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BY J. EDWARD FRANCIS.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 19K.
CONTENTS.— No. 27.
NOTES :-Falstaff and the Fleet Prison, 1 — An English
Army List of 1740, 3— Panoramic Surveys of London
Streets, 5— Heart-Cherries, 6— Milton's Sonnet on ' Tetra-
chordon' : " Like "—Torpedo : Early Reference— Chrono-
grams in Oxford and Manchester, 7.
-QUERIES: — "Oorlog," Dutch for " War " — William
Holloway — Fireplaces : A itch Stones, Northumberland-
Ford Castle, 8—" Watch House." Ewell— Richard Swift—
Theager's Girdle— W. Vaux and N. Ridley—' Northanger
Abbey ' — Peat and Moss : Healing Properties — St. Ma-
dron's Well, 9— "Nihfl ardet in inferno," <fcc.— Prof. F.
Grandineau — Sir Patrick Walsh — Family Likeness —
Cecilia Maria De Candia — Seats in Church — Rabbit in
Britain — ' Trusty Servant,' 10 — " Sick as a Landrail " —
Lost Life of Hugh Peters — "Every Englishman is an
Island "— ' Waterloo Heroes '—Portrait : Capt. Taylor, 11_
REPLIES :— John Ranby : Fielding, 11— Admiral Haddock
— "Bevere" — Mediaeval Latin — Pace-Egging, 12 — Gorges
Brass — Elizabeth Evelyn — Touching for Luck — Pin-
Pricked Lace Patterns—' Vanity Fair,1 13— "Laus Deo "—
Village Pounds — Kerry Place- Names — "Government for
the people," &c., 14 — Lord Bacon — Accidental Likenesses
— Gavefkind— Archer and Bowman, 15— 'Working-Man's
Way in the World' — Fieldingiana : Miss H — and —
Jennings Property— Herb Tobacco — ' Wanteda Governess'
— " Agnosco," 16—" How not to do it"— Fact or Fancy ?—
English Carvings of St. Patrick, 17— "Loke"— " Braid St.
Catherine's Tresses "— " Three-a-penny colonels "—Walter
Scott : Unpublished Letter— William Mildmay, 18— Latin
Contractions— Playing Cards, 19.
NOTES ON BOOKS : — ' European Characters in French
Drama ' — ' Sappho in English ' — ' Influence of Ancient
Egyptian Civilization.'
FALSTAFF AND THE FLEET PRISON
" I do not see why Falstaff was carried to the
Fleet. We have never lost sight of him since his
•dismission from the King ; he has committed no
new fault, and therefore incurred no punishment ;
but the different agitations of fear, anger, and
surprise in him and his company made a good
scene to the eye of our author, who wanted them
no longer on the stage, and was glad to find this
method of sweeping them away."
This comment on the last scene of
' 2 Henry IV.' was written by Dr. Samuel
Johnson, and was probably the first of
many expressions of perplexity. One of the
latest is from the pen of Prof. Bradley, who
writes thus : —
" Remembering his father's words about Henry,
' Being incensed he's flint,' and remembering in
Henry V. his ruthlessness in killing the prisoners
"when he is incensed, we may imagine that, after
he had left Falstaff, and was no longer influenced
by the face of his old companion, he gave way to
anger at the indecent familiarity which had
provoked a compromising scene on the most
ceremonious of occasions, and in the presence
alike of court and crowd, and that he sent the
Chief Justice back to take vengeance."
Neither explanation sounds convincing*
tior do the writers themselves give the
impression that they are satisfied with their
own reasoning.
The episode is undeniably painful and
out of keeping with Prince Hal's attitude to
Falstaff, which throughout had been tolerant
and kindly. It is true that, as the drama
proceeds, he learns more and more of the
worthlessness of the old knight's character,
and, as his own affairs become increasingly
serious, the sparkling wit loses much of its
glamour ; still his intention had evidently
been to dismiss the old man privately and
kindly while making sure of his future means
of living. The publicity of the dismissal
was forced upon him by Falstaff's own
action, and Henry seems to be seeking to
avoid this when he says to Gascoigne
(presumably in an undertone) : —
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man
upon which the Justice addresses Falstaff,
probably in an urgent whisper : —
Have [you your wits ? Know you what 'tis you
speak ?
But Falstaff forces the King's attention, and
draws from him an answer stern enough to
repress the unseemly jests that are rising to
his lips. It is a repetition, enhanced by
circumstances, of the scene in the tavern
' 1 Henry IV.,' II. iv. 536).
But that the young King should have
aimed a further blow at his old companion
is almost incredible. Need one believe it ?
The proposition I venture to make is that
the supposition is an error, and the scene
incorrectly interpreted.
When reading our modern editions of
Shakespeare it is certainly difficult to come
to any but the generally accepted conclusion.
The episode occurs in the fifth scene of
the last act of '2 Henry IV.,' and is
opened by the stage direction : " Enter
King Henry V. and his train, the Lord Chief
Justice among them" Falstaff shouts his
greeting to the King ; the King rebukes him
and sentences him to banishment, and then
follows the direction : " Exeunt King
Henry V. and his train." Of course, as the
Lord Chief Justice has just been described
as being " among " his train, we are com-
pelled to conclude that he departed with the
others, although his royal master has just
commanded him to " see performed the
tenour " of his word with regard to Falstaff.
The conversation between Sir John and
Justice Shallow about the borrowed thousand
pounds next takes place, occupying about
twenty lines, and then occurs a fresh stage
direction : " Re-enter John of Lancaster, tho
Lord Chief Justice, Officers with them."
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 B.II. JULY i,i9i&
With this reading there is no alternative
but to suppose that some fresh understanding
had been arrived at between the King and
the Lord Chief Justice, and that the latter
had been sent back " to take vengeance " for
some inexplicable offence on the already
crestfallen old man.
In the First Folio edition of the plays,
however, the whole forms a continuous and
unbroken episode. Not only do we, as
Johnson says, " not lose sight of Falstaff
till he is carried to the Fleet," but we do not
lose sight of the Chief Justice either, as the
following exact copy from the Folio will
show : —
The Trumpets sound. Enter KING HEXRIE THE
FIFT, BROTHERS, LORD CHIEFE JUSTICE.
Fatet. Save thy Grace, King Hall, my Royall
Hall.
Pist. The heavens thee guard, and keepe, most
royall Impe of Fame.
Faf/'Save thee my sweet Boy.
King. My Lord Chiefe Justice, speake to that
vaine man.
Ch. Just. Have you your wits ?
Know you what 'tis you speake ?
Falst. My King, my Jove ; I speake to thee
my heart.
King. I know thee not, old man : Fall to thy
Prayers : &c.
Till then, I banish thee, on paine of death,
As I have done the rest of my Misleaders,
Not to come neere our Person by ten mile.
For competence of life, I will allow you,
Th it lacke of meanes enforce you not to evill :
And as we heare you do reforme your selves,
We will according to your strength, and qualities,
Give you advancement. Be it your charge (my
Lord)
To see perform'd the tenure of our word. Set on :
Exit KIXG.
Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand
pound.
Shal. I marry Sir John, which I beseech you
to let me have home with me.
Fal. That can hardly be, M. Shallow, do not you
grieve at this : I shall be sent for in private to
him : Looke you. he must seeme thus to the
world : feare not your advancement : I will be the
man yet, that shall make you great.
Shal. I cannot well perceive how ....
Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word. This
that you heard was but a colour.
Shatt. A colour I feare, that you will dye, in
Sir John.
Fal. Feare no colours, go with me to dinner :
Come Lieutenant Pistol, come Bardolfe,
I shall be sent for soone at night.
Ch. Just. Go carry Sir John Falstaff e to the
Fleete,
Take all his Company along with him.
Fal. My Lord, my Lord.
Clt. Just. I cannot now speake, I will heare you
soone : Take them away.
Pint. Si .fortuna me tormento, spera me con-
tento.
Exit. Manet LANCASTER and CHIEFE JUSTICE.
John. I like this -faiiv proceeding of the Kings r
TIo hath intent his wonted Followers
Shall all be very well provided for:
But all are banisht, till their conversations
Apnoare more wise, and modest to the world.
Ch. Just. And so they are.
According to the above, the King alone
leaves the stage, while the Chief Justice
remains till the procession has passed, keep-
ing Falstaff under observation until he makes
a move to depart, when he orders his arrest.
How otherwise could he have known where
to find Sir John ? What guarantee had he
that the irrepressible old knight would not
once more try to force himself into the
King's presence ? How tedious might have-
been the search, involving, perhaps, as once
before,
A dozen captains,.
Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns,.
And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.
II. iv. 392 (« Oxford Shakespeare.')
ere he could have assured his royal
master that Sir John had been duly escorted
to the ten-mile limit, and that arrangements
had been made by which he would receive
his " competence of life." The words speak,
for themselves : —
Be it your charge, my Lord,
To see performed the tenour of our word.
[Exit KING-
HOW would the King have looked if,
after receiving this charge, the Chief Justice
had calmly continued his course in the
procession, leaving Falstaff to the freedom
of his will ?
One thing, perhaps, the Justice might
have done. He might have executed all the
arrangements for Falstaff's allowance and
banishment immediately ; but he was not
prepared to sacrifice the festivities of the-
coronation for the sake of his old antago-
nist ; therefore, having received full'
authority, he prefers to make his person
secure in the meantime, and attend to Ahe
details later.
The episode may be looked upon, perhaps,
as the revenge of the Lord Chief Justice,
and in this light is dramatic enough for
Shakespeare's purpose. The two old men
have been brought into frequent opposition
throughout the Second Part of ' Henry IV.,'
and the opposition reaches its climax in the
words of Prince Clarence to the Chief Justice-
after the death of Henry IV. : —
Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair
Which swims against your stream of quality.
But the tables are turned, and Falstaff can.
no longer browbeat authority and " speak
as having power to do wrong " (II. i. 145).
Plain conscientious adherence to duty has^
12 8. II. JULY 1, 1916.]
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won the day against irresponsible levity, even
when accompanied by the most brilliant wit,
and now, while the King pursues his way to
fulfil his higher destinies, the Lord Chief
Justice and Sir John Falstaff have their last
encounter. There is no appearance of
vindictiveness in the Chief Justice. He
orders Falstaff temporarily to the Fleet, but
it is probably by a good-natured afterthought
that he adds : " Take all his company along
with him." We know enough of the famous
Fleet prison to be sure that, with a thousand
pounds in his pocket and all his company
with him, Falstaff might spend a very com-
fortable day at the Fleet, and even enjoy a
good dinner, although it might be somewhat
costly. He begins to expostulate : — •
My Lord, my Lord,
but in the Folio there are no marks of
exclamation to give the tragic note, and he
is interrupted courteously enough by the
Chief Justice : —
I cannot now speak. I will hear you soon.
Before they are out of sight Prince John
remarks : —
I like this fair proceeding of the King's :
He hath intent his wonted followers
Shall all be very well provided for, &c.
These words would be quite inappropriate if
a different fate had just been assigned to the
chipf of those followers.
The Second, Third, and Fourth Folios
follow the First in the above particulars, and
Nicholas Rowe, in his edition of 1709, makes
no alteration.
It was Alexander Pope who, when editing
the plays in 1723, thought he could improve
upon the Folio stage directions, and in-
cidentally, as I believe, upon Shakespeare's
plot. Not only does he interpolate the
misleading " Exeunt King and train,"
having previously described the Chief Justice
as being " among the train," but he divides
the last act into nine, instead of five scenes,
and boldly places " Scene IX." between the
King's exit and Falstaff's words to Shallow,
thus cutting off the sequel completely from
the former episode ; while the further inter-
polation of " Enter Chief Justice and Prince
John " suggests that entirely new status
which has been universally accepted.
Modern editors have reverted to the five
scenes, but have retained Pope's other
alterations, and amplified the last-quoted
stage direction into " .Re-enter John of
Lancaster and the Lord Chief Justice.
Officers with them" the whole of which is
non-existent in the Folio.
The question, which touches closely the-
right understanding of Prince Hal's character,
cannot, perhaps, be settled precipitately, but
might it not be well in future editions of the
play to revert in this scene to the stage
directions of the First Folio, leaving readers
to judge for themselves of the true meaning
of the dramatist ?
HELEN HINTON STEWABT.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
Ix the Library of the Royal Artillery1 In-
stitution, Woolwich, there is a folio book,
of which the title-page is : —
" A List of the Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels,
Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, and Ensigns of His
Majesty's Forces on the British Establishment.
\Vit h The Dates of their several Commissions as
such, and also The Dates of the first Commissions
which such Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors,
Captains, and Lieutenants had in the Army.
" Also, A List of the Colonels, Lieutenant
Colonel.-, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants, and
Kukris of His Majesty's Forces on the Irish
Establishment. With The Dates of their several
Commissions as such, and also The Dates of the
fi'>t Commissions which such Colonels, Lieutenant
Colonels, Majors, Captains, and Lieutenants had
in the Army.
" Published by Order of the House of Commons.
" London, Printed for Thomas Cox under the
H'n/nt- l-].rrlm >!<!<• in Cornhill , Cli.-irlcs Bathurst at
tin- .17 nlil/i'- T, nipIc-Gate, and John Pemberton at
the B'<ck in Fleet-Street. MDCCXT,.
" Price Two Shillings and Six-pence."
It is believed thnt this is the oldest printed
Army List in existence.
The list of the " British establishment "
covers pp. 1 to 60, and that of the Irish,
pp. 61 to 80. Both lists are signed by Will
Yonge (1), and are dated "War Office,
Whitehall, 20 March, 1739-40," although
several commissions are dated 22 March,.
1740, and one (p. 59) 4 April, 1740.
The book is interleaved. Corrections,,
promotions, Ac., are added in ink, down to
14 May, 1742, the date of the earliest MS.
entry being 23 April, 1740.
In every regiment the names of the
officers are given in full, followed by two
columns headed " Dates of their present
Commissions," and " Dates of their first
Commissions."
Several curious and interesting names
occur in the lists, and I would suggest that
correspondents who may chance to possess
information about anv of these should send
it to ' N. & Q.' for publication.
(1) The Bight Hon. Sir William Yonge, Bart.,,
Secretary at War.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. n. JULY 1. 1910.
The list commences (pp. 3-5) with four Troops of Horse Guards, having the following
officers : —
First Troop of Horse Guards. pres^ommSons.
Colonel
First Lieut. Col. . .
Second Lieut. Col.
Fir 4 Major
Second Major . '.
Exempts
Brigadiers.
Sub-Brigadiers
Lord De La War (1)
John Blathwait, Eldt.
Lord Carpenter (2)
Jonathan Driver
Lord Wallingford (3)
f William Ca vail
I Thomas Baton
i John Elves
Robert Fairfax . .
fSsme Clarke, Eldt.
I Peter Hawker . .
"| Edward Bedford
Tustan McCarty
f Thomas Twisden
I William Ryder . .
"i William Cullinge
' Peter Shepherd
Elliot Lawrence
Adjutant . .
The ranks of Exempt, Brigadier, and Sub-
Brigadier existed in the Horse Guards only,
and they continued so until 1788, when they
became Captain, Lieutenant, and Cornet
respectively.
The word " exempt " is French, and was
used for an officer of cavalry who com-
manded in the absence of his superior,
ordinary military
30 Aug. 1737.
9 Sept. 1715.
24 Jan. 1729-30.
30 June 1737.
15 July 1737.
14 June 1734.
22 July 1738.
29 May 1739.
9 July 1730.
10 May 1720.
14 June 1734.
12 Feb. 1738-P
29 May 1739.
8 Dec. 1733.
14 June 1734.
22 July 1738.
7 Feb. 1738-0.
12 Feb. 1738-9.
duties. It was probably pronounced as
a French word, and survives at the
present time as " Exon " in the Yeomen
of the Guard.
Brigadier in the sense of a junior rank of
officers of the Horse Guards, is not given in
the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' although
Sub-Brigadier is. The establishment of
X.C.O.'s and men (all ranks) was 161.
being thus exempt from
(1) John, 7th Baron. Created Earl De La War, 1761. Died 1766 (' D.N.B.').
(2) George, 2nd Baron (peerage of Ireland). Died 1746. Peerage became extinct in 1853.
(3) Charles, Viscount Wallingford. Died 1740. He was a son of Charles, the so-called Earl of
Banbury.
Died 1740.
The House of Lords decided in 1813 that the claim to this title was not good.
[Second Troop of Horse Guards.
Colonel
First Lieut^Col. . .
Second Lieut.^Col.
First Major
Second Major
Exempts
Brigadiers. .
Sub-Brigadiers"
Adjutant . .
Earl of Hertford (1)
Henry Cornwall
Tomkins Wardour
Philip Roberts . .
Arthur Edwards
{Thomas Levett
Mark Anthony Saurin.
Charles Clarke . .
Joseph Fleming
/"Thomas Johnson
| William Gough . .
William Merchant
Joseph Otway . .
f John Brattle
J Francis Desmarete
j William Rustall
^Benjamin Carpenter
Joseph Scudder . .
\
(1) Algernon Seymour, eldest son of the 6th Duke of Somerset.
Hoyal R«giment ofjHorse Guards in May, 1740.
Dates of their
present commissions.
8 Feb. 1714.
8 Dec. 1709.
21 May 1733.
13 Oct. 1727.
21 May 1733.
3 April 1729.
21 Mav 1733.
14 Mar. 1733-4.
26 Oct. 1738.
18 Feb. 1728.
3 Oct. 1732.
21 May 1733.
26 Oct. 1738.
3 Oct. 1732.
21 May 1733.
25 Feb. 1737-8.
26 Oct. 1738.
ditto.
He was transferred to the
12 s. ii. JULY 1,1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Third Troop of Horse Guards.
Colonel
First Lieut. Col. .
Second Lieut. Col.
First Major
Second Major
Exempts
Brigadiers . .
Sub-Brigadiers
Adjutant . .
Earl of Albemarle ( 1 )
Christopher Kien
Hon. James Cholmonde ey (2
Samuel Saville
John Lloyd
/"Francis Otway
J John Johnson
1 Edward Wills
I Charles Bradshaigh (3 )
f Charles Carter . .
I William Hollingworth
| Lewis Downes . .
I William Meyrick
f William Peter ..
J John Burgoyne
1 — Pratt
I Edward Jefferys
William Hollingworth
Dates of their
present commissions.
8 May 17:;::.
22 Nov. 1718.
25 April 1731.
3 Jan. 1738-9.
ditto.
1 Jan. 1731-2.
5 July 1736.
24 Sept. 1736.
29 Dec. 1738.
14 May 1735.
24 Sept. 1736.
8 Aug. 1737.
29 Dec. 1739.
8 Aug. 1737.
9 ditto.
1 Dec. 1739.
29 ditto.
16 Feb. 1733-4.
on the death of the 4th Baronet, s.p.
Fourth Troop of Horse Guards.
Colonel
First Lieut. Col. . .
Second Lieut. Col.
First Major
Second Major
Exempts
Brigadiers. .
Sub- Brigadiers
Adjutant
Field Marshal Ld. Shannon (1)
Francis Burton
Thomas Hatton
James Haldane
John Stevenson
(Isaac Ash
Biggs Ash
Clement Hilgrove
John Seguin
f James Miller
I Francis Martin . .
| John Aytoun
I Thomas Goddard
f Darcy Hebden . .
J Robert Austin . .
j Philip Fletcher . .
I Edward Fletcher
William Bay ley.
Dates of their
present commissions
9 Mar. 1726-7.
25 Feb. 1718-9.
28 July 1734.
5 July 1735.
ditto.
12 Sept. 1729.
15 Feb. 1730-1.
25 Dec. 1738.
15 Feb. 1738-9.
12 April 1733.
26 July 1735.
25 Dec. 1738.
15 Feb. 1738-9.
12 April 1733.
26 July 1735.
25 Dec. 1738.
15 Feb. 1738-9.
15 Feb. 1738-9.
vi) Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount. He died 20 Dec., 1740, when the peerage became extinct.
The Third and Fourth Troops of Horse Guards were reduced in 1746. In 1788 the
First and Second Troops became the First and Second Regiments of Life-Guards, which
designations they still retain. J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (RetiredlList).
(To be continued.)
PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS.
THESE most useful illustrations of Early
Victorian London have not been sufficiently
utilized in the many books on London streets
and localities published in the last fifty
years. Except in Mr. W. G. Bell's ' Fleet
Street in Seven Centuries,' not any have
been reproduced, yet their topographical
importance is obvious.
The largest numbers were issued between
1835 and 1845 by John Tallis of 15 St. John's
Lane, as ' Tallis's London Street Views.'
Published in weekly parts at three halfpenc
each, they were intended to form a* a-
volume " a Complete Strangers' Guide
through London," and copies were to be
seen " in the Commercial Room of eyery^
Hotel in the Kingdom."
Each part consisted of tour pagesjlof
letterpress, advertisements, and not-
the thoroughfare illustrated and its public
buildings, with the panorama, which usually
shows one hundred houses ; all these are
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [i<_> s. n. JULY i,
•numbered, and issuing streets or passages
identified. A map of the immediate neigh-
bourhood fills in one margin of the plate, and
a small finished engraving of some business
premises completes the other.
The principal purpose of the undertaking
was to establish a Panoramic Directory
based on a survey annually revised, with a
large revenue from advertisements on account
of the novel publicity it afforded. This
took several forms. The finished marginal
engraving was probably the most esteemed,
and examples were utilized as labels, and as
illustrations on commercial stationery. The
sectional street directory, printed on the
-cover, identified every house or place of
business ; names could be printed in larger
type, and in the panoramas some of the
premises are fully identified by both name
and purpose. The proportion of these
exceptional considerations in each issue in-
dicates the relative success of the publisher's
•enterprise ; and by examining some of the
later issues illustrating suburban thorough-
fares it will be understood why the project
failed.
Sections of the views were printed as
notepaper headings for local sale and use.
The scheme was, I am informed, also tried at
Birmingham, Newcastle, and other places,
but the cost was too great or the idea too
advanced for its times. It failed, and Tallis
vlost considerably more than 1,0001., which
the survey of London alone involved.
I have in my collection six pen-and-ink
drawings said to be the originals for the
Fleet Street panoramas. I prefer to con-
sider them drawings elaborated from the
publication, as they are more finished than
the engravings, and there is displayed some
•desire to make an artistic presentment of the
street. It is possible that these sketches
were made to be engraved as a more
elaborate survey, a development of the
marginal engraving already referred to.
Some reissue of the successful sections was
-attempted, as enlarged panoramas exist, but
.they are uncommon, and bear no relationship
to these drawings.
Of still greater topographical value is the
' Grand Architectural Panorama of London :
Regent Street to Westminster Abbey,'
published by Whitelaw of Fleet Street in
1849. This is of much greater width —
4£ in. as compared with 1 in., the size of
Tallis's outline survey ; and the length —
nearly 25 ft. — is remarkable. The whole is
•engraved on wood by G. C. Leighton " from
original drawings made expressly for the
-work by R. Sandeman, architect," and the
quality and detail of the work are admirable.
Except in the identifications of the
different premises, there are no advertise-
ments of the businesses in the thoroughfare
shown, and even these only occur in the
margins, and are not engraved in the view.
Only one side of streets is illustrated, the
foreground being filled by traffic, pedestrians,
and a number of incidents not common to
the thoroughfares to-day. For example,
by Charles Street, Whitehall, there is a
Jack-in-the-Green, with his accompanying
sweeps, clown, milkmaids, &c. ; a flock of
sheep is passing up Cockspur Street ; and
near Vine Street a bull is being chased by
dogs and a number of men and boys. Lower
Regent Street is provided with street organs,
German bands, pickpockets, drunken men,
and — mirabile dictu — a railway carriage on a
lorry hauled by a team of horses. The title
of this interesting work, and the manner
in which its cover is stamped, suggest that
this is the first of a series, but I have not
met with any others, and it may be inferred
that the heavy cost crippled even this
intention.
It is not necessary to describe Joseph
Salway's survey of the Kennington Turn-
pike, published by the London Topographical
Society, 1906. Interesting panoramic views
of parts of thoroughfares are provided
in Mr. Kemp's 'Notes on Aldgate,' 1904;
the view of Queen Anne's progress to
St. Paul's, engraved by S. Virtue, 1715; and
similar depictments of processions.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
HEART - CHERRIES. — After the common
cherries, the grafioun are now in the market ;
these are the hard-fleshed cherries, heart
shaped, with a groove down the flat side,
Fr. bigarreaux, Prov. grafioun durau, crussent,
hard-fleshed, that can be crunched ; cor de
galino, hen-hearts. In the English names of
these fleshy cherries, as distinguished from
the juicy kinds, a habit has arisen of hyphen-
ing " heart " with " black " or " white,"
instead of with " cherry," as if the fruit had
a black or a white heart. The ' X.E.D.' has
under ' Heart,' " something of the shape of
a heart," a quotation of " black-heart,"
" white-heart," also, under ' Black,' " black-
heart (for black heart-cherry) " ; but " heart-
cherry " is not given a place. The word has
been lost — in the written name by the mis-
placed hyphen, in the spoken name by the
habit of stressing the colour instead of the
generic name " heart." So when asking
for these cherries we have to mention the
12 s. ii. JULY i, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Colour, about which we probably care little,
instead of the kind, the name of which is
hidden, unstressed, in the hyphened words.
The Provencal name grafioun originally
meant a grafted cherry, as the Fr. prune
•cCente, meaning a grafted plum, now means a
superior kind of the fruit. The Fr. bigarreau,
two-coloured, mottled, is of doubtful etymo-
logy. I would derive it from bi and some
past Fr. form of our " gear," " wear,"
"" garb," cognate words surviving in Fr. as
galbe, garbe, cut or rig of a ship, shape, outline,
both words of undoubted Teutonic origin.
EDWARD NICHOLSON.
Les Cycas, Cannes.
[Our learned contributor has unwittingly done an
injustice to the wonderful comprehensiveness of the
great Oxford dictionary. Heart-cherry is duly
recorded as " a heart-shaped variety of the culti-
vated* cherry," 8.v. 'Heart,' 56, 'Special Combina-
tions,' 6. In names of trees and plants.]
MILTON'S SONNET ON ' TETBACHOBDON ' :
"LiKE." — I do not know whether an ex-
planation has been given in any commentary
of the curious use of the word " like " in the
subjoined extract : —
Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon,
Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp?
Those rugged names to our tike mouths grow
sleek
That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.
If none has been offered, I would suggest
the following.
In his edition of the ' Fragments o*
Lucilius ' Lucian Miiller gives in ex libris
incertis, No. cxli. : —
Similem habent lactucam labra comedente asino
carduos ......
The key to this may be found in Cicero, ' De
Fin.,' v. § 92, to the effect that M. Crassus,
grandfather of the triumvir, was reported to
have laughed but once in his life, and
therefore was called ayeAaoros. This is
referred to in ' Tusc. Disp.,' iii. § 31 ; Pliny,
* N. H.,' 7, 79 ; Macrobius, ' Sat.,' ii. 1, 6 ;
Sidonius Apollinaris, c. xxiv. 13. But the
occasion for this fit of laughter is not found
till Jerome (' Ad Chromatium ') interprets
the proverb " Similes habent labra lactucas "
in the light of the anecdote. Crassus
'laughed at an ass eating thistles instead of
lettuces, finding that they matched or suited
his mouth. Jerome illustrates the story by
another proverb, " Patellae dignum oper-
culum," a lid to match the kettle, and
Erasmus devotes half a folio page in his
* Adagia ' (i. 10, 71) to explain this. Milton,
most probably deriving from Erasmus,
insists that our mouths are becoming
inured to the rough Scottish names, and
therefore like them.
The proverb is plainly alluded to in the
Morality ' New Custome,' Act II. sc. ii.
(1573)/ Dodsley, vol. i. p. 283: "Like
lettuces like lippes; a scabbed horse for a
scald squire."
Sir T. Browne (' Pseud. Epid.,' VII. xvi. 2)
is amusing as he physiologically disputes the
possibility of a man laughing but once in
his life. W. F. SMITH.
Malvern.
TORPEDO : AN EARLY REFERENCE. — In
Jonson's ' Staple of News,' Act III. sc. i.,
occurs the following passage, which seems
singularly appropriate to modern naval
tactics : —
Thoman. They write here one Cornelius-Son
Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel
To swim the haven at Dunkirk and sink all
The shipping there.
Pennyboy, Jr. But how is't done ?
Cymbal. I'll show you, Sir.
It is automa, runs under water
With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail
Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles
Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.
MALCOLM LETTS.
[This passage was quoted by a correspondent at
10 S. i. 286 ; but we repeat it as being yet more
& propos at the present time than it was in 190*.]
CHRONOGRAMS IN OXFORD AND MAN-
CHESTER.—
BALLIoLENSlS
FECI
HYDATOECVS
o si MELIVs
is an inscription of six Latin words, in Roman
letters, on a slab of stone on the south front
of the new " School of Chemistry " in
Oxford. Its translation is : " A Balliol man,
I madeit,Waterhouse. Would it were better
(done) ! " The architect, Mr. Paul Water-
house, is a Master of Arts of Balliol College.
The chronogram yields the date MDCCCCXV.,
marked by the letters raised above the line.
It is very ingenious, and no less modest.
Not so perfect is the following : —
VT SBRPENTE8 SAPlENTE*
ET COLVMBAE INNOCENTE*
ESTOTE ADOLE»CENTE»
It commemorates some additions to the
University of Manchester made by the same
architect 'in 1912. The inscription is sur-
mounted by the badge of the University,
which is a snake and the sun, and means
"Young men, be ye wise as serpents, and
innocent (as) doves ! "
EDWARD S. DODOSON.
Oxford Union Society.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. JULY i, WIG.
(@ writs.
\VE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" OORLOG," DUTCH FOR " WAR." — The
primal sense of oorlog, i.e., " war " in Dutch
(besides its synonym krijg) = orloge and
orlage in Old Duteh, has still remained ob-
scure and questionable. Its Old Norse
cognate orlog and orlygi, together with
Swedish orlog and Danish orlog (esp. warfare
at sea), is interpreted by G. Vigfusson, in his
' Icelandic-English Dictionary ' (1873) = fate,
weird, fj.oipa, conceived as coming in or by
war. But does this supposed original
meaning equally apply to the Old Dutch
cognate orloge, orlage, and Modern Dutch
oorlog ? Neither Franck's ' Etymological
Dutch Dictionary,' ed. Van Wijk (1912),
nor Verwijs and Verdam's Middle Dutch
' Wbordenboek ' (in vol. v., 1903), accepts that
explanation, but both regard it as doubtful.
Would it be more reasonable to presume that
the primitive sense of orloge and orlage may
have indicated a state or condition outside the
fixed law, a transgression of the lawful
state ? Perhaps some of your contributors
might help to elucidate this obscure term. I
see in Clark- Hall's and Henry Sweet's Anglo-
Saxon Dictionaries of 1894 and 1897, that
the Anglo-Saxon corresponding word orleg
is rendered by (1) fate, (2) contest, war (sic
Clark-Hall), and only by hostility or war
(sic H. Sweet). H. KREBS.
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY, AUTHOR OF ' THE
PEASANT'S FATE.' — This- little book, pub-
lished by Vernor & Hood in 1802, has lately
come into my possession. It is produced
in the best style as regards paper and print,
and contains four fine copperplate illus-
trations engraved by Ridley : the frontispiece
after Corbould, and the three others after
E. M. Thomson. This particular copy of
Holloway's work is bound up with Robert
Bloomfield's ' Tales,' &c., 1801. The binding
(contemporary) is very fine, straight-grained
crimson morocco, richly and beautifully
tooled. Being curious to learn something
of a poet treated in his own day to such
external honours, I searched, but in vain,
for some account of him in the ' D.N.B.,'
Allibone, Chambers, and Lang. At length
in turning over the pages of Pickering's
" Aldine Edition " (Lond., 1830) of Henry
Kirke White's poetical works, I found at the
end of that book a collection of ' Tributarv
Verses ' to the memory of " unhappy White.'"
Of nearly all the authors of these tributary
verses the names are still remembered — e.g.f
Capel Lofft, Josiah Conder. Amongst the
number I find William Holloway, whose
contribution (in six stanzas, dated London,
Feb. 27, 1808) is called ' Reflections oa
Reading the Life of the late Henry Kirke
White,' by " William Holloway, author of
' The Peasant's Fate.' " This circumstance
has again aroused my curiosity to learn
something about Holloway. Can any of
your readers enlighten me ?
From certain of his miscellaneous poems
it would seem that he had some connexion.
with Weymouth. L. A. W.
Dublin.
FIREPLACES : AITCH STONES, FORD,
NORTHUMBERLAND. — I find the following
passage on p. 117 in ' A Corner in the North '
(1909), by Hastings M. Neville, Rector of
Ford, Northumberland : —
" It may be worth while to record a curious*
thing 1 was told by a cottager of this village. She
said there used to he a stone built in at the back
of her fireplace called an ' aitch ' stone, but that
when the fireplace was altered it was thrown away
into the wood, where it still was. She said there
was one of these stones in other cottages also. In
the days of the Border raids the ' aitch ' stone, by
emitting some peculiar sound, gave warning to the
villagers of the approach of the raiders as they came
across the Till over the bridge. The woman died
soon after this, so that I was unable to ask her
more about it, but I have since heard the same-
thing from another resident in the village in
connexion with another of the oldest of tha thatched
cottages."
Mr. Neville adds in a note : —
" I have spelt the word as I heard it pronounced,
but probably the right word is ' echo.' "
Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' tell*
me whether such stones were formerly used
on other parts of the Border, or elsewhere ?
B. L. R. C.
FORD CASTLE was anciently in the barony
of Chillingham , N orth Northumberland . Can.
any reader give me information as to the
name of its founder and as to his wife and
family ? Ford Castle was built in 1287
At a book sale many years ago, I remember
seeing exposed a copy of an old volume
giving views of castles in England, which
I believe, contained a woodcut of Ford
Castle, as a ruin.
The fabric was restored by (I think) the
Marquis of Waterford in 1863, so that the
book referred to must have been published
before then. P. G.
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9
" WATCH HOUSE," EWELL, SURREY. — I
should be glad to know the date when
Watch Houses in villages were first started
and if there are any still existing and dated
Mr. Gordon Home, in his guide to Epsom
and district, 1901, says : —
" At Ewell, near the opposite corner of Church
Street, the quaint little Watch House may still be
seen, its stucco-covered wall pierced by two door-
ways, and an opening above filled with iron bars.
Here the disorderly folk of the village were locked
up overnight, being taken on to Epsom the next
morning. An old and highly respected inhabitant
of Ewell clearly remembers, when a boy, seeing
ne'er-do-wells confined in the little house. He also
recalls how it was no one's concern to watch
prisoners, whose chums he has actually seen
passing pewter pots of ale and long churchwarden
clay pipes through the grating still remaining in
one or the solid oak doors. But the advent of the
Metropolitan Police has removed such proceedings
to the picturesque days of beadles and stocks."
Some years ago (since Mr. Gordon Home's
time), when the stucco was removed, carved
in stone beneath was discovered " Watch
House," which may now be seen.
Another specimen existed at Sutton, Surrey,
till about eight years ago ; and that at Epsom
was pulled down in 1848.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
RICHARD SWIFT. — I am anxious to learn
particulars of the parentage and career of
Richard Swift, who was the first Catholic
Sheriff of London (1851-2) since the Re-
formation, and especially to trace a portrait
of him. He was also member of Parliament
for Sligo about the same period. All likely
sources of information at the Guildhall have
been consulted without success. The Illus-
trated London News of the time gives a
representation of his carriage, but not a
portrait. G. POTTER.
10 Priestwood Mansions, High gate, N.
THEAGER'S GIRDLE. — An allusion to this
was made in an article of The Times recent!}'
— query =pain or suffering. The context
infers that good literature is a solace to those
who wear " Theager's girdle." What is the
origin of the phrase ? Hie ET UBIQUE.
WILLIAM VAUX AND XICHOLAS RIDLEY. —
In 1586 William Vaux, with two others,
was indicted for the murder of Nicholas
Ridley ; all three were acquitted. Was
this Nicholas Ridley the bishop who was
burnt in 1555, thirty-one years before ?
Six years afterwards the charge was re-
newed, and William Vaux was executed at
Newcastle-on-Tyne. G. B. VAUX.
Carshalton Rectory, Surrey.
' NORTHANGER ABBEY '|: "HORRID,"
ROMANCES — It will be remembered that in
' Northanger Abbey ' Isabella Thorpe gives
Catherine Morland a list of novels of the
Radcliffe school, all of which are recom-
mended as being " horrid." Their names are
as follows : ' Castle of Wolfenbach,' ' Cler-
mont,' ' Mysterious Warning,' ' Necromancer
of the Black Forest,' ' Midnight Bell,'
' Orphan of the Rhine,' ' Horrid Mysteries.'
It might well be supposed, and is sometimes
stated, that such titles are purely fictitious,
but I have good reason to believe the
contrary. Indeed, I recently saw ' Horrid
Mysteries ' in a bookseller's catalogue which
was some dozen years old. If I remember
right, the book was in four volumes and
published circa 1795.
I should be very grateful if any reader
could supply me with the names of, and
particulars concerning, the authors of the
above romances, or in any way help me to
locate copies, as I am most desirous of
reading them. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
[Information on this subject will be found at
11 S. vii. 14, 97, 238, 315, 396.]
PEAT AND Moss : HEALING PROPERTIES. —
What kind of peat is supposed to have
healing properties when applied to wounds ?
I am aware that " rock moss " has healing
properties when bound upon a crushed foot
or hand, and I have seen it so applied by
workmen, who took the moss from a patch
growing upon a rock in a quarry. It was
bound with the underside, i.e., the root part
of the moss, in contact with the wound,
believe that several moss growths are so used
in folk medicine, and I have also heard it
said that moss taken from the skull of a
dead man has special healing properties.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.
ST. MADRON'S WELL, NEAR PENZANCE.—
In Southey's ' Commonplace Book,' Second
Series, at pp. 121-2 Bishop Hall is cited,
without a reference, as follows : —
" Of this kind was that marvellous cure which
was wrought upon a poor cripple at St. Maderus, in
Cornwall, whereof, besides the attestation of many
hundreds of the neighbours, I took a strict exami-
nation in my last visitation. This man, for sixteen
years together, was obliged to walk upon his hands,
3V reason the sinews of his legs were so contracted.
Upon an admonition in his dream to wash in a
certain well, he was suddenly so restored to hi
iimbs that I saw him able to walk and get his own
maintenance. The name of this cripple was John
Trebble."
Mr. J. Harris Stone, in 'England's
Riviera,' at pp. 211, 212, gives Bishop
Hall's work as the ' Great Mystery of
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY i, 1916.
Godliness,' the cripple's name as John
Trelille. and the date of the cure as 1641.
John Wesley fully believed in this cure,
as Souther points out. Is there any
authenticated case of a cure at this well
subsequent to that of 1641 ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
" XlHIL ARDET IN INFERNO NISI PROPRIA
VOLUNTAS." — Where does St. Bernard say
this ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
F. GRANDINEAU, PROFESSOR OF THE
FRENCH LANGUAGE AT WESTMINSTER COL-
LEGE.— Where can one find an account of
F. Grandineau ? He is interesting as having
taken part in the education of Queen Victoria,
and as being the author of the following
books : —
1. 'Le Petit Pre"cepteur; or, First Step to
French Conversation.' (London, 1832 and 1875.)
2. "Conversations Familieres: or, Conversational
Lessons ; for the use of Young Ladies : respectfully
dedicated to Her Royal Highness the Princess
Victoria. By F. Grandineau, French Master to
Her Royal Highness, and Professor of the French
Language at Westminster College, &c.,&c.. Author
of ' Le Petit Precepteur.' Kensington : Printed
for the Author, by W. Birch. 1832."
Of this the 12th edition appeared in 1858.
3. ' II Piccolo Precettore.' (London, 1853.)
4. "Grammaire Royale, ouvrage e"crit pour
servir a 1'instruction de Son Altesse Royale La
Princesse Victoria d' Angleterre, par F. Grandineau.
Londres: 1835."
The ' Preface ' of this ends thus : —
" Les progres faits sous 1'influence de ces vues
par une auguste eleve, ont encourage" mes essais.
La purete de sa diction, le choix heureux de ses
expressions. 1'aisance qui caracterise ses entretiens
dans cette langue. m'ont permis de rapporter une
partie de ces succes au choix des moyens, et m'ont
donne la hardiesse de presenter le resultat de mon
travail au public sous le patronage de 1'illustre
Princesse qui a daigne en agr£er la oMdicace."
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford Union Society, Oxford.
SIR PATRICK WALSH. — Can any corre-
spondent of ' X. & Q.' give me the names of
the children, and the maiden name of the
wife (Anne ?), of Sir Patrick Walsh,
Mayor of Waterford in 1578, whose Preroga-
tive will was dated or proved in 1600 ?
WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.
Manor House, Dundrum, co. Down.
INHERITED FAMILY LIKENESSES. — Is there
any reason to believe that family likenesses,
that is, from father to son, persist as a
general thing, through countless generations
If so, has this been proved, in any consider-
able number of cases, where the likenesses
(portraits, daguerreotypes, or photographs)
have been preserved through six or seven
generations ? I myself do not see why,
because we bear the name of one of our
sixteen great-great-grandparents, we are
more likely to resemble him (from whom
we inherit only one sixteenth of our blood)
rather than any of the other fifteen.
In the case of a family which has inter-
married during hundreds of years, such as
he Habsburgs, one can understand how
some prominent features have been carried
down in all its branches. QUIEN SABE.
[Some interesting examples of the kind sought for
will be found at 9 S. vii. 472 (tub ' Adam Buck'),
and also ibid. viii. 62, 169, 268, 335, 369, 448.]
CECILIA MARIA DE CANDIA. — I have lately
acquired an aneroid which once belonged to
Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. It bears the
'ollowing inscription : " To the Lord Bishop
of Winchester, in grateful remembrance of
19 Feb., 1872. From Cecilia Maria De
Candia." I should be grateful for any
information about this lady.
G. W. E. RUSSELL.
18 Wilton Street, S.W.
SEATS IN CHURCH : ORDERS BY BISHOPS. —
In 1287, at his synod of Exeter, Bishop
Quivil ordered
" that, except noblemen and patrons, no one should
call any seat in church his own ; but he who shall
first enter the church for the sake of praying may
take his place where he will." — Wilkins's 'Con-
cilia,' ed. 1737, vol. ii. p. 140.
I should be glad to know of any other orders
made by bishops before the nineteenth
century with regard to seats in church,
whether general orders such as the above,
or with respect to any particular church.
ENQUIRER.
FOLK-LORE AT SEA : THE RABBIT IN
BRITAIN. — Can your correspondent Y. T.,
who writes under the above heading, give
the instance she alludes to (as provided by
ST. SWITHIN) and others on the same
subject ?
PAMELA GLENCONNER.
[The replies from ST. SWITHIN, for which our
correspondent Y. T. expressed gratitude, appeared
in our last volume, pp. 154 (Feb. 19) and 317
(April 15).]
' THE TRUSTY SERVANT.' — Can any corre-
spondent supply information as to the origin
and history of the symbol at Winchester
known as ' The Trusty Servant ' ?
PAMELA GLENCONNER.
[CANON DEEDES, of Chichester, and our valued
Winchester correspondent H. C. — in_'N. & Q.'
for Sept. 11 and Oct. 30, 1915, respectively— gave
full accounts of ' The Trusty Servant.']
42 S. II. JULY 1, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
11
" SICK AS A LANDRAIL." — In Jaines
Wilson's ' A Voyage round the Coasts of
Scotland and the Isles,' 1842, vol. i. p. 39,
occurs the sentence : —
"One of the crew was so affected by the
violence of the motion [during a squall] that he
'became as sick as a landrail."
I am not aware that sickness is a special
attribute of the landrail (Crex crex), and
possibly the author may have used the ex-
pression with a jocular emphasis on the word
land. I should, however, be glad to learn
whether the expression occurs elsewhere, and
whether it may be regarded as a phrase or
saying. HUGH S. GLADSTONE.
A LOST LIFE OF HUGH PETERS. — The
following advertisement appeared several
times in 1660, and at the end of the " Fourth
and last Part " of Clement Walker's ' History
of Independency ' (signed " T. M." and
published in that year) runs as follows : —
" There is now in the press, ready to come forth*
that so much desired book intituled *An Exact
History of the Life and Actions of Hugh Peters :
as also his Diary. Sold by H. Brome and H.
Marsh," &c.
I have sought for this book everywhere,
but without success. If Hugh Peters really
left a diary, it would be valuable from every
point of view. Is any reader of ' N. & Q.'
aware of a copy 2 J. B. WILLIAMS.
" EVERY ENGLISHMAN is AN ISLAND." —
In the recent issue of La Renaissance, May,
1916, devoted to England, M. Paul Deschanel
credits Emerson with the saying : " Every
Englishman is an island."
Can any reader verify that statement with
proper references ? O. G.
["In short, every one of these islanders is an
island himself, safe, tranquil, incommunicable." —
Emerson, ' English Traits," vi. Manners, begin-
ning of seventh paragraph.]
'WATERLOO HEROES.' — This picture,
painted by Knight, was engraved by Lewis,
and is said now to be at the Hague. I should
be glad to know whether and where a key
to it may be obtained. J. GOOD.
Stanley Street, Bedford.
PORTRAIT : CAPTAIN TAYLOR. — An in-
scription in an eighteenth-century hand on
the backboard of the frame, runs : " Captn.
Taylor born 1611, died at the Charterhouse
1702." The portrait is executed in crayons
on copper, and is evidently the work of the
artist whose Christian name is queried by
Horace Walpole as " Henry." On the
left-hand side of the drawing is engraved in
•elaborately nourished writing : " E. Lut-
terell fecit 1697 " Other works on painting
I have referred to follow Walpole, but my
example tends to prove his first name
commenced with an E. Is anything known
of the career of Capt. Taylor ? AITCHO.
JOHN RANBY: HENRY FIELDING.
(12 S. i. 428, 473.)
As certain of your correspondents are
manifesting an interest in John Ranby,
1703-73 — consequent, perhaps, on his con-
tributions to the surgery of gun-shot wounds
inflicted in warfare — it may be opportune to
record the hitherto unsuspected, but not
uninteresting, fact that this distinguished
surgeon succeeded Fielding as tenant of
Fordhook, Baling, the country residence and
small farm whence the latter set out
for Lisbon on June 26, 1754. The Rate-
Books of Baling and Old Brentford show
that the rates and tithes in respect of this
property were paid either by or on behalf
of Henry Fielding till Sept. 18, 1764 ; that
the next rates, due on Feb. 12, 1755, were
paid in part by John Ranbey (sic) and in
part by Fielding's half-brother John, who
probably retained control over those farming
operations concerning which Henry Fielding
made such searching inquiries from Lisbon.
The rates on Sept. 3, 1755, were paid by
John Ranby (the spelling being corrected),
and John Fielding's name disappears.
We know from his Lisbon correspondence
that Fielding was anxious to let Fordhook,
and it is more than probable Ranby was
glad to assist the family of the departed
friend who had perpetuated him to posterity
in these words : —
"This surgeon had the first character in his
S'ofession, and was serjeant-surgeon to the King,
e had, moreover, many good qualities, and was a
very generous, good -hearted man, and ready to do
any service to his fellow-creatures.' ' — ' Tom Jones,
vii'i. 13.
Readers of the ' Journal of a Voyage to
Lisbon' will likewise recall the handsome
reference to Ranby in the Introduction.
This additional link between Fielding and
Ranby is due entirely to Mr. Austin Dobson,
who last year, with the good offices of the
Borough Engineer and Surveyor, Mr. \\ . H
Hicks, made an examination of the old
parish Rate-Books in the possession of
the Baling local authorities. Mr. AuafcQ
Dobson very obligingly placed his notes at my
disposal to be recorded in a more permanent
form, but the war renders this at present im-
practicable. J- PAUL DE CASTBO.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. n. JULY i, me.
ADMIRAL XICHOLAS HADDOCK, 1686-1746
(12 S. i. 488).— Cf. 'Eighteenth-Century
Virginian Letters' (12 S. i. 309, 354, 415,
454), whereby it would seem, from what is
said at the last two references, that the
Admiral's wife (who died in 1735) bore the
Christian name of Frances. Moreover, he
called her " Fanny " in a letter of Aug. 4,
1718 (' Correspondence of Family of Had-
dock, 1657-1719,' Camden Soc. Miscellany,
viir. 53). It may be, therefore, that they
were the " Xicholas Haddock, of St. Olives,
Southwark, batchelor, and Francess Emmes,
of Allhallows, Barking, spinster," who were
married (by licence from the Archbishop's
Office) at St. Paul's Cathedral on Feb. 9,
1713/4. See ' Registers of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, 1697-1899' (Harl. Soc.), 35. I have
examined at Somerset House the Admiral's
will (P.C.C., 297 Edmunds), but it throws no
light on the point. In this will, dated
Xov. 6, 1741, the Admiral is described as
" Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron of His
Majesty's Fleet." He mentions, besides the
executors, his three sons, Xicholas, Richard,
and Charles, and his daughter Elizabeth (to
whom he bequeathed the ring presented to
him by the King of Portugal), and his
" sister Katherine Wragg," " sister Hay,"
and his nephews Richard Lyddell, — Clarke,
and Richard Haddock. The will was proved,
Oct. 1, 1746, by his brother, Richard Had-
dock, Comptroller of the Xavy ; his nephew
the Rev. Charles Lyddell, Rector of Ardingly,
Sussex ; and his secretary, Walter Harris.
Charles Lyddell, who was of Christ Church,
Oxford, B.C.L. (Foster's ' A. O.'), was son of
Dennis Lyddell, of Wakehurst Place, Ard-
ingly, a commissioner of the Xavy (see
Horsfield's ' Sussex,' i. 259), by his marriage
with the Admiral's sister Martha (see
' Marriage Licences, Faculty Office of Arch-
bishop of Canterbury,' Harl/Soc. ,197). I was
wrong in saying at 12 S. i. 454, that the
Admiral was his father's eldest son. See
' D.X.B.,' xxiii. 428. Was the Admiral's
wife related to Capt. Fleetwood Emms or
Ernes, R.X., who was lost, with " his wife
and son and all ye men in ye Restauration,"
on " ye Goodwin," in 1703 ? See the above-
mentioned ' Correspondence,' p. 45.
H. C.
"BEVERE" (12 S. i. 389, 458, 516).— If MR.
HOBBS consults Xash's ' Worcestershire,' he
will find a good deal of information as to
Bevere. There is a pleasing small illustra-
tion on the title-page of one of the volumes,
due, I think, to the fact that one of the Xash
family lived there. \y. H. QUARRELL.
MEDIAEVAL LATIN (12 S. i. 489). — A
mediaeval or Low Latin-English dictionary
remains still a desideratum. There is, of
course, the well-known ' Promptorium Par-
vulorum ' by Geoffrey the Grammarian,
c. 1440, edited by A. Way for the Camden
Society, 3 vols., 1843-65 ; and by A. L.
Mayhew for the Early English Text Society,.
E.S., 1908, which is useful. Then, again, one
has in the late Mr. Charles Trice Martin's
' Record Interpreter,' 1910, an excellent
" Glossary of Latin Words found in Records
and Other English MSS., but not occurring^
in Classical Authors"; see pp. 177-344.
Would that this author had lived to produce^
an English Du Cange !
There is a delightful article, which ap-
peared in The Scotsman, July 28, 1895, by
the late Dr. Thomas Graves Law of Edin-
burgh, and was reprinted in the ' Collected
Essays and Reviews,' Edinburgh, 1904, of this-
learned author. It is entitled ' Some Curious-
Translations of Mediaeval Latin,' see pp. 98-
104, in which the author says : —
" It is rumoured that a competent scholar has-
in hand the preparation of a lexicon or glossarjr
of Low Latin, based exclusively on Scottish
charters and records. If this be true, it is good
news. Few private students can be expected to-
provide themselves with the seven quarto volume*
of Du Cange (ed. 1840-50) ; and the wretchedly
inadequate Compendium, compiled by Maigne-
d'Arnis for the Abo4 Migne (1866), is often mis-
leading A portable mediaeval dictionary, at
once abbreviating and supplementing Du Cange,.
and specially adapted for the student of Scottish
records, would indeed be a boon for us all."
Those who have never read these ' Col-
lected Essays and Reviews ' of the lat&
learned Dr. Law have a treat in store for
them, if they come across this charm ing^
work. J. C. H.
Thornton, Horncastle.
[SiR HERBERT MAXWELL and MR. ARCHIBALD-
SPARKE thanked for replies.]
PACE-EGGING (12 S. i. 488).— At Rochdale-
boys go round " pace-egging " on Good
Friday, and probably more " pace-eggers "
can be seen there than at any other place in
the country. Messrs. Edwards & Bryning,
Castle Works, Rochdale, publish a book of
words (two copies for a penny), and also self
swords and sashes for the use of the players.
The printed version appears to follow the
traditional very closely, as I found on testing
it recently on men who had taken part in.
the pace-egg forty years ago. The songs
which usually conclude the performance are
not included in the book.
F. WILLIAMSON.
Derby.
12 s. ii. JULY 1,1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
13"
GORGES BRASS (12 S. i. 488). — This brass,
to the memory of Henry Gorges, Esq.-.
probably came from the Church of St. Luke,
Chelsea. In Transactions of the Monumental
Brass Society, vol. ii. p. 329, is an article on
the brass of Sir Arthur Gorges (1625) in
Chelsea Old Church, contributed by Mr.
Randall Davies. This brass was missing
when Faulkner wrote his ' History of
Chelsea,' but during the restoration of the
church in 1832 was discovered under the
floor of the More Chapel (Qent. Mag., vol. cii.
p. 602). Henry Gorges was, doubtless, a
descendant or relative of Sir Arthur.
W. J. M.
Richard, Lord Gorges, and his wife were
both buried at Stetchworth, co. Cambridge,
according to G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,'
iv. 54, and the brass might appropriately
find a resting-place in that church.
J. P. R.
96 Bidston Road, Birkenhead.
ELIZABETH, EVELYN (12 S. i. 288, 356,
435, 473). — I cannot tell how I came to
call the father of the two Elizabeths, George.
Of course, as MR. MAYNARD SMITH kindly
points out, it should have been John Evelyn
of Kingston and Godstone. I think, how-
ever, he will find my reference to Miscellanea
Genealogica et Heraldica, Second Series, vol. iv.
p. 329, to be correct for the pedigree to
which I referred. I am sorry I have no
knowledge of the Xeedham connexion.
A. STEPHENS DYER.
207 Kingston Road, Teddington.
TOUCHING FOR LUCK (12 S. i. 430, 491).—-
Suffer me to scotch the bit of folk-lore cited
by MR. EDWARD SMITH concerning the three
white stripes on a sailor's collar. My
weapon is an informing article about the
Navy, which appeared in Chambers' 8 Journal,
April, 1916, and is part of a realistic story
entitled ' Pincher Martin, O.D.' The hero
" was proud of his blue jean collar with its three
rows of narrow white tape, which, he had been
told, commemorated Nelson's three great victories
of the Nile, Copenhagen, and Trafalgar. He had
heard, too, that the black silk handkerchief worn
round his neck and tied in front was a badge of
mourning for the same great naval hero. But both
in the matter of the collar and the handkerchief he
had been led into following a very popular fallacy.
" The square collar was first introduced in the
latter portion of the eighteenth century as a means
of preventing the grease and flour with which the
sailors anointed their pig-tails from soiling their
clothes. The three rows of tape, moreover, were
placed upon it merely for ornament, for there is no
evidence to support the belief that they com-
memorate the three famous victories. The black
silk handkerchief came in much at the same time.
In early sea-fights the heat on the gun-decks was-
stifling, so much so that the men were forced to
strip to the waist. To prevent the perspiration
from running down into their eyes and blinding
them, they were in the habit of tying handkerchiefs
round their foreheads, and at ordinary times these
were worn round the neck for the sake of con-
venience. It is true that up till a few years ago our
modern bluejackets wore their spare black silk
handkerchiefs tied in a bow on the left arm when
attending funerals ; but there is nothing to support
the theory that they were introduced as badges of
mourning for the immortal Nelson." — P. 260.
It would not surprise me if some reader of
' N. & Q.' were to produce evidence to
resuscitate the scotched belief. As for the
inclination to touch a returned sailor, I
think it must have originated in the idea
that he could communicate the health, the
vigour, the good luck — call it what you
will — that brought him home again. Why
do people touch stones and trees and idols
and relics of saints if they do not expect
some helpful virtue to exude ? The mystery
of the sea and its manifold perils invest the
mariner with an interest beyond that
attached to those whose busineas is not in
" the great waters."
I wonder whether superstition has turned
its attention to airmen. ST. SWITHIN.
PIN-PRICKED LACE PATTERNS (12 S. i. 468).
— Mr.A.P. Moodystates, in his bookon 'Devon
Pillow Lace,' that in olden days the process of
pricking-in lace patterns was looked upon
as being of the greatest importance. The
transparent parchment known to be used
in the Midlands is seldom met with in the
West, but some of the best work was made
on white skins, often remnants of old wills.
The design was usually traced, but Devon-
shire workers have always relied very much
on nature for rinding motives for their
designs. After being laid over the parch-
ment the design was outlined by fine pin-
pricking. The latter process is slow and
laborious work, and(needs a skilled hand.}
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
'VANITY FAIR' (12 S. i. 467).— Lewis
Melville, in his bibliographical note to the
Harry Furniss edition of Thackeray's worksr
says : —
" In all early English reprints of 'Vanity Fair'
the Marquis of Steyne woodcut (page 33
original edition) was deleted. It is said that t
was suppressed because the drawing bore a mark,
resemblance to the peer who waa .supposed t
been the prototype of 'The Wicked Nobleman,
but this can scarcely hav^e been the reason, since
the full-page plate, ' The Triumph of Clvtemneetr*,
which contains a portrait of the Marquis, wa»
retained." ARCHIBALD SPABKE.
14
NOTES AND QUERIES. \\z s. n. JULY i, me.
" LAUS DEO " : OLD MERCHANTS' CUSTOM
'(12 S. i. 409, 474).— There is no doubt that it
was an old custom for merchants to write
the words " Laus Deo " at the commence-
••ment of their ledgers. I have just inspected
two old ledgers of 1847 and 1863, which
formerly belonged to my father when he
was in business, and in each of these the
words " Laus Deo " are written on the front
page (not on the top of each page).
A. COLLING WOOD LEE.
Waltham Abbey, Essex.
Will the following information answer
your correspondent's purpose ? In Edward
Hatton's ' The Merchant's Magazine,' 4th
ed. (London, 1701), there are formularies
for ' The Method of Keeping the Waste
Book, Journal, and Ledger ' (p. 173), and
for ' The Entry of the Inventory in the
-Journal ' (p. 176) ; also a form for a policy
(p. 249). In every case the entries are
preceded by the words : " In the name of
God. Amen." L. L. K.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117,
193, 275, 416, 474).— What was once the
" village " of Hampstead still retains its
•pound, situate close to one of the numerous
fathways leading down to the Vale of Health,
b is a square, well-preserved enclosure
marked, on its eastern wall, " Anno 1787."
At present there is a fine crop of thistles and
grass inside for the refreshment of any stray
•donkey, or other beast, which might happen
to be lodged within. But I fancy the pound
now receives few, if any? inmates. During a
long residence in the salubrious suburb of
Hampstead, I have seen only one lean ass
there. CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
KERRY PLACE-NAMES (12 S. i. 487). —
1. The proper form of " coon edaf deryck "
is cuan a' dhaimh dheirge, but possibly
the initial <fs were not aspirated in the
vulgar tongue (damh = OK, dearg=red).
2. The following is an extract from Joyce's
'' Irish Names of Places ' : —
" It [Dingle] is called in the annals Daingean-ui-
•Chuis, now usually written Dingle-I-Uoush. i.e.
the fortress of O'Cush, the ancient proprietor
^before the English invasion. These people some-
times call themselves Hussey in English, and this
is the origin of the mistaken assertion made by
some writers, that the place received its name from
the English family of Hussey."
3. Dun-an-6ir (golden fort) is correct.
4. Joyce writes : —
"The Irish name of the village of Smerwick,
near Dingle, in Kerry, which is still used, is Ard-
na-caithne (now pronounced Arduaconnia), the
•height of the arbutus."
Ca tthn c~ arbutus tree, the fruit of which is
commonly called Cain-apple.
The name Smerwick is apparently of
Scandinavian origin.
5. Gallerus probably = Gall-a'-ruis, or
Gallan-ruis, i.e., the pillar-stone or rock of
the headland. Gall or Gallan is a name
given to certain stones supposed to have
been thrown down from the hills by giants.
This place is the scene of one of Crofton
Croker's " merrow " or mermaid legends.
N. POWLETT, Col.
1. When Sir Nicholas White gave " coon
edaf deryck " as the Irish name of Dingle
Harbour, he attempted to represent phoneti-
cally the Gaelic cuan a' daimh deairg, the
haven of the red ox. M, when aspirated,
sounds like v ; and dearg, red, is pronounced
" darrig " or " derrig."
2. The Irish name of Dingle, " Daingean-
ui-Chuis," means O' Gush's fortress,
4. The name Smerycke, mentioned by Sir
Nicholas, probably means the same as
Smeurach in the Forest of Rannoch, meaning
a bramble thicket, from the Gaelic smeur, a
blackberry bush.
Dr. Joyce mentions the name Ardcanny,
as being pronounced in Irish Ardnaconnia
and explains it as meaning ard-na-caithne, the
hill of arbutus, a bush or small tree which is
only to be found as an indigenous British
plant in Kerry. HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
" GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE, OF THE
PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE " (12 S. i. 127, 197).
— In 1907 this question went the rounds of
the American newspapers, and the present
writer examined the 1850 edition of the
Wycliffe Bible. The Old Testament has a
prologue, the New Testament has a prologue,
and there is a prologue to each book. The
prologue to the Old Testament was probably
written by John Purvey, and toward the
end of it, if anywhere, one might expect to
find the words inquired about ; but, as one
would equally expect, there are no such
words. At i. 49 is this sentence : —
"Lord God ! sithen at the bigynning of feith so
manie men translatiden into Latyn, and to greet
profyt of Latyn men, lat oo symple creature of God
translate into English, for profyt of English men ;
God for his merci amende these euele causis,
and make oure pupje to haue, and kunne, and kepe
truli holi writ, to lijf and deth ! "
To the extract from Daniel Webster
(1830), quoted by SIR HARRY POLAND, may
be added three other pertinent extracts. In
12 S. II. JULY 1, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
15
a decision rendered in 1819 Chief Justice
John Marshall wrote : —
" The Government of the Union, then (whatever
may be the influence of this fact on the case), is,
emphatically and truly, a Government of the people.
In form and substance it emanates from them. Its
powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised
directly on them, and for their benefit." — 4Wheaton,
405.
In a speech made in Boston on May 29,
1850, Theodore Parker said : —
"This is what I call the American idea The
idea that all men have unalienable rights ; that in
respect thereof, all men are created equal ; and
that government is to be established and sustained
for the purpose of giving every man an opportunity
for the enjoyment and development of all these
unalienable rights. This idea demands, as the
proximate organization thereof, a government of
all the people, by all the people, for all the people :
of course, a government after the principles of
eternal justice, the unchanging law of Goa ; for
shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of freedom." —
"Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons,'
1852, ii. 176.
And in another speech delivered in Boston
on May 31, 1854, Theodore Parker expressed
the same thought in somewhat different
language, as follows : —
" First there is the democratic idea : that all
men are endowed by their Creator with certain
natural rights ; that these rights are alienable only
by the possessor thereof ; that they are equal in all
men ; that government is to organize these natural,
unalienable and equal rights into institutions
•designed for the good of the governed; and therefore
government is to be of all the people, by all the
people, and for all the people. Here government
is development, not exploitation." — 'Additional
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons,'
1855, ii. 25.
ALBERT MATTHEWS.
Boston, U.S.
FRANCIS BACON: LORD BACON (12 S. i.
487). — Macaulay's essay on the philosopher
appears under the title of Lord Bacon. He
probably made use of this style as being a
permissible contraction of Lord Chancellor
Bacon. N. W. HILL.
ACCIDENTAL LIKENESSES (12 S. i. 348.
438, 496). — Since sending my last note on
this subject I have received through ' N. & Q.'
a photograph of an accidental grouping of
stones and sand in the river inside Wookey
Hole Cave, 600 feet from daylight, showing
an astonishing likeness to the face of a man
lying down. The photograph was taken by
artificial light. The lower half of the face is
reflected in the smooth water so distinctly
that 8»t first it is hardly seen to be a reflection ;
through that circumstance, however, perfect
symmetry has been the result.
The original occasion of my inquiry was
a somewhat distant resemblan< . ;•• .: man's
face in a photograph, firmly believed by a
oorrespondent to be a " spirit photograph,"
but by me and two or three profe:
photographers attributed to some accidental
defect in the plate or in the developing
thereof. J. T. F.
Durham.
The Rock of Gibraltar, when seen from
Algeciras on the opposite side of the bay,
has a remarkable resemblance to a lion
couchant facing towards Spain. The
Spaniards, however, call it el cuerpo muerto
(the dead body), for the outline of the upper
portion is very like that of a man's corpse
covered with a sheet. G. S. PARRY.
GAVELKIND (11 S. xii. 379, 428).— Not
only disgavelled lands, but those also origin-
ally held in chief, are exempt from the custom
of Gavelkind. From want of knowledge of
the history of the tenure many intestates'
estates which should follow the law of
primogeniture have been wrongly distributed.
Mr. Herbert W. Knocker of Sevenoaks,
District Registrar for Kent of the Manorial
Society, has collected much information on
this subject, and is the author of ' Special
Land Tenure,' No. 5 of the Society's publica-
tions. NATHANIEL J. HONE.
Henley-on-Thames.
ARCHER AND BOWMAN (12 S. i. 29).—
L. G. R. says he has not found these surnames
" placed chronologically or locally by any
writer on names and places." Capt. .1. H.
Lawrence-Archer attempted this as regards
the former family in a series jof papers
contributed to Herald and Genealogist, vol. ii.,
1863-5, pp. 523-43. These articles were
supplementary to his ' Memorials of Families
of the Surname of Archer,' London, 1861,
which does not profess to be more than an
introduction to the subject. I believe he
contemplated a fuller and scientifically
arranged history of the Archer ftunili.- in
Great Britain and Ireland. Some portion*
of his collection towards this end nr<- in
B.M. Add. MS. 19 c. 27,975. I myself have
gathered thousands of references to the
Archer family, but I do not find, as L. G. R.
puts it, that Archer and Bowman " were
indifferently applied to holders of these
surnames." So far as my researches go, t Ins
happens but rarely.
The Archers of Hampshire (Bent ley),
Northampton (Sibertoft), Hereford (I
ton, Bolinghope, Clehangre, Aston-Inghnm),
Stafford (Walsall), Warwick (CUdeootofc
16
NOTES AND QUERIES. [128.11. JULY i, me.
Gloucester (Stoke-Archer), Wiltshire, and
Leicester all derive from William le Archer
(Arcuarius), tenant in Bentley, Hampshire,
1080 (Domesday Survey), who is probably
the ( Hiillaume L' Archer whose name, says
Burke, is on the Roll preserved in the
church of Dives, Normandy. This surname
also appears in the Battle Abbey copy of the
charter. G. H. ROWBOTHAM.
21 Ashley Road, St. Annes-on-Sea.
' A WORKING-MAN'S WAY IN THE WOULD '
(12 S. i. 468).— The information given at
this reference is not wholly correct. There
lies before me an interesting and well-
written book by Charles Manby Smith,
' Curiosities of London Life,' which is dated
1853, and in his preface the author says : —
" Iu the ' Working-Man's Way in the World ' I
had to draw upon my own experience for
materials ; and I cut short my tale when that
experience no longer afforded matter which could
be considered interesting to the general reader."
Bound up with my copy of the ' Curiosities '
is a list of books " lately published by
William & Frederick G. Cash," of 5 Bishops-
gate Street Without, who describe them-
selves as " successors to Charles Gilpin " ;
and the second item in this list is the
' Working-Man's,1 &c. Let me quote : —
" The autobiography of a Journeyman Printer.
' None can read it without feeling a more cheerful
man. We cordially wish it all the literary success
it so eminently deserves' (Weekly Neivs).
1 We are disposed to set a high value on the
"Working-Man's Way in the World"' (Tail's
Magazine)."
H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX.
Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter.
FIELD INCIANA : Miss H — AND (12 S.
i. 483). — I do not think there is an s in the
name of the l&dy who became the wife of
Robert Henley, first Earl of Northington.
In the memoir, written by his grandson
(1831), the name appears as Miss Huband.
In Kelly's ' Directory of Warwickshire '
reference is made to Huband and Hubande
memorials in Ipsley Church.
JOHN T. PAGE.
THE " JENNINGS PROPERTY " (12 S. i. 329,
433, 498). — Some of your correspondents
appear to be still interested in this case,
which I thought consigned to oblivion long
ago. When quite young I remember my
mother telling me of a father and son named
Jennings who had spent very much time on
it, and who wanted only one link to complete
their claim. My mother was cousin either
to these men or the wife of one of them, and
I think the David Jennings whose death at
Wolverhampton Infirmary was recorded in
The Daily News a year or two ago must be
one of those referred to. Perhaps the
pedigrees prepared by these men may have
got into some collector's hands, and if from
this slight information it should prove
possible to trace the names of the wife or
wives of these Jenningses, who lived in.
Birmingham or the neighbourhood some
fifty years ago, I should be glad to hear of
it. My mother's pedigree is said to show a
connexion with the family of Arkwright,.
the inventor. JOHN THICKBROOM.
35 Allison Road, Hornsey, N.
BRITISH HERB : HERB TOBACCO (12 S..
i. 48, 136,317,432, 474).— I find inan old MS.
book of recipes a mention of English tobacco
made from yellow henbane. Was this
henbane used in the mixture of coltsfoot r
dandelion, and other leaves, and would yellow
henbane when dried act as a narcotic ?
Among other leaves I remember the use of
music and sweet verbena.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
' WANTED A GOVERNESS ' (12 S. i. 467, 515).
— This song appears in a programme of a
concert which was given at Hawick in 1851,.
and was sung by Mr. George Maclean of
Jedburgh. The composer's name is given
as Parry. During a period of well-nigh
fifty years Mr. Maclean sung this song with
very great acceptance. He had a true
conception of the words, and his rendering of
it always appealed to the audience.
J. L. H.
" AGNOSTIC " AND " AGNOSCO " (12 S. i..
429, 492). — This " howler " was put into
Cecil Rhodes's mouth by the late W. T..
Stead in an article which appeared shortly
after Rhodes died. It was generally thought
at the time that the blunder was Stead's
own. " Presbyter Londinensis " in a letter
which appeared in The Times of April 11,
1902, wrote : " If Cecil Rhodes ever used
' agnosco ' at all, he would probably have
said with Tolumnius, ' Accipio agnoscoque
Deos.' " W. A. P.
If agnosco was once mistranslated " I do
not know," it is said that imputo was once
also similarly treated. Some ladies, so the
story goes — observing on a sundial the
inscription, " Horse prsetereunt et imputan-
tur," inquired of an Oxford man who was in
their company what the words meant, to
which he replied : " The hours pass and are
not counted." G. C. TICKENCOTE.
12 s. ii. JULY 1,1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
17
"How NOT TO DO IT" (12 S. i. 508). — I
have a little book, " What to do, and How
to do it ; or, Morals and Manners taught by
examples. By Peter Parley," London, no
date A writing inside shows that it was
given to me in 1851.
In a list of his books made by Samuel
Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley") him-
self, quoted in Allibone's Dictionary, the
date of first publication is 1844, presumably
in the United States.
Dickens began to write ' Little Dorrit '
in September, 1855. It may be worth
noting that in chap. x. of Book the First of
' Little Dorrit,' " How to do it " occurs once,
viz., p. 76 of the original edition, line 14 from
foot, while " How not to do it " appears
again and again.
It is at least possible that the above-named
little book, with its title in plain letters on
the cover, was on the Dickens nursery book-
shelves in 1855 and earlier.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
FACT OB FANCY? (12 S. i. 509.)—
1. "That an Englishman's house is his
<;astle." — See'N.E.D.,' s.v. 'Castle,' e, phrase:
" [1567, Staunforde, 'Plees del Corou.'Hb, Ma
nieason est a moy come mon castel hors de quel le
ley ne moy arta a fuer.] 1588, Lambard, ' Eiren.' II.
vii. 257, Our law calleth a man's house, his castle,
meaning that he may defend himselfe therein.
1600-16, Coke, 5 ' Rep.' 9t b, The house of every
man is to him as his Castle and Fortresse, as well
for his defence against injury and violence, as for
his repose. 1856, Emerson. ' Eng. Traits, Wealth,'
Wks. (Bohn) ii. 73, The house is a castle which
the King cannot enter."
Stephen's ' Blackstone,' vol. iv. p. 108,
ed. 1880, says :—
" No outward doors of a man's house can in
general be broken open to execute any civil pro-
cess ; though in criminal cases the public safety
supersedes the private."
In Scotland, according to Brewer's ' Phrase
and Fable,' the law is different.
2. Gravel v. clay. —
"For warmth, for dryness, for absence of fogs,
and for facility of walking after rain, just when the
air is purest and at its best, there is nothing like
gravel ; but when gravel has been rendered foul
by infiltration with organic matters, it may easily
become a very hotbed of disease." — ' Encyclopaedia
Britannica,' eleventh ed., 'Soil.'
ALFRED GWYTHER.
Windham Club.
With regard to MR. ACKERMANN'S query
Xo. 2, the supposed superiority of gravel to
clay, I wish to assure him that, so far as
London is concerned, facts will prove this to
be a fancy. If he will examine the Registrar-
General's Returns and the geological map of
London, he will find that the highest and the
healthiest parts of London are on the i .
northern and southern, of the clay basin of
the Thames, such as Highgote, Hampstead,
and Harrow on the north, and Richmond
Hill, Sydenham Hill, and Forest Hill on the
south. Gravel is always the soil found
next or near the water course. I went very
fully into this question in a paper which I
had the honour of reading before the British
Balneological and Climatological Society,
entitled ' The Clay and Gravel Soils of
London and the Relative Advantages of
dwelling upon Them,' published in the
Society's Journal for January, 1902.
S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.
2. Gravel r. clay. — Before population
became so thick, gravel was estimated a
more healthy soil to live on than clay,
because gravel assisted drainage. You dug
a hole, and the loose nature of the soil did
the rest for the drainage, whereas clay did
not so help, and care had to be taken to
lead the drainage away or to empty out
cesspits or pools in a clay soil frequently.
But now population is more dense, on a
gravelly soil, unless care be taken, you may
get your neighbour's drainage.
Another reason in favour of gravel is that '
it is not so cold to live on as clay.
Hie ET UBIQUE.
ENGLISH CARVINGS OF ST. PATRICK (12 S.
i. 429, 478).— The following letter serves to
explain why I thought the figure on the
vaulting of Milton Abbey was St. Patrick,
but does not tell us who he is : —
St. Peter's Vicarage, Portland, 14th June, 1916.
DEAK SIR.— Sir Everard Hambro has sent me
your letter of the 9th instant, and asked me to
reply to it, as for some years I lived at Milton,
and studied, and wrote on, every feature of the
Abbey, including the bosses. I am afraid that the
young man who took you round the church unin-
tentionally misinformed you. There is no boss of
St. Patrick in the vaulting. The only representa-
tion of the saint in Milton Abbey is on the monu-
ment which Sir Everard erected to the memory of
his father, Baron Hambro. — Yours faithfully,
HKRBEKT PKXTIN,
Hon. Secretary of the Dorset Natural History
and Antiquarian Field Club.
The statement surprised me so much that
I thought it deserved the query to which
CANON FOWLER replied. If the foliage in
question is not shamrock, Medicago lup •
it is at least a trefoil of some kind ; and
there seems to be no doubt that it is work
of the fourteenth century. Mr. Pent in. in
his interesting article about those medalli"i^
in The Antiquary of 1908, pp. 10-14, admits
18
NOTES AND QUERIES.
11. JULY i, ww,
that that abbey w*>s at first dedicated to
two Keltic saints. The shamrock occurs on
work of, I believe, the thirteenth century in
the Cathedral of Raphoe. But ray query
referred to Great Britain, and not to
E. S. DODGSON.
"LOKE" (12 S. i. 510).— In Halliwell's
'Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial
Words' the second meaning of " loke " is
"A private road or path. East."
In ' The English Dialect Dictionary ' it is
also attributed to East Anglia : —
"Also written loak Nrf. e Suf. ; and in form look
Nrf. [/(>£.] A lane, a short, narrow, blind lane, a
4 cul-de-sac ' ; a grass road, a private lane or road."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
This is denned in the ' N.E.D.' as a short
lane having jno outlet ; a cul-de-sac. The
word occurs frequently in the earlier works
of Mr. James Blyth, the present-day East
Anglian novelist. W. B. H.
A " loko " is defined in the Funk &
Wagnalls Dictionary as "a narrow lane or
road, especially one closed at one end ; also
a gateway or wicket."
In Kent the word is used to signify a
private roadway. This meaning also is
given to it in the ' Century Dictionary.'
R. VAUGHAN GOWER.
Mattield, Kent.
I am away from my books, but " loke "
means a narrow way — not (I think) available
for wheels or draught animals. It is in
common use all over Norfolk and, I fancy,
East Anglia. We have several " lokes "
hero. Hie ET UBIQUE.
Reepham, Norfolk.
I find in Wright's ' Provincial Dictionary '
(1857): "Loke, (1) v. A.-S., to look; (2)
part. p. locked ; (3) s., the hatch of a door."
H. T. BARKER.
Ludlow.
The word " loke " is defined in the ' New
English Dictionary ' as a lane, a short,
narrow, blind lane or road, a cul-de-sac, a
grass road, a private lane or road.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
[Mil. PENRY LEWIS and MR. A. E. MARTEN
thanked for replies.]
"SHE BRAIDS ST. CATHERINE'S TRESSES "
(12 S. i. 447, 498).— The Spanish say of an
old maid, " Ha quedndo para vestir ima-
genes " (She has remained to dress images),
f,n important function in Spain, where the
wardrobes of some of the images are ex-
tensive. G. S. PARRY.
" THREE-A-PENXY COLONELS" (12 S. i.
510). — This allusion is doubtless a variant on
the playful references of Sir W. S. Gilbert's
witty song for Don Alhsrubra in ' The.
Gondoliers,' beginning " There lived a
king." The well-known lines run thus : —
Lord Chancellors were cheap as sprats*
And Bishops in their shovel hats
Were plentiful as tabby cats —
In point of fact, too many.
Ambassadors cropped up like hay ;•
Prime Ministers, and such as they,
Grew like asparagus in May,
And Dukes were three a penny.
On every side Field- Marshals gleamed ;
Small beer were Lords Lieutenant deemed ?
With Admirals the ocean teemed
All round his wide dominions
WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
SIR WALTER SCOTT : AN UNPUBLISHED-
LETTER (12 S. i. 446). — My attention has been
called to this communication. Lockhart's
letter, given as da ted Nov. 5, 1826, announces
the engagement of his daughter to my father..
I understand that there was such an en-
gagement, but certainly not in 1826, as
that was the year in which my father was
born. 1846 is a possible date for the engage-
ment to have taken place ; in which case
the Sir W. Scott referred to must be the
second baronet.
HAMILTON MORE NISBETT.
The New Club, Edinburgh.
Sir Walter Scott's biographer was married
in 1820. His only daughter was his third
born child, who married Mr. Hope. It is
therefore obvious that Lockhart could not
possibly have been writing about his daugh-
ter's marriage in 1826. W. E. WLLSON.
Hawick.
WILLIAM MILD MAY, HARVARD COLLEGE,
1647 (12 S. i. 488).— As the Mildmay family
were of Essex, I wrote to Mr. Frederic
Chancellor of Bellefield, Chelmsford, our
antiquarian authority, the author of ' Sepul-
chral Monuments of Essex,' and he has
kindly searched and sends particulars, which
I forward. He answers some of the questions
asked by MR. ALBERT MATTHEWS of Boston.
" 1. Sir Walter Mildmay of Apethorp had two
sons, Anthony and Humphrey. Sir Henry of
Wanstead was a son of Humphrey. Sir Henry
had two sons, William and Henry. William was
therefore a great-grandson of Sir Walter of Ape-
thorp.
"There is a marble slab in the north aisle of
Danbury Church with this inscription : —
" ' Here lyeth interred ye body of Will1" Mildmay.
Esqr(eldest son of Sr Henry Mildmay of Wanstead,
Knt, and of Dame Anne his wife, one of the
daughters and coheirs of Wm Holliday, Alderman
12 s. ii. JULY i,i9ia] NOTES AND QUERIES.
of London). Hee dyed June the first, 1632, aged
60 years, leaving his most loving and beloved wife
Mary, eldest daughter of John Brewster of VVyfield,
in the parish of Barking in the County of Essex,
Esqr, his executrix.'
" Over the inscription is the achievement :
Arms, Quarterly of 4, 1 and 4, Mildmay : 2 and 3,
[Sable] three helmets [argent, garnished or] within
a bordure engrailed [of the second], Holyday.
Impaling [Sable] a chevron [ermine] between three
estoiles [argent], Brewster.
"2. In connexion with this College it is inter-
esting to note that John Harvard, founder of the
celebrated Harvard College, Cambridge, America,
was educated at Emmanuel College ; consequently
at the tercentenary festival of that College on
June 19, 1884, Harvard was represented bv Charles
Eliot Norton, Professor there of the History of
Art.
"Sir Henry St. John Mildmay also attended the
festival as representative of the founder's family."
W. W. GLENNY.
Barking, Essex.
This gentleman is alluded to in ' A Memoir
of the Mildmay Family,' by Col. Herbert
St. John Mildmay (published in 1913 by
John Lane), where his marriage and place
of interment are mentioned.
He was the eldest son of Sir Henry
Mildmay of Wanstead, and of Shawford,
Hants. He was, thus, the grandson of Sir
Humphrey Mildmay of Danbury (William,
indeed, was buried at Danbury), and the
great-grandson of Sir Walter Mildmay of
Apethorpe, Danbury, and Queen-Camel
(Hazelgrove), Chancellor of the Exchequer
to Queen Elizabeth, and founder of Em-
manuel College, Cambridge. I believe
William left no issue. S. GN.
LATIN CONTRACTIONS (12 S. i. 468). —
" Expoitorum " is a regular contraction for
" expositorum." " Onens " seems to be a
misprint for " oneris," the accountant's
charge. " P11 " perhaps for " X1'."
J. J. B.
PLAYING CARDS SIXTY YEARS AGO (12 S.
i. 468, 514). — I think Disraeli's memory was
at fault. It was not upon the ace of spades
(which bore only the Lion and Unicorn and
Garter rnotto around the ace, surmounted
by the crown, and the amount of the duty,
then one and sixpence) that the Great Mogul
appeared, but upon the wrapper. They
were called Great Mogul cards, and I remem-
ber playing with them as a boy in the late
fifties, but I think they must have belonged
to a considerably earlier period. An un-
opened pack which lies before me as I write
has an unmistakably Georgian aspect : it
might even be eighteenth century. The
Eastern monarch is depicted on the wrapper
in a turban and quite impossible dn-s, and
beneath is printed "Hunt <V Sons, Card
Makers to His Majesty, 20 Piccadilly,.
London." F. H. H. GUILLEMARD/
Old Mill House, Trumpington, Cambridge.
