  was  not  a  man,  but  Madame  la 
Gomtesse  D'Aunoy,  or  D'Aulnov,  who  died  in 
1705,  and  was  the  writer  of  seyeral  books,  of  which 
Sypolite  is  certainly  now  the  best  remembered, 
and,  in  its  time,  was  perhaps  as  much  read  as  any 
work  of  fiction  of  the  last  century,  haying  been 
many  times  reprinted,  translated,  and  illustrated. 
Becently  my  mend  Mr.  Coote  made  good  use  of 
it  in  a  paper  on  the  ^  Neo- Latin  Fay "  in  the 
Folk-lore  Becord,  yoL  ii.,  1879,  in  which  he  quotes 
from  Madame  D'Aulnoy's  little  book  the  fairy 
tale  which  Hypolitus  tells  to  diyert  the  lady 
abbess  whilst  her  portrait  is  being  painted.  It 
would  be  of  interest^  in  reference  to  the  appearance 
of  this  fairy  legend  in  other  countries,  to  haye  a 
complete  fist  of  its  editions  and  translations ;  in 
the  hope  of  obtaining  this  I  now  send  a  note 
of  the  copies  which  I  haye,  and  shall  be  ghid  to 
see  the  list  extended  and  completed.  I  haye  not 
seen  the  first  edition,  which  I  imagine  was 
printed  at  Paris.  The  earliest  which  I  haye  is 
a  Brussels  copy,  bearing  date  1713  ;  but  probably 
this  is  not  eyen  the  first  Belgic  edition,  as  the 
"PriyUege"  is  dated  October,  1703.  Those  I 
haye  are : — 

1.  1713.  Histoire  d'HypoIite,  Comte  de  Boglas. 
Nonvelle  Edition.  2  parts  in  1  vol.  18mo.,  Bmxelles, 
pp.  869,  phttes. 

2.  1726.  Same  title.  2  parts  in  1  yoL  18mo.,  La  Haye, 
pp.  818,  plates. 

3.  1733.  Same  title.  2  parU  in  1  vol.  12mo.,  La  Haye, 
pp.  318,  plates. 

4.  1741.  The  History  of  Hypolitus,  Earl  of  Douglas. 
1  yol.  12mo.,  London,  pp.  212,  frontispiece. 


6.  1746.  Histoira  d'Hypolite,  Comte  de  Duglas.  Par 
Madame  D'Aulnoy.  2  vols.  12mo.,  Amsterdam,  pp.  160, 
and  204.  plates. 

6.  1768.  The  History  of  Hypolitus,  Earl  of  Douglas. 
Translated  from  the  French  [by  Peter  Guitton].  1  yoL 
12mo..  Cork,  pp.  836. 

7.  1777.  Histoire  d'Hypolite,  Comte  de  Dagks.  Par 
Madame  D'Aulnoy.  2  Toli.  l^o.,  Amsterdam,  pp.  160 
and  204,  plates.    * 

8.  1782.  Same  title.  2  yols.  18mo.,  Londres,  pp.  231 
and  287. 

The  translation  into  English  by  Mr.  Guitton  of 
Cork  is  quite  different  m)m  the  preyious  transla- 
tion, No.  4.  He  was  a  French  teacher  in  that 
city,  and  does  not  seem  to  haye  known  that  it  had 
already  appeared  in  English.  The  plates  seem, 
for  the  most  part,  to  haye  been  engrayed  for  each 
edition ;  some  are  yery  good,  others  yery  much 
the  contrary.  Edward  Sollt. 

Thb  latk  Rbv.  J.  S.  Bbbwbr.— Prot  Wace'a 
memoir  which  accompanies  the  late  Key.  J.  S. 
Brewer's  Englieh  Stuaies  has  at  its  conclusion  a 
list  of  Mr.  Brewei^s  contributions  to  literature.  I 
do  not  find  there  or  elsewhere  in  the  memoir  that 
Mr.  Brewer  edited  for  the  Ecclesiastical  History 
Society  Bichard  Field's  Of  ike  Chureh.  The 
yolumes  do  not  contain  his  name  on  the  title-pages 
as  editor,  but  I  haye  been  told  the  &ct  by  those 
who  could  not  well  be  in  error  on  such  a  matter, 
and  it  seems  to  be  put  beyond  doubt  by  the  fol- 
lowing passage,  which  I  quote  from  a  notice  com- 
municated by  Mr.  James  Ghdrdner  to  the  Academy 
a  few  days  after  Mr.  Brewer's  death : — 

"  In  1845  he  brought  out  an  edition  of  Fuller's  Chureh 
Htttorv  for  the  UniTersity  of  Oxford.  He  also  edited 
the  celebrated  treatise  Of  the  Chureh,  written  by  Dr. 
Field,  Dean  of  Otoucester,  in  the  reign  of  James  L*'— 
Academy,  Feb.  22, 1879,  p.  166. 

Akov. 

VouDOOiSM  IN  THB  UNITED  Statss. — In  the 
New  Orleane  Picayune  of  Feb.  16,  1882,  there  ia 
the  following  paragraph,  extracted  from  the  Frank- 
lin Sun : — 

**  On  last  Monday  morning  a  lady,  not  liying  a  thousand 
miles  from  Winnsboro,  seeing  the  sun  shining  out,  con- 
cluded that  it  would  be  a  nice  time  to  sun  her  beds,  and 
accordingly  set  them  out  on  the  front  gallery.  Noticing 
an  incision  in  her  own  bed,  which  had  a  new  tick,  she 
obserred  that  it  was  roughly  stitched  up  with  coarse 
black  thread,  and  upon  looking  inside  the  tick  she 
found  what  we  pronounce  a  youdoo  charm.  The  incision 
in  the  bed  was  about  two  inches,  and  inside  was  placed 
a  piece  of  flannel  tied  with  a  string,  which  contamed  a 
piece  of  alum  coyered  with  blueing  and  some  negro  hair. 
This  was  doubtless  placed  there  by  some  negro  who 
wished  to  conjure  the  lady  or  her  husband.  We  are  in 
hopes  that  the  charm  may  prove  harmless.  A  hundred 
lasnes  applied  to  the  negro  would  have  a  charming 
effect,  and  would,  in  our  opinion,  break  him  from  con- 
juring in  the  future." 

The  folk-lore  of  the  American  negro  must  still  be 
a  rich  field  for  a  diligent  collector. 

WiLLiAH  £.  A.  Axon. 
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A  TAX-aATHBRBK's  Fate.  —  The  following 
quaint  inecription,  sent  to  me  by  a  friend,  is  from 
a  brass  in  King's-Norton  Church  : — 

"  Hascention  day  on  ninth  of  May 
Third  year  of  Singe  Jamei  raigne 
To  end  my  time  and  steale  my  coyne 
I  William  QreTet  was  slaine 
1605." 
This  William  Oreres,  I  am  informed,  was  a  tax- 
gatherer,    and,  as    his  epitaph   sets  forth,  was 
murdered.         S.  G. 

mntti$€. 

We  nntt  reqnegt  oorrespondentt  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  priyate  interest,  to  aflSx  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
'  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Ordeb  of  Administbring  to  Oohuunigants. 
— It  is  the  custom  (ritually  correct,  I  doubt  not) 
in  new  churches  for  the  priest  in  administering 
the  Holy  Communion  to  begin  with  the  person  on 
the  extreme  south  and  to  continue  along  the  rail 
towuds  his  own  right.  Can  any  one  with  a  good 
memory  recall  seeing  this  done  in  any  church  or 
cathedral  under  the  old-fashioned  rigtme  thirty  or 
forty  years  ago?  So  far  as  my  own  memory 
serves,  as  in  many  town  and  country  churches  to 
this  day,  the  minister  used  to  go  first  to  the  people 
on  his  right  hand  at  the  north.  Chr.  W. 

"Lbgendb  Dorse  des  Freres  Mendians." 
^Who  was  the  author  of  this  work  1 — 

**  Leffende  Doree  |  oy  |  Sommaire  |  De  I'Histoire  des 
freres  M endians  de  TOrdre  de  |  S.  Dominique  et  de  8. 
Francois,  |  Comprenant  briefaement  &  Teritablement 
Fo-  I  rigine,  le  progrez.  la  doctrine  [_ne]  &  les  com- 1  bats 
d'iceuz  :  tant  centre  I'EgliBe  Qallicane  |  principalement, 
que  centre  les  Papes  &  en-  |  tr'eux  mesmes  depuis  quatre 
cens  ans.  |  l^  Engraved  satirical  arms.]  A  Amsterdam,  | 
Attx  Depens  De  La  Compagnie.  (  mdcoxzxiy." 

On  the  verso  of  the  title  is : — 

'*Anagranitne  tvr  U  nom  de  Vauiheur, 
Pour  qnoy  prens  tu  tant  d'ezercice 
Centre  Dominique  &  Francois  1 
Ne  sgais  tu  pas  qu'en  cet  office 
TrauMillant  nyl  gain  I  Rxoois. 
Ge  m'est  grand  gain  de  donner  gloire 
A  men  Bedempteur  lesus  Christ : 
Et  crier  qu*il  aura  Tictoire 
Centre  le  champ  de  TAntechrist/* 

At  what  company  or  society's   expense  was  it 
printed?  J.  P.  Edhomd. 

64,  Bonaocord  Street,  Aberdeen. 

"  Flora  Domestica.*'— Who  was  the  author  of 
Flora  Donustica,  or  the  Portcfble  Flower-Gardm^ 
vfUK  Directions  for  (he  Treatment  of  Plants  in 
Pots,  and  Illustrations  from  the  Works  of  the 
Poets,  a  second  edition  of  which  was  published  in 
18251  There  seems  to  have  been  a  subsequent 
issue  in  1831.  I  hare  before  me  a  cutting  from  a 
bookseller's  catalogue  in  which  it  is  stated  that 


**  much  of  the  attraction  of  this  interesting  Tolnme 
is  due  to  Leigh  Hunt,  whose  hand  is  traceable  in 
it"  Akon. 

M  LiTCKMAK,  A  Printer  at  Covbktrt.— I 
lately  purchased  a  small  16mo.,  undated,  with 
this  title  : — 

"  Fables  (  By  |  The  late  Mr.  Gat  |  In  one  Tolume  com- 
plete.  J  Coventry :  |  Printed  and  Sold  by  M.  Luckman.  | 
Sold  also  by  Brooke  and  Macklin,  and  \  Champante  and 
Whitrow,  London.  |  [Price  One  ShiUingJ' 

The  date  I  take  to  be  about  1790.  At  the  end  la 
a  list  of  seventeen  other  works  printed  and  sold 
by  M.  Luckman,  Coventry,  including  Burder^a 
PilgrinCs  Progress.  Can  any  one  furnish  par- 
ticuUrs  of  this  printer — ^his  full  name,  date,  &a7 
From  the  list  of  his  publications  I  should  fancy 
him  to  have  been  a  Dissenter. 

V.H.LL.iaLV. 

J.    DCTFFinN    OR    DOFFKIV,    MERCHANT.  —  He 

lived  in  Soho  Square,  London,  circa  174-.  He 
had  issue :  1.  A  dau.,  mar.  C.  £.  Hanford,  of 
Wollashall,  Pershore,  co.  Worcester,  oh.s.p, ;  2.  A 
nun ;  3.  Sarah,  mar.  Richard  Huddleston,  son  of 
Richard  Huddleston,  of  Sawston,  co.  Cambridge, 

and  had  descendants ;  4.  Grace,  mar. Lau^- 

ton,  Esq.,  and  had  descendants.  Can  you  tell  me 
anything  about  his  parentage  or  ancestnr  ? 

El.  Pugh. 

Model  of  an  Indian  Well. — In  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford  there  is  a  model,  carved  in 
teak,  of  an  Indian  well,  over  whidi  has  been  bnilfc 
an  elaborately  carved  staircase  surmounted  by 
domes.  With  this  model  is  the  following  label : 
"Model  of  an  Indian  Subterranean  Palace  and 
Reservoir  at  Addanleige  (or  teige)  in  Guzerat, 
and  presented  by  Sir  J.  W.  Awdry,  Chief  Justice 
of  Bombay,  1842."  In  the  Mayer  Museum  at 
Liverpool  there  is  a  similar  model,  without  any 
information.  As  I  am  making  a  catalogue  of  the 
Liverpool  collection,  I  wish  to  obtain  some  account 
of  the  original  well  in  India,  and  of  the  place 
where  it  is  stated  to  be.  I  have,  however,  oeen 
unable  to  find  any  Indian  place  called  Addanleige, 
or  any  notice  of  the  reservoir.  If  some  of  your 
readers  can  refer  me  to  information  on  this  sub- 
ject I  shall  be  greatly  indebted  to  them. 

Charles  T.  Gattt. 

Fabian  Smith.— A  friend  of  mine  possesses  in 
his  collection  a  portrait  of  an  elderlv  man,  with  a 
full  grey  beard,  dressed  in  a  heavily  furrad  coat 
and  headdress  resembling  a  turban ;  on  the  turban 
is  painted  a  jewelled  aigrette.  A  scroll  below 
states  that  it  is  the  likeness  of  "  Fabian  Smith, 
Agent  for  the  English  Merchants  to  the  Enmerour 
of  Muscovia."  What  is  known  of  this  Fabian 
Smith  ?  G.  S. 

Henshaw  and  Latham  Families.— Where 
can  I  find  a  pedigree  of  the  branch  of  the  Henshaw 

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family  settled  in  Dover  in  1670?  Are  there  any 
descendants  living  of  Sarah  Henshaw,  who  married 
Thomas  Latham,  the  founder  of  Latham's  Bank  at 
Dover?  Constaitcx  Busbbll. 

Swallowfield  Park,  Beading. 

The  '^Chbap  Maoazins."— Can  yon  give  me 
any  information  about  the  Chtap  Magazine^  pab- 
lished  at  Haddington,  in  1813,  by  George  Miller 
&  Son  ?-~whether  G.  Miller  was  not  both  editor 
and  publisher ;  if  the  cuts  are  by  Bewick,  as  I 
hare  been  informed ;  also  how  many  numbers  or 
volumes  were  published.  In  connexion  with  the 
interesting  paper  of  Dr.  Chambers  on  the  jubilee 
of  his  Journal^  I  think  this  magazine  may  be  con- 
sidered a  still  earlier  attempt  at  providing  cheap 
wholesome  literature  for  the  people. 

T.  FiSHKR  UNvriN. 

ToRESHiRB  Subsidy  Rolls  at  the  Public 
BxooiiD  Officb. — The  Yorkshire  Archaeological 
and  Topographical  Association  has  recently  com- 
pleted the  publication  in  its  JouttioI  of  the  rolls 
of  the  collectors  of  the  poll  tax  for  the  West 
Biding  in  2  Bichard  IL  (1379).  These  rolls  throw 
great  ught  upon  the  social  position  of  the  people 
at  that  period,  and  are  of  much  interest  to  the 
statistician  and  genealogist,  as  they  are  practically 
lists  of  the  inhabitants  iu}ove  sixteen  years  of  age. 
Will  any  of  your  readers  whose  researches  have 
been  amongst  this  class  of  documents  kindly  give 
information  respecting  them  to  a  country  corre- 
spondent, and  so  save  him  much  time  and  labour? 
I  should  like  to  know  whether  there  are  any  rolls 
for  the  North  Biding  similar  to  those  above 
referred  to,  or  about  the  same  date,  and  their  con- 
dition ;  to  obtain  references  to  the  most  perfect  of 
the  subsequent  subsidy  rolls  for  the  North  Biding, 
say  down  to  the  year  1670 ;  and  to  learn  if  any- 
thing has  been  published  respecting  these  rolls,  or 
if  information  about  them,  other  than  that  con- 
tained in  the  manuscript  indices  at  the  Becord 
Office,  is  in  existence.  Are  there  any  of  these 
rolls  relating  to  the  North  Biding  in  the  British 
Museum?  H.  E. 

"A  Bemonstrahcb  and  Protestation  of 
all  the  good  Protestants  of  this  EIinodom 

AGAINST    deposing    THBIR    LAWTULL    SoVBRAIGN 

K.  James  the  Second." — I  have  seen  a  small 
quarto  MS.  of  four  leaves  thus  entitled,  and 
bearing  this  note  appended :~"  This  had  not  the 
liberty  to  be  printed,  though  some  persons  have 
caused  privately  print  some  of  them  upon  their 
own  charges."  I  should  be  glad  to  know  if  <  any 
of  these  "  privately  print "  copies  still  survive. 

A.  W.  B. 

"  Wara."— In  an  inquisition  of  lands  belonging 

to  the  Abbey  of  Peterborough,  made  in  the  year 

1251,  the  term  "  wara"  is  twice  made  use  of.    It 

seems,  so  £»  as  I  can  gather,  to  hAve  meant  some 


particular  or  special  piece  of  land  (glebe,  I  fancy, 
or  church  land),  let  to  different  in£viduals,  each 
holding  some  five  or  six  acres.  I  should  much 
like,  if  possible,  to  obtain  some  information  as  to 
the  use  of  this  word,  which  I  have  never  come 
across  except  in  the  document  I  refer  to. 

Hautbabge. 

"  Dafft-down-dillt  is  coming  to  town.*'— 
What  is  the  origin  of  the  above  line?  Miss 
Pratt,  in  her  Flowering  Plants  of  Great  Britain^ 
mentions  it  as  an  old  Norfolk  ditty,  and  says  that 
in  Hertfordshire  And  other  counties  it  is  still  sung 
by  children,  who  gather  bouquets  of  daffodils  to 
carry  into  towns,  and  term  this  custom  "  going  a- 
daffying."  I  should  be  very  glad  of  any  further 
information.  Mat  Probtn. 

Femleigh,  Hillwerth,  Devizes. 

Thomas  Scarlett,  Author,  1690. — Can  any 
one  give  me  any  clue  as  to  who  Thomas  Scarlett 
was  who  in  1590-2  entered  copies  of  various 
ballads  and  books  at  Stationers'  Hall,  according  to 
the  registers?  The  last  book  entered  was  a  French 
romance  of  chivalry — Ia  Second  lAvre  de  la 
plaisante  et  delectable  Eietorie  de  QeriUon  [cT} 
AngUtein[e'^,  "to  be  translated  into  English";  but 
no  translation  of  it  now  exists.  In  1586  there 
was  a  Thomas  Scarlett  of  Lincoln's  Inn  who 
bought  land  in  Suffolk  (Close  RoUs),  and  I  think 
it  probable  that  they  may  be  of  the  same  family. 

Strix« 

"The  Cascade,"  by  Jacob  Rutsdaeu— An 
engraving,  or  rather  woodcut,  of  a  picture  called 
by  this  name  appears  in  the  Art  Journal^  1852, 

S.  183,  and  is  stated  to  be  taken  from  the  "Vies 
es  Peintres''  of  Charles  Blanc.  In  the  article 
describing  the  picture  (p.  181  et  seq.)  the  following 
notice  occurs : — "  We  have  no  clue  to  where  this 
picture  is,  nor  can  we,  by  referring  to  Smith's 
Catdlogue^  find  any  description  of  it"  There  are 
one  or  two  other  engravings  of  the  picture  extant, 
which  I  have  not  seen.  I  have  been  informed 
that  the  picture  is  in  the  Public  Gallery  at 
Amsterdam,  but  the  information  is  untrustworthy. 
Can  any  of  your  readers  tell  me  more  of  the  picture, 
which  is  a  famous  one,  and  its  whereabouts  ? 

C.  Johnston  Edwards. 

Driffold,  Satton  Ooldfield. 

[See  Miss  Thompson's  Handbook  to  Uu  Pvhlie  Picture 
OalUries  of  Europe,  third  edition,  p.  278 ;  alio  Baedeker's 
HoUaitd,] 

"  AUDAX,  CAPAX,  SAOAX,  EFPICAX,  PBRTINAX." 

— The  above  words  are  said  to  exist  as  an  epitaph 
on  the  tomb  of  some  celebrated  physician.  Of 
whom  was  the  line  written  7  J.  W.  0. 

''Toucheur."— What  sort  of  servant  or  attendant 
is  a  touckeurf  Mgr.  Gu^rin,  in  his  life  of  St. 
Honor^,  says, ''  Chacnn  se  rappelait  parfaitement 
ravoir  va  passer  tel  jour,  k  telle  heure,  avec  set 


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deux  toucheurs/'  In  another  place  the  brothers 
Oabidier  are  called  "  sea  deux  valets  de  touche  " 
{Les  Feliti  Bollandisies,  yoL  L,  Jan.  9). 

E.  CoBHAH  Brewer. 

**  Chivbrton's  Book."— Have  any  of  your 
readers  knowledge  of  an  ancient  obituary  called 
**  Chiyerton's  "  or  "  Chiwarton's  "  Book  1  It  is  re- 
ferred to  in  Betham's  Baronetage.  Is  it  printed 
or  MS.,  and  where  can  it  be  seen  ?  There  is  no 
copy  in  the  British  Museum.  J.  L.  Y. 

HoKiTON. — What  is  the  etymology  of  this 
place-name  ?  It  is  spelt  in  Domesday  Hanitone. 
Does  this  indicate  a  Ueltio  origin,  and  is  the  first 
syllable  connected  with  the  Welsh  han  (that 
which  is  separated  or  cut  off),  a  Saxon  suffix  being 
added  after  the  English  conquest  of  Devonshire  ? 

W.  T.  Ltnk. 

Blaekheath. 

St.  Mare  ix.  36.— I  have  an  edition  of  the 

New  Testament,  printed  by  Bell  &  Barker,  1680, 

in  which  St.  Mark  ix.  36  is  printed  "  And  he  took 

the  child."    Does  this  occur  in  any  other  yersion  ? 

0.  L.  Chakbbrs. 

Headingley,  Leeds. 

Thb  Parslow  Family.— Can  an^  reader  of 
**  N.  &  Q."  give  trustworthy  information  as  to  the 
descent  and  original  home  of  this  family?  The 
Bey.  Edward  Parslow,  a  son  of  General  Parslow, 
married,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century  or 
within  the  first  decade  of  the  present,  a  daugnter 
of  Humphrey  Jones,  of  Garthmyl  Hall,  in  Uie 
county  of  Montgomery,  Esq.;  and  a  daughter  of 
the  general  married  the  Key.  John  Jones,  M.A^, 
Vicar  of  Boscheston,  near  Pembroke,  who  was  a 
son  of  the  said  Humphrey  Jones,  Esq. 

Charlbs  J.  Dayibs. 

Amvonittx  Sulphidb  a  Rbstorbr  of  Faded 
Writing. — Mr.  Earwaker,  in  his  comprehensiye 
and  yaluable  communication  on  the  subject  of  the 
publication  of  parish  registers,  mentions,  ante, 
p.  249,  a  solution  of  ammonium  sulphide  as  a 
restorer  of  faded  writing  ;  will  he  be  kind  enough 
to  state  the  exact  strength  of  the  solution  ? 

W.  F.  Marsh  Jacksoh. 

Marttrdoh  of  King  Charlbs.— Until  re- 
ceQtly  it  was  the  custom  at  Newcastle-on-lS^ne  to 
ring  a  muffled  peal  on  the  bells  of  St.  Nicholas's 
Church  on  the  anniversary  of  the  execution  of  King 
Charles  I.  Is  such  a  custom  known  to  have  existed 
elsewhere  ?  Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfechan. 

Charlbs  Bullkr.— Thanks  to  "  N.  &  Q."  (6**» 
S.  iy.  408,  449,  495),  it  has  now  been  definitely 
ascertained  that  Charles  BuUer  was  never  a  Privy 
Councillor.  The  further  query  that  I  would  ask 
concerning  him  is  this,  Was  he,  as  Judge  Adyocate 


General,  a  member  of  Lord  John  Russell's  cabinet      ■ 
in  1847  ?    The  Annual  RegitUr  for  1847  includes      | 
his  name  in  the  list  of  the  cabinet ;  but  is  this 
correct  ?  G.  F.  R.  B. 

The  Moon  '*  the  Parish  Lanterk." — A  friend 
of  mine  was  coming  from  Croydon  one  eyening  in  ' 
the  winter  with  the  prospect  of  a  long  drive  before 
him,  and  as  soon  as  he  got  out  of  the  town  the 
driyer  remarked,  "  We  shall  do  yery  well  to-night ; 
we  have  got  the  parish  lantern,"  meaning  that  it 
would  be  moonlight.  The  man  was  a  native  of 
Berkshire.  I  never  heard  the  expression  before, 
and  wish  to  know  whether  it  is  a  common  designa- 
tion of  the  moon.  G.  L.  G. 


"EBIPUIT    QMhO     PULMEN,    SCEPTBUMQUE 

TYRANNIS":   LETTER  OP   WALTER  SAVAGE 

LANDOR:  TUROOT:  FRANKLIN. 

(3'«  S.  XL  516 ;  4**  S.  y.  459.) 

The  following  letter,  which  I  transcribe  from 
the  original  autograph  before  me,  will  be  read 
with  interest,  as  expressing  the  opinion  of  an 
illustrious  scholar  as  to  the  merits  of  this  cele- 
brated line,  and  tending  to  substantiate  the  belief 
that  it  is  the  production  of  the  person  to  whom  it 
is  generally,  and  I  haye  no  doubt  with  reason,  attri- 
buted :— 

"  Mr  DBAR  Sir  Sahuxl,— They  tell  me  the  train  will 
bring  you  to  Bath  at  half  after  four.  The  vene  yoa 
mention  is  not  Statiutes.  All  hit  poetry  pat  together  is 
of  infinitely  less  worth.  The  beauty  coiiBisti  in  its  pro- 
priety of  application.  It  wai  written  by  a  Prencbman, 
under  an  engraving  of  Franklin ;  and  alludes  most  poetic- 
ally, first  to  his  electrical  experiments,  and  then  to  the 
defeat  of  George  the  third,  and  the  wreating  of  the 
sceptre  from  that  madman's  grasp.  It  is  far  mora 
glorious  to  have  written  this  one  verse  than  all  ibe 
verbiage  of  Virgil  at  the  beginning  of  the  Georgioa. 
Wretched  staff— which  children,  and  men  too,  tnditkm- 
ally  admire  !  **  I  remain,  my  dear  Sir  Samuel, 
"  Very  truly  yours, 

««W.S.  Lakdob."* 

The ''  Frenchman  ^  alluded  to  was  doubtless  Tar- 
got,  Controller-General  of  Finances  under  Loaia 
XVL  He  it  was  whose  appearance  eyoked  the 
tears  of  Voltaire,  who  exclaimed,  *' Laissez-moi 
baiser  cette  main  qui  a  sign^  le  salut  du  people  **; 
whose  name— quasi  "Thoi^God"— is  supposed  to 
indicate  that  he  was  sprung  from  those  northem 
heroes  who  gave  their  name  to  Normandy,  and 
who,  with  their  chief  William,  made  a  cononest  of 
England ;  and  who  is  remembered  by  collecton 
on  account  of  the  diminutive  snuffboxes,  called 
"  turgotines"  or  "  platitudes,"  which  were  especially 
designed  to  discredit  and  ridicule  his  fiscal  reforms.* 

*  '*  On  m^Ia  le  ridicule  k  I'odienz.  On  inventa  de 
petites  tahati^res,  qu'on  appella  des  turgotines  on  des 
platitudes.    Obs  sooriquets  servaient  k  dteommar  et  k 


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Targot,  in  the  midst  of  affairs,  had  retaiDeoT  his 
early  taste  for  literature  and  poetry ;  and  after  his 
retirement  from  office— more  especiidly  daring  his 
journeys  and  nights  when  sleep  was  banished  by 
the  gout — he  is  known  to  have  amused  himself  by 
making  Latin  verses.    But  none  of  these,  so  far  as 

I  am  aware,  has  been  preserved,  except  the  line  in 
question ;  and  it  is  unfortunate  that  this  so  nearly 
lesembles  one  in  the  Atironomican  of  Marcus 
Manilius  (lib.  L  v.  104)— 

"Eripuitqne  Jovi  falznen,  viresque  tonandi, 
£t  lonitam  ventii  concessit,  nubiinu  ignem," 

as  to  justify  us  in  regarding  it  as  an  adaptation 
father  than  an  originsJ  composition. 

But  however  this  may  be,  Turgot  may  pro- 
bably, have  found  the  happy  phrase  nearer 
faome.  In  those  days  every  one  was  reading  the* 
poBthnmous  poem  of  Cardinal  de  Polignac,  Anii- 
>  LueritiuBf  me  de  Deo  tt  NaXwrd^  &c.  (Londini, 
1748,  S  vols.  8vo.) ;  and  here  he  may  have  been 
struck  with  the  lines  in  which  the  French  poet 
<^arge<  Epicurus  with  having  promoted  lust  and 
wickedness  by  destroying  religion,  and  teaching 
that  pleasure  should  alone  be  cultivated  : — 

"  SorUm  gentis  misorains  aoerbam, 
Knminis  et  famam  efc  caltum  cooYoUere  primus 
Inititait;  Coeli  et  tonitralia  templa  laoeasus, 
Kripuit  fulmenque  Jo?i  Phosboqae  tagittas ; 
£t  mortale  manamittens  genus,  omnia  jiusit 
Audere,  ac  let!  pulso  terrore  beavit." 

Lib.  i.  93. 

The  predecessor  of  Turgot  in  the  finances  was 
4he  AbM  Terrai ;  and  of  the  pair  it  was  happily 
«aid  '*que  le  premier  fit  mal  le  bien,  et  que  le 
second  tit  bien  le  mal."  The  innovations  of  Turgot, 
,good  possibly  in  the  abstract,  had  terrible  results  ; 
«nd  few  vaticinations  have  been  more  cruelly 
▼erified  than  those  of  La  Propkitie  TurgoUne, 
written  by  Captain  de  Lisle  in  1777,  and  preserved 
to  the  Anecdotes  of  Distinguuhed  PenoM  of  W. 
Seward,  ed.  1798,  vol.  iv.  p.  470. 

Tufgot,  following  the  example  of  Jean  Monsset, 
Jodelle,  Pasquier,  Vigen^re,  and  others,  attempted 
to  subject  his  language  to  the  laws  of  Latin  metre, 
and  translated  the  fourth  book  of  the  jEneid  into 
French  hexameters.  The  volume  is  very  rare,  only 
twelve  copies  having  been  struck  off ;  it  is  entitled, 
DidoHy  Poknu  en  Ven  MHriqiui  HexamHrea,  c^c, 
U  Tout  accompttgni  du  TexU  Latin ;  par  Turgot, 
with  the  epigraph: — 

*'  Bloquiam  et  Gullig,  Gallis  dedit  ore  rotondo 
Muaa  loqui.'* 

Specimens  of  the  translation,  from  which  it  will  be 

dterMiter  tontea  lea  op€rationB  du  OontrAlear-g6n6ra1. 

II  n'y  avait  alors  k  Paris  ni  magistrat,  ni  traitant,  ni 
cv&que,  ni  abb^,  qai  n*ent  en  poche  une  platitade,  c'est 
a  dirt,  uoe  tabatiere  fort  plate.  Quand  on  se  renoontrait 
•oit  dans  les  promenadet,  M>it  aux  tpectacles,  c'est  k  qai 
Ja  premier  montremit  ea  petite  platitude.** — La  Ft«  de 
Voltairt,  par  M  •  *  •  (I'abbfe  T.  J.  Du  Vemet),  k  Gea6?e, 
1786,  8to.,  chap.  zxir.  p.  278. 


seen  how  signally  the  author  failed  in  his  attempt, 
will  be  found  in  the  Amutemens  PhUologiquei  of 
Gabriel  Peignot  (Dijon,  1824,  8vo.,  p.  125);  and 
will  lead  to  concurrence  with  the  opinion  of  Vol- 
taire, who,  on  receiving  a  copy  of  the  book,  pro- 
nounced the  metrical  verses  of  his  friend  to  be  no 
other  than  "  une  tr^s  belle  prose.** 

These  poetical  essays  of  the  ex-minister  have 
been  collected  and  reprinted  in  the  volume  en- 
titled, '^  Le  ConservcOeur,  ou  RecueU  de  Morceauz 
in^its  d'Histoire,  de  Politique,  de  Litt^rature  et 
de  PhUosophie,  tir^  des  Portefeuilles  de  M  N. 
Francis  (de  Neufch&teau),  de  Tlnstitut  Nationid. 
Paris,  An  viiL,"  2  vols.,  8va,  where  the  metrical  pro- 
ductions of  Turgot  occupy  pages  1-97  of  the  volume. 

Although  the  laudation  of  Landor  seems  some- 
what overstrained,  and  every  one  may  not  endorse 
his  low  opinion  of  the  introduction  to  the  Oeorgies, 
still  the  verse  to  which  he  refers  is  unquestionably 
fine.  Franklin,  at  the  close  of  the  interesting 
letter  in  French  by  him  quoted  by  Dr.  Rauagb, 
seems  disposed— possibly  in  his  own  humility — to 
question  its  applicability;  but  it  cannot,  neverthe- 
less, be  deniea  that  though  lightning  still  descends 
from  heaven,  and  may  slay  or  injure,  the  '^  con- 
ductor," for  which  we  are  indebted  to  the  American 
philosopher,  can  turn  it  aside  and  render  it  power- 
less ;  and  that,  though  the  race  of  tynmts  is  not 
yet  extinct,  the  political  teachings  of  Franklin,  by 
instructing  the  people,  have  rendered  the  sceptre 
of  their  rulers  a  harmless  lituue.  After  all,  does 
the  latter  clause  of  the  line  refer  specially  to 
George  III.?  If  so,  why  was  not  the  singular, 
"  tyranno,''  employed  ?  Or  does  it  apply  to  the 
whole  English  people ;  or  to  tyrants  m  general, 
whose  power  to  harm  was  weakened  by  the  educa- 
tional and  political  writings  of  Franklin  ? 

The  following  lines  by  James  Montgomery  were 
'*  Written  by  desire  of  the  Committee  appointed 
to  prepare  for  a  National  Celebration  of  the 
hundred  and  forty-first  anniversary  of  Benjamin 
Franklin's  birthday  at  Rochester,  New  York,  on 
January  18,  1847":— 

"  FaAHKLIK 

The  Printer,  Philosopher,  and  Patriot. 
He  eaird  dovm  lightening  from  the  skj, 
And,  ere  the  thunder  could  reply, 
The  flash,  like  inspiration,  came, 
Heaven's  own  pure  Are  through  all  his  frame : 
Not  the  dread  bolt,  whose  sudden  stroke 
Prostrates  the  tower,  or  rends  the  oak ; — 
A  touch,  a  pulse,  a  spark,  reveal'd 
A  secret  from  all  ages  seai'd ; 
One  trembling  moment,  in  its  flight. 
Drew  such  a  train  of  wondrous  light. 
That  his  rapt  spirit  seem'd  to  pierce 
The  myste^  oi  the  universe. 
And  scan  the  power  which,  like  a  soul, — 
Informs,  expands,  and  rules  the  whole, 
Oon's  bidden  minister,  whose  will 
AH  Nature's  elements  fnlftl. 
Thus  standing  when  the  deed  was  dene, 
That  victory  of  Science  won. 


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He  pluitedy  where  hif  foot  had  trod, 
HiB  conquering  spear,  the  Electric  Bod  I 
A  trophy  mighty  and  sablime, 
A  monument  defying  Time. 

That  was  to  him  a  glorious  day, 
Whose  fame  can  nerer  pass  away; 
Philosophy  had  triumpn'd  there : 
A  nobler  wreath  he  lived  to  shares 
He  liyed  a  brighter  day  to  see,— 
His  country  by  the  Fbibs  made  (ree." 

It  may  not  be  amiss  to  state  in  this  place  that 
the  idea  of  a  etrf-wila/iid^  or  kite,  instead  of  a  tower 
or  steeple,  as  had  been  proposed^  was  not  originaJ, 
Franklm  having  been  indebted  for.it  to  his  Mend 
M.  Romas,  Assessor  of  the  Pr^sidial  at  N^rac,  in 
France,  who  was  engaged  in  similar  experiments, 
and  wrote  to  him  on  the  sabject 

I  find  Target's  line  beneath  a  yerr  nnfeal  por^ 
trait  of  Franklin  in  the  front  of  his  JDt/e  wad 
TForJb,  printed  at  Bansay  by  Briffhtly  &  Childs, 
8yo.,  without  date ;  while  beneath  an  excellent 
profde  head  of  the  philosophic  printer,  prefixed  to 
his  PoUtieal^  MiieeUaneoutf  and  Fhxlosophieal 
Fieees,  London,  1779,  8yo.,  is  the  epigraph : — 
"Non  sordiduB  atiotor  natur»  Teriqae." 

WiUAAU  Batbs,  B.Al. 


Ths  Eztinctiok  ofthb  Baront  orYALoioiis 
(6*^»  S.  y.  142).— The  eyidence  preying  Alexander 
Balliol,  of  Cayen  and  Ohilham,  to  be  no  brother 
of  the  Scottish  king,  brought -to  light  at  the  sam^ 
time  certain  facts  that  tended  to  relieye  the  ob- 
scurity in  which  the  fate  of  this  barony  had  been . 
left  by  Dugdale  and  other  writers.     It  was  found  . 
that  there  were  three  coheirs,  who  had  become  the 
wiyes  of  Heniy  de  Balliol,  Peter  de  Maule,  and 
Dayid  Comyn  respectiyely,  but  the  nature  of  their 
title  to  share  the  estate  and  honour  of  Yaloignea 
did  not  appear.    This  deficiency  is  now  suppHed. 
The  hunger  for  his  dead  sister's  estate  shown  by 
Walter,  son  of  Robert  Fitz-Walter,  in  rashly  suing 
the  king,  who  had  granted  seisin  of  her  lands  to 
three  ladies  (with  their  husbands)  as  her  next 
heirs,  while  it  resulted  in  his  claim  being  barred 
and  himself  -amerced,  has   been  the  means  of 
recording  the  exact  relationship  of  all  parties  to 
the  deceased  Christiana  de  Mandeyille. 

If  space  can  be  found  for  the  pedigree  printed 
in  the  Oemalogutf  it  will  serye  to  set  in  it«  true 
light  the  yidue  of  Mr.  Grbbnstrbbt's  reyektion,. 
and  to  render  more  intelligible  the  remarks, 
made: — 


Peter  de  Vsloynes,  temp.  Wm;  Conq.=Albreda,  sister  of 
and  Hen.  I.,  living  in  1108.         |     Eudo  Dapifer. 


Will 


iiam. 


Roger  de  Valoynes,  liring  in— Agnes,  who  surrived 
IISO  (Pipe  BoU,  31  Hen.  I.).  I       her  husband. 


I 

Peter  de  Valoynes, 
married  Gundred 
de  Warenne,  but 
dieds.p. 


Robert  de  ya1oyne8,»Hawise. 
dead  before  Oct.  10, 
IIM  (Rot.  Cur.  Be* 
gis,i.ll). 


Geoffrey,  died  ap. 
before  Dec.  27, 
1207  (CI.  B.9  John, 
m.  10). 


John.    Phi 


llip. 


Roger.^ 


Gnnnora  de  Valoynei,  sole  dan.  and  heir,  married  before  Oct.  18,«sRobert  Fitz-Walter,  said  to=Rose,. 


1199  (Rot  Cor.  llegis,  ii.  41)i  heir  to'her  uncle  Geoffrey  and 
Uring  Dec.  27, 1207,  bat  dead  before  Nov.  18, 1220. 


have  died  in  1284,  buried  j  iecou(f 
at  Danmow  Priory.  wife. 


William  de  ManderilIe,8Christiana,  dan.  and  heir  of  Gnnnora,  wife  ofsReymnnd  de  Bnrgh.  second 
Earlof  Essex,  died  be.  Wm.  de  ManderiUe  Nov.  18,  1220  (Binham  hub.,  living  Oct  29, 1227 
fore  Jan.  19.  1226/7  Beg.,  f.  140).  wtfeofB.de  Burgh  May  15, 1227  (Fine  Boll,  12  Hen.  III.,  m. 
(Close  B..  11  Hen.III.,  (Close  B.,11  Hen.  Hi.,  m.  10),  dieds.p.  before  9),  died  before  July  17, 1230 
m.  21),  without  issue.       May  25, 1288  (Fine  B.,  17  Hen.  III.,  m.  6).       (Fine  K,  14  Hen.  lll.,m.  4). 


Walter,  seo 
of  Robert 
Fits '  Wfd- 
ter. 


A  preyions  marriage  of  Gnnnora  de  Yaloignes 
'  was  here  left  unnoticed,  because  such  marriage  did 
not  affect  the  line  of  descent  to  Ohristiana  de  Man- 
deyille, who  particularly  specifies  Bobert  Fitz- 
Walter  to  be  her  father  (Binham  Beg.,  ff.  148b, 
183b).  This  first  husband  of  Gnnnora  cannot  be 
assigned  to  a  later  period  than  the  time  of 
Bi<mard  I.,  in  whose  reign  probably  he  died ; 
and  seeing  that  he  is  mentioned  in  the  Binham 
oartulary*  in  one  deed  only  (f.  153),  this  eyidence 
of  his  existence  becomes  proportionally  yaluable, 

*  Cotton  MSS.,  Claudius,  D.  xiiL 


and  furnishes  an  excuse  for  extracting  it  at  length. 
Indeed,  there  may  be  alleged  a  yalid  reason  for 
doing  so,  inasmuch  as  the  monkish  writer  has  had 
some  difficulty  in  satisfyinff  himself  as  to  the 
spelUng  of  the  surname,  which  appears  in  a  douUe 
form,  either  of  which  is  strange  and  questionable. 

"  Carta.    Durandus  Sustili*  Ounnor'  Txor  eina. 
"Burandus  de  Steill'  Oamerarins  Domini  Begis  et 


*  See  Blomefield's  (ed.  Parkin)  Norfolh,  riii.  392; 
where  this  deed  is  mentioned,  and  the  name  printed 
••  Durandus  de  Stie),  or  Sustely."  This  surname,  how- 
eyer,  is  omitted  in  Mr.  J.  N.  Cbadwick's  Indtz  NwaUnum. 


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ponnonk  de  Valon'  Tzor  eiai  Omnibm  ad  qnot  hoe 
scriptnm  perrenerit  preaentibui  et  faturis  ttelntem. 
Notum  lit  Yniuerritati  veitre  no*  aateitfu  comnni  oon- 
cenisse  et  presenti  carta  nostra  confirmaaie  deo  et 
ecclesie  aanct^  Marie.de  Binham  donacionem  qaam  fecit 
Boserus  de  Valoniifl  prefate  eeelene  de  Binham  de 
ecclesia  de  Deningham  et  de  omnibus  pertinences  eius. 


Et  [at]  heo  nostra  confirmaoio  firma  permaneat  sigillo- 
ram  nostrorum  Attestacione  roboraTimus  eam.  Hijs 
testibus,  Bad*  de  Lattima,  Hog'  Wiacbard,  Will'o  de 
Lattima,  Bic'  Aguillon,  Bog*  de  ffttmell',  Salomone  de 
Stubehee,  Will'e  Oumyn,  et  Vrbano,  et  Andr'  et  Barth', 
et  Aitua,  et  hominibus  de  Binham  et  alijs." 

TacniDg  to  the  Chronide  of  Mdrose^  mentioned 
by  Mr.  Grbsnstrbbt,  beside  Philip  de  Yaloignes 
(who  died  Nor.  5,  1215)  and  William  hia  son 
(who  died  in  1219),  I  find  recorded  also  ^.  64a) 
the  burial  in  Melrose  Abbey  of  Henry  de  Balliol, 
father  by  Lora  de  Yaloignes  of  the  Alexander  Balliol 
lately  brought  under  notice  :  "  Corpus  d'nl  Henrici 
de  balolf  a  sancto  iacobo  deportatur  et  in  capitnlo 
de  melros  honorifice  tumulatur''  (ed.  Bannatyne 
Club,  p.  176).  John  A.  0.  Viucent. 

lUvKNScouRT  Park,  Hammersmith  (6*  S.  t. 
208). — ^Ab  it  happens  that  the  abore  property 
belongs  to  my  wife's  relations,  I  am  enabled  to  giye 
some  particulars  about  it.  In  the  first  pkoe,  its 
original  name,  it  being  one  of  three  subordinate 
manon  in  the  parish  of  Fulham,  was  Pallynswick, 
of  which  Mr.  Bushnbll  can  find  an  account  in 
Lysons,  and  also  in  Faulkner^s  Hittwry  of  Ful- 
ham, It  would  take  too  much  space  to  enter  into 
its  full  history  here.  At  one  time  it  was  a  royal 
manor,  supposed  to  have  been  a  hunting  seat 
of  King  Edward  III.,  and  in  his  declining  years 
the  country  seat  of  his  worthless  favourite  Alice 
Perrers.  In  1378  it  was  seized  by  the  Crown, 
and  in  1380  by  King  Richard  IL  granted  to  the 
Ixrd  Wyndesore,  who  had  become  Alice  Perreis's 
husband ;  from  this  date  until  1572  its  written 
history  is  a  blank.  In  the  latter  year,  how- 
ever, a  John  Payne  died  seized  of  it,  whose  son 
or  grandson,  another  John  Payne,  in  1637  sold 
it  for  2,600/.  to  Sir  Richard  Oumey,  the  loyal 
Lord  Mayor,  who  died  a  prisoner  in  the  Tower  in 
1647,  whose  widow  in  1650  sold  it  to  Maxi- 
milian Bard,  or  Bared;  and  in  this  &mily  it 
remained  until  1747,  when  Henry  Laremore,  as 
trustee  under  the  will  of  Lady  Persiana  Bard, 
sold  it  to  Thomas  Corbet.  It  was  during  this 
gentleman's  possession  of  the  estate  that  it 
acquired  the  name  of  Rarenscourt,  no  doubt  in 
canting  allusion  to  the  Corbet  arms,  which  are  Or, 
a  raven  sable.  He  held  the  estate  up  to  his  death, 
and  in  1754  it  was  sold  to  Arthur  Weaver,  who 
five  years  kter  sold  it  to  Henry  Dagge,  author 
of  Coniidmratiofu  on  tJi4  Crimindl  Imvos,  who  in 
1765  sold  it  to  John  Borville,  who  in  his  turn  in 
1812  sold  it  to  the  late  Mr.  George  Scott,  whose 
widow  is  the  owner  of  it  for  her  life.  The  present 
house,  however  (known  as  Ravensoourt),  is  not  on 


exactly  the  same  site  as  was  the  country  seat  of  Alice 
Perrers ;  that  was  situated  at  a  little  distance,  en 
Stanbrook  or  Pallynswick  Green,  whereon  are  now 
two  tenements  entirely  devoid  of  interest.  It  was 
built  about  1648-50,  probably  by  one  of  the  Bard 
or  Bared  family,  who  may  have  pulled  down  the 
ancient  house  and  made  some  use  of  its  materials  * 
in  the  new  building,  in  which  are  still  some 
portions  of  ancient  panelling.  The  moat  formerly 
surrounding  it  was  filled  up  some  sixty  years  ago^ 
and  the  house  externally  modernized  and  added 
to  by  the  late  Mr.  George  Scott.  Some  years  aga 
an  ancient  elm  tree  opposite  the  house  was  fell^, 
and  imbedded  in  one  of  its  branches  was  dis- 
covered a  riding  spur  of  about  the  date  of  the 
erection  of  the  buUding,  1648-50.  It  must  have 
been  thrown  up  and  caught  in  the  branch  and 
the  bark  have  mduallv  grown  over  it,  and  so  it 
remained  in  its  hiding-place  for  two  hundred  years. 

D.  G.  C.  E. 

See  Lysons's  Environ$  of  London  (1795),  vol  iu 
pp.  356-358;  Faulkner's  EtBtorical  and  TojHh 
graphical  Account  of  Fulham  (1 813),  pp.  378-384  ; 
and  Thome's  Han^hook'to  tlu  Environs  of  London, 
vol  I  p.  277.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

Parochial  Rboistbrs  (6*  S.  v.  141,  211,  233, 
248,  273). — In  my  opinion  it  is  high  time  that 
these  valuable  records  were  put  beyond  the  risk  of 
destruction  and  neglect  by  being  deposited  in  the 
Public  Record  Office,  or  in  some  other  depository  in 
London.  I  was  one  of  those  who,  in  1877,  advo- 
cated in  ''N.  &  Q."  the  publication  of  church 
regbters ;  but  though  I  remain  of  the  opinion 
which  I  then  expressed  as  to  the  desirableness  of 
publication,  recent  experience  has  convinced  me 
that  for  the  present,  at  all  events,  a  general  pub- 
lication of  registers  is  impossible.  In  saying  this 
I  do  not  forget  the  good  work  which  the  Harleian 
Society  has  done  by  the  publication  of  London 
registers.  Some  of  these  are  of  exceptional  value 
and  interest,  and  one  can  hardly  take  them  a» 
&ir  samples  of  the  whole  mass.  The  work  of  pub- 
lication in  private  hands  has  proceeded  slowly 
during  the  last  few  vears ;  so  slowly,  that  if  the 
pace  were  quickened  forty-fold  the  bulk  of  registeni 
would  remain  tmtoaohed.  The  registers  already 
published  are  indeed  rari  nanta  in  gurgiU  voito^ 
Here  and  there  a  volume  fidls  from  the  press — 
perhaps  the  first  fifty  years  of  the  registers  of 
some  country  parish.  It  is  coldly  received  by  the 
public,  who  can  see  nothing  useful  and  nothbg 
mterestinff  in  volumes  whi3i  Hartley  Coleridge 
foolishly  described  as  ^barren  abstracts  of  mor- 
tality." It  is  not  given  to  the  public  to  know  the 
mysterious  delights  of  antiquaries,  and  from  or- 
dinary men  as  well  as  from  ordinary  reviewers  the 
patient  and  ever-to-be-praised  editor  of  a  volume 
of  registers  will  get  little  enoouragement  to  pro- 
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I  wish  I  could  lay,  with  Mr.  Chapman,  that  I 
haye  always  found  coontiy  clergymen  willing  to 
€abmit  their  registen  to  the  genealogiod  and 
literary  inquirer.  On  the  very  day  that  I  am 
penning  these  lines  I  have  received  the  foUowinff 
laconic  reply,  written  on  an  addressed  post-card 
which  I  had  enclosed  in  a  letter  to  the  yicar  of  a 
•coontry  parish : — 

"  Fees,  payable  in  adTance,  are  as  follows  :— 
Searching  refcisters,  first  year,  li. 
Each  sncoeeding  year,  6d.. 
For  each  certified  copy,  2f.  7d,*' 

The  last  item  shows  that  this  gentleman  was 
•determined  to  exact  the  uttermost  farthing.  I 
had  asked  for  the  exact  date  of  a  baptism,  and  I 
^▼e  the  year,  so  that  the  clergyman  had  nothing 
to  do  but  to  jot  down  the  entry  on  the  post-card. 
I  had  been  careful  also  to  explain  that  I  required 
the  information  for  a  literary  purpose.  Instances 
euch  as  this  are,  of  course,  rare,  and  generally  I 
have  been  treated  kindly  and  handsomely.  My 
«zperienoe  is  that  in  all  cases  where  I  have  asked 
for  inspection  of  the  court  rolls  of  a  manor  per- 
mission has  been  ungrudgingly  granted,  without 
payment  of  fees.  In  the  case  of  parochial  registers 
prohibitiye  fees  have  not  infrequently  been  asked 
for.  The  steward  of  a  manor  may,  if  be  pleases, 
make  prohibitire  charges,  or  he  may,  in  the  case 
of  persons  who  do  not  hold  lands  of  the  manor, 
refuse  altogether.  Moreoyer,  an  inspection  of 
court  rolls  might  disclose  imperfections  in  the 
lord's  manorial  rights. 

The  case  cited  by  Mr.  Chapman  from  the 
Jurist  has  reference  only  to  the  2s.  6d.  which  can 
be  lawfully  demanded  for  certified  extracts.  A 
«earoher  can  take  extracts  by  paying  only  the 
search  fees,  and  doubtless  he  may,  by  payment  of 
«uch  fees,  copy  a  whole  register. 

I  fear  to  occupy  too  much  space,  but  I  haye  a 
word  to  say  on  the  practical  part  of  the  question. 
There  is  no  wrong  without  a  remedy,  and  the 
reniedy  dearly  is  a  Bill  for  the  remoyal  of  all 
ancient  registers  to  London.  This  would  be  a 
simple  matter,  and  I  apprehend  that  there  would 
be  little  or  no  opposition  to  the  passing  of  such  a 
Bill  There  is  no  difficulty  in  the  way  of  yested 
interests  which  could  not  easily  be  met  by  com- 
muting such  interests  for  a  fixed  sum  of  money. 
Nor  do  I  apprehend  that  the  remoyal  and  cen- 
tralization of  the  registers  would  require  a  draft  on 
the  Imperial  Exchequer.  A  small  fee  paid  for  each 
register  searched  would  probably  coyer  all  expenses. 
There  are  great  numbers  of  people  more  or  less 
imbued  with  a  taste  for  antiquarian  study  who 
would  gkdly  pay  a  reasonable  fee  for  such 
searches.  The  registers  would  be  together— 
obyjously  an  enormous  adyantage.  The  cen- 
tnlization  would  giye  employment  to  a  number  of 
skilled  transcribers,  and  all  genealogical  inquirers 
would  be   relieyed  from  a  yast  burden  of  un- 


necessary expense  and  trouble.    We  want  action 
rather  than  words,  and  I  hope  before  long  to  see  a 
Bill  introduced,  and,  if  necessary,  a  Select  Com- 
mittee appointed.  S.  0.  Addt. 
Sheffield. 

The  yery  interesting  notes  concerning  parish 
registers  haye  not  contained  any  reference  to  a 
class  of  parish  which  for  me  has  a  peculiar  attrac- 
tion— I  mean  the  extremely  small  parishes  con- 
sisting of  little  or  nothing  more  than  a  manor- 
house  and  its  farm  and  labourers'  cottages,  with  or 
without  a  parsonage.  As  I  write  I  haye  before 
my  mind's  eye  three  glorious  old  houses,  the 
raisons  d^Ure  of  three  minute  parishes — Athel- 
hampton  and  Wynford  Eagle,  in  Dorset^  and 
Childerley,  in  Wilts.  Now  such  a  parish  is  likely 
to  afford  two  attractions  to  the  intending  register 
publisher.  If  its  old  register  is  preseryd  it  must 
needs  contain  records  of  men  of  some  mark,  old 
dwellers  in  its  manor-house ;  and  the  said  register 
must  be  yery  small,  and  so  cheap  to  print.  I 
neyersaw  the  registers  of  those  three  parishes, 
and  cannot  say  how  intereetinff  or  how  small  they 
may  be.  But  next  to  Wynfoid  is  West  Compton, 
another  yery  small  parish,  and  its  little  register  I 
haye  examined.  It  consists  of  a  few  small  sheets 
of  parchment^  arranged  pamphlet-wise  and  un- 
bound. It  is  some  months  since  I  saw  it,  but^  to 
the  best  of  my  belief,  it  contains  no  more 
square  feet  of  surface  them  (say)  two  numbers  of 
*' N.  &  Q."  It  records  the  births,  deaths,  and 
marriages  in  West  Compton  for  (I  fear  I  shall 
hardly  be  belieyed)  three  nundred  years. 

H.  J.  MouLs. 
Weymouth. 

[Oar  readers  interested  in  the  subject  will  be  glad  to 
have  further  particulars.] 

In  the  majority  of  cases  where  I  wish  to  search 
registers  eyery  facility  is  giyen  me  for  so  doing. 
In  eyent  of  difficulty  being  made^  I  haye  quietly 
asserted  my  right  to  inspect  them  as  public  docu- 
ments. In  one  case  I  was  flatly  and  insolently 
refused  by  the  parish  clerk  of  a  church  in  a 
cathedral  town.  I  took  the  opinion  of  an  eccle- 
siastical lawyer  there,  who  instructed  me  to  de- 
mand the  production  of  the  register,  adding  that 
no  fees  could  be  demanded  if  I  made  the  search 
myself.  I  gaye  the  clerk  the  opportunity  of  pro- 
ducing the  registers  in  ten  minutes  or  being  re- 
ported to  the  archdeacon.  He  wisely  "cayed 
in."  If  there  is  any  doubt  as  to  this  yiew  of  the 
question  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  enlightened  on 
the  subject,  as  I  am  on  the  point  of  seardiing 
some  registers  where  it  is  possible  objection  may  be 
made  to  my  so  doing.  If  fees  could  be  demanded 
for  priyate  eearches,  the  occupation  of  the  genea- 
logist would  be  gone.  R  P.  H. 

Is  Mr.  Arthur  Smith  aware  of  the  proyisions 
of  the  Act  6  &  7  Will.  lY.,  a  86,  s.  33  ?— 


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"  Every  rector,  yicar,  or  curate,  and  every  registrar, 
registering  officer,  and  secretary,  who  shall  have  the 
keeping  for  the  time  being  of  any  register  book  of 
births,  deaths,  or  marriages,  shall  at  all  reasonable  times 
allow  searches  to  be  made  of  any  register  book  in  his 
keeping,  and  shall  give  a  copy  certified  under  his  hand 
of  any  entry  or  entries  in  the  same  on  payment  of  the 
fee  heremafter  mentioned;  (that  is  to  say,)  for  every 
search  extending  over  a  period  of  not  more  than  one 
year  the  sum  of  one  shilling,  and  sixpence  additional 
for  every  additional  year,  and  the  sum  of  two  shillings 
and  sixpence  for  every  single  certificate." 

Edward  H.  Marshaix. 

E.  Brocklksbt:  Music  ab  Mbdictnb  (6*^  S. 
T.  245). — It  may  interest  Mr.  A.  Whbelsr,  and 
those  who  have  read  his  note  on  Dr.  Brocklesby's 
tract,  to  know  that  a  tract  on  the  same  subject 
was  published  twenty  years  earlier,  with  this  title: 

"Medicina  Mustca:  or,  A  Mechanical  Essay  on  the 
Effects  of  Singing,  Musick,  and  Dancing,  on  Human 

Bodies By  Richard  Browne,  Apothecary  in  Oakham, 

in  the  County  of  Butland.    London,  xdooxxix." 

I  do  not  know  how  rare  this  little  book  may  be ; 
I  haye  never  seen  any  copy  but  my  own.  It  has 
125  pages,  in  addition  to  title,  dedication,  and 
preface  (together  8  £}.        Julian  Marshall. 

Mrs.  Masham  and  Sarah,  Duchess  of 
Marlborough  (6**  S.  v.  248). — Earl  Stanhope,  in 
his  History  of  England^  eompriting  the  Reign  of 
Queen  Anne  untU  the  Fectce  of  Utrecht  (second  ed., 
p.  400),  says:— 

'*  This  anecdote  is  for  its  truth  mainly  dependent  on 
tradition,  nor  is  it  clear  at  what  precise  period  it  oc- 
curred. But  it  seems  the  rather  entitled  to  credit  as 
being  expreraly  recorded  by  Voltaire,  who  was  in  Lon- 
don not  very  many  years  afterwards,  who  had  access  to 
the  best  companies,  and  who  found  means  to  collect  the 
most  authentic  information." 

Earl  Stanhope  quotes  the  passage  from  Voltaire  in  a 
note,  giving  a  reference  to  the  Steele  ds  Louie  XIV,, 
▼ol.  L  p.  371,  ed.  1752,  and  adding  that  "  on  the 
etory  Scribe  has  framed  his  oomedy  Le  Verre 
d'Eau,  first  acted  Nov.  17,  1840." 

G.  Fisher. 

.    The  story  is  given  by  Voltaire  as  follows  :— 

"  Quelques  paires  de  gants  d'une  fsj^on  singuliire  que 
la  duchesse  refusa  &  la  reine,  une  jatte  d'eau  qu*eiie 
laissa  tomber  en  sa  presence  par  une  m^prise  afrect^e 
eur  la  robe  de  Mrs.  Masham,  changdrent  la  face  de 
VEarope."— Steele  de  Louis  XI V^  vol.  i.  p.  371,  ed.  1752. 

Messrs.  Masson  and  Prothero,  who  have  edited 
a  portion  of  the  SiUU  de  Louie  XIV,  for  the  Pitt 
Press,  have  the  following  annotation  on  this 
passage : — 

" '  Ce  conte,  adopts  avec  trop  de  cr6dulit£,  n'a  au- 
cune  esp^ce  de  fondement;  et  Laharpe  I'a  pulv6ris6 
avec  toute  la  superiority  de  sa  logique  dans  sa  Refutation 
^u  Sopkimet  d'Helvetiut '  {Biogr.  Universelle).  :Never- 
theless,  Lord  Stanhope  {Reign  of  Queen  Anne)  is  in- 
clined to  believe  that  the  incident  really  took  place,  on 
the  ground  that  Voltaire  was  in  London  not  long  after, 
and  was  in  a  position  to  collect  authentic  information.'* 
F.  G.  BiRKBBCK  TbRRT. 


The  Date  of  the  First  Easter  (6"»  S.  t. 
125). — If  there  be  no  error  in  the  calculation, 
Easter  Sunday  will  fall  on  April  9  only  three 
times  before  the  year  1999  inclusive,  viz.,  in  the 
years  1939,  1944,  and  1960.     William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

The  late  T.  Purland,  Ph.D.,  M.  A.,  &a  (6«* 
S.  ▼.  168). — This  gentleman  practised  as  a  dentist 
in  London  from  the  year  1830  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  took  place  August  16,  1881.  He 
was  bom  Jan.  6,  1805,  and  lived  during  the  last 
thirty  years  of  his  life  in  Mortimer  Street,  Caven- 
dish Square.  His  library  was  sold  at  Hodgson's, 
Chancery  Lane,  on  Thursday,  March  16,  1882. 
The  book  referred  to  was  purchased  for  the  sum  of 
162.;  it  is  described  in  the  catalogue  as  "  Recollec- 
tions of  Vauxhall,  by  T.  Purland,  a  collection  of 
twenty-five  water-colour  sketches  executed  in 
1859;  Sayers's  carious  old  prints  in  the  style  of 
Hogarth;  other  prints  by  Bartolozzi,  Stothard, 
&c;  cuttings,  playbills,  programmes,  and  songs 
relating  to  this  once  popular  place  of  amusement, 
in  1  vol  royal  4tOb  half-bonnd." 

Frrdsrto  Boasx. 

15,  Queen  Anne's  Gate,  8.W. 

If  J.  B.  D.  will  look  at  Messrs.  Hodgson's 
advertisement,  which  appeared  in  "N.  &  Q.''  for 
March  16,  he  will  find  an  answer  to  the  last  part 
of  this  query.  G.  F.  B.  B. 

A  Coat  of  Arms  (6«»  S.  v.  168).— Perhaps 
the  following  reference  may  help  your  correspon- 
dent : — 

"  As.,  on  a  chevron  arg..  between  three  leopards*  heads 
erased  or,,  three  [as  manyl]  spearheads  sa.  Price,  Brvn-y- 
Pys,  CO.  Flint;  and  Castle  Lyons,  Ireland.  Price, 
baronetcy,  1813,  quartering  CleToland  and  Poleston."— 
Papworw,  p.  522. 

F.  Ai  B. 

"CocK-A-DoBBT"  (6»  S.  V.  169).— Allies,  in 
bis  Antiquities  and  Folk-lore  of  Worcestershire,  a 
county  in  which  Dobbie  and  its  derivatives  occur 
several  times  as  field-names,  quotes  from  Archceo- 
logia,  vol.  xviL  p.  144,  a  long  account  of  the 
characteristics  of  this  race  of  fairies.  He  suggests, 
led  thereto  by  the  &ct  that  a  countryman  still 
(Ma  a  horse  '^  dobbin,''  that  it  is  a  form  of 
"  hobby."  At  p.  412  of  his  book  above  mentioned 
(second  edition)  will  be  found  much  curious  in- 
formation about  Hobs  and  Dobbies.       Vioorn. 

"Manifest"  (6*  S.  v.  149).  — The  usuaUy 
accepted  derivation  of  this  word  is  from  manus 
and  obsolete /«nd€re,  found  in  defendere,  &c.  Prot 
Skeat,  in  his  Diet.,  s.v.,  says:  *'Lat.  mani-  for 
manU',  crude  form  of  manus,  the  hand  ;  and 
-/«eui=-fedtus,  -fendtus,  pp.  of  obs.  Yerh  fendere, 
to  strike."  This  derivation  is  given  also  in  the 
Latin  Diet,  of  Messrs.  Lewis  and  Short,  with  the 
explanation  "  that  one  hits  by  the  hand."    Speak- 


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ing  of  the  Greek  root  Oev-,  which  appears  as  fen- 
in  LatiD,  Curtias,  in  his  Ontk  Etymology,  toL  L 
p.  317^  remarks:  "Corssen,  Beitr^  183,  is  right  in 
placing  also  mani-fei-tu-Bf  in-fes-tn-s,  'storminff 
against/  under  this  head,  Naektr,^  247,  fus-ti-sJ' 
I&by,  howeyer,  in  his  Lot.  Qrammar  giyes  mant- 
/Mttu=hand-Btmck,  with  a  qaery.  He  says,  toL  L 
p.  220:  "  Ferire  seems  a  suitable  verb  to  which  to 
refer  inftstus  and  manifaiAJU,  &c.  J^ender^,  to 
which  these  forms  are  often  referred,  both  ought  to 
make,  and  does  make,  ftmva,  not/ufiM."  In  Dr. 
Smithes  Lat  Diet  the  derivation  is  given  as  from 
manu$  and  root  fat,  to  bind,  with  a  reference  to 
faSj  which,  however,  most  probably  has  for  its 
root  fa-;  cf.  fari,  ^dvat.  Sub  "  Fas  "  Dr.  Smith 
speaks  only  of  a  probable  root. 

F.  0.  BiREBSGE  TeRRT. 

The  word  is  referred  to  the  Lat  /m,  as  root  of 
fendOf  by  Corssen  and  Ourtius  and  Yanicek, 
manifesUu  being  thus  mani^/uttM,  stricken  by  the 
hand  ;  festut,  as  if  fend-tuSf  fedrUu,  fes-tus.  Cf. 
Yanicek,  Oriech,-L<U,  Etymol.  WorUrhuch,  p.  391; 
Gurtius,  Greek  Etymol  (Eng.  ed.),  p.  317.  This 
appears  to  involve  saying  that  inrfend-iui  makes 
both  infensus  and  infai^,  which  is  an  awkward- 
ness ;  and  it  leads  to  a  difficulty  about  con/etHm, 
and  about  feitinare,  which  Yanicek  classes  with 
fendOy  while  Gurtius  says  it  is  "irreconcilable." 
For  a  different  suggestion,  connecting /^nVe,  feria, 
festuSf  manifetUitf  see  RobVs  Latin  Orammar, 
vol.  L  p.  220,  §  704,  note  1;  but  this  creates  a  new 
difficulty  because  of  "  the  differing  quantities  of  e  " 
in  the  words.  0.  W.  Tancock. 

Dr.  Smith's  Latin-English  Dictumary,  16th  ed., 
1880,  suggests  as  the  etymology  of  this  word: 
'^Afanuiand  root /u,  to  bind;  y.fat;  hence  lit. 
hound  or  grasped  by  the  hand."  £.  H.  M. 

HastiDgs. 

Hawks  Family  (6**  8.  v.  149).— I  have  the 
**  grant  dated  1673,  from  Francis  Haw  Hawis,  of 
Stanton,  co.  Suffolk,  *  chirurgus,'  to  Richard  Futter, 
of  Stanton."  If  Mr.  Sawtbr  would  like  to  see 
this  and  will  communicate  with  me,  I  shall  be 
pleased.  G.  J.  Gray. 

3,  Fombroke  Street,  Cambridge. 

An  Esthhian  Fcnkbal  Custom  {B^  S.  v. 
186).— Compare  the  following  extract  from  the 
Qrapkie  of  March  4,  1882:— 

"  A  gipsy  funeral  recently  held  in  an  Alsatian  village 
shows  how  tenaciously  the  tribes  still  ding  to  pagan 
costoms.  The  corpse  was  shrouded  in  a  gannent  with 
two  pockets,  each  containing  a  twenty-franc  piece;  a 
bottle  of  wine  was  laid  on  the  right  side  of  the  deceased, 
and  a  package  of  beans  on  the  left,  a  bean  also  being 
placed  in  his  mouth.  Wax  tapera  were  burnt  round  the 
coffin,  which  was  subsequently  carried  round  the  grave- 
yard in  solemn  procession." 

Are  we  to  understand  that  this  is  a  custom  com- 
monly observed  at  a  gipsy  funeral  ?  Achb. 


Mbshbrism  no  Nrw  Thivq  (&^  S.  v.  187).— 
There  is  an  account  of  various  cures  by  stroking, 
performed  by  Mr.  Greatrakes,  in  the  FhU»  Trant. 
for  1699,  vol  xzi.  pp.  332-4. 

Gbo.  L.  Appxrson. 

Wunbledon. 

Kino  Charles's  Vision  (6*"»  S.  v.  168).— In 
Mastin's  History  of  Nauhy,  p.  186  tt  uq.,  is  an 
extract  from  Rastairs  History  of  Southwell,  nar- 
rating the  supposed  appearance  of  Strafford  to  King 
Charles ;  and  the  same  account  appears  in  a  foot- 
note in  Lockiuge's  Historieal  Gleanings  on  the 
Memorable  Field  of  Naseby  (p.  61)^  but  without 
any  acknowledgment  of  its  source.        F.  Tole. 

Adjectives  Pluralizsd  in  English  (6*^  S.  v. 
205,  251).— Let  me  explain  to  PRor.  Sebat  that 
until  my  retirement  from  the  army  my  life  was 
spent  in  distant  and  generally  scantily  populated 
colonies,  where  a  Shakespeare  or  a  part  of  his 
works  formed  one  of  my  few  literary  books,  at 
times  almost  the  only  one.  After  my  duties  and 
professional  reading  my  recreation  was  not  un- 
frequently  found  in  him.  Hence  Elizabethan 
Enpliah  and  literature  are  about  the  earliest  with 
which  I  can  really  claim  acquaintance,  and  in 
Batman  the  occurrence  of  these  plurals  in  only 
one  page  struck  me  as  curious  in  itself,  and  un- 
known to  me  in  other  instances. 

Br.  Nicholson. 

It  may  be  worth  while  noticing,  as  a  survival  of 
what  was  once  a  common  usage,  that  Shakespeare 
has  the  expression  ^Metiers  patents"  more  than 
once.    Cf.:— 

<<  Call  in  the  leUers  paienis  that  he  hath 
By  his  attorneys-general  to  sue 
His  livery."  Hieh,  2L,  II.  i.  202-4. 

And  for  a  still  later  instance: — 

"  We  show  no  monstroui  crocodile. 
Nor  any  prodigy  of  Nile ; 
No  Remora  that  stops  jrour  fleet. 
Like  sergeufUt  gaXlawU  in  the  street.*' 

The  City  Match,  1089,  III.  ii. 
F.  C.  BXREBBCE  TSRRT. 
Cardiff. 

Henrt  Marten,  the  Beoicide  (6^  S.  iv.  449  ; 
V.  50,  196).— Mr.  S.  Hillman  having  called 
attention  to  his  Handbook  of  Chepstow  (to  the 
usefulness  and  general  accuracy  of  which  I  am 
glad  to  have  this  opportunity  of  testifying),  it 
may  be  as  well  to  point  out  that  the  inscription  on 
Marten's  gravestone  in  Chepstow  Church  is  in- 
accurately given  in  the  Handbook.  The  correct 
inscription,  as  it  originally  appeared,  may  be 
found  in  Coxe's  Monm^mtMhire,  The  arms  are 
also  wrongly  described  as  Argent,  two  bends  azure, 
iustead  of  Argent,  two  bars  gules.  The  precise 
date  of  Marten's  death  seems  to  be  unknown  ;  the 
inscription  only  gives  that  of  his  burial,  viz.. 


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Not.  9, 1680.  I  may  ftdd  that  the  parish  registen 
of  Chepstow  are  imperfect,  and  do  not  record  the 
bsrial  of  the  regicide. 

A.  E.  Lawson  Lowe^  F.S.A. 
Shirenewton  Hall,  near  Chepstow. 

Mart  Quvkn  of  Scots  :  ths  Ck>LonR  of 
HBR  Hair  (6«»»  S.  iv.  486  ;  v.  114,  218,  231).— 
The  question  here  started  by  my  friend  Mr. 
Chapman  is  one  of  great  interest,  leading  per- 
chance into  regions  not  heretofore  much  discossed, 
but  which  may  prore  of  some  Talue  to  antiquaries. 
I  some  years  ago  read  an  account  of  a  secret  society 
—in  Vienna,  I  think,  but  did  not  make  a  note  at 
the  time — where  the  colour  of  the  hair,  oi'',  if  the 
hair  could  not  be  changed,  of  the  ribbons  in  it,  had 
Tery  great  significance.  Can  any  one  refer  me  to 
any  authorities  on  the  subject  ? 

Cornelius  Walford. 

Belsixe  Park  Gardens,  K.W. 

Half-Binding  (6^  S.  v.  127,  235).— I  have  a 
curious  specimen  of  half-binding,  if  it  can  properly 
80  be  called.  The  boards  are  covered  with  vellum 
stained  dark  green  and  with  a  few  simple  lines 
blind-tooled  on  them,  while  the  back  and  comers 
are  of  thick  impressed  pigskin.  The  green  stain 
appears  to  have  oeen  put  on  the  vellum  after  the 
back  and  comers  were  fixed.  The  book  is  an 
octavo  Lmoon  Flautinum,  published  at  Frankfort 
in  1614.  £.  £.  Strbbt. 

Chiohester. 

St.  Maroarbt's  Chitrchtard,  Westminster 
{e^  S.  V.  128,  171,  213,  234).— The  "  new  inscrip- 
tion on  the  raised  altar  tomb "  certainly  does  not 
tally  with  the  old  one.  According  to  the  former 
the  age  of  Maiy,  wife  of  Alexander  Davies,  Esq., 
ia  calculated  to  have  been  fifty-seven  years  less 
than  that  of  her  husband,  whilst  according  to  the 
latter  it  b  only  seven  years.  This  seems  to  be 
the  more  probable  reading.  Nothing  is  more  likely 
than  that  some  careless  stonemason  should  improve 
the  figure  3  into  8,  and  so  make  the  "  est,  30 ''  of 
the  old  inscription  into ''  at  80  "  of  the  new.  I 
am  afraid  that  this  may  not  be  a  solitary  instance 
of  a  monumental  inscription  losing  its  value  by  the 
process  of  "renewing,''  refreshing,  or  restoring  by 
Ignorant  and  irresponsible  woncmen.  But  the 
practice  of  tampering  with  old  inscriptions  is  veiy 
nearly  as  reprehensible  as  that  of  effecting  their 
destraction  under  the  specious  veil  of  '*  church 
restoration."  T.  W.  W.  S. 

Oranbome. 

"Bunker's  Hill"  (6*  S.  iv.  48,  255 ;  v.  57, 
175). — The  subject  of  the  derivation  of  this  name 
was  discussed  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  ^  S.  v.  191;  xlL 
100, 178,  199,  299  ;  3»^  S.  L  236,  437;  and  I  was 
somewhat  surprised  to  learn  that  there  \a  a  pLice 
bearing  this  name  near  Birmingham,  a  fact  I 


was  not  acquainted  with  before.  At  one  of  the 
above  references  I  find  that  there  is  ''a  rising 
ground  on  Lord  Scott's  estate,  in  Warwickshire, 
called  Bunker's  HilL"  Seeing  that  the  term  is  so 
common,  occurring,  as  it  has  been  proved  to  do  by 
the  numerous  instances  given  by  correspondents  at 
the  above  references,  at  so  many  distant  points  as 
a  name  for  slight  elevations,  farms,  &o.,  there  must 
be  some  reason  for  the  similarity  of  its  use,  and  for 
its  being  bestowed  upon  so  many  different  spots 
in  this  country.  I  now  consider,  from  the  name 
being  applied  to  such  various  localities  and  pre- 
mises, that  it  is  very  improbable  that  they  derive 
such  name  from  the  growth  of  the  hemlock  and 
other  pluits,  for  which  "bunk"  is  the  loenian 
name,  as  mentioned  by  me  6^  S.  iv.  256,  or  that 
it  can  be  derived  from  a  surname.  In  "  N.  &  Q.," 
1"*  S.  X.  60,  it  is  stated  that  the  name  Bunker  is 
corrupted  from  Bon  ciosu,r.  If  the  name  can  be 
proved  not  to  have  been  in  use  to  denote  the 
several  places  previous  to  1775,  when  the  battle  of 
Bunker's  Hill  was  fought,  we  can  safely  assume 
that  it  was  given  in  consequence  of  that  famous 
event ;  and  at  present  I  hold  to  this  view  of  its 
origin,  as  no  correspondent  has  given  a  conclusive 
instance  of  its  use,  from  documents  or  otherwise, 
previous  to  that  date,  and  my  opinion  is  confirmed 
by  the  remarks  of  Mr.  Kerr  {anU^  p.  175)  as  to 
villages,  &c.,  in  the  north  of  Ensland  being  named 
after  famous  battles  which  took  place  almost  in 
the  same  generation  as  that  of  Bunker's  Hill,  which 
places,  moreover,  are  in  dose  contiguity  to  two,  if 
not  more, "  Bunker's  Hills."  It  would  be  as  natmrad 
and  as  correct  to  name  a  farm,  a  new  village,  or  a 
little  natural  elevation  after  a  striking  and  much- 
talked-of  event  of  the  time,  while  it  was  engaging 
every  one's  attention,  as  it  is  to  name  a  newly 
opened  public-house  or  shop  in  the  like  manner. 
Such  a  custom  having  been  adopted  often  enables 
us  to  fix  approximately  the  period  at  which  the 
place  came  into  existence.  This  view  of  the  origin 
of  the  name  will,  I  think,  be  found  to  be  the  correct 
one.  Qeoroe  Price. 

Hi,  Bath  Bow,  Birmingham. 

''Felix  quem  faciunt  aliena  fbrioitla 
cautum"  (1*»  S.  iiL  373,  431,  482  ;  iv.  75;  x. 
235 ;  6^  S.  v.  113). — Mr.  Bugklet  has  referred 
to  the  source  of  this  line  as  occurring  in  a  couplet 
by  Nigellus  de  Wireker,  6.  a.d.  1200,  and  has  also 
shown  that  the  line  itself,  which  varies  in  the 
sequence  of  the  words  from  the  expression  in  the 
couplet,  occurs  in  a  commentary  on  Tibullus  by 
Cyllenius  in  1475,  which  still  remains,  therefore, 
the  earliest  place  for  the  occurrence  of  the 
single  line  itself,  the  ''vulgo  jactatus  versus,"  as 
Erasmus  terms  it,  who  also  gives  a  parallel  to  it  in 
the  verse  of  Plautus,  which  contains  a  similar 
reference  to  the  sentiment  as  being  well  known:— 
"  Yetoi  id  dictom  est:  ' Feliciter  is  aaplt,  qui  perioulo 
alieno  lapit.* "  Men.  IV.,  t.  40. 


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In  ft  aennon  before  the  king  in  1649  Latimer 
makes  use  of  the  line  in  this  way  :  ^'  The  proyerbe 
is:— 

'  Felix  quern  faoinni  aliena  perionla  cantum.' 

Happy  is  he  that  can  beware  by  an  other  mans 
ieoperay  ^  (Latimer's  8tvm  SernumSy  Lon.,  Arber, 
1869,  Serm.  iL  p.  61). 

It  remains  open  for  oonjectnre — ^Mr.  Bucbxbt 
will  forgire  my  saying  so — whether  the  lines  of 
Nigellas  de  Wireker  are  an  expansion  of  the  pro- 
yerb,  or  the  proverb  a  contraction  of  the  lines. 
There  are  several  parallel  or  similar  passages,  at 
the  title  ''Alieno  pericolo/'  in  Adagio,  Typis 
Wechel.,  1629.  Ed.  Marshall. 

Sakctus  Bbll  Ootbs  (6«»  S.  iv.  147,  433 ;  v. 
96). — There  is  one  in  the  ohorch  of  Branoepetb, 
near  Durham.  R  B. 

BooK-PLATss  WITH  Grxbk  Mottobs  (6*^  S.  iv. 
266,  414,  497). — I  have  only  two  such  plates  in 
my  collection — that  of  Gkoige  Whipple  with  the 
motto,  tlfil  6  tlfily  and  a  seoond  haylDg  on  it 
the  name  Wilton  beneath  a  shield  bearing  the 
following  coat  of  arms,  Sa.,  three  water-bongets 
arg.,  with  the  motto,  rov  dylava  rov  KaXhv 
'yy6vurfJMu  They  mast  be  very  uncommon,  for 
in  The  Handbook  of  Mottoes,  oat  of  six  thousand 
collected  by  Mr.  Elvin,  only  eleyen  Greek  ones 
are  given.  E.  Farrbr. 

BreanDgham,  Diss. 

Bessels  of  Bb88bl8lxigh^  00.  Berks  (6^ 
S.  iv.  637  ;  v.  166,  217).— W.  G.  D.  F.  wiU  find 
all  the  information  he  requires  in  the  new  edition 
of  Sir  Thomas  Elyot's  Oovemowr,  0. 

"Boughs"  (6**»  S.  v.  168).— When  the  term 
rough  was  ^  first  applied  to  the  low  and  dangerous 
classes  *'  I  cannot  venture  to  say.  I  first  hcMurd  it 
so  applied  soon  after  the  passing  of  the  first 
Reform  Bill  A  relative  of  mine  was  describing 
the  riotous  proceedings  of  a  mob  at  an  election, 
and  I  noticed  that  he  called  the  ruffians  "  rufis." 
The  word  has  long  since  been  written  roughiy  and 
the  origin  of  it  is  apparently  forgotten. 

Jatdeb. 

This  word  is  given  in  The  Slang  Dictionary 
(J.  Camden  Hotten,  1864),  and  is  defined  as 
"coarse  or  vulgar  men."  Mr.  E.  Edwards^  in 
his  Wordsy  Facts,  and  Phrases,  1882,  says  :— 

"GliarleB  Dickens  {All  ihe  Tear  Hound,  Oct.  10, 
1808)  said,  '  I  entertain  so  strong  an  objection  to  the 
euphonious  softening  of  ruffian  into  rough,  which  has 
lately  become  popular,  that  I  restore  the  right  reading 
on  the  heading  of  this  paper.'  The  paper  was  '  The 
Buffian,  by  the  Uncommercial  Traveller.'  ^ 

What  evidence  is  there  that  rough  thus  used  is  an 
abbreviation  of  ruffian  ? 

F.  0.  BiREBBCK  TiRRT. 
Oardiir. 


Mbv  who  hate  Died  oir  their  Birthdats 
(e^  S.  iv.  610 ;  V.  116).— The  following  extract^ 
horn  the  Whitby  B^sitory,  for  July,  1826 
(voL  iL  p.  218),  is  curious  and  worthy  of  records — 

*'  The  following  Epitaph  was  copied  in  1766  from  a 
flat  tomb-stone  in  Whitby  church-yard,  near  the  chancel 
door,  but  now  illegible : — 

'  Here  lies  the  Uklies  of  Francis  Huntrods  and  Mary 
his  wife  who  were  both  bom  on  the  same  day  of  the 
Week  Month  and  Tear— that  is  on  the  zix  day  of  Sep- 
tember 1600,  they  were  both  married  on  the  day  of  their 
birth  known  by  the  name  of  their  birth-day  they  lived  to- 

gither  until  they  had  xn  children  born  unto  them  then 
yed  aged  80  years  and  on  the  same  day  of  their  birth 
and  nuurriage  the  one  not  above  v  hours  before  the  other 
on  the  XIX  day  of  September  1680.' " 

John  H.  Chapman^  F.S.A* 
Lincoln's  Inn. 

The  Namb  of  Oxford  (6«*  S.  iv.  265,  453 ; 
V.  95):— 

"  They  (Saxons)  left  very  few  Cities,  Townt,  Villages, 
Rivers,  Woods,  Fields,  Hills  or  Dales  in  BriUain,  which 
they  gave  not  new  names  unto.  As  the  name  of  Oxford, 
or  Oxmford,  on  the  River  of  Thames,  after  the  Town  of 
like  name  in  Oertnany,  situated  on  the  River  of  Oder," 
ko.  —  Choice  Obtervatum,  &c.,  by  Edward  Leigh,  Esq.. 
H.A.,  of  Magdalen  Hall,  in  Oxford,  166L 

Alfred  Ghas.  JoNAa 
Swansea. 

The  Episcopal  Wig  (6**»  S.  iv.  427,  493,  546  ; 
V.  36^  173). — Bishop  Bagot  was  the  first  bishop 
that  tried  to  get  rid  of  the  wig.  Georire  I\^ 
would  not  permit  its  disuse.  William  IV.  sooa 
after  his  accession  expressed  himself  thus  :—*^  Tell 
the  Bishop  [Blomfieid]  that  he  is  not  to  wear  a 
wig  on  my  account ;  I  dislike  it  as  much  as  he 
does,  and  shall  be  glad  to  see  the  whole  bench 
wear  their  own  hair "  {Memoir  of  Bishop  Blom- 
field,  voL  i.  p.  97X  See  also  Bishop  Sumnei^e 
(Winchester)  Life,  p.  110.  Of  the  latter  his  son 
writes  :—^  After  the  Bishop  of  Winchester's 
serious  illness  in  1832  he  left  off  wearing  his  wig 
habitually,  and  allowed  his  hair  to  grow  again. 
But  for  several  years  afterwards  he  wore  it  when- 
ever he  was  perfozminff  episcopal  functions." 

E.  Leaton  Blbnkinsopp. 

Wife  Ssllivo  (6^  S.  iiL  487^  612 ;  iv.  133  ; 
V.  68,  98).— Mr.  Bayner,  in  the  first  volume  of 
Old  Yorkshire  (p.  136),  gives  the  five  following  in- 
stances of  wife  selling  in  Yorkshire  : — 

"Alt  the  West  Bidinff  Sessions,  Jane  28th,  1887 a 

man  named  Joshna  Jackson  was  convicted  of  selling  his 
wife,  and  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  one  month  with 
hard  labour. — On  the  4  th  of  Feb.,  1806,  a  man  named 
George  Gowthorp.  of  Patrington,  sold  his  wife  in  the 
Market-place  of  Hull  for  the  sum  of  20  guineas,  and 
with  a  halter  delivered  her  to  a  person  named  House- 
man.— In  1815  a  man  held  a  regular  auction  in  the 
Market-place  at  Pontefraot,  offering  his  wife  at  the 
minunum  bidding  of  one  shilling,  and  'knocked  her 
down'  for  11  shilling'.*~In  1858,  in  a  beershop  in  Little 
Horton,  Bradford,  a  man  named  Hartley  Thompson  put 
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M  a  *  pretty  young  woman/  for  nle ;  be  eren  annonnced 
the  sue  beforehand  by  means  of  a  crier  or  bellman,  and 
brought  her  in  with  a  ribbon  round  her  neck,  by  way  of 

halter At  Selby,  in  the  month  of  December,  1862,  a 

man  publicly  sold  his  wife  on  the  steps  of  the  market- 
cross  for  a  pint  of  ale/' 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

"To  MAKE  A  LEG"  (6"»  S.  HI  149,  337,  375 ; 
iv.  215 ;  V.  57,  176). — ^We  go  on  making  legs,  as 
though  Dr.  Kigholson  had  asked  for  examples 
of  the  use  of  the  phrase  instead  of  seeking  an 
explanation  of  it.  This  Smyth's  MS.  Lives  of  ihs 
Berkeleys  soon  supplied  (6^  S.  iii.  338  and  375); 
but  if  further  quotations  containing  "  to  make  a 
leg"  be  desired,  here  are  three  from  Sir  Thomas 
Overbury's  CharaeUrs: — 

"  By  this  time  he  hath  learned  to  kiase  his  hand  and 
make  a  legge  both  together.*' — A  CoHfUry  OtnUeman, 

"  When  be  comes  on  the  stage  at  his  prize  he  makes  a 
legge  seven  aererall  ways."— il»  ordinarxe  Fencer, 

**  He  had  rather  see  Antichrist  than  a  picture  on  a 
church  window,  and  chuseth  sooner  to  be  false  hanged 
than  see  a  leg  at  the  name  of  Jesus  or  stand  at  the 
creede.*'— il  Frecinaau 

St.  Swithin. 

Are  Toads  Poisonous  ?  (e^  S.  iv.  429 ;  v.  32, 
173.) — After  recounting  instances  of  toads  taken 
inwardly  without  any  eyil  effects,  Goldsmith,  in 
bis  Animated  Nature  (yoL  viL  p.  lOO),  proceeds 
thus : — 

"From  all  this  it  will  appear  with  what  injustice  this 
animal  has  hitherto  been  treated.  It  has  undergone 
erery  reproach ;  and  mankind  have  been  taught  to  con- 
sider as  an  enemy,  a  creature  that  destroys  that  insect 
tribe  which  are  their  real  iuTaders.  We  are  to  treat, 
therefore,  as  fables,  those  accounts  that  represent  the 
toad  as  posseised  of  poison  to  kill  at  a  distance ;  of  its 
ejecting  its  Tenom,  which  bums  wherever  it  touches ;  of 
its  infecting  those  vegetables  near  which  it  resides ;  of 
its  ezeessiTe  fondness  for  sage,  which  it  renders  poisonous 
by  its  approach;*  these,  and  a  hundred  others  of  the 
same  kind,  probably  took  rise  from  an  antipathy  which 
some  hare  to  all  animals  of  the  kind.  It  is  a  harmlea^ 
defencelesi  creature,  torpid  and  unvenotMUt,  and  seeking 
the  darkest  retreats,  not  from  the  malignity  of  its  nature, 
but  the  multitude  of  its  enemies." — HitUyry  qfthe  Earth 
and  Ammated  Nature,  by  Oliyer  Goldsmith,  London, 

XDCCLXXIY.,  8  TOIS.  8tO. 

William  Platt, 
Gallis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

If  it  be  true  that  toads  emit  venom  from  their 
mouths,  the  Dowager  Princess  of  Wales,  mother 
of  Gkorge  III.,  must  haye  been  ill  advised  when 
she  sought  relief  from  their  aid  in  a  case  of  cancer. 
Junius,  writing  to  Woodfall  on  December  5,  1771, 
says,  "  What  do  you  mean  by  affirming  that  the 
Dowager  is  better?  I  tell  you  that  she  suckles 
toads  from  morning  till  night."  Her  Royal  High- 
ness died  in  a  few  weeks  after  this ;  but  we  may 


*  In  allusion,  perhaps,  to  Boccaccio's  tale  of  Paiquino 
and  Simona,  the  tragic  interest  of  which  depends  solely 
on  the  supposition  that  the  venom  of  a  toad  had  poisoned 
a  cluster  of  sage  plants. 


be  pardoned  for  doubting  whether  the  event  was 
in  any  way  connected  with  the  '*  suckling"  of 
toads.  0.  Robs. 

"Nishahi-Imtiaz"  (6*S.  iv.  512  ;  v.  33, 118X 
— These  words  would  be  more  correctly  spelt  in 
English  characters  Nishdn^i-Imiiy^z,  They  are 
borrowed  from  the  Persian,  and  mean  literally  the 
Order  of  Distinction.  W.  F.  Pbidkaux. 

Calcutta. 

Talk-o'-the-Hill  (6«>  S.  iv.  288, 521).— This  is 
the  name  of  a  village  on  a  height  in  the  parish  of 
Audeley,  Staffordshire.  The  Celtic  for  a  height  is 
tulaeh;  the  ch  is  guttural,  but  some  people  find  it 
easier  to  sound  it  like  k.  The  height  was  called 
Tulaeh ;  the  village  built  on  it  took  the  same 
name.  A  generation  came  which  knew  not  the 
meaning  of  tulachy  and  added  on-the-Hill  to  the 
name.  In  Gaelic  Udaek  is  a  general  name  for  a 
hiU,  and  is  also  the  individual  name  of  many 
heights.  Thomas  Stratton. 

I  have  heard  it  asserted,  but  very  many  years 
ago,  that  this  place  derived  its  name  from  a  council 
of  war  held  there  by  Prince  Oharles  Edward  in 
1745,  when  on  his  march  to  Derby.  But  adverse 
to  this  theory  is  the  fact  that  the  place  lies  con- 
siderably to  the  right  of  the  road  from  Maccles- 
field to  Leek,  through  both  of  which  towns  it  is  an 
established  fact  that  he  passed. 

John  Pickford,  M.A* 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Belfry  (6^  S.  v.  104, 158,  189,  271).— I  copy 
the  following  from  Du  Chaillu's  Land  of  the  Mid- 
night Sun,  voL  ii.  p.  278:— 

"In  Northern  Osterdal  is  found  a  peculiar  kind  of 
buildings  called  bar/ro.  This  form  is  also  rerr  old,  and 
should  the  tower  be  taken  away  the  house  would  remain 
intact— a  primitiye  type,  with  the  fire-place  in  the  centre. 
In  front  of  the  door  is  a  square  porch,  sometimes  of 
horizontal  timben,  but  oftener  of  posts,  with  plank  walls  ; 
a  flight  of  stairs  leads  up  to  a  small  square  room  used  for 
clothing,  but  also  as  a  sleeping-room ;  this  front  part  is 
called  barfro.  The  origin  can  be  traced  to  the  ancient 
Germanic  language,  now  known  only  by  old  manuscripts, 
where  its  name  was  berevril,  which  reads  UrhJriL  The 
first  syllable  is  related  to  the  Norwegian  hjerge  (to  pre- 
serve, to  keep),  the  last  is  the  same  as  fred  (peace).  In 
France  it  is  called  loKlay  herjroit  or  ber/roi,  hence  the 
English  name  belfry.  The  use  of  this  kind  of  tower 
spread  to  Denmark,  and  finally  to  Norway,  where  it  at 
present  is  found  only  in  Oiterdal." 
The  illustration  shows  the  little  room  over  the 
porch  rising  in  a  tower-like  form  above  the  rest  of 
the  house,  which  is  of  one  story  only. 

J.  H.  Cooes. 

Berkeley. 

Anderson's  "Book  of  British  Topography'' 
(6**»  S.  V.  245).— If  you  could  devote  some  space, 
at  intervals,  in  **  N.  &  Q."  to  the  insertion  of  lists 
of  the  rarer  topographiod  books  not  to  be  found 


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in  the  British  Mnseam  it  would  form  a  yaluable 
addenda  to  Mr.  Anderson's  work.  The  greatest 
praise  is  dae  to  Mr.  Anderson  for  the  W9iy  be  has 
performed  his  laborious  task,  and  the  value  of  the 
Dook  to  collectors  of  county  histories  will  be  im- 
mense. It  will  also  save  much  of  the  time  of 
those  who  frequent  the  British  Museum  Library. 

For  Northamptonshire  there  are  several  very  im- 
portant additions  needed,  which  I  shall  be  happy 
to  supply  for  your  columns.  The  following  cor- 
rections in  the  Northamptonshire  portion  may  be 
noted  : — 

P.  224.  Norden's  Speeuli  Britanics. — No  map  is 
known  to  be  published. 

P.  224.  Bridge's  Noriham'pUmthire,-''No  title- 
page  published,  and  not  continued  after  p.  164  in 
this  edition  by  Dr.  Jebb. 

P.  225.  Architectural  Notices. — ^Last  part  should 
be  16. 

P.  225.  Baker,  John  J.— Should  be  John  L. 

P.  226.  Watkins's  Basilica  Political.— Should 
be  Palati^ 

P.  229.  Rooke's  Salcey  Forest,  date  1798.— 
Should  be  1797. 

P.  240.  Astrop. — Oxfordshire  should  be  North- 
amptonshire. John  Tatlor. 

Northampton. 

«  The  Felon's  Wife  "  (Q^  S.  v.  246).— I  am 
much  obliged  to  a  kind  correspondent  (alas  !  she 
is  anonymous)  who  has  copied  out  this  song  for 
me,  and  who  refers  me  to  Barry  Cornwall.  I  now 
find  that  it  occurs  in  English  Songs,  by  B.  Corn- 
wall, 1632,  song  114,  p.  140.  I  may  remark, 
though  I  dare  say  it  has  been  observed  before,  that 
Bryan  Waller  Procter  becomes,  by  an  anagram, 
Peter  Barry  Cornwall.        Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Cambridge. 

Ehtmeless  Words  (6*  S.  v.  46, 173).— Let  me 
4idd  to  the  list  of  words  incapable  of  rhyme  the 
word  chimney,  for  which,  if  1  am  not  mistaken, 
a  reward  was  offered.  It  is  very  possible  that 
a  rhyme  may  be  given  for  this  and  other  words 
•equally  difficult  in  the  very  clever  writings  of  the 
Hoods,  father  and  son,  and  of  the  author  of  the 
Ingoldshy  Legends,  0.  L.  Chambers. 

Headingley,  Leeds. 

The  Ofpice  of  Bailiff  (6«^  S.  v.  149).— In 
one  of  the  charters  granted  to  Bristol,  Ed.  lY., 
1461-2,  it  is  enacted  that  the  bailiffs  and  officers 
flhall  "levy  and  collect  the  fines,  redemptions, 
issues  forfeited,  amercements,  forfeitures,  and  other 
profits  aforesaid  from  those  persons  who  shall  be 
in  and  of  the  town  of  Bristol  and  suburbs  of  the 
eame,  as  we  and  our  heirs  should  have  collected 
them,  if  they  should  have  belonged  to  us  and  our 
heirs "  (Seyer's  Charters,  p.  124).  At  the  above 
period  Bristol  had  one  sheriff  and  two  bailiffs,  but 
^evious  to  1372  there  was  no  sheriff,  but  the 


duties  of  the  shrievalty  devolved  upon  the  two 
bailiffs,  who  in  1314  had  succeeded  to  the  office 
and  duties  performed  by  two  seneschals  or  stewards, 
who,  again,  in  1268  had  themselves  succeeded  "  the 
two  grave  and  worshipful  men  who  were  called 
prepositors."  Under  charter  of  Henry  YIL,  1499, 
the  bailiffs  of  the  town  of  Bristol  were  also  made 
sheriffs  of  the  county  of  Bristol,  with  authority  to 
hold  county  courts,  to  make  their  "  prefers,"  and  to 
render  the  accounts  at  the"exchecquer  of  their  baili- 
wick" (Seyer's  Ckarters,  pp.  146,  147,  149).  From 
the  above  we  g^ather  that  the  bailiff  was  a  superior 
servant  or  minister  of  the  authorities,  who  them- 
selves again  represented  their  sovereign  (the  mayor 
of  Bristol  was  the  king's  escheator). 

"  As  the  kind's  bailiff  it  is  bis  business  to  presenre  the 
rights  of  the  kin^  within  hii  bailiwick ;  for  so  bit  county 
is  frequently  called  in  the  writs— he  must  seize  to  the 
king*8  use  all  land  devolved  to  the  Crown  by  attainder 
or  escheat ;  must  levy  all  fines  and  forfeitures ;  must 
seize  and  keep  all  wufs,  wrecks,  estrays,  and  the  like, 
unless  they  be  granted  to  some  subject ;  and  must  also 
collect  the  king's  rents  within  the  bailiwick  if  com- 
manded by  process  from  the  Exchequer Bailiffs  of 

hundreds  are  appointed  by  the  sheriffs  to  collect  fines 
therein,  to  summon  juries,  to  attend  the  judges  and  justices 
at  the  assizes  and  quarter  sessions,and  also  to  execute  writs 

and  process  in  the  several  hundreds It  is  now  usual  to 

join  special  bailiffs  with  them ;  who  are  generally  mean 
persons,  employed  by  the  sheriffs  on  account  onlj  of  their 
adroitness  and  dexterity  in  hunting  and  seismg  their 
prey.  The  Sheriff  being  answerable  for  the  misdemeanour 
of  these  bailiffs,  they  are  therefore  usually  bound  in  an 
obligation  for  the  due  execution  of  their  office,  and  are 
thenoe  called  hound-bailiffs  [bumbailiffs]."— iJtodbfoas 
[by  Christian,  1800],  vol.  i.  pp.  344-6. 

J.  F.  KiGHOLLS,  F.S.A* 

Bristol. 

Under,  the  Anglo-Saxon  government  the  revenues 
of  the  8tate  were  collect^  in  each  shire  by  the 
shire  reve,  and  in  each  municipal  town  by  an 
elected  functionary,  oEJled  a  borough  reve  or  port' 
reve.  But  after  the  Conquest,  instead  of  the  elective 
Anglo-Saxon  reve,  there  was  placed  over  each  shire* 
a  Norman  viscount,  and  over  each  municipal  town 
a  bailiff,  appointed  by  the  Norman  king.  In  their 
desire  to  rid  themselves  of  the  royal  balUff, 
boroughs  offered  the  king  a  higher  sum,  to  be  col- 
lected by  and  from  themselves  and  transmitted 
directly  to  hb  exchequer,  than  he  could  farm  their 
town  for  to  an  individual,  and  hence  the  frequent 
charters  which  we  soon  find  issuing  to  one  town 
after  another.  The  interference  of  a  royal  provoet 
in  their  internal  concerns  being  thus  withdrawn, 
the  towns  returned  to  their  free  municipal  organi- 
zation. They  had  once  more  a  chief  administrator 
of  their  own  choice,  though  in  few  cases  was  he 
allowed  to  resume  either  of  the  old  designations, 
borough  reve  and  port  reve.  In  all  cases  he  now 
acted  as  bailiff  of  the  Norman  king,  and  accounted  at 
the  Exchequer  for  the  farm  or  crown  rent  of  the 
borough  ;  in  most  he  received  the  Norman  appella- 
tion of  mayor,  which,  denoting  in  that  language  a 


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manicipol  chief  officer,  was  less  odious  to  the  Anglo- 
Siucon  townsmen  than  that  of  bailiff,  though  in 
some  he  received  and  kept  the  title  of  bailiff  only. 
In  numerous  places  the  chief  municipal  officer  stul 
bears  this  name,e.$r.  the  High  Bailiff  of  Westminster. 
In  London  the  Lord  Mayor  is  at  the  same  time 
Bailiff  (which  title  he  bore  before  the  present  one 
became  usual).  We  have  also  the  bailiffs  of  the 
towns  of  Peyensey  and  Seaford,  &o.  The  duties 
of  bailiff  are  analogous  to  those  of  mayor.  By  the 
Municipal  Corporations  Act,  5  &  6  Wm.  lY. 
c  76,  the  title  of  mayor  is  given  to  the  chief 
municipal  officer  of  towns  incorporated  under  that 
Act    See  National  Cyehpedia,  &G. 

Walter  Eirkland^  F.RG.S. 

The  duties  of  bailiffs  of  manors  may  be  collected 
tiom  the  bailiff's  oath  in  J.  Eitohin's  "  Juritdic- 
tiom ;  or,  the  Lawful  Authority  of  Courti  Lett, 
Courts  Baron,  Ac:  Together  with a  most  Per- 
fect Directory  for  all  Stewards  of  any  of  the  said 
Courts.  Fourth  ed.  Lon.  1663,"  p.  93  ;  and  from 
the  form  of  deputation  from  &  lord  in  Th$  Complete 
Court-Keeper;  or,  Land  Steward! $  Jinitont,  by 
Oiles  Jacob,  Lon.  1724,  p.  74.  There  is  a  fall 
account  in  Blount's  Law  Dictionary,  Lond.  1691; 
and  in  Jacob's  Law  Bid.,  8th  ed.,  Lond.  1762. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

"Eetkard  the  Fox"  (6**  S.  iv.  63  ;  v.  236). 
— ^The  edition  of  Schopper's  Latin  translation,  1567, 
18  the  first  edition  and  has  the  cuts  of  Virgilius 
Jolis.  There  are  editions  of  1574,  1579,  1584, 
and  1595,  with  the  cuts  of  Jost  Amnion.  The  first  is 
rather  rare,  the  last  occur  frequently.        J.  W. 

Authors  op  Books  Wanted  (6"»  S.  v,  248).— 
Th4  CraniacL^The  advertisement  nys  there  were  two 

Sinons  engaged  in  its  composition ;  and  in  the  British 
lueum  copy  1  find  "  JeffreV  and  Gordon  "  pencilled.  A 
considerable  part  of  the  book  is  rersifications  of  passages 
in  the  physiognomical  system  of  Drs.  Oall  and  Spurs- 
heim.  J.  0. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac. 
Tke  Life  of  George  Cruikthank,    In  Two  Epochs.    By 

Blanchard  Jerrold.  2to]s.  (Ghatto  &  Windus.) 
CauiKSBAVK  literature  can  hardly  be  mid  to  be  a  rarity, 
UmBt  of  all  in  the  pages  of  **  N.  &  Q./'  where  Mr.  Bradley, 
Hr.  Ashbee,  and  Air.  Briscoe  have  recorded  their  recol- 
leetions.  Since  "Christopher  North"  issued  his  first 
hotsterons  laudations  in  Blaehoood  tot  July,  1823,  there 
has  been  a  long  succeuion  of  articles  upon  this  seductiTe 
theme.  None  of  them,  it  is  true,  for  generous  enthusiasm 
and  appreciatiTe  insight,  quite  approach  Thackeray's 
famous  critique  in  the  WutmintUr  for  August,  1840, 
recently  included  in  his  complete  works;  but  Mr.  Paget, 
Hr.  Sala  especially,  Mr.  Frederick  Wedmore,  Mr. 
Hamerton,  Mr.  Palgrave,  and  Mr.  W.  M.  Bossetti  hare 
all  written  more  or  less  ably  upon  the  subject  of 
"  gloriouf  George."  There  was  also  an  admirably  illus- 
trated pa])er  in  the  Cenfvry  (then  Serihn9r*i)  Magazine 
for  June,  1878,  some  of  the  cuts  to  which  we  seem  to  re- 
oognise  in  tiie  Tolomet  now  under  notice.    Besides  these 


there  are  Mr.  0.  W.  Beid's  catalogue  of  1871,  Mr. 
Hamilton's  lecture,  and  Mr.  William  Bates's  "  critico- 
bibliographical  essay,"  the  second  edition  of  which  is  a 
perfect  storehouse  of  Gruikshaak  ana,  and  a  capital 
medium  for  illustration  by  inserted  platef .  But  none  of 
these  efforts  can  exactly  be  called  **  biographical  '*  in 
the  generally  accepted  sense  of  the  term,  and  Mr. 
Jerrold*B  book  has  therefore  the  honour  (as  well  as  the 
responsibilities)  of  being  the  first  of  Its  kind.  He  has 
brought  toffetber  a  mass  of  most  interesting  material 
respecting  Cruikshank,  and,  as  might  be  expected  from 
BO  practised  a  pen,  has  arranged  it  with  considerable 
Ingenuity.  He  toket,  perhaps,  a  somewhat  larger  licence- 
of  citation  than  is  usual,  and  be  is  more  anecdotical  than 
critical ;  but  as  he  himself  speaki  of  his  work  as  mimoirep 
pour  ttrnr  merely,  it  would  be  unfair  to  blame  it  for  not 
being  more  than  it  professes  to  be.  Some  of  its  illustra- 
tions—a large  number  of  which  are  from  the  rare  "  More 
Momingsat  Bow  Street  "—are  excellent,  most  of  then^ 
are  good,  and,  in  an  effectiye  design  entitled  the  <<  Qin* 
Fiend,"  which  serree  as  frontispiece  to  vol.  ii.,  M.  Gua- 
tare  Bor6  has  lent  to  his  friend  s  enterprise  the  support 
of  his  pencil.  There  is  also  a  fao-iimile  of  an  amusing 
autograph  letter  addressed  to  Laman  Blanchard  at  p.  274 
of  Tol.  1.  Those  who  know  little  or  nothing  of  Gruik^ 
shank  will  find  in  Mr.  Jerrold*s  pages  a  thoroughly  read- 
able, though  rather  dispersed,  record  of  one  of  the  most 
powerful  caricaturists  since  Gillray  and  most  tragic- 
artists  since  Hogarth  ;  while  those  to  whom  much  of  his 
material  is  familiar  will  still  be  able  to  add  something  to 
their  stock  from  the  personal  and  hitherto  unpublished 
reminiscences  now  given.  Some  of  these— had  space 
permitted— we  should  hare  been  glad  to  quote.  Our  only 
regret  is  that,  while  Mr.  Jerrold's  own  memories  are- 
fresh,  and  those  of  Cruikshank's  more  recent  contem* 
poraries  are  still  procurable,  he  should  hare  been  content- 
to  give  us  what  he  himself  styles  "  dUitcta  membra**  in 
the  place  of  that  final  and  definitive  life  which  conse- 
quently remains  to  be  written,  the  more  especially  aa- 
there  seems  to  be  but  little  prospect  that  the  once  pro* 
mised  "autobiography"  will  ever  now  be  published. 
This  is  a  loss,  for,  despite  George's  *'  Roman  infirmity  *' 
of  boasting,  it  could  not  hare  failed  to  haye  been  a  rac^ 
and  graphic  production. 

Lecturet  on  Teaching.    By  J.  Q.  Fitch.    Third  Edition.. 

(Cambridge  Uniyersity  Press). 
Thk  profession  of  teaching  is  continually  adopted  by^ 
those  who  have  no  special  gifts  for,  or  traming  m,  their 
art,  to  the  destruction  of  their  own  tempers  and  the- 
delay  of  their  pupils*  progress.  The  want  of  some 
education  in  the  art  of  education  has  long  been  felt  and 
recognised,  and  the  University  of  Cambridge  in  1879* 
endeavoured  to  assist  teachers  by  proriding  lectureii  and 
examinations  in  the  theory  and  practice  of  education. 
Among  the  courses  of  lectures  delivered  in  furtherance- 
of  this  useful  object  were  those  of  Mr.  Fitch  which  are- 
contained  in  the  volume  before  us.  They  seem  to  us  to 
be  in  every  way  excellent ;  they  are  full,  detailed,  and 
BUKRestive,  showing  a  keen  appreciation  of  the  difficultiea 
in  the  way  both  of  master  and  pupil,  and  containing  a 
great  mass  of  practically  useful  hints.  The  subject  is 
not  one  which  is  considered  generally  attractive,  but 
these  lectures  are  so  interesting  in  treatment  and  so- 
enthusiastic  in  tone  that  they  ought  to  obtun  a  wid» 
circulation.  The  fact  that  the  volume  has  reached  a 
third  edition  is  some  proof  of  its  popularity. 

A  Hittory  of  Modem  Italy.  By  Dr.  Morell.  (Long- 
mans &  Co.) 
This  historpr  of  Italy  supplies  a  continuous  and  connected 
narratiye,  in  a  compendious  form  and  in  simple  lan- 
guage, of  Italian  history  from  the  time  of  Odoacer  toih^ 
)igitized  by  Iv^ 


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death  of  Yictor  Emmanaol  and  Pius  IX.  The  work  is 
eubstantially  a  translation  of  a  history  written  by  a 
learned  priest,  GioTanni  Bobco,  which  has  a  wide  oir- 
cnlation  in  Italian  schools.  Dr.  Morell  has  adapted  it 
to  English  requirements,  prefixed  to  it  four  introductory 
chapters,  and  completed  the  history  from  the  Treaty  of 
Villafranca  to  the  present  day.  In  its  present  form  it 
commends  itself  to  the  notice  of  teachers  as  one  of  the 
few  continuous  histories  of  Italy  which  are  at  all  suited 
for  the  use  of  schools^ 

A  Critieal  Greek  and  Snglith  Conecrdanee,    Prepared 

by  Charles  F.  Hudson.  (Bagster  &  Sons.) 
This  concordance  has  been  prepared  with  great  care  and 
labour.  It  gives,  in  a  compact  and  well-arranged  form, 
every  Qreek  word  used  in  the  New  Testament,  with  the 
English  rendering  by  which  it  is  translated  in  each 
passage  in  which  it  occurs,  and  also  the  rarious  readings 
of  the  best  and  most  ancient  MSS.  The  whole  work  has 
been  revised  and  corrected  by  Dr.  Ezra  Abbot,  one  of  the 
American  rcTisers.  Tbe  concordance  is  of  raluable 
assistance  to  the  theological  student  in  a  critical  study 
of  the  New  Testament,  and  at  the  same  time  is  the 
best  and  most  interesting  commentary  on  the  changes 
which  the  rerisers  of  the  Authorized  Version  have 
canctioned  by  their  approTaL 

Wb  hare  received  Part  XXVI.  of  the  Torhhire 
ArcKoeologieal  and  Topographical  Journal,  It  would 
not  be  easy  to  ezairgerate  the  value  of  the  series  of 
which  it  is  a  part.  Too  many  of  our  local  archaeological 
Journals  are  composed  almost  entirely  of  what  the 
Saturday  lieview  used  to  call  padding;  that  is,  mere 
printed  matter  whose  only  use  is  to  fill  out  the  number. 
Our  Yorkshire  friends  have  avoided  this  error,  and  the 
kindred  one  of  endeavouring  to  make  their  papers 
minister  to  amusement  only.  There  is  much  to  give 
pleasure — amusement,  if  you  will — to  thoughtful  people 
m  the  issue  before  us,  but  of  a  kind  which  increases  our 
knowledge  of  the  life  of  the  north  of  England,  and,  as  a 
consequence,  is  a  real  addition  to  the  store  of  historic 
material  which  is  slowly  being  accumulated.  The  most 
important  peper  in  this  issue  is  Mr.  Charles  Jackson's 
account  of  **  The  Stovin  Manuscript"  George  Stovin, 
its  writer,  was  a  Lincolnshire  gentleman  who  was  bom 
towards  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  century  and  died  in 
1780.  Almost  his  whole  life  was  spent  in  the  Isle  of 
Axholme  or  the  low-lying  grounds  of  Yorkshire  adjoin- 
ing. He  filled  for  many  years  the  post  of  a  Commissioner 
of  Sewers,  and  seems  to  have  been  very  learned  in  the 
intricate  laws  which  are  administered  by  the  Sewers 
Courts.  He  had  strongly  developed  antiauarian  tastes, 
and  was  particularly  mterested  in  the  tiistoir  of  the 
Isle  of  Axholme.  He  had  great  opportunities  of  gaining 
information  as  to  the  riots  and  other  illegal  proceedings 
which  occurred  there  and  in  Hatfield  Chace  during  the 
aeventeenth  century,  as  a  consequence  of  the  draining 
works  carried  out  in  that  region  by  Sir  Cornelius  Veiv 
muiden  and  the  Flemings  and  Netherlanders  whom  he 
brought  over  with  him.  Mr.  Jackson,  who  has  had  the 
good  fortune  to  discover  his  precious  collections,  has 
published  some  of  his  notes  in  full,  and  others  in  copious 
abstract.    Mr.  J.  T.  Micklethwaite  gives  us  a  learned 

eiper  on  the  '*  Plan  of  a  Cistercian  Religious  House." 
e  has  not  been  content  with  merely  examining  existing 
remains  and  then  guessing  at  their  uses,  but  has  studied 
the  institutes  of  ^e  order  and  other  early  documents 
which  throw  light  on  his  favourite  f  ubject.  A  portion 
of  the  number  is  devoted  to  an  imprint  of  a  part  of 
Boger  Dodsworth's  Yorkshire  collections.  We  believe 
that  in  future  numbers  the  whole  of  the  Yorkshire 
portioDf  of  then  valuable  manuscripts  will  be  given. 


The  frontispiece  of  this  month's  Magazine  of  Ari\B 
a  cut  of  Millet's  "  Angelus,"  taken,  not  from  the  somewhat 
over  sentimentalized  etching  lately  published,  but  from 
the  photograph  by  Prsetorius.  Of  this  masterpiece  of 
the  Norman  peasant-artist  we  have  already  said  our  say 
in  noticing  tke  translation,  by  Helena  de  Kay,  of  Sen- 
sier*s  Life,  Among  the  remaining  contents  Mr. 
Andrew  Lang's  "  Art  of  Savages,**  and  Mr.  Monkhouse's 
review  of  Charles  Blanc*s  Orammairedet  Arte  Deeoraiifs, 
under  the  title,  "The  Decoration  of  a  Home,"  are, 
perhaps,  the  most  attractive.  Another  able  article  is 
that  by  Mr.  Harry  V.  Bamett  on  Chatto's  Hittory  ^ 
Wood' Engraving,  The  writer  shows  considerable 
technical  knowledge  of  his  subject,  and  we  rejoice  to 
see  that  he  has  had  the  courage  to  condemn  (as  we  did) 
the  perfunctory  chapter  added  to  the  book  in  1861  by 
Mr.  H.  G.  Bohn.  Altogether  Messrs.  Oassell  &  Co.  ar« 
to  be  congratulated  upon  their  editor  and  their  enter- 
prise. The  letter-press  of  the  Magazine  of  il  re  is  well 
chosen  and  judiciously  varied,  while  its  illustrations,  as 
examples  of  wood  engraving,  can  scarcely  bo  improved 
upon.  

Death  of  Mr.  Frahois.— It  is  with  verv  deep  regret 
that  we  announce  the  death  of  our  kind-hearted  and 
excellent  publisher  Mr.  John  Francis,  which  took  place 
on  the  6th  inst  All  who  had  the  advantage  of  knowing 
Mr.  Francis  will  share  our  feelings;  while  those  who  did 
not  know  him  personally,  but  remember  his  great  ser- 
vices to  the  newspaper  world  generally— by  his  successful 
exertions  in  procuring  the  repeal  of  the  Advertisement 
Duty,  then  that  of  the  Stamp  Duty,  and  lastly  that  of 
the  Paper  Duty — will  acknowledge  the  deep  obligation 
which  Mr.  Francis  conferred,  not  upon  the  nublishing 
world  only,  but  upon  all  readers,  students,  and  lovers  of 
literature.  The  funeral  will  take  place  on  Tuesday 
next  at  Highgate  Cemetery. 

Thi  Wtclif  Sooiett  has  been  founded  with  a  view 
to  publishing  the  complete  works  of  John  WycUf.  Oat 
of  the  great  mass  of  the  Reformer's  Latin  writings,  only 
one  treatise  of  importance,  the  Trialogut,  has  ever  been 
printed.  Published  abroad  in  1525,  and  agiun  in  1763, 
It  was  edited  for  the  Oxford  University  Press  in  1869  by 
Dr.  Lechler.  The  Honorary  Secretary  is  Mr.  John  W. 
Standerwick,  General  Post  Office,  London,  E.C.,  from 
whom  further  information  can  be  obtained. 

For  some  time  past  <*  The  Parish  Churches  of  Craven" 
have  formed  the  subject  of  an  interesting  series  of  papers 
in  the  Craven  Pioneer,'  they  have  just  been  concluded 
by  a  list  of  the  vicars  of  Skipton,  commencing  from 
1267  and  ending  in  1843,  when  the  present  incumbent* 
who  is  the  first  rector  of  the  parish,  was  installed. 


fiotitti  t0  Corrf ifponlTf nU. 

T.  C.  (Halifax).— 1.  Not  tiU  after  the  union  of  the 
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identifv  himself  with  the  country  as  a  whole,  and  to 
show  that  his  associations  and  interests  were  national, 
not  foreign.    6.  As  the  first  part  of  5,  mutatie  mutandu, 

B.  C.  B.— Ecclesiastical  dynamitSi  we  fear,  and  there- 
fore unsuitable. 

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CONTENTS.— N«  121. 

NOTES  r—The  Llbrarr  of  Trinity  CoDege.  Cambridge,  801— 
Letton  of  OamnelJohnson  to  Dr.  Tajlor,  90S— Mathemfttical 
BibUographj,  S04— Foreign  PlMe-names- A.  Book-plate— The 
Honae  of  l^oxda'  dock  itopplng  on  the  Death  of  GeorRe  III.— 
Dannm:  Conderaam,  305— "FatherUnd"— Dates  of  Old 
••  Bona  B.  Virginia  "—The  Title.  "  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man »' 
—The  Price  of  Elephanta— Inioriptton  at  St.  Maigaiet'f, 
Lynn- A  Parallel,  306 -Bp.  ThirlwaU's  Letters,  807. 

<)UERIE9:— Jack-an-Apes  Lane,  1682 -Embassy  offered  to 
Sir  Thomas  Orerbnry- "  Hola  Bosanim"— Few  Family— 
T.  Walysh,  807— J.  Ward,  Palnter-Bathorst  and  ViUen 
Famllles-KIng,  of  ClonUrf—Graduali— Aaron  Warren— The 
WltwaU— "The  Greenlan  Philosophy"  —  Photographing 
Devils— O'Connell  at  Hastings— Signs  to  denote  Similarity  of 
Word-Sense  and  Word-Sonnd-Silhonettes,  808— M.  Jackson 
— Fnedom  from  Suits  of  Hundred,  Ac— F.  D.,  Engraver— 
G.  V.  Gaffeel— L.  Flgnier^Mincher  Family— 8ir  T.  Hoby 
—Sir  PhiUp  Francis's  Marriage— Authors  Wanted.  800. 

BEPLIES:— The  BodleUn  Model  of  an  Indian  'WeU,  809- 
Parochlal  Beglstert.  810— On  the  supposed  Change  of  a 
Latin  I  into  u  in  French,  811— SackvlUe,  Lord  Buokhurst— 
Tennant's  Translation  of  the  Ifilst  Psalm,  812-Hereward 
le  Wake:  The  Oountess  Lucy— *' Gahotaa "—Italian  Trans- 
lation of  Orosius,  81S-"  Harplngs  of  Lena  "— *•  Auld  Robin 
•Gray,'*  8U-Baaiff  of  Oonstantine— The  Prison  of  "Peter- 
house."  815-Grouchma8— Forbes— Bacon  a  Poet— Ballard 
«nd  Herring  Families-'*  Wently,"  816- "  HypoUte,  Comte 
<le  Duglas  "— MinUture  of  the  late  Sir  B.  Peel— Rhjmeless 
Words— T.  Purland—"Floi»'Domestica"— Fonts— "  Nothing 
new,"  ftc— Lincolnshire  Provindalisms,  817— Portrait  of 
Bp.  Seabury— "The  Whole  Duty  of  Man"— Maiy  Queen  of 
Scots'  Hair— "Bred  and  bom"— The  Games  of  Chess  and 
Tables,  818— St.  Margaret's,  Westminster— Authors  Wanted, 
319 

XruTBS  ON  BOOKS  :-Nlcholls  and  Taylor's  "  Bristol :  Past 
and  Present"— Tom  Dutt's  "Ancient  Ballads  and  Legends 
of  Hindustan"— LilUe's  "Buddha  and  Early  Buddhism,"  fta 


THE  LIBRARY  OF  TRINITY  COLLEGE, 

CAMBRIDGE. 

{Canlxn^td  from,  p.  202.) 

Unlike  those  of  Borne  and  Venice,  the  earliest 
printers  at  Milan  were  Italians,  Phil  de  Layagnia 
of  Milan  and  Ant  Zarotto  of  Parma ;  the  former, 
howeyer,  probably  being  in  the  first  instance  the 
patron  of  the  latter  rather  than  the  actual  proto- 
typographer.  Two  books  bearing  Phil  de  La- 
▼agnia's  name  in  the  imprint  are  in  the  librar3r, 
Lucan's  Fhanalia  and  Yergerins  i>e  Ingenuia 
Moribusy  both  printed  in  1477.  Of  Ant.  Zarotto's 
press  there  are  a  considerable  namber,  the  earliest 
oeing  an  edition  of  the  Letters  of  Pius  II.  daring 
Ids  episcopate,  printed  in  1473 — a  large  quarto, 
though  generally  called  a  folio.  I  may  also  men- 
tion the  edition  of  uEsop's  FabUs,  in  the  Latin 
version  of  Etmlcius  (1476),  and  that  of  Livy,  from 
the  text  of  Joh.  Andreas,  Bishop  of  Aleria  (1480), 
Simoneta's  Comm,  Eerum  OestarumFran,Sphortia 
{circa  1480),  and  Quintus  Cartius  (1481).  The 
.ZBsop  and  Livy  are  from  the  Libri  sale  of  1859, 
and  the  latter  is  richly  adorned  with  illuminated 
initials. 

Not  long  subsequent  to  these  printers  came 
a  Qerman  of  Batisbon,  ChrisUan  Yaldarfer,  who 


moved  from  Venice  to  Milan  in  1473,  and  who 
is  well  known  as  the  printer  of  the  famous  edition 
of  Boccaccio.  The  only  work  from  his  press  in 
the  library  is  the  Interrogatorium  of  Barth.  de 
Ghaimis  (1474).  Of  the  numerous  products  of 
Uie  press  of  Ulderic  Sinczenzeler  in  this  library  I 
will  mention  but  one,  which  is  not  often  met  with, 
the  Loiea  Vulgare  in  Dialogo  of  Jac.  Can?phora 
(1497). 

Of  more  general  interest,  howeyer,  will  be  the 
early  specimens  of  Greek  printing  which  we  owe 
to  Milan,  such  as  the  first  edition  of  the  Greek 
text  of  uEsop  (with  an  accompanying  Latin  yer- 
sion),  in  the  recension  of  Buono  Accorso.  This 
edition  has  the  signatures  in  the  Greek  part  in 
the  extreme  lower  margin  of  the  page.  It  was 
published  about  the  year  1480.  I  may  name  also 
the  Greco-Latin  Psalter  of  1481,  the  first  edition 
of  any  part  of  Holy  Scripture  in  Greek,  thus 
being  subsequent  to  the  Hebrew  (of  which  the 
first  printed  Psalter  appeared  in  1477),  and,  of 
course,  long  subsequent  to  the  Latin.  We  also 
haye  the  ditio  princeps  of  Isocrates  (printed  in 
1493  by  Henricos  Gkrmanusy  whom  some  haye 
identified  with  Ulderic  Sinczenzeler),  and  the 
edxtio  princes  of  the  Lexicon  of  Suidas,  printed 
by  Demetrius  Ohalcondylas  and  his  partners  in 
1499. 

The  only  other  Milanese  book  I  shall  mention 
is  the  Sanetuarium  of  Mombritius,  a  prototype  of 
the  great  Acta  Sanctorum  of  the  Bollandists. 
This  Dook,  though  haying  neither  place  nor  date 
of  printing,  was  certainly  printed  at  Milan,  and 
that  not  later  than  1479 ;  the  evidence  as  to  the 
date  being  derived  from  the  fact  that  the  book  is 
dedicated  to  Cicho  Simoneta,  who  was  imprisoned 
in  1479,  and  executed  in  1480. 

Although  printing  was  practised  at  Naples  in 
1471,  and  several  printers  carried  on  their  trade 
there,  we  unfortunately  possess  only  three  works 
of  Neapolitan  printing,  and  those  all  from  the 
same  press,  that  of  Sextus  Biessinger,  whose  name, 
however,  does  not  actually  occur  in  any  of  them. 
They  are  also  all  undated,  but  1472  may  be  given 
as  the  approximate  date  of  all  three.  They  are 
the  EpisUes  and  Tractates  of  St  Jerome,  from 
the  recension  of  Theod.  Lelius,  Pliny  JD«  Viris  lUus- 
trUmSf  and  Franc  Aretino's  Latin  version  of  the 
EptsUes  of  Phalaris. 

Passing  over  Pavia,  from  the  presses  of  which 
there  is  nothing  of  special  interest  in  our  posses- 
sion, I  come  to  Treviso,  where  printing  was  first 
practised  in  1471.  Of  the  proto-typographer, 
Gerard  de  Lisa  (Van  de  Leye),  a  Fleming,  we 
possess  two  works,  the  first  edition  of  a  book 
otherwise  known  as  the  FoemandeTf  Mercurius 
Trismsgistus  de  Potestate  et  Sapientia  Dei,  in  the 
Latin  version  of  Marsilius  Ficinus,  printed  in 
1471 ;  and  the  Epistoks  Magni  2^trct,  printed 
about  1472.    Of  the   works  of  later  l^visan 


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Srinten,  I  may  cite  the  edition  of  Seneca's 
ioralioy  printed  by  Bern,  de  Golonia  in  1478, 
and  the  Latin  translation  of  Dionysins  of  Hali- 
oamassos,  by  Lappus  Biragas,  printed  by  Bemar- 
dinns  de  Lnere  in  1480. 

Only  one  year  later  in  their  recognition  of  the 
new  i^  than  the  towns  we  haye  now  been  con- 
sidering come  Cremona,  Mantaa,  Padua,  and 
Parma,  of  all  of  whioh  refnresentatlTes  are  here. 
Of  the  first,  however,  there  is  nothing  which  need 
detain  ns,  and  of  Mantua  I  will  only  mention  an 
edition  of  a  once  well-used  book,  the  Expontio 
Frohlematum  ArUUddis  of  Pet  de  Abano  (of 
this  there  is  an  edition  printed  in  1476  by  Paul 
Job.  de  PuzDach,  probably  the  real  proto-typo- 
grapher) ;  ana  also  oar  one  specimen  of  fifteenth- 
oentary  Hebrew  printing,  the  commentary  of 
Babbi  Levi  ben  Gershom  (Ralbag)  on  the  Penta- 
teuch, printed  by  Abraham  Gonath  about  1476. 

Of  Paduan  books  may  be  noted  Aurispa's  Latin 
version  of  the  commentary  of  Hierodes,  In  Aureos 
Versus  Pythagoras  printed  by  the  proto-typo- 
grapher,  Barth.  de  Valdezoccho^  in  1474.  The 
signatures  to  this  book  are  placed  in  the  bottom 
right-hand  comer  of  the  leaf.  Of  Parma  there 
are  here  the  Solinus,  printed  by  And.  Portilia, 
the  proto- typographer,  in  1480 ;  and  the  Bucoliea 
of  Galphumius  and  Nemesianus,  printed  by  Aug. 
Ugoleto  about  1490.  It  may  be  mentioned  that 
Bronet  is  in  error  in  saying  that  the  first  leaf  of 
the  latter  work  is  blank ;  it  contains  the  title 
Bucoliea  Calphumii  et  Nemesiani. 

Of  works  from  the  presses  of  Brescia,  where 
printing  was  first  practised  in  1473,  there  are 
here  a  considerable  number.  I  shall  only  mention, 
however,  the  Comnuniaria  Orammatica  of  Laur. 
Valla,  pfinted  by  Eustacius  GaUus  in  1475 ;  and 
two  works  from  the  press  of  Boninus  de  Boninis, 
the  Saturnalia,  &a,  of  Mocrobius,  and  the  poems 
of  Catullus,  Tibullus,  and  Propertina,  printed  in 
1466  and  1486  respectively.  From  the  press  of 
Jaa  Britannicus  we  have  an  edition,  printed  in 
1486,  of  the  Imitatio  Christi,  which  is  ascribed  to 
St  Bernard,  though  the  claim  of  JoL  Ckrson  is 
also  referred  to. 

The  Yicenza  books  are  of  some  interest.  They 
include  the  Dita  Mundi  of  Fazio  degli  Uberti, 
printed  by  Leonardus  Achates  of  Basle,  the  proto- 
typographer  of  Yicenza,  in  1474,  the  year  after  he 
liad  set  up  his  press  in  Yicenza.  The  present  copy 
was  doubtless  intended  for  presentation  to  some 
great  personage,  for  the  title  is  printed  in  gold. 
Another  product  of  this  printei^s  press  is  one 
which  has  given  rise  to  a  good  deal  of  discussion, 
an  edition  of  Petrarch's  Sonettif  Canzoni  $  Triovfi^ 
dated  1474.  It  bears  the  printer's  name  (Leonardus 
Achates  Basiliensis},  but  not  the  place  of  printing. 
Several  bibliographers,  Dibdin  and  others,  have 
been  misled  by  uie  reference  to  Basle,  which  is 
merely  given  as  the  birth-place  of  the  printer. 


Others  again  have  suggested  Yenice,  because  of  th» 
mention  of  the  name  of  the  reigning  Doge  in  the 
imprint ;  but  there  is  no  evidence  of  our  printer 
having  ever  exercised  his  art  at  Yenice,  and  there 
cannot  really  be  much  doubt  that  the  book  was 

Srinted  at  Yicenza  or  at  Sant'  Ursino,  in  its  imme- 
iate  neighbourhood,  this  being  Yenetian  territory, 
so  that  the  mention  of  the  Doge's  name  is  natnial 
enough.  This  book  is  generally  spoken  of  as  being 
without  signatures ;  it  has  them,  but  they  were 
placed  below  a  very  deep  margin,  and  so  would 
generaUy  be  cut  off  in  the  binding.  There  are 
also  copies  of  the  edition  of  Orosins  by  ^oeaa 
Ynlpes,  printed  about  1476,  and  of  that  of  Ovid 
from  the  text  of  Buono  Acoorso,  printed  in  1480, 
both  from  the  press  of  Hermann  Lichtenstein,  of 
Cologne. 

Of  books  printed  at  Modena  in  the  fifteenth 
century  there  is  here  but  one,  the  Poems  of  Bapt. 
Gnarini,  printed  in  1496  by  Dominic  Rocociola  ;. 
and  there  is  also  one  from  the  Uttle  town  of  CoUe, 
near  Florence  {"  in  CoUe  opido  municipio  Floren- 
tine''X  ^b®  editio  princeps  of  the  Halieutiea  of 
Oppian  in  the  Latin  version  of  Laur.  Lippus  of 
Colle,  printed  by  Bonus  Gallus  in  1478,  the  year 
of  the  introduction  of  printing  into  Colle ;  beings 
indeed,  the  second  book  printed  there.  Of  books 
printed  at  Rhegium  I  may  note  an  edition  of 
Tibullus,  Catullus,  and  Propertius,  printed  by 
Prosper  Odoardus  and  Alb.  de  Mazalis,  both 
natives  of  Rhegium,  in  1481.  There  is  also  aa 
edition  of  part  of  the  works  of  Appian,  in  the 
Latin  translation  of  Pet.  Candidus,  printed  b^ 
Franc,  de  Mazalibus  in  1494. 

The  last  Italian  town  I  shall  name  here  is  Scan- 
diano,  to  which  printing  did  not  penetrate  till 
1496,  and  of  which  we  have  one  fifteenth  century 
book,  an  edition  of  the  works  of  Appian,  not  in- 
cluded in  the  last-mentioned  edition,  and  there>- 
fore  forming  a  second  part  to  it.  It  was  printed 
in  1495  by  the  proto-typographer  Peregr.  Pasquali. 
The  date  is  expressed  in  a  curious  way,  MCCOCLCXvr 
we  cannot  doubt,  however,  that  it  should  mean 
1496,  from  the  occurrence  of  the  words  *'  Camilla 
Boiardo  Comite"  in  the  imprint.  It  would  seem 
that  the  only  count  of  that  name  was  the  son  of 
the  famous  author  of  the  Orlando,  who  succeeded 
his  father  in  1494  and  died  in  1499. 

There  are  in  the  library  about  a  score  of  fifteenib 
century  books  of  whose  Italian  origin  we  can  have 
no  doubt,  or  but  little  doubt,  while  yet  it  is  im- 
possible to  feel  any  certainty  as  to  the  particular 
press.  A  few  of  these  may  be  mentioned :— (I)  A» 
edition,  not  described  by  Hain,  or,  so  far  as  I  know^ 
by  any  bibliographer,  of  the  Somnium  de  Fortunm 
of  JBneas  Silvius,  apparently  printed  about  ]47<X 
A  point  of  peculiarity  in  the  type  in  which  the 
booK  is  printed  is  that  the  %  is  undotted.  (2)  An 
edition  of  Albertus  Magnus  De  Secretis  Naturae^ 
probably  printed  about  1490,  is  also  apparently 


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not  described  in  Haln.  (3)  A  copy  of  an  edition 
of  Thomas  Aqainas,  Qucutionei  cU  Patmtia  Dti^ 
^  (printed  about  1490),  onoe  belonging  to  the 
monastery  of  St  Mary  at  Oapar,  for  which  it  was 
pnrchased  by  itsabbot^  John  Scbanwell[148a-1507]. 
<(4}  Bonaoioli's  Ennetu  Muliebris,  thongh  reckoned 
among  incunabula  by  Hain  and  Panzer,  is  appa- 
rently an  early  sixteenth  oentary  work,  for  it  is 
dedicated  to  Lacretia  Borgia  as  Daohess  of  Ferrara, 
whereas  she  did  not  obtain  her  title  till  1502.  (6) 
An  edition  of  the  work  Fiore  de  Vvrtud^  whose 
anthoiship  is  quite  unknown,  thongh  referred  to 
Tomaao  Leoni,  Franco  Sacohetti,  and  others.  The 
present  edition  was  apparently  printed  about  1475. 
On  the  last  page  of  the  copy  before  me  is  written, 
in  a  contemporaneous  hand,  "Si  pater  est  Adam 
et  mater  omnibus  Era,  Gur  non  sunt  omnes  nobi- 
litate  pares."  (6)  Bernardo  de  Granollachs,  El 
Summario  de  la  luna,  dated  1489,  but  with  no 
place  of  printing  or  printer's  name.  Our  copy  of 
this  work  is,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  unique,  and  was 
boogbt  in  the  Libri  sale  of  1857,  having  preyiously 
formed  part  of  the  Boutourlin  collection.  The 
work  is  of  an  astrological  character,  and  for  this 
purpose  giyes  the  Tarious  details  as  to  the  moon's 
t^,  ftc,  through  each  month,  and  for  a  series  of 
years,  beginning  from  1489.  The  author  describes 
iumself  as  **  maistro  in  arte  ed  in  medicina  della 
indyta  citta  de  Barcelona,"  for  which  city  the  results 
^ronld  be  presumably  calculated  in  the  first  in- 
stance, and  on  the  last  leaf  is  a  table  to  adapt  them 
to  Tarious  Italian  towns.  (7)  The  Macharonea  of 
Tiphis  Odaxius  printed  about  1490.  All  biblio- 
graphers, deriving,  apparently,  their  knowledge 
from  the  Pinelli  catalogue,  have  spoken  of  this 
book  as  without  signatures  ;  whereas  it  has  them 
on  a  level  with,  and  to  the  right  of,  the  last  line 
in  the  page.  Brunet  and  Graesse  also  speak  of 
the  title  Maeharoma  as  fictitious,  whereas  it  is 
present  on  the  first  page  in  Roman  capitals.  (8) 
An  edition  of  Plautus,  edited  by  Ducius  and  Gal- 
biatoB,  printed  about  1500;  this  edition  is  de- 
•eribed  in  the  Bibl  Sp€ne„  ii.  250.  (9)  An  edition 
of  Loca  Pulci's  Driadeo  d^Amore  in  Gothic  type, 
printed  about  1490. 

The  only  other  country  at  all  represented  in  the 
allege  list  of  incunabula  \b  Spain,  which  is  repre- 
eentM  by  a  single  book  printed  at  Salamanca. 
Printing  found  its  way  into  Spain  in  1475,  and  to 
Salamanca  in  1485 ;  our  present  book,  however, 
is  only  just  within  our  limit,  bearing  the  date 
March  17,  1500.  The  book  is  the  Spteulum 
BceUncB  of  Hugo  de  S.  Charo,  the  good  cardinal 
to  whom  we  owe  the  chapters  of  our  Bibles.  No 
ptinter's  name  is  given,  aud  I  have  not  yet  suc- 
ceeded in  finding  anything  to  help  me  to  deter- 
ndno  who  he  was. 

The  last  book  I  shall  mention  in  the  present 
list  is  one  which  has  long  been  a  puzzle  to  me — an 
edition  of  Cato  with  the  exposition  of  Remigins. 


The  general  character  of  the  printing  and  the 
absence  of  signatures  would  dbpose  me  to  assign 
it  a  comparatively  early  date,  say  1470-75.  &- 
yond  that  I  should  not  wish  to  speak  positively, 
even  as  to  the  country.  The  type,  which  is  a 
curious  and  very  thidc  Roman  letter,  is  quite 
different  from  anything  I  have  ever  seen  elsewhere. 

With  this  my  survey  of  the  incunabula  of  the 
library,  -already  extended,  I  fear,  to  too  great 
a  length,  must  come  to  an  end ;  but  at  some 
future  time  I  shall  hope  to  have  something  to  say 
on  some  of  the  rarer  and  less-known  English 
works  of  the  sixteenth  century.        R.  Sinker. 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 

{To  he  eoniinued,) 


LBTTERS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 
DR.  TAYLOR. 
Some  years  ago  Lord  Overstone  kindly  allowed 
me  to  transcribe,  for  use  in  an  edition  of  Bos  well 
to  be  published  by  Mr.  George  Bell,  the  following 
letters — ^autographs.  The  accompanying  note  is 
sufficient  introauction.  I  have  not  thought  it 
worth  while  to  exclude  the  letters  printed  by  Sir 
John  Simeon.  Few  readers  have  access  to  the 
publications  of  the  Philobiblon  Society. 

John  £.  B.  Mayor. 
Cambridge. 

"  The  letters  contained  in  this  volume  formed  the  most 
intereiting  portion  of  Dr.  Johnson's  oorrespondenoe  with 
Dr.  Taylor.  These  M8S.  were  purchased  by  Sir  John 
Simeon,  Bart.,  in  1861,  from  a  descendant  of  the  Pier- 
point  family  in  Devonshire ;  three  only  appear  to  have 
been  known  to  Boswell,  and  about  twelve  have  been 
privately  printed  for  the  Philobiblon  Society  by  Sir 
John  Simeon,  from  whom  I  bought  the  collection,  and 
sold  this  portion  to  the  Lord  Overatone. 

"M.  M.HOLLOWAT." 


Dbar  Sia,— The  Brevity  of  your  last  Letter  gives  me 
expectation  of  a  longer,  and  I  hope  you  will  not  dis- 
appoint me,  for  I  am  always  pleaised  to  bear  of  your 
proceedings.  I  cannot  but  somewhat  wonder  that 
Seward  should  give  his  Liring  for  the  prospeots  or 
advantages  which  you  can  offer  him,  and  should  be  glad 
to  know  your  treaty  more  particularly.  I  think  it  not 
improper  to  mention  that  there  is  a  slight  report  of  an 
intention  to  make  Lord  Chesterfield  Lieutenant,  of 
which,  if  I  hear  more,  I  will  inform  you  farther. 

I  propose  to  get  Charles  of  Sweden*  ready  for  this 
winter,  and  shall  therefore,  as  I  imagine,  be  much 
engaged  for  some  months  with  the  Dramatic  Writers, 
into  whom  I  have  scarcely  looked  for  many  years. 
Keep  Irene  close,  yon  may  send  it  back  at  your  leisure. 

You  have  never  let  me  know  what  you  do  about  Mr. 
Car's  affair  or  what  the  official  has  decided.  Eld  is  only 
neglected,  not  forgotten. 

[If  the  time  of  the  Duke's  government  should  be 
near  expiration,  you  must  cling  cloee  and  redouble  your 
importunities,  though  if  any  confidence  can  be  placed  in 
his  Veracity,  he  may  be  expected  to  serve  you  more 

*  Malone  conjectures  that  this  was  a  play ;  or,  possibly 
a  history.    Certainly  the  former. 


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•ffectoally  when  he  is  only  a  Courtier,  than  while  he  has 
80  mach  power  in  another  Kingdom.*] 

I  am  well  informed  that  a  few  days  ago  Oardinal 
Flenry  sent  to  an  eminent  Banker  for  Money  and 
receiving  such  a  reply  as  the  present  low  state  of  France 
naturally  produces,  tent  a  party  of  the  Ouards  to 
examine  his  Books  and  search  his  House,  such  is  the 
felicity  of  absolute  OoTernments,  but  they  found  the 
Banker  no  better  provided  than  he  had  represented 
himself,  and  therefore  broke  part  of  his  furniture  and 
returned. 

It  is  reported  that  the  peace  between  Russia  and 
Hungary  was  produced  iniolly  by  the  address  of 
Carteret,  who  naving  procured  a  copy  of  Broglio's 
orders  at  the  very  time  that  they  were  despatched  and 
finding  them  to  contain  instructions  very  inconsistent 
with  a  sincere  alliance,  sent  them  immediately  to  the 
King  of  Prussia,  who  did  not  much  regard  them,  till  he 
found  that  he  was  in  persuance  [tic]  of  them  exposed 
without  assistance  to  the  hazard  of  the  late  battle,  in 
which  it  is  generally  believed  that  he  lost  more  than 
twice  as  many  as  the  Austrians.  He  would  then  trust 
the  French  no  longer.  You  see  that  I  am  determined  to 
write  a  letter,  for  I  never  was  authour  of  so  much  political 
Intelligence  before. 

I  am,  if  the  relief  of  uneasiness  can  produce  obliga- 
tions, more  obliged  to  you,  for  what  1  imagine  you  have 
now  sent  Miss,  than  for  all  that  you  have  hitherto  done 
for  me. 

Thurloe^s  papers  which  cost  here  £8  9t.  6(Z.,  are 
intended  to  he  reprinted  in  Ireland  at  four  guineas. 
Methinks  you  should  send  orders  to'Faulkener  to  sub- 
scribe. I  am,  Dear  Sir, 

Your  very  affectionate,  &c., 
Sam.  Johbsok. 

Have  yon  begun  to  write  out  your  Letters  1 
June  10. 1742. 

To  the  Rev.  Dr.  Taylor 
at  Market  Bosworth,  Leicestershire. 

The  next  letter  may  be  seen  in  Boswell.  It  is 
endorsed,  "  18  March  52  about  the  Death  of  his 
Wife,    veiy  feeling." 

DxAK  Sib,— I  promised  to  write  to  you,  and  write  now 
rather  to  keep  my  promise  than  that  I  have  any  thing  to 
say,  that  might  not  be  delayed  till  we  meet.  I  know 
not  how  it  happens,  but  I  fancy  that  I  write  letters  with 
more  difficulty  than  some  other  people,  who  write  nothing 
but  letters,  at  least  I  find  myself  very  unwilling  to  take 
up  a  pen,  only  to  tell  my  friends  that  I  am  well,  and 
indeed  I  never  did  exchange  letters  regularly  but  with 
dear  Miss  Boothby. 

However  let  us  now  begin,  and  try  who  can  continue 

Imnctuality  longest.  There  is  this  use  in  the  most  useless 
etter,  that  it  shews  one  not  to  be  forgotten,  and  they 
may,  at  least  in  the  beginning  of  friendship,  or  in  great 
length  of  absence,  keep  memory  from  languishing,  but 
our  friendship  has  been  too  long  to  want  such  helps,  and 
I  hope  our  absence  will  be  too  short  to  make  them 
necessary. 

My  life  admits  of  so  little  variety,  that  I  have  nothing 
to  relate,  you  who  are  married,  and  a  magistrate,  may 
have  many  events  to  tell  both  foreign  and  domestlck. 
But  I  hope  you  will  have  nothing  to  tell  of  unhappineis 
to  yourself. 

[I  was  glad  of  your  prospect  of  reconciliation  with 
Mousele:^  (f),  which  is,  I  hope,  now  completed ;  to  have 
one's  neighbour  one's  enemy  is  uncomfortable  in  the 
country  where  good  neighbourhood  is  all  the  pleasure 

*  Erased  in  original. 


that  is  to  be  had.    Therefore  now  you  are  on  good  terms 
with  your  Neighbours,  do  not  differ  about  trifles.*] 
I  am.  Dear  Sir, 

Your  most  affectionate  Servant, 

Sax.  Johasok. 
My  compliments  to  your  Lady. 
July  31, 1766. 
To  the  Rev*  D»  Taylor 
at  Market  Boswortb,  Leicestershire;. 
{To  be  coniinuid,) 


Mathematical  Bibliografht  :  Newtok, 
CoLsoN,  BuFFON. — SiR  James  Cockle's  note 
(ante,  p.  263)  is  Tery  interesting.  It  would  be 
pleasant  to  see  more  contributions  of  such  a  kind, 
continuing  as  they  do  the  papers  on  mathematical 
bibliography  wherewith,  in  days  gone  by,  Prof. 
De  Morgan  used  to  charm  his  readers  and  students 
Having  amongst  m^  books  some  of  the  mathe- 
matical works  which  Buffon  studied  —  weU- 
thumbed  Tolumes,  with  his  autograph  notes — in- 
cluding the  identical  copy  of  Colson's  NewtonV 
Method  of  Fluxiom  and  InfiniU  SerieB  that  he 
made  his  translation  from,  as  well  as  his  own  cony 
of  the  latter,  it  has  interested  me  to  see  if  the> 
interpolated  leaf  [143-4]  is  in  the  same  position 
as  that  in  the  Royal  Society's  copy  described  by 
Sir  James  Cockle.  I  find  it  is  so.  But  the 
unpaged  leaf  of  errata  follows  p.  140  in  Buffon'» 
copy,  instead  of  being  at  the  end  of  the  book^ 
after  the  verso  of  p.  339.  On  the  whole,  I  arrive 
at  the  same  conclusion  as  Sir  Jambs  Cocklb^ 
that  there  is  evidence  of  there  having  been  soh 
intention  on  the  part  of  Colson  to  issue  the  trans- 
lation from  the  Latin  original  of  Newton  before- 
ihe  Comment  had  finally  passed  through  the  press. 
Buffon,  however,  obtained  his  complete  copy  oT 
the  whole  of  Colson's  work  before  the  year  173^ 
had  ended,  and  his  autograph  signature  on  the 
title  is  followed  by  that  date.  Sir  James  Cogelbl 
uses  the  words  "  the  anonymous  French  transla- 
tion of  Colson's  Newton  by  Buffon  (Paris,  1740^ 
quarto)."  But  the  translation  was — notwith- 
standing the  absence  of  Buffon's  name  from  the 
title-page— in  no  real  sense  an  anonymous  one. 
Buffon  used  the  first  person  singular  in  many 
passages  of  his  elaborate  preface  of  twenty-eight 
pages,  and  then,  at  the  end  of  the  book,  comee 
Fontenelle's  certificate,  as  perpetual  secretary  of 
the  Boyal  Academy  of  Sciences,  setting  forth  that 
M.  de  Buffon  was  the  translator,  and  that  Messrs. 
de  Maupertuis  and  Clairaut  had  judged  that  Mr. 
Newton's  excellent  work  had  merited  so  excellent 
a  translator.  Sir  James  Cockle  says  that  their 
favourable  report  was  *'  also,  as  it  would  seem,  on 
Colson's  version,  though  Colson  is  not  mentioned 
by  name  ";  but  I  cannot  understand  any  extension 
of  the  report  to  Colson  being  apparent  in  ita 
wordinf?.    Buffon's  individual  opinion  of  Colson 

*  Erased. 
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is  deaily  enoagh  ezpzened  in  many  paasages  of 
hiB  prefiice.  Baffon  there  ayemd  Ihat  he  did  not 
tiftDslate  Oolflon's  Comment^  because^  dthongh  it 
contained  ''plaBieun  bonnes  ohoees,"  he  fotind 
them  ''noT^eii  dans  une  diffasion  de  calcnl  qni 
lebute."  it  is  difficult  to  form  any  aocarate 
jndjj^ent  whether  Bnffon  was  justified  or  not  in 
such  a  Terdict ;  but  I  have  absolute  proof,  in  the 
Tory  books  before  me  in  which  BufiEbn  studied  as  a 
young  man,  that  diffuse  calculations  usually  had 
no  deterring  influence  on  him,  and  that  he  was  in 
the  habit  of  plodding  dQigently  through  eyery  line 
and  figure  of  such  works  as  the  An3yu  Dhnot^ 
trie  of  Father  Charles  Beyneau,  a  quarto  of  nearly 
a  thousand  pages  (Paris,  1708),  or  the  lighter 
mental  food  of  the  Analyn  des  Infinimmt  PeiiU 
of  M.  le  Marquis  de  rHospital  (second  edition, 
4to.,  Paris,  1716).  Fbedk.  Hbwdrikb. 

28,  Linden  Gardens,  W. 

FoRBioN  Place -Names.  —  The  subject  of 
English  place-names  has  been  so  profitably  dis- 
ouflsed  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.,**  that  I  think 
it  is  now  time  to  consider  foreign  place-names. 
It  has  no  doubt  been  remarked  that  directly  a 
foreign  war  or  some  other  circumstance  draws 
attention  to  any  place,  about  a  dozen  spellings 
and  pronunciations  are  at  once  suggested  and 
fiercely  disputed  oyer.  A  reference  to  old  English 
writers  shows  they  adopted  a  phonetic  spelling  of 
foreign  place-names;  but  it  is  more  difficult  to 
trace  any  modem  rules  on  the  subject,  and  I 
think  I  may  correctly  state  that  continental  place- 
names  are  generally  iotU  according  to  the  French 
mode,  and  pronauneea  as  English  words!  Thus 
Aachen  (pronounced  Ahken),  in  Germany,  is  in 
English  rendered  Aix-la-Chapelle,  and  pronounced 
Ay-la-Shappell,  though,  to  say  the  least,  it  should 
be  "  Aches,''  as  the  deriyation  is  from  Latin  aqua, 
water.  Paris  (pronounced  Parree)  is  Par-iss, 
though  in  Italian  ParigL  Again,  in  starting  from 
B41e  last  year  for  Bheims  (as  we  spell  it)  I  was 
obliged  to  ask  for  a  ticket  for  Byrnes  (German), 
and  on  arriving  there  to  call  it  Bahmes,  though 
the  Tulgar  Enslish  is  Beems.  Surely  some  rule 
could  be  established,  and  common  sense  dictates 
that  every  foreign  name  should  be  spelt  as  in  its 
native  country  and  similarly  pronounced,  other- 
wise the  only  plan  is  phonetic  spellings,  based  on 
the  national  pronunciation.  The  latter  rule  is 
adopted  by  several  continental  states  in  rendering 
foreign  names.  Frederick  E  Sawter. 

Brg;htoii. 

A  Book-plate.— About  forty  years  ago  my 
father  acquired  from  a  Lincolnshire  peasant  some 
medical  books,  which  had  come  into  the  old  man's 
possession  on  the  death  of  a  distant  relative. 
Among  them  was  a  copy  of  the  tliird  edition  (1716) 
of  the  Fraxii  Medica  of  William  Salmon,  M.D. 
On  the  cover  is  an  heraldic  book-plate,  of  which  I 


have  never  seen  any  other  example.  The  arms 
are.  Party  per  pale  gules  and  argent,  a  griffin 
rampant,  counter-changed.  Crest,  a  head  erased. 
The  shield  is  furnished  with  what  seem  to  be 
meant  for- supporters.  On  the  sinister  is  a  human 
body,  with  the  skin  removed  so  as  to  show  the 
muscles.  At  the  feet  of  this  figure  are  four  skulls. 
On  the  dexter  side  is  a  similar  figure,  but  it  is 
represented  as  having  fallen  prostrate.  The  motto 
is  '*  Medio  tutissimus  ibis."  The  name  of  the 
owner  of  this  strange  device  is  printed  at  the 
bottom — "  Christ'  Bidout"  I  have  not  a  copy  of 
the  last  edition  of  Burke's  Armory,  The  one 
before  me  (1842)  gives  two  coats  for  Bidout, 
neither  of  which  resembles  the  above.  Many  arms 
are,  however,  unrecorded  in  popular  books  of 
reference,  and  it  may  well  be  that  this  coat  be- 
longed to  Christopher  Bidout's  family.  I  think 
his  strange  supporters  must  have  been  purely 
personal  Avon. 

The  House  of  Lords'  Clock  Stopping  ok 
THE  Death  of  George  IIL — On  the  west  stair- 
case of  the  great  hall,  Grimsthorpe  Castle,  Lincoln- 
shire (the  seat  of  Baroness  Willoughby  de  Ereeby), 
is  a  fine  dock,  about  eight  feet  high,  on  which 
is  a  brass  plate  bearing  this  inscription : — 
"  Memorandum  from  Mr,  VuUiamy,  UU 
King's  Clockmaher. 

"The  Clock  in  the  house  of  Lords  was  made  bj  Bobin- 
son,  as  I  judge  about  the  time  of  the  reign  of  Queen 
Anne.  It  was  under  the  care  of  the  King's  Glockmaker, 
whose  duty  it  was  to  wind  and  regulate  it  OTeir  week, 
and  the  keys  of  the  Clock  were  always  kept  by  him 
accordingly.  On  Sunday  morning  the  29*"  January, 
1820,  Sir  Thomas  Thjrwitt,  Black  Bod,  called  at  Mr. 
VuUiamy^s  (the  King's  Clockmaker)  and  said  the  Lords 
were  summoned  for  one  o'clock  and  he  desired  some  one 
might  be  sent  immediately  to  wind  up  the  Clock  in  the 
House,  for  it  stood  stilL  On  going  immediatelv  to  the 
House,  we  found  the  Clock  was  not  down,  but  had 
stopped  the  preceding  evening,  without  any  apparent 
cause,  at  a  quarter  before  eleven  o'clock,  being  nearly 
the  hour  at  which  H.M.  King  George  the  Third  had 
expired.— The  Clock  was  not  out  of  order,  and  did  not 
want  cleaning.  We  immediately  set  it  going  again  and 
it  continued  to  go  until  the  Parliament  was  dissolTed. 

"JxrSMH  J.  VULUAMT." 

"  PaU  Mall,  18»h  July,  1820." 
The   curious   circumstance   here    recorded   may 
possibly  have  been  mentioned  in  contemporary 
journals,   but  I  thought   the   inscription  worth 
copying  for  the  pages  of  *'  N.  &  Q." 

CuTHBBRT  Bids. 

Davum  :  CoNDBRcuM.— An  article  in  the  April 
number  of  the  ComhiU  calls  for  remark.  Not 
having  yet  got  through  the  long  string  of  names, 
I  will  now  confine  myself  to  two  identifications 
which  seem  untenable,  viz.,  Danum  and  Gonder- 
cnm.  Danum  is,  of  course,  well  known,  the 
Boman  station  having  become  the  Saxon  Dona- 
cestre ;  but  it  appears  that  Bede  refers  to  a  pbce, 
evidently  in  Yorkshire,  which  he  calls  Campo- 


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dunom.  If  he  meaot  it  for  Doncaster  he  has  made 
a  mistake,  for  the  Iter  of  Antonine  also  specifies 
a  station  called  Gambodanum,  several  miles  away 
from  Danum.  Bede  mast  have  known  the  latter 
under  its  Saxon  form,  and  would  not  so  unneces- 
sarily commit  himself  as  to  confuse  it  with  another 
place,  or  iuTent  a  fresh  name  for  it  himself. 
Oondercum  is  described  in  the  Notitia  as  the 
third  station  on  the  Roman  wall,  commencing  at 
the  east  end,  and  this  is  corroborated  by  the 
Ravenna  geographer,  who,  however,  places  it 
second,  omitting  Pons  ^lii.  There  are  remains 
at  Ben  well,  near  Newcastle,  that  prove  the 
existence  of  a  station  at  this  spot,  and  it  suits  the 
measurements ;  it  may  have  been  called  Oonder- 
cum ;  but  we  are  now  told  that  the  latter  (or 
Oonderco,  as  the  writer  puts  it)  was  at  Ghester-Ie- 
Street,  which  is  not  on  the  wail,  but  several  miles 
away.  A.  Hall. 

'^  Fatherland.''  —  The  foUowiog  passage  is 
interesting  as  showing  how  this  word  was  intro- 
daced  into  the  English  language.  It  is  taken 
from  D'Israeli's  Curioiiiies  of  Literature,  p.  390 
(ed.  1867):- 

*'  Let  me  claim  the  honour  of  one  pare  neologism.  I 
▼antared  to  introduce  the  term  of  fatherland  to  deecribe 
our  nataU  folum  ;  I  have  lived  to  see  it  adopted  by  Lord 
Byron  and  by  Mr.  Southev.  This  energetic  expression 
may  therefore  be  considered  as  authenticated;  and 
l^atriotism  may  stamp  it  with  its  glorj  and  its  affection. 
Father-land  is  congenial  with  the  language  in  which 
we  find  that  other  fine  expression  of  mother-tongue. 
The  patriotic  neologism  originated  with  me  in  Holland, 
when,  in  early  life,  it  was  my  daily  pursuit  to  turn  over 
the  glorious  history  of  its  independence  under  the  title 
of  Vaderlandtche  Sittorie —the  history  of  father-land  !  ** 

This  word  is  not  given  in  Richardson's  Dictionary^ 
whilst  Ogilvie  and  Webster  ouote  no  example  of 
its  use.  F.  C.  BiRKBECE  Tbrrt. 

[OgiWie,  Imperial,  1882,  has  a  quotation  from  Tenny- 
son:— 

"Sweet  it  was  to  dream  of  Fatherland."] 

Dates  of  old  "  Hor^c  B.  Viroinis."— Most 
editions  of  the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  century 
Hor(B  B,  Virginia  are  not  dated,  and  it  has  been 
usual  to  take  the  date  from  the  first  year  in 
the  calendar,  the  Almanac  ''pro  xiii  annis.''  I 
have  jast  seen  a  copy  with  the  colophon,  "  Finit 
offioium  Beatae  Yirginis   Marie.    Parisiis  noviter 

impressum  pro  Germane  Hardonyn  librario, 

Hoooocxxxiii/';  but  the  almanac  begins  with 
**  MDXX.,"  and  ends  with  "  mdxxxii.,  Mar.  14." 
If,  therefore,  this  book  affords  a  rule  of  date,  the 
year  after  the  last  entry  in  the  almanac  will  be 
the  right  date,  and  consequently  all  such  books 
have  hitherto  been  put  down  some  fourteen  years 
too  early.  J.  C.  J. 

"The  Whole  Duty  of  Man":  its  Titlb,— 
The  question  of  the  authorship  of  this  work  has 
been  revived  in  ''N.  &Q."    May  I  offer  a  note 


upon  [the  title,  which  itself  is  capable  of  some 
comment?  The  word  "  duty  "  has  no  representative 
in  the  Hebrew,  nor  the  Septuagint,  nor  the  Vul- 
gate, which  signify  "for  this  is  all  the  man." 
Coverdale,  with  the  Bishops'  Bible  afterwards, 
renders  it  "  for  that  toncheth  all  men,"  which  may- 
be derived  from  the  "hoc  spectat  omnem  hominem" 
of  Yatablns.  The  word  "duty"  most  probably  came 
into  the  translation  of  EccL  xii.  13  with  the  render- 
ing of  the  Geneva  version,  "  for  this  is  the  whole 
duetie  of  man,"  which  was  adopted  for  the  A.y. 
St.  Augustine  (De  Civitate,  xx.  3)  shows  the  force 
of  "  omnis  homo." 

It  seems  that  in  this  instance,  as  in  some  others, 
a  religious  expression  is  due,  not  to  Scripture 
itself,  but  to  some  imperfect  rendering.  To  men- 
tion two  others — "to  be  converted"  and  "faith 
without  works";  both  of  these  disappear  in  the 
revision  of  the  New  Testament. 

£d.  Marshall. 

The  Market  Price  of  Elephants  bt  Ad- 
measurement.—The  Moors,  who  drive  a  trade  in 
elephants  throughout  the  Indies,*  have  a  fixed  price 
for  the  ordinary  type,  according  to  their  size.  To 
ascertain  their  true  value,  they  measure  from  the 
nail  of  the  fore  foot  to  the  top  of  the  shoulder,  and 
for  every  cubit  high  they  give  at  the  rate  of  1002. 
of  our  money.  An  African  elephant  of  the  lai^gest 
size  measures  about  nine  cubits,  or  thirteen  feet 
and  a  half,  in  height,  and  is  worth  about  9002.;  bat 
for  the  huge  elephants  of  the  island  of  Ceylon  four 
times  that  sum  is  given.  Had  our  favourite 
Jumbo  been  measured  by  the  same  standard,  what 
would  have  been  his  real  value  in  money  ? 

William  Platt. 

Oallis  Court,  St.  Peter*>,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Inscription  on  the  Tomb  of  Thomas  Parlet, 
Becordbr  of  Ltnn  Rbgis,  ciodixxxi.,  in  St. 
Margaret's,  Ltnn. — 

"  Debitor  ipse  minor  Justus  sua  debita  soWit, 
Creditor  omnipotens  solverat  ilU  prius : 
Debita,  vis,  soWas  (Hospep,)  cum  solreris  ipse. 
Vivas  ipse  Deo,  solvet  et  ilia  Deus/* 

Idem  Anglic^  redditum  : — 
The  honest  debtor  pays— 'tis  well;  but  He 

To  whom  all  owe  their  all  first  set  him  free  : 
Friend,  wouldst  thou  pay  thy  debts,  yet  nothing  lack  ? 
Live  unto  Qod,  and  Qod  will  pay  them  baclc. 

W.  D.  M. 

A  Parallel.— I  cannot  find  that  the  following 
parallel  between  a  verse  in  the  Book  of  Wisdom 
and  a  oassage  in  Tacitus  has  been  pointed  out. 
The  author  of  the  Book  of  Wisdom  observes  of  the 
just  man,  who  funrayij  (**  raptus  est,"  Vulg.),  that 

(iv.  13)—*^  He,  being  made  perfect,  in  a  short  time 
fulfilled  a  long  time"  (A.y.);  and  Tacitus,  in  his 
remarks  on  the  life  and  character  of  Agricola,  has, 
"  £t  ipse  quidem,  quamquanv  medio  Jn  spatio 
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integrsB  setatis  ereptas,  qnantam  ad  gloriam, 
loDKissimam  seyam  peregit"  {De  Jul.  Agrie.  Vit, 
c.  xUt.).  Ed.  Marshall. 

'  [ V'ulg. :  "  Consninmatas  in  breTi,  ezplerit  tempora 
multa,"  Sap.  iv.  18.] 

Bishop  Thiblw all's  Lvttbrs  :  "  The  drowst 
pboplb's  bbll."  —  Permit  me  to  complete  the 
history  of  this  hand-bell  (see  ante,  p.  127)  by 
reootding  that  a  wicked  relatire  of  mine — now  a 
respectable  rector — who  had  donbtless  suffered 
from  the  infliction,  purloined  the  bell  out  of  the 
old  sexton's  pocket,  and  gave  it  honourable  burial 
either  in  or  near  the  churchyard.         Annie  B. 


tBiutviti, 

We  nuet  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  priTate  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direot. 


Jack-an-Apbs  Lane,  1662.  —  Amongst  the 
earliest  Acts  of  Parliament  passed  after  the  Resto- 
ration was  one  for  repairing  highways  and  sewers, 
regulating  hackney  coaches,  and  "enUrging  of 
several  strait  and  inconvenient  streets  and  pas- 
sages." The  Act  mentions  ten  places  in  London 
wmch  were  "  so  narrow  that  they  are  incominodious 
to  coaches,  carts,  and  passengers,  and  prejudicial 
to  commerce  and  trading/  These  ten  were— 
(1)  the  passai;:e  near  the  Stocks ;  (2)  the  passage 
from  Fleet  Street  to  St.  Paul's ;  (3)  the  passage 
through  the  White  Hart  Inn  from  the  Strand  into 
Covent  Crarden  ;  (4)  the  passage  near  Exeter  House 
and  the  Savoy  ;  (5)  the  passage  out  of  the  Strand 
into  St  Martin's  Lane ;  (6)  the  passage  and  gate- 
house of  Cheapside  into  St.  Paul's  Churchyard ; 
(7)  the  passage  against  St.  Dunstan's  Church  in  the 
West ;  (8)  £e  passage  at  the  west  end  of  the 
"Poultrey";  (9)  the  passage  at  Temple  Bar ;  and 
(10)  the  "  passage  or  street  of  Field-Lane,  com- 
monly called  Jack-an-Apes-lane,  goine  between 
C^ncery  -  bne  and  Linoolns  -  In  -  Fields."  The 
precise  locality  of  the  above  nine  first-mentioned 
narrow  streets  or  passages  is  easily  to  be  made 
out,  but  the  situation  of  '*  Jaok-an- Apes-lane  **  is 
not  so  clear.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  where  it 
was^  and  what,  if  any,  street  now  takes  its  pUuse. 

Edward  Sollt. 

Ehbasst  offbrbd  to  Sir  Thohab  Ovbrburt. 
—Mr.  Ewald,  of  the  Record  Office,  has  recently 
published  two  very  interesting  volumes,  Storia 
from  the  State  Paptri,  i»hich,  as  the  AthencBum 
remarks,  are  likely  to  meet  with  a  larse  circula- 
tion. Skilful  use  has  been  made  of  the  author's 
facilities  of  research,  and  no  doubt  as  a  whole  the 
&ct8  "can  be  vouched  for  by  irrefragable  docu- 
mentary evidence"  {AthetMsum^  April  B).  How- 
ever, hvmanum  ttt  §rrare;  Homer,  I  beliere,  at 


well  as  Jupiter,  was  caught  nappinj,  and  Mr. 
Ewald  has  fallen  into  an  anachronism.  At  p.  54 
of  vol.  il  we  are  told  that  Rochester  (afterward» 
Earl  of  Somerset)  *•  begged  that  Overbury  might 
be  appointed  to  the  vacant  embassy  at  St.  Peters- 
burg." This  was  almost  exactly  ninety  years 
before  the  Czar  Peter  erected  some  small  buildings 
on  an  island  in  the  Neva,  and  thus  formed  the  com- 
mencement of  the  modern  capital  of  Russia.  One 
might  think  that  Mr.  Ewald  inadvertently  wrote 
St.  Petersburg  for  Moscow,  but  as  the  Poles  were 
then  (1613)  in  possession  of  Moscow  it  is  very 
unlikely  that  an  English  embassy  would  be  sent 
there.  Indeed,  Russia  had  been  for  some  years 
in  such  a  state  of  anarchy  (only  terminated  by 
the  election  of  Michael  Romanof,  the  first  of  his 
line,  to  the  throne  a  few  months  after  the  com- 
mittal of  Sir  Thomas  Overbury  to  the  Tower) 
that  I  can  hardly  suppose  that  any  embassy  from 
one  of  the  Western  powers  should  have  been  sent 
there.  But  it  would  be  interesting  to  have  the 
point  cleared  up.  Other  historians  also  say  that 
it  was  an  embassy  to  Russia  that  was  offered  to 
Overbury ;  Oldmixon,  however,  says  that  it  waa 
to  the  Archduke  in  the  Netherlands.  Docu- 
mentary evidence  is  probably  accessible,  and  Mr. 
Ewald  will  perhaps  himself  be  kind  enough  to 
answer  the  query.  W.  T.  Ltmn. 

Blackbeath. 

"MoLA  Rosarum":  what  Place  is  Mbakt? 
— J.  M.  Greener  published  an  edition  of  Claudian 
in  1759,  at  Leipzig,  in  2  vols.  8vo.,  with  notes. 
In  a  note  on  the  thirty-fifth  poem,  viz.,  *'De 
Raptu  Proserpinse,"  ii.  114,  where  Claudian  is 
describing  a  kke  whose  waters  are  marvellously 
clear,  he  adds,  "  Habet  talem  lacum  vicinia  nostra, 
h.  e.  fontem  liquidissimse  saluberrimseque  aquae, 
ita  copiosum,  ut  emittat  statim  rivum  mokB  JRoia- 
rum  (sic  enim  vocatur)  pluribus  rotis  impellendis 
idoneum."  Gesner  was  professor  at  Gottingen, 
and  some  place  near  that  university  is  probably 
intended.  W.  E.  Bucklbt. 

Few  Family. —Where  can  I  find  out  anything 
about  the  family  of  Few,  an  ancient  Norman 
family,  descended  from  the  Counts  de  Feu  7  Their 
habitat  in  this  country  was  the  Isle  of  Ely,  where 
there  was  a  book  about  them.  They  have  a  brazier 
as  crest,  with  a  punning  motto,  "Feu  sert  et 
sauve."  H.  Pugh. 

Thomas  Waltsh,  a  Lancastrian.  —  I  shall 
be  obliged  to  any  one  who  will  tell  me  anything^ 
about  this  knight,  and  expound  for  me  the  mean- 
ing of  the  words  I  give  below.  There  is  a  brass 
to  him  in  this  church — unfortunately  broken  dean 
in  two  and  the  one  half  lost.  He  seems  to  have 
served  the  three  Henries— Henry  IV.,  V.,  and  VL 
— as  valect  trayer.  John  Slaten. 

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J.  Ward,  Paintbr.— I  have  a  copy  of  a  large 
mezzotint  enfuravlog,  '*J.  Ward  pinxt.,  J.  "Wsad 
sculpt.  London,  pubd.  Feby.  5,  1793,  by  F. 
Simpson,  St.  PauFs  Church  Yard."  Title, "  The 
Booking  Horse.''  Two  children,  a  boy  and  girl, 
are  the  principal  figures  in  the  foreground.  Uan 
I  learn  if  these  are  portrait^  of  any  particular 
children ;  or  did  Ward  paint  portraits  and  introduce 
them  into  pictures  of  this  kind  ?  I  presume  this 
was  James  Ward,  the  animalpainter. 

W.  H,  Pattbbsok. 

Bathurst  akd  Villers  Families.  — In  Sir 
Egerton  Brydges's  edition  of  CoUins's  Peerage 
(9  vols.  8?o.  1812),  ToL  iii.  p.  765,  note  b,  it  is 
stated  that  the  then  Lord  Bathurst  was  descended 
in  the  female  line  from  Edward  Tillers,  of  Hol- 
thorpe,  CO.  Northampton,  fifth  son  of  Sir  John 
Villers,  of  Brokesby,  co.  Leicester.  Now  it  may 
be,  and  probably  is,  quite  true  that  Edward 
Villers  of  Holthorpe  was  ancestor  of  Lord  Bathurst, 
but  he  was  not  the  son  of  Sir  John  Villers  of 
Brokesby ;  for  by  an  inquisition  held  at  Rowell, 
00.  Northampton,  on  Oct.  13,  5  Hen.  VIIL,  after 
the  death  of  Edward  Villers,  it  appears  that  Ed- 
wajrd  Villers  of  Holthorpe  died  June  26,  5  Hen. 
VIIL,  1613  (Ino.  p.m.  5  Hen,  VIIL,  No.  42). 
But  Christopher  villers,  brother  of  Sir  John,  by 
his  will  (P.O.C.,  Dingeley,  8),  dated  Aug.  4  and 
proved  Aug.  13,  1537,  leaves  to  his  nephew  Ed- 
ward Villers  lol;  and  John  Villers,  eldest  son  of 
Sir  John,  by  his  will  (P.O.O.,  Pynnynge,  21),  dated 
May  24,  1544,  and  proved  Jan.  31,  1544/5,  leaves 
to  his  brother  Edward  Villers  land  in  Turlington, 
CO.  Leioester,  and  eUewhere  for  life. 

These  extracts  prove  conclusively  that  Edward 
Villers  of  Holthorpe  died  in  1513,  and  that  Ed- 
ward Villers,  son  of  Sir  John,  was  alive  in  1537 
and  1544.  This  conclusion  sugflrests  two  questions, 
— 1.  From  whom  was  Edward  Villers  of  Holthorpe 
descended  ?  2.  Who,  if  any,  were  the  descendants 
of  Edward  Villers,  son  of  Sir  John  ?  I  hope  to 
ofifer  some  remarks  in  answer  to  these  two 
questions  on  a  future  occasion. 

R.  J.  W.  Davison. 

84,  Norwich  Street,  Cambridge. 

King,  op  Clontarf,  co,  Dublin. — Was  Geo. 
King,  of  Clontarf,  High  Sheriff  co.  Dublin,  1606, 
of  the  same  family  as  Geo.  King,  whose  manor 
and  island  of  Clontarf  were  forfeited  by  Cromwell 
in  1641  ?  To  what  family  of  Clontarf  did  the 
arms,  Azure,  three  fusils  or,  belong? 

W.  L.  King. 

Watlington,  Norfolk. 

Graduals. — I  should  be  obliged  for  informar 
iion  as  to  the  existence  in  cathedral  libraries  or 
elsewhere  in  England,  outside  of  the  British 
Museum,  of  graduals  noted  either  with  pneumata 
or  with  notes  without  lines.         H.  B.  Brigqs. 


'^  Aaron  Wabrsn,  ob  :  28  Apr  :  1751.  Art  : 
80.'' — I  possess  an  enamelled  gold  mourning  ring 
with  the  above  inscription,  and  should  feel  obliged 
for  any  information  respecting  the  person  it  con^- 
memorates.  S.  G. 

Ths  Witwall. — What  is  the  correct  name  of 
this  bird,  mentioned  in  The  Haunted  H<mse,  by 
Thomas  Hood?    The  poem  is  finely  expreesed, 
but  leaves  quite  as  much  more  to  be  imagined : — 
'*  No  soond  was  heard,  except  from  far  away 
The  ringing  of  the  witwalrs  ihriUy  laoghter 
Or,  now  ftod  then,  the  chatter  of  the  jay. 
That  Echo  murmured  after." 

John  Piceford,  M.A. 
Newboome  Beotory,  Woodbridge. 
[Ogilvie.  Cwnprehemive,  1871,  and  Nattall,  n.d.,  have 
the  word.] 

"The  Greenian  Philosopht.'*  —  Robert 
Greene,  D.D.,  Fellow  of  Clare  Hall,  Cambridge, 
who  died  in  1730,  was  the  author  of  the  Greenian 
Philosophy  (see  Geni,  Mcig.,  voL  liiL  p.  657). 
Does  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."  possess  a 
copy  of  the  above  production  that  he  would  lend 
or  exchange?  Johk  Grsbnk,  L.R.C.P. 

Friday  Bridge,  Birmingham. 

Photographing  Devils. — 

"A  Russian  professor  has  carried  analysis  to  the 
greatest  length  possible,  having  succeeded  in  photo- 
mphing  seventy  *  eminent  personages*  of  helL  How 
Prof.  Leuohin  contrived  to  visit  Pandemonium  un- 
scathed is  a  mystery,  unless  fern  seed  be  as  potent  in  h<dl 
as,  according  to  tradition,  it  is  upon  earth." 

The  above  paragraph  occured  in  the  Secular 
Bevww  of  Feb.  7,  1860.  What  was  it  that  Prof. 
Leuchin  actually  did  do  ?  Jambs  Hooper. 

8,  Claude  Villas,  Denmark  Hill,  8.fi. 

O'CoNNBLL  AT  HASTINGS.— I  should  be  glad 
of  any  particulars  about  the  Liberator's  visit  to 
Hastings  in  1846.    In  what  house  did  he  live  ? 
Edward  H.  Marshall. 

Library,  Claremont,  Hastings. 

Signs  to  denote  Similaritt  of  Word- 
Sbnsb  and  Word-Sound.— Have  any  signs  been 
devised  for  briefly  noting  similarity  of  meaning 
and  of  sound  between  words  ?  If  I  have  to  state 
that  liber  means  book,  I  must  say  so  at  full  length  ; 
and  if  I  wish  to  state  that  oo  in  "  book  '*  has  the 
same  sound  as  in  '*  look,"  I  must  say  so  in  as  many 
words,  or  else  that  the  one  word  rhymes  to 
the  other.  Would  it  not  be  convenient  in  such 
cases  to  adopt  a  sign  of  equality,  distinguishing 
similarity  of  meaning  by  the  addition  of  m,  and 
similarity  of  sound  by  s  f  Thus  we  might  write 
"liber  m=book,"  and  «*book  »=look.*'  Such 
abbreviations,  I  think,  would  be  found  verytueful. 

J.  Dixon. 

Silhoubttbs,  or  Black  Profile  Portraits. 
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into  ase,  and  when  were  they  discontinued  litis  very 
rare  to  meet  with  any  now.    I  suppose  they  went 
out  when  the  daguerreotype  was  first  introduced. 
0.  L.  Chambers. 
Headingley,  Leeds. 

Matthbw  Jackson,  ob*  1792.— May  I  ask  for 
information  concerning  him  ?  A  sermon  occasioned 
by  his  death,  Dec.  22,  1792,  set.  ninety-four^  was 
meached  at  Bethnal  Green,  Dec.  30,  by  John 
Kello,  and  subsequently  published  under  the  title 
H)!  Chriitian  Confidence, 

W.  F.  Marsh  Jackson. 

Frsbdov  from  Suits  of  Hundred,  <&c.— On 
ithe  Close  Rolls  of  Henry  III.  and  other  early 
•kings  I  bare  often  come  across  grants  to  lords  of 
Tarious  manors  and  their  heirs  and  their  men  of 
various  places,  that  they  should  be  for  ever  free 
from  suits  of  county  and  hundred,  sheriff  aids,  and 
Tiew  of  frank- pledge,  and  murder.  What  is  the 
iull  force  of  these  expressions]       W.  G.  D.  F. 

F.  D.,  A  Dutch  Engraver.— On  a  copper- 

flate  engraving  of  one  of  the  works  of  Abraham 
tloemaert  (b.  1567,  d.  1647  or  1657)  the  initials 
o(  the  engraver,  F.  D.,  are  given.  I  wish  to  know 
the  name  and  date  of  the  artist  represented  by 
these  initials. 

G.  y.  Caffbsl  or  Cassbel,  an  Enoraver. — 
!rhis  name  occurs  on  an  engraved  portrait  (copper) 
executed  in  London  in,  or  shortly  after,  1698.  Is 
4iny  thing  known  of  the  engraver  1 

V.H,LIi.I.C.I.V. 

Louis  Fiquibr. — Will  any  of  your  readers  in- 
form me  where  I  can  procure  an  examination  by  an 
English  critic  of  this  writer's  theories,  as  explained 
in  his  work.  The  Day  afUr  Death  f  H.  Y. 

Garlow. 

MiNCHER  Family.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
give  me  any  information  about  this  fSamily  ?  John 
Koss  and  Sarah  Mincher,  "  both  inhabitants,''  were 
married  in  the  garrison  of  Tangier  on  August  10, 
1792.  This  My  was,  I  believe,  daughter  of 
James  Mincher  and  Elizabeth  Bruce  ;  she  died  at 
Naples  June  26, 1830.  Her  husband  was  a  grand- 
son of  John  Boss,  of  Tain,  Rosa-shire,  and  repre- 
sented a  branch  of  Ross  of  Morinchie,  descended 
from  the  Balnagowan  family ;  he  is  described  as 
*"  an  eminent  merchant  and  East  India  Director." 
Any  particulars  about  the  family,  arms,  &a,  of 
the  Minchers  would  greatly  oblige. 

Ross  O'Connbll. 

Sir  Thos.  Hobt.— Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
tell  me  anything  of  a  MS.  entitled  ''A  Booke 
of  the  Travaile  and  Lief  of  me  Thomas  Hoby  :  w^ 
diverse  things  woorth  the  notinge  "  ?  It  is  said  to 
be  in  his  own  handwriting,  and  at  one  time  to 
have  belonged  to  Mr.  John  Booth,  of  Duke  Street, 


Portland  Place.     Has  it  ever  been  printed,  or 
does  it  now  exist  ?  X.  Y.  Z. 

Sir  Philip  Francis's  Marriagb.  —  In  Sir 
Fortunatus  Dwarris's  New  Facts  as  to  tjis  AuVtor- 
ship  of  JuniuSf  it  is  said  ''  that  Dubois,  who  was 
in  Francis's  confidence,  said  he  might  have  had  a 
peerage  from  Lord  Grenville,  but  refused  it,  as  his 
eldest  son  was  bom  out  of  wedlock,  so  he  was 
made  a  Knight  of  the  Bath."  Can  any  corre- 
spondent who  has  a  copy  of  Parkes's  (Merivale's) 
Life  ofFranciSf  say  whether  Parkes,  who  is  under- 
stood to  have  had  access  to  Francis's  papers,  throws 
any  light  upon  this  statement  ?  I  have  understood 
that  Dr.  fiancis  was  dissatisfied  with  his  son's 
marriage.  F.  M. 

Joshua  Child's  "  Nbw  Discoursb  of  Tradb." 
— What  is  the  date  of  the  original  publication  of 
this  book  ?    Is  it  a  work  easy  to  be  obtained  ? 

W.  B.  Bond. 

Blaekett  Street,  Newcastle-apon-Tyne. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. — 
"  Man  ii  immortal  till  his  work  is  done." 

LiTTLB  NiLL 

"To  promise,  pause,  preMtre,  postpone, 
And  end  by  letting  tnings  alone." 
The  above  was  qaoted  in  a  comparatively  recent  parlia* 
mentary  speech.  Alpha. 


IBit^liti. 

THE  BODLEIAN  MODEL  OF  AN  INDIAN  WELL. 
(6"»  S.  V.  286.) 

This  model  is  beyond  doubt  that  of  the  &mouB 
subtertanean  well  at  Adalaj,  abont  ten  miles 
sonth  of  the  capital  city  of  Ahmedabad  in 
Gujerat.  It  was  built  a.d.  1499,  by  Ruda  Rani 
(queen),  daughter  of  Raja  Venn,  and  wife  of 
lUja  Versing,  at  a  cost  of  60,0002.  It  is  the 
noblest  of  the  many  magnificent  subterranean 
wells,  or  water  palaces  as  they  might  be  named, 
for  which  Gujerat  is  famous.  The  next  in 
grandeur  to  it  is  the  well  of  Dada  Hari,  also  at 
Ahmedabad.  It  was  built  about  the  same  time 
as  the  well  at  Adalaj,  by  a  lady  of  the  house- 
hold of  Mahmud  Be^a,  at  a  cost  of  30,000Z. 
There  is  a  perfect  model  of  it  at  the  India  Museum. 
These  wells  are  simiUr  in  the  principle  of  their  con- 
struction to  the  one  at  which  Eliezer  met  Rebecca 
in  Mesopotamia,  and  the  ring  he  there  hung  in  her 
nose  was  probably  of  Indian  origin,  at  least  in  its 
form,  and  identical  with  those  still  to  be  seen  on  the 
faces  of  the  Hindoo  women  who  every  morning  and 
afternoon  go  down  to  draw  water  from  the  under- 
ground wells  of  Ahmedabad  and  Baroda,  and  come 
up  again  by  the  flights  of  steps  from  them,  with 
fiUed  pitchers  on  their  heads,  as  stately  in  their  step 
as  striding  Oaryatidea.        Gboros  Bibdwood. 

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Parochial  Bsoistyhb  (6«»  S.  t.  141, 211, 233, 
248,  273,  291).  — HsRMBNTRUDB  alludes  to  the 
Tery  difficulty  that  is  lemoyed  by  the  decision  in 
Steele  v,  Williams  (8  Exeh.  626),  and  as  law  re- 
ports are  not  always  accessible,  especially  in  the 
country,  the  following  brief  account  of  the  matter 
may  be  useful. 

This  was  originally  an  action  to  recover  from 
the  defendant,  the  parish  clerk  of  Sb.  Maiy's, 
Newington,  42.  7«.  6d,  paid  to  him  for  fees  ckimed 
in  respect  of  searches  made  and  extracts  taken  by 
the  plaintiff  from  the  register  books  of  the  parish, 
the  searches  being  through  four  years  and  the  extracts 
twenty-five  in  number.  Certificates  had  not  been 
required,  but  the  fee  for  a  certificate  had  been 
charged  in  each  case.  In  giving  judgment,  Baron 
Parke  said, "  The  defendant  could  not,  because  the 

eiintiff  wanted  to  make  extracts,  insist  on  his 
ving  certificates  with  the  signature  of  the 
minister.''  Baron  Pktt  said,  "  Under  the  6  &  7 
Will.  lY.  c  86,  s.  35,  there  are  only  two  things  in 
respect  of  which  the  incumbent  is  entitled  to  fees, 
namely  for  a  search,  and  for  a  certified  copy.  With 
regjurd  to  making  extracts  no  fee  is  mentioned,  and 
the  incumbent  has  no  right  to  tax  any  one  for  so 
doing."    Baron  Martin  said,  "  I  am  of  the  same 

opinion Mr.  Robinson  has  argued  that  because 

the  Act  of  Parliament  allows  a  fee  for  a  search 
and  for  a  certified  copy,  but  no  fee  is  mentioned 
for  taking  an  extract,  it  is  competent  for  the 
parish  clerk  to  demand  for  it  any  fee  he  pleases.  I 
am  clearly  of  opinion  that  he  is  not." 

The  right  of  the  public  to  make  extracts  and 
deal  with  them  as  they  please  would  thus  appear 
to  be  established.  I  confess  I  cannot  understand 
Mr.  Smith's  statement  that  the  Act  which  fixes 
the  fee  for  searching  at  one  shilling  for  the  first 
year  and  sixpence  afterwards  does  not  apply  to 
parish  registers. 

6  &  7  Will  III.  c.  6,  s.  24  requires  all  persons 
in  holy  orders  to  keep  registers  and  to  allow  per- 
sons concerned  to  view  the  same  without  fee  or 
•reward. 

63  Qeo.  III.  c.  146  provides  that  all  the  due 
legal  and  accustomed  fees  for  giving  copies  shall 
remain. 

6  &  7  Will.  lY.  c.  86  repeals  certain  portions 
of  the  previous  Acts,  and  provides  (e.  35)  that  every 
rector,  vicar,  curate,  &c.,  who  shall  have  the  keep- 
ing for  the  time  being  of  any  regieter  hook  of  births, 
deaths,  or  marriages  shall  at  all  reasonable  times 
allow  searches  to  oe  made  of  any  regbter  book  in 
his  keeping,  and  shall  give  a  copy,  certified  under 
his  hand,  of  any  entry  or  entries  in  the  same  on 
payment  of  the  fee  thereinafter  mentioned,  t.e., 
one  shilling  for  the  first  year's  search  and  sixpence 
additional  for  every  subsequent  year,  and  2«.  6d. 
for  a  certificate.  There  is  nothing  here  about  a 
fee  for  each  name ;  in  the  case  to  which  I  have  re- 
ferred it  was  clearly  interpreted  to   mean   the 


volume  for  the  year  or  the  entries  for  the  year. 
This  discussion  has  enabled  Mr.  Earwakbr  to 
place  on  record  an  interesting  account  of  the  cost 
of  printing  in  Lancashire  in  1882,  which  may  be 
very  useful  to  the  antiquary  of  the  future ;  but  I 
submit  that  my  original  proposition  stUl  remains 
unanswered,  and  thaX  an  index  on  the  model  of 
Mr.  Maoray's  (which  is  not  the  whole  register  cut 
up  and  arranged  in  alphabetical  order,  or  anything 
at  all  like  it)  is  the  only  practical  method  of  print- 
ing parish  registers  generally,  with  rapidity  and 
at  a  comparatively  small  cost.  Like  some  of  your 
correspondents,  I  should  much  prefer  to  see  them 
printed  exactly  as  they  are  ;  but  it  seems  hopeless 
to  expect  this,  at  any  rate  in  our  time,  when  we 
consider  the  amount  of  matter  there  is  to  deal 
with.  An  index,  though  perhaps  not  all  that  every 
one  could  wish  to  have,  would  give  everything 
that  the  genealogist  could  require ;  it  would  not 
affect  the  vested  rights  of  the  present  custodiana 
of  the  registers,  for  it  could  not  be  used  as  evidence^ 
but,  on  the  contrary,  I  believe  it  would  in  many 
cases  stimukte  the  demand  for  certified  copies. 
John  H.  Chapman,  M.A,  F.S.A. 
Lincoln's  Inn. 

Surely  a  via  media  can  be  found  between  the 
alternatives  that  parish  registers  should  all  be  pub- 
lished,  say  in  five  thousand  volumes,  with  '^  bushels 
of  chaff,"  and  that  they  should  remain  in  neglect 
and  be  possibly  lost  or  destroyed,  and  be  inacces- 
sible to  the  many.     My  proposal  is  this  :  let  the 
Historical  MSS.  Commission  come  to  the  rescue. 
Let    the    registers  be    not  removed   from  their 
parishes,  except  for  the  purpose  of  being  copied  by 
one  of  the  inspectors,  but  let  copies  be  made  of 
them  all  down  to  the  date  of  the  Act  for  the  re- 
gistration of  births.    Let  these  copies  be  kept  at 
the  Public  Record  Office  or  elsewhere  (and  a  great 
saving  of  time  in  searches  would  be  gained  if  the 
entries  were  arranged  in  index  form,  as  given 
ante,  p.  211),  certificates,  of  course,  to  be  only  obtain- 
able, as  at  present,  from  the  originals.     Let  all  the 
important  entries  and  lists  of  the  principal  names 
be  printed  in  the  Reports  of  the  Commission  fron^ 
time  to  time  as  they  are  taken  in  hand.    By  this 
plan  the  registers  of  the  whole  country  would  be 
as  accessible  as  other  public  records  in  London » 
and  their  utility  in  their  several  localities,  for  sup- 
plying information  to  the  poor  and  for  local  in- 
quirerv,  would  not  be  diminished ;  and  as  much  of 
them  could  be  printed  as  desirable,  with  no  more 
expense  than  is  now  incurred  by  the  continuance 
of  the  Commission.    I  am  aware  that  the  terms  of 
the  Commission  apply  to  *'  private  "  owners.    But 
corporation  documents  come  within  its  scope,  and 
why  not  parochial  registers?     As  no  detriment 
would    accrue    to   incumbents,  their    permission 
would,  I  think,  be  readily  given. 

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I  am  a  little  surpriaed  that  Mr.  Pickford  did 
not  know,  aod  therefore  may  be  glad  to  learn, 
that,  luckily  for  Oxford,  Antony  k  Wood  left  in 
his  MSS.  ''The  History  of  all  the  Ck>llege8  and 
Halls,''  and  was  most  careful  in  the  copying  of  all 
epitaphs  and  inscriptions.  True  he  died  in  1695, 
leaying  this  MS.  and  that  of  the  history  of  the  city 
unprinted;  but  John  Gutch,  of  All  Souls,  in  1786 
edited  the  former,  bringing  eyerything  down  to 
date ;  and  in  the  account  of  Ob.  Gh.  all  the  tombs, 
tablets,  brasses,  with  their  legends,  are  given,  and, 
of  course,  amongst  them  are  those  of  Bishops  Fell 
and  Berkeley,  Dean  Aldrich  and  Robert  Burton. 
So  with  Queen's  College,  St.  John's,  and  the  other 
colleges  and  halls  ;  and  I  should  suppose  that  few 
places  have  better  printed  and  published  records 
than  we  have  here.  In  like  manner,  in  1773  Sir 
John  Peshall  edited  Wood's  History  of  the  City  of 
Oxford,  bringing  all  matter  down  to  that  date. 
The  book  is  very  scarce  now,  and  it  would  be  a 
great  thing  if  a  new  Wood  or  Gutch  should  arise 
and  re-edit  Peshall's  Wood  carefully,  and  with 
additions  to  the  present  date.  Mr.  Pickford  also 
asks,  '*  Where  are  the  entries  of  the  burials  kept 
which  have  taken  place  in  the  chapels  of  the 
different  colleges?  Presumably  in  the  burial 
registers  of  the  parishes  in  Oxford  in  which  they 
are  situated  7 "  Not  so  ;  the  colleges  keep  their 
own  registers.  Merton  Chapel  is,  as  Mr.  Pickford 
says,  a  parish  church  as  well  as  college  chapel ; 
and  the  cathedral  has  its  own  registers,  dating 
from  1640.  The  names  of  others  buried  there  from 
1647  are  given  by  Wood,  and  printed  by  Gutch 
in  the  list  of  burials,  the  earlier  ones  being  canons 
of  Osney.  The  tablet  to  Bishop  Berkley's  memory 
has  an  error  in  it  which  makes  him  three  or  four 
years  older  than  he  really  was.  It  was  on  the 
third  pillar  on  the  north  side  ;  and  on  a  white 
marble  gravestone  the  line  by  A.  Pope: — 

"  To  Berkeley  tw'ij  Virtue  under  HeaT'n." 

The  name  appears  spelt  with  or  without  the  letter 
s  in  the  middle.  Gibbbs  Rioaud. 

18,  Long  Wall,  Oxford. 

The  Journal  of  the  British  Archseological  Associa- 
tion for  March  31  last  (voL  xxxviii.  pt.  i.)  contains 
the  information  that  the  Department  of  MSS., 
British  Museum,  has  recently  acquired  the  parish 
register  of  Papworth-Everard,  Cambridgeshire, 
1565-1692.  The  living  of  Papworth  St.  Everard, 
as  it  is  styled  by  Lewis  (Topog,  Diet),  is,  I  observe, 
in  the  gift  of  the  Master  and  Fellows  of  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge.  It  is  a  curious  coincidence 
that  the  register  of  marriages,  1662-72,  of  another 
Cambridgeshire  parish,  St.  Mary's,  Whittlesey  (a 
Crown  living),  lately  fell  by  purchase  into  the 
hands  of  a  well- known  genealogical  and  anti- 
quarian bookseller,  who  has  printed  its  contents. 
While  one  cannot  but  be  glad  that  the  register 
of  Papworth  St.  Everard  should  have  found  a  safer 


haven  of  rest  than  its  own  parish  chest  appears  to 
have  afforded,  curiosity  may  be  excused  for  asking 
how  the  property  of  the  parish  found  its  way  into 
the  market  at  all.  Other  parish  registers,  or 
portions  thereof,  are,  I  am  aware,  also  to  be  found 
in  the  Department  of  MSS.  Their  history  would 
probably  be  equally  interesting  and  instructive. 
C.  H.  E.  Carmichaei^ 
New  UniTersitj  Club,  S.W. 

The  following  extract  from  a  letter  which  ha» 
recently  appeared  in  the  Standard^  which  notifies 
the  loss  of  a  register  at  a  late  date,  is  of  interest  in 
refereuce  to  the  question  of  preserving  the  parochial 
registers : — 

"  In  the  days  of  Charles  L,  Giles  Nanfan,  who  then 
resided  at  the  old  manor  bouse  of  Birtsmorton  Court  in 
this  neighbourhood,  fought  a  duel  with  the  lorer  of  his 
sister  Bridget,  and  slew  him.  We  know  the  'Bloody 
Meadow '  where  the  duel  was  fought,  and  how  the  un- 
fortunate lover  was  buried  in  the  Borrow  churchyard, 
the  pari«h  in  which  be  was  killed,  and  Bridget  Nanfan 
left  a  charge  upon  the  '  Bloody  Meadow '  by  will,  for 
the  preaching  of  a  sermon  by  after  incumbents  against 
the  sin  of  duelling.  But  we  did  not  know  the  name  of 
the  lorer  who  was  killed,  or  the  time  when  the  duel  took 
place.  Some  years  ago  I  went,  accompanied  by  Sir  Wm. 
Guise,  to  examine  tne  parish  registers  respecting  the 
name  and  the  date  of  the  burial  of  Bridget  Nanfan's 
lover.  The  Rev.  James  Hughes  was  then  incumbent. 
We  found  the  entry,  and  I  made  a  copy  which,  I  regret 
to  say,  was  lost  Years  after,  the  question  arose  again 
about  the  name  and  date  referred  to,  and  again  I  went 
with  Sir  Wm.  Guise  to  examine  the  registers  of  the 
period.  But  the  book  had  disappeared  altogether,  and 
was  nowhere  to  be  found.  ''  W.  8.  Stxghds.'' 

«  Pendock  Rectory,  Tewkesbury,  April  5, 1882." 

Ed.  Marshall. 

[C.  8.  will  have  observed  that  the  Act  6  &  7  Will.  IV. 
e.  86.  a  35  was  quoted  by  Mb.  £.  H.  Mabshall,  ante,, 
p.  292] 

On  thb  8UPF0SBD  Chanob  of  a  Lativ  L 
INTO  U  IN  Frbnch  (6**»  S.  V.  261).-— I  am  quite 
willing  to  accept  Dr.  Change's  explanation,  and 
I  think  we  ought  to  be  much  obliged  to  him  for 
the  care  he  has  taken  in  this  investigation.  But 
I  hope  I  maj  be  allowed  to  plead  that  there  ia 
still  a  sense  in  which  the  I  can  be  said  to  pass  into 
u,  viz.  that,  whereas  there  was  once  an  I  between 
a  and  t  in  regalimmf  there  is  now  a  u  between  the 
a  and  m  in  royaume,  the  t  havbg  dropped.  That 
is  what  I  call  the  practical  result,  the  "  rule  of 
thnmb,"  and  this  was  all  that  I  meant.  Dr. 
Chancb  expbuns  quite  clearly  that  this  resultant 
spelling,  as  it  appears  to  the  eye,  doee  not  explain 
the  real  nature  of  the  phonetic  change,  and  that 
consequently  to  talk  of  a  change  of  I  to  u  is  philo- 
logicaiUy  misleading.  What  really  happens  is  that 
(d  becomes  avl,  and  then  I  drops,  giving  us  au, 
with  the  result  that,  to  the  eye^  I  seems  to  become 
n.  The  real  secret  is  that  this  peculiarity  is  due  to 
the  action  of  I  on  the  vowel ;  compare  the  pronun- 
ciation of  father  with  that  of  falL    For  similar 

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loss  of  I  compare  wotdd,  shouldf  calrrif  pialm^  calf, 
&c.  I  further  wish  to  point  out  here  that,  in  the 
Romance  words  in  which  a  becomes  o,  the  reason 
is  because  m  or  n  follows.  The  law  is  the  same  in 
English,  as  seen  in  the  common  words  from,  on, 
long,  as  compared  with  Goth,  fram,  Ger.  an,  and 
A.-S.  lang.  So  in  Latin  hngus  stands  for  an 
earlier  langus,  as  the  Teutonic  forms  prove.  Yet 
again^  where  Romance  e  becomes  a,  I  suspect  it  is 
owing  to  the  following  r,  being,  in  fact,  a  change 
of  er  to  ar,  of  which  so  much  h^  been  said  of  late 
that  I  need  say  no  more.  Note  that  falcon  is  an 
Artificial  spelling,  the  M.E.  form  being /aiicoun. 
Walteb  W.  Skbat. 

SACfKViLLE,  Lord  Buckhurst  (6**  S.  v.  188). — 
Thomas  Sackyille,  of  Buckhurst,  in  the  parish  of 
TVithyham,  Sussex,  bom  1527,  and  created  Baron 
Buckhurst  in  1567,  and  Earl  of  Dorset  in  1603, 
died  at  Whitehall  April  19, 1608,  and  was  buried 
-at  Westminster  Abbey  on  May  26  following,  on 
vrhich  occasion  a  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by 
iiis  chapUin,  Greorge  Abbot,  afterwards  Archbishop 
•of  Canterbury.  The  statement  that  he  was  in- 
terred in  Westminster  Abbey  is  quite  correct,  but 
it  only  gives  half  the  truth.  Wood,  in  Aih,  Ox., 
•says  :— 

'<  He  was  first  buried  at  Westminster  Abbey,  where  a 
characteristic  funeral  sermon  was  preached  by  his 
chaplain.  Dr.  George  Abbot ;  but  his  body  was  after- 
wards, according  to  his  will,  remoTed  to  the  chapel  of 
Withyam,  on  which  he  bestowed  a  legacy  of  a  thousand 
pounds.*' 

Thomas  Sackville's  poems  were  written  whilst  he 
was  Lord  Buckhurst ;  as,  however,  he  died  Earl 
of  Dorset  he  is  generally  mentioned  by  that  title. 
As  there  was,  however,  a  second  poetical  Earl  of 
Dorset— Charles  Sackville,  the  sixth  earl,  who  as 
**  Lord  Buckhurst "  represented  East  Grinsted  in 
the  first  Parliament  after  the  Restoration,  died  at 
Bath  on  Jan.  29, 1705/6,  and  was  buried  with  his 
Ancestors  at  Withy  ham — there  is  sometimes  a  little 
confusion  between  the  two.  In  Gibber's  Lives  of 
ihe  Poett  only  the  first  earl  is  mentioned,  whilst 
Jacob,  in  the  Poetical  Register,  only  mentions  the 
sixth  earL  Horace  Walpole  gives  a  brief  account 
of  both.  Edward  Sollt. 

The  mistake  as  to  the  place  of  burial  may  have 
Arisen  from  the  fact  that  the  funeral  services  were 
conducted  in  Westminster  Abbey.  The  body  was 
removed  to  Withyham,  in  Sussex,  "  where  he  lies, 
4icoording  to  his  desire,  among  his  ancestors,  be- 
neath the  Sackville  Chapel,  which  adjoins  the 
parish  church."  The  preamble  to  Lord  Buck- 
burst's  will  concludes  in  these  words  :— 

"And  my  Will  is, That  my  Bodie  be  buried  in  the 
Church  of  Withiam  in  Sussex,  Namelie,  Within  the  Isle 
and  Chapel  there  appropriate  to  the  Sackvilles  my 
Ancestors,  and  with,  and  amongest  the  rest  of  my  Pro* 
genitors  there  Interred." 

See  biographical  memoir  and  appendix  prefixed  to 


Thomas  SackvUU's  Works  and  Hishricod  Notices 
of  WiUhyham  and  the  SaehnlU  Chapel,  both  pub- 
lished by  John  Russell  Smith,  Soho  Square. 

Thomab  Baths. 

"He  died  suddenly  at  the  council  table  at  Whitehall 
19  April,  1608.  and  his  body  being  taken  to  Dorset 
House,  Fleet  Street,  was  then  disembowelled,  and  so 
much  of  him  buried  at  S.  Bride's  on  the  next  day.  The 
body  was  oonveyed  in  great  state  to  Westminster  Abbey 
on  the  26th  of  May,  where  his  funeral  sermon  was 
preached  by  George  Abbot,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Winchester, 
who  had  been  one  of  his  chaplains,  and  ultimately  be* 
came  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  By  his  will  he  desired 
to  be  buried  with  his  ancestors  at  Withyam  [eo.  Sussex  J, 
and  his  wish  was  complied  with  by  the  remoral  of  his 
body  to  that  place  from  Westminster."— Cooper's  Alhenm 
Caniabrigienset,  ii.  487;  cf.  Biograpkia  Britannicat 
▼.  3548 ;  Wood's  Ath,  Oxon.,  by  BUss,  li.  38. 

J.  Inqlb  Drsdgs. 

Tennant's  Translation  of  the  161st  Psalm 
(6"»  S.  iv.  109  ;  v.  232).— The  articles  by  Tennant 
and  Hogg  appeared  in  vols.  ii.  and  iiL  of  the  Edin- 
burgh Literary  Journal,  in  the  early  months  of 
1830.  They  are  reprinted  and  published,  along 
with  a  nnmber  of  other  miscellanies,  in  a  Tolome 
entitled  Pamphlets,  now  before  me.  Who  made 
this  heterogeneoas  collection  does  not  appear;  in  all 
likelihood  the  items  were  put  together  and  bound 
by  some  bookseller  with  a  good  eve  for  interesting 
curiosities.  Every  member  of  tne  collection  has 
its  own  title-page,  but  there  is  no  general  prelMse 
to  show  the  coUector's  motiye,  and  no  indication 
whateyer  of  his  personality.  The  articles  on  the 
Psalms  constittLte  about  half  of  the  book,  and  pro- 
bably a  third  part  of  this  is  occupied  by  the  dis- 
cussions of  Tennant  and  Hogg.  The  title-page  is 
as  follows: — 

"  Critical  Remarks  on  the  Psalms  of  Darid,  and  their 
Various  English  and  Latin  Versions;  particularly  on  the 
Version  now  used  in  our  Scottish  Church,  with  a  View  to 
its  Emendation.  By  William  Tennant,  James  Hogg* 
&C.  Edinburgh  :  Constable  and  Co.,  19,  Waterloo  Place, 
1830." 
An  address  '^  To  the  Reader  "  opens  thus: — 

"The  importance  of  the  subject  discussed  in  the 
different  papers  which  are  here  collected,  with  altera- 
tions and  additions,  from  the  Bdivburgh  lAterary 
Jowmal,  where  they  first  appeared,  seemed  to  make  it 
desirable  that  they  should  be  given  to  the  Public  in  their 
present  shape.'* 

There  is  not  a  word  throughout,  it  may  be  said  at 
once,  about  the  so-called  ''  151st  Psalm,"  so  that 
after  all,  perhaps,  as  regards  this  particular  point 
we  may  be  on  the  wrong  track.  At  the  same  time, 
the  subject  is  so  interesting  in  itself  that  it  seems 
worth  while  to  direct  further  attention  to  it. 
Tennant's  papers  are  full  of  wise  and  thoughtful 
criticism,  and  contain  some  excellent  suggestions 
as  to  the  improTement  of  Scottish  psalmody.  Full 
justice  is  done  to  Stemhold  and  Hopkins,  and  Tate 
and  Brady,  as  well  as  to  the  Latin  versions  of  George 
Buchanan  and  Arthur  Johnston,  and  theparaphrases 
of  Sir  Philip  Sidney  and  James  I.    The  Ettrick 


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Shepherd  makes  a  stardy  stand  for  the  Scottish 
Tersion  pure  and  simple,  and  expresses  consider- 
able fears  that  Mr.  Tennant  may  be  thinking  of 
<iepriying  the  cottager  of  his  favourite  psalms. 
The  little  controversy  is  rendered  deeply  interest- 
ing by  Hogg's  sterling  fervour  in  a  good  old  cause, 
his  rapture  here  and  there  giving  curious  point  to 
many  fine  strokes  in  the  Soda  AmhrotiaruB.  It 
turns  out  in  the  end  that  Tennant  is  quite  conser- 
rative  in  the  reforms  he  proposes.  He  thinks  it 
might  be  possible  somehow  to  combine  "the 
English  taste  and  correctness  with  the  Scottish 
^re  and  originality.''  As  to  that,  however,  he  is  of 
opinion  that  the  clergy  must  decide,  and  see  to  the 
•execution  should  they  think  proper.  ^*  For,"  he 
Adds,  '^the  work  should  be  intrusted  to  no  lay 
poet,  not  even  to  Sir  Walter  himself."  These 
^rticles  were  written  when  Tennant  was  a  teacher 
in  Dollar  Academy,  and  before  he  had  been 
Appointed  Professor  of  Hebrew  at  St.  Andrews. 
It  would  be  important  to  know  whether  be  changed 
his  views  on  this  subject  after  changing  his  position, 
4Uid  after  all  made  the  metrical  version  that  has 
eometimes  been  attributed  to  him.  And  that  leads 
to  the  inevitable  suggestion  that  it  is  time  some 
oompetent  biographer  were  at  work  to  place  in  his 
true  position  a  writer  of  such  criticism  as  these 
papers  embody,  and  of  such  poems  as  AruUr  Fair 
and  The  Thane  of  Fife.  Thomas  Batnb. 

Helensburgh,  N.B. 

Hbrkward  i<b  Wakb  :  thb  Countess  Luct 
<6«»  S.  iii.  368 ;  iv.  9,  69,  136,  456 ;  v.  257).— 
Mr.  Watbrton  will  find  the  statement  that 
Leofric,  when  provost  ('*  prsepositus ")  of  St. 
Peter's,  gave  certain  abbey  lands  to  his  brother 
Xeofwine,  quoted  from  the  supplement  to  Mr, 
Gunton's  Hiatory  of  Peterborough  CaUudral, 
p.  256.  That  writer's  authority  was  <<The  book 
<:|alled  *  Swapbam,'  fo.  cxxxiij  "—a  MS.,  I  be- 
lieve, still  remaining  in  the  cathedral  library,  and 
really,  or  for  the  most  part,  the  work  of  Hugo 
Oandidus,  or  Hugh  White,  a  monk  of  the  abbey. 
A  considerable  portion  of  this  MS.  was  printed  in 
the  new  edition  of  the  Monaeticon^  if  I  remember 
right. 

I  fear  there  is  nothing  more  certain  about  the 
Oountess  Lucy's  parentage  likely  to  come  to  light 
now.  One  of  the  charters  of  the  Duchy  of  Lan- 
•caster  (No.  69)  is  a  grant  in  fee  of  William  de 
Eomare,  made  for  the  soul  of  his  mother  (the 
Oountess  Lucy),  to  Robert  *'  nepoti  comitissae,"  of 
the  land  of  Ivo  and  Colsweyn,  Robert's  uncles, 
held  of  the  said  William's  mother.  This  is  in- 
teresting, and  does  not  confirm  the  supposition 
that  there  were  two  Lucys,  mother  and  daughter, 
if  Ifo  means  Ivo  Tailbois.  Colsweyn  in  the  time 
of  King  Edward  the  Confessor  had  lands  at  Bar- 
lings in  Lincolnshire,  but  in  1086  we  find  him 
holding    many  manors  of    the  king  in  capUe, 


which  shows  that  he  had  won  the  favour  and  con- 
fidence of  the  Conqueror.  It  does  not  appear  how 
he  could  have  been  related  to  the  Countess  Lucy, 
but  he  may  have  owed  his  good  fortune  to  being 
allied  through  her  to  William  Malet  or  Ivo  Tail- 
bois. He  was  a  tenant  of  the  abbey  of  Peter- 
borough, and  was  holding  land  in  Lincoln  (in 
trust  ?)  for  one  Cole,  his  '*  nepos."  Colsweyn  had 
a  son  named  Picot,  who  gave  lands  in  Lincoln  to 
St.  Mary's  Abbey  at  York  (Old  Mon,,  L  389), 
and  certain  tithes  to  the  monks  of  Spalding,  made 
over  to  them  in  the  church  on  (Wednesday) 
May  10,  1111,  in  the  presence  of  Beatrice,  his 
wife,  and  Richard  and  Cecilia,  his  nephew  and 
niece  or  grandchildren.  A.  S.  Ellis. 

Assuming  the  name  of  his  father  to  have  been 
Leofric,  and  knowing  that  Hereward  was  called 
"  Lord  of  Brune,"  it  seems  much  more  reasonable  to 
suppose  that  Leofric,  the  father  of  Hereward,  was  son 
of  Morcar,  lord  of  Brune,  and  brother  to  Godiva, 
the  wife  of  Leofric,  Earl  of  the  Mercians,  than 
that  he  was  the  same  man  as  Leofric,  Earl  of  the 
Mercians.  This,  too,  will  help  to  explain  how 
Brand,  the  Abbot  of  Peterborough,  came  to  be 
Herewiird's  uncle,  which  under  no  theory  could 
he  have  been  if  Hereward  had  been  the  son  of 
Leofnc,  Earl  of  the  Mercians,  Brand  having  been 
no  relation  whatever  either  to  that  Leofric  or  his 
wife  Godiva.  Brand  was  one  of  a  large  family, 
children  of  a  Saxon  thane  named  Tuke  or  Toke, 
a  man  who  in  his  time  held  very  extensive 
possessions  in  the  north  of  Lincolnshire  ;  and  it  is 
very  conceivable  that  a  sister  of  Brand's  may  have 
married  Leofric,  the  son  of  Morcar. 

J.  GOULTON  COKSTABLB. 

Waleot,  Brigg. 

**GAnoTAs"  (6*  S.  V.  68).— The  consignment 
of  fruits  from  Madeira  referred  to  by  Miss 
Maclaoan  under  the  name  of  "  gahotas,"  are  those 
of  a  cucurbitaceous  pjuit,  native  of,  and  commonly 
cultivated  in,  the  West  Indies,  and  known  to 
botanists  as  Sechium  eduU,  It  has  been  intro- 
duced into  Madeira,  and  the  fruits  are  sometimes 
brought  from  that  island  into  Covent  Garden 
Market,  where  they  are  known  as  "chocho,"  or 
'^chayotes,"  a  name  having  a  similar  sound  to  that 
quoted  above.  John  R.  Jackson. 

Museum,  Royal  Gardens,  Eew. 


Italian  Translation  of  Orosius  (6«  S.  t. 
188).— The  Lake  of  Garda  being  the  Locus  Bena- 
cue,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  shores  of  that  lake 
being  known  to  us  through  inscriptions  as  Bena- 
censes,  it  seems  not  too  utterly  improbable  a 
suggestion  that  for  "  Benacens«s  "  should  be  read 
"  Benacensis,"  and  that  the  whole  may  indicate 
a  native  of  the  '^  Pagus  Benaoensis."  The  latter 
part  I  should  read,  conjecturally,  as  ''F[eoit] 
Bena[ci],"  and  the  **  ...y...y.''  may  be  part  of  a 


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[6*  8.  V.Apul  22, '82, 


date,  if  not  an  address  to  the  reader,  for  which 
*'  Vire  Valeque  "  mi(;ht  be  suggested  as  a  likely 
formnla.  "  P.  Alex."  possibly  stands  for  "  P[ater] 
Alez[ander]."  Nomad. 

"Harpings  of  Lena'*:  W.  J.  Baitman,  the 
Alford  Poet  (6'^  S.  v.  129,  209).— It  seems  rea- 
sonable that  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  should  have 
an  opportunity  of  hearing  what  can  be  said  in  reply 
to  B.  R.'s  sketch  of  the  career  of  Baitman,  and  to 
his  animadversion  upon  Alford,  the  town  in  which 
the  poet  lived.  Recollections  of  Baitman  carry 
me  back  to  my  own  boyhood.    I  remember  being 

5 resent,  not  much  less  than  sixty  years  ago,  at  the 
istribution  of  prizes  at  Alford  Nationtd  School. 
The  first  prize  was  adjudged  to  Baitman.  It  was 
presented,  and  probably  given,  by  the  squire  of  the 
neighbourhood,  B.  Dashwood,  of  Wall.  There  was 
at  that  time,  I  believe,  a  very  kindly  feeling  for  a 
poor  lame  boy,  who  seemed  likely,  notwithstanding 
the  disadvantages  he  laboured  under,  to  fill  some 
creditable  position,  and  to  be — not  admired,  per 
haps — but  respected.  When  the  Harpinga  of  Lena 
appeared,  and  Baitman  was  recognized  as  a  poet, 
the  interest  in  him  was  increased.  The  ladies  were 
much  disposed  to  befriend  him.  How  could  it  be 
otherwise  1  Their  good  will  was  shown  in  various 
kindly  ways,  especially  during  a  long  illness  with 
which  he  was  afflicted.  At  a  subsequent  period 
these  kind  attentions  were  to  a  considerable  extent 
withdrawn.  How  came  this  to  pass  ?  R.  R/s  in- 
formation respecting  Baitman  is  very  imperfect ; 
but  he  would  have  escaped  some  strange  misappre- 
hensions if  he  had  used  aright  such  knowledge  as 
he  had.  Is  it  possible  that,  when  giving  a  very 
correct  description  of  Baitman's  degraded  state,  it 
did  not  occur  to  R.  R.  that  it  was  exceed iugly 
unlikely  that  a  man  of  talent  — and  Baitman 
was  undoubtedly  a  man  of  talent — should  have 
sunk  to  such  a  condition  except  by  his  own 
fault?  R.  R.  should  have  made  further  in- 
quiries respecting  Baitman,  aud  then  his  views 
respecting  him  and  Alford  would  most  probably 
have  undergone  very  great  changes.  But  what  are 
R.  R.'s  actual  notions  as  to  this  matter?  He 
seems  to  regard  Baitman  as  a  moral  hero,  too  high- 
minded  to  be  guilty  of  any  insincerity  in  order  to 
gain  patronage.  "  If  he  had  written  a  single  set 
of  lines  to  glorify  any  of  the  marsh  squires  or 
bucolic  magnates  of  the  neighbourhood,"  he  might 
have  been  admired  and  provided  for.  "Evidently," 
says  R.  R.,  *'  he  was  a  very  unwise  man  in  his 
generation."  Yes  ;  it  is  very  evident  that  he  was. 
Indeed,  it  is  not  easy  to  say  wherein  he  was  wise. 
Baitman,  I  believe,  did  not  practise  flattery, 
probably  it  would  not  have  availed  much ;  but 
there  was  a  better  and  surer  way  than  this  to 
obtain  symmithy  and  help  in  Alford,  but  this  way, 
also,  he  declined  to  take.  If  his  conduct  bad  been 
such  as  to  make  it  possible  to  respect  him  I  believe 


that  the  kindness  he  experienced  in  his  early  days 
would  have  been  continued  to  the  end  of  his  life. 
But  such  it  was  not.  I  will  not  sfointo  particulars ; 
but  the  result  of  all  was  this:  When  well-meaning 
people  gave  him  alms  they  were  likely  to  feel  not 
the  sweet  satisfaction  that  arises  from  befriending 
the  well-deserving,  but  an  uneasy  suspicion  that  in 
yielding  to  their  kindly  feelings  they  bad  done 
wrong.  A  brief  and  truthful  life  of  Baitman 
would  be  interesting  and  instructive,  but  an  auto- 
biography would  hi^ve  been  of  little  value.  He  has 
been  heard  to  say  that  his  lameness  was  occasioned 
by  a  wound  he  received  in  Italy  when  serving  under 
Garibaldi !  After  this  his  statement  to  your  cor- 
respondent Brito  that  he  had  seen  Byron  in  Italy, 
and  had  translated  Silvio  Pellico  will  not  probably 
be  received  with  complete  confidence.  Before 
leaving  Baitman  it  may  be  well  to  correct  one  or 
two  of  R.  R/s  misstatements.  Baitman  did  not  die 
in  the  workhouse.  He  received  parochial  relief, 
but  had  been  allowed  to  live  in  Alford.  He  did 
not  marry  the  "daring"  woman  to  whom  R  R, 
alludes.  As  to  R.  R.'s  assertion  that  Alford  is  a 
"  vulgar,  ignorant  little  town,  full  of  poachers  and 
smugglers,"  it  is  not  necessary  to  say  much.  The 
statement  is  too  remote  from  the  truth  to  give 
serious  offence.  Happily  we  have  decidedly  a  good 
opinion  of  ourselves.  I  hope  we  are  not  proud 
individually ;  but  when  we  consider  ourselves  as  » 
community,  we  are  confident  that  our  little  town 
holds  quite  a  respectable  place  among  the  towns  of 
Lincolnshire.  One  thing  connected  with  this 
matter  I  do  much  regret.  R.  B.'s  strictures  have 
excited  us  to  think  afresh  and  talk  afresh,  and  even 
write,  concerning  poor  Baitman's  faults  and  mis- 
doings, which  we  should  have  been  well  content  to 
forget.  J.  A. 

Alfor^  Lincolnshire. 

"  AuLD  Robin  Gray"  (6*  S.  v.  145, 170,  212; 
232, 255). — This  subject  has  been  pretty  thoroughly 
threshed  out,  and  I  will  only  prolong  the  dis- 
cussion with  a  few  words,  in  order  to  add  my 
contribution  of  facts. 

1.  An  important  edition  of  "  Auld  Robin  Gray  ^ 
was  published  in  1843  (March  31)  by  the  late  Mr. 
T.  Oliphant,  which,  if  it  had  been  known  as  widely 
as  it  deserved,  would  have  prevented  all  the 
errors  and  misconceptions  as  to  the  origin  of  the 
song  which  have  hitherto  prevailed. 

2.  The  history  of  the  words  is  given  by  Lady 
Anne  Lindsay  herself  in  a  letter  to  Sir  W.  Scott, 
the  editor  of  The  Layi  of  the  Lindsays^  and  is 
reproduced  in  that  work,  which  was  printed  in 
Edinburgh,  1824,  but  only  for  private  distribution. 

3.  It  plainly  appears  from  this  account  that  the 
words  were  written  and  fitted  by  her  to  an  old 
tune,  which  had  objectionable  words,  beginning, 
"The  bridegroom  greets  when  the  sun  gangs 
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4.  The  yenes  appeared  (anonymously)  for  the 
first  time  in  print,  according  to  Mr.  Oliphant,  in 
Herd's  Ancient  and  Modern  Songt,  second  edition, 
1776,  and  afterwards  in  Johnson' 9  Museum,  1790, 
adapted  to  the  old  air  only,  with  the  name  of  the 
anthoress.  But  I  have  a  copy  of  the  son^,  also 
set  to  the  old  air  only,  and  published  by  Bobert 
Bremner,  in  the  Strand.  Bremner  died  in  May, 
1789.  It  can,  therefore,  hardly  be  now  denied 
that  a  long  spell  of  success  and  popularity  was 
obtained  by  the  song  with  its  first  tune  long 
before  Miss  Stephens  sang  it. 

5.  I  ha^e  it,  again,  published  by  Longman  & 
Broderip,  in  Cheapside,  and  described  as  *'  To  the 
Original  FaYourite  Scotch  Air,"  which  is,  howeyer, 
nothiog  but  the  new  air,  by  the  Key.  W.  Leeyes, 
preceded  by  a  recitatiye.  I  cannot  help  thinking 
that  this  recitatiye  is  the  foundation  for  the  asser- 
tion that  the  custom  used  to  be  to  sing  the  first 
yerse  to  the  old  tune ;  but  if  so,  this  is  a  mistake, 
for  the  recitatiye  resembles  the  original  air  in  no 
respect. 

6.  Mr.  Leeyes's  air  was  used  in  eyery  possible 
way  for  many  years  without  any  protest  from  its 
composer, until,  in  1812,  he  published  his  ''authen- 
tic copy  in  its  original  simplicity,''  with  a  letter 
and  prefatory  address,  in  which  he  claims  the 
composition,  and  states  that  he  receired  **ihe 
story "  from  the  Hon.  Mrs.  Byron,  and  **  under- 
stood it  to  haye  been  written  by  I^dy  Anne 
Lindsay." 

7.  Mr.  Oliphant,  in  his  edition  (1843),  reprints 
the  old  Scotch  air,  as  well  as  Mr.  Leeyes's  air, 
with  its  original  and  bald  accompaniment,  but 
with  the  addition  of  a  new  accompaniment  by 
Mr.  E.  J.  Hopkins,  the  able  organist  of  the 
Temple  Church. 

8.  The  original  MS.  music  of  the  air  which  is 
now  always  sung  to  these  yerses,  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Mr.  leeyes,  is  in  the  British  Museum 
(29.387). 

I  cannot  close  this  note  without  entering  my 
protest  against  the  slighting  manner  in  which  one 
of  your  correspondents  (M.  H.  B.)  has  incident- 
ally mentioned  Mr.  Huliah  as  a  critic  There  are 
few  Hying  men  better  able,  I  think,  than  Mr. 
Huliah  to  giye  an  opinion  worthy  of  respect  on 
the  question  of  the  nationality  or  yalue  of  a 
melody,  nor  are  there  many  to  whom  the  loyers 
of  English  music  owe  a  deeper  debt  of  gratitude 
for  long  and  perseyering  endeayours  to  make  it 
popular,  and  to  raise  the  standard  of  musical 
culture  in  this  country.        JauAV  Marshall. 

Bailiff  of  Constahtinb  (6*  S.  y.  188).— I 

S resume  that  it  is  not  necessary  to  inform  M.A. 
ixov  that  Constantino  is  the  English  form  of 
Ootentin,  the  district  forming  the  diocese  of  Ooa- 
tances  (Constantia),  now  comprised  in  the  D^parte- 
ment  de  la  Mancfae.    It  was  the  last  part  of  Nor- 


mandy held  by  the  English,  who  appear  to  haye 
made  no  other  change  in  the  manner  of  adminis- 
tering the  goyemment  of  the  country  beyond 
appointing  Englishmen  to  the  offices  and  fiefs 
heretofore  held  by  Normans.  The  baUli  or  bailiff 
was  an  officer  who  administered  justice  in  .the 
name  of  the  feudal  lord  within  a  certain  district, 
and  took  the  command  of  the  nobility  when  called 
out  for  the  arrUrs-ban,  Mons.  Leopold  Delisle, 
in  his  Histoire  du  ChdUau  et  des  Sires  ds  Saint- 
Sauveur-le^VicomU  (Paris,  3867),  p.  270,  quoting 
from  a  MS.  in  the  Biblioth^ue  Nationale,  men- 
tions Sir  Bertin  Entwysel  in  these  words: — 

<' Apr^B  ce  qae  le  dit  Tendredy  [Sept  12, 1449]  fat 
partie  Tarant  gard«  pour  aller  de?ant  Saint- Lo,  oti  estoit 
dedens  sire  Bertin  Antoeril,  chevalier  anglois,  Ion  bailly 
du  Gostentin,  la  dicte  ville  ee  rendit  le  landy  ensnvTant 
[Sept.  16]." 

On  the  12th  of  August  in  the  following  year  Cher- 
bourg, the  last  stronghold  held  by  the  Eoglish  in 
Normandy,  surrendered,  and  the  struggle  between 
the  two  nations  for  the  possession  of  this  impor- 
tant proyince  came  to  an  end.  With  the  loss  of 
Normandy  Sir  Bertin  Entwysel  ceased  to  be  bailiff 
of  Cotentin,  and  in  1450  Artus  do  Montauban 
held  that  office.  Bricquebec  is  a  small  town  and 
seigneurie  lying  between  Yalognes  and  Saint- 
Sauyeur-le-Vicomte,  which  last  fortress,  so  long  as 
it  was  held  by  the  English,  gaye  them  the  com- 
mand of  that  part  of  Normandy. 

EoQAR  MacCctlloch. 
Guernsey. 

This  apparently  curious  title  is  simply  the  result 
of  the  English  misreading  or  misunderstanding  of  a 
French  place-name,  the  C6bentin,  or,  as  it  is  some- 
times written,  Cotentin,  in  Normandy.  Bricque- 
bec  is  near  Yalognes,  and  in  the  C6tentin.  For  the 
district  and  the  places  of  note  within  its  limits  refer- 
ence may  be  made  to  Murray's  Francs,  For  Sir 
Bertin  Entwistle,  both  as  "  Vioomte  "  of  Bricque- 
bec  and  ^'Bailli"  of  the  Cotentin,  M.A  Oxon 
may  consult  the  account  of  Entwistle,  of  Foxholes, 
in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  1879.  "  Vicecomes" 
and  '^  Balliyus  "  are  titles  of  office  which  are  to  be 
found  in  English  as  well  as  in  French  history. 
There  seems  no  reason  to  suppose  that  the  ificomU 
and  barony  of  Bricquebec,  conferred  on  Sir  Bertin 
Entwistle,  were  titles  of  peerage. 

AyBRIQUADOR. 

For  "  Constantino  "  and  "  Brykbeke,"  in  Nor- 
mandy, try  the  then  bailiwick  of  the  Cotentin, 
containing  in  its  northern  peninsula  the  barony  of 
Bricquebec.  Thomas  Ekbslakic 

A  friend  has  suggested  that  Sir  Bertin  Entwysel 
was  bailli  or  lieutenant  of  the  Cotentin  or  Con- 
stantino Peninsula,  in  Normandy. 

M.A  OxoN. 

The  Prisoit  of  "  Prtrrhouse"  (6<*»  S.  y.  168). 
— In  1644  Francis  Newport  and  others  write  to 


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Lord  Denbigh  from  their  prison  in  Eodeshall 
Oastle  respecting  their  sufferings,  and  F.  Newport 
asks  in  a  postscript  that  if  he  is  sent  to  London  he 
may  not  be  sent  to  the  Tower  or  Peterhoose,  bat 
maybe  committed  to  some  private  hoase  {HiiL 
M8S.  Comm,  Bept  IF,,  pt.  i.  app.  p.  270).  It  is 
not  eyident  from  this  whether  the  *' Peterhonse " 
was  a  part  of  the  Tower.  As  Abraham  Dowoett 
in  1648  petitions  the  House  of  Lords  that  he  is 
yet  a  prisoner  in  **  Peterhouse "  at  a  yery  great 
charge,  which  he  is  not  able  to  support,  and  prays 
for  enlargement  upon  bail  {Rept  VIL,  pt.  L 
app.  p.  35),  it  would  seem  to  be  rather  a  prison  at 
Westminster  within  the  jurisdiction  of  the  House 
of  Lords.    It  certainly  was  a  public  prison. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Crouch va8=Ghri8tmas  (6**  S.  v.  168).—In 
Sir  Henry  Ellis's  "  Extracts  from  the  Household 

Accounts  of  the  Lestranges  of  Hunstanton," 

nrinted  in  the  twenty-fifth  Tolume  of  the  Arehao- 
logtOf  this  word  oocors  two  or  three  times.  On 
p.  621:— ''Itm,  p^  to  Fransys  Ghansey  the  x^ 
daie  of  Apryll  for  hys  qrt.  wages  endyd  at 
Crowohemes  next  oommynge  Ti«  viij'i.''  There  is 
a  note  on  this  passage  as  follows: — ^''Crowche, 
a  cross.  The  feast  of  the  Exaltation  of  the  Holy 
Gross,  September  14th.''  I  believe  that  this  note 
is  wrong,  and  that  the  feast  of  the  Invention  of 
the  Gross  is  the  day  meant. 

Edward  Picacoci:. 

That  the  first  syllable  of  Grouchmas  =  cross 
admits  of  little  doubt   The  following  passages  will 
corroborate  this  assumption: — 
*' An  hundreth  of  ampuUes  *  on  his  hatt  seten, 
Si^nes  of  synay  *  and  shallea  of  galioe ; 
And  many  a  cruch4  on  his  doke  *  and  keyes  of  Rome." 
Tkt  Vttion  of  WUliam  coneertung  Pitrt  Qu  Plowman, 
V.  11.627-e. 
"And  layd  his  oriwuni,  as  is  ueage, 
And  cnnbehed  hem,  and  bad  God  scbnld  bim  blesne." 
Chaucer,  The  Marchaundet  TaU,  462-3. 
'*  Holy  skins,  holy  bulla. 
Holy  rochets  and  cowls, 
Holy  crouickes  and  staves." 

Lutiy  JuventuM,  Dodsley's  0,E,PI., 
it  65  (Hazlitt). 

Ct.  also  the  term  Crutchid  Friart. 

F.  G.  BiRKBxcK  Terrt. 
Oaidiff. 


Pronunciatiow  of  Forbbs  (6^  S.  v. 
The  name  is  now  always  pronounced  ^'Forb's. 
^'  Forb-es,"  which  was  universal  at  the  date  when 
Marmian  was  written,  would  now  be  considered  a 
vulgarism.  When,  within  living  memory,  the  new 
pronunciation  came  into  vogue  it  was  said  in 
ISdinburgh  that  it  would  throw  Lady  Fettss  into 
fit9.  A.  C.  S. 

I  was  well  acquainted  with  the  late  Lord  Forbes, 
and  often  dined  at  his  house,  and  two  of  his  sons 


were  once  my  pupils.    I  never  heard  the  name 
pronounced  exoept  as  a  monosyllable. 

E.  Walford,  M.A. 
Hampstead,  N.W. 

Baooh  a  PoiT  (fi**  S.  V.  205).— It  is  quite  too 
much  to  expect  that  Mr.  Atkiitson's  note  on  this 
subject  should  be  passed  over  tub  siUntio,  The 
statement  that  Judge  Holmes's  work  on  The 
AiUhonhip  of  Shdksipeare  is  **  most  convincing 
and  learned"  may  mean  almost  anything.  At 
any  rate,  it  had  convinced  me,  as  it  did  a  far 
more  competent  judge,  the  late  Mr.  James  Sped- 
ding,  that  Judge  Holmes  as  a  critic  is  colour-blind, 
and  that  the  book,  with  all  its  array  of  so-called 
learning,  is,  as  a  critique  on  the  question  of 
authorship,  sophistical  and  worthless.  Bacon 
wrote  verses,  and  his  compositions  have  been 
collected  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Grosart.  The  collection, 
which  includes  one  which  I  attribute  to  Baleigh 
(viz.,  the  paraphrase  of  a  Greek  epigram  by 
Ignoto,  or  R.  W.),  does  not  include  the  Essex 
Smrut,  Besides  the  PicUfM  and  the  Epigram 
there  is  only  one  piece,  consisting  of  twelve 
lines,  in  six  rhyming  couplets.  From  these  com- 
positions it  is  quite  easy  to  judge  of  Bacon's 
abilities  as  a  versifier.  I  do  not  rank  them  high. 
As  a  prose-writer  he  was  certainly  unequalled. 
Now  Shakespeare  is  always  greatest  in  poetry  ; 
his  verse  is  immeasurably  greater  than  his  prose. 
Ergo,  according  to  the  new  critical  canon,  BaooD 
wrote  Shakespeare  !  G.  M.  Imglsbt. 

Athenaeum  Club. 

Thb  Favilibs  of  Ballard  and  Hbrrino 
(6"»  S.  V.  168).-See  Burke's  Higtory  of  ike  Oom- 
moneri,  1837,  vol.  ii.  pp.  167  and  600 ;  voL  iii. 
p.  105  ;  and  vol  iv.  p.  263.  Hiromdbllb. 

"Wbntlt"  (6tt»  S.  V.  18S).—Wently,  watnUy 
in  the  dialect  of  Mid- Yorkshire,  is  the  same  a* 
whainUy,  from  the  adj.  loAaint— quaint.  It  seema 
to  be  a  common  principle  in  the  northern  part  of 
Yorkshire  to  substitute  wh  for  initial  qu;  thus, 
quick  is  pronounced  tohiek,  quean,  fehedn,  question,. 
ujhushun,  &c  Hence  wently  is  simply  an  sJtered 
pronunciation  of  quaintly,  used  in  the  sense  of 
strangely,  extraordinarily,  and  so  employed  as  an 
intensifying  adverb.  With  this  nsage  cf.  Shake- 
speare's use  of  ttrangdy: — 

"  The  goats  ran  from  the  mountains,  and  the  herds 
Were  iUrangely  clamorous.'* 

l^€afY/F..III.i.89,40. 

I  may  say  that  I  have  heard  itrangdy  used  in 
Yorkshire  exactly  in  the  same  way  as  loentiy  is. 
Mr.  G.  G.  Robinson  gives  as  an  example  of  the- 
use  of  the  adverb,  "  We  are  always  wiintly  throng 
again  Martinmas,"  and  says  the  word  means  ''very, 
greatly,  desperately,  with  the  exaggeration  attach- 
ing to  this  word  colloquially.''  In  the  region  of 
Whitby  v^^ent  has  assumed  the  meaning  of  vaat^ 


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&C.,  ''a  wlimt  spofa^a  spaciouB  bailding.  Cfl 
Mr.  F.  E.  Robinaon's  Olossary  (E.D.S.). 

F.   0.  BiRKBBCK  TbRBT. 

Cardiff. 

"Htpolitk,  Cohtb  db  Duolas"  (6**  S.  t. 
285).— The  first  edition  of  the  Hutoirt  d' Hippo- 
lyte,  Comte  ds  Douglas^  was  published  in  Paris  by 
Sevestre  in  1690,  two  parts,  in  12ino.  Editions 
were  (j^iven,  Paris,  1708 ;  Amsterdam  (Bouen), 
1721  (2  vols,  with  plates);  Paris,  1738 ;  Amster- 
dam, 1740  ;  London  (Oazen),  &c.  This  amusing 
romance  has  been  reprinted  several  times  in 
France  during  the  present  century. 

JosEFH  Knight. 

A  MlNIATURB  OF  THB  LATB  SlR  RoBEBT  PbBL 

{e^  S.  V.  109,  276).— My  host,  the  Rer.  F.  J. 
Aldrich-BIake,  who  amongst  his  pictures  has 
some  from  the  Northwick  collection,  has  shown 
me  the  catalogue  of  pictures,  &c,  removed  from 
Northwick  Park  mansion,  and  sold  at  Thirlestane 
House,  Cheltenham,  on  April  10,  1860,  and  three 
following  days,  but  no  such  miniature  is  described ; 
bat  possibly  some  one  who  attended  this  sale  in 
1860  may  remember  the  portrait. 

Rbqinald  Stewart  Boddingtok. 
Welsh  Bicknor  Bectoiy,  Boss. 

Rhtmeless  Words  (6'^  S.  v.  46, 173,  298).— 
Has'  Mb.  Chahbers  overlooked  the  lines  in  12e- 
jectid  Addratt9, ''  The  Rebuilding'':— 

"  Thick  o&lf,  fat  foot,  and  tUm  knte, 

Moontad  on  roof  and  chimneyJ'* 

Of  course  the  rhyme  is  far-fetched,  but  still  it  is  a 

rhyme.     I  once  made  another,  but  it  was  sad 

doggerel.  Jatdbb. 

I  cannot  remember  ever  having  teen  it  in  print, 
but  I  heard  the  story  many  yean  ago  that  Charles 
II.  offered  a  reward  to  any  one  who  could  find  a 
rhyme  to  "porringer.''  Some  man  claimed  the 
reward  on  producing  these  lines: — 

**  The  Duke  of  York  a  daughter  had. 
He  gare  the  Prince  of  Orange  her ; 
So  now  your  Majesty  will  aee 
I  *ve  found  a  rhjme  to  porritu/er,^ 

Ellcbe. 
Craven. 

As  hUn  is  pronounced  "kil,"  there  are  many 
rhymes  to  it,  such  as  hill,  will,  stilly  and  fill, 

J.  R  Thorme. 

The  Late  T.  Purland,  Ph.D.,  M.A,  Ac.  (6**' 
S.  V.  168,  293).— I  think  it  could  not  have  been 
later  than  1825  that,  when  I  was  a  boy  and  suffer- 
ing from  toothache,  I  went  into  a  mean  little  shop, 
the  window  of  which  contained  the  name  of  "  Pur- 
land, Dentist,"  designed  with  the  teeth  he  had 
extracted.  On  asking  for  Mr.  Purland,  a  middle- 
aged  woman  told  me  she  was  Mrs.  Purland,  and 
could  draw  a  tooth,  to  which  operation  I  submitted 


and  gave  her  one  shilling  for  her  skill.  The  posi- 
tion of  the  dentist's  house  was  in  a  back  street  by 
Finsbury  Square.  Could  he  have  been  the  father 
of  the  subject  of  this^query  ? 

Altrbd  Gattt,  D.D. 

"Flora  Dombstioa"  (6^  S.  v.  286).— The 
author  of  this  work  was  a  Miss  Kent ;  the  first 
edition  is  dated  1823.  The  preface  contains  the 
following  passage  : — 

*'For  a  poetical  translation  of  some  quotations,  of 
which  there  wai  before  either  no  Engliah  version,  or 
none  that  did  juitice  to  the  original,  as  well  as  for  some 
general  correction,  &c.,  I  am  indebted  to  the  aMistance 
of  a  friend,  whose  kinchaeis  I  most  gratefully  and  some- 
wliat  proudly  acknowledge,  in  sparing  some  hours  from 
his  own  important  studies,  to  giro  this  little  volume 
some  pretension  to  public  notice." 

This  **  friend"  was  probably  Leigh  Hunt. 

Jameb  Britten. 

Elizabeth  Kent,  the  author,  was  Leigh  Hunt's 
sister-in-law.  See  voL  i  of  TAe  Corrttpondmu  of 
Leigh  Hunt 

The  Author  op  "Flora  Sthbouca." 

Fonts  of  the  Bestoration  Period  (6**  S.  v. 
9,  177).— The  Mamial  of  Engli$h  Ecehiiohgy 
mentions  one  at  St.  Nicholas's,  Kenilworth,  dated 
1664 ;  one  at  Canterbury  Cathedral,  of  which 
Woolnoth  says  it  was  "given  by  Bp.  Warner  (of 
Rochester,  1637,  ob.  1666),  but  broken  to  piecea 
by  the  fanatical  rabble.  Somner,  the  antiquary,  col- 
lected the  fragments,  which,  upon  the  Bestoration, 
were  put  together  in  the  nave";  one  in  Durham 
Cathedral  (described  in  Bites  ofDwrham,  but  since 
removed) ;  and  one  in  St.  James's,  Piccadilly,  by 
Grinling  Gibbons.  To  these  I  can  add  one  in 
Wakefield  parish  church  and  one  at  Sandal  Magna. 
One  at  Winterton,  near  Brigg,  was  made  into  a 
new  one  some  years  ago,  but  the  date  (1663)  was 
retained.  I  think  that  fonts  of  this  period  are 
more  common  than  Mr.  Hems  imagines. 

J.  T.  F. 

Bp.  Hatfield's  Hall,  Darham. 

"  Nothing  new  under  the  sun  "  (6**  S.  iv. 
426;  V.  236). — In  Act  III.  sc  iL  of  the  comedy 
cited  by  your  correspondent  occurs  another  striking 
passage  descriptive  of  ansdsthetic  surgery  : — 

"  I'll  fit  him  finely;  in  this  paper  is 
Tbe  juice  of  mandrake,  by  a  doctor  made. 
To  cast  a  man,  whose  leg  should  be  cut  off. 
Into  a  deep,  a  cold,  and  senseless  sleep ; 
or  such  approred  operation. 
That  whoso  takes  it  is  for  twice  twelve  hours 
Breathless,  and  is  to  all  men's  judgments  past  all  sense.  ** 
William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Lincolnshire  Provincialisms  (6*^  S.  iii.  364, 
614  ;  iv.  238  ;  v.  65,  178).— It  so  happened  that 
the  early  morning  of  this  last  17th  of  March  was 
exceedingly  foggy  and  chill,  and  on  leaving  the 


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cottage  of  an  old  woman  I  said  to  ber,  "  As  I  have 
got  a  cold  I  must  protect  my  mouth  from  the  fog"; 
to  which  she  replied,  "  Quite  right,  sir,  when  the 
weather's  ranky,  and  it's  wonderful  rauhy  this 
morning."  This  was  in  RutRind,  but  in  a  parish 
adjacent  to  Lincolnshire.  The  word  might  be 
derived  from  *'  raw,"  as  applied  to  weather,  but  I 
hare  written  it  ''rauky''  thinkins  that  it  may 
come  from  raueusj  signifying  uopTeasant,  catch- 
cold  weather,  that  might  make  a  person  hoarse. 

OUTBBBRT  BkDS. 

Portrait  of  Bishop  Samubl  Sbaburt  (6^  S. 
V.  208). — The  following  is  copied  from  a  little 
book  on  William  Sharp,  engraver,  by  W.  S.  Baker, 
published  in  Philadelphia  in  1873  :^ 

"  The  Right  Reverend  Samael  Seabary,  D.D.,  Biihop 
of  Connecticut,  arter  Thomas  Spence  Duch6,  published 
in  1786,  is  of  interest  as  being  the  portrait  of  the  first 
Protestant  Episcopal  Bishop  of  the  United  States, 
painted  by  the  son  of  the  Reverend  Jacob  Duch6,  so 
well  remembered  for  his  course  during  our  revolutionary 
struggle.  The  Bishop,  a  half-length  in  robes,  is  standing 
with  his  left  hand  extended,  as  if  speaking,  while  his 
ri^bt  rests  easily  on  a  closed  Bible  placed  on  some  rocks, 
the  background  being  made  up  of  a  landscape.  It  i« 
executed  in  Sharp's  best  manner,  and  is  a  splendid  speci- 
men of  portrait  engraving." 

The  print  was  published  by  T.  S.  Duch^  at  the 
Asylum,  Lambeth,  and  J.  Phillips,  George  Yard, 
Lombard  Street,  April  20,  1786. 

An  artist  named  Duch^  de  Yancy  lived  at 
168,  Piccadilly,  in  1764,  and  exhibited  six  do- 
mestic subjects  in  that  year  at  the  Royal  Academy. 
As  the  date  nearly  tallies  with  the  painter  of 
the  above  portrait,  this  may  refer  to  the  same 
painter.  Algernon  Graves. 

"  The  Whole  Dutt  of  Man  "  (6**  S.  viii.  389, 
516  ;  ix.  99,  176  ;  6**»  S.  iv.  235  ;  v.  52,  99,  258). 
— With  regard  to  the  authorship  of  this  boolc,  it  is 
undoubtedly  the  work  of  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
Thomas,  Lord  Coventry,  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal, 
and  wife  of  Sir  John  Pakington,  Bart,  (born  1620), 
of  Westwood,  Worcestershire,  where  the  room  in 
which  she  wrote  the  book  is  still  shown,  and 
where,  I  believe,  the  manuscript  is  preserved. 
She  was  said  to  be  the  most  accomplished  person 
of  her  sex  for  learuing,  and  the  brightest  example 
of  her  age  for  wisdom  and  piety,  although  so 
modest  that  she  would  not  claim  the  honour  of 
the  authorship,  which  may,  perhaps,  account  for 
its  being  attributed  to  various  divines,  friends  of 
hers.  She  was  the  ancestress  of  the  present  Baron 
Hampton.  F.  E.  M.  D. 

Another  of  your  correspondents,  who  states  he 
has  two  works  by  the  author  of  The  Whole  Duty 
of  Man,  does  not  throw  much  light  on  the  vexed 
question.  Who  wrote  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man  f 
The  books  he  names  are  common  enough,  and 
may  be  bought  for  a  mere  trifle  at  any  bookstall. 
There  is  an  edition  in  folio  of  all  the  works  of  the 


author  of  The  Whole  Duty  of  Man.  I  had  a  fine 
tall  copy,  but  was  glad  to  dispose  of  it  for  a  song. 
Lady  Pakington  seems  to  have  fair  claim  to  the 
authorship  of  these  somewhat  ^^  dry  '^  performances. 
See  Chambers's  Biographical  lUmtrations  of  Wor- 
cest^Tihire.  0.  L.  Chahbkrs. 

Headingley,  Leeds. 

Mart  Queen  op  Scx)ts  :  the  Colour  of  her 
Haih  (6"»  S.  iv.  485  ;  v.  114,  218,  231,  295).— 
In  Erdeswick's  Survey  of  Stfiffordthire,  Harwood, 
1844,  at  p.  533  is  this  note:— 

"In  Hayne*s  State  Papers,  p.  511,  Mary,  when  a 
prisoner  at  Tutbury,  was  '  a  goodly  penonage  ;  hath  an 
alluring  grace,  a  pretty  Scottish  speech,  a  searching  wit, 
with  great  mildness.  Her  hair  of  itself  is  black ;  but 
Mr.  Knolls  told  me  that  "she  wears  hair  of  sundry 
colours." ' " 

W.  F.  Marsh  Jackson. 

"Bred  and  born"  (6^  S.  iv.  68,  275  ;  v.  77, 
112,  152,  213). — St.  Swithin  is  too  sharp  upon 
us.  At  all  events,  so  far  as  I  am  concerned,  the 
discussion  has  nothing  to  do  with  pedantry  or 
with  feeble- mindedness.  Prof.  Earle  had  stated 
that  people  say  ''bred  and  bom''  when  they 
ought  to  say  "bom  and  bred,''  and  that  they 
do  so  "solely"  because  the  sound  of  the  former, 
the  less  reasonable  order,  pleases  them  better. 
But  as  it  has  been  clearly  shown  that  there  is  a 
true  and  reasonable  meaning  in  the  order  "bred 
and  bora,"  the  professor's  illustration  falls  to  the 
ground.  Those  who  take  the  phrase  genealo- 
gically, tracing  back  the  life  step  by  step,  stUl 
show  that  this  is  the  true  order.  To  these,  how- 
ever, I  would  point  out  that  we  say,  "  He  lived 
and  died,"  and  not  "  He  died  and  lived." 

W.  C.  B. 

Surely  bred  must  be  the  correct  word  to  take 
precedence  in  the  above  proverb  or  phrase.  We 
frequently  speak  of  some  peculiarity  in  an  in- 
dividual as  being  "  bred  in  the  bone."  When  we 
speak  of  cattle,  horses,  &c. ,  as  also  we  sometimes 
do  of  the  human  race,  as  being  '*  well  bred,"  we 
undoubtedly  do  not  refer  to  their  education,  but 
to  their  antecedent  breeding ;  neither  does  the 
latter  word  convey  to  my  mind  any  analogy  to 
education,  which  is,  I  suppose,  what  is  meant 
when  we  say  of  any  one  that  he  or  she  has  been 
well  brought  up.  D.  O.  C.  £. 

Thk  Games  of  Chess  and  Tables  (6^  S.  y. 
143,  255). — I  would  have  added  nothing  to  what 
other  correspondents  have  said,  but  finding  that  the 
authority  of  Johnson  is  adduced  for  "tables= 
draughts,"  would  say  that  I  think  that  no  instance 
to  prove  this  can  be  found.  The  phrase  is  frequent 
in  Elizabethan  literature,  but,  so  far  as  I  know, 
wherever  its  meaning  is  indicated  by  the  context, 
it  is  shown  to  be  backgammon.  Moreover, "  in 
your  tables,"  and  the  like,  is  still  in  ordinary  use 


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in  tbiB  same,  but  the  word  is  never  a  technical 
one  in  draughts.  Br.  Nicholson. 

St.  Marqarkt's  Chttrchtard,  Wsstmiitstbr 
(6»  8.  V.  128, 171, 213,  234, 295).— I  regret  bavinff 
misquoted  the  a^e  of  Alexander  BaTies,  as  inscribed 
on  the  tomb.  Thirty  is  the  engrayed  and  correct 
age,  as  stated  by  T.  W.  W.  S. 

An  Old  Inhabitakt. 

AXTTHORS   OF   QUOTATIONS  WaNTBD   (6*^   S.  T. 

248,  279).— 

"Go,mtlebook/*fte. 
Theie  lines  are  in  the  last  stania,  "L'Enyoy/'  of 
Sonth9f»  Lay  of  (kt  LaureaU.  W.  A.  0. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ko. 

Bristol:  Past  and  Present,    An  Illustrated  History  of 

Bristol  and  its  NeiKhbourhood.    By  J.  F.  Nicholls, 

F.S.A.,  Chief  Librarian  of  the  Bristol  Free  Libraries. 

and  John  Taylor,  Librarian  to  the  Bristol  Maseum  and 

Library.    (Bristol,  J.  W.  Arrowsmitb.) 

Thvbb  bare  been  sereral  histories— tweWe,  we  believe — 

of  the  interesting  capital  of  the  west  of  England,  all  dry 

and  prosy  and  matter-of-fact,    written   only  for  the 

antiquary,  and  now  casnaUy  referred  to  by  the  curioua 

The  present  work  owes  a  good  deal  to  them,  is  better 

than  them  in  many  ways,  but  will  not  supersede  at  least 

two  of  them.    The  intention  was  a  popular  book,  and, 

as  such,  Brittcl :  Pott  and  Present  must  be  considered, 

being  a  successful  pro?incial  copy  of   Old  and  New 

Lonaoth  and  the  speculation  of  an  enterprising  printer 

and  publbher  of  Bristol  which  does  him  credit.    Old 

and  Ifew  London,  however,  is  an  historical  description ; 

Bristol:   Past  and   Present  a  descriptive  history^at 

least,  Mr.  Nicholls's  portion. 

Two  sections— each  a  goodlv  quarto  Tolnme — ^have  now 
been  completed ;  one,  devoted  to  the  civil  history  of  the 
city,  written  by  Mr.  Nioholls,  the  other,  to  the  eccle- 
siastical history,  by  Mr.  Taylor.  Another  volume  on 
'* Modern  Bristol"  is  in  progress.  Remembering  that 
the  authors  had  to  write  a  popular  book  similar  to  Old 
and  New  London,  we  can  »ay  that  they  have  done  their 
work  well,  and  written  a  most  readable,  realistic,  and 
picturesque  narrative  of  the  stirring  events  in  the  annals 
of  this  ancient  city.  Of  course  no  great  amount  of 
original  or  special  research  is  erident,  and  to  any  one 
more  critical  than  the  general  reader  the  work  may  not 
be  quite  so  satisfactory.  The  old-fashioned  histories 
were  not  much  better,  and  we  cannot  call  to  mind  any 
history  of  a  city  or  town  as  an  example  of  the  scholar- 
ship, criticism,  and  patient  labour  which  the  subject 
really  re<|uirea    Lonaon  has  no  adequate  history. 

Mr.  NiehoUs  has  fortunately  not  given  up  quite  so 
moob  of  his  book  to  discussing  the  remote  origin  of 
Bristol  as  his  prosy  predecessor  Mr.  Seyer,  but  still  he 
has  gone  fully  into  the  uncertain  question  of  the  alleged 
Boman  origin  of  the  town.  He  speculates  and  affirms; 
we  have  tested,  and  feel  inclined  to  deny  that  he  has 
made  out  his  case.  Nevertheless  the  site  of  Bristol  is 
Just  such  as  the  Romans  would  have  chosen,  and  it 
seems  set  out  in  their  military  method;  but  the  cur- 
vilinear form  of  the  circumTailation  would  indicate  a 
late  date  of  this  occupation.  No  Roman  road  has  been 
with  any  certainty  traced  to  Bristol,  and  the  fourteenth 
Iter  of  Antoninus  wiU,  we  fear,  always  remain  an  snti- 


guarian  crux,  though  we  agree  with  Mr.  Nicholls  in 
aving  no  faith  in  Richard  of  Cirencester.  The  author 
has  benefited  by  Mr.  Coote's  learned  works,  but  we  can- 
not accept  all  his  conclusions  deduced  tberefrouL 

For  how  many  centuries  the  original  girdle  of  the 
town  sufficed  is  not  quite  clear,  but  in  the  twelfth 
century  Bristol  had  spread  into  the  surrounding 
marshes,  and  afterwards  Lord  Berkeley's  vill  of  Redcliff. 
bidding  fair  to  be  a  dangerous  rival,  was  taken  in.  Then 
a  semicircle  of  monasteries  sprang  up  on  the  northern 
side,  giring  rise  to  those  suburbs  where,  after  the  Re- 
formation, the  city  merchants  took  up  their  abode. 
Nothing  whatever  certain  is  known  about  Bristol  before 
the  Conquest,  except  that  coins  show  that  Enut  had  a 
mint  here.  Roger  of  Howden  asserts  that  Athelstan  had 
one  before  him ;  but  this  has  not  been  confirmed  by  any 
find.  We  think  Mr.  Nicholls  was  quite  justified  in 
briefly  alluding  to  those  great  historical  events  which 
affected  all  the  larger  towns  of  the  kingdom,  as  well  as 
in  giving  in  more  detail  those  which  were  more  local 
and  concerned  Bristol  folks  more  especially,  though  they 
neither  took  place  nor  originatea  there,  such,  par- 
ticularly, as  the  war  between  Stephen  and  the  Empresa 
Maud  and  the  events  of  the  last  year  of  the  sad  reign 
of  Edward  II.  Bristol  owed  a  great  deal  to  the  ultimate 
outcome  of  the  former  struggle—more,  we  think,  than 
Mr.  Nicholls  admits.  With  the  patronage  of  Henry  II. 
and  the  munificence  of  the  Earl  of  Gloucester  and  of  the 
founder  of  the  Berkeley  family,  Bristol  was  assisted  to 
become  in  a  very  short  time  the  second  or  third  town  in 
the  kingdom.  It  was  one  of  the  very  few  great  towns  of 
medisBval  England  which  could  boast  of  sevtral  parish 
chnrohea  and  is  the  only  one  besides  London  which  has 
preserved  its  vitality  undiminished  to  the  present  day. 
York,  even,  has  somewhat  lost  rank,  though  not  dignity  ; 
so  have  Exeter,  Canterbury,  and  Norwich.  Liverpool 
and  Manchester  have  eclipsed  Chester.  We  feel  that 
Mr.  Nicholls  has  hardly  realized  what  constituted  aiv 
ancient  borough,  or  that  the  provost  was  a  fiscal  officer 
appointed  by  the  Crown  or  by  the  earl.  The  continued' 
prosperity  of  Bristol  was  owing,  after  the  discovery  of  a 
new  hemisphere,  to  the  timely  extension  of  its  maritime 
trade  by  its  own  adventurous  merchants  and  the  hardy 
and  intrepid  mariners  and  navigators,  not  entirely  home- 
bred, which  they  had  the  foresight  to  employ. 

The  second  volume  of  Bristol:  Past  and  Present  ia 
entitled  "  Ecclesiastical  History,"  and  is  written  by  Mr. 
Ta]^lor,  the  author,  if  we  mistake  not,  of  A  Book  about 
Bristol,  which  was  full  of  original  research  recounted  in 
quaint  but  suitable  language.  We  recognize  the  same- 
style  again  here.  The  writer  is  on  his  own  especial 
ground  in  ecclesiastical  matters,  and  the  subjects  he- 
takes  up  have  been  treated  by  him  extremely  well. 
Naturally,  however,  writing  for  the  general  public  andf 
a  limit  as  to  space,  has  restricted  him  in  many  ways, 
but  we  do  not  think  he  has  always  used  his  materials- 
quite  judiciously. 

After  an  *< Introductory  Sketch,"  the  "ecclesiastical 
parentage'*  of  Bristol, which  from  the  remotest  times: 
down  to  the  Reformation  was  in  the  diocese  of* 
Worcester,  Mr.  Taylor  takes  successively  the  cathedral 
and  the  various  parish  churches,  and  briefly  notices  the 
modern  churches,  together  with  the  Roman  Catholic  and! 
dissenting  chapels.  He  gives  ample  extracts  from  the* 
quaint  ancient  parochial  records,  accounts,  and  inven- 
tories,  which  we  are  afraid  are  enjoyed  more  by  us  than 
the  "  ordinary  "  reader,  although  a  general  interest  in 
arcbsBology  is  one  of  the  most  hopeful  signs  of  the  time*. 

The  churches  of  Bristol,  both  numerous  and  interest- 
ing, were  mostly  rebuilt  in  the  Perpendicular  period, 
thus  indicating  overflowing  wealth  at  that  time.  The 
period  of  the  greatest  prosperity  of  any  town  can  be  seen 


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at  once  by  the  style  of  the  architecture  of  its  churches 
and  monumental  buildings.  The  writer  has  hardly  done 
justice  to  Reddiff  Church,  certainly  the  noblest 
*'  parish  "  church  in  England ;  but  it  is  doubtful  if  even 
that  is  a  correct  designation,  as  until  lately  it  was  only 
a  chapel  to  Bedminster. 

We  must  not  forget  to  note  that  the  work  is  well  and 
ampl^  illustrated,  ue  yiewe  given  of  many  of  the  old 
half-timber  houses,  which  are  so  fast  disappearing,  being 
specially  valuable  on  that  account 

Ancient  BaUadt  and  Leaendt  of  Hindutian.  By  Tom 
Dutt.  With  an  Introductory' Memoir  by  Edmund  W. 
Oosflc.  (Kegan  Paul,  Trench  &  Co.) 
Thk  author  of  these  poems,  as  we  are  told  by  Mr.  Oosie, 
who  seems  to  be  fast  becoming  a  sort  of  master  of  the 
ceremonies  to  Parnassus,  was  a  young  Hindu  lady  bom 
at  Calcutta  in  1866.  She  came  to  Europe  in  1869, 
spent  some  time  at  a  French  pension,  and  afterwards 
attended  the  lectures  for  women  at  Cambridge.  Four 
jears  after  she  returned  to  Bengal,  and  four  years  later 
still  she  died.  But  in  this  brief  life  the  had  already 
achicTed  much  work  of  great  promise.  Her  first  book, 
A  Sheaf  Oleaned  in  JVmc&jF^/cZf,  consisted  of  a  number 
of  translations  in  English  from  French  poets;  and  after 
her  death  was  published  a  noTcl  in  French,  called  Le 
JovmaJL  d$  Mile.  d^Arverst  a  tragical  story,  but  distin- 
guished by  remarkable  rigour  of  treatment.  In  her  last 
legacy,  the  volume  now  given  to  the  public,  she  appears 
to  have  been  returning  to  ground  more  farourable  to  her 
genius  than  translations,  or  studies  of  modem  French 
society,  namely,  the  myths  and  traditions  of  Hindustan. 
Here  was  a  fredi  field,  from  which  Fate  permitted  her  to 
reap  but  a  tiny  harvest  The  stories  of  Savitri,  Jogadhya 
Uma,  Buttoo,  and  the  rest,  onlv  make  more  poignant  the 
regret  that  the  authoress  could  not  have  continued  to 
chronicle,  with  added  mastery  of  English  verse,  the 
legends  of  her  land.  The  essentials— sentiment  and 
atmosphere — ^were  native  to  her;  what  she  lacked  time 
and  practice  would  have  brought.  There  is  no  sadder 
relic  of  an  unfulfilled  renown  than  this  volume  of  Torn 
Putt's. 

B%ddha  and  Early  Buddhitm,    By  Arthur  Lillie,  late 

Lucknow  Begiment  (TrUbner  &  Co.) 
A  RKLioioH  to  all  appearance  without  a  God ;  a  hope  of 
immortality  which,  as  we  understand  the  term,  is  no 
immortality,  but  rather,  as  many  interpreters  read 
Nirv&na,  simply  extinction  or  annihilation ;  a  system  of 
vicarious  prayer  and  recitation  of  sacred  books  by 
means  of  the  unique  inventions  of  the  Prayer- Wheel 
and  Scripture-Wheel;  a  religion  which,  nevertheless, 
contains  within  it  many  points  of  curious  resemblance 
to  Christianity,  with  its  asceticism,  its  monasteries,  its 
abbots,  its  monks,  its  nuns,  even,  it  has  been  said,  its 
pope,  in  the  person  of  the  Dalai  Lama  of  Thibet ;  with 
a  detachment  from  the  things  of  this  world,  which  is  in 
some  instances  so  marked  as  to  have  profoundlv  im- 
pressed Christian  observers  of  the  system— such  are 
pome,  but  only  some,  of  the  salient  features  of  that 
Buddhism  to  which  Mr.  Lillie  invites  our  attention. 

We  quite  believe  that  Buddhism  is  worth  the  most 
careful  attention  we  can  sive  it.  The  very  contradic- 
tions of  the  system,  whether  real  or  apparent,  are  full 
of  matter  for  thought  and  research.  Much  of  the 
chronology  of  the  sources  upon  which  we  partly  depend 
for  our  knowledge  of  it  is  still  uncertain.  Legends  of 
the  life  of  the  Buddha»  which  are  said  to  have  influenced 
Christian  theology,  or,  at  least,  to  have  entered  into 
Christiaa  church  legends,  have  yet  to  be  fixed  to  a 
positive  date.  We  must  confess  that  the  supposed 
identity  with  the  story  of  Buddha  of  the  legend  of  the 
Eastern  Saints  Barlaam  and  Josaphat,  which  is  gene- 


rally stated  to  be  derived  from  the  "  Lalita  YUtara,"  does 
not  appear  to  us  at  all  adequately  proved.  In  its  Anne- 
nian  form,  indeed,  we  see  nothing  to  prove  the  case, 
independently  of  any  question  as  to  uie  date  of  the  "  Lalita 
Yistara"  itself,  on  which  we  incline  to  share  Mr.  Lillie's 
doubts.  What  we  Agree  with  least  in  Mr.  Lillie's  in- 
vestigation of  early  Buddhism  is  his  masonic  theory,  if 
we  may  so  call  it  Apart  from  that,  we  believe  him  to 
have  done  good  serrice  in  bringing  out  the  claims  to 
consideration  rightly  belonging  to  Northern  Buddhism. 
We  hope  we  have  not  seen  the  last  of  Mr.  Lillie  as  one 
zealously  turning  the  wheel  of  the  law,  and  setting  forth 
the  merits  of  the  jewel  of  the  lotus. 


It  is  with  sincere  regret  that  we  record  the  death  of 
our  old  correspondent  Sir  Henry  Cole,  E.C.B.,  which 
took  place  on  Tuesday  last. 

Mr.  Wiluax  Ridlir,  well  known  to  purchasers  of 
old  books,  has  become  the  possessor  of  the  rulteney  Cor- 
respondence, which  had  some  claim  to  be  considered  the 
gem  of  the  Ouvry  collection.  This  consists  of  the  corre- 
spondence of  Sir  James  Murray  Pulteney  relating  to  the 
pieriod  of  the  battle  of  Waterloo.  Nearly  two  thousand 
manuscript  letters  and  documents,  public  and  private, 
by  members  of  the  royal  family,  distinguished  statesmen, 
soldiers,  &c.,  are  arranged  alphabetically,  with  MS. 
titles,  in  thirty-three  folio  scrap- books-uniformly  bound 
by  Rividre.  This  collection,  the  historical  value  of  which 
cannot  easily  be  over  estimated,  should  be  acquired  bv 
one  of  our  great  public  libraries.  The  binding  and  classi- 
fication alone  seem  likely  to  have  cost  more  than  the 
price  (one  hundred  guineas)  which  is  demanded  for  the 
set 

Thk  old  registers  of  St.  James's,  Clerkenwell,  are  now 
being  transcribed  for  the  Harieian  Society.  They  abound 
in  interest,  since,  during  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth 
centuries,  many  persons  of  importance  were  resident  in 
that  parish.  The  registers  may  possibly  be  printed  by 
the  society  next  year. 

Ah  account  of  the  earliest  industrial  census  will  appear 
in  the  next  number  of  the  Antiquary.  Mr.  Phillips 
Bevan,  the  writer,  has  compared  it  with  subsequent 
returns,  so  as  to  show  the  numbers  of  persons  following 
certain  trades.  This  first  census  was  made  in  Paris  in 
1292.  

W.  L.— The  chapel  of  Lincoln's  Inn  was  consecrated 
in  1623,  having  been  built  from  designs  by  Inigo  Jones, 
who  is  said  to  have  estimated  the  cost  at  2,0002. 

E.  y.  ("Monumental  Brass  in  Bere  Regis  Church, 
Dorset  ").-8ee  "N.  &  Q.,"  4«»  8.  xii.  492;  5»»»  S.  i.60, 
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NOTES:— A  SerlM  of  Eight  AnonTmoni  and  Ctonfldontial 
Letters  oddreMed  to  Jamei  n.  about  the  State  of  Ireland. 
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—Lord  ElleBboroiiRh»  Lord  Tenterden,  and  Sir  WUUam 
7ollett—Kitfigaioo—'*Ba8tard-tltle''— Proposed  Transforma- 
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Gharleall.'h  Hidlng-plaoes— B.  Brocklesby— Nick-nackaloiy 
— Heraldic- Authors  Wanted,  888. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS :  — MaskeU's  "Monumenta  BitnaUa 
Xocleai»  AngUcana)"— Scott s  "A  Poet's  Hanreet  Home" 
—  Beckett's  "Should  the  Beviaed  New  Teitamont  be 
Authorised  t "  Ac 

Notices  to  Corrsspondants,  ftc 


A  SERIES  OF  EIGHT  ANONYMOUS  AND  CON- 
FIDENTIAL  LBTTEBS  TO  JAMBS  IL  ABOUT 
THE  STATE  OF  IRELAND. 
This  collection  consists  of  anonymoxis  MS.  letters 
written  to  James  IL  at  irregular  intervals,  dating 
from  March  14, 1684  to  Feb.  14, 1686.  I  believe 
i  am  safe  in  asserting  that  they  have  never  yet 
been  published,  and  relating  as  they  do  to  a  period 
<of  Insh  history  that  possesses  peculiar  interest, 
namely,  the  purt  of  James  IL's  reign  which  in- 
tervenes between  the  date  of  his  accession  to  the 
throne  and  tiie  Williamite  wars,  they  will  be 
found  not  undeserving  of  being  placed  on  record 
in  an  accessible  form,  and  also  of  careful  perusal. 
I  possess  in  all  eight  of  these  letters,  which  are 
the  manuscript  copies  of  the  original  documents, 
written  and  preserved  by  the  writer  himself  with 
an  evident  purpose  to  future  reference;  and 
although,  retainmg  his  anonymous  character 
throughout,  he  has,  with  scrupulous  care,  con- 
cealed every  allusion  to  his  name  or  his  address ; 
yet  we  can  learn  a  great  deal  about  his  circum- 
stances and  beloDgings  by  stray  paragraphs  and 
remarks  in  the  course  of  the  correspondence.  Thus, 
he  was  beyond  question  a  Roman  Catholic  priest, 
and  I  am  disposed  to  believe  further  that  he  was 
in  intimate  vaktion  with  the  order  of  Jesuits;  this 


I  would  conclude  from  his  glorification  of  Ignatius 
Loyola  and  of  his  followers ;  for,  as  a  rule,  the 
secular  clergy  of  the  Church  of  Rome  in  Ireland 
at  that  time  had  no  great  love  for  monkish  orders, 
especially  the  Jesuits,  ai^  they  interfered  too 
much  with  the  scanty  and  precarious  incomes 
derived  from  their  parish  work,  nor  was  any 
association  with  the  Jesuits  at  that  time  either 
safe  or  desirable. 

The  letters  also  demonstrate  that  their  com- 
poser was  a  well  educated  man,  who  had  lived 
for  some  time  and  travelled  in  the  north  of 
Ireland,  and  that  he  was  a  shrewd  and  thoughtful 
observer  of  matters  as  they  came  before  him,  at 
least  from  his  own  special  point  of  view,  fairly 
acquainted  with  the  localities  he  desired  to  write 
about,  and  with  the  coudition  of  affairs  there, 
social  and  political,  imbued,  no  doubt,  with  an 
intense  desire  to  promote  the  progress  of  his 
churdi,  and  at  the  same  time  little  scrupulous  as 
to  the  means  that  might  be  emplo/ed  to  accom- 
plish that  desirable  end  ;  indeed,  some  of  his 
recommendations  and  advice  would  not  bear 
strict  investigation  or  approval  by  a  rigid  moralist, 
and  in  writing  to  James,  whom  he  evidently  con- 
cluded must  be  iufluenoed  by  a  similarity  of 
sentiment  and  design  to  that  which  he  himself 
judged  the  right  and  only  course  of  conduct,  he 
plamly  states  more  than  ouce  the  desirability  of 
stringent  and  practical  application  of  the  famous 
assertion  that  "the  end  justifies  the  means." 
Still,  whenever  he  has  to  weigh  the  conduct  and 
actions  of  others  he  employs  very  different  scales 
and  weights,  and  his  moral  judgment  is  quite 
distressed  at  his  adversaries'  perverse  and  oblique 
politi<»l  opinions  and  their  disloyal  practices, 
niere  is  also  ample  proof,  from  his  own  statement, 
that  he  was  a  gentleman  of  good  birth;  for  he 
describes  his  father  as  having  held  the  rank  of 
colonel  in  the  reign  of  Charles  I.,  and  fighting  on 
the  king's  side,  receiving  martyrdom  as  the  re- 
ward of  his  loyalty,  for  he  is  careful  to  say  that 
"  he  was  admitted  to  quarter  by  the  Cromwellians, 
and  afterwards  shin  by  them"  in  a  most  bar- 
barous manner. 

About  the  period  when  these  letters  were 
written  to  James  II.  hu  correspondent  probably 
resided  at  or  near  London,  somewhere  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  Court,  and  he  talks  more  than  once 
of  the  **  Peny  Post,"  by  means  of  which  some  of 
his  letters  were  forwarded  to  the  king.  This, 
however,  does  not  always  appear  to  have  been 
the  mode  of  transmitting  them,  for  he  had  friends 
near  the  king's  person,  and  his  first  letter  is  en- 
dosed  to  Lord  Dartmouth  to  be  given  by  him  to 
the  king's  hands. 

It  remains  to  answer  the  question.  What  ac- 
count can  I  give  of  the  letters  themselves,  and 
how  did  they  come  into  my  possession  ?  I  pur- 
chased them,  some  time  Biaoe,  with  other  papers 


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belonging  to  the  late  Mr.  Lefanu,  the  novelist 
and  writer,  which  were  sold  in  Dublin  after  his 
death.  They  are  written  in  a  neat  and  clear  hand, 
apparently  the  writing  of  an  elderly  man,  in  a 
small  quarto  book.  This  was  unbound  when  I 
got  it,  and  merely  stitched  together,  but  I  haye, 
since  they  passed  into  my  hands,  got  the  Tolnme 
properly  ooyered,  to  protect  its  contents  from  loss 
and  injury.  At  the  end  of  the  book  there  is  a 
short  puragraph,  written  in  lead-pencil  by  Mr. 
Lefanu,  in  which  he  states,  "I  finished  these 
curious  letters  12  July,  1839.  I  wonder  who 
wrote  them.  The  MS.  belonged  to  Dr.  Dobbyn.'' 
Beyond  this  statement  I  fail  to  trace  their  past 
history,  but  have  some  hopes  that  the  author  may 
yet  be  identified.  The  book  bears  intrinsic  eyidence 
of  being  what  it  pretends,  an  original  MS.  copy  of 
priyate  political  letters  written  to  James  II.,  in 
which  there  are  numerous  questions  of  interest 
discussed  with  freedom  and  shrewdness,  and  a 
course  of  political  procedure  advocated  and  urged 
for  Ireland  which  James,  unfortunately  for  him- 
self, pursued  with  stem  resolution ;  ang  the  result 
of  his  disastrous  choice  is  matter  of  history. 

In  preparing  these  letters  for  publication  I  have 
copiea  them  verbatim  myself,  preserving  the  exact 
spelling  and  omitting  nothing  whatever  of  their 
contents.  Their  special  and  entire  claims  to  con- 
sideration centring  in  the  peculiar  opinions  and 
expressions  of  the  author  and  his  exposition  of 
the  state  of  political  matters  from  his  special 
point  of  observation,  I  do  not  believe  that  they 
either  require  or  would  be  improved  by  commen- 
taries of  mine. 

William  Prazer,  F.RO.S.I,  M.R.I.A. 

March  the  14  1684. 
This  Gonoerns  the  North  of  Irel'. 
S'f^HaTeiog  for  sora  years  past  lir'd  in  the  North  of 
your  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  and  obserr'd  the  number  and 
disposition  of  your  subjects  in  that  part  of  the  country 
I  made  those  remarks  upon  'em  in  the  worst  of  times, 
that  may  be  usefull  to  you  at  any  time  k  especialy  in 
the  begining  of  your  reign,  and  intended  to  be  intro- 
duced to  you  in  his  late  Majesties  time  in  order  to  let 
YOU  know  your  friends  from  your  foes  in  that  country 
but  was  preTcntod  by  the  Kings  death  and  the  important 
affairs  that  haTC  since  taken  up  your  mi^estiea  time, 
whence  I  presumed  to  enclose  this  letter  to  my  lord 
Dartmouth  and  in  it  my  thoughts,  not  but  that  I  am 
wel  as8ur*d  your  Ma***  (who  as  a  most  prudent  Prince 
have  your  Eyes  and  Eares  cTerywhere)  might  haTC  bin 
informed  by  persons  of  greater  interest  than  I  can  pre- 
tend to,  but  that  I  have  reason  to  Judge  from  the  trust 
repos'd  and  continued  by  the  government  in  the  hands 
of  the  disaffected  in  that  Country,  yon  have  not  had  a 
full  and  particular  information  of  the  state  of  affaires 
there,  wherefore  I  wil  as  briefly  as  I  can  set  down  my 
eerten  knowledge  of  that  part  of  the  North  that  lies 
next  Scotland,  I  mesne  the  Counties  of  Down  and 
Antrim  k  the  most  part  of  the  Counties  of  Derrie  and 
Donegal,  where  there  are  generaly  speaking  five  dis- 
affected Presbiterians  for  one  Catholic  or  protestant 
subject  and  in  the  sea  port  towns  scarce  any  inhabitants 
but  Fanatics  for  I  appeal  to  any  that  has  IlT'd  in  the 


sayd  Counties  If  down-patrick,  porteferrv  Stnngford 
Killileagh  Donchedee  Newtown  Bangor  Belfast  Canrick- 
fergus  Lame  Glenarm  Colrane  and  Deiy  the  chief 
places  on  the  sea  Coasts  of  the  sayd  Counties  be  not 
for  the  most  part  inhabited  by  a  factious  sort  of  presbr- 
terian  Zelots,  that  onely  want  opportunity  to  mariifeet 
their  disloyalty  and  (which  mends  not  the  matter)  there 
are  but  few  Justices  of  the  peace  and  very  few  officera 
of  the  Militia  from  Downpatrick  to  Derry,  being  neer 
one  hundred  miles  along  the  Coast  and  better  peopled 
than  any  part  of  Ireland,  but  11  disposed  Whigga  or  at 
best  trimmers  in  so  much  that  when  the  Bye-house  con- 
spiracy was  on  foot  there  the  hellish  design  and  blesB*£ 
disappointment,  might  ha^e  bin  read  in  the  faces  and 
behaviour  of  most  of  'em,  for  the  Presbiterians  then 
met  in  veiv  Considerable  numbers  by  day  in  their  con- 
venticles, the  Seminaries  of  Rebellion,  and  by  night  Ut 
the  fields  under  pretence  of  securing  their  throats  from 
Popish  Massacres,  but  the  truth  is  if  the  hellish  con- 
trivance of  their  correspondents  here  had  not  bin  timely 
defeated  bv  proTidence  'twas  to  be  fear'd  they  had  bin 
beforehand  with  the  Papists  k  Protestants  by  really 
acting  what  the^  pretended  to  fear  nor  did  they  want- 
incentives  to  kinale  their  zealous  minds  most  of  the 
Whiggish  parsons  and  officers  that  fled  from  Bothwel 
Brigg  being  then  dispersed  k  shelfeer'd  among  'em  and 
in  idl  probM>iIity  disposing  'em  to  stand  up  upon  oecas* 
sion  for  the  good  old  cause  at  which  time  twas  obserrd 
by  many  that  betwixt  Island  Magee  (a  part  of  the 
County  of  Antrim  al  inhabited  by  presbiterians)  and 
Kintyre-Argiles  Country  were  seen  a  frigat  and  tw»< 
little  barks  which  for  a  fortnight  floated  too  and  fro  upon 
tiie  sea  that  dirides  the  said  countreyi,  without  makeing^ 
any  way,  as  if  they  were  layd  up,  and  disappear'! 
upon  the  Conspiracys  being  discover'd,  which  made  all 
judicious  and  honest  men  helicTe  Argile  might  have 
bin  aboard  the  frigat  with  armes  and  ammunition  to 
furnish  his  friends  on  both  shores,  in  Case  the  fatal 
blow  had  bin  given  here  &  as  y*  Presbiterian  party  grew 
more  than  ordinary  insolent  upon  the  prospect  of  the 
good  success  of  that  design  they  became  so  dejected 
upon  the  discovery  that  they  disarmd  themseWes  as 
conscious  of  their  own  guilt  but  instead  of  yielding  up 
their  Armes  to  the  Justices  of  the  peace  they  putt  them 
out  of  their  reach  by  hideing  'em  And  the  Magistrates 
being  for  the  most  part  wel-wishers  of  the  cause  were 
not  displeas'd  at  their  timely  industry  in  eluding  ett 
that  rate  the  orders  issued  for  their  disarming  And  ti» 
wel  known  the  generalitie  of  the  Whiggs  in  that  Connby 
are  better  fumish'd  with  hors  and  arm's  than  any  of 
your  subjects  except  your  standing  army  And  now 
that  your  Ma*'**  three  Kingdoms  are  more  firmly 
than  ever  settled  k  Knitt  in  a  Loyal  k  peaoablo 
Union  I  dare  engage  there  is  not  any  one  part  of  your 
dominions  more  obnoxious  to  the  danger  of  rebellion  and 
at  the  same  tyme  perhaps  less  suspected  k  taken  care 
of  by  the  goTemmt  than  the  sayd  Counties  of  Down  and 
Antrim,  and  most  part  of  the  Counties  of  Derry  & 
Donegal  as  being  thorow  planted  with  Presbiteriana  who 
nothwithstanding  are  more  tolerated  there  than  in  any 
part  of  his  Majesties  three  kingdoms,  of  which  I  oanot 
think  without  calling  to  mind  the  scTcre  usage  extended 
to  al  your  poor  Irish  Catholic  Subjects  there  on  the  dis- 
covery of  the  pretended  Popish  plott,  their  very  doathes, 
Kapers  of  moment  and  in  many  places  part  of  their 
oushold  stuff  being  eztortiously  seis'd  on  and  piUag'd 
by  the  Militia  al  consisting  of  disguis'd  Presbiteriaoe 
and  empowrd  to  search  for  Armes  onely  yet  when  the 
case  was  alterd  upon  the  discovery  of  the  Conspiracy  the 
sayd  Militia  wu  so  far  from  useing  the  like  diligence  in 
Quest  of  the  far  more  dangerous  presbiterian  Armes,  thskt 
few  or  none  were  dicarm'd  except  sach  as  were  by 


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Captain  Biohard  Eustace  a  very  loyal  gent,  then  quarter- 
ing at  LiBbum  so  that  upon  the  main  if  Argile  or  any 
otner  desperat  belweatner  of  the  faction  oe  soon  or 
late  10  mad  and  dareing  bb  to  offer  disturlMtnce  to 
the  peace  of  your  Bealmet  by  heading  a  Rebel- 
lious,  fanatic  k  ichyimatical  party  no  part  of  your 
•dominiona  ie  more  likely  &  ready  to  join  with  him  or 
any  other  popular  and  pretended  godly  Aing-Leader 
Than  this  notorious  nest  of  Fanatics.  It  maj  be 
objected  that  while  Dublin  and  the  chief  parts  or^that 
Kingdom  are  safe  no  danger  is  to  be  fear'd  from  the  un- 
discipHn'd  headles  rabble  in  the  North  To  which  I 
answer  that  they  are  generally  well  hors'd  and  arm'dand 
have  among  y"  many  old  experienced  Cromwellian  officers 
with  a  pow'r  of  seaititous  yagrant  preachers  And  your 
jVIsjestie  knows  that  rebellion  is  liKe  a  sparkle  of  fire 
which  the'  nerer  so  little  and  despicable  at  first  is  of 
force  to  raise  a  Test  incendium  ana  that  a  smal  party 
may  soon  grow  up  into  a  numerous  and  formidable  army 
etpecialy  in  a  Country  whose  situation  may  in  the  mean 
time  serve  aa  a  fortres.  And  in  as  much  as  your  Migestie 
ought  to  be  arm*d  not  onely  against  what  really  does  but 
probably  might  hapen  and  forlthat  'tis  easier  to  preyent 
than  to  defeat  insurrections,  with  submission  it  concerns 
your  princely  wisdom  to  order  those  at  the  helm  of  y' 
government  to  see  what  is  amiss  particularly  in  that  part 
«f  the  North  speedilie  reformed. 

And  tho'  I  did  not  at  this  time  propose  to  point  at  any 
person  in  particular  I  canot  omltt  mentioning  my  L" 

Jl ne  the  top  Demagogue  of  that  Country  who  tho' 

a  Priyy  Councellonr  &  pretended  protestant  is  so  be- 
sotted by  his  Fanatic  wife  &  motner  in  law  that  he 
«tudief  nothing  so  much  as  makeing  him  self  popular  by 
Espousing  the  quarrels  of  al  the  Fanatics  in  that  Country, 
keeps  a  Presbiterian  Parson  in  his  house  and  fonneriy 
empoured  a  notorious  Fanatic  Parson  to  preach  in  the 
Parish  Church  of  Antrim.  And  when  one  Mr.  Hill,  an 
ixonest  loyall  gent  and  one  of  your  Mat'**  priyie  Council 
of  that  Kingdom  (being  Mayor  of  Carrickfergut)  comitted 
«  yagrant  Parson  to  the  goale  of  that  town  for  preaching 
sedition  the  s'  L'  quarrerd  with  him  for  so  doing  and 
aett  the  Preacher  afterwards  at  Liberty  and  tho  he  was 
«o  extreme  officious  in  his  scrutiny  of  the  popish  plott 
that  he  usually  sent  his  warrants  fourty  miles  about  for 
poor  parish  priests,  tolerated  by  the  Goyemment  to  force 
^confessions  from  them  of  their  own  and  others  imaginary 
^ilt,  by  threats  and  duresse,  when  the  Rye-house  Con- 
spiracy brake  out  he  became  so  remiss  in  discharge  of 
lus  duty  that  tho  as  he  rid  by  Randolfstowne  within  3 
miles  of  his  dwelling  house  he  espied  7  or  8  hundred 
prebiterians  in  a  cluster  at  a  Conyenticle  he  proVd  so 
much  their  friend  &  was  so  far  from  discontenancing 
their  unlawful  assembly  that  he  was  heard  to  say  the 
honest  people  were  doing  a  good  work,  which  good  work 
in  plaine  English  was  no  other  than  the  Parsons  work- 
ing the  minds  of  his  auditory  to  the  utter  abhorrence  of 
«1  Kingly  goyemment,  but  his  omissions  woud  be  the 
more  tolerable  if  not  aggrayated  by  his  daylie  and 
insufferable  arbitrary  actions,  for  ai  that  Country 
knows  that  presumeing  upon  hia  being  a  priyy  Coun- 
cellonr he  takes  upon  him  to  controul  the  neigh- 
bouring Justices  of  the  peace,  baffling  their  lawful 
proceedings  k  at  his  pleasure  canceling  their 
warrants  without  returning  any  recognisance,  but 
most  especialy  if  a  Presbiterian  is  to  be  proceeded 
against  to  which  I  will  ad  that  he  forced  an  Atturnm^ 
from  the  tenants  of  your  Mat'**  thirteen  quarters  of 
land  in  that  county  to  which  he  pretends  a  title,  by 
menaces  and  imprisonment  thus  impudently  offending 
your  Msjestie  medially  in  your  subiects  and  imediatly 
in  your  own  personal  interest,  Enaeayouring  al  that 
lies  in  him  to  extort  it  from  you  by  violent  courses. 


Cap**  John  ONeill  querry  to  her  Ma***  8'  Authur  Baw- 
don  and  M'  William  Bill  all  8  men  of  Knowledge  Sc 
interest  in  that  Country  can  testifie  the  truth  of  what 

I  write  as  to  M ne  and  in  confirmation  of  what  I 

say  of  that  part  of  the  Country  in  general.  I  had  an 
account  in  late  letters  thence  that  upon  your  Mat^** 
being  proolaim*d  in  the  Market  towns  in  the  County 
of  Antrim,  scarce  one  presbiterian  appeared  at  iht 
solemnity  but  are  grown  so  oyer  malicious  k  insolent 
that  they  comitted  man^  Bobberies  k  burglaries  since 
the  death  of  the  late  &ing  which  the  generality  of  y* 
Ma"**  loyal  and  peaceable  subjects  in  that  Country  look 
upon  to  be  a  prologue  to  a  worse  attempt,  if  not  timely 
prevented  by  a  detacbm'  of  your  standing  Army  du- 
patch'd  thither  to  awe  their  insolence  the  Alilitia  mostly 
consisting  of  themselvee  and  there  being  few  or  no 
garrisons  in  that  Country 

Having  thus  as  neer  as  I  cud  discover'd  the  distemper 
of  that  part  of  Ireland  to  your  Majestic  I  were  but 
holding  a  Candle  to  the  sun  to  prescribe  a  method  for 
the  cure.  And  I  beg  jour  Ma*'*  not  to  impute  my  for- 
wardness to  presumption  or  prejudice  but  rather  to  the 
innat  zeal  I  nave  for  your  Mi^esties  service  For  I  glory 
in  nothing  more  than  that  my  father  had  the  honour  of 
being  Killed  in  the  qualitie  of  a  Colonel  in  the  late 
Kings  service  in  the  Country  I  now  write  of  by  the 
Cromwellians  who  first  gave  him  quarter  and  then  took 
away  his  life  after  a  most  barbarous  manner. 

{To  he  continued.) 


THE  FOLK-LOBE  OF  LEPBOSY. 

The  horrible  disease  of  leprosy  is  not,  it  appeus, 
unknown  in  Natal  Withm  a  few  hoars'  ride  of 
Durban  there  is  a  clan  of  lepers.  The  Natal 
Mercury  has  been  making  inquiries  into  the  sub- 
ject, and  devotes  an  article  to  it  in  its  issue  of 
Jan.  21, 1882.  From  this  it  appears  that  in  the 
Inanda  location^  and  on  the  banks  of  the  Umgeni, 
about  twelve  miles  from  the  Lindley  mission 
station,  is  seated  the  head  section  of  the  Mape- 
peta  tribe,  under  their  chief  Kamangwe,  and  num- 
bering about  one  thousand  persons.  The  tribe  is 
an  aboriginal  one.  In  the  early  part  of  the  centuiy 
it  resided  on  the  northern  border,  whence  it  was 
driven  by  Ohaka  in  person.  The  remnant  that 
escaped  located  itself  on  Table  Mountain,  near 
Pietermaritzburg.  There  it  remuned  for  a  few 
years  till  it  struck  for  the  fastnesses  of  the  Lower 
Umgeni  Valley,  puxBued  by  the  emigrant  Boezs, 
who  were  foiled  by  the  tribe  getting  into  a  huge 
tract  of  bush  (adjoining  their  piesent  location) 
and  thereby  securing  a  safe  retreat  This  was  at 
the  time  of  the  British  annexation  of  Natal  The 
tribe  was  then  under  the  chief  Umyeka^  father  of 
the  present  chief,  and  it  was  at  his  own  kraal  of 
Umzimvubn  that  the  first  case  of  leprosy  appeared, 
about  the  year  1860.  A  nephew  of  Umyeka'a 
was  affected  by  %  and  ultmiately  died.  The 
disease  also  proved  fatal  to  the  nephew's  younger 
brother,  and  to  his  own  son,  and  also  to  a  native  of 
the  tribe,  whose  vocation  was  to  milk  the  chiefs 
cattle.  Several  deaths  have  occurred  since  then 
from  leprosy  amongst  the  Mapepeta,and  jatcpresent  j 

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there  are  at  least  twelve  kraala  which  have  boroe 
more  BQfFeriog  from  the  fool  infliotion.  Leprosy  is 
ft  name  carrently  giyen  to  more  than  one  form  of 
disease,  and  it  does  not  appear  which  is  the  evil 
that  has  inyaded  NataL  The  matter  would  not 
be  one  for  discussion  in  these  columns  were  it  not 
ibr  the  native  speculations  as  to  the  cause  of  the 
malady.  The  tribe  cannot  trace  the  leprosy  to 
iaj  origin  other  than  that  of  Inporuo,  or  witch- 
ctiSt;  their  legend  being  that  a  Kafir  of  the 

aangas  tribe  was  betrothed  to  a  girl  of  the 
ipepeta,  that  the  girl  jilted  her  lover  and  took 
up  with  one  of  her  own  tribe  who  lived  at  Um- 
yeka's  kraal,  and  that  early  one  morning  the 
inhabitants  of  Umyeka's  kraal  were  much  con- 
cerned to  see  a  thin  column  of  smoke  on  the  cliff 
top  above  the  kiaal^  which,  instead  of  going  sky- 
ward or  windward,  came  curling  down  the  diff 
side  across  to  and  through  the  kraaL  Immediately 
afterwards  the  new  disease  appeared,  and  they, 
E[afir  fsshion,  traced  the  leprosy  to  the  phenomenal 
smoke,  and  the  smoke  to  the  disappointed  lover 
of  the  Tyangas  tribe.  This  by  the  way,  however. 
They  had  never  seen  the  disease  in  any  shape  or 
form  previous  to  the  case  at  the  chiefs  kraaL 
When  the  disease  had  developed  itself  in  person 
after  person,  with  its  loathsome  effects  and  fatal 
ending,  the  tribe  got  akrmed,  and  a  deputation 
went  to  the  then  resident  magistrate  at  Yemlam 
for  advice.  Several  white  men  from  the  maffis- 
tracy  went  up  and  evidently  were  satisfied  uiat 
the  outbreak  was  that  of  leprosy,  as  they  told  the 
chief  that  it  was  incurable,  and  that  the  only 
thing  that  could  be  done  was  to  completely  isolate 
the  affected  one&  They  having  so  delivered 
themselves,  went  their  way,  and  the  disease  was 
left  to  slowly  and  surely  work  its  will.  The 
neighbouring  tribes  of  the  Negeloai,  Tyangas,  and 
Maqade,  when  they  found  out  that  the  disMse  was 
so  horrible,  so  &tal,and  also  apparently  so  infectious, 
kept  away  for  a  time  from  the  affected  tribe ;  but 
whisn  they  discovered— which  was  then  the  case- 
that  the  men  of  the  Mapepeta  only  were  affected, 
they  did  not  hesitate  to  many  or  intermarry  the 
women  of  the  tribe.  Since  then,  however,  the 
immunity  of  the  female  sex  has  vanished,  and 
there  have  been  several  notable  cases  of  the  disease 
amongst  the  girls  and  women  of  the  tribe  in  recent 
times.  This  lesser  liability  of  the  women  was  also 
found  to  be  the  case  at  Tranquebar. 

WiLLUM  K  A.  Axon. 
Fern  Bank,  Higher  Broughtoi^  Mancheiter. 


LBTTEBS  OF  SAMUEIi  JOHNSON  TO 
DR.  TAYLOR. 
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The  words  supplied  in  brackets  are  accidentally 
omitted  in  the  originaL     John  £.  B.  Matob. 
Cambridge. 


DsAa  8iB,~You  ha^e  no  great  title  to  a  verr  fpeedj 
answer  yet  I  did  not  intend  to  hare  delayed  so  long.  1 
am  now  in  doubt  whether  you  are  not  come  to  town,  if 
you  are  double  postage  is  a  proper  fine. 

Tbere  is  one  honest  reason  why  those  things  are  moet 
subject  to  delays  which  we  most  desire  to  do.  What  we 
think  of  importance  we  wish  to  do  well,  to  do  any  thing 
well,  requires  time,  and  what  requires  time  commonly 
finds  us  too  idle  or  too  busy  to  undertake  it  To  be  idl» 
is  not  the  best  excuse,  though  if  a  man  studies  his  own 
reformation  it  is  the  best  reason  he  can  allege  to  himself^ 
both  because  it  is  commonly  true,  and  because  it  eon- 
tains  no  fallacy,  for  OTery  man  that  thinks  he  is  idle 
condemns  himself  and  has  therefore  a  chance  to  endea- 
Tour  amendment,  but  the  busy  mortal  has  often  his  own 
commendation,  even  when  his  Tery  business  is  the  coq» 
sequence  of  Idleness,  when  he  engages  himself  in  trifle* 
only  to  put  the  thoughts  of  more  important  duties  out  of 
hii  mind,  or  to  gain  an  excuse  to  his  own  heart  for 
omitting  them. 

I  am  glad  howcTer  that  while  you  forgot  me  you  were- 
guning  upon  the  affections  of  other  people. 

It  is  in  your  power  to  be  yery  useful  as  a  neighbour, 
a  magistrate,  and  a  Clergyman,  and  he  that  is  useful^ 
must  conduct  his  life  Tery  imprudently  not  to  be  beloyed. 
If  Mousley  ())*  makes  adyances,  I  would  wish  you  not  to 
reject  them.  Tou  once  esteemed  him,  and  the  quarrel 
between  yon  arose  from  miiinformation  and  ought  to  be* 
forgotten. 

When  you  come  to  town  let  us  contriye  to  see  one- 
another  more  frequently,  at  least  once  a  week.  We  hayo* 
both  liyed  long  enough  to  bury  many  friends,  and  haye 
therefore  learned  to  set  a  yalue  on  those  who  are  left. 
Neither  of  us  now  can  find  many  whom  he  has  known 
■0  long  as  we  haye  known  each  other.  Do  not  let  u» 
lose  our  intimacy  at  a  time  when  we  ought  rather  to 
think  of  encreasing  it  We  both  stand  almost  single  in 
the  world,  I  haye  no  brother,  and  with  yonr  sister  yoo 
haye  little  correspondence.  [But  if  you  will  take  my 
adyioe,  you  will  make  some  oyertures  of  reconciliation  to 
her.  If  you  haye  been  to  blame,  you  know  it  is  vour 
duty  first  to  seek  a  renewal  of  kindness.  If  she  has  been 
faulty,  you  haye  an  opportunity  to  exercise  the  yirtue  or 
forgiyeness.  Tou  must  consider  that  of  her  faults  and 
folUes  no  yery  great  part  is  her  own.  Much  has  been 
the  consequence  of  her  education,  and  part  may  be  im> 
puted  to  the  neglect  with  which  you  haye  sometime- 
treated  her.  Had  you  endeayoured  to  gain  her  kindness 
and  her  confidence,  you  would  haye  had  more  inflaence- 
oyer  her.]  I  hope  thatf  before  I  shall  see  you,  she  wilt 
haye  had  a  yisit  or  a  letter  from  you.  The  longer  you 
delay  the  more  yon  will  sometime  repent.  When  I  am 
musing  alone,  I  feel  a  pang  for  eyery  moment  that  any- 
human  being  has  by  my  peeyishness  or  obstinacy  spent 
in  uneasiness.  I  know  not  how  I  haye  fallen  upon  this, 
I  had  no  thought  of  it,  when  I  began  the  letter,  [yet]  am 
glad  that  I  haye  written  it 

I  am.  Dearest  Sir, 

Tour  most  affectionate 

Noy.  18, 1756.  Sax.  Jokkson* 

To  the  Rey*  Dr.  Taylor 

at  Market  Bosworth,  Leieesterehire. 

Endorsed :— The  best  Letter  in  the  World. 

DiAR  Sir,— Tou  may  be  confident  that  what  I  can  do 
for  you  either  by  help  or  counsel  in  this  perplexity  shall 


*  Query,  Morley,  Moresbyl 

t  The  sentences  in  bracketa  haye  been  carefully 
eraeed  in  much  darker  ink,  probably  by  Taylor,  and  the 
words  «you  will  foigive  her  and^  here  inserted,  not 
(apparently)  in  Johnson's  hand»  also  in  much  darker  ink. 


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not  be  wanting,  and  I  ttke  It  m  »  proof  of  fHendsliip 
that  jou  haTC  reconne  to  me  on  this  strange  roTolntion 
of  your  domoBtick  life. 

I  do  not  wonder  that  the  commotion  of  yonr  mind 
made  it  diflBonlt  for  you  to  giTO  me  a  particular  account, 
but  while  my  knowledge  ii  only  genenU,  my  adfice  muat 
be  general  too. 

Your  lint  care  muit  be  of  yourself  and  your  own  quiet 
Do  not  let  thia  Tezation  take  poaeewion  of  your  thoughts, 
or  sink  too  deeply  into  your  heart  To  ha^e  an  unsuitable 
or  unhappy  marriage  luappens  erery  day  to  multitudes, 
and  you  must  endeaTour  to  bear  it  Bke  your  fellow 
sufferers  by  dirsrsion  at  one  time  and  reflection  at 
another.  Ae  happiness  of  conjugal  life  cannot  be  asoer- 
tained  or  secured  either  by  sense  or  by  Tirtue,  and  there- 
fore its  miseries  may  be  numbered  among  those  evils 
which  we  cannot  preTent  and  must  only  labour  to  endure 
with  patience,  and  palliate  with  judgement.  If  your  con- 
dition is  known  I  should  Tthink]  it  best  to  come  from  the 
place,  that  you  may  not  be  a  gasing-stock  to  idle  people 
who  have  nobody  but  you  to  talk  of.  Ton  may  liye 
privately  m  a  thousand  places  till  the  novelty  of  the 
transaction  is  worn  away.  I  shall  be  glad  to  contribute 
to  your  peace  by  any  arrangement  in  my  power. 

With  respect  to  the  Lady  I  so  littie  understand  her 
temper  that  I  know  not  what  to  propose.  Did  she  go 
with  with  [tic]  a  male  or  female  companion  1  With  wluit 
money  do  you  believe  her  provided?  To  whom  do  you 
imagine  she  will  recur  for  shelter  1  What  is  the  abuse 
of  her  person  which  she  mentions)  What  is  [the] 
danger  which  she  resolves  never  ag^  to  incur  1  The 
tale  of  Hannah  I  fuppose  to  be  faHw,  not  that  if  it  be 
true  it  will  iustify  her  violence  and  nrecipitation,  but  it 
will  give  her  consequent  superioiity  in  the  publiok 
opinion  and  hi  the  courts  of  Justice^  and  it  will  be  better 
for  you  to  endure  hard  oonditiona  than  bring  your 
character  into  a  judicial  disquisition. 

I  know  you  never  lived  very  well  together,  but  I  sup- 
pose that  an  outrage  like  this  must  have  been  preceded 
oy  some  uncommon  degreee  of  discord  from  which  you 
might  have  prognosticated  some  odd  design,  or  that  some 
preparations  for  this  excursion  must  have  been  made,  of 
which  the  recollection  may  give  you  some  direction  what 
to  conjecture,  and  how  to  proceed. 

Ton  know  that  I  have  never  advised  you  to  any  thing 
tyrannical  or  violent,  *nd  hi  the  present  case  it  is  of  grsat 
importance  to  keep  yourself  in  the  right,  and  not  injure 
your  own  right  by  any  intemperance  of  resentment  or 
eagerness  of  reprisal,  ror  the  present  I  think  it  prudent 
to  forbear  all  persuit  [nc],  and  all  open  enquiry,  to  wear 
an  appearance  of  complete  indifference,  and  calmly  wait 
the  effects  of  time,  of  neoesstty,  and  of  shame.  I  suppose 
she  cannot  live  long  without  your  monej,  and  the  con- 
fession of  her  want  will  probabiy  humble  her.  Whether 
you  will  inform  her  brother,  I  must  leave  to  your  discre- 
tion, who  know  his  character  and  the  terms  on  which 
you  have  lived."  If  you  write  to  him,  write  like  a  man 
ill  treated  but  neither  dejected  nor  enraged. 

I  do  not  know  what  more  I  can  say  without  more 


misfortune.   I  wondered  to  see  the  note  transcribed  by  a 
hand  which  I  did  not  know. 

lam  Dear  Sir 

Tour  most  affectionate 

Sax.  JoBKflOH. 
August  18, 1768. 

To  the  Bev<  Dr.  Taylor 

in  Ashboum,  Derbyshire. 


BUSHWOBTH'S  COLLECTIONS. 

The  following  letter,  from  the  orifixud  MS.  lent 
to  me  by  the  Earl  of  Yerolam,  wul  perhaps  in- 
terest some  of  your  readers  :-- 

8^— In  the  first  place  give  mee  leave  to  begg  to* 
pardon,  in  that  I  haue  not  waited  on  yo'  Hono'  thii 
long  time,  and  secondly  to  retume  my  most  humble  and 
hefl^  thanks  for  yC  remembrance  of  mee,  with  flue 
guinnies,  w"^  I  reoeiued  by  M'  Angus  by  direotion  of 
D'.  Burnett  giuen  by  you  for  my  encouragement  to 

Erooeed  with  my  fourth  parte  of  Historicall  Collections^ 
1  which  I  haue  made  soe  good  a  progress,  as  I  hope  to 
haue  it  made  nublique,  in  (if  not  before)  Michaelmas 
Tearme  next  loSl  and  to  conteine  900  or  1000  pages  in 
fo :  Begining  ir^  Bemaines  of  Bemarkable  passages 
A*  1640, 1641  omitted  in  my  second  parte  w^  seoond 
parte  treating  of  proceedings  in  that  p'lam^  w*^  mett 
No:  8, 1640,  Ihudled  upp  of  a  suddatne  into  that  parte, 
not  intending  the  same  att  first,  fearing  then  alsoe  an 
Interruption  of  the  pretse,  and  soe  I  was  willing  to  con- 
flrme  my  12  yeares  Collections  durine  12  yeares  Inter- 
mission of  p'lam**,  by  the  speeches  wen  made  att  the 
opening  of  that  plunt^  w^  speeches  I  pereeiue  is  not 
unacceptable  to  the  Nation.  After  I  haue  done  w<i> 
Bemaines,  then  I  proceed  w^  matter  of  fact  hi  order  of 
time,  without  obeeruac'on  or  Befleotion,  from  the  12f^ 
of  May  1641  when  the  Earle  of  Strafford  was  beheaded, 
unto  the  monthe  of  January  1646,  when  the  king  was 
remoued  from  Newcastle  to  fioldenby  in  Northampton* 
shire,  and  there  nlaoed  by  order  of  p'lam'  and  attended 
by  memb's  of  both  houses ;  and  therewith  I  conclude  my 
third  parte  w*^  aoeordhig  to  the  mateiiallB  I  haue  pre- 
paired,  will  conteyne  900  or  1000  pages  as  is  aboue  men- 
tioned. But  if  Ood  giue  mee  life  and  health,  I  purpose  to 
begin  mv  4th  Booke  with  Agitato'  Geo:  Joice,  his  seishur 
uppon  the  king  att  Holdenby  without  order  of  QeneraU 
or  p'lamt,  and  to  discouer  the  misterious  proceedings  of 
those  AgitatF*,  during  theire  Dominion  and  Beigne :  then 
I  shall  proceed  to  the  breaking  out  of  the  second  warre 
1648,  and  giue  an  Account  of  matters  millitary  and 
Ciuill  and  of  the  Scotta  Inuasion  and  BatteU  at  Preston 
tm  the  Tryall  of  his  late  Malestie.  After  w^  I  giue  an 
Account  of  the  new  framed  Qouemement  and  setlemt 
of  Affaires ;  and  of  Cromwells  goeing  into  Ireland  1649, 
and  his  remarkable  seruices  there;  a|^  the  Irish  BebelU^ 
in  order  to  the  Beduceing  of  that  kingdome  to  obedience. 
Then  I  goe  on  w^^  a  Narratiue  of  the  Annies  marohe 
under  Cromwell  to  Inuade  Scotland  A*  1^50  and  of  the 
Battell  att  Dnnbarre,  where  I  then  was  and  am  pre- 
paired  to  gine  a  p'ticnlar  account  thereof,  and  of  the 
Sootts  ouenight  at  that  time.  Next  thing,  of  w«^  I  giue 
an  Account,  is  the  Sootts  marehe  hito  England  1661,  and 
the  Fight  att  Worcester,  and  then  Cromwells  marehe 
upp  to  London,  and  A*  1662  and  putt  an  end  to  and 
dUisolued  or  rather  turned  out  of  doorss  the  first  long 
p^lamt :  and  therewith  I  conclude  my  fourth  parte  of 
Histoncall  Collections,  w^  will  conteyne  7  or  800  pages 
in  fo :  p'don  my  rudeness  in  soe  long  a  letter,  and  might 
it  not  admitt  of  more  trouble  to  yo^  Hono'  that  yen 
would  consult  m^  my  worthy  freind  D'  Burnett  of  my 
designs  in  theie  2  Books.  I  humbly  take  leans  and 
semaine 

Yo'  Hono^  faithful  and  obedient  ssm^ 
Jomr  BvBHwoaTB. 
May  7ti>  1681. 

Directed:-- For  the  hon^  8'  Harbottle  Qrlmston 
Banonet,  Master  of  the  Bolls,  these  pr'nt. 

The  fourth  part,  mentioned  by  Boshworth  in  the 
beginning  of  this  letter^  shoold  no  <V"^^]fJ^p 


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third  part.     The  third,  as  published  after  his 
death,  only  reaches  to  the  end  of  1644,  and  the 
fourth  breaks  off  with  the  execution  of  the  king. 
Samubl  R.  Garbimbr. 


Lord  Ellbnborouor,  Lord  Tbnterdbn,  and 
Sir  William  Follbtt. — On  looking  through  a 
small,  pleasantly  written  volume,  entitled  Our 
LitUe  Life,  I  hare  found  another  of  seyeral  in- 
stances in  which  a  saying  of  Lord  Tenterden*s 
relating  to  Sir  William  FoUett  has  been  attributed 
to  LoM  EUenborough.  The  saying  is  this :  "  I 
haye  two  pleasures  in  life ;  one  is  a  quiet  game 
at  whist ;  the  other  is  hearing  a  young  lawyer  of 
the  name  of  Follett  argue  points  of  law."  Now, 
Lord  EUenborough  di^  in  1818,  when  Follett, 
who  was  born  in  1798,  was  only  twenty  years  old. 
Moreover,  Lord  EUenborough  scarcely  sat  on  the 
Bench  after  the  famous  last  acquittal  of  Hone  in 
1817,  which,  in  truth,  was  the  proximate  cause 
of  his  lordship's  death ;  therefore  Lord  EUen- 
borough could  have  known  nothing  of  Sir  WiUiam's 
powers.  The  saying,  if  it  belongs  to  any  one,  must 
be  given  to  Lord  Tenterden,  who  succeeded  Lord 
EUenborough,  and  sat  tiU  1832,  when  Follett 
would  have  been  thirty-four  years  of  age.  It  is 
true  that  in  neither  of  the  lives  of  these  two  Chief 
Justices  does  Lord  Campbell,  who  was  a  con- 
temporary of  Sir  William  FoUett,  mention  any 
such  saying  ;  and  if  Lord  Tenterden  really  uttered 
the  one  in  question,  perhaps  Lord  Campbell's 
sUence  on  the  subject  may  be  understood.    It  is 

Suite  clear,  however,  that  we  cannot  attribute  it  to 
lOrd  EUenborough.  J.  J.  Aubbrtin. 

Kangaroo. — Is  the  foUowing  an  interesting 
fact  in  word-making,  or  merely  a  good  story  for 
the  credulous  marine  ?  The  passage  is  from  the 
agreeable  Log-Bock  of  a  Fishnrman  and  Zoologist 
of  the  late  Mr.  Frank  Buckland  : — 

''  By  the  wav,  I  wonder  if  the  reader  knows  the  origin 
of  the  name  kangaroo.  The  ttorj,  as  told  me  by  my 
friend  the  late  Mr.  E.  Blytb,  runs,  that  when  Captain 
Cook  first  discoyered  Australia,  he  taw  some  natives  on 
the  shore,  one  of  them  holding  a  dead  animal  in  his 
hand.  The  captain  sent  a  boat's  crew  ashore  to  pur- 
chase the  animal,  and  finding,  on  receiying  it,  that  it 
was  a  beast  quite  new  to  him,  he  sent  the  boatswain 
back  to  ask  the  natiyes  its  name.  '  What  do  you  call 
this  'ere  animal,' said  the  sailor  to  the  naked  natiTe. 
The  native  shook  his  head  and  answered,  *  Ean-ga-roo,' 
which  means  in  Australian  lingo,  *  I  don't  understand.' 
When  the  sailor  returned  to  the  ship,  the  captain  said, 
'Well,  and  what's  the  name  of  the  animal?'  The 
sailor  replied.  '  Please,  sir,  the  black  party  says  it 's  a 
kangaroo.'    The  beast  has  kept  the  name  erer  since." 

C.  B.  S. 

"  Bastard-titlb  "  or  "  Half-titlb."— I  have 
always  understood  that  the  title  which  precedes  the 
fuU  title-page,  called  in  French  faux  tUre,  was 
with  us  termed  "  bastard-title,"  and  that  the  title 
which  foUows  the  title-page  and  heads  the  first 


page  of  the  text  was  designated  ^  half- title."  It 
seems  that  I  am  in  error,  for  in  a  smaU  volume 
latelv  published  by  Messrs.  Wyman  &  Sons, 
Authorship  and  PtiUeation^  written  ex  cathedrd^ 
wiU  be  found  the  foUowing  description  of  the 
arrangement  of  a  book :  *'  The  several  parts  follow 
in  the  order  here  indicated :-— 1.  The  Half-title. 
2.  The  Title.  3.  The  Dedication.  4.  The  Preface 
or  Introduction.  5.  The  Table  of  Contents.  6. 
The  Text  or  body  of  the  work.  7.  The  Index.'^ 
In  the  above  sketch  what  I  caU  the  ''bastard* 
title"  is  termed  the  ''half-title,"  and  what  I 
designate  as  "  half-title  "  is  not  mentioned.  Now, 
if  bibliography  is  ever  to  become  an  exact  science, 
aU  three  titles,  which  freauently  exist  in  the  same 
work  with  different  wording,  must  have  distinct 
names,  and  the  foUowing  nomenclature  appears  to 
me  distinctive,  simple,  and  expUcit,  viz.,  bastard- 
title,  title-page,  half-tide.  Fraxinu& 

Proposxd  Transformation  of  Temple  Bar. 
—-The  proposition  for  converting  this  old  land- 
mark into  an  obeUsk,  calls  to  mind  a  similar 
suggestion  respecting  the  Hyde  Park  Exhibition 
building.  Mr.  Burton  proposed  a  design,  which 
was  published  by  the  Messrs.  Ackermann  in  1852 
with  the  foUowing  inscription  on  the  margin  : — 

"Deiign  for  conyertlng  the  Crystal  Palace  into  a 
tower  1,000  feet  high,  in  commemoration  of  the  World^s 
Fair,  by  C.  Barton,  Esq.,  Architect.  It  ii  proposed  to 
haye  four  rooms  ascending  and  descending  contiouaUy 
by  means  of  a  vertical  railway  moTed  by  steam  power. 
An  enormous  clock,  upwards  of  44  feet  in  diameter,  with 
figures  10  feet  long,  and  minute  hand  22  feet.  The  base  of 
the  building  to  be  used  as  a  conserratory.  The  summit  in 
diameter  for  astronomical  purposes,  and  the  intermediate 
space  to  be  converted  into  other  scientific  coUections. 
Available  room  for  flooring,  477,680  square  feet  Terrace 
area,  8a.  8r.  Ip." 

Georos  Ellis. 

St.  John's  Wood. 

Sah  Valb  and  Sah  Weller. — In  Mr.  R  L. 
Blanchard's  interesting  paper  on  "  London  Amuse- 
ments," in  the  Birmingham  Daily  GazetU, 
AprU  7,  is  the  following  note  concerning  the 
performance  of  Mr.  B.  Webster's  version  of  Paul 
Clifford,  produced  at  the  Coburg  Theatre,  March  19, 
1832  :  '*  Sam  Vale,  the  Surrey  low-comedy  actor, 
whose  whimsical  comparisons  were  supposed  to 
have  suggested  the  idea  of  Sam  Weller  to  Dickens, 
represented  Dummie  Dunnaker."  This  suggestion 
may  be  new  to  many,  as  it  was  to  me. 

CUTHBSRT  BeDE. 

"  FLAGaTNG." — This  word  has  already  two  dis- 
tinct meanings,  to  wit,  growing  dejected  or  droop- 
ing, and  covering  the  floor  with  flat  stones ;  but  it 
appears  that  is  to  do  duty  in  a  third  sense.  In 
this  day's  Standard  (AprU  19)  I  read  that  the 
Mayor  of  Windsor  has  requested  the  inhabitants 
of  that  borough  to  show  their  loyalty  by  '* flagging 
and  illuminating  "  their  houses  H.  Fishwick. 


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April  Folk-lors.— 

"  Whm  April  blowi  hii  born, 
It 's  good  for  hay  and  com." 

That  is,  when  it  thnnden  in  April,  for  thunder  is 
usually  aooompanied  with  rain. 

William  Plait, 
Callis  Court,  St  Peter*!,  Isle  of  Thanet. 


We  must  request  eorrespondents  desiring  infoimation 
on  family  matters  of  only  priirate  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  qaeries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addrsSKd  to  them  direct. 


''  EscAETA."— What  is  tbe  meaning  of  tJiis  word 
in  the  following  passage?  In  an  unpublished 
MS.  of  Glastonbury  Abbey  at  Longleat  there  is 
an  agreement  between  the  conyent  on  the  one 
part,  and  the  cook  and  his  wife  on  the  other. 
Among  yarious  perquisites,  the  cook  and  his  wife 
are  to  receiye  **  Two  loaves  of  seijent  bread  and  a 
dish  of  undressed  meat,  *  quotiens  et  quando  ueaeias 
quorum  cunque  animalium  coquant.'"  They  are 
also  entitled  to  the  ^'escaetie  allecium  rubrorum 
[red  herrings],  et  omnium  volatilium."  Also  to 
the  tails  of  all  salt  fish  cleansed  by  them  except 
the  tails  of  salmons,  and  except  "eteaUU 
cignorum";  and  for  every  ^^eseaeta  cigni''  the 
abbot  is  to  pay  to  them  one  penny. 

J.  E.  Jackson. 

Leigh  Delamere,  Chippenham. 

Thb  Lemans  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk. — I 
ask  for  any  information  respecting  the  different 
descendants  of  the  above  family,  wnich^  according 
to  Harleian  MS.  1604,  was  founded  by  John  de 
Le  Mans,  who  fled  into  England  from  the  Nether^ 
lands,  and  died  about  1485.  Qutterbuck  gives 
in  his  History  of  Herts  a  full  pedigree  of  the 
Northaw  (Herts)  and  Warboys  (Hunts)  branches 
of  the  family,  but  as  I  am  engaged  in  preparing  a 
complete  pedigree  of  the  family,  more  especially  of 
the  various  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  branches,  any 
notice  of  the  latter  from  local  histories  or  other 
authorities  would  be  of  very  material  assistance  in 
preparing  such  pedigree.         Ohas.  K  Lemav, 

5,  Oamberwell  New  Road,  S.E. 

P.S.  Burke  gives  the  family  baronetcy  as  ex- 
tinct in  1762.  Is  it  still  in  abeyanoe  or  held  by 
any  one  ? 

''Ebr»  swithxr."— -EveiT  one  remembers  tbe 
"  eerie  swither"  of  Bums  when  he  met  Death,  or 
rather  "foregathered"  the  image  thereof.  But 
whilst  the  word  '^swither''  is  well  understood, 
and  we  seem  almost  to  know,  as  it  were,  'Mts 
sisters  and  its  oousins  and  its  aunts,"  I  have  not 
succeeded  in  discovering  the  origin  of  "eerie." 
The  gloesaries  tell  us  it  means  "frightened,"  but 
what  is  its  etymology  ?  W:  T.  Ltnh. 


Curious  Shropshirb  Epitaph.— The  following 
remarkable  monumental  record  is  inscribed  upon  a 
tombstone  placed  against  the  outside  of  the  south 
chancel  wall  of  Stanton  Lacy  Ohurch,  near  Ludlow : 
"  In  memory  of  Thos  Dariet,  late  of  Langley,  Qent 
who  departed  this  Life  April  14, 1760,  aged  81 

Good  natar'd,  generous,  bold  and  free 

He  always  was  in  Company. 

He  loved  his  Bottle  and  hu  Friend 

Which  brought  on  soon  his  latter  end.'* 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  hand  of  Time  or  the 
misdirected  enersy  of  man  has  in  so  great  a  degree 
obliterated  the  last  two  lines  of  the  verse  that  I 
have  been  unable  to  decipher  them.  Can  any 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  supply  the  deficiency? 

0.  J.  D. 

HERALDia — Wanted, — 1,  Arms  of  family  of 
Rowning  of  Bramford  and  S.  Clements,  Ipswich  ; 
2,  Any  information  concerning  the  Brahams  of 
Park  House,  Campsey  Ashe,  Suffolk.  They  suc- 
ceeded in  the  proprietorship  of  that  estate 
TheophUus,  second  Earl  of  Suffolk,  who  died  1640. 
William  Deanb. 

A  Volume  of  PLAva — A  volume  of  plays, 
translated  by  members  of  the  Belle  Yue  Club,  was 
published  in  1878, 1  think  at  New  York.  Who 
are  the  authors  of  the  plays  in  this  volume  ? 

B.  Ikglis. 

Charles  Lamb. — Mr.  J.  Fuller  Russell 
asserts  {ante,  p.  242)  that  ''when  at  Oxford,  he 
[Lamb]  saw  Milton's  MSS.  of  L'Alhgro,'*  &c. 
Yeiy  indefinite  !  I,  for  one,  should  be  obliged  if 
the  writer  would  say  where  at  Oxford  I  might  find 
the  "MSS.  of  rAlUffro,"  &0.  Todd's  edition  of 
Milton,  though  professing  to  give  an  account  of 
Milton's  MSS.,  fails  me  here,  as  it  does  in  many 
other  respects,  and  I  have  not  Masson  at  hand. 

0.  M.  L 

Athensam  Club. 

Chetnb  Rows. — I  am  anxious  to  ascertain 
particulars  concerning  Cheyne  Rowe,  a  younger 
son  of  Cheyne  Rowe,  Barrister-at-Law,  of  the 
Middle  Temple,  the  head  of  the  ancient  family 
of  that  name  of  Higham  Hill,  Walthamstow, 
Essex.  The  son  was  living  in  1716,  as  he  is 
mentioned  in  his  mother  Elizabeth  Rowe's  will, 
dated  March  6,  1715  (proved  in  London  on 
Nov.  14, 1717).  Can  any  of  your  readers  inform 
me  whether  he  ever  married?  whether  he  left 
any  children,  and,  if  so,  their  names  ?  and  when 
he  died  1  I  shall  be  much  obliged  for  information 
of  any  sort  concerning  him.    Herbert  F.  Roe. 

Brookwood,  Shirley,  Sonthsmptoo. 

Saladin,  the  Founder  of  the  Atubits 
Dtnastt. — ^Will  any  of  your  learned  readers  nve 
me  distinct  information  as  to  where  I  can  find 
particulars  about  the  wife,  or  wives,  of  Saladin^ 
the  founder  of  the  Ayubite  dynasty  t  B. 


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[«ih&y.Afazi29,-82. 


To  Shiybr,  v.a« — In  the  followinff  lines  this 
verb  is  nsed  actiTdji  and,  seemingly,  with  an 
nnosual  meaning  attached  to  it  :— 

«  Then  again  approach ; 
In  fond  rotation  spread  the  spotted  wing, 
And  thiver  9Yerj  fsatber  with  desire." 

Thomson,  Spring,  1.  627. 

The  oldest  dictionary  to  which  I  haye  access  here 
rWalker,  ed.  1826)  pves  under  "Shiver,"  v.o., 
"  to  break  by  one  act  into  many  parts :  to  shatter," 
and  this  suryiyes  in  the  nanticd  phrase  "  Shiyer 
my  timbers"  ;  but  in  the  sense  in  which  the  word 
is  used  by  Thomson  I  can  call  to  mind  no  other 
instance.  Was  it  at  one  time  commonly  so  used  ? 
If  80,  references  to  authon  would  oblige.     S.  G. 

Bbadavrslick.— In  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  year 
dl8  (Parker  MS.},  we  read  that  the  Danes,  haying 
landed  first  at  Weoed  (Watchet),  and  again  at  Port- 
loca  (Porlock),  were  each  time  beaten  off  with  loss. 
Thence  they  betook  themselyes  to  the  isle  at 
Bradanrelice,  but,  suffering  from  hunger,  they 
passed  into  South  Wales  and  oyer  to  Ireknd.  In 
the  Index  of  Plaeee  (Bolls  ed.)  Bridanrelic  is 
explained  to  be  *'Flatholme,  an  islet  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Seyem."    Whence  is  the  word  reliee 

ior  reoliee,  as  other  MSS.  read)  ?  I  belieye  we  have 
lere  a  Latin  word  as  used  by  Celtic  Christians, 
and  that  the  name  marks  some  Irish  religious 
establishment  on  the  island.  Windisch,  in  his 
fflossaiy  to  Iritehe  TexU  (1880),  giyes  '' Beilie 
^Lat.  rdiquuB\  a  cemetery."  So  also  Smith's 
jHcL  Christ,  Anliq,,  s.v.  "Beilig"  (rf2ee).  The 
cemetery  in  lona  was  called  Beilic  Odhrain  (see 
Skene,  Cdiic  SeoUandy  iL  35),  The  word  came  to 
mean  also  a  monastery  and  church,  and  was 
doubtless  popuUrly  connected  with  the  Latin 
rdf^fio.  Hence  the  name  of  the  place  in  Ireland 
Be&ckmurry,  "the  church  of  Mary."  There  are 
many  ecclesiastical  associations  connected  with 
Brddanrelice.  Gildas  and  Dubricius  are  said  to 
haye  liyed  there,  and  there  Gwalches,  friend  of 
S.  Oadocus,  found  a  graye  (see  Smith,  Diet. 
Chriit,  Biog,,  s.v.  "  Gwalches.") 

A.  L.  Mathbw. 
Oxford. 

Travsparbnt  Pbikts.^!  find  on  turning  oyer 
a  portfolio  of  old  engrayings  seyeral  aquatints, 
printed  with  a  dark  blue  ink  or  a  combination  of 
blue  with  reddish  brown,  the  latter  tint  probably 
laid  on  by  hand.  The  following  is  the  full  title 
of  one  of  them  : — 

"The  Man  and  the  L*HercaIe,  April  21,  1798.  A 
trantpArent  print,  sold  &  publiahed,  Feb.  1,  1799,  by 
Edw'  Orme,  New  Bond  Street,  London.  Where  may 
be  had  a  great  yariety  of  transparent  Prints,  k  erery 
reqaitite  for  drawing  tnem." 

The  engrayer  seems  in  some  cases  to  haye  been 
'^R.  M."  These  engrayings  in  their  present 
Btftte  do  not  appear  to  be  more  transparent  than 


any  others  on  similarly  pood  thick  paper,  but 
perhaps  when  they  were  intended  to  oe  utilized 
as  transparencies  they  wen  treated  in  some  way 
with  oil  or  yamish  ;  or  perhaps  these  prints  seryed 
as  copies  for  persons  who  maae  transparent  draw- 
ings, either  as  an  amusement  or  for  sale.  This 
work  may  haye  been  one  of  the  elegant  occupa- 
tions of  the  time,  or  perhaps  transparent  drawings 
were  made  to  be  used  as  illuminated  transparenciee 
in  windows  on  the  occasion  of  public  illuminations. 
Might  I  ask  how  these  transparent  prints  were 
utilized  ?  The  artist  in  some  cases  was  William 
Orme ;  and  Edward  Orme's  address,  in  the  year 
preyions  to  that  quoted  aboye.  was  Conduit  Street, 
Uanoyer  Square.  W.  H.  Pattbbsok. 

Belfast. 

"  Thsrb's  Cauld  Kail  nr  Abbrdkkn." — This 
old  song  is  omitted  firom  Dean  Christie's  Tn^- 
diHonal  Ballad  Airs,  the  second  yolume  of  which 
has  recently  been  published.  Can  any  information 
be  supplied  conceminff  its  author  and  setter  to 
music  ?  It  must  be  of  considerable  antiquity,  for 
Sir  Walter  Scott  makes  the  following  aUusion  to 
it  in  The  Bride  of  LammermooTf  the  time  of  which 
is  supposed  to  be  about  1710  :— 

«<If  ;rou,  Mr.  Lockhard,'  sdd  the  old  bntler  to  his 
companion, '  will  be  pleased  to  step  to  the  obange-honae, 
where  that  light  oomes  from,  and  where,  as  I  jndge, 
they  are  now  tinging  *'  Cauld  Kail  in  Aberdeen,"  ye  may 
do  your  master's  errand  about  the  yenison."*— Chap.  xL 
John  Picetord,  M.A. 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge, 

Charlbs  Lamb  and  Michael  Bruce.— In  the 
first  yolume  of  Charles  Lamb's  works,  published  in 
1870  by  Moxon,  we  find  (p.  76)  the  critic  rebuk- 
ing Coleridge  for  asserting,  in  one  of  his  notes, 
that  ''Rogers  is  indebted  for  his  story  to  Loch 
Lomondf  a  poem  by  Bruce  ! "  This  poem,  he  says, 
he  has  resd,  and  with  characteristic  frankneaa 
adds,  ^'I  scarce  think  you  haye."  I  haye  no 
other  edition  of  Lamb  by  me  for  comparison ;  bat 
should  not  the  poem  be  iochlevm  f 

Tbokas  Batkx. 

[Bruce  wi^ote  XodU«vea  in  1766,  at  Forrest  Mill  School^ 
near  Alloa.    See  Anderson,  SeoUith  NatUm^  <.«.] 

FiRSTFRinTS     OF     ENGLISH    BiSHOPRIGS.  —  At 

p.  123  of  The  Italian  BeUUion  of  England  (Gam- 
den  Society)  a  list  is  giyen  of  the  firstfruits  for- 
merly exacted  by  the  Papacy  from  the  English 
bishoprics.  The  references  giyen  for  this  list  are 
*'  Henry's  History  of  England  and  Bymer.''  I 
cannot  find  the  list  in  Henry,  and  ^*  Rymer  **  is  too 
large  a  reference.  Can  any  one  inform  me  where 
I  shall  find  these  sums  giyen  1  W.  B. 

Pommelled  Side  Saddles.— At  what  date  did 
these  first  come  into  use,  either  in  England  or  on 
the  Continent?  Anne  of  Bohemia,  Queen  of 
Btchaid  IL,  is  said  to  haye  intiodaoed  iid»*«ddkw 


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into  Eoglandy  but,  I  suppose,  without  pommels. 
Mary,  Queen  of  Soots,  in  her  ninety  miles  ride 
after  the  battle  of  Langsyde,  1568,  probably  used 
a  saddle  with  pommels.  0.  J.  J. 

John  Enibb,  Oxon.,  a  Glockicakbb.| — A 
gentleman  of  my  acquaintance  has  a  small  case 
dock,  the  age  of  which  he  is  anxious  to  determine, 
as  it  appears  to  be  rather  old.  In  place  of  the 
ordifiaxy  anchor  escapement  it  has  a  crown  wheel 
On  the  brass  dial  plate,  which  is  about  four  inches 
square  and  Tery  well  finished,  is  inscribed  "  John 
JBjiibb,  Oxon."  Will  some  reader  of  "N.  &  Q." 
inform  me  when  this  John  Enibb  lived  and  died  ? 

Qlaxiktov. 

JkREHIAH    WlLLOUaHBT,  OF    HlOHBURT.— He 

was  bom  at  ,  in  1725,  and  was  the  son  of 

Payid  Willoughby  and Delloe.    He  married 

■at  St.  James's  Church,  Clerkenwell,  Not.  10, 1756, 
Ann  Mills,  and  had  issue  Jeremiah,  Thomas, 
John,  Hans  William,  Mary  Ann,  Richard,  and 
Ann.  From  which  family  of  Willoughby  did  the 
■above  derive?  I  cannot  trace  the  names  David 
■and  Jeremiah  in  printed  pedigrees  of  Willou^by. 
Is  the  surname  Delloe  of  common  occurrence  ?  Does 
it  belong  to  any  special  district  ?  W.  G. 

WORSB  BEARnrO  OK  THB  HiSTORT  OR  ThBOLOGT 

OT  THB  Thirtt-Ninb  Artiglbb.— Can  any  of  your 
readers  assist  me  in  making  a  complete  ooUection 
of  these  ?    At  present  I  possess  only — 

Bogers  the  Martyr's  Exposition,  1675. 

Slk,  Defeodo  Artie  xxxix.,  1694. 

Bishop  Bamet 

WelchnuD. 

Bishop  Hftrold  Browne. 

Hall's  Sermons  on  Ttiirty-Nine  Articles,  Bristol,  1820. 

Henry  Blunt  on  Doctrinal  Articles,  1842. 

Hancock  on  Pint  Eighteen  Articles,  1832. 

Boaltbee^  1871. 

UiUer. 

G.  L.  Fbhtok. 
BanBemo. 

Hauvtbd  Housbs. — These  have  often  been 
referred  to,  and  several  remarkable  stories  con- 
nected with  them  have  appeared  in  the  pages  of 
*'  N.  &  Q  *  For  a  work  in  hand,  I  shall  be  glad 
if  any  of  your  contributors  will  forward  to  me 
direct  communications  referring  to  evidence  obtain- 
able about  haunted  houses,  castles,  and  other  exist- 
ing or  destroyed  dwellings,  and  to  purchase  any 
suitable  books  or  tracts  on  the  subject — all  such 
ficeounts  to  refer  to  England  and  Wales  only. 
References  to  works  containing  any  such  informa- 
tion will  also  be 'acceptable,  provided  they  do 
not  repeat  anything  that  has  already  appeared  in 
"  N.  &  Q.**  JoHW  H.  Ikoram. 

Howard  House,  Stoke  Newington  Green,  N. 

RoBKRT-  FKmPLACS.^Can  any  one  inform  me 
of  the  date  of  birth  and  death  and  the  parentage 


of  the  above  ?    He  was  Lieut.-Colonel  of  the  Wor- 
cestershire Militia  1770-75.  Miles. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted, — 
"  Mosas  nonnulH  sacro  renerantur  amore ; 
Plores  indocti  dilacerare  sclent.'* 

WiLUAX  Platt. 


Hrpliftf. 

PABOCHIAL  BEQISTEBS. 
(0^"  S.  V.  141,  211,  233,  248,  273,  291,  310.) 

Mr.  S.  0.  Addt  hits  the  right  nail  on  the  head 
when  he  says  (arUe^  p.  292),  ^The  remedy  clearly 
is  a  Bill  for  the  removal  of  all  ancient  registers  to 
London,*'  and  adds,  "  We  want  action  rather  than 
words.'  He  will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  Mr. 
Borlase^  M.P.  for  East  Cornwall  and  a  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  obtained  leave 
of  the  House  of  Commons  on  the  19th  inst.  to 
bring  in  a  Bill  *^  to  make  provision  for  the  bettor 
preservation  of  the  ancient  parochial  registors  of 
England  and  Wales.''  The  Bill  is  intended  to 
CBkTTj  out  the  suffgestions  contained  in  an  article 
of  mine  on  parishregisters  published  in  the  Law 
Magcttiiu  and  Bmtw  for  May,  1878,  which  I 
also  advocated  long  ago  in  the  pages  of  '*  N.  &  Q.," 
and  in  a  pamphlet  on  Pariih  BegUten :  a  PUa 
for  Gmr  Pre$&rvai%on,  published  in  1872.  The 
scope  of  the  Bill  will  be  best  apprehended  firom 
the  following  clauses  of  the  draft  now  before  me: 

'*  Regitten  and  Tranteriptt  prior  in  date  to  Itt  July, 
1837,  iob€m  cuttody  of  the  Matter  of  the  Rolls.— 4.  Every 
existing  Beglster  which  shall  have  been  kept  in  any 
parish  prior  to  the  Ist  day  of  Joly,  1887,  and  also  every 
Transoript  thereof  now  existing  in  the  Registries  of  the 
Tarious  Dioceses  of  England  and  Wales,  sludl  from  and 
after  tiie  passing  of  this  Act  be  under  the  charge  and 
control  of  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  for  the  time  being,  in 
the  name  and  on  behalf  of  Her  Mi^esty,  her  heirs  and 
suooessort,  and  shall  be  remoyed  to  the  Record  Ofiice  in 
manner  hereinafter  prorided :  Provided  always  that  nntil 
snch  remofal  the  persons  now  having  the  custody  of  any 
each  Registers  or  Transcripts  shall  continue  to  have  the 
custody  of  them,  and  be  bound  to  take  care  of  the  same, 
sutgect  to  such  orders  as  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  may 
from  time  to  time  giro  conoeming  the  same. 

**  Removal  of  Ruitiert  and  Tranteriptt,  —  6.  As  re- 
gards all  Bishops'  Transcripts  of  a  date  prior  to  the  1st 
day  of  July,  1887,  and  as  regards  such  of  the  said  Re- 
gibers  as  were  made  and  entered  prior  to  the  1st  day 
of  Januarv,  1818,  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  shall,  as  soon 
as  conveniently  may  be,  issue  warrants  directed  to  the 
several  persons  having  the  care  of  them,  ordering  such 
persons  to  allow  the  same  to  be  removed  from  their 
present  places  of  custody  and  deposited  In  the  Record 
Office,  and  everv  such  warrant  shall  be  kept  among  the 
Public  Records  in  the  custody  of  the  Master  of  the  Rolls 
and  shall  be  a  sufficient  warrant  for  the  removal  of  such 
Registers  or  Transcripts  as  shall  be  specified  therein : 
and  as  regards  such  of  the  said  Registers  as  were  made 
and  entcM  from  the  1st  day  of  January.  1818,  to  the 
80th  day  of  June,  1887»  both  inclusive,  the  same  shall 
remain  in  the  custody  of  the  present  legal  custodians 
thereof  for  the  period  of  twenty  years  from  the  date  of 


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the  paning  of  ihi«  Ad,  and  during  that  period  the  taid 
legal  cugtodians  shall  retain  all  their  eiieting  rights  with 
respect  to  fees  for  searches  and  extracts,  and  at  the  end 
of  the  said  tvrenty  years  the  said  Registers  shall  be 
transmitted,  under  the  direction  of  the  Maater  of  the 
Bolls,  to  the  Beeord  OiBce  for  prsMrration  with  the 
other  Begisten  as  aforesaid." 

The  date  Jaly  1,  1837,  is  that  on  which  the 
Ciyil  Registration  Act,  1836,  came  into  operation. 
From  that  day  duplicates  of  the  entries  of  all 
births,  marriages,  and  deaths  in  the  books  of  the 
district  registrars,  and  certified  copies  of  all  mar- 
riages entered  in  parish  registers,  haTe  been  re- 
gofikrly  transmitted  to  the  General  Register  Office, 
London,  where  they  are  alphabeticcQly  indexed 
and  may  be  searched  on  payment  of  a  small  fee. 
With  the  registers  subsequent  to  June,  1837,  it  is 
therefore  unnecessary,  and  it  is  not  proposed,  to 
interfere. 

The  other  date  referred  to,  the  Ist  of  January, 
1813,  is  that  on  which  the  r^^isters  of  each  parish 
start  afresh  with  a  new  set  of  books,  supplied 
under  Rose's  Act  (52  Geo.  III.  a  146).  It 
marks,  in  fact,  the  end  of  the  old  and  the  begin- 
ning of  the  modem  registers.  It  is  from  the  modem 
registers  that  the  search  fees  of  incumbents  are 
almost  entirely  deriyed,  and  the  object  of  leaying 
the  registers  between  1813  and  1837  for  twenty 
years  longer  in  the  hands  of  their  present  custo- 
dians is  to  avoid  interference  with  this  source  of 
clerical  income.  At  the  end  of  twenty  years,  when 
these  later  registers  are  to  be  transferred  to  the 
Record  Office,  there  would  still  remain  in  the 
hands  of  each  incumbent  about  seventy  years  of 
registers,  the  period  within  which  most  of  the  cer- 
tificates applied  for  will  be  found  to  ftdL 

Clause  nine  of  the  Bill  directs  that  for  eveiy 
general  search  there  shall  be  paid  to  the  Record 
Office  the  sum  of  20«.,  for  every  particular  search 
the  sum  of  If.,  and  for  every  certified  extract 
2$,  6<i.,  with  a  proviso  that  it  shall  be  competent 
for  the  Master  of  the  RoUs  to  dispense  with  the 
payment  of  fees  in  such  cases  as  he  shall  think  fit. 
The  fees  for  searching  the  old  parish  registers, 
which  it  is  believed  do  not  average  more  than  68, 
apiece  to  the  parochial  incumbents  of  England  and 
Wales,  would  in  the  aggregate,  when  received  at 
the  Record  Office,  furnish  a  sum  ample  to  cover 
the  whole  cost  of  collection,  preservation,  arrange- 
ment, and  indexing. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  this  effort  to  ensure  the 
preservation  of  our  ancient  parochial  records,  of 
which  nearly  one-half  have  already  perished,  while 
the  remainder  are  slowly  but  surenr  disappearing 
^ear  by  year,  will  meet  with  the  support  which 
Its  importance  deserves. 

T.  P.  Ta8WBL]>Langmbad. 

5,  Hare  Court,  Temple. 

Let  me  utter  an  earnest  cry  of  remonstrance 
against  the  suggestion  made  ante^  p.  292,  and 


often  made  elsewhere,  that  all  our  early  parochial 
registers  should  be  removed  to  a  central  office 
in    London.     It    would   be   a    most    effectual 
discouragement  to  local   historians,  and  hinder 
many  a  one  from  doing  good  service  as  a  searcher 
into  the  records  of  his  own  neighbourhood.    The 
fact  that  in  the  registers  dose  at  hand  yon  can 
at  once  go  back  in  most  instances  some  three 
hundred  years  in  parochial  annals  of  itself  not 
infrequently  stirs  up  the  clerical  custodian  or  a  laj 
parishioner  to  search  into  the  antiquities  of  his 
parish,  while  without  these  registers  no  one  can 
ever  really  write  its  history.    By  all  means  let  the 
most  stringent  rales  for  careful  custody  be  imposed 
by  Act  of  Parliament,  and  let  the  bishops  or  arch- 
deacons be  directed  to  inquire  into  and  enforce 
the  observance  of  these  rales;  but  do  not  rob  us  of 
our  precious  parochial  heirlooms.     And  let  me 
pray  your  readers  generally  not  to  conclude  from 
a  few  instances  that  parish  clergy  as  a  body  mer- 
cenarily throw  obstacles  in  the  way  of  bond  fid§ 
historical  and  literary  inquirers;  while  at  the  sam& 
time  let  me  ako  say  {creae  experto  !)  that  inquirera 
are  not  unknown  who  obtain,  with  immediate  and 
willing  attention,  the  information  they  want  for 
their  own  personal  benefit,  and  then,  because  nc^ 
fee  is  exacted  beforehand,  take  no  heed  of  the  in- 
formation that  by  Act  of  Parliament  three-and- 
sixpence  is  payable.  I  imagine  that  if  the  registers 
are  removed  to  a  Government  office  no  certfficatea 
will  ever  be  given  without  previous  payment  of 
the  legal  fee  to  those  who  keep  and  search  and 
copy.  W.  D.  Macrat. 

Ducklington  Bectory. 

Surely  it  would  suffice  for  all  practical  purposes 
to  have  the  various  parish  registers  existing  care* 
fully  and  uniformly  copied,  and  these  copies 
deposited  in  London.  To  take  away  property 
which  distinctly  and  unquestionably  belongs  to  a 
certain  parish  in  order  to  accommodate  metropolitan 
genealogists  and  Bedford  Row  attorneys  would  be 
a  gross  act  of  injustice ;  in  less  enlightened  days 
it  would  have  been  called  "  robbery."  As  a  rule 
I  believe  registers  to  be  well  and  carefuUy  kept.  I 
only  wish  our  modem  clergy  wrote  as  clear  and 
good  hands  as  did  the  majority  of  their  prede- 
cessors. As  to  charging  fees,  the  clergy  are  botb 
authorized  and  bound  to  do  so.  If  a  church  has 
to  be  opened  at  any  time  that  any  searcher  chooees 
to  select  (and  sometimes  searchers  do  not  select  the 
most  convenient  time),  it  is  obvious  that  the  parish 
clerk  or  the  sexton  must  be  paid  for  the  loss  of  his 
time  in  opening  the  church  and  iron  safe  and  re- 
maining while  the  searcher  searches.  On  one 
occasion  last  year  a  strange  person  compelled  me 
to  remain  in  the  vestry  of  the  parish  church  of 
which  I  am  vicar  exactly  an  hour  and  thirty-five 
minutes,  while  the  books  of  baptism  and  marriage 
were  searched  several  times  over  throughout  the 

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lecords  of  thirty-eight  yean.  Not  finding  the 
entries  wanted,  the  dijBappointed  searcher  quietly 
walked  away,  without  even  tendering  any  fee  to 
the  vicar,  who  himself  paid  the  church-keeper  two 
shillings  for  loss  of  time.  My  experience  has  taught 
me  both  that  there  are  two  sides  to  most  subjects, 
and,  as  regards  centralization,  that  not  infrequently 
the  accumuhited  wisdom  of  our  ancestors  is  far 
preferable  to  the  impracticable  folly  of  our  contem- 
poraries. Frxdsrice  Georgb  Lbb. 
All  Saints*,  Lambeth. 

I  am  afraid  there  is^no  denying  that  some  of 
my  brethren  of  the  clergy  discourage  the  applica- 
tions of  literaiy  searchers,  and  put  eyery  difficulty 
in  their  way.  I  have  had  occasion  to  ask  for  in- 
formation from  some  dozen  or  more  registers,  and 
in  every  instance  but  one  the  information  was 
immediately  given  without  charge.  In  one  case 
between  three  and  four  hundred  entries  were 
copied  out  for  me,  and,  as  many  hours  were  con- 
sumed in  this  copying,  I  was,  of  course,  glad  to  pay  a 
reasonable  fee  for  the  labour.  To  this  I  do  not  refer, 
nor  do  I  think  payment  for  actual  work  like  this 
anything  unfair.  The  exception  I  speak  of  was  a 
laige  London  parish,  in  which  I  found  an  ancestor 
had  once  resided,  and  I  applied  in  person  for  per- 
mission to  inspect  the  books  to  see  if  I  could  find 
out  anything  of  the  family.  No  question  of  law 
or  property  was  raised.  I  was  at  once  refused: 
such  permission  was  never  given.  I  offered  to  come 
at  any  time  when  the  clergy  were  in  attendance  at 
the  church,  but  I  could  not  obtain  leave.  In  the 
end  I  agreed  to  let  the  search  be  made  by  the 
senior  curate,  who  ultimately  sent  me  one  extract 
from  the  marriage  registers,  for  which  I  paid 
Ih  lB8.6d.  A  fnend  kst  year,  who  was  engaged 
in  a  genealogical  search,  applied  to  an  incumt^nt 
in  the  south-west  of  England,  and  obtained  comes 
of  fourteen  entries  relating  to  his  familv.  For 
these  he  was  charged,  and  paid,  61. 10«.  6a. 

W.  D.  SWXBTINO. 

Mazey,  Market  Deeping. 

Mr.  Garuichasl  mentions  the  register  of 
Whittlesey.  I  have  been  informed  by  the  vicar 
that  Mr.  Coleman,  the  bookseller  mentioned,  has 
most  rightly  restored  it  to  the  parish.  Would 
that  the  British  Museum  would  go  and  do  like- 
wise to  Papworth  Everard  and  other  parishes. 
0.  F.  S.  Warrkn,  ma. 

Famborough,  Banboiy. 

To  Mr.  Carmighabl's  note  as  to  the  parish 
register  of  Papworth  Everard,  I  add  one  as  to  two 
Leicestershire  parish  registers  which  have  found 
their  way,  the  one  into  the  Bodleian  Library,  the 
other  into  the  British  Museum.  The  parish 
register  of  Shackerstone,  which  extends  from  the 
year  1568  to  the  year  1630,  is  now  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford  (Gk>ugh  MSS.,  Leicester,  No.  2). 
It  was  purchased  from  a  gentleman  at  Beverley, 


in  Yorkshire,  about  March  1878,  but  how  it  found 
its  way  into  Yorkshire  does  not  appear;  it  has 
clearly  been  away  from  its  proper  place  a  con- 
siderable time,  as  it  was  not  there  when  Nichols 
published  his  History  in  1811 ;  the  earliest  regis«> 
ter  he  then  saw  commenced  in  1630.  Since  1811 
other  volumes  must  have  been  lost,  for  in  the 
Population  Abstract  Beturn  of  1831  the  Shacker- 
stone register  is  said  to  commence  in  1779. 

The  parish  register  of  Somerby,  extending  from 
1601  to  1715,  is  preserved  in  the  British  Museum 
(Add.  MS.  24,802).  It  was  purchased  in  April, 
1862,  from  Mr.  0.  Devon;  but  how  it  came  into 
his  possession  is  not  told.  The  existence  of  these- 
two  registers  was  lately  brought  to  the  notice  of 
the  Leicestershire  Arcbitectund  and  Archaeological 
Society  by  the  Rev.  W.  G.  Dimock  Fletcher,  of 
Oxford,  who  himself  transcribed  the  whole  of  the 
Somerby  register  for  the  use  of  that  society,  and 
furnished  the  above  facts.  Both  registers  are  now 
being  printed  in  extenso  iu  the  Transactiona  of 
the  society.  Thomas  North,  F.S.A. 

Llanfairfechan. 


St.  White  and  her  Cheese  (6^  S.  v.  246). 
— Amongst  the  Exchequer  series  of  Escbeatorh' 
Inquisitions  for  Somerset  and  Dorset  in  the  P.  R  O. 
I  lat^  met  with  an  inquisition,  taken  in  44 
Ed.  in.,  1370,  in  which  there  b  a  recital  that  a 
fair  was  newly  established  in  the  thirty-fifth  year 
of  that  king's  reign  (1361)  at  <<  Seint  Wyte,"  to  be 
held  annually  during  the  week  commencbg  with 
the  festival  of  Pentecost  and  ending  on  the  morrow 
of  Holy  Trinitv.  The  site  of  this  fair  is  at  White 
Down,  three  miles  to  the  east  of  Chard,  in  Somerset^ 
upon  a  spot  of  waste  land  adjoining  Lord  Bridport's 
lodffe-gate,  in  the  parish  of  Cricket  St.  Thomas* 
St.  Wyte's,  or  White  Down^air  is  still  held  at 
the  same  place  annually  on  Whitsun  Monday  and 
Tuesday.  We  learn  from  William  de  Worcestr^ 
that  "Sancta  Whyte,  Candida,  virgo,  jacet  apud 
ecclesiam  Whyte-Chyrch  per... miliaria  de  Cherde 
(Chard),  et  dedicatur  die  Pentecostes,"  pp.  90,  91. 
The  site  of  this  church  is  said  to  have  been  where 
the  fair  is  held.  Pooley,  in  his  Old  Crouu  of 
Somer$etf  states  that "  S.  Candida,  V.M.,  Anglieh 
S.  White,  was  martyred  at  Bome,  probably  in  the 
time  of  Diocletian.  Pope  Adrian  dedicated  a  church 
to  her  honour  outside  the  Portuan  Gate,  in  which 
her  relics  lay  until  transferred  to  the  church  of  St. 
Praxidis  by  Pope  Paschal,"  p.  120.  St.  Whyte, 
by  the  name  of  St.  Candida,  was  registered  in  the 
Boman  calendar  October  3  (Coker,  pp.  16,  17). 
She  was  a  popular  saint  in  the  southern  parts  of 
Somerset  and  western  Dorset,  the  name  being  re- 
tained and  perpetuated  in  White  Down  above 
mentioned;  White  Cross,  in  the  parish  of  Lopen, 
near  Crewkerne,  where  another  ancient  chartered 
fair  used  to  be  held  from  time  immemorial ;  White 
Stanton,  three  miles  west  of  Chard ;  White  Lack- 


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iDgtoD,  three  miles  north-west  of  Lopen,  in  Somer- 
set ;  and  the  Hundred  of  Whitchurch  and  parish 
of  Whitchurch  Ganonioorum,  near  Charmonth,  in 
Dorset,  which  last  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of 
King  Alfred,  A.D.  880  (Hutchins's  Dorset). 

B.  W.  GrbbnfielD. 
Southampton. 

This  offering  was  not  only  ridiculed  by  Tyndale, 
but  also  in  similar  terms  by  £p.  Hooper;  the 
•custom,  after  probably  seven  centuries,  was  there- 
fore still  vigorous  at  the  Beformation.  Is  there 
any  surviving  trace  of  it  in  any  annual  cheese 
•custom )  If  so,  in  what  part  of  England,  and  at 
what  season  ?  Tyndale  was  of  South  Gloncester- 
fihire,  and  £p.  Hooper  a  native  of  Somerset.  Be- 
tween Crewkeme  and  Chard  is  a  lofty  ridge  of  about 
three  miles,  called  Wind  whistle  HiU,  near  the  con- 
fines of  Somerset  and  Dorset,  with  views  of  the 
Bristol  and  English  Channels  across  both  counties. 
The  western  portion  is  called  White  Down,whereon 
William  of  Worcester  (a.d.  1480)  said  there  was 
a  chapel  or  church,  dedicated  ''  die  Pentecosten  " 
to  St.  Whyte,  and  on  the  down  the  great  western 
mail  coach  road  is  skirted  by  a  large  unenclosed 
area,  where  is  still  held  a  flEiir  of  cattle  and  horses 
on  Whit  Monday  and  Tuesday.  The  lower  sur- 
rounding country  is  studded  with  places  labelled 
*^  White,''  as  White  Lackington,  White  Stanton, 
White  Cross,  and  Whitchurch  Canonicomm.  In 
one  place  William  of  Worcester  prefixes  '*  Sanctus'' 
and  in  another  "  Sancta."   Thomas  Kbbslakb. 

I  also  should  be  glad  to  know  something  of  St. 
White.  There  is  a  place  in  this  district  (Forest  of 
Dean)  known  as  '*  St.  Whites."  It  is  now  an  old 
farmhouse,  situated  in  the  parish  of  Flaxley,  and 
formerly  was  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  the  Cis- 
tercian Abbey  of  St.  Mary  de  Dene,  or  Flaxley. 
Together  with  the  other  possessions  of  the  abbey  in 
this  neighbourhood,  upon  the  dissolution  of  that 
house  it  was  granted  to  Sir  William  Kingston. 
On  March  3,  33  Elizabeth,  it  formed  a  portion  of 
certain  of  the  abbey  lands,  of  which  a  long  lease 
was  granted  by  Anthony  Kingston  to  William 
Brayne,  of  Little  Dean,  in  which  lease  it  is  described 
as  "  that  Messuage  or  Tenement  called  St.  Whites, 
or  Orlands  Field,  with  the  lands  thereto  belong- 
ing." Under  this  lease,  I  believe,  it  is  still  held. 
I  should  add  that  St.  Whites  lies  at  a  distance 
of  about  ten  miles,  crow's  flight,  on  the  other  side 
of  the  Severn  from  Stinchcombe,  the  supposed 
birthplace  of  William  Tyndale.  Stinchcombe  is 
in  the  Gloucestershire  cheese  district.  It  has  been 
suggested  locally  that  perhaps  the  name  St.  Whites 
arose  from  the  white  habit  of  the  Cistercian 
monks,  but  this  is  scarcely  probable. 

John  Maclbak. 

Bicknor  Coart,  Coleford,  Glono. 

The  book  by  William  Tyndale  from  which  your 
ooiiespondent  quotes  was  edited  fixr  the  Parker 


Society  by  the  late  Bev.  Heniy  Walter,  Rector 
of  Hasilbury  Bryan.  The  book  in  which  it  occurs 
is  entitled  **  Eapositioni  and  Notes  on  sundry 
Portions  of  the  Holy  Scriptures:  Together  with 
(he  Practice  of  Prelates.  By  William  Tyndale, 
Martyr."  To  the  passage  concerning  St.  White  he 
has  attached  the  following  note  :— 

"  It  appean  from  the  Britannia  Saneta,  a  work  pab- 
liflhed  by  Meighan,  a  Bomith  book8eU«r,  Lond.  1745, 
that  our  oountrymen  were  wont  to  venerate  a  St.  Witta, 

there  said  to  have  been  a '  fellow-labourer  of  Boniftoe 

in  Qermany,  and  consecrated  by  bim  bishop  of  Buraburg 
near  Fritzlar.  Some  authors  call  him  Albnin,  by  chang- 
ing his  name,  which  signifies  White,  into  a  Latin  name.' 
Brit.  Sane,  part  ii.  p.  221.  The  apparently  feminine 
termination  of  this  saint's  Saxon  name  was  probably  the 
cause  of  his  being  supposed  to  be  a  female  by  persona 
who  did  not  know  his  history.  In  Bishop  Hooper^a 
works,  Park.  Soc.  ed.  p.  820,  White  is  spoken  of  as  a  male 
sainf'-P.  216. 

Hooper's  words  are  as  follows : — 

'<So  doth  those,  that  would  be  accounted  Christians, 
paint  God  and  his  saints  with  such  pictures  as  they 
imagine  in  their  fantasies :  God  like  an  old  man  with  a 
hoary  head,  as  though  his  joath  were  past,  which  hath 
neither  beginning  nor  ending  ;  Saint  George,  with  a  long 
spear  upon  a  jolly  hackney,  that  gave  the  dragon  his 
death-wound,  as  the  painters  say,  in  the  throat ;  Saint 
White  with  as  many  round  cheeses  as  may  be  painted 
about  his  tabernacle.  ** 

Until  we  have  further  evidence  I  do  not  think  it 
safe  to  accept  Mr.  Walter's  guess  that  St  Witta 
and  St.  White  are  the  same  person.  Avon. 

SiE  Bernard  db  Gunn  (6**'  S.  v.  246). — He 
was  the  celebrated  military  engineer,  better  known 
as  Sir  Bernard  de  Gk)mm,  or  Gomme.  A.  P.  A.  B. 
will  find  some  information  in  "  N.  &  Q."  2*^  S.  ix. 
221,  252  ;  3'<>  S.  iv.  338.  It  has  always  been  a 
tradition  in  my  family  that  we  are  the  descendants 
of  this  soldier ;  but,  unlike  Thackeray's  account  of 
the  Pendennis  pedigree,  I  have  no  "  trunk  "  wheie- 
from  to  produce  evidence  of  this.  Still  I  may 
mention  a  curious  fact  I  have  an  old  oak  deslc 
dated  1659,  and  this  has  always  been  said  to  have 
belonged  to  Sir  Bernard  de  Gomm.  Not  being 
a  herald,  I  did  not  know  the  arms  which  are 
carved  on  the  lid,  but  on  applying  to  Mr.  Solly  he 
told  me^  they  were  CromwelTs.  This  is  a  veiy 
curious  desk,  and  my  friend  Mr.  Udal,  who  is  a 
connoisseur  of  old  oak,  is  coming  to  look  at  it  one 
day.  When  he  does  I  will  submit  a  description 
of  it  to  "^  N.  &  Q."  Mr.  Edward  Hailstone,  F.S. A., 
has  some  maps  executed  by  Sir  Bernard.  In  turn, 
may  I  ask  if  anything  is  known  of  the  descendants 
of  Sir  Bernard ;  and  is  his  coat  of  arms  known  t 
A  John  Gomme,  curiously  enough,  was  bailiff  of 
Wycombe  in  28  Heniy  Y  I.  (see  Hist.  MSS.  Com. 
V.  564),  and  a  James  Gomme  was  M.P.  for 
Maidstone  in  the  middle  of  last  century.  I  have 
unfortunately  mislaid  my  reference  to  this  last  fact, 
but  it  is  recorded  in  the  parliamentaiy  return. 

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Is  Dot  this  the  same  person  as  Sir  Bernard  de 
Gomme,  of  whom  notices  will  be  found  in  the 
Calendar  of  State  Faptrt,  Domestic  Series,  1660- 
1667,  as  being  surveyor-general  of  castles  and  for- 
tifications under  King  Charles  II.?  In  the  third 
volume  of  Pepys's  Dwry^p,  90,  sixth  edit,  there  is 
a  note  about  Sir  B.  de  Grbmme  as  being  born  at 
Lille  in  1620,  and  having  died  in  168d,  nis  place 
of  burial  being  within  the  Tower  of  London.  In 
my  possession  is  a  tracing  of  the  battle  array  of 
King  Charles  L's  army  at  Marston  Moor,  with  the 
names  of  the  commanders  of  the  different  regiments 
and  numbers  of  the  men.  The  plan  has  the  super- 
scription, '*  The  battle  of  Marston  Moore  the  2nd 
July,  1644,  in  the  relieving  of  Torek.  S'  B  d 
Gomme  fecit"  Edwabd  Hailstovb. 

Walton  Ha]]. 

I  have  a  large  collection  of  Ordnance  papers, 
some  early  ones,  but  I  cannot  find  the  name  of 
Ounn.  One  document,  dated  1687,  has  the  signa- 
ture of  ''Ber.  de  Gomme."  Can  there  be  any 
mistake  7  If  not  I  shall  feel  greatly  obliged  by 
A.  P.  A.  B.  telling  me  the  date  when  Sir  Bernard 
de  Gunn  was  surveyor.  Emilt  Coi<b. 

Teignmouth. 

Thomson's  Poems  (6*  S.  v.  188).— Thomson 
as  long  as  he  lived  was  in  the  habit  of  revising 
his  poems.  In  the  case  of  Summer  he  published 
nine  editions:  the  first,  in  1727,  consisted  of  1146 
lines  ;  the  last,  in  1746,  consisted  of  1805  lines ; 
faenoe  hacdly  any  two  of  his  editions  of  this  poem 
are  identi<»L  In  the  first  edition  there  were 
neither  three  ladies  nor  one  lady,  for  the  whole 
bathing  scene  was  an  afterthought  It  was  these 
repeats  changes  which  led  Dr.  Johnson  to  write 
in  his  life  of  Thomson  :— 

"  These  poemt,  with  which  I  was  acquainted  at  their 
fint  amieanuice,  I  have  since  found  altered  and  en- 
larged by  labieqaent  revigali,  as  the  author  f  ^.r  o>ed 
his  judgment  to  grow  more  exact,  and  as  boclcs  i  r  oon- 
vemtion  extended  his  knowledge  and  opened  his  pro- 
spects. Thev  are,  I  think,  improved  in  general :  yet  I 
know  not  whether  they  have  not  lost  part  of  what 
Temple  calls  their  race  :  a  word  which,  applied  to  wines 
in  its  primitive  sense,  means  the  flavour  of  the  soil." 

There  is  a  valuable  bibliographical  note  by  OoL. 
CuvHiNQHAM  ou  the  various  editions  of  Thom- 
son's Seascm  in  a  former  volume  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
<4^  S.  xL  419).  The  same  volume  also  contains  a 
note  by  Mr.  W.  B.  Cook  respecting  the  bathing 
scene,  and  the  question  previously  uked  as  to  the 
original  number  of  bathers.      Edward  Sollt. 

It  is  well  known  to  all  admirers  of  Thomson 
that  he  made  great  additions  to,  and  alterations 
in.  The  Seaeane,  In  the  first  edition  of  Summer, 
1727,  the  bathing  scene  was  not  written,  but  in 
the  second  edition,  1730,  the  three  females  are 
introduced :  *'  And,  roVd  in  loose  array,  they  came 
to  bathey"  as  stated  by  Mb.  Fbkbloys.  Thomson, 


so  says  Bolton  Comey,  in  his  notes  to  Murdoch's 
life  of  the  poet, — 

"paid  no  serious  attention  to  the  poem  in  the  inteP' 
val  1780-^.  He  afterwards  undertook  to  correct  it; 
made  considerable  addiiioiu;  and  inscribed  it  to  the 
Prince  of  Wales  in  1744.  He  also  re-edited  the  poem, 
with  further  additions,  in  1746.'* 

From  this  edition  those  edited  by  Bolton  Comeyy 
Anthony  Todd  Thomson,  Nichols,  Pickering, 
&a,  have  all  been  printed.  The  number  of  lines 
conUuned  in  Summer  will  best  show  the  extent 
of  the  additions  made  from  1727  to  1746  :— 1727, 
1146  lines ;  1730,  1206  Unes  ;  1738,  1206  lines  ; 
1744,  1796  lines ;  1746,  1805  lines.  I  gather 
from  the  above  that  the  lines, — 

"Warm  in  htr  cheek  the  sultry  season  glow'd; 
And,  rob*d  in  loose  array,  the  came  to  bathe 
Her  fervent  limbs  in  the  refreshing  stream."— 
first  appeared  in  the  edition  of  1744,  which  was 
improved  by  the  suggestions  of  Pope. 

WiLLiAK  Tsoa. 
Doughty  Street 

Thomson  subjected  his  Seaeone  to  constant 
revision.  The  fint  edition  of  Summer  (1727)  con- 
tained only  1146  lines ;  the  second  edition  (1730) 
contained  1206  Unes ;  thethird(1738)  contained  the 
same  number  as  the  preceding  edition  ;  the  fourth 
(1744)  contained  1796  lines;  whilst  the  fifth, 
(1746),  which  was  the  finally  revised  edition,  con- 
tained 1806  lines.  The  alteration  that  Mb.  Frbb- 
LOYS  refers  to  will  be  found  in  the  fifth  editbn. 

G.  F.  B.  B. 

Early  Apprbciatiok  of  Burns  (6^  S.  v.  63, 
134, 199).— Probably  the  first  great  critic  out  of 
Scothmd  to  give  full  recognition  to  the  genius  of 
Bums  was  Charles  Lamb.  In  his  oorrespondenoe 
with  Coleridge  in  1796  there  are  various  (|uick, 
suggestive  aUusions  that  show  at  once  intimate 
knowledge  and  warm  admiration.  Speaking  of 
the  "  Beligious  Musings,"  a  poem  then  appearing  in 
the  Watchman^  Lamb  implies  Coleridgrs  apprecia- 
tion of  Bums  in  addition  to  directly  stating  his 
own.    This  is  extremely  good : — 

"  That  is  a  capital  line  in  your  sixth  number : 
*  This  dark,  f  riese-coated,  hoarse,  teeth-chattering  month.* 
They  are  exactly  such  epithets  as  Bums  would  have 
stumbled  on,  whose  poem  on  the  ploughed-up  daisy  you 
seem  to  have  had  in  mind.** 

The  expression  *'  stumbled  on  **  is  a  little  objec- 
tionable in  reference  to  a  poet  whose  epithets  are 
always  strong,  vivid,  and  pointed ;  but  Lamb  pro- 
bably means  no  more  than  that  Bums's  method  is 
that  of  untutored  genius,  whidi  never  needs  to 
rely  upon  artificial  diction.  At  any  rate,  the 
critic's  attitude  towards  Bums  may  be  fairly 
described  as  one  of  hearty  approval  and  even 
enthusiastic  advocaqr.  He  says,  for  example,  in 
another  letter,  that  Southey's  Joan  of  Art  "is 
alone  sufficient  to  redeem  the  character  of  the  age 
we  live  in  from  the  imputation  of  de^ieneratioglii 


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poetnr,  were  there  so  such  beings  extant  as  Bams 

and  JBowles,  Cowper  and :  fill  up  the  blank 

how  YOU  please."  Still  further,  he  tells  his  corre- 
spondent that  "  Bums  was  the  god  of  my  idolatry, 
as  Bowles  is  of  yours.  I  am  jealous  of  your  frater- 
nizing with  Bowles,  when  I  think  you  relish  him 
more  than  Bams."  Then,  at  a  subsequent  stage  of 
the  same  letter,  there  comes  this  extremely  charac- 
teristic sentence:  '*  Not  a  soul  loves  Bowles  here ; 
scarce  one  has  heard  of  Burns ;  few  but  laugh  at 
me  for  reading  my  Testament."  Lamb  makes 
frequent  appeals  to  Coleridge  to  publish  his  pro- 
mised poem  on  Bums  ;  in  the  letter  just  quoted 
from  he  says  that,  come  when  it  will,  it  will  be  new 
to  him,  for  "  my  memory  of  it  is  verjr  confused, 
and  tainted  with  unpleasant  associations."  One 
short  letter  rises  to  a  fine  climax  of  boisterous 
high  spirits,  and  culminates  in  this  quotation  from 
Bums: — 

'*  Then  up  rose  onr  bard,  like  a  prophet  in  drink, 
Craigdarrocb,  thou'lt  soar  when  creation  ahall  sink." 

It  is  pleasant  to  see  that  the  Bev.  Mr.  Ainger,  in 
his  skilful  and  delicate  monograph  on  Lamb  in 
"  English  Men  of  Letters,"  notes  the  critic's  ap- 
preciation of  Bums.  Lamb's  enthusiasm  is  all  the 
more  remarkable  when  it  is  considered  as  a  tribute 
from  an  avowed  admirer  of  London  streets  to  a 
ploughman  away  in  remote  Ayrshire. 

Thomas  Batnb. 

The  Bannattnb  MS.  (6»»»  S.  v.  267).--I  believe 
I  have  already  once  confessed  my  inability  to  ex- 
plain the  passage  here  given,  and  I  still  fail  to  see 
how  the  lines  are  to  be  parsed.  But  I  think  I  see 
what  is  intended  by  the  allusion.  There  is  a  re- 
'  ference  to  the  description  of  the  cook  in  the  Can- 
terbury TaU$;  not  as  he  is  described  in  the  Prologue, 
but  as  be  is  described,  in  repulsive  terms,  in  the 
Manciple's  Prologue.  To  kiss  "Chaucer's  cook" 
would  have  been  a  penance  when  we  consider  how 
the  Manciple  said : — 

'*  Thy  cursed  breth  enfecten  wol  ns  alle/' 
with  other  strong  expressions.  The  only  sense  I 
can  make  of  the  passage  as  it  stands  is  to  construe 
it  thus  :  "  May  Qod,  on  the  arrival  of  this  good 
new  year,  give  thee  grace  to  make  such  Christians 
kiss  such  cooks  as  Chaucer  describes."  This  sup- 
poses hii  to  mean  "  to  make  to  kiss"  or  "  make 
Idss."  To  his  vfith  is,  I  believe,  the  same  thing  as 
to  kiss  interchangeabljr  with,  to  give  and  take  a 
kiss.  But  the  use  of  hu  for  *<  make  kiss  "  is  harsh, 
and  I  would  not  resort  to  this  if  any  other  method 
of  constraction  can  be  suggested. 

Walter  W.  Sceat. 

Perhaps  the  line  as  printed  by  the  Hunterian 
Society,— 

*'  Sic  Christlanis  to  kis  with  GbancerU  kuikit," 
may  mean  that  such  Christians  are  fit  to  rank  with 
Chaucer's  cooks,  «.«.,  with  the  "prentis   Perkin 
Bevelour,"  as  described  in  the  Cokti  TaU,     In 


passage  contains  an  early  use  of 


Psalm  Ixxxv.  10, ''  mercy  and  troth  are  met  to- 
gether :  righteousness  and  peace  have  hustd  each 
other,"  would  illustrate  the  n^e  of  the  verb  to 
hiss  in  the  Bannatyne  MS.      W.  £.  Buckley. 

CuBTOXER  (6**  S.  V.  187). — Letter  from  Sir 
Christopher  Wren  to  his  eldest  son,  dated  White- 
hall, Oct.  11,  1705:— 

"  Mr.  Bateman  in  his  (?)  will  give  you  advice  how  yoa 
may  get  tbem  [some  books]  into  the  Secretary's  packets. 
You  remember  how  much  trouble  Mr.  Strong  was  put 
to  at  DoTcr  by  the  impertinence  of  the  Customer  there.** 
—See  S'T  Chriatophtr  Wren,  HiM  FamUy  and  His  Tima, 
by  Lucy  Phillimore,  chup.  xTiii.,  p.  808.  Londoo,  Kegaa 
Paul,  Trench  k  Co.,  1881. 

C.  W.  Penny. 

Wellington  College. 

The  following 
this  word : — 

"  They  having  bought  and  paid  for  them,  thinking  to 
hare  had  a  discharge  of  the  Customer  [Farmer  of  the 
Customs]  for  the  custom  [import  duty]  of  the  Negroes, 
being  the  King's  duty  ;  tber  gave  it  away  to  the  poor, 
for  God's  sake ;  and  did  reftiae  to  give  the  discharge  in 
writing :  and  the  poor,  not  trusting  their  words,  for  fear 
lest,  hereafter,  it  might  be  demanded  of  them,  did  refrain 
from  buying  any  more." — Arber's  Englith  Gamer,  voL  v. 
p.  109. 

This  passaf^e  is  in  an  extract  from  Haklnyt's 
Voyages^  1589^  and  was  probably  written  in  1565. 

F.   C.  BiRKBBCK  TbRRT. 

Cardiff. 

The  word  used  in  the  sense  quoted  by  Ms. 
W.  H.  Patterson  occurs  many  times  in  vol.  L  of 
the  Journals  of  the  House  of  Commons ;  e.g.,  on 
May  7,  1621,  "An  Act  to  avoid  Extortions  of 
Customers,  Comptrollers,"  &c.,was  under  discussion. 
Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

"Cornubled"  (6"»  S.  V.  189).— I  am  familiar 
with  the  word  cohnohhled  in  the  sense  of  struck 
with  the  knuckles  on  the  head,  used  by  Pem- 
brokeshire people.  H.  WsDowooD. 

Skinner,  under  "  Comub,"  has  : — 

**  I  comubbed  him,  k  C.  Br.  cemod,  alapa,  vel  potivs 
i  Belg.  keeven,  propulsare  et  hnoop,  inobhel,  nodus,  q.d. 
condylis  sen  internodiis  digltorum  puliare  seu  tundere." 
B.  S.  Charnock. 

Doll  (6"»  S.  v.  206).— The  derivation  of  doO 
may  be  more  than  "  guessed  **  from  the  sermons 
of  Boger  Edgeworth,  one  of  the  first  three  pre- 
bendaries of  Bristol  Cathedra],  elected  1544.  His 
Sermons  were  printed  1557,  in  a  little  stout 
quarto  volume  in  black  letter,  much  like  an  early 
edition  of  Latimer's  sermons,  or  King  Edward  YL's 
first  book  of  Homilies,  and  as  popular  and  collo- 
quial as  Latimer,  but  of  the  other  party  and  much 
less  common.  He  deals  with  the  popular  outrages 
of  the  Reformation,  and  among  others  that  the 
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children  as  a  "pretty  idol"  or  "doll''  Roger 
Edgeworth's  Sermom  would  be  a  capital  subject 
for  the  reprinters  of  old  texts. 

Thou  AS  Kerslakb. 
BristoL 

"P.  Francisci  Spinul^  Mbdiolanknsis 
Opera"  (6"»  S.  v.  267).— It  is  a  pleasure  to  reply 
to  a  correspondent  who  has  exhausted  the  ordinary 
sources  of  biographical  and  bibliographical  in- 
formation before  writing  to  "  N.  &  Q./'  and  who 
gives  the  exact  title  of  the  book  to  which  his 
query  refers.  A  notice  of  Franciscus  Spinula  (or 
^nola)  will  be  found  in  Jocher's  AUgemeinis 
Gekhrten  Lexicon,  vol.  iv.  p.  745.  He  is  there 
stated  to  be  a  native  of  Brescia,  sprung  from  a 
Genoese  family,  and  to  have  published  at  Venice 
in  1675  poetical  works  and  a  translation  of  the 
Psalms  in  verse.  Jocher  cites  as  his  authority 
".Oldoinns''  (no  doubt  his  AthmcBum  Ligusticum 
4eu  SyUalms  Scriptorum  Liguru.m,  Perugia,  1680). 
F.  Spinula  is  also  noticed  by  Simler  in  the  second 
edition  of  his  Epitome  of  Oemtr*t  Bibliotheea 
(Tiguri,  1574),  p.  207,  where  it  is  said  that 
Spinula's  translation  of  the  Psalms  was  printed  by 
Perna,  of  Venice.  Simler  adds,  "Audio  ipsum 
propter  verse  fidei  confessioDem  martyrio  affectum." 
BicHARD  (J.  Christie. 

Darley  House,  Matlock. 

"  Lbobnde  Dor^b  dss  Frerbs  Mbndians  "  (6^ 
S.  y.  286). — The  author  of  the  work  in  question  is 
IN'ichoLu  Vignier  the  younger,  a  Protestant  theo- 
logian, bom  in  Germany  in  1575,  died  at  Blois 
about  1645.  He  ever  shows  himself  a  fervent 
enemy  of  the  Papacy.  His  best  known  work  is 
ThMre  de  VAntickriit,  a  work  composed  at  the 
demand  of  the  National  Synod  of  La  Bochelle, 
published,  without  name  or  place,  in  1610,  and 
euppressed  by  royal  order.  The  edition  of  the 
IJegendi  mentioned  by  Mr.  Edmond  is  the  second ; 
the  first  appeared  at  Leyden  in  1608. 

Joseph  Knight. 

Lambeth  Degrees  (6^^  S.  v.  266).— Apropos 
of  M.A.  Oxon's  list,  it  is  worth  noting  that  a 
very  valuable  calendar  of  Lambeth  graduates  will 
be  found  in  the  first  volume  of  the  Oentleman's 
Magazine  for  1864.  If  your  correspondent  would 
continue  this  to  the  present  time  in  the  pages  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  he  would  confer  a  favour  upon  future 
biographers.  G.  W.  M. 

"A  SERVOim  MADE  BEFORE  THE  KtNOE,'' 
Ac,  BT  JOHAN  LONQLOMD  (6***  S.  V.  228,  259).— 

I  have  to  thank  your  two  correspondents  who  have 
kindly  answered  my  question  about  Bp.  Longland's 
sermon.  I  would  venture  to  point  out  to  Mr. 
Burns  (1)  that  I  asked  about  a  sermon  preached  at 
Richmmd,  that  of  1538  having  been  preached  at 
Greenwich ;  (2)  preached  in  1538 ;  (3)  that  most 
bibliographers  may  be  credited  with  knowing  Dr. 


Maitland's  Catalogue  of  the  Early  Printed  Booki 
in  the  Lambeth  Library,  R.  Sinker. 

Trinity  Oollego  Library,  Cambridge. 

LL.B.  AND  B.C.L.  AT  Cambridge  (6^  S.  v. 
209).— The  designation  of  LL.B.  in  substitution 
for  that  of  B.G.L.  will  be  found  for  the  first  time 
in  the  Cambridge  Calendar  for  1841,  p.  33. 

G.  Fisher. 

Sir  Philip  Francis's  Marriage  (6^  S.  v. 
-The  intercourse  between  Sir  Philip  and  his 
father  Dr.  Francis  was— except  on  an  important 
occasion— always  of  a  most  affectionate  character. 
The  occasion  referred  to  was  the  early— he  was  not 
much  more  than  twenty-one  at  the  time — marriage 
of  Sir  Philip  to  Elizabeth  Macrabie,  a  lady  of  no 
family  or  fortune.  Dr.  Francis  expressed  much 
displeasure  with  the  nwirriage,  which  he  considered 
a  misalliance  on  the  part  of  his  only  son  (Vide 
Webb's  Irish  Biography,  1878). 

Ubnrt  G.  Hope. 

FrecgroTO  Road,  N. 

The  House  of  Lords'  Clock  stopping  on 
THE  Death  op  George  IIL  (6<*»  S.  v.  305). — 
The  29th  of  January,  1820,  happened  on  Saturday, 
and  not  on  Sunday  as  stated.     J.  Tattersall. 

Blackburn. 

Campbells  or  Carradalb  (6^  S.  iv.  49,  96, 
129, 158).— It  may  be  of  some  use  to  the  corre- 
spondent who  addressed  vou  on  this  subject,  and 
not  without  interest  to  all  who  preserve  a  grateful 
memory  of  the  eminent  Scottish  genealogist  John 
Riddell,  if  I  send  you  some  notes  which  I  have 
found  of  documents  relating  to  the  Carradale 
family  to  be  found  in  the  Biddell  Papers.  At  6**^ 
S.  iv.  96  I  sent  some  particulars,  extracted  from 
Act  Pari  Scot,  which  gave  us  two  distinct  re- 
presentatives of  the  family — Duncan,  forfeited 
1686,  restored  1690,  and  Donald,  Commissioner 
of  Supply  for  Arffyllshire,  1704. 

From  the  Biddell  Papers  I  am  now  able  to  show 
that  Donald  Campbell  of  Carradale  was  married, 
at  some  date  not  later  than  1700,  to  Mary,  eldest 
daughter  of  Dugald  Campbell  of  Glensaddell,— 
another  old  Kintyre  &nuly,  whose  monuments  I 
remember  to  have  seen,  and  which  was  at  one 
time  numbered  among  the  claimants  of  the 
Annandale  peerages.  No.  16  among  the  '*  Separate 
Deeds,**  &a,  in  Stevenson's  Catalogue  of  the  Biddell 
Papers  (Edinburgh,  1863),  is  the  document  which 
furnishes  this  information.  It  is  described  as  a 
"  Sasine  in  favour  of  Mary  Campbell,  eldest  daughter  o 
Dugald  Campbell  of  GlemaddoU,  and  ipoaie  of  Donald 
Campbell  of  Olencarradoll,  Moy,  and  Drumore,  founded 
on  a  contract  of  marriaffo  executed  between  these  two 
parties  with  consent  of  their  fathers,  securing  to  Mary, 
during  life,  the  whole  of  the  rents  of  the  lands  of  Glen- 
carradell,  Moy,  and  Dramore." 
The  date  of  the  year  only  is  given,  viz ,  A.D.  1700. 
No.  17,  immediately  following,  is  an 

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'*  Instrument  of  the  nme  nature  m  the  former,  which 
had  i>erhap8  heen  coDsidered  defoctiTO  in  some  claoaes 
or  proYisioDS, — or  perhaps  by  some  accident  damaged  as 
it  u  now  found.  The  latter  sasine  seems  more  particular 
and  comprehennre  : — ^the  superior  of  the  lands  is  in  this 
Deed  styled  the  High  and  Potent  Prince,  Archibald, 
Duke  of  Allele.'* 

This  deed  is  nxped  by  Donald  Oampbell  of  Oarra- 
dale,  and  is  dated  Feb.  20,  1702.  I  hope,  on 
a  fnture  occasion,  to  draw  attention  to  some 
other  Aigyleehiie  fiimUies  of  the  name  of  Camp- 
bell whose  history  daring  the  seventeenth  and 
eighteenth  centuries  is  iliostrated  by  the  Riddell 
Papers  as  wdll  as  by  the  monumental  inscriptions 
of  which  I  haye  notes.  G.  H.  E.  Carmichakl. 
New  UniTersity  Cinb,  S.W. 

GiBBBTiNO  (6*"*  S.  y.  129,  236).— It  may  be  in- 
teresting to  the  readers  of  '^  N.  &  Q.''  who  may 
yisit  the  south  coast  to  know  that  there  is  a  set  of 
gibbet  irons  preseryed  in  the  upper  room  oyer  the 
market  at  Bye.  The  frame  for  the  head  still 
grimly  retains  the  skull.  The  same  place  also  has 
the  old  town  pillory.  The  town  of  Rye  has  many 
buildings  and  remains  of  antiquity  which  would 
amply  repay  a  yisit.  The  churcn  is  an  exceedingly 
fine  one.  Ed.  Marshall. 

The  circumstances  in  connexion  with  Mr. 
Bobins's  murder  are  distinctly  remembered  by  my 
fsther,  who  was  one  of  those  present  at  the  giobet- 
ing  of  Howe.  He  tells  me  that  when  the  muraerer's 
Ix^y  was  being  conyeyed  to  the  gibbet  some  man, 
who  either  dis(dayed  more  curiosity  or  was  less 
fortunate  in  doing  so  than  the  rest,  leaned  oyer  the 
cart  in  which  the  body  was  in  order  to  see  it  the 
better ;  but  at  that  moment  the  cart  gaye  a  sudden 
lurch,  and  one  of  the  legs  of  the  corpse,  rising  up 
and  striking  him  in  the  fiftoe,  administered  a  re- 
proof by  giying  him  a  black  eye.  I  need  hardly 
add  that  the  locality  of  the  gibbet  was  a  place  to 
be  hurried  past  by  the  traycfier.  8.  G. 

Since  writing  my  note  at  the  latter  reference  I 
haye  had  lent  me  a  book  of  twenty-four  pages  (last 
leaf  missing)  entitled : — 

<<StaffordI<entA8sisBB  1 181S.  |  The  Trial  (  of  J  WiUiam 
Howe,  I  alias  |  John  Wood,  j  for  the  |  WUful  Murder  | 
of  1  Mr.  Benjamin  RobinSp  |  of  Dunsley,  near  Stour- 
bridge, !  on  the  18th  December,  1812.  |  J.  Fowler, 
printer,  Stourbridge.  |  Price,  sixpence.'* 

The  trial  took  place  on  Tuesday,  March  16,  and 
the  eyidenoe  was  purely  circumstantial,  no  less 
than  thirty-three  witnesses  haying  been  called  by 
the  ijrosecution.  The  summing  up  of  the  judge,  Mr. 
Justice  Bayley,  is  upon  the  missing  leal 

ViooBir. 
Cleni. 

Edmund  Gibsok,  Bishop  of  Lovdon,  1720  (6^ 
S.  y.  89, 116).— The  following  inscription  is  to  be 
seen  in  St.  MichaeTs  Parish  Churchy  Bishop's  Stort- 
ford,  Herts : — 


"  Edmund  Gibson,  A.M.,  Rector  of  St  Benaef  s,  Paul's 
Wharf,  London,  33  years  Vicar  of  this  Parish ;  a  worthy 
man,  a  diligent  pastor,  an  upright  example  to  his  flock. 
He  died  in  London  3rd  Febraaiy,  1798,  aged  57,  and 
was  buried  at  Falham  in  the  family  rault  of  his  grand- 
father, Bishop  Gibson.*' 

J.  L.  Glasscock,  Juv. 

Of  the  bishop's  numerous  children,  Edmund, 
Fellow  of  Clare  Hall,  Cambridge,  and  Thomas^ 
Clerk  of  the  Treasury,  who  married  a  daughter  of 
John  Haines.  Registrar  of  Canterbuiy  diocese^ 
predeceased  nim.  Another  son,  William,  was 
Archdeacon  of  London  in  the  bishop's  lifetime ; 
and  a  fourth,  George,  was  his  fftther's  executor. 
The  bishop  died  in  1748. 

Hbrbbrt  H.  yov  St&bmsb. 

Burke's  Land4d  Omtry^  in  the  lineage  of  Loye- 
day,  says  that  Martha,  daughter  of  Thomas  Loye- 
day,  married,  in  1774,  WiUiamf  son  of  Bishop 
Gibson.  J.  E.  T.  L.  (anU,  p.  116)  says  that  she 
herself  married  the  bishop,  and  died  in  1750. 
Which  is  right?  Also  Burke's  Peerage  and 
Baronetage^  lineage  of  Tyrwhitt,  states  that  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Jones  married  the  bishop.  Is 
there  a  good  engraying  of  Bishop  Gibson  1 

In  Warburton's  L&ndon  and  Middlesex  lUui- 
straied  are  the  arms  of  the  Bishop  : — 

"  Azure,  three  Storks  rising,  or.  These  'arms  apper- 
tain to  the  Heir  and  other  Descendants  of  the  late  Lord 
Bishop  of  London,  who  derive  themselTes  from  an 
antient  Family  of  that  Name  in  the  Coanties  of 
Cnmberhtnd  and  Northumberland,  this  Branch  whereof 
afterwards  settled  in  London,  as  may  be  seen  in  ColL 
^nsor.  X.C.fol.lSa" 

The  arms  of  the  Gibsons  of  Northumberland  and 
Cumberland  are  Azure,  three  storks  rising  ppr. 

B.  F.  S. 

I  am  much  obliged  to  R  J.  and  J.  E.  T.  L.  for 
the  interesting  information  they  haye  giyen  re- 
lating to  Bishop  Gibson.  Can  they  tell  me  what 
descendant  of  the  bishop  married  a  Miss  Hall  ? 

Clarissa. 

"  Too  TOO  "  (6*  S.  iy.  266,  313  ;  v.  36, 97).— 
The  earlier  use  of  this  lately  reyiyed  phrase  has 
been  already  sufficiently  illustrated.  Still,  the 
following  instance  of  its  employment^  taken  from 
a  long  and  interesting  letter  in  the  handwriting  of 
the  Hon.  Mrs.  Norton,  may  appear  sufficiently 
interesting  in  itself  to  justify  its  citation  : — 

"  The  King  is  to  sign  the  patent  for  Mr.  Norton  to  be 
made  honorable  on  Monday,  and  then  it  is  to  be  hoped 
the  John  Bull  paper  will  be  ntisfled.  Mr.  Norton  is 
reiy  glad,  and  Lord  Melbourne  has  been  rery  kind 
about  it.  L'  M.  is  better,  and  oifered  me  two  tickets  for 
the  House  of  Lords  on  Tuesday  to  bear  the  King's 
speech,  but  I  most  oome  to  my  too-ioo,  who,  I  hope,  wk 
giro  me  a  ticket  when  he  is  Lord  Grantley.'* 

This  letter,  which  is  addressed  to  a  Mrs.  Mooie  at 
Bamsgate,  with  whom  her  then  only  son  was 
staying,  is  dated  ''  King's  Gate,  July  17,  ISSl.*^ 
The  kdy's  aspirations  were  not  fulfill^.    This  son 


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died ;  and  the  barony  of  Grantley  deyolved  on 
ber  next  born  son,  Thomas  Brinsley,  to  whose 
approaching  birth— he  was  bom  Nov.  14, 1831 — 
Mrs.  Norton  alludes  in  her  letter  when,  speaking 
of  certain  renovations  and  improvements  which 
were  being  carried  oat  at  her  domicile,  she  writes, 
'*  I  am  so  poisoned  here,  that  if  I  do  not  get  a 
mouthful  of  fresh  air,  my  little  November  baboon 
wUl  be  bom  with  a  green  face.** 

William  Bates^  B.A. 
Birmingham. 

«  The  Whole  Duty  op  Man  "  (S"*  S.  viii.  389, 
516  ;  ix.  99,  176  ;  6^  S.  iv.  235  ;  v.  62,  99,  258, 
318).~Dr.  Johnson's  reasons  why  the  author  of  this 
excellent  book  should  wish  to  conceal  himself  will 
be  interesting  to  correspondents  on  the  subject : — 

"There  may  be  diiferent  reaions  anSgned  for  this, 
anyone  of  which  would  be  sufficient.  He  may  have 
been  a  clergyman,  and  may  have  thought  that  his 
religious  counsels  would  have  less  weight  when  known 
to  lukve  come  from  a  man  whose  profession  was  theology. 
He  may  have  been  a  man  whose  practice  was  not  suit- 
able to  his  principles,  so  that  his  character  might  in- 
jure the  effect  of  his  book,  which  he  had  written  in  a 
season  of  penitence.  Or  he  may  have  been  a  man  of  rigid 
self-denial,  so  that  he  would  have  no  regard  for  his  pious 
labours  in  this  world,  but  refer  it  all  to  a  future  state." 
Henrt  G.  Hope. 

Freegrove  Bead,  N. 

"Agitate,  agitate,  agitate":  The  Mar- 
quis OF  Anglbsba  and  the  Irish  Agitators 
(6*  S.  v.  88, 116, 178).— J.  A.  H.'s  question  has 

CK>bably  reference  to  a  paragraph  contained  in  a 
tter  addressed  by  the  Marquis  of  Anglesea  to 
Dr.  Curtis,  an  Irish  Catholic  bishop,  during  the 
time  that  his  lordship  held  office  under  the  Duke 
of  Wellington's  Government  as  Lord-Lieutenant  of 
Ireland.  The  letter,  which  was  dated  from  Phoenix 
Park,  Dea  23, 1828,  refers  to  the  duke's  views  on 
the  subject  of  Catholic  emancipation,  and  to  his 
expressed  opinion  that  an  attempt  should  be  made 
to  Dury  the  emancipation  question  in  oblivion  for 
a  short  time ;  and  the  marauis  added  (assuming 
such  to  be  possible,  which  he  doubted)^  **  I  fear 
that  advantf^ge  might  be  taken  of  the  pause  by  re- 
preeenting  it  as  a  panic  achieved  by  the  late  violent 
reaction,  and  by  proclaiming  that  if  the  Govern- 
ment at  once  and  peremptorily  decided  against 
concession  the  Catholics  would  cease  to  agitate, 
and  then  all  the  mlaeries  of  the  last  years  of  Ire- 
land will  be  reacted."  The  nuuN][ui8  went  on  to 
reoommeod  that  *^  all  eanHituiional  (in  contradis- 
tinction to  merefff  legale  means  should  be  resorted 
to  to  forward  the  cause."  The  marquis,  who  was 
shortly  after  recalled,  defended  his  conduct  in  the 
House  of  Lords  on  May  4, 1829,  when  the  Duke 
of  WoUiDgton  admitted  that  the  letter  to  Dr. 
Oinrtis  was  the  occasion,  but  not  the  cause,  of  his 
recall,  which  had  previously  been  decided  upon.  A 
gitfbled  copy,  containing  the  words  '*  not  to  cease  to 


agitate,"  had  got  into  some  of  the  newspapers,  but 
his  lordship  denied  having  recommended  agitation 
in  the  way  in  which  the  duke  seemed  disposed 
to  interpret  his  words, 

Alexander  Patbrsok. 
Bamsley. 

"Straight  as  a  Loitch"  (6«»  S.  v.  28,  177). 
— If  the  very  common  saying — 

*'  As  sound  as  a  roach  *' 

be  intelligible, 

"As  straight  as  a  loach" 

ought  to  be  equally  so.  The  loach  is  spoken  of  by 
Mr.  Blackmore  in  Lorna  Doone.  It  was,  I  think, 
in  search  for  loach  that  the  hero  followed  the  up- 
ward course  of  the  torrent  which  descended  from 
the  fastness  of  the  robber  knight. 

Calcuttensis. 

The  hitch  (or  broitch,  as   it  was  also  called) 
was  a  wooden   spindle  used   on  the  "spinning 
ienny,"  before  the  modem  "mule "  was  invented. 
'      ^'  S.  M.  0. 

Robert  Phaire,  the  Regicide  :  Rev.  Ema- 
nuel Phaire,  A.R,  OxoN  (5"»  S.  xii.  47,  311 ; 
6"»  S.  i.  18,  84,  505  ;  iL  38,  77, 150 ;  iv.  235, 371, 
431,  495  ;  v.  55).-W.  W.  C-x  (e^  S.  iv.  371) 
states  that  the  Rev.  Emanuel  Phaire  was  ordained 
deacon  at  Oxford,  by  William,  Bishop  of  Oxford, 
Dec.  23, 1604,  and  priest,  Dea  24, 1604.  Would 
it  be  possible,  from  the  records  of  the  university, 
to  ascertain  the  college  to  which  Phaire  belonged, 
and  any  personal  particulars  concerning  him,  such 
as  his  place  of  birth,  parentage,  &c.? 

CiLGBRRAN. 

Rhtmeless  Words  (6«»  S.  v.  46,  173,  298, 
317).— Mr.  Thorne  says  that  hUn  is  pronounced 
"  kiL"  Walker,  indeed,  gives  that  pronunciation, 
but  I  never  heard  the  word  so  sounded  by  any 
educated  person,  and  it  would  not  at  the  present 
day  be  tolerated  in  verse.  Your  correspondents 
should  refer  back  to  "Uncommon  Rhymes,'' 
"  N.  &  Q.,*'  3">  S.  viii.  377.  Jatdeb. 

In  Suffolk  we  have  a  rhyme  to  Porringer  in  a 
parish  called  ^  Homings-heath,"  and  pronounced 
"  Horringer."  S.  S. 

The  Arms  op  Colonial  akd  Missionary 
Bishoprics  (6«»  S.  iiL  241,  286, 467;  iv.  310;  v. 
57^  91).— Mr.  Woodward  is  raising  an  incorrect 
issue  when  he  challenges  me  to  supply  information 
as  to  how  the  armorial  bearings  of  the  British  sees 
were  granted.  With  the  exception  of  the  sees 
founded  in  the  present  century,  and  those  of 
Peterborough,  Gloucester,  Bristol,  Chester,  and 
Oxford  (which  date  firom  the  sixteenth  century), 
all  the  English  sees  were  founded  prior  to 
the  year  1160.  At  the  latter  date  heraldry  was 
in  ito  infancy,  and  I  imagine  the  early  bishops 
assumed  arms  (in  virtue  of  their  rank  as  barons) 


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in  common  with  other  peers,  knights,  esqaires, 
^c,  and  these  ultimately  received  official  recogni- 
tion. There  is  accordingly  no  more  right  on  the 
part  of  modem  bishops  to  assume  arms  than  on 
Chat  of  any  other  indiyidual. 

Frederick  E.  Sawyer. 
Brighton. 

"  Bedwardine  "  (6*  S.  V.  208).—"  Bedwardin, 
B.,  from  haU'dwr-din^  the  ford  of  the  water-camp. 
Ex.:  Bedwardin  (Wore.)."  —  Fkvell  Edmunds's 
Traces  of  Eittory  in  the  Names  of  Places  (London, 

1869),  p.  137.  HiRONDELLB. 

ViGORN  will  find  much  information  on  this  word 
of  doubtful  derivation  and  meaning  if  he  will 
consult  Allies's  Antiquities  and  Folk-lore  of 
Worcestershire  (second  edit.),  p.  263,  or  Nash's 
Worcestershire,  vol  ii  p.  319.      J.  B.  WiLSoir. 

Enightwick. 

Mrs.  Masham  Ain>  Sarah,  Duchess  op 
Marlborough  (6*  S.  v.  248,  293).— The  story  of 
the  gloves  which  caused  the  fall  of  Marlborough  is 
fully  told  in  the  life  of  Anne,  in  Agnes  Strickland's 
Lives  of  the  Queens  of  England.  The  rumour  that 
Voltaire  heard  was  founded  on  truth. 

M.  N.  G. 

Memories  of  the  Battle  op  Trafalgar 
(6«»  S.  iv.  603  ;  V.  11,  267).— Dr.  William  Beatty 
(not  Beattie),  who  was  with  Lord  Nelson  when  he 
died,  was  physician  of  Greenwich  Hospital  from 
1S22  to  1839,  when  he  retired  from  that  office. 
He  was  knighted  in  1831  and  died  in  1842.  In 
1825  he  published  an  Authentic  Narrative  of  the 
Death  of  Lord  Ndson.  F.  H. 

Charles  IL's  Hiding  Places  (6***  S.  iv  207 
498,  622;  V.  28,  73,  173,  196).-!  am  glad  that 
E.  H.  M.  has  drawn  attention  (anU,  p.  196)  to  the 
story  of  Charles  XL  and  Mrs.  Geere.  The  Gentle- 
man's Magazine  for  1730  states  that  there  were 
then  in  Brighton  (Brighthelmstone)  "several 
persons  who  boasted  descent  from  that  prince 
[Charles  XL],  who,  as  Dryden  wrote,  *  Scattered 
his  Maker's  image  broadcast  o'er  the  land ' "  !  Are 
there  similar  stories  in  connexion  with  the  "  merry 
monarch's"  other  hiding  pkces?  If  Mr.  Scott 
refers  to  Mr.  Evershed's  paper  in  voL  xviii.  (p.  123) 
of  the  Sussex  Archceological  Collections,  he  will  see 
that  the  story  of  the  kbg's  sojourn  at  Southwick 
(or  Portslade)  as  described  by  him  (6"»  S.  iv.  622) 
iB  mythical.  Frederick  E.  Sawyer. 

Brighton. 

Richard  Brocklesbt  :  Music  as  Medicine 
ie^  S.  V.  245,  293).— A  notice  of  Dr.  Brocklesby 
and  his  pamphlet  is  a  desideratum  in  Mr.  Grove's 
admirable  Dictionary  of  Music  and  Musicians. 
There  is  a  good  account  of  him  in  Chalmers's 
BiographicaX  Dictiotuiry,  where  it  is  said  :— 


"We  do  not  know  the  date  of  this  last  article  ["A 
Dissertation  on  the  Music  of  the  Antienta  "],  bat  be- 
lieve it  to  be  amongst  his  early  literary  amusements. 
When  Dr.  Young  was  at  Levden,  a  professor,  under- 
standing he  was  a  nephew  of  Dr.  Brocklesby's,  showed 
him  a  translation  of  it  in  the  German  tongue." 

£.  H.  M. 

Nick-nackatort  (6*>»  S.  v.  207).— JYtdfc-nodb, 
another  form  of  knick-knack,  is  a  reduplication  of 
knack,  an  early  instance  of  the  use  of  which  is  to 
be  found  in  the  Pedlar's  description  of  his  wares 
in  The  Four  P.  P.  (?  1640),  Dodsley's  0.  B.  Plays, 
i.  349  (ed.  HazUtt):— 

"  Needles,  thread,  thimble,  shears,  and  all  such  knacks," 
The  word  also  occurs  more  than  once  in  Shake- 
speare. Knick-knack  is  used  by  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher  in  The  Loyal  Subject,  II.  i.  (licensed 
1C18):- 

'*  But  if  ye  use  these  hniek-knaeit. 

This  fast  and  loose,  with  faithful  men  and  honest. 

You  '1  be  the  first  will  find  it." 

Ash  (1776)  gives  "  Knick-knacketary  (adj,,  a  cant 
loord),  belonging  to  knick-knacks,  making  knick- 
knacks,   Scott"      Mr.  H.  B.  Wheatley,   in  his 
Beduplicated  Words,  gives  the  following  example 
of  the  word  quoted  by  your  correspondent : — 
**  This  my  wish,  it  is  my  glory 
To  furnish  your  niek-tuLckatorif." 
Sir  C,  Hanbury  WUlianu  to  Sir  Hans  Sloans 
(WiUiams's  Works,  1822,  vol.  i.  p.  129). 

He  explains  the  term  as  '*  a  curiosity  shop ;  a 
museum  of  curiosities."  The  Bev.  T.  L.  0.  Davies, 
in  his  Supplementary  Engli^  Glossary,  quotes 
the  earliest  example  of  the  use  of  the  word,  so  fiur 
as  I  know,  *'  For  my  part  I  keep  a  knicknc^ikatory 
or  toy-shop  "  (T.  Brown,  Works,  ii.  16). 

F.  C.  Birkbece  Terrt. 
Cardiff. 

Heraldic  (6"»  S.  y.  247).— The  arms  inquired 
after  are  probably  those  of  Whittaker,  of  co.  Kent, 
viz. :  Sable,  a  fess  between  three  mascles  argenU 
Crest,  a  horse  passant  or. 

Jules  C.  H.  Petit. 

56,  Vauxhall  Bridge  Road,  S.W. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (0^  S.  y.  209, 
239,  259).— 

Th4  Grounds  and  Occasions  of  ike  Contempt  of  the 
Clergy,  &c.— I  cannot  explain  the  meaning  of  the  initials 
"  T.  B."  which  are  appended  to  Dr.  Eaohard's  letter  on 
the  above  subject,  and  to  "a  second  letter  to  R.  L.," 
entitled  Some  Ohservations  upon  tke  Answer  to  an 
Enquiry  into  the  Grounds  and  Occasions,  dec,  wUh  some 
AddUions,  dated  ''May  2,  1671."  That  Eaohaid  was 
the  author  of  those  letters,  and  that  the  edition  of  1670 
is  the  first  of  the  former  of  them,  are,  however,  unques- 
tionable. T.  Davies,  in  '*  Some  Account  of  the  Life  and 
Writings  of  the  Author,"  prefixed  to  the  12mo.  edition  of 
Eachard*8  collected  productions,  1774,  writes:  —  *'In 
1670  he  published  his  celebrated  work,  called  The  Grounds 
and  Occasions  of  the  Contempt  of  the  Clergy  and  Religion 
Enquired  tute.     It  was  attacked  bjL^an  anonvmous 

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writer  the  following  year,  in  An  Antwtr  to  a  L^terof 
Enqviry  into  the  Qrounds,  ko.,  And  by  Bamftbaa  Oley 
and  seTcral  otbers,  and  amongst  the  rest  the  famous  Dr. 
John  Owen,  in  a  preface  to  lome  fermona  by  W.  Bridge. 
Eachard  replied  to  the  fint  in  Some  Obsirvations  upon 
an  Antwer  to  kit  Enquiry,  and  in  a  few  lettere,  printed 
•t  the  end  of  hie  book,  entitled, '  Mr.  Hobbs's  State  of 
Katnre  considered ;  in  a  Dialogue  between  Philautus  and 
Timothy/  he  took  notice  of  the  rest  of  his  opponents." 
pp.  6.  D.  The  dialogue  is  introduced  by  an  "Epistle 
Dedicatory "  to  Archbishop  Sheldon,  dated  '<  Deoemb. 
10,  1671,'^  and  signed  "  jT  B.,"  in  which  the  writer 
obeerres : — *'  I  hope  my  Dialogue  will  not  find  the  lesa 
acceptance  with  your  Grace  for  those  Letters  which  follow 
after :  for  although  some  are  loth  to  belieye  the  first 
Letters  to  be  innocent  and  useful  (being  a  little  trouble- 
aome  and  unearie  to  their  own  humour),  yet  your  Grace, 
I  hope,  is  satisfied  that  the  Author  of  them  did  heartily 
herem  study  the  credit  and  advantage  of  the  Church, 
and  that  our  Clergy  would  certainly  be  better  reputed 
and  more  serrioeable,  were  it  possible  they  all  could  be 
as  learned  and  as  bountiful  as  your  Grace."  The  fore- 
going extract  is  made  from  the  third  edition  of  the 
Dialogue.  *'To  which," says  the  title,  "are  added  five 
letters  [signed  "  T.  B."]  from  the  author  of  the  Groundt 
and  Occations,**  ke.,  London,  1685. 

J^PULLIK  BUSSBLL,  F.S.A. 

(6*  8.  T.  209,  279). 
A  Tour  in  Quest  of  Genealogy,  &c.— On  the  title-page 
of  a  copy  of  the  aboTe  work  in  my  possession  is  written, 
in  pencil,  the  following  note,  which  apparently  confirms 
the  name  of  the  author  and  also  the  fact  of  his  friend- 
ship with  Sir  Bichard  Hoare :—"  Written  by  my  late 
friend  Mr.  Fenton,  the  Pembrokeshire  Barrister  and  the 
particular  friend  of  Sir  Bichard  Hoare,  BaH. — B. 
Llwtd."  Possibly  the  writer  of  this  note  may  be  identi- 
fied by  some  one  amongst  your  correspondenta. 

P.  A.  ToiB. 

ftiiittUnntavai 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 

Monumenta  RitwUia Eeelena  Anglicana:  the  Occasional 
Offices  of  the  Church  of  England  according  to  the  old 
Use  of  Saifshury,  the  Prymer  in  English,  and  other 
Prayers  and  Forms,  With  Dissertations  and  Notes 
by  William  Maskell,  M.A.  Second  Edition.  8  Tola. 
(Oxford,  Clarendon  Press.) 
Tbs  first  edition  of  this  Tery  important  work  was  printed 
by  Pickering  in  1846  and  1847  in  that  beautiful  typo- 
graphy for  which  the  Chiswick  Press  became  illustrious, 
it  must  be  admitted,  howeyer,  that  the  new  edition  can 
iairly  compete  with  its  prea^ceasor.  It  ia  admirably 
printed,  and  both  in  paper  and  preaawork  leavea  hardly 
anything  to  be  desired.  The  additiona  made  to  the 
work  in  thia  new  iaane  are  yerv  large  and  important, 
extending  aa  they  do  to  more  than  two  hundred  pages, 
text  and  notea  alike  baring  been  greatly  enriched.  As 
the  apace  at  our  disposal  is  too  limited  to  allow  of  a  full 
notice  of  the  whole  work,  we  hare  taken  the  first  Tolume 
of  the  first  edition  and  the  first  Tolume  of  the  second, 
and,  placing  them  side  by  fide,  haye  examined  yery 
minutely,  page  by  page,  the  two  editions.  The  aecond 
and  third  yolumea  haye  been  alao  carefully  examined, 
bat  wo  limit  ouraeWea  almoat  entirely  to  the  firat 
Tolame  in  the  preaent  notice.  Many  of  the  additiona 
are  of  yery  high  interest.  Mr.  Maskell  is  an  enthusiast 
in  his  special  branch  of  litnrgiology ;  he  points  out  that 
"eyery  prayer  said,  and  eyery  act  done,  by  bishop, 
priest,  or  deacon,  has  a  real  and  special  meanmg,  as  an 
actof  futh,  or  as  a  symbol"  of  church  teaching;  and 


that  eyen  the  omission  of  a  ceremony,  or  the  change  of 
a  single  word  in  an  ancient  prayer,  may  haye  been  in- 
tended aa  a  proteat  againat  error  or  a  defence  of  tho 
truth.  Hence  he  deducea  the  importance  of  the  minute 
study  of  ancient  ritual  When  Mr.  Maakell  firat  iaaned 
this  work  the  acience  of  litnrgiology  waa  but  in  ita  in- 
fancy, BO  far  aa  Engliah  Churchmen  were  concerned. 
He  quotea  a  series  of  amusing  blundera  of  acme  of  the 
commentators  on  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  auch  aa 
that  of  White  Kennet,  who  aaya  that  a  Miami "  contained 
all  the  officea  of  deyotion,"  and  that  the  Canon  *'  waa  the 
rulea  of  the  order  of  any  religioua  house,  and  was  gene- 
rally bound  up  with  the  obituary  or  necrologium."  He 
does  not  hesitate  to  apply  the  phrase  "  egregious  non- 
aenae"  to  auch  notea  aa  theae,  nor  to  aay  of  auch  ex- 
poaitora  that,  "  ignorant  themaelyea,  they  were  at  leaat 
not  miataken  in  relying  on  their  belief  that  they  were 
supposed  to  be  teaching  people  who,  still  more  ignorant^ 
would  innocently  be  satisned  to  adopt  their  explanations^" 
Strong  language,  but  really  not  too  strong  for  some  of 
those  whose  maryellous  blundera  are  here  expoaed. 

If  Mr.  Maakell  ia  seyere  upon  the  blunders  of  others,. 
at  least  he  does  not  spare  himself,  aa,  for  example,  at 
p.  clxi,  where  he  aaya,  "  I  leaye  in  the  text  what  waa 
written  nearly  forty  yeara  ago^  aa  an  example  of  the 
amount  of  error  likely  at  any  time  to  come  rrom  mere 
gueaaing."  The  errors  indicated  are,  it  ia  only  fair  to 
aay,  yery  yenial. 

But  let  ua  haaten  to  lay  before  our  readers  a  few  of  the 
yaluable  additiona  which  Mr.  Maakell  haa  made  in  thi» 
preaent  isaue.  He  telle  ua  that  there  ia  good  reason  to 
believe  that  the  magnificent  leaf  of  an  iyory  .diptych  in 
the  Britiah  Muaeum,  with  the  atanding  figure  of  an  arch> 
angel  upon  it,  formed  the  coyer  of  one  of  the  hooka 
brought  to  England  by  St.  Auguatine  (p.  xy).  A  remark- 
able deed  for  toe  manumiaaion  of  a  bondwoman,  whicb 
waa  in  the  church  chest  at  Stratton,  in  Cornwall,  in 
1845,  is  no  longer  to  be  found  there:  fortunately,  a 
transcript  of  it  finds  place  in  Mr.  Maskell's  pacres- 
(p.  xxiii).  A  singular  example  of  the  jealousy  with 
which  cathedral  chapters  guarded  their  documents  from 
public  yiew  will  be  found  at  p.  I.  The  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Exeter  lent  to  Mr.  Maskell  in  1845  one  of  their  manu- 
scripts, but  fearing,  he  says,  "  I  know  not  it  hat,  fastened 
together  a  number  of  leayes  which  had  reference  (as  waS" 
supposed)  to  their  existing  statutes,  and  laid  me  under 
a  promise  not  to  read  them.*'  A  great  change  haa 
passed  oyer  the  cathedrals  of  England  since  1846— a 
ware  of  new,  warm  life  has  flowed  through  them ;  docu- 
ments once  watched  with  Argua  Jealousy  are  now  nub* 
lished  with  the  greatest  franknesr,  and  the  long-hiaden 
pages  of  capitular  history  are  freely  committed  to  the- 
press. 

A  curious  instance  of  the  rapidity  with  which  the  yer7 
names  of  the  ancient  serrice  books  dropped  out  of 
memory  will  be  found  at  p.  ly.  Evelyn  waa  aatoniahed 
to  aee  a  Misaale  secundum  Usum  Sarum  and  to  find  it 
"  exceeding  yoluminoua  ";  he  definea  the  Pica  mentioned 
in  the  preface  to  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  to  be  "  the- 
Greek  Calendarium."  And  yet  Erelyn,  bom  in  1620^ 
had  probably  spoken  with  persons  who  were  aliye  when 
the  Pica  was  still  in  use.  The  Pica,  it  appears,  waa 
often  chained  to  atalla  in  cathedral  and  abbey  churchea^ 
being  a  book  conatantly  to  be  referred  to  for  the  order 
of  the  diyine  office  (p.  lyi). 

At  p.  Ixxiy  mention  ia  made  of  a  cuatom  in  England 
in  the  Middle  Agea  for  the  prieat  to  kiss  the  feet  of  the 
figure  of  the  Crucified  Bedeemer  represented  in  the 
illumination  which  occurs  at  the  Canon  of  the  Mass,  or, 
at  least,  to  kiss  a  plain  cross  drawn  on  the  lower  margin 
of  the  page.  Traces  of  this  osculation  may  often  be 
obaeryedy  the  lower  part  of  the  picture  or  oroaa  being 


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•Imoit  obliterated.  Sometimei  th«  T  of  the  "  Te  igitnr  " 
was  kisaed  in  like  manner. 

Book  loTen  will  rejoice  at  the  itory  of  the  discorery 
of  a  perfect  copy  of  the  Hereford  Hiiaal  about  the  year 
1864,  in  an  old  boose  at  Bristol,  amongst  some  books 
belonging  to  the  two  or  three  members  of  the  Franciscan 
order  still  remaining  in  England.  The  Hereford  Missal 
is  one  of  the  rarest  of  rare  books— only  four  copies  in  all 
are  known ;  and  this,  the  only  perfect  copy,  was  found 
lying  open  on  the  floor,  the  aocumulated  dust  of  years 
ooTering  the  two  exposed  learea.  Happily  the  rest  of 
the  book  is  quite  clean,  large,  and  in  excellent  condition. 
It  is  now  in  the  British  Museum  (p.  Ixxxt). 

The  use  of  the  Breyiary  as  a  book  upon  which  an  oath 
could  be  taken  (p.  c)  may  be  new  to  tome  readers,  though 
Chaucer's  monk  aayi, 

"  For  on  my  portoe  here  I  make  an  oath." 

It  is,  howerer,  extremely  difficult  to  giro  any  adequate 
idea  of  the  wealth  of  illustration  contained  in  the  intro- 
duction and  the  notes.  It  must  suffice  to  refer  in  the 
briefeet  terms  to  a  few  more  points  of  high  interest,  such 
as  these :  the  notice  of  an  JSxultet  Boll,  at  p.  cItx,  contain- 
ing the  service  used  at  the  consecration  of  the  paschal 
candle  on  Easter  Ere :  of  a  Liber  Collationnm,  at  p.  clxiii, 
once  the  property  of  Ford  Abber,  in  DeTonshire.  con- 
taining short  lections  and  homilies  read  at  collation, 
chiefly  during  Lent;  some  curious  book  inscriptions, 
smathemas,  Ac.,  at  p.  ee ;  a  note  on  an  interesting  burial 
usage  at  p.  coxeriii;  reference  to  a  form  of  baptism 
printed  by  Mr.  Warren,  portions  of  which  **  may  have 
been  used  in  England  before  the  coming  of  St.  Augustine, 
smd,  in  some  part  of  the  country,  for  a  long  while  after- 
wards," at  p.  26,  together  with  some  quotations  from  the 
Missal  of  Bobert,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  a  manu- 
script of  the  elerenth  century,  preserred  in  the  public 
library  at  Bouen.  at  p.  80 ;  references  to  the  Pontifical 
of  ArchUshop  Cnlchele,  at  pp.  42, 47 ;  note  on  marriage 
at  the  church  door,  at  p.  60 ;  a  form  of  marriage  from 
the  Sarum  Manual,  at  p.  68;  a  notice  of  a  remarkable 
Psalter  printed  hj  Grafton  in  1648,  a  most  rare  book, 
containing  not  oiuw  the  Psalter,  but  also  *'  the  whole  oi 
what  has  to  be  said  by  the  elerk  or  clerks  **  in  response 
to  the  contemporarr  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  at  p.  90 ; 
and  the  mentioo  of  a  monumental  brass  at  Whitchurch, 
in  Dorset^  hitherto  unnoticed,  commemorating  one  John 
Wadham,  bearing,  so  late  as  1694,  the  inscription  "  whos 
soule  God  rest  in  pese." 

If  we  haTe  any  regret  in  the  perusd  of  these  noble 
volumes,  it  is  that  the  words  found  in  the  preface  to  the 
first  edition  can  no  longer  find  place  in  the  second :  "  I 
was  satisfied  I  was  but  Qtterii»  the  doctrine  of  the 
Church  of  England,  in  which  1  am  a  Priest.*'  No 
Chureh  can  aiford  to  lose  without  sorrow  so  learned  a 
son. 

We  hare  but  enlled  a  few  of  the  treasures  added  in 
this  new  edition  of  the  first  Tolume  only.  Space  compels 
US  to  say, "  Ex  uno  disoe  omnes."  We  eordially  recom- 
mend these  most  Taluable  Tolumes,  now  reprinted  at  so 
Tory  moderate  a  ooet. 

A  PoeCt  ffarvett  ffcme:   Uing   One  Hundred  Short 

Poem.  By  William  BeU  Scott.  (Stock.) 
In  this  dainty  little  Tolume  of  song  Mr.  Scott  may  fairly 
claim,  like  the  shepherd  in  Lyeidat,  to  hare  "  touched 
the  tender  stops  of  rarious  quills."  What  his  achiere- 
ments  are  the  admirers  of  his  Poenu  of  1876  will  not 
require  to  be  remhided ;  but  we  do  not  recollect  that 
even  that  book  so  much  impressed  us  with  the  range  and 
wealth  of  his  resources  as  tne  present  collection.  Super- 
ficially speaking,  the  most  noticeable  thing  in  it  is  the 
diTertity  of  its  themes.  The  author  can  turn  from  a 
ballad  Uke  <*  Glenkindie,"  which   might  have  ceme 


straight  from  the  Percy  Folio,  to  a  book-fancy  like 
'* Rabelais'*  or  a  Torse-Tignette  like  the  "Nymph  of 
Arcadie."  In  <' Little  Boy"  he  speaks  with  the  Tory 
Toice  and  accent  of  that  other  poet  and  painter  who 
wrote  the  wondrous  "  Tiger,  tiger,  burning  bright ";  in 
"Cupid  among  the  Maidens,"  again,  the  song  seems 
fragrant  of  "some  dropping  April" — '^DionsBo  sub 
antro"— with  Walter  Savage  Landor.  Playful  or  plaintive, 
picturesque  or  viTid,  every  mood  has  found  him  vocal ; 
and  the  result  is  a  series  of  verses  which  may  supply  its 
fitting  message  to  the  grey  twilight  or  the  all-golden 
afternoon.  "  J'ai  pris  la  vie  par  sa  edt6  po6tiqne  "  can 
Mr.  Scott  say  with  the  dead  tavan  Woopke.  And  life, 
it  may  be  added,  has  been  more  beneficent  to  him  than 
to  most  men,  for  he  has  found  beauty  in  many  places, 
and  neglected  it  in  none. 

Should  ike  Rented  New  Teetaeneni  he  Authcrieedf    By 

Sir  Edmund  Beckett,  LL.D.,  Q.C.  (Murray.) 
LiTKHATiTRB,  like  misfortune,  makes  us  acquainted  with 
strange  bedfellows,  or  the  name  of  Sir  Edmund  Beckett 
would  hardly  be  associated  with  water.  This  pamnhlet 
of  some  200  pages  shows  littie  signs  of  dilution,  ana  is  a 
most  spirited  indictment  of  the  Itevised  Version  of  the 
New  Testement  The  atteck  rages  along  the  whole  of 
the  revisers*  lines ;  but  Sir  Edmund  has  directed  MftwMn 
assault  on  the  Gospel  of  Si.  Matthew,  the  Bpistie  to  the 
Hebrews,  and  the  Bevelation.  In  the  course  of  his 
criticisms  he  makes  a  number  of  telling  pointi^  and,  as 
is  to  be  expected,  makes  them  forcibly  and  welL  The 
pamphlet  will  be  read  with  interest,  not  only  for  the 
sake  of  the  subject  which  it  treats,  but  for  the  ease  and 
vigour  with  wmch  it  is  written. 


Thb  May  and  June  numbers  of  Mr.  Walford*8  new 
Antiquarian  Magazine  will  contain  some  papers  by  t^e 
Rev.?.  E.  Harford,  Minor  Canon  of  Westminster,  on  the 
origin  of  our  National  Anthem,  which  he  has  traced  back 
to  a  Latin  anthem  sung  in  the  Chapel  Boyal,  St.  James's, 
in  the  time  of  the  Stuarts.  Another  paper  on  some 
doubtful  poete  of  the  sixteenth  century  will  be  contri- 
buted by  Archdeacon  Hannah. 

Thk  May  number  of  the  Law  Ma^fosin^  and  Remew 
will  contain  an  article  by  Mr.  Frederick  Pollock  on 
*<Earlv  English  Land  Laws,*'  in  continuation  of  his 
contribution  to  the  February  number;  and  an  article  by 
Mr.  Charles  Stubbe  on  "Suierain^:  MedisBval  and 
Modem." 

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(reviewed  in  "  N.  k  Q.,  anU,  p.  319)  are  Messrs.  Giiflith 
k  Farran,  St.  Paul's  Churchj^tfd. 


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E.  W.  (Market  Deeping).~We  have  not  yet  nodved 
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A.  W.  (Univ.  (^11,  London).^Yei. 

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CONTENTS.— N«  128. 

VOTES  :-Booki  on  SpaeUl  Subjects :  Janliu'i  "  Letten,"  S4l 
— Letten  of  Samael  Johnaoa  to  Dr.  Ttkjlot,  842— The  Ancient 
Pan^Tltlei:  tbe  Earldom  of  Ormond,  S43— Lord  Rodnef, 
344— Cozloai  Ck>inddence  —  CUrk'i  "Pennj  Weekly  Dit- 
patch,"  Ac  —John  Phelps— Surrey  Folk-lore,  845— CnriouB 
OomplimaBi—  Wonndworte  ^  "  Aooentoate  ''^"  Peaoe  with 
honour  "— **  ViU  stae  llterif,'*  Aa.  348. 

<)n£Rl£S:-TheApplic»tloa  of  "Countj/'346— **H7Pnero- 
tomachia,"  Ac  — W.  de  WannerriU— Margerj— Parsoni's 
MS.  Golleetlone— Engraving!  by  Heath— Rev.  S.  Bogen— 
"  Murtle  fish  "— "  Oawler*—*' Taking  French  leare.-  847— 
Curious  Document— J.  Boxer— *' Bltteetone"—The  Apothe- 
carr  in  "  Borneo  and  Juliet  "^Oenomanni— Somerset  Faml^ 
— Plaoes  of  Amusement  of  the  last  Century  ^Elisabeth 
Elstob- Arcfaimimus :  Clench  of  Bamet,  S48— Heralds'  Visi- 
tations of  Worcestenhlre  and  Gloucestershire  —  Authors 
Wanted.  849. 

AEPLIEJ:— "Heloe,"  849-Embassy  olTered  to  Sir  Thomas 
OTorbury,  850— St.  Margaret's,  Westminster,  851— Swinfen 
and  Grundy  Families,  852— Westenhanger— Unoolnsbire 
Provincialisms,  353— Ben  Jonson— "  History  of  the  Seven 
Wise  Masters"— "The  Five-foot-hlghlans,"  854  — Bandle 
Cotgrave— The  British  Oak— ** Much " and  "Great"— Am- 
monium Sulphide— Rapid  Thaw,  855 -Worcestershire  Field- 
Ifames— ••  Wont,"  &c.— Black  MaU— Oonghurst  of  Oonger- 
fanrst— ''Bont,"  856— '*  Bo-man,"  ftc^T^nnant's  Translation 
of  theUIst  Psalm-" The  Guy"— "Chemdrs"— The  Bod- 
lelan  Model  of  aa  Indian  WeU,  857— The  Pultoney  Oorre- 
«pondeDce— Fonts  of  the  Bestoration  Period-^Chlld's  "  Dis- 
«onrae  of  Trade  "— Foneral  Armour  in  Chuvehes— Transla- 
tions of  BCraiwer's  "Boi  dTvetot,*'  853— Capt.  W.  Cun- 
ningham—Bp.  Keene—"  Poetic  Mirror  "-Ancient  Mottoes, 
859. 

170TES  ON  BOOKS:— Chamook's"Pmnomlna''-Simcox's 
"  Early  Chwoh  History  "—"A  Noble  Boke  off  Cookry"— 
Cornish's  *' Horace,"  4o. 

Notices  to  Correspondents,  &c 


BOOKS  ON  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS. 

XI.   BDITIOMS  OF  JUNIUS*S  LETTERS. 

The  iDteresting  note  on  this  subject  from  Bib. 
Our.  (ante^  p.  282)  seems  to  invite  further  com- 
munications ;  I  shall,  therefore,  yenture  to  add  a 
few  memoranda  as  materials  for  a  future  more 
complete  bibliomphy  of  the  Junius  literature. 
One  of  the  earliest  publications  of  the  series  is 
The  Politiccd  Contut,  the  title  of  which  is  very 
generally  wrongly  quoted  as  containing  "  Junius's 
ietters  to  the  kLng,''  whereas  it  contained  only  his 
letter  and  the  counter  letter  signed  "Modestus" 
(Mr.  Dalrymple).  It  is  right  to  keep  to  the 
correct  title,  oecause  the  reference  to  "letters" 
when  there  was  only  one  letter  is  very  misleading. 
AUibone  mentions,  i.  1003,  the  trial  of  Almon  for 
selling  "Junius's  Letters  to  the  King."  In  later 
collections  the  title  was,  of  course,  correctly  given 
as  *'  Junius's  Letters  to  the  King  and  Others,"  but  I 
think  there  was  only  oru  to  the  king.    ^  ^  //  — "^ 

[1769.]  The  Politioal  Contest ;  oontaininj^  a  series  of 
letters  between  Junius  and  Sir  William  Draper:  also 
the  whole  of  Junius's  letters  to  His  Grace  the  D*^  of 
O*  ••*♦*,  brought  in  one  point  of  rl  >^.  London,  F. 
Newbery,  8vo.  pp.  66. 

[1769.]  The  tame.  The  third  edition.  F.  Newbery 
and  J.  Smith.  ^ 


1770.  The  Political  Contest;  containing  Junius's 
letter  to  the  K-*-;  Hod  Modestus's  answer.  Dubliu, 
printed,  and  Sold  by  the  Booicsellers.    8to.  pp.  24. 

1770.  A  comnlete  collection  of  Junius's  Letters,  with 
those  of  Sir  William  Draper.  London,  A.  Thomson, 
870.  pp.  180. 

Of  this  book  there  are  several  issues,  the  number 
of  pages  in  which  varies.    (See  Lowndes,  1240.) 

1771.  The  Qennine  Letters  of  Junius,  to  which  are 
prefixed  anecdotes  of  the  author.  Piccadilly,  London. 
CoQtenti,  4  pages.    Anecdotes  i-xz ;  letters  1-366. 

This  is  generally  described  as  the  "Piccadilly" 
edition ;  Lowndes  says  that  there  were  two 
editions,  the  earlier  of  which  he  had  never  seen  ; 
this  was,  perhaps,  not  the  case.  Ajs  first  issued  it 
contained  thirty-eight  letters,  according  to  the 
table  of  contents,  and  terminated  p.  255.  In  the 
course  of  the  year  twelve  more  letters  were 
printed,  and  the  volume  as  usually  to  be  met 
with  contains  fifty  letters,  and  ends  on  p.  366, 
which  bears  date  October  5,  1771 ;  yet  the  old 
table  of  contents  is  prefixed  to  the  volume,  which 
only  contains  the  first  thirty-eight  letters.  Even 
in  this  second  state  the  book  was  not  complete, 
for  at  the  foot  of  the  last  page  is  printed  lbt-, 
showing  that  a  fifty-first  letter,  at  least,  was  to  be 
added.  I  have  a  copy  of  this  edition  in  which 
the  LBT-  has  been  carefully  erased  to  make  it 
appear  a  perfect  book ;  but  I  have  never  seen  a 
copy  with  more  than  366  pages,  or  without  thia 
evidence  that  more  was  intended  to  follow. 

1791.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  London.  [No  printer's 
or  publisher's  name.]    12mo.  pp.  1-403. 

1792.  Junius.  Stat  nommis  Umbra.  [Engraved 
title.]  London,  A.  Hamilton,  2  vols.  Svo.pp.  227  and 
259.    Index  nnptgiC 

1797.  Tbe  Leicers  of  the  celebrated  Junius.  London, 
T.  Heptinstall,  2  vols.  12mo.  pp.  217  and  257. 

1797.  Juaius.  Stat  Nominis  Umbra.  [Engraved 
title.]  London,  printed  by  Bensley  for  Vernor  and 
Hood,  2  vols.  8vo.  pp.  274  and  819,  with  21  portraits,  and 
woodout  vignettes. 

1797.  The  same  title,  &c.  With  notes,  no  woodcuts, 
only  16  portraits  on  thick  paper,  2  vols.  Svo.  pp.  825  and 
866.  FA  fine  edition.  There  is  a  curious  mistake  in  the 
portrait  of  Qeorge  Grenville,  engrared  by  Ridley:  the 
name  is  printed  Jamet  Grenville.] 

1798.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  London,  Vernor  and 
Hood,  and  Lackington  &  Co.,  2  vols.  18mo.  pp.  266  and 
238,  nine  portraits,  and  woodout  viKuettes. 

1798.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  Huddersfield,  Brook  & 
Lancashire,  12mo.  pp.  816. 

1798.  The  Letters  of  Junios.  London,  for  J.  Mondell 
&  Co.  of  Edinburgh,  8vo.  pp.  816. 

1804.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  London,  Vernor  & 
Hood  and  others,  2  vols.  12mo.  pp.  266  and  288,  ten  por- 
traits. 

1805.  Junius.  Stat  Nominis  Umbra.  [Engraved 
title.]  London,  printed  by  Bensley  for  Vernor  &  Hood, 
2  vola  8vo.  pp.  252  and  284,  twenty-one  portraits. 

1806.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  London,  Vernor,  Hood 
&  Sharpe,  and  others,  2  vols.  12m().  pp.  266  and  288, 
thirteen  portraits. 

1807.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  [Engraved  Utlo.}  Printed 
for  J.  Walker  and  the  proprietors  [London],  18mo. 
pp.  866,  frontispiece  by  Unwin. 


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1807.  Junius.  Stat  Nominis  Umbra.  Edinburgh, 
printed  by  Ballantpe,  for  Vemor,  Hood  k  Sharpe,  and 
otben.  8to.  pp.  880,  twelve  portraita. 

1808.  The  Letters  of  the  celebrated  Junius.  Edin- 
burgh, TumbuU  k  Gall,  2  toIb.  12mo.  pp.  255  and  309, 
five  portraits. 

1810.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  London,  Yemor  k 
Hood,  and  others,  2  toIs.  12mo.  pp.  287  and  251,  thirteen 
portraits. 

1810.  Junius.  Stat  Nominis  Umbra.  London,  Yemor, 
Hood  &  Sharpe,  and  others,  large  8to.  pp.  880,  twelre 
portraits. 

1811.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  [Engraved  title.]  London, 
printed  by  a  A.  Oddy,  2  toIs.  12mo.  pp.  248  and  248, 
seyen  portraits. 

1812.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  rEngraTod  title.]  London, 
J.  Goodwin,  2  Tols.  12mo.  pp.  254  and  244,  Aye  portraits. 

1820.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  [Engrayed  title.]  London, 
J.  Bumpua,  12mo.  pp.  480. 

1827.  The  Letters  of  Junius.  [Bngrared  title.]  London, 
J.  F.  DoTe,  16mo.  pp.  290.    Fronti^iece. 

I  have  given  the  namber  of  portraits  as  I  find 
them  in  my  copies,  bat  I  am  not  sure  that  they 
are  correct  in  all  cases.  In  some  editions,  and 
especially  in  trade  issues,  the  number  of  illustra- 
tions often  varies ;  sometimes,  too,  copies  are 
made  up  from  old  portraits  in  stock. 

Bib.  Cur.,  under  the  head  of  WoodfalPs  first 
edition  of  1772,  is  careful  to  divide  his  copies  into 
the  first  edition  without  index  and  first  edition 
with  index ;  but  it  is  not  very  clear  whether  there 
were  two  distinct  issues,  one  wiUiout  and  another 
with  an  index.  The  first  edition  of  1778  was 
issued  without  table  of  contents  or  index,  and  had 
two  well-known  errors  in  the  preface — p.  xx,  "  un- 
reasonable" for  wueeuonable ;  and  p.  xxvi,  ''accu- 
rary"  for  accuracy.  These  were  soon  seen  and 
corrected,  and  then  an  index  was  printed  and 
added.  In  all  the  copies  which  I  have  seen  of 
this  edition  with  an  index,  the  index  and  table  of 
contents  are  clearly  additions,  printed  subsequently 
to  the  rest  of  the  book,  and  are  marked  "^B.  1 
imagine  that  the  only  distinction  between  the  first 
and  second  issues,  or  imprints,  is  the  errors  in  the 
preface,  and  that  the  presence  or  absence  of  the 
table  of  contents  and  index,  probably  printed  some 
months  subsequently  (1*^  S.  vL  384),  is  no  real 
evidence  of  the  date  of  the  issue  as  regards  the 
real  first  edition.  It  is,  however,  quit^  possible 
that  there  may  have  been  a  fresh  issue  of  what 
appears  to  be  the  first  edition^  having  the  table  of 
contents,  &c.,  printed  in  their  proper  sequence, 
without  the  accusing  *  befon  the  signature,  but 
I  have  never  seen  a  copy.  A  list  of  American 
editions  and  also  of  tiansbtions  would  be  very 
welcome.  Edwabd  Sollt. 

I  have  the  foUowingi  which  are  not  in  Bib.  Cub.'s 
list  :— 

The  Letters  of  JnniuSi  (Engraved  title-page, 
British  Patriotism  driving  Corruption  from  the 
Constitution.)    London,  1810.    (Suttaby.) 

Junius.  Stat  Nominis  Umbra,  (Engrayed  title-page.) 
London,  182a    (BiTington.) 

Wk.  Frmlove. 


LETTEBS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 

DB.  TAYLOB. 

{Continued  from  p,  825.) 

Deak  fim,— I  have  endeayoured  to  consider  your  affair 
according  to  the  knowledge  which  (he  papers  that  you 
hare  sent  me,  can  afford,  and  will  Tcrj  freely  tell  yoo. 
what  occurs  to  me. 

Who  M'  Woodcock  is  I  know  not,  but  unless  his  cha- 
racter in  the  world,  or  some  particular  relaiion  to  your- 
self, entitle  him  to  uncommon  respect,  you  seem  to  treat* 
him  with  too  much  deference  by  soliciting  his  interest 
and  condescending  to  plead  your  cause  before  hun,  and 
imploring  him  to  settle  those  terms  of  separation  which 
you  hare  a  right  to  prescribe.  Tou  are  in  my  opinion  t» 
consider  yourself  as  a  man  injured,  and  instead  of  making 
defence,  to  expect  submission.  If  yon  desert  yourseV 
who  can  support  yout  Yon  needed  not  have  confessed 
so  much  weaJmess  as  is  made  appear  by  the  tale  of  the. 
half  crown  and  the  pocket  picked  by  your  wife's  com- 
panion. However  nothing  is  done  that  can  much  huit 
you. 

Yon  enauire  what  the  fugitive  Lady  has  in  her  power. 
She  has,  i  think,  nothing  in  her  power  but  to  retnmi 
home  and  mend  her  l>efcAriour.  To  obtain  a  separate 
maintenance  she  must  prove  either  cruelty  to  her  persoi» 
or  infidelity  to  her  bed,  and  I  suppose  neither  charge  can 
be  supported.  Nature  has  given  women  so  much  power 
that  the  law  has  very  wisely  g^ven  them  little. 

The  Letter  for  M'  Wakefield  I  think  you  do  not  want; 
it  is  his  part  to  write  to  you,  who  are  ill  treated  bv  his 
sister.  You  owe  him,  I  think,  no  obligations,  but  have 
been  accustomed  to  act  among  your  wife's  relationsr 
with  a  character  of  inferiority  which  I  would  advise 
you  to  take  this  opportunity  of  throwing  off  for  ever. 
Fix  yourself  in  the  resolution  of  ezRCting  reparation  for 
the  wrong  that  you  suffer,  and  think  no  longer  that  yoo. 
are  to  be  first  insulted  and  then  to  recompense  by  sub- 
mission the  trouble  of  insulting  you. 

If  a  separate  alimony  should  come  to  be  stipulated  I 
do  not  see  why  you  should  by  an  absurd  generosity  pay 
your  wife  for  disobedience  and  elopement.  What  allow* 
ance  will  be  proper  I  cannot  tell,  but  would  have  yon 
consult  our  old  friend  M'  Howard.  His  profession  has 
acquainted  him  with  matrimonial  law,  and  he  is  in  himr 
self  a  cool  and  wise  man.  I  would  not  hare  him  come 
to  Ashbourne  nor  you  go  to  Lichfield ;  meet  at  Tntburv 
or  some  other  obscure  and  commodious  place  and  talB 
the  case  at  large  with  him,  not  merely  as  a  proctor  but 
as  a  friend. 

Your  declaration  to  M'  Woodcock  that  you  desiref 
nothing  to  be  a  secret  was  manly  and  right ;  perrist  in 
that  strain  of  talking,  receive  nothing,  as  from  favouB 
or  from  friendship ;  whatever  you  grant,  yon  are  to 
grant  as  by  compassion,  whatever  you  keep,  you  are  to 
keep  by  right.  With  M'  Wakefield  you  haye  no  business^ 
till  he  brings  his  sister  in  his  hand,  and  desires  you  to 
receive  her. 

I  do  not  mean  by  all  this  to  ezclnde  all  possibility  of 
accommodation ;  if  there  is  any  hope  of  liring  happily  or 
decently,  cohabitation  is  the  most  reputable  for  both. 

Your  first  care  must  l>e  to  procure  to  yourself  sucb 
diTersions  as  may  preserve  you  from  melancholy  and 
depression  of  mind,  which  is  a  greater  evil  thsn  a  dis^ 
obedient  wife.  Bo  not  give  way  to  grief,  nor  nurse 
vexation  in  solitude ;  consider  that  your  case  is  not  un- 
common, and  that  many  live  very  happily  who  have  like 
you  snoceeded  ill  in  their  [earlier*]  connexion. 

I  cannot  butt  [tie]  think  that  it  would  be  prudent  to 
remove  from  the  clamours,  questions,  hints,  and  looln  of 


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the  people  about  jou,  but  of  ibis  yoa  can  judge  better 
ifaaa  Dear  Sir,  Your  affectionate 

August  18, 1763.  Sam.  Johrsoh. 

To  the  Beverend  D'  Taylor  in  Aahbourne,  Derbyshire. 

Sept  3, 1763. 

DxAB  SiiL,— M'  Woodcock,  whatever  may  be  his  general 
-character,  seems  to  have  yielded  on  ibis  occasion  a  very 
^easy  admission  to  Tery  strong  prejudices.  He  belieyes 
every  thing  against  yon  and  nothing  in  your  favour.  I 
«m  therefore  glad  that  his  resolution  of  neutrality,  so 
vehemently  deohtred^has  set  you  free  from  the  obligation 
■of  a  promise  made  with  more  frankness  than  prudence 
-to  refer  yourself  to  his  decision.  Your  letters  to  him  are 
written  with  great  propriety,  with  coolness  and  with 
•spirit,  and  seem  to  nave  raised  his  anger  only  by  dis- 
appointing his  expectations  of  being  considered  as  your 
protector,  and  being  solicited  for  favour  and  countenance. 
Mis  attempts  to  intimidate  you  are  childish  and  indecent ; 
-what  have  you  to  dread  from  the  Lswl  The  Law  will 
•give  M"  Taylor  no  more  than  her  due  and  you  do  not 
-desire  to  give  her  less. 

I  wish  you  had  used  the  words  pretended  friendship 
^nd  would  have  lyou]  avoid  on  all  occasions  to  declare 
whether,  if  she  should  offer  to  return,  you  will  or  will 
not  receive  her.  I  do  not  see  that  you  have  anything 
more  than  to  sit  still,  and  expect  the  n^otions  of  the 
lAdy  and  her  friends.  If  you  think  it  necessary  to 
jetain  Council  [sic],  I  suppose  you  will  have  recourse  to 
D'  Smallbrook,  and  some  able  Man  of  the  common  L%w 
or  chancery,  but  though  you  may  retain  them  provition- 
■ally,  you  need  do  nothing  more ;  for  I  am  not  of  opinion 
that  the  Lady's  friends  will  suffer  her  cause  to  be  brought 
into  the  Courts. 

I  do  not  wonder  that  M'  Woodcock  is  somewhat  in- 
'Credulous  when  you  tell  him  that  you  do  not  know  your 
own  income;  pray  take  care  to  get  information,  and 
-either  grow  wiser  or  conceal  your  weakness.  I  could 
iiardly  believe  you  myself  when  I  heard  that  a  wrong 
letter  bad  been  sent  to  Woodcock  by  your  servant  who 
made  the  packet.  You  are  the  first  man  who,  being  able 
to  read  and  write,  had  packets  of  domestick  quarrels 
made  by  a  servant  Idleness  in  such  degree,  must  end 
in  slavery,  and  I  think  you  may  less  disgracefully  be 
igovemed  by  your  Lady  than  by  M'  Hint  [)].  It  is  a 
maxim  that  no  man  ever  was  enslaved  by  influence 
while  he  was  fit  to  be  free. 

I  cannot  but  think  that  M'  Woodcock  has  reason  on 
liis  side  when  be  advises  the  dismission  of  Hannah.  Why 
•should  you  not  dismiss  her  1  It  is  more  injury  to  her 
reputation  to  keep  her  than  to  send  her  away,  and  the 
loss  of  her  place  you  may  recompense  by  a  present  or 
some  small  annuity  conveyed  to  her.  But  this  I  would 
liave  you  do  not  in  compliance  with  solicitation  or 
advice,  but  as  a  justification  of  yourself  to  the  world ; 
•the  world  has  alwaye  a  right  to  be  regarded. 

In  affairs  of  this  kind  it  is  necessary  to  converse  with 
some  intelligent  man,  and  by  considenng  the  question  in 
■all  states  to  provide  means  of  obviating  every  charge. 
It  will  surely  be  right  to  spend  a  day  witn  Howard.  Do 
not  on  this  occasion  either  want  money  or  spare  it 

You  seem  to  be  so  well  pleased  to  be  where  you  are, 
that  I  shall  not  now  press  your  removal,  but  do  not 
believe  that  every  one  who  rails  at  your  wife,  wishes  well 
to  you.  A  small  country  town  is  not  the  place  in  which 
one  would  chnse  to  quarrel  vrith  a  wife;  every  human 
heing  in  such  places  is  a  spy. 

1  am,  dear  Sir,  Yours  affectionately 

Sam.  Juhksok. 

To  the  Rev^  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 

John  E.  B.  Mayor. 

Cambridge. 


The  Amcibnt  Pbrct  Titles  :  the  Earldoic 
OF  Ormond  or  Ormonde.— May  I  be  allowed  to 
correct  aa  error  in  your  review  (ante,  p.  219)  of  Fos- 
ter's Peerage  f  The  reviewer  objects  to  Mr.  Fostor 
inserting  only  the  male  descent  of  the  Bake  of 
Northumberland,  on  the  ground  that  "he  is  un- 
doubtedly the  heir-general  of  the  great  house  of 
Percy,  and  as  such  the  possessor  of  their  ancestral 
domains."  This  statement  is  completelv  erroneous, 
for  the  Duke  of  Athole  is  "  undoubtedly  the  [sole] 
heir-general  of  the  great  house  of  Percy,  and  as 
such  the  possessor"  of  those  Percy  titles  which 
were  descendible  to  heirs-generaL  I  would  also 
point  out  that  though  Mr.  Foster  is  not  justified 
in  making  Lord  Berkeley  aetwiUy  "  Earl  of  Or- 
monde," yet  no  less  an  authority  than  Nicolas 
believed  him  to  be  so  de  jure,  and  that  the  Act 
(quoted  by  Lynch)  of  the  28  Hen.  YIIL  (1635-6), 
by  which  "  all  the  rights  of  the  co-heirs  of  Thomas 
Earl  of  Ormonde  in  Ireland  were  resumed  and  re- 
vested in  the  Crown,"  seems  hardly  in  accordance 
with  the  earl  being  alive  as  late  as  1638,  and 
being  in  full  possession  of  the  title  at  least  as  late 
as  1637.  But  perhaps  one  of  your  correspondents 
may  be  able  to  solve  this  question.  R. 

(The  Duke  of  Athole  has  no  descent  from  Lady 
Elisabeth  Percy,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Josceline, 
eleventh  and  last  Earl  of  Northumberland  of  the  old 
creation,  which  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  has  not 
also.  Moreover  he  is  the  possessor  of  no  title  which  was 
ever  held  by  any  of  the  Earls  of  Northumberland  of  the 
old  creation,  or  by  Lady  Elizabeth  Percy  their  heiress. 
The  Duke  of  Athole  is,  through  his  grandmother  Lady 
Emily  Percy,  the  wife  of  James,  first  Lord  Glenlyon, 
the  '*  heir-general,"  as  importing  female  descent,  of 
Hugh  (Smithson),  second  Duke  of  Northumberland. 
The  Duke  of  Northumberland  is  the  heir  male  of 
Hugh  (Smithson),  first  Duke  of  Northumberland,  and 
of  Lady  Elizabeth  Sevmour,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Algernon,  seventh  Duke  of  Somerset,  ton  and  heir  of 
Charles,  sixth  Duke  of  Somenet,  by  Lady  Elizabeth 
Percy  aforesaid.  Alf;ernon,  seventh  Duke  of  Somerset, 
was  in  1749,  as  heir-general  of  the  Percies,  created 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  &c.,  with  remainder,  failing 
his  issue  male,  to  his  son-in-law  Sir  Hugh  Smithson, 
and  to  the  heirs  male  of  his  body  by  Lady  Elizabeth 
Seymour  his  wife,  in  default  of  which  the  earldom  of 
Northumberland,  &c.,  to  the  said  Lady  Elizabeth 
Seymour,  and  to  her  issue  male,  the  "ancestral 
domains  '*  of  the  Percies  going  in  the  same  line  and 
having  so  passed  ever  since.  Hence  the  character  of 
"  heir*general "  of  the  Percies  was,  as  far  as  the  descent 
of  titles  and  estates  is  involved:  merged  in  the  character 
of  '<heir  male"  of  Sir  Hugh  Smithson  and  Lady  Eliza- 
beth Seymour.  And  it  was  in  this  sense  that  we  de- 
scribed the  Duke  of  Northumberland  as  *'  heir-general " 
of  the  Percies  in  suggesting  to  Mr.  Foster  that  he 
should  give  the  Percy  as  well  as  Smithson  pedicrree  of 
the  Duke  of  Northumberland  in  his  Peerage.  On  the 
death  of  Algernon,  fourth  Duke  of  Northumberland, 
in  1865,  the  Duke  of  Athole,  in  virtue  of  his  femsle 
descent  from  Hugh,  second  Duke  of  Northumberland, 
succeeded  to  the  barony  of  Percy.  But  the  barony  of 
Percy  to  which  he  succeeded  had  never  been  held  by 
any  of  the  ancient  stock  of  the  Earls  of  Northumberland, 
and  vras,  oddly  enough,  created  by  mistake.  On  the 
death  of  Lady  Elizabeth  Percy,  Duchefi^of^Sotm^tl^ 


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in  1722,  it  being  erroneously  aanned  ihat »  baronj  of 
Percy  bad  been  veited  in  ber,  a  writ  of  Bummons  was 
issued  to  ber  son  and  beir  Algernon,  afterwards  seventb 
Duke  of  Somerset,  and  be  took  bis  seat  in  tbe  House  of 
Lords  witb  a  precedency  wbicb  did  not  belone  to  bim. 
As  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  ebows  at  lengtb,  no  barony  of 
Percy  was,  in  fact,  vested  in  tbe. duke's  motber,for  tbe 
barony  of  Percy  by  writ,  created  in  1299,  bad  become 
extinct  on  tbe  attainder  of  Tbomas,  seTentb  Earl  of 
Kortbumberland,  in  1571,  and  tbe  barony  of  Percy  by 
patent,  created  in  1557,  bad  become  extinct  on  tbe 
death  without  male  isi>ae  of  Jocceiine,  eleTenth  Earl  of 
Nortbnmberbnd,  in  1670  {Hittoric  Peeragt,  pp.  379-880). 
Both  Sir  Bernard  Burke  and  Mr.  Foster  give  tbe  date  of 
tbe  creation  of  tbe  Duke  of  Atbole^s  barony  of  Percy 
correctly  under  tbe  beading  '*Atbole,"  namely,  1722. 
But  under  tbe  heading  '*  Northumberland,"  Sir  Bernard 
.  Bnrke  states  that  "  Lady  Elizabeth  Percy,  only  surriTing 
child  and  beir  of  Josceline,  eleventh  and  last  earl  [of 
Nortbumberland],  wa«  in  her  own  right  Baroness  Percy**; 
while  Mr.  Foster  states  that  **  Algernon,  seyenth  duke 
[1748]  of  Somerset,  &c.,  having  mccfeded  to  the  baronies 
o/Ptrey,  Lftetf,Poyningi,  Fitipayne,  Brpen,  and  Latimer, 
on  the  death  of  hii  mother,  iVov.  28,  1722.  was  treated 
Earl  of  Northumberland,  Baron  Warkwortb.  &c., 
Oct.  2,  1749,  witb  remainder,"  &c.  That  he  did  not 
succeed  to  any  barony  of  Percy  it  is  needless  to 
repeat,  and  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  says  that  tbe  barony 
of  Lucy  is  "probably"  in  abeyance  between  Lords 
Stourton  (Mowbray)  and  Petre.  Maud,  tbe  sister  and 
eventual  beir  of  Anthony,  last  Baron  Lucy,  did  indeed 
many  Henir  Percy,  first  Earl  of  Northumberland,  and 
Sir  Harris  Nicolas  adds  that  "notwithstanding  that  the 
said  Maud  died  without  issue,  the  descendants  of  the  said 
esrl  were  often  styled  Barons  Lucy,  their  pretensions  to 
that  barony  being  manifeetly  without  even  the  slightest 
foundation  "  [Historic  Pferage,  &c.,  p.  808).  The  barony 
of  Poynings  ^as  extinguifbed  with  that  of  Percy  by  the 
attainder  of  Thomas,  seventh  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
in  1571,  and  the  barony  of  Fitz-Payne  is  stated  by  Sir 
Harris  Nicolas  to  be  in  abeyance  between  Lords  Arundell 
of  Wardour,  OiiTord  of  Chudleigb,  and  Stourton 
(Mowbray),  with  the  addition  that  the  ancestress  from 
whom  the  Earls  of  Northumberland  were  sometimes 
asserted  to  have  derived  it  •'could  never  have  inherited 
any  barony  whatever"  {Historic  Peerage,  p.  197).  Sir 
Harris  Nicolas  afiHrms,  too,  that  "tbe  'Barls  of  North- 
umberland  never  bad  the  slightest  pretensions  to  tbe 
barony  of  Bryan  "  {Historic  Peerage,  p.  79) ;  and  of  the 
Barony  of  Latimer,  be  lays  that  it  is  in  abeyance  between 
nearly  a  drzen  coheirs,  whom  he  names,  and  of  whom 
tbe  Duke  of  A  thole  is  now  no  doubt  one  {Historic 
Peerage,  p.  281). 

As  to  the  Earldr  m  of  "  Ormond,"  assinicd  by  Mr.  Foster 
to  tbe  Earl  of  Berkeley,  not  only  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  but 
many  other  weisbiy  authorities  have  expresied  tbe 
opinion  that  tbe  Earls  of  Berkeley  in  England  were  pro- 
bablv  Earls  of  Ormond  in  Ireland  as  the  surriring  coheirs 
of  Thomas  Bullen,  Earl  of  Wiltshire  and  Ormond.  It 
was  for  this  rcacon  that  we  called  attention  to  what 
Lynch  has  said  about  tbe  earldom,  since,  on  tbe  death 
01  tbe  present  Earl  of  Berkeley  without  issue,  the  earl- 
dom of  Ormond  of  tbis  creation,  if  it  still  exists,  would 
pasff  into  a  different  line  of  descent  from  the  earldom  of 
Berkeley.  It  is  true  that  Sir  Harris  Nicolas  gives  the 
date  of  Thomas  Bullen,  Earl  of  Wiltshire  and  Ormond's 
death  as  1538  (Historic  Peerage,  p.  514),  but  Lynch 
asserts  that  he  died  in  1587.  and  (hen  mentions  tbe 
statute  of  the  28tb  of  Henry  VIII.--an  Act  of  tbe  Irish 
Parliament— by  which  the  rights  of  the  coheirs  of  tbe 
earldom  were  resumed  and  revested  in  the  Crown.  Sir 
Bernard  Burke  and  Mr.  Foster,  under  the  heading 


'*  Ormonde,"  also  give  the  date  of  his  death  as  1587,  ancl 
Mr.  Foster  as  in  or  before  FebmaTy.|15S7.  Lynch  add» 
that  in  tbe  year  1587  (Mr.  Foster  says  February  22, 1587) 
tbe  king  "  granted  and  confirmed  by  letters  patent'*  the 
ancient  estates  of  the  Butlers.  Earlsof  Ormonde,  to  Pierce 
Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde  and  Ossory.  alias  Pierce  Butler* 
Earl  of  Ossory,  alias  Pierce  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  and 
James  his  son  and  heir,  and  to  their  heirs  male  for  ever 
{Legal  Institutions,  &c.,  pp.  87-88).  It  maybe  added 
that  the  28th  year  of  Henir  VIII.  was  not  "1585-6,"' 
but  extended  from  April  22, 1586,  to  April  21, 1587.] 

Lord  Bodkst. — I  hope  that  wboeyer  may  be 
the  aathor  of  the  account  of  Lord  Bodney  in  the 
forthconiisc  volntne    of  the  new  edition  of  the 
Encyclopccdia   Britannica  will    not    repeat   the- 
statement  about   that   distinguished  navail  com- 
mander having  been  offered  high  command  in  the 
French  navy  in  1778,  unless  he  can  produce  some- 
thing more  like  evidence  of  it  than  is,  I  believe,  at 
present  available.    We  have  it  on  Eodney's  owi» 
authority,  in  a  letter  to  his  wife  dated  May  6,. 
1778,  that  he  had  just  been  enabled  to  leave  Faris- 
by  **ihe  generous  friendship  of   the    Mar^al 
Biron/'  whoj  advanced  a  thousand  louis  to  enable- 
him  to  discharge  the  debts  which  detained  him  in 
Paris  whilst  longing  to   return  to  England  and 
engage  once  more  in  the  service  of  his  country. 
One  can  conceive  a  high-minded  officer  saying  to- 
one  who  was  now  his  country's  enemy,  ^^  Les  Fnn- 
Qais  n'ont  jamais  redout^  un  ennemi  de  plus  ";  but 
surely  it  is  utterly  inconsistent  with  his  being  the- 
medium  of  offering  Bodney  hich  command  against 
his  own  country,  which  would,  indeed,  have  been 
the  greatest  of  all  insults.    It  is  not  enough  then^ 
I   apprehend,  to  say,  as  is  done  in  the  eighth 
edition  of  the  Encyckpadia,  that  the  statement 
does  "  not,  perhaps,  rest  on  sufficient  authority.''' 
If  the  matter  has  no  evidence  to  support  it,  it 
ought  to  be  simply  withdrawn  from  any  life  of 
BcMlney.    In  the  accounts  given  in  the  Biographie 
Univertdle,  we  are  told,  *'  11  est  pen  vraisemblable 
que  le  roi  de  France"   (referring  to  the  Frencb 
naval  commanders  then  at  his  service)  "ait  pa 
concevoir   le    projet   d'acheter  si   ch^rement  un 
amiral  anglais.''    That  argument  is>,  however,  of 
little  weight ;  the  French  king  might  conceivably 
have  formed  al  truer  estimate  than  others  of  the 
abilities  of  Bodney ;  but  the  terms  in  which  the 
letter  speaks  of  Biron  would  never  have  been  used 
had  he  really  made  such  a  proposal  in  the  king's 
name.    I   am  aware  that  in  Mund^s  Lifi  and 
Correspondence  of  Bodney  he  says  that  the  anec- 
dote, though  no  positive  proof  could  be  fooduced 
of  it,    was   "generally  credited   in   the   noble 
admiral's  own  family."    Of  that  statement  itself, 
however,  he  produces  no  evidence  ;  and  one  cer- 
tainly cannot  adopt  his  view  that  no  imputatiom 
would  thereby  attach  to  the  character  of  Mar^chal 
Biron.    Indeed,  Mundy  does  not  seem  very  care- 
ful about  his   facts  genendly ;   for,  speaking  of 
Bodney  in  earlier  life,  he  says  ^^is  royaLsponsor 

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the  king  haying  giyen  him  a  letter  of  eemce  (the 
last  ever  granted)  he  went  to  sea^"  This  was  on 
leaving  Harrow  in  1730,  three  years  after  the 
deatli  of  his  royal  sponsor,  King  Geoige  I. 

W.  T.  Ltbh, 
Bkckheath. 

A  OnRioxTS  CoiKCiDENCB.  —  Some  of  your 
readers  may  {KMusibly  be  interested  in  the  follow- 
ing carious  coincidence.  I  hare  lying  before  me 
a  somewhat  rare  little  Tolnme,  styled  ^  The  Hap- 
pifu$$  of  Man  in  this  Life,  By  O.  Nelson,  School- 
master. Durham,  Printed  for  the  Anther,  by  J. 
Ross,  ITdO.**  The  printer,  I  fancy,  was  the  first 
of  his  craft  in  Durham,  as  Mr.  W.  H.  Allnntty  of 
the  Bodleian,  in  his  excellent  Notes  on  Ptinters 
and  Printing  in  the  Provineial  Towns  of  England 
and  Wales  (Lend.  1879),  mentions  lum  as  the 
earliest  printer,  and  gives  as  his  first  book 
Ihirham  (Jathedral  as  It  WaSy  1733.  Mr.  Nelson, 
however,  says,  p.  71,  '*  There  is  a  mighty  Satisfac- 
tion and  Comfort  in  having  done  our  Duty."  We 
all  remember  how  a  greater  Nelson,  at  Trafalgar, 
exclaimed,  "  Ood's  will  be  done,  I  have  performed 
my  duty,  and  I  devoutly  thank  Him  for  it ";  and 
shortly  afterwards  he  again  repeated,  ''God  be 
praised  that  I  have  done  my  duty."  Doubtless  he 
felt  that ''  mighty  satisfaction  "  of  which  his  name- 
sake spoke  some  169  years  before,  and  such  a 
thought  must  have  animated  his  breast  when,  hav- 
ing given  his  worid-famed  signal,  "  England  ex- 
pects every  man  to  do  his  duty,"  he  said,  *'  Now 
I  can  do  no  more ;  we  must  trust  to  the  great 
Disposer  of  all  events,  and  the  justice  of  our  cause. 
I  thank  €k)d  for  thu  opportunity  of  doing  my 

duty."  RiCHABD  HOOPBB. 

Upton  Beetory,  Didooi 

Clark's  "Pmnrr  Wbbklt  Dispatch,"  &a— 
A  friend  of  mine  is  engaged  upon  the  subject  of  a 
"  History  of  Extinct  Ptonodioal  Literature  in  Eng* 
land,"  and  it  is  one  which  has  oooMionally  been 
referred  to  in  your  pages.  •  Let  me  note  some 
pobiications  of  this  class  long  sinoe  extinct : — 

Clarks  Weddf  Dispaieh,  Four  pages,  large 
folio.  Issued  weekly,  and  usually  oontaining  a 
■lory,  as  ''Turpin  the  Highwayman,"  illustrated 
with  a  woodcut  of  some  scene  in  it    Price  one 

enny.    Date  about  1842.    Published  by  W.  M. 

Hark,  of  Warwick  Lane,  London. 
Cleaves  Penny  Oas^te.  Same  size.  Issued 
weekly,  and  usually  illustrated  by  two  roughly 
executed  woodcuts — one  of  a  political  kind  gene- 
rally. Date  about  1842.  Published  by  John 
Cleave,  1,  Shoe  Lane,  Fleet  Street,  London.  This 
took  another  form,  both  as  regajrds  matter  and 
size,  in  1843-4,  being  issued  in  octavo,  and  ran  a 
career  for  perhaps  eighteen  months  as  CUom^s 
Chxette  of  Variety, 

Whites  Penny  Weekly  Broadsheet.  Same  size. 
Issoed  weekly.    This  was  in  exiBtenoe  in  1842, 


S 


and  bad  a  serial  story,  **  Sixteen  Stringed  Jaek ; 
or,  the  Last  of  the  Highwaymen,"  illustrated  with 
woodcuts. 

The  Penny  Satirist,  Same  size.  Issued  weekly, 
and  containing  one  large  woodcut  illustration  of  a 
political  kind.  In  existence  in  1842 —probably 
earlier— and  had  a  longer  life  than  the  others. 

Tom  Spring's  Life  in  London,  Same  size. 
Issued  weekly,  and  containing  one  large  woodcut^ 
usuidly  of  a  sporting  kind,  l^ioe  one  penny.  In 
exbtence  in  1842. 

The  Odd  FeUow^  Same  size.  Issued  weekly, 
and  oontaining  a  large  woodcut,  chiefly  of  a 
political  kind.  Price  one  penny.  In  existence 
in  1842  and  1843. 

The  Go^'head  Journal,  Same  size.  Profusely 
illustrated,  the  blocks  having  presumably  been 
borrowed  from  the  offices  of  illustrated  newspapers 
and  magazines.    In  existence  in  1845  or  1846. 

All  &eee  must  now  be  exoessTvely  rare,  and  it 
would  be  interesting  to  know  how  long  was  the 
career  of  each — very  brie(  it  may  be  imagined,  of 
some  of  them.  John  PickfoUd,  M.A. 

Newbonme  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

John  Phslps. — ^Most  visitors  to  Vevey,  in 
Switzerland,  will  remember  St.  Martin's  Church 
and  the  tombs  of  the  English  refugees  Ludlow  and 
Broughton,  the  latter  of  whom  read  the  death 
warrant  to  Charles  I.  A  beautiful  marble  tablet 
has  lately  been  pkced  to  the  memory  of  their 
companion  in  exile,  John  Phelps,  private  secretary 
of  Oliver  Cromwell,  and,  with  Broughton,  derk  of 
the  court  which  tried  and  condemned  the  king, 
and  who,  to  avoid  all  (question  as  to  his  account- 
ability, wrote  out  the  journal  of  the  court  daily 
and  signed  it  with  his  full  name.  The  tablet 
bears  the  following  inscription : — 

*•  In  Memoriam 
of  Him  who,  being  with  Andrew  Broaghton  joint  clerk 
of  the  Court  which  tried  and  condemned  Oharlee  the 
First  of  England,  hsd  tuch  seal  to  acoept  the  foU  re- 
sponsibility of  his  act  that  he  signed  each  record  with 
his  full  name 

John  Phblps. 

He  came  to  Vevey  and  died,  like  the  associates  whose 

Memorials  are  aooat  os,  an  Exile  in  the  caoie  of 

Human  Freedom. 

This  Stone  is  placed  at  the  request  of 

W"  Walter  Phelps  of  New  Jersey  and 

Charles  A.  Phelps  of  Massachusetts 

Descendants  from  across  the  Seas." 