Mattz an
European Character* in French Drama of the
Eighteenth Century. By Harry Kurz. (New
York, Columbia University Press, 6*. Qd. net.)
THE general idea of this book is decidedly a good
one ; and it was also a good plan to limit its scope
to the period between the time of Louis XIV. and
the French Revolution, and, again, to deal princi-
pally with works which, not being the product of
genius, may be taken to represent all the more-
truly the ideas of the average Frenchman of the
time. As was to be expected, the best chapter is
that on the English, as portrayed by the eigh-
teenth-century French dramatist, and the next best
that on the Germans. In particular there are some
interesting and entertaining paragraphs about the-
French dramatic use of 'German music and music-
lovers. The material for these two studies is fairly
lively, and a decidedly good feature of the book is
the apt and lavish — but not too lavish — use of
quotation. The indications of the political situation
between France and the several nations concerned,,
though slight, are for their purpose sufficient ; and,
even if the arrangement of the subject-matter is
somewhat mechanical, it can justify itself on the
score of being easy to refer to.
The book has, however, one or two fundamental
defects. In the first place, the reader is given no>
idea as to the source or nature of the plays to be
drawn upon. Every cultivated person knows
something about Voltaire and Beaumarchais, and
may be expected to remember the story of Figaro,,
and the circumstances of Voltaire's sojourn in
England, or, if he does not, to be able readily to
refresh his memory. But such well-known names
are most rare. The greater number of these plays —
not that they are actually very numerous — must
be unknown to the majority of readers to whom
such a work as this could be of any use, and,
besides that, difficult of access. It is idle to write
allusively of the characters they contain, and of
their authors also, as if these were Shakespeare,
Moliere, or Goethe, the heroes a Harpa^on or a
Faust, and the heroines a Rosalind or a Gretohen
There should at least have been a list of the plays
to be examined, and some methodical, though it
might have been brief, account of the playwrights.
And when we say '• examined " we are reminded
of our second grievance against the compiler. There
is a considerable parade made of an intention to-
examine into things, and, after some pages have
been filled, considerable parade in the way of
recapitulation of things examined. But in those
said intervening pages no effective examination of
anything has taken place; partly because the
method is so extraordinarily casual that it does
injustice to the matters collected together, and
partly because these matters themselves are too
slight, too literally insignificant to bear examina-
tion. A good deal of what is said might be fairly
challenged on exactly the same grounds as those
upon which one would challenge conclusions about
NOTES AND QUERIES. (12 s. n. JULY i, 1916.
Bohemia drawn from ' The Winter's Tale.' No
sort of attempt is made to eliminate the personal
factor, to distinguish between commonplaces of
French thought, and the individual whims, opinions,
or designs or the different dramatists. In fact, as
& piece of rather extended literary work, it is so
sketchy, so uncritical, so lacking in grip, that it
makes a sad impression of triviality. We venture
to think that the more solid and better equipped
•of American men of letters should turn their minds
to criticizing and castigating the increasing output
•of studies of the kind before us — in which a sound
idea, a good subject, ia lighted on, but brought to
tnotbing by the lackiof genuine work upon it, by the
triviality of the treatment.
We are beginning to think that some constitu-
tional difference of ear, of taste for style in diction,
-renders an English lover of letters incapable of
guessing the effect of American writing on American
•ears, and therefore — it may be — hardly a trust-
•worthy judge of it. But the same disability does
not exist in regard to cliches not of phrase, but of
thought, or to outworn generalizations and mixed
metaphors, and these — both in the book before us,
and in some others we have recently looked into
which came to us from America — we also venture
.to deprecate.
••Sappho and the Sapphic Metre in English. With
Bibliographical Notes by Edwin Marion Cox.
(Chiswick Press, Is. net.)
THE history of translations of Sappho into English
•does not offer any particulars of a specially excit-
ing nature. The first attempt was that of John
Hall, who in his translation of Longinus ' On the
Sublime,' published in 1652, did into English the
Ode embedded therein. Dr. Cox cites this in full,
as he does the version of the same poem made by
Pulteney in his rendering of Longimis from a French
•translation. There is obviously little to be said
in favour of either ; nor need we dissent from the
•slight measure of praise allotted to Ambrose
Philips and those who immediately followed him.
Yet some account must be taken of the value of
-words as words. A writer in The Atlantic Monthly
for 1894 is quoted as making enthusiastic, but cer-
tainly well - justified observations on the Greek
language from this point of view ; but neither he
nor our author mentions a circumstance which
must continually be borne in mind in estimating
old translations — and that is the continuous change
in the poetical value of words, and still more of
phrases. It is probable that the seventeenth-century
lines which affect us with chill carried to seven-
teenth-century ears something of the force of
restrained passion which we associate more readily
with brief homely words. We are, it seems clear,
much nearer the peculiar Greek sense for the value
of words than our forefathers were ; and, like the
•Greeks, we tend in poetry to interpose layers of rich
and subtle imagery, forming a language within a
language, between the actual words and the centre
of the thought. Bearing this in mind, and noting
how strongly poetic tradition descends — observing,
too, what excellence in translation has here and
there recently been attained — we hope that there
will yet be a twentieth-century English version of
the Hymn to Aphrodite, more excellent than any
hitherto, and even worthy to stand beside the
original.
Dr. Cox gives us two interesting examples of his
•own achievements in this line : we like both.
We wondered why so sensitive and exact a reader
as he shows himself chose to add "silver" — a
word that counts a good deal usually — to
A^SuAce fiiv a <re\\<iva,
and also to ignore in this line the force of the idea
of "setting" contained in the first word.
The information put together in this brochure
should prove welcome to students, for some of it,
if wanted, might have to be sought with trouble.
A tabular conspectus of the works referred to
would not have taken up much space and would
have been useful : and some of the paragraphs might
with advantage have been divided up, in order to
be easier of reference.
The Influence of Ancient Egyptian Civilization in
the East and in America. By G. Elliot Smith,
P.R.S. (Manchester, University Press.)
THE reader must not expect too much from the
alluring title of this tractate of 32 pp. Dr. Elliot
Smith, in a concise lecture, presents us with the
merest outline of the conclusions at which he has
arrived elsewhere. But the arguments and
proofs which led to these conclusions must be
sought in the larger works to which he makes
reference. Our curiosity consequently is stimu-
lated rather than gratified.
The thesis which he seeks to establish is that the
essential elements of the ancient civilization of
America, as well as those of India, Northern Asia,
the Malay Archipelago, and Oceania, were brought
to them about the eighth century B.C. by migra-
tions of mariners from the Eastern Mediterranean,
and that these early wanderers were Phoenicians
in search of gold and pearls. There is, of course,
nothing new in this suggestion. He refers, indeed,
to the more recent researches of the late Terrien
de la Couperie into the connexion between the
Sumerian and ancient Chinese scripts, but he
seems to have missed the valuable investigations
of our Oxford scholar, Dr. C. J. Ball, on the same
subject, with which he would do well to make
himself acquainted.
HIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS CONTAINED IN WILLS.
—MR. GERALD FOTHERGILL (11 Brussels Road,
New Wandsworth, S.W.) writes : —
"All genealogists know that wills are at present
only indexed under the testator's surname. In the
hope of throwing open these vast mines of informa-
tion relating to families not of the testator's sur-
name, I am indexing the legatees in the P.C.C. A
start has been made with the years 1650, 1700, and
1770, and some seven thousand names have been
extracted. It is intended after the war to print
these lists."
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
MR. T. JESSON. — Forwarded.
MR. R. VAUGHAN GOWER (' R. Brereton, Artist ').
— MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE writes to say that
Brereton exhibited twice at the Suffolk Street
Galleries, the dates being 1835 and 1847.
12 s. ii. JULY s, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
21
LONDON. SAT! RDAY, JULY .•>', 1916.
CONTENTS.- No. 28.
JJOTES :— 'The Heart's Summer,' by Joseph Knight, 21 —
Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns, 25
— Thomas Holcroft and the Biography of Napoleon, 24 —
Bell-Ringers' Rimes — A Reminiscence of Macready in
' Edwin Drood '— " Numerally " in 1808— Bacon sentencin)
a Pickpocket, 25 — "Pochivated"— Mrs. Charles Kean am
Cathcart, 26.
QUERIES : — The Motto of William III. — Mews or Mewy
Family— Tide- Weather, 26 -Percussion Cap —Irish Legem
of the Two Isles — Madame E. L. Le Brun, French
Artist — Fairtield and Rathbone, Artists — Kemiremon
Hailstones, May, 1907 — Darvell Gadarn — In the
Lion's Jaws, 27 — Daubigny's Club — The Side-Saddle
— English Prelates at the Council of Bale—' The Spirit o
Nations ' : its Translator, 28 — Roger de Montgomery
created Earl of Shrewsbury by William the Conqueror —
Sheffner : Hudson : Lady Sophia Sydney : Sir Willian
Cunningham - Book of Lancashire Pedigrees Wanted—
Farmers' Candlemas Rime — Mervyn Stewart — Louis
Martineau — Marten Family of Sussex — The Shires o
.Northampton and Southampton — Thomson and Allan
Ramsay— St. George's, Bloomsbury, 29.
REPLIES :— The Witches of Warboys— Robert Southey, 30
- Mori is— The Mount, Whitechapel, 31— The " Fly " : the
'•Hackney": the "Midge," 32 -Thome's 'London' —
Henley. Herts— Heart Burial— "Have" : Colloquial Use-
Contributions to the History of European Travel : Wun-
derer : Coverlo, 33 — Richard Wilson (of Lincoln's Inn
Fields), M.P., 34— Shakespeare's Falcon Crest— "Con
sumption " and " Lethargy " : their Meaning in the Seven
teenth Century— Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean,
S5— Parishes in Two Counties— Clerks in Holy Orders as
Combatants— Hayler the Sculptor— Ford Castle, 36 —
Cleopatra and the Pearl, 37— Gunfire and Rain— The
Action of Vinegar on Rocks-" Aviatik"— Correct Desig-
nation of War Minister— Fieldingiana : Miss H — and —
" M. A. E." : Who was She? 38.
NOTES ON BOOKS : — ' Calendar of Treasury Books,
1681-1685, preserved in the Public Record Office ' —
Reviews and Magazines.
Notices to Correspondents.
'THE HEART'S SUMMER,'
JOSEPH KNIGHT.
BY
THE following poem by our late editor,
•which appeared in The Ccrnhill Magazine,
vol. xxiv., July to December, 1871, p. 342,
may well find a place in ' N. & Q.' : —
THE HEART'S SUMMEB.
Oh! Stay not, Swallow, in the dusky South,
Put forth across the waters without fear ;
I bear this message from my lady's mouth,
" Here are the blossoms : Why art thou not
here ? "
Thy last year's nest awaits thy glad return
Close by her lattice, under sheltering eaves :
Beneath it soon will clustering roses burn,
The jasmine feels it with its topmost leaves*
I know thy s.-cr.-t : why thou mail'>t it there, —
That thou iniuht'st sec my !,,%-,• or he.-n- her oft,
Or feel her l.r.-ath upon the iiiornini; air.
Sweet as the rose's, borne with it aloft.
How fairer than all fairest things her face,
What harmony moves with her as she moves,
Thou knowest ; but not her last and tenderest
grace,
Thou hast not seen her, Swallow, now she loves*
Here in this spot where I await her now,
I came upon my Lady unaware,
And saw Heaven's promise in her perfect brow,
Its ripe fulfilment in her lips and hair ;
And could no longer hide my bitter smart,
But turned toward her with a passionate cry,
" Oh, Love ! My Lady ! Thou so kind of heart,
Have pity on me. Love me or I die."
A moment's space she turned her head away,
While all my flagging pulses ceased to beat
The smiling skies grew ashen-hued and grey,
And the glad sunshine quite forgot its heat.
Yet timorously and lingeringly she turned
Again ; and her long look upon me fell,
And I could see where the bright colour burned
In either cheek and mark her bosom's swell.
This saw I, Swallow — more I could not see —
For round my neck two loving arms there clung,
And a sweet while her heart beat close to me,
Her golden head upon my bosom hung.
Nay, once more, Swallow : I may tell thee this
Be this thy welcome from the desolate South.
My Lady turned at length to meet my kiss.
And trembling kissed me on my trembling
mouth.
And I have told her, and she doth not chide,
How all my fears and longings thou hast
known,
And graciously she biddeth me confide
This last sweet secret unto thee alone.
knew'st what sweets she
smiles thy coming
Oh 1 laggard, if thou
hath
Hoarded for thee — what
wait—-
Thou would'st not loiter on thy homeward path,
Nor let my summer languish for its mate.
JOSEPH KNIGHT.
Poems in magazines are often lost in
well-deserved oblivion, but 'The Heart's
Summer ' is worthy of revival for the sake
of its beauty, and as a token of our ever-
green memory of its author.
ROBEBT PlERPOIOT.
[We "are indebted to the courtesy of the pro-
prietors of The Comhill Magazine, for permission
o reproduce the above. ]
22
NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.n. JULYS, me.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See 11 S. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276, 375 ;
12 S. i. 422.)
PAST
.— L.
LABAOHBBYAN (Maynooth).
Eecords of the History of Maynooth Church,
principally of the Prebendaries of Maynooth
and the Vicars of Laraghbryan. By Rev.
George Blacker. Dublin, 1867.
Maynooth College. By Archbishop Healy.
Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
LECALE.
Illustrations of Irish History and Topography.
Part II. contains Sir Josias Bodley's visit to
Lecale, 1602. Edited by C. Litton Falkiner.
Dublin, 1904.
LEIGHLIN.
Collections relating to the Dioceses of Kildare and
Leighlin. By Rev. M. Comerford. Dublin,
n.d.
Phillimore's Register of Irish Wills. Vol. I.
contains Leighlin.
LEINSTEB.
Excursions through Ireland. — Vol. II. Province
of Leinster. By Thomas Cromwell. 1820.
Loca Patriciana : an Identification of Localities,
chiefly in Leinster, visited by St. Patrick and
Assistant Missionaries. By Rev. J. F. Shear-
man. Dublin, 1879.
LEITBIM.
Statistical Survey of Co. Leitrim. Dublin, 1802.
LEIX.
See King's County.
LEMAVADY.
Records of the Town of Limavady, 1609-1808.
Edited by E. F. M. G. Boyle.
LIMERICK.
History of Limerick from Earliest Records to
1787, including Charter of Limerick, and Essay
on Castleconnell Spa. By J. Ferrar. Limerick,
1787.
History, Topography, and Antiquities of the
County and City of Limerick. By Rev. P.
Fitzgerald and J. J. MacGregor. 1826-7.
Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae. — Part IV. Limerick.
By Archdeacon Cotton. Dublin, 1851-78.
Three Days on the Shannon, from Limerick to
Lough Key. By W. F. Wakeman. Dublin,
1852.
Limerick : its History and Antiquities, Ecclesias-
tical, Civil, and Military, from the Earliest
Ages. By Maurice Lenihan. Dublin, 1866.
The Church 'and Shrine of St. Manchan, Limerick.
By Bishop Graves. (Only 50 copies printed,
for private circulation.) Dublin, 1875.
Lays and Legends of Thomond, with Historical
and Traditional Notes. By Michael Hogan,
" Bard of Thomond." Dublin, 1880.
Two Chapters on Irish History. — Chapter II.
The Alleged Violation of the Treaty of Limerick.
By T. Dunbar Ingram, LL.D. Dublin, 1888.
Limerick and its Sieges. By Rev. James Do\vd.
Limerick, 1890.
History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of
Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway. By Very
Rev. P. White, V.C. Dublin, 1893.
Round about the County of Limerick. By Rev..
James Dowd. Limerick, 18!>i>.
The Shannon and its Lakes : a Short History of
that Noble Stream from its Source to Limerick.
By R. Harvey. 1896.
Studies in Irish Epigraphy. Part II. contains
Ogham inscriptions of co. Limerick. By
R. A. S. Macalister. Dublin, 1902.
The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Mediaeval*
By Rev. John Begley. Dublin, 1906.
List of Books, Pamphlets, and Newspapers
printed in Limerick from the Earliest Period to
1800. By E. R. McDix, M.R.I. A. Limerick,
1912.
The Shannon and its Shrines. By John B. Cullen.
Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
Phillimore's Register of Irish Wills. Vol. III.
contains Limerick.
Journal of Limerick Field Club, and its continua-
tion as the North Munster Archaeological
Society.
LlSDOONVARNA.
Lisdoonvarna and its Vicinity. 1876.
LlSMORE.
Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae. — Part I. Dioceses of
Waterford and Lismore. By Archdeacon -
Cotton. Dublin, 1851-78.
LONDONDERRY.
Statistical Survey of the County of Londonderry.
By Rev. G. V. Sampson. 1802.
Memoir explanatory of the Chart and Survey of
the County of Londonderry. 1814.
Ordnance Survey of the Countv of Londonderrv.
By Col. Colby. Dublin, 1837.
Annals of Derry, showing the rise and progress
of the town from the earliest account on record to
the Plantation under King James I., 1613, and
thence of the City of Londonderry to the present
time. By Robert Simpson. Londonderry,
1847.
Acts of Archbishop Colton in his Visitation of the
Diocese of Derry, A.D. 1397, with a Rental of
the See Estates at that time. Edited by
Bishop Reeves. 1850.
History of Londonderry. By John Hempton.
Londonderry, 1861.
London and Londonderry : Transactions of Three-
Centuries considered from a Historical and
Legal Standpoint. London, 1890.
Reports of the Irish Society, London.
Reports of the Drapers' Society, Londonderry.
Siege of Londonderry.
A True Account of the Siege of Londonderry.
By the Rev. George Walker, Rector of Donogh-
moor in the Co. of Tyrone, and late Governor of
Derrv in Ireland. London, 1689. Reprinted
1887:
An Apology for the Failures charged on the Rev.
Mr. George Walker's Printed Account of the
Siege of Derry, in a letter to the undertaker of a
more accurate narrative of the Siege. 1689.
An Account of the State of London-Derry and
Enniskillen. Given by a Captain lately come
to Liverpool from the fleet in Derry river, and
from thence sent to a Citizen of Dublin now in
'London. London, 1689.
12 s. a. JULY s, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
A Vindication of the Rev. Mr. Alexander Osborn
in rcfcrcn.ro to the Affn'irs of the North of Ire-
land : in which some Mistakes concerning him
(in the Printed Account of the Siege of Berry,
the Observations on it, and Mr. Walker's
Vindication of it) are rectified. Written at
Mr. Osborn's Bequest by his friend Mr. J. Boyse.
1690.
Reply by X. N. to Boyse's Vindication of Osborn.
London, 1690. (In Thorpe Collection, as
No. 89, Vol. XI. See below.)
A N » rrative of the Siege of London-Derry : or,
the Memorable Transactions of that City
faithfully represented, to rectifie the Mistakes,
and supply the Omissions, of Mr. Walker's
Account. 1690.
Dr. Walker's Invisible Champion Foyl'd ; or, an
Appendix to the late Narrative of the Siege of
Derry. 1690.
John Mackenzie's Narrative of the Siege of
Londonderry, a False Libel, in Defence of Dr.
George Walker, written by a friend in his
absence. 1690.
Some Reflections on a Pamphlet entituled A
Faithful History of the Northern Affairs of
Ireland, from the late K. James his Accession to
the Crown to the Siege of London-Derry ;
whereunto are added the Copies of several
Papers, by way of Appendix. Dublin, 1691.
Ireland Preserved ; or, the Siege of London-Derry,
together with the Troubles of the North.
Written by the then Governour. 1708.
Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events in the
Life of William III., also a Revised History of
the Hiege of Londonderry. By Joshua Gillespie.
Londonderry, 1823.
History of the Siege of Derry and Defence of
Enniskillen in 1688-9. By the Rev. John
Graham. Dublin, 1829.
Ireland Preserved ; or, the Siege of Londonderry
and Battle of Aughrim. Dublin, 1841. (In-
cludes valuable notes by the Rev. John
Graham.)
History of Londonderry. By John Hempton.
Londonderry, 1861. (Contains valuable data
on the Siege.)
Derry : a Tale of the Revolution. By Charlotte
Elizabeth [Mrs. Tonna]. London, 1862.
The Battle of Ulster, or Siege of Derry : an
Historical Ballad of Ireland. By Robert Scott
Hamilton. Belfast. 1862.
Derry and Enniskiller in the Year 1689 : the story
• >( some famous Battle-fields in Ulster. By
Prof. Witherow. Belfast, 1873.
The Siege of Derry. Lecture by George Hill
Smith, B.L. Belfast, 1884.
Lecture on George Walker and Siege of Derry.
By Rev. A. Dawson, M.A., Rector of Seagoe.
Belfast, 1887.
Unchronicled Heroes : a Story of the Siege of
Londonderry, with Historical Notes. By
R. W. K. Edwards. Londonderry, 1888.
London and Londonderry : Transactions of Three
Centuries considered from a Historical and
Legal Standpoint. London, 1890. (Deals
with <he Siege.)
Siege of Derry in 1689, as set forth in the Literary
Remains of Col. the Rev. Geo. Walker, D.D.
now first collected, and comprises : 1, A True
Account of the Siege. 2, A Vindication of the
True Account. 3, A Letter on the Treachery
of Lundy. 4, Other Official Letters, Sermons
Prayers, and Speeches duriner the Siege.-
Edited by Rev. Philip Dwver, M.A. London,
1893.
No Surrender : being the Story of the Siege of
Londonderry, 1688-9. By L. Cope Cornford.
London, 1913.
The Brave Boys of Derry ; or, No Surrender. By
W. Stanley Martin. London, 1913.
Enniskillen, Parish and Town. By Rev. W. H.
Dundas, B.D. Dundalk, 1913. (Contains
letter from Rev. George Walker, Governor of
Londonderry, giving full account of action of
his predecessor.)
Eistory of the Irish Presbyterian Church. By
Rev. Thomas Hamilton, D.D. Edinburgh.
(Pp. 84 to 108 give history of the Siege.)
Londonderry Corporation Official Guide.
Thorpe Collection of Pamphlets in National
Library of Ireland, Dublin.
Siege Letters : —
May 1, May 10, May 20, 1689, King James II.
to General Hamilton.
July 5, July 8, 1689, Berwick to General
Hamilton.
April 7, 1787, R. C. Can- to the Provost, Trinity
College, Dublin (on presentation of prior
letters).
LONGFORD.
The Beauties of Ireland. Bv J. N. Brewer.
London, 1826. Chapter on Longford.
Historical Notes and Stories of the Co. Longford.
By J. P. Farrell. Dublin, 1886-91.
Notable Irishwomen. By C. J. Hamilton.
Chap. VI. Maria Edgeworth. (Deals with
co. Longford.)
Early Haunts of Oliver Goldsmith. By Very Rev.
Dean Kelly. Dublin, 1905. (Deals with co.
Longford.)
Place-Names of the Co. Longford. Dublin, 1908.
LOUGH FEA.
Lough Fea. By S. P. Shirley. 1869.
LOUGH NEAGH.
A Brief Account of Lough Neagh. By Rev.
Wm. S. Smyth. 1879.
Gossip about Lough Neagh. By Rev. Wm. S.
Smyth. 1885.
LOUGHCREW.
Notes on the Prehistoric Cemetery of Loughcrew.
By George Coffey. Dublin, 1897.
LOUGHINISLAND.
Some Biographical Notices of the Rectors of
Loughinisland. By Reginald Blackwood.
1911.
LOUTH.
Louthiana ; or, an Introduction to the Anliquiti. •<
of Ireland in upwards of Ninety Views and
Plans, representing the proper Explanations,
the Principal Ruins, Curiosities, and Antiont
Dwellings in the County of Loutn. By
Thomas Wright. 1758.
The Beauties of Ireland. By J. N. Brewer.
London, 1826. Chapter on Louth.
Mellifont Abbey in the County of Louth : it
and Downfall. Dublin, 1890.
The Boyne Valley: its Antiquities and
ti,,,l Remains. By John B. Cullen. Catholic
Truth Society. Dublin. 1915.
Journal of the Co. Louth Archaeological Society,
Dundalk.
See Drogheda and Dundalk.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. or™ s. uie.
LUCAN.
The Lucan Spa. By A. Heron. Dublin, 1818.
The Lucan Spa. By G. L. B. Stoney. Dublin,
1885-7.
The Lucan Spa. By T. M. Madden. Dublin,
1801.
Article on Lucan Spa in Health Record. By
G. L. B. Stoney. Dublin, March, 1892.
Lucania. By Rev. W. S. Donegan. Dublin,
1902. (Deals with Lucan and district.)
LUSK.
on Lusk. By Austin Cooper. Dublin,
f783,
WILLIAM MACARTHUB.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
(To be continued.)
THOMAS HOLCROFT AND THE
BIOGRAPHY OF NAPOLEON.
DID Thomas Holcroft write a Life of Na-
poleon ? In the " Vollstandiges Biicher-
Lexicon, von Christian Gottlob Kayser ....
Leipzig, 1835 " (Teil iii. Seite 175), I find the
entry : —
" ~Holcroft, Thomas, Napoleon Bonaparte, nach
•dent Leben geschildert. Aus d. Engl. (v. J. A.
Bergk). Sonnenstadt, 1814. (Joachim in
Lcipz.) "
Unable to secure any confirmation at all
of this item, I finally addressed a query to
the Direktor of the Berlin Universitats-
Bibliothek, and received the following very
iull reply (translation) : —
"In the local University Library there is a
work in 8vo (16'5 cm.) with" the title : ' Napoleon
Bonaparte nach dem Leben geschildert von
Thomas Holcroft. Aus dem Englischen. Teutsch-
land.' This writing, besides the title-page,
consists of the supposed translation on pp. 1-82,
with additional notes by the translator, and also
on pp. 83-8, on the last three pages, a ' Zusatz
•des Ubersetzers,' entitled ' Napoleon. Ein
Fragment,' where the note is made : ' Von einem
Reisenden der vor kurzem erst Paris verlassen
hat.' Another copy of this edition is in the posses-
sion of the iocal Konigliche Bibliothek, and both
of these above-mentioned libraries are the only
Royal or University libraries in Prussia which,
according to the information of the Prussian
combined catalogue (' Gesamtkatalog '), possess
the work.
•' According to the statement of the ' Reper-
torium ' by Emil Weller : ' Die falschen und
fingirten Druckorte,' Leipzig (W. Engelmann),
186 1, Bd. I. S. 217, this work appeared in 181 4
from the house of Joachim in Leipzig, and was
issued as translated by the Leipzig writer
Jfohann] A[dam] Bergk. Prom the same source
in the same year a new edition appeared with the
town and year indicated as ' Ronnenstadt, 1814.'
Of this edition, neither we nor the Konigl.
Bibliothek own a copy. It is worthy of note that
in the mention of this writing [Bergk'sJ — which
edition is not clear — in the ' Neuer Nekrolog der
Deutschen,' 1834, Teil 2, Weimar (B. F. V..i-tK
1836, on p. 1257 is the note : ' Ward bereits L806
gedruckt, aber erst 1814 ausgegeben.'
" Now, concerning the Holcroft original of the
assumed translation, it happens thai, with one
exception, in none of the bibliographical material
aids is there cited a writing by Holcroft which
corresponds to the Bergk translation ; especially
in the very accurate list in the Catalogue of the
British Museum there is nothing similar under
Holcroft. The only works which concern this
matter are the ' Memoirs ' and the ' Travels ' : the
former, which can be seen here in the original,
does not enter into the question as the source
of Bergk on account of the year of its appearance
(1816) ; the latter, which we have in an authorized
translation from Bergk of the stay in France
(' Reise nach Paris. Von Th. Holcroft. Aus. d.
Engl. iibers. v. J. A. Bergk,' Berlin, 1806), likewise
yields nothing which could have given a source
for the translation ' Napoleon Buonaparte.'
" Consequently, the assumption cannot be
avoided that the Bergk translation has for a
basis no real Holcroft original, and this assumption
has a new confirmation in facts which may he
gathered concerning the personality of the trans-
lator. Bergk seems to have been an unesteemed
scribbler ; and the above-mentioned ' Neuer
Nekrolog d. Deutschen ' says (p. 1254) concerning
the ' Lebensbeschreibung d. Generals Bonaparte,"
1797, published by Bergk, which bears the note
'a.ns d. Franz.,' — says expressly, ' dies ist nicht der
Fall.' T.n this case also the translation was a
fictitious one. The proposition that the same
applies to the assumed Holcroft Napoleon would
scarcely be opposed if there were not also u,
bibliographical indication of an original. This is
in the ' Bibliographie biographique universellc
par Ed.-M. Oettinger.' T. 2, Bruxelles, 1854,'
column 1270, in the following entry : ' Holcroft
(Thomas). Life of Napoleon Buonaparte. Land.
1814. 8. Trad, en allem. (par Johann Adam
Bergk). Sonnenstadt, s.d. (1814). 8.' There-
fore it might have been a Life of Napoleon ap-
pearing in London in 1814. In contradiction
stands the idea that Holcroft died about 1809,
and that Bergk's translation, according to the
above-cited assertion in ' Neuer Nekrolog,' was
already printed in 1806. Further, no one h.is
mentioned such a posthumous work by Holcroft,
who in his own time was not an unknown or
insignificant writer. Btit in order to resolve the
charge if here there really is a mistake of the
bibliographer, who on the basis of the translation
construed the original, there must be further
research.
" It may be worthy of mention that in the local
Kgl. Bibliothek is a book in 477 pp., ' Verzeichnis
der aus 14165 Nummern bestehenden. . . .Biicher-
sammlung des verstorbenen Hon. Dr. Joh. Adam
Bergk,' which appeared for sale on Sept. 1, 1836.
Should the original in question exist, it may be
expected that it may be found by an examination
of this list. But since the list has not been
properly arranged, no examination has yet been
made."
An examination of this list of volumes for
sale may, as the Herr Direktor suggests,
reveal an original, but I consider the event
improbable. England is the place to find
English originals. My researches into the
ij 8. ii. JULY 8, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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British libraries and into contemporary
publications have not revealed the item.
Therefore I address these facts to the readers
of ' X. & Q.' in the hope that in some obscure
corner of some Napoleonic collection there
may blithefully repose the fabulous original.
Can any one bring the spirit into the light
of gaudy day and help me to learn the facts
about this Holcroft writing, to find, perhaps,
that my will-o'-the-wisp is substantial reality,
though I fancy a trifle dusty ?
ELBRIDGE COLBY.
52 West 126 Street, New York City.
BELL-RINGERS' RIMES. — Several examples
of bell-ringers' rimes have already appeared
in ' X. & Q.' (v. 9 S. iv. 305, 446 ; v. 93), but
the following offers yet another variation on
the themes common to most of them. It
was shown me by Mr. Knight, the Parish
Clerk, in the belfry of the Church of St. John
the Baptist, Spetisbury — or Spettisbury as
the P.O. spells it — and I took it down
there : —
I doat on Ringers, and on such
Who delight to ring and love theyre Church,
Beware of Oaths and Quarrelings,
Take heed of Clans and Janglings :
There is no music play'd or sung,
Like unto Bells that are well rung,
Let all keep silence and forbear
Of smoaking their tobacco here ;
And if your Bell doth overthrow,
It is your sixpence ere' you go,
If any ring in hat or spur,
Be sure they pay without demur.
1818.
F. H.
A REMINISCENCE OF MACREADY IN
' EDWIN DROOD.' — It is well known that in
tragic parts Macready used sometimes to
carry his efforts to be impressive to an
almost ridiculous point of elaboration. A
critic thus describes his exit in the murder
scene in ' Macbeth ' : —
" Up to that moment he had reached the highest
point of tragic horror, but his desire to over-
elaborate made him pause, and when his body was
actually off the stage, his left foot and leg remained
trembling in sight, it seemed fully half a minute."
Macready retired nearly twenty years
before ' Edwin Drood ' was written, but
Dickens must have been thinking of this
peculiarity in his old friend's acting when,
in chap, xi., he described the waiter's leg as
"always lingering after he and the tray had dis-
appeared, like Macbeth's leg when accompanying
him off the stage with reluctance to the assassina-
tion of Duncan."
GORDON CROSSE.
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
" XUMERALLY " IN 1808. — In ' The Oxford
English Dictionary ' the word " numer-
ally " is quoted from the years 1646 and 1691
only. The phrase : " I think the plan of
classing under different heads numerally
arranged a number of locutions and idiotisms
:he most essentially necessary," &c., occurs
n a " Letter from Mr. Poppleton," dated
Paris, July 14, 1808, in " The Guide of thfr
French Conversation. By J. L. Mabire. The
third edition. At Paris : 1818."
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford Union Society, Oxford.
BACON SENTENCING A PICKPOCKET. On
hristmas Day, 1611, one John Selman of
Shoe Lane " came into the Kings Chappell "
at White-Hall,
" in very good and seemely apparell, like unto a
jrentleman or Citizen : viz., a faire blacke Cloake
laced, and either lined thorow or faced with velvet-
The rest of his apparel in reasonable maner being,
answerable thereunto. Which was the cause that
tie without resistance had free entrance into that
tioly and sanctified place."
He there picked the pocket of one Leonard
Barrie, servant to Lord Harrington, and in-
so doing was noticed by one Edmond
Dubleday. Being arrested by the said
Barrie and Dubleday, he was taken before-
" Sir Robert Banistre, Clerke of the Green-
cloth for his Maiesties Houshold," and was
committed to the Marshalsey. On Dec. 31,.
being Tuesday, Master Richardson, Marshall
of the Marshalsey, brought John Selman up
" to Westminster to the King's Bench barrer
there to receive his trial before certaine o£
his Maiesties Commissioners," one of whom
was Sir Francis Bacon. The charge wa.f
given to the Grand Inquest by Sir Francis
Bacon, the King's Solicitor. The Great
Inquest, having heard the evidence of Banie-
and Dubleday, brought in " Billa Vera."
Then Selman was introduced, and pleaded
guilty.
" This being done Sir Francis Bacon, to whom at
that time it did belong, proceeded to Judgement,-
and asking on the prisoner, thus or to this effect,
in some sort hee spake.
"The first and greatest sinne that ever was-
committed was done in Heaven. The second was
done in Paradise, being heaven upon earth, and
truly I cannot chuse but place this in the third
ranke, in regard it was done in the house of
God, where he by his owne promise is alwaies
resident, as also for that the cause of that assembly
was to celebrate the Feast of the birth of our Lord
and Saviour Christ Jesus. And Gods Lieutenant
here on earth, being in Gods house there present^
ready to receive the holy and blesaed Sacrament.'
Selman was hanged between Charing
Cross and the Court -gate, Jan. 7, 1612.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. 11. JULY s,
See " The Araignnient of John Selman, &c.,
London, Printed by W. H. for Thomas
Archer, and are to be sold at his shop in
Popes-head Pallace, 1612," of which there
is ;', copy in the British Museum (C. 27, k. 2) ;
from which this account is taken.
JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.
" POCHIVATED." — This term occurs in a
letter of Sir Jerome Horsey (flourished
1573-1627) quoted in the account of him
given in the ' D.N.B.,' vol. xxvii. p. 379. He
having set out for Russia on April 5, 1586,
on his arrival the Czar " semed glad of my
return pochivated and made me merrie."
The word (or the verb to pochivate) does
not occur in the ' N.E.D.' I suppose it to
be a sort of academical slang and to derive
from the Latin poculum, meaning that the
Czar toasted him or drank to his health.
Is this its significance ?
HUGH SADLEB.
MBS. CHARLES KEAN AND CATHCABT. —
Messrs. Maggs have magnanimously pre-
sented me with the most interesting and
-cleverly compiled catalogue of autographs
J have ever read, " No. 343, Spring, 1916."
The particular object with which I send
this note has reference to a letter therein of
.Mrs. Charles Kean's, while on tour in the
United States in 1866, in which she says she
will never act Lady Macbeth again to
Cat heart's Macduff. What brought this
about is thus related : —
" Cathcart is at his low tricks again, and was last
night called on in Macduff after the scene had
changed to my sleeping scene— and I was assailed by
cries of ' Cathcart, we want Cathcart,' with yells
and shouts.
" I made a halt and surveyed the house. ' We
want Cathcart.' I made a solemn courtsey and
retired, saying to the Prompter, ' Send Mr. Cathcart
on and change the scene, I shall nob go on again.'
Nor did 1 ; and I do not care one jot about this
while we are here ; but 1 could not stand this in
England. .
" It has annoyed your Papa more than I can tell
you, for of course it was a great insult to me."
Your contributor MB. WILLIAM DOUGLAS
points out to me that the fault was Mrs.
Kean's own. When the call came she should
not have gone on the stage, but should have
allowed Cathcart to take it, and then have
gone on after he had answered the call. The
-curious tiling, however, is that Cathcart
(this was James Fawcit, not his brother
Rolleston) continued with the Keans on
their return, and for seven years after !
This may have been unknown to the cata-
loguer, as he does not explain it.
RALPH THOMAS.
(fiwms.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THE MOTTO OF WILLIAM III. — " Je
maintiendrai," as William III.'s motto, is
dealt with at 5 S. vi. 268, 314, and is the
only motto of this king that I know of,
but I find the following in Coleridge's ' Table
Talk,' under date June 15, 1830 :—
" Swift was anima RaJbellaitsii habitant in sicco —
the soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place. Yet
Swift was rare. Can anything beat his remark on
King William's motto, — Secepit, nan rapwt, — that
the receiver was as bad as the thief ? "
What is Coleridge's authority for this
statement ? I have failed to find it.
Inner Temple. HABBY R ^^^'
MEWS OB MEWYS FAMILY. — Could any of
your readers throw light upon this family,
from which the St. John-Mildmays descend
in the male line ? The earliest trace of their
branch which I have, so far, been able to
find, comes with Ellis Mews of Stourton-
Caundle, circa 1550, who heads the Mews
pedigree in the Visitation of Hampshire of
1686, and whose grandson, Ellis Mews,
married Christian St. John, while his great-
grandson, Ellis Mews, married Frances
St. John (heiress) and took the surname of
St. John by Act of Parliament.
It would appear that the Mews family is
a very old Hampshire family, indeed — as
old, almost, as the St. Johns and the Mildmays
in their respective counties.
There is a famous brass at Kingston in t he
Isle of Wight to a Mewys, dated 1535.
Kingston appears to have been the family
base. The arms shown in the Hampshire
Visitation are those borne by Meux. There
is little doubt that the families Meulx, Meux,
Mewys, Mewes, and Mews are all one in
origin. They all bear the same arms, I
believe. As your readers doubtless know,
Meux is pronounced as though spelt "Mews."
The Bishop of Winchester (Peter Mews)
was, no doubt, one of the clan. Any
information will be gratefully received.
S. GBEEN.
The Gate House, King Henry's Stairs, E.
TIDE-WEATHEB. — In Leicestershire and
Rutland, when unseasonable darkness or dull
cloudy weather prevails, they say : "It is
tide-weather." Does this mean "Whitsun-
tide " weather, or weather influenced by the
tide-of-the-sea. ? G. C. TICKENCOTE.
12 S. II. JULY 8, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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PERCUSSION CAP. — In 1909 I contributed
an article on the history of the percussion
•cap to the special volume on ' The Rise and
Progress of the British Explosives Industry '
issued by the Explosives Section of the
Seventh International Congress of Applied
Chemistry. The history of this invention
centres largely upon the classical paper of
Goode Wright of Hereford in the Phil. Mag.,
vol. Ixii., 1823. Wright asserts that his
experiments were due to the stimulus of
Murray's lectures on chemistry delivered at
Hereford in the previous year. I now draw
attention to the fact that this Murray is
John Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S., and not John
Murray, M.D., and that the lectures referred
to were issued in book-form under the title
-of ' A Manual of Experiments illustrative of
'Chemical Science,' second edition, Longmans,
1828. On p. 85 of this edition Murray states
that " fulminating mercury will be found
superior to what is called percussion gun-
powder ; it is safe, certain and unaffected by
damp." I shall be glad to know where a
•copy of the first edition is to be found.
Failing that, perhaps Messrs. Longmans
<;ould give the date of its publication. The
•earliest edition in the British Museum ap-
pears to be the fourth.
E. WYNDHAM HULME.
IRISH LEGEND OF THE Two ISLES. —
According to an ancient Irish legend, there
were two isles of yore, the people of one of
them being full of life and joy, whilst the
inhabitants of the neighbouring other isle
were steeped in death and silence. At
last the living people, having grown weary
of their joyful life, longed to join the state of
their neighbours, and settle upon the shore
to share their fate. Perhaps one of your
readers can kindly refer me to a complete
printed text where this Irish legend may be
found. INQUIRER.
MADAME E. L. LE BRUN, FRENCH ARTIST.
— Is anything known of a French artist of
this name ? I shall bo grateful for any
information respecting her.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
[Is our correspondent thinking of Marie Anne
Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun ? If so, he will find the
outline of her life (1755-1842) in any work of
reference, while her own ' Souvenirs form the
best extended biography. An English edition was
brought out in New York in 1903 by Lionel
Strachey, and there is also a Life by C. Fillet. In
addition, Mr. W. H. Helm has just brought out
through Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. an illustrated
volume entitled ' Vigee-Lebrun : her Life, Work,
and Friendships.']
FAIRFIELD AND RATHBONE, ARTISTS. — I
have a panel picture by these artists at the
back of which is the following inscription :
" Landscape by Rathbone, Figures by
Fairfield. Sold by C. A. Sturgeon, number
125 Strand." The writing on the label is
evidently early nineteenth-con ttiry. Ap-
parently, there is very little known about
these artists. Rathbone was born in
Cheshire about 1750, and died in 1807. He
was known as " the Manchester Wilson."
Bryan says that many of his pictures are
embellished with figures by Morland, Ibbet-
son, and other contemporary artists. Charles
Fairfield, who painted the figures in my
picture, died at Brompton, aged 45, in 1804.
Bryan says that he made excellent copies of
Dutch paintings.
I should be obliged if any reader of
' N. & Q.' could give me more information
about these artists, and where their work
may be seen. I should also like to know
something about Sturgeon, as none of the
dealers to whom I have referred have ever
heard his name before. JOHN LANE.
The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
REMIREMONT HAILSTONES, MAY, 1907. —
It is said that after a hailstorm at Remire-
mont in the Vosges, on a May Sunday in
1907, many of the hailstones which fell were
found split in two, with a representation on
each half of a statue of Our Lady known as
Notre Dame de Tresor. This is said to
have been put beyond question by an
investigation set on foot by the Bishop of
St. Die. A scientific explanation of this
apparent miracle is also said to have been
given at the time by one Professeur de
Lapparent. Can any one refer me to any
literature on this subject ? Where is the
statue of Notre Dame de Tresor ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIOHT.
DARVELL GADARN. — A great image called
by this name from North Wales was used
for the burning of the Franciscan, Blessed
John Forest, May 22, 1538.
Of what saint was it the image, and from
what church did it oome ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIOHT.
[See 8 S. xi. 407, 450 ; xii. 57, and the authorities
there mentioned.]
IN THE LION'S JAWS. — It is commonly
stated that a person mauled by a lion or
tiger does not feel pain or fear at the time.
What justification is there for this belief I
It seems to be based on an experience of
Dr. Livingstone, related in his ' Life.'
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
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DAUBIGNY'S CLTJB. — What was tins club,
which is mentioned concerning the duel
which took place, May 26, 1789, between the
Duke of York and Col. Lenox (Lennox),
both of the Coldstream Guards ? The Gentle-
man's Magazine of that year, pt. i. p. 463,
says : —
" A dispute having lately happened between His
R. H. the Duke of York and Col. Lenox, of the
Coldstream Regiment, concerning some words
spoken at Daubigny's club," &c.
In Col. MacKinnon's ' Origin and Services
of the Coldstream Guards,' 1833, vol. ii.
p. 31, the club is called " the club at
Daubigney's" and " Daubigney's Club,"
and simply " Daubigney's."
In the 'Annual Register' of 1789, under
date May 27, it is called " the club at
Daubigny's " and " Daubigny's."
It appears to have been a club of not
many members, seeing that Col. Lenox
wrote, or addressed a circular letter, to
every member, asking him whether he was
the person who had given expression to the
offensive language, to which the Duke had
taken exception.
Concerning the cause of the duel J. H.
Stocqueler, in his ' Familiar History of the
British Army,' 1871, p. 92, says :—
" It afterwards transpired that the offensive words
had been spoken at a masquerade. One masked
individual addressed another under the supposition
that the latter was Colonel Lennox."
Perhaps this masquerade took place at
Daubigny's. Possibly Daubigny (or Dau-
bigney) was later written Daubeny.
In ' Londinium Redivivum,' by James
Peller Malcolm, vol. iv., 1807, pp. 316, 317,
is the following about Cumberland House,
Pall Mall :—
"The Duke [of Cumberland] died here in 1790,
soon after which time it was deserted ; and it
remained a memento of death and neglect till the
Union of England and Ireland was in agitation,
when the gentlemen of the latter nation and many
of the former resolved to establish a club in honour
of the event ; which accomplished, they entered into
a subscription, purchased Cumberlano-housein con-
junction with Mr. Gould of Cork, (it is said for
20,000/.) fitted it for a tavern, and appointed Mr.
Daubeny to keep it. This application was changed
for a new Office of Ordnance, on the pulling down
that at Westminster."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE SIDE-SADDLE. — Could any of your
readers give me the names of any books on
"side-saddle" riding prior to about 1880,
and also state where they may be seen ? I
know the modern works, but should like to
consult old books (the older the better) on
this subject. EQUESTRIAN.
ENGLISH PRELATES AT THE COUNCIL OF
BALE. — In the first number of the Archives
Heraldiques Suisses for 1916 Mr. W. R.
Staehelin gives some interesting information
on some of the prelates who attended the
Council of Bale, including three English-
men : —
1. Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester,
died at Bale in September, 1433, buried in
the Carthusian Monastery. His hatchment
still hangs in the monastery church. It
bears at the top the inscription : " Rds. in.
xro. pr. et. dns. d. Thomas polton Epus.
Wigormen. ambassator. Reg. Anglie. tpe.
guol. co. vol. obiit A. 1433 " (words italicized
not clear). Below the inscription is the
shield of France modern quartering England,
supported by two angels ; below this again
the shield of the bishop (three pierced
molets), surmounted by a mitre.
2. A book of arms, now in the library of
the Berlin Armory, containing arms copied
by a sixteenth-century visitor to the Bale
Carthusians, has a shield — Sable, three braced
chevrons and a chief gold, with a fleur-de-lis
gules on the middle chevron — surmounted
by a black clerical hat with white cords and
tassels, copied from a stained-glass window,
and attributed to " Dons Johanes Episcopus
londonenss." Allowing the sable field to
be a mistake for an azure one, the shield
would be that of a member of the fitzHugh
family. If the inscription was copied
correctly, this Bishop of London must have
been a partisan of the anti-Pope Felix V.,
never accepted at home. Mr. Staehelin
writes me that the Liber Benefactorum of
the Carthusians, generally very explicit in
describing the gifts of benefactors, does not
mention any John, Bishop of London.
3. The same book of arms attributes a
shield — Silver, a cross gules with a bezant
in the centre — with an abbot's crook behind
it (also copied from a stained-glass window
in the cloisters), to William, Abbot of York,
who also appears in the Liber Benefactorum
as donor of the sum of twelve guilders.
Another hasty sketch of the shield shows the
cross couped and quarter-pierced.
Can any one identify 2 and 3 ?
Montreux. D- L- G-ALBREATH.
' THE SPIRIT OF NATIONS ' : ITS TRANS-
LATOR. — Who translated into English
' L'Esprit cles Nations ' of Frangois Ignace
Espiard de la Borde ? Its English title is : —
" The Spirit of Nations. Translated from the
French. London : Printed for Lookyer Davis, at
Lord Bacon's Head in Fleet-street ; and R. Bald-
win, in Pater-Noster Row. MDCCLIII."
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
128. II. JULY 8, I916.J NOTES AND QUERIES.
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ROGER DE MONTGOMERY, CREATED EARL
OF SHREWSBURY BY WILLIAM THE CON-
QTJEROR. — Can any of your readers help me
with information regarding Arnulph, fifth son
of Roger de Montgomery, who led the centre
of Duke William's army at the Battle of
Hastings ?
Arnulph, following the custom of cadets
in his time, styled himself de Brugge after his
father's castle in Shropshire, and was,
apparently, the founder of the house of de
Brugge, now commonly known as Brydges
or Bridges, said to heve been descended
from the old Counts de Rethal in France.
Such is the alleged Norman descent of the
family, whose real founder was Sir Simon de
Brugge of Bridge Sollers.
My own descent is from Sir Simon de
Brugge through the marriage of Ellice,
daughter of Thos. Bruges of Coberley, with
Sir Thos. Chichele of Wimpole.
There is probably a break of about
150 years between Arnulph and Sir Simon
de Brugge (temp. Henry III.), and I am
anxious to know whether it is possible to
fill up this gap, but it is of course impossible
away from great libraries.
So far as I have been able to trace the
connexion, it seems something like this : —
Roger de Montgomery=j=
Hughn=Jocelinda, d. of Thorolf of
Pont Audemer.
i ,
(1) Mabel, d. of^pRoger de Mont- =(2) Adelaisa,
Wm. Talvas, gomery, d. of Ebrard
Lord of first Earl of de Pinset.
Belesme. | Shrewsbury.
1 2 5 4 Arnulphy
Perhaps some member of the family may
happen to see this and be able to supply the
information, either through your columns
or to me privately at the address given below.
H. F. HEWITT.
Standard Bank, Port Elizabeth, S.A.
SHEFFNER : HUDSON : LADY SOPHIA
SYDNEY : SIR WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM. — In
a private account in MS. of a visit by the
Quakers Thomas Shillitoe and Peter Bedford
to William IV., at Windsor in 1832, the names
of " Thomas Sheffner " and " Hudson "
appear. Who were these, and what position
at Court did they occupy ?
Who was " Lady Sophia Sydney " ?
Who was " Sir W. Cunningham," temp.
George IV. ? NORMAN PENNEY.
Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, E.G.
BOOK or LANCASHIRE PEDIGREES
WANTED. — I arn anxious to identify " a book
of the pedigrees of Lancashire Families,"
referred to in an old letter, and stated to
contain a pedigree giving the ancestry of a
certain Admiral Mark Robinson.
P. D. M.
FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME. — I have
heard from old farmers the saying : —
You must save on Candlemas Day
Half your wheat and half your hay,
For 'tis
Can any one kindly complete this rime
and give any idea of its origin ?
MARGARET LAVINGTON.
1. MERVYN STEWART, 2nd Captain, Royal
Artillery, was placed on half -pay on April 13,
1855. He is stated to have died on Oct. 21,
1874. Can this date be verified, and can the
place of death be given ?
2. LOUIS MARTINEAU, 1st Lieutenant,
Royal Artillery, was placed on half-pay on
March 31, 1851, and died on Jan. 12, 1859.
Can the place of death be given ?
J. H. LESLIE, Major.
MARTEN FAMILY OF SUSSEX. — I shall be
pleased if any reader can give me information
on this subject. A. E. MARTEN.
North Dene, Filey, Yorkshire.
THE SHIRES OF NORTHAMPTON AND SOUTH-
AMPTON.— When and why did these two
counties receive their respective designations ?
Was there originally any special link uniting
them ? G. H. R.
THOMSON AND ALLAN RAMSAY. — In the
second volume of ' Literary Anecdotes,' by
E. H. Barker of Thetford, I read the
following : —
"24. Thomson — Allan Ramsay.
"Thomson, the poet, went into a shop at Edin-
burgh, while Allan Ramsay was there, and said,
'I am going to emit to the world something, but
do not wish to father it.' Ramsay said^ ' >N hat
would he give him, and he would father it.
profits.' 'A bargain,' said Ramsay. Thomson
delivered to him the MS. of ' The Gentle Shep-
herd.' "
Do any of your readers know if the above
statement has been investigated ?
D. CAMERON.
Edinburgh.
ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY. — In a notice
of St. George's Church, Hart Street, in The
Builder of June 16, 1916, the following
occurs regarding the steeple : —
" It was to have been surmounted bv a statue of
George of Denmark, the consort of Queen Anne,
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but the figure placed there eventually is credited
with being a representation of our national saint."
IP not the statue always taken to be that of
King George II. ? Certainly, the books of
reference say so, and generally quote the
four familiar lines, of which the last is : —
Instead of the Church, made him head of the
steeple.
The cost of the statue was said to have
been borne by a loyal brewer and M.P. ;
and I think the ascription to St. George of
England will be new to most. W. B. H.
THE WITCHES OF WARBOYS.
(12 S. i. 283, 304, 414.)
AT the last reference (414) Hotten's ' Hand-
book to the Typography [&c.] of England
and Wales' [1863], is an incorrect descrip-
tion. It was a ' Handbook of Topography.'
Hotten's item No. 2190 : —
" WARBOYS WITCHES of 1593. Nicholson (Rev.
Isaac), against Witchcraft. Account of Anne
Izzard, witch of WARBOYS, 8vo, scarce, 1808,"
is, I think, also an incorrect description.
I have four copies of Nicholson's book
before me. The full title is : —
A | SERMON | against | WITCHCRAFT, | preached
in the | PARISH CHURCH OF GREAT PAXTON, I in
the County of Huntingdon, | July 17, 1808, | with |
a brief account of the circumstances | which led to |
Two atrocious attacks on the Person of Ann
Izzard, | as a reputed witch. By the Reverend
Isaac Nicholson. A.M. ! Curate | London : |
Printed for J. Mawman, Poultry, | 1808.
One of the copies is without the title-page,
and was, I am told, Hotten's copy. There is a
preface of ix pp. which commences : —
" A brief Account of the Attack on the Person of
Ann Izzard, and the Circumstances which led to it
"In the year 1593. an indelible mark of infamy
was stamped upon the inhabitants of Warboys, in
tbe County of Huntingdon, for their folly and
wickedness in carrying to trial, and afterwards to
execution, three of their unfortunate parishioners,
for the alleged offence of witchcraft but the
following statement of facts, will convince them
of their mistake, and, allowing for the difference of
science and civilization, will shew that Great
Paxton, in the same county, is more than upon a level
with Warboys for ignorance, credulity, and bar-
barity."
I conjecture from this that Hotten may
have seen only these few introductory lines,
and so wrongly entered it in his list. The
'.'n.N.B.' calls the 'Handbook' "this most
laborious and best known compilation," and
Hotten, having so many hundreds of
pamphlets, &c., to record, may not in a
few cases have fully examined the whole- of
the contents of each volume.
A few special copies of the sermon have
attached to them an abstract. The title
further helps us in elucidating this matter : —
An
ABSTRACT
of
THE PROCEEDINGS
had against
Joseph Harper,
James Staughton,
Thomas Braybrook,
Mary Amey,
Fanny Amey,
Alice Browne,
Edward Briers,
Mary Hook,
and
Mary Fox,
for assaulting
ANN IZZARD
of
GREAT PAXTON
in the
County of Huntingdon,
on the 8th and 9th of May, 1808,
under the pretence of her being
A WITCH.
By Isaac Nicholson, A.M., Curate.
London :
Printed for J. Mawman, Poultry.
1810.
The sermon was reviewed in The Monthly
Repository, vol. iii. No. xxxv. November,
1808. Chap, xviii. in Saunders's ' Legends
and Traditions of Huntingdonshire,' 1888, is
devoted to the circumstances ; and \Vry-
croft's Almanac for 1903 reprints most of
the sermon, and gives a photograph of
Paxton Hill, where the incident happened.
The Rev. Isaac Nicholson was curate of
Great Paxton, Little Paxton, and Toseland
from about 1799 to 1825, and vicar 1825. A
M.I. in Great Paxton Church records that he
" Died Dec. 27, 1839, in the 59th year of his
age."
He wrote several sermons and books,
&c., which I possess, but none, so far as I
know, about the Witches of Warboys,
the only reference to them being the few
lines quoted in the preface to the sermon,
so I concluded Hotten was mistaken in his
item 2190 and did not include it in my
bibliographical note.
In turning over an early volume of
' N. & Q.' I notice that Dr. Johnson referred
to the Witches of Warbois in his edition of
Shakespeare (5 S. xii. 8).
Cirencester.
HERBERT E. NOBBIS.
ROBERT SOUTHEY (12 S. i. 469, 518).—
Southey's maternal grandparents were
Edward Hill and Margaret Bradford. For
generations, the grandson writes, the Hills
" had lived and died respectably and con-
tentedly upon their own lands in the beau-
tiful vale of Ashton." This, he explains,
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can be seen from Clifton, on the other side of
the River Avon. Edward Hill was a lawyer,
and he was a widower when he married
Margaret Bradford, widow of a Mr. Tyler,
who " was of a good family in Hereford-
shire." For details, see the second of the
seventeen interesting letters to his friend
Mr. John May, prefixed to ' The Life and
Correspondence of Robert Southey,' edited
by his son, the Rev. Charles Cuthbert
Southey. THOMAS BAYNE.
MORRIS (12 S. i. 487). — In answer to
X. Y. Z., I am now in a position, through
the kindness of Mr. W. J. Bridle of Topsham,
to add that William Morris was baptized at
St. Margaret's, Topsham, April 21, 1715,
" son of Mr. George Morris and Sarah his
wife " (daughter of Capt. Samuel Paul).
Mr., or, as he was more often styled, Capt.,
George Morris was son of Capt. Simon
Morris by his wife Susanna, daughter of Mr.
George Hodder, merchant and shipowner of
Topsham, at that date one of our principal
seaport towns.
Capt. George Morris, on retiring from the
sea, engaged in business as a sail- and rope-
maker, which business he left to his youngest
son, Hodder. He also took a prominent
part in the government of the old town
as churchwarden, chairman of Board of
Guardians, &c.
William Morris entered the naval service
at an early age, and was in January, 1739,
made master of H.MS. Marlborough, 90,
on the West Indian station, by Admiral
Nicholas Haddock.
He was master of the Eltham in Vernon's
attack on Cartagena, and was successively
master of H.M.S. Lark, which he joined at
Liverpool, June 13, 1744, and of H.M.S.
Captain same year. He was in Topsham in
October, 1 745, and was party, with his nephew
Simon Morris, merchant, Thos. Moggridge,
the Pasmores, Rowes, Sainthills, and .other
Topsham families, to the " Exeter Asso-
ciation" in support of George II.
He was appointed to the Prince George
July 25, 1746, and joined the Somerset at
Portsmouth Jan. 25, 1759, when he took
advantage of his position to bring his son
William into the service as his " servant."
The Somerset sailed on Feb. 14 in company
with the fleet under Rear-Admiral Holmes,
destined to co-operate in the expedition to
Quebec, and in his log Morris gives a most
interesting account of her voyage convoying
the transports.
In April, 1761, he was master of H.M.S.
Shannon, Capt. Richard Braithwaite, when
introduced his son George on board,
witli the rating of " A.B.," the elder, William,
aeing rated midshipman — their companions
in the midshipmen's mess being Wilfrid and
uthbert Collingwood (the future Admiral
Lord Collingwood), rated respectively as
" captain's servant " and " Vol. A.B."
These peculiar ratings have led Campbell
!' Lives of the Admirals') and Macaulay
very much astray as to the social position of
naval officers when dealing with this subject,
and have been the fruitful origin of " cabin
boy to Admiral " stories. The Collingwoods
were the nephews of Capt. Braithwaite, and
practically every naval officer at this date
ntered the service with these ratings.
Morris was successively master of the
Warspite, 74 ; Jersey, 60 ; Montreal and Alarm
frigates ; and was from March 1 1 to April 1 4,
1773, in charge of Naval Stores at Gibraltar,
when master of the last-named ship. He
was in command as master of the Con-
questadore from Nov. 2, 1775, to July,
1782, and of the Prince Edward from Jury,
1782, to May, 1783.
In March, 1775, he was called upon by the
overseers of the poor of Topsham to enter
into a bond in the sum of 501. to bind an
apprentice to one Samuel Woolcot, for his
estate called Morrises in Topsham, his
domicile at the time being Paradise Row,
Rotherhithe. His neighbours at this date
were Capt. Wilson of the East India Co.,
who had charge of Prince Lee Boo, and
Robert Williams, East India Co.'s surveyor.
He died on half -pay, April 20, 1790, and was
buried in the churchyard of St. Mary
Magdalene, Bermondsey. W. M.
THE MOUNT, WHITECHAPEL (12 S. i. 485).—
Respecting MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS'S recent
memorandum upon the Whitechapel Mount,
it may be mentioned that the late Rev.
E. C. Carter, Vicar of St. Jude's, Whitecliapel,
who was lost in the foundering of the
Titanic before his historical study of the
region was completed, suggested the proba-
bility that the original Whitechapel Mount
was a huge earthwork erected in Saxon times
to serve as a fortification against the Danes
who dominated the Eastern Counties. The
West Heath of the Tudor Mile End Common
extended from the Watch -House on t
road to Essex, at what is now called Stepney
Green, to the Whitechapel Mount on (M
south side of the ancient historic thorough-
fare The London Hospital stands on t
portion of the West Heath of the Mile End
Common. In 1748 it was known as 1
Mount Field. One Samuel \\orrall,
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bilder," held the site under a lease from the
City Corporation which would expire in
1801. But the City were not the freeholders ;
they had it " on lease from the Lady Went-
worth for 600 years, of which about 440 were
yet to come " in 1748. The Wentworths
" acquired " the Stepney manor from the
London Bishopric at the Refonnation.
From the Whitechapel Mount all the historic
events, national and civic, of which Mile
End Common was the scene — pageants,
parades, reviews, tournaments, riots, election
fights, battles, &c. — could be witnessed, and
the panorama of open count ry from the
Northern Heights to Greenwich was visible,
with the wide ribbon of the winding Thames
from the Tower eastward to the Creeks of the
Lea and Barking.
For a hundred and fifty years after the
citizens of London and the eastern precincts,
in 1642, prepared for the approach of the
army of King Charles by throwing up earth-
works on the eastern front of the Whitechapel
Mount, it remained neglected, although
occasionally it was adorned with gibbets for
the admonition of highwaymen and footpads
infesting the Great Road to Essex, and
occasionally it was made a local Primrose
Hill for holiday-makers. There used to be a
tradition that it was the site of one of the
Plague pits supplementary to the Great Pit
in Aldgate Churchyard in 1665 ; and it was
common belief that " The Mount " received
large additions from the rubbish of the Fire
of 1666. The discoveries of human remains
thereabout suggest that the City Corpora-
tion's levelling in the early part of the last
century was effected without much regard for
the uses to which the site may have been
applied in Stuart times. But at the end of
January, 1855, the newspapers of the day
stated that,
"on the removal of a mound of rubbi8h at White-
chapel brought there after the Great Fire, a carved
boxwood bas-relief boar's head was found, set in a
circular frame formed by two boars' tusks mounted
and united with silver."
An inscription to the following effect was
printed on the back : " Wm. Brooke, Land-
lord of The Bores Hedde, Estchepe. 1566."
This object, formerly in the possession of
Mr. Stanford, the publisher, was sold at
Christie & Manson's on Jan. 27, 1855, and
was bought by Mr. Halliwell, the Shake-
spearian critic and collector. A drawing of
the very curious relic was published in The
Illustrated London News. This Boar's Head
in Eastcheap was, of course, the famous inn
patronized by Jack Falstaff and Prince Hal.
William Warden, in the reign of King
Richard II., gave it to a neighbouring
college of priests founded by Sir W. Wal-
vorth ; and on its sign, even in the time of
Maitland, the Georgian City historian, it
proudly proclaimed : " This is the Chief
Tavern in London." (There was, by the
by, a great Shakespearian dinner-party at
the Boar's Head in 1784, and Wilberforce and
Pitt were of the party. ) The discovery of the
boxwood boar's head at the Whitechapel
Mount site was regarded as a strong support
of the popular tradition, for it is known that
the original inn was destroyed in the Great
Fire of 1666. It was rebuilt, and continued
in existence until 1831, when it was de-
molished to make way for avenues to the
new London Bridge. Me.
In The Illustrated London News for April 28,
1860, there is an engraving of 'Whitechapel
Mount from a Drawing made in 1801.'
According to the accompanying letter-
press : —
" The formation of the East and West India
Docks in the early part of the present century
caused roads to be made through the low, marshy
fields extending from Shadwell and Ratcliff to
Whitechapel - road. Cannon-street-road, leading
from the acclivity called Whitechapel Mount to
St. George's-in-the-East, so increased the value of
the land on each side of it that it was determined
by the Corporation of the City of London to take
down the Mount. This was effected in 1807 and
1808, and Mount-place, Mount-terrace, and Mount-
street were built on the site, not only preserving
the remembrance of the Mount, but marking the
space it occupied. In Lysons's 'Antiquities of
Middlesex ' the dimensions of Whitechapel Mount
are stated to be in length 329 feet ; breadth 182 feet.
It was considerably higher than the London
Hospital ; an extensive view was obtained of the
villages of Limehouse, Shadwell, and Ratcliff. Our
Engraving shows that face of the Mount on the
south side of Whitechapel-road, and part of the
London Hospital. The churches in the distance
are Old Shadwell, Limehouse, and St. George's-in-
the-East. In Stow's 'Annals' mention is made of
an encampment of the Commons near the Mount
at Mile-end during Jack Cade's rebellion."
The article terminates with the statement
that neither the remains of dead bodies nor
any objects of interest or value were found
during the removal of the Mount.
RHYS JENKINS.
[MB. JOHN T. PAGE thanked for reply.]
THE " FLY " : THE " HACKNEY " : THE
" MIDGE" (12 S. i. 150, 254, 398, 494).— As
regards the " midge," this little vehicle was
quite a feature in the life of hilly Ventnor.
But I fear it, also, is becoming extinct, as a
friend writes me : — •
" ' Midges ' are not now in general use. Suspicion
as to their safety was referred to at an inquest a
few years ago, as one of them capsized They
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were certainly tiuaint, and some people say
' peculiar ' to Ventnor."
" Jingles " I have often, ridden in at
Newquay (Cornwall) and surroundings. I
take it they flourish still.
CECIL CLABKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
THORNE'S ' LONDON ' (v. sub ' Harlington,
Middlesex,' 12 S. i. 512). — I cordially endorse
MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS'S dictum that this
book should be reprinted. I would also
suggest that Thome's ' Rambles by Rivers '
might well be added to the list of the cheap
reprints of the present day. These articles
first appeared anonymously in The Penny
Magazine in the early forties under the title
' Rambles from Railways.'
JOHN T. PAGE.
HENLEY, HERTS (12 S. i. 489). — Pre-
sumably, the first letter is missing, and the
reference is to Shenley, near Barnet.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
HEART BURIAL (11 S. x. 431 ; 12 S. i. 73,
132, 194, and earlier references). — A writer
signing himself "Wayfarer," who is respon-
sible for an article on this subject in The
Autocar of June 17, 1916, mentions some
instances which may be new to ' N. & Q.'
He tells of John Balliol's heart, removed
from Sweetheart Abbey, at Brabourne
Church, Kent ; of the curious shrine to that
of Sir Roger de Leybourne, at Leybourne in
the same county ; and of the deposit of
that of William, Earl of Warrenne, at Lewes
Priory. Tenbury, near Ludlow, stores the
heart of Sir John Sturmy, a contemporary
of Richard Cceur de Lion, whose once
valiant organ is, I think, among the archaeo-
logical exhibits of Rouen. At Ludlow too
was once the casket, now in the British
Museum, which held the heart of Sir Henry
Sidney (1586) ; and at St. Lawrence's in the
same place lay that of Arthur, Prince of
Wales, son of Henry VII., which is reported
to have been " double."
Burford has a heart which beat bravely
in the reign of Henry VI., a relic of Edmund
Cornwall ; and Gilling in Yorkshire — I know
not which of the Gillings — has a singular
memorial to the heart of a knight whose name
is forgotten. Bishop Ethelmar de Valence's
is strikingly commemorated in Winchester
Cathedral ; his body was buried in Paris in
the thirteenth century.
A modern instance of heart burial was
the placing of Lord Byron's heart, encased
in silver, underground in the church of
Hucknall Torkard. " Wayfarer " says that
an annoying odour at Clifton-on-l)unsmore
was traced to a heart that was lying beneath
the chancel flooring.
At Chichester Cathedral, in the Chapel of
St. John the Baptist, is a twelfth-century
" heart monument paid to be that of Maud. Countess-
of Arundel, in which two clasped hands bear a
heart with the inscription, 'Icy git le coeur de
Maude.' "
This is stated in Miss Pratt's ' Cathedral
Churches of England,' p. 171.
ST. SWITHIN.
" HAVE " : COLLOQUIAL USE (12 S. i. 409r
477). — Does MR. C. L. DAVIES really think
that it is modern, and indeed scarcely
standard English, to say " I had a chop and
a glass of sherry " ? How would be more IV
fittingly convey the information ? Would
he prefer : " I ate [consumed, masticated,,
devoured, toyed-with] a chop, and drank
[imbibed, sipped, emptied] a glass of
sherry " ? To me, who am, to the best of
my belief, purely English from time im-
memorial, it seems quite accurate to " have "
my dinner, and I should suspect myself of
being pedantic and alien if I had to cast
about for any other verb.
ST. SWITHIN.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF
EUROPEAN TRAVEL: WUNDERER (12
i. 301, 470).— It may be worth remarking
with regard to the traveller's reflection on
the storm, " He who cannot pray, let him
go to sea," of which proverbial phrase PROF.
BENSLY notes two Latin versions, that in
Dekker's curious tract ' The Double PP. :
a Papist in Arms,' the following line occurs :
If thou wouldst know thy maker, search the seas.
MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
COVERLO (12 S. i. 328).— This place i*
marked as Covolo in Mercator s Atlas
Minor,' 1628 (Plate Tirolensis), p.
Leaving Trent, Chiswell passed through
Levico, Borgo, Grignio, Coverlo, and Carpane
on his way to Venice, a route which n
followed on any modern map. In Warcupp a
' Italy ' (1660), p. 3, is the following descrip-
tion of the place, which may help to locate
it—the author is describing the route f
Trent to Bassano : —
" At the Head of the Valley, near Primolano,
are the confines between the Venetians and
Germans. iCn the high Mountain of Pnmolano
is there built a most strong Bulwark o
Venetians called Strada, where a ****»*£££
repel the Dutch, when ever they offer J by "o
or force to advance forwards. At twehe n
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distance from thence towards the East, among the
Alps, is the city of Feltre, by the which way at the
right-hand shore of the river Brent, three miles
distance from Scala, is seated Cavolo, a Fort of the
Germans, inexpugnable in respect that 'tis founded
upon a great Rock directly hanging over the
highway with a Fountain of living water in it,
whereto neither Man nor Goods can be mounted
from the Earth unless fastned to a Rope, and that
wound up upon a wheel."
The bishopric was, obviously, .that of
Trent. MALCOLM LETTS.
RICHARD WILSON (OF LINCOLN'S INN
FIELDS), M.P. (12 S. i. 90, 158, 213, 277, 437,
516). — MR. ALFRED B. BEAVEN, at the last
reference, has made it clear, I think, that
there were two Richard Wilsons who were
members of Parliament in the earliest years
of the nineteenth century, both connected
with the legal profession, but one as a
barrister and the other as a solicitor. It is
with the second that I am specially con-
cerned ; and I believe him to be the one
first introduced into this correspondence by
MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY (p. 214), but then
as two people instead of one.
T. H. B. Oldfield, in ' The Representative
History of Great Britain,' published in 1816
(vol. iii. p. 217), refers to him as
"the Duke of Northumberland's steward, Mr.
Richard Wilson, of Lincoln's Inn, attorney-at-law,
fwho] is recorder of Launceston and manager of
Newport."
The former office is given him by a slip of the
pen, for Hugh, second Duke of Northumber-
land, was at the time Recorder of Launceston
(as he was from 1786 to 1817), while Richard
Wilson was Deputy-Recorder from 1809 to
1818 (R. and O. 'B. Peter, ' Histories of
Launceston and Dunheved,' p. 408), the only
non-townsman, indeed, ever to hold the
position. The most significant statement in
regard to him, however, is that he was
" manager of Newport," for that appanage
of Launceston was one of the Duke's Cornish
pocket-boroughs. Over Launceston he had
had a fierce fight in 1795 and again in 1796,
against the Treasury influence, specifically
backed by Pitt through George Rose, out
of which arose an action in the King's Bench,
in which Erskine was the leading counsel in
the Northumberland interest (Alfred F.
Robbins, ' Launceston, Past and Present,'
pp. 287-8). A suggestion of connexion thus
early between Erskine and Wilson may,
therefore, be made ; while the Drury Lane
proprietorship, mentioned by MR. BLEACK-
LEY, is of interest, seeing that, if Wilson
•were " manager of Newport" in 1796, he
assisted in the return for that borough of
the once well-known " Joe Richardson," a
Northumbrian by birth, barrister by pro-
i fession, and dramatist by practice, magnilo-
! quently described by Joshua Wilson, in his
' Biographical Index to the Present House of
Commons,' published in 1806, as one " whose
literary talents, political principles, and
private virtues, eminently qualified him for
the most distinguished situation."
If, as I am assuming, this was the Richard
Wilson, "many years an eminent solicitor in
Lincoln's Inn Fields," who died on June 7,
1834, he passed through a very disturbing
experience not long before his deceaee. In
the earliest thirties of last century, Polston
Bridge (which crosses the Tamar about two
miles from Launceston, on the main road
from London through Exeter to Falmouth,
then the most important packet-station of
the kingdom) was rebuilt on a wider scale
than the " large fair stone fabric " noted by
William of Worcester centuries before as
'' per patriam edificatus." During the pro-
gress of the work — and, it may be believed,
in 1833—
"the mail coach from London, due in Launceston
a quarter after eleven at night, drew up one
evening, as usual, at the Arundell Arms, Lifton,
and driver, guard, and passengers, also as usual,
dismounted, Mr. Wilson, the agent of the Duke of
Northumberland, being the only one left in the
vehicle. The horses, the near leader of which was
blind, suddenly bolted and galloped towards
Launceston; and, having crossed without accident
the temporary wooden bridge at the foot of the
hill at Polston, halted driverless and breathless at
the White Hart Hotel, their accustomed stopping-
place, closely followed by the guard, one Cornelius
yrowhurst, who had thrown himself on horseback
immediately he had discovered their flight, and
who was rejoiced to see that all was well." —
Robbins, ' Launcestou,' p. 332.
This narrative was given to me by my
father, the late Richard Robbins (formerly
a contributor to ' N. & Q.'), who remem-
bered Wilson well, and who, like myself,
found a special delight in the pages of this
journal as greatly assisting our own recol-
lections and researches concerning local men
and events. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
I possess a copy of
" A Sketch of the Calamities and Persecutions of
Richard Wilson, Esq., formerly a Member of the
British and Imperial Parliament, and once a
Magistrate for the County of Tyrone. Written by
Himself." Dublin, 1813, pp. 80.
In this brochure, which purports to be in
continuation of the pamphlets published by
him in 1807 and 1808, Wilson states that
about 1803,
" in consequence of my losing my seat in Parlia-
ment (through means which I believe every one
acquainted .with the facts will admit were highly
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disgraceful), I gave up my property in England for
the advantage ot my children, and to satisfy certain
pecuniary demands upon it — retiring to a small
estate in this Kingdom [Ireland] which devolved
to me on the death of my mother (p. 56).
His residence was known as Owna (Oona)
Lodge, and was situate about five miles
from Dungannon, Aughnacloy, and Charle-
mont respectively. He refers to his children
.as " the grandchildren of the gallant Lord
" (p. 31), and to Sir John Stewart, High
Sheriff of co. Tyrone in 1808, as "my Right
Honourable relation."
Evidently, Wilson suffered much at the
hands of what he terms " this infernal
faction of Orangemen" (p. 44).
A. ALBERT CAMPBELL.
4 Waring Street, Belfast.
I should have said that Richard Wilson
flourished at the end of the eighteenth
•century, not at the beginning. MB. ALFRED
B. BEAVEN'S interesting communication
makes it doubtful whether John Taylor's
Richard Wilson was the magistrate for
Tyrone. It seems more probable that he
•was Lord Eldon's secretary.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
SHAKESPEARE'S FALCON CREST (12 S.
i. 429, 493). — It is highly probable that the
armorials of their neighbours the Quineys
influenced the Shakespeares in their applica-
tion for a grant.
The arms of the ancient Quineys, or
Coyneys, originally of Weston Coyney in the
county of Stafford, were : Or, on a bend
sable three trefoils slipped argent ; the
trefoil was known in the vernacular as
key-grass from its trefoliated semblance to
the mystic key handle, and evidently an
allusion to the euphony Keeyney or Kayney.
The crest was that of "an arm, vested or,
holding a falchion embrued with blood,"
so that there was a further suggestion of
keenness available.
That this sanguinary crest of the Quineys
was occurrent in Shakespeare's mind is shown
toy such references as : —
Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood.
« Richard III.'
With purple falchion painted to the hilt
In blood of those that had encountered him.
4 3 Henry VI.'
We see the Bard's shield with its golden
field, sable bend, spear, and falcon crest ;
now both the word " falchion " and
"falcon" are derived from the Latin
^' falx," a reaping-hook, the bird's beak
being of this shape.
The falcon is rarely depicted correctly (as
an "the margent"); the wings should be
ALFRED RODWAY.
! shown to depict a movement well known to
j Elizabethan heralds and termed "a shake."
Birmingham.
MR. BAYLEY, in saying, at the latter
reference, that Tennyson makes the falcon
masculine, forgets ' Merlin and Vivien,'
1L 121-33. The same poet describes Lady
Psyche in ' The Princess,' § ii, as " falcon-
eyed." H. K. ST. J. S.
There are instructive remarks on Shake-
speare's heraldic aspirations in Sir Sidney
Lee's ' Life ' (first edition, pp. 2, 10 n., 188-
193). It seems to me that there is not
much reason to doubt that the poet and
his family bore the arms customarily attri-
buted to him, " Non Sans Droict."
ST. SWITHIN.
" CONSUMPTION " AND " LETHARGY " :
THEIR MEANING IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY (12 S. i. 489). — In William Salmon's
' Practice of Physick ' (1707) four species of
consumption are described. The first is that
"which is called in Latin, Atrophia, and Con-
sumptio ; in English, a Consumption, Pining, or
Wasting of the whole Body which is without
any Ulceration of the Lungs " ;
the second
" is called in Latin, Phthisic, ami Vlceratio ve'
Vlcus Pulmonix, An Ulcer of the Lung* ; by reason
of which the whole Body wasts also and consumes ";
the third
"is called in Latin, Hectica...dn Hectick ormelting
Consumption, which by a continual preternatura
heat, melts away, as it were, and so consumes the
whole Body " ;
" is called in Latin, Conttimptio Symptomatica, ft
symptomatical Consumption, or that which pro-
ceeds from some other Disease."
Of lethargy he says : —
" In Latin, Lethargia Plinio, and Lethargvs Celto :
and in English, the Lethargy. It is called by some
Veternuv, and by others Sopor Gravi* ; it , is a
drousie Disease, which causes the principal Facii;
ties to cease, but more especially the Memory, with
a necessity of Sleeping, and a continued lingring
Fever, so that there seems to be a perfect Oblivion,
and sometimes therewith a kind of Delirium."
C. C. B.
WELLINGTON AT BRIGHTON AND ROTTIN<.-
DEAN (12 S. i. 389, 476, 517).— MR. D.v\ KY'S
statement is very entertaining and in-
structive, because it explains the origin of
the fiction that the first Duke of \\Mlm-tnn
was educated at Brighton. MR. DAVEY
says : —
" Directly after Wellington's death, H. M. Wag-
ner, the Vicar of Brighton, called a public meeting
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and proposed the restoration of the church as a
memorial. The vicar claimed that his grand-
father's pupils included the young Arthur
Wellesley."
Accordingly, the church was restored, and a
large Wellington monument was set up with
a Latin inscription definitely asserting that
the great Duke had frequented the church
as a young man.
I submit two considerations. MR. WAINE-
WRIGHT supplies the fact that during the
whole of the great Duke's boyhood the
Vicar of Brighton was Henry Michell, M.A.,
who held the living from 1744 to 1789. Of
him and of Brighton, Gleig, the biographer
and personal friend of Wellington, says not
one single word. Let me refer the reader to
Gleig's account of the great Duke's early
days. The other consideration is this : in
1817 Arthur Wellesley, Lord Douro, after-
wards the second Duke of Wellington, was
placed under the care of Mr. Wagner, Vicar
of Brighton, with whom he remained for
seven years. The boy was 10 years old in
1817. Surely, this must be " the young
Arthur Wellesley " referred to by the Mr.
Wagner who was vicar in 1853, when the
church was restored ; and this must be the
boy or young man who naturally attended
the church of which his tutor was vicar.
The monument is altogether misleading.
It is to be feared that churches have some-
times been restored, and monuments some-
times erected, for rather unconvincing
reasons. B. B.
PARISHES IN Two COT^TIES (US. ix. 29,
75, 132, 210, 273, 317, 374 ; xi. 421 ; 12 S.
i. 450, 499, 518).— The list could be further
augmented. One omission is Llangwstenin,
with portions in Carnarvonshire and Den-
bighshire. The parish of Ysbytty Ifan
extends over three counties, Carnarvonshire
and Denbighshire, and a detached township
added to it from Merionethshire. Cefn in
Denbighshire till 1864 used to be united to
St. Asaph, which is in Flintshire.
ANETTRIN WILLIAMS.
CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS
(US. xii. 10, 56, 73, 87, 110, 130, 148, 168,
184, 228, 284, 368 ; 12 S. i. 77, 132).— Merely
the surface has been scratched by me and
the other contributors heretofore ; cannot
some one, interested in clerical pursuits as I
am not. go into the matter more deeply ?
The subject is timely, and the material is
often to be met ; for instance, S. Gwynn's
recent ' Famous Cities of Ireland ' is said to
have a complaint, by the Irish King of
Vhter, 150 years after Strongbow's landing,
against the Cistercians of Inch " for appear-
ing publicly in arms ; they attack and slay
the Irish, and yet celebrate their Masses-
notwithstanding.' '
The Ecclesiastical Review, April. 1916. liv..
has at pp. 425-35, ' Priests as Soldiers,' an
article which deals largely with cardinals as
combatants ; it contains this epigram of the
time of Richelieu : —
Un arch^veque est amiral :
Un gros eveque est caporal ;
Un prelat preside aux frontieres ;
Un capucin pense aux combats ;
Un cardinal a des soldats ;
Un autre est g^neralissime ;
France, je crains .qu'ici-bas
Ton figlise, si magrianime,
Milite et ne triomphe pas.
ROCKIXGHAM-
Boston, Mass.
HAYLER THE SCTJLPTOR (12 S. i. 169). —
Henry Hayler was son of Henry Hayler of
20 Ampton Street, Gray's Inn Road, painter
and glazier ; he was a sculptor at 20 Compton
Street, 1849-52 ; at 20 Ampton Street, 1852-
1856 ; and at 20 Bloomfield Terrace, Pimlicor
1856-74 ; he exhibited eight sculptures at
the R.A., 1849-59. He was also a photo-
grapher at 61 PimlicoRoad ; his studies from
the nude had a large sale in Europe and
America. Collette, the secretary of the Society
for the Suppression of Vice, made a raid
upon his houses and seized 130,248 obscene
photographs and 5,000 slides, March 31 ,
1874, and obtained at Westminster Police
Court an order for their destruction, April 19r
1874. Hayler absconded to Berlin.
FREDERIC BOASE.