0.  A  P. 

SuRRW  FoLK-LORB.-— TO«  Cowb  off  Chwch 
Bells  a  Cure  for  the  Shingles,^!  inquired  the  other 
day  of  my  farm  man  the  reason  of  the  carter  boy's 
absence,  and  he  replied,  *'  He  has  got  the  shingles^ 
and  I  have  told  his  fSather  to  set  the  ooomb  [as  he 
pronounced  it]  off  the  church  bellB  and  mb  it  into 
him.  They  say  it  is  the  best  thing  fqr  it."  And 
he  added,  "If  the  shingles  meets  all  round  yon 
it  'fi  most  sure  to  kill  yon.**  I  was  sorrv^p  find  that 

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the  father  did  not  try  it,  bat  cured  the  boy  with 
the  more  coxnmonplace  remedy  of  ink.  This  comb, 
as  he  called  it,  is  a  sort  of  accretion  or  moss  which 
gathers  on  old  bells  when  they  are  exposed  to 
damp. 

WeciUier  Prognotticatian, — The  summer-like  day 
of  February  12  last  was  followed  by  wind  and  wet. 
&ii6h  unusually  fine  days  are  locally  called 
''weather  breeders."  A  man  remarked  to  me, 
^  I  knew  we  should  have  a  change,  for  the  bees 
were  so  busy  yesterday.  Whenever  the  bees  get 
About  at  this  time  of  year,  I  hare  always  noticed 
that  we  are  certain  to  get  wind  and  rain  next  day." 

G.  L.  G. 

A  CriRious  CoMPLiusm'. — ^The  following  is  one 
among  the  many  curious  government  orders  issued 
in  the  early  days  of  the  colony  of  New  South 
Wales.    It  is,  I  think,  unique  of  its  kind: — 

<*  GoYernment  House,  Sidney,  Jalj  23,  1802.  — Hia 
EicelleDoy  the  OoTemor*  is  pleased  to  direct  that  in  all 
£piritaal  Judicial  and  parochial  proceedings  deeds  instru- 
ments and  registers  the  districts  of  Sydney,  Petersham. 
Bttllananing,  Concord  and  Liberty  Plains  be  comprised 
within  a  parish  to  be  henceforth  named  St.  Phillip  in 
honor  of  the  first  GoTemor  of  this  territory  [Captain 
Arthur  Phillip].  And  the  districte  of  Parramatta,  Banks- 
town,  Prospect  Hill,  Toongabbie,  Seven  Hills,  Castle 
fiiU,  Eastern  Farms,  Field  of  MarSj  Northern  Boundarv 
Ponds,  and  Kissing  Point  be  comprised  within  a  parish 
to  be  henceforth  named  St  John,  in  honour  of  the  late 
Ctovernor  Captain  John  Hunter.  And  that  the  churches 
now  building  at  Sydney  and  Parramatta  be  respectively 
named  St.  Phillip  and  St.  John." 

This  order  was  strictly  carried  out,  and  to  this  day 
the  parishes  and  churches  are  so  named. 

J.   HSNNIKXR  HjEATOK.  . 

Woundworts.— Having  lately  been  preparing 
an  account  of  British  Tulnerary  and  medicincd 
herbs,  I  have  found  the  following  statement  in  an 
•old  book  called  The  Country  Man's  Jewel  (1680)  :— 

"  These  be  the  Herbs  which  are  called  the  five  lances 
which  leadeth  unto  a  wound,  Dittam,  Pellure,  Monicom- 
«oand.  Pimpernel,  and  Spearwort  These  be  the  five 
grasses  that  draw  a  wound,  Oculus  Christi,  Madder, 
Bugloss,  red  Cole,  Erval.  These  the  eight  grasses  de- 
fensive, Ach,  herb  Robert,  Bugloss,  Sanicula,  Savory, 
Spavin,  Molin,  and  Crowfoot;  these  are  defensive. 
These  are  the  grasses,  with  the  five  lances  that  leads 
unto  a  wound,  and  draweth  unto  a  wound,  and  know- 
ledgeth  a  fester." 

I  need  hardly  say  that  none  of  the  plants  men- 
tioned above  are  "  grasses  "  in  the  present  accep- 
tation of  the  word,  but  as  several  of  the  names  of 
the  plants  given  are  strange  to  me,  I  should  thank 
any  learned  herbalist  acquainted  with  the  old 
names  of  medicinal  herbs  who  would  tell  me  the 
names,  whether  botanical  or  vernacular,  that  are 
applied  at  present  to  monicomsound,  erval,  pellure, 
spavin,  molin,  and  ach.  Edwin  Lkss,  F.L.S. 
Worcester. 


*  Governor  P.  Gidley  King. 


BooK-PLATKS. — Among  my  few  book-plates  is 
one  of  '*  William  FitzGerald  Lord  Bishop  of 
Clonfert,  1698."  This  was  not  known  to  the 
Hon.  Mr.  Warren  when  writing  his  book  on 
ex-libris ;  and  because  it  is  not  mentioned  there  I 
send  this  record  of  it  to  ''  N.  &  Q.**  The  bishop's 
arms  are  impaled  with  thoee  of  the  see  in  a  shield 
set  in  an  ornamental  framework,  from  which 
spring  sprays  of  acacia  that  rise  above  the  shield 
level  with  the  top  of  the  mitre  that  surmounts  iL 
William  FitzGendd  was  advanced  to  the  see  of 
Clonfert  by  the  letters  patent  of  King  WilUam 
and  Queen  Mary  dated  July  1,  1691.  He  was 
the  son  of  Doctor  John  FitzGerald,  Dean  of  Cork, 
and  was  bom  in  that  city.  He  married  (1)  when 
Dean  of  Cloyne,  in  1688,  Letitia  Cole  of  Dublin, 
spinster ;  (2)  Mary,  relict  of  Boyle  Maynaid, 
Esq.,  and  second  daughter  of  Sir  Henry  Tynte  by 
Mabella,  daughter  of  Sir  Percy  Smith,  of  Bal- 
linalray.  Robert  Dat,  Jun.,  F.S.A. 

8,  Sidney  Place,  Cork. 

"  AccKHTUATK." — This  new  word  is  rapidly 
taking  a  place  in  newspapers  and  magazines  in 
place  of  "  intensify,"  "  increase,"  "  heighten,"  and 
similar  words,  and  perhaps  Dr.  Chamcr,  or  some 
other  philologist  jealous  of  the  purity  of  our  Eng- 
lish tongue,  will  question  this  stranger,  and  give 
him  a  welcome  if  he  deserves  it.  Estb. 

"Peace  with  honour." — A  friend  refers  me 
t^  CariolanuSf  Act  III.  sc.  iL,  for  the  origin  of 
this  now  famous  expression  : 

"  How  is  it  less  or  worse. 
That  it  shall  bold  conifMinionthip  in  peace 
With  honour,  as  io  war  1 " 

Alfred  Gattt,  D.D. 

"  Vita  sine  litbris  mors  B8T."—While  read- 
ing a  book  well  worth  reading,  Thomas  Carlyle, 
the  Man  and  his  Works,  by  Wm.  Howie  Wylie, 
my  eye  fell  upon  the  monogram  of  the  publishers, 
Marshali  Japp  &  Go.  The  monogram  on  the  title- 
page  is  contained  in  a  circle,  round  which  are  the 
words  as  above.  The  motto  is  good,  only  I  know 
a  better.  In  1699  died  Vinoentius  Placcius,  a 
learned  professor  at  Hamburg.  He  left  behind 
him  a  modest  Latin  inscription  to  be  placed  upon 
his  tombstone.    The  last  two  lines  are  as  follows : 


"  Vita  sine  Uteris  somnui^ 
Sine  Christo  mors  est" 


Archobacov. 


€lufrfff. 

We  must  request  oorrespondeots  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Thb   AppLicATioir   OF   "ComrPT.'' — In  Mr. 
Richard    Grant    White's    adfuizable    JBrnry-day 

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Bnglith,  p.  131, 1  find  a  statement  with  this  ex- 
planation:— "Esseic,  Sussex,  and  Kent,  and  I 
bdieve  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  not  being  ciftUed 
counties  or  shires,  and  the  people  living  there 
taking  some  local  pride  in  the  fact."  Is  it  a  fact  1 
I  live  'Hhere,"  to  wit,  in  the  first-named  county, 
and  I  neyer  heard  of  it!  Is  it  likely  that  the 
town  hall  at  Chelmsford  would  be  called  (as  it  is) 
the  *^ Shire  Hall"  if  Essex  were  not  called  a  shire  ? 
And  how  could  any  one  living  there  take  pride  in 
the  term  "shire"  not  being  applied  to  Essex? 
Assuredly  we  always  speak  of  the  '* county"  of 
Essex.  Notwithstanding  all  this,  there  may  be 
some  truth  in  the  remark;  and  I  therefore  ask 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  whether  any  one  of  those  great 
divisions  of  England  enjovs  or  claims  such  a  dis- 
tinction, viz.,  that  of  not  being  called  a  county  or 
shire,  there  being  nothing  else  by  which  it  can  be 
called.  C.  M.  I. 

Athenasam  Club. 

^'  Htpnbrotomaghia,  the  Strife  of  Love  in 
A  Drbaub,"  Published  bt  John  Busbie  in 
1592.— Does  any  library,  public  or  private,  con- 
tain a  copy  of  this  work  1  There  is  no  copy  in  the 
British  Museum.  W.  R.  S.  R 

William  db  Wannervill=Margert,  a-d. 
1240. — 1.  In  the  Yorluhire  Archaological  Journal 
I  find  the  following  passage  : — 

"  Adam  de  Wenrevill  held  one  knight's  fee  of  Henry 
de  Lad,  1166.  William  de  Wanneirill,  Lord  of  Hems- 
worth,  1240,  married  Margery,  daughter  and  heir  of 
land  there,  and  widow  of  William  Kirkby  of  Kirkby,  co. 
Lane,  and  of  William  de  Marion  of  Marion  in  Cleve- 
land, and  left  a  son,  Sir  Adam  de  WannerTill,  who  is 
buried  at  Hemsworth.*' 

I  shall  be  very  much  obliged  if  any  one  will  tell 
me  whose  daughter  Margery  was.  It  appears 
that  she  married  William  de  Wannervill  for  her 
third  husband  ;  and  that  she  was  heir  of  lands  at 
Hemsworth.  It  is  supposed  that  this  Margery 
was  descended  from  Gamel,  the  holder  of  the 
manor  of  Hemsworth,  at  the  time  of  the  Domes- 
day Survey  ;  and  by  GameFs  eldest  male  branch 
having  terminated  in  an  heiress  (Margery),  Wil- 
liam de  Wannervill  thus  became,  by  marriage, 
possessed  of  the  manor  of  Hemsworth.  Suppos- 
ing that  she  (Margery)  was  descended  from  Qamel, 
what  surname  would  the  family  be  most  likely  to 
adopt? 

2.  I  find  it  stated  in  a  History  of  Slurhum 
and  Cawood  that  when  the  Poll  Tax  (2  Rich.  II.) 
was  taken,  the  landed  proprietors  were  excluded, 
and  that  they  were  returned  in  connexion  with 
their  lands,    is  this  correct  ? 

J.  D.  Hbusworth. 

Dr.  Richard  Parsons's  MS.  Collections.— 
Can  you  oblige  me  with  any  particulars  of  these 
collections  towards  the  history  of  Gloucestershire  ? 
Of  what  kind  are  they  ;  and  where,  in  whole  or 


in  part,  deposited  1  Sir  William  Vernon  Guise,. 
Bart.,  in  his  address  delivered  at  the  first  annual 
meeting  of  the  Bristol  and  Glouoestershire  Archeso- 
logical  Society  (Tranta^WM,  voL  i.  p.  46), 
observed  that 

"  among  other  less  extensive  eolledtors  xrfay  be  named 
Dr.  Parsons,  chancellor  of  the  diocese,  1677-1711,  the- 
precursor  of  [Sir  Bobertl  AiiEyne  as  a  cQllector  of 
county  soies,  and  himself  probably  a  disciple  of  [Sir 
Matthew]  Hale." 

Abhba. 

Outline  ENGRAYivas  by  Charles  Heath.— 
There  is  a  set  of  outline  engravings,  apparently 
twenty-five  in  number,  engraved  some  by,  othera 
under  the  direction  of,  Charles  Heath,  which 
illustrate  a  mediaeval  romance,  the  armour  and 
dresses  being  late  fifteenth  century.  They  repre- 
sent the  adventures  of  two  knights  who  at  last 
marry  princesses.  Combats  with  a  giant  and 
giantess,  sieges,  scenes  at  court,  and  especially 
tournaments,  are  represented  with  spirit,  and 
with  much  detail.    In  what  work  did  they  appear  ? 

Calcuttsnsis. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Rogers,  of  Chellington, 
Bedfordshire.-— He  wrote  a  "  Poem  addressed  to 
a  Bell-Founder  and  Chime-Maker,"  which  ap- 
peared in  a  Key  to  the  Art  of  Ringing^  issued,  I  • 
believe,  in  1796.  Was  Mr.  Rogers  vicar  of  Chel- 
lington ?  If  so,  at  what  date  ?  And  who  waa 
the  bell-founder  addressed  ? 

The  Curfew,  North  and  South.— The  cur- 
few is  rung  at  Penrith  in  Cumberland,  and  at 
JBodmin  in  Cornwall.  Is  it  heard  further  north, 
or  further  south,  in  England  ? 

Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfechan. 

"  Murtle  Fish." — Does  any  one  know  of  a  fisb 
of  this  name  ?  There  is  at  Norwich  a  respectable- 
inn,  now  called  the  "  Maid's  Head,"  so  designated 
because  Queen  Elizabeth  honoured  it  with  a  visit. 
Local  authorities  state  that  previously  it  wa» 
called  the  "  Murtle  Fish.'*  Perhaps  the  name  is 
local ;  or  there  may  have  been  such  a  fish  known, 
in  former  times,  but  now  extinct. 

Jerom  Murch. 

Bath. 

"Gawler." — Why  is  this  name  applied  to  a. 
hill  and  other  pieces  of  land  at  Chiselborough^ 
Somersetshire  ?  J.  H. 

"Taking  French  leave."  —  I  have  often 
wondered,  considering  the  politeness  of  the 
French,  how  this  phrase  originated ;  but  the 
other  day,  in  reading  The  Mirrour  of  JwtieeSf  I 
came  upon  the  following  passage,  which  looks  to 
me  as  if  it  offered  a  clue :—"  In  some  places  these 

divisions  [of  counties]  are  called  Hundreds, and 

in  some  tithings  or  Wapentakes,  according  to  the 
English  (which  is  French  taking  of  arms)."     I 


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I6ttB.V.MAT6,'€2. 


€opy  the  traoslation  of  Mr.  W.  Hughee  yerbatim, 
bat  the  meaning  is  certainly  obscure.    Can  any  of 
jour  readen  explain  it  7     E.  Walford,  M.  aI 
Hampftead,  N.W. 

A  CURIOUS  Document. — I  have  before  me  a 
•document  printed  on  a  piece  of  paper  about  four 
inches  square,  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy. 
All  round  the  border  of  the  paper  are  rough  wood- 
cuts of  bees.  The  words  in  italics  are  written  in 
ink:- 

Olaigow  January  l$th  1755, 
We  Swarm. 

I,  Daniel  MeCaUuntt  Cashier  for  Daniel  McFuno, 
Puncan  Buchanan  &  Company,  Bankers  in  Glasgow, 
having  powers  for  them  Promise  to  James  Gardiner,  or 
the  Bearer  on  demand  One  Penny  Sterling,  or  in  the 
option  of  the  Directors  three  Ballads  six  days  after  a 
demand;  and  for  ascertaining  the  demand  aind  option 
of  the  Directors  the  Accomptant  and  one  of  the  Tellers 
of  the  Bank  are  hereby  ordered  to  mark  and  sign  this 
note  on  the  back  thereof.  By  Order  of  the  Court  of 
Directors  Dafiil  MoCallvx,  Dardsl  MoFufn. 

I  shall  be  glad  if  any  of  your  readers  can  give  me 
an  explanation  of  the  meaning  of  this  document. 
I  have  referred  to  Jamieeon's  SeottUk  Dictionary, 
thinking  that  the  word  "ballad"  might  have 
some  other  signification  in  Scotch,  but  find  that 
it  has  not  The  motto  "  We  swarm  **  and  the  bees 
printed  round  the  edge  of  the  paper  may  suggest 
some  explanation.  Seeing  the  name  McFunn,  I 
thought  that  perhaps  it  was  a  document  in 
connexion  with  one  of  the  many  funny  social  clubs 
which  existed  in  Glasgow  about  that  time. 

J.  N.  B. 
28,  Highbury  Phice,  N. 

Jaubs  Boxbr,  American  Author.— He  pub- 
lished a  Tolume  entitled  Sacred  Dramas,  The 
book  was  published  by  Lee  &  Shepard  (Boston) 
about  ten  years  ago.  Can  some  American  reader 
of  ''  N.  &  Q."  giye  me  any  information  about  the 
author  ?  What  are  the  titles  of  Mr.  Boxer's  sacred 
dramas?  R.  Inglis. 

"Bluestonk"=Poison.— A  witness  was  asked 
in  the  Northern  Police  Court,  Glasgow,  a  few 
weeks  ago,  a  question  relative  to  the  quality  of 
certain  whiskey  said  to  have  been  supplied  to  him. 
"It  wasn't  whiskey,"  he  said,  **it  was  nothing 
but  bluestone."  "But  what?"  inquired  the 
magistrate.  "Bluestone,  your  honour/'  was  the 
answer — "poison."  Is  this  a  common  synonym 
for  poison,  and,  if  so,  whence  is  it  derived  ?  I 
heard  the  question  and  answer,  and  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  the  word  was  used  as  a  familiar  one. 
William  George  Black. 

Glasgow. 

The  Apothbcart  in  "  Rombo  and  Juliet." — 
The  Tatler  says  there  was  an  actor  of  the  day 
who  could  play  nothing  well  but  the  Apothecary 
in  B01MO  and  JiiUet,    This  he  played  so  well 


that  he  grew  fat  upon  it^  and  then,  of  coarse,  was 
set  aside.  Out  of  employment,  he  soon  grew  thin, 
and  80  again  qualified  himself  and  had  a  further 
run  in  it.  Of  course  this  is  a  whimsical  bit  of 
humour  and  not  a  fact ;  but  do  the  annals  of  the 
stage  furnish  anything  that  may  have  suggested 
the  hint  to  theae  humourists  of  last  century? 

C.  A.  Ward. 
MayfaSr. 

Ettuologt  of  Cenouanni. — I  should  imagine 
that  Mr.  Freeman  does  not  mean  seriously  the 
etymology  he  proposes  of  the  name  of  this  Gallic 
tribe  at  p.  205  (foot-note)  of  the  first  volume  of 
his  Beign  of  William  liufus ;  but  perhaps  some 
may  understand  it  so.  After  quoting  Orderic's 
absurd  suggestion,  "  Coenomannis,  a  canina  rahic 
dicta/*  he  writes: — "Following  the  diphthongal 
spelling  of  the  text,  one  might  rather  be  tempted 
to  derive  the  name  from  the  commune  or  xoti^i^ 
set  up  by  its  mm."  Surely  he  can  hardly  mean 
that  the  word  is  compounded  of  a  Greek  and  a 
Teutonic  word  ?  Moreover,  is  it  not  more  likely 
that  the  same  of  the  tribe  is  Celtic  in  its  origin  ? 

W.  T.  Lynn. 

Blaokheatb. 

Somerset  Family. — In  Bayley's  History  of 
Lambeth  mention  is  made  of  a  family  named 
"  Summersett,"  whose  ancestor  John  (who  died  in 
Greenwich  Hospital  about  1700)  is  stated  to  have 
been  the  son  of  a  Mr.  Somerset,  a  relation  of  the 
Marauis  of  Worcester,  whose  mansion  house  in 
the  West  of  England  was  besieged  by  Cromwell, 
who  hanged  him  and  all  his  servants,  allowing 
the  aforesaid  John  to  escape  with  his  brother  and 
sisters.  Who  was  this  Somerset  that  Cromwell 
hanged  T  What  relation  was  he  to  the  Marquis 
of  Worcester  ?  It  appears  that  the  Summersetta 
always  crossed  the  final  t^'s  so  as  to  keep  up  the 
remembrance  of  Somerset.  W.  W. 

Placeb  of  Amusement  of  the  Last  Centurt. 
— Has  any  book  been  published  on  their  history? 
Are  there  any  collections  formed  for  that  purpose 
in  the  British  Museum  or  elsewhere  ?    J.  R.  D. 

Elizabeth  Elstob. — Can  any  of  your  readers 
give  me  any  information  concerning  this  Saxon 
schokr  and  authoress  of  the  eighteenth  century? 
Did  she  compile  a  pedigree  of  her  family? 

A.  E.  0. 

Arghimimus:  Clench  of  B/lrnet.— In  Musca 
Anglicana,  vol  ii.  editio  quintan  1741,  at  p.  124, 
is  a  poem  in  Latin  hexameters  upon  Arehimimus, 
and  an  asterisk  prefixed  to  its  title  in  the  table  of 
contents  shows  that  it  had  not  a  place  in  former 
editions  of  the  book.  The  author^s  initials  only  are 
appended,  **  0.  H.,  Coll.  Jesu.  Cantab."  Arehimimus 
seems  from  the  poem  to  have  been  a  remarkable 
mimic,  possessing  both  wonderful  play  of  features 


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and  yentriloqaial  powers.  He  asaames  the  cha- 
racters of  a  quack  doctor,  a  drunken  man,  and  an 
old  woman,  and  afterwards  imitates  the  noise  of  a 
pack  of  hounds  and  the  shouts  of  the  huntsman ; 
then  successively,  the  music  of  an  organ  and  the 
sound  of  the  trumpet.  Is  there  any  history  or 
memoir  in  existence  of  Clench  of  Barnet,  who 
appears  to  haye  flourished  during  the  first  half  of 
the  eighteenth  century  ? 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Ifewbonme  Eectoiy,  Woodbridge. 

The  Heralds'  Visitations  of  Worcbster- 
flHiRB  AND  Gloucestershire.— Have  these  ever 
been  published  ;  if  so,  when,  and  by  whom  ? 

C.  A. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted. — 

An  £ssay  on  Medals.  8to.  London,  printed  for 
James  Bodsley  in  Pall  Mall,  1784. 

La  Science  dee  Midaille*  Antiques  et  Modemet 

Awec  gnelques  N<meeUes  Deeouvertes  faites  dans  eette 
Science,  NoaTelle  Edition.  12mo.  A  Amsterdam, 
1717.— It  contains  elcTcn  plates.  It  appears  that  the 
irathor's  book  was,  without  his  consent,  translated  into 
lAtin,  and  printed  with  his  name  to  itni  Leipsig  in  1695. 
Louis,  Levis,  or  Joseph  Jobert,  1647—1719,  wrote  a 
book  under  the  same  title.  Is  this  his  work?  The 
"Approbation,"  which  is  rery  short,  is  as  follows:— 
-"  J  at  lu  par  ordre  de  M onseigneur  le  Ohancelier  un 
manuBcrit  intitnU  La  Science  des  Medailles,  L*Aateur 
me  paroit  avoir  une  oonnoissance  tres-6tendae  de  son 
sujet;  et  11  le  traite  aTeo  beaucoup  de  clart6  et  de 
methods ;  son  ouTrage  ne  pent  Stre  que  tris-utUe  au 
Public.    A  Paris  oe  9  Juin,  1704.  — Pouohard." 

D.  Whttk, 

"  Voyage  a  Vlsle  de  France,  &c.  Par  un  OfBcier  du 
BoL  2  vols.  A  Amsterdam,  et  se  trouYe  h.  Paris,  chez 
Merlin,    xdcclxxiii."  J.  D.  G. 

The  Lavs  of  Honour;  or,  a  Compendious  Account  of 
ihe  Ancient  Derivation  of  all  Titles,  Dignities,  Offices,  &c. 
London,  1726.    8to. 

BonuLn  Forgeries  ;  or,  a  True  Account  of  False  Records, 
^iseopering  th€  Impottures  and  Counterfeit  Antiquities 
^  the  Church  of  Rome,  By  a  Faithful  Son  of  the  Church 
of  England.    London,  167^  8to.        T.  £.  T.  Lovedat. 

Letter  on  the  Gospel  o*  Dirt— Is  it  known  who  wrote 
that  extremely  cleyer  forgeiyl  It  so  deceived  Mr. 
Euskin,  then  at  Venice,  that,  before  Carlyle  disclaimed 
it,  he  had  reprinted  it  entire  in  Fors  Clavigera  as  an 
ntteranee  "  that  would  not  be  among  the  least  memor* 
able  "  of  hU  '*  dear  Master."  K  L.  G. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted.— 
'<I  cannot  pretend  to  a  deep  research  into  all  this 
domain,  but  as  the  traTeller  passing  through  the  railway 
cuts  and  noticing  the  dibris  around  a  station  can  essay 
eome  description  of  the  geoloey  of  the  country  he  is 
passing  through,  so  I  have  tried  to  give  some  faint  idea 
of  this  subject."  J.  H.  H. 

"  Ignem  gladiis  ne  fodias."  J.  P.  S. 

["  Ignem  gladio  scrutare."— Horace,  Sat,  ii.  3,  276. 
wvp  ftaxaip^  <rffaXcveiv.— Pythag.,  ap,  Diog.,  L.  8, 17.] 


"HBLOB." 
(6"^  S.  T,  28.) 

Mr.  Mathew  will  find  this  word  a  seodnd 
time  in  Gotgraye,  viz.,  i,v.  honteux,  which  is 
explained  by  him  ''shamefast,  bashfull,  helo, 
modest,''  &c.  The  word  is  also  to  be  found  in 
Halliwell,  who  says  **  bashful,  modest  (North)  ";* 
but  he  quotes  no  other  example  than  the  one 
quoted  by  Mr.  Mathew  from  Cotgraye.  But 
the  "North "led  me  to  refer  to  Jamieson,t  and 
there  I  was  fortunate  enough  to  stumble  upon 
the  true  explanation  of  the  word,  which  will  be 
found  i.v,  how  (coif,  hood,  or  night-cap).  There 
we  find  "  sely  how,  hely  how,  happy  how,  a  mem- 
brane on  the  head  with  which  some  children  are 
bom ;  pron.  hoo,  S.B."  In  the  next  paragraph  he 
giyes  a  quotation  from  Ruddiman,  which  begins 
thus:  *'in  Scotland  the  women  call  a  haly  or 
sdy  how  («. «.,  holy  or  fortunate  cap  or  hood)  a  film 
or  membrane  stretched  oyer  the  heads  of  children 
new  born,"  &c  In  another  quotation  tdy  is  spelled 
iiUie,  Jamieson  also  points  out  that  iiUy  comes 
from  the  A.-S.  scBiig  (also  spelled  sce2%)=happy, 
and  he  might  haye  added  that  in  O.E.  also  the 
same  word,  spelled  ieU  or  nli  (see  Stratmann,  s.v. 
sili),  had  the  meaning  of  happy.  As  for  how, 
Jamieson  says  it  is  connected  with  the  Swed.  hufwa^ 
Dan.  hue,  derm.  Hauhe,  which  mean  a  woman's 
cap  or  head-dress,  and  not  (so  directly  at  least) 
with  the  words  in  these  languages  signifying  head. 

Since  writing  the  aboye  i  haye  also  found  in 
Halliwell,  ^*S%Uy  heWyH  child's  caul  (Durham)." 
It  is  dear,  I  think,  from  what  I  haye  said  that 
Cotgraye's  hehe,  or  helo,  is  a  contraction  of  hely 
how,  and,  strictly  speaking,  means  a  child^t  eaul= 
the  Fr.  coiffct  Thence  it  seems  to  haye  come  to 
mean  ''a  child  bom  with  a  caal"»Fr.  eoiffS,  and 
then  (like  the  French  itre  rU  eoi^,§  as  explained 
by  Cotgraye)  shamefaced,  &a  This  kst  transition^ 


*  This  means,  I  presume,  Korth,  as  I  also  find  East 
(which  cannot  be  the  name  of  a  county),  thoueh,  as 
Halliwell  very  frequently  abbreviates  the  names  of  coun- 
ties, North  might  possibly  mean  Northamptonshire  or 
Northumberland.    He  giyes  no  list  of  his  abbreyiations;, 

t  Heloe  is  not  giTen  by  him,  though  he  quotes  part  of 
Mr.  Mathbw's  passage  from  Cotgrave,  but  close  to  where 
hdoe  would  have  been  I  found  helie-how,  holy  how,  and 
this  led  me  to  refer  to  how. 

:t  It  is  clear  likewise  that  the  word  might  ali^o  have 
assumed  the  form  haloe  or  halo  (when  there  would  have 
been  some  resemblance  in  meaning  to  ^/o=glory),  or, 
again,  it  might  have  taken  the  shape  seloe,  but  neither  of 
these  forms  seems  to  occur. 

§  This  meaning  of  etre  ne  corfe  Is  not  given  by  Littr6, 
and  is  certainly  not  in  use  in  the  French  of  the  present 
day.  Cotgrave  seems  to  have  come  from  the  North,  and, 
if  so,  no  doubt  knew  the  literal  meaning  of  heloe.  May 
he  possibly  have  imported  its  meaning  into  the  French 
expression  ?  Can  any  one  give  an  instaftce  from  an  old 
French  anUior  in  which  ne  coiffe  is  thus  nsed? 


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^hich  at  first  sight  appears  rather  pazzlingy  is,  I 
think,  beat  explained  by  supposing  that  there  was 
a  belief  in  those  days  that  a  boy  born  with  what 
was  thought  to  resemble  a  woman's  cap  on  his 
head,  and  thas  parUy  dressed  like  a  woman,  would 
be  lUcely  to  exhibit  many  womanly  qualities,  and 
80  be  timid,  shamefaoed,  and  modest ;  and  Cot- 
graye's  explanation,  "wrapt  in  his  mother's  smock/' 
seems  to  point  in  this  direction.  F.  Chamcb. 
Sydenham  Hill. 

I  am  told  that  when  one  enters  a  cottage  in 
Cheshire  it  is  a  very  common  thing  to  be  greeted 
thus:  '*Sit  ye  diown,  and  dinna  be  heyhe"  (the  h 
very  quiescent).  I  haye  found  this  north-country 
word  under  many  forms  in  glossaries  and  diction- 
aries of  the  seyenteenth  and  eighteenth  centuries. 
See  Eng.  Dial  Soc.  BeprinUd  Olosmriet,  Ser.  B. 
(1873)  i—-"  Htloet  hdcMv,  bashful  (in  common  use), 
Eay  (1691),"  B.  15.  ""  Hala,  bashful,  nicely 
modest,  Thoresby's  letter  to  Ray  (1703),"  B.  17. 
"  HdUthf  modest,  bashful,  squeamish,  A  Tour  to 
ih$  CaveSf  J.  H.  (1781),"  B.  1.  Compare  Jamieson, 
where  the  word  occurs  in  yarious  forms :  hiily, 
heliey  ^«Iy,  kielyy  "proud."  I  belieye  that  the 
meaning  of  the  word  in  Scotland  guides  us  to  the 
etymology.  Heilyf  hdoe,  can  be  nothing  else  than 
the  A.-S.  hMtc  (=high  like),  «  proud,  haughty." 
Cf.  also  the  Norse  hdligr,  "  hieh."  A  Mid.  Eng. 
form  of  A.-S.  h^dh  (high)  was  My,  hence  pronun- 
ciation hiyloe.  Then,  in  Cotgraye,  we  have  the 
remarkable  use  of  the  word  heloe  mentioned  by 
me,  ante,  p.  28 ;  this  I  would  illustrate  by 
Jamieson,  t.v.  helU  how  (also  spelt  holy  how). 
For  much  curious  information  about  the  super- 
stitions connected  with  a  child's  caul,  compare 
Brand's  AntiquUies  (''  Omens  "). 

A.  L.  Mathew. 

The  word  hehi,  as  used  by  Cotgraye,  is  eyi- 
dently  the  same  as  our  Lancashire  word,  yarionsly 
spelt  and  pronounced  ayla,  ayloy  hcda,  and  healo^ 
and  meaning  shy,  bashful,  backward,  shamefaced. 
It  is  entered  as  follows  in  the  E.D.S.  Lancashire 
Oloisary : — 

'*Ayla  (Pylde),  Aylo  (S.B.  Unc),  adj.,iby,  backward, 
shamefaced.  John  Ray,  in  his  Glossary  of  Jforth-Country 
Words  (1691),  has <  ffeloe  or kelaw,  bashful';  and  Ralph 
Thoresby,  in  the  list  of  Yorkshire  words  (presumably 
from  the  neighbourhood  of  Leeds)  sent  to  Ray  in  1703, 
gives,  '  llala,  bashful,  nicely  modest '  (see  E.D.S.  Re- 
printed Glossaries,  part  iii.).  See  also  *  J^aZa,  bashful,' 
in  the  Rey.  W.  Thomber's  glossary  of  old  words  used  in 
the  Fylde,  Eisiory  of  Blackpool,  p.  108.  Mr.  Edwin 
Waugh,  m  his  Ckimney  Comers  makes  one  of  his  cha- 
racters sav  :  'There 's  some  fresh-pood  sallet  tbeer,  an* 
some  oowd  beef,  an*  some  cheese— so  reitch  to,  an*  dunnot 
be  at/o,  for  I  'm  nobbut  a  poor  hand  at  laithin*  (inyit^ 
ing).'»' 

„  J.  H.  Nodal. 

Beaton  Moor. 

This  word'  is  giyen  in  Lieut. -CoL  Egerton 
Leigh's  Ghuary  of  Cheshire^  1877,  *'Halo    or 


haihw,  adj.,  awkwardly  shy  and  bashful ;  from 
A.-S.  htoylj  bashful,  W."  Query,  is  not  the  A.-S. 
hwyl  apocryphal  ?  The  Rey.  Wm.  Carr,  in  his 
Crown  Glossary,  1828,  says:  ** BaIo,h(alo,  bashful, 
modest.  Sc.  proud.  A.-S.  healic,  excelsus.  Welsh 
gwyl,  bashful  In  Lancashire,  healo.  Tim  Bobbin, 
heU),  Cotgraye,  under  honteux.'*  The  word  is  to 
be  found  also  in  HalliwelFs  IH'et,  but  he  does  not 
yenture  upon  any  deriyation. 

F.  C.  BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 
CardifT. 

Holloway,  in  his  (hneral  Dictionary  of  Fro^ 
vineiaXitmSy  giyes,  "  Edot  or  hdofvo,  adj.,  bashful 
(North)."  G.  F.  R.  B. 


EUBASST  OFFBRBD  TO  SiR  ThOMAS  OvERBURT 

(6**>  S.  y.  307).— This  is  one  of  the  many  doubtful 
minor  points  in  history,  respecting  which  further 
information  is  desirable.    The  eyidence  is  scanty, 
and  some  of  it  is  yery  questionable  as  to  yeracity. 
It  seems  to  be  pretty  well  ascertained  that  whei^ 
Robert  Carr  had  told  the  Countess  of  Essex  what 
his  friend  Sir  Thomas  Qyerbury  said  of  her,  and 
what  he  threatened  to  do  if  the  proposed  diyorce* 
and   marriage    were    proceeded   with,   she    was 
furious,  and  determined  on  the  destruction  of 
Qyerbury.    Sir  A.  Weldon  (Court  and  Character 
of  King  Jcmes,  1650,  p.  69)  says,  "The  plot  then 
must  be,  he  must  be  sent  a  Leidger  Embassador 
into  France,  which  by  obeying  they  should  be  rid  of 
so  great  an  eyesore ;  by  disobeying  he  incurred 
the  displeasure  of  his  Prince  ;  a  contempt  that  he 
could  not  expect  lesse  than  imprisonment  for,  and 
by  that  means  be  sequestred  from  his  friends.*^ 
It  is  plain  that  in  the  first  instance  what  was 
desired  was  to  send  OFerbury  away,  to  appoint 
him  ambassador  to  some  foreign  country.    In  the 
First  Five  Years  of  King  James  (1643,  p.  35) 
it  is  said  that  the  Council,  still  finding  Qyerbury* 
diligent  and  sufficient,  "  nominates  him  as  a  man 
fit  to  be  sent  Embassador  into  the  Low-countries 
to  the  Arch-duke.''    The  writer  of  Avlicus  Co- 
quinaria  (attributed  to  Bishop  Goodman),  which: 
was  intended  as  a  reply  to  Weldon's  tract,  states, 
that  Qyerbury  was  well  fitted  from  "  his  excellent 
parts  to  present  the  Kings  person  in  embassie  to> 
France,  which  to  my  knowledge  he  accepted,  and 
seemingly  prepared    to   adyance";  adding  sub- 
sequently, "  llien  Qyerbury  would  not  goe  ;  no, 
though  I  know  his  instructions  were  drawn,  and 
additionalls  thereto,  by  his  own  consent"    There 
is  further  the  eyidence  of  Sir  Dndly  Digges,  men- 
tioned in  the  trial  of  Richard  Weston  (Hargraye's 
State  TriaU,    1776,   yol.  I  p.  326),    that   "Sir 
Thomas  Qyerbury  had  imparted  to  him  his  readi- 
ness to  be  imployed  upon  an  Embassage." 

The  most  direct  eyidence  upon  this  point,  how- 
eyer,  is  that  contained  in  a  letter  written  by  John 
Packer  to  Sir  Ralph  Winwood  {Memorials  of 


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Jffairs  of  States  toL  ill  p.  447),  dated  London, 
April  22,  1613.    He  writes  :^ 

**  Yeiterday  about  Six  of  the  Clock  my  Lord  Chan- 
cellor and  my  Lord  of  Pembroke  were  imployed  by  the 
King  to  speak  with  Sir  Thomas  Overbury,  and  to  make 
him  an  offer  of  an  Ambassage  into  the  Low  Gountriea  or 
France,  which  he  would.  Whereto  he  made  answer 
that  he  was  not  capable  of  such  Imployment  for  want  of 
language,  nor  able  to  undergoe  it  by  reason  of  his 
weakness,  being  so  exceedingly  troubled  with  th»  spleen 
that  if  he  had  a  long  letter  to  write  he  was  feign  to  give 
oyer." 

Packer  adds  that  Overbaiy's  answer  was  taken  ill, 
and  that  he  was  sent  to  the  Tower,  "  where  he  is 
close  Prisoner."  It  is  plain  that  the  writer  was 
not  present,  bat  only  reports  to  Winwood  what  he 
haa  heard,  or,  perhaps,  what  has  been  told  to  him. 
Mr.  John  Ghamberlaine,  writing  to  Winwood 
a  fortnifuht  later,  gives  a  new  aspect  of  the 
matter  (AfemonaZs,  yoL  ill  p.  453),  under  date 
London,  May  6,  1613  :^ 

"the  true  Cause  of  Sir  Thomas  Orerbury^s  com- 
mitting to  the  Tower,  which  was  a  contemptuous 
answer,  and  refusing  of  forreign  Imployments  offered 
him  in  the  King's  Name;  and  especially  that  he  in* 
sisted  that  the  King  could  not  in  Law  nor  Justice  force 
him  to  forsake  his  Country.  But  some  say  he  was  most 
urged  to  that  of  Muscovy ^  which  drare  him  to  that 
peremptory  and  unmannerly  answer.  Indeed  we  have 
great  doings  in  hand,  and  strange  projects  for  that 

place Yet  the  King  apprehends  the  busyness  very 

earnestly,  and  hath  caused  Sir  Henry  NeTill  to  confer 
with  some  of  the  Councill  about  it  diverse  times." 

From  this  and  other  similar  statements  it  is 
evident  that  at  the  time  various  stories  were 
abroad  as  to  what  was  proposed  to  Sir  Thomas. 
It  appears  plain  that  an  embassy  was  offered  him, 
and  that  he  was  willing  to  go.  Packer  says  it 
was  to  France  or  the  Low  Countries,  and  probiably 
this  in  the  first  instance  was  true  ;  it  is,  however, 
also  probable  that  an  embassy  to  Muscovy  was 
subsequently  proposed.  The  objection  which 
Overbury  is  said  to  have  made,  namely,  his  igno- 
rance of  the  language,  could  not  apply  to  France, 
where  he  bad  for  some  time  resided,  but  might 
well  apply  to  Moscow  ;  and  if,  in  the  first  instance, 
France  or  Holland  was  proposed  to  him,  and  the 
offer  accepted,  and  then  it  was  proposed  to  him  to 

fo  to  Muscovy,  he  might  well  object,  and  say  the 
ing  had  no  right  to  send  him  off  to  a  distant  coun- 
try without  his  consent.  It  is  certain  that  an 
embassy  to  Muscovy  was  at  the  time  under  con- 
sideration, and  a  very  few  days  subsequently  to 
Overbury 's  committal  to  the  Tower  the  king 
signed  a  commission  to  the  governors  of  Muscovy 
to  renew  certain  ancient  treaties  (Rymer,  voL  zvi. 
p.  747).  Historians  differ  as  to  which  of  these 
three  embassies  was  offered  to  Overbury,  having  no 
distinct  evidence  on  the  subject.  It  is  probable 
that  all  three  were  proposed,  and  that  Muscovy 
was  the  last  named,  which  led  to  his  refusal  to 
go  at  all.  Edward  Sollt. 


St.  Mabgarst's  Churchtard,  Westminster: 

THE    DAVie-TRBOONWBLL    ToMB    (6*»»   S.    V.    128,, 

171,  213,  234,  295,  319).— It  may  interest  many 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.''  who  reside  at  a  distance  to. 
know  that  this  tomb  is  the  only  one  now  remain- 
ing visible,  and  that  the  others  are  buried  under 
the  green  turf  which  now  makes  this  once  desolate 
and  anything  but  respectable-looking  graveyard 
*'a  thing  of  beauty"  and  "a  joy  for  ever."  A 
faculty  having  been  obtained,  this  great  improve-* 
ment  has  been  carried  out  under  the  care  of  Canon 
Farrar  and  the  churchwardens,  Messrs.  Stewart 
Helder  and  Hockridge ;  but  the  expense  attend- 
ing the  transformation  has  been  greater  than  ex- 
pected, and  consequently  any  donations  would  be 
very  gratefully  received.  Before  the  surface  of 
the  ground  was  disturbed  a  complete  map  was 
drawn  and  a  copy  taken  of  all  the  inscriptions 
that  could  be  deciphered  on  the  stones  ;  and  in 
due  course  these  lists  will  be  deposited  in  the 
church  safe,  to  be  accessible  to  any  one  who  may 
hereafter  be  desirous  of  consulting  tBem.  At  the 
same  time  it  must  be  understood  that  the  remains 
of  the  bodies  buried  in  the  ground  were  not^ 
disturbed,  although  many  reports  were  falsely 
spread  to  the  contrary.  All  that  has  been  done  is 
the  uniform  levelling  of  the  ground,  burying  the 
stones  about  three  feet  under  the  turf  and  under 
where  they  formerly  lay,  and  draining  the  ground 
to  make  it  drier  than  it  was  before. 

Alexander  Davis  (the  inscription  on  the  tomb 
has  already  been  given,  antt  p.  171)  died  in  the 
prime  of  his  youth,  aged  thirty.  Richard  Smyth, 
in  his  Ohiivaflry  (Camden  Soc.,  1849,  p.  63),  under 
date  July  3,  1665,  says,  ^*  Alexander  Davis, 
scrivener,  died  at  Westminster,  suspected  (not 
returned)  of  the  plague."  The  burial  register  of 
St.  Margaret's  in  July  simply  records,  "3.  Mr. 
Alexa.  Davis."  It  is  pretty  evident  that  it  was 
not  thought  desirable  to  keep  his  body  long  after 
death,  for  it  will  be  seen  he  was  buried  the  next 
day.  And  is  it  to  be  wondered  at  ?  During  the 
preceding  month  of  June  the  parish  books  show 
that  thirty -four  had  died  of  the  plague;  in 
July  the  ominous  F  is  recorded  71  times,  in 
August  162,  in  September  185,  and  in  the  six 
months  ending  November  30,  1665,  the  P  is  re- 
corded 676  times  !  Whether  Alexander  Davis 
died  of  the  plague  we  know  not,  but,  as  he  does 
not  appear  to  have  made  a  will,  his  widow,  Mary 
Davis,  took  out  letters  of  administration  on  July 
10  following  his  death.  Mary,  the  relict,  subse- 
quently married  John  Tregonwell,  of  Anderstone^ 
Esq.  (pedigrees  of  the  family  will  be  found  in 
Hutchins's  HUL  Dorset).  It  is  stated  he  died  in 
1677.  I  have  a  very  fine  autograph  of  his,  dated 
1673.  Mary  Tregonwell,  according  to  the  in- 
scription on  the  tomb,  died  July  11, 1717.  But 
the  register  of  St.  Margaret  records  on  the  18th, 
"  Mad""  Jane  Tregonweil  Wid^  in  the  great  yault 


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church  yard."  Here,  then^  was  a  mystery  to  be  solved. 
Who  was  Jane  ?  Mary  Tregonwell,  by  will  dated 
June  6y  1717,  and  proved  April  8, 1718  (Regrister 
Tenison,  P.C.C.,  to,  89),  leaves  her  dauehter, 
Jane  Tregonwell,  3002.  and  an  annuity  of  Sof,  and 
appoints  her  said  daughter  Jane  and  John  Swayne, 
41  son-in-law,  executors.  John  Swayne  accordingly 
proved  the  will,  and  power  was  reserved  to  Jane, 
who  subsequently  married  Dr.  Waterland,  so  that 
the  register  actually  buries  the  daughter  instead  of 
the  mother !  Mary  Tregonwell  leS  to  her  grand- 
son John  Tregonwell,  6002.;  to  her  daughter 
^'Maiy  Swain,"  4002.,  and  to  her  husband  "John 
Swayne,"  lOOl.;  to  daughter  Dorothy  Warre,  2002., 
«nd  to  her  husband,  Thomas  Warre,  Esq.,  a  silver 
tankard  ;  to  her  son  John  Tregonwell  the  use 
only  of  her  plate  and  goods  at  Anderston  for  his 
life,  also  all  arrears  of  rents  in  Dorset ;  to  "grand- 
-daughter,  Anne  Grosvenoar,"  1002.;  "To  Dr. 
Wehrood  and  my  daughter  his  wife,"  502.  for 
mourning  ;  "  To  my  grandson  Edward  Seymour 
and  his  sister  Mrs.  Munroe,"  and  others,  102.  each. 
Hesidue  to  executors  in  trust  for  grandson  John 
TregonwelL  Burke  tells  us  that  Sir  Thomas 
Crrosvenor,  the  third  baronet,  married  Mary, 
daughter  and  heiress  of  Alexander  Davis,  of  Eburr, 
CO.  Midd.,  "by  which  alliance  the  Grosvenor  family 
Acquired  their  great  estates  in  London  and  its 
vicinity."  Such  being  the  case,  it  is  but  right 
that  his  descendant  should  keep  the  tomb  in  St. 
Margaret's  churchyard  in  good  repair. 

T.  C.  Noble. 
Lenthall  Road,  Dalston. 

SWIKFEK  AND  GrUNDT    FAMILIES    (4»*   S.    vL 

^23,  680).— Until  recently  the  reply  at  the  hitter 
reference  has  escaped  my  notice.  Although  so 
long  a  time  has  elapsed  since  it  appeared,  I  hope 
you  will  allow  me  to  put  on  record  in  your  columns 
some  observations  on  statements  contained  in  it. 
Thus  referred  your  correspondent  J.  M.  to  the 
"modem  account  of  Swynfen"  in  Shaw's  Staf- 
/ordshire^  voL  ii.  p.  30*,  and,  after  giving  some 
particulars  of  the  later  members  of  the  elder  branch 
cf  the  family  who  possessed  Swinfen,  stated  that 
"  it  has  ever  been  stoutly  maintained  by  the  true 
descendants  of  John  Swynfen  (the  Parliamentarian) 
that  the  Grundys  were  no  manner  of  relation"; 
and  that  "  nowhere  "  in  a  very  voluminous  corre- 
spondence of  John  Swynfen  from  1664  to  his  death 
in  1694,  in  his  possession, "  is  a  Grundy  or  the 
merchant  Samuel  Swinfen  (who  purchased  the 
family  property  and  plate)  alluded  to."  He  con- 
cludes by  saying, "The  descendants  of  the  Swynfens 
of  Sutton  Cheynell  also  disclaim  tbem." 

The  "  modem  account "  in  Shaw's  Staffordshire 
referred  to  is  so  full  of  errors  that  I  should  doubt 
if  any  statement  in  it,  unsupported  by  other 
testimony,  can  be  relied  on.  Mr.  Samuel  Pipe 
Wolfexstan,  in  his  notes  to  the  pedigree  of  the 


Swinfens  of  Sutton  Cheynell  in  Nichols's  EitL  of 
LeicesUrshir&f  vol.  iv.  p.  546,  as  well  as  in  his  MS. 
notes  in  his  copy  of  Shaw,  now  in  the  British 
Museum,  points  out  several  of  the  mistakes  and 
"incorrect  congeries"  in  this  account,  which  he 
says  is  derived  firom  "  Sanders's  heap  of  oral  anec- 
dotes." The  "modem  account"  states  that 
Samuel  Swinfen,  the  London  merchant,  claimed 
relationship  to  the  elder  branch,  and  that  this  was 
not  admitted,'as  he  brought  forward  **  no  interesting 
or  clear  proofs."  This  may  possibly  have  been  so, 
for  he  could  not  have  been  at  all  nearly  related  to 
the  elder  family,  the  younger  branch  to  which  he 
belonged  being  descended  from  a  brother  of 
Swynfen  of  Swynfen  who  settled  in  Leicestershire 
about  three  hundred  years  before  his  time.  That 
no  Grandy  or  merchant  Samuel  Swinfen  is  men- 
tioned in  John  Swynfen's  correspondence  is  in  no 
way  extraordinary,  Samuel  having  been  at  most  a 
very  distant  kinsman  and  only  a  boy  of  fourteen  in 
1694,  when  John  Swynfen  died,  and  the  marriage 
of  Samuel's  sister  with  a  Grandy  not  having  taken 
place  until  several  years  afterwards. 

But  to  me  the  most  surprising  part  of  Thus's 
reply  is  that  which  states  that  the  merchant 
Samuel  Swinfen  was  disclaimed  by  the  descen- 
dants of  the  Sutton  Cheynell  family.  That  ha 
was  the  Samuel  Swinfen  baptized  at  Sutton 
Cheynell  Nov.  4,  1680,  can  be  proved^  I  think, 
beyond  doubt  from  his  will  and  from  the  Chancery 
proceedings  to  which  it  gave  rise.  To  illustrate 
this  I  will  briefly  state  who  the  members  of  the 
Sutton  Cheynell  family  were  at  the  time  when 
Samuel  Swinfen  lived. 

Mr.  Edward  Swinfen,  of  Sutton  Cheynell,  re- 
gistered the  pedigree  of  the  family  at  the  last 
herald's  visitation  of  Leicestershire  in  1683.  He 
had  (with  other  children)  a  son  John  and  a 
daughter  Mary  by  his  first  wife ;  and  a  ton 
Samuel,  bom  in  1680^  and  two  daughters,  Hannah 
and  Ann,  by  Jane,  his  second  wife.  He  died  in 
1684,  and  was  succeeded  in  his  Sutton  Cheynell 
property  by  his  eldest  son,  John,  who  died  in  1721, 
leaving  three  sons,  John,  Edward,  and  Richard, 
who  were  baptized  at  Sutton  Cheynell  in  1700, 
1702,  and  1705,  besides  daughters,  one  of 
whom  married  Mr.  Thomas  Drakeley,  of  Sutton 
Cheynell.  Richard,  the  voungest  of  the  three 
sons,  had  a  numerous  family,  the  eldest  of  whom, 
Samuel,  was  baptized  at  Market  Bosworth  in 
1730. 

Samuel  Swinfen,  the  London  merchant,  was  bom 
in  1680  (the  entry  of  his  burial  in  the  register 
of  St.  Stephen's,  Walbrook,  Dec.  6,  1748,  states 
that  he  was  aged  sixty-eight  jean).  His  mother 
(not  sister,  as  stated  in  Shaw),  Jane  Swinfen, 
married  a  second  husband,  Robert  Prinsep,  of 
Newton  Regis,  in  1692.  By  his  wHl,  dated 
1742,  he  (Samuel]  made  bequests  to  Mary  Broad- 
nick,  widow   (his  half-sister) ;  to  John,  Edward, 


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and  Rieluud,  sons  of  his  late  half-brother  John 
Swinfen ;  to  the  same  Richard  an  additional 
legacy  in  consideration  of  his  large  family; 
to  Samael,  the  eldest  son  of  his  nephew  Richiurd 
Swinfen,  of  Bosworth;  also  to  Elizabeth,  the 
wife  of  Thomas  Drakeley,  and  Catherine,  the 
wife  of  Richard  Pullin,  the  daughters  of  his  late 
brother  John  Swinfen.  To  the  children  of  his 
slBters  of  the  whole  blood,  Hannah  Ball  and  Ann 
Grundy,  he  left  his  estates  at  Carshalton,  in  Surrey, 
and  Swinfen,  in  Staffordshire,  imposing  upon  any 
of  the  Grundys  who  might  succeed  to  Swinfen  the 
obligation  of  taking  that  surname. 

In  all  these  points  the  correspondence  of  the 
legatees  in  Samuel's  will  with  the  then  existing 
members  of  the  Sutton  Cheynell  family  is  com- 
plete. There  can  be  little  doubt  that  Mr.  Samuel 
Swinfen,  in  becoming  the  purchaser  of  the  Swinfen 
estate  when  it  was  passing  out  of  the  hands  of  the 
«lder  branch  of  the  famUy,  believed  that  he  was 
acquiring  the  lands  which  had  in  times  long  past 
belonged  to  his  own  direct  ancestors. 

While  writing  on  the  subject  of  the  Swinfen 
family,  permit  me  to  call  attention  to  an  error  in 
Mr.  Percy  Fitzgerald's  Xt/e  of  Garrich.  In  voL  L 
p.  81,  he  quotes  a  letter  from  a  Mr.  Swinfen  to  Mr. 
Peter  Ghtmck,  written  in  October,  1741,  describ- 
ing the  first  appearance,  at  which  he  was  present, 
of  David  Garrick,  at  Goodman's  Fields  Theatre  on 
Oct.  19,  1741,  in  the  character  of  Richard  III. 
Mr.  Fitzgerald  ascribes  this  letter  to  '*Dr.  Swinfen, 
a  family  friend  and  physician,  who  knew  "  and 
4ittended  the  Johnson  and  Garrick  families."  The 
Dr.  Samuel  Swynfen  who  was  an  eminent  physician 
at  Lichfield  and  Birmingham,  and  who  was  a  god- 
father and  friend  of  Dr.  Johnson,  undoubtedly 
•died  in  1736.  It  would  be  interesting  to  ascertain 
by  what  other  member  of  the  family  this  letter 
was  written.  Mr.  Fitzgerald  merely  quotes  from 
the  letter  and  does  not  give  the  Christian  name  of 
the  writer.  F.  H. 

Wmtbnhanoer  (6*  S.  v.  227).--Du  Gauge's 
clefinition  of  hangar  cannot  be  applied  in  explana- 
tion of  the  Kentish  place-names  ending  in  "  angre  " 
or  "hangre."  The  name  Westenhanger  existed 
side  by  side  with  Ostenhanger  ;  and  in  East  Kent 
we  find  Betles-angre  (now  Betteshanger),  Berch- 
angre,  and  Hert-angre.  A  more  probable  sugges- 
tion is  that  "  angre,"  or  ''  hangre,  was  descriptive 
of  woodland  on  a  slope ;  perhaps  what  we  still 
call  a  "  hanging  wood."  It  is  to  be  hoped  that 
Mr.  Ltnm's  query  may  elicit  some  better  explana- 
tion of  this  terminal.  R 

The  last  part  of  this  name  would  seem  to  square 
with  Ongar  (Chipping),  in  records  found  written 
Angre,  Angria,  Aungre,  Ongre ;  in  Domesday, 
Angra;  probably  derived  from  A.-S.  ingj  %nge{O.Q, 
ung^  Icel.  and  Dan.  eng,  Sw.  dng,  M.  Goth,  winja)^ 
pratum,  pascuum,  with  a  quasi-Norsk  termination. 


In  geographical  names  the  vocable  ing  is  found 
in  many  different  forms.  In  the  north  of  France 
it  becomes  ingue  and  inghen;  in  Luxemburg 
ange;  in  Germany  ung,  ingen,  and  fingen.  It 
may  also  take  the  forms  of  vang,  finger^  wtng, 
and  wmg.  But  see  Wachter,  under  "  Anger  "pra^ 
turn,  quoting  Oloss.  Ftz,  "Arva,"  angar.  During 
my  Essex  walks  I  came  across  a  Goldhanger  or 
Goldanger,  anciently  Goldangre,  but  I  found 
neither  hanging  nor  gold  there  ;  and  knowing  that 
g  and  w  are  interchangeable,  I  at  once  made  it=: 
the  German  Waldung.  R  S.  Charnock. 

Mr.  Ltkn  may  be  correct  in  his  conjecture  as 
to  the  derivation  of  this  name,  but  how  does  he 
account  for  the  same  termination  in  Betteshanger 
or  Betshanger,  a  small  village  in  the  same  county 
not  far  from  Deal?  Allow  me  to  mention,  in 
support  of  the  derivation  from  the  Grerpian,  the 
existence  of  the  term  '*  Hanging,*'  also  applied  to 
a  village;  for  instance,  Hanging  Houghton,  a 
hamlet  on  the  outskirts  of  the  parish  of  Lamport, 
CO.  Northampton.  Is  it  possible  to  derive  this 
otherwise  than  from  the  German  hangen=to  hang  ? 

ISHAM. 

DeaL 

I  fail  to  tee  what  possible  connexion  this  word 
can  have  with  Fr.  hangar.  The  whole  form  of 
the  word,  as  that  of  Ostenhanger,  seems  to  point 
to  some  Teutonic  origin.  Is  it  possible  that  the 
latter  member  of  the  oomponnd  is  etymologically 
the  same  as  Germ,  angtr  (m.)=a  green,  common, 
&c?  Of.  Moosanger=mo88y  field ;  Wolfsanger= 
wolfs  field  ;  Angerbach=the  field  brook,  &c  If 
this  is  so,  the  two  words  will  mean  east  and  west 
field  respectively.         F.  0.  Birkbrck  Terrt. 

Cardiff. 

''  Hanger,  Honger,  E.  a  hill.  Ex. :  Pans-hanger 
(Herts),  Penna's  or  Panna's  hill;  Cle-honger 
(Heref),  the  day  hilL"--Flavell  Edmunds's  Traces 
of  EUUyry  in  the  Names  of  Flacesy  London,  1869, 

p.  187.  HiRONDELLE. 

R  Morris,  in  his  Etymology  of  Local  Names, 
has  ''Hanger,  hangra,  anger  (Anglo-Saxon),  a 
meadow  near  a  w<Md,  surrounded  by  a  furrow," 
and  cites  Olay-hanger,  Anger-ton,  Ole-hanger, 
Oke-hanger-mere.  Nomad. 

LiNooLNSHTRS  Provinoialismb  :  Rauet  (6^ 
S.  iii.  364,  614  ;  iv.  238 ;  v.  65,  178,  317).-- 
Bauky  cannot  be  derived  from  raw,  because  this 
does  not  account  for  the  k;  and  it  cannot  be  de- 
rived from  the  Latin  ratbcus,  because  provincial 
Eoglish  words  are  not  Latin,  save  under  excep- 
tional circumstances.  It  is  too  bad  in  these  days 
to  go  on  guessing  as  if  the  iniquity  of  guessing 
had  never  been  pointed  out.  Eauky  is  the  Nor- 
folk roky  and  the  common  English  reeky.  The 
form  redsy,  from  A-S.  rede,  smoke,  is  English ; 


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le^  8.  V.  May  6,  '82. 


the  forms  rauky  and  rohy  are  Norse.  German 
substitutes  ch  for  k;  hence  German  Bauchj 
smoke.  English  often  has  the  sQund  of  long  e 
where  German  has  au^  as  in  beam,  belief  ^Baum, 
Olaube),  &&  With  E.  reik,  as  cognate  with  G. 
Bauch,  compare  E.  Uekf  as  cognate  with  Lauch. 
Waltbr  W.  Skeat. 

Ben  Jonson  (6«»  S.  v.  247).— The  birth  of  this 
''  Benjaminns  Jonson  filius  Martini "  is  a  curious 
coincidence,  but  no  more ;  that  is,  that,  according  to 
our  known  data,  this  cbUd  and  Ben  Jonson  the 
poet  were  two  different  beines.  These  data  are, 
at  least  three  in  number.  Jonson  himself  told 
Drummond,  "  His  father  came  from  Carlisle,  and, 
he  thought,  from  Annandale  to  it."  Secondly,  the 
father  was  not  a  lawyer  ;  Jonson  continues,  "  His 
father  losed  all  his  estate  under  Queen  Marie, 
haying  been  cast  in  prisson  and  forfieiitted  ;  at  last 
turned  minister.**  Thirdly,  as  Lieut-CoL  Cunning- 
ham says,  "  Coming  from  Annandale,  the  family 
name  must  have  been  Johnstone  ";  and  certain  it 
is  that  the  first  three  known  spellings  of  his  name 
are  Johnson,  and  that  his  first  known  adoption 
of  the  spelling  Jonson  was  in  1604,  when  it 
appears  in  a  Latin  title-page  in  the  genitive, 
^'B.  Jonsonii."  I  would  add  further  that,  consider- 
ing the  date  of  Anthony  Wood  and  his  general 
accuracy,  one  sees  no  reason  for  doubting  his 
statement  that  Jonson  was  born  about  a  month 
after  his  father's  death,  "  within  the  city  of  West- 
minster." Br.  Nicholson. 

Mr.  Moore  says  that  the  date  he  gives, yiz.,  Aug. 
12, 1 574, "  exactly  corresponds  with  that  of  the  poet's 
birth  as  given  by  his  biographers."  Gifibrd,  how- 
ever, says,  in  The  Works  of  Ben  Jonson  (1816), 
voL  i.  p.  2,  that  Jonson  was  born  in  the  early 
part  of  the  year   1574.    Chalmers,  in  his  Bio- 

Saphical  Dictionary,  says  that  he  "  was  born  in 
artshorn  Lane,  near  Charing  Cross,  Westmin- 
ster, June  11,  1574,  about  a  month  after  the  death 
of  his  father."  Haydn,  Hole,  and  Woodward  and 
Gates  all  give  the  same  date.  Prof.  A.  W.  Ward, 
in  his  sketch  of  Jonson  in  vol.  ziiL  of  the  Ency' 
clopcedia  Britannica  (new  edition),  says  that 
Jonson  "was  born  about  the  beginning  (N.S.) 
of  the  year  1573."  The  fact  of  finding  the  name 
of  a  Benjamin  Jonson  in  the  Sutterton  register  is, 
I  think,  hardly  sufficient  to  establish  a  theory  that 
the  poet  was  of  a  Lincolnshire  family  in  the  face 
of  his  conversations  with  William  Drummond  of 
Hawthomden  (Lee,  Notes  of  Ben  Jonson's  Con- 
versaUons  with  William  Drummond  of  Haw- 
ihomden,  Shakespeare  Society,  1842).  The  state- 
ment to  be  found  in  Chalmers's  Biographical  Dic- 
tionary as  to  his  birthplace  has,  however,  I  be- 
lieve, not  been  yet  verified.  G.  F.  B.  B. 

"  A  History  op  the  Seven  Wise  Masters  " 
(6«»  S.  V.  248).— The  work  lo  which  Mr.  Gomhs 


refers  is  certainly  a  very  different  one  from  The. 
Seven  Champions,  An  old  English  metrical 
version  of  it  (The  Seven  Sages)  forms  one  of  th& 
reprints  issued  for  the  Percy  Society  (in  vol.  xvi.> 
about  forty  years  ago,  edited,  with  an  elaborate^ 
introduction,  by  Thomas  Wright,  fumislung  a. 
very  interesting  analysis  of  the  several  versions — 
Arabic,  Greek,  Hebrew,  English,  &c.— -of  a  now 
unknown  Indian  original,  entitled  The  Book  of 
Sendabdd.  Another  old  English  version  (or 
rather  an  epitome)  of  The  Seven  Wise  Masters  is 
found  in  "EHis'a  Specimens  of  Early  English  Metrical 
Romances,  Bohn's  edition.  I  may  also  refer  your 
querist  to  the  Etsai  sur  les  Fables  Indiennes,  by 
Deslongchamps,  where  a  most  exhaustive  account 
is  given  of  this  remarkable  work.  And,  finally^ 
I  may  perhaps  be  permitted  to  mention  that  the 
Bakhtydr-ndma  (or  Story  of  Prince  Bdkhtydr 
and  the  Ten  Fiziere),  of  which  I  am  about  to 
reprint  for  subscribers  Sir  William  Ouseley'& 
translation,  adding  an  introductory  essay  and 
notes,  is  a  Persian  work  written  in  imitation  of 
the  Senddbdd-ndma ;  there  is  also  a  Turkish 
imitation,  The  King  and  (he  Forty  Viziers,  part 
of  which  was  done  into  English  early  in  the  pre- 
sent century  from  the  French  version  of  M.  Petia 
de  La  Croix.  W.  A.  Clouston. 

238,  Cambridge  Street,  Glasgovr. 

A  History  of  the  Seven  Wise  Masters,  or  the 
Bomance  of  the  Seven  Sages,  is  of  great  antiquity, 
translated  from  the  Arabic,  and  probably  of 
Indian  origin.  Versions  exist  in  all  the  languages 
of  the  civilized  world.  In  English  there  are  two 
metrical  translations,  and  also  one  in  the  humble 
form  of  a  chap-book.  A  version  by  John  Holland, 
of  Dalkeith,  bears  the  title  of  "  The  Seven  Seages^, 
translated  out  of  Prois  into  Scottis  Meiter,"  1578^ 
4to.;  1592, 8vo.;  1620,  8vo.;  1631, 8vo.*  **  I  think 
he  "  (Don  Quixote),  writes  Cervantes,  "  is  one  of 
the  Seven  Wise  Masters.  I  thought  he  knew 
nothing  but  his  knight-errantry,  but  now  I  see  the 
devil  a  thing  can  escape  him  ;  he  has  an  oar  in 
every  man's  boat,  and  a  finger  in  every  man's  pie.* 
William  Platt. 

Gallia  Court,  St.  Peter*s,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

"The  Five- FooT-HiGHiANs"  (6*  S.v.  209).— 
This  tract  is  "  Against  the  Antichristian  Practice 
of  rising  a  Standard  in  Enlisting  of  Soldiers."  My 
copy,  "  Dublin,  printed  ;  London,  reprinted,"  con- 
tains some  more  racy  matter  in  "  The  Wounds  o^ 
the  Kirk  of  Scotland,  in  a  Sermon,  preached  in 
St.  Greil's  the  Great  Kirk  in  Edinbrough,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord,  1638.  By  James  Row,  o^ 
Strowan";  with  *^An  Elegy  on  the  late  Bev<^. 
Mess  Alexander  Sinkler,  Teacher,  &c.,  Dublin  ; 

•  See  SIbbald's  Chron,  of  Scof.  Poetry,  iii.  117 ; 
Brydges'B  Restitutes  i.  177  (by  li.  P.  OiUiet),  reprinted 
from  the  edition  of  1578,  and  edited  by  Datid  Laing* 
Edin.,  1887, 4to.  (Bannatyne  Clnb). 


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as  also  the  North  Coantryman's  Description  of 
Christ  Church,  Dablin."  Under  the  head  of 
Jas.  Bow,  a  copj  of  mj  fuller  edition  of  this 
pamphlet  appeared  in  Mr.  Maidment's  Catalogue^ 
with  the  note,  "  This  tract,  of  which  I  never  saw 
another  Copy,  contains,  among  other  odd  articles, 
the  '  Pock-Manty  Sermon,  &c  /  alluding  to  Row's 
Woundt  0*  ^  Kirhf  a  very  fit  companion  for 
that  clerical  jest-book,  Scotch  FresbyUrian  Elo- 
quence Displayed,**  J.  0. 

Bavdlb  Cotgravb  (6*^  S.  ▼.  246).  — For 
Handle  Cotgrave  see  Watt's  Biblioiheca  Britan- 
nica  and  Joecher's  AUgemdnee  Gelehrten  Lexicon. 

E.  H.  M. 

Hastioga. 

The  British  Oak  (6"»  S.  v.  208).— I  suppose 
that  the  modem  rules  of  historical  correctness 
forbid  the  idea  that  the  customs  of  Druidic  worship 
had  anything  to  do  with  the  introduction  of  this 
tree  as  a  national  emblem.  But  was  not  Arthur's 
Bound  Table  made  of  oak,  and  Edward  II.'s 
cradle  ?  Under  the  oaks  of  Dartmoor  were  held 
meetings  of  Britons  and  Saxons,  and  Augustine 
preached  under  oak  trees,  and  Queen  Elizabeth 
made  an  oak  **  honourable  "  by  sitting  sub  tegmine. 
In  Evelyn's  Numismata  there  is  a  medal  struck 
by  Charles  L,  representing  the  oak  under  a 
prince's  coronet,  with  the  inscription,  **Seris 
nepotibus  umbra,"  a  legend  which  afterwards  came 
to  be  looked  upon  as  prophetical.        E.  H.  M. 

"Much"  and  "Great"  as  applied  to 
Villages  (6*^  S.  v.  88).— The  following  remarks 
of  the  Bey.  Isaac  Taylor  on  words  denotiog  rela- 
tive magnitude  may  possibly  prove  of  interest  to 
your  correspondent : — 

^'  From  the  Celtic  word  mor  or  maw,  great,  we  have 
the  names  of  Benmore,  and  Penmaen-Mawr,  the  great 
moantains  ;  Eilmore,  the  great  church ;  and  Glenmore, 
the  sreat  glen.  Much  Wenlock,  Macclesfield,  Maxstoke 
in  Warwickshire,  Great  Missenden,  Grampouud,  and 
Granyille,  contain  Teutonic  and  Romance  roots  of  the 
same  import.  Similarly  Missisaippi  is  an  Indian  term  of 
precisely  the  same  meaniog  as  the  neighbouring  Spanish 
name  Bio  Grande,  which  as  well  as  the  Arabic  Guadal- 
quiTer  {ieber,  great)  and  the  Sarmatian  word  Wolga, 
signifies  '  the  great  river.'  Lakes  Winnipeg  and  Winni- 
pegoosis  are  respectively  the  great  sea  and  the  little  sea. 
From  the  Celtic  beg  or  bach,  little,  we  have  Bally  hegg 
and  Inis  beg,  Glydwr  Fach,  Pont  Neath  Vecluui,  and 
Cwm  Bychan.  We  find  ssTeral  Teutonic  Littleburys, 
Littletons,  and  Clintons.  Majorca  and  Minorca  are  the 
greater  and  lesser  isles.  Boca  Chica  is  the  great  mouth." 
—  Words  and  Places,  p.  817. 

F.  C.  BiRKBBCE  TbRRT. 

In  further  illustration  of  the  examples  quoted 
by  Mr.  Gossblin  I  may  add  Much  and  Little 
Wenlock  (Shropshire),  Much  and  Little  Dewchurch 
(Hereford),  Much  and  Little  Birch,  in  the  same 
county;  in  Essex  are  also  two  Birches,  distin- 
guished as  Great  and  Little.    In  Coventry  we 


have  the  same  mode  of  distinction  applied  to 
streets,  as  ii|  the  case  of  Much  Park  Street  and 
Little  Park  Street,  the  former  a  main  thorough- 
fare in  the  neighbourhood  of  the  Great  Park,  and 
the  latter  leading  directly  into  the  Little  Park. 
In  some  of  our  earlier  documents  we  find  Much 
Park  Street  described  as  Great  Park  Street,  clearly 
showing  that  the  terms  are  equivalent.  The 
earliest  plan  we  have  of  the  town  (1610)  gives 
Much  Park  Street.  W.  G.  Frrttok,  F.S.A. 
88,  Little  Park  Street,  Coventry. 

The  use  of  the  word  much  in  this  way  is  to  be 
found  in  two  or  three  other  counties  besides  Herts. 
In  Herefordshire  we  find  Much  Marcle  and  Little 
Marcle,  Much  Gowame  and  Little  Cowarne ;  in 
Lancashire  Much  Woolton,  and  Little  Woolton. 

G.  F.  B.  B. 

An  instance  in  Lancashire  is  Much  Hoole  and 
Little  Hoole.  about  seven  miles  west  of  Preston. 

C.  B. 
Lytham. 

Ammonium  Sulphide  a  Bsstorkr  of  Faded 
Writing  (6***  S.  v.  288;.~In  reply  to  Mr.  Marsh 
Jackson  and  to  some  correspondents  who  have 
written  to  me  privately  on  the  matter,  I  may  say 
that  I  cannot  give  the  exact  strength  of  the  solu- 
tion of  ammonium  sulphide  which  I  use.  It  is  a 
chemical  reagent  much  employed  in  laboratories, 
and  can  be  procured  of  those  chemists  who  supply 
chemicals  for  such  institutions.  It  is  of  a  pale 
yellow  colour,  and  should  be  kept  well  corked, 
otherwise  it  loses  much  of  its  power  by  evapora- 
tion. I  do  not  think  it  can  be  used  too  strong, 
for,  according  to  my  experience,  it  is  quite  harm- 
less so  far  as  the  texture  of  the  parchment  or 
paper  is  concerned.  The  yellow  tinge  which  it 
imparts  disappears  more  or  less  completely  in 
course  of  time.  A  weak  solution  would  not  in 
many  cases  turn  the  faded  ink  black  enough  to  be 
legible.  A  simple  plan  for  those  who  search 
registers  much  is  to  carry  a  small  phial  of  this 
solution,  tightly  stoppered,  enclosed  in  a  small 
wooden  case  with  a  top  that  screws  on.  This 
enables  the  solution  to  be  carried  in  the  pocket 
without  risk  of  the  bottle  being  broken.  Most 
chemists  keep  these  wooden  cases. 

J.  P.  Earwakbr. 

A  Bapid  Thaw,  1607  (6»*  S.  v.  226).~Your 
correspondent  will  find  a  very  interesting  account 
of  the  frost  of  1607  in  Arber's  Englith  Oamer, 
vol  L  pp.  77-99.  Mr.  Arber  has  there  reprinted 
"  The  Great  Frost  Cold  doings  in  London,  except 
it  be  at  the  Lottery,"  a  very  rare  tract,  from  Mr. 
Huth's  copy.  The  following  passage,  from  the 
same,  records  a  rapid  thaw,  which  your  corre- 
spondent may  not  ooject  to  have  brought  before 
mm: — 

"There  was  one  great  frost  more  in  fingUnd,  in  our 


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memory,  and  that  wm  in  the  MTenth  year  of  Queeii 
Elizabetn:  which  hegan  upon  tlie  2l8t  of  Deoember 
(1564  A.i>.)  and  held  on  so  extremely  that  upon  New 
Year*B  Eto  following  people  in  maltitndes  went  upon 
the  Thames  from  Lonoon  bridge  to  Westminster ;  some 
— as  yoa  tell  me,  sir,  they  do  now-claying  at  football, 
others  shooting  at  pricks.  Tliis  frost  began  to  thaw 
upon  the  third  day  of  January  (1565  a.d.)  at  night,  and 
on  the  fifth  of  the  same  month  there  was  no  ice  to  be 
seen  between  London  bridge  and  Lambeth:  which 
sudden  thaw  brought  forth  sudden  harms.  For  houses 
and  bridges  were  OYertumed  by  the  land  floods;  among 
which  Owes  (=Oi(m)  bridge  in  Yorkshire  was  borne 
away ;  many  numbers  of  people  perishing  likewise  by 
those  waters." 

This  tract  mentions  seyeral  mat  frosts  in  England 
which  are  not  given  in  Haydn's  Diet,  of  Data. 
F.  0.  BiRKBBCK  Terry. 
Oardiir. 

WORCBSTBRSHIRB  FiKLD-NaUES  (B***  S.  ▼.  185). 

— Brewer's  Fidd^  Upper  and  Lower, — ^The  deriva- 
tion from  bruyhre  seems  most  probable,  as  brewing 
was  not  introduced  until  the  sixteenth  century. 

Dole  Afeculow.— See  my  note  on  dooling  leases 
(ante,  p.  125),  under  "  Brighton  Field  Names.** 

Hiiidlvp  Fieldf  OUL-^Ib  not  this  from  kind  and 
leap  f  There  was  a  warren,  also  a  lodge,  named 
Hindleap  (spelt  in  various  ways)  in  Ashdown 
Forest. 

Bad  Meadow.  —  Two  parishes  near  Brighton 
have  the  syllable  Bade:  Rottingdean,  which 
appears  in  the  Vahr  Ecdesia^Ucue  as  Radyngden ; 
and  Rodmill,  which  was  Ramelle  in  Domesday 
Book,  Radmelde  in  the  Taxation  of  Pope  Nicholas, 
and  Bademellde  in  the  Nonarum  Inquitiiiones. 
Frederick  E.  Sawtbr. 

Brighton. 

To  his  eight  different  ways  of  spelling 
^Hindlip''  Mr.  Allsopp  may  add  two  more, 
namely,  Hindehlyp  (as  it  was  called  in  Anglo- 
Saxon  times)  and  Inlip,  J.  B.  Wilsok. 

Knightwick. 

"Wont":  "Translator":  "Gallier"  (6** 
S.  V.  226).— fF(m<=mole  is  used  in  various  parts 
of  England,  and  is  occasionally  corrupted  to  oont 
It  is  derived  from  the  A.-S.  wand.  This  word  is 
used  by  Lilly  in  his  Mydae,  I.  ii.  (1592): — 

"  Lieio.  She  hath  the  eares  of  a  toant. 
Pet.  Doth  she  want  eares  1 

Lido.  I  say  the  eares  of  a  isant,  a  mole ;'  thon  dost 
want  wit  to  understand  mee." 

Your  correspondent  seems  to  misquote  Bailey  ;  at 
all  events,  my  edition  of  his  tHdionarv  gives 
tmns2ator="a  new  vamper  of  old  shoes,'  with- 
out any  reference  to  the  word  being  equivalent  to 
"  a  labourer  ";  whilst  Halliwell  gives, "  TranelaioTy 
a  cobbler,  Var,  Dial'*  HalliweU  also  gives  "  Gal- 
Zur=a  person  who  keeps  teams  for  hire,  Heref.** 

F.  C.  BiRKBBCK  TeRRT. 

M.A.  OxoN  says  that  wont  is  the  name  for  a 
mole  in  Badnorshire ;  its  equivalent  in  Worcester- 


shire is  hunt.  There  seems  to  be  a  relationship 
between  the  two  terms.  The  natives  of  Worces- 
tershire have  a  curious  way  of  interchanging  the 
initial  w  and  h;  with  them  a  toood  becomes 
a  hood,  and  a  hood  becomes  a  wood;  and  on 
this  principle  a  wont  would  probably  beoome  a 
hunt;  but  perhaps  the  Radnorshire  people  have 
corrupted  our  word  into  worU.  J.  B.  Wilson. 
Enightwiok. 

Black  Mail  (Q^  S.  v.  226).— Dr.  Brewer,  in 
his  Dictionary  of  Phrase  and  FdbU  (p.  93),  de- 
rives mail  from  the  Saxon  mal,  "  rent-tax,''  and 
states  that  mat/a  and  duties  in  Scotland  are  rents 
of  an  estate,  in  money  or  otherwise.  Blade,  he 
interprets  unlawful,  wicked;  giving  as  examples, 
black  artf  hUuk-guard*  answering  to  the  well- 
known  Latin  word  niger^ — 

*'Hio  niger  est,  hnnc  tn,  Bomane,  caveto." 

Hor.,iSd(.Lir.  85w 

William  Platt. 
OaUOs  Court,  8t  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

CONGHURST  OF  CoNGBRHURST,  00.  KkNT  (6** 

S.  V.  228). — Thomas  Scott,  second  son  of  Henry 
Scott,  of  Halden,  son  of  Henry  Scott,  who  died  in 
1472, 

"married  Mildred,  only  daughter  and  heir  of  Geoi^ge 
Conghurst.  of  Gonghurst,  in  the  parish  of  Hawkhurst. 
This  family  of  Conghurst  had  been  seated  here  from 
time  immemorial.  Their  original  residence,  called  Qld 
Conghurst,  a  castellated  mansion  situated  close  to  the 
Level  (formerly  an  arm  of  the  sea),  was  burned  by  tho 
Danes  at  a  very  remote  period :  tney  lubsequently  re- 
moved to  the  high  ground,  where  the  present  house  is 
situated.  This  last  lK>u8e  Thomas  Scott,  after  his 
marriaf^e,  began  to  rebuild,  but  he  died  before  it  was 
finished,  and  his  widow  completed  it"~Burke*s  SiiUny 
of  the  Comvumers,  voL  ir.  1838,  p.  663. 

It  is  stated  in  the  notes  that 
"nothing  now  remains  of  Old  Conghurst,  except  tho 
site,  which  is  moated  round,  it  is  aboat  half  a  mile  from 
the  present  house ;  this  latter  has  been  much  modem- 
ized,  but  still  retains  some  ancient  portions^  psrticolarly 
in  the  kitchen,  when  are  to  be  seen  the  arms  of  Scott 
and  Conghurst,  qoarterly,  and  undemaath  them  tho 
date.  1699." 

Another  note  says  the  "  family  of  Scott,  of  Cong- 
hurst, are  supposed  to  be  extinct  in  the  male  line.'' 
The  pedigree  in  Burke  ends  with  Matthew  Scott^ 
who  died  May  5,  1679.  Hirovdelle. 

"BoKT^:  "Stag''  {e^  S.  v.  218).— The  Essex  we 
of  bont=o,n  old  man,  as  quoted  by  vour  corre- 
spondent is  peculiar.  Is  not  the  word  oont  merely 
an  altered  form  of  the  A.-S.  bonda,  a  husbandmaa^ 
a  boor  ?  Stag  nsed  as  a  verb  is  not  confined  to 
Essex.  It  is  used  in  Leicestershire  both  as  a  noun 
and  as  a  verb.  It  is  employed  as  a  verb  also  in 
Northamptonshire.     Miss    Baker  says,    "When 


*  This  term  of  reproach  was  so  used,  Mr.  Cunnhigr- 
ham  found,  by  the  books  in  the  Board  of  Qreen  Cloth, 
as  early  as  1688. 


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workmen  are  taking  beer  clandestinely,  one  of 
them  keeps  on  the  look-out,  to  watch  or  stag  the 
master."  Of  course,  the  meaning  is  to  be  on  the 
look'Out  as  a  stag.        F.  C.  Birkbbck  Tsrrt. 


"BcMAH":  "Bo-PEBP"  (6*  S.  V.  209).— John 
Bellenden  Eer.  in  his  Essay  on  the  Arcfueology  of 
our  Popvlar  Phrasa,  Sc^  vol  i.  pp.  260-1,  new 
edition,  gives  the  following  explanation  of  the 
name  which  occurs  in  the  first  line  of  the  dittj  : — 
**  Little  Boo-peep  \ 
His  food  is  good  liquor,"  &c. 
''Boo-peep  is  here  the  limitour;  the  friar  employed  bj 
the  monastery  in  begging  about  for  its  support  was 
former]?  so  called  amongst  us." 

"  Bod  is  tho  contraction  of  hode,  a  meisenger ;  and 
ibe  limitour  was  he  who  intruded  himself  into  eTery 
man's  home  to  proeure  prorisions  for  his  eouTent  and 
pick  up  all  the  idle  gossip  be  could  besides." 

WiLLiAK  Platt. 

Gallis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

TBirif ant's  Translation  of  the  151  st  Psalm 
(60»  S.  iv.  109  ;  v.  232,  312).— The  "  ISlst  Psalm" 
is  not  familiar  to  either  eye  or  ear,  and,  in  a  search 
through  a  large  collection  of  the  pealmista  of 
Britain,  I  find  it  only  in  the  version  of  "  R  B." 
(said  to  be  that  of  Richard  Braithwait),  London, 
1638,  thus  headed,  ''Psalm  161:  Ez  Additione 
ApolUnarii";  being  a  yersification  of  the  seyen- 
teenth  chapter  of  the  first  book  of  Samuel,  record- 
ing the  history  of  Bayid  and  Goliath,  and  running 
to  sixty  four-line  stanzas.  On  further  reference  to 
Holland's  FtalmuU,  1848,  under  "R.  B.,''  I  find 
this  note:— 

"  This  Psalm  [the  150tb]  ooneludes  the  series  reeog- 
nised  as  canonical  in  our  authorised  translation  and  by 
commentators  in  general.  There  is,  howerer,  an  apo- 
cnrphal  composition  on  the  killing  of  Goliath  by  David, 
which,  although  not  found  either  in  the  Hebrew,  the 
Ghaldee,  or  the  Vulgate  MSS.,  is  given  as  Psalm  cli.  in 
the  Syriac  and  moat  of  the  Greek  versions ;  it  occurs  also 
in  the  Arabic,  the  Anglo-Saxon,  and  the  Greek  Liturgies. 
81  Athanasius  regards  it  as  canonical,  nor  does  Dr.  A. 
Chu-ke  directly  repel  tMs  conclution.  The  following  is 
an  almost  literal  version  of  this  so-called  Psalm  161  :— 
'Among  my  brethren,  I  wss  least, 

And  of  my  father's  stock, 
I  was  the  youngest  in  his  house~- 

The  shepherd  of  his  flock. 
Bare  instruments  of  music  oft, 

My  hands,  well-practised,  made ; 
And  on  the  sscred  psaltery, 
My  skilful  fingers  play'd. 
But  who  of  me  Bnail  speuk  to  God, 
'  And  tell  him  all  my  care  t 
The  Lord  himself,  lo,  even  now. 

Doth  hearken  to  my  prayer. 
He  sent  bis  messenger,  and  took 
Me  from  the  shepherd's  toil: 
And  on  my  head,  sweet  nnotion !  pour'd 

His  own  anointing  oil. 
Mybretbren,  beautiful  and  tall, 

Held  theirs  a  bappv  lot ; 
But  in  them,  and  their  comeliness. 
The  Lord  delighted  not. 


To  meet  the  boasting  alien  chief, 

I  went  forth  on  their  part ; 
He  cursed  me  by  his  idols,  and 

Despised  me  from  his  heart. 
But  having  slidn,  I  with  his  sword^ 

Cut  off  his  head  at  once. 
And  took  away  the  foul  reproaoh 

Of  Israel's  daunted  sons.' " 

This  is  an  abreyiation  of  R.  B.'s  ISlst  Psalm,  and, 
being  found  in  a  modern  book,  the  question  arises. 
Is  it  that  attributed  to  Tennant  and  that  sought 
for  by  C.  C.7  In  Tennant's  Lectures  upon  Hebrew 
Poetry  it  is  not  at  all  unlikely  that  such  a  specimen 
of  ancient  Jewish  yerse  might  haye  been  enshrined 
in  a  newer  version,  but  were  these  lectures  eyer 
printed  in  extenso  f  Although  portions  thereof  may 
haye  been  in  print,  and  the  whole,  to  a  certain  ex- 
tent, known  and  accessible,  yet  it  was  not  until  1861 
that  Conolly,  Tennant's  biographer,  was  seeking 
subscribers  to  a  "  Venture  upon  the  publication  of 
these  Lectures  on  Palestine  and  Hebrew  Litera- 
ture, with  other  of  the  Author's  writings,"  which 
so  far  as  I  know,  resulted  on  his  part  no  further 
than  in  *'  A  PrelimiDary,"  and  thirteen  pages  on 
"  Hebrew  Poetry,"  found  in  his  later  FifianoL 
1869.  Was  this  all  Profl  Tennant's  "  lectures  and 
other  writings  '*  which  Mr.  Conolly  was  promising 
the  public  in  1861 1  J.  0. 

"The  Gut"  (6*  S.  y.  229).— Does  not  this 
word  probably  mean  the  meadow  that  leads  down 
to  the  ford,  or  the  ford  meadow,  the  last  word 
haying  been  dropped  f  If  this  is  so  the  word  is 
cognate  with  the  name  of  the  riyer  Wye.  Ct  the 
Celtic  gioy,  water;  Fr.  gui,  a  ford,  probably 
deriyed  from  the  Celtia  Ct  also  Bungay  in 
Suffolk,  said  to  be  a  corruption  of  Bon-giU. 

F.  C.  BiREBECK  TeRRT. 

Cardiff. 

The  meadow  mentioned  by  Mr.  Lowe,  situate 
in  Bridge  Street,  Chepstow,  "in  front  of  the 
eastern  entrance  to  Chepstow  Castle,"  is  no  doubt 
called  so  from  its  connexion  with  Guy  House,  on 
the  other  side  of  the  street ;  and  this,  in  its  turn, 
most  likely  owes  its  name  to  Chvy,  the  Welsh 
name  of  the  Wye,  which  flows  within  a  few  yards 
of  it.  S.  H. 

82,  Ainger  Road,  N.W. 

"Chemcirs"  (6"»  S.  y.  239).  — Cowel  says^ 
"  Chensers,  mentioned  27  H.  YIIL  c.  7,  are  such 
as  pay  tribute  or  ccmm,  chief  rent  or  quit  rent,  for 
so  the  French  oeiwier  signifies." 

R  S.  Charkogk. 

The  Bodleian  Model  op  ak  iNDiAif  Well 
(6*  S.  y.  286,  309).  — Sir  Georok  Birdwood's 
description  hardly  does  justice  to  the  wonderful 
substructures  displayed  in  the  construction  of  this 
most  attractiye  model  It  was  apparently  a 
csenobitic  institution  ;  if  for  males  how  is  the  ad- 
mission of  female  water-carriers  to  be  explained  t 


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One  would  like  to  know  of  the  Urea  of  such  re- 
ligious devotees  as  pass  their  career  by  the  cool, 
translucent  waves,  deep  in  such  recesses,  so  amaz- 
ingly like  a  plun^^ing  bath,  with  tier  upon  tier  of 
dressing  boxes.  Was  Bebecca's  nose- ring  a  symbol 
of  servitude  ?  Ltsart. 

The  Pultbnkt  Correspondence  (6**  S.  v. 
320). — If  the  correspondence  of  Sir  James  Murray 
Pulteney  does  not  extend  beyond  his  time  it  is 
difficult  to  understand  how  any  part  of  it  can  re- 
late to  the  battle  of  Waterloo.  The  baronet  re- 
ferred to  was  originally  a  Murray,  and  attained 
high  rank  in  the  army.  In  1794  he  married  Lady 
Bath,  who  was  the  only  daughter  of  Sir  W.  John- 
stone Pulteney,  Bart,  by  his  wife,  who  succeeded 
to  the  estates  of  Sir  William  Pulteney,  Earl  of 
Bath,  on  the  death  of  his  brother.  General  Harry 
Pulteney,  who  had  inherited  the  earl's  property  on 
his  death  in  the  previous  year,  1764.  Sir  W.  John- 
stone assumed  the  name  of  Pulteney,  and  left  one 
daughter,  who  was  created  Baroness  Bath  in  1792. 
Her  ladyship,  as  I  have  said,  married  General  Sir 
James  Murray  in  1794  ;  he  assumed  the  name  of 
Pulteney.  Lady  Bath  was  created  Countess  of 
Bath  in  1803,  and  died  in  1808,  having  survived 
her  husband  some  years.  I  do  not  seek  to  dis- 
parage the  collection  alluded  to  at  the  above  re- 
ference, but  it  is  clear  that  either  it  has  been 
wrongly  described,  or  that  it  is  more  than  the  cor- 
respondence of  Sir  James  Murray  Pulteney.  I 
may  mention  that  the  other  series,  catalogued 
*'  Second  Series,"  related  to  Sir  William  Johnstone 
Pulteney,  BarL  I  purchased  this  collection  for 
the  Duke  of  Cleveland  at  the  same  sale. 

B.  E.  PSACH. 

Fonts  op  the  Restoration  Period  (6"*  S.  v. 
9,  177,  317).— The  large  stone  font  in  Ecclesfield 
Church  is  dated  1662.  These  figures  are  cut  in 
strong  relief  round  the  bowL  It  was  turned  out 
of  the  church  in  1825,  when  the  dilapidated  Jaco- 
'bean  furniture  was  replaced  by  pews  of  neat  but 
unecclesiastical  pattern.  I  found  the  font  amidst 
A  heap  of  rubbish  in  a  comer  of  the  churchyard  ; 
and  in  1852  my  old  friend  Canon  Trevor  of  York 
was  active  in  getting  it  restored  to  the  church, 
after  the  paint  with  which  it  was  bedaubed  had 
been  removed.  The  Lord's  table  here  is  dated 
1624,  as  we  discovered  by  the  initials  of  five 
churchwardens  carved  upon  it,  who  were  in 
office  during  that  year.  The  table  was  incon- 
veniently small,  and  I  have  had  it  enlarged  to 
the  exact  size  of  the  high-altar  stone,  now  sunk 
into  the  pavement,  and  on  which  the  table 
stands.  The  measurement  is  exactly  seven  feet 
by  three  feet.  I  would  add  the  story  of  our 
communion  plate,  which  consists  of  a  paten  dated 
1675  ;  two  flagons,  with  the  dates  1713  and  1759  ; 
two  chalices,  with  covers,  dated  1663  ;  and  four 
alms  plates —all  silver.    For  many  years  I  thought 


the  alms  plates  were  only  plated  ;  they  bore  no 
inscription,  and  I  did  not  examine  the  hall-mark  ; 
but  finding  that  Mr.  Parkin  gave  501,  by  will  in 
1759,  to  be  expended  in  the  purchase  of  church 
plate,  I  had  the  flagon  of  that  date,  with  the  foar 
plates,  put  into  the  scales,  and  as  they  exactlv 
weighed  136  ounces,  it  became  clear  how  the  50L 
were  applied  ;  and  flagon  and  plates  are  now  duly 
inscribed  as  the  gifts  of  Mr.  Parkin. 

Alfred  Gattt,  D.D. 

Child's  ** Discourse  op  Trade"  (6**  S.  t. 
309). — According  to  Davenport  Adams's  Dictionary 
of  English  LiUraiure,  Sir  Jasiah  Child's  New 
DiscourK  of  Trade  was  first  published  in  1668. 
Macaulay  says  (Hitiory  of  England^  chap.  xviiL) 
that  it  was  published  soon  after  the  Revolution  ;  in 
Bohn's  Ouinsa  Catalogue^  1841,  a  co^  is  priced 
two-and-sixpence.  Wm.  H.  Pebt, 

Child  was  an  eminent  merchant  and  writer  on 
political  economy  Ump.  Charles  II.  A  fifth 
edition,  to  which  is  added  "  A  Treatise  against 
Usury  "  by  the  same  author,  issued  from  the  press 
in  1751,  Glasgow,  8?o.  (?  and  12mo.). 

William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter'i,  Isle  of  Tkanet. 

Funeral  Armour  iv  Churches  (5«*  S.  ix. 
429  ;  X.  11,  73,  129,  152,  199,  276,  317;  xi.  73, 
178,  252,  375,  467;  xii.  165  ;  6«»  S.  i.  446  ;  ii 
218,  477;  iv.  38,  256,  314  ;  v.  68.  177,  217).— In 
•Hanwell  Church,  near  Banbury,  Oxon,  I  observed 
a  few  years  ago  three  helmets  fastened  high  up  on 
the  wall  of  the  chancel.  Two  of  these  were  sur- 
mounted by  a  crest  in  the  form  of  a  fleur-de-lis, 
and  the  third  had  still  the  spike  on  which  the  crest 
had  formerly  been  placed.  There  were  also  several 
small  broken  pieces  of  armour.  I  imagine,  from 
the  number  of  memorials  of  the  Cope  family  in 
this  church,  that  the  helmets  must  have  been  used 
at  the  funeral  of  some  member  of  that  family. 
Walter  J.  Westojt. 

There  are  two  helmets,  a  sword,  and  a  miseri- 
corde  suspended  above  the  fine  monument  to  John 
Leigh  in  the  chancel  of  Addington  Church,  Surrey. 
The  helmet  of  Sir  Wm.  Harpur,  the  founder  of  the 
Bedford  Schools,  formerly  hung  above  his  tomb  in 
St.  Paul's  Church,  Bedford,  but  it  was  lost,  as  un- 
fortunately is  too  often  the  case,  during  the  re- 
storation of  the  church  a  year  or  two  ago. 

W.  A.  Wells. 

Translations  of  B£ranoer's"Boi  d  Yvbtdt" 
(e^  S.  V.  9, 177).— In  BaUadt  and  Tales,  in  the 
library  edition  of  Thackeray's  works,  1869,  will  be 
found,  at  pp.  97  and  99  respectively,  a  French  and 
an  English  imitation  of  B^ranger's  Tfu  King  of 
Yvetotf  which  Napoleon's  police  wanted  to  sup- 
press {vide  Besant's  French  ffumouritU,  p.  425). 
Henrt  G.  Hope. 

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Captain  W.  Cumningham  (6*»»  S.  v.  268).— I 
hare  the  pedigree  of  the  Glencairne  family,  being 
a  member  of  a  branch  of  it,  and  ehall  be  glad  to 
give  Mr.  Cunningham  any  information  in  my 
power  if  he  will  commanicate  with  me. 

M.  H.  David. 

St.  Pagans  Rectory,  Cardiff. 

Bishop  Edmund  Kebns,  of  Chkstsr  and 
Elt  (6**  S.  V.  228).— He  was  brother  to  Benjamin 
Keene,  M.P.  for  Maiden,  and  once  Plenipotentiary 
at  Madrid.  He  succeeded  Bishop  Batler  in  the 
rectory  of  Stanhope,  in  the  coanty  of  Durham, 
which  he  held  from  1740  to  1771;  and  was  made 
Bishop  of  Chester  in  1752,  being  translated  to  Ely 
in  1770.   He  died  1781.  E.  H.  A. 

This  munificent  prelate  was  born  at  Lynn,  Nor- 
folk, in  1713,  and  educated  at  the  Charterhouse 
and  Caius  College,  Cambridge.  In  1739  he  became 
fellow  of  Peterhouse,  and  in  the  following  year 
rector  of  Stanhope.  He  was  elected  master  of 
Peterhouse  in  1748.  William  Platt. 

His  father  was  an  alderman  of  Lynn,  Norfolk, 
and  his  brother,  Sir  Benjamin  Eeene,  was  many 
years  ambassador  at  Madrid.  The  Bishop's  Palace 
at  Chester  was  wholly  rebuilt  by  him  at  the  ex- 
pense of  2,2002.  When  Bishop  of  Ely  he  sold  the 
palace  in  Holbom  and  built  another  in  Dover 
Street,  Piccadilly,  by  this  sale  increasing  the  re- 
Tennes  of  the  see  of  Ely  to  the  extent  of  5,0002. 
per  annum.  W.  H.  Burns. 

Clayton  Hall. 

Mr.  Moors  will  find  some  account  of  this 
bishop  in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  sixth  edition, 
p.  1387.  G.  W.  M. 

See  Nichols's  lAUrary  Anecdotes,  vol.  iv.  pp. 
322-324.  G.  FiSHBR. 


"Thb   Poetic   Mirror"    (6«»  S.  v. 
Evidently  the  work  of  James  Hogg.    The  follow- 
ing is  from  Allibone's  notice  of  his  life  : — 

**  Poetic  Mirror ;  or,  Living  Bards  oj  Britain,  1  vol. 
This  work,  consisting  of  imitations  of  distinguished 
living  poets,  was  all  (with  the  exception  of  Scott's  pre- 
tended epistle  to  Sontbey— the  work  of  Thomas  Pringle) 
written  by  Hogg  in  three  weeks." 

Arthur  Mtnott. 

My  copy  is  also  the  edition  of  1816,  which,  it 
is  said,  went  off  so  quickly  that  a  second  edition 
of  seven  hundred  copies  followed  in  1817.  The 
book  is  attributed  to  James  Hogg,  and  the  con- 
tents are  said  to  be  all  his  own  composition. 
Whether  this  second  edition  includes  the  promised 
second  series  I  cannot  say,  not  having  met  with  it. 

J.  0. 

Ancient  Mottobs  (6**^  S.  v.  49,  214).— On  the 
granite  corbels  supporting  the  first  story  of  a  house 
in  the  High  Street  of  St.  Peter-Port,  Guernsey, 
bmlt^  as  is  pzored  by  a  date  over  one  of  the  doors, 


in  the  year  1616,  are  to  be  seen  two  shields  bear- 
ing merchants'  marks  contained  within  circles.  On 
one  of  these  circles  are  to  be  read  the  words  bn 
DiBV  i'ai  uis  mon  appvi  ;  and  on  the  other,  bt 
SA  PRoviDBNCB  m'a  condyit.  In  taking  down 
the  timber  front,  which  had  been  plastered  over,  of 
a  house  in  the  same  street  some  years  since,  a  beam 
was  brought  to  light  extending  across  the  front, 
with  the  foUowing  inscription  carved  in  raised 
letters,  la  paix  db  dibv  soit  cj^aks.  The 
date  of  this  house  is  about  the  same  as  that  of  the 
one  mentioned  above.  E.  McC — , 

Quemsey. 

ftiiittlUntaui. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  kc 
PrcBUomina  ;  or,  the  Etymology  of  the  PrineipaX  Chrit* 

tian  Names  of  Great  Briiain  and  Ireland,  By  Richard 

S.  Gbarnock.  (Trabner  &  Go.) 
In  this  work  Dr.  Charnock  has  prodaced  a  most  inter- 
esting and  valuable  addition  to  the  history  of  our  Eng- 
lish Christian  names.  His  object  has  been  to  give  the 
etymology  of  the  principal  names  either  in  every-day 
use  or  lingering  in  the  literature  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland,  and  of  these  he  calculates  there  are  about  1,500, 
the  msjor  part  being  derived  from  the  Ootbo- Teutonic 
languages.  That  the  author  has  spared  neither  time 
nor  trouble  in  endeavouring  to  make  his  work  as  com- 
plete  as  possible  is  evident  from  the  long  list  of 
authorities  consulted,  the  only  name  that  we  have 
missed  being  M.  Paul  Hecquet-Boucrand's  Dictionfiaire 
Etymologiq7ie  des  Nome  Propres  d'Hommes,  Paris,  186& 
It  is,  therefore,  all  the  more  strange  that  there  should 
prove  to  be  so  many  omissions  in  his  list.  Without  going 
out  of  the  writer's  own  circle,  or,  indeed,  except  in  two 
cases,  away  from  his  immediate  neighbourhood,  the 
following  names— some,  at  least,  of  which  are  not  un- 
common—are  omitted  in  Dr.  Ghamock's  volume:  God- 
frey (referred  to  under  Guadhre),  Alfric,  Abigail,  Char- 
lotte, Ethel wyn,  Aloysius,  Jemmett,  Ruby  (female), 
Yictor,  Leila,  Fatty.  The  writer  once  had  a  servant 
rejoicing  in  the  names  of  "  Augusta  Louisa  Messalina.^ 
It  is  impossible  to  agree  with  Dr.  Ghamock's  etymo- 
logies in  every  case,  though  the  exceptions  are  remark- 
ably  few  in  number.  The  etymology  of  Christian  names 
is  in  most  cases  a  matter  of  di£Scalty,  and  in  many  cases 
it  can  be  little  better  than  guesswork.  The  article  m 
the  Antiguary  of  March  of  this  year  throws  considerable 
light  on  some  of  our  female  Christian  names.  We  cer- 
tainly cannot  agree  with  Dr.  Ghamock's  dictum  that 
there  is  no  excuse,  unless  it  be  ignorance,  for  christen- 
ing a  child  Cecil  who  is  not  blind,  or  Blaise  when  he 
does  not  lisp.  If  we  must  give  onr  children  only  appro- 
priate names,  many  of  our  prettiest  Christian  names' 
must  soon  die  out.  'The  whole  book  is  full  of  informa- 
tion and  instruction,  and  we  shall  be  glad  if  Dr.  Char- 
nock can  find  leisure  to  expand  the  articlef>,  which 
in  their  present  form  are  necessarily  very  brief,  and 
give  a  really  thorough  history  of  the  subjeot. 

Early  Churdi  History.    By  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Simcoz. 

(Rivingtons.) 
Mb.  Bixoox's  book  is  the  onteome  of  six  lectures  de- 
livered in  the  chapter-room  of  Winchester  Cathedral  on 
the  history  of  the  early  church,  from  its  foundation  at 
Jerusalem  to  the  time  of  the  martyrs.  He  has  wisely 
not  attempted  to  eliminate  all  traces  of  the  original 
shape  which  his  labours  assumed,  or  to  abandon  the 
direct  and  familiar  forms  of  address  appropriate  to  oral 


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delivery.  The  subject  is  treated  too  slightly  to  admit  of 
any  other  form  of  pablication,  though  both  style  and 
treatment  are  adapted  to  their  particular  purpose.  Mr. 
Simcoz  presents  a  clear  picture  of  the  distinctive  features 
of  the  church  in  the  successive  stages  of  its  progress, 
and  gives  a  popular  account  of  the  times,  which  will  be , 
valuable  to  those  who  have  neither  the  time  nor  the  in-' 
dination  to  wade  through  the  more  learned  volumes  of 
professed  ecclesiastical  historians. 

S  Noble  Bole  off  Coohry,  ffor  a  Prynce  ITousiolde,  or 
eny  other  EstaUly  ffouttolde.  Reprinted  from  a  MS. 
in  the  Holkham  Collection.  Edited  by  Mrs.  Alexander 
Napier.  (Stock.) 
This  is  another  of  Mr.  Stock's  admirable  series  of 
reprints  of  rare  English  works.  To  the  student  of  the 
manners  and  habits  of  our  ancestors  it  will  be  found  in- 
valuable. Comparatively  few  MSS.  of  this  class  have 
been  reprinted,  and  copies  of  such  reprints  as  have  been 
issued  are  in  all  cases  rarely  met  with.  Naturally,  a 
certain  sameness  runs  through  the  recipes  in  the  various 
collections,  but  this  is  counterbalanced  by  the  diversity 
of  dialect  and  language,  which  makes  them  all  the  more 
valuable  to  the  student  of  our  tongue.  The  MS.  con- 
tains, inter  alia,  the  bill  of  fare  of  the  *'  ffeste  off  kynge 
henry  the  iiy*^  to  the  herawdes  and  ffrenche  men  when 
they  had  justed  in  Smytheffelde  ";  that  of  the  "crown> 
aeon  off  kyng  henry  the  ffyfte  ":  and  that  of  the  '*  ffest 
off  Novell  Archebissbope  of  York  and  Chaunceler  of 
England  att  his  stal lacon  in  York. "  The  paper,  printing, 
and  binding  are  all  that  could  be  desired,  and  Mrs. 
Napier  has  done  her  work  well.  There  are  a  few  slips 
and  misprints,  in  addition  to  those  corrected  at  the  end 
of  the  volume,  which  it  may  be  well  to  point  out.  On 
p.  49  "  chandron  "  for  chaudron  is  a  strange  slip,  consider- 
ing that  it  is  correctly  printed  on  pp.  88,  90,  and  eke- 
where.  '*  Appillinoee,"  p.  121,  is  clearly  a  misreading  for 
AvpHlmoHt  an  account  of  which  will  be  found  in  Mr. 
way's  notes  to  the  Protn^toniem,  p.  13.  We  venture  to 
doubt  whether  dyners  is  correctly  explained  in  the 
glossary  by  *'  some  kind  of  fruit."  We  have  only  found 
the  word  on  p.  28,  and  there  it  seems  to  be  a  mistake 
for  dyuevi;  perhaps  the  word  kerha  is  omitted.  We 
cannot  find  anywhere  that  *'jowtes"  were  compounded 
of  fruits :  see  the  several  recipes  in  the  Promptoriumf 
p.  265.  Altogether  the  volume  is  a  worthy  addition  to 
the  noble  reprints  already  issued  by  Mr.  Stock. 

Q.  Soraii  Flacci  Opera,  (Kegan  Paul,  Trench  k  Co.) 
From  tlie  book-epicure's  point  of  view  the  "  Parchment 
Library,"  of  which  this  is  the  latest  issue,  is  rapidly 
approaching  perfection.  Nothing  can  be  better  than 
the  way  in  which  Messrs.  Whittingbam  &  Co.  have 
printed  this  volume;  the  binding  is  pretty,  the  paper  is 
of  the  best»  and  the  etching  by  Mr.  L.  Alma  Tadema,  if 
simple  in  subject,  is  pleasantly  in  keeping  with  the  time- 
honoured  text.  Thi<4  has  been  prepared  for  the  press  by 
Mr.  F.  W.  Cornish,  M.A.,  one  of  the  assistant  masters  at 
Eton,  and  It  is  baaed  upon  that  of  the  best  editions. 
There  are  no  notes,  the  object  having  been  rather  to 
provide  a  tasteful  and  convenient  volume  for  the  English 
lover  of  Horace  than  to  compete  with  the  more  heavily 
armed  commentators;  but  where  a  conjectural  reading 
lias  found  general  favour  it  is  adopted,  and  indicated  by 
an  asterisk,  while  doubtful  readings  are  distinguished  bv 
«  dagger.  We  note  that  Mr.  Cornish  includes  Bentley  s 
^  nam  sen  mobilibus  *vepris  inhorruit 
ad  *ventum  foliis  " 
{Carm,  i.  28, 5)  among  his  accepted  emendations.  But— 
to  give  a  pair  of  examples— neither  Wickham  nor  Munro 
has  accepted  It,  though  it  ii  true  that  the  latter  regards 
itasplaosible. 


The  Browning  Society  has  issued  Part  ii.  of  its  valuable 
papers.  Mr.  Furnivall  continues  and  completes  fata 
bibliography,  which  is  a  perfect  magazine  of  Browning 
'lore.  Mr.  Eirkman's  striking  and  suggestive  inaugural 
address  is  printed,  and  there  are  also  two  analyses  of 
Fi^ne  at  ^e  Fair,  and  two  attempts  at  a  classification 
of  the  poet's  entire  works.  Mr.  James  Thomson,  of 
The  City  of  Dreadful  Night,  supplies  some  useful  notes 
on  various  Browning  characteristics.  Those  which  deal 
with  the  charges  of  obscurity  and  harshness  so  often 
made  against  the  author  of  Sordello  will  be  read  with 
special  interest.  This  society  is  thoroughly  justifying 
its  existence.  It  will  be  impossible  for  any  future  writer 
upon  Browning  to  neglect  its  labours — if,  indeed,  it  does 
not  make  any  further  writing  upon  the  subject  entirely 
superfluous. 

Messrs.  Lonokaks  &  Co.  announce  as  preparing  for 
publication  Tlie  English  in  America:  Virginia,  Mary- 
landy  aatd  the  Carolinas,  by  J.  A.  Doyle,  Fellow  of  All 
Souls'  College,  Oxford ;  Peminiecences  of  Oriel  College 
and  of  the  Oxfwd  Movement,  by  T.  Mozley,  formerly 
Fellow  of  Oriel  College,  Oxford ;  History  of  t/ie  Papacy 
during  the  Reformation,  by  M.  Creienton,  M.A.,  Ute 
Fellow  and  Tutor  of  Merton  CoUeire,  Oxford ;  Mtmoir  of 
Augustus  de  Morgan,  by  Mrs.  De  Morgan ;  A  History 
of  Classical  Latin  Literature,  by  G.  A.  Simcox,  M.A., 
Fellow  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford;  and  in  the  "  Epochs 
of  Modern  History  Series"  The  Epodi  of  Reform,  1830- 
1860,  by  Justin  McCarthy,  M.P. 

Mr.  OKORas  Setov,  M.A.,  the  learned  author  of  The 
Law  and  Practice  of  Heraldry  in  Scotland,  is  preparing 
for  immediate  publication  by  Messrs.  Blackwood  k  Sona 
A  Memoir  of  Alexander  Seton,  Earl  of  Dunfermline, 
seventh  President  of  the  Court  of  Session,  Chancellor  of 
Scotland,  1555-1622,  with  genealogical  tables,  portraits, 
and  views  of  seats.  The  names  of  subscribers  are  re- 
ceived by  Messrs.  Blackwood. 

Messrs.  Crosby  Lookwood  &  Co.  will  shortly  publish 
The  Hall  Marking  of  Jewellery  Practically  Con^dered, 
by  Mr.  O.  £.  Gee,  author  of  The  Goldsmith's  Handbook, 
The  Silversmith's  Handbook,  &c. 


fiatitti  t0  Ctivvtiptiiirsenti. 

We  muit  call  special  aitentionto  the  following  notice: 
On  all  communications  should  be  written  the  name  and 

address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 

as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

T.  E.  K. — Lord  Beaconsfield  used  the  words  in  a 
speech  made  at  the  banquet  given  by  the  Carlton  Club, 
at  the  Wellington  Biding  School,  on  his  return  from  the 
Berlin  Conference. 

G.  L.  GoxxB.-— Has  the  word  any  special  meaning  as 
employed  by  the  Irish  ?    See  Annandale's  Ogilvie,  s.v, 

A.  C.  T.  ("Pouring  oil  on  troubled  waters ").— Sea 
"  N.  k  Q.,"  eti"  S.  iii.  69,  262, 298. 

E.  S.  (Sutton).— Many  thanks;  we  wiU  make  the 
necessary  correction  in  the  MS. 

J.  A.  T.— At  Oxford  and  Cambridge  the  proctors  are 
armed  with  exceptional  powers. 

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of  the  ro^l  preroftfttlTe  in  coat  armour  and  baronetcie*.  pp  1-5. 
FEDIORBBS :  DInmell,  of  Hoahenden.  pp.  6-16,  Ac. :  Penninffioii.  of 
Philadelphia,  pp.  27-90;  and  BamahT.  of  Lelce»ter«hlre,  with  Rojal 
Demxot.  pp.  25-S6.  NOTES  and  QUERIBS :  Rachel.  Lady  Kingston, 
pp.  17-19:  the  Ouvwath  Peerage,  &c.,  pp.  81-33.  £rrau  In  Offlclal 
Kctom,  Irish  Home  of  Commona.  br  KeT.  A.  B.  Bevan,  pp.  89-41. 
The  Baronj  of  Arklow,  br  J.  H  Round.  Bmi  .  M.A..  pp.  42-48. 
Burke'i  Extinct  Peerane  -.  lu  coocradlctlons,  pp.  48-53.  Note*  and 
Queriiv.  pp.  82.  Sporioua  coat  armour,  pp.  83-85.  TENNYSON 
PEDIGREE,  with  Royal  UeMcnt,  pp.  86-50.  Additions  to  Disraeli 
Pedigree,  p.  00. 

HEMBEBS  of  PARLIAMENT— ENGLAND,  SCOTLAND, 
and  IRELAND. 
Tlieee  Lists  are  reprinted  in  Alphabetical  sequence  from  the  BIu»- 
Book ;  details  of  their  senrlces.  and  short  Bioftraphical  Notices 
added  to  those  names  which  can  be  readily  identified  -,  Chart  Pedi- 
grees are  also  glTen,  showing  at  a  glance  the  blood  reIation»hlp 
between  the  Tarions  members  of  the  principal  governing  families. 
&igland,  Scotland,  aad  Ireland  are  treated  as  separate  works. 

REGISTER  of  ADMISSIONS  to  GRAY'S  INN  (1631—1881). 
These  entries  refer  to  the  gentry  and  their  younger  sons,  and  as  it 
is  customary  to  record  the  parentage  of  each  student  on  his  admis- 
sion, so  it  Is  equally  certain  that  no  other  wrlcs  of  documents  out- 
side the  College  of  Arms— saTing  the  admlMions  to  the  Tarioos 
VnlTenitles— afford  so  much  picked  information  relating  to  our 
aristocracy,  or  throw  so  much  additional  light  upon  their  genealogi- 
cal history. 

REGISTER  of  MARRUGES  at  GRAY*8  INN  CHAPEL. 

BIMS'S  INDEX  to  HERALDS'  VISITATIONS,  Ac. 

An  Alphabetical  List  of  Fkmllies  whose  Pedigrees  are  recorded  la 
the  Heralds'  Visitations  and  other  M88.  in  the  British  Museum, 
including  additions  from  the  collections  of  fUr  George  Naylor, 
Garter  Kingof-Anas,  and  Sir  William  Betham.  Ulster  Klng-of-Arms. 
relating  to  families  in  Ireland  and  Scotland.  This  will  be  the  flist 
General  Index  to  these  Vlsiution  Pedigrees  printed  in  alphabetical 
order. 

FUNERAL  CERTIFICATES  of  the  NOBILITY  and  GEN- 
TRY of  IRELAND  (IftOT— 1729). 
These  are  reprinted  from  the  British  Museum  copy  of  the  oflice 
book  In  UUter's  Oflice,  Dublin  Osstie,  and  are  accompanied  by 
Tkbnlar  Pedigrees  and  copious  annoutlons. 

MUSGRAYE'S  OBITUARY. 

The  Death  of  the  Nobilitr  and  Gentry  of  Great  Britain  and 
Ireland  prior  to  ISOO.  compiled  originally  by  Sir  'William  Musgimve. 
Ban.,  from  printed  works-,  with  which  is  incorporated  (by  permis- 
sion) the  Wcatminster  Abbey  Registers,  recently  edited  by  Colonel 
Chester. 

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270TE8:— A  SeriM  of  Eight  AnonTmovs  and  Oonad«nti»l 
Letten  addresMd  to  Jmum  II.. about  th«  BUta  of  Ireland, 
861~InTentoi7  of  Pope's  Goods  taken  after  hii  Death,  363 
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States,  U.S  A.— Manael  ChiTsolorai  in  England— Kentish 
ficenery,  366- Gainsborongh's  Portrait  of  Chatterton—Spring 
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used  in  Scotland— Perambalations  on  Rogation  Days.  807. 

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—''Belief  in  the  Supemainral"— "Bes  subito  gestss"— 
Captains  W.  and  B.  Bokenham—"  Terms  of  surrender  of 
Sklpton  Castle,"  868— Voltaire— "Landlord"— American 
Poets  —  *'  Devotionale  CartnsU  Efordiensls  "  —  Water- 
Boui^s— Anecdotes  of  MonkeTs— Wesley  and  Moore— Lord 
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BEPLIES:— "  Harpings  of  Lena  **  v  W.  J.  Baitman.  the  Alford 
Poet,  870-BxUnct  Periodicals,  871— Sir  PhiUp  Francis's 
Marriage-Syncretism.  872- A>  Latin  Bible— St.  Luke  xxUL 
16,  873— "Mighty "Tom  of  Oxford— Curious  Shropshire 
Epitaph— Ellioe,  Ac— Stow^  and  Stow  Ball— Curious  Book- 
plate, 874— Hie  Coomb  off  Church  Bells— Child's  *'  Discoarse 
-ot  Trade"— "Hypnerotomachia"— The  Pulteney  Corre- 
spondence—Enstachius  Vlceoomes— "  Bred  and  Bom  "—Are 
Toads  Poisonons?  876  —  "Opiet"— Bellglous  Noyels  — 
•Christmas  Cards,  876-Portaito  of  W.  Irring— Yardleys  of 
England- "Alkermes"  —  "AU  upon  the  Merry  Pin"— 
"Deck"  of  Cards— "The  Guy *— Elephants  destroyed  on 
iMooming  Dangerous,  877— Parchment  Wills— J.  Enibb— 
Bp.  Gibson,  878— Dorset  Traditions -The  Hallywells- An 
old  Seal— Glgantology-AuthoiB  Wanted,  379. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS :— Perry's  "  Greek  and  Roman  Sculp- 
ture"—Tonge's  "Constitutional  History  of  England"— 
Turner  and  Morshead's  "  Goethe's  Faust,"  &o. 

Notices  to  Correspondents,  Ac. 


A  SERIES  OF  EIGHT  ANONYMOUS  AND  CON- 
FIDENTIAL LETTERS  TO  JAMBS  II.  ABOUT 
THE  STATE  OP  IRELAND. 

{CofUinuedfnm  p.  323.) 
The  Copy  of  an  other  Letter  to  the  King,  about 
Christmas,  1685, 
Sir,— Before  I  say  any  thing  else  to  your  Majestie,  I 
^il  presume  to  acquaint  you  with  what  I  hear  from 
many  hands  that  the  contents  of  penny  post  Letters 
eent  you,  are  frequently  talked  of  abroad  as  wel  as  the 
debates  &  resolutions  of  your  privy  Council  which  may 
prove  of  yery  il  consequence,  For  a  sincere  friend  to 
your  Mat<*  and  interest  that  canot  otherwise  have  access 
to  you  may  in  a  peny-post  letter  giye  you  those  items 
concerning  your  interest,  religion,  and  the  legal  ways  of 
establishing  both  which  shud  not  be  imparted  to  any,  if 
not  to  such  whose  tecresie  honesty  &  loyalty  are  un- 
questionable, for  the  counsels  k  resolutions  of  Princes 
w'  once  discios'd  are  little  better  than  a  discoyerd  mine. 
Nay  the  reyealing  the  Princes  secretts  is  in  the  opinion 
ofal  sound  politicians  the  greatest  crime  next  to  high 
treason  Al  I  'I  say  to  this  is  that  I  wil  repeat  to  your 
Ma**'  one  of  Solomons  proyerbs  Be  at  peace  wti^  many 
neyer  the  less  have  but  one  councellour  of  a  thousand, 
and  as  this  adyice  was  giyen  by  the  wisest  of  Kings,  no 
King  eyer  reign*d  in  England  that  had  more  need  to 
follow  it  than  your  Majestie.  For  tho  Gouncelloun  be  as 
Decessarie  to  a  King  as  the  soule  is  to  the  body  k  wis- 
dom be  sayd  to  consist  in  the  multitude  of  Counsell" 
jet  it  is  a  hard  case  when  the  King  aimes  at  one  end 
and  his  Ministers  at  another,  for  while  your  Ma***  may 


think  of  a  change  in  the  ciyil  (^oremm^  that  may  any- 
how tend  to  a  change  in  religion,  the  adyice  of  al  k 
eyery  your  protestant  priyy  Councellours  will  ever  run 
counter  to  your  intentions.  And  it  is  thought  this  is  it 
that  retards  the  intended  total  discarding  .of  the  Whtggs 
in  Ireland  and  putting  the  Catholics  of  that  Country 
into  ciyil  k  military  employments,  for  the  protestants 
there  as  being  al  of  'em  or  at  least  far  tho  major  part 
Cromwellians  that  dread  the  loss  of  their  unjust  acquisi- 
tions haye  many  spies  k  Adyocats  in  this  Kingd"*  wluther 
they  haye  transmitted  yast  summs  of  money  since  your 
Ma*'«*  access  to  the  crown  to  purchase  (as  tis  belieyed) 
friendtf  at  Court  k  now  that  my  Lord  Clarendons  de- 
claration has  sett  their  hearts  at  rest  k  hindred  them 
from  compoundinff  with  the  ancient  proprietors  upon 
whom  they  began  oefore  to  obtrude  impositions  for  less 
than  half  purchase,  they  intend  by  their  influence  upon 
Ministers  k  great  Men  at  Court  to  preyayle  with  your 
Mfgestie  to  employ  no  man  in  that  Country  that  has  any 
relations  or  interest  in  it  &  to  colour  their  suggestions 
tis  probable  they  may  alleage  to  your  Ma*'*  the  danger 
k  inconyenience  of  lodging  any  power  in  the  bands  of  a 
nation  that  in  Case  of  a  Protestant  successor  might  in 
defence  of  their  darling  Religion  sett  up  for  themaelyes 
k  struggle  with  their  Soyereign  at  the  cost  of  their 
fUlegeance  which  suggestions  wel  weigh *d  are  but  meer 
state-sopliistry.  For  not  to  mention  the  seyere  persecu- 
tions in  Q.  Eliz :  dayes  who  forced  that  poor  Country  to 
defend  that  w**  they  eyer  yalu'd  more  than  their  lives  k 
Estates  the  true  k  ancient  religion  of  their  forefathers 
Against  her  tyrannical  usurpation  that  had  no  title  to 
the  Crown  but  by  maintaining  that  Heresie  which  en- 
couradg'd  her  father  in  his  profaneneas  k  adultery.  The 
seyere  &  unequal  usage  extended  by  Ministers  to  the 
Natives  of  y^  Country  were  in  a  great  measure  the 
occassion  of  their  several  Combinations  and  insurrections 
whereof  I  cud  produce  a  hundred  instances  from  im- 
partial k  violent  protestant  Authors  wherewith  tis  not 
proper  to  trouble  your  Ma*'*  in  a  letter,  but  this  I  can 
ayer  that  w^  eyer  that  Country  might  haye  don  in  de- 
fence of  its  religion  in  K  Henr  8  &  Q  Eliz.  reignes  since 
your  royal  grand-fathers  acces  to  the  crown  there  has 
bin  no  rebellion  in  Ireland  but  that  of  41.  which  al  cir- 
cumstances considerd  was  not  as  black  as  it  was  painted 
and  for  which  no  better  apologie  can  be  made  than  your 
Royal  Father  offers  in  his  Eikon  Basilike  and  his  answer 
to  the  reasons  of  the  yotes  of  no  address,  for  tis  certen 
that  whateyer  may  be  sayd  of  bloody  Irish  Massacres 
that  ye  Murther  committed  by  the  Scotch  presbiteriang 
at  Island  Magee  on  four  score  Irish  families  man 
woman  k  child  in  one  night  in  the  begining  of  the  warn 
and  the  Devilish  practices  of  the  Presbiterian  L***  Jus- 
tices Parsons  k  Burlace  in  forceing  the  estated  natiyes 
to  outlavryeries  in  order  to  get  their  Estates^  and  their 
encourageing  parties  of  their  armie  to  Kil  al  that 
came  in  their  way  without  discriminating  nocents 
from  Innocents  were  the  occasion  of  the  generalitie  of 
the  Irish  takeing  armes  in  their  own  defence  &  of  al 
the  mischief  and  barbarity  after  comitted  by  the  rabble 
on  al  sides ;  and  the  chief  reason  why  the  Irish  broke 
their  intire  subjection  to  the  Crown  of  England  with 
due  resignation  and  alacrity  since  King  Jameses  first 
coming  to  the  crown  is  that  that  whole  nation  reck<ms 
it  the  greatest  honour  it  can  without  vanity  boast  of  to 
see  itself  providentially  happy  under  the  protection  of 
Kings  lineally  descended  from  the  Kings  of  Ireland  as 
can  he  undeniably  demonstrated,  and  I  belieye  it  in  my 
Conscience  if  your  Ma*'*  had  no  right  by  Conquest  to 
Ireland  and  that  their  King  were  to  be  pitchd  upon  by 
Election  they  would  neyer  choose  any  other  than  your 
Ma*'*  and  your  royal  posterity,  for  if  it  lay  in  their  powr 
they  wood  make  you  as  abtolat  in  Ireland  as  your 


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heart  cud  wish,  n&y  if  there  were  a  loyal  parleament 
ealld  there  tbat  might  outvote  the  Fanatics  they  would 
double  your  revenues  to  yourself  and  poeteritie  &  make 
their  love  and  loyalty  known  by  contnbuting  with  open 
hearts  k  purses  to  yoar  ii^i^atnest.  But  al  this  not- 
withstanding I  know  Bom  wil  be  apt  to  magnifie  dangers 
where  there  is  none  at  al  and  cloak  it  where  it  really  is,  a 
trick  much  usd  in  England  of  late  For  the  Fanatics  in 
Ireland  as  they  are  the  dreggs  of  the  people  of  England 
that  had  no  Estates  here  k  went  in  ye  Usurpers  time  to 
make  fortunes  in  that  Country  and  the  scum  of  the  worst 
sort  of  presbiterians  in  Scotland  that  upon  persecutions 
there  k  to  relieve  their  poverty  flocked  into  the  North 
of  Ireland  so  are  they  the  most  dangerous  enemies 
Monarchy  or  Beligion  has  in  the  8  Kingdoms  which 
your  Ma"'  had  infallibly  found  to  be  true  if  god  had  not 
timely  k  miraculously  defeated  your  Enemies  for  had 
Aigile  landed  in  the  northern  parts  of  Ireland  he  had 

g>t  a  better  party  in  8  dayes  than  he  piokd  up  in  Scot- 
nd  from  first  to  last.  But  it  is  with  the  Irish  as  with 
the  Jesuits,  let  who  wil  be  of  rebellious  principles  k 
inclinations  they  must  bear  the  brand ;  The  Jesuits  raysd 
the  Scotch  rebellion  in  37.  murderd  your  royal  father, 
bumd  the  Citty,  Kindled  the  several  rebellions  in  Scot- 
land since  the  restauration  and  woud  have  assasinated 
his  late  Majestic  of  ever  blessed  memory  and  yet  al 
these  fine  feats  were  really  don  or  intended  by  the  Pres- 
biterians who  always  lay  their  rebellious  brats  at  other 
mens  doors  and  yet  the  Irish  that  have  not  rebelld  since 
41  (if  the  french  fleet  that  was  to  land  at  Carlingforde  be 
not  a  rebellion)  must  be  still  branded  with  the  ignomi- 
nious names  of  a  rebellious  barbarous  k  bloodthirsty 
nation  but  Mnnmouths  k  Argiles  rebellions  that  struck 
Boe  imediately  at  the  very  root  of  monarchy  and 
the  extirpation  of  your  Majesties  royal  line  are  already 
forgot  as  if  they  had  bin  a  dream  by  the  same  partie 
that  cry  out  upon  the  Irish  whereof  the  generality  are 
hated  and  traduced  for  no  other  crimes  than  that  of  being 
your  true  and  unalterable  friends.  And  your  Ma"*  has 
reason  to  pray,  with  the  late  Dutchess  of  York  that  they 
k  the  Catholicks  of  England  and  Scotland  may  not  su£fer 
for  your  being  of  their  religion  for  if  you  do  not  make 
them  considerable  before  God  cals  you  from  an  earthly 
to  a  heavenly  drown  they  wil  be  inevitably  crush'd  to 
pieces  with  out  a  Miracle  from  heaven  k  truely  if  you 
advise  with  any  Protestant  Minister  of  State  about  doing 
the  generality  of  that  nation  a  Kindness  they  wil  never 
advise  you  to  it  in  as  much  as  they  look  upon  any  con- 
siderable change  in  the  Civil  government  of  that  King- 
dom to  be  an  infallible  inlet  of  Popery  into  this.  And  our 
misfortune  is  that  we  are  already  as  much  hated  k 
slander'd  by  the  industry  of  y*  fanatics  in  Ireland  k  here 
ae  if  by  our  means  Popery  were  already  introduc'd  into 
the  8  Kingdoms  k  your  Ma*'*  may  be  wel  assur*d  that  in 
Case  yon  had  not  the  least  thought  of  replanting  your 
religion  even  by  lawfuU  and  Evangelical  means  the 
number  of  your  Enemies  woud  never  be  the  less,  for 
rebellion  k  the  constant  fore  runners  of  it,  feares  & 
Jealousies  run  in  the  blood  of  your  Fanatic  Subjects  and 
the  race  of  the  same  men  that  persecuted  your  royal 
Father  to  the  scaffold  for  being  what  he  was  not,  an 
arbitrary  Papist  wit  never  in  their  hearts  (be  their  cant 
what  it  will)  be  reconcird  to  a  Popish  (and  as  they 
mistake  it)  an  Idolatrous  Prince  and  their  murmuriiigs  k 
heart  burnings  are  soe  universal  already  that  the  very 
church  of  England  heretofore  reputed  the  chief  prop  of 
Monarchic  is  of  late  grown  little  oetter  than  a  Kirk  of 
Scotland,  For  every  sermon  is  an  indirect  k  cunning  in- 
vective against  Poperie  k  consequently  upon  what  they 
look  upon  to  be  its  inseparable  companion  slavery  and 
tho'  the  few  sincere  Church  of  England  men  ought  in 
imitation  of  ombre  players  to  joyn  with  the  Romanists 


against  the  Fanatics  as  the  stronger  party  and  too  many^ 
for  them  Both,  yet  they  are  so  far  from  it  tbat  pursoant 
to  ShafUburys  project  they  joyn  against  the  Catholics  •» 
their  comon  enemie  And  your  Irish  subjects  being  tho- 
most  numerous  body  of  Catholics  in  your  dominions 
and  the  mo»t  fit  and  willing  (as  the  case  stands  now)  to 
counterballance  the  powr  of  the  Fanatics  your  Ma"*  shud 
think  of  putting  them  without  delay  into  a  condition  to 
stand  by  your  Blatie  and  your  posterity  upon  oceaadon. 
that  may  want  their  assistance  in  this  Kingdom  thai 
has  bin  so  long  k  so  furiously  driveing  at  the  erection  of 
a  Comon-wealth  as  of  all  other  governments  the  mnsk 
suitable  to  the  humor  of  a  wealthy  headstrong  people 
ever  Jealous  of  their  own  hapines  k  of  their  Princes 
greatnes  k  whoever  goes  about  to  prepossess  your  Ma*^' 
with  ye  imagenary  inconvenience  of  a  thorow  aTteration 
in  Ireland  little  considers  that  the  Catholic  Mobile  there 
that  modestly  speaking  make  six  to  one  of  the  several 
sectaries  in  it  are  as  extremely  fond  of  their  Kings 
interest  and  a  Kingly  government  as  the  rabble  of  Bug* 
land  has  bin  averse  to  Monarchy  since  the  unhappy 
reformation  that  with  the  diversity  of  opinions  open  d  a 
gap  for  a  continued  series  of  broiles  and  confusion  k  that 
the  best  way  of  secureing  a  Conquest  when  tis  once  com- 
pleat  by  the  tyes  of  alliances  and  mixtures  of  blood  'twixt 
the  first  Colonies  sent  into  the  conquered  Countries  andi 
the  Natives  (as  it  is  now  with  these  formerly  call'd  th» 
Meer  Irish  and  the  Old  English)  is  to  interest  the  con- 

3uer*d  Nation  in  the  Princes  governm^  so  as  witboufc- 
anger  of  changing  better  for  wors  none  of  'em  may- 
think  of  sideing  with  any  against  him  for  when  the  co]> 
trary  is  practis'd  it  breeds  bad  blood  k  discontent  to^ 
makes  men  uneasie  k  without  the  grace  of  Christia* 
patience  putts  them  upon  unnatural  and  desperat  designs^ 
witnes  Colon*  Miles  Reylies  attempt  in  offering  his 
service  som  18  or  19  years  ago  to  the  French  King  upon 
a  difference  with  England  which  was  the  effect  of  dis- 
content, for  the  sayd  Colonel  went  over  from  Ovrea 
ONeil  to  Ormond  before  the  peace  of  48  and  serv'd  him 
faythfuUy  &  tho  upon  the  kings  restauration  he  had 
reason  to  expect  being  considerd  as  a  loyal  Cavalier  b» 
met  with  no  other  consideration  than  Ormonds  saying,  hs 
was  an  honest  man  but  that  he  was  of  an  il  Province  as 
if  there  ought  to  be  any  distinction  twist  the  Kings  sub- 
jects, but  what  may  distinguish  good  Men  of  wt  Province- 
or  Country  so  ever  from  l»d,  and  tho  I  be  an  Irish  Man 
that  presume  thus  to  convey  my  wel  meaning  thoughts 
to  your  Ma*>*  I  must  confess  I  canot  be  so  indiseretely 
zealous  for  the  good  of  religion  (the  propagation  whereof 
is  often  marr'd  by  zeal  without  knowledge  k  prudence) 
as  to  allow  of  som  mens  Immoderation  that  woud  hava 
al  protestants  to  a  Man  In  that  Country  putt  out  of  em- 
ployments  to  make  room  for  Catholics  for  if  al  the  pro- 
testants there  were  as  loyal  as  the  Old  k  decrepid  Earl 
of  Ardglass  twere  safe  employing  them,  for  that  honest 
Cavalier  in  the  heat  of  the  popish  plott  entertain'^ 
cherished  reliev'd  k  kept  out  of  Goal  most  of  the  poor  & 
Catho  Clergie  in  his  side  of  the  Country. 

8% — I  can  with  a  good  Conscience  protest  before  god 
that  what  I  here  presume  to  offer  to  your  Ma"** gracious 
consideration  is  rather  an  effect  of  my  unfeigned  zeal 
for  your  Majesties  spiritual  k  temporal  interest  &  the 
good  of  religion  than  of  an  affection  byass'd  for  the  good 
of  my  poor  country  whose  case  since  the  refonration 
has  bin  much  your  own  since  your  becoming  a  Roman 
Cath.  for  your  Ma***  k  that  poor  Kingdom  have  bin 
equally  aspersd  slander^  k  persecuted  for  your  un- 
shaken constancy  in  your  religion  k  your  Matie  may 
Judge  from  your  own  haveing  bin  traduc'd  in  a  cruel  man- 
ner on  the  account  of  your  religion  how  much  the  worst 
actions  that  Catholic  country  was  ever  guilty  of  may  be 
hitherto  aggravated  by  the  sworn  Enemies  of  their  pro- 


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tfearion  that  believe  no  Calumnies  proportionable  to  tbe 
bloodineas  of  B  Catholic  principles  And  it  has  bin 
hitherto  our  hard  fate  that  we  cua  neither  sny  nor  write 
Any  thing  in  our  own  vindication  without  being  lyable 

to  the  penalties  due  to  Libellers  for  my  L  of  O 

Ihaving  deatroyd  us  by  his  not  having  concluded  a  timely 
peace  with  the  Oonfederat  Catholics  in  Ireland  pursuant 
•to  your  royal  Fathers  many  pressing  letters  to  that  effect 
-from  Oxford  in  the  year  44,  &  by  obstructing  the  late 
Kings  graciously  intended  Mercy  by  contriveing  the  R 
Catb.  of  Ireland  to  be  left  out  of  the  act  of  indempnitie 
yet  is  he  not  content  to  have  don  the  Country  this  in- 
justice but  has  now  as  ever  he  had  his  little  spies  k 
pensioners  in  court  &  country  to  diFCOver  any  thing  that 
•might  be  intended  for  the  good  of  our  Nation  hence  it 
was  that  dureing  his  being  at  the  helm  none  of  the 
Natives  durst  complain  of  any  grievances  in  writeing  or 
•otherwise  hence  it  was  that  he  makes  it  his  work  at 
•present  by  his  influence  upon  &  correspondence  with 
the  privie  Councils  in  both  Kingdoms  to  have  it  layd 
€or  a  ground  that  the  protestMnt  Religion  canot  be 
maintaind  without  a  total  exclusion  of  Papists  from 
"Civil  &  Military  employments,  hence  it  was  that  in  the 
late  parleament  he  opposed  with  al  his  usual  might  & 
•cunning  the  takeing  off  the  test  by  his  privat  Cabals 
^ith  aom  Bishops  Lds  &  Comoners  &  hence  it  is  that  he 
is  of  late  retir'd  into  Oxfordshire  that  he  may  put  that 
Cniversitie  that  esteems  him  one  of  the  chief  iiillars  of 
ye  protestant  church  upon  fortifieing  itself  against  the 
'frightful  aparition  of  popery  &  yet  whatever  zeal  he 
may  pretend  for  the  maintenance  of  the  Protestant 
celigion  his  Cares  &  Cabals  terminat  al  in  the  preserva- 
tion of  his  il-got  acres  and  tho'  perhaps  he  may  not 
«llow  of  the  Anti-monarchical  principles  uf  the  Fanatics 
of  Ireland  yet  he  has  ever  favourd  that  party  k  espe- 
<«ially  since  the  Kings  restauration  for  his  interest  is 
inseparably  linkd  to  theirs,  nay  he  favour*d  them  so  much 
during  the  War  in  Ireland  that  he  gave  up  Dublin  into 
their  hands  notwithstanding  that  he  had  directions  & 
f)0sitive  commands  sent  him  in  the  year  47  from  ye 
*Queen  Mother  k  the  Prince  from  Paris  by  one  M' 
Wintergrant  to  com  to  a  speedie  accomodation  with  the 
Catholics  k  to  engage  them  seasonably  in  his  assistance 
for  delivering  your  royal  k  distressed  father  then  a  close 
prisoner  at  Holmeby  but  not  satisfied  with  al  this  he 
4:ontrives  to  have  sham  stories  lately  k  industriously 
rscatter'd  of  the  foolish  discourses  k  behaviour  of  the 
Irish  to  make  them  odious  to  y'  Ma"*  but  the  comfort  of 
4il  honest  Irish  Men  is  that  the  individual  men  that 
speak  il  of  my  Lord  Tyrconnel  k  them,  now  made  no 
l>ones  of  speaiking  virulently  k  reproachfully  of  your 
Aiajestie  in  the  time  of  your  Adversitie  &  tis  more  their 
€ear  than  Love  that  restrainefl  them  from  doing  so  even 
«t  this  time  of  day. 

W.  Frazer,  F.R.aS.1.,  M.B.LA. 
{To  b€  continued.) 

If  Mr.  Fbazbr  will  refer  to  my  note  on  a  MS. 
'^^  Keport  on  the  State  of  Parties  in  Scotland  sent 
•to  James  II.  in  France"  {6^  S.  i.  463)  he  will,  I 
think,  immediately  perceive  that  the  MS.  which 
he  possesses  has  a  very  marked  correlation  to  that 
which  I  have  brought  to  notice.  Thus  the  Irish 
•reporter  writes : — 

'•  S',— Haveing  for  som  years  past  liv'd  in  the  North  of 
jour  Kingdom  of  Ireland,  k  observ'd  the  number  k 
disposition  of  your  subjects  in  that  part  of  the  country 
I  made  those  remarks  upon  *em  in  the  worst  of  time«, 
(that  may  be  osefull  to  vou  at  any  time  k  especialy  in 
ihe  begining  of  your  reign,  and  intended  to  be  intro- 


duced to  you  in  his  late  Majestie^s  time  in  order  to  let 
you  know  your  friends  from  your  foes  in  that  country," 

In  like  manner  the  exiled  king's  Scotch  corre- 
spondent writes : — 

"  All  I  intend  is  to  give  you  a  short  view  of  your  affairs 
in  Scotland  since  the  beginning  of  the  Revolution,  that 
your  Mapesty  may  know  when  you  attempt  the  recovery 
of  your  just  Rights  whom  you  may  relye  on,  for  all  those 
that  have  kept  firme  to  y'  dewtie  after  so  long  and  severe 
a  tryall  you  may  safelie  depend  on." 

The  Scotch  report  appears  to  have  been  written 
in  1693,  the  Irish  letters  are  dated  from  March, 
1684,  to  February,  1686.  It  is  almost  needless  to 
say  that,  while  it  is  not  improbable  that  the  original 
draft  of  Mr.  Frazbr's  first  letter  may  nave 
been  penned  in  March,  1684,  for  the  information 
of  James,  this  prince  was  then  Duke  of  York,  as 
Charles  II.  did  not  die  until  February  of  the  fol« 
lowing  year.  It  is,  consequently,  quite  uncertain 
what  the  actual  date  of  this  letter  was.  Clearly 
these  dates — March,  1684,  and  Februaiy,  1686, 
demand  re-examination. 

It  would  appear  probable  that  during  a  space  of 
at  least  nine  years,  as  heir  presumptive  to  the 
throne,  as  kiog,  and  as  exile,  James  invited  and 
received  confidential  reports  of  this  kind  from 
Scotland  and  Ireland,  and  that  the  drafts  of  two 
of  these  have  now  been  brought  to  light  bv  persons 
quite  unacquainted  with  each  other.  Weil  edited, 
these  MSS.  would  form  useful  contributions  to 
history.  Calcuttknsis. 


INVENTORY  OP  POPE^S  GOODS  TAKEN  AFTER 
HIS  DEATH. 
Among  the  interesting  papers  at  Mapledurham 
is  an  inventory  of  Alexander  Pope's  furniture, 
probably  drawn  up  for  the  purpose  of  valuation 
for  probate  duty.  It  has,  I  believe,  never  been 
published,  and,  although  a  lengthy  document,  it 
seems  of  sufficient  importance  to  be  published  in 
the  columns  of  "N.&Q." 

A  Catalogue  of  the  Good*  at  Tvnchenham, 
In  the  Garrets. 
The  room  next  the  leads  17  drawings  by  M'  Pope. 
A  picture  of  a  goos  with  Gulls, 
four  Prints  in  black  frames. 

The  Room  next  ve  Thames, 
a  grate  fire  ShouU  tongs  k  Popker. 
•M'  ScragiES  Pictture  in  a  gold  frame. 
M'  Diiehy  in  Ditto. 
>Lord  Shrousbury  in  Ditto. 
*Duches  Buckingham  in  Black  frame. 
M'  Wallsh  in  Ditto. 
A  Large  Flower  Poice  in  Ditto. 
Three  prints  in  Ditto, 
a  Glass  and  Black  Table, 
five  Brack  Chaires. 
A  Small  carpet  to  ly  by  the  bead  Side. 

The  Room  next  y*  Road. 
A  Bead  Bolstor  Beadatods  with  bleu  wolsen  hangings. 
Three  Bhinkets  and  a  Quilt. 
Fiveteen  Prints  in  a  black  frame. 


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M'  Honee  in  a  Oo)d  Frame. 

a  Lady's  pictture  in  d*. 

a  black  table  three  black  Chairee. 

The  Garot  Staire  Case. 

•  The  Model  of  Burlington  House. 
Two  large  Pictures. 

In  the  Chinee  Room  fronting  the  Thames. 
Chinee  Curtains  Valent  and  Counterpane. 
A  Etherdown  Quilt, 
a  carpet  for  the  Bead  side, 
a  Walnut  tree  Dressing  table  and  Comb  Box. 
a  Dressinj;  Glass  Black  Frame. 
An  Octagun  Inlaid  Table. 
A  Cloffstole. 

Two  Walnut  tree  Arm  Cbaires  k  Scarlet  Camblet. 
a  Orate  fire  Shoule  toungs  poker  &  fender. 

•  M"  Blounts  Pictture  in  Crane  in  Gold  frame. 
'  M'  Wicherleys  Pictture  in  a  Gold  frame. 
•M'  BetUrton's  Ditto. 

•Earie  of  Peterborough  Ditto, 
a  Chimney  Glass  Black  Frame. 
Two  peices  Cutt  Paper  in  Ditto, 
a  Drawing  of  M"  Pope  in  Ditto. 
Two  Picture*  in  Irory  in  Ditto. 
Two  Indians  in  Ditto, 
one  Head  of  a  Woman  Ditto, 
two  Pictures  of  Boys  in  Ditto. 
Seyen  Prints  of  the  Cartones  in  Ditto. 
Seven  Other  Prints  in  Ditto, 
a  Large  Peire  Glass  with  Six  Squares  in  Ditto, 
four  Beach  Chaires. 
Window  Curtaines. 

In  the  next  Roome  fronting  the  Thames. 

•  Lord  Bolinpbrokes  Pictture  in  Gold  Frame. 

'  Dean  Swift/  Bishop  Rochester/  M'  Gay/  Doctor  Arbuth- 
not/  M'  Parnell/  in  ditto. 
A  Drawing  Oliver  Cromwell  black  frame. 
'  Drawing  M'  Prior  in  Ditto. 

•  a  Drawing  of  Lord  Burlington  Black  Frame, 
a  Drawing  of  Homer  in  Ditto. 

a  Nother  Drawing  in  Ditto. 

a  Walnut  tree  Book  Case  with  Glas  Dores. 

a  Chimney  Glass  with  a  White  Frame. 

a  Delph  Jarr. 

In  the  Best  Room  fronting  ye  Thame?. 
'  M"  Blounts  Pictture  in  a  Gold  Frame. 
'  Lord  Bathurst  Ditto. 

Lady  Harvey  Ditto. 

Doci  Garth  Ditto. 
'Lady  Suffolk  Ditto. 

Lord  Boolingbroke  Ditto. 
'Ladv  Mary  W.  Mountague  Ditto. 

a  Pink  and  Silver  Sette. 

Six  Walnut  tree  Chaires. 

two  Vms. 

three  Marboll  Tabels  with  Wood  Brackets. 

a  Large  Fibre  Glass  with  a  Gold  Frame. 

two  flower  Peises  for  the  Chimney  Blinds. 

two  Small  Piere  Glasses. 

a  Large  French  Carpet. 

4  Glass  Sconses. 

a  Camp  Bead. 

two  Small  Land  Skips. 

Window  Curtains. 

In  the  Lib^ 
a  Large  Writing  Table  with  Draw", 
a  Small  Writing  Table  Walnut  tree, 
a  Small  Mahogany  Table, 
a  Cane  Squab  with  fower  Cushings. 


two  Arm  Chaires  covered  with  green  Bays. 

two  Arm  Chaires  Beach. 

a  Indian  Screen  a  Canvas  Screen. 

A  Stove  fire  Shoule  Toungs  &  Poker. 

a  Marvoll  Globe  and  Stand. 

Bustos  MarToll. 
Homer/  S'  Isack  Newton/  Spencer/  Shakespeap 
Milton/  Dryden. 

in  Plaster  of  Paris. 
Shakespear/  Poladio/  Indigo  Jones, 
two  Boxees  Spar  and  Gilt 
M'  Pope*  Traveling  Box. 

upon  the  Best  Staire  Case. 
29  Prints  in  Black  Frames, 
a  Eight  Day  Clock, 
a  Small  Mercury  Bronse. 
a  Pire  Gkss  in  two  Squares  in  Black  Frame. 

In  the  Great  Parlor, 
a  Large  Glass  in  a  gold  Frame, 
a  Marble  Table  and  Brackets, 
a  Marble  Table  Iron  Brakets. 
one  l^arge  OvoU  Table. 
Six  Beach  Chaires  4  Windsor  Arm  Chaires. 
M'  Pope*  pictture  in  Gold  Frame, 
two  M"  Blounts  in  Ditto. 
M'  Priors  in  Ditto. 
Rable  in  Ditto. 

a  Duck  Peice  in  Ditto/  Duches  Hamilton  in  Dittos 
M'  Pope  when  a  boy  in  a  Black  and  Gilt  Frame. 
His  Aunts  in  Ditto  being  three  of  them. 
M'  Pope  Senor  in  Ditto. 
M"  Pope  in  Ditto. 
A  Frute  Peice  in  Ditto, 
a  Small  Frute  Peice  vrith  a  Dog  in  Ditto, 
a  Landskip  by  Titeman. 

a  Yew  of  S'  John  St  Aubins  House  k  Landskip. 
a  drawing  of  M'  Betterton  in  a  Black  Frame, 
a  drawing  of  M'  Pope  in  Ditto, 
a  Drawing  of  the  Duches  of  Mountague  in  Ditto, 
a  Drawing  of  Homer  in  Ditto, 
a  Drawing  of  M"  Maden  in  Ditto, 
a  Drawing  of  Lady  Mary  W.  Mountague  in  Ditto, 
a  Picture  of  our  Savor  &c.  in  Ditto. 
Venue  k  Cupet  in  Ditto  ke, 
a  Nother  Picture  in  Ditto, 
a  Land  Skepe  of  Tiriokenham  in  Ditto, 
a  Settee  Chaire. 

In  the  Little  Parlor. 
Lord  Bolingbroke  in  a  Gold  frame. 
Shakespear  in  Ditto, 
the  Earle  of  Oxford  in  Ditto, 
a  Ruen  by  Wooton  in  Ditto, 
a  Chau«or  in  a  black  frame, 
a  fine  Landskip  in  Ditto, 
a  Landskip  of  Kichmond  Ferry  in  Ditto. 
a  Landdkip  of  the  feilds  Oposite  of  M'  Popes  House  in 

Ditto, 
a  Colour  in  Ditto. 
Six  Prints  in  Ditto, 
a  Small  frute  Pece  in  Ditto, 
a  Old  man  without  a  frame, 
a  Little  Pictture  in  a  black  frame, 
a  Picture  of  the  Shell  Temple  in  Ditto, 
a  Marvoll  Table  with  a  Wood  Pedestall. 
three  Chaires. 

In  M'  Popes  Roome. 
a  Bead  Pillow  k  Bolster  &  Bedsted  kc.  with  Hariten 

Ilangens/  three  Blankets  k  White  Quilt. 
a  Sette  Bed  three  Blankets  k  Calicoe  Qiult  Hariten 

Curtains. 


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a  Chest  of  Draw*  Walnat  tree. 

a  Store  fireBhoule  poker. 

M'  Bethels  Picture  in  a  Gold  Frame. 

a  Mahogany  Night  Table. 

a  MaU^  Table. 

a  Large  Crimson  Damas  Arm  Chaire. 

three  Black  Chaires. 

On  the  Back  Staires  and  Passage. 
20  Prints  in  Black  frames, 
a  Print  of  Constantinople, 
a  Comer  Cubord. 

a  picture  of  a  Man  without  a  frame, 
a  picture  of  a  Woman  without  a  frame, 
a  bass  VialL 

Plate, 
a  Large  Silyer  Cup  and  Corer. 
a  Small  Ditto. 

one  pare  of  Silver  Candlesticks  and  Snnfers. 
two  handel  Cups  k  Salvers  D  S. 
two  Silver  Tumblers, 
two  Silver  Salts, 
a  Silver  Strainee. 
three  Silver  Casters, 
twelve  Silver  Knives  and  forks, 
twelve  China  Knives  and  forks  two  blades  broke, 
twenty  fower  Spoons  and  three  tea  spoons, 
a  Silver  Writing  Stand  Inkhorn  Sand  IMsh. 
Candlestick  &  Bell. 
A  Coffee  Pot. 

French  Plate. 
4  Candlesticks  two  Suce  Boats, 
two  Saltsellers  two  Kettle  and  Salver, 
a  Small  Coffee  Pot 

In  one  Boome. 
a  Bed  Bedsteds  Bolster  &c. 
three  Blankets  and  Quilt, 
two  Chaires. 
a  half  tester  and  Linee  Curtaines. 

In  the  Kitchen. 
Six  Puter  Covers. 
11  Puter  Dishes. 
86  Plates. 
a  Jack  &c. 

two  Spitts  and  Backs, 
one  Bound  Table  three  Chidres. 
8  Sacepans. 

a  Soop  pott  with  a  Copper  Cover, 
a  Large  Boyling  Pott  with  a  Cover, 
a  Small  Ditto, 
a  Bras  tea  ketell  and  Lamp. 
6  Brass  Candelsticks. 
a  Brass  Morter. 
a  Old  Copper  tea  kettle, 
a  brass  Ladle  and  Skimer. 
a  Iron  Driplng  pan. 
4  Stewpans  with  Copper  Covers, 
fire  shoule  Toungs  poker  &  Salemander. 
the  Kitchen  Grates. 
a  Iron  Culender  &  Copper  Grates, 
a  Grid  Iron. 

China, 
a  Soop  dish  and  12  plates, 
a  frute  Dish  and  6  enamold  plates: 
Six  bleu  and  White  plates. 

fower  Coffe  Cups  fower  disshes  and  Saaeers  &  teaspon. 
Slop  basson  and  Shuger  Dish. 

In  the  Garding. 
4  Lead  Vms. 
16  Stone  Vms  and  Pedestals. 


a  Venus  with  Stone  Pedestall. 

a  Mercury  with  a  Wood  Pedestall. 

a  Stone  Statue  with  a  Wood  Pedestall. 

10  Wood  Chtdres  &  two  Arm  Windsor  Gluurefl.  ' 

4  Bussto'  Anlike  with  Stone  Termes. 

In  the  Hall. 
4  Busto'  Mod"  with  Wood  Termes. 
6  Windsor  Ajrm  Chaires. 
a  Glass  Globe. 

Linen. 

one  fine  Damask  Table  Cloath. 
one  Ditto  Diaper, 
ten  fine  Damask  Napkins, 
six  fine  Diaper  Ditto, 
five  tables  Cloaths  28  Napkins, 
five  pare  of  Holand  Sheets, 
two  pare  Flax. 

two  fine  Damask  table  Cloaths. 
and  one  Dus  Napkins  un  Made, 
three  fine  pieces  of  Chinee  w^^*  a  patem  of  paper. 

F.  G. 


Newfangled  Expressions.  —  The  pages  of 
"  N.  &  Q.''  haying  thrown  much  light  on  recondite 
and  obsolete  modes  of  expression,  and  thereby  done 
good  service  to  the  philologist,  perhaps  it  would 
not  be  unworthy  of  its  general  scope  if  it  also 
preserved  a  record  of  certain  modern  utterances 
which  have  grown  up  during  the  present  genera- 
tion—in fact,  since  the  first  number  of  "  N.  &  Q.^ 
appeared  (November,  1849),  and  instances  of  which 
are  here  appended : — 

Thanks,  instead  of  <<  Thank  you." 

Over  one  hundred^  &c,  instead  of  **  More  than 
one  hundred,''  &c. 

The  situation,  as  applied  to  the  state  of  things 
or  parties. 

A  success,  as  applied  to  anything  that  has 
answered  well. 

Bard  lines,  as  applied  to  something  disagreeable. 

Factor,  originally  an  agent;  now  applied  as  the 
cause  of  anything. 

Over  eoat,  instead  of  "  great  coat." 

Team,  formerly  applied  to  hones  and  cattle; 
now  to  men. 

Standpoint,  once  only  applied  to  position ;  now, 
figuratively,  to  argument. 

Outcome,  instead  of  *'  result." 

Employie,  instead  of  **  workman  "  or  "  lahonier." 

My  people,  instead  of  "  My  family." 

Qoodform,  for  "correctness"  or  "in  good  taste." 

To  go  in  for,  in  the  sense  of  collecting,  or  choosing 
a  pursuit. 

Not  to  speak  of  certain  slang  or  boyish  expressions, 
as  "Awfully  jolly,"  "On  his  own  hook,"  &c.,  or 
that  vulgar  Americanism  "to  wire,"  that  is,  to 
send  a  message  by  the  telegraph. 

Ev.  Ph.  Shirley. 

Mermaids.— Mr.  Syer  Cuming  communicated 
to  the  British  Axchseological  Association  last  year 
an  interesting  paper  on  mermaids  (printed  in 
voL  xxxviii.  of  the  Journal,  pp.  fiOijit  seq.),    A 

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few  additional  references  to  mermaids  may,  how- 
ever, be  noted.    Mr.  Cuming  remarks  : — 

"  English  heralds  have  been  pretty  well  content  to 
delineate  the  mermaid  with  a  sini^le  tail ;  but  those  of 
France  and  Germany  hate  frequently  endowed  the 
damsel  with  two,  thus  following  ibe  teaching  of  the' 
illustrations  of  some  t)f  the  early  works  on  natural  his- 
tory. In  the  Margarita  Philotophica,  printed  at  Ba«le 
in  1508,  is  a  little  woodcut  of  various  fish  swimming  in 
the  sea,  and  among  them  a  mermaid  without  arm*,  but 
with  two  tails ;  one  rising  up  on  either  side  as  high  as  the 
lady's  head,  which,  by -the- bye,  is  crowned  or  coronated." 
—P.  62. 

The  Ottawas  had  a  simikr  mermaid,  "which 
was  a  woman  from  the  waist  up,  but  two  fishes 
hdcw  ";  she  had,  however,  the  advantage  of  hands 
and  arms,  though  these  were  covered  with  scales. 
Her  face  was  very  beautiful,  and  she  was  called 
"  the  daughter  of  the  flood  "  (Dorman,  Origin  of 
Primitive  SuperttitionSf  pp.  277-8).  Various 
Chinese  mermaids  are  described  by  Dr.  Dennys 
(Folk-lore  of  China,  pp.  114-6).  For  a  wonder- 
ful account  of  a  mermaid  by  Dr.  Philipp, "  Bevoll- 
maohtigter  der  Londoner  Missionsgesellschaft," 
see  Nork's  Mythologie  der  VoUcssagen  und  Volks- 
mdrchm,  pp.  966-7.  Mr.  Napier  has  made 
selections  from  various  sources,  relative  to  mermen 
and  mermaids,  in  his  article  on  "Old  Ballad 
Folk-lore,"  Folk-lore  Record,  vol.  ii.  pp.  102 
et  s(q.  See  also  Folk-lore  Record,  vol.  iv.  p.  62^ 
art.  **  Slavonic  Folk-lore,"  by  the  Rev.  W.  S. 
Laoh-Szyrma.  We  in  Glasgow  can  boast  of  the 
tale  of  a  medical  mermaid,  who,  touched  with 
grief  as  she  saw  the  funeral  of  a  maiden  pass  over 
Glasgow  Bridge,  rose  from  the  Clyde  and  re- 
marked, with  the  natural  acumen  of  a  marine 
physician, — 

"  If  they  wad  drink  nettles  in  March, 
And  eat  muggins  in  May, 
Sae  mony  braw  maidens 
Wadna  gang  to  the  clay." 

William  George  Black. 
1,  Alfred  Terrace,  Glasgow. 

Naihbs  of  the  States,  U.S.A.-- The  Hon.  Ha- 
milton B.  Staples  read  a  paper  at  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  in  Worces- 
ter, in  which  be  discussed  the  origin  of  the  names 
of  several  of  the  States.  His  conclusions  were  as 
follows  :  New  Hampshire  gets  its  name  from 
Hampshire,  England.  Massachusetts  is  derived 
from  an  Indian  name,  first  given  to  the  bay, 
signifying  ''near  the  great  hills."  Rhode  Island 
has  an  obscure  origin  ;  the  Island  of  Rhodes,  the 
'*  Island  of  the  Roads,"  and  a  Dutch  origin,  '*  Red 
Island,"  were  mentioned,  the  first  one  seeming  to 
have  the  best  historical  support.  Connecticut  is 
an  Indian  name,  signifying  *'  land  on  a  long  tidal 
river."  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania, 
Delaware,  and  Maryland  were  passed  over.  Vir- 
ginia, the  Carolinas,  and  Georgia  have  a  royal 
origin.    Maine  was  named  from  the  fact  that  it 


was  supposed  to  contain  the  "  mayne  portion "  of 
New  England.  Vermont  has  no  special  question, 
except  that  it  is  claimed  to  have  first  been  an 
odiai — New  Connecticut,  cdias  Vermont.  Ken- 
tucky popularly  signifies  either  a  ''dark  and 
bloody  ground"  or  a  "bloody  river,"  but  its  origin 
signifies  "the  head  of  a  river"  or  "the  long 
river."  Tennessee  comes  from  its  river,  the  name 
being  derived  from  the  name  of  an  Indian  village 
on  the  river — "Tanasse."  Ohio  is  named  after 
an  Indian  name,  signifying  "something  great," 
with  an  accent  of  admiration.  Indiana  comes 
from  the  name  of  an  early  land  company. 
Illinois  comes  from  the  Indian — the  name  of  a 
tribe.  Michigan  is  claimed  to  mean  '*  lake  coun- 
try ";  it  probably  came  from  the  name  of  the  lake, 
"  Great  Lake,"  which  bore  this  name  before  the 
land  adjacent  was  named.  Louisiana  is  from  the 
French.  Arkansas  and  Missouri  are  Indian,  the 
former  being  doubtful ;  the  latter  is  said  to 
mean  in  its  original  "  muddy  water,"  which  de- 
scribes the  river.  Iowa  is  also  Indian,  with  donbt- 
ful  meaning.  Texas  is  popularly  supposed  to  be 
Indian,  but  may  be  Spanish.  Florida  is  Spanish, 
"  a  flowery  land."  Oregon  has  a  conjectural  origin ; 
it  is  probably  Indian,  but  a  Spanish  origin  is 
claimed.  California  comes  from  a  Spanish 
romance  of  1610.  Nevada  takes  its  name  from 
the  mountains,  which  get  theirs  from  a  resem- 
blance to  the  Nevadas  of  South  America.  Minne- 
sota is  Indian,  "  sky-tinted  water."  Nebraska  is 
variously  rendered  "shallow  water"  and  "flat 
country."  Kansas  is  from  an  Indian  root,  kaw, 
corrupted  by  the  French.  Mississippi  is  "  great 
water,"  or  "  whole  river."  Alabama  is  Indian, 
the  name  of  a  fortress  and  a  tribe,  signifying,  aa  is 
claimed,  "  here  we  rest." 

EvBRARD  Home  Colbmak. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Manuel  Chrtsoloras  in  Enolavd.— G.  Voigt 
(WiidtrbeUhmg  dee  Classischen  AUerihums,  second 
edit.,  i.  227,  Berlin,  1880)  has  thrown  light  on  a 
statement  in  the  Speculum  Parvrdorum  (MS.  cited 
by  Hody,  De  Qracie  Illustrihvs,  p.  14):  "On  the 
13  Dec.  1401  the  Byzantine  empieror  went  from 
Dover  to  Canterbury  cum  nonnuUie  viris  periHi 
de  natume  Orcecice,"  Now  in  the  "  Comparison  of 
Old  and  New  Rome  "  by  Chrysoloras,  printed  in 
Codinus  Excerpta  de  Antiquitat  Constant  ed. 
opera  P.  Lambecii,  Par.,  1655,  p.  107  seq.,  and  in  the 
Venice  edition  of  the  Byzantine  historians,  xviiL  81 
seq.)  Chrysoloras  says  that  he  was  in  London  two 
years  before  writing  the  book.  We  learn  also 
from  Poggio's  letters  (I  10,  ed.  Tonelli)  that  he 
visited  Salisbury.  John  E.  B.  Matob. 

Cambridge. 

Kentish  Scbnkrt. — It  would  be  a  trite  re- 
mark to  say  that  scenery  aflects  various  people  in 
various  ways.     According   to-«^Macau]MV  when 

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Oliver  Goldsmith  Tiaited  the  Scottish  Highlands, 
"  he  was  disgusted  with  the  hideous  wilderness, 
and  declared  that  he  greatly  preferred  the  charm- 
ing country  round  Leyden."  I  was  talking  to-day 
with  a  Rutland  girl  who  had  been  staying  seyerai 
weeks  in  the  prettiest  part  of  Kent,  on  a  visit  to 
her  brother,  an  under-gamekeeper.  She  said  that 
she  had  ''enjoyed  herself  as  much  as  could  be 
expected";  and  on  my  saying,  "I  suppose  the 
scenery  is  very  beautiful  in  that  neighbourhood?" 
she  replied,  ''Well,  sir,  there  isn't  much  amiss 
about  it ;  but  their  woods  isn't  so  big  as  onm." 

OtJTHBBRT  BbDK, 

Gainsborouqh's  Portra.it  of  thb  Port 
Chattsrton. — It  will  interest  many  to  know  that 
this  picture  has  been  recently  founa.  The  canvas 
is  twenty-five  by  thirty  inches,  and  it  was  found 
in  an  old  carved  wood  frame  of  the  period.  The 
picture  is  much  darkened  by  age.  I  will  now 
describe  it.  Having  carefully  gone  through  such 
of  Chatterton's  biographies  as  are  in  the  Reference 
Library  in  Manchester,  I  am  in  a  position  to  say 
that  the  portrait  fully  describes  the  Marvellous 
Boy  both  physically  and  physiognomically  as 
portrayed  by  those  who  knew  him.  The  stiff  neck 
shows  astonishing  pride,  bordering  on  conceit ;  the 
mouth  is  full,  sweet,  womanly,  and  seems  ready  to 
smile ;  the  eyes,  very  large,  dark,  and  fnU,  follow 
you  everywhere.  The  slender  right  hand  is  laid 
on  a  pile  of  red-covered  books.  No  doubt  it  is  a 
Gainsborough.  The  burning  of  all  Chatterton's 
papers  accounts  for  the  loss  of  its  record.  It  will 
give  me  great  pleasure  to  render  any  further 
information  both  as  to  the  picture  and  where  it 
can  be  seen.  Jaspbr  C.  Laud. 

West  View,  Northenden,  near  Mancheater. 

Spring  Folk-lorx. — The  following  couplet  was 
communicated  to  me  by  a  learned  Mon4[omery- 
shire    antiquary   as    having    been    formerly    in 
common  use  in  the  lower  part  of  that  county : — 
'*  Mansh  will  seareh,  April  will  try, 
May  will  see  who  will  live  or  die." 

Charlbb  J.  Dayiks. 

Turner's  Houses. — This  letter,  from  the  Times 
of  the  4th  inst.,  seems  to  be  a  suitable  contribution 
to  the  columns  of  "  N.  &  Q.":— 

"  Sir,— Your  correspondpnt  Mr.  Brett  is,  perhaps,  un- 
aware that  there  is  a  *  Tamer's  House'  in  Chelsea, 
No.  119,  Cheyne  Wallr,  where  the  great  painter  lived  and 
died  as  Mr.  Booth.  It  is  a  two-storied  briok  building, 
and  when  I  passed  ityest-^rday  the  balcony  was  still  there 
on  the  roof,  the  coign  of  'vantage  whence  at  sunrise  and 
sunset  Turner  obtained  some  of  his  most  remarkable 
effects.  It  would  be  well  to  place  a  commemorati?e 
tablet  in  the  wall  of  this  unpretending  little  dwelling." 

F.  G. 

Herb  Robert  (Geranium  Boberiianum).'^ 
Many  derivations  have  been  given  for  the  name 
of  this   common   phint,  but,  according   to    M. 


Edouard  le  H^richer's  EsiaisurlaFloriPapulaire 
dA  Normandie  et  d*  AngleterrSy  the  name  was  given 
from  Robert  the  Devil,  a  mythical  personage,  and 
so  is  sometimes  called  "  herbe  an  diabW  It  is 
said  to  have  the  property  of  misleading  any 
traveller  who  treads  upon  it,  and  preventing  his 
finding  his  way.  Edwin  Lees,  F.L.S. 

Worcester. 

Coaches  first  used  in  Scotland. — The  fol- 
lowing copy  of  a  MS.  in  my  possession  may  be  of 
interest  to  Scotsmen  generally  : — 

Leith,  July  29th.  1775. 
I  hare  often  heard  Dame  Magdalene  Scott,  Relict  of 
Sir  William  Bruce  of  Kinross,  narrate,  that  it  consisted 
with  her  knowledge  that  Cooper  of  Gogar  was  the  first 
Gentleman  in  Scotland  who  had  a  Coach  of  his  own  at 
the  Cross  of  Edinburgh. 

The  said  Lady  Bruce  died  at  the  Citadel  of  Leith, 
June  the  24th,  1752,  in  the  82''  year  of  her  age :  So  that 
the  year  of  her  birth  must  have  been  1670. 

fiOBERT  F0RBI8,  A.M. 
D.  K.  T. 

Peraubulations  on  Rogation  Dats. — These 
are  provided  for  under  the  deed  of  trust  regu- 
lating "  the  Husbome  Crawley  Charity/'  Bedford- 
shire, thus  : — 

"And  pay  on  Rogation  Sunday  in  every  succeeding 
7th  year  for  erer  the  sum  of  41.  for  and  towards  the 
expense  attending  the  principal  Inhabitants  of  the  said 
parish  of  Crawley  perambulating  ascertaining  and  re- 
newing the  boundaries  of  the  said  parish." 

Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfeohan. 


We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


The  Abolition  of  thb  House  of  Lords. — 
Will  any  one  be  good  enough  to  inform  me  on  how 
many  occasions  in  the  House  of  Commons  it  has 
been  proposed  to  abolish  the  House  of  Lords,  by 
whom  a  motion  to  that  effect  has  been  made^  and 
what  was  the  majority  against  the  motion  on  each 
occasion  ?  Ltvbden. 

Laundimer  House,  Candle. 

MoisE  DiT  Soul. — No  notice  of  this  excellent 
scholar  is  to  be  found  in  Jocher,  Saxius,  Eckstein 
(Nomenciator),  or  the  biographical  dictionaries. 
Haag's  La  France  Proteitanie  deyotes  an  article  to 
him,  but  the  writer  was  not  aware  that  his  labonis 
on  Lucian  had  seen  the  light.  From  these  Lucian 
notes  and  those  in  Bryan's  Plutarch  I  have  drawn 
up  an  account  of  him,  which  will  appear  in  the 
Oommunicaiiont  to  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian 
Society,  In  February,  1708,  he  printed  at  Gam- 
bridge  a  specimen  of  a  new  edition  of  Lucian.  Is 
any  copy  of  this  extant  ?    John  E.  B.  Mator. 

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PosTXTRB  AT  Table.— In  Holy  Writ  Christ  is 
eyerywhere  described  as  reclining  at  table.  The 
same  attitude  we  find  in  Horace,  Suetonius,  and 
Tacitus  to  have  been  in  accordance  with  Roman 
customs.  I  have  myself  lain  upon  the  couches 
which  still  remain  in  a  Pompeian  triclinium.  All 
works  on  antiquities,  whether  Biblical  or  classical, 
treat  of  the  ancients  in  the  ages  near  the  Christian 
era,  and  indeed  long  before,  as  lying  down  at  meals. 
But  no  one  of  these  works  known  to  me  attempts 
to  show  when  this  ancient  posture  was  given  up 
for  our  modem  fashion  of  sitting  at  meat.  The 
history  of  no  change  in  custom  seems  more  worthy 
of  being  traced,  and  my  purpose  in  the  present 
writing  is  to  obtain  light  from  some  correspondent 
of  ''  N.  &  Q."  on  this  point.  Some  slight  notices 
which  I  discover  in  Du  Cange  seem  to  indicate  that 
in  the  ninth  century  after  Christ  sitting  at  table  was 
more  common  in  Byzantium  than  reclining.  Thus 
Ducange  defines  Accubitai  as  ^'  Mensse  in  quibus 
die  nativitatis  Imperator  et  convives,  non  sedendo 
ut  ceteris  diebus  sed  recumbendo,  epulantur.'' 
The  date  indicated  is  about  a.d.  870.  The  erect 
posture  in  the  Eastern  empire  was  already  more 
prevalent  than  the  recumbent;  but  when  did  it 
begin  to  be  so?  Again,  Ducange  defines  Cubi- 
tarium  fit  would  seem  at  the  oeginning  of  the 
thirteentn  century)  as  "  Lectus  qui  pontifici  strue- 
batnr  sub  tribunali,  nempe  summo  triclinii,  in  quo 
loco  cum  dero  et  proceribus,  epulari  solebat." 

James  D.  Butlbil 

Madison,  Wisconsin,  U.S.A. 

A  Yard  of  Bebr. — A  friend  tells  me  that, 
some  dozen  years  ago,  he  and  three  or  four  friends 
entered  an  inn  at  Bexley,  in  Kent,  and  had  '*  a 
yard  of  beer."  It  was  served  to  them  in  a  glass 
vessel  about  three  feet  long.  At  one  end  was  a 
bulb  which  contained  about  half  a  pint,  and  from 
this  bulb  a  tube  extended,  ending  in  a  mouthpiece 
resembling  the  mouthpiece  of  a  trumpet,  from 
which  the  beer  should  be  drunk.  The  vessel  would 
contain  altogether  about  a  pint.  It  should  be 
emptied  at  a  siogle  draught,  but  it  required  greater 
skill  to  accomplish  this  feat  than  any  one  of  the 
party  possessed.  Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
give  further  information  respecting  this  singular 
custom,  and  say  if  it  stiU  continues  in  Kent  or 
elsewhere?  John  Maclean. 

Bicknor  Court,  Coleford,  Qlouc. 

Donald  Bake. —  Mr.  Freeman,  in  speaking 
{Eeiffn  of  William  Bufus,  vol.  ii.  p.  29)  of  King 
Donald  of  Scotland— a  younger  son  of  the  Duncan 
who  perished  in  the  war  with  Macbeth,  and 
who  was  raised  to  the  throne  as  the  represen- 
tative of  Scottish  nationality  after  the  defeat  and 
death  of  his  brother  Malcolm  in  1093,  in  place  of 
the  sons  of  the  latter— remarks,  "Donald  Bane, 
Donald  the  Red— Scotland  had  her  Rufus  as  well 
as  England  ";  and  in  a  foot-note  he  quotes  Fordun 


as  saying, ''  Donaldus  Rufus  vel  Bane,  frater  regis." 
But  is  not  this  a  mistake  of  Fordun  ?  In  a  well- 
known  Graelic  dictionary  I  find  that  the  Gaelic  for 
red  is  dearg,  and  that  bhn  in  that  language  means 
whiUj  80  that  Donald  Bane  in  Latin  form  would 
be  Donaldui  Albus,  not  Rufus.  But  I  should  be 
glad  if  some  Gaelic  scholar  would  throw  light  upon 
the  matter,  as  I  well  know  how  unsafe  it  is  to 
differ  from  the  great  historian  of  the  Conquest. 
Fordun  I  presume  was  not  Gael,  but  Scotch  in  the 
modem  sense  of  the  term.  W.  T.  Ltn  n. 

Blackheath. 

"  Bblibf  in  the  Supbrnatttral."— Under  this 
heading,  at  p.  307,  voL  L  of  his  Esq>eriences^ 
Serjeant  Ballantine  relates  that  on  the  occasion  of 
a  suspected  murderer  being  conveyed  to  gaol.  Sir 
Astley  Cooper  accompanied  him  and  the  officers 
into  the  celly  where  the  following  incident  occurred. 
Being 

"locked  in  together they  noticed  a  little  dofr,  which 

kept  biting  at  the  skirt  of  the  prisoner's  coat  This  led 
them  to  examine  the  garment,  and  they  found  upon  it 
traces  of  blood  which  nliimately  led  to  the  conviction  of 
the  man.  When  thev  looked  round  the  dog  had  dis- 
appeared, although  the  door  had  never  been  opened. 
How  it  had  got  there,  or  how  it  got  away,  nobody  could 
teU." 

The  learned  serjeant  thinks  it  may  have  been 
Patch  whose  guilt  of  a  murder  at  Rotherhitbe 
was  thus  shown;  but  in  another  place  (vol  L 
p.  119}  he  gives  another  account  of  that  event 
scarcely  consistent  with  the  supposition.  Can 
any  one  give  further  information  as  to  the  above 
incident,  so  as  to  identify  the  actual  time  and 
place  of  its  occurrence  ?  S.  EL 

82,  Ainger  Bead,  N.W. 

"  Res  subito  GBSTiE.''— I  have  an  Isle  of  Man 
halfpenny,  1839,  on  which,  instead  of  the  usual 
motto,  "  Victoria  Dei  gratia,**  the  above  has  been 
engraved.  Can  any  one  give  me  any  information 
about  this  ?  John  Hall. 

Captains  William  and  Robbrt  Bokenhav. 
— Can  any  of  your  readers  give  me  any  informa- 
tion respecting  these  naval  officers,  highly  spoken 
of  in  Lediard's  Naval  History  f  They  commanded 
ships  circa  1689-1707.  Lediard  supposes  them 
to  have  been  brothers.  I  find  that  a  William 
Bokenham  was  M.P.  for  Rochester  in  1701,  and 
lived  and  died  in  the  "  Restoration  House  "  there. 
A  little  later  Sir  Owen  Buckingham^  Alderman  of 
London  and  M.P.  for  Reading,  bought  the  manor 
of  Wadeslade,  near  Rochester.  His  father  had  kept 
the  George  Inn  at  Colnbrook,  Bucks,  and  he  does 
not  appear  to  have  been  connected  with  the 
BokenhamSf  whom  I  have  been  unable  to  connect 
with  the  Suffolk  Bokenhams.  W.  P.  I.    ' 

"Terms  op  Surrender  of  Skipton  Castle.' 
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thus  entitled.  I  am  iDformed  that  there  is  not  a 
copy  in  the  British  Museum,  and,  although  I  have 
tried  times  almost  numberless  to  obtain  a  sight  of 
the  tract,  I  have  always  been  unsuccessful.  Where 
would  you  advise  me  to  make  another  attempt  to 
aee  it  ?  D.  H.  W. 

Voltaire.— My  copy  of  F^libien'g  Entretims 
€UT  hi  Vies  et  sur  hi  Ouvrages  des  plus  Excellens 
Fdntres  Anciens  et  Modemes,  Londres,  m.dccv., 
has  on  the  fly-leaf  the  following  MS.  note : — 

"  Yoyez  la  Preface.  Andr^  F.  n6  k  Chartres  en  1619. 
L'ouTTage  qui  lai  a  fait  d'honneur.  II  est  ^I^ganfc,  pro- 
fond,  &  II  respire  le  goAt,  mala  il  difc  trop  peu  de  choses 
en  trop  de  paroles  &  estabsoloment  sans  m^thode.  Mort 

1695.  VOLTAIEB." 

I  am  anxious  to  know  whether  the  handwriting, 
evidently  of  the  last  century,  is  that  of  Voltaire 
himself,  and  I  shall  be  glad  to  send  a  fac- simile  of 
the  note  to  any  of  your  readers  who  can  inform  me 
on  the  point  and  will  kindly  communicate  with  me. 

W.  A,  Smith. 
BaldertOD,  Newark. 

"Landlord."— It  appears  to  me  that  the  use 
of  this  word,  when  applied  to  the  keeper  of  an  inn, 
as  the  keener  thereof,  is  an  abuse  of  terms.  Surely 
there  should  be,  from  the  very  nature  of  the  word, 
a  clear  idea,  not  of  the  keeping  of  a  house  of  enter- 
tainment, but  of  landownershipj  in  the  minds  of  all 
who  use  it.  Whence,  then,  the  vulgar  use  of  the 
term  in  connexion  with  the  manager  of  a  hostelry  ? 
The  same  argument  and  question  apply,  of  course, 
to  the  feminine  form  of  the  word,  **  landlady." 
Will  any  reader  of  ^*  N.  &  Q"  afford  some  infor- 
mation on  the  subject  ?  Mere  conjecture  is  worse 
than  useless— it  is  misleading. 

Charles  J.  Dayibs. 

American  Poets. — I  wish  to  ascertain  the 
precise  dat«s  of  the  deaths  of  two  American  poets 
recently  deceased — I.  James  Lawson,  author  of 
Oiordano:  a  Tragedy ^  New  York,  1832,  and 
numerous  other  works.  He  died  some  time  in 
1880.  2.  Nathaniel  Deering,  of  Portland,  Maine, 
author  of  Carabasset:  a  Tragedy,  1831,  &c.  I 
think  he  died,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his  age,  in 
the  early  part  of  1881.  B.  Inolis. 

"  Devotionale  OartusiaP]  Efordiensis.*'— 
What  is  the  value  of  a  manuscript  devotional 
book  thus  entitled  1  No  date,  good  condition, 
and  well  written  ;  possibly  of  German  origin. 

John  Tuomfson. 

Water-boughs. — Why  are  the  small  branches 
4^owing  out  of  the  bole  of  a  hedgerow  tree  so 
called  ?  John  P.  Stilwklu 

Yateley,  Hants. 

Anecdotes  of  Monkeys. — Is  it  known  who 
was  the  author  of  a  little  12mo.  book  entitled 
Apology  addressed  to  ike   Travellers*  Club ;  or, 


Anecdotes  of  Monkeys  f  It  bears  on  its  title-page 
a  motto  which  I  take  to  be  Sanskrit,  and  it  was 
published  by  Murray  in  1825.  It  contains  a 
number  of  anecdotes,  not  merely  about  monkeys, 
but  about  their  friends.  Lord  Heathfield  for  example ; 
and  stories  about  other  persons  whose  names  are 

given  thus,  "Lord  0 1/'  —  I   suppose   Lord 

Charlemont.  E.  Walford,  M.A. 

Hampstead,  N.W. 

Wesley  and  Moore. — There  is  a  cnrions  verbal 
resemblance  between  the  following  lines  of  these 
two  very  dissimilar  poets,  so  dissimilar  that  it 
seems  impossible  one  can  have  been  inspired  by 
the  other: — 

"  Lo  !  on  a  narrow  neck  of  land 
'Twixt  two  unbounded  seas  I  stand 
Seoare,  insensible." 

John  Wesley,  Hymn  for  Serioumess* 
"  This  narrow  isthmus  'twizt  two  boiihdless  seas. 
The  past,  the  future,  two  eternities  !  " 

Thomas  Moore,  Lalla  HooJkh, 
Is  it  likely  that  the  scenery  of  the  Land's  End 
suggested  Moore's  lines,  as  it  is  said  to  have  sug- 
gested Wesley's  1  E.  H.  Marshalu 

Sir  Henry  Greene,  Knt.,  Lord  Chief 
Justice  of  England,  1362.  —  Is  there  any 
portrait  extant  of  the  above  ?  Inquirer. 

The  Earldom  of  Seafield. — Is  it  from  the 
locality  of  SeaEeld,  Kinghom,  Fife,  that  the 
Earl  of  Seafield  derives  his  title,  and,  if  so,  why! 
Was  it  chosen  by  the  Ogilvie  family,  1698,  the 
date  of  its  first  creation  ?  J.  A.  Moutray. 

Sydney,  N.S.  Wales. 

The  Dicbys  and  Chap-Books.— In  many  of 
the  imprints  of  the  Dicey  chap-books  occur  the 
St  at  the  end.  What  was  its  meaning?  The 
following  is  an  example : — 

"  The  Portsmouth  Ghost,  Or,  a  Full  and  true  Account 
of  a  stranfte,  wonderful,  and  dreadful  Appearing  of  the 
Qhost  of  Madame  Johnson,  a  beautiful  young  Lady  of 

Portsmouth Printed  and  Sold  by  Cluer  Dicey  and 

Co.,  in  Aldermary  Church  Yard  Bow-lane,    st." 

John  Taylor. 

Northampton. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted. — 

Ths  Effort  J  or,  Fanny  HerheH.    York,  1844. 
Poftry  and  Criticism.    By  "  Cutis."    London,  1850. 
Recollections  of  the  late  George  Stokes,  Esq.    London, 
n.d.  Abuba. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. — 
*'  Two  gifts  perforce  He  has  given  us  yet, 
Tho'  sad  tbings  stay  and  glad  things  fly: 
Two  gifts  He  has  given  us— to  forget 
All  sad  and  glad  things  that  go  by, 

And  then  to  die.'  A.  F.  P. 

"  Behind  the  dim  unknown 
Standeth  God  within  the  shadow,  keeping 
Watch  above  his  own."  S.  X.  B, 


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Vitpliti. 

"HARPINGS  OP  LENA":  W,  J.  BAITMAN,  THE 
ALFORD  POET. 
(6*  S.  V.  129,  209,  314.) 
It  is  very  satisfactory  to  find  that  J.  A.  confirms 
the  more  important  parts  of  my  communicatioD. 
He  admits  that  Baitman  was  "  undoubtedly  a  man 
of  talent/'  and  that  I  ha^e  given  "  a  very  correct 
description  of  his  degraded  state."  But  the  censure 
of  the  Alford  people  he  does  not  like.  He  charges 
me  with  "  imperfect  information  "  and  "  two  mis- 
statements." First,  as  to  the  ''  misstatements."  I 
had  good  authority  for  both  of  them  from  inhabi- 
tants of  Alford,  and  if  Baitman  did  not  actually 
die  within  the  walls  of  the  workhouse,  he  died  in 
the  receipt  of  parish  relief,  and  had  been  in  the 
workhouse,  as  the  inscriptions  to  many  of  his 
poems  show  ;  and  I  am  yet  told  that  he  did  ulti- 
mately marry  "the  daring  woman."  The  most 
disgraceful  part  of  the  charge  against  his  townsmen 
J.  A.  does  not  refer  to.  Is  a  belief  in  the  power 
of  selling  oneself  to  the  devil  usual  in  the  agri- 
cultural towns  of  Lincolnshire  ?  or  is  it  merely  a 
mark  of  the  superior  intelligence  and  respectability 
of  the  people  of  Alford  ?  And  is  tolerance  of  a 
rabble  who  pelt  a  poor,  lame,  diseased  man  a  sign 
of  charity  and  Christian  beneyolence  ?  Never 
mind  about  the  character  of  the  man.  Ought  any 
man— especially  any  lame,  helpless  man— to  be 
allowed  to  be  so  treated  ?  Would  civilized  beings 
treat  a  dog  so  7  This  barbarous  conduct  ill  agrees 
with  the  flattering  terms  in  which  J.  A.  speaks  of 
his  townsmen ;  but  self-praise  is  not  eicactly  the 
highest  testimony  of  worth.  It  would  be  more  to 
the  purpose  to  tell  us  what  Alford  has  ever  done 
to  show  its  appreciation  of  literature,  or  what 
men  it  has  produced  eminent  for  anything. 

Baitman's  character  was  not  what  it  ought  to 
have  been,  says  J.  A.,  who  insinuates  "  he  could, 
an  he  would,"  "  a  tale  unfold,"  thus,  like  Burleigh's 
shake  of  the  head,  oonveyine  more  meaning  than 
many  words.  It  would  be  better  to  state  plainly 
what  were  the  other  offences  committed  than  to 
indulge  in  rague  innuendoes.  I  know  of  none 
sufficient  to  justify  such  remarks.  The  poetic 
temperament  is  always  a  dangerous  possession, 
especially  among  hard  and  unsympathetic  people, 
such  as  he  was  surrounded  by;  but  plenty  of 
excuses  would  have  been  made  for  him,  and  his 
peccadilloes  would  have  been  called  "eccentri- 
cities," if  he  had  been  rich  or  famous. 

It  is  my  impression  that  the  unfeeling  manner 
in  which  he  was  treated  may,  to  some  extent,  have 
unsettled  his  reason,  and  so  furnished  excuses  for 
discontinuing  the  "alms.  He  could  not  live  on  a 
few  platefuls  of  cold  victuals  and  a  few  old  clothes 

S>en   at   irregular  intervals.    "  Alms,"  indeed  1 
0  wonder  that  a  sensitive    nature  should  be 


driven  to  desperation  by  this  kind  of  patronage^ 
The  rich  people  of  Alford  should  have  subscribed 
a  few  shillings  a  week  and  placed  him  in  a  position 
where  he  could  have  respected  himself ;  he  would 
then,  very  probably,  have  been  a  credit  to  them  ; 
by  not  doing  so  they  failed  in  their  duty.  I  sup* 
pose  one  of  his  crimes  was  insufficient  gratitude 
for  the  "  alms."  But  the  quantity  of  hat-touching 
and  prostration  of  body  and  soul  required  by  some 
of  these  "  alms  "-givers  would  disgust  ordinary 
mortals.  No  wonder  if  they  made  Baitman 
desperate. 

When  I  wrote,  my  desire  was  to  vindicate  a  man 
who  had  been  hardly  treated.  I  spoke  as  much 
of  the  truth  about  the  Alford  people  as  was  neces- 
sary, and  no  more.  As  before  said,  there  were 
many  rich  men  there ;  it  abounded  with  people 
whom  Garlyle  would  have  designated  "gig- 
manity'' — quite  notorious  for  the  high  estimation 
in  which  they  held  themselves;  no  doubt  very 
admirable  people  in  their  way,  but  that  way  is 
not  literary. 

"  Proputty,  proputty  's  tvrything  'ere."* 
How  should  it  be  otherwise?  Alford  and  ita 
"  Marsh "  is  on  the  edge  of  the  county,  on  the 
very  outskirts  of  England,  far  away  from  all 
centres  of  civilization,  and  the  people  are  prin- 
cipally employed  in  agriculture.  J.  A.  says; 
"Happily  we  have  decidedly  a  good  opinion  o^ 
ourselves."  About  the  "  good  opinion  "  there  can 
be  no  dispute,  but  the  "  happily '^is  quite  another 
matter. 

J.  A.  denies  that  the  town  it  full  of  poachers 
and  smugglers  (£  said  ioaa).  This  is  very  sur- 
prising. If  he  can  be  unaware  of  such  notorious 
matters,  how  do  we  know  he  is  not  equally  igno^ 
rant  about  the  real  truths  of  Baitman'a  history^ 
who  for  many  years  was  considered  too  con- 
temptible to  be  protected  from  the  insults  of  the 
Alford  roughs  ?  I  have  been  in  Alford  hundredsr 
of  times,  and  have  often  passed  the  "haunted 
house"  at  BUsby,  adjoining  Alford, — a  fine  old 
place,  shut  up  because 

"  Theer  wur  a  boggle  in  it"* 
(You  see  boggles  and  devils  were  fond  of  Alford.)^ 
I  could  tell  J.  A.  of  Fothby  Hall,  of  Thoresthorpe*, 
Thurlby  Grange,  and  the  other  big  farm  houses 
round  ;  also  a  good  deal  about  the  people  who 
lived  there. 

"No  smugglers  and  poachers  !"  What  about ^ 
the  Alford  South  End  gang,  who  shot  one  of  Mn  * 
Christopher's  gamekeepers  dead,  about  two  miles 
out  of  Alford  ?  and  what  about  the  Louth  poul- 
terers, who  used  to  fetch  cartloads  of  hares  and 
pheasants  away  at  once?  These  things  were 
notorious. 

I  many  times  passed  the  house  of  a  familjr 
of  smugglers,  between  Alford  and  the  sea,  abou* 


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thirty-five  yean  ago.  There  was  a  father  with 
aeveral  bods,  all  of  whom  got  their  liviDg  hy 
smuggliDg.  They  had  no  other  occupation ;  they 
dressed  as  well,  and  spent  as  much  money  as  any 
people  in  those  parts.  They  owned  at  least  one 
vessel  engaged  in  the  trade.  Everybody  knew  it. 
Why  were  they  not  caught  ?  Because  the  whole 
country  side  sympathized  with  them.  An  in- 
former would  have  run  a  chance  of  4>«ing  shot  as 
dead  as  the  Alford  poachers  shot  the  gamekeeper. 

I  have  heard  many  curious  tales  from  the 
farmers— how  they  used  to  lie  still  at  night  when 
they  heard  smugglers  fetch  their  horses  out  of  the 
stables  to  lead  away  the  cargoes,  and  how  they 
used  to  find  kegs  of  spirits* in  the  morning  put 
among  the  straw  as  a  recompense  for  the  use  of 
the  animals.  Some  of  them  used  to  boast  that 
they  got  all  their  spirits  for  "  nowt.''  On  a  dark 
night,  suitable  for  running  a  cargo,  these  farmers 
would  send  their  household  to  bed  earlier  than 
usual,  that  the  coast  might  be  clear  for  the  horses 
to  be  fetched.  No  doubt  many  of  the  men  went 
with  their  teams. 

But  where  is  the  necessity  of  any  further  words  ? 
Tennyson,  who  lived  so  near,  and  who  is  so  keen 
an  observer,  has  drawn  the  picture  of  a  "  Marsh  " 
farmer  to  the  life  in  his  itorikem  Farmer,  which 
is  always  considered  to  be  meant  for  one  of  the 
race  inhabiting  the  district  between  Alford  and 
Grimsby,  and  it  is  as  faithful  as  a  photograph. 

I  could  give  many  droll  tales  and  personal 
anecdotes  in  illustration  of  the  manners  and 
customs  in  that  part  of  Lincolnshire,  bat  shall 
forbear  at  present,  as  I  do  not  wish  to  unneces- 
sarily hurt  people's  feelings. 

Baitman's  tales  about  translating  Silvio  Pellico, 
and  about  his  being  with  Byron  in  Italy,  were 
most  likely  grim  jokes  at  the  ignorance  of  the 
Alfordians  about  literary  matters,  as  they  were 
too  manifestly  untrue  to  deceive  any  but  the 
biggest  ignoramuses,  for  Byron  died  in  1824,  when 
Baitman  was  a  yery  little  boy. 

J.  A.  has  made  the  very  best  of  a  bad  case,  and 
has  written  with  much  tact.  I  think  he  will  now 
be  convinced  that  I  really  do  know  something 
about  Alford  and  the  people.  It  is  with  great 
nnwillingness  that  I  have  been  compelled  to  pass 
any  strictures  on  the  generally  speaking  hospitable 
men  of  the  "  Marsh  *'  district ;  but  in  the  interests 
of  truth  and  justice  it  was  absolutely  necessary  to 
do  so.  I  now  leave  the  matter  to  the  impartial 
consideration  of  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  but  will 
conclude  with  some  lines  from  the  opening  piece 
of  Baitman's  PotHa  and  Protaiet: — 

**  For  I  have  longings  Tsat  and  high 
Of  fame  and  immortality. 
And  fain  weald  pour  in  deathleM  eong 
Hy  heart's  deep  feelingi  wild  and  strong. 


And  pleaanres  o*er  my  pathway  flinging. 

Lolling  my  bitter  griefs  to  rest. 
I  joy'd  me  in  the  woodland  glen, 
Far  from  the  ooily  haunts  of  men. 
For  in  that  quiet  solitude, 
I  o*er  my  hopes  could  calmly  brood, 
Holding  communion  with  the  spirit — 

The  idol  of  my  every  thought 
That  ever  did  my  soul  inherit, 

*Till  it  a  teeming  frenzy  wrought. 
And  many  people  deem'd  me  mad. 
Because  my  brow  was  sometimes  sad. 
Then— in  a  moment— wildlv  glad. 
And  sometimes  in  my  eye  there  dwelt, 
A  feeling  they  had  never  felt, 
A  strange  dark  feeling,  only  known 
By  me,  and  such  as  me  alone. 
I  ne*er  felt  happy  'mid  the  prond, 

Nor  joy'd  me  in  their  joy. 
For  in  the  pleasures  of  the  crowd. 

My  happiness  would  die." 

And  the  rabble  were  allowed  to  hoot  and  pelt  him  t 
That 's  how  the  **  longings  vast  and  high "  were 
satisfied  in  Alford.  B.  B. 

Boston,  Lincolnshire. 


I  't6  from  my  childhood  had  a  feeling 
So  wild  it  may  not  be  ezpress'd. 


Extinct  Periodicals  :  Clark's  "  Penny 
Wbkklt  Dispatch,"  &c.  (6*^  S.  v.  346).— If  your 
correspondent  whose  friend  is  thinking  of  compil- 
ing a  "  History  of  Extinct  Periodical  Literature  " 
will  be  so  kind  as  to  communicate  with  me  at  the 
address  given  below,  I  shall  be  happy  to  furnish 
him  with  a  long  list  of  defunct  periodicals  which 
ran  their  short  race  between  1836  and  1866,  and 
concerning  many  of  which  I  can  give  him  some 
curious  particulars.  Of  course  he  has  heard  of  the 
Town  and  the  Bag  Post  (both  edited  by  "  Chief 
Baron  "  Nicholson),  but  he  may  not  be  acquainted 
with  the  Wag,  the  Ghott,  and  the  Thief  (an  imi- 
tation of  the  Paris  Voleur,  which  still  exists),  the 
Calendar  of  Houset,  the  Cheat  Oun,  the  Bvd^ 
Light,  the  Devil,  the  Republican  (CarlOe's),  the 
Fleet  Papers  (edited  by  Richard  Oastler  in  order 
to  be  revenged  on  a  Yorkshire  squire  who  had  shut 
him  up  in  the  Fleet  Prison  for  debt),  and  the 
Aetrologer,  These  are  only  a  few  of  the  publica- 
tions which  I  can  recall  of  an  essentially"  fugitive  "" 
nature,  for  in  many  cases  the  editors  and  pro- 
prietors of  these  ephemera  ran  away.  Perhaps  the 
most  curious  among  them  all  was  the  Deaih 
Warrant,  a  weekly  journal  which  made  its  appear- 
ance about  1842-3.  The  front  of  the  publishing 
office  (in  the  Strand,  I  think)  was  painted  black, 
and  the  wire-gauze  blinds  were  profusely  adorned 
with  skulls  and  cross-bones,  and  other  emblems  of 
mortality.  The  Death  Warrant  contained  exclu- 
sively mortuary  intelligence :  necrology,  epitaphs, 
body-snatching  stories,  reports  of  executions,  re- 
cords of  strange  and  unusual  punishments,  tortures 
of  the  Inquisition,  Bloody  Mary  burnings,  and  the 
like.  The  public  objecting  to  be  frightened  oat  of 
their  wits,  the  Death  Warrant  failed  to  prove  a 
commercial   success,   and   the   proprietory   with 


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characteristic  promptitude,  changed  its  title  to  the 
Guide  to  Life.  Life,  however,  was  as  great  a 
failure  as  Veath,  The  proprietor  of  the  Death 
Warrant  and  the  Guide  to  Life  was  my  very  old 
friend  Mr.  Frederick  Marriott,  the  originator 
(among  a  whole  host  of  publications)  of  the  Weekly 
Chronicle,  the  Eailivay  Bell,  and  Chat  (which  I 
edited  for  him  in  1847-8),  and  whom  I  found 
again,  two  years  ago,  in  California,  the  prosperous 
proprietor  of  the  San  Francisco  Newt  Letter. 

G.  A.  SiXiu 
46,  Mecklenburgh  Square,  W.C. 

My  good  friend  the  Rey.  John  Pickford  is 
doing  excellent  service  in  taking  note  of  periodical 
publications  which  have  become  extinct.  I  have 
been  long  engaged  in  the  endeavour  to  put  into 
practical  shape  a  complete  record  of  these,  and 
have  details  of  perhaps  ten  thousand  out  of,  say, 
thirty  thousand.  The  difficulties  are  very  great 
where  the  publication  itself  cannot  be  seen.  Re- 
collections differ,  and  dates  are  very  slippery  things. 
I  sadly  want  help  such  as  he  gives ;  short  detaUs, 
but  facts. 

I  believe  the  Go-Orhead  Journal  he  names  was 
founded  in  Nottingham  by  the  late  Mr.  Herbert 
Ingram,  and  the  blocks  of  which  he  speaks  as 
being  borrowed  from  illustrated  papers  were  un- 
questionably obtained  from  the  Illustrated  London 
News,  founded  1842.       Cornelius  Walford. 

Belsise  Park  Gardens,  N.W. 

Sir  Philip  Francis's  Marriage  (6*'»  S.  y. 
309,  335).— It  is  certainly  a  fact  that  Philip 
Francis,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  married  Miss 
Elizabeth  Macrabie  at  the  church  of  St.  Martin's- 
in-the-Fields,  Middlesex,  on  Feb.  27, 1762.  His 
father.  Dr.  Francis,  had  strongly  objected  to  any 
engagement,  and  the  marriage  was  without  his 
approTal,  and  gave  him  great  pain.  The  first 
cniid  was  a  daughter,  bom  in  1763,  and  named 
Sarah.  The  second,  also  a  daughter,  was  bom  on 
March  2,  1764,  and  christened  Elizabeth  at  St. 
Margaret's  Church,  Westminster.  On  Feb.  19, 
1766,  a  third  daughter,  named  Harriet,  was  born. 
At  first  Dr.  Francis  and  his  son  were  not  on  very 
cordial  terms,  but  this  was  soon  made  up.  On 
S^.  3,  1768,  the  doctor,  writing  to  his  son,  says, 
"What's  become  of  your  promise  of  a  boy? 
Oirls  are  only  the  Mama's  children,  and  I  want 
some  assistance  in  my  plan  of  education."  A 
month  later,  Oct.  6, 1768,  the  doctor  writes,  "  Con- 
gratulations on  the  birth  of  your  son.  You  are  now, 
my  dear  Phil,  beginning  to  be  a  Father,  with  other 
duties  and  affections  than  you  have  ever  yet 
known." 

Mrs.  Francis  died  at  her  husband's  house  in  St. 
James's  Square  on  April  5,  1806 ;  and  on  Oct.  29 
following  the  king,  on  the  recommendation  of 
Lord  Grenville,  invested  Mr.  Philip  Francis  with 
the    order    of   the  Bath.    In  1814    Sir    Philip 


married  Miss  Emma  Watkins.  He  had  only  one 
son,  the  above-mentioned  boy,  bom  in  1768  {Life 
of  Francis,  1867 ;  and  Gentleman* s  Magaxine), 

Edward  Sollt. 

Syncretism  (6"»  S.  v.  229).— This  name  is 
sometimes  erroneously  given  to  the  eclectic  school 
of  philosophy,  founded  by  the  late  M.  Victor 
Cousin  during  the  first  five  years  of  his  reading 
as  lecturer  on  philosophy  at  the  Paris  Facultl 
des  Lettres  ^Sorbonne),  from  1816  to  1820. 
M.  Cousin's  object  was  to  protest,  on  the  one  hand, 
against  the  assumptions  of  the  sensationalist  school 
(Broussais,  Cabanis,  Destutt  de  Tracy,  Condorcet, 
Laromigui^re),  and,  on  the  other,  against  the  pre- 
tensions of  the  theocratic  school  (De  Maistre,  De 
Bonald,  Lamennais).  He  believed  that  the  secret 
of  a  sound  metaphysical  stracture  resided  in  a 
proper  combination  of  the  elements  of  truth  con- 
tained in  all  systems.  The  result  has  proved  that 
he  was  thoroughly  mistaken,  for,  in  spite  of  his  own 
undoubted  genius  and  of  the  talent  of  his  numerous 
disciples  (MM.  Jouffroy,  De  R^musat,  Jules  Simon, 
Damiron,  Caro,  Saisset,  Franck),  eclecticism  is 
now  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  in  the  face  of  the 
grossest  and  most  intolerant  form  of  materialism 
(MM.  Paul  Bert,  Hovelacque,  Soury,  &c.),  there  is 
no  hope  except  in  a  return  to  the  readings  of  re- 
vealed religion. 

On  the  distinction  between  syncretism  and 
eclecticism  see  the  article  "  Syncr^tisme "  in  M. 
Franck's  Diciionnaire  des  Sciences  Philosophiques. 
On  the  eclectic  side  read  M.  Damiron's  Essais  sur 
la  Philosophie  Fran^aise  au  XIX*  Sihde,  the  pre- 
face to  M.  Cousin's  Etudes  sur  Pascal,  and  his 
Histoire  GSnirale  de  la  Philosophie,  Against  the 
system  of  eclecticism  read  principally  M.  Pierre 
Leroux's  Rifutation  de  I  *£!clectisme. 

GUSTAVB  MaSSOK. 
Harrow. 

The  syncretistic  controversy  arose  in  the  Lutheran 
Church  with  Busher's  attack,  in  1639,''^  upon  Callix- 
tus.  Professor  of  Divinity  at  Helmstadt,  who  in  1634 
maintained  that  the  agreement  of  the  Catholic  Church 
during  the  first  five  centuries  ought  to  be  regarded 
as  a  rule  of  faith  second  only  to  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
Busher  denounced  Callixtus  as  a  secret  Papist. 
This  controversy  terminated  about  1690.  One  of 
the  principal  works  of  Abraham  Calovius,  a  cele- 
brated Lutheran  divine  (not.  1612,  o&.  1685),  was 
his  Historia  Syncretistica,  first  published  in 
1682,  but  suppressed  by  order  of  the  Elector  of 
Saxony  as  calculated  to  revive  the  dispute  with 
Callixtus;  it  was,  however,  republished  in  1685. 
Littr^,  s.vv.  "  Syncri^tisme  "  and  "  Syncr^tiste," 
affords  some  insight  into  this  system  of  religious 
philosophy  (tome  iv.  p.  2115,  col.  1-2). 

William  Platt. 

*  Crypto- Papiiimu  nov<e  Theolo^ai  Htlmttadtnsis, 
Hamburg,  1610. 


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Syncntiim  is  a  forcible  combination  and  amalga- 
fnation  of  different  philosophical  and  theological 
fljstems  for  the  pnrpose  of  reconciliation  and  reunion. 
Thename  waa  first  applied  in  the  fifteenth  century  to 
Picus  Mirandola,  Bessarion,  and  others,  who  tried 
to  unite  Plato's  with  Aristotle's  philosophy.  Then 
in  the  seyenteenth  century  it  was  chiefly  given  to 
Oeorg  Calixtus,  who  attempted  a  reunion  between 
the  Protestants  and  Roman  Catholics.  Syncretism 
as  a  phase  of  religious  philosophy  in  France  is 
criticized  in  the  Diciionnaire  dts  Sciences  Philoso- 
phiques  as  follows : — "  Ge  n'est  pas  un  syst^me,  ni 
un  principe,  mais  un  simple  d^sir,  celui  de  pacifier 
Tintelligence,  et  d'apaiser  toutes  les  discordes  ;  il 
•est  encore  bien  ^loign^  de  la  science  par  laquelle 
•ce  voeu  pent  Stre  accompli''  (tom.  vi.  p.  820, 
Par.  1852).  H.  Erebs. 

Oxford. 

C.  M.  I.  will  find  in  the  fifteenth  volume  of 
Herzog's  German  cyclopsedia  of  theology  an  ex- 
haustive article  on  the  origin  of  this  wotcI,  and  a 
history  of  the  controversies  in  which  it  was  first 
used.  L.  A.  R. 

An  account  is  given  in  Prof.  Sewell's  Christian 
Morals,  1840,  chap.  ix.  pp.  91-116.     W.  0.  B. 

A  Latin  Bible,  1620  {&^  S.  v.  229).— In  reply 
to  Mr.  Elliot,  I  have  now  before  me  Panzer's 
Oeschichte  der  Niimbergischen  Ausgahen  der  Bibel, 
but  there  is  no  folio  Latin  Bible  mentioned  in  it 
as  having  been  printed  at  Nuremberg  in  1520, 
nor  have  I  ever  seen  one.  There  was  one  printed 
by  J.  Marion  at  Lyons,  dated  August  19, 1620,  at 
the  expense  of  Ant.  Eoberger  of  Nuremberg. 
Probably  this  is  the  one  now  in  question.  It  is 
not  very  scarce,  and  is  described  in  Biblioiheca 
Susseziana  (No.  69  of  Latin  Bibles). 

Hbnrt  John  Atkikson. 

This  Bible  was  probably  printed  by  Anthony 
Eoburger,  one  of  the  most  industrious  printers 
of  the  fifteenth  century,  who  produced  no 
less  than  a  dozen  editions  of  the  Latin  Bible  in 
the  space  of  twenty-six  years.  Brunet,  however, 
says  tnat  this  edition  of  1620  was  printed  at  Lyons. 
The  woodcuts  seem  to  have  been  copied  from  the 
Venice  edition  of  1498.  See  Brunet,  Manuel  du 
LibrairCy  vol.  i.  pp.  871-4.  O.  Fisher. 

St.  Luke  xxiii.  16  (6*>»  S.  iv.  465,  498 ;  v.  36, 
137,  217). — If  a  defendant  can  put  the  plaintifi'on 
his  defence,  or  a  general  turn  a  defence  into  an 
attack,  it  is  clever.  My  friend  tries  this  when  he 
speaks  of  my  "  case "  not  being  proved,  but  the 
defence  remains  with  himself.  I  merely  questioned 
the  too  great  positiveness  of  two  assertions,  and  I 
gave,  against  the  latter,  Acts  xvi.  28,  firjSkv 
'^pd^ys  crcauTcjJ,  as  an  example  of  the  dative  fol- 
lowing '*  verbs  of  action."  I  cannot  see  that  this 
example  fails ;   nor  does  Mr.  Woolrtch  point 


out  its  defect,  but  again  asserts  Greek  lexicons, 
and  gives  the  equivalent  of  my  example  in  his 
own  Greek,  which  he  says  would  be  "a  gram- 
matical confusion  in  good  Greek "  !  Yet  the 
Scripture  contains  my  example,  and  if  it  be  bad 
Greek  it  is  a  frequent  fault  therein  and  elsewhere. 
The  Septuagint  agrees  with  the  New  Testament 
in  the  use,  and  so  do  profane  authors.  I  have 
some  twenty-four  passages  marked,  but  there 
really  need  be  no  question  on  such  a  fact.  I 
humbly  repeat  that  these  *Werbs  of  action"  do 
not  always  take  a  double  accusative.  Lexicons, 
moreover,  say  that  a  dative  of  the  person  sometimes 
folhxos.  1  will  not  deny  that  Mr.  Woolrtch's 
Greek  sentence  might  not  "  suit  a  correct  Greek 
ear."  Who  the  "  great  lexicographer  "  may  be  I 
know  not,  but  I  do  not  presume  to  differ  from 
him,  who  speaks  modestly,  though  I  submit  that 
the  New  Testament  may  not  be  classical  Greek  in 
many  oases,  and  vet  on  this  point  it  is  not  at 
issue  with  classical  usage.  That  the  "  great  lexi- 
cographer" can  see  no  meaning  in  the  old  transla- 
tion of  the  text  in  question  (''done  to  him")  is, 
perhaps  strange,  since  we  are  assured  (6^  S.  iv. 
465)  by  my  friend  that  there  is  "  a  consensus  of 
so  many  authorities  in  upholding  the  old  reading." 
I  think  there  must  be  a  meaning,  and  that  the 
*' consensus"  of  authorities  and  the  Authorized 
Version  should  be  followed,  yet  with  "  an  alter- 
native marginal  reading,"  the  sentence  being  one 
"  as  to  which  no  one  can  be  without  all  doubt." 
I  have  thought  that  the  meaning  might  be  that 
Herod  had  found  no  fault  worthy  of  death  done 
to  or  against  his  jurisdiction  ;  as  if  Pilate  had 
said,  "  /  have  found  no  fault  in  him— as  to  the 
charge  of  making  himself  a  king  a>gainst  Ciesar — 
no,  nor  yet  Herod."  W.  F.  H. 

Mr.  Woolrtch  is  scarcely  right  in  his  argu- 
ments against  the  use  of  a  dative  after  irpda-a-ai  in 
the  passive  voice.  A  reference  to  any  good 
Greek  grammar  would,  I  think,  have  disabused 
him  of  the  ideas  which  he  seems  to  possess  with 
regard  to  the  construction  to  which  he  adverts. 
Thus  Madvig,  Greek  Syntax,  p.  37,  say?,  *'  Some- 
times the  dative  of  the  agent  stands  with  passive 
verbs  instead  of  virb  with  the  genitive,"  and  he 
quotes  Tct  <rol  Trcirpay/icva  {Dem.  19,  291). 
Farrar,  Greek  Syntax,  p.  72,  has,  "  rt  TrcirpaKrat 
Tols  ctAAot? ;  just  as  in  Latin  poetry  *  non  ^in- 
telligor  ulli*  or  ab  uWo."  Clyde  gives,  "ravra 
fjLol  XcXcKTaft^:' these  things  have  been  said  by 
me,'  as  in  French  *  c'est  bien  dit  A  vous  '=*  it  is 
well  said  by  you.'"  Of.  also  Donaldson's  Greek 
Grammar,  p.  431,  &c.  The  following  quotation 
from  Isocrates  may  be  added,  Aokc?  Sc  fwi 
Kol  irepl  tQv  irpos  tovs  Pappdpov^  t^  itoAcc 
TTf.Trpayixkviav  TrpotrrJKuv  ctTrctv  {Panegyricus, 
§  66).  F.  C.  BiRKBKCK  TaRRT. 

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"  Mighty"  Tom  of  Oxford  (6*»»  S.  t.  248).— 
It  appears  from  a  MS.  of  Wood,  referred  to  in  Br. 
Willis,  Eist  of  CathedralSf  vol.  iiL  pp.  403-5,  that 
in  the  campanile  or  great  tower  of  Oseney,  which 
remained  till  after  1644,  there  was  a  ring  of  bells, 
of  which  John  Major,  the  Scottish  historian,  said, 
"Campanis  coenobii  de  Osneia  nuUae  in  Anglia 
meliores  putantur  ";  which  were  formerly  known  by 
the  names  of  "  Hautedere,  Donee,  Clement,  Aus- 
tyn,  Marie,  Gabriel,  and  John."  These  were 
recast  before  the  suppression  of  the  monastery, 
at  which  time  the  names  were  changed,  according 
to  tradition,  to  **Mary  and  Jesus,  Meribus  and 
Lucas,  New  Bell  and  Thomas,  Conger  and  Golde- 
ston";  and  which  Thomas,  afterwards  called  "  Great 
Tom  of  Christ  Church,"  had  this  inscription 
formerly  :  "  In  Thome  lande  resono  Bim  Bom 
sine  fraude."  Dr.  Tresham,  Canon  of  Henry  VIII.'s 
College,  A.D.  1532,  and  of  Ch.  Ch.,  a.d.  1546-60,  is 
said  to  have  renamed  it  "Mary"  when  it  was 
removed  from  Oseney  to  Christ  Church.  So  the 
bell  remained  until  the  dean,  Bishop  John  Fell, 
who  built  the  present  Tom  Tower,  removed  it 
from  the  campanile  of  the  cathedral  to  be  placed 
there,  having  caused  it  to  be  recast  with  additional 
metal,  and  with  the  following  inscription  placed 
round  it : — 

"  Macrnus  Thomas  CusiusOzoniensifi,  renatus  April,  viii. 
XDOLXXX.,  regnante  Carolo  Secando,  Decano  Johanne 
Ozon.  Episcopo,  Subdecano  Qulielmo  Jane,  S.S.  Theol. 
Professore,  Thesaurario  Henrico  Smith,  8.S.  Theol. 
Profersore,  cura  et  arte  Ghristoferi  Hodson."— P.  408. 

The  dimensions  and  weight  are  given  as— in 
diameter,  7  ft.  1  in. ;  from  the  crown  to  the  brim, 
5ft.  9 in.;  thickness  of  the  striking  place,  6 in.; 
weight  of  the  whole  bell,  nearly  17^000  lb.,  and 
of  the  clapper  3421b.;  it  taking  sixteen  men 
to  ring  it.  The  casting  was  not  completed 
without  some  difficulty,  for  ^*  one  Keen  of  Wood- 
stock cast  it  twice,  but  he  miscarrying,  one 
Hodson,  a  Londoner,  undertook  it,  and  made  it  as 
at  present''  {ibid.,  p.  408,  the  latter  part  of  this 
account,  beginning  with  Bishop  Fell,  being  on 
the  authority  of  Willis  himself,  not  on  Wood's). 
Great  Tom  has  thus  bef  n  twice  recast — once  before 
the  dissolution  of  Oseney,  and  once  after  its 
removal  thence  to  Christ  Church. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Wood,  in  his  Biitory  and  Antiquities  of  Oxford 
(1786),  vol.  iv.  pp.  461,  452,  in  a  note  says  :— 

"  This  Bell,  called  Tom,  having  been  the  large  clock  hell 
that  hung  in  Ike  hf^h  Tower  in  the  middle  of  the  Abbey 
Church  of  Oseney,  is  said  to  have  been  brought,  with  the 
other  fix  bells,  from  thence  at  the  pulling  down  of  that 
Cathedral;  a  Bp.  Fell  caused  it  to  be  recast  with  addi- 
tional metal  in  1680.  Round  it  is  this  Inicription : 
'  Magnus  Thomas  Cusius  Ozoniensis.  renatus  Aprilis  Tiii. 
Anno  MDCLxxx,  regnante  Carolo  II.,  Decano  Johanne 
Oxon.  Bpiscopo,  Subdecano  Oulielmo  Jane,  8.8.  Th,  P. 
Thesaurario  Hen.  Smith,  S.S.  Th.  P.  cnra  ot  arte  Christ 
Hodson;  " 


See  also  Dagdale*8  Mona$Hcon  AngUcanum  (ISdO), 
vol.  vi.  p.  250,  note  ;  Browne  Willis's  Survey  of 
(Ke  Cathedrali  (1742),  voL  iiL  p.  408  ;  and  A.  Chal> 
mers's  History  of  As  ColUgts,  JBTaUs,  and  Public 
Buildings  aitaJied  to  ths  University  of  Oxford 
(1810),  voL  ii.  p.  322.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

The  history  of  this  bell  is  fully  given  by  me  in 
«  N.  &  Q.,"  3"*  S.  ii.  493.      H.  T.  Ellacombb. 

Curious  Shropshirb  Epitaph  (6**»  S.  v.  327). 
—My  relative  Mr.  Sidney  Stedman  Smith, an  excel- 
lent genealogist  and  antiquary,  now  dead,  copied  this 
epitaph  inscribed  upon  the  tombstone  outside  the 
south  chancel  wall  of  Stanton  Lacy  Church,  when 
the  late  Dr.  Bowles  was  vicar.     I  fortunately 
remember  all  the  lines  of  the  inscription  : — 
"  Good  natur*d,  generous,  bold,  and  free, 
He  always  was  good  com]Muiy ; 
He  loved  his  bottle  and  his  friend, 
Which  brought  on  soon  his  latter  end ; 
At  three  times  ten  his  sand  was  nearly  mn, 
And  bade  the  world  adieu  at  thirty-one." 

Hubert  Smith. 

Ellice  :  Ellis  :  Alehous  (6*  S.  iv.  513). — 
Without  agreeing  with  the  assertion  of  the  com- 
piler of  the  Black  Kalendar  of  Aberdeen  that  the 
name  Ellis  is  derived  from  *'a  respectable  change- 
house  keeper,''  I  find  the  following,  which  may  be 
interesting  to  J.  E.,  in  Inverurie  and  the  Earldom 
of  the  Oarioeh,  by  the  Rev.  John  Davidson,  D.I>., 
Edinburgh,  D.  Douglas,  1878  :— 

"The  Charter  of  the  erection  of  the  Lordship  of 
Lindores,  dated  Slst  March,  1600,  includes  iltYAovicre/^.*' 
-P.  157. 

"  In  the  Crtmiral  roll  of  the  Justiciars  Court,  held  at 
Aberdeen,  under  the  authority  of  Regent  Albany,  for  trial 
of  offences,  appears  the  name  of  Robert  Watson  in 
Foardlialassis  (Fuirdalehouse  [pronounced  Ford-EUisX 
in  the  parish  of  Bourtie)."— P.  115. 

J.  M.  S. 

Stowet  and  Stow  Ball  (C'"*  S.  v.  229).— Is 
not  the  first  part  of  these  names  the  form  of  stoe  or 
stncce,  so  commonly  found  both  as  a  prefix  and 
suffix  in  old  English  (Anglo-Saxon)  place-names  ? 
The  latter  part,  "  Ball,"  may  well  be  derived  from 
the  Old  English  bal  (B.  bale),  a  knob  or  promi- 
nence. Stow  Ball  Hill,  near  Portskewet,  in  Mon- 
mouthshire, would  just  answer  such  a  description, 
being  an  isolated  eminence  crowned  with  remaina 
locally  known  as  "Druid's  stones."  The  pro- 
bability is,  I  think,  that  ''the  hill"  is  a  huge 
barrow,  or  it  might  have  been  the  site  of  Harold's 
palace,  which  was  destroyed  by  Oaradoc  (1065X 
Close  by  is  Heston  Brake,  with  its  huge  upright 
moss-covered  stones,  supposed  to  be  a  sepulchral 
memorial  to  the  followers  of  Harold,  so  ruthlessly 
slain  on  that  occasion.  S.  H. 

82,  Ainger  Road,  N.W. 

A  Curious  Book-plate  (6**  S.  v.  226).— I 
have  a  plate  rather  like  Mb.  jACKSOii'Sy  bat  leis 


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elaborate ;  it  came  out  of  Biabop  Ken's  Prayers 
for  Winchester  College,  twenty-sixth  edition, 
1741.  Its  outside  size  is  5f  by  3^  in.;  inside  an 
ornamental  border  is  printed  this  legend,  running 
round  and  round  the  plate  (the  bars  mark  the 
comers): — 

"tsr  The  Noble  Art  and  Mystery  of  Printing  was 
first  inyeQted  and  |  practised  by  John  Faust,  in  the 
City  of  Mentz  |  in  High  Qermany,  about  the  Year  of 
our  Lord  1451,  and  brought  into  England  by  I  William 
Cazton,  a  Mercer  and  Citizen  of  |  London,  woo  by  the 
Encouragement  of  the  Great,  and  particularly  of  the 

L  Abbot  of  Westminster,  first  set  up  a  |  Printing  Press  in 
at  Abby,  and  began  the  Printing  of  Books  there  | 
about  the  Year  of  our  Lord  1471." 

Then  is  another  ornamental  border,  the  space  in- 
eide  which,  3^  by  2  in.,  is  divided  lengthwise  by 
a  rule ;  above  is  printed,  in  very  large  capitals, 
"  Martha  Savill,"  and  below,  "  Cambridge, 
Printed  June  25, 1767." 

C.  F.  S.  Warren,  M.A. 

The  Coomb  off  Chttrgh  Bells  a  Cure  for 
Shingles  (6"»  S.  t.  345).— An  old  village  ac- 
quaintance of  mine  (in  the  parish  of  Shiplake, 
Ozon.)  was  troubled  with  this  complaint.  "  The 
doctor's  stuff,''  she  said,  "  in  course  it  did  me  no 
good,  but  I  got  one  of  the  bell-ringers  to  scrape 
me  some  of  the  coomb  off  the  church  bells ;  and  I 
mixed  it  with  lard  and  rubbed  it  in,  and  I  be 
cured."  To  my  inquiry  what  "  coomb "  was,  she 
replied,  "  'Tis  the  black  grease,  lookye,  as  is  put 
above  the  clapper  of  the  bell."  L.  Ph. 

This  "comb"  or  "coomb"  is  not  "a  sort  of 
accretion  or  moss  which  gathers  on  old  bells/'  but 
the  congealed  oil  which  is  found  about  their 
brasses  and  gudgeons,  like  "  cart-gum  "  from  cart- 
wheels, under  which  word  may  be  found  in  Pea- 
cock's Gloseaary  a  merry  jest  of  a  lad  who  rubbed 
his  cheeks  with  cart-gum  to  make  whiskers  grow. 

J.  T.  F. 

Bp.  Hatfield's  Hall,  Durham. 

Child's  "  Discourse  of  Trade  "  (6**»  S.  v.  309, 
358). — In  my  note,  at  the  latter  reference,  on  this 
book,  read  ''Soon  after  the  Regtoraiion**  for 
''Soon  after  the  i2m>{uru>fi."      Wm.  H.  Pebt. 

By  not  "Joshua,"  but  Jotiah,  Child.  McCullocb 
gives  some  account  of  it  in  bis  edition  of  Adam 
Smith  as  well  as  elsewhere.  C.  T.  B. 

"  Htpnerotomachia,"  1592  (G**»  S.  v.  347).— 
A  copy  of  this  work  appears  in  Mr.  Quaritch's 
Catalogue  of  Romanea  (f  Chivalry^  p.  735,  pub- 
lished in  February  last.  When  inquired  for  it 
was  sold,  but  no  doubt  its  present  locality  can  be 
readily  traced.  J.  C.  Hudson. 

The  Pultenet  Correspondence  (6*>»  S  v.  320, 
358). — Mr  Peach  is  wrong  in  saying  that  the 
Countess  of  Bath,  who  died  in  1808,  "survived 


her  husband  some  years."  Sir  James  Murray 
Pnlteney,  who  was  M.P.  for  Weymouth  from 
1790  till  his  death,  survived  the  countess,  and 
diedApr*d26,  1811. 

Alfred  B.  Bbaysn,  M.A. 
Preston. 

EUSTACHIUS  VlCBCOMES,  T.w.c.  (6'*»  S.  V.  248). 
— This  Eustace  was  probably  the  third  Earl  of 
Boulogne,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Mal- 
com  III.,  King  of  Scotland.  Their  daughter 
Maude  was  the  wife  of  King  Stephen.  The  third 
Earl  of  Boulogne  was  the  son  of  Eustace,  the 
second  Earl,  and  Ida  his  wife.  See  Freeman's 
Hiitory  of  the  Norman  Gonquetil,  vol.  it  p.  131,  and 
voL  iv.  pp.  745-6,  and  Sir  H.  Ellis's  Gemral  Intro^ 
dueHon  to  the  Donutday  Booh,  voL  i.  pp.  416-17, 
note.  G.  Fisher. 

"  Bred  and  Born  "  (6«»  S.  iv.  68,  275  ;  v.  77, 
112,  152,  213,  318).— To  make  amends  for  any 
excess  of  sharpness  of  which  I  may  have  been 
guilty,  I  will  endeavour  to  throw  light  and  sweet- 
ness on  this  vexed  question  by  suggesting  a  third 
course,  which  is,  that  when  a  speaker  is  sufficiently 
well  informed  as  to  all  the  facts  of  his  case,  be 
should  not  scruple  to  say,  "  Got,  born,  and  bred." 
There  is  good  authority  for  the  phrase  ;  Drayton 
sings  {Folyolbiony  xv): — 

**  James,  got,  bom,  and  bred,  immediately  doth  flow 
To  Windsor-wards  amain." 

Fuller's  Worthies  is  on  the  table  near  me.  I  sup- 
pose I  could  quote  dozens  of  examples  of  born 
followed  by  bred  from  its  pages,  but  I  doubt  if  it 
could  furnish  me  with  one  in  which  the  sequence 
is  reversed.  "Sir  Robert  Dallington,  Knight, 
was  born  at  Geddington  in  this  County ;  bred  a 
Bible-Clerk"  (Vol.  ii.  p.  168,  Nichols's  edition); 
''  Christopher  Bambridge,  born  at  Apleby  in  this 
County,  was  bred  Doctor  of  Law  in  Queen's  Col- 
ledge  in  Oxford  "  (16.  427),  may  suffice. 

St.  Swithin. 

Are  Toads  Poisonous  ?  (6*»>  S.  iv.  429  ;  v.  32, 
173).— On  p.  393,  vol.  xviiL  of  the  Mirror  (1831), 
is  the  following  : — 

"  The  toad  is  truly  a  venomous  reptile,  but  its  venom 
lies  all  in  its  skin,  in  the  protuberancee  on  its  back. 
When  provoked  or  hurt,  it  wi^i  discharge  at  these  pro- 
tuberances small  particles  of  white  poison :  hence  there 
are  few  dogs  that  will  worry  a  toad.  I  have  seen  the 
mouths  of  dogs  swelled  fearfully  from  worrying  toads. 
— Con-ap,  Mag.  NaU  Hut," 

Again,  on  p.  38,  voL  xxiii.  (1834),  "  Stray  Facts," 
by  M.  L.  B.:— 

**  I  have,  however,  met  with  naturalists  who  deny  that 
any  poison  exists  in  the  bite,  or  corrosive  qualities  in 
the  spittle,  of  the  toad,  though  many  facts,  I  believe, 
exist  to  justify  these  suppositions;  but  they  readily 
admit  that  the  reptile  is  dangerous  to  handle,  as  its 
skin  Fecretes  a  viscous  liquid  highly  deleterious,  if  not 
venomous.  On  this  subject,  a  near  and  lamented  rela- 
tive, not  long  since  related  to  me  the  follpwuiff  anecdojte. 
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which  she  aarared  me  was  well  authenticated ;  whether 
it  was  eyer  published  she  knew  not,  bat  if  so,  it  will  bear 
repetition.  Some  years  since,  it  was  noticed  in  Paris, 
that  a  number  of  people  sickened  and  died  of  a  disorder, 
which,  in  name  and  nature,  defied  the  knowledge  of  the 
physicians.  By  and  by,  it  was  observed  that  this  mor- 
tality only  attacked  those  who,  it  could  be  proyed,  were 
in  the  habit  of  recreating  themselves  in  a  certain  square, 
or  garden,  open  to  the  public,  and  much  frequented ; 
but  as  the  malady  did  not  seize  all  these,  it  also  became 
in  time  noticed  that  only  those  individuals  suffered  who 
had,  for  shade  or  repose,  seated  themselves,  and,  in  some 
instances,  fallen  asleep,  beneath  a  remarkably  fine,  old 
tree.  Now  this  tree  was  not  literally  a  upas,  though  it 
had  proved  such  to  many  unfortunates;  but  there  was 
at  any  rate  something  about  it  so  mortally  extraordinary, 
as  to  induce  particular  investigation.  It  was  then  dis- 
covered, that  the  tree  being  old  and  decayed,  in  a  large 
hollow  near  the  base  of  its  trunk,  a  toad  of  extraordinary 
Bize  had  taken  up  its  abode;  and  it  was  thence  con- 
jectured that  the  pestiferous  efiiuvia  exhaled  from  the 
body  of  this  huge  and  bloated  reptile,  had,  by  tainting 
the  air  for  some  feet  around,  caused  the  death,  by 
poison,  of  all  who  had  sat  beneath  the  tree,  or  slept 
under  it,  possibly,  with  their  faces  close  to  its  hole.  The 
unseemly  monster  was  destroyed,  the  hole  filled  up,  and 
no  more  deaths  occurred  amongst  those  who  subse- 
quently sat  under  the  tree." 

I  have  selected  the  above  extracts  from  a  great 
number,  all  of  which  tend  to  prove  that  the  toad 
is  not  the  harmless  creatare  some  writers  would 
have  us  believe.  The  Rev.  Rowland  Hill  was  a 
|;reat  advocate  on  behalf  of  the  toad.  The  follow- 
ing observations,  which  occur  in  his  Journal  of  a 
Tour  throxcgh  the  North  of  England,  indicate  an 
amiability  of  disposition  worthy  of  commendation : 

"An  uncommon  degree  of  odium  is  fixed  to  the  ex- 
istence of  a  toad.  They  are  supposed  to  be  poisonous : 
this  is  quite  a  vulgar  error.  They  are  useful  reptiles; 
and  are  even  capable  of  the  knowledge  of  our  attention 
and  humanity.  It  is  wanton  cruelty  to  destroy  them. 
In  my  country  abode,  I  even  attempted  to  make  them  a 
place  of  retirement,  and  called  it  a  toadery.  Every 
creature  that  Qod  has  sent  we  should  protect,  and,  in  a 

subordinate  degree,  they  demand  our  attention It  is 

no  disgrace  to  the  Christian  character  to  plead  the  per- 
secuted cause  of  Uie  harmless  toad." 