FORD CASTLE (12 S. ii. 8) was built by-
Sir John Heron, 1287. The castle was de-
stroyed by a Scottish incursion under the
Earls of Fife, March, and Douglas. Before
the Battle of Flodden it was taken by
James IV., whom tradition reports to have
lingered here instead of preparing for battle,,
under the fascinations of Lady Heron, whose
husband, Sir William, was a prisoner in
Scotland. In 1549 the Scotch under D'Esse,
a French general, took Ford Castle, but one
tower held out successfully under Thomas-
Carr, who had married Elizabeth, the grand-
daughter of Sir William Heron. In the
time of his successor, George Carr, 1557, the
right to the castle was disputed by one
George Heron, and a deadly feud ensued,
when " Robert Barowe, mayer, and Gyles
Heron, thresorer of Barwyke, were cruelly
slayne." Mary Blake, granddaughter of
Thomas Carr, married Edward Delaval, the
grandfather of Lord Delaval, from whom the
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•estate passed to Susan, Marchioness of
Waterford, daughter of his favourite child,
Lady Tyrconnel.
See Murray's ' Handbook for Durham and
Northumberland,' s. 'Ford Castle,' and 'The
History of Northumberland,' by Cadwallader
J. Bates, 'Ford Castle and the Herons.'
ALFRED GWYTHER.
Windham Club.
CLEOPATRA AND THE PEARL (12 S. i. 128,
198, 238, 354, 455).— In his ' Pearls and
Pearling Life,' 1886, p. 284, Mr. Edwin W.
Streeter gives Pliny's story of Cleopatra's
pearl (Plin., ' Hist. Nat.,' ix. 58), observing
afterwards : —
"A sceptical age is disposed, not without good
reason, to cast doubt upon all the old stories of
Pearl drinking. Barbot, the French jeweller,
having macerated a Pearl in the strongest vinegar,
found that the outer layer was reduced to a
gelatinous condition, while the deeper part of the
Pearl remained unaffected." — P. 284.
Mr. Streeter tells (p. 287) the story of
how Sir Thomas Gresham, having laid a
wager with the Spanish ambassador, drank
a pearl. He " exhibited it to the am-
bassador, and then ground it, and drank the
powder of it." The story is taken from
Lawson's ' History of Banking.'
Evidence of the belief that the pearl could
be dissolved appears in ' Traict6 Familier de
1'Exacte Preparation Spagyrique des Medica-
-mens, pris d'entre les Mineraux, Animaux &
vegetaux,' by Joseph du Chesne, Paris,
1624, p. 37 :—
" You dissolve by proper (vraye) solution pearls
with the above given liquid solvent (menstrue) ;
in default of which you will use some acid liquid
solvent alcoholized, with a sufficient quantity of
«pirit of wine also alcoholized, even juice of lemon
and of barberry, depurated, filtered, and suitably
prepared."
The first above -given liquid solvent (le
may dissolvant) is called " le menstrue [sic]
•celeste." It is sa,id to ba the true sol-
vent of all precious stones, so as to draw
their essence from them. It softens and
dissolves the diamond. The writer goes on
to say that he passes by the diamond anc1
the ruby because they ere stones of great
price, and ought not to be sought after unless
for kings only.
It appears that, according to this spagyrist
the processes given would dissolve not only
pearls, but also diamonds and rubies !
In ' Polygraphice,' by William Salmon
Professor of Physick, Jiving at the Blew
Balcony by Fleet-Ditch, near Holborn-
Bridge, London, fifth edition, 1685, " Liber
Sextus, containing the 112 Arcanums o:
Peter John Faber, a most Eminent and
Learned Professor of Physick," chap. Ixxxiii.,
)thcrv. isc p. .")'.»:{, is how 'To prepan- ;m
Elixir from Pearl.' The process is very
elaborate. Some of the details may be
worth quoting : —
i. Take Golden or Silver coloured Pearls, as
many as you please, powder them, and mix them
with an equal! quantity of Sulphur Vive.
ii. Calcine them in a Crucible with a strong fire
.uitill the sulphur be consumed ; then add new,
but not so much as before, and calcine it as formerly.
iii. Increase the fire, and make the Crucible red
hot, for four or six hours ; then let it cool, take out
the matter, and beat it small.
iv. Put it into a Retort, lute it well all over, and
distill in a strong tire, that all the Acid .Sulphureous
Spirits may come forth, which are to be received
in a Vessel half full of May- Dew.
v. When all the Spirit is come over, break the
Retort, and take out the Matter, powder it and
expose it to the cold air for a night, &c.
ix. And in a Glass well stopt, with a gentle fire
digest the Solution, then filter it, and upon the
remaining undisaolved matter, put more Acid
Spirits.
x. Dissolve by digesting and filter the Solution ;
this do, till the greater part of the matter prepared
from the Pearls be dissolved.
xxiii. And the true way according to the
Chymical Art is here most faithfully delivered, if
you understand the way of calcining, dissolving,
distilling, and such other Chymical operations.
xxiv. For these things are absolutely necessary
for you to know, that you may separate from the
Spirit all fseculential Impurities, the dross or Lees
of the Elements.
xxv. This being thus perfected, there remains
nothing at last to be done, but only to digest.
The next chapter is headed ' To make
small Pearls into great ones' : —
i. Take of the least yet clearest and brightest
Pearls, what quantity you please, dissolve them in
our acid Spirit, or in water of Mercury, distilled
twelve times over or more, till it is sweet and
ii. In this water I say, dissolve your Pearls in a
Glass, which stop well, and put it over a gentle
iii. When all your Pearls are dissolved, filter the
solution and purify it, and distill in a gentle
Balneo.
These are the first three of the seventeen
instructions in the chapter.
It appears that in the seventeenth century,
at all events, the process of dissolving a
pearl was regarded as difficult and v. ry
elaborate, and that later an expert, using the
strongest vinegar, failed in his experiment.
Assuming the truth of Pliny's story, there
ere, I think, two possible explanations:—
First, that the so-called pearl was a
substitute, made of materials which would
easily dissolve, or, second, that Cleo]>.ura
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threw a real pearl into the cup. pretended
that it had dissolved, and swallowed it whole.
In Bostock and Riley's translation of Pliny
a foot-note suggests that Cleopatra threw the
pearl into the vinegar, and immediately
swallowed it, taking it for granted that it
had melted.
If we are to believe that Cleopatra drank
p, cup of acid capable of dissolving a real
pearl, we may ask ourselves whether she
could have done so without disastrous
effect on herself.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
GUNFIRE AND RAIN (12 S. i. 10, 56, 96,
170, 337)'. — The following appeared in The
Daily Express of June 17, 1916 : —
CLOUDS' SHELL-SHOCK.
HEAVY FIRING THE CAT'SE OF ABNORMAL RAINFALL ?
Petrograd, Friday, June 16.
Reports from the front agree that the remarkable
change in the weather which has been experienced
during the past week must be the result of the
terrific Russian artillery fire, which has been far
beyond anything previously known. Something like
a small whirlwind raged for a time. — Centred News.
Mr. D. W. Horner, Fellow of the Royal Meteoro-
logical Society, writes to the Daily Express : —
" The best evidence in favour of the theory that
the abnormal gunfire in Western Europe has caused
excessive rainfall is the fact that at Greenwich the
rainfall for the twelve months ending April 30 last
was 32'17 inches, more than eight inches above the
average for the period 1841-1905."
Mr. Horner shows about 33 per cent above
the given average, but does any one of the
years 1841-1913 show a rainfall of or above
32'17 inches ? ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE ACTION OF VINEGAR ON ROCKS
(11 S. x. 11, 96, 152, 197).— Southey, in his
' Common- place Book,' 2nd Series, p. 330,
says : —
" When Jayme besieged Valencia, salt and
vinegar were used in making a breach. Some
soldiers of Lerida got to the wall under cover
of the manias (a machine like the tortoise of the
ancients), el qual fue luego con picas y con sal y
rinapre en (res paries agvjerado, hasfa que pudo
haver entrada para im cuerpo de soldado por eada
agvjero. — Miedes, 1. 11, c. 11."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
" AVIATIK " (12 S. i. 370, 435). — According
to The Scientific American, the 1914-15 type
of Aviatik is a German tractor biplane
(i.e., one with the screw in front) driven by
a rotary engine of 114 h. p.
As regards the word ' aviation," this has
been in use in France for more than half a
century, and is now so firmly established in
the English language that it would be
impossible to eradicate it. L. L. K.
CORRECT DESIGNATION OF WAR MINISTER
(12 S. i. 510). — -There has been no " Secretary
at War " (the correct title) since 1863, when,
26-7 Viet. <•. 12 expressly abolished the office..
He never was a " Secretary of State for the
War Department " (same Act), but
"was concerned with the passing of the Mutiny
Bill and was responsible for all that related to the
finance of the Army. He directed the movements
of troops, subject to the sanction of the Secretary
of State." — Anson, ' Constitution,' Vol. II. Part I.
cap. iii. s. iii. 3, p. 166 (1907).
H. C— N.
FlELDINGIANA : I. MlSS H— AND (12 S,
i.483 ; ii. 16). — Husband 'of Ipsley, Warwick-
shire, should be, I think, Hubaud (sometimes
Hubot) of Ipsley (vide Dugdale).
G. H. R.
" M. A. E." : WHO WAS SHE ? (A.D. 1864>
(12 S. i. 410). — By the kindness of the Rev,
T. W. Gilbert, Rector of St. Clements
Parish, Oxford, I found Mr. Thomas Henry
Evans, at 79 Cowley Road, Oxford, who
told me that the book in question was the
work of his first cousin once removed, Mis&
Mary Anne Evans, who lived at 8 London
Place, St. Clements, which house she-
inherited from her father, who was the
porter of the Queen's College, while his
brother Richard, who lived at No. 9, was
the butler of that Society. He led me to her
grave, about 10 yards to the south-west of
the principal door of the church, where one*
finds this epitaph: —
To
the memory of
Ann
relict of the late
Edward Evans
of London Place S' Clements
who died 28 June 1880
aged 70
also of Frederick
their son
who died 25 Oct. 1861
aged 26
also of Marv Anne Evans
who died Jan. 27, 1877
aged 56.
He showed me the sketch of a man's head
done by her brother Frederick, a chemist,
and introduced me to her friend Miss
Gunstone, at 18 Jeune Street. St. Clements,
who showed us a copy of the Poems, almost
as good as new, and a photograph of Miss
M. A. Evans, who was of Welsh descent. Mr.
C. J. Parker, of 27 Broad Street, Oxford,
finds in the ledgers of his father and grand-
father that the firm received on March 9,
1864, 11. 10s. for the printing of 150 copies of
these 'Short Poems.' I am also indebted for
information about this authoress to Miss E,
12 S. II. JULY 8, 1916.J
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39
Crump, of 61 Iffley Road, and to Mrs. J. A.
Swadling of Southcote, Reading, both of
whom knew her intimately. The latter
possesses one of her poems printed Sept. 16,
1875, by J. Oliver, 47 George Street, Oxford.
The tree to which she dedicated one in 1847
is recorded in the following inscription,
let into a brick wall at the top of " Hedington
Way " :—
Near this spot stood
the famous elm,
planted by the Rev. Josiah Pullen
about 1680 and known as
" Joe Pullen's Tree "
destroyed by fire
on 13 October 1909.
The tenth of the Poems concerns the
" beloved Pastor," of whom we read as
follows, on a slab fixed into the east wall of
St. Clement's Church : —
To the Memory of
the Rev. Nicholas James Moody, M.A.
formerly corresponding Secretary
of the Church Missionary Society
at Madras,
late Rector of this Parish,
in which
he so discharged his sacred duties
as to gain the esteem and affection
both of rich and poor
and on which by his exertions
in the erection of the boys and infant
schools
he conferred permanent benefits
this tablet has been raised
by penny subscription.
He fell asleep in Jesus
July v. MDCOCLVIII,
aged xxxvii. years.
W. James,
Treasurer.
These notes are a contribution to the
bibliography of Oxford during the nineteenth
century. EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford.
on IBooha,
Calendar of Treasurj/ Book*. 16S1-1GS5, preserved in
the Public Retard Office. Vol. VII. Parts I., II.,
III. Prepared by William A. Shaw. (Stationery
Office : Part I., II. ; Part II., If. 2*. 6W. ;
Part III., 13*.)
DR. SHAW, in his Introductions to these Treasury
Books, is working at a re-interpretation of the
methods of the English constitution in its pre-
Revolutionary stage, and at a rehabilitation,
financially speaking, of the character of Charles II.
It is certainly worth while to consider, more
narrowly than we have hitherto been easily
able to do, the resources which Charles actually
commanded, as distinguished on the one side
from the uses to which he put them, and on the
other from the merely nominal estimate of them,
both of which have been, perhaps, over insisted
upon. It is also worth while to get an accurate
notion of the economic and financial position
in which the Commonwealth had left England
— a matter top often unduly subordinated to
consideration of the political aggrandizement which
followed on Cromwell's government and its dealings
with the Continent. Without subscribing to it
altogether— for there remains a mass of material
to be worked over, of a kind that is not fairly
handled until it has become familiar, and has been
looked at from several points of view — we would
recommend Dr. Shaw's Introduction to these
volumes to the attention of students.
It comes out fairly clearly that if Charles waa
not, according to modern ideas of the dutv of a
king, scrupulous about national honour, neither on
their side were his Parliaments, who, in addition,
often displayed a curious ineptitude. The — so to
call it — automatic recovery of a nation, when
virtual cessation of war enables it to revert to the
production and distribution of wealth, is well
illustrated by the increase of revenue during the
latter part of the reign. Charles's endeavours to
meet his liabilities out of the moneys voted to him
by Parliament— endeavours which he persisted in
with a loyalty not hitherto sufficiently recognized —
show the finer side of the Stuart — or we should
rather say the Tudor — theory of kingship, just as
his relation towards Louis XIV. shows its less
agreeable, its more dangerous side. His view
of himself was much that of a great landowner
in the midst of his tenants. To him a neigh-
bouring great landowner was nearer akin
than the persons who dwelt on his estate ; and
there was no shame in asking the help of such
an equal, even if conditions unpalatable to the
tenants should be the price of it. Dr. Shaw thinks
the interval of the Commonwealth made a gap
rather than an effective break or change in the
Tudor tradition of kingship. It would probably
be as true to say that the interval of the Restora-
tion formed a gap in the newer tradition, the
cause of this being in part a temporary failure to
find adequate forms for the new popular conceptions
of government, and to devise effective mooes of
obtaining guarantees from the Executive.
The entries in the Treasury Books are full of
interest ; but running, as these three parts do, to
over 2,000 pages, they present a mass too huge for
detailed review. Part III., besides a full General
Index, includes seven Appendixes, of which the
most important is Treasurer Southampton's Crown
Lease Book for 1661.
The Fortnightly for July contains a poem by
Mrs. Woods, which is one of the best ui>on the
war that we have seen. It describes in verse of
original and effective rhythm, and in a vision of
real strength, the First Battle of Ypres — the
battle in which the Germans fell back before those
" enormous Reserves of ours, invisible to our
own men." Sir Herbert Warren's lecture to
the Poetry Society can hardly be called a
memorable performance; but, where it mentions
recent verse upon the war, it makes some good
suggestions for lovers of poetry. Mr. Edward
Clodd has a rather frothy paper about the late
Grant Allen, in which, however, are included
some verses of Allen's commemorating a meeting of
the Omar Khayyam Club just twenty years 8*0, and
well worth having. Mrs. Aria is decidedly interest
ing on the subject of ' Fashion and the Painter,
though for our own part we think so heavily
broidered a style and such strenuous posing make
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the total effect rather stiff than rich. Dr. W. L.
Courtney contributes the first instalment of a study
of Demosthenes from the point of view of the
principles of patriotism— both good and excellently
well timed. ' Rhodes and Parnell on Imperial
Federation,' by Mr. J. G. Swift-MacNeill, includes
some noteworthy correspondence. Of the other
papers, seeing that they deal with the problems of
the hour, we will only mention Mr. Sampson
Morgan's 'Fruits for Health, Strength, and
Longevity.' We will not here attempt to appraise
its worth from a serious point of view ; we only
note that the enthusiastic writer is sometimes
highly entertaining.
The, Nineteenth Century for July is a good number,
albeit a large proportion of it is severely hortatory.
Lord Cromer's article on ' Thinking Internationally '
needs no recommendation on our part. There are
two studies in past history designed to throw light
on the present— both noteworthy : Dr. Murray's on
* Humbert's Invasion of Ireland in 1798,' and that
of M. G. de Rosco-Bogdanowicz on ' The " Royal
Hand" of a Hohenzollern,' showing how, from
their earliest appearance in history, the Hohen-
zolierns have counted treaties but as " scraps of
paper." Another interesting paper on somewhat
the same lines is Mr. L. B. Namier's article on the
Habsburgs and Mittel-Europa, though here the
reference to the future is the main thing. The
literary articles are unusually numerous. Mr. John
Palmer contributes a rather clever paradoxical
disquisition on ' The Present Disrepute of Shake-
speare,' in which one chief feature is the decidedly
exaggerated laudation of Maurice Morgann and his
* Dramatic Character of Falstaff/and another is an
exposition of Shakespeare's method in the creation
of character which does not substantially differ
irom what most of us have thought these hundred
years. Mr. H. M. Walbrook writes pleasantly —
-from personal knowledge — about Henry Janiee and
•the English Theatre, and though the burden of
these reminiscences is reproof, we are glad to have
them. Miss Constance E. Maud also contributes
personal memories — these being of the Patriot
Poets of Provence. They include the French trans-
lation of a charming poem written by one of their
number, the Premonstratensian Dom Xavier, who
was driven out of Provence into exile in England.
The problem of education receives weighty treat-
ment in these pages. Mr. Edmond G. A. Holmes
discourses of ' Discipline and Freedom,' working
out to support of tne Montessori system. Many
readers to whom objections will occur will yet be
grateful to him for a number of good hints. Mr.
D. R. Pye writes the first paper under the heading
•* Reforms in Education ' on ' Science and the
Public Schools.' Physics Master at Winchester,
he has a good word for the classics from the
practical point of view of the schoolmaster. This
is often neglected in the tirades against Greek and
Latin now grown frequent, and we find it so in
the vigorous denunciations and exhortations of Sir
Harry H. Johnston's article on ' The Public Service
and Education,' though with great part of it we
find ourselves in thorough agreement.
The GonihUl for July contains three or four
•sketches of scenes in the vast theatre of war,
which, not less clever and sympathetic than many
we have seen before, yet call for no particular
comment. Such are Mr. Frank Hoyt Gailor's ' An
American Ambulance in the Verdun Attack';
George A. Birmingham's ' Sweet Lavender '; Mr.
Boyd Cable's ' Long Odds' ; and ' The Spine of an
Empire' by Major-General <i. F. MacM>mii. It is
otherwise with the vivid letters — under the title
"Dublin Days: The Rising' — by Mrs. Hamilton
Norway, which describe the spectator's view of
that astonishing and terrible week better than any
we have so far lighted upon, and with several
incidents which will be new to many people. Miss
Edith Sellers urges, in ' A War Saving worth
Making,' that we should follow an example set us
by the Relief Committee in Strassburg and, for
their health's sake as well as for the sparing of our
pockets, let our boys and girls run barefoot. The
subject is not exactly one upon which people will
seek an opinion from ' N. & Q.' Yet we venture
to give her our support both for the excellent
reasons she sets forth, and also because the footgear
with which the children of the poor are usually
provided is an outrage on the beauty and grace of
childhood. We liked Lieur. F. J. Salmon's paper
on 'The Spirit of France,' and still more Mr.
Jeffery E. Jeffery's ' Bilfred.' ' Bilt'red,' we suspect,
will prove to be the cause why this number ot The
Cornhill finds a permanent place on more than one
bookshelf, and we do not envy the person who
reads it to the end without getting "a lump in his
throat." Sir Henry Lucy, with ' A Peep at an
Old Parliament,' makes a welcome reappearance;
his fund of political and social anecdote seems
quite inexhaustible. We must not omit mention
of Lady Ritchie's sketch of the friendship between
the Tennysons and Julia Cameron — illustrated by
quotations from many interesting letters, and by
several good stories.
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ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 1--,, 1916.
CONTENTS.-No. 29.
TJOTES :--Oxford in the Great Civil War : Mrs. Bambridge's
Estate, 41— An English Array List of 1740, 43— Statues
and Memorials in the British Isles, 45— Thackeray and
'The Times' — "Aged 100" at Gussage St. Andrew —
Mumbo Jumbo — Inscriptions and Heraldry in Salisbury
Cathedral : Baker MSS. Collection, 47— Asiago, 48.
-QUERIES: — "Still life " — Fletcher Family — Author
Wanted, 48— Sem, Caricaturist— H. B. Her, Artiste
' Histoire Naturelle,' by Francis Bacon— Musical Queries
— Garrick's Grant of Arms -Badge of the Earls of War-
wick, 49—' The Man with the Hoe '—Scarlet Gloves and
Tractarians— Abbe Paul Peyron's ' Antiquities of Nations
— Denmark Court — Symbols attached to Signatures —
Payne Family — Blessed William of Assisi — Neville
Heraldry, 50— Hewitt or Hewett Family, 51.
REPLIES:— The City Coroner and Treasure-Trove, 51 —
Largest Bag of Game— Richard Wilson, 55 — "Loke"—
George Barringtxm — ' Northanger Abbey ' : " Horrid "
Romances, 56 — Fireplaces : Aitcb. Stones—" As dead as
•Queen Anne"— Sir Walter Scott: Lockbart's Letter —
Lost Life of Hugh Peters— " Nibil ardet in inferno nisi
propria voluntas "— Latin Contractions, 57— St. Madron's
Well — Richard Swift — Milton's Sonnet on 'Tetra-
chordon': " Like " — " Every Englishman is an island,"
58— Fazakerley— Fact or Fancy ? 59.
NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Close Rolls of the Reign of
Henry IIL'— ' Ancient Astronomy in Egypt and its Signi-
ficance '— ' The Numbered Sections in OKI English Poetical
MSS.' — ' The Church Bells of Lancashire '— ' Burlington
Magazine.'
Notices to Correspondents.
OXFORD IN THE GREAT CIVIL WAR :
MRS. BAMBRIDGE'S ESTATE.
IN Mr. George Sherwood's useful and in-
teresting ' Dramatis Personae,' vol. i. No. 18,
occurs the following statement, which throws
a brief gleam of light upon the beleaguered
University : —
Delegates' Exams., vol. ii. : Greaves v. Babington.
A.D. 1646/7. Richard Zouch, LL.D., Principal
of St. Alban Hall, Oxon, present at the making
of Mary Bambridge's will. Knew her almost
20 years before her death. (Signs.)
Mary Bambridge, widow of Dr. Bambridge,
made her will in her house over against Merton
College, 25 February, 1643/4. She had three sons
in London. The Lord Primate of Armagh
reminded her that according to Moses' Law the
eldest son should have a double portion.
John Greaves, nominated as sole executor,
told the King he had been left a good estate.
James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, resided at
Exeter College. (Signs.) Was present at the
making of the will.
Thomas Hinson, servant to Dr. Zouch, present
•at the making of the will.
AI Phii'Jp A1.Port and MarT Ws wife, servants to
Mrs. Bambridge and Dr. Zouch, were present at
the making of the will.
Margaret Fletcher, a legatee.
Thomas, Earl of Sussex, aged 50, at his house in
Covent Garden, says he lodged at Mrs. Bam-
bridge s most of the tune that Oxford remained
a garrison, and observed her to be a very sickly
weak and feeble old woman, and very defective In
her understanding and memory. The sum of
iOOZ. was placed upon bond in this deponent's
hands for securing the same, some few days before
her death, and shortly after an order came from
the Lords Commissioners for the stay and keeping
of the same in this deponent's hands for His
Majesty's use, and afterwards another order to pay
it unto them, but most of it being already pre-
disposed of for this deponent's own necessities, he
sent 250Z. in gold for H.M.'s use. Was present at
the Council Table at Oxford when Mr. Greaves
appeared upon a summons and explained how the
money was disposed. 100L was destined for the
building of some house of Astronomy which these
times would not yet permit, and so it was lent
to the King, and the Lord Treasurer assigned it
to this deponent for H.M.'s house, whereof this
deponent was then Treasurer. (Signs.)
John Walker, aged 21, domestic servant to
Lord Sussex these 7 years ; born at Burstall,
co. York. Was at Oxford in Mrs. Bambridge's
house.
Frances Ellis, wife of William, aged 39, domestic
servant to Lord Sussex these 9 years ; born at
Overthprp, co. North'ton. Was at Oxford at the
same time.
Matilda Grant, wife of Thomas, aged 36, house-
hold servant to Lord Sussex these 20 years ;
born at Horton, Bucks. That Mrs. Bambridge
appeared to be a very weak woman.
Richard Zouche (1590-1661), civilian
(' D.N.B.,' Ixiii. 417), was Regius Professor
of Civil Law from 1620 until death ; and a
judge of High Court of Admiralty from
1641, of which he was deprived in 1649 for
his Royalist proclivities, only to be restored
thereto one month before his demise.
John Bainbridge, or Bambridge, M.D. of
both Universities (1582-1643), physician and
astronomer (' D.N.B.,' ii. 434), originally a
graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge,
where his kinsman Dr. Joseph Hall, after-
wards Bishop of Norwich (whose mother
was Winifred Bambridge, a strict Puritan),
had been his tutor ; he was appointed in
1619, by the founder, the first Savilian
Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and
entered as a " Master-Commoner " of Merton
College, where he lived for some years and
filled the office of Senior Linacre Lecturer.
He afterwards lived in a house opposite
Merton, and, dying there on Nov. 3, 1643,
was buried in the College Chapel, where his
monumental tablet may still be seen on the
north wall of the quire, being the only one
remaining there. Bainbridge was godfather
of, and gave his Christian name to, John
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Wood, Anthony Wood's youngest brother;
and on Feb. 1,' 1643, Phifip Herbert, fourth
Earl of Pembroke and Chancellor of the
University, came to lodge at his house
(v. A. Wood's ' Life and Times,' O.H.S.,
1891, i. 86). The ' D.N.B.' does not mention
his marriage, but his eldest son (Deuteronomy
xxi. 17) was, probably, the John Bainb ridge,
s. John, " doctoris," who matriculated from
St..Alban Hall and took his B.A. degree on
Feb. 18, 1627/8, aged 16 ; M.A. June 3,
1630 ; and was, possibly, Vicar of Ashburn-
ham, Sussex, in 1632.
John Greaves (1602-52), mathematician
and traveller (' D.N.B.,' xxiii. 38), Fellow of
Merton, was Gresham Professor of Geometry
in London, 1630, and succeeded Bainb ridge
as Savilian Professor of Astronomy, but was
ejected by Parliament from his chair and
fellowship in 1648. His younger brother,
Edward Greaxres, M.D., Fellow of All Souls
and Linacre Reader of Physic, is said to
have been created a baronet by Charles I.
James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of
Armagh ('D.N.B.,' Iviii. 64), removed in
1642 with Parliamentary sanction to Oxford,
occupying the house of John Prideaux,
Rector of Exeter College for the last thirty
years (who had just been made Bishop of
Worcester by the King), and remained in the
University until March 5, 1644-5, when he
accompanied Prince Charles to Bristol. It
was at Ussher's instance that Bainbridge
wrote the treatise ' Canicularia,' published at
Oxford by Greaves in 1648.
There was an apothecary at Oxford called
Philip Alport, whom Anthony Wood
patronized when in need of a " vomitt " ;
and this person appears to have dwelt on
the south side of High Street, between the
present Grove and Oriel Streets, opposite
St. Mary's Church ; to have married in
September, 1658, Millicent Astrey of Little
Milton, Oxon, in St. John the Baptist
Church (Merton Chapel) ; and to have been
buried, according to the St. Mary's Register,
on June 14, 1665. The Philip Alport
" Serv. Doctris. Bambrig.," privilegiatus
May 28, 1641, aged 34, if not identical, was
probably a relation (v. Wood's ' City of
Oxford,' 1899, i. 138 n., and iii. 247 ; Wood's
' Life,' i. 220).
Thomas Savile, first Viscount Savile of
Castlebar, in the peerage of Ireland, second
Baron Savile of Pontefract, and first Earl of
Sussex, in the peerage of England (' D.N.B.,'
1. 374), is that sinister figure whom Clarendon
described as a man
" of an ambitious and restless nature, of parts and
wit enough, but in his disposition and inclination
so false that he could never be believed or
depended upon A bold talker, and applic-
able to any undertaking, good, bad, or indif-
ferent."
The ' D.N.B.' gives his dates as 1590 ?-1658 ?
but if he was actually 50 in 1646-7, as stated
above, he must have been born in 1596-7.
He had been seized by the Earl of Newcastle
and confined in Newark Castle for six
months, but on May 13, 1643, was, on the
King's command, transferred to Oxford in
order that Charles might in person examine
the accusations against him. Savile's de-
fence was drawn up with such skill that
Charles, ever prone to confide in worse men.
than himself, sent him a sealed pardon, and
Newcastle publicly apologized for having
arrested him. Savile remained in Oxford,
and resumed his place at the Council and.
his duties as Treasurer of the King's House-
hold. At this time the noble Chapter House
of Christ Church, sometime the Chapter
House of St. Frideswide's Priory, served for
the King's Council Chamber. Savile seems
continually to have urged the necessity of
making peace ; and on May 25, 1644, he
was created Earl of Sussex. On Jan. 11,.
1644/5, he was once more imprisoned, this
time at Oxford ; and Digby, on the royal
behalf, impeached him of high treason.
But the House of Lords urging Savile's
privilege as a peer, no further steps were
taken ; and, about the middle of March, he
was released on condition that he removed
to France. Whereupon he fled to London
and the Parliament.
It was not until over a century and a.
quarter after this time that the University
could boast of a permanent house of
Astronomy. Originally the top room in the
Tower of the Five Orders of (what is now
called) the Old Schools, with the roof above
it, was the observatory of the Savilian.
Professor of Astronomy, such as it was in the
earliest days of telescopes. Edmund Halley
kept a 24-ft. telescope in his rooms, when he
was an undergraduate of Queen's College,
about 1676, and with it observed a sunspot.
In 1769 Prof. Thomas Hornsby tried to
observe the transit of Venus from his
primitive premises on the Schools' Tower r
and others used the tower of New College
(which together with the Cloisters, &c., had
been used by Charles I. as his magazine)
and other prominent buildings for the same
purpose. So difficult was the observation,
that Dr. Hornsby seized the opportunity to
represent the inconvenience to the Trustees
of the great benefactor, Dr. John Radcliffe,
with the happy result that the Trustees built
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the new Observatory (begun in 1772), and
completely fitted it out with the most perfect
instruments which could then be procured
(r\ 'A History of the Oxford Museum,'
1909, by H. M. and K. D. Vernon, pp. 20-2).
Thus at last the aspiration of the first
Astronomy Professor, Dr. Bainbridge, was
fulfilled, and the University obtained her
first permanent house of Astronomy.
A. R.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, p. 3.)
NEXT in the list (p. 5) come two Troops of
Horse Grenadier Guards, formed in 1693 and
1702 respectively, each having an establish-
ment of
1 Colonel,
1 Lieutenant Colonel,
Major,
2 Captains,
1 Guidon,
2 Lieutenants,
and 165 N.C.O.s and men.
The two troops were disbanded in 1788,
" and their lists of Coloneh include some of"
the most noted soldiers of the day" (1).
They are the only units in which there
was an officer styled " Guidon." The word
signified a standard, of the kind carried by
cavalry regiments, and hence the officer whxv
carried it ; latterly it meant only a rank,,
evolved much in the same way as the
" Ensign " of infantry regiments.
Further information about any of these
officers would be welcome.
The officers of the two Troops were : —
First Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Guidon
Lieutenants
Lieut. Gen. James Dormer
Charles Pawlet
Lewis Dejean
/Thomas Forth ..
! John Duvernet
William Twysden
f Courthorpe Clayton
I William Strickland
Dates of their present commissions..
10 Feb. 1737-8.
3 April 1733.
12 June 1731.
2 Nov. 1727.
2 Oct. 1731.
ditto.
ditto.
18 July 1732.
! Second Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards.
Francis E. of Efflngham (2) . .
William Duckett
William Elliot
( William Brereton
I William Clarke
Rt. Hon. Tho. Ld. Howard (3)
( John Randall
"» John Keate
(1) 'The Extinct Regiments of the British Army,' A. E. Sewell, 1887.
(2) 7th Baron Howard, of Effingham, and 1st Earl of Effingham.
(8) Only son of the Earl of Effingham.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Guidon
Lieutenants
21 June 1737.
15 Mar. 1729.
13 July 1737.
14 Mar. 1733-4.
7 Jan. 1738-9.
ditto.
14 Mnr. 1733-4.
9 Aug. 1734.
The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards comes next (p. 6) with the officers here-
following : —
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. Dates of their present commissions.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . .
Captains
Field Marshal D. of Argyll (1)
John Wyville
Gregory Beake
Charles Jenkinson (2)
Sir James Chamberlaine (3)
John Gilbert
John Bennett
James Madan
Thomas Markham
6 Aug. 1733.
29 Jan. 1733-4.
ditto.
5 Feb. lTtt-8,
20 Jan. 1730-1.
20 April 1732.
29 Jan. 1733-4.
30 April 1734.
18 Julv 1737.
(1) John, 2nd Duke of Argyll- He was also Duke of Greenwich (1719).
(2) Third son of Sir Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Bart., of Walcot, Oxfordshire, and Hawkmhiiry. Olo(u
He wis father of Charles J., 1st Baron Hawkeshury (1786). and 1st Earl of Liverpool (1790).
(3) Or Chamberlayne, 4th Baronet. The Baronetcy became extinct in 1776.
44
NOTES AND QUERIES. 12 s. n. JULY is, wie.
Lieutenants
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards (continued).
Captain Lieutenant Charles Shipman
'Thomas Taylor
Richard Wenman
John Lloyd
John Guy
Theodore Hoste (4)
Henry Miget
Robert Ramsden (5)
.John Mercer
John Powlett
John Fitzwilliams
John Needham . .
William Campbell
Thomas Sweetenham
Hugh Forbes
George Eyres
Henry Rolt
. O'Carroll .
Cornets
<4) Of Ingoldisthorpe Hall, Norfolk. His grandson was Admiral Sir
(5) Fourth son of Sir William Ramsden, 2nd Baronet.
Dates of their present commissions.
18 July 1737.
14 Jan. 1720-1.
9 Sept, 1720.
12 Dec. 1728.
29 Jan. 1733-4.
7 May 1734.
18 July 1737.
18 July 1737.
9 July 173Q.
2 Oct. 1731.
20 April 1732.
ID May 1732.
29 Jan. 1733-4.
17 May 1736.
18 July 1737.
ditto.
12 Aug. 1737.
9 July 1739.
William Hoste, 1st Baronet.
The rank of Captain- Lieutenant was given
-to the senior Lieutenant in a regiment, but
carried no extra pay with it. See the note
on it by MB. R. PIEBPOINT at 11 S. xi. 187.
The word " Cornet," meaning a rank
in the Army, is derived from " cornet,"
the standard of a troop of cavalry. In early
days the Captain of every troop of cavalry
had his own cornet or standard, which was
carried by the junior officer of the troop,
who was hence called Cornet.
The analogy is much the same as the
" drums and fifes " of a regiment, really
meaning the drummers and fifers, or
" cover " at cricket, for the man who is
fielding at cover-point.
" The King's own Regiment of Horse,"
which comes next (p. 6), with the same
establishment of officers as the preceding
regiment, was formed in 1685, and is now
designated the " 1st (King's) Dragoon
Guards."
The officers were : —
The King's own Regiment of Horse.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Earl of Pembroke (1)
John Brown
Martin Madan . .
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Dates of their present commissions.
22 June 1733.
. . .. 30 June 1737.
14 June 1734.
11 Sept. 1721.
7 May 1734.
19 May 1736.
21 Dec. 1738.
ditto.
{George Furnese
Timothy Carr
Robert "Watts ..
Nathaniel Smith
Henry Harvey . . . . . .
• (2)
Charles Bembow 21 Dec. 1738.
(Thomas Strudwick 10 Feb. 1721-2.
Richard Jones 18 Nov. 1729.
Thomas Merriden . . . . . . 25 Dec. 1734.
William Thompson 20 Jan. 1735-6.
William Lacombe 19 May 1736.
Charles Shrimpton Boothby . . . . 7 July 1737.
George Harvey 21 Dec. 1738.
iHenry Devic 5 Mar. 1738-9.
/•Edward Draper 2 Aug. 1734.
William Fitzwilliams 25 Dec. 1734.
William Page 20 Jan. 1735-6.
John Boscawin . . . . . . . . 17 May 1736.
Philip Browne 7 July 1737.
Thomas Wallis 21 Mar. 1737-8.
James Wharton 21 Dec. 1738.
George Allcroft 5 Mar. 1738-9.
William Lightfoot .. ... .. 1 Nov. 1739.
(1) Henry, 9th Earl of Pembroke, and 6th Earl of Montgomery.
(2) One captaincy is vacant.
Cornets
12 s. ii. JULY is, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
45
Tliis is followed by two regiments of horse
(p. 7), each having the following establish-
ment of officers : —
Colonel,
Lieutenant Colonel,
Major,
1
1
1
3 Captains,
1 Captain Lieutenant,
5 Lieutenants,
6 Cornets.
The officers in 1740 were : —
The first, " The Queen's own Regiment of
Horse," was formed in 1685, and is now
designated the " 2nd Dragoon Guards
(Queen's Bays)."
Cannon's ' Historical Records of the
British Army ' says that in 1727 the title
of the regiment was changed to " The
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Horse,"
but in this list the word " Royal " does not
appear.
The Queen's own Regiment of Horse.
Dates of their
present commissions.
(1)
Richard Whitworth . 1 Jan. 1717-8..
Peter Naizon ... 21 May 1733.
( Charles Otway ... 1 July 1721.
-{Anthony Rankins . 21 May 1733.
(.Philip Anstruthers (2) . 12 July 1739.
Francis Hull ... 21 May 1733.
( Robert Stringer . 2 Jan. 1722-3-
I Wadham Wyndham . 5 April 1732.
{William Chaworth . 21 May 1733
I Solomon Stevenson . 13 May 1735.
I Somerville . 23 July 1737.
/Chambers Dashwood (3) 5 April 1732.
Joseph Ash ... 21 May 1733.
I James Campbell . 14 May 1735.
1 Earl of Hume (4) . 13 May 1735.
John Cope ... 23 July 1737.
^ Charles Henry Lee . 29 Oct. 1739.
(1) John, 2nd Duke of Montagu, K.G., K.B., was appointed to the Colonelcy on 6 May, 1740..
From 1740 until the time of his death in 1749, he was Master-General of the Ordnance. At his death
Uie Dukedom became extinct.
(2) Probably a misprint for Anstruther.
(3) The Christian name is probably Chamberlayne. In a MS. note on the interleaf Chamberlayn*
Dashwood is shown as Lieutenant of 16 April, 1741. Sir Robert Dashwood, 1st Bart., of Northbrook,
Oxfordshire, married in 1682 Penelope, daughter of Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, Bart. Their eldest
son was named Chamberlayne. He died in 1743. This is probably the man.
(4) William, 8th Earl of Home, otherwise Hume (' D.N.B.').
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List)-
(To be continued.)
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains . . . .
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim ; 12 S. i. 65, 243, 406.)
PIONEERS AND PHILANTHBOPISTS (continued).
G. J. HOLYOAKE.
Brighton. — A tablet placed by the Co-
operative Union on Eastern Lodge, Camel-
ford Road, was dedicated by Mr. E. O.
Greening on July 17, 1915. It is thus
inscribed : —
George
Jacob Holyoake
Social Reformer
and Co-operator
lived here from
1881 to his death
hi 1906.
Miss M. E. HAYES.
Raheny, co. Dublin. — A granite wheel1
cross of Celtic design has been erected to her
memory in her native place. It is thus
inscribed : —
(On shaft.) Heal the sick, say unto them,
the Kingdom of God is come unto you.
(On base.) Marie Elizabeth Hayes, Doctor
and Missionary. Born at Raheny nectory.
17 May, 1874. Died at Delhi, 4 January, 11
Friends have given this cress in memory oi bet
work in India.
46
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 15,
ROBERT RAIKES.
London. — In 1880 a statue of Robert
Raikes was placed in the Villiers Street
section of the Victoria Embankment Gardens,
«nd unveiled by the Earl of Shaft esbury on
-July 3. It is the work of Thomas Brock, and
cost 1,2001., contributed by the children and
teachers of about 4,000 Sunday schools
throughout the country. Raikes is re-
presented " in the costume of his own day,
standing erect, and teaching from a book
which he holds in one hand, while with the
other he emphasizes the lesson." On the
jgranite pedestal is the following inscrip-
tion : —
Robert Raikes,
Founder of Sunday Schools
1780.
This statue was erected
under the direction of
the Sunday School Union
by contributions
from, teachers and scholars
of Sunday Schools in Great
Britain, July, 1880.
(See 7 S. iv. 472, s.v. Byron.)
The Mall, Netting Hill Gate.— In front of
"Essex Unitarian Church is a pedestal con-
taining a representation of a schoolboy
seated, and holding a Bible in his hand. The
figure was sculptured by Hugh Stannus, and
was removed to its present position in 1887.
It formerly stood in front of the Unitarian
Church in Essex Street, Strand, where it
was unveiled by Henry Richard, M.P., on
June 26, 1880. The pedestal contains
appropriate texts of Scripture and the
following inscription : —
Erected
.to commemorate the Christian efforts
of the
Originators of Sunday Schools
: [Members of various Churches]
from the time of
Cardinal Borromeo
1580
to that of
Theophilus Lindsey & Robert Raikes,
1780;
in gratitude to God
"or His blessing on Sunday School labours
during the past century ;
and in fervent hope
'•that the time may soon come when differences
of i .pinion
will no longer separate disciples of Christ
in works of usefulness.
1880
Twelve names of Sunday-school originators
are carved on the sides of the pedestal.
Gloucester. — Robert Raikes is buried in
'the family vault in the south aisle of the
Church of St. Mary-de-Crypt. Near the
site of the grave a marble tablet is placed.
It commemorates his parents, and also bears
the following inscription relating to him-
self :—
Roberti etiam horum Filii natu maxiini
Qui Scholis Sabbatiois
hie primum a se institutis
necnon apud alios
felici opera studioque suo commondatis [*('<•]
Obiit die Apr: 5to
ATfSalutis 1811
Anno\^:tatis SUJE 75.
SIB TITUS SALT.
Bradford. — This statue was raised at a
cost of 3,0001., the subscriptions ranging from
Id. to 51. It was originally erected in front
of the Town Hall, but has since been removed
to a site in Manningham Park. The
sculptor was the late John Adams Acton,
end it was unveiled by the Duke of Devon-
shire on Aug. 3, 1874. Sir Titus is repre-
sented with his right arm resting on the chair
in which he is sitting, and in his left hand he
holds a scroll displaying the plan of Saltaire.
The canopy was" designed by Messrs.
Lockwood & Mawson in harmony with the
character of the building near which it
originally stood.
" The base of the canopy is 17 ft. square, and
upon it rests the pedestal of the statue, 5 ft. high.
From the four corners of the base rise grouped
shafts of granite supporting the arches, and over
each of the shafts is a crocketed pinnacle. The
canopy itself is composed of four large stones,
which form a groined roof with moulded ribs,
and a large pendant cross in the centre. The
arches contain statuettes, each with its symbol,
representing Justice, Prudence, Temperance, and
Charity, and the whole is surmounted by a spire
40 ft. high."
QUINTIN HOGG.
London. — Close by the Polytechnic In"
fititution in Langham Place. W., a bronze
statue of the founder was unveiled by the
late Duke of Argyll on Nov. 24, 1906.
is the work of Sir George Frampton, and
represents Quintin Hogg seated, and reading
from a book to two boys. The pedestal is
thus inscribed : —
Quintin Hogg
1843-1903
Erected by the Members of the
Regent Street Polytechnic to the
Memory of their Founder.
I take this opportunity of thanking the
following gentlemen for valued help ren-
dered : Mr. W. J. Mercer, F.R.Hist.S., Mr.
Ernest H. H. Shorting, Mr. John Hamson,
Mr. George Guest, Mr. Roland Austin, and
others. JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
(To be continued.)
128. II. JULY 15, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
47
THACKERAY AND ' THE TIMES.' — I cannot
claim to be a learned Thackerayan, so am
unable to say whether the following passage
has been noted by the latest bibliographers
of the writer : —
" Thackeray came to the evening rehearsal and
told me that he had written the criticism on ' Mac-
beth' in Tke^Times, but that much of it had been
cut out — that in what he wrote of Bulwer every
word of praise was omitted. How sick 1 am of
that scoundrel paper ! " — 'The Diaries of William
•Charles Macready, 1833-51,' ed. by W. Toynbee,
London, 1912; entry of April 14, 1838.
So far as I can see there is no reference
to this article (perhaps there are two) in the
bibliography attached to Mr. Melville's
second life of the novelist (1910). But this
is not surprising, seeing that the first edition
of the ' Macready Papers ' (which appeared
in 1875 under the supervision of Sir F.
Pollock) contained only selections from the
-diaries, &c., and omitted this particular
entry. H. O.
"AGED 100" AT GUSSAGE ST. T ANDREW.
— St. Andrew's Chapel, Handley, Dorset, is
of partly Norman, partly Early English
architecture. It stands close to Chapel
Farm, which includes the long, mediaeval
barn once belonging to Shaftesbury Abbey,
and now called " the stables." Beneath the
Holy Table at its east end the visitor
reads : —
Gulielmus Williams de
Woodcotte Generos' extremu
suum diem clausit Nouembr
ye 17th 1725 Aged 100.
The transition from Latin to English
suggests that all but the English words were
«ut " ante mortem predicti Gulielmi." The
survival in 1725 of the mediaeval shortening
of " generosus, extremum " is also notable.
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford Union Society, Oxford.
MUMBO JUMBO. — According to the
"* N.E.D.' the origin of this expression is
unknown. This statement is inaccurate ;
not only do the authorities cited — Moore
and Mungo Park — locate the custom among
the western Mandingo, as is proved by one
•of the citations in the Dictionary itself,
-but it can be stated with some certainty
1 hat jumbo or jombo is a tree, probably
Diospyros mespiliformis, the root of which is
used in magic by societies of women with the
object of curing a disease said to be caused
by water spirits (Monteil, ' Les Khassonke,'
p. 227 sq.). As the mama jombo (anglicized
into Mumbo Jumbo) is, besides being a
blacksmith and a dancer, the operator in a
lite connected with the initiation of girls,
there are good grounds for connecting his
name as initiator with that of the tree, the
more so as he also practises what we call
white magic, or, in other word*--, protects
people against witches.
Mama jombo is found among the Soninke
and Khassonke and possibly other Mandingo
tribes. X. W. THOMAS.
Egwoba, Manorarate Road. Norbiton.
SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF MONUMENTAL IN-
SCRIPTIONS AND HERALDRY IN THE CLOISTER,
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL: BAKER MANUSCRIPTS
COLLECTION. (See 12 S. i. 425.) — Among
the MSS. mentioned at this reference
has been found a square 8vo MS. vol. of
some 138 numbered pp. Of these pp. 49-138
record all the inscriptions in the Cloisters,
the Cloister Green, and Close. The following
is a complete index to the inscriptions con-
tained therein. An asterisk shows those with
arms : —
Adams
Adey
Adlam
Adney
Alt'ord
Andrews
Angel
Arney
Attwood
Baker
Barker
Barter
Bassett
Bazley
Bell
Bennett
Benson
Biddlecombe
Bingham
Bouverie
Bowen
Bowes
Boyle
Bradley
Briggs'
Briscoe
Broderick
Brooke
Brown
Buckeridge
Burch
Buruis
Cane
Chapeau
Child
Clarke
Clendon
Coates
Cobb
Coleridge
Collis
Coney
Cooke
Coombs
Copeman
INDEX.
Corfe
Creser
Cunningham
Cyril
Da vies
Day
Dee
Denison
Dodsworth
Donne
Dowland
Edwards
Ekins
Emly
Eyre
Fagan
Fawcett
Finley
Fisher
Fitzgerald
Forcyth
Frizell
Fruin
Fry
Gast
Gilbert
Godwin
Golding
Goodwin
Gordon
Gould
Greenly
Grove
G rover
Guy
Hamilton
Hammick
Hammond
Hancock
Harding
Han is
Hayward
Head
Heathoote
Hedger
Hibbard
Hillman
Hinton
Hodgson
Hole
Hooker
Hosken
Hoskens
Houghton
Hussey
Ingram
Jacob
Jennings
Judd
Keith
Kellow
Kelsey
Kerrick
King
Lacey
Law
Lawe(s)
Layard
Lear
Lee
Lemon
Lewis
Loder
Lucas
Lush
*Luxford
MacCobb
Macdonald
Marryatt
Matthews
Mee
Muldleton
Milles
Moberley
Money
Moody
Mount
Munkhouse
Muiwell
.V- Y.e
48
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 15, ioi&
INDEX (continued).
Nodder
Norton
Nowell
Oakley
Oliver
Osmond
Ottaway
Parker
Pearee
Perkins
Perry
Phelps
Plucknett
Poore
Pothecary
Price
Prior
Read
Renaud
Repton
Richards
Richardson
Rigden
Robinson
Rogers
Ruddle
Satchwell
Seymer
Simpson
Snook
Standly
Stevens
Stewart
Stock
Sturgess
Swayne
Sweet
Tapp
Taylor
Thomas
Thompson
Titball
Todd
Tooke
Townsend
Turner
Vanderplank
Verrinder
Walker
Wapshare
Wenyere
White
*VVickins
Wilkins
Wilkinson
Williams
Wilson
Wyndham
Yarham
Young
INSCRIPTIONS WHICH HAVE DISAPPEARED.
Adlam
Albert
Cloterbrooke
Dyer
Glover
Golding
Goode
Goodridge
Horner
Hunt
Jay
Judd
Powell
Price
Smedmore
Wentworth
Wilson
Wise
H. B. W.
ASIAGO. — The name of this place now
figures prominently in Italian and Austrian
bulletins of war. It was, and probably still
is, the chief place of a little district in the
mountains north of Vicenza, and a century
ago was inhabited by a Teutonic colony
known under the name of the " Sieben
Perghe " or " Sette Communi." W. S.
Rose, writing to Henry Hallam from Vicenza,
in October, 1817, gives a description of their
folk-lore and customs, some of which —
according to him — remind one of some of the
Celtic usages. The following is worthy of
notice : —
" If a man dies by violence, instead of clothing
him as the dead are usually clothed, they lay him
out with a hat upon his head and shoes upon his
feet, seeking to give him the appearance of a way-
faring man, perhaps as symbolizing one surprised
in the great journey of life."
In an episcopal visit to Asiago, in 1597,
the statement occurs that " Cimbros se esse
asserunt," and, according to Rose,Bossuet's
catechism has been translated into their
dialect and published under the title : " Dar
kloane Catechismo vor dez Beloseland
vortra'ghet in z'gaprecht von Siben Perghen.
In Seminarien von Padebe, 1813." A
vocabulary has been printed by Marco Pezzo
P. Veronese in his ' Dei Cimbri Veronesi, e
Vicentini ' (3rd edition, Verona, 1763)
According to a German author, King
Frederick IV. of Denmark visited them in
1709, and found that the language spoken at
lis own Court was not so polished as that
ieard by him in the " Sette Communi."
According to Baedeker, however, they all
ipeak Italian in our days. See W. S. R(ose),.
Letters from the North of Italy ' (London,.
1819), voL i. pp. 247 et seq. ; J. A. Cramer's
Italy' (1826), i. 125; Josiah Conder's
Italy' (1831), ii. 107.
It is a curious coincidence that the
>erman name of Transylvania is also
Siebenbuergen ; the seven burghs are
represented by seven castles in the coat of
arms of that ancient principalitv.
L. L. K.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
brmation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
n order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" STILL LIFE." — This term, in its very
Deculiar use with reference to painting,' is
arobably, like many other terms of fine art,,
m importation from Dutch, which has the
equivalent stilleven (compare the German.
Still-kben). It does not seem easy to
explain quite satisfactorily how the designa-
tion " still life " has come to be applied only
to lifeless objects as a subject for painting.
Does the history of the term in Dutch throw
any light on the question ?
The oldest example of the term in English
known to me is of date 1695. Can any
earlier instance be found ?
^ , , HENRY BRADLEY.
Oxiord.
FLETCHER FAMILY. — Joseph Fletcher, of
Ballyboy, King's County, married Elizabeth
Kershaw, had a son Richard, born 1798 ;
also a cousin Joseph Fletcher of Tullamore,
1779, married Sarah Higgins of Dublin,
December, 1798, died at Carlow, Ireland,.
1842; had a son William, born (c.) 1807,.
married, at Dublin, Elizabeth Smith.
Ancestors of above with dates of birth,
&c., will be appreciated.
WM. J. FLETCHEB.
1433 Jackson Street. San Francisco.
AUTHOR WANTED. — There is a verse
whose refrain goes something like this : —
These the qualities that shine
In the Barons of the Rhine.
The qualities are pleasingly enumerated,,
and that and the lilt of the verse tell me
that it must be a ballad of Thackeray's, but
I cannot find it in the only copy I have left.
It would be kind if any one could help
me on such very scanty data. B. B — T.
i2s.ii.JuLTi5,i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
49
SEM, CABICATUBIST. — I shall be obliged
if any reader of ' N. & Q.' can give me the
proper name of this artist and some account
of his life, when and where he died, &c. I
have seen portraits, mostly caricatures,
signed " Sem " from about 1850 to 1875,
but I cannot identify his personality.
JOHN LANE.
H. B. KEB, ABTIST. — I recently acquired
twenty-seven dry-point etchings of Wimble-
don Common and Park and Windsor Long
Walk, &c., by this artist, all about 1812. As
I cannot find his name in any list of ex-
hibitors, I hope some correspondent of
' N. & Q.' may be able to give me some
information about him and his work, when
he died, &c. Some of these etchings are
quite fine, and surely something must be
known of an artist so accomplished.
JOHN LANE.
The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
' HISTOIBE NATUBELLE,' BY FBANCIS
BACON. — In 1631 there was published in
Paris (" chez Antoine de Sommaville et
Andre Soubron ") a book by Bacon entitled
' Histoire Naturelle.' It is entirely in
French, and has prefixed to it a ' Life of
Bacon,' the first to appear after his departure
in 1626. It is highly praised and quoted
from by Gilbert Wats in the forewords to his
English edition of Bacon's ' Advancement of
Learning,' 1640, and is referred to with
respect by James and Isaac Gruter, who
brought out editions of Bacon's works at
Leyden, 1648-61. It formed the subject of
correspondence between Isaac Gruter and
William Rawley (Bacon's secretary) in
letters that have been preserved to us by
Tenison in ' Baconiana, 1679. I mention
these facts in order to show that, though this
book has been quite neglected by modern
English writers on Bacon — Montagu, Sped-
ding, Hepworth Dixon, J. M. Robertson,
&c. — it was, at the time it was written, in
first-class repute in literary circles. It has
never been translated into English, though
in my book, ' Bacon's Secret Disclosed,'
1911, I gave a translation of the ' Life.'
Bacon makes some interesting statements
in the book. At p. 116, when speaking of
echoes he says : —
" and 1 remember that near Edinburgh in Scotland
there is one of them that repeats completely the
Pater Noster from the beginning to the end."
Such a remarkable echo as this must have
been well known, one would think. The
Pater Noster was, as I understand, repeated
all in one ; and I should think that so delicate
an echo must have been in some building.
I should be much interested to know if any
one has come across any allusion to tlii's
echo in any old book or any account of old
buildings. I have a recollection, going
back some fifty years, that there was a
wonderful echo in Dunkeld Cathedral.
The following gruesome fact Bacon also
records. In Book VI. chap, v., ' Du
mouvement de quelques animaux apres leur
mort,' at p. 373 he says : —
"1 have seen, nevertheless, in Scotland the body
of a gentleman, very big and powerful, who had
had his head cut off: which, being placed
at once in a wooden coffin, burst it with great
force. But of that I cannot give the explanation."
Such a very strange occurrence as this
should be remembered in the Scotch family
to which the unfortunate gentleman be-
longed. Can any one give the reference ?
It is the sort of incident that Sir Walter
Scott would have delighted in recording in
a foot-note. If the time of the execution of
this gentleman could be known, we should
have the date of Bacon's visit to Scotland,
as well as the place that he was at ; and I
do not know that there is anywhere else
any record of Bacon's going to Scotland.
GBANVILLE C. CUNINOHAM.
MUSICAL QUEBIES. — 1. Major and Minor.
— It is popularly believed that in music the
major key always expresses cheerfulness,
and the minor key sadness. In refutation
of this it is pointed out that ' Oh, Ruddier
than the Cherry,' is typically cheerful,
though in a minor key ; while ' The Dead
March ' in ' Saul,' which is decidedly solemn,
melancholy, and dirge-like, is in a major key.
I should be glad of other similar examples,
i.e., of cheerful tunes in the minor key, and
doleful ones in the major key.
2. ' The March of the Men of Harlech.'-
What was the origin of this tune ? It has
been said there were no men of Harlech, and
therefore no march of them !
ALFBED S. E. ACKEBMANN.
GABBICK'S GBANT OF ABMS.— What is the
exact date of David Garrick's grant of
arms and crest ? And was a motto in-
cluded ? S. A. GRUNDY-XEWMAV.
Walsall.
COLOUBS OF BADGE OF THE EABLS or
WABWICK.— -Can any of your readers tell
if the bear and ragged staff— badge of 1
house of Beauchamp, Earls of Warwick-
is of any particular colour ? The statt, J.
believe, is argent, but what colour
bear ? H. L HALL.
22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W.
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' THE MAN WITH THE HOE.' — Can any of
your readers tell me when and by whom this
poem was written, and when it appeared ?
I see extracts from it in a book of ' Familiar
Quotations,' and it is ascribed to Edwin
Markham (b. 1852). The name of this poet
is quite unknown to me, though probably
this fact argues " myself unknown."
J. WlLLCOCK.
Lerwick.
SCARLET GLOVES AND TRACTARIANS. (See
II S. viii. 509.) — Under this heading I asked
in 1913 why Henry Kingsley in ' Leighton
Court ' makes the wife of a Tractarian vicar
wear scarlet gloves in deference to her
husband's orders. I have just discovered a
passage in S. Baring-Gould's ' Life of the
Rev. R. S. Hawker,' in which, describing
Hawker's appearance, the author says :
" His gloves were crimson. He wore these
in church as well as elsewhere." And later
he speaks of the vicar's blood-red hands in
church. As ' Leighton Court ' is about that
part of the country, it is probable that an
allusion to the vicar was intended by Henry
Kingsley. But this does not solve the
problem, why did the vicar wear crimson or
scarlet gloves ? M. H. DODDS.
Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.
ABBE PATIL PEYRON'S ' ANTIQUITIES OF
NATIONS.' — -The English translator of this
work is said to have been a Mr. Jones.
Who was he ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
DENMARK COURT. — The Jewish Chronicle
lately mentioned a synagogue being situated
in Denmark Court. I cannot find any
reference to a court so named in any map
of London, either old or modern. Perhaps
one of your readers will kindly enlighten me.
MAURICE JONAS.
SYMBOLS ATTACHED TO SIGNATURES. — In
the Guildhall in Rye is preserved the original
agreement made between Oliver Cromwell
and the citizens of Rye. The signatures of
the latter are in many cases accompanied
by varying signs or symbols such as an
anchor, &c. Are these signs trade badges, or
what are they ? GRAHAM MIL WARD.
77 Colmore Row, Birmingham.
PAYNE FAMILY. — Jonathan Payne (Paine),
a Quaker, married Anne , had a daughter
Henrietta, baptized May 31, 1778, Ballin-
temple, Tullow, co. Carlow, and a son Jonas,
married April 25, 1804, at Urghlin, Carlow,
Martha Bunbury. His will was dated June
24, 1 830. He had a (?) cousin, Caleb Payne,
of Colbinstown, co. Kildare, married Sarah
Svans in 1767. Will, proved Dec. 14, 1808,
' mentions large sums of money due to him
?y Royal Canal Co., Lord de Clifford, Earl of
kVestmeath, and others " ; also a relative,
''aroline Payne, a widow, married Wm. Ber-
nard, 1764, at Carlow. I should be greatly
obliged by any particulars concerning these
ramilies, parentage, dates of birth, &c., and
heir exact relationship.
E. C. FlNLAY.
1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.
BLESSED WILLIAM OF ASSIST. — Anthony
Parkinson, in his ' Collectanea Anglo-
Minoritica ' (London, 1726), at pp. 33-4,
sub anno 1232, writes : —
" Br. William Anglicus departed this Life now-
He was an English Frier of extraordinary Learning,
and is said to have been a Doctor of Divinity ; but
was yet more famous for the Holiness of his Life ;
which was attested by many undoubted Proofs ;
For, he was a ThaumcUnryus for supernatural Gifts
ana Miracles, both whilst living and after his
Departure out of this Life : so that he seemed to
out-doe his Founder S1 Francis, One of whose
Disciples and Companions he was. He died at
Atsisium, and was buried in the lower Church of
the Friers Minor there, near the Body of Sc Francis.
The Franciscan Martyrologe, on the 7th day of
March, has this Character of him, viz. Beatus
Gulidmus, eximioe Perfectionis Vir ; qui Sanctitate
<L- Miractilis, turn in Vita, turn po*t Obttum, maxime
daruit. That Author quotes more Vouchers than
can be here inserted."
Southey, in his ' Commonplace Book,'
2nd Series, p. 395, says : —
" Guelherme Anglico, who was elected in'the room
of Joao Capella the Judas, worked so many miracles
after his death that to keep peace in the convent
Fr..Elias, the general of the order, was obliged to
beg he would work no more — it brought such a
rabble there. Dead as well as alive he was
obedient, 189. A like story of Fr. and Pedro
Cataneo. Cornejo, vol. i. p. 356."
What is the authority cited by Southey ?
Have recent Franciscan studies thrown
any light on William the Englishman, the
Beato of Assisi ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
THE NEVILLE HERALDRY. — " Or, fretty
gules " (with various cantons), is given as the
ancient coat of the Nevilles ; one blazon
being " Or, fretty gules, a canton ermine,"
which is precisely the same as that of the
Noels. Were the Noels originally Nevilles ?
Their crest, " a stag statant," seems to have
some reference to the Nevilles' old office as
Warden of the King's Forests north of
Trent.
The present bull's head crest of the
Nevilles is derived from the Bulmers, and
the late J. R. Planche ingeniously deduced
the shield of the Raby branch from the
128. II. JULY 1.3, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
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FitzMaldreds, who derived it, according
to tradition, from their great-grandfather
•Cospatric, Earl of Northumberland.
The arms of the Nevilles of Raby, Earls
of Westmorland, were : " Gules, a saltire
urgent " ; the arms of the French General
Neuville, the present gallant defender of
Verdun, are : " Gules, a saltire or." Is
there any connexion ?
It is obvious that the ship which appears
upon the canton at times, and also as a
family badge, is merely a rebus upon the
'name, Nef (a ship), Neufville, Nefville, and
does not commemorate the helmsman
Neville who steered the Conqueror to our
shores. ALFRED RODWAY.
Birmingham.
FAMILY OF HEWITT OR HEWETT. — Can
any of your readers tell me what became of
the late Col. J. F. N. Hewett's collection of
fe.mily pedigrees ? His intention was, I
understand, to have published these privately,
but his death prevented this.
He was a frequent contributor to ' N. & Q.'
in its early days (1850). H. F. HEWITT.
Standard Bank, Port Elizabeth, S.A.
THE CITY CORONER AND
TREASURE-TROVE.
(12 S. i. 483.)
ALTHOUGH treasure- trove is "an obscure
subject, which, almost untouched by legis-
lation, is peculiarly sterile in case law "
(W. Martin, The Law Quarterly Review, 1904,
vol. xx. p. 27), one would suggest, with
deference, that a coroner is invested with
jurisdiction by reason of the geographical
position of the place of concealment, or
alleged concealment, and that his right to
hold an inquisition, to establish or negative
discovery of hidden treasure, is not defeated
by the removal of such treasure beyond that
•officer's territorial limits.
This view would seem to be supported by
J. Brooke Little : —
"The duty of a coroner with regard to treasure-
trove is to go where treasure is said to be found,
and to issue his warrant for summoning a jury to
appear before him in a certain place " — Hals-
bury's 'Laws of England,' vol. viii. p. 247.
In the case of Att.-Gen. v. Moore, 1893,
1 Ch. 676, Sir J. Rigby, for the Crown, in
arguendo, said (p. 681) : —
" We do not seek to interfere with the coroner
af he chooses to hold another inquest but we
desire to have the articles protected by being
brought into Court, until the title of the Crown
can be tried."
Counsel for the coroner contra : —
" The coroner is only anxious to do his duty, and
he cannot hold his inquest without having posses-
sion of the plate in question,"
but he cited no authority for this proposi-
tion. The late Mr. Justice Stirling, towards
the end of his judgment, observed : —
" The learned counsel for the coroner has asked
me that he may not be deprived of the articles
until after the inquest which he proposes to hold.
I think that is reasonable "
His lordship, be it noted, acceded to the
coroner's request on the ground of con-
venience, not on any supposition that
without the articles the inquest would be
abortive and of none effect.
The learned City Coroner is, of course,
entirely correct in saying that it is the High
Court only that has jurisdiction to determine
questions of title to treasure-trove (Att.-
Gen. v. Moore supra) ; but it may be ex-
pedient, in a case where the parties concerned
are not agreed that the circumstances of the
discovery point to treasure-trove, to have a
finding of a coroner's jury on the facts,
albeit their conclusions are traversable
(Garnett v. Ferrand, 1828, 6 Barnewall and
CressweJl's Reports, p. 611). It would
appear to be a more commendable course,
therefore, for the City Coroner and his jury
to consider the evidence of the City Police
(if possessed of any) than to have it laid
before the County Purposes Committee,
who are not a Court of Record.
It may well be that there exist great
practical difficulties in summoning a jury
to attend 8 place " where treasure is said
to be found when that place is perhaps
completely covered by buildings subse-
quently erected, but such » state of affairs
cannot affect the question of jurisdiction,
the sole question raised in your columns.
Such subsequently accruing difficulties
serve only to emphasize the advice of Mr.
William Martin : —
" It is of the greatest importance to obtain reli-
able information upon all the circumstances of a
finding, circumstances which, in particular, include
the condition of the articles themselves, both as
regards their relative position and their position
towards surrounding objects, Since so much
depends upon an adequate knowledge of the
surroundings, no steps should be omitted to
obtain this knowledge at the earliest opportunity.
Information should be first hand, and should be
sought for quickly, before the constant rej>etition
of answers to leading questions has converted
mere inferences into 'undisputed fact*.'" — Ibid.,
supra, p. 33.
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If the learned Coroner's alternative con-
tention be that there may exist jurisdiction,
but that no one has placed sufficient prima
facie evidence before him to invoke his aid
( ' Committee on Treasure-Trove,' Transac-
tions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific
Societies, 1915, p. xxviii), and that he
declines, in the special circumstances of this
case, to put himself in motion, then the
Coroner is exercising a discretion which,
presumably, he is fully entitled to exercise,
and one readers of ' N. & Q.' are probably
not prepared to criticize.
J. PAUL DE CASTBO.
1 Essex Court, Temple.
It seems well worth while to put the
interesting question of the rights and duties
of a Coroner in regard to treasure-trove more
fully before our readers, and that in the manner
in which it was first raised in regard to this
particular find of Elizabethan or Jacobean
jewellery, &c.
The paragraphs immediately following are
taken from p. 5 of Dr. Waldo's Annual
Return for 1914, where he first opened it
up ; and we also reproduce the three ap-
pendixes to that Return (J, K, and L), in
which he further elucidates it.
" I may at this point call the attention of
your Corporation to a matter which concerns
somewhat closely the duties of my Office.
From the circumstances of the case it is at
present impossible to lay before you the precise
facts.
" The matter to which I allude is the alleged
discovery of treasure-trove at some place within
the City boundaries at a date that appears to
have been within the last three or four years.
The articles there found are deposited, so I learn,
in the London Museum, Lancaster House,
St. James's, S.W. They consist of a hoard of
Elizabethan or Jacobean jewellery, rings, neck-
laces, pendants, and the like, set with precious
stones. So far as it can be gathered, the trove
has been secured by the Treasury by a secret
arrangement with a certain person or persons,
and no reference has apparently been made to the
Coroner of the district in which it was found,
whether that district be in the City or elsewhere.
According to ancient law and custom ' it is the
duty of every person who finds any treasure or
has knowledge that any treasure has been found,
to make it known to the Coroner of the district.'*
Further, in my opinion it is the bounden duty of
the Coroner to call a jury and hold an inquest
" * See Treatise by Sir John Jervis on the
Office and Duties of Coroners, 6th ed., p. 109 ;
also Lord Halsbury's ' Laws of England,' vol. vii.,
' Constitutional Law,' 1909, p. 213 ; Chitty's
' Prerogatives of the Crown and the Relative Duties
and Rights of the Subject,' 1820, p. 153 ; the
' Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England,' vol. xiv.,
2nd ed., 1909, p. 229."
upon the alleged treasure-trove. * In the particula r
case of the trove recently placed in the London
Museum, I have to report to your Corporation
that presumably the treasure has been removed
from the City by the Treasury without reference
to my jurisdiction as His Majesty's Coroner for
the City of London and your Officer. The very
fact that I am unable to give more exact
description of the alleged secret removal of
treasure -trove in itself suggests a desire to avoid
public inquisition. It seems fairly obvious that
the interests of the public demand in such cases
a judicial inquiry on oath to ascertain as far as
may be the facts regarding the finding and other
issues involved hi the unearthing of a quantity of
valuable property. The motives of the Treasury
hi securing objects of antiquarian and historical
value are no doubt admirable. It remains for-
your Corporation, however, to determine whether
any action should be taken to defend the juris-
diction of your Coroner's Court against what may
possibly prove on further inquiry to have been an
evasion of the law, and one that, in some cases,,
might conceivably lead to grave abuses as regards
hidden articles. The right of inquiry under such
circumstances was originally assigned to the
Coroner by Edward I. It was by him enacted in
the year 1276 ' that a Coroner ought to inquire
of treasure that is found, who were the finders,
and, likewise, who is suspected of it.' This duty
was reimposed hi Section 36 of The Coroner's Act
of 1887, and is still in force. (See Appendices
J, K, L.)
" I have thought it my duty to report this
matter to the Corporation on what may possibly
prove on further investigation to have constituted
an illegal encroachment by the Treasury upon the
jurisdiction of the Coroner. A formal inquiry
from your Corporation might perhaps elicit from
the Treasurv a precise statement as to the facts
of the case. '
The following are the Appendices referred
to:—
APPENDIX J.
Treasure- trove is denned by Chitty, one of the-
highest authorities on the subject, in his ' Pre-
rogatives of the Crown, and the Relative Duties
and Rights of the Subject,' 1820 (pp. 152 and 153)r
as being " where any gold or silver hi coin, plate r
or bullion is found concealed hi a house, or in the
earth, or other private place, the owner thereof
being unknown, in which case the treasure belongs
to the King or his grantee, having the franchise of
treasure-trove ; but if he that laid it be known,
or afterwards discovered, the owner and not the
King is entitled to it ; this prerogative right only
applying in the absence of an owner to claim the
property. If the owner, instead of hiding the-
" * See 4 Edw. I., Statute 2, translated from
original hi Latin in ' Statutes of the Realm,' 1816,.
vol. ii., pp. 62-64 ; Coroners Act, 1887, s. 36 ; Lord
Halsbury s ' Laws of England,' vol. ix., ' Criminal
Law and Procedure,' 1909, p. 521 ; Umfreville
(Coroner for Middlesex), ' Lex Coronatoria,' 1761,.
vols. i., xlii. and Ix. ; the writer's ' The Ancient
Office of Coroner ' (hi which Bracton, Britton,
Fleta and other ancient authorities are quoted),.
Trans. Med. Leg. Soc., vol. viii., 1910, pp. 109-12,.
and Coroners' Soc. Ann. Report, 1910-11, vol. iv.,.
pp. 241-52."
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treasure, casually lost it, or purposely parted
with it in such a manner that it is evident he
intended to abandon the property altogether, and
did not purpose to resume it on another occasion,
as if he threw it on the ground, or other public
place, or in the sea, the first finder is entitled to
the property as against every one but the owner,
and the King's prerogative does not in this respect
obtain. So that it is the hiding, and not the
abandonment of the property that entitles the
King to it. It is the duty of every person who
finds any treasure to make it known to the
Coroners of the County. The punishment for
concealing it is fine and imprisonment." For
instance, in the case of Beg. v. Thomas and Willett
(1863, IX. Cox's 'Grim. Cas.,'376), the defendants
bought ancient gold ornaments, ploughed up in a
field near Hastings, as brass — knowing it to be
gold — for 5s. 6d. and sold it to a refiner for 5211.
The prisoners were tried on the inquisition of
the Coroner at the assize for having " unlawfully,
wilfully and knowingly " concealed the treasure-
trove from the knowledge of the Queen. They
were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and,
after serving one year in Lewes Gaol, they were
released.
See also, Dalton on ' Sheriffs,' chap. 16,
' Treasure-Trove,' and chap. 7, p. 40, which says
" Where the Lord of any Liberty hath by charter
any franchise there the Sheriffs are not to seize
them." In this connexion it is interesting to
note that Gross, in describing the functions of the
Coroner in his ' Select Cases from the Coroners'
Rolls,' says (p. xxvi) : —
" The Coroner, unlike the Sheriff, who was the
appointed agent of the King, represented not only
the King but also the people. He was answerable
to the King and people. He belonged to the
Community and owed his position to their
suffrage."
On such reasoning it seems only proper that
the Coroner, as the representative of the people
:\* well as of the King, should deal with and
investigate in open Court matters such as treasure
which may belong to either King or subject —
rather than that such property should be appro-
priated by some officer or agent of the Treasury,
often a policeman, acting only hi the King's
interest.
At an inquest on silver plate unearthed in
manorial ground, at Leominster, and handed to
the Coroner, the jury, being unable to agree in a
verdict, were summoned to appear before the late
Mr. Justice Day, at the Assize on Dec. 5, 1892.
Justice Day in his charge to the jury, in supporting
the Coroner, gave expression to the following
significant dictum : — " In cases of grant, the
Crown cannot seize chattels because they are
treasure-trove, and the Coroner is bound to
inquire into the matter and deal with it." (See
Att. Gen. v. Moore, 1893, 1 Ch., 676.)
APPENDIX K.
Treasure-trove hi the City of London, and hi
the ancient Borough and Town of Southwark,
belongs specifically by Royal grant to the Lord
Mayor, Commonalty and Citizens of London.
The fine copy of the Inspeximus Charter (the
criminal of which is hi the City archives), of
June 24, 15 Charles II. (1664), translated from the
original in Latin, made under the direction of Sir
Thomas Hardy in 1838, and preserved hi the
Guildhall Library, recites the City Charters from
the time of William the Conqueror. The three
charters granting treasure-trove are those of
Sept. 20, 6 James I. (1608), of Oct. 18, 14 Charles I.
(1638), and of April 23, 4 Edward VI. (1550).
Charles II. confirms the above charters of James I.
and Charles I. (at p. 159 of the copy of the Inspexi-
mus Charter of Charles II.) in the following
words : " We do give and grant to the Mayor,
Commonalty and Citizens and their successors,
treasure-trove hi the City of London, or the
Liberties thereof ; and also all Waifs and Estrays,
and goods and chattels of Felons and Fugitives
....in the City or the Liberties thereof."
Charles II., at p. 92, recites and confirms
Edward VI. Charter, as follows : " We have given
and granted to the Mayor and Commonalty and
Citizens of the City and their successors hi and
through all the Borough and Town of Southwark
... .all goods and chattels waived, estrays, and
also Treasure-trove hi the Town and precinct
aforesaid, and goods and chattels of all manner of
Traitors, Felons, Fugitives, Outlaws, condemned
persons, Convicts and Felons defamed. .. .and
deodands, and those denying the Law of our
Land, &c."
By " waifs " are to be understood stolen goods
which are waived or thrown away by the thief in
his flight from fear of being apprehended. Such
goods became the property of the King or his
grantee, unless the owner prosecuted promptly.
" Estrays " are stray cattle and swans, which,
in return for the damage they may have done,,
belong to the King or his grantee if unclaimed,,
after public proclamation, within a year and a
day.
The deodand, or gift to God, or " bane (Anglo-
Saxon bana), i.e., the slayer, hi English, was the
animal or inanimate thing causing death by mN-
adventure. The value of the deodand, appraised
by the Coroner's jury, became, up to the year 18-16
(when it was abolished) the property of the King-
In Southwark it belonged by special grant to the
City of London, but not in the C&Y-
Goods and chattels of felons (including felot-df-
se), and of lands, also, hi the case of Outlaws, were
formerly appraised before the City Coroner and
committed to the custody of one of the sheriff-,
to be accounted for by him at the next assize,,
when, if convicted, the property became, by the
two charters cited, forfeited to the City. Such
forfeiture — save hi the case of outlaws — was
abolished in 1870 (St. 33 and 34 Viet., cap. 23).
It is still the duty of the Coroner (in the City the
Recorder acts by custom) to make the entry of
the judgment in" outlawry in criminal <-:ises >» «
to gain possession for the Crown or grantee o
outlaw's property in cases where he has left
country and from whence he cannot be extradited.
Dalton on the ' Office of Sheriff,' 1670, cap. U
on ' Forfeitures,' p. 73, also states that goods and
chattels were forfeited even " For flying I
felony, although not guilty of the fact.
The case of The Attorney General v. Trustees ol
the British Museum (1903, 2 Ch. 598) illustrat«
the importance of the insertion of special woi
descriptive of a franchise such as treasure-ti
ina charter before .such ran be sm-o->sfully claim
by a subject. The case in point was one in whi.
ancient gold ornaments were unearthed on
at Limavady hi the North- West of Ireland, gmmV
tot™ Honourable the Irish Society, whirl.
happens to be under the governance of
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. JULY 15, uie.
'Corporation. The treasure was acquired by an
.antiquary and transferred to the trustees of the
British Museum as a votive offering originally
^deposited in Lough Foyle, and was not looked
upon as treasure-trove. The question as to the
right of the property having been raised in
Parliament, the Crown claimed it as treasure-trove,
-and commenced a civil action for its recovery.
The defence of the trustees was twofold, namely
(1) denial that the articles in question were
'treasure-trove, and (2) that if the articles were
actxially treasure-trove, they then vested in the
Tiish Society, by Charter of Charles II., and not
in the Crown or in themselves. The charter
-expressly granted to the Irish Society in so many
specific words the following franchises or royal
•privileges : — waived chattels, estrays, forfeiture
-of felons, deodands, wrecks of sea, flotsam and
'jetsam.* No special mention, however, was
made— as in the case of the two grants concerning
•the City and Southwark already cited — in the
charter, of treasure- trove (thesaurus inventus),
use only being made of the general term " fran-
chises." In giving judgment Mr. Justice Farwell
xheld, inter alia, (1) that the articles in question
were treasure -trove, and by virtue of the prero-
gative Royal belonged to his Majesty the King,
and (2) that treasure-trove cannot be passed by
•<the King to a subject under the general word
" franchises," but must be expressly mentioned in
the charter in specific words (verba specialia).
The treasure-trove ultimately was handed by the
King to the Royal Irish Academy for deposit in
.the National Museum of Dublin. The case did
not come before the Coroner. Had an inquest
been held, publicity would at once have been
•given to the facts, with the result that the
treasures probably would never have left Ireland,
and the Treasury and Trustees of the British
Museum would have been saved the expensive
'luxury of appeal to the Courts of Law.
APPENDIX L.
Gross, in ' Select Cases from the Coroners,
Holls (preserved in the Public Record Office)'
A.D. 1265-1413,' says he failed to find a single
•record among those cases investigated by him of
an inquest concerning treasure-trove. Dr. Sharpe,
in his interesting ' Calendar of Coroners' Rolls of
the City of London (preserved at the Guildhall),
A.D. 1300-1378,' also remarks the absence of any
Inquest on treasure-trove among the City rolls.
Neither is there any such record in ' Letter-Book
B ' by the same author, dealing with Coroners'
Rolls of the thirteenth century. Personally I
have been unable to find any such inquest in the
City Records discovered by me at the Central
-Criminal Court a.nd dating from 1788-1861, and
'from then up to the present time.
" Wreck " (properly so called) is where goods
shipwrecked are cast upon the land ; and goods
-which are termed flotsam, jetsam and Ugan,
become and are deemed wrecks if they be cast
upon the land. " Flotsam " is when the ship is
split, and the goods float upon the water between
high and low water mark. "Jetsam " is when
the ship is in danger of foundering, and for the
purpose of saving the ship, the goods are cast into
the sea. " Ligan " is when heavy goods are
thrown into the sea with a buoy, so that the
..mariners may know where to retake them.
Outside the City and Southwark, inquests on
treasure-trove have in recent years been reported
from time to time. For example, twenty-six >uch
inquests are returned as having been held in
England and Wales between 1901 and 1913 in
Part I. of ' Criminal Judicial Statistics.' Between
July, 1850, and March, 1868, only twenty-four
claims to treasure-trove were made by the Treasury
in England. The King, City, a'nd Guildhall
Museum would undoubtedly benefit if rases of
failure of the common law duty of every one
having knowledge of the finding of hidden treasure
to notify the trove to the Coroner were made a
statutory penal offence. Undoubtedly much
hidden 'treasure, of considerable antiquarian
interest and value, discovered on the pulling down
of ancient buildings, must have been lost to the
City owing to the want of power to prosecute and
punish every one — apart from the first finder —
having knowledge of treasure failing to notify
such discovery to the proper officer appointed for
the purpose, namely, the King's Coroner.
It has always been the custom of Coroners at
inquests on alleged treasure-trove to take evidence
to decide whether or not the treasure be actually
treasure-trove ; and if so, to acquaint the King
of the fact, or in the event of the Royal privilege
being in the hands of his subjects — as in the
case of the City — then it becomes the duty of the
Coroner to inform your Corporation of the finding
of the jury, and of the City's right to the treasure-
trove.
In India it is obligatory for the finder of
treasure to declare such find to a public official
appointed for the purpose. The Indian Treasure-
Trove Act of 1878, enacts that by " Treasure " is
meant anything of any value hidden in the soil or
in any way affixed thereto. Also that the finder
must under penalty give notice (1) in writing to
the Government collector when the treasure
exceeds 10 rupees in value ; (2) of the place where
it was found, and (3) of the date of finding.
Bracton, in his ' Laws and Customs of England,'
written temp. Edw. I. in Latin in the latter half of
the thirteenth century, under ' Office of the
Coroner in Treasure-Trove ' (Twiss's ed., 1878),
says in vol. ii. p. 287 : " And it is of their office, if
treasure be said to have been found, and of at-
tachments thereupon to be made. In the first
place they ought to inquire of those who have
been reported thereon, and if any one has been
found seised, or if there be a presumption against
any one that he has found treasure from the
circumstances that a person has indulged himself
more abundantly in food and more richly in dress
as above said, and if any such an one be found as
above, he ought to be attached by four or six
securities."
Britton, another great authority, in his Law
Treatise written in French in 1291-1292 (Nichols's
ed.), chap, xviii. p. 66, says : " Concerning
treasure (tresor trove) found concealed in the earth
....which of right belong to and are detained
from us, let careful inquiry be made, and of the
names of those who found them, and to whose
hands they have come, and to what amount.