Frank  Moss. 

"Opikt"  (6»»»  S.V.  148, 193).-Before  I  read 
your  correspondent's  reply  I  had  come  to  a  similar 
conclusion  with  reference  to  the  origin  of  this  word. 
Whether  we  are  both  wrong  or  both  right  it  may 
perhaps  remain  for  others  to  prove.  On  referring 
to  Pliny  for  the  passages  cited  by  Mr.  Lowenbbro, 
I  found  in  the  case  of  the  first  passage  quoted  that 
epulis  is  suggested  as  another  reading  for  populis, 
whilst  in  the  second  passage  the  words  "  Opiet  or 
Poplar**  are  Holland's  own,  as  they  have  nothing  to 
do  with  the  Latin  text.  To  your  correspondent's 
two  quotations  I  would  add  the  following:  '^ Be- 
yond the  river  Po  in  Italic,  there  is  a  tree  growing 
which  the  peasants  there  call  Rumbotinus,  and  by 
another  name  Opulus  "  (i.  405,  ed.  1601).  In  the 
margin  opulus  is  explained  as  opiet  In  this  case 
again  there  is  a  reading  popuhis  as  well  as  opulus. 


Was  not  opfdus^  then,  the  word  foremost  in 
Holland's  mind  when  he  made  his  translation,  and 
has  he  not  used  opisi  instead  of  opier,  a  word  which 
is  thus  introduced  in  W.  Turner's  Names  of  Herhe» 
(p.  67,  E.D.S.,  1881)?— 

"  Opulus  is  a  tree  commune  in  Italy  k  Germany,  bni 
I  haue  not  sene  it  that  I  remembre  in  Englande.  It  is 
called  in  frenche  as  Gesnere  sayeth  opier,  and  so  maye 
it  be  also  called  in  englishe  tyl  we  finde  a  better  name.^' 

Mr.  Britten  is  apparently  mistaken  with  regard  to 
the  word  rumbotinus^  which  certainly  occurs  twice 
in  the  Latin  text,  and  is  used  also  by  Columella, 
but  of  which  the  better  spelling  is  rumpotinus  (cf. 
Lewis  and  Short's  Lat.  Diet.,  «.v.). 

F.  0.  BiREBECK  Terry. 
Cardiff. 

Religious  Novels  (6**»  S.  v.  108, 195).— Th« 
writer  in  MaemUlan  referred  to  by  Anon,  says, 
"  This  is  the  history  of  what  is  known  as  Agnos- 
ticismy  and  its  parent  is  not  some  headstrong, 
blatant  sceptic,  but  a  Church  dignitary."  Poor 
Dean  Mansel !  he  little  thought  of  such  a  progenj 
being  laid  to  his  discredit  after  death,  but,  of 
course,  it  is  a  mere  "  smart "  error.     W.  F.  H. 

Woodley,  Cove. 

The  Tractarians  have  made  enormous  use  of  re- 
ligious novels,  but  to  call  them  the  originators  of 
that  style  of  literature  is  absurd.  Hannah  More's 
Ckdths  in  Search  of  a  Wife  had  reached  its  fifth 
edition  in  1809^  and  some  people  complained  of  it 
for  bringing  religion  into  novels.  I  do  not  sup- 
pose she  was  the  first,  but  Jane  Taylor^s  Bisplayf 
Father  Clement,  and  many  other  like  tales  and 
novels,  had  attained  a  large  circulation  before  the 
Tractarians  took  up  the  other  side.  P.  P. 

Christmas  Cards  (6*>»  S.  v.  10,  165). —Mr. 
Platt  is  somewhat  in  error  in  stating  that  the 
first  Christmas  card  was  carried  out  by  De  La 
IJue  &  Co.  This  firm  republished  it  last  year  in 
chromo-lithogiaphy,  but  in  1846  it  was  produced 
in  outline  by  lithography  and  coloured  by  hand  by 
acolourer  of  that  time  of  the  name  of  Mason,  when 
it  could  not  have  been  sold  for  less  than  a  shilling. 
Last  year  chromo-lithography  enabled  it  to  be  pro- 
duced for  twopence.  The  original  publisher  was 
Mr.  Joseph  Cundall.  It  may  be  well  to  place  the 
design  on  record.  A  trellis  of  rustic  work  in  the 
Grermanesque  style  divided  the  card  into  a  centre 
and  two  side  panels.  The  sides  were  filled  by  re- 
presentations of  the  feeding  of  the  hungry  and  the 
clothing  of  the  naked ;  in  the  central  compartment 
a  family  party  were  shown  at  table— an  old  man 
and  woman,  a  maiden  and  her  young  man,  and 
several  children — and  they  were  pictured  drinking 
healths  in  wine.  On  this  ground  certain  total 
abstainers  have  called  in  question  the  morality  of 
Mr.  Horsley's  design.       Frank  Rsdb  Fowke. 

21,  Victoria  Qrove,  Fulham  Boad,  Chelsea. 

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Portraits  or  Washington  Irving  (6"»  S.  iv, 
447,  490,  524;  v.  36,  173,  278).— There  is  a 
Tignette  portrait  of  Washington  Irving  in  Citieit 
of  the  World,  part  iii.  p.  73,  at  present  being  pub- 
lished in  monthly  parts  by  Gassell  &  Co. 

Alpha. 

The  Yardlets  op  England  (6*^  S.  v.  27, 
172).— The  following  monumental  inscription  is 
in  St.  Martin's  Church,  Ludgate  Hill^  London  : — 
"To  the  Memory  of  William  Yardley,  Gentleman,  and 
Elizabeth,  his  Wife,  some  time  of  this  Parish.  He  died 
the  28th  day  of  October,  1523.  She  died  the  20th  Day  of 
July,  1683. 

William  Yardley,  and  EKiabeth,  his  Wife, 
-  Who  lived  on  Earth  free  from  Strife, 
Not  Tar  from  this,  in  Earth  doth  lye. 
To  show  that  all  that  lire  must  dye, 
Where  they  doe  quietly  expect 
To  rise  again  as  Qod's  Elect. 
They  left  Four  Daughters  and  a  Sonne, 
Who  left  them  this  when  they  were  gone." 

J.  Le  B. 
Cincinnati. 

"ALKKBMfes"  (6"»  S.  V.  68,  216).— The  first 
syllable  only  of  this  word  is  Arabic,  and  represents 
the  definite  article.  The  eminent  lexicographers, 
Freyta^  and  Littr^,  s.v.  *'Kerm^"  declare,  the 
one,  "  Vox  peregrina,  estque  propria  vermiculus  " 
{Arab,-LaK  Lex.  tome  iii.  p.  434) ;  the  other, 
"  N*est  pas  d'origine  Arabe,  et  il  vient  du  Sanscrit 
Karmi,  qui  signifie  un  ver ''  (tome  iii.  p.  233,  coL  2). 
Sulphate  of  antimony  is  called  the  Kermis  mineral 
from  its  resemblance  in  colour  to  the  insect.  In 
explanation  of  "Alkerm^s'*  Bescherelle  says: — 
"Liqueur  de  table  fort  estimde  et  trfes-agr&ble, 
qui  se  preparait  au  Convent  de  Sainte-Marie-Nou- 
yelle  k  Naples.  Son  nom  lui  vient  de  Kermis 
T^g^tal,  dont  les  graines  lui  donnent  une  belle 
couleur  rouge.*'  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter^s,  Isle  of  Tbanet. 

"All  upon  the  merry  pin"  (6**»  S.  iv.  513  ; 
T.  94,  137,  237).— This  expression  occurs  in  Skel- 
ton's  The  Bowge  of  Courte^  386,  vol.  L  p.  45,  ed. 
Dyce.    Ryote  is  speaking  : — 

*'  Pluck  e  vp  thyne  herte  vpon  a  mery  pyne. 
And  lote  ts  laugh  a  placke  or  tweyne  at  nale : 
What  the  deuyll,  man,  mirth  was  neuer  one  ! 

What,  loo,  man,  see  here  of  dyce  a  hale  I 
Now  haue  at  all  that  lyeth  vpon  the  burde  I 
Fye  on  this  dyce." 

Mr.  Dyce  notes,  "  Vpon  a  mery  pynne  :  De  hayi, 
»a  Hale  cueur  de  hayt "  (Palsgrave's  Lesclar,  de 
la  Lang,  Fr.,  1530,  foL  ccccxlvi.  Table  of  Ad- 
Terbes).  The  expression  occurs  often  in  our  early 
poetry,  and  is  found  even  in  one  of  Wycherley's 
comedies.  He  adds  that  **pluck6  seems  to  be  the 
light  reading  for  placke,  though  the  word  occurs 
in  the  preceding  line.  At  naU  (alien  ale,  at  then 
ale ;  see  Price's  note,  Warton's  J9ut.  of  E,  P.,  ii. 
501,  ed.  1824),  i.e.,  at  the  ale-house.    Of  dyce  a 


hale,  ve.,  a  pair  of  dice.''  Although  this  quota* 
tion  and  the  note  thereon  do  not  determine  the 
origin  of  the  expression,  Skelton's  lines  tend 
rather  to  strengthen  the  view  that  it  comes  from 
some  drinking  custom,  and  are,  I  think,  somewhat 
earlier  than  the  quotation  from  the  Interlude  of 
the  Four  Elements  in  1516.  There  is  no  date  to 
the  earlier  editions  of  The  Bowge  of  Courtey 
printed  by  W.  de  Worde,  but  Mr.  Hazlitt  places 
them  before  the  Nigramaneir,  which  was  from  his 
press  in  1504.  W.  £.  Bucelbt. 

"Deck*'  op  Cards  (6«»  S.  iv.  509  ;  v. 91, 116, 
178,  214). — As  Mr.  Julian  Marshall  says,  the 
word  renege  can  hardly  be  called  obsolete.    The 
word  is  given  in    Huntley's  Cotswold  Glossary, 
*'  to  renounce,  to  deny  ;  but  chiefly  to  decline  to 
follow  suit  at  cards."    The  following  illustration 
of  the  use  of  the  word  is  from  Sylvester's  Da 
Bartas,  TJie  BaUail  of  Yury,  fol.  551,  ed.  1641:— 
"  Nor  shall  my  Muse  relate,  how  that  yer-while 
(Abusing  Kin^*t  and  Ckurche^t  sacred  stile] 
All  Europe  nigh  (all  sorts  of  R>ghti  reneg*d) 
Against  the  Truth  and  Thee,  un-holy  Leagud,^* 

Mr.  Bartlett,  in  his  Diet,  of  Americanisms,  men- 
tions "twenty-deck  poker"  as  "a  variety  where 
twenty  cards  are  used."    He  also  quotes: — 
"  I  '11  deal  the  cards,  and  cut  you  from  the  dech** 
Two  Maids  of  Moreclacke,  1609. 
F.   C.  BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 
Cardiff. 

"The  Gut"  (6«»  S.  v.  229,  357).— Whether  it 
is  right  to  connect  this  name  with  the  "  Celtic,'' 
\.  e,  Welsh,  gwy,  water,  or  not,  it  is  by  a  slip  of 
the  pen  that  Mr.  Terrt  has  connected  with  the 
latter  the  "  Fr.  gui,  a  ford,  probably  derived  from 
the  Celtic."  The  Fr.  gui  is  from  Lat.  vadwn. 
Thomas  Powell. 

BooUe. 

Elephants  destroyed  on  bkcomino  Dan- 
gerous (6**»  S.  V.  202). — Yet  another  instance  of 
the  destruction  of  an  elephant  on  account  of  his 
dangerous  condition  will  be  found  in  the  London 
Magazine  of  April  21,  1826.  The  details  there 
given  were  taken  from  a  "  Notice  sur  TEl^phant 
mort  k  Geneve  le  31  Mai  dernier "  (1820),  pub- 
lished in  the  "Almanach  Historique  nommi  Mes- 
sager  Boiteux,  pour  VAn  de  Ordce  1821,  k  Vevey, 
chez  Fr^res  Lsertscher,"  4to.,  and  were  again  re- 
produced by  William  Hone  in  his  Every-Day  Book 
(vol.  ii.  p.  700),  as  affording  a  parallel  to  the  then 
recent  destruction  of  the  elephant  belonging  to 
Mr.  Cross  at  Exeter  Change,  an  account  of  which 
is  given  in  the  same  volume.  The  animal  in  oues- 
tion  belonged  to  a  M.  Gamier,  and  had  been 
bought  in  London;  he  was  nine  feet  in  height 
and  ten  years  old.  A  few  'years  previously  an 
elephant,  belonging  to  the  same  proprietor,  had 
broken  loose  at  Venice,  and  after  committing  oon- 

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siderable  ravages  in  that  city  had  been  killed  at 
last  by  a  caoDon  shot.  Fearing  a  similar  occarrence, 
MdUe.  Garnier,  the  niece  of  the  proprietor,  deter- 
mined, on  the  first  outbreak  of  the  characteristic 
excitement  and  insubordination,  to  compass  the 
deatmction  of  the  animal.  Application  for  the 
necessary  permission  of  the  syndic  was,  with  some 
difficulty,  obtained.  Three  ounces  of  prussic  acid 
in  ten  of  brandy  were  first  administered,  but  this 
producing  no  effect,  three  ounces  of  arsenic  were 
giyen,  with  a  like  result.  Finding  then  that  the 
fltroDgeat  poisons  had  no  more  effect  upon  the 
animal  than  they  would  hare  had  upon  Mithridates 
himself,  a  ratio  vltima  had  to  be  employed.  Two 
breaches  were  made  in  the  wall,  a  pair  of  four- 
pounders  were  brought  up,  and,  on  the  animal 
presenting  a  favourable  mark,  a  ball  was  fired  from 
one  of  these,  which,  entering  near  the  ear  behind 
the  right  eye,  came  out  behind  the  left  ear,  went 
through  a  thick  partition  on  the  opposite  side  of 
the  enclosure,  and  finally  spent  itself  against  a  wall. 
Oasts  were  made  of  its  head ;  the  viscera — with 
the  spleen,  six  feet  long — were  preserved  ;  the 
flesh  was  greedily  eaten  by  the  public,  and  the 
skeleton  deposited  in  the  museum  of  natural 
history.  William  Bates,  B.A, 

Birmingham. 

Parchment  Wills  (6*  S.  v.  110,  237).— I 
think  wills  written  upon  parchment  ntust  have 
been  common  in  bygone  days,  as  perhaps  the 
fsllowing  instance  of  a  predilection  for  a  will  on 
parchment  in  preference  to  one  written  on  paper 
may  afford  some  trace.  Some  twenty  or  more 
years  ago  a  gentleman,  then  in  comparatively 
affluent  circumstances,  residing  some  seven  or 
eight  miles  away,  and  who  had  never  before  been  a 
«lient  of  mine,  called  upon  me  and  save  instructions 
for  his  will.  It  was  short  and  simple,  merely  giving 
all  his  real  and  personal  property  to  his  wife  abso- 
lutely. I  asked  him  to  call  again  in  an  hour  and 
his  will  would  be  ready.  "  There  are  two  things," 
he  said,  "  which  I  have  to  ask  you  to  attend  to  ; 
first,  the  will  must  be  written  on  parchment ;  and, 
secondly,  it  must  have  a  seal  upon  it."  I  ex- 
plained to  him  that  neither  of  his  requirements 
was  necessary ;  but  still  he  insisted,  saying,  '*  My 
wife  knows  that  I  have  come  here  to  get  my  will 
made,  and  she  will  not  be  satisfied  unless  it  is 
written  on  parchment  and  has  a  seal  attached  ;  so 
please  let  it  be  so,  and  put  upon  it  the  largest  seid 
you  have  got  in  your  office."  Consequently,  as 
my  ordinary  office  seal  was  only  of  the  usually 
fimall  size  used  in  sealing  deeds,  I  sought  about 
for  a  large  one.  Being  at  that  time  a  deputy 
steward  of  the  manor  of  Kirton-in-Lindsey,  parcel 
of  the  Duchy  of  Cornwall,  I  had  in  my  possession 
a  lam  seal,  some  thr^  inches  in  diameter.  This 
I  had,  with  some  difficulty,  affixed  to  the  will,  and 
the  testator  signed  it,  saying,  **  Now  that  is  some- 


thing like  a  seal ;  if  my  wife  is  not  satisfied  with 
that  she  must  be  difficult  to  please." 

From  the  above  it  would  almost  appear  as  if  there 
were  some  lineering  idea  that  wills  should  be  on 
parchment.  The  testator  lived  long  .enough,  poor 
fellow,  to  get  through  all  his  property,  so  that  the 
parchment  will  and  its  ponderous  seal  would  never 
reach  a  Court  of  Probate. 

W.  E.  HOWLETT,  F.S.A. 

There  is  another  story- writer's  error  which,  I 
think,  deserves  exposure,  namely,  that  if  a  man 
can  somehow  get  a  certain  bundle  called  my 
^*  title  deeds "  he  can  therefore  get  possession  of 
my  property.  Now,  as  the  title  deeds  prove  that 
I  am  the  lawful  owner,  they  equally  prove  that  he 
is  not.  If  they  prove  my  title  they  disprove 
his.  The  loss  may  be  immensely  inconvenient  to 
me,  but  if  he  attempted  to  take  possession  of  the 
property  on  the  strength  of  the  deeds  he  would  find 
himself  in  a  very  awkward  position.  P.  P. 

JoHK  Knibb,  Oxon.,  a  Clockmaker  (6*  S. 
V.  329}.— I  cannot  get  at  the  year  of  John  KnibVs 
death  ;  but  the  clock  described  must  be  at  least 
250  years  old,  perhaps  twenty  or  thirty  years  older 
than  that.  There  is  a  clockmaker  named  Chapman 
opposite  Balliol  College.  He  has  more  real  know> 
ledge  of  his  art  and  of  scientific  instruments  than 
any  other  man  here.  In  his  window  are  two  of 
John  Koibb's  clocks  and  one  of  Tompion's,  a  beau- 
tiful piece  of  work.  From  Mr.  Chapman  I  learn 
that  he  places  Enibb  about  the  year  1600,  or  very 
early  in  the  seventeenth  century,  because  he  cer- 
tainly preceded  Tompion,  who  died  about  1690, 
having  devoted  sixty  years  to  the  study  and  im- 
provement of  his  valuable  art.  I  hope  the  owner 
of  the  clock  will  be  quite  satisfied  that  it  is  of  most 
respectable,  not  to  say  venerable,  age  ;  and  should 
I  ever  be  able  to  learn  anything  more  of  John 
Enibb,  though  I  have  no  such  expectation,  I  will 
send  it  to  "  N.  &  Q."  Qibbks  RioAaD. 

18,  Long  Wall,  Oxford. 

Though  unable  to  give  the  dates  of  the  birth 
and  death  of  this  horologist,  yet  the  following  allu- 
sion to  him  may  be  found  in  a  poem  in  Carmina 
Quadragesimalia,  series  prima,  Oxonii,  £.  Theatro 
Sheldoniano,  mdgcxxiii.: — 

'*  Non  ego  Knihbeas  artes,  non  coniulo  lolem ; 
Gertios  hie  medium  denotat  erro  d!em.*'~P.  88. 
A  foot-note  says, ''  Enibb  Oxonii  Faber  Horolo- 
gicus,"  and  a  MS.  note  in  my  copy  attributes  the 
poem  to  "  Enipe,  sen^'' 

JOBK  PiCKFORD,  M.A. 

Newboume  Eectory,  Woodbridge. 

Edmukd  Gibson,  Bishop  or  Lovdov,  1720 
(6*^  S.  V.  89,  116,  336).— For  information  concern- 
ing him  and  his  family  let  me  refer  your  corre- 
spondents  to  Noble's  Memoir$  of  the  OfomKtUi, 
vol.  i,  part  iii.  sec.  1,  and  also  to  the  BdiquiiB 


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JEeomtancB,  second  ed.,  3  T0I9.  8vo.,  J.  R.  Smith, 
Sobo  Square,  1869.  His  brother,  John  Gibson, 
D.D.,  was  provost  of  Qaeen's  College,  Oxford, 
from  1717  to  1730.  There  is  the  following  curious 
mention  of  the  Gibson  family  by  the  strong  Non- 
juror, Thomas  Hearne,  writing  not,  however^  be  it 
remembered,  for  the  public  eye :— * 

"  1719,  Sept  8.  On  Saturday  (S«pt.  5)  oame  to  Oxford 
two  of  the  daughters  of  Richard  Cromwell,  son  of  Oliver 
Cromwell,  protector,  one  of  which  is  married  to  Dr. 
Gibson,  the  physician,  who  writ  the  Anatomy,  the  other 
18  unmarried.  They  are  both  preabyteriana,  as  is  also 
Dr.  Gibson,  who  was  with  them.  They  were  at  the  pres- 
byterian  meeting-house  in  Oxford  on  Sunday  morning 
and  evening ;  and  yesterday  they,  and  all  the  gang  with 
them,  dined  at  Dr.  Gibson's,  provost  of  Queen^s,  who  is 
related  to  them,  nnd  made  a  great  entertttinment  for 
them,ex8pecting  (sic)  something  from  them,  the  physician 
being  said  to  be  worth  30,0001b8.  They  went  from  Oxford 
after  dinner."— Vol.  ii.  p.  106. 

John  Pickjord,  M.A. 

There  is  a  good  engraving  of  Bishop  Gibson  in 
folio  size,  engraved  by  Yertue  in  1727.  There  are 
two  states  of  this  portrait.  Noble,  Continuation 
of  Granger^  iii.  69,  aho  enumerates  three  mezzo- 
tint portraits  of  this  prelate. 

J.  Imole  Dredob. 

Dorset  Traditions  (6"»  S.  v.  148,  255).  — 
"  We  Dorset "  are  very  proud,  as  well  we  may  be, 
of  the  Bev.  W.  Barnes's  poems,  and  they  give 
some  traditions,  such  as  *'The  Weapon  Liady" 
and  "  Greenley  Church."  But  traditions  do  not 
form  a  large  element  in  his  delightful  book.  An 
out-of-print  little  volume,  Chafin*8  Anecdota  of 
Cranhoume  Cka$€^  contains  a  few  quaint  tales 
of  that  old  forest.  But  a  book  giving  a  general 
rlsumi  of  this  and  one  or  two  other  subjects  con- 
nected with  *'  wol'  Dosset  ^  is  yet  to  be  written. 
So  far  as  I  know  there  is  nothing  of  the  sort  as 
yet,  but  there  ought  to  be.  The  Parham  ghost, 
Headless  William,  Mary's  tears— here  are  three 
not  unpromising  subjects  for  inquiry  and  record, 
but  not  in  print  to  the  best  of  my  belief.  The 
last,  indeed,  I  have  just  sent  to  Mr.  Britten  for 
the  Dictionary  of  Plant- Nanus. 

H.  J.  MOULB. 
Wejrmouth. 

Henrt  Halltwell,  Minister  of  Ifibld,  and 
Hbnrt  Halltwell,  Vicar  of  Cowfold  (Q*^ 
S.  iii.  324,  358,  436;  iv.  377,  458;  v.  96,  157, 
217}. — Since  my  last  note  I  have  discovered  a 
boofc  entitled  "  Wisdom  juttiJUd  of  Her  Children. 
From  the  Ignorance  and  Calumny  of  H,  Hallyioely 
in  his  book  called  *  Jn  Account  of  Familism  as 
it  is  Revived  and  Propagated  by  the  QiMhersJ  By 
William  Penn.  Published  1673."  This  entirely 
confirms  Ool.  Fishwick's  note  (ante,  p.  157)  that 
there  were  two  Hallywells  at  Ifield.  There  was 
(and  I  believe  still  is)  a  meeting  house  at  liield. 
Frederick  £.  Sawter. 

Brighton. 


An  Old  Seal  (S^  S.  v.  148,  255).— I  am  tolA 
by  an  old  Giggleswickian  that  the  school  was 
founded  by  King  Edward  YI.  at  the  instigation 
of  one  of  his  chaplains,  who  was  the  occupant  of 
the  prebendal  stall— in  St.  PauFs  Cathedral,  my 
informant  believes— of  the  name  mentioned  in  the 
legend  on  the  seal  Hirondellb. 

GiGANTOLOGT  (6**»  S.  V.  247).— In  the  article 
"  Giants,"  in  the  Encyclopaedia  Briiannica,  187^ 
— itself  a  valuable,  though  brief,  contribution  to 
the  literature  of  the  subject,  from  the  learned  pen 
of  Dr.  Tylor — the  following  authorities  are  referred 
to  :— Qu^telet's  Physique  Socials,  vol.  il,  and  An- 
thropomitrie,  iii.  and  iv.;  D.  Wilson's  Prehistoric 
Man,  i.  54  ;  Philosophical  Transactions,  xxiv.  85' ; 
Welcker's  Griechische  Gotterlehre,  i.  787;  and 
Tylor*s  Early  History  of  Marikind,  c.  xi.,  and 
Primitive  Culture,  c.  x.  E.  H.  M. 

In  my  paper  on  the  Peoples  of  Transylvania  I 
spoke  of  the  tall  race  at  Heltau,  near  Hermann- 
stadt.  R.  S.  Charnock. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6"»  S.  v.  349). — 
A  n  Essay  on  Medals,  1784,  8vo.,  anon.,  of  which  a 
second  edition  appeared  in  1 789,  2  voli.  8ro.,  and  a  third 
edition,  enlarged,  &c.,  in  1808,  2  vols.  8vo.,  was  written 
by  the  prolific  and  eccentric  author,  John  Pinkerton, 
who  was  assisted  by  Mr.  Douce  and  Mr.  Southgate,  botb 
of  the  British  Muteum.  See  McCulIoch'a  Lit.  of  Polit. 
Reon.,  1845,  p.  165;  "Horace  Walpole  to  Pinkerton,'* 
Sept.  27. 1784.  Walpole'i  LtUers,  cd.  1861,  viii.  504;  also 
Qent,  Mag,,  1781,  p.  521 ;  1789,  p.  837. 

William  Platt. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. —(6'**  S.  v. 
110,  239,  259).— 

"  Humanse  sapientise  pars  est,"  &c. 

''Hamanie  enim  sapientisD  pan  est,  quaedam  aequo 
animo  neecirc  velle.'' — J.  C.  ScRligeri  Exotericarttm 
ExereUationum  Lib.  xv :  De  Subtilitatef  Ezerc.  cccvii. 
sec^.  29,  p.  985,  Francof.  1607.  £d.  Marshall. 

(6th  8.  V.  248.) 

"  Our  deeds  still  travel  with  us  from  afar, 

And  what  we  hare  been  makes  us  what  we  are." 

These  lines  form  the  motto  to  chap.  Ixx.  of  George  Eliot's 

Middlemarch,  and  are  presumably  her  own,  like  Yery 

many  of  the  mottoes  in  that  novel. 

*'  He  who  plays  at  bowls  must  expect  to  meet  with 
rubbers."— This  looks  like  a  proverb,  but  is  not  in  any  of 
the  collections.  Horace  Smith  uses  it  as  a  tag  in  his 
comic  poem  The  BilerBit,  and  I  have  a  strong  impression 
that  some  one  (1  Hazlitt),  in  summing  up  the  controversy 
between  the  classical  and  romantic  schools  about  the 
poetry  of  Pope,  cite«  it  very  effectively  in  punning  refer- 
ence to  Pope's  chief  assailant,  the  Rev.  W.  L.  Bowie?. 
V.  S.  Lean. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Oreek   and   Roman   Sculpture.     By    Walter   Copland 

Perry.    (Longmans  &  Co.) 
Mr.  Perkt's  book,  which  is  modestly  defined   in   its 
sub-title  as  "a  popular  introduction  ^^T^f-^M*^]^ 


380 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6«i  8.  V.Mat  18/82. 


Oreek  and  Boman  sculpture  "  is  one  of  those  works  the 
ability  and  conscientiousneBS  of  which  are  rather  apt  to  be 
OTerlooked  in  the  sound  and  fury  of  modem  literature. 
It  is  a  handsome  volume  of  seyen  hundred  pages ;  and  we 
must  frankly  confess  that  we  haye  not  piously  perused 
them  idl.  But  we  have  read  enough  to  be  oonvinoed  of 
the  author's  capability  for  his  theme,  eyen  if  the  signi- 
ficant little  sentence  in  his  preface,  to  the  efiect  that 
he  has  *'a  familiar  and  loying  acquaintance  with  the 
wigi^i*!^"  (^^0  italics  are  ours)  of  all  the  works  of  art 
referred  to  in  his  pages,  had  not  greatly  prepossessed  us 
in  his  fayour.  Those  who  desire  to  enter  upon  the  study 
of  ancient  plastic  art  cannot  do  better  than  seek  the 
assistance  or  so  experienced  and  cultivated  a  guide  as  Mr. 
Perry.  The  book,  we  may  add,  is  plentifully  provided 
with  outline  illustrations  in  the  style  of  those  in  Smithes 
Clamcal  Dictionary,  and  as  mere  suggestions  or  re- 
minders they  will  serve  their  purpose  excellently.  But 
we  cannot  help  regretting  that  a  few  engravings  of  a 
better  kind  have  not  been  occasionally  given.  Careful 
woodcuts,  from  photographs,  of  single  figures— say  of 
the  Faun  of  Praxiteles  or  the  Venus  of  Melos— in  the 
fashion  of  those  which  accompany  Mrs.  Mitchell's  papers 
in  the  Century  Magazine,  would  have  greatly  added  to 
the  value  of  the  book. 

Thit  Conttitutional  Hislory  of  England  from  1760  to 

1860.  By  C.  D.  Tonge.  (Msrcus  Ward  &  Co. ) 
Of  the  many  writers  who  have  taken  it  in  hand  to 
continue  Mr.  Hallam's  Conttitutional  History,  Prof. 
Yonge  is  the  most  recent ;  but  we  fear  that  we  cannot 
congratulate  him  on  having  achieved  any  very  marked 
success.  His  book  could  scarcely  ful,  by  reason  of  the 
period  which  it  embraces,  to  contain  many  interesting 
and  important  facts ;  but  what  we  look  for  in  any  fresh 
treatment  of  a  well  threshed-out  subject — a  presenting 
of  old  facts  in  a  new  light— is  wanting  in  this  volume, 
and  the  author's  excessive  admiration  for  Mr.  Hallam 
(whom  he  apparently  regards  as  the  sole  authority  on 
constitutional  matters)  has  resulted  in  an  unfortunate 
and  exaggerated  imitation  of  the  very  dry,  not  to  say 
repulsive,  style  of  his  model.  So  far  as  we  can  judge, 
we  can  speak  well  of  the  book  from  the  point  of  view  of 
accuracy  (though  we  were  surprised  to  find  Demerara 
spoken  of— p.  318— as  an  island).  Two  features  render 
it  useful  as  a  book  of  reference— the  great  number  of 
quotations  from  the  speeches  of  eminent  statesmen, 
which  enable  us  to  see  what  were  the  views  held  by  the 
leaders  on  either  side  in  discussions  on  constitutional 
matters,  and  the  references  to  TKe  Life  of  the  Prince 
Contort  and  other  recently  published  memoirs,  which 
throw  some  curious  side  lights  on  several  minor  points. 
The  arrangement  is  almost  wholly  chronological,  but 
even  this  advantage  will  not  enable  Prof.  Yonge's  book 
to  supersede  the  excellent  volumes  of  Sir  Erskine  May. 
It  may,  however,  be  useful  to  those  who  wish  for  a 
flhorter,  if  less  readable,  account  of  the  hundred  years 
which  are  treated  of  in  both  works. 

Ooeihe's  Faust.  The  First  Part  Edited,  with  English 
Notes,  Essays,  and  Verse  Translations,  by  E.  J.  Turner 
and  E.  D.  A.  Morshead.  (Rivingtons.) 
Thi  great  German  classics  have  been  hitherto  offered  to 
English  students  in  the  form  of  translations,  and  our 
efforts  have  been  bent  on  incorporating  them  with  our 
own  literature.  Such  a  careful  and  elatorate  translation 
and  edition  as  that  of  Mr.  Bird  shows  that  the  tendency 
has  been  to  study  the  interests  of  English  readers  rather 
than  of  students  of  the  German  language.  Messrs. 
Turner  and  Morshead  have  now  issued  the  German  text 
with  such  notes  and  other  assistance  as  sre  usually  provided 
for  th«  interpretation  of  the  Greek  and  Latin  classics.  The 


notes  are  full,  yet  not  burdensome,  and  the  numeroos 
and  appropriate  illustrations  from  English  literatnre 
show  a  wide  range  of  reading  on  the  part  of  the  editors. 
Their  object  has  been  primarily  to  puhlish  a  good  school 
edition  of  the  great  German  masterpiece ;  but  the  execa- 
tion  of  their  plan  entitles  them  to  hope  for  a  lariger 
circle  of  readers  among  the  growing  numbers  of  thos« 
who  are  interested  in  the  study  of  the  German  language. 

The  Prince.  By  Nicco16  Machiavelli.  Translated  from 
the  Italian  by  N.  H.  T.  (Kegan  Paul,  Trench  &  Co.) 
Of  this  version  of  a  famous  work  by  a  famous  author 
(whose  precepts,  by  the  way,  are  considerably  milder 
than  his  reputation  would  lead  one  to  beliere)  we  shall 
only  say  that  it  seems  well  done  and  is  most  admirably 
produced.  But  one  thing  is  lacking,  and  that  is  an 
introductory  essay. 

Mr.  Murray  has  just  issued  a  volume  which  all  the 
admirers  of  the  late  Dean  Stanley  will  be  glad  to  possess, 
— Sermons  on  Special  Occasions  preached  in  Westminster 
Abbey.  Mr.  Murray  also  sends  us  vol.  iv.  of  Mr.  Fuller'a 
Students*  Commentary  on  the  Holy  Bible,  and  Mr.  Perry's 
History  of  the  English  Church  (First  Period,  596-1509).— 
From  Messrs.  Longmans  &  Co.  we  have  received  English 
Poetry  and  Prose,  being  a  collection  of  illustrative  pas- 
sages from  the  writings  of  English  authors,  commencing 
in  the  Anglo-Saxon  period  and  brought  down  to  the  pre- 
sent time,  edited  by  Mr,  Thomas  Arnold ;  and  the  late 
Prof.  Conington*s  translation  of  Virgil,  now  pubUshed 
for  the  first  time  in  a  separate  form. — Mr.  Frowde  (Ox- 
ford Universitv  Press)  sends  us  The  Parallel  New  Testa- 
ment, being  the  Authorized  Version  set  forth  in  1611 
arranged  in  parallel  columns  with  the  Revised  Version  of 
1881 ;  Prof.  Skeat's  Concise  Etymological  Dictionary  of 
the  English  Language;  and  The  New  Testament  Scrip- 
turfs  in  the  Order  in  which  they  were  written  (first  portion), 
by  the  Bev.  C.  Hebert,  D.D. 


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answered  by  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  in  his  Reminiscenca 
Ancestral  and  Anecdotal  (Longmans),  p.  288.  Cf.  also, 
op.  cit,  p.  253.  There  is  no  question  as  to  the  view 
which  has  been  taken  in  resolutions  of  the  House  of 
Lords  and  the  practice  at  Court.  But  Sir  Bernard  states 
that  doubts  were  entertained  before  the  resolutions  which 
he  cites,  and  we  see  no  room  to  doubt  that  medi»ral 
prsctice  (in  Scotland,  at  least)  allowed  the  title.  Cf. 
Acta  D'or.  AueCorum,  where  Isabel, "  Countess  of  Angus," 
appears  with  Robert  Douglas  of  Loohleven,  her  hosbaod, 
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J.  I.  D.  {ante,  p.  835).~The  word  is  so  q>elt  by  the 
authority  quoted. 

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CONTENTS. —N*  125. 
270TES :— GbarbslLMBiib,  881— Letlan  of  SamiMl  Johnson  to 
Dr.  Taylor,  882— Dean  Swift'i  Unirertity  Dagne.  888- 
'*  Don't  llunr "— "  DUry  of  •  VUlt  to  BngUnd  in  1775  "— 
«*  Seofogft  **- "  LOYO  '* :  "  Oharity,"  884-OMt8  of  tlie  Fmm 
of  Historical  Personages  Onrlons  Inn  Sign- Voting  Tickets 
—Henry  IIL's  Blephant,  SSe-ReprleTe  from  Death  in  oon- 
seqnenoe  of  Bain— Milton's  Grand-nephew— Baetia  JTOUb-lors 
— Chnzch  DisdpUne,  880. 

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John  EB0hard—'*Piizcha8e  "-Joseph  IL  and  Beethoven, 
887— ''Ireland*  and  " Scotland **  in  WUtaUie—*' Black 
Bartholomeir'*— "leronymo"  in  the  "Newcastle  Maga- 
sine"— Opsls— Bleohenden  Family— Dr.  Bockenham— 
'*  Delia  Nobitta  et  Bccellensa  delle  Donne  *— Greyille  and 
Patten  Familles-^nthors  Wanted.  88& 

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Newfangled  Expressions- The  Abolition  of  the  Honse  of 
Loids-PlnraUty  of  WorMs,  892-Silhonattes,  89a-**  TUon  ' 
—Yard  of  Beei^Parsons's  M&  Collections— <*  BeUlc,"  894— 
"Be-"— Bibliography  of  Thomson's  "Seasons"— Motto  for 
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Houses  with  Secret  Chambers,  397-HeraIdic— W.  Tywoaom 
— "Anld  Bobin  Gray"— St.  Lnke  xziil.  16— Wesley  and 
:affoore-AuthorB  Wanted,  898. 

I70TXS  ON  BOOKS  :-Christle*s  "SUenne  Dolet  *— Fltx- 
seraM's  "  Becreations  of  a  Literary  Man  "—Burke's  "  Bemi- 
niscences,  Ancestral,*  Ac-Marshall's  "  Genealogist*"  Ac 

Notices  to  Correspondents,  Ac 


CHARLBS  LAMB:  SUPPLEMENTARY 
REMINISCENCES.* 
The  Bbv.  J.  Fdller  Russbll's  ffraphic  account 
<A  his  interviews  with  Charles  Lamb  (anU^  p.  241) 
has  recalled  vividly  to  my  memory  the  friend  of 
my  youth.  My  own  hist  visit  to  him  was  also 
paid  in  that  little  shady  parlour  of  his  Edmonton 
house,  so  near  his  last  resting-place.  A  gloomy 
house  it  always  seemed  to  me.  Perhaps  the 
shadow  of  what  was  to  come  brooded  over  it. 

LamVs  trick  of  jumping  up  and  slapping  his 
sister  on  the  shoulder  in  moments  of  hilarity  was 
■  a  frequent  and  &miliar  outbreak.    Mr.  Fuller 
BussBLL,  however,  does  not  seem  to  have  heard  the 
triplet,  half  jocular,  half  grotesque,  which  Ella 
was  wont  to  shout  on  such  occasions: — 
"I  had  a  sister- 
The  devil  kist  her, 
And  raised  a  blister!" 

It  was  his  pretence  to  be  proud  of  this  triplet,  as 
of  a  rhyming  difficulty  vanquished. 

The  snuff-box  I  see  before  me  as  I  write.  Also, 
two  dear  and  snuffy  noses.  Poor  Bridget 
Ella !   she  must  have  missed  those  affectionate 


•  See  "N.&  Q.''  ^  S.  x,2:«l;  4Aa  v.  627. 


slappincs,  with  much  beside,  in  the  solitaiy  years 
that  followed. 

The  Lambs'  antipathy  to  Byron  requires  no 
evidence — scarcely  a  mention.  The  Byronio 
Giaours  and  Laras  could  have  nothbg  in  common 
with  their  Elizabethan  minds.  Indeed,  I  am  dis- 
posed to  go  further  than  Mr.  Fuller  Bussbll,  and 
maintain  that  Lamb  had  no  affinity  with  any 
modems  whatsoever—not  even  with  Wordsworth, 
whom  he  conscientiously  believed  he  admired.  If 
we  seek  for  a  link  of  connexion  between 
the  genius  of  Wordsworth  and  his  own,  we  are 
baffl^L  utterly.  Wordsworth  has  been  styled  a 
high  priest  of  Nature,  but  in  that  priesthood  Lamb 
hiMl  no  individual  faith,  and  felt  no  concern.  He 
found  Wordsworth's  mountains  dull  company  when 
he  had  made  their  personal  acquiuntance.  Skid- 
daw  bored  him.  Coniston  was  a  thorn  in  his  flesh. 
He  held  the  roar  of  Cfaeapside  to  be  grander  than 
ahy  gathering  of  peaks  and  passes.  Between 
him  and  the  outer  nature  there  was  a  great 
gulf  fixed,  which  it  was  not  given  him  to 
traverse.  Many  a  boyish  tramp  have  I  had  with 
him  along  the  Enfield  lanes  and  over  the ''  Chaoe  ** 
uplands.  His  discourse  was  ever  of  books  and 
men— rich,  racy  discourse— but  never  of  woods 
and  fields.  The  daffodil— Wordsworth's  daffodil 
— foiled  to  arrest  him.  The  nightingale's  song 
appealed  to  a  deaf  ear.  The  sense  of  natunS 
beauty  was  wanting  in  him.  Amongst  his  visitors, 
indeed,  were  some  of  another  strain.  Miss  Kelly, 
the  actress,  for  instance,  to  whom  I  have  alluded 
already  in  these  columns.  Miss  Eelly,  with  the 
heart  of  a  child,  had  all  a  child's  delight  in  wild 
flowers.  She  had  also  a  passion  for  little  frogs.  I 
was  Miss  Kelly's  frog-catcher.  When  my  scanty 
honours  are  counted,  let  not  this  one  be  over- 
looked. To  have  been  Miss  Kelly's  frog-catcher 
and  Bridget  Ella's  carpenter— that  is  something, 
surely ! 

Then  there  was  Sheridan  Knowles,  who,  return- 
ing from  his  tramps,  laden  with  spoil,  was  greeted 
as  "Jack  in  the  Green";  and  there  were  men,  un- 
known to  fame — modest,  silent  men — two  or 
three— who  thought  the  Enfield  air  sweeter  than 
Chea^ide,  and  whom  I  fed  on  blackberries,  not 
UDsatisfyingly.  But  Lamb  would  have  gleaned  no 
honey,  even  from  bees  of  Hymettus^  if  tiiey  had 
not  hived  in  books. 

I  believe  that,  wherever  he  might  be  in  the  flesh, 
his  life  was  always  in  London — London  possessed 
him  wholly.  I  believe  that  through  the  ripple  of 
country  leaves  and  the  green  reaches  of  down 
and  meadow  he  had  constant  knowledge  of  the 
thronged  thoroughfares,  heard  always  an  echo  of 
the  hum  and  hubbub  of  the  busy  streets.  The 
beating  of  that  great  heart  of  London  was  as  the 
beating  of  his  own.  It  may  be  a  profuiity,  but 
one  would  wish  him  to  hear  it  stilL 

Mr.  Fuller  Russell  speaks  of  a  oopy  of  Beau- 


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mont  and  Fletcher  from  which  Lamb  read  aloud  to 
him.  This  moat  have  been  the  copy  he  has  rendered 
eternally  fkmooi  by  his  pathetic  essay  on  "  Old 
Ohina.**  I  have  one  of  the  same  edition^  bat, 
alas  !  not  that  one.  I  have  been  told  that  his 
books  were  sold  to  the  Yankees.  Oh,  pity  !  Oh, 
shame !  They  should  have  been  held  in  hononr 
and  charge  by  some  Londoner  who  was  a  London- 
lover— a  haunter  of  the  old  streets  and  of  the  old 
book-staUs.  There  are  some  libraries  the  dis- 
persion of  which  we  feel  as  a  positive  pain,  abnoet 
a  disgrace— and  Lamb's  was  of  them.  His  books 
were  his  hoosehold  gods,  and  he  has  himself  told 
us  that  his  honsehoUl  gods  kept  "  a  terrible  fixed 
foot"  Must  he  not  Mve  shuddered  at  that  cruel 
disruption  ?— he,  a  thin  ghost,  on  the  other  side 
Stvz,  pacing,  with  hungry  heart,  those  Elysian 
fields,  where  there  are  no  book-staUs. 

Few  and  scanty  now  are  the  men  who  can  say, 
with  Mr.  Fullbr  Bussxll  and  myself,  that  they 
have  looked  Lamb  in  the  face,  been  honoured  with 
his  converse,  felt  the  pressure  of  his  hand.  Few 
and  scanty  indeed!  JBnt'let  us  not  repine.  I 
have  just  fancied  him  (nngratefhUy,  perhaps) 
pacing  Elysium  with  a  heart  hungering  for  lost 
delights.  Let  us  rather  picture  him  surrounded 
anew  by  his  "  old  familiar  faces  "—by  the  Oole- 
ridges,  Mannings,  and  Martin  Bumeys  of  his 
prime;  and  beyond  these  by  a  swarm  of  grand 
and  gracious  presences — the  Gamaliels  at  whose 
feet  he  sat.  the  gods  and  demi-gods  of  the 
Elizabethan  hierarchy. 

Am  I  garrulous?  Nay,  but  I  claim  to  be 
garrulous.  This  may  be  the  last  time  I  shall  speak 
of  my  old  friend  till  I  am  myself  beyond  Styx, 
and  a  thinner  ghost  than  he.  And  I  have  some- 
thing to  say  in  conclusion.  Of  all  the  harsh,  cruel- 
hearted  blows  struck  by  Oailyle  at  his  contem- 
poraries, the  most  gratuitously  cruel  was  that 
launched  by  him  against  Lamb  and  his  sister. 
It  IB  true  he  only  struck  at  them;  he  did 
not  reach  them.  All  the  loving  true-heartedness 
of  England  shielded  and  interposed.  And  now, 
how  does  the  case  stand  ?  Of  Lamb  it  may  be 
averred  that  never  sweeter  soul  bequeathed  its 
savour  to  the  life  of  all  time — but  of  Carly  le^  what  ? 

T.  Wbstwood. 

Bronels. 


LETTEBS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 

DR.  TATLOB. 

{Continued  from,  p.  848.) 

DiAB  Sib,— The  altentions  whioh  yon  made  in  the 
letter,  though  I  eaonot  think  they  much  mended  ii»  vet 
did  no  harm,  and  perhaps  the  letter  may  have  theefleot 
of  reducing  the  Lady  and  her  fUends  to  terms  truly 
moderate  and  reasonable  by  shewi^  what  alight  aceonnt 
jon  make  of  menaces  and  terror.  Ino  more  dedre  than 
you  to  bring  the  cause  before  the  Courts,  and  if  they 
who  are  on  the  Lady's  side  can  prove  nothing,  they  hare 
in  reality  no  such  dlesign.    It  is  not  likely  that  eren  if 


they  had  proof  of  Inoontinency  they  would  dedre  to- 
prodnoe  it,  or  make  any  other  use  of  it,  than  to  terrify 
yon  into  their  own  Conditions. 

Of  the  letter  which  yon  sent  me  I  osn  form  do  judges 
m«nt  till  yon  let  me  know  how  it  eame  into  voor  bsMa, 
If  the  serrant  who  receifed  it  produced  it  voluntarily,  I 
suspect  that  it  was  written  on  purpose  to  be  shewn  you^ 
if  yon  discovered  it  by  accident,  it  may  be  suppoeed  to  be 
written  that  it  might  be  shewn  to  others.  I  do  not  see 
that  it  deserves  or  requires  any  notice  on  either  sopposi- 
tioa. 

Tea  suspect  your  hoosekeeper  at  Adiboora  oT 
treachery,  and  I  doubt  not  that  the  Lady  has  her  lower 
friends  and  spies  behind  her.  But  let  your  servant  be 
treacherous  as  you  suppose.  It  is  your  oim  fiudt  if  she 
has  any  thing  to  betray.  Do  your  own  business,  and 
keep  your  own  secrets,  and  yon  may  bid  defianoe  to 
servants  and  to  treachery. 

Tour  condnot  with  regard  to  Hannah,  has,  I  think;, 
been  exactly  right;  it  will  be  fit  to  keep  her  in  sight  for 
some  months,  and  let  her  have  directions  to  shew  hersdf 
as  much  as  she  can. 

Your  ill  health  proceeds  immediatelv  from  the  pertor- 
batten  of  your  mind.  Any  incident  that  makes  a  man. 
the  tolk  and  spectacle  of  the  world  without  any  addition 
to  his  honour  is  naturally  vexatious,  but  talk  and  look» 
are  all  the  evils  which  this  domesttek  revolution  haa 
brought  upon  you.  I  knew  that  you  and  your  wife  Itve^ 
unquietly  together,  I  find  that  provocations  were  greater 
than  I  had  known,  and  do  not  see  what  you  have  to  re-^ 
gret  but  that  you  did  not  separato  in  a  very  short  tuna 
alter  you  were  united,  xou  know,  however,  tiiat  I 
was  always  cautious  when  I  touched  on  vour  dilTereDcee^ 
that  I  never  advised  extremities,  and  that  I  oommoidy 
softened  rather  than  instigated  resentment  What  passes 
in  private  can  be  knoim  only  to  those  between  whom  it 
passes,  and  they  who  [are]  ignorant  of  the  cause  and' 
progress  of  connubial  dilTerences,  as  all  must  be  but  th*^ 
parties  themselves,  cannot  without  rashness  give  any 
counsel  concerning  them.  Your  determination  against 
cohabitetion  with  the  Lady  I  shall  therefore  pass  over, 
with  only  this  hint,  that  you  must  keep  it  to  yourself;: 
for  as  by  elopement  she  makes  herself  liable  to  the  chazge 


of  violating  the  marriage  contract,  it  will  be  prudent  to 
keep  her  in  the  criminal  state,  by  leaving  her  in  appear- 
ance a  poesibillty  of  return,  which  preserves  your  supe- 


riority m  the  contest,  without  taking  from  you  the  power 
of  limiting  her  future  authority,  imd  prsscribhig  your 
own  conditions. 

I  cannot  but  think  that  by  short  joumeyi^  and  variety 
of  scenes,  vou  may  dissipate  vour  vexation,  and  restorw 
your  health,  which  vrill  certainly  be  impaired  by  lirin^ 
where  every  thing  seen  or  heard  impresses  your  mis-- 
fortunes  on  your  mind.       I  am,  Dear  Sir, 

your  meet  &c  &e. 

Sept  29,  ires.  Sax.  Johsbok. 

To  the  Rev«  I^  Taylw  fai  Ashboum,  Derbyshire. 

Dbab  Snt,— I  congratulate  you  upon  the  hanpy  end 
of  so  vexatious  an  affair,  the  happyset  thatcould  be  next 
to  Beformation  and  Reooocilemeot  You  see  how  eauly 
seeming  difficulties  are  surmounted. 

That  your  mind  should  be  harried,  and  your  nirite 
weakened,  it  is  no  wonder;  your  whole  care  now  should 
be  to  settle  and  repair  them.  To  this  end  I  would  have  • 
you  make  use  of  all  diversions,  sporte  of  the  field  abroad^ 
miprovementof  your  estete  or  little  echemes  of  build, 
ing,  and  pleasing  books  at  home ;  or  if  you  cannot  com- 
pose yourself  to  read,  a  continual  succession  of  easy 
company.  Be  sure  never  to  be  unemployed,  go  not  to- 
bed  till  you  sleep,  and  rise  as  soon  as  you  wake,  and  give 
up  no  hours  to  musing  and  retrospect    Be  always  busy^ 


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Ton  will  hftfdly  be  qaite  at  rest  till  tou  have  talked 
jwawtM  out  to  some  mend  or  other,  and  I  think  joa  and 
I  might  contriTe  10106  retreat  for  part  of  the  faminer 
where  we  might  ipend  aome  time  quietly  together,  the 
world  knowing  notliing  of  the  matter. 

I  hear  yen  talk  of  letting  your  house  at  Westminster. 
Why  ahonld,  yoa  let  it  ?  Do  not  shew  yourself  either  in- 
timidated or  ashamed,  bat  come  and  face  mankind  like 
«ne  that  expeets  not  censure  bat  praise.  Yoa  will  now 
find  that  yoa  haTe  monoT  enoagh.  Gome  and  spend  a 
little  opon  popular  hospitality.  Tour  low  spirits  have 
giTon  yoa  bad  ooonsel :  you  shall  not  giye  your  wife,  nor 
your  wlfe*s  frisnds.  whose  power  you  now  find  to  be 
nothing,  the  triumph  of  drivmg  you  out  of  life.  If  tou 
betray  yourself  who  can  support  youl  All  this  I  shall 
be  glad  to  dilate  with  you  ina  penonalinterriew  at  some 
proper  place,  where  we  may  enjoy  a  few  days  in  priyate. 
I  am.  Dew  Sr, 

Tours  affectionately. 

May  22«,  1764.  Sam.  Johvsov. 

To  the  Bererend  D*  Tsylor  in  Ashboum,  Derbyshire. 

DbaxSib,— It  is  so  long  since  I  heard  ttom  yoa  that 
I  know  not  well  whither  to  write.  With  all  your  build- 
ing and  feastinff  you  might  haye  found  an  hour  in  some 
wet  day  for  the  remembrance  of  your  old  friend.  I 
•hould  haye  thought  that  since  you  haye  led  a  life  so 
festiye  and  gay  you  would  haye  [inyited*  J  me  to  partake 
of  ]^ur  hospitaUty.  I  do  not  [know]  but  I  may  come, 
inyited  or  uninyited,  and  pass  a  few  days  with  you  in 
Auffust  or  September,  unless  you  send  me  a  prohibition, 
•or  let  me  know  that  I  shall  be  insupportably  burthen- 
some.  Let  me  know  your  thoughts  on  this  matter,  be- 
cause I  design  to  go  to  some  place  or  other  and  would  be 
[loath]  to  prodooe  any  inoonvenienee  for  my  own  grati- 
fication. 

Let  me  know  how  you  go  on  in  the  world,  and  what 
entertainment  may  be  expected  in  your  new  room  by, 
Dear  Sir, 
Tour  most  affsctionate  Servant, 

Temple,  July  15, 176&  Sam.  JoHmoir. 

To  the  Beyerend  D'  Taylor  In  Ashboum,  Derbyshire. 

Dbab  Sib.— I  am  sorry  to  find  both  from  your  own  letter 
and  from  Mr.  Lungley  that  your  health  is  in  a  state  so 
diiferent  from  what  might  be  wished.  The  Langleys  im- 
pute a  great  part  of  your  complaints  to  a  mind  unsettled 
and  discontented.  1  know  that  you  hare  disorders, 
though  I  hope  not  yeiy  formidable,  independent  of  the 
min{  and  that  your  oompUdnts  do  not  arise  from  the 
mere  habit  of  complaining.  Yet  there  is  no  distemper, 
-not  in  the  highest  asgree  acute,  on  which  the  mind  nas 
not  some  influence,  and  which  is  not  better  resisted  by  a 
•oheerful  than  a  gloomy  temper.  I  would  haye  you  read 
when  yoa  can  force  your  attention,  but  that  perhaps 
will  be  not  so  oflenas  Is  necessary  to  encrease  the  gensral 
«heerfdnes8  of  Life.  If  you  could  get  a  little  apparatus 
for  chimistry  or  experimental  philosophy  it  would  offer 
70U  some  dlyerslon,  or  If  yoa  made  some  little  porehase 
At  a  small  distance,  or  took  some  petty  farm  mto  your 
•own  bands,  it  would  break  your  tnoughts  when  they 
1>ecome  tyimnnous  and  troublesoms^  and  supply  yon  at 
once  with  exercise  and  amusement. 

You  tell  me  nothing  of  Kedlestone,  which  you  went 
down  with  a  design  of  yisiting,  nor  of  Dr.  Buder,  who 
'Seems  to  be  a  yery  rational  man,  and  who  told  you  with 
great  honesty  that  your  cure  must  in  the  grsatest 
sneasnre  dqiend  upon  yoursslf. 

Your  uneasiness  at  the  misfortunss  of  your  Relations, 
I  comprehend  perhaps  too  well    It  was  an  irresistible 


obtrusion  of  a  disagreeable  image,  which  you  always 
wished  away  but  could  not  dismiss,  an  incessant  persecu- 
tion of  a  troublesome  thought  neither  to  be  pacified  nor 
ejected.  Such  has  of  late  been  the  state  of  my  own  mind. 
I  had  formerly  great  oommand  of  my  attention,  and 
what  I  did  not  like  could  forbear  to  think  on.  But  of 
this  power,  which  is  of  the  highest  importance  to  the 
tranquillity  of  life,  I  haye  been  so*  much  exhausted,  that 
I  do  not  go  into  a  company  towards  night,  in  which  I 
foresse  any  thing  disagreeable,  nor  enquire  after  any  thing 
to  which  I  am  not  indifl^Brent,  lest  something,  which  I 
know  to  be  nothing,  should  fasten  upon  my  imagination, 
and  hinder  me  from  sleep.  Thus  it  is  that  the  progress 
of  life  brings  often  with  it  diseases,  not  of  the  body  only, 
but  of  the  mhid.  We  must  endeayour  to  curs  both  the 
one  and  the  other.  Incur  bodies  we  must  ourseWes  do 
a  great  part,  and  for  the  mind  it  is  yery  seldoni  that  any 
help  can  be  had,  but  what  prayer  and  reason  shall 

I  haye  got  mj  work  so  far  forward  that  I  flatter  my- 
self with  concluding  it  this  month,  and  then  shall  do 
nothing  so  willingly  as  come  down  to  Ashbourne.    We 
will  tty  to  make  October  a  pleasant  month. 
I  am.  Sir, 

Yours  affectionatoly, 
August  81, 1772.  Sam.  Johssoh. 

I  wish  we  could  borrow  of  Dr.  Bentley  the  Preces  in 
usum  Darum. 
The  Key'  D'  Taylor  in  Ashboum,  Deri)ys. 
Ftranked  C*Free  **)  by  Thrale. 

John  E.  B.  Matob. 
Gambridgs.      

DxAX  Swift's  Uniykrbity  Dborbb.— Eyery- 
thing  relating  to  Swift,  the  '^EDglish  Sabelais,'' 
niiist  be  of  general  interest.  On  ^  38S  of  the 
current  namt^r  of  the  Quarterly  Bemtw^  I  read: — 

*' Swift  presented  himself  for  examination  [at  Dublin 
Uniyerslty]  and  failed;  the  Examining  Board,  pro- 
nouncing mm  to  be  dull  and  insufficient,  refussd  at  first 
to  pass  liim.  Finally,  howeyer,  they  granted  him  a 
degree  ipeeUUi  gratia,  a  term  implying  in  that  uniyerslty 
that  a  candidate  has  gained  by  mytmr  what  he  Is  not 
entitled  to  daim  by  merit." 

Bat  see,  per  conircLj  an  interesting  note  in  an  able 
▼olame  of  Sermani  hj  Dr.  Salmon,  Braias  Pro- 
feeaor  of  Diyinity,  Tnnity  GoUege,  DaUin,  pub- 
lished last  year,  p.  224  :— 

"  In  Dublin  an  examination  has  always  been  held  at 
the  beginning  of  each  term  in  the  subjects  lectured  upon 
in  the  precMMinff  term,  and  a  term  did  not  count  towards 
a  canudate's  degree  until  he  had  attended  the  corre- 
sponding examination.  Mr.  Forster  has  reooyered  the 
records  of  one  of  the  examinations  of  Swift's  last  college 
year.  He  obtained  best  marks  in  his  Greek  and  Latin 
authors,  was  pronounced  to  haye  written  his  theme  care- 
lessly, and,  in  what  then  went  by  the  name  of  '  physics,' 
to  haye  failed  altogether.  This  discriminating  judgment 
commends  Itself  to  us  as  yery  likely  to  haye  been  a  just 
one.  On  these  marks  he  could  not  haye  passed  the 
ezaminatfoo,  and,  therefore,  when  the  time  came  for 


A  i^eoe  torn  off. 


graduation  of  his  class,  he  probably  bad  eredit  only  for 
baring  passsd  eleysn  examinations  instead  of  ' 
which   I   belieye  to  haye  been  the  proper 


Bigofoos  justice,  then,  woold  haye  dsgraded  him  to  a 
lower  chMS  and  postponed  his  graduation  for  a  ysar. 
Actoally  he  was  allowed  to  take  the  degree;  bat  the 


*  MS.  some. 


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'  grace '  for  the  degree  oonld  not  be  mxpplioftted  for  in  the 
regular  form,  Vi  duodecm  Urmmi  d  mtUrieulatioHi  in 
ariium  studio,  ke.,  end  it  wms  neceaHurr,  therefore,  that 
a  tpwial  grace  ahonld  be  obtaised.  The  entrj  nHCiali 
gratia  diaappeara  from  the  Begiatry  ahortlj  after  swifl'a 
time,  and,  aa  I  imagine,  in  conaequence  of  the  adoption 
of  a  plan  by  which  the  oaae  of  men  deficient  bv  a  aingle 
examination  was  afterwardi  met,  viz.  the  holdiDg  of  a 
aupplemental  examination,  at  which  they  were  gjven 
another  opportunity  of  maintaininp;  their  petition.  The 
evidence,  then,  would  lead  ua  to  think  of  Swift  not  aa  an 
idle  undeivraduate,  but  as  one  oonfining  hia  atndiea  to 
■nbjecta  which  intereated  himaelf,  neglecting  eome  parte 
of  the  preaciibed  ciirr»ei(/«tsi.  Hia  shortcommga  were  not 
Tory  great,  and  were  treated  with  erery  indulgenoe;  and 
no  doubt  if  he  had  been  an  idle  man  it  would  not  have 
hurt  hia  pride  lo  much,  aa  it  would  aeem  it  did,  that  any 
indulgence  should  have  been  neoeanry.  He  always  re- 
tained a  strong  friendahip  for  hia  college  tutor." 

J*  MaBKXUm 
Emanuel  Hospital,  S.W. 

"  Dollar  MABBT,"  AXt  Old  Joculab  Wakking. 
— In  a  quaint  Tolnme  entitled  The  LadM  CaUing^ 
mentioned  as  *'  By  the  Aatbor  of  The  Whole  Duty 
of  Man,  the  fifth  imprasBion,  at  the  Theatie  in 
Oxford,  1677^"  wherein  advice  ia  offered  to  virgins, 
wives,  and  widows,  it  is  urged  upon  widows  to  be 
yery  careful  as  to  manying  a  second  time.  The 
authoress  remarks : — 

'*  Marriage  is  so  great  an  adventure,  that  once  seems 
enough  for  the  whole  life,  for  whether  th^  have  bin 
prosperous  or  adverse  in  the  first,  it  do's  almost  dis- 
courage a  second  attempt.  Two  good  huabanda  will 
acarce  fiill  to  one  woman's  share.  Mid  one  will  become 
more  intolerable  to  her  by  the  reflections  she  will  be  apt 
to  make  on  the  better.  On  the  other  side,  if  she  have 
had  a  bad,  the  smart  sore  cannot  but  remain  after  the 
rod  is  taken  off;  the  memoiy  of  what  ahe  haa  suffered 
should,  methiuKS,  be  a  competent  cantion  against  new 
adventures.** 

She  farther  obserres  :— 

"In  respect  of  time,  common  decency  requires  that 
there  be  a  ooadderable  interral  between  the  parting  with 
one  husband  and  the  chusing  another.  This  haa  bin  ao 
much  observed  by  Nations  that  were  at  all  civilised,  that 
we  find  N  uma  made  it  a  Law  that  no  widow  ahould  many 
under  ten  months ;  and  if  anv  one  did  she  was  to  sacrifice 
as  for  the  expiation  of  a  cnme.  And  this  continued  in 
force  many  ages  after." 

In  denouncing  ^  any  great  disproportion  "  in  the 
age  of  persons  about  to  marry,  it  is  said  : — 


'  When  a  young  woman  marries  an  old  man,  there  are 
eommonly  jealousies  on  the  one  part  and  loathings  on  the 
other,  and  if  there  be  not  an  eminent  degree  of  discretion 


in  one  or  both,  there  will  be  perpetual  diaagreementa. 
But  this  iaacase  that  do*a  not  often  happen  among  those 
I  now  speak  to ;  for  tho  the  avarice  of  parents  sometimes 
forces  maida  upon  such  matches,  yet  widows  who  are 
their  own  chnsers  seldom  make  such  eleetioQa.  The  in* 
equality  amoDg  them  eommonly  falls  on  the  other  side, 
and  old  women  marry  young  men.  Indeed  any  marriage 
ia  in  auch  a  folly  and  dotage.  They  who  mnat  suddenly 
make  their  beds  in  the  dust,  what  should  they  think  of  a 
nuptial  couch?  And  to  such  the  answer  of  the  philo- 
sopher ia  apposite,  who  being  demanded  what  was  the 
fittest  time  for  Marrying,  relied  for  the  young  not  yet, 
for  the  old  not  at  alL* 


May  I  ask  who  was  the  philosopher  here  men* 
tioned,  who  may  have  giTen  Puneli  the  hint  to 
answer  the  common  advertisement  of  ^  To  persons 
about  to  marry  "  with  "  Don't "  ? 

Edwin  Lies,  F.L.S. 

Worocstsr. 

"DiAET  OF  A  Visit  ToEvoijaffD  nr  1775."— 
The  following  may  be  deemed  curious  in  con* 
nexion  with  The  Diary  of  an  Iruih  (hniteman^ 
1761,  mentioned  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  (S^  S.  ir.  308, 
473;  ▼.39:— 

''Diary  of  a  Visit  to  England  in  1775.  By  an  Irish- 
man [the  Eev.  Dr.  Thomaa  Campbell,  author  of  Ji 
JPhiioiphical  aurpty  of  OuSomAcf  Ireland},  And  other 
papera  by  the  same  hand.  With  notea  by  Samuel 
Raymond,  H.A.,  Prothonotary  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  New  South  Walea.  Sydney,  Waugh  k  Coz,  book- 
aellers  and  publiahen^  111,  George  Street^  1854.** 

The  MS.  was  disoorered  by  Mr.  David  Bmoe 
Hatchinson,  the  first  clerk,  behind  an  '*  old  press,*^ 
which  had  not  been  moved  fw  years,  in  one  of 
the  offices  of  the  Supreme  Oonrt  of  New  Soath 
Wales,  and  was  sabeeqnently  printed  by  Mr. 
Raymond*  J.  McO.  B. 

"Elbofuga.*'— This  word  ocean  in  the  follow- 
ing passage  of  the  PhiUbihlion  of  Richard  de  Bniy^ 
Bishop  of  Dorham,  A.D.  1332-46.  I  quote  ficom 
the  edition  of  Oooheris,  Paris,  1856:— 

"Quot  Buelidis  diseipulos  rqeeit  Steofuaa  quasi  seo^ 
pulus  eminens  et  abruptus,  qui  nullo  scholfurium  (or 
scalarum)  suffragio  scanoi  posset  *  Dnrus  est,'  inmiiunt, 
'bio  sermo  et  quis  potest  eum  andire.'  Fllius  laoon- 
stantisB,  qui  tandem  in  atinMm  transfonnari  volebat^ 
philosophiso  nullatenus  foraitan  studium  dimisisset,  si 
eidem  oontecta  voluptatis  velamine  £uniliariter  ooour* 
risset.*'-Ap.  ziiL  p.  257. 

What  is  this  ''Eleofoga"  of  Euclid,  making  the 
hapless  scholar  wish  that  he  could  be  changed  into 
an  OM  f  Can  it  be  the  ^  pons  asinomm"  ?  I  see 
that  Pbof.  Skkat,  in  a  reply  to  a  ouery  about  a 
difficult  line  in  the  TroyUu  and  Orytiyde,  884, 
^  Dolcanion  called  is  *  flemynge  of  wriches,' '  says, 
"The  fifth  proposition,  now  called  the  'asses' 
bridge,'  was  once  called  '  the  putting  to  flight  of 
the  nuserable/  or,  as  Chaucer  cafia  it,  'the 
flemynge  of  wriches,''  which  has  the  same  sense" 
(see  6^  &  ziL  454). 

And  no  doubt  De  Bur/s  ''Eleofttga"  has  the 
same  sense,  being  Greek,  and  compounded  of 
rjK^s^  astny,  distraught,  +  ^171^,  flight  What  I 
wish  to  know  is  whewer  there  is  any  passage  in 
which  the  ''pons  asinomm*  is  distinctly  allied 
"Eleofnga."  A.  L.  Matbbw. 

Oxford. 

"  LoYs":  "  Charitt."— Much  has  been  said  on 
the  substitution  of  "love"  for  "charity"  in  the 
Revision^  and  notably,  and  in  strong  terms  of 
censure,  by  the  Quarterly  reviewer  (pp.  48, 49). 
He  contends  that  "love"  is  not  an  equivalent 
term,  and  that  "'Lore'  has  come  to  connote manj 


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QBwortbT  notions  which  in  'obarity'  find  no  place 
atall."  I  am  not  disposed  to  declare  m^rsdf  entirely 
in  favoor  of  the  Bevision ;  &r  firom  it.  Bat  the 
learned  reyiewer  often  shows  himself  oyer  hasty  in 
his  aaMrtions,  and  Anions  at  the  red  m^  of  his 
own  perrerted  Tisbn.  Would  it  sorprise  him,  who 
speaks  as  if ''loTe'^were  an  intnision  into  1  Cor.  ziiL, 
to  leazn  that  more  than  tloee  hnndxed  yean  aoo 
Latimer,  that  master  of  quaint^  idiomatic  Engliui, 
piefera'' lore  "to  "charity  "in  that  chapter?  See 
his  thirty-second  sermon,  preached  Oct.  15,  1652, 
three  hundred  and  thirty  yean  ago,  when  '*  lore  " 
had  the  same  wide  range,  or  neany  so,  that  it  has 
BOW.  He  translates  ojKm  three  times  running 
**loTe"  and  explains  it  by  "charity."  "Lore" 
Is  the  word  pervading  the  sermon,  the  key-note 
and  the  arch  of  the  bnilding,  now  and  then,  bat 
rarely,  Taried  by  "charity";  and  he  appean  to  have 
Tendered  straight  from  the  Latin  of  the  Ynlgate, 
where  the  word  is  oarttoi.  Li  it  not  also  a  noto- 
rioos  fact  that  another  and  inferior  sense  of 
''charity"  is  often  present  to  the  minds  of  the  less 
thonghtfal  when  this  chapter  is  read,  and  that  this 
sense  at  least  is  expelled  b^  the  nse  of  "lore"? 
The  more  sensaal  signification  of  "love"  is  not 
nnfteqnent  in  Ohaacer— nay,  stands  for  Copid  in 
bis  writings— and  he  preceded  Latimer  by  two 
hundred  yean.  The  objections  to  "loye,"  there- 
fore seem  qaite  nnfonnded ;  hot  it  were  well  if  in 
the  Berision  the  other  and  Latinized  term  were 
made  to  alternate  ocoasionallY  with  it.  This 
is  what  Latimer  does,  and  wmild,  moreorer,  t«ul 
to  show  the  troe  import  of  the  Biblical "  charity." 
"  Love"  is,  indeed,  the  more  comprehensiTe  term 
of  the  twa  and  "  charity"  coold  not  be  sabstitated 
in  that  noble  saying,  "  God  is  lore." 

H.  F.  WOOLRTOH. 
Oare  Yioarage,  Faiertham. 

Casts  or  tbb  Facts  of  Historical  Psr- 
80NAQBS. — The  foUowing  appealed  in  an  Exeter 
paper  on  April  28  last  :— 

"  At  the  Annual  8h«kefp«are  Dinner  of  the  Uihan 
Club  OD  SAtnrday,  Mr.  Woohier,  R.A.,  rtferring  to  a  Tiait 
ho  had  mado  to  the  chnrch  of  Strmtfoxd-on-ATon,  stated 
that  he  was  Mtitfied  that  the  but  over  Shakeipeare's 
tomb  was  taken  by  a  mde  and  isnonat,  bvt  eonaoientioiUi 
sculptor  from  a  oast  after  deau." 

As  a  medical  man,  I  am  onable  to  agree  with  this 
high  authority.  The  sculptor  may  haye  had  a 
cast  befiffe  him,  and  may  hare  adopted  its  general 
IfaMs;  bat  the  fisa^  does  not  appear  to  bear  any 
of  the  charaderisfcio  marks  of  death.  I  beUere, 
from  caxefol  obsenratimi,  that  the  hiooB  of  the 
effigies  of  Edward  H  at  Qloaoester,  Henry  YIL  at 
Westminster,  and  of  Bichaid  Beanchamn^  Earl  of 
Wanrick,  at  St.  Marfn,  Warwick,  and  the  entire 
nude  figure  of  Qaeen  Cknde  at  St.  Denis  are 
laithftilly  taken  from  easts.  There  are  casts  firom 
the  dead  faces  of  Cromwell,  of  John  Hunter 
(CoU^  of  Sorgeons),  and  of  Isaac  Newton  (Boyal 


Society},  and  this  list  might  be  considenbly  added 
to.  I  hare  long  thought  that  a  series  of  these 
historical  casts  would  mid  largely  to  the  importance 
and  interest  of  our  National  rortrait  GaUery . 

CALcnTmrsis. 

Curious  Ivir  Siav.— A  waynde  inn  at  Marston 
Moretaine,  Bedfordshire,  has  a  sign  with  the  odd- 
looking  name  "The  Jumps."  The  tradition  in 
the  place  is  that  some  reckless  parishionen  were 
gambling  in  a  field,  opposite  to  where  the  inn  now 
stands,  on  a  Sunday  afternoon— a  huge  stone  now 
marks  the  exact  spot— when  the  de^  appeared, 
taking  a  tremendous  ^'hop,  step^  skip^  and  jump," 
to  tiie  infinite  terror  of  all  present.  Formerly 
large  stones  are  said  to  have  marked  each  impres- 
sion made  by  his  feet  on  the  turf^  one  of  which 
only  now  remains.  This  supnosed  interruption  of 
the  camblers  is  currently  believed  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood, and  the  legend^  no  doubt,  was  the  origin 
of  the  curious  sign  over  the  inn  door. 

Thomas  North,  F.S.A. 

LlanlUifechan. 

YoTiNo  TicKSTS. — It  IS  commouly  thought 
that  the  use  of  a  ticket  in  elections  containing  the 
names  of  candidates  proposed  by  one  party  is  of 
American  origin.  But  the  following  extract,  from 
John  Knox's  Hiilory  of  ih$  Beformation  of  12s- 
li^um  within  the  JReam  of  ScoUandf  Book  Y., 
proves  it  to  be  of  older  date: — 

"For  the  meeting  at  Dtimfries,  at  the  day  appointed 
for  electing  the  oflicers,  the  queen  lent  in  a  ticket  lach 
as  she  woold  have  them  to  ehnse  for  prorost^  baiUiee, 
and  ooimei] ;  whereof  there  was  a  nomher  of  papists,  the 
rest  not  worthy.  Of  the  nomher  giTon  in  hy  the  qneen, 
they  named  such  as  should  rale  for  that  year ;  notwith- 
standuig,  without  free  election,  the  laird  of  CraigmiUer 
remained  provost,  who  shewed  himself  most  willing  to 
set  foreward  religion,  to  ponlsh  viee,  and  to  maintain 
the  oommnn-wealth."— Quoted  from  edition  published  at 
Glasgow  1761.  ^    ,^^ 

B.  McKat. 

Qhivow. 

Hkhbt  IIL's  Elephant.— In  a  paragraph  in 
the  Times  of  March  14  there  is  an  account  of  the 
elephant  brought  to  England  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  III.,  ti&en  fhmi  ue  chronicles  of  John 
of  Oxenedes  and  others.  It  is  said  the  beast 
arrived  at  Sandwich  and  was  conveyed  to  the 
Tower.  Henry  UI.  was  expeeted  to  return  from 
Gascony  in  November,  1254.  On  the  87th  of 
that  month  the  barons  and  bailifib  of  Dover  and 
the  Cinque  Ports  were  commanded  to  send  ships 
to  "  Whitsaund"  to  meet  the  king  and  queen  on 
their  return  to  England,  but  the  king  did  not 
return  from  Cktscony  until  the  end  of  December. 
The  elephant  in  all  probability  accompanied  iU 
royal  owner  across  the  channel,  and  while  the 
king  landed  at  Dover  the  elephant  was  sent  to 
Whitsand,  as  appears  by  a  mandate  in  the  Close 
BoUs  bearing  date  January  7,  39  Henry  III, 


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A.D.  1255,  whereby  the  Sheriff  of  Kent  is  oom- 
numded^with  "  John  Goach,  toproYide  for  bring- 
inff  the  kins's  Hephant  from  Wnitaand  to  Dorer, 
and  if  poerible  to  London  by  water."  This  record, 
therefore,  proree  that  this  jmedeoessor  of  **  Jumbo  " 
arrived  at  Whitsand,  and  not  at  Sandwich  as 
stated  by  the  chroniclers.  Jaxib  Horskt. 

Qiian,I.W. 

Rkprisvs  ntoic  Death  ik  GoKsvQXTsxrcK  of 
Radt.  —  The  foUowing  carious  ^  Qoyemment 
Orders  **  were  issued  in  the  early  days  of  New 
South  Wales  :— 

"OoTsmmeDt  Home,  Sydney,  April  14,  1801.— The 
re|riment  to  be  ander  ums  on  Monday  next»  the  19th  inity 
at  naif  peet  nine  in  the  moralBg,  to  attend  the  exeoation 
of  John  Boatswain,  private  aoldier  in  the  New  South 
Wales  Corpe,  sentenced  to  die  by  Court  Martael  for  deeer- 
tion." 

"  April  19,  I801.--Baininff  in  torrents.  The  exeeation 
of  the  prisoner,  as  directed  by  the  orders  of  the  14th  inet., 
on  aoeonnt  of  the  indemenoy  of  the  weather  is  deferred 
until  to-morrow,  20th  inst*' 

"  April  20.-^tiU  raining  in  torrento.  Execution  still 
further  deferred." 

"  ApiiL  25.— Fayorable  eireumstanoes  having  been  re- 
ported, the  Qoyemor  of  the  Settlement  is  pleased  to 
extend  a  reprieve  and  grant  a  free  pardon  to  the 
prisoner  John  Boatswain,  sentenced  to  death  for  the 
nnsoldierlike  crime  of  desertion;  but  the  Qoyemor 
trusts  that  the  awful  position  in  which  the  wretched 
man  was  placed  will  deter  others  from  following  his 
example.    God  save  the  King." 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  colonists,  with  all  their 
sufferings,  were  not  without  a  sense  of  humour, 
and  that  they  fully  realized  the  effect  of  this  grim 
joke.  J.  HaiririKBR  Hbaton. 

Death  of  Milton's  Grand-kspbew.— The 
following  extract  from  Blaekwood^i  Edinburgh 
Magamn^  yoL  xzL  p.  776,  recording  the  decease 
of  a  grana-nephew  of  the  poet  Milton,  may  be  of 
interest  to  some  readers  of  "^  N.  &  Q.**:— 

**  March  27,  1827.  At  Jftc]  London,  Mr.  Thomas 
Milton,  aged  84  years.  His  gnndfather  was  brother 
to  John  Milton,  author  of  Paradm  LotL  " 

Charles  J.  Davies. 

Beetle  Fole-loeb.— The  following  is  from  the 
Standofd  of  May  10 :— ''The  beetle  which  we  in 
England  call  a  'dock'  is  in  Ireland  generaUy 
addressed  with  the  contemptuous  obserration, 
'Ugh!  told  the  time  to  Jndas/^  This  is  not, 
howeyer,  the  "dock"  beetle,  but  the  "deyil's 
coach-hoFM*  or  "cocktail,''  as  already  stated  in 
"N.  &  Q./>  4^  S.  X.  183;  xL  221;  6^  8.  L  216, 
and  elsewhera.  Jambs  Bbittsn. 

Uewortb. 

Church  Discipline.— A  natiye  of  Cheshire 
tells  me  that  one  of  the  most  yiyid  recollections 
of  her  childhood  is  the  infliction  of  penance  on 
one  of  her  neighbours.  My  informant  is  fifty-two 
years  of  ag^  and  says  that  she  was  about  ei^t  I 


or  ten  when  the  occunence  took  place.  Thib 
ofifender  was  made  to  walk  round  Malpas  Chninh 
wrapped  in  a  sheets  being  thus  punished  for  haying 
"  scandalized  *'  some  of  her  neighbours.  Was  not 
this  a  yery  unusual  occurrence  forty  yean  ago  ? 
I  forbear  to  giye  the  name  of  the  penitent,  as  she 
has  probably  still  relations  on  the  spot 

JoHir  Hahertoit  Crump. 


We  most  reqnest  eorreependents  desiring  infomalioB 
on  fiunlly  matters  of  only  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  qveriee,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


Batlt=:B[all.  — It  is  stated  in  Btydges's 
CottitUj  yoL  y.  p.  196,  and  in  Edmondson's  JESeto- 
Mo^t^m,  yi.  23*,  that  Lewis  Bailie  or  Bayly,  Bishop 
of  Bangor,  who  died  in  1631,  had  a  son  and  hdr 
Nicholas,  Qoyemor  of  Galway,  who  married  Ann, 

daughter  and  heir  of HalL    He  had  issue 

Edward  Bayly,  created  a  baronet  of  Ireland^ 
July  4,  1730,  whose  pnMnt  heir  male  is  the 
Marquis  of  Anglesey*  The  arms  quartered  by  the 
Marquis  of  Anglesey  as  representatiye  of  the  heir 

of Hall  axe  giyen  in  Bdmondson  as  **  three 

talbots*  heads  erased  between  nine  croes-crosslets." 
There  is  some  doubt  of  this  match.  Mr.  Foster, 
in  his  Peerflv<^  ^P>  o^^  ^^  generation,  appa- 
rently not  haying  been  able  to  substantiate  the 
statements  of  preyious  peerage  writeis ;  but  in  his 
Funmd  Cart^fieaiti  of  tAs  NMJUiig  and  G^siOry  of 
Irdamd^  p.  2^  pnblisiied  in  the  April  number  of 
his  (JdUkaiMa  Qmealogtoaf  he  giyes  the  funeral 
entry  of  Dame  Dorothy  Hall,  buried  in  St 
Mii^ael's^  Dublin,  March  6, 1713/4,  who  ai^>eai8 
to  haye  been  the  wife  of  Mr.  Bayly.  The 
arms  there  giyen  for  Hall  are,  '*  Ar.,  three  talbots* 
heads  erased  sable,  a  sem6e  of  cross-crosslets  az." 
This  is  eyidently  bad  blazon.  Mr.  Foster  should 
haye  written,  *'  Argent,  semde  of  cross-crosslets  a&, 
three  talbots*  heads  erased  sable."  He  has  no 
doubt  mistaken  mits,  the  correct  number,  for 
tenUe,  There  are  two  instances  of  this  coat  on 
record;  in  one  the  cross-crosslets  are  azure^  in  the 
other  ^es, 

Mr.Foster  follows  other  peerage  writers  in  stating 
that  Sir  Edward  Bayly,  first  baronet,  manied 
Dorothy,  daughter  and  coheir  of  the  Hon.  Oliyer 
Lambsit  I  mention  this  because  of  the  some- 
what uncommon  name  Dorothy.  Dorothy  Bayly 
(tUe  Hall)  died  in  1713/4,  and  is  called  Dame. 
whereas  Sir  Edward  was  not  created  baronet  till 
1730,  and  the  licence  for  his  marriage  with 
Dorothy  Lambert  is  dated  in  1708.  It  is  possible 
there  may  be  some  oonfcnbn  between  tbe  two 
Dorothys,  or  the  date  of  the  creation  may  be 
wrrag. 
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(?  Dorothy)  Hidl  ym,  and  paiticnkun  of  her  de- 
Bcent.  The  only  Hall  in  Ireumd,  so  far  as  I  know, 
entitled  to  bear  the  abore  coat  at  any  time  preTiona 
to  this  period  was  Antony  Hall  of  GarriddergaB. 
His  genealogy  is  well  known.  It  looka  rery  mnoh 
as  if  mother  and  danghter-in-law  had  been  con- 
founded by  onr  peerage  writen,         G.  W.  M« 

Sir  Nicholas  Malbts,  Eht.— Where  can  I 
find  an  account  of  Sir  Nicholas  Malbye,  who  was 
knighted  abont  1576  and  was  commiBsioner  of 
Oonnanfl^t?  He  married  Honora,  daughter  of 
TJlick,  Earl  of  danricarde,  and  had  Ursnhii 
married  Sir  Anthony  Brabazon.  brother  of  Lord 
Ardee.  I  find  that  Henry,  deaa  before  1618,  and 
Geoi|;ey  alive  in  that  year,  weie  apparently  heirs 
of  Sir  Nicholas ;  also  that  in  1604  Katharine, 
widow  of  Capt.  Heniy  Mall^,  had  granted  to  her 
the  wardship,  &a,  of  Henry  Malbv,  brother  and 
heir  to  Nicholas  Malby,  son  and  heir  to  Henry 
Malb^,  kte  of  Boscoman,  co.  Bosoommon ;  also 
that  in  1579  the  lordship  of  Boecommon  was 
granted  to  Sir  Nicholas  Malby.  I  want  to  find  if 
this  Capt.  Heniy  was  son,  or,  if  not,  what  relation, 
to  Sir  Nichobs.  H.  L.  O. 

Charlxs  Dickens's  Notil  **  Gabbiku  Yab- 
DON." — In  the  cataloffue  of  Messrs.  Henry  Sotheran 
&  Co.,  36,  Piccadilly,  April  89,  is  a  description 
of  the  ''Dickens  Antogiaj^  Correspondence," 
which  is  offered  for  225£  I  suppose  that  it  was 
porchased  at  the  sale  of  Mr.  F.  Ouyry's  collection. 
One  of  the  letters  is  deseribed  as  hem^^  ^the 
original  letter  to  Mr.  Maerane  accepting  his  offer 
(with  the  terms)  to  publish  a  nord,  to  l^  entitled 
^  Gabriel  Yardon,  the  Locksmith  of  London."*  I 
cannot  find  any  mention  of  this  in  Forster's  Life 
or  in  other  sources  of  information  concerning 
Charles  Dickens.  Is  there  CTidenoe  that  any 
fra^ent  of  this  projected  novel  was  erer  in 
existence?  *' Dolly  varden"  is  the  nearest 
approach  to  the  use  of  the  proper  name  in  the 
novels  of  the  author.  Frith's  portrait  of  that 
sprightly  damsel,  painted  for  Dickens  for  a  twen^- 
pound  note,  was  sold  after  the  author's  death  ror 
1,0502.  The  picture  has  been  engraved  by  E.  C. 
Wagstaffe.  Cuthbkrt  Bbdi. 

[Gabriel  Yarden,  a  lookemith.  the  father  of  DdUy,  is 
alsb  a  character  in  Barnaiy  Hiulgt,'] 

Darlino:  Mxbviv:  Willis.— John  Mervin  of 
Sturminster,  baptized  May  4,  1679,  sep.  at 
Manston  May  18, 1733^  married  Bridget  Dialing, 
who  was  Sep.  at  Manston  Jan.  29,  1734.  They 
had  ianie  two  daughters  and  co-heiresses,  Bridset, 
sep.  at  Manston  Oct  4,  1769,  ancestress,  by  ner 
husband  Heniy  Nooth,  of  the  present  Sir  nenry 
Mervin  Vavasour,  Bart,  and  Frances,  ob.  at  Cran- 
bome,  CO.  Dorset,  Jan.  9, 1789,  ancestress,  by  her 
husband  Bobert  Prower,  M.D.,  of  the  TOesent 
John  Elton  Mervin  Prower,  late  of  Ptarton  House, 


Wilts.  So  inuch  appears  by  a  pedigree  firom  the 
"  Faadculus  Mervinensis.''  reprinted  in  the  Misc. 
Gen.  et  HerdUL  Mrs.  Bridget  Mervin  [Darling] 
IB  reported  to  have  had  a  sister,  co-heiress  with  her 
of  their  fkther,  who  was  married  to  a  Bev.  Mr. 
WiUiB,  of  Lincolnshire.  She  is  said  to  have  died 
at  her  husband's  living.  The  issue  of  this 
marriage  were,  M.  oMot,  Cecil,  D.D.,  and 
Francis,  M.D.;  the  latter  having  had  issue  Dr« 
John  WilUs,  another  son  Preben&y  of  St  Paul's, 
and  a  third,  Bobert  Darling  Willis.  So  much  hj 
report  The  only  other  addition  to  be  made  is 
that  Mrs.  Frances  Prower  had  a  relation  of  the 
name  of  Darling  living  at  ^'Chalgrove,  near 
Oxford."  Can  any  one  give  me  further  in&iEina- 
tion  as  to  the  Darling  fuoily*  or  indicate  sources 
from  whidi  such  information  may  be  got  ?  Can 
any  arms  be  assigned  to  them  ?  W.  S. 

John  Eachard.— '^  Soms  Obiervatums  vpan 
tJu  Antwer  to  an  Enqwiry  into  tk€  Qrounde  and 
Oeeaeiant  of  the  ConUmpt  of  the  Chrgy:  with  some 
AddiHom.  In  a  Second  Letter  to  B.  L.  London, 
1671."  The  copy  of  the  above  which  has  been 
kindly  lent  me  by  a  friend  is  imperfect^  terminating 
abrnfMily  with  the  word  ''  spirit "  at  tne  bottom  of 
p.  198.  Would  any  one  kindlv  give  me  * 
correct  collation  of  this  book  ?  The  letter,  from 
internal  evidence,  would  seem  to  have  been  written 
in  reply  to  An  Amwer  to  a  Letter  of  Enquiry 
into  Uu  Chroundt  and  Oceoiiane  of  the  Contemft  of 
(he  CUrgy^  London,  1671,  which  was  published 
anonymously,  but  is  attributed  to  John  Bramhall, 
Bishop  of  Deny.  G.  F.  B.  B. 

*'  Purchase."— Piirdioctf,  in  such  a  phrase  as 
'*  twenty  years'  purchase,"  is  never  used  in  America. 
What  does  it  mean,  and  why  ? 

Jamxs  D.  Butlxr. 

HadisoD,  Wis.  U.S.A. 

pf e  should  be  glad  to  know  what  is  the  Amerioan 
equivalent.] 

JosKPH  II.  AVD  BxBTHOVBN. — In  au  interest- 
ing article  on  **  Music  and  Musicians  in  Austria" 
in  Baffle  May  number,  p.  835, 1  find  the  follow- 
ing passage  :— 

"The  Emperor  Joseph  IL  wu  the  founder  of  the 
German  Opera  at  Vienoa;  he  oared  lUtle  for  the  tonatas 
and  symphonies  of  Beethoven,  bat  Italian  mnsio  amused 
him,  and  Gennan  operettas  entertained  him.*' 

Now,  how  can  that  be,  since  Joseph  IL  died  in 
1790,  when  Beethoven  was  only  twenty  years  old, 
and  when  his  '^Eroica''  (third  sympthony)  was 
only  composed  in  1804,  after  his  musical  studies 
and  settlement  in  Vienna  in  1792,  i.«.,  two  yean 
after  Joeeph's  death  ?  Perhaps  the  inscription  of 
a  wag,  whidi  was  found  one  morning  on  the 
pedestal  of  the  beautiful  equestrian  statue  of  the 
Emperor  Joseph  erected  by  his  nephew  Francis  I. 
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[«*8.V.iaT20/cJ. 


Bomething  to  do  with  it.  It  ran  thns  :  ^'Sepperl, 
steig  aby  nod  lass  Franzerl  aofsitze !  "^Angl^  ''Joe, 
step  down,  and  let  Fiaiik  get  up  I''  A.  T. 

'^IbSLAKD"  AHD  **ScOTtAHD"  IH  WiLTBHIRl. 

— Can  any  one  tell  me  why  a  liamlet  in  the  pariah 
of  North  Bradley,  near  Trowbridge,  is  called 
**  Ireland,*  and  why  two  houiea  higher  np  on  the 
hill  have  reoeiyed  the  name  of  "  Scotland **)  The 
anUior  of  The  History  of  North  Bradley  and 
BoadhiU^  in  tiU  Cow^  of  WilU  (Trowbridge, 
1881),  acknowledges   hu  inability  to  giye  the 

Abhba« 


''Black  BARTHOLonw."— Where  can  I  find 
the  anthority  for  this  phrase,  which  was  appUed 
by  the  Paritans  to  St  Bartholomew's  Day.  1662, 
when  those  lost  their  liyings  who  refiised  com- 
pliance with  the  Act  of  Uniformity  ?       L.  Ph. 

'Ikbohtxo''  in  thk  ''Nxwgastlk  Maoa- 
znrB,"  1880-21.— In  the  NmoecuOe  Magamniy 
1820  and  1821,  there  are  seyeral  poetic  pieces  by 
an  author  whose  ngnatare  is  "leronyino,''  yia., 
''A  Bramatio  Scene^  ''Edward:  a  Fragment,'* 
"Leon's  Bridal,"  "The  Feast  of  Bel^usEar," 
"  Death  of  Je^tha's  Danghter,"  &c  Were  these 
pieces  written  by  Mr.  T.  Doableday? 

B.  Inolts. 

Opals.— Seyeral  of  my  friends  and  m^lf  will 
be  mnch  obliged  for  any  information  with  refer- 
ence to  the  superstitions  and  beliefs  connected 
with  opals,  especially  as  to  rings  in  which  these 
stones  occor.  A  recent  sad  eyent  which  has 
ooconed  among  ns  is  our  reason  for  sending  this 
query.  Gboros  Pbicb. 

[Have  ytm  eonmltsd  Jones's  Fingtr-Iting  LonfJi 

BL1C^K9DKH  OF    AlDIHGTOV  AND    MbRSHAV, 

Ebht. — Where  are  now  to  be  found  the  principal 
representatiyes  of  this  ancient  fcunily  ?  It  appears 
to  haye  been  a  powerful  and  nnmerons  family  in 
Kent  np  to  the  Cromwellian  period ;  in  1799  a 
Mr.  Blechenden  held  the  manor  of  Bilsington, 
Kent  Pkrct  Blkchkndkk. 

72»  Albion  Street,  Sjrdney,  New  South  Wales. 

Dr.  Bocksvhah.— I  should  be  glad  to  learn 
anything  of  the  aboye,  who  in  1663  became  the 
owner  of  White-Webbs  House,  Eufield.  I  do  not 
find  any  such  name  in  the  register  of  physicians 
of  that  date.  Was  he  the  same  person  who  bought 
the  manor  of  Stanmore  Magna  from  Dorothy,  Ltudy 
Lake!    See  Ly sonars  J^nvironi  o/ JDofufon. 

W.  P.  I. 

"DXLLA     NOBILTA    ET    EoCBLLKKZA     DKLLS 

Donne."— Where  can  I  find  a  record  both  of  the 
French  author  and  the  Italian  translator  of  the 
following  anonymous  little  treatise  ?—"  De22a 
NoMta  it  EceSlmza  dtUe  Donru.  Nuoyamente 
dalla  lingua  Fnmcese  nella  Italiana  tndotto.   16*. 


Yinegia,  apprssso  Gabriel  Giolito  de  Ferrariis, 
1544  "  (comprising  twenty-nine  kayes.) 

H.  KniBfl. 
Oxford. 

Gbevillk  and  Pattsn  FAMiLits.— Was  there 
a  physidan  in  Oxford,  drea  1700,  of  either  of  ihb 
aboye  names  f  R.  J.  Ftbkore. 

Authors  of  Bookb  Wan«d.— 

SeUm  and  Zaida,  und  oihr  Pomt.  12mo.  EdiaJ, 
Constable,  and  Lond.,  Longman.  1800.  Preceded  by 
a  Dialogue  between  Author  and  Crltic^Oan  any  one 
baring  aoeest  to  the  Nm  DidioHary  of  Ananywut  my 
who  wrote  the  aboye  1  J.  0. 

JBotiaparl^t  Marek  to  Jlotoov. 
TAe  Tkr«$  BUiek  Oraca^Law,  Phyrie,  and  Di^mUsf^ 

J.  How. 

AuTHons  OF  Quotations  Wantsd.— 

«« Drums,  b«it  an  onset;  let  the  lebds  feel 
How  sharp  ear  grief  is  by  oar  sharper  stesl"' 

B.  J.  FnxoBS.  ' 
"Doth  the  harmony 
That  dombers  in  the  sweet  lute  strinn  belong 
To  the  purchaser  who,  doll  of  ear.  doth  keep 
Th»  instrument  ?    True  he  hath  bought  the  right 
To  dash  it  into  fhigments,  yet  no  art 
To  wake  it  into  rilyery  notes,  and  melt  with  bliss 
Of  thrilling  aound.*' 

"BevohitionsneTer  go  backward." 
''Two  souls  with  one  thought, 
Two  hearts  with  one  beat*' 

Jamss  D.  Bunnu 


8AM  VALB  AND  SAM  WBLLBB. 
(e^  S.  y.  326.) 
The  following  catting  fh>m  the  Birmimfham 
Daily  CfaxetU,  Siay  9,  contains  a  portion  of  Mr. 
E.  L.  Bbnchard's  article  on  **  London  Amasements.* 
The  ^notations  from  Mr.  Bcadey's  masical  fuoo 
are  singalariy  snggestiye  as  the  gronndworic  for 
Charles  Dickens's  Sam  Wellerisms;  and  Sam 
Valets  popnhir  utterance  of  sacli  pecoliar  savings 
and  comparisons  may  well  haye  giyen  the  hmt  to 
the  aathor  of  Pidnnde  for  the  name  of  the  modem 
Sancho.  Mr.  Blanchard  shows  that  Sam  Yaie  and 
his  sayings  were  highly  iK^Milar  during  the  hm 
yean  prior  to  the  prmlttction  of  Pidbridk,  the  first 
nomber  of  which  (I  may  remind  the  reader)  was 
published  yeiy  modestly,  in  an  issue  of  four 
hundred  copies,  on  BCarch  31, 1836 ;  Sam  Weller 
made  his  appearance  in  No.  5,  in  July,  and  the 
maryellous  popularity  of  the  Fickmitk  PofMn  was 
then  secured.  I  haye  heen  a  diligent  atndent  of 
what  I  may  term  PiehnA  literature,  and  I  haye 
neyer  met  with  the  slightest  reference  to  Sam  Vale 
and  his  droll  sayings  until  I  read  Mr.  E.  L. 
Blanohard's  article  on  April  7.  He  has  now 
amplified  his  first  brief  mention  of  that  sotori  and 


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has  directed  attention  to  a  oiroamstance  of  great 
literary  interest  It  seems  to  me  that  his  remarks 
eonoemiog  Sam  Yale  and  Sam  Waller  ooght  to  be 
preseryed  in  the  pages  of  ''N.  &  Q." 

*'Iii  the  list  number  of  that  alwm  faistmetiTe  and 
antertaining  periodioal,  Nmta  omI  Queriet,  I  find  the 
followiog  agreeable  reoocnition  of  a  reoent  eootribvtioo 
to  these  eolumns:—'  In  Mr.  J5.  L.  BUnohard's  interest- 
ing paper  on  "  Iiondon  Amosements  "  in  the  Birminffham 
Dauy  OateUe  of  April  7,  is  the  following  note  oonoeming 
the  j^onnanoe  of  Mr.  B.  Webster's  Tarsion  of  Paid 
Clifford,  prodooed  at  the  Gobnrg  Theatre  March  19, 1832 : 
"  Sam  Vale,  the  Surrey  low  comedy  aotor,  whose  whim- 
sieil  oomperiaons  wore  supposed  to  have  soggested  the 
idea  of  Sun  Weller  to  Dickens,  represented  Dommie 
Dannaker."  This  suggestfon  may  be  new  to  noany,  as  it 
was  to  me.— CvTHBUT  Bidb.'  As  others  besides  that 
well'known  and  accomplished  writer,  who  has  been  so 
long  before  the  public  under  his  familiar  psendonym, 
may  perhaps  like  to  haye  some  further  information  on 
the  sabject,  it  may  be  as  well  to  state  in  this  plaoe  all 
that  is  known  to  the  present  writer.  Ne  reference  to 
Dammie  Dnnnaker  in  Mr.  B.  WebeteKs  adaptation  dPaml 
Clifford  will  throw  any  light  on  the  subject,  but  the 
actor  of  that  character  had  some  years  preriouslT  ae- 
euired  a  profincial  reputation  by  impersonating  Simon 
Bpatterdaah,  a  personage  who  indulged  in  noyei  whimsical 
•comparisons,  and  these  necaliarities  Mr.  Samuel  Vale 
afterwards  mtrodnced  in  his  familiar  talk  with  his  asio- 
ciates.  The  character  of  Simon  Spatterdash,  a  local 
militiaman,  belonged  to  an  amusing  but  long-foigotten 
musical  faroe,  written  by  Samuel  Beaxley,  the  architect, 
entitled  The  Boarding  Eomt ;  or.  Five  Eoun  at  Brighton, 
and  was  produced  at  the  old  Lyceum  Theatre,  on  Tuee- 
day,  Angast  27, 1811.  The  music  was  composed  by  Mr. 
'Charles  Horn,  and  among  those  who  figurod  in  the 
ori^nal  cast  were  Miss  H.  Kelly,  Mie.  Orger,  Miss  Jones, 
Mrs.  Chatterler,  Mr.  Penson,  Mr.  Wewitaer,  Mr.  Ox- 
berry,  Mr.  J.  Smith,  Mr.  Lovegrove,  and  Mr.  Knight— 
^'lattle  Knight,"  as  he  was  generally  called,  and  the 
■composer  of  that  onoe  popular  song, "  Sweet  Kitty  dorer, 
ahe  bothers  me  so  "— who  played  originaUy  Simon  Spatter- 
-daah.  Under  the  preeent  circumstsnces  of  dramatic 
literature,  it  may  not  be  altogether  uninterestmg  to 
•ouote  a  pasmge  from  the  author's  dedication  to  Mr. 
Samnel  Arnold,  then  manamr  of  the  theatre.  'I  haye 
•taken,*  writee  Mr.  Samuel  Beasloy,  in  his  preface  to  the 
published  liMPee,  now  exceedingly  scarce,  'the  liberty  of 
dedicating  this,  my  first  dramatic  attempt,  to  you,  as  a 
small  tribute  of  gntitude,  inspired  by  your  kindness  and 
attenMon  during  the  rehearsals  of  The  Boarding  Home, 
and  am  happy  to  embrsoe  an  opportunity  of  thus  pub- 
liely  acknowledging  my  obligations  for  the  asristsnce  you 
(hare  rendered  me,  both  as  manager  and  critic  ij  a 
manager  I  have,  although  unknown  as  an  actor,  ex- 
perienced from  you  so  much  Uberality  and  encourage- 
ment that  I  must  either  totally  deny  the  justice  of  those 
•comnlainta  which  I  hear  continually  repeated  against 
gentlemen  placed  in  your  position,  or  must  suppose  you 
to  be  an  exoeption  to  such  a  general  description.  As  a 
critic  I  haTe  oeriyed  from  yon  ereiy  information  which 
your  superior  knowledge  of  the  stage  enabled  you  to  giye, 
and  to  your  hints  and  improyements  I  must,  in  a  great 
measurs,  attribnta  the  great  success  of  the  pieoe.'  The 
next  parsgraph  is  perluvw  eyen  more  applicable  to  the 
requirements  of  the  prsssnt  period.  '  udependently, 
however,  of  priyate  feelings  I  should,  as  an  author,  have 
felt  proud  of  dedicating  my  fkroe  to  toe  establisher  of  the 
English  opera,  and  as  an  Bnglishman,  in  offering  my 
pubUe  adonowledgmentB  to  the  faidiridual  who  has 
opened  a  field  for  ue  cultivation  of  British  talent  Many 


thousands  are  annually  lavished  on  the  patronage  of 
exotic  singers  and  compossrs,  which  might,  with  much 
greater  propriety  and  justice,  have  been  expended  in  the 
support  of  our  native  harmonists.'  Few  will  deny  that 
this  remonstrance,  uttered  in  1811,  might  be  quite  as 
forcibly  urged  in  1882. 

"Turning  to  the  text  of  Mr.  Beasley's  operetta— for 
such  it  womd  be  called  nowadavs— we  shall  find  the  fol- 
lowing sayings  set  down  for  Mr.  Simon  Spatterdash : — 
"•Come  on,^'  as  the  man  sud  to  his  tight  boot';  <"I 
know  the  world."  as  the  monkey  said  when  he  cut  off  his 
taa  *;  *"  Be  quick  1  weU,  I  wiU,"  as  the  fly  said  when  he 
hopMd  out  of  the  mustard-pot*; '  "I'm  turned  soger," 
as  the  lobster  said  when  he  popped  his  head  out  of  the 
boiler ';  ' "  I  'm  down  npon  you,^a8  the  extinguisher  said 
to  the  rushlight';  '"Let  everyone  take  care  of  them- 
selves,"  as  the  donkey  obeeryed  when  dancing  among  the 
chickene.'  In  the  second  act  of  The  Boarding  House 
Simon  Spatterdash  is  made  to  rsnoark— * "  There  she  is, 
murical  and  melancholy."  as  the  cricket  said  to  the  tea- 
kettle ';  * "  Off  with  a  whisk,"  as  the  butcher  said  to  the 
flies ';  • "  Sharp  work  for  the  eyes,"  as  the  devil  said  when 
a  broad-wheeled  waggon  went  over  his  noee ';  '"  Where 
ehaUweflyfasthebulletsaldtothetriner';  "TmaU 
ever  In  a  perspiration,"  as  the  mntton  chop  said  to  the 
gridiron';  '"why  here  we  are  all  mnstarded,' as  the  roast 
beef  said  io  the  Welsh  rabbit ':  ' "  When  a  man  is  ashamed 
to  show  the  front  of  his  &ce,  let  him  turn  round  and  show 
the  beck  of  it,"  as  the  turnstile  said  to  the  weathercock.' 
Now  having,  as  Shnon  Spatterdash,  obtained  a  distinctive 
provincial  leputation  as  a  propounder  of  curious  com- 
parisons in  this  manner.  Mr.  Samivel  Vale  continued 
the  practice  afterwards  in  private  life,  and  the  latest 
'Sam  Valerism,'  as  it  used  to  be  caUed  from  1881  to 
1880,  found  ready  rspetition  from  the  lips  of  the  fre- 
quenten  of  theatricai  taverns.  From  Samivel  Vale,  as 
he  was  styled  by  his  Surrey  admirersb  to  'Samivel 
Veller'  is  not  a  very  abrupt  transition,  and  it  may, 
therefore,  not  be  thought  a  perfectly  unlikely  snppori- 
tion  that  our  great  English  noveUst  found  a  suggestion 
for  one  of  his  most  humorous  nersonages  in  Piehtotch  in 
the  sayings  of  the  droll  actor  who  was  always  endeavour- 
ing to  establish  a  bond  of  union  between  things  ap- 
parently dissimilar  in  their  nature.  It  may  be  added 
that  Mr.  Samuel  Vale,  who  for  the  richness  of  his 
humour  has  never  been  surpassed  by  recent  comedians, 
died  at  the  age  of  flfty-one  in  March,  1848.    He  had  a 

of  VI  " 


mellowness  of  velee  with  an 


of  utterance 


which  gave  his  drolleriee  of  expression  an  unusual  value, 
and  when  transfecred  by  Osbaldiston  from  the  Surrey  to 
Covent  Garden  Theatre  he  was  reoosniaed  by  West  End 
phiygoers  as  an  actor  of  genuine  ability.  As  one  who 
worships  the  very  name  of  Oharles  Dickens  on  this  ride 
Idolalary,  let  it  not  be  tanagined  for  an  instant  that  any 
disparagement  of  the  genius  of  the  greatest  humourist 
of  our  time  is  implied  In  rerivmg  these  reminiscences. 
They  are  only  placed  on  record  as  contributions  to 
literary  history,  showing  the  posribility  at  least  of  an 
Idea  being  developed  beyond  the  conception  of  those  to 
whom  it  wss  constantly  familiar.  Mr.  '  Cuthbert  Bede ' 
will,  I  am  sure,  understand  the  spfarit  in  which  these  few 
Unes  are  written,  and  I  am  gratified  by  a  recognition 
which  has  furnished  occarion  for  affording  further 
particulars  respecting  one  of  the  many  things  not  gene- 
rally known." 

GUTHBKRT  BkDB. 


Ths  Balliol  and  VALoimn  Faiciubs  and 
THs  Office  of  Ohaxbsiilaik  of  ScoTLAim  :  tbb 
Honour  of  Valoions  (e*  S.  v.  61, 142,  290).— 
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affords  clear  information  on  the  connexion  of  the 
Chamberlain  of  Scotland,  Philip  de  Yaloines,  with 
the  main  stem,  and  the  Ending  of  the  ktter  in 
three   co-heireeaea.     Another  brother   does  not 
appear  in  that  plea,  thoagh  he  is  named  in  Mr. 
Yinoknt's    pedigree — ^Boger    de   Valoniis,  who 
was  Lord  of  Kilbride,  in  Scotland,  as  early  as 
1175-89.    Daring   this   period  he  entered  into 
an  agreement  with  Jooelin,  Bishop  of  Obsgow, 
and  resigned  to  the  ktter  the  parish  charch  of 
Kilbride  with  a  camoate  of  lana,  &a;  the  bishop 
granting  Roger  the  right  to  have  a  private  chapel 
in  his  castle  of  Kilbride,  nnder  the  nsual  reserva- 
tions of  the  rights  of  the  mother  dinrch.    This 
agreement   was   made  at  Lanark   before   King 
WilHam  the  Lyon  and  (among  others)  Philip  de 
Yaloniis.    The  king  confirmed  it  shortly  after  by 
a  charter  at  Traqoair,  to  which  Philip  is  again  a 
witness.     As   KObride   became   afterwards   the 
property  of  Philip's  f;rand-daaghter,  Isabella  de 
Valoniis,  wife  of  Vvnd  Gomyn,  Boger  probably 
died  $,p.    These  two  deeds  are  in  the  Begiitrum 
EpiscapcUiu  OlatgtieiMit  (Bann.  Club,  1843),  p.  48. 
In  the  same  volume,  p.  159,  there  is  a  grant  by 
Isabella  de  Yaloniis,  Lady  of  Kilbride,  to  the 
charch  of  Glasgow,  for  the  soul  (among  others)  of 
Sir  David  Comyn,  her  deceased  hasband  (who 
died  before  Aagast,  1247),  of  15Z.  of  knd  called 
the  Forest  of  Dalkame  in  the  fee  of  Kirkepatrick 
(in  Oalloway).    One   of  the  witnesses  is  ''Sir 
William  de  Yaloniis,  her  brother."    This  deed  is 
not  dated,  bat  was  confirmed  by  John  de  BaUiol, 
the  chief  lord,  on  the  Day  of  the  Jbaltation  of  the 
Holy  Bood,  1250,  and  by  King  Alexander  IIL  on 
l^ov.  12,  fifth  of  his  reign  (1253),  ibid,,  pp.  160-1. 
This  Sir  WiUiam  de  Yaloines  cannot  have  been 
legitimate,  or  he  wonld  have  been  the  heir  instead 
of  his  three  sisters.    It  seems  more  than  probable 
that  they  were  the  danghtera  of  Loia  de  Quincy, 
a  daughter  of  Saher,  Barl  of  Winchester ;  inferred 
from  the  fiact,  mentioned   in  the  Rev.  W.  D. 
Macray's   ''Beport  on  the  De   Qamcy  Charters 
of  Magdalen  CJoUege*'  {Hiri.  M88.  €km.y  vol  iv. 
p.  460),  that  Lora  de  Qaincy  married  a  William 
de  Yaloines,  and  was  a  widow  before  1218,  which 
la  about  the  date  of  the  death  of  William  the 
Chamberlain  of  Scothmd.    A  William  de  Yaloines, 
who  waa  dead  by  1219,  alao  bequeathed  a  ward  to 
Saher  de  Quinpy,  who  himaelf  died  aoon  after,  and 
Boger,  hia  aon,  obtained  it    This  William  could 
hardly  be  other  than  the  Chamberlain.    Besides, 
in  the  Chartulary  of  Dryburgh   (Bann.    Club, 
Edin.,  1847),  p.   135,  Alexander  de  Balliol  of 
Cavers,  the  grandson  of  William  de  Yaloines  and 
(if  ray  conjecture  is  right)  nephew  of  Boger,  Earl 
of  Winchester,  is  found  giving  the  monks  part  of 
the  wood  of  Oladswood,  whi(£  had  been  granted 
to  them  by  the  earl  at  an  earlier  date.    It  is 
singular  to  find  so  little  about  the  Yaloniis  family 
in  the  R^giiUr  of  Brechin  (Bann.  dub^  in  which 


diocese  their  descendants  the  Maoles  were  w> 
prominent.  The  sole  notices  are  on  pp.  13, 14,  in 
the  reign  of  David  II.,  where  a  small  donatioir 
by  Cristiana  de  Yaloniis,  Ladv  of  Panmure,  is 
referred  to.  She  and  her  hasband  appear  in  a 
controversy  with  the  Abbot  of  Arbroath  regarding 
knd,  on  St.  Alban's  Day,  1254  (Chartuiary  of  Ar- 
hroatk,  Bann.  dub,  p.  322) ;  and  in  1286  she 
again  appears  on  record  in  a  transaction  to  whicb 
the  Guardians  of  Scotland  are  parties  (i&td.,  pw  333)» 
She  was  then  a  widow,  and  must  have  been  a  very 
old  lady,  having  been  married  as  early  as  1216. 

J.  Baut. 

Sir  William  Gukk  :  Sir  Bernard  de  Gtnnf, 
OR  Gtomi  (6«*  S.  V.  246,  332).— There  can  be  no- 
doubt,  I  thinly  that  these  two  persons,  though 
bearing  names  which  have  at  times  been  so  written 
as  to  seem  identical,  belonged  to  two  entirely 
diflTerent  stocks.  Sir  Bernard  was  evidently  a. 
Cbmm,  not  a  Gunn,  of  German,  not  of  Highland^ 
descent.  Sir  William  was  as  clearly  a  member  of 
the  Sutherland  and  Caithness  clan  Gunn,  tradi* 
tionally  descended  from  Gain,  second  son  of  the 
third  marriage  of  Oba&  or  Olave,  ''the  black,"' 
king  of  Man,  whose  eldest  son  by  the  same- 
marriage  Lb  traditionally  ancestor  of  the  cUin  Leod 
of  Harris  and  Lewis.  To  descend  from  the  mist 
of  ages,  however,  and  come  down  to  the  region  of 
practical  genealogy,  I  will  cite  the  records  of 


Mackay's  Begiment^  as  given  in  the  very  interest- 
ing paper  read  by  Mr.  Mackay  of  Ben  Beay  before 
the  Gaelic  Society  of  Inverness  in  1879,  to  show  Sir 
William's  services,  and  a  Betour  to  prove  the  ex- 
tinction of  his  male  line.    In  the  list  of  officers  of 
Mackay's  Begiment    printed   by   Mr.  Mackay,. 
op.  eit.,  p.  59,  9eqq.,  I  find  among  the  cwUins, 
'^William  Gkinn,  afterwards  colonel  of  a  Dutch 
regiment,  and  knighted  byKing  Charles  L"    Hav- 
ing thus  identified  Sir  Williimj  I  cite  the  only 
Betour  which  I  have  as  yet  found  relating  to  him : 
—"Ing.  Gm.  (6083),  Jun.  15,  1678.— Domina. 
Anna  Barbara  Gune,  relieta  Franoisci  de  Yeltes^ 
Juern  Domini  Gulielmi  Gunn,  Baronis  de  Gann» 
Gubematoris  de  Staffenadge  et  Diriet,  qnondam 
designati    Colonelli    Willielmi     Gann,     pairip 
(xxxiii.  395)."    I  presume  that  Sir  William  waa 
created  a  baron  in  Holland,  bat  at  the  present 
moment  have  no  actual  knowledge  beyond  what  i» 
certified  in  the  Betour.    In  Ael.  Pari  8eoL  there 
will  be  found  references  to  other  members  of  the 
clan  in  Sutherland  and  Caithness  between  1647 
and  1704,  s.^.,  Donald  Gunn  of  Badinloch,Sather- 
hrnd,  1704,  XL  150a;  John  Gunn  of  BanaboU,. 
SutherUnd,  1649,  VL  iL  193a ;  Alexander  Gona 
of  Eillemane,  Caithness  and  Sutherland,  1647,  VL 
L  8156 ;  1649,  VL  iL  193a,  besides  a  Specaal  B6toa^ 
$.v.  Gunn  of  EiUieman,  Sutherland  (11). 
C.  H.  E.  Carmi' 
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To  the  docament  referred  to  by  me  (anUf  p. 
I  baye  asBigned  a  wrong  date.  On  looking  at  it 
again  I  find  that  it  ia  dated  July  29, 1684,  and  not 
1687.  Ehilt  Colk. 

Thb  Mastbe  of  Abt8  Gowv,  Oxford  (5^ 
S.  XL  873 ;  xiL  113, 136,  249,  297,  357  ;  6«i>  S.  i. 
359).— In  April,  1879,  Mb.  Pickford  raised  the 
question  of  whether  or  not  the  full-dress  gown  of 
a  Master  of  Arts  at  Oxford  was  the  same  as  that 
habitually  worn  by  the  oroctors.  Dso  Duos 
asked  for  an  authority,  and  MB.  Pickfobd  gaTe  a 
Tety  good  one.  Dr.  Philip  Bliss.  The  point  was 
discussed,  and  I  think  all  were  oonyinoed  that 
Mb.  Pickford  was  right,  but  no  one  could  recall 
any  instance  as  proof;  and  we  remained  satisfied 
with  Dr.  Bliss,  IiOggan,  Ackerman,  and  the  wear- 
ing of  the  gown  by  the  *'  collector  **  at  ^  detennin- 
tua"  in  Lent  up  to  the  year  1820. 

I  have  found  an  instance  recorded,  and  shall 
be  glad  to  have  it  placed  in  "N.  &  Q.''  as  a  com- 
pletion of  a  not  uninteresting  discussion,  and  a 
fulfihnent  of  our  maxim,  *'  When  found,  make  a 
note  of  In  the  first  Tolume  of  iMers  written 
by  Eminent  Fenons  in  the  Sixteenth  and  Seven- 
teenth Centuriei  (1813),  at  p.  30,  there  is  a  letter 
from  Dr.  Sykes  to  Dr.  Gharlett  (at  that  time  a 
Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  and  afterwards  Master 
of  Uniyersity  College),  giving  a  ''  curious  account 
of  James  IL's  visit  to  Oxford,  and  the  affairs 
of  Magdalen  CoUege."  The  letter.  No.  xvL,  is 
dated  Sept  4, 1687,  and  runs  thus  :— 

''Sir,— This  eomss  to  oonTey  the  eneloMd  which  I 
snppofe  will  be  weloome^d  you  mutt  not  expect  that 
I  ahoold  enluKe.  The  Kfaig  on  Friday  waa  received  at 
the  utmost  bonnds  of  the  County  bv  my  Lord  AbbingtoD, 
and  the  Sheriff  and  gentlemen  of  the  oountr,  and  yester- 
day by  the  Vice  Chancellor  and  Twenty-four  DoctoiB, 
the  Procton,  ajid  nineteen  Masters,  all  in  Prod&r^t 
hxbiit,  at  the  farther  end  of  8^.  Giles's  field,  and  nearer 
to  the  Town  by  the  Major  and  Aldermen  and  all  the 
Common  Council,  on  horse4)aok  and  by  all  the  Com- 
panies on  foot,*' 

At  p.  51,  in  letter  xxiiL,  firom  Dr.  Smith  to  Sir 
William  Haywaid,  dated  ''Oxon.,  Dec.  16, 1688,'' 
it  is  told  how  "  the  Princess  Anne  visits  Oxford  '^; 
and  although  it  only  is  recorded  that  ^  at  Christ 
Church  she  was  received  by  the  Chancellor,  Vice 
Chancellor,  and  Doctors  in  their  scarlet,"  it  may 
be  noted  that  she 

*'  was  received  by  the  Univenity  and  Town  with  all 
imaghiable  joy  honour  and  triumph.  Sir  John  Luiier's 
regiment  of  hone  went  out  to  meet  her.  The  Earl  of 
Northampton  came  in  at  the  head  of  a  peat  party  of 
horse,  both  of  mtlemen  and  militla-men,  of  two  or 
three  counties :  but  Immediately  before  the  coach  of  her 
highnesi,  the  Bishop  of  London  (D^  Henry  Compton) 
in  a  military  habit,  blue  cloak,  and  pistols  before  him, 
his  naked  sword  in  his  hand  (his  cdours  purple)  and  the 
motto  embroidered  in  letters  of  sold,  voLumrs  liobs 
AXQUM  MUTARi,  rode  at  the  head  of  a  troop  of  noblemen 
and  gentlemen.  The  whole  cavalcade  connsted  of  about 
eleven  or  twelve  hundred  hone." 


There  is  a  coincidence  which  I  would  point  out ;. 
and  that  is,  that  in  all  probability  the  letter  of 
Dr.  Sykes  was  Bliss's  authority. 

In  addition  to  the  interesting  collection  of 
letters  there  are  extracts  from  Heame,  and  short 
lives  of  eminent  persons  furnished  to  Antony  k. 
Wood  by  John  Aubrey,  and  the  three  volumes 
are  generally  catalogued  as  *'  Letters  and  Lives^ 
&C.,  oy  J.  Aubrey."  They  were,  however,  com- 
piled b^  Philip  Bliss  and  John  Walker  together^ 
and  prmted  uom  the  original  MSS.  in  the  Ash- 
molean  and  Bodleian  libraries.  A  reprint  of 
them,  well  indexed,  to  match  Mr.  Russell  Smith'» 
reprint  of  Bliss's  lUliauia  Heamiommf  would  be- 
very  acceptable,  and  Bliss  and  Walkei's  namea 
should  be  on  the  title-page.  In  many  catalogues 
one  sees  Bliss  named  as  the  compiler  of  Oxoniana^ 
Tlus  is  an  error ;  he  had  nothing  to  do  with  that 
compilation,  which  was  the  work  of  the  assistant 
librarian  in  Bodley,  the  Rev.  John  Walker,  of 
New  CollM;e,  afterwards  vicar  of  Homchurch^ 
near  Bomfoid,  in  Essex.  He  first  published 
Onrntona  in  1806  ;  then  four  volumes  of  selec-^ 
tions  from  the  Oentleman'i  Magazine  in  July, 
1811 ;  then  ^ong  with  Bliss)  he  compiled  the 
Letters  and  Liffet  in  1813  ;  and  he  was  also  the- 
first  editor  of  the  Oxford  Calendar  and  of  the 
Oxford  Herald,  Gibbks  Bioaud. 

18,  Long  Wall,  Oxford. 

Thb  '<  MuRTU  Fish"  (6^  S.  v.  347).— I  never 
heard  of  the  ''  mnrUe  fish,"  but  there  is  a  denizen 
of  Uie  deep  called  a  maid,  which  (and  not  the  visit 
of  Queen  Elizabeth)  may  have  given  its  name  to 
the  respectable  inn  mentioned  by  vour  correspon-^ 
dent  The  maid  is  described  in  Bailey's  Dictionary 
as  a  young  thomback,  but  the  Bev.  J.  G.  WoocT^ 
in  his  New  Hhutratid  Natural  Bietaey  (1  vol. 
edit,  London,  Boutledge,  p.  663X  states  that  the 
fishermen  have  the  custom  of  calling  the  female  of 
the  common  or  tinker  skate  a  maid.  My  owa 
remembrance  of  the  maid  as  a  fish  is  based  on  the 
veiy  old  stoiy  (possibly  a  Joe  Miller)  of  the  demure* 
spinster  who»  sitting  at  her  open  window,  over^ 
hears  a  fishwife  crying,  **  Buy  my  soles  !  Buymy 
maids!"  ^Ah !  you  wicked  woman,"  observea 
the  scandalized  spinster;  '*not  only  would  you  sell 
your  own  soul  but  your  maid's  too." 

G«  A.  Sala. 

JoHK  MooBB,  Bishop  of  Norwich  (6^  S.  y. 
228).— A  note  to  be  found  in  Dr.  Bliss's  edition  of 
Ant  Wood's  FoMtif  voL  ii  p.  337,  answers  one  of 
Mb.  Moorb'8  quenes : — 

"John  Moor  minister  of  Knaptoft  and  Sheresby  in 
Leioeetenhire,  somethne  of  Exeter  ooUege  in  Oiford^ 
had  a  son  an  iron-monger  at  Market  Harborough  com. 
Leioest  who  had  lesne  bishop  John  Moor,  bom  there ; 
he  married  Rose  fifth  daogh.  of  NeviU  Butler  sent  soa 
and  heir  to  Thomas  Butler  of  Orwell  in  Oambricumehire, 
eeq.  by  Mary  his  wife,  daogh.  to  rir  Gilbert  Dethiek 
Knt  Oarter  principal  king  of  arms;  died  A.]>.  1690;  by 


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[«di ay.  Hat 20, '82. 


irhom  be  had  Sane  John  Mow,  Edward  who  died  joaag, 
Eoee  wife  to  Dr.  Tanner,  chancellor  of  Norwich.  Bliin- 
beth  wife  to  Dr.  Rob.  Canon,  arehdeeoon  of  Norfolk, 
and  Hary  jet  unmanied.— ifiST.  J^ote  «t»  the  Heraidi 

Biflhop  Mooze  was  admitted  in  Glare  Hall,  Gam- 
bridge,  Jane  28, 1662 ;  A3.  1665,  A.M.  1669, 
&T.P.  1681 ;  collated  to  the  xectory  of  St. 
Austin's,  London,  Bee.  31,  1687 ;  admitted  to 
the  lectoiy  of  St.  Andrew'i^  Holbom,  Oct  26, 
1689 ;  consecnted  Bishop  of  Norwich,  July  5. 
1691 ;  tianslated  to  Ely,  Johr  31, 1707.  He  died 
July  31, 1714,  and  was  baned  Angast  5  in  Ely 
GathedraL  Gt  Newoonrf  s  Repertarium,  I  288, 
276;  Le  Neve's  Fatti,  foL  213,  71;  GradwUi 
CcaUah.  J.  Ikoub  Drbdge. 

Bishop  Moore  was  bom  at  Sntton  in  1646,  and 
went  to  the  free  school  at  Market  Harborongb. 
Nichols,  in  bis  Hutcry  and  AnJtiquitu9  of  Hu 
dmiUff  of  Leieeiter  (1798}|  toL  iL  pt.  iL  p.  603, 
•ays:— 

"A  good  portnit  of  the  bishop, said  to  be  a  great 
likenees,  was  eDgraved  by  Ftaithome  from  a  painting  by 
Kneller ;  in  which  the  arms  of  the  lee  impale  thoee  of 
Hoore :  Ermine,  on  a  cbeTion  asore,  three  dnqaefoils 
argeat.  He  had  two  wires :  1.  Boee,  fifth  daughter  of 
WiTiU  Boiler,  Eaq.,  who  died  hi  1689^  and  was  burled  in 
the  chancel  of  St  Gilei*8  in  the  Fields.  The  second 
wife  was  Dorothy,  danghter  of  Mr.  Barnes,  of  Sadbergb. 
CO.  Durham,  relict  first  of  sir  Matthew  Blaoket,  and 
afterwards  of  dr  Bichard  Browne.  By  the  first  he  had 
three  sons  and  three  daughters;  by  the  second  three 
sons ;  of  all  whom  some  aoooant  is  given  by  Mr.  Blome- 
field." 

Nichols  in  a  note  adds  the  xefSeienoe  to  the  Hu* 
toryofNi»folkfr6Lu.^4aSL         G.  Fubbb. 

''Jckn  Moan  descended  from  John  Moore,  rector  of 
Knap^ft,  who,  by  Eleanor  his  wife,  had  Thomas  Moore, 
of  Market- Harborow  in  Leicestershire,  ironmonger,  his 
second  son,  who,  by  a  daughter  of  Edward  Wright  of 
Sutton  in  Broogfaton  Parish,  in  the  said  shire^  faad/o*» 
Moortf  who  was  bom  at  Sutton  aforesatd." 

Market  Harboiongh  is  said  by  some  anthorities  to 
be  the  place  of  his  birth.  The  ^'Bector  of  Knap- 
iofb "  **  was  descended  from  the  Mores  or  Moores 
of  Moorhays  in  DeYonshire,  the  arms  of  which 
fiftmilj  the  Biihep  always  baie."  He  was  twice 
married,  and  had  issue,  by  his  first  wife,  three 
eons  and  three  danghters,  and  by  his  second  wife, 
three  sons.  This  information  has  been  gatherea 
from  Blomefield's  Eittary  of  Norfolk 

Abthxtr  Mtnott. 

John  Moore  was  edocated  at  Gatherine  Ehll, 
Gambridge,  and  incorporated  at  Oxford  Joly  16, 
1673.  He  was  chaplain  to  the  Earl  of  Notting- 
ham, Lord  Ghancellor  of  England;  minister  of  St 
Ann's  in  the  Fields,  London,  and  afterwards 
Sector  of  St  Andrew's,  Holbom ;  and  Ghaphiin  in 
Ordinary  to  their  Majesties  King  William  IIL 
smd  Queen  Mary.  His  library  was  prchased  by 
€(eoige  II.,  and  given  by  him  to  the  UniTersity  A 


Gambridge.  His  arms,  according  to  Blomefietd, 
axe  ^Ecmloe^  on  a  cbeyron  az.  three  cinquefoils 
ar."  W.  H.  BiTBirs. 

Clayton  HslL 

For  arms  see  Bedford's  Blaaon  of 
p.  42.    The  references  in  the  Gmecuogii^i 
will    probably   enable    your    correspondent    to 
answer  the  rest  of  bis  query.  G.  W.  M. 

Nkwfaholkd  Exprmsions  (6*  S.  v.  366). — 
It  is  a  pity  that  Mb.  Shirlkt  has  mixed  together 
▼ulgarisms  and  nsefol  additions  to  the  language. 
''Thanks"  and  ''standpoint"  axe  improvements 
introduced  from  the  German.  ^Team"  is  an 
excdlent  cricket  metaphor.  ''Good  form,"  on 
the  other  hand,  is  an  athletic  Tulgansm.  Why 
should  Mb.  Shiblbt  give  the  feminine  form  oif 
mgpioyif  which,  by  the  way,  is  not  used  only  for 
the  humble  worknian  or  labourer,  but  also  for  the 
shopman  and  derk.  D. 

There  axe  enough  ^  newfuigled  *  expressions 
without  adding  to  ue  list  good  old  Enslish  terma. 
"Thanks"  is  not  only  not  "new£an^ed,"but is 
correct ;  which  "thank  you"  is  not  Iventure  to 
assert  that  not  oDly  will  you  find  "  thanki  "  in  many 
an  English  classic  (I  give  one  instance,  "  Thanks, 
gentle  citizens  and  ftiends,"  EuAard  III.,  IIL  viL), 
but  that  you  will  not  find  "  thank  you. "  In  every 
instance  the  pronoun  I  is  used.  The  real  new- 
fimgled  finshion  is  the  slipshod  "thank  you." 

B.  H.  Spxabicav. 

Some  of  Mb.  Shi&lst's  modem  uttetances  will, 
I  think,  be  found  older  than  he  imagines.  But  ho 
has  lefb  out  two  of  the  most  remarkiu>]e  ones,  both, 
I  believe,  referring  to  the  interpretation  of  s 
document  in  a  sense  which  it  was  never  intended 
to  bear  :  "To  read  between  the  lines,"  "To  read 
into."  The  latter  owes  its  origin  to  the  judg- 
ments of  the  modem  so-called  Emlesiastical  Gouit 
G.  F.  S.  Wabbbt,  M.A. 

IVtfnborongb,  Banbury. 

Thk  Abolitiok  of  thb  Honss  of  Lords  (6^ 
S.  V.  367). — ^I  am  not  aware  that  any  serious  pro- 
posal to  abolish  the  House  of  Lords  has  beeninade 
in  the  Gommons  since  the  time  of  the  Gommon- 
wealth.  In  1836  Mr.  Boebuck  gave  notice  that 
he  would,  in  the  next  ensuing  session,  introduce 
a  bill  to  deprive  the  Lords  of  some  of  ^eir  legis- 
lative powers;  but  I  think  he  did  not  cany 
his  intention  into  effect  In  1836  Mr.  Ripon 
moved  a  resolution  in  the  Gommons, "  That  the 
attendance  of  the  bishops  in  the  House  of  Lords  is 
prejudicial  to  the  cause  of  religion,"  which  wag 
negatived  by  180  to  63.  G.  Boss. 

Plubalttt  of  Worlds  (6*  S.  v.  229).— There 
Ib  a  paper  b^  Addison  in  the  Spedator^  No.  619, 
on  this  subject^  in  which  there  is  reference  to 
Locke's   Etiay  on  th$  Hwmam  UndtntoMding^ 


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blt.iiLch.yL  sect  12,  and  to  Fontenelle's  opinion. 
•This  last  appean  in  **A  PluraUty  of  World»; 
written  in  French  by  the  author  of  the  Dialogues 
<(f  the  Dead;  tntnuated  by  Mr.  Glanville,  Lon. 
1688."  Lowndea  mentions, S.V.'' Fontenelley^atiana- 
lation  by  "  a  genUeman  of  the  Inner  Temple,"  W. 
Oardiner,  Lon.  1762, 1767,  and  1768,  with  plates  ; 
also  another  by  Miss  Gunning,  seventh  ed.,  1801. 
Fontenelle's  work  in  French,  in  a  cheap  form, 
prioe  twenty-fiye  centimes,  now  appears  as, ''  Fon- 
tenelle,  Entretiem  tur  la  PlurcutU  des  Mondee^ 
Pari&  Librairie  de  la  Biblioth^ue  Nationale,  Rne 
de  valois,  2,  Palais-Boyal,  1880.'  For  some  re- 
marks on  early  opinions  see''N.  &  Q.,"  1*^  S.  x. 
140.  £d.  Marshall. 

Fontenelle's  FloraUty  of  Worlds,  1686.— In  Eng;luh 
by  GlaQTiUe,  1702.    In  Engliih  by  Mn.  Behn,  1718. 

An  Attempt  to  thaw  how  far  the  Philosophical  Notion 
of  a  Ploralitj  of  Woiids  is  consistent  vith  Holy  Scrip- 
ture. 8vo.,  1801. 

A  New  Theory  of  the  Earth,  with  an  Appendix  on  the 
PlanJitir  of  Inhabited  Worlds.  By  W.  Welch,  of  Stone- 
tioose,  DeTon.    8yo^ Plji^outhdock,  1821. 

The  Existence  of  other  Worlds,  peopled  with  living 
and  intelligent  beings.  By  Alex.  Copland.  12mo.  Aber- 
deen, 1834. 

The  Flurali^  of  Worlds  the  posittye  argument  of 
Scripture.    By  Sobert  Knight    8to.,  Bagster,  1855. 
InkabitanU  of  the  Moon, 

A  Discovery  of  a  New  World ;  or,  a  Discourse  tending 
to  prove  that  'tis  probable  there  may  be  another  habit- 
able World  in  the  Moon.  By  John  Wilkint,  late  Lord 
Bishop  of  Chester.  (First  ed.  16S8.)  4th  ed.  8vo.  Lend. 
1C84. 

Theses  Qnadragesimales,  vis.  qood lana  sit  habita- 

bUis a  Carolo  Potter.    Oxon  (before  1658). 

Adventures  in  the  Moon  and  odier  Worlds.  8vo. 
1886. 

The  31  oon  Hoax ;  or,  a  Discovery  that  the  Moon  has 
a  vast  Population  of  Human  Beings.    8vo.,  1859. 

W.  0.  B. 

Malvern  Link. 

At  about  the  same  time  as  Sir  David  Brewster's 
vork,  and  another  attributed  to  Dr.  Whewell,  ap- 
|>eared,  a  third,  if  not  also  a  fourth,  emanated 
from  the  Ber.  baden  Powell.  I  have  not  now 
the  means  of  referring,  and  do  not  know  whether 
W.  S.  L  S.  included  in  his  list  the  contribution 
on  this  subject  by  Fontenelle  in  his  third  volume, 
and  the  essay  by  WiUdns,  163a         J.  W.  D. 

Besides  the  works  mentioned  bv  W.  S.  L.  S.,  I 
know  of  the  following,  of  which  I  have  a  copy  :— 

A  Discovery  of  a  New  World ;  or,  a  Discourse  tend- 
ing to  prove  tiiat  'tis  probable  there  may  be  another 
fiabiteble  World  in  the  Moon.  With  a  Discourse  Con- 
cerning the  probability  of  a  passage  thither.  By  John 
WilkiDs,  late  Lord  Bishop  of  Chestor.  London,  Printed 
for  John  Gellibreod  at  the  Golden  BaU  in  8t  Paul's 
Church  Yard,  1688. 

To  which  is  added,  forming  a  second  part, — 

A  Discourse  concerning  a  New  Planet,  tending  to 
prove  that  'tis  probable  our  Earth  is  one  of  the  Planets. 
Edward  T.  DxTim. 


W.  8.  L.  S.  probably  possesses  a  little  book 
(Anon.)  with  this  title,  published  by  Bagster  in 
1865.  But  he  may  be  glad  to  know  of  another 
(Bell  &  Daldy,  same  date),  which  failed  to  attract 
much  attention.  It  is  entitled,  "  A  Few  more 
Words  <m  Ihe  Plurality  of  WorUe,  by  W.  S. 
Jacob,  F.R.A.S.,  Astronomer  to  the  Hon.  E.  L 
Gdmpany.''  This  shillingsworth  is  by  far  the 
most  important  reply  called  forth  by  Dr.  Whewell'a 
essay,  as  Mr.  Jacob  assails  (and  I  think  disproves) 
the  astronomical  facte  and  observations  on  which 
that  ingenious  essay  was  based.  The  conclusion 
at  which  he  arrives  is  this:— 

"  It  is  certainly  pottibU  (i.«.  the  contrary  cannot  be 
proved)  that  our  Earth  mav  be  the  onlj  bod/  brought  to 
the  degree  of  perfection  in  which  we  see  it—tlie  only 
one  as  yet  inhabited  by  intelligent  creatures  caoable  of 
knowing  their  Creator,  or  even  the  only  one  inhabited  at 
all ;  but  it  is  in  the  highest  degree  ivufrcibohU  tiiat  such 
should  be  the  actual  stete  of  things." 

G.  L.  FgNTOir. 

SaaSemo. 

On  this  subject  we  have,  in  French,  Fontenelle'a 
EnJbreHme  mr  la  PluraliU  dee  Mondee^  Paris, 
1686.  The  comic  Mrt  of  the  question  is  touched 
upon  in  Cyrand  de  Bergerac's  Voyage  dans  la  Xune, 
and  Histoire  Comique  da  £taU  et  Empires  iu 
Soleilf  and  in  Voltaire's  Mieromdgas. 

G.  Massoh. 

SiLHOUBTTES,  OR  BlACK  PROFILE    PORTRAITS 

(6"»  S.  V.  308).— Isaac  Disraeli,  in  his  CuriosUiu 
of  Literature^  second  series,  in  an  article  on  "  Poli- 
tical Nicknames,"  says  that  Silhouette  was  the 
name  of  a  minister  of  state  in  France  in  1759, 
who  could  only  suggest  excessive  economy  as  a 
remedy  for  an  exhausts!  exchequer,  and  that  the 
wits  ridiculed  him  by  pretending  to  teke  hia 
advice,  and  cutting  their  coato  short,  using  wooden 
snuff-boxes,  and  offering  as  portratte  profiles  traced 
by  a  black  pencil  on  the  shadow  cast  by  a  candle 
on  white  paper.  C  T.  B. 

I  know  of  no  portraita  with  the  wig  reaching 
to  the  coUar-bone,  which  was  worn  by  old  men 
into  the  leign  of  George  III.,  1760.  We  have 
several  of  our  family,  which  must  have  been  taken 
between  1780  and  1800.  In  only  one  instance  la 
the  date  given,  and  that  in  1812— a  later  style, 
with  the  hair,  earrings,  &c.,  pencilled  in  gold. 
Thero  was  a  man  at  ^Ston  when  I  was  at  school 
there— 1864-70— who  still  made  silhouettes,  and 
has  probably  taken  the  profiles  of  many  leading 
men,  which  have  perished  in  the  inevitable 
destruction  of  schoolboy  treasures.      W.  M.  P. 


These  may  not  be  in  use  in  Leeds,  but  they  are 
common  enough  in  the  streete  of  London,  on  board 
the  river  steamboats,  and  at  all  the  holiday  resorts^ 
80  they  can  hardly  be  said  to  be  yet  discontinued. 

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In  the  beginning  of  tlie  preBenfc  oentuiy  sil- 
houettes weze  rery  mnch  in  yogne  in  this  ooantry. 
An  old  lady  tells  me  that  she  remembeis  in  the 
early  days  of  her  life  having  hers  taken  by  an 
aatomaton  in  PiccadiUy.  G.  F.  B.  B. 

«  Talon  "(6"»  S.  ▼.  S68).— I  think  I  have  solved 
this  problem  in  my  Etywu>log%cal  Dietutnary. 
There  is  evidence  that  tahn  meant  '*  bird's  claw  " 
in  English  at  least  as  early  as  the  fourteenth 
century.  The  English  version  of  MandevUys 
Traveli  tells  us  that  a  griffin  "  hath  his  taUmns  so 
longe  and  so  large  and  grete  upon  his  feet,  as 
though  the!  weren  homes  of  grete  oxen  ";  and 
again,  in  the  alliterative  Bomanee  of  AUxandtr 
ed.  StevensoD,  1.  6454,  some  griffins  are  described 
as  taking  knights  up  ''in  thaire  idUmi."  Palsgrave 
has,  ''  Tenant  of  a  byrde,  the  hynder  olawe,  [in 
French]  taJanJ*  There  cannot  be  a  moment's 
doubt  as  to  the  etymology ;  it  meant  originally  the 
hinder  claw  of  a  bird's  foot,  tern  Low  Lat  aca 
ialmum^  a  derivative  of  talut,  I  suspect  that  the 
peculiar  sense  is  English  or  Norman  only,  and  due 
to  the  old  terms  of  hawldng.  It  was  quite  the 
etiquette  of  hawking  to  have  a  peculiar  name  for 
every  conceivable  part  of  a  hawk's  body. 

Walter  W.  Skxat. 

TdUm  may  have  been  first  used  for  the  hind  toe 
of  a  bird  of  prey,  in  strict  analogy  with  Uie  proper 
meaning  of  the  French  word  as  denoting  the  heel 
of  the  foot  or  shoe,  and  then  applied  more  widely 
to  include  the  other  three  toes  also  with  it 
Morris,  in  his  descriptions  of  birds,  speaks  of  the 
feet,  toes,  and  daws  separately;  but  Johnson 
presumably  intended,  bv  the  definition  "the  claw 
of  a  bird  of  prey,"  to  indnde  all  these  parts  under 
the  one  name  of  tahn,  W.  K  Bucbxbt. 

A  Yard  of  Beer  (6**  S.  v,  368).— Some  thirty- 
five  years  ago  a  yard  of  ale  could  be  obtained  at 
the  Wrestlers'  Inn,  Petty  Cuiy,  Cambridge.  The 
glass  was  similar  in  shape  to  that  described  by 
Sir  Johk  Maclean,  but  it  held  a  quart  and  one- 
fifth  of  a  pint.  The  inn  was  much  frequented 
by  Cambndge  undergraduates,  and  many  futile 
efforts  were  made  to  empty  the  yard  of  ale  at  a 
single  draught  I  was  present  on  one  occasion 
when  the  feat  was  accomplished  by  an  under- 
graduate for  a  wager;  but  the  landlord  sub- 
seqnently  informed  me  that  he  was  an  **  old  hand 
at  it,  and  knew  the  dodge."  The  yard  of  butter 
is  still  an  institution  at  Cambridge,  but  whether 
the  "  yard  of  ale  "  still  exists  I  know  not. 

J-  !"•  F. 

16,  Wejmonth  Street,  W. 

I  have  a  cutting  from  the  Coventry  Standard  of 
last  year  as  follows  : — 

**  Speaking  of  the  iingnkr  shafis,  tome  of  them  a 
aviidred  feet  deep,  found  in  the  chalk  about  Bezley  and 
other  places  in  £ent,and  which  are  tapposed  to  have 


been  made  by  our  neolithic  anceston  in  the  qneit  for 
flints  for  their  weapons,  the  Bev.  J.  Q.  Wood  remarks : — 
*  At  the  bottom  of  each  shaft  is  a  globular  chamber,  lO' 
that  the  whole  mine  very  much  resembles  an  exaggerated 
claret  bottle  without  the  handle.  By  a  curious  coin- 
cidence, the  shape  of  the  Bexley  shafts  is  exactly  thai 
of  a  local  beer  measure  which  is  held  in  great  estlma- 
tioo.  In  several  houees  maj  be  seen  an  advertisement 
that "  Beer  is  aold  bj  the  yrd."  And  lo  it  is,  In  accord* 
anoe  with  a  local  custom.  There  is  a  glsss  vessel  exactly 
three  feet  in  length,  with  a  very  narrow  stem,  dightly 
lipped  at  the  mouth,  and  a  globular  bowl  at  the  bottonir 
exactly  resembling  the  pit,  the  lipped  mouth  represent- 
ing the  conical  entrance  to  the  pit,  and  the  bulb  answer* 
ing  to  the  domed  chamber.  This  is  filled  with  beer,  and 
anj  one  who  can  drink  it  without  spilling  it  may  have  it 
for  nothing;  but  if  he  spills  one  drop  he  pays  double^ 
It  looks  BO  easy,  and  it  is  so  difficult,  not  to  say  fanpoe- 
sible  to  a  novice.  You  take  the  vessel  in  both  hands, 
apply  the  lip  to  your  mouth,  and  then  gently  tilt  It  At 
first  the  beer  flows  quietly  and  slowly,  and  you  think- 
how  admirably  you  are  overcoming  the  difficulty. 
Suddenly,  when  the  vessel  is  tilted  a  little  more,  the  air 
rushes  up  the  stem  into  the  bowl,  and  splashes  about- 
half  a  pint  into  your  face.  The  cheapest  plan  is  to  treat 
the  barman  to  a  yard  of  beer,  and  see  how  he  does  it. 
He  will  be  onl^  too  hai>py  to  oblige  you,  and  the  Bexley 
ale  vanishes  with  a  rapidity  only  equalled  by  that  of  the 
beer  consumed  at  Heidelberg  among  the  students.  The 
custom  has  extended  far  beyond  Bexley,  and  not  only  in 
the  neighbouring  villages,  bnt  even  near  Oxford,  the- 
yard  of  beer  is  advertised.*  *' 

Gbosos  Price. 
Birmingham. 

The  yard  of  beer  (ale)  is  disonssed  in  ^  N.  &  Q.,"^ 
4«^  S.  uL  106,  179 ;  that  of  wine,  A^  S.  x.  49^ 
116.  Ed.  MaMHAT.L. 

Dr.  Bichard  Parsons's  MS.  CoLLscnova 
(6^  S.  V.  347).— These  collections  came  into  the 
Bodleian  Library  in  1759  with  the  rest  of  the 
Bawlinson  MSS.  Thsj  are  marked  '*  Ma  Bawl. 
B.  323/'  and  are  folly  described  in  Mr.  Macray's 
catalogue  of  the  MS».  Fama. 

Oxford. 

«Beilic»'  (6«»  S.  V.  328).— The  GaeUe  woni 
rmlie  was  at  first  applied  to  a  stone  placed  over  a. 
grave,  afterwards  to  a  grave  and  a  barying-plaoe. 
It  is  from  rtidh  (pron.  raw\  smooth,  and  Mac,  a 
stone, — a  flat  stone.  See  Highland  Society's  Cfadic- 
Diet  The  word  in  common  use  meanlncr  to  bnry 
is  adhlaie  ;  here  laic  is  the  same  word.  In  Gaelic- 
the  asual  word  for  stone  is  dach.  This  is  the  same 
word  as  leac;  either  c  is  omitted  in  one  case  or 
prefixed  in  the  other;  the  first  view  is  more- 
likely,  as  ci  is  probably  akin  to  gtal,  white ;  the- 
name  for  the  colour  being  taken  from  the  word  for 
a  stone.  This  view  is  supported  by  the  analogue 
case  of  lia,  liath,  a  stone,  and  liaik  Cptoiu  ltaw\ 
grey;  also  by  the  anal<^  of  ao  (pron.  ftyo), 
mist,  fog ;  and  ctar  (pron.iMar),  grey.  The  com- 
position of  adklaie  shows  that  a  stone  was  alwaya 
placed  at  a  grave.  Akin  to  ctar  is  the  Em^ish 
fgtej.  From  liaih  come  the  Welsh  fiunily  aamea 
Lhuyd,  Lloyd.    We  have  lia  in  the  Lia-Fail,  the 


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Stone  of  Destiny,  now  the  most  interesting  object 
(0  be  foand  in  W  estminster  Abbey. 

Thoxas  St&atton. 
HdTonporty  Jhston, 

"Bk-"  as  a  Pbkfix  (6*  S.  ▼.  268).— J5«-  is 
merely  a  form  of  hy  (see  Morris,  Hutorieal  Out- 
lines  of  English  QrammaTf  p.  225).  It  is  a  strange 
thing  that  this  book  is  not  better  Imown.  I  begm 
to  wonder  what  Endkh  grammar  it  is  that  Engush- 
men  make  ose  of.  Trolmbly  none  ;  yet  those  by 
Morrisy  Matzner,  and  Eoch  are  all  of  considerable 
excellence.  The  last  two  are  written  in  German, 
Imt  there  is  an  English  translation  of  Matmer. 
Waltkb  W.  Skbat. 

BiBLIOQBAPHT  OF  ThOXBON'S  '*  SEASONS "  (4^ 

a  XL  419,  434^  630;  xii  68  ;  60"  S.  ▼.  188,  333). 
— ^I  have  before  me  a  copy  of  the  SeasmUj  &c, 
of  James  Thomson,  which,  apparently  unnoticed 
by  biblio^phers,  and  possessug  in  itself  certain 
{Mints  of  mteresty  seems  worthy  of  a  brief  descrip- 
tive  record. 

1.  It  is  published  in  Paris  and  by  a  French 
publisher.  The  title-page  is  as  follows :  ^'  The 
^Stofoni.  By  James  Thomson.  Paris :  Printed  for 
F.  Louis,  &  Severin  Street,  Ko.  110.  1800.'' 
Small  8to.  size,  pp.  252.  On  the  bastard  title, 
Imprinted  by  E^n."  It  contains  four  plates 
illustratlTe  of  the  seasons,  engraved  by  Lambert^ 
with  inscriptions  in  French  and  English. 

2.  It  is  preceded  by  ^  An  Account  of  the  Life 
and  Writings  of  James  Thomson."  pp.  9-38,  which, 
written  in  English,  is  eyidentiT  the  pr^luction 
of  a  foreigner.  This  indiyidusi  was  sufficiently 
master  of  our.  language  to  write  grammatically, 
but  still  could  not  avoid  those  idiomatic  solecisms 
which  a  nativeu  however  inferior  in  vocabular;^ 
and  style^  would  never  have  committed.  This 
may  be  somewhat  amusinj^lv  illustrated  by  his 
condnding  sentences,  in  which,  speaking  of  Thom- 
son's tragedies,  the  writer  says : — 

"  At  preseniy  indeed,  if  we  except  Tanered,  they  are 
seldom  called  for;  the  dmplicity  of  his  plots,  aod  the 


models  he  worked  alter,  not  soiang  the  reigning  taste, 
nor  the  impatience  of  an  English  theatre.  They  may 
hereafter  oomo  to  be  In  vogue;  bat  we  hajourd  no  oom- 
ment  or  oonjeotoxe  upon  them,  or  upon  any  part  of  M. 
Thomson's  works;  neither  need  they  any  defence  or 
apology*  alter  the  reception  they  have  had  at  home,  and 
In  the  foreiffn  langnages  into  which  they  have  been 
translated.  We  shall  only  say.  that,  to  judge  from  the 
Imitationa  of  his  manner,  wnloh  have  been  following 
him  dose,  from  the  verj  first  publication  of  WinUr,  he 
seams  to  have  fixed  no  Inconsiderable  ssra  of  the  En^ish 
poetry." 

Thammnn't  L^f^t  JSimL— Prefixed  to  this  bio- 
graphical notice  are  the  lines  to  '^Amanda"  (Miss 
Young):— 

"Accept,  dear  Njmpb,  a  tribute  due 
To  sacred  firlendslup  and  to  you,'*  &&, 

which,  varied  as  to  these  two  commencing  lines, 
will  be  fouid  on  p.  452  of  voL  iL  of  Pid^ring's 


Aldine  edition  of  Thomson's  Foemsy  1830,  8vo. 
To  these  lines  the  following  note  is  appended  : — 

**  These  verses  were  never  before  pablished.  They  were 
written  by  M.  Thomson,  to  Amand^  then  Miss  Y— g, 
so  often  celebrated,  vrith  a  present  of  the  first  copy  of 
his  Seatont.  They  have  been  oommunicated  to  the 
Editor  by  Mr.  Creech  of  Bdhiburgh." 

This  Mr.  Creech  was  doubtless  the  celebrated 
bookseller  of  Edinburgh,  whose  name  is  immor-^ 
talized  by  Bums  :-^ 

"  May  I  be  Slander*s  common  speech ; 
A  text  for  Inliuny  to  preaoh; 
And  kstiy,  streekit  out  to  bleach 

In  winter  snaw; 
When  I  forget  thee,  Willie  Creech, 
Tho'farawa'"; 

and  whose  miscellaneous  essays  and  sketches  are 
preserved  in  the  volume  entitled  Edinburgh 
Fvtgitive  Pieces^  with  Letters^  containing  a  Con^ 
parative  Eeview  of  the  Modu  of  LietM,  ArU^ 
Commercej  Literature,  Manners,  So.,  of  Edin- 
burgh  ai  different  Periods,  Ac,  Edinburgh,  1816» 
8vo. 

Among  the  friends  and  correspondents  of  this 
gentleman  was  a  certain  Baron  V(>ght,  of  Ham- 
burg, who,  we  are  informed,  had  resided  some 
winters  in  the  Scottish  capita].  Here,  in  1706,  he 
had  published  an  Aeeount  of  the  Management  of 
ihe  Poor  in  Hamburgh;  and  subsequently,  in 
Germany,  a  journal  of  his  travels,  in  whicSi  he 
illustrates  the  state  of  Edinburgh  society  by  a 
descriptive  account  of  the  remarkable  men  with 
whom  he  had  there  become  acquainted.  Is  it 
probable  that  he  was  the  editor  of  this  edition  of 
the  Seasons  t 

It  seems  a  little  singular  that,  at  this  early 
period,  there  was  a  demand  for  the  Seasons  which 
could  not  be  supplied  by  English-printed  edi- 
tions ;  and  that  they  were  issued  by  a  publisher 
who  was  not  concerned,  so  £»  as  I  know,  with  the 
English  book-trade.  Periiaps  some  one  of  your 
oorre8[K>ndentB  may  be  able  to  give  me  some  in- 
formation respecting  this  curious  edition. 

William  Bates,  B.A. 

Birmingham. 

A  Motto  for  a  Dbivkivo  Cop  (6*  S.  v.  109» 
155).— The  following  motley  list  occurs  to  me :— 
"WeshaL" 
"  None  est  bibendmn."— iTor. 
"  Est  modus  in  rebos ;  snnt  certi  deniqne  fines 
Qaoe  ultra  eitraque  nequit  consbtere  rectom."— ITor. 
''Asses  y  a  si  trop  n*y  a."— O^f  French  Proverb. 
"  Narrator  et  prisoi  Catonis 
Ssspe  mero  caloisse  virtos.'* 
"  Hoc  qaoqne  virtotom  quondam  certamine  magnnm 
Sooratem  palmam  promeroisse  feront.** 
'^Ni  trop  ni  trop  peu." 
« In  vino  Veritas." 
'Otvov  KartovTOi  ivtwktovo'iv  en;.— ^ITerocL 
«<Benemihi!   Benevobisl** 


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«8eim  Oenrt  e  Bacoo 
Venweidighiaocio." 

Aiiaereon's  well -known  Y9ne,  *H  ytf  fuXatva 
wtvcc,  would  be  too  long^  bat  the  last  two  lines 
might  be  suitable  : — 

Tt /jot  aaY€0-^,  haipot, 
.  Kavrcj)  O^Aovri  wivciv ; 
Is  Bbd  Lion  fond  of  alliterations  1— 
"AGaUoeCaUgo^eaUe!" 
M^  TpecTc  furpTfTTi  fteTptd(€T€f  fjoj  /irfTpvtdo'io. 
"OivovxpriC^vrt  XP^oTOivcoi. 

Alphovbb  Estoclst. 
8t.  Mai7*g  Oollege,  Peekham. 

From  drinkinnf  caps  dated  1580  (sOver)  :^ 

**  Inter  pocola  mnlta  mala." 

•'  Neo  Stolto  Dili  est  in  poenla  gaitdia."    1580. 

**Luxiiria6tOolacaTeai."    1824. 

«*EbrietasTiciora  radix."    1624. 

«' Talis  Tita  finis  ita."    1624. 

*'  Ebrietas  neo  madida  nee  sicca."   1624. 

I  suppose  the  querist  knows  the  *^  One  more  and 
then  "  in  blue  and  white  on  mugs  and  punch  bowls. 

P.  P. 
Mb.  Gantillov  anticipates  my  intended  sug- 
gestion of  **  Ne  quid  nimis."    Perhaps  the  words 
«[/>i(rrov  fi€v  t)6(Dp  would  not  be  out  of  place. 

£.  H.  M. 
HastiDgB. 

I  have  seen  upon  a  friend's  mantel-piece  an  old 
hemispherical  drinking   cup,   mounted    with   a 
ailrer  rim,  upon  which  was  engraTed  the  following : 
"  When  first  jon  take  me  in  your  hand 
Behold  yon  see  I  cannot  stand : 
Bot  if  B.  do  not  deoeiTe  me, 
I  '11  make  yoa  so  before  yon  lesTc  me." 

0.  L.  Princk 
I  would  suggest  the  concise  Dutch  proTerb, 
"HondmaatofUuit," 
which  means  in  English, 

"  Keep  within  bomds,  or  leave  off." 

See  «  N.  Q.,"  !■*  S.  ix.  267.       Gbobgb  Pricb. 
Btrmiogham. 

I  would  suggest  the  answer  of  the  dirine  bottle 
to  Panurge,  "  Trinck."  E.  E.  Strbbt. 

Chichester. 

Hauhtbd  Housbb  (6«»  S.  ▼.  329).— Mb.  Ivorax 
forgets  that  people  in  general  do  not  like  these 
imputatioDs  on  their  houses.  I  know  of  half  a 
dozen  so-called  haunted  houses,  and  I  know  things 
quite  inexplicable  have  occurred  in  three  of  them, 
but  I  should  give  rery  great  offence  if  I  told  my 
ghost  stories  to  Mr.  Inoram.  P.  P. 

Thb  Two  Gborob  Olivbrs,  D.D.:  Allibokb's 
«*DiOT.»  (2»*  S.  ix.  404,  514 ;  S^  S.  t.  137,  202). 
---Although  in  «  N.  &  Q."  the  works  of  the  Rev. 
Geo.  Oliver,  D.D.,  of  St.  Nicholas's  Priory,  Exeter, 


are  enumerated,  readers,  to  avoid  a  eomedy  of 
errors,  must  be  again  reminded  that  the  names 
George  and  Oliver  were  borne  by  two  recent  oon- 
temporanr  writers,  both  writers  on  ecdesiastical 
topc^ipk^y  and  oolleffiate  churches,  both  church 
digmtaries^  and  both  having  the  grade  of  doctor. 
The  point  of  separation  was  of  church  and 
choice  of  subjects.  For  the  (me  Doctor  O. 
Oliver  was  of  the  Anglican  Ghurch,  and  not  only 
author  of  a  histoir  of  the  Collegiate  Ghurch  of 
Wolverhampton,  of  which  he  was  sacrist,  but  the 
writer  of  various  books  on  freemasonry ;  wheroas 
the  other  Dr.  G.  Oliver  was  a  member  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  and,  although  partly  educated  in 
Staffordshire,  counts  among!Bt  Devon  writers.  A 
memoir  of  the  latter  Oliver  was  prefixed  to  this 
rev.  gentleman's  Htdory  of  ExeUr^  published 
after  his  death  in  1861.  An  enor  in  dueriminju- 
tion  is  a  blemish  in  a  valuable  work  (Allibone's). 
It  may  be  that  the  title-page  to  the  posthumous 
Hiitory  of  Exder  was  a  somewhat  contributing 
cause,  for  the  editor,  Mr.  E.  Smirke,  there  styles 
the  author  D.D.,  or  Doctor  of  Divinity,  a  common 
Anglican  degree ;  had  he  termed  him  Doctor  in 
Theology  the  reader's  attention  would  have  been 
at  once  drawn  to  the  point  of  difierence,  and  he 
would  have  seen  that  no  member  of  the  Aqglican 
Church  was  in  question.  AUibone  has,  by  plum- 
ing wrong  feathers  and  intermixing  them,  uid 
assigning  them  to  the  same  wing,  formed  a  new 
nondescript  bird  as  strange  as  some  of  the  politicul 
nondescripts  of  our  days.  T.  J.  JUL 

Stafford. 

Univbrbitt  Towhs  (6*  S.  iv.  328,  644). — 
Prof.  Bonney,  in  his  lecture  called  A  CSu^pier  in 
the  Life  Hikwry  of  an  Old  ITiMeemiy— i.SL,  0am- 
bridffe — ^notices  ^  the  idea  of  federated  collegei^  as 
at  Aberdeen  and  St.  Andrews,  or  residence  within 
the  college  walls,  as  at  Dublin  and  to  some  extent 
at  Bologna,**  but  he  throws  no  lig^  on  the  query 
I  proposed  at  the  above  reference.  Certainly  none 
of  those  he  mentions  corresponds  to  Oxford  and 
Cambridge.  Louvain  and  nvia  (or  Padua)  have 
been  suggested  to  me;  but  I  am  unable  to  say 
whether  any  of  these  carries  out  the  university 
system  of  our  English  univerrities,  though  I  am 
pretty  sure  none  corresponds  to  our  university 
towns.  C.  M.  L 

AthensBum  Club. 

«  Rbnbob  "  (6«»  S.  v.  178, 214,  377).— A  noent 
example  of  the  use  of  this  word  will  be  found  in 
the  Layi  of  the  Land  League,  by  T.  D.  S[ulli- 
van,  M.P.],  to  which  I  have  before  refened  in 
"N.&Q.'*^:— 

"  And  then  he  wrote  a  letter  and  sint  it  to  the  Lesgna, 
Saying,    <From  the  cause  of  Ireland  I  never  wilft 


renege, 
Isleworth. 


Jaues  Brittbv. 


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Rhtxxlsss  Words  (6^  &  t.  46,  173,  208, 
317,  337).— In  reply  to  Jatdki,  I  would  say  that 
I  was  aware  that  Annandale's  Ogihie  (1682)  and 
Nottall  give  '^kil"  as  the  prommciation  of  hiin; 
bat  I  also  relied  on  the  fMt  that  an  Excise  officer 
(who  had  been  some  time  in  SnfToIk,  and  who  was 
likely,  I  thought,  to  know  the  osnal  pnmaneiatbn) 
•poke  of  a  "^  kil "  when  describing  his  duties. 

J.  R  Thorhx. 

"Nick-Nacttatort''  (««»  S.  t.  207,  338).— 
This  word  is  used  by  Boger  North  in  his  Life  of 
Lord  Kmfer  ChiUdfard,  He  speDs  it  with  a  k^ 
thos,  *'  kniek-knaok-atory."  The  sentence  in  which 
the  word  oceozs  rans  thos :  **  One  Mr.  Weld, 
a  rich  philosopher,  lired  in  Bloomsbory.  He  was 
single  and  his  house  a  sort  of  hnick-knack-atory  " 
(L%ve$  of  the  Northg,  ed.  1826,  yoL  ii.  p.  180). 

0.  T.  B. 

Dido  (6»  a  ▼.  88, 154, 198).— Fuerstius  renders 
niH,  At5w,  LiOmnourdige,  and  tlOwV^  Blisa, 

I        •  IT      -^ 

Frohlidii.  B.  S.  Charnogk. 

A  MlRIATURS  OF  THX  LATS  SiR  BOBXRT  PXXL 

(6^  S.  T.  109,  276,  317).— I  must  thank  the  corre- 
spondents who  haye  landly  replied  to  my  query. 
Ijie  miniature  represents  a  yeiy  handsome  man, 
about  thirty,  with  curly  brown  hair  and  blue  eyes. 
He  is  diBfignred  by  the  big  blue  coat  and  great 
'*  choker"  of  the  period,  bat  the  face  is  exquintely 
painted,  and  the  miniature  signed  **K  BoAodin, 
182&''  I  found  it  in  a  curiosity  shop  at  I^rons, 
and  wri.tten  on  the  back  is  ''Northwit  |ncj  col- 
lection Sir  Bobert  PeeL"  K  &  B. 

"Maltb  Mohbt^  (6*  S.  ▼.  88, 196).— «  Malt- 
shot,  malt-scot,  some  payment  for  making  malt— 
'SolTerit  de  maU-^tot  termino  cireumcisionis 
Domini  20  Denarios'  (Somner,  Cf  Oavd-hini^ 
p.  27)."— Gowel's  IntarpnUr  of  Law  Tsrew,  ed. 

1701.  F.  0.  BiREBBGK  TXRRT. 

Csrdiff. 

Thb  Orioik  or  thr  Word  "Nawt*  (1**  a 
zL  424  ;  4«i'  S.  ▼.  564 ;  tL  182,  264,  312,  425).— 
*^  Fleet  Ditch  was  [about  the  beginning  of  the 
fourteenth  century]  of  such  breadth  and  depth 
that  ten  or  twelre  ships'  naviss  at  once,  with 
merchandise,  were  wont  to  come  to  the  bridge 
Fleete  "  (Stow).  This  passage  seems  to  corroborate 
the  statement  of  R  S.  that  railway  ^naTvies"  are 
the  representatlTes  of  canal  *'  nayigators  "  of  old* 
J.  A.  WxsTwooD  Qliyxr. 

Hsmpstetd,  N.W. 


found  amongst  the  ruins  of  the  Street  of  the> 
Knights.  On  it  was  a  shield  with  a  cherroa 
between  three  leopards'  fisoes^  and  underneath  the* 
inscription,  *'  Fxeie  Francois  Forbuss,  1512." 

A.  A. 
Piilochrr. 

<'The  Poxnc  Mirror"  (6^  S.  T..228,  359). 
— ^I  hare  a  copy  of  the  second  edition,  1817,  on. 
the  title  of  which  a  former  possessor  has  written 
'*By  Jamse  Hogg,  the  Ettnck  Shepherd."  The^ 
preface  appears  to  be  the  same  as  that  of  1816.  It 
contains  fourteen  pieces,  Mofessedly  by  the  scTei^ 
poets  mentioned  by  Mr.  Frbrlots.         B*  B* 

Boiton,  Lincolnshire. 


J.  Ward,  Painter   (6**  S.  t.  308).  —  The- 

Sioture  of  the  **  Becking  Horse  "  was  exhibited  by 
ames  Ward  (afterwaras  B.A.}  at  the  Academy 
in  1792  (his  first  year  of  exhibitmg).  At  that  time> 
he  painted  domestic  pictures  in  the  style  of  Mor- 
land.  The  children  aro  eyidently  not  portraits,  as 
all  the  portraits  in  1792  have  be^  rery  fully  iden- 
tified, and  this  is  passed  over  as  a  fiuncy  subjects 
Bedgrave  says  that  James  Ward  studied  engrayinff 
under  hii  brother  William  and  J.  R  Smith,  and 
that,  having  in  1792  and  1793  exhiUted  some 
dever  rustic  pictures,  he  was  appointed  in  1794. 
'  iter  and  mezzotint  engraTer  to  the  Prince  of* 
"  Alobrvon  Graves. 


**paini 
Wales, 


PRONITKCIATIOir  OF  FORBSS  (6'''  S.  ▼.  269, 316). 
— ^My  neighbour  Dr.  Forbes,  B.N.,  when  serving, 
some  years  ago,  as  staff  surgeon  on  board  the  flag- 
ship in  the  Mediterranean,  had  presented  to  him 
by  the  consul  at  Bhodes  a  stone  which  had  been  ( 


<< Outward"  (e^  S.  v.  269).— In  south-east 
Cornwall  and  in  Devonshiro  a  man  of  loose- 
character  would  be  described  as  ''outwardly 
given."  Wn.  Penoxzxt. 

Torquay. 

**  The  Gasoadb,"  bt  Butsdabl  (6^  8.  v.  287). 
— This  pictnro  is  in  the  museum  of  Amsterdam, 
Na  338  in  the  sixth  edition  of  the  catalogue  iiv 
French,  date  1876.  M.  D. 

Old  Houses  with  Secret  Chavbers  (6^^  S. 
xiL  248,  312;  6U'  S.  iL  12, 117,  295,  433,  523;; 
iiL  96;  iv.  116,  217).— There  was  ''a  general! 
precaution  in  the  domestic  architecture  of  the> 
Middle  Ages,  when,  horn  the  numerous  deadly 
fends,  no  house  beinc[  securo  firom  force  or  surprise, 
almost  eveiy  habitation  had  some  contrivance  for 
concealment  or  escape."  Then  aro  several  in* 
stances  (particularly  in  Scotland)  enumerated  ixk 
Laif$  of  ih$  Dor  Fontt,  by  John  Sobieski  and 
Charles  Bdward  Stuart,  voL  li  pp.  484-90  (2  voUl 
8va  1848),  Blackwood  &  Sons,  Edinburgh  and 
London.  L.  £•  H. 


SiK  James  Dyer,  Chief  Justice  TEim 
Blizabbth  (6'''  S.  V.  269). — ^No  allusion  is  mado 
to  this  ''Hsmous"  charge  to  the  mnd  jury  In  the 
account  of  the  life  of  Sir  James  I)yef  prefixed  to 
Dyer's  Beporii  (1794X  Neither  does  Lord  Camp- 
bell In  the  Liva  of  ike  OhUfJuiUoee  of  England 


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'(1840),  ToL  i  pp.  17&>93y  nor  Fobs  in  the 
^udga  of  England  (1867),  vol  ▼.  pp.  479-85, 
iDake  any  reference  to  it.  G.  Tibhsb. 

Hbbaldic  (6*  S.  T.  220).  —  In  Gbver's 
Ordinary  of  Amu  I  cannot  find  any  exactly  like 
those  described  by  Mr.  Frost  ;  the  nearest  are  as 
follows : — 

At.,  two  bars  yvles,  on  a  canton  of  the  second  a 
xinqaefoil  of  the  first— Derwentwater.  This  is 
the  only  one  which  mentions  a  dnqaefoil  on  the 
oanton,  of  which  the  cobnia  seem  to  be  near. 

Ar.y  two  bars  and  a  canton  sa.  — Benly,  or 
Bentley. 

Erm.,  two  ban,  and  a  canton  ga.  joined  to  the 
first ;  thereon  a  dnqoefoil  or.— Preston. 

The  arms  of  Farre  in  Edmondson's  HeroMry  are 
quite  different,  tiz.,  Gil,  a  saltier  ootised  between 
four  flears-de-llB  or.  Strix. 

The  coat  of  arms  of  Farr  is,  Gales,  a  saltire  or, 
mmnonnted  of  the  first  between  four  flenrsHie-lis 
-amnt  The  nnder-named  are  the  various  families 
who  bear  arms,  two  bars,  on  a  canton  a  cinqaefoil, 
namely: — 

Pipard,  or  Pipart — ^Argent,  two  ban  sable,  on 
«  canton  of  the  second  a  cinquefoil  pierced  or. 

Peperde.— Argent,  two  ban  anire,  on  a  canton 
■of  the  second  a  cinqaefoil  of  the  fint 

Picard,  Piper. — ^Argent,  two  ban  azore,  on  a 
canton  of  the  second  a  ciDquefoil  or. 

Pypard. — ^Ar^ent,  two  ban  azure,  on  a  canton 
'sable  a  dnquefod  or.  John  Staksfrld. 

HarehilU  View,  dmt  Leeds. 

Mr.  Frobt  asks  whether  the  arms  given  at  the 
above  reference  (ar,,  two  ban  sa.,  on  a  canton  of 
the  second  a  dnonefoil  or.)  are  the  arms  of  the 
iamUj  of  Farr.  Edmondaon  (1780)  gives  some- 
what similar  ones  6ir.,  two  ban  su.,  each  charged 
with  three  cinqnefoils  or,  a  chief  indented  of  the 
last)  as  the  arms  of  Farra,  ca  Norfolk. 

J.  8.  Udal. 

Inner  Temple. 

According  to  Papworth  this  coat  belongs  to 
Pipard  and  Twyford.  J.  W.  M. 

William  Ftnvorx,  Lawtxr,  Jamaica  (2"* 
S.  viiL  405).— Although  my  question  is  not  solved 
«B  to  the  position  held  by  the  above  in  Jamaica, 
I  have  recovered  sev^nl  documents  from  which  I 
:find  that  in  1740  he  was  sworn  in  open  court 
before  the  king  himself  at  Westminster  to  act  as 
an  attorney  in  the  court  of  Einc^s  Bench  ;  in  1753 
he  was  appointed  ensign  in  Lieut-GoL  Murray's 
comj^y  of  foot  raised  in  St.  Catharine,  Jamaica  ; 
4ind  in  1756  lieutenant  in  Major-General  Ballard 
Bebkford's  regiment  I  find  also  that  he  married  in 
Spanish  Town  Church,  1753.  Eiiz.  Beah,  and  had  a 
•son  bom  1758,  baptized  March  20  following; 
^  The  Honble  Sam^  Whitehome,  Eioh<  Bedwood 


&  his  wife  were  Sponsors."  He  also  mentions  his 
"good  friend"  Heniy  Byndloss,  attorney-genecal, 
the  Bedwoods,  Bodons,Bennalls,Lewiaes,  and  other 
Jamaica  fiunilies,  mostly  conae^ed  with  the  legal 
profession ;  and  I  have  been  given  to  understand 
that  Wm.  Fynmore  was  somewhat  more  than  an 
attorney,  but  as  yist  have  fiuled  in  mv  search  for 
his  exact  position  in  the  island.  I  shall,  therefore, 
be  much  obliged  by  any  information  from  thcMe 
acquainted  with  Jamaica.  B.  J.  Ftvmorb. 
Sandgat^Eent 

«  AuLD  EoBW  Gray  "  (6*  S.  v.  145, 170, 212, 
232,  255). — ^The  following  may  be  of  interest : — 

"Uevef,  Bev.  Wilttam,  bom  1748,  beoune  in  1779 
rector  of  Wrington,  Somemt,  the  bifthplMe  of  John 
Locke,  the. philosopher.  He  compoeed  mach  nered 
muiio,  but  will  be  remembered  only  m  the  anthor  of  the 
air  of '  Auld  Bobin  Gray '  (words  by  Lady  Anne  Banaid, 
bom  Lindsay  of  Balcarres),  wriUen  in  1770,  but  not 
known  as  his  tOl  1812.  He  died  at  Wriogton  May  25, 
1828.*'— Qrote's  Dictumani  of  Jiutie  and  MutieianM 

asso). 

Edward  H.  Marshall. 

St.  Luke  xxiil  15  (6«»  S.  iv.  465,  498 ;  t.  35, 
137,  217,  373). — I  do  not  wish  to  go  on  with  this 
subject,  but  Mr.  Birkbbck  Tsrrt  makes  me  deny 
the  veiy  oonstruotion  that  I  asserted !  Has  he 
carefally  read  the  correspondence?  ''Done  fry 
him  "  was  m^  point ;  this  he  now  makes  me  deny 
in  his  qaotations.  My  **  lexicographer  "  was  Deaa 
Scott  (Liddell  and  Scott).     H.  F.  Woolrtch. 

Wrblbt  aud  Moorb  («•*»  S.  v.  369).— It  is  not 
veiT  probable  that  Moore  was  mach  acquainted 
with  Wesley's  h^mns,  bat  higUy  probable  that  he 
was  well  aoqoamted  wiUi  Mat  Prior,  who  had 
written  long  before  Wesley — 
"  Amid  Two  Seas  on  one  small  Point  of  Land 

Wear^d,  uncertain,  and  amas'd  We  stand : 

On  either  Side  our  Tboogfats  inceoant  torn ; 

Forward  We  dread ;  and  looking  beek  We  movn. 

Losing  the  Present  in  this  dnbions  Hast ; 

And  lost  Our  selves  betwixt  the  Future,  and  the  Past.** 
Solomon  Poteer,  bit.  lit 

Wesley  was  so  fond  of  Prior  that  he  reprinted 
some  of  his  poems  in  the  eaily  volumes  of  the 
Arminian  magasMM^  and  no  doubt  Wesley  had 
the  above  passage  in  mind  when  his  wrote  his 
hymn.  B.  H. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6^  8.  xiL  410). 

IXalopuet  in  a  Library,  1797,  8to.— Messrs.  Hallntt 
and  Laing,  in  the  first  volume  of  their  Dktionanf  of 
Ansnymout  and  Pitudonymout  LiUraiure,  attribute  the 

authorship  to Thomson,  giving  BHL  Crit,  ziL  £69, 

as  ft  referenoe.  O.  F.  B.  B. 

(6>hav.  848.) 

La  Sdmee  da  MHaiUa  Is  the  work  of  Louis  Jobert, 
who  was  bom  in  1687,  not  1617  (see  Brunet,  Mannd  dn 
Librair^,  and  the  BiograpkU  UnioeruUe), 

QusTAva  Hassov. 

"nfuthnprfatttpoorlapr^midre  fois4Pftrisenl68S, 
k  r6hnprim6  k  Amsterdam  I'sanfie  soivante"  («*Pi€fsoe 


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de  I'Edltrar/'  p.  xix,  ed.  Parif,  1789).  The  tiiihor, 
Jobert,  in  his  pref.,  pp.  zzxix-zlt  fpeaks  of  th«  Leipiig 
•dition  in  Latin,  io  wnioh  hii  name  was  put  against  his 
wish,  and  says  that  his  wofIe  had  been  translated  also 
into  English.  Bren  the  latest  edition  has  been  super- 
leded  by  more  modem  works.  W.  B.  Buokut. 

Voyage  a  VIU  de  JVcuics  was  written  by  Bemardin  de 
Saint  Pierre,  the  author  of  PomI  tt  Virffinie,  BtutUi  de 
la  Naimre,  &o.  See  Sainte-BeuTe's  Cauieriet  du  JAmdi, 
£tog,  UtUvmeiie,  Qusz^vs  Massok. 

JUman  Fwrgerite;  wr^  a  Tv%4  AtwwA  ef  FaUe  Me- 
cordt,  kc,  Lond.,  1678,  8to.  The  author  of  this  work 
was  Thomas  Tiaheme,  B.D.  of  Brasenose  College, 
Oxford,  a  notioe  of  whom  is  in  Wood's  Ath,  Ox<m^  lii. 
1016.  He  wrote  also  ChrtMlMm  Bikida;  or,  Divine 
Morality,  London,  1675,  Sto.,  and  on  the  title-pege  says, 
'by  Thomas  Traheme,  B.D.,  Author  of  the  Homan 
Forgeries."  It  is  also  mentiimed  as  his  in  the  list  of 
books  at  the  end  of  Nelson's  Coiiii<0rmtiM,  1678.  Watt, 
Btbl.  Brit^  eomoHiy  assigns  it  to  him.  but  it  is  some- 
times attributed  to  Dr.  T.  Comber,  who  published  a 
work  partly  under  the  same  title^  rix.,  Bomem  Forfftriet 
in  Councils  dvrinjf  Ae  Four  Ftnt  iJenturiet,  vuA  an 
Appendix  eoneemtng  Forgeriei  in  Baronius,  Lond., 
1678, 8?o.,  as  giten  by  Watt,  B.  BriL 

W.  E.  BUCKLBT. 

By  Thomas  Traheme.  Cf.  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.  by 
Bliss,  ill.  1016 ;  Catalogue  of  Traett  for  and  agaimt 
Popery  (Chetham  Society,  1869),  p.  282. 

J.  Ivoui  Dbbdgb. 
(6U>S.  T.849,879.) 

An  Buay  on  Medals',  &e.,  1784.— See  Nichols's 
LUerary  Anecdotes  (1814),  Yol.  riii,  p.  150:  Bohn's 
edition  (1864)  of  Lomides,  toL  It.  p.  1871;  and  Messrs. 
Balkett  and  Laing's  JHetionary  of  Anonymous  and 
Pseudonymous  Liierainrs,  yoL  i.  p.  799.     O.  F.  B.  B. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Waittkd  (!■*  S.  xiL 
204).— 

"  Qui  jacet  in  terra  non  habet  unde  cadat." 
Hb.  BvcxLiT  has  lately  shown  {ante,  p.  118)  the  hating 
interest  which  may  attach  to  a  notice  in  "N.  &  Q."  by 
reference  to  a  query  in  the  first  series;  let  me  instance 
a  similar  reference.    The  souroe  cf  the  Une  at  the  top 
of  this  was  inquired  for,  with  some  other  lines,  by  J.  Sir., 
of  Philadelphia,  in  1865.  Though  some  of  the  lines  which 
were  inquired  for  were  identified,  no  answer  was  giren 
in  respect  of  this  line,  but  I  haye  sfaice  that  time  seen 
the  source  of  it.    1 1  occurs  in  the  proreriM  of  Alanus  de 
Insulis,  who  flourished  cire.  a.d.  1215  (CaTc),  in  this  way : 
"Tutlor  est  locus  in  term  qnam  turribus  altis : 
Qui  jacet  in  term  non  habet  unde  cadat" 
See  Alanus  in  Parabolaimm  eim  Commentariis  Audoru 
Veto,  sign.  O  iit  vers^  Lugd.,  1519.       Bd.  Mabshall. 


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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  to. 


Etienne  Dolet,  the  Martyr  of  the  Benaissanee.     By 

Bichard  Copley  Christie.  (Maemillan  &  Ca) 
SoxKWHAT  tardily  we  turn  to  a  Tolume  the  contents  of 
which  are  so  much  in  consonance  with  the  class  of  studies 
out  of  which  sprinp  the  need  for  a  periodical  like 
**'S.  k  Q.>"  its  dafan  upon  our  columns  is  irresistible. 
While  other  writers  ham  been  turning  their  attention  to 
the  mom  attractim  and  popular  aspects  of  the  Renais- 
sance as  it  commends  itself  to  modem  days,  Mr.  B.  C. 
Christie,  the  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of  Manchester, 
has  studied  in  all  its  miying  aspects  the  life  of  the 


sehokr  in  Benaisssnce  times,  and  has  written  a  book, 
which  may  claim  to  rank  as  one  of  the  most  important, 
contributions  to  our  knowledge  of  an  epoch  in  French 
literatom  that  ham  as  yet  been  made  by  English  schokr- 
ship.  Accident  baring  premnted  the  life  of  Etienne  Dolet 
from  rsoeiring  at  our  hands  on  its  first  appearance  the  ex- 
tended recognition  to  which  it  was  entitled,  them  is  now 
no  temptation  to  dwell  at  length  upon  the  method  of  its. 
author  or  the  sources  of  the  information  he  has  collected. 
It  is  but  just»  howemr,  to  say  what  he  has  done.  Into 
a  single  Tolume,  which,  though  bulky,  is  of  no  formidable 
siie,  and  is,  moreoTcr,  written  with  so  much  grace  of 
style  its  perusal  is  a  continuous  pleasnm,  Mr.  Christie 
has  compressed  mom  information  conceminff  Dolet  and 
his  associates,  the  printers,  humanists,  and  philosophem, 
of  the  most  stirring  epoch  in  litcmry  annals,  than  can  be 
obtuned  from  anr  other  single  mlume.  Concerning  Dolet 
he  has  said  the  last  word.  Whem  Frendb  writers  haye- 
been  satisfied  with  oonjectum  Mr.  Christie  has  gone  in 
searoh  of  fiscts.  By  a  diligent  exploration  of  the  muni- 
cipal and  other  records  preserred  in  such  cities  as* 
Limoges,  Toulouse,  and  Lyons,  in  widch  Dolet  was  known, 
to  haTc  resided,  he  has  brought  to  light  a  mass  of  materiaL 
wholly  unknown  to  French  seholanhip.  He  has  thus 
been  able  to  place  the  career  of  Dolet,  the  printer 
martyr/in  a  light  bv  means  of  which  he  becomes  a  recog* 
nisable  figure.  Wldle  doing  this  he  has,  by  aid  of  an 
eradition  exact  and  mried,  succeeded  in  setting,  so  to. 
speak,  risibly  befom  us  the  France  of  the  fint  half  of  the 
sixteenth  century.  His  pictures  of  Lyons  and  Toulouse^ 
of  Jean  de  Catnroe  and  Jean  de  Boyssone,  of  Marot  and. 
Babelais,  of  Gnillaume  Bnd6  and  Jacques  Bording,  am 
among  the  finest  results  that  ham  been  obtsdned  from, 
scholarshipand  insight,  and  the  whole  representation  of 
France  in  Benaissance  times  Is  marrelloos. 

Slow  as  am  the  French  to  recognise  the  natum  of  what 
is  smd  about  them  by  strangers,  or  to  astign  any  import- 
ance to  Eng^h  riews  conoermng  their  litemtum  and 
history,  they  ham  already  awoke  to  the  natom  of  Mr. 
Christie's  biogmphy.  Whole  chapters  from  it  ham  been 
inserted  in  recent  periodicals,  and  the  fact  that  Fmncb 
histories  of  Dolet  and  his  times  ham  to  be  rewritten  is^ 
now  accepted.  Those  readers  who  am  unfamiliar  with 
Mr.  Christie's  labours  may  regard  as  extmmgant  asser- 
tion what  the  minoritr  acquainted  with  the  book  will 
know  to  be  mem  platitude.  To  English  scholars  who 
ham  studied  the  period  of  the  Benaissanoe  Mr.  Christie's, 
life  of  Dolet  is  a  text-book.  Those,  howemr,  who. 
seek  to  leam  the  secmt  of  that  ase,  and  suck  out 
from  the  bones  of  its  history  what  Babelais  calls  the< 
subetantific  marrow,  will  owe  us  thanks  for  bringing  to 
their  knowledge  a  work  the  interest  and  the  Tuue  of 
which  cannot  easily  be  oTerpraiaed. 

BeereaUonsofa  LUerary  Man  ;  or.  Does  Writing  Pay  P 

By  Peroy  Fitsgerald.  2m1SL  (Chatto  &  Whidns.) 
Mx.  FiTZOBXALD  has  written  many  books  and  produced 
much  ''copy"  that  has  nerer  appeared  in  book  fomu 
His  present  wofk  may  be  looked  upon  as  in  some  sort 
biographical,  but  its  contents  am  so  mried  and  discnrsim 
that  it  is  hard  to  say  what  it  is  or  is  not  We  feel  as  we 
read  it  that  it  is  instruotim,  healthT,  and  amnsiog*  »<! 
am  not  concerned  to  ponder  as  to  what  heading  it  would 
meet  aptiy  fall  under  wem  we  writing  a  history  of 


English  litemtum.  The  question  *' Does  writing  payV 
is  answered  by  a  strong  affirmatim.  and  we  think  mry 
properly  so.     Them  can  be  no  doubt  whatemr  thafr 


writing  does  pay,  and  pay  exceedingly  well  to  those  who 
enter  upon  a  literary  career  with  the  necessary  health- 
of  body  and  furniture  of  mind.  Like  farming,  shop- 
keeping,  or  any  other  form  of  business,  it  requires  con- 
stant attention  to  the  details  of  business,  sad  that  the 


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[etks.y.MATSO.'sz. 


mind  ibould  haTO  oleand  itMlf  from  the  deladon  ifaai 
there  la  In  ordinary  oaiee  each  a  thing  m  litenry'^  in- 
spiration **  or  a  nm  of  luok.  Maoh  of  the  first  Tolome  is 
taken  np  by  memoranda  oonoeming  eminent  penons 
whom  toe  anthor  has  known.  Some  of  the  details  oon- 
-oeming  Charles  Diokens  are  very  touching,  and  we  have 
been  more  Interested  than  we  can  tell  by  the  few  pages 
•deroted  to  that  good  and  strong  man  John  Forster.  One 
passage  we  must  qaote»  aa  It  conTeye  the  most  nsefbl  of 
all  lessons  to  the  literary  class :  *'The  most  gratifying 
thing  in  his  ooorse  waa  to  note  his  work :  oonseiennons 
throoghoat,  in  everything  he  did  his  best,  looking  on 
^Ting  anything  to  the  press  aa  a  sort  of  solemn,  re- 
eponsible  thing,  not  to  be  lightly  attempted."  If  onr 
•eontemporaries  held  this  wholesome  theory,  the  mass  of 
printed  matter  issned  per  day  might  be  less,  but  how 
marvellonslr  its  talae  would  be  increased  I  The  seeond 
Tdmne  contains  much  got  sip  that  Is  new  to  na  about  old 
books  and  old  booksellers,  illustrated  copies,  the  literair 
aspects  of  the  stage,  and  a  hundred  other  things  whicn 
bookish  men  are  fond  of.  The  description  of  a  visit  to  a 
certafai  Mr.  Nupton  is  entertaining,  and  is  eridently 
drawn  from  the  life.  We  assure  fir.  Fitigerald,  how- 
«Ter,  that  men  of  letters  often  see  *'  country-house  life  " 
under  much  more  happy  conditiona.  We  have  come 
across  Nuptona  ourseWes,  but  belieTC  they  are  much 
rarer  than  the  genuine  specimens  of  the  class  they  try  to 
Imitate.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  book  is  Jtrj  accurate, 
but  we  have  noticed  sereral  printer's  errors.  Among 
them  is  the  assertion  that  Henry  V£L  issued  the  ilTeew- 
-iarv  Doctrine  and  Erudition/or  anv  CkriUen  Men,  The 
little  Tolume  owes  its  publication  to  his  son  and  suooeasor 
on  the  throne. 

Jieminitceneei,  Anee$tral,  Anecdoial,  and  HtMlorioaL 
By  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  C.B.,  LL.D.,  Ulster  King  of 
Arms.  A  Remodelled  and  ReTited  Edition  of  "The 
Rise  of  Great  Families,  and  other  Essays.*'  (Long- 
mans &  Co.) 
BsADiKO  this  book  is  Terr  much  like  haTing  a  good  talk 
with  Ulster,  and  the  wide  field  coyered  by  the  contend 
strengthens  the  resemblance.  AH  sorts  of  points  are 
sure  to  arise  in  any  conTcrsation  on  heraldic  or  genea- 
logical topics,  and  in  his  new  Yolume  Sir  Bernard  Burke 
certainly  treats  a  conTenatiooally  wide  area  of  topics. 
Those  who  know  the  charm  of  the  learned  author's 
style  will  anticipate  the  treat  in  store  for  them  in  these 
pases.  Those  who  do  not  know  that  charm  would  do 
well  to  take  the  present  opportunity  for  coming  under 
its  influence.  A  yeir  slignt  acquaintance  with  the 
unique  position  long  held  by  Sir  Bernard  Burke  will 
suffice  to  make  the  reader  understai^  that  he  has  been 
for  years  the  constant  snd  ready  source  of  information 
sought  by  inquirers  upon  all  sorts  of  genealogicaU  and 
henudic  questions.  One  result  of  this  haa  necessarily 
been  the  compilation  by  Ulster  of  a  kind  of  heraldic 
commonplace  book,  which  he  entitles  "  Questions  often 
asked,"  and  likens  to  our  own  <«  N.  &  Q." 

From  our  oonstant  experience  we  can  say  that "  N.  k  Q.'* 
would,  as  diuioT  dvJbiianiiumf  be  sayed  much  Tun  re- 
petition of  the  lame  old  facts  if  correspondents  on  the 
stock  difficulties  as  to  precedency,  right  to  impalements, 
quarterings,  titles  of  the  widows  of  peers  on  remarriage 
under  the  peerage.  &c.,  would  first  consult  the  Tory 
useful  pages  of  Sir  Bernard's  new  rolome. 

We  haTC  been  not  a  little  pleased  to  remark  that 
Ulster  is  entirely  against  the  existence  of  such  a  thing 
as  a  "moiety  of  a  barony."  We  never  could  understand 
this  phrase,  and  we  are  glad  to  see  the  statement  that  it 
really  has  no  meaning. 

All  loTers  of  history  and  genealogy  should  read  Sir 
Bernard  Burke^e  "Reminiscences."    We  are  sure  that 


they  will  be  able,  without  Qualification,  to  re-echo  lua 
motto,  "  Hasc  oUm  meminisse  juTsbit." 

The  GiMoiogitL     Edited  by  O.  W.  Marshall,  LL.D.» 

F.S.A.  VoLV.  (Bell  &  Sons.) 
TBI  recently  pnbliuied  Tolume  representing  Dr.  Q.  W. 
Marshall's  editorial  work  for  the  year  1881  Is  foil  of 
matter  alike  of  Interest  and  of  considerable  practiGal 
utility.  While  continning  his  systematic  pnblicatloii  of 
visitations,  the  districts  Ulastrated  being  Llncolashliv 
a562  and  1592)  and  Berkshire  (1664-«).  Dr.  ManhaU  has 
gained  a  fresh  claim  upon  the  gratitude  of  gsnealociati 
by  commencing  the  prating  of  a  calendar  of  the  wUu  at 
Lambeth  Palace.  The  value  of  that  collection  was  loni^ 
ago  seen«  but  to  the  learned  editor  of  the  GeneaUiyuC 
belongs  the  credit  of  plaeinff  the  key  to  its  contents  in 
the  hands  of  the  student  of  family  histoiy.  The  present 
volume  brings  the  calendar  down  to  letter  D,  and  already 
contains  not  a  few  names  of  credit  and  renown,  such  as 
Burgfaersh,  Dabridgecoart»  Bnmell,  Cavendish,  and 
others,  quoe  penariJbere  Unburn, 

Scottish  genealogy  is  weU  illustrated,  both  in  the 
pedigrses  of  Donghtf  of  Tilquhilly  and  Macdonald  of 
Sanda,  contributed  by  Mr.  H.  Wagner,  F.S.A.,  and 
In  valuable  notes  on  Campbell  of  Lawers^  Mackay  of 
Melness,  Houstoun  of  that  Ilk,  Whitefoord  or  Whit- 
foid  of  that  Ilk,  &c.  It  U  much  to  be  ho|)ed  that  Mr. 
Wagner  may  some  day  enter  upon  the  consideration  of 
the Interestmg  questions  involved  in  the  earlier  genera- 
tions of  DougUs  of  Tilquhilly,  and  we  may  say  the  same 
of  Macdonald  of  Sanda,  one  of  the  very  few  fiMuilies 
of  the  stock  of  clan  Donald  South  renudning  on  the 
roll  of  landowners  in  Kintyre.  Dr.  Marshall  may  be 
congratulated  on  the  continued  value  and  Interest  of  the 
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KnTB8:~A  SeriM  of  Eight  AnoDTmont  Letters  Addreised  to 
Jamei  II.  and  bli  Qaeeo  abotit  the  Btate  of  Ireland,  401— 
BBgliah  RoiMn  CathoUc  Martjrs,  1685-1681.  402 --The 
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of  a  Hole-catcher— The  American  Nation  Anatomically 
Considered— Kickshaw- Weather  Lore—"  Benedidte,"  406. 

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"DoQble"  Monasteries— Diodatl-" Bibliomania"  ("Odds 
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shire—Old Custom  at  Hastings— Duncan  I.  and  II.,  Kings 
of  Scotland— Aeronautics— Nugent  Family— May  Muggins 
—*' Nothing  Tentnre."  &&— The  Devil  and  a  Halfpenny— 
A  HasUngs  Story.  408— Meinardas  SehoUnns- The  Pillars 
of  the  Temple— **ForTega**—R.  Aldworth— Arms  of  Pate, 
of  Sysonby— Autbon  Wanted.  400. 

REPLIES :  —Parochial  Begisters.  400— Charles  Lamb's  "  Beau- 
mont and  Fletcher  "—Qromlech :  Dolmen,  411— Honiton. 
412— The  Bonython  Flagon,  Ac.—*'  Barpings  of  Lena  '  :  W. 
J.  Baitman,  418— Order  of  Administering  to  Communicants 
— iSpergne— C.  BuUer—Touehenr— Early  Guides  to  the  City 
of  Rome- Proof-sheets.  414—*'  Le  Jnif  Polonaise."  fte  — 
Kentish  Folk-lore— The  late  Rev.  J.  S.  Brewer— M.  Luekman 
— ••  Flarb  '— *•  DalTy-down-diUy,-  Ac.— "Twae  Freiis  of  Ber- 
wick "  —  "  Sydney,"  Ac.  416  —  **  Gob  '— **  Pomatum  •  —  J. 
Knihb— "Bred  and  Bom"— Date  of  the  First  Easter— Sir 
P.  Francis's  Marriage,  416— " Anecdotes  of  Monkeys*— 
•'  Forbes  -— '•  Navvy  *'— Casts  of  the  Faces  of  Historical  Per- 
sonages-April  Folk-lore- *'Mola  Bosarum"— "Manurlal," 
Ac,  417— Are  Toads  Poisonous— Authors  Wanted.  Ac.  418. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS ; -Michel's  *' Critical  Inquiry  into  the 
Scottish  Language  "—Freeman's  "  Reign  of  William  Rufns 
and  the  Accession  of  Henry  I.**— Brown's  "  Leech  and  other 
Papers  "—Galrdner's  *' Letters  and  Papers,  Foreign  and 
Domestic  of  the  Reign  of  Henry  YIL"— Journal  of  the 
Derbyshire  Archsoological  Society,  Ac. 


Uniti. 

A  SERIES   OP   EIGHT  ANONYMOUS  AND  CON- 
FIDENTIAL  LETTE&S  TO  JAMES  II.  AND  HIS 
QUEEN  ABOUT  THE  STATE  OF  I&ELAND. 
{Continued  fnm  p.  868.) 

The  Oopie  of  a  Letter  sent  the  Queen  the  10  of  Jan. 
1685,  Concerning  Ireland. 

3fiDAx,— Twere  in  iom  measure  ridicalooi  to  sue  to 
jour  Ma"*  for  a  pardon  for  the  liberty  I  take  in  writeing 
this  letter  (fur  the  tediousness  of  which  1  canot  make  a 
better  Apologia  than  that  it  is  meant  for  the  glorie  of 
Ood,  the  good  of  Religion  k  the  Kings  interest)  in  as 
much  as  I  am  reeolv'd  not  to  own  it  now  or  hereafter 
However  I  hamhiy  beg  your  Majestie  may  graciously 
pleaee  to  look  upon  it  aa  a  charitable  k  wel  meaning 
piece  of  presumption 

Tis  Tery  obserrable  that  since  the  first  propagation  of 
Christian  Faith  noe  heresie  started  up  but  God  was 
pleasd  at  the  same  time  to  rayse  a  champion  or  som 
first  founder  of  an  order  by  whose  doctrin  k  pious 
endeaTors  the  contemporary  heresie  has  bin  always  at 
long  run  overthrown  and  that  I  may  not  run  far  back 
tor  instances  wel  known  to  your  Ma*'*  from  your  reading 
and  obserration  I  '1  onely  obserTo  that  the  Arian  heresie 
was  suppres«d  by  S*  Atbanasius  k  the  pelagian  by  S^ 
Augustin  and  that  much  about  the  same  time  that 
Luther  and  CaWih  layd  the  sandy  foundations  of  the 
heresies  now  reigning,  God  in  his  infinit  wisdom  was 
pleasd  to  cal  8'  Ignatius  de  Loyola  to  be  his  Champion 
&  with  how  much  good  success  the  Society  of  Jesus  has 
opposd  the  &lse  doctrin  of  Luther  k  Calrin  in  their  rise 


k  progres  is  wel  known  to  a1  observing  and  impartial 
Judges  k  we  have  reason  to  hope  the  sayd  heresies  wU 
in  time  owe  their  overthrow  under  God  to  the  learning 
Virtue  and  Zeal  of  the  said  Society  and  one  shud  think 
the  father  of  heresies  the  Devil  forsees  k  feares  it,  in  at 
much  as  he  has  sette  his  instruments  the  Rebellions 
Schismatics  and  their  ambitions  ringleaders  in  this 
Kingdom  at  work  these  late  yeares  to  destroy  our  pre- 
sent gracious  sovereign  (whom  God  long  preserve)  and 
his  few  Catholic  subjects  k  the  Jesuits  especialy  as  if 
the  Devil  owd  them  a  particular  spi^ht ;  But  men  pro* 
pose  and  God  disposes  k  directs  when  he  pleases  the 
meanes  used  by  men  to  Ends  quite  contrary  to  their 
Designs  which  we  evidently  see  in  the  Examples  of  Mon- 
mouth k  Argilci  who  far  beside  their  intentions  have  don 
the  King  more  good  than  harm  by  their  Devilish  attempts 
fastning  him  more  firmly  in  the  throne  from  which 
they  meant  to  remove  him  k  letting  the  world  see  what 
miracles  the  Almighty  cui  work  to  protect  his  vioe- 
gerent  k  favorit  Even  so  it  is  to  be  hopd  the  Catholic 
religion  wil  gaine  a  hundred  fold  more  by  the  bloody 
effects  of  sham  plotts  k  the  perjury  of  complicated 
Villains  than  it  has  lost  by  the  untimely  death  of 
Martjrrs  whose  blood  hath  bin  lately  shed  or  rather 
sown  in  this  Kingdom  and  wil  without  doubt  in  due  sea- 
son bring  forth  a  plentiful  k  glorious  crop :  for  sanguis 
martyrum,  semen  Edesise;  the  true  church  being  like 
unto  the  palm  tree  which  tiie  more  it  is  kept  under  trod 
upon  k  depress'd  the  more  gloriously  it  grows  thrives  k 
flourishes  &  I  do  not  despayr  but  wee  '1  find  this  in  a 
short  time  Terified  in  England,  but  how )  Not  by  the 
violent  k  bloody  meanes  of  fire  k  sword,  Smitlifield 
fagots,  inquisitions  k  armies  domestic  k  forreign  as 
Shaftsbnry  k  the  rest  of  hells  Emissaries  maliciously 
insinuated :  how  then  1  our  dread  k  dear  Sovereign  Irho 
has  suffierd  a  kind  of  martyrdom  for  his  religion  offering 
himwlf  up  a  liveing  sacrifice  for  it  to  the  insatiable  rage 
of  his  irreconcileable  enemies,  wil  by  the  grace  of  God  k 
his  powerfull  good  example  draw  over  som  leading  men 
of  the  Nobility  from  darknes  k  prejudice  to  the  true 
light  k  love  of  the  onely  true  religion  k  others  wil  from 
time  to  time  follow,  k  your  Ma'^*"  unfeigned  exemplary 
devotion  wil  work  the  same  efiiect  on  som  of  the  first  rank 
ladies ;  And  wo  be  to  the  subjects  that  wil  not  follow 
the  daylie  moveing  examples  of  such  a  King  k  such  a 
Queen  for  it  is  not  with  your  Ma^*  k  the  King  as  it  was 
with  Solomon  k  his  outlandish  wives  who  withdrew  his 
heart  from  the  worship  of  one  true  God  to  many  fals 
ones,  but  your  Ma^'*  has  by  your  great  seal  sincere 
deyotion  k  frequent  exhortations  confirmd  k  kindled 
the  Kings  seal  k  pietie  which  must  of  necenity  produce 
a  good  effect  in  this  Kingdom  where  the  Nobility  has  bin 
ever  inclin'd  to  be  of  the  Princes  Religion  as  a  mali- 
cious comoner  wel  observ'd  when  the  bill  of  exclusion 
was  under  debate  k  the  fear  of  a  change  of  this  kind, 
the  Kings  haveing  a  standing  armie.  som  few  Cathol. 
being  in  military  employs,  The  French  Kings  Tigorons 
proceedings  against  the  Hugonots  k  the  Popes  late  letter 
to  that  King  applauding  his  way  of  converting  Hereticks 
have  put  this  Nation  into  such  a  ferment  that  the  King 
and  governmts  safety  can  be  no  way  secure  but  by 
keeping  a  good  standing  armie  on  foot  nor  is  the  groe  of 
the  armie  now  in  England  to  be  much  relyd  on  for  I 
understand  by  the  few  Catholic  officers  and  Soldiers  dis- 
persed among  them  that  they  talk  very  dissafectedly 
since  the  last  Sessions  of  Parieament  as  if  the  old  bag- 
boar  Poperie  were  breaking  in  upon  them,  so  that  a  Catholic 
Armie  is  to  be  wish*d  for  which  canot  be  rays'd  in  Eng- 
land or  Scotland  for  if  al  the  serviceable  Catholics  in 
both  Kingdoms  were  joynd  in  one  body  they  were  but  a 
handful  compar'd  to  the  several  Sectaries,  so  that  upon 
y*   main  Ireland  ii  the   onely   Kingdom  where  hit 


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HiHjestie  can  ravae  a  considerable  body  of  Catholics  to 
awe  his  enemies  botli  at  home  k  abroad  For  providence 
has  had  so  singular  a  csre  of  that  Country  in  girding  it 
the  grace  &  courage  of  persevereing  unalterably  in  the 
ancient  religion  of  their  forefathers,  that  notwithstand- 
ing the  many  persecutions,  penal  Laws,  loss  of  lires  k 
estates  wherewith  it  hath  been  pester*d  and  outra^d 
ever  since  the  reformation  the  Native  and  Catholic  in- 
habitants of  it  make  at  least  six  to  one  of  the  Sectaries 
of  that  Kingdom  whither  I  was  forc*d  to  retire  in 
the  Iste  trouhlesom  times  k  where  by  conversing 
with  the  Natives  in  several  parts  I  found  they  were 
so  strictiv  wedded  to  the  Kings  interest  that  they 
were  resolv'd  to  a  man  to  stand  and  fal  by  him  And  if 
it  was  ft  wel  grounded  opinion  of  that  wise  but  unfor- 
tunate statesman  my  L'  Strafford  that  an  Irish  Catholic 
armie  ought  to  be  kept  on  foot  in  that  Kingdom  in  his  time 
when  a  protesunt  Prince  reignd  to  serve  as  a  ballance 
to  the  Fanatics  in  the  3  Kingdoms,  how  much  better 

Sounded  is  tliat  opinion  now  in  the  reign  of  a  Catholic 
ing  whose  unshaken  Constancy  in  his  religion  has 
divided  the  hearts  of  eve^  individual  Protestant  subject 
'twixt  their  love  to  their  Monarch  and  their  aversion  to 
his  religion  of  which  the  unexpected  &  ungrateful  be- 
havior of  his  own  Creatures  and  Servants  in  the  last 
Sessions  of  Parleament  is  an  undenyable  instance  since 
neither  their  duty  to  their  sovereign  nor  srratitude  to 
their  Master  who  raysd  som  of  them  from  a  low  to  a  high 
degree  nor  self  interest  (which  in  this  age  generally  out- 
weighs al  other  considerations)  cud  induce  them  to 
answer  the  Kings  reasonable  expectation,  in  giTeing 
their  votes  for  repealing  a  law  that  has  nothing  of  a  law 
in  it  but  the  name.  It  may  be  objected  that  the  present 
revenues  of  Ireland  canot  maintain  a  considerable  armie 
which  objection  is  easilie  solv*d  for  that  Kingdom  by  the 
Kings  prerogative  is  at  his  disposal  independent! v  of  the 
Parleament  of  England  (whicn  I  wish  King  Char  the 
first  had  duely  consider'd  ere  he  left  the  managem*  of  the 
affayrs  of  Ireland  to  the  long  &  bloody  English  parlea- 
ment which  by  their  correspondence  with  ye  presbiteri«ns 
of  that  Kingdom  hindred  it  from  tending  such  supplies 
thence  to  England  as  might  have  moraly  speaking  pre- 
vented  the  Murther  of  that  bast  of  Princes)  Nay,  tis  in 
the  Kings  powr  to  dispose  as  he  pleases  of  al  the  Estates 
illegaly  settled  upon  the  Cromwellians  in  Ireland  for  al 
indifferent  Lawyers  must  be  of  opinion  the  Law  by  which 
the  Irish  Estates  were  settled  on  the  Usurpers  party  can 
be  no  Law  as  being  directly  against  al  Laws  di?ine 
Natural  and  positive  And  the  ancient  proprietors  if 
restored  even  by  fayr  and  legal  tiyals  to  their  estates 
will  freelv  consent  (as  I  have  heaitl  several  interested 
gent  of  that  Country  lately  say>  to  pay  the  King  his 
heires  and  successors  ft  eonsideraole  yearly  Rent  even  for 
their  birth  rights  k  free  holds  al  that  Kingdom  over, 
which  wil  rayse  the  Kings  yearly  revenue  to  soe  con- 
stdersble  a  sum  above  what  it  now  makes,  that  a  strong 
armie  oonsisting  of  the  natives  k  Catholics  may  be  there 
maintain'd  k  besides  mony  layd  up  yearly  to  answer 

other  contingencies :  But  if  my  Lord  of  0< d  and  his 

deariy  beloved  creatures  the  Fanatics  of  Ireland  may  by 
themselves  or  others  ha?e  any  influence  upon  the  King 
that  poor  Kingdom  must  for  ever  remaine  irreparably 
grievd  yet  the  comfort  of  the  Irish  and  al  good  subjects 
is,  that  they  are  hapy  in  a  wise  just  5c  resolut  Prince  who 
observs  the  advice  given  the  late  K«  when  prince  of 
Wales  by  his  royal  father  in  the  following  words  not  to 
repose  so  much  upon  any  Mans  single  oonsel,  fidelity  k 
discretion  In  manageing  affayrs  of  the  first  magnitude, 
that  is  matters  of  religion  &  justice  as  to  create  in  him- 
self or  others  a  diffidence  of  nis  own  Judgem'  which  Is 
Kkely  to  be  always  more  constant  k  Impartial  to  the 
interest  of  his  crown  k  Kingdoms  than  any  mans  else  k 


in  as  much  as  Princes  are  design*d  by  Providence  for 
the  public  good,  the  poor  Irish  hope  their  great  k  goo<t 
sovereign,  who  was  himself  prepared  by  many  afflictiona 
for  a  flourishing  Kingdom  will  comiserate  the  bleed- 
ing condition  of  their  hitherto  so  much  grioT'd  but  stal 
loyal  and  patient  country,  which  by  the  covetonsness  of 
som  corrupt  Ministers  the  artifice  treachery  k  felf 
interest  of  others  has  bin  bought  k  sold,  pre judg'd  and 
excluded  from  shareing  in  the  late  Kings  mercy  k 
justice  k  tho  their  unparaleld  hard  usage  was  by  their 
own  k.  the  Kings  Enemies  imputed  to  their  pretended 
rebellion,  yet  the  real  cause  of  their  being  soe  unequally 
dealt  with  was  their  constancy  in  their  reliaion  and 
haveing  titles  to  vast  estates  that  were  granted  by  Crom- 
wel  &  confirmd  by  the  late  King  to  the  bloody  murthererp 
of  his  royal  lather  for  Ormond  Orery  Anglesfe  &  others  of 
their  cabal  haveing  gaind  the  Kings  chief  Ministers  to 
their  side  prevayld  with  that  merciful  but  easie  prince 
(whom  they  impos*d  upon)  Under  the  Colour  of  doing 
Justice  To  Facnfice  a  whole  kingdom  to  their  avarice 
and  privat  ends,  but  now  that  we  have  a  King  that  wi( 
not  be  putt  upon,  that  loves  to  manage  his  own  affayres 
and  of  whom  providence  has  had  so  peculiar  a  care 
amidst  the  greatest  of  dangers  at  Sea  k  Land  that  he 
seems  to  be  cutt  out  k  deaign'd  bv  heaven  for  great  and 
glorious  works  it  is  not  at  al  doubted  by  any  good  man, 
that  he  'I  make  amends  for  his  brothers  oversight  by  re- 
dressing the  grieveances  of  that  unfortunat  nation  when 
he  sees  his  own  time 

And  ss  your  Ma*"  tenders  being  bless'd  with  royal 
issues  to  inherit  that  Kingdom  it  concerns  you  to  plead 
heartily  for  it  (as  tis  said  her  highness  the  Dutches  of 
Modena  did)  in  putting  his  Ma^'*  in  mind  that  mercv 
truth  and  justice  preserve  the  King  and  his  throne  shi^ 
be  establiAhd  with  Mercy  k  Justice,  that  it  may  be  no 
longer  sayd  that  the  Loyalty  sufferings  k  patience  of  the 
Irish  at  home  k  abroad  have  bin  hitherto  requited  onely 
by  fayr  words  and  ineffectual  promises  which  has  bin 
most  of  their  food  for  upwards  of  80  yeares 

Haveing  already  press'd  too  much  upon  your  Majesties 
patience  I  wil  onely  say  that  Divine  Law  to  n*^  alon« 
the  King  is  subject,  the  glory  of  Ood,  the  good  of  Religion 
true  pollicy,  the  Preservation  of  Monarchy  in  this  King- 
dom where  it  has  bin  so  often  struck  at,  the  present 
posture  of  affayres  the  Kings  own  interest  and  safety 
and  many  weighty  considerations  beside  require  that  hia 
Majestic  make  the  Irish  as  his  fastest  friends  that  to  a 
man  would  dye  at  his  feet,  considerable ;  and  the  sooner 
the  better  for  your  Majesty  and  your  long  livd  Prince  of 
Wales  whenever  it  pleases  Ood  (who  never  does  his  work 
by  halves)  to  bless  your  Msjettie  k  these  Kingdoms  with 
one,  which  to  my  certain  knowledge  is  nowhere  more 
heartily  k  daylie  wish'd  and  pray'd  for  by  the  Clergie 
and  Laytie  then  in  Ireland. 

W.  Frazbr,  F.R.C.S.L,  hLELLA. 

{To  be  coniiutud.) 


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1535-1681. 

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345. 
346. 
847. 
348. 


1644. 

^J^l^Lf'^^U  }  C.B«.A„,.o-B,«. 

I'nce,  Laicus. 

Joannes  Ducket,  Sacerdos. 
Rodaiphns  Corby,  Societatis  Jesu. 

1645. 
Henricus  Morse,  Societatis  Jesu. 
Brianus  Cinsfield,  Societatis  Jesu. 
Joannes  Goodman,  Sacerdos. 

1646. 
Philippus  Powel,  Cong.  Anglo-Ben. 
Eduardus  Bamber,  Sacerdos. 
Joannes  Woodcock,  Ordinis  S.  FranciscL 
Thomas  Whitaker,  Sacerdos. 

Thomas  Vaughan,  Sacerdos. 
Thomas  Blount,  Sacerdo*. 

1650. 
Robertus  Cox,  Cong.  Anglo-Ben. 

1651. 
Petrus  Wright,  Societatis  Jesu. 

1654. 
Joannes  Southworth,  Sacerdos. 

1678. 
Eduardus  Coleman,  Laicus. 

Eduardus  Mico  )    „*•..«.... ..  o^*    t 

Thomas  Bedingfield  j  '»*«'^"«  *  ^'  J"«- 

1679. 
Gulielmus  Ireland.  S.  J. 
Joannes  Grore,  Laicus. 
Thomas  Pickering,  Cung.  Anglo-Ben. 
Ijanrentius  Hill    )    r  •  : 
Robertus  Green  /   *^^^*- 
Thomns  Whiibread    ) 
Gulielmus  HHrcourt  J 
Joannes  Fenwick  *) 
Jonnnes  Green       >  omnes  e  Soc.  Jesu. 
Antonius  Turner   j 
Franciscus  Nevill,  e  Soc.  Jesu. 
Thomas  Jenisc>n,  e  Soc.  Jesu. 
Ricardus  Langhorne,  Laicus. 
Gulielmus  Plessington,  Sacerdos. 
Philippus  Erans,  e  Sooietata  Jesu. 
Joannes  Lloyd,  Sacerdos. 
Nicolaus  Postgate,  Sacerdos. 
Carolus  Mahony,  Ordinis  Suncti  Francisei. 
Joannes  Wall,  Ordinis  8.  Franci«ci. 
Franciscus  Lerison,  Ordinis  S.  Francisei. 
Joannes  Kemble,  Sacerdos. 
DaTid  Lewis.  Societatis  Jesu. 
Gulielmns  Lloyd,  Sacerdos. 


a  Societate  Jesu. 


1680. 
Thomas  Timing,  Sacerdos. 
Placidus  Adelham,  Cong.  Anglo-Ben. 
Gulielmus  Atkins,  Societatis  Jesu. 
Ricardus  Birket,  Sacerdos. 
Ricardus  Lacy,  Societatis  Jesu. 
Gulielmus  Howard,  Vioecomes  da  Stafford. 

1681. 


349.  Eduardus  Turner,  Societatis  Jesu. 

350.  Gulielmus  Allison,  Sacerdos. 

351.  Benedictus  Constable,  Cong.  Anglo- Ben. 

352.  Gulielmus  Bonnet,  Sacerdon. 

353.  Oliveritts  Plunket,  Archiepiscopus  Armachanus. 

EVERARD   QrEKK,  F.S.A. 
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16u>  8.  Y.  Mat  27,  "SZ, 


The  Coxtrtbnats  in  ScoTLAND.—Thi8  dis- 
tin^uiahed  family  bad  a  abort  ooDnexion  with  Ber- 
wickshire. The  fact  was  first  noticed  by  Chalmers 
BO  long  ago  as  1812  (CaUdonia,  voL  ii.  p.  241, 
note),  who  says  that  **  Ada,  daughter  of  Patrick, 
Earl  of  Dunbar,  first  married  a  gentleman  of  the 
name  of  De  Courteney,  and  obtained  from  her  father 
the  lands  of  Home.  She  secondly  married  her  own 
cousin  William,  son  of  Patrick  of  Greenlaw,  second 
son  6{  the  fourth  ftbird  71  Gospatrick.  From  this 
marriage  sprang  the  Border  clan  of  the  Homes." 
In  1833,  Riddell,  in  his  Bemarkt  on  Scotch  Peerage 
Law  and  (he  Com  of  (he  Earldom  of  Devon  (App. 
No.  y.),  pointed  out  the  same  facts,  and  also  showed 
that  the  Courtenays  must  have  come  to  England  at 
an  earlier  date  than  generally  supposed.  He  quoted 
the  cbartulary  of  Kelso,  then  in  MS.,  since  printed, 
and  presented  to  the  Bannatyne  Club  by  the  late 
Duke  of  Roxburghe  in  1846,  which  gives  some 
interesting  references  to  Ada  de  Oourtenay  and 
two  of  her  husbands.  Neither  of  these  eminent 
antiquaries  seems  to  have  been  aware  of  her 
intervening  marriage  to  Theobald  de  Lascelles. 
She  married  him  between  April  5,  1218,  and 
Hilary  Term,  1219-20  {fialendar  of  Documents, 
Scotland,  1881,  pp.  122,  133).  He  was  dead 
before  Oct  13,  1226  {Ibid,,  pp.  166-6),  when 
Ada,  his  widow,  claims  dower  against  the  Prior 
of  Giseburne  and  Roger  de  Lascelles,  in  his  lands 
in  Yorkshire  and  Lincolnshire.  As  ''Ada  de 
Curtenay,  daughter  of  Patrick,  Earl  of  Dunbar," 
she  gave  land  in  her  territory  of  Home  to  the 
monks  of  Kelso,  for  the  souls  of  her  husbands 
(among  others).  Like  most  of  the  Kelso  charters, 
this  has  no  date  {ChaH.  Kdeo,  p.  09).  Her  father 
confirmed  the  grant  (/6tU).  In  a  charter  granted 
on  the  morrow  of  the  Conception  of  the  B.  V. 
Mary,  1268,  William,  lord  of  Home,  confirms  the 
church  of  Home  to  Kelso,  and  refers  to  land  there 
given  by  Ada,  "dicta  de  Curtenay,"  to  that  house 
(76td.,  p.  236).  This  was  probably  her  son.  In 
letters  patent  by  her  father  the  Earl,  and  Patrick 
his  son  (without  date,  but  before  1214),  it  is  de- 
clared that  the  Kelso  monks  are  bound  to  answer 
to  William  de  Curtenaya  and  A  [da],  his  wife,  at 
the  end  of  seven  years,  for  the  farm  of  Home  ;  but 
at  the  request  of  William,  the  Earl,  and  his  son, 
they  in  the  sixth  year,  by  the  hands  of  Jordan 
Fitz  Urse,  have  paid  twenty-five  marks,  and  after 
a  further  payment  of  twenty-five  marks  at  the  end 
of  the  seventh  year,  the  farm  of  ten  years  will  be 
paid  up  and  no  more  exacted.  The  Earl,  his  son, 
and  Jurdan  Fitz  Urse  append  their  seals. 

Ada  being  thus  a  member  of  a  very  illustrious 
house,  it  is  curious  to  find  in  an  elaborate  and  care- 
fully drawn-up  pedigree  by  Mr.  A.  S.  Ellis  (6"»  S. 
iii.  1),  that  he  whs  not  aware  who  she  was  by  birth. 
No  more  was  the  painstiikine  historian  of  Shrop- 
shire, the  late  Rev.  R.  W.  Eyton.  This  is  a  proof 
how  little  the  Scottish  club-books  and  antiquarian 


publications  are  read  by  some  on  this  side  of 
Tweed.  I  have  often  found  how  English  and 
other  publications  of  that  kind  throw  light  on  the- 
history  of  Scotland.  Conversely,  our  Scottish  club- 
publications  will  be  found  of  no  small  value  by 
those  who  choose  to  examine  them.  They  are 
generally  accessible  in  public  libraries,  though  the- 
original  impressions  were  limited  to  the  members,, 
seldom  beyond  one  hundred  in  number,  oftea 
fewer.  J.  Bain. 

"In  Mbmoriam,''  Srct.  lxxxix.,  Stanza  12: 
"  And  last,  returning  from  afar 
Before  the  crimson -oircUd  star 
Had  fulPn  into  b«r  father's  gmve." 
I  have  often  heard  the  reference  and  meaning  of 
this  passage  discussed.  What  star  is  alluded  to  f 
How  and  when  is  it  crimson-circled  ?  Who  waa 
her  father  1  Where  is  his  grave  ?  and  how  has- 
the  star  fallen  into  it?  A  few  evenings  ago  at 
the  seaside,  looking  westwards  over  the  ocean,  1 
had  a  beautiful  illustration  of  the  poet's  fancy* 
The  sun  set  without  a  cloud,  but  with  such  an 
amount  of  haze  as  made  his  disc  shine  like- 
burnished  copper.  As  he  descended  below  the- 
waters  a  glow  of  rich  crimson  suffused  the  horizon,, 
above  which  Venus,  the  evening  star,  sparkled 
and  brightened  as  the  gloaming  deepened,  follow- 
ing the  sun  through  the  crimson  band  into  the 
ocean  into  which  he  had  apparently  descended. 
Here  were  at  once  all  the  elements  of  the  poet*s- 
picture  combined.  Venus  *A<f>po8iTrjt  aocordin^^ 
to  Homer,  was  the  daughter  of  Jove  by  Dion^. 

€1  un  ap'  ofv  vono-c  A  to?  Ovydrnp  'A<ipo8tT». 

if..v.8li 
"  Had  not  his  mother  Venuii.  child  of  Jove, 
His  peril  quickly  §een.''*—Lord  Derby. 
Again, 

ri   ^  kv  yovvaa-i  viKT€   Aifunys  5?  ^A<f>poBlTtp 
firjTpos  €YJs.—IL,  v.  370. 

"On  her  mother*8  Up 
Dion6,  Venus  fell." 
Jove  was  the  Lord  of   Light,  Zei%  Diespiter^ 
Lucetius. 

"Aipiee  hoc  sublime  candens,  quern  invocant  omnea 

JoTCm.** — Bnniut, 
This  subject  is  not  new  to  ''N.  &  Q.**  It  was 
discussed  more  than  thirty  years  ago  (vide  1"*  S. 
iii.  143,  227,  458,  506).  Various  explanationa 
were  given.  The  crescent  moon,  Aurora,  the 
flfoddess  of  the  morning  red,  as  well  as  the  planet 
Venus,  were  all  brought  forward  as  solutions,  but 
no  one  who  has  witnessed  such  a  sunset  as  I  have 
described  could  hesitate  for  a  moment  as  to  the 
poet's  meaning.  By  the  way,  crimson  seems  a 
favourite  colour  with  Mr.  Tennyson.  His  7i» 
Memoriam  abounds  with  the  epithet: — 

**  Fr^m  belt  to  belt  of  erinuton  seas. 
On  leagues  of  odour  streaming  far, 
To  where  in  yonder  orient  star 
A  hundred  Fpirits  whisper  peace.**— Izzzvi, 


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"  The  rocket  molten  into  flaktrs 
Of  crimson  or  in  emerald  rain."— xcviiL 
'*  Who  ushereat  in  the  doiorou'.  hour 

With  thj  quiclc  tears,  that  make  the  rose 
Pull  sideways,  and  the  dai^y  elose 
Her  crimaon  fringeB  to  the  shower."— Izzii. 
J.  A.  PlCTON. 
Sandyknowe,  Wavertree. 

Descent  of  the  Earldom  of  Mab. — ^In  the 
Bfgistrum  de  Panmure  (toL  iL  p.  230)  is  a  docu- 
ment containing  evidence  bearing  on  thia  subject, 
which  seems  hitherto  to  have  escaped  notice. 
Belying  on  the  unsupported  statements  of  earlier 
genealogists,  the  late  Earl  of  Crawford,  in  his 
elaborate  treatise  on  the  Mar  peerage  question  just 
published,  has  asserted  that  Janet  Keith,  Elyne  of 
Mar's  grand-daughter,  had  no  issue  by  her  first 
husband,  Sir  Darid  Barclay,  and  that  consequently 
her  son  by  Sir  Thomas  Erkine,  her  second  hus- 
band, stood  next  to  herself  in  righful  succession  to 
the  earldom  of  Mar  upon  the  fSeulure  of  the  line  of 
Earl  Donald,  Elyne's  brother.  The  incorrectness 
of  this  assertion  is  shown  by  the  document  to 
which  I  refer,  an  affidayit  as  to  the  succession  to  the 
estate  of  Brechin,  procured  by  Sir  Thomas  Maule 
from  Thomas  Bisset,  of  Balwillo,  on  June  6,  1437, 
shortly  after  the  execution  of  Walter,  Earl  of  Athole, 
and  his  grandson,  Sir  Robert  Stuart,  for  complicity 
in  the  murder  of  James  I.  Bisset's  words  are  :— 

"  Abaa,  Sathfastli  I  mak  knikwyn,tbat  in  my  yuthhed 
I  was  serrand  onto  rov  lord  Scher  Thomas  of  Brskyn. 
and  of  continual  household,  and  ofttymes  I  herd  my  lord 
beforsaid  and  my  lade  Dam  Jehan  his  wif,  that  wts 
modir  to  David  Steuart^s  modir,  snthfastli  (ay  that 
fidland  of  David  Steuart  and  of  his  modir,  that  Seytonns 
and  Maolis  war  verra  ayris  to  the  Berclayis  landes." 

This  can  mean  nothing  else  than  that  Johanna  de 
Keith  (or  de  Berclay,  as  she  was  styled  to  her 
dying  day,  see  Exchequer  Bolls  of  1416,  vol.  iv.) 
was  mother,  by  Sir  David  de  Berclay,  of  Margaret, 
wife  to  Walter,  son  of  Bobert  II.  by  Queen 
Euphemia ;  grandmother  of  David,  Walter's 
eldest  son  by  Margaret,  who  died  a  hostage  in 
England  ;  and  great-grandmother  of  Bobert  (men- 
tioned later  on  in  the  affidavit  as  '*  David's  son  '*), 
whom  it  was  the  object  of  the  conspirators  to 
proclaim  king  of  Scotland  in  exclusion  of  Eliza- 
beth Mure's  descendants. 

This  rectification  of  the  pedigree  explains  the 
fiokct  that  although  the  countess  Isabel  died  in 
1407,  and  her  husband,  the  Wolf  of  Badenoch, 
who  held  the  earldom  in  remainder,  in  1435,  Sir 
Bobert  Erskine  did  not  get  himself  served  heir  to 
the  ''Comitatus"  at  Aberdeen  until  1438,  the 
year  after  his  grand-nephew,  the  Master  of  Athole, 
whose  claim  thereto  was  nnquestionably  preferable, 
was  executed  for  treason.  It  may  likewise  account 
for,  though  it  can  hardly  justify,  the  subsequent 
dealings  of  the  Stuart  kings  with  the  earldom  and 
estates  of  Mar  as  an  escheat  of  the  Crown. 

Eques. 


Ghosts  still  walk.—  Ghosts,  it  would  appear, 
still  visit  the  glimpses  of  the  moon,  though  one 
would  hardly  expect  the  correspondent  of  a  news- 
paper in  the  present  day  solemnly  to  affirm  it 
The  following  letter,  therefore,  which  appeared  in 
a  Malvern  newspaper  of  April  8,  in  the  present 
year,  may  deserve  preservation  as  a  curiosity  of 
credulity  and  illusion  : — 

"  Sir,— Will  yon  kindly  spare  me  a  small  space  in  yonr 
valuable  paper  this  weeic,  and  please  state  that  myself 
and  several  othet-s  have  been  recently  greatly  alarmed 
by  seeing  the  late  Rev.  J.  Pearson  appear  at  a  late  hour 
at  night  in  Suokley  churchyard.  We  are  continually 
being  alarmed  by  the  gentleman,  or  rather  his  ghost. 
The  last  time  was  on  Friday  night  week.  It  walked 
through  the  churchyard  and  into  the  wood  near,  greatly 
frightening  two  young  girls,  in  addition  to  myself.  By 
your  doing  me  this  favour,  I  am,  sir,  very  obediently 
yours,— William  Davies." 

The  reverend  gentleman  whose  perturbed  spirit 
has  thus  appeared,  as  stated,  to  give  a  last  warning 
to  his  parishioners,  was  rector  of  Suckley,  in  Wor- 
cestershire, for  forty  years,  and  was  highly  re- 
spected when  alive  as  a  clergyman  and  magistrate. 
That  the  parish  lies  in  a  very  secluded  part  of  the 
country,  where  fairies  are  still  talked  about  as 
forming  rings  and  the  supposed  influence  of 
witchery  has  not  died  out  among  the  rustics,  may 
be  easily  imagined.  Mr.  Pearson,  who  is  thus 
on  the  above  evidence  still  regardful  of  Suckley 
churchyard,  was  only  buried  there  a  few  weeks 
ago.  Edwin  Less,  F.L.S. 

Worcester. 

A  Volume  of  Anonymous  Bevucwa.— In  the 
medical  library  of  University  College,  London, 
is  a  volume  containing,  amongst  others,  some 
anonymous  reviews  published  in  the  Edinburgh 
Medical  and  Surgical  Journal  by  David  Craigie, 
M.D.,  1793-1866,  for  memoir  of  whom  see  Proc 
Boy.  8oc  EdinJb,  (1869),  vol.  vl  p.  15.  Some  of 
the  reviews  have  MS.  notes  signed  by  the  author. 
The  running  titles  are  as  follows  :^ 

Home.  Tiedemann,  and  Gmelin  on  the  Functions  of 
the  Spleen,  1822,  xviii.  279-95. 

M.  Itard  on  Diseases  of  Hearing  and  Acoustic  Surgery, 
1823,  xix.  83-118. 

Researches  of  Malacame  and  Reil :  Present  State  of 
Cerebral  Anatomy,  1824,  xxi.  98-141.  — MS.  note: 
«  Though  in  the  form  of  a  review,  this  essay  contains  a 
good  deal  of  original  matter,  the  result  of  personal  dis- 
section; see  pp.  117-120,  125  to  the  end.    I  have 

[ploughed  away  in  binding]  Monro,  both  very  competent 
judges,  expressed  a  high  [opin]ion  of  the  merits  of  this 
article,  and  it  attracted  much  attention  from  the 
anatomists  of  German  v." 