For treasure hid in the earth and found shall
belong to the finder ; and any person who shall
find such treasure in the earth shall forthwith
(hastivement) inform the coroner (corounmtr) of the
district or the bailiffs thereof; and the coroner shall
go without delay and inquire whether any of it
has been carried off, and by whom1 and save all
12 s. ii. JULY 10,1916] NOTES AND QUERIES.
"that can bo found for our use ; and those who
carried it off shall be held to mainprise until the
«yre of the justices ; and if our justices can
•convict the eloiners of malice, they shall be
punished by imprisonment and fine, but if malice
be not found, they shall be punished by amerce-
ment only."
The anonymous writer Fleta wrote his ' Com-
mentary of the English Law ' in Latin in 1290, a
Jew years later in date than ,. Bracton's work.
Fleta was probably the treatise of a clerk or
lawyer employed in the household of King
Edward I., and was composed in the Fleet
(Debtors') prison. Fleta describes the duties of the
-Coroner more fully and accurately than any of
his contemporaries, owing, possibly, to a personal
acquaintance with the work of the Coroner of the
King's household or Verge of his day. In ed. 1st,
1647, Bk. I., chap, xxv., on ' The Office of
Coroner,' p. 38, fol. 11, Fleta says : " On the
Coroner and Sheriff gaining knowledge of the
finding of treasure they ought to inquire diligently
about the finding and who were the finders, as
to the nature and amount of the treasure, whether
any of it has been carried away, and all particulars
with regard to those in possession of the find, and
whether there is any concealment by any one.
The Coroner must then attach all those having
•knowledge of the treasure, and hold to mainprise
any one having carried off the treasure until
•the coming of the Justices." See also Fleta,
chap, xxv., p. 36 ; chap, xviii., on Coroners, p. 22,
foL 20 ; and chap, xliii., on Liberties, p. 61, fol. 2.
EDITOR ' N. & Q.'
LARGEST BAG OF GAME FOR A DAY'S
SHOOTING (12 S. i. 510).— The Prince of
Lichtenstein, of course, was not a German,
but an Austrian. In the eighteenth century
Jarge bags were more common in Austria
than they were at that time in England. It
would be interesting to find out how, with
their primitive flint guns, Austrian hunters
^managed to achieve what they did.
Here is an authentic instance of a bag
that was made in Austria (it took two days,
•it is true) nearly half a century before the
one that seems fabulous and unbelievable,
mentioned by MR. GLADSTONE. As will be
noticed, it mentions only hares, no birds : —
Extract from letter of small tall:
The Count v. Aldenburg-Bentinck to N. N.
Vienne, 31 Decbre 1749.
Le petit Prince de Lichtenstein que vous avez vu
ti Leyden et qui est souvent venu ;'i Sorgvliet,* &c.
P.S. J'oubliois quasi de vous dire que chez le
Prince de Lichtenstein nous avons tud en deux jours
deux mille cincq cent* et quatorze lie'vre*.
s(Bentinck correspondence, Br. Mus. Eg. 1746, f. 220.)
W. DEL COURT.
47 Blenheim Crescent, VV.
* Sorgvliet was one of the country seats of Count
Bentinck. It was situated between the Hague and
Scheveningen.
RICHARD WILSON (12 S. i. 90, 158, 213,
277, 437, 516 ; ii. 34).— One point which
seems to be tolerably clear is that the
Richard Wilson who was .M.I', for Barn-
staple (1796-1802) and a magistrate in
Tyrone did not marry a daughter of Lord
Rodney in 1789. This Richard Wil-<m
married at St. George's, Hanover Square, on
March 23, 1779, Anne, the only daugh
Charles Townshend, who had died, while
Chancellor of the Exchequer, in September,
1767 ('D.N.B.,' Ivii. 117), and his wife
Caroline, who had been created Baroness of
Greenwich in August, 1767 (G. E.
'Peerage,' iv. 91). In 1796 he obtained
judgment, with damages assessed at 500/.,
in an undefended action for crim. con.
against John Thomson, his neighbour and
tenant at Datchworth ; and on July 11,
1797, he obtained a sentence of divorce a
mensa et thoro against his wife in the Con-
sistory Court of the Bishop of London. In
1798 he was promoting in the House of Lords
a Bill for the dissolution of his marriage.
After the evidence had been heard, the Bill
received a second reading, passed safely
through the committee stage, and on report
was " ordered to be engrossed." But it
never became an Act of Parlir.ir.ent : it
succumbed — so it would seem — to opposition
from Lord Loughborough and the Bishop of
Rochester (Dr. Horsley).
The foregoing statements are be-sed on
'Marriage Register of St. George's, Hanover
Square' (Harl. Soc.), i. 297; 'Annual
Register,' xxii. 241, where Wilson is de-
scribed as " of Aytone, in Ireland," but
" Aytone " may possibly be a mi-print for
" Tyrone " ; ' House of Lords' Journr.!-.
xli. 549, 551, 553 ; Gentleman's M<i-
Ixviii. pt. ii. 1132 ; Clutterbuck's ' Hertford-
shire,' ii. (1821), 314-15, where it is further
stated that Wilson bought the manor of
Datchworth in 1792 and sold it in 1802;
and Burke's ' Dormant and Extinct Peer-
ages ' (1866), 536, where it is further stated
that WTilson's wife had for a second husband
" John Tempest of Lincolnshire." As tli.-
divorce did not dissolve her marriage with
Wilson, her marriage with Tempest can
have occurred only after Wilson's death.
By his marriage with Anne Townshend,
Richard Wilson had a son, Charles Towns-
hend Wilson, who married Hanfet, daughter
of Hugh Owen, the historian of Shrewsbury,
who was Archdeacon of Salop from 1821 to
1827 ('D.N.B.,' xlil 415), and -i-t.r of the
Rev. Edward Pryce Owen, tin- .-tHi-r (*«/.,
405). There were two sons of thfe last-
mentioned marriage, the elder of tl»-n.
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Lieut. -Col. Charles Townshend Wilson, of
the Coklstream Guards, \vlio died in 1887.
See Burke' s ' Commoners,' ii. (1837), 513,
under ' Owen of Bettws ' ; Rev. J. E.
Auden's ' Shrewsbury School Register, 1734-
1908,' p. 99 : and The Times of Feb. 17,
1887, pp. 1, 8.
Being then the husband of Anne Towns-
hend, the Richard Wilson I have been
writing about cannot have had a marriage
with a daughter of Lord Rodney in 1789,
even if he be the Richard Wilson who had
an elopement with her.
As the correspondence began with MR.
HORACE BLEACKLEY'S question, Who was
the " Dick Wilson," an early friend of the
great Lord Eldon ? I should like to inquire,
Who was the " Dick Wilson " to whom
Lord Grey once said that " nothing in life
would give him so much pleasure as to see
Eldon hanged in his rcbes"? See 'The
Creevey Papers,' ii. 299-300. H. C.
" LOKE " (12 S. i. 510 ; ii. 18).— I lived as
a boy near, and indeed adjoining, a loke in
Norwich, and that loke is still in situ. It is
a narrow way impassable for wheeled traffic,
but is not a cul-de-sac, nor ever was.
T. J. WOODROW.
City Carlton Club, St. Swithiu's Lane, B.C.
See 7 S. vi. 128, 191.
JOHN T. PAGE.
GEORGE BARRINGTON (v. sub ' Elizabeth
West, Thief,' 12 S. i. 448).— I am far from
being able, without searching through fifty
volumes of manuscript notes, covering the
history of metropolitan crime from Jeffreys's
recordership to the death of William IV., to
give off-hand all I have come across relating
to Barrington, but here are some, at least,
of his " previous convictions " — or acquittals
— and never was there a luckier prisoner : —
Old Bailey, January, 1777. — Larceny at
Drury Lane playhouse from Ann Dudman.
Was committed to Tothill Fields Bridewell.
A very plausible defence. Guilty. Three
years' " hulks."
Old Bailey, April, 1778. — Larceny (he was
capitally indicted for privately stealing from
the person) from Elizabeth Ironmonger ;
coram Sir W. Blackstone. Five years' hulks,
and property forfeited to the City of
London.
Old Bailey, January, 1783.— Not fulfilling
the terms of his Majesty's pardon (a con-
ditional pardon — that he should " banish
himself " wherever he chose ; not very
uncommon). He was ordered back to the
hulks.
Old Bailey, February, 1784. — Privately
stealing from the person of Sir Godfrey
Webster; coram Sir Henry Gould (junior)
A very artful defence, such as Barrington
never failed to make. Not guilt y.
Old Bailey, September, 1788. — Barrington
moves for leave for his counsel and solicitor
to inspect the proceedings against him.
Old Bailey, December, 1789. — Privately
stealing from the person of H. Le Mesurier ;
coram Ashhurst, J. " Not guilty, and did
not fly for the same." (A record of out-
lawry against him had been quashed at some
earlier date.)
Old Bailey, September, 1790.— Tried before
Lord Chief Baron Eyre, for larceny. The-
judge remarked : " This ought to have been
a capital indictment." Not guilty.
Barrington is appointed High Com-
missioner of the settlement of New South
Wales, and " administers justice with im-
partial hand" ('Annual Register,' 1793,.
pp. 28, 29). ERIC R. WATSON.
' NORTHANGER ABBEY ' : " HORRID "
ROMANCES (12 S. ii. 9). — I sent a query on
this subject to ' N. & Q.' in December, 1912,.
and as other people take an interest in the
question, it may be useful to summarize the
information which I obtained from several
obliging answers, together with what little
I have added by my own researches. But
I have never been so fortunate as to find a
copy of any one of these novels.
' The Castle of Wolfenbach,' a German
story, 2 vols., by Mrs. Parsons. — Nothing
seems to be known about this lady, nor
about the date of publication.
' Clermont,' by Regina Maria Roche,
1798. — Miss Roche was the authoress of
' The Children of the Abbey,' which is
mentioned in ' Emma,' and was a fairly well-
known writer of the school of Mrs. Radcliffe.
Her style is said to have been more senti-
mental and less sensational than that of her
model There was also a novel by Madame
de Genlis called ' Clermont.'
' The Mysterious Warning,' a German,
tale in 4 vols., by Mrs. Parsons.
' The Necromancer of the Black Forest.'—
This novel has not been clearly identified.
MR. RALPH THOMAS suggests that it may
have been ' John Jones, or the Necromancer,'
or that it was a play, ' The Necromancer,'
written by Miss Scott and produced at the
Sans Pareil theatre in 1809.
12 s. ii. JULY 15, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
' The Midnight Bell,' 3 vols., 1798 ; other
-editions, 1800 and 1824 ; French translation,
1799. — Tins novel is mentioned in Jane
Austen's 'Letters' (ed. Brabourne, i. 156).
It seems to have been popular, but curiously
enough it is attributed to two authors,
George Walker and Francis Lathom. Both
have lives in the ' Dictionary of National
Biography,' and ' The Midnight Bell ' is
given in the list of the works of each, without
any indication of the rival claimant.
' The Orphan of the Rhine ' should be
Orphans of the Rhine ' ; it is an anonymous
novel (4 vols.), and nothing more is known
about it at present.
' Horrid Mysteries,' 4 vols., by P. Will,
minister of the German Lutheran Chapel in
the Savoy. M. H. DODDS.
Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.
FIREPLACES : AITCH STONES, FORD,
NORTHUMBERLAND (12 S. ii. 8). — One learns
from the ' E.D.D.' that in the West Riding
of Yorkshire an " aitch " is a mantelpiece,
and the editor was of opinion that this
was possibly " a peculiar use of the name for
the letter h." I fancy, myself, that the
word is merely a provincial form of " arch,"
which in Northumberland becomes " airch,"
as Mr. Heslop's ' Glossary ' declares. I
dare say the stone of which Mr. Neville
heard at Ford may have served acoustic
purposes in the figure of an arch. Letter
H's form may have suggested its own
appellation. ST. SWITHIN.
"As DEAD AS QUEEN ANNE" (12 S.
i. 289, 357). — The demise of Queen Anne is
still in perpetual commemoration in the
Law Courts. The Periodical for June, 1916,
has the following quotation from an article
by Mr. A. Underbill on ' Law ' in f he forth-
coming work, ' Shakespeare's England ' : —
" It is perhaps not generally known that the
present wig and sombre black gown [of counsel]
only date from the funeral of Queen Anne. As
the late Chief Baron Pollock is said to have
remarked, the Bar then went into mourning and
has never gone out of it again." — P. 48.
ST. SwiTHIN.
SIR WALTER SCOTT : LOCKHART'S UN-
PUBLISHED LETTER (12 S. i. 446 ; ii. 18). — •
Your two correspondents have unconsciously
furnished an explanation which may be of
interest to future writers. It is a fair
inference that the engagement between Miss
Lockhart and John Nisbett of Cairnhill did
not lead to their marriage — a by no meaas
unfrequent occurrence. MR. MORE NISBETT,
however, makes a somewhat unintelligible
reference to a second Sir Walter Scott.
The " Wizard of the North " certainly had a
son named Walter, who died before his father
received his baronetcy— and a second son,
Charles, who succeeded, but died unmarried
at Teheran. The real mystery of the
contents of the letter still remains unsolved.
The letter is one of several addressed by
Lockhart to, probably, his most intimate
friend in England, with whom he maintained
cordial relations up to his death.
L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
A LOST LIFE OF HUGH PETERS (12 S.
ii. 11). — -Two different biographies of Peters
are given on p. 1839 of Lowndes's ' Manual ' :
'History of the Life and Death of Hugh Peters,'
1661, 4to.
A copy of this occurred in a London auction
in 1904, mentioned on p. 757 of my ' Index
to "Book-Prices Current," 1897-1906.'
'Historical and critical account of Hugh Peters
after the manner of Mr. Bayle. 1751.' 8vo.
WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
" NlHIL ARDET IN INFERNO NISI PROPRIA
VOLUNTAS " (12 S. ii. 10). — See the Bene-
dictine edition of St. Bernard, Paris, 1690,
vol. i. col. 903 :—
" Quid enim odit. aut punit Deus prater propriam
voluntatem ? Cesset voluntas propria, et infernus
non erit. In quern enim ignis ille desaeviet, nisi in
propriam voluntatem?" — 'Sermo in tempore
Resurrectionis ad Abbates,' 'De mersione Naaman
septies in Jordane,' cap. 3.
EDWARD BENSLY.
University College, Aberystwyth.
It is worth noting that the sentiment con-
tained in these words is frequently em-
phasized by St. Bernard. When com-
menting on Romans viii. 35-39, " Quis ergo
nos separabit a caritate Christi ? " he has,
" Sed cum tot et tanta dixisset, unum,
scilicet propriam voluntatem, reticuit, qu»
salvationis et damnationis est cau?a "
(' Tractatus de Conscientia,' c. 1). In the
twelfth Sermo, ' De Diversis,' he writes :
" Voluntas, quse sola deinceps damnare
possit animasnostras." A gain in. Sermo III.,
In Tempore Resurrection^,' we read \ut
supra]. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
LATIN CONTRACTIONS (12 S. L 468 : ii. 19).
— I thank J. J. B. for reply, but he does not
help me. " Expositorum " and " 01.
are suggestions too obvious to have missed
consideration, but is the first ever used in the
sense of " receipts " ? If these receipts were
only from wrecks it might mean " things cast
ashore," but they include such as a Sallee
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [128.11. JULY is, me.
rover brought in by the prisoners who had
overpowered the crew, a ship's boat in which
the crew of a merchant vessel were cast
adrift by pirates who captured their vessel,
\-o. They do not contain a single wreck.
The vessels were sold by the local vice-
admiral, and the summa expoitorum is the
amount of the proceeds. " Oneris " would
make sense, but the writing is very good
(there is no quest ion of misprint, as suggested
by J. J. B. ). In the account of another year I
find ovens, which suggests that the word is
ouens ; but I still seek the meaning.
That P!i is X'' is a mere guess. How does
J. J. B. interpret it ? YGREC.
ST. MADRON'S WELL, NEAR PENZANCE
(12 S. ii. 9). — MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT
quotes from my book ' England's Riviera,'
at pp. 211, 212. Will you allow me to say
that for the next edition I had already al-
tered the passage ? It will run to this
intent : —
"Bishop Joseph Hall (1574-1656), suc-
cessively Bishop of Exeter and Norwich,
went so far as to preach upon the repute of
St. Madron's Well in his ' The Invisible
World : — of God and his angels ' (Sect, viii.,
' The Apparitions of Angels ') : — •
'" The trade, that we have with good spirits, is
not now driven by the eye ; but is like to them-
selves, spiritual : yet not so, but that even in bodily
occasions, we have many times insensible helps
from them in such manner, as that by the effects,
we can boldly say, Here hath been an angel, though
we saw him not. Of this kind, was that, no less
than miraculous, cure, which, at St. Maderne's, *
in Cornwall, was wrought upon a poor cripple t;
whereof, besides the attestation of many hundreds
of the neighbours, I took a strict and personal
examination, in that last Visitation J which I either
did or ever shall hold. This man, that, for sixteen
years together, was fain to walk upon his hands, by
reason of the close contraction of the sinews of his
legs, was, upon three monitions in his dreams
to wash in that well, suddenly so restored to his
limbs, that I saw him able, both to walk, and to
get his own maintenance. I found here was neither
art, nor collusion; the thing done, the Author
invisible.'
"['The Works of Joseph Hall, D.D.,' in
12 vols., vol. viii. pp. 372, 373, Oxford, D. A.
Talboys, MDCCCXXXVII.] "
J. HARRIS STONE.
Oxford and Cambridge Club, S.W.
RICHARD SWIFT (12 S. ii. 9).— He is
described in Dod's ' Parliamentary Com-
panion ' as son of Timothy Swift, army
contractor, by Susannah, daughter of Mr.
John Carey. He was born in Malta in 1811,
"* S. Maternus." " f One John Trelille."
"J At Whitsuntide."
and married in 1836 a daughter of John-
O'Brien, a West India merchant. He was a
dealer in leather, boot manufacturer, and
London agent for the shoemakers of
Northampton. He sat for the county ot
Sligo as a Liberal from 1852 to 1857, defeat-
ing the previous Conservative member, W. R.
Ormsby - Gore (afterwards second Lord
Harlech). He died March 24, 1872.
ALFRED B. BEAVEN.
Leamington.
MILTON'S SONNET ON ' TETRACHORDON ' :.
" LIKE " (12 S. ii. 7). — MR. W. F. SMITH has
very happily illustrated, rather than ex-
plained, the line : —
Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek.
For the sense is quite plain. " Sleek " is
opposed to " rugged." Savs Lady Mac-
beth :—
Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your nigged looks.
Milton's line, then, evidently means : —
Those rugged names, to our rugged lips, have come-
to seem the reverse of rugged.
Curiously, the same sonnet contains another
(I think, more) difficult use of " like " : —
Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek,
Hated not learning worse than toad or asp,
When thou taught'st Cambridge and King Edward
Greek.
" Tetrachordon," the poet in effect says,,
being a musical term used by Aristotle
(Probl. xix. 33), ought not to have jarred
on the ears, or tried the lips, of his contem-
poraries, had not the age " hated learning."
Sir John Cheek's age, on the contrary, wnlike
" ours " (Milton's), had no such hatred, and
would not have complained of the use of the
word in question.
Masson, in his note (iii. 471), says : —
"The construction of this passage is important,
and is generally missed. It is 'Thy age did
not, like ours, hate learning.' We should now
ay unlike ours."
The words " like ours," in fact, seem out
of place. We may compare ' Tempest,'
Act I. sc. ii. : —
Like one.
Who having, unto truth, &// telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie,
i.e., as to credit his own lie by (frequent)
telling of it (the lie). But I do not think it
would be easy to find a similar displacement
in Miltoru W. A. C.
" EVERY ENGLISHMAN is AN ISLAND "
(12 S. ii. 11). — I write only from memory,,
but I carry a strong impression that this was
first said not by Emerson, but by Novalis.
L.. I. GUINEY*
12 s. ii. JULY 15, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
59
FAZAKERLEY : MEANING OF NAME (12 S.
i. 288, 395, 489).— Sephton, in his ' Handbook
of Lancashire Place-Names,' says : —
" Henry de Fasakerlegh is mentioned in an
Assize Roll of 1276 (Record Society, vol. xlvii. p. 136).
Similarly, Fasacrelegh in the names of persons
in 1376 (Kecord Society, vol. xlvi.). Fasacre and
Fasarlegh occur in 1323 (Record Society, vol. xli.). "
Johnston, in his ' The Place-Names of
England and Wales,' says : —
" Fazakerley — 1277 Fasakerlegh, 1376 Fasacralegh.
Looks as if O.E. fas secer-l^ah, 'border of the
open-country .meadow,' fr. fas, ftes, 'border,
fringe,' and secer, acer, 'open plain, field,' mod.
'acre.' There is no name in ' Onomastieon Anglo-
Saxonicum ' [by W. G. Searle] that would suggest
Fazaker-."
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
[J. C. H. thanked for reply.]
FACT OR FANCY? (12 S. i. 509; ii. 17).
— 1. In addition to the sentence quoted from
the 'N.E.D.,' Coke said that "everyone may
assemble his friends and neighbours to defend
his house against violence,' ' for " domus sua
cuique est tutissimum refugium,"
But the whole point of the great commen-
tator is that when the Law has a right of
entry it is no longer the former owner's to
the full extent (5 'Rep.' 91 b, repeated
3 'Inst.' 162, c. 73). This, of course, is good
law to-day.
2. I am well acquainted with the case of
a great (young) sufferer from asthma who, in
removing from clay to gravel, was at once
cured. H. C — N.
on
Clo*e Polls of the Reign of Henri/ III. preserved in
the Public Record Office. A.D. 1242-7. (H.M.
Stationery Office, 17-s. 6(/.)
THE first volume of these Close Rolls (1227-31) was
published in 1902. Mr. E. G. Atkinson has pre-
pared the text of this volume, and Mr. R. F.
Isaacson has made the Index. The documents are
printed in Latin.
It will be remembered that in 1242 Henry
was in Gascony. His mother and stepfather
had drawn him into the coalition of a group
of rebellious French peers against Louis IX..
The coalition went down, after comparatively
feeble resistance, before the vigour and capable
generalship of Louis, and, reading here the
orders for costly preparation to be made for
Henry's return, one imagines that outward mag-
nificence made the best part of it. The five years
covered by this volume are perhaps thought of by
students of the reign chiefly as years in which dis-
contents and the causes of subsequent disturbance
were brewing more or leas below the surface. This
volume, however, illustrates the reigji rather from
the social and religious point of view than from
the political. Henry, we know, copied St. Louis-
in the munificence of his gifts to shrines and
churches, and in the lavishness of his charity-
Here are numberless orders— many of them im-
patiently pressing— to Edward, son of Odo, the
kings goldsmith, for all kinds of jewel-work
costly vessels for churches, reliquaries, orna-
ments for shrines, and so forth, mostly to be ready
tor some great festival of the Church. Interesting,,
too, are the orders for robes and suits of state, and
for hangings; and here we have preserved the
name of an embroideress — one evidently well
known, Mabilia de Sancto Edmundo — who was
ordered, upon the return of the king, to make a
vexillum, or standard, for Westminster, " de uno
bono samitto rubeo bene brudatum auro sicut
mud melius sciverit providere cum una imagine
de Sancta Maria et alia de Sancto Johanne," for
Westminster Abbey, and whom we find still unpaid
in July, 1244.
A very interesting study of Westminster during
this period might be put together from these pages ;
for not only have we countless details of goldsmiths'
work— take, for instance, the golden ring with a fine
sapphire and an inscription (" queni faciet Magister
Henricus versificator talem continentem senten-
ciam ") which was to be put on the hand of an
arm made in honour of St. Thomas the Apoatle—
not only have we these, but also no less numerous
details concerning works on the palace, and on the
fabric of the abbey, with mention of a great number
of their most interesting features. Another group-
of documents worth noting is that concerning:
Windsor.
Among the persons whose story receives some
illustration here we mav note John Balliol and
Devorgilla, Simon de Montfort and Eleanor his
wife, and the de Lacys : there is a single mention
of Emmelineas widow of Hugh de Lacy, and she
occurs four times as wife of Stephen de Longespee.
Another line of most useful information is fur-
nished by the frequent documents concerned with
the Jews. Many names of Jews occur, and the
series as a whole contributes something worth
haying to one of the most important and character-
istic problems of the thirteenth century, in which,
again, comparison with France is instructive.
The Index now and again leaves something to be
desired. One omission which struck us is that of
the name of Sench'a of Provence, a lady of sufficient
importance to be noted upon her coming into Eng-
land. Her name should have been given, too, under
Countess of Cornwall.
Ancient Axtronomy in Eyimt and its Significance.
By Frederick J. Dick. (Point Loma, the Aryan
Theosophical Press.)
THIS brochure in No. 7 of the " Papers of the School
of Antiquity— University Extension Series." It
would not, in the ordinary course of thing*, come-
within our scope ; but we should like to inquire
in what sense the words " University Extension "
are to be taken. As used in England they have a quite-
definite meaning, and the word University refers
to a number of bodies recognized under that name
by the State. To what " University," and by what
authority instituted and chartered, does this
"School of Antiquity" belong? Its teachings, as
the name of the press from which this paper issue*
might lead us to expect, are grounded UJHMI the
disquisitions of Madame Blavatsky.
60
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 15, wie.
The Numbered Sections in Old English Poetical
MSS. By Henry Bradley. From the Proceed-
ings of the British Academy. (Published for the
British Academy : Humphrey Milford, Is. Qd.)
A CURIOUS feature of Old English narrative poems
"in MS. is the division of the text into sections
•which, in ' Beowulf ' and in some other cases, do not
always correspond with natural divisions in the
sense. The sections are marked by roman numerals,
and by the occurrence of a word in capitals.
Already, in his article on 'Beowulf in 'The
Encyclopaedia Britannica,' Dr. Bradley had
conjectured that these numbered sections might
•correspond to numbered loose sheets from which
'the scribe who wrote the codex copied. There is
•certainly no difficulty in seeing that the repro-
duction of this tale of divisions might be useful in
several ways.
In the article before us Dr. Bradley takes leaf by
leaf, line by line, the Old English poems in which
this numbering occurs, and the result of this
examination, and explication of the evidence
thus brought together, is indisputably to transform
the original conjecture into a well-proved con-
• elusion. It will be gathered that this is a critical
> paper of real importance.
There arises, naturally, the further interesting
question as to whether the writing on the loose
sheets may be taken as the original autograph of
the author of the poem. In the four poems
•dealt with here — the paraphrase of Genesis, the
translation of the Old Saxon ' Paradise Lost,' the
' Exodus,' and Cynewulf 's ' Elene ' — Dr. Bradley
has demonstrated the astonishing uniformity as to
quantity of matter sheet by sheet throughout each
several poem. He also points out that each sheet,
almost without an exception, finishes with a full
stop at the end of a verse. He cannot well be
wrong in the opinion that only the original author
could have brought this to pass; and that the
measure of his sheet was taken by the poet as a
structural measure in the composition of nis poem.
As he truly says, this is not a more strictly
^mechanical method of construction than many
which poets have resorted to ; it must, in fact, in
itself have been considerably easier to manage than
a sequence of sonnets. Dr. Bradley sees in this an
additional reason for refusing to attribute the
paraphrase of Genesis to Caedmon — an attribution
which has lately been attempted afresh.
In conclusion we may utter a word of gratitude
for the lucid and attractive way in which matters,
dry and technical despite their great interest, are
here set before us.
The Church Bell* of Lancashire. — Part I. The
Hundreds of West Derby and Leyland. By
F. H. Cheetham. (Manchester, Richard Gill,
3*. 6rf. net.)
THIS reprint from the Transactions of the Lanca-
shire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society gives us
alphabets of the places within these two hundreds
where are to be found churches built before 1800,
or bells made before that date. All the bells of the
pre • nineteenth - century churches are carefully
•described : their inscriptions are given in full, and,
in the case of the more interesting examples, in
facsimile ; matters relating to the bells from the
parish accounts and other original sources are
lavishly supplied. Mr. Cheetham prefaces each
•alphabet with a general introduction about the bells
of the hundred, adding to that for West Derby
notes on the different bell-founders with whose
work he conies to deal. Only 50 copies of this
reprint are to be sold, and are to be obtained of
the author at 53 Walnut Street, Southport. Lovers
of the subject who have not seen this excellent
piece of work in its original form may be glad to
know where to obtain it.
THE July number of The Burlington Magazine
has for frontispiece a reproduction of the ' Adora-
tion of the Magi ' by Bramantino, one of the few
pictures belonging to the Layard bequest which
have recently been placed on exhibition at the
National Gallery. It is an early work, Mr.
Tancred Borenius agreeing with P'rof. Suida in
fixing its date shortly before the year 1500. Mr.
O. C. Gangoly follows with an article on Southern
Indian lamps, accompanied by two pages of
photographs of these elaborate works of art,
which are used as personal votive offerings to the
deities in Hindu worship. Mr. Lionel Gust
discusses and reproduces the portrait of Mary,
Queen of Scots, recently secured by the National
Portrait Gallery. This portrait is, he thinks,
based upon a drawing probably by Francis
Clouet, and represents, therefore, an early period
in the life of the unfortunate Queen. Mr. Robert
Boss has an article on the frescoes on the walls of
the Buddhist cave temple at Ajanta, and repro-
duces some of the copies taken in 1909-11 by
Lady Herringham and her assistants, and now
published by the India Society. He is rather
inclined to consider these frescoes over-estimated
as works of art, and casts some doubt on Lady
Herringham's claim for them of primitive origin.
Mr. Archibald G. B. Russell writes on heraldry in
connexion with the exhibition at the Burlington
Fine Arts Club. Mr. C. Stanley Clarke illustrates
some fine specimens of Dravidian swords, selected
from the collection lent by Lord Kitchener to the
Indian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
These splendid weapons represent an art now
practically extinct in India, though in 1889 Mr.
E. B. Ha veil reported the finding of three of the
hereditary ironsmiths at Sivaganga in Madura.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in *N. & Q."
Y. T.— Forwarded.
MRS. E. C. WIENHOLT. — Forwarded to B. B.
MR. W. R. WILLIAMS. — Forwarded to MAJOR
LESLIE.
H. K. ST. J. S. ('Shakespeare's Falcon Crest'
ante, p. 35). — MR. A. R. BAYLEY is grateful for the
j passages in Tennyson where that poet makes the
, falcon feminine.
MR. AXEURIN WILLIAMS (" Wordsworth's friend
Jones "). — Some correspondence on this subject will
be found at 11 S. vi. 55 and 211. At the latter refer-
j ence is an account of Jones from the pen of our
| valued and lamented correspondent W. P.
I COURTNEY.
KS.H.JCLY22, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
61
LONDON, SAT( RDAY, JULY 22, 1916.
CONTENTS.-No. 30.
NOTES :— Huntingdonshire Feasts in London, 61— Eigh
teenth-Century Dentists, 64 — Au Ancient Irish Manu-
script : The Book of the Macgaurans or McGoverns, 65—
The Records of the City Livery Companies, 67— Menageries
and Circuses— Ceremony of Degradmga Knight, 68— "On
the fly " : a Prolonged Drunken Bout— Steel in Medicine :
the 'N.R.D.'— H. S. Ashbee, 09.
QUERIES : -Thomas Congreve, M.D., 69— Bicheray, Artist
—Heraldic Query—" Good-night " to the Dead — Edmond
Dubleday — " Hat Trick " : a Cricket Term — Samuel
Parker : Buxton Family — The Kingsley Pedigree — John
Locke— Nicholas Lockyer— Major Campbell's Duel, 70—
Saruin Breviary : Verses in Calendar — Marriage Lines —
Lion Rampant of Scotland-" Feis"— W. Philips, Town
Clerk of Brecon, Antiquary— Picture : ' The Woodman of
Kent'— "Dolores" — Statue at Drury Lane, c. 1794 —
Inscription at Poltimore Church — Papal and Spanish
Flags at Sea in Sixteenth Century, 71.
REPLIES :— Thomson and Allan Ramsay, 72— The Side-
Saddle—Richard Swift— Montagu and Manchester, 73—
English Prelates at the Council of Bale— Gunfire and
Ram— Richard Wilson, 74— Skull and Iron Nail— English
Army List of 1740, 75— British Herb : Herb Tobacco-
William Mildmay, Harvard College— " Theager's Girdle "
— Pace-egging, 76— W. Toldervy and the Word-Bpoks :
" Mort " — Fairfield and Hathbone, Artists — Village
Pounds — Farmers' Candlemas Rime — Wright Family
Arms— Patrick Madan— Dorton-by-Brill, 77— Authors of
Quotations Wanted — Louis Martineau — Fazakerley—
"Every Englishman is an island" — " Pochivated," 78.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— The Oxford Dictionary.
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Books.
Notices to Correspondents.
HUNTINGDONSHIRE FEASTS IN
LONDON.
FEAST No. 1, JUNE 20, 1678.
THERE was quite a large number of County
Feasts held in London during the last
quarter of the seventeenth century. I have
not been able to ascertain when the first
feast of any county was held in the City.
The first Northamptonshire Feast took
place, however, in 1684, as is indicated by
the following : —
" Sermon preached at the Northampton Shire
Feast, being the first general meeting of such
•Citizens and Inhabitants in London, as were born
within that County," 1684, 4to.
The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.,give
in the indexes long lists of County Feasts in
London preceded by a sermon, including
Buckinghamshire men, Dorsetshire men,
Gloucestershire men, Hampshire men, Here-
fordshire men, Suffolk men, Warwickshire
men, Worcestershire men, Y<>rk.-)iir«- n . n.
and others, as well as one of Huntingdonshire
men, mentioned in our ' Feast No. 2.' The
• English Topographer,' 1720, by Rawlinson,
gives only a short list of works referring to
Huntingdonshire, but it includes one very
interesting item called
" Tne Huntingdon Divertisement, or an Inter-
lude for the general entertainment of the County
Feast held at Merchant Taylors' Hall, June 20,
1678. ' '
Gough, in his 'Anecdotes of Briti.-h
Topography,' 1678, also mentions it; and
W. Carew Hazlitt, in the second series of
' Bibliographical Collections and Notes on
Early English Literature, 1674-1700,' at
p. 297, includes it. Cuthbert Bede wrote in
a copy of Hatfield's ' Gazetteer ' which I
possess : —
" It is a curious proof of the scanty biblioifraphy
relating to the antiquities of England giv«-n !>y
Camden, that he only names one relating to this
county, viz., ' The Huntingdon Divertisement.'
See Gibson's edition of Camden's ' Britannia,'
third edition, 1753."
The best account I have seen of County
Feasts is by W'. H. HUSK at 3 S. ii. 392,
where the subject is well discussed. MB.
HUSK, in this article, states that
" The ' Biographia Drama tica ' mentions a
piece entitled ' The Huntingdon Divertisement ;
or, an Enterlude for the general Entertainment
at the County Feast held at Merchant Taylors'
Hall, Tune 20, 1678,' the scene of which, it tells
us, Jies in Hinchinbrooke grove, fields, and
meadows. I have not had an opportunity of
seeing this piece, but think it probable it is a
musical entertainment, cast in a dramatic mould,
but nevertheless intended for performance, not
on the stage, but in an orchestra."
It is not surprising, it being so scarce that
it is not mentioned in any of our local
histories, and such well-known author! nV-
as C. B., Brayley, R. C., Dr. Rix, and
others, had never seen the book. For
many years I have also been searching for a
copy, and at last successfully. A collation
of it at first hand may interest our biblio-
graphical friends. The title is : —
HUNTINGTON
Dl VERTISEMBNT,
or, an
ENTERLUDE
For the General! Entertainment at the County-
Feast, Held at Merchant-Taylors Hall, Ju,
1678.
Licenced, May 16. 1678. ROGER L'ESTRANGK.
LOXDON.
Printed by ./. Bonnet, 1678.
4to, A — H, 2 in fours, first leaf blank.
62
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 a. IL JULY 22, ma.
The dedication is instructive : —
To the Right Honourable,
The Nobility, and the Most Generous Gentry,
that are pleased to Grace this Annual Festivity
with their Presence.
Right Honourable, and Most Generous,
Our due Resentment of your kinde presence at
this our Annuall Convention, animated us to a
Resolution for some Novel Divertisement, as our
gratefull Testimony for such your Noble and
Candid Favours ; It is an Embryo of a short
Conception, and therefore cannot be expected
capable of a perfect formation ; Nor was it ever
designed to be duly modelled into the Dimensions
of Acts and Scenes, as 'ought to become a Theatre,
but only for a small Fascicle of Rustick-Drollery,
intermixt with some Serious Reflections of the
happinesse of your Rurall Life ; and to Invite
your benign Thoughts for the Good of this
County. As it is, it irnploreth your favourable
Patronage, and was intended to have been now
fully Performed, but finding too many Difficulties
to occur, beyond our Expectation, and our tune
but short, we could only procure the Representa-
tion of part of it, and must therefore fly to your
good nature for our Refuge ; as confident, that
our good intention will finde your Serene Accepta-
tion, which is all the Ambition of,
Your most humble Servant,
June 20, 1678. W. M.
With the clue " W. M." to help I again
referred to the British Museum Catalogue,
and was at once successful in finding two
copies in our national library. The press-mark
of one is 643 d. 31, and the other, a cropped
copy, 162 i. 55. I find that Bohn's
' LoVndes' Bibliographer's Manual,' 1871,
vol. ii. p. 1431, records the sale of a
copy, "Roxburghe, 4176, 19s." He prints
"Huntingdon" for Hunt ington. Thus four
copies are known.
My friend MB. A. L. HUMPHREYS kindly
sends me the following item : —
" June y« 17th 1678.
" Entred for his copie under ye hand of Master
Le Strange to which y« hand of Master Vere was
subscribed one booke or copy entituled Huntington
divertisment or an enterlude for ye generall enter,
tainment of ye county feast held at Merchant
Taylors Hall, June W, 1678. vjd.'
[An extract from ' Transcript of the Registers
of the Company of Stationers,' vol. iii. p. 66,
Roxburghe Club, 1914.]
This shows the book was only registered
three days before the feast was held, and
gives no particulars of the author.
Although I have searched the usual
authorities and a good many unusual ones,
I have not been able to find out who
" W. M." was. It would be rather interesting
to ascertain whether he was a Huntingdon-
shire man.
Bound up with my volume of the
' Divertisement ' is another piece which
seems to be by the same author, so I give
he title : —
The [ FEMALE Wits : I or, the | TRIUMVIRATE
OP POETS | at Rehearsal. \ A | COMEDY. | as it
was acted several Days successively with creat
Applause | at the | THEATRE - ROYAL ^| In
Drury-Lane, | By Her Majesty's Servants.
Written by Mr. W. M.
Ita Astutim sibi Arrogat Hominem Ingenia
Vt Homints credos. Cic.
LONDON, Printed for William Turner, at the
Angel at Lincolns-Inn Back-Gate, William Davis,
at the Black Bull in Cornhil, Bernard Lintott, at
the Middle-Temple-Gate, and THO. BROWN, at the
Blackamoors Head near the Savoy. 1704.
Price Is. Qd.
The Preface is rather lengthy, so I give two
extracts that relate specially to the author : —
" In order to this, I take it for necessary to
Premise, that the Author of it, a Man of more
Modesty than the Generality of our present
Writers, tho' not of less Merit than the best of
'em, was neither fond of his own Performances,
nor desirous others should fall in love with them.
What he writ was for his own Diversion ; and he
could hardly be persuaded by the Quality to
make it theirs, till his good Temper got the better
of his Aversion to write himself among the Lists
of the Poets ; and he was prevail'd upon to put it
into the Hands of the Gentlemen belonging to the
Theatre in Drury-Lane, who did him the same
Justice as was done by him to Dramatick Poetry
and the Stage. . . .What remains is, to justifie the
Publication of it, and to acquaint the World,
that the Author being deceas'd, I got a Copy of
it ; and out of my desire to divert the Publick, I
thought it might not be unacceptable if it saw
the Light."
A MS. note on the fly-leaf says : —
" The initials ' W. M.' subscribed to the dedica-
tion of the first of these pieces, and inserted in the
title-page of the second, seem to designate them
as the works of the same author. The ' Female
Wits ' appears from the ' Bipgraphia Dramatics *
to have been first published in 1697. J. F."
' The Female Wits ' is written in the
style of a rehearsal, and is intended as
banter on Mrs. Manley, Mrs. Pix, and Mrs.
C. Trotter.
Other pieces I have notes of by a " W. M."
include 'The Queen's Closet Opened,' 1656,
1662, and 1671. The 1656 is the second
edition, and not in British Museum, Bodleian,
Trinity College, Dublin, the Faculty of
Advocates, Royal Medical and Chirurgical
Society, or Royal College of Physicians,
and, although of about the same period as
our book, not, I think, by our author.
The Feast must have been rather an
important function, as it was held in Mer-
chant Taylors' Hall, the largest of those
belonging to the London companies. Tho
Hall was rebuilt after the Great Fire of
London, being completed in 1671, and there-
the Feast was held seven years later. u b ^
12 8. IL JULY 22, 1918.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
It appears as if admission to the Feast
was by ticket. A friend writes to me : —
" I remember, when searching some MSS. in
the British Museum, seeing an invitation ticket
to some such feast. I forget to whom it was
addressed, but it had four or five sealing-wax
seals of the stewards on it."
I looked through many of the Add. MSS.
and others without finding it. Perhaps some
reader of ' N. & Q.' will be more fortunate,
and kindly supply me with the information.
[For a somewhat similar ticket see ' Descendants'
Dinners,' 12 S. i. 469.]
FEAST No. 2, JUNE 24, 1697.
CUTHBEKT BEDE wrote in 3 S. v. 497 : —
" I have a copy of Trimnell's Sermon. . . .1 am
desirous to learn some particulars concerning this
Feast, which is not mentioned in Brayley and those
other topographical accounts and directories
which, up to the present, are the only ' Countv
Histories ' of which Huntingdonshire can boast.
I subjoin the full title and dedication : —
The | DUTY OF A CHRISTIAN I Toward his
| Neighbour Considered. | in a | SERMON, |
Preached upon Occasion of the | Huntingdonshire
Feast, | at | St. Su-ithin's Church, LONDON, I The
24th of June, being the Feast of St. J. Baptist. \
By CHARLES TRIMNELL, A.M. Prebendary | of
Norwich, Rector of Briwjton in •Northamptonshire,
— and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the
Earl of Sunderland. \ LONDON, Printed for John
Weld, at the Croicn between the | Temple-Gates in
Fleet-street | MDCXCVII.
To my
Honoured Friends and Countrymen.
/"Thomas Newman.
I Charles Bainton.
, r I John Foster.
Mr- | Robert Purchase.
I Anthony Ashton.
\.John Bromhall.
Stewards of the Huntingdonshire Feast.
Gentlemen,
Having Preached the following Sermon at your
Request, To whom our Country owes so much for
the Reviving of an Useful Society, out of a
Charitable design, I hnd no Room left to refuse the
making it Publick, when you were also pleas'd to
insist upon that. For if you (for whose Use and
Service it was mwe immediately designed) received
any benefit from it, I cannot be without hopes, but
it may be of some advantage to others ; and I have
nothing to say against Communicating what has
the least appearance of turning to any serious
Account, when 1 am duly required to do it : I wish
only it had been better prepared to have answered
my own and your design, however, you have it at
your desire, such as it is. And that it may not
wholly fail of that success which (from your
readiness to bear an Expence at this time in Love
to your Count ry, and the good Order observ'd
by you in the discharge of your office) / am per-
tttaaed //on /<•/*•// It; I must intreat you to joyn your
earnest ' Prayers for a Blessing upon it, to the
f- ft Petitions of
Your very Affectionate Countryman,
and very Faithful Friend and Servant,
C. TRIMNELL.
The Rev. Charles Trimnell, D.D. (1663-
1723), was Prebendary of Norwich, 1691 ;
Bishop of Norwich, 1707 ; translated to
Winchester, 1721. He published about
fifteen single sermons, &c. Trimnell was
baptized at Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon-
shire, May 1, 1663, where his father was
rector 1656-1702. Hence the term so appro-
priately used : " countryman."
I fancy this feast was closely connected
with the one previously described. If an
annual feast, it sometimes lapsed, and this is
an instance of its revival. The sermon is
recorded in the Term Catalogues, 1668-1709,
vol. iii. p. 50.
FEAST No. 3, JUNE 26, 1702.
Another sermon I possess on this subject
has not been recorded, and as it give?
further useful information I subjoin full
particulars of it. The title is : —
A | SERMON | preach'd at the | Huntingdon-
shire -FEAST, | June the 26th, 1702. | at |
St. Michael's Cornhil, London. \ By ANTHONY
HILL, | Lecturer of Stratford le Bow, and
(.'1 i.-i plain to j His Grace the Duke of RICHMOND.
London, | Printed by J. L. for Edward Evets, at
the Green Dragon in St. Paul's Church-yard, \
MDCCII.
The Epistle Dedicatory : —
To
Sir Charles Duncomb, "\ C _
Knt. and Alderman, Thomas Cotton, Rsq. ;
The Honourable • -j Capt. Martin Lacy,
Charles Boyle Esq. ; Mf John Newman>
Peter Pheasant, Esq. ; ' v
STEWARDS of the
GENTLEMEN
THIS SERMON, that was first Preach'd at Your
Request, and is now Printed, Intreats Your
Candour in the Reading : And if it can any way
Promote the Honourable Design of Your FESTI-
VAL, I shall think my self Doubly Happy ; first,
in having had so favourable an Opportunity nf
Pleading for the POOR ; and then the Satisfaction
of hereby approving my self to be
GENTLEMEN
Your most Affectionate
Humble Servant,
ANTHONY HILL.
The stewards all belonged to well-known
Huntingdonshire families. The Buncombes
were of Great Staughton ; the Hon. Charles
Boyle was M.P. for the Borough of Hunting-
don in 1702 with Anthony Hammond^
the Hammonds being of Somersham Park ;
the Phesants were of Upwood-
Phesant, the Judge, died at his manor of
Upwood, Oct. 1, 1649; the Cottons were of
Connington, to whom belonged Sir Robert
Bruce Cotton, the celebrated antiquary; of
Capt. Martin Lacy's residence I have no
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. n. Jn.v 22. i<nc.
note ; the Newmans were of Great Stukeley —
so that some of the best-known gentlemen
•officiated at this function. I have seen
a note — in ' N. & Q.,' I think — which
stated that the Rev. Anthony Hill was
of Steeple Gidding, but the rector there of
this name died in 1691, eleven years before
this date. I can most fitly conclude my
note with quoting from p. 20 of this ex-
cellent sermon : —
" The Principal Design of this Solemnity (if I
mistake not) is to manage the Concerns of the
POOR ; to make » Fund for the Supplies of
Young People that have Nothing in the whole
World to help them ; to fix them with such
Necessaries as may employ them ; that so they
may become useful in their Generations, and fill
up their Places in the World with Decency."
Well done, Mr. Anthony Hill ! What
more can any of us wish, even in these times,
than to fill up our places in the world with
-decency ? HEBBEBT E. NOBBIS.
Cirencester.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DENTISTS.
LITTLE appears to be known about the
dentists of the eighteenth century, for the
memoir-writers of the period, having, no
doubt, unpleasant recollections of their
visits to these gentlemen, scarcely ever
mention them. One of the first to attain
•eminence in his profession was Peter Hemet,
whose death is announced in The Gentleman's
Magazine on May 8, 1747, as follows : —
" Mr. Peter Hemet, Operator on teeth to His
Majesty. Worth 20,000?."
He lived in Marylebone. His will (127
Potter), which is an elaborate document,
shows that he possessed considerable pro-
perty. His elder son, Francis, predeceased
him, leaving three children, two sons and a
daughter, John Rene, Jacob, and Jane ; and
his younger son, Peter, who had two sons,
Peter and Adrian, appears to have succeeded
to the practice. The Gentleman's Magazine
(vol. xxiv. p. 579) announced that Peter
Hemet, Esq., was appointed " Operator for
the teeth to His Majesty " on Dec. 26, 1754.
I have no more particulars of this Peter
Hemet the second, but some details of his
career might be traced, no doubt, in the
advertisement columns of contemporary
newspapers. It is possible that his sons
adopted his profession, for their grandfather,
Peter the first, bequeathed to Adrian all his
surgical instruments.
The most famous member of the
family, however, was Jacob Hemet, the
son of Francis, and the grandson of Peter
Hemet the first, who seems to have attained
eminence at an early age. On June 7, 1766,
The Public Advertiser announced that " Jacob
Hemet of Little Tichfield Street, near Oxford
Market, is appointed Operator for the Teeth
to her Majesty." In an account of his
sister Jane, who became a famous actress
under the name of Mrs. Lessingham. The
Town and Country Magazine, ix. 233 (May,
1777), gives some biographical details :-
" Mrs. L[essingha]m is the sister of a celebrated
dentist, who resides in one of the most polite JK its
of the town. He was designed for a mercantile
life ; but not being very fond of plodding at the
counting-house desk and having a lucky name
for drawing of teeth, upon the demise of some of
his relations who bore it, and had gained reputa-
tions as dentists, he turned operator as it were in
spite of his teeth. He dropt the pen and took up
the pelican (i.e., an instrument for drawing teeth),
which soon screwed him into his chariot."
Jacob Hemet continued to be one of the
leading dental practitioners in London for
twenty-four years after his appointment as
dentist to the Queen, dying of apoplexy
suddenly on Sunday, Aug. 22, 1790 (Gentle-
man's Magazine, Ix. pt. ii. p. 770 ; Public
Advertiser, Aug. 25, 1790).
The following is one of his advertisements
taken from The Gazetteer during the month
in which h^ died : —
" For the Teeth and Gums. The Essence of
Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice, prepared by Jacob
Hemet, Dentist to her Majesty and his Royal
Highness, the Prince of Wales, No. 62 New Bond
St. Price 2s. Qd. each, stamps included.
" After a course of above 40 years experience as a
Dentist to the Royal Family and principal
Nobility, and twenty years proof of the salutary
effects arising from the use of Pearl and Pearl
Dentifrice in removing every complaint incident
to the Teeth and Gums, Mr. Hemet humbly hopes
he is fully entitled to recommend their general
use in preference to any other preparation for that
purpose. The great balsamic qualities contained
in the Essence of Pearl and Pearl Dentifrice are
found most certainly to preserve the teeth from
decay, to prevent those injured by neglect from
becoming worse, shield them against all putre-
faction, fasten such as are loose, make the foulest
teeth become white and beautiful, entirely pre-
serve'the enamel, and render the breath delicately
sweet. They likewise produce this excellent
effect, that those persons who constantly use them
will never be liable to the tooth-ache or scurvy of
the gums. ..."
From Jacob Hemet's will (426 Bishop) we
ascertain that he resided at Hastings ; that
he had been living apart from his wife, to
whom he made an allowance of 601. a year,
for some time before his death, " owing to
differences" ; and that he had five children,
whose names were Jane, Mary, Jacob,
Charlotte Louisa, and Maria. His partner,
Thomas Starman, was one of his executors.
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65
For further particulars of his sister, Jane
I.- •— ingham, see The Westminster Magazine,
i. 88.
According to Henry Bromley's 'Catalogue
« Kngraved British Portraits' (1793),
p. 438, the small oval mezzotint, engraved
by John Raphael Smith in 1781, of Mary
Hemet was a portrait of the dentist's second
dauu'iiter, which agrees with the information
contained in his will.
Jacob Hemet had one formidable com-
petitor during almost the whole of his career.
On June 13, 1766, The Public Advertiser
contained the following advertisement : —
" Ruspini, surgeon-dentist, informs the Nobility
. . . .that he has just arrived from Dublin at his
lodgings at Williamson's, taylor, in Prince's St.,
Leicester Fields. ..."
It goes on to advertise a " Dentifrice," and
announces that Ruspini " will call on anyone
who wants him."
This dentist, who with Jacob Hemet was
the most eminent in his profession during the
latter part of the eighteenth century, is
mentioned by two contemporary writers,
and seems to have been famed for his
generosity : —
" It is with additional gratification I can add
[say.s Henry Angelo] that the second portrait
painted by Sir William Beechey was of my
father ; the first which this distinguished veteran
of the British School painted being that of my
father's esteemed friend, the Chevalier Ruspini,
Avh<>.-.(. elegant hospitalities I have often enjoyed
at his house, then situate at the corner of
St . Alban's St." — ' Reminiscences of Henry
Angelo ' (Kegan Paul, 1904), i. 94-5.
In a foot-note, vol. ii. 252 of ' Records of
my Life,' John Taylor asserts that
"Dr. Dodd, on the day when he was taken into
custody, had engaged to dine with the late
Chevalier Ruspini, in Pall Mall."
Ruspini died on Dec. 14, 1813, when the
following obituary notice appeared in The
inan's Magazine, Ixxxiii. pt. ii. 701 : —
" In Pall Mall, aged 86, Chevalier Ruspini, who
has been upwards of half a century established in
this country (and 26 jointly with his eldest son),
surgeon-dentist to R.H. the Prince Regent. His
memory will long be revered by his friends ; and
his loss deeply deplored by the unfortunate,
whom he was in the constant habit of consoling,
and by the indigent, whose wants he was ever
ready to relieve. He was the founder of a most
excellent Institution for the Support and Educa-
tion of the Female Orphan Children of Free
\V. Ruspini, the son of the " Chevalier,"
died on Jan. 2, 1812. On Feb. 7, 1801, he
had married, at St. James's Church, Lucy
Jennings, daughter of Ross Jennings of
Gharetty in Bengal.
HORACE BLEA.CKLEY.
AX ANCIENT IRISH MANUSCRJ J ' i :
THE BOOK OF THE
MACGAURANS OR MoGOVERNS.
AT a meeting of the British Academy held on,
March 22, 1911, Dr. Edward Crosby "Quiggin,
Lecturer in Celtic at Cambridge, read a
paper entitled ' Prolegomena to the Study
of the Later Irish Bards, 1200-1500,' which
was inserted later in vol. v. of the Proceedings
of the British Academy, p. 102. In the
course of this he writes : — •
" Certain it is that in a number of cases we find
a cycle of poems addressed by different authors to
the ruler or rulers of one clan collected together.
The earliest of such family books now in existence
is probably the Book of the MacGoverns or
MacGaurans (MacSamhradhain), a fourteenth-
century vellum, in the possession of the O'Conor
Don, a fragment of a larger book."
And in the ' Addenda ' (p. 142) he says : —
" The Magauran Book was transcribed by Adam
O'Cianan for Thomas Magauran, who, according to
the Four Masters, was slain in the year 1343. A.
stanza on p. 50 affords the only literary evidence
with which I am acquainted that the better-known
families maintained books in which eulogies of
their race were entered. I give the verse according
to a transcript made by Joseph O'Longan in 1869,
which the 0 Conor Don kindly deposited for use in
the Cambridge University Library in February,
1913 :—
Ni hinarm duchas dhiunde | 's du daimh ri flesg
find bailie
Seach dhari gach daime oile | Ian dar udaine a
duanoire.
An earlier (and apparently first) descrip-
tion of this MS. was contributed by the late
Sir Ji T. Gilbert, F.S.A., to the Second
Report of the Royal Commission on His-
torical Manuscripts, 1871, p. 223, and runs
thus : —
"MS. in the Irish language on vellum, fifty-four
pages folio, in double columns, imperfect at begin-
ning and end. The penmanship is excellent, out
the vellum is dark and defaced in some places.
From a note on the first page, we learn that tma
book was transcribed by Adam O'Cianan for
Thomas, son of Brian MacSamhradhain, apparently
the chief of the territory of Teallach Eachdhach,
in the north-west of the present county of Cavan,
whose death is chronicled by the Four Masters
under the year 1343. The contents consist mainly
of poems on the genealogies, achievement*, and
liberality of the chiefs of Teallach Eachdhach and.
their relatives."
After enumerating by name five chiefs,
three wive?, and fourteen authors of the
poems, Sir J. T. Gilbert adds :—
"The volume also contains various pieces in
prose on the territories, rents, and. genealogies ot
the Sept MacSamhradhain and the families will
whom its members were allied. In it we likewi
find miscellaneous writings, among which are tractt
on the kindred of Christ, the parentage of Mary
66
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Magdalen, the names of the Twelve Apostles, the
rites of the Church, the letters of the alphabet,
divination, &c. There does not appear to have
been any account hitherto published of this manu-
script. Some of the poems which it contains are
the only productions at present known of their
authors, and the volume may be regarded as a
valuable accession to the collections or the native
literature of Ireland of the 14th century."
Twenty-one years later (1892) Sir J. T.
Gilbert referred to the MS. in the Thirteenth
Report (p. 56), hoping, " so soon as the
arrangements of your Commissioners will
permit, to procee'd." But well-nigh two
more decades elapsed with still no sign of
the promised second report, and in my
then ignorance of Dr. Quiggin's paper, I
•communicated, in May, 1911, with the Right
Hon. the O' Conor Don as a preliminary
agitation for the ultimate translating and
editing of this remarkable manuscript. The
reply was prompt and encouraging. I cull
a few sentences therefrom which contribute
to its history : —
"I had no difficulty whatever in identifying the
MS. to which you refer. It is kept in a safe here
[Clonalis, Castlerea, co. Roscommon], and, although
very much discoloured, is in a good state of pre-
servation. I have, in addition, a beautifully
••xecuted facsimile copy of the original, which is an
•exact copy even down to the formation of the
letters. The copy, which would of course be the
easiest to work with, is on parchment, and I had
it bound a few months ago. Some portions of the
original are now so black as to be almost impossible
to decipher, but have been reproduced quite clearly
in the copy. I believe my father, with the assist-
ance of the late Dr. O'Donovan, had the copy made
so as to preserve the record, as the original showed
signs of failing. . . .If suitable arrangements could
be made, I would be willing to lend the MS.,
subject to provision for its safe custody."
As a second effort to achieve my aim I
.approached, in the following month, the
Irish Texts Society through its secretary,
Miss Eleanor Hull, by whom I was informed
that " nothing could be done in the matter
until we get the report from Prof. Quiggin as
to the value to the public of these poems."
Nigh on two years later (February, 1913)
'O'Longan's transcript, made in 1869, was
happily " deposited for use in the Cambridge
University Library," as Dr. Quiggin states
above. As the deposit was made unknown
to me, I again, in January, 1914, wrote to
Miss Hull, who supplied me with additional
interesting items concerning the MS. : —
"I don't think it is being at all forgotten.
•Several poems from it have recently been pub-
lished, and others will no doubt appear from time
to time. Dr. Quiggin published a long poem from
it last August in a collection of papers presented to
Prof. Ridgeway on his sixtieth birthday. The book
•was for some time lent by the O'Conor Don to
Dr. Hyde. He may have it still."
As a final move in my quest I addressed
Dr. Quiggin himself, who, in referring me
to his paper, added, with regard to the
original MS. and O'Longan's copy : —
"I examined it carefully at Castlerea in August,
1912. It is very difficult to read in parts, and is
much stained. There are about forty leaves of
vellum. The present O'Conor's father had a
transcript of it made about 1870 by O'Longan, of
which I myself have made a full copy. But as the
pages of the original are so hard to decipher in
parts, my transcript will have to be very carefully
compared with the original as soon as an oppor-
tunity arises. The earliest chieftain celebrated in
any of the poems lived in the thirteenth century.
These family books all contain poetry very difficult
to interpret, and the compositions in this particular
case are extremely tough. They will require a
great deal of study, more especially as none of the
pieces occur in any other collection as far as I am
aware. It is my present intention to publish the
whole text of the book if we survive this war.
I am only waiting for leisure to pay another visit
to Roscommon, and to traverse some of the region
which your ancestors ruled over in order to
familiarize myself with the topography At this
moment my transcript is deposited in the strong
room of my college."
Thus I reached the first goal of my
ambition, in that an admittedly valuable
manuscript is in prospect of rescue from an
inglorious oblivion, and of deliverance to the
world by competent hands.
A brief word on one or two other points of
interest in Sir J. T. Gilbert's Report (ut
supra).
1. Adam O'Cianain (or Cainain), the
transcriber of the MS. But little is known
of this apparently diligent scribe beyond
these curt obits, under date 1373 : —
" Four Masters : Adam O'Cianain, a Canon and
learned historian, died at Lisgool."
" Annals of Ulster : Adam Ua Cianain died this
year a Canon, after being tonsured by the Canons
of Lisgabhail, on gaining victory from world and
from demon."
" Annals of Loch Ce" : Adam O'Cianain, an
eminent historian, died a Canon at Lisgabhail."
Applications to other sources for further
items regarding this Seanachie only resulted
in the following note from Prof. Bergin, of
Dublin University College : —
" I am sorry I have not been able to find out
any information about O'Cianain beyond what is in
the Annals. He seems to have been the scribe of
part of a MS. numbered 23. 0. 4 in the Royal
Irish Academy, for at the foot of p. 5 are the
words: Adam O'Cianain do sgrib an diiain ' ('it
was Adam O'Cianain who transcribed the poem').
O'Curry refers to this in his MS. Academy Cata-
logue, p. 30, but he gives no particulars about the
scribe, merely referring to the entry in F. M. 1373."
O'Curry also was of opinion, according to
the editors of vol. ii. of ' Ancient Laws of
Ireland,' that the " law tracts " in MS.
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67
Rawlinson, B. 506, in the Bodleian, " were
•written by O'Cianain in a fine clear hand,
like that in the Book of Ballymote, but
better." Mr. F. Madan, however, tells me
that, in his opinion,
" the connexion of MS. Rawl. B. 506 with O'Cianain
is a fanciful conjecture of Prof. O'Curry, who
thought he recognized the handwriting, a very
slippery form of judgment. There is no hint of the
scribe's name, but the date would suit, being about
A.D. 1400."
The editors of the above work further state
that
"O'Rielly (' Irish Writers,' p. 102) says that he
had in his possession two volumes in vellum, in
the handwriting of this O'Keenan [«tc],one of which
was a copy of ancient laws " ;
but I have been unable to obtain any con-
firmation of this statement. In all proba-
bility this is about all we shall ever learn of
this scribe's literary achievements.
2. Another scribe of no less diligence,
"though more modern, is Joseph O'Longan,
the copyist of our MS. for the O'Conor Don
in 1869. Officially connected with the
Royal Irish Academy's Department of Irish
Manuscripts, he transcribed, also in 1869, the
* Leabhar na H-Uiahri,' and, in 1872-6, the
* Leabhar Breac,' both edited and published
by Sir J. T. Gilbert, who says in his Preface
to the former work that it is
Jt the oldest volume known entirely in the Irish
language, and is regarded as the chief surviving
literary monument, not ecclesiastical, of ancient
Ireland."
I failed to discover any further reference to
either O'Rielly or O Longan in Webb's
* Compendium ' or elsewhere.
3. Thomas MacSamhradhain, according
to Dr. Quiggin, is recorded by the Four
Masters as slain in 1343. But O'Donovan's
•edition of the FJVI. (1851) simply states that
" Thomas Magauran, Chief of Teallaoh Eachahach,
<Jied [deecj."
' The Annals of Ulster ' (MacCarthy's edition.
1893) has :—
" Thomas Mag-Samhradhain, unique choice of
the Chiefs of Ireland, died."
' The Annals of Loch Ce ' (Hennessey's ed. ,
1871):—
" Thomas MacSamhradhain, dux of Teallach
Echach, quievit."
The last form of entry is interesting as a
variant, and that preceding it as supplying
a solitary scrap of biography, though the
phrase (aen ragu taisec Erenn, mortuus eat)
is obscure, possibly pointing to a ratification,
under the laws of Tanistry, of the election
of Thomas to the tribal chieftaincy.
J. B. McGovEBN.
JSt. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
THE RECORDS OF THE CITY
LIVERY COMPANIES.
(See 11 S. vi. 464; vii. 101, 403.)
THE following notes are supplementary to
those contributed by me at the above
references : —
Basket Makers (US. vi. 464).— The ac-
count of this Company appearing in the
issue of The Guild of Freemen Magazine for
June, 1913, informs us precisely as follows : —
"The earliest Roll of Apprentices is dated
June 1st, 1639, and the Quarter or Minute Book,
September 8th, 1661. The earlier books and effects
were destroyed in the Great Fire of London."
Brewers. — Jupp's ' Account ' of the Car-
penters' Company (first edition, 1848) cites,
in a foot-note at p. 7, an entry from the
" Brewers' Company's Court Minutes from
1418 to 1440." The non-publication of the
slightest work on the extraordinarily in-
teresting archives of this ancient company
is much to be lamented.
Carpenters (US. vi. 464).— It is stated in
the introduction to Marsh's ' Records ' that
" the Records of the Company are practically
continuous from the year 1438." In his
first (1913) volume Mr. Marsh transcribes
the Register of Apprentices, 1654-94 ; while
in his second (1914) the Masters for 1456-
1519, together with the Wardens from
1437 onwards, are listed in an appendix.
Coopers (11 S. vi. 465). — From Jackson's
' Notes ' (1914) we gather that " the most
valuable of the Company's possessions is a
very fine collection of Minute and Account
Books, dating from 1440." A list of tho
original members of the Company at
time of its inception in 1440 is printed at
p. 6, from " the most ancient book."
Cutlers.— MS. 660 in the Guildhall Library
consists of sundry original papers relating
to this Companv, including Accounts,
1672-1738; Minutes, 1687-90, 1712-19,
and 1732. The manuscript, which i
two parts, contains a list of the membership
c. 1629-75.
Drapers (11 S. vi. 465).— Herbert's brief
and inaccurate reference is corrected in tl
sumptuous work of Johnson,
schedule of records given in the latter s
(1914) volume (at pp. 173-82) we gather that
the Wardens' Accounts open in 1413, tl
being, however, a break 1442-75, from winch
time they form a continuous series
Renters' Accounts date from 1 81. the
Repertories or Court Minutes from 1515,
and the Freemen's Admission Registers i
68
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. IL JW.Y 22, low.
1567. In the second (1915) volume is set
out (at pp. 405-72) a list of the Masters and
Wardens within the period 1407-1603, being
complete from 1475 onwards. There are
several lists of Members, the earliest relating
to the year 1493.
Glass-Sellers (11 S. vii. 101).— Young's
' History ' (1913) yields a successional list
of Masters and Wardens from 1664.
MS. 1645 at Guildhall comprises in its two
parts a transcript by Mr. Young of the
Register of Apprentices, 1665-1853, together
with a list of Freemen, 1664-1913, and a
complete index. Some original papers re-
lating to this Company, dating within the
period 1670-90, are to be found in the British
Museum (MS. Sloane, 857).
Horners (11 S. vii. 102). — At p. 39 of Rose-
dale's ' History ' (1912) we are informed that
" the earliest Minute Book in the possession
of the Company covers the period 1731-96."
Dr. Rosedale deals chiefly with the Com-
pany's early records, and does not tell us
when the Accounts and Admission Registers
begin. They are presumably of modern
date, however, from the absence of reference.
Innkolders. — Mathews, in his ' History,' as
printed in the London and Middlesex Archae-
ological Society's Transactions, new series,
vol. i., refers at p. 160 to " the existing
Minute Books, which date from September,
1642." There is no mention made of the
Accounts.
Joiners. — Phillips, in his ' Annals ' (1915),
informs us (p. 18) that the first book of
Renters' Accounts commences in 1621, and
(p. 42) that the regular series of Minutes date
from 1679. (The Company preserve rough
Minutes from 1660, as is remarked at p. 36.)
The earliest Registers of Apprentices and
Freemen date respectively from 1641 and
1651 (pp. 29 and 31). A chronological list
of Feoffees, 1497-1885, is given, together
with an alphabetical list of the Liverv,
1496-1914.
Leathersellers (11 S. vii. 102). — Some
original papers relating to this Company are
contained in the British Museum at MS.
Egerton, 2383.
Pinners and Wiresellers. — A ' Register
Book of Wardens' Accounts of the Pinners'
and Wiresellers' Companies ' is to be found
in the British Museum, where it constitutes
MS. Egerton, 1142. It comprises the
Pinners' Accounts, 1462-97, and the Wire-
sellers' (formed by the union of the Pinners
and Wiremongers in 1497) from the last date
to 1511.
Scriveners. — At p. 450 of Besant's ' The
City ' (1910) it is remarked as follows : —
"At the time of the Great Fire of London all
the archives of the Company were burnt except
the ancient book called their common paper, and
which book is still extant."
A folio volume of records of this Company,
dating between 1616-25, is contained in the
British Museum at MS. Harley, 2295, though
whether it is to be identified with the
" ancient book " above referred to does not
appear.
Vintners (US. vii. 404).— The Accounts
of this Company for the period 1507-22, with
cognate records, will be found in the British-
Museum at MS. Egerton, 1143.
WILLIAM McMuRRAY.
MENAGEKIES AND CIRCUSES. — The diffi-
culty of writing the history of shows —
attempted many years ago by Thomas
Frost — is so great "that your readers may
like to know o~f a useful contribution to the
subject in the May issue of Harnlyn s
Menagerie Magazine, where Mr. John Birkett
gives some ' Recollections of Menageries and
Circuses in the Past Nearly Seventy Years,
notablv Wombwell, Edmonds, Bostock,
Mander, Hylton, Sedgewick, Symons, Day,
Anderton, "Cook, Hengler, Ginnett, and
Newsome. The late Mr. Arthur Morice,
advocate, Aberdeen, made a very fine col-
lection of showmen's bills, which, I believe,,
is now in the Aberdeen Public Library. A
summary of its contents appeared in Scottish
Notes and Queries in January and June,
1901. The remarkable circus family of
Cooke (dating at least from 1784) was
described in Bon Accord, July 2, 1887, and
a genealogical table of the family appears^n.
the current ' Who's Who in the Theatre.
J. M. BULLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.
CEREMONY OF DEGRADING A KNIGHT. —
This is described in a letter, dated London,
June 22, 1621, from Dr. Meddus to the Rev.
Joseph Meade, and in one, dated June 23,
1621, from the same Rev. Joseph Meade to
Sir Martin Stuteville. The former wrote that
the previous afternoon a Marshal's Court
had sat at the King's Bench in Westminster
Hall, the members of the court being the
Lord Privy Seal, the Lord Duke of Lennox,
the Lord Marquis of Buckingham, the Earl
of Arundel, and the Viscount Doncaster,
who saw Sir Francis Mitchel degraded of
knighthood. According to the second letter,
eight heralds came in their coat armour,
broke the knight's sword over his head, cut
12 8. II. JULY 22, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
69
his spurs from his heels, and then made
proclamation that none hereafter should
style him by the name of Sir Francis Mitchel
Knight, but Francis Mitchel, arrant knave.
He was then sent back in his coach to prison
ir Finsbury, all the boys hooting after him.
Cf. ' The Court and Times of James I.,'
edited by R. F. Williams (London, 1848),
vol. ii. p. 260. L. L. K.
"ON THE FLY " : A PROLONGED DRUNKEN
BOTJT. — Before the days of the Licensing
Act of Bruce, passed in 1872, when a
prolonged and continuous drunken bout
could be indulged in at public-houses with
much greater freedom than now, a partici-
pator in such was said in North-East Cornwall
to be " on the fly." This is not one of the
meanings given to the phrase in Farmer and
Henley's ' Dictionary of Slang,' and, there-
fore, may be noted. DUNHEVED.
STEEL IN MEDICINE : THE ' N.E.D.' — The
treatment of this subject in the Great
Dictionary is not very satisfactory. The
statement that in early practice iron filings
were sometimes administered internally is
curiously inadequate ; reduced to powder,
they were frequently given, and I remember
a time in which there was still a considerable
popular demand for them. Mars saccharatus
— here called sugar of steel, but more
properly sugared steel — was official in
Scotland, and was nothing more than iron
filings boiled with twice their weight of
white sugar until they were uniformly
encrusted. The statement that iron and
steel were ordinarily regarded as two different
medicines, with similar but not identical
therapeutic effect, is also open to criticism.
It would be more accurate to say that the
ordinary notion was that essentially they
were the same, but that iron was preferred as
more readily yielding its principles. " Salt
of steel" is defined as "usually, iron chloride
(but used also for the sulphate or other salts
of iron)." The fact is that the sal Mortis, or
salt of steel, of our pharmacopoeias, both
English and Scotch, was the green sulphate
of iron. It is strange that there is no
mention of " steel drops " as a synonym for
" tincture of steel." The earliest — indeed,
the only — quotation for Ens Veneris is dated
1758, but this preparation was the invention
(s;ivs Dr. Brookes) of Robert Boyle, in the
seventeenth century, and the name is cer-
tainly much older than the date given.
Quinoy suggests that the inventor chose it
because the preparation was especially
intended for the disorders of women. Be
this as it may, the name was unfortunate, as
it led to the substitution of sulphate of
copper for sulphate of iron in the formula of
the Edinburgh pharmacopo?ia, Venus being
the symbol of copper, as Mars was of iron.
C. C. B.
H. S. ASHBEE. — In my memorial note
(9 S. vi. 121) about him I iastanced as what
might be considered a portrait of Ashbee the
warrior in Caliari's picture in the National
Gallery, Trafalgar Square (No. 1325). I
now wish to retract this.
On a visit to the National Gallery since
the war I found many pictures had been
removed, and some rehung in different places.
Caliari's picture used to hang in the dark
over a door, and was some sixteen feet above
the floor. When I saw it a short time ago
it was on the floor. In this position the face
is totally different from what it appeared
when skied in the dark, and totally unlike
Ashbee, who was a fair man, with a fine
open countenance that inspired confidence,
and made one think that what he said could
be trusted, as, indeed, it could. Now, on
seeing the picture closer, I consider it a libel
on Ashbee to make the suggestion that he
was like this warrior.
I have been there again just before sending
this note (which was written some months
ago) to see the picture, but it has been packed
away for safety. RALPH THOMAS.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THOMAS^' CONGREVE, M.D.— With most
copies of the existing first (1717) and second
(1723) editions of ' A Survey of Stafford-
shire ,' by Sampson Erdeswicke (d. K »3),
is bound up a pamphlet entitled : —
"A I Scheme | or, | Proposal | For making a |
Navigable Communication [Between the I Rivers
of Trent and Severn, I In the County of Stafford.
By Dr. Thomas Congreve, | of Wolver-Hampton. |
LONDON, I Printed for E. Curll in Fleet-street,
1717."
If any reader could inform me as to \
this Dr. Congreve was born, where he
graduated, and where and when he died, or
zive me any other biographical information,
he would be doing me singular sen-ice.
R. Simms in his ' Bibliotheca Staffordiensis
merely mentions the pamphlet without
further reference to its author. '~
A. STANTON WHITFIELD, F.R.Hist.S.
High Street, Walsall.
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BICHERAY, ARTIST. — I possess a well-
painted portrait, 26 in. by 32 in., signed
" Bicheray pinxit, 1752," of a distinguished-
looking man dressed in a blue velvet coat
and red vest trimmed with gold lace. His
right hand is thrust into his vest pocket.
Under his left arm is a tricorne hat trimmed
with gold braid. In the right-hand back-
ground is a plinth and part of the shaft of a
pillar. He wears a grey wig.
I can find no record of this painter in any
list I have consulted, but I should be glad of
reference to other work by him.
JOHN LANE.
The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
HERALDIC QUERY. — Upon one of the
enamelled bosses of the knop of a late
f ourteenth -century Italian chalice (Siena) is
the following coat of arms : Barry of six, or
and azure ; on a chief of the second, three
five-pointed stars of the first. I shall be
grateful for any information regarding these
arms. H. D. ELLIS.
7 Roland Gardens, S.W.
" GOOD-NIGHT " TO THE DEAD. — I have a
note, made many years ago, that it was
customary among the early Christians to
bid " Good-night " to their dead, in reference
to the coming resurrection as the everlasting
morning of souls. Will some patristic
scholar be so kind as to cite one or two
authorities to bear this out ?
L. I. GUINEY.
EDMOND DUBLEDAY. — It would interest
me to know if the Edmond Dubleday
mentioned by MB. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT
ante, p. 25, was of the city of Westminster,
and if his occupation and residence are speci-
fied in the account of Selman's trial.
CHARLES J. GATTY.
47 Upper Grosvenor Street, W.
" HAT TRICK " : A CRICKET TERM. — When
three wickets fall to one bowler in successive
balls the feat is described as a " hat trick.'
When was this term first used, and why '
This is not in the ' N.E.D.'
HENRI TRTJYENS.
SAMUEL PARKER : BUXTON FAMILY. — H
was born, it is supposed, in Derbyshire, in
some old hall or manor, on Oct. 2, 1751. H
married Elizabeth Buxton, who died June 3
1786, aged 42, and after her death lef
Derbyshire and lived for some years a
Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire, where he had
property. Ultimately he settled at Grea
Staughton, Huntingdonshire, and died a
The Place there on Feb. 13, 1844.
ate in life he had married Sarah Fowler,
.vidow of a Huntingdonshire lawyer, who
urvived him for many years. The Parkers
nd Buxtons had intermarried several times,
>ut I have never seen a Buxton quartering on
he Parker coat, though there are many coats
[uartered with Caldecott.
I am desirous of finding the parents of
Samuel Parker ; and also the place of his
marriage (Buxton), and the names of his
>arents-in-law. The Parkers are of the
tfacclesfield family — an elder branch — and
>ear.the same arms. Some of the Buxtons
ived at Ripley, and in the will of one
"amuel Buxton, gentleman(" late of Ripley,
mt now of Islington, Middlesex"), dated
3ct. 23, 1793, mention is made of Jarvis
Buxton, gent., of Ripley, and his wife Grace,
and then* sons and daughters, and of Samuel
Packer's four daughters. O. A. E.
THE KINGSLEY PEDIGREE. — The Rev.
William Towler Kingsley, Rector of South
Kilvington, has just died, aged 101 years.
The obituary notices state that he was a
ousin of Charles Kingsley. Can any one
supply a pedigree of the Kingsleys ? C.
Kingsley 's ' Life ' throws very little light on
it. GENEALOGIST.
JOHN LOCKE. — According to the ' Diet.
Nat. Biog.,' xxxiv. 27, "his mother, Agnes
Keene (b. 1597), was niece of Elizabeth
Keene, second wife of his grandfather,
Nicholas Locke." . I should be glad to know
the name and the place of residence of her
father, and the date and place of her death.
G. F. R. B.
NICHOLAS LOCKYER. — According to the
'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxxiv. 54, he left "a son
Cornelius and five daughters." I should be
glad to learn the date and particulars of his
marriage, of which no mention is made in the
article. G. F. R. B.
MAJOR CAMPBELL'S DUEL.— In Aitken's
' Memorials of Robert Burns ' the following
reference is made to Grace Aitken, who died
1857, aged 80:—
"She was often to be found in the homes of
mourning, supporting and soothing the dying, and
the afflicted mourners in their agony of grief. One
such case occurred in my youth — Mrs. Campbell,
wife of Major Campbell, who, having quarrelled
with a brother officer in Ireland, fought a fatal
duel with him, in a room without seconds. The
jury found a verdict of wilful murder against
Campbell, who was executed." — Pp. 131-2.
Can any of your readers refer me to an
account of the "duel, and of the trial ?
Irvine, Ayrshire.
R. M. HOGG.
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71
SARUM BREVIARY : VERSES IN CALENDAR.
— In the Kalendar prefixed to the Sarum
Breviary there is a Latin hexameter at the
head of each month. Each of them specifies
two days in the month, having their particu-
lar superstitions attached to them.
Can any one throw any light on the origin
of these verses or the superstitions to which
they refer ? They are as follows : —
January. — Priraa dies mensis et septima truncat ut
ensis.
February. — Quarta subit mortem ; prosternit tertia
fortem.
March. — Primus mandentem, disrumpit quarta bi-
bentem.
April. — Denus et undenus est mortis vulnere
plenus.
May. — Tertius occidit et septimus ora relidit.
June. — Denus pailescit ; qumdenus fcedera nescit.
July. — Tredecimus mactat : Julii denus labefactat.
August. — Prima necat fortem, perditque secunda
cohortem.
September. — Tertius Septembris et denus fert mala
membris.
October. — Tertius et denus est sicut mors alienus.
November. — Scorpius estquintus, et tertius estnece
cinctus.
December. — Septimus exanguis (? exsanguis) virosus
denus ut anguis.
G. H. PALMER.
Heywood Park, White Waltham, Berks.
MARRIAGE LINES. — It is a very common
belief among the lower classes that if a
woman lose her " marriage lines " her
marriage is void. What is the origin of this
idea ? On June 10, 1916, I saw a kine-
matograph play, ' Infelicite,' the plot of
which largely depends on the foregoing idea.
I take it the " marriage lines " are merely
a, copy of the register, and that even if the
latter, as well as the copy, were burnt, the
validity of the marriage would be absolutely
unaffected. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[See 8 S. xii. 44, 110, 193 : 9 S. i. 48.]
THE LION RAMPANT OF SCOTLAND. — What
is (or was) the national flag of Scotland ?
The rampant lion on a yellow ground is often
said to be the Scottish standard, but this has
been denied. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[See 8 S. v. 366, 433, 493 ; vi. 33.]
" FEIS." — In a question put in the House
of Commons on July 6, mention was made of
" the feis portions of local shows, comprising
children's competitions in singing and
dancing." I do not find " feis " in ' N.E.D.'
What is its meaning ? A. F. R.
WILLIAM PHILIPS, TOWN CLERK OF
BRECON, ANTIQUARY, D. 1685. — In the sale
of the Towneley MSS., on June 28, 1883,
lot 149 was a volume in MS. of ' Welsh
Pedigrees,' apparently collected by Wm.
Philips, with his autograph on the last page,
green morocco. It was bought for l.V. \:>*.
by the late Mr. Bernard Quaritch, who sold
it about two years later, and was quite
unable to trace it in 1908. I should be
obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.1 could give
me any information about this MS.
GWENLLIAN E. F. MORGAN.
Buckingham Place, Brecon, S. Wales.
PICTURE : ' THE WOODMAN OF KENT.' —
Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply informa-
tion with regard to a small oil painting
entitled as above ? It represents a forester
or woodman smoking a pipe, with a dog
beside him. N. L. P.
" DOLORES." — Who was the composer of
songs who published under this pseudonym
fifty years ago ? FRANK PENNY.
[" Dolores " was Ellen Dickson, third daughter of
General Sir Alexander Dickson. We quote the
following account of her from the first volume
(1892) of Mr. Frederic Boase's ' Modern English Bio-
graphy,' s.v. Dickson : " Bforn] Woolwich 1819 ;
an invalid from her youth ; resided chiefly at
Lyndhurat, New Forest ; composed under pseu-
donym of Dolores upwards of 50 drawing-room
songs which were very popular and some of which
are still sung d. Lyndhurst 4 July 1878."]
STATUE AT DRURY LANE THEATRE, c. 1794.
— An engraving of Drury Lane Theatre at
its opening on March 12, 1794 (by J. White,
after J. Capon), shows the building sur-
mounted by a pedestal and statue. What
was the subject of this statue ? and was it
destroyed with the iron curtain and other
properties when the place was burnt down,
fifteen years later ? J. L. L.
INSCRIPTION AT POLTIMORE CHURCH. —
Can any of your readers tell me the meaning
of the following inscription to a man and
his wife over one of the doors to Poltimore
Church, near Exeter ? —
Grudge not my laurel, rather blesse that Bower
Which made the death of two the life of fower.
Some queer domestic incident seems
recorded here, but I was unable to ascertain
at the time of taking down the inscription
what it was. H. B. S.