The  Pathological  Characters  and  Sanability  of  Con- 
sumption, xxi.  159-97.— MS  note:  "This  article  also 
contains  a  large  proportion  of  original  matter,  and  both 
at  the  time  of  its  appearance  and  since  was  considered 
an  essay  of  much  value  and  original  utility." 

Prof.  Tiedemann  on  the  Formation  and  StmcturS 
of  the  Human  Brain,  1825.  xxiii.  81-126.— MS.  note : 
<'  Thoagh  on  this  I  did  not  altogether  agree  with  the 
ingenious  anatomist  whose  work  is  the  subject  of  oza* 


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[6«*  8.  V.  Mat  27.  '82. 


miDatfon,  be  wm  highly  pleased  with  thn  perspicaont 
manner  in  which  his  retearches  were  explained ;  wrote 
to  Dr.  Danran,  and  nfterwards  to  Prof.  Jameson, 
expressing  this  sentiment;  and,  if  my  memory  be  not 
faJlaoious,  repeated  the  same  to  Mr.  William  Thomson, 
son  of  Dr.  Thomson,  when  he  Tiiited  Prof.  Tiedemann  at 
TUhlngen." 

Recent  Works  by  Macartney,  Shaw,  and  Dods  on 
Spinal  Distortion,  xxiii.  126-56. 

Andral  on  the  Pathological  Anatomy  of  the  Intestinal 
Canal  and  its  Connexion  with  Ferer,  xxiii.  156-87. 

Pathological  Engrarings  from  the  Chatham  Museum, 
xxiii.  214-17. 

Prof.  Tiedemann's  Account  of  the  Uterine  Nerres, 
1826,  xxiT.  428^4. 

Adrian  Whbelkr. 

"  Changed,"  a  Suffolk  Word.— As  I  do  not 
find  this  expression  in  Mnjor  £.  Moor's  Svffolk 
Wordsy  1823,  nor  yet  in  the  Rev.  Robert  Forby's 
Vocab%ilary,  1830,  nor  in  Halliwell  in  1849,  nor 
in  J.  G.  Nail's  IHdUct  and  ProvincialinMf  1866, 
I  send  '*  N.  &  Q."  a  note  of  if.  It  is  a  term 
commonly  used  in  this  parish  and  neighbourhood 
to  describe  the  effect  of  lightning,  as  supposed, 
upon  meat  which  has  become  tainted,  upon  beer 
which  has  grown  sour,  and  upon  milk  which  is 
turned  to  curds.  ''Sir,  I  hare  brought  in  for 
jour  luncheon  the  cold  leg  of  mutton  for  you  to 
laste,  but  I  nm  afraid  that  yon  will  find  it  dianged 
by  the  tempest  last  night,  as  it  was  not  covered 
lip."  "  I  should  have  liked,  sir,  to-day  to  ax  you 
to  taBte  my  harvest  [subaud,  beer],  but  I  find  it 's 
thangrd  by  the  lightning,  worse  luck!  I  wish 
enough  Td  thought  last  night  to  lay  a  sack  or 
jjometliing  over  the  vessel"  (t.«.,  beer  cask). 
''  Well,  ma*am,  if  you  would  excuse  me  coming 
forward  this  morning,  I  am  so  full-handed.  Last 
iiight,  what  with  the  lightning  or  the  thunder,  or 
'both  on  *eui  together,  all  the  milk  in  my  dairy 
was  cttanged.  Our  six  cows,  yon  know,  are  now 
in  full  profit,  and  last  night's  whole  meal  of  milk 
is  turned  to  curds—  a  sad  loss  to  us." 

W.  H.  S. 

Ysxley,  Suffolk. 

Elkctio^t  of  a  Molb-catcher. — The  follow- 
ing  extmct  from  the  Wellington  ^lop)  Joui-nal 
of  May  a  is,  I  think,  worthy  of  permanent  re- 
cord in  "  N.  &  Q.":— 

"On  Thursday  last  the  little  Tillage  [Selattyn,  Shrop- 
thire]  was  the  scene  of  an  electioneering  contest,  a 
Tacancj  haying  occurred  in  the  office  of  mole-catcher 
for  the  parish.  The  Totini?  was  carried  on  at  the  Cross 
Ke? s  Inn,  and  the  candidates  were  Mr.  T.  Jonen,  The 
Lodge,  and  Mr.  O.  Robinson,  Hengoed.  At  six  o'clock 
the  result  iia«  announced  as  follows  .'—Jones  65,  Robin- 
eon  25.  Mr.  Jones  takes  office  for  a  term  of  vl  years 
at  the  rate  of  ^d.  per  acre,  llie  arrangements  for  the 
election  were  carried  out  by  Mr.  S.  Williams  and  Mr. 
W.Roberta.' 

H.  W.  A. 

Shrewsbuiy. 

The  American  Nation  Anatomioallt  Con- 
^IDBRBD. — Fisher   Ames,  the  leading  statesman 


during  the  administration  of  General  Washington, 
reminded  his  countrymen  that,  '*  thongh  America 
is  rising  with  a  giant's  strength,  its  bones  are  yet 
but  cartilages";  Burke,  in  his  speech  on  American 
affeirs  deliFered  in  1772,  called  the  Americans  **a 
nation  in  the  gristle";  and  Talleyrand,  on  his 
return  from  the  United  States,  described  them 
as  "  an  g^ant  sans  os  ni  nerfs." 

WiLLiAX  Platt. 
Catlis  Court,  8t  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Kickshaw.  —  In  Ludlow's  Memain  (1697, 
p.  491)  occurs  the  passage  :  '*  He  (Benry  Crom- 
well), instead  of  that,  acknowledffed  the  ambition 
of  his  father  in  these  words,  *  Yew  that  are  here 
may  think  he  had  power,  bnt  they  made  a  very 
kuiihaw  of  him  at  London.'"  This  use  of  the 
word  to  designate  something  contemptible  woold 
seem  quite  distinct  from  the  two  between  which 
Johnson  wayecs,  viz.,  Shakespeare's  ''kickshaw" 
in  its  modem  sense,  and  Milton's  ''kicksftoe"  as 
applied  to  the  dancing-masters  of  France. 

J.  H.  B. 

Wbathbr  Lore. — ''As  many  fogs  as  yon  hare 
in  March,  so  many  frosts  in  May.*  Heard  in 
Berkshire.  Frank  Reds  Fowkk. 

2i,  Victoria  Orote,  Chelsea. 

''BBNBDicm." — Sorely  one  of  the  strangeBt 
statements  ever  made  is  that  in  Dr.  Brewer's 
Phreue  and  Fable:  ''Benedicite  (6  syL)  is  two 
words,  benedici  U  (bless  yon)."  Xit. 


flurrftif. 

We  must  reqaest  eorrespondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  priTate  Interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


Irish  Cardinals. — Apropot  of  the  elevation 
of  Dr.  MacCabe  to  the  Sacred  College,  it  has 
been  repeatedly  stated  of  late  in  newspapers  and 
other  publications  that  he  is  only  the  second 
Irishman  who  has  ever  attained  that  dignity.  Dr. 
Cnllen  having  been  the  first.  The  latter  was 
created  in  1866.  In  that  year  I  was  in  Rome.  I 
was  one  day  in  the  antechamber  of  the  Vatican, 
awaiting  an  audience  of  the  Pope,  when  Mon- 
signer  (subsequently  Cardinal)  Pacca,  Maestro  di 
Ctimera  to  His  Holiness,  came  up  and  told  me 
the  news  of  Archbishop  Cullen's  promotion.  Ex- 
pressing my  suprise  that  an  Irishman  should  be 
created  cardinal,  I  stated  my  belief  that  the  event 
was  unprecedented.  The  Monsignore  replied, 
however,  that  there  was  nothing  absolutely  new 
in  the  creation  of  nn  Irish  cirdinal,  for  although 
there  had  never  hitherto  been  a  cardinal  resident 
in  Ireland,  yet  there  had  been  Irish  cardinals  at 
Rome.  Can  any  one  supply  the  names  of  these 
dignitaries?  C.  W.  S. 


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Lord  and  Ladt  Jbmkings.  —  In  Vander 
Poort's  CaicUoffue  of  the  Pietura  belonging  to 
King  Charles  i.,  prepared  for  his  use  in  1639, 
mention  is  made  of  Lord  and  Lady  Jennings.  I 
should  be  Tery  thankful  for  any  information  that 
would  enable  me  to  identify  these  persons. 

OlOROB  SCHARF, 

National  Portrait  GsUsry. 

"  DouBLB  "  Monasteries.  —  *'  Barking,  like 
Whitby  and  others,  was  a  doable  foandation, 
harbg  a  separate  area  for  the  monks  apart  from 
the  nuna^  building,  and  even  a  separate  ehapeL  or 
oratory,  for  each  order.** — Bright,  Barly  Bngliik 
Churdi  Eietory,  p.  267.  See  also  Chronique  de 
VAlhafe  de  8.  Nicolae  h  Fumes,  in  the  reports 
of  the  Soci^t^  d'Emnlation  de  Bruges : — 

"  On  remarqiiera  qu?  THbhnye  de  St -Nicolas  £tdt  cs 
qu'on  appelle  un  monaat^re  double ;  il  est  rare  que  Ton 
rencontre  rezi»teHce  de  oetta  esp^ce  d*iiietitutioni 
parinl  lea  ^tablitaeinente  d*un  des  grands  ordree;  on  la 
contesUit  meme ;  mats  le  teiuoignnge  de  notre  cbroniqae 
ne  laisee  aucun  doute  lur  ce  point.  II  est  ^difiant  de 
voir  lei  meaures  de  pradence  que  Ton  adoptait  pour 
pr^renir  le  diinger:  lei  moindret  relatione  fcUient 
r^gl^es  et  lei  precautions  les  plui  minutieuiei  garantis- 
Mfcient  la  d^Iicatene  des  rapports." 

What  other  instances  are  there  of  monasteries  for 
both  sexes,  and  what  purpose  were  they  intended 
to  aerre  ?  J.  Maskell. 

Emanuel  Hospital,  Westminster. 

DiODATL— In  the  history  of  Milton's  early  life 
one  comes  not  infrequently  on  this  name.  Can 
you  definitively  inform  me  as  to  the  pronunciation 
of  the  word  ?  Must  I  pay  Di<Sd&ti  1  or  Dioda'ti  1 
or  Diod&'ti  ?  While  Masson  pronounces  'Di6d&ti, 
Morley,  on  the  other  hand,  giyes  Dioda'tL  Many 
cyclopedias  and  Italian  dictionaries  give  Dioditi, 
with  the  quantity  of  the  a  sometimes  long, 
sometimes  short.  Milton  himself,  in  his  Latin 
el^gy  and  in  his  Italian  sonnet,  where  the  word 
occurs,  seems  to  shorten  the  a,  and  to  throw  the 
acoent  further  back  than  the  penultimate  syllable. 
What  I  should  like  to  know  exactly  is,  How  did 
Milton  pronounce  the  name  of  his  young  Anglo- 
ItaUan  friend )  J.  Looie  Robertson. 

"  Bibliomania  "  ("  Odds  and  Ends,"  No.  10). 
— Who  wrote  this  smart. and  instructive  paper? 
It  is  said  to  be  *<  from  the  North  British  Review, 
with  additions."  It  has  the  flavour  of  the  late 
Dr.  John  Brown ;  but  if  it  be  his,  the  authorship 
is  carefully  concealed,  as  he  is  named  in  a  note 
on  Brace's  Cfiekoo  at  p.  31.  In  the  event  of 
*' Bibliomania"  being  reprinted  with  other 
papers  (not  yet  collected)  of  Dr.  John  Brown 
(for  I  cannot  dispel  the  impression  that  it  is 
his),  I  beg  to  point  out  a  flagrant  error  on 
p.  18,  where  Coleridge  is  made  to  say,  "Pun- 
ning by  spelliDg  are  [sic']  natural  enemies."  I 
know  Coleridge's  handwriting  well  enough  to  say 


that  his  **A"  looks  exceedingly  like  ''by**;  and" 
in  this  case  I  have  no  doubt  he  wrote  *'  Punning- 
&  spelling  are  natural  enemies."  C.  M.  I. 

Athenaeum  Club. 

A  Book-plate  Query. — I  bought  a  smalt 
batch  of  "Elzevirs"  lately,  from  the  dispersed 
collection  of  Mr.  Beresford-Hope  (chiefly  the 
little  "Republics"  printed  by  Bionaventure  and 
Abraham  at  Leyden),  one  of  which  contained 
several  book-plates  in  layers,  the  lowest  being 
the  subject  of  the  present  query.  Within  a  well- 
designed  scroll  is  depicted  the  interior  of  a  library, 
the  walls  entirely  lined  with  books;  at  a  table, 
which  is  covered  with  a  fringed  cloth,  sits  an 
ecclesiastic  (evidently  this  is  a  portrait),  pen  in 
hand ;  books  and  a  crucifix  are  upon  the  table,  and 
books  piled  npon  the  fl«K)r  (on  one  of  the  latter 
the  initials  "  L.  B.")-  On  a  ribbon  is  the  appro- 
priate motto,  "  In  Tali  Numquam  Lassat  Venatio- 
Sylva."  The  engraver  signs  himself  thus:— ''L" 
froytiers  1"  The  style  is  that  of  the  middle  of 
the  seventeenth  century,  and  is  in  execution  not 
unlike  the  engraved  title  to  the  book  (Comp. 
Hist.  Baiavien^  Lug.  Bat.,  J.  Maire,  1645)  in 
which  the  tx-lihris  in  question  is  placed.  "  Por- 
trait "  book-plates  are  so  uncommon  that  I  shall 
be  thankful  for  any  information  concerning  this 
specimen.  Alfred  Wallis. 

Derby. 

"The  Backstrino"  (Cowpbr's  "Winter 
Evening,"  l.  227).— 

"  Even  misws,  at  whose  age  their  mothers  wore 
The  hackttriog  and  the  bib.*' 

What  was  the  baekstrtngf  Certainly  not  the 
back*&oard,  elsewhere  described  by  Cowper  as 
"  the  monitor."  I  do  not  find  backstring  in  John- 
son's, Ash's,  or  Worcester's  DicUonary,  nor  in 
Nares's  Glossary.  Jatdee. 

Gloster  Ridley,  D.D. — In  answer  to  a  query 
of  mine  ("N.  &  Q.,"  6"»  S.  viL  449),  L,  L.  H. 
wrote  (6^  S.  viil  135):— "In  the  title  to  Me- 
lampus^  a  poem  in  four  books,  Dodsley,  Pall  Mall, 
1781,  there  is  a  small  oval  portrait  of  the  author, 
Gloster  Ridley,  D.D.,  engraved  by  John  Hall 
from  a  punting  by  Sconler."  I  cannot  find  any 
book  with  the  portrait  in  any  public  library  in 
New  England.  I  desire  a  good  copy  of  Dr. 
Ridlev's  portrait,  and  hope  your  correspondent 
may  be  able  to  put  me  in  communication  with 
some  one  who  can  aid  me  in  procuring  a  copy 
of  the  portrait.  Can  any  one  tell  where  the 
original  painting  may  be  found?  Please  com- 
municate with  (Rev.)  G.  T.  Ridlet. 

Saco,  Maine,  U.S.  America. 

"  Fflitteras."— Can  any  one  help  me  to  the 
meaning  of  this  word  ?  It  occurs  in  the  "  Accounts 
of  the  Wardens  of  the  Chapel  an£hSchool  of  tha 

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<3-uild  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  at  BasiDgstoke.'*  The 
entry  is  among  the  payments  made  in  the  year 
1584y  and  runs  thus  :  ''  p<^  for  iii  ffiitteras  and  the 
cariage,  iiii"  viii*^."  The  entry  immediately  pre- 
ceding this  is  :  "  p*  for  a  mantle  for  the  chymney, 
xvi*."  The  other  entries  are  payments  for  repairs 
to  the  buildings,  and  so  forth.  Is  it  possible  that 
fflUUrat  can  be  a  hybrid  of  "  fflet/'  A.-S.=a  bed, 
and  **  aras  "  or  "  arras  ''=hanging8  ? 

W.  L,  Nash. 
39,  London  Boad,  Reading. 

Ladt  Byron's  Answer  to  hbr  Lord's  Farb- 
WXLL. — I  haTe  the  MS.  of  the  above  poetical 
reply  by  Lady  Byron  to  Lord  Byron's  famous 
Farewell    It  commences  : — 

**  Powerless  are  thy  Magic  Numbers 
To  re?iTe  Affection's  flame." 

I  am  anxious  to  know  whether  it  has  ever  been 
pnblished,  as  up  to  the  present  I  hare  been  unable 
to  trace  it.  J.  M. 

Curious  Custom  in  Yorkshire. — Two  fiirms 
lyinff  in  the  township  of  Swinton,  Yorkshire,  and 
whidi  belong  to  Earl  Fitzwilliam,  late  in  the 
occupation  of  John  Mercer  and  Richard  Thomp- 
son, every  year  change  their  parish.  For  one 
year,  from  Easter  day  at  twelve  at  noon  till  next 
Easter  day  at  the  same  hour,  they  lie  in  the  parish 
of  Mexbrough,  and  then  the  Easter  day  following 
at  the  same  hour  they  are  in  the  parish  of  Wath- 
upon-Beame,  and  so  alternately.  These  fiurms 
consist  of  302  acres  (Blount's  Ancknt  Tmuree  of 
Land),  When  was  this  custom  commenced,  who 
instituted  it,  and  why  ? 

An  Old  Custom  at  Hastings. — 

*'  It  is  an  old  custom  in  Hastings  that  on  New  Yearns 
Day  apples,  nuts,  oranges,  &c.,  as  well  at  money,  are 
thrown  out  of  the  windows  to  be  scrambled  for  by  the 
fisher  boys  and  men.  The  custom  is  not  kept  up  with 
the  spirit  of  former  days."— (?oo<2  Words. 

What  is  known  of  the  origin  of  this  custom  1 

EvERARD  Home  Colemam. 
71,  Brecknock  Boad. 

Duncan  I.  and  IL,  Einos  of  Scotland.^ — ^Was 
Duncan  L  the  son  of  Beatrix  (daughter  of  Mal- 
colm II.)  by  Crinan  son  of  Duncan,  Abbot  of 
Dunkeld,  or  by  Albanach,  Thane  of  the  Scottish 
Isles  1  Was  Duncan  II.  the  natural  son  of  Mal- 
colm IIL  by  Ingibiorg  1  H. 

Aeronautics. — A  short  time  since  I  purchased 
a  curious  work  with  the  following  title : — 

"A  Treatise  upon  the  Art  of  Flyinsr  by  Mechanical 
Means,  with  a  Full  Explanation  of  the  Natural  Principles 
by  'which  Birds  are  enabled  to  Fly  :  likewise  Instruction 
and  Plans  for  making  a  Flving  Car  with  Wings,  in  which 
a  Man  may  sit  and,  by  working  a  amall  LeTer.  cause  him- 
self to  ascend  and  soar  through  the  Air  with  the  Facility 
of  a  Bird.  Illustrated  with  plntes  by  Thomas  Walker, 
portrait  painter,  HuU.    Hull :  Printed  by  Joseph  Sim- 


mons  of  the  Rockingham  Office,  and  sold  by  Longman, 
Hurst,  Rees  and  Orme,  1810." 
Can  any  correspondent  give  me  information  or 
refer  me  to  an  account  of  the  author  ? 

Hubert  Smith. 

Family  of  Nugent.— Lodge's  Irish  Peerage 
(1764),  vol.  i.  p.  123,  in  giring  the  Dysert  branch 
of  the  Earl  of  Westmeath*s  family,  says:— 

**  James  Nugent  m^ed  Alison,  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Nugent,  of  Taghmon,  Bart,  and  dying  before  his 
father  left  a  daughter,  Catherine,  the  first  wife  of  Gerald 
Dillon, of  Dillonsgrove,  co.  Roecommon.  Garrett  Nugent, 
his  younger  brother,  who  sncceeded  in  1701  to  Drsert, 
married  Barbara,  daughter  of  Hans  Widman,  of  Hans- 
town,  CO.  Westmeath.  and  died  in  December,  1728, 
leaving  Andrew  and  otner  issue." 
ArchdaU's  edition  of  Lodge's  Irish  Petrage  (1789), 
YoL  L  p.  224,  gives  the  same  account,  but  trans- 
poses the  two  marriages,  malting  James  the 
husband  of  Barbara  Widman,  and  Garrett  of  Alison 
Nugent  Which  is  right?  One  would  presume 
Archddl,  being  a  later  edition  of  the  same  work, 
but  I  hare  some  reason  to  think  Lodge  is  correct. 

J.  K.  L. 

Mat  Muggins. —  In  an  old  Scotch  ballad, 
reh&ting  to  a  girl  who  had  died  of  consumption,  is 
the  following  yerse : — 

*'  If  they  wad  drink  nettles  in  March, 
And  eat  muggins  in  May, 
Sae  mony  braw  maidens 
Wad  not  go  to  clay." 
The  nettles  probably  refer  to  St  Fabian's  nettle, 
which  u  thought  to  be  a  cure  for  consumption,  and 
is  made  into  a  decoction  for  that  purpose.    Bat 
what  are  muggins?  Cutbbbrt  Bied^ 

[See  anU,  p.  866.] 

"NOTHIWO    VEWTURK    HOTHIKO  WIK."— ThlS    I 

met  with  in  Matt  Henry's  drnmentary  on 
Exodus,  second  edition,'  1707.  Can  it  be  traced 
further  back?  In  other  words,  are  we  indebted  to 
him  for  the  proYerb  ?  M.  A.  Oxov. 

The  Dbvil  akd  a  Halfpbnnt.— At  an  inquest 
held  lately  at  Boydon,  Essex,  on  the  body  of 
a  man  found  on  the  line,  a  police  constable  stated 
that  all  the  money  he  found  on  deceased  was  one 
halfpenny,  whereupon  one  of  the  jury  said,  "They 
say  that's  to  keep  the  deyil  out."  What  is  the 
origin  of  this  saying?  Cij&ats  in  Herts. 

A  Hastings  Stort.— The  following  story  is 
from  Miss  L.  M.  Hawkins's  Memoirs,  Can  any  one 
tell  me  whether  there  is  any  authority  for  it,  and 
whether  the  saying  ever  had  currency  ?  I  haye 
never  heard  it  or  seen  it  mentioned  ehewhere  : — 

"  It  is  said  that  at  Hastings  the  crier  ie  employed  to 
cry  the  weather  at  noon.  The  saying  originated  in  the 
following  incident.  A  man  bad  giren  public  notice 
that  he  ahoiild  begin  to  pick  hops  the  following  dar; 
but  the  morning  proring  rainy,  be,  to  prerent  the 
pickers  assembling  in  Tain,  senl^^e  crier^fnto  the 
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market-place,  to  gire  notice  that  he  should  postpone 
the  picking.  At  noun  the  weather  again  changed ;  aqd, 
unwilling  to  lose  all  the  day,  he  sent  the  crier  again  to 
say  that  it  was  then  fine  and  he  should  be^in;  This 
gave  rise  to  the  witticism  agiunst  the  pe<^le  of  Hastings." 

E.  H.  M. 
Hastmgs. 

Meinardus  Schotanus. — I  shall  be  glad  of 
any  information  regarding  the  above/ who  was  the 
author  of  SysUma  Concionum,  Francof.,  1640. 
I  fail  to  find  nis  name  in  any  work  of  reference. 

J.  Collier. 

The  Pillars  of  the  Temple  at  Jei^usaleu* 
—These  are  said  to  have  been  spiral ;  on  what 
Authority?  James  D.  Butler, 

Madison,  Wis.  U.S.A. 

"  FoRREGA."— What  is  the  English  of  this  word  ? 
I  cannot  find  it  under  any  change  of  spelling  that 
occurs  to  me.  It  seems  to  mean  furnace,  or 
eomething  of  the  sort.  A  man  is  presented  for 
placing  "pisces  et  forrega"  near  a  neighbour's 
house,  which  arrangement  was  accompanied 
**  cum  admodum  mala  fumigatione,  Anfflic^,  with 
a  very  ille  stinke."  H.  J.  Moule. 

Dorchester  Road,  Weymouth. 

Richard  Aldworth. — I  have  an  engraved 
portrait  of  this  gentleman,  "from  the  original 
tn  the  Council  Chamber."  Can  you  give  me  any 
information  respecting  him  ?  J.  S.  A. 

Basingstoke. 

Arms  of  Pate,  of  Stsonbt. — In  Burke's 
Extinct  and  Dormant  Barotietciei  (second  edition, 
IS44),  under  the  head  of  "Pate,  of  Sysonby," 
these  arms  appear  :—'*  Arg.  three  text  R's  sa." 
dan  any  one  explain  their  meaning  ?       Abhba. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted.— 

Poena,    London,  Ridgway,  1832. 

Sketches  of  Obscure  Poets,  loUh  Specimens  of  Uuir 
Writings.    London,  1833. 

English  Ohurchwomen  of  the  Seventeenth  Century, 
Derby.  1845. 

On  the  JRuponnhilities  of  Employers,    London,  18 19. 

The  New  Cambridge  QtUde.  Second  Edition.  Cam- 
tridge,  1868.  Abhba. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. — 
'*  Villi  ego,  qui,  Isstis  remm  successihus  utens, 
Tollebat  tumidum  stultas  ad  astra  caput 
Immemor  atque  Dei  prorsus  rebusqae  secundis 

Bbrius  SBthereas  despioiebat  opes. 
Viz  ego  traneieram  oum  protinus  era  retorquens. 
Cum  factis  vidi  hunc  jam  pertLise  suit." 
These  lines  are  quoted  by  Buxtorf  in  the.fifth  edition  of 
liis  Thesaurus  L'ng,  SancL,  p.  656     He  prefaces  them 
xvith  '*  Latinorum  poetarum  aliquis  scripslt." 

8HERRIK0HAM. 

"As  firm  as  a  rock  and  as  calm  as  the  flood 

Where  the  peace- loring  Halcyon  deposits  her  brood.** 
The  aboTir  is  quoted  by  Yarreli,   British  Bird*.   fir.t 
edition,  under  the  kingfisher,  as  written  by  Cowiv  r  but 
I  cannot  find  it  in  any  of  his  poenu.  K.  U. 


"  Whom  call  ye  gay  ?    T.ho  innocent  are  gay ; 
The  lark  is  gay, before  tlie  rosy  mom. 
Spreading  his  w:ngiall  saturate  with  dew/'  &c« 
GpoRQK  Lawkhros, 

"Conspicuous  by  their  absence." 
This  phrase  is  quoted,  as    nrijEinating   with    Tacitus* 
What  are  his  words,  and  wuVre  do  they  occur?  J. 


PAROCHIAL  REGIS  ER9. 
{Q^  S.  Y.  141,  211,  233,  248,  273,  291, 310, 329.) 

Allow  me,  as  editor  for  ten  years  of  the 
Transactions  of  the  Cumberland  and  Westmore- 
land Antiqaarian  and  Archaeological  Society,  to 
protest  (I  mean  to  do  somethinfr  mach  stronger) 
against  the  proposal  in  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  to 
move  all  parish  registera  and  their  transcripts  to 
London.  Sach  removal  would  be  destructive  of 
all  local  research,  and  a  deadly  blow  to  county 
antiquarian  societies ;  it  would  benefit  no  one  but 
a  few  London  antiquaries^  who  might  well  be 
content  with  the  many  advantages  they  have  over 
the  residents  in  the  country  without  seeking  to 
rob  uib  I  hope  we  shall  be  able  to  resist  the 
present  projxMal  as  successfully  as  we  resisted  two 
former  and  similar  ones— one  a  proposal  to  remove 
county  records  to  the  Record  Office  in  London,  the 
other  to  remove  all  wills  up  to  Somerset  House. 

During  the  last  ten  years  I  have  edited  five  and 
a  half  thick  volumes  of  Transactions ;  almost  every 
paper  printed  in  those  7}ransactions  has  necessitated 
reference  to  one  or  other  of  the  parish  registers  in 
the  diocese  of  Carlisle.  I  have  never  known  any 
difficulty  in  getting  the  requisite  access  occur  either 
to  myself  or  to  any  of  my  colleagues.  I  have  never 
known  any  charge  made  either  for  searching  or  for 
making  extracts.  I  have  frequently  known  clergy- 
men volunteer  to  do  the  work,  to  save  me  the  trouble 
of  a  visit.  The  transcripts  in  the  Bishop's  Registrr 
at  Carlisle  have  always  been  open,  free  of  all 
charge,  to  any  antiquary  or  literary  inquirer.  If 
change  is  necessary,  the  parish  registers  should  go 
to  the  bishop's  registries  in  each  diocese. 

Should  Mr.  Borlase's  proposal  become  law,  I  do 
not  see  how  I  can  work  our  local  society's  Trans* 
actions  as  I  hav^  worked  them.  The  fees  will  be 
a  considerable  charge  on  our  small  revenues.  I 
cannot  be  always  ruuning  up  from  Cumberland  to 
London ;  and  I  must  add  to  the  searching  fees  the 
fees  which  will  have  to  be  paid  to  a  record  agent. 

I  trust  that  the  northern  antiquarian  societies 
will  be  able  to  stop  the  passage  of  this  Bill.  I 
regret  that  Mr.  Borlase,  who  has  made  himself  a 
name  for  local  research  in  Cornwall,  should  pro- 
mote a  Bill  which  will  strangle  it  in  Cumberland. 
EicHiLRD  S.  Fbrqusov,  F.S.A.,  Local  Sec 
S.A.  for  Cumberland. 

While  this  question  is  still  to  the 

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like  to  take  the  opDortnnity  of  adding  my  expeti- 
enoe,  &c,  to  that  already  recorded  in  your  pages. 
I  have  searched,  and  made  copious  extracts  from, 
some  five-and-twenty  registers  in  this  county  and 
elsewhere,  and  in  all  cases,  without  exception,  I 
haye  experienced  the  utmost  courtesy  from  the 
cleirgY ;  m  some  few  instances  I  have  heen  allowed 
to  take  the  reffisters. home  with  me.  Putting  all 
sentiment  aside,  however,  I  incline  to  think  that 
it  would  he  hest  to  remove  all  ancient  registers  to 
London,  or  to  central  positions,  such  as  York, 
London,  Canterbury,  &c.,  where  they  would  be 
taken  proper  care  of  and  be  easily  accessible.  In 
support  of  this  I  will  urge:— 

1.  That  it  would  be  much  more  conyenient  to 
be  able  to  copy  or  take  extracts  at  one's  leisure 
in  a  public  office  on  the  payment  of  a  fixed  fee. 
At  present,  if  I  wish  to  see  a  register  I  must  first 
write  and  ask  permission,  then  make  an  appoint- 
ment.  On  arriving  at  the  vicarage  I  set  to  work, 
and  in  some  eases  the  vicar  stays  in  the  room,  as, 
indeed,  he  ooght  to  do.    Now,  I  ask,  can  any  one 
work  comfortably  under  these  cirenmstanoes  ?    If 
it  is  a  long  bulky  register,  the  work  must  be 
hurried  and  imperfect,  for  you  cannot  help  feeling 
somehow  that  you  are  in  the  way.    Presently  the 
dinner-bell  rings,  and  you  feel  still  more  uncomfort- 
able; the  register  gets  interesting  and  you  wish  to 
peg  away ;  you  have  brought,  perhaps,  a  frugal 
sandwich  in  vour  pocket,  but  the  vicar  would  deem 
it  inhospitable  to  leave  you,  and  you  are  asked  to 
dine  or  lunch,  as  the  case  may  be.    Well,  once  in 
a  way  this  may  not  come  amiss,  but  when  it  is  a 
case  of  three  or  four  days  you  cannot  but  feel  that 
you  are  taxing  the  good  nature  of  your  host  to  the 
n^l     1  myself  recent]  v  had  occasion  to  make 
some  extracts  from  a  bulky  register,  which  took  me 
three  days  to  go  through  only  once  (and  registers 
require  going  through  at  least  twice) ;  each  day  I 
was  hospitablv  entertained ;  and  though  I  should 
have  much  liked  to  have  gone  through  the  re- 
gisters again,  I  really  could  not  bring  myself  to 
intrude    further   upon    one    who   had    been    so 
oourteons.    Again,  perhaps  one's  time  is  limited  ; 
a  drive  of  some  fourteen  or  fifteen  miles  breaks 
into  a  day,  or  perhaps  the  vicar  can  only  spare  you 
a  few  hours.    Now,  were  the  registers  in  a  public 
office,  one  would  know  exactly  the  hours  and  could 
arrange  accordingly. 

2.  The  reg;isters  would  be  better  preserved.  My 
experience  is,  that  though  the  cler^^y  as  a  rule  are 
fairly  careful  of  their  registers,  yet  there  are  some, 
I  regret  to  say,  who  regard  them  with  perfect  in- 
difference, and  leave  them  in  open  chests  in  damp 
churches  to  moulder  away  and  to  feed  the  church 
mice.  In  most  cases  that  have  come  under  my 
observation  I  find  that  the  registers  are  kept  in  an 
iron  chest  in  the  vicarage,  though  not  always,  as  I 
have  sometimes  seen  them  loose  on  the  shelves. 
In  those  cases,  still  too  many,  where  they  are  kept 


in  the  church,  I  have  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
the  process  of  decay,  though  perhaps  slow,  is 
certain^  and  the  damper  the  building  the  quicker 
the  decay.  Every  year  obliterates  M>tiie  portion  o^ 
these  ancient  records.  Now,  this  should  not  be  : 
they  should  be  placed  beyond  the  poMibility  of 
further  decay.  F.  A.  B. 

Tiliworth,  Leighton  Buizard. 


That  the  discussion  which  has  taken  place  on 
this  all-important  topic  will  be  productive  of  good 
results  may  be  accepted  as  being  beyond  question. 
However,  I  cannot  bring  myself  to  the  same  way 
of  thinking  as  some  of  your  correspondents,  who 
plead  very  strongly  that  all  our  parochial  registenr 
may  be  transferred  to  London.    Why  should  they 
be  removed  from  the  district  in  which  the  most 
interest  is  taken  in  them  ?     Surely  it  will  not 
facilitate  Zocai  historical  research  to  transfer  the 
great  storehouses  of  local  history  to  the  metropolis,, 
where  they  will  be  out  of  the  reach  of  the  majority 
of  local  antiquaries ;  and  in  connexion  with  parish 
registers  what  research  is  so  valuable  as  that  of 
such  local  men  ?    True  the  registers  are,  in  many 
cases,  sadly  neglected  at  present,  but  let  the  efforts 
for  improvement  be  in  the  direction  of  better  care 
and  preservation.    A  proposal  which  is  now  under 
consideration  here  may  not  be  without  suggestive- 
ness  to  some  of  your  readers,  so  I  give  it.    As  the 
librarian  of  the  public  libmry  I  propose  to  copy 
the  registers  of  our  parish  church  down  to  the  year 
1800.    Whether  the  copy  will  ever  find  iU  way 
into  print  is  a  question  which  is  left  in  abeyance 
for  the  present,  but  I  heartily  hope  it  will.    The 
copy,  however— at  least  such  is  my  desire,  and  I 
do  not  know  that  it  will  meet  with  any  objection 
—is  to  be  deposited  in  this  the  public  library  of 
the  town,  and  will  be  accessible  to  the  public  in 
the  same  way  as  the  other  books  of  reference.    In 
connexion  with  the  preservation  and  transcription 
of  registers,  the  public  libraries  and  librarians 
might  become  very  useful    If  the  registers  are  to 
be  removed  from  the  churches,  the  best  place  for 
them  would  be  the  nearest  public  free   library. 
They  would  be  in  the  district  to  which  they  he- 
longed,  proper  care  would  be  taken  of  them,  and 
they  would  be  easily  accessible  to  any  one  who 
wished  to  consult  them.    But  I  do  not  expect  any 
such  wholesale  change  as  a  transfer  of  the  registers 
from  the  custody  of  the  clergy— at  any  rate  not  for 
some  time  to  come.    But  in  the  case  of  prmted 
registers,  or  where  a  copy  is  made  in  writing,  the 
public  library  nearest  at  hand  should  not  be  for- 
gotten.    The  newness  of  the  library  movemenfc 
should  not  discredit  these  institutions  in  the  minds 
of  antiquaries;  they  are  destined  to  become  very 
powerful  factors  in  the  literary,  social,  and  educa- 
tional  future,  and  they  deserve  every  help,  for  the 
best  of  all  reasons,  that  help  given  to  them  is  not 
bestowed  in  vain.    True,  they  are  children  of  the 


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nineteenih  century  ;  bat  bo  are  antiquaries.  I 
Wish  that  the  libraries  were  remembered  more  by 
those  local  historians  who  contribute  articles  touch- 
ing local  hislory  to  the  tarions  periodicals  of 
nrcbfleologiciil  societies.  It  is  a  very  general  custom 
for  erery  such  author  to  be  presented  with  a  few 
copies  of  his  contribution  printed  separately.  Why 
should  not  one  of  such  reprints  he  sent  to  the 
public  library  f  I  am  pleading  hard  in  my  own 
district  for  such  contributions,  and  rejoice  to  sny 
that  the  pleading  has  borne  good  fruit.  The  wide 
circulation  of  ^^  N.  &  Q."  has  tempted  me  to  seek 
an  extended  publicity  through  its  columns ;  may 
this  hear  good  fruit  also.  John  Ballimgxr. 
DoDcaster. 

I  renture  to  write  a  few  lines  in  support  of  the 
Bill  drawn  with  so  much  skill  by  my  learned  friend 
Mr.  TASWKLL-LAiffGMBAD.  The  only  way  per- 
manently to  protect  these  ancient  records  is  to 
place  them  in  charge  of  the  Record  Office  in 
London.  If  all  the  clergy  had  learned,  as  so  many 
have  done,  to  treat  their  old  registers  as  they 
deserre,  they  would  still  be  exposed  to  risk.  Mr. 
Macrat  raises  a  point  of  more  apparent  than  real 
importance  when  he  sug^ts  that  the  remoyal  of 
the  old  registers  would  discourage  local  historians. 
The  portion  of  a  local  history  which  is  derived 
from  the  register  of  the  actual  parish  alone  is  small 
indeed  as  compared  with  that  for  which  the  his- 
torian must  search  records  of  other  parishes  and 
wills,  for  which  he  must  go  to  London ;  and  if  the 
old  registers  also  were  centralized  in  London  the 
labours  of  the  local  historian  would  be  assisted 
rather  than  hindered.  Dr.  F.  G.  Lkx  answers 
his  own  objection ;  for  if  the  revenue  he  derived 
from  ninety- five  minutes'  search  in  his  registers  was 
a  negative  quantity  to  the  extent  of  two  shillings, 
the  *' robbery  *'  of  his  fees  will  increase,  and  not 
diminish,  his  income.  He  suggests  that  copies 
should  be  sent  to  London  ;  but  it  would  be  better 
to  make  a  copy  to  be  kept  in  the  parish.  The 
well-considered  clauses  of  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill, 
however,  meet  by  anticipation  all  the  difficulties 
your  correspondents  raise.  No  vested  interest 
would  suffer,  and  great  benefit  would  be  derived 
by  the  genealogical  inquirer. 

E.  W.  Brabrook. 

Are  there  not  some  old  duplicate  registers  still 
in  the  diocesan  registries  7  From  what  I  remember 
such  have  been  neglected.  They  might  be  lodged 
in  the  R^istrar^General's  Office  without  detriment 
to  any  one.  Another  mode  of  helping  the  cause  is 
for  any  one  who  has  a  parish  register  in  hislibruy, 
or  a  copy  of  one,  to  send  a  copy  to  the  British 
Museum,  so  as  to  increase  the  small  store  there. 
There  are  many  certified  copies  of  individual 
baptisms,  marriages,  and  deaths  in  the  hands  of 
solicitors  and  others,  which  are  no  longer  required, 
and  which  might  be  collected  were  there  a  central 


repository  to  take  charge  of  them,  and  .where  ia 
time  they  might  be  classified.     Hydb  Clarke. 

Will  Mr.  Taswell-Lavombad  kindly  furnish 
your  readers  with  a  fuller  extract  from  the  ninth 
cLiUse  of  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  ?  What  is  meant  by 
a  ^'general  search"  with  fee  of  twenty  shillings? 
If  it  means  as  much  as  you  can  do  during  one 
day*s  (public)  office  hours,  it  is  very  much  too  high 
a  charge.  Would  it  not  be  well  to  clearly  definer 
in  what  cases  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  must  (not 
may)  remit  the  fees  ?  To  write  a  parish  history- 
would  become  very  expensive  work  if  twenty 
shillings  is  to  be  paid  for  every  search.  The  present 
custodians  of  registers  rarely,  indeed  I  may  say 
never,  ask  for  fees  when  the  information  is  required 
for  local  historical  purposes.  If  the  registers  ar» 
removed  to  London,  I  fear  it  will,  for  some  time  to 
come,  stop  the  publication  of  registers  which  other- 
wise would  be  prbted.      H.  Fmhwick,  F.S.A. 

Mr.  Chapman's  suggestion  of  an  index  similar 
to  Mr.  Maoray's  is  the  best  and  cheapest  plaa 
yet  proposed.  If  perfect  accuracy  is  desired,  a 
small  Government  appropriation  would  enable 
the  clergy  to  send  a  certain  number  of  registers 
annually  to  the  Ordnance  Department,  where  they 
could  be  photo- zincographed  (like  the  Domesday) 
and  then  returned  to  their  respective  parishes. 
The  publication  of  the  registers  would  be  a  subject 
for  future  oonsideration  ;  at  present  a  perfect  fac- 
simile deposited  in  London  would  be  a  boon  to 
investigators.  Mb.  Blatdss  can  restore  faded 
writing  by  moistening  it  with  a  dilute  solution  of 
tincture  of  nut-c^K  or  a  solution  of  prussiate  of 
potassa  slightly  acidulated  with  muriatic  acid.  A 
small  piece  of  blotting  paper  well  moistened  with 
eitherof  these  solutions  may  be  laid  over  the  illegible 
writing  and  allowed  to  remain  until  the  letters 
become  sufficiently  clear.  H. 

Charles  Laub's  "Bbaumont  awd  Fletcher* 
(6*^  S.  V.  381).— Mr.  Wrstwood  will  be  glad  to 
know  that  Charies  Lamb's  Beaumont  and  Fletcher 
has  not  been  acquired  by  the  Yankees,  but  was 
purchased  at  the  sale  of  the  late  Lieut. -Col.  Cun- 
ningham's library,  some  four  or  five  years  ago,  for 
the  British  Museum.  Might  I  venture  to  exoress 
a  hope  that  Mr.  Westwood  will  put  into  book 
form  his  deeply  interesting  notices  of  Lamb? 
Other  fancies  change  ;  but  Lamb's  memory  grows 
ever  nearer  and  dearer.  A  score  of  pages  from 
Mr.  Westwood's  hand  would  be  to  the  lovers  of 
Lamb  a  treasure  more  golden  than  gold. 

A.    H.   BULLEN. 

Oarenoe  Housep  Godwin  Road,  Margate. 

Cromlech  :  Dolmen  (6«»  S.  v.  108,  108).— I 
regret  being  unable  to  concur  with  Mr.  Gossbliv 
in  approving  M.  Littr^'s  definition  of  the  crom- 
lech as  "  upright  stones  pkced  symmetrically  in  a 


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circle."  GeneraliziDg  is  often  dangeroas ;  asd  in 
this  instance  the  author  has  committed  the  error 
of  representing  one  species  only  as  a  whole  genus. 
For  example,  the  Drudical  remains  referred  to  are 
not  always  in  a  circle,  but  sometimes  in  an  oval ; 
notably  the  fine  specimen  about  two  miles  from 
Keswick,  which  is  of  the  latter  form.  '  Sometimes 
the  term  "  cromlech  "  is  applied  merely  to  two  up- 
right stones  surmounted  by  a  third  horizontal  one. 
Again,  I  think  that  archaeologists  more  experienced 
than  I  am  will  support  me  when  I  say  that  many 
cromlechs  (so  called)  have  not  been  placed,  either 
symmetrically  or  otherwise,  by  any  human  hands, 
but  that  in  the  course  of  ages  pieces  of  rock, 
through  disintegration  by  the  elements,  hare 
fallen  into  fantastic  forms  —  in  fact,  into 
**  freaks  of  nature  '* — and  have  assumed  the  rough 
resemblance  of  cromlechs  proper.  I  can  illustrate 
my  meaning  by  instancing  a  cromlech  (so  called) 
which  is  to  be  seen  in  the  paiss  of  Llanberis,  about 
half  way  up  on  the  left  hand  side,  if  I  remember 
rightly.  It  consists  of  an  immense  horizontal 
rock,  resting  on  other  pieces,  and  oyerhanging 
them  so  as  to  form  a  sort  of  gloomy  cavern. 
Tradition  relates  that  in  heathen  times  this  place 
was  used  for  solemn  assemblies,  if  not  for  sacrifices. 
After  these  observations  on  the  form  of  a  crom- 
lech, one  naturally  turns  to  the  origin  and  etymo- 
logy of  the  word  itself.  It  is  Celtic,  without  a 
doubt  It  is  characteristic  of  the  Cymric  division 
of  that  language  that  its  names  are  mostly  descrip- 
tive. It  is  strikingly  so  in  the  names  of  places, 
and  often  so  in  the  names  of  objects.  I  feel  it  is 
rather  audacious,  with  but  a  scanty  knowledge  on 
the  subject,  to  form  any  theory  as  to  the  origin  of 
the  word ;  but  there  does  seem  to  me  a  simple 
mode  of  coming  to  its  meaning.  The  word  evi- 
dently separates  itself  into  cram  and  lech.  Both 
those  words  are  common  Welsh  dictionary  words. 
Orom  is  Welsh  for  "  bendiog,"  as  a  general  term, 
which  may,  without  taking  too  much  liberty,  be 
-extended  to  ''impending.''  Then  we  have  lech, 
which  is  Welsh  for  a  flat  stone.  The  result  is 
that  we  have  the  meaning  translated  into  ^*  a  flat 
impending  stone  or  rock,"  giving  the  exact  repre- 
sentation of  the  Llanberis  cromlech  before  referred 
to.  Turning  to  the  derivation  and  meaning  of 
dolmen^  much  the  same  may  be  said  as  has  been 
said  of  cromlech.  Dol  in  Welsh  signifies  a  ring  or 
loop.  Now,  pleading  guilty  to  the  charge  of  want 
of  experience  in  examining  the  ancient  stone  called 
4K  dolmen,  I  have  still  obtained  some  information 
as  to  its  normal  character,  viz-^a  single  upright 
fitone  with  a  circular  perforation  through  it, 
whether  natural  or  artificial  I  know  not.  I  have 
also  read  of  a  superstitious  custom,  probably  dating 
back  to  heathen  times,  of  passing  young  children 
through  these  holes.  The  dolmen  seems  not  un- 
common in  this  country,  and  appears  to  have  been 
Mldopa,  if  ever,  passed  over  by  the  gentlemen  of 


the  Ordnance  Survey,  who  have  marked  it  fre- 
quently in  their  maps  as  a  "Bing-stone";  and 
there  I  cannot  but  think  we  have  the  meaning  of 
dolmen.  These  remarks  may  seen  trivial,;  but 
perhaps  they  may  have  some  value  if  they  elicit 
from  more  learned  correspondents  of  "  K.  &  QJS- 
fuller  information  on  a  veiy  interesting  subject. 

M.  H.  K. 

John  Toland,  in  his  HUtory  of  the  Druids, 
republished,  with  life  of  Toland,  notes,  &c.,  by 
Robert  Huddleston,  Montrose,  1814,  8vo.,  explains 
the  word  cromleac,  or  cromleh,  from  the  Irish  crom, 
to  adore,  and  leac,  a  8tone=stone  of  adoration. 
Crom  was  also  one  of  the  Irish  names  for  God  ; 
hence  croraUac  may  mean  the  stone  of  Grom,  or 
of  the  supreme  God.  The  cro^ideac  is  also  called 
hothal,  from  the  Irish  word  hoih^  a  house,  and  al, 
or  Alhh^  God.  This  is  evidently  the  same  with 
heihel^  or  house  of  God,  of  the  Hebrews.  Some 
antiquaries,  however,  derive  the  word  from  the 
Welsh  words  crom^  feminine  of  cnmt,  crooked, 
and  lech^  a  flat  stone.  In  Carmarthenshire  and 
Pembrokeshire  there  are  cromlehs  which  are 
supposed  to  have  been  altars  for  sacrifices  before 
the  Christian  era.  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

I  take  it  that  dolmtn  and  tolmin  are  not 
etymologically  the  same.  The  former  is  from 
the  Armoric  taul-me^i  (Breton  idoi-mian\  table 
stone ;  the  latter  from  Armoric  tou2/-nten  (Breton 
toull-mian\  a  stone  with  a  hole  in  it. 

B.  S.  Charnoce. 

HoNiTON  (6*^  S.  V.  288).— The  snggestbn  of 
Mr.  Ltnn  as  to  the  etymology  of  the  name  is  well 
worth  consideration,  though  various  local  historians 
give  a  different  account.  The  antiquary  Weatoote 
writes: — 

"  But  for  the  name,  if  I  thall  say  it  was  taken  of  the 
abundance  of  honey  there  made  or  found  I  persuade  my- 
lelf  you  would  tmtie,  and  yet  that  must  not  be  altogether 
sant  reason  in  regnrd  of  the  neighbourhood  of  tlie  hilU 
on  which  abundance  of  thyme  growi,  where  these  pretty 
creatures  are  much  delighted  and  feed  most  willingly 
thereon." 

In  a  pleasant  Hitiory  of  Eoniton,  by  A.  Furqahar^ 
son,  I  find  that  Mr.  Pulman,  in  his  Local  Nof/uH" 
dature,  wonders  that  any  difficulty  ever  arose  as 
to  the  origin  of  the  name,  which  he  takes  without 
doubt  to  be  derived  from  the  fact  that  the  parish 
was  a  famous  pUice  for  honey,  and  adds  that 
amongst  the  Saxons  the  bee  farmer  was  a  person 
of  consequence,  mead,  which  was  chiefly  com- 
pounded of  honey,  being  the  great  Saxon  beverage. 
Further  confirmation  is  found  in  the  circumatance 
that  the  borough  arms  contain  a  honeysuckle  in 
bloom.  Bisdon,  in  writing  of  Honiton,  says, 
"  Sweetly  situated  it  is  both  for  corn  and  pasture, 
whereof  happily  that  name  was  imposed  upon  iL" 

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The  following  passage  is  from  Polwbele*8  History 
of  Devonshire  (1793),  vol  ii.  p.  277:— .. 

"  Honiton,  in  Domenday  Honetone  -  Haniione,  has 
been  spelt  Honyton,  Hunnitan,  ilunuinf^ton.  From 
Upottery  the  river  de8cend<r  to  Honiton,  which  (nocord- 
ing  to  Camden '0- idea)  muy  be  derived  from  the  British 
words  own  y  tun — oppidum  caninae  aquae— cwm  signAify- 
ing  dogs,  and  y  water.  Most  probably  Honiton  took  its 
name  from  onnen  y  tun,  oppidum  fraxiness  aquas,  a  town 
on  an  aali  river." 

Id  a  note  Polwhele  gives  a  reference  to  Baxter  in 
voce  "  Hunnium.*'  G.  Fishbr. 

In  my  Local  Etymology,  p.  313, 1  have  given 
three  saggestions  as  to  the  etymology  of  this  name. 
The  only  other  remark  I  have  to  make  is  that  the 
name  might  mean  '*  the  enclosBre  by  the  Hon  or 
On,"  perhaps  an  earlier  or  .another  name  of  the 
river  Otter.  In  river  names,  the-  Gaelic  amhainnj 
the  Welsh  afon  {=^von),  perhaps  originally  amouy 
4ure  liable  to  corrupt  down  to  am,  an,  on. 

• .  B.  ,S.  Charkock. 

The  Bontthon  Flaqon  :  Bontthon  of  Bont- 
rPHON,  IN  Cornwall  (6**»  &.  i.  294,  345  ;  ii.  108, 
138,  157,  236 ;  iii.  295,  334,  375  ;  iv.  455,  491, 
546).— Beferenoe  has  been  made  in  ''  K.  &  Q.''  to 
the  fact  that  two  of  the  principal  characters  in 
Mr.  John  G.  Whittier's  poem  of  Mogg  Megone  are 
John  Bonython  and  his  daughter  Buth.  This 
John  Bonython,  as  already  stated,  was  the  son  of 
Oapt.  Bichard  Bonython,  one  of  the  first  resident 
proprietors  of  Maine,  U.S. A.  Perhaps  you 
would  not  object  to  publish  a  letter  on  the  sub- 
ject which  I  have  received  from  Mr.  Whittier, 
who — now  that  Longfellow  is  no  more— is  un- 
questionably in  popular  eatimi^tion  the  greatest  of 
living  American  poets.  As  a  poem  there  is  cer- 
tainly much  in  Mogg  Megone  to. admire,  And  as  a 
description  of  New  England  scenery  no.doubt  it  is 
perfect,  but  historically  it  has  little  or  no  founda- 
tion, except  that  the  names  introduced  are.  those  of 
real  personages.  It  is  true  that  John  Bonython 
Was  made  an  outlaw,  but  he  was  not  at  all  an 
•outlaw  of  the  kind  described  by  Mr.  Whittier. 
In  explanation  I  may  make  the  following  extract 
from  Varney's  History  of  Maine  ;-^ 

'*  All  went  smoothly  with  the  Bay  Colony's  project  in 
the  western  part  of  the  province  of  Maine  ;.but  when  it 
rame  to  the  collection  of  tares  tTiere  was  trouble  in 
Lygonia.  The  foremost  to- resist  the  eollecting  officers 
was  John  Bonython  of  Saco.  He  furthermore  wrote  a 
defiant  letter  to  the  Oeoeral  Court,  deuyinx  the  right  of 
Massachusetts  under  the  Lygonia  Patent.  He  seems  in 
tliis  action  only  to  have  stood  up  for  the  rights  of  the 
proprietor  of  the  patent ;  yet  he  was  declared  an  outlaw 
.by  the  Massachusetts  magistrates,  and'  a  pric9  set  upon 
his  body." 

In  a  sketch  entitled  Old  Or^uird,  Maine,  it  is 
stated  that  John  Bony thon  eventually  "  apologized 
to  those  in  authority,  was  pardoned  by  the  General 
Court,  and  again  became  a  citizen.  He  lived  and 
died  at  Old  Orchard,  and  was  buried  on  the  east 


bank  of  the  Saoo,  near  the.  Lower  Ferry.''.  Till 
lately  John  Bonython's  will  was  in  the  possession 
of  Dr.  C.  E.  Banks,  of  the  U.S.  Marine  Hospital 
service — a  descendant  of  Capt.  Bichard  Bonython. 
It  is  now  in  the  hands  of  a  gentleman  in  Maine. 
In  a  letter  to  Mr.  Whittier  I  inquired  as  to  the 
sources  of  his  informatioo,  and  suggested  that,  i£ 
there  was  no  sufficient  historical  foundation  for 
the  poem,  the  fact  might  be  distinctly  stated  in 
a  note.  The  result  was  the  following  generouH 
reidy:— 

'<  Amesbury,  Mass.,  U.S.,  9tb  mo.,  15, 1881. 
"  John  Langdon  Bonython.  Esq"'. 

"  Dbab  Frievd,— Thy  letter  has  just  reached  me. 
The  poem  referred  to  was  written  in  my  boyish  days, 
when  I  knew  little  of  colonial  history^  or  anvthing  else, 
and  was  included  in  my  collected  writings  by  my  pub- 
lisher against  my  wishes.  I  think  thou  art  right  in 
regard  to  John  Bonvthon.  I  knew  nothing  of  him  save 
what  I  found  in  the  Hitt,  of  Saco,  and  supposed  the 
name  and  race  extinct,  as  I  never  heard  of  the  name  on 
this  side  of  the  water.  If  possible  I  shall  have  the 
entire  poem  omitted— if  not  I  will  cheerfully  add  the 
note  suggested.  I  thank  thee  for  calling  my  attention 
to  the  matter,  as  I  would  not  knowingly  do  injustice  to 
any  one  living  or  dead.    I  am  veir  truly  thy  friend, 

"JOHH  G.  WHITTIBB." 

A  correspondent  has  inquired  as  to  the  origin  of 
the  name  Bonython.  The  usual  explanation  is 
Bo,  house  ;  ython,  furze.  No  doubt  the  latter  is 
correct,  but  is  the  former  ?  I  have  not  been  able 
to  discover  another  Cornish  name  beginniog  with 
Bon.  This  portion  of  the  name  has  certainly  a 
French  look,  and  the  tradition  of  the  family  is 
that  its  founder  in  England  was  a  Norman.  I  see 
by  the  Parliamentary  Bolls  that  the  portion  of 
Ciornwall  in  which  Bonython  is  situated,  and 
which  is  furzy  country,  was  represented  in  the 
early  Parliaments  by  Johannes  Bon.  In  this  fact 
have  we  the  explanation  of  the  name  ?  Was  it 
orilginally  Bon  of  the  ython,  which  in  course  of 
time  became  Bonython? 

John  Langdon  Bontthok. 

Adelaide,  South  Aastralia. 

**Harpinos  of  Leka":  W.  J.  Baituait,  the 
Alford  Poet  (6«»  S.  v.  129,  209,  314,  370).— I 
well  remember  Bateman  in  my  schoolboy  days 
and  after,  and  I  think  my  old  friend  J.  A.  and 
B.  B.  are  mistaken  in  the  orthography  of  his  name, 
as  one  of  his  crazes  was  that  he  was  connected 
with  the  family  of  Bateman,  the  then  head  of 
which  was  Mr.  Bateman  Dashwood,  of  Well  Yale, 
the  magistrate  to  whom  B.  B.  refers  as  dis- 
tributing the  prizes  at  the  national  school. 
Whether  Bateman  was  ever  in  the  workhouse  I 
cannot  say,  but  he  certainly  was  not  after  his 
return  to  Alford,  as  the  old  workhouse  was  closed 
and  the  inmates  removed  to  the  Spilsby  union 
house  before  that  time ;  but  he  was  in  receipt  of 
parish  relief.  It  may,  however,  be  satisfactory  to 
B.  B.  to  know  that  he  was  not  without  friendsi 
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▼icarage  of  your  old  oorrespondent,  the  late  Felix 
Laurent,  procured  for  him  the  loan  of  hooks  and 
other  little  kindneaees  which  rendered  his  latter 
days  less  dreary  than  they  might  have  heen,  and 
for  which  I  helieye  he  was  not  ungrateful. 

As  to  the  peltings,  I  well  rememher  he  was  fre- 
quently hooted  in  the  streets,  but  I  never  saw  him 
pelted,  and  this  annoyance  he  brought  on  himself 
by  his  unfortunate  irritability  of  temper.  The  origin 
of  the  notion  thai  he  had  sold  himself  to  the  devil 
was,  no  doubt,  the  fact  of  his  being  an  avowed 
atheist— a  character,  happily,  less  common  at  that 
time  than  in  the  present  advanced  state  of  civi- 
Czation.  I  leave  J.  A.  or  some  other  influential 
inhabitant  of  Alford  or  *^  the  Marsh  "  to  reply  to 
R.  B.'8  aspersions  on  the  town  and  district. 

J.  M.  T. 

Order  of  Administbriho  to  Gommuvicamts 
(6^  S.  V.  S86). — A  clergyman  in  the  diocese  of 
Ely,  who  is  in  the  habit  of  adminifitering  from  left 
to  right,  writes  as  follows  : — 

**  I  do  not  know  why  I  act  as  I  do  in  admin'stering — 
I  have  always  acted  at  my  first  vicar  was  accustomed  to. 
It  seems,  howerer,  natural  to  go  with  the  tun.  It  it 
also  the  direction  in  which  I  am  now  writing.  The 
Hebrews  of  old  wrote  from  right  to  left  It  Is  a  matter  of 
no  importance,  and  I  ahould  always  follow  the  custom 
of  the  cliurch  where  I  happened  to  be." 

My  friend  has  been  in  holy  orders  quite  forty 
years.  MA.  Oxon. 

In  a  Montgomeryshire  church,  which  I  remem- 
ber for  I  will  not  say  how  many  years,  it  was 
formerly  the  practice  to  begin  the  administration 
at  the  south  end.  Within  the  last  two  years 
several  ritual  reformations  have  taken  place,  and 
I  believe  it  is  regarded  as  one  of  them  that  the 
clergyman  now  begins  to  administer  at  the 
north  end  of  the  rails.  As  to  which  is  right  I  do 
not  pretend  to  offer  an  opinion,  or  to  have  one. 

Amnib  B. 

I  am  able  to  tell  my  friend  Chr.  W.  that  my 
father,  late  vicar  of  Over,  diocese  of  Ely,  began  to 
administer  on  the  south  during  the  whole  of  my 
recollection,  and  I  have  very  little  doubt  that  he 
did  so  since  1 840,  when  he  became  vicar. 

C.  F.  S.  Warrkh,  M.A. 

Famborough,  Banbury. 

fipBRONB  (6*^  S.  V.  269).— Dr.  Brewer,  in  his 
Duitonary  of  Fhrau  and  Fable^  says:— 

"It  is  generally  said  to  be  a  French  word,  but  it  is 
not  known  in  France.  The  French  call  such  an  orna- 
mental stand  a  turUmt,  strangely  adopted  by  us  to 
signify  a  frock-coat,  which  the  French  call  a  pardeaus" 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

Charles  Bdllbr  (6"»  S.  v.  288).— From  the 
lists  in  the  lUiitiraUd  London  Newa^  in  the 
Annval  Regitter,  and  in  Mr.  Molesworth's  History 
of  England,  it  is  certain  that  Mr.  Buller  was  not 
in  the  cabinet  which  Lord  John  Russell  formed 


in  July,  1846.  Has  a  Judge  Advocate  Geneial  ever 
had  a  seat  in  the  Gabinet  ?  £.  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

"  ToucHBUR  "  (6*^  S.  V.  287)  is  thus  explained 
by  Littr^  (s.9.,  tome  iv.  p.  2269,  ool.  L): — 

"1*.  Celui  qui  tonche. 

*'2°.  Particulierement,  toucheur,  toacheass»  eehti, 
eelle  qui  pr6tend  gu6rir  par  desattoueberaents.  •  C*ast 
Ik  qu'on  voyatt  8*assembler  de  tous  cdt6s  un  nombfe-it- 
oroyable  de  personnes  poor,  lui-  demsi^er  [^k  ii|^  ,pc#- 
tendu  prophets  irlandais,  en  1664']  1^  r^tablisssnyent  de 

leur  sant^ ;  il  ne  faisait  autre  chose  qtte  lies  toucher 

creates  qui  lui  fit  donner  le- nom.de  Ijimcbeur  {Vie  dt 
Saint  Evremond  dans  ses  (Euvres,  t.  i.  p.'cxii).  Toueheur 
de  earreau,*  se  dlt,  en  Normandie,  de  gens  i  qui  la 
supentition  populaire  attribue  le  ponvoir  de  gu^rir  le 
carreau  par  des  attouchements." 

WlLLIAX  PlATT, 

Callis  Court,  8t.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

The  word  is  giren  in  David's  D%eiu)nna%r€  de  la 
Langue  Fran^ise  UsuelU,  1879,  **  Toueheur,  8.m., 
oonducteur  des  bceufs."  K  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

Early  Gqidbs  to  the  Citt  op  Rohe  (6*^  S.v- 
244). — I  have  a  pictorial  guide  to  Rome,  published 
in  1596,  and  consisting  of  three  separate  pablica- 
tions  rudely  bound  together  (unont),  vis. : — 

1.  "  Antiquitates  RomansB  Urbis.  Studio 
Hieronymi  Franzini  Bibliopoln  ad  Signum  Fontis 
Opera.  Romse,  m.d.xcvi."  The  second  leaf  has 
the  woodcut  of  a  figure  like  Britannia  mentioned 
by  EsTB,  but  the  words  below  are,  *' Alma.'' 
'**Roma."  There  are  eighty-fire  leaves  (engrar- 
ings  with  one  line  letter-press  under  each). 

2.  "Templa  Deo  et  Sanctis  eius  Romse  dicata.** 
Bookseller's  name,  &c,  as  before.  Eighty-nine 
leaves. 

3.  "  Palatia  Prooerum  Roman®  Urbis."  Book- 
seller's name,  &c.,  as  before.    Seventy- five  leaves. 

Ebnrt  John  Atkinson. 

Proof-Shkkts  (6*"»  S.  iv.  407).— Giving  my 
friend  Mr.  W.  G.  Stome  due  credit  for  priority 
of  publication  in  this  matter,  I  would  say  that, 
from  at  least  one,  if  not  two,  similar  instaDoea,  I 
bad  been  led  to  the  same  conclusion.  The  same 
had  seemed  to  me  confirmed  by  the  accuracy  of 
Jonson's  quartos  as  well  as  of  his  folio  in  16 1  & 
One  other  instance  is  to  be  found  in  Reynold 
Scot's  Hoppc  Qardeny  1574.  In  this  first  editioa 
we  have  :— 

"  The  Printer  to  the  Reader.— Forasmuch  as  M.  Seot 
could  not  be  present  at  the  printing  of  this  his  Booke, 
wherebj  I  might  haue  vsed  his  advise  in  the  correction 
of  the  same,  and  especiallie  of  the  Figures  and  Per* 
traitures  contayned  therein,  whereof  he  deliuerod  vnt* 
me  such  notes  as  I  being  vn^kilfull,  could  not  m  tho- 
roughly concevue,  nor  so  perfectly  expresse,.....'.!  shall 
desire  you  to  let  his  absence  serue  lor  mine  excuie  ia 
this  behalfe.'' 


*  '*  Affection  des  ganslioni  m^sent^riques^  aveo  tvinf- 
faction  et  duret^  du  ventre." 


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Possibly  this  also  shows  that,  wantiof?  a  halfpenny 
post,  neither  proofs  of  each  small  books  nor  letters 
regarding  them  were  ordinarily  sent  into  the 
country.  That  the  author  of  the  Diteoverie  of 
Witchcraft,  1684,  Reginald  Soot,  whether  the 
same  as  the  author  of  the  Hoppe  Qardm  or  not, 
did  see  proofs  of  his  work  is  shown  by  this — 
that  one  or  two  of  his  errata,  printed  on  the  blank 
portion  of  an  early  page,  are  not  corrections  of 
press  errors,  but  alterations  of  his  own  words. 

Br.  Nigholsok. 

''Le  Juip  Polonais,"  Erckmank-Chatrian, 
AcTB  L  ScfeHB  VII.  (e***  S.  iv.  28).— A.  few  days 
liffo  I  came  across  a  series  of  twelre  coloured  views 
labelled  "  Un  Manage  sous  Louis  XV./'  No.  10 
of  which  series  is  entitled  "  La  Jarreti^re  de  la 
Mari^,"  in  which  a  view  is  given  of  the  nuptial 
dinner,  and  in  it  is  depicted  a  man  presenting  to 
the  abashed  bride  a  garter,  much  to  the  amuse- 
ment of  the  assembled  guests  ;  the  person  who  has 
had  the  temerity  to  undertiike  this  delicate  duty 
is  not  the  bridegroom.  I  gather  from  the  fore- 
4Koing  that  this  curious  marriage  custom  must  have 
been  universally  prevalent  in  France  during  the 
reign  of  the  before-mentioned  monarch,  viz.,  from 
1716  to  1774.  I  should  be  pleased  to  learn  more 
concerning  it.  Frank  Moss. 


Kbntish  Folk-lorb  (6**»  S.  v.  266).— In  North 
Yorkshire  they  say  that  the  placing  of  bellows  on  a 
table  is  a  sign  of  poverty.  The  Bev.  T.  F.  Thiselton 
Dyer  (Domestic  Folk-lore,  p.  120)  says,  **  To  place 
them  on  a  table  is  considered  extremely  unlucky." 
At  p.  160  he  remarks,  whilst  speaking  of  rheu- 
matism,  ^  A  Sussex  remedy  is  to  place  the  bellows 
in  the  sufferer's  chair,  that  he  may  lean  against 
them,  and  so  have  his  rheumatism  charmed  away." 

F.   C.  BiRKBBCK  TbRRT. 

Cardiff. 

Thb  latr  Rbv.  J.  S.  Brewer  (6*  S.  v.  285). 
— Field's  Of  iht  Church  was  in  course  of  pub- 
lication 1847-52.  On  the  publication  of  the  first 
volume  I  heard  that  it  was  edited  by  (Rev.)  James 
Bumsey,  of  Pembroke  College,  Oxford.  I  think 
that  it  was  subsequently  stated  that  the  other 
volumes  were  not  published  under  the  same  editor- 
ehip.  Ed.  Marshall. 

M.  LucKMAV,  Printer  at  Coventry  (6**  S. 
▼.  286).  ~  In  Bailey's  Wettem  and  Midland 
Directory,  &c.,  for  1783  (printed  in  Birmingham 
in  the  same  year),  under  **  Coventry "  there  is 
**  Luckman,  Thomas,  Printer  and  Bookseller,  Corn 
Cheapiog."  EsTE. 

Birtningbam. 

"Flarb"  (6»  S.  V.  267).— I  think  it  obvious 
that^r6  is  a  printer's  error  for  flaw,  which  is  pre- 
cisely the  right  word,  and  was  a  very  common  word 
at  that  period.    See  examples  in  Todd's  Johneon 


from  Shakespeare,  Fletcher,  Chapman,  and  Milton, 
and  see  Halliwell,  &c.  A  sprawling  w,  such  as 
that  in  toiffe  in  the  fac-simile  prefixed  to  the  Percy 
Folio. MS.,  ed.  Hales  and  Fumivall,  might  easily 
be  read  as  rb  by  the  printer,  and  a  corrector  might 
easily  fail  to  guess  what  was  meant. 

Walter  W.  Skbat. 

" Dafft-down-dillt    is  comivo  to   town" 
(6^**  S.  V.  287). — Perhaps  the  following  rhymes  may 
assist  in  tracing  out  the  above  ditty  :— 
"  Daffy-down-dill^  that  grows  in  the  wdll, 
M  J  father  'a  a  tinker,  my  mother  ran  tell. 
My  sister  'a  a  lady  ami  w<  ara  a  gold  ring. 
My  brother  'a  a  arummer  and  drums  for  the  king/' 

This  appears  to  be  a  portion  of  a  longer  ditty,  but 
it  is  all  I  can  remember  of  what  we  used  to  sing 
when  I  was  a  small  child  in  Montgomeryshire 
some  twenty  years  ago.  Annie  B. 

Will  it  be  of  any  interest  to  yonr  correspondent 
to  quote  the  following  nursery  rhyme,  which  I 
remember  to  have  heard  in  childhood  ?  — 
"  Daffy-down-dilly  is  new-oome  to  town 
In  a  yellow  petticoat  and  a  green  gown." 

F.    C.    BiRKBKCK   TeRRT. 

"TwAE  Freirs  of  Berwick"  (6»*»  S.  v.  267). 
—This  title  is  not  quite  correct,  as  will  be  seen 
from  the  following  note  by  Dr.  David  Laing  (Dun- 
bar's Poems,  1834,  vol.  iL  p.  379):— 

"  This  tale  mutt  have  paaaed  more  than  once  throagh 
ihe  preta,  aa  we  find  it  included  among  *  Sindrie  other 
Delectabil  Discouraea/  announced  as  prinred  and  sold  by 
Kobert  Charteris»  in  Kdinburgh,  in  1603.  The  only 
edition,  however,  which  has  been  discovered  is  that 
printed  in  the  year  1622,  and  which  is  of  ao  great  rarity 
that  no  other  copy  is  known  except  one  in  the  library  of 
Skene  of  Skene,  now  by  siicceasion  the  property  of  the 
Earl  of  Fife.  It  has  the  following  title :— *  The  Merrie 
Historie  of  the  Tlirie  Friers  of  Berwioke.  i^T  Printed  at 
Aberdene,  By  Edward  Baban,  For  David  Melvill,  1022.' 
4to.  pp.  19." 

C.  D. 

"Sydwey"  and  "Sydenham"  (6**»  S.  r.  87, 
215.  237).— The  connexion  between  these  names 
is,  I  think,  only  apparent,  as  pointed  out  by  Prof. 
Skbat  at  the  last  reference.  As  the  name  Syden- 
ham now  stands,  coupled  with  the  fact  that  there 
are  in  Devonshire  two  Sydenhams  or  Sidenhams, 
it  would  appear  that  a  probable  explanation  of  it 
might  be  found  in  Sida,  a  chief's  name,  and  ham 
the  place  of  his  abode.  But  Hasted  (History  of 
Kent,  vol.  i.  p.  75)  saya  the  Kentish  Sydenham 
was  formerly  called  Cypenham  (authority  not 
quoted) ;  and  this  would  not  only  destroy  that 
theory,  but  would  strengthen  that  propounded  by 
£.  H.  M.,  who  thinks  the  name  a  corruption  of 
Chippenham,  or  (ceap)  market  town.  This  again 
is  rendered  improbable  by  Sydenham  being  merely 
a  hamlet  of  the  parish  of  Lewisham,  and  the 
absence  of  any  evidence  that  it  was  ever  anything 
more.    Early  mention  of  the  place  may  be  found 


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at  p.  116,  Reg.  Roff.,  where,  among  the  benefaeton 
to  the  priory  of  Rochester,  John  Besenlle  is  re- 
corded to  hare  given  "  the  land  of  Sipeham  in 
this  parish  "  (Lewisham)  to  that  priory.     S.  H. 
32,  AiDger  Road,  N.W. 

It  has  been  asserted  that  the  original  name  of 
Sydenham  was  Cypenham,  but  it  is  not  probable 
that  the  former  has  been  cormpted  from  the  latter. 
I  suggested  that  Sydenham  means'^ south  dwelling." 
PRor.  Skeat,  making  a  "  departore,"  protests 
against  the  supposition  that  iyden  can  mean 
southern.  My  suggestion  seems  to  be  confirmed  by 
Sydenham  and  Northam,  co.  Devon.  Not  only  en 
but  also  in  and  ing  are  frequently  found  as  infixes 
or  growths.  Still,  it  is  quite  possible  that  the 
first  part  of  the  name  may  be  from  another  Saxon 
word.  R.  S.  Charnock. 

*'GoB»  (6«»  S.  iv.  512;  v.  114,  238).— Although 
the  query  is  on  the  short  form  of  the  word,  it  may 
be  worth  noting  the  use  of  the  word  gobbet  shown 
in  the  following  extract  from  Mr.  Baring-Qould's 
Life  of  Robtrt  Stephen  Hawker  (vicar  of  Morwen- 
stow),  p.  130:— 

"  After  a  storm  [tpeaking  of  shipwrecks]  the  corpses 
are  fearfully  mangled  on  the  sharp  rooks  and  are  cut  to 
pieces  by  the  slate  as  by  knires :  and  bits  of  flesh  come 
ashore.  These  are  locally  called  'gobbets';  and  Mr. 
Hawker  after  a  wreck  used  to  send  a  man  with  a  basket 
along  the  beaches  of  the  cores  in  his  parish  collecting 
these  *  gobbets/  which  he  interred  in  his  churchyard  on 
the  top  of  the  cliffs." 

This  is  in  Cornwall,  of  course. 

ALOBRNOir  F.   GlSSINO. 

A  good  example  of  the  use  of  this  word  is  found 
in  Blake's  SUvtr  Drop$.  That  worthy,  in  one  of 
his  soft  sawder  addresses  to  the  lady  supporters  of 
his  charity,  says:— 

"Now  pray,  dear  Madam,  speak  or  write  to  my  lady 
cot  of  hand,  and  tell  her  bow  it  is  with  us,  and  if  she 
will  subscribe  a  good  gob,  and  get  the  younir  ladies  to  do 
something  too ;  and  then  put  it  altogether  with  your 
Ladyship^  and  Sir  James  also,  for  it  is  necessary  that 
be,  or  yon  in  his  stead  should  do  something  now  the 
Great  Ship  is  Come  Safe  in." 

J.  O. 

"Pomatum"  (6«»  S.  iv.  8,  137,  318,396  ;  v.  76, 
176,  258):— 

**  And  verely  many  sre  of  opinion,  that  particularly 
the  fat  of  Buls,  Lions,  Panthers,  and  Cammels  ought  to 
bee  ordered  and  prepared.  As  for  the  uses  and  pro- 
perties of  these  Pomonada,  I  will  treat  thereof  in  con- 
renient  place."— Holland,  PUny,  Nat,  But.,  vol.  il 
p.  820  (1601). 

Is  pomanade  found  elsewhere  ? 

F.   C.  BiRKBBCK  TeRRT. 

Cardiff; 

May  I  be  allowed  to  supplement  my  quotation 
from  the  Pharmaeopma  Londinemie  of  1682  (9^ 
S.  XL  418)i  ^7  noticing  an  earlier  recipe  in  the 
edition  of  1650)    This  is  similar  to  that  of  1682, 


both  prescribing,  in  addition  to  lard  and  suet, 
'*  poroorum  (vulgo  pomewaters)  excorticatorum  et 
ooncisorum  Ubram  unam  et  nncias  novem."  The 
first  Pharmaeopena  published  in  England  was 
issued  by  the  College  of  Physicians  in  1618.  This 
does  not  oontidnfifiJni«iitum|>omaittf7k  The  second 
issue  was  that  of  1660,  just  mentioned,  and  the 
third  that  of  1682.  Jatdbs. 

JoHV  Emibb,  Oxon.,  Clockmakbr  (6^  S.  T. 
329,  378). — In  the  Livee  of  Eminent  Men,  written 
by  John  Aubrey  for  Anthony  a  Wood,  is  a  short 
notice  of  a  Mr.  Nicolas  Mercator.  He  came  from 
Holstein,  and  his  true  German  name  was  Nicolaa 
Kaufman: — 

"  He  made  and  presented  to  King  Charles  the  2nd  a 
clock  ('twas  of  a  loote  diameter)  which  shewed  the  in- 
equality of  the  sunn's  motion  from  the  apparent  motion 
w^  the  King  did  understand  hy  his  informations,  sind  did 
commend  it,  but  he  never  had  a  penny  of  him  for  it.** 

*'  This  curious  clock  was  neglected,  and  somebody  of 
y*  court  happened  to  become  master  of  it,  who  under- 
stood it  not ;  be  sold  it  to  Mr.  Knib^  a  watchmaker,  who 
did  not  understand  it  neither,  who  sold  it  to  Mr.  Fro- 
mantle  (that  made  it)  for  5  lib.,  who  askes  now  (1688)  for 
it  200  lib.*' 

Can  this  be  the  John  Knibb  inquired  for?  Nicolas 
Mercator  must  not  be  confounded  with  Gerard 
Mercator,  who  inyented  "  Mercator*s  Projection  ^ 
more  than  a  hundred  years  before.  If  this  be 
John  Knibb,  as  I  am  inclined  to  think,  then  I 
also  think  that  Mr.  Chapman  has  placed  him  a 
little  too  early  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

GiBBBS  RlOAOD. 

18,  Long  Wall,  Oxford. 

"  Bred  ahd  Borh  "  (60»  S.  ir.  68,  275  ;  ▼.  77, 
112,  162,  213, 318, 376).— If  still  further  authority 
for  the  use  of  the  phrase  **  got,  bom,  and  bred,*^ 
be  required,  the  following  quotation  will  not  be 
unacceptable,  as  it  is  a  century  earlier  than  that 
giyen  by  St.  Swithin  at  the  last  reference:— 

*'  It  were  against  balth  nature  and  guid  reason. 

That  Dewlbear's  bairns  were  true  to  Ood  or  man  ; 
Whilks  were  baith  gotten,  bom,  and  bred  with  treason, 
Belsebub's  oys,  and  curst  CorspatHck*s  cUn." 

The  FlyHng  of  Dunbar  and  Kennedy  (1508). 
F.  C.  BiRKBBCK  TSRRT. 
CardiiT. 

Thk  Datb  of  the  First  Easter,  April  9th 
(6^  S.  V.  126,  293).— It  may  be  worthy  of  notice 
how  seldom  Easter- Day  falls  upon  April  9.  It  has 
only  done  so  twice  in  the  present  century,  Tiz., 
this  year  and  in  1871,  and  three  times  in  the 
hist  century,  viz.,  in  1710, 17^,  and  1732.  Between 
1802  and  1624  it  occurred  once,  yiz.,  in  1615. 

G.  L.  G. 

Sir  Pbiltp'  FRi^NCia's  Marriage  (6^  8.  ▼. 
309,  336,  372).^Oan  Mr.  Sollt  or  any  other 
correspondent  point  out  where  Sir  P.  Francia'a 
statement  that  ''he  might  have  had  a  peerage^ 


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bat  that  his  eldest  son  was  born  before  marriage  " 
first  appeared  ?  I  know  the  passage  in  Sir  For- 
tuoatas  Dwarris's  Ntv)  Facts  about  Junim,  but  I 
have  a  strong  impression  that  the  anecdote  is  of 
much  older  date  than  1850,  when  Sir  Fortunatus's 
prirately  printed  volume  first  appeared. 

B.  P.  S. 

"  Ahkcdotes  of  Monkets"  (6*  S.  ▼.  369).— 
The  author  is  Mr.  William  Stewart  Rose ;  the 
motto  is  from  Saadi.  Mr.  Walford  can,  if  he 
likes,  look  at  Mr.  Vivian  Grey's  opinion  of  the 
book.  R.  S.  TuRiTER. 

William  Stewart  Rose  died  in  1843.  A  memoir 
of  his  life  was  written  by  his  friend,  the  Rev. 
Charles  Townshend,  and  prefixed  to  Rose's  trans- 
lation of  Ariosto  (Bohn's  edit.,  1858). 

G.  Fisher. 

Pronunciatiov  of  "Forbes"  (6**»  S.  v.  269, 
316,  397). — Forbes  was  formerly  pronounced  in 
two  syllables  by  all  classes  in  Scotland,  but  since 
the  beginning  of  the  present  century  it  has  been 

fronounced  as  a  monosyllable  by  the  upper  classes, 
n  the  parish  registers  of  Edinburgh  of  the  six- 
teenth, seventeenth,  and  eighteenth  centuries  it 
is  written  Forbtss  or  Forbmty  and  sometimes 
FurbtsH.  Even  people  of  rank  signed  Forbtss  or 
Forbtsit,  I  myself  bear  the  name,  and  ought  to 
know  how  it  is  pronounced.  I  may  add  that  your 
Pitlochry  correspondent,  A.  A.,  is,  I  think,  mis- 
taken in  describing  the  figures  on  the  stone  found 
at  Rhodes  as  "  three  leopards'  faces."  They  are 
doubtless  the  three  bears'  heads  common  to. the 
arms  of  Lord  Forbes,  the  Earl  of  Granard,  Forbes 
of  Craigievar,  and  Forbes  of  Pitsligo.  As  the  last 
alone  have  a  chevron,  *'Frere  FraoQois  Forbuss" 
doubtless  belonged  to  the  Pitsligo  branch  of  the 
Forbeses.  D.  F.  C. 

Cwservative  Club,  S.W. 

"Nawt"=Navioator  (!■*  S.  xi.  424;  A^ 
S.  V.  564;  vi.  182,  264,  312,  425;  6«»  S.  v.  397). 
— I  am  old  enough  to  remember  when  the  men 
employed  in  the  construction  or  repairs  of  navi- 
gable canals  were  called  navigators^  as  were  also 
men  who  cut  water-courses  for  irrigating  meadows. 
The  word  was  abbreviated  to  nawyj  and  given  to 
those  who  worked  on  railways  or  elsewhere  with 
wheelbarrow,  pickaxe,  and  shovel. 

H.  T.  Ellacombe,  M.A. 

Casts  of  the  Faces  of  Historical  Person- 
ages (6^  S.  V.  385).— It  is  difficult  to  guess  at 
what  Calcuttensis  imagines  Mr.  Woolner  meant 
when,  if  he  did  so,  the  latter  said  that  '^  the  bust 
over  Shakespeare's  tomb  was  taken  by  a  rude  and 
ignorant,  but  conscientious,  sculptor  from  a  cast 
after  death."  That  the  bust  does  not  *'  appear  to 
bear  any  of  the  characteristic  marks  of  death  "did 
not  need  profound  observation  to  decide*     The 


effort  of  the  sculptor  would  be,  of  oouse,  to  avoid 
rendering  ^  marks  of  death  "  when  he  intended  to 
represent  a  living  man.  But  that  it  was  done  ad 
vtimm  is  incredible  to  men  with  trained  eyes,  who 
recognize  those  defects  in  proportion  to  which  Mr. 
Woolner  is  supposed  to  have  alluded,  if  he,  in 
the  rounded  and  forced  opening  of  the  eyes, 
detected  a  purpose  to  remedv  the  most  striking 
change  in  the  features  of  the  dead.  As  Mr. 
Woolner  is  represented  as  speaking  of  a  sculptor 
carving  to  the  life  in  stone  from  a  cast  after  death, 
not  intending  to  copy  the  signs  of  mortality,  it  ia 
hard  to  see  where  we  are  to  look  for  those  signs. 
Calcdttensis  seems  to  have  expected  to  find 
signs  which  had  been  carefully  abolished,  the 
absence  of  which  has  nothing  to  do  with  the 
source  of  the  verisimilitude  of  the  portrait.  Gal- 
cuttensis  has  not  been  in  the  National  Portrait 
Gallery  for  years,  or  he  would  have  seen  that  most 
of  the  effigies  he  mentious  as  desirable  for  that 
institution  have  long  been  placed  there. 

F.  G.  Stephens. 

April  Folk-lore  (6*  S.  v.  327).— The  distich 
and  explanation  given  by  your  correspondent  are 
to  be  found  in  Ray's  CoUsciiorh  of  English  Pro- 
verbs, Mr.  Denham,  quoted  in  Swainson*s 
Weathsr  Folk-lore,  explains  the  proverb  as  having 
reference  to  wind:  ''When  in  this  month  winds 
prevail,  it  is  good  for  both  meadow  and  tillage 
lands."  With  the  above  explanations  may  be  com- 
pared the  following  sayings: — 
*'  Avril  Tenteux 
Rend  le  laboureur  joyeax." 

Jlautes  Alpes, 
'*  En  Avril  s'il  tonne 
Cast  nouvelle  bonne." 

Maine-et- Loire. 
F.   C.   BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 
Cardiff. 

"  MoLA  RosARUU  ":  What  Place  is  Mbakt  ? 
(&^  S.  V.  307.)— Probably  some  small  place  named 
Rosenniiihle.  I  have  not,  however,  come  across 
any  such  name,  although  I  know  the  country 
round  about  Gottingen  very  welL  There  is  a 
place  named  Rosenmiiller's  Hohle  near  Muggen- 
dorf  in  Franconian  Switzerland. 

R.  S.  Charmock. 

"Mahurial"  (6*  S.  Y.  266).— This  word  ia 
given  in  Webster's  Dictionary,  with  the  quota- 
tion, ''  The  manurial  value  "  (S.  W.  Johnson).  I 
agree  with  your  correspondents  that  the  word  is 
not  wanted,  but  ''fertilizing"  would  hardly  do  in 
its  place.  It  would  be  much  better  to  say,  "  the 
value  of  guano  as  a  manure,  or  as  a  fertilizer."  To 
the  making  of  words  there  is  no  end  ! 

F.   C.   BiRKBKCK  TeRRT. 
Cardiff. 

St.  Auoustivb  and  Descartes  (6**  S.  r. 
268).  — The  expression,  "Oogito,  ergo  sum,"  of 


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[««»•  S.  V.  Mat  27,  'c2. 


Descnrtes,  in  his  ndminble  DiMcour*  de  la  Mitkode 
pour  bUn  canduxre  8%  Baiion,  is  borrowed  from 

Oicero  {True,  Quasi.,  y,  xxxviii),  "Loqaor de 

docto  hoDiine,  et  erudito,  cui  ffivere  est  eogiiare,'* 
&c.  William  Platt. 

Oallis  Court,  St.  Peter'i,  It'e  of  Thanet. 

Ark  Toads  Poisosous?  (6**»  S.  iv.  429  ;  r.  32, 
173,  297,  375). —The  story  respectiDf;  a  toad 
whose  veoom  poi^ODs  ti  plaut,  and  thereby  causes 
the  death  of  persons  frequenting  the  garden  where 
the  plant  grows,  is  as  old  as  Boccaccio ;  see 
Dtcamtran,  Fourth  Day,  Novel  VIL    J.  B.  D. 

'*Wara"  (6"»  S.  T.  287).— TTara  occurs  in 
Dacanfje  ;  but  having  only  Migne's  abridgement, 
I  can  give  but  a  short  account  of  the  word  :— 

'^Wara  Modui  agri  apud  Anglos;  mtture  aorarre. 
8picorum  mariipulas;  gethe  (k.  1509).  Btuiitat,  Valor; 
bonte  (en  parlanc  det  monnaies).  Libera  Wara :  '  Redi- 
ius  talis  condUionis  qtiod.  si  non  solvatur  suo  tempore, 
duplicatur  in  crastinu,  «t  sic  deincept  in  die*  {Ch,  AngL)." 

£d.  Marshall. 

According  to  Cowel's  Law  Dictionary  this  word 
was  used  to  signify  "  a  certain  quantity  or  measure 
'Of  ground.''  It  is  made  use  of  twice  in  a  charter 
to  the  priory  of  Stone,  in  Staffordshire,  which  is 
giYen  in  Dugdole's  Moncuticon  Anglicanwn  (1661), 
voL  ii.  pp.  127, 128.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

The  Moon  "  the  Parish  Lantern  "  (6^  S.  v. 
288). — From  personal  recollections  of  now  more 
than  half  a  century,  when  gas  was  a  costly  novelty, 
and  oil  lamps, chandlers'  dips,  and  lanterns  were  the 
indispensable  artificial  lighting  means  when  any 
at  all  were  adopted— the  old  night-watchman  or 
'* Charlie"  inyariably  being  unequipped  without 
his  '*  lantern "  in  the  then  unillumined  town  and 
country  streets  and  roads — there  can  be  little 
doubt  the  above  figure  of  speech,  as  I  heard  it 
Tepeatedly,  **  familiar  as  household  words,"  in 
Staffordshire  and  other  counties,  was  common  and 
apt  in  allusion  to  those  nights  when  wayfarers 
welcomed  the  more  diffasive  and  effective  light 
of  the  moon,  in  its  most  favourable  phases,  as 
<x>ropared  with  those  when  by  Tillagers,  urbans 
and  suburbans,  the  friendly  lantern  was  the 
adopted  companion  of  the  route.  On  Sunday 
nights,  too,  when  man  or  maid  servant  and  otjher 
worshippers  would  carry  a  cumbrous  double- 
handled  or  better-slazed  lantern  to  light  the  paths 
along  a  miry  rood  to  a  Wesleyan  chapel  or  the 
parish  church,  it  used  to  be  a  wayside  topic  that, 
OS  the  moon  would  on  such-and-such  nights 
show  up,  they  could  dispense  with  James*s  or 
Betty's  chandlery,  as  they  would  then  have 
"  the  parish  lantern.''  In  those  parochial-minded 
times  there  was  more  working  by  diurnal  natural 
light,  rising  with  the  sun  and  retiring  to  rest  with 
the  shades  of  evening,  the  moon  and  the  Ian- 
4em  being  the  alternative  nocturnal  luminaries; 


hence  doubtless  the  saying,  "  the  moon  the  pnriah 
kntern."  A.  G.  T. 

This  expression  is  not  peculiar  to  Berkshire,  as 
T  have  often  heard  it  used  by  natives  in  North 
Yorkshire.  Wri>(ht,  in  his  Frocincial  Glo$$ary, 
speaks  of  the  expression  as  being  *'  a  popular  name 
for  the  moon,"  so  it  probably  will  be  found  in  use 
in  various  parts  of  £oglrind. 

F.  O.  BiRKBRcc  Terrt. 

This  expresion  was  familiar  to  me  in  South-ea«t 
Cornwall  upwards  of  fifty  yeard  ago ;  it  is  well 
known  in  South-west  Devonshire,  and  also  in 
Worcestershire,  tis  I  am  informed  by  a  lady  who 
resided  there  during  the  first  thirty  years  of  her 
life.  Wm.  Pekobllt. 

This  was  a  very  common  expression  in  the  mid- 
land counties  sixty  and  more  years  ago  ;  and  has 
been  in  frequent  use  by  myself  up  to  this  time. 

Ellcbb. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted  (6**  S.  v.  388)  :— 
Ths  March  to  Motcow,  of  which  the  first  two  lines 
are  :— 

**  The  Emperor  Nap  he  would  set  off 
On  a  summer  excursion  to  Moscow/' 
is  by  Robert  Southey,  and  may  be  found  in  the  one- 
volume  edition  of  huroetieal  IKoritt,  published  in  1853, 
p.  464.  EoWAKD  Peacock. 

Authors  of  Quotatioks  Wanted  (6***  S.  v. 
248,  279,  319).— 

"  Go,  little  book,'*  &c. 
Thinking  that  these  lines  had  the  ring  of  Banjan,  I 
■ought  and  found  their  germ  in  his  charge    to   the 
second  part  of  tlie  Pilgritn: — 

"  Go  now,  my  little  book,  to  every  place 
Where  inj  first  Pilgrim  has  but  shewn  his  face. 
Gall  at  their  doors :  if  any  say  Who 's  there  ? 
Then  answer  thou,  Christiana  *s  here." 
It  is  true  this  version  does  not  agree  with  that  of  your 
querist,  but  as  Bouthey  edited  an  edition  of  Bunvan's 
Pdgrimt  Progrtu^  and,  of  course,  imbibed  some  of  the 
Dreamer's  phraseology,  the  words  of  the  older  rhymer 
may  have  occurred  to  him  when,  in  like  manner,  the 
Laureate  was  affixing  "  L'Envoy  "  to  his  Lay.     Byron 
spitefully  reproduced  them  in  DonJuan^  with  a  comment 
of  four  lines  in  depreciation  of  Southey  and  Wordsworth. 

(6«h  8.  V.  869.) 
"  Two  gifts  perforce  He  has  given  us  yet." 
The  lines  A.  F.  P.  quotes,  almost  correctly,  are  from 
Ifr.  Swinburne's  "  Felise "  (Pomi  and  Ballads,  p.  2S»). 

J.  K. 

NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  &c. 

A  Crtiiaxl  Inquiry  into  ikt  ScoUiih  LangtMgt,  With  the 

View  of  iliustn^tine  the  Rise  and  Progress  of  Civilin- 

tion  in  Scotland.    By  F.  Michel,  F.SA.,  Gorrespondaat 

de  rinstitut  de  France.    (Blackwood  &  Sons.) 

Thr  object  of  this  book,  as  explained  in  the  preface,  it 

to  illustrate  the  close  political  and  social  ties  that  in 

former  times  bound  Scotland  to  France.    The  result  of 

that  close  connexion  is  shown  in  a  variety  of  ways.   The 


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author  aiks  ui  to  consider,  in  Tarioua  chipten,  the 
architeotorOt  the  famiture,  the  mode  of  living,  clothini;, 
fine  arts,  money,  animal*,  and  Tarious  forma  of  education 
in  Scotland ;  alto  the  Scotch  military  terms,  sea  terms, 
music,  dances,  amotemcnts,  words  expresaitig  ahstraot 
ideas,  and  sundry  phrases  derived  from  the  French. 
Two  useful  appendices  are  added,  which  deal  with  w<ird« 
derited  from  Norse  and  with  worda  derired  from  Celtic 
respectively  ,*  and  the  wh«le  is  concluded  by  a  very  good 
index. 

The  main  interest  of  the  book  is  philological;  but 
there  is  also  much  infoimation  concerning  manners  and 
customs.  It  is  written  in  an  agreeable  style,  and  we 
can  hitfhiy  commend  it  as  confining  a  good  deal  of 
useful  and  curious  Icnowledge.  It  is  not  with  any  with 
of  detracting  from  a  book  which  will  doubtleas  meet 
with  well-deserred  praise  that  we  shut!  venture  to  call 
attention  to  some  points  which  the  reader  ought  not  to 
overlook. 

That  French  has  had  a  great  effect  upon  the  lan- 
guage of  the  Scottish  lowlands  will  not  be  contested ; 
but  we  must  not  forget  how  largely  English  has  been 
affected  by  the  same  influence.  In  his  seal  the  author 
has,  in  numerous  instances,  claimed  words  as  Scottuh 
which  are  by  no  means  to  be  considered  as  belonging 
exclusively  to  that  form  of  language.  Yet  again,  words 
are  claimed  as  being  French  which  can  only  be  so 
claimed  by  falsifying  the  etymology.  We  shall  give  a 
few  instances  to  illustrate  both  these  points,  in  order 
that  the  reader  may  not  be  too  easily  misled.  The 
following  so-called  "  Scottish  "  words  are  undeniably,  at 
the  same  time,  English,  viz.,  witteHt  brooch,  coin, 
courur  (a  horse),  rein,  rovtl  (of  a  spur),  variety  palty, 
toldier,  hasnet,  in««/er,  pellet,  powier,  judge,  and  a  great 
many  more.  There  is  not  any  objection  to  the  enumera- 
tion of  such  words  as  being  of  French  origin,  but  we 
ought  to  find  somewhere  a  word  of  warning  (which  we 
do  not  observe,  but  may  have  overlooked),  to  the  effect 
that  Scottish  possesses  these  words  in  common  with  Eng- 
lish, not  cu  dutinct  from  English.  The  words  mentioned 
above  are  all  retained  in  common  modem  English ;  and 
we  can  add  to  them  a  large  number  of  **  Scottish  " 
words  which  are  perfectly  familiar  to  readers  of  our  old 
literature.  Such  are :  a  pane  (of  fur  or  cloth) ;  eofer, 
a  box ;  ptrree,  jewellery,  and  mnvion,  a  coin  of  gold, 
both  of  which  occur  in  Piert  Plowman;  mesondieu,  a 
hospital  (lit.  house  of  God),  aUo  in  the  same ;  tomtr,  a 
sompter  norse,  mnev,  a  kind  of  horse,  acLon,  a  piece  of 
armour,  tracer,  a  de/ence  for  the  arm,  ^;>er(y,  jeopardy, 
all  in  Chaucer;  budge, a  fur, in  Milton ;  Hi-dtin,a  hedge- 
hog, bradi,  a  bitch,  cuietes,  armour  ftT  the  thighs, 
cfururgeon,  a  sni^geon,  brawl,  a  dance,  all  in  Shalispeare ; 
and,  indeed,  this  list  might  be  very  largely  extended. 
It  is  quite  true  that  the  Scottish  forms  of  these  borrowed 
words  often  differ  from  the  English  ones;  but  the 
difference  is  simply  this,  that  the  English  form  is 
commonly  much  older.  However,  after  all  deductions, 
there  are  some  very  remarkable  words  left  which  are 
strange  enough  to  Sngiish  ears,  such  as  ta»sie,  a  cup ; 
ashet,  a  plate ;  sybow,  a  young  onion ;  and  jigot,  a  leg  of 
mutton. 

We  have  also  noticed  some  words  which  are  not  of 
French  origin.  Such  are  rail,  a  woman*s  jacket,  once 
quite  common  in  England  (see  Nares),  which  is  merely 
the  A.-S.  hrctgl;  tereey,  which,  though  it  found  its  way 
into  foreign  languages,  has  its  name  from  a  town  in 
Suffolk ;  fey,  fated  to  die,  which  is  notoriously  of  Norse 
origin ;  beck,  a  river,  and  busk^  a  bush,  of  which  the 
same  account  may  be  given ;  whilst  the  Middle  English 
word  vorme  (not  peculiarly  Scottish)  is  claimed  as 
French  for  the  singular  reason  that  it  was  used  in  the 
tense  of  f^pexC,  terpent  being  French.    Are  we  to  believe 


that  the  sense  of  *•  serpent "  is  foreign  to  the  A.-S.  wurm  t 
It  is  impossible  to  give  a  sufficient  account  of  this 
interestinir  book  in  a  short  notice  like  the  present ;  we 
will,  therefore,  conclude  with  observing  that  the  author 
very  gracefully  pays  his  debt  of  thanks  to  the  Rev. 
Walter  Qrcgor. 

The  Be>gn  of  William  Rufus  and  the  A  cceuion  of  Henry  I, 
By  EdwMrd  A.  Freeman.  2  vols.  (Oxford,  Clarendon 
Press.) 
In  these  two  stout  volumes  Mr.  Freeman  brings  to  a 
completion  the  most  important  of  his  numerous  historical 
undertakings— the  tale  of  the  causes  and  results  of  the 
Norman  Conquest.  The  story  is  carried  on  to  the  battle 
of  Tinchebrai,  *'  the  struggle  which  ruled  for  a  second 
time  that  England  should  not  be  the  realm  of  the  Con- 
queror's eldest  son,  and,  as  such,  an  appendage  to  his 
Norman  duchy."  The  book  shows  the  same  merits  and 
defects  (specially  in  the  matter  of  undue  insistance  on 
petty  details,  interesting  in  themselves,  but  not  affecting  or 
illustrating  the  general  narrative)  as  the  author's  earlier 
works.  In  several  instances  Mr.  Freeman  claims  to  have 
brought  out  new  facts,  or  to  have  placed  well-known  in- 
cidents in  a  new  light,  e.g.,  the  proof  that  it  was  William  of 
St.  Calais  (Anselm's  rival),  and  not  Anselm  himself,  who 
first  appealed  to  Rome  from  an  English  court ;  the  mis- 
sion of  Qeronto,  abbot  of  St.  Benignus  at  Dijon,  to 
mediate  in  1095  between  William  Rufus  and  his  elder 
brother  Robert  of  Normandy ;  and  the  careful  working 
out  of  the  career  of  Ranulf  Flambard. 

An  excellent  example  of  Mr.  Freeman*s  thorough  way  of 
working  out  an  historical  point  is  to  be  found  in  the  long 
excursus  in  the  Appendix,  which  deals  with  the  different 
versions  of  the  death  of  Rufus,  the  conclusion  reached 
being  that  the  statement  of  the  English  Chronicle  i» 
most  to  be  trusted,  according  to  which  the  king  "  waa 
in  hunting  from  his  own  men  by  an  arrow  off  shot.'* 

The  numerous  campaigns  which  are  described  in  these 
pages,  whether  in  Normandy,  Maine,  France,  Cumbria, 
fe^outh  England,  Wales,  or  Scotland,  illustrate  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  features  of  Mr.  Freeman's  historical 
genius— the  extraordinary  skill  and  instinct  with  which 
the  author  uses  local  writers  and  authorities,  buildings, 
ruins,  and  natural  features,  to  fill  out  the  scantv  narra- 
tives of  the  primary  contemporary  writers.  His  ta«k 
leads  him  to  speak  of  many  aistrict*,  churches,  castles, 
&c. ;  and  in  each  case  the  happy  union  of  historical  in- 
sight and  learning  with  local  knowledge  and  a  trained 
architectural  eye  makes  him  appear  as  a  specialist,  and 
a  specialist  of  that  r«re  kind  wno  does  not  lose  himself 
In  purely  local  matters,  but  grasps  unerringly  their 
importance  for  general  history. 

In  the  preface  Mr.  Freeman  hints  that  he  is  inclined 
to  complete  his  work  on  the  Normans  in  Normandy  and 
England  by  a  companion  work  on  the  Normans  in  Sicily. 
We  only  trust  that  health  and  strength  may  be  granted 
him  to  carry  out  this  mo«t  fascinatmg  tark,  which  has 
not  yet  been  undertaken  by  any  one  combining  the  same 
special  qualifications  as  the  hlttorian  of  the  Norman 
Conquest  of  England.  We  learn  also  that  we  may  expect 
a  third  version  of  the  latter  event  in  a  form  intermediate 
between  seven  thick  volumes  and  the  small  half-crown 
Short  History  of  the  Norman  Conquttt, 

John  Lteck,  and  other  Papers.    By  John  Brown,  M.D. 

(Edinburgh,  Douglas.) 
Db.  Browh  has  achieved  a  wide-spread  popularity  as  sn 
essayist,  and  few  literary  reniitationa  seem  to  ns  to  lave 
been  more  fully  deserved.  His  new  volume  of  collected 
essays  is  charming,  not  only  fiom  the  rare  oombinath  n 
of  gifts  which  he  displays,  but  also  from  the  variety  of 
subjects  at  which  he  glanoea.  He  touches  many  sides  of 
human  nature,  and  on  all  he  brings  to  bear  the  tame 


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iendeni«M  of  Sfmpatby,  t1i«  tame  geniality  of  bnmoor, 
the  lame  large-hearted  appreciation.  With  the  eiception 
of  two  essays  on  Leech  and  Thackeray,  which  do  admirer 
of  the  caricaturist  or  the  noTelist  can  afford  to  nefclect, 
his  studies  are  of  Scotch  character  and  life.  Round 
ilist  StirUng  Grahame  of  Duntrune  are  clustered  riyid 
pictures  of  Edinburgh  society  more  than  half  a  century 
ago ;  in  John  Ounn  we  hate  a  portrait  of  a  faithfid 
retainer  of  the  house  of  Stoney  wood  who  was  out  both  in 
the  '15  and  the  *45,  Yet  the  most  pleasing  sketch  of  all  is 
that  on  Msijorie  Fleming,  the  ditrling  of  Walter  Scott, 
whose  childish  diary  is  as  attractive  in  its  fre«b  quaintnets 
as  any  book  the  coiud  have  written  bad  she  lived  to  grow 
to  maturer  years.  The  style  in  which  tbene  essays  are 
written  is  peculiar.  It  is  always  effective,  though  some- 
times slovenly,  and  grammar  is  occasionally  sacrificed  to 
picturesqueness.  It  is  always  easy,  simple,  and  natural ; 
it  is  the  rough  working  dress  of  the  author  himself,  and 
not  a  mere  Sunday  suit  adopted  for  display,  which  hides 
the  strong  personality  of  the  author.  The  autobio- 
graphical nature  of  his  writiuKS  has  now  a  sad  interest 
of  its  own,  for  his  essays  reflect  in  a  faithful  mirror  the 
character  of  a  man  who  has  now  passed  away.  The 
literary  work  of  the  warm-hearted,  sympathetic,  and 
genial  author  of  Itab  and  Ms  Friends  was  of  so  personal 
a  kind  that  numbers  of  persons  who  hnd  never  seen  him 
felt  that  they  had  known  him  well.  To  his  friends,  and 
they  were  many,  his  loss  will  be  irreparable. 

LeiUn  and  Papers,  Foreign  and  Dnmestic,  of  (he  Reign 
of  H*nry  VIII.  Arranged  and  Catalogued  by  J  fames 
Gairdner  for  the  Master  of  the  Rolls.  Vol.  VI. 
(Longmans  &  Co.) 
This  volume  fully  justifies  the  expectations  expressed 
in  our  notice  of  vol.  v.,  that  Mr.  Gairdner  was  singu- 
larly qualified  to  continue  and  complete  the  work  left 
unfinished  by  the  lamented  Mr.  Brewer.  The  letters  and 
papers  calendared  in  this  volume  comprise  all  that  is  re- 
corded of  the  year  1[>33,  which  was  marked  by  the 
marriage  and  coronation  of  Anne  Boleyne  and  the'birih 
of  Queen  Elizabeth  on  Sept.  7.  The  marriage  with  Anne 
Boleyne  was  declared  to  the  public  on  Easter  eve,  although 
the  king's  previous  marriage  with  Catherine  was  not  pro- 
nounced iuTalid  until  May  28,  but  it  is  by  no  means 
certain  when  the  ceremony  took  place  by  which  Anne 
Boleyne  became  the  king's  wife.  Cranmer  states  that  the 
date  was  about  the  day  of  the  conversion  of  St.  Paul 
(Jan.  25);  but  he  contradicts  the  current  report  that  he 
bad  performed  the  ceremony,  saying,  "  I  myself  knew 
not  tnereof  a  fortnight  after  it  was  done."  It  wan  after- 
wu^s  thought  more  decent  to  antedate  the  marriage, 
and  Hall  expressly  says  in  his  CkroMcU  that  it  was  cele- 
brated on  St.  Erkenwald's  Day  (Nov.  14),  just  after  the 
king's  return  from  Calais  in  1532.  If  this  be  true  it  must 
have  taken  place  at  Dover  the  day  after  he  landed.  The 
birth  of  a  daughter  was  a  great  disappointment  to  the 
king,  who  had  hoped  for  a  boy ;  but  it  is  remarkable  that 
the  birth  seemed  of  so  little  consequence  to  the  French 
ambassador  that  he  would  scarcely  have  written  to 
announce  it  but  for  the  unexpected  opportunity  of  a 
courier.  The  marriage  with  Anne  Boleyne  separated 
Henry  from  Francis  of  France,  who  had  hitherto  been 
his  staunch  ally;  and  the  Pope's  sentence  of  excommuni- 
cation was  parried  by  the  declaration  in  Council  in 
December  that  the  Pope  had  nt>t  by  the  law  of  God  any 
more  authority  within  the  realm  than  any  other  foreign 
bishop,  and  that  he  was  thenceforth  to  be  recognized 
officially  only  as  Bishop  of  Rome.  Amongst  the  other 
more  remarkable  contents  of  this  volume  are  Cranmer's 
examination  of  Elizabeth  Barton,  the  nun  of  Kent,  whose 
rhapsodies  and  trances  had  a  strange  influence  with  the 
multitude  and  excited  the  vindictive  anger,  of  the  king, 


and  a  series  of  letters  from  Lord  Lisle,  the  governor  of 
Calais,  of  singular  interest  both  domestic  and  poIiticaL 

Journal  of  the  Derbyshire  Archaological  and  Naiural 

History  Soeietv,    VoL  IV.,  1882.    (Bemroee  &  Bona.) 

SK  fourth  volume  contains  many  interesting  papen 


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contributed  by  the  members  of  this  society.  There  are 
no  less  than  four  contributions  from  the  pen  of  Mr.  J.  G. 
Cox.  the  most  important  of  which  are  the  "  Sacrist's  Boll 
of  Lichfield  Cathedral.  a.i>.  1345,"  and  **  Pla^e  and 
Field  Names  in  Derbyshire  which  indicate  the  Fauna." 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Mr.  €k>x  will  soon  be  able  to  find 
time,  in  spite  of  his  numerous  avocations,  to  complete 
bis  projected  work  on  the  latter  subject,  which  is  ona  of 
much  interest  to  many  of  the  readers  of  **  N.  &  Q."  The 
paper  entitled  "  Notes  on  the  Demolition  of  the  Chancel 
of  Hope  Church,"  and  contributed  by  the  honorary 
secretary,  should  be  read  by  all  who  take  an  interest  in 
the  protection  of  our  churches  and  other  ancient  build- 
ings from  the  ravaging  hand  of  the  so  called  "  restorer." 
Though  the  Society  failed  to  defeat  all  the  intentions  of 
these  "restorers,'*  yet  it  did  much  good  vrork  by  its 
protest  against  such  vandalism,  and  also  by  putting  on 
record  a  full  and  detailed  account  of  the  old  chancel  of 
Hope  Church  for  the  benefit  of  those  who  come  after. 
We  heartily  wish  that  the  efforts  of  the  Society  may  be 
crowned  with  success,  should  it  ever  be  called  upon 
again  to  protest  against  the  destruction  of  any  of  the 
many  interesting  and  valuable  old  buildings  which  the 
county  still  possesses. 

It  is  only  necessary  to  say  that  May's  BrUisk  and  Irtsk 
Press  Guide,  1882,  fully  maintains  its  credit  for  general 
usefulness. 

Mft.  J.  H.  RoiTKD  has  investigated  the  yarioaa  ques- 
tions connected  with  the  Domesday  Surrey  of  Colchester, 
and  has  thrown  the  results  of  his  inquiry 'into  an  article, 
the  first  part  of  which  will  appear  in  the  June  number  of 
the  A  ntiquary, 

Mr.  J.  F.  Puller,  F.S.A.,  will  contribute  to  the  next 
number  of  Mr.  Walford's  Antiquarian  MagtiginenpupeT 
on  a  "  Pretender  of  the  Stuart  Era,"  which  will  throw 
some  light  on  Kngluh  and  Irish  history. 


^otirrjf  to  Corrrj^iionOcnM. 

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Or  all  communications  should  be  written  the  name  and 

address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 

as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

H.  A.  B.  ("Shakespeare  Folios").— There  are  probably 
as  manv  copies  of  the  second  folio  (1632)  as  of  all  the 
other  three  folio  editions  put  together.  The  fourth  folio 
is  nearly  as  plentiful ;  next  comes  the  first,  and  then  the 
third  folio,  which  last,  in  fine  condition,  is  probably  the 
scarcest  of  all  four. 

R.  H.  (Upton  Rectory).— Your  request  shall  be  at- 
tended to ;  we  vrish  all  our  correspondents  would  be  as  ' 
painstaking  in  making  quotations. 

W.  Hkinemann  ("0  Gemini  !")•  ~  See  a  note  in 
"N.&Q.;'4U'S.vii.441. 

W.  C.  M.  ("  As  artful  as  Garrick  ").— See  "  N.  &  Q.," 
6»h  S.  iy.  640. 

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CONTENTS.— N»  127. 


NOTES  :-A  French  EdlUon  of  "  Pwradiw  Loit,"  421— Letten 
of  Samuel  Johnson  to  Dr.  Taylor.  422— Shalupeariana,  423 
—Old  Sermons :  Earl  of  Rochester.  424— The  Legal  Gown 
—  Martha  Blount's  Funeral  Expenses,  425 ->"  Value  * : 
«' Thought ''-Mathematical  BibllogTaphy- How  Historr  is 
Written— Folk-lore  from  Cyprus— i  he  Verbal  Adjective  in 
-Ing,  426— The  I^t  Delia  Scala— Borsedeallng  Frorerb— 
"  Benedlcite  *— Books  gone  astray,  427. 

OT7ERIES:— '*The  St.  James's  Beauty  "-Yorkshire  WlUs— 
Costobadie  of  Auvergne.  427— Aitsema,  '*  Notable  K«?olu- 
tions."  Ac.  — "Bobinson  Crusoe'  — ••BtlU":  "Yet"— 
Byron's  Body  passing  through  Melton— "Blatherumskite/* 
428— Don  Pedro,  Duke  of  Coimbra,  bom  a  d.  1S82— Canal 
Legislation— London  paved  with  Gold— Marriages  in  May 
—Verses  in  Chambers's  "Edinbuxgh  Journal,"  429. 

REPLIES :— Belfry,  42»-The  Heirship  of  the  Pereiei:  the 
Earldom  of  Ormonde— Lord  Chief  Justice  Greene.  481— 
Buried  Alive— Heralds  crowned  with  Vervain,  432—' '  There 's 
Cauld  KaU  in  Aberdeen  "— FUlal  Affection  of  the  Stork,  483 
—The  Witwall-Henry  UI.'s  Elephant— Milton's  Grand- 
nephew,  484  —  Parochial  Begisters  —  "  Otamy  "  —  Parslow 
Family— Firstfrults  of  English  Bishoprics— Heraldic— De 
Quincey  and  Dickens— Dates  of  Old  **  Hone  B.  Virginis," 
•485— Freedom  from  Suits  of  Hundred,  Ac— Jack-an-Apes 
Lane-Lemans  of  Norfolk  Ac -The  "  Protestent  Flail  '*— 
Voltaire— St.  Margaret's,  WestminsUr,  4S6-John  Knibb- 
**Free  Trade  "-Gentles:  MudwaU-Klng  Charles's  Vision 
—Authors  Wanted,  487. 

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Bweetman's  "  Calendar  of  Documents  relating  to  Ireland, 
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A  FRENCH  EDITION  OP  ''•  PARADISE  LOST." 
I  attended  the  Sunderland  sale  on  the  day  on 
^hich  the  editions  of  Dante  were  sold,  and  need 
htjtdlj  remark  that  I  was  not  a  little  aarprised  at 
the  prices  realised.  On  the  same  day  I  strolled  into 
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ing caught  my  eye.  They  were  lettered  ''  Paradis 
Anglois."  On  taking  down  the  work  I  found  it 
to  be  an  edition  of  Milton's  Paradise  Lost  with 
which  I  was  hitherto  unacquainted.  I  will  tran- 
scribe the  title : — 

"  Paradise  Loit,  I  a  |  Poem,  |  in  |  Twelve  Books.  |  The 
Last  Edition.  |  The  Author  |  John  Milton,  j  at  Paris,  | 
Printed  for  Darid,  junior,  Upon  the  1  Austios-frierB-Key. 

I  li.DOaiJT." 

The  collation  is  as  follows :  Half-title,  **  Paradise 
Lost,  I  A  I  Poem,  I  In  |  Twelve  Books.  |  The  Last 
Edition."  {Then  the  full  title  as  above.  Then 
**  To  the  Kight  Honorable  John  Lord  Sommers, 
Baron  of  Eresham,  &o,"  (this  is  taken  from  Uie 
small  edition  pnblislied  after  the  folio  which  Somers 
mainly  promoted).  Then  half-tide:  "The  Life 
of  M.  John  Milton  "  (this  is  Fenton's  Life).  Then 
postscript  to  the  same.  Then  Sam.  Barrow's  Latin 
verses,  "In  Paradiinm  Amissam"  (sic).  Then 
commendatory  verses  by  Andrew  MarrelL    Then 


"  The  Verse."    Then  the  first  nine  books  in  294 
padres. 

The  second  volume  conslBts  of  half-title,  "  Para- 
dise Lostw  I  Tome  Second."  Then  "A  Glossary, 
Comprehending  A  Brief  and  clear  explication  of  all 
the  difficult  words  in  Milton's  Paradise  Lost  that 
are  not  to  be  found  in  A.  Boyer^s  Dictionary." 
This  takes  up  76  pases,  and  consists  not  only  of 
notes  in  French  explanatory  of  Milton's  English, 
but  also  of  oorrectionB  of  errors  of  the  press  and 
punctuation,  which,  as  might  be  expected  in  an 
English  book  set  up  by  French  compositors,  are 
very  numerous,  and  sometimes  very  absurd.  For 
instance,  at  the  expulsion  of  our  first  parents  from 
Paradise,  at  the  dose  of  the  twelfth  book,  Milton 
tells  us, 

"  Some  natoral  tears  they  dropp'd,  but  wiped  them  soon," 
which  in  this  French  edition  appears, 
"Some  natural  tears  they  drop*d,  but  fnp*d  them  soon." 
The  correction  in  the  Glossary  is  "  but  vip*d  lisez 
bui  wip^dJ*  Then  follow  books  x.,  xi,  xii.  of 
the  poem  in  96  pages ;  and  then  a  most  excellent 
index  of  subjects  and  passaees  in  the  poem.  Now 
this  little  Frenoh  edition  of  Milton's  Paradise  Lost 
is  not  only  a  curiosity  but  a  rarity.  It  is  not 
mentioned  1^  any  bibliographer,  Brunet,  Lowndes, 
or  others.  It  seems  to  have  been  quite  unknown 
to  Todd ;  and  Prof.  Darid  Masson  writes  to  me 
that  he  has  not  only  never  seen  it,  but  had  never 
heard  of  it  till  I  called  his  attention  to  it.  There 
is  a  copy  in  the  British  Museum,  but  it  is  imperfect 
in  the  index. 

The  French  notes  explanatory  of  Milton's  lan- 
guage are  chiefly  translated  from  Bishop  Newton, 
Pearce,  and  others.  I  will  give  an  example  or 
two : — 

1.  <"  Hia  habit  fit  for  speed  saccinct.  *— iii.  643. 
Sweeinct,  retrouss^.    Le  Docteur  Pearce  Ten  tend  d'une 
autre  maniere.    Mais  tout  le  monde  SQait  que  lea  yoya- 
geurs  aToient  soin  de  retrousser  leurs  habits  pour  fadro 
plus  de  diligence." 

2.  " '  How  from  that  sapphire  fount  the  crisped  brooki 

Rolling  on  orient  pearl  and  aands  of  gold.* 

IT.  237. 
Crisped  broolt,  miaaeaux  friars,  garnia  de  jonca." 
I  do  not  know  whence  the  editor  derired  this 
explanation. 
8.  •"  What  thou  b'dd'st 

Unargued  I  obeyZ—ir.  636. 
Unargued,  aana  raiaonner,  aana  disputer,  aatia  contestor." 

4.  '' '  Then  when  I  am  thy  captive  talk  of  ohaina, 

Proud  limitary  cherub.'— It.  971. 
Limiiary,  qui  garde  une  frontiers.    C'eat  une  raillerie  de 
Satan  contre  I'Angei  (^ai  peu  auparavant  lui  aToit  dit 

if. vfUhin  (htse limits  (Aon  appear.     Lea  Latins 

appelloient  les  soldata  en  gamiaon  aur  lea  frontierea, 
muiUs  Umitanei," 

5.  '"To  Palea  or  Pomona,  thua  adom'd, 

Likelieat  ahe  aeem'd.'— Ix.  891. 
Likelitsl,  liacz  litest,  comme  la  raiaonet  la  mesure  Tex- 
igent    Ce  qui  se  trouve  confirm^  par  la  premiere  Edition 


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de  Milton.  Gefcte  faaie  s'eUat  glin^e  daoi  la  teeonde 
iditioD,  la  plC^part  dea  Editean  Tont  admise." 

6.  '"  Sin  there  in  power  before. 
Once  actual,  now  in  body/— x.  586. 

Ge  paeetge  ett  asies  difficile.  M.  Dupr6  de  8.  Maor  ne 
I'a  point  traduit.  En  Toici  le  lens.  B^ore  arant  la 
chiite  de  I'homme,  iin  wat  in  power,  le  p^h6  6toit 
potentiellement  tKtre  dans  le  Paradie;  once  tLdnal  k  la 
chAte  d*Adam  il  j  fat  actuellement  quoiqae  non  cor- 
porellement ;  now  in  hody,  mais  maintenant  il  j  etoit  en 
corps,  en  propre  pertonne." 

7.  " '  Till  in  the  amorous  net 

First  caught*  they  liked,  and  each  his  liking 
choee.'—xi.  687. 
Fim,  lises  faet,  eomme  dans  les  Editions  qui  ont  pam  du 
TiTant  de  MUton." 

8.  *' '  A  herd  of  becTes,  fair  oxen  and  fair  kine.' 

xi.  647. 
Beeves,  plurier  de  he^,  boeuf ;  qui  ne  se  dit  proprement 

Sie  de  la  chair  de  bcduf.    Autrement  on  dit  ox,  et  au 
urier  oxen," 
"  9.  "'Yet  know  withal 

Since,  by  original  lapse,  true  liberty 
Is  lost'— xii.  8a 
Since,  hy  ainri  lit-on  dans  la  pYupart  des  Mitions,  et 
entr'autres  dans  celles  du  M.  Bentley  et  de  M.  Fenton ; 
ce  ^ui  fait  k  peine  un  sens.  Liaez  done  comme  les 
editions  revues  par  Milton  tince  thy  ce  qui  fait  un  sens 
clair  et  net" 

I  have  only  given  a  few  speoimens  of  the  notes, 
but  may  add  ihaX  the  editor  has  shown  considerable 
discernment  in  his  selection  and  translation  of 
notes  illostratiye  of  Milton's  langnage  from  Spenser 
and  Shakspeare,  and  his  explanations  of  Mutonic 
words  in  French  are  on  the  whole  happy  ;  he  has 
also  paid  much  attention  to  the  ponctoation. 

On  the  whole,  the  edition  is  an  interesting  one, 
and,  I  have  every  reason  to  believe,  a  rarity.  I 
purchased  the  little  volames,  which  are  in  ex- 
cellent condition,  for  a  few  pence,  while  an  hoar 
or  two  previously  I  had  seen  editions  of  Dante 
selling  for  more  than  tm  t%me$  (he  number  of 
poundi.  I  should  think  Milton,  to  an  English- 
man, as  interesting  as  Dante. 

BiCHARD  HOOPBIU 

Upton  Rectory,  Didcot. 


LETTERS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 

DR.  TAYLOR. 

{Continued  from  p,  388.) 

BxAB  Sir,  —  Now  you  find  yourself  better  consider 

what  it  is  that  has  contributed  to  your  recoTery,  and  do 

it  CTer  again.    Keep  what  health  you  have  and  try  to 

get  more. 

I  am  now  within  a  few  hours  of  being  able  to  send  the 
whole  dictionary  to  the  press,  and  though  I  often  went 
sluggishly  to  the  work,  I  am  not  much  delighted  at  the 
co(mpletion].  My  purpose  is  to  come  down  to  Lichfield 
next  week.  I  will  send  you  word  when  I  am  to  set  out, 
and  hope  you  will  fetch  me.  Miss  Porter  will  be  satisfied 
with  a  very  little  of  my  company. 
1  am,  Dear  Sir, 

Your  affectionate  Servant 
Oct.  6, 1772.  Bah.  Johksof. 

The  Rev'  D'  Taylor  in  Ashboum  Derbyp. 
Franked  ["  Free '']  by  Thrale. 


DiJlR  Sib, — Your  solicitude  for  me  is  a  very  pleaslng- 
CTidence  of  vour  friendship.  My  eye  ii  almost  recovered, 
but  is  yet  a  little  dim,  and  does  not  much  like  a  small 
print  by  candle  light.  You  will  however  believe  that  I 
think  myself  pretty  well,  when  I  tell  vou  my  design. 

I  haTc  long  promised  to  visit  Scotland,  and  shall  set 
out  to  morrow  on  the  journey.  I  hafe  M'  Chamber *a 
company  as  far  as  Newcastle,  and  M'  Boswell  an  active 
lively  fellow  is  to  conduct  me  round  the  country.  WhtJk 
I  shall  see,  I  know  not,  but  hope  to  have  entertainment 
for  my  curiosity,  and  I  shall  be  sure  at  least  of  air  aad 
motion.  When  I  come  back,  perhaps  a  little  Invitation 
may  call  me  into  DerbyshirOy  to  compare  the  movntain^ 
of  the  two  countries. 

In  the  mean  time  I  hope  you  are  daily  adTaneIng  in 
your  health.    Drink  a  great  deal,  and  sleep  heartily* 
and  think  now  and  then  of 
Dear  Sir 

Your  Most  humble  Servant, 

Aug.  5, 1773.  Sax.  Johxbov. 

To  the  Rev<*  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne  Derbyshire. 

DEAtL  Sia,— When  shaU  I  come  down  to  you  1  I  believ» 
I  can  get  away  pretty  early  in  May,  if  you  have  any 
mind  of  me ;  If  you  have  none,  I  can  move  in  some 
other  direction.    So  tell  me  what  I  shall  do. 

I  have  placed  young  Davenport  in  the  greatest  printing 
house  in  London,  and  hear  no  complaint  of  him  bat  want 
of  size,  which  will  not  hinder  him  much.  He  may  when 
he  is  a  journeyman  always  get  a  guinea  a  week. 

The  patriots  pelt  me  with  answers.  Four  pamilets,  I 
think,  already,  besides  newspapers  and  reriews,  have* 
been  discharged  against  me.  I  have  tried  to  read  two 
of  them,  but  did  not  go  through  them. 

Now  and  then  I  call  on  Congreve,  though  I  have  little 
or  no  reason  to  think  that  he  wants  or  wishes  to  see  me.. 
I  sometimes  dispute  with  him,  but  I  think  he  has  not 
studied. 

He  has  really  ill  health,  and  seems  to  have  given  wav- 
to  that  indulgence  which  sickness  is  always  in  too  much 
haste  to  claim.    He  confesses  a  bottle  a  day. 
I  am  Sir 

Your  humble  Servant, 

April  8, 1775.  Sax.  Johvsov. 

To  the  Rev'  D'  Taylor  at  Ashbome  Derbys. 

Franked  ["  Free  "]  by  Thrale. 

DiAB  Sir, — I  came  back  last  Tuesday  from  France:. 
Is  not  mine  a  kind  of  life  turned  upside  downl  Fixed 
to  a  spot  when  I  was  young,  and  roving  the  world  when 
others  are  contriving  to  sit  still,  I  am  wholly  unsettled. 
I  am  a  kind  of  ship  with  a  wide  sail,  and  without  an 
anchor. 

Now  I  am  come  home,  let  me  know  how  it  is  witb 
yon.  I  hope  you  are  well,  and  intend  to  keep  yoor 
residence  this  year.  Let  me  know  the  month,  and  Iwill 
contrive  to  be  about  you.  Our  friendship  has  now  lasted 
so  long,  that  it  is  valuable  for  its  antiquity.  Perhapa 
neither  has  any  other  companion  to  whom  he  can  talk  of 
his  early  years.  Let  me  particularly  know  the  state  of 
your  health.    I  think  mine  is  the  better  for  the  journey. 

The  French  have  a  clear  air  and  fruitful  soil,  but  their 
mode  of  of  common  life  is  gross  and  incommodious,  and 
disgusting.  I  am  come  home  conrinced  that  no  improve- 
ment  of  general  use  is  to  be  gained  among  them. 
I  am.  Dear  Sir, 

Your  affectionate  Servant^ 

London,  Nov.  16, 1775.  Bix.  JomraosL 

[No  addresa] 

DiAR  Sir,— The  Case  which  von  tent  me  contains 
such  vicissitudes  of  settlement  and  reieission  that  I  will 
not  pretend  yet  to  give  any  opinion  about  it.    My  advice 


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u,  thai  it  be  laid  before  tome  of  the  best  Lawyen,  and 
branched  out  into  queries,  that  the  answer  may  be 
more  deliberatei  and  the  neoeflsity  of  considering  made 
.greater. 

Qet  it  off  your  hands  and  out  of  your  head  ai  fast  as 
Tou  can.  You  haye  no  eTidence  to  wait  for :  all  that  can 
he  done  mar  be  done  soon. 

Your  health  is  of  more  consequence.  Keep  yourself 
•cheerful.  Lye  in  Bed  with  a  lamp,  and  when  you  cannot 
sleep,  and  are  beginning  to  think,  light  your  candle  and 
read.  At  least  light  your  candle ;  a  man  is  perhaps  nerer 
so  much  harrassed  (tie]  by  his  own  mind  in  the  light  as 
in  the  dark. 

Poor  Caled  Harding  is  dead.  Do*s  not  erery  death  of 
va  man  long  known  bc^in  to  strike  deep  1  How  few  doe 
£nc]  the  Man  who  has  lired  sixty  years  now  know  of  the 
friends  of  his  youth  1  At  Lichfield  there  are  none  bat 
Harry  Jackson  and  Sedgwick,  and  Sedgwick,  when  I  left 
liim,  had  a  dropsy. 

I  am,  I  think,  better  than  usual,  and  hope  you  will 
.^^w  better  too.        1  am  Sir 

Your  most  affectionate 

Febr.  17, 1776.  Sam.  Johnsok, 

Bev^  D'  Taylor.  Ashboum  Derbyshire. 

"ffree."W.  Strahan. 

June  23, 1776. 

DiiR  SiB,— The  Oout  is  now  grown  tolerable ;  I  can 
•go  up  stairs  pretty  well,  but  am  yet  awicward  in  coming 
•dowB. 

Some  time  ago  I  had  a  letter  from  the  Solicitor,  in 
which  he  mentioned  our  cause  with  respect  enough,  but 
"persists  in  his  opinion,  as  I  suppose,  your  Attorney  has 
told  you.  He  is  howoTer  conrinced  that  nothing  frau- 
wdulent  was  intended :  I  would  be  glad  to  hear  what  the 
Attorney  says. 

M'  Thrale  would  gladly  have  seen  you  at  his  house. 
They  are  all  well. 

Whether  I  shall  wander  this  Summer,  I  hardly  know. 
If  1 4o,  tell  me  when  it  will  be  the  best  time  to  come  to 
you. 

I  hope  you  perscTere  in  drinking.  My  opinion  is  that 
I  have  drunk  too  little,  and  therefore  hare  the  gout,  for 
it  u  of  my  own  acquisition,  as  neither  my  father  had  it 
fior  my  Mother. 

Wilkes  and  Hopkins  haTe  now  polled  two  days,  and  I 
Jiear  that  Wilkes  is  two  hundred  oehind. 

Of  this  sudden  Revolution  in  the  Prince's  household, 
the  original  cause  is  not  certainly  known.  The  quarrel 
l)egan  between  Lord  Uoldemefs,  and  Jackson,  the  part 
•of  Jackson  was  taken  by  the  Bishop,  and  all  ended  in  a 
4otal  change.  1  am,  Sir, 

Your  affectionate  &o. 

Sax.  Johhsov. 
To  the  rererend  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne  Derbyshire. 

Dear  Sir,-— I  am  required  by  M"  Thrale  to  solicite 
•you  to  exert  your  interest,  that  she  may  have  a  ticket  of 
admission  to  the  entertainment  at  DcYonshire  house.  Do 
for  her  what  you  can. 

I  continue  to  hare  Tery  troublesome  and  tedious  nights, 
-which  I  do  not  peroeire  any  change  of  place  to  make 
better  or  worse.  This  is  indeed  at  present  my  chief 
imalady.  but  this  is  Tery  heavy. 

My  thoughts  were  to  have  been  in  Staffordshire  before 
now.  But  who  does  what  he  designs?  My  purpose  is 
'Still  to  spend  part  of  the  Summer  amongst  tou  ;  and  of 
that  hope  1  hare  no  particular  reason  to  fear  the  dis- 
appointment. 

Poor  Dod  was  sentenced  last  week.  It  is  a  thing  almost 
without  example  for  a  Clergyman  of  his  rank  to  stand  at 
the  bar  for  a  capital  breach  of  morality.  I  am  afraid  he 
will  suffer.    The  clergy  seem  not  to  be  h^j  friends.    The 


populace  that  was  extremely  clamorous  against  him, 
begins  to  pity  him.  The  time  that  was  gained  by  an  ob- 
jection which  was  never  considered  as  having  any  foroci 
was  of  great  use,  as  it  allowed  the  publiok  resentment  to 
cool.  To  spare  his  life,  and  his  life  is  all  that  ought  to 
be  spared,  would  be  now  rather  popular  than  offensive. 
How  little  he  thought  six  months  ago  of  being  what  he 
now  is.  I  am  Sir  &c. 

May  19, 1777.  Sax.  Johnsok, 

[No  address.] 

JoHH  E.  B.  Matob. 

Cambridge. 


SHAKSPEARIANA. 


"Kino  John,"  I.  i.  (6»  S.  v.  242).— 
<<  And  so  ere  answer  knows  what  question  would. 
Saving  in  dialogue  of  compliment" 

Ma.  HalfordYauohan  proposes  to  read  ''salring" 
instead  of  **  saving."  With  all  deference  to  his 
opinion,  the  old  r^ing  appears  to  me  preferable. 
To  *' salve"  is  literally  to  apply  a  remedy  to  a 
sore,  and  figuratively  to  an  injunr  or  offence  ;  and 
in  ail  the  instances  adduced  it  has  that  meaninff. 
But  here  there  is  no  injury  or  offence  to  be  salved. 
The  two  parties  are  on  the  best  of  terms — they  are 
only  too  profuse  in  politeness— so  that  the  one 
knows  not  what  the  other  is  driving  at,  except 
that  he  is  using  the  language  of  extreme  ceremony, 
or,  as  Shakspeare  much  better  expresses  it — 
"  And  BO  ere  answer  knows  what  question  would. 
Saving  in  dialogue  of  compliment." 

To  me  the  meaning  is  transparent. 

J.  Gabrtck  Moors. 

Except  that  aimer  at  emendation,  Warburton, 
followed  by  Theobald,  no  critic,  I  think,  nor  editor 
down  to  Staunton,  Dyce,  and  the  Cambridge  editors 
has  found  fault  with  *' saving."  I  prefer  their 
opinions  to  Mr.  Yaughan's  assertion,  adding  that 
to  myself  also  there  has  never  seemed  anything  in 
the  phrase  but  good  sense.  On  the  other  hand,  it 
seems  to  me  that  "  salving  "—a  medical  term  used 
metaphorically  in  the  other  instances— could  not 
have  been  used  in  the  text  passage  as  idiomatic 
English  by  any  Englishman. 

K,  Henry  K.,  II.  iiL — As  to  the  change,  ''a' 
talke,"  no  such  verbal  phrase  has,  I  believe,  been 
found  in  Shakespeare  or  in  any  literate  author, 
Elizabethan  or  otherwise.  But  so  £&r  I  would 
admit  "  a*  talkes."  But  in  Mr.  Yauqhan's  other 
quotation  from  the  play  there  is  an  evident  reason 
tor  the  change  from  past  to  present.  Here  there 
is  not  only  no  such  reason,  but  it  makes  a  dead 
man  talk  at  the  instant  that  Dame  Quickly  is  re- 
counting his  death.  Shakespeare  makes  her  silly 
enough  and  misuse  her  woids  "  honourably"  but 
her  silliness  in  *'  a'  talke"  is  beyond  both  her  and 
myselL  - 

Henry  V.^  I.  iL — Critics  may  still  differ  between 
''  imbare  "  or  *'  imbar,"  nor  will  I  venture  in  where 
such  choose  to  differ.  But  "  made  base,"  ^'anbnoe," 


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[6»h  a  V.  JuHB  8,  '82: 


and  **  uncase  "  will  still  be  held  by  their  authors, 
^nd  noted  by  the  industrious  editors  of  Yariorum 
editions.  Br.  Nicholson. 

"  1  K.  Henry  IV.,"  III.  i.  158  (&^  S.  iii.  486; 
iv.  246 ;  v.  124). — I  merely  recur  to  this  to  say 
(1)  that  I  find  that  the  best  method  of  explaining 
my  scansions  is  to  print  them,  and  recommend 
this  plan  to  Prof.  Elzb;  (2)  that  I  leave  the 
question  of  over-captiousness  or  intentional  mis- 
reading in  my  criticisms  to  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
and  of  the  Athinwum,  Br.  Nicholson. 

"The  Tempest,"  IV.  i.  166:  "Raokb"  (6*^ 
S.  iv.  443). — The  note  at  the  above  reference  is 
illustratea  by  Shelley  in  The  Cloud,  verse  3, 1.  3: 

^'The  sanguine  sunrise 

Leaps  on  the  back  of  my  sailing  rack." 

F.  E.  Whiblet. 

"  Ctmbblinb,"  III.  iv.  133  and  II.  v.  27.— 
"  Imo.  With  that  harsh,  noble,  simple  nothing." 
There  is  clearly  something  omitted  here,  as  told 
both  by  the  sense  and  the  scansion.  Hence  in  the 
Cambridge  Shakespeare,  1866,  I  proposed  **  [ig-] 
noble."  But  perceiving,  among  other  things,  the 
want  of  proper  scansion  in  this,  I  have  since 
extended  my  change,  and  would  read '*  [ignoble] 
noble."  The  phrase  is  in  the  style  of  that  date, 
both  in  itself  and  in  its  agreement  with  "  simple 
nothing,"  which  latter  also  forms  a  fitting  climax. 
I  would  urge,  too,  that  of  two  words  so  much  alike 
in  sound  and  to  the  eye  the  transcriber  or  com- 
positor could  easily,  as  is  common,  have  passed 
over  one,  and  has  here  passed  over  the  former  and 
taken  up  only  the  latter.  The  scansion  in  that 
case  would  be  one  not  infrequently  found  in 
Shakespeare : — 

*'  With  that  harsh  [  igno  |  ble  no  |  ble,  sim  |  pie  no-  | 
thing." 

In  II.  V.  27  we  find,  I  think,  an  omission  from 
a  similar  cause  : — 

«« AH  faults  that  [hafe  that]  name,  nay,  that  hell  knows." 
Dyce,  1866,  had  already  conjectured  that  the 
author  wrote 

"  All  faults  that  [have  a]  name." 

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Old  Sermons  :  Earl  of  Rochester.— Among 
many  interesting  old  sermons  I  have,  there  is  one 
by  Robert  Parsons,  M.A.,  Chaplain  to  the  Right 
Hon.  Anne,  Countess  Dowager  of  Rochester.  This 
sermon  was  preached  at  the  funeral  of  John,  Earl 
of  Rochester,  and  in  its  way  is  rather  a  peculiar 
one.  On  the  reverse  of  the  title-page  is  an  "Ad- 
vertisement "  as  follows  : — 

"  All  the  Livfd  and  profane  Poems  and  Itleli  of  the 
late  Lord  Hochester  haTing  been  (contrary  to  hia  dying 
request  and  in  defiance  of  EeVgion,  Oovernmeni,  and 
common  decency)  PubliBh'd  to  the  World;  and  (for 
the  easier  and  snrer  propagation  of  vice)  Printed  in 


Penny  Books,  and  ory'd  abont  the  Streets  of  this  Bbncmr^ 
ahU  City,  without  any  offence  or  dislike  taken  at  them : 
'Tis  humbly  hoped  that  thie  short  Discourse,  which 
ffives  a  true  account  of  the  Death  and  Repentance  of  that 
Noble  Lord,  may  likewise  (for  the  sake  of  his  nam^ 
find  a  favourable  Reception  among  some  Persons,  Tho' 
the  influence  of  it  cannot  be  supposed  to  reach  as  far  a» 
the  Poyson  of  the  other  Books  u  spread ;  which,  by  the 
Strength  of  their  own  virulent  corruption,  are  capable 
of  doing  more  mischief  than  all  the  Plays,  and  Fairs,  and 
Stews<  in  and  about  this  town  can  do  together.** 

The  text  is  St.  Luke,  xv.  7,  and  the  opening^ 
words  of  the  sermon  are,  *'  If  ever  there  were  m 
subject  that  might  deserve  and  exhaust  all  the 
treasures  of  Religious  Eloquence  in  the  descrip- 
tion of  so  great  a  Man,  and  so  great  a  Sinner  a3 
now  lies  before  us,''  &e.  It  is  here  clear  that  the 
preacher  was  not  desirous  to  smooth  over  the 
earPs  faults,  and  so  we  have,  in  a  measure,  a 
guarantee  that  what  is  told  us  regarding  him  i» 
true.  The  preacher  tells  us  that  he  was  "  a  sad 
spectator  and  secret  mourner  for  his  (Rochester's) 
sins,"  and  that  the  prayers  of  his  relations  and 
friends  for  his  convejrsion  and  repentance  were 
answered.  "And  'tis  the  good  tidings  of  that 
specially,  which  God  has  done  for  his  soul,  that  I 
am  now  to  publish."  The  reader  is  further  told 
that  the  publication  of  Rochestet^s  repentance,  &c.^ 
is  "  by  his  own  express  and  dying  commands." 

Our  author  then  relates  "faithfully  and  is*- 
partially "  what  he  saw  and  heard  at  the  deatli- 
bed,  and  then  gi^es  minute  particulars,  which  go 
to  prove  the  earl's  true  repentance.  Speaking  to 
the  Rev.  R.  Parsons,  the  earl  said,  "  I  never  was 
advanced  thus  far  towards  happiness  in  my  life 
before,  tho'  upon  the  commissions  of  some  sins 
extraordinary  I  have  had  some  checks  and 
warnings  considerable  from  within,  but  still 
struggled  with  'em,  and  so  wore  them  off  agun. 
The  most  observable  that  I  remember  was  wis  r 
One  day  at  [an  atheistical  meeting  at  a  person  of 
quality's,  I  undertook  to  manage  the  cause,  and 
was  the  principal  disputant  against  God  and  piety^ 
and  for  my  performances  received  the  applause  of 
the  whole  company,  upon  which  my  mind  was- 
terribly  struck,  and  I  immediately  reply 'd  thus  to 
myself.  Good  God !  that  a  man  that  walks  np> 
right,  that  sees  the  wonderful  works  of  God,  and 
has  the  uses  of  his  senses  and  reason,  should  use 
them  to  the  defying  of  his  Creator!  But  tho*^ 
this  was  a  good  beginning  towards  my  conversion^ 
to  find  my  conscience  touch'd  for  my  sins,  yet  ii 
went  off  again ;  nay,  all  my  life  long  I  had  a 
secret  value  and  reverence  for  an  honest  man,  and 
loved  morality  in  others,"  &c. 


W  e  are  told  that  on  the  fifty>third  chapter  of 
Isaiah  having  been  read  to  him  by  Mr.  Parsons, 
he  took  a  lively  interest  in  it,  and  in  the  absence 
of  the  minister  his  lady  and  mother  read  and  re- 
read it,  "till  he  had  learned  the  fifty-thiid 
chapter  of  Isaiah." 


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With  reference  to  his  writings,  which  might  be 
in  the  hands  of  different  parties, "  his  strict  charge  " 
was  "  to  bum  all  his  profane  and  lewd  writbgs,  as 
being  only  fit  to  promote  vice  and  immorality,  by 
which  he  had  so  highly  offended  God,  and  shamed 
and  blasphemed  tlmt  holy  religion  into  which  he 
had  been  baptized  ;  and  all  his  obscene  and  filthy 
pictures,  wmch  were  so  notorionsly  scandalous/' 
The  earFs  dying  remonstrance  forms  part  of  the 
sermon,  which  was  signed  by  him  and  witnessed 
by  his  wife  and  the  minister.  It  appears  the 
earl's  illness  lasted  ''just  nine  weeks,''  and 
that  he  was  perfectly  conscioas,  '*  saying  thirty 
hours,  about  the  middle  of  i^  in  which  he 
was  delirious."  There  is  reference  made  also  to 
the  conyersion  of  his  lady  from  the  Roman 
religion.  It  is  mentioned  that  he  received  his 
education  at  Wadham  College  in  Oxford,  under 
the  care  of  Dr.  31anford,  who  was  Bishop  of 
Worcester.  ''His  natural  talent  was  excellent, 
was  thoroughly  acquainted  with  all  clasaick 
authors,  both  Greek  and  Latin  ;  a  thing  yery  rare, 
if  not  peculiar  to  him,  amongst  those  of  his 
quality,"^.  Alfred  Ohas.  Jonas. 

Swansea. 

Thb  Legal  Gowir. — The  Oxford  M.A.  gown 
has  been  much  discussed  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  and  the 
discussion  has  suggested  to  me  another  and  kindred 
subject  for  inquiry.  All  yisitors  to  our  courts  of 
justice  must  notice  the  difference  between  the 
gowns  worn  by  the  leaders  (i,  e.,  queen's  counsel) 
and  junior  barristers.  When  a  barrister  is  ap- 
pointed one  of  Her  Majesty's  counsel  the  phrase 
runs  that  ''he  takes  sUk,"  and  accordingly  his 
gown  is  thenceforth  made  of  silk  instead  of  stuff. 
But  this  is  not  all,  for  the  shape  of  his  new  gown 
is  different  from  that  of  his  old  one.  The  principal 
difference  is  that  the  new  one  is  lar^r,  has  a 
square  flap  by  the  neck,  and  is  furnished  with 
hanging  sleeyes.  Now,  let  the  yisitor  leaye  the 
superior  courts,  betake  himself  to  a  county  court, 
and  notice  the  gowns  worn  by  the  solicitors.  He 
will  find  them,  as  nearly  as  possible,  of  the  same 
shape  as  the  leader^s  gown.  Again,  he  will  see 
that  the  ushers  of  the  courts  (both  superior  and 
county  courts)  wear  the  same  shaped  f;arment.  I 
belieye  I  may  extend  this  obseryation  to  Her 
Majesty's  judges.  Thus  we  find  that  the  junior 
barristers  stand  alone  with  respect  to  the  shape  of 
the  gown.  My  theory  is  that  the  gown  worn  by 
judges,  queen's  counsel,  solicitors,  and  ushers  and 
other  attendants  about  the  courts  is  the  true  legal 
gown ;  that  the  only  difference  should  be  in  the 
material  of  which  it  is  made ;  and  that  this  gown 
was  formerly  worn  by  all  officials,  whether  regis- 
trars, advocates,  prothonotaries,  solicitors,  attor- 
neys, clerks,  or  ushers,  merely  by  yirtue  of  their 
attendance  on  the  courts.  For  some  reason 
the  junior  bar  has  adopted  a  different  shape; 


perhaps  some  one  more  learned  than  myself  im 
legal  antiquities  can  tell  what  that  reason  waiL 
and  when  the  gown  now  worn  by  the  members  of 
the  junior  bar  was  first  worn  by  them.  I  belieye 
it  was  brought  from  the  uniyersities. 

F.  S.  W. 
8,  Crosby  Square,  E.C. 

Martha  Blount's  FtrNSRAL  Expeitsbs.— Al- 
though it  was  always  supposed  that  Martha  Blount 
was  buried  in  the  churchyard  at  St.  Pancras,  there 
was  no  eyidence  on  the  subject  until,  a  few  yean 
ago,  Mr.  Charles  Blount,  of  Mapleaurham.  dis- 
coyered  among  the  family  papers  Mr.  €(e<»ge 
Webbe's  account  for  the  funeral.  He  was  kind 
enough  to  send  me  a  copy  of  it,  and  it  may  perhaps 
interest  some  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.^ 

1783  July  17th 
The  Funeral  Expenses  of  H"  Martha  Blotmt 
Performed  by  Oeo.  Webbc. 
To  an  inside  Ooffin  of  lead  lined  and  nd&ed 

with  fine  Cmpe 5  10  0 

To  a  strong  Elm  CoiBn  ooyered  with  fine  black 

Cloth  set  off  with  double  Bowes  of  brass  nails 

a  plate  of  Inscription  Cmciftx  Flower  and  8 

pair  of  Handles  2  Silyer'd     7    7  0 

To  a  Suit  of  fine  Crape       2    0  0 

To  carrying  the  Coffin  in 0    8  0 

To  the  Bills  for  the  Chappels    0    7  0 

To  a  Hearse  and  Coach  with  Pairs  to  S(  Pancras  14  0 

To  the  white  Ostridge  Feathers  and  YelTets...  8    0  0 

To  2  Cloaks  to  the  Coaehmen   0    2  0 

To  hatbands  QIoYes  and  FaTonrs     0    7  0 

To  8  Cloaks 0    8  4) 

To  8  Silkhatbands       14  0 

To  a  Hood  and  Scarf 0    2  0 

To  4  Ptdr  of  Men's  best  Kid  Gloyes. 0  10  0 

To  4  Pair  of  Womens  D«    0  10  0 

To  the  Dues  of  St  Pancras 2    5  0 

To  the  Pall    0  10  0 

To  2  Porters  in  proper  Dress  with  Qatbands 

and  Gloves 0  17  0 

To  six  Bearers      0  12*0 

To  Turnpikes 0    18 

ToanAffidt 0    10 

GaTe  the  Men  and  digger 0    2  0 

The  Dirge. 

To  ye  Coffin  Stools  and  Pall     0  18  0 

To  y  State  Rale  hung  with  black  Cloth  ft 

white  Ostridf^e  Feathers 0  18  0 

To  a  Lid  of  white  Feathers 110 

To  6  large  silyer  Candlesticks  with  wax  Tapers 

&  Forms     0  18  0 

To  Tnyitation  Tickets  and  deliyeriog      2    2  0 

To  6  bottles  of  Wine  and  Bolls 0  18  0 

To  a  Man  attending    0    6  0 

Gaye  j*  Gentlemen     8  18  0 

£42  17    0 

Bee*  July  y  20«i»  1763  of  Michael  Blount  E«r  Bxe- 
outor  of  M"  Martha  Blount  y*  full  Contents  of  this  bia 
£42  y  Geo,  Webbe. 

N.B,  Both  y«  Sisters  were  hurried  Cloi»e  to  ye  monu- 
ment of  M'  Eyre  of  Assop  on  y*  South  Side. 

Martha  &  Teresa  Blount  after  y*  death  of  their  Father 

i1710)  lired  with  their  Mother  in  Boulton  Street  near 
nccadilly.    In  1741  they  were  liTing  in  Welbeck  Street 


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[e«fcS.  V.JuHi8,'82. 


OaTendiab  Square  near  Oxford  Chapel ;  but  M.  Alex^ 
Pope  haTing  by  hia  will  of  8*"  12. 1748  disposed  in  faTor 
of  Martha  for  her  life  of  his  bouse  in  Berkeley  Street 
Berkeley  Square,  She  at  hit  death  in  1744  took  pos- 
ienlon  of  it  and  lired  there  with  ber  Sister  till  her  own 
death  July  12U>  1763.  (her  mother  died  March  81. 1743) 
But  y«  deed  of  purchase  of  that  house  by  M'  Pope  being 
lost  or  Miss  Blount  not  being  able  to  proTO  that  y*  pur- 
ohase  monev  had  been  paid,  She  was  obliged  to  pay  her- 
self the  81K.  which  M'  Pope  had  agreed  to  pay  for  it. 
That  house  was  to  be  his  only  for  26  years  being  y* 
remainder  of  a  longer  lease. 

F.  G. 

Prohunciatioh  of  thb  Words  "  Valub"  and 
"  Thought  "  ik  the  Last  Oentuet,— A  clever 
and  rery  well  educated  lady,  who  was  born  circa 
1754,  ased  always  in  her  old  age  to  pronounce 
chUge  "  obleege  "  and  wdue  **  valley."  Her  treat- 
ment of  the  first  word  was  to  have  been  expected, 
bat  her  mode  of  nsing  the  second  always  pnzzled 
me.  I  think  that  the  following  verse,  which 
appears  in  the  GentUman*$  Magazine  for  April, 
1734,  tends  to  explain  it:— 

*'  Why,  Phillii,  when  I  ease  implore, 
Am  I  unkindly  rally'dl 
Why  will  you  make  his  heart  lo  tore, 
Who  once  you  so  much  valu*d   " 
A  portrait  by  Yertue  of  John  Sheffield,  Dnke  of 
Buckinghamshire,  which  lies  before  me,  has  the  sub- 
joined lines,  from  which  I  infer  that  early  in  the  last 
century  it  was  nsual  in  England  to  give  the  word 
thought  that  pronunciation  which  is  still  frequently 
employed  by  men  of  culture  north  of  the  Tweed : — 
"  One  modem  Author  here  behold. 
Who  with  a  safe  conscience  wrote. 
For,  from  Writers  new  or  old, 
He  would  never  steal  a  Thottght" 

Calcuttensis. 

Mathematical  Biblioorapht  :  Colsom's 
*f  OoMKEMT."*— What  seems  to  me  a  "  confirma- 
tion strong"  of  De  Morgan's  idea  as  to  the 
separate  early  publication  of  Newton's  Treatin 
is  the  existence  of  a  separate  issue  of  Colson's 
Comment,  a  copy  of  which  I  have,  in  the 
original  binding.  It  agrees  in  every  respect  with 
the  description  afford^  by  Sir  J.  Cockle,  com- 
mencing with  the  engraving  illustrative  of  remarks 
onp.  273,  this  being  followed  by  the  title-page  : 
''The  I  Method  of  Fluxions  |  and  |  Infinite  Series ; 

A  or,  I  a  Perpetual  Comment  upon  |  the  foregoing 
eatise."  Then  comes  the  "contents,"  pp.  [143] 
ri44],  and  the  Comment  ends  with  the  unpaged 
leaf  as  described.  The  Comment  itself  begins 
on  p.  143,  not  145  as  stated  by  mistake  in  Sir  J. 
OoCKLn'a  paper.  The  wording  of  the  title-page 
seems  conciosive  evidence  that  the  original  inten- 
tion was  to  publish  the  two  parts  together,  but 
from  some  cause  a  separate  issue  of  the  Treatiee 
was  afterwards  determined  upon.  F.  A.  Tole. 
Northampton. 


•  See  "N.&Q.,"l-«  8.,  2-  8. 8-*  8.,  4*  8.,  5»b  8., 
JMUftM/  6ti»  8.  L  469 J  iv.  129 ;  v.  283,  801. 


How  History  is  Written.— In  a  late  number 
of  the  Illustrated  London  Netce,  describing  the 
arrangements  made  for  the  Queen's  reception  at 
Chin^ord,  mention  is  made  of  an  obelisk  in  the 
vicinity,  marking  the  spot  where  the  ill-fated 
Boadicea  terminated  her  existence.  I  have  not 
been  to  Chingford  for  many  years,  but  it  is  mj 
impression  t&i  the  only  obelisk  in  its  neighboar- 
hood  was  the  one  originally  erected  as  a  referring 
mark  on  the  meridian  of  Greenwich  Observatory-p 
which  is  about  eleven  miles  south  of  it.  When  the 
present  transit  circle  was  erected  in  1851,  it  was 
placed  in  a  building  about  ISO  feet  eastward  of 
the  former  site,  and  of  course  the  meridian  of 
Greenwich  went  with  it,  viz.  about  two  seconds  in 
time  earlier ;  so  the  old  Ynark  on  the  obelisk  became 
useless,  though  the  obelisk  was  allowed  to  remain, 
and  is  now,  I  presume,  dedicated  to  the  memory  of 
the  first  recognized  British  queen.  If  another  obelisk 
exists,  perhaps  some  one  will  give  the  authority 
for  its  connexion  with  Boadicea,       J,  Baillie. 

E.I.ir.8.  Clab. 

Folk-lore  from  Ctprus.— The  following  notes 
are  taken  from  Mrs.  Scott  Stevenson's  Our  Horns 
in  Cyprus,  1880.  They  do  not  index  the  whole 
folk-lore  gathered  by  the  authoress. 

Blessing  a  house  when  it  is  occupied  by  a  new 
inmate,  p.  98. 

Ceremony  on  St.  John  the  Baptist's  Day,  p.  99. 

Silk  crop. — '*  The  natives  have  an  idea  that  the 
years  when  the  fleas  are  most  abundant  the  silk 
is  better  in  quantity  and  quality,"  p.  114. 

Etiquette  of  marriage  presents,  p.  124. 

Ostrich  eggs. — In  the  monastery  of  Eykkou, 
"  what  first  struck  me  was  the  number  of  ostridh 
eggs.  All  round  the  building  were  suspended 
small  silver  lamps,  and  between  each  pair  a  iaxge 
egg.  I  have  never  been  able  to  discover  the  exact 
superstition  responsible  for  the  custom.  None  of 
the  priests  was  able  to  explain  it,"  pp.  181-2. 

Wedding  ceremonies,  p.  191. 

St.  Catherine,  supposed  tomb  of,  p.  273. 

St.  Barnabas,  supposed  tomb  of,  p.  273. 

Lazarus,  holy  well  of,  p.  210. 

St.  Chrysostomos,  holy  well  of,  p.  134. 

William  George  Black. 

1,  Alfred  Terrace,  Glasgow. 

The  Verbal  Adjkctitb  in  -nro. — There  is,  I 
think,  a  ^wing  tendencjr  to  drop  from  certain 
verbal  adjectives  the  ending  -ing.  Surely  roto- 
boats  and  foip-patfas  used  to  be  rof^n^-boats  and 
tot0%ns'-paths,  except  in  the  mouths  of  bugees  and 
their  like — for  I  imagine  that  the  slang  contrac- 
tions have  been  adopted  rather  than  invented  by 
those  of  the  rising  generation  who  affect  them. 
Smoks-Toom  is,  I  think,  new.  Shall  we  soon  have 
saiUhosXs,  rirfe-horses,  5o9c-ffloves,  &c.?  The  car- 
tailing  seems  to  "obtain  *'  diiefly  with  the  sportins 
fraternity.    In  one  case  I  find  the  docked  word 


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accommodated  with  a  change  of  termination.  If  we 
follow  this  authority  we  shall  henceforward  speak 
of  hunter- watches.]  Hbnrt  Attwkll. 

Bez. 

Tm  LAST  Della  Scala.  —  The  following 
appeared  in  Xt/s  of  May  18: — 

"  The  last  male  descendant  in  a  direct  line  of  Can 
Grande  della  Scala,  the  famous  podeitJk  to  whom  Dante 
dedicated  hii  great  work,  died  recently  of  apoplexy  in 
his  natiTe  town,  Verona.  This  last  scipn  of  a  once  mighty 
race,  Giuseppe  Massimo  della  Scala,  Coant  and  Marqois, 
lired  in  poTertT  all  his  life.  He  earned  a  precarious  liYC- 
lihood  as  a  cobbler." 

W.  D.  PlHK. 

Leigh,  Lancashire. 

HOBSSDBALINO  PrOYKBB. — 
"  One  white  foot— buy  him. 
Two  white  feet— try  him. 
Three  white  feet— look  well  about  him. 
Four  white  feet— go  without  him." 

Frank  Rbdx  Fowkb. 
2i,  Yictwia  GroTe,  Chelsea. 

•'Bbnedicitb"  (ante,  p.  406).— I  sent  a  correc- 
tion of  this  paragraph  years  ago  to  the  publishen 
of  P^oss  and  Fable,  I  find  in  my  copy  the  cor- 
rection made  in  MS.  in  the  margin  of  the  first 
edition,  bat  on  taming  to  the  twelfth  edition,  some 
few  months  ago,  I  accidentally  discorered  that  the 
paragraph  had  not  been  corrected,  and  I  wrote 
again  to  the  pablishers'  reader  respecting  it. 
Every  one  who  has  books  stereotyped  Knows  how 
unwilling  pablishers  are  to  meddle  with  the  phites. 
I  will  write  again  without  delay  to  the  firm,  and 
hope  XiT  will  not  object  to  ran  his  pen  through 
the  passage  in  question. 

£.  COBHAH  BrBWKR. 

Books  oohs  abtrat. — I  believe  I  have  lent 
as  many  books  as  most  men,  and  have  lost  as  few. 
But  just  now  I  am  in  want  of  two  which  have 
gone  astray.  The  most  important  is  The  Dark 
Aget,  by  Dr.  S.  B.  Maidand,  which  I  specially 
prize  as  a  presentation  copy  from  my  distingoished 
and  most  kind  and  learned  friend.  The  second  is 
a  copy  of  my  own  Lays  and  Legends  of  Various 
NationSf  2  vols.  1834.  Their  early  retam  will 
greatly  oblige.  William  J,  Thous. 

iO,  St.  George's  Square,  S.W. 


eittfrtftf. 

We  must  request  eorrespondenis  desiring  Information 
on  family  matters  of  only  private  iniersst»  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  Sn  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


"Thk  St.  James's  Bbautt."— Can  you  give 
ma  information  as  to  the  whereabouts  of  the  original 
portrait  enticed  "  The  3t  James's  Beauty  "  7  That 
of  the  companion  picture, "  The  St.  Qiles's  Beauty,** 


is  in  my  possession.  The  portraits  were  painted 
about  1782  from  the  Misses  Elizabeth  and  Priscilla 
Barrough,  and  are  small  oval  pictures,  combining 
chalk  and  water  colour  by  a  method  peculiar  to 
Benwell,  the  artist.  I  have  also  Bartolozzi's  fine 
engravings  of  both.  The  two  ladies  were  descend- 
ants of  the  old  Earls  of  Huntingdon,  and  among 
the  ancestors  of  W.  M.  S. 

YoRKSHiRB  Wills.— Where  were  the  wills  of 
persons  resident  in  the  parish  of  Walkington, 
East  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  proved  prior  to  1622 
and  between  1642  and  1660?  From  1622-42 
they  were  proved  in  the  Peculiar  Court  of 
Howden,  Howdenshire,  and  Hemingbrough.  Mr. 
Hudson,  the  very  obliging  registrar  at  York, 
understands  that  the  wilk  during  the  interregnum 
were  proved  in  London.  He  says,  "  There  are  no 
Howden  records  at  York  from  1642  to  1660."  I 
learn  also,  by  the  way,  that  there  are  no  wills  or 
administrations  in  the  Prerogative  Court  at  York 
between  1652  and  1660.  The  registrar  farther 
informs  me  that  "  there  are  no  wills  or  administra- 
tions proved  or  granted  in  the  Peculiar  Court  of 
Howden,  at  York,  prior  to  1622";  and  suggests 
that  before  that  time  grants  for  places  within 
that  Peculiar  may  have  been  made  hj  the  Court 
at  Durham,  as  Howden  was  a  Peculiar  jurisdiction, 
held  under  Durham.  On  applying  at  Durham  I 
receive  answer  that  ''all  wills  of  the  Howden 
Peculiar  were  handed  over  to  the  registrar  of 
that  court,  Mr.  Hudson,"  at  York.  Perhaps 
some  one  can  enlighten  me  as  to  the  history  and 
antiquities  of  the  Peculiar,  and  the  probable 
place  of  deposit  of  wills  from  this  part  of  the 
country  before  1622.  I.  S.  Lkadam. 

COSTOBADIE,  OR  Dx  COSTOBADIS,  07  AUVKRONK, 

Fbamcb.— John  de  Costobadie,  of  Aigental,  in 
Auvergne,  quitted  his  patrimonial  estate  and  fled 
to  England  on  the  Bievocation  of  the  Edict  of 
Nant€«,  in  the  time  of  Louis  XIY.  He  settled  in 
York  in  the  year  1686.  Jacob,  son  of  the  above- 
named  John  de  Costobadie  and  Jeanne  his  wife, 
was  born  at  Argental,in  AuYergne,and  was  brought 
to  England  by  his  parents  when  about  two  years 
old.  He  was  naturalized  in  the  fifth  year  of  Queen 
Anne.  He  married  Rebecca,  daughter  of  Humphrey 
Robinson,  of  Thicket  Priory,  Yorkshire,  of  an 
ancient  family  and  good  estate,  and  some  of  his 
descendants  are  now  living  in  England.  It  is  said 
that  records  relating  to  the  family  of  De  Costobadie 
are  in  the  keeping  of  the  civil  authorities  of  Cler- 
mont, in  Auvergne.  An  old  seal  in  the  possession 
of  the  family,  which  from  its  design  appears  to  be 
of  seventeenth  centuiy  date,  and  probably  belonged 
to  John  de  Costobadie,  has  upon  it  the  arms, 
two  chevrons  between  three  estoiles  in  chief  and  a 
lion  in  base.  Crest,  a  church  upon  a  rook.  Motto, 
In  hoc  saxo  templum  sedificabo.  The  tinctures  of 
the  coat  of  arms  are  not  shown.    Anj-informatkm 


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M  to  the  ancestry  of  John  de  Costobadie  and  the 
tinotures  of  his  shield  and  crest  will  be  much 
ralaed  by  his  descendant, 

John  Henbt  Metcalfe. 
LeybuTD,  Wendeydale,  Yorkshire. 

AlTZBHA,    "NOTABLB  REVOLUTIONS,"  &C.--In 

the  catalogue  of  the  first  portion  of  the  Sunder- 
land Library  occurs  the  following  : — 

"  187.  Aitsema.  Notable  Beyolntions ;  being  a  True 
Relation  of  what  happened  in  the  United  ProTinoes  of 
tke  Netherlands  in  1660  and  1651  according  to  the 

Datoh  copy fol.    Lond.  printed  by  Wm.  Dagard,by 

the  appointment  of  the  Council  of  State,  1653." 

This  copy  was  purchased  for  the  trustees  of  the 
British  Museum,  and  I  was  kindly  permitted  to 
inspect  it  there  a  few  days  since.  The  book  is  in 
Teij  good  order,  but  there  is  nothing  in  it  by 
which  to  trace  by  what  means  it  came  into  the 
Sunderland  Library.  I  have  made  several  inquiries 
and  have  endeavoured  to  find  out  something  as  to 
the  history  of  the  book,  but  have  not  been  able 
to  discover  anything.  It  must,  I  think,  be  of 
extreme  rarity.  Is  any  other  copy  known  7  It  is 
bat  a  conjecture,  but  I  imagine  that  the  transla- 
tion has  been  made  and  the  book  printed  at  the 
expense  of  the  Government  of  the  day,  and  that 
before  it  was  circulated  a  change  of  circumstances, 
here  or  in  the  Netherlands,  made  it  politic  to 
tappress  the  book,  and  that  almost  every  copy 
was  destroyed.  Edward  Peacock. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Dbfob  :  "BoBiNSON  Orusok."— I  have  ktely 
met  with  an  edition  of  Robinson  Crusoe  which  I 
cannot  see  to  occur  either  in  Lowndes  or  the 
Ohandos  Crusoe  (W.  Lee)  or  the  Original  Rohin- 
9tm  Orvsoe  (H.  C.  Adams)  :— 

"  The  Life  and  moat  Surprising  Adventures  of  Robin- 
son  Onisoe,  of  York,  Mariner;  who  lived  eight  and 
twenty  years  in  an  tTninhnbited  Island  on  tlie  coast  of 
Ameiioa,  near  the  month  of  the  great  river  Oroonoqoe. 
With  an  account  of  his  deliverance  thence,  and  bis  otner 
sorprising  adventures.  Second  Edition.  Revised  by 
H.  D»**.  Paris;  Printed  by  J.  O.  A.  Stoupe;  and 
sold  by  Theophilus  Barrois,  Bookseller,  Quai  des  Augus- 
tins.    iLDoaLxxxui.'* 

The  preface  is  written  apparently  on  the  supposi- 
tion that  it  LB  a  true  history.  There  are  in  the 
couzae  of  it  these  remarks  (pp.  5,  6)  :— 

"  The  editor  believes  the  thing  to  be  a  mat  history  of 
lisot ;  neither  is  there  any  appearance  of  fiction  in  it : 
and  though  he  is  well  aware  there  are  many,  who  on 
•ooonnt  of  the  very  singular  preservations  the  author 
met  with,  will  give  it  the  name  of  a  romance ;  yet,  in 
wmehever  of  these  lights  it  shall  be  viewed,  be  imagines, 
that  the  improvement  of  it,  as  well  to  the  diversion,  as 
to  the  instruction  of  the  reader,  will  be  Uie  same." 

The  volume  is  12mo.  pp.  414,  the  toxt  not  the 
same  as  in  the  "  Chandos  Library."  What  is  the 
name  of  the  reviser  ?  What  is  the  dato  of  his  first 
edition?  £d.  Mabshall. 


"  Still  "  and  "  Yet."— In  a  life  of  Danto  by 
the  Rev.  E.  O'Donnell,  prefixed  to  his  prose  trans- 
lation of  the  Divina  Commedia,  1  read,  "On 
these  principles  he  composed  his  immortal  poem, 
enriched  also  with  beautiful  metaphors  and  alle- 
gories, a  great  many  of  which  are  not  still 
understood  by  his  numerous  commentators " 
(p.  33).  This  may  be  an  Irishism  or  a  mere  case 
of  precisianism.  Certainly  I  should  saT|  ^  which 
are  stUl  not  understood/' &c.,  or  preferably, "  which 
are  not  yet  understood."  This  leads  me  to  point 
out  the  curious  fact  that  these  two  phrases  mean 
almost  the  same  thing.  In  answer  to  the  ques- 
tion, "Is  he  not  arrived?''  the  expected  person 
being  late,  I  reply,  "He  is  stUl  not  amved"; 
but  it  would  be  equally  to  the  point  to  reply, 
"  He  is  not  yet  arrived.^  Notwithstanding  tnuf^ 
still  and  yet  seem  to  be  used  in  opposed  senses, 
for  we  say,  "  The  custom  stiU  prevaUs,"  and  "  The 
custom  had  not  yet  arisen,"  where  we  mean  by 
the  former  to  speak  of  a  custom  which  had  already 
arisen,  and  by  the  latter  of  one  which  arose  sab- 
sequently  to  the  time  referred  to.  What  is  the 
correct  and  authorized  use  of  these  adverbs  ? 

0.  M.  L 

AthensBom  Club. 

Btron's  Body  pabsino  THROiraH  Mblton. — 
In  the  Grantham  Jovrnalj  May  13,  in  a  letter 
from  "an  old  Meltonian,"  Mr.  Josiah  Waito, 
Markinch,  Fife,  N.B.,  containing  reminiseenoes  of 
his  early  life,  is  the  following  account  of  the  pass- 
ing through  Melton  Mowbray  of  the  hearse  con- 
taining the  body  of  Lord  Byron : — 

"  About  the  month  of  May,  1824,  on  coming  out  of 
school  at  twelve  o'clock  noon,  and  on  my  way  home  to 
dinner,  on  going  through  the  Harket-plaoe  I  saw  a 
number  of  people  collected,  and  on  getting  nearer  I  saw 
a  fine  heane  standing  at  the  corner  of  the  Market-place, 
close  to  Mr.  Allan  the  saddler's  shop,  and  near  the  spot 
where  Mrs.  Short  used  to  have  her  stall  every  market* 
day,  and  where  the  boys  could  get  thdr  spare  pennies 
and  half-pennies  exchanged  for  bull's  eyes,  or  ginger- 
bread, or  fruit,  ke,  1  learnt  that  this  hearse  contained 
the  remains  of  the  late  Lord  Byron  on  their  way  to  New« 
stead,  there  to  be  interred ;  and  one  thing  that  makes 
this  more  memorable  was,  that  it  was  the  common  talk 
that  although  Lord  Byron's  body  was  there  his  heart 
was  not,  for  it  was  taken  out  and  was  left  in  Oreeoe. 
This  latter  piece  of  information  surprised  us  boys  much, 
and  made  us  wonder  and  say.  What  will  he  do  at  the  re- 
surrection when  his  body  wlU  rise  and  hit  heart  eo  far 
away?  The  horses  and  the  attendants  accompanying 
the  corpse  were  resting  at  the  White  Swan,  in  the 
Market-place.*' 

Was  this  idea  concerning  the  heart  of  Byion 
generally  accepted  at  Uiat  dato  ? 

CUTHBRST  BbOB. 

"  Blatheritmskitk.'' — ^In  a  recent  lettor  from 
Mr.  P.  J.  Smjrth,  M.P.,  to  the  Tipperary  Town 
Commissioners  in  reference  to  his  veto  on  the 
eWturSj  he  states  that  the  Mure  "  is  a  guarantee  of 
free  debate  and  the  protection  of  majorities  against 


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the  tyraDny  of  blaiherumskiU,'*  What  is  the 
origin  of  this  word  ?  I  ha^e  heard  the  term,  bat 
haye  no  definite  idea  of  its  application,  and  have 
never  seen  it  in  print  before. 

James  H.  Staplks. 
Campbell  Street,  Bristol. 

DoH  Pedro,  Duke  op  Coimbra,  born  a.d. 
1392.~He  was  son  of  the  King  of  Portugal  Don 
Joam  L  and  of  Dona  Filippioa  of  Lancaster, 
danghter  of  John  of  Gaunt,  Duke  of  Lancaster. 
Don  Pedro  left  Portugal  in  1416,  and  travelled  in 
Spain,  in  the  states  of  Flanders  and  Burgundy,  in 
Italy,  and  in  Qermany,  where  he  entered  and 
served  in  the  army  of  the  Emperor  Sigismund. 
In  1425  he  came  to  England,  as  appears  from  the 
following  notice : — 

"  About  Michaelmas,  Peter,  Dake  of  Coimbra,  Prince 
of  Portugal,  came  into  England  and  was  honorably  re- 
€eiTed  and  feasted  by  the  king^s  uncle  and  was  also 
elected  into  the  Order  of  tbe  Garter."- Stow,  Tka  An- 
nates  of  England,  anno  gregni  4  Henry  IV.,  p.  693, 
London,  1592. 

Retaming  to  Portugal,  Don  Pedro  was,  on  the 
death  of  his  brother  King  Don  Duarte,  named 
fegent  of  the  kingdom  during  the  minority  of  his 
nephew,  who  afterwards  became  King  Don  Af- 
fonsoY.  When  this  king  attained  hLs  majority 
there  were  intrigaes  at  court  against  the  late 
regen^  shortly  siter  which  civil  war  broke  out. 
The  king,  ot  the  head  of  an  army,  went  out  against 
his  undo,  who  was  killed,  in  1449,  at  the  battle 
of  Alfarrobeira.  The  King  of  Portugal  sent  mes- 
sages to  various  sovereigns,  and  particularly  to 
Heni7  YL  of  England,  to  inform  them  of  what 
had  taken  place,  and  to  exculpate  himself  from  the 
death  of  hu  uncle  Don  Pedro. 

Would  it  be  possible  to  find  the  letters  or 
messages  of  Don  Affonso  Y.,  or  any  documents  or 
information  relating  to  Portugal  at  that  period 
(1400-1450)  and  relative  to  the  stay  of  Don 
Pedro  in  Engknd  9  D. 

Canal  Leoislation.  —  In  1786  a  Bill  was 
brought  into  Parliament  for  the  construction  of  a 
certain  canaL  Having  passed  the  House  of  Com- 
mons by  a  large  majority  it  was  considered  for  six 
days  in  the  House  of  Lords  and  eventually  thrown 
out  by  a  majoritv  of  twenty-three.  Is  the  evidence 
adduced  for  and  against  a  Bill  of  this  character 
preserved  1  If  so,  where  is  it  to  be  found ;  and  Ib 
tt  accessible  to  the  public  ?  Otherwise,  what  in* 
formation  could  I  find  on  the  subject  7 

YlOORW. 

Clent. 

LoNDoir  Paved]  WITH  Gold.  —  What  is  the 
origin  and  meaning  of  this  expression  ? 

Marriages  in  Mat.  —  The  few  instances  of 
marriages  recorded  in  the  daily  papers  during  the 
month  of  May  appears  to  point  to  some  snpersti- 1 


tion  connected  with  the  hymeneal  celebration  ia 
that  month.  I  have  been  told  that  the  real  origin 
of  that  superstition  was  that  the  marriage  of  Muy, 
Queen  of  Scots,  celebrated  in  that  montJ^  proved  to 
be  unhappy  and  unfortunate.  Possibly  some  of 
your  correspondents  may  be  able  to  shed  a  ray  o( 
light  upon  the  repugnance  shown  by  Englishmen 
and  Englishwomen  to  entering  into  the  holy  state 
of  matrimony  during  that  month. 

Mbrtoh  Whitb,  M.A. 
Oxford  and  Cambridge  Club. 

Yersbs  in  Chambers's  "Edinburgh  Journal." 
— Will  some  one  (who  can)  give  me  the  correct 
reference  to  a  set  of  verses  in  this  serial  beginning 
"  Arise,  my  love  "  ?  They  should  be  in  vol.  ii.  of 
the  first  series,  but,  by  an  oversight,  the  index 
refers  us  to  p.  59,  where  they  certainly  are  not; 
nor  have  I  been  able  to  discover  them  by  "the 
exhaustive  process."  C.  M,  L 

Athennum  Club. 

"Kings'  fingers":  the  Earlt  Purple 
Orchis, — "Are  you  children  gathering  cowslips?" 
"No,  sur;  we're  getting  kings'  fingers."  These 
Butland  children  were  gathering  the  early  purple 
orchis,  which  grows  profusely  in  this  county.  The 
name  "  kings'  fingers  *'  is  quite  new  to  me,  and  It 
cannot  find  it  in  several  books  of  plant-lore  into 
which  I  have  looked.  Cuthbert  Bedk. 


nrpHeir. 

BELPRY. 
(6«>  S.  V.  104,  158,  189,  271,  297.) 

I  am  very  sorry  that  Sir  J.  A.  Pigton  has  found 
mv  note  o&cure.  As,  however.  Prof.  Skeat  and 
Mr.  Jbrrah  evidently  found  no  such  obscurityj 
I  must  be  excused  for  thinking  that  Sir  J.  A* 
PiCTON  is  quite  right  when  he  suggests  that  the 
fault  lies  with  himself.  The  two  sentences  of  mine 
which  he  quotes  are  perfectly  reconcilable.  The 
word  hell  did  not  give  rise  to  the  form  6«Z/ry,  but 
it  probably,  or  very  likely,  was  the  word  &«/Z  which 
led  to  the  exdusive  use  of  hdfry  instead  of  berfraif 
or  herfrey.  Sir  J.  A.  Pigton  evidently  did  not 
notice  the  word  "  universal "  in  the  first  of  my  two 
sentences,  nor  the  word  "  first "  in  the  second. 

I  cannot,  indeed,  accuse  Sib  J.  A.  Pigton  him- 
self of  obscurity,  but  I  can  accuse  him  of  what  is 
to  my  mind  infinitely  worse,  viz.  inaccuracy.  Ia 
the  first  place,  he  is  altogether  wrong  when  be  says 
that  "  it  is  singular  that  the  compound  word  itself^ 


•  I.e,,  berc-vrii,  her-vritf  or  Jw-vride,  lo  written  in 
Lexer's  Did,:  but  there  are  also  other  forms,  lome  with 
/  instead  of  v.  As  tbe  compeund  word  does  not  seeoft 
to  occur  in  O.H.G.  I  ppe£»r  to  use  tbe  If  .H.O«  fonnaol 
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is  not  to  be  found  in  any  German  writiDgs."  If 
he  will  refer  to  Lezer^s  and  to  Mtiller  and  Zamcke's 
large  M.H.  Germ,  dictionaries,  which  I  am,  how- 
ever, afraid  he  does  not  possess,  he  will  find  plenty 
of  passages  quoted  in  which  the  word  occurs,  and 
gome  of  them  given  in  full  In  the  second  place, 
he  is  guilty  of  a  ver^  gross  blunder  when  he 
declares  that,  when  fiid*  ia  explained  to  mean 
**  tower  "  or  "locus  securitatis,"  and  hergan,f  "  to 
protect,'*  '^  the  meaning  of  the  old  German  words 
IS  reversed."  If  his  words,  *'  Berg  or  here  is  the 
tower ;  /Hi,  the  security  which  the  tower  gives," 
were  true,  then  the  compound  word  would  be 
{adopting  the  M.H.G.  forms)  vrit-  (or  better  wide-) 
hercj  and  not  bere-vrUf  which  could  only  mean 
**  tower-security,"  «.  e.,  the  security  afforded  by  a 
tower,  and  not  ''a  tower  of  security."  Sir  J. 
PicToir  himself  recognizes  this  further  on  when  he 
gives  fride-hurg  (better  vrtde-hure,  if  it  is  intended 
to  be  M.H.G.)  the  meaning  of  "  dtadel  of  security 
or  peace."  It  is  evident  that  Sir  J.  Pictow  has 
not  studied  the  laws  of  German  word-formation, 
and  yet  he  ventures  to  impugn  the  explanations 
given  by  a  German  lezioogiapher  of  old  Gkrman 
words! 

I  allow  that  it  is,  or  rather  that  at  first  sight  it 
appears,  difficult  to  ^t  the  meaning  Unoer  out  of 
the  woid  wide  (or  mt),  which,  like  the  Mod.  Germ. 
Friede^  commonly  means  peocs;  but  the  difficulty, 
or  seeming  difficultv,  is  soon  got  rid  of  upon  a 
little  reflection.  The  word  also  means  '*ein- 
friedigung,  eingehegter  raum  "  (Lexer,  who  quotes 
passages  in  support},  that  is,  an  enclosure  or  a  space 
surrounded  by  a  fence  or  hedge;]:  and  the  verbs 
einfrieden  and  einfriedigenf  which  contain  this 
root,  are  to  be  found  in  every  modem  German 


dictionary,  in  the  meaning  of  enclosing  with  a  fence 
or  hedge.  Hence  vrxde  came  also  to  mean  a  forti- 
fied endoeure,  a  stronghold,  and  lastly  a  tower  or 
oastle,  although  this  last  meaning  is  now  perhaps 
only  to  be  found  in  the  compound  we  have  had  to 
do  with,  viz.  bere-vrU^  in  which,  however,  it  indis- 
putably (firom  the  passages  quoted  in  the  lf.H.G. 
dictionaries  which  I  have  named)  has  this  mean- 
ing. Compare  the  Lat.  eoutrum,  which  means  ''a 
castle,  stronghold,  or  fortress,"  and  cattra,  a  camp 
or  encampment,  which  among  the  Romans  was  a 
fortified  endoeure.  Gompaie  also  the  (German 
Bwrg^  which  means  a  eatiU^  and,  in  the  compound 
word  Wagenhurg,  an  endoeure  (formed  and  pro- 
tected by  waggonsX  such  as  is  still  used  by  the 
Boers ;  whilst  formerly  it  also  meant  a  town  or 
dty  («.«.,  in  old  times,  at  least,  an  endosed  space), 
and  still   has   a   very  similar  meaning  in  the 


Mod.  Fr.  baurg  and  our  horough.  It  is  clear,  there^ 
fore,  that  the  transition  from  endosnre  to  fortified 
enclosure  and  castle  or  tower  offers  but  very  little 
real  difficulty. 

As  for  the  here  of  here-vrit^  it  may,  in  accordance 
with  the  laws  of  German  word-formation,  be  either 
a  substantive  or  derived  from  a  verb.  In  the  former 
case  it  must  be  rendered  mouniairif*  as  it  appa- 
rently is  by  Lexer,  whose  explanation  of  here-vrii 
is:  "Die  holzeme  Yerschanzung  aaf  einem  berge, 
worans  sich  die  b^|;riffe,  thurm  (auch  auf  de- 
phanten),  boUwerk,  befestigtes  haus  entwickdten." 
In  the  latter  case  here  must  be  rendered '' pro- 
tecting," from  hergen,  to  protect,t  and  the  whole 
word  protecting  or  guarding  endosure  or  tower. 
Prof.  Sebat  has  preferred  the  latter  derivation.}: 
Compare  Deckmantdf  which  exhibits  the  same 
word-formation. 

With  regard  to  Mr.  Jambs's  derivation  from 
''bdi^re  d'effroi,"  it  is,  I  think,  scarcdy  necessaij 
to  say  that  it  must  be  unhesitatingly  rejected  as 
altogether  impossible.  In  the  first  place,  there  is 
no  evidence  whatever  (see  Littrd)  that  hUiht  ever 
meant  a  bell,  while  cloche  has  been  the  French  for 
heU  ever  since  the  thirteenth  century.  In  th» 
second  place,  hiUhre  de  could  never  have  become 
contracted  into  a  simple  h.  In  the  third  place^ 
alarms,  and  not  ^roi^  is  used  in  French  =-our  alan% 
and  alarme  is  as  old  as  the  fourteenth  century. 
And  in  the  last  place,  and  above  all,  the  occurrence 
of  the  M.H.G.  word  htrevrii  and  the  oomspond- 
ing  forms  with  r  in  Old  French  place  the  matter 
altogether  beyond  dispute.  At  the  same  time  it 
is  admitted  byLittr6  that  UIut  and  UUkre  ar» 
connected  with  the  Dutch  6e^our  Ml,  and  this 
shows  that  at  or  about  the  time  the  French  htffroif 
was  formed  there  probably  was  a  word  used  in 
some  parts  of  France  like  our  heU  in  form  and 
having  the  same  meaning.§  It  is  just  possible, 
therefore,  that  if ,  as  I  suggested  (anU^  p.  106),  the 
French  heffroi  is  a  corruption  of  hdfroi  and  not  of 


•  In  M.H.O.  genenlly  wrU  or  truet. 

i  InKH.O.ftw^M. 

X  This  meaning  Iwsmi  to  be  derived  from  that  of 
9eewriiy  and  TprUtdwti,  whieh  wride  alfo  has;  for  an 
•ndoied  spaee  is  prolsoted  and  rendered  secure  by  the 
encloiiire. 


*  And  the  whole  word  **  mountdn  enclosare,  fortifica- 
tion,  or  tower." 

t  I  most  say  that  I  doubt  whether  the  sense  of  to 
fyroua  is  not  later  than  M.H.G.  In  0  H.Q.  beraan 
means  simply  to  hide,  conoeml,  lay  by,  pat  away;  and  In 
H.H.G.  Lexer  glyet  hertftn  the  meaniDg  of  t»  ;SuA«iUit 
hringtn  limply:  and,  if  so,  then  herc-vrit  {according  to 
this  interpretation  of  bere)  must  have  originally  meant 
a  fortified  enolotnre  or  tower  in  which  one  oould  hide 
or  stow  oneself  away,  or  shdter  oneself,  and  be  safe. 

t  I  do  not  see,  however,  that  any  German  lexioo- 
grapher  derives  the  hert  from  the  verb  heroen,  and  the  c^ 
instead  of  g,  would  probably  be  a  difficultv,  and  I  find 
no  other  (  '        "    *-  -"-'"^  "'"^  ^-^  ''^- 

meaning; 

he%a8  «atu  bergen  ».  vride  tekmur  a  remark  wfaloll 
probably  refers  to  the  forms  just  quoted,  as  it  oomes 
ahnest  immediately  after  them.  ,      «  .«. 

§  It  seemf,  however,  to  have  been  used  only  of  the 
small  bells  attached  to  sheep  and  ^^ 


r  compound  words  in  which  the  berc  has  this 
r;  but  I  see  that  Lexer  does  also  give  the  forma 
[«  and  benfirL  and  that  at  the  end  of  his  article 


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herfroi,  this  Old  FreDch  word  may  have  led  or  con- 
tributed to  the  ezcluaive  use  of  hdfroi  (in  the  form 
beffrai),  }ViBt  as  our  beU  probably  did  to  that  of 
belfry*  But  this  is  the  utmost  that  can  be  ex- 
tracted from  Mr.  Jamks's  suggestion. 

F.  Chancb. 
Sydenham  Hill. 

In  Baedeker^s  Bdgium  and  Holland  (fifth  edit. 
Leipzig,  1878),  p.  37,  with  reference  to  the  belfry 

ofGl " ■ 

that 


xhent  (called  also  bdfirood  or  beffroi),  it  is  stated 


''etymoloffiflts  differ  as  to  the  origin  of  the  word 
'belfrood^or  belfry,  bat  the  most  probable  derivation  is 
from  bell  (Datch  btlUn,  to  soand,  to  ring)  and  /rood  or 
fried  (jorisdiotion).  One  of  the  first  privileges  usually 
obtained  by  the  burghers  from  their  feudal  lords  was 
permission  to  erect  one  of  theie  watch  or  bell  towers^ 
from  which  peals  were  rung  on  all  important  occasions 
to  summon  tne  people  to  council  or  to  arms." 

Frxdsrick  £.  Sawtar. 
Brighton. 

In  a  deed  executed  at  Warrington,  Jan.  8, 1786, 
occur  the  words  following,  "  All  that  messuage  or 
dwelling-house  situate,  &c.,  and  also  idl  that 
hdfray  adjoining  to  the  north  end  of  the  said 
messuage  or  dwelling-house,  &c,  together  with  a 
certain  road,  &a,  l^ing  into  the  said  bdfray/* 
&c;  and  again,  further  on,  "  the  said  messuage  or 
dwelling-house,  bdfray^  stable,  land,  hereditaments, 
and  premises  hereinbdbre  particularly  mentioned," 
&0.  I  cannot  find  this  word  in  any  dictionary,  and 
would  gladly  ascertain  its  meaning  and  etymology. 

BoiLEAU. 

Thb  Hbirship  of  thx  Pbrcies  :  the  Earl- 
dom OF  Ormonde  (6^  S.  v.  343).~While  thank- 
ing you  for  your  courtesy  in  inserting  my  note 
and  for  your  comments  thereon,  will  you  allow  me 
to  point  out  (as  the  question  is  of  some  import- 
ance):— 

1.  That  if,  instead  of  referring  to  Lynch, 
we  refer  to  the  Act  from  whioh  he  quotes 
(28  Hen.  YIII.),  we  find  that  it  is  termed 
*<  The  Act  of  Absentees,"  or,  more  fully,  "  The  Act 
of  Parliament  for  resuming  and  giving  of  certain 
lands  in  Ireland  into  the  king's  hands,  anno  r. 
R  Hen«  YIIL  28*.''  It  will  be  found  in  the 
St/ohiiti  ai  La/rge  i.  84,  or  (without  the  preamble) 
in  the  Garew  MSS.  voL  605,  p.  10,  in  the  printed 
edition  of  which  it  is  assigned  to  1536.  It  de- 
OTived  Thomas,  Duke  of  Norfolk,  Lord  "  Barkley," 
Geoi^e,  "  Earle  of  Waterford,  iki  heirei-general  of 
the  EarU  of  Ormonde/*  and  certain  ecclesiasticid 
bodies,  of  estates  in  Ireland,  for  negligence  in 
defending  them  against  the  ''wild  Irishrie.''  It 
does  not  allude  in  any  way  to  the  peerage  title, 
and  if  it  is  the  only  bar  which  can  be  &und  against 


*  The  /  ooours.  boweTer,  alto  in  German,  for  Lexer 
(Appendix)  also  giTSS  the  form  hdfrid. 


the  inheritance  of  that  title  by  Lord  Berkeley,  it 
leaves  that  inheritance  unassailable. 

2.  On  April  20,  1537,  the  deputy  and  council 
appear  to  have  urged  the  king  to  grant  these 
forfeited  estates  to  "  the  Ea/rl  of  Oseory  [Peter 
Butler]  and  his  son,"  as  good  friends  to  the 
English  (Garew  MSS.);  and  on  Oct.  23,  1537, 
letters  patent  were  issued  granting  them  to 
"  Peter  Butler,  Earl  of  Oesory  and  (hmond,"  and 
his  ton  in  tail  male  (i&.)*  I^  would  appear  from 
this  that  the  Earl  of  Ossoiy  obtained  the  earldom 
of  Ormond  between  those  dates  (though  Lodge, 
I  believe,  assigns  it  to  Feb.  22,  1537). 

3.  Your  reviewer  accepts  the  recognized  version, 
as  found  in  Lodge,  that  the  Earl  of  Ossory  obtained 
the  earldom  of  Ormond  on  "  Thomas  Bullen,  Earl 
of  Ormond,  dying  without  issue  male."  But  I  have 
shown  in  my  article  on  "  The  Barony  of  Arklow  " 
(Foster^s  UolL  Oen.,  vol.  L)  that  his  so  dying 
could  obviously  not  affect  a  title  descendible  to 
heirs-general,  and  that,  moreover,  he  was  alive  at 
the  time,  as  shown  by  a  passage  in  the  Garew  MSS. 
which  puts  a  wholly  new  complexion  on  the  affair, 
viz.,  "And  now  the  Earl  of  Wiltshire  [Thomas 
Bullen]  is  contented  he  [the  Earl  of  Ossory]  be  so 
named  Earl  of  Ormond  in  Ireland,  eemblably  as  the 
two  Lords  Dacres  be  named  the  one  of  the  8ou{h^ 
ihe  other  of  the  North"  (voL  602,  p.  161;  vol.  611, 
p.  10;  printed  edition,  pp.  127-^).  It  was 
clearly,  therefore,  contemplated  that  the  two 
earldoms  of  Ormonde  should  be  co-existent 

4.  As  to  the  heirship  of  the  Percies,  it  remains 
an  incontestable  fact  that  the  Duke  of  Northum- 
berland is  neither  "  heir-male  "  nor  "  heir-general*^ 
of  "the  great  house  of  Percy''  (an  heir- 
general  "in  estates'*  is  surelv  a  strange  for- 
mula), and  that  the  Duke  of  Athole  is  now  its 
sole  heir-general,  and  as  sfich  is,  at  any  rate,  the 
eldest  co-heir  to  the  ancient  baronies  of  Latimer, 
Plaiz,  and  Scales,  and  also  a  co-heir  to  the  barony 
of  Lisle,  to  none  of  which  have  the  Dukes  of  North- 
umberland any  claim  whatever,  just  as  the  heir- 
ship to  the  baronies  of  Mowbray,  &&,  passed  away 
from  the  Dukes  of  Norfolk  to  the  Loids  Stourton 
and  Petre ;  and  if  the  Mowbray  precedent  were 
followed  in  the  case  of  the  above  three  baronies, 
they  would  fall  to  the  share  of  the  Duke  of  Athole 
as  sole  representative  of  the  house  of  Percy. 

J.  H.  BOITMD. 
Brighton. 

Sir  Hewrt  Qrbbnb,  Ent.,  Lord  Ghibf  Jus- 
TICK  or  Ehglakd,  1362  (6«"»  S.  t.  369).— In  the 
ChTrdigan  MSS.  at  Deane,  Northamptonshire 
collected  from  records  in  the  Tower  by  the  first 
Lord  Brudenell  during  a  long  imprisonment  La 
that  fortress,  it  is  stated  that  the  tomb  of  Ghief 
Justice  Sir  Henry  Greene  of  Boughton,  wh» 
styled  himself  "  De  Bnckton,"  was  in  the  chnn^ 
of  St.  John  at  Boughton,  near  Northampton  ;  thp^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[6tttS.V.  Juari^/82. 


family  had  been  settled  there  under  the  name  of 
De  Buckton  Bince  the  time  of  King  John.  This 
ohurch  has  long  been  in  ruins,  and  all  traces  of 
monuments  have  vanished.  At  the  end  of 
the  seventeenth  century  Halstead  attributed  a 
monumental  effigy  in  armour,  in  Greene's  Norton 
Church,  to  Sir  Henry  Greene.  The  Chief  Justice 
would  certainly  have  been  represented  in  legal 
costume.  In  the  early  part  of  the  last  century 
Bridges  appropriated  this  effigy  to  the  second  Sir 
Thomas  Greene,  who  died  in  1417  (there  was  a 
succession  of  six  Sir  Thomas  Greenes).  In  later 
times  Baker,  that  admirable  and  ill-requited  his- 
torian, assigned  the  effigy  to  the  first  Sir  Thomas 
Greene,  who  died  in  1391;  audit  has  subsequently 
been'shown  to  represent  the  third  Sir  Thomas  Greene, 
who  died  in  1457.  The  scandalous  havoc  that  took 
place  among  the  Greene  monuments  in  Greene's 
Norton  Church  in  1826 — vindicated  at  the  time 
by  the  local  authoritiee,  who  maintained  that  they 
were  actuated  by  "  a  proper  spirit  "—nearly  wiped 
away  all  memorials  of  this  ancient  famuy,  and 
forms  a  dark  page  in  the  history  of  the  county. 
It  is  possible  that  there  was  a  painted  representa- 
tion of  Chief  Justice  Greene  in  connexion  with 
some  devotional  subject  on  a  lower  panel  of  the 
screen  in  Boughton  Church,  though  such  a  picture 
would  have  been  after  the  East  Anglian  rather 
than  the  Northamptonshire  fashion  ;  and  his  por- 
tndt  may  have  been  drawn  upon  the  outer  side  of 
a  set  of  folding  "  tables  "  of  religious  pictures ;  but 
it  is  certain  that  there  is  now  no  sculptured  or 
graven  likeness  of  the  Chief  Justice  either  at 
Boughton  or  Greene's  Norton.  The  vandals  of 
both  plaoes  have  taken  good  care  to  destroy  any 
representation  of  him  that  may  have  existed  in 
glass.  Such  a  figure  of  the  Chief  Justice,  kneeling 
at  a  faldstool  with  the  armorial  bearings — Azure, 
three  bucks  trippant  or — can  well  be  imagined, 
but  such  a  conception  is  poor  consolation  for  what 
we  have  lost,  and  it  is  melancholy  and  humiliating 
to  be  constantly  reminded  by  such  proper  ques- 
tions as  those  of  Imquirbb  and  others  in  the 
pages  of  "N.  &  Q."  how  grievously  we  have 
suffered  in  this  way  within  living  memory. 

Albbrt  Hartshorns. 

BuRiBD  Alivb  :  A  Tale  op  Old  Colognb  (6*">  S. 
iv.  344,  518  ;  v.  117,  159,  195).— I  remember  the 
old  song  referred  to  by  R.  R,  and  send  it  with  an 
account  of  the  circumstances  in  which  I  last  heard 
it  Some  time  about  the  year  1827  I  was  in 
Ix>ndon  and  had  to  see  a  person  on  business  in  a 
City  hotel.  After  a  time  in  the  coffee-room  he 
wanted  to  smoke,  and  in  the  smoking-room  we 
found  a  party  assembled,  who  in  turn  were  called 
on  for  sonp.  One,  who  was  said  to  be  a  Liver- 
pool merchant,  declined,  as  he  said  he  only  sang 
psalms  and  hymns.  On  this  he  was  more  urgently 
pnswd;  then,  standing  up  with  a  paper  or  book 


in  his  hand,  he  said,  "  Brethren,  let  us  join  in 
singing  Hymn  73,  Book  iv.,  New  Collection."  He 
then  ''gave  out "  the  words  of  this  old  song,  two 
lines  at  a  time,  in  a  very  sanctimonious  tone,  and 
sang  them  to  one  of  those  old-fashioned  tunes  in 
which  some  words  are  several  times  repeated, 
the  company  generally  joining  : — 

"  Old  Johmiy  Walker,  he  had  a  wife. 
She  died  and  then  he  kiU'd  her ; 
Old  Mistresi  Walker  she  roee  again, 
And  by  him  had  two  ohilder. 

And  these  two  ohilder  were  as  fine  babes 

Ab  e7er  had  a  mother ; 
The  first  they  called  him  Enoekhimdown, 

And  Pickhimup  tbe  other." 

I  may  mention  here  that  I  was  present  at  a 
somewhat  similar  scene  in  Paris  a  few  years  after- 
wards. Two  persons,  with  whom  I  had  business 
relations,  asked  me  to  accompany  them  to  the 
table  d'MU  at  tbe  Byron  Hotel,  as  there  was  to 
be  a  special  addition  to  the  menu  that  day, 
haunches  of  English  mutton.  There  was  a  full 
company  assembled,  of  various  nations,  tongues, 
and  peoples.  The  Swedish  Consul  was  president^ 
and  on  his  left  sat  the  American  Minister. 
After  dinner  conviviality  reigned.  The  prendent 
called  on  various  persons  to  sing,  addressinff  each 
in  his  own  language.  After  some  others  had  been 
called  on,  he  asked  for  Le  Sienr  A---*-,  when  one 
of  my  companions  rose,  and  was  addressed, "  Mon- 
sieur A ,  on  me  dit  que  vons  chantez";  he 

answered,  "  C'est  une  erreur,  monsieur ;  je  ne 
chante  jamais  qu'^  la  messe.''  On  this  there  was 
great  drumming  on  the  table,  and  several  French- 
men called  out,  "  Tin  De  profundie  s'il  vous  pbtt." 

A then  rose  again  with   a   bumper  in  his 

hand,  and  solemnly  chanted  something  in  what 
we  used  to  call  dog  Latin ;  and  carrying  his 
glass  towards  the  crown  of  his  head,  to  his  fore- 
head, to  his  eyes,  nose,  and  month,  he  went  on  as 
solemnly,  "De  capite  in  frontibus,  de  frontibos 
in  oculis,  de  oculis  in  nasibus,  de  nasibns  in  oris, 
descendit  in  ventribus,"  immediately  drinking  off 
his  wine.  Ellceb. 

Craven. 

Hbealds  crownkd  with  Vervain  (6*  S.  v. 
267).— See  Vergil,  JEn.,  xii.  120:— 

"  £t  verbena  tempera  rincti." 
Upon  which  Servius  remarks,  that  the  "  verbena  " 
was  taken  from  tbe  Capitol  and  given  to  the 
heralds,  and  that  with  it  "  coronabantnr  feciiJes 
et  nater  patratus,  foedera  facturi  vel  bella  indicturL" 
Lite  a  flag  of  truce,  it  ensured  their  protection. 

Mention  is  made  of  the  verbena,  under  the 
name  of  sctgnMnf  .on  the  occasion  of  the  compact 
for  the  Horatii  qind  Guriatii,  in  Livy,  L  24 ;  who  also 
mentions  it  again  in  xxx.  43,  in  reference  to  the 
heralds  who  were  sent  to  Africa.  It  appears  from 
Pliny,  N.  J7.,  xxii.  2,  that  when  Ugaii  were  sent  to 
an  enemy  cldrigaixtm,  that  i%"~^  riM  jRantauL  cUr« 
3igitized  by  VjOOQ  IC 


6*  a  T.  Jrai  3,  '82.] 


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433 


repdtitum /'  one  of  them  was  specially  named  "  the 
yeryain  bearer/'  verbenarius.  The  name  "ver- 
bena" came  to  be  applied  to  any  herb  which  was 
considered  sacred.  Ed.  Marshall. 

Mr.  Mackenzie  Walcott,  by  whom  the  note  in 
1*^  S.  xL  was  communicated,  was  not  very  likely 
to  have  made  a  statement  without  foundation,  and 
would,  in  all  probability,  have  referred  for  autho- 
rity to  Virgil,  who,  in  ^neid,  xiL  120,  writes  : — 

"  Velati  limo  [or  lino],  et  Terbenft  tempera  Tlnctt" 
On  which  Serrius  comments,  "Verbena  proprie 
est  herba  sacra  [ros  marinus,  ut  multi  volunt,  id 
.  est  Atj^avcoris],  sumpta  de  sacro  loco  Oapitolii, 
ou&ooronabantar  Feciales  et  pater  patratos,  fcedera 
racturi,  yel  bella  indicturi."  Hence  the  chief  of 
them  was  called  verhmariiis  (Plin.,  zxiL  3).  See 
Adams's  Boman  Antiquities,  under  "  Feciales,"  or, 
for  a  fuller  account,  Pitisci  Lexicon  AnHqnitatum 
Bomanarum.  W.  E.  Bucklet. 

In  the  late  Mr.  J.  R.  Planches  interesting 
volume  of  autobiography  there  is  an  amusing 
Account  of  the  reductio  ad  absurdum  of  the  heralds' 
duties  which  occurred  when  war  was  proclaimed 
t>etween  England  and  Russia  in  1854 ;  but  I  do 
not  think  he  says  anything  about  the  vervain. 

E.  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

This  was  the  regular  head-gear  of  the  Fetialet, 
See  Ramsay's  Raman  Antiquities  (ed.  1876), 
p.  332,  and  the  passages  quoted. 

P.  J.  F.  Gahtillon. 

"  Thsbb's  Cauld  Kail  in  Abbrdbkn  "  (6^  S.  v. 
328). — Neither  song  nor  melody  can  be  attributed 
to  any  author.  It  is  likely  that  both  existed  in  a 
<!ertain  form  early  in  the  last  century.  Herd  pub- 
lished the  song  in  lus  valuable  collection  in  1776. 
The  first  appearance  of  the  air  is  in  Johnson's 
Mus€um^  voL  IL  (1788).  Br.  Chambers,  in 
Scottish  Songs  prior  to  Bums,  after  quoting  two 
stanzas  from  Herd,  goes  on  to  say  : — 

"It  would  appear  that  theie  verses  relate  to  some 
incident  in  the  life  of  the  first  Earl  of  Aberdeen,  who 
died  in  1720,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three,  after  being  tome 
yean  a  widower.  If  this  conjeotnre  be  right,  the  caold 
■ail  of  Aberdeen  was  no  mets  connected  wiui  the  ancient 
city,  bat  a  metaphorical  allusion  to  the  faded  lore- 
fervours  of  an  aged  nobleman,  who,  spite  of  years,  was 
prssoming  to  pay  his  addresses  to  a  young  lady.*' 

The  air  is  in  Dr.  Chambers's  valuable  work,  and 
the  song  will  be  fonnd  in  Mary  Carlyle  Aitken's 
Scottish  Song  (Maomillan).       Thomas  Batnb. 

In  one  of  the  best  collections  of  Scottish  songs 
I  know,  published  by  Blackie  &  Son,  the  air, 
it  is  stated,  "  is  not  very  old."  How  far  this  may 
be  correct  I  know  not,  but  I  find  in  Ramsay's 
Cknile  Shifherd,  that  song  vii.  is  to  be  sung  to 
the  tone  '^Cald  Kale  in  Aberdeen,"  so  I  should 
imagine  that  the  air  was  an  old  one  in  Ramsay's 


dav.  The  air  is  given  in  Johnson's  Aftiseum, 
vol.  ii.,  and  to  it  are  wedded  the  words,  said  to  be 
by  Alexander,  fourth  Duke  of  Gordon  ;  there  are, 
including  this  version,  at  least  four  songs  bearing 
the  title.  I  should,  however,  like  to  have  some 
particulars  of  the  song  '^  Cauld  Kail,"  mentioned 
by  Mr.  Thomson  in  his  letter  to  Burns,  Jan.  20, 
1793 ;  perhaps  you  will  allow  me  to  quote  the 
passage  :  "  The  four  songs  with  which  you  favoured 
me,  for  Auld  Rob  Morris,  Duncan  Gray,  Galla 
Water,  and  Cauld  Kail,  are  admirable,"  &c« 

Alfred  Chas.  JoKAa 
Swansea. 

Filial  Affection  of  the  Stork  (6*^  S.  v. 
186).— In  a  work  entitled  The  Magiek  of  Kirani, 
King  of  Persia,  and  of  Harpocration,  printed  in 
the  year  1685,  the  author  bears  testimony  to  the 
parental  attachment  of  the  stork  in  these  words : — 

"  When  the  parents  are  grown  old,  and  not  able  to  fl^, 
their  children,  on  every  side,  carry  them  upon  their 
wings,  from  place  to  plaoe,  and  also  maintain  them  ,*  and 
if  they  be  blind,  their  children  feed  them:  this  retribu- 
tion, and  dae  gratitode  from  children  to  parents,  is  called, 
aniipelargia,  ue.  Stork-gratitude."  * 

Hence  its  name  in  the  Hebrew,  m^DPlit  or  the 

pious  (bird),  so  called  from  its  love  towards  its 
parents  and  its  young,  of  which  ancient  writers 
make  much  mention;]:  and  its  English  name,  taken 
(indirectlv,  at  least)  from  the  Greek  oTopyri,  sig- 
nifying '^strong  natural  affection,"  accords  with 
the  remarkable  tenderness  in  the  young  towards 
the  old  birds,  a  filial  duty  thus  happily  expressed 
in  blank  verse  by  Beaumont : — 

"  The  Stork 's  an  emblem  of  true  piety, 
Becanse,  when  age  has  seized  and  made  nis  dam 
Unfit  for  flight,  the  grateful  young  one  takes 
His  mother  on  his  back,  provides  her  food, 
Repaying  thus  the  tender  care  of  him 
Ere  he  was  fit  to  fly." 

William  Platt. 
CalUs  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

Belief  in  this  obtained  long  before  the  times  of 
Erasmus.    Pliny  alludes  to  it : — 

**  Storkes  keep  one  nest  still  from  ysare  to  yeare,  and 
never  chaunffe :  and  of  this  kind  nature  they  are,  that 
the  young  wSl  keepe  and  feed  their  parents  when  they 
be  old,  as  they  themselves  were  by  them  nourished  in  the 
beginning."— Holland's  translation  of  NaL  Hist,,  i.  f.  282 
(e£  1601). 

The  following  passages  are  from  ^lian : — 

Tp€<f>€iv  u€v  Tovs  vaTtpas  irekapyoi  ycyi/oaico- 
Tas  KOI  kbkXovtTif   Koi  l/wXcTijcraV  KcAcvci  Sc 


*  Cr.  Erasmi  Adagia,  t.v,  avrtrtkapytiv,  p.  282, 
col.  1,  edit  Petri  de  Zetter,  mdoxxix. 

t  Boohart,  Hisroz.,  lib.  ii.  cap.  xxiz.,  edit  mdclxxxxu. 

i  Aristot,  E.  A,,  tuI.  8  and  ix.  13;  Aristoph.,  Avet, 
V.  18«;  Plin.,  H,  If.,  x.  28,  28;  iKIian,  N,  A.,  iii.  28, 
with  notes  by  Jaeobe,  x.  26;  Solin.,  Polfhitt.,  c.  68; 
Plat.  Mor,,  1178,   16,  edit   Finnin   Didot,   Parisiis, 

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avToU  v6fws  dvOpiiiiriKo^  ovSk  tls  tovto,  a  A  A* 
-aiTia  TOVTO) V  <^v<rii  dyaSrj. — De  Nai,  Animal. ^ 
ilL  c  23. 

Aiyvimoi  yovv  rovs  wcAapyovs  koI  vpotT- 
Kvvova-iv,  Ittci  rovs  iraT€pas  yripOKOfwva-iv,  koli 
ayov<ri  6ta  Ttft^s. — Ibid,,  x.  c.  16. 
There  is  a  still  earlier  allusion  in  Aristotle  : — 

W€pi  ftiv  ovv  Twv  vtkapyioVy  on  avT€KTp€- 
ifiOVTatj  6pv\k€irai  vapa  froAAois'  <^ao-i  3c 
riV€S  Kol  Tovs  /A€powas  avTo  TOVTO  7roi€?v,  icai 
dvT€KTp€<l>€<r6ai  xnro  twv  cKyoi/wv  ov  /lovoi'  yiP^' 
CTKOvras,  aAAa  Kal  cv^v?-,  oTav  ofoi  t*  c5<r4'  tov 
8^  flraTcpa  icai  ti)v  /ii^Tcpa  fieveiv  tvSov. — i)« 
ilnim.  Eitt,  ix.  c.  14. 

F.  0.  BiRKBECK  TlERRT. 

Cardiff. 

Thb  Witwall  (6*  S.  V.  308).— Yarrell,  in  his 
Eittory  of  British  Birds  (1866),  toI.  ii.  p.  149, 
says: — 

''The  terms  Woodwele,  Woodwale,  Woodwall,  and 
WHwdl,  whioh  are  only  modifloations  of  the  same  word, 
are  generally  considered  to  refer  to  one  of  the  species  of 
our  English  Woodpeckers,  but  to  which,  or  I  may  add,  if 
to  either,  there  ie  some  donbt  Willnshby  and  Bay  apply 
the  nnme  of  Wilwall  to  the  greater  Black  and  White  or 
Greater  Spotted  Woodpecker;  and  in  the  New  Forest, 
Hampihire,  at  the  present  day,  this  same  bird  is  called 
Woodwall,  Woodwale,  Woodnaeker,  and  Woodpie.  The 
word  oconrs  occasionally  in  old  ballada  :— 

'The  Woodwde  sang  and  wonld  not  cease, 
Sitting  upon  the  spraye. 
So  loud  be  wakened  Bobin  Hood 
In  the  green  wood  where  he  lay.' 
I  Bitson'a  edition  of  Robin  Hood,  i.  115. 

*  In  many  places  Nightingales, 

And  Alpes,  and  Finches,  and  Woodwafa.' 

Chancer,  Mom.  of  the  Rote, 

*  There  the  Jay  and  the  Throstell, 

The  Metis  menyd  in  her  song. 
The  Woodwale  farde  or  beryd  as  a  bell 
That  wode  about  me  rung.' 

Tnu  Tkomat/* 

After  discaasiog  the  qnettion  at  considerable  length, 
Tarrell  adds:— 

"  There  seems  to  be  no  donbt  that  the  colour  of  the 
Woodwele  was  greenish  yellow,  and  this  name,  with  its 
Tarions  modifications,  may  therefore  apply  to  the  green 
Woodpecker,  the  Qolden  Oriole,  or  the  Greenfinch/' 

G.  Fisher. 

Minshea,  in  hia  Quid4  into  (he  Tongues,  1617, 
has  <<  Witt- wall  or  woodpecker."  The  name  is 
found  also  in  Chancer: — 

"  In  many  places  were  nyghtyngales^ 
Alpes,  lynches,  and  wodewaUt" 

The  RomawU  of  (he  Rose,  11. 657-8. 
Of.  also  ibid,  L  914.    Dr.  Jamieson,  in  his  Diet, 
says,  **  Prob.  the  green  woodpecker,"  and  quotes  :— 
**  I  herde  the  jay  and  the  throstell. 
The  msTia  menyd  in  hir  eong, 
The  wodewaie  farde  as  a  bell 
•''  That  the  wood  aboute  me  rang." 

True  Thmat,  Jamieson's  Pojmlar  Ball,  U.  11. 


Wodewaie,  "  picus,"  is  giyen  in  Trompt  Parv,, 
631.  Coleridge  also  gives:  "  Wodewaie,  s6.  wood- 
pecker ;  Wright's  L,F.,  p.  26."  The  following 
quotation  from  Tennyson's  Princess,  p.  12,  ed. 
1872,  may  somewhat  appositely  be  added  to  that 
given  by  your  correspondent: — 

"  Walter  warp'd  his  mouth  at  this 

To  soroethinir  so  mock-solemn,  that  I  laugh'd 

And  Lilia  woke  with  sudden-ihriliing  mirth 

An  echo  like  a  ghostly  woodpecker. 

Hid  in  the  rume." 

F.   0.  BiRKBECK  TkBRT. 

Cardiir. 

According  to  the  Rev.  J.  C.  Atkinson's  useful 
little  book,  British  Birds*  Eggs  and  Nests,  the 
name  witwaU  or  whitwall  is  given  to  the  green 
woodpecker  (Picfu  viridis),  and  abo  to  the  great 
spotted  woodpecker  (Ptcus  major).      K  H.  M. 

Hastings. 

This  is  the  great  spotted  woodpecker,  the  Den- 
drooopus  of  Swammerdam,  and  the  D.  major  of 
Selby  (pi.  38,  fig.  2),  and  is  remarkable  for  its 
black  plumage,  spotted  or  banded  with  white 
above  and  plain  beneath.         William  Platt. 

Gallis  Court,  St.  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

The  correct  name  is  oriole,  golden  oriole,  or 
golden  thrush,  in  French  loriot.  The  classical 
name  is  Oriohis  galbula.  Among  upwards  of  fifty 
other  appellations  the  German  has  Pfingstvogd, 
Some  of  its  names  are  derived  from  its  coloor, 
others,  no  doubt,  from  its  note. 

B.  S.  Chaekock. 

Hbnrt  III.'b  Elbphamt  (6<>'  S.  v.  385).— The 
miserere  seats  in  Exeter  cathedral  are  famous ;  they 
date  from  about  the  middle  of  the  thirteenth 
century.  One  of  the  most  remarkable  grotesques 
introduced  is  an  elephant.  I  enclose  a  proof  of 
a  stereo.  I  bad  taken  three  years  ago  for  the 
Exeter  Lectionaiy.  Bishop  Briwere,  to  whom  we 
owe  these  singular  carvings,  was  absent  for  five  years 
in  the  East,  and  may  have  been  instrumental  in 
securing  such  an  interesting  beast  for  his  royal 
master,  at  whose  command  we  find  him  accom- 
panying the  Princess  Isabella  to  the  Court  of  the 
Emperor  Frederick  II.  The  difficulties  of  transit 
may  well  have  delayed  the  elephant's  voyage 
across  the  Channel,  the  bishop's  design  for  one 
of  the  choir-stalls  being  merely  a  pMge  of  his 
intended  arrival  at  a  future  date. 

Hbbbbrt  Edward  Bbtnold& 

Exeter  Cathedral  Library. 

Dbath  or  Milton's  Grand -yBPEBW  (6^  S. 
V.  386).— The  statement  is  probably  incorrect  bot& 
as  to  locality  and  date.  The  death  is  thus  recorded 
in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  1827  (xcviL  379), 
under  the  head  of  deaths  in  Gloncestershire : 
"  Feb.  27.  At  Bristol,  sged  84,  Mr.  Tho.  Milton, 
the  celebrated  enffraver.     fiii/^grandfiather  was 


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brother  to  John  Milton,  the  author  of  Paradise 
Lott,"  In  the  AnmuU  Register  for  1827  a  similar 
statement  is  to  be  found:  *' At  Bristol,  27  Feb." 
(Appendix  to  ''  Ohronide,''  p.  234).  It  is  rather 
to  be  wondered  at  that  if  the  grandson  of  Sir 
Christopher  Milton  was  a  *' celebrated  **  engraver 
the  records  of  his  life  and  works  are  so  scanty. 
In  Fuessli's  AUgemsinei  Kunstkrlexikon  (1809, 
p.  877)  he  is  mentioned  as  a  recent  English  en- 
graver, who  engraved,  or  superintended  the  en- 
graving of,  Luigi  Mayer's  views  in  Egypt,  con- 
sisting of  forty-ei^ht  plates  published  in  1802. 
Some  further  particulfurs  of  Mr.  Thomas  Milton 
are  to  be  desired.  Edward  Sollt. 

Parochial  Rigiotbrs  (6*^  S.  v.  141,  211,  233, 
248,  273,  291,  310,  329,  409).— Permit  me  to 
BQffl^est  that  all  registers  remain  where  they  have 
Bolong,  on  the  whole,  been  held  in  safe  custody. 
To  remove  them  would  destroy  every  opportunity 
of  writing  the  most  interesting  of  all  local  histories 
— ^the  parochial.  As  societies  and  private  persons 
have  found  it  sufficiently  remunerative,  I  suppose, 
to  print  and  publish  copies  of  parish  registers, 
sorely  the  Government  should  make  a  trial  of  the 
same  process.  An  ordnance  survey  of  this  kind 
would  be  quite  as  useful  as  any  other,  and  bring 
the  parish  registers,  like  the  law,  "  to  every  man's 
door."  In  aU  legal  matters,  at  least,  these  printed 
copies  could  easily  be  verified,  without  depriving 
the  parishes  of  a  possession  which  is  now  looked 
apon  as  valuable.  T.  Hklsbt. 

[We  are  glad  to  hear  that  Mr.  E.  Chester  Waters  is 
preparing  for  the  press  a  new  edition  of  his  valaable 
Dock  on  the  subject  of  parish  registers.] 

"Otamt"  (6*  S.  iii.  430).— Your  correspon- 
dent seems  to  have  appealed  in  vain  for  instances 
of  the  use  of  this  word.  The  only  one  which  I 
have  been  able  to  meet  with  is  given  in  the  Rev. 
T.  L.  O.  Davies's  SuppUmmiary  English  Olos- 
sary: — 

"Lord  Sp.  Lady  Smart,  does  not  your  Ladyship  think 
Mrs.  Fade  is  mightily  altered  since  her  marriage  1 

**Lady  Sm.  Why,  my  lord,  she  was  handsome  in  her 
time ;  bat  she  can't  eat  her  cake  and  haye  her  cake.  I 
hear  she 's  grown  a  mere  ctomy,^ — Swift,  Polite  Con- 
venaiion  (conv.  i.). 

F.   0.  BiRKBKCK  TeRRT. 

Thb  Parslow  Family  (6**  S.  v.  288).— The 
Parslows  may  have  originated  in  Essex.  Morant, 
in  his  history  of  the  county,  mentions  "  the  manor 
of  Parselowes  or  Passelowes "  in  Becontree  Hun- 
dred ;  and  he  says,  "  the  Manor  of  Passelow, 
otherwise  Passefeld,  in  Ongar  Hundred,  was  one 
of  the  seventeen  lordships  given  by  Earl  Harold 
to  his  Abbe}r  of  Waltham";  and,  speaking  of 
Good  Easter  in  Dnnmow  Hundred,  he  mentions 
Paslowes  as  **  one  of  the  four  prebendaries  of  the 
prebendal  church  there.''  The  name  probably 
means  "  Parr's  mound.*    Some  of  the  Parrs  were, 


no  doubt,  from  the  township  of  Parr,  in  Lan- 
cashire ;  but  I  take  it  that  the  name  is  generally 
i.  9.  Pear,  Pierre.  B.  S.  Charnock. 

F1R8TFRUITS  OF  Enolish  Bishoprics  (6^  S. 
V.  328).— There  is  a  full  account  of  "First  Fruits 
and  Tenths  "  in  The  Bomish  Horseleech^  published 
in  London,  1674.  The  account  is  too  long,  I  fear, 
for  republication  in  the  pages  of  "N.  &  Q.,** 
though  relating  to  an  historical  matter  of  much 
interest.  W.  Frazbr,  F.B.C.S.L 

Heraldic  (6*  S.  v.  327).— Deborah,  daughter 
of  John  Braham,  Esq.,  of  Ash,  married,  at  Enodis- 
hall,  Robert  Jenney,  Esq.,  of  Leisten,  who  was 
baptized  on  Dec  3,  1677,  and  had  issue  Offley, 
bom  in  1692,  died  Sept.  6,  1753,  unmarried,  and 
a  daughter  Deborah,  who  died  an  infant  (Burke's 
Hiilmy  of  tiU  Commonsfs^  1838,  vol  iiL  p.  449). 

HiROMDSLLX. 

Dk  Quikcst  Aim  Dicebns  (6"»  S.  v.  267). — 
Our  Ladies  of  Sorrow  appeared  first  in  Su^nria 
de  Profundis,  a  Sequel  to  the  Confesiions  of  an 
EngliA  Opium-Eater^  and  was  written  in  1845. 
This  is  five  years  later  than  The  Old  Curiosity 
Shop;  but  surely,  as  English  literature  possesses 
the  ballad  of  The  Beggar's  Daughter  of  Bethnal 
Green,  there  is  no  need  to  suppose  that  De 
Quincey  drew  his  inspiration  fiK>m  Dickens. 

E.  H.  M« 

Hastings. 

Dickens,  at  the  conclusion  of  the  preface  to 
Bama&y  Budge^  dated  November,  1841,  acknow- 
ledges his  oblieation  to  the  poet  Bogers  for  the 
following  thought  in  chapter  seventy-one  of  The 
Old  Curiosity  Shop,  It  is  the  chapter  which  so 
touchingly  describes  the  burial  of  Little  Neil,  and 
shortly  afterwards  her  grandfather  being  found 
dead  upon  her  grave  in  the  old  church:— 

"  It  is  a  great  pleasure  to  me  to  add  in  this  place— for 
which  I  hare  reserfed  the  acknowledgment— that  for  a 
beaotiful  thought  in  the  last  chapter  but  one  of  The  Old 
Curiosity  Skop  I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Rogers— it  is  taken 
from  his  charming  tale  Oineftra  :— 

'And  long  might*st  thou  have  seen 
An  old  man  wandering  cu  in  quetl  of  tomethina, 
Something  he  could  not  find— he  knew  not  what.'  '* 
John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

The  Suspiria  de  Profundis  appeared  in  Black* 
wood  in  1845.  This  is  noted  in  Prof.  Masson's 
volume  on  De  Quincey  (p.  102),  in  "  English  Men 
of  Letters."  Was  it  not  about  1841  that  the  readers 
of  Maeter  Humphreifs  Clock  were  thrilled  with  the 
story  of  Little  xTell  and  her  grandfather?  Per- 
haps Dickens  stimulated  De  Quincey. 

Thomas  Bathe. 

Datbb  of  old  "Horje  B.  Virqikis'  (&^  S. 
V.  306).— J.  C.  F.  has,  I  think,  overlooked  two 
things.    One,  a  fact,  the  '*  noviter  impressum  "  of 


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the  copy  be  quotes.  The  other  »  certain  in&r- 
enoe,  pamely,  that  the  printer  had  caxeleBaly  and 
slayishly  copied,  ''almanacs"  and  all,  from  a 
preyions  edition.  Of  what  use  ooold  almanacs 
Rom  1520  to  1632  be  to  readers  of  a  book  pab- 
hshtd  in  1533 1  Bb.  Nicholson. 

Freedom  froh  Suits  of  Hukdred,  &c.  (6^  S. 
T.  309). — Freedom  from  suit  of  oonnty  and  ban- 
dred  is  simply  to  be  free  from  the  liability  of 
attendinp^  the  coanty  and  bandied  courts. 

Sheriff  aide— The  sheriff  was  usually  the  col- 
lector of  the  aids  or  subsidies  granted  to  an  ancient 
sovereign,  and  so  to  be  free  from  his  aid  would  be. 
I  think,  to  be  free  from  the  payment  of  the  aid 
usiially  oollected  by  him. 

View  of  frafik-pledge, — It  was  an  ancient 
custom  that,  for  the  presenration  of  the  public 
peace,  every  freeman  at  the  age  of  fourteen  (ex- 
cepting religious  persons  and  some  others)  should 
give  security  for  his  good  behaviour.  The  con- 
sequence was,  that  several  families  woald,  to  use 
a  modern  phrase,  club  together,  and  become 
answerable  for  each  other.  This  was  called  frank- 
ledge.  View  of  frank-pledge  is  well  described 
ty  Jacob  in  his  Law  Dictionary: — 
**  The  Sheriffs  at  eyeiy  County  Court  did  from  time  to 
time  take  the  oath  of  young  persons  m  they  grew  to 
fourteen  yean  of  age,  and  see  that  they  were  settled  in 
one  Deeennery  or  other,  whereby  this  branch  of  the 
Sheriff's  authority  was  caUsd  Yisus  Franci  plegii,  or 
frank-pledge." 

This  view  of  frank-pledge  belonged  to  the  Crown, 
and  was  exercised  through  its  deputy,  the  sheriff. 
Hence  it  was  capable,  as  all  franchises  in  the  hands 
of  the  Grown  are,  of  being  granted  to  a  subject ; 
and  its  grant,  as  attached  to  a  grant  of  liuids, 
would  confer  these  rights  of  the  sheriff  on  ^e 
grantee  of  the  lands. 

Murder, — This  would  confer,  I  think,  a  right  to 
hold  plea  of  murder,  in  defeazance  of  the  powers 
of  the  justices  of  assize. 

F.  Stdnkt  Waddikqton. 

These  grants  exempted  the  grantees  from 
attendance  at  the  courts  of  the  county  and  hun- 
dred, and  from  taking  their  part  (to  which  they 
would  otherwise  have  been  liable)  in  the  various 
processes  of  the  criminal  kw.  A  ^*  view  of  frank- 
pledge "  was  the  production  of  sureties  for  the  good 
behaviour  of  freemen.  For  further  information 
on  the  subject  of  "  frank-pledge,"  see  CowePs  Law 
Dictionary,  G.  Fisher. 

Jack- AN- Apes  Lane,  1662  (6*  S.  v.  307).— 
The  context  shows  this  to  be  an  alternative  name 
for  Field  Lane,  a  most  detestable  alley  that  stood 
between  Chancery  Lane  and  Temple  Bar ;  it  was 
removed  to  make  way  for  the  New  Law  Courts. 
Field  Lane  was  a  thoroughfare  for  Lincoln's  Inn 
Fields,  and  served  as  a  postern  gate  after  the 
barriers  were  closed  at  night.  Ltsart. 


The  Lshans  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  (6^  8L 
V.  327X—'' William  Johnson,  son  of  William 
Johnson,  by  PrisciUa,  dau.  of  William  Leman,  of 
Beccles,  co.  Suffolk,  Esq.  (brother  of  Sir  John 
Leman,  Lord  Mayor  of  London),  who  were  both 
dead  in  1631 "  (OoL  Chester's  B^fiiUn  of  West- 
mimter  Abbey,  p.  166,  note  6).      Hirondslul 

"  The  Protestant  Flail  "  (5*  S.  x.  451,618; 
xl  63,  438  ;  xiL  216).— Three  years  ago  there  was 
some  discussion  as  to  the  precise  form  of  this 
weapon,  and  reference  was  inade  to  an  engraving 
of  it  in  one  of  the  plates  to  Castlemaine's  Binbatsyf 
1688,  whidi  gives  a  not  very  correct  picture  of  the 
flail  according  to  the  description  of  it  given  in 
North's  Examm.  The  frontispiece  to  Bruno  Byves's 
Mercariw  JRusticuSf  1646,  represents  Mercury 
with  a  bng  flail  in  his  hand,  the  total  length  of 
the  weapon  being  not  less  than  six  feet,  and  beaxa 
out  the  assertion  that  the  flail  was  used  in  the 
reliffions  warfare  which  preceded  the  Common- 
weiJth.  It  is  said  that  Braddon  introduced  the 
shorty  or  pocket  flail,  which  was  called  the  **  Bn>- 
testant  flail."  It  is  noteworthy  that  in  the  second 
editbn  of  the  Mercuritu  JRiutiem^  printed  in  1685, 
and  therefore  after  the  introduction  of  the  short 
flaily  the  frontispiece  was  reproduced  with  scarcely 
any  alteration,  except  that  the  flail  in  the  hand  of 
the  principal  figure  was  shortened  to  about  two 
feet  In  length,  and  gives  a  perfect  representation 
of  the  flail  as  described  in  North's  Examen,  In 
Alexander  Raddiffe's  Poenu,  1682,  there  is  an 
epimm  which  has  reference  to  the  material 
usc»:— 

"  On  the  ProUttanU*  FlaiL 
In  former  days  th'  Invention  wm  of  Wracki, 
To  dislocate  mens  Joints  and  break  their  Backs : 
Bat  this  Protestant  Flail  of  a  severer  tort  if. 
For  Liffuum  wiUg  here  proves  Liffnum  moriit.'* 

Edward  Sollt. 


Voltaire  (6^  S.  v.  369).— The  notice  on 
Andr^  F^libien  given  by  Mr.  W.  A.  Shith  is 
simply  extracted  from  the  catalogue  of  French 
writers  given  by  Voltaire  in  his  Silcle  de  Louis 
XIV.  G.  S. 