PAPAL AND SPANISH FLAGS AT SEA n*
SIXTEENTH CENTURY. — Did (1) the Pope and
(2) the King of Spain in the sixteenth cent ury
use their personal arms as flags for their
ships at sea, or did they use other flags, and
if so, what ? I have read somewhere tliat
King Philip II. vised a flag resembling the
present Danish one.
JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.
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THOMSON AND ALLAN RAMSAY.
(12 S. ii. 29.)
THE legend that makes Thomson of ' The
Seasons ' the author of ' The Gentle Shep-
herd,' and Allan Ramsay its humble sponsor,
is an old one, the absurdity of which has
been frequently exposed. Some years ago
it was used in ' N. & Q.' as in its way an
appreciable parallel to the Shakespeare-
Bacon craze, but at the moment an exact
reference to the allusion cannot be given.
In its first form the tradition located the
transaction between the adventurers in
Allan Ramsay's place of business, which, it
was explained, was a barber's shop. Thither,
the story ran, Thomson had gone to be shaved
by the senior poet, and the conclusion was
that their consequent intimacy would
facilitate the arrangements for the publica-
tion of the poem. By and by, even gossip-
mongers realized that Ramsay, who belonged
to the honourable craft of periwig-makers,
had never been a barber, and it became
imperative to drop the tonsorial episode.
Now Mr. E. H. Barker of Thetford is con-
strained to indicate very vaguely the scene
of the presumptive interview. " Thomson,
the poet," says he, " went into a shop at
Edinburgh, while Allan Ramsay was there " ;
and, lo ! the sinister plot was straightway
completed.
At the outset, let it be said that Ramsay
was well known as a poet while Thomson was
in his boyhood. By the time the future
author of ' The Seasons ' was a student in
Edinburgh University, it was a common
occurrence for the goodwives of the city to
send their children with a copper to buy
" Allan Ramsay's last piece." He had
begun his poetical career when Thomson
was about 10 years old, and he had published
his pastoral ' Patie and Roger ' (the prime
source of ' The Gentle Shepherd ' ) while the
other was still a stripling. This he reprinted
in the first collection of his poems in 1721,
when Thomson was a student of divinity.
When ' Jenny and Meggy ' followed ' Patie
and Roger' as a sequel, the poet's friends
urged him to elaborate a drama on such a
promising basis, and this he ultimately did,
producing ' The Gentle Shepherd ' in 1725.
In the quarto issue of the work, published in
1728, he appended to its first scene a
bibliographical note of distinct importance.
"Having," he says, "carried the pastoral
he length of five acts, at the desire of some
persons of distinction, I was obliged to print
:his preluding scene with the rest." With
:hese indubitable facts it is impossible to
reconcile Mr. Barker's statement that
" Thomson delivered to him the MS. of
The Gentle Shepherd.' "
A complete offset to the myth was given
by Lord Hailes when he thus dismissed some
tattle regarding help given to Ramsay by
Sir John Clerk and others : —
" They who attempt to depreciate his fame by
insinuating that his friends and patrons composed
the works which pass under his name ought first
to prove that his friends and patrons were capable
of composing 'The Gentle Shepherd.'"
This is obviously applicable to Thomson,
whose genius could not have worked in the
medium through which Ramsay's pastoral
drama is presented. Thomson lacked the
ready, affable temperament that finds scope
iu comedy, and he had but a limited facility
in the management of the Scottish vernacu-
lar. These gifts and accomplishments, on
the other hand, were pre-eminently Ram-
say's, and they secured for him his permanent
place in the republic of letters. Among
Thomson's juvenile poems, contributed to
' The Edinburgh Miscellany ' in 1720 — when
he was at the University, and should have
furnished Ramsay with his MS. if Mr.
Barker's tradition is trustworthy — there is
not the slightest evidence of anything that
in the least resembles the style of ' The
Gentle Shepherd.' He does make a brief
pastoral experiment in heroic couplets,
discovering " thrice happy swains," who
enjoy a " rural feast," while they recline
"on seats of homely turf," and are guarded
by the inevitable shade thrown " by twining
boughs of spreading beeches." It is all,
however, sheer puerile experiment, and
indicates nothing whatever of the genial,
buoyant spirit that revelled among the
idyllic amenities of Habbie's Howe. It is
in" no sense a poetical achievement, but
merely a venture in composition after the
classical manner that naturally appealed to
the writer's inexperience. Thomson's ver-
nacular ' Elegy upon James Therburn,' in.
the Habbie Simpson stanza — perhaps his
only serious attempt of the kind — is a very
crude effort, sufficient of itself to show that
its author could never have gained distinction
as a maker of Scottish poetry. Presently,
however, Thomson found himself, publishing
in 1726 his ' Winter,' which thus proclaimed
a fresh poetic outlook just a year after Allan
Ramsay's ' Gentle Shepherd ' had empha-
tically done the same. Each poet worthily
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secured pride of place in his own way — their
paths being not only separate, but widely
sundered — and it is very unfair to both that
they should be accused together of practising
literary deception. THOMAS BAYNE.
THE SIDE-SADDLE (12 S. ii. 28). — In the
privately printed Memoirs of Mr. Lennox
Tredcroft there is a letter from Miss Caroline
Kincr, dated Dec. 10, 1845, and containing
the following description : —
" A man's saddle, with only a pommel to hang
your right knee over, and then another pommel
lower down to hook down the other knee, and that
lower pommel too a movable concern, always
turning and getting out of its proper position —
a barbarous alteration of the good old-fashioned
side-saddle."
G. W. E. R.
EQUESTRIAN would find a list of books on
this subject in B. Quaritch's ' Rough List,'
No. 185, pp. 23-6 ; also in ' Works on Horses
and Equitation.' a bibliography published
by F. H. Huth, London, 1887. I have
written myself about the side-saddle in Revue
archeologique, 1895, i. p. 193.
S. REINACH.
Saint Germain-en-Laye.
RICHARD SWIFT ( 12 S. ii. 9, 58).— Walford's
' County Families,' 1860, gives him as : —
" Richard Swift esq. (of Herongate). Son of
the late Timothy Swift esq., by Susannah dau.
of J. Cary esq. ; b. 1811, m. 1830 Kate dau. of
John O'Brien esq. Is a merchant and wholesale
manufacturer in London ; was Sheriff of London
1851-2; M.P. for co. Sligo 1852-7. St. Mary's,
Herongate, near Brentwood, Essex ; Westhill
House, Wandsworth, Surrey ; Parthenon Club,
\\Y
W. R. WILLIAMS.
Talybont, Brecon.
Richard Swift (son of Timothy Swift, army
contractor), born Malta, 1811 ; an importer
and exporter of leather ; a wholesale and
export shoe manufacturer, and agent in
London for Northamptonshire shoemakers ;
Sheriff of London October, 1851, to October,
1852 ; presented his Roman Catholic chaplain
Monsignor Francis Searle to the Queen at
her levee at St. James's Palace, Feb. 26,
1852 ; this presentation was cancelled
March 23, 1852, on the ground that Searle's
title was assumed without required authority.
Searle died Shoreham, Sussex, May 30,
1889. Swift was M.P. for Sligo July 26, 1852,
to March 20, 1857, and contested it April 11,
1857. He died at 6 Upper Montague Street
Kussell Square, London, March 24, 1872.
FREDERIC BOASE.
MONTAGU AND MANCHKSTKK (12 S. i. 267,.
339).— The reply of G. \V. H. K.,at the latter
reference, that the Manchester from which
Sir Henry Montagu took his title is God-
manchester in the county of Huntingdon, ia
not in agreement with the statements in
Collins's ' Peerage,' 4th edit., 1748, vol. ii.
p. 206 :—
" On the accession of King Charles I. March 27,
1625, his Lordship [Sir Henry Montagu, Lord
Montagu of Kimbolton, and Viscount Mandevil,
Lord President of the Council] was continued Lord
President, and created Earl of Manchester in
com. Pal. Lane, on Feb. 5, in the first year of his
reign."
The reference given as to the creation of
the earldom is Pat. 1 Car. I , p. 7, n. 24,
Under ' Creations,' on p. 238 of Collins, is
the following : —
" Baron Montagu, of Kimbolton, in com.
Huntingdon, and Viscount Mandeville (the name
of a family) Dec. 19, 1620, 18 Jac. I. Earl of
Manchester, hi com. Lane. Feb. 5, 1625-6, 1 Car. I.
and Duke of the same place, April 30, 1719r
5 Geo. I."
These statements are repeated verbatim ia
the Egerton Brydges edition of Collins. 1812,
vol. ii. pp. 52, 88, except that the year of
the earldom is on the latter page given as
1624 — an obvious error.
It will be seen that Montagu was created
Lord Montagu of Kimbolton, in the county of
Huntingdon, 1620 (reference in Collins :
" Pat. 18 Jac. p. 6"), and that a few years
later he was created Earl of Manchester
in the county Palatine of Lancaster. Ia
both editions of Collins, Mandevil becomes
Mandeville in the summing up of the titles
and creations.
In his ' Complete Peerage,' vol. v., 1 93,
p. 206, G. E. Cfokayne] saya : " cr. 5 Feb.,
1625/6 Earl of Manchester, co. Lancaster.
Peter Heylin, in his 'Help to English
History,' 1674, pp. 373, 374, describes
Manchester as " a good Town of Lancashire
situate in the hithermost part thereof where
it joyneth to the county of Darby." He goes
on to say : " It is yet more famous, in being
made the honourary Title of Henry
Montague, Vise. Mandeville, created Earl of
Manchester, 1 Car. I."
Samuel Lewis, in ' A Topographical ]
tionary of England,' 1835, at the end of the
account of Manchester, county palatine of
Lancaster, says: "Manchester gives I
titles of Duke and Earl to the family of
Montagu."
Apart from G. W. E. R.'s reply I have
found no trace of the Godmanchester deriva-
tion. On the other hand, I have found i
connexion, other than the title, of
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Montagu family with Manchester. Is any
connexion necessary ?
Concerning the Wellington title MR. W. G.
WILLIS WATSON wrote (11 S. x. 132) : —
" There is nothing extraordinary in the fact of
a man adopting a territorial title from some place
with which he has little acquaintance. The
peerage is full of the names of families, the re-
presentative members of which bear titles which
iiave been selected for reasons of euphony only."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
ENGLISH PRELATES AT THE COUNCIL OF
BALE (12 S. ii. 28). — May not those " words
italicized not clear " stand for " tempore
«joncilii Basiliensis," or " Constantinensis " ?
On p. 154 of the ' Libre segon dels
Miracles,' by the Dominican Friar Michel
Llot (Perpignan, 1589), will be found: "No
faltaren los embaixadors del Rey de Ingla-
terra, lo Bisbe de Vncestre, y dos doctors
f amosos " ; i.e., "There were not wanting
the Ambassadors of the King of England,
the Bishop of Worcester, and two famous
Doctors," among the actors in the Council of
Constance who came to Perpignan in 1415
to hear St. Vincent Ferrer preach.
In a letter printed in The Academy ior
April 27, 1895, referring to this interesting
statement, I asked if Winchester was meant
by " Vncestre." I saw it was an evident
misprint on the part of a Catalan compositor ;
and it did occur to me that it stood for
Worcester. There is, it seems, no record of
Cardinal Beaufort's presence either at Con-
stance or at Perpignan in 1415. Does the
register of the diocese of Worcester mention
Bishop Thomas Polton as going from Con-
etance to Perpignan ? He was one of the
ambassadors of King Henry V. at that
Council of Constance of which Llot was
writing ; but he was then Dean of York.
He became Bishop of Hereford on July 21,
1420, and of Worcester in 1426, according to
•the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'
But Llot, writing 174 years afterwards, may
easily have fallen into the inaccuracy of
describing the prelate under the title which
was conferred upon him eleven jears later.
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford Union Society.
1. Thomas Polton, Bishop of Hereford
1420, Chichester 1422, Worcester 1426-33,
bore Argent, three six-pointed pierced molets
-sable.
2. Robert Fitzhugh, Bishop of London
1431-6, who is undoubtedly intended, bore
Azure, three chevrons interlaced, and a chief
or. S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.
Walsall.
GUNFIRE AND RAIN (12 S. i. 10, 56, 96,
170, 337 ; ii. 38). — In reply to your corre-
spondent MR. ROBERT PIERPOINT as to
rainfall, it may interest him to know that I
have registered the rainfall in this immediate
neighbourhood for thirty-three years, and
in that time I have registered a total of
30 ins. and over on four occasions, viz. :
1891, 30-09 in. ; 1903, 39'34 in. ; 1912,
31-65 in. ; 1915, 30'5o in.
G. H. PALMER.
Heywood Park, White Waltham, Berks.
RICHARD WILSON (12 S. i. 90, 158, 213,
277, 437, 516; ii. 34, 55).— In 'A Topo-
graphical and Historical Description of the
County of Suffolk,' a book printed by J.
Munro (of Woodbridge) in 1829, mention is
made, at p. 498, of " a neat cottage, the seat
of Richard Wilson, esquire, at Bildeston."
This Richard Wilson died at Bildeston in his
75th year on June 7, 1834 (The Times of
June 11, 1834, p. 7), and was identical with
the attorney-at-law who appears in the
' Law List ' of 1834 (for the last time), being
then in partnership, at 35 Lincoln's Inn
Fields, with Alfred Bell and Samuel Steward.
The firm acted as solicitors to the Lambeth
Waterworks Company.
In his will, dated June 22, 1833, and proved
on Sept. 4, 1834 (P.C.C. Teignmouth, 542),
Wilson was content to be described as of
Bildeston. But clues to his identity with
the attorney are not lacking. Alfred Bell
was one of the executors ; and two out of the
three witnesses to the will were " S. Steward "
and " George Thos. Tyne," both of " 35 Lin-
coln's Inn Fields."
The testator was a widower, with three
children : an only son, Richard Percy Wilson,
for whom special provision had to be made
on account of his " ill-health," and two
daughters — Sarah, wife of the Rev. John
Honywood Randolph, and Elizabeth, wife
of the Rev. Montagu Oxenden. The testator
seemingly combined a love of horses with a
love of books, for there were " thorough-
breds" to be sold at Tattersall's ; and he
gave careful directions about his library.
He disposed of estates in Suffolk, Wiltshire,
and Northumberland, without saying (apart
from Bildeston) in what parishes they lay.
The executors and trustees were to be
Samuel Harwood, Alfred Bell, and Francis
Mascall ; but Mascall renounced probate of
the will.
The careers of the sons-in-law are indicated
Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.' Ran-
dolph, who married Sarah Wilson in 1814
(Gentleman's Magazine, Ixxxiv. ii. 288), was
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75
•son of Dr. John Randolph, Bishop suc-
cessively of Oxiord, Bangor, and London
{'D.N.B.,' xlvii. 274). Oxenden, who
married Elizabeth Wilson (his first wife) in
1824 (Gentleman's Magazine, xciv. i. 272),
had by her a son who succeeded to the family
baronetcy (Cokayne's 'Baronetage,' iv. 100).
Was it by chance or because Wilson had
once been Lord Eldon's secretary that both
the sons-in-law obtained a living in the
gift of the Chancellor ? Randolph became
Rector of Burton Coggles, Lincolnshire, in
1816 ; and Oxenden, Rector of Luddenham,
Kent, in 1827.
Richard Wilson owned, in Wiltshire, the
manor of Bemerton, which he acquired after
ihe death of the last Lord Ched worth, who
>died in 1804 (Hoare's 'Modern Wiltshire,'
II. i. 156 ; G. E. C.'s ' Peerage,' ii. 216). He
was one of Lord Chedworth's executors, and
-an account of the friendship between the
two men is given in The Gentleman's Maga-
zine, Ixxiv. ii. 1242-4.
Upon the death of his brother, a surgeon,
-John Wilson of Hepscot, who died at
Morpeth, aged 68, in 1820 (Gentleman's
Magazine, xc. ii. 638), Richard Wilson in-
herited the manor of East Dudden in
Stannington, Northumberland; and also
Hepscot Hall and other property at Morpeth,
which he subsequently sold to the Earl of
Carlisle. The brothers descended from the
Wilsons of Ulgham. See Hodgson's ' North-
umberland,' II. ii. 288, 439. H. C.
Richard Wilson of Lincoln's Inn Fields,
•attorney, sometime secretary to Lord Eldon,
was baptized at Morpeth in Northumberland
on Oct. 5, 17o9, being the twelfth child of
George Wilson of Hepscott, a small estate
purchased, in 1667, by his ancestor Richard
Wilson, a Westmorland man. George Wil-
son's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Joh.
Nowell of Naworth, receiver, or land agent,
of the Earl of Carlisle.
It is stated that, after serving his articles
to an attorney at Hexham, Richard Wilson
went to London with his filial portion of
some three hundred pounds, and through
native shrewdness, a coarse humour, and
the countenance of his kinsman John Scott,
afterwards Lord Eldon, built up a very good
practice, being popularly known as Morpeth
Dick. I believe he was a member of the
well-known Beef-Steak Club. On Feb. 20,
1784, he married, at Margate, Miss Hannah
Harwood, by whom he had issue a son, who
died in early innnhood, and at least two
daughters. Kiivinur succeeded by survivor-
ship to the family property at Morpeth, East
Duddoe, and Hepscott, he sold the same,
and purchased other property at Bildeston
in Suffolk, with which county his wife was
connected. There he made some name for
himself as a breeder of blood horses; and
there he died on June 7, 1834, from the
results of a wound from a spring gun.
J. C. HODGSON.
Alnwick.
SKULL AND IRON NAIL (US. xii. 181, 306,
389, 409, 490; 12 S. i. 77, 133).— Mr. Baring-
Gould, in a chapter on ' The Meaning of
Mourning ' included in his ' Curiosities of
Olden Times,' enumerates expedients for
ensuring the imprisonment of dead men in
their graves, to the intent that they may not
return to affright the living. The Finns, for
instance, nail the corpse in his coffin.
" The Arabs tie his legs together. The
Wallacks drive a long nail through the skull ; and
this strange usage explains the many skulls that
have been exhumed in Germany thus perforated."
—Pp. 8, 9.
ST. SWITHIN.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S.
ii. 3). — John Blathwait was youngest son of
Wm. Blathwait, Secretary at War 1683-9,
and M.P. for Newtown and Bath, died
Aug. 26, 1717. John Blathwait died April 21,
1752.
Jonathan Driver d. July 30, 1754.
Thomas Eaton d. Cheshunt, Herts, Aug. 15,
1743.
John Elves d. July 6, 1758.
Robert Fairfax, M.P. for Kent 1754-63,
brother of Lord Fairfax, d. March 3, 1767.
Earl of Hertford, b. Nov. 11, 1684,
colonel 15th Foot Oct. 23, 1709, to Feb. 8,
1715, captain and colonel 2nd Troop of
Horse Guards Feb. 8, 1715, colonel Royal
Horse Guards May 6, 1740, succeeded as
7th Duke of Somerset Dec. 2, 1748, d. Feb. 7,
1750.
Tomkins Wardour, colonel 41st Foot
April 1, 1743, to his death Feb. 13, 17.VJ.
aged 74.
Arthur Edwards d. June 22, 1743.
Thomas Levett, regimental agent, d.
Feb. 15, 1758.
Marc Antoine Saurin was third son of
Jean Saurin of Nisme, who settled at Geneva
on revocation of Edict of Nantes. M. A.
Saurin d. July 11, 1763.
Thomas Johnson, captain Guards, d.
February, 1777.
Wm. Gough d. April 16, 1740.
Win. Merchant d. June 3, 1746.
Otwav, lieutenant-colonel in tho Guards,
d. July'l, 1762.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.n. JULY 22,1916.
Otway, captain, son of General Charles
Otway, d. Oct. 19, 1764.
Benjamin Carpenter, colonel of 12th
Dragoons Sept. 20, 1764, and of 4th Light
iOrasoons Oct. 24, 1770, to his death, March 8,
1788, aged 75 ; general Feb. 19, 1783.
Hon. James Cholmondeley b. April 18,
1708, general April 13, 1770, d. Oct. 10, 1775,
buried in Westminster Abbey.
Samuel Saville d. July or August, 1745.
Wills, major in the Life Guards, d. July 18,
1747.
Charles Bradshaigh d. Aug. 1, 1765
Wm. Hollingworth d. January, 1744.
Wm. Merrick, major-general 1745, d.
Sept, 8, 1747.
Francis Burton, colonel, d. May 22, 1753.
John Stevenson, colonel Guards, d. July,
1778. FREDEKIC BOASE.
In the ' Present State of Great Britain,'
1718, I find the following:—
1st Troop Horse Guards. — John Blathwent, Esq.,
Lieutenant.
2nd Troop. — Earl of Hertford, Captain. Henry
Cornwall, Esq., Lieutenant.
3rd Troop. — John Baynes, Esq., Lieutenant. His
name is erased, and there is substituted in writing
" Kien, Esq., Lieutenant."
From the Army List, 1773, I take the
following : —
Justin MacCarty, Lieut. -Col. 9 April, 1748, h.p.
Being on half-pay, he was most likely unattached.
He was probably related to Lord De La Warr, the
colonel, who married a daughter of the Earl of
Clancarty.
Peter Ryves Hawker, Guidon and Major, 31 Dec.,
1770, 1st Troop Horse Guards, and Thomas Dufour
Eaton, 21 Jan., 1768, Exempt and Captain.
4th Dragoons. — Col. Benjamin Carpenter, 24 Oct.,
1770 ; Lieut.-General 25 May, 1772.
16th Light Dragoons. — John Burgoyne, Col.
18 March, 1763 ; Major-General 25 May, 1772.
Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage,' 10th
ed., 1848, p. 997, mentions : —
Thomas Twysden, Lieut.-Col. 1st Life Guards,
d. 19 July, 1784.
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
BRITISH HERB : HERB TOBACCO (12 S.
i. 48, 136, 317, 432, 474 ; ii. 16).— A British
herb tobacco is still smoked, partly for
medicinal reasons, and Mr. Ford, herbalist,
of Newport Pagnell, has kindly favoured me
with the actual recipe for the " blend " — the
ingredients should be slowly sun-dried :
2 oz. rose leaves, 2 oz. coltsfoot leaves, 2 oz.
meadow sweet, 2 oz. yarrow leaves, 1 oz.
lobelia leaves, 1 oz. sweet marjoram, 1 oz.
lavender, 1 oz. clivas.
THOS. M. BLAGG.
124 Chancery Lane, W.C.
WILLIAM MILDMAY, HARVARD COLLEGE,
1647 (12 S. i. 488; ii. 18). — His will was
proved in P.C.C. in 1682 (Cottle, 125) ; his
widow's in 1731 (Isham, 214). She wished
that her body should be buried at Barking, as
near to her dead father's as possible.
There is a very fine monument to William
Holyday in the church of St. Lawrence
Jewry, Cresham Street, E.G., on which there
is a bust of his daughter Dame Anne Mild-
may, widow of Sir Henry, and mother of the
William about whom your correspondent is
inquiring. Probably he owes his Christian
name to Holyday.
C. H. ST. JOBOSt-MlLDMAY.
Athenzeum Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
"THEAGER'S GIRDLE" (12 S. ii. 9). — This
is a misprint for " Theages' bridle." The
reference is to Plato's ' Republic,' vi.,
p. 496 B. I quote from Jowett's transla-
tion : " perad venture there are some who are
restrained by our friend Theages' bridl6
His ill-health keeps him from politics."
J. E. SANDYS..
Cambridge.
[H. C — N thanked for reply.]
PACE-EGGING (12 S. i. 488; ii. 12).— A
pamphlet entitled ' Old Chorlton,' published
by C. F. SarlL the Electric Press, Chorlton,
Manchester, gives the subjoined under the
heading of ' Pace-Egging ' : —
" The custom of Pace-Egg acting and Pace- or
Pasche-Egging is of great antiquity. Formerly
the younger inhabitants of the village would
form themselves into companies, fancifully de-
corated with cardboard, tinsel, ribbon, and calico
of various colours, and, presenting a very gaudy-
appearance, would set off on the dawn of Good
Friday for a tour of the village and the surrounding
district, calling at the farmsteads, various resi-
dences, and public-houses, the occupants of which,,
expecting the call, were quite prepared to receive
them. The company comprised Open the Door,.
Saint George, Bold Slasher, Black Morocco, King,.
Doctor, Doubt, and The Devil ; and each carried
a sword, with the exception of the doctor, •who-
carried a large stick and bottle. One of the
number was dressed as a lady, whose duty it was
to carry the basket for the receipt of eggs and
.other gifts.
" The middle-aged men of the village also-
formed themselves into companies, generally
about half-a-dozen, placing a white shirt over their
ordinary dress, tied at the bottom and stuffing it
with hay or straw, with masks over their faces to
disguise themselves. They promenaded the
village with the skull of a horse's head fixed on the
top of a short pole, carried by a person concealed
under a horse cloth, who worked the jaws of the
horse's mouth with a small lever. One of the
party was dressed as a lady, as in the other case.,
to carry the gifts received."
FRED. L. TAVAKE.
22 Trent ham Street, Pendleton, Manchester..
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77
WILLIAM TOLDERVY AND THE WORD-
BOOKS : "MoRT" (12 S. i. 503). — I have
heard this word constantly used all my life,
both in Northamptonshire and Warwick-
shire, as meaning a targe quantity. Both
Baker and Sternberg give it place in their
Northamptonshire Glossaries. John Clare
often uses it , and I believe it was also known
to Robert Bloomfield. So recently as 1904
Mr. Israel Zangwill criticized Kingsley's
' Water Babies ' as requiring " a mort of
annotations."
(See also 7 S. VL 128: 153, 176 ; viii. 95.)
JOHN T. PAGE.
FAIRFIELD AND RATHBONE, ARTISTS (12 S.
ii. 27). — Information relating to Charles
Fairfield will bo found in Redgrave's ' Dic-
tionary of Artists ' ; Gentleman1 8 Magazine,
vol. Ixxv., 1805, p. 880 ; Nagler's ' Kunstler-
Lexikon ' ; Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters
and Engravers ' ; and ' Dictionary of Na-
tional Biography ' ; whilst particulars of
John Rathbone will be found in Redgrave ;
Bryan ; Graves' s ' Dictionary of Royal
Academy Exhibitors ' ; Mayer's ' Early Art
in Liverpool ' ; and ' D.N.B.'
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193,
275, 416, 474; ii. 14). — There are at least
three still standing in our neighbourhood :
one at Cark, opposite to Cark Hall ; another at
Goosegreen, Dalton ; and still another by the
side of the mill-dam, Ulverston. All three
are circular in shape, constructed of stone,
and are situated near a stream. Will some
of your readers kindly inform mo if the law
required that pounds were to be situated
near running water ?
Amongst the animals that were interned
in these pounds surely none were more
troublesome than goats. An old inhabitant
of Ulverston informs me that once old
Charles McArthur, the pindar, had im-
prisoned three goats, the property of Mr.
Worthington of the Sun Hotel. The pindar
had scarcely left the pound, when the goats
scaled the wall and followed him down the
street, to the amusement of the old inhabi-
tants. But something worse befell old Tom
Turner, the pindar of Dalton. Tom's out-
standing characteristics wi-re a fondness for
fun and rum, and a wooden leg. On one
occasion he had incarcerated five goats that
had strayed from Askam-in-Furness. When
the owner heard of their fate, he hurried to
Dalton, and paid the fine. Old Tom, in the
majesty of his office, went down and liberated
the goats, when one of the flock, no doubt
feeling the indignity placed upon itself and
its t\ llov.s, went for old Tom, knocked him
down, and broke his ]*••_'. Fortunately, this
was Tom's "off" leg — the one constructed
of timber. Needless to relate, Tom had
many a chaffing about this episode, and
never more had any dealings with goats.
W. G. ATKINSON.
21 Princes Street, Ulverston.
FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME (12 S. ii. 29).
— Although I cannot complete the rime at
this reference, I am familiar with
and
Candlemas Day 1 Candlemas Day !
Half our fire and half our hay ;
On Candlemas Day
You must have half your straw and half your hay ;
both meaning that on Feb. 2 we are only
midway through winter, and therefore ought
to have half our fuel and fodder for cattle
in stock. There is an old Latin proverb
(referred to in Sir T. Browne's Vulgar
Errors ' ) that if the sun shines on the Feast
of the Purification there will bo more ice after
the festival than before it. The subject is
fully dealt with on pp. 18-21 of ' Weather
Lore,' by Richard Inwards (third edition,
1898). A. C. C.
WRIGHT FAMILY ARMS (12 S. i. 327, 415).—
" Wright (London, Cos. Northampton and Surrey,
1634). Or, on a pale gules a cross pomee fitchee
argenf ; on a chief azure three bezants. Crest, a
falcon's head erased proper." — From Burke's
* General Armory,' 1884.
E. C. FlNLAY.
1729 Pine Street, San Francisco.
PATRICK MAD AN (12 S. i. 265, 393).— I
think I overlooked this note respecting
Madart : —
Old Bailey, December, 1781 : Patrick
Madan and Richard Hill are respited on
condition of transportation to Africa. They
are put ashore as sick and further respited.
Patrick Madan is later transported for life.
ERIC R. WATSON.
DORTON-BY-BRTLL (12 S. i. 128, 220).—
MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS may like to know of
the following book of 54 pp., a copy of whi- h
I have : —
" The I History | of the | Dorton Chalybeate,
near Brill, Bucks ; | with a | concise treatise
on its | chemical properties and medicinal uses. .
By | T. Knight, Suiveon. | ' Infirmo capiti fiuit
utilis, utilis alvo.' Hor. Epist. lib. 1. \\i. M. |
Hiill: | printed by J. Ham, | for Whitt.-.k.-r .V
Co., Ave Maria Lane, London ; | and W. Graham,
High Street, Oxford. | 1833."
CHAS. HAIX CROI •< H.
204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford.
78
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. IL JCLY 22,
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S.
ix. 429; x. 59).—
2. And I still onward haste to my last night ;
Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly;
To every d;iy we live, a day we die.
This is a song by Thomas Campion, be-
ginning : —
Come, cheerful day, part of my life to me.
It first appeared in
" Two Books of Ayres. The First Contaynirig
Diuine and Morall Songs : The Second, Light
Conceits of Louers .... Composed by Thomas
Campian [sic],"
published c. 1613. It is reprinted in Mr.
A. H. Bullen's ' Thomas Campion,' p. 59, and
is frequently found in anthologies.
M. H. DODDS.
Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Louis MARTINEAU (12 S. ii. 31). — The
following announcement appeared in The
Times of Jan. 14, 1859 : —
" On 12th inst., aged 31, after a long and
painful illness, Louis Martineau, Esq., late of the
Royal Artillery, youngest son of Philip Mar-
tineau, Esq., of 4 Cumberland Place, Regent's
Park."
Probably further particulars can be found
among papers at the Public Record Office, if
Mr. Martineau' s name is in the alphabetical
list of deceased officers to be seen on the
library shelves there.
A. H. MACLEAN.
14 Dean Road, N.W.
FAZAKERLEY (12 S. i. 288, 395, 489 ;
ii. 59). — The following forms of this name
occur among the records of Stratford-upon-
Avon : Facarleyes, Facicare, Facikary, Far-
scicarle, Farssicarle, Fascicar, Fascicarle,
Fascikeley, Faseker, Fasicarle, Fasicary,
Fassicar, Fassicarley, Fassicarll, Fassicary,
Fassiker, Fassycarley, Fossacherie, Fossaker,
Fossekar, Fossiker.
They may help towards a solution of the
query asked by M.A.OxoN.
FREDK. C. WELLSTOOD.
Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon.
" EVERY ENGLISHMAN is AN ISLAND "
(12 S. ii. 11, 58). — The above maybe found in
Novalis's ' Fragmente, 1799 ' — which is four
years before Emerson was born.
G. T. PlLCHER.
Treen, Frith Hill, Godalming.
" POCHIVATED " (12 S. ii. 26). — The
Russian verb potshivdt means " to rest, to
repose." Sir Jerome probably meant
" pochitated " from the Russian verb pot-
shitdt = " to honour, to revere," &c.
L. L. K.
Motts on 'Sao Its,
English Dirtionart/ on Historical Prin-
r/>/,>.s.— (Vol. IX., SI— TH) Stead— Still at im.
Hy Henry lirudlej. (Oxford, Clarendon Pressr
2s. 6d. net.)
ALL the words contained in this section of 80 pp.
niiiy be described as of solid substance, more or
less — nouns and verbs and ;ul verbs of distinctive
quality: and, if the alphabetical i- uu;e is small,,
the historic:! 1 range extends from ' Beowulf ' to
sentences in works of this year describing the war.
In Johnson's Dictionary the corresponding part of
the alphabet gives 112 words with 427 quotations ;
here the words number 1,837, and the quotations —
which form an unusually interesting collection —
9,474.
" Steady." with its derivatives, furnishes four
or five good columns. In these " steadier " as an
adverb, not illustrated after 1653. might have
been recorded in dough's line " I steadier step
when I recall " — which is a particularly good
example also of the general intransitive sense of
" step."
The long article " steal," though it struck us as
somewhat over-divided, is a fine piece of work.
We noticed " steal a march " with a definition
" in military sense," and two eighteenth-century
quotations which seem to be literal. Is this, or
has it ever been, a technical expression ? The
obsolete senses of " stealth " — more decidedly
concrete than our present use of the word, and
ranging from the thirteenth century to Sheridan's
" A mother's love for her sweet babe is not a
stealth from the dear father's store " — are very
intercsting. We do not see why " by stealth '' is
said in modern use to have " ordinarily no con-
scious association with steal vb.," when " steal
vb." in sense II. is said to mean " to go secretly or
quietly."
" Steam " is an entry full of curious matters.
As late as to c. 1800 it was common in the plural ;
there is an early use of the word, both as sub-
stantive and verb, to denote flame, witness
Chaucer's Monk, whose " eyen stepe " are duly
set down here. Under " steep " are furnished
other examples of that word as describing the
eyes ; and it is said to mean " prominent, pro-
jecting." Is this quite certain ? The word seems
rather to carry a picture of eyes with high, arched
eyebrows, a sense which would suit several of the
examples given better than the sense " pro-
minent." "Steam" — to return to it for a
moment — gives us the first of the many
records of nineteenth - century inventions ap-
pearing in these pages, and reminds us, in a
quotation from Hone's ' Every-Day Book,' that
" The Times. . . .of Tuesday, November the 29th.
1814, was the first newspaper printed by steam."
Next we come to " stearin," discovered in that
same year byChevreul — for which there is an odd
quotation under the heading 3, b. attrib. : " 1848,
J. Burnet. ' Ess. Fine Arts,' iv. 130 : His pictures
possess that peculiar stearine substance found in
the works of Watteau." We read with great
interest the article on " steel," though, in view
of the facts that the word goes back to ' Beowulf,'
and that the explicit distinction between " .steel ?>
and " iron " is exemplified as early as the ' Ancren
Riwle,' we think it would have been improved
by a less vague definition. The idioms belonging
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79
to the word are numerous and picturesque. A
recent one, from the United States, transfers " (•>
draw one's steel " from the sword to the pistol.
" True as steel " would appear to go back to the
thirteenth century : none of the two or three
instances of it in Shakespeare is quoted. There
is a nineteenth-century use of " steel " as short
for " Bastile," of which four examples are given.
The etymology of " steelyard " was the subject
of animated discussion in our own columns ten
years ago, and the first instance of its occurrence
is taken from our correspondent MB. MAYHEW'S
letter at 10 S. vi. 413. The Dictionary definitely
pronounces in favour of the etymology sial =
sample, pattern +" yard," translation of hof; and,
while allowing that its formation was suggested
by the existence of the Steelyard^ decides in
favour of the words " steel " + " yard" as the true
derivation of the balance so called. These two
articles, and that on " steelbow " — cheptel defer—
count among those of highest historical interest in
the section. The careful note explaining and
illustrating " steelbow " is a definite and new
contribution to the question.
A good early explanation (1785) has been found
for "to hunt the steeple." For " steeple-chase "
the earliest example is from 1805. We confess
we were surprised to see that the word " steeple-
jack " can be traced back no further than the
eighties of last century. The Dictionary defines
this hero as one " who climbs steeples or tall
chimneys to repair them," making no mention of
his more thrilling business of " throwing " them
when required. A " steer " of wood — found in
two acts of Victoria — is an odd expression which
remains unaccounted for.
Under " stem " we have two substantives and
no fewer than six verbs. The illustrations of the
word in its philological sense are astonishingly
poor ; and why should the examples have been
taken from, nay, restricted to, the Greek language?
The first must simply be incomprehensible to a
person who does not know Greek : for he will not
see how the relation of fiaivuto ftav bears out the
definition. A "stem-winder," we leam, is
U.S. slang for a person or thing that is first-rate.
Under " stem," v. 2, is a reference to " stem, v.4, "
which should read " stem, v. 3."
We noticed " stencil " as an interesting word,
well illustrated, as is also " stenography " (first
found in 1602) with its derivatives. " Step,
substantive and verb, furnishes one of the best
pieces of work in the whole section, especially in
regard to etymological explanation and to
the earlier quotations. One division is " b.
contcxlually. A footstep considered in regard
to its audibility," and there we wondered not
to find Matthew Arnold's " What lights in the
court — what steps on the stair ? " so good and
exact an instance of what was sought. A carriage
" step " is first quoted from ' Pickwick : more
recent than w<- should have guessed the word to
be. On the other hand, " step ' as the block for
a mast or capstan goes back 900 years or so.
The military " step " is recorded in more than one
illustration— its length being reckoned at 30 m.
"Step-" combined with terms of relationship
records Gabriel Harvey's amusing Stepp-Tully
and some other nonce-words. Oddly enough,
while defining - stepmother " in its strict sense,
and furnishing numerous illustrations of
iiruv.-rbii.l use, the Dictionary gives no definite
indication of what that proverbial use connotes.
Why Is the violet in general and the pansy in
particular called " nlrpnmthiT " ? Only one
instance is given.
The compounds with " stereo-," while nofc
philologically interesting, illustrate well the
scientific activities of recent years, and flll about
eight columns. Under " stereotyped " (the only
one of respectable age) is a quotation from a book
on nervous diseases describing reiterated motions
of arm or body known as " stereotyped move-
ments " — which seems a sort of oxvmoron, if not
a bull.
On the vexed question of the derivation of
" sterling " the Dictionary again speaks decisively
— at any rate against " Easterling." On the
whole, it inclines to explain " ster " as from
steorra, a star ; and to take " sterling " as a
Norman penny with a small star upon it. This,
article, again, is one of the best in the section, and
we would place beside it that on the other im-
portant historical word " steward," which, with
its lucidity, its excellent marshalling of abundant
information, and its copious but not exaggerated
illustration, we would recommend to the student
of history as well as to the student of philology.
" Stew," " stern," " stick " (especially " stick"),.
" stiff," and " still " are the most considerable
articles that remain, and we have left ourselves
no space to say more than a few brief words in
their praise. " Stew " falls etymologically into
two groups : that derived from the French estui
(cf. etui, which is used for a tub for fish), with the
sense of pond or tank ; and that derived from or
corresponding to estuve, estufa, stufa, Romanic
forms of a widespread root from which come the
forms leading up to our " stove " and the German
Stube — meaning a heated chamber. " Stick "
represents an implement and an action of quasi-
universal application, and it is no wonder that
it is the source of an endless fund of racy and
vigorous idiom. Under " stiff " we get some grim
slang ; the word, to judge from a quotation from
a last year's Morning Post, is still current in the
trenches in the sense of corpse-^-a^ense which the
last century expressed by " stiff *un."
An interesting account of the ' Oxford Diction-
ary,' its past history and its present state, is
delivered with this section. We learn that on.
April 1 of this year the work extended to 13,224
pages, dealing with 357,279 words, illustrated by
1,540,040 quotations.
FIFTEENTH- AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY
BOOKS.
WE have had a more than usually interesting set
of catalogues sent to us this month, and several
lines of study are well illustrated in th>-ir i
The following notes include not only works in
their original editions belonging to the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, but also a few subsequent
editions or facsimiles of such works, and here and
there a history or literary essay on a subject
belonging to that period.
We may begin with two items from Mr. C. J,
Sawyer's Catalogue No. 41. One is a specim. n
of English sixteenth-century printing — done in
1590 by William I'l.n.-oiil.v- -in tl..- " Historie of
George Castriot, surnamed Scanderberg [me]
King of Albanie by Jacques de Lavardui.
Lord of Plessis'Bourrot, newly translated by Z. I.,
NOTES AND QUERIES. [123. n. JULY 22, 1910.
•Gentleman." This has fourteen lines by Spenser
as prefatory verses, together \vit h some < illicit, and.
apart from' slight shaving, seems a. line and com-
plete ei.py. not dear at 101. 10s. The other is a
seventeenth-century transcript of Sir Philip
Siihi' -\ '- translation of the Psalms — offered for
'2'2l. I'".-*. Tliis particular copy is thought to have
been executed at Penshurst by some member of
the Sidney family, and to be of not much later
date than the copy }>\ Da vies from which, in 1823,
the first printed edition of this translation was
made. A note in MS. on the fly-leaf indicates that
Steele took from this copy the psalm which he
printed in No. 18 of The Guardian — the first part
of the work to be printed at all. Sidney's
* Arcadia. ' appears in the Catalogue No. 125 of
M.---IS. Hill in-a copy of the eighth edition, 1633
{21. 2s.), and in one of the thirteenth edition, 1674
(27. 15s.), and this firm has also a copy of his
-• Works ' as published in three 8vo vols. in 1725
(2/. 28.).
A personage belonging to our period who
appears hi three or four catalogues is Marguerite of
Navarre. Messrs. Sotheran have the edition
of the ' Heptameron ' brought out in 1872 (from
that of Claude Grujet in 1559), in 6 vols. (IL 15s.),
and a German translation recently published in
Munich, elaborately " got up " and illustrated, hi
-2 vols. (It. Is.). Mr. Heffer of Cambridge
(Catalogue No. 151) has the translated edition
brought out hi 1894 by the Society of Biblio-
philists, in 5 vols., to be had for 31. 3s. ; and also
the 1897 facsimile of Elizabeth's translation of
4 The Mirror of the Sinful Soul ' (Is. 6d.). Messrs.
Hill offer two other copies of the Society of
Bibliophilists' ' Heptameron ' — a large-paper one
for 41. 15s., and a small-paper one for 31. 18s. 6d.
Of Rabelais we made a note of the following
copies : ' (Euvres,' in the Edition Variorum of
1823-6, 9 vols. (4:1. 10s. Sotheran) ; ' (Euvres ' in
the great edition brought out 1868-1903 in Paris
with Introduction, notes, <fcc., by Marty- Laveaux
HI. 10s., Messrs. E. Parsons & Sons' Catalogue
No. 279) ; the English translation of these pub-
lished in 1807 (11. Is., Heffer) ; and two copies of
the translation by W. P. Smith published in 1893
(II. Is. 6d. and 11. 12s. 6d., Sotheran). Erasmus is
best represented by a copy of Nicolas UdalTs trans-
lation of the ' Apophthegms,' black-letter, 1542
(41. 10s., Heffer). Of Montaigne we noticed in
Messrs. Parsons 's Catalogue a copy of the recent
edition of Cotton's translation in 10 vols., offered
for 31. 18s. ; and in the Catalogue of Mr. P. M.
Barnard of Tunbridge Wells a copy of the 1635
edition of the ' Essais,' issued under the editorship
of Mile, de Gournay (31. 10s.). The last-mentioned
Catalogue (No. 109) is of quite outstanding
interest, abundantly illustrated, and annotated
with a scholarly carefulness and judgment. Out
of some thirty items we have marked as particu-
larly attractive we may mention three : a ' Pabule
& vita esopi,' from the press of Gerard Leeu of
Antwerp, 1485, having hi it the autograph of
Alexander Boswell, Edinburgh, 1758 (18t.) ; a
fine ' Hone ' (Paris, about 1493), of which Mr.
Barnard gives a very full account, linking it to
similar works of the time (521. 10s.) ; and a copy
of the ' Kirchen Ordnung ' of Nuremberg, printed
by Johann Petreium, 1533 (28?.).
In the Catalogue of Messrs. E. Parsons, which
we have had occasion to mention above, and have
found uncommonly attractive, the fifteenth and
sixteenth t . titnries furnish a number of delightful
There are two fine MS. ' Hone ' — fifteenth-
century French, both richly decorated — for
which respectively 1402. and 100 guineas are ask.',! ;
and there is also a set of sixteen illuminated
miniatures on vellum, illustrative of the Passion —
Flemish work of the fifteenth century — which is
offered for 160Z. We may also mention a copy of
the Venetian ' Appian,' 1477 (30 guineas), arid a
set of 26 woodcuts by Urs Graf on the Passion,
1507 (211.).
Mr. Reginald Atkinson, hi his Catalogue No. 20,
describes many good things which we should like
to have space to mention : the following must
suffice. He has the Catalogue of fifteenth-cent uiy
Incunabula hi the British Museum — three 4 to
vols. issued in 1908-13 (51. 5s.). He has
" Breeches " Bible, 1595 (21. 7s. 6d.). And he has
the first edition of the account of " what passed
for many years between Dr. John Dee and so->ie
Spirits," published in 1659, which he offers for
51. 10s.
Messrs. Maggs's latest Catalogue (No. 347) gives
a list of their books on Art and allied subjects.
Our two centuries receive illustration in the works
on ' Costume ' of Racinet, 1888, 6 vols. (281.), and
Lecomte, 1820, 2 vols. (181. 18s.) ; and there is
also a copy of Vecellio, ' De Gli Habiti Antichi et
Modern! ....,' a first edition, Venetia. 1~>'.<\\
(10J. 10s.). A very interesting set of entries is
that under the heading ' Emblems,' including five
or six fifteenth- century books, the best of which
is the Bocchius, ' Symbolicorum Quaestionum de
Universe Genere quas Serio Ludebat,' 1555
(81. 15s.). Beham's ' Twelve Apostles,' 1545-6
(81. 8s.), and ' Hercules,' 1542-8 (16Z. 16s.) : a
collection of 19 engravings by Hoffer, c. 1530
(14Z. 14s.) ; some sixteenth-century designs for
lace and embroidery in a Venetian reprint of
sixteenth-century designs by Zoppino, Taglienti,
and Burato (31. 18s.) ; and Le Pois s ' Discours sur
les Medalles et Graveures Antiques,' Paris, 1579
(21. 5s.), may serve as miscellaneous examples;
together with the designs of Du Cerceau (1550)
for ornaments of jewellery and goldsmiths' work
(91. 15s.). Under ' Portraits ' we find the first edition
of De Bry's ' Icones Quinquaginta,' in 4 vols., 1507-
1599 (151. 15s.) ; and Lodge's ' Portraits ' of illus-
trious personages, which begins with the sixteenth
century, 1821-34 (251.). Leaving aside several
other tempting items, we mav mention in con-
clusion the ' Faits de Guerre et Fleur de Chevalerie '
of Vegetius, in Gothic letter, printed at Paris in
1536 (Ql. 6s.).
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'X. & Q.'
to <E0rrrsp0nfottts.
WB cannot undertake to answer queries privately,
nor can we advise correspondents as to the value
of old books and other objects or as to the means of
disposing of them.
B.— Many thanks for reply, anticipated at p. 76.
MR. ALAN STEWART.— Both forwarded to MAJOR
LESLIE.
12 S. II. JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
81
LONDON, SATI'RDAY, JULY S'J, 1916.
CON TENTS.- No. 31.
WOTES:— The First English Provincial Newspaper, 81—
Sholoum Aleichem: his Will and Epitaph, 83— An
English Army List of 1740, 84— Ratcliff Cross Restoration
— " Oil on troubled waters "—Perpetuation of Errors, 87
—Arms of Harrow School— Maximilianus Transylvanus,
sa.
QUERIES :— Thomas Hussey, M.P. for Whitchurch, 88—
Common Garden=Covent Garden— Sir William Ogle-
House and Garden Superstitions—" Wer nicht liebt
Wein, Weib, und Gesang"— "Comaunde"— Col. Charles
Lennox, 89— St. Peter as the Gate-Keeper of Heaven-
Churchwardens and their Wands— Holmes Family,
co. Limerick— First Illustrated English Novel— Sir
Edward Lutwyche, Justice of the Common Pleas— Brass
Plate in Newland Church, Gloucestershire— Peas Pottage
—Postal Charges in 1847, 90— John Mundy, 91.
(REPLIES: -The City Coroner and Treasure-Trove, 91—
The King's Own Scottish Borderers, 92— St. George's,
JBloomsbury— Mews or Mewys Family, 93— Coverlo—
Sheffner : Hudson : Lady Sophia Sydney : Sir William
Cunningham, 94— The "Fly": the " Midge "—Colours of
Badge of the Earls of Warwick, 95— Peat and Moss :
Healing Properties— William IIL's Motto— 'The Man
with the Hoe,' 96 — ' Northanger Abbey ' : " Horrid "
Romances, 97— Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean
—Cleopatra and the Pearl— A Lost Life of Hugh Peters,
98— Henley, Herts— The Side-Saddle, 99.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' The Place-Names of Durham '—
•The Quarterly Review."
Notices to Correspondents.
THE FIRST ENGLISH PROVINCIAL
NEWSPAPER.
WHICH provincial town was the first to
possess a newspaper has been the subject
of much controversy. Two present- day
•claimants to the honour may be ruled out of
the discussion altogether. These are Ber-
•row's Worcester Journal, which claims to
have commenced in 1690, but which did
not see the light until 1709 (see the present
Avriter's articles at 11 S. x. 21 and 46), and
The Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury,
claiming to have been founded in 1695, but
really start ing in the middle of the eighteenth
•century, an earlier newspaper of the same
name, with which it had no connexion,
having commenced in 1713. (See MR.
ADCOCK'S article at 11 S. vii. 471 and MR.
Jos. PHILLIPS'S article at 5 S. ix. 215.)
The learned articles on ' English Pro-
vincial Presses,' by Mr. W. H. Allnutt,
printed in Bibliographica, vol. ii. (1896),
do not seem to be well known, and must be
taken into consideration by future writers
on this subject. In the third of these articles
(Bibliographica, ii. 294-6) there is a sub-
section dealing with the ' First Provincial
Newspaper.'
Mr. Allnutt summarily dismisses the
claims of the Worcester and Stamford papers,
and then draws attention to a letter by
Dr. Thos. Tanner, afterwards Bishop of
St. Asaph and a celebrated antiquary. The
letter is dated Aug. 1, 1706, is addressed to
Browne Willis, the Bucks antiquary, and is
to be found among the Bodleian MSS. Mr.
Allnutt' s extract from the letter and com-
ments upon it should serve as the starting-
point of the history of the subject. Dr.
Tanner writes : —
"'The Norwich newspapers are the principal
support of our poor printer here, by which, with
the advertisements, he clears near 50*. every week,
selling vast numbers to the country people. As
far as I can learn this Burgess first began here the
printing news out of London : since I have seen
the Bristol Pontman, and I am told they print also
a weekly paper at Exeter.'
" Among Bagford's papers in the British Museum
(Harl. 5958.145) is No. 348 of the ' Norwich Post, to
be published weekly. Containing An Account of
the most remarkable transactions, both foreign and
Domestick. From Saturday, April 24, to Saturday,
May 1, 1708. Norwich. Printed by E. Surges, near
the Red- Well. 1708.'
"The printer of this was Elizabeth Burges,
widow ot Francis, who had died in 1706, at the
early age of thirty. A computation of weekly
numbers back from this No. 348, gives the date of
No. 1 as early as September, 1701.'
" Bishop Tanner, therefore, is undoubtedly right,
for if Worcester had started a newspaper in 1690
or Stamford in 1695, the bishop's remark As far as
I can learn.' showing that he had made inquiry,
must have brought some reply, supposing he was
mistaken. The Brintol Post-Boy (not Postman, a
pardonable error) was started by William Bonny
in 1702."
I have made a few notes on the Norwich
and Exeter papers, but have reluctantly
come to the conclusion that only local
antiquaries can solve the questions they
suggest.
NORWICH.
Francis Burges' s ' History of Printing '
was published at Norwich in 1701. There
is a reprint of this in the ' Harleian Mis-
cellany, vol. iii. p. 154, but I have beep
unable to trace the original. As a history
of printing Surges' s tract is of no value,
but I have ascertained thet the Harleian
reprint has omitted the most important
parts of the tract, viz. : Burges's Intro-
duction and Conclusion. Part of the
omitted portions is set out at length in ' A
General History of the County of Norfolk '
(ii. pp. 1286-7), published in 1829 by Stacy
82
NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 S.U.JCLY 29,1916.
of Norwich and Longmans of London.
The omitted account gives a history of
printing in Norwich, and a description of the
pap.-r mills at Tabrum, Norfolk, which
must have had a very great influence upon
local printing. It is, therefore, very im-
portant to rediscover Burges's tract.
There were several newspapers published
at Norwich during the first two decades of
the eighteenth century, but the most im-
portant of these were printed and written
by the Jacobite, Henry Crossgrove, whose
career extended through the greater part of
the century. The earliest number of his
The Gazette, afterwards The Norwich Gazette
(with varying sub-titles), in the British
Museum is dated 1712, and is not numbered ;
but many examples earlier than this are in
existence*, ?nd the paper is known to have
commenced in 1706. The British Museum,
however, possesses the finest collection in
existence of the later issues of Crossgrove's
paper, extending up to and beyond his
death. If only because of Crossgrove's
literary tastes, his intimacy with Strype, the
ecclesiastical annalist, and the amusing
personal notes so often given in his papers,
this writer's career is the most important
and interesting of all those of the early
provincial journalists. A paper on Cross-
grove, by the present writer, appeared in
The Library for April, 1914.
BRISTOL.
A pamphlet by Mr. Charles Wells on the
' History of The Bristol Times and Mirror '
was published a few years ago, but, unfor-
tunately, my copy is not at present accessible
to me. Mr. Wells printed in this a facsimile
of the earliest known copy of Bonny's
Bristol Post-Boy (No. 91, 12 Aug., 1704), from
which it is clear that Bonny's paper began
in 1702, and thus was second in the field.
More information about Bonny and his
paper is badly needed.
EXETER.
The British Museum possesses a solitary
number of a paper which, I think, is the
earliest known copy of an Exeter periodical
It is to be found in the Burney collection
vol. 153 B., and is as follows : —
" ' Jos. Blixxs Exeter Post-Boy. Containing an
impartial collection of the most material news,
both foreign and domestick.' Printed by Joseph
Bliss, at the Exchange Coffee House, in St. Peter's
Churchyard. No. 211. Friday, 4 May, 1711."
This paper must have commenced in
April, 1707, but another printer must have
preceded Bliss, for Dr. Tanner wrote in
1706.
The antiquary the Rev. George Oliver,
of St. Nicholas Priory, Exeter, who died in
1861 (life in ' D.N.B.'), is the chief authority
on the history of Exeter newspapers, though
[ believe the whole of his MSS. have not yet
)een printed. Unfortunately, Dr. Oliver's
statements are full of errors, as the number
of Jos. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy, to which
[ have drawn attention, proves. One such
error is the assertion that Bliss started The
Protestant Mercury; or Exeter Post-Boy , in
September, 1715, in opposition to Farley's
Exeter Mercury.
Treiwnaris Exeter Flying Post for Feb. 15,
1849. contains an article by Dr. Oliver
dealing with Farley, and some further notes
on the subject will be found in the same
periodical for June 28, 1913.
I hope that these notes will induce local
antiquaries to clear up a very obscure subject,
and to give the readers of ' N. & Q.' the
benefit of their researches. In conclusion
I should like to draw attention to some
points : —
1. All the earliest numbers of the provin-
cial papers were " half sheets in folio " —
two pages, " papers," not pamphlets. Later
on this was sometimes varied, and they
became " newsbooks " again, i.e., pamphlets.
2. They did not at first publish local
news, but " collected " their news from
London papers or the newsletters.
3. Their printers were their editors.
4. The majority seem to have been either
Jacobite or crypto-Jacobite.
5. In many cases they were given away,
and advertisements not charged for. I do
not suggest that this was an absolute rule ;
but, obviously, people in country towns
would not pay for a paper the originals of
whose news could be seen in the local
coffee-house. They must have been sold only
on market days to the country folk. Again,
as regards advertisements, was not some
sort of brokerage charged on the result of
sales, as an office charge, to which the
advertisements were but an accessory, and
not a necessary accessory ? We have the
clearest evidence of these brokerage charges
in Nedham's Publick Adviser in Cromwell's
time. His prospectus is still in existence,
and gives the scale of his charges. So, also,
the various City Mercuries, printed right
down to the end of the seventeenth century,
were distributed gratis, and there were
office charges for things sold, &c., through
their agency. Local news seems to have
been an afterthought. J. B. WILLIAMS.
128. II. JULY -29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
83
SHOLOUM ALEICHEM :
HIS WILL AND EPITAPH.
THE will of Sholoum Rabinowitz, the Yiddish
humorist and novelist, a native of Russia,
who died last May in New York, aged 57,
will unquestionably stand out as one of the
most remarkable of the " tzahvo-ous " or
wills extant among a people who have
elevated will-making into a fine art and
noble science. A brief statement of the
contents of this extraordinary document,
and a free translation I have made of the
author's epitaph, may provide students with
some measure of insight into the " roch-
monus " (or benignity) and the idealistic
aspirations of our representative men. I
will take the epitaph first, as that enables
one to grasp what I may call the undertone,
and the general philosophy compressed so
piously within the longer documents.
His EPITAPH.
A simple Israelite here lies ;
Wrote all his books ia Yiddish, mainly
For working folk ; with Humour's eyes
He scanned their flaws, but ever sanely !
He laughed away his sickly years ;
Bound the World's torts he wove his laurel ;
The World rewarded him — with tears
And bitterness ; whence flows this moral !
When by their firesides, snug at home,
He shed for folk his choicest treasure,
Nightly a-hungred he did roam ; —
With God alone, to cheer his leisure !
This reminds one of the terrible life-stories
of Villon, of Savage, of Verlaine, and many
another.
Now to the business of the will and last
testament of this , hapless " Sholoum
Aleichem," drawn up in New York on
Sept. 19, 1913, which was the next day after
" the Atonement Day," as he points out in
his exordium. The main body of the will
is contained in ten paragraphs. Rabinowitz
.states in a preface that in 1908 he drew up
a special will. Owing to the death, in
September, 1913, of his eldest son Michael,
liis own health became thoroughly shattered,
and this document was made useless. Ho
r.-s »lved, therefore, to lose no time in pre-
paring a fresh one.
He directs (par. 1 ) that, no matter where
he may die, lie is to be buried only among
the. working people, so that his grave may
both shed lustre on the sepulchres of the
poor, and receive homage from theirs ; even
as during the lifetime of the writer most of
liis «.'!*. >ry was drawn fiom popular sources of
applause.
Par. 2 appoints the style of superscription
on his tombstone : merely his " pen-name "
(which means "Peace upon you all") in
English on one side ; on the other the same
title in Hebrew lettering ; nothing else.
In par. 3 he forestalls all controversy in
New York among his countless friends and
admirers, as to the manner of perpetuating
his memory there. Deprecating all squabbles
on that subject, he conjures them to seek
the better way by getting his twenty volumes
into general circulation, by means of trans-
lations and otherwise. He hopes that the
Hebrew Maecenas who has modestly con-
cealed himself from winning immortality
during the lifetime of the testator will now
step forward and help his family to the
attainment of a fair income from these
hitherto unfruitful labours. He is confident
that the Hebrew people will rise to the
occasion.
We respect his boundless optimism, and
pass on to par. 4, which is concerned with
saying " Kaddish," and sundry other in-
junctions of a like order. One feature of it
calls, however, for notice. His family, if
they fail to perform the religious offices
aforesaid, may acquit themselves of their
obligations by gathering together once a
year, along with such friends of his as may
care to attend the function, and reading this
his last will and testament, and likewise one
or more of his most humorous stories, in
whatever language shall be'most conformable
to their tastes and inclinations — so that, he
plaintively adds, " my name may be remem-
bered with laughter rather than not at all."
Par. 5 is more extraordinary still for so
rigidly orthodox a man. He grants to his
descendants the privilege of entertaining
" whatever religious convictions they
choose " ; but allows them this full liberty
in thought only, and threatens them that in
the event of their abjuring Judaism they
will " thereby haVe removed themselves
from his family, and have no portion among
their brethren."
Par. 6 declares that cash ("if such a thing
as cash be found in his possession "), books,
MSS., &c., all belong to his wife, and proceeds
to detail the manner of their disposition after
her demise.
Apart therefrom, in par. 7, he devises
specific bequests from the profits which he
calculates will accrue to his family from his
plays and other writings ; and directs that,
in the event of the net receipts per annum
being un-lor .5,000 roubles, 5 per cent is to be
deducted therefrom and remitted to » fund
in New Yvk or elsewhere (whenever such a
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 29, ww.
fund should be created), in aid of unsuccessful
or impecunious Yiddish writers. Should the
net receipts exceed that amount in any given
year, then 10 per cent must be remitted to
the fund, of which, it would seem, these
gifts are intended to form the future nucleus.
Par. 8 refers to his son's grave in Copen-
hagen.
In par. 9 he advises his heirs, executors,
and assigns to endeavour by every means
possible to retain all the copyrights of his
various works. He does not, however,
bind them down to carry out this part of
the will, but grants them permission to
sell outright, for a large sum down, all or
part of the documentary rights at their
disposal. The Literary Fund's interest is
not overlooked.
In par. 10 he enjoins upon his children,
" as his last wish and request, to take every care
of their mother, to make her life pleasant, to heal
her broken heart, not to weep for him , but rather
to remember him with joy, and. what is most
important, to live in peace among themselves, not
to bear any grudge against one another, to assisi
each other in times of distress, to remember the
family, and to have pity on the poor, and under
favourable conditions to pay off his debts, if
there should be any."
And he concludes this excellent address to
his children in true Hebraic fashion : —
" Children I bear my Jewish name — to sustain
which I laboured very hard — with honour, and
our God who is in Heaven will help you. Amen."
The full text of this will is printed in The
Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia for May 19,
where also a short and interesting outline of
Rabinowitz's life will be found. Some of
his merriest tales would well repay transla-
tion into English, but this would need to be
undertaken by a person of fine discretion,
judgment, and taste, who would be able to
eliminate some of the crudities that mar the
flavour of the wine.
SL L. R. BRESLAR.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43.)
THE other regiment is " General Wade's Regiment of Horse," formed in 1685.
In 1740 the officers were : —
General Wade's Regiment of Horse.
Dates of their
present commissions.
19 Mar. 1716-7.
3 April 1733.
ditto.
14 Feb. 1728-9.
10 April 1733.
22 May 1735.
21 Feb. 1734-5.
24 April 1728.
10 April 1733.
21 Feb. 1734-5.
5 July 1735.
13 Aug. 1736.
23 June 1730.
8 Feb. 1730-1.
10 April 1733.
21 Feb. 1734-5.
22 May 1735.
13 Aug. 1736.
The regiment is now the " 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards."
1) He commanded the regiment from 1717 to 1748, and was promoted to the rank of Field-
Marshal in 1743 (' D.N.B.').
(2) Third son of John, 2nd Lord Bellenden. Father of 4th Duke of Roxburghe.
(3) Second son of Horatio, 1st Viscount Townshend.
4) " Rushie" in MS. interleaf. Possibly should be " Ruishe."
(5) Fourth son of Charles, 4th Baron Cornwallis.
Colonel . . . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Mayor . . . .
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
George Wade (1)
William Bellenden (2)
William Wade..
/"Roger Townshend (3).
-J Michael Armstrong
^Rushia Hassel (4)
John Ball
William Fitz-Thomas . .
Nathaniel Burrough . .
i George Jefferys
I De La vail Harrison . .
^Richard Cornwallis (5)
Ralph Pennyman
Septimus Robinson
Lucy Weston . .
_ Francis Ashbey
j Isaac Merrill . .
' Robert Lawson
There follow (pp. 8 to 11) eight regiments of Dragoons, each with the same establishment
of officers as the two preceding regiments.
The word "dragoon" (French dragon) originally meant a musket or carbine. Later it
was applied to musketeers, mounted and armed with a dragoon. Dragoons were, in fact,
-a spacies of mounted infantry, serving sometimes on foot and sometimes on horseback.
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85
The first of these eight regiments is the "Duke of Maryborough's Regiment of Dragoons.'*
It was formed in tf 61 as a Troop of Horse for service in Tangier. By 1683 its establishment,
had been increased, and it was in that year named the " Royal Regiment of Dragoons."
Its present title is the " 1st (Royal) Dragoons," generally spoken of as the " Royals."
In 1740 the officers were : —
Duke of Marlborough's Regiment of Dragoons.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Duke of. JMarlbQrough (1)
Henry de Grangues . . .
Francis Best
("Samuel Gumley
\ Robert Abbot . .
(.William. .Wentworth
Henry Gore
[ Thomas Parkinson
I William Brooks
< Charles Blunt . .
I Rodok Mackenzie
{Peter Guile
/Ellias Brevett(2)
Arthur Gegon . .
I Francis Rainsford
1 James Surtees
John Mark
v Bartholomew Gullitan (3)
Dates of their
present commissions.
1 Sept. 1739.
1 July 1737.
25 June 1731.
24 Mar. 1724.
30 April 1734.
20 Dec. 1738.
ditto.
25 Dec. 1726.
11 June 1720.
17 Mar. 1729-30.
20 Dec. 1738.
12 Mar. 1738-9.
3 Oct. 1715.
25 Mar. 1720.
25 Dec. 1727.
9 Oct. 1738.
6 April 1739.
17 Dec. 1739.
(1) Charles Spencer, 5th Earl of Sunderland, and 3rd Duke of Marlborough. He died in 1758.
See ' D.N.B.'
( 2 ) In MS. interleaf spelt " Elias Brevet."
(3) Became Major in the regiment on 1 Dec., 1754. His name is in the Army List of 1758r
spelled Gallatin, but not in that of 1759.
The next regiment is styled the " Royal
Regiment of North British Dragoons."
Three troops of Dragoons had been raised in
Scotland in 1678, which, with the addition
of three more raised in 1681, were incor-
porated in that year as " The Royal Regiment
Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
James Campbell (1)
Sir Robert Hay (2)
William Erskine
(Sir Thomas Hay (3)
-{ Alexander Forbess
(.James Ross
William Laurence
/"James Dalrymple
I George Mure . .
< James Lindsay
William Wilkinson
V.
Cornets
iJenkyn Leyson
rJames Erskine
George Macdougall
Charles Frederick Scott
Mark Renton
John Forbess
.George Preston (4)
(1) Of Lawers, third son of James, 2nd Earl of Loudoun.Jf-He was Governor of Edinburgh Castle ;.
M.P. for Ayrshire ; and was killed at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. See ' D.N.B.'
(2) Of Linplum, 2nd Baronet. Died in December. 1751, when the baronetcy became extinct.
(3) Of Alderston, 2nd Baronet.
(4) He was Lieut.-Col. of this regiment from 1757 to 1770, when he was appointed to the Colonelcy
of the 17th Light Dragoons. In 1782 he returned to his old regiment, being appointed Colonel, and.
died in 1785.
of Scots Dragoons." When the Act of
Union was passed in 1707 the designation of
the regiment was changed to the " Royal
Regiment of North British Dragoons." It
is now called the " 2nd Dragoons (Royal*
Scots Greys)."
Dates of their
present commissions.
15 Feb. 1716-7.
27 May 1717.
21 Mar. 1722-3.
11 June 1720.
9 Aug. 1721.
21 Mar. 1722-3.
24 Sept. 1733.
4 July 1723.
10 May 1732.
25 Dec. 1726.
24 Dec. 1733.
23 July 1737.
2 Nov. 1722.
25 Dec. 1726.
ditto.
13 May 1735.
5 July 1735.
16 July 1739.
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"The Kin-:'s "Regiment of Dragoons"
was raised in 1685, being then styled
"The Queen Consort's Regiment of
Dragoons." This designation was changed
in 1714 (Cannon's 'Historical Records')
The King's Regiment of Dragoons
Colonel . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . .
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Lieut. Gen. Phil. Honywood (1)
Joshua, Guest .. .. ...
Samuel Foley .. •• _
/Alexander Mullen
-{ Thomas Brown
I William Oglie (2)
Philip Honywood
/"Henry Whitley
I Leonard Robinson
-! John Parsons
I Robert Bailie
v Robert Leigh
George Fage
George Carey
Cornets
Thomas Carr
Thomas Dawson
Hon. Josiah Child (3)
Robert Monteath
( 1) Was appointed to the Colonelcy of the " King s
'which year also he was made K.B.
(2) Query " Ogle."
(3) Third son of Richard, 1st Earl of Tylney of Castlemaine (peerage of Ireland).
became extinct in 1784.
to " The King's Own Regiment of Dragoons,"
but in the list of 1740 the word " Own "
is not given. At the present time the
regiment is called the " 3rd (King's Own)
Hussars."
Dates of their
present commissions.
29 May 1732.
22 Dec. 1712.
11 April 1712.
23 Dec. 1712.
10 Mar. 1712-3.
16 Jan. 1721-2.
12 July 1739.
16 Jan. 1721-2.
20 June 1735.
ditto.
20 April 1738.
25 Oct. 1739.
14 Mar. 1733-4.
20 June 1735.
ditto.
1 Feb. 1737-8.
20 April 1738.
25 Oct. 1739.
Regiment of Horse " in 1743, in
Own
The title
" Sir Robert Rich's-Regiment of Dragoons"
— now known as the " 4th (Queen's Own)
Hussars" — was raised in 1685, then being
styled " Princess Anne of Denmark's Regi-
ment of Dragoons." / This title was discon-
tinued in 1688, and for many years the
regiment was called by the name of its colonel
for the time being. In 1788 the title " The
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons"
was conferred upon it.
Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Dragoons.
Colonel .. . . Sir Robert Rich (1)
Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Leighton (2)
Major .. .. Richard Hartshorne
{George Macartney
Francis Boggest
William Higgenson
William Adamson
/"Matthew Sewell
I Samuel Pashler
-! Henry Bickerton
James Musgrave
VCharles Rich ..
/Ralph Scurrah
I William Benson
J Samuel Browne
1 Forrester . .
(Archibald Douglass
^Samuel Horsey
(1) Fourth Baronet. Became Field-Marshal in 1757, andjdied
.(2) Third son of Sir Edward Leighton, 1st Baronet.
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Dates of their
present commissions.
13 May 1735.
! 30 June 1737.
13 Aug. 1739.
4 Feb. 1722-3.
24 May 1733.
13 Aug. 1739.
ditto.
25 Mar. 1731.
23 April 1736.
12 July 1739.
13 Aug. 1739.
7 Nov. 1739.
24 Feb. 1728-9.
23 April 1736.
12 July 1739.
16 ditto.
13 Aug; 1739.
7 Nov. 1739.
n 1768.
Further information about any of these officers would be welcome.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
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RATCLIFF CROSS RESTORATION. — It
is not yet generally known that, as a
first step towards the restoration of the
ancient Ratcliff Cross (a short distance in
the same hamlet to the south of the Mother
Church of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, the
" Westminster Abbey " of the seamen of
the Port), the Records Committee of the
London County Council have caused to be
prepared a striking and beautiful design of
a Tudor vessel in full sail and a suitable
dedication (the composition of the late Sir
Laurence Gomme, who took a great interest
in the project) to Martin Frobisher, William
Borough, and a host of other Stepney
mariner-adventurers who sailed away from
Ratcliff Cross Stairs as pioneers of English
dominance upon the ocean. This design
has been placed in the vestibule of the
County Hall at Spring Gardens ; and, when
peace comes again and the London County
Council resumes its eminently useful work
of reminding citizens of Great London that
theirs is no mean city, but is full — East no
less than West — of memories of which they
should be proud, there will be placed on the
abutment of the Ratcliff entrance to the
Rotherhithe Tunnel (which is exactly at
the site of the ancient Ratcliff Cross) a fine
bronze memorial plaque some 6 ft. square,
reproducing the design above mentioned,
for the honour of the Old Stepney Manor
and the emulation of London youth.
Not merely was Ratcliff probably the
earliest site for Thames shipbuilding and
for homing the various craftsmen and
artificers, and the many humbler workers
connected with subsidiary trades ; not
merely was Ratcliff Cross Stairs the con-
venient and customary place for ceremonial
leave-taking of the Tudor pioneers of oversea
adventure and trade ; not merely was it for
generations the busiest landing-place where
wherrymen plied for hire upon the safest,
the easiest, the quietest, and otherwise the
most convenient highway of Old London —
the Thames. It was a common place of
residence or lodging of the gentlemen-
adventurers, officers, and seamen in the
service of the companies and associations
("interloping" or otherwise) taking the
English flag, and later the Union Jack, to the
remotest parts of the globe. The first fleets
or squadrons of the East India Company
^re set down frequently as having " sailed
from Woolwich," ™ from Blackwall," " from
Gravesend," &c. ; but no matter where the
barques awaited their complements of
agents, officers, and men, all voyagers alike
•customarily assembled at Ratcliff Cross
and the immediately adjacent Stairs, and
were rowed or sailed therefrom to the vessels
astream in the Lower Reaches of the
Thames. The first practice of the Tudor
gentlemen-adventurers and " Armada men,"
of getting aboard off Ratcliff, gradually
declined ; for sailing out of the winding
Thames, dependent solely on the varying
winds and tides, was frequently a dreary
work of days and sometimes of weeks — time
that could be more pleasantly occupied
ashore. For the same reason the ship-
wrights' centre of government was in
Butcher Row, within a bo' sun's call of
Ratcliff Cross ; and close by the Watermen's
Company allotted the privileges, and arbi-
trated the claims, customs, and courses, of
those turbulent river-workers below Bridge,
and regularly recruited crews not only for the
first King's service in the infant Navy, but
for private and associated adventurers.
And here also, as we know from the ' Diary '
of Samuel Pepys, the Masters and Captains
of the Trinity Brotherhood at their House
in Stepney Churchyard watched, warded,
dwelt, and were buried when England's great
day upon the Seven Seas was dawning.
Me.
" OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS." — Many
a note for many a year has appeared
in successive volumes of ' N. & Q.' concerning
this phrase. The latest example of belief in
its underlying idea is given in the following
Exchange Telegraph Company's message
from Copenhagen, published in the English
newspapers on June 11 : —
" The crew of the Danish steamer N. G. Peter-
sen, which has just arrived from England, say
that for more than four hours they sailed through
countless life-belts and bits of wreckage. For an
hour the steamer sailed through a patch of the sea
on which the oil was so thick that the swell had
been reduced to a dead calm."
A. F. R.
PERPETUATION OF PRINTED ERRORS. —
Their vitality is proverbial, but the following
is, I think, " the record." In the sixth
edition (1862) of a law book, since 1908 in
its thirteenth edition, occur, in the report of
a trial, the words : " The prisoner, eleven
days before his death, signed a statement"
— not only a mistake for " the deceased,"
but absurd on the face of it, for prisoners in
the dock are not dead. Yet that ridiculous
blunder has escaped at least nine editors,
including a very great judge, and is still
there. (I am pretty sure, too, that it dates
from the edition of 1861, which would be a
run of about fifty years. It will not be seen
in the fourteenth edition.)
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I suppress details, because I am one of
the delinquent nine, but it might be identi-
fied by the (perhaps) unique fact that
prisoner and deceased had exactly the same
name — and that not a common one — though
not apparently of kin. PENITENT.
ARMS OF HARROW SCHOOL. — The ' Book of
Public Arms ' states correctly that there is
no official authority in the shape of a patent
of arms for arms of Harrow School, but
states incorrectly that the school shield, as
used, is Argent, a lion rampant azure. The
shield as used is Azure, a lion rampant
argent. Possibly this is only a misprint,
but as there is no list of corrigenda it is as
v.-ell that the error should be chronicled in
' N. & Q.' LEO C.
MAXIMILIANUS TRANSYLVAKUS. — The
Catalogue of the fifth portion of the Huth
Collection is still repeating that ancient
myth that Maximilian had addressed his
famous letter ' De Moluccis Insulis ' to " his
father, the Cardinal Archbishop of Salz-
burg." His father was " Maitre Luc dit
Transilvain ou de Transilvanie (Van Seven-
borge)," according to a deed seen by the late
M. Alphonse Wauters. Cf. ' Histoire des
Environs de Bruxelles ' (1855), vol. ii. p. 288.
L. L. K.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THOMAS HUSSEY,
M.P. FOR WHITCHURCH 1645-53.
IN the original edition of 1654, and also in
the second edition of 1658, of ' Scholse
Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae,' a work com-
posed by Dr. Hugh Robinson (' D.N.B.,'
xlix. 17), but edited by his son Nicholas,
there is an ' Epistola Dedicatoria,' addressed
to Robert Wallop, Nicholas Love, and
Thomas Hussey, " Scolae Wintoniensis
quondam alumnis maxime spei." Robert
Wallop and Nicholas Love were, no doubt,
the regicides whose careers are traced in the
'D.N.B.,' lix. 156 and xxxiv. 159. But
who was Thomas Hussey ? I shall be glad
to obtain definite information as to his
parentage, career, and death. So far what
I have ascertained is as follows : —
1. In 1615 one Thomas Hussey, being then
a Fellow-Commoner of this College (" Com-
mensalis ad mensam Sociorum"), gave to
our Library a book which it still retains.
' Commentarii Michaelis Ghislerii .... in
Canticum Canticorum ' (Paris, 1613). I
cannot say whether he was or was not
identical with the Thomas Hussey who had
been admitted as a Scholar in 1 608, and was-
eventually superannuated : " Thomas Hussey
de Blackden, co. Dorset : 1 1 annorum in
festo Michaelis preterito " (which may mean
either Michaelmas, 1607, or Michaelmas,.
1608).
2. Two youths, both named Thomas
Hussey, and both natives of Dorset, matricu-
lated at Oxford : one as of Wadham College
in June, 1616, and the other as of Magdalen
College in February, 1616/7. Neither of
them graduated. (See Foster's ' Alumni
Oxon.')
3. The man whom Nicholas Robinson had
in mind was probably the Thomas Hussey
who sat for Whitchurch, Hants, during the-
latter part of the Long Parliament (1640-53),
becoming M.P. for the borough after Richard
Jervoise's death in October, 1645. (See
' Commons' Journal,' iv. 327 ; ' Members of
Parliament,' Return of 1878, i. 493). Tim
Thomas Hussey acquired the manor of
Laverstoke, Hants, in 1637, and sold it in
1653 to Sir John Trott. He owned the
advowson of Dogmersfield in 1639 and 1641,
Between 1648 and 1650 he bought from the
Commissioners for the sale of Church Lands-
(1) Longwood Warren and Lodge, Owslebury,
for 351Z. 3s. 4rf. ; (2) the liberty of Alresford,
for 2,683Z. 9s. IJd. ; (3) Willesley Warren,,
near Overton ; (4) the manor of Cole Henley,
Whitchurch, for 1301. 12s. ; and (5) the manor
of Shipton Bellinger. (See ' Victoria History
of Hants,' iii. 334, 340, 349 ; iv. 74, 209, 213,
302, 513.) At the Restoration all these lands
went back to the Church : Shipton Bellinger
to the Dean and Chapter, and the rest to
the Bishop of Winchester. What then
became of Thomas Hussey, if still alive ?
4. He is mentioned more than once in the
' Calendar of Proceedings of the Committee,
for Compounding, &c., 1643-1660' (see
pp. 473, 1535, 3017). But the references put
together in the ' Index ' under " Hussey,.
Thomas, M.P." clearly include one reference
(at p. 1023) to another man, the Thomas
Hussey who was returned M.P. for Grantham
in 1640, but died in 1641. That Thomas-
Hussey belonged to the baroneted family
of Honington, Lincolnshire, and his widow r
Rhoda, became in 1646 second wife to
Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax of Ca-
meron. (See Baker's ' Northamptonshire,"
i. 555 ; and Cokayne's ' Peerage,' iii. 305,
and ' Baronetage,' 'i. 60.)
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89
5. The M.P. for Whitchurr-h was probably
the father of William Hussey, our Scholar of
1655, who is described in the Register as
being of " Laverstock," Hants, with the
marginal note, " recessit sponte." H. C.
Winchester College.
COMMON GARDEN =COVENT GARDEN. —
The title-page of a French translation of the
metrical Psalter, dated 1686, bears the
following imprint : —
" A Londres, ImprimtS par R. Everingham, & se
vend chez R. centeley, demeurant dans le
Coramun Jardin ; Et chez J. Hindraarsh,
demeurant dans Cornhil, a 1'enseigne de la
Ball d'or."
I once knew a thoroughbred Cockney who
always used the expression Common Garden
to denote what we call Covent Garden, but
I have never seen the words in print. Can
any reader give an instance ? It would
appear from the use of the words " Commun
Jardin " quoted above t hat the expression
was current in the latter part of the seven-
teenth century. R. B. P.
SIB WILLIAM OGLE. — Can any reader of
' N. & Q.' help as to the ancestry and
posterity of Sir William Ogle, who held
Winchester Castle for King Charles, and
surrendered it to Oliver Cromwell on Octo-
ber 8, 1645 ? His first wife (Charity Waller)
was with him in the Castle, and obtaining
permission to withdraw, on account of
health, is said to have died on her way
to Stoke Charity, October, 1 645. Sir William
subsequently married Sarah Dauntsey, widow
of Sir Hugh Stewkeley of Michelmersh and
Hinton Ampner, county' Hants. Appar-
ently, he had a daughter by his second wife,
since Sir Hugh Stewkeley in his will referred
to his "cousin Catherine Ogle." In 1775
a Chaloner Ogle, with Catherine his wife,
was living at Winchester, and there interred
a daughter in the Cathedral — in 1780
"Isabella, daughterof the Rev. Dr. Ogle, was
buried."
There is also rather a puzzle as to Sarah
Stewkeley, probably a daughter of Sir Hugh,
second baronet. There was a Sarah,
daughter of the first baronet, unmarried at
her father's death in 1642. Sarah, daughter
of the second Sir Hugh, was also single at her
father's decease in 1719, but is said to have
married Dr. John Cobb (Warden of Win-
chester College) in 1723. The doctor died
on Nov. 15, 1724, and, according to her
memorial at Hinton Ampner, she was buried
as "Sarah Townshend on the 17th of April,
1760, aged 76." But — and here comes the
puzzle — Bxirke and other authorities all
say that Ellis St. John of Farley Chamber-
layne, Hampshire, married as his third wife
Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley,
between 1725 and his death in 1728. Any
light upon these two points will be gratefully
received by F. H. S.
HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS. —
1. It is said that to preserve the colour of
green vegetables they should be boiled in a
saucepan without a lid on. Is this a fact, and
if so what is the explanation ?
2. I believe I have seen or heard it stated
that if two pendulum clocks be set going
side by side they will stop each other. Any
information on the subject will be welcome.
3. It is sometimes said that a piano should
not be played upon on the same day as it is
tuned — presumably because this would put
it out of tune again. If so, why so ?
4. It is said that plane trees grow well in
London and other towns because they shed
their bark. The idea seems to be that thus
they keep their pores clean and are able to
" breathe." I have, however, examined
their bark without finding any " pores " or
stomata.
5. Whence is the idea that if single prim-
roses be planted upside down they .vill come
up double — or change colour ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
" WER NICHT LIEBT WEIN, WEIB, TJNT»
GESANG." — Was Martin Luther in fact the
author of the couplet : —
Who loves not wine, women, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long ?
It does not seem likely ! If not, who was
the author ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[See 8 S. viii. 169, 219, 378.]
"CoMAtiNDE." — In Grose's 'Military
Antiquities,' 1786, vol. i. p. 367, is given a
list of various stores required in connexion
with ordnance in the field, amongst which
occurs " Comaundes at 14«. the dozen."
What is a comaunde ? J. H. LESLIE.
COL. CHARLES LENNOX. ( V. sub ' Dau-
bigny's Club,' ante, p. 28.)— This Guardsman
became 4th Duke of Richmond on his uncle's
death, 1806, and died when Governor of
Upper and Lower Canada, 1819, from the
bite of a dog. The duel alluded to in MR.
PIERPOINT'S query was followed by another
in that same year, in which he wounded
Theophilus Swift on July 1, 1789.
Born in 1764, he became a lieutenant in the
Sussex Militia (July 2 or) Oct. 11, 1778, and
captain therein April 13, 1780, holding that
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rank on March 31, 1782. I cannot trace him
in the regular army previous to his com-
mission as captain in the 35th Regiment of
Foot, Aug. 29, 1787, from which he was made
captain and lieutenant -colonel in the Cold-
stream Regiment of Foot Guards, March 26,
1789, exchanging to lieutenant -colonel 35th
Foot, June 15, 1789. Can any reader give
the dates of his commissions as a subaltern
prior to 1787 ? W. R. W.
ST. PETER AS THE GATE-KEEPER OF
HEAVEN. — Not long since I heard the
following story from an English private who
was still undergoing treatment in a hospital
after receiving a serious wound : —
" This is a tale we try on each other. You begin
by saying to another fellow, ' I had a dream about
you last night.' ' Had you ? ' he will answer.
' Yes,' you go on ; 'I dreamed I had got as far as
heaven, but St. Peter, at the gate, said to me,
" You can't be allowed in here unless you come up
riding." So I went down again, and, you know
how funny dreams are sometimes, I asked you to
let me ride on you. Then you took me on your
back and carried me right up to the gate. It was
all right this time. "You can come in now," said
St. Peter, "but leave your donkey outside." ' "
What other stories of this type are there
current relating to St. Peter, and where are
they to be found ? B. L. R. C.
CHURCHWARDENS AND THEIR WANDS. —
Many years ago it was the custom for church-
wardens to carry a mace or wand, the wand
of the people's churchwarden having a
crown upon it, and that of the incumbent's
a mitre. The incumbent's churchwarden
sat on one side of the church, and the
people's churchwarden on the other.
When was this interesting custom first
introduced ? What was the meaning of
carrying the wand ? And on which side of
the church did the two respectively sit ?
W. B. MIDDLETON
Stafford House, Norwich Road, North Walsham.
HOLMES FAMILY, co. LIMERICK. — Can
any reader throw further light on the
identities and connexion of the several
persons mentioned in the following notes ?
Sir Robert Holmes, captain of the De-
fiance, man-of-war, knighted at Deptford,
March 27, 1666, Governor of the Isle oi
Wight, died unmarried ; he was brother oi
Admiral Sir John Holmes, Knt. They were
sons of Holmes of Ireland, and said
to have been related to Thomas Holmes oi
Newport, Isle of Wight, created Baron
Holmes of Kilmallock, co. Limerick, 1760,
title extinct 1764 ; to Robert Holmes oi
Ballyadam, co. Limerick ; and to Mrs.
Dalkeith Holmes, author of ' The Law oi
:louen,' a dramatic tale — founded on a
•emarkable law which existed in Rouen
rom the close of the sixth century to the
reign of Louis XV. — published in Dublin,
1837. All the above families of Holmes
appear to have borne the same arms and
rest, namely, Barry wavy of six or and
azure, on a canton gules a lion passant
uardant of the first. Crest : out of a naval
crown a dexter arm in armour embowed,
lolding a trident proper, pointed gold. An
augmentation was granted to Sir Robert
Holmes by Sir Edward Walker, Garter
King of Arms. I should be glad to have a
description of it. LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH NOVEL. — In
reply to a correspondent the editor of
Pearson's Weekly states : —
" The second volume of ' Robinson Crusoe,' by
Daniel Defoe, published on August 20, 1719, was
the first novel ever published in this country to
contain an illustration. The illustration consisted
of a map of the world, on which the different
voyages of the hero of the tale were marked out."
Is the statement quite true ?
R. GRIME.
SIR EDWARD LUTWYCHE, JUSTICE OF THE
COMMON PLEAS. — Can any correspondent
of ' N. & Q.' tell me the date and place of his
birth ? I should be glad also to have the
date and particulars of his marriage. The
' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxxiv. 302, gives no
information on these points.
G. F. R. B.
BRASS PLATE IN NEWLAND CHURCH,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. — A loose " Antiquarian
Repertory " print shows, as in this church,
a very peculiar brass plate with inscription
thereon. What are the meaning and read-
ing ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
PEAS POTTAGE. — This is the name of a
hamlet in the parish of Slaugham, Sussex,
and in the postal district of Crawley. What
is its origin ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
POSTAL CHARGES IN 1847. — I find at the
end of a letter dated " Black Bank, April 15,
1847 " (the notepaper is water-marked
1846), addressed to " Wm. Slack, Meridale
Street, Wolverhampton," the request : " If
you write again, please direct your letter
' near Leek ' and it will only cost a penny ; if
you direct ' near Cheadle ' it costs fivepence."
What would be the reason for charging the
extra fourpence ?
S. JOHN COTTERELL.
Birmingham.
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91
JOHN MUNDY, D. 1653. — In the ' Bio-
graphical Register of Christ's College,' vol. i.
p. 277, is a biography of John Mundy,
mat. 1610, Incumbent of Little Wilbraham
in 1626, died 1653, and buried in the chancel
of that church.
Wanted any further particulars, especially
as to parentage. P. D. M.
THE CITY CORONER AND
TREASURE-TROVE.
(12 S. i. 483 ; ii. 51.)
1 AM sure that many were glad to see the
excerpt from the City Coroner's Return as
presented by J. W., and the further excerpts
from the same source by the Editor, together
with the argument of MR. PAUL DE CASTRO
upon the legal problem which had been set.
The point, I take it, is whether the City
Coroner had power to hold an inquest upon
certain treasure found in the City of London.
It appears that, in reply to the suggestion
that he should hold an inquest, the Coroner
reported that "this cannot be done so long
as the treasure lies outside my district and
jurisdiction."
To me it seems a pity that so absolute a
statement was made, since, so far a? I know,
there is little or no authority in its favour, and
none against the Coroner summoning a jury,
if he so desired, and securing a verdict upon
the facts, even although the treasure that
had been found was not forthcoming. Some
coroners having endeavoured to apply, in
cases of inquests on treasure found, prece-
dents set in instances of inquests upon dead
bodies, it is just possible that the City
Coroner had in mind something of this
practice, so that there being no inquest
where there was no body, there should be
no inquest where no treasure was present.
I doubt, however, the wisdom of relying upon
precedents set in proceedings where bodies
are in question, for such reliance leads,
among other matters, to juries determining
the legal point whether the find brought
"before them constitutes treasure-trove,
whereas I think that the functions of a jury
are limited to a settlement of the facts of the
case in hand, leaving to others to draw the
conclusion as to the presence of treasure-
trove and its seizure as such on behalf of the
Crown or the Crown's assignee.
From the point of view of the antiquary
and of antiquarian research, it is regrettable
that the Coronor did not feel justified in
calling together a jury, for, considering his
central position, coroners in the provinces
might feel inclined to follow his lead, with
the result that much important information
concerning the circumstances of a find,
without a knowledge of which its true value
can hardly be appreciated, might be lost.
In the case of the City find, an inquest
might also have opened up the important
legal question how far precious stones set in
gold and silver can be deemed to be treasure-
trove, or stones set in bullion follow the
ordinary law as to first-finding, with the
consequent denial of the legal right to
ownership to the mere finder. The bullion
value of a find may often prove negligible,
but the circumstances of the find may be of
supreme importance. Indeed, the law which,
in the absence of a special grant, allocates
treasure-trove to the Crown, is defensible in
the present day only from antiquarian con-
siderations and from the benefit which
accrues to the public. Not the least of the
public benefits is traceable to the pecuniary
reward held out to the finder, a reward
which favours the acknowledgment and
public preservation of finds, and operates
against a secreting often equivalent to
destruction. The failure of coroners in
the past diligently to seek out finds and to
hold inquests is largely responsible for the
dissatisfaction which has been expressed in
some quarters at a continuance of the law
of treasure-trove. The application of the
law has been capricious. Uniformity in
application, with improvement and publicity
in its administration, are necessary in order
that the benefits the law confers may be
fully appreciated.
As regards the City find, possibly the
readers of ' N. & Q.' will be interested in
the account given in the Report for 1913-14
of the Committee on Treasure-Trove, &c., of
the South -Eastern Union of Scientific
Societies : — •
"The most notable find which has been made
public during the year is probably that which is
now to be seen at the London Museum, Lancaster
House. For two years, the ' London Newa Agency,
Ltd.' kindly informs us, a dozen persons carefully
guarded the secret of the discovery, in a wooden
box, of a hoard of one hundred and fifty articles of
Elizabethan or Jacobean jewellery in the very
heart of the city. Rings, tie-pins, necklaces,
pendants, and other objects set with emeralds,
sapphires, rubies, pearls, and other precious stones
appear in profusion in the collection. It is under-
stood that the hoard was unearthed in a cellar in
Wood Street, Cheapside, at a depth of sixteen feet.
No inquest was held, as is customary when
presumed treasure - trove is discovered. The
authorities thought it best that nothing should be
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY 29, me.
said at the time.' Later negotiations with those
who appeared to be rightful claimants were entered
into by Mr. L. Harcourt, through whose efforts the
collection found a place in the London Museum ;
the sum, however, handed over remains a secret."
According to the press of a recent date,
some portion of the find has been recovered
by the City authorities. Considering how
widely spread was the knowledge that the
City Corporation had the right to treasure-
trove in its area, it would have satisfied
public curiosity if an official statement could
have been given of the circumstances which
led to the acceptance of the treasure-trove
by the London Museum. However this
may be, and although the law of treasure-
trove in this instance failed to be wholly
operative, yet it is a matter of congratulation
that valuable treasure has reached a public
body, and is exhibited at a place to which, in
normal times, the public has free access.
If any should be interested further in
treasure-trove and the administration of the
law, I feel sure that the Hon. Secretary of the
Treasure-Trove Committee of the South-
Eastern Union of Scientific Societies, 334
Commercial Road, E., would be pleased to
forward the pamphlet and detached sheet
of illustrations which, in connexion with the
Committee's Annual Reports, the Union has
published. WILLIAM MARTIN.
2 Garden Court, Temple, B.C.
THE KING'S OWN SCOTTISH
BORDERERS.
(12 S. i. 248, 314, 356, 434, 496.)
REPLYING to an inquiry, an ex-officer, who
served many \ears in the King's Own
Scottish Borderers, writes : —
" It was not the custom in the regiment to observe
Minden day, and the officers most certainly do not
wear red tufts in their head-dress ; occasionally
sports are held on Minden day, but even that is
subject to other considerations."
Following a suggestion made by this
gentleman, I wrote to the lieutenant-colonel
commanding the depot of the regiment at
Berwick-on-Tweed. He replied : —
" It is the case, however, that the custom is not
kept in the regiment of celebrating the anniversary
of Minden."
He adds that
"roses are not worn by the K.O.S.B. on Mindeu
day, and that tufts, either red or any other colour,
are not worn by officers and men."
Before writing the letters which produced
the replies which I have quoted, I wrott to a
relative of mine, who is serving as a lieu-
tenant in the regiment (not at the depot).
He put my questions to the sergeant-
major of his battalion, who replied that the
regiment do not wear roses on Aug. 1 , neither
do they wear red tufts in their caps. He
adds that " sports were usually held on
Minden day." I had not put a question
about sports.
When writing of old regimental traditions
it is, I think, better to use the old numbers
of the regiments. The six Minden regiments
were the 12th, 20th, 23rd (Royal Welsh
Fusiliers), 25th (Edinburgh), 37th, 51st r
Regiments of Foot. These were their
designations in 1759.
In John S. Farmer's ' Regimental Records
of the British Army,' 1903, the 20th Regiment
alone is credited with wearing Minden Roses
on Aug. 1. In ' Nicknames & Traditions
in the Army ' (anon.), published by Gale &
Polden, 3rd edit., 1891, to the 20th are givert
some ten lines about Minden and the roses.
As to the 12th there is a statement that
" the men wear roses in their caps on
Aug. 1, in commemoration of the Battle
of Minden, 1759." As to the other regiments
nothing is said about roses. In the fourth
edition of this little book, now named
' Regimental Nicknames and Traditions of
the British Army,' 1915, p. xx, it is stated
that the six regiments (their territorial titles,
not numbers, given)
" passed to the battlefield through gardens of rose?
in full bloom, and the soldiers picked the blossoms
and fixed them in their hats, and in commemora-
tion of their victory they enjoy the right of wearing
roses in their head-dress on the anniversary of the
battle."
In view of what I have quoted I cannot but
doubt this statement as far as it concerns-
the 25th.
After most of the above was written
I had occasion to write to an officer who had
been transferred from the South Lancashire
Regiment to the command of a battalion of
the Lancashire Fusiliers (the old 20th). In,
my letter I spoke, quite apart from the
inquiry in hand, of the Minden custom, and
told him not to omit to wear a rose in his-
cap on Aug. 1. In his reply he writes : —
" I was very soon enlightened about Minden.
One of the first things I was asked to do was to
obtain the Brigadier's sanction to the holding of
regimental sports on Minden day, Aug. 1, which
I had no difficulty in getting. Everybody wears a
rose, so I shall not be allowed to forget it even if I
did so unconsciously. "
This letter concerning the 20th may well
be compared with the letters of denial con-
cerning the 25th (The King's Own Scottish
Borderers) which I have quoted.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
12 8. II. JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
93
ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY (12 S. ii. 29).
— When I was writing the first volume of
' The Church in Madras,' I had a good deal of
information about Mr. Streynsham Master,
who was Governor of Fort St. George in the
East Indies at the time the Fort Church was
built. I regret that I have mislaid the
papers ; but if I give the facts as I remember
them, perhaps others will be able to supply
the references. I did not record this
particular fact in the volume, as I was not
writing an exhaustive life of Streynsham
Master. When Governor Master returned
to England he lived in Bloomsbury, and took
a prominent part as giver and counsellor in
the erection of the Bloomsbury church. At
his suggestion it was dedicated to God in
honour of St. George, the patron saint of
England, in memory of his connexion with
Fort St. George in India, and the distin-
guished position he held as its Governor under
the Hon. East India Company. There may
have been a hidden reference to the reigning
sovereign in the case of the church. Such
references were not unusual at that period.
But the primary reference was to " St. George
of Merrie England," under whose flag
Streynsham Master had worked and rule<L
As far as I recollect, the information was
given to me by one of Governor Master's
descendants. FRANK PENNY.
I well remember the late Lord Aldenham
telling me at St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park,
in the summer of 1901, that the statue of
George II. had been erected upon the steeple
of St. George the Martyr, Bloomsbury, by his
(maternal) ancestor William Hucks, M.P.
Abingdon 1709-10, and Wallingford 1715 till
he died, Nov. 28, 1740, who was " The King's
Brewer," or Brewer to the Royal Household,
1715-40. His only son Robert Hucks, M.P.
Abingdon 1722-41, Treasurer of the Found-
ling Hospital, May, 1744, till he died, Dec. 21,
1745, was also a wealthy brewer in Great
Russell Street, Bloomsbury; but Robert
Hucks, his son, spent his money on the
turf, and sold the brewery to Meux of
Tottenham Court Road. W. R. W.
The statue on the summit of St. George's
steeple is by no means always taken to be
that of King George II. Such books of
reference as, e.g., ' Old and New London ' ;
Timbs's 'Curiosities of London'; Leigh's
' New View of London ' ; ' London in the
Nineteenth Century ' ; ' Return of Outdoor
Memorials in London,' cite the statue as
that of George I. This was also the pre-
ponderating opinion when the question
received attention at 11 S. ii. 7, 50, 98, 135.
That versatile correspondent of ' N. & Q..v
the late MB. C. A. WARD (7 S. iv. 410),.
favoured the George II. theory, and referred
to 5 S. vi. 454 for evidence. He, hov\ eyeiv
could only produce the name of one writer,.
C. J. Partington, "no great authority," to
help him. When referring to the statue in
my ' London Statues and Memorials ' ( 1 0 S_
ix. 364) I felt compelled to adhere to George I.
as the evidence seemed to be so over-
whelmingly in his favour.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
In his account of Bloomsbury and
St. Giles, Mr. George Clinch says the statue
is of George I., and gives an illustration of
the steeple, and the following account of
it:—
" Nicholas Hawksmoor was the architect \yho
designed the building One cannot help marvelling
that Hawksmoor should have committed so grave air
architectural error as the designing of the ridiculous-
steeple of St. George's Church a series of steps,.
gradually narrowing so as to assume a pyramidical
appearance. The lowest steps are ornamented at
the corners by lions and unicorns guarding the-
royal arms. At the apex, on a short column, is a
statue of George I., in Romanesque costume, whiohi
was given by Mr. William Hucks, an opulent
brewer of this parish. Walpole stigmatizes this-
extraordinary steeple 'a masterpiece of absurdity. v
The bad taste and the implied compliment to the-
King were satirically alluded to in the following
contemporary epigram : —
When Henry the Eighth left the Pope in the lurch
The Protestants made him the Head of the Church :
But George's good subjects, the Bloomsbury people,.
Instead of the Church, made him head of th&
steeple."
RICHARD LAWSON.
Urmston.
MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 20). —
I should like to refer MR. S. GREEN to
US. iii. 105, where TEMPLAR gives a good
deal of information as to Mews ancestry..
The Mews pedigree in the 'Visitation of
Hampshire,' 1686, starts with Ellis Mews
of Stourton Caundle. No date is given
against his name, but as he was the father
of Richard Mews, who died aged upwards of
60 in 1646, it is a fair inference to say, as-
MR. GREEN does, " circa 1550," for his birth,,
of course. TEMPLAR says : —
" Peter Mewe [the name is the same— sometimes-
Mews, sometimes Mewe] of Caundle Purse [Purse
Caundle and Stourton Caundle adjoinl died before
March 6, 1597/8, having had issue at least four
sons."
Does it not seem exceedingly probable
that this Peter was the father of Ellis of the
pedigree, i.e., Ellis of Stourton Caundle, oiv
at all events, some connexion ? C. H. M.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. JULY -29, me.
I am confident that Ellis Mews, who
hoads the pedigree in the Hampshire
Visitation, was one of the Caundle Purse
Mewses. The Dorsetshire Mewses had cer-
tainly been settled in that parish from a
.somewhat early date.
Richard Mew of Caundle Purse was taxed
in poods in 1523 and 1542-3.
William Mew of Caundle Purse was taxed
in goods in 1523.
Joan Mew, widow, was taxed in goods in
1523. G. O. B.
I send a copy of the pedigree recorded in
the Visitation of Hampshire, 1686 : —
Ellis Mews of Stourton Candle in com. Dorset.
Richard Mews, of=
the city of .
Winchester,
ob. c. 1646,
fetat. 60 annor.
et amplius.
pGrace, dau. of John Mews,
- Ford, of the
of Winchester. city of
Winchester.
-Joane, Ellis Mews, Esq.,11
wife at present
of Mayor of the city
of Winchester,
aetat. c. 63 ann.
supstes,
A° 1686.
=Christiana, John,
only dau. of ob.
Oliver coelebs.
St. John,
of Farley
Chamberlain
in com.
South ton, Esq.
,
Henry, Ellis, William, Anne,
aetat. setat. aetat. aetat.
18 annor., 16 annor. 14 annor. 19 annor.,
A« 1686. coelebs.
STEPNEY GBEEN.
COVERLO (12 S. i. 328; ii. 33). — This
•celebrated fortress, cut out of the living
rock, is some 80 to 100 feet above the
Canale di Brenta gorge, and not very far
below Primolano, the first Italian village
reached by the traveller going from Trent to
Bassano through the \7al Sugana, of the
fighting in which one reads daily in the news-
papers. Thus it was just at the spot where
of old the territory of the Bishop of Trent
met that of the Venetians. It was taken by
the latter in 1509, but the Austrians were
allowed to garrison it till 1798, when it was
captured by the French under Ausereau.
It is marked on all the old maps of the
Tyrol as " Covolo " or " Kofel." That of
Matthias Burgklehner (1611) calls it " Koffl,"
and gives a small engraving of it, with a man
-climbing up to it by a rope. In 1649
Matthew Merian's ' Topographia Provin-
-ciarum Austriacarum ' (Frankfort, p. 152)
gives a long and most amusing account of it.
It is there stated that it was generally
garrisoned by a captain and fourteen soldiers.
The first time a man climbed up to it, his
comrade, in order to impress the fact on his
mind, bumped his head against a ereat
shield bearing the Imperial arms, which was
hewn out of the rock. Merian gives a
double folding-plate of this singular fortress
to illustrate his text.
Murray's ' Handbook for South Germany,'
third edition, 1844, p. 280, prints a descrip-
tion of this curiosity, written by the author
of ' Vathek,' who passed under it in 1780.
For a modern description see John Ball's
'Alpine Guide: Eastern Alps' (1868),
p. 414. Badeker's ' Sudbayern, Tirol,' &c.,
thirty-second edition, 1913, p. 454, just
mentions the fort, and says it is now in-
accessible. W. A. B. COOLIDGE.
Grindelwald.
According to Baedeker's ' Oesterreich-
Ungarn,' ed. 26, 1903, p. 191, there are some
inaccessible ruins of the fort of Covelo or
Kofel in a cavern on the left - hand side
between Primolano and Bassano, where the
road from Trent passes through the rocky
gorge of the Canale di Brenta. This cavern
is presumably the " large cave in the
mountain " (12 S. i. 263) in which part of the
garrison were quartered.
EDWARD BENSLY.
Thanks to MR. LETTS' s reply at the latter
reference, I now find that Baedeker (' Eastern
Alps,' ed. 1907, at pp. 402-3) says, speaking of
the Canale di Brenta near Primolano : "In a
rocky grotto, 100 ft. above the road, are the
ruins of the old fortress of Covolo, now in-
accessible." He uses similar language in his
'Northern Italy,' ed. 1913, at p. 27. The
word means " nest."
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
SHEFFNER : HUDSON : LADY SOPHIA
SYDNEY: SIR WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM (12 S.
ii. 29). — Lady Sophia was the eldest daughter
of William IV., and sister of the first Earl of
Munster; she d. 1837, having married, 1825,
Philip Charles Sydney of Penshurst Place,
Kent, afterwards G.C.M., 1831, and first
Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, 1835, an equerry
to the King, 1830-34.
James Hudson was Assistant Private
Secretary to the King, 1830-37 ; Envoy
to Sardinia, 1852-63 ; G.C.B., 1863 ; and died
1885. He was known as " Hurry* Hudson "
from the speed with which he travelled to
Italy to summon Peel home to become
Premier in 1834.
Thomas Shifmer was of Westergate,
Essex, the fourth and youngest son of Sir
Geo. Shiffner, first Baronet, M.P., born in
12 S.IL JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
95
1796, and died before 1856, having been
Paymaster of the Household to William IV.
and Queen Victoria from before 1837, and a
Groom of the Privy Chamber.
Sir Win. Cunningham, fourth Baronet of
Caprington, co. Avr, was born Dec. 19, 1752,
and died before 1834. W. R. W.
King William IV. and Mrs. Jordan had
nine children, the eldest of whom was created
Earl of Munster, June 4, 1831. All took the
name' of Fitzclarence. The eldest daughter,
who received by royal warrant, May 24, 1831,
the rank and precedence of child of a
marquis (as did the other children, except
where marriage had already given them
higher rank), was Lady Sophia Fitzclarence.
She married, Aug. 13, 1825, Philip Charles,
Lord De Lisle and Dudley. She died April 10,
1837, leaving issue.
A. FRANCIS STEUART.
79 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
THE "FLY": THE "HACKNEY": THE
"MIDGE" (12 S. i. 150, 254, 398, 494;
ii. 32). — When, as a boy of 14, I was visiting
Bude, in North Cornwall, in the summer of
1870, I went to the neighbouring town of
Stratton in a " midge." Not having pre-
viously heard the name, I asked the youthful
driver why the vehicle was so called, and he
replied : " Because it's a little fly " — an
answer which, from his assured manner, I
felt certain he had often given as triumph-
antly before. " Fly " was well known to
me, for we had several such in my native
town of Launceston, as well as specimens of
another favourite vehicle, the " sociable," a
small wagonette in much request among
picnic parties. DUNHEVED.
R. B.'s reference to the Torquay " midge "
recalls to my mind a miniature four-wheeler
which for years used to ply for hire in
Birmingham, also known locally as " the
midge." It was popular with old ladies
and children, and was driven by an old man
and drawn by a small horse, both of a great
age. Somewhere about 1870 I remember
being taken to a children's party in it from
Edgbaston to Moseley. The unhappy
"midge" broke down on the way, and
shortly afterwards its licence to ply for hire
was refused renewal ; and, shorn of its wheels,
the last I saw of it was in the yard of a local
coach-builder as a dismantled derelict.
Its loss left a gap in the ranks of the
-common objects of the street-side to be met
•with in Birmingham in those far-off days.
WlLMOT CORFIELD.
27 Longton Grove, Sydenham, S.E.
COLOURS OF BADGE OF THE EARI.S OF
WARWICK: BEAUCHAMP (12 S. ii. 49). — In
' The Official Baronage of England.' by
James E. Doyle, 1886, vol. iii. p. 581,
sub nom. Richard de Beauchamp — born
1381, succeeded as 5th Earl of Warwick 1401,
died 1439 — are the arms " From his seal " : —
Quarterly, I. «t IV., Chequy or & azure, a chevron
ermine, (N BUBO run) ; II. & III., Gules, a fess
between 6 cross crosslets or, (BEAUCHAMP).
CREST — Out of a coronet gules, a swan's head «fc
neck argent.
SUPPORTERS — Two bears argent, muzzled gules,
each leaning on a ragged staff of the first.
After 1422— Quarterly, I. & IV., BKAVCHAMP:
II. & III., NEUBOUKG : on an escutcheon of
pretence, CLARE & DKSPENSER quarterly.
Also — I. & IV, BEAUCHAMP, impaling XEUBOURG
II. & HI., CLARE, impaling DESPKNSER.
SUPPORTERS — Dexter, a bear argent, muzzled gules ;
Sinister, a griffin with wings elevated and
depressed argent.
BADGE — A ragged staff in bend dexter argent.
It will be seen that the badge of this
Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, was a ragged
staff ; that the supporters, apparently before
1422, were bears, each leaning on a ragged
staff ; and that both bears and ragged staves
were argent.
The supporters of the 4th Earl are given
as " Two bears " ; the supporter of the 6th,
" A bear argent, collared gules, studded of the
first, with chain attached & reflexed over the
back or " (quoted from ' Rous Roll,' 54).
Collins, in his ' Peerage of England,'
4th edit., 1768, vol. v. p. 205, says that
Henry de Newburgh was created Earl of
Warwick by William the Conqueror, 107G,
and that William Rufus
" enriched this new created Earl with the whole
inheritance of Turchil de Warwick The Bear
and Rigged Staff (which had been the device
or ensign of Turchil's family, from before the time
of his ancestor, Guy Earl of Warwick, so famous
for his feats of chivalry in the time of the Saxons )
was, on the grant of this inheritance, assumed by
the new Earl, as the ensign likewise of his family :
and hence it became the remarkable badge of the
successive Earls of Warwick, through the lines of
Newburgh, Beauchamp, Nevil, Plantagenet, and
Dudley ; and when supporters came in use, was
in that shape added to their arms."
The reference for this account of the
Bear and Ragged Staff appears to be Dugd.,
' Antiq. of Warwickshire,' p. 298.
Mr. Philip iNorman, in his ' London Signs
and Inscriptions,' 1893, p. 12, has a quotation
from Stow (no indication of its place
given) : —
"In the 36th of Henry VI. the greater estates
of the realm being called up to London, Richard
Nevill Earl of Warwick came with six hundrv.l
men all in jackets embroidered with ragged staves
before and behind, and was lodged in \Varwicke
Lane,"
96
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There is interesting matter about the Bear
and Ragged Staff in Larvvood and Hotten's
' History of Signboards,' 6th edit., p. 136.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
I would refer your correspondent to what
the late 3)r. Woodward, in his ' Heraldry :
British and Foreign' (1896), in the chapter
on ' Badges,' vol. i. p. 212, says upon this
subject : —
*' The bear and ranged staff (originally two
separate devices of the Beauchamps, Earls of War-
wick, the bear being allusive to their remote
ancestor Urso) were united by the 'Kingmaker,'
Earl of Warwick, and the Dudleys who succeeded
the Nevilles, into one badge, 'the rampant bear
chained to the ragged staff.' "
j)r. Woodward gives the tinctures inquired
about in a list of the principal badges in
Appendix G to the same volume, p. 400, as
follows : —
" Bear, and Ragged-Staff — Earl of Leicester ;
the bear sabte, the staff argent, Earl of Warwick ;
the Earl of Kent the reverse."
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
Mr. A. C. Fox-Davies's ' Heraldic Badges '
enables me to state that one of the cog-
nizances of Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of
Warwick, who died in 1439, was a " bear
argent, muzzled gules, leaning on a ragged
staff of the first " (p. 155).
ST. SWITHIN.
PEAT AND Moss : HEALING PROPERTIES
(12 S. ii. 9). — Peat, as such, has never, to
my knowledge, had any recognized place in
medicine, but it would doubtless possess the
properties of the mosses present in it, and
all mosses were considered cooling and
astringent. They were much used for all
fresh and " green " wounds, both to stop
bleeding and to heal ; internally they were
given (principally in wine) for haemorrhages.
Club moss was also considered a provoker of
urine ; and cup moss had a great reputation
as a remedy for children's coughs, especially
for chin-cough. Of tree mosses, that of the
oak was, I think, most esteemed in England,
but all were supposed to possess much the
same properties, modified a little by the
character of the tree on which they grew.
They were thought to be sedative in cases
of violent sickness ; ground mosses were
more " cordial " than tree moss. Moss was
official with us for a long time, as was also,
until 1746, the moss of a dead man's skull.
This was preferred for head diseases ; it
was used as an application for bleeding from
the nose, and as snuff as a cure for headache.
Taken internally it was held good for
epilepsy. It was thought to be particularly
efficacious if procured from the skull of a-
man who had died a violent death, especially
from hanging; and some cranks had the
absurd notion that it was most PO if the
victim had had but three letters to his name.
These, of course, were not official require-
ments, and indeed it does not appear that,
in this country at any rate, the more en-
lightened practitioners set much store by
this Usnea cranii humani, or, I might say, by
moss in general. C. C. B.
Sphagnum moss, owing to its capacity of"
absorbing large quantities of fluid, is ex-
tensively used in this war for making'
splints. The moss is, of course, thoroughly-
cleaned, sterilized, and treated with anti-
septics before use. L. L. K.
THE MOTTO OF WILLIAM III. (12 S. ii. 26).
— " Non rapit imperium vis tua sed recipit 1T
is the legend on the edge of tho medal that
commemorates the landing of William of
Orange at Torbay, Nov. 5 (O.S.), 1688. See
Hawkins, Franks, and Grueber, ' Medallic
Illustrations of British History,' vol. L
p. 639, where casts of this medal with-
out the inscribed edge are said to be
common. Joshua Barnes, in his ' History of
Edward III..' describes a coronation medal
of that king having on the obverse *' a young
prince laying a sceptre on a heap of hearts,
with the motto ' Populo dat jura volenti,' '
and on the obverse " a hand held forth, as if
saving a crown falling from on high, with the
words ' Non rapit sed recipit.' ' But,
according to the authorities just quoted, this-
is " doubtless one of the jetons or counters
struck in the Low Countries and in other
parts of Europe in the sixteenth and seven-
teenth centuries." EDWARD BENSLY.
' THE MAN WITH THE HOE ' (12 S. ii. 50). —
' The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems,'
by Edwin Markham, was originally pub-
lished by Doubleday & McClure, New York,
in 1899* Dedicated " to Edmund Clarence
Stedman, first to hail and caution me," the
volume was well received in the United
States, and its principal poem has had
frequent reference made to it in the English
press. In 1906 a spirited poetical rejoinder,
by Henry Goodcell, a Californian, was
published with the title ' The Man with the
Spade.' Markham, who was born in Oregon
City, Ore., in 1852, is of Puritan ancestry,
one of his forebears on the paternal side
being a first cousin of William Perm. For
twenty years Markham was superintendent
and principal of schools in California, and
128. II. JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
97
" The Man with the Hoe ' was written in
San Jose : —
"Its conception first came to me," its author
last year informed an interviewer, " in Placerville,
El Dorado county. I had seen the painting by
Millet once in San Francisco, then one day while
in the mining town I saw something in the attitude
of a man laoouring on a hill. The setting, the
lights and colours preceding the coming of evening
•enveloped him, his great aloneness in all that
sublimity of earth — all this helped to inspire the
poetic germ. It was not until 1 came to San Jps£
long after," he concluded, " that I got to the point
of developing the idea."
Besides his best-known poem — more highly
appraised in America than in this country —
which has several times been reprinted,
Markham is the author of ' Lincoln, and
Other Poems.' ' California the Wonderful,'
* Children in Bondage,' and ' The Shoes of
Happiness,' issued last year, while two new
volumes — ' New Light on the Old Riddle '
and 'The Poetry of Jesus' — are expected
to be ready soon. JOHN GRIGOR.
18 Crofton Road, Camberwell.
This poem is by Edwin Markham, and
made a sensation some sixteen or seventeen
years ago. He is an American, and I was
introduced to him in New York in 1900.
J. M. BULLOCH.
This poem, written by Edwin Markham,
was first published in book-form in July,
1899, in the following volume : ' The Man
with the Hoe, and Other Poems,' pp. 134,
Doubleday & McClure Co., London ; New
York printed, 1899, 8vo, 4«. fid. net. A
copy of the first edition is in the British
Museum, but the book is still in print, the
English publishers being Messrs. Gay &
Hancock. In 1900 an edition illustrated by
Howard Pyle was published in New York
at 10s. Gd.
The author was born in Oregon City
on April 23, 1852, and spent his boyhood
on a ranch in Central California herding
cattle and sheep, and later graduated from
the California State Normal School at San
Jose and from Santa Rosa College, He
studied law, but did not practise ; subse-
quently took up educational work, and was
superintendent arid head master of the
Observation School of the University of
California in Oakland. He was for some
time an occasional contributor to the leading
American magazines, but first gained wide
reputation through the publication of his
poem ' The Man with the Hoe,"* suggested to
him by Millet's picture of the same name.
The poem first appeared in the San Francisco
Examiner. It had a great influence, and
caused much discussion, and was intended
by the atithor not merely as a picture of the
peasant, but as "a symbol of the toiler
brutalized through long ages of industrial
oppression." His publications include ' Lin-
coln, and Other Poems' (1901), and 'Field
Folk,' interpretations of Millet (1901).
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
' NORTH ANGER ABBEY ' : " HORRID "
ROMANCES (12 S. ii. 9, 56). — I did not notice
the earlier correspondence on this topic, or
I should have written sooner. One of the
books in question, ' The Necromancer,' I
believe can be identified with a, book I have
in my possession, the full title of which runs :
"The Necromancer: or the Tale of the Black
Forest : Founded on Facts : Translated from the
German of Lawrence Flammenberg, by Peter
Teuthold. In two volumes. London : Printed for
William Lane, at the Minerva-Press, Leadenhall-
Street. MECCXCIV."
At the end of vol. i. there is a publisher's
announcement of a new novel by Mrs.
Parsons, ' Ellen and Julia.' About this
period the lady probably had a vogue.
B. TERRILL.
21 Brynymor Crescent, Swansea.
MR. M. H. DODDS will be interested to
know that, thanks to his useful summary
and the previous information given in
' N. & Q.,' I have been able to find in the
British Museum copies of ' The Castle of
Wolfenbach,' in an edition of 1835 (press-
mark 012611 de. 8) ; ' The Mysterious
Warning,' 4 vols., published by W. Lane,
1796 (1153 f. 32); Regina Maria Roche's
' Clermont,' 4 vols., published by W. Lane,
1798 (1152 h. 1) ; and ' The Midnight Bell,'
second edition, 1825 (not 1824), 3 vols.,
published by A. K. Newman & Co. (1154
g. 10).
With regard to ' The Midnight Bell,' this
is undoubtedly the production of Francis
Lathom. On the title-page of the second
edition, ' The Midnight Bell, a German Story,
Founded on Incidents in Real Life,' the
romance is definitely stated to be by
" Francis Lathom, author of ' The Mysterious
Freebooter ' : ' The Unknown ' : ' Polish
Bandit,' " and of some ten more of his many
acknowledged works. The attribution of
' The Midnight Bell ' to George Walker is
only to be found in Watt (whence it was
probably derived for the ' Dictionary of
National Biography ' ), and is certainly
erroneous.
Mr. R. Farquharson Sharp, whom I have
to thank for his kind assistance in the matter,
has just traced in Watt, under the name
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Lawrence Flammeuberg, " The Necromancer,
or The Tale of the Black Forest ; founded on
facts. Translated from the German by Peter
Truthold. London. 1794. 2 vols.,* 12mo,
6s." The Museum, unfortunately, does not
possess a copy. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
WELLINGTON AT BRIGHTON AND ROTTING-
PEAN (12 S. i. 389,476, 517; ii. 35).— The
phrase " the young Arthur Wellesley " was
my own. B. B. transfers it to the Vicar of
Brighton, and proceeds to found an argu-
ment on the mistake.
It is certainly remarkable that the Iron
Duke's biographers do not mention his early
schooling at Brighton. When the restora-
tion of Brighton Parish Church was proposed
as a memorial to the Duke, the Bishop of
Ohichester disapproved, but, on further in-
formation, chanced his opinion, and sent 100?.
to the fund. He wrote to the Vicar : —
" The future church, if by God's blessing it be
;i ccoir.plished, will indeed be a most suitable
memorial to that groat man ; for I now under-
stand that he was wont, when a boy, bending his
knees in the Vicarage pew, introduced there as
the pupil of your grandfather, the then Vicar of
the parish, to worship in the present Parish Church.
It will he well to have somewhere an enduring
record of the consistency and steadfastness in after
life of this habit, now universally known, of public
worship ; and what record so appropriate as the
renovation and enlargement to be connected with
his name of that very church where the founda-
tions of that habit, though not perhaps first laid,
were, we may believe, assuredly confirmed and
strengthened in the critical, period of youth ? " —
Brighton Gazette, Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, 1852.
The grandfather, Henry Michsll, was
Vicar of Brighton 1744-89. Henry Michell
Wagner, whom I can remember, was vicar
1824-70 ; he was appointed chaplain to the
Duke of Wellington when the Dtike was
Commander- in-Chief at Paris in 1817.
Mrs. Byrne's ' Social Hours with Cele-
brities,' ii. 189, should be consulted ; but
T do not know whether she wrote from first-
] and information. H. DAVEY.
89 Montpelier Road, Brighton.
[MR. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT thanked for reply.]
CLEOPATRA AND THE PEARL (12 S. i. 128,
1 98, 238, 354, 455 ; ii. 3T ). — As bearing on
the question of the dissolubility of the pearl,
the following extract from my diary of
March 31, 1905, is relevant. I should
explain that it was part of my official duties
in Ceylon to act as Superintendent of the
Pearl Fishery in 1904, 1905, and 1906: —
" Ex'PKRIMKNT WITH A PEARL.— I should have
mentioned an interesting experiment which was
tried at my house, and for the result of which I
< nn therefore vouch. A r.earl of a very large size
but of a very bad colour, was found in a lot of
oysters purchased. It was given to a domestic
fowl with its food. After an interval of rather
more than twenty-four hours the fowl was killed
and the pearl recovered. It was found to have
been reduced to less than half its original size, but
the colour had much improved. The mistake was
leaving it so long ; if it had been left for about six
hours only, it would probably have been reduced
slightly in size, but at the same time the colour
would have improved considerably."
The last statement was but an inference,,
though probably justifiable.
PENRY LEWIS.
A LOST LIFE OF HUGH PETERS (12 S.
ii. 11, 57). — Both the books to which MR.
JAGGARD has kindly referred me are well
known to me.
" History of the Life and Death of Hugh Peters,
that arch-traytor, from his cradell to the Gallowes,
Printed for Fr. Coles at the Lambe in the
Old-Baily. 1661,"
with woodcuts so crudely executed that the
printer himself probably drew them, and
written in illiterate English, is a pamphlet of
13 pp., with verse at the end which is
initialled " T. H." As in the case of all
seventeenth-century pamphlets, the pub-
lisher's name is important. Francis Coles
(Coales, Cowles) had been the publisher of
The Perfect Diurnatt, in conjunction with
other printers, and was probably the author
of this life of Peters. Like many other
tracts of 1660 and 1661, this must have been
issxied as proof of a loyalty rather under
suspicion at the time. Coles was a printer
only, not a bookseller, and the tract (2 sheets)
must have been hawked about the streets for
two.pence. or a penny a sheet (the customary
price of the times). It is pure fiction.
The second book, the ' Historical and
Critical Account of Hugh Peters, after the
Manner of Mr. Bayle,' published in 1751, was
by William Harris, and, though ostensibly of
quite a different calibre, is equally worthless.
It was the first life of Peters to be based
upon the ' Dying Father's Last Legacy to
an Only Child,' which I proved at 11 S.
vii. 301 was a fraud, not written by Peters.
Needless to add, it is neither critical nor
historical.
The life I am trying to trace was published
(so the advertisement states) by H. Brome
and H. Marsh. Brome was the publisher
of a number of important books, and also of
many of Sir Roger L' Estrange' s tracts, and
Marsh published many pTays. The loyalty
of both was above suspicion, so that a life
of Peters issued by them is likely to have
been a serious affair, neither fiction nor
vulgar satire. J. B. WILLIAMS.
12 S. II. JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
99
HENLEY, HERTS (12 S. i. 489; ii. 33).—
This place is no doubt Shenley, Herts. I have
copied many of the inscriptions from the
churchyard, and several are given in
Cussans's ' History of Hertfordshire,' 1879,
' Dacorum Hundred,' pp. 309-24, with the
memorials in the church. The parish is
about five miles south-east of St. Albans.
The village formerly lay at the foot of the
hill adjoining the old church and manor
house ; now the village is a mile distant on
an elevated plateau, about 440 ft. above the
sea-level, a mile south-east of the church.
CHAS. HALL CROUCH.
204 Hermon Hill, South Woodford.
THE SIDE-SADDLE (12 S. ii. 28, 73).—
Perhaps EQUESTRIAN will be interested in the
following reference which I have copied
from Camden's ' Remaines concerning
Britaine,' London, 1637, p. 196 :—
" They had also about this time [King Richard II.]
a kind of Gowne called a Git, a jacket without
sleeves called a Haketon, a loose jacket like an
Herald's Coate of Armes, called a Tabard, a short
pabbardin called a Court-pie, a gorget called a
Chevesail, for as yet they used no bands about
their necke, a pouche called a Gipser. And Queen
Anne, wife to King Richard the second, who first
taught English women to ride on side sadles, when as
heretofore they ridde astryde, brought in high
head attire piked with homes, and long trained
gownes for women."
J. H. WILKINSON.
Horsforth, Leeds.
' Through England on a Side-Saddle in the
time of William and Mary, being the Diary
of Celia Fiennes,' with an Introduction by
the Hon. Mrs. Griffiths, London, Field &
Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, 1888.
HAROLD MALET, Col.
Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.
liotrs on IBoohs,
The Place-Names of Durham. By the Rev.
Charles E. Jackson, M.A. (Allen & Unwin,
5«. net.)
IN his careful and exhaustive work Mr. Jackson
has not only produced a valuable local dictionary,
but made an appreciable contribution to the study
of English philology. He adopts the right method
of investigation by pushing as closely as he is able
towards origins, and when he finds a definite
conclusion impossible he frankly gives the reasons
for the imperfection of his survey. In tracing
derived words to their sources the inductive method
should be rigidly observed, and the utmost care
should be taken not to leave a stage that has been
definitely reached before the track leading to the
next in order has been clearly located. Mr.
J.tckson must be credited with dexterously
working in accordance with this safe principle of
investigation. In many instances he does not
profess to say the final word ; in some it may be
that further research will supplement, and per-
haps complete, his somewhat speculative dis-
cussion ; but he is invariably explicit in his
deliverance, and thoroughly trustworthy as far as-
he goes.
In his preface Mr. Jackson explains that he-
had to contend with two initial difficulties. In
the first place, there is no Domesday Survey of
the county of Durham ; and, secondly, the status
of the county being a kind of imperium in
imperio, there is a lack of carefully preserved
documents. The names, however, are largely of
native origin, derived both from remote owners and
from conspicuous physical features, and it is
possible to trace the bulk of them back through a
local literature of centuries. Having specified
these facts, and emphasized their importance by
apt illustrations, Mr. Jackson gives some useful
hints on the distinctive characteristics of Anglo-
Saxon, and carefully elucidates a group of
" common terminals." These important termina-
tions are particularly apt to be ignored by the-
hasty philologist given to guess-work, whose-
conclusions are consequently prone to be ludicrous-
and misleading. In reference to such haphazard,
inquiry, Mr. Jackson appositely takes the name
Surtees, and shows that while jaunty exposition
gives its meaning as " Sir, or Lord, of the Tees-
dale," it really points back to " Ricardus de super
Teysam." Thus he is fully justified in insisting
on the intimate significance of terminals. It is
essential to discriminate, for example, between the
influence of similar but really distinct Anglo-Saxon
pairs, such as beorh and burh, denn and demi,
icich and. wick, and to recognize that under the
forms frith and gate there are respectively two
sources of modern words, while there are at least
five separate meanings of the terminal ing. What
is further said of the endings hale, ham, hope, ley,
ion, and others similarly implies the recognition
of sound elementary principles, and is all scholarly
and valuable.
A few examples of Mr. Jackson's presentment
of his material will be sufficient to illustrate his
method and the thoroughness of his handling.
His arrangement of the names hi alphabetical
order is praiseworthy as facilitating reference, and;
his careful statement of geographical position in.
the majority of cases is also satisfactory. He has
a long list of authorities, of which he constantly
makes ample and decisive use. Taking, for-
instance, the county name itself, he traces it, with'
the help of records, up through four stages to-
Dunhelm ; finds that the original terminal was
holmr = holme, "an island, or a stretch of flat
I; ' nd by a river liable to be flooded " ; and con-
cludes that the place-name was primarily " Dun's
holme." A clerical error of the twelfth century ,
he explains, established the form in use to the
present day. The discussion of " Deorham " that
follows is at once relevant and convincing.
Jarrow, which rests on ancient Gintim, prompts a
suggestive discussion, which culminates in the safe
conclusion that the modern meaning is " weir-
hill " and the earlier one " weir-settlement.'*
Follonsby, which may be " Fullan's dwelling," is a
curious example of the fact that in ancient times
no less than in our own days there was a prevalent
tendency to abbreviate names. The explanation
of Ferryhill as " Par's road " typically illustrates
Mr. Jackson's theory regarding the primary
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influence of personal names. Harrogate, or
•" temple road, is a good example of one of the
" gate " origins ; and Hebburn, which is shown
* to have meant originally " deep or broad water,"
supplies an excellent opportunity for a vigorous
.and lucid discussion. The high advantage ol
minutely considering early forms is notably seen in
what is" said of Eden, Esh, Fatfield, Greatham,
Maidenstonhall, Sacriston, Sunderland, and many
others. Indeed, a valuable inference to be drawn
from almost every item in the volume is that a
satisfactory explanation of modern English names
is to be found only after a thorough and methodical
study of their history.
Where it seems impossible to state an ultimate
-definition, Mr. Jackson is content to leave the
matter in media. With Blackwell, near Darling-
ton, for example, he says it is difficult to decide
whether the meaning is " Black's well " or
*' black well," and he adds (with his preference
for the personal origin obviously indicated) :
" Moorland was called black land, but I see no
reason why a well should be so styled." But, in
the remote days of open wells, all would have a
dark appearance, and, while this particular
example might have an owner with Black for
surname, its supremacy in dim and perilous depths
might conceivably be recorded in its special name.
A similar ambiguity rests over the place-name
Fulwell, which distinguishes a locality near
Sunderland. So also is it with Horden, with
regard to which one is disposed to favour the
derivation from the personal name rather than
support the only apparent alternative. Similarly,
Malton, Ryton, and others are provocative of
large discussion and speculation, but it is perhaps
best to leave them as they are left by Mr. Jackson.
Unthank, a name which occurs in other English
counties and also in Scotland, seems very hard, if
not impossible, to interpret, and what Mr. Jackson
tentatively advances is probably as much as can
definitely be said of its history. As a final word,
it seems important to note that the second initial
of Prof. Skeat is twice incorrectly given in the list
of authorities.
THE July Quarterly Review is decidedly one of the
best numbers of recent years. Every one of the
sixteen articles composing it is worth close
reading ; many are worth reading more than
•once. Of those connected with the war, that by
Mr. J. M. de Beaufort called ' A Voyage of
Discovery in Northern Germany ' is the most
'remarkable. Illustrated by two plans, it gives
an account of the few most jealously guarded
•square miles on the face of the globe — those which
include Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, the hither
•end of the Kiel Canal, and the forts connected
with these. We are not allowed to know the
exact methods by which the writer penetrated
into these dangerous regions, but what he has to
tell is of unique interest, and throws new light
on many things relating to the war at sea. A
few years ago some of our correspondents were
interested in discovering the range of audibility
of firing : they may be glad to know of the clever
discussion of the question — ' The Sound of Big
•Guns ' — appearing here from the pen of Mr.
•Charles Davison. Two unsigned articles on the
Irish Rebellion and on India under Lord Hardinge
may well attract the careful attention of those
responsible for the conduct of the delicate matters
•dealt with in them ; a third, also unsigned, on
' Soldiers and Sailors on the Land," gives some
very sound common-sense warnings concerning
the difficulties of small holdings, and some good
remarks as to their advantages from the point of
view of national character. Lord Cromer con-
tributes a paper called ' East and West ' ; it
does not apparently set out to prove anything
in particular, but it is one of the most delightful
concatenations of observations, good stories, and
amusing instances that we have ever seen on the
subject of the inscrutable East. The literary
articles are four in number. First comes Prof . Bury s
on the Trojan War — a criticism and summary of
Mr. Walter Leaf's recent work on the subject —
very good indeed. Then comes Prof. Postgate's
' The Last Days of Pompeius,' where the writer
delivers some well- justified animadversions upon
Mr. John Masefield's play about Pompey,and goes
on to treat of Lucan and to give us "many and
long passages of translation from Lucan's account
of Pharsalia and the murder of the great Roman.
We must confess that we found these verses dull ;
and we found ourselves hi some disagreement with
Prof. Postgate's remarks about the indifference of
character in tragedy : apart from these matters
we enjoyed the paper much. Next we have Mr.
Percy Lubbock on ' Henry James ' — a good piece
of critical writing of the modern type, which
tends in some degree towards exaggeration, and
also to a certain extent assimilates itself to the
style and manner it is discussing. Last of the
four is Mr. John Bailey's judicious and unsparing
castigation of Mr. Harper's recent ' Life of Words-
worth.' We must not leave without mention
three other important papers : Mr. F. Lionel
Pratt's ' Four Years of the Chinese Republic ' ;
Mr. Edward Porritt's ' Congress and the War ' ;
and a study by " M." of the political philosophy
of Treitschke.
The Athen&um now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
to <£0msp0namts.
WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately,
nor can we advise correspondents as to the value
of old books and other objects or as to the means of
disposing of them.
H. B. (Geneva). — Forwarded to MAJOR LESLIE.
DR. BRIDGE, —Forwarded to N. L. P.
MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.— The spelling" brooch "
s obsolete for " broach," an old word for spire ;
v. 'N.E.D.' A broach-spire, as the word is now
used, is one carried up trom the four walls of the
x>wer without a parapet, the arch which crosses
;he angles being covered externally by a slope.
Hie ET UBIQUE. — " To burke" is derived from
Burke, the name of a famous criminal executed in
1829. He murdered a large number of persons by
smothering them in order to dispose of their bodies
ror dissection. The first use of the word in the
metaphorical sense of hushing up, suppressing,
stifling, given in the ' N.E.D.,' is from Hood's ' Up
the Rhine ' of 1840.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
101
LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST f,, 1916.
CONTENTS.- No. 32.
NOTES :— The Watts Family of Southampton, 101— Tacitus
and the Jutish Question, 10:2— Fielding and the Collier
Family, 104— The River Fleet— " Yoghurt." 106-"Dead
secret "— Bentley on Milton— William Hacket, 107.
^QUERIES :— Caldecotb— Sir David Owen, 107— Portrait of
Knight of the Garter— " Notice" given Out of Doors-
Sir Charles Fox and the Crystal Palace— Westminster
Views -Travels in Revolutionary France— Christopher
Urswick— Authors of Quotations Wanted— Thomas Panton
— Archdeacon Palmer of Ely— Bambridge Family, 108—
Ancient Welsh Triad— James Wilson, M. P.— Thomas
Yates, M.P.— Dr. Thomas Chevalier— Snob and Ghost-
Hebrew Inscription in Leicestershire — Haggatt Family —
Will of Cecily, Duchess of York, 109 — 'The Order of a
Campe '— Ibbetson, Ibberson, or Ibbeson— Pronunciation
of "Catriona," 110.
BEPLIES : - "The Working-Man's Way in the World':
Charles Manby Smith, 110 — English Prelates at the
Council of Bale— The Shires of Northampton and South-
ampton—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, 111 -Richard
Swift— The Identity of Emmeline de Redesford— Touching
for Luck. 112—" Scribenda et legenda " — " Watch House,"
Ewell, Surrey — Rev. Joseph Kann — Musical Queries —
Gunfire and Rain, 113— The Newspaper Placard— Touch-
ing for the King's Evil — Sir Walter Scott : Lockhart's
Unpublished Letter — Gennys of Launceston — Mumbo
Juuibo, 114— Eighteenth-Century Dentists — "Galoche":
"Cotte," 115— Inscription at Poltimore Church— Scarlet
Gloves and Tractarianism, 116— Sarum Breviary : Verses
in Calendar— Symbols attached to Signatures— Farmers'
Candlemas Rime, 117 — Thomas Holcroft and the Bio-
graphy of Napoleon — Major Campbell's Duel, IIS —
Denmark Court, 119.
NOTES ON BOOKS : — ' An Essay on Shakespeare's
Relation to Tradition '—Reviews and Magazines.
MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF
THE WATTS FAMILY OF
SOUTHAMPTON.
THE following notes, collected and compiled
by me, have been arranged and annotated
by Mr. Chas. A. Bernau, F.S.G. :—
1. The Grandparents of Dr. Isaac Watts.
Thomas Watts, the paternal grandfather
of Dr. Isaac Watts, is said to have com-
manded a ship of the British navy, under
Admiral Blake, against the Dutch. We are
told that this vessel unfortunately exploded,
and by this accident he perished in the prime
of life; My old friend the late Prof. Sir
John Knox Laughton, of the Naval Records
Society, wrote in reply to my inquiry to say
he could find no trace of Thomas Watts as a
naval officer in the Dutch War, or, indeed, in
the navy at that time.
Tradition informs us that among his con-
temporaries he was much esteemed, and
-celebrated for many of those accomplish-
ments which gave such a lustre to his name
in the person of his gifted grandson. Not
only was he well acquainted with the
mathematics, but also skilled in the lighter
arts of music, painting, and poetry. His
persona] courage was remarkable. A de-
scendant of the family relates that while
in the East Indies, when closely pursued by
a tiger which had followed him into a river
where he had taken refuge, Mr. Watts turned
to grapple with the monster, and, by singular
coolness and dexterity, succeeded in ridding
himself of his formidable enemy.
We know that he died about 1656, as his
widow, who died in 1693, " long survived her
unfortunate husband (37 years)." This fact
is confirmed by an entry 'in the Administra-
tion Act Book of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury under date March 19, 1656/7 : —
Thomas Watts. The Nineteenth day Ires, of
Ad'scon issued forth untoMerian [stcj Watts
widd. the relicte of Thomas Watts late of
the Towne & Countye of Southton. decea'd
To Ad'ster the goods ch'ells & debts of the
s'd dec'd. she beinge first by Com' sworne
truely to Ad'ster, &c. Invy. £22 : 10 : 00
(On March 19, 1666/7, letters of administration
issued forth unto Miriam Watts, widow, the relict
of Thomas Watts of the Town and County of
Southampton, deceased, to administer the goods,
chattels, and debts of the said deceased, she being
first by Commission sworn truly to administer.
Inventory 22/. 10*.)
The wording of this administration shows
us that there is no truth in the tradition that
he died at sea, which fact would have been
stated in it had it been so. If he was
drowned anywhere, it was at Southampton.
His grandson certainly believed that he was
drowned, for he wrote the following stanza
' On the Death of an Aged and Honoured
Relative, Mrs. M. W., the Widow of Mr. T.
Watts, and the Grandmother of the Poet ' : —
The painter-muse with glancing eye
Observed a manly spirit nigh,
That death had long disjoined :
" In the fair tablet they shall stand
United by a happier band,"
She said ; and fixed her sight and drew the manly
mind.
Fecount the years, my song (a mournful round),
Since he was seen on earth no more:
He fought on lower seas and drown'd ;
But victory and peace he found
On the superior shore.
" 1693 July 13 Grandmo. Watts died."
The records of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury for the years 1693 and 1694 have
been searched unsuccessfully for a will or
administration of Miriam Watts, widow. In
1688 " Mrs. Miriam Watts, widow," is
mentioned as a member of the Above Bar
Chapel, Southampton. WILLIAM BULL.
(To be continued.)
102
NOTES AND QUERIES. iras.ii. Ai:«,5,i9i&.
TACITUS
AND THE JUTISH QUESTION.
" Reudigni deinde et Aviones et Angli et Varini
et Eudoses et Suardones et Nuithonea fluminibu
aut silvis muniuntur." — Cornelii Taciti 'Germania,
cap. xl., ed. Henry Furneaux, 1900.
In Dr. Chambers's ' Widsith ' (Appx. D,
' The Jutes,' pp. 237-41) the oscillations of
opinion respecting the trustworthiness of the
reports made by the Venerable Bede about
the Jutes are recorded and examined. Bede
reported that the Angli sive Saxones
" aduenerunt de tribus Germaniae populis
fortioribus, id est Saxonibus, Anglis, lutis."
" De lutarum origine," he continues, " sunt
Cantuarii et Uictuarii . . . . " (I. xv. p. 31).
Of the Angles Bede says that they came
" de ilia patria quae Angulus dicitur et ab eo
tempore usque hodie manere desertus inter
prouincias lutarum et Saxonum perhibetur."
Dr. Chambers gives a list of sixteen
scholars who have studied the questions
evoked by Bede's statement, and, with his
accustomed diligence, he tells us in which
category these scholars are severally to be
found : i.e., whether they accept Bede's
authority, or reject it, or are doubtful and
unconvinced. Apart from historians, six
philologists accept, viz. : Kaspar Zeuss,
Jacob Grimm, Bernhard ten Brink, Rudolf
Much, Otto Bremer, and Karl D. Bulbring.
Three are doubtful, viz. : W. H. Stevenson,
Gregor Sarrazin, and Axel Erdmann. Seven
regard Bede's statement as incredible, viz. :
J. C. Jessen, Herman Moller, Karl Miillen-
hoff, Ludwig Weilftnd, Theodor Siebs,
Wilhelm Heuser, and Gustaf Kossinna.
Dr. R. W. Chambers's own opinions are
that,
" whilst the- evidence upon which Bede based his
statement that the lutae dwelt north of the
Angles may have been insufficient, the evidence by
which it is sought to refute this statement indubit-
ably is insufficient Bede's statement accordingly
holds the field."— P. 240.
The chief reasons for rejecting Bede's testi-
mony are to be found in the exaggeration
of the value and importance of certain
insufficiently corroborated coincidences be-
tween Old Kentish (of the ninth century)
and Old Frisian (of the fourteenth) ; and in
the contingent objection that the connexion
postulated between the O.E. " lutae " and
the O.N. " Jotar " is phonetically im-
possible.
The general reader who is in search of
common knowledge might be forgiven if he
were to express great dissatisfaction with the
readiness shown to reject the plain state-
ments of so truthful and scholarly a writer as
the Venerable Bede ; and if, in view of the-
willingness displayed by not a few scholars
to assert that Bede was wrong, he were also
to inquire whether any scholars at all had
endeavoured to prove Bede right. More-
over, he might also, and not unnaturally,
ask : What does Tacitus, who knew so much
about the Germanic tribes of the second
century, tell us about the Jutes ? The
fitting reply would astonish him. It is
just this : Nobody knows.
In my little note on ' Widsith, 11. 4, 5 r
(11 S. ix. 161), I asserted that editors of
' Widsith ' had not given the necessary
amount of time to the study of the palaeo-
graphical peculiarities of tenth-century
Anglo-Saxon script. This assertion of mine
has been resented by Dr. Chambers, and in
the Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society for 1915 (p. 157) I have been takea
to task for setting myself against the " whole
school of Anglo-Saxon philology during the
past eighty years." I had no intention of
displacing myself so egregiously, and palaeo-
graphy is not philology. Dr. Chambers had
" Philologie" in mind, and that is a science
which excludes nothing from its purview,
according to the Continental Doctores-
Gloriosi Omnium Scientiarum who profess it..
Now there is just the same general in-
dictment to be brought against the editors
of Tacitus's ' Germania ' as that which I
have already brought against the editors of
' Widsith ' — they have not studied scribal
errors sufficiently to enable them to recover
the true text in cap. xl. of the ' Germania.''
This chapter, as I shall show, deals with the
Jutes as well as with the Angles.
As an instance of scribal error let us take
the beautiful name of "Aurinia" in th&
' Germania,' cap. viii. This form is im-
possible : no Germanic cognate has ever'
been found for it. Tacitus undoubtedly
wrote Aliruna. That not only has Germanic
significance, but has become "Alraun" in
New High Dutch, according to rule. In the
' Getica ' of Jordanes this word appears as
" Alyrumna," and that represents Alyruna,
in which the length-mark was mistaken for
the ra-stroke. The word means a spae-wife,
but many editors of the ' Germania,' and
some lexicographers, have treated the ghost -
word " Aurinia " as a real feminine name. This
scribal error should teach us two things :
first, that there was a form of I so like the
minim that it was liable to be confused with
it ; secondly, that a group of minim.-* might
be distributed erroneously in transcription ;
e.g., tin (uri) might be transcribed as^
^ 11 1 (ini), and the converse.
128. II. Auu. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
103
In order to recover the text of Tacitus
in cap. xl. of the ' Gennania,' six classes of
scribal divergences, which are represented in
the passage of eighteen words quoted at the
head of this note, must be recognized and
studied. These classes are : —
1. misgrouping of minims ;
2. g/n confusion ;
3. i/r confusion ;
4. confusion of d with cl, el, ol, il, ul, and
the converse ;
5. n/s confusion; and
6. i/l confusion.
I propose to take these classes one by one,
and to give instances from printed editions of
MSS. written between the eighth and four-
teenth centuries. It has been my custom
on previous occasions, in ' N. & Q.' and
elsewhere, to give exact documentation of
instances of scribal error upon which I have
relied. But, because of the number I must
now adduce, that would take up too much
space, and I beg to be excused. Any student
who has doubts of a particular case can be
furnished with the documentation of it on
application made direct to me.
The double colon : : stands for " mis-
representing." The elevated letters in italic
t/pe are the expansions of original com-
pendia. Hypothetical forms are denoted by
an asterisk.
1. misgrouping cf minims :
i. misticie : : iusticise
ii. pineatur : : p^Weatur
iii. sum : : Finn
i\. nuithones : : *niuthones
2. g/n confusion :
a. g : : n :
v. urbs leogis Urbs Leonis
vi. pegneltun Penneltun
vii. dyflig Dyflin
\iii. oghgul Ongul [*o<jngul]
ix. reudigni *Reudinni
b. n : : g :
x. reudigni Reudinni
xi. bellonothus Bellogothus
xii. nuithones Giuthones
(cp. No. iv.)
3. i/r confusion :
a. i (or a minim) : : r :
xiii. buigundus
xiv. cair pens
xv. eudoses
b. r : : i (or a minim)
xvi. cair cuscerat
xvii. Hebrides
xviii. Jiurthones
Burgundus
Cair Peris
*eridoses
Cair Custeint
Hebudes
Giuthones
(cp. No. xii.)
confusion of d with cl, el, ol, il, ul :
a. cl : : d :
xix. clanouenta
xx. cloarius
xxi. clingueillus
b. d : : cl :
xxii. eradonas
xxiii. dustnon
c. el : : d :
xxiv. elementorum
d. d : : el :
xxv. axdodunum
xxvi. secundus
e. d : : ol, il, ul :
xxvii. ced
xxviii. camdoduno
xxix. eudoses
5. n/s confusion :
a. n : : s :
xxx. mailronensibus
xxxi. nunquam
xxxii. unquam
b. s : : n :
xxxiii. gestis
xxxiv. cair ceisi
xxxv. uasa (uana)
xxxvi. eudoses
6. i/l confusion :
a. I : : i (or a minim) :
xxxvii. ullns
xxxviii. tralectus
xxxix. militibus
xl. ordolucas
b. i (or a minim) : : I
xii. decilnabat
xlii. aurinia
xliii. inniis
xliv. ad nnum
xlv. guanius
Danouenta
Doarius
Dinguallus
Heracleonas
Cludnou
Demetorum
Uxelodunum
scelus (> scdua)
ceol
Camuloduno
*eruloses
(cp. No. xv.)
Mailrosensibus
nusquam
usquam
gent is
Cair Ceint
uerba (uerua)
Erulones
(cp. No. xxix.^
unus
Traiectus
multibus
Ordouicas
declinabat
aliruna
Liunis
millium
Guallius (Wala>
The following is a synopsis of the particular
results achieved : —
A. reudigni : : Reudingi, ix., x.
B. eudoses : : Erulones, xv., xxix., xxxvi.
C. nuithones : : Giuthones, iv., xii., xviii.
These results, I submit, justify me in-
emending the text of the ' Germania ' as
follows : —
"XL. Contra Langobardos paucitas nobilitat :
plurimis ac valentissimis nationibus cincti non per
obseouium sed proeliis et periclitando tuti aunt.
Reuaingi deinde et Aviones et Angli et Varini et
Erulonea et Suardones et Giuthones fluminibus
aut silvis muniuntur."
The Erulones are the Eruli ; cp. 11 S..
viii. 402, ' The Heruli in " Widsith."
The Giuthones are the Geotas or Jutes..
NOTES AND QUERIES.
12 s. n. AUG. 5, uie.
Giuth- bears the same relationship to
-Giut-> Geot- that " Euth-iones " bears
to " Eut-ii," and Old Kentish Tenet to
" Thanet." ALFRED ANSCOMBE.
30 Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.
FIELDING AND THE COLLIER
FAMILY.
IN a note on ' Fielding at Boswell Court '
(12 S. i. 264) attention was directed to the
case of Walton v. Collier, and to the indication
it afforded of Fielding's London home during
the years 1744-7. It now remains to record
•the bearing the case has on the relationships
that existed between Fielding and the
•Collier family, of which the defendant was
a member.
A word first as to this family. The Rev.
Arthur Collier (1680-1732), Rector of Lang-
ford Magna (now known as Steeple Langford),
in Wilts, the author of ' Clavis Universalis,'
was a metaphysician who anticipated at
many points the greater George Berkeley,
Bishop of Cloyne. Langford lies seven miles
north-west of Salisbury, and in 1716 Collier
•was permitted by his bishop to reside in the
city that he might let " the handsome and
convenient ' ' parsonage : a retrenchment
necessitated by the extravagances of his
wife (' Memoirs of Arthur Collier,' by Robert
Benson, 1837, p. 158). During his school
career at Eton (1719-25) Fielding spent his
holidays at Salisbury, consequently it is
probable he was known personally to
Collier ; at any rate, he became acquainted
with three of Collier's four children, namely,
his son Arthur, and his two daughters, Jane
and Margaret.
Arthur Collier, jun., being born in 1707,
was of the same age as Fielding. He
practised as an advocate at Doctors' Com-
mons, and " the Worshipful Dr. Collier,
LL.D.," appears as a subscriber to Fielding's
' Miscellanies ' of 1743. In later life he was
tutor to Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury (after-
wards Mrs. Thrale), and to that beautiful
Miss Streatfield whose Greek and gift of
tears were made famous by the pen of Fanny
Burney. Collier was commissary of Hunt-
ingdon, and confidential adviser of the
Countess of Bristol, whose marriage with
the Duke of Kingston he strongly promoted.
He is described as an ingenious, but unsteady
and eccentric man (Coote's ' Lives of the
Civilians'). He died in 1777.
Miss Jane Collier was the author of the
' Art of Ingeniously Tormenting,' 1753, a
book displaying keen observation of the
manners of her day, and an outspoken
denunciation of the foibles of her sex, in
particular of those who suffered from " the
vapours." She makes appreciative remarks
on Fielding's 'Tom Jones' (p. 88) and his
' Jonathan Wild ' (p. 139), and refers to
him as " a good ethical writer " (p. 230).
With Fielding's sister, Sarah, she collaborated
in ' The Cry,' published by Dodsley, March,
1754, during the preparation of which she
wrote two interesting letters to Richardson
('Richardson's Correspondenci,' vol. ii.
pp. 59-68). Miss Collier's comprehensive
indictments and flashes of caustic wit recall
her father's controversial methods in his
letters to Dr. Clarke. Rector of St. James's,
Piccadilly, and to Misfs Journal. Miss
Collier died before October, 1755 ; her last
recorded appearance is in Fielding's ' Journal
of a Voyage to Lisbon,' where, on July 1,
1754, at Gravesend, she took leave of her
sister Margaret (who was to travel in
Fielding's party), and posted back to town
in the company of the excellent Saunders
Welch. Her full-length portrait, painted by
J. Highmore, was engraved by J. Faber, jun.,
and is regarded as one of his best mezzo-
tints.
Before the partial publication by Mr.
Austin Dobson, in The National Review
for 1911, of a long letter written by Fielding
at Lisbon, a month or so before his death,
Miss Margaret Collier's name was associated
with him mainly as his wife's companion to
and in Portugal, and by the discredited
tradition that she was the artist of the
silhouette which gave Hogarth the hint for
the posthumous portrait of his friend. But
when Mr. G. A. Aitken (Athenaeum, Feb. 1,
1890) printed Fielding's will (made just
before he left England) it was revealed that
she was a witness to its execution. Conse-
quently Margaret Collier was a visitor at
Fordhook, Baling, in the summer of 1754,
and must, on June 26, have seen that same
melancholy sunrise by the light of which
Fielding was, in his own opinion, " last to
behold and take leave of some of those
creatures on whom he doated with a mother-
like fondness." Of her movements after
Fielding's death and that of her sister we
learn something from ' Richardson's Corre-
spondence,' vol. ii. pp. 71-112, in a sequence
of letters written from Ryde, whither she
had retired " to kill every grain of worldly
pride and vanity."
To revert to the litigation. The^docu-
ments at the Public Record Office (Walton v.
Collier, King's Bench Plea Roll, Trinity
12 s. ii. AUG. 5, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
105
Term, 18-19 Geo. II., Roll 210, membrane
741) state that
"on Friday next after the morrow of the Holy
Trinity \i.e., June 14, 1745] before the Lord the
King at Westminster cometh Tristram Walton by-
Alexander Powell his Attorney and bringeth in
the Court his certain Bill against Arthur Collier
of the City of New Sarum in the County of Wilts
Doctor of Laws .... a plea of debt .... to wit
Tristram Walton complains of Arthur Collier of a
plea that he render to him 400/. of lawful money
which he owes to and unjustly detains from him
for ttiat the said Arthur on 22nd September 1739
at New Sarum by his certain writing obligatory
sealed with the seal of the said Arthur and now
shewn to the Court. .. .acknowledged himself to
be held and firmly bound to the said Tristram in
the said 400?. to be paid to the said Tristram when
he should be thereunto requested. Nevertheless
the said Arthur although often requested .... hath
not yet paid the said 400Z. but hath hitherto
entirely refused to the damage of the said Tristram
40Z."
The plaintiff, being dissatisfied with
" common bail," obtained an order for
" special bail."
" Upon this James Harris of the City of New
Sarum ha the County of Wilts Esquire and Henry
Fielding of Boswell Court in the parish of
St. Clement Danes in the County of Middlesex
Esquire come into the Court of our Lord the King
before the King himself at Westminster hi their
proper persons and become Pledges and each of
them by himself did become Pledge for the said
Arthur that if it should happen that the said
Arthur should be condemned in the plea aforesaid
then the said Pledges did grant and each of them
for himself did grant that as well the said Debt
as all such damages costs and charges as should
be adjudged to the said Tristram in that behalf
should be made of their and each of their lands
and chattels and be levyed to the use of the said
Tristram if it should happen that the said Arthur
should not pay the said debt and damages costs
and charges to the said Tristram or render himself
on that occasion to the Prison of the Marshal of
the Marshalsea of our Lord the King before the
King himself."
The action was tried, and judgment
entered for the plaintiff ; whereupon the
defendant, Collier, " demurred," i.e., raised
a legal objection in which the facts are
admitted to be true, but denying the
sufficiency of the facts in point of law to
support the claim. The demurrer is signed
by Fielding, but being in " common form "
it offers little opportunity to judge of his
skill as a draftsman. The demurrer was
over-ruled ; it obviously had no substance,
and was raised merely to gain time and
avoid execution, and, after hearing the
objection, the Court awarded a further
87. 10s. es damages. This took place on
Nov. 12, 1745, the very day, be it noted, that
Fielding sent forth the second issue of his
newly launched periodical, The True Patriot.
The defendant, or rather his sureties, still
anxious to stave off the day of reckoning, on
Nov. 19 entered an appeal from the Ex-
chequer Court to the Exchequer Chamber by
a " writ of Error." On June 4, 1746, the
Chamber heard the appeal, and, " after due
consideration," ordered
" that the judgment should be hi all things
affirmed and should stand in full force and effect
notwithstanding the said causes and matters
assigned for Error by Arthur Collier. And it was
also at the same time considered by the Court
that Tristram Walton should recover against
Arthur Collier eleven pounds and eleven shillings
for his damages costs and charges which he had
sustained by reason of the delay of execution of
the said judgment on pretence of prosecuting the
said Writ of Error."
Fielding's abilities as a lawyer will be
perhaps questioned in his permitting Collier
to be beaten all along the line, but in truth
Fielding, who acted the dual part of pleader
and surety, was making a desperate effort
to save himself. He became liable by the
judgment pronounced against Collier, and
there are two pieces of cogent evidence that
he was made answerable under it.
First, the adverse judgment rang the
death-knell of The True Patriot, which
terminated its run with the issue of June 17,
1746.
The second piece of evidence is more
direct, for it rests on the authority of
Fielding himself. In the above-mentioned
letter from Lisbon one of the omitted
passages, which, failing the explanatory
particulars now forthcoming in the case of
Walton v. Collier, was of necessity obscure,,
related to Miss Margaret Collier and her
designs on the gentleman whom I have
identified as Dr. John Williamson, F.R.S.,
chaplain to the British Factory (11 S. xi.
251). Fielding objected to her proceedings,
as well as her interference with his plans,,
and refers bitterly to the
" obligations her family have to me, who had
an execution taken out against me for 400Z. for
which I became bail for her brother."
The following notes are germane : —
1. At the end of July, 1745, the Pretender
landed in Scotland ; by November he reached
Carlisle, intending to march on London. No
man was more active in rousing his fellow-
countrymen to a sense of their danger and of
their duties than Fielding. To this end he
published an important brochure, ' Serious
Address ' (never yet reprinted in his Works),
and launched The True Patriot and the
History of Our Own Times on Nov. 5, 1745,
which was issued each Tuesday until it
came to an end on June 17, 1746, in conse-
quence, as is here suggested, of the result of
the litigation in Walton v. Collier.
106
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. A™, s. ime.
2. Mr. James Harris (1709-80), father of
"the first Earl of Malmesbury, was the author
of ' Hermes and other Philosophical En-
quiries.' He lived in Salisbury Close in the
Tiouse adjoining St. Ann's Gate on its north
side, and opposite to the home of Charlotte
Cradock, whom Fielding had married in
1734, but who had died before these troubles.
Whether Mr. Harris had to pay also is not
known : probably the sheriff reckoned a
man in London worth two in Wiltshire. His
SDrtrait hangs in the National Portrait
allery.
3. It is only fair to Miss Margaret Collier
to say that Fielding, in his then state of
health, was perhaps easily ruffled, and less
master than usual of that " cheerfulness
which was always natural to me " (' Proposal
for the Poor,' 1753). But she never forgave
Fielding for defeating her machinations, and
when the ' Voyage to Lisbon ' appeared
•posthumously, she wrote to Richardson that
she considered it " a very dull and unenter-
taining piece," a criticism which reads
oddly when we recall that nine months ago
The Times deemed it of sufficient interest
•to include passages from it among the
broadsheets supplied to the English army in
"the trenches. But Fielding could not have
been the sole cause of her disappointment,
for writing to Richardson from Ryde on
Oct. 3, 1755, she says : —
" I was forced to make a great slaughter and
lay about me prodigiously before I could conquer
those bitter enemies to peace and humility called
passions ; but now I think and hope they all lie
-dead in heaps at several places in London and
elsewhere ; and I brought down nothing with me
but a bundle of mortifications."
4. It surely says much for Fielding's
"kindly disposition that, despite his unfor-
tunate experiences from going bail for
Arthur Collier, he readily went bail for
Another friend in 1751 (see ' Luke Robinson,
M.P.,' US. xi. 55). Nor let us forget that
while the Collier litigation was proceeding
through its several stages, ' Tom Jones ' was
a-composing. J. PAUL, DE CASTRO.
1 Essex Court, Temple.
THE RIVER FLEET. — Other than the
Thames, this is the only London stream or
river of sufficient interest to occasion
•monographs on its history or topography.
I have had the pleasure of listening to
several excellent lectures on the Wallbrook,
Westbourne, and Tyburn Brook, but I am
not aware that separate histories of these
•watercourses have been published. The
Fleet, however, has been the subject of one
published work and two intended histories
of more than ordinary interest.
Mr. John Ashton's ' The Fleet, its River,
Prison, and Marriages,' is a familiar work
that fails to achieve its best purpose, and it,
therefore, ranks higher as an interesting
resume than a history of its subject.
' The Hole-Bourne,' an excellent paper
by J. G. Waller, contributed to the Transac-
tions of the L. and M. Archaeological Society,
is a better effort, but neither approaches in
interest or worth the history intended by
Arthur Crosby, whose surveys, notes, and
numerous drawings are in the Guildhall
Library. For nearly twenty years, from
about 1825, Crosby worked with splendid
industry. The topography of the stream
from its rise at Hampstead was studied
closely, and any landmark of associated
interest carefully drawn and identified.
His exploration of the Fleet Bridge on the
night of Tuesday, July 28, 1840, was re-
printed by Ashton, but another draft with
illustrations and measurements is before me.
I believe this is the original, as most of the
measurements are inked-in rough pencil
notes — presumably, hurriedly made on that
memorable occasion.
Similar in intention, but less detailed, was
the ' Pictorial Survey ' made by G. Arnold
of Pentonville about 1840. A topographical
artist of considerable merit, he was at-
tracted to the subject by certain picturesque
aspects it afforded near Bagnigge Wells,
and this and other resorts in its vicinity
were pleasant in appearance.
Several other artists frequented the banks
of the Fleet, but Arnold achieved the most
useful work, and if Crosby's text could be
edited, enlarged, and illustrated with these
drawings, it would make a volume of great
merit and distinct value.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
" YOGHURT." — Although this preparation
only became known generally in Western
Europe a few years ago, after the late
Prof. Metshnikoff's discovery of the Bacillus
Bulgaricus which turns milk into "yoghurt,"
it is mentioned by Busbequius in his first
letter from Turkey, dated Vienna, Sept. 1,
1555 : —
"Sed ea est eorum [Turcorum] frugalitas, guise
minime studentium : quibus si sal sit et panis,
alliumque aut ccepa aut acidi lactis genus, Galeno
non ignoti, quod ipse Oxygalam, isti lugurtham
discunt, nihil requirant prseterea." — Elz. ed., p. 90.
As regards Oxygala, cf. also Pliny,
lib. xxviii. cap. 9 (36) and Columella, lib. xii.
cap. 8. L. L. K.
12 8. II. AUG. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
107
" DEAD SECRET." — In the preface to the
1861 edition of ' The Dead Secret,' Wilkie
Collins wrote : —
" ' The Dead Secret ' was admirably rendered
into French by Monsieur E. D. Forgues, of Paris.
•The one difficulty which neither the accomplished
translator nor any one else proved able to over-
come was presented, oddly enough, by the English
title. When the work was published in Paris its
name was of necessity shortened to ' Le Secret ' —
because no French equivalent could be found for
such an essentially English phrase as a 'dead
secret.'"
It is curious that what the novelist con-
sidered " an essentially English phrase "
should have no earlier quotation illustrative
•of its meaning as an absolute, complete,
entire, thorough, downright secret, than a
letter of April 12, 1805, from one Scot to
another — Sir Walter Scott to J. Ballantyne —
remarking, " This is a dead secret."
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
BENTLEY ON MILTON. — In his ' Springs of
Helicon,' Mr. J. W. Mackail has an interesting
reference to one of Bentley's whimsical
interpretations of Milton's text. The pas-
sage under discussion is ' Paradise Lost,'
fok. ix. 11. 62-66. Satan's flight from Eden
is described : —
Thrice the equinoctial line
He circled, four times crossed the car of night
From pole to pole, traversing each colure.
Bentley's suggested reading was " cone
of night, ' " car " being regarded by him as
a mistake of the printer's. Mr. Mackail
thinks that
" the matter is not easy to decide, especially if we
consider that Milton may have have had some-
where in his mind an echo of the last line of the
second Idyl of Theocritus."
Is it not more probable that the poet used
the verb " cross " in the Shakespearian sense,
as equal to " pass in front of ? Compare
the well-known usage : "I'll cross it, though
it blast me " (' Hamlet,' I. i. 127).
W. B.
WILLIAM HACKET. — The Second Diary of
the English College at Douay, under date of
Sept. 12, 1591, after recording the arrival of
four students who had lately left England,
•has this paragraph : —
" Hi referunt tres in Anglia esse, quorum alter
se Jesum dicit, a quo si perconteris quo nomine
appelletur, respondet, Sum qui sum ; sin vero
replices, Ergo Jesus es tu, respondet, Tu dicis ; 2"»
fle prophetam dicit et Misericordiam vocari : tertius
item se esse prophetam asseritet Vindictae nomine
usurpandum. Horum unus dicit reginam Angliae
lioc anno morituram, de regni solio deturbandam
quidem, sed animam tamen ejus ad ccelos subvola-
turam. Idem dicit Whitgiftum, paeudo-episcopum
Cantuariensem, h'de et religione a se discrepare et
tamen saivandum esse."
The false Christ was William Hacket, the
subject of a notice in the ' D.N.B.' Mercy
was Edmund Coppinger, who starved himself
to death. Judgment was Henry Arthington,
who was released from prison on conforming.
Interesting documents about these persons
are printed in Strype's ' Annals,' iv. 95-101.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
(©items.