St.  Margaret's,  Westminster  (6**  S.  v.  128, 
171,  213,  234,  295,  319,  351).— I  cull  the  follow- 
ing from  the  St.  Jame^s  Gazette  of  May  16,  think- 
ing it  worth  preserving,  with  other  notes  on  this  in- 
teresting church,  in  the  present  volume  of  "N&Q."; 

"  'An  Old  Westminster  Man  ^  writes :— I  haye  jast  read 
with  great  satisfaction  the  announcement  that  a  society 
has  been  formed  for  the  preservation  of  'ancient 
sepulchral  monnments  in  our  churches.'  For  many 
years  daring  the  first  quarter  of  the  present  centuiy  I 
was  a  regular  attendant  at  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster, 
one  of  the  most  interesting  monuments  in  which  is  that 
of  Cornelius  Van  Dun,  who,  after  aerring  with  the  King, 
was  Yeoman  of  the  Guard  to  Henry  VIII.,  Edward  VI., 
and  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  His  monument  is  a  bait 
representing  him  in  his  habit  as  he  lived ;  and  it  b^ag 


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pidBted— M  WM  that  of  8hakq)eare  before  Malone 
whitewashed  it  and  brousht  down  upon  himself  the 
reproach  that  he  had  'daubed  his  tombstone  as  he 
marred  his  plays*— is  in  many  respects  a  monument 
specially  deserring  of  preservation,  not  only  for  its  own 
sake,  but  for  the  take  of  him  whom  it  oommemorates. 
He  was  one  of  the  worthies  of  Westminster :  he  founded 
a  set  of  almshouses  in  York  Street  for  poor  widows, 
which  were  swept  away  to  South  Lambeth  to  make 
room  for  a  new  workhouse,  thanks  to  the  good  taste  of 
the  guardians  of  the  poor.  Van  Dun's  monument,  if 
not  actually  whitewashed,  has  got  sadly  bedaubed  during 
the  recent  alterations  in  St  Margaret's  Church.  But 
there  would  be  no  difficulty  in  restoring  It,  since  there 
are  plenty  of  traces  of  the  original  colouring ;  and  even 
the  broken  nose  might  be  replaced  from  J.  T.  Smith's 
accurate  engraying  of  the  monument" 

This  seems  a  suitable  time  and  place  for  reoordiDg 
the  nnTeiliiig  of  the  two  memorial  windovra  re- 
cently erected  in  this  church ;  one  to  Oaxton, 
unyeiled  on  Sunday,  April  30,  and  the  other  to 
Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  under  American  auspices,  on 
Sunday,  May  13.  J.  ilABKELU 

Bmaauel  Hospital,  aW. 

JoHff  Knibb,  Oxoif.,  Clockmaker  (e**  S.  ▼. 
329,  378,  416). — If  your  correspondent  can  answer 
the  following  (questions,  I  shall  most  probably  be 
able  to  give  him  some  precise  information  as  to 
the  age  and  date  of  his  clock,  as  I  hare  paid  much 
attention  to  clocks  and  watches,  of  which  I 
baye  a  yeiy  large  collection,  l^e  clock  is 
called  a  '^case  dock."  Is  it  in  a  wooden  case 
against  a  wall,  or  is  it  a  bracket  or  table  clock? 
Is  it  a  spring  or  a  weisht  clock  ?  The  escapement 
beinff  a  crown  wheel  and  verge,  is  the  crown 
wheel  yertiool  or  horizontal,  and  has  it  a  balance 
wheel  or  a  pendulum  1  if  the  latter,,  is  it  long  or 
short  ?  Has  it  two  hands,  an  hour  and  a  minute 
hand,  or  has  it  an  hour  hand  only  ?  Is  the  frame 
of  the  dock  of  brass  with  a  pillar  at  each  comer, 
surmounted  by  a  large  bell,  forming  a  dome  to  the 
whole  ?  There  was  a  Samuel  Kmbb^  adimitted  to 
the  Clockmakers'  Company  of  London  in  1663. 
OcTAviUB  Morgan. 
The  Friars,  Newport,  Hon. 

"Frm  Trade '»  (6*>»  S.  iv.  387,  543).— If  Mr. 
Parlanx'b  copy  of  Free  TtadeiB  perfect  be  must 
see  in  its  dedication  "To  the  Prince"  that 
Edward  Misselden  wrote  the  book.  A  leading 
London  merchant  and  literary  character  of  the 
times  of  King  James  and  Charles  I.  was  this 
Misselden,  whose  qualifications  in  the  latter  re- 
sfwct  were  brought  out  stronglj  in  bis  contention 
with  Gerard  de  Malynes,  who  also  wrote  largely 
upon  trade  and  was  in  high  favour  with  the 
Government.  The  quarrels  between  Misselden 
and  Malynes,  the  author  of  Lex  Mercatoria,  1622, 
and  other  books,  was  a  chapter  worthy  of  the  pen 
of  Disraeli.  The  Dutchman  was  probably  no 
match,  however,  for  the  learned  Hackney  man, 
who,  in  his  *^  Circle  of  Commerce,  opposed  to 


Malpes's  LiUle  Fieh  and  Great  Whole,  and  Poized 
iiga%nit  ihem  in  the  Scale,  1622,  attadcs  the  com* 
mercial  canons  of  his  opponent,  upon  whom  he 
launches  voUies  of  Hebrew  from  Kabbi  Bachai, 
Greek  from  Aristotle,  Latin  from  a  variety  of 
sources,  plentifully  interlarded  witb  a  fine  sarcastic 
vein  of  wit.  Malynes,  or,  as  Missdden  calls 
him,  "the  Belgic  Pismire,"  retorts,  and  gives 
him  a  Roland  for  his  Oliver,  and  if  the  Dutch 
kick  falls  heavier  than  the  Londoner's  quippe, 
Master  Misselden,  in  whom  his  adversary  re- 
marks, "the  Babylon  of  learning  seemeth  to 
bee,"  cannot  say  it  was  unprovoked.  In  his 
address  "To  the  Gentle  and  Judicious  Headers'^ 
of  his  CireUf  Missdden  quaintly  intimates  at 
foot,  "  Tou  may,  if  yon  please,  receive  this  from 
London,  if  any  of  yon  take  it  not  from  Hackney," 
showing  that  he  hailed  from  that  quarter.  In  his 
books  he  figures  as  an  outrageous  worshipper  of 
the  Stuarts ;  his  Free  TraSe,  addressed  to  the 
Prince,  afterwards  Charles  I,  is  something  more 
than  was  common  even  in  the  fulsome  style  of  die 
age»  and  is  dated  "  From  my  House  at  Hackney 
on  Whitsun  Eve  this  8  June  in  the  year  of  grace 
KDCXXii.,  and  of  the  King  of  Peace  xxly  "  (7) 

J.  O. 

Gbntlbs  :  MuDWALL  (6*  S.  V.  68,  216).— My 
queiy  as  to  "mud wall"  being  the  name  for  the 
bee-eater  having  received  no  satisfactory  answer, 
I  am  strongly  inclined  to  think  that  it  is  a 
mere  dictionary  word,  and  was  never  really  in 
use.  It  appears  to  be  unknown  in  the  provincial 
dialects.  I  believe  it  is  a  corrupt  form  of  modwaXl 
in  Coles,  1714  ;  and  that  this  word  is  itself  a  mere 
misreading  of  wodwaU  for  xooodwaU),  one  of  the 
woodpeckers,  to  which  class  the  bee-eater  belonss. 
In  a  bhick-letter  book  a  w  might  sometimes  be 
mistaken  for  an  m  by  a  careless  reader. 

A.  Smtthe  Palmer. 

Laaeroft)  Staines. 

Kino  Charles's  Vision  (6**'  S.  v.  168,  294).— 
At  the  latter  reference  Mr.  Tolb  refers  to  Bas* 
tali's  Riet^ry  of  SauihvfeU  for  an  account  of  the 
supposed  appearance  of  Strafford  to  King  Charles 
before  the  battle  of  Naseby.  It  would  be  very 
interesting  if  Mr.  Tole  would  give  the  extract  at 
full  length.  Kanke,  in  his  Eiitory  of  the  Stuarte, 
alludes  to  it.  H.  T. 

Authors  op  Quotations  Wanted  {6^  S.  ii 
186;  viL  250,  279).— 

"Sweetness  and  light" 
At  the  first  and  last  of  the  ahoTe  referenoes  are  to  be 
found  communications  from  two  different  sources,  each 
stating  that  Swift  borrowed  the  phrase  "Sweetness  and 
light,*'  in  his  BattU  of  the  Booh,  from  his  friend  and 
patron  Sir  Wm.  Temple.  Both  correspondents  quote 
the  following  passage  from  his  essay  Of  Poetry :  "  Homer 
had  more  fire  and  rapture ;  Virgil  more  light  and  sweet- 
ness." Now,  it  would  seem  to  hare  been  a  verv  pretty 
compliment  on  Swift's  part  to  have  quotedin  this  wajja 

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noticeable  pMntfe  from  the  old  ttatesmftii,  whose  un- 
lucky blonder  about  the  episties  of  Phalarii,  in  another 
•Hay  upon  Ancient  and  Modem  Learning,  furniBhed  the 
occafion  for  Bentley's  immortal  diMertation.  But,  un- 
fortunately, Swift  neyer  borrowed  the  phrase  from 
Temple,  for  the  best  of  reasons,  inasmuch  as  Sir  Wm. 
Temple  nerer  made  use  of  it  What  he  did  say  is, "  Homer 
had  more  fire  and  rapture ;  Virgil  more  light  and  swift- 
nsu,"  Temple's  collected  worlis  were  first  published  in 
two  Tols.  folio  in  1720,  and  this  phrase  can  be  found  on 
p.  233  of  Tol.  L  ;  and  it  is  reprinted  in  the  same  form  in 
the  Dublin  edition  of  1754,  in  four  toIs.  4to.,  7o1.  it. 
p.  825;  and  in  the  latest  and  best  edition,  London,  1814, 
also  in  four  7ols.  4to.,  on  p.  416  of  rol.  iii. 

Hkrbt  W.  Hathss. 

(5<i>  S.  iz.  609.) 
^*  Scilicet  a  (cor.  in)  superis  etiam  fortuna  luenda  est, 
Nee  Teniam,  Iseso  numioe^  casus  habet" 

Orid,  TntL,  il.  107-^. 
Ed.  Mabshall. 

(6tb  S.  T.  248, 879.) 
"He  who  plays  at  bowls,"  &c. 
I  hare  looked  for  this  amongst  the  collections  of  pro- 
verbs, but  in  fain.     In   Francis  Quarles's  BmhUmu 
(Cambridge,  1643,  12mo.)  the  tenth  figure  is  that  of  a 
bowling-green,  and   the  illustrative  Terses  preserre  a 
remarkable  picture  of  the  seyenteenth  century  bowler, 
whose  ways  seem  to  have  sustained  but  little,  if  any, 
sJteration  through  the  passage  down  to  our  own  day ; 
the  technical  terms  now  used  are  also  much  the  same  :— 
*'  Here 's  /our  right  ground :  wagge  gently  o'r  this  black ; 
'Tis  a  short  cast ;  y'  are  quickly  at  the  jack. 
&ub,  rub  an  inch  or  two ;  two  crowns  to  one 
On  this  bouls  side  :  blow  wind;  'tis  fairly  thrown. 
The  next  bouls  worse  that  comes ;  come  boul  away; 
Mammon,  you  know  the  ground  untutoured,  play ; 
Your  last  was  gone— a  yard  of  strength  well  spar'd 
Had  touch'd  the  block ;  your  hand  is  stiH  too  hard. 

See  how  their  curred  bodies  wreath  and  skrue 
■Such  antick  shapes  as  Proteus  neyer  knew : 
One  raps  an  oath,  another  deals  a  curse ; 
He  neyer  better  bouKd :  this  never  worse. 
One  rubs  his  itchlesse  elbow,  shrugs  and  laughs. 
The  tother  bends  his  beetle-browes,  and  chafes. 
Sometimes  they  whoop,  sometimes  their  Stygian  cries 
Send  their  black-iSantof  to  the  blushing  skies." 
Setting  aside  the  bad  language,  which  has  been  banished, 
under  penalties,  from  eyery  well-constituted  <' green '^ 
nowadays,  this  description  would  scnre  rery  well  for 
that  of  a  "rubber"  played  anywhere  in  the  kingdom 
last  Saturday. 

*'  U  is  the  trade  of  man;  and  every  sinner 

Has  plaid  his  rubbers ;  Every  soule 's  a  winner. 

The  vulgar  Proverb  's  crost :  He  hardly  can 

Be  a  good  bonier  and  an  honest  man." 
Here  we  find  reference  to  a  bowling  proverb  which  can 
•a«ly  be  constructed,  t.*.,  "Every  good  bowler  is  an 
honest  man  "—a  mere  play  upon  words,  the  first  epithet 
™w™«  *o  moral  character,  and  not,  as  it  appears,  to 
skilfulness  in  the  art  of  bowling.  Quarles,  however, 
leads  us  to  nndersUnd  that  he  looks  upon  bowUng  as  a 
sinful  occupation,  in  which  no  honest  man  ought  to 
indulge;  if  he  does,  he  must  expect  the  usual  con- 
seouences— "He  who  pUys  at  bowls  mutt  expect 
"»|>^-  Alfeid  WallmT 

Sir  iWalter  Scott  probably  considered  this  phrase  in 
iAm»»^  use  about  1770.    See  Eeffffaundet,  chap.  xx. 

A.  Whiblib. 


(6*  8.  V.  409.) 
"  Whom  call  we  gay  1"  &c. 

Cuwper,  The  Tatk,  bk.  i.  1.  491. 
Frbdx.  Ritlb. 
"  Gonrpicuous  by  their  absence." 
"  Prsifulgebant  Cassius  atqne  Brutus,  eo  ipso,   quod 
imagines  eorum  non  visebantur." — Tacit.,  Ann,,  lit  76. 

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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
ThofMLt  CarlyU.    By  James   Anthony  Froude^   U.A. 

2  vols.  (Longmans  ic  Go.) 
To  the  resentment  caused  in  the  public  mind  by  the 
publication  of  the  Reminytancet  has  succeeded  a  feeling 
of  mingled  resignation  and  regret  on  accepting  as  final 
the  distinct  declaration  of  the  memoirs  now  published 
that  Thomas  Garlyle  was  a  narrow,  jealous,  queru- 
lous egotist  Powerless  to  undo  the  mischier  that 
has  been  done— if  mischief  it  be  to  show  in  his  true 
light  a  man  who  has  hitherto  been  seen  through  a  flat- 
tering and  delusive  medium— Mr.  Froude,  while  with- 
holding the  correction  or  retractation  which  a  few  san- 
guine spirits  ventured  to  anticipate,  has  supplied  in 
abundance  explanation  and  comment.  All  that  he  haa 
now  to  say  has,  however,  been  anticipated,  and  its  full 
value  has  been  discounted.  The  man  whom  his  mother 
described  as  "gey  ill  to  live  with,"  who  even  in  the 
sanguine  period  of  boyhood  racked  those  at  home  by 
letters  in  which  commonplace  experience  was  described 
as  exceptional  suffering,  and  the  smallest  discomfort 
spoken  of  as  serious  illness,  could  scarcely,  under  the 
most  favourable  conditions,  develope  into  a  sympathetic 
or,  in  the  highest  sense,  an  observant  man.  Garlyle  is 
not  the  first  man  wboFc  estimate  of  others  has  been 
based  upon  their  attitude  with  regard  to  himself.  He 
is  simply  the  bijigest  man  who  has  been  unfortunate 
enough  to  allow  his  possession  of  a  mean  nature  to 
become  generally  known.  Again  and  sgain  Mr.  Froude 
shows  us  how  to  those  nearest  and  dearest  to  him  he  was 
merciless  in  cruelty,  using  language  which  afterwards  he 
was  ashamed  to  remember.  In  dealing  in  his  letters  with 
those  who  have  no  claims  upon  him,  Garlyle  is  inde- 
scribably and  inconceivably  vulgar  and  unjust.  When  he 
describes  imaginary  hinds  they  are  laiy  and  sluggish; 
when  he  speaks  of  female  servants  he  calls  them  by 
names  so  coarse  they  are  ordinarily  reserved  for  the 
vilest  specimens  of  womanhood,  and  are  not  even  applied 
to  these  in  their  hearing.  There  is,  accordingly,  no  cause 
to  wonder  at  the  abuse  which  is  poured  upon  Lamb,  Cole- 
ridge, and  other  men  of  Garlyle's  own  epoch  who  bore 
to  mankind  a  message  more  welcome  as  well  as  more 
important  than  that  he  had  himself  to  deliver.  A  Gal- 
vinist  of  the  narrowest  type,  who,  while  shaking  off  the 
active  and  theological  principle  in  the  faith  in  which  he 
was  nurtured,  retained  all  that  was  hardest  in  its  teaching, 
and  delighted  to  administer  in  this  world  to  the  outcast 
or  the  non-elect  the  punishment  which  his  fellows  ordi* 
narily  reserved  for  the  next, — a  dyspeptic  whose  views  of 
life  were  coloured  by  his  jaundiced  vuioB,— a  misanthrope 
who  spoke  in  disparagement  of  every  one  from  whose 
praise  he  could  obtain  no  reflected  glory,— Garlyle,  after 
the  revelations  that  have  been  made,  would  but  for  one 
or  two  circumstances  inspire  simple  dislike.  He  has, 
however,  given  us  in  his  printed  works  an  insight  into 
his  own  nature,  for  which  the  world  cannot  be  otherwise 
than  grateful ;  he  has  left  behind  him  a  large  amount  of 
earnest,  diligent,  and  Taluable  writing,  which  Englishmen 
who  call  a  microscope  a  philosophical  instrument  are 
content  to  accept  as  philosophy  ;Ja9tly,  he  has  left  w 


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a  piofcure  of  earnest,  siienuoufl,  eoxueientious  vork, 
before  which  difficultiea  matt  disappear.  Unlovely  aa 
are  Carlyle^t  nature  and  mach  of  his  career,  it  is  im- 
poesible  to  withhold  admiration  from  the  persistent 
struggle  which  wrested  from  Fame  and  Fortune  their 
most  precious  gifts,  and  left  behind  a  picture  of  in- 
flexible economy  and  self-denial  almost  ascetic. 

The  Carlyle  Mr.  Froude  has  shown  is  the  struggling 
man.  Success  was  slow  in  overtaking  Carlyle,  and  the 
forty  years  over  which  extends  the  memoir  now  pub- 
lished are  a  record  of  continuous  and  almost  unbroken 
difficulty.  Spite  of  the  difficulty  experienced  in  attempt- 
ing to  comprehend  a  man  like  Carlyle  is  now  shown,  the 
picture  of  him  wandering  wearily  from  bookseller  to 
Dookseller  with  a  work  like  Sartor  Resartut  under  bis 
arm,  and  returning  at  night  with  a  fresh  rebuff,  is 
touching.  The  memoir,  meanwhile,  is  stimulating  read- 
ing. Slight  as  are  often  the  threads  with  which  Mr. 
Froude  connects  the  epistolary  fragments  of  which  the 
greater  portion  of  the  book  is  composed,  they  are  in 
every  case  adequate.  Much  that  Mr.  Froude  says 
deserves  to  be  quoted,  did  not  the  obvious  conditions 
of  a  publication  like  ''  N.  k  Q."  prohibit  such  a  course. 
The  only  thing  that  can  be  taken  as  an  intentional 
vindication  of  what  in  Mr.  Froude's  earlier  publication 
provoked  hostile  comment  appears  in  the  preface,  and 
18  taken  from  a  review  by  Carlyle  himself  oi  Lockhart's 
Lift  ofSeott,  Very  ingenious  it  is.  No  apology  what- 
ever is  needed  for  the  volume  now  published.  It  will 
be  followed  by  a  selection  from  Mrs.  Carlyle*8  letters, 
and,  if  Mr.  Froude  lives,  by  a  memoir  of  Carlyle*s  later 
years,  when  his  biographer  had  closest  opportunities  of 
studying  his  character.  These  works  will  comprise  sJl 
that  the  warmest  admirer  of  Carlyle,  or  of  that  tar  more 
attractive  figure,  his  wife,  can  desire  to  possess.  When 
the  generation  that  knew  Carlyle  and  was  subject  to  his 
influence  has  passed  away,  it  is  probable  that  the  world 
will  be  satisfied  with  a  compressed  biography  drawn 
from  these  sources.  Meanwhile,  to  close  with  matter 
thoroughly  suited  to  "  N.  &  Q."  the  long  notice  which 
the  importance  and  interest  of  the  book  demand,  we 
may  draw  attention  to  the  fact  that  at  p.  27  of  the 
second  volume  Mr.  Froude  is  at  a  loss  to  explain  a  word. 
The  passage  in  the  text  is  as  follows.  Jane  "  furnishes 
butter  and  afterings  {jibbingt)  for  tea.*'  On  this  Mr. 
Froude  has  a  note  :  "  Annandale  expression,  meaning— 
what?  The  explanatory  word  itself  requires  explana- 
tion." Not  being  ourselves  sure,  we  would  ask  if 
"afterings  "are  not  the  same  things  as  "  boastings  "  or 
"beestninff"(A.-S.  6y<<yv),the  first  milk  given  by  a 
cow  after  her  calving  1 

"  So  may  the  first  of  all  our  fells  be  thine, 
And  both  the  Uatniiw  of  our  goats  and  kine." 
Ben  Jonson,  Hymn  to  Pan* 

Eiilory  <^tke  Rdigiout  ffouu  of  Phueardyn^  Cownnt  of 
Vu  VaU  of  SL  Andrew,  in  Morayshire,    With  Intro- 
duction containing  the  History  and  a  Description  of 
the  Present  State  of  the  Mother  House  of  the  Order 
of  Vallis  Caulium  (Val  des  Choux),  in  Burgundy.    By 
Rev.  S.  B.  Maophail.    (Edinburgh,  Oliphant  k  Co.) 
Mb.  Maophail'b  book  is  one  of  those  unpleasant  pro- 
ductions which  stand  for  a  great  deal  of  careful  work 
and  a  certain  amount  of  research,  and  which  yet  betrav 
at  everr  page  that  the  author  is  not  en  rapport  with 
his  subieet.    He  is  like  a  man  writing  in  a  language 
which  he  has  acquired  bv  the  help  of  grammar  and 
dictionary :  there  are  no  glaring  blunders  to  be  found  in 
the  sentences,  but  there  is  an  utter  absence  of  naturalness 
in  the  style.    All  that  could  be  done  by  "cramming" 
Mr.  Macphail  has  done;  but  to  get  into  harmony  and 
sympathy  with  the  life  of  the  religious  house  whose 


history  he  has  attempted  to  present  to  us,  this  was 
beyond  him.  As  might  be  expected,  there  are  every 
now  and  then  obiter  dicta  which  jar  against  one*s  sense 
of  the  fitness  of  things,  as  when  we  are  told  that  **  the 

kindly  tn<eref(  of  Mr.  Crowe and  his  choir  in  a  lecture 

on  the  history  of  the  house  will  never  be  forgotten, 

any  more  than  their  beautiful  rendering  of  the  Te  Deum 

in  the  dim  moonlight,  with  lighted  tapert,  and  dressed 

in  Ulsters  with  hoods**;  or  as  when  we  learn  that  a 
villein's  sequela  **  in  the  old  charters  corresponds  exactly 
with  a  horse-deaIer*s  phrase  *  a  nuire  with  her  followers, 
which  it  does  not,  for  the  sequela  was  neither  more  nor 
less  than  the  villein*s  chattels.  So,  again,  it  is  difficult  to 
understand  whv  "one  is  struck,  in  reading  charters  of 
benefactions  of  this  time,  with  the  fact  that  so  many  of 
them  are  made  either  on  Sunday  or  some  saint's  day.'' 
Does  Mr.  Maophail  suppose  that  this  is  a  peculiarity  in 
the  Pluseardyn  charters?  Very  commendable  industry 
has  been  displayed  by  Mr.  Macphail  in  getting  together 
a  large  mass  of  information  on  the  personal  history  of 
some  of  the  priors ;  nevertheless  all  the  sources  are  by 
no  means  exhausted.  Mr.  Thorpe's  Calendar  of  State 
Papers  relating  to  Scotland,  published  in  1858,  would 
have  taught  Mr.  Macphail  one  or  two  small  matters  on 
the  last  prior  of  Pluseardyn  with  which  he  appears  not 
to  be  acouainted.  The  chapter  on  the  precincts  and 
ruins  of  tne  priory,  and  the  appendix  on  the  same  sub- 
ject by  Mr.  Miller,  are  the  least  satisfactory  parts  of  the 
volume.  It  is  extremely  difficult  to  believe  that  in  any 
ohurch  built  by  Cistercians,  or  those  descended  from 
them,  there  should  be  found  a  Lady  Chapel,  inasmuch  as 
every  church  built  by  Cistercians  was  a  Lady  Chapel,  i.e. 
dedicated  to  the  Blessed  Virgin.  It  has  always  neen  a 
matter  of  nmch  auestioning  what  purpose  was  served  by 
the  building  which  almost  invariably  in  Cistercian  monas- 
teries fills  tiie  space  between  the  chapter-house  and  the 
south  transept — ^whether  a  morgue,  a  penitentiary,  or  a 
sacristy;  but  that  it  was  ever  turned  to  such  a  purpose 
as  Mr.  Miller  suggests  is  almost  inconceivable.  So  with 
regard  to  what  Mr.  Miller  calls  the  calefactory ;  it  was 
not  a  calefactory  at  all,  but  the  fratry.  Another  mis- 
take is  putting  the  refectory  on  the  ground  plan,  as  if 
it  occupied  the  whole  south  walk  of  the  cloister.  This 
was  never  the  case  in  Cistercian  houses;  with  them 
it  always  stood  in  the  centre  of  the  south  walk,  with  its 
axis  running  north  and  south,  the  kitchen  occupying  the 
space  between  the  refectory  and  the  fratry,  and  the 
offices  standing  on  the  remaining  ground  abutting  on  the 
south  walk.  It  is  a  pity  that  the  ground  plan  of  the 
buildings  was  not  drawn  upon  a  larger  scale,  and  that 
more  extensive  excavations  could  not  be  carried  out  on 
the  site  of  these  very  interesting  ruins.  A  good  beginning 
has,  however,  been  made,  and  Mr.  Macphail  has  given 
us  a  very  substantial  contribution  towards  a  better  know- 
ledge of  SeoUa  monastiea.  The  illustrations  which  his 
volume  contains  are  very  beautiful,  and  greatly  enhance 
^he  intrinsic  value  of  the  work. 

Calendar  of  Documents  relating  to  Ireland,  129^1801. 

Edited  by  H.  S.  Sweetinan,  B.A.,  for  the  Master  of 

the  Bolls.  (Longmans  &  Co.) 
Thb  documents  calendared  in  this  volume  illustrate  the 
condition  of  Ireland  during  eight  years  of  uninterrupted 
tranquillity  and  freedom  from  political  disturbance.  The 
attention  of  the  English  Government  was  concentrated 
on  the  wars  with  Scotland  and  France,  for  which  supplies 
of  com  and  men  were  freely  drawn  from  Ireland.  The 
Quantity  of  wheat  exported  every  year  from  Ireland  was 
lar  greater  than  would  have  been  expected,  considering 
how  little  wheat  is  grown  there  at  the  present  day,  and 
is  a  remarkable  proof  of  the  great  fertility  of  the  country. 
In  1297, 1,886  quarters  of  wheat  and  492  of  oatf  were 


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delivered  to  the  receiTen  of  the  kioK't  stores  at  Bayonne ; 
irhilst  4,186  quarters  of  wheat  and  768  of  oats  were  ex- 
ported from  Leinster  and  Munster  to  Qascony  for  the 
vise  of  the  king's  army  there.  The  army  in  Scotland  was 
also  Tictualled  from  Ireland,  and  in  December,  1298,  the 
Ticeroy  was  ordered  to  provide  before  Whitsuntide  for 
the  inrasion  of  Scotland,  by  delivering  at  Carlisle  8,000 
quarters  of  wheat  and  10,000  of  oats,  with  500  carcases 
of  salt  beef  and  1,000  fat  pigs.  Similar  instructions 
were  given  in  1299  and  1301 ;  and  the  treasurer's  accounts 
show  that  the  average  price  of  wheat  was  4f.  a  quarter 
and  of  oats  St.,  although  in  1296  the  prices  had  been 
respectively  Ss.  and  6t.  It  appears  from  the  same  ac- 
counts that  Irish  chargers  were  then  held  in  high  esteem 
and  commanded  a  good  price,  for  50/.  was  paid  for  *'  a 
chestnut  and  a  bay,  with  a  black  mark,"  purchased  for 
the  king's  own  riding ;  and  the  Irish  knights  who  had 
lost  their  horses  in  the  king's  service  in  Scotland  received 
compensation  varying  from  20/.  each  to  as  many  marks. 
It  is  a  sign  of  the  absence  of  all  apprehension  of  dis- 
turbance in  1301,  that  one  of  the  last  documents  in  this 
volume  is  a  command  to  John  Wogan,  the  viceroy,  to 
leave  Ireland  in  charge  of  a  deputy,  and  with  the  other 
magnates  of  Ireland  to  join  the  king  in  Scotland,  where  he 
proposed  "  to  remain  with  his  army  during  the  approach- 
ing winter  to  repress  his  Scotch  enemies." 

Tbx  June  number  of  the  Mtwagine  of  Art  contains 
flome  notable  work.  Mr.  Monkhouse's  thoughtful  and 
discriminatinfl^  article  on  Prof.  Legros  deserves  the  first 
place,  as  a  piece  of  honest  and  genuine  art  criticism. 
Mr.  Basil  Champneys  on  *'  Wren  and  St.  Paul's,"  and 
Prof.  Colvin  on  the  '<  Drawings  of  Albert  DUrer,"  are 
also  thoroughly  in  their  element,  while  a  little  paper  on 
the- Liverpool  painter  William  Daniels,  which  is  illus- 
trated bv  an  excellent  woodcut  of  his  "Prisoner  of 
Chillon,"  is  exceedingly  interesting.    If  we  were  to  offer 

•  counsel  for  the  further  improvement  of  this  very 
promising  art-serial,  it  would  be  that  it  should  have  the 
courage  *'to  rest  in  Art"  alone.  Such  papers  as 
'*  Summer-time "  would  be  better  in  the  pages  of  a 
ftunily  magaxine,  while  that  on  "FitneM  ana  Fashion," 
though,  perhaps,  more  defensible,  is  illustrated  in  such 

•  wa^  as  to  suggest  its  fitnen  for  the  Queen  or  the 
SngltMhvomafi.  These  remarks  are  made  in  no  spirit 
of  carping  criticism ;  but  the  Magazine  of  Art  U  already 
so  far  on  its  way  towards  being  a  model  organ  of  its 
kind  that  we  cannot  refrain  from  suggesting  what  in 
our  opinion  would  further  conduce  to  its  completeness. 


JoflSFH  LsxmsL  Chester.— It  is  with  the  deepest 
regret  that  we  have  to  record  the  death  of  our  old  cor- 
respondent Col.  Chester.  He  passed  away,  after  a  long 
and  painful  illness,  on  Friday  in  last  week.  Col.  Chester 
was  an  American  by  birth,  and,  although  he  had  spent 
many  years  in  England,  remained  to  the  last  a  citizen 
of  the  United  States.  In  early  life  he  was  a  Member  of 
Oongress,  and  we  shall  not  easily  forget  his  graphic 
descriptions  of  the  stormy  scenes  at  Washington  before 
the  breaking  out  of  the  great  civil  war  there.  His 
later  life  was  entirely,  or  almost  entirely,  spent  in  this 
country,  and  devoted  to  the  scientific  study  of  genealogy 
and  family  history.  Twenty  years  ago  pedigree  makers 
were  looked  down  upon  as  persons  who  wasted  their 
time  in  ministering  to  foolish  vanity.    There  was  much 

frejudice  in  this,  but  the  idea  had  some  foundation, 
n  Col.  Chester's  hands  the  pursuit  became  purely 
scientific,  and  was  in  every  detail  carried  out  with  the 
most  scrupulous  accuracy.  It  was  not  mere  curiosity — 
the  habit  of  collecting— which  impelled  him  to  continue 
his  laborious  studies.  He  realized  earlier  and  more  fully 
than  most  of  us  the  fact  that  one  cannot  have  a  really 


just  and  exhaustive  history  of  anv  time  which  shall  not 
be  based  on  the  information  supplied  by  the  genealogist. 
He  also  knew  that  the  results  to  be  drawn  frompedigraos;, 
when  really  authentic,  are  of  much  value  in  nimishing 
data  for  many  of  the  purely  scientific  questions  relating 
to  man.  His  Wettminster  Abbey  Registert,  published  in 
1876,  is  one  of  the  most  laboriously  accurate  books  that 
have  ever  been  compiled.  It  made  for  him  a  world-wide 
reputation.  Though  this  was  the  principal  work  which 
he  committed  to  the  press,  it  represents  but  a  very  small 
part  of  his  labours.  His  manuscript  collections  are,  we 
believe,  enormous,  and  are  all  arranged  with  such  work- 
manlike accuracy  and  care  that  they  are  ready  for  on 
at  once.  We  trust  they  may  remain  in  this  conntiy,  as 
a  fitting  memorial  of  one  of  the  hardest  workers  and 
widest-minded  men  who  have  ever  devoted  themselves  to 
the  bypaths  of  history. 

It  is  proposed  to  form  a  Yorkshire  Parish  Beg^ter 
Society,  having  for  its  object  the  immediate  transcribing 
and  publishing  of  such  registers  as  may  be  permitted  by 
their  custodians. 


fioiitti  ta  Corrc4panirciit4. 

We  muit  call  tpeeial  eUieiUionto  ike  following  notieeT 

Oh  all  communications  should  be  written  the  name  and 
address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 
as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

R.  C.  PucKBTT  (Watford).— "Watling  Street,  which 
Leland  called  Atheling  or  Noble  Street,  but  since  he 
showeth  no  reason  why,  I  rather  take  it  to  be  so  named 
of  that  great  highway  of  the  same  calling  *'  (Stow,  p.  129. 
W.  J.  Thoms's  edition).  This  old  Roman  road,  one  of 
the  celebrated  four,  ran  "  from  Richborough  or  Dover, 
through  Canterbury  and  London,  across  the  island  to 

Chester.   The  Saxons connected  this  wonderful  work 

with  one  of  their  own  mythical  traditions,  and  called  it 
WsBtlinga  Street,  the  road  of  the  Wsstlings  or  sons  of 
Wsetla — a  name  still  retained  by  the  portion  of  it  which 
ran  through  London"  (Wright's  The  Cell,  the  Rowutn, 
and  the  Saxon,  p.  450).  King  Wsetla  belonged  to  the 
Saxon  mythology. 

Brito.— A  paper  on  Andrea  Ferara  appeared  in  the 
Comhill  Magazine  for  August,  1865,  in  which  the  writer 
showed  that  this  celebrated  sword-maker  was  an  Italian. 
He  was  bom  about  the  year  1555.  But  see  "  N.  &  Q./' 
3"»S.x.l37,438;  xii.  237. 

k.  B.  (Yeovil).— Francis  Rous  is  described  by  Mr. 
Hole,  in  his  Brief  Biographical  Didionarp,  as  an 
"  English  Republican,"  who  was  bom  in  1579,  and  died 
on  January  7,  1659. 

C.  A.  P.  (Prague). — It  would  be  ridiculous  to  publish 
the  epitaph  as  sent     We  could  understand,  "Andreas," 

'*  dignatusque fuit  sententiam  regis profari,"  and 

"Suss,"  but  not  your  rendering. 

M.  S.  E.,  H.  S^  AND  Others  ("Approbation  from 
Sir  Hubert  Stanley  is  praise  indeed ").— This  is  from 
Morton's  Cure  for  the  Heart  Ache,  V.  ii. 

F.  C.  BiRKBECK  Terrt.— The  word,  ante,  p.  269, 
ought  to  have  been  **  Eamer." 

L  W.  Hardman  (Epluph).— See  "  N.  k  Q.,"  6^^  8. 
iv.  8, 135, 175,  257. 

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CONTENTS.  — N«  128. 

NOTES:— The  "Strawberrj  HIU"  CaUlogue.  441— Shelley'* 
Ode  to  Mont  Blanc,  4iS-A  Coart-MarUal  Sentence—The 
PhrjgUn  Gap,  444  -ShakspearlaDa— St.  Jerome  and  Chancer 
— Assamptlon  of  Christian  Namee— The  Mnrder  of  Lord  F. 
OaTendUh  and  Mr.  Burke,  445— Irish  Partj  Namea-The 

.  Popular  Sstimate  of  Southey  Eighty  Yean  Ako— A  Stinging- 
Nettle  on  Oak- Apple  Day— The  Corby  Pole  Fairr416. 

<)nEBI1S:-8t.  M*Lo6*8  Stone,  446  -  Crocodile's  Tears - 
*  *  Lady's  Smock  "  :  "  Lucy  Locket "  —  "  Gressome  *' — P. 
Carey's  Poems— The  Owl  an  Emblem  of  Death— DuromaKui, 
447— *<  Quid  hoe,"  Ac- Cannon  or  Canon  f of  a  Bell)— The 
Toad  and  the  Centipede— Sarah,  Duchess  of  Marlborough— 
Orosny  Castle— St.  Giles's  Fair— JBtev Pelham— Fleet- 
wood: SheUey  — Rev.  R.  Johnson  — The  Squire  Papers- 
" Poker/'  448— " Fletcher"—  •' Sangre  Axul "  —  *' Umbra- 
geous*—"OliTes"  for  Primroses  — Sir  R.  Worthington— 
Andrew  Hunter,  Abbot  of  Melrose— "QuiTes"— Authors 
Wanted,  440. 

REPLIES :— Parochial  Registers,  449— Descent  of  the  Earl- 
dom of  Mar— John  Eacbard.  452—"  P.  Frandsci  Spinnln 
Medlolanensis;"45S-"  Chlmere  '—Lord  and  Lady  Jennings, 
454— Transparent  Prints— Baroness  de  Lutzow— St.  White 
and  her  Cheese-"  Escaeta,"  455-"  Fatherland  "—"Twae 
Freli*  of  Berwlck"-A  Yard  of  Beer-"  Mighty "  Tom  of 
Oiford,  456— A  Cuxlons  Book-plate—"  Was  crudfted,"  Ac— 

;  The  "British  Amaxon "— Seafield  Castle.  457 -Silhouettes 
—Funeral  Armour  in  Churches— Religious  Novels  — The 
Taidleys  of  England,  458— *' Bedwardlne '—"  Much "  and 
"Great"— Charles  Lamb  and  Carlyle -Authors  Wanted, 
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of  importance,  alike  to  the  antiquary,  the  literary 
man,  the  art  collector,  and  the  curio  hunter.  Thus 
the  bulky  catalogue— the  most  perfect  record  that 
now  exists  of  the  renowned  museum — becomes  of 
itself  a  document  of  no  inconsiderable  value,  and 
any  circumstances  connected  with  its  publication 
will  probably  be  thought  worthy  of  commemora- 
tion. A  few  of  these  which  happen  to  have  be- 
come known  to  me  I  shall  now  proceed  to  jot 
down  as  they  occur,  confining  myself  strictly  to 
matters  bibliographicaJ,  and  carefully  avoiding  all 
reference  to  the  fascinating  and  discursive  contents. 

For  the  sake  of  completeness  I  may  record,  in 


*  "  The  collection  was  made  oat  of  the  ipoili  of  many 
renowned  cabinets— Lord  Oxford's,  Dr.  Mead*s,  Lady 
Elisabeth  Gennaine's,  the  Dnohess  of  Portland's,  and 
•bout  forty  more  of  celebrity.— Horacb  Walfoli." 


limine^  two  volumes  descriptive  of  the  villa,  pub- 
lished many  a  long  year  before  the  dispersion  of 
its  contents.    The  earlier  is  entitled  : — 

**  An  Account  of  Strawberry  Hill  as  it  was  in  the  year 
1710.  By  Charles  Lord  Whitworth."  8to.  Printed  at 
Strawberry  Hill,  1758. 

With  vignette  of  Strawberry  Hill  on  the  title- 
page.  The  "  Advertisement ''  was  written  by 
Horace  Walpole  himself. 

The  second  is  : — 

"  A  Description  of  the  Villa  of  Mr.  H.  Walpole  at 
Strawberry  Hill,  with  an  Inventory  of  the  Furniture, 
Pictures,  Curiosities,  &c.  Strawberry  Hill :  Printed  by 
Thomas  Kirgate,  1774."    4to. 

A  second  edition  of  this  volume,  with  additions, 
appeared  in  1784,  4to.;  and  its  contents,  with 
corrections,  appjear  in  the  second  volume  of  the 
collected  works  of  the  Earl  of  Orford,  1798,  4to. 

I  now  come  to  the  sale  catalogue,  a  thick 
quarto  volume,  of  250  pages,  of  which  the  follow- 
ing is  the  magniloquent  and  ungrammatical  title  : 

''Strawberry  Hill,  the  Renowned  Seat  of  Horace 
Walpole.  Mr.  George  Robins  is  honoured  by  having 
been  selected  b^  the  Earl  of  Waldegrave,  to  sell  by 
Public  Competition,  the  valoable  contents  of  Strawberry 
Hill,  and  it  may  fearlessly  be  proclaimed  as  the  most 
distinguished  Qem  that  has  ever  adorned  the  annals  of 
Auctions.  It  is  definitirely  fixed  for  Monday,  the  25th 
day  of  April,  1842,  and  Twenty-three  following  days 
(Sundays  excepted).  And  within  will  be  found  a  repast 
for  the  lovers  of  Literature  and  the  Fine  Arts,  of  which 
bygone  days  famish  no  previous  example,  and  it  would 
be  in  vain  to  contemplate  it  in  times  to  come. 

"The  Catalogue  (at  7«.  each)  will  admit  Four  Persons 
to  the  Public  V  iew,  and  be  a  passport  to  the  Purchaser 
throughout  the  Sale ;  they  may  be  had  at  '  Galignani's 
Journal,'  in  Paris ;  of  Mr.  J.  A.  O.  Weigel  of  Leipsic ; 
at  Strawberry  Hill ;  at  the  Auction  Mart ;  and  at  Mr. 
George  Robins*  Offices,  Covent  Garden.  A  few  copies 
are  printed  upon  large  paper,  at  12f.  each. 

"  The  Private  View  will  commence  on  the  28th  day  of 
March,  and  the  Public  will  be  admitted  on  Monday, 
April  4th." 

There  are  prefixed  a  lithographed  portrait  of 
Horace  Walpole  on  India  paper,  from  the  oil  pic- 
ture in  the  Strawberry  Hill  collection,  painted  by 
Eckhardt  in  1764;  a  woodcut  title-page,  represent- 
ing various  objects  of  antiquity,  engraved  by 
Landells  from  a  drawing  by  W.  Alfred  Delamotte ; 
and  seventeen  pages  of  "  Prefatory  Remarks,"  in 
which  is  embodied,  with  the  beautiful  woodcut 
illustrations  by  Delamotte  and  Landells,  an  artide 
here  attributed  to  the  late  W.  Harrison  Ainsworth, 
but  more  probably  written  by  his  coadjutor, 
Dudley  Coetello,  which,  with  reference  to  the 
approaching  sale,  had  just  previously  appeared  in 
the  first  volume  of  Aimuforth^a  Magazine,  la 
the  same  volume,  it  is  well  to  mention,  are  two 
farther  articles  on  the  same  subject  also  with 
woodcut  illustrations,  which  are  not  here  repro- 
duced. One  of  these  {Ainsw&rth's  Mag^  vol.  L 
pp.  168-76)  is  entitled  "Strawberry  Hill  Re- 
visitedi  by  Dadley  Coetello";  and  the  other  (ifr., 


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Both  are  necessary  to  complete  the  catalogue. 

These  *'  Prefatory  Bemarks  "  of  the  auctioneer, 
with  their  fulsome  bombast,  were  ridiculed  in  a 
satirical  brochure  entitled  : — 

"  GooMberry  Hall.  Puffatory  Bemarki  on  the  sale  of 
the  Property  of  Horace  Walpole.  To  be  sold  the  First 
of  April."    1842.    4to. 

Of  the  catalogue  itself  there  are  two  editions. 
On  its  first  appearance,  which,  it  is  only  fair  to 
add,  the  auctioneer  explains  was  somewhat 
hurried,  it  was  seen  that  the  descriptions  of  the 
books  especially  were  characterized  by  the  most 
ludicrous  and  disgraceful  blunders;  and  it  was 
judged  expedient  to  cancel  so  much  of  the  impres- 
sion as  had  not  been  distributed,  and  employ  an 
expert  to  recatalogue  the  library.  Thus  the  copies, 
said  to  be  comparatively  few,  which  had  already 
got  into  the  hands  of  the  public,  now  constitute 
what  the  booksellers  term  the  '^original"  or 
*'  dunciad  "  edition,  and  bear  an  augmented  price 
as  a  bibliographic  rarity  and  curiosity  of  adver- 
tising literature.  Moreover,  in  this  original  issue, 
which  extends  to  250  pages,  are  comprised  the 
XMurticulars  of  the  entire  twenty-four  days'  sale ; 
while  in  the  corrected  reissue,  which  contains 
important  additions,  and  happens  to  extend  to 
exactly  the  same  number  of  pages,  the  record  of 
the  seventh  and  eighth  days'  sale  is  omitted,  the 
pagination  running  on  consecutively  notwith- 
standinff.  On  these  two  days,  as  the  sale  was 
originally  arranged,  were  to  have  been  offered  the 
"  Prints,  Drawinflrs,  and  Illustrated  Books  "  in  the 
'*  Bound  Tower.**  But  the  auctioneer,  as  he  in- 
forms us,  was  advised  that  this  part  of  the  collec- 
tion would  be  "  rendered  more  acceptable  to  the 
Public  if  divided  into  smaller  lots '';  and  acccord- 
ingly  the  sale  of  this  portion  was  deferred  to  the 
conclusion  of  the  auction,  and  the  lots  expanded 
and  rediBtributed  over  a  ten  days'  sale,  the  "  very 
elaborate  catalogue"  of  which  was  published  in 
May,  1842,  the  sale  itself  taking  place  at  '*Mr. 
Bobins'  Great  Boom  in  Covent  Garden."  Shortly 
after  the  occurence  of  the  important  event  appeared 
a  volume  entitled  : — 

^  ^des  Strawberrianse.  Nam es  of  Purchasers  and  tbe 
Prices  to  the  Sale  Catalogne  of  the  choice  Collections  of 
Art  and  Virtu,  at  Strawberry  Hill  Villa^  formed  by 
Horace  Walpole.  Earl  of  Orford.  London,  Printed  for 
J.  H.  Bam,  102,  St.  Martin's  Lane,  kc.  Price  seven 
shillings  and  sixpence."    1842.    4to. 

To  this  is  prefixed  the  interesting  ''  Apology  for 
Strawberry  Hill,"  written  by  Horace  Walpole 
himself. 

Ap{)ended  to  the  record  of  the  "  seventh  day's 
sale "  in  this  volume  is  the  following  enigmatical 
statement,  from  which  I  leave  the  r^er  to  infer, 
if  he  can,  what  the  writer  intended  to  convey  : — 

"  Th(  Books  and  Collections  of  Portraits,  Prints,  and 
Drawing,  which  constltated  the  Seventh  and  Eighth 
Days'  Sale  of  the  property  at  Strawberry  Hill,  were 


formerly  deposited  in  the  Round  Tower.  Some  objec- 
tions having  been  made  to  some  of  the  Collections  being 
sold  en  maue,  the  whole  announced  in  the  two  days  were 
withdrawn,  re-catalogued,  and  extended  to  a  ten  days' 
sale,  from  Monday  June  13th  to  the  23rd  inclusive ;  yet 
as  most  of  the  visitors  to  Strawberry  Bill  have  that  por- 
tion of  the  Catalogue,  the  names  of  the  purchasers  to  th» 
lots  as  originally  formed,  and  the  prices  produced  at  the 
more  detailed  sale,  are  here  arranged  as  if  really  sold  at 
the  first  sale,  and  for  all  general  purposes,  renders  every 
possible  gratification  for  satisfying  the  curiosity  of  Uie 
greater  number  of  persons  who  inspected  that  Aur-famed 
depository  of  Art  and  Virtt."  . 

The  total  produce  of  the  twenty-four  days'  sale 
amounted  to  33,450Z.  lU,  9(2. 

There  is  an  interesting  paper  on  Horace  Walpole 
in  the  Dublin  Univernty  Magazine  for  November, 
1858 ;  and  it  may  be  of  interest  to  many  to  record 
that  this  remarkable  man— styled  by  the  lecturer 
'*  the  most  eccentric, ori^nal,  fiistidious,  and  curious 
of  men,  who  spent  his  hfe  in  collecting  china,  tea- 
cups, shells,  curiosities,  lap-dogs,  and  coloured 
glass,  and  got  together  the  greatest  collection  of 
bric-k-brac  and  rubbish  that  ever  man  had" — formed 
the  subject  of  the  last  two  lectures  delivered  by 
the  late  Greorge  Dawson  in  the  Masonic  Hall,  Bir- 
mingham, on  the  7th  and  14th  of  November,  1876, 
only  a  few  days  before  his  lamented  death,  which 
took  place  from  an  aneurism  of  the  aorta  on  the 
30th  of  November  of  the  same  year. 

I  possess  a  very  interesting  and  unique  volume, 
bought  Jan.,  1876,  at  the  sale  of  the  library  of  John 
Gongh  Nichols,  by  whom  it  was  put  together.  It 
consists  of  the  two  parts  published  of  Miscellaneous 
Antiquities,  printed  at  Strawberry  Hill  by  Thomas 
Eirgate  in  1772,  4to.;  portraits  of  Horace  Wal- 
pole after  Rosalba,  Dance,  Eckhardt,  Sir  Joshua 
Keynolds,  Sir  Thos.  Lawrence,  and  others ;  frontia- 
piece  to  Lord  Orford*s  Menioires,  after  Bentley  ; 
views  of  Strawberry  Hill  after  drawings  by  S. 
Owen,  J,  P.  Neale,  Paul  Sandby,  R.A.,  Barlow, 
Pars,  E.  Edwards,  Marlow,  Essex,  Barrow,  Ire- 
land, &c.;  portrait  of  Thomas  Eirgate,  the  printer, 
"S.  Harding  ad  vivum  delin.  1794";  ground 
plans ;  stained  glass ;  armorial  book-plates ;  Gray's 
ode  on  the  death  of  Horace  Wal pole's  favourite 
cat,  in  beautiful  MS.,  with  the  fine  emblematic 
plate  (by  whom?);  together  with  various  other 
illustrations  and  cuttings  of  interest,  including 
fac-similes  of  two  drawings  by  Hogarth  of  the 
trial  of  Lord  Lovet  (sic),  in  the  possession  of 
Horace  Walpole,  "published  by  W.  Birch, 
Hempstead  Heath,  Aug.  1,  1791." 

I  may  just  add,  for  the  benefit  of  those 
whom  it  may  concern,  that  a  priced  catalogue 
complete  is  in  the  hands  of  an  obliging  and  in- 
telligent dealer  in  antiquities  of  this  town,  Mr. 
Lapworth,  of  the  Stone  Yard,  Deritend. 

William  Batks,  B.A. 

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SHELLErS  ODE  TO  MOXT  BLANC. 
On  the  final  leaves  of  a  little  sketch,  entitled  the 
History  of  a  Six  Weeks'  Tour,  written  by  Shelley 
and  his  wife,  and  pablisbed  during  the  poet's  life- 
time by  Hookham  &  Oilier,  appears  the  weU- 
known  poem  on  Mont  Blano,  said  to  have  been 
**  written  in  the  Vale  of  Ghamoaniz  on  the  23  Jane, 
1816/'  In  all  the  collected  editions  of  Shelley's 
works  that  I  have  seen,  including  the  one  pub- 
lished by  Mozon  in  1871,  the  above  date  is  given 
without  comment.  My  object  in  writing  this  note 
is  to  draw  attention  to  a  circumstance  which, 
though  relatively  unimportant,  must  interest  those 
who  plume  themselves  on  historical  accuracy.  It 
«an  he  proved  beyond  question  that  Shelley  was 
not  at  Chamouniz,  but  at  Montalegre  and  Her- 
mance,  on  June  23, 1816.  That  night  the  Shelleys 
and  Byron  slept  at  Nemi,  in  "  gloomy  and  dirty 
lodgings."  There  Shelley  eaw,  among  a  crowd  of 
deformed  and  diseased  children,  a  little  boy  with 
Buch  ezquisite  grace  in  his  mien  and  motions  as 
he  had  never  before  witnessed  in  a  child.  "  His 
countenance,''  says  Shelley, 

"  was  beantiful  for  the  expression  with  which  it  over- 
flowed. There  was  a  mixture  of  pride  and  gentleness  in 
his  eyes  and  lips,  the  indications  of  sensibility,  which  his 
education  will  probably  pervert  to  misery  or  seduce  to 
crime ;  but  there  was  more  of  gentleness  than  of  pride, 
and  it  seemed  that  the  pride  was  tamed  from  its  original 
wildness  by  the  habitual  exercise  of  milder  feelings.*' 

Byron  gave  that  little  boy  a  piece  of  money,  which 
the  child  took  without  speaking,  "  with  a  sweet 
smile  of  easy  thankfulness,"  and  then  with  an  unem- 
barrassed air  turned  to  his  play.  I  have  been  pre- 
cise in  my  allusion  to  that  little  boy  in  order  to. 
show  that  June  23  was  a  day  fized  in  the  poet's 
memory  by  an  inspiration,  not  of  Nature,  but  of 
Man.  They  left  Nemi  on  the  24th,  and,  passing 
Yvoire,  sleot  at  Evian.  On  the  25th  the  party 
passed  Meillerie,  a  place  immortalized  by  Rousseau 
and  sacred  to  St.  Preuz.  Groves  of  pine,  chestnut, 
and  walnut  overshadowed  it,  and  in  the  midst  of 
those  woods  Shelley  noted  dells  of  lawny  expanse, 
''  inconceivably  verdant,  adorned  with  a  thousand 
of  the  rarest  flowers  and  odorous  with  thyme." 
it  was  on  that  memorable  25th  of  June  that  Shelley 
ran  imminent  peril  from  drowning,  owing  to  the 
stupidity  of  one  of  the  boatmen,  who  persisted  in 
holding  the  sail  at  a  time  when  the  boat  was  on 
the  point  of  being  driven  under  water  by  the 
squall  which  beset  them.  On  June  26  they  left 
St.  Gingolph  for  Clarens,  vid  Chillon,  whose 
dungeons  and  towers  they  visited.  This  brings 
as  to  June  27,  a  date  which  must  ever  remain 
fized  in.  my  mind.  It  was  on  that  day— just  one 
year  before  the  birth  of  Ghilde  Harold,  who  now 
yiflitedLaasanneas  a  pilgrim— that  Edward  Gibbon 
put  the  last  strokes  to  his  immortal  history.  It 
was  on  Jane  27,  1816,  that  the  Shelleys  and 
Byron  yisited  the  great  historian's  garden  and 


summer-house  ;  and  it  was  on  June  27  that  Byron 
began,  in  a  small  inn  on  the  lake  side  at  Ouohy, 
the  celebrated  Prisoner  of  ChUUm,*  Haying 
written  to  John  Murray,  to  whom  he  also  sent 
a  sprig  of  Gibbon's  acacia  and  some  rose-leayes 
gathered  in  the  garden.  Byron  retired  to  a  room 
on  the  first  floor  of  the  '^Ancre,"  and  related 
in  immortal  yerse  the  sufferings  of  Bonniyud. 
Fortunate  for  posterity  was  that  odious  weather 
which  detained  the  poets  at  Ouchy.  But  for  its 
storm  gusts  we  should  neyer  have  learnt  that 
Chillon  8  prison  is  a  holy  place,  and  its  sad 
floor  an  altar.  Shelley  tells  us  how,  in  Uie  only 
interval  of  sunshine  during  the  day,  he  walked  on 
the  wooden  pier,  foam-lashed  by  the  angiy  lake. 
The  whole  party  quitted  Ouchy  on  Saturday  the 
30  th  of  June,  and  reached  Montalegre  on  the  day 
following.  I  have  thus,  I  think,  established  an  alibi, 
by  proving  that  Shelley  was  not  at  Chamouniz,  but 
at  Nemi,  on  June  23, 1816.  I  will  now  attempt  to 
prove  that  Shelley  actually  wrote  the  poem  in 
question  on  July  23,  1816,  i,e.,  one  month  later 
than  the  date  given  in  the  yarious  editions  of  his 
workp. 

At  half-past  eight  on  the  morning  of  July  20, 
1816,  the  Shelleys  left  Geneva  for  Chamouniz. 
After  a  night's  repose  at  St.  Martin  they  entered 
the  Valley  of  Chamouniz  on  the  21st,  only  to  find 
Mont  Blanc  and  his  courtiers  concealed  by  clouds. 
The  weather  does  not  seem  to  have  been  propitious 
for  sightseeing,  thus  the  whole  of  Uie  22nd  was 
passed  indoors.  But  on  the  morning  of  the  23rd 
the  weather  cleared,  and  Shelley  visited  the  source 
of  the  Arveiron,  where  he  noted  those  ^' awful 
palaces  of  death  and  frost"  sculptured  in  their 
terrible  magnificence  by  what  he  so  graphically 
names  the  "adamantine  hand  of  necessity.^  There 
and  then  must  he  haye  witnessed  Uiat 

"Awful  scene, 
Where  Power  in  likeneas  of  the  Arve  comes  down 
From  the  ice  gulphs  that  gird  his  secret  throne. 
Bursting  through  these  dark  mountains  like  the  flame 
Of  lightning  thro*  the  tempest" 

In  the  hope  that  these  remarks  may  induce  editors 
to  change  the  date  in  all  future  editions,  I  humbly 
confide  this  note  to  the  tender  mercy  of  the  many 
wise  commentators  of  Shelley. 

BlCHARD  EdOCUMBE. 
88,  Tedworth  Square,  Chelsea. 


*  To  descend  to  smaller  things,  it  was  on  June  27y 
1879,  that  the  present  writer  found  himself  in  the 
garden  of  the  H6tel  Gibbon.  On  that  day  the  interest 
that  attached  itself  to  Byron's  visit  sensibly  weakened 
the  veneration  which  the  genius  of  Gibbon  would  other- 
wise have  inspired.  On  that  day  these  hands  also  plucked 
?»rigs  of  the  acacia  in  memorv  of  Shelley  and  Byron, 
he  famous  summer-house,  with  every  vestige  of  the  old 
dwelling,  has  vanished,  and  Gibbon's  garden  is  now  be- 
sieged by  touristSy  who  wander  thither  in  quest  of  luxu- 
rious shelter,  innocent,  for  the  most  part,  of  the  fidntest 
tinge  of  sentiment  for  the  immortal  trio. 


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CuBious  Sentencb  of  a  Court  Mj^rtial  a 
HuKDRED  AND  Tbn  Ykars  A  GO. —In  the  Bom- 
hay  Gazelte  Budget  for  March  24  a  communication 
under  the  foregoing  heading  was  made  by  a 
correspondent  signing  himself  H.,  and  the  narra- 
tive contained  in  it  appeared  to  me  so  remarkable 
that,  not  only  in  the  interests  of  history,  but  in 
those  of  common  humanity,  I  asked  that  a  story 
80  little  creditable  to  the  British  name  might  be 
fully  authenticated.  In  reply,  H.  referred  me  to 
An  Historical  Accotmt  of  the  Riu  and  Progrnt 
of  tht  Bengal  Native  Infantry,  pp.  143-4.  This 
work  was  written  by  Qapt.  John  Williams,  and 
was  published  by  John  Murray  in  1817.  I  yen- 
ture  to  think  that  the  peculiarity  of  the  sentence 
recorded  by  the  court-martial  renders  the  narra- 
tive worthy  of  a  place  in  '*  N.  &  Q  ,*'  and  I  there- 
fore take  the  liberty  of  borrowing  the  letter  in 
question  for  the  benefit  of  those  readers  who  may 
not  have  an  opportunity  of  seeing  the  original : — 

''The  history  of  our  native  army  is  a  very  extra- 
ordinary one,  abounding  in  incidents  in  which  the 
grotesque  and  the  terrible  go  hand-in-faand.  Here,  for 
instance,  is  an  account  of  the  murder  of  an  English 
officer  by  a  sepoy  in  1772,  and  the  subsequent  court- 
martial  and  sentence  on  the  offender— a  sentence  which, 
I  make  bold  to  say,  has  never  been  equalled  in  the 
annals  of  military  courts. 

" '  In  1772,'  runs  the  old  chronicle, '  the  1st  Battalion 
10th  Regiment,  Bengal  Native  Infantry,  was  commanded 
by  Captain  Richard  Bwens,  and  in  November  that  year 
was  ordered  to  join  Captain  Camac  in  the  Ramgur  dis- 
trict The  day  after  it  arrived  at  Ramgur  Captain 
Camac,  being  the  senior  officer,  ordered  this  battalion 
to  be  under  arms  in  the  afternoon  that  he  might  look  at 
it.  Accordingly  at  four  o'clock,  all  the  officers  having 
dined  with  him,  they  repaired  to  the  parade,  where  the 
battalion  was  drawn  up.  The  officers  having  taken  post, 
Captain  Ewens  began  the  exercise,  and  had  got  about  the 
middle  of  the  manual  (which  in  those  days  was  performed 
six  deep),  when  a  sepoy  was  observed  to  quit  the  ranks ; 
but  it  was  supposed  to  be  upon  an  occasion  of  no  con- 
sequence. The  exercise  went  on,  and  at  the  conclusion 
of  the  manual,  the  rear  half  files  having  doubled  up,  the 
battalion  was  just  going  to  prepare  for  the  charge,  when 
the  sepoy  who  had  been  in  the  rear  was  perceived  coming 
round  the  right  flunk,  with  recovered  arms ;  but  as  it 
was  imagined  he  was  not  well,  and  wished  for  his  cap- 
tain's permission  to  quit  the  field,  no  notice  was  taken  of 
him.  He  therefore  walked  on  until  he  came  within  two 
yards  of  Captain  Ewens,  when  he  levelled  his  piece  and 
shot  him  through  the  body.' 

''  Let  me  interrupt  the  story  for  a  moment  here,  to 
note  thi9  quaint  picture  of  old  customs  and  obsolete 
drill.  You  observe  that  aH  the  officers  dined  with 
Captain  Camac  in  the  middle  of  the  day,  and  the  in- 
spection came  afterwards,  thereby  reversing  the  present 
order  of  things.  And  there  seems  to  have  been  a 
beautiful  simplicity  about  the  inspection  itself.  First 
came  the  manual,  six  deep,  and  then  a  charge.  Happy 
days,  when  confidential  reports  were  unknown,  and 
theoretical  examinations  had  never  been  thought  of! 
Bat  to  go  on  with  the  story: — 

"'On  Captain  Ewens  falling,  the  battalion  instantly 
broke,  and  rushed  forward  to  avenge  his  death;  but 
Captain  Camac,  with  great  presence  of  mind,  ordered 
them  to  return  to  their  ranks,  and  that  ample  justice 
should  be  done.    He  immediately  sent  one  of  his  officers 


to  bring  down  his  own  battalion  (the  24th),  and  on  its 
arrival  he  ordered  a  drum-head  general  court-martial  to 
try  the  murderer,  who  sentenced  him  to  be  drawn  asunder 
by  tattoos.  The  horses  being  fastened  to  his  limbs,  many 
attempts  were  made  to  draw  them  from  the  body,  but 
without  effect;  and  then  the  sepoys  were  allowed  to  put 
him  to  death,  which  they  did  with  their  swords.' 

"Such  is  the  narrative,  told  in  quaint  and  simple 
language,  without  note  or  comment.  The  murder  was 
a  bloody  and  treacherous  one,  and  the  punishment  was 
horrible  and  barbarous." 

W.  F.  Pridkaux. 

Jaipur,  Rfl^putana. 

Tbx  Phrtoian  Cap. —  The  survival  of  the 
Phrygian  cap  is  remarkable,  and  of  almost  ethno- 
logical interest.  As  at  present  degraded,  it  con- 
sists of  a  loose  woollen  conical  cap,  the  summit  of 
which,  for  want  of  stififening,  depends  to  one  side. 
It  is  never  peaked  nor  brimmed,  and  provides 
shelter  from  neither  sun  nor  rain,  and  is,  therefore, 
unsuited  to  very  hot  or  cold  climates.  Its  merit 
is  that  it  cannot  easily  be  blown  off  and  is  extremely 
handy,  and  these  qualities  have  endeared  it  to 
seafaring  men.  Kot  long  ago  it  was  almost 
universsdly  worn  by  them,  and  is  still  affected  by 
colliers  and  fishermen,  &c.  The  red  cap  of  the 
Neapolitans  and  the  brown  cap  of  the  Faroeae 
have  become  national  head-dresses.  In  Madeira 
isolation  has  brought  about  a  singular  develop- 
ment, in  the  form  of  a  black  cloth  close-fitting 
cap  with  the  pendent  flap  modified  into  a  long 
tUDular  sub-erect  projection.  In  Iceland,  unlike 
the  Faroes,  it  is  no  longer  worn  by  the  males,  bub 
the  essential  of  the  female  gala  costume  is  a  white 
bonnet,  exactly  reproducing  the  purest  Phrygian 
tvpe,  and  filled  in  nearly  solid,  so  as  to  preserve 
the  classic  curves.  It  is  fastened  by  hair-pins, 
and  a  gold  or  silver  frontlet  and  long  pendent  yeil 
make  it  exceedingly  picturesque.  These  are  in- 
stances of  its  preservation  in  isolated  localities, 
and  others  doubtless  exist  There  appear  to  be 
even  greater  departures  from  the  original  type,  the 
wider,  perhaps,  according  to  their  antiquity. 

The  Turkish  fez  has  all  the  attributes  of  the 
Phrygian  cap,  and  it  is  quite  conceivable  that  as 
it  became  a  Mohammedan  head-dress  the  pendent 
apex  was  transformed  into  the  long  and  more 
Oriental  pendent  silk  tassel.  The  genuine  Scotch 
bonnet  seems  equally  a  very  ancient  departure,  in 
which  the  pendent  lapel  has  dwindled  jx)  a  mere 
button.  The  hussar's  busby  is  obviously  the 
Phrygian  cap,  and  it  is  traceable  through  Cossack 
caps,  with  a  mere  trimming  of  fur,  to  tbe  wide  fur 
border  which  merely  leaves  the  top  of  the  cap 
visible  as  a  pendent  coloured  lapel.  The  doge'a 
cap,  the  cap  of  liberty,  the  Punchinello  and  foora 
cap  are  all  of  Italian  origin.  In  Western  countries 
this  form  of  head-dress  seems  never  to  have  pene- 
trated much  beyond  the  sea*  board. 

The  interesting  point  appears  to  me,  that  no 
form  of  this  hei^-dress  is  ever  seen  in  countries 


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uninfiueziced  in  the  past,  either  directly  or  in- 
directly, by  Greece  or  Phoenicia,  and,  simple  as  it 
is  in  form,  it  seems  never  to  have  arisen  sponta- 
neously in  any  country.  It  is  thus  unknown,  I 
believe,  in  China,  Japan,  and  Siberia,  but  in  India 
there  seem  to  be  some  curious  survivals. 

These  notes,  made  during  recent  travels,  may 
serve  to  elicit  observations  of  greater  interest  from 
others.  The  history  of  other  types  of  head-dress 
would  be  quite  as  curious,  and  none  of  them  seems 
very  difficult  to  trace  back  to  at  least  mediaeval 
times.  J.  Stareib  Gardnbr. 

Shakspbariana  :  '^  Gtubelikb,''  III.  iv.  133 
(6">  S.  V.  424).— 

"  With  that  harsh,  noble,  simple  nothing." 
I  have  loDg  thought  that  we  ought  to  read  here 
a  compound  adjective — "  noble-simple."  I  suggest 
the  line  should  run : — 

"  With  that  harsh,  noble-simpla  nothing,  GloteD, 
That  Gluten,"  &c.— 

"noble"  by  rank,  "simple**  by  breeding.  The 
antithesis  is  the  usual  one  of  gentle  and  simple. 
A  parallel  compound  would  be  Henry  FJ.,  IV.  viL 
72,  "Here  is  a  silly-stately  style  indeed."  The 
repetition  of  the  name  Cloten  would  be  in  keeping 
with  the  intense  aversion  Imogen  entertains  for 
the  man.  D.  G.  T. 

St.  Jerome  and  GHAncBR.~GhanGer,  in  "The 
Persones  Tale"  (CanUrh.  Tales,  yoL  iii.  p.  160, 
Lond.,  1776),  has  this  sentence  : — 

"  For  as  seiDt  Jerome  sayth  :  at  everv  time  that  me 
remembereth  of  the  day  of  dome,  I  quake :  for  whan  I 
ete  or  drinke,  or  do  what  so  I  do,  ever  semeth  me  that 
the  trompe  sowneth  in  min  erei :  rUeth  ye  up  that  ben 
dead,  and  cometh  to  the  jugement." 


as  I  know,  had  been  previously  pointed  out.  The 
history  of  the  passage,  so  far  as  it  was  then  ascer- 
tained, is  thus  noticed  by  Gomelius  k  Lapide  in 
his  CoriMnenta/ry  on  1  Thess.  iv.  16  :~ 

"  S.  HieroDymns  fertur  hoc  doenmentum  observasse  et 
aliis  tradidisse :  '  Sive  bibas,  rive  oomedas,  sire  vigiles, 
sive  dormias,  hsec  tibi  tuba  insonet :  **  Surgite,  mortui, 
venite  ad  judicium."'  Quanquam  in  operibus  Hieronymi 
hsec  sententia  jam  non  reperiatur,  ejus  tamen  quid 
simile  invenitur  in  *Regula  Monachorum/  torn.  iv. 
Operum  S.  Hieronymi  (torn.  v.  app.  ler.  ii.  ed.  Ben.), 
quas  collecta  est  ex  S.  Hieronymo»  ac  conscripta  a 
Superiore  Ordinis  Hieronymiani,  quam  prohayit  Mar- 
tinus  V.  Pontifex,  ut  habetur  initio  *  RegulsB.' " 

As  Martin  Y.  was  Pope  a.d.  1417-31,  the  date 
of  the  passage  being  assigned  to  St.  Jerome  in  the 
EuUj  provided  that  it  was  compiled  at  the  same 
time  as  the  approval  was  given,  is  of  the  early  part 
of  the  fifteenth  century.  But  in  the  Oesta  Boma- 
narum  (cap.  zxxvii.  p.  337,  Berl.  1872)  there  is 
this  reference  to  it : — 

**  Tres   sagittas   Dominus  jaciet  in  hominibos  valde 


acutas,  prima  vocationis,  secunda  decepcionis,  teroia 
diffinicionis.    Sagitta   vocacionis,  quando  dicet:  'Sur- 

Slte,  mortui,  venite  ad  judicium.*  De  ista  vocaclone 
abetur  Job.  xii.  (cor.  ▼.):  '  Omnes  qui  in  monnmentis 
sunt,  audient  vocem  filii  Dei.'  £t  etiam  lero :  '  Sive 
comedam,  sive  bibam,  semper  videtur  in  auiibus  meis 
sonare :  ''Surgite,  mortui,"  etc.  [*ic].' " 

Helinandus,  now  the  recognized  author  of  the 
Geeta,  "daruit  anno  1212.  Obiit  anno  1227  ** 
(Gave,  Hitt  Lit,  ad  an.),  so  that  this  reference  to 
the  passage  is  about  two  hundred  years  earlier 
than  that  of  the  Bute,  as  is  stated  above.  This 
carries  back  the  citation  to  a  date  antecedent  to 
the  tranaktion  of  the  passage  by  Ghaucer.  No 
mention  was  made  of  this  when  the  question 
was  examined  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  3'*  S.  xii.  330,  339 ; 
4^  S.  i.  137,  nor  have  I  seen  it  stated  elsewhere. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

Assumption  of  Ghmstian  Nambs. — 

"IfoticeofChangiof  Aam«.— Notice  is  hereby  given 
that  I,  James  Cummiog  Raff  Macdonald  (heretofore 
named  James  Macdonald),  have,  by  and  with  the 
authority  of  the  Hon.  the  Keeper,  the  Deputy-Keeper, 
and  the  Commissioners  of  Her  Mig'esty's  Signet^  taken 
and  adopted  the  names  '  Camming  Raff '  as  additional 
Christian  names,  and  that  I,  the  said  James  Cumming 
Eaff  Macdonald,  will  at  all  times  hereafter,  and  for  all 

Surposes,  subscribe  myself  as  under.    Dated  this  29th 
ay  of  May,  1882.  J,  C.  R.  Macdohali).*' 

The  above  advertisement  (omitting  simply  the 
residence  of  the  advertiser)  appeared  m  the 
Scotman  of  May  30  last,  and  has  excited  surprise. 
It  has  been  the  practice  of  the  Gourt  of  Session 
to  recognize  formally  an  assumption  or  change  of 
surname  by  a  member  of  one  of  the  legal  bodies 
in  Scotland,  viz.,  advocates,  writers  to  the  signet, 
and  solicitors,  who  are  members  of  the  GoUege  of 
Justice.  Here,  however,  we  have  a  new  prooednre 
altogether—new  in  three  different  ways.  The 
names  are  Ghristian  names,  not  surnames;  the 
gentleman  assuming  them  is  not  a  member  of 
the  Gollege  of  Justice ;  and  the  officials  recognizing 
the  assumption  only  represent  the  Writers  to  H.M. 
Signet,  who  are  not  a  judicial  body  at  all.  It  has 
hitherto  been  held  in  this  country  that  Ghristian 
names  are  immutable.  Surnames  are  changed  and 
added,  perhaps  too  frequently  of  late,  and  if  Ghris- 
tian names  are  also  to  be  varied,  as  in  the  United 
States,  an  air  of  ridicule  will  attach  to  all  changes, 
and  we  shall  be  living  in  the  midst  of  a  masquerade. 

S*** 

Edinburgh. 

Thb  MujiDER  OF  Lord  Frbdehick  Gavbndish 
AND  Mr.  Burke.  — As  there  seems  but  little 
prospect  of  the  evidence  in  this  case  coming  again 
formally  before  the  public,  it  may  be  as  weU  to 
correct  a  not  unimportant  mistake  in  (I  believe) 
all  the  newspaper  comments  up  to  the  present 
date.  Oa  the  authority  of  an  evidently  loose 
report  in  the  Times  (and  other  papers)  of  May  8 
of  an  examination  held  by  the  Lord  Ghancellor  at 


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[6th  S.V.Jff«  10/82. 


Dublin  Castle  on  May  7,  Lieutenant  (called  Cap- 
tain) Oreatorix  is  made  to  state  that  he  addressed 
the  actual  murderers  with  the  words,  "  That  was 
rough  work'\:  to  which  they  were  represented  as 
answering,  **  Kough  work  indeed,"  as  they  drove 
away.  By  reference  to  Lieut.  Greatorix's  evidence 
at  the  inquest  (reported  in  the  Times  of  May  9) 
it  will  be  seen  that  this  is  a  complete  mistake,  and 
that  Lieut.  Greatoriz's  remark  ("  This  looks  like 
a  bad  business  ")  was  addressed  to  a  labourer  near 
the  spot ;  whereas  there  is  nothing  whatever  in  his 
evidence  of  the  supposed  remark  to  and  reply  by 
the  murderers.  As  there  has  been  much  sensa- 
tional comment  and  some  inferences  have  been 
founded  on  this  blunder,  it  is  worth  while  to  make 
the  correction  before  a  bit  of  false  history  gets 
fixed  in  the  public  recollection.  C.  C.  M. 

Irish  Party  Names  :  Caravats  and  Shana- 
TE8T8. — The  following  is  compiled  from  the  evi- 
dence of  James  Slattery  and  of  the  Be  v.  John 
Ryan,  parish  priest  of  Feathard,  when  both  were 
cross-examined  :~ 

" Though  the  stranifelynamed  niccessors  of  the 
Threshers  did  not  commit  such  open  outrages  until  the 
autumn  and  winter  of  1810  as  to  require  any  eztra- 
ordiuary  action  of  the  executive,  they  had  assumed 
their  rival  names  and  divided  themseWes  into  separate 
bodies  within  a  very  short  time  after  the  trials  of  their 
predecessors.  The  origin  of  their  quarrel  *  was  some 
fooliah  dispute  about  May  balls';  that  of  their  rcipectiTe 
ities  was  as  sillv  as  usual  in  all  party  nickname?.  The 
Oaravats,  the  older  party,  had  been  called  Pauddeen  Gar's 
men,  until  one  of  their  number,  prosecuted  by  the 
Shanavests  for  burning  a  house  of  a  man  who  had  taken 
land  over  his  neighbour's  head,  was  hanged,  and  Paud- 
deen Oar,  their  leader,  declared  he  would  not  leave  the 
place  of  execution  until  he  saw  'caravat'  about  the 
fellow's  neck.  Their  rivals,  previously  called  Moyle 
Hanger*,  obtained  their  name  from  the  old  waistcoats 
which  they  wore."— Browne,  Nanathes  of  Slate  Trials 
dn  tU  Nineteenth  Century,  1882,  vol.  i.  p.  400. 

William  Georqb  Black. 
Glasgow. 

The  Popular  Estimate  of  Southet  Eighty 
Years  ago. — In  the  Oentleman's  Magazine  for 
January,  1801,  is  a  parody  on  the  first  satire  of 
Juvenal,  which  ends  with  a  sneer  at  some  third 
or  fourth  rate  contemporary  poet  of  his  day : — 

" faclt  indignatio  versum, 

Qualemcunque  potest ;  quales  ego  vel  Cluvienus." 

It  is  not  a  little  singular  that  the  writer  thus 
paraphrases  the  words : — 

"  Still  indignation  should  Inspire  the  Muse, 
Still  flow  the  ardent  verse  in  Nature's  spite, 
Verse  such  as  I  or  Southey's  self  may  write." 
The  lines  may  be  of  some  slight  interest  to  men 
of  letters  as  showing  the  low  estimate  in  which 
Southey  was  held  in  his  earlier  years. 

E.  Walford,  M.A. 

A  Stinging-Nettle  on  Oak-Applb  Day. — 
On  the   morning  of  Oak-Apple  Day,  May  29, 


the  pofltman,  in  delivering  the  letters  to  my 
servant  (in  Rutland),  had  concealed  a  freshly 
plucked  stinging-nettle  among  the  letters  and 
papers  in  such  a  way  that  she  was  stung  when 
she  took  the  packet  from  him.  He  said  that  it 
was  a  punishment  for  not  having  an  oak  bough 
put  out  at  the  door,  and  that  it  was  ^  always  the 
custom"  to  give  a  stinging-nettle  to  those  who 
did  not  display  their  oak.  This  custom  is  quite 
new  to  me,  so  I  here  record  it.  I  wonder  if  it  is 
widely  spread  and  of  ancient  date. 

Cuthbbrt  Beds. 

The  Corby  Pole  Fair.— The  following  extract 
from  the  Poll  Mall  Gazette  of  May  31,  is,  I  think, 
worth  preserving  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q.":— 

"At  Corby,  near  Kettering,  the  great  Pole  Fair,  held 
once  every  twenty  years  to  commemorate  the  charter 
granted  bv  Queen  Elizabeth  in  1585,  and  confirmed  by 
Charles  11.  in  1682,  to  the  men  and  tenants  of  the 
ancient  demesne  of  Corby,  was  proclaimed  on  Whit  Mon- 
day morning  at  four  o'clock.  The  rector  was  carried  in 
mock  state  to  the  outskirts  of  the  village,  where  he  read 
the  charter.  Afterwards  he  was  placed  in  the  stocks, 
and  liberated  on  paying  a  tolL  All  the  male  residents 
of  the  place  are  similarly  treated,  being  fetched  from 
their  homes  if  they  did  not  appear.  B«rrier8  were  placed 
at  each  entrance  to  the  Tillage,  all  yisitors  being  required 
to  pay  toll.  Those  who  were  discovered  without  Pole 
tickets  were  placed  in  the  stocks  until  the  rights  of  the 
men  of  Corby  were  satisfied." 

G.  F.  R.  B. 


Qufrtff. 

We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  only  priyate  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct 


St.  M'Loo's  Stone.— In  the  district  of 
Ryle  in  the  Queen's  County  in  Ireland  there  exist 
a  grave,  a  trough,  and  a  stone  with  which  the 
name  of  St.  M*Loo  is  connected.  His  grave 
and  his  trough  are  in  a  small  old  burial-grounc^ 
in  the  middle  of  which  stands  a  ruin,  apparently 
of  a  chapel,  but  there  seems  to  be  no  tradition 
connecting  the  name  of  the  saint  with  this  ruin. 
The  grave  is  1 1  ft.  long,  and  faces  differently  from 
the  graves  around.  On  the  assumption  that  St. 
M'Loo  was  the  priest,  two  explanations  of  this 
are  given  in  the  locality — the  one  that  the  priest 
may  more  easily  stand  in  front  of  his  flock  to 
present  them  on  the  Resurrection  Day ;  the  other, 
that  he  may  occupy  the  most  conspicuous  place  to 
bear  the  Divine  indignation  should  he  have  proved 
unfaithful  to  his  trust. 

St.  M'Loo's  grave  is  at  one  end  of  the  burial- 
ground,  and  his  trough  at  the  other.  The  trough 
is  of  hewn  stone,  2  ft.  long  by  I  ft.  broad,  and 
is  overshadowed  by  a  small  white-thorn  tree. 
Many  resort  to  this  trough  to  be  cured  by  its  holy 
water  of  their  various  diseases,  and  every  one  who 


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comes  attaches  a  piece  of  rag  to  the  little  tree. 
The  trough  is  ne^er  empty,  and  is  said  to  be 
miraculoasly  filled.  Interments  still  take  place 
in  Ryle  graveyard,  and  often  at  Roman  Catholic 
funends,  when  the  body  has  been  laid  in  the  grave, 
all  the  mourners  gather  round  the  trough  and  pray 
there. 

St.  M  Loo's  stone  lies  in  the  middle  of  a  field 
opposite  to  the  burial-ground,  from  which  it  is 
separated  by  the  high  road.  Tradition  states  that 
the  saint  knelt  so  often  upon  the  stone  to  weep 
and  pray  that  he  wore  five  holes  in  its  surface 
— two  by  his  knees,  one  by  his  clasped  hands,  and 
two  by  his  tears.  The  holes  worn  by  his  tears 
are  on  the  right  side  of  the  stone.  The  circum- 
ference of  the  stone  is  15  ft.  11  in.,  its  length 
5  ft.  7  in.,  its  breadth  4  ft.,  and  its  depth  3  ft. 
There  are  on  the  sides  traces  of  what  appear  to 
have  been  cup  and  ring  marks. 

The  usual  unwillingness  to  disturb  such  relics 
prevails,  and  the  people  believe  that  a  blight 
would  fall  upon  any  one  who  ventured  upon  such 
desecration.    Who,  then,  was  St.  M'Loo  ?     W. 

Crocodile's  Tears.— The  Nineteenth  Century 
for  April  has  an  interesting  article  on  the  supersti- 
tions of  Modern  Greece.  In  speaking  of  the 
mythical  beings  which  have  replaced  in  the  popular 
mind  the  ancient  divinities,  it  is  said  that  some  of 
them  assume  a  human  form  with  slight  modifica- 
tions, or  that  of  an  entirely  fantastic  creature  ;  but 
that  the  seal  is  represented  as  it  is  now  known  to 
us,  although  the  fable  is  that  a  woman  is  hid 
beneath  its  rude  exterior.  When  a  swimmer 
ventures  too  far  the  seal  seizes  him  by  the  neck, 
strangles  him,  carries  him  off,  lays  him  on  a  desert 
shore  and  weeps  over  him,  from  which  comes  the 
popular  saying,  when  a  woman  sheds  false  tears, 
''  She  cries  like  a  seal.''  If  I  remember  rightly, 
the  fable  relating  to  the  crocodile  is  that  it  attracts 
men  by  its  plaintive  cry  and  tears  in  order  to  draw 
them  within  its  reach  and  prey  upon  them. 
May  not  the  story  originally  have  been  the  same 
as  that  related  in  the  present  day  in  Greece  of  the 
seal  ?  The  subject  is  worthy  of  the  attention  of 
folk-lorists.  B.  McO . 

Gaemsey. 

The  *' Lady's  Smock":  "Lucy  Locket."— 
There  are  many  cuckoo  flowers  now  in  full  blossom. 
Of  these  there  is  the  very  pretty  cuckoo  flower  that 
is  usually  called  **  the  lady's  smock "  {Cardamine 
pratemis).  Why  is  it  so  called  ?  Has  it  to  do 
with  "  Our  Lady,"  as  is  the  case  with  "  lady's  bed- 
straw"  {Qalium  verum),  or  the  Alpine  "lady's 
mantle"  {Alchemilla  Alpina)'i  oris  it,  as  I  have 
understood,  because  its  pale  flowers,  although 
tinged  with  lilac,  yet  seem,  as  Shakspeare  says, 
"all  silver  white"  when  viewed  from  a  brief 
distance,  and  as  they  grow  in  masses  among  the 
grass  give  the  effect  of  white  linen  laid  out  to 


bleach  ?  However  this  may  be,  I  have  met  with  a 
curious  name  for  this  "lady's  smock  "  hero  in  Rut- 
land, where  I  asked  some  children  what  they  called 
the  flower,  and  they  said,  "  It's  Lucy  Locket,  sir  !  " 
As  I  cannot  find  any  mention  of  this  name  in  the 
books  that  I  have  on  my  shelves,  I  here  make  a 
note  of  it.  Cuthbert  Beds. 

"  Grbssome."  —  An  old  manorial  custom  at 
Skipton,  and  one  incident  to  copyhold  tenancies, 
was  that  every  tenth  year  the  tenant  paid  a 
year's  rent  by  way  of  gressome,  and  at  the  death 
of  every  tenant  in  possession  the  best  living  or 
dead  chattel  was  claimed  by  the  lord  as  a  heriot, 
I  am  puzzled  with  the  word  gressome — that  is  the 
form  in  which  I  meet  with  it.  What  is  the  origin 
of  the  word,  and  what  the  legal  meaning  ?  Was 
the  custom  of  paying  this  gressome  a  general  one  ? 
Also,  has  the  heriot  been  claimed  in  modem  years? 

W.  H.  Dawson. 

[See  «  Gressome  "  in  "  N.  &  Q.."  &^  S.  i.  167, 232. 338. 
474;  also  "  Gersome "  and  **  Heriot"  in  Jamieson's 
Etymological  Dictionary  of  the  Scottish  Language] 

P.  Carey's  Poems. — There  has  recently  come 
into  my  possession  a  copy  of  "  Trivial  Poems  and 
TrioletSf  written  in  obedience  to  Mrs.  Tomkins's 
Commands  by  Patrick  Carey,  20  August,  1651." 
London,  Murray,  1820.  In  the  preface  by  Mr. 
(afterwards  Sir  Waiter)  Scott  it  is  stated  that  '-'it 
does  not  appear  that  these  poems  were  ever 
printed  ";  but  on  referring  to  Lowndes  (Bohn),  sub 
nam,  "Carey,"  I  find  that  "these  poems  wero 
previously  printed."  I  should  be  glad  of  informa- 
tion as  to  when  and  where  this  previous  publica- 
tion took  place.  Mars  Demique. 

The  Owl  av  Emblem  of  Death.— A  few 
days  since  I  saw  in  a  stonemason's  yard  at 
Coblenz,  Germany,  a  monument,  on  which,  in 
addition  to  an  anchor  and  a  wreath,  was  an  ow>, 
which  I  at  first  mistook  for  a  parrot.  -  What  is 
the  origin  of  this  use  of  the  owl  as  a  symbol  of 
death?  Frederick  £.  Sawyer. 

Brighton. 

DuROMAGns.~Mr.  J.  R.  Green,  the  historian, 
seems  to  have  invented  a  new  name.  In  his  new 
book.  The  Making  of  England,  1881,  referring  to 
the  northern  Durobrivae,  he  separates  Chesterton, 
in  Hunts,  from  its  twin  Castor  next  Peterborough, 
by  giving  them  different  names.  It  has  been 
understood  that  the  plural  form  'hrivee  meant  that 
the  settlement  comprised  two  stations ;  so  that  as 
Mizraim  is  the  two  Egypts,  Upper  and  Lower,  the 
Durobrivse  was  a  double  town.  The  remains  are 
very  evident.  Chesterton  and  Water  Newton  in 
Hunts  have  a  camp  and  numerous  potteries,  villas, 
&c.;  Castor  in  Northants  was  larger— a  real  city. 
Mr.  Green  admits  the  south  bank  of  the  Nene  to 
represent  Dnrobrivss,  and  calls  Castor  Duromagns. 
This,  I  suppose,  in  English  would  be^Watei^d^ 


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[S«h8.  V.JcKBlO,'a2. 


but  Castor  stands  on  high  ground  above  the 
swamps  of  the  Nene.  What  is  the  authority  for 
Duromagus  ?  Bertram  gives  us  Durnomagus, 
but  he  is  now  so  very  generally  discredited  that 
I  hope  some  better  authority  may  be  produced* 

Lysart. 

"Quid  hoc  ad  Iphicli  boves":  "  What  has 
all  this  to  do  with  the  shoeing  of  my  poor 
If  AG  ?  "  (Kenilworth,  ch.  ix.)— H.  C,  in  "  N.  &  Q.," 
5^  S.  iL  48,  and  Mr.  J.  Manlet  Hawker  in  6^ 
8.  vii.  308,  inquired  for  the  source  of  the  apparent 
Latin  proverb  above  cited.  No  reply  was  given 
to  either  of  the  querists.  Can  any  of  the  present 
correspondents  of  N.  &  Q."  point  out  the  source, 
or  mention  an  earlier  use  of  it,  to  show  that  it 
did  not  originate  with  Sir  W,  Scott  himself?  It 
does  not  occur  in  the  common  collections  of  such 
«ayings.  £d.  Marshall. 

Caknok  OR  Canon  (of  a  Bell)  ?— In  the  news- 
paper accounts  of  the  casting  and  progress  of 
€rreat  Paul,  whilst  the  writers  agree  in  mentioning 
tibe  "  cannons  "  of  the  bell,  they  disagree  as  to  the 
spelling  of  the  word.  No  dictionary  that  I  possess 
says  anything  about  bells  under  either  spelling ; 
«ven  Jamieson's  Dictionary  of  Mechanical  Terms 
fails  me  here.  Bailey,  under  *^  Canon,"  gives: 
*' Canon  (among  horsemen)  is  that  part  of  the 
horse-bit  which  is  let  into  the  mouth."  Possibly 
the  bell  canons  are  derived  from  this. 

£.  Leaton  Blenkinsopp. 

The  Toad  and  the  Centipede.— -The  Wetkly 
Freeman  of  May  27  contains  a  report  of  a  speech 
delivered  in  New  York  on  May  12  by  Mrs.  Parnell, 
in  which  she  refers  to  "the  centipede  who  was 
happy  until  the  toad  in  spite  asked  which  leg  went 
after  which,  and  after  tnat  the  centipede  never 
knew  which  to  put  first."  Is  this  a  well-known 
story?  James  Britten. 

Iileworth. 

Sarah,  Duchess  of  Marlborough. — In  the 
advertisements  which  have  recently  appeared  in 
the  papers  relating  to  the  proposed  sale  of  the 
Borweu  estate  in  Lincolnshire  it  is  stated  that 
"  the  old  Manor  House  is  reputed  to  be  the  birth- 
place of  Sarah,  Dacbess  of  Marlborough."  May  I 
ask  :  1.  What  is  the  authority  for  this  statement  ? 
2,  Where  can  an  authentic  account  of  the  ancestry 
of  Sarah  Jennings  be  found  ?  Clk. 

Grosnt  Castle.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers 
give  the  name  of  any  manuscript  or  printed  book, 
other  than  histories,  &c.,  of  the  Channel  Islands, 
in  which  mention  is  made  of  the  ruins  on  the 
north-western  coast  of  Jersey  traditionally  known 
as  Grosny  Castle?  Perhaps  some  of  those  who 
have  seen  them  may  be  able  to  give  an  opinion  as 
to  their  date  and  original  purpose. 

W.  L.  D.  G. 


St.  Giles's  Fair.— Where  is  the  best  account 
of  this  fair,  formerly  held  in  or  near  Winchester, 
to  be  found  ?  It  was  for  several  centuries  one  of 
the  principal  mercantile  fairs  held  in  England. 
When  did  it  cease  to  be  famous,  and  is  its  anni- 
versary kept  in  any  form  now  ? 

Cornelius  Walfobd. 

Bebise  Paik  Gardenf,  N.W. 

Rev.  Pelham,  Bector  op  Crowhurst, 

Sussex. — Can  any  correspondent  give  me  infor- 
mation as  to  the  above?  He  had  a  son,  John 
Pelham,  Clerk  of  the  Survey  in  the  Royal  Dockyard, 
Woolwich,  1699,  who  had  John,  bom  1675  ;  Maiy, 
bom  1677;  William,  bom  1678  ;  Kendrick,  bom 
1680  ;  Charles,  bom  1684.  The  last-named  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of Smith,  and  had  issue  a 

daughter  Martha  (of  East  Wickham  House,  Kent), 
who  married  Thomas  Jones,ComptrolIer  of  Artillery, 
Woolwich,  and  had  issue  three  children :  Jane,  bora 
1686;  Thomas,  born  1689;  and  Henry,  born  1691. 
The  parish  registers  of  Crowhurst  do  not  throw 
any  light  on  the  subject,  and  the  diocesan  records 
do  not,  as  to  Crowhurst,  go  back  further  than  1730. 
Reginald  Stewart  Boddinoton. 

Beaconsfield  Club,  Pall  Mall,  8.W. 

Fleetwood  :  Shelley.— Who  was  Fleetwood, 
the  governor  of  Fort  St.  George,  E.I.,  in  1686? 
Did  his  daughter  Elizabeth  marry  Richard  Shelley, 
son  of  Sir  John  Shelley,  Bt.? 

Constance  Russell. 

Swallowfield  Park,  Beading. 

Rbv.  Richabd  Johnson,  Australu.— I  ask 
for  information  as  to  the  family  of  the  above ;  also, 
the  exact  date  of  his  death.  Does  a  portrait  of  him 
exist  ?  He  was  a  Fellow  of  Magdalen  CoUege,  Cam- 
bridge, and  went  oat  to  Australia  with  the  "  First 
fleet "  as  chaplain,  and  inlroduced  the  orange  tree 
there.  He  returned  to  Endand  about  the  end  of 
the  last  century.  J.  Hennikbr  Heaton. 

St  Stephen's  Olab,  Weatmintter. 

The  Squire  Papers.— What  are  these  ?  In  the 
Royal  Academy,  1878,  was  a  painting  by  Calderon, 
representing  the  rescue  of  two  nuns  from  the  con- 
vent at  Loughborough  in  December,  1643,  prior 
to  its  demolition  by  Cromwell's  troops.  In  the 
Catalogue  is  a  long  extract  from  the  "Squire 
Papers^'  concerning  this  affair.  Is  anything 
further  known  about  this  convent  ? 

W.  G.  D.  F. 

"  Poker."— What  are  the  origin  and  meaning 
of  the  word  "poker"  as  applied  to  the  great 
American  game,  which  is  sometimes  also  called 
"draw-poker"?  I  have  seen  it  described  by 
Hotten,  I  think,  in  a  foot-note  to  one  of  Artemus 
Ward's  or  Mark  Twain's  allusions,  as  a  corraption 
of  the  old  English  "  pot-ot-paire."  But  what  was 
that?  ^^  Chas.  Welsh. 

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"  Flibtcher.'* — Thb  word  ia  applied  in  War- 
wickshire to  the  cascade  or  waterfall  from  the 
overflow  from  the  back-water  of  a  mill  or  pond. 
Query,  is  it  derived  from  '*  fleet,**  which  a  note  in 
the  Promptorium  tells  us  signifies  a  watercourse, 
as  Northfleet  and  Southfleet  on  the  Thames,  the 
Fleet  Ditch,  &cl  I  do  not  find  the  word  as 
applied  to  a  cascade  in  the  dictionaries,  and 
perhaps,  therefore,  it  may  be  peculiar  to  the  Mid- 
lands. £y.  Ph.  Shiblxt. 

''  Sakore  azul."— It  is  well  known  that  those 
Spanish  words,  translated  '*  blue  blood,"  are  used 
to  desjniate  nobility,  or  purity  of  descent  from  the 
early  (^thic  conquerors  of  Spain,  the  blue  veins 
being  phiinly  seen  on  the  clear  fair  skins  of  the 
northern  nations.  But  is  this  really  the  origin  of 
the  term  ?  I  have  before  me  a  French  translation 
of  Lady  Anne  Blunt's  account  of  her  travels  in 
Arabia,  and  I  find  in  it  an  Arabic  word  oii/,  used 
with  the  sense  of  noble;  for  example,  "Les 
nomades  de  sang  asil  (noble).''  Considering  how 
many  Arabic  words  are  to  be  found  in  Spanish, 
may  not  iangre  azul  have  been  originally  sangre 
<uiU  E.  McO . 

"  Umbraoeotts."— "  To  take  umbrage,"  m.=to 
take  offence,  is  a  strange  phrase ;  but  icm&royeouf, 
as  the  adjectival  form  of  this  kind  of  umbrage,  is 
vei^  uncommon.  Mr.  Lecky,  in  the  third  volume 
of  his  History  of  England^  &c.,  p.  351,  quotes  a 
passage  from  Lord  CkcUham'i  Correspondence 
(iii.  193),  where  he  speaks  of  "  irritable  and  um- 
brageous people."  Worcester  cites  Warburton  as 
using  umhrageoiM  in  this  way,  but  he  gives  no 
reference.  In  which  of  his  works  is  it  to  be 
found  ?  Jatdbs. 

^*  Olives  "  for  Prikrosis.— I  have  been  told 
that  oUvee  are  mentioned  in  old  Scottish  poetry  as 
if  they  grew  in  Scotland,  which  of  course  they 
never  did.  But  in  the  patoie  of  a  district  in  the 
Jura  primroses  are  called  olives.  Is  it  possible 
that  it  is  an  old  French  word  for  primroses,  and 
Chat  it  was  adopted  in  Scotland,  as  so  many  French 
words  have  been  ?  M.  S.  E. 

Sir  Bichard  Worthinoton,  Mator  of 
Dublin. — Can  you  tell  me  anything  about  the 
above?  H.  FouLis. 

Andrew  Hunter,  Abbot  of  Melrose,  and 
Lord  High  Treasurer  of  Scotland,  1449-57. 
— Is  there  any  portrait  extant  of  the  above  ?  Was 
he  buried  at  Melrose,  or  where?  Is  there  any 
biography  of  him  ?  Venator. 

"  QuiVES."— The  fourteen  poor  girls  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Fuller^s  Free  School  at  Watford,  in 
Herts— which  school  was  founded  in  1708— were 
to  be  clothed,  and  I  hope  they  still  are  clothed, 
^'with  linsey  woolsey  gowns,  holland  bands  and 


quives,  and  blue  aprons  of  linsey  woolsey."  The 
gowns  were  to  be  of  a  grey  colour,  and  the  girls 
were  to  be  taught  by  the  mistress  to  make  their 
own  aprons.  My  question  is.  What  are  "  quives," 
and  unds  derivatur  f 

I  may  add  that  Mrs.  Fuller  willed  "  that  when 
needful  the  Bibles  now  chained  in  the  church  "  of 
Watford  ^'  should  be  renewed  with  others  having 
the  Apocrypha  and  Common  Prayer  in  them."  I 
wonder  whether  they  ever  were  renewed*  There 
are  no  chained  Bibles,  I  think,  in  Watford  Church 
now.  A.  J.  M. 

Authors  of  Books  Wanted.— 

Crayonifr&m  ike  Commons;  or,  Memhtri  in  Rdievo, 
A  Poem,  Satirical  and  Descriptive.  By  Peregrine 
Palette,  Esq.  London,  James  Cochrane  k  Co.,  1831.— 
The  question  was  put  in  your  columns  twenty-one  years 
ago  (2"'  S.  xi  487),  and  has  never  been  answered  there. 
The  work  consists  of  satirical  eketchet,  in  heroic 
couplets,  of  the  most  prominent  members  of  the  House 
of  Commons  of  that  day.  Of  the  persons  satirised 
Lord  Qrey  is  the  only  one  now  living.  C.  T.  B. 


PABOCHIAL  REGISTERS. 

(6«»  S.  Y.  141,  211,  233,  248,  273,  291,  310, 
329,  409.) 

Most  people  hare  an  interest  in  the  preservation 
of  ancient  parish  registers,  and  would  feel  a  satis- 
faction if  any  plan  could  be  adopted  by  which 
these  documents  could  be  preserred  from  further 
destruction.  In  former  years  but  little  care  was 
taken  of  them  ;  it  is  recorded  that  they  were  sold 
as  waste  paper,  cut  up  into  tailors'  measures,  trans- 
formed into  kettle-holders,  and  the  like ;  in  one 
case  a  squabble  at  a  parish  vestry  ended  in  the 
registers  bein^  thrown  into  the  town  pond  !  A 
Northamptonshire  historian  relates  how  parish 
registers  disappear  altogether.  Between  two  of  his 
visits  to  various  parishes  five  registers  had  alto- 
gether vanished,  and  out  of  seventy  he  had  pe- 
rused sixteen  had  perished  within  a  short  interval 
Again,  registers  were  liable  to  be  tampered  with. 
In  one  case  an  inquirer  seeking  information,  which 
he  succeeded  in  finding,  the  parish  clerk,  not  hav- 
ing pen  and  ink  at  hand  to  make  a  copy  of  the 
entry,  cut  out  the  whole  leaf  from  the  register  and 
handed  it  over  to  the  inquirer.  There  is  also  the 
case  of  Miss  Ohudleigh,  who,  for  an  iniquitous 
purpose,  wished  to  conceal  her  private  marriage 
with  Lieut.  Hervey.  Accompanied  by  a  female 
friend,  she  made  a  visit  to  Laniston,  where  the 
marriage  took  place,  and  desired  to  see  the  parish 
register ;  whilst  her  friend  engaged  the  attention 
of  the  parish  derk  she  cut  out  the  page  containing 
the  entry  of  her  marriage,  and  with  that  important 
document  in  her  possession  returned  to  London. 
By  a  strange  irony  of  fiette,  the  poor  lieutenant 
)igitized  by 


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[Clh  S.  V.  JlTHB  10,  '82. 


became  Earl  of  Bristol.    To  be  plain  Mrs.  Herrey 
was  one  thing,  to  be  Coantess  of  Bristol  another. 
The  lady  was  equal  to  the  change  of  circumstances; 
she  took  another  journey  to  Laniston,  and  by  the 
assistance  of  an  attorney  and  a  bribe  to  the  parish 
clerk  she  got  the  abstracted  leaf  reinserted  in  its 
proper  plf^  in  the  register.    Some  years  ago,  in 
looking  over  some  old  castaway  papers,  I  met  with 
a  parish  register  belonging  to  a  Tillage  in  this 
xeighbourhood.    On  looking  through  it  1  found  it 
to  contain  a  record  of  the  births,  marriages,  and 
deaths  of  one  of  the  most  ancient  and  historic 
families  we  haye.    I  took  care  that  the  document 
was  safely  deposited  in  the  place  whence  it  had 
been  removed,  probably  for  some  trifling  pur- 
pose.   Injunctions  from  time  to  time  have  been 
issued  as  to  the  management  of  parish  registers. 
In  1597  the  clergy  of  Canterbury  in  convocation 
made  a  new  ordinance  respecting  registers,  which 
was   formally   approved    oy   the    Queen   under 
the  great  seal.    It  commences  by  noticing  their 
great  utility,  and  lays  down  minute  regulations  for 
their  preservation,  which  were  afterwaras  embodied 
in  the  seventieth  canon  of  1603 ;  and  it  was  ordered 
that  every  minister  at  his  institution  should  sub- 
scribe to  this   protestation  :   "  I  shall  keep  the 
register-book  according  to  the  Queen's  Majesty's 
injunctions."  The  canon  directed  that  every  parish 
should  provide  itself  with  a  parchment  book,  and 
that  the  entries  from  the  old  paper  books  should 
be  transcribed  therein,  each  page  being  authenti- 
cated by  the  minister  and  churchwardens ;  "  this 
parchment  book  should  be  kept  in  a  sure  coffer 
with  three  locks/'  and  that,  for  further  security 
against  loss,  a  true  copy  of  the  names  of  all  persons 
christened,  married,  or  buried  in  the  year  should 
be  transmitted  every  year  to  the  bishop  of  the 
diocese,  within  a  month  after  Easter,  to  be  pre- 
served in  the  episcopal  archives.     This  seventieth 
canon  has  never  been  repealed,  and  the  registers 
were  kept  by  the  clergy  under  its  authority  until 
the  passing  of  Rose's  Act  in  1812.    The  canon  of 
1597  attached  no  fees  to  the  transcript,  either  for 
the  parish  or  the  bishop,  and  neither  of  them  was 
zealous  for  employment   without   remuneration. 
The  result  has  been  that  the  parishes  often  grudged 
the  expense  of  a  copy,  the  bishops  seldom  insistea  on 
its  transmission,  and  the  diocesan  registrars  allowed 
their  archives  to  remain  "  unarranged  and  uncon- 
sultable,"*and  the  bishops'  transcripts,  which  ought 
to  have  formed  an  inyaluable  department  of  the 
public  records,  now  present  a  lamentable  picture  of 
episcopal   negligence,   parochial   parsimony,  and 
official  rapacity,  t 

In  respect  of  the  care  of  parish  registers  matters 
are  much  improved,  and  the  custody  of  them  is  a 
duty  now  duly  appreciated.    Many  of  the  ancient 


•  Sir  W.  Benthun  before  Committee  in  1882. 
t  B.  B.  C.  Waters,  on  Parish  Registers. 


registers  were  not  taken  proper  care  of  in  earlier 
days.  Custodians  were  not  all  so  careful  as  the  vicar 
who  gave  some  good  practical  advice  as  to  their 
preservation:  "  If  ye  will  have  this  booke  last,  bee 
sure  to  aire  it  att  the  fire  or  in  the  sunne  three  or 
foure  times  a  year,  els  it  will  grow  dankish  and 
rott,  therefore  look  ye  to  it." 

I  have  never  had  reason  to  complain  of  indispo- 
sition on  the  part  of  any  custodians  of  parish  re- 
gisters in  affording  me  access  to  them  or  in  giring 
information ;  on  the  contrary,  I  give  them  credit  for 
an  anxiety  to  assist  when  the  object  of  inquiry 
has  been  for  a  public  purpose.  I  know  cases  where 
custodians  have  been  put  to  a  deal  of  trouble  and 
hindrance  in  searching,  and  have  not  been  remu- 
nerated even  by  thanks.  This,  where  the  search  ia 
made  for  private  purposes,  is  unpardonable.  In 
one  instance  the  clergyman  of  a  parish  very  agree- 
ably assisted  in  eoing  through  a  register,  after 
which  the  visitor  lunched  at  the  parsonage  and  a 
very  agreeable  visit  was  made.  In  due  time,  how- 
ever, the  clergyman  forwarded  his  *^  little  bill "  of 
51.  5«.,  to  which  the  inquirer  demurred  ;  a  county 
court  summons  followed,  and  the  clergyman  ob- 
tained a  yerdict  for  his  claim  with  all  costs. 

The  safe  custody  of  parish  registers  is  not  all 
that  ia  required  ;  steps  should  be  taken,  as  far  as 
possible,  to  avert  their  disappearance  from  natural 
decay.  Only  a  few  days  ago  I  was  perusing  a 
parish  document  which  had  suffered  from  *' dankish 
and  rott";  every  leaf  of  it  crumbled  under  my 
fingers.  All  the  care  imaginable  cannot  long 
preserve  many  of  these  documents  from  ulti- 
mate loss,  consequent  on  decay  from  former  care- 
lessness ;  an  early  transcript  of  them  is  imperative 
to  preserve  their  contents. 

1  do  not  think  the  suggestion  of  your  correspon- 
dent Mr.  Cutts,  that  of  enlisting  the  services  of 
the  local  press,  would  be  satisfactory ;  many  re^ 
gisters  are  mere  records  of  births,  marriages,  and 
deaths,  and  page  after  page  would  be  dull  and  un- 
interesting.   On  the  other  hand,  I  hare  found  ia 
parish  registers  entries  of  the  greatest  interest ; 
memoranda  which  have  led  me  to  further  research 
and  success  in  obtaining  information  I  could  not 
have  met  with  through  any  other  source.    News- 
paper editors  would  only  be  induced  to  transcribe 
such  items  as  might  be  likely  to  entertain  their 
readers,  so  that  their  extracts  would  be  neither 
complete  nor  ofiicial,  consequently  of  no  value.  The 
only  method  will  be  by  an  Act  of  Parliament,  and 
it  is  satisfactory  that  the   correspondence  lately 
published  on  the  subject  has  led  to  a  step  in  this 
direction.    Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  should  have  included 
"  Parish  Records."    Churchwardens'  and  overseers' 
account    books    of  former  years   contain  a  vast 
amount  of  matter  which  to  future  writers  treatiB^ 
of  our  ancient  social  manners  and  customs  would 
be  found  of  great  value.    These  documents  ave 
equijly  worthy  of  preservation. 


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Under  the  proTisions  of  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  every 
existing  roister  which  shall  have  been  kept  in  any 
parish  prior  to  the  Ist  of  July,  1837,  and  every 
transcript  thereof  now  existing  in  the  registries  of 
the  various  dioceses  of  England  and  Wales,  shall, 
from  and  after  the  passing  of  this  Act,  be  under 
the  charge  and  control  of  the  Master  of  the  Rolls, 
on  behalf  of  Her  Majesty,  and  shall  be  removed  to 
the  Beooid  Office ;  and  as  regards  all  bishops' 
transcripts  of  a  date  prior  to  that  above  mentioned, 
and  sucn  of  the  registers  as  were  made  and  entered 
prior  to  January  1,  1813,  the  Master  of  the  Rolls 
shall  issue  warrants  to  the  several  persons  having 
the  care  of  them,  ordering  such  persons  to  allow 
the  same  to  be  removed  from  their  present  places 
of  custody,  and  deposited  in  the  Record  Office. 
Such  registers  as  were  made  and  entered  from 
January  1,  1813,  to  June  30,  1837,  inclusive,  shall 
remain,  it  is  provided,  in  the  custody  of  their 
present  legal  custodians  for  a  period  of  twenty 
years  from  the  passing  of  the  Act,  after  that  time 
to  be  transmitted  to  the  Record  Office.  The  pro- 
visions of  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  will  apply  to  registers 
of  baptisms,  marriages,  and  burials  of  cathedral 
and  collegiate  churches,  and  chapels  of  colleges  and 
hospitals,  and  the  burial  registers  belonging  there- 
to, and  to  the  ministers  officiating  therein.  The 
BUI  provides  for  the  proper  keeping  and  indexing 
of  the  registers,  and  fixes  the  fees  for  searching 
the  same^  with  other  provisions,  and  bears  the 
appropriate  title  of  "The  Parochial  Registers 
Preservation  Act,  1882."  Robert  Gibbs. 

Aylesbury,  fiackt. 

The  objectors  to  some  better  method  of  pre- 
serving the  parish  registers  than  now  obtains,  and 
who  oppose  such  a  Bill  as  Mr.  Borlase's  for  anti- 
quarian reasons,  without  some  practically  avail- 
able substitute,  should  not  forget  that  the  pre- 
servation of  legal  evidence  is  of  far  more  import- 
ance than  the  gratification  of  genealogical  curio- 
sity. I  have  heard  it  stated  that  the  number  of 
those  who  in  all  England  are  interested  in  the 
publication  of  parish  registers,  about  which  so 
much  has  lately  been  written,  may  be  estimated 
at  one  hundred  and  fifty,  not  more,  which  co- 
incides with  my  own  experience  so  far  as  it  is 
available.  But  my  informant  will  read  this,  and 
will  be  able  to  set  me  right  if  I  am  in  error.  And 
I  am  sure  that  he  will  do  so  as  a  friend. 

Another  point  is  to  be  kept  in  sight — that,  for 
the  generality  of  those  who  have  to  consult  several 
registers,  it  will  be  more  easy,  and  possibly  less 
expensive,  to  do  so  in  a  fixed  place,  where  all  can 
be  seen  at  once,  and  where  the  keeper  of  the 
registers  is  to  be  met  with  at  any  time.  The  in- 
convenience of  searching  public  documents  before 
they  were  collected  from  the  several  places  of 
deposit  and  put  together  in  the  Public  Record 
Office  is  well  known;  and  so  also  of  searching 


wills  before  they  were  brought  up  to  Doctors' 
Commons,  or,  as  now,  to  Somerset  House.  An 
inquirer  for  a  marriage  in  the  last  century  wrote 
to  me  lately,  and  he  has  to  institute  his  search  in 
a  variety  of  places.  How  easily  could  he  inquire 
if  the  registers  were  all  together ! 

Dr.  Htdb  Clarkb  makes  an  allusion,  ante, 
p.  411,  but  a  very  incomplete  one,  to  the  bishops' 
transcripts,  which  are  in  a  less  satisfactory  state 
than  the  parish  registers.  Some  time  since, 
when  the  subject  was  under  discussion  in  the 
Guardian,  a  letter  containing  their  history  was 
inserted  by  favour  of  the  editor ;  and  I  would  now 
ask  for  a  similar  favour  in  reference  to  an  abstract 
of  it  :— 

"  Thomas  Cromwell  bad  provided  for  the  existence  of 
parish  registers  in  A.i>.  1588,  and  in  1597  their  more 
effectual  preservation  by  transcription  was  enjoined 
npon  the  churchwardens  in  the  Ecclesiastical  Constitu- 
tions of  that  year  (Sparrow's  CoUection,  p.  256,  Lond., 
1684).  This  injunction  was  repeated  in  Canon  70,  ▲.!>. 
16u4,  and  was  sometimes  made  the  subject  of  a  question 
in  the  Articles  of  Inquiry  by  bishops,  as  by  Babington, 
Bishop  of  Worcester,  in  1607  (A pp.,  Second  Report  of 
RitucU  Comm.f  p.  454). 

••  The  Act  of  1812  (52  George  III.,  c.  146,  sec*.  6,  7, 9) 

Srovided  that  fair  copies  on  parchment  should  be  yearly 
eposited  by  the  incumbent,  or  others  in  his  default,  in 
the  bishop's  registry ;  while  sec.  8  required  that  a  reporl 
should  be  sent  in  by  the  several  bishops  as  to  the  pre- 
vious performance  of  this,  and  the  present  means  for 
performing  it,  by  the  year  1814. 

''A  parliamentary  inquiry  in  1832  elicited  facts  which 
showed  how  imperfectly  the  duty  had  been  performed, 
and  in  how  great  confusion  the  present  transcripts  were> 
and  how  they  bad  become  practically  useless  for  oon^ 
sulUtion.  The  Cttuut  Report  in  1833  contained  a  notice 
of  the  state  of  the  registers  in  every  parish ;  and  the 
Civil  Registration  Act,  6  &  7  Will.  IV.,  c.  86,  followed. 

'<  The  value  of  the  bishops*  transcripts  was  shown 
by  Mr.  Taswell-Lnngmead  in  his  pamphlet  on  Parish 
Registers,  p.  30, 1872.  And  other  instances  are  noticed 
in  another  pamphlet.  On  the  Preservation  of  Paroekiat 
Registers  and  other  Ecclesiastical  Documents,  Kendal^ 
1878.  Ed.  Mabshall. 

''Sandford  St.  Martin,  Dec.  11, 1879." 

The  quotations  illustrating  the  above  have  been 
omitted  in  this  abstract.  Many  families  have 
traditions,  besides  the  ascertained  cases,  as  to  the 
loss  of  property  by  the  tampering  with  the- 
registers,  which  at  least  shows  the  prevailing 
opinion  as  to  the  insecurity  of  their  preservation. 

Ed.  Marshall. 

I  have  no  wish  to  enter  into  the  controversy 
respecting  the  parish  registers ;  but  as  few  persons 
have  had  greater  experience  than  has  fallen  to  my  lot 
as  regards  these  records  for  more  than  a  quarter  of 
a  century,  I  feel  constrained  to  enter,  like  Mr.  Far- 
ousoN,my  strong  protestagainst  their  centralization^ 
and  their  consequent  removal  from  their  respective 
parishes,  except  under  one  condition,  which  I  will 
presently  mention.  To  say  nothing  of  some 
twenty  years'  laborious  work,  in  which  the  ex- 
amination of  parochial  registers  formed  an  impor- 


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tant  item,  during  the  ^lost  [six  years,  like  Mr. 
Fkrouson,  I  haye  written  for  and  edited  the 
TransactioM  of  an  important  county  archaeological 
flociety.  This  has  necessitated  references  to  a 
large  number  of  parish  registers  in  the  diocese  and 
elsewhere.  I  hare,  moreoyer.  yery  great  pleasure 
in  bearing  testimony,  like  Mr.  Fbrousok— as, 
indeed,  I  am  in  justice  bound  to  do-- to  the  uniform 
courtesy  and  kindness,  I  may  say  inyariably, 
ehown  me  by  the  parochial  clergy.  I  haye  been 
treated  with  hospitality  of  the  most  cordial  kind, 
and  through  the  introduction  of  the  registers  haye 
made  many  fnendships  which  I  greatly  yalue. 
Not  only  haye  I  been  allowed  free  access  to  the 
registers,  but  I  haye  receiyed  in  some  instances 
yery  great  assistance  from  the  clergy,  who  haye 
themselyes  continued  the  researches  for  me,  to 
4Baye  me  the  trouble  of  one  or  more  further  yisits. 
As  regards  the  future  custody  of  the  old  parish  re- 
gisters I  offered  a  suggestion  somewhat  more  than 
ten  yeaxB  ago  (see  "N.  &  Q."  4^^  S.  ix.  316).  It 
was  this :  tmit,  for  the  preseryation  of  the  old  regis- 
ters down  to  1812,  all  the  originals  should  be 
remoyed  to  the  custody  of  the  Master  of  the  Bolls, 
to  be  carefully  repaired  and  rebound  under  his 
direction, — on  this  condition,  howeyer:  that,  as 
remoyed,  certified  copies  should  be  supplied  to  the 
incumbents  of  parishes,  which  hereafter,  as  regards 
certificates,  should  haye  all  the  force  of  the  originals. 
And,  to  ayoid  misunderstanding  in  respect  to  fees, 
free  access  should  be  giyen  to  these  transcripts  for 
all  bond  fide  literary  purposes.  I  belieye  this 
arrangement  would  satisfy  eyery  one. 

John  Maclean. 
Bicknor  Court,  Coleford,  Glouc. 


Debcbmt  of  thb  Earldom  of  Mar  (6^  S.  y. 
405). — Tour  correspondent  Eques  deseryes  thanks 
for  calling  attention  to  the  eyidence  to  be  found 
in  the  B^trum  de  Panmure  that  Jane  or  Janet 
Keith  was  mother,  not  stepmother,  of  Margaret 
Barclay,  wife  of  Walter  Stewart,  Earl  of  Athole. 
But  I  am  sure  he  will  be  the  first  to  acknowledge 
that  he  has  made  a  momentary  slip  in  inferring 
from  this  that  Bobert  Master  of  Athole  came 
before  the  Erskines  in  remainder  to  the  earldom 
of  Mar.  Janet  Keith,  grand-daughter  of  Helen  of 
Mar,  was,  as  your  correspondent  states,  married 
first  to  Sir  Dayid  Barclay,  and  afterwards  to  Sir 
Thomas  Erskine.  By  the  fint  marriage  she  had 
a  daughter,  by  the  second  a  son.  It  was  surely, 
therefore,  tne  son,  Bobert  Lord  Erskine,  and  not 
the  daughter,  the  wife  of  the  Earl  of  Athole, 
who  was  her  heir,  though  the  daughter  was,  of 
course.  Sir  Dayid  Barclay's  heir.  Hence  the 
Athole  family,  had  they  suryiyed  and  not  suffered 
attainder,  could  neyer  haye  been  Earls  of  Mar  so 
long  as  Bobert  Lord  Erskine  or  any  of  his  descen- 
dants existed. 

If  forther  proof  is  wished  of  the  status  of  the 


Erskines  as  the  acknowledged  next  heirs  to  the 
earldom  of  Mar  long  before  1437,  it  will  be  found 
in  a  letter  under  the  Quarter  Seal  of  Bobert  III. 
to  Sir  Thomas  Erskine,  of  date  Noy.  22,  1395, 
recognizing  the  heirs  of  Sir  Thomas  Erskine 
("  hseredes  dicti  Thomse  ")  as  the  *'  yeri  hseredes  " 
to  the  earldom  of  Mar.  This  document,  though  it 
will  be  sought  in  yain  in  the  Minutes  of  Eyidence 
in  the  recent  Mar  peerage  case,  has  been  printed 
in  Lord  Hailes's  AdaUumai  SutiUrland  Cau^  ohap. 
y.  p.  44,  and  in  the  Aniiquitiii  of  thi  ^irts  of 
Aberdeen  andBanff  (Spalding  Club),  yoL  iy.  p.  165; 
and  is  also  quoted  in  Lord  Crawford's  Earldom  of 
Mar^  yol.  1.  p.  200.  It  was  adduced  in  1606  hj 
the  Treasurer,  Earl  of  Mar,  to  instruct  his  pre- 
cedency, and  was  one  of  the  two  documents  (the 
other  being  Countess  Isabers  charter  of  Dec  9, 
1404)  in  yirtue  of  which  the  Commissioners  of 
Banking  granted  to  the  Earl  of  Mar  a  position 
next  after  the  Earl  of  Sutherland.  The  last- 
named  earl  produced  a  still  older  writ,  dated  1347| 
and  was  therefore  ranked  before  all  earls  exoept 
the  first  fiye  (Angus,  Argyle,  Crawford,  EeioU,  and 
Marischal),  who  owed  their  position  to  priyilege  or 
office,  and  not  to  antiquity  of  creation. 

L.  B.  A. 

John  Eachard  (6*  S.  y.  387).— The  exact  title 
of  Dr.  John  Eachard's  yery  cleyer  satire  is  : — 

The  I  Grounds  and  Occasioni  I  of  the  |  Contempt  |  of 
the  I  Clergy  |  and  |  Beligion  |  Enaoired  into  I  In  a 
letter  written  to  R.  L.  I  London,  |  Pnnted  by  W.  Godbid 
for  N.  Brooke  at  the  (  Angel  in  OomhilL    1670. 1 12ino. 

Title ;  the  Preface  to  the  Beader,  four  pages ; 
pp.  1-131.  The  author's  name  does  not  appear ; 
the  letter  bears  date  August  8, 1670,  and  is  signed 
"T.  B."  This  little  work  being  written  with  all 
the  force  and  yigour  of  Swift,  but  without  his 
coarseness  and  personal  inyectiye,  excited  much 
attention,  and  brought  forth  ^'An  Answer."  To 
this  Dr.  Eachard  replied  in  :— 

Some  I  Obseryattons  |  upon  the  |  Answer  |  To  an 
Enquiry  into  the  I  Grounas  and  Occanons  J  of  the 
Contempt  |  of  the  |  Clergy.  |  With  some  Additiont. 
In  a  second  letter  to  B.  L.  |  By  the  seme  Author. 
London  |  Printed  for  N.  Brooke  at  the  Angel  in  Corn- 
hill  near  the  Boyal  Bzchange.   1671.  1 12mo. 

Title ;  the  Preface  to  the  Beader,  ten  pages ; 
pp.  1-200.  Dated  at  end  May  2, 1671,  and,  like 
the  first  letter,  signed  ''  T.  B." 

Immediately  after  this  Dr.  Eachard  published 
a  third  little  yolume,  entitled  : — 

Mr.  Hobbee's  |  State  of  Nature  |  oonndered ;  in  a  J 
Dialogue  |  between  |  Philautua  and  Timothy.  |  To 
which  are  added  ]  Fiye  letters  |  From  the  Author  of  the 
I  Grounds,  and  Occaii  |  ons  of  the  Contenipt  |  of  the  \ 
Clersy.  |  London,  Printed  by  £.  T.  and  R.  H.  for  |  Katb. 
Brooke,  at  the  sign  of  the  Angel  |  la  Comhil,  near  the 
Royal  Exchange.    1072. )  12mo. 

Title ;  dedication,  eleyen  pages  ;  preface,  ten  pages ; 

{>p.  1-165  ;  a  fresh  title  for  each  of  the  fiye 
otters,  which  extend  to  pp.  1-123.    Li  thia  third 


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tract  the  initials  "  T.  £."  are  Btill  preserved,  but 
the  little  book  is  dedicated  to  Gilbert  Sheldon, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury.  It  bears  date  Dec.  20, 
1671,  and  is  signed,  "  Yoar  Grace's  in  all  duty 
and  serrice  most  devoted.  J.  E."  It  is  plain, 
therefore,  that  at  this  time  the  archbishop  knew 
that  "  T.  B."  was  John  Eachard.  The  date  is  of 
some  interest,  because  A.  k  Wood  states  in  his 
Diary  that  he  was  introduced  to  Archbishop 
Sheldon  at  Lambeth  on  Feb.  11, 1672,  and  that 
John  Eachard  was  also  there^  as  a  guest  for  the 
first  time,  sitting  at  the  lower  end  of  the  table 
between  the  archbishop's  two  chaplains,  Sam 
Parker  and  Tho.  Thomkins,  with  whom  after 
dinner  he  ''  went  to  their  lodgings  to  drink  and 
emoak.''  The  name  of  the  author  of  the  Annver 
is,  I  believe,  not  known ;  most  certainly  it  was 
not  Archbishop  Bramhall,  who  died  in  1663,  that 
is,  seven  years  before  Eachard  published  his  Con- 
tempt of  the  Clergy.  Eachard  was  chosen  Master 
of  Catherine  Hall  in  1676,  was  created  D.D.  in 
1676  by  royal  mandamus,  and  died  in  1697. 
Eachard  did  good  service  in  his  time— his  powerful 
satire  was  a  better  reply  to  the  pedantic  irreligion 
of  the  period  than  any  quantity  of  polemic  argu- 
ment ;  the  latter  would  have  invited  rejoinders, 
but  his  satire  was  crushing  because  it  was  prac- 
tically unanswerable.  Edwaed  Sollt. 

Some  OhservationSf  &c,  end  on  p.  200,  and  con 
sequently  one  leaf  only  is  wanting  in  G.  F.  R.  B.'s 
copy.  John  Bramhall,  Bishop  of  Deriy,  and,  at 
the  Restoration,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  died  in 
1663 ;  it  is  hard,  therefore,  to  imagine  how  any 
one,  unless  perchance  an  American  spiritualist, 
can  have  attributed  to  him  the  Answer  to  a  tract 
printed  in  1671.  I  possess  an  interesting  set  of 
five  pamphlets,  viz.,  Eachard's  two  and  three 
replies,  which  appear  to  have  been  bound  up 
(with  the  respective  publishers'  advertisement 
leaves  at  the  end)  at  the  time  of  publication. 

W.  D.  Macrat. 

"P.  Frakcisoi  Spihula  Mediolanensis 
Opera"  {6*^  S.  v.  267,  335).— Argelati,  in  bis 
Bibliotheca  Scriptorum  Mediolanmnum,  Medio]., 
MDCCXLV.,  vol.  ii.  p.  1432,  says  :— 

"  Publias  Francifcus  Spinula,  quein  perperam  Abbas 
PicinellaB  in  buo  Atheiueo  Petrum  Fntnciscam  Toc&bat, 
Patrem  habnit  Gabrielem,  nt  ipsemet  testatar  ploriboB 
in  locis  snomm  Garminnni,  ticuti  et  Joannes  Baptista 
Crasaus  Mediolaa.,  Michaelis  filius  in  auo  Epixramm&te 
Latino  satis  longo,  quod  legitur  in  libro  de  Intercalandi 
ratione  ipsius  Spinalse,  sic  inscriptum :  Ad  Publiam 
Franciccum  Spinulam  Gabrielis  fiiium.  Sub  optimo 
Praeceptore  A.  Calemero  Plantanida  humaniores  litteras 
ita  didicit.  nt  eas  non  tanium  Mediolani,  sed  et  Brixias, 
Veronaa,  Paftavii,  Yenetiia,  et  alibi  docuerit.  Quantum 
in  latina  Poeai  ipse  emicuerit  facile  agnoscitur  ab  infra 
recenaendia,  et  a  Virorum  illuatrium  laudationibua,  de 

^uibua  breviter  agemna.     Brixiaa  Stepbanum  Mariam 
rgonem   Equitem   atrenuiaaimum    Meooenatem   aunm 
adinvenit,  cui  grati  animi  ergo  iibroa  iii.  Epigrammat. 


nuncupavit.  Oommercium  litterarium  aasidue  coluit  cum 
Joanne  Tonso^  Primo  Comite,  Marco  Antonio  Minoragio, 
Oarolo  Sigonio,  altiaoue  Eruditia  aui  ky'i.  Inatante 
eodem  Primo  Gomite  librum  anpradictum  compoauit  de 
Intercalandi  ratione  corrigenda.  Tractatum  hunc  dicavit 
Oarolo  Yicecomiti  Epiacopo  Albintimillienai  ante  eyas 
acceaaum  ad  Concilium  Tndentinum  cum  Primo  Gomite 
snpramemorato.  Inter  ejuadem  Patronos  enumerare 
juvat  Ghriatophorum  Madruccium,  atque  Aacanium  Sfor- 
tiam  S.  B.  fi.  Cardinalea,  Gomitem  Franciacum  Mar- 
ttnengnm,  Leonardum  Mocenigum»  cujua  intuitu  librum 
soripait  de  Tabellis  qnadratorum  numerorum,  Joannem 

Franciacum  Turrianum Annum  aui  deceasua  ignora- 

mua :  ille  Tero  Gabrielia  parentia  ipaiua  fuit  Mnxzxvin. 
V.  Id.  Jan.  in  Oppido  Lomatii,  ut  Spinula  ipse  indicat  ii^ 
Ode  xxz.  libri  i.    Soripait : 

"1.  Poematon  libr.  lii. 

"  2.  Garminum  libr.  ir. 

"  S.  Garminum  Secularinm  libr.  i. 

'*  4.  Epodon  libr.  i.    Haec  ad  Hor.  Flao.  imitationem. 

"  5.  Elegorum  libr.  x. 

"6.  HendecasYllaborum  libr.  i.  Ad  imitationem  A 
Tibullii. 

"  7.  Epigrammaton  libr.  iii.  Ad  Imitationem  Gatnlli. 
Omnia  uno  Volumine.  Venetiitf  ex  Officina  Stella,  JoT' 
daniZiUlij  1668,  in  8.  In  fronte  extat  Epiatola  dedicatoria 
ad  Maximilianum  Bomanorum  Boemorumque  Begem, 
et  Auatriaa  Archiducem.  In  aupradicto  libro  pag.  22. 
extat  Elegta  Jo.  Brunorii  Gambarae  Brixiani  ad  Spi- 
nulam noatrum,  et  pag.  40.  ad  eundem  Joannis  Nelli 
Golonienaia  Epigramma ;  in  eadem  pagina  Andreae  Ha- 
raldi  Meaaii  Carmen  Heroicum.  In  libro  ejuadem  Spinulae^ 
cui  tttulua  Gatulli  imitatio,  extat  Carmen  xliii.  Marci 
Ant.  Migoragii  ad  Jo.  Bapt.  Porrum,  de  Davidia  Paalmia, 
veraibua  a  Spinula  et  acriptia  et  acribendis.  Inter 
Hendecaayllaboa  extant  ad  eundem  Garmina  Octavii 
Bomati,  J.  P.  Brixiani,  Jo.  Bapt.  Craaai,  Pauli  Mutii 
Brixiani,  Jo.  Bapt.  Caatillionaai,  Fabricii  Lampugnani, 
CoDBtantini  Gati  Alexandrini,  Dionyaii  Atbanaaii  Gal- 
lienaia,  Vinoentii  Zini  Brixiani. 

"  8.  De  Intercalandi  ratione  corrigenda. 

"9.  Epiatolae  plurea  Latinas  ad  yarioa  illuatrea  Viros 
Patricioa  Yenetoa  et  Brixianoa.    Extant  in  eodem  libro, 

2uem  Auctor  nuncupavit  Pio  VI.  Pont.  Max.  et  Tjpis 
edit  una  cum^aeq. 

**10.  De  TaBellia  quadratomm  numerornm  a  Pytha- 
goreis  diapoaitorum.  Venetif'e,  apud  BologninHm  Z<U- 
Urtum,  1562,  in  8. 

"11.  P.  Franciaci  Spinulaa  Mediolanensis  in  Dayidis 
Paalmoa  Paraphraais  veraibua  scripta :  ad  Carolum  Gar- 
dinalem  Borromaeum.  Venetiit,  apvd  Pemam,  1562, 
in  8 

*<  12.  Vita  Marci  Antonii  Flaminii,  ut  ipsemet  teatatur 
in  Epigrammaton  libro  iii.  pag.  66." 

Querini,  Specimen  Brix.  Liter,,  t.  il  p.  202,  says 
aboat  the  same ;  and  Tiraboschi,  St,  della  Letterat, 
Ital.j  t.  iv.  p.  254,  adds  that  this  Faraphratis 
Psalmor,,  although  praised  by  some,  has  by  others 
been  blamed  as  wanting  in  elegance.  I  think, 
writes  Tiraboschi,  that  it  is  inferior  not  only 
to  that  of  Flaminio,  bat  also  to  the  other  by 
Rapicio.  I  do  not  know  on  what  authority  Ger- 
desio  reckons  Spinola  among  Protestants  {Speci- 
men Hal  Reform,,  p.  333).  Probably  he  thought 
that  a  poetical  version  of  the  Psalms  would  not 
be  likely  to  be  written  except  by  a  Protestant,  an 
idea  as  to  the  reasonableness  of  which  doubts  may 
well  be  entertained.  Certain  it  is  that  if  Spinola 
had  held  Protestant  views  he  would  not  have 


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[6*  S.  V.  Jtob  10,  '82, 


addressed  his  Parapkrasis  to  Pope  Pius  IV.  and 
the  holy  Cardinal  Borromeo ;   nor  would  he,  in 
those  times,  have  lived  quietly  in  Italy  without 
the  slightest  yezation.       C.  Tamburini,  M.D. 
Milan. 

"CniMERE"  (6"»  S.  V.  268).— This  is  the  same 
word  as  the  Fr.  chamarr$y  '*a  loose  and  light 
gowne  (and  lesse  properly  a  cloake)  that  may  be 
wome  aswash  or  skarfe-wise ;  also  a  studded  gar- 
ment "  (Cotgraye).  In  Italian  it  appears  as  cimara 
or  cimartaf  "  any  long  upper  garment ;  namely, 
that  formal  gown,  or  upper  habit,  that  Graduates 
wear  in  Universities"  (Florio,  ed,  1688).  Both 
are  probably  from  the  Spanish  ^amdrraf  the  name 
of  a  garment  made  of  skins.  They  are  all  of 
Eastern  origin,  derived  from  the  Arabic  khimdr,  a 
veil  or  head-dress  ;  ^  omnis  res,  quse  alteram  tegit ; 
inde  operimentum  ;  peculiariter  capitis  seu  faciei 
muliebre ;  prsecipue,  ita  uti  nunc  mos  obtinet, 
quod  anterioribus  colli  partibus,  mento  atque  ori 
pnetentum  superne  in  capitis  vertice  nodatur" 
(Freytag).  The  origin  is  in  the  verb  khamaray  to 
cover;  "operuit,  texit"  (F.).  The  Arabic  con- 
sonant that  is  generally  represented  by  kh  in  Eng- 
lish has  not  such  a  sound  as  these  letters  may 
suggest.  It  is  pronounced  as  the  Spanish  j,  and 
nearly  as  the  Fr.  ch^  though  more  gutturally.  The 
Ital.  cimara  approximates  very  closely  to  the 
Arab,  khimdr,  J.  D. 

Belsize  Square. 

Palmer  says  {Origines  Liiurgxcoiy  vol.  ii.  p.  407), 
quoting  Hody's  History  of  Canvocationiy  p.  141, 
"  that  in  the  time  of  Edward  the  Sixth  our  Bishops 
wore  a  scarlet  ehimere,  like  the  Doctor's  dress  at 
Oxford,  over  the  rochette ;  which  in  the  time  of 
Queen  Elizabeth  was  changed  for  the  black  satin 
diimere  used  at  present."  The  chimere  seems  to 
resemble  the  garment  used  by  bishops  during  the 
Middle  Ages,  and  called  manUlletum,  which  was 
a  sort  of  cope  with  apertures  for  the  arms  to  pass 
through  (see  Ducange's  Olosiary),  The  name  of 
chimere  is  probably  derived  from  the  Italian 
zimarray  which  is  described  as  "  vesta  talare  de' 
sacerdoti  e  de'  chierici.''  J.  B.  B. 

Mr.  Fairholt,  in  his  Costume  in  England,  gives 
the  derivation  of  this  word  as  probably  *'  from  the 
Italian  ximarra,  which  is  described  as  '  vesta  talare 
de'  sacerdoti  e  de'  chierici'  (Ortografia  Endclo- 
pediea  Italiana,  Venezia,  1826)."  He  does  not  give 
the  origin  of  the  chimere,  but  says  that  it  was  worn 
by  the  bishops  in  Edward  VI.'s  reign  "  of  a  scarlet 
colour,"  being  changed  for  the  present  black  satin 
chimere  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  The 
book  contains  an  engraving  of  a  bishop,  supposed 
to  be  Bishop  Fox,  wearing  the  chimere,  rochette, 
and  scarf.  Alpha. 

Bean  Stanley,  in  Christian  Institutions,  p.  164, 
connects  chimere  with  cymar.   He  does  not  further 


notice  the  latter  word,  but  refers  to  Archteologiaj 

XXX.  27.  H,   DXLSVIKONK. 

Cbiswick. 

Surely  this  word  represents  the  Greek  Yiftctipa, 
a  she-goat,  and  points  to  a  time,  far  back  in  the 
life  of  the  Church,  when  ecclesiastics  were  content 
with  a  goatskin  or  sheepskin  as  the  chief  part  of 
their  attire.  It  will  be  remembered  that  St. 
Antony  on  dying  bequeathed  his  two  sheepskins 
to  his  friends  Athanasius  and  Serapion.  I  quote 
Athanasius's  simple  and  touching  story:  '^ Dis- 
tribute my  garments  as  follows.  Let  Atha- 
nasius the  bishop  have  the  one  sheepskin  and  the 
garment  I  sleep  on,  which  he  gave  me  new  and 
which  has  grown  old  with  me.  Let  Serapion  the 
bishop  have  the  other  sheepskin.  As  to  the  hair 
shirt,  keep  it  to  yourselves.  And  now,  my  children, 
farewell ;  Antony  is  going,  and  is  no  longer  with 
you."  Edmund  Vbkablbs. 

Lincoln. 

Lord  and  Lady  Jennijtgs  (6^  S.  v.  407). — ^I 
am  not  aware  that  any  one  of  the  name  of  Jen- 
nings was  entitled  to  call  himself  "Lord**  in  or 
before  the  year  1639.     As  the  list  of  pictares  was 
drawn  up  by  a  Dutchman,  it  is  possible  that  the 
name  is  not  quite  correctly  spelt,  and  that  the 
owner  of  it  was  not  an  Englishman.     I  wonld 
therefore  venture   to   suggest    that  perhaps  the 
picture  in  question  was  the  portrait  of  Pierre 
Jeannin,  commonly  called  the  President  Jeannin, 
born  1540,  died  1622,  who  held  a  very  prominent 
position  amongst  politicians  in  the  early  part  of 
the    seventeenth    century,  and  was    ambassador 
from  Henry  IV.  to  the  United  States  in  1609,  at 
which  time  he  signed  the  important  treaty  with 
Spain  bearing  date  June  27, 1609.    In  the  pre- 
amble to  this  he  is  described  as  "  Messire  Pierre 
Jeannin  Cheualier  Baron  de  Chagny,  et  Montjea, 
Conseiller  dudit  sieur  Roy  Tres-Chrestien  en  son 
Conseil  d'Estat,  et  son  Ambassadenr  extraordi- 
naire Vers  les  dits  sieurs  Estats."    The  Dutch 
were  all  very  thankful  to  Jeannin  for  the  active 
part  which  he  took  in  the  settlement  of  their  dis- 
putes with  Spain,  and  would  willingly  accord  to 
him  the  title  of  lord,  as  ambassador  extraordinary, 
independently  of  his   French  territorial  title  of 
baron  which  was  usually  sunk  in  his  more  general 
designation    of   president.    According    to    Sully 
(Memoirs^  bk,  xxvii.)  Henry  IV.  had  nominated 
Jeannin    ambassador    to    Great    Britain   shortly 
before    his    assassination    in    1610.      Winwood 
(Memoirs,  vol.  iii.  p.  315)  mentions,  under  date 
December,  1611,  the  very  deeply  regretted  death 
of  Jeannin's  only  sou  in  a  duel.    Jeannin  was  one 
of  the  four  who  drew*  up  the  celebrated  Edict  of 
Nantes  in  1598.    There  is  a  fine  portrait  of  him 
by  R.   Nanteuil   prefixed    to    his    NegotiaiioM^ 
folio,  Paris,  1656.    In  this  volume  there  are  many 
curious  illustrations  of  how  English  names  wen 

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altered  by  foreign  traDscriben  ;  thus,  for  example, 
Ralph  Winwood  appears  as  Bodolphe  Vuinnood, 
a  cDange,  perhaps,  even  greater  than  that  of 
Monsieur  Jeannin  into  My  Lord  Jennings. 

Edward  Sollt. 

Transparent  Prints  (6*  S.  v.  328).— I  hare 
a  pictorial  advertisement  worded  as  follows  : — 

*<  Transparent  prints  first  invented,  published,  and  sold 
by  Bdw<*  Orme,  Conduit  Street,  corner  of  George 
Street,  London,  Printselier  in  ordinary  to  the  King,  who 
also  frames  pictures  Prints  &  Miniatures  in  the 
■ewest  stile.  P.S.— Mr.  W.  Orme  continues  to  teach 
transparent  and  other  Drawing  as  usual." 

The  illustration  consists  of  a  female  figure  seated 
on  a  bale,  holding  in  the  right  hand  a  lighted 
taper,  which  shines  through  a  large  engraving, 
held  in  the  left  hand,  beneath  which  is  written, 
''The  first  invented  transparent  print  from  a 
drawing  by  Wm.  Orme.''  On  a  table  by  her  side 
are  screens  of  different  designs,  and  around  are 
scattered  windows  (inscribed,  "  made  for  window 
blinds  to  imitate  painted  glass"),  bottles,  a  roll  of 
paper,  and  a  painting-box,  with  the  words, 
'^  Colors  &  preparation  sold  for  transparent 
&  other  drawing."  In  the  distance  is  a  sea  view 
with  shipping.  Gerald  Ponsonbt. 

These  transparencies,  as  they  were  called,  were 
much  used  as  blinds  to  cover  the  three  or  six 
lower  panes  of  an  ordinary  twelve-paned  window, 
where  a  blind  was  wanted.  Each  transparency 
was  stretched  over  a  light  wooden  frame,  and  just 
fitted  the  pane  it  was  placed  over.  How  fixed 
I  cannot  say.  The  transparent  part  was  highly 
varnished  or  oiled.  I  remember  a  haunted  chamber, 
a  smugglers'  cave,  and  a  night  scene  out  of  Don 
(iuixoie.  All  are  gone  years  since;  but  the  very 
sea  fight  Mr.  Patterson  mentions  I  have  by  me 
yet,  for,  the  shape  being  unsuitable  for  a  window- 
pane,  it  has  never  been  used.  There  were  juvenile 
imitations,  no  doubt,  but  the  printed  ones  were  far 
the  best.  P.  P. 

I  have  an  aquatint,  blue  and  brown,  ^  The  Tomb 
of  Juliet,"  published  by  E.  Orme,  June,  1799, 
seemingly  a  fellow  to  the  one  described  by  Mr. 
Patterson.  Mine  is  framed  between  a  double 
glass  with  a  backing  of  pink  paper,  doubtless  to  give 
the  high  lights  of  the  picture  a  tone  when  hung 
against  the  light.  W.  B.  Bond. 

Such  prints  were  intended  to  reveal  their  full 
meanings  only  when  held  up  to  the  light.  Thev 
were  prepared  from  two  engravings,  one  of  which 
was  pasted  over  the  other  and  concealed  it.  The 
paper  being  thin,  the  hidden  design  was  displayed 
when  held  up.  F.  G.  S. 

Baroness  db  Lutzow  (6*  S.  x.  268,  299).— 
In  reference  to  the  inquiry  made  at  the  former 
reference,  to  which  I  have  been  unable  hitherto  to 
ceply,  I  am  now  informed  by  my  mother-in-kw, 


Mrs.  de  Lisle,  the  daughter  of  the  Baroness  von 
Lutzow  in  question,  that  Baron  Conrad  von  Lutzow 
was  grand  marshal  and  high  chamberlain  to 
Frederick  Francis,  Duke  of  Mecklenburg.  The 
von  Lutzow  of  the  Black  Hussars  of  the  War 
of  Independence  was  of  the  same  family,  but  not 
very  closely  related.  If  Ed.  I.  M.  desires  further 
information  I  shtdl  be  happy  to  be  the  means  of 
procuring  it  for  him  if  possible.  I  presume, 
that  Baron  Conrad  was  father  of  the  baroness 
who  married  Hon.  S.  £.  Clifford,  my  own  maternal 
great-uncle.  The  von  Lutzows  have  thirty-six 
quarterings,  and  are  "  Barons  of  the  Holy  Roman 
Empire."  F.  A.  W. 

St.  White  and  her  Cheese  (6*"*  S.  v.  246, 331). 
— ^This  strangely  named  saint  may  be  well  searched 
for  in  vain  in  hagiologies,  inasmuch  as,  by  a  still 
more  audacious  impersonation  than  that  which 
has  transformed  the  cloak  {amphibalus)  of  St.  Alban 
into  St.  Amphibalus,  St.  White  has  been  evolved 
out  of  the  white  stone  which,  in  days  when  churches 
were  usually  of  wattle  and  daub,  was  exceptional 
enough  to  give  a  name  first  to  the  building  and 
then  to  the  place.  Bede  telU  us  that  the  site  of 
St.  Ninian's  church  in  Galloway  was  called  "  Ad 
Candidam  Casam "  because  it  was  built  of  stone 
^*  insolito  BrettonibuB  more."  This  is  now  Whit- 
hem,  A.-S.  Hwit  (Mm,  the  white  place.  Corre- 
sponding to  this  are  the  various  Whitchurches, 
A.-S.  Htoit  drieef  scattered  over  England,  the 
origin  of  the  name  being  the  same.  It  is  one  of 
these  (Whitchurch  Canonicorum,  in  the  vale  of 
Marshwood,  between  Bridport  and  Lyme)  which 
has  given  birth  to  St.  White—Sancta  Candida,  to 
whom  the  church  was  supposed  to  be  dedicated, 
and  whose  sacred  well  was  shown  in  the  old  topo- 
grapher Coker's  time.         Edmund  Venables. 

Lincoln. 

"EscAETA"  (6«»  S.  V.  327).— Under  this  word 
Du  Cange  writes : — 

"  Homm  vocabulorum  [giving  it  in  its  different  way  of 
spelling],  non  una  semper,  sed  varia  et  divert  est 
•ignificatio.  Nam  interdum,  et  ut  plurimum  sic  appel- 
lantur  bona,  prsBdia  immobilia  vel  mobiiia  qusvie,  qum 
ex  delicto  et  forisfactura  vassal!  vel  alio  quolibit  casu 
cadant  in  fisoum  Domini  feudt." 

From  this  it  will  be  seen  that  this  is  one  of  those 
feudal  imposts  called  eacheats,  payable  either  to 
individuals  or  corporate  bodies  claiming  the 
manorial  rights.  Of  course  the  perquisites,  in 
this  case,  were  merely  based  upon  an  understand- 
ing, or  an  agreement  between  the  convent  and  its 
servants.  Edmund  Tew,  M.A. 

Esauta  is  evidently  the  legal  word  escheat,  dis- 
guised in  monkish  llatin,  and,  judging  from  its 
Norman  French  derivation  (eseheir,  to  happen), 
implies  a  casual  profit  or  benefit  arising  from  the 
provisions  specified,  and  purchased  by  the  man- 
ciple of  the  convent.  William  Platt. 


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[6*8.V.  JosrilO, '82. 


"  Fatherland  "  (6**»  S.  y.  306).— Web»ter,  in  D. 
Bogue's  edition  of  1856,  gives  the  following  de- 
finition and  example  of  the  word,  but  no  quota- 
tion: "  The  native  land  of  one's  fathers  or  ancestors. 
England  is  the  fatherland  of  the  people  of  New 
England,  and  Persia*  the  fatherland  of  the  Teu- 
tonic nations."  A.  Tolbauskn,  Ph.D. 

Great  Seal  Patent  Office. 

**  TwAB  Freirs  ok  Berwick  '*  (6*  S.  v.  267, 
415). — Whatever  may  .have  been  the  case  with 
regard  to  the  existence  in  the  Skene  Library  of 
a  copy  of  the  work  referred  to  under  the  above 
title  at  the  time  Dr.  Laing  penned  his  note,  I  have 
only  too  good  reason  for  believing  that  it  no 
longer  possesses  that  onique  volame,  having 
latdy  traversed  the  whole  contents  of  the  library 
without  finding  a  trace  of  it.  What,  then,  has 
become  of  it  ?  Perhaps  some  of  your  correspon- 
dents may  be  able  to  tnrow  light  on  this  interesting 
point.  In  any  case^  it  is  devoutly  to  be  hoped 
that  this  unique  specimen  of  Raban's  work  is  not 
to  be  reckoned  among  the  things  that  have  been. 

A.  W.  R. 

A  Yard  of  Beer  {6^  S.  v.  368,  394).— Since 
Sir  John  Maclean's  inquiry,  if  the  custom  of 
selling  beer  by  the  yard  still  existed  at  Bexley, 
appeared  in  "N.  &  Q.,"  I  have  treated  myself 
to  a  few  hours'  ramble  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
that  place.  After  having  walked  from  Eltham  to 
within  two  miles  of  Bexley,  I  made  inquiry  at  a 
smalL  lonely  public- house  respecting  the  custom 
of  selling  beer  by  the  yard ;  but  was  surprised  to 
be  informed  bv  the  landlord  that  he  had  never 
before  heard  of  such  a  custom,  although  his  own 
house  stood  in  Bexley  parish.  Hereupon  a 
labouring  man,  who  had  accidentally  overheard 
our  conversation,  remarked  that  he  knew  one 
public-house  in  the  village,  "  The  George,"  where 
the  custom  I  alluded  to  used  to  be  m  vogue. 
Thither  I  accordingly  repaired  ;  but  only  to  learn 
that  the  custom  hid  recently  sunk  into  desuetude, 
owing  to  the  unfortunate  circumstance  that  the 
peculiar  glass  had  been  accidentally  broken  within 
the  last  twelvemonth  ;  and,  as  few  visitors  are  to 
be  found  in  the  humour  to  pay  7«.  6(2.,  even  after 
their  curiosity  has  been  gratified,  the  solitary 
yard-glass  has  not  yet  been  replaced — Mr.  Steel, 
the  landlord,  remarking,  ''One  hardly  likes  to 
exact  such  a  sum  from  a  customer,  when  the  affair 
is  an  accident."  So  that,  nnless  Mr.  S.  alter  his 
mind,  he  will  henceforward  be  spared  the  pain  of 
apologizing  for  exacting  pavment  even  from  those 
who  might  be  both  able  and  willing  to  pay.  After 
a  little  further  conversation  with  the  landlord,  I 
learned  that  the  expense  of  7«.  6d.  was  not  his 
main  reason  for  the  non-replaoement  of  the  absent 
yard-glass ;  but  rather  the  consciousness  of  the  fact 


*  ScU,  Ancient  Persia, 


that,  on  giving  his  order  for  a  new  one,  the  qaes- 
tion  would  be  asked ,  '*  How  many  dozen  do  yoa 
require  1"  as  it  is  only  a  quantity  that  will  pay  for 
the  production  of  such  an  extraordinary  glass. 
It  wUl  be  seen,  then,  that  the  replacement  of  the 
yard-glass  would  be  a  rather  expensive  affiiir.  So, 
for  the  present,  we  must  conclude  that  those 
whose  curiosity  may  lead  them  to  see  a  yard  of 
beer  will  have  to  hie  further  away  from  London 
than  twelve  miles  for  that  purpose.  It  appears 
that  before  the  glass  was  broken  the  yard  of  beer 
was  the  exception,  and  not  the  rule — ^the  geotfal 
customers  of  the  house  being  served  in  the  way 
ordinarily  observed  at  other  inns  and  taverns — the 
yard-glass  being  only  occasionally  introduced  for 
the  gratification  of  those  whose  curiosity,  like 
mine,  had  led  them  a  little  out  of  their  course. 

H.  SCULTHOBP. 
Jamei  Street,  Buckingham  Gate,  8.W. 

"  Mighty  "  Tom  of  Oxford  (6**»  S.  v.  248, 
374).  —  The  error  of  the  name  as  given  in  the 
extract  from  Willis  and  Wood,  whether  an 
accurate  copy  of  the  inscription  or  not,  may  be 
corrected  from  a  poem  in  the  Mus(e  Anglicanoe  by 
Th.  Spark:  ''InThomam  Clu8ium,8Lve  campanam 
magnam  iEdis  Christi,"  vol.  i.  pp.  261-5,  Lon. 
1741.  A  few  lines  which  notice  the  success  of  the 
casting  also  explain  the  classical  allusion  in  the 
name  of  "  Glusius,"  "  the  shutter,"  from  his  closing 
the  day  of  academic  life  with  the  hundred  and  one 
strokes : — 

"  Ecce  oritur  nitidoque  emergit  Clutiut  ore, 
(Horrendum  popufo  nomen,  g^entique  iogatse) 
Jane  pater,  aocios  tecum  partitas  honoreSi 
Siye  diem  nostro  reeeret,  sen  claudat  Olympo." 

There  was  also  a  "Little  Tom,"  as  appears  £com 
the  account  of  the  installation  of  the  famous  Atter- 
bury  as  Dean  of  Christ  Church: — 

"1711.  Sept.  28 At  eight  o'clock  (as  ie  nsoal  upon 

these  oeeasions)  Little  Tom  (for  lo  they  call  the  biggest 
of  the  ten  bells  in  the  cathedral)  rang  oat  'till  nine. 
The  great  bell  (commonly  called  Great  Tom)  orer  the 
great  gate  should  have  rung,  if  the  motion  of  it  were  not 
yerv  dangerous  (as  certain  it  is,  ae  they  have  experienced 
in  former  times)  to  the  fabrick  in  which  it  hanga." — 
Jidiguics  Htamianas,  vol.  i.  p.  238^  Lon.  1869. 

£d.  Marshali^ 

My  lot  being  now  cast  far  from  the  academic 
shades  of  Oxford  must  be  my  excuse  for  my  igno- 
rance in  asking  whether  one  hundred  and  one 
blows,  representing  the  former  number  of  the 
students  on  the  foundation,  are  still  struck  upoa 
"  Tom  "  at  9  o'clock  p.m.  The  number  of  students 
has,  I  believe,  been  very  much  reduced  in  recent 
years.  In  Carmina  Qttctdragesvnalta^  series  prima, 
Oxonii,  MDccxxiii.,  edited  b^  Charles  Este— a  book 
which  gives  some  curious  incidental  information 
concerning  the  university  manners  and  customs  of 
that  day — are  two  copies  of  verses  upon  **  Great 
Tom."   In  my  copy  of  the  book  they  are  attribated 


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in  MS.  to ''  Smalridge  " — perhaps  Philip  Smalridge, 
elected  from  WoBtminster  to  Ohrist  Church  in 
1717,  and  a  son  of  George  Smalridge,  Bishop  of 
Bristol ;  or  they  miffht  have  heen  written  by  the 
bishop  when  a  "  student  of  the  house.''  A  Latin 
note  at  p.  91  obseryes:  "Clusius  campana  magna 
^d.  Christi,  cuius  pulsatione  hora  nona  denun- 
tiatur,  et  ad  Collegia  propria  se  recipere  tenentur 
Academic!."  The  other  poem  at  p.  142  mentions 
that  Great  Tom,  or  "  Clusius  "  as  he  is  styled,  was 
dumb  temporarily,  owing  to  an  accident,  "  Propter 
fractum  campanro  malleum,"  and  that  revelry  in 
tayems  in  the  city  was  consequently  indulged  in, 
as  he  could  not  discharge  his  office.  In  Mwa 
Anglicanas,  mdccxli.,  editio  quinta,  yol.  L  pp.  261- 
265,  is  a  poem  in  Latin  hexameters,  ^'  In  Thomam 
Clusium,"  on  the  recasting  of  this  bell,  written  by 
Tho.  Spark,  **  ^d.  Christ.  Alumnus."  He  was  a 
scholar  of  considerable  eminence  in  his  day,  was 
elected  from  Westminster  to  Christ  Church  in 
1672,  and  in  all  probability  was  the  author  of 
"Passer  "  in  yoL  i.  pp.  11-12  of  the  same  book,  as 
it  is  subscribed  "  T.  S.,  ^dis  Christt  Alumnus." 
It  is  worth  noticing  that  on  Thursday,  May  11, 
1882,  "  Great  Paul,"  the  bell  cast  at  Loughborough 
by  Messrs.  Taylor  for  St.  Paul's  Cathedral,  was  re- 
moyed  to  London  on  a  trolly  weighing  two  tons, 
drawn  by  two  traction  engines.  The  weight  of 
the  bell  is  said  to  be  somewhat  under  serenteen 
tons.  John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Newboume  Bectory,  Woodbridge. 

A  Curious  Book-plate  (6**»  S.  y.  226,  374).— 

I  haye  an  inscription  for  a  book-plate  which  I  also 

beg  to  mention,  at  the  end  of  a  yolume  in  which 

there  is  also  a  book-plate  of  W.  Jones  with  a 

Greek  motto,  Scos  dydm)  iairCv.    It  is  within  a 

border  three  inches  by  two  :— 

"This  book 

belongs  to 

William  Jones. 

If  thou  art  borrow*d  by  a  friend, 

Bight  welcome  shall  he  be 
To  read,  to  study,  not  to  liho, 

But  to  return  to  me. 

Not  that  imparted  knowledge  doth 

Diminish  leamiDg^s  store  ; 
But  Books,  I  find,  iv  often  lest 

Betum  to  me  no  more. 


Bead  slowly—pause  frequently— think  seriously*  keep 
leanlv— retur    ^  '        '^^  ''  -  ..     . 

turned  down. 


cleanly— return  duly,  with  the  comers  of  the  leayes  not 
ned  * 


W.  Jones,  Printer." 

Ed.  Marshall. 

"  Was  crucified,  dead,  and  buried  "  (6*^  S.  y. 
9,  272).— Will  the  Rsy.  E.  Marshall  pardon  me 
if  I  express  my  surprise  that  so  usually  accurate  a 
scholar  should  haye  regarded  these  words  from 
Key.  i.  18  as  equiyalent  to  "died"?  The  Greek 
is  not  aTT^OavoVf  but  iyivo/xriv  v€Kp6s,  "  fiebam 


mortuus,''  I  became  a  dead  man.  The  difference 
is  striking,  and  full  of  teaching.  Our  Lord  not 
only  went  through  the  act  which  we  know  as 
dying,  but  entered  into  all  the  conditions  of  a 
dead  man — a  corpse  (corruption  of  course  excepted), 
and  was  thus  *' in  all  points  made  like  unto  his 
brethren.''  This  distinction  between  the  act  and 
the  state,  though  expressed  in  the  wording  of  our 
English  Greed,  is  too  often  oyerlooked.  It  desenres 
notice  that  "  mortuus  "  is  not  found  in  the  earliest 
forms  of  the  Apostles'  Creed,  which  merely  haye 
"  crucifixus  sub  Pontic  Pilato,  et  sepultus." 

Edmund  Vbnables. 
Lincoln. 

The  "British  Amazon"  (6«*  S.  iii.  9, 113).— 
In  my  collection  of  portraits  of  women  who  per- 
sonated men  are  tho  following  soldiers  and  sailors  : 

Mary  Read  and  Anne  Bonney,  pirates  who 
infested  the  West  Indies  and  the  Spanish  Main 
towards  the  close  of  the  seyenteenth  century. 

Yorkshire  Nan  (Prince  George's  Cupwoman),  a 
seryant  in  the  household  of  Queen  Anne,  but  who 
had  preyiously  made  fiye  yoyages  as  a  sailor. 

Christian  Dayis,  otherwise  Mother  Ross  (on 
horseback),  seryed  in  the  Inniskilling  Dragoons 
and  Scots  Greys  at  Blenheim  and  RamOies.  Died 
July  9, 1739. 

Ann  Mills,  who  seryed  on  board  the  Maidstone 
frigate,  1740.  She  is  represented  holding  a  sword 
in  one  hand  and  a  Frenchman's  head  in  the  other. 

Hannah  Snell,  born  at  Worcester,  1723,  mezzo- 
tint by  J.  Young,  engrayer  to  the  Prince  of  Wales, 
published  Dec.  12,  1789.  Another  picture  repre- 
sents "Hannah  Snell's  rencontre  with  the  land- 
lord." There  is  a  portrait  and  memoir  of  this 
"  British  Amazon  "  in  the  QtniUmarCs  Magazine 
for  July,  1750  :— 

"  Hannah  in  breeks  behav'd  so  well 
That  none  her  softer  sex  could  tell." 

Mary  Ann  Talbot,  "  who  seryed  seyeral  yean  in 
his  Majesty's  seryice  by  sea  and  land  in  the  name 
of  John  Taylor."  Died  Feb.  4,  1808,  aged  thirty 
years.  Four  different  portraits,  in  one  of  which  she 
is  resisting  a  press-gang. 

In  connexion  with  the  subject  it  may  be  men- 
tioned that,  during  the  contest  between  Charles 
and  the  Parliament,  Charlotte  de  la  Tr^mouille, 
Countess  of  Derby,  and  Lady  Arundell  of  Wardour 
fought  on  the  king's  side,  i.e.,  they  personally 
defended  Lathom  House  and  Wardour  Castle 
against  the  Parliamentary  forces. 

William  Ratnxr. 

1S3,  Blenheim  Crescent,  Notting  Hill. 

[See  "  Female  Soldiers  and  SaUors,"  "  N.  &  Q.,"  6*  S. 
iii.  144,  297;  ir.  90,118,161.] 

SEA7IBLD  Castle  (6^  S.  iy.  429,  538).~Mr. 
Carmichasl's  reply  to  my  query,  though  inter- 
esting, furnishes  items  already  contained  in  a  MS. 
in  my  possession,  entitled  "  Genealogical  Collection^ 


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family  of  Montray/'  Seafield  is  indexed  in  the 
StaiUtical  Account  of  Scotland,  published  1799,  as 
a  castle,  and  is  mentioned  in  seyeral  works  on  Fife 
as  a  ruinous  tower  or  peel,  no  doubt  of  a  castle, 
BOW  cast  down,  the  strong  tower  only  remaining. 
The  place  was  the  family  seat  of  the  Moutrays 
from  the  middle  of  the  fifteenth  century  until 
1631,  when  it  was  sold  to  Lord  Melville.  The 
meagre  description  given  in  the  New  Stat  Aec,  of 
Scot,  Tol.  ix.  p.  810,  is  the  only  one  I  have  seen, 
I  had  hopes  some  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  might 
have  come  across  a  more  detailed  account,  or 
haye  furnished  some  description  of  the  place  when 
inhabited.  The  family  surname  is  included  in 
a  list  of  "  Ye  Surnames  of  Thame  that  come  furthe 
of  France,"  &c.,  given  in  Boetius's  Scotland,  1585, 
p.  177,  quoted  on  p.  133  of  Sir  David  Lyndsay's 
iBeraldic  MS.,  and  is  still  represented  in  France. 

J.   A«   MOUTRAT. 

Sydney,  N.S.  Wales. 

Silhouettes,  or  Black  Profile  Portraits 
<6**»  S.  v.  308,  393).— These  were  common  enough 
fifty  years  ago,  and  formed  one  of  the  attractions 
of  Madame  Tussaud's  Exhibition,  as  shown  by  the 
following: — 

"  J.  P.  Tusnnd  (son  of  Madame  T.)  respectfully  in- 
forms the  Nobility,  Gentry,  and  the  Public  in  general, 
that  he  has  a  Machine  by  which  he  takei  Profile  Like- 
nesses. Price  2s.  to  7».,  according  to  niyle*'— Biogra- 
phical and  Deicriptive  Sketches  of  the  Whole-Length  Com- 
position  Fignrts  and  other  Works  of  Art  forming  the 
unrivalUd  ColUetion  of  Madame  Tussaud,  &c.,  Bir- 
mingham, Printed  by  R.  WrogUteon,  New  Street,  1823 
(pp.  40). 

These  pictures  were  not  limited  to  portraits  nor 
eyen  to  groups,  but  often  included  buildings  and 
scenery  outlined  with  wonderful  skill.  I  re- 
member haying  seen  some  yery  fine  examples, 
some  with  ten  or  twelve  figures,  each  a  striking 
portrait.  The  yery  clever  silhouettes  of  Paul 
Konewka  to  the  Midsummer  Night's  Drsam,  Fal- 
staff  and  his  companions,  &c.,  have  become 
deservedly  famous,  and  I  have  heard  that  Herr 
Konewka  is  by  no  means  a  good  draughtsman  with 
pen  or  pencil,  and  that  he  really  cuts  out  his 
delicate^outlines  with  ordinary  scissors.  Estk. 
Birmingham. 

I  remember  very  well  the  automaton  that  pro- 
fessed to  draw  silhouettes.  Somewhere  about  1826 
the  automaton  was  brought  to  Newcastle  ;  it  was 
41  figure  seated  in  fl)wing  robes,  with  a  style  in  the 
right  hand,  which  by  machinery  scratched  an  out- 
line of  a  profile  on  a  card,  which  the  exhibitor 
professed  to  fill  up  in  black.  The  person  whose 
likeness  was  to  be  taken  sat  at  one  side  of  the 
figure  near  a  wall  One  of  our  party  detected  an 
opening  in  the  wall  through  which  a  man's  eye 
was  visible.  This  man,  no  doubt,  drew  the  profile, 
and  not  the  automaton.  Ladies'  heads  were  relieved 
by  pencillings  of  gold.    Another  performer,  I  re- 


member,  went  to  work  in  a  more  scientific  manner : 
a  long  rod  worked  in  a  movable  fulcrum,  with  a 
pencil  at  one  end  and  a  small  iron  rod  at  the  other, 
was  his  apparatus.  He  passed  the  rod  over  the  face 
and  head,  and  the  pencQ  at  the  other  end  repro- 
duced the  outline  on  a  card,  afterwards  filled  in  with 
lamp-black.  £.  Lraton  Blehkinsopf. 

Fqnbral  Armour  in  Churches  (6*  S.  ix. 
429;  X.  11,  73,  129,  162,  199,  276,  317;  xL  73, 
178,  252,  376,  467;  xii.  155  ;  6»>»  S.  i.  446;  iu 
218,  477;  iv.  38,  266,  314;  y.  68,  177,  217,  368}. 
—In  the  ohuroh  of  Husbome-Grawley,  Bedford- 
shire, is  an  elaborate  tomb  to  the  memory  of  John 
Thomson,  Esq.,  who  died  in  1697;  over,  or  attached 
to,  this  tomb  were  some  pieces  of  funeral  armour, 
which  are  now  packed  away  in  an  ancient  parish 
chest  standing  under  the  tower. 

Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfechan. 

Since  my  last  note  on  this  subject  I  haye  come 
across  the  following  interesting  example.  In  the 
north  chapel  of  Stoke  D'Abemon  Church,  Surrey, 
above  the  mural  monument  to  Sir  John  Norbuiy, 
are  suspended  his  helmet  and  tabard,  the  former 
still  bearing  the  spike  to  which  the  crest  was 
attached.  W.  A.  Wklls. 

There  are  some  fine  helmets,  &c.,  of  the  great 
Wiltshire  family  of  Baynton  still  hanging  in  their 
beautiful  chapel  at  Bromham.  J.  H.  B. 

Rklioious  Novels  (6**»  S.  v.  108, 195,  376). — 
Since  my  last  note  was  written  I  have  lighted 
upon  a  much  earlier  instance  of  the  use  of  the 
term  "religious  novel,"  and  by  no  less  a  person 
than  the  English  proto-novelist  Samuel  Bichard- 
son.  In  a  letter  to  Lady  Braidshaigh  (who  corre- 
sponded with  him  under  the  assumed  name  of 
Belfour)  Richardson  writes,  referring  tohisC^oriiM^ 
then  in  course  of  publication:  ** Religion  never 
was  at  so  low  an  ebb  as  at  present.  And  if  my 
work  must  be  supposed  of  the  novel  kind,  I  was 
willing  to  try  if  a  religio^is  novel  would  do  good." 
The  date  of  this  letter  is  October  6,  i748  (see  Th4 
Correspondencs  of  Samud  Rickardsmi,  selected 
from  the  Oi'igincU  MSS.  bequeathed  by  him  to  his 
Family,  toiih  Observations  on  his  IFritings  by 
Anna  Lcetitia  Barbauld,  in  six  volumes,  London, 
1804).  The  letter  referred  to  above  will  be  found 
in  vol.  iv.,  p.  187.  W.  R.  Tate. 

Horsell,  Woking. 

The  Yardlbts  op  England  (e^  S.  y.  27, 172, 
377).— Is  J.  Le  B.  quite  sure  that  the  dates  should 
not  be  1623  and  1633  7  The  church  itself  was  de- 
stroyed in  the  great  fire  and  rebuilt  by  Sir  Christo- 
Eher  Wren,  so  the  original  stone  must  he  destroyed; 
ut  the  style  of  epitaph  is  so  like  the  Stuart  period, 
and  so  thoroughly  unlike  the  Tudor,  that  the  data 
given  seems  to  need  confirmation*  P.  P. 


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**Bedwardiwe"  (e^  S.  ▼.  208,  338).— Most  of 
the  rirer  names  of  England  are  of  Keltic  origin, 
but  Keltic  compounds  are  principallj  confined  to 
Wales  and  Cornwall.  Wardine  is  probably  from 
Med.  Lat.  guardiantu.  The  word  is  found  in 
other  names,  as  Carwardine,  Chiswardine,  Shil- 
vardine,  Sbrawardine.  B.  S.  Charnock. 

"Much"  and  "Grbat''  (6*  S.  ▼.  88,355).— 
B6ca  Chfca  does  not  signify  great,  but  litUe,  mouth. 
B.  S.  Charnoce. 


Charles  Lamb  akd  Carltle  (e***  S.  v. 
— Carlyle  is  under  a  cloud  just  now ;  his  candid 
friend  has  placed  him  under  it,  and  evidently 
means  to  keep  him  there.  But  he  will  shine  out 
again  in  due  time ;  and  meanwhile  those  who, 
like  Mr.  T.  Westwood,  are  very  naturally  angry 
at  what  he  says  of  Charles  Lamb,  will  do  well  to 
see  how  justly  and  wisely  the  Be  v.  Alfred  Ainger, 
in  his  new  monograph  on  Lamb,  has  dealt  with 
those  words  of  Carlyle  that  have  given  such  offence. 

A.  J.  M. 

Authors  of  Quotatioks  Wanted  (6*^  S.  v. 
409).— 

"  Vidi  ego,  qui»  laeiis  reram  successibus  ntens. 
Tollebat  tumidum  stultus  ad  aatra  caput,"  &c. 
This  18  from  Jac.  Billii  Poeaiata^  pp.  525-6  {Delili. 
Poett.  Qallorum,  Off.  J.  Ro8»,  Francof.  1609),  with  the 
title,  "Quam  vana  sit  omnia  impii  prosperitas."  The 
two  following  lines  precede  the  line  commencing  **  Vix 
ego  transieram,"  &c.:— 

"  0  seeyas  hominum  mentes  !  o  pectora  cseca  ! 

Quam  nihil  est,  magni,  quicquid  hie  orbis  habet  I " 
En.  Mabshall. 


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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Miehd  Ia  Tellier^tcm  Administration  cohmm  Intendani 
d^Arwue  $n  PiemofU  (1640-1643).    Manuscrits  InSdits 
de  la  Biblioth^que  Rationale,  Copies  du  Temps.    Par 
N.  L.  Caron.    (Paris,  Pedone-Lauriel.) 
Ws  have  to  thank  M.  Caron  for  a  very  valuable  con- 
tribution to  the  history  of  the  French  administration 
during  the  seyenteenth  century.    It  is  a  subject  upon 
which  much  has  already  been  written,  but  respecting 
which  we  still  know  little,  except,  however,  in  the  de- 

Ktrtment  of  finances,  so  thoroughly  elucidated  by  the 
te  M.  Pierre  Clement  (ffittoire  de  la  Vie  et  de  VAd- 
minislriUion  de  Colbert,  LeUrn  et  Memoires  de  Colbert) 
and  by  M.  Boislisle  (^Corretpondance  da  Conirdleurt 
Qkneravx  dts  Finances,  Memoire  tvr  VEtat  de  la  Gene- 
ralite  de  /*«"»)• 

Michel  Le  Tellier,  whose  official  letters  are  in  part 
now  given  to  the  public,  had  already  occupied  several 
important  posts  under  government  when  he  was  ap- 
pomted  inlendant  of  the  French  army  sent  to  Italy. 
Let  us  quote  here  a  fragment  from  M.  Caron's  brilliatit 
introduction :— '*  The  Thirty  Years'  War  was  being  ac- 
tively carried  on,  France  having  for  its  adversaries 
Austria  and  Spain.  Masters  of  the  Netherlands,  Franche- 
Comt^,  and  B<  ussillon,  the  Spaniards  thus  surrounded 
France  on  three  sides,  whilst  their  occupation  of  Naples 
and  Milan  virtually  gave  them  possession  of  Italy. 
Victor  Amadeus  J.,  JDuke  of  Savoyi  who  had  married  a 


sister  of  Louis  XI 11.,  was  a  clever  prince,  but  a  doubtfu^ 
ally.  By  the  Treaty  of  Cberasco,  which  Mazarin  na* 
gotiated  in  1629,  France,  whose  intentions  were  by  no 
means  disinterested,  had  established  iHk  influence  in 
Italy.  Victor  Amadeus  had  given  over  to  his  brother- 
in-law  the  fortress  of  Pignerol,  together  with  free  access 
through  the  passes  of  the  Alps;  but  by  his  intrigues,  as 
well  as  by  his  want  of  activity,  be  thwarted  the  plans  of 
Louis  Xtll.  His  unforeseen  death  luckily  put  an  end  to 
this  troublesome  predicament  He  expired  on  the  7th  of 
October,  1687.  His  brothers,  Cardinal  Maurice  of  Savoy 
and  Prince  Thomas  of  Carignan,  claimed  the  regency,, 
aiming  at  supplanting  the  duchess-dowager,  who  had 
been  left  guardian  of  the  young  duke,  only  four  years 
old;  and  with  the  view  of  strengthening  their  pre- 
tensions, they  asked  the  support  of  the  court  of  Madrid* 
The  regent  would  have  fain  preserved  a  strict  neutrality, 
according  to  the  advice  which  her  late  husband  bad 
given  her;  but  she  was  obliged  to  choose  between  the 
contending  parties,  and  in  order  to  get  rid  of  the  Span- 
iards, who  had  already  invaded  her  dominions,  she  signed 
on  the  8rd  of  June,  1638,  an  offensive  and  defensive 
treaty  with  France.  Henri  de  Lorraine-Elbeuf,  Count 
d'Harcourt,  received  the  command  of  the  French  forces 
in  Italy,  in  the  stead  of  Cardinal  de  La  Valette.  He 
moved  immediately  to  the  relief  of  Casal,  besieged  by 
the  Marquis  de  Leganez,  governor  of  Milanese.  The 
Spaniards  lost  their  artillery,  saw  their  lines  forced,  and 
were  obliged  to  retire  (April  29,  1640).  Following  up 
his  success,  the  French  general  immediately  marched 
upon  Turin,  but,  pursued  by  Leganez,  he  found  himself 
in  a  somewhat  difficult  position.  His  coolness  and 
perseverance,  however,  intimidated  the  Spanish  com- 
mander, who  dared  not  attack  him,  and  Turin  capitu- 
lated on  the  24th  of  September.  It  was  then  that 
Michel  Le  Tellier  arrived  in  Italy  as  irUendant  (ad- 
ministrator) of  the  French  forces." 

The  Ecene  being  thus  opened  and  the  surrounding 
circumstances  explained,  M.  Caron  describes  in  his  pre- 
liminary disquisition  the  whole  character  of  Le  Tellier's 
administration,  and  shows  him  wirning  the  golden 
opinions  of  his  employers,  thanks  to  his  undoubted  ca- 
pacity, the  opportuneness  of  his  reforms,  and  the  un- 
flinching determination  be  made  of  cutting  down  all 
abuses.  It  is  a  curious  coincidence  that  whilst  our  author^ 
having  devoted  all  his  attention  to  the  history  of  what 
we  may  call  the  army  commissariat  in  France,  was 
studying  Le  Tellier  from  that  point  of  view  exclusively^ 
another  distinguished  writer,  Lieut. -Colonel  Jung,  was 
busily  collecting  materials  for  an  exhaustive  biography 
of  the  statesman,  following  him  through  the  various 
offices  he  held  and  the  various  posts  he  occupied,  till, 
in  his  quality  as  Chancellor  of  France,  he  signed  the 
Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes.  M.  Caron's  volume,, 
therefore,  treats  only  of  one  episode,  and  the  briefest,, 
perhaps,  in  Le  Tellier's  life.  It  can  be  read  quite  in- 
dependently of  Lieut-Colonel  Jung's  opus  mognutn, 
when  that  is  published. 

The  correspondence  edited  and  annotated  by  M.  Carox» 
extends  over  two  years  and  five  months,  and  comprises 
two  hundred  letters.  It  may  be  regarded  as  illustrating 
the  historical  introduction,  which,  from  the  variety  of 
the  topics  brought  under  our  notice,  is  certainly  not  open 
to  the  charge  of  being  either  dull  or  dry.  One  or  two> 
points  may  be  adduced  here  by  way  of  illustration.  In 
the  first  place,  although  the  military  administration  of 
the  seventeenth  century  in  France  was  very  different  from 
what  it  is  now.  yet  they  both  have  a  common  origin,  and 
the  perusal  of  Le  Tellier's  correspondence  shows  conclu- 
sively that  the  system  adopted  two  centuries  ago  con- 
tained the  germ  of  the  present  order  of  things.  Napo- 
leon improved,  no  doubt,  to  a  prodigious  extent  the 


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orgnnization  which  he  found  at  his  dispoeal,  but  he 
worked,  so  to  say,  on  the  foundations  laid  in  the  days 
of  Louis  XIV.  Another  fact  worth  noticing  is  this : 
the  appointment  of  ciTiIians  as  army  administrators  is 
of  a  much  earlier  date  than  the  reign  of  the  grand 
mofiarque—^ii  coincides  with  the  Hundred  Tears'  War, 
and  we  find  it  alluded  to  in  an  edict  of  King  John 
bearing  date  1355.  M.  Caron  traces  the  progress  of  army 
administration  up  to  our  own  day,  showing  tbat  the  sub- 
stitution of  the  military  for  the  civilian  element  in 
that  branch  of  the  service— a  substitution  introduced  by 
the  law  of  September  18, 1822— has  been  productire  of 
unsatisfactory  results. 

M.  Caron  gives  us  a  long  list  of  the  duties  which 
an  iniendant  had  to  discharge.  They  rei^uired  a  man  of 
extraordinary  parts  and  of  consummate  judgment.  Let 
us  add  that,  the  relative  positions  of  the  general  on  the 
one  side  and  the  administrator  on  the  other  not  being 
then  absolutely  defined,  everything  waa  left  to  the  tact 
and  sagacity  of  the  latter.  In  one  document  he  is  re- 
commended  to  humour  a  little  the  superior  officers,  who 
are  not  the  most  tractable  persons  in  the  worid;  in 
another  he  is  urged  to  "insinuate  himself  as  gently  as 
possible  in  the  good  graces  of  Count  d'Harcourt/'  Cold, 
impassible,  he  must  uniformly  be  satisfied  with  an  ap- 
parently subordinate  position,  and  never  notice  those 
contemptuous  and  offensive  expresaions  which  soldiers 
are  apt  to  indulge  in.  Modesty  and  humility  are  his 
indispensable  qualities,  T>erfect1y  compatible  with  the 
most  unflinching  resolution  and  the  most  undaunted 
perseverance. 

Le  Tellier's  habitual  correspondents  were  Mazarin, 
Sublet  Des  Noyers,  and  Bullion.  It  will  be  noticed  that 
the  greater  part  of  the  letters,  instead  of  being  exclu- 
sively reserved  to  the  discussion  of  one  pointy  introduce 
a  number  of  topics,  thus  assuming  often  the  character 
of  gazettes  rather  than  of  dry  official  documents. 

The    Vitiont  of  England.    By  Francis   T.  Palgrave. 

(Macmillan  &  Co.) 
Mb.  Paloratb's  intention,  as  he  tells  us  in  his  preface, 
has  been  to  give  "  a  series  of  lyrical  pictures  of  such 
leading  or  typical  characters  and  scenes  in  English  his- 
tory as  have  seemed  to  him  amenable  to  a  strictly 
poetical  treatment."  Looking  to  the  richness  and  variel^ 
of  the  record,  this  is  no  small  endeavour.  Such  a  task 
would  seem  to  need  something  more  than  the  changes 
of  one  voice;  it  reouires  the  natural  diversities  of  a 
choir.  Hardly  could  the  greatest  of  our  living  poets 
have  sufficed  to  the  duty ;  and  it  is  no  wonder  that  Mr. 
Palgrave  has  not  succeeded.  We  desire  to  speak  with 
every  respect  of  bis  attempt— an  attempt  not,  as  we 
gather,  hurriedly  or  inconsiderately  undertaken;  we 
admire  his  courage,  his  learning,  bis  industry ;  but,  un- 
happily, we  remain  wholly  unmoved  before  his  recital 
of  some  of  the  most  moving  passages  in  our  "  island 
story."  Where  are  the  words  vclitare  per  ora  virum  f 
Where  are  the  songs  that  should  stir  us  "more  than 
with  a  trumpet  "1  Remembering  the  grand  passage  in 
BTelni'si>tary,  we  look  anxiously  at  "Whitehall  Gallery," 
and  Mr.  Palgrave  has  nothing  to  give  us  on  that  theme 
but  a  few  stiffly  constructed  stanzas  that  convey  no 
<<  lyrical  picture*'  at  all :  while  we  turn  from  "Wolfe 
at  Quebec"  with  a  kind  of  sadness  that  the  author 
should  for  a  moment  think  that  the  verse  in  which  he 
has  paraphrased  the  words  of  that  <' plain  gallant  man  " 
was  worth  printing  by  the  side  of  them.  According  to 
Lord  Mahon,  Wolfe  repeated  Gray's  Elegy  in  a  low  voice 
to  the  officers  in  the  boat  with  him,  and  added  at  the 
close,  "  Now,  gentlemen,  I  would  rather  be  the  author 
of  that  poem  than  take  Quebec."  According  to  Mr. 
PalgraTe,  he  expiMsed  himself  thus :— 


"  0  Fame, 
Fame  of  duty  accomplished  and  pride  of  the  fight, 
Ye  are  great !    Bat  greater  to  roe  and  purer  thy  name. 
Poet !  subduing  the  heart 
With  eternal  exquisite  art; 
Who  in  music  givest  thy  soul,  a  sweetness  softer  than 

sighs ; 
Holding  earth  bound  in  the  strain  that  the  spirit  has 

learn'd  in  the  skies." 
This  is  a  not  unfair  example  of  the  way  in  which  Mr. 
Palgrave  has  treated  the  Uetia  Anglorum;  and,  under 
the  circumstances,  it  can  only  be  regretted  that  so  able  a 
writer,  and  one  of  such  honourable  literary  traditions, 
should  have  selected  a  theme  in  which  inequality  was 
inevitable,  and  failure  almost  certain. 

Joseph  Leicuel  Chester. — In  continuation  of  your 
obituary  notice  of  Col.  Chester  in  last  week's  "  N.  &  Q.," 
may  I  draw  attention  to  one  subject  which  you  have 
omitted  specially  to  mention?  I  mean  his  long 
and  patient  researches  into  the  pedigree  of  Geoi^ce 
Washington.  The  scrupulous  care  with  which  he  in- 
vestigated it—taking  nothing  for  granted,  but  exacting 
precise  documentary  proof  of  every  detail— was  beyond 
all  praise.  Latterlv  ne  began  to  despair  of  ever  finding 
the  one  missing  link,  the  actual  emigrant.  Working  par 
vote  d'exclutioiit  he  had  shown  who  was  not  the  emi- 
grant; had  life  been  spared,  even  the  missing  link  might 
have  been  discovered.  Only  those  who  were  personally 
acquainted  with  Col.  Chester  could  appreciate  his 
firm  and  lasting  friendship,  his  kind  and  affectionate 
nature,  his  willingness  to  help  his  friends  in  their  genea- 
logical inquiries,  and  the  readiness  with  which  he  com- 
municated information  on  any  points  of  historical 
interest.  On  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  he  will  be  deeply 
mourned.  J>  Dixov. 

Mr.  Charles  Welsh  is  preparing  for  publication 
(Griffith  k  Farran)  A  Bookteller  of  the  last  Century, 
being  some  account  of  the  life  of  John  Newbery,  and  of 
the  books  he  published,  with  a  chapter  on  the  later 
Newberys. 

Sir  John  Maclean,  F.S.  A.,  is  about  to  edit  TheAnntds 
of  Chepstow  Castle,  from  the  MS.  left  by  the  late  Mr. 
John  Fitchett  Marsh.  The  work  will  be  sent  to  press 
as  soon  as  a  sufficient  number  of  subscribers  shall  nave 
been  obtained.  Applications  are  to  be  addressed  to  Sir 
John  Maclean,  Bicknor  Court,  Coleford,  Gloucestershire. 


Hotitei  ta  Carttipmitstnti. 

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On  all  communications  should  be  written  the  name  and 
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as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

P.  Z.  Round  ("  Could  ye  come  back  to  me,  Douglas, 
Douglas").— See  "N.  &  Q.,"  6i»«  S.  i.  196,  227.  The 
words  have  been  set  to  music.  Perhaps  some  corre- 
spondent can  furnish  the  publisher's  name,  which  we  do 
not  remember. 

J.  R.  (Parish  Registers).— The  statement  "  of  every 
church"  is,  of  course,  utterly  erroneous. 

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CONTENTS.— N»  129. 

ITOTES :— Letters  of  Samuel  Johnson  to  Dr.  Teylor.  461~ 
Books  on  Special  Subjects,  4^— Garibaldi  In  England—- 
'^MaDacas,"  464  —  EfeTmologj  of  "  Spawn  "— Gourtohlp 
among  the  Choctaws— Kneller^  Portrait  of  De  Foe— A 
Qaaint  and  Blundering  Epitaph,  466— The  ''Unspeakable 
Tork  "—Books  gone  astiay—Hoantainons  Scenery-Holly : 
Holy  Tree—"  Newise  "—Catchwords  In  Printing,  466. 

<itrERIES :— Orelle,  Greeley,  Ac.,  466-Udy  Fletcher,  1645— 
WlUIam  de  St.  John-Fitiherberts  " Husbandry/'—"  All 
but"— Castle  of  the  Kings  of  Ulpha-Ada  de  Baliol  467— 
"  Poems,  Moral  and  Entertalniiw,''  Ac.—"  Bloekham  Feast " 
—Stature  of  Frenchmen— Chtslehust— Biographical  Peerage 
—  The  Nettle. Creeper  — Game  of  Twenty  Questions  — 
*' Wring**— Impressions  of  Medab— " Dremes "^Jewels- 
"  Chain  "*- Removal  of  Monumental  Brasses,  468—"  Mars 
his  Feild,"  Ac.— Weston  Family— Authors  Wanted.  46P. 

BSPLIK8 :— The  Site  of  the  Battle  between  the  Armies  of 
Suetonius  and  Boadicea,  460 -Sarah,  Duchess  of  Marl- 
borough—Uttleberrles— To  Shiver— "  Don't  Many."  471- 
Foreign  Place  -  Names  — Bev.  S.  Bogers,  472  — Saladln— 
Heralds'  YlslUtions  of  Worcestershire  and  Olouoestershlre 
— Bp.  White— Robert  Fettlplace,  473— KenUsh  Sayings - 
Mildew  in  Books— ** Deck"  of  Cards— Henry  Marten,  474— 
Epergne— Tokens  of  the  Sacrament— Heraldic— "Coomb," 
476— Place-Names— "FeUx  quern  fadunt/'  fto.— "Narvy" 
-"There's  Cauld  Kail,"  lw.-Wesley  and  Mooro-"The 
Ony"- DoU— The  WUd  HunUman.  476-C.  Buller-Order 
of  Administering  to  Communicants—"  Le  Jnlf  Polonais," 
^.  — Date  of  the  First  Easter— Bonython,  477— "Blue- 
stone"— Mermaids— Old  Houses  with  Secret  Chambers— Bp. 
Moore— "Malte  Money"— Parslow  Family  — The  DiceTS* 
Chap-books— "Wolf "-Authors  Wanted.  478. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS:— Maorayk  "  Notes  from  the  Muniments 
of  St  Mary  Magdalen  CoUege^  Oxford  "-Wheater's  "His^ 
toiy  of  the  Parishes  of  Sherbum  and  Cawood  "—Stevens's 
"Jottings  in  the  Stonehenge  Excursion  *  — Bevan  and 
Stainer's  "  Handbook  to  St  Paul's,"  Ac. 


«oteir. 

.    LETTERS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 
DR.  TAYLOR. 
(Conlinued  fr<m  p,  423.) 

Dbar  Sib, — Since  my  return  hither  I  hare  applied 
myself  very  dtliKently  to  the  care  of  my  health.  My 
Nights  grew  better  at  your  house,  and  have  never  since 
been  bad;  but  my  breath  was  very  much  obstructed; 
yet  I  have  at  last  got  it  tolerably  free.  This  has  not 
been  done  without  great  efforts ;  of  the  last  flfty  days 
I  have  taken  mercurial  pbysick,  I  believe,  forty,  and 
have  lived  with  much  less  animal  food  than  has  been  my 
custom  of  late. 

From  this  account  you  may,  I  think,  derive  hope  and 
<^mfort  I  am  older  than  you,  my  disorders  had  been 
of  very  long  continuance,  and  if  it  should  please  Ood 
that  this  recovery  is  lasting,  yon  have  reason  to  expect 
an  abatement  of  all  the  pains  that  encumber  your  lire. 

Mr.  Thrale  has  felt  a  very  heavy  blow.  He  was  for 
0ome  time  without  reason,  and,  I  think,  without  utter- 
ance. Heberden  was  in  great  doobt  whether  his  powers 
of  mind  would  ever  return.  He  has  however  perfectly 
recovered  all  his  faculties  and  all  his  vigour.  He  has  a 
fontanel*  in  his  back.    I  make  little  doubt  but  that,  not- 


*  Fontanel,  a  seton.  See  Todd  and  Richardson  (and 
Littr6,  s.v.  fotUanelU).  Add  Jeremy  Taylor,  Holy 
Idvinff,  ch.  ilL  sect.  2  (iii.  62,  ed.  Eden);  the  same.  Hymn 
upon  the  Day  of  the  Holy  InnoeenU  (vii.  6S&):  "  Passing 
from  their  fontintU  of  clay  To  heaven  a  milky  and  a 
bloody  way-"  Jean  Paal  Fr.  Richter,  Werke  (Beriin, 
1826),  vi.  »D:  "nicht  n  godenken  des  FontaneU's  am 
reohton  Arme." 


withstanding  your  dismal  prognostication,  yon  may  see 
one  another  again. 

He  purposes  this  autumn  to  spend  some  time  in  hunt* 
ing  on  the  downs  of  Sussex.  I  hope  you  are  diligent 
to  take  as  much  exercise  as  you  can  bear.    I  bad  rather 

fou  rode  twice  a  day  than  tired  yourself  in  the  morning, 
take  the  true  definition  of  exercise  to  be  labour  with- 
out weariness. 

When  I  left  yon,  there  hung  over  you  a  cloud  of  dis- 
content which  is  I  hope  dispersed.  Drive  it  away  as 
fast  as  you  can.  Sadness  only  multiplies  self.  Let  us 
do  our  duty,  and  be  cheerful. 

Dear  Sir,  your  humble  Servant, 
August  8, 1779,  Sam.  Johnson. 

To  the  Rev*  D'  Taylor  at  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 
[With  a  fine  seal,  an  antique  head.] 

Dear  Sib,— [When  I  found  that  the  Deanery  had 
given  you  no  uneasiness,  I  was  satisfied,  and  thought  no 
more  of  writing.  You  may  indeed  be  very  well  without 
it,  and  [I]  am  glad  to  find  that  you  think  so  yourself. 
You  have  enough,  if  you  are  satisfied.]* 

Mr.  Thrale,  after  whose  case  you  will  have  a  natural 
curiosity,  is  with  his  family  at  Brighthelmston.  He 
rides  very  vigorously,  and  runs  much  into  company, 
and  is  very  angry  if  it  be  thought  that  any  thing  ails 
him.  Mrs.  Thrale  thinks  him  for  the  present  in  no 
danger.  I  had  no  mind  to  go  with  them,  for  I  have  had 
what  Brighthelmston  can  give,  and  I  know  not  they 
much  wanted  me. 

I  have  had  a  little  catch  of  the  gout ;  but  as  I  have 
had  no  great  opinion  of  the  benefits  which  it  is  supposed 
to  convey,  I  made  haste  to  be  easy,  and  drove  it  away 
after  two  days. 

Publick  affairs  continue  to  go  on  without  much  mend- 
ing, and  there  are  those  still  who  either  fright  them- 
selves or  would  fright  others  with  an  invasion ;  but  my 
opinion  is  that  the  French  neither  have  nor  had  in  any 
part  of  the  Summer  a  number  of  ships  on  the  opposite 
coast  equal  to  the  transportation  of  twenty  or  of  ten 
thousand  Men.  Such  a  fleet  cannot  be  hid  in  a  creek, 
it  must  be  safely  [easily  1]  visible  and  yet  1  believe  no 
man  has  seen  the  man  that  has  seen  it.  The  ships  of 
war  were  within  sight  of  Plymouth,  and  only  within  sight, 

I  wish,  I  knew  how  your  health  stands.  My  friends 
congratulate  me  upon  my  looks,  and  indeed  I  am  very 
free  from  some  of  the  most  troublesome  of  my  old  com- 
plaints, but  I  have  gained  this  relief  by  very  steady  use 
of  mercury  and  purgatives,  with  some  opium,  and  soma 
abstinence.  I  have  eaten  more  fruit  this  summer  than 
perhaps  in  any  rince  I  was  twenty  years  old,  but  though 
it  certainly  did  me  no  harm,  I  know  not  that  I  had  any 
medicinal  good  from  it. 

Write  to  me  soon.  We  are  both  old.  How  few  of 
those  whom  we  have  known  in  our  youth  are  left  alive  ! 
May  we  yet  live  to  some  better  purpose. 

I  am,  Sir,  vonr  most  humble  Servant, 

London,  Oct.  19, 1779.  Sah.  Johnson. 

To  the  Rev^  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 

Dkab  Sib,— You  are  doubtless  impatient  to  know  the 

E resent  state  of  the  court  Dr.  Hunter,  whom  I  take  to 
ave  very  good  intelligence,  has  just  left  me,  and  from 
him  I  learn  only  that  all  is  yet  uncertainty  and  con- 
fusion. 

Fox,  you  know,  has  resigned,  Burke's  dismission  is 
expected.  I  was  particularly  told  that  the  Cavendishes 
were  expected  to  be  left  out  in  the  new  settlement. 
The  Doctor  spoke,  however,  with  very  little  confidence, 
nor  do  I  believe  that  those  who  are  now  busy  in  the 


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conteft  can  judge  of  the  erent  I  did  not  think  Rock- 
Ingham  of  Bach  importance  as  that  his  death  shoald 
have  had  such  extenuTO  consequences. 

Have  jou  settle[()]  about  the  siWer  coffeepot  1  is  it 
mine  or  Mrs.  Fletcher's  1  I  am  yet  afraid  of  liking  it 
too  well. 

If  there  is  any  thing  that  I  can  do  for  Miss  Colliers, 
let  me  know.  But  now  you  hare  so  kindly  engaged  in 
it,  I  am  willing  to  set  myself  at  ease. 

When  you  went  away,  I  did  not  expect  so  long  absence. 
If  you  are  engaged  in  any  political  business,  I  suppose 
your  operations  are  at  present  suspended,  as  is,  I  beiieTO, 
the  whole  political  moTement  These  are  not  pleasant 
times. 

I  came  back  from  Oxford  in  ten  daya  and  was  almost 
restored  to  health.  My  breath  is  not  quite  free,  but  my 
cough  is  gone. 

I  am.  Sir,  your  most  &o. 

London,  July  8, 1782.  Bah.  Johnson. 

To  the  Rey'  Jy  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 
[Redirected,  Market  Bos  worth,  Leicestershire.] 

DiaeSie,— I  do  not  hesr  that  the  CaTendishes  are 
likely  to  iiad  their  fwayl  soon  into  publick  offices,  but  I 
do  not  doubt  of  toe  Duke's  ability  to  procure  the  ex- 
change for  which  he  has  stipulated,  and  which  is  now 
not  so  much  a  favour  as  a  contract. 

Tour  reason  for  the  exchange  I  do  not  fully  com- 
prehend, but  I  conoeire  myself  a  Gainer  by  it,  because, 
I  think,  you  must  be  more  in  London. 

Mr.  Burke's  family  is  computed  to  have  lost  by  this 
rerolution  tweWe  thousand  a  year.  What  a  rise,  and 
what  a  fall  1  Shelbume  speaks  of  him  in  private  with 
great  malignity. 

I  have  heard  no  more  from  the  Miss  Colliers.  Now 
you  hate  engaged  on  their  side,  I  am  less  solicitous, 
about  them.  Be  on  their  side  as  much  as  you  can,  for 
you  know  they  are  friendless. 

Sir  Robert  Chambers  slipped  this  session  tbrough  the 
fingers  of  revocation,  but  I  am  in  doubt  of  his  continu- 
ance. Shelbume  seems  to  be  his  enemy.  Mrs.  Thrale 
says  they  will  do  him  no  harm.  She  perhaps  thinks 
there  is  no  harm  without  hanging^.  The  mere  act  of 
recall  strips  him  of  eight  thousand  a  year. 

I  am  not  very  well,  but  much  better  than  when  we 

parted,  and  I  hope  that  milk  and  summer  together  are 

improving  you,  and  strengthening  you  against  the  attack 

of  winter.  I  am  Dear  Sir  » 

Tour  most  affectionate 

London,  July  22. 1782.  Sax.  Johnson. 

To  the  Rev'  D'  Taylor  at  Market  Bosworth, 
Leicestershire. 

Drar  Sir, — To  help  the  ignorant  commonly  requires 
much  patience,  for  the  ignorant  are  always  trying  to  be 
cunning.  To  do  business  by  letters  is  very  difficult,  for 
without  the  opportunity  of  verbal  questions  much  infor- 
mation is  seldom  obtained. 

I  received,  I  suppose,  by  the  coach  a  copy  of  Dunn's 
will,  and  an  abstract  of  M'  Flint's  0)  marriage  settle- 
ment By  whom  they  were  sent  I  know  not.  The  copy 
of  the  Will  is  so  worn,  that  it  is  troublesome  to  open  i^ 
and  has  no  attestation  to  evince  its  authenticity.  The 
extract  is,  I  think,  in  M'  Flint's  own  hand,  and  has  not 
therefore  any  legal  credibility. 

What  seems  to  me  proper  to  be  done,  but  you  know 
ranch  better  than  I,  is  to  take  an  exemplification  of  the 
will  from  the  registry.  We  are  then  so  far  sure.  This 
will  I  entreat  yon  to  send,  if  it  be  clear  and  decisive 
against  the  girls,  there  can  be  no  farther  use  of  it.  If 
you  think  it  doubtful,  send  it  to  M'  Madox,  and  I  wHl 
pay  the  fee. 


When  the  will  is  despatched,  the  marriage  settlement 
is  to  be  examined,  which  if  M'  Flint  refuses  to  shew,  he 
gives  such  ground  of  suspicion  as  will  justify  a  legal 
compulsion  to  shew  it. 

It  may  perhaps  be  better  that  I  should  appear  busy  iik 
this  matter  than  you,  and  if  you  think  it  best,  I  will 
write  to  Lichfield  that  a  copy  of  the  will  mav  be  sent  to 
you,  for  I  would  have  you  read  it  I  should  be  told  the 
year  of  M'  Dunn's  death. 

I  think  the  generosity  of  M'  Flint  somewhat  sus- 
picious. I  have  however  not  yet  condemned  him  nor 
would  irritate  him  too  much,  for  perhaps  the  girls 
must  at  last  be  content  with  what  he  shall  give  them. 

My  letter,  which  you  shewed  to  Miss  Collier,  she  did 
not  understand,  but  supposed  that  I  charged  her  with 
asking  money  of  M'  Fimt,  in  order  to  sue  him.  I  only 
meant  that  her  proposal  was  to  him  eventually  the  same, 
and  was  therefore,  as  I  called  it,  wild. 

I  hope  your  health  improTCs.  I  am  told  that  I  look: 
better  and  better.  I  am  going,  idly  enough,  to  Bright- 
helmston.  I  try,  as  I  would  have  you  do,  to  keep  my  body 
open,  and  my  mind  quiet. 

I  hope  my  attention  grows  more  fixed.  When  I  was 
last  at  your  house  I  began,  if  I  remember  ri^ht,  another 
perusal  of  the  Bible,  which  notwithstanuing  all  my 
disorders  I  have  read  through  except  the  Psalms.  I 
concluded  the  twenty  second  of  last  month.  I  hope,  for 
as  many  years  as  Qod  shall  grant  me,  to  read  it  through 
at  least  once  every  ^ear. 

Boswel's  Father  is  dead,  and  Boswel  wrote  me  word 
that  he  would  come  to  London  for  my  advice.  [Tlie*] 
adTice  which  I  sent  him  is  to  stay  at  home  and  [busy] 
himself  with  his  own  affairs.  He  has  a  good  eB[tate> 
considerably  burthened  by  settlements,  and  he  is  himself 
in  debt.  But  if  his  wife  lives,  I  think  he  will  be  prudent. 
I  am  Sir 

Tours  affectiona[tely] 

London  Oct  4. 1782.  Bam.  Johksoit. 

To  the  Rev^  D*  Taylor  in  isltboum,  Derbyshire. 

Dear  Sir,— Tour  last  little  note  was  very  unsatis- 
factory. That  a  silly  timorous  unskilful  Girl  has  behaved 
improperly,  is  a  poor  reason  for  refusing  to  tell  me  what 
expectations  have  been  raised  by  the  will,  and  what  ques- 
tions I  must  ask  the  Lawyers,  questions  which  if  you  do 
not  like  to  answer  them,  I  must  ask  elsewhere,  and  i 
am  unwilling  to  mingle  this  affair  with  any  name  that 
you  may  hear  with  disgust 

This,  my  dear  Sir,  is  the  last  day  of  a  very  sickly  and 
melancholy  year.  Join  your  prayers  with  mine,  that  the 
next  may  be  more  happv  to  us  both.  I  hope  the  happi- 
ness  which  I  have  not  found  in  this  world,  will  by  in- 
finite mercy  be  granted  in  another. 

I  am  Dear  Sir 

Tonn  affectionately 

Dec.  81, 1782.  Sam.  JoBKeow. 

To  the  Reverend  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbonme,  Derbyshire. 

Dear  Sir,— I  have  for  sometime  been  labouring  under 
very  great  disorder  of  Body,  and  distress  of  Mind.  I 
wish  that  in  our  latter  davs  we  may  give  some  comfort 
to  each  other.  Let  us  at  least  not  be  angry,  nor  suppoee 
each  other  angry.  We  have  no  time  to  lose  in  petulance. 
I  beg  you  not  to  take  amiss  that  I  trouble  you  once  more* 
about  the  Colliers.  I  have  but  you  and  M**  Langley  to 
consult,  and  him  I  never  have  oonsulted,  because  you  dia- 
like  him. 

I  would  shew  the  Lawven  the  papers,  but  that  I  know 
not  what  questions  to  asilc  nor  can  state  the  case,  till  I 
am  informed  with  regard  to  some  particulars. 


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What  do  Miss  CoUien  suppoM  will  be  diwoyered  in 
tbe  wiitingBl 

Had  M'  Flint  a  son  by  their  Mother  1  I  think  he  haa. 
^bat  had  he  with  their  Mother  1  I  think  about  200£  a 
jrear.     W  hat  do  they  ask  from  M'  Flint  1 

What  does  he  offer  them  ?  This  you  haTe  told  me,  but 
my  memory  is  not  distinct  about  it,  and  I  know  not  how 
to  find  your  letter.    Tell  me  again. 

All  that  has  a  bad  appearance  on  Flint's  part,  is  his 
requisition  of  a  discharge  from  future  claims.  If  they 
liaTe  no  claims,  what  is  the  diacharge  1  Yet  this  may  be 
only  unskilfttlness  in  him. 

1  think  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  that  M"  Flint's 
«state  could  be  settled  by  her  father  excluslTely  upon 
Collier's  children,  or  that  she  should  be  adTised  at  her 
-marriage  with  M'  Flint  to  debar  herself  from  proyiding 
for  her  future  children,  whateyer  they  might  be,  in  their 
due  proportions. 

Do  answer  this,  and  add  what  it  is  necessary  for  me  to 
Icnow,  and  I  hope  to  trouble  you  no  more  about  it. 
When  I  haye  your  answer  I  will  transact  with  M'  Flint 
and  Miss  Collier;  or  with  as  little  trouble  to  you  as  I 
can. 

Yon  and  I  haye  liyed  on  together  to  the  time  of  sick. 
Aess  and  weakness.  We  are  now  beginning  another  year; 
may  the  merciful  Ood  protect  us  both.  Let  us  not  neglect 
our  salyation,  but  help  each  other  forward  in  our  way  as 
well  as  we  can.  I  am  Dear  Sir 

Your  affectionate 

London,  Jan.  16, 1788.  Sax.  Johnson. 

To  the  Key'  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 

JoHH  K  B.  Mayor. 

Cambridge. 

EyeiT  collector  of  Johnsoniana  (and  I  bear  there 
Jtre  at  least  twenty-fiye)  would  be  glad  to  learn 
ihat  PftOF.  Mayor  intends  to  reprint  the  letters 
he  is  now  sending  to  '*  N.  &  Q.**  Ooe  collector,  at 
any  rate,  would  subscribe  for  two  copies. 

E8TE. 

Birmingham. 

{For  the  sake  of  those  who  may  be  desirous  of  securing 
copies  of  the  Johnson  letters  that  haye  already  been 
printed,  we  giye  the  dates  of  those  numbers  of  '*  N.  k  Q." 
in  which  they  haye  appeared,  yis.,  April  22,  April  29, 
May  6,  May  20,  and  June  8.] 


BOOKS  ON  SPECIAL  SUBJECTS. 

XII. — AUTHORSHIP  OF  JUNIUS. 

Junius  Discovered.  By  P.  T.  [Philip  Thioknesse]. 
Syo.    London,  1789. 

Chalmers  (0.).  Appendix  to  Supplemental  Apology 
Tor  the  Belieyers  m  the  Shakespeare  ^^pers :  beinr  Docu- 
ments in  fayonr  of  Hugh  Boyd  being  Writer  of  Junius's 
Letters.    8yo.    London,  1800. 

Another  Quess  at  Junius,  and  a  Dialogue.  8yo. 
London,  1809.— In  favour  of  William  Pitt,  Earl  of 
<Jhatham,  being  the  writer. 

An  Inquiry  concerning  the  Author  of  Letters  of 
Junius,  in  which  it  is  Proyed  they  were  Written  by 
Burke.    By  John  Roche.    8yo.    London,  1818. 

An  Attempt  to  Ascertain  the  Author  of  Junius.  By 
ihe  Bey.  J.  B.  Blakeway.  8yo.  Shrewsbury,  1813.— 
Home  Tooke. 

Life  of  Author  of  Junius's  Letters— Bey.  Dr.  Wilmot 
By  Mrs.  Oliria  W.  Serres.    8yo.    London,  1818. 

A  Discoyery  of  the  Author  of  the  Letters  of  Junius 
rT>r.  Francis  and  his  Son  Sir  Philip}.  8ro.  London, 
1818» 


Facts  tending  to  proye  General  Lee  was  Junius.  By 
T.  Cirdlestone,  M.D.    8yo.    London,  1818. 

Memoirs  of  a  celebrated  Literary  and  Political  Cha- 
racter [Richard  Gloyer,  Junius].  8to.  London,  1818. 
[By  Richard  Duppa.] 

An  Enquiry  concerning  the  Letters  of  Junius,  with 
reference  to  the  Memoirs  of  a  celebrated  Literary  and 
Political  Character  [Richard  Oloyerl.  8yo.  London. 
1814. 

Arguments  and  Facts  demonstrating  Junius  to  be 
John  Lewis  De  Lolme.  By  Thomas  Busby,  Mus.D. 
8yo.    London,  1816. 

The  Identity  of  Junius  with  a  distinguished  Liying 
Character  [Sir  P.  Francis]  Established.  With  Supple- 
ment.   [By  John  Taylor.]    8yo.    London,  1810. 

Letters  to  a  Nobleman  preying  the  Duke  of  Portland 
to  be  Junius.  [By  A.  O.  Johnston.]  8?o.  London,  1816. 

The  Author  of  Junius  [H.  Boyd]  Ascertained.  By 
Qeorge  Chalmers.    8vo.    London,  1817. 

The  Author  of  Junius  Ascertained,  &c.  A  new  edition, 
with  a  Postscript.  &c.  By  George  Chalmers,  F.R.8.S.A. 
8vo.  London,  1819.— This  is  a  reissue  of  the  1817 
edition,  with  a  postscript  extending  from  p.  117  to  p.  118 
in  fayour  of  Boyd. 

Junius  Sir  Philip  Francis  Denied :  a  Letter  addressed 
to  the  British  Nation.  8vo.  London,  1817.— This, 
written  by  Mrs.  Serres,  is  an  endeayour  to  proye  that 
Dr.  Wilmot  was  Junius. 

Junius,  Sir  Philip  Fransis.  By  Lord  Brougham. 
BdinbwrgK  RevieWi  Noyember,  1817. 

The  Author  of  Junius  discoyered  in  the  Person  of  the 
celebrated  Earl  of  Chesterfield.  [By  WilUam  Cramp.] 
8to.    London,  1821. 

Letters  of  Charles  Butler,  dated  July,  1799,  giring  an 
Account  of  the  Inquiries  of  John  Wilkes  and  Himself 
relatiye  to  Junius.  1  Separately  printed  from  Butler's 
IUminiietnc$$.    8ro.    1822. 

Claims  of  Sir  P.  Francis  Refuted,  with  Supplement  to 
Junius  DiiGoyered.  By  William  Cramp.  8yo.  London, 
1823. 

A  Critical  Enquiry  preying  the  Letters  of  Junius  to 
haye  been  written  by  Viscount  Sackyille.  By  George 
Coyentnr.    8yo.     London,  1825. 

The  Claims  of  Sir  P.  Francis  to  be  Junius  disproyed 
in  Letters  to  Rey.  M.  Dayy,  Sir  James  Macintosh, 
Godfrey  Higsins,  and  XJyedale  Price.  8yo.  Thetford, 
1827.    Privately  printed. 

Junius  Unmasked;  or.  Lord  George  Sackyille  proyed 
to  be  Junius.  With  an  Appendix  snowing  that  Junius 
was  the  Author  of  the  LtUert  of  Hittory  of  tU  Reian,  of 
OeoTffe  III.  [published  anonymously,  8yo.,l«ondon,  1770j, 
and  of  The  Nora  Bnion,  ascribed  to  Mr.  Wilkes.  12mo. 
Boston.  U.S.,  1828. 

Memoirs  of  John  Home  Tooke,  &c.  Identifying 
him  as  the  Author  of  the  Letters  of  Jonios.  By  John 
A.  Graham.    New  York,  1828. 

The  Vices :  a  Poem  in  Three  Cantos.  By  the  Author 
of  the  Letters  of  Junius.    12mo.    1  London,  1828. 

The  Posthumoue  Works  of  Junius,  with  an  Inquiiy 
respecting  the  Author,  and  Sketch  of  the  Life  of  John 
Home  Tooke.  8yo.  New  York,  1829.— By  Mr.  J. 
Bellows. 

The  Secret  reyealed  of  the  Authorship  of  Junius's 
Letters  [Daniel  Wray].  By  James  Falconar.  8ya 
London,  1880. 

Junius,  Lord  Chatham ;  and  the  Misoellaneoos  Letters 

Sroyed  to  be  Spurious.    By  John  Bwlnden.   8yo.    Lon- 
on.  1838. 

Who  was  Junius  1  8yo.  London,  1887.— In  fayour  of 
Lord  Chatham. 

A  Letter  to  an  Hon.  Brigadier-General,  Commander^ 
in-Chief  of  H.M.  Forces  In  Canada.     Lc^idon,  17Cp. 

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Now  First  Aicribed  to  Juniut.  The  Refutation  of  the 
lame  by  an  Officer.  London,  1760.  Reprinted,  with 
Incidental  Notices  of  Lords  Townshend  and  Sackyille, 
Sir  Philip  Francis.  &c.  Edited  by  N.  W.  Simons. 
12mo.    London,  1841. 

The  History  of  Junius  and  his  AVorks,  snd  a  Rerlew 
of  the  ControTersy.  By  John  Jaques.  Post  8to.  Lon- 
don,  1843.— In  favour  of  Lord  G.  SackTilIe. 

The  Authorship  of  Junius  Elucidated,  including  a 
Biographical  Memoir  of  Col.  Isaac  Barr^,  M.F.  By 
John  Britton.  Royal  8to.  London,  1848.  With  Por- 
traits. 

Junius  and  his  Works  compared  with  the  Character 
of  Philip  Dormer  Stanhope,  Earl  of  Chesterfield.  By 
William  Cramp.    8?o.    Lewes,  1850 ;  also  London,  1851. 

Some  Mew  Facts  and  a  Suggested  New  Theory  as  to  the 
Authorship  of  ^e  Letters  ofJunius.  By  Sir  Fortunatus 
Dwarris,  Ent.  Priyately  printed.  1850.  4to.  —  In 
favour  of  Sir  Philip  Francis.  Presentation  copy  from 
anthor,  with  interesting  private  letter. 

Fac-simile  Autograph  Letters  of  Junius,  Lord  Chester- 
field, and  Mrs.  Dayrolles,  showing  that  the  Wife  of  Mr. 
Solomon  Dayrolles  was  the  Amanuensis  of  the  Author. 
By  William  Cramp.  With  a  Postscript  to  the  Author's 
First  Essay.    8vo.    London,  1851. 

Essay  on  the  Authenticity  of  the  Four  Letters  of 
Atticus.    By  William  Cramp.    8vo.    London,  1851. 

The  Ohost  of  Junius;  or,  the  Authorship  of  the 
Letters  Deduced,  lee.  By  Francis  Ayerst  8vo.  Lon- 
don, 1853.-^unius  supposed  to  be  Lt-Oen.  Sir  B.  Rich. 

Junius  Discovered.  By  Frederick  Griffin.  Small  8vo. 
Boston.  1854. — In  favour  of  Governor  Pownall. 

Junius,  Lord  Chatham,  &c.  By  William  Dowe.  '  8vo. 
Mew  York,  1857.— The  author  first  broached  this  theory 
in  Dublin  Univertily  Afagazine,  li.  p.  20,  el  ttq. 

William  Burke  the  Author  of  Junius.  By  Jelinger 
Gookson  Symons.    Post  8vo.    London,  1859. 

Lord  Temple,  Junius.  By  W.  J.  Smith.  In  voL  ilL 
of  The  Grenville  Coirapondence,  published  in  4  vols. 
London,  1852. 

Papers  of  a  Otitic :  selected  from  the  Writings  of  the 
late  Charles  Wentworth  Dilke.  Edited  by  his  grandson, 
Sir  Charles  W.  Dilke,  Bart.,  M.P.  2  vols.  8vo.  1875.— 
The  first  228  pages  of  the  second  volume  are  occupied 
by  this  accomplished  critic's  disproval  of  the  claims  of 
Barr6,  Maclean,  Francis,  Chesterfield,  Mason,  Lord 
Lyttelton,  Lord  Chatham,  Rich,  Lord  Temple,  &c.,  to 
the  authorship  of  Junius's  letters. 

Memoir  of  Sir  J.  Philip  Francis,  K.C.B.,  with  Corre- 

S)ndence  and  Journal.    Commenced  by  Joseph  Parkes, 
q.;  completed  and  edited  by  Herman  Merivale,  M.A. 
2vol6.8vo.    1867. 

Bib.  Cur. 

Garibaldi  in  England.— On  Friday,  Jane  2, 
1882,  Giuseppe  Garibaldi  died  at  Caprera.  On 
Monday.  April  11,  1864,  be  entered  London  as  the 
gnest  of  all  England  ;  and  the  following  brief 
account  of  his  entry  was  written  at  the  time  by 
one  who  saw  it : — 

"  By  four  o'clock  the  crowd  was  impassably  dense  as 
far  as  one  could  see,  from  Trafalgar  Souare  to  Psrlia- 
ment  Street.  It  was  a  crowd  composed  mainly  of  the 
lowest  classes— a  very  shabby  crowd — and  the  women  of 
it,  young  and  old,  were  painfully  ugly,  and  dirty,  and 
tawdry.  Yet  for  three  hours,  from  four  till  seven,  this 
coarse  mob  behaved— for  I  watched  them  all  the  time— 
with  absolute  good-humour  and  pescefulness,  though 
their  patience  must  have  been  taxed  to  the  utmost. 
They  had  come  to  see  what  was  worth  seeing ;  drawn. 


however  unconsciously,  by  something  of  noble  within 
them,  and  not  merely  by  love  of  sightseeinfl:.  The  pro> 
cession,  such  as  it  was,  csme  in  sight  at  five,  and  went 
on  contiouously  till  half-past  five.  Tben  it  suddenly 
ended,  re  ivfeetd.  No  one— not  even  the  very  few  police 
who  were  preBent— could  tell  what  was  become  of 
Garibaldi  himself,  or  why  he  did  not  appear.  Still, 
there  were  no  cries  of  disappointment  or  impatience; 
the  mob  waitsd  calmly,  as  before,  for  another  hour. 
Then  at  last  the  rest  of  the  procession  struggled  up : 
more  banners  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the  like;  more  car- 
riages and  cabs  filled  with  working  men  and  foreigners, 
who  looked  all  unused  to  the  luxury  of  riding;  more 
trades  unions  on  foot,  from  all  parts  of  London ;  a  youn^^ 
lady  on  horseback  (who  was  shel^,  riding  calmly  alone ; 
a  small  bodyguard  of  Garibaldians ;  and  the  General 
himself,  seated  on  the  box  of  a  barouche,  in  brown  wide- 
awake hat  and  what  looked  like  a  blue  blouse.  The 
excitement  had  been  rapidly  rising;  and  now,  when 
this  supreme  moment  came,  it  resulted  in  such  a  scene 
as  can  hardly  be  witnessed  twice  in  a  lifetime.  That 
vast  multitude  rose  as  one  man  from  their  level  attitude 
of  expectation  ;  they  leapt  into  the  9ir;  they  waved  their 
arms  and  hats  aloft;  they  surged  and  struggled  round 
the  carriage:  they  shouted  with  a  mighty  shout  of 
enthusiasm  that  took  one's  breath  awaj  to  hear  it ;  and 
above  them  on  both  sides  thousands  of  white  kerchiefa 
were  waving  from  every  window  and  housetop.  There 
was  an  ardour  and  a  sort  of  deep  pathetie  force  about 
this  sound  that  distinguished  it  plainly  from  the  shouts 
of  simple  welcome  wMch  I  heard  given  last  year  to  the 
Princess  Alexandra.  And  he,  meanwhile,  sat  aloft, 
sometimes  taking  off  his  wideawake  or  gently  waving 
his  hand,  sometimes  sitting  quiet  and  gaxing  around  and 
upwards  as  if  he  could  scarcely  believe  that  this  great 
greeting  was  meant  only  for  him.  I  was  not  near  enough 
to  see  his  features  closely.  But  one  would  have  known 
that  heroic  face  among  a  thousand ;  and  in  his  bearing 
and  looks  there  was  a  combination  utterly  new  and  most 
impressive,  of  dignity  and  homeliness,  of  grace  and 
tenderness  with  the  severest  majesty.  Others  who  saw 
him  nearer  have  since  told  me  this  roost  emphaticaUy  ; 

.  for  instance  [I  might  insert  a  well-known  name 

here],  who  was  converted  on  the  spot  by  that  grand 
countenance,  and  who  says  it  was  *by  many  degrees 
more  beautiful  than  any  face  he  ever  saw.' 

**  This  of  to-day  has  been  the  greatest  demonstration 
by  far  that  I  have  beheld  or  probably  shall  behold.  No 
soldier  was  there,  no  official  person;  no  king,  nor 
government,  nor  public  body  got  it  up  or  managed  it; 
it  was  devised  and  carrfed  out  spontaneously  by  men 
and  women  simply  as  such,  and  they  often  of  the  lowest 
mde.  It  was  the  work  of  the  rough  but  law-abiding 
English  people,  penetrated  with  admiration  for  some- 
thing divine,  and  expressing  themselves,  as  usual,  in  a 
clumsy,  earnest,  orderly  way.  Contemptible  as  a  pageant, 
it  is  invaluable  for  its  political  and  moral  significance 
and  for  the  good  that  it  reveals  in  the  makers  of  it,  and 
for  the  good  they  themselves  receive  by  reverencing  a 
guileless  person.  How  rare  and  how  beautiful  to  see 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  common  folks  brought  together 
by  motives  absolutely  pure,  to  do  homage  to  one  who  is 
transcendently  worthy ! " 

A.  J.  M. 

"Makacus.^' — I  bare  been  referred  to  the  curious 
word  manacMj  given  both  by  Scheller  and  For* 
cellini,  as  being  just  possibly  allied  to  tUmmnac 
On  iuTestigation  there  turns  out  to  be  no  such 
word  in  the  Latin  language ;  it  is  a  pure  fiction^ 
due  to  a  misreading.    The  only  reference 


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Vitrayios,  1.  9,  e.  3  (for  which  read  a  8).  The 
beet  edition  of  VitniTius,  hj  Roee  and  MiiUer- 
StrubiDg,  Leipzig,  1867,  giyes  menaetMy  with  the 
yariaDta  mamust  matKUus.  Mentuut  n  merely 
the  Greek  firfvaias  in  a  Latin  dress,  and  is  used 
snbstantiFely  to  signify  the  ecliptic.  This  is  one 
more  instance  of  the  soundness  of  the  advice  to 
Terify  qaotations. 

Thb  Ettholoot  of  "  Spawn."— The  etymology 
BQggested  by  Mr.  Wedgwood,  and  adopted  by 
me  as  being  most  likely  right  (yiz.,  from  O.F. 
upandre),  admits  of  exact  proof,  as  I  have  just 
discovered.  The  O.F.  etpaundre^  a  variant  of 
etpandre^  occurs  in  Thomas  Wright's  VocahvXaria^ 
i.  164,  and  is  glossed  by  ickeatn  him  firome,  as 
Wright  prints  it.  But  Mr.  Aldis  Wiifiht  tells 
me  that  the  MS.  has  been  misread,  and  Qie  right 
reading  is  $ehedm  his  fOuiM,  t.e.,  shed  his  roe^ 
With  this  correction  we  now  read: — "Soffret 
le  peysonn  en  ewe  esjoanndre,"  with  the  ^loss 
''  scneden  his  roune."  Thus  upaundre  ia  precisely 
spaim,  from  Latin  ea^ndere. 

Walter  W.  Skbat. 

Cambridge. 

Courtship  among  thb  Ohoctaws.— The  fol- 
lowing cutting  from  the  Times  of  a  few  weeks  ago 
is  worthy  of  preservation  in  "  N.  &  Q.**: — 

**  There  are  Btill  2,000  of  the  Choctaws  living  in  their 
anceatntl  homes  in  Missiasippi,  and,  on  the  authority  of 
Hr.  H.  S.  Halbert,  tbej  retain  in  all  their  priatine 
vigour  most  of  the  oiages  of  their  anceators.  Among 
these  the  methoda  employed  in  conductinic  a  courtship 
and  performing  a  marriage  are  curious.  When  a  young 
Ghootaw  of  Kemper  or  i^eahoba  county  sees  a  maiden 
who  pleases  hia  fancy,  he  iratcbea  his  opportunity  until 
he  finds  her  alone.  He  then  advances  within  a  abort 
distance  and  gently  lets  fall  a  pebble  at  her  feet;  he 
may  have  to  do  this  two  or  three  times  before  he  attracts 
the  maiden*B  attention,  when,  if  thia  pebble  throwing 
is  agreeable,  she  soon  makes  it  manifest ;  if  otherwise, 
a  soomAil  look  and  a  decided  'elcwah'  indicate  that 
his  suit  is  in  vain.  Sometimes,  instead  of  throwing 
pebbles,  the  suitor  enters  the  maiden's  cabhn  and  lays 
his  hat  upon  her  bed.  If  the  man's  suit  be  acceptable, 
the  hat  is  permitted  to  remain :  but  if  she  be  unwilling 
to  be  his  bride,  it  is  instantly  removed.  Whichever 
method  be  empioved,  the  rejected  snitor  knows  that  it 
is  useless  to  press  nis  suit,  and  beats  aa  graceful  a  retreat 
as  possible.  When  a  marriage  is  agreed  upon,  the  time 
and  place  are  fixed  for  the  ceremony.  The  relatives  and 
friends  of  the  bride  and  bridegroom  meet  at  their  re- 
spective homes,  and  from  thence  march  to  the  marriage 
ground,  halting  at  a  short  diataoce  from  one  another. 
The  brothers  of  the  bride  go  across  to  th«  opposite 
party,  and  bring  forward  the  bridegroom,  who  is  then 
seated  upon  a  blanket  spread  upon  the  ground.  The 
Bisters  of  the  bridegroom  then  do  likewise  by  going  over 
and  bringing  forward  the  bride.  She  is  expected  to 
break  loose  and  run,  but,  of  oourse.  is  pursued,  captured, 
and  brought  baok  to  be  seated  by  the  side  of  the  bride- 
groom. All  the  parties  now  cluster  around  the  couple ; 
the  woman's  relatives  bring  forward  a  hag  of  bread,  a 
lingering  symbol  of  the  time  when  the  woman  had  to 
raise  the  com,  the  man's  relatives  a  bag  of  meat,  in 
memory  of  the  days  when  the  man  should  have  pro- 


vided the  household  with  game.  Next  presents  of' 
various  sorts  are  showered  on  the  couple,  who  all  this 
time  sit  still,  not  even  speaking  a  word.  When  the 
last  present  nas  been  given  they  arise,  now  man  and 
wife,  and,  just  as  in  civilixed  life,  provisions  are  spread 
and  the  ceremony  is  rounded  off  with  a  feast." 

0.  T. 

Portrait  of  Daniel  Db  Fob  bt  Sir  Godfrey 
Enellbr. — Some  slight  search  through  De  Foe's 
biographies  has  shown  me  the  importance  of  a 
portrait  of  De  Foe,  recently  purchased  along  with 
that  by  Gkunsborough  of  the  poet  Chatterton, 
mentioned  anUf  p.  367.  The  likeness  is  in  Sir 
Godfrey  Eneller's  very  best  style—as  delicate  as 
a  miniature,  as  powerful  aa  one  would  wish.  The 
author  of  Eobinsm  Onisoe  is  here  limned  at  the 
age  of  about  thirty — at  which  early  age,  however, 
we  must  remember,  he  had  already  written  The 
True-Bom  Englishman,  and  secured  the  friend- 
ship of  his  king.  His  face  is  truly  remarkable, 
first  for  manly  beauty,  but  chiefly  for  a  certain 
cachet  of  calm  commanding  common  sense  I  never 
saw  so  strongly  marked  on  any  face  before.  The 
towering  forehead  and  lustrous  eyes  betoken  ft 
man  impossible  to  deceive,  and  likely  only  t6 
occupy  his  imagination  with  sober  facts.  And  if 
ever  the  likeness  of  a  possible  patriot  were  put  on 
canvas,  even  such  a  man  we  should  image.  Those 
who  have  disputed  the  morality  of  De  Foe  may 
here  see  him  as  he  was  before  the  world  soured 
his  nature,  and  cut  those  harsh  lines  on  his 
features  we  see  in  the  only  other  likeness  of  him 
that  appears  to  exist^-that  by  Tavemer,  taken  at 
about  the  age  of  forty-two.  I  will  now  say  no 
more  at  present,  as  I  hope  to  have  both  pictures 
shortly  on  free  view  in  Ix>ndon.  If,  however,  any 
of  your  correspondents  can  throw  light  on  the 
matter  of  any  other  possible  likenesses  of  De  Foe, 
I  shall  be  obliged.  J.  G.  Laud. 

A  Quaikt  and  Blxtndbriiyg  Epitaph. — ^All 
residents  in  this  neighbourhood  (and  many  out  of 
it)  are  aware  that  the  present  Lee  Ghurch  is  on 
the  other  side  of  the  road  from  the  old  churoh, 
part  of  the  tower  of  which  alone  remains,  and  is  at 
feast  as  much  ''  ivy-mantled"  as  that  alluded  to  in 
the  famous  Elegy,  But  as  the  old  churchyard  is 
usually  locked,  probably  not  very  many  examine 
the  tombstones  and  epitaphs  therein.  Walkinff 
round  it  a  few  days  since,  I  noticed  on  the  ola 
tower  itself  a  slab  of  the  date  of  our  first  Stuart 
king,  which  is  perhaps  worth  recording  for  the 
quamtness  of  the  English  and  the  inaccuracy  of 
the  Latin  part  After  stating  that  it  was  in 
memory  of  Bryan  Anslie,  £&<][.,  of  Lee.  and 
Awdry  his  wife,  who  died  respectively  on  July  10, 
1604,  and  November  26,  1691,  it  states  that 
Cordell,  their  youngest  daughter  (then  lady 
Hervey),  "  at  her  owne  proper  oost  and  obaiges  in 
further  testimonie  of  her  dutifuU  love  nnto  her 
father  and  mother  caused  this  mrai^ment  to  be 

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erected  for  the  p'petnal  memorie  of  their  names 
a^^inst  the  iDgratefall  natare  of  oblivioas  time." 
And  then  it  conclades  with  this  piece  of  philo- 
sophy :  *'  Nee  primus  nee  ultimas,  multi  ante 
oesserunt  et  omnee-sequetitur.'^  W.  T.  Ltnv. 
Blaokheath. 

The  ''  Unspbakablk  Tctbk/'— This  expression, 
it  wiH  be  remembered,  came  into  general  use  daring 
the  Bulgarian  agitation  of  1876,  on  its  appearance 
in  a  published  letter  of  Mr.  Carlyle's  to  Mr. 
George  Ho.ward,  M.P.,  dated  Novemlier  24.  Twice 
in  this  letter  does  Mr.  Carlyle  employ  the  phrase. 
Bat  it  does  not  seem  to  have  been  noticed  that  he 
used  it  nearly  fifty  years  before.  In  the  West- 
minsUr  Review,  No.  29  (rear  1831),  in  an  article 
GO  the  Nuhdungen  Liedy  since  reprinted  in  his 
Mitedlanies,  vol.  ii.  p.  225  (ed.  1857)  he  makes 
mention  of  'Uhat  unspeakable  Turk^  King  Ma- 
chaboL?'  C.  T.  B. 