WK must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
CALDECOTT. — One Thomas Caldecot — born
about 1771 in Huntingdonshire, probably at
Ogford — changed the spelling of his name to
Cawcutt, evidently because of the still older
Calcot. He was the son of William and
Mary Caldecot, and I do not think the family
was really of Huntingdonshire. Their arms
are the same as those of the Caldecotts of
Rugby Lodge, Warwick, &c., originally of
Abingdon, Berks. It is probable that
William was of this family and quarrelled
with them.
The arms are : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Argent,
a fesse azure, f rety or, between three cinque-
foils gules ; 2, Argent, three bends sable ;
3, Gules, a chevron between three leopards'
faces or (Parker). Crest : A demi-lion ram-
pant gules, charged on the shoulder with a
cinquefoil argent. Motto of branches :
" In utrumque paratus."
I have seen some old book-plates with
" A. Caldecott, Esqre," engraved thereon.
Thomas Caldecot (or his parents) paid a
sum of money in 1784 for leave to change his
name. He lived at various places in Cam-
bridgeshire, including Boxworth (where all
his children were born) and Impington.
Later he became possessor of Longstanton
Hall — the home of the Hattons, his relations
— which after his death was accidentally
burnt to the ground. He died in London,
July 5, 1843, and was buried at Longstanton.
I should be glad of any information con-
necting him with other branches of the
family. O. A. E.
SIR DAVID OWEN, KT. — An old 1784 print
represents a monument of a mailed recum-
bent knight of this name in a niched recess
in Eastbourne Church. Can any particulars
about him be given ?
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
108
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. s. iow.
PORTRAIT OF A KNIGHT OF THE GARTER,
1641. — I have an old portrait inscribed
" Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and
Montgomery, ^Etatis 49, an. dom. 1641." He
was a Knight of the Garter and Chancellor
of the University of Oxford. In the picture
lie wears a skull cap, but no trace of the
Garter or Chancellorship appears. Can any
correspondent explain the absence of any
such reference ?
FRANCIS B. PALMER.
The Manor House, Henbury, Bristol.
"NOTICE" GIVEN OUT OF DOORS. — Is it
illegal to give a domestic servant, or a
children's nurse, notice out of doors, or on a
Sunday ? If so, why ? If not, how has the
idea arisen ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
SIR CHARLES Fox AND THE CRYSTAL
PALACE. — What part, if any, had Sir Charles
Fox in the design or erection of the Crystal
Palace (a) on its original site ; (6) on its
present site ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
WESTMINSTER VIEWS. — On p. 10 of W. J.
Loftie's ' Westminster Abbey ' {Seeley, 1890)
there is reproduced a view of Great College
Street, Westminster, from a drawing by
James Miller dated 1781. I should be glad
to know where the original drawing may be
found, and also of the whereabouts of any
other drawings of Westminster by this artist.
Two are said by Bryan to be at South
Kensington. Where, too, is the original of
the very pretty view of Dean's Yard, West-
minster, painted by T. Malton in 1793, of
which there is a well-known aquatint ?
L. E. TANNER.
Savile Club.
TRAVELS IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. — I
am anxious to find some contemporary
travels in France during the Revolution.
In Sir W. Scott's ' Paul's Letters to his
Kinsfolk,' last letter, occurs a reference to
"Travels of two young Scotch [?] gentlemen in
1793," &c., also to the ' Journal of Mr. S — n
of Edinburgh." I should like the titles of
these two books. C. E. H. EDWARDS.
The Corner, Cassio Road, Watford, Herts.
CHRISTOPHER URSWICK. — A Hungarian
writer, quoting A. Reumont's ' La Biblio-
theca Corvina ' (Firenze, 1879), mentions one
Christopher Urswick of Bambridge, Abbot
of Abingdon, who is stated to have been
Henry VIII. 's ambassador to Hungary, and
to have received there valuable MSS* from
the famous Corvina Library as a present.
We know, of course, the famous Dean of
Windsor of tliat name who, as ambassador
from Henry VII. to the King of the Romans,,
was at Augsburg in April-May, 1496, but
history does not record his name among
those of the abbots of Abingdon. Could
some kind reader supply the passage in
Reumont's book ? There is no copy in the
British Museum. L. L. K.
AUTHORS WANTED. — Where can I find
the following ?—
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
Can any of your readers give me the
correct wording in French, and the reference,
of the following quotation ? —
"One is never in love save the first time ; after-
wards it is only self-love (amour propre)."
I believe it to be La Rochefoucauld's, but
cannot find it in the Maxims.
G. V. FITZGERALD.
Carlton Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
I should be greatly obliged if any one could
supply to me the reference to an article upon
' Otho de Grand ison ' which appeared a few
— I think about four — years ago in either a
magazine or a volume of essays, &c.
A. D. GREENWOOD.
THOMAS P ANTON of Fen Ditton, Cambsr
was the son of Thomas Pan ton, " master of
the King's running-horses at Newmarket "
(' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xviii. 185). Who was
his mother, and did he die a bachelor,
Nov. 29, 1808 ? G. F. R. B.
JOHN PALMER, ARCHDEACON OF ELY. —
According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xliii. 134,
Palmer died in 1614. I should be glad to
ascertain the full date of his death, and his
place of burial. Can any correspondent of
N. & Q.' give me particulars of his
parentage ? G. F. R. B.
BAMBRIDGE FAMILY. — Can any reader
help me as to the parentage of Thomas
Bambridge, or Bainbridge, burnt at Win-
chester under Bishop White, July, 1558
(see Fox's ' Martyrs,' viii. 490) ? According
to the ' Victoria County History of Hamp-
shire' (vol. iv., 'Tytherley '), Thomas was
son and heir of Roger Bainbridge (In-
quisition p.m. Ser. II. xx. viii. 19), who was
son and heir of John Baimbridge, who had a
grant of the Manor of East Tytherley in
1496 from King Henry VII., and died in
1512.
Thomas Bainbridge (the martyr) appears
to have made a settlement of Tytherley upoa
128. II. AUG. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
109
his "kinswoman" Anne Goring, wife of
Richard Gifford (second son of Sir Wm.
Gifford of Ichell, Hants).
Anne is said to have been " daughter of
John Goring of Burton, Sussex." She was
certainly a sister of Constance, daughter of
John Goring of Burton, since Constance,
wife of Sir John Kingsmill, Kt., Justice of
Common Pleas, in her will, dated March 1,
1594 (P.C.C. 24 Darcy), names her " sister
Gifford." In the will of John Goring of
Burton, proved Feb. 8, J 520/21 (P.C.C.), is
mention of his daughters Sibil, Elinor, Jane,
and Anne. The kinship of Anne Goring
(Mrs. Gifford) to Thomas Bainbridge (Barn-
bridge) is rather important for the history
of the Manor of East Tytberley. In
'N. & Q.' (ante, p. 41), in ' Oxfordinthe Great
Civil War,' by MB. A. R. BAYLEY, reference
is made to John Bambridge, M.D., 1582-
1643, physician and astronomer, pupil and
kinsman of Dr. Joseph Hall, whose mother
was Winifred Bambridge, " a strict Puritan."
This latter fact, coupled with the burning of
Thomas Bambridge in 1558 for Puritanism,
suggests this inquiry in the hope that some
kind reader will reply to F. H. S.
AN ANCIENT WELSH TRIAD. — Among the
great number oi memorable Triads, or three-
fold moral sentences, in which the literature
of ancient Wales abounds, the following one
may be noteworthy : —
" There are three kinds of men : the man of Godt
who returns good for evil ; the man of mankind,
who returns good for good, and evil for evil ; and
the man of Satan, who returns evil for good."
It would be desirable, and deserve to be
quoted, if one of your correspondents could
kindly give us the original words in Cymric
of this Triad, and refer to its printed source.
INQUIBEB.
JAMES WILSON, M.P. — Who was James
Wilson of Sneaton Castle, Yorks, M.P. for
York 1826-30, who died in Brunswick Place,
Regent's Park, Sept. 7, 1830 ?
W. R. W.
THOMAS YATES, M.P. — Is anything known
of Thomas Yates of Chichester, M.P. for that
town 1734-41, defeated there March, 1733,
when styled Col. Yates ? Was he related to
Henry Yates, M.P. for Horsham 1695-1702 ?
W. R. W.
DB. THOMAS CHEVALIEB. — I am anxious to
know if Dr. Thomas Chevalier, Surgeon
Extraordinary to King George III., and
well known as a writer, who was born in
1767, was of the same family as Lord
I Kitchener's mother, whose maiden name
was Chevallier. There are two Ts in the
latter' s name. Dr. T. Chevalier was des-
cended from the Huguenots, and so was Lord
Kitchener ; therefore it may possibly be the
same family, in spite of the difference in
spelling. F E. C.
SNOB AND GHOST. — I saw in The Northamp-
ton Herald recently a notice of the transfer
of a beerhouse licence, the name of the said
house being the Snob and Ghost (or Ghost
and Snob). I think it was at Hardingstone,
Northants.
Can any reader enlighten me about this
name ? Snob may be for " journeyman
shoemaker," or " a townsman " according to
Webster, but Snob and Ghost beats me.
T. E. R.
HEBBEW INSCBIPTION, SHEEPSHED, LEI-
CESTEBSHIBE. — Mr. David H. of Birmingham
in The Jewish Record (London), June 4, 1869,
refers to an old house in the village of
Sheepshed, Leicestershire, with the follow-
ing inscription on a stone over the doorway :
H fltf TO1N TP31 OJN DV?B> 'JN*
G.Y. 1694.
Is anything known about this ? Is it
referred to in any local histories ?
ISBAEL SOLOMONS.
74 Sutherland Avenue, W.
H AGO ATT FAMILY. (See 11 S. xii. 9.) —
1. Can any correspondent assist me to trace
the relationship, if any, between Bartholomew
Haggatt, English Consul Aleppo, 1614-15
(vide Guillim's ' Display of Heraldry '), and
Bartholomew Hagget, Communar Wells
Cathedral, 1585 to 1590 ?
2. The Calendar of MSS. of the Dean and
Chapter of Wells states : " John Haggatt
installed by proxy in the prebend of
Combe XV. pursuant of mandate of the
Bishop. 6 June, 1581." Information is
sought concerning him. H. C. B.
WILL OF CECILY, DUCHESS or YOBK. —
Can any one say where are now to be found
the originals of the wills printed by Sir N. H.
Nicolas in ' Testamenta Vetusta ' 1 Search
in the P.R.O. and the British Museum has
BO far failed to discover any of them. The
will of Cecily (Neville), Duchess of York, as
given by Sir N. H. Nicolas, contains some
puzzling entries. Is any verbatim transcript
of it known ? All printed versions are copies
of Sir N. H. Nicolas, apparently.
A. D. GBEENWOOD.
21 Dalebury Road.^Wandsworth Common, S.W.
110
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 5, ww.
' THE ORDER OF A CAMPE ' : HARL. MS.
— In Grose's ' Military Antiquities,' 1786,
vol. i. p. 233, it is stated that in the Harl.
MSS. there is a document, No. 4685, en-
titled " The order of a campe or Army Royall,
with the Dutie of every Officer belonging to
the same, per B. Con. Mtlit. 1518." Harl.
MS. 4685 is not the right number. Can any
information be given as to what the right
number is ? J. H. LESLIE.
IBBETSON, IBBERSON, OB IBBESON. — Can
any reader, learned in the matter, give me
the meaning and origin of this surname,
variously spelt as -above ?
I have noticed that people bearing this
name appear, in many cases, to be natives
of Yorkshire or Derbyshire, or are the
descendants of people who lived there
originally. W. IBBERSON.
Mallon Road, Goodmayes, Essex.
[Is not the first form at any rate a variant of
Ibbotson = son of Isabel ?]
PRONUNCIATION OF " CATRIONA." — I have
heard the name of Stevenson's ' Catriona '
pronounced at onetime Kat-ree'-na, at another
time Kat-ri-o '-na. Can any reader say
which, or if either, is correct ? STUDENT.
' THE WORKING-MAN'S WAY IN THE
WORLD ' :
CHARLES MANBY SMITH.
(12 S. i. 468; ii. 16.)
MR. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX in his reply proves
that MR. W. E. A. AXON was not quite
correct when he stated in ' N. & Q.' in
February, 1869, that the above book was
published in 1854. MR. AXON was a con-
tributor to these pages for many years,
and a good bibliographer; therefore" it is
but justice to his memory to say that he
was not far out in the date he assigned to
an anonymous volume without a date on its
title-page. That title-page ran as follows : —
The
Working-Man's Way
in the World :
being the
Autobiography
of a
Journeyman Prhater.
London :
William and Frederick G. Cash,
(successors to Charles Gilpin,)
5, Bishopsgate Street Without.
A list of ' Books Lately Published ' printed on
the inside of the front cover includes as
Xo. 7 ' The Working-Man's Way in the
World,' the price being 5s. The British
Museum Catalogue gives 1853 as the year of
publication ; so ' Curiosities of London Life,'
which is dated 1853, must have followed it
very quickly.
MR. PRIDEAUX may be pleased to know
that the B.M. Catalogue records that a
Dutch translation of the ' Curiosities of
London Life ' appeared at Leyden in 1862,
under the title " Merkwaardigbeden uit
het Londensche Volksleven. . . .Naar het
Engelsch . . . . door C. M. Mensing."
Though Charles Manby Smith wrote
another book on London, entitled ' The Little
World of London ; or Pictures in little of
London Life,' 1857, 8vo, he was not a
Londoner ; for in the first pages of ' The
Working-Man's Waj* ' he says that he was
" born on the banks of the Exe, in a pleasant
town not a score of miles from the capital of
Devon."
There is much to interest readers of
' N. & Q.' in his Autobiography. He says
that when ho was 13 the family removed to
Bristol, and he had to begin work as a
" printer's devil " : —
" Into a printing-office, then, at the age of
thirteen years and three months, I entered, in the
character of a devil, a term which, though now
[c. 1850] it is going out of use, and indeed among
printers is gone out of use, was not at that tune
[c. 1820] an unapt designation." — P. 6.
After completing his apprenticeship he
sought work in London as a compositor, but,
not being successful, decided to try his
fortune in Paris. Through Galignani he got
a situation as a compositor, and was first
employed in setting up a portion of a cheap
edition of Scott's ' Woodstock,' which had
not yet, Smith states, been published in
London, the compositors in Paris working
from proof-sheets with corrections on them.
This edition was in English, and intended
for sale on the Continent.
Smith, during his stay in Paris, studied
French diligently, and was still working in
a printing office when the " three glorious
days of July," 1830, drove Charles X. from
his throne. Smith gives a good description
of what he saw during these three eventful
days. He decided to return to England,
and on Aug. 10 set out for Bristol.
England, however, was then in a very
unsettled state, owing to the agitation for
Reform, and a year after his return home
Smith found himself again a witness of an
outburst of popular fury. This was directed
against Sir Charles Wetherell, Recorder of
12 8. II. AUG. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Ill
Bristol, and one of the most uncompromising
opponents of the Reform Bill. His attempt
to open the assizes at the end of October,
1831, led to the notorious Bristol riots, and
Smith provides a vivid picture of the looting
and plundering that he witnessed.
Smith, who had spent some of the time
since his return from France in managing the
private printing-press of a clergyman, now
decided to try his hand as a schoolmaster,
and obtained a post as an assistant in a
private school. N. & Q.' has contained
numerous references to " barrings-out," but
these were usually routine proceedings not
seriously objected to by authority. Smith
gives a long account (pp. 203-6) of oae that
took place at the school at which he was ;
but this was a serious outbreak, directed
against an unpopular master, and so deter-
mined were the boys that the master had to
hand in his resignation to the principal.
Smith, nevertheless, remained a printer at
heart, and he soon returned to his old
occupation. He was this time more success-
ful in obtaining work in London — first as a
compositor, and then as a proof-reader. He
was a real lover of books, and utilized the
knowledge he had gained in Paris in editing
' The Reign of Terror ; or, the Diary of a
Volunteer of the Year 2 of the French
Republic,' translated by S. Copland, and
published in London in 1855. The B.M.
Catalogue further notes that he published in
London in 1862-3 a volume entitled 'The
Dead Lock : a Story in Eleven Chapters.
Also, Tales of Adventure, &c.'
4 The Working-Man's Way in the World '
contains much that may be of service to the
future historian of the second quarter of the
nineteenth century. J. R. THORNE.
ENGLISH PRELATES AT THE COUNCIL OF
BALE (12 S. ii. 28, 74). — Robert Fitzhugh
was consecrated Bishop of London at
Foligno in 1431, and died in 1436 (see Bishop
Stubbs's ' Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum,'
second edition, 1897, p. 88, quoting from
Fitzhugh's own 'Register' ). His name appears
in the lists of Bishops of London in Stubbs,
p. 222, and in Gams' a ' Series Episcoporum
Ecclesiae Catholicae ' (Ratisbon, 1873, p. 194),
as well as in Eubel's ' Hierarchia Catholics
Medii ^Evi,' vol. ii. p. 198 (Munster, 1901),
where it is stated that he was the Archdeacon
of Northampton. "John" is clearly a slip, as
no " John " was Bishop of London between
John Kemp (1419-21) and John Stokesley
{1530-39). W. A. B. COOLIDGE.
Grindelwald.
THE SHIRES OF NORTHAMPTON AND SOUTH-
AMPTON (12 S. ii. 29). — That there was
originally a connexion between Northamp-
tonshire and Southamptonshire is impro-
bable. Both counties were named after their
central Saxon town, doubtless originally
called " Ham ton," the letter p being a
later intrusion. Hampton is a very common
Anglo-Saxon place-name, meaning a home-
town (ham, A.-S. a home ; ton, jA.-S. tun, a
village or town), which may have been
surrounded by a hedge or palisade. Hamp-
ton is still the place-name of parishes in
Devon, Hereford, Middlesex, Oxford, Salop,
Warwick, and Worcester, although in most
cases there is a distinguishing appellation,
as in Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire. That
the towns of Northampton and Southampton
were originally called "Hamton" is sup-
ported by the O.E. ' Chron.,' A.D. 837, in
which Southampton is called " Hamtun."
In Flor. Wore., A.D. 1100, it is styled
Suthamtone. When the kingdoms of Mercia
and Wessex were united it became necessary
to distinguish the two counties of the same
name in the respective kingdoms, so the
prefixes North and South were applied ; even-
tually the prefix was transferred also to
their chief towns.
A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS.
60 Rothesay Road, Luton.
See Johnston's ' The Place-Names of
England and Wales,' 1915, pp. 288, 382, and
451 ; and Blackie's ' Etymological Geo-
graphy,' 1876, p. 124.
S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.
Walsall.
THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR (12 S.
i. 488). — The following is from
"The Secretary's Assistant; exhibiting the
various and most correct modes of Superscription
of Letters to Persons of every degree of Rank.
By the Author of the Peerage & Baronetage
Charts &c.," 5th edit., 1831, p. 95 (after " Lord
Mayors " and " Lady Mayoress ") : —
"The Mayors of all Corporations, with the
Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Recorder of London, are
styled Right Worshipful ; and the Aldermen and
Recorder of other Corporations, and Justices of the
Peace, Worshipful ; but these titles are seldom, or
never used except in Court, or on matters solely
relating to their office."
This book may be authoritative ; the first
preface is dated 1821. According to my
experience as a Justice of the Peace (if my
memory is correct), the epithet " Worship-
ful " is not used.
As to letters to Mayors, my practice —
right or wrong — has been and is to begin a
letter with " Dear (or My dear) Mr. Mayor,"
112
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. A™, s, me.
to use the term "Your Worship" in the
letter, and to address it " To his Worship
the Mayor of ." I think that these are
the customary forms.
It may be worth recalling that Dickens
('Edwin Drood,' chap, xviii.) makes Mr.
Datchery refer to, or rather address, Mr.
Sapsea as " The Worshipful the Mayor," and
later as " His Honor," " His Honor the
Mayor," and then —
" As Mr. Datchery could not be induced to go
out of the room before the Worshipful, the Wor-
shipful led the way downstairs."
And near the end of the chapter : —
" The Worshipful " and the Worshipper then
passed on together until they parted, with many
ceremonies, at the Worshipful's door."
Possibly Dickens put into Datchery 's
mouth the term " The Worshipful " as an
elaboration of " His Worship." I am
inclined to think that he did not know of
the rare term " Bight Worshipful," other-
wise he would have made Datchery use it, as
more pompous and flattering than "Wor-
shipful." ROBERT PIERPOINT.
RICHARD SWIFT (12 S. ii. 9, 58, 73). — The
address of Richard Swift given in the Blue*
Book of Members of Parliament is Hanover-
terrace, Regent's Park, county Middlesex.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE IDENTITY OF EMMELINE DE REDES-
FORD (11 S. viii. 66, 171, 253, 371, 431, 493).
— 'Looking through the quite recently pub-
lished Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III.
(1242-7), I came across the following
notices of Emmeline de Redesford, which
may interest the correspondents who, at the
above references, contributed the results of
much puzzling research to the pages of
' N. & Q.1 :—
1243. " Mandatum est eidem justiciario [i.e.,
justiciario Hybernie] quod de terris que fuerunt
Hugonis de Lacy in Ultonia et sunt in manu regis,
habere faciat Emeline que fuit uxor predict!
Hugonis xl. libratas terre, tenendas de gratia regis,
donee rex aliud inde provident. Teste rege apud
ifurdegalam, xxv. die Aprilis."
1244. " De Fulcone de Castro Novo. — Mandatum
est M. filio Geroldi, justiciario Hybernie, quod per
sacramentum proborum et legaliurn hominum
diligenter inquirat de quibus terris et tenementis
Walterus de Rideleford', avus Christiane filie
Robert! de JVfariscis, alterius heredum predict!
Walteri, fuit seisitus ut de feodo die quo obiit, et
que terre et tenementa inde acciderunt in partem
predicte Christiane, et que in partem comitlsse
Ulton ', amite ipsius Christiane, et uxori* Stephani
Lungesp', et tarn de omnibus terris et tenementis
que inde acciderunt in partem predicte Christiane,
quam de omnibus terris de quibus Robertus de
Mariscls, pater predicte Christiane, cujus heres
ipsa est, fuit seisitus ut de feodo, die quo obiit, et
que extiterunt in custodia regis post mortem
predict! Robert!, Fulconi de Castro Novo cui rex
concessit custodiam terrarum que ipsam Chris-
tianam hereditarie contingunt et ipsius Christiane
maritagium, vel ejus certo assignato, seisinam
habere faciat, adeo plene sicut ipsam recepit
nomine regis post mortem predict! Walteri, non
pbstante aliqua inquisitione siqua facta fuerit, et
ipsum Fulconem in seisina sua roanuten^at. Teste
rege xvj die Decembris."
1245. " Quia placita de dote remanere non
debent occasione heredum infra etatem existen-
cium cum vocantur ad warantum super terris et
tenementis que petuntur in dotem, mandatum
est justiciarhs Hybernie quod, non obstante eo
quod quidarr de Hybernia, versus quos Stephanus
Lungesp' et Emelina uxor ejus petunt quasdam
terras et tenementa in dotem ipsius Emeline,
yocant ad warantum Ricardum de Burgo, qui est
infra etatem et in custodia regis, in loquelis mptis
in curia regis Hybernie super dote ipsius Emeline,
procedant eisdem Stephano et Emeline inde
plenam justiciam exhibendo, ita tamen quod si
quid proponi possit pro parte ipsius Ricardi quod
secunduro justiciam valere debeat, illud pro ipso
proponi faciant. Teste." [Unfinished: some
day in July.]
1245. " Quia Stephanus Lungesp' est in ex-
pedicione exercitus regis Wallie, et quamdiu
ibidem erit ignoratur, mandatum est justiciario
Hybernie quod loquelam que est in curia regis inter
Matillidem de Lacy petentem et Johannem de
Cogeham tenentem de dote ipsius Matillidis, unde
predictus Johannes ipsum Stephanum, et Eme-
linam uxorem ejus traxit ad warantos, ponat in
respectum usque ad quindenam Pasche anno etc.
xxx. Teste rege apud Gannok in castris xxviij. die
Augusti."
1247. " Hybern', pro Ricardo de Burgo. — Rex
J. filio Galfridi, justiciario Hybern', salutem.
Sciatis quod reddidirous Ricardo de Burgo,
tanquam ilh' qui plene etatis est, omnes terras et
tenementa que fuerunt in manu nostra tempore
quo ipse fuit infra etatem et in custodia nostra ;
et ideo vobis mandamus quod de omnibus terris
et tenementis que commiseramus Stephano
Lungesp' usque ad etatem ipsius Ricardi de
hereditate sua ei plenam seisinam habere faciatis.
Quia etiam idem Stephanus plus tenet in dotem
uxoris sue de hereditate ipsius Ricardi quam ad
eos pertinet habendum de hereditate predicta,
vobis mandamus quod amensurata dote predicta
eidem Ricardo id quod ad eum inde de jure
pertinebit restituatis. Teste rege apud Rading*
ix. die Maii."
R. E.
TOUCHING FOR LUCK (12 S. i. 430, 491 ;
ii. 13). — This query was so phrased that it
seemed uncertain whether it was confined to
touching sailors for luck, or whether the
querist wished for instances of other persons
whose own good fortune might be conveyed
by a touch.
In case the latter reading of the question
be the right one, may I be allowed to say
that I have many notes as to the good luck
any one may hope for who can manage to
touch a bride or to "rub clothes" with her?
J2S. II. AUG. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
113
The belief is very widely held in most parts
of Ireland, but one scarcely expects to
find it lingering in a region where folk-lore
has so entirely died out as it has in the Isle
of Wight, and yet, at a wedding at Whipping-
ham Church a few years ago, I saw the
cottagers' children press forward as the
bride passed down the churchyard, and
heard them cry : " I touched her. That's
luck for me ! " I made inquiries in the
parish afterwards, and learnt that faith in
this old superstition was still general there.
Y. T.
" SCRIBENDA ET LEGEND A " : REFERENCE
WANTED (12 S. i. 349).— The first part of
MR. W. H. CLAY'S quotation, " Eodem animo
scripsit quo bellavit,"* is based on Quinti-
lian's description of Julius Caesar's oratory :
" Tanta in eo vis est, id acumen, ea concitatio,
ut ilium eodem animo dixisse quo bellavit
appareat" (' Institutio Oratoria,' X. i. 114).
EDWARD BENSLY.
" WATCH HOUSE," EWELL, SURREY (12 S.
ii. 9). — There are four of these in two
adjacent Midland counties, all within a few
miles. Each is of brick, with tall conical
roof, and is known as " The Roundhouse,"
although the shape is octaconal. Two of the
four are contiguous to a village pound, called
locally " pinfold." One of the " Round-
houses " is illustrated in ' Repton and its
Neighbourhood,' by F. C. Hipkins, 1899.
W. B. H.
REV. JOSEPH RANN (12 S. i. 510). — I think
there must be some error in describing the
above as " sometime Vicar of St. Mary's,
Coventry." There does not appear to be
a church dedicated to St. Mary at Coventry.
Miller's ' Parishes of the Diocese of Wor-
cester ' (1889) contains lists of the vicars
of many of the parishes. In that for Holy
Trinity, Coventry, appears the name of
J. Ram. This may or may not refer to the
Rev. Joseph Rann, but, though no dates are
given, it would seem by its position to be
approximately near the date signified.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Joseph Rann of Bournbrook Hall (or
Barnbrook), King's Norton, near Birming-
ham, who died on Sept. 28, 1792, was buried
in King's Norton Church, where he is com-
memorated by a monument. He is de-
scribed in the inscription as ''gent.," but he
was a butcher, carrying on business at
Spiceal Street, and his name occurs in
* Compare Dryden's ' Epistle t j Congreve,' 1. 3 :
Strong were our Sires, and as they fought they writ.
Sketcbley's Birmingham Directory, 1770.
He amassed considerable wealth, and I have
always understood that it was from him that
the Kennedy family obtained their patro-
nymic. The Rev. Rann Kennedy was a master
in King Edward's School at Birmingham,
and afterwards Rector of St. Paul's, Birming-
ham. One of his sons, Charles Rann
Kennedy (1808-1867), was a well-known
barrister, and Sir William Rann Kennedy,
who died about eighteen months ago, was
a judge. In order to establish my point,
I searched for the will of Joseph Rann
at Worcester, Lichfield, Birmingham, and
Somerset House, but without success. This
does not answer your correspondent's ques-
tion, but it may perhaps give him a hint .
R. B. P.
MUSICAL QUERIES (12 S. ii. 49). — 2. 'The
March of the Men of Harlech,' or, to use
its Welsh title, ' Rhyfelgyrch Gwyr Harlech,'
is said to be " beyond question the finest
specimen of martial music in the world."
The composer's name is unknown ; it was
probably composed during the Wars of the-
Roses, when Harlech Castle was besieged by
Gwilym Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, for
Edward IV. (1468-9). Richard Llwyd says: —
"We are indebted to this siege for the spirited
strain 'The March of the Men of Harlech.' The
hardships suffered by the brave garrison was so
much the subject of conversation in the country
that it nave rise to a malediction^still living in the
voice of the neighbourhood, ' Yn Harlech y bo-
ohwi' (Go to Harlech). In the 'Antiquities of
Wales,' written by Dr. Nicholas, it is stated that
•by the order of the King (Edward IV.) William
Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, led a powerful army to
Harlech, and demanded the surrender of the place ;
but Sir Herbert, the Earl's brother, received from
the stout defender this answer — " I held a tower
in France till all the women in Wales heard of it,
and now all the women in France shall hear how I
defend this castle." Famine, however, at length
succeeded, and the intrepid Welshman made an
honourable capitulation.'
The old words, if they ever existed, have
perished; the Welsh verses in present use
were written by J. Ceiriog Hughes. The
song was introduced into England by Mr.
John Thomas, harpist to Queen Victoria,
at St. James's Hall, on July 4, 1862.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
GUNFIRE AND RAIN (12 S. i. 10, 56, 96,
170, 337 ; ii. 38, 74). — If vapour in suspension
in the air is precipitated in the form of rain
by the effect of gunfire, I should understand
that, like thunder showers, it would be only
local. According to Whitaker's Almanack *
1916, the rainfall in London from November,
1914, to October, 1915, was 33-69 inches,
114
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. AUG. 5, me.
being 9-30 inches above the average. But
excessive rainfall is recorded in times of
peace. From November, 1878, to October,
1879, the fall was 36-65 inches, being 11-63
inches above the average. This will answer
MB. ROBERT PIERPOINT'S inquiry.
TOM JONES.
Readers who are interested in this subject
•are referred to an illustrated article on ' Guns
that protect Crops from the Ravages of
Hailstorms ' in The Scientific American for
May 27 last, and a short note on ' Rainfall
and Electricity ' in a recent number (end of
June) of The Electrical Review. L. L. K.
THE NEWSPAPER PLACARD (US. xii. 483 ;
12 S. i. 13, 77, 129, 230, 317, 435).— Under
the above heading, at the penultimate
reference, mention was made by MR. J. J.
FREEMAN of the following : —
Death of Mr. Bradlaugh.
Scorcher's Finals.
^[R. R. S. PENGELLY, in replying (at the last
reference), stated that he thought that MR.
FREEMAN was mistaken, in so far as there
was not at the time of Mr. Bradlaugh' s death
any sporting journalist writing under the
name of " Scorcher." MR. FREEMAN, how-
ever, was most likely correct in his memory,
as in Nottingham " Scorcher " was a well-
known writer on sports in the eighties and
nineties. He chose his nom de guerre, I
believe, because of his connexion with
football refereeing, a pastime which, I sup-
pose, calls for " scorching."
The newspaper placard in question was
very possibly one belonging to a Nottingham
journal. T. E. W.
TOUCHING FOR THE KING'S EVIL (10 S.
vi. 345). — On pp. 52-4 of the 'Libre Segon
dels Miracles,' by Friar Michel Llot, of the
Order of St. Dominic (Perpignan, 1589), we
learn that the Kings of France were con-
sidered alone " entre los Revs de la terra "
in having the power to cure'" Porcellanes "
( = tumours) by their touch, while pronoun-
cing the words " lo Rey te toca y Deu te
sana," which mean "The King touches thee,
and God makes thee whole." This curious
hook, in classical Catalan prose, exists in the
Bodleian Library, where it was examined, in
the summer of 1914, by Mossen J. M.
Batista y Roca, of the University of Barce-
lona, who found that its author has another
l)ook to his credit, and mentioned it in the
Renaixement of Barcelona for Nov. 19, 1914.
At the time of its publication, the Rousillon,
of which Perpignan is the capital, belonged to
-Spain. The name Rousillon comes, through
Latin Ruscino, from Keltic rw«Kn=the bark
(of a tree), the district having always been
famous for its cork-woods.
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
Oxford Union Society.
SIR WALTER SCOTT : LOCKHART'S UN-
PUBLISHED LETTER : A CORRECTION (12 S.
i. 446; ii. 18, 57).— This letter having been
submitted to one qualified to speak with
authority, it is due to your readers to know
his decision. Primarily from the format of
the paper — Bath post 8vo — from the head-
ing of the letter, and further from its con-
tents, he is satisfied that its date is 1846, not
1826 as I had stated. This date will clear
away all ambiguities. The engagement of
Misp Lockhart to Mr. Innes was broken off,
and in August, 1847, she married Mr. Hope,
afterwards Hope Scott.
The reference to Sir Walter Scott is to the
second baronet, who died in October, 1847.
By a curious misprint in the article on Sir
W. Scott in the ' D.N.B.' it is stated that his
elder son Walter, born Oct. 28, 1801, died in
1817 (be it noted, however, that this is cor-
rected in the second edition). Of course,
had not the account given by Lockhart of
the father's death escaped my memory, the
misunderstanding would not have occurred.
L. G. R,
LMR. W. H. PEET thanked for reply.]
GENNYS OF LAUNCESTON AND PLYMOUTH
(12 S. i. 126, 193, 249, 299, 489).— The first
mention of the name of Gennys in the
locality of Launceston is not, as Miss
GERTRUDE THRIFT surmises, in 1532, but,
according to the ancient Bishops' Registers
to which she alludes, in 1373, and therefore
nearly a quarter of a century before the
Helscote reference she gives. In the late
Prebendary Hingeston-Randolph's ' Register
of Thomas de Brantyngham, Bishop of
Exeter, A.D. 1370-94,' 'it is recorded that
Rob. Gyneys was ordained at Exeter sub-
deacon on ".Tune 11, 1373, "ad tit. Domus
Launcestonie ' ' ; deacon at Chudleigh on the
following Dec. 17 ; and priest at Clyst,
May 27, 1374 (pp. 777, 781, 785).
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
MUMBO JUMBO (12 S. ii. 47). — ' Mungo
Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa'
gives a rather different account of the
above : —
" A bogie or bugbear in the Mandingo towns of
Africa. As the Kaffirs have many wives, it not
unfrequently happens that the house becomes un-
bearable. In such a case, either the husband or an
agent dresses himself in disguise, and at dusk
approaches the unruly house with a following, and
12 8. II. AUG. 5, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
115
makes the most hideous noises possible. When
the women have been sufficiently scared, 'Mum bo '
seizes the chief offender, ties her to a tree, and
scourges her with Mumbo's rod, amidst the derision
of all present. Mumbo is not an idol, any more
than the American Lynch, but one disguised to
punish unruly wives."
R. A. POTTS.
Speldhurst, Canterbury.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DENTISTS (12 S.
ii. 64). — May I supplement MR. BLEACKLEY'S
valuable list by the following dentists who
attended members of the royal family ?
I append authority in each case.
Mr. Rae was dentist to the households of
H.M. George III. and H.R.H. the Prince of
Wales. He resided in Hanover Street, and
was a member of the Corporation of Surgeons
(Surgeons' Lists, 1786).
Mr. Thomas Beardmore was Surgeon
Dentist to His Majesty. He resided in
Raquet Court, Fleet Street (Surgeons' Lists,
1778).
Dr. von Butchell was another of the King's
dentists. He resided in Mount Street. He
seems to have been of the nature of a quaok,
for he undertook to cure all diseases. After
his appointment (which he had applied for)
as King's dentist, he had the audacity to,
•declare that he did not care to attend
royalty (' London Souvenirs,' by C. W.
Heckethorn, 1899).
S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.
MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS has pointed out to
•me that I have made no mention of M.
Patence, " Surgeon and Dentist and Dancing
Master," who was a contemporary of Hemet
«,nd Ruspini, and he has lent me very kindly
«n interesting pamphlet, entitled : —
" A Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and
Honour. The Second Edition. London. Printed
for Hooper & Wigstead. No. 212 High Holborn.
1796,"
from which I have taken the following
-advertisements : —
" MB. PATENCE, Dentist and Dancing-master,
No. 8, Bolt Court, Fleet-Street, whose ingenuity in
making artificial teeth, and fixing them without
"the least pain, can be attested by several of the
nobility, and hopes to be honoured by the rest
of the great — may depend his study shall be
-devoted to the good of every individual. His
whole sets, with a fine enamel on, is a proof of his
excelling all operators. He charges ten guineas
for a whole, five for an upper or under set, and
half-a-guinea for a single tooth. — His Rose Powder
for preserving the teeth, is worthy to grace and
perfume the chamber of a prince. — His medicines
lor preventing all infections and sore throats have
been experienced by several. — As for dancing, he
I«MVI'S that to the multitude of ladies and gentle-
men whom, he has taught, and desires to be
rewarded no more than his merit deserves, nor no
less. Public school-nights, Monday, Wednesday
and Friday evenings ; Tuesday evenings set apart
for cotillons only. — N.B. Ills Rose Dentifrice
may be had at Mr. Nesbit's Toy-shop, Bishopsgate
St., and at hishouse,at 2s. 6d. the box." — Gazetteer,
Dec. 27, 1771.
" TO THE NOBILITY, GENTRY AND OTHERS.
"PATENCE, Surgeon by Birth, and Dentist,
having had ten years' practice, performs every
operation on the Teeth, Gums, &c., with superior
skill, and whose cures are not excelled or even
equalled by any dentist whatever. And as a
confirmation of the same, please to observe the
following : —
" October 5. A gentleman who had lost all his
teeth, his gums ulcerated and scorbutic, in five
days made a perfect cure, fixed him in a whole set
of natural teeth, without springs or any fastening.
" October 16. A lady whose jaw was fractured
by a barber, her teeth loose, her gums ulcerated,
attended with a running matter, and an inflam-
mation in her cheeks, with a callous swelling,
cured without poulticing or cutting.
" October 20. A lady that had lost all her
upper teeth by using powders and tinctures that
are advertised to cure every thing, her mouth
ulcerated and breath nauseous, is now delicately
clean, and replaced the teeth with those that
never change their colour.
" Sunday, October 29. Perfectly relieved a
person that had lost both palate and speech ;
when he drank or eat, it came out at his nostrils,
and had been in that state three years ; he applied
to surgeons and several hospitals, who deemed
him incurable, and told him one and all, he could
have no relief; he now speaks, articulates, eats
and drinks with pleasure, which if any one should
doubt, he can refer them to the man. These, with
upwards of three thousand operations and cures,
have been accomplished by your humble servant.
" M. PATENCE.
" At No. 403, in the Strand, near Southampton-
street, LONDON. Where the teeth, though ever so
foul, are made delicately white in six minutes, and
medicines given for their preservation, for half-a-
guinea, any hour after ten in the morning. Ad-
vice gratis, and profound secrecy required.
" Envy may snarl, but superior abilities assists
the afflicted." — Morn. Post. 1775.
Patence, however, scarcely appears to
have been in the same class as Hemet and
Ruspini. HORACE BLEACKLEY.
"GAXOCHE": " COTTE " (12 S. i. 429,
478). — I am obliged to SIR WILLOUOHBY
MAYCOCK for the reference to Vlnter-
mediaire, vol. xlvi., particularly as that
happens to be one of the few volumes of a
valuable publication of which I am the happy
possessor. It is rather surprising that
Daudet's statement as to galoche should have
demanded so much elucidation from his
compatriots.
Naturally, I did not fail to consult dic-
tionaries before intruding my difficulties on
' N. & Q.,' and I am a little astonished to find
that the word cotte is in familiar use. It is
mentioned as being " obsoL" in Hamilton
116
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.n. AUG. 5,1916.
and Legros's ' Dictioiinaire International '
(1865), and defined "petticoat"; and it
appears as " petticoat, coat," in Clifton and
McLaughlin's ' Nouveau Dictionnaire ' of
1904. The 'Petit Dictionnaire de 1'Aca-
demie Francoise ' of 1829 says that cotte is a
" Jupe, partie de I'habillement des femmes,
plissee par le haut depuis la ceinture jusqu'a
terre "; and Littre countenances this so far
as to say : " Jupe de paysanne, plissee p*vr
le haut a la ceinture," adding as a second
definition : " Tout espece de jupe," all of
which excited my curiosity as to the manner
of garment which the lad in Paris wore when
he engaged in the game of galoche. Now
that our editor tells us that a cotte is an
overall, and SIR WLLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK sets
it down as being a pair of trousers, the
mystery thickens. I confess I incline to the
editorial opinion, which is in some sort
supported by the fact that a short surplice
is known by the name of cotta in ecclesiastical
wardrobes.
I imagine the cotte— overall to be a blouse
or smock-frock. " Overall " is not a very
exact term ; it is, to all seeming, synonymous
with "surtouf or "overcoat"; but either
of those brings to mind a very different
article of clothing from anything in which I
picture Daudet's gamin. Perhaps he sported
what used to be called a " tunic," a kind of
short cloth frock gathered in at the waist by
a belt or cord. Norfolk jackets have sup-
planted the article. ST. SWITHIN.
[" Trousers " should have been inserted in brackets
after "overalls." The point is that the cotte is
not synonymous with pantalon or ndotte, but
denotes properly a large protective garment. In
Louis Bertrand's 'LTnvasion' (1907) — a book in
which, as it is largely about mechanicians, the word
cotte often occurs — is a sentence which seems to
settle the matter. It is in Part II., chap, viii., de-
scribing a man preparing to work at a furnace :
"Rapidement Emmanuel proceda a sa toilette.
II quitta sa veste, retira sa chemise, et bien que
son pantalon hit assez minable, il entila par-dessus
une vieille cotte de cotonnade bleue."!
INSCRIPTION AT POLTIJIORE CHURCH (12 S.
ii. 71). — The inscription to which H. B. S.
refers is not over one of the doors of Polti-
more Church, but over the almshouse door
which leads into the churchyard. The local
story is to the effect that two of the Bamp-
fylde family died, and, to perpetuate their
memory, four rooms were given to be allotted
to indigent people. These rooms are called
the Almshouses. Of course, with the houses
was left a sum of money, the interest of
which is distributed among the inmates.
Two other rooms have been added, but these
have nothing to do with the inscription.
The tablet is a handsome piece of work.
It bears the arms of the Bampfylde family.
and underneath in bas-relief the faces of
the founders, supported by four figures,
representing the " f ower " benefited by the
bequest. The inscription reads : —
Grvdge not my lawrell
Rather blesse that power
\Vhich made the death of two
The life of fower.
On a slab underneath are recorded the
names of Elizabeth and John Bampfylde,.
followed by the lines : —
Godlines with content
ment is great gaine
For we brovght nothing
into this world and it
is certaine we can carry
nothing ovt.
And having food and
Raiment let vs be
therewith content
1667-8.
The Almshouses were founded by John
Bampfylde in 1631, and enlarged, for two
additional almspeople, by the executors of
Sir R. W. Bampfylde, who in 1775 left,
for that purpose, 200Z. The original en-
dowment consisted of four and a half acres
of land and two cottages at Pinhoe, which
were sold in 1872 for 600?., the money being
invested in Three per cent Consols by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
I have a photograph of the tablet which I
shall be pleased to give to H. B. S. if he will-
send me his address.
W. G. WILLIS WATSON.
229 Sigh Street, Exeter.
SCARLET GLOVES AND TRACTAKIANS
(12 S. ii. 50). — I do not think Mr. Hawker' &
red gloves, or his wife's either, had any
liturgical significance ; they symbolized only
his aversion from clerical sables, and the
penchant for the brightest colours, of which
his son-in-law, Mr. Byles, gives some
amazing illustrations, though he makes no
reference to gloves.
A Roman cardinal wears scarlet gloves as
part of his ordinary walking dress. Cardinal
Gasquet, when paying his first official visit
to Downside Abbey, emerged from his motor
at the abbey gates" wearing bright red gloves
embroidered with gold crosses, which con-
trasted singularly with his sombre habit aa
a Benedictine monk.
OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B.
Fort Augustus.
The late Rev. William Haslam, widely
known as a mission preacher, 'gives some
account of Hawker of Morwenstow in his-
TJS. II. AUG. 5, 1916.1
NOTES AND QUERIES.
117
l>ook ' From Death into Life.' The fol-
lowing passage taken from chap. v. con-
tains the answer to the inquiry concerning
Hawker's reason for wearing crimson
gloves : —
"On the Sunday I was asked to help him in the
service, and for this purpose I was arrayed in an
alb, plain, which was just like a cassock in white
linen. As I walked about in this garb I asked a
friend, 'How do you like it?' In an instant I
was pounced upon, and grasped sternly on the arm
<by the Vicar. ' " Like " has nothing to do with it ;
is it right ? ' He himself wore over his alb a chasuble,
which was amber on one side and green on the
other, and was turned to suit the Church seasons ;
also a pair of crimson-coloured gloves, which, he
contended, were the proper sacrificial colour for a
priest."
JOHN T. KEMP.
SARUM BREVIARY : VERSES ix CALENDAR
(12 S. iL 71). — The hexameter lines which
MR. G- H. PALMER quotes are those which
specify for each month the Egyptian or
unlucky days which fall therein. I have
dealt with them on p. xv of my ' Liber
Obituarius Aulae Reginae in Oxonia,' but as
the book was printed for the members of
this College, the members of the Oxford
Historical Society, and a few other friends,
was not published, and is perhaps not easy to
obtain, I may give here the substance of what
I have given there.
The days have been the subject of did-
•cussion in ' N. & Q.' lately. They were
generally unlucky to be bled on, or to
drink on, or to eat goose on, or to
strike either man or beast on, or to begin
«ny work on. The lines state besides special
persons or things for which they were in-
dividually unlucky. Each line gives two
unlucky days in its own month. The former
is to be counted from the beginning, the
latter from the end of the month. The lines
are not the same in all Kalendars. Those
given by MR. PALMER are much the most
frequently met with. An alternative sat is
given by Wordsworth (' Oxford Kalendars,'
6.H.S. xlv., pp. 198 foil.) from a Kalendar
of the University of Paris, and this is also
"to be found in the works of Bede. I have
found no account of why those particular
days were chosen. They do not include the
" dies Alliensis " (July 16), the great unlucky
day of the Romans. They do include the
Circumcision (Jan. 1), the Conversion of
St. Paul (Jan. 25), the Invention of the
Cross (May 3), St. Aldhelm (May 25), the
Translation of St. Richard (June 16),
St. Mary Magdalene (July 22), St. Peter ad
Vincula (Auir. 1), SS. Felix and Adauctus
<tAug. 30), St. Matthew (Sept. 21). None of
these, except perhaps the Circumcision, are
Holy Days of very early date, and X< ..
Year's .Day was regarded by the Romans
(Seneca, Epist. 83) as unlucky to begin \vork
on. They are generally regarded as of non-
Christian origin. JOHX R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
SYMBOLS ATTACHED TO SIGNATURES (12 S.
ii. 50). — Under the heading ' Witnessing by
j Signs,' this subject was discussed at 9 S.
xi. 109, 175, 237, 294, 418.
An interesting article containing valuable
information appeared also in The Strand
Magazine for (I believe) April, 1910.
JOHN T. PAGE.
In ' Folkestone and its Neighbourhood/
published by English, there are some
' Gleanings from the Municipal Records,' and
a facsimile of a page of the Records with
Jurats' signatures. At p. 265 it is stated
that
" these marks, our readers should know, consisted
not of the simple cross in use nowadays by people
who are ignorant of the art of writing, but every
individual seems to have had some peculiar hiero-
glyphic known to himself and his friends as his sign
manual. Some are like Oxford frames, others are
double and treble crosses, others like a pair of
scissors open, &c."
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sand gate.
FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME (12 S. ii. 29,
77). — Candlemas Day is one which lore
decrees shall rule the future weather con-
ditions to a very considerable extent. I
have not been able to discover the remaining
line to the verse quoted by MARGARET
LAVINGTON, but I have found a variant in : —
On Candlemas Day
You must have half your straw
And half your hay.
Another says : —
Candlemas Day ! Candlemas Day !
Half our fire and half our hay,
meaning we are midway through winter, and
ought to have half our fuel and hay in stock.
A French proverb says : —
On the eve of Candlemas Day
Winter gets stronger or passes away.
It is exceedingly unlucky to experience a
fine Candlemas Day, for " corn and fruits will
then be dear," seeing "there'll be twa
winters in the year," and there is sure to be
more ice after the festival of the Purification
than there was before it. On the contrary,
a cloudy and rainy Candlemas Day means
that winter is gone. This is not only
English, but French, German, and Spanish
lore.
118
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. A™. 5, me.
The quotation referred to by your cor-
r.-snond'-nt >t-ems to me to be a warning
to husbandmen not to be too liberal with the
distribution of their feeding stuffs before
Candlemas Day, as, should the weather be
fine on that day, the winter would only be
half over, and the hay and straw and fuel
would, consequently, have to be drawn
upon for many more weeks.
W. G. WILLIS WATSON.
Exeter.
The nearest rime to the one inquired about
known in several North - Midland counties
runs : —
If Candlemas Day comes blithe and gay,
You may saddle your horse and buy some hay ;
But if Candlemas Day comes rugged and rough,
You may fodder away — you'll have fodder enough.
Which means that if there be hard weather
at the beginning of February it bodes well
for the hay and corn crops later on.
R-VTOLIFFE.
THOMAS HOLCROFT AND THE BIOGRAPHY
OF NAPOLEON (12 S. ii. 24).— In the ' D.N.B.'
there is a list of thirty-seven works by this
author, but Napoleon's biography is not
among them. I have not seen the " trans-
lation " by Joh. Adam Bergk, but, judging
by the information given by your corre-
spondent, it is quite possible that the German
scribbler has embodied some notes or
remarks about Napoleon made by Thomas
Holcroftin his ' Travels'to Paris ' (1804), and
then dished up the whole farrago as a trans-
lation of a book written by that author, with
notes and additions by himself.
L. L. K.
MAJOR CAMPBELL'S DUEL (12 S. ii. 70). —
The Campbell-Boyd duel is a historical case,
particulars of which are given in ' Duelling
Days in the Army,' by William Douglas ;
also in ' Notes on Duels and Duelling,' by
Lorenzo Sabine ; and a report of the trial
and execution of Major Campbell at Armagh
will be found in vol. i. of ' The Chronicles of
Crime,' by Camden Pelham, published by
Reeves & Turner in 1886. The circum-
stances, stated briefly, were as follows :
Alexander Campbell was a major and
Alexander Boyd a captain in the 21st Regi-
ment of line (Scots Fusiliers). On June 23,
1807, the regiment had been inspected at
Newry by General Ker, then in command of
the Athlone district, who appears to have
intimated to Major Campbell that he had
given the wrong word of command on parade.
That night at mess Campbell maintained he
had given the right word, Boyd, however,
taking the contrary view. The controversy
waxed hot, and ended by Campbell naying :
" Capt. Boyd, do you say I am wrong ? <r
To which the latter replied : " I do ; I know
I am right according to the King's order.' *"
They fought with pistols the same night in a
small room only about seven paces across
at the widest point, no one but themselves
being present, and Boyd was mortally
wounded in the stomach. Campbell fled,,
and resided for some time in Chelsea, but
eventually surrendered, was tried for murder,
condemned to death, and, despite the most
strenuous efforts to obtain a reprieve, was
executed at Armagh on Aug. 24, 1808.
WlLLOTJGHBY HAYCOCK.
An account of this duel is given in Mackay's
' Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular De-
lusions,' vol. ii. p. 295, published 227 Strand,
1852:—
" A dispute arose, in the month of June. 1807,
between Major Campbell and Captain Boyd, officers
of the 21st Regiment, in Ireland
"His unfortunate wife went upon her knees
before the Prince of Wales, to move him to use his
influence with the King in favour of her unhappy
husband. Everything a fond wife and a courageous
woman could do she tried, to gain the royal
clemency.
"The law was allowed to take its course, and the
victim of a false spirit of honour died the death of
a felon."
Major Campbell was brought to trial in
August, 1808, at Armagh; the jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder against him, but
recommended him to mercy on the ground
that the duel had been a fair one.
R. J. FYNMORE.
I possess the following tract, which gives
a good account of the case : —
The Trial of Major Camp1>ell for the Murder of
Captain Boyd in a Duel, on the 23rd of June, 1807 ;
With the Evidence in Full. The Charge of the
Judge, and Details of Major Campbell's Last
Moments. Execution, etc., etc. London. Printed
by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Co vent Garden. Sold
by H. D. Svmonds, Paternoster Row; and to be
had of all Booksellers. 1808.
For further particulars see ' Celebrated
Trials ' (1825), vi. 32 ; ' Chronicles of Crime,'
Camden Pelham (1887), i. 452 ; Gent. May..
Ixxviii. pt. ii. 855 ; Morning Post, Aug. 31,
1808.
Major Alexander Campbell was hanged at
Armagh on Aug. 24, 1808.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
There is an account of this affair in
Steinmetz's ' Romance of Duelling,' 1868,
vol. ii. pp. 208-13.
S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.
12 S. II. AC«J. 5, 1916. J
NOTES AND QUERIES.
MR. HOGG will find full particulars in
' The Trial of Major Campbell for the Murder
of Captain Boyd, in a .'Duel, on the 23d of
June, 1807' (ut supra MR. BLEACKLEY).
There is another edition printed in Newry
same year.
For a striking account of the trial
and subsequent incidents he might also
refer to "The Condemned Soldier" in
W. H. Maxwell's ' Rambling Recollections of
a Soldier of Fortune,' Dublin, 1842. Max-
well, as a lad of fifteen, was present at the
trial in Armagh, and states that " the cir-
cumstances attendant upon the conviction
and death of Major Campbell are perfectly
authentic."
The case created an immense sensation at
the time. The judge was Wm. Fletcher,
whose "charge to the Grand Jury of Wex-
ford," some four years afterwards, came like a
bombshell into the Ascendancy camp, and
ran through many editions.
EDITOR ' IRISH; BOOK LOVER.'
DENMARK COURT (12 S. ii. 50).— Mr.
Matthias Levy, the author of ' The Western
Synagogue,' 1897, on p. 7 gives a reproduc-
tion from ' Wall is' s and Horwood's Plans
of London, 1799,' which shows that Denmark
Court was situate between Southampton and
Burleigh Streets, and facing Beaufort Build-
ings. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
en
An Exxay on Shakespeare's Relation to Tradition.
By Janet Spens. (Oxford, Blackwell, 2*. 6W.)
THIS is a brilliant attempt — taken as a whole, a
successful attempt — at reinterpretation of an old
theme. The work of recent investigation into
classical antiquity, the new breath which has
caused the dry bones of Greek and Latin poetry to
live again, and has thereby withdrawn our atten-
tion from their philological trappings, is influencing
and vivifying allied studies, and it is natural that
many principles should be directly applied to
English literature, when they have once gained
acceptance as explaining classical literature.
Dr. Spens begins well by setting the long-cherished
notion of " originality " in its right place, and by a
very suggestive hint as to the place of tradition in
the constitution of poetry. In this — with a
different set of terms, and working from a different
angle — she urges the same sort of argument as we
may find in Shaftesbury.
Her essay on Shakespeare's comedy is a discus-
sion falling under the three heads of previous
comedy, the influence of Munday, and the use of
the folk -play by Shakespeare.
The most important of these sections is the second,
a scholarly and well-argued exposition of a new
view of the background against which Shakespeare
lives for us. Exception may, we think, be taken to
the minuteness of detail into which Dr. Spens
works out her theory of Shakespeare's debt to-
Munday ; but while her infersnces are largely beyond
Erqof, it may be said in her defence that an accumu-
ition of instances of correspondence and resem-
blance, even though no one of them is without
mistake, may leave on the reader's mind an im-
pression truer to reality than does a cautious or
empty conjecture of the generalized sort.
In the second division of the book — on Shake-
speare's tragedy — Dr. Spens has rather let a good
idea run away with her. Let us be emphatic in
saying that it is a good idea — that the sense of a
tragic hero as one under a curse is well developed
by connecting him with the kindred idea underlyicg
the conception and custom of the scapegoat, and that
the belief in his possession of magical power is a
real constituent in the complex notion ot him from
which the individual heroes we know have sprung.
But though this throws light on Shakespeare's
sources, it will, we think, prove an iynix fatuwf if
followed without careful correction in the inter-
§ rotation of Shakespeare's own work. Dr. Spens
pes not allow nearly enough for the centuries of
distinctive Christian theory and Christian fable
which intervene between the Greek tragic hero-
and him of Elizabeth's day. Shakespeare may or
may not have entertained the Christian faith : he
belonged to a time and race steeped in it, whose
every conception was in some manner or other
coloured by it. It would not be difficult — quite
apart from any view of Shakespeare's religion— to
work out a scheme of thought as Christian in its
implication as her scheme here — of which " honour ""
is the centre— is pagan, and show that as ihe frame
and essential substance of Elizabethan drama. On-
the katharsis Dr. Spens is brilliantly suggestive,
and makes her points ; on the Greek drama in
general she writes rather rashly, as if we
possessed more than a fragment of it. It is
said that Sophocles, for instance, wrote 130
plays : of these we have 7 and some fragments.
It is not safe, then, to dogmatize freely about
what was the central idea in the tragedy of
Sophocles, even if we find we can bring the plays
we possess within the four corners of a likely plan.
On the whole, we think, the latter division of
this book, though the more attractive, and showing
a wide and sympathetic knowledge of a great range
of poetry, will not wear as well as the former-
It belongs to the wave of speculation which first
conspicuously showed its head in 'The Golden
Bough,' and when, in due time, that topples over
will mostly be carried down with it. Meanwhile,
however, we gladly acknowledge both that it
bears a considerable amount of high probability
and useful suggestiveness, and that, in this com-
paratively fresh field, to offer matter for correction
is in itself to render service.
WE found the new Fortnightly very good.
Most of the papers are flrst-rate, and it is some time
since we have seen a review of which the interest
is so various and wide-ranging. Let us begin
with the caterpillars. We mean no disrespect
either to the drama or to aviation, either to ' The
Hopelessness of Germany's Position ' or to Lady-
Warwick's opinions upon ' Hodge in Petticoats,*
when we venture to assert that ' The Procession-
aries ' furnish the pages by which to us the
August number will first, though by no means
solely, be memorable. But then they are
described by the pen of Fabre, inimitable at such.
120
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 5, me.
descriptions, and translated by M. A. T. de
Mattos, who is an uncommonly good translator.
A more graceful tribute has seldom been paid by
a younger to an elder writer than that of Mr. John
Drinkwater's two sonnets to Mr. Edmund Gosse.
They are authentic, too, as poetry — though, as
thought, the first one is youthfully superficial.
•'The Dusk of the Gods,' by Mr. "John Lloyd
Balderston, is a lively record of a conversation on
Art with Mr. George Moore. We cannot believe
it to be the ultimate word on the subject : ob-
jections occur at every turn : but having said that
these are the opinions of Mr. George Moore, we
have as good as said that they have the magic
power of a change of light which brings appear-
ances into different and instructive relations and
•proportions. Mr. William Archer's paper on ' The
Music-Hail : Past and" Future ' will probably win
the sorrowful agreement of most readers, together
with some scepticism as to the efficacy of the
measures he suggests for arresting the disin-
tegrating process now at work in popular enter-
tainment. Mr. S. R. Littlewood is also something
of a reformer ; his study of ' The Dramatic
Synthesis ' — a clever bit of work and largely
convincing — goes to correct the late tendency to
emphasize the importance of the theatrical mise-
en-scenc to the depreciation of the actor. Mr.
Edward Clodd's reminiscences of Holman Hunt —
•including a few welcome letters — are worth
having. We suppose it is but just to say as much
for Mr. P. P. Howe's elaborate clearing away of
the mistakes which have been perpetuated on the
subject of the second Mrs. Hazlitt. The articles on
problems of the day — Sir Clement Kinloch-
Cooke's ' Reconstruction of the British Empire ' ;
Auditor Tantum on ' Ireland and the Ministerial
•Changes ' ; Mr. J. Davenport Whelpley on
•* American Perplexities ' ; and Mr. J. Coudurier
-de Chassaigne's ' The Future of Poland ' — need
no recommendation on our part. Excubitor
contributes a vigorous and capable description of
the Battle of Jutland ; and Mr. Archibald Hurd
in ' Germany Besieged : Memories of 1870-1871 '
is equally competent and worthy of careful con-
sideration.
THE August Nineteenth Century contains no
paper that does not, at least indirectly, deal
with the present state of the world. Th'e most
remote are Mr. W. S. Lilly's summary of Mme.
Huzard's recent and successful book, ' Le
Mystere des Beatitudes ' — a novel illustrating the
fundamental opposition between the service of
Mammon and the service of God ; Mr. Walter
Sichel's ' Disraeli and To-day ' ; and the con-
cluding instalment of Mr. W. H. Mallock's
' Current Theories of Democracy,' hi which he
works his study out to a demonstration of the
error contained in the assumption that democracy
is a system of government' — whereas he would
have us regard it as a " principle," and one which
has the principle of oligarchy as its necessary
complement. A good historical study is Major
Sir John Hall's paper on Tilsit. Colonel
Willoughby Verner's description of the Gordon
Relief Expedition, in which he served with
Kitchener, is a good piece of writing, though it
does not often bring Kitchener out very clearly
before us. Miss Edith Sellers writes with great
good sense on the education of working-class girls.
The rest of the number is composed of articles on
military and political topics.
THE most important article of the August Corn-
hill is a study, by a neutivi 1 diplomat. Tinder the title
' The Imperial Junker.' of the opinions of the
Kaiser and his Welt-politik current before the war
amon '. the leaders of German diplomatic and
industrial activity. The writer, on. the basis of
these opinions, looks forward to a great internal
upheaval in Germany. It may come before, it
may come after the war ; his expectation of it is
more decided than any we have observed in well-
informed quarters before. An unpublishfd poem
by Charlotte Bronte is necessarily a thing of
interest, but it can hardly be said that without a
distinguished signature these particular verses
would attract attention. Mr. Boyd Cable's war-
sketch ' The Old Contemptibles ' is one of his best,
of very meritorious workmanship, with a fine
last word. We very much enjoyed Sir James
Yoxall's ' Rambler's Lichen ' — a clever bit of
word-mosaic, the matter being of the order of
things large and peaceful, the manner rather
minutely, sometimes wittily, pointed. We could
not pretend to be impressed by the occurrences
which Sir Laurence Gomme's paper on ' Coinci-
dences ' narrates, but we agree in wishing that
others, to whom perhaps more significant experi-
ences of the same kind have happened, would
follow his example. 'Children's Children' is
good — a sketch of the Boers at the present
moment by Major-General MacMunn — and so is
Mr. John Travers's ' Call of the West,' an account
of the spirit and the ways in which our Indian
troops set out for the Great War. We must also
mention Mr. E. S. P. Haynes's genial tribute to
the memory of ' Master George Pollock,' whose
appearance, being ninety-four years of age, in the
same number with Major-General MacMunn's old
Boer of ninety-two is itself a sort of " coinci-
dence." Nor must we forget Lieut. R.N.'s
vigorous and unaffected story of an episode in the
North Sea.
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
to
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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 191V.
CONTENTS.-No. 33.
'NOTES :— A British Heroine in the American War, 121— An
English Array List of 1740, 122— ' The Observer,' 1791-1916,
124— Inscriptions in St. Mary's, Battersea, 125— "Blue
pencil," 126— 'An Ancient Irish Manuscript : the Book of
the MacGaurans or McGoverns ' — Ching : Cornish or
Chinese ?— Cenotaph : Catafalque, 127.
•QUERIES :— Martin Parker, 127— Calverley : Charade IV.
_Topp Family Crest— " Panis, amicitise symbolum" —
" Doctrine of Signatures "— Folk-Lore : Red Hair— Darcy,
Master of the King's Artillery—" Check" and " Cheque "
— Henriette Renan — Hare and Lefevre Families. 128 —
Heraldic Query: Silver Cup -Author Wanted— Mundy :
Alstonfleld— " St. Bunyan's Day"— Grave of Margaret
Godolphin - "Tadsman " — Field • Names — Cromwell's
Baronets and Knight*— Matthew White, M.P., 129.
HEPLIES :— An English Army List of 1740, 129— A Coffin-
Shaped Garden Bed- St. Luke's, Old Street : Bibliography,
133— Latin Contractions— Colours of Badge of the Earls of
Warwick — Waterloo Heroes — Asiago, 134 — Thomas
Hussey, M.P. for Whitchurch— Archer : Bowman— Pano-
ramic Surveys of London Streets, 135— Elder Folk-Lore—
Chime-Hours—Statue at Drury Lane Theatre— Rabsey
•Cromwell alias Williams— The Kingsley Pedigree— " Hat
Trick " : a Cricket Term, 136— Sir William Ogle : Sarah
Stewkeley— Fieldingiana : Miss H— and, 137-Steel in
Medicine— Brass Plate in Newland Church, Gloucester-
shire—The Lion Rampant of Scotland-Gorges Brass-
House and Garden Superstitions— Richard Reman, Jun.—
Richard Swift— Col. Charles Lennox—" A steer of wood,"
138 — Peas Pottage— Largest Bag of Game, 139.
7JOTES ON BOOKS :—' London Street Games'— "The
Celtic Christianity of Cornwall '— ' Selections from the
Poems of S. T. Coleridge '— ' Burlington Magazine.'
The De Banco Search Society.
Notices to Correspondents.
A BRITISH HEROINE IN THE
AMERICAN WAR.
AMONGST the War Office records of the
past, there are none which fill us more
with sorrow and dismay than those
relating to the Pension and Compassionate
Funds, wherein the appeals of half-pay
officers, widows, and children for
assistance and relief are most heart-
rending.
But the accompanying memorial (War
Office Records 25 /3097 at the Public Record
Office) is of a less mournful nature. It
was forwarded to the Secretary at War
by the Major of the 104th Regiment, who
vouched for the veracity of the account
therein set forth by Mrs. Hopkins.
We are given such a vivid and thrilling
picture of the hardships and adventures
which a British woman was called upon to
face during the American War, that the
memorial cannot fail to interest readers of
' N. & Q.,' especially at this time.
To the Right Honorable the Secretary at War,
&c., &c., &c.
The Memorial of Elizabeth Hopkins, wife
of Jeremiah Hopkins, Serjeant of the 104th
(New Brunswick) Regiment of foot,
Most humbly sheweth
That she was born of British
Parents at Philadelphia, in the year 1761,
has her husband, six sons, and son-in-law,
as per margin,* serving His Majesty in the
Hundred and fourth ; and during the course
of her life, from her zeal and attachment to
her King and Country, she has encountered
more hardships than commonly fall to the
lot of her sex.
That in the year 1776, being with her first
husband (John Jasper), a serjeant of Marines,
on board the Brig Stanley, tender to the
Roebuck, she was wounded in her left leg in
an engagement with three French Vessels,
when she was actually working at the
Guns.
That the marines having been landed at
Cape May in America, her husband was taken
prisoner by a Capt. Plunkett of the Rebel
Army, near mud fort, tried and sentenced to
suffer death, that by her means he was
enabled to escape, with 22 American
deserters, to whom she served arms, and
ammunition, and on their way to join the
Army, the Party was attacked by the
Enemy's Light Horse. She was fired at, and
wounded in her left arm, but undismayed,
took a loaded firelock, shot the rebel, and
brought his horse to Philadelphia (the Head
Quarters of the Army), which she was per-
mitted to sell to one of General Sir William
How's Aid de Camps.
That after many fatigues and campaigns,
her first husband died, and she married
(Samuel Woodward) a soldier in Col1
Chalmer's Corps, was with the troops under
the command of General Campbell, taken at
Pensacola, having however, during the siege,
served at the Guns, and tore her very clothes
for waddings.
Sons •
Jeremh Hopkins (Husband).
Ram1 Woodward
Tim> Woodward
Rob1 Woodward
Nathan1 Woodward
Archrt Woodward
Richd Hopkins
Ja' McDonough (son-in-law)
(.For convenience of printing, this marginal note
had been transferred to the foot of the page. —
EDITOR.]
122
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 12, me.
That having been exchanged at the peace
of 1783, from attachment to the Royal cause,
she embarked on board a transport with part
of Delancey's and Chalmer's Corps, was ship-
wrecked on Seal Island in the Bay of Fundy,
when near three hundred men, and numbers
of the women and children were lost, that
she suffered unparallelled distress, being
pregnant, with a child in her arms ; remained
for three days on the wreck, was taken up,
with her husband and 'child, by Fishermen
of Marble Head, and shortly after being
landed, delivered of three sons ; two of
whom, are in the 104th, the other dead ;
lastly, that she has had the honour of being
mother of twenty two children, viz., 18 sons,
and 4 daughters, seven of the former being
alive, and three of the latter.
That Memorialist humbly prays, that you
may con?ider her a fit object for some
allowance from the Compassionate fund'
towards her maintainance in her old age ;:
having lost all her property, and as a reward
for her long and faithful service to her King,
and as in duty bound, shall ever prar.
E. HOPKINS.
Fredericton, New Brunswick,
12th April 1811.
[Endorsed]
In consideration of the very extraordinary
circumstances stated and although it is a
departure from the general rules by which
the fund is governed allow 81. p* ann.
(Signed) P.* 20 June 1811.
E. H. FAIRBROTHER.
* Lord Palmerston.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84.)
LORD CADOGAK'S Regiment of Dragoons was formed as one of the Inniskilling regiments of
horse in 1689, under the command of Sir Arthur Cunningham. In the Army List of
1754 it is styled the " Sixth (or Inniskilling) Regiment of Dragoons," although it is not-
clear when this title came into use. The regiment is now designated the " 6th (Innis-
killing) Dragoons," the only cavalry regiment which still retains its original local title : —
Lord Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Lord Cadogan(l)
James Gardiner (2)
Montagu Farrer
(Lord Chrichton (3)
\ Sir John Whiteford (4)
^ John Dalrymple
John Dalrymple
/"William Nugent
I William Tonyn
•< George Brodie
I Patrick Agnew (5)
I Paul Torin
'Ralph Cook ..
John Young
Hugh Whiteford (6)
Thomas Hooper
Henry Farrer . .
.David Chapeau
Dates of their
present commissions.
19 June 1734.
24 Jan. 1729-30.
15 Aug. 1734.
27 May 1723.
25 Dec. 1726.
17 Mar. 1735-6.
25 Dec.
3 Jan.
1726.
1718-9.
25 Dec. 1726.
ditto.
31 May 1727.
25 Oct. 1737.
29 April 1731.
31 May 1727.
12 Oct.
14 Feb.
24 Jan.
1 Feb.
1732.
1731-2.
1737-8.
1737-8..
(1) Charles, 2nd Baron Cadogan of Oakley, Major-General. See ' D.N.B.'
(2) See « D.N.B.'
(3) William Dalrymple, Lord Crichton. He became 4th Earl of Dumfries in 1742.
(4) Fecond Baronet, " Whitefoord of Blaquhan." Became Lieutenant-General hi 1760.
in 1763, when the baronetcy became extinct.
(5) One of the twenty-one children of Sir James A., 4th Baronet, of Lochnaw.
((5) Younger brother of Sir John W. See note 4 supra.
He died
is g. ii. AUG. 12, me.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
123
Lieut.-General Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons was formed in
horse which had been raised in Scotland in 1689. It
re-established in the following year as "Kerr's Dragoons."
" 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars " : —
Lieutenant General Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Lieut. Gen. William Kerr(l)
Thomas Fowke
James Agnew (2)
/"William De Lavall4e . . .
-{ Mathew Swiney . . .
(.John Owen
Robert Kerr . . . . . ,
(James Ogilvie
James Falconner
Thomas Crohare
David Ogilvie
James Legard
fBernard Granville . .
I James Shipley (3)
-j John Guerin (4)
I Alexander Forbes
- Hobby
1690 from two regiments of
was reduced in 1714, and
It is now designated the
Dates of their
present commissions.
31 Jan. 1714-5.
25 June 1722.
4 April 1733.
10 ditto.
13 May 1735.
15 Dec. 1738.
ditto.
6 May 1725.
25 Oct. 1731.
13 April 173R.
20 Jan. 1737-8.
15 Dec. 1738.
25 Dec. 1726.
13 April 173fi.
20 Jan. 1737-8.
21 ditto.
1 Nov. 1739.
(1) Third son of Robert, 3rd Earl of Roxburghe. He died in 1741, having held <the Tolonelcy of
the regiment since 1709, the appointment being renewed in 17 15 when the regiment, which had been
reduced in 17 14, was re-established.
(2) Fourth son of Sir James Agnew, 4th Baronet.
(3) In 1755 a James Shipley was a Captain hi the regiment — probably the same man.
(4) Became Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment hi 1751.
The regiment next following was raised in Hertfordshire in July, 1715, under the
command of Brigadier-General Humphrey Gore. In the Army List of 1754 it is styled
the " Tenth Regiment of Dragoons," arid is now known as the " 10th (Prince of Wales's
Own Royal) Hussars " : —
Dates of their
Lieutenant General Churchill's Regiment of Dragoons. piesent commissions.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Lt. Gen. Charles Churchill (1)
Anthony Lameloniere (2)
John Jordan . .
1 Thomas Jekj 11
(.Peter Chaban
George Buckley
f Charles Hamilton
Robert Walkinshaw . .
1 Edward Goddard
I Charles Draper
V Richard Phillips
John Tempest
Samuel Gowland
Thomas Mathews
Thorns Carver
Robert Winde
Charles Bur. Reyhlin
(1) He died in 1745.
(2) Son of Major-General Isaac Lameloniere.
9 Jan. 1722.
9 July 1737.
11 Dec. 1739.
5 Nov. 1735.
25 Aug. 1739.
ditto.
25 Dec.
21 May
3 Nov.
15 Feb.
25 Aug.
5 July
3 Nov.
29 Oct.
15 Feb.
12 Mar.
25 Aug.
Died in 1762.
1726.
1733.
1735.
1738-9.
1739.
1735.
1735.
1736.
1738-9.
1738-9.
1739.
124 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. ACO. 12, ioi&
The last of the cavalry regiments was raised in Essex and the adjoining counties in
July, 1715, and was first commanded by Brigadier-General Philip Honywood. It now
bears the title of the " llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars" : —
Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Cornets
Lord Mark Kerr (1) .
Hugh Warburton
John Maitland
( William Leman
-! Francis Bushell
^Robert Hepburne
William Gardner (2) .,
AVilliam Robert Adair
I Alexander Steuart
•I James Warren
I Gustavus Hamilton . .
I George Maxwell
George Whitmore
Gilford Killegrew
Gabriel Bilson
John Gore
Musgrave Davison
Lord Robert Kerr (3)
Dates of their
present commissions.
29 May 1732,
24 Jan. 1733-4.
31 May 1732.
3 May 1720.
31 May 1732.
13 May 1735.
26 July 1722.
18 Oct. 1717.
3 May 1720.
13 Feb. 1720-30.
10 Aug. 1737.
30 Mar. 1739.
10 Nov. 1721.
11 May 1731.
10 Aug. 1737.
6 April 1739.
12 July 1739.
16 ditto.
(1) Lieutenant-General. 4th son of Robert, 1st Marquess of Lothian. He died in 1752.
(2) Of Coleraine. Father of Alan G., 1st Baron Gardner. He died in 1762.
(3) Second son of William, 3rd Marquess of Lothian. He was killed in the battle of Culloden, 1746.
The cavalry regiments on the British establishment end here.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
'THE OBSERVER,' 1791-1916.
THE proprietors of The Observer have cele-
brated the removal of its offices from Newton
Street to its new home in Tudor Street by
the issue of a quarto booklet in which are
given a view of the n^-w premises and a
portrait of the present editor of the paper,
Mr. J. L. Garvin.
The Observer is the oldest of the existing
Sunday papers, having been founded by
William Tnnell Clement (' D.N.B.,' vol. xi.
p. 33), who on Perry's death in 1841 pur-
chased The Morning Chronicle. He was
also proprietor of The Englishman and Bell's
Life. Whatever profits he may have made,
he at any rate contributed considerably to
the Government funds. In an article which
appeared in The Westminster Review, Janu-
ary, 1829, it is recorded that he had paid
during the previous year for stamps
45,5977. 15s., duty on advertisements
5,185Z. 15s. 6rf., and on paper 2,735Z. 10s.,
making a total of 53,519J. Os. 6d., or more
than a thousand a week. On the occasion
of the coronation of George IV. a double
number of The Observer, with illustrations of
the ceremony, cost the paper 2,OOOZ. for
stamp duties, 60,000 of this number being
circulated. In the same year the enterprise
with which the paper was conducted was
further shown. On the 17th of April, 1820,
the trial of the Cato Street conspirators
commenced, and the paper took the daring
step of giving a report of the proceedings, for
which breach of the antiquated law against
the press it became liable to a fine of 500£.,
although the penalty was remitted.
The Observer was among the first papers to
make any important development in giving
illustrations, and Mr. J. D. Symon, in his
bright little account of ' The Press and its
Story ' (Seeley, Service & Co., 1914), tells
how it found its greatest field in the
illustration of crime, particularly on the
occasion of the murder of Mr. Weare, when
the matter was gone into perhaps somewhat
too fully, and " the taste of such minute
details was called in question, but the com-
mercial value was indisputable." This
pandering to vulgar taste was not persisted
in, and the paper soon began to take the
12 s. ii. AUG. 12, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
125
high tone and position which for more than
. i-nty years it has honourably held. Mr.
Symon relates how it turned to " quieter
themes," and gave, for example, an illustra-
tion of George IV. as he last appeared in his
pony phaeton in Windsor Park : " The King
has a look upon his face that is probably in-
tended to foreshadow the approaching end."
" At the coronation of William IV." (I am still
quoting Mr. Symon) " and again of Victoria
The Observer shone. On the later occasion
it produced a larger picture than the daily
press had yet attempted."
During the greater part of the nineteenth
century the prejudice against Sunday papers
was so great that there was not much
inducement for capitalists to embark in
such enterprises. The sale of The Observer
fluctuated greatly, and, as stated in the
booklet, the paper " passed through a period
of cloudy weather." In the year 1837
the death of William and the accession of
Victoria brought its average sale up to
7,100, but the following year it dropped to
5,500, and in 1839 it fell below 2,300, nor
until 1847 did it again reach 4,000 ; but
the year of revolutions, 1848, brought it up
to 5,400, while the Exhibition year, 1851,
increased the sale to 7,600, and in 1854, the
year of the Crimean War, the sale exceeded
8,000.
The fluctuation of the sale was largely due
to the conservative policy of its owners, who
" ignored some of the requisites of a really sound
and thriving journal. One example of this may
be cited in its reluctance to lower its price in
accordance with the tendencies of the age."
The price had varied from 3|rf. to Id., then
declining to 4rf., at which figure it remained
until 1895, when it was reduced to 2d. In
1908 it joined the penny press.
The Sunday papers, although very strenu-
ous in the matter of obtaining early news,
have not usually taken a strong party line
in politics, one of the exceptions being The
Weekly Dispatch, started in 1801, which, under
the control of Alderman Harmer, "became a
vigorous advocate of reform," and under his
management obtained a circulation of over
51,000. This, like all the Sunday papers,
had bad times, and when Ashton Dilke pur-
chased it in 1875 it was in very low water.
Under his control it became a thoroughly
independent exponent of advanced Radical
opinions, and an honest and enterprising
working-class paper ; my brother, Edward
James Francis, ably seconded him in the
business management, and the sale increased
so rapidly that fresh offices had to be taken
and now machinery provided.
The Observer obtained great prestige during
the Crimean War, as the Government, instead
of publishing a special Gazette on the arrival
of dispatches on the Sunday, sent the news
to The Observer. Strangely enough, most of
the news arrived on that day, commencing
with the battle of the Alma, fought on the
20th of September, 1854. The excitement
in London that Sunday was great, as news
came from Paris that the Emperor, while
reviewing the troops, had received the dis-
patch, and shouted out, " Sebastopol est
prise ! " This, however, was found in a day
or two to be premature.
Until the declaration of war the sale of
Sunday papers had, with some notable ex-
ceptions, been limited, and the attempt mede
in 1898 by two daily papers to have a seven-
day issue was discouraged by the public.
At several Nonconformist chapels reso-
lutions were passed after the Sunday evening
service not to subscribe for such papers^
as it was felt that their publication would
interfere to a marked degree with the day of
rest. The issue of the Monday morning
paper involves, of course, a certain amount
of Sunday work. There used to be one-
notable instance of a provincial daily paper
with a large sale that was produced without
any Sunday labour, but this I believe to be
the sole exception. The sale of The Observer^
in common with that of the other Sunday
papers, has gone up by leaps and bounds
since the war. While the sale in] 1913
averaged 72,000, that for May 28th of the
present year was 215,500.
To Mr. Garvinwe offer our deep sympathy
in his sorrow for the loss of his only son,
Lieut. Gerard Garvin, killed at the battle of
the Somme on the night of July 22nd. He
was only twenty, and The Observer of the
30th ult. contains an essay on Turenne,.
written by him in the trenches.
JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PARISH
CHURCH OF ST. MARY, BATTERSEA..
Abstracts made in July, 1914.
NORTH SIDE.
1. Children of William and Alicia Maria Connor,
of this parish. Edward Henry, b. 1835, d. 1845,.
Jane Isabella, b. 1844, d. 1846. Caroline Stanley,
b. 1846, d. 1847. Robert Eden, b. 1847, d. 1879.
2. James Franck, Esq., M.D., F.B.S., Inspector-
General of Hospitals, d. Jan. 27, 1843, a. 74. ^
3. James Spice, fifty years Parish Clerk of
Battersea, 1851-1901, b. Jan. 5, 1817, d. Jan. 21,
1901.
4. Frances, relict of Mr. James Bull, d. June 14,
1738, a. 62. John, s. of Mr. John Bull, d. Aug. 20,
1738, a. 19.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 is. n. AUG. 12, wie.
.">. William Hollingsworth, Esq., for fifty years
.an inhabitant of Nine Elms, d. July 20, 1825, a. 73.
Phoebe Franck. wid., his sister and companion
during fifty y.-ai-s, d. April 28, 1824, a. 80. Their
bro., John Hollingsworth, Esq., of Nine Elms,
d. Aug. 11, 1776. Honoria, his w., d. Aug. 21,
177.-,.
(i. Thomas Dives, of Lavender Sweep, Batter-
sea, d. Jan. 27, 1880, a. 81. Ellen, his w., d.
Sept. 1, 1879, a. 72. Erected by their children.
7. The Bight Rev. John Inglis, D.D., Lord
Bishop of Nova Scotia, d. Oct. 27, 1850, a. 72.
He presided over the Diocese of Nova Scotia
upwards of twenty-five years.
8. Nathaniel Middleton, Esq., d. Nov. 7, 1807,
a. 56. Sophia, his jdau., d. in 1790, a. 4 y. 3 m.
Augusta, his dau., d. April 30, 1802, a. 16. Anne
Frances, his relict, d. Nov. 3, 1823, a. 65. Louisa
Anne, their youngest dau., relict of Charles
Herbert, Esq., of Mucross, Ireland, d. May 23,
1828, a. 31.