Books  gone  astrat.—Mr.  Thoms's  note  (aniSy 
p.  427)  has  reminded  me  of  a  question  I  have  long 
meant  to  ask.  M^  fatW  possessed  a  book,  the 
title  and  authorship  of  which  I  forget.  It  was  a 
sipall  seventeenth  century  octavo,  written — and 
rery  well  written— so  far  as  I  remember,  in  defence 
of  the  microscope,  answering  the  objection  of  per- 
sons who  said  tnat  the  things  seen  therein  were 
'*  deceitful  and  faUacious."  This  book  was  lent  to 
some  one  who  neyer  returned  it.  I  am  anxious  to 
recover  it,  as  it  had  in  it  the  signature  of  my 
collateral  ancestor  Samuel  Woodruffe,  of  Gains- 
borough, the  greater  part  of  whose  collection  of 
books  I  possess.  If  the  very  vague  description  I 
have  given  be  sufficient  to  identify  author  and 
title  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  informed  thereof. 

Edward  Peacock. 

Bottatford  Manor,  Brigg. 

Mountainous  Scbnbrt.— Cuthbbrt  Bedr's 
anecdote  (ante,  p.  366)  of  the  Butland  girl's 
remark  on  Kentish  scenery  reminds  me  of  a  stoiy 
I  heard  many  years  ago  from  a  German  gentleman, 
illustrating  the  non-appreciation  of  magnificent 
scenery  by  those  resident  in  the  midst  of  it.  He 
related  that  a  North  German  was  paying  a  visit 
for  the  first  time  to  some  friend  who  was  residing 
in  one  of  the  mountainous  districts  of  the  south, 
and,  being  much  struck  with  the  grandeur  of  the 
scenery,  remarked  to  bis  friend  that  he  thought 
life  must  be  very  pleasant  amidst  such  surround- 
inn.  With  a  tone  of  utter  indifference,  the 
other  replied  that  it  was  all  *' katzenbackelig," 
like  cats'  backs !  W.  T.  Ltnn. 

Blaekheath. 

HoLLT  :  HoLT-TRBS. — ^lu  the  June  number 
of  the  C&mkUl  Moufcmne  the  following  passage 
ooQucs  at  p.  711,  in  an  interesting  article  on 
••Names  of  Flowers":  "The  Crown  of  Thorns 


has  given  to  the  hoUy  {holff'trte)  in  German  the 
name  of  ChrUt-'dam^  whilst  in  Italy  it  has  en- 
nobled the  barbery,  and  in  France  given  to  the 
hawthorn  the  name  of  the  '  noble  thorn '  (V^iu 
nobUy  Surely  the  word  holiy  has  no  connexion 
whatsoever  with  the  word  ^oly,  cf.  Yorkshire 
hoUin^  A.-S.  hoUnt  W.  celyn,  forms  which  show 
that  the  last  letter  has  been  dropped  in  the 
modem  word.  F.  C.  Birkbeck  Terrt. 

Ctfdiit 

"  Newize."— This  verb  sounds  strange  to  my 
ear,  and  will  sound  strange  to  most  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q/*;  but  it  has  met  my  eye  in  the  Aftnio- 
tur^  Magaxine  for  1818,  vol.  i.  p.  160 :  ^  Many 
ruwiaed  words  are  added,  which  are  much  at  the 
service  of  the  pubUc*  £.  Walford,  M.  A« 

Hampetead^  N.  W. 

Catchwords  iir  Priiitiko. — ^These  are  foaifd 
in  a  work  entitled  LUium  Medietna,  printed  at 
Ferrara  in  1486.    It  is  anacoountable  that  the  ose 
and  convenience  of  the  catchword  did  nnt  occar  ' 
to  the  Parisian  printers  until  the  year  1520. 

William  Platt. 

Callis  Courts  8t  Peter's,  lale  of  Thanet. 


€l«rr(e0. 

We  mutt  request  eorrMponienti  desiring  information 
on  family  matters  of  onlj  private  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addreaaet  to  their  queries,  in  order  ttiat  the 
ansirers  may  l)e  addressed  to  them  direct 


Grbilb,  Greslet,  Greddlb,  Gradwbll.  — 
For  a  period  of  upwards  of  250  years  the  family 
known  variously  as  Greeley,  GrellVf  Rnd  Greddle 
occupied  a  conspicuous  position  in  Lancashire.  In 
Domesday  Book  Albert  de  Greslet  appears  along 
with  Boger  de  Boiseul,  Baron  of  Penwortham,  aa 
joint  loid  of  the  hundred  of  Blackboin.  He  was 
a  favourite  of  Roger  of  Poictou  in  the  reigns  ai 
William  I.  and  IL,  and  when  the  turbulent  con- 
duct of  that  msgnate  led  to  his  fall  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  I.,  the  Greslets  still  retained  the  &voar  of 
the  king  and  their  vast  possessions  in  this  oonnty. 
Albert,  the  third  in  succession,  by  his  mairiago 
with  Agnes  or  Matilda  (for  both  names  are 
ascribed  to  her),  the  daughter  and  co-heirees  of 
William  Fits  Nigel,  Baron  of  Halton  and  Widness* 
and  Constable  of  Chester,  greatly  added  to  the 
importance  of  the  family.  In  the  reign  of  John, 
the  then  representative  of  the  name,  Robert,  the 
fifth  Baron  of  Manchester,  was  in  command  of  the 
Castle  of  Lancaster ;  and  for  his  taking  part 
with  the  barons  at  Rnnnymede  in  securing  Magnn 
Charta,  that  monarch  deprived  him  of  £ts  office 
and  his  estates,  though  the  success  of  the  baronial 
cause  soon  restored  him  to  the  latter.  In  the  year 
122^  the  sixth  of  the  reign  of  Henry  III.,  he 
obtained  a  charter  for  the  holdiiig  of  a  fair  at 


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Manchester,  and   this  was   the-  'first  municipal 
firanchise  enjoyed  by  that  important  city. 

In  tracing  the  descent  of  this  family  I  have  long 
been  under  the  impression  that  it  formed  a  branch 
of  the  Norman  house  of  De  Toesney— that  while 
Balph  in  Hertfordshire  handed  down  the  family 
name  of  Toesney,  Robert,  the  second  brother,  re- 
ceived the  manor  of  Gresley,  in  Derbyshire,  as  the 
rewurd  of  his  seinrices  to  the  Crown,  adopted  it  as 
his  surname,  and  that  Albert,  the  first  of  the 
Barons  of  Manchester,  was  one  of  his  sons  and  bore 
his  name.  Hence  I  was  surprised  at  reading  in 
the  pages  of  a  work  published  by  King  ft  Co.  in 
1874,  entitled  The  Norman  People,  that  the 
Greddles  of  Lancashire  were  of  a  family  altogether 
different  from  that  of  the  Gresleys  of  Derbyshire, 
and  that  they  sprang  from  an  Angevin  family 
which  came  from  Gresill^.  Though  no  author^s 
name  is  placed  on  the  title-page  of  this  book,  it  is 
written  with  such  fulness  of  knowledge  of  the 
subject  that  any  deliberate  statement  in  it  is 
'  deserving  of  consideration.  Can  any  of  your 
readers  throw  some  light  upon  the  descent  of  the 
Lancashire  Gresleys  or  Greddles,  or  give  any 
information  about  this  Angevin  soldier  who  is 
credited  with  being  the  ancestor  of  so  distinguished 
a  line  t  Bobxrt  Graowxll. 

Clanghton  Bectory,  Garstsng. 

[See  "  N.  k  QT/'  6tk  a  Iv.  805.] 

Ladt  Fletcher,  1645.— I  should  be  glad  to 
have  any  information  or  references  to  where 
particulars  are  to  be  found  respecting  this  lady. 
Sir  Henrv  Fletcher,  who  was  created  a  baronet 
1640,  and  who  lost  his  life  at  Rowton  Heath, 
Sept.  26, 1645,  married  Eatherine,  only  daughter 
of  Sir  George  Dalston.  Burke  {Sxtinet  Baronei- 
age,  p.  149)  says : — "  His  widow,  who  was  a  lady 
of  great  courage  and  resolution,  endured  seques- 
tration, inoan^ratioo,  plunder,  &a,  from  the 
rebels,  with  a  brave  and  masculine  spirit.  She 
lived,  however,  to  see  her  daughters  married  into 
some  of  the  first  families."  Further  on  Burke 
states,  p.  202,  that  Lady  Fletcher  was  married 
again,  to  Thomas  Smith,  D.D.,  who  was  afterwards 
Bishop  of-  Chester.  Acoordins  to  Le  Neve,  he 
was  Dean  of  Chester  1671,  Bishop  1684,  and 
died  in  1702  at  the  age  of  eighty-eight.  I  am  in 
particular  anxious  to  know  when  this  second 
marriage  took  place,  and  when  Lady  Fletcher 
died.  Edward  Sollt. 

William  db  St.  JonN.— I  observe  it  stated 
in  the  pedigree  of  the  noble  family  of  Bolingbroke 
that  William  de  St.  John,  founder  of  the  English 
house,  came  over  with  William  I.  as  '*  grand- 
master of  the  artillery  and  supervisor  of  the 
wagons  and  carriages."  As  this  appears  to  me 
to  be  an  error,  and  for  reasons  which  will  after- 
wards be  given,  may  I  ask  of  any  one  of  your 
correspondents,  who  may  be  willing  and  able,  to 


oblige  by  giving  me  a  reference  to  the  authority 
on  which  the  statement  in  question  is  made  ? 
Frodoard,  Richer,  and  Dudo  are  the  three  original 
or  main  authorities  on  early  Norman  history,  and 
amongst  those  of  recent  times'  we  have  Thierry, 
Palgrave,  Lappenberg,  and  Butte.  Besides  these, 
there  are  the  early  Anglo-Norman  chroniclers.  If 
the  statement  be  not  found  in  the  works  of  these 
authors,  and,  of  course,  in  those  of  the  earliest 
who  have  supplied  the  "raw  material,"  where 
could  it  be  found  ?  Moreover,  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  where  the  authority  for  the  post  of 
"  grand-master  of  the  artilleij  **  and  "  supervisor 
of  the  wagons  and  carriages  "  in  William's  army, 
or  subsequently  during  his  reign,  is  to  be  found. 
That  these  statements  are  errors  I  have  no  doubt, 
for ''artilleij"  was  unknown  in  the  Conqueror's 
army,  the  equivalent  having  been  found  in  the 
archers,  the  chief  of  whom  was  head  of  the  arm 
(see  the  Herald  and  Oeneahgiet,  1865,  pp.  523, 
541,  &c.).  Apart  horn  the  families  which  claim 
the  distinction  in  question,  the  subject  itself 
invites  attention.  Spal. 

FiTZHERBBRT*s  '*  HusBAVDRT."— In  the  Cata- 
logue of  the  Huth  Library  we  are  told  that  the 
Bev.  Joseph  Hunter  was  the  first  to  point  oat 
that  the  work  on  husbandry  was  not  written  by 
Sir  A.  Fitzherbert,  as  is  usually  said.  Now 
where  can  I  find  Mr.  Hunter's  statement  and 
his  reasoning  1  I  have  tried  several  of  his  works 
in  vain.  It  is  cruel  to  give  a  reference  so  vague 
as  this  one.  Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Cambridge. 

''All  but."— Should  a  pronoun  foUowing  these 
words,  when  all  is  in  the  nominative  case,  be  also 
in  the  nominative  or  in  the  objective  case  f  Should 
we  say,  "  We  were  all  bowled  out  but  J,"  As,  they; 
or  "  all  but  me,"  him,  them  f  The  A.-S.  hutan  is 
a  preposition,  and  governs  a  dative  case,  as, "  butan 
wuum  &  cildum."  Is  but  a  preposition  in  modem 
English  also  ?  Dr.  Latham's  disquisition  upon  the 
subject  in  his  Dictionary^  vol.  L  p.  327,  virtually 
leaves  the  matter  to  the  reader's  taste. 

B.  G.  A.  Prior. 

AtbensBiim  Club. 

Thb  Castle  of  the  Kings  of  TJlfra. — Just 
above  the  village  of  Ulpha,  on  the  hills  to  the 
right  of  the  Duddon  as  you  walk  towards  Brough- 
ton-in-Fumess,  there  stands  a  piece  of  wall,  some 
three  feet  or  more  in  thickness,  which  the  natives 
tell  me  is  the  remnant  of  what  was  once  the  castle 
of  the  Kings  of  Ulpha.  Can  any  one  give  me 
information  about  the  ruin  or  the  Kings  of  Ulpha, 
and  suggest  books  of  reference  on  the  subject  f 
Herbert  Rix,  B.A. 

Science  Club,  Savile  Bow,  W. 

Ada  db  Baliol.— Will  any  one  kindly  give 
me  the  parentage  of  Ada  de  BalioL-who  manned 

)igitized  by  vjOOQIC 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [6*8.y.joni7/82. 


John  Fltz  Robert,  Lord  of  Warkworth  and  of 
davering?  F.  N.  B. 

"  PoEHB,  I  Moral  and  Entertaining.  |  By 
«  Lady.  |  Doncaster :  |  Printed  by  W.  Sheardown, 
High  Street;  at  his  office,  High  Street  BuildiDgs. 
I  1808/'— I  have  lately  received  as  a  present  for 
wis  library  the  above  book.  The  book  is  de- 
dicated to  the  Coantess  Fitzwilliam.  A  list  of 
subscribers  is  given,  and  no  less  than  ten  members 
of  the  Brackenbuiy  family  resident  in  Lincoln- 
shire, and  two  resident  in  Yorkshire,  occur  in 
this  fist.    Who  was  the  authoress  7 

John  Ballinoeb. 
Doncaster  Free  Libraiy. 

"BliOCEHAM  FbABT." — 

''These  be  the  words  of  Tbom-Wals,  which  are  set 
downe,  to  signifie  that  the  earle  of  Saiiaburie  was  a 
bidden  ghest  to  blocOuiM  feast  with  the  reit."— Holins- 
hed,  ChrwieUi,  iii.  §  4,  p.  12. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  this  phrase,  which  appears 
to  have  been  used  proyerbialfy  ?  Xit. 

Stature  of  Fbenchven. — It  is  boldly  asserted 
by  the  author  of  Miseegmation,  1864,  **  that  the 
stature  of  the  Frenchman  of  1863  is  at  least  three 
inohea  shorter  than  that  of  the  Frenchman  of  a 
oentury  since."  The  writer  displays  considerable 
ability,  but  he  asserts  propositions  the  most  dis- 
patable  as  though  they  were  incontrovertible  facte. 
la  the  author  known,  and  is  the  abore  assertion  a 
faot?  0.  A.  Ward. 

Mayftir. 

Obislehubst,  Kent.— Is  it  generally  known 
that  many  of  the  posts  round  the  common  are  of 
whale's  bone?  also,  that  an  ancient  cockpit 
remains  on  the  green,  and  that  from  an  aged  yew 
tree  encircled  by  a  seat  in  the  churchya^  there 
hang  a  chain  and  manacles  7  Is  there  a  history 
attached  to  these  ?  0.  A,  White. 

Preston-on-tbe- Wild-Moors,  Salop. 

A  Biographical  Peerage.— The  other  day  I 
picked  up  a  small  16mo.  Tolume  entitled  **A  Bio- 
(pvtphieal  Furage  of  th$  Empire  of  Great  Britain, 
in  tehieh  are  Menioin  and  Ckaraeten  of  the  most 
OeUbrated  Persons  of  each  Familv.  Vol  ii. 
The  arms  engraved  on  wood.  London,  printed 
for  J.  Johnson.  J.  Nichols,  &c.,  1808."  This 
Tolume  treats  of  viscounts  and  barons,  and  a  note 
at  the  end  of  the  work  informs  the  reader  that  the 
next  volume  will  contain  the  archbishops  and 
bishops.  Was  this  volume  ever  published? 
How  many  volumes  does  the  work  consist  of 
altogether?  J.  Cooper  Morlet. 

Liverpool. 

The  Nrttle-CrbrPer.— What  is  the  proper 
name.  Bnglish  and  cbssical,  for  the  little  bird 
popularly  known  as  above  ?  D,  T.  M. 


A  Game  of  Twshtt  Questions. — ^Is  this 
known  in  England  ?  It  oonsists  in  an  attem|>t  to 
discover,  in  a  score  of  queries  and  with  the  aid  of 
three  guesses,  the  precise  object  chosen  by  the 
adversary.  J.  Bravoer  Matthews. 

Stuyreiant  Square,  N.Y. 

To  ''  Wring."— I  was  lately  visiting  in  Kent  a 
poor  man  who  was  dying.  On  my  first  visit  he 
was  lying  on  a  feather  bed  ;  but  on  calling  sa^sia 
1  found  that  this  had  been  exchanged  for  a  hard 
straw  mattress.  Seeing  that  he  was  uncomfort- 
able, I  asked  his  wife  why  the  feather  l)ed  had 
been  taken  away.  "  I  took  it  away,"  she  replied, 
*'  because  he  would  not  wring  so.''  On  asking  her 
what  she  meant  by  wringing,  she  said  that  he 
would  not  have  such  bad  bed-sores.  Is  the  ex- 
pression known  elsewhere,  and  am  I  right  in 
spelling  the  word?  Perhaps  I  oiuht  to  write 
"ring"  for  "wring."  The  man's  wife  is  too  un- 
educated to  help  me. 

John  Churchill  Sikes. 

106,  Godolphin  Boad,  Shepherd's  Bosh^  W. 

IvpRBSsioNs  or  Medaus.— I  haye  impressions 
of  medals  with  the  heads  of  the  following  men  on 
them.  As  I  can  find  them  in  no  biographical 
dictionary,  can  any  one  tell  me  who  they  were  ? — 
Etienne  Pariset,  Pet.  Jos.  Tiolier,  P.  P.  Ouelim, 
Marc  de  Troye,  Gfaristianus  Hugenius,  Abrahamus 
Vernerus,  Jot.  Vemazza,  Albensis  Pomp. 

G.  H.  J. 

"Dreki|^"=Jewbls.— Halliwell's  Did.  mves 
"  Dremes^jewels  (Dutch)."  I  have  looked  in 
vain  for  the  Dutch  word  in  this  sense.  Can  any 
of  your  readers  help  me  with  a  reference  I  TfaA 
point  interests  me,  because,  if  Halliwell  is  correct, 
we  have  here  apparently  a  Teutonic  analogy  for  a 
Romance  manner  of  speaking  :^A.S.  dredm^  joy : 
drmuSf  jewels  :  :  O.r.  joie  (=gaudia)  :  jo%d 
(=jewel).  A.  L.  Mathew. 

Oxford. 

^*  Chain."—"  Keipe  me  as  the  chein  of  thyne 
eye,  defende  me  vuder  the  shaddow  of  thy  wingee. 
I  vil  ly  downe  in  peace,  and  wil  rest,  for  thou  Lord 
hes  specially  putt  me  in  hope"  (1588»  Adame 
King's  Transl.  of  Peter  Canisiui^s  CatedU»m4, 
fo.  26).  Is  not  this  use  of  the  word  "  chain  "  very 
unusual?  I  should  be  glad  ol  references  to  other 
passages  illustrating  the  use  of  "chain"  in  a 
similar  sense.  Geo.  L.  Apperson. 

The  Common,  Wimbledon. 

The  Bemotal  of  Monumental  BRASSsa — 
At  the  meeting  of  the  National  Society  for 
Preserving  the  Memorials  of  the  Dead,  held  on 
May  10  bst,  Lord  Carnarvon  justly  compluned 
that  *' numbers  of  monuments  had  been  either 
buried  or  removed  from  churches,  and  monu- 
mental bnuues  bad  been  disposed  of  as  old  metal" 
Digitized  by  VjOOQIC 


6*8.  V.Jo»Bl7,'82.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


46» 


As  an  instance  of  this,  the  other  day  I  came  across 
an  old  brass  plate,  in  a  good  state  of  preaerration, 
on  which  the  following  memorial  lines  were 
engraved ,  every  letter  being  dearly  cut  and,  even 
at  this  date,  distinctly  readabie  :— 

"  In  memorye  of  Bichard  lohneon  Esq'  doyblo  Header 
of  the  Middle  Temple  London  k  his  most  deare  k 
bvlDge  father  who  dep'ted  this  life  the  third  day  of 
Octob'  A''  Dni  1607,  and  of  his  age  the  70'^.    Isack 
lohnson  his  ob8er?ant  and  loTuig  sonn  hath  dedicated 
this  MonTme*t. 
No  bribes  covld  blind,  no  terror  tyme 
No  faTOvr  farne,  no  covne  oompell  fro  right 
No  place  pyffe  Tpp,  nor  bea?t7  bTme 
Plentye  exceed  or  noore  oppresse  w^^  might 
These  lines  men  uowe  doe  trvly  of  him  ttorye 
Whom  God  hath  call'd  &  seated  now  in  Qlorje.*' 

The  size  of  the  plate,  a  rubbing  of  which  is  en- 
closed, is  twenty-one  and  a  half  inches  by  seven  and 
a  half  inches,  and  it  has  nine  holes  drilled  through 
it  for  the  purpose  of  fixing  it  in  some  position. 
Can  any  reader  of  ^  N.  &  Q."  suggest  whence  the 
brass  has  been  removed  ?  Biuto. 

''Mabs  his  Feild;  or,  the  Exercise  of 
Armbs/'— I  have  a  carious  book,  bound  in 
vellum,  60  pp.,  entitled  :— 

"Mars  his  Feild;  or,  the  Bxercise  of  Armes.  The 
«xeroiie  of  Armes  wherein  lifely  fignres  is  showne.  The 
Right  use  and  perfect  manoer  of  Handling  the  Buckler, 
Sword  and  Pike,  with  the  words  of  Command  and  Brefe 
instructions  correspondent  to  everv  posture.  With  32 
curious  plates.  To  which  is  added  The  perfect  manner 
of  handling  The  Sword  and  Target  Set  forth  in  lifely 
figures.  With  the  words  of  Command  and  Breife  in- 
atruetions  Correspondent  to  every  postore.  15  plates. 
And  are  to  be  sold  by  Roger  Daniell  at  the  Angell  in 
lombard  Streete." 

Z  shall  feel  obliged  if  any  reader  of  ''N.  &  Q." 
will  inform  me  where  and  by  whom  it  was 
printed,  and  its  probable  date.  It  contains  the 
autograph  of  William  Fetherstonhalgh  Mowbray, 
1739.  St.  John  Crookks. 

Penshaw,  Fence  Houses. 

Family  of  Wkstok.  —  According  to  War- 
burton,  a  herald  and  celebrated  antiquary  in  the 
reign  of  Charles  II.,  who  wrote  a  TreoHie  on 
the  History^  Laws,  and  Oustonu  of  Guemsiy, 
printed  for  the  first  time  in  that  island  in  1822 
from  a  MS.  dated  1682,  Edmond  Weston  was 
Appointed  Oorernor  of  Guernsey  by  patent  dated 
1  Henry  YII.  (1485),  and  Sir  Bichard  Weston  was 
appointed  to  the  same  office  in  1  Henry  VIII. 
<1509),  his  patent  bearing  date  May  26.  War- 
barton  adds:  "  Some  papers  mention  Sir  William, 
Sir  Thomas,  and  Sir  Robert  Weston."  Of  the 
existence  of  Edmond  and  Bichard  and  the  office 
they  held  there  can  be  no  doabt.  With  respect 
to  the  others  there  may  be  some  oonfasion  or  mis- 
take in  the  Christian  names,  or,  what  is  rery  pro- 
bable, they  may  haye  been  junior  members  of 
the  iamUy  serving  in  the  capacity  of  lieutenant- 


governors.  I  am  desirous  of  aseertaining  to  what 
part  of  Enghind  Sir  Bichard  Weston  belonged 
and  what  arms  he  bore. 

Edgar  MacCullogh. 
Onenksey^ 

AuTHOBs  OF  Books  Wanted. — 

Co9^ur4s  \tur  l4s\  Afenwires  Originausgl  Donl  U 
paroit  que  Moyte  iest  servi  \  pour  Composer  U  Livre  de  | 
la  Genese  \  Avec  des  lUmarques,  qu%  a2>f)uient  ou  qui 
I  MaircitsetU  ce$  Conjectures.  I  Ana  Pieridum  peragro 
Joea,  nullius  anti  Trita  solo.  |  A  BraxelleB  |  Ghes 
Triez,  Imprimeur  de  sa  Majest6,  ]  Tis-&-Tis  TBglisa  de 
la  Madelaiae  |  m  sco  lolI  Avec  Privilege  k  Approba- 
tion.—Tliis  book,  16mo.,  is  one  of  the  first  to  enter  upon 
the  discussion  of  the  Jehovistio  and  Elohisfio  question. 
The  author  considers  that  Moses  had  two  original 
narratives,  which  he  placed  side  by  side  in  parallel 
columns,  but  which  in  process  of  time  and  copying  got 
mixed.  J.  R.  Uaio, 

Amoris  Bffigies:  twe  Quid  sU  Amor  Jlagilanti  i7s- 
sponnm,  Londini.  JBzoudebat  &.  DanieL— I>ate  o«t 
off.    Four  inches  by  two.  G.  L.  F. 

AuTHOBs  OF  Quotations  Wanted. — 
**  That  uncertain  weather 
When  gloom  and  glorj  meet  together.*' 

A.  L.  Mathew. 
**  That  man  was  vain,  and  false  as  vain, 
Who  said,  Were  he  ordained  to  run 
The  circuit  of  his  life  again, 
He  would  do  all  that  he  had  done." 

H.  Paltov. 

"God  gives  us  love.  Something  to  love  he  lends  us; 
but,  when  love  is  grown  to  ripeness,  that  on  which  it 
throve  falls  off,  and  love  is  left  alone."  J.  C.  H. 


THE  SITB  OF   THE   BATTLE   BETWEEN   THE 
AEMIES  OF  SUETONIUS  AND  BOADICEA. 

(6«»  S.  T.  281.) 
Permit  me  to  illnstrate  the  Tery  interesting 
article  by  J.  D.  with  references  from  some  modem 
souices.  First,  in  «N.  &  Q."  !•«  S.  vii.  409,  we 
have  a  qnery  as  to  the  "  Roman  inscription  found 
at  Battle  Bridge.''  This  was  not  answered  except 
by  a  foot-note  referring  to  a  sketch  of  the  stone  in 
the  Gm^  Mag.^  1842,  p.  144.  The  writer  here  states 
that  he  saw  the  "  fragment  of  stone  a  few  days  ago 
in  front  of  one  of  the  cottages  in  a  field  on  the 
eastern  side  of  Maiden  Lane,  Battle  Bridge,**  and 
goes  on  to  say  that,  '*  within  these  seyen  or  eight 
years  there  existed  a  little  to  the  westward  of 
Bamsbniy  Park  the  remains  of  an  encampment 
known  by  the  name  of  Beed  Moat  Field,  snr- 
rounded  by  a  moat  of  upwards  of  twenty  feet  in 
width  and  abont  twelve  feet  deep,  with  an  exten- 
siTe  embankment  on  the  western  side.  This  em- 
bankment and  a  portion  of  the  moat  on  that  side 
yet  remain."  Farther,  in  the  G<n(.  Mag.^  1823, 
p.  489,  and  1824,  p.  6,  are  letters  on  the  "Roman 
Camp  at  Islington. '    The  wi^te^  ^f  the  first  letter 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [«*&  v.  juhe  17/821 


■ays  that  ''this  interesting  relio  is  about  to  be 
destroyed  for  the  purpose  of  letting  the  ground  on 
building  leases.  The  praetorium  is  as  yet  un- 
touohed."  The  writer  of  the  second  letter  says, 
'*  The  Roman  camp  at  Islington  is  situated  in  what 
has  been  called  Six-Acre  Field,  lying  a  little 
south-west  of  the  new  buildings  allied  Bamsbury 
Park."  And  in  the  OenL  Maq.,  1833  (p.  64  or  66  ?), 
under  the  title  of  "  Renuuns  of  Antiquity,"  is  a  short 
notice  of  ''The  Brill  at  St.  Pancras,  which  in  Dr. 
Stukeley's  time  presenred  Tery  distinctive  marks 
of  having  been  a  Roman  camp,  and  is  now  little 
more  than  a  mass  of  brick-clamps  and  unfinished 
houses."  The  writer  goes  on  to  say  that  '*  Csasar's 
camp  at  Islington,  opposite  Minerva  Terrace,  yet 
preserves  some  of  its  characteristics." 

In  the  European  Magaxin^  November,  1805,  is 
a  letter  from  "An  Inhabitant,"  who  dates  from 
Islington.  The  writer  says,  "  In  a  field  near  the 
workhouse,  Islington,  are  the  remains  of  an  ancient 
camp  or  fortification,  evidentiv  Roman,  consisting 
of  a  breastwork,  which  may  be  traced  to  a  con- 
siderable distance,  a  square  detached  piece  of 
ground  surrounded  by  a  moat,  probably  the 
pnetorium  or  tent  of  the  Roman  general,  with 
several  others  on  a  smaller  scale.  Its  formation 
has  been  ascribed  to  Suetonius  Paulinus,  prior  to 
his  engagement  with  Boadicea,  which  is  all  the  in- 
formation I  have  been  able  to  collect  on  the  sub- 
ject. Its  situation  and  oontiffaity  to  Battle  Bridge, 
allowed,  I  believe,  to  have  oeen  the  place  of  en- 
gagement, give  a  great  degree  of  probability  to  the 
above  account"  But  perhaps  the  most  interesting 
notices  are  those  in  Hone's  Every-Day  Book. 
Under  date  Sept.  2  we  find  a  notice  of  the  **  Pre- 
torium  of  the  Roman  Oamp  near  Pentonville,"  ac- 
companied by  a  woodcut  of  the  spot.  Hone  says 
that "  the  pencil  of  the  artist  has  been  employed 
to  give  a  correct  representation  as  it  now  appears, 
September,  1826,  of  the  last  vestige  of  the  Roman 
power  in  this  suburb";  and  further  says,  "In 
the  fosse  of  this  station  there  is  so  pretty  a  bit  that 
I  have  caused  it  to  be  sketched."  Here  follows  a 
charming  woodcut  of  "  The  Old  Well  in  the  Fosse." 
Next,  under  date  Oct.  22,  we  have  a  plan  of  "  The 
Roman  Station  at  Pancias,  CsBsar's  Camp,  called 
the  Brill,"  copied  from  Stukeley's  lUnira/ry, 
followed  by  a  long  quotation  from  that  work,  ac- 
companied by  a  letter  which  does  not  convey  anv 
information  of  importance.  The  last  letter,  which 
will  be  found  under  date  Nov.  20,  refers  to  the 
undoubted  Roman  camp  at  Pentonville  and  the 
conjectural  remains  at  Pancras.  The  writer  says 
respecting  the  former: — 

"I  have  been  able  to  Moertaia  thai  in  1826  a  labonrer 
digging  in  the  pnetorium  tamed  up  a  considerable 
quantity  of  arrow  headi,  and  thortV  •^r  another 
labonrtr,  digging  a  few  yards  to  the  loath  of  the  sane 
not,  unoovercd  a  pavement  of  red  tiles,  abont  sixteen 
feet  iqnare ;  they  were  mostly  flgored,  and  some  had 
strange  charaotors  upon  them.  Unfortunately  they  were 


led  to  the  bottom  of  a  deep  road.  BetpecUng  the 
BrilF'  [at  Panoraa],  1  have  examined  the  ground,  and 
find  that  8.  G.  [the  writer  of  the  letter  which  aocom- 
panioB  Stokeley^B  remarks  Oet.  22]  is  incorrect  in  stating 
that  the  prsetorinm  was  perfect,  naif  of  it  haTing  b<Mn 
converted  into  bricks  aome  months  ago,  and  the  brick- 
makers  stato  nothing  was  found,  not  a  tile  or  brass  coin." 

Here  follows  an  extract  from  Lysons's  Bnvironif  to> 
the  effect  that  the  author  treated  the  idea  of  a 
camp  having  been  made  near  this  spot  as  quite 
conjectural,  and  that  Dr.  Stukeley's  remarka 
(which,  however,  were  not  printed  in  his  lifetime) 
were  incorrect    And  further.  Dr.  Stukeley  says: 

"  That  the  vallum  thrown  up  in  the  cinl  war  was  in  the 
fields  next  the  Duke  of  Bedford's,  and.  he  adds,  that  it 
was  IcTelled  after  the  Restoration,  and  that  scarcely  a 
trace  of  It  was  [when  he  wrote]  risible,  notwithstanding 
GsBsar's  camp  remained  in  so  perfect  a  state  after  an  In- 
terval of  1800  yean." 

Lysons  does  not  suppose  that  the  entrenchment 
at  the  Brill  was  thrown  up  in  1642,  but  it  certainly 
appears  that  entrenchments  and  ramparts  were* 
thrown  up  in  the  fields  near  St.  Pancras  Ghurcb 
during  the  Civil  War.  He  thinks  it  not  impro- 
bable that  the  moated  areas  above  mentioned,  near 
the  church,  were  the  sites  of  the  vicarage  and 
rectory  house,  which  are  mentioned  in  a  survey 
of  the  parish  of  St  Pancras,  circa  1251. 

In  conclusion,  remarks  on  this  subject  will  b» 
found  in  Nelson's  lilingtany  1811,  p.  64 ;  Grom- 
welPs  lilingUm,  1835,  p.  390,  accompanied  by  s 
view  of  the  Roman  camp  as  it  appeared  in  1804  ; 
Lewis's  niington,  1842,  p.  2  ;  Pink's  CUrhetiwU^ 
1865,  p.  494 ;  and  I  have  also  an  engraving  of 
<<The  Reed  Moat  Field,  Islington," «' Published 
Dec  1st,  1796,  by  J.  P.  Malcolm,  No.  2,  Evesham's- 
Buildings,  Sommers  Town."  ^'  Malcolm  del.  et  sc*' 

GlOROI  POTTBR. 

Orove  Road,  Holloway,  N. 

I  cordially  accept  the  well-founded  tradition 
that  the  Icenian  horde  left  London  by  the  west 
and  crossed  what  is  now  Holbom  for  St.  Pancras, 
meanine  to  return  Bamet  way,  and  probably  well 
aware  that  Suetonius  was  posted  in  rorce  along  the 
line  of  Watling  Street ;  but  where  T  It  seems  to 
me  that  Primrose  Hill  is  just  the  spot  for  an  astute 
general  to  occupy  and  surround  with  his  troops,, 
and  the  adjoining  tumulus,  called  Barrow  Hill,, 
indicates  a  probaUe  site  for  interment  of  the  slain. 
Maiden  Lane  is  an  old  line  of  thoroughfare,  now 
called  York  Road,  and  once  gained  it  would  give 
the  retreating  Britons  free  access  to  the  open 
country  towards  Hertfordshire.  The  river  Fleets 
whidi  Boadicea  crossed  at  Ludgate,  would  have 
to  be  recrossed  in  the  neighbourhood  of  BatUe 
Bridge,  and  here  no  doubt  was  the  strategie 
point  to  turn  her  advance.  I  contend  tbsfe 
there  were  then  two  lines,  via.,  a  Roman  road  and 
a  British  track,  and  that  Suetonins  posted  him- 
self between  them,  so  as  to  face  on  either  flank  aa 

required  by  Boadicea's  movemf^tk>.^^XT8UCT. 

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471 


Sarah,  Ducbbss  of  Marlborough  (6*^  S.  r. 
448). — Mrs.  ThomBOD,  in  her  Memoirs  of  Sarah, 
Duchess  of  Marlborough,  states,  as  the  result  of 
mnch  careful  inquiry,  ''It  appears  from  indis- 
putable testimony  that  Sarah  «Jenning8  was  bom 
on  the  29th  day  of  May  in  the  year  1660,  at 
Holywell,  a  suburb  of  St.  Albans,  and  in  a  small 
house,  Tery  near  the  site  of  the  spacious  mansion 
afterwards  erected  by  her  husband."  Mrs.  Thom- 
son adds  that  in  consequence  of  the  unfortunate 
fire  in  1743,  when  part  of  the  church  registers 
were  burnt,  there  is  no  evidence  of  this  ;  but  the 
Rer.  Dr.  Nicholson,  the  Rector  of  St.  Albans, 
informed  her  that  an  old  lady,  not  many  years 
since  deceased  at  the  age  of  eighty  (1839),  had 
when  young  slept  in  the  room  in  which  the 
duchess  was  born,  in  the  small  house  which  used 
to  stand  between  Holywell  Street  and  SopweU 
Lane,  long  since  pulled  down,  and  on  the  site  of 
which  a  summer-house  was  subsequently  erected 
in  the  pleasure  grounds  of  Holywell.  I  think  I 
understood  from  the  Earl  of  Yerulam  three  years 
since  that  part  of  these  old  abbey  registers,  pre- 
sumed to  haTe  been  burnt,  had  recently  been 
found  ;  if  so,  perhaps  a  distinct  entry  of  tne  birth 
of  Sarah  Jennings  may  yet  be  brought  to  light. 
A  reference  to  the  story  that  she  was  born  at 
Burwell  may  be  found  m  "  N.  &  Q,"  2»*  S.  yiii. 
330,  407.  Edward  Sollt. 

With  reference  to  the  claim  of  Burwell  as  the 
birthplace  of  Sarah,  Duchess  of  Marlborouffh, 
you  will  find  that  she  probably  was  bom  at  Holy- 
well House,  St  Albans,  the  residence  of  the 
Jenning^  family,  as  her  baptismal  register  is  in 
that  parish.  Yxrulaic. 

Oorhambory,  St.  Albans. 

The  following  passage  is  from  Allen's  History 
of  the  County  of  Lincoln  (1834),  toI.  il  p.  194 : 
''Burwell  House  was  the  birthplace  of  Sarah, 
Duchess  of  Marlborough,  whose  ascendency  in  the 
affections  of  Queen  Anne  had  a  material  influence 
on  the  political  events  of  that  reign."  Clk. 
will  fina  some  interesting  information  oonoeroing 
the  family  of  Jennings  in  Cussan's  History  of 
Btrtfordshirs,  yoL  iii.  (*'  The  Hundred  of  Cassio  "), 
p.  221.  G.  FiSBBR. 

LiTTLVBBRRixs  (6*^  S.  y.  41).^I  harb  taken  an 
opportunity  of  again  examining  this  yery  interest- 
ing house,  and  wish  to  add  a  few  remarks  to  Mr. 
Scharf's  paper  at  the  aboye  reference.  Mr. 
Soharf  is  mistaken  in  stating  that  the  floor  of  the 
hall  is  on  a  level  with  the  ground ;  there  are  four 
low  steps  leading  into  it,  so  that  it  is  really  nearly 
eighteen  inches  aboye  the  leyel  of  the  carriage 
driye.  I  am  surprised  that  Mr.  Scharf  did  not 
refer  to  the  orael  way  in  which  eyery  particle  of 
carred  oak,  &o.,  was  coyered  with  white  paint 
some  thirty  years  back,  when  the  Pawsona  took 


the  house.  It  was  at  the  same  time  that  the  last 
additions  were  made  to  the  wings  at  each  side  of 
the  house,  and  the  alterations  carried  out  in  the 
summer-house.  The  coat  of  arms  was  also  put  uf^ 
at  the  same  time.  Mr.  Scharf  does  not  mentioa 
the  battle-piece  which  forms  the  back  of  the  grate 
in  the  Gilt  Room.  One  other  point  of  interest  in 
connexion  with  the  house  is  that  it  was  at  one 
time  the  residence  of  Wilkes,  by  whom  the  mresent 
lodges  were  built.  Ait. 

To  SHiyER,  T.A.  (6*  S.  y.  328J.— Those  who 
adopt  too  strictly  dictionary  definitions  are  apt  to 
find  diyergencies  of  application  in  the  use  of  wprds 
greatly  exaggerated,  the  dominant  meaning  not 
being  kept  prominent  in  all  the  yariations.  The 
fact  princiiMilly  to  be  oonyeyed  by  "  shiver "  is 
vibratory  force.  Any  one  watching  the  effect  of 
a  shot  on  a  quarry  will  readily  understand  its 
appropriateness  when  compared  with  "  to  shiver  " 
with  cold,  the  "  shivering  "  of  a  vessel's  sails  at  a 
certain  point  of  the  operation  of  tacking,  and  a 
sitting  hen  "  shivering  **  her  feathers  when  leaving 
the  nest.  A  "  shivering  "  blow  does  not  mean  one 
that  merely  breaks,  it  must  have  communicated  a 
destructive  motion  to  the  particles  of  the  substance 
acted  upon ;  "  to  shatter  "  does  not  necessarily  im- 
ply this.  Thomson  does  not  vary  the  primitive 
sense  of  this  word  in  his  use  of  it,  and  there  must 
be  a  literary  use  of  it  in  all  the  senses  of  this  collo- 
quially common  word.  B.  C 

The  following  use  of  the  verb  Moer  is  similar  to 
that  quoted  by  your  correspondent: — 

"  So  Hyest  thou ;  but  my  poore  wretched  ghost 
]■  font  to  ferrie  orer  Lethet  river. 
And  Bpoyld  of  Charon  too  and  fro  am  tost. 
Seest  thou  not  how  all  placet  qoake  and  quiver, 
Lightned  with  deadly  lamps  on  everie  posti 
Tieiphone  eeeh  where  dotn  shake  aiid«4«ifr 
Her  flaming  fire-brond,  encountring  me,     . 
Whose  looks  aucombed  oraell  adders  be." 

Spenser,  Virgils  Gnat,  IL  887-44 
F.  C.  BiRKBECK  TeRRT. 

To  shiver  in  Leicestershire  means  to  shake  with 
cold  or  terror.  S.  G.  would  hear  a  cottager's  wife 
say  to  her  child,  "  Gome  in;  you  are  allot  as^ivsr. 
What  do  you  stand  diUhcring  there  for  ? " 

Thomas  North. 

Llanfairfechan. 

There  is  another  meaning  to  this  word  than 
that  given  by  S.  G.,  "  shatter,"  which  is  to  tremble, 
either  with  fear  or  cold.  Srth  Wait. 

The  meaning  of  this  word  as  applied  to  the 

feathers  of  a  bird  in  Thomson's  Spring,  seems 

obvious  enough.    The  word  means  to  tremble,  to 

quiver,  as  with  cold,  as  well  as  to  break  in  fragments. 

Howard  S.  Pkarbov. 

"  Dou'T  Marry  "  (e^  S.  y.  384).— Bacon,  in  his 
essay  entitled  Of  Marriage  and  Sinfde^Life  (Mac- 

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[««haV.Jun8l7,'82 


millan's  "Qolden  Treaanry  Series,"  p.  28),  writes: 
^  He  was  reputed  one  of  the  wise  men,  that  made 
Answer  to  the  Qaesiion:  When  a  Man  should 
marry  t  A  young  Man  not  yet,  an  Elder  Man 
not  at  all/'  The  editor,  Mr.  Aldis  Wright,  in  a 
note  on  this  passage  at  the  end  of  the  Tolume, 
says:— 

**  The  saying  is  attributed  to  Tbales.  Bee  IHog.  Laert. 
i.  26,  Plat  Symp,  Frobl.  iU.  6:  'Tbales  the  wise,  beinf 
importuned  by  his  mother  (who  pressed  hurd  upon  him) 
to  marrie;  pretily  put  her  off,  shifting  and  avoiding  ber 
«unBinaly,  with  words:  for  at  the  first  time»  when  she 
was  in  hand  with  him,  he  said  unto  her :  Mother,  it  is 
too  Boone,  and  it  is  not  yet  time :  Afterwards,  when  he 
had  passed  the  flower  of  his  age,  and  that  she  set  upon 
him  the  second  time,  and  was  very  instant :  Alas  mother, 
it  is  now  too  late,  and  the  time  is  past '  (Holland's  trans, 
p.  091.  ed  1603).    It  is  repeated  in  Apoph,  220. 

** '  Art  thon  yong  ?  then  match  not  yet ;  if  old,  match 
not  at  all. 

— *  Vis  juvenis  nnbere  ?  nondnm  venit  tempua 
IngraTeacente  sstate  jam  tempvs  prssteriit." 

StobsBus,  Serm.  66,  Alex.  ab.  Alexand. 
lib.  iy.  cap.  & 
and,  therefore,  with  thai  philosopher,  still  make  answer 
io  thy  friends  that  importune  thee  to  marry,  adhue 
inUmpativum^  His  yet  unseasonable,  and  ever  will  be ' 
{Burton,  AnaL  of  Jf«l,  pt.  lii.  sec.  2,  mem.  6,  subs.  8)." 

P.  F.  Alexander. 

Right  I  It  is  a  Tory  Tenerable  joke  indeed. 
Diogenes  has  the  credit  of  beinff  the  author  of  the 
saying,  and  of  several  others  of  like  import.  It  is 
thus  given  in  Udall's  translation  of  the  Apovh- 
ihegma  of  Erasmns,  1542 :  "  To  one  demaundlng 
when  best  season  were  to  wedde  a  wife:  For  a 
yoong  man  (quoth  he),  it  is  to  soone,  and  for  an 
olde  manne  oaerlate''  (Beprint,  1878,  p.  199). 
Since  then  it  has  been  given  in  hundreds  of  jest 
booki^  &a  I  have  no  doubt  I  could  find  it  in  a 
score  of  books  at  least  in  my  own  libraiy  if  it  were 
worth  while  to  look  for  it.  B.  B. 

Boston. 

FoREiQK  Place-names  {6^  S.  t.  306).— 
Aachen  is  pronounced  with  the  German  guttural 
sound  <^  as  in  Ac^,  Dac^  Fack  (not  Ahken). 
The  X  in  the  Fr.  Aix-hirChapelle  is  pronounced 
like  €s  in  ssguw,  and  the  ai  like  the  Fr.  h  (open 
and  long),  or  ai,  or  s  in  the  Fr.  fotre.  hiver. 
Rhelms  or  Helms  in  French  is  pronounced  like  the 
Fr.  rineey  the  eim  like  in  in  Rhin.  When  you 
ask  for  "biscuits  de  Rheims,"  say  "biscuits  de 
Rince,**  not  "biscuits  de  Rahmes.**  You  might 
as  well  apply  for  a  ticket  for  Reading  instead  of 
Bedding.  As  for  the  desideratum  of  a  concord- 
ance in  spelling  and  pronouncing  foreign  place- 
names,  the  easiest  and  most  profitable  way  would 
be  to  give  more  time  to  the  early  study  of  modem 
language,  and  less  to  scrutinies,  concordances,  and 
accidences.  The  world  is  veiy  full  of  interesting 
facts,  mostly  ignored,  or,  what  is  worse,  made  no- 
thing of.  A.  TOLHATJSBK,  Ph.D. 

Great  Seal  Patent  Office. 


Why  is  it  considered  a  greater  enormity  for  the 
same  town  to  be  called  Ratiabon  in  £nglish| 
Ratisbonne  in  French,  and  Regensburg  in  German, 
than  for  horse,  cAevaZ,  and  pferd  to  denote  the 
same  useful  animal  in  the  three  langui^es  ?  Lan-* 
guage  is  but  tradition  ;  let  us  hand  it  on  as  we 
received  it,  or,  if  we  do  want  a  change,  let  it  be 
a  ndical  one.  Let  an  International  Gonventbn 
(they  are  fashionable  now)  affix  a  number  to  all 
the  cities,  towns,  and  villages  of  the  world,  and 
then  the  mere  sight  of  some  figures  will  at  onoe 
tell  people  of  all  languages  what  place  is  meant ; 
but  do  not  extend  &rther  a  principle  which  is 
takinff  all  interest  out  of  Ulysses,  and  destroying 
the  eloquence  of  Cicero.  What  if  Christian  names 
were  treated  much  in  the  same  fashion  1  Clearly 
John,  Johann,  and  Jean  mean  the  same  thing ; 
let  us  boil  them  down  together  and  see  what  toe 
nuxture  erystalb'zes  into,  to  be  used  internationally 
and  respectively  in  their  stead«  ViaoBxr. 

Mr.  Sawter  should  be  thanked  for  his  note ; 
but  the  subject  is  a  very  intricate  one,  and 
any  attempt  at  alteration  only  appears  to 
make  "confusion  worse  confounded."  The  Eng- 
lish language  is  such  a  "coat  of  many  colours" 
that  it  is  impossible  to  mend  it  without  tearing  it 
to  pieces.  Thus  we  say  Brittany  for  Bretagne, 
Leghorn  (etymologically  correct)  for  Livomo, 
Mentone  (It.)  and  Nice  (Fr.),  Cologne  and 
Vienna,  dec.  But  poor  Mahomet  is  spelt  by 
pedantic  reformers  of  spelling  in  all  sorts  of  ways, 
without  altering  the  pronunciation,  not  to  talk  of 
the  new-fangM  or  old-fanded  Freemanisms  of 
Eadward,  Bteda,  Eadwig,  ^Bthelberht,  &&,  in 
A.-S.  times.  In  India  the  so-called  phonetio 
German  spelling  has  done  wonders  in  making 
English  people  pronounce  Hindoo  names  inoor- 
recSy ;  for  to  make  Britons  pronounce  them 
correctly  these  names  would  reqnue  a  second  trans- 
literation, witness,  en  paetant,  Sherpur,  Mahrati, 
Cashmtr,  which  should  be  written  Sherpoor,  Maha- 
rattsi^  Cashmers,  &c,  for  English  tongues  to  utter 
them  rightly.  Except  some  "  Deus  ex  machine  " 
cut  the  Gordian  knot,  I  think  we  had  better  stick 
to  the  orthography,  &c.,  of  our  ancestors  of  the  last 
century,  unless  we  wish  to  sink  deeper  in  the  mire 
of  confusion  and  uncertainty.  Anyway,  their 
method  was  uniform,  if  incorrect ;  we  were  not 
continually  coming  upon  "surprises,"  as  is  now 
the  case  in  the  spelling  of  nearly  all  names, 
pedants  do  abound  so.  Briton. 

P.S. — ^If  we  write  Mahrati,  Gujeratt,  &c.,  why 
not  Maltise,  Tanki,  ^d  "Beductio  ad  absur- 
dum." 

The  Rev.  Samitbl  Rogers,  of  CnELLnroTON, 
Beds.  (6«^  S.  v.  347).— Through  the  kindness  of 
a  correspondent  I  can  now  partly  answer  my  own 
queiy.    The  Rev.  Samuel  Kogm  was  theu  son  of 

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the  Rev.  Benjamin  Rogera,  who  died  in  1771  after 
being  Rector  of  Carlton-cum-Chellington  for  up- 
wards of  fifty  years.  Samuel  Rogers  was  born  at 
Oarlton  about  the  year  1731,  as  is  shown  by  an 
entry  in  his  father's  diary  still  extant.  He  was 
educated  at  Oakham  School,  where  he  remained 
from  1745  to  1752,  and  thence  proceeded  to  Em- 
manuel College,  Cambridge.  He  was  instituted 
to  the  vican^e  of  Chellington  in  March,  1758, 
which  he  resigned  in  1768  for  either  Brampton 
Ash,  or  Dingley,  Northants.  Nine  years  later,  in 
1777,  he  was  instituted  to  the  valuable  living  of 
Husband's  Bosworth,  Leicestershire.  He  published 
two  volumes  of  poems  (8vo.),  printed  at  Bath  in 
1782,  having  previously  published  a  volume  of 
poems  (many  of  them  satincal)  at  a  much  earlier 
period  of  his  life.  There  is  an  indifferent  print 
of  him  in  his  Poenu  published  in  1782.  He  married 
Miss  Catharine  Peers^  but  died  without  issue  in 
the  Close,  Salisbury,  in  July,  1790.  I  shall  still 
be  glad  to  know  what  circumstance  induced  him 
to  write  the  poem  addressed  to  a  bellfounder,  and 
who  that  bellfounder  was  ?  I  may  say  the  bells 
at  Carlton  and  Chellington  give  no  clue,  as  they 
are  not  of  the  date  of  his  incumbency. 

Thomas  North,  F.S.A. 
Llaofairfechan. 

Chillington,  or  rather  Chellington,  is  a  small 
village  in  Bedfordshire,  on  the  banks  of  the  Ouse, 
consolidated  with  the  rectory  of  the  next  parish, 
Oarltoo.  AUiboiie's  IHcii4mary  has  the  following 
mention  of  him: — 

'  "  Bogtrs,  Samutl,  Bector  of  Chillington  {tic),  Bedford- 
shire. L  Poems  on  Several  Odoasioni,  Lon.,  1764,  8to. 
2.  The  Choice :  a  Poem,  1774, 4to.  8.  Po«ms  on  Various 
OccasionB;  coniiBting  of  Original  Pieces  and  Transla* 
tions,  1782,  2  toIs.  12mo." 

Some  twenty-five  years  ago  I  can  remember  seeing 
one  of  the  volumes  of  his  Poenu  in  the  little  library 
over  the  south  norch  of  Bromham  Church,  near 
Bedford,  founded  in  1740  by  Thomas,  Lord  Trevor 
of  Bromham,  a  parish  of  which  I  was  once  curate. 
John  Picktord,  M.A. 
Newboume  Bectory,  Woodbridge. 

Below  the  portrait  to  Poenu  on  Vatioui  Occa'- 
9ion$,  by  S.  Bogen,  printed  at  Bath,  1782,  are  the 
following  particulars: — 

"Bevd  Samnel  Begers  A.M.  An:  JBt.  50  Beetr  of 
HuBbanda  Bosworth  ft  of  Brampton  in  the  County  of 
Northampton  &  Cbaphun  to  the  Bight  Honble  John 
Earl  Spencer.'* 

John  Tatlor. 

Northampton. 

Saladik,  xhb  Foundbr  of  tecs  Atubitb 
Dynasty  (fi^  S.  v.  327).— The  work  best  calcu- 
lated to  aid  your  correspondent  B.  is  entitled, 
^*Viia  it  Bes  Oetta  SuUani  Almalichi  AlnMxri^ 
Saladini,  Abi  ModaffiH  Josephi  fiL  Johi  fil 
Sjadii,  auctore  Bohadino  F.  Sjedadi.  Nee  non 
oxcerpta  ex  Historia  Umveisali  Abulfsdae,  Ac.^ 


ex  MSS.  edit,  et  Latine  vertit  Alb.  Sohulteng, 
Lugd.  Batav.,  l733,''  foL  Further  information 
may  be  gained  by  consulting  the  articles  "  Noa- 
reddin,"  "  Salahoddin,''  and  *f  Ainbiah,"  in  IVHer- 
belot's  Diet,  Orient.;  De  Gaignes,  Hiit  Gen.  det 
Hun$f  liv.  xiii.;  Quatrem^re,  Hitiovre  dee  Sultam 
Mamloukt  d*£ffypte ;  Price,  Chron.  Betroepect.  of 
Moham,  Hiet.^  voL  iL  pp.  206,  316,  416  ;  Iba 
KhaUik^n,  Biagraphi&d  JHctionaryy  translated  by 
Baron  de  Slane,  vol  i  p.  243  ;  Abii-1-faraj,  HuL 
Dyncut^  p.  306.  William  Platt. 

Callis  Court,  8i  Peter's,  Isle  of  Thanet 

Thk  Heralds'  Visitations  op  Worgsstxb^ 
SHIRK  AND  Gloucbstsrshirb  (6^  S.  V.  349). — 
Although  it  is  to  be  feared  C.  A.'8  query  cannot 
be  answered  afiGinnatively,  still  it  is  pleasant  to 
observe  it  as  tending  to  bring  the  claims  of  the 
counties  in  question  more  to  the  fore.  It  is  greatly 
to  be  deplored  that  the  five  Visitations  of  Wor- 
cestershire, as  well  as  those  of  Staffordshire,  Glou- 
cestershire, and  Shropshire,  are  virtually  "  sealed 
books''  to  the  lovers  of  genealogy.  But  their  im- 
portant claims  to  be  thoroughly  dealt  with  cannot 
remain  disregarded  much  longer,  and  one  of  the 
treats  in  store  for  the  genealogist  is  undoubtedly 
the  printing  of  these  Visitations.  I  would  there- 
fore supplement  0.  A.'8  inquiry  by  asking  whether 
any  of  the  societies  have  yet  arranged  for  the  pub- 
lication of  any  or  all  of  them.  S.  G» 

The  Viiitation  of  Oloucaterthire  in  1623,  edited 
by  Sir  John  Maclean,  is  going  to  be  published  by 
the  Harleian  Society,  but  I  do  not  think  there  is 
any  published  Visitation  of  Worcestershire. 

Strix. 

Thouab  Whitb,  Bishop  op  Pbtbrborough 
(6^  S.  V.  148). — ^The  following  are  some  notes  of 
^'Material  for  a  Memoir''  of  Thomas  Whiter 
Bishop  of  Peterborough: — 

HargraTe's  State  Trials,  1776-1781,  vol.  iv.p.  804. 

Howell'B  State  Trials,  1816-1826,  yol.  xiL  p.  188. 

Proceedinffs  and  Tryal  in  the  Caie  of  the  [Seven 
Bishopsl  1688.  London,  1689.— Another  edition,  Lon- 
don, 1716. 

What  has  been  may  be :  Or  a  View  of  a  PopiBh  and  an 

Arbitanr  Government To  which  ia  added  The  Tryal 

of  the  Seven  Bishops,  1713. 

Celebrated  Trials,  1825,  vol.  iii.  p.  144. 

Lives  of  the  English  Bishops  from  the  Bestauration  to 

the  Revolution Design'^  to  vindicate  them  from  the 

Aspersions  of  the  Bibhops,  Burnet,  Eennet  and  others, 
1783. 

Strickland's  Lives  of  the  Seven  Bishops,  1866,  p.  132. 

Q  ranger's  Biographical  History  of  England,  1824^ 
vol.  vi.  p.  94. 

John  Taylor. 

Northampton. 


Robert  Fettiplack  (6*  S.  v.  32d).— Being 
lately  at  the  Manor  House  in  the  pariah  of  Gleeve- 
Prior,  Worcestershirey  I  saw  a  memorandum^ 
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to  the  effect  that  Robert  Fettiplace,  Esq.,  died 
Jan.  12, 1799,  in  his  sixty-ninth  year.  The  memo- 
randum is  snrmoanted  by  the  arms  and  crest  of 
the  Fettiplace  family.  It  appears  from  the  parish 
register  of  Cleeve  that  this  Robert  was  son  of 
Thomas  Bashell,  Esq.,  whose  father,  Robert, 
married  Diana,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co- 
heiresses of  Sir  John  Fettipla<»,  Bart,  of  Swin- 
brook,  Oxfordshire ;  from  which  place  Robert 
Fettiplace,  preyioasly  Bushell,  was  brought  to  be 
interred  at  GleeTe-Prior,  Jan.  28,  1799.  The 
Bushells  were  seated  originally  at  Broad  Marston, 
in  the  parish  of  Pebworth,  Gloucestershire.  The 
entries  relating  to  them  in  the  Cleere  and  Peb- 
worth registers  may  be  seen  in  my  "  Particulars  " 
of  the  latter  parish,  published  in  the  Tramaetioni 
of  the  Briitol  and  OloucuterMre  Arehaological 
Society,  Tol.  iv.  Thomas  P.  Wadlet. 

Naunton  Rectory,  Perthore. 

ExNTiSH  Satimgs  :  (1)  "  Hb  's  got  St.  Law- 

RBNGB    ON    THB    BBOULDBR"    (6*^   8.    T.    266).— 

It  is  a  common  saying  in  the  New  Forest  and 
the  adjoining  parts  of  Hants  and  Wilts  of  laa^ 
people  that  they  have  '^got  Lawrence  on  their 
shoulder."  Across  the  Solent  the  saying  seems  not 
to  be  known,  and  idle,  sluggish  folk  are  said  to 
have  got  the  Isle  of  Wight  feyer.  "  Why  don't  I 
see  Dick  JoUiffe  this  morning?*'  said  a  friend  of 
mine  to  her  Sunday-school  class.  "Is  he  ill?" 
"  No,  ma'am,"  was  the  reply ;  "  not  as  I  knows  on. 
I  take  it  he  has  got  the  Isle  of  Wight  fever." 

Edmuvd  Venablbs. 
Liaeohi 

Why  St.  Lawrence  should  be  the  patron  saint  of 
loafers  and  idlers  it  is  very  difficult  to  say,  but  the 
expression  quoted  by  your  correspondent  as  pre- 
valent in  Kent  seems,  in  one  form  or  another, 
to  be  common  to  various  parts  of  England.  It 
is  found  in  Lancashire,  Yorkshira,  Shropshire, 
Northamptonshire,  Dorsetshire,  Cornwall,  and,  no 
doubt,  in  many  other  districts.  In  the  Dialect  of 
Crofom  (1828)  there  is  a  curious  explanation  of 
the  origin  of  the  expression,  which  I  give  for 
what  it  is  worth  :— 

"  When  a  person  is  remarkably  idle,  he  ii  often  thus 
addreised,  <I  see  lang  Lawrence  hes  gitten  hod  on 
thee.*  May  not  this  expreflsion  allude  to  those  who  are 
frequently  prostrated  at  the  ibrine  of  a  saint,  when  they 
should  be  engaged  in  the  useful  and  active  duties  of 
lifel  But  if  an  idle  person,  laid  immovably  at  his 
full  leoffth,  be  compared  to  St.  Lawrence,  fixed  with 
stretehed-out  limbs  upon  the  gridiron,  preparatory  to  his 
atrocious  and  unmerited  sulTerings,  it  is  a  cruel  and  un- 
feeling comparison ! " 

The  Rev.  W.  Barnes,  in  his  DorHUhir€  Glouary, 
gives  the  following  couplet  as  sometimes  used  by 
one  who  is  lazy  : — 

*  \t^  I*wrenoe,  let  me  goo  t 
Don  t  hold  me  summer  an*  winter  too." 

F.  G.  BiRKBBCK  TbRRT. 


MiLDBW  IN  Books  {&^  S.  v.  187).— A.  solution 
of  salicylic  acid  in  alcohol,  brushed  over  the  pages, 
will  probably  have  the  desired  effect,  without  in- 
juring the  paper ;  or  cautiously  expose  the  book 
to  the  heat  of  a  moderately  warm  oven,  which  will 
destroy  the  germination  of  fungi. 

H.   HUMPHRIE& 

«  Deck  "  op  Cards  (6"^  S.  iv.  609  ;  vi.  91, 115, 
178,  214,  377). — The  word  renege  stiU  survives  as 
a  technical  term  in  a  game  of  cards  popular  among 
the  labouring  classes  of  this  city.  It  is  often 
corrupted  into  renig  or  reniggh,  I  do  not  know 
where  Mr.  Bartlett  could  have  heard  of  "twenty- 
deck  poker.**  DoubUess  such  a  game  may  have 
been  played,  but  it  can  never  have  obtained 
generally.  Poker  with  a  ''  euchre  deck  "  (a  piquet 
pack  of  thirty-two  cards)  is  not  uncommon  among 
the  impassioned  gamblers  of  the  Mississippi  But 
"euchre-deck  poker"  is  emphatically  disowned 
by  all  true  lorers  of  drawpoker,  that  most  scien- 
tific and  most  fascinating  of  all  cames  of  mingled 
chance  and  skill  Has  Uie  great  likeness  of  poker 
to  the  Elizabethan  gUek  ever  been  pointed  out  1 
A  note  of  Gifford's  to  Every  Man  in  hi$  Hvmour 
gives  a  few  particulars  of  gleek  which  would  apply 
also  to  poker.  Where  can  I  find  a  full  account  of 
gleek  ?  J.  Brandbr  Matthsws, 

Stuyvesant  Square,  N.Y. 

Hbnrt   Martbk,  THB  Rbqicidb  (6*^  S.  ir. 
449  ;  V.  50,  196,  294).— Henry  Marten  was  bora 
at  Oxford,  and,  according  to  the  belief  of  Anthony 
k  Wood  (Athma  Oxonimeei^  Bliss's  edit.  1810, 
vol.  iii.  ool.  1237,  et  eeq.),  in  the  parish  of  St. 
John  the  Baptbt,  in  a  house  opposite  to  Merton 
College,  then  recently  built  and  belonging  to  Sis 
Henry  Marten,  the  £&ther  of  the  regicide.     Sic 
Henry  was  the  son  of  Anth.  Marten,  of  London, 
who  was  the  son  of  Will.  Marten,  of  Okyngfaam, 
Berks.    Sir  Henry  was  the  author  of  some  few 
papers,  and  in  his  latter  years  purchased  a  *'  fair 
estate,"  principally  in  Berkshire,  **  which  his  un- 
godly son  squandered  away."    Harry,  as  the  son 
was  commonly  called,  was  a  gentleman  commonar 
of  University  College,  1617,  at  the  age  of  fifteen ; 
in  1619,  '*  having  given  a  manifestation  of  his 

E regnant  parts,"  he  graduated  B.A.  SnbseqaenCy 
e  entered  one  of  the  Inns  of  Court,  travelled  ii. 
France,  and  on  his  return  married  a  rich  lady  Ids 
father  had  provided  for  him.    The  marriage  seems 
to  have  been  an  unhappy  one,  for  he  ''  therefore 
afterwards  livins  apart  from  her,  and  follo^rin^ 
other  creatures,  she  was  for  some  time  distempered.** 
Early  in  1640  Marten  was  elected  M.P.  for  Berk- 
shire to  serve  in  the  parliament  opened  on  April 
13,  and   again   in    October   he   was   re-elected 
C' though  not  legally,"  says  Wood)  to  serwe   in 
that  beginning  on  November  3,  "in  whlc^  Imst 
parliament  he  showed  himself,  out  of  some   little- 
pique,  the  most  bitter  enemy  against  the  Icm^  i^^ 


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all  the  hoase,  as  well  in  action  as  in  speecb."  On 
one  occasion  he  is  reported  to  have  said,  "  that  it 
was  better  one  family  shoald  perish  than  that  the 
people  should  be  destroyed,"  and  on  being  pressed 
for  an  explanation,  he  admitted  that  he  referred  to 
the  &mily  of  the  king.  For  this  he  was  com- 
mitted to  the  Tower,  but  was  soon  after  released 
and  reinstated  in  his  place  in  parliament.  In 
the  beginning  of  the  war  he  was  goYernor  of  Read- 
ing, "  which  he  very  poorly  quitted,"  and  the  town 
came  into  the  hands  of  the  king.  In  1642  he 
earned  for  himself  the  contempt  of  all  moderate 
men  by  breaking  open  the  iron  chest  at  West- 
minster containing  the  crown,  robes,  sword, 
sceptre,  &o.,  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  with  which 
things  he  decked  his  comrades  in  ridicule  of 
roTaity.  **The  said  Henry,"  adds  Wood,  <*was  a 
tUEer  of  all  oaths,  that  of  allegiance,  covenant,  en- 
gagement, &c."  He  was  also  a  great  spendthrift, 
and  made  use  of  his  position  of  colonel  to  supply 
the  means  for  his  extravagance,  so  that  he  earned 
for  himself  the  unenviable  aohtiquet  of  plunder- 
master  general.  He  died  early  in  iSeptember,  1680, 
of  apoplexy,  whilst  at  dinner,  and  was  buried 
on  the  9th  of  that  month,  not  in  November,  as 
stated  ante,  p.  295.  Wood's  biography  is,  of 
course,  that  of  a  political  enemy,  and  therefore 
one  does  not  expect  to  find  anything  set  down  in 
extenuation  either  of  his  political  or  moral  offences. 
Aubrey,  on  the  other  hand,  treats  Marten's  political 
views  with  greater  consideration,  and  allows  them 
to  have  been  honestly  entertained,  and  not  the  out- 
come of  mere  pique ;  but  at  the  same  time  he 
almost  equals  Wood  in  condemning  Marten's  vice 
and  immorality.  S.  H. 

S2,  Ainger  Road,  N.W. 

l^PBROVB  (6^^  S.  V.  269,  414).— It  must  not  be 
taken  for  granted  that  because  a  word  is  not  to  be 
found  in  modem  French  dictionaries  in  the  same 
form  or  in  the  precise  sense  that  we  use  it  in 
English  it  is  therefore  not  a  French  word. 
£pergney  or  rather  eipergne,  is  the  ancient  form  of 
dpargne,  meaning  what  is  spared,  saved,  or  econo- 
mized. I  remember  to  have  read  somewhere  that 
it  was  customary  in  the  Middle  Ages  to  place  on 
the  dinner- table  a  basket,  or  other  vessel,  into 
which  the  half- picked  bones  and  scraps  of  food 
which  encumbered  the  platters  were  thrown,  to  be 
distributed  after  the  feast  to  the  poor,  and  that 
this  vessel  went  by  the  name  of  ipergne.  It  is 
easy  to  conceive  how,  when  the  fashion  came  in  of 
changing  the  plates  with  every  fresh  course,  this 
receptacle  ceased  to  be  used,  and  became  a  mere 
ornament,  retaining,  however,  its  original  name. 
It  is  curious  how  little  the  ordinary  Frenchman 
knows  of  the  antiquities  of  his  language.  I  re- 
member to  have  seen  within  a  very  short  period  a 
remark  in  some  modem  French  author  on  the 
English  use  of  the  French  word  ehapercnf  in  the 


sense  of  a  matron  or  elderly  person  In  charge  of  a 
young  or  unmarried  lady.  It  was  assert^  that 
the  word  was  never  so  used  in  France.  This  may 
be  true  of  the  present  time,  but  a  reference  to 
Littr^  proves  that  the  word  was  used  by  St.  Simon, 
who  wrote  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century, 
with  precisely  the  same  meaning  that  it  still  bears 

with  us.  E.  MoO • 

Quernsey. 

Tokens  for  thb  Sacrahbnt  :  St.  Mart 
OvBRT,  OR  St.  Saviour*8,  Socttbwark  (6*  S. 
ix.  248,  398  ;  x.  39,  77, 108  ;  xi.  14,  61,616).— In 
"  N.  &  Q."  6*^  S.  X.  108, 1  answered  at  some  length 
Mr.  Patrick's  inquiries  as  to  St.  Saviour's  sacra- 
mental tokens.  Since  then  I  have  come  upon  very 
interesting  and  almost  complete  information  con- 
tained in  bills  and  mems.  of  the  churchwardens, 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries,  as  follows: — 

1630  (about),  ''For  leaden  tokens  at  Easter, 
3«.  Od." 

1666,  a  similar  entry.  Orders  of  vestry  that 
the  ws^ens  shall  cast  tokens  and  keep  lists  in 
token  books. 

1676  to  about  1646,  occasional  entries  in  ac- 
counts recognizing  token  money  as  a  part  of 
the  church  income. 

1601.  "  P*  for  mowld,  U.  Od."  "  P*  for  casting 
the  toakens,  3«.  4d.'' 

1606.  The  wardens  declare  it  to  be  part  of  their 
duty  to  cast  tokens,  to  take  the  number  of  com- 
municants, and  to  deliver  tokens  to  about  1,442 
householders. 

1612.  "  Item,  for  a  moalde  for  toakens,  the  some 
ofU6d.'' 

1613.  ''For  a  quire  of  pap'  to  make  the  toakea 
booke,  4d/*  "For  writinge  the  borough  side 
token  booke,  3«.  ^d."  "  For  writinge  the  Bank- 
side  token  booke,  is.  Od."  "4,800  tokens, 
60Z.  Oj.  Od." 

About  this  time,  but  no  date  shown.  Tokens 
brought  in  22nd  March,  106  ;  29th  March,*  222  ; 
2nd  April,  60  ;  3rd  April,  68  ;  6th  April,  636  ; 
12th  AprU,  448  ;  19th  AprU,  300. 

Wm.  Rxndlb. 

Heraldic  (6*  S.  v.  247,  338).— As  Mr.  Jack- 
son is  unable  to  give  the  tinctures  of  the  arms  he 
inquires  about,  they  may  belong  to  either  of  the 
two  families  of  Hokeley  or  Eschalor,  for  the  former 
of  whom  Edmondson,  in  his  CcmpUU  Body  of 
HmUdry  (edit.  1780),  gives,  "  Or,  a  fesse  between 
three  mascles  gu.*;  and  for  the  latter,  "Gn.,  a 
fesse  between  three  mascles  ar.''      J.  S.  Udal. 

Inner  Temple. 

Ths  CooicB  OFF  Church  Bills  ▲  Curb  for 
Shinglbs  (6^  S.  V.  346,  376).— The  following 
quotation,  from  Old  Country  and  Farming  Wordi 
(E.D.S.),  p.  13,  is  corroborative  of  what  your  cor- 
respondents have  given  at  the  latter  leferenoe : 


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''Coom,  'The  black  eoom  that  is  made  by  oilug 
or  greasing  bells  in  a  steeple/  Country  Hoitswnfe, 
287.    Spelt  coomb  in  Shepherd'i  Guide,  298." 

F.   0.  BiRKBECK  TSRBT. 

Gbrdiff. 

Place-Names:  Finkle  Street  (e^  S.  ir. 
166,  366,  467;  r.  267).  — The  origin  of  this 
name  was  thoroughly  threshed  oat  in  "  N.  &  Q." 
many  yean  back,  leaying  little  doubt  that, 
as  Mr.  R.  Ferguson  suggested  in  his  North- 
mm  in  Cumberland  and  Wettmarelandf  p. 
49,  it  is  derived  from  the  Scandinayian  vinkA, 
a  comer.  Fennel,  fenkelf  is  surely  too  common 
a  pknt,  not  in  j^ens  only,  but  growing  wild, 
to  nave  giren  a  distinctire  name  to  so  many  streets. 
I  well  remember  the  pleasure  with  which,  when 
on  my  way  to  pay  Mr.  Ferguson  a  yisit,  some  &Ye» 
and-twenty  years  ago,  after  reading  his  book,  as  I 
passed  through  Eendal  my  eye  fell  on  the  name 
Finkle  Street,  at  the  angle  of  a  most  unmistak- 
ably comer  street.  I  felt  the  proposed  derivation 
required  no  further  oonfirmation. 

Edmund  Vsnable& 

Lincoln. 

''Felix  quem  faciuht  alixka  pxricula 
CAUT0M"  (!■»  S.  iU.  373,  431,  482;  iv.  76;  x. 
236  ;  6«»  S.  v.  113,  296).— The  saying  is  too  old 
and  common  to  need  further  illustration,  so  far  as 
the  sentiment  is  concerned.  The  question  is  only 
as  to  the  form  in  which  it  is  expressed.  Accord- 
ing to  the  evidence  as  yet  brought  forward 
Nifiellus  Wireker  must  be  credit^  with  the 
auworship,  and  the  current  form  must  be  regarded 
as  a  eoniracUon  of  his  words — the  two  words, 
"  est  igitur,"  which  were  necessary  for  its  incor- 
poration in  his  poem  having  been  properly  dropped 
when  it  became  a  popular  saying  detached  from 
its  context  When  the  line,  as  commonly  quoted, 
is  produced  from  any  author  anterior  to  iNigellus 
Wireker  it  will  be  time  to  admit  that  this  writer 
expanded  a  current  saying,  and  adopted  it  verbatim, 
otnerwiae  there  seems  to  be  no  ground  for  such  a 
conjecture.  W.  £.  Buckley. 

«  Navyt  ''=Navioator  (1*  S.  xl  424 ;  4^  S. 
V.  664 ;  vl  182,  264,  312,  426 ;  6""  S.  v.  397,  417). 
— ^This  word  was  most  certainly  invented  about  a 
oentuiy  ago,  when  canals  became  extensively  made 
in  England.  The  canal  was  then  generally  called 
**  the  naviffation/'  and  the  sturdy  excavators  who 
were  brought  together  to  do  the  work  were  called 
''navigators,"  or  in  short  "navvies."  Here  in 
Birmingham  are  a  number  of  public-houses, 
adjacent  to  the  canals,  known  as  '*  The  Naviga- 
tion "  or  "  The  Navigation  Inn,"  and  there  is  fUso 
a  Navigation  Street,  whic&  obtained  its  name 
from  the  same  reason.  The  word  eanal  has  now 
raperseded  the  use  of  the  term  "  navigation  ";  the 
Navigation  Office  has  become  the  Canal  Office, 


though  long  after  the  beginning  of  the  present 
century  "  the  navigation  "  was  the  term  in  general 
use.  On  the  introduction  of  the  railway  system, 
the  same  class  of  men  who  had  excavated  the 
canals  were  engaged  upon  them,  and  though 
"excavator"  was  at  first  applied  to  them,  the 
term  soon  gave  place  to  the  older  one  of  "  navvy," 
which  is  still  retained,  J.  R 

Birmingham. 

*' There's  Cauld  Kail  in  Aberdeen"  (6** 
S.  V.  328,  433).— I  have  always  understood  that 
the  author  of  this  song  was  my  great-grand&ther, 
Alexander,  fourth  Duke  of  Gordon,  but  he  was  not 
born  till  1743.  Constance  Russelu 

Bwallowfield  Park,  Beading. 

Wesley  and  Moore  (6*  S.  v.  369,  398).— The 
idea  common  to  the  quotations  from  Wesley  and 
Moore  is  older  than  either  of  them  (see  a  paper  by 
Addison,  No.  590,  in  the  Spectator,  first  para- 
graph.   See  also  "  N.  &  Q.,"  4"»  S.  xii.  236). 

Wm.  Penoellt. 

Torquay. 

"  The  Gut  "  (6«»  S.  v.  229,  367,  377).— Bullet 
(Af /nk  Iter  la  Langue  Celtigue)  says,  "  cnngey  is 
in  some  fashion  environed  by  the  river  of  Wave- 
ney  ";  and  he  derives  its  name  from  hon,  envi* 
ronn^,  gew  (in  compos,  gey),  riviere.  But  inas* 
much  as  the  Latinized  name  of  both  Wavenej  and 
Bungay  was  Avona,  and  as  "Waveney"  has, 
without  doubt,  been  corrupted  from  the  latter,  it 
is  probable  that  '^  Bungay "  is  derived  from  the 
same  name,  by  dropping  the  first  letter,  changing 
V  into  6,  and  inserting  a  guttural  A  better  deri- 
vation still  would  nave  been  from  Awn-ty, 
"island  of  the  Avon,"  had  it  not  been  for  the 
existence  of  the  name  "  Waveney."  Avona  is,  of 
course,  from  the  W.  a/im=avon,  a  river. 

B.  S.  Charnock. 

Doll  (6^  S.  v.  206,  334).— It  was  a  surprise  to 
me,  and  no  doubt  to  others,  to  learn  that  the  word 
doU  may  be  found  in  a  book  so  early  as  Roger 
Edge  worth's  Sermons,  1567.  I  have  looked  over 
it  m  a  cursory  way,  and  have  not  been  able  to 
find  the  passage  referred  to.  Will  Mr.  Eerslass 
kindly  quote  it  at  length,  as  it  would  be  weU 
worth  recording  t  A.  Shtthb  Paucer, 

Leacrofi,  Btaines. 

The  Wild  Huntsman  (6*  S.  v.  186).— At  the 
above  reference  I  quoted  from  Land  and  Wetter 
of  Feb.  11  an  account  given  by  a  woman  of  *'a 
dreadful  noise  of  horses  and  dogs  galloping  back- 
wards and  forwards  "  she  heard  recently  on  Wes- 
ton Common.  The  correspondent  of  thieit  journal 
who  communicated  that  account  has  now  oonr- 
teously  enabled  me  to  supply  further  particulars  of 
this  survival.  He  says  :  **  The  woman  lives  at  a 
little  village  called  Weston  Patrick,  six  miles  from 


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Basingstoke  in  Noi^k  Hants,  and  is  the  wife  of 
a  carter.  On  my  asking  her  where  she  had  first 
heard  of  this  ill  omen,  she  said  from  her  father, 
and  that  it  was  very  well  known  and  always  true, 
for  even  though  it  had  at  first  seemed  to  have 
failed  in  this  particukr  case,  yet  she  had  since 
heard  that  a  valaed  friend  of  hers  had  died  just  at 
the  time  when  she  had  been  so  alarmed  as  to  give 
up  her  wood-cutting." 

William  Gborgb  Black. 
I,  Alfred  Terrace,  Glasgow. 

Gharlbs  Bullbr  (6'^  S.  t.  288,  414).  — 
£.  H.  M.'s  reply  on  the  subject  is  hardly  satisfac- 
tory. If  he  had  read  the  auery  with  ordinary  care 
he  would  have  avoided  making  the  blunder  which 
occurs  in  his  reply.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the  Annual 
Begitter  for  1847  does  include  the  name  of  Charles 
Buller  in  the  Cabinet^  and  it  was  for  this  reason 
that  the  query  was  made.  I  should  be  much 
obliged  if  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  would  refer  me  to 
more  substantial  authorities  on  this  point  than 
Molesworth  and  the  Ilhutrated  London  Netos, 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

Ordbr  of  Admiwistbrino  to  Commukicants 
(C*^  S.  T.  286,  414), — As  a  layman  constantly 
moTing  about,  I  have  had  the  opportunity  of  com- 
municating in  many  churches,  and  during  an  ex- 
perience extending  over  many  years  I  can  only 
recall  two  instances  of  administering  from  south  to 
north.  In  both  cases  the  priests  were  men  who 
had  passed  the  prime  of  life,  as  their  silvered 
locks  betokened :  the  one  had  been  a  consistent 
Bitualist  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century ;  the 
other  had  no  cure  of  souls  when  I  saw  him  officiate, 
and  was  quite  of  the  other  way  of  thinking. 
Though  the  custom  is  quite  exceptional,  it  was  in 
pre-IUformation  times  undoubtedly  the  rule,  and 
for  this  reason :  that  in  primitive  times^  when  the 
sexes  were  separated  in  church,  the  men  on  the 
south  side  and  the  women  on  the  north,  the  men 
would  in  approaching  naturally  retain  their  side, 
and  would  thus  be  the  first  to  receive,  as,  according 
to  ancient  custom,  men  always  took  precedence  of 
women  in  ecclesiastical  matters.  In  primitive 
times,  when  the  laity  were  not  permitted  within 
the  chancel,  those  officiating  would  proceed  into 
the  body  of  the  church  and  administer  first  to  the 
men  on  the  south  side  and  then  to  the  women  on 
the  north  side.  That  the  custom  of  commencing 
from  the  south  side  survived  the  Reformation  is 
evident  from  the  pictorial  representations  of  the 
Holy  Sacrament  in  the  manuals  of  that  period.  It 
IS  also  manifestly  the  most  convenient  method,  for, 
as  the  celebrant  should  deliver  the  "  Hostia  "  with 
his  right  hand  into  the  palm  of  the  right  hand  of 
the  communicant,  the  most  natural  action  is  from 
south  to  north.  Though,  as  Annie  B.  observes, 
manj  ritual  reformations  have  recently  taken  place, 
I  thmk  it  is  hardly  correct  to  say,  as  she  suggests, 


that  communicating  from  north  to  south  is  one  of 
them.  If  she  can  cite  any  instances  I  shall  be  glad 
to  hear  of  them.  F.  A.  B. 

It  is  still  the  custom  in  this  parish  when  ad- 
ministering Holy  Communion  to  begin  at  the 
south  end  of  the  rail  and  to  continue  towards  the 
right ;  and  the  rector  tells  me  that  it  was  so  when 
he  came,  forty-two  years  ago.  Moreover,  from 
what  I  can  learn,  it  had  long  been  so  in  many 
parishes  around,  though  for  the  most  part  altered 
now.  Thus  a  different  change  has  taken  place  from 
that  described  by  Chr.  W.  E.  Farrbr. 

Breniogham,  Bisa. 

That  the  general  custom  was  to  begin  at  the 
north  side  is  undoubted,  and  that  a  change  has 
been  made  within  the  last  forty  years  is  equally 
indisputable.  The  reason  for  beginning  at  the 
south  side  is  this :  the  south  side,  beinc;  at  the 
right  hand  looking  towards  the  altar,  is  the  place 
othonour ;  the  bishop's  throne  and  the  dean's  stall 
are  on  this  side  in  cathedrals,  and  the  rector's 
stall  in  parish  churches. 

£.  Leaton  Blekeinsopp. 

^'Lb    JuIF    PoLONAIS,"  ERCKVAVN-CHATRIAiry 

AcTB  I.  ScisNB  VII.  (6^  S.  iv.  28  ;  t.  415).— Mr. 
Mobs  will  find  an  allusion  to  the  survival  of  this 
custom    in  more  modern  times   in  a  story  by 

Prosper  M^rim^e,  entitled  La  Venus  d' (not 

having  the  book  by  me,  I  foi]get  the  exact  title). 
In  that  case  the  sarter  consisted  of  a  pieoe  of 
ribbon  tied  to  the  bride's  ankle,  which  was  taken 
off  by  some  little  girl  among  the  guests  and  cut  up 
and  distributed  amongst  the  unmarried  members 
of  the  party.  £.  E.  Strebt. 

Chichester. 

The  Date  of  the  First  Eastbr,  April  9 
(6^  a  T.  125,  293^  416).— So  seldom  has  Kaster 
fallen  on  April  9  that,  within  the  period  of  seven 
centuries,  yiz.  from  1000  to  1700  mdusive,  it  has 
happened  only  twenty-one  times,  «.  g,  in  the  years 
1010,  1083,  1094,  1105,  1167, 1178,  1189,  1200, 
1262,  1273,  1284,  1357,  1368,  1447, 1462, 1531, 
1542,  1615, 1626, 1637,  1699. 

William  Platt. 

CalUs  Court,  8L  Peter*f,  Isle  of  Thanet. 

The  Boktthok  Flagon  :  Boktthon  op  Boht- 
THON,  in  Cornwall  (e***  S.  L  294,  345 ;  iL  108, 
138,  167,  236  ;  iiL  295,  334,  375  ;  iv.  466,  491, 
646  ;  ▼.  413). — Bo  in  Cornish  names  is  liable  to 
become  hob,  6od,  hot,  bos,  bus,  bss,  bis,  ben,  bodn, 
bon,  6onn,— generally,  perhaps,  for  the  sake  of 
euphony.  In  the  last  four  forms  the  n  sometiines 
stands  for  yn,  an ;  also  in,  on ;  or  for  in,  en,  in, 
between.  The  name  Bonython  is  found  written 
Bonithon  and  Bonithan,  and  corruptly  Bonthron 
and  Bony  thorn.  Several  other  Conish  names  com- 
mence with  bon.  B.  S.  Charhock. 


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t««fc8.V.JuHil7,'8a. 


"Blue8tohk''  =  Poison  (6«*  S.  t.  348).— 
Bluestone  is  a  common  name  for  sulphate  of  copper 
or  blue  yitriol  in  Tarious  parts  of  Scotland.  I  hare 
heard  it  frequently  used  by  artisans  and  labourers 
in  Edinborgb.  The  meaning  the  witness  intended 
to  oonyey  in  the  case  quoted  by  Mr.  Black  was 
that  the  article  referred  to  was  not  genuine  whiskey, 
but  a  deleterious  liquid,  supposed  to  be  adulterated 
largely  with  bluestone,  or  ritriol,  and  which  the 
man  rery  properly  designated  as  poison.  A  whiskey 
which  was  at  one  time  (and  perhaps  is  still)  sold 
In  some  parts  of  America  was  made  from  this 
substance,  and  known  as  fwri^i  rod^  because  it  was 
said  that  a  few  glasses  of  it  would  kill  a  man 
before  he  had  walked  forty  rods. 

JoRV  Mackat. 

Herriesdale. 

Tour  correspondent  has  oTidently  not  been  in 
the  colonies,  or  he  would  have  had  no  occasion  to 
put  this  query.  It  is  a  custom  there  among  the 
proprietors  of  "  grog  shanties  '*  to  first  of  all  reduce 
their  spirits  by  a  copious  addition  of  water,  and 
then  to  bring  up  the  strength  again  by  the  addition 
of  bluestone  (sulphate  of  copper).  I  need  hardly 
MAj  that  this  most  diabolical  system  of  adulteration 
is  extremely  hurtful.  I  fancy  it  was  ray  fate  once 
to  experience  the  effects  of  this  concoction ;  for 
I  well  remember  travelling  from  Auckland  to 
Ooromandel  in  a  small  steamer,  and  asking  for  a 
glass  of  whiskey.  I  drank  it^  and — shall  never 
forget  the  consequences.  I  believe  the  practice 
IS  not  unknown  in  this  country.  F.  A.  B. 

MxRVAiDS  (6*^^  S.  T.  365). — ^The  rib  of  a  mer- 
maid is  preserved  in  the  vicar's  library  at  Dench- 
worth,  Berks,  and  I  quote  the  following  from  a 
scarce  pamphlet,  entitled  SvppUment  to  £4  Beneh^ 
worih  Annual^  1875:— 

"  Thii  library  oontaint  also  a  carioeity  in  the  thape 
of  a  bone,  bearing  on  one  side  the  following  inicription : 
— *  This  Is  a  rib  of  a  Mermaid  which  was  brought  to 

Bristol!,  from  Angola,  by of   Portumle,  who  were 

taken  prisoners  in  the times,  1631.'    [Two  words  are 

inegible.1  On  the  other  side  is  the  following  :  '  The  gift 
•of  Mr.  Martin,  son  of  Dr.  Martin,  of  Redland  Court,  near 
Bristol!,  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  Ralph  Kedden,  Vicar  of 
BenehwoHh,  1693.'  It  is  really  the  rib  of  a  manati 
{Tricheetu  manatm  SeniffoUnsit),  a  cetaoeous  herbivorous 
mammal,  called  also  sea-cow,  suren,  triton,  or  mermaid. 
This  animal  is  found  near  the  mouths  of  ri?ers  on  the 
west  coast  of  Africa;  there  is  a  similar  species  on  the 
east  coast  of  America ;  and  both  are  somewhat  lilie  the 
dugoni;,  which  is  found  in  the  Indian  Ocean.  The  manati 
-is  16  fL  long,  and  has  breasts  and  hand-lilce  paws,  with 
which  it  nourishes  and  carries  its  young  while  it  comes 
4>ut  of  the  water  to  pasture,  being  amphibious." 

C.  H.  Mato. 

Long  Burton,  Sherborne. 

Old  Housis  with  Sbcrkt  Chambers  (5*^  S. 
xii  S48,  312;  ««»  S.  iL  12, 117,  295,  433,  623; 
iii.  96;  iv.  116,  217;  t.  397).— Cbrrnpfto  optimi 
pinima  ut.  The  following  story  is  a  good  Instance 


of  the'*  base  uses ''to  which  theee  excellent  con- 
trivances might  be  pat : — 

''At  Bishop*s  Middleham  a  man  died  with  the  le- 

Eutation  of  a  water-drinker ;  and  it  was  discovered  thai 
e  had  killed  himfelf  by  secret  drunkennesa.  There 
was  a  Roman  Catholic  hiding-pUee  in  the  bouse,  the 
entrance  to  which  was  from  nis  bed-room ;  he  con- 
verted it  into  a  cellar,  and  the  quantity  of  brandy  which 

'sCfoe 


he  had  consumed  was  ascertained."— bonthey'i 
place  Bookf  fourth  series,  3M. 

Edward  BL  Marshall,  M.A. 
Library,  Claremont,  Hastings. 

John  Moork,  Bishop  of  Norwich  (6^  S.  t. 
228,  391).— If  either  of  your  correspondents  could 
inform  me  where  I  can  see  the  will  of  the  biahop, 
I  should  esteem  it  a  favour. 

Jambs  Bobbrt  Browk. 

"Maltb  Monet*  (fi^  S.  v.  88, 195,  397).— 
On  pulling  down  an  old  house  in  this  neighbour- 
hood (Lincolnshire),  I  observed  what  appeared  to 
be  a  very  large  coffee  mill  attached  to  a  beam. 
The  carpenter  told  me  that  it  is  a  malt  milL 
They  were  formerly  to  be  found  in  most  farm- 
houaeSy  where  they  made  their  own  malt  and 
crushed  it  in  this  mill  In  times  when  malt  wns 
taxed  they  thus  evaded  paying  duty. 

E.  XiATON  Blinkinsopp. 

Thb  Parslow  Family  (6**  S.  v.  288,  435). — 
''  Mr.  Nicholas  Parslow  and  Mrs.  Ellinor  Bellow 
were  married  24  Sept.  1565  *  (Braunton,  Devon, 
Parish  Register).  J.  L.  Y. 


Thb  Dicbts'  Chap-books  (6*  S.  t.  369).— The 
mysterious  **  st  **  upon  the  imprint  of  these  books, 
and  others  of  the  same  description,  simply  means 
that  they  are  stereotyped,  and  may  be  had  in  any 
quantity  by  pedlars,  being  never  "out  of  print" 
Alfrbd  Wallis. 

Derby. 

"Wolf"  (6**  S.  v.  204).— Jeremy  Taylor,  in 
his  Holy  Living^  makes  use  of  the  expression,  ^  If 
God  should  send  a  Cancer  upon  thy  Face  or  a 
Wolf  into  thy  Side"  (chap.  iL  1 6). 

JL  K  Strxbt. 

Chichester. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wamtxd  (1**  S.  xiL 
204;  6«»  S.  V.  399).— 

**  Qui  jaoet  fai  terra,"  dee. 
It  may  not  be  without  interest  to  note  a  remarkable 
application  of  this  line.  In  D*lsraeli*s  (TarMsiCticf  of 
LiUrature,  article  '*  Charles  the  First,"  a  story  is  tok^ 
on  the  authority  of  *'a  French  writer,"  that  when 
Bellicore,  the  French  ambassador,  announced  Co  Charles 
the  secret  decision  of  hie  enemies  to  pot  him  to  death, 
"  entreating  him,  at  the  same  time,  to  save  himself  by  » 
vessel,  which  he  could  iostantl^  prepare,  the  kins 
calmly  answered  him  with  this  Ime  from  an  old  IaCIb 
poet—'  Qui  procumbit  humi,  non  habet  nnde  cadat ' — 
<  He  who  lies  prostrate  on  the  earth  need  not  fear  to  falL* 


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'  Sire,'  uid  Bellicore,  '  they  may  oceasion  kit  kmd  to 
fall  r'*  Edwabd  H.  Mabshali.,  M.A. 

(6tk  S.  ▼.  218, 379,  488.) 
"Ho  who  plays  at  bowla,"  &c., 
|g  the  motto  on  tbe  title-page  of  one  of  W.  L.  Bowlea'i 
pampbleta  in  the  fierce  Alexander  Pope  controyerty. 

Thomas  Esrslakb. 

(eth  S.  ▼.  888.) 

"Two  loala  with  one  thought/'  &c., 

must  be  an  Bngliab  translation  of  a  yery  pretty  German 

long,  a  great  faTOurite  forty  years  ago,  commencing— 

-  Mein  Hers,  icb  will  dich  fragen." 

I.  C.  O. 


IHiUCfnanfouif. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Notes  Sr<m.  ike  MuniitunU  of  SI,  Mary  Magdalen  CoUeg€, 

Oxford,  from  tki  Twtljtk  to  the  Seftenieenth  Century. 

By  W.  D.  Macraj,  M.A.,  F.8.A.  (Parkar  k,  Go.) 
Thb  authorities  of  Magdalen  College  have  published  a 
small  Tolume  which  is  euloulated  to  be  of  much  interest 
to  the  students  of  English  antiquity.  The  notice  of  their 
ohartert  has  already  appeared  in  the  reports  of  the 
Historical  MS8.  Commission,  but  these,  however  Taluable 
for  reference,  are  from  their  sixe  inconvenient  for 
common  use.  The  value  of  the  Magdalen  documents 
will  be  much  increased  by  this  smaller  publication, 
which  alio  goes  over  some  points  which  could  not  so  well 
appear  In  the  report.  It  will  alTord  in  itself  an  excellent 
precedent,  which  may  be  followed  in  other  cases  by  those 
who  have  the  charge  of  such  interesting  records.  From 
the  locality  of  the  college  it  naturally  is  most  concerned 
with  Oxford  life  and  history,  and  such  of  our  corre^ 
spondenta  as  take  an  interest  in  these  will  find  fresh 
material  for  their  researches.  Will  they  inform  us 
whether  there  is  any  anticipation  of  the  present  system 
of  education  at  Cambridge  in  the  "Aula  Puellarum," 
the  '*  Mayden  Halle,"  which  is  mentioned  at  p.  84  ?  But 
from  the  wide  extent  over  which  the  college  estates  are 
spread,  the  interest  of  their  documenta  is  by  no  means 
confined  to  Oxford  itself.  Half  the  countief  in  England 
are  more  or  less  noticed  in  the  charters. 

It  will  be  seen  from  a  lawsuit  respecting  tithes  between 
the  convent  of  Sele  and  the  rector  of  Findon  that  an 
ecclesiastical  suit  was  no  cheap  amusement  in  the  thir* 
teenth  century,  and  that  even  then  it  was  able  "to 
drag  its  slow  length  along."  There  is  a  list  of  pre- 
Be&rmation  clergy,  pp.  8S^-82,  with  some  others  in 
the  "Addenda,"  which  is  liltely  to  fumUh  fresh 
names  for  our  parochial  histories,  to  which  so  much 
interest  now  attaches.  In  the  list  of  surnames  there  is 
a  good  note  that  the  saunterer  has  his  name  from  being 
a  "  sans  tcrre,"  a  "  lackland,"  and  not  from  having  once 
been  a  pilgrim  to  "  La  Sainte  Terre  "  (p.  97).  There  are 
notioei  of  the  mannen  of  our  countrymen  in  Eich. 
Stelewoman  and  Rich.  Thousandpound,  the  forerunner 
of  our  millionaires;  while  the  personal  habits  which 
attract  notice  are  seen  in  John  le  Scriveyn,  Kich.  le 
Oyaelur,  or  Fowlere,  John  le  Cok,  and  the  personal 
peculiarities  or  special  character  in  Will,  cum  Barba, 
John  Littelbodi.  Hugh  Stepsofte,  John  Styfl^g,  and  Rob. 
Makeblithe.  There  are  others  upon  which  we  may 
venture  to  anticipate  the  possibility  of  some  future 
queries.  At  pp.  181-6  there  are  fsc-similes  of  some 
signatures,  among  which  we  notice  that  in  the  unique 
letter  of  Cecily  of  York,  the  mother  of  Edward  IV.  We 
might  easily  extend  these  remarks,  for  the  college  has 
done  good  ear? ice  to  those  who  are  interested^  as  we  are, 
in  these  subjects. 


Tke  History  of  the  Parishes  of  Sherbum  and  Caipood,. 

with  Noticu  of  Wistow,  Saxlon,  Towlon,  Ac,    Second 

edition.  By  W.  Wheater.  (Longmans.) 
Wb  ar«  informed  that  this  edition  contains  much  more 
matter  than  the  previous  one.  Af  a  local  history  it  is 
still  very  imperfect.  Documents  from  common  printed 
books  are  given  at  great  length,  but  very  little  research, 
seems  to  have  been  made  among  manuscripts.  The  re- 
ferences to  authorities  are  seldom  given,  and  when  we 
have  them  they  come  before  us  in  a  manner  which  some- 
times renders  them  nearly  useless.  Tbe  chief  value  of 
the  book  consists  in  the  monumental  inscriptions  and 
blaxonry  of  coats  of  arms  which  it  contains.  There  ia 
also  a  plate  of  an  old  half-timbered  house  at  Wistow, 
which  we  are  glad  to  have  as  a  memorial  of  a  class  of 
buildings  which  is  now  being  rapidly  swept  away.  Mr. 
Wheater  has  evidently  read  Carlyle  or  bis  imitators, 
and  has  injured  his  style  thereby  to  such  an  extent 
as  to  render  pome  of  his  pages  almost  unintelligible.  He- 
did  not  get  from  Mr.  Carlyle  his  painful  habit  of  quoting 
poetry.  A  verse  now  and  tlien,  when  it  comes  in  aptly 
lights  up  a  dull  paragraph ;  but  here  we  have  these  scraps 
not  singly  or  in  couples,  but  by  the  dozen  and  the  score. 
As  to  whether  authors  should  quote  verse  or  not  is 

Krhaps  a  matter  of  taste ;  but  it  is  no  matter  of  taste, 
t  one  of  simple  justice,  that  when  a  poet  is  quoted  the 
words  should  be  given  as  he  wrote  them.  Mr.  Wheater 
has  forgotten  this,  and  as  he  evidentlv  thinks  that  he 
can  improve  upon  his  predecessors  he  is  not  sparing  of 
emendation.  This  is  the  form  which  stansa  xxxii.  of 
Lord  Macaulay*s  Hoiati%s  assumes  under  Mr.  Wheater'a 
editorship.  We  print  the  altered  words  in  italic  type  ; 
the  punctuation  is  also  his : — 

"  Then,  none  were  for  a  party. 
But  all  were  for  the  State  ; 
The  rich  man  loved  the  poor  man, 

And  the  poor  man  loved  the  great. 
The  lands  were  fairly  portioned 

They  were  neiUur  bouoht  nor  sold 
For  the  Romans  were  like  brothers 
In  the  brave  days  of  old." 
This  surpasses  in  the  way  of  improvement  anvthing  we 
remember  to  have  seen  except  the  "  Dear  brother  Jim  "* 
which  a  certain  editor  inserted  in  Wordsworth's  We  are: 
Seven. 

Jottings  on  some  of  the  Ohjeds  of  Interest  in  the  Stone- 

henge   Excursion.     By  Edward   T.  Stevens,    F.S.A. 

(Salisbury,  Brown  k  Co.) 

THmB  is  nothing  that  we  nave  made  greater  progress  in- 

of  late  davs  than  the  manner  in  which  we  construct  our 

Enide-booki.  If  any  one  wishes  for  eridence  of  this  let 
im  take  unto  himself  a  bundle  of  old  guides  published 
twenty  or  thirty  years  ago,  and  endeavour  to  read  them. 
He  will  find  the  feat  well  nigh  impossible.    Written  for 


the  most  part  by  men  very  imperfectly  furnished  with 
language,  they  showed  an  absolute  ignorance  of  the 
plainest  facts  of  history.  Of  eonrse  any  knowledge  of 
such  recondite  matters  as  architecture,  geology,  or 
botany  was  not  to  be  thought  of.  Tbe  better  examples' 
of  the  guide-book  of  our  own  day  are  the  production  of 
men  thoroughly  qualified  by  education  and  habits  for  the 
task.  It  has  been  said  that  no  one  should  venture  on  » 
guide-book  unless  he  is  prepared,  should  need  be.  to  write 
an  exhaustive  history  oi  the  places  he  describes.  Whether 
this  rule  should  be  made  absolute  in  all  cases  we  are  not 
sure ;  but  it  is  so  in  the  instance  before  us.  Every  page 
shows  that  if  Mr.  Stevens  had  chosen  to  give  us  not  a 
book  for  the  pocket  but  a  folio  for  the  library,  he  has  at 
hand  full  information  for  doing  so.  So  very  much  has 
been  written  about  Stonebenge  that  it  would  bo  rash  to 
assume  that  we  have  examined  all  the  literature  on  the 


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cobjeot.  We  are  not,  boweTer,  aware  that  anythfnfi;  im- 
portant has  escaped  us,  and  we  are  bound  to  say  that  this 
18  by  far  the  best  popular  account  with  which  we  are 
acquainted.  It  is  posted  up  with  all  the  new  Icnowledge 
on  the  Bubjeofe.  The  book  is,  as  a  guide-boolc  should  1m, 
Tery  dlfcursiTe.  There  is  quite  an  essay  on  hour-glass 
•tands  in  churches,  together  with  some  tery  curious  illus- 
trations of  old  tobacco  pipes. 

Handbook  to  the  Cathedral  of  Si,  Paul.  By  0.  Phillips 
BeTsn,  F.Q.S.,  F.aS.,  and  John  Staiaer,  MJL, 
Hus.Doc.  (Sonnenschein  &  Co.) 
Air  excellent  bttle  handbook.  In  the  brief  compass  of 
some  ninety-eight  pages  the  compilers  hare  given  a 
brief  sketch  of  the  history  of  old  St.  Paul's,  a  careful 
account  of  the  existing  cathedral  and  its  monuments, 
an  admirable  notice  (in  which  Dr.  Stainer's  hand  can 
easily  bo  traced)  of  the  organ  and  of  the  bells,  with  a 
few  well  selected  obserTations  upon  the  musicians  who 
haye  been  associated  with  the  cathedral.  A  ground 
plan  and  four  illustrations  adorn  the  yolume.  We 
would  specially  commend  the  cut  of  the  west  elevation 
of  St  Paul's,  from  Malton's  Picturesque  Tour  through 
LotuUm,  which  is  placed  apon  the  title-page. 

Calendar  of  State  Papert  and  MSS,  relating  to  Bnglvh 
Affairs.  Venetian  Series.  Vol.  VI.,  Part  II.,  1656-1657. 
lidited  by  Bawdon  Brown  for  the  Master  of  the  Soils. 
(Longmans  k  Co.) 
This  second  part  of  the  sixth  Tolume  is  published  without 
introduction  or  index,  and  covers  the  twelve  months  ex- 
tending from  October,  1556,  to  October,  1557.  The 
Venetian  despatches  of  this  period  are  mainly  occupied 
by  details  of  the  Spanish  invasion  of  France  and  of  the 
PapAl  States ;  and  with  our  present  knowledge  of  the 
panic  which  overwhelmed  Pans  when  the  news  arrived 
of  the  storming  of  Si  Quentin  by  the  Spaniards,  we  are 
able  to  appreciate  the  disappointment  of  the  Emperor 
Charles  V.  that  his  son  had  not  marched  straight  on  to 
Paris.  Prescott's  narrative  of  the  Duke  of  Alva's 
campaign  in  the  Soman  Gampsgna,  and  of  his  master's 
nnwillingness  to  continue  the  war  against  the  Holy  See 
after  the  retreat  of  the  Duke  de  Guise,  was  mainly  derived 
from  the  despatches  of  Navagero,  the  Venetian  ambassador 
at  Bome,  which  are  all  abstracted  in  this  volume;  and 
the  historian  did  his  work  so  thoroughly  that  the  con- 
temporarr  reports  from  the  ambassadors  in  France  and 
Spain  add  little  to  our  knowledge.  The  most  interesting 
document  in  this  volume  is  the  report  which  Michiela, 
the  Venetian  ambassador  in  London,  drew  up  for  the 
information  of  the  Doge  on  May  18,  1557«  after  three 
years'  residence  in  England.  Summaries  of  similar 
reports,  drawn  up  in  1551  and  1554,  were  printed  in 
Tol.  V.  of  thif  series  of  Calendars,  and  A  Relaiion  <if  Eng- 
land, compiled  in  1497,  was  published  with  a  translation 
by  the  Camden  Society  in  1847.  But  they  are  all  of 
inferior  interest  to  Michiele's  report,  which  was  so 
highly  esteemed  at  Venice  that  Francesco  Gontarini, 
afterwards  Doge,  transeribed  it  with  his  own  hand  for 
the  purpose  of  makmg  himself  familiar  with  English 
afiairs  when  he  was  sent  to  London  as  ambassador  ex- 
traordinary in  1609.  Contarini's  transcript  was  used  by 
the  editor  for  the  purpose  of  this  volume,  and  his  sum- 
mary is  fuller  and  more  accurate  than  the  abridgment 
publUhed  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis  in  1827  in  h\%  Second  Seriee 
of  Original  LeUen  lUuHraHte  of  Bnglith  Hietory. 

Wb  have  received  from  Messrs.  Longmans  k  Co.  Part  I. 
of  their  llluttraied  New  Tettament.    It  is  an  exact  re- 

groduction  of  the  original  edition,  and  will  be  completed 
I  an  issue  of  eighteen  monthly  parts. 

Jonra  Lncvn.  CHwm.~I  should  like  to  bear 
gimteftd  testimony  to  the  truth  of  what  Mb.  Dixov  bo 


well  says  in  your  last  issue  as  to  the  exceeding  kindness 
of  Col.  Chester  to  each  of  his  friends  as  found  themselves 
in  genealogical  difficulties.  I  have  often  applied  to  him 
under  such  circumstances,  and  he  has  invariably  helped 
me  at  once,  most  generousljr  giving  me  all  the  informa- 
tion he  could  supply  from  his  own  resources,  and  point- 
ing out  the  Quarters  in  which  he  thought  I  might  obtain 
more :  snd  tnis  althou|(h  I  had  no  particular  claim  upon 
him,  having  known  him  but  a  short  time,  and  my  ac- 
quaintance with  him  having  originated  in  a  merely 
casus!  introduction.  Three  vears  ago  he  wrote  to  ma 
that  he  would  cheerfully  go  through  his  indexed  collec- 
tions of  parish  register  extracts,  contained  in  upwards  of 

a  hundred  folio  volumes,  for  me,  sending  me  all  the 

entries  he  had  from  every  part  of  the  oountry ;  and  this 
promise  he  faithf ullv  performed ;  while  a  year  and  a  half 
•go  he  thus  eoncludea  a  letter  in  answer  to  one  of  mine 
thnnking  him  for  services  rendered:  "I  hare  only  to 
add  that  as  I  have  heretofore  helped  you  to  some  extent, 
I  will  very  cheerfully  help  yon  hereafter  whenever  in 
my  power:  and  there  must  be  a  good  deal  in  my  ex- 
tensive colleotioni  that  would  be  of  use  to  you.  very 
nearly  half  my  time  is  now  daily  taken  up  in  assisting 
people  from  every  part  of  the  oountry,  who  have  got  the 
idea  that  I  ifcaow  everything.  Although  this  is  somo- 
whst  of  a  tax  upon  my  time,  it  is  never  one  upon  my 
patience  or  pood  nature,  for,  as  I  think  I  have  before 
said  to  you,  it  is  part  of  my  religion  to  do  unto  others  aa 
I  would  have  others  do  unto  me;  and  I  think  the  prin- 
ciple of  the  golden  rule  may  extend  even  to  such  matters 
as  these.  I  will  at  any  time  cheerfully  give  you  the 
benefit  of  my  advice  and  experienoe,  and  aid  you  directly, 
if  possible,  in  any  matter  you  may  lay  before  me."  This 
last  extract,  showing  so  well  the  character  of  the  man, 
will,  I  am  sure,  be  particularly  interesting  to  your 
readers,  and  I  think  it  is  quite  worthy  of  bemg  placed 
on  permanent  record  in  the  psges  of  **  N.  k  C^." 

Epmuvd  Rabsolph. 


fioiitti  ta  CorrfiTpontrfntf. 

We  mutt  call  special  attention  to  the  following  aoCies  .- 
Oh  all  communications  should  be  written  the  name  and 

address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  bat 

as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

J.  B.  ("  Mass  1.— Bead  the  article  "  Missa  "  in  Smith^a 
Dictionary  of  Christian  Antiquities. 

J.  G.  (Streatley,  Eeadinir}.— Frame  a  query  of  mode- 
rate dimensions,  and  we  shall  be  happy  to  insert  it. 

B.  S.  B.— You  had  better  set  the  matter  right  in 
another  paper. 

W.  P.  M.  J.  (Yorkshire  Parish  Reftister  Society).— 
Write  to  Mr.  J.  Horsfall  Turner,  Idel,  Leeds,  or  Mr. 
S.  Margerison,  Calverley,  Leeds. 

A.  L.  M.  (Oxford).— The  poet  of  this  week  will  luiwe 
reassured  you. 

A.  C.  B.  (Glasgow)  abd  Othbbs  ('*I  live  for  those  who 
love  me  ").— From  Mr.  G.  L.  Banks's  poam  What  I  Inm 
for. 

G.  P.  B.  B.  ("  Went  Ways  ^.— See  ante,  pp.  167,  276. 

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CONTENTS.— N«  180. 


KOTIS  :»li6tten  of  Sunnel  Johnson  to  Dr.  Tujlot,  4S1~ 
Bidden  of  that  Uk,  and  Bidel  or  Rndtl  of  BUje,  482~A 
Series  of  Bight  Anonjmons  and  Confidential  Letters  to 
James  II.  and  his  Qneen  ahont  the  State  of  Ireland,  484— 
The  Allen  Mystery— John  Boys  the  Dean,  485— Bohert 
Knssel  of  Wadhnrst— St.  Bfargaret's.  Westminster— John 
Benson  and  Lozd  Mansfield,  486— Invocating  the  Apostles, 
487. 

<iTnEBIE8 :— Portrait  of  Sir  Walter  Balelgh—Leman  Baro- 
net^—Was  a  King  ever  Drowned?  487— Tnmer  and  the 
"  Keepsake  "—The  Argo:  Drake's  Ship— MeyerssMaster— 
NoTiomaglans— The  Conntess  of  Ossory—**  Resort/'  488— 
Agnosticism— Jason  Cox— Prince  Panl  Bsterhaqr— "  Fraj- 
hngs"  — Wilson's  Yorkshire  CoUections  — A  Privileged 
HosteliT '—  **  Fkanlon  * — Bohemian  AzchSBology— Authors 
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In  Bnglish  — The  «* Cheap  Magasine,'*495— "County " — 
"Bamer"  — Bolingbroke  and  Clarendon —  "  Peace  with 
honour  *  —  *'  Eerie  fwlther  "—Kangaroo—"  Taking  French 
leave/'  496— Weather  Prognostication— Pelham  of  Crow- 
liunt-CMUihM  first  used  in  Scotland—"  Vito  sine  Uteris,  " 
4ml— *'HypiierotoiiiacUa,"  te.— Black  Mail,  487-**  Forbes  •* 
— Phuality  of  Worlds,  488-Charch  DisdpUoa^Authon 
Wanted,  499. 

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3oUi. 

LSTTEBS  OF  SAMUEL  JOHNSON  TO 

BB.  TAYLOR. 

{Conduded  from  p.  468.) 

DiAR  Sib,  — I  am  glad  that  your  friendf  an  not 
smonff  the  promoters  of  equal  repreientotion,  which  I 
«onnder  as  specious  in  theory,  but  dangerous  in  experi- 
ment, as  equitable  in  itself,  out  above  human  wisdom 
to  be  equitably  adjusted,  and  which  isliow  proposed 
•only  to  ^tross  the  government 

An  equal  ropresentation  can  never  form  a  constitution, 
because  it  can  nave  no  stability ;  for  whether  you  regulate 
the  represenUtion  by  numbers  or  by  property,  that 
which  18  equal  to-day,  will  be  unequal  in  a  week. 

To  change  the  constituent  parte  of  government  must 
be  always  dangerous,  for  who  can  tell  whero  changes 
will  stopi  A  new  represenUtion  will  want  the  roverence 
of  antiquity,  and  the  firmness  of  Establishment.  The 
view  senate  will  be  considered  asmushrooms  which  spring- 
ingin  a  day  may  be  blasted  in  a  night. 

What  will  a  parliament  chosen  in  any  new  manner, 
whether  more  or  less  numerous,  do  which  is  not  done  by 
euch  parliamento  as  we  have?  Will  it  be  less  tumul- 
tuous, if  we  have  moro,  or  less  meroenary,  if  we  have 
fewer)  There  is  no  danger  that  the  parliament  as  now 
•chosen  should  betray  any  of  our  imporUnt  rights,  and 
that  is  all  that  we  can  wish. 

If  the  scheme  wero  moro  reasonable,  this  is  not  a  time 
for  innovation.  I  am  afraid  of  a  civil  war.  The  business 
of  every  wise  man  seems  to  be  now  to  keep  his  ground. 

I  am  very  glad  you  aro  coming. 

lam&c. 

Jan.  21, 1783.  Sam.  Jobvbok. 

To  the  BeTerend  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 


The  next  is  in  Boswell,  but  as  he  has  omitted 
the  postocript,  and  the  repetitions,  which  betray 
the  writei^B  agitation,  it  deserves  a  place  here. 

Deab  Sib,— It  has  pleased  God  by  a  paralytick  stroke 
in  the  night  to  deprive  me  of  speech. 

I  am  very  desirous  of  D'  Heberdenrs]  anistence  as  I 
think  my  case  is  not  past  remedy.  Let  me  see  you  as 
soon  as  it  is  possible.  Bring  D'  Heberden  with  you  if 
you  can,  but  come  yourself,  at  all  evente.  I  am  glad  you 
are  so  well,  when  when  [tie\  I  am  so  dreadfully  attocked. 

I  think  that  by  a  speedy  application  of  stimulante 
much  may  be  done.  I  question  if  i^  a  [«ie]  vomit  yigoroos 
and  rough  would  not  rouse  the  organs  of  speech  to  action. 

As  it  is  too  early  to  send  I  will  try  to  roooUect  what  I 
can  that  can  be  suspected  to  have  brou£b[t]  on  this 
droadful  distress. 

I  have  been  accustomed  to  bleed  frequently  for  an 
asthmatick  complaint,  but  have  forbom  for  some  time  by 
D'  Pepys's  persuasion,  who  peroeived  my  l«gs  beginning 
to  swell. 

I  sometimes  alleviate  a  painful,  or  moro  properlv  an 
oppressive  constriction  of  my  chest  by  opiates,  and  nave 
lately  taken  opium  froquently,  but  the  last,  or  two  last 
times  in  smaller  Quantities.  My  largest  dose  is  throe 
grains,  and  last  night  I  took  but  two. 

You  will  suggest  these  thing[s],  and  they  are  all  that 
I  can  call  to  mind,  to  Jy  Heberden. 

lam&c, 

June  17. 1788.  Sax.  Johhsov. 

jy  Brocklesby  will  be  with  me  to  meet  D'  Heberden, 
and  I  shall  hare  proriously  make*  master  of  the  case  as 
well  as  I  can. 

To  the  Be**  D»  Taylor. 

Dxia  Sib,— When  your  letter  came  to  me  I  was  with 
M'  Iiangton  at  Rochester.  I  was  suspicious  that  yoa 
wen  ill.  He  that  goes  away,  you  know,  is  to  write,  and 
for  some  time  I  expected  a  lettto  every  post 

My  general  health  is  undoubtedly  better  than  beforo 
the  seizuro.  Yesterday  I  came  from  Oravesend  by  water, 
and  carried  my  portmanteau  from  Billingsgate  to  Cem- 
hil,  beforo  I  cotUd  get  a  coach,  nor  did  I  find  any  great 
inconvenience  in  doing  it. 

My  Toice  in  the  exchange  of  salutations,  or  on  other 
little  occasions,  is  as  it  was,  but  in  a  continuance  of  con- 
versation it  soon  tires.  I  hope  it  grows  stronger,  but  it 
does  not  make  very  quick  advance. 

I  hope  you  continue  well^  or  grow  every  day  better; 
yet  the  time  will  come  when  one  of  us  shall  lose  the 
oiher.    May  it  come  upon  neither  of  us  unpropared. 
I  am,  I>ear  Sir, 

Yours  affectionately 

July  24, 1783.  Sax.  JoHirsoir. 

To  the  BeT^  D'  Taylor  in  Ashboome  Derbyshire. 

Dxi.B  Sib,— I  sat  to  Opey  [Opie]  as  long  ashedesirsd, 
and  I  think  the  head  is  finished,  but  it  [is]  not  much 
admired.  The  rest  he  is  to  add  when  he  comes  again  to 
town. 

I  did  not  understand  that  yon  expected  me  at  Ash- 
bourne, and  have  been  for  a  few  days  with  a  Gentleman 
in  Wiltehiro.  If  vou  write  to  me  at  London,  my  letters 
will  be  sen^  if  they  should  happen  to  come  beforo  I 
return.  I  am,  Sir, 

Your  most  humble  servant. 

Sax.  Johrsok. 

Heale  near  Saliibnry,  Sept.  8, 1783. 
To  the  Beverond  D'  Taylor  at  Ashbourne,  Deri>y8hiK. 

*  Sic,  as  if  "whom  I  shall  proviondy"  had  preceded. 
It  mifht  also  run  "  and  I  shall  have  pierioady  madt 
hiffiy'^^or  *'  preriously  to  make  him«" 


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DiiB  Sib,— Toa  detired  me  to  write  often,  and  I  now 
write  thoogh  I  have  nothing  new  to  tell  you,  for  I  know 
thftt  in  the  tediooinew  of  ill  health  a  letter  always  giTet 
■ome  direnion  to  the  mind,  and  I  am  afraid  that  joa 
liTe  too  mooh  in  solitnde. 

Feel  the  weight  of  folitude  rtrj  prening ;  after  a 
nlfffat  of  broken  and  anoomfortable  Binmber  I  rise  to  a 
solitary  breakfast,  and  sit  down  in  the  evening  with  no 
oompanion*    Sometimes  however  I  tiy  to  read  more  and 


Yon  mnst  likewise  write  to  me  and  tell  me  how  yon 
Uve,  and  with  what  diet.  Tour  milk  kept  you  so  well 
that  I  know  not  why  you  forsook  it,  and  think  it  very 
reasonable  to  try  it  again.  Bo  not  omit  air  and  gentle 
exercise. 

The  ministry  talk  of  laying  violent  hands  on  the  East 
India  company^  even  to  the  abolition  or  at  least  sos- 
pension  of  their  charter.  I  believe  corruption  and 
oppression  are  in  India  at  an  enormous  height,  but  it  has 
never  appeared  that  they  were  promoted  bv  the  Directors, 
who,  I  believe,  see  themselves  defraoded,  while  the 
country  is  plnndred ;  but  the  distance  puts  their  officers 
out  of  reach,  and  I  doubt  whether  the  government,  in  its 
present  state  of  diminished  credit,  will  do  more  than 
give  another  evidence  of  its  own  imbecillity  [tie'l 

You  and  I  however  have  more  urgent  cares,  than  for 
the  East  Indian  company.    We  are  old  and  unhealthy. 
Let  us  do  what  we  can  to  comfort  one  another. 
I  am.  Dear  Sir,  &c. 

London,  Nov.  22, 1788.  Sax.  Johhsof. 

To  the  Rev^  D'  Taylor  in  Ashbourne,  Derbyshire. 

Dbi&  Sir,— What  can  be  the  reason  that  I  hear 
nothing  from  youl  I  hope  nothing  disables  you  from 
writing.  What  I  have  seen,  and  what  I  have  felt,  gives 
me  reason  to  fear  every  thing.  Do  not  omit  givins  ma 
the  comfort  of  knowing  that  after  all  my  loises  I  have 
yet  a  friend  loft. 

I  want  every  comfort.  My  Life  is  very  solitary  and 
very  cheerless.  Though  it  has  pleased  [Qod]  wonder- 
fully to  deliver  me  from  the  Dropsy,  I  am  yet  very  wedc 
and  have  not  passed  the  door  since  the  13^  of  December. 
I  hope  for  some  help  from  warm  weather,  which  will 
iure^  come  in  time. 

I  could  not  have  the  consent  of  the  Physicians  to  go 
to  Church  yesterday ;  I  therefore  received  the  holy  Sacra- 
ment at  home,  in  Uie  room  where  I  communicated  with 
dear  M»  Williams  a  Uttle  before  her  death.  O,  my 
Friend,  the  approach  of  Death  is  very  dreadfuL  I  am 
afraid  to  think  on  that  which  I  know,  I  cannot  avoid. 
It  is  vain  to  look  round  and  round,  for  that  help  which 
cannot  be  had.  Yet  we  hope  and  hope,  and  fancy  that 
he  who  has  lived  today,  may  live  tomorrow.  But  let  us 
learn  to  derive  our  hope  only  from  Qod. 

In  the  mean  time  Jet  us  be  kind  to  one  another.    I 
have  no  Friend  now  liring  but  you  and  M'  Hector  that 
was  the  friend  of  my  youth.    Do  not  neglect, 
Dear  Sir, 

Yours  affectionately 

Sax.  Johh90k. 

London  Easter  Monday,  April  12, 1784. 
To  the  Bev'  D'  Taylor  in  Aslibourn,  Derbyshire. 

The  series  ends  with  the  famous  knock-down 
blow  for 

Mb.  Jakes  Maophibsov,— I  received  your  foolish 
and  impudent  letter.  Any  riolence  offered  to  me  I  will 
do  my  best  to  repel,  and  what  I  cannot  do  for  myself 
the  law  shall  do  for  me,*'  &o. 

This  may  be  seen  in  Boswell  and  elsewhere. 
With  regard  to  the  suggestion  in  the  last  number. 


I  hope  that  one  of  the  twenty-five  collectors  of 
Johnsoniana  may  be. found  to  reprint  all  the 
scattered  letters  of  Johnson. 

JoHV  E.  B.  Match. 
Cambridge. 

Who  were  the  Jacksons  mentioned  in  the  letters 
dated  Feb.  17  and  June  23,  1776  ? 

W.  F.  Mabsh  Jacksok. 


BIDDBLL  OF  THAT  ILK  AND  BIDSL  OB  BUDEL 

OF  BLAYB. 

(See  fitb  8.  xii.  102.) 

I  have  for  some  time  wished  to  place  on  receid 
in  the  pages  of  '*  N.  &  Q."  the  conclusions  as  to 
the  radically  different  origin  of  the  two  houses  of 
Biddell  in  Scotland — viz.,  Riddell  of  that  ilk  and 
Riddell  of  Ardnamurchan — ^to  which  independent 
research  had  led  me  before  ANaLo-SooTUS  put 
forth  his  views.  I  have  been  only  the  move 
strongly  convinced  by  subsequent  investigations 
that  the  very  names  of  the  two  houses  are  as 
different  as  their  origin,  and  that  the  apparent 
identity  of  their  present  form  is  one  of  the  elements 
of  that  confusion  which  AiNOLO-ScoTas  points  out 
When  so  ^preat  a  light  as  John  Riddell  can  be 
charged  with  having  helped  to  make  this  oon- 
fusion  worse,  the  task  of  disehtanglement  becomes 
doubly  difficult,  but  all  the  more  necessary  to 
be  undertaken. 

My  conclusion  was,  and  is,  briefly  this.  The 
name  of  the  family  of  Riddell  of  that  ilk  is 
territorial ;  whether  most  rightly  to  be  assigned  to 
lands  in  Roxburghshire  or  in  Yorkshire  or  else- 
where is  a  further  question,  but  not  material  to 
the  present  discussion. 

The  name  of  the  family  of  Riddell  of  Ardna- 
murchan is  personal,  and  its  true  form  appears  to 
be  Rudellufl^  or  Rudel,  though  occurring  also  at  sa 
early  date  as  Ridel,  but  never,  so  far  as  I  know, 
as  be  RideL  I  am  inclined  to  go  further,  and 
suggest  that  there  may  have  been  at  least  another 
stock  in  England  besides  these  two,  and  tha 
question  may  hereafter  be  worth  investigating.  This 
further  hvpothesis  seems  to  me  somewhat  strongly 
suggested  by  the  very  different  arms  borne  oy 
families  of  the  name  of  Riddell  in  the  north,  and 
apparently  also  in  the  south,  of  England.  The 
difference  may  possibly  have  been  due  to  andest 
intermarriages  with  heiresses  and  the  change  of 
arms  which  sometimes  followed  in  the  eariy  days 
of  heraldry,  but  of  such  marriages  I  hare  at 
present  no  evidence. 

In  Berwick-upon-Tweed  and  Newcastle-on-T^ne 
the  name  seems  to  have  had  a  pretty  continuous  his- 
tory. In  Eiitorical  DoewmentSf  Scotland,  1286- 
1306,  edited  under  the  .direction  of  the  Lord  Clerk 
Register  of  Scotland  by  Rev.  J.  Stevenson  (Edia. 
1870),  I  find,  under  date  Dea  10,  a.d.  1S93,  r 
letters  of  safe  conduct  for  "  Philippus  de  Rydale^    1 


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bnigensis  et  mercator  de  Berewyk,"  tradiDg  within 
the  kiDgdom  of  England  (op.  cU.,  toL  l  p.  412, 
citing  Bot.  Pat,  22  Edw.  I.,  memb.  27). 

In  the  Willi  and  Inventories,  edited  for  the 
Sartees  Society  by  Bey.  J.  Baine,  pt.  i.  p.  28, 1 
find  a  "  De  BideU "  continuing  the  traditions  of 
Philip  de  Bydale  as  a  burgess  of  Berwick-upon- 
Tweed  in  the  middle  of  the  fourteenth  century. 
^'Test.  ThomsB  de  Bidell  (Ex  Visit.  Com.  PaL 
Bunelm.,  1615).    Thomas  de  Biddl,  senior,  Bur- 

gensis  yillsB  Berwici  super  Twedam die  Sabb.- 

13^  mens.  Jan.  a.d.  mill®  tresoent**  quinquag<>  ocl^" 
The  testator  names  among  his  legatees  his  *'  nepos  " 
Alexander  de  Bidell,  together  with  WiUiam,  son, 
and  Agnes,  daughter  of  the  said  Alexander  ;  and 
it  may  be  worth  noting  as  a  probable  (or  at 
ieast  Dossible)  indication  of  consanguinity  with 
Riddell  of  that  ilk,  that  among  his  bequests 
-occur,  five  pounds  to  the  building  of  the  stone 
bridge  oyer  Tweed  at  "  Bokisburgh  "  (Boxburgh), 
^gether  with  "Ixxx  bordar','*  and  "  c  bordar' "  to 
<the  chapel  of  the  B.  V.  M.  at  Bokesburgh,  be- 
sides a  donation  to  the  Abbot  and  Convent  of 
-•'Kelkou"  (Kelso). 

Wills  of  Biddells  of  Newcastle-on-Tyne  are  in 
^e  same  yalnable  collection,  and  show  us  a  goodly 
4UTay  q{  persons  of  substance  and  repute,  such  as 
Sir  Feter  and  Sir  William  Biddell,  &c  But  it  is  to 
be  observed  that  the  alternative  spelling  Biddle 
occurs  among  the  wills  of  the  Newcastle  Biddells, 
•and  that  form  is,  I  think,  almost  peculiar  to  Eng- 
land. 

Sir  Peter  Biddell  was  Mayor  of  Newcastle, 
1576;  Thomas  Biddell  was  sheriff  in  1500; 
William  Biddell  was  sheriff  in  1575;  William 
Biddell,  mayor  in  1510  and  1526.  Tonge's 
Vititation  (Surtees  Soc.)  records  the  arms  of 
aeveral  of  the  Northumbrian  Biddells,  and  they 
■are  worthy  of  consideration  for  the  reasons  which 
I  have  already  stated.  The  volume  referred  to 
contains  in  the  Elizabethan  Boll,  App.  ii.  p.  xxxiv, 
''^  Biddell,  Gent,  (de .  Fennim)  [Fenham],  Arg.  a 
fess  between  three  garbs  az." 

In  App.  iv.,  the  "  Carr  MS."  gives  the  follow- 
ing arms  of  various  Newcastle  Biddells,  which 
•differ  alike  from  Biddell  of  Fenham  and  from 
the  two  Scottish  coats.  Thus  we  have  at  p.  Ixi, 
'<  Thomas  Biddell,  sherife  [of  Newcastle-on-Tyne]," 
1500,  **  Gu.  a  lion  rampant  within  a  bordure  in- 
dented arg.,**  and  the  same,  pp.  Ixii,  Ixiii,  and  Ixix, 
for  William  Biddell,  mayor,  1510  and  1526,  and 
William  Biddell,  sheriff,  1575,  and  for  Peter 
Biddell,  as  sheriff,  with  a  crescent  sa.  in  the  dexter 
chief  for  difference. 

It  is  worthy  of  remark  that  the  coat  (Arg.,  a  fess 
iMtween  three  rye  sheaves  az.)  assigned  to  Biddell 
of  Swinburne,  as  representing  Biddell  of  Fenham, 
in  the  last  edition  of  Burke's  General  Armory 
(1878),  differs  from  the  coat  of  Fenham  in  the  Eliza- 
bethaa  EeH  printed  with  Tonge's  Vieitatian,  and 


that  the  difference  constitutes  a  closer  resem- 
blanoe  to  the  bearings  of  Biddell  of  that  ilk. 
It  would  be  interesting  to  know  at  what  date  and 
with  what  authority  the  change  was  made.  The 
Biddells  of  Swinburne  tell  us  in  the  Land^ 
Gentry  (1879)  that  they  do  not  know  the  precise 
date  at  which  their  ancestor  "  migrated  from  North 
Britain."  It  would  be  a  valuable  addition  to  such 
information  as  I  have  been  able  to  obtain  con- 
cerning the  N(Mrthumbrian  families  of  the  name  if 
any  evidence  were  adduced  showing  that  the 
ancestors  of  Biddell  of  Fenham  ever  were  settled 
in  Scotland. 

The  coats  with  a  lion  rampant  I  do  not  find 
in  the  General  Armory  at  all,  under  the  name  of 
Biddell.  But  there  are  two  entirelv  different 
coats  there,  assigned  as  follows  :  Bidall,  Biddall, 
or  Bidhull  (Herts),  "  Or,  on  a  bend  az.  (another 
sa.)  three  catherine-wheels  ar.,"  and  Biddall, 
Bidall,  or  Bydell,  *^  Sa.,  on  a  fess  betw.  three  owls 
ar.  five  crosses  form^  of  the  first."  This  variety 
of  bearings  strengthens  the  presumption  in  favour 
of  several  different  origins  for  famihes  of  the  name 
now  or  fonnerly  existing. 

In  the  Corretpondence,  Inventoriee,  dtc,  of  (he 
Priory  of  Coldingham  (Surtees  Soa),  App.  p.  xcii, 
the  Bental  of  the  Prioiy,  drawn  up,  it  is  believed, 
circa  1298,  shows  us  ^  Johannes  Bydell,"  holding 
two  carucates,  ''in  dominico,"  in  Flemington. 
William  de  Hylton,  the  nuns  of  '*  Berewyk,''  and 
Matthew  de  Bedman  are  severally  recorded  as 
holding  lands  of  the  said  ''J.  BydeL"  Under 
Lambirton  (Lamberton),  in  the  same  BentsJ, 
p.  ciii,  "  Alicia  qusB  fuit  uxor  Johannis  Bydell,"  is 
mentioned  as  having  her  dower  of  the  third  part  of 
Flemington  forfeited,  ''ut  dicitur."  Among  the 
witnesses  to  the  solemn  excommunication,  pro- 
nounced at  Norham,  after  the  (Gospel  at  High 
Mass  of  the  Feast  of  the  Translation  of  St.  Cuth- 
bert,  1467,  against  Patrick  Home,  Protonotary 
of  our  Lord  the  Pope,  and  John  Home, ''  assertus 
canonicus  "  in  the  Collegiate  Church  of  Dunbar, 
*' Johannes  Bidell"  is  named  among  the  "well- 
known  friends  and  kinsmen  "  of  the  said  Patrick 
and  John  who  were  present  on  the  occasion  (Priory 
of  Coldingham^  Letters,  &c.,  'ccxix).  I  think  I  am 
warranted  in  suggesting  that  No.  ocxxxix.  in  the 
same  series  of  letters  throws  light  on  the  descent 
of  the  Bidels  of  Flemington.  It  is  taken  "Ex 
Institutis  Thomse  Prioris  Bunelmensis,  A* 
Mccxxxv.,"  and  mentions  among  those  who  owed 
service  to  the  Priory  of  Durham  hom  Colding- 
hamshire,  '^hsredes  Gcklfridi  Ridd  et  eomm 
hseredes,  de  Flemigtona."  It  is  in  evidence  that 
Galfridus  was  the  Christian  name  of  the  con- 
temporary Lord  of  Blaye  in  Aquitaine,  whose 
letters  to  Henry  III.  are  in  Boyai  LeUerif  Een.IIL 
(Bolls  Series),  under  date  1247.  But  the  form  of 
the  name  there  given,  and  which  is  also  the  pre- 
vailing form   in  the   Gascon  Bells,  ''GalfnduB 


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Radelli,"  is  roggeetiTe  of  an  eponymons  hero, 
Rudellas,  or  Bade],  and  not  of  a  territoiy  whose 
designation  was  assumed  by  its  lords.  Sometimes 
''Badellns"  seems  to  take  an  adjectival  shape  ; 
but  *on  the  whole  I  think  its  true  character  is 
unmistakable.  ''  Nigellns  Rudelli  **  is  one  of  the 
barons  of  Gascony  perverted  to  the  King  of 
France  by  the  Count  of  La  Marche.  ''Helias 
Ridell "  is  one  of  Henry  III.'s  faithful  barons  and 
men  for  whom  Oeoffirey  Neville,  Seneschal  of 
Poitoo  and  Gascony^  nmkes  supplication,  April, 
1219. 

<<Galfridus  BideUi,''  "Galfridus  (orGaufridus) 
Budelli,"  and  '*Galfridns  Bydel"— such  are  the 
varying  forms  under  which  appear  the  lords  of 
Blaye,  senior  and  junior,  who  bore  that  Christian 
name  Ump.  Hen.  IIL-Edw.  11.,  and  who  come 
before  us  in  numerous  public  documents  in  England 
and  Gascony  during  the  thirteenth  and  fourteenth 
centuries.  I  have  collected  some  more  facts  con- 
cerning the  Aquitanian  house  of  Budel,  which 
I  may  communicate  on  a  future  occasion,  should 
the  subject  appear  to  be  of  sufficiently  general 
interest 

I  shouldf  perhaps,  add  that,  having  worked  out 
my  views  entirely  independently,  I  did  not  refer 
to  the  valuable  paper  by  Asolo-Sootub  while 
putting  together  the  present  note^  I  see  that  he 
asserts  the  **  invariable  omission  of  the '  De '  from 
the  surname  of  the  English  funily.''  It  will  be 
evident,  I  think,  from  the  facts  which  I  have 
collected  above,  that  such  a  statement  is  not 
borne  out  with  regard  to  the  Be  Biddells  whom 
I  oite  from  documents  of  the  thirteenth  and 
fourteenth  centuries  as  living  at  Berwick-upon- 
Tweed.  But  I  admit  that  both  forms  existed  in 
Euffland,  tuie  Alicia  Bidell,  who  held  lands  in 
Tnlleby,  temp.  Edw.  L  (Eirkby's  In^^ieit,  Surtees 
Society).  C.  H.  E.  Cabmighael. 

New  Uni?ersity  Club,  S.W. 


A  8BBIBS  OF  BIOHT  ANONYMOUS  AND  CON- 

FIDBNTIAIi  LBTTEBS  TO  JAMES  II.  AND  HIS 

QUEEN  ABOUT  TUB  STATE  OF  IBBLAND. 

{Continued  fr&m  p,  402.) 

The  Copy  of  a  letter  seal  the  King  80  Jan.  85  upon  his 

Conferring  the  title  of  Gonntess  upon  Mrs.  Cidley. 

S*,— There  has  bin  always  an  extraordinary  privilege 

of  talking  freely  allowd  to  Persons  in  Maskerade  and  I 

fancy  a  peny  pott  letter  man  is  a  kind  of  Maskerader 

and  may  be  aptlv  likend  when  he  writes  linoerely  to  his 

King  to  a  faythfal  spie  abroad  that  makes  it  his  work  to 

discover  the  motions  of  the  enemie,  which  conaideration 

emboldens  me  to  convey  my  thoughts  to  vonr  Ma*'* 

thoiow  this  sort  of  diignise.    It  is  confidently  reported 

here  and  abroad  that  the  French  King  hearing  how  yonr 

Ma*"  thought  fit  upon  your  acces  to  the  Crown  to  appear 

publicly   at    Mass    was    pleas'd   notwithstanding  his 

naughty  spirit  to  say  this  single  action  of  your  Ma***" 

argued  more  courage  and  deservd  more  applause  than  al 

the  actions  of  his  own  life  putt  together  adding  qoe 

€*estoit  un  coup  bien  hardy  et  que  celuy  qui  osoit  fair  ca 


oseroit  tout  faire  And  effectively  he  was  in  the  right 
on't  for  the  more  dangerous  an  enemie  the  more  glorious 
the  conqueror  and  the  more  privat  an  enemie  the  more 
dangerous  and  of  al  priTat  enemies  an  indiscreet  hot 
headed  sealot  is  the  worst  and  most  irreclaimable  witnes 
the  covenanting  Whiggs  in  Scotland  whereof  som  were 
toe  obstinat  k  resolut  even  at  deaths  door  dureipg  yonr 
Majesties  gOTemm*  there  that  they  cud  not  be  indued 
to  save  their  lives  at  soe  dear  a  rate  as  to  pray  in  four 
words  for  the  Kings  safety,  this  much  in  confirmation 
of  the  French  Kings  wel  grounded  opinion. 

But  y<  1  may  come  cloier  to  the  point  I  wm  at  The 
unimitable  presedent  of  daylie  pietie  k  deTotion  giveik 
hand  in  hand  by  your  Majestic  and  royal  Consort  since 
the  beginning  of  your  reign  has  had  so  great  ui  infinence 
upon  the  very  enemies  of  yonr  religion  k  interest  thai 
many  of  'em  notwithstanding  the  calumnies  rays'd  of  yott 
bepan  to  have  charitable  thoughts  of  the  misrepresented 
pnnciples  of  your  profession  So  that  I  haTe  heard  som 
of  'em  with  amasement  acknowlege  your  Ma*'*  had  in  a 
little  time  miraculously  chang'd  the  scene  in  Court  and 
elswhere  by  giveing  things  a  new  face  enconrageing 
Yertue  &  discountenanceing  Vice  k  as  this  made  your 
enemies  fear  it  made  your  friends  hope,  voura  k  her 
Majesties  powerfnll  example  woud  in  a  caun  k  lawful 
manner  as  I  still  ho]^  it  (wil)  infinitly  contribut  to  the 
cooTersion  of  soules  in  this  poor  Kingdom  and  especialy 
at  Court  where  tis  more  to  be  wish'd,  in  as  much  as  the 
examples  of  persons  of  the  first  rank  have  a  more  than 
ordinary  ascendant  over  the  minds  of  the  Comonality 
But  I  wil  presume  to  say  with  al  respect  due  from  a 
subject  even  in  disguise  to  his  lawful  sovereign  that  as  al 
vonr  actions  since  the  begining  of  your  reign  (which  God 
long  k  prosperously  conunue)  have  bin  in  the  thon^ta 
of  the  worla  an  nmntermpted  chain  of  miracles  soe  jonr 

late  conferring  an  il  tim'd  title  upon  Mrs.  C hae 

abundantly  gratified  the  wishes  of  your  enemies  & 
sensibly  grievd  the  hearts  of  y'  friends  Not  that  it 
gives  the  latter  any  reasonable  ground  to  suspect  your 
Ma^**  after  your  reiterated  protestations  to  the  contraiy 
intends  to  renew  any  commerce  with  one  (withoat  th# 
least  disparagement  unto  a  Lady  of  wit  k  quality)  ae 
much  inferiour  to  your  Queen  in  person  and  parts  as  sha 
is  beneath  her  in  rank  but  that  it  confirms  the  former 
in  their  malicious  belief  that  our  religion  is  but  affecta- 
tion grimace  outside  k  down  right  liypocrisie,  whicb 
wilfuiopinion  of  theirs  wll  not  easily  be  remov'd  ae  lon^ 
as  the  Countess  of  Dorchester  lives  in  England  or  at 
least  in  or  about  London.  And  tho  any  man  of  brainee 
and  a  charitable  disposition  may  be  apt  to  consider  that 
a  privat  gentlem"  haveing  marr*d  toe  fortune  of  any 
gent  daughter  is  indispensablv  bound  in  conscience  t» 
make  reparation  suitable  to  her  quality  k  his  abihiy, 
and  that  the  obligation  lyes  much  heavier  on  a  Ung  who 
haveine  no  excuse  left  as  to  want  of  meanes  might  aettle 
a  livelihood  k  confer  an  honour  upon  a  Lady  excluded 
from  both  by  his  meanes,  in  order  to  her  preferment ;  yet 
this  k  al  other  arguments  to  this  effect  canot  wholj 
salve  the  apparent  ocoaasion  of  scandal  given  by  y 
Ma*'*"  oondescention  to  the  ambition  of  that  Lady  and 
the  importunitv  of  her  advocate  w*^  men  acquainted 
with  your  Ma"*  from  your  youth  look  upon  to  be  ye 
greatest  oversight  yonr  deliberat  Judgem'  has  bin  guilty 
of  in  the  whole  Course  of  y*  life :  for  tho  the  action  in 
itself  be  indifferent  yet  it  is  il  circumstanced  since  there 
was  no  absolut  neoessitie  for  it  as  al  your  wel  meaning 
friends  are  verily  persuaded  your  Ma*^*  had  not  thought 
of  that  creation  at  this  time  of  day,  if  you  had  not  bin 
importuned  to  it  by  some  friends  made  by  that.Lady  eo 
may  it  reasonably  be  concluded  that  whoever  advised 
your  Ma*'*  to  the  unseasonable  granting  of  it  nraet  of 
necessity  be  an  irreoonoileaUe  enemy  to  yonr  religion* 


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not  zealonsly  coneernd  for  irbst  to  all  men  ofpeciallj 
princes  ought  to  be  aa  dear  aa  life,  reputation,  mach  leaa 
a  friend  to  your  Queen  or  dedroui  of  her  haToing  poa- 
teri^  tia  true  Prinoea  are  subject  aa  much  if  not  more 
than  other  men  to  alipa  occaaaiond  by  the  f  rayltie  of  fleah 
k  blood  yet  are  they  more  atrictly  oblieg'd  than  others 
to  ftToyd  al  occasion  of  scandal,  since  like  the  first  mOTor 
thev  generaly  regulat  the  motiona  of  the  iaferior  orba 
their  subjects  which  have  ground  to  the  saying  Begis  ad 
Exemplum  &c.  To  which  I  wil  ad  one  reason,  that  of  all 
human  onea  ought  to  weigh  most  with  vour  Ma"*  for  the 
al  men  are  in  their  nature  mortal  there  ia  an  innat 
desire  in  erer^  man  of  perpetuating  himself  in  his  pos- 
terity; and  without  doubt  your  Ma***  wiahea  if  it  pleaad 
Ood  (who  its  hop'd  wil  ad  this  blessing  to  the  series  of 
Hiraclea  wrought  in  your  faTOur)  to  be  happy  in  male 
iasue  that  might  succeed  you  in  swaying  the  scepter  of 
these  Kingdoms  And  aa  yon  tender  Qoda  anawering 
the  daylie  prayers  and  offerings  of  your  Catholic  sub- 
jecta  (with  submission  I  presume  to  say  it)  it  concerns 
irou  not  onel^  to  perseTCre  chast  (in  order  to  which  you 
naTe  the  assistance  of  the  moat  mfallible  meanea  under 
heayen,  sobriety  of  life  and  inclination  to  daylie  exer- 
dae)  but  also  to  ahun  as  much  aa  may  be  giveing  your 
royal  Conaort  any  umbiage  of  suspecting  your  being  any 
way  unjust  to  her,  for  notiiing  can  be  a  graater  grief  to  a 
loToing  k  extremely  fond  wife  than  a  suspition  of  this 
kind  too  perhaps  il  grounded  for  it  may  beget  Jealousie 
h  that  Melancholy  which  of  al  passions  ingenders  moat 
bad  humours  that  damp  k  mortifie  the  rital  apirits,  ao 
aa  to  hinder  conception  in  any  woman  thus  aiteoted    I 


interest  k  reputation  of  his  King,  whom-  Qod  preserre  k 
defe^  to  the  End  of  a  long  k  prosperous  reign  from  all 
Enemiei  risible  k  inriaible. 

W.  FRA2XBL,  F.RC.S.L,  M.RLA. 
{To  he  canUnued,) 


his  wife  disappear,  and  no  one  knows  wheie  ok. 
when  they  died.  His  sons,  now  dead,  kept  up 
the  mysteiy,  if  possible,  still  more,  and  igaoxed 
the  yeiT  names  of  Manning  and  Allen.  They 
gradaally  assumed  totally  different  ones,  ami  in 
1846  pablished,  in  The  TaUa  of  (he  Cmtwry;  or, 
the  Romance  of  Hittary,  the  yiew  ihey  wished  the 
public  to  adopt,  bat  always  ayoided  any  proof  of 
their  assertions.  Their  appearance  was  certainly 
extremely  in  their  &yoar ;  it  was  too  remarkable 
to  be  accidental,  or  withoat  tome  relationship,  bat 
how  f  That  is  the  qaestion.  The  way  th^  set 
about  it  did  them  more  harm  than  good.  There 
is  yet  one  aged  man  aliye,  at  Forres,  who  it  is 
certain  could  giye  yaluable  information  if  he  chose, 
as  he  was  brought  up  in  Thomas  Allen's  house  is 
France.  Will  any  member  of  the  Allen  or  Manning 
families  giye  further  information  of  either  Thomas 
Allen  or  lus  wife  ?  They  must  haye  had  some 
relatiyes  who  knew  and  cared  for  them.  What 
biscame  of  John  Carter,  brother  of  Thomas  ? 

Proof  of  Thomas's  birth  would  settle  the  matter. 
The  admiral  saying  in  his  will,  ''to  my  son 
Thomas  Allen  one  hundred  pounds."  and  not 
giying  him  any  share  or  position  in  the  executry, 
&C.,  as  the  rest  of  the  family  haye,  does  not  seem 
condusiye  either  way.  The  Adnuralty  haye  no 
records  of  the  sons,  who  were  belieyed  to  hare 
been  in  the  Nayy.  Facts,  not  Fictiok. 

[See  -  N.  &  Q.,"  4t»»  8.  ri.  568;  S""  8.  iy.  484. 624  :y. 
lib,  177, 198, 256, 818;  tUL  28, 58, 92, 118, 158,  Sa4, 274, 
851,897.] 


Thb  Allbv  Mtstbrt. — ^Admiral  John  Carter 
Allen  died  in  1800,  leaying  two  sons,  John  Carter 
Allen  and  Thomas  Allen.  Some  say  Thomas  was 
an  adopted  child,  bom  abroad,  of  lugh  rank,  and 
entrusted  to  the  admiral  to  be  brought  up  as  his 
own  son  until  twenty-fiye  years  of  age,  when  the 
proofs  of  his  birth  were  to  be  hand^  to  him  by 
the  admiral  Howeyer  this  may  be,  Thomas,  then 
at  Egham,  married  in  1792  Eatherine  Matilda, 
daughter  of  the  Bey.  Owen  Manning,  Vicar  of 
Godalming,  as  proyed  by  the  regiiSexs  there. 
Thomas  and  his  wife  appear  to  haye  liyed  in 
France,  and  had  three  children,  John  Carter 
Allen,  Charles  Manning  Allen,  and  Matilda.  In 
1£S2  Thomas  Allen  and  his  wife  Eatherine 
Matilda  witness  the  marriage  of  their  son  Charles 
Manning  Allen,  at  St.  George's,  Hanoyer  Square; 
John  Cajrter  Allen  is  also  a  witness.  It  is  not  known 
where  Thomas  and  his  wife  ultimately  liyed,  or 
when  they  died.  It  was  probably  abroad,  and  some 
think  Thomas  suryiyed  till  1863.  It  is  said  there 
were  Aliens  at  Falmouth.  A  sister  of  Thomas 
married  a  banker  named  Robinson,  of  Arundel, 
but  he  cannot  be  traced.  An  extraordinary  mys- 
tery seems  to  sunound  Thomas  Allen.    He  and 


John  Bots  the  DsAK.-^It  came  upon  me  as  a 
pleasant  surprise  to  see  in  the  columns  of  the 
Qwirdian  newspaper  a  week  or  two  ago  a  long 
notice  of  my  dear  old  friend  John  Boys,  ''that 
famous  Postiller.''  I  haye  known  him  so  lonff  in 
the  spirit,  and  so  intimately,  that  it  is  difficult  to 
belieye  he  was  dead  two  centuries  before  I  was 
bom.  Being  dead  he  yet  speaketh  to  me,  and 
(I  may  add)  oocasionally  through  me,  and  I 
rejoice  that  I  am  not  the  only  man  aUye  who 
reyeres  so  wise  and  learned,  so  thoroughly  English 
a  teacher,  and  that  obliyion  has  not  quite  swal- 
lowed down  a  writer  who  certainly  does  not 
deserve  to  be  forgotten.  No  single  writer  of  the 
seyenteenth  century  quotes  more  habitually,  more 
extensiyely,  from  contemporaiy  literature  than 
John  Boys.  I  do  not  mean  only  that  he  was 
profundly  read  in  dogmatic,  ex^getical,  and  eon- 
troyersial  theology ;  of  course  he  wss  this,  but  he 
was  much  more ;  he  seems  to  haye  bought  eye^ 
new  book  as  it  came  out,  and  as  he  read  he  quotecL 
A  list  of  the  writers  whom  Boys  refers  to  in  bk 
margin  would,  I  think,  startle  such  people  as  assume 
that  the  Jacobean  diyines  were  mere  professional 
theologians.  As  to  the  authors  he  quotes  or 
allndes  to  without  giving  his  authority,  they  would 
puzzle  any  one  to  identify,  unless  he  were  ex- 


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oepiioDftlly  familiar  with  the  literataie  of  the 
time.  One  specimen  of  these  quotations  I  should 
be  grateful  to  any  of  your  readers  who  can  ^ive 
me  chapter  and  verse  for.  It  is  in  itself  so 
beautiful,  and  Boys's  folio  is  comparatively  so 
rare,  that  I  hope  yon  and  vour  readers  will  not 
grudge  the  space  in  **N.  &  Q.,"  which  the  re- 
printing of  the  poem  demands.  At  p.  626  of  the 
Works,  printed  in  1622,  Boys  thus  finishes  his 
sermon  on  St.  Luke  ii.  15  : — 

"  I  will  end  here  with  a  divine  sonnet  of  an  ancient 
friend  and  accurate  Poet : — 
**  Jam  thy  love  wtthin  me  it  lo  maine,  [nc] 
And  my  poor  heart  so  narrow  of  content. 
That  with  thy  love  my  heart  well  nigh  is  rent ; 

And  yet  I  love  to  beiur  sueh  loving  pain. 

O  take  thy  cross  and  nuls,  and  therewith  strain 
My  heart's  desire  to  his  full  extent. 
That  thv  dear  lore  therein  may  not  be  pent : 

But  thoughts  may  hare  free  icope  thv  love  t'  explain. 
Ah !  now  my  heart  more  paineth  than  before 
Becaose  it  can  receive  and  hath  no  more.. 
O  fill  this  emptiness  or  elte  1  die  : 
Kow  stretch  my  heart  again,  and  now  supply. 

Now  I  want  space,  now  grace  to  end  all  smart, 

tiince  my  heart  holds  not  thee— hold  thou  my  heart.** 

Who  is  the  "  ancient  friend  and  accurate  poet " 
who  pronounced  mean  in  this  East  Anglian  fasnion  7 

AUGUBTUB  JbSSOFP. 

RoBRRT  RussRL,  OF  Wadhxtrst,  Susskz.— In 
the  Brighton  Book  Circular  (No.  72,  for  1882)  of 
W.  J.  Smith,  41-43,  North  Street,  Brighton,  I 
find,  art  841  :— 

*'  Robert  Russers  seven  sermons,  the  accepted  time, 
end  of  time  and  beginning  of  eternity  and  future  state  or 
man,  Joshua's  resolution  etc.  1716, 12mo.  27th  edition.*' 

Some  time  ago  I  myself  bought  in  a  lot  and  sent 
to  a  Belfast  library — 

**  ScTen  sermons by  Rob.  Rnssel  at  Wardhnrtt  [tie] 

in  Sussex.  The  48rd  ed.  Belfast :  Printed  by  and  for 
James  Magee  in  Bridge-Street    1701."    12mo. 

It  is  no  doubt  possible  that  the  English  editions 
may  haye  been  numbered  continuously,  without 
reference  to  the  Irish ;  but  in  any  case  it  is  carious 
(supposinff  Mr.  Smith's  statement  and  my  note  to 
be  correct)  that  the  forty-third  edition  of  a  book 
should  precede  the  twenty-seyenth  by  fifteen  years. 
Mr.  Lower  (Warthiet  of  Siutex,  p.  338)  mentions 
two  other  books  by  Russel,  but  can  find  no  account 
of  him.  He  is  unknown  to  Watt.  I  haye  not 
been  more  fortunate.  If  your  readers  will  record 
any  editions  of  his  works  which  they  may  possess, 
we  may  obtain  some  due  to  his  date. 

JoBK  £.  B.  Mayor. 
Gambridge. 

•St.  Margarbt's  Church,  WKSTiriirBTSR : 
Thomas  Armwatb,  1603.— Perhaps  some  of  your 
readers  may  know  of  a  copy  of  an  ancient  inscrip- 
tion just  brought  to  light  on  the  north  wall  of  St. 
Margaret's  Church,  on  the  monument  of  Thomas 
Amwaye,  1603,  a  benefactor.    The  monument  is 


much  damaged  as  well  as  decayed.  The  inscrip- 
tion has  not  been  seen  since  1713,  when  the  mona- 
ment  was  "  repaired  and  beautified."  Part  of  this 
repairing  and  beautifying  consisted  of  a  new  in- 
scription slab,  giying  only  the  names  of  Thomas 
Ameway  (iic)  and  Margarett  his  wife,  with  the 
dates  1603  and  1596,  to  which  is  added  the  decla- 
ration aboye  quoted.  Not  content  with  this  re- 
pairing, &C.,  the  repairers  hacked  and  scraped 
away  the  decayed  inscription  slab  of  rotting  free- 
stone, and  then  concealed  it  with  yile  plastering. 
After  many  hours'  inyestigation  and  many  daysf 
consideration,  together  with  a  reading  and  exa- 
mination of  the  original  will  of  Thomas  Amwaye, 
now  in  the  custody  of  Mr.  Rogers,  the  solicitor  of 
the  parish,  eyeiy  one  of  the  380  letters  has  been 
satiafactonly  and  demonstrably  traced  or  deduced, 
although  all  beholders  except  two  declared  it  to  be 
impossible.  The  inscription,  which  is  replete  with 
quaintness,  yeneration,  and  beneyolenoe,  and  of 
which  I  giye  a  rendering  below,  contains  eight 
rhyming  Alexandrine  lines.  The  lettering  is  of 
roman  type,  such  as  was  common  at  the  time 
of  Queen  Elizabeth ;  the  occasional  couplings  and 
abridgments  are  amusing :— 
"Interred  here  in  grays  doth  Thomas  Amwaye  lye, 

Who  in  his  life  tyme  lored  the  poors,  k  in  tnat  love 
did  dye. 

For  what  he  left,  to  helpe  the  poore;  he  did  deyise 
the  same, 

Not  idell  folke  but  such  as  woalde  them  selfs  to  0ood- 
nes  frame. 

The  thriftie  peopell  by  his  will,  that  in  this  parishe 
dwell 

Fyyte  ponndes  for  their  comforts  may  haTe,*  if  y'  they 
use  it  well. 

From  yeare  to  yeare.  if  carefnllie  they  looks  nnto  their 
charge. 

Of  snche  men  as  this  Amwaye  was  Qod  make  the  nnm- 
ber  htfge." 

An  Old  Ikhabitaht. 

John  Bsnsoir  amd  Lord  Mahsfield.— It  has 
been  asked — by  Junius  (letters  41,  61,  63)  as  by 
others— why  his  lordship  ordered  a  special  jniyman 
(John  Benson)  "  to  be  set  aside  "  or  *'  to  be  passed 
by,"  it  being  added,  ''  This  Benson  had  been  re- 
fractory upon  a  former  jury.''  This  latter  has  been 
BUggested ;  but,  as  the  great-grandson  of  the  re- 
fractory juryman,  I  giye  the  history  of  that  ^  pass 
by.**  My  ancestor,  like  myself,  liad  wandered 
from  his  natiye  fells  in  Lancashire,  and  was  then 
settled  in  the  City  as  a  merchant,  being  as  andi 
liable  to  be,  as  he  was,  summoned  as  a  sp^sial  joxy- 
man  on  a  libel  case.  One  fine  morning  a  carriage 
(his  lordship's)  droye  to  his  (the  junrman's)  door, 
with  a  request  that  he  would  go  and  see  his  lord- 
ship, whicn  he  did,  at  chambers,  where  a  long  dis- 
cussion ensued  between  them  as  to  whose  office  it 
was,  that  of  the  judge  or  the  jury,  to  say  what  wbb 
a  libel  It  is  needless  to  say  that  they  differed. 
Whereupon  his  lordship  conduded  the  conferenco 
thus :  '<Th»t  will  do,  sir."     Then  my  ancestor, 


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after  waitiof;  a  dae  tin\e,  thus  addroMed  his 
lordship :  "  Your  lordship's  carriage  brought  me 
here,  and  I  expect  it  takes  me  bade  again.''  The 
opinion  given  m  opposition  to  his  lordship^s  yiew 
is  the  'Mmpndenoe"  attributed  to  John  Benson 
(letter  61),  the  'Mmpudence"  being  at  chambers, 
and  not  on  a  former  trial.  This  may  possibly 
amuse  some  of  your  readers,  and  its  authenticity  is 
Touched  for  on  the  part  of  the  refo&ctory  juryman's 
Grbat-okandson. 
27,  Clifton  VillMi  Warwick  fioad,  W. 

Invooativo  TBS  Apostles.  —  The  following 
custom  ulill  obtains,  I  belieye,  at  Lichfield  in  the 
Cluuu^Ilor's  Coutt.  When  the  proctor  has  made 
his  oase  out  before  the  chancellor,  he  bows  and 
says,  "Therefore,  sir,  we  pray  the  apostles." 

B.  0.  Hops. 

Scarborough. 

Wa  aiatt  request  corrsipondants  desiring  infomiatioB 
on  family  matters  of  only  priTato  interest,  to  affix  their 
names  and  addresses  to  their  queries,  in  order  that  the 
answers  may  be  addressed  to  them  direct. 


Portrait  of  Sir  Walter  RALRioH.^In 
«N.  &  Q."  4tt»  S.  il  164 ;  ix.  309,  I  asked  for 
information  concerning  a  portrait  of  Sir  Walter 
Baleigh  that  in  the  year  1766  was  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  widow  of  a  member  of  my  own  lamUy, 
through  whom  she  had  become  possessed  of  it; 
and  until  now  I  haVe  been  unsuccessful  in  obtain- 
ing any.  Lately,  however,  I  have  by  chance  dis- 
covered that  Mary,  the  only  chUd  of  Peter  and 
Maiy  Sheppard,  and  granddaughter  of  the  above 
widow  (see  "  N.  &  OT  4^  8.  il  164),  married  a 
Mr.  John  Doddington  Forth^who  from  1787  to  1817 
was  Portcullis  Poursuivant  m  the  OoUege  of  Arms, 
and  en  April  11  in  the  latter  year  resigned  that 
office  and  became  subsequently  Barrack  Master  in 
the  Isle  of  Man ;  he  beoime  involved  in  peouniaiy 
difficulties,  to  dear  himself  of  which  he  borrowed 
money  on  a  portnut  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  which 
was  in  his  possession,  and  when,  in  the  course  of 
evente,  he  was  in  a  position  to  redeem  the  por- 
trait, he  actually  sent  the  money  to  do  so,  but 
was  never  able  to  regain  either  the  portrait  or 
the  money  sent  for  it.  The  picture  is  possibly 
somewhere  in  the  north  of  England  now,  though 
whoever  may  be  the  fortunate,  can  scarcely  be  the 
rightful,  owner  of  it,  as  Mr.  Perth's  grandson  is 
now  living,  who  has  in  his  possession  a  raior  that 
also  belonged  to  Sir  Walter  Baleigh,  which  is 
described  b^  an  eyewitness  as  being  ''a  very 
quaint  looking  instrument.''  I  should  be  very 
glad,  if  possible,  to  gain  some  further  clue  to 
where  this  portrait  may  now  be.  The  time  when 
Mr.  Forth  parted  with  it  would  probably  be  about 
1820.  D.  G.  Cart  Elwbs. 


Thi  Lbman  Barokbtct.— Is  this  baronetcy 
still  dormant?  I  shall  be  much  obliged  for 
any  information  respecting  it.  The  founder  of 
the  family  appears  to  have  been  Sir  John  Leman, 
Knt,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1616 ;  his  heir 
was  his  nephew,  William  Leman,  created  a  baronet 
by  Charles  IL,  March  3,  1664-5.  Thence  the 
descent  of  the  title  and  estates  appears  to  have 
been  clear  until  1762,  when  the  title  is  stated  by 
Burke  to  have  become  extinct  Several  claimants 
have,  however,  since  then  presented  themselves. 
On  Feb.  17, 1838,  John  Leman,  of  Nottingham, 
obtained  a  fovourable  verdict  before  a  jury  at 
Edinburgh,  but  died  on  June  5,  1839 ;  his  son, 
Edward  (Godfrey  Leman,  appears  to  have  then 
assumed  the  title.  Another  claimant,  Joseph 
Leman,  of  North  Cadbury,  Somersetshire,  obtained 
a  verdict  in  his  fsvour  from  an  Edinburgh  jury  on 
Feb.  11, 1843.  Such  conflicting  statements  appear 
in  the  newspapers  of  the  above  dates  about  the 
cases  (one  paper  stating  that  the  Heralds'  College 
officially  recognized  John  Leman  of  Nottingham 
as  the  rightral  next  of  kin  to  the  last  baronet, 
whilst  another  pM>er  flatly  contradicts  this  state- 
ment) that  I  shall  be  glad  for  a  definite  decision 
on  the  matter.  Perhaps,  your  correspondents, 
Mr.  Bain,  Mr.  A.  S.  Elus,  and  Mr.  Sollt,  will 
feel  disposed  to  render  aid  in  the  matter.  The 
subject  has  been  referred  to  in  ^  N.  &  Q.**  1><  S. 
iv.  58,  111,  299;  vii.  160,  234;  4^Q.  iL  392, 
461  ;  iii.  601  ;  iv.  204  ;  vii.  606  ;  6«»  S.  x.  188  ; 
and  ante,  pp.  327,  436.     CHAa  Edwd.  Lxmav, 

6,  Camberwell  New  Bead,  8.E. 

Was  ▲  Kino  bver  Drownxd  9— We  are  told 
that  when  William  Rufus  heard  of  the  capture  of 
Le  Mans  by  Helias  de  la  Fl^e,  he  rushed  off  at 
once  to  Southampton,  got  into  a  crazy  old  ship 
which  he  found  there,  and  insisted  on  crossing  the 
Channel  in  it  at  once,  notwithstanding  a  contrary 
wind  and  rough  sea,  exclaiming,  in  reply  to  the 
remonstrances  of  the  sailors,  *'  I  never  heard  of  a 
king  being  drowned.*!  Is  there  really  no  authentic 
record  of  such  an  event,  and  has  the  sea  always, 
when  taking  a  king's  baggage  (as  in  the  case  of 
John),  spared  the  Icing  mmself?  Mr.  Freeman 
remarks  that  this  doctrine  certainly  seemv  to  be 
contradicted  by  the  popular  interpretation  of  the 
fate  of  the  Pharaoh  of  the  Exodus,  but  comctly 
adds  that  the  Bible  record  nowhero  states  or  even 
implies  that  the  Pharaoh  himself  was  actually 
drowned.  Prot  Bawlinson  goes  further  and  says 
that  ''the  omission  of  any  referonce  to  the  Pharaoh's 
death  is  the  strongest  possible  indication  that  he 
survived.''  WheUier  we  quite  assent  to  this  latter 
view  or  not,  if  we  accept  the  Egyptian  accounts  of 
Mtneptah  II.  (whom  modem  Egyptologists  identify 
with  the  Pharaoh  of  the  Exodus)  we  must  believe 
that  he  died  in  old  age  and  was  buried.  We  may 
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the  Iriah  king  referred  to  by  Mr.  Freeman,  and  I 
■hoold  like  tcr  ask  whether  there  is  really  any 
AUtkentio  aocoont  of  a  king  having  been  drowned. 

W.  T.  Lynn. 
Blsokheaih* 

TURHKR  AND  THB  "  EbSPSAKE.''— Upon  p.   93 

of  the  EUmmti  of  Drawing^  1859,  Mr.  Raskin 
recommends,  among  engrayings  after  Tamer  de- 
sirable for  stndy,  six  from  the  KeepsaJce — Florence, 
Arona,  Marly,  St  Germaln-en-Laye,  Drachenfels, 
Ballyburgh  Ness.  In  what  year  were  the  last 
two  pabBshedl  The  Tamer  engrarings  in  the 
Ke^pidke,  so  far  as  they  have  come  ander  my 
notice,  are : — 

1828.  Florence,  engraTed  by  E.  Goodall. 

1829.  Lake  Albano,  engraved  by  K.  Wallis. 

1829.  Lago  Maggiore  (Arona),  engrared  by  W.  B.  Smith. 
1880.  Yirginia  Water,  engnyed  by  B.  Wallis. 

1880.  Viiiinia  Water,  engraved  by  B.  Wallis. 

1881.  Saamur,  engraved  by  B.  Wallis. 

1881.  Nantes,  engraved  by  J.  T.  WUlmore. 

1882.  Marly,  en^praved  by  W.  Miller. 

1882.  St.  Germain-en-Laye, engraved bvB.  Wallis. 

1888.  Rhrenbreitrtein,  engraved  bv  B.  Wallis. 

1888.  Falls  of  the  Bhine,  engraved  by  J.  B.  Allen. 

1884.  Havre,  engraved  by  B.  Wallis. 

1884.  Palace  of  La  BeAe  Qabrielle,  engraved  by  W. 

Miller. 
1886.  Fire  at  Sea,  engraved  by  J.  T.  Willmore. 
1886.  Tbe  Wreck,  engraved  by  H.  Oriffiths. 

1886.  Destmction  of  both  Houses  of  Parliament  by  Fire, 

engraved  by  J.  T.  Willmore. 

1887.  The  Sea  I  The  Sea  I  engraved  by  J.  T.  Willmore. 
Is  this  list  deficient  in  any  particnlara  ? 

Edward  Banks. 
Wolyerhamptcn* 

Thb  Argo:  Drakb's  SHiP.—The  source  of 
fhe  proverbial  saying  respecting  the  Argo  and 
Drake's  ship  has  been  the  subject  of  inquiry  (cf. 
«N.  &  Q.,"  6«>»  S.  ii.  117).  I  have  met  with  the 
two  following  references  to  another  ship  with  a 
similar  historic  character,  but  I  have  not  been 
able  to  hit  upon  any  reference  to  the  ships  in 
question.    Plutarch  says  of  the  ship  of  Theseus  :— 

''The  vessel  in  which  Theseus  sailed  and  returned 
safe,  with  these  young  men,  went  with  thirty  oars.  It 
was  preserved  by  the  Athenians  to  the  times  of  Deme« 
trios  Phalerens:  being  so  pieced  and  new  framed  witli 
strong  planks,  that  it  afforded  an  example  to  the  philo- 
sophers, in  their  disputations  concerning  the  identity  of 
things  which  are  changed  by  growth  ;  some  contending 
that  it  was  the  same  and  othera  that  it  was  not."~The 
Ltnghomes*  translation,  roL  L  p.  28  (London,  1819.) 
Tt»  translators  also  observe  as  to  the  time  of  the 
preservation : — 

**That  is,  near  1,000  years;  for  Theseus  returned 
firom  Crete  c.  a.o.  1285,  and  Oallimachus,  who  was 
contemporary  with  Demetrius,  and  who  tells  us  the 
Athenians  continued  to  send  this  ship  to  Delos  in  his 
time,  flourished  c.  a.o.  280." 

B.  Barclay,  in  his  Apology  for  i\t  QuaJfcer*,  refers 
in  a  similar  manner  to  the  ship  of  Theseus  {Apol.^ 
proposition  x.,  sect.  xrviL  p.  326, 1701).    Possibly 


there  may  have  been  h  confusion  in  the  oomnum 
use  of  the  saying  between  the  Aigo  and  this  ship. 
If  not,  what  aathority  is  there  for  the  application 
of  the  phrase  to  the  Argot        Ed.  Mabshall. 

Mxtbr=Ma8TSR.— Radolph,  son  of  Sir  Peter 
Meyer,  Ent,  b.  1705,  d.  1752,  married  Elizabeth 
(she  died  November,  1750),  sister  to  Edwaid 
Master,  and  annt  to  Elizabeth  Johnson  and 
Sarah  Sophia  Tuck,  to  whom  Rudolph  left 
levies.  Her  arms  were  a  lion  rampant  gardant^ 
tail  forked,  holding  between  his  paws  a  rose, 
stalked  and  leaved.  I  have  failed  to  tnUDe  her 
among  the  Master  fomily  of  Cirencester.  There- 
fore can  any  one  tell  me  who  she  was,  and  where 
she  was  mairied)  F.  K.  B. 

NoviOMAQiANS. — ^^  The  Noviomagians  intend  to 
give  an  annual  dinner  "  6nde  JKAenceum,  No.  2836, 
p.  284).  I  find  that  tnere  are  sevend  places  in 
Europe  which  were  once  called  Novioma^^  May 
I  ask  fifom  which  of  them  do  these  intending 
diners  hail  ?  A.  L.  Mathkw. 

[The  KoTiomagians  are  a  dub  oonnstinffof  FeUows  of 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries  exclusively.  They  dine  to- 
gether once  a  month,  from  December  to  April,  and  they 
are  supposed  to  be  in  search  of  the  site  of  the  aooient 
city  of  NoTiomagus,  the  Noiomagos,  we  bdieve,  of 
Ptolemy.  Some  say  that  the  site  sought  after  is  that  «f 
the  Noyiomago  of  the  Ancient  Itinerary,  which  city  was 
in  Kent,  if  it  was  not  in  Sussex.  Others  say  that  tho 
club  is  seeking  for  Noviomagno  CiTitas,  which  was  hi 
Surrey.  .  The  Kentish  site  seems  to  he  the  favourite  of 
the  NoviomagisBS,  who  continue  to  dine  without  ceasing 
to  doubt] 

The  Couktbss  op  Ossort.— Where  can  I  find 
some  particulars  of  the  life  and  character  of  the 
Countess  of  Ossory,  of  whom  I  have  a  portrait, 
said  to  be  by  Lely  ?  I  believe  that  she  was  of 
Dutch  extraction,  but  I  am  anxious  for  a  foil 
account  of  her.  L  W.  Hardmak,  LLD. 

[This  is  clearly  Amelia,  daughter  of  Heniy  de  Nassau, 
Lord  of  Auyerkerk,  and  wife  of  Thomas,  the  gallant 
Earl  of  Ossory,  to  whom  she  was  married  in  1659.  He 
died,  eit  pot,  in  1680.] 

"  Bebort.'^  —  Can  any  instances  be  addaoed 
from  Elizabethan  writers  or  others  of  the  use  of 
the  word  rewri^  which  would  throw  light  on  the 
following  passages  t — 

"But  such  being  the  workmanship  of  God  as  he  doth 
hang  the  f^reatest  weight  upon  tbe  smallest  wires, 
majnma  mtanait  ^M^pmitM,  it  comes  therefore  to  pass 
that  such  histories  do  rather  set  forth  the  pomp  of 
businesB  than  the  true  and  inward  rumU  thereof." — 
Bacon,  Ad^Mnetmeni  of  Learning,  ii.  5. 

**  Some  there  are  that  know  the  mofU  and  falls  of 
badness,  that  cannot  sink  into  the  main  of  it :  like  a 
house  that  hath  conyenient  stairs  and  entries^  but  never 
a  fair  room."— Bacon,  Bttay  on  Cwaning, 
"  Whose  [Fortune's]  dark  retorts  since  prudence  Oannot 
know. 

In  vain  it  would  proyide  fpr  what  shall  be.** 

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In  the  passage  in  the  Advancement  it  seems  to 
have  the  meaning  of  the  French  reuort^  a  spring, 
like  a  watch  spring.  In  the  Euay/m  Cunning 
it  seems  to  mean  a  spring  of  water,  soaroe,  origin. 

A.  J.  DX  H.  B. 

Agnosticism. — ^What  is  the  earliest  use,  and 
appearance  in  English  dictionaries,  of  the  word 
**  agnosticism "  ?  Agnosticism  itself  was  thus 
noticed  and  condemned  by  St.  Chrysostom  :  "  Lest 
we  should  saj  then,  as  many  often  do, '  No  man 
knoweth  anything,'  what  has  just  been  said  may 
suffice  to  remoTe  all  perplexity  on  this  point" 
iHom.  <m  the  Staiues,  I  26,  Ox.  Tr.,  p.  24). 

Ed.  Marshall. 

[Dr.  Murraj,  in  bis  collections  for  the  Philologioal 
Society's  Dietionary;  hM  a  quotation  aa  early  as  1877.] 

Jasov  Coxb,  Long  Acrk,  a  Clockmakbr. — 
An  old  clock  bearing  the  above  maker's  name  has 
been  in  the  possession  of  my  fiimily  for  some 
generations.  Will  some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q.**  giye 
tne  any  particulars  about  him,  as  to  when  he 
iived,  &C.  ?    The  dock  is  about  six  feet  high. 

Cross  Flsurt. 

Princb  Paul  Estbrhazt.— Where  can  I  find 
biographical  accounts  of  this  prince?  Is  there 
any  engrayed  portrait  of  him  7 

Edward  J.  Tatlor. 

Biflhopwearmoath. 

[For  aoeoants,  see  Btoff,  Univ.,  and  Boaillet,  Diet 
^MiML  fi  Oeog.,  and  Larouase,  Or,  JHeL  Uni»,2 

** ¥KATBXSQB*'—Frayhuggedf  as  a  verb^  occurs 
in  Bale,  but  the  noun  has  not,  I  think,  found  its 
way  into  dictionaries.  I  find  it  in  Richard 
Brocklesby's  An  ExplicaHon  of  (he  Gospel  Theism, 
Ac,  1706,  p.  122:— 

**  As  the  Apostle  representeth  the  Athenians  Stataes 
4M  no  better  than  graven  Gold,  Silyer,  or  Stone :  So  the 
Scripture  nBoally  repreientetb  the  Heatheni  ctpdafutra, 
(Objects  of  Beliglous  Worship)  as  tentUu  [nc]  Idols, 
duU  can  neithir  Se€t  Speak,  nor  Hear;  vain  Fray-bugs, 
that  hold  in  their  bands  a  Scepter,  a  Dagger,  or  an  Az, 
bttt  can  do  no  execution  {wherry  tkey  are  tnown  not  Uo 
«0(7<N2t,  Banieh6.16.r 

The  meaning  is  obyious.  To  fray  is  to  scare, 
and  hug  is  a  bogie.  I  should  be  glad  if  any  kind 
<!OTrespondent  would  tell  me  anything  about 
Bichard  Brocklesby.  y.H.LL.Lai.y. 

Wilson's  Yorkshirb  Gollbctions.— Can  you 
tell  me  tbe  present  whereabouts  of  the  collection 
of  Yorkshire  deeds,  &c.,  made  by  the  Ute  Mr. 
Wilson,  of  Broomhead?  Can  permission  be 
obtained  to  inspect  them,  and,  if  so,  how  ? 

St.  Fblix. 

A  privilbged  Hostblrt.— I  haye  heard  there 
is  a  hostelry  in  Westminster  which  enjoys  certain 
priyileges  and  the  right  to  supply  customers  with 
wines,  &&,  granted  by  Charles  II.  on  condition  a 
piece  of  bread  is  first  ofiSsred  to  each  penon  de- 


siring to  be  supplied  with  anything.    Failing  to 
do  this,  all  priyileges,  including  the  right  to  sell 
anything,  are  forfeited.    Is  thui  true,  and,  if  so, 
where  is  the  hosteby  situated  ?       R.  C.  Hofb. 
Scarboroogh. 

"Franion." — This  word  occurs  in  Spenser's 
Faerie  Queme,  II.  iL  37,  V.  iiu  22.  For  other 
instances  of  its  occurrence  see  Nares,  Bichardson, 
and  HalliwelL  It  seems  to  be  a  late  word  in  Eng- 
lish literature.  Query  etymology!  The  deriyation 
mentioned  by  Nares,  namely,  fainiant,  which  is 
also  suggested  in  Webster-Mahn,  is  suitable  in 
regard  to  sense — see  the  numerous  English  render- 
ings of  faindcmt  in  Cotgraye — but  more  eyidenoe 
is  required  before  one  can  be  thoroughly  satisfied 
that  the  English  and  French  words  are  related. 

A.  L.  Mathew. 

Oxford. 

BoHBHiAir  ARCHiBOLOOT. — ^Thore  is,  I  belieye, 
an  archffiological  magazine  published  at  Prague. 
Can  any  of  your  reatiers  giye  me  its  correct  title, 
and  say  what  its  scientific  yalue  is  ) 

W.  S.  Lach-Sztrma. 

Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted. — 
"  Blessed  is  he  who,  haying  nothing  to  say,  makss  no 
long  and  wordy  demonstration  of  the  fact." 

EdWAIU)  H.  MABHHAIiIi. 


HrylUtf. 

JOHN  GILPIN. 
(6M»  S.  ir.  266, 394, 418 ;  6«»  S.  L  377, 417 ;  iL  177.) 
I  haye  long  wished  to  thank  Mr.  Frbxloyb  for 
his  information  as  to  John  Gilpin's  house  at  Croy- 
don ;  and  also  Mr.  Eyan  Thomas  for  his  answer 
to  my  query  as  to  who  was  Qrim,  the  Collier  of 
Croydon  (fi^  S.  il  234).  They  haye  helped  to 
proye  the  identity  of  a  spot  now  little  distin- 
guished in  appearance  though  so  interesting  for 
its  associations  with  the  notabilities  of  the  past 
Tet  in  these  days  of  change  it  was  not  easy  to 
find,  when  my  sister,  who  was  paying  a  yisit  at 
Croydon,  agreed,  at  my  request^  to  yisit  the  house, 
and,  if  possible,  get  me  a  copy  of  the  little  book  on 
Collier's  Water.  Driying  with  her  hostess  to  the 
principal  booksellers',  the^  found  that  the  tradition 
of  the  house  and  the  existence  of  the  book  were 
well  known,  though  neither  oould  be  pointed  out 
One  bookseller,  indeed,  had  a  copy  of  the  book, 
but  not  for  sale;  and  another  hoped  to  be  able  to 
borrow  one  in  the  town.  The  name  of  John 
GUpin  was  not  to  be  seen  on  any  house ;  but  it 
was  known  that  Mr.  Bennington  had  been  the 
owner  of  his  old  property.  Cab-driyers  did  not 
recognize  the  names  giyen,  and  driyes  were  taken 
in  mistake.  The  house  in  which  Mrs.  Benning- 
ton had  liyed  was  yisited,  and  this  ended  the 
first  day's  seaioh.  Next  day,  feeling  that  tibo 
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result  web  doubifdl,  my  aiBier  started  alone,  and, 
after  yarions  failaresfrom  change  of  names,  found, 
close  to  Thornton  Heath  station,  a  small  old  hoose 
surrounded  by  railway  erections  and  public- 
houses  ;  on  the  cast-iron  gate  were  the  letters 
"J.  B.*'  The  tenant,  on  inquiry,  was  very  oblig- 
ing, and  said  this  was  certunly  the  house  called 
Collier's  Water,  once  the  property  of  John 
Gilpin.  But  there  was  not  that  name,  or  any 
other  name  or  record,  in  or  about  the  house, 
excepting  the  initials  of  the  kte  proprietor,  Mr. 
Bennington,  whose  heirs  liyed  in  London. 

By  the  aid  of  the  London  Directory  and  the 
kin<hiess  of  yarious  friends  of  unknown  friends,  a 
copy  of  the  book  was  kindly  sent  me,  without 
other  restrictions  than  that  it  was  to  be  returned 
if  the  owner  should  be  unable  to  procure  another 
to  keep ;  and  this  has  been  done,  after  making 
extracts  as  I  chose.  It  had  been  printed  for 
prirate  circulation,  and  is  valued  as  an  heirloom. 
There  is  no  name  of  author  or  printer,  and  the 
date  is  indicated  only  by  the  opening.  It  is 
evidently  the  work  of  one  who  debghted  in  look- 
ing to  Uie  past,  and  who  wished  to  preserve  the 
associations  of  the  old  spot,  which  reach  back  to 
the  dramatic  literature  of  Elizabeth's  day,  and 
the  old  English  flora,  as  is  shown  by  the  plant- 
names  of  the  E.  D.  S.  The  emblems  are  of  the 
rtteam-engine,  and  the  title,  OoUier^t  Water,  Croy- 
don:— 


'*  In  the  openiog  oat  of  a  new  line  from  the  West-end 
from  Victona  Station  to  Balham  Hill,  the  direct  branch 
to  Norwood,  thence  on  to  the  tnmk  line,  Brighton,  we 
think  it  will  be  interesting  to  the  pttblic  to  be  informed 
of  the  remtniscenoes  of  the  locality,  forming  as  they  did, 
in  the  early  history  of  Croydon,  important  cTents  con- 
nected with  the  great  metropolis. 

<'  We  must  all  be  aware  of  the  comfort  deriTod,  and  the 
indispensable  necessity  of  coal  in  producing  our  great 
manufacturing  and  engineering  wealth,  and  also  that 
coal  has  not  been  developed  for  our  use  more  than  two 
centuries,  and  that  before  that  onr  ancestors  used  to 
bum  wooa  in  their  fire-places;  but  in  preparing  the  more 
Inxnrions  dainties  of  the  table  they  required  a  more 
intense  heat  to  prepare  their  gourmand  dishes.  Now 
the  City  of  London  and  their  Guilds  of  Trades  were 
foremost  in  these  grand  banquets,  and  they  needed 
charcoal,  and  consequently  charcoal-burners,  to  produce 
this  important  auxiliary  to  aid  in  the  preparation  6f 
their  feasts.  The  men  so  employed  were  called  colliers, 
the  same  name  that  has  descended  to  their  fellows  and 
tJl  employed  in  coal  mines  in  procuring  our  grand  motive 
power— fuel. 

"  But  to  onr  record.  It  is  most  probable  that  London 
required  charcoal  long  before  anv  of  our  provincial 
cities  and  towns,  for  we  find  from  the  early  writers  that 
after  the  Guilds  of  Trades  which  flourished  in  Venice, 
Holland,  and  Belgium,  &c,  London  became  the  greatest 
city  for  the  establishment  of  Guilds  or  Companies. 

*'We  will  now  transport  ourseWes  to  the  time  of 
Elisabeth's  youthful  brother.  Edward  the  Sixth,  and  to 
the  locality  of  Crovdon  and  Collier's  Water.  There 
lived  then  at  the  old  farm-house  which  still  bears  the 
name,  a  noted  collier,  one  Master  Grimes,  whose  range 
of  the  Beulah  Hills  afforded  ample  timber  for  his  trade 


of  collier,  and  the  water  in  his  stream  for  damping  out 
the  charcoal  kiln.  And  there  dwelt  at  the  arebiepiseopal 
palace  of  Croydon  the  great  Archbishop  Grindall,  the 
predecessor  of  good  Archbishop  Whitgift,  who  waa  the 
founder  of  the  Hospital  of  Holy  Trinity  for  poor  brother; 
and  gators,  sitnato  in  the  High  Street  of  that  town,  and 
who  entertained  Queen  EUsabeth  at  his  palace." 

Then  follows  a  fancy  sketch  of  the  life  which 
made  Mastor  Qrimes  famoos  in  his  rasistanoe  t& 
the  aathority  of 

«  The  Archbishop,  who,  seated  in  palatial  sUte  in  his 
library  at  Croydon,  perceiTed  an  unusual  smoke«  and 
rose  in  haste  from  his  chair,  stamped  his  foot,  his  cham- 
berlun  being  at  his  appointed  duties  in  the  adjoining 
room.  '  Say,  good  Master  Chamberlain,  whence  tina 
smother  1  Is  the  good  town  of  Croydon  in  a  blase?' 
*No,  no,  your  grace,  it  comes  from  the  Beulah  Bottoms, 
from  the  colliers,  and  I  hare  no  doubt  but  Maator 
Grimes  is  preparing  for  my  Lord  Mayor's  dayandtbe 
great  City  feasts.'  '  Lord  Mayor's  feast,  indeed  I  sidd  hia 
grace  of  CanUrbury.  '  Go  tell  those  dirty  colliers,  who 
make  the  roads  on  maket  days  so  black,  not  to  funk  me 
out  of  my  palace  at  Croydon.  Tell  those  black  colhen 
that  if  they  do  not  carry  on  their  trade  in  a  proper 
manner  I  wiU  bring  them  before  the  Court  of  Jnstice, 
and  make  them  discontinue  their  black  calling.' " 

Then  follow  some  lirely  sketehes  of  that  time, 
when  the  primato's  denondations  and  hanghty  pro- 
hibition  of  the  smoke  were  resisted  by  the  stordy 
collier's  defence  of  his  trade— of  the  neoenity  of 
smoke  in  damping  oat  his  kiln,  and  of  the  impoa- 
sibility  of  directing  the  smoke.  Next  comes  a  pio- 
toresqne  account  of  the  archbishop's  sendin|r  hi» 
chamberlain  and  secretary,  with  two  other  digni- 
taries of  his  household,  attended  by  four  grooms  on 
horseback,  who  arrived  at  OoUier^s  Water  just  a» 
Master  Grimes  was  starting  with  his  force  of  two^ 
tumbrils  and  four  pack-horses  laden  with  charcoal 
for  the  City  feasts.     They  were  to  oouYey  the 
archbishop's  mandate  that  Master  Grimes  should 
immediately  put  out  his  coal-kiln,  by  the  smoke 
of  which  he  had  nearly  suffocated  his  grace  in  his 
palace  gardens  at  Oroydon;  that  he  should  present 
himself  to  answer  for  the  same  offence  not  being 
committed  again,  or  he  would  be  cited  to  appear 
before  the  Oourt  of  Justice,  as  his  cbaneellor 
should  deem  fitting,  &o.    Then  the  eolUer  has  bis 
say — charactoristiaJly.  He  has  done  no  wrong,  and 
believes  he  has  many  friends  who  will  see  justice 
done  him.    He  was  known  to  be  rich,  and  wan  a 
good  fellow,  so  the  City  companies  befriended  him  ; 
they  thonght  the  archbishop's  conduct  arbitrary, 
and  that  it  might  interfere  with  thor  getting  coal 
So  the  jury  acquitted  defendant  of  having  caused 


any  let  or  injury  to  any  citizen  in  the  carrying 
on  his  trade.  In  the  course  of  the  narrative  is 
given  the  song  "The  Collier  of  Croydon," then 
popular  (1660),  as  being  sung  by  the  men  on 
horseback—in  which  coUtir  is  spelt  in  four  various 
ways,  three  times  with  y. 

**  At  that  time  onr  great  bard  Shakespeare  was  in  his 
favourite  days  and  was  sought  by  some  of  the  good  dtieens, 
and  a  pUy  wss  written  and  enacted  in  the  then  piimMiira 


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itate  of  the  drama,  called  Tin  Sauey  CoUier  of  Croydon 
and  ik4  Devil,  &c, 

**  In  conelusion  we  may  add  the  remarks  of  Patrick 
Hannay,— 

'  Oh,  the  ruBtici  of  Roydon, 
Oh,  the  Jolly  Colliers  of  Croydon/  ko. 

And  from  a  Tolome  of  poems  published  by  him  in  1622, 
'  In  midst  of  these  stands  Croydon  oloathed  in  blacke. 
In  a  low  bottom  sinke  of  all  these  hills ; 
And  those  who  there  inhabit  suting  well 
With  snch  a  place  do  either  nigros  seeme. 
Or  harbingers  for  Pluto,  prince  of  hell : 
Or  his  fire  beaters  one  might  rightly  deeme, 
Their  sight  would  make  a  soule  of  hell  to  dreame. 
Besmeared  with  sut  and  breathing  pitchie  smoake. 
Which  (save  themseWes)  n  living  wight  would  choake.' 
Therefore  it   would   appear  that  the  Collier's  trade 
flourished,  or  the   Charcoal-burner's,  until  Coal,  Coal, 
blessed  Coal,  rendered  Charcoal  obsolete.    The  narrative 
is  written  in  the  language  of  the  time,  to  give  it  greater 
force  or  raciness,  and  to  strike  the  circumstances  more 
on  the  memory. 

"  The  same  old  farmhouse  is  still  standing  in  which 
the  sturdy  CoUier  lived,  just  at  th»  station  now  made  at 
Collier's  Water  Lane ;  it  is  in  possession  of  Mr.  Benning- 
ton, to  whose  family  it  has  belonged  for  many  years." 

The  bean^  of  the  oonniry  and  the  charmiDg 
walk  from  Norwood  station  oyer  the  Bealah  HiUa, 
onoe  the  gathering  gronnd  of  the  oollier's  trade,  are- 
dwelt  on.  At  p.  12  it  is  said :  '*  After  this  time 
the  old  fkrmhonse  of  Golliet^s  Water  was  in  the 
possession  of  the  renowned  John  Qilpin  and  his 
ITood  dame,  whose  journey  to  Edmonton  the  poet 
Cowper  has  immortalized  in  verse."  Then  foUow 
two  payees  which  have  already  appeared  in 
""N.  &  Q.,''  in  which  the  descent  of  John  Gilpin 
from  an  old  Westmoreland  family  is  given,  with 
much  confasion  of  dates  and  persons,  probably 
owing  to  Bbhop  Oarleton's  mistakes  in  his  Life  of 
Birrwrd  OUpin.  Yet  these  were  oorreoted  in 
Nioolson  and  Barn's  EUtory  of  Westmoreland, 
1777,  as  well  as  in  the  Bey.  Wm.  Gilpin's  Life  of 
the  Beformiri.  And  for  forty  pages  more  the 
book  is  devoted  to  Bernard  Gilpin,  as  if  he  were 
the  only  member  of  the  family  to  add  to  the 
interest  of  the  spot,  which  the  anthor  wishes  to 
enhance.  He  says :  '*  What  we  admire  in  these 
old  fathers  is  their  Anglo-Saxon  plaok,  and  it  is 
the  grandeor  of  this  nation,  as  is  seen  in  the  sturdy 
old  Oollier  Grimes,  in  the  Apostle  of  Peace, 
Bernard  Gilpin,  and  in  John  Gilpin,  citizen  of 
London."  And  how  canons  it  is  that  for  many 
Tears  after  the  property  and  deeds  passed  into 
Mr.  Bennin^n's  fiunij^  the  Bey.  Wilham  Giljun, 
author  of  Picturesque  aeenery,  &c.,  was  at  Cheam 
in  the  next  parish,  and  was  succeeded  for  thirty 
yean  more  m  his  school  there  by  his  son  of  the 
same  name  before  he  became  vicar  of  Pulverbach. 
How  much  of  sterling  English  worth  which  had 
never  come  down  to  the  writer  might  have  been 
added,  as  well  as  of  fsme  of  varied  talent,  to  which 
he  seems  so  sensitive,  in  gathering  this  wreath  for 


his  old  house,  if  he  had  inquired  later  !^  He  gives 
in  fuU  the  ballad  of  "  John  Gilpin."  Whether  hie 
lan^age  is  precisely  that  of  the  time,  or  the  okl 
pby  was  written  by  Shakespeare,  may  be  open 
to  doubt  (Hazlitt's  Old  Plays,  Dodsley's  Oollee- 
tion,  vol.  viii.  p.  385,  published  by  Beeves  & 
Turner,  1874).  It  seems  almost  condnsive  that 
his  knowledge  of  the  Gilpin  family  had  been 
derived  from  the  tradition  of  him  of  Collier's 
Water,  possibly  before  the  era  of  the  last,  for 
there  is  an  earher  deed  of  1648  which  redtes  how 
^  John  Gilpin  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  one  of  the 
daughters  and  co-heirs  of  Elizabeth  Jadcson,  widow 
of  Bobert  Jackson,  were  in  joint  possession  of  the 
property,  which  seems  to  have  been  finally  sold  to 
Mr.  BenniDgton  by  the  heirs  of  a  later  Gilpin  of 
Sonthwark  in  1781.'  And  though  this  does  not 
certainly  point  to  the  individual  or  the  date  of  the 
adventure,  it  does  seem,  like  all  I  have  otherwise 
found,  that  the  name  and  fame  of  John  Gilpin  are 
far  older  than  Gowper's  day^  and  that  the  poet  and 
lus  friends  all  knew  that  it  was  so,  and  did  not 
need  to  choose  a  new  name  when  the  story  was 
put  into  verse. 

A  topog^phical  work  on  Oroydon,  of  which  th» 
title-page  is  gone,  date  1817,  shows  that  Thornton 
Heath  was  the  name  of  a  tract  of  land  on  which 
there  were  sixty-dght  copyhold  tenements  before 
the  enclosure  of  the  wastes  in  1797  bv  the  Grown,, 
when  these  copyholds,  of  which  Collier's  Water 
was  doubtless  one,  were  made  freeholds.  I  have 
no  reason  to  thiok  that  any  Gilpin  resided  there. 
The  style  of  the  house  points  rather  to  it  as  an 
investment  to  be  let  as  a  farm,  and  visited,  perhaps, 
by  a  wealthy  citizen,  after  its  original  use  waa 
over.  {"  Tbie  trade  of  the  town  being  chiefly  in 
oatmeal  and  oharcoaL") 

In  the  list  of  monnmenU  in  the  church  and 
churchyard  the  name  Gilpin  is  not  onoe  seen, 
though  that  of  Bobert  Jackson,  yeoman,  probably 
the  first  John  Gilpin's  father-in-law,  appears  in 
16S2,  and  is  seen  no  more.  But  I  find  the  name 
of  John  Unwin,  Esq.,  who  died  1787,  aged  seventy* 
five,  and  others  of  his  family.  This  was  the 
brother  at  whose  house  Mrs.  Unwin  said  she  had 
met  the  Bev.  William  Gilpin.  The  poems  and 
messages  were  frequent  through  her  son  in  Cow- 
per's  correspondence.  Mr.  Unwin  was  in  the  law, 
and  doubtless  acquainted  with  the  traditions  of 
the  place ;  and  a  Mrs.  Unwin's  name  is  among  the- 
small  number  of  subscribers  to  the  book,  1817. 
So  there  seems  every  reason  to  believe  the  stone 
in  St.  Mvgaret*B  Churchyard,  which  has  been 


*  See  Mmnoirt  of  Dr,  Richard  OUpin,  of  Seal^^ 
Cattle,  Cumberland,  and  of  his .  Posterity  in  tks  lifo> 
sueeetding  QenmUiont,  Writtea  in  1791.  With  an 
Antobiograpby  of  the  Author.  Bev.  William  Gilpin, 
Vicsr  of  Boldre.  Edited  by  William  Jackion,  F.S.  A., 
for  the  CumberlMid  and  Weetmorland  Arcbeeologieal 
Society.    With  a  pedigree  of  the  Gilpin  family. 


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[e*8.y.Jinri24, '8S. 


vpoken  o(  is  that  of  the  trae  hero  of  the  hallad. 
!nie  dates  of  poflseiiion  hj  two  Qilpioe,  or  their 
daachtera  as  joint  tenants  and  co-heirs,  ar#  most 
kindly  quoted  from  the  title-deeds  of  the  pro- 
prietors, in  addition  to  other  information. 

M.P. 
Cnmberland. 

Parochial  Beoistbrs  (6^  S.  t.  141,  211,  233, 
248,  273,  291,  310,  329,  409,  435,  449).— I  vish 
to  add  my  yoice  to  many  others  in  fayoor  of 
allowing  parish  registers  to  remain  where  they 
.are.  XJse  all  means  for  their  careful  presenration 
in  their  present  places  of  deposit,  and  as  a  security 
against  loss  or  damage  take  all  proper  steps  for 
•duplicates  to  he  made.  But  the  remoyal  of  the 
Ancient  registers  to  London  would  be  a  serious 
blow  to  ardueological  research  in  country  parishes. 
I  have  printed  the  inscriptions  on  the  church  hells 
in  four  counties,  and  am  now  engaged  on  two 
more,  and  I  have  no  hesitation  in  saying  that  if 
many  of  the  notes  appended  to  the  inscriptions 
«re  of  any  ralue  it  is  very  much  derived  from  the 
information  readily  given  me  by  the  parochial 
dergy  from  the  registers  and  other  documents 
under  their  care.  Wishing  to  trace  the  descent  of 
«  country  bell-foundry  for  upwards  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  yean.  I  inquired,  a  few  davs  ago, 
through  a  friena,  whether  it  was  likely  that  the 
rector  of  the  parish  in  which  the  foundry  was 
formerly  situated  would  assist  me.  Instead  of 
answering  my  letter  he  sent  it  on  to  the  clergyman 
himself,  who,  in  a  note  just  received  by  me  from 
him,  says,  "  If  there  is  any  further  point  in  which 
I  can  be  useful  to  vou,  please  write  to  me  without 

liesitation I  will  ghidly  send  yon  extracts  from 

the  registers  if  I  hear  from  you  that  you  wish  for 
further  information."  This  is  by  no  means  a 
fiolitary  instance  of  courteous  help  I  have  re- 
ceived from  clergymen  to  whom  I  am  an  entire 
stranger  ;  I  could  mention  a  vast  number.  Will 
provinciid  antiquaries  (unless  they  are  rich  ones) 
oe  so  well  served  by  Government  officials  in 
London)  Thoicas  North,  F.S.A. 

Llanfairfechsn« 

I  have  examined  one  very  limited  register, 
covering  three  centuries,  with  about  thirty  entries, 
«nd  all  relating  to  the  manorial  owner's  family.  I 
became  satisfied  that  it  had  been,  like  others,  very 
imperfectly  kept.  I  do  not  think  such  registers 
present  the  interest  imagined,  so  many  events 
taking  place  in  town  during  the  seiVM)n.  I  have 
found  incumbents  very  courteous  and  obliging, 
the  clerks  frequently  exacting  and  dictatorial  as 
to  time,  place,  and  opportunity.  My  searches, 
however,  have  beeen  tedious  and  protracted. 
Personally  I  do  not  advocate  the  removal  or 
centralization  of  these  documents,  but  do  most 
earnestly  recommend  that  all  suoh  transactions 


should   be  treated  as  merely  civil,  not    quaa- 
religious,  matters.  A.  H. 

Has  anybody  ever  said  yet  why  parish  registen 
should  not  be  photographed,  and  m  that  manner 
copies  preserved  or  multiplied  1  In  these  days  of 
progress  surely  this  might  be  done  and  undoubted 
perfect  copies  obtained.  I  have  by  me  the  whole 
of  a  numoer  of  J'un,  plates  and  all,  and  a  copy 
of  the  Timet  thus  photographed,  and  afterwaids 
printed  in  ink  by  a  well-known  process,  and  every 
word  is  readable  even  with  a  good  naked  eye,  and 
perfectly  so  with  a  glass.  Here,  then,  it  appesis 
to  me,  is  a  means  of  getting  over  all  difficull^,  and 
also  of  storing  the  registers  copied  in  a  small  space, 
besides  the  advantage  of  beix^  able  to  mnltifdy 
copies.  The  indexing  of  registers  is,  however, 
quite  as  important  a  matter ;  but  when  this  has 
been  done,  this  work,  too,  oould  be  similarly 
treated,  and  thus  be  made  easily  accessible. 

R  W.  Hackwood. 

I  cuU  the  following  from  the  one-hundred-and- 
fiftieth  catalogue  of  Mr.  James  Coleman,  of 
9,  Tottenham  Terrace,  Tottenham.  Have  we 
here  an  example  of  the  fate  which  has  befaOen, 
some  of  the  transcripts  which  are  supposed  to  be' 
housed  in  episcopal  registries?  The  county  of 
Dorset  was  at  this  time  in  the  diocese  of  Bristol : — 

"No.  176.  Marriagw,  Births,  and  Bariala— Tran- 
scripts of  all  the  Mglster  Books  for  one  jear,  vie, 
1787-8,  of  the  important  town  and  parish  of  Wimboma 
Minster  in  the  coonty  of  Dorset,  nioeW  written  on  one 
skin  of  parchment,  ngned  by  the  lunister,  William 
Russell,  and  both  the  churchwardens.  10s.  6d.  Here 
we  find  the  Important  names  of  (buried)  Thomas,  sotn 
of  Thomas  Fitoh,  Bsq.,26  Aug.,  1737 ;  James  Cemocken 
and  Mary  Chafiy,  married  19  Dec.,  1787;  Mwy, 
daughter  of  William  Frampton,  baptised  1  Sept,  1737 ; 
together  154  certified  registers.  I  have  some  more 
yearly  transcripts  of  this  and  surrounding  parishes  at 
same  price  for  sale.'* 

Can  it  be  possible  that  the  authorities  at  Bristol 
at  any  time  sold  these  valuable  transcriptB  as 
waste  parchment  ?  G.  H.  MATa 

In  the  present  discussion  I  hardly  think  that 
the  distinction  has  been  sufficienUy  attended  to 
between  the  preservation  of  the  documents  them- 
selves and  that  of  the  information  they  contain. 
This  latter  is  clearly  of  the  greater  importance. 
Will  it  be  better  sought  by  their  removal  to 
London  or  by  having  them  copied?  It  is  con- 
fessed that  natural  decay  is  doiug  its  work,  and  all 
the  care  imaginable  cannot  preserve  many  of  them 
from  ultimate  loss,  and  that  '*  an  eariy  transcript 
of  them  is  imperative  to  preserve  their  contents.'^ 
Surely  our  first  care  should  \>e  to  have  them 
copied. 

These  copies  might  be  kept  either  in  the  Record 
Office  or  at  Somerset  House,  the  originals  being 
left  where  they  are.  To  remove  these  latter  to 
London  would  be,  as  it  has  been  very  properl j 


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ttigued,  an  act  of  consfication.  And  cut  bono? 
Axe  the  interests  of  London  genealogiBts  to  be  pre- 
ferred to  those  of  local  ones  ?  And  is  antiqoarianism 
to  suffer  (for  I  feel  sure  it  would  saffer)  for  their 
sake  f  Why  not  form,  as  I  see  with  pleasure  it  is 
proposed  to  do  for  Yorkshire,  county  register 
flocieties,  or  rather  register  and  record  societies  ? — 
for  Mr.  G1BB8  has  well  pointed  out  that  church- 
wardeus'  and  overseers^  account  books  contain 
matter  of  the  greatest  yalue,  and  ought  equally  to 
be  cared  for  with  the  registers.  For  my  own  part, 
I  do  not  see  why  such  societies  should  not,  under 

? roper  regulations,  be  subsidized  by  the  Treasuiy. 
'his  would  ensure  uniformity  of  plan,  and  a  pub- 
lication, as  in  the  case  of  the  '*  Chronicles  and 
Memonals''  issued  under  the  direction  of  the 
Master  of  the  Rolls, ''  without  mutilation  or  abridg- 
ment Would  not  this  be  productive  of  much 
more  good  than  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill  ?  And  would 
it  not  senre  to  kindle  a  large  amount  of  enthu- 
siasm in  antiquarian  researches  ? 

J.  H.  STANirnffa. 
Leigh  Yicange,  Lancashire. 

St.  McLoo's  Stonb  (6^  S.  y.  446).  ^  The 
question  is  asked,  Who  was  St.  McLoo  ?  With- 
out yentnring  on  a  positive  answer,  I  would  suggest 
that  St.  Malo  may  be  meant.  The  learned  Bene- 
dictine, Dom  Gui-Alexis  Lobineau,  in  his  Fms  du 
Saints  de  Bretagtu^  sm  of  this  saint  that  his  name 
▼aries  no  less  in  the  Iiatin,  in  which  he  is  called 
Macloyins,  Macliayus,  Macutus,  and  Machutes, 
than  in  the  French,  in  which  he  is  named  Malo, 
Madou,  Macou,  and  Macut.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  the  son  of  a  lord  or  prince  of  that  part  of 
South  Wales  now  known  as  Monmouthshire,  to 
liaye  been  educated  by  St.  Brandan,  at  that  time 
abbot  of  Lancaryan,  and  to  have  accompanied  him 
in  his  famous  voyage  in  search  of  the  Fortunate 
Islands  in  the  Western  Ocean  ;  to  have  been  con- 
secrated, against  his  will.  Bishop  of  Gaer-gwent, 
now  Chepstow;  to  have  left  the  country,  under 
Divine  guidance,  in  search  of  a  place  where  he  might 
lead  a  lEfe  of  greater  austerity,  and  devote  himself 
entirely  to  m^itation  and  prayer  ;  to  have  arrived 
at  the  rock  in  Brittany  on  which  the  town  which 
bears  his  name  was  afterwards  built,  where  he  was 
hospitably  received  hj  a  holy  hermit  of  the  name 
of  Aaron  ;  that  in  this  voyage  he  was  accompanied 
by  St.  Brandan,  who,  after  a  time,  left  him  and 
returned  to  a  monastery  which  he  had  built  in 
Ireland,  called  Clnein-furt,  where  he  died.  In 
the  neighbourhood  of  the  rock  to  which  St.  Malo 
had  retired  was  the  city  of  Aleth,  now  St.  Servan, 
the  inhabitants  of  which  were  nearly  all  idolaters. 
St.  Malo  converted  them  by  his  preaching  and 
miracles,  and  having  been  informed  by  an  angel 
that  it  was  the  will  of  God,  consented  to  resume 
his  episcopal  functions  and  to  become  their  bishop. 
In  his  old  age,  in  consequence  of  persecutions  raised 


upagainst  him  by  the  noblesof  theland,he  left  Aleth 
and  retired  to  Saintonge,  where  he  was  welcomed 
by  Ii»ontins,  Bishop  of  Xaintes.  After  a  time 
he  revisited  his  diocese,  but  returned  again  to 
Saintonge  and  died  about  the  year  627.  A  church 
was  erected  by  Leontius  on  the  spot  where  he  was 
buried.  A  century  or  two  later  his  remains  were 
stolen  from  their  resting-place  and  carried  to  Aleth, 
where,  however,  they  did  not  remain  long,  having 
been  translated  about  the  bednning  of  the  tenth 
century  to  Paris.  The  cult  of  St.  Malo,  or  Maclou, 
was  very  widely  spread.  Under  his  alias  of  St. 
Machute  the  earliest  church  in  the  town  of  Wigton, 
in  Galloway,  was  dedicated  to  him,  and  was  cele- 
brated enough  to  haye  been  visited  in  pilgrimage 
by  some  of  the  Scottish  kings  and  queens.  It  is, 
therefore,  by  no  means  extraordinary,  especially 
when  his  connexion  with  St  Brandan,  an  Irish 
Saint,  is  taken  into  account,  that  a  place  in  Ireland 
should  bear  his  name ;  nor  is  there  anything  very 
singular  in  his  grave  being  shown,  as  it  is  weU 
known  that  the  relics  of  saints  may  be  deposited 
in  more  than  one  place.  As  to  the  stone  trough, 
British  saints  were  in  the  habit  of  using  this  .sort 
of  conveyance  in  their  voyages  across  the  seas  and 
rivers.  Vide  their  lives  as  related  by  P^re  Albert 
le  Grand  and  others.  St.  Malo  is  commemorated 
on  the  15th  of  November ;  and  if  any  pardon  or 
feast  is  held  near  the  spot  described  by  your  corre- 
spondent about  that  time  of  the  year,  the  identity 
of  St.  McLoo  with  St  Malo,  alias  Madou,  may  be 
considered  as  proved.  Edgab  MacCulloch. 
Gaemsey. 

Dbscsnt  of  thb  Eabldox  of  Mab  (6^  S. 
y.  405,  452).— I  am  much  obliged  for  L.  R.  A's 
courteous  correction  of  my  hasty  assumption  that  the 
fact  of  Janet  Keith's  having  had  a  daughter  by  her 
first  husband.  Sir  David  Barclay,  could  affect  the 
claim  of  her  son  by  her  second  husband,  Sir  Thomas 
Erskine,  to  the  Earldom  of  Mar.  Though  the 
discoyeiy  thus  becomes  of  less  consequence,  I  may 
point  out  that  it  throws  light  on  a  hitherto  un- 
mteUigtble  entry  in  the  Scottish  Exchequer  EoUs 
of  1373,  of  a  heavy  payment  to  Sir  Thomas 
Erskine  for  the  wardship  and  marriage  of  his 
youthful  step-daughter,  the  heiress  of  Brechin,  for 
the  purpose,  evidently,  of  securing  her  hand  for  the 
kin^s  son,  Walter  Stuart  H^  she  been  the 
daughter  of  Sir  David  Barclay's  first  wife,  Elizabeth  • 
Bamsay,  dauehter  of  William,  tituhuf  Earl  of  Fife 
(not Isabellathe  last  Conntessof  Fife,  as  erroneously 
stated  by  the  learned  editor  of  the  Baxhsgwr  Sous 
in  a  footnoteX  she  would  doubtless  have  been  left 
in  ward  to  the  Bamsays.  Eqitbb. 

SiLHOUBTTIS,  OB    BlAOK  PbOFILB   PoBTBAITS 

(6*^  S.  y.  308,  393,  458).— As  the  fortunate  pos- 
sessor of  upwards  of  eighty  silhouette  portraits  of 
members  and  relatives  of  my  family,  more  than 
forty  of  which  are  in  original  ^black  oval  ficaaMSi 


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it  may  be  conyenient  to  note  the  information  that 
I  have  gathered  from  them  with  regard  to  their 
first  introduction  and  the  yariona  styles  of  treat- 
ment which  they  present  There  appear  to  be 
six  different  styles  of  silhoaettes  ;  of  these  the 
chronological  sequence  is  as  follows  : — 

1.  The  portrait  cut  out  of  a  piece  of  white  paper 
and  remoYed,  leaving  the  marsins,  which  are  laid 
upon  a  background  of  thin  hikck  wood  or  paper. 
Of  this  kind  I  may  instance  portraits  of  a  great- 
-grandfather and  his  wife,  who  were  bom  respec- 
tiyely  in  1723  and  1726.  These  likenesses  were 
taken  soon  after  their  marriage  in  1744,  and  are 
the  earliest  of  the  kind  with  which  lam  acquainted. 

2.  The  portrait  painted  in  black  on  white  paper. 
Of  this  sort  I  have,  besides  many  single  portraits, 
a  large  full-length  group,  '^  a  oonyersation  piece,'' 
of  much  interest,  representing  my  great-great- 
unde,  Mr.  James  Essex,  his  wife  and  daughter. 
The  details  of  these  ladies'  head-dresses  are  rendered 
with  much  minuteness.  Mr.  Essex  was  bom  in 
1723,  and  died  in  1784.  A  yariety  of  this  style 
of  work  exhibits  the  likenesses  cut  out  of  black 

SKpet  and  laid  upon  a  white  or  pale-green  ground, 
trictly  speaking,  these  are  silhouettes,  properly 
so-called,  according  to  Brande. 

3.  The  portrait  etched  black  on  a  copper  plate. 
Many  of  this  kind  were  done  by  Christopher  Sharp 
of  Cambridge  about  1780. 

4.  The  portrait  painted  in  black  with  the  head- 
dress, hair,  &c.,  pencilled  and  shaded  lighter,  the 
earrings,  &a,  in  gold.  Some  of  these  are  delicately 
and  beautifully  done.  They  first  appear  at  the 
extreme  end  of  the  last  century. 

5.  The  portrait  painted  in  black  on  a  ooncaye 
glass,  with  the  hair  and  dress  shaded  lighter,  and 
the  whole  floated  oyer  with  a  thin  coat  of  white 
wax,  producing  a  yery  soft  effect  At  the  present 
time  the  wax  is  usually  full  of  slight  cracks. 
These  portraits  are  not  earlier  than  1800.  They 
are  generally  mounted  in  narrow  gilt  brass  margins 
of  oyal  form,  and  set  in  flat  square  frames  of 
black  polished  pasteboard,  and  hung  from  a  ring 
attached  to  the  frame  by  a  gilt  brass  clip,  which 
shows  an  oakleaf  and  an  acorn  in  front 

The  styles  mentioned  under  clause  2  are  the 
easiest  of  execution  and  consequently  the  most 
common,  and  it  is  in  this  form  that  the  art  has 
descended  to  our  own  day,  though  it  certainly  cannot 
be  said  that  modem  silhouettes  possess  the  yalue 
as  likenesses  which  the  earlier  ones  undoubtedly 
had.  In  the  first  quarter  of  this  century  full-length 
silhonettes,  cut  out  of  black  paper  laid  on  white, 
were  much  in  yogue,  and  notably  at  Caonbridge, 
where  liyed  a  famous  practitioner  of  the  art  named 
Edouart  He  executed  a  set  of  fiye  silhouette 
portraits  of  the  Rey.  Charles  Simeon,  in  as  many 
of  his  striking  attitudes  in  the  pulpit  of  Trinity 
Chnrch,and  numerous  full-length  likenesses  of  Cam- 
bridge men,  such  as  **  Jemmy  Wood,**  Master  of 


St  John's,  and  other  celebrities.  The  faithfulness 
of  these  delineations  will  be  fresh  in  the  recollec- 
tion of  Cambridge  men  who  were  undergraduates 
at  that  tuDQe. 

With  regard  to  the  oyal  black  frames  which  * 
are  so  inseparable  from  the  early  silhouettes,  it 
may  be  noted  that  their  original  manufacture  died 
out  fully  fifty  years  ago.  In  our  own  time  the 
silly  craze  for  reproducbff  the  houses  and  furniture 
of  our  grandfathers  has  Drought  back  a  yery  de- 
generate descendant  of  the  ^bhick  oyah."  The 
older  examples  are  tenderly  and  accurately  tamed, 
with  beautiful  mouldings,  often  in  ebony,  while 
the  modem  imitations  haye  wretched  shallow 
mouldings  coarsely  worked  in  soft  wood. 

Albert  Hartshorns. 

I  haye  a  profile  silhouette,  cut  out  of  black 
paper  with  scissors,  in  my  presence,  nearly  fifty 
years  ago,  at  a  cost  of  one  shilling.  No  mix- 
ture was  used,  and  I  do  not  remember  that  the 
artist  made  eyen  a  pencil  outline ;  but  he  appeared 
to  cut  out  the  profile  in  one  or  two  minutes,  and 
then  pasted  it  on  a  small  card.  Este. 

BirmlDgham. 

I  haye  two  silhouettes,  without  date,  but  belong- 
ing to  the  latter  part  of  the  last  century.  Paetm 
to  the  back  of  each  is  the  following  printed  adyer- 
Usement : — 

"  Perfect  likenesses  in  miniature  profile,  taken  bj  Mrs* 
Ligbtfoot,  Liyerpool,  and  reduced  on  a  plan  entirely  new. 
which  ^reseryas  the  most  exact  STmmetrf  and  animated 
expreanon  of  the  Features,  mueh  superior  to  any  other 
method.  Time  of  sitting  one  minute.  N.B.  She  keeps 
the  original  Shades,  and  can  supply  thote  she  has  onco 
taken  with  any  number  of  duplicates.  Thoie  who  have 
Shades  by  them  may  haye  them  reduced,  and  dressed  io 
the  present  taste.  All  orders  addreeeed  to  Mrs.  Light- 
foot,  LiTsrpool,  will  be  punctually  dispatobed." 

C,  H.  Mato. 

Bagnal  or  Baobnal  FAxar  (<B^  S.  iy.  288^ 
318,  375,  456).— I  stated  in  my  note,  at  the  last 
reference  but  one,  that  Ralph  and  William  Bagnall 
appeared  to  be  the  only  persons  of  that  samanse 
on  the  index  to  wills  in  the  Worcester  Probata 
Office  between  1600  and  1651.  The  fact  is,  Balph 
and  William  both  occur  under  the  year  1624 ;. 
Nicholas  Bagnall,  of  Worcester,  1635  ;  and  a 
second  William  under  163S.  Balph  died  in- 
testate, and  letters  of  administration  were  granted 
to  his  son  Thomas  in  September,  1624 ;  the  in- 
yentory  mentions  that  his  rapier  and  three  bmahes 
were  yalued  at  one  shilling.  William  Bagnall,  of 
the  parish  of  St.  Andrew,  within  the  city  aixl 
county  of  Worcester,  brewer,  made  his  will 
Oct  30,  1624,  haying  then  three  sons,  minors, 
William,  Gilbert,  and  (George,  to  whom  he  be- 
queathed one  hundred  marks  apiece ;  wife  Alioe^ 
and  mother  Johan  Bagnall;  a  legacy  for  "my 
brother  Ralph  Bagnall  att  his  Coming  oa*  inia 
England";   legacies  also  to  sisters  Eleanor  and 


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Johon  Bagnall,  brother  Hagh,  the  poor  of  the 
miriflhes  of  St.  Nicholas  and  St.  Andrew,  Gilbert 
Westwood,  and  William  Bailer,  alias  Wall 
Besidue  to  "  Alee  my  now  wife,"  who  was  to  be 
sele  executrix ;  Mr.  Hugh  Butcher  and  George 
Stinton  the  younger,  gent.,  overseers,  to  whom  a 
pair  of  gloves  apiece  *^  of  TJ<.  viijd.  price."  In- 
Tcntory  taken  Dec.  2,  1624.  Nicholas  Bagnall, 
of  the  city  of  Worcester,  apothecary,  made  his 
will  June  1, 1629,  desirins  to  be  interred  in  the 
parish  church  of  St.  Nicholas  within  the  said  city, 
and  bequeathing  a  legacy  to  the  poor  of  that 
parish.  To  his  wife  Johan,  for  her  life,  all  his 
nouses,  lands,  and  tenements  in  the  city  of  Wor- 
cester, and  all  goods.  A  legacy  to  daughter 
Eleanor  Bagnall,  when  aged  twenty-five ;  to  son 
Bicfaard,  when  twenty-six  ;  to  son  Nicholas,  when 
twenty-two  ;  to  son  Hugh,  when  twenty-four.  His 
daughter  Johan  Bagnall  was  under  twenty-two. 
To  nis  son  William,  and  his  heirs  and  assigns,  a 
tenement  in  the  parish  of  St.  Swithin,  Worcester, 
then  in  the  occupation  of  John  Hanburye,  of  the 
said  city,  draper,  and  other  houses  and  lands  in 
the  city.  If  his  wife  should  marry  again,  his  son 
Balph  was  to  have  the  shop  of  his  dwelling-house. 
To  nis  godson  Nicholas  Earle,  xiijf.  iiija.  Son 
Huffh  Baffnall  sole  executor.  Thomas  Barker, 
derk,  and  Hugh  Butcher,  gent.,  overseers, "  gyving 
them  v«.  apeece  for  a  poore  ICemembr'nce  of  my 
Love."  Witnessed  by  John  Hibbins,  Lewis 
Walton,  and  Philip  Mytford.  Proved  April  30, 
1635.  In  January,  1638,  Bichard  Powell,  of  Shraw- 
ley,  gent.,  grandson  of  William  Bagnall,  deceased, 
«nterod  into  a  boi\d  to  administer  the  effects  of 
the  said  William,  which  were  unadministered  by 
reason  of  the  death  of  Elizabeth  Bagnall,  his  relict 
and  executrix.  I  did  not  observe  the  name  any- 
where on  the  index  prior  to  1624.  The  Worcester 
diocesan  registir  contains  a  note  of  the  ordination 
of  Robert  Bagnall  in  1586 ;  he  was  ordained  deacon 
and  priest  on  the  same  day,  viz.,  December  11.  The 
register  of  the  parish  of  St.  Nicholas,  Worcester, 
records  the  burial  of  '<  Mr.  Bagnall,"  Sept.  22, 
1651.  It  is  said  that  this  sentlemangave  his 
bone  to  Charles  IL  after  the  battle  of  TT^rcester, 
to  enable  him  to  escape  from  the  city. 

Thohas  p.  Wadlet. 
Nannton  Bectory,  Peishore. 

Adjectiyibs  Pluralizbd  IV  English  (6^  S.  ▼. 
205,  251,  294).— Mr.  Terrt  and  his  acuteness 
are  to  be  thanked  for  calling  attention  to  the  "  sur- 
vival" example  of  *' letters  patents."  Dyce  says 
it  was  the  phraseology  of  Shakespeare's  time. 
That  it  was  so  is  shown  by  its  occurrence  in 
Cooper's  Thuaunu,  1578^  Baret,  Thomasius, 
Cotgrave,  Sherwood,  Florio,  Minsheu,  Eider, 
Holyoke's  Eider,  and  in  Pardon's  Dyche,  1752, 
though  it  is  "  letters-patent "  in  Hawkins's  Cocker, 
1722.  But  I  would  suggest  that  the  passage  from 
The  City  Match  has  been  too  hastily  read.    No 


''sergeants,"  «.«.,  sheriff's  officers,  could  have  been 
called  "gallants,"  and  we  must  supply  a  verb 
understock  from  the  preceding  line,  thus : — 
**  No  Remora  that  slops  your  fleet, 
Like  lergeants  [<to/)]  gallants  in  the  stroet,** 
Br.  Nigholsov. 

The  following  example  of  a  pluralized  adjective 
occurs  in  the  I^tUrs  and  Papers  of  John  ShiUing- 
ford,  Mayor  of  ExsUr^  '1447-60,  printed  by  the 
Camden  Society  in  1871 :  '*  Ther  was  at  that  day 
atte  dyner  with  my  lord  the  ij  chif  justises,  ana 

so  we  appered  before  them My  lord  Chaun- 

cellor  therwith  sodenly  went  right  to  the  justises 
6ot^en"(p.  12).  Wm.  Penobllt. 

Torquay. 

In  Gage's  A  New  Surftey  of  the  West  Ind%a% 
1^55,  p.  8,  is  this  passage  : — 

«The   Order  of  the  Province   being  read  to  the 
Generall,  or   hit  Generall  Chapter,  then  are  Letters 
Patents  granted  unto  this  Procurator  from  the  Generall, 
naming  him  his  Vicar  Generall  for  such  a  Provinoe." 
W.  D.  SwxETiNa. 

Maxey,  Market  Deeping. 

Though  not  strictly  atijectives,  yet  the  following 
adjectival  examples  mav  be  added  :  Knights-Tem- 
plars, Knights-Hospitallers,  and  lords-lieutenants. 
The  first  two  are  never  varied  ;  the  last  is  some- 
times written  lord-lieutenants. 

E.  CoBHAM  Brewer. 

The  "Cheap  Magazine"  (6*  S.  v.  287).— 
The  projector,  editor,  proprietor,  and  printer  was 
Geo.  Miller,  of  Haddington,  where  it  was  printed 
1813  and  1814,  two  volumes  only.  In  connexion 
with  this  Miller  published  a  remarkable  book  at 
Edinburgh  in  1833,  entitled  Latter  StruggUi  in 
the  Journey  of  Life;  or,  the  Afternoon  of  my 
Days :  being  the  Retrospection  of  a  Sexagenarian^ 
oontaining  much  curious  matter  relating  to  bis 
labours  towards  fhmishing  cheap  reading  for  the 
people,  in  which  he  may  be  considered  thepre- 
cursorof  the  Chamberses  m  Edinburgh.  This  Cheap 
Magazine  appears  to  have  been  a  great  hit  in  that 
direction.  Miller  speaks  proudly  in  1833  of  the 
"  great  Lord  ChanoeUor  "  (Brougham)  only  then  be- 
ginning to  supply  the  people  with  '*  penny  a  week's 
mformation,"  an  achievement  accomplished  by  him 
unsupported  except  by  the  public,  twenty  years 
before,  and  of  the  compliment  paid  him  by  the 
Chamberses  of  his  being  in  reality  the  one  in 
advance  of  his  age  in  that  respect.  Besides  this 
magazine  our  persevering  leader  in  cheap  literature 
foUowed  it  up  with  a  Monthly  Monitor  in  1816^ 
and  a  series  of  "cheap  tracts"  which,  he  says, 
gave  the  death-blow  '*to  that  copious  source  of 
mischief,  the  hawker's  basket"  with  its  loose  chap- 
books,  which  had  previooslv  been  the  only  reading 
of  the  humbler  clnswos.  Wilberforoe  and  other 
eminent  philanthropists  of  the  day  enoourafled  the 
compiler,  but  after  all  the  life  of  poor  Milkr  was. 


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like  that  of  moet  penmns  wlio  take  the  iniUatiTe  m 
good  works,  a  Tery  chequered  one^  and  rather,  as 
he  lays,  a  s^ggk  for  ezistenoe  than  a  path  of 
piosperity.  When  a  copy  of  the  Chiap  MoffaxiM 
tarns  np  the  bookseller  marks  it  high,  as  illustrated 
by  Bewick;  the  little  cats  strewed  aboat  it  are 
certainly  after  that  artist,  bat,  with  the  exception 
of  two  or  three,  I  shoald  say  of  no  interest,  and 
the  book  is  not  in  Hugo's,  catalogue  of  works  so 

J.  0. 


Th»  Affligatiov  oy  "Ooxthtt*'  (6*  S.  ▼. 
346).-rThe  statement  certainly  is  true  as  reoards 
Kent,  whidi  represents  a  distinct  autonomous  king- 
'dom ;  the  natiTes  speak  with  contempt  of  distant 
compatriots  who  liye  ^  down  in  the  sneezs.''  The 
meaning  is  that  Kent  has  a  separate  history  from 
time  immemorial— say  from  the  Deluge — but  the 
shires  were  parcelled  out  (shorn  off)  from  other 
states  ;  lefening  back,  no  doubt,  to  the  Heptarchy 
or  Octarchy.  Ltsabt. 

As  a  natiTe  of  Essex  I  can  bear  testimony  to 
the  fret  that  in  my  childhood  we  used  to  call  a 
stupid  fellow  **  a  man  from4he  shires.'*  My  cood 
friend  Mr.  Freeman  irindicated  the  daim  of  Ms 
adopted  county  to  be  caUed  '' Somerset,"  not 
^Somenetshire,"  in  a  most  eloquent  address 
which  he  deliyered  before  the  Congress  of  the 
Arcfaasdlogical  Institote  at  Taunton  in  1879. 

E.  Walfobd,  M.A. 

Hampitetd,  N.W. 

I  have  liTcd  in  Essex  half  a  century,  and,  so  &r 
aa  I  know,  no  native  takes  the  least  pride  in  its 
not  being  called  a  shire ;  their  feelinm  could  not 
suffer  much  if  it  was,  for  it  is  as  mu<m  a  shire  as 
if  called  so.  I  do  not  forget  the  epigram  apon 
Essex,  which  C.  M.  L  may  not  know  :— 

"  Euez,  jou  lay,  is  frmed  for  calTSt; 
We  thank  yoa  nally  for  yourpalni^ 
For  that  yon  prore  in  our  behalTM, 
We  're  famoiu  most  for  head  and  Iraifts,'* 

J.  W.  Sayill. 
Dmunow,  Rnez. 

"Eambr"  (not  "Camr'O  (6*  S.  t.  269).— 
Aprcpoi  of  your  correspondent's  query  it  may  not 
be  amiss  to  ^uote  the  following  from  Miss  Jack- 
son's ;8%ropfAtre  Word-Book: — 

""Erne  [ee*xnl  adj.  near,  direct  Gom.  'To'  bin 
g85in  a  miehty  lung  war  round ;  croai  tliem  iildt,  it  '■ 
the  iwutt  r&d  a  powor.'^  JBme,  regularly  declined  in 
erery  degree,  obtains  throoshoat  the  county,  but  ii  in 
most  general  ate  in  the  northern  parti,  where  it  is  con- 
stantly heard.  A.-S.  anemati^ansfmisssoiufensssonrfmi, 
Cf.^a«iM<,fcc." 

F.  0.  BiRKBKCK  TsaBT. 

BOLIVOBBOKB  AKD  OlABSHDOIT  (6*^  S.  T.  283). 

— ^There  is  one  anomaly  in  my  friend  Mb.  Kbrs- 
LAKx's  note  to  which  I  may  be  permitted  to  call 
attention.    In  a  central  paragraph  he  fills  a  blank 


supposititiously  with  a  suggestion  of  Bean  Sprat ; 
later  on  Sprat  appears  again ;  but  when  Dean  S— ( 
is  named  later  still  he  suggests  Swift,  not  Sprati 
the  initials  being  the  same.  It  is  true  that  Bean 
Sprat  became  a  bishop,  but  Swift  was  not  a  dean 
till  1713,  and  this  edition  of  Clarendon  is  dated 
1707.  Is  there  any  reason  why  Bolingbroke  should 
delay  his  assumed  notes  so  late  f  Sprat  died  in 
1713 ;  and  in  writing  this  I  do  not  wish  to  impugn 
your  correspondent's  accuracy,  but  only  to  elacid2o 
the  frets.  A.  H. 

«  Peace  with  Hohoub"  (6*  S.  t.  346).— In 
an  English  translation  of  Horace,  by  Matthew 
Towers,    LL.D.,  schoolmaster   of  Portarlington^ 

Kblished  in  Bablin  in  1742,  and  dedicated  to 
\  Belaney,  there  is  in  the  pre&ce  a  sly  piece 
of  sarcasm  respecting  the  Tslue  of  a  riyal  tnnda- 
tionby 

*'  D— d  W— n  with  his  beantyfnl  description  follv  set 
forth  in  a  Key.    He  is  a  A.M.  of  8t  Leonard's  College, 
8tb  Andrew's,  and  1  make  no  dout  but  I  diall  have  shortly 
a  long  letter  of  Thanks  from  Him  for  obliging  the 
Gentlemen  of  Ireland......with  the  following  Specimen 

of  his  Work:— 

"  *  O  MsBcenas,  desoended  from  the  Kings  of  Mtrwria 
or  Tmteany  yonr  Aneestois  I  O  you  who  are  both  my 
patron,  katmg  made  my  Ftaee  with  Amguiimi  and  a 
great  Honoor  to  me/*  fee. 

W.  Fbazeb,  F.B.C.S.I. 

'*Ebbie  switheb"  (6*^  S.  t.  3S7).— J^stm  m 
most  probably  derived  from  the  A.-S.  eorA,  Mty 
=payidus,  timidus,  Ac.  For  an  early  ose  of  the 
word,  cL  i-~ 

«He  blisoed  me  aU  wid  his  grace. 
And  said,  *  ioseph  be  noght  trL 
Biholde  on  me,  )>{s  ilk  es  iV' 
Cwrtor  Ifundi,  CfWimgtn,  Text.  XL  17.684-^ 

The  Trinity  text  has  :~ 

«<He  said  Ioseph  be  not/sniy." 
For  further  exampJIew  and  differentiation  of  mean* 
ing,  Jamieson's  Dictionary  may  be  consalted  with 
advantage.  F.  O.  Birebbck  Teret. 

GardlC 

EtrU  feeling  is  a  nervous  suspicion  of  impend- 
ing danger  of  a  supernatural  kind. 

Sbth  Wait. 

Eanoaroo  {e^  S.  T.  326).^The  wife  of  a 
parishioner  lately  told  a  friend  of  mine  that  her 
nusband  had  **  a  kangaroo  (gangrened)  toe !  * 

P.  J.  F.  Gantillobt. 

"Takiko  French  Leatb"  (6«*  a  t.  347).— 
A  query  as  to  the  origin  of  this  expression  was 
inserted  in  ''N.&Q.''  l-»  S.  L  246,  but,  accord- 
ing to  the  index,  elicited  no  reply.  In  6^  8. 
xiL  87  there  is  a  note  by  A.  B1  referring  to 
Dr.  Brewer*8  Didionary  of  Fhrau  and  Fai^ 
and  to  Hotten  {Slang  Dictionary^  I  presume), 
both  tracing  it  to  French  soldiers  ttther  taking 


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withoat  paying,  or  decamping  without  leave.  The 
passage  addaoed  by  Mr.  Walford  relates  to 
something  quite  different,  and  is  only  a  transla- 
tion or  equiyalent  of  Wapentake. 

W.  E.  BUCKLIT. 

I  do  not  know  how  old  the  phrase  is,  but  when 
we  had  wars  with  France  this  bit  of  British 
swagger  meant  running  away  from  our  troops.  I 
never  heard  any  other  origin  hinted  at. 

Born  in  the  days  of  Bonaporte,  I  may  say  even 
children's  toys  kept  up  the  national  spirits.  We 
had  '^John  Bull  and  Bonaparte,  T.  Bubb 
maker,"  in  suck  a  box  as  a  stuffed  bird  is  put  in. 
Boney,  in  a  pea-green  coat  and  cocked-hat,  was 
humbly  kneeling,  with  his  nose  pressed  against  a 
wooden  grindstone,  which  John  Bull  was  turning 
round  by  a  ^iece  of  wire  which  came  out  at  the 
back,  and  which  the  exhibitor  turned.       P.  P. 

Wkathkr  Proohosticatioh  (6"»  S.  y.  346).— I 
am  familiar  with  the  term  "weather  breeder"  as 
one  used  in  the  Yorkshire  dales,  when  after  con- 
tinued wet  weather  an  unusually  fine  and  cloudless 
day  follows,  which  is  regarded  as  foretelling  that 
the  ndn  will  soon  return.  Mr.  F.  E.  Robinson, 
in  hb  WkUby  OlosMry^  says  of  this  expression, 
''  A  warm  and  serene  day,  which  we  say  is  too  fine 
for  the  season,  betokens  a  speedy  reverse." 

F.  0.   BiRKBBCK  TSBRT. 

Pelham  of  Orowhurst,  Susbbx  (6**»  S.  V.  448). 
— I  should  have  stated  in  my  queqr  that  John 
Pelham,  son  of  the  Bector  of  Growhurst,  had  eight 
children,  John,  Mary,  William,  Kendrick,  Charles, 
James,  Thomas,  and  Henry.  Charles  Pelham's 
daughter  Martha,  wife  of  Thomas  Jones,  had  five 
children,  viz.,  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  all  of 
whom  married. 

RioiKALD  Stxwart  Boddinqtok. 

Beaconsfield  Ciuh,  PaU  Mali,  &W. 

Coaches  first  used  in  Sootl  akd  (6*  8.  t.  367). 
—At  the  ruined  castle  of  Inverugie,  near  Peter- 
head, on  the  moulded  cope  of  the  wall  enclosing 
the  castle  and  grounds  there  are  various  sculptured 
scenes,  one  of  which  represents  a  coach  with  four 
wheels,  and  drawn  by  four  horses.  The  vehicle  is 
shaped  very  much  like  an  ordinaiy  heavy  fomily 
coach  of  the  present  day,  with  driver's  seat  and 
dickey.  The  driver  himself  is  almost  effaced, 
except  his  legs;  there  is  the  usual  heavy  pole 
between  the  front  and  back  wheels  beneath  the 
bodv  of  the  coach,  while  a  face  is  seen  looking  out 
of  the  window ;  and,  what  is  certainly  singular, 
on  the  lower  part  of  the  stone,  in  incised  figures, 
is  cut  <*  G  B  1670,"  being  the  exact  date  given  in 
the  MS.  as  the  year  of  Iiady  Brace's  birth.  This 
would  seem  to  show  that  coaches  were  known  in 
Scotland,  in  Aberdeenshire,  before  Cooper  of 
Gogar  appeared  in  his  at  the  Cross  of  Edinourgh. 
As  a  confirmation  that  the  date  on  the  stone  is 


authentic,  there  is  another  stone  lying  in  the 
grounds  which  formerly  crowned  the  ntteway,  with 
the  same  date  in  raised  figures  and  the  letters 
**A.  M.";  while  there  is  preserved  in  a  cottage  besido 
the  castle  a  fine  oak-carved  shield  of  arms,  a  sketch 
of  which  is  enclosed,  bearing  the  date  1660.  This 
shield  belonged  to  the  castle.  I  enclose  an  exact 
copy  of  my  sketch  of  the  coach  and  horses  made 
last  summer.  Thomas  Boss. 

"  Vita  sine  litbris  mors  est  "  (6*^  S.  v.  346). 
^EpiHola  LXXXIL  Seneca:  ''Contra  delicias, 
et  moUem  vitam :  itemque  otium  ignavum. 
Studiis  id  dedioandum  esse  :  et  prsesertim  philo- 
sophite,  quss  muniat  contra  metas  et  externa 
omnia  mala,  contra  ipsam  mortem.''  Sect.  3 
commences,  ''Otium  sine  Uteris  mors  est,  et 
hominis  vivi  sepnltura,"  &a      Gibbbs  Biqaud. 

18,  Loog  Wall,  Oxford. 

I  have  heard  this  pithy  saying  attributed  to 
William  Robertson,  the  great  Scottish  historian 
(1721-1793),  but  am  unable  either  to  give  a 
reference  or  quote  my  authority  for  the  statement 
At  any  rate  it  was  worthy  of  so  distinguistied 
and  industrious  a  writer,  and  he  exemplified  it. 
John  Pickford,  M.A« 

Nawboume  Beotory,  Woodbridge. 

"  Htpnbrotomachia,  thb  Strifb  of  Lovb  in 
A  Drbame,"  Publisbbd  bt  John  Busbib  in 
1592  (6*^  S.  V.  347, 375).— Copies  of  this  work  were 
sold  at  the  Nassau  Sykes  and  Heber  sales.  Dr. 
Dibdin,  in  his  Bibliatheca  Speneeriana  (1815), 
voL  iv.  p.  164,  in  a  note,  says,  "  Mr.  B.  Triphook, 
bookseller,  is  in  possession  of  a  copy  of  this  very 
rare  volume,  which  has  escaped  the  researches  of 
Herbert.  My  friend  Mr.  Douce  also  possesses  a 
copy."  I  may  add  that  the  Duke  of  Devonshire 
a  perfect  copy,  printed  on  vellum,  of  the 
• — 1  ^£  1^*^  work.  G.  FiSHBR. 

There  ought  to  be  at  least  two  copies  in  exist- 
ence, as  two  were  sold  at  Heber's  sale  in  1835  and 
1836.  The  copy  in  part  vL  2824,  "  woodcuts,  red 
morocco,  rare,"  was  purchased  by  Thorpe  for 
6t.  8#.  6d.  Another  in  part  viii.  2410,  "very 
scarce,"  fetched  4t.  6<.  The  present  locality  of 
these  copies  is  not  recorded  by  Hazlitt.  There  is 
one  in  the  Huth  Library,  "  which  came  from  the 
collection  of  Oeneral  Pennefather,  and  has  his 
book-plate."  This  is  probably  to  be  regarded  as 
a  third  copy.  W.  £.  Bucklbt. 

At  the  sale  of  the  Sunderland  Library  a  copy  was 
sold  for  862.  The  Finch  collection,  preserved  in  the 
Taylor  Institution,  contains  another  oopjr  as  well 
as  the  Bodleian  Library.  Bmnet  mentions  the 
English  version  of  1592.  H.  Erbbs. 

Oxford. 

Black  Mail  (6^  S.  v.  226,  366).— When  Db. 
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[6ih8.y.  Juki  2^*82. 


18  of  Groelic  origin  I  think  that  he  is  indalging  in 
a  piece  of  unnecessary  philology ;  for  I  do  not 
believe  that  the  word  black  has  anything  more  to  do 
with  Gkielic  healaeh=A  pass,  than  blctck  has  in  black 
malice^  an  eipression  which  I  have  heard  used  in  a 
Yorkshire  dale,  where  at  one  time  there  was  a  castom 
of  levying,  under  the  name  of  "  pitchering,''  blads 
mail  on  those  who  came  on  a  "  sweethearting  **  ex- 
|)edition.  To  me  the  whole  term  appears  to  be  of 
Anglo-Saxon  parentage.  I  suppose  Dr.  Mackay 
4ias  not  noticed  the  fact  that  malls  found  in  A.-S., 
flneaning  tribute  or  toll.  The  following  passage 
€rom  The  Ormulum  will  illustrate  its  use  : — 

''  And  foiT|)i  badd  hemm  Sannt  Johan 
Forrbu;)henn  gredijneiM, 
and  sammnenn  laihelike  and  rihht 

|>e  kingesi  rihhte  mdU,"  LI.  10,185-8. 

The  epithet  black  was  evidently  used  with  mail 
to  denote  a  tax  illegally  levied,  but  which  those 
OB  whom  it  was  imposed  could  not  well  refuse, 
liowever  much  they  might  desire  to  do  so.  We 
liave  a  somewhat  analogous  expression  in  black 
mofuyy  '*  money  taken  by  the  harbingers  or 
servants,  with  their  master's  knowledge,  for 
abstaining  from  enforcing  coin  and  lively  in 
certain  places,  to  the  prejudice  of  others.  See 
the  State  Papers,  iL  510"  (HalliweU's  Diet.).  There 
are  several  phrases  in  English  in  which  black  is 
used  with  a  bad  meaning.  Thus  we  have  Black 
Monday,  black-hearted,  black  witch,  bhick  envy 
(Shakespeare),  black  magician  (ditto),  &c  In 
Oraik's  HUt.  of  Brituh  Commerce^  I  157,  black 
money  or  black  mail  is  alluded  to  as  being  certain 
•coins  of  inferior  kind  authorized  to  pass  current  in 
Ireland  in  the  fourteenth  century. 

F.  C.  BiRKBBCE  TeRRT. 

Cardiff. 

Prohunciation  of  "FoiuJEs"  (6***  S.  V.  269, 
316,  397,  417). — I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining 
the  date  to  which  Mr.  Walford  refers.  When  I 
wias  in  Edinburgh,  Ochoncar,  Lord  Forbes,  was 
Commissioner  to  the  Greneral  Assembly.  I  never 
heard  his  name  pronounced  otherwise  than  as  a 
monosyllable,  nor  was  it  otherwise  with  the  banking 
firm  of  Sir  Wm.  Forbes.  But  I  think  the  daughter 
of  a  don  of  the  University  of  Aberdeen,  with  whom 
I  was  acquainted  in  Edinburgh,  was  called  Miss 
For-bes  ;  and  Thomson,  in  his  Autumn,  addresses 
the  illustrious  Lord  President  (Forbes  of  Cul- 
loden) — 

'*  Thee,  Fof-bes,  too,  whom  eT*ry  worth  attends, 
As  Truth  sincere,"  &c. 

Gko.  E.  Frbrb. 

A  near  relation  of  mine,  bom  about  a  hundred 
and  ten  years  ago,  always  used  to  pronounce  his 
own  first  Christian  name  Forb's.  He  said,  how- 
ever, that  when  he  was  a  little  child,  his  father 
being  stationed  at  Perth,  the  auld  wives  used  to 
all  him  to  their  doors  and  treat  him  with  hunches 


of  short-cake,  saying,  '^  Hoo  's  a'  wi'  ye  the  mom', 
For-bessf  He  spoke  of  a  legend  to  the  effect 
that  the  first  of  this  name  gained  the  hand  of  his 
lady-love  as  a  reward  for  killing  a  wild  animal — 
wolf,  bear,  or  boar  (Sir  Bernard  Burke  says  that 
the  arms  of  Forbes  of  Pitsligo  are  Az.,  three 
boars'  heads,  oouped  ar.,  muzzled  gu.,  but  D.  F.  0. 
is  probably  correct  in  saying  that  they  are  bear^ 
heacls)— which  had  troubled  the  country.  He 
brought  the  head  in  upon  his  spear- point,  saying 
that  he  had  done  thiBjor  Best.  He  then  assumed 
the  name  of  For-bess.  Oalcuttrnsis. 

In  Aberdeenshire,  where  the  name  of  Forbes  is 
common,  it  is  pronounced  by  the  upper  classes  as 
of  one  syllable,  by  the  lower  classes  as  having  two. 
I  recollect  hearing  a  kind  of  legend  as  to  the  origin 
of  the  Aberdeenshire  names,  Forbes  and  Grordon. 
Two  men  were  fighting  a  wild  boar,  and  the  one 
said  to  the  other,  ^  Haud  ye  the  fore  biise  and  1 11 
gore  him  down."  From  this  sprang  the  names 
Fore-birse,  or  Forbes,  and  Gk>re-down,  or  Gordon. 
If  there  is  any  argument  to  be  deduced  from  the 
above,  it  would  be  in  favour  of  the  word  being 
pronounced  in  two  syllables.  Boars'  heads  appear 
in  the  armorial  bearings  of  both  the  Forbes  and 
Gfordon  clans.  J.  EIsith  Angus. 

I  am  afraid  I  cannot  plead  guilty  to  (in  this 
instance)  a  faulty  knowledffe  of  natural  history  in 
mistaking  lions'  or  leopards'  faces  for  bears'  heads 
(profile)  muzzled.  A  friend  of  mine,  one  of  the 
best  authorities  on  heraldry  in  Scotland,  to  whom 
I  submitted  the  coat,  informed  me  that  '*  Michel, 
in  his  Les  Ecoseait  en  France  (L  54),  gives  the 
chevron  and  three  leopards'  heads  as  the  coat  of 
the  Scoto-French  £amily  of  Forbin,  which  he  seems 
to  associate  with  that  of  Forbes,  although  his 
blazon  for  the  latter  is  three  bears'  heads  muzzled, 
with  a  cross  crosslet  in  the  centre  of  the  shield." 

A.  A. 

Pitlochry. 

Lady  Wood,  wife  of  Sir  Alexander  Wood  and 
sister  of  Sir  William  Forbes  of  Pitsligo  (with  whom 
I  was  acquainted  from  my  childhood),  always  pro- 
nounced her  maiden  name  as  a  dissyllable. 

J.  E.  £. 

Plurality  op  Worlds  (6*  S.  t.  229,  392). — 

Plurality  of  Worlds.    By  A  Maxwell.    8to.  1820. 

An  Essay  on  the  Plurality  of  Worlds.  By  Henty  J, 
Smith.    Svo.  1855. 

God's  Glory  in  the  Heavens,  with  a  Chapter  on  the 
Plurality  of  Worlda  By  Dr.  Leiteh.  Fourth  edition. 
12mo.  1{:6S. 

Other  Worlds  than  Oars.    By  B.  A.  Proctor. 

W.  C.  R 

Malrem  Link. 

The  following  may  be  added  to  the  French 
Voyagee  Imaginairee  mentioned  by  Mr.  Massoit  : 
Lee  Voyages  de  Milord  Ceton,  by  Marie  de 
Roumier;    Voyagee   dans   lee   8q>t  Planetej  by 


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Madame  Bobert,  both  written  in  the  eighteenth 
century;  while  in  the  nineteenth,  the  wonderful 
prodoctions  of  M.  Jules  Verne  deierre  a  high 
place  in  this  dasa  of  literature. 

£.  H.  Marshall,  MA. 

Chalmers's  DUoouna  on  BevekUion  and 
Aitronomy  had  an  immense  circulation  at  the 
time,  and  will  no  doubt  be  found  in  all  collections 
of  his  worbu    He  fully  belieTed  in  the  theory. 

P.  P. 


Church  Disciplihb  (6**  S.  ▼.  386). —  The 
Annwd  BegitUr  for  1838  nas  the  following:— 

"  A  woman  did  penance  in  publio  at  Walton  Church, 
by  order  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Court,  for  defaming  the 
character  of  her  neighbour.  The  white  sheet,  howeyer, 
was  not  enforced.  It  is  many  years  since  such  an  occur- 
rence took  place." 

E.  H.  M. 

Axn?H0R8  OF  Books  Wanted  (6*  S.  t.  469).— 

Canjicturei  mr  let  Memoirtt,  fcc.— -It  was  written  bv 
Jean  Astruc,  an  eminent  French  phyaician  (1684-1766), 
professor  at  Montpellier  during  a  period  of  thirteen 
yean.  After  visiting  Poland,  he  finally  settled  at  Paris 
as  physician  to  the  kiug,  and  profesiior  at  the  Royal 
Ck>liege.  WiLUAM  Platt. 

See  Biograpku  Univenelle.  Although  the  name 
"  Bruxelles"  appears  on  the  title-psge,  yet  the  book  was 
really  printed  in  Pens.  Gubtavb  Masson. 

Amorii  Effigxet,  &c.— It  was  published  in  1649  (Lend., 
12mo.  anon.)  by  Sir  John  Birlienhead,  the  editor  of  the 
court  journal,  Mtrcwrxut  Aulicui,  at  the  desire  of 
Robert  Waryng  (Waring),  who  wished  to  be  unknown 
as  the  author.  Third  edition,  1664,  12mo.;  fourth 
edition,  1668, 12mo.  In  English,  Bffigiet  qf  Love,  1680, 
12mo.;  and  again  translated  by  the  famous  John  Norris 
of  Bemerton,  Salisbury,  under  the  title  of  The  Picture  of 
Love  UnveiUd,  1682;  fourth  edition,  1744,  8to. 

William  Platt. 

Authors  of  Quotatioks  Wanted  (6**  S.  v. 
469).— 

"  Qod  giTes  us  love,"  &e., 
is  the  fourth  stansa  of  Tennyson's  poem  '*  To  J.  8.," 
commencing, "  The  wind  that  beats  the  mountain,  blows," 
&C.  The  poem  was  written  to  the  late  Mr.  James 
Spedding  on  the  death  of  his  brother,  priyate  secretary 
to  Lord  Ashburton  during  his  embassy  to  the  United 
States,  and  a  college  friend  of  the  poet's.    -    J>,  B.  B. 


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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 
CoUectanea  Oenealogica,    By  Joseph  Foster.    VoL  I. 

(Privately  printed.) 
Ur.  FoeTBB  must  have  found  considerable  employment, 
CTen  for  one  so  Briaieus-handed  as  himself.  In  the 
preparation  of  the  materials  forming  the  first  hand- 
some Tolume  of  his  Colitdanea.  It  is  obrious  that 
the  mass  of  information  here  brought  together  will 
require  much  sifting  when  used  as  genealogical  tools. 
The  ParliamentMy  Return  of  Afembers,  for  instance, 
which  has  been  so  keenly  criticised  as  regards 
England  and  Ireland,  seems  little  better  in  the  way 
of  accuracy  as  regaras  Scotland.  What  the  Scottish 
list  requires,  as  far  as  we  ars  enabled  to  judge  by  the 
portion  contained  in  Mr.  Foster's  present  Tolume,  is  to 


be  corrected  by  comparison  with  the  Acts  qf  the  Pwrli^ 
menu  of  Seouund  and  the  i?«toiirf— sources  which,  we 
think,  have  not  been  suflSciently  consulted  as  yet  for 
the  purposes  of  the  Colleetama.  On  referring  to  the 
Adt,  for  instance,  in  the  case  of  Sir  Andrew  Agnew,  fiar 
of  Lochnaw,  about  whose  sitting.  1644-7,  Mr.  Foster 
intimates  a  doubt  because  he  did  not  succeed  to  the 
baronetcy  till  1661,  we  belicTe  the  case  is  made  Quite 
dear.  We  there  find,  t.v,  Agnew  of  Lochnaw : — "An- 
drew, apparent.  Sheriff  of  Galloway,  a  Commissioner  fer 
the  Loan  and  Tax  for  Sheriffdom  of  Qalloway  and 
Ste wartrie  of  Kirkcudbright,  1648»  ri.  i.  29  b.  Present  in 
Conyention  at  Edinburgh,  26th  Jan.,  1644,  Car.  I.,  1644; 
yi.  i.  78  b On  Committees  and  Commissions  of  Par- 
liament, 1644-6-6-7-9.  Commissioner  to  Parin  for 
Wigtonshire,  1648,  ri.  IL  4a,  7b.    Present  in  Pari'.  164^, 

yi.  ii.  126a,  877b Andrew,  fiar,  on  the  Committee 

of  Estates,  1649,  c.  258,  ri.  ii.  291a ;  1649,  c.  866,  yi.  ii. 
686.  The  Sheriffship  of  Wigton  ratified  to  him,  yi.  ii. 
740a.    Sir  Andrew,  JDeputy  for  Wigtonshire  in  1651^  yL 

ii.  794 Ratification  to  Sir  Andrew  Agnew  of  Loch* 

naw,  Bar<.,  Sheriff  of  Wigton,  of  the  barony  of  Loch- 
naw, &c.,  with  the  Office  of  Heritable  Sheriff  of  Wigton, 
Car.  II.  1661,  c.  885,  yii.  864."  We  read  the  aboye  ae 
referring  to  one  and  the  same  person,  and  on  this  ground 
offer  it  for  Mr.  Foeter's  consideration.  In  the  nrinting 
of  Musgrave's  Obituary,  and  the  Lists  of  Marriage* 
(1650-1880),  both  yery  useful  sources  for  reference,  it 
would  haye  been  well  to  haye  inserted  in  br%cketa 
corrections  or  suggestions  for  the  correction  of  obyious 
errors  or  misdescriptions.  Thus,  for  "Anderson  of 
Tushawlon,"  on  p.  17  of  Musgrave's  Obituary,  should  be 
read  **  Tushielaw,"  a  name  enshrined  in  the  lays  of 
the  Ettrick  Shepherd.  In  the  same  Obituary,  at  p.  20, 
i,v.  "  Anstruther  (Hon.),  Francis,"  for  "  son  of  the  Earl 
of  Newark  "should  be  read  '* Lord  Newark,"  the  title, 
itself  erroneously  claimed  and  assumed  by  the  Anstru- 
thers,  having  been  a  barony,  not  an  earldom.  We  are- 
aware,  of  course,  that  Mr.  Foster  is  here  reprinting^ 
and  it  was  necessary  to  giye  the  tptittima  verba  of  hie 
authority,  but  it  was  none  the  less  necessary  from  time 
to  time  to  correct  the  inaccuracies  of  the  original  In  w 
work  of  such  considerable  dimensions  as  the  presentL 
extending  to  nearly  eight  hundred  pages,  there  must 
needs  be  portions  of  greater  general  interest  than  others. 
But  we  must  confess  to  hayins  been  rather  agreeably 
surprised  by  the  names  which  met  our  eye  in  the 
Begister  of  Marriages  at  Qray's  Inn  Chanel.  There  are,, 
no  doubt,  many  which  do  not  offer  the  slightest  prospect 
of  genealogical  interest,  bu^  on  the  other  hand,  there 
are  not  a  few  yery  suggestiye  of  a  new  souree  of  infor- 
mation as  ta  the  refugee  families  in  England.  Such 
names  as  Cayallier,  Van  Boxstand,  Lefeuer,  Duchesne, 
are  likely  to  arouse  the  attention  of  all  students  of 
Huguenot  family  history,  who  may  possibly  here  find  a^ 
long  desired  link  in  a  chain  of  eyidence.  And  for  the 
general  reader  of  genealogical  works,  a  list  containin|»- 
entries  alike  of  Barham  and  of  Ingoldesby  (they  ought, 
to  have  made  a  match  of  it,  but  did  not)  can  scarcely  be 
said  to  be  deyoid  of  literary  interest  as  long  as  the 
**  Jaekdaw  of  Bheims  "  is  held  in  remembrance  amongr 
ns.  Mr.  Foster  has  done  a  good  work  in  bringing  these 
yaried  materials  into  a  form  ayailable  for  ready  refei- 
ence.  He  has  much  yet  to  do,  and  we  shall  look  forward 
with  interest  to  his  next  yolume,  which  we  hope  will 
contain  some,  at  least,  of  the  features  suggested  by  us  as 
tending  to  increase  its  permanent  yalne. 

Snglitk  Men  of  Leairt.^Bentley.    By  R.  C.  Jebb.— 

DuAeni,    By  A.  W.  Ward.    (Maomilian  &  Co.) 
"  Whxn  Greek  meets  Greek  "  the  result,  in  oases  like  the 
former  of  these  yolnmes,  is  a  masterly  biography.    Wa 


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€DppoM  that  few  persons  eoold  have  been  better  fitted 
to  undertake  the  memoir  of  the  great  critic  and  scholar 
of  the  Augustan  age  than  Dr.  Jebb.  The  learning  and 
research  that  but  suggest  a  larger  learning  and  research 
behind  are  present  on  eyerj  page,  and  those  whose 
knowledge  of  the  famous  controversy  concerning  the 
letters  of  Phalaris  is  deriTod  from  Macaulay*s  essay  on 
Temple  will  find  here  new  reason  for  distrust  of  that 
brilliant  historian.  Dr.  •  Jebb's  book  is  of  necessity 
largely  occupied  with  the  discussioii  of  Bentley*s  works ; 
but  the  account  of  the  domestic  life  of  this  "  warm- 
hearted, imperious  man  "  is  also  exceedingly  interestin]?, 
especially  that  passage  which  records  his  concern  at  the 
death  of  Bir  Roger  de  CoYerley.  But  some  of  Dr.  Jebb's 
academic  humour  is  a  tittle  grim,  witness  the  description 
of  the  famous  brasen  bull  on  p.  45. 

Prof.  Ward's  DkieM  is  hardly  on  a  lerel  with  Dr. 
Jebb's  BeniUy,  but  his  subject  presented  greater  diffi- 
culties—difficulties which  always  more  or  less  incommode 
the  biographers  of  the  recently  dead.  Mr.  Trollope  had 
to  write  the  life  of  Thackeray  without  letters  and  in  the 
face  of  an  expressed  desire  on  Mr.  ThackeraVs  part  that 
no  life  of  him  should  be  written  at  all.  Mr.  Ward  has 
bad  the  countenance  of  Mr.  Dickens's  family,  and  must 
therefore  be  aasumed  to  be  more  or  less  committed  to 
the  biographer  whom  Dickens  selected  for  himself  and 
who  was  tne  friend  of  his  children.  But  a  life  written 
from  an  anti-Forsterian  point  of  yiew  is  what  is  most 
wanted  at  present,  though  the  need  for  anything  inmi^ 
diate  is  not  Yery  argent.  The  *'  Men  of  Letters"  series 
would,  however,  hare  been  incomplete  without  some 
account  of  the  author  of  Pichnck,  and  Mr.  Ward's 
Tolume  falls  naturally  enough  into  its  place. 

The  ShahpeartPhrase-Book.    By  John  Bartlett   (Mac- 

mUlsA  &  Co.) 
Sivoi  the  first  publication  of  Mrs.  Cowden  Clarke's 
Coneordana  to  Shake»peare  the  task  of  arranging  a 
phrase  or  text  book  has  been  much  simplified.  Anotiier 
book  almost  equally  useful  to  workers  m  the  same  field 
is  the  Shakespeare  Lexieovi  of  Dr.  Alexander  Schmidt. 
With  all  allowance  for  aid  from  such  sources,  a  work 
like  that  2fr.  Bartlett  has  now  compiled  must  inYolre 
«reat  zeal  and  labour.  No  equally  Yoluminous  phrase- 
book  has  as  yet  seen  the  light  Omisnons  may,  of 
course,  be  found.    We  do  not,  for  instance,  find  the 

5hrase  from  the  Merchant  of   Venice  employed   by 
essica: — 

"  I  would  out-night  you  did  nobody  come." 
Nor  that  from  the  first  part  of  Henry  IV,  io  which 
recently  a  wide  publicity  has  1)^n  assigned,  '<  Doth  give 
us  bold  advertisement.*^  Juliet's  pathetic  and  ironical 
address  to  her  nurse,  "  Well,  thou  hast  comforted  me 
inaryellouB  much,"  and  many  other  phrases  of  equal 
significance,  do  not  appear.  We  are  not  disposed, 
boweyer,  in  this  instance  to  say  as  Sheridan  is  reported 
to  have  said  at  the  sight  of  Dodd's  BeavAiee  of  Shake- 
tpeare,  '*ThiB  is  all  very  well,  but  where  are  the  other 
eleven  yolumes?"  It  is  easy  to  believe  that  a  man 
wading  laboriously  and  frequently  through  Shakspeare 
may  arrive  at  the  conclusion  that  certain  phrases  which 
to  another  man  have  a  deep  meaning  are  of  little 
significance  without  the  context  In  the  case  of 
Shakspeare,  however,  the  only  rule  is  to  give  the  reader 
the  benefit  of  the  doubt  and  insert  everything.  As  it 
stands,  Mr.  Bartlett's  volume  extends  to  more  than  a 
thousand  pages.  To  those  who  seek  phrases  from 
Shakspeare  it  will  have  much  utility,  and  scholars  who 
do  not  possess  the  more  important  works  to  which 
we  have  made  previous  reference  may  also  find  it  of 
service. 


The  Bibliographer,  Vol.  I.  (Stock.) 
Thb  Bibliographer  has  completed  its  first  volume,  and 
attained  to  the  glory  of  its  first  title-page,  on  which,  with 
the  addition  of  spectacles,  reappears  the  now  familiar 
eighteenth  century  student  of  the  cover.  The  editor  has 
fairly  fulfilled  the  promises  he  made  at  the  outset,  and 
the  subscribers  may  be  congratulated  upon  the  poaseaeicai 
of  a  bibliographicsl  organ  that  is  honestly  bibliographical, 
and  of  genuine  interest  and  value  to  book  lovers.  Deepite 
certain  ominous  indications  in  the  preface,  we  trust  that 
the  success  of  the  enterprise  will  not  be  marred  in  the 
future  by  any  attempts  to  over-popularise  it  A  specialist 
periodical  should  have  the  courage  to  be  special,  for  it  is 
its  surest  source  of  strength.  We  have  also  receiyed  the 
first  number  of  vol.  ii.  It  contains  an  instalment  of 
Mr.  Comyns  Carr's  recent  lectures  on  "  Book  Illustration,'' 
a  sketch  of  Feyerabend,  the  Frankfort  bookseller,  and 
other  interesting  papers. 

Ms.  J.  B.  Baiut  has  had  the  good  fortune  to  eorae 
in  contact  with  one  of  the  lost  volumes  of  John  Byrom's 
Journal,  He  is  not,  strictly  speaking,  its  discoverer,  bat 
it  is  to  him  we  owe  the  publication  of  a  portion  of  its 
contents  in  the  current  number  of  The  Palatine  NoU^ 
Book,  Byrom  was  perhaps  hardly  a  great  man,  but  he 
was  a  man  of  mark  in  his  day  and  noted  for  purity  of 
life  at  a  period  when  the  moral  virtues  were  common]^ 
disregarded.  He  is  noteworthy,  also,  as  being  one  of  the 
little  band  of  men  who  took  an  interest  in  Uie  '*  higher 
theology  "  in  days  when  most  people  thought  it  sufficient 
to  be  well  up  hi  the ''  evidences  "  and  to  avoid  eatfausiann. 
He  had  a  liking  not  only  for  mystical  reading  bat  also 
for  mystics  themselves.  One  of  the  strange  people  we 
come  across  in  these  notes  is  Edward  Elwall,  Uie  Jewish 
Arian  Sabbatarian,  as  he  is  here  called,  <^  whom  an  in- 
teresting account  appeared  some  time  ago  in  our  pages 
(6^  8.  iv.  fiO).  Though  tried  on  one  occasioa  for  blas- 
phemy, he  seems  to  haye  been  a  harmless  and  innocent 
E arson.  The  few  specimens  of  the  JownuU  Mr.  Bkiley 
as  given  will  be  interesting  to  all  students  of  eijghteenth 
century  life.  We  cordiallv  agree  with  him  in  think- 
ing that  the  complete  book  should  be  printed  by  the 
Chetham  Society. 

ExKT  AnGHAOLoaiCAL  SooiSTT.— MessTR.  Mitchell  h 
Hughes  have  just  issued  to  members  Vol.  XIV.  of  the 
Society's  Transadiom,  illustrated  by  portraits,  views  of 
churches,  houses,  &c. 


fit^Xitti  in  CorrfiTjpotiireitU. 

We  mvM.  call  special  oUenHon  to  thefoUomng  notice  t 
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address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  publication,  but 

as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

E.  B.  v.— Consult  Skeat's  Concise  Etymological 
Dictionary  of  the  English  Language. 

SooTus  (*'  Heraldic  Glass  at  Hassop").— In  your  former 
paper  (*•  N.  &  Q.,"  &^  8.  xii.  805)  you  only  appear  to 
have  described  shields  Nos.  1  and  2.  Kos.  3  and  4  are 
omitted  in  that  just  sent 

Fred.  W.  W.— Ton  should  address  yourself  to  some 
musical  journal 

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A.  (A.)  on  tho  pronunciation  of  Forbes,  897,  498 

A.  (E.  H.)  on  Bp.  Edmand  Keeno,  859 

A.  (H.  W.)  on  election  of  a  mole-catcher,  406 

A.  (J.)  on  W.  J.  Baitman,  814 

A.  (J.  8.)  on  Hooke  femily,  175 

A.  (L.  B.)  on  Mar  earldom,  452 

A,  (M.),  Oxon.,  on  Bailiff  of  Constontine,  188 

Gommnnicanti,  order  of  administering  to,  414 

Lambeth  degrees,  266 

''Nothing  venture  nothing  win,''  408 

jEtadnor  registers,  224 

"Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  53 
A.  (W.  B.)  on  Lord  Bobert  Stuart,  256 
Abaddon,  its  meaning,  188 
Abhba  on  anonymous  works,  28,  409 

Ireland  and  Scotland  in  Wiltshire,  888 

Jones  (Philip),  minister  of  Cirencester,  25 

Parsons  (Dr.  Richard),  bis  MS.  collections,  847 

Pate  of  Sysonby  arms,  409 
Accentuate,  a  new  word,  346 
Ao8  of  spades  in  bygone  days,   66;    caUed    "Old 

Mossy-face,"  107 
Ache  on  Esthnian  funeral  custom,  294 

Sepulchre  in  churches,  157 
Achil  Island,  article  on,  188 
Acland  and  Bansome's  •*  Political  History  of  Enriand 

to  1881,"  126  ^  ^ 

Acreme,  its  meaning,  88 
Adams  (T.)  and  Swift,  75,  97 
Adams  (W.)  on  gibbeting,  129 
Adamson  (W.)  on  Shipton  of  Lyth  Hall,  171 
Addy  (S.  O.)  on  Magathay,  a  place-name,  48 

Parochial  registers,  291 

Sydney  and  Sydenham,  215 
*AdesteFideles,"18 
Adjectiye,  verbal,  in  -ing,  426 
Adjectives  pluralised  in  English,  205,  251,  294,  495 
Advertisements,  **  coupon,"  206 
Aeronautics,  work  on,  408 
Agnosticism,  introduction  of  the  word,  489 
Ainsworth  (W.  H.),  his  interview  with  an  American, 

Aitzema  (Leo),  his  "Notable  Bevolutions/'  428 
**  Alastor  of  Augustus,"  135 
Aldrich  (Dean),  his  MSS.,  48 
Aldworth  (Bichard),  his  biography,  409 
Alewaston.    See  BlvaU<m, 


Alexander  (P.  F.)  on  "Don't  marry,"  471 

Alkermes,  its  derivation,  68,  216,  377 

"All  but"  followed  by  a  pronoun,  467 

Allen  mystery,  485 

Allsopp  (A.  P.)  on  Worcestershire  field-names,  185 

Alpha  on  the  derivation  of  Ohimere,  454 

Devil  and  the  best  hymn  tunes,  77 

Irving  (Washington),  877 

"Sir  John  Chiverton,"  126 
"  Amazon,  British,"  457 
American  nation  anatomically  considered,  406 
American  poets,  869 
American  States,  their  names,  866 
American  words  and  phrases,  65 
Ammonium  sulphide  a  restorer  of  faded  writing,  288, 

855 
Amusement,  places  of,  in  the  18th  century,  348 
Amyl,  its  derivation,  99 

Andersen  (Hans  Christian)  and  E.  BMmont,  246 
Anderson's  "Book  of  British  Topography,"  245,  297 
Angelo  (Michael),  lines  on  his  works,  7 
Angelus  bell,  229 
Anglesea  (Marquis  of)  and  the  Irish  agitators,  88, 

116,  178,  837 
Angus  (J.  K.)  on  the  pronunciation  of  Forbes,  498 
Anno  Domini  1881,  remarkable  events  in,  7 
Anon,  on  a  curious  book-plate,  305 

Brewer  (Bev.  J.  S.),  285 

Doll,  its  derivation,  206 

Fenkels,  its  meaning,  268 

"Flora  Domestica,"  286 

Jean,  gean,  jain,  or  jane,  68 

Misprint,  7 

Novels,  religious,  108 

Oak,  British,  208 

Polygamy,  forftdture  of  goods  for,  198 

St.  White  and  her  cheese,  832 

Scockered  :  Scrinchting,  266 

Treason,  high,  punishment  for,  9 
Anonymous  reviews,  volume  of,  405 

Anonymous  Works  :— 

Amoris  Effigies,  469,  499 
Anecdotes  of  Monkeys,  369,  417 
Anthropophagua ;  or,  a  Caution  to  the  Credulous 

74 
Beyond  the  Chureh,  16 
Cambridge  Guide,  New,  409 


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Anonymonf  Worki : — 

Clubs  of  London,  58 

Comic  Engliflh  Grammar,  259 

CoDJectares  inr  lee  Mdmoires  Originaux,  469,  499 

Craniad,  The;  or,  Sparzheim  Illugtrated,  248, 299 

Crayons  from  the  Commons,  449 

Delia  Nobilta  et  Ecoellenza  delle  Donne,  388 

Dialogues  in  a  Library,  398 

Dialogues  of  the  Dead,  117 

Economy  of  Human  life,  138 

Effort,  The  ;  or,  Fanny  Herbert,  369 

English  in  India,  259 

English  Churohwomen  of  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury, 409 

Epics  of  the  Ton,  259 

Essay  on  Medals,  349,  379,  399 

Essays  and  Reviews  Anticipated,  109 

Fiye-foot-highians,  209,  354 

Flora  Domestica,  286,  317 

Grounds  and  Occasions  of  Contempt  of  the  Clergy, 
&c.,  209,  239,  259,  338,  387,  452 

Harpings  of  Lena,  129,  209,  314,  370,  413 

History  of  all  the  Mobs,  &c.,  247 

Hiitory  of  the  Devil,  117,  159 

Imitatio  Christi,  70,  111 

Joseph  and  his  Brethren,  a  drams,  78,  257 

Journal  of  a  Tour  through  Egypt,  28 

Laws  of  Honour,  849 

Legende  Dor^  des  Freres  Mendians,  286,  885 

Letter  on  the  Gospel  o*  Dirt,  349 

Letters  on  the  Concert  of  Princes,  180 

Living  and  the  Dead,  169,  239 

Man  in  the  Moon,  50 

March  to  Moscow,  388,  418 

Misfortunes  of  St.  PauPs  Cathedral,  121 

Nouvelles  d'Elizabeth  Beyne  d*Angleterre,  127, 
159,  259 

Ode  to  the  Ancient  Britons,  269 

Old  Man  of  the  Mountain,  &c,  ISO 

Piozziana;  or,  Beoollections  of  Mrs.  Piozzi,  28,  59 

Plain  and  Familiar  Explanation  of  Passages  in 
the  Psalms,  28,  79 

Poems,  Moral  and  Entertaining,  468 

Poems  by  a  Young  Nobleman,  1 8 

Poems  (London,  Ridgway,  1832),  409 

Poetic  Mirror,  228,  359,  897 

Poetry  and  Criticism,  869 

Inflections  on  Antient  and  Modem  Musick.  245, 
293,  338 

Besponsibilities  of  Employen^  409 

Koman  Forgeries,  349,  399 

Boyal  Diary,  85 

Saint's  Legacies,  50 

Science  des  M^daiUes  Antiques  et  Modemes,  349, 
398 

Selim  and  Zslda,  and  other  Poems,  388 

Sir  John  Chiverton,  126, 169 

Sketches  of  Obscure  Poets,  28,  409 

Stokes  (George),  RecoUeotions  of,  869 

Systema  Agricultnne,  19 

Tales  of  the  WUd  and  the  Wonderful,  180 

Three  Black  Graces,  88  S 
'       Tour  in  Quest  of  Genealogy,  209,  279,  339 

Treatise  upon  the  Art  of  Flying,  408 

Voyage  h  rUe  de  France,  349,  399 


Anonymous  Works : — 

Whole  Duty  of  Man,  52,  99,  258,  306,  318,  33& 

Will  of  a  certain  Northern  Yicar,  209,  239 
Anstey  family,  30 
Anti- Junius  on  Junius  queries,  127 
Antimony,  its  etymology,  34 
Antiquary:  Antiquarian,  15 
Antiquary  on  Sandfbrd  £»mily,  48 
"Any when,"  56,  78, 189 
Apostles,  invocation  o^  487 
Apperson  (G.  L.)  on  '*  chain,"  applied  to  the  eye,  46S 

Mesmerism  not  new,  294 

Temperance  library,  86 

"  Wise  as  Waltham's  calf,"  199 
April  Folk-lore,  827,  417 
Archdeacon  on  "Yita  sine  Uteris,"  846 
Archiepiscopal  wig,  107 
Archimimus:  Clench  of  Bamet,  848 
Argo:  Drake^sship,  488 

"  Argo,"  by  the  Earl  of  Crawford  and  Balcarres,  171 
Aritfamology,  an  nnoommon  word,  166 
Ark  of  the  Covenant  at  St.  Michael's  Mount,  54 
Armorial  glass,  English,  44, 178 
Armour,  funeral,  in  churches,  58, 177>  217,  358,  458- 
Arms,  differencing,  8,  229;  of  colonial  and  missionaix 

bishoprics,  57,  91,  837 
Amwaye  (Thomas),   1608,    his    monument   at   St^ 

Margaret's,  Westminster,  486 
Arscott  £unily  pedigree,  110 
Art=Fine  art,  28,  178 

Articles  of  the  Church  of  England,  works  on«  82d 
Ashbum  (Christopher),  1558-9,  88 
Assize  of  bread,  &c.,  Northleaoh,  69,  216 
Astley  (J.)  on  a  Protestant  indulgence,  154 
Atkinson  (H.  G.)  on  Bacon  a  poet,  205 
Atkinson  (H.  J.)  on  a  Latin  Bible^  873 

Home,  eariy  guides  to,  414 
Attwell  (H.)  on  verbal  adjective  in  -ing,  42& 

Dove-tail,  its  derivation,  26 

Want  ways,  167 
Auhertin  (J.  J.)  on  «  Bred  and  bom,"  lh% 

Follett(SirWimam),  826 
Australian  heraldry,  104,128,180 
Aver-de-pois,  its  original  meaning,  25$ 
Averiguador  on  Bailiff  of  Constantine,  315 

Servia,  its  andent  empir^  276 
Axon  (W.  E.  A.)  on  Andersen  and  Bl^mont,  246: 

Leraosy,  its  Folk-lore,  323 

Lillo  (George),  his  «  Fatal  Curiosity,**  21 

Youdooism  in  the  United  Stotes,  285 

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B.  (A.)  on  "Make  a  leg,**  175 
B.  (Annie)  on  order  of  administering  to  oommunicants^ 
414 

"Daffy^own-dilly,"  415 

Sleepers  in  church,  807 
B.  (A.  H.)  on  toads  wordbipped  by  the  Molossians,  149 
B.  (A*  J-  <1«  H.)  on  '<  Resort,"  488 
B.  (A.  P.  A.)  on  Sir  Beniatd  de  Gunn,  246 
B.  (C.  M.)  on  the  causal  ''Do,"  53 
B.  (C.  T.)  on  Antiquary  :  Antiquarian,  15 

*<  Blessed  is  he  that  expeeteth  nothing,"  234 

"  Crayons  from  the  (Emmons,"  449 

Nicknackatory,  897 


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B.  (W.  C.)  on  Bebellion  of  1745,  87 

"  Unspeakable  Tark,»  466 

"Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  258 

B.  CB.  E.)  on  «  Auld  Robin  Ony,"  255 

Worids,  pluraUty  of,  393,  498 

B.  (B.  F.)  on  filial  affection  of  the  stork,  186 

B.  (W.  £.)  on  Anno  Domini  1881,  7 

B.  (F.  A.)  on  Bluestone==Poi8on,  478 

listen  Whitaker,  156 

B.  (Y.)  on  frank  pledge,  28 

Heraldic  query,  293 

Backstring,  its  meaning,  407 

Parochial  registers,  409 

Bacon  family,  87, 198 

B.  (O.)  on  the  Channel  Tunnel,  167 

B.  (G.  F.  B.)  on  Antiquary :  AntiquariaDj  15 

62  ;  a  poet,  205,  316 
Baddow,  Vicar  of,  117, 159 

Bacon  family,  198 

Brittas  (Lord),  197 

Bagnal  or  Bagenal  family,  494 

Buller  (Charles),  288,  477 

BaUiff,  his  office  and  duties,  149,  298 

Cludse  marine,  33 

Bailiff  of  Constantine,  188,  815 

ContriTed=:Wom  out,  75 

Baillie  (J.)  on  how  history  is  written,  426 

Corby  Pole  Fair,  446 

Baily  (J.)  on  Pomatum=Pomade.  176 

Coutts  (Thomas),  his  marriage,  139 

Bain  (J.)  on  BalUol  and  Valoines  families,  61,  389 

Devil's  Punchbowl,  near  Haslemere,  88 

Berengaria,  queen  of  Richard  I.,  6 

•'  DUlogues  of  the  Dead/'  117 
Bachard  (John),  387 

Courtenays  in  Scotland,  404 

Leslie  (Sir  Alexander),  27,  170 

£pergne,  its  derivation,  414 
Feathers,  superstitions  about,  196 

PUtepere,  a  game,  9 

Tallies,  reckoning  by,  35 

Fry's  "  Pantographia,"  173 
German  Church,  Trinity  Lane,  185 

Baitman  (W.  J.),  the  Alford  poet,  209,  314,  370,  413 

Baliol  (Ada  de),  her  parentage,  467 

Green-hastings,  198 
Greenwich,  East,  manor  of,  258 

Ballantine  (Serjeant),  the  supernatural  in  his  "Ex- 

periences," 368 
Ballantyne  (J.)  on  Irish  saints,  27 

"  HallabaUoo,*'  254 

Hearth  money  and  smoke  silver,  155 
Irving  (W,),  his  portraits,  278 

BallardfHTnily,  168,  316 

Ballinger(J.)  on  parochial  registers,  410 

Jean,  gean,  jain,  or  jane,  198 

"  Poems,  Moral  and  Entertaining,"  468 

Jennet,  its  etymology,  72,  176  . 

Balliol  and  Valoines  fitmUies,  61,  389 

Jonson  (Ben),  854 

Bane  :  Donald  Bane,  368 

Einnoull  (Earl  oQ,  192 

Banks  (E.)  on  Turner  and  the  "  Keepsake,"  488 

Loughborough  (Lord),  253 

Bannalyne  MS.,  passage  in,  267,  33^ 

Manchetloaf,  78 

Barbadoes,  letters  from,  1694-5,  64 

Mansfield  (Lord),  194 

-Bar-Point  on  Garrick  and  Junius,  27 

Marriage  between  English  and  Irish,  92 

Basire  (Isaac),  hU  "  Correspondence,"  265 

*'  Much  "  and  " Great,"  appUed  to  villagei,  355 

Bates  (W.)  on  elephants  destroyed  when  dangerous,  377 
"  Eripuit  caelo  fulmen,"  &c.,  288 
**  Fight  at  Dame  Europa's  School,"  130 

Peers,  their  signatures,  90 

Poet«,  sixpenny  editions  of  the,  254 
Polygamy,  forfeiture  of  goods  for,  198 

Printer*s  advertisement,  146 

Bavenscourt  Park,  291 

"Strawberry  HiU"  Catalogue,  441 

Bhedarium,  in  Park  Lane,  68 

Thomson  (J.),  bibliography  of  his  «  Seasons,"  395 
Tolson  (F.),  his  "Hermatheme,"  116 

8t.  Helena,  great  gale  at,  16 

Sate,  for  sat,  78 

"Too  too,"  386 

SUhouettes,  394 

Bathurst  and  Villers  families,  308 

Sleepers  in  church,  254 

Bathurst  (Theodore),  his  biography,  110 

Thomson  (James),  his  Poems,  333 

Bay :  At  bay.  its  etymology,  89 

Tom  of  Oxford,  874 

Bayly=Hal],  386 

Tomlins's  New  Town,  Paddington,  208 

Baylyearms,  76 

Wara,  its  meamng,  418 

Bayne  (T.)  on  Lord  Buckhurst,  312 

Warton  (T.).  his  **  Tunrip-Hoer,"  76 

Burns  (R.),  early  appreciation  of,  63,  333 

Wife-selling,  296 

De  Qninoey  (Thomas)  and  Dickens,  435 

Wranglers,  senior,  107 

Forbes,. its  pronun<;iation,  269 

B.  (J.  J.)  on  an  old  seal,  148 

Lamb  (Charles)  and  Bruce,  828 
"  Logic  o'Buchan,"  193 

B.  (J.  MoC.)  on  Browne,  Viscount  Montagu,  58 

"  DUry  of  a  Visit  to  EngUnd,"  384 

MandeviUe  (Sir  John),  186 

B.  (J.  N.)  on  a  curious  document.  348 

Pkalm  oil,  Tennant*s  transUtion,  232,  312 

B.  (J.  B.)  on  the  derivation  of  Chimere,  454 

"  There  's  Cauld  Kail  in  Aberdeen,"  433 

B.  (K.  H.)  on  miniature  of  Sir  R.  Peel,  109,  397 

Be,  as  a  prefix,  268,  395 

B.  (W.)  on  firstfmits  of  English  bishoprics,  828 

Beaven  (A.  B.)  on  Hare,  Baron  of  Coleraine,  30 

B.  (W.  C.)  on  Belfry,  its  etymology,  272 

Privy  Council,  87 

"Bred  and  born,"  318 

Pulteney  correspondence,  375 

"Imitation  of  Christ,"  98 

"Return  of  Memben  of  Parliament,'*  25 

"Make  a  leg,"  175 

White  ("Century"),  34 

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BeftieleyJA.)  on  GarriAgessBaggage,  76 
Beckfli  (llioinM  k),  relic  of,  68 
Beokford  (CoL  Peter),  GoTemor  of  Jumaice^  28 
Bede  (Cathbert)  on  Me  of  spadee  called  *<01d  Moesy- 
ftce,"  107  . 

Byron  (Lord),  hie  body  at  Melton,  428 

Dancing  maaten  in  1721,  126 

Diokene  (C),  his  novel  <<  Gabriel  Yardon,'*  887 

Howe  of  Lords*  dock  and  death  of  Geoive  ITT., 
805 

<'  Indian  Qoeen,"  a  sign,  207 

JubUe,  for  Jubilee,  245 

Kentish  scenery,  866 

Kings*  fingers  =  Purple  orchis,  429 

Lady's  smock :  Lucy  Locket,  447 

Linoolnshire  proTinoiaUsms,  817 

May  muggins,  408 

Mumping  Day,  7 

Oak-Apple  Day,  446 

Parochial  regitters.  278 

"Pincushion  Inn,**  7 

Vale  (Sam)  and  Sam  Weller,  826,  888 
Bedwardine^  its  derivation  and  meaning,  208, 888, 459 
Beer,  yard  of,  868,  894,  456 
Beethoven  (Lndwig  von)  and  Joseph  XL ,  887 
Begot,  curious  use  of  the  word,  207 
"Behold  the  Man,*'  anonymous  portrait,  208,  255 
Belfry,  its  etymology,  104,  168,  189,  271,  297,  429 
Bell  canons  or  cannons,  448 
Bell  cotes,  sanctns,  95,  296 
BeU  inscription,  68 
Bell-ringer,  epitaph  on,  26,  94 
Bella  Aqua  (Robert  de)  and  Dionysia  his  wife,  51 
Bellars  fiunilv,  69 

Bells,  their  dedication,  69,  216;  Gloucestershire,  220; 
angelus,  229;  iteration  of  their  chimes,  147,  254;, 
Tom  of  Oxford,  248.  374,  466;  their  *' coomb"  a 
cure  for  shingles,  845,  375,  475;  curfew,  north  and 
south,  347 
Benedicite=Benedici  te,  an  error,  406,  427 
Benson  (John)  and  Lord  Mansfield,  486 
Bentley  (Nathaniel),  of  Leadenhall  Street,  167*  269 
B^ranger  (J.  P.  de),  his  "  Hoi  d'Yvetot,"  9,  177,  358 
Berengaria^  queen  of  Richard  I.,  6 
Bessels  family,  Bessekleigh,  co.  Berks,  156,  217«  296 
Bib.  Cur.  on  books  on  special  subjects^  282,  468 
Bible:  Song  of  Solomon,  ii.  5,  32,  174;  St.  Luke 
xxiii.  15,  85, 187,  217,  378,  398;  1  Cor.  ii.  18, 165; 
Latin,  Nuremberg,  1520, 229,  878;  St.  Mark  ix.  86, 
288 

Bibliography:— 

Aitzema  (Leo),  "Notable  Revolutions,*'  428 
Articles  of  the  Church  of  England,  329 
Books  printed  before  1650,  57;  mildew  in,  187, 
474 ;  published  and  sold  on  old  London  Bridge, 
221 ;   ourious  English  theological,   17  th  cen- 
tury,  225;  name  and  date  printed  in,  227; 
on  special  subjects — XI.    and    xir.,    Junius*s 
Letters,  282,  341,  463;  bastard-title  and  half- 
title,  326 
Defoe  (Daniel),  "  Robinson  Crusoe,"  428 
''Disputatio  Christianorum  et  Judaeorum,**  209 
Drake  (Sir  Francis),  166 
Eaohard  (John),  387,  452 


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'<  Fight  at  Dame  Suiopa*s  School,**  180 

Oiberti  press,  1 

Gigantology,  247,  379 

Holy  Land,  Travels  in,  264 

Howison  (WiUiamX  148,  268 

**  Hypnerotomachia,  the  Strife    of  Love  in    a 
Dreamy"  847,  875,  497 

''HypoUte,  Comte  de  Duglas,*'  285,  817 

Italian  wedding  books,  207 

"Joseph  and  his  Brethren,'*  78,  257 

JnniuB^s  Letters,  282,  841,  463 

"  Man  his  Feild ;  or,  the  Exercise  of  Armes,"  4^ 

Mathematical,  268,  804,  426 

Milton  (John),  French  edit  of  '^ParadiM  Lost," 
421 

Periodical  literature,  exUnot,  846,  371 

Poets,  sixpenny  editions  of  the,  1 10,  253 

<<  Reynard  the  Fox,"  236,  299 

Bossel  (Robert),  486 

Scottish  Communion  Offioe,  164 

Shak^peare  (W.),  his  <' Passionate  Pilgrim,"  246  • 

"Strawberry  Hill*'  Catalogue,  441 

Thomson  (James),  188,  838,  895 

Tolson  (F.),  his  "  Hermathense,"  115 

Topographical,  245,  297 

*'  Twae  Freirs  of  Berwick,"  Aberdeen,  1622,  267, 
415,  456 

Walker   (Clement),  his    '^mstory  of  Indepen- 
dency," 208,  252 

"Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  62,  99, 258, 306,  318,  336 

Worlds,  plurality  of,  229,  392,  498 
"Bibliomania"  (<<Odds  and  Ends,"  No.  19),  407 
Bmgham  (Sir  Richard),  his  biography,  18,  54 
"Biographical    Peerage    of   the    Empire    of  Great 

Britain,"  468 
Birch  of  Paradise,  16 

Birch  (H.  W.)  on  funeral  armour  in  churches,  217 
Bird  (T.)  on  gun  money,  218 
Birdwood  (Sir  G.)  on  model  of  an  Indian  well,  809 
Bimie  of  Broomhill,  arms,  9 
Birth,  proving  its  date,  284 
Birthdays,  deaths  on,  116,  296 
Biscoe  family,  168 
Bishoprics,  arms  of  colonial  and  missionary,  67,  91, 

337;  firstfruits  of  English,  328,  435 
Bitto  and  Phainis,  epigram  on,  110,  278 
Black  Bartholomew.    See  St.  Bartholomew, 
Black  MaU.    See  if  aO. 
Black  (W.  G.)  on  Bluestone=Poison,  348 

Folk-lore  fix>m  Cyprus,  426 

Huntsman,  wild,  186,  476 

Irish  party  names,  446 

Japanese  proverbs,  166 

Mermaids,  references  to,  865 

"ReligioMedici,"146 

Toad  worship,  195 
Blair  (C.)  on  the  Channel  Tunnel,  146 
Blandford  (G.  F.)  on  old  house  in  Leadenhall  Street, 

270 
Blatherumskite,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  428 
BUydes  (F.  A.)  on  " Chemcirs  "  :  "  Le  Quabbe,"  229 

Parochial  registers,  211 
Blechenden  family,  888 
Bl^mont  (E.)  and  Andersen,  246 


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505 


Blenkinsopp  (E.  L.)  on  Boycotting  etymologioally 
considered,  207 

Cannon  or  canon  of  a  bell,  448 

GommunioantB,  order  of  administering  to^  477 

Malte  money,  478 

Silhouettes,  458 

"  Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  258 

Wig,  episcopal,  296 
Blookham  feast,  468 
Blood-guiltiness,  not  a  new  word,  75 
Blount  (Martha),  her  funeral  expenses,  425 
Blue8tone= Poison,  348,  478 
Bo,  in  "  bo-man »'  and  "  bo-peep,"  209,  357 
Boadioea  (Queen),  site  of  her  battle  with  Snetonins, 

281,469;  noticed,  426 
Boase  (F.)  on  T.  Pnrland,  Ph J).,  M.A.,  293 
Boase  (G.  C.)  on  royal  salutes  in  London,  78 
Bockenham  (Dr.),  his  biography,  388 
Boddington  (B.  S.)  on  Sir  John  Gierke,  188 

Peel  (Sir  R.),  miniature  of,  317 

Pelham  (Ber.  Mr.),  448,  497 
Boggis  fiunily,  129 

Bohemian  archsBologioal  magazine,  489 
Boilean  on  the  etymolofi^  of  belfry,  431 
Bokenham  (Captuns  William  and  Robert),  368 
Bolingbroke  (Henry  St.  John,  Y iscount)  and  Clarendon's 

"History,"  283,496 
Bonaparte  (Napoleon),  great  storm  at  his  death,  15 ; 

at  Elba,  281 
Bond  ( W.  B.)  on  transparent  prints,  455 
Bont»01d  man,  218,  356 
Bonython  family  of  Bonython,  413,  477 
Bonython  (J.  L.)  on  Bonython  fMnily,  413 
Book-binding,  half,  127,  285,  295 
Book-plates,  early  dated.  9,  78,  151 ;  their  exchange, 
46;    curious,   226,   305,   324,    457;    with  Greek 
mottoes,  296,  457;  Bp.  <rf  aonfert's,  1698,  346; 
portrait,  407 
B<K>k8.    See  BUKography, 
Books  gone  astray,  427,  466 

Books  reoantly  published : — 

American  Men  of  Letters,  180 
Asbjomsen's  Round  the  Tule  Log,  80 
Bartolozzi  and    his  Works,    by  A.  W.   Tuer, 

39 
Beckett's  Should  the  Revised  New  Testament  be 

Authorized  ?  340 
Belmore's    (Earl   of)    Histoiy    of   Two   Ulster 

Manors,  59 
Bible  :  The  Speaker's  Commentary,  yol.  x.,  19 
Bibliographer,  rol.  i.,  500 
Bibliographies   Gr^ographiques   Sp^ciales,    Liste 

Provisoire  de,  140 
Bristol,  Past  and  Present,  by  J.  F.  NichoUs  and 

J.  Taylor,  819 
Bromsgrore  Church :  its  History  and  Antiquitiefli, 

40 
Brown's  John  Leech,  and  other  Papers,  419 
Browne's  Religio  Medici,  99 
Buddha  and  Early  Buddhism,  by  A.  Lillie,  320 
Burke's  Reminiscences,  Ancestral,  Anecdotal,  and 

Historical,  400      • 
Calendar  of  Doonments  relating  to  Ireland,  1293- 

1301,  439 


Books  reoently  published  :— 

Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Venetian  Series,  1556-7, 

480 
Carlyle  (Thomas),  by  J.  A.  Fronde,  438 
Chap-books  of  the  Eighteenth  Century,  260 
Chamock's  Pnenomina,  359 
Chronicles  of  All  Saints',  Derby,  20 
Cruikshank    (Geoige),    Life    o^    by    Blanchard 

Jerrold,  299 
Derbyshire  ArchsBological  Society's  Journal,  vol. 

iv.,  420 
Dickens  (Charles),  Letters  of,  vol.  iii.,  100 
Dolet  (Etienne),  Martyr  of  the  Renaissance,  by 

R.  C.  Christie,  399 
Dutt's  (Torn)  Andent  Ballads  and  Legends  of 

Hindustan,  320 
Ellaoombe's  Account  of  the  BeUs  of  Glouoester- 

shire,  220 
English  Men  of  Letters,  80,  279,  499 
Familiar  Allusions,  200 
Fitch's  Lectures  on  Teaching,  299 
Fitzgerald's  Recreations  of  a  Literary  Man,  399 
Foster's  Collectanea  Genealogica,  toI.  i.,  499 
Foster's  Peerage,  Baronetage,  and  Knightage,  219 
Freeman's  Reign  of  William  Ruins  and  Accession 

of  Henry  L,  419 
Gardiner's  Fall  of  the  Monaioby  of  Charles  L, 

Yols.  i.  and  ii.,  99 
Genealogist,  voL  v.,  400 
Genji  Monogatari,  279 
Goadby's  England  of  Shakspeare,  100* 
Goethe's  Faust,  First  Part,  edited  by  Turner  and 

Morshead,  380 
Great  Artists,  100 
Great  Musicians,  239 
Great  Schoolmen  of  the  Middle  Ages,  240 
Green's  The  Making  of  England,  259 
Haigs  of   Bemersyde  :    a  Family  History,  by 

J.  Russell,  19,  106 
Halkett  and  Laing's  Dictionary  of  Anonymous 

and  Pseudonymous  Literature,  Vol.  i^  239 
Handbook  of  Cathedral  of  St.  Paul,  480 
Handbook  of  Political  History  of  England,  120 
Handbooks  of  Practical  Art,  200 
Hedges's  History  of  Wallingford,  60 
Horati  Flaoci  Opera,  360 
Hudson's  Greek  and  English  Concordance,  300 
Ingleby's  Occasional  Papers  on  Shakespeare,  120 
Law's  The  Thames :  Oxfi>rd  to  London,  140 
Lee's  Belcaro,  280 

Le  Tellier  (Michel),  par  N.  L.  Oaron,  459 
Letters  and   Papers,    Foreign   and   Domestic, 

Henry  VIH.,  420 
Luckook's  Studies  in  the  History  of  the  Prayer 

Book,  240 
Luys's  The  Brain  and  its  Functions,  140 
Machiavelli's  The  Prinoe,  380 
Maophail's  History  of  the  Religions  House  of 

Ploscardyn,  439 
Magdalen  College,   Oxford,  Notes  from  Muni- 
ments of,  479 
Miohel^  Critical  Inquiry  into  the  Scottish  Lan- 
guage, 418 
MOl  (James) :  a  Biography,  by  Prof.  Bain,  139 
Mm  (John  Stuart) :  a  Critidsm,  hjT^.  Bain,  189 

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{Ind«z  Sopptemcat  t«  th«  VoCat  and 
QnffiM.  with  jf«i  Ui,  Joly  tt,  im. 


Booki  reoontty  pabliihed  :— 

Monumento  Bitnalia  Eoclesis  AngEcanaB,  839 

Hooii*s  BaviMn' EoglUh,  60 

Horall*B  HiBtoiy  of  Modern  Italy,  299 

National  Portrait  Gallery,  Scharfs  Catalogue,  160 

Noble  Boke  off  Cookry,  360 

Old  Yoriuhire,  edited  by  W.  Smiili,  39 

Oar  Own  Goantiy,  vol.  iv.,  260 

Palgrave^a  VisionB  of  England,  460 

Paario  et  Miracula  Beati  Olaui,  119 

Pezxy*!  Greek  and  Roman  Sculpture,  879 

Beoordi  of  Bt  Micbael*B  Churofa,  Biahop^fl  Stort- 

ford;  160 
Boman  de  Benart,  public  par  Ernest  Martin, 

▼ol.  U  240 
Boyal   CommiBflion  on  Hiatorical  Manuioripte, 

8th  Beport,  180 
Soott'e  A  Poet*8  Barvest  Home,  840 
Selwyn  (Greorge)  and  hie  Contemporarien,  59 
l?ewell>  Sexton'B  Wheel  and  the  Lady  Fast,  280 
ShakBpeare  Pbrafle-Book,  by  John  Bartlett^  500 
8imoox*B  Early  Church  History,  359 
8keat*s  ConoiBe  Etymological  Diotionaiy,  380 
SonnetB  of  Three  CenturieB,  179 
Sonthey  (Bobert)  and  Caroline  Bowlee,  Corre- 

spondenoe  of,  79 
8taAley*B  Sermona  on  Special  Occasionfl,  880 
Stevene'e  Jottings  on  the  Stonehenge  Excursion, 

479 
Tsui  Goam,  Supreme  Being  of  the  Hottentots,  79 
Tamer's  Hypernmestra :  a  Qneoo-Egyptian  Mytii, 

120 
VignoU*s  Myth  and  Science,  199 
Wheater'B  History  of  Sherbum  and  Cawood,  479 
Tonge'e  ConBtitutional  History  of  England  from 

1760  to  1860,  380 
Yorkshire    Archeological     and    Topographioal 
Joamal,  part  xxyi.,  800 
Boon-days,  its  meaning,  37 
Booty  (Mrs.),  her  trial.  1687,  105,  158 
Bosh,  its  derivation,  38,  157 
Boswell  (James),  note  on  his  "  Johnson,"  26 
Boult  (J.)  on  British  Museum  Beading  Room,  116 

TinsMoney,  181 
Bowrake,  or  bow-shot,  manorial  custom,  209 
Boxer  (James),  American  author,  348 
Boyootting  etymologically  considered,  207 
Boyle  (Mary)  on  Countess  of  Orrery,  205 
Boys  (John),  the  dean,  sonnet  quoted  by,  485 
Brabrook  (A.  C.)  on  Lewisham  marriage  reginter,  187 
Brabrook  ^K  W.)  on  parochial  registers,  411 
Bradanrelioe.    See  JteUic, 

Bradley  (Dr.)  and  the  reformation  of  the  Calendar,  288 
Braham  family  of  CampBey  Ashe,  Suffolk,  327,  435 
Braithwaite  (J.)  on  henldic  query,  168 
Brasses,  removal  of  monumental,  468 
Bread,  assize  of,  69,  216 
Brecknock  (John),  treasurer  to  Henry  VI.,  78 
Breeding-stonessr Plum-pudding  stone,  56 
Brewer  (B.  C.)  on  adjectives  pluralized  in  English,  495 
"Benedioite,"  427 
<' Bred  and  bom,"  152 
Mesmerism  no  new  thing,  187 
"Stark  naught,"  57 
Toucheur,  a  servant  or  attendant,  287 


Brewer  (E.  C.)  on  *<  Was  cracified,  dead,  and  baziad,**  9 
Brewer  (Rev.  J.  S.)i  his  oontributions  to  llteEature, 

285,  415 
Brighton  fiekl-namep,  125 
Brisooe  (J.  P.)  on  poll  books,  94 
Britain,  its  indigenous  trees,  37,  176 
"Briti;AAmason,''457 
Britidi  Museum  reading  room,  its  deBigner,  45,  70, 

98,  116;  and  evening  study,  86 
Brito  on  monumental  brasses,  468 

<*HBrpingsofLena,*'210 

Poets,  sixpenny  editions  of,  110 
Briton  on  foreign  place-names,  472 
Brittas  (Lord),  his  biography,  68.  91, 197 
Britten  (J.)  on  « Adeste  Eideles,"  18 

Beetle  Folk-lore,  386 

"BuU*smUk,"166 

Chuck,  use  of  the  word,  91 

"  Fk)ra  Domestical"  317 

Gombeens  Moneylender,  217 

Irish  popular  ballads,  6 

Opiet,  its  meaning,  193 

Renege,  its  meaning,  396 

Toad  and  the  centipede,  448 

Waitres8»Parlourmaid,  136 
Brixton,  statue  at,  147 
Brock  (Sir  Isaac),  KB.,  commemorative  medal,  148, 

236 
Brocklesby  (Richard),  his  ''Reflections on Moaick," 

245,  293,  838 
Brooke  (R.  8.)  on  anecdote  of  Swift,  106 
Brown  (J.  R.)  on  vicar  of  Baddow,  117 
Browne^  Visoount  Montagu,  58 
Browne  (Elias),  of  Norwich,  clockmaker,  149,  255 
Browne  (Sir  Thomas),  notes  on  his  "Beligio  Medici,^ 

102,  182,  248;  edit  of  1874,  146 
Browne  (Wm.),  of  Tavistock,  poet,  147 
Browning  Society,  its  publications^  360 
Brace  (Michael)  and  Lamb,  328 
Bransell  (Dr.  Henry),  his  msrriage,  6$,  133 
Buckhurst  (Sackvilleb  Lord),  his  burial-place,  188,  812 
Buckinghamshire  words,  206 
Buckler  (C.  A.)  on  Bobert  Phaire,  the  regicide,  55 
Buckley  ( W.  E.)  on  "  All  upon  the  merry  pin,"  877 

Bannatyne  MS.,  334 

*<  Come  across,"  94 

«  Economy  of  Human  Life,"  138 

"Felix  quem  faciunt,"  &&,  113,  476 

"French  leave,"  496 

Heralds  crowned  with  vervun,  483 

"Hypnerotomachia,"  497 

**  Let  me  light  my  pipe,"  &c.,  16 

'<  Medicus  curat,"  &c.,  35 

«MolaRo8aram,"307 

Morland  arms,  87 

«  Roman  Foigeriea,"  399 

<* Science  des  MMaiUes,"  398 

Shak8peare(W.),  his  "Passionate  Pilgrim,*'  246 

Steme  (L.)i  his  "Tristram  Shandy,"  11 

Talon,  its  etymology,  394 

Tolson  (F.),  his  "  Hermathene,"  115 
BuUen  (A.  H.)  on  Charles  Lamb,  411 
Buller  (Charles)  and  the  cabinet  of  1847,  288,  4Ii 

477 
Bunker's  Hill  as  an  English  place-name,  57, 175,  295 


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507 


Bnrud,  isolated,  258 

Buried  alive,  a  tale  of  old  Cologne,  117, 159, 195,  i82 

Burke  (Edmund),  his  marriagee,  295,  274 

Burke  (T.  H.),  his  murder,  445 

Bums  (Robert),  early  appreciation  of,  68, 184, 199,  888 

Bums  (W.  H.)  on  books  printed  before  1550,  57 

Keene  (Bp.  Edmund),  859 

Longlond  (Bp.),  his  sermons,  259 

Moore  (Thomas),  Bishop  of  Norwich,  892 
Burnt  sacrifice  in  1859,  192 

Bushnell  (R.)  onRavenscroftPark,  Hammersmith,  208 
Bussock,  a  provincial  verb,  86,  117,  154,  217 
But:  "All  but,"  467 
Butler  (J.  D.)  on  posture  at  table,  868 
Byrom  (John),  his  **  Journal,*'  500 
Byron  (G^eorge  Gordon,  6th  Lord),  his  portndt  by 
West,  84, 116;  his  body  passing  through  Melton,  428 
Byron  (Lady),  her  answer  to  her  lord's  **  Farewell," 
408 

0 
0.  on  Sir  James  Dyer,  269 

Jennet,  its  meaning,  72 
0***  on  the  pronunciation  of  Kerr,  97 
O.  ^B.)  on  shiver,  verb  active,  471 
O.  (D.  F.)  on  the  pronunciation  of  Forbes,  417 
C.  (H.)  09  Nishan-i-Imtiaz,  38 
C.  (H.  J.)  on  the  derivation  of  Dido,  198 

"  Hip,  hip,  hurrah  !»•  139 
C.  (S.)  on  General  0*8ulUvan,  147 
C.  (T.)  on  Christopher  Ashbum,  88 

Costanus,  a  Christian  name,  68 

Manifest,  its  derivation,  149 
C.  (T.  W.)  on  «  Medicus  curat,"  &c.,  119 

Bushton  Hall,  inscription  at,  197 
C.  (W.  A.)  on  bell-ringer^s  epitaph,  94 

Mottoes,  ancient,  214 
0.  (W.  H.)  on  "  Rock  of  Ages.'»  89 
C.  (X.)  on  Teagle :  Sectacle,  49 
Cafleel  or  Casseel  (G.  V.),  engraver,  809 
Gaistor,  in  the  county  of  Lincoln,  129 
Calcuttensis  on  books  published  and  sold  on  old  London 
Bridge,  221 

Casts  of  &ces  of  historical  personages,  885 

Devil's  Punchbowl,  Haslemere,  194 

Feathers,  superstitions  about,  55 

Forbes,  its  pronunciation,  498 

Heath  (Charles),  engravings  by,  847 

Hedges  (Sir  WillUm),  88 

James  IL,  letters  on  Ireland  to,  863 

Manehet  loaf,  88 

Phillips  (Teresia  Constantia),  178 

Portraits,  fiilse,  of  public  characters,  85 

"  Straight  as  a  loitch,*"  837 

Task  of  a  parish,  172 

Thames  embankments,  188 

"Value"  and  ** Thought,"  their  prontmciatiOD, 
426 

William  IIL  as  a  husband,  235 
Calendar,  its  reformation  and  Dr.  Bradley,  288 
Cambridge,  Library  of  Trinity  CoUege,  81, 101, 181, 

201,  801 
Cambridge  LL.B.  and  B.C.L.,  209,  385 
Cambridge  Senior  Wranglers,  107 
Gamer.    See  Earner. 
Campbell  fiunily  of  Carradale,  835 


Canadian  token  or  medal,  148,  236 

Canal  legislation,  429 

Cannon  or  canon  of  a  bell,  448 

Canute  (King),  a  parricide,  9, 172 

Cap,  Pbjrygian,  444 

Caravat,  an  Irish  party  name,  446 

Cardinals,  Lnsh,  406 

Cards,  deck  of,  91,  116,  178,  214,  877,  474 ;  ace  of 

spades,  66,  107;  Tarots,  86, 198 
Carey  (Patrick),  his  poemti,  447 
Carmidiael  (C.  H.  B.)  on  Bella  Aqua  :  Eykering,  51 

Campbells  of  Carradale,  835 

Giberti  (Giovanni  Matteo),  Bp.  of  Verona,  1 

Gunn  (Sir  William),  890 

KinnouU  (Earl  of),  191 

Leslie  (Sir  Alexander),  112,  251 

Parochial  registers,  811 

Biddell  of  that  ilk  and  Ridel  or  Rudel  of  Blaye, 
482 
Carriages:  Baggage,  76 
Carter  (W.  F.)  on  John  Brecknock,  78 
Carthusian  on  Charterhouse  School,  10 
Casts  of  liftceB  of  historical  personages,  8S5,  417 
"  Catholicon  Anglicum,"  notes  on,  24,  74. 154,  218 
Cavendish  (Lord  Frederick),  his  murder,  445 
Gazette  (M.  de),  his  prophecy,  18, 174 
Celer  on  the  etymology  of  tennis,  78 
Cenomanni,  its  etymology,  848 
Centenarianism,  69, 194 
Centipede  and  the  toad,  448 
Chain,  applied  to  the  eye,  468 
Chaise  marine,  83 
Chambers  (O.  L.)  on  Si  Bfark  iz.  86,  288 

«  Whole  Duty  of  Man,''  318 

Words,  rhymeless,  298 
"Chambers's  Journal,"  its  fiftieth  year,  60;  verse 

in,  429 
Chance  (F.)on  "At  bay,"  89 

Belfry,  its  etymology,  104,  271,  429 

£r,  pronounced  as  ''ar."  150 

Hdoe,  its  etymology,  849 

L,  Latin,  and  Uin  French,  261 
Changed,  a  Sufifolk  word,  406 
Channel  Tunnel,  its  dangera,  146 ;  Hook's  lines  on, 

167;  essay  of  Academic  d'Amienn,  1751,  226 
Chapman  (J.  H.)  on  deaths  on  birthdays,  296 

Parochial  registers,  211,  810 

Stainley,  South,  custom  at,  245 
Charing,  Kent,  distich  on,  92 
Charity :  Love,  as  equivalent  terms,  884 
Charles  L,  his  vision,  168, 194, 437  ;  bells  rung  on  the 

anniversary  of  his  martyrdom,  288 
Charles  II.,  his  hidmg  places,  28,  73,  173, 196,  338 
Chamock  (R.  8.)  on  "  Alkermes,"  its  etymology,  216 

Bedwardine,  its  derivation,  459 

Bonython  fisunily,  477 

Buckinghamshire  words,  206 

Chemdrs,  its  meaning,  857 

Chiswick,  Cheshunt,  &o.,  157 

Comubled,  its  meaning,  834 

Dohnen,  its  meaning,  412 

Eboracum,  its  etymology,  182 

«'  Guy,  The,"  a  field-name,  476 

Hibgame  surname,  254 

Honiton,  its  etymology,  413 


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{Inda  8«p»l«»CDt  to  the  Netii  tmA 
QiMKici,  with  No.  la,  Jolj  tt,  itst. 


Chamock  (R.  B.)  on  Jennet,  its  etymology,  71 
Mister,  Old  English,  113 
Mol*  RoMrum,  417 
Ogley  Hay,  254 
Par^ow  family,  435 
Bemillion,  a  female  Christian  name,  88 
Simmerin=Frimrose,  117 
Sydney  and  Sydenham,  215,  416 
Trees  of  Britain,  176 
Westenhanger,  its  etymology,  353 
Witwall,  434 

Charterhouse  School,  dinner  on  Founder's  Day,  10 

Chatterton  (Thomas),  his  portrait  by  Gainsborough, 
867 

Chattodc  (G.)  on  Heigham,  a  place-name,  83 

Chaucer  (Geoffrey),  *'Such which,"  in  the  "Pro- 
logue," 76;  Fiedler's  German  version  of  the  "  Can- 
terbury Tales,"  187,  214;  and  St.  Jerome,  445 

"Cheap  Magazine,"  287,  495 

Cheese  (J.)  on  the  siege  of  Chepstow,  36 

Chemdrs,  its  meaning,  229,  357 

Chepstow,  its  siege,  36,  176 

Cheshunt  and  similar  place-names.    See  Chuwick. 

Chess  and  the  game  of  Tables,  143,  255,  818 

Chester  (Earls  of)  and  Hugh  Despenaer,  18 

Chester  (Col.  J.  Lemuel),  his  death,  440,  460,  480 

Cheyne,  its  derivation,  96 

Child  (Sir  Josiah),  his  "New  Discourse  of  Trade," 
809,  858,  875 

Chimere,  its  derivation,  268,  454 

Chislehurst,  Kent,  curiosities  at,  468 

Chiswick,  Cheshunt,  and  similar  place-names,  157 

«  Chiverton's  Book,"  an  old  obituary,  288 

Choctaws,  courtship  among,  465 

Christening  sheet,  56,  159 

Christian  names :  Bemillion,  33 ;  Costanua^  68 ; 
Patience,  a  man's  name,  95 ;  James,  before  1258, 
257 ;  their  assumption,  445 

Christie  (R.  C.)  on  Franoiscus  Spinula,  885 

Christmas  and  mistletoe,  14,  175 

Christmas  cards,  their  introduction,  10,  155,  376 

Christmas  Day  on  a  Sunday,  7 

Chrysoloras  (Manuel)  in  England,  366 

Chuck,  use  of  the  word,  91, 175,  278 

Church  discipline,  modem,  886, 499 

Church  floors,  sloping,  18 

Church  registers,  their  preservation  and  publication, 
141,  211,  283,  248,  273,  291,  310,  329,  409,  435, 
449,  492 

Churches,  thatched,  56, 174 ;  funeral  armour  in,  58, 
177,  217,  858,  458 ;  sepulchre  in,  96,  157,  197 ; 
service  after  a  suicide  in,  126;  sleepers  in,  127,  254, 
807 

Churchill  (W.  S.)  on  numismatic  query,  172 

Cilgemm  on  Rev.  Emanuel  Phaire,  837 

Clarendon  (Edward  Hyde,  Earl  of)  and  Bolingbroke, 
288,  496 

Clarissa  on  Bishop  Gibson,  89,  336 

Clark's  "  Penny  Weekly  Dispatch,"  Ac.,  345,  871 

ClariLC  or  Clark  (Jeremiah),  musician,  73, 117 

Clarke  (C.  P.)  on  convent  of  the  Cross,  Jerusalem,  107 

Clarke  (Hyde)  on  the  causal  "Do,"  53 
Bboracum,  ito  etymology,  69,  233 
Parochial  registers,  411 
TittsMoney,  131 


Clench  of  Bamet,  848 

Clergy  prohibited  by  Parliament  from  weaving  far 

capes,  172 
Gierke  (Sb  John),  knighted  1772, 188 
Clevehmd  (Thomas,  Eari  of),  his  sons,  278 
Clifton  (Sir  John)  and  Lady  M.  Talboys,  228 
Clk.  on  Sarah,  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  448 
Cldture,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  126 ;  no  novelty, 

244 
Clouston  (W.  A.)  on  "  History  of  the  Seven  Wise 

Masters,"  354 
Clyne  (N.)  on  "  Wonder  "  as  an  adverb.  156 
Coaches  first  used  in  Scotland,  367,  497 
Cock-a-Dobby,  hill  near  Sandford,  169,  293 
Cockle  (Sir  J.)  on  mathematical  bibli(^[raphy,  268 
Coffee :  Fontenelle  or  Voltaire  1  93 
Coimbra  (Don  Pedro^  Duke  of),  bom  A.D.  1892,  429 
Coinage,  popular  names  for,  17,  179 
Coincidences,  125,  345 

Coins  :  sixpence  of  Victoria,  1840,  9,  172 ;  bawbee, 
William  and  Mary,  17 ;    gun  money,  118,  218  ; 
Manx  halfpenny,  1839,  868 
Cole  MSS.,  vol.  xliii.,  128 
Cole  (EmUy)  on  Sir  Bernard  de  Gunn,  333,  391 

Hare,  Baron  of  Coleraine,  30 

Ink,  led,  258 
Cole  (Henrietta)  on  peers  signing  their  sumafaies,  90 
Colebrook  (J.)  on  the  episcopal  wig,  36 
Coleman  (E.  H.)  on  the  American  States^  366 

Chuixdi,  curious  service  in,  126 

Hare  an  Easter  emblem,  17 

Japanese  custom,  187 

Leadenhall  Street,  old  house  in,  270 

Poets,  sixpenny  editions  of  the^  258 

Roarer :  Kere-supper  :  Sconce,  98 

"  Ruglen  "  marriages,  169 

Vessel,  first  iron,  206 

Yorkshire  and  Hastings  customs,  408 
Coleraine  (Hare,  Baron  of),  29 
Collier's  Water,  Croydon,  489 
Cologne,  old,  tale  of,  117,  159, 195,  432 
Colonel,  early  use  of  the  word,  256 
Common  Prayer  Book  of  the  Church  of  England : 
"  Was  cradfied,  dead,  and  buried,"  9,  272,  457 ; 
Elizabethan  quarto  edit.,  63;   rule  for    keeping 
Easter,  265 
Commons  House  of  Parliament,  "  Return  of  Mem- 
bers," 25 
Communicants,  order  of  administering  to,  286, 414,  477 
Communion  Office,  Scottiih,  164 
Compliment,  curious,  846 
Condercum,  its  locality,  305 
Conghurst  of  Congerhurst,  oo.  Kent,  228,  356 
Constable  (J.   G.)  on  Earls  of  Chester  and  Hugh 
Despenser,  18 

Daroy  family,  8 

Denman  (Nicholas),  128 

Hereward  le  Wake,  818 

Lincolnshire  field-names,  83 
Constantino,  Bailiff  of,  188,  315 
*'  Contrast,  The :  Right  and  Wrong,"  67 
ContrivedsWom  out,  75 
Conundrum,  its  etymology,  96 
Cooke  (J.  H.)  on  the  etymology  of  belfiry,  297 

Polygamy,  forfeitnre  of  goods  for,  88 


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Cooke  (J.  H.)  on  Wonder  aa  an  adverb,  197 
Cookes  (H.  W.)  on  ancient  demesne,  268 

Edward  VI.  and  hia  sisters,  149 

Heniy  VIII.  and  the  fiffmers,  33 
Coolidge  (W.  A.  B.)  on  "  Imitotio  Christi,*'  111 
Coomb  off  church  bells,  845,  875,  475 
Copy,  dividing,  83 ;  bad,  and  good  printers,  46,  72 
Corby  Pole  Fair,  446 

Cordiner  (C),  his  "Antiquities  and  Scenery,"  &c.,  88 
Comubled,  ito  meaning,  189,  834 
Cornwall,  its  ancient  kings,  28,  75 
Cornwall  (Barry),  anagram,  167 
Costanns,  a  Christian  name,  68 
Costobadie,  or  De  Costobadie,  of  Auvertnie,  427 
Cotgrave  (Bandle),  his  biography,  246,  355 
Cottell  (W.  H.)  on  Fnrlong  iamUy,  49 

Leane  (Bev.  Mr.),  69 
Connty,  application  of  the  word,  846,  496 
Coupon  advertisements,  206 
Court  martial,  curious  sentence  by,  444 
Courtenay  family  in  Scotland,  404 
Courtesy  tities,  7, 137 
Courtship  among  the  Choctaws,  465 
Coutts  (Thomas),  his  marriage,  108,  139,  152 
Cowper  (William),  the  original  John  Gilpin,  489 
Coze  (Jason),  Long  Acre,  clockmaker,  489 
Craigie  (David),  his  anouymous  reviews,  405 
Cranke,  origin  of  the,  45 

Creyke  (Sir  Wm.),  Knt.,  of  Collingham,  York,  136 
Crocodile,  its  fabulous  tears,  447 
Cromlech,  its  etymology,  108, 198,  411 
Cromwell  (Oliver),  portrait  of  his  mother,  10,  134 
Crookes  (St  J.)  on  **  Mais  his  FeUd,"  469 
Cross  Fleuiy  on  Jason  Coxe,  489 
CrouchmassChristmas,  168,  316 
Crown,  English,  black  pearls  in,  188 
Crump  (J.  H.)  on  church  discipline,  386 

Oob,  its  meaning,  238 

Madock  or  Maddock  family,  129 

Outward :  Eamer,  269 
Crusader  before  the  Crusades,  268 
Cuckoo  flower,  its  names,  447 
Cummings  (W.  H.)  on  Jeremiah  Clarke  or  Clark,  73 
Cunningham  (T.  S.)  on  Capt  William  Cunniugham,  268 
Cunningham  (Capt.  Wm.),  his  biography,  268,  359 
Curfew,  north  jmd  south,  347 
Curiosity  on  fonts  of  the  Bestoration  period,  9 
Customer^Custom  house  official,  187,  334 
Cdtts  (J.  E.  K.)  on  parochial  registers,  141 
Cyprus,  Folk-lors  from,  426 
Csar,  its  orthography,  237 

D 
D.  on  Don  Pedro,  Duke  of  Coimbra,  429 

Expressions,  new-fangled,  392 
D.  (C.)  on  '*  Fortuitous  concourse  of  atoms,"  148 

Sleepers  in  church,  127 

"  Twae  Preim  of  Berwick,"  415 
D.  (C.  J.)  on  a  curious  epitaph,  827 
D.  (B.  H.)  on  funeral  armour  in  churches,  58 
D.  (F.),  Dutch  engraver,  809 
D.  (Q.  S.)  on  Bir.  and  Mrs.  Mattocks,  110 
D.  (J.)  on  battle  between  Suetonius  and  Boadicea,  281 

Chimere,  its  derivation,  454 

Eboracom,  its  etymology,  131 


D.  (J.)  on  Teagle  :  Sectade,  216 

D.  (J.  B.)  on  are  toads  poisonous  t  418 

D.  (J.  B.)  on  T.  Borland,  Ph.D.,  M.A.,  &o.,  168 

Strong  (Frederick),  bookseller,  187 
D.  (J.  W.)  on  plurality  of  worlds,  393 
D.  (R.)  on  Guido*s  <*  Aurora,"  147 

Irish  popular  ballads,  74 
''Daffy-down-dilly  is  coming  to  town,"  287,  415 
Dancing  masters  in  1721,  126 
Daniell  (Thomas),  B.A.,  his  paintings,  88 
Danish  Folk-lore,  6 
Danothy  Hall,  murders  at,  8 
Danum,  ito  locality,  305 
Darcy  family,  8 
Darling  family,  887 
D*Aulnoy  (Madame),    her    ''Hypolite,    Comte    de 

Duglaa,"  285,  317 
Davies  (C.  J.)  on  Landlord  =slnnkeeper,  369 
Milton  (John),  his  grand-nephew, '386 
Parslow  &mily,  288 
Spring  Folk-lore,  867 
Davies  (T.  L.  O.)  on  Depart  as  a  verb  active,  194 

Wales,  Princesses  of,  85 
Davis-Tregonwell    tomb    at    St    Margaret's,   West- 
minster, 128,  171,  213,  234,  295,  319,  351 
Daviion  (B.)  on  Bisooe  family,  168 
Davison  (B.  J.  W.)  on  Bathurst  and  Villers  families, 

308 
Dawson  (W.  H.)  on  the  meaning  of  Gressome,  447 
Day  (R.),  jun.,  on  book-plates,  846 

Ecclesiastical  plate,  27 
Dead,  in  the  Apostles*  Creed,  9,  272,  457 
Deane  (W.)  on  Mary,  Queen  of  Soots,  86 
Death,  curious  reprieve  from,  386 
Deaths  on  birthdays,  115,  296 
Deck  of  cards,  91,  116,  178,  214,  377,  474 
Deering  (Nathaniel),  American  poet,  869 
Dees  (K.  B.)  on  Aver-depois,  256 

Indulgence,  Protestant,  10,  270 
Defniel  on  curious  use  of  the  word  railway,  26 
Defoe  (Daniel),  his  "  History  of  the  Devil,"  117, 159  ; 

edit,  of  **  Robinson  Crusoe,**  428  ;  his  portrait  by 

Eneller,  465 
De  la  Pryme  (C.)  on  poll-books,  46 
Delevingne  (H.)  on  curious  theological  books,  225 
Demesne,  ancient,  268 

Denman  (Nicholas),  of  Hull,  his  pedigree,  128 
Depart,  as  a  verb  active,  45,  194 
De  Quincey  (Thomas)  and  Dickens,  267,  435 
De  Baedt  baronetcy,  267 
Descartes  (Ren^  and  St.  Augustine,  268,  417 
Despenser  (Hugh)  and  the  Earls  of  Chester,  18 
Dess,  its  meanings  and  etymology,  99 
I>evil*s  Punchbowl,  near  Uaslemere,  88,  194 
Devils  photographed,  808 
«  Devotionale  Cartusia  [¥]  Efordiensis,"  869 
Dew  (G.  J.)  on  are  toads  poisonous  f  82 
"  Diary  of  a  Visit  to  EngUnd  in  1775,"  384 
"Diary  of  an  Irish  Gentlemao,*"  1761,  89 
Dioey*s  chap-books,  it  at  their  end,  369,  478 
Dickens  (Charles)  and  De  Quincey,  267,  435 ;  Sam 

Vale  and  Sam  Weller,  326, 388;  his  novel  **  Gabriel 

Vardon,"  387 
Dickinson  (John),  author  of  the  <' Fanner's  Letters,"* 

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Dido,  its  deriyatioD,  88,  154,  198,  397 

Biodati,  its  pronimciAtioii,  407 

"Dispatatio  Christtanorum  et  Jadsoram,**  209 

Dixon  (J.)  on  word  sense  and  word  sound,  808 

Do,  the  causal,  68, 179 

Dobson  (A.)  on  Marylebone  Fields,  89 

Dobson  (W.)  on  Banker's  HiH,  57 

I^moaahire  custom,  186 

Turner  (Biohard)  and  teetotaUsm,  77 
Docoment,  curious,  848 
Doll,  its  derivation,  200,  884,  476 
Dolmen,  its  etymology,  198,  411 
Domino,  used  by  omnibus  driven,  229 
Dongane  (Ghulterus),  148 
Doran  (A.)  on  Fiy's  "  Pantographia,'*  27 
Dorsetshire,  its  traditions,  148,  255,  879  ;  Welshmen 

in,  177 
Dove-tidl,  its  derivation,  26,  177 
Drage,  its  meaning,  86 
Dragoons,  7th,  in  1745,  87,  198 
Drake  (Sir  Francis),  his  bibliography,  166 ;  his  ship, 

488 
Dray=  Squirrel's  nest,  56 
Drec^  (J.  I.)  on  Lord  Buckhurst,  812 

Gennan  Church,  Trinity  Lane,  185 

Gibson  (Bp.  Edmund),  879 

Moore  (John),  Bp.  of  Norwich,  891 
Dremess  Jewels,  468 
Drinking-cup,  motto  for,  109, 155,  895 
Drinks,  effervescing,  84 
Drowe,  its  meaning,  86 
Doffkin  or  Doffkin  (J.),  merchant,  286 
Duncan  L  and  II.,  Kings  of  Scotland,  408 
Dunn  (E.  T.)  on  plurality  of  worlds,  893 
Dupont  (M.),  French  antiquary,  47 
Durham  Book,  or  G^Mpels  of  St.  Guthbert,  184 
Duromagus,  authority  for  the  name,  447 
Dyer  (Sir  James),  Chief  Justice  temp,  Elizabeth,  269, 

897 
Dyson  ( W.  C.)  on  "  Straight  as  a  loitch,"  28 


E.  on  a  Plrotestant  indulgence,  154 

B.  (C.  J.)  on  Beaiels  of  BesseUleigb,  156 

SS.  affixed  to  a  RotuluB,  208 
E.  (D.  O.  C.)  on  '<Bred  and  born,"  318 

Hallywell  (Henry),  217 

Bavenscourt  Park,  291 
B.  (G.  F.  S.)  on  the  etymology  of  dove-tail,  177 

Negus,  curious  misprint,  204 
£.  (H.)  on  Yorkshire  subsidy  rolls,  287 
E.  (H.  T.)  on  epitaph  on  a  bell-ringer,  26 
E.  (J.  P.)  on  Mrs.  Booty's  trial,  105 
B.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  "  Behold  the  man,"  255 

^Hilaris  gens,"  &&,  187 

Malte  money,  195 

Manurial,  a  new  word,  266 

Oath,  foresters',  107 
E.  (Bl)  on  the  old  laws  of  Virginia,  66 
E.  (M.  S.)  on  dives,  for  primroses,  449 
Eachard  (John),  his  «  Some  Observations,'*  &o.,  387, 

452 
Eamer^Nearer,  269,  496 

Earwaker  (J.  P.)  on  ammonium  sulphide  and  &ded 
writing,  855 


Earwaker  (J.  P.)  on  Jacobite  relic,  51 

Parochial  registers,  248 
East  India  Company,  its  barge,  229 
Easter,  date  of  the  first,  125,  298,  416,  477;  Prayer 

Book  rule  for  keeping,  265 
Easter  egga,  95,  174 
Easter  emblem,  the  hare,  17 
Eboracum,  its  etymology,  69, 131,  219,  238 
Ecclesiastical  plate,  27 
Edgcumbe  (R.)  on  sate,  for  sat,  37 

Shelley  (P.  B.),  his  Ode  to  Mont  Blanc,  443 
Edmond  (J.  P.)  on  early  appreciation  of  Bums,  199 

"Legende  Dor^"  286 

Scottish  Communion  Office,  164 

"  Twae  Freirs  of  Berwick,"  267 
Edward  of  Lancaater,  his  death  at  Tewkesbury,  6,  75, 

176 
Edward  YI.  and  his  sisters,  149,  277 
Edwards  (C.  J.)  on  « Cascade,"  by  Buysdael,  287 
Eerie,  its  etymology,  827,  496 
Egypt,  painting  of  flight  into,  36 
Eieofuga  of  Euclid,  884 
Elephimt,  Henry  IIL*s,  385 ;  represented  on  a  miserere 

seat,  434 
Elephants  destroyed  when  dangerous,  202,  877  ;  thor 

prices  by  admeasurement,  306 
Eliot  (George),  '*  Essays  and  Beviews  Anticipated,'* 

109 
EUacombe  (H.  T.)  on  Navvy^sNavigator,  417 
EUoee  on  buried  alive,  a  tale  of  old  Cologne,  432 

Rhymeless  words,  317 
Ellenborough  (Lord)  and  Sir  William  FoUett,  326 
Ellice  :  Ellis,  origin  of  the  name,  374 
EUxs  (A.  S.)  on  Hereward  le  Wake  :  Countess  Lucj, 
813 

St.  Margaret*s  charchyard,  Westminster,  234 
ElHs  (F.  R.)  on  an  early  dated  book-plate,  9 
Ellis  (G.)  on  Temple  Bar,  326 
Ellis  (Rev.  William),  letters  to,  161,  205 
Elstob  (Elizabeth),  scholar  and  authoress,  343 
Elvaston  or  Alewaston,  its  etymology,  73 
Elwes  (D.  G.  C.)  on  the  name  Howaiti,  94 

Raleigh  (Sir  Walter),  portrait  of,  487 
Else  (K.)  on  Shakspeariaoa,  124 
''Emancipation  Oak,"  Holwood  Park,  146 
Jfepergne,  its  etymology,  269,  414,  475 

Epigrami:— 

Bitto  and  Phainis,  110,  278 

Bursar  of  St.  John's  CoR,  Oxford,  95 

Episcopal  wig,  36,  173,  296 

Epitaphi  :— 

Anslie  (Bryan),  in  Lee  Church,  465 

*'  Audax,  capax,  sagax,  efficax,  pertinax,"  287 

**  Enclosed  within  this  humble  bed,"  46 

*<  Good  natur'd,  generous,  bold  and  free,"  327, 874 

Johnson  (Maggoty),  157,  238 

Marten  (Henry),  at  Chepstow,  50, 196 

Farlet  (Thomas),  at  Lynn,  306 

Phelps  (John),  at  Yevey,  345 

Binger,  in  Bromigrove  Church,  Worcestershire^ 

26,94 
Tax-gatherer,  in  Eing's-Norton  Church,  266 
Tomer  (Richard),  at  Preston,  77 


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<*  WhOe  here  interred  the  Tirgins'  aehes  lie,"  46 

Yardlej  (William),  in  St.  Martin's  Charch,  Lud- 
gate  HUl,  877 
Eques  on  the  name  James  before  1258,  257 

Mar  earldom,  405,  493 
Er,  its  pronunciation  as  ''ar,**  150,  194 
Erokmann-Chatrian,  '*Le  Joif  Folonais,*'  ActeL  so.  7, 

415,  477 
Esoaeta,  its  meaning,  S27»  455 
Este  on  '*  Accentuate, "  a  new  word,  846 

British  Museum  Reading  Room,  45 

"  Ck>upon  "  advertiflementB,  206 

Italian  wedding  books,  207 

Johnson  (Dr.)  an<^  Dr.  Taylor,  468 

Luckman  (M.),  pnnter,  415 

Mezzofanti  (Cardinal),  16 

Rome,  early  guides  to,  244 

Silhouettes,  458,  494 
Esterhaxy  (Prince  Paul),  his  biography,  489 
Eitodet  (A.)  on  the  Channel  Tunnel,  226 

Eboracum,  its  etymology,  238 

Fish-hooks,  79 

«HaUabaUoo,"254 

Hevham,  place-name,  83 

*'  2£ui  proposes,  but  God  disposes,*'  98 

Motto  for  a  drinking  cup,  395 

"Too  too,"  37 
Eustaohins  Vioecomes,  t  W.  C,  248,  875 
Evans  (Dr.  Abel),  epigram  on,  95 
Eyans  (E.  T.)  on  a  deok  of  cards,  178 
Evans  (J.)  on  "  Sir  John  Chiyertoo,"  169 
Excommunication,  Spanish  sentence  of,  43,  172 
Expressions,  new-fangled,  865,  892 
Eykering,  in  Rufford  charters,  51 
Eyton  (Rev.  R.  W.),  his  MS.  collections,  82 


F.  (G.  L.)  on  Christmas  and  mistletoe,  14 

Fenton  (Elijah),  his  translation  of  Oppian,  278 

William  lY.  as  a  husband,  84 
F.  (J.  P.)  on  a  yard  of  beer,  394 
F.  (J.  T.)  on  the  derivation  of  Cromlech,  103 

Excommunication  and  cursing,  172 

Fonts  of  the  Restoration  period,  317 

**  Joseph  and  his  Brethren,"  78 

Nocium,  a  false  word,  45 

Parochial  registers,  212 

Shingles,  cure  for,  875 

Wasnaling  in  Gloucestershire,  64 

Wolf  on  the  arm,  204 
F.  (W.)  on  the  ddture  no  novelty,  244 

Mangan  (James  Clarence),  276 

"  Medious  curat,"  Ac,  199 
F.  (W.  G.  D.)  on  Anderson's  <'Book  of  British  Topo- 
graphy," 245 

Southam  (John),  109 

Squire  Papers,  448 

Suits  of  hundreds,  &a,  809 
Fa|^  (L.)  on  the  British  Museum  Reading  Room,  98 
Fairs,  provincial,  79 
Falkirk,  battle  o(  a  correction,  127 
Fama  on  the  Rev.  Richard  Parsons,  894 

Rushton  Hall,  inscription  at,  115 
Farrer  (E.)  on  book-plates  with  Greek  mottoM^  296 


Farrer  (B.)  on  communicants,  order  of  administering 
to,  477 

Surrey  Folk-lore,  155 
Fatherland,  introduction  of  the  word,  806,  456 
Fawaley  and  the  Knightiy  family,  208 
Fea  (A.)  on  Charles  II.'s  hidmg  places,  29 
Feathers,  superstitions  about,  55,  196 
Federer  (C.  A.)  on  "Too  too,"  97 
Fencing  match  in  Maiylebone  Fields,  17,  39,  78 
Fenkels,  its  meaning,  268 

Fenton  (Elijah),  his  pedigree,  129,  286  ;  his  transla- 
tion of  Oppian,  278 
Fenton  (G.  L.)  on  Articles  of  the  Church  of  England, 
329 

Eboracum,  its  etymoloigy,  182 

Fenton  (Elijah),  129 

Reynard  the  Fox,  236 

Song  of  Solomon,  iL  5,  83 

Worlds,  plurality  of,  893 
Fenton  (Richard),  noticed,  279,  389 
Ferguson  (R.  S.)  on  parochial  registers,  409 
Fern  ashes,  their  use,  56 

Fettiplaoe  (Robert),  his  birth  and  parentage,  829,  478 
Few  family,  307 
Fflitteras,  its  meaning,  407 

Field-names,  Lincolnshire,  83  ;  Brighton,  125 ;  Wor- 
cestershire, 185,  856 
"Fight  at  Dame  Europa*s  School,"  and  literature 

connected  with  it,  130 
Figuier  (Louis),  English  critic  on,  809 
Finkel,  a  place-name,  257,  475 
Fisher  (G.)  on  "  Anecdotes  of  Monkeys,"  417 

Anonymous  works,  259 

Dyer  (Sir  James),  897 

Eustaohius  Ylceoomes,  875 

Honiton,  its  etymology,  413 

"  Hypnerotomachia,"  497 

Latin  Bible,  873 

Marlborough  (Sarah,  Duchess  of),  293,  471 

Moore  (Thomas),  Bp.  of  Norwich,  392 

Suits  of  hundreds,  &c.,  486 

Witwall,  484 
Fiih-hookfl^  flint  and  mother-o'-pearl,  79  - 
Fishing  proverbs^  91 

Fishwick  ^Caroline)  on  Christmas  cards,  10 
Fishwick  (H.)  on  *'  Flagging,"  its  meanings,  826 

HaUywell  (Henry),  157 

Parochial  registers,  4 1 1 
Fitsgerald  (Wm.),  Bp.  of  Clonfert,  his  book-plate,  316 
Fitzherbert's  "  Boke  of  Husbandry,"  467 
FitzPatrick  (W.  J.)  on  relic  of  Irish  Parliament,  132 
FUggbg,  its  meaning^  326 
FlaU,  Protestant,  486 
Flame  (Lord).    See  Maggoty  Johmon, 
Flarb,  its  meaning,  267,  415 
Fleetwood:  Shelley,  448 
FletcherssCasoade  or  waterfall,  449 
Fletcher  (Lady),  her  second  marriage,  467 

Folk-lore:— 

April,  827,  417 

Booties,  886 

Candlemas  Day,  inn  shining  on,  106,  155 

Cat,  tender,  99 

Cock  iTOwing,  46, 178 


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f  Tadnt  BoMlaBCDt  to  th«  Holct  mi4 


iH«.lM»  Jnlrll.li 


Folk-Ion  :- 

Crocodile's  iaaxs,  447 

CypriAo,  426 

Damahy  6 

Devil  and  a  halfpenny,  408 

Eggs  and  egg-shells,  76 

Feathers,  55, 196 

Funeral  custom,  Esthnian,  186,  2d4 

Ghosts  in  New  Zealand,  153 

Guernsey,  155 

Huntsman,  wild,  186>  476 

Kentish,  266,  415 

Leprosy^  823 

Marriages  in  May,  429 

Moon,  sin  to  point  at^  14,  54 

Opals,  388 

Shingles,  cure  for,  345,  375 

Spiders  poisonous,  93,  197 

Spring,  367 

Voudooism  in  the  United  States,  285 

Weather  breeders,  346,  497 

Weather  sayings,  406 
FoUett  (Sir  William),  saying  about,  326 
Fontenay  Abbey,  Dnpont's  history  of,  47 
Fonts  of  the  Bestoration  period,  9,  177,  817,  358 
Forbes,  its  pronunciation,  269,  316,  397,  417,  498 
'*  Foreign  Office  List,"  25,  58 
Forrega,  its  meaning,  409 
Forrel,  its  derivation  and  meaning,  256 
Fortnight,  modem  diiuse  of  the  word,  266 
"  Fourth  estate,"  origin  of  the  term,  16 
Fowke  (F.  B.)  on  Christmas  cards,  376 

Cromwell  (Oliver),  his  mother,  134 

Gob :  Gazel,  114 

Horse-dealing  proverb,  427 

Tarots,  playing  cards,  86 
Fowler  (G.  H.)  on  Arsoott  pedigree,  110 

Malte  money,  88 
Framery  on  Grassinaum  :  Dongane,  148 
France^  genealogy  in,  56 
Frauds  (John),  publisher  of  the  <*  AthenAum,**  his 

death,  300 
Francis  (Sir  Philip),  his  marriage,  309,  335,  372,  416 
Franion,  its  etymology,  489 
Frank  pledge,  28,  436 

Franklin  (Benjamin),  Montgomery's  lines  on,  288 
Fraser  ( W.  N.)  on  Earl  of  Kinnonll,  191 
Fraxinus  on  bastard-title  and  half-title,  326 
Fraybug,  its  meaning,  489 
Frazer  (W.)  on  firstfruits  of  bishoprics,  485 

James  II.,  anonymous  letters  to,  321,  861,  401, 
484 

**  Peace  with  honour,"  496 

Post,  penny,  167 

Yandyck  (Sir  A.),  his  '*  Time  clipping  the  Wings 
of  Love,"  197 
**  Free  trade,"  origin  of  the  phrase,  437 
Freelove  (W.)  on  *<  Single  Speech  "  Hamilton,  19 
Junius*s  Letters,  842 
"  Poetic  Mirror,"  228 
"Tak  time  in  time,"  199 
Thomson  (James),  his  Poems,  188 
Freemason,  its  derivation,  48,  178 
Frenchmen,  their  stature,  468 
Frere  (G.  E.)  on  the  pronundatton  of  Forbes,  498 


Fretton  (W.  G.)  on  **  Much  **  and  «  Great,"  applied  t» 

villages,  355 
Frost  (F.  C.)  on  buried  alive,  196 

Heraldic  query,  229 
Fiy's  "  Pantographia,**  27, 178 
Funeral  armour  in  churches,  58, 177,  217,  358,  45S 
Funeral  custom,  Esthnian,  186,  294 
Furlong  family,  49 
Fumess  Abbey,  its  history,  209 
Fynmore  (R.  J.)  <m  William  Fynmore^  898 

Stubbs  funily,  68 
Fynmore  (William),  lawyer,  Jamaica,  398 

G 

G.  (A.  H.)  on  the  etymology  of  ghetto,  58 

G.  (F.)  on  Martha  Blount's  funeral  expenses,  425 

Pope  (A),  inventory  of  his  goods,  363 

«Scmtin  de  liste"  and  *'scrutin  d'arrondissa 
ment,**  84 

Turner  (J.  M.  W.),  his  houses,  867 
G.  (G.  L.)  on  date  of  the  jQirst  Easter,  416 

Moon,  the  *'  parish  Untem,"  288 

Surrey  Folk-lore,  106,  345 

Thaw,  rapid,  226 
G.  (H.  S.)  on  Lichfield :  Johnson  family,  146 
G.  (J.)  on  early  appreciation  of  Bums^  134 
G.  (S.)  on  gibbetmg,  386 

Siuver,  as  a  verb  active,  828 

Tax-gatherer's  fate,  286 

Worcestershire  Viutations,  478 
G.  (W.)  on  bowrake,  or  bowshot^  209 

Willoughby  (Jeremiah),  329 
G.  (W.  J.)  on  "  Too  too,"  97 
G.  (W.  L.  D.)  on  Grosny  Castle,  448 
Gahotas,  West  Indian  fruit,  68,  818 
Gainsborough  (Thomas),  his  portrait  of  Ohatterton,  367 
Gallier,  its  meaning,  225,  356 
Game  of  twen^  questions,  468 
GantiUon  (P.  J.  F.)  on  Anstey  fiunily,  31 

"Anywhen,'*56 

«<  Bred  and  bom,"  152 

Orosius,  Italian  translation  of,  188 
Gardiner  (S.  B.)  on  Rushworth's  collection^  325 
Gardner  (J.  S.)  on  the  Phrygian  cap,  444 
Garibaldi  in  England,  464 
Garrick  (David)  and  Junius,  27,  51 
Gateley  Park,  Herefordshire,  49 
Gatty  (A.)  on  fonts  of  the  Restoration  period,  85S 

Hook  or  Hooke  fSEunily,  92 

'*Peace  with  honour,"  846 

Purland  (T.X  Ph.D.,  &c.,  817 
Gatty  (0.  T.)  on  an  Indian  weU,  286 
Gawler,  a  place-name,  847 
Gay  (John),  *«  Gay»s  Chair,"  284 
Gazels  Black  currant  tree,  114 
Genealogy  in  France,  56 
Genet  or  oennet.    See  Jennet. 
Gentles=Maffgots,  68,  216,  437 
George  III.,  House  of  Lords*  dock  stopping  at  Mo 

death,  305,  885 
German  Churdi,  Trinity  Lane,  185 
German  '<  Vollcsbuch,"  115,  252 
Gerunde  &mily,  5 
Ghetto,  its  etymology,  58 
GhoetBBtm  walk,  405 


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513 


Gibbeting  near  Stourbridge,  129,  235,  836 
Gibbs  (H.  H.)  on  an  Mzabethan  Common  Frajor 
Book,  63 

Longden  (Thomas),  277 

Patience,  a  man*8  name,  95 

«  Was  craoified,  dead,  and  buried,*'  273 
Gibbs  (B.)  on  parochial  registers,  449 
Giberti  (Giovanni  Matteo),  Bp.  of  Verona,  and  the 

Giberti  press,  1 
Gibson  (Edmund),  Bp.  of  London,  89, 116,  836,  878 
Giganto^ogy,  its  bibliography,  247,  379 
Giliray  (Jamea),  his  "L*.^JBembl^  Nationale/:  69 
Gilpin  (John),  the  original,  489 
Gissing  (A.  F.)  on  the  meaning  of  '*  Gob,"  416 
Glanirvon  on  John  Knibb,  dockmaker,  829 
GlanTille-Bichards  (W.  U.  S.)  on  Wm.  Browne,  poet, 

147 
Glass,  English  armorial,  44, 178 
Glasscock  (J.  L.),  jun.,  on  Bishop  Gibson,  836 

Morant  (PhiHp),  14 
Glastonbaiy,  "the  town  of  oaks,**  14, 177 
Glouoestor^re^  wassailing  in,  64 
Gloncefltershire  heralds'  visitations,  849,  473 
Gob,  its  meaning,  114,  238,  416 
Gombeen»Money-lender,  187,  217 
Gome  or  GU>nmie  (Christopher),  goldsmith  of  Bow 

Lane,  187 
Gomme  (G.  L.)  on  a  guild  custom,  46 

Gunn  (Sir  Bernard  de),  382 

"  Histoiy  of  the  Seven  Wise  Masters,"  248 
Gordon  (CfHP^Oi  of  Charles  X.'s  Swiss  Guards,  149 
Goese  (E.  W.)  on  Gnfajeux  d'etprU,  107 
Gosselin  (H.)  on  the  derivation  of  Cromlech,  198 

Gob :  Gaze],  114 

Much  and  Great  applied  to  villages,  88 
Gown,  legal,  425 

Chraduals,  outside  of  the  British  Museum,  308 
GnMlwell  family.    See  Oreite, 
Gradwell  (B^  on  a  Crusader  before  the  Crusades,  268 

Greile,  Gredey,  ftc,  466 
Grassinnum  CoUctfium,  148,  236 
Graves  (A.)  on  \^'s  portrait  of  Byron,  84 

Seabury  (Bp.),  his  portrait,  318 

Walter  (J.),  painter,  279 

Ward  (J.),  painter,  397 
Gray  (G.  J.)  on  earliest  dated  book-plate,  78 

Hawe8fimiUy,294 

Hawes  (Sir  James),  110 
Gray  (Thomas),  unpublished  j«tix  d^esprit  of,  107 ;  his 

heraldic  beaiingi^  149 
Great,  as  appUed  to  viUages,  88,  855,  459 
Great-grandson  on  John  Benson  and  Lord  Mansfield, 

486 
Green  (E.)  on  Boman  Catholic  martyroL  1586-1681, 

23, 168,  402 
Greene  (Sir  Heniy),  Lord  Chief  Justice,  1862, 369, 431 
Greene  (J.)  on  "Greenian  Philosophy,"  808 
Greenfield  (B.  W^  on  St  White  and  her  cheese,  881 
Green-hastiDg8a£arly  peas,  68, 198 
Gieenhin  (WT  A.)  on  Browne's  «<  Beligio  Medici,"  182 
*'  Greenian  PhihMophy,"  by  Bobert  Greene,  808 
Greenstreet  (J.)  on  Yaloigns  Barony,  142 
Greenwich,  East,  manor  ci,  358 
GrsUe,  Gredey,  Gieddle,  or  Gradwell  fiynily,  466 
Oranoms^  its  meanuig,  447 


Greville  family,  388 

Griffinhoofe  (H.  G.)  on  ''Handsome  Charley,"  49 

Griffith  (Sir  George),  Ejit,  his  pedigree,  18 

Groome  (P.  H.)  on  Earl  of  Kinnoull,  1650, 129 

Grosny  Castle,  Jersey,  its  history,  448 

Grueber  (H.)  on  Bichard  Harington,  108 

Grundy  familv,  352 

Guernsey  Polk-lore,  155 

Guest  (General),  1745,  his  Inography,  149,  193 

Guffin,  ito  meaning  and  derivation,  54,  174 

Guido  Beni,  lines  on  his  "Aurora,"  147 

Guild  custom,  curious,  46 

Gmsborough,  discovery  of  alum  at,  265 

Gunn  (Sir  Bernard  de),  military  engineer,  246,  332,  390 

Gunn  (Sir  William),  his  biography,  246,  390 

Guy,  The,  a  field-name,  229,  357,  877,  476 

Guv  (B.)  on  "  Tak  time  in  time,"  114 

Gykring.     See  Eykerirtg. 


H.  on  Duncan  1,  and  IL,  408 

Parochial  registers,  411 
H.  (A.)  on  Bolingbroke  and  Clarendon,  496 

Eboraoum,  its  etymology,  132 

Parochial  registers,  492 
H.  (B.  W.)  on  Bellars  family,  69 
H.  (G.  A.)  on  Murillo's  picture  of  St.  John,  75 
H.  (C.  J.)  on  Wray=Udall,  258 
H.  (F.)  on  Swinfen  and  Grundy  fiimilies,  852 

Trafidgar,  memories  o^  838 
H.  (G.  H.)  on  "  Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  99 
H.  (H.  P.  0.)  on  Tunworth  or  Tumworth  Manor,  269 
H.  (J.  C.)  on  *"  Beyond  the  Churoh,"  16 
H.  (J.  F.)  on  a  christening  sheet,  159 

Churches,  thatohed,  174 
H.  ^J.  J.)  on  heraldic  query,  87 
H.  (L.  L.)  on  Hare,  Baron  of  Coleraine,  30 

Hinde  (Bev.  Nathaniel),  117 

Houses  with  secret  chambers,  897 
H.  (B.  P.)  on  Bobert  Lettioe  Hooper,  9 

Parochial  registers,  292 
H.  (S.)  on  funeral  armour  in  churches,  217 

Guy,  The,  a  field-name,  857 

Ma^n  (Henry),  the  regicide,  474 

Stowey  and  Stow  Ball,  874 

Supernatural,  belief  in,  868 

Sydney  and  Sydenham,  415 
H.  m.)  on  Teagle :  Sectade,  216 
H.  (W.  F.)  on  religious  novels,  376 

«  Was  orudfi^  dead,  and  buried,"  272 
Hackwood  (B.  W.)  on  parochial  registers,  492 
Haig  (J.  B.)  on  ''Conjectures   sur   les  M^moires 
Originaux,"  469 

Deck  of  cards,  91 

Haigs  of  Bemersyde,  106 
Haig  (Margaret)  on  Bitto  and  Phalnis,  110 
Haigs  of  Bemersyde,  19,  106 
Haiktone  (E.)  on  Sir  Bernard  de  Gunn,  383 

"  Wise  as  Waltham's  calf,"  7 
Hal^ett  (Sir  James),  Knt,  of  Pitfirrane,  110 
Hall  (A.)  on  Danum :  Condercum,  305 

Meams  of  KinoardUneshire,  275 

Stepleton  pedigree,  58 

Tudor  (Jaqwr),  154 
HaDaballoo,  ito  ecology,  147,  254 


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1  India  8aml«inint  to  th«  Kotoi  Aa4 
1  QnertM,  with  Vo.  JM,  Jolj  tZp  UBL 


Halliwell-Phillipps  (J.  O.)  on  »  reference  in  Malone,  1 49 
HallvweU  (Henry),  miniater  of  Ifield,  96, 157, 217, 879 
HftUyweU  (Henry),  vicar  of  Cowfold,  96, 157, 217, 879 
Hamilton    (Wm.    Gerard),    or    "Single-Speech,**  a 

Janius  claimant,  19 
«  Handsome  Charley,"  49 
Hanger,  in  plaoe-namei.    See  Wettenhanger, 
Hankin  sniname  in  London,  1700-1800,  268 
Hardman  (I.  W.)  on  Countess  of  Osaory,  488 
Hardy  (W.  J.)  on  earliest  dated  book-plate,  151 

Hnssey  (Lord)  and  the  Lincolnshire  Bebellion,  8 
Hare,  Baron  of  Coleraine,  29 
Hare  an  Easter  emblem,  17 
Hare  (8.  V.)  on  Thomas  Daniell,  RA.,  38 
Harford  (F.  K.)  on  Hogarth's  only  landscape,  67 
Harington  (Richard),  his  biography,  108 
Harrison  (W.)  on  bamt  sacrifice  in  uie  Isle  of  Man,  192 

Johnson  (Maggoty),  157 
Hartshome  (A.)  on  Sir  Henry  Greene,  431 
Mottoes,  ancient,  214 
Silbouettes,  498 
Harvest  custom,  56 

Haslemere,  Devil's  Punchbowl  near,  88, 194 
Hastings,  old  custom  at,  408 
Hastings  story,  408 
Haunted  houses,  829,  896 
Hautbaige  on  the  Cole  MSS.,  128 

Wara,  its  meaning,  287 
Hawes  family,  Sussex  and  Suffolk,  149,  294 
Hawes  (Sir  James),  Knt,  Mayor  of  London,  110,  235 
Hayes  (T.  J.)  on  James  Clarence  Bfangan,  168 
Haynes  (H.  W.)  on  "  Sweetness  and  light,**  437 
Hayward  (John),  D.D.,  his  life  and  writings,  180 
Hearth  money,  156 

Heath  (Charles),  outline  engravings  by,  847 
Heaton  (J.  H.)  on  a  curious  compliment,  84 & 
Death,  a  reprieve  from,  386 
Johnson  (Rev.  Richard),  448 
Hedges  (Sir  William),  1688,  88,  285 
Heigiiam,  place-name,  its  derivation,  S3 
Heine  (Heinrich),  passage   in  his  ''English  Frag- 
ments,'* 32 
Heloe,  its  meaning  and  etymology,  28,  349 
Helsby  (T.)  on  parochial  registers,  435 
Helyar  (W.  H.)  on  Sir  Richard  Bingham,  54 
Hems  (H.)  on  fonts  of  the  Restoration  period,  177 

Funeral  armour  in  churches,  58 
Hemsworth   (J.  D.)  on  William  de  Wannervills 

Maigery,  347 
Henderson  (W.  H.)  on  Sir  James  Halkett,  110 
Hendriks  (F.)  on  an  elephant  story,  202 

Mathematical  bibliography,  304 
Henry  IIL,  his  elephant,  885,  434 
Henry  VIIL  and  the  fanners,  38 
Henshaw  family  of  Dover,  286 
"  Hep  1 "  Jewish  war  cry,  74, 189 
Heraldic :  Arg.,  three  lions  passant  gn.,  &c.,  87 ; 
Chev.  between  three  leopards*  heads,   168,  293  ; 
Arg.,  two  bars  sa.,  on  canton  of  second  a  cinqnefoil 
or,  229,  398 ;  Fesse  between  three  masdes,  247, 
338,  475 
HeralcUc  anomaly,  76 
Heraldry,   Australian,   104,   123,  180 ;  diffeienoing 

anns,  8,  229 
Heralds  crowned  with  verfaini  267,  432 


Herb  Robert  {Geranium  Robertianum),  367 
Hereward  le  Wake^  his  fisther,  257,  313 
Hermentrude  on  Danish  Folk-lore,  6 

Fortnight,  modem  disuse  of  the  word,  299 

HaaBey(Lord),91 

Parochial  registers,  250 

Sydney  and  Sydenham,  87 

"Too  too,"  97 

Wonder,  as  an  adverb,  156 
Herring  &mily,  168,  316 
Herrtage  (S.  J.)  on  *'  Catholioon  Anglieum,"  74 
Heywood  (Rev.  O.),  his  MSS.,  146 
Hibberd  (Shirley)  on  morris  danoen^  18 

Thermometer  scales,  79 
Hibbert  (J.)  on  «  Any  when,"  78 
Hibgame  surname^  129,  254 
Hillman  (S.)  on  Henry  Marten,  the  regicide,  196 
Hinde  (Rev.  Nathaniel),  LL.B.,  his  descendants,  IIT 
*'  Hip,  hip,  hurrah  1  **  its  derivation,  74, 139 
Hirondelle  on  the  derivation  of  Bedwanline,  338 

Braham  &mily,  435 

Conghurst  of  Congerhurst,  356 

Lenum  &mily,  436 

Ogley  Hay,  254 

Seal,  old,  379 

Westenhanfler,  itn  etymology,  358 
History,  how  it  is  written,  426 
*<  History  of  the  Seven  Wise  Masterf,**  248,  354 
Hobeon  (W.  F.)  on  Cock-a-Dobby,  169 

St.  Luke  xziii.  15,  35, 137.  373 
Hoby  (ShrThomas),  his  MS.  <*  Bookeof  Travaae,''309 
Hodgkin  (J.  E.)  on  half  binding,  127 

Fencing  matoh  in  Marylebooe  Fieldi^  17 

Orohard  (Richard),  227 
Hogarth  (William),  his  only  landscape,  67 
Hogg  (Et^  on  roundels,  276 
Holly  :  Holy-tree,  ite  etymology,  466 
Holy  Land,  books  on  travels  in,  264 
Honiton,  ita  etymology,  288,  412 
Hood  (Thomas),  letter  to  Thackeray,  205 
Hooke  ftimily,  92, 175 
Hooper  family,  20,  64 

Hooper  (J.)  on  "  Domino,"  as  used  by  onmlbus  drivers^ 
229 

"  Hip,  hip,  hurrah  !  **  and  "  Hep  1  **  74 

Jennet,  its  etymology,  71 

Pftpa  and  Mamma,  256 

Fhotographbg  devils,  308 
Hooper  (R.)  on  a  curious  coinddence,  345 

"Paradise  Lost,*'  French  edit  of,  421 
Hooper  (Robert  Lettice),  Chief  Justice  of  New  York,  9" 
Hope  (H.  G.)  on  B^ranger's  "  Roi  d'Tvetot,"  358 

Burke  (Edmund),  his  marriages,  274 

Francis  (Sir  P.),  his  marriage,  335 

Irish  Parliament,  relic  of,  86 

O'SuUivan  (General),  236 

IVeason,  high,  punishment  for,  156 

"  Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  258,  337 
Hope  (R.  C.)  OB  invocating  the  Aposties,  487 

Hostelry,  privileged,  489 
«  Horn  B.  Virginis,^  English  translation,  15 ;  their 

dates,  306,  435 
Horsey  (J.)  on  Henry  III.'s  elephant,  885 
Horton  (E.  S.)  on  Henry  Marten,  5(^ 
Hostehry,  privileged,  489 


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515 


House  of  Lords,  iti  dock  Btopping  on  deatib  of  Greorge 

III.,  305,  835  ;  ito  abolition,  367,  892 
Houses,  haunted,  829,  896;  with  secret  chambers, 

897,  478 
Howard,  origin  of  the  name,  94,  175 
Howiflon  (William),  his  biography,  148,  253 
Hewlett  (W.  S.)  on  parchment  wills,  378 
Hudson  (J.  0.)  on  ^Hjpnerotomachia,"  1592,  375 
Hudson  family,  171 

Humphries  (H.)  on  mildew  in  books,  474 
Hundred  :  *<  Other  half  hundred,**  174 
Hunter  (Andrew),  Abbot  of  Melrose,  449 
HoBsey  (John,  Lord)  and  the  Lincolnshire  BebeUion, 

8,  91,  197 
Bylton  (Lord)  on  St.  PauVs  Cathedral,  a.d.  2199,  18 
Hymnology  :  **  Adeste  Fideles,"  18 ;  /*  Rock  of  Ages," 

39 
"  Hypnerotomachia,  the  Strife  of  Love  in  a  Dresme," 

847,  875,  497 


L  (0.  M.)  on  Stranger's  "Roi  d'Yvetot^"  177 

"  Bibliomania,'*  407 

Chambers's  "  Edinburgh  Journal,"  429 

County,  application  of  the  word,  846 

Depart,  as  a  verb  active,  45 

De  Quincey  (Thomas)  and  Dickens,  267 

Howison  (William),  148 

Jonson  (Ben),  his  censure  on  Shakspeare,  224 

Lamb  (Charles),  827 

Newton  (Sir  !.)>  his  humility,  128 

Robertson  (Frederick),  108 

Slick  (Sam)  on  Cumberland,  I7.S.A.,  245 

Still :  Yet,  428 

Syncretism,  its  derivation,  229 

University  towns,  896 
T.  (G.)  on  battie  of  Trafalgar,  257 
I.  (W.  P.)  on  Dr.  Bockenham,  888 

Bokenham  (Captains  William  and  Robert),  868 
**  leronymo,'*  in  the  "  Newcastie  Magazme,'*  888 
"Imitatio  Christi,"  Worthington's  translation,   54, 

98  ;  its  author,  70,  111 
"  Indian  Queen,**  a  sign,  207 
Indian  well,  model  of,  286,  809,  857 
Indulgence,  Protestant,  of  the  17th  century,  10, 158, 

270 
-Ing,  verbal  adjective  in,  426 
In^eby  (C.  M.)  on  Lord  Bacon,  62,  816 
Inglis  (R.)  on  American  poets,  369 

Boxer  (James),  American  author,  848 

**  leronymo  "  in  the  *'  Newcastle  Magasine,"  888 
Ingram  (J.  H.)  on  haunted  houses,  329 
Ink,  best  red,  109,  258 
JAaterpolations,  acddental,  125 
Ireland,  a  Wiltshire  place-name,  888 
Ireland,  Norse  words  on  map  of,  204 ;  anonymous 

letters  addressed  to  James  II.,  321,  861,  401,  484 
Irish  and  English,  marriage  prohibited  between,  92 
Irish  ballads,  popular,  6,  74 
Irish  cardinals,  406 

Irish  Parliament,  chair  of  its  Speaker,  S6,  132 
Irish  party  names,  446 
Irish  saints,  27 
Iron  vessel,  fint,  206 
Irving  (Washington),  hisportraiti,  86, 178,  273,  877 


Isham  on  the  etymology  of  Westenhanger,  85S 
Italian  wedding  books,  207 


J.  (B.)  on  Bp.  Gibson,  116 

Moon,  sin  to  point  at,  54 
J.  (C.  J.)  on  pommelled  side  saddles,  828 
J.  (D.  C.)  on  "Disputatio  Cbristianorum  et  Judse^ 

orum,"  209 
J.  (F.  W.)  on  Sir  Wm.  Creyke,  136 

Danothy  HaU,  155 

Hussey  (Lord),  197 

Walmyth,  its  locality,  46 
J.  (6.  H.)  on  impressions  of  medals;  468 
J.  (J.  C.)  on  ♦'  Hone  B.  Virginu*,"  806 

Roundels,  inscriptions  on,  145 

Sepulchre  in  churches,  197 
J.  (J.  U.)  on  dififerendng  arms,  8 
J.  (E.)  on  motto  for  a  drinking  cup,  155 
J.  (W.  H.)  on  the  dedication  of  bells,  69 

Van  Venloo  (Jan),  68 
Jack-an-Apes  Lane,  1662,  307,  436 
Jackson  (C.)  on  Anstey  family,  31 

Vernon  family  arms,  56 
Jackson  (J.  £.)  on  the  meaning  of  *'  Escaeta,"  827 
Jackson  (J.  R.)  on  gahotaa.  West  Indian  fruit,  313 
Jackson  (>fatthew),  ob,  1792,  809 
Jackson   (W.  F.  M.)  on  ammonium  sulphide  and 
faded  writing,  288 

Book-plate,  curious,  226 

Jackson  (Matthew),  309 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  318 
Jacobite  relic,  51 

James,  the  name^  before  1258,  257 
James  II.,  ''Remonstrance"  against  his  deposition, 
287 ;  anonymous  letters  to  him  and  his  Queen  about 
IreUnd,  321,  361,  401,  484 
James  (R.  N.)  on  Michael  Angelo,  7 

Belfry,  ito  etymology,  272 

"To  my  Pipe,"  206 
Japanese  custom,  187 
Japanese  proverbs,  106 
Jaydee  on  the  meaning  of  **  Backstring,"  407 

Bosb,  its  derivation,  157 

"  John  Dory."  39 

Pomatum— Pomade,  258,  416 

Rhymeless  words,  817,  887 

Roughs,  origin  of  the  term,  296 

Sate,  for  sat,  87,  78 

Umbrageous,  449 
Jean,  gean,  jain,  or  jane,  its  derivation,  68, 198 
Jeannin  (Pierre),  noticed,  454 
Jennet,  ito  etymology,  71, 176 
Jennings  (J.)  on  J.  Walters,  painter,  208 
Jennings  (Lord  and  Lady),  407,  454 
Jerram  (C.  S.)  on  the  etymology  of  belfry,  159 
Jerusalem,  Convent  of  the  Cross  at,  107,  232  ;  pillars 

of  the  Temple,  409 
JesBopp  (A.)  on  John  Boys  the  Dean,  485 

Browne  (Elias),  of  Norwich,  255 

Fontenay  Abbey,  47 

Oateley,  or  Yatoley,  Park,  49 
Jewers  (A.  J.)  on  a  Protestant  indulgence^  153' 
**  John  Dory,"  tiie  song,  39 
Johnson  fiunily  of  Lichfield,  146,  233 


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Johnson  (Maggoty),  jester,  his  tomb,  157,  23 S 
Johnson  (Rev.  Bichiurd),  Anstralia,  448 
Johnson  (Richard),  1607,  moDumental  brass,  469 
Johnson  (Dr.  Sainuel)»  his  watch  and  punchbowl,  26  ; 
his  letters  to  Dr.  Taylor,  308,  324,  342,  382,  422, 
461,  481 
Johnston  (C),  Jan.,  on  Geronde  family,  5 
Johnston  (J.  B.)  on  the  name  James  before  1258,  257 
Jonas  (A.  G.)  on  «  Auld  Robin  Gray,'*  213 
Baddow,  vicar  of,  117 
Gome  or  Gomme  (Christopher),  187 
Kerr,  its  pronnnoiation,  97,  218 
Leadenhall  Street,  old  house  in,  167 
Oxford,  its  etymology,  296 
Sermons,  old,  424 

"*  There's  Canld  KaU  in  Aberdeen,"  433 
"  Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  62 
Jones  (E.  G.)  on  Durham  Book,  184 
Jones  ? Philip),  minister  of  Cirencester,  1588,  25 
Jones  (W.  S.)  on  gun  money,  118 

Numismatic  query,  9 
Jonson  (Ben),  his  censure  on  Shakspeare,  224;  his 

birth  and  parentage,  247»  354 
Joseph  II.  and  Bee&oTen,  337 
Josephus  on  Freemason,  48 
Joy  (F.  W.)  on  Danothy  Hall,  8 
Sarum  Missal,  a  JD.  1500,  48 
Teagle :  Sectacle,  215 
Wently,  its  derivation,  188 
Jubar,  its  derivation,  148,  278 
Jubile,  for  Jubilee^  245 
"  Jumps,  The,"  a  tavern  sign,  385 
Junius  and    "Single-Speech"    Hamilton,   19;   and 

Garriek,  27,  51 
Junius  queries,  127,  159 
Junius^B  Letters,  e<Ution8  oi^  282, 341 ;  books  on  their 
authorship,  468 


K.  (J.  S.)  on  Lobo's  <«  Abyssinia,"  169 

Kangaroo,  origin  of  the  word,  326,  496 

Keene  (Edmund),  Bp.  of  Chester  and  Ely,  228,  359 

''*  Keepsake,"  Turner  engravings  in,  488 

Kelly  (R.  J.)  on  the  causal ''  Do,"  179 

Kempis  (Thomas  k),  Worthington*8  translation  of  "  De 

ImiUtione  Christi,"  54,  98 
Kentiah  sayings  and  Folk-lore,  26[6,  415,  474 
Kentish  scenery,  366 
Kerr,  its  pronunciation,  97,  138,  218 
Kerr  (H.)  on  Bunker's  HUl,  175 

Guffin,  its  meaning,  174 

Kerr,  its  pronunciation,  138 
Kerslake  (T.)  on  BoUngbroke  and  Clarendon,  283 

Doll,  its  derivation,  334 

Eboraoum,  its  etymology,  131 

St  White  and  her  cheese,  832 
Kickshaw,  its  meanmgs,  406 
King  :  Was  a  king  ever  drowned  ?  487 
King  family,  Clontarf;  oo.  Dublin,  308 
King  (W.  L.)  on  Recusant  Rolls,  199 
Kings'  fingersas Purple  orchis,  429 
KinnouU  ^1  of).  1650,  129,  191 
Kirkland  ( W.)  on  the  office  of  bailiff,  298 

Chess  and  tables,  255 
Kneller  (Sir  Godfrey),  his  portrait  of  Defoe^  465 


Enibb  (John),  olockmaker,  829,  378,  416,  437 
Knight  (J.)  on  the  etymology  of  Eboraoum,  219 

*'  Hypolite,  Comte  de  Duglas,"  317 

*'  Legende  Dor^e  des  Freres  Mendians,"  335 

"  Nouvelles  d'Angleterre,"  159 

Spinula  (Franciscns),  267 
Knightly  family  of  Fawsley,  208 
Krebs  (H.)  on  the  "  Canterbury  Tales  "  in  German,  214 

*' Delia  Nobilta  et  Eccellenza  delle  Donne,"  388 

Esthnian  funeral  custom,  186 

Fry's  "Pantographia,"  178 

**  Hypnerotomachia,"  497 

Slavonic  mythology,  165 

Syncretism,  373 


L,  Latin,  supposed  change  into  2/*  in  French,  261,  811 
L.  (C.)  on  <*  Anthropophagus,"  74 

Buried  alive,  tale  of  old  Cologne,  118 
L.  (J.  E.  T.)  on  Bp.  Gibson,  116 
L.  (J.  K.)  on  Nugent  family,  408 
Lach-Szyrma  {Yf.  8.)  on  Ark  of  the  Covenant  at  St. 
Michael's  Mount,  54 
Bohemian  archcsology,  489 
Drake  (Sir  Francis),  bibliography  of,  166 
Glastonbury,  « the  town  of  oaks,"  14 
Slavonic  mythology,  1 44 
Lady's  smock=Cuckoo  flower,  447 
Lamb  (Charles),  at  home,  241  ;  and  Milton's  MSS., 
327  ;  and  Michael  Bruce,  828  ;  supplementary  re- 
miniscences, 881 ;  his  "Beaumont  and  Fletcher," 
411 ;  and  Carlyle.  459 
Lambeth  degrees,  266,  885 
Lancashire,  its  earliest  inhabitants,  79 
Lancashire  custom,  136 
Landlords  Innkeeper,  869 
Landor  (Walter  Savage),  letter  of,  288 
Latham  family  of  Dover,  286 

Laud  (J.  C.)  on  Gainsborough's  portrait  of  Chatterton, 
867 
Defoe  (Daniel),  his  portrait  by  Kneller,  465 
Lawrence  (Sir  Thomas),  his  father,  5 
Lawson  (James),  American  poet,  869 
Le  B.  (J.)  on  Yardleys  of  England,  377 
Leadam  (L  S.)  on  Yorkshire  wills,  427 
Leadenhall  Street,  old  house  in,  167,  269 
Leader  (J.  D.)  on  parochial  registers,  212 
Leane  (Rev.  Mr.),  hia  living,  69, 195 
Lee  (F.  G.)  on  parochial  registers,  880 
Lees  (E.)  on  «  Don't  many,"  884 
Ghosto  still  walk,  405 
Herb  Robert,  367 
Woundworts,  346 
Legal  gown,  425 
Leman  baronetcy,  487 

Leman  family  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  327,  436 
Leman  (C.  £.)  on  Leman  family  and  baronetcy,  827, 

487 
Lenton  (Edward),  part  author  of  "  Harpings  of  Lena," 

209 
Leofric,  Abbot  of  Peterborough,  257,  813 
Leprosy,  its  Folk-lore,  323 
Leslie  (Sir  Alexander),  general  of  the  Scottiah  army, 

27,  112,  170,  251 
Lewisham  mairiage  register,  1558-62,  187 


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liibiMries,  circular,  45,  70,  98, 116 ;  Trinity  College, 
Cambridge,  81,  101»  181,  201,  301 ;  temperance,  86 
lichen,  its  use,  56 

liiohfield,  inhabitants,  Ump.  William  III.,  146,  283 
lillo  (George),  stoiy  of  his  "Fatal  Curiomty,"  21 
Lincoln  stuff  ball,  1820,  lines  on,  206 
Xiincolnshire  field-names,  83 
Linoolnshire  proTinctalisms,  55,  178,  817,  353 
liinoolnshire  Rebellion  and  Loxd  Hassey,  3,  91, 197 
Li8le=WhLtaker,  156 
Lister  family,  108,  216 
Littleberries,  mansion  at  Mill  Hill,  41,  471 
Llanelly  on  the  derivation  of  bosh,  38 
Lloyd  (R.)  on  the  Duke  of  Somerset,  136 
Lobo  (Father),  his  *'  Abyssinia,**  169 
Logan  (John),  a  centenarian,  69,  194 
London,  firing  royal  salutes  in,  78 
London  Bridge,  books  published  and  sold  on,  221 
Long  Ashton  Church,  Somerset,  246 
Longden  (H.  I.)  on  Thomas  Longden,  110 
Longden  (T.),  Mayor  of  Gloucester,  1695, 110,  277 
Longevity  of  professional  men,  25.  See  Centenarianitm, 
Longlond  (Bp.  John),  his  **  Sermond  uppon  Good  Fry- 
day,"  228,  259,  335 
Loughborough  (Lord)  and  the  '*  History  of  the  Eng- 
lish Law,'*  109,  258 
Love  :  Chsrity,  as  equivalent  terms,  384 
Loveday  (J.  B.  T.)  on  bishopric  of  Sodor  and  Man, 

109 
Loveday  (T.  E.  T.)  on  anonymous  works,  349 
JJowe  (A.  E.  L.)  on  Henry  Marten,  the  r^cide,  294 

Stowey  and  Stow  B^  229 
Ll>wenberg  (W.  J.)  on  the  meaning  of  opiet,  148 
Luckman  (M.),  printer  at  Coventry,  286,  415 
Lucy  Locket  =:  Cuckoo  flower,  447 
Lnqy  (Countess),  her  parentage,  257,  813 
Lutzow  (Baroness  de),  her  family,  455 
Lynn  (W.  T.)  on  Dr.  Bradley  and  the  calendar,  283 

Cenomanni,  its  etymology,  348 

Dido,  its  derivation,  88,  154 

Donald  Bane,  368 

Easter,  date  of  the  fint,  125  ;   Ftayer  Book  rule 
for  keeping,  265 

Eboracum,  its  etymology,  132 

Eerie,  its  etymology,  327 

Epitaph  in  Lee  Church,  465 

Sr,  pronounced  as  "ar,"  151 

Honiton,  its  etymology,  288 

Jubar,  its  derivation,  148 

King,  drowned,  487 

Mountainous  scenery,  466 

Overbury  (Sir  T.),  embassy  offered  to,  307 

Rodney  (Lord),  344 

Song  of  Solomon,  ii.  5,  32 

Tennis,  its  etymology,  56 

Westenhanger,  its  etymology,  227 
Lynrt  on  Bodleian  model  of  an  Indian  well,  357 

County,  application  of  the  word,  496 

Dnromagus,  447 

Jack-an-Apes  Lane,  436 

Suetonius  and  Boadioea,  battle  between,  470 
Lyster  (J.)  on  lirter  familv,  108 
Lyttelton  (Thomas,  second  Baron),  his  "Poems,"  13 
Lyveden  (Lord)  on  the  abolition  of  the  House  of 
Lords,  367 


M 

M.  on  religious  novels,  195 

M.  (A.  J.)  on  Garibaldi  in  England,  464 

Lamb  (Charles)  and  Carlyle,  459 

Quives,  its  meaning,  449 

•*  There  let  Thy  servant  be,"  93 

Tupling  (John),  31 

Wife  selling,  98 
M.  (C.  C.)  on  Lord  Frederick  Cavendish  and  Mr. 
Burke,  445 

Interpolations,  accidental,  125 
M.  (E.  H.)  on  King.  Canute,  172 

Charles  IL,  hii  hiding  places,  196 

Chess  and  tables,  255 

Church  discipline,  499 

De  Quincey  (Thomas)  and  Dickens,  435 

Dorset  traditions,  255 

Gigantology,  379 

"  Grey  mare  the  better  horse,"  96 

Hastings  story,  408 

Heralds  crowned  with  vervain,  433 

Lichfield,  temp.  William  III.,  233 

Mangan  (James  Clarence),  276 

Manifest,  its  derivation,  294 

Methyl :  Amyl,  99 

Music  as  medicine^  338 

Oak.  BritUh,  355 

Witwall,  434 
M.  (F.)  on  Sir  Philip  Francis,  309 
M.  (F.  B.  D.)  on  «  Whole  Doty  of  Man,"  318 
M.  (G.  W.)  on  Bayly^Hall,  386 

Bingham  (Sir  Richsrd),  18 

English  armorial  glass,  44 

Heralds  orowned  with  vervain,  267 

Lambeth  degrees,  335 
M.  (H.  L.)  on  Hibgame  surname,  129 
M.  (J.)  on  Lady  Byron's  answer  to  her  lord's  ''  Fare* 

well,"  408 
M.  (J.  A.  H.)  on  the  mesning  of  "  Aoreme,"  88 

"  Agitate,  agitate,  agitote,"  88 
M.  (J.  G.)  on  Gillray's  masteipieoe,  69 
M.  (T.  J.)  on  Drs.  George  Oliver,  396 
M.  (W.  D.)  on  T.  Parlet,  306 
McC —  (E.)  on  crocodile's  tears,  447 

l&pergne,  its  etymology,  475 

Guernsey  Folk-lore,  155 

Mottoes,  ancient,  359 

"8angreazul,"449 

Talon,  its  etymology,  268 
MacCuUoch  (E.)  on  the  Bailiff  of  Constantine,  315 

Canadian  token  or  medal,  236 

St.  McLoo's  stone,  493 

Weston  family,  469 
Mackay  (J.)  on  BluestoneBPoison,  478 
McKay  (R.)  on  voting  tickets,  385 
Maclagan  (Nellie)  on  Alkermes :  Gahotas,  68 
Maclean  (Sir  J.)  on  Lichfield,  temp.  William  III.^ 

Orchard  (Robert),  275 

Parochial  registers,  451 

St.  White  and  her  cheese,  332 

Yard  of  beer,  368 
Macray  (W.  D.)  on  John  Eachard,  453 

Parochial  registers,  330 

"  There  let  Thy  servant  be," 
Madock  or  Maddock  fiunily,  129 


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i  Queries,  with  Mo.  IM.  J  aly  SI.  UM. 


Mag^thay,  place-name^  its  spelliDg  and  e^mology,  48 
Mall :  Black  mail,  its  moaulng  and  derivation,  226, 

356,  497 
Malbye  (Sir  Nicholas),  his  biography,  387 
Halet  (H.)  on  Yardleys  of  England,  172 
Malone  (Ediliiund),  reference  in  his  MSd.,  149 
Halte  money,  88,  195,  397,  478 
Mamma,  introduction  and  ase  of  the  word,  256 
Man,  Isle  o^  burnt  sacrifice  in,  192 
Manacus,  a  fictitious  word,  464 
Manchet  loaf,  38,  78 
MandcTille  (Sir  John),  his  Travels,  186 
Mangan  (James  Clarence),  poet,  168,  276 
Maniest,  use  of  the  word,  247 
Manifest,  its  derivation,  149,  293 
Manning  (C.  B.)  on  parochial  registers,  310 
Mansfield  (Lord)  on   property,  87,   194 ;  and  John 

Benson,  486 
Manurial,  anew  word,  266,  417 
Mar  earldom,  its  descent,  405,  452,  493 
Mare:  "To  cry  the  mare,'*  56 
Mare  (the  sea)  and  words  for  death,  12 
Marlborough  (Sarah,  Duchess  of)  and  Mrs.  Masham, 

248,  293,  338  ;  her  birthplace,  448,  471 
Marot  (Clement),  his  "  Pseavmes  de  David,"  65 
Marriage  prohibited  between  English  and  Irish,  92 
Marriages,  **  Buglen,"  in  May,  429 
Marry  :  '*  Don't  marry,"  an  old  warning,  384,  471 
**  Mars  his  Feild  ;  or,  the  Exercise  of  Armes,"  469 
Mars  Denique  on  "  All  upon  the  merry  pin,"  138 

Carey  (P.),  his  Poems,  447 

Mudwall=Bee-eater,  216 

<'  Tak  time  in  time,"  114 

*'  Too  too,"  an  old  provincialism,  86 
Maishall  (E.)  on  Agnosticism,  489 

''Alastor  of  Augustus,"  135 

Aldrich  (Dean),  48 

Argo  :  Drake's  ship,  488 

"  Argo,"  by  Barl  of  Crawford  and  Balcarres,  171 

Bailiff,  office  of,  299 

Book-plate,  curious,  457 

Brewer  (Rev.  J.  8.),  415 

Browne  (Sir  T.),  his  '*  Rellgio  Medici,"  102,  243 

Charles  I.,  his  vision,  168 

Clergy  prohibited  from  wearing  fur  capes,  172 

**  Contrast,  The  :  Right  and  Wrong,"  67 

Deaths  on  birthdays,  115 

Defoe  (Daniel),  his  "  Robinson  Crusoe,"  428 

Eboracum,  its  etymology,  233 

Edward  of  Lancaster,  his  death,  176 

'*  Felix  quem  faciunt,"  295 

Fishing  proverbs,  91 

**  Fortuitous  concourse  of  atoms,"  277 

German  Chureh,  Trinity  Lane,  135 

Oibbeting,  336 

Heralds  crowned  with  vervain,  432 

^  Honours  should  change  manners,"  225 

Leane  (Rev.  Mr.),  195 

«•  Make  a  leg,"  67 

Malte  money,  195 

Name  with  date  printed  in  book,  227 

Nick-naekatory= Museum,  207 

Oxford =Rhedycina,  95 

Parallel  passages,  306 

Parochial  registen.  311,  451 


Marshall  (E.)  on  Peterhouse,  prison  of,  315 

Princes  murdered  in  the  Tower,  229 

Probable^  the,  as  a  topic  for  injury  of  chanictar, 
247 

Prophecies,  modem,  13 

**  Quid  hoc  ad  Iphicli  boves  ? "  448 

Rood  screens,  fifteenth  century,  96 

8t.  Augustine  and  Descartes,  268 

St.  Jerome  and  Chancer,  445 

Bong  of  Solomon,  iL  5,  174 

Tins  Money,  82 

Tom  of  Oxford,  874,  456 

Wara,  its  meaning,  418 

*'  Whole  Duty  of  Man,"  306 

Worlds,  plurality  of,  392 
Marshall  (E.  H.)  on  "  Auld  Robin  Gray,"  398 

"  Dining  with  Duke  Humphrey,"  58 

Do,  the  causal,  58 

Er,  pronounced  as  **  ar,"  151 

Freemason,  its  derivation,  178 

Green-hastings=s  Early  peas,  68 

Houses  with  secret  chambon,  478 

Irving,  Washington,  his  portraits,  173 

"  LUy  of  St  Leonards,"  168 

Logan  (John).  194 

Loughborough  (Lord),  253 

Morant  (PhUip),  14 

Morris  dancers,  176 

Mudwall=Bee-eater,  216 

Orchard  (Robert),  275 

"  Panis  de  hastrinello,"  36 

Parochial  registers,  292 

Robertson  (Frederick),  198 

Toads,  are  they  poisonous  ?  173 

**  Was  crucified,  dead,  and  buried,"  273 

Wesley  (John)  and  Moore,  369 

Worlds,  plurality  of,  498 
Marshall  (Hamlet),  D.D.,  family  and  biography,  157 
Marshall  (J.)  on  "All  upon  the  merry  pin,"  137 

"Auld  Robin  Gray,"  314 

Clark  or  Clarke  (Jeremiah),  117 

Deck  of  cards,  214 

Gay  (John),  234 

"John  Dory,"  89 

Music  as  medicine,  293 

Rushton  Hall,  inscription  at,  115 
Marshall  (W.  E.)  on  "HuUabaUoo,"  147 
Marsham  (R.)  on  portraita  of  Sir  C.  Shovell,  207 
Marten  (Henry),  the  regicide,  50,  196,  294,  474 
Mar^yn  on  "  Bo-man  "  :  **  Bo-peep,"  209 
Martyrs,  English  Roman  Catholic,  1535-1681,  23, 

163,  402 
Mary,  Queen  oi  Soots,  rings  given  by,  36  ;  colour  of 
her  hair,    114,   218,   231,  295,  318;   "Historic," 
editions  of  1624-36,  136 
Marylebone  Fields,  fencing  match  in,  17,  39,  78 
Masham  (Mrs.)  and  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough,  248, 

293,  338 
Maskell  (J.)  on  double  monasteries,  407 

St  Margaret's,  Westminster,  436 

Swift  (Dean),  his  university  degree,  383 
Mason  (C.)  on  barge  of  the  East  India  Company,  229 
Maason  (G.)  on  Syncretism,  372 


World^  plurality  of,  393 
Mathematical  I 


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519 


Hathewa  (C.  £.)  on  Sir  ThomM  Lawrenoe,  5 

Whig  and  Tory,  S3 
Matriculation  reconlBy  54 
Matthews  (J.  B.)  on  American  words  and  phrases^  65 

Deck  of  cards,  474 

Game  of  twenty  questions,  468 

Irving  (Washington),  portrait  of,  86 

Rhymeless  words,  46 
Mattocks  (Mr.  and  Mn.),  of  Co  vent  Garden  Theatre, 

110 
May  muggins,  408 
May  hew  (A.  L.)  on  "Bred  and  bom/*  77 

Bradanrelice,  its  etymology,  32S 

Cotgrave  (Bandle),  246 

Groochmas=Christmas,  168 

Dreme»=Jewe]s^  468 

*'  Eleofuga  **  of  EncUd,  884 

£pergne,  its  etymology,  269 

FranioD,  its  etymology,  489 

Glastonbury,  the  <<town  of  oaks,"  177 

Gombeen=Money-lender,  187 

Heloe,  its  etymology,  28,  350 

Mistletoe  and  Christmas,  175 

Noviomagians,  488 

TiD:r=:Money,  32 
Mayo  (C.  H.)  on  mermaids,  478 

Parochial  registers,  492 

Silhouettes,  494 
Mayor,  vilUge,  136 
Mayor  (J.  E.  B.)  on  Manuel  Chrysoloras,  366 

Johnson  (Samuel),  his  letters  to  Dr.  Taylor,  303, 
324,  342,  382,  422,  461,  481 

Ruasel  (Robert),  486 

Soul  (Molse  du),  367 
Mearns,  its  meaning  and  etymology,  275 
Medals  :  Canadian  (t;,  148,  236 ;  James  I.  and  Charles 

I.,  247  ;  impressions  of,  468 
Mediterraneao,  its  zoophytes,  129,  253 
Mermaids,  references  to,  365,  478 
Mervarid  on  ''  Swealing/'  57 
Mervin  family,  387 
Mesmerism  no  new  thing,  187,  294 
Metcalfe  (J.  H.)  on  Costobadie,  or  De  Costobadie, 

427 
Methjl,  its  derivation,  99 
Meyei^»Master,  488 

Mezzofanti  (Card.),  his  portrait  with  earrings,  16 
Mildew  in  books,  187,  474 
Mill  Hill,  LitUeberries  at,  41,  471 
Miller  (Geoige),  of  the  ''Cheap  Magazine,"  495 
MUton  (John),  a  freethinker,   28  ;   hU  MSS.,   827 ; 
death  of  his  grand-nephew,  386,  434  ;  French  edit, 
of ''Paradise  Lost,"  421 
Mincher  family,  309 
Minprints.    Sm  PrirUen'  errors. 
Missal,  Sarum,  1500,  48 
Misselden  (Edward),  noticed,  437 
Mister^Need  or  want,  Old  English,  113 
Mistletoe  and  Christmas,  14  ;  its  etymology,  14,  175 
Mnemonics  of  CBoomenical  Councils,  26 
Mola  Rosarum,  its  locality,  307,  417 
Mole-catcher,  his  election,  406 
Monasteries,  double,  407 
Monkeys,  anecdotes  of,  869,  417 
Montgomery  (James),  his  lines  on  Franklin,  288 


Moon,  sin  to  point  at^  14,  54  ;  the  "parish  lantern," 

288,  418 
Moor  (C.)  on  Conghurtt  of  Congerhurst,  223 

Townsend  (John),  architect,  247 
Moore  (C.  T.  J.)  on  thatched  churches,  56 

Jonson  (Ben),  247 

Keene  (Bp.),  of  Chester  and  Ely,  228 

Moore  (John),  Bp.  of  Norwich,  228 
Moore  (J.  C.)  on  Mary,  Queen  of  IScots,  231 

Methyl :  Amyl,  99 

Sbakspeariftna,  423 
Moore    (John),    Bp.    of   Norwich,    his   family  and 

biography,  228,  891,  478 
Moore  (Thomas)  and  Wesley.  369,  398,  476 
Morant  (Rev.  Philip),  Essex  topographer,  14 
Morgan  (O.)  on  John  Knibb,  clockmaker,  437 
Morland  arms,  87 

MorUnd  (G^rge),  his  "Emblematical  Palette,"  246 
Morley  (J.  C.)  on  »  "Biographical  Peerage,"  468 
Morris  dancers,  modem,  18,  176 
Moss  (F.)  onErokmann-Chatriaa's  "Le  Juif  Polonais," 
415 

Toads,  are  thev  poisonous  I  375 
Mottoes,  ancient  door  and  fireplace,  49,  214,  359 ; 
drinking  cup,  109,  155,  395;   "Vita  sine  Uteris 
mors  est,"  846,  497  ;  "Bes  snbito  gestse,"  368 
Moule  (H.  J.)  on  Dorset  traditions,  379 

Forrega,  its  meaning,  409 

MottMs;  ancient,  215 

Parochial  registers,  292 
Mounsey  (A.  C.)  on  "  Anld  Bobin  Gray,"  232 
Mountainous  soenery,  466 
Moutray  (J.  A.)  on  Seafield  earldom,  369 

Seafield  Castle,  457 
Much,  as  applied  to  villages,  88,  355,  459 
Mudwall,  name  for  the  bee-eater,  68,  216,  437 
Mumping  Day,  i,  e.,  St.  Thomases  Day,  7, 187 
Muroh  (J.)  on  the  etymology  of  Honiton,  412 

"  Murde  fish,"  347 
Murillo  (B.  8.),  his  picture  of  St.  John,  75 
Murtle  fish,  847»  891 
Mus  Rnsticus  on  Marylebone  Fields,  78 
Music  as  medicine,  245,  293,  338 
Mynott  (A.)  on  the  "  Emancipation  Oak,"  146 

Logan  (John),  69 

Moore  (Thomas),  Bp.  of  Norwich,  392 

Morant  (PhiUp),  14 

"Poetio  Minor,"  359 

Worthington  (John),  98 
Mythology,  Blavomo,  144,  165 

N 
N.  (A.)  on  Sydney  and  Svdenham,  215 
N.  (L.)  on  "Harpings  of  Lena,"  129 
Nachani-Imtiaz.     See  Nuhan-i-JmUca, 
Names,   Teutonic  and  Keltic,  49 ;    oonveraion  and 

corruption  of  family,  77 
Napoleon  I.    See  Bonaparte, 
Nash  (W.  L.)  on  sloping  church  floors,  18 

"Fflitteras,"  its  meaning,  407 
NawysrNavigator,  897,  417,  476 
Negus,  curious  misprint,  204 
Nelson  (G.),  ooinddenoe  in  his  "Happiness  of  Man," 

845 
Nettle-oreeper,  its  proper  name^  468 


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S  Index  Suwlement  to  tti«  Kates  ^nA 
\  QucriM,  with  Ka  IM.  Jnlr  »,  iSois. 


New  Soutib  Wales,  onrioiu  oompUmeiit  in,  346 

Nov  Zealand,  ghosts  in,  153 

"Newcastle  Magaiine,**  its  contributor  ''leronymo," 

888 
Newize^  use  of  the  word,  466 
NewtoD  families  in  Herefordshire,  87 
Newton   (Sir  Isaao),  his   humility,    128,    237;    his 

"Treatise  on  Fluxions,''  268,  304,  426 
Newton  (W.)  on  Newton  families,  87 
NichoUs  (J.  F.)  on  the  office  of  bailiff,  298 
Nicholson  (Br.)  on  adjectives  pluralized  in  English, 
205,  294,  495 
"Hora  B.  Virginis,"  15,  435 
JonsoD  (Ben),  854 
Kentish  sayings  and  folk-lore,  266 
Moon,  sin  to  point  at,  15 
Nominatives  plural  and  verbs  singular,  186 
Proof  sheets,  early,  414 
Shakspeariana,  423, 424 
Tables,  game  of,  818 
Niok*naokatory=Museum,  207,  388,  397 
Nishan-ilmtisa,  Turkish  order,  38,  118,  297 
Noble  (T.  C.)  on  Davis-Tregonwell  tomb,  851 
Nocium,  a  false  word,  45 

Nodal  (J.  H.)  on  the  etymology  of  "  Heloe,"  350 
Nomad  on  the  kings  of  Cornwall,  75 
Blvaston  or  iUewaston,  78 
Fenton  (Elijah),  236 
Masham  (Birs.)  and  the  Dudiess  of  Marlborough, 

248 
Orosius,  Italian  tnuuHaiion  of,  318 
Bouffignao  family,  92 
Seal,  old,  255 

Westenhanger,  its  etymology,  858 
Nominatives  plural  before  verbs  singular,  186 
Norgate  (F.)  on  British  Museum  Beading  Boom,  70 

Grerman  Volksbuch,  252 
Norris  (F.  T.)  on  Norse  words  on  map  of  Ireland,  204 
Norse  words  on  a  map  of  Ireland,  204 
North  (T.)  on  the  angelus  bell,  229 
Charles  I.,  his  martyrdom,  288 
Funeral  armour  in  churches,  458 
Parochial  registers,  881,  492 
Bogation  days,  perambulations  on,  867 
Bogers  (Rev.  Samuel),  847,  472 
Shiver,  verb  active,  471 
Tavern  sign,  curious,  385 
"Tom"  of  Oxford,  248 
"Nothing  new  under  the  sun,**  236,  817 
Novelist  on  Heme's  "English  Fragments,"  82 
Novels,  religious,  108, 195,  876,  458 
Noviomagians,  a  club,  488 
Nugent  family,  408 
Nuremberg,  chimes  at,  147,  254 
Nutt  (A.  Y.)  on  ancient  mottoes,  49 


O.  (H.  L.)  on  Sir  Nicholas  Malbye,  887 
O.  (J.)  on  the  "Cheap  Magarine,"  495 
"Five-foot-highians,"  854 
*•  Free  trade,'^  437 
Grob,  its  meaning,  416 
Kerr,  its  pronunciation,  218 
Marot  (Clement),  his  Psalms,  65 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  186 


O.  (J.)  on  Oxfordshire  election  of  1754,  58 
"Poetic  Mirror,"  859 
Psalm  di.,  Tennant's  translation,  857 
Watts  (Dr.),  his  "  Divine  Songs,'*  93 

Oak,  "Emancipation,"  Holwood  Park,  146 

Oak  a  symbol  of  Britain,  208,  355 

Oak- Apple  Day,  stinging  nettle  on,  446 

Oath,  foresters^  107 

O'Connell  (Daniel)  at  Hastings,  808 

O'Connell  (R^  on  Mincher  family,  809 

CBoumenical  Councils,  mnemonics  of,  26 

Ogle  (Lewis),  BgUngham,  his  pedigree,  189 

Ogley  Hay,  place-name,  128,  254 

Oley  (Barnabas),  his  fiunily  and  bene&otions,  9 

Oliver  (Drs.  George),  two  antiquaries,  396 

Oliver  (J.  A.  W.)  on  origin  of  the  word  navvy,  397 

Olives^Primroses,  449 

Opals,  superstitions  about,  888 

Opiet,  its  derivation  and  meaning,  148, 193,  S76 

Orchard  (Robert),  of  Greek  Street  and  Sawbridge- 
worth,  227,  275 

Ormonde  earldom,  343,  431 

Orosius  (Paul),  his  "  History  "  in  lUlian,  188,  813 

Orrery  (Countess  of),  letter  to  Rev.  W.  Ellis,  161,  205 

Ossory  (Countess  of),  488 

O'Sullivan  (General),  his  biography,  147,  486 

Otamy,  use  of  the  word,  435 

"Other  half  hundred,"  174 

Outward=Of  loose  character,  269,  397 

Overbury  (Sir  Thomas),  embassy  offered  to,  307,  850 

Ovingdean  Grange,  257 

Owl  as  an  emblem  of  death,  447 

Oxford,  its  etymology,  95,  296 

Oxford  University,  statue  in  Brasenose  CoIL  quad- 
rangle, 87;  ''Tom"  of  Christ  Church,  248,  374» 
456 ;  M.A.  gown,  391 

Oxfordshire  election  of  1754,  58 


P.  (C.  A.)  on  John  Phelps,  345 
P.  (Hy.)  on  the  task  of  a  parish,  27 
P.  (J.)  on  the  rule  of  the  road,  76 
P.  (J.  J.)  on  Bonaparte  at  Elba,  281 

"  Nouvelles  d'Angleterre,"  127 
P.  (L.)  on  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  114 
P.  (M.)  on  "  All  upon  the  merry  pio,"  94 

Gilpin  (John),  489 

"  Logic  o'  Buchan,"  198 

Watts  (Dr.),  his  "  Divine  Songs,"  98 
P.  (P.)  on  Easter  eggs,  174 

"French  leave,'^  497 

Glass,  armorial,  178 

"  Grey  mare  the  better  horse,"  96 

Houses,  haunted,  896 

Motto  for  a  drinking  cup,  896 

Novels,  religious,  876 

Parochial  registers,  274 

Prints,  transparent,  455 

Wills,  parohment,  378 

Worids,  plurality  of,  499 

Yardleys  of  England,  458 
P.  (R.  W.)  OB  Long  Ashton  Churob,  246 
P.  (W.  M.)  on  silhouettes,  393 
PaddingtoD,  Tomlins's  New  Town  at,  208 
Painting  of  Flight  into  Egypt,  86 


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621 


Palestine,  books  on  travels  in,  264 
Palmer  (A.  S.)  on  the  derivation  of  doll,  476 

Gentles:  Mndwall,  487 
Palmer  (F.  D.)  on  Piepowder  Court,  79 
**  Panis  de  hastrinello,^'  86,  187 
Papa,  introdaction  and  use  of  the  word,  256 
Paradise,  birch  of,  16 
Paradisus  in  Sole  on  John  Parkinson,  152 
ParaUel  passages,  75,  07,  806,  869,  898,  476 
Parfitt  (E.)  on  chess  and  tables,  148 

Tahiti  lamentation  for  Nineveh,  107 
Parish  (W.  D.)  on  a  sin  to  point  at  the  moon,  14 
Parkinson  (John),  the  botanist,  of  London,  152 
Parlet  (Thomas),  inscription  on  his  tomb,  306 
Parochial  registers.    See  Churth  regitteri, 
Parslow  family,  288,  485,  478 
Parson :  Person,  their  etymology,  150 
Parsons  (Dr.  Bichard),  his  MS.  collections,  847,  894 
Pate  of  Sysonby,  arms  of,  409 
Paterson  (A.)  on  the  Marquis  of  Anglesea,  387 
Patience,  a  man's  name,  95 
Patten  family,  888 

Patterson  (W.    H.)  on  Castomer=- Custom    House 
officer,  187 

«  Five-foot-highians,**  209 

"  History  of  aU  the  Mobs,"  &c,  247 

Prints,  transparent,  828 

Testa  (Pietra),  engraver,  188 

Ward  (J.),  painter,  808 
Peach  (B.  E.)  on  Anstey  family,  80 

Burke  (Edmund),  his  marriages,  274 

Pulteney  correspondence,  358 
Peacock  (E.)  on  Aitzema*B ''  Notable  Bevolutioni,"  428 

Basire  (Isaac),  his  '*  Correspondence,"  265 

Belfi7,  its  etymoloffy,  159 

Birth,  proving  its  date,  284 

Books  gone  astray,  466 

*<  Catholioon  Anglicom,"  24,  154 

*'  Chapter  and  verse,"  277  • 

Copy,  dividing,  88 

CroachmasB^Ohristmas,  316 

Customer,  its  meaning,  384 

Pern  ashes,  56 

**  Maroh  to  Moscow,"  418 

Spiders,  poisonous,  98 

Walker  (C),  his  •<  History  of  Independency,"  208 

Wills,  parchment,  287 
Pearls,  black,  in  the  English  crown,  188 
Pearson  (A.  H.)  on  the  derivation  of  chimere,  268 
Peel  (Sir  Robert),  miniature  of,  109,  276,  817,  897 
**  Peerage,  Biographical,"  468 
Peers,  their  signatures,  90 

Peet  (W.  H.)  on  ChUd's  ''Discoane  of  ToAe'*  358, 
875 

WhiskerssMoustaehes,  176 
Pelham  (Rev.  Mr.),  rector  of  Crowhurst,  448,  497 
Pengelly  (W.)  on  adjectives  pluralized  in  English,  495 

Cock-crowing,  178 

Freemason,  its  derivation,  178 

Mood,  the  '*  parish  lantern,"  418 

Teagle :  SecUcle,  216 

Wesley  (John)  and  Moore,  476 

Wiltshire  provinoalisms,  76 
Penny  (C.  W.)  en  customer,  884 
Percy  titlei  and  heirship,  843,  431 


Periodical  literature,  extinct,  345,  871 
Person  :  Parson,  their  etymology,  150 
Peterhouse,  prison  of,  168,  315 
Ph.  (L.)  on  "  Black  Bartholomew,"  388 

Shingles,  cure  for,  375 
Phaire  (Rev.  Emanuel),  A.B.  Oxon.,  55,  387 
Phaire  (Robert),  the  regicide,  55,  837 
Phelps  (John),  his  epitaph  at  Vevey,  845 
Phillimore  (L.)  on  Sir  Christopher  Wren's  sisters,  68 
Phillips  (Teresia  Constantia),  her  biography,  178 
Philological  Society,  its  New  English  Dictionary,  26, 

47,  66,  86, 107, 146,  167 
Photographing  devils,  808 
Phrygian  cap,  444 
Pickford  (J.)  on  "  Ah  County  Guy,"  226 

Arobimimus :  Clench  of  Bamet,  848 

Birch  of  Paradise,  16 

Brasenose  College,  statue  in  the  quadrangle,  87 

Buried  alive,  tale  of  old  Cologne,  117 

^'Catholicon  Anglicum,"  74,  218 

Clark*s  "Penny  Weekly  Dispatch,"  Ac,  845 

Coutts  (Thomas),  his  marriage,  189,  152 

De  Quinoey  (Thomas)  and  Dickens,  485 

Epigram  on  Bursar  of  St.  John's  Coll.,  Oxford,  95 

Gibson  (Edmund),  Bp.  of  London,  878 

Hare  an  Easter  emblem,  17 

Johnson  (Maggoty),  288 

Knibb  (John),  clockmaker,  378 

"  Liverpool  gentleman,"  &c.,  158 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  218 

Matriculation  records,  54 

"OLogieo*Buchan,"27 

Parochial  registers,  273 

Bogers  (Bev.  Samuel),  473 

Seabuiy  (Bp^,  his  portrait,  208 

Talk-o'-the-Hill,  297 

'*  There 's  Cauld  KaU  in  Aberdeen,"  328 

"Tom"  of  Oxford,  456 

Vicars,  successive,  from  the  same  funily,  119 

•*Vito  sine  Uteris,"  497 

Wentworth  (Lords)  of  NetUested,  278 

Witwall,  its  correct  name,  808 
Picton  (Sir  J.  A.)  on  the  e^mology  of  belfry,  189 

"Bred and  bom,"  112 

<<In  Memoriam,"  IxxxU.  12,  404 

Mare  (the  sea)  and  words  for  death,  12 

Sydney  and  Sydenham,  215 
Piepowder  Court,  79 
Pigot  (H.)  on  Sir  C.  Wren's  sisteri,  183 
"  Pincushion,"  an  inn  sign,  7 
Pink  (W.  D.)  on  the  last  della  Soala,  427 
Pipe :  lines  "  To  my  Pipe,"  206 
Place-names,  foreign,  805,  472 
Plate,  ecclesiastical,  27 
Platepere,  an  old  game,  9 
Piatt  (W.)  on  aoe  of  spades  in  bygone  days,  66 

"  Agitate^  agitate,  agiUte,'^  116 

"  Alastor  of  Augustus,"  185 

Alkermes,  its  derivation,  877 

<<  Ail  upon  the  merry  pin,"  237 

American  nation  anatoaucally  oonsidered,  406 

Anonymous  works,  499  • 

Antimony,  34 

April  Folk-lore,  327 

Bttto  and  Phainis,  278 


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{Index  Sappltrntntto  the  VoHt  asA 
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I'ktt  (W.)  on  Black  mail,  856 

Bo-xnim :  Bo-peep,  857 

Britiih  Museum  Keading  Room,  86 

'*  Catholioon  Asglicum,"  74 

Cazotte  (M.  de),  174 

"  Chapter  and  vene,''  206 

Chem  and  tablei^  255 

GhUd'a  "DlBcourae  of  Trade,"  358 

Christmas  cards,  155 

Christmaa  Day  on  a  Sunday,  7 

Cofibe :  Fontenelle  or  Voltaire  ?  93 

Copy,  bad,  and  good  printers,  46 

Cromleoh :  Dolmen,  412 

Dido,  ita  etymology,  198 

Easter,  date  of  first,  298,  477 

Easter  eggs,  95 

Elephants  priced  by  admeaanrement,  306 

Es(»etay  its  meaning,  455 

''Essay  on  MedaV  879 

Eolk-lore  of  eggs,  76  « 

••Fourth  estate,"  16 

Harvest  custom,  56 

*'  History  of  the  Seven  Wise  Mastenr,"  854 

Howison  (William),  258 

Eeene  (Bishop  Edmund),  859 

Longlond  (Bishop),  hia  sermons,  259 

Morant  (Philip),  14 

Mnmpingday,  137 

Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  his  humility,  287 

Nishani-Imtiaz,  118 

«  Nothing  new  under  the  sun,*^  817 

Post,  penny,  anticipated,  46 

Printing,  catchwords  in,  466 

Railway,  atmospheric,  266 

St  Auffnstine  and  Descartes,  417 

St.  Helena^  great  gale  at,  16 

Baladin,  founder  of  the  Ayubite  dynasty,  478 
Sleepers  in  churchy  254 

Snuff-boxes,  18 
Song  of  Solomon,  ii.  5^,  174 
Stork,  iU  filial  affection,  483 
Surrey  Folk-lore,  155 
Syncretism,  872 
Toads,  are  they  poisonous  ?  297 
Touchenr,  ita  meaning,  414 
Wig,  arohiepisoopal,  107;  episcopa     178 
**  Wise  as  Waltham'a  calf,*'  186 
WitwaU,  484 
Playa,  Tolume  of,  827 
Poets,  sixpenny  editions  of  the,  110,  253 
Poker,  American  game,  ita  deriTation,  448 
Poll-books,  early,  46,  94 
Polygamy,  forfeiture  of  goods  for,  88, 198 
Pomatum=Pomade  or  pommade,  76, 176,  258,  416 
Pommels  to  side  saddles,  their  introduction,  328 
Ponsonby  (G.)  on  transparent  prints,  455 
Pope  (Alexander),  inyentoiy  of  hia  gooda  taken  after 

death,  868 
Poplar  treea  aa  lightning  oondnetors,  168 
Portrait  attributed  to  Hogarth,  48 
Portraits,    &lse,    of  public   ohanoten,    85;    blade 

profile,  808,  898,  458,  498 
Post,  penny,  anticipated,  46,  94, 167 
Potter  (G.)  on  battle  between  Snetoniuf  and  Boa- 

dioea,  469 


Powell  (T.)  on  "The  Guy,"  a  field-name,  877 

Meams  of  Kincardineshire,  276 

Trees  indigenous  to  Britain,  87 
Poyntz  (Sir  N.  and  Sir  J.),  portraits  of,  247 
*<  Precepts  of  Cato,"  1560,  169 
Price  (G.)  on  Bunker'a  Hill,  295 

Dray=Squirrel*8  nest,  56 

Hay  ward  (John),  D.D.,  180 

Motto  for  a  drinking  cup,  896 

Opalu,  superstitions  about^  888 

Yard  of  beer,  894 
Prideaux  (W.  F.)  on    curious   sentence    by  court* 
martial,  444 

Czar,  its  orthography,  237 

Nishani-Imtiaz,  297 
Primroees,  names  for,  117,  449 
Prince  (0.  L.)  on  "  Arithmology,"  166 

Browne  (SirT.),  his  "ReUgio  Medid,"  184 

Motto  for  a  drinking  cup,  896 
Princes  murdered  in  the  Tower,  their  bones,  229 
Printer's  advertisement,  1742,  146 
Printers'  errors,  7,  25 
Printing,  catchwords  in,  466 
Prints,  transparent,  828,  455 
Prior  (B.  C.  A.)  on  "All  but,"  467 

••  Ympe  tree,"  8 
Privy  Council,  record  of  its  members,  37 
Probable,  the,  as  a  topic  for  injury  of  character,  247 
Probyn  (May)  on  " Daffy-downdUly,"  287 
Procter  (Bryan  Waller),  his  pseudonym,  167 
Proof-sheets,  early,  414 
Prophecies,  modem,  18, 174 
Protestant  flail,  436 

Proverba  and  Fhraiei  :— 

All  upon  the  merry  pin,  94, 137,  287,  877 

American,  65 

Bay  :  4t  bay,  89 

Bleased  is  he  that  expecteth  nothing,  284 

Blockham  feast,  468 

Bred  and  bom,  77,  112, 152,  213,  318,  375,  415 

Brown  study,  58 

BuU's  milk,  166 

Chapter  and  verse,  206,  277 

Come  across,  94 

Conspicuous  by  their  absence,  409,  488 

Cat  over,  77 

Devil  and  the  best  tunes,  77 

Dining  with  Duke  Humphrey,  58,  175 

Fishing  proverbs,  91 

Fools*  paradise,  7,  189 

Fortuitous  concourse  of  atoms,  148,  277 

Fraid  :  For  fraid,  96 

French  leave,  847,  496 

Grey  mare  is  the  better  horse,  96 

Honours  should  change  manners,  225 

Horse-dealing,  427 

Japanese,  166 

Kentish,  266,  474 

Light  Christmas  makes  a  full  sheaf,  155 

Liverpool  gentleman,  Ac,  158 

Loitch  :  Straight  as  a  loitch,  28,  177,  837 

London  paved  with  gold,  42^9 

Makealeg,57, 175,  297 

Man  proposes,  but  God  disposes,  98 


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ProTerbs  and  Phrases : — 

Marry :  Don't  mATTy,  884,  471 

Nothing  snooeedfl  like  miooesB,  169 

Nothing  Tenture  nothing  win,  408 

Peace  with  honour,  846,  496 

•Quid  hoc  ad  Iphioli  boves  t  448 

8t.  Lftwrenoe  on  the  shonlder,  266,  474 

Shake  a  leg,  67 

Stark  naught,  67 

Tak  time  in  time,  ere  time  be  tint,  114, 199 

Too  too,  86,  97,  886 

Unspeakable  Turk,  466 

TVise  as  Waltham*s  calf,  7, 186, 199 
Provincialisms,    Lincolnshire,    66,    178,    817,   868 ; 

Wiltshire,  76 
Psalm  cli.,  Tennant's  translation,  282,  812,  857 
Psalms,  Marot*s,  65 
Pugb  (B.)  on  J.  Duffkin  or  Doffkin,  286 

Few  family,  807 
Pulteney  (Sir  James  Hurray),  his  correspondence, 

820,  358,  876 
Purchase,  years',  887 

Parland  (T.),  Ph.D^  M.A.,  his  biography,  168,  298, 
817 


<^.  (E.)  onBoBwell's  <<  Johnson,"  26 

^uabbe,  its  meaning,  229 

Quarry  (J.)  on  letters  of  the  Countess  of  Orrery  and 

others,  161 
Qaestions,  game  of  twenty,  468 
^i^uiyes,  its  meaning  and  deriration^  449 

•Quotations : — 

Agitate,  agitate,  agitate,  86,  116,  178,  887 

Ab,  Christ,  that  it  were  possible,  70 

As  firm  as  a  rook  and  as  calm  as  the  flood,  409 

Beauty  is  in  the  eye  of  the  beholder,  149 

Behind  the  dim  unknown,  869 

Blessed  is  he  who,  havinsr  nothing  to  say,  489 

C'est  Vamour,  l*amour,  59 

Deus  incubat  angui,  70 

Doth  the  harmony,  888 

Drums,  beat  an  onset,  888 

Bripuit  cselo  fulmen,  sceptrumque  tyrannis,  288 

Far  from  these  narrow  scenes  of  night,  10,  89 

Felix  quern  fiudimt  aliena  pericula  cautum,  118, 

295.  476 
Gigantic  daughter  of  the  West  1  19 
Go,  little  book,  248,  279,  319,  418 
God  gives  us  love,  469,  499 
Hard  is  the  seaboy's  fate,  60 
He  who  plays  at  bowls,  248,  879,  488,  479 
Hilaris  gens,  cui  libera  mens,  187,  214,  220 
Humans  sapientin  pars  est,  110,  289,  259,  879 
I  cannot  pretend  to  a  deep  research,  849 
T  slept  and  dreamed  that  life  was  beauty,  189 
Ignem  gladiis  ne  fodias,  849 
It  changed,  of  ooorse:  the  heavenly  dhameleon, 

209,  239 
It  is  the  iair  acceptance,  sir,  70 
lict  me  light  my  pipe  at  your  ladyship^s  eyes,  16, 

176 
Man  is  immortal  till  his  work  is  done,  809 
Medicos  curat,  natura  sanatmorbos,  86,  119, 199 


Quotations  :— 

Musas  nonnulli  sacro  venerantur  amore,  329 
Our  deeds  still  travel  with  us  from  a£ar,  248,  879 
:   Quadr^ugis  invectus  eqnis  Sol  aureus  exit,  147 
Quas  in  luoem  protulit,  10 
Qui  jaoet  in  terra  non  habet  undo  cadat,  899,  478 
Qui  suadet  sua  det,  89 
Kevolutions  never  go  backward,  888 
River,  river^  shining  river,  28,  79 
SciUoet  in  superis  etiam  fortnna  luenda  est,  488 
beas  but  join  the  regions  they  divide,  248,  279 
Sero  venientibus  ossa,  278 
,  bi  Christum  bene  sds,  189,  219,  269 
Sphsra  eujus  centrum,  102 
Sapprimit  Orator  qu»  Ri^ticns  edit  inept^  10 
Sweetness  and  light,  437 
That  man  was  vain,  and  false  as  vain,  469 
That  uncertain  weather,  469 
The  remembrance  of  a  guest,  70,  99 
There  was  a  laughing  devil  in  his  sneer,  149,  199 
Though  to-day  is  dariL  and  dreary,  70 
To  be  suspected,  slighted,  and  withstood,  110, 160 
To  promise,  pause,  prepare,  postpone,  309 
To  read  between  the  lines,  70 
Transivere  patres,  227,  278 
Two  gifts  p«rfoioe  He  has  given  us  yet,  369,  418, 
Two  souls  with  one  thought,  388,  479 
Verse  sweetens  toil,  169,  199,  219 
Yidi  ego,  qui,  Istis  renun  suooessibus  utenn^  409, 

469 
Vita  sine  Uteris,  846,  497 
Whom  call  we  gay  f  409,  488 


B.  on  Percy  titles :  Ormonde  earldom,  843 

Westonhanger,  ite  etymology,  858 
R.  (A.  W.)  on  nuldew  in  books,  187 

"  Remonstrance  and  Protestation,**  &c.,  287 

'*  Twae  Freirs  of  Berwick,"  456 
EL  (G.)  on  Canadian  teken  or  medal,  148 

Bed  ink,  109 
B.  (C.  B.)  on  two  strange  epitephs,  46 
B.  (F.  N.)  on  Meyer^Master,  488 

Ogley  Hay,  128 

Zoophytes  in  the  Mediterranean,  253 
B.  (J.)  on  the  corruption  of  names,  77 

Navvy  as  Navigator,  476 
R.  (J.  H.)  on  **  Kickshaw,"  406 
K.  (M.  H.)  on  "  Auld  Bobin  Gray,"  145,  212,  256 

Cromlech :  Dolmen,  411 
B.  (B.)  on  «  All  upon  the  merry  pin,"  188 

Booty  (Mrs.),  her  trial,  168 

Buried  alive,  196 

"Don't  marry,"  472 

"  FooUi*  paradise,"  7,  139 

Gob,  ite  meaning,  288 

''  Harpings  of  Lena,"  209,  870 

"Poetic  Mirror,"  897 

Roarer,  ite  slang  meaning,  84 

Swift  (Dean)  and  Adams,  76,  97 

Wesley  (John)  and  Moore,  898 

"  Wise  as  Waltham*s  calf,"  186 
R.  (W.)  on  morris  dancers,  176 
B.  (W.  H.  H.)  on  Sir  John   Clifton   and   Lady 
M.  Talboys,  228 


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Baoiftl,  introduction  of  the  word,  28 
Badnor  registen,  curious  entries  in,  224, 856 
Bail  way,  carious  use  of  the  word,  26 
Bailwfty,  atmospheric,  predicted  by  Coleridge,  266 
Baleigh  (Sir  Walter),  missing  portrait,  48? 
Balston  (W.  R.  &)  on  Slavonio  mythology,  165 
Bandolph  (E.)  on  Joseph  Lemuel  Chester,  480 

Peterhouse,  prison  of,  168 
Rauky,  a  Linoolnshire  proTinciallsm,  55, 178,  817,  853 
Baven  (J.  J.)  on  verses  at  beginning  of  registers,  227 
Bavensoonrt  Park,  Hammersmith,  its  history,  208, 

291 
Bavenshaw  and  Bodortro's  "  Ferial  Psalter,''  205 
Bayner  (W.)  on  the  "  British  Amason,"  457 
BebeUion  of  1745,  a  preacher  on,  87 
Becosant  Bolls.  136,  199 
Begiment,  7th  Dragoons,  in  1745,  87,  198 
Begisters,  verses  at  their  beginning,  227 
Begisters,  parochial.    8ee  dun^  regiakrs. 
Beilic«  its  etymokgy,  828,  894 
Bemillion,  female  Christian  name,  88 
"Remonstrance  and  Pirotestation  of  all  the  Good 

Protestants,"  &c.,  287 
Bendle  (W.)  on  the  cranke,  45 

Tokens  for  the  Sacrament,  475 
Benege,  its  meaning,  178,  214,  377,  896,  474 
Bere-Bupper,  its  meaning,  98 
Besort,  use  of  the  word,  488 
Beviews,  volume  of  anonymous,  405 
Bex  on  a  portrait,  48 
Beynard  the  Poz,  books  on,  286,  299 
Beynolds  (H.  £.)  on  Heniy  JII/s  elephant,  434 
Bhedarium,  in  Park  Lane,  68 
Bhymeless  words,  46, 173,  298,  817,  837,  397 
BiddellofthatUk,  482 
Bidel  or  Badel  of  Blaye,  482 
Bidgway  (T.  6.)  on  statue  at  Brixton,  147 
Bidley  (6.T.)  on  Gloster  Bidley,  407 
Bidley  (Gloster),  D.D.,  his  portrait,  407 
Bigaud  (G.)  on  **  Depsjrt "  as  a  verb  active,  194 

Knibb  (John),  dockmaker,  878,  416 

Oxford  M.A.  gown,  891 

Parochial  reguters,  811 

*<  Vita  sine  literis,"  497 
Bitson  (Joseph),  his  letters  to  J.  C.  Walker,  28 
Bix  (H.)  on  castle  of  kings  of  TJlpha,  467 
Bix  (S.  W.)  on  Dr.  WatU's  "Divine  Songs,**  93 
Boad,  rule  of  the,  76 
Boarer,  its  slang  meaning,  84,  98 
Bobertson  (A.  W.)  on  Cordiner's  "  Antiquities,"  38 
Bobertson  (Frederick),  a  J*  painstaking  author,**  108, 

198 
Bobertson  (J.  L.)  on  Diodati,  407 
Bobins  (Benjamin),  gibbeting  of  his  murderer,  129, 

235,  336 
Bocheeter  (John,  Earl  of),  funeral  sermon  on,  424 
Bodney  (Lord)  and  the  French  navy,  244 
Boe  (H.  F.)  on  Cheyne  Bowe,  327 
Bogation  days,  perambnlationB  on,  867 
Bogers  (J.  E.  T.)  on  Drowe  :  Drage,  86 

Edward  of  Lancaster,  his  deaui,  6 

Tudor  (Jasper),  85 
Bogers  (Rev.  Samuel),  of  CheUingtOD,  Bedfordshire, 

347,  472 
BoUs,  Becusant,  186,  199 


Boman  Catholic  martyrs,  English,   1585-1681,  23. 

163,  402 
Borne,  early  guides  to,  244,  414 
Bood  screens,  English  fifteenth  century,  96 
Bose  (J.)  on  "  Joseph  and  his  Brethren,**  257 
Boss  (C.)  on  **  Auld  Bobin  Gray,**  170,  282 

House  of  Lords,  392 

Junius  and  Garrick,  51 

Toads,  are  they  poisonous  t  297 
Boss  (T.)  on  ooaohes  first  used  in  Scotland,  497 
BoufiBgnac  family,  9,  92 
BouglM,  a  tenn  for  the  low  and  dangerous  class,  168» 

296 
Bound  (J.  H.)  on  Pereies  :  Earl  of  Ormonde,  431 
Bound  (P.  Z.)  on  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  231 
Boundels,  inscriptions  on,  145,  276 
Bowe  (Cheyne),  son  of  Cheyne  Bowe,  327 
Bowe  (Owen),  the  regicide,  168 
Rowning  family  arms,  327 
Boyal  sidutee  in  London,  78 
Boyoe  (D.)  on  assise  of  bread,  69 
Rudel  of  Blaye.     See  Ridel 
Ruglen  marriages,  169 
Rule  of  the  roiul,  76 
Rule  (F.)  on  Charing,  Kent,  92 

«  Make  a  leg,**  67 

Manchet  loaf,  38 
Ruabton  Hall,  inscription  at,  115,  149, 197 
Rushworth  (John),  his  historical  collections,  325 
Russel  (Robert),  of  Wadhurst,  his  writings,  486 
Russell  (Archdeacon),  letter  to  Rev.  W.  iSllis,  161 
Russell  (Constanoe)  on  Ballard  and  Herring  fiunilies,. 
168 

Fleetwood  :  Shelley,  448 

Henshaw  and  Latluun  families,  286 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  114 

''There's  Cauld  Kail  in  Aberdeen,*'  476 
Bussell  (J.  F.)  on  **  Grounds  and  Occasions  of  Con- 
tempt of  the  Clergy,**  338 

Lamb  (Charles)  at  home,  241 
Bussell  (J.  H.  C.)  on  Oliver  Crt>mweU*s  mother,  184 
Russell  (Rev.  T.),  letter  to  Rev.  W.  EUia,  161 
Ruysdael  (Jacob),  his  <<  Cascade,*'  287,  897 

S 
S***  on  the  assumption  of  Christian  names,  445 
S.  (A.)  on  Bannatyne  MS.,  267 

Sermons,  old,  47 
S.  (A.  C.)  on  the  pronundation  of  Forbes,  316 

Misprints,  25 
S.  (A.  R.)  on  Lord  Brittas,  68 
S.  (B.  F.)  on  Bp.  Gibson,  836 

RoufBgnac  £unily,  92 
S.  (0.  B.)  on  origin  of  the  word  kangaroo,  326 
S.  (C.  W.)  on  anonymous  works,  50 

Irish  oardinala,  406 
S.  (D.  A.)  on  Pomatum=rPomade,  76 
S.  (F.)  on  "Medicus  curat,**  &c.,  119 

Mnemonics  of  (Ecumenicssl  Councils,  26 
S.  (F.  G.)  on  Junius  queries,  159 

Prints,  transparent,  455 
S.  (G.)  on  Fabian  Smith,  286 
S.  (J.  M.)  on  ElUce :  Ellis,  874 

Marriage  between  English  and  Irish,  92 
S.  (M.  N.)  on  <<  Behold  the  Mao,**  208 


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S.  (N.)  on  St  Edmund  of  East  ADglia^  8 
8.  (R.  P.)  on  Sir  Philip  Francis,  416 
8.  (R.  T.)  on  Lord  Byron^s  portrait  bj  Wert,  116 
8.  (S.)  on  Cairtor,  co.  Linooln,  129 
8.  (T.  W.  W.)  on  St.  Margaiet*8  Chorchyard,  Wast- 
mtniter,  128,  218,  295 
"Tour  in  qnert  of  Genealogy,*'  279 
8.  (W.)  on  Darlinc;  :  Menrin  :  Willis,  887 
8.  (W.  H.)  on  "  Changed,**  a  Suffolk  word,  406 
S.  (W.  M.)  on  "St.  James's  Scanty,**  427 
8.  (W.  S.  L.)  on  Boggis  family,  129 
Cornwall,  its  kings,  28 
Gigantology,  its  bibliography,  247 
Bouffignao  fiunily,  9 
Sampford-Spiney,  inscription  at,  109 
Somerrille  family,  208 
Worlds,  plurality  of,  229 
Sacramental  tokens,  475 
Saddles,  pommelled  side,  828 
Sailors,  female,  457 

St  Augustine  and  Descartes,  268,  417 
St  Bartholomew's  Day,  1662,  called  « Black  Bar- 
tholomew," 888 
8t  Cuthbert,  his  Gospel.     See  DwKam  Book. 
St.  Kdmund  of  East  Anglia,  8,  137 
St  Felix  on  Wilson's  Yorkshire  collections,  489 
St  Giles's  FMr,  Winchester,  448 
St.  Helena,  great  gale  at,  15 
**  St  James's  Beauty,"  a  portrait,  427 
^t.  Jerome  and  Chaucer,  445 
St  John  (William  de),  "grand  master  of  the  artillery,*' 

467 
St  McLoo  and  his  atone,  446,  498 
8t  Margaret's,  Wertminster.    See  Wettmiiuter. 
St.  Michael's  Mount,  Ark  of  the  Coyenant  at,  54 
8t  Paul's  Cathedral,  a.d.  2199,  13 ;  "  Misfortunes  of 

St  Paul's  Cathedral,"  121 
8t  S within  on  the  word  *'  Begot,"  207 
"Bred  and  bom,*'  213,  875 
Chuck,  use  of  the  word,  278 
Con  Tent  of  the  Crosi,  Jerusalem,  232 
Easter  eggs,  95 
Guffin,  its  meaning,  54 
"Make  a  leg,"  297 
Moon,  sin  to  point  at,  15 
St  White  and  her  cheese,  246,  331,  455 
Saints,  Irish,  27 
Sala  (G.  A.)  on  murtle  fish,  391 

Periodicals,  extinct,  371 
Saladin,  founder  of  the  Ayubite  dynasty,  327,  478 
Salutes,  royal,  in  London,  78 
Sampford-Spiney,  inscription  at,  109 
Sandford  familv  of  Howgill  Castle^  Westmoreland,  48 
**  Sangre  azol,'*  origin  of  the  term,  449 
Sarum  Missal,  A.D.  1500,  48 
8ate,  for  sat,  87,  78,  158 
Savill  (J.  W.)  on  the  meaning  of  BossocV,  217 
County,  application  of  the  word,  496 
Funeral  armour  in  churches,  58 
Sawyer  <F.  E.)  on  arms  of  colonial  and  missionary 
bishoprics,  57,  337 
Belfxy,  its  etymology,  431 
Brighton  field-names,  125 
Charles  II.,  his  biding  places,  28,  388 
DcTil  and  the  best  hymn  tunes,  77 


Sawyer  (F.  B.)  on  drinks,  efiervesdng,  84 

Hallywell  (Heniy),  96,  879 

Hawes  fiunihr,  149 

Hawes  (Sir  James),  235 

Oringdean  Grange^  257 

Owl  as  an  emblem  of  death,  447 

Pearls,  Uack,  in  the  English  crown,  188 

Place-names,  foreign,  305 

Scribe^  need  as  a  Terb,  278 

Thermometer  scales^  196 

Wife  selling,  58 

Wills,  parc^ent,  110 

Worcestershire  field-names,  856 
Scala  (Can  Grande  della),  last  of  his  line,  427 
Scarlett  (Thomas),  author,  1590,  287 
Scharf  (G.)  on  Lord  and  Lady  Jennings,  407 

Littleberries,  MiU  HUl,  41 
Schotanus  (Meinardus),  author   of  "Syatema  Con- 

donum,'*  409 
Schoa  (N.  C.)  on  Sparrow  family,  88 
Schtick  (L.)  on  genealogy  in  France,  56 
Scoekered,  its  meaning,  266 
Sconce^  its  slang  meaning,  98 
Scotland,  a  Wiltshire  place-name,  388 
Scotland,  its  early  Chamberlains,  61,  889;  coaches 

first  used  in,  867,  497 
Scott  (E.)  on  parochial  registers,  238 
ScoU  (J.  B.)  on  the  deriTation  of  Cheyne,  96 

ScoU  (Hot.  James),  49 
Scott  (Bey.  James),  his  £amily,  fcc,  49 
Scottish  Communion  Office,  164 
Scribe,  used  as  a  verb,  278 
Scrinchling,  its  meaning,  266 
Scrutin  de  liste  :  Sorutin  d'arrondlssement,  84 
Sculthorp(H.)  on  old  house  in  Leadenhall  Street,  269 

Yard  of  beer,  456 
Peabniy  (Bp.  Samuel),  his  portrait,  208,  318 
Seafield  Castle,  Scotland,  ito  history,  457 
Seafield  earldom,  869 
Seal,  old,  148,  255,  379 
Second  sight,  105, 158 
Secret  chambers,  fcc.,  in  old  houses,  397,  478 
Seotscle=:Hdst  or  lift,  49,  215 
Siguier  (F.  P.)   on   Sterne's  <'Tristnm  Shandy," 

12 
Semper  Eadem  on  Warton's  "  Tumip-Hoer,"  75 
Senhonse  (Mr.),  his  Cumberland  collections,  189 
Sepulchre  in  chuxohes,  96,  157,  197 
Sermons,  old,  47,  424 
Servia,  ancient  empire  of,  209,  276 
Sewell  (W.  H.)  on  traveb  in  the  Holy  Land,  264 
Shakspeare  (William),  Ben  Jonson's  censure  on,  224  ; 
early  editions  of  his  "  Passionate  Pilgrim,"  246 

8hakfpf  ariana  :— 

Cymbeline,  Act  iL  so.  5 :  "All  faults  that  name," 

424 ;  Act  iii.  sc  4 :  "  Harsh,  noble,  simple 

nothing,'*  424,  445 
Heniy  IV.,  Pt  I.  Act  iii.  so.  1 :  "He  held  me 

last  night,*'  ftc,  124,  424 
Henry  V.,  Act  i.  so.  2  :  "Imbare  their  crooked 

Utles,"  243,  423  ;  Act  ii.  sc.  8  :  ''Babbled  of 

green  fields,"  243,  423 
King  John,  Aeti  so.  1 :  "Saving  in  dialogue," 

242,  423 


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Romeo  and  Ja1iet»  the  Apothecary  io,  848 

Tempest,  Act  iv.  ea  1 :  "  Raoke/'  424 
Shanavest,  an  Irish  party  nam^,  446 
8harpe  (I.),  of  Stepney,  his  biography,  128 
Shelley  :  Fleetwood,  448       * 
Shelley  (Percy  Bysshe),  his  ode  to  Mont  Blanc,  448 
Shenstone  (William),  poetical  inscription  on,  93 
Sherman  (Roger),  the  American  patriot^  129,  254 
Shipton  (Richard),  of  Lythe  Half,  co.  York,  171 
Shirley  (E.  P.)  on  newfangled  expressions,  865 

Fletchers:  Cascade  or  waterfall,  449 
Shiver,  as  a  verb  active,  828, 471 
Shovell  (Sir  Cloudesley),  his  portraits,  207 
Sikes  (J.  C.)  on  "  Wring,"  a  proymoialism,  468 
Silhouettes,  or  black  profile  portraits,  808,  393,  458, 

493 
Sim  (J.)  on  Anstralian  heraldry,  104,  123 
Simcox  (W.  H.)  on  are  toads  poisonous  ?  82 
Simmerin^sPrimrose,  117 
Simpson  (J.)  on  parochial  registers,  274 
Simpson  (W.  S.)  on    *' Misfortunes    of   Si.    Panl*8 
Cathedral,"  121 

Nuremberg,  chimes  at,  147 
Sinker  (R.)  on  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge, 
81,  101,  181,  201,  801 

Longlond  (Bp.),  his  sermons,  228,  835 
Skeat  ( W.  W.)  on  adjectives  pluralized  in  English,  252 

Bannatyne  M8.,  884 

Be,  as  a  prefix,  895 

Belfry,  its  etymology,  158 

Cldture,  its  derivation  and  meaning,  126 

Copy,  bad,  and  good  printers,  72 

"  Er,"  its  pronunciation  as  "  ar,  '*  194 

"  Felon's  Wife,"  246,  298 

Fitzherbert's  **  Husbandry,"  467 

Flarb,  its  meaning,  415 

"Bilarisgens,"fto.,  214 

X,  Latin,  changed  into  U  in  French,  811 

Manacus,  a  fictitious  word,  464 

Rauky,  a  provincialism,  853 

Spawn,  its  etymology,  465 

Syd,  in  Sydney  and  Sydenham,  287 

Talon,  its  etymology,  894 

Turken,  its  meaning,  165 

Wigeon,  its  etymology,  113 
Skevington  (T.  W.)  on  Sir  Geo.  Griffith,  Knt.,  18 
Skipton  Castle,  Civil  War  tract  on  its  surrender,  368 
Slait;=sTo  abuse,  118 

Slaten  (J.)  on  Thomas  Walysh,  a  Lancastrian,  807 
Slater  (W.  B.)  on  isolated  burial,  258 
Slavonic  mythology,  144, 165 
Sleepers  in  church,  127,  254,  807 
Slick  (Sam)  on  Cumberland,  D.H.  A.,  245 
Smart  (T.  W.  W.)  on  Hooper  family,  64 
Smith  (A.  M.)  on  parochial  registers,  251 
Smith  (Albert),  his  **  Galignani*s  Messenger,"  89 
Smith  (Fabian),  his  biography,  286 
Smith  (H.)  on  the  meaning  of  *'Gob,"  238 
Smith  (Hubert)  on  a  work  on  aeronautics,  408 

Charles  II.,  his  hiding  places,  173 

Epitaph,  curious,  874 
Smith  (W.),  clockmaker,  49 
Smith  (W.  A.)  on  Voltaire,  869 
Smoke  silver,  156 


Snuff-boxes,  political,  18 

Sodor  and  Man,  bishopric  of,  109 

Soldiers,  female,  457 

Solly  (E.)  on  the  Vicar  of  Baddow,  159 

Brittas  (Lord),  91 

Backhurat  (SackviUe,  Lord),  812 

Burke  (Edmund),  his  marriage,  205 

BuBSock,  provincial  word,  154 

Eachard  (John),  452 

FJarb,  its  meaning,  267 

Fletcher  (Lady),  467 

Frances  (Sir  P.),  his  marriage,  872 

Guest  (General),  193 

Hare,  Baron  of  Coleraine,  29 

**  Hypolite,  Comte  de  Duglas,'*  285 

Jack-an-Apes  Lane,  307 

Jennings  (Lord  and  Lady),  454 

Junius's  Letters,  841 

Leadenhall  Street,  old  house  in,  270 

Marlborough  (Sarah,  Duchess  of),  471 

Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  231 

Milton  (John),  his  grand-nephew,  434 

Overbury  (Sir  T.),  embassy  offered  to,  850 

Protestant  flaU,  486 

St.  Helena,  great  gale  at,  15 

Thomson  (James),  his  poems,  388 

Walker  (C),  his  **  History  of  Independency,'* 
Somerset  family,  848 
Somerset  (Edmund  Beaufort,  Duke  of),  his  buria- 

place,  186 
Somerville  family,  208 

Songs  and  Ballads  :— 

Ah  County  Guy,  226 

Auld  Robin  Gray,  145,  170,  212,  232,  255,  314, 
398 

Cork  Leg,  247 

Felon's  Wife,  246,  298 

Harvey  Duff,  6,  74 

Irish,  6,  74 

John  Dory,  39 

Lily  of  St.  Leonards,  168 

Logic  o'  Buchan,  27,  193 

Old  Johnny  Walker,  482 

There 's  Cauld  Kail  in  Aberdeen,  328,  433,  476 

Wassailing  song,  Gloucestershire,  64 
Sonnenschein  (W.  S.)  on  longevity  of  professional 

men,  25 
Sonnet,  anonymous,  486 
Soul  (Molse  du),  his  biography,  867 
Southam  (John),  1440,  109 

Southey  ( Robert),  popular  estimate  of  him  in  1801,  446 
Southwark,  token  books  at  St.  Saviour*s,  475 
Spal  on  William  de  St  John,  467 
Spanish  sentence  of  excommunication,  48 
Sparrow  family  of  Staffordshire,  88 
Spawn,  its  etymology,  465 
Spearman  (R.  H.)  on  newfangled  expressions^  392 
Spenser  (Edmund),  his  heraldic  bearings,  149 
Spiders  poisonous,  93, 197 
Spinula  (Franoiscus),  his  "  Mediolanensis  Opera,"  267, 

835,  453 
Spring  Folk-lore,  867 
Squire  Papers,  448 
Squire  (W.  B.)  on  St  White  and  her  cheese^  246 


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SS.  affixed  to  a  Botnlm,  208 
Stag,  used  as  a  verb,  218,  856 
Stainley,  South,  cnriout  manorial  oastom  at,  245 
Stanning  (J.  H.)  on  parochial  registen^  492 
Stansfeld  («M  on  heialdio  query,  898 
SUplea  (J.  U.)  on  **  Blatheramakite,'*  428 
Stapleton  pedigree,  58 

Stephens  (P.  O.)  on  casts  of  fiMes  of  historioal  per- 
sonages, 417 
Sterne  (Laurence),  allusions  in  *' Tristram  Shandy,"  11 
Still,  use  of  the  word,  428 
Stone  (W.  O.)  on  great  gale  at  St.  Helena,  15 
Stork,  its  filial  affection,  186,  438 
Stormonth  (Rct.  James),  his  death,  120 
Stowey  and  Stow  Ball  Hills,  229,  874 
Stratton  (T.)  on  <' Black  mail,"  226 
Dray=Squirrers  nest,  56 
Meams  of  Kinoardineshire,  275 
Beilic,  its  etymology,  894 
Talk-o'-theHill,  297 
"  Strawberry  HUl "  Catalogue,  441 
Street  (B.  E.)  on  Erckmann-Chatrian's  *'Le  Juif  Po- 
lonais,''  477 
Half-binding,  295 
Wolf  on  the  arm,  478 
Striz  on  heraldic  query,  898 
Scarlett  (Thomas),  287 
Strong  (Frederick),  booksdler,  of  Long  Acre^  187 
Stuart  (Lord  Robert),  half-brother  of  Queen  Mary,  256 
Stubbe  family,  68,  198 
Stttrmer  (H.  H.  von)  on  Bp.  Gibson,  836 
Stutfield  (W.)  on  portraito  and  medsJ,  247 
"  Such  which,"  in  Chancer,'  76 
Suetonius  and  Boadicea,  site  of  battle  between,  281, 

469 
Suits  of  hundred,  fta,  freedom  from,  809,  486 
Supernatural,  belief  in,  868 
Surrey  Folk-lore,  106,  155,  845,  375,  475 
Sutton  (C.  W.)  on  George  Eliot,  109 
"  Swag  of  husks  and  pattaras,*"  87 
Swealing,  its  meaning,  67 

Sweeting  (W.  D.)  on  adjeotiyei  ploraliaed  in  English, 
495 
Parochial  registers,  831 
Swlfb  (Dean  Jonathan)  and  T.  Adams,  75,  97  ;  un- 
published anecdote,  106  ;  his  university  degree,  888 
Swinfen  and  Grundy  families,  852 
Syd,  in  Sydney  and  Sydenham,  87,  215,  287>  415 
Syncretism  and  its  deriratioo,  229,  872 


T.  (A.)  on  Joseph  II.  and  Beethoven,  887 
T.  (A.  G.)  on  the  moon  **  the  parish  lantern,"  418 
T.  (C.)  on  courtship  among  the  Choetawiy  465 
T.  (D.  C.)  on  Shakspeariana,  445 

Worthington  (John),  78 
T.  (D.  K.)  on  coaches  first  used  in  Scotland,  867 
T.  (H.)  on  Charles  L's  vision,  437 
T.  (J.  H.)  on  Finkel,  a  place-name,  257 
T.  (J.  M.)  on  Baitman,  the  Alford  poet|  413 
T.  (M.  S.)  on  Lincoln  stuff  baU,  206 
Table,  posture  at,  868 
Tables,  game  of,  and  ehess^  148,  255,  818 
Tahiti  lamentation  for  Nineveh  (f),  107 
Talboys  (Lady  Margarot)  and  Sir  J.  Clifton,  228 


Talk-o*-the-Hill,  a  plaoe-name,  297 

Tallies,  reckoning  by,  85 

Talon,  its  derivation,  268,  894 

Tamburini  (C.)  on  Franciscus  Spinula,  453 

Tancock  (O.  W.)  on  adjectives  pluralixed  in  English,  251 

Forrel,  its  meaning,  256 

Jnbar,  its  derivation,  278 

Manifest,  its  etymology,  294 

Panis  de  hastrinello^  137 

Tin»ldoney,  32 

Whiskers^MouBtaohes,  14 
Tarots,  playing  cards,  86,  198 
Task  of  a  parish,  27,  172 

Tkswell-LangmcKiid  (T.  P.)  on  parochial  registers,  329 
Tate  (W.  R.)  on  religions  novels,  195,  458 

Toads,  are  they  poigonous  ?  178 
Tatter,  its  derivation,  188 

Tavern  signs :  **  Pincushion,"  7  ;  "  Indian  Queen,"* 
207  ;  "  Murtle  Fish,"  347,  891 ;  "  The  Jumps,"  38S 
Tax-gatherer,  his  fiite,  286 
Taylor  (E.  J.)  on  Birnie  of  Broomhill,  9 

Esterhasy  (Prince  Paul),  489 
Taylor  (J.)  on  Anderson's  "Book  of  British  Topo- 
graphy," 297 

Pioey  chap-books,  369 

Fawsley  and  the  Knightly  family,  208 

Rogers  (Rev.  Samuel),  473 

White  (Thomas),  Bp.  of  Peterborough,  473 
Taylor  (Rev.  Dr.),  Johnson  s  letters  to,  308,  824,  342,. 

882,  422,  461,  481 
TeaglearHoist  or  lift,  its  derivation,  49, 215 
Teetotal,  pre»temperance  word,  79 
Tegg  (W.)  on  Thomson's  Poems,  333 
Temperance  library,  86 
Temple  Bar,  its  proposed  transformation,  326 
Tennant  (WiUiam),  noticed,  282,  312,  857 
Tennis,  its  etymology,  56,  78 

Tennyson  (Alfred),  "In  Memoriam,"  Ixnix.  12,  404 
Tenterden  (Lord)  and  Sir  William  Follett,  326 
Terry  (F.  C.  B.)  on  adjectives  pluralized  in  EngUsh^ 
294 

Alkermes,  its  etymology,  216 

*' All  upon  the  merry  pin,"  238 

Antimony,  its  derivation,  84 

April  Folk-lore,  417 

Bells,  "coomb"  off.  475 

Birch  of  Paradiw,  16 

Black  mail,  497 

Blood-gniltinesp,  75 

Bont :  Stag,  356 

Bread,  asnze  of,  216 

"Biedandbom,"416 

"Brown  study,"  53 

Bussock,  its  derivation,  218 

Cards,  deck  of,  377 

**  CathoUcon  Anglicum,**  218 

Chuck,  use  of  the  word,  175 

Cock-crowing,  178 

Coinage,  popular  names  for,  17,  179 

Conundrum,  its  etymology,  96 

Comubled,  its  meaning,  189 

Crouchmas    Christmas,  816 

Customer,  its  meaning,  334 

"  Cut  over,"  77 

•'Daffy-downdilly,"  415 


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QneriM,  with  No.  U4.  J  aly  u,  IM. 


Terry  (F.  0.  B.)  oa  Deu,  iU  xneuiiDgr,  199 
**  Dine  with  Duke  Hamphrey,"  175 

Do»  the  causal,  5S 

Bamer^Nearar,  496 

«Eerie8wither,"496 

PatherUkDd,  introduction  of  the  word,  806 

IPinkel,  a  place-name,  267 

Oob,  its  meaning^,  288 

-*<6uy.  The,"  a  field-name,  857 

Heloe,  its  etymology,  850 

Holly :  Holy.tree,  466 

Kentish  Folk-lore,  415 

Xancashire,  its  earliest  inhabitants,  79 

"  Light  Christmas  makes  a  full  eheaf,**  155 

Lincolnshire  provincialisms,  55 

liister  fitmily,  216 

''*  Logie  o'  Buchan,"  194 

Halte  money,  897 

Manchet  loaf,  88 

Maniest,  use  of  the  word,  247 

Manifest,  its  etymology,  293 

Manurial,  a  new  word,  417 

Masham  (Mrs.)  and  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough, 
298 

Moon,  sin  to  point  at,  54  ;  ''the  parish  lantern,'* 
418 

"'  Much  "  and  "  Great,'*  applied  to  vUUges,  355 

I^ick-nackatory,  338 

*'  Nothing  new  under  the  sun,"  286 

'''Nothing  succeeds  like  success,"  189 

Opiet,  its  derivation,  876 

Otamy,  use  of  the  word,  485 

^<  Other  half  hundred,"  174 

Pomatum,  or  pomade,  416 

Boughs,  origin  of  the  term,  296 

**  St.  Lawrence  on  the  shoulder,*'  474 

St  Luke  xxiii.  15,  378 

Sate,  for  sat^  158 

Shiver,  verb  active,  471 

€lait»To  abuse,  118 

Spiders  poisonous,  197 

Stork,  its  filial  affection,  438 

<' Straight  as  a  loitch,"  177 

Thaw,  rapid,  855 

"Too  too,"  97 

"Want  ways,"  276 

'"Was  crucified,  dead,  and  buried,"  272 

Weather  prognostication,  497 

Wently,  its  meaning,  316 

Westenhanger,  its  etymology,  858 

Witwall,  484 

Wonder,  as  an  adverb,  156 

Wont :  Translator  :  Gallier,  856 
Testa  (Pietia),  engraver,  188 
Tew  (E.)  on  1  Corinthians  ii.  18,  165 

Eboracum,  its  etymology,  132 

Escaeta,  its  meaning,  455 
Thackwray  (G.  B.)  on  sepulchre  in  churches,  96 
Thames  embankments,  133 
Thaw,  rapid,  1607,  226,  855 
Theological  books  ,curious  English,  225 
"  There  let  Thy  servant  be,**  46,  93 
Thermometer  scales,  79,  196 
Thompson  (W.)  on  "  For  fraid,"  96 

"  Such  which,"  in  Chaucer,  76 


Thoms  (W.  J.)  on  books  gone  astray,  427 

German  Volksbuch,  115 
Thomson  (James),  editions  of  his  "  Poems,"  188,  388. 

395 
Thomson    (Mr.),    of    Melbourne,    his    essay    "On 

Renascence  Drama,"  62 
Thome  (J.  R.)  on  rhymdess  words,  817,  397 
Thought,  its  pronunciatioa  in  the  18th  century,  426 
Thus  on  Lord  Brittas,  197 

Grassinaram  Collegium,  236 
Tim  (Tiny)  on  Thomas  Coutts^  152 
Tin=Money,  82, 131 
Title  :  Bastard-title  and  half-titie,  826 
Titles,  courtesy,  7, 137 
Toad  and  the  centipede,  448 
Toads,  are  they  pdusonous?  82,  178,  297,  875,  418; 

worshipped,  149,  195 
Token,  Canadian  (t),  148,  236 
Tokens,  sacramental,  475 
Tole  (F.)  on  Charles  L*s  vision,  294 
Tole  (F.  A.)  on  the  vicar  of  Baddow,  117 
Mathematical  bibliography,  426 
Smith  (W.\  clockmaker,  49 
"  Tour  in  Quest  of  Genealogy,"  339 
Tolhausen  (A.)  on  "Fatherland,"  456 

Place-names,  foreign,  472 
Tolson  (F.),  his  "  Hermathente,"  115 
Tomlins's  New  Town,  Paddington,  208 
Tonkin  (F.  W.)  on  rhymeless  words,  178 
"  Too  too,"  not  a  modem  expression,  86,  97,  836 
Toplady  (Rev.  A.  M.),  his  writings,  39 
Tory,  origin  of  the  term,  83 
Toncheur,  its  meaning,  287,  414 
Tower  of  London,  bones  of  the  princes  murdered  in, 

229 
Townsend  (John),  architect,  of  Oxford,  247 
Trafalgar,  memories  of,  11,  257,  338 
Translator,  its  provincial  moaning,  225,  356 
IVeason,  high,  punishment  for,  temp,  OUver  CromweU, 

9,  156 
Trees  indigenous  to  Britain,  87,  176 
Tripp  (H.)  on  buried  alive,  159 
Tudor  (Jaspar),  at  King's  College,  Cambridge,  85, 154 
Tuer  (A.  W.)  on  Moiland's  "  Emblematical  Palette," 

246 
Tnnworth  or  Tumworth  Manor,  Basingstoke,  269 
Tupling  (John),  author  of  "Folious  Appearances,"  81 
Turgot  (Anne-Robert  James),  his  poetical  writings,  288 
Turken,  its  meaning,  165 
Tumer  (J.  H.)  on  General  Guest,  149 

Heywood  (Rev.  O.),  his  MSS.,  146 
Tumer  (J.  M.  W.),  his  houses,  367 ;  and  the  "Keep- 
sake," 488 
Turner  (R.  S.)  on  "  Anecdotes  of  Monkeys,"  417 
Tumer  (Richard)  and  Teetotalism,  77 
"  Twae  Freirs  of  Berwick,'*  Aberdeen,  1622,  267|  415, 

456 

U 
U,  French,  supposed  change  from  a  Latin  L,  261, 311 
Udal  (J.  8.)  on  differencing  arms,  229 
Baylye  arms,  76 

Charles  II.,  his  hiding  places,  29 
Christening  sheet,  56 
Heraldic  queries,  398,  475 
Wrays=Udall,  31 


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TJlpluK  Castle  of  kings  of,  467 

TJ]nbragooa8=Offeaddd,  449 

**  United  Ireland,**  its  seizore  by  the  Government,  6 

University  towns,  896 

XJnwin  (T.  F.)  on  the  **  Cheap  Magazine,"  287 

TJppa  (Nicholaus  de),  6th  Richard  I.,  168 

TTrlin  (B.  D.)  on  a  letter  of  Hood,  205 


V.  (J.  L.)  on  "  Chiverton's  Book,"  288 

V.  (V.  H.  I.  L.  I.  C.  I.)  on  F.  D.,  Dutch  engraver,  809 

Fraybng,  its  meaning,  489 

Lnckman  (li.)*  printer,  286 

Sharpe  (!.),  of  Stepney,  128 
Vaillant  (V.  J.)  on  painting  of  the  flight  into  Egypt,  86 
"Vale  (Sam)  and  Sam  Weller,  826,  388 
Valoigns  barony,  its  extinction,  142,  290 
Taloines  and  Balliol  families,  61,  889 
Value,  its  pronunciation  in  the  18th  century,  426 
Vandyok  (Sir  A.),  his  "Time  olipiang  the  Wings  of 

Love."  106,  197 
Van  Venloo  (Jan),  bell  founder,  68 
Vaughan  (H.  H.)  on  Shakspeariana,  242 
Vebna  on  St.  Edmund  of  East  Anglia,  187 

Trafalgar,  Battle  of,  11 
Venables  (B.)  on  the  derivation  of  Chimere,  454 

*<  Dead,"  in  the  Apostles*  Creed,  457 

Finkle,  a  place-name,  476 

"  St.  Lawrence  on  the  shoulder,"  474 

St.  White  and  her  cheese,  455 
Vernon  fiunily  arms,  56 
Verulam  (Earl  of)  on  Sarah,  Duchese  of  Marlborough, 

471 
Vessel,  first  iron,  206 
"Vicars,  successive,  from  one  family,  119 
"Vigom  on  canal  legislation,  429 

Cock-a-Dobby,  293 

Gibbeting,  235,  886 

Place-names,  foreign,  472 
'VlUers  and  Bathurst  families,  308 
Vincent  (J.  A.  C.)  on  Battle  of  Falkirk,  127 

Valoigns  barony,  290 
Virginia,  I/.S.A.,  its  old  laws,  66 
Voltaire  (M.  F.  A.),  MS.  note,  369,  436 
Voting  tickets  in  the  18th  century,  885 
VoudooiBm  in  the  United  States,  285 

W 

W.  on  St.  McLoo's  stone,  446 

W.  (Chr.)  on  order  of  administering  to  communi- 

cuits,  286 
W!  (D.  H.)  on  "  Surrender  of  Skipton  Castle,"  868 
W.  (F.  A.)  on  ghosts  in  New  Zealand,  158 

Lutzow  (£kroness  de)»  455 
W.  (F.  S.)  on  the  legal  gown,  425 

Sepalchre  in  churches,  96 
W.  (F.  V.)  on  a  Spanish  sentence  of  excommunicatioDy 

48 
W.  (H.)  on  Anstey  fiunily,  81 

Courtesy  titles,  7 

De  Raedt  baronetcy,  267 
W.  (H.  A.)  on  Elias  Browne,  149 
W.  (J.)  on  "  Reynard  the  Fox,*'  299 
W.  (W.)  on  Somerset  fiimily,  848 
Waddington  (F.  S.)  on  Baoon  family,  87 


Waddington  (F.  S.)  on  Howard,  origin  of  the  name, 
175 

Loughborough  (Lord),  109 

Suits  of  hundred,  &c.,  486 
Wadley  (T.  P.)  on  Bagnal  or  Bagenal  family,  494 

Fettiplace  (Robert),  473 

Marshall  (Samlet),  157 
Wait  (S.)  on  bawbee,  William  and  Mary,  17 
Waitress^  Parlour  maid,  136 
Wales,  Princesses  of,  85 
Walford  (C.)  on  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  295 

Periodicals,  extinct,  872 

St.  Giles's  Fair,  448 
Walford  (E.)  on  "Anecdotes  of  Monkeys,"  869 

"  Be,**  as  a  prefix,  268 

Buried  alive,  196 

County,  application  of  the  word,  496 

Edward  of  Lancaster,  his  death,  75 

Edward  VL  and  his  sisters,  277 

"French leave,"  347 

Jubar,  its  derivation,  278 

Newize,  use  of  the  word,  466 

Peers,  their  signatures,  90 

Rushton  Hall,  inscription  at,  115 

Sbenstone  (William),  98 

Southey  (Robert),  446 
Walker  (Clement),  his  "History  of  Independency,'* 

208,  252 
Wallis  (A.)  on  **  AH  upon  the  merry  pin,**  238 

Book-binding, "  half,*'  235 

Book-plate  query,  407 

Bums  (R.),  early  appreciation  of,  199 

Colonel,  early  use  of  the  word,  256 

Dicey's  chap-books,  478 

"  He  who  plays  at  bowls,"  &c.,  438 
Walmyth,  its  locality,  46 
Walter  (J.),  painter,  208,  279 
Walysh  (Thomas),  a  Lftncastrian,  307 
Want  way8=Cro8s  roads,  167,  276 
Ward,  its  meaning,  287,  418 
Ward  (C.  A.)  on  the  statnre  of  Frenchmen,  468 

Mansfield  (Lord),  87 

"  Romeo  and  Juliet,"  Apothecary  in,  848 
Ward  (J.),  painter,  808,  897 
Warner  (T.)  on  Vandyck's  *'  Time  clipping  the  Wings 

of  Love,"  106 
Warren  (Aaron),  6b.  1751,  808 
Warren  (C.  F.  S.)  on  Abaddon,  188 

Book-plate,  curious,  874 

Buried  alive,  tale  of  old  Cologne,  118,  195 

Edward  VI.  and  his  sisters,  277 

Expressions,  new&ngled,  892 

Parochial  registers,  881 

Titles,  courtesy,  137 

Vicars,  successive,  from  one  family,  119 

Wills,  parchment,  287 
Warton  (T.),  his  balhwi  of  **  The  Tnmip-Hoer,"  75 
Wassailing  in  Gloucestershire,  64 
Water-boughs,  why  so  called,  369 
Waterton  (E.)  on  the  meaning  of  Bunock,  86, 154 

Hereward  le  Wake,  257 

"  Imitation  of  Christ,"  54,  70 

Lincolnshire  provincialisms,  178 

Rushton  Hall,  inscription  at»  149 
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Qttttiita,  viUi  Mo.  IM.  Jul/  ti,  iAA. 


WatliDg  Street,  origin  of  its  name,  440 

Watts  (Dr.  laeac),  his  sixteenth  *<  Divine  Song/*  98 

Weather  sayings.    See  FoU>lare, 

Webb  <T.  W.)  on  the  siege  of  Chepstow,  176 

Wedding  books,  Italian,  207 

Wedgwood  (H.)  on  Oomnbiled,  834 

Welch  (C.Xon  Capt.  Gordon,  149 

WeU,  model  of  Indian,  286,  809,  857 

Wells  (W.  A.)  on  difiisrencing  aims,  231 

Funeral  armour  in  churches,  177,  858,  458 
Welsh  (C.)  on  poker,  American  game,  443 
Welshmen  in  Dorsetshire,  177 
Wently,  its  meaning  and  derivation,  188,  816 
Wentworth  (Lords)  of  Nettlested,  278 
Wesley  (John)  and  Moore,  869,  898,  476 
Westenhanger,  its  etymology,  227,  853 
Westminster,  St.  Margaret's  Church  and  churchyard, 

72,  128,  171,  218,  284,  295,  819,  851,  486,  486 
Weston  fiimUy,  469 

Weston  (H.  G.)  on  "  Precepts  of  Cato,"  169 
Weston  (L.^  on  *<  Breeding-stone,**  56 
Weston  (W.  J.)  on  funeral  armour  in  churches,  858 
Westwood  (T.)  on  Charles  Lamb,  381 
Wharton  (H.  T.)  on  the  etymology  of  wigeon,  85 
Wheatley  (H.  B.)  on^Thomas  Coutts,  108, 152 

Post,  penny,  anticipated,  94 
Wheeler  (A.)  on  anonymous  reyiews^  405 

Brocklesby  (Richard),  245 
Whibley  (F.  B.)  on  Shakspeaiiana^  424 
Whig,  origui  of  the  term,  83 
Whiskers»Moustaches,  14,  176 
White  (C.  A.)  on  Chislehurst,  Kent,  468 

White  (Thomas),  Bp.  of  Peterborough,  148 
White  (John),  '^Centuiy  of  Scandalous  Malignant 

Priests,**  84 
White  (M.)  on  marriages  in  May,  429 
White  (Thomas),  Bp.  of  Peterborough,  his  birthplace 

and  biogra^T,  148,  478 
Whitgreave  (F.)  on  Charles  XL's  hiding  placei^  78 
Whyte  (D.)  on  anonymous  wofska,  349 

"  Logie  o*  Buchan,**  198 
Wife  selling  in  the  19th  century,  58,  98,  296 
Wig,  episcopal,  36, 173,  296 ;  arcbiepisoopal,  107 
Wigeon,  its  etymology,  85, 118- 
Wilberforoe  (Wm.)  and  the  *' Emancipation  oak,"  146 
William  de  WanneryiU^Margeiy,  847 
William  III.,  his  character  as  a  husband,  84,  235 
Williams  (A.)  on  Theodore  Bathorst,  110 

•*WholeDutyofMaD,**52 
Willis  &mily,  887 

Willoughby  (Jeremiah),  of  Highbury,  829 
TTills,  parchment^  110,  237,  878 ;  Yorkshire,  427 
Wilson  (J.  B.)  on  the  derivation  of  Bedwardine,  838 

Cat,  "tender,** 99 

Wonts=Mole,  856 

Worcestershire  field-names,  856 
Wilson  (Mr.),  of  Broomhead,  his  Yorkshire  collections, 
489 


Wiltshire,  Irelimd  and  Scotland  in,  888 

Wiltshire  provincialisms,  76 

Winchester,  St  Giles's  Fair  at,  448 

Wing  (William),  his  death,  100 

Witwall,  its  correct  name,  808,  484 

Wolf  on  the  arm,  204,  218,  478 

Wonder,  used  as  an  adverb^  9,  156, 197 

Wonts  Mole,  225,  856 

Wood  (I.  M.)  on  Edmund  Burke's  marriagu^  274 

Wood  (BusseU),  letter  to  Mr.  EUis^  162 

Woodward  (J.)  on  arms  of  colonial  and  missionary 

bishoprics,  91 
Wooh7eh  (H.  F.)  on  Love :  Charity,  884 

St.  Luke  zziii.  15,  217,  898 
Woolrych  (K.  P.)  on  the  derivation  of  "  tatter,**  188 
Worcestershire  field-names^  185,  856 
Worcestershire  heralds*  visitations,  849,  473 
Word- sense  and  word-eoond,  sign^  to  denote  their 

similarity,  308 
Words,  rhymeleas,  46,  178,  298,  817,  837,  897 
Worlds,  plural,  literature  of,  229,  892,  498 
Wbrthington  (John),  translator   of  the    ''Imitatio 

Christ!,**  54,  78,  98 
Worthington  (8ir  Bichard),  Mayor  of  Dublin,  449 
Woundworts,  346 
Wranglers,  senior,  107 
Wr»y=Udall,  31,  97,  258 
Wren  (Sir  Christc^her),  his  siBters,  68, 133 
Wring,  a  provincial  verb^  468 
Writing,  faded,  restored  by  ammoniom  sulphide,  288, 

855 
Wydif  Society,  its  fiocmation,  800 

X 

Xit  on  Antiquary :  Antiquarian,  15 
Blockham  feast,  468 
Do,  the  causa],  53 
LitUeberries,  MiU  Hill,  471 


Y.  (G.  E.)  on  Yardleys  of  England,  27 

Yard  of  beer,  368,394,  456 

Yardleys  of  England  and  places  named  after  them,  27, 

172,  377,  458 
Yateley  Park,  Hereford8hii3»,  49 
Yet,  use  of  the  word,  428 
Ympe  tree,  its  meaning,  8 
Yorkshire  custom,  curious,  408 
Yorkshire  subsidy  rolls  at  the  Record  Office,  2S7 
Yorkshire  wills,  427 
Young  (L.)  on  Lewis  Ogle,  Eglingham,  189  • 


Z.  (A.)  on  Sir  \^^iam  Hedges,  235 
Z.  (X.  Y.)  on  Sir  Thomas  Hoby,  809 

**  Medious  curat,"  &c.,  85 
Zoophytes  of  the  Mediterranean,  129,  258 


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