9. Sarah, relict of Win. Willis, jun., Esq., of
Bolingbroke Grove, Wandsworth Common, and
late of 4 Hill Street, Berkeley Square, d. Dec. 20,
1857, a. 78. Erected by her son.
10. In the family vault of John Roberts, Esq.,
are the remains of Thomas, son of Thomas and
Martha Ponton, formerly of this p. and also of
Lr. mbeth. He died April 13, 1853, a. 72. Erected
by his sister.
11. William Willis, Esq., formerly of Lombard
Street and Battersea Rise, d. Nov. 1, 1831, a. 85.
Ann, his w., d. June 6, 1817, a. 68. Henry
William, their youngest son, of Aldenham, Herts,
•d. Oct. 29, 1829, a. 37. William, their eldest son,
d. July 2, 1828, a. 49. William, eldest son of the
last-named William and Sarah, his w., d. Dec. 27,
1826, a. 19. Matilda, their 3rd dau., d. Mar. 14,
1838, a. 20. Sarah, their 2nd dau., d. May 30,
1839, a. 24. Martha, their 4th dau., d. July 23,
1844, a. 22. William, s. of Henry and Eliza Willis,
gr.s. of William and Sarah Willis, d. July 1, 1849,
a. 2J y. Philip Crowe, Esq., of the Bengal
•Cavalry, s.-in-law of the above Wm. Willis, sen.,
Esq., d. Oct. 23, 1831, a. 52. Matilda Ann, his
IF., d. April 18, 1844, a. 63.
12. Sir George Wombwell, Bart., of Wombwell
in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of Sherwood
Lodge in this p., b. Mar. 14, 1769, d. Oct. 28, 1846.
Georgiana Eliza, his eldest dau., d. May 1, 1834,
a. 19. Elizabeth, his wid., d. Mar. 21, 1856, a. 65,
and was bur. in the Cemetery at Brompton.
13. The two eldest sons of W. H. Crowder, Esq.,
of Clapham Common. Thomas John, late of
Trinity College, Cambridge, d. at Falmouth on his
return from Madeira, where he had been for the
recovery of his health, June 17, 1814, a. 24.
William Henry, R.N., d. at his father's house,
Mar. 3, 1816, a. 21.
14. James Broadhurst, Esq., of this p.,d. June 9,
1837, a. 83. Mary, his w., d. Mar. 12, 1846, a. 84.
Erected by their nephew and nieces, Rev. T. B.,
E. B. and A. P.
EAST END.
15. Samuel Fitch, Esq., d. Oct. 4, 1799, a. 75.
Elizabeth, his w., d. Feb. 15, 1800, a. 77.
16. Martha Johnson, b. Sept. 27, 1834, d.
Feb. 11, 1898.
17. Henry Boutflower Verdon, M.A., seven
years Curate of this p., b. Dec. 8, 1846, ordained
Priest, 1871, d. Oct. 10, 1879.
SOUTH SIDE.
18. William Francis, Esq., of Battersea Rise,
d. June 19, 1805, a. 71.
19. Charles Wix, Esq.. d. N«>v. 25, 1843. a. 68.
Henry, his eldest son, d. Oct. 3, 1845, a. 38.
William, his youngest son, d. Mar. 21, 1822,
a. 2 y. Elizabeth, relict of Charles, d. April 11,
1861, a. 79.
20. Mary Sophia, w. of Thos. Vardon, Esq.,
d. Dec. 5,1808, a. 63. Thomas Vardon. d. Jan. 12,
1809, a. 73.
21. Thomas Astle, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Keeper
of the Records of the Tower of London, and one of
the Trustees of the British Museum, d. Dec. 1,
1803, a. 67.
22. Ann, relict of Jacob Mills, Esq., d. July 4,
1816, a. 80. Henry Heylin, her s. by her first
husband, d. Nov. 20, 1853, a. 84. Elizabeth
Gosling, wid., her sister, d. Oct. 3, 1816, a. 81.
23. Thomas Ashness, of Battersea Rise, Esq.,
d. Nov. 14, 1827, a. 72. Abigail, his w., d. Dec. 25,
1823, a. 57. George Ashness, of Battersea Rise,
nephew of the above, d. Dec. 12, 1853, a. 87.
Mary, his w., d. May 4, 1840, a. 65. Joseph
Whittaker Ashness, of Turret Grove, Clapham,
nephew of the above Thomas, d. June 1, 1845,
a. 64.
24. Martha, w. of Charles Hale, gent., d. Aug. 4,
1736, a. 51. Charles Hale, d. Sept. 13, 1739, a. 72.
25. William Connor, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.S.I.,
b. May 24, 1804, d. Oct. 31, 1879.
WEST END.
26. John Rapp, Esq., of Battersea Rise, a
native of Basil in Switzerland, merchant of
London, d. April 26, 1834, a. 73. Erected by his
relations in Switzerland.
27. Hannah, w. of George Scholey, Esq.,
Alderman of London, of Clapham Common,
d. Mar. 22, 1824, a. 64. Caroline Exam Scholey,
her dau., d. May 3, 1833, a. 37. The above George
Scholey died Oct. 4, 1839, a. 81.
G. S. PARKY, Lieut.-Col.
17 Ashley Mansions, S.W.
(To be continued.)
" BLUE PENCIL." • - This expression is
generally used, so far as I have noticed, with
reference to the editor or conductor of a
newspaper or magazine, frequently in the
form " editorial blue pencil." But in the
last sentence of his preface to Prof. Skeat's
' Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words,'
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1914, the Rev.
A. L. Mayhew applies it to the proof-reader.
He says : —
" I cannot conclude without expressing my thanks
to the 'reader' for the accuracy with which the
proof-sheets represented the MS., as well as for
his judicious and conscientious use of the blue
pencil."
The phrase, though a literary one, seems
to have escaped the notice of the editors of
the great Oxford Dictionary, unless I have
by some mischance overlooked it. Will
readers of ' N. & Q.' cite instances of it, so
re s. ii. AUG. 12, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
127
that we may know how far back it can be
traced ? It is also, if I may trust my
memory, used fairly often as a verb ;
e.g., " The editor blue-pencilled the manu-
script," that is,' struck out or altered certain
portions of which he did not approve.
Mr. Mayhew, I imagine, wished to thank
the Clarendon Press reader for the queries
he put on the proofs. I can hardly think
that he ventured to cancel or alter what
JMr. Mayhew had written — the idea I have
Jiitherto associated with the use of the blue
pencil. j. R. THOBNE.
' AN ANCIENT IBISH MANUSCRIPT : THE
BOOK OF THE MACGAUBANS OB McGoVEBNS.'
(See ante, p. 65.) — May I, on the principle
of honor cui honor, add a postscript to my
paper under this heading at the reference
given ? As it was through Dr. Douglas Hyde
that Prof. Quiggin first heard of the ' Book
of the MacGaurans ' (as he informed me in
-a letter of July 5, 1915), so my attention was
first directed to Sir J. T. Gilbert's Report of
1871 by a paper entitled ' Ancient Gaelic
Book or MS. of Thomas MacSamhradhain,'
read in May, 1896, before a Liverpool Literary
Society by Mr. J. H. McGovem, L.R.I.B.A.
This addendum, contributed motu proprio,
will, so far as I am acquainted with it,
complete the present history of a remarkable
manuscript, the prose portion of which Mr.
McGovern rightly regards as
" the muniment of title of the' Clan MacGauran,
or McGovern, to their Cantred or Barony of
Tullyhaw (Teallach Eachdhach), and of supreme
value to the genealogist and topographer as
defining the ancient limits of the territories of the
clan."
J. B. McGovEBN.
fit. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
CHING : CORNISH OB CHINESE ? — At 8 S.
iii. 426, I called attention to a statement in
The Launceston Weekly News that a native
of that town, Mr. John Lionel Ching, son
and grandson of two mayors of the borough
named John Ching, had felt it desirable,
when successfully trading in Queensland, to
declare in all his advertisements what had
been his birthplace, in order to avoid the
local anti-Mongolian prejudice, and so ensure
a general knowledge of the fact that he
hailed not from China, but from " the good old
town of Launceston, Cornwall." A year ago
—and twenty- two years after my contribu-
tion v.-as published — proof was printed that
the name of Ching (and even of John Ching)
was known in this district centuries before
the Queensland announcement was felt to be
necessary. In 'The Register of Edmund
Lacy, Bishop of Exeter (A.D. 1420-1455),'
published in 1915 by the Devon and Cornwall
Record Society, under the heading ' Dimis-
sorie' (pt. ii. p 496) is noted one of Sept. 23,
1424, to John Chyngue, acolyte, for all
sacred Orders. DUNHEVED.
CENOTAPH : CATAFALQUE. — In their report
on the requiem celebrated on July 14 in
Westminster Cathedral for the repose of the
souls of the French soldiers and sailors killed
in the war, all the London papers I have seen
made the startling statement that a cenotaph
stood erected at the entrance to the sanc-
tuary. Now a cenotaph (an empty tomb)
is a permanent structure erected in memory
of one buried elsewhere (as, e.g., Shakespeare's
in Westminster Abbey), and the structure
which these good journalists saw in the
cathedral was no doubt merely the usual
temporary erection, called a catafalque.
L. L. K.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
MABTIN PARKEB. — The following works,
entered in the Stationers' Registers under
Martin Parker's name, are supposed (accord-
ing to various bibliographical manuals) not
to be extant : —
1. ' M.P. his A.B.C ' a ballad (1629).
2. ' An abstract of the Histories of the renouned
Maden Queene Elizabeth ' and ' A short Cronicle
of the Kinges,'— presumably one "book," for a
licence fee of only sixpence was charged (1630).
3. ' A Garland of Withered Roses ' (1632. 1633).
4. ' Martin Parker his maruelous prognostication '
(1638), a "book."
5. ' The Antipodes ' (1638), a "book."
6. 'A briefe Summary of the history of baint
George' (1639), a "book."
7. ' A second part of the Art of W oemg &e., a
" book." ' The Art of Woeing,' probably the
first part, was registered on Aug. 3, 1638.
8. 'The true story of Guy, Earle of Warwick'
(1640), a " book."
9. An heroic poem (!), 'Valentine and Orson
(1658), which is several times mentioned in works
of the date 1656.
10. ' An abridgment of the wonderful history of
that irreligious and vnchristian knight Sir Timothy
Troublesome,' &o. (1632).
11. 'Cupids Colledge or the Court of Comple-
ments,' in two parts (1638).
12. ' Medicina iocundissime [stc] or merry medi-
cines,' a " book " (1633).
13. 'Certaine verses of Martin Parker against
trusting, to sett vp in Alehouses ' (1636).
Several of these works were registered two
or three times. It seems almost impossible
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that all of them should have disappeared.
Can any reader tell me where any of these
works are to be found ?
HYDEK E. ROLLINS.
1707 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Mass.
CALVERLEY : CHARADE IV. — What is the
nu-\\vr to the fourth charade in C. S.
Calverley's ' Verses and Translations '
(13th ed"., 1891, Bell & Sons) ? I know the
answers to the other five.
A. F. DAUGLISH.
The Vicarage, Rowley Regis, Birmingham.
TOPP FAMILY CREST. — On the south wall
of Tormarton Church, in Gloucestershire, is
a large mural monument to the memory of
Edward Topp of Whitton, Shropshire,
Esquire, who died in 1699, bearing his shield
of arms, and over that his crest : A gauntlet
clasped, grasping a naked hand couped at
the wrist, guttee de sang. It is life size, and
has a most gruesome appearance in the
church. What is the history of this crest ?
There is evidently some legend attached,
but I find no mention of it in any of the
heraldic works I have consulted, viz. those
by Burke, Cussans, Boutell, and Fox-Davies.
CURIOUS.
" PANTS, AMICITIJE SYMBOLUM." — Paulinus
of Nola to St. Augustine, and St. Augustine in
return to Paulinus, sent bread as a symbol of
friendship. Was this purely a Christian
custom ? If not, from what pagan custom —
and, in particular, when and where — was it
first adopted? Was it a common practice in
the Church, or the peculiar practice of a few
individuals ? In the ' Vita S. Augustini ' in
Migne's ' Patrologia ' the words, " Ad eum
[sc. Augustinum] vicissim panem, ut ipsi mos
erat, dono mittit, amicitiae et eiusdem com-
munionis symbolum," might imply that this
was merely a graceful invention on the part
of Paulinus. Are there any other ex-
amples ? R. E.
THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES." — This
is to the effect that the medicinal properties
of plants are indicated by their shapes or
colours. What is the origin of this ? and is
the doctrine extant, and if so, where ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
FOLK-LORE : RED HAIR. — What account
can be given of the prejudice against red
hair ? Among what peoples does it pre-
vail ? Is it a fact that red-haired people are
generally treacherous and deceitful beyond
the rest of mankind ? When of the female
sex, they appear to be particularly nice and
kind. ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
DARCY, MASTER OF THE KING'S ARTIL-
LERY.— In Burke's ' Extinct Peerage ' of
1866, p. 157, the following occurs : " Sir
Thomas Darcy, Knt., b. 1506, who in the
36th Henry VIII. was constituted Master of
the King's Artillery within the Tower of
London," &c. Does any warrant of appoint-
ment exist ? Information is asked for
regarding this appointment. Darcy was
advanced to the peerage in 1551 as Baron
Darcy of Chiche, and was made a Knight of
the Garter in the same year. He died iix
1558. J. H. LESLIE.
" CHECK " AND " CHEQUE." — What is the
origin of the word " cheque," and how came
it to be so spelt ?
"Check" is the older, and therefore the
more correct form. I have an autograph
letter of Frederick Yates, the actor, dated
1838, in which the word is spelt " check.' T
It is invariably so spelt in America.
REGINALD ATKINSON.
Forest Hill, S.E.
[Under 'Cheque, cheek. Banking,' the 'N.E.D/
has the following : " Cheque is a differentiated
spelling of check, which is also in use, especially
in U.y. In meaning it; belongs to CHECK «6.4
sense 13. Cf. also CHECK v.1 sense 16. From being
the name of the counterfoil of an Exchequer or
other bill, the purpose of which was to check
forgery or alteration, the name appears to have
been applied to any bill, note, or draft, having a
counterfoil, and thus to its present sense, where a
oounterfoil (though usual) is not even necessary."]
HENRIETTE RENAN. — In the editor's pre-
face to Renan's pathetic little volume ' Ma
Sceur Henriette ' (1895) it is stated that the
letters of Henriette Renan " ne peuventr
vu leur nombre, trouver place a la sxu'te de
cette publication, et donneront un jour lieu
a une publication speciale." Have those
letters been published, and when ?
J. B. McGovERN.
HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES. — I should
be glad if any of your readers could tell me
in which of his works the late Augustus
Hare refers to his connexion with the
Lefevres. It is, I think, in the preface of
one of the volumes. I cannot recall which.
Lister Selman, who died in 1779, had two
daughters. One married John Lefevre of
Heckfield (ancestor of Lord Eversley), the
other married the Rev. Mr. Hare. They
were, I believe, coheiresses, though ap-
parently Lister Selman by his will (P.C.C.
515 Warburton) left practically all he had to
his daughter Helena LefeVre. Probably Mrs.
Hare was dead already, and her portion duly
allotted by settlements.
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129
A grant of arms was made in 1789 at the
Heralds' College to Helena as the daughter
and heiress of Lister Selman and wife of
John Lefevre, and these are shown in
pretence on John Lefevre's arms, so no
doubt Mrs. Lefevre was the chief heir.
OLD FORD.
HERALDIC QUERY : SILVER CTJP. — A silver
cup has come into my possession, and on it
are the following coats of arms : —
Quarterly, 1 and 4, two flags in saltire ;
2 and 3, a swan. Crest : a swan's head be-
tween two rods, each terminating in fleurs-
de-lis. The helmet, with a closed vizor, and
lambrequins are distinctly German in design.
Above are the letters B and E and the date
1604. This is on the outside of the lid.
On the inside is a shield : dexter, Or, a fox
(or wolf) saliant ; sinister, Gules, a bend
argent.
There is no motto. The hinge is formed
by two crowned mermaids.
Can any one recognize these arms, and say
to which families they belonged ?
WILLIAM BULL.
Hammersmith.
AUTHOR WANTED. — Can any reader of
' N. & Q.' kindly tell me who wrote the
following lines ? —
A wise old owl lived in an oak ;
The more he saw, the less he spoke ;
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that old bird ?
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
MUNDY : ALSTONFIELD. — In a newspaper
cutting dated Aug. 25, 1875, headed
' Alstonfield : Reopening of the Chancel of
Alstonfield Church,' it is mentioned that
" the Harpurs had property in Alstonfield for
many generations, and a solitary piece of mediaeval
glass has been found bearing the name of
Mundy' — another ancient family connected with
the parish."
I am anxious to learn what became of this
piece of glass, and of any connexion between
Alstonfield and the Mundy family.
P. D. M.
" ST. BUNYAN'S DAY." — The other day an
old cottager in a village of the Scottish
midland counties said to me in the course of
conversation : " The saying about St. Bun-
yan's Day still holds true." St. Swithin as
a rule is named correctly in the district.
Does this interesting misapplication of
Bunyan's name exist anywhere else ?
W. B.
GRAVE OP MARGARET GODOLPHIN. — Can
any reader tell me how to find the grave of
Margaret Godolphin (Maid of Honour at the
Court of Charles II.) in Cornwall? Required
name of the church ; whether monuments
exist in the church ; whether the vault itself
can be identified. IKONA.
"TADSMAN." — Buried in 1688 Ralph
Crompton, ''Tadsman." What was a
" Tadsman " ? ARCHIBALD SPARK E.
FIELD - NAMES. — Will any reader of
' N. & Q.' give the origin of the following
field - names ? — Tuffins, Flexon, Lomer,
Flothers, Slaids, Olikersides, Ursley or Usley,
Lammercoats. A. E. OUGHTRED.
Castle Eden.
CROMWELL'S BARONETS AND KNIGHTS. —
I should be glad to know if there is any
book published upon the baronets and
knights created by Oliver Cromwell, which
titles, I am told, were disallowed at the
Restoration. LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
MATTHEW WHITE, M.P. — Can any one
give any particulars of Matthew White,
M.P. for Hythe 1802-6, 1812-18 ; defeated
there 1806, 1807, 1818 ; said to be in the
East India trade ? W. R. W.
ftepius.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122.)
I, FOR one, welcome very gladly the appear-
ance in ' N. & Q.' of this Army List, especially
on account of the very great amount of
biographical information such lists of names
naturally possess, when supplemented by
exact dates of appointment. There is
another copy, I believe, in the Library of the
Royal United Service Institution, White-
hall ; and I remember seeing a third copy
advertised for sale in a London bookseller's
catalogue some nine years ago, but wa s
unfortunately too late to secure it. I
hope that the mantle of the late Mr.
Charles Dalton (' English Army Lists
and Commission Registers, 1660-1727,' in
8 vols.) will descend upon MAJOR LESLIE,
and that he will enrich the pages of ' N. & Q.'
with still more of these valuable lists of
officers. The Commission Registers now in
MS. in the Record Office, if printed, would
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fill the hiatus between George II.'s coming
to the throne in 1727 (where Dal ton ends)
and 1755, when the. complete regular series
of printed Army Lists really commenced
(for the Army List, 1754, gave only the
regiments on the English and Scotch estab-
lishments, and omitted those on the Irish
establishment until 1755). Perhaps also
some one can say something of the enter-
prising publisher " J. Millan, opposite the
Admiralty Office, Whitehall," who issued the
same until about 1780, and who, from his
sarcastic advertisements, must have been
something of a character. The Gradation
MS. Army Lists, -1742, 1745, and 1752, with
the earlier MS. Army Lists, 1730 and 1736, in
the Record Office, would, if printed, be of
the keenest interest.
Many of the officers joined the army,
especially the Guards, for a short time only,
as part of their education, and afterwards
served at Court, in Parliament, or in the
Government. Most of the seniors are found
and identified in Dalton's Lists.
Of others, curiously enough, many cannot
be traced in the ' Landed Gentry,' but their
deaths appear in ' Musgrave's Obituary,'
and they are found in the pages of The
Gent. Mag. and other contemporary
periodicals, where their names so frequently
appear in the "Promotions" that a fair
idea of their various steps in commissions
may be obtained, though naturally incom-
plete and sometimes erroneous. I think
that Tlie Gent. Mag., 1745 (or 1742, 1743, or
1744), gives a list of the field officers of the
various regiments, which, if consulted, would
prove a useful addition to the 1740 List. I
append some notes : —
First Troop of Horse Guards
(ante, p. 4).
John Blathwayt (the younger son of Wm.
B., the famous Secretary at War, 1683-
1704), b. about 1690 ; m. Miss Penfield ; and
d. April 21, 1752.
He was succeeded as first lieutenant-colonel
of the regt., April 15, 1742, by Lord Carpenter
(see ' Parl. Hist, of Herefordshire, 1213
1896'), who commanded it until he d.
July 12, 1749.
Jonathan Driver was lieutenant-colonel
llth Dragoons, May 15, 1744, to June 26
1754.
Thomas Eaton d. Aug. 15, 1743 (? son of
Edw. Eaton, captain and lieutenant-colone"
Coldstream Guards, April 3, 1733, till he d.
Jan. 4, 1737; and father of Thos. Dufour
Eaton, sub-brigadier and cornet 1st Horse
Guards, Nov. 13, 1756 ; brigadier and
ieutenant, 176- ; exempt and captain,
Jan. 21, 1768).
John Elves ( ? Elwes, son of John Ehves,
ieutenant Royal Regt. of Horse Guards,
Jan. 8, 1711 ; captain do., May 15, 1712)
appears as John Elways, second major
1st Troop of Horse Guards, April 9, 1748, to
June 5, 1754.
Hon. Robert Fairfax, M.P. Maidstone,
1740-41, 1747-54; and Kent, 1754-68.
B. 1707 ; cornet Royal Regt. of Horse
Guards, Aug. 19, 1726 ; lieutenant do.,
Aug. 12, 1737 ; exempt and captain 1st
Troop Horse Guards, July 9, 1739 ; second
major, May 15 ,1742 ; first major do., Sept. 1,
1742, resigned Nov., 1745 ; lieutenant-
colonel West Kent Militia, June (? 22),
1759 ; so in 1762. Succeeded his brother
Thomas as 7th Viscount Fairfax, December,
1781 ; d. s.p. at Leeds Castle, Kent, July 15,
1793, aged 86.
Peter Hawker (? son of Peter Hawker,
lieutenant-colonel of the Earl of Peter-
borough's Dragoons in Spain, July 18,
1710; and father of Peter Hawker, adjutant
and lieutenant 1st Troop Horse Guards,
175- ; brigadier and lieutenant, Nov. 7,
1759 ; exempt and captain, Nov. 21, 1763 ;
guidon and major, Dec. 31, 1770).
Just an McCarty (? son, of Justin Maccarty,
second liexitenant of Col. Edw. Jones's [new]
R«gt. of Foot in Ireland, Aug. 28, 1708, till
disbanded, 1712 ; placed on half-pay, 1714 ;
of the same family as Charles M'Carthy of
Carrignavar, co. Cork, who d. 1761) became
lieutenant -colonel, April 9, 1748 ; on half-pay
of first lieutenant and lieutenant -colonel
3rd Troop of Horse Guards from 1746 till
he d., 1775.
Thomas Twysden (brother to Wm. T.
p. 43) was second son of Sir Wm. T., 5th
Bart. ; became cornet in the army, Sept. 1,
1730 ; brigadier 1st Troop of Horse Guards,
June 24, 1740 ; exempt and captain ditto,
May 27, 1745 ; guidon and major, Nov. 7,
1759 ; cornet and major, April 15, 1761 ;
second lieutenant and lieutenant -colonel
thereof, Nov. 21, 1763 ; retired Jan. 21,
1768 ; d. July 19, 1784, aged 74.
James Rolt was made brigadier and
lieutenant 1st Horse Guards, June, 1749 ;
vice Wm. Ryder made exempt and captain
same date.
Peter Shepherd (? son of Peter Shepheard,
captain in Col. Thos. Allnut's [36th] Regt.
of Foot, Dec. 20, 1709 ; out before 1715).
Elliot Lawrence (? son of Elliot Law-
ranee, ensign in Lord Mohun's Regt. of
Foot, July 8, 1707).
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131
Henry Cornewall, M.P. Hereford, 1747-54,
defeated 1741 (see ' Parl. Hist, of Hereford-
shire, 1213-1896 '), was colonel of the newly
raised 7th Marines, Dec. 25, 1740, till dis-
banded, Oct. 27, 1748 ; brigadier-general,
Nov. 8, 1735 ; major-general, July 2, 1739 ;
lieutenant-general, Feb. 4, 1743 ; Governor
of Londonderry and Culmore Fort, Nov. 4,
1749, till he d., April 4, 1756. He was
succeeded by Tomkyns Wardour of Whitney
•Court, co. Hereford, as first lieutenant-colonel
of the regt., Jan. 25, 1741, on which date
Capt. James Madan, or Madden, from the
Horse Guards Blue (p. 43), was made first
major of this regt. in room of Philip Roberts,
made second lieutenant-colonel, vice War-
dour. Arthur Edwards, lieutenant 15th
Foot, Oct. 24, 1708, may have been passed
over or retired at this date, dying June 22,
1743.
Philip Roberts m. Anne, daughter of Edw.
Coke, and second and only surviving sister
of Thomas, Earl of Leicester, who at his
death, April 20, 1759, left his extensive
estates to their eldest son, Wenman Coke
(which name he assumed), many years M.P.,
who d. v.p. 1776, father of Thos. Wm., 1st
Earl of Leicester, 1837. Philip Roberts
probably became first lieutenant-colonel of
the regt., vice Wardour, April 1, 1743, and
The Gent. Mag. for that year might also
say if his successor as second lieutenant-
colonel then was Thomas, Earl of Effingham
{p. 43), who on July 24, 1749, again suc-
ceeded him as first lieutenant-colonel of the
regt.
Thomas Levett, ensign 15th Foot,
Sept. 17, 1713 ; lieutenant, 1716 ; captain-
lieutenant (and brevet captain), Aug. 30,
1720, to 1729 ; left the 2nd Horse Guards,
and became before 1750 an Army Agent
as " Capt. Thos. Levett, Warwick - street,
Golden-square," being in that year Agent for
the Royal Regt. of Horse Guards, and the
13th, 49th, and 45th " Marching Regts. of
Foot."
Mark Anthony Saurin was lieutenant-
colonel 1st Royal Dragoons, Aug. 24, 1746,
to Dec. 2, 1754.
'Charles Clarke was lieutenant and captain
1st Foot Guards, Jan. 17, 1730, to 1734 ;
•C6met and (first) major 2nd Horse Guards,
174- ; and second lieutenant-colonel thereof,
July 24, 1749, to Jan. 18, 1757.
Thomas Johnson, lieutenant 15th Foot,
Sept. 17, 1713, to 1728.
John Brattle resigned as exempt and
captain in May, 1746, when he was suc-
ceeded by Brigadier Josiah Scudder.
Francis Desmarette, guidon and major,
Dec. 2, 1754 ; cornet and major, Jan. 18,
1757 ; second (lieutenant and) lieutenant-
colonel, July 15, 1757, to Feb. 8, 1765.
Benjamin Carpenter, brigadier 2nd Troop
of Horse Guards, March 10, 1742 ; exempt
and captain, 174- ; guidon and major,
July 24, 1749 ; cornet and major, April 1 1,
1750 ; second (lieutenant and) lieutenant-
colonel, Jan. 18, 1757 ; first (lieutenant and)
lieutenant-colonel, July 15, 1757, to 1764 ;
brevet - colonel, Nov. 10, 1760; major-
general, July 10, 1762; lieutenant-general,
May 25, 1772 ; general, Feb. 19, 1783 ;
colonel 12th Light Dragoons, Sept. 20, 1764,
of 4th Light Dragoons, Oct. 24, 1770, to
1788 ; equerry to George, Prince of Wales,
1751-60, and to him as King George III.,
December, 1760, to 1771 ; chief equerry
and clerk marshal, April, 1771, till he d.,
March 8, 1788, having drowned himself in
the Serpentine through depression. Son of
Col. Robert Carpenter, 3rd Foot Guards,
killed at Fontenoy ; b. 1713 ; he m. Miss
Kerr, and was a particular favourite with
George III.
Third Troop of Horse Guards
(ante, p. 5).
Hon. James Cholmondeley, M.P., had one
of the new regts., Jan. 13, 1741 (see ' Parl.
Hist, of Wales, 1541-1895').
Francis Otway was lieutenant-colonel of
Wade's Horse (the 3rd Dragoon Guards)
from March 9, 1745, to May 31, 1751.
Charles Bradshaigh would be the Capt.
Bradshaigh who was one of the two equerries
(100Z.), 1750-57, and also one of the five
gentlemen ushers (100/.) to the Princesses
Amelia and Caroline from 1750 to 1760,
styled major the latter year.
Wm. Meyrick may have been the son of
Major - General Wm. Meyrick, 1st Foot
Guards, who d. in Flanders, 1747.
John Burgoyne retired as sub-brigadier
3rd Troop Horse Guards, Nov. 13, 1741,
He was not "Saratoga" Burgoyne, who
entered the army as cornet 13th Dragaons
in 1740. But was he his father, Capt. John
Burgoyne of Sutton, Beds, second son of
Sir John B., 3rd Bart. ?
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Fourth Troop of Horse Guards.
Francis Burton, captain 15th Foot,
March 1, 1705; major thereof, 1711-19; first
lieutenant-colonel 4th Horse Guards, Feb. 25,
1719, till reduced, Dec. 24, 1746; d. at
Knightsbridge, May 22, 1753 ; of St. George's,
Westminster ; father of Francis Burton,
M.P. (1744-1832), of Edworth, Beds. Second
Justice of Chester, 1788-1817 (see 'Hist, of
the Great Sessions in Wales, 1542-1830,'
p. 68).
Thomas Hatton, cornet 1st Regt. of
Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards), Feb. 25,
1712.
Isaac Ashe, ensign 15th Foot, March 26,
1711 ; second major 4th Troop Horse
Guards, Sept. 19, 1743, till reduced, 1746 ;
living in 1747.
Clement Hilgrove, Francis Martin, and
Robert Austen were exempts and captains
when the regt. was reduced, 1746, and the
officers placed on half-pay ; and Hilgrove
and Martin were still drawing half - pay
thereof in 1772, but died before 1777, while
Austen died between 1761 and 1770, the
three having received an allowance of 118Z.
12s. 6d. each, exclusive of their half -pay.
Edward Fletcher was guidon and captain
1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards, Sept. 13,
1754 ; lieutenant and captain do., March 25,
1756, to Jan. 8, 1764.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
Talybont, Brecon.
James Dormer, the first colonel of 14th
Regt. of Light Dragoons, July 22, 1715, to
April 9, 1720 ; colonel of 6th Regt. of Foot,
March 9, 1728, to Nov. 1, 1735 ; lieutenant-
general, Nov. 2, 1735 ; d. Dec. 24, 1741.
Lewis Dejean, colonel of 37th Regt. of
Foot, April 3, 1746, to Nov. 17, 1752;
colonel of 14th Regt. of Light Dragoons,
Nov. 27, 1752, to April 5, 1757 ; lieutenant-
general, March 28, 1759 ; d. Sept. 29, 1764,
aged 85.
Thomas Forth, probably Col. Forth, who
d. Jan. 14, 1757.
John Duvernet, lieutenant-colonel Grena-
dier Guards, d. March 21, 1756.
Wm. Twysden, probably Sir Wm. Twysden,
6th Baronet, who d. July 8, 1767, aged' 60.
Courthorpe Clayton, lieutenant-colonel and
equerry to the King, d. March 22, 1762.
Thomas, Lord Howard, b. about 1714,
succeeded as 2nd Earl of Effingham, Feb. 12,
1743 ; lieutenant-colonel 2nd Troop of Horse
Guards, April 11, 1743 ; colonel of 34th Regfc
of Foot, Dec. 2, 1754, to Oct. 30, 1760 ;
lieutenant-general, Feb. 22, 1760 ; colonel
1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, Oct. 30.
1760 ; d. Nov. 19, 1763.
John Randall of the Horse Guards, d.
Jan. 27, 1769.
John Keate — a man so called d. Aug. 19,
1756.
John Wyville — a Lieut.-Col. Wyville d.
May 7, 1740.
Gregory Beake (second son of Charles Beake
of Golden Square, London), Lieutenant-
Governor of Jersey, d. June 19, 1749.
Charles Jenkinson was buried June 23,
1750.
Sir James Chamberlayne succeeded as
4th Baronet, October, 1694 ; he d. Dec. 23,
1767.
John Gilbert of the Horse Guards, d. May,
1768.
James Russel Madan, major 2nd Dragoons,
d. January, 1788.
Theodore Hoste (second son of James
Hoste of Sandringham, Norfolk), baptized
Jan. 28, 1708, d. 1788.
Henry Miget, captain Horse Guards,
d. April 20, 1755.
Robert Ramsden, baptized June 24, 1708 ;
served at battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy ;
d. Feb. 9, 1769.
John Powlett, a major, d. July 2, 1740.
John Fitzwilliams, a colonel, d. about
July 2'/, 1757.
O' Carroll was probably Sir Daniel
O' Carroll, 2nd Baronet, b. about 1717 ; ap-
pointed captain in Ligonier's Horse, May,
1752 ; d. Dublin, Jan. 30, 1758.
John Brown, colonel of 4th Dragoon
Guards, April 1, 1743, to Aug. 3, 1762;
lieutenant-general, January, 1758.
Martin Madan, colonel, d. 1756.
George Furnese, captain in the Horse,
d. Jan. 15, 1741.
Timothy Carr of Ennisldllen and Twicken-
ham, Equerry to the King and colonel, d.
April 4, 1771.
Nathaniel Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of
Chelsea Hospital, Nov. 6, 1765, to his death,
Jan. 14, 1773.
Thomas Strudwick, captain of Horse,
d. May 10, 1743.
John Boscawen (4th son of 1st Viscount
Falmouth), M.P. for Truro, 1747, till his
death, June 11, 1767 ; major-general, March,
1761 ; colonel of 45th Foot, Nov. 11, 1761,
to death.
Lightfoot, captain of Dragoons, d.
Sept. 24, 1762.
Philip Anstruther, a captain in the army,
d. Oct. 5, 1758. FKEDERIC BOASE.
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133
ST. LUKE'S, OLD STREET :
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(12 S. i. 426.)
THERE is a very interesting and
concise history of St. Luke's in that useful
series of short histories known as ' The
Fascination of London,' edited by Sir Walter
Besant. St. Luke's occupies the second
portion of a volume by G. E. Mitton, who
devotes the first to Clerkenwell, the two
parishes comprising the present Metropolitan
Borough of Finsbury. This book was
published by Adam & Charles Black in 1906.
A little later, practically the whole volume,
with a few minor corrections and additions,
was used in that great monument of Sir
Walter's industry, ' The Survey of London ' ;
this was a series of large quartos, the volumes
not being numbered, but bearing sub-titles,
the one containing the history of St. Luke's
being known as ' North of the Thames.'
I have the good fortune to possess a copy
of " the scarce and singular work," ' The
History of Old Street,' described by MB.
ALECK ABRAHAMS at the reference given
above. This copy came to me from the
library of my uncle, the late Dr. George
Eugene Yarrow, who lived for a great many
years in Old Street, being Medical Officer of
Health for St. Luke's. In a few minor points
my copy differs from MR. ABRAHAMS' s
description — e.g., mine has 3 pp. of preface
and 12 pp. of text or matter; of these 6 pp.
(viz. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8) are not numbered ;
pp. 3 and 4 are numbered at the foot of the
ornamental borders ; while pp. 9, 10, 11, and
12 are correctly numbered at the top right-
hand corner of the page. Each leaf being
printed on one side only, the book consists
entirely of right-hand pages. Adams &
King is given as the name of the firm alike
on the title-page, the colophon, and
throughout the book, with one exception
only, that on the first page of the text,
where it appears as Adams & Co. The
address on the title-page is given as Goswell
Street, and on the colophon as 30 Goswell
Street. Three or four of the earlier pages of
the text give the address as 118 Old Street,
St. Luke's, or simply Old Street. This is
explained in the preface as being due to the
fact that
" the information was not always at hand when
required, and when obtained, business and other
matters would frequently prevent its being used,
hence delay, and will account for some of the Leaves
having thereon our old address."
The best clue to the date of publication is
to be found in the dedication : —
" To the Rev. John Saunders, M. A., The Church
wardens, Sidesmen, Overseers, Guardians, The
Trustees of the various Charities, and John Parsons,
Esq., Vestry Clerk of the Parish of Saint Luke,
Old Street, &c.
According to Hennessy's edition (1898) of
Newcourt's ' Novum Repertorium,' John
Saunders, M.A., was appointed Rector of
St. Luke's on Jan. 11, 1845, by the Dean
and Chapter of St. Paul's, and remained
so until his decease on Dec. 22, 1873 (vide
' Registers of Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's/
vol. vii. folio 195). At the time of his
preferment to St. Luke's he was Rector of
St. Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street, B.C.
He was a graduate of St. John's College,
Cambridge: B.A. 1829, M.A. 1835. This
edition of the 'Novum Repertorium ' has a
few notes on the church itself, in which we
are told that it was built in 1733 by Mr.
James, a pupil of Wren; and that, the soil
being marshy, it was necessary to build on
piles. Miss Mitton, on the other hand, in her
' History of St. Luke's ' says that the church
was built in 1732 by G. Dance, when the-
parish was formed out of that of St. Giles,
Cripplegate. Which is right ?
Like MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS, I deplore the
absence of a monograph devoted to the
history of the church, but I cannot help,
reminding those interested that practically
every general history or description or
London and its churches gives some mention
of St. Luke's, Old Street. There are also the-
Vestry Minutes, and the Reports of the
Medical Officer of Health, &c., containing
much valuable information. I might also
mention the large and valuable library
attached to the French Hospital (or Hospice)
in the Victoria Park Road, South Hackney.
This hospital for poor French Protestants
residing in Great Britain was founded in
1708 by M. de Gastigny, a French gentleman^
Master of the Hounds to King William III.
when Prince of Orange. The society formerly
had its head-quarters in Old Street, and has
many papers, &c., in its library relating to
the early history of the society. It is
generally acknowledged to have the finest
collection existent of works relating to
Huguenot history.
Excellent short accounts of St. Agnes le
Clair, Perilous Pond (Peerless Pool), the
Artillery Ground, Tabernacle Walk, Finsbury
Fields, and other places in St. Luke's or
adjoining Old Street, will be found in.
Wheatley's ' London, Past and Present.'
G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. AUG. 12, me.
A COFFIN-SHAPED GARDEN BED (12 S-
i. 91, 193, 333).— In a book by Mr. J. Alfred
Gotch, F.S.A., ' Early Renaissance Architec-
ture in England,' I find this, which may
be taken as a proof of a certain connexion
•between " coffin " as flower-bed and " coffer "
in an architectural sense : —
"In the year 1615, one Walter Gedde published
a book of pattern glazing called ' a Book of Sundry
Draughts Principally serving for Glaziers and not
impertinent for Plasterers and Gardeners.' "
By the way, I would suggest to MB. W.
WOODWARD, F.R.I.B.A., to come to France
and visit again our Renaissance castles,
where a number of " coffers" of any shape, and
-even square, may be seen. P. TURPIN.
LATIN CONTRACTIONS (12 S. i. 468 ; ii. 19,
57). — At the last reference YGREC explains
that " Sma toths expoitoru " is set against
sums of money resulting from the sale of
ships. The phrase is quite incomprehen-
sible, and the good handwriting of the copyist
is not indicative of correctness. In the
third word the first o appears to me to be a
mistaken reading of a carelessly formed d,
and I think the whole phrase would be :
" Swnma totalis expenditoruw," i.e, "the
-commissioners' or agents' sum total."
The expenditor must have been an official
whose duty it was to weigh out (expendere)
-after collection of money. French has not-
retained this word. In English we have
"" spend " and its derivatives ; and also
" expenditure." Low Latin, expendvtura.
Expenditor has been degraded in Spanish,
wherein expendeddr may mean either a passer-
out of counterfeit coin, or a taker- in of stolen
•goods. Italian a spenditore = steward, also
spendthrift.
" Summa onens," or " ouens," is equally
due to the bad writing the copyist had
to transcribe. I would read ri for the
second n. We require a genitive, we are
dealing with shipping, and one of the mean-
ings of onus is ' cargo."
The third difficulty — " Pp" " — apparently
presents a dative perhaps YGREC could tell
what the " Latin " for " poll " is in the
document if it gives the word in full.
ALFRED ANSCOMBE.
COLOURS OF BADGE OF.THE EARLS OF WAR-
WICK (12 S. ii. 49, 95). —The tincture of the
sitting bear which Lord Warwick uses — not
as a badge, but as a second crest (an heraldic
solecism) — is argent, as is that of the ragged
staff. The actual Earls of Warwick have,
of coursa, no real right either to the demi-
swan or to the bear and staff of the old
IVarwicks ; they are not even co-heirs of a
cadet branch of the original family. In this
connexion their motto, " Vix ea nostra
voco." has a humorous significance. Lord
Warwick, however, possibly maintains that
he has as much right to adopt the badge
of the King-maker as the first Xorman earls
had to annex the bear and staff from the
Saxon line, descendants of the famous Guy.
OSWALD HUNTER BLAIR, O.S.B.
Fort Augustus.
The Rous Roll gives for Henry de Beau-
champ, Duke of Warwick, who died in 1446,
a bear argent, collared gules, studded of the
first, with chain attached and reflexed over
the back or. The previous Earls of the
Beauchamp line appear to have used the
ragged staff only as a badge, although their
supporters were two bears.
When did the muzzle first appear ?
S. A. GRCNDY-XEWMAN.
WATERLOO HEROES (12 S. ii. 11). — I have
seen the pamphlet which accompanied the
engraving of the picture of ' The Waterloo
Heroes.' The title-page is as follows : —
" Descriptive Key to the Grand Historical Engrav-
ing entitlea ' The Waterloo Heroes,' and repre-
senting the Duke of Wellington receiving hia
illustrious Guests at Apsley House on the anniver-
sary of the glorious eighteenth of June.
" Published by Henry Graves & Company,
" 6 Pall Mall,
" Also Key plate to the engraving."
A. H. MACLEAN.
ASIAGO (12 S. ii. 48). — In his notice of the
quaint little settlement of the " Sette
Comuni " L. L. K. states that according to
Badeker " all " the inhabitants now speak
Italian. Naturally they must understand
Italian to get on with their neighbours, but
if it is meant that they speak Italian only,
the statement is certainly erroneous and
exaggerated. My edition of Badeker's ' Siid-
bayern, Tirol,' &c., is dated 1906, and states
at p. 454 that "the greater part of the 30,000
inhabitants speak Italian only." Baron
von Czoernig, in his monograph ' Die
deutschen Sprachinseln im Siiden des ge-
schlosdenen deutschen Sprachgebietes in
ihrem gegenwartigen Zustande' (Klagenfurt,
1889, p. 11), says that of the 25,137 inhabitants
8,000 still speak their German dialect. An
American friend of mine, Mr. W. D.
McCrackan, visited the " Sette Comuni " in
1896, and published an account in the Bulletin
of the American Geographical Society, Xo. 2,
1897, of his visit to this " Teutonic Survival
on Italian Soil," and says that this dialect
is spoken only in four of the seven
" communes," and then chiefly ir the family
t2 s. ii. AUG. 12, i9i6.] N OTES AND QUERIES.
135
circle and by old people (p. 171). He points
out also many other traces of Teutonic
civilization still existing in this district. At
p. 12 of Czoernig's pamphlet it is stated that
the Catechism mentioned by L. L. K. was
first printed at Padua in 1603, and again in
1813 and 1842. He gives ' Our Father ' in
the local dialect. Is it possible that L. L. K.
Mf&s thinking of the " Tredici Comuni,"
another Teutonic settlement, north of
Verona, where the Germanic dialect has
really completely disappeared ? It should
be borne in mind that of recent years a
powerful propaganda has been carried on
by the " Deutscher Schulverein " in Vienna
{founded in 1880) in these and other isolated
settlements in " Austria " to revive the use
of the Teutonic dialect. There are a number
of other isolated German-speaking settle-
ments to the east and south-east of Trent,
"where a Teutonic dialect is still spoken — all
near the Val Sugana railway. Such are the
Fersen Valley, near Pergine, Lusern, and
Folgaria (see Badeker, pp. 451-2, and
Czoemig, p. 11). There are also scattered
Teutonic settlements in Friuli.
As to all these linguistic curiosities may
I be allowed to refer to my own book
•'The Alps in Nature and History' (1908,
pp. 65-6 and 70) ? The newspapers stated
at the beginning of the war that the Italian
Government had transferred all these Ger-
man-speaking inhabitants to the interior of
Italy, but I do not know precisely which
settlements were there meant.
W. A. B. COOLIDGE.
Orindelwald.
THOMAS HTJSSEY, M.P. FOB WHITCHURCH
1645-53 (12 S. ii. 88).— The parentage of this
M.P. has long perplexed me. Like your
correspondent, I can discover nothing in the
various references to him in the Commons'
Journals or State Papers that casts light on
the subject. That he was the Winchester
Scholar of 1608 appears most probable, but
to which of the Hussey families of Dorset
" Thomas Hussey of Blackdon " is to be
assigned is anything but clear. His age at
admission — 11 years — does not quite fit the
age attributed in the Dorset Visitation of
1623 to either Thomas of Shapwick or
Thomas of Edmondsham, though not far
off from that of both, and it is well known
that the age given in many of these admission
registers is often wrong by a year or two.
The M.P.'s public career was comparatively
brief, and not very conspicuous. He was,
I believe, the " Master Hussey of Shaftes-
bury " appointed on the Dorset Assessment
Committee in August, 1643. He subscribed
to the League and Covenant as M.P. for
Whitchurch, Dec. 31, 1645, and though at
first apparently one of the members in-
cluded in the Purge of December, 1648, was
readmitted to his seat June 2, 1649, and
retained the same until the Cromwellian
dissolution in April, 1653. He was added to
the Berkshire Sequestration Committee in
February, 1650, and in the second Protec-
torate Parliament of 1656-8 was elected for
Andover, being then described as "of
Hungerford Park, Hungerford, co. Wilts."
Under the Act of 1656 he was nominated
Sequestration Commissioner for both Hants
and Berks. He died some few months before
the close of the Parliament of 1656-8. His
will, which unfortunately affords no help as
to his family identity, is dated July 3, 1654,
with codicils Feb. 15, 1655, and Dec. 14,
1657 ; and was proved in P.C.C. Feb. 25,
1657/8. He names his wife Catherine; two
sons, Thomas (then under 15) and William;
and daughters Anne, Catherine, Mary, and
Cecily. Perhaps these few notes may help
to direct H. C. to further efforts of research
as to his parentage. W. D. PINK.
Winslade, Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.
ARCHER : BOWMAN (12 S. i. 29 ; ii. 15). —
MR. ROWBOTHAM has apparently mistaken
my meaning, and the object of my inquiry.
It was to ascertain whether the two names
were now sufficiently localized to suggest the
respective " origins " of the two types of
soldiers of six hundred years ago. Pre-
sumably, the Archers were men of the " long-
bow," and Bowmen those of the " cross-bow."
MR. ROWBOTHAM' s descent of so many
" Archers " from a William 1'Arcuarius
who came over with William the Conqueror
disturbs my hypothesis that both the cross-
bow and the long-bow were peculiar to Eng-
land before 1000 A.D. It is remarkable that
amongst the six counties in which he states
the Archers are common, Nottinghamshire, of
Sherwood Forest fame, is not included.
L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS
(12 S. ii. 5). — A noticeable addition to these
was
" A Balloon View of London [&s seen from
Hampstead]. London ; published May 1st, 1851.
By Banks & Co., 4 Little Queen Street, Holborn.
Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange,"
an important work, measuring 42 by 25 in.,
and extending from Primrose Hill to Batter-
sea Park, and from the London Hospital to
Kensington Palace. Apparently on steel,
136
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. AIM. 12, me.
the engraving shows with much distinctness
and appreciable size the topographical
features of that day, and many individual
houses and buildings are given in detail.
A little earlier had been issued ' The
Grand Panorama of London as seen from the
Thames in 1844,' unfolding to 1,5 ft. by 5 in.,
and showing the stretch from Westminster
to the Royal Victualling Office, Deptford.
I believe there was more than one issue — one
forming a supplement to The Pictorial Times.
W. B. H.
TREE FOLK-LORE: THE ELDER (11 S.
xii. 361, 410, 429/450, 470, 489, 507; 12 S.
i. 37, 94). — My supposition that elder had
been unwittingly substituted for alder in a
legend as to the material of the Cross, referred
to by another correspondent, is backed up by
the Irish belief mentioned in ' My Irish Year '
(p. 53). Children were, says the author,
" forbidden to strike each other with a rod of the
alder. Why ? The people said it was because the
Cross was made of alder wood. But this explana-
tion shows that the myth about the alder wood
had been forgotten."
Mr. Padraic Colum does not tell us what
this was. ST. SWITHIN.
FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329,
417). — May I — greatly daring — differ from
ST. SWITHIX, who considers that " chime-
hours hardly belong to folk-lore " ? (I quote
from memory.)
In that home and haunt of so many old
beliefs, and especially of ecclesiastic folk-lore,
the county of Norfolk, I lately heard a dis-
cussion as to the various circumstances of
birth which enable a child to see, or not to
see, ghosts. It was generally agreed by the
Norfolk-born people there assembled that
" children born in chime-hours would always
see spirits," and several instances were given.
Y. T.
STATUE AT DRURY LANE THEATRE (12 S.
ii. 71). — I have not seen the print to which
J. L. L. alludes, but have little doubt
that the statue to which he alludes is the
Apollo which fell through the roof, and was
presumably broken to pieces. The incident
is referred to in the account of the burning
of the theatre in 1809 in The Annual Register
for that year. Moreover, when the theatre
was rebuilt and opened on Oct. 10, 1812, an
address written by Byron was delivered by
Elliston, in the first stanza of which the poet
wrote : —
In one short hour behold the blazing fane,
Apollo s:nk, and Shakespeare cease to reign.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
The statue referred to, which is stated to
have been more than ten feet high, was a
figure of Apollo. It was destroyed with the
theatre.
Boaden, in his ' Life of Kemble * (vol. ii.
p. 482), wrote :—
" On the night of the conflagration, I stood with
my boots covered by the water, in the middle of the
street, until I saw the figure on the summit of the
house sink into the flames : that Apollo which a
contemptible vanity had thrust up into the place
that, in England, should always be occupied by
Shakspeare : — to whose honour, moreover, be it
remembered, the pile, on its erection, professed
itself to be consecrated."
WM. DOUGLAS.
RABSEY CROMWELL ALIAS WILLIAMS (12 S..
i. 486). — The subjoined clipping is from The
Manchester Weekly Times, May, 1894. The-
Rev. H. C. Field, if he is alive, may be able
to supply the details required on the subject-
by your correspondent : —
GOSSIP ABOUT INTERESTING PEOPLE.
The Rev. Henry Cromwell Field, who has been
appointed by Lord Herschell to the Crown living of
Bradpole, Dorset, is a lineal descendant of the Lord
Protector Cromwell.
FRED L. TATAR*.
THE KINGSLEY PEDIGREE (12 S. ii. 70). —
The Newcastle Courant of Aug. 9, 1806, has
the following announcement : —
" At Lamberton, near Berwick, Mr. Kingsley,
ensign in the 8th Keg., aged 16, to Miss Maria
Taylor, aged 17";
and in the issue of the same paper of Sept. 6
following : —
"On the 3rd inst., at Berwick Church, William
Jeffrey Towler Kingsley, Esq., of London, to Miss
Maria Taylor, daughter of Mr. John Taylor,
formerly printer and bookseller, Berwick, being
the third time the youn°r couple have been married :
their united ages scarcely exceed 34."
These were the parents of the Rev. William.
Towler Kingsley, Rector of South Kilvington,
who was born at Berwick on June 28, 1815,
immediately after the Battle of Waterloo,
at which his father fought.
J. C. HODGSON."""
Alnwick.
The Genealogist for 1913 contains full
pedigrees of this family.
R. J. FYXJIORE.
"HAT TRICK" : A CRICKET TERM (12 S.
ii. 70). — The ' Dictionary of Slang,' by
Barrere, says : " A bowler who takes three
wickets in succession is said to have done the
' hat trick,' from the custom of giving him a
hat as a recognition of his skill." When this
expression first came in I do not know, but
12 s. ii. AUG. 12, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
137
it is certainly over fifty vears ago ; and iri
my day (1859-69) the last of the three
wickets taken had to pay for the hat, I
believe. The hat was always supposed to
be of the value of a guinea, and I think money
was always given instead of it, but I never
was a victim myself. A. GWYTHER.
Windhara Club:
In old days it was customary to present a
bowler who took three wickets, in three
•consecutive balls, with a hat as a reward for
his skill. In later years a jockey who wins
three races consecutively is constantly
referred to as having performed the " hat
trick." WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
The earliest use of the phrase which I have
been able to trace occurs in The Sportsman
for Nov. 28, 1888, where it says : " Mr.
Absolom has performed the hat trick twice,
and at Tufnell Park he took four wickets
with four balls." ARCHIBALD SPAKKE.
SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STEWKELEY
•{12 S. ii. 89). — -The explanation of the point
which has puzzled F. H. S. concerning
Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, of
Hinton Ampner, the second baronet, is that
this lady, following the example of her second
husband, entered the bonds of matrimony
thrice. See Wotton's ' Baronetage,' III. ii.
(1741) 393, under ' Cobb, of Adderbury.'
Her husbands were : (1) Dr. John Cobb,
Warden of Winchester College, who died on
Nov. 25, 1724 ; (2) Ellis St. John (formerly
Ellis Mews), of Farley Chamberlayne ; and
{3) Capt. Francis Townsend or Townshend,
•of whom I should be glad, to have particulars.
There is a tablet in the College Cloisters to
the memory of her first husband, and the
inscription ends : " Sarah, vidua illius
superstes. . . .Monumentum hoc optimo
Marito P." I take it that, in using the
epithet " optimo," she had no intention of
reflecting upon her later " better halves."
H. C.
Ellis St. John, of Farley St. John and of
Dogmersfield, married as his third wife,
between 1725 and 1729, Sarah, daughter and
coheir of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, 2nd baronet.
She is referred to in his will, proved at the
P.C.C. in 1729. She died as "Sarah
Townshend, widow, of Winchester," in
1760. Her will is at P.C.C. (407 Lynch). In
it she refers to " her late husband Ellis
St. Johrv"
Whether it was^this lady who had
previously married' * Dr. Cobb, Warden of
Winchester College, I do not know. But as
he died in 1724, and Ellis St. John only lost
his second wife in 1725, this obviously may
easily have been the case.
She bequeaths the manor of Dunster (t!:c
Stewkeley s had for long been connected
with Dunster) to her niece Mary, wife of
the Right Hon. Henry Bilson Legge. Her
residuary legatee, and sole executor, was
Paulet St. John, eldest son of her previous
husband, Ellis St. John, by his second wife
(he had no issue by his first wife). This
Paulet was M.P. for Winchester, and
afterwards for Hants, then for Winchester
again. In 1772 he was created a baronet.
His grandson, Sir Henry Paulet St. John,
3rd baronet, took the additional surname of
Mildmay by royal licence.
Sir Hugh Stewkeley 's eldest daughter
and coheir married the last Lord Stawell,
by whom she had one son and one daughter
(the Mary Bilson Legge of her will).
The son died before his father, and the
barony therefore lapsed on the latter' s
decease without (surviving) male issue. It
was, however, revived in favour of his only
daughter, Mary Bilson Legge, May 20, 1760,
who was created Baroness Stawell of Somer-
ton, co. Somerset. Her husband was a pro-
minent statesman of the day.
STEPNEY GREEN.
FlELDINGIANA : MlSS H AND (12 S.
i. 483 ; ii. 16, 38). — There can be no doubt
that the maiden name of the Countess of
Northington was Huband : —
I. John Huband, of Ipsley, co. Warwick,
created a baronet 2 Feb. 1660-1, married Jane,
daughter of Lord Charles Pawlett, of Dowles,
co. Hants, and died 1710.
II. Sir John, son and heir, married Rhoda,
daughter of Sir Thomas Broughton, of Broughton,
o. Stafford, bart, and died 24 Jan., 1716-7.
III. Sir John, son and heir, died at Eton, a minor
and unmarried, set. 17, 10 Nov., 1739, when the title
became extinct. — See ' Synopsis of the Extinct
Baronetage of England,' by William Courthope,
1835, p. 105.
According to ' The English Baronetage '
(by Thomas Wotton), 1741, vol. iii. pt. i.
p. 263, Rhoda, daughter of Sir Thomas
Broughton, second Baronet, married Sir
John Huband of Ipsley, in the county of
Warwick, Bart. In the same ' Baronetage,'
vol. iv. p. 277, Huband of Ipsley, Warwick-
shire, appears among the " Baronets, Ex-
tinct.' See also G. E. C[okayne]'s ' Com-
plete Baronetage,' iii. 158.
According to G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage,'
vi. 80, the Earl of Northington married,
Nov. 19, 1743, at St. George's, Hanover
Square, Jane, sister and coheir of Sir John
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. AUG. 12, WIG.
Huband, 3rd Bart., daughter of Sir John
Huband, 2nd Bart., of Ipsley, co. Warwick,
1)\- lllioda, daughter of Sir Thomas Brough-
ton, Bart. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
STEEL IN MEDICINE (12 S. ii. 69).— The
use of iron as a medicine was known long
before Boyle wrote his work upon ' Natural
Philosophy,' the first edition of which ap-
peared in 1663. Dr. J. Frampton published
in London, in the year 1580, a book entitled
' Jojfull News out of the New-found World,'
&c.,* a translation from the Spanish of
"Or. Monardes, and treating, among other
things, of the properties of " Yron and Steele
in Medicine." Other early works upon the
subject were published by J. Bourges, Paris,
1649; C. Drelincurtius, Montpelier, 1654;
and J. Michaelis, Leipzig, 1658.
S D. CLTPPINGDALE, M.D.
BRASS PLATE IN NEWLAND CHURCH,
GLOUCESTERSHIRE (12 S. ii. 90). — MR.
ANEURIN WILLIAMS is vague, but he
probably refers to the well-known fifteenth-
century brass in the Clearwell Chapel of the
church of Newland. On that brass, which
forms a heraldic crest, is shown a Free-miner
of the Forest of Dean. There is an ex-
cellent picture of this brass in Nicholas's
' History of the Forest of Dean ' (Murray,
1858). Nicholls says that the brass repre-
sents the iron-min^r
" wearing a cap, holding a candlestick between his
teeth, handling a small mattock, with which to
loosen, as occasion required, the fine mineral earth,
lodged in the cavity within which he worked, or
else to detach the metallic incrustations lining its
sides, bearing a light wooden mine-hod on his back,
suspended by a shoulderstrap, and clothed in a thick
flannel jacket, and short leathern breeches, tied
with thongs below the knee."
H. K. H.
THE LION RAMPANT OF SCOTLAND (12 S.
ii. 71). — It may interest MR. A. S. E.
ACKERMANN to know that a few years past
I had some correspondence with that gallant
officer Capt. Heaton-Armstrong, then
Private Secretary to the erstwhile Mpret of
Albania (Prince William of Wied), who had
had a new coat of arms made in Germany
for his kingdom : "A double-headed eagle
displayed, charged on the breast with the
arms of Runkel."
I called Capt. Heaton-Armstrong' s atten-
tion to the fact that the ancient arms of
Albania, as quartered by the Emperor of
Austria (see Woodward), were " Or, a lion
rampant gules " ; and received an official
reply, courteously informing me that I was
correct, and that the Albanians, curiously
enough, possessed similar traits to the
inhabitants of our Alban : they have the
clan system, and are a kilted race, and still
keep their peel towers or f ortalices of refuge-
ALFRED RODWAY.
GORGES BRASS (12 S. i. 488; ii. 13). — The
brass of Henry, son of Lord Gorges, of which
I sent a description which appears rat the
former reference, has been purchased, I
understand, for erection in the Old Church,
Chelsea, where there are other Gorges brasses.
(Rev.) H. L. L. DENNY.
3 Lincoln Street, S.W.
HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS (12 S.
ii. 89). — 2. People who hold a variety of
superstitions about clocks say that two pen-
dulum clocks stop one another if set side by
side. If a clock stops soon after a death in.
a house, only a little child must set the pen-
dulum swinging again.
5. The belief about the " turned " prim-
rose is common. It is often tried, but by
the next spring is quite forgotten. But it is
said that a turned primula will come up a
better colour. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
RICHARD RELHAN, JUN. (12 S. i. 449). —
It has been found that John Henry Relhan,
brother of the above, died in Cambridge,
Jan. 2, 1838, and Charlotte Relhan, a sister,
in 1852, and that a brother, Charles Relhan,
a teacher of music, was then living at
Manor Street, Cambridge. Perhaps these
particulars may discover what we desire to
know, viz., where and when Richard
Relhan, jun., died. R. HEFFER.
RICHARD SWIFT (12 S. ii. 9, 58, 73, 112).—
There are several pleasant references to this
gentleman in Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's
' My Life in Two Hemispheres,' 2 vols.
(Fisher Unwin), 1898.
EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'
COL. CHARLES LENNOX (12 S. ii. 28, 89).—
This gentleman died as 4th Duke of Rich-
mond in 1819, not, as stated by W. R. W.,
from the bite of a dog, but from the bite of a
tame fox which went mad.
Monreith. HERBERT MAXWELL.
" A STEER OF WOOD " (12 S. ii. 79). — This
expression is said at the above reference to
remain unaccounted for in the ' N.E.D.'
As a stire, a cubic metre, is the acknowledged
measurement for wood in France, the word
" steer " in Victorian days in that connexions
does not seem to need much explanation.
Blenheim Crescent, W.
W. DEL COURT.
12 s. ii. AUG. 12, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
PEAS POTTAGE (12 S. ii. 90). — It was
during the Peninsular War that here French
prisoners were refreshed on the road with
peas pudding, and hence this name.
HAKOLD MALET, Col.
Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.
LAKGEST BAG OF GAME FOB A DAY'S
SHOOTING (12 S. i. 510 ; ii. 55). — In those days
hares and other ground game were rounded
up with nets, and slaughtered. Tuer means
to slaughter. W. H. M. GRIMSHAW.
Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall, S.W.
0n
London Street Games. By Norman Douglas.
(London, St. Catherine Press, 5s. net.)
THE author, in the dedication, speaks of his book
as " this breathless Catalogue " — and thus
characterizes it very aptly. It is a list of names
of games, poured out with rapid interspersions of
description, as if in the monologue of a Cockney
wiseacre who divides his subject roughly into
boys' games, girls' games, and small children's
games, and, in the second division, gives a great
number of " chants " as they are used to-day —
some blatantly of modern invention, others
adaptations of older incantations. Bules for
playing some of the games are given as the
players give them, and a specimen of one of
these, with its immediate setting, may indicate,
as a description could not, the general character
of the book : —
" Then there's PROG IN FIELD and FROG IN
THE MIDDLE and FROG IN THE WATER and INCH
IT UP and SHRIMPS (where you have to go over
a boy's back with your cap doubled up on your
head — many duty-games have to be played with
caps) and LOBSTER (also called EGGS AND BACON,
where you have to throw down your cap while
going over his head and pick it up with your teeth
without rolling off his back) and EGG IN A DUCK'S
BELLY (holding the cap between your legs) and
CAT O' NINE TALES and SPUR THE DONK and OVER
THE MOON and FOOT IT (where you jump sideways)
and CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE and CAT ON
HOT BRICKS (about as good as any) and POSTMAN
and HOPPING ALL THE WAY TO CHURCH and
MUSSENTOUCHET — ' In mussentouchet one boy
flies over back and then he puts the boys hats
anywhere he likes [on their bodies] and tells
them to run to certain spot and they must not
touch their hats the one whose hat falls off is
down.' "
So the entire book goes on, with the exception of
a few groups of lines (they can hardly be called
sentences) in which Mr. Douglas introduces such
reflections into the talk of his supposed informer
as plainly show that he is himself fully aware
of the antiquarian or " folk-lore " interest of
the games , names, and rimes. (By the way,
what is the adjective corresponding to " folk-
lore " ? Has one been invented ?) He has
not chosen to tell us how or from whom or in
what several parts he collected this lively learn-
ing, and has left it to the reader to notice par-
ticular matters of interest, such as the version
of " Madame, will you walk," or the small chil-
dren's games which remain old - fashioned, or the
discourse on the waning popularity of marbles
and the reason for it. We like the book the better
for its odd nianner ; indeed, we like)the book very
much. It is spirited and quite funny — full of
that crude young wit of the street-arab, which,
insouciant, often rather cruel, often rotesquely
coarse, is oddly exempt from real vulgarity — a
mischief which, perhaps, does not infect a person's-
wit till he is too old for street games.
The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall. By Thomas
Taylor, F.S.A. (Longmans & Co., 3s. Qd. net.)
THE Celtic Christianity of Cornwall has become
almost a by- word by reason of the multiplicity and
obscurity of the saints for which it is famous
If Mr. Taylor has not always succeeded in<
bringing light into its darkness, he has at
least always taken care to ground himself upon-
excellent authorities, such as the archaeological
works of MM. Gougaud and Dechelette, ancT
he has obtained valuable help from two masters
of the Cornish tongue in Prof. Loth and Mr^
H. Jenner. But the true answer to very many
of the difficulties involved in this ancient faith
will still be that a certain percentage of these-
mysterious saints were survivals of old local"
divinities of pagan origin. The author admits that
the cult of the sun was rife in Cornwall a thousand"
years ago, and that the Church history of the
county before the Norman conquest was chiefly
matter of legendary lore. Giving his own experience-
as one who has spent a quarter of a century as a
teacher among the people, he notes that a marked
change has passed over the face of Cornish Noncon-
formity, which once was so pronounced — that many
of the old doctrines are being recast, and that the
drift is towards a moderate rationalism. But the
impress of the once prevalent monastic! sm can
everywhere be distinctly traced. The picture drawn
of the mediaeval Hermit who was the pioneer of
the monastery is by no means that of a mere-
spiritual solitary, as generally imagined, but rather
that of an active philanthropist who ministered as
a friend to all, and enjoyed wide influence (p. 123).
He was, in fact, a practical philanthropist who
devoted his life to the service of his fellow-men.
Selections from the Poems of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. Edited by A. Hamilton Thompson.
(Cambridge University Press, 2s. net.)
THERE cannot often be two opinions, when a some-
what restricted selection of Coleridge's poems-
is compiling, as to what to include and what to
omit, and we cannot flatter ourselves that we
might have improved this selection, except,,
perhaps, by effectually protesting against the
dismemberment of ' Christabel.' This, on several,
counts, appears to jus a great mistake, and if it
seemed forced upon Mr. Thompson by want of
space, we would have recommended him to
shorten his Introduction and curtail the lavish
quotations in his notes, as well as several remarks-
which appear twice over, in order to get the whole
poem in.
One of the most useful features in the volume
is the conspectus of principal dates in the life of
Coleridge — a humble bit of work, perhaps, but
done with an unusual nicety and fullness of detail.
The Introduction is devoted largely to a study
of the relation of Coleridge's poetry to Nature on
140
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 12,
the one hand and that of Wordsworth on the
•other, with some rather sketchy remarks on
<?oleridge's philosophy, and a good account of the
rise and wane of his poetical activity. It is an
essay which would hardly be grasped by a mind
at the stage when ' Christabel ' presented in bits
would seem tolerable — for it is by no means
clearly pointed, and assumes in the reader a fair
knowledge of the literature of the period.
The same sort of praise — with just that doubtful-
ness about it — applies to the Notes. These are
very good, in that they supply bibliographical and
circumstantial details both lavishly and judi-
ciously ; but they also combine explanations
-suitable for children (e.g., "Lutanist] Player on a
lute"; " Swift jug jug] 'Jug '(is the traditional
verbal equivalent for the nightingale's ' fast thick
warble'"; the note on "beads"; "sovran]
Sovereign") with criticisms and allusions to
facts of political and literary history which chil-
dren are not likely to make much of. While
calling attention to felicities and exactness of
description, they omit to notice one or two curious
slips on the poet's part — as, for instance, the lines
in ' Youth and Age,' where he is betrayed into
saying that "a breathing house .... lightly
flashed along." We suppose an adult and not in-
experienced reader who is beginning to take to
poetry is the person aimed at. From which
point of view we should judge the Notes to be
somewhat better, and the Introduction somewhat
less well calculated, than they appear on an inde-
pendent consideration.
The Burlington Magazine for August has for
frontispiece a reproduction of Ford Madox
Brown s famous landscape, ' An English Autumn
Afternoon,' which has recently been presented
-to the Birmingham Art Gallery. Mr. Campbell
Dodgson contributes an article on the ' Calumny
-of Apelles,' by Breu. It was a favourite conven-
tion amongst the painters of the Renaissance to
attempt to reconstruct the painting of Apelles
from the description given by Lucian ; the present
•example was made by Jorg Breu the elder of
Augsburg (d. 1537 ) from the engraving by Mocetto
•sifter Mantegna's pencil drawing, and was recently
presented to the British Museum by Sir Edward
Poynter. It is more of a free transcript than a
copy of the engraving, which, together with the
•original drawing, is already in the collection.
Mr. W. R. Lethaby, in a first article on ' English
Primitives,' is concerned mainly with the work of
Master Walter of Colchester, a monk of St. Alban's
Abbey in the thirteenth century, " sculptor et
pictor incomparabilis," according to Matthew
Paris. Mr. Lethaby disagrees with Mr. Page
;about the remains of the paintings on the square
piers of the nave of the church, and considers
that the most restrained of the paintings (that on
Pier I.) is the earliest, and that on the easternmost
hardly earlier than 1280. Reproductions are
provided of some of these paintings, and of three
beautiful designs of Master Walter from the
obituary roll of Lucy, first Prioress of the Holy
Cross and St. Mary, Castle Hedingham, Essex.
Mr. Lionel Cust continues his ' Notes on Pictures
in the Royal Collections ' with a discussion of a
supposed portrait of Raphael by himself , found hi
a neglected state at Windsor during the reign of
Edward VII . Mr. Cust is doubtful as to the
.authorship of the painting. Some of the works
-of the young Franco-Polish sculptor Gaudier
Brzeska, recently killed in action, are discussed
and illustrated by Mr. Roger Fry. The portraits
of Mr. Asher Wert&eimer and his wife, forming
two of the nine family portraits by Mr. Sargent
which Mr. Wertheimer lias generously presented
to the nation, are reproduced with some notes
under the heading ' A Monthly Chronicle.'
THE DE BANCO SEARCH SOCIETY.
The following paragraphs are taken from a letter
which we have recently received from Sir George
Makgill, Hon. Secretary of the above society : —
" May I call your attention to the existence of
the De Banco Search Society, which has for many
years been carrying on an excellent work in search-
ing the early Plea Rolls?
" The early Plea Rolls are quite unindexed and
very numerous ; for instance, in the reign of
Richard II. (1377-1399) — the next reign to be
searched — there are 80 rolls, each containing some
6,000 or more suits, which represent a grand total
of 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 surnames, and about halt
that number of p_lace-names.
" Every roll will be searched, and not, as hitherto,
alternate Terms only ; this will, of course, mean that
the reign will take longer to finish, but it will
assure every member obtaining a complete list of
all references to the name or names entered.
"The subscription, which will last for one year,
will now be II. 7*. 6d- for one name. 3{. 13s. 6rf. for
three names, and 11. Is. for every additional name
entered.
"Reports will be sent out every three months;
they will contain the full name and residence of
the names subscribers are interested in, with the
full reference to the roll and membrane Those
members wishing to have abstracts or copies of
entries can make arrangements with the searcher,
who will have the work done while the search is in
progress, thus saving the staff of the Public Record
Office the unnecessary trouble of continually pro-
ducing the same rolls, and the rolls themselves
from the wear and tear entailed.
"The work will be in the hands of Miss Dorothy
O. Shilton, who has been carrying on the searches
for the Society for some years."
The address of the Society is 93-94 Chancery
Lane, W.C.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. £ Q.'
to C0msp0nt»mts.
CORRESPONDENTS who send letters to be forwarded
to other contributors should put on the top left-
hand corner of their envelopes the number of the
page of ' N. & Q.' to which their letters refer, BO
that the contributor may be readily identified.
MR. E. C. MALAN. — Forwarded.
CAPT. H. S. GLADSTONE. — Forwarded to MR.
ROBERT PIERPOINT. We much regret the misprint
("Galdstone" for Gladstone) in the Index to
12 S. i.
12 s. ii. AUG. 19, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
HI
LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1916.
CONTENTS.-No. 34.
NOTES :— Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and
Towns, 141 — The Three Witches in 'Macbeth,' 142 — A
Bibliography of Forgotten Magazines, 143 — Inscriptions
in St. Mary's Battersea, 145—" Maru," 146— Shakespeare
Allusion— George Nicholson, Printer, 1760-1825: Pough-
nill— Words from ' Mercurius Politicus,' 147.
•QUERIES:— Mrs. Ann Dutton, 147 — Burton and Speke :
African Travel— References Wanted—" L'homme sensuel
moyen "—Custody of Corporate Seals— Francis Whittle,
M.P. — John Williams. M.P. — "Windose" — Boy-Ed as
Surname— Raynes Park, Wimbledon— Thomas Chace, 148
— William Thornhill, Surgeon— Mary Anne Clarke— Emma
Robinson, Author of ' Whitefriars '— ' Sabrinse Corolla'—
'The London Magazine ' — St. Sebastian — Rome and
Moscow— John Evans, Astrologer of Wales — British
Crests — Gibbon's Diary, 149.
KEPLIES :— " Nose of Wax." 150— An English Army List of
1740, 151— Hymn-Tune ' Lydia,' 152— Author Wanted—
First Illustrated English Novel— Churchwardens and their
Wands — Sir David Owen, Kt, 153 — Papal Insignia:
Nicolas V., 154 — 'Otho de Grandison ' — St. George's,
Bloomsbury — First English Provincial Newspaper, 155
— William Holloway — Peat and Moss : Healing
Properties— Richard Wilson, M.P., 156— "Honest Injun"
— Common Garden=Covent Garden — The City Coroner
and Treasure-Trove — " Watch House," Ewell, Surrey —
'The Man with the Hoe," 157 — Pronunciation of "Cat-
riona "—Dr. Thomas Chevalier-Portrait of a Knight of
the Garter — Ancient Welsh Triad— Early Circulating
"Library— Thomas Hussey, M.P. for Whitchurch, 158—
Farmers' Candlemas Rime— House and Garden Super-
stitions— Thomas Congreve, M.D. — "Oil on troubled
waters "— Edmond Dubleday, 159.
WOTES ON BOOKS :— Calendar of Charter Rolls, 1341-1417
— 'lacob and losep '— ' Ireland in Fiction.'
Notices to Correspondents.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See 11 S. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276,
375; 12 S. i. 422; ii. 22.)
PART IX.— M.
MAOHERAFELT.
Some Account of the Town of Magherafelt and
Manor of Sal in Ireland. By the Father of
that (Salters') Company. Southwark, 1842.
MALLOW.
Historical and Topographical Notes, &c., on
Buttevant, Castletownroche,Doneraile, Mallow,
and Places in their Vicinity. By Col. James
Grove White. Cork, 1905-11.
MANOR ATKIXSOX.
"The History of the Two Ulster Manors of Finagh,
co. Tyrone, and Coole, otherwise Manor Atkin-
son, and of their owners. By the Earl of
Belmore. Dublin, 1881.
MAYNOOTH.
IRecords of the History of Maynooth Church,
principally of the Prebendaries of Maynooth
and the Vicars of Laraghbryan. By Rev.
George Blacker. Dublin, 1867.
Maynooth College, its Centenary History, 1795-
1895. By Archbishop Healy. Dublin, 1895.
Maynooth College. By Archbishop Healy.
Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
See Kildare.
MAYO.
Narrative of what passed in Killala, co. Mayo,
and the parts adjacent during the French
Invasion in the summer of 1798. By an eye-
witness (Bishop of Killala). Dublin, 1800.
Statistical Survey of co. Mayo. By James
Mackarlan. Dublin, 1802.
Account in Irish of the Tribes and Customs of the
District of Hy-Fiachrach, in the Counties of
Sligo and Mayo. Edited with Translation by
John O'Donovan. Dublin, 1844.
Twenty Years in Mayo. By J. Houston. London,
1879.
Studies in Irish History and Biography. Con-
tains chapter on French Invasion of Ireland
in 1798. By C. Litton Falkiner. Dublin,
1904.
History of co. Mayo to the close of the Sixteenth
Century. By H. T. Knox. Dublin, 1908.
Grania Uaile. By Archbishop Healy. Catholic
Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
Notes on the larger Cliff Forts of co. Mayo. By
T. J. Westropp. Proceedings of the Royal
Irish Academy. Dublin.
MEATH.
Statistical Survey of co. Meath. By Robert
Thompson. Dublin, 1802.
The Beauties of Ireland. Chapter on Meath. By
J. N. Brewer. London, 1826.
Antiquities of co. Meath. By Francis Grese
and John D'Alton. Dublin, 1833.
On the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. By
George Petrie, M.R.I. A. Proceedings of the
Royal Irish Academy. Dublin, 1839.
The Beauties of the Boyne and Blackwater. By
Sir W. R. Wilde. Dublin, 1849.
Some Notices of the Castles and of the Ecclesias-
tical Buildings of Trim. By Dean Butler.
Dublin, 1861. (Never published, only printed
for private circulation.)
The Diocese of Meath. By Dean Cogan. Dublin,
1862-70.
A Ramble round Trim amongst its Ruins and
Antiquities, with short notices of its celebrated
characters from the earliest period. By E. A.
Conwell, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1878.
The Boyne and Aughrim : the Story of Famous
Battlefields in Ireland. By Thomas Witherow.
1879.
The Boyne Valley, its Antiquities and Ecclesias-
tical Remains. By J. B. Cullen. Catholic
Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
Tara, Pagan and Christian. By Archbishop
Healy. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
The Hill of Slane and its Memories, and the Castle
of Trim. By John B. Cullen. Catholic Truth
Society, Dublin, 1915.
An Irish Shrine of the Madonna and Bective
Abbey. By John B. Cullen. Catholic Truth
Society, Dublin, 1915.
142
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. AUG. 19,
Saints and Ancient Sanctuaries of Meath. By
\Vm. Fallen, B.A. Catholic Truth Society,
Dublin, 1915.
MELLIFOXT.
Mellifont Abbey in the County of Louth : its Rise
and Downfall. Dublin, 1890.
THE IRISH MIDLANDS.
The Beauties of Ireland. (Deals largely with
history of the Midlands.) By J. N. Brewer.
London, 1826.
An Account of the O'Dempseys, Chiefs of Clan
Maliere. (Deals with the Midlands.) By
Thomas Mathews. Dublin, 1903.
Early Haunts of Oliver Goldsmith. (Deals with
the connexion of the poet with the Midlands.)
By Rev. Dean Kelly. Dublin, 1905.
The Midland Septs and the Pale. By Rev. P. R.
Montgomery Hitchcock, M.A. Dublin, 1908.
The Plantations of Offaly and Leix. Chap. VII.
in ' The Beginning of Modern Ireland.' by
Philip Wilson. Dublin, 1914.
MOIRA.
The Battle of Magh Rath (Moira) and the Banquet
of Dun-na-X-Gedh. Irish Text, with Transla-
tion and Notes by John O'Donovan. Irish
Archaeological and Celtic Society Publications,
Dublin, 1842.
MOXAGHAX.
History of the County of Monaghan. By Philip
Evelyn Shirley. London, 1879-80.
List of Books, Pamphlets, and Newspapers
printed in Monaghan in the eighteenth century.
By E. R. McDix, M.R.I.A. Dundalk, 1906.
Of Glaslough in the Kingdom of Oriel, and of the
noted men that have lived there. By Seymour
Leslie. Glaslough, 1913.
Monaghan in the Eighteenth Century. By D.
Carolan Rushe, M.A. Dundalk, 1915.
MOXASTERBOICE.
Muiredach, Abbot of Monasterboice, 890-923
A.D. : his Life and Surroundings. By R. A. S.
Macalister. Dublin, 1914.
MOXKSTOWX (co. Dublin).
Register of the Union of Monkstown, co. Dublin,
1669-1786. Parish Register Society of Dublin,
Dublin, 1908.
MOOXE.
Notes on the High Crosses of Moone, &c.
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.
Dublin, 1901.
MOUXT ST. BRANDON*.
Mount St. Brandon Religious Celebration : the
Scenery, Antiquities, and History of West
Kerry. By J. J. Long. Tralee, 1868.
MUCKROSS.
Muckross Abbey and Innisfallen Island. By
J. B. Cullen. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin,
1915.
MUXGRET.
The Monastery of Mungret. By Rev. E. Cahill,
S.J. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
WILLIAM MACARTHUB.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
(To be continued.)
THE THREE WITCHES IX ' MACBETH/
THE " weird sisters " of ' Macbeth ' present
to me three stages or steps of witchcraft—
the novice, the graduate, and the mistress of
high degree — and, in keeping with their
principle of contrariness,
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
the third witch is the chief and most knowing
of the trio. In the brief opening scene the
first witch only asks questions); the others
answer her, the third with fuller and more
far-seeing knowledge than the second.
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain ?
asks the first witch.
When the hurly-burly 's done,
When the battle's lost and won,
replies the second ; but the third knows
That will be ere the set of sun.
" Where the place ? " is the next query of
the eager novice. The graduate can reply
" Upon the heath," but it is the mistress of
high degree that gives the more promising
and prophetic information : " There to meef
with Macbeth." The dialogue now appears
to take an abrupt turn, for the first witch
rejoins : " I come, Graymalkin." Who is
Graymalkin ? The glossarists say " a
familiar spirit in the shape of a grey cat,"
yet they give no reasons, or rather no
authority that I have read states the why
and the wherefore for such a definition^
There is no stage direction to say any spirit
or body calls. Graymalkin certainly may
mean an old, grey cat, and in the song
' Come Away ' sung in Act III. scene v., of
which only the first line is given, but which
can be found entire in Middle ton's ' The
Witch,' Hecate speaks of what in Act III..
scene v. she terms " my little spirit " as
" Malkin my sweet spirit."
Hark ! I am call'd ; my little spirit, see,
Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.
The song in ' The Witch ' runs : —
Come away, come away ; ) m th .
Hecate, Hecate, come away. J
~H.ec. I come, I come, I come,
With all the speed I may.
Now I go, now I fly,
Malkin my sweet spirit and I, &c.
Is Hecate or her spirit Graymalkin ? Or is it
to the third witch that the name is applied ?
If to the third witch, then the dialogue loses
its abrupt turn, and the mistress of high
degree gets an appropriate witch-name ; but,,
before the line would fit in this sense, it
would have to be slightly amended from the
present to the future, and read : " I'll come,.
Gravmalkin."
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The folio edition prints the concluding
lines thus : —
Paddock calls : — anon —
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air ;
and as if they were to be spoken by the three
witches in chorus. Most editors now give
the line — " Paddock calls : anon " — only
to the second witch, some making a further
division by giving the " anon " to the
third witch, leaving the last two lines only
to be said in chorus. This last is the method
of the "Globe" edition. "Paddocks" are
large, croaking frogs or toads, and the
glossarists define " Paddock " here as " a
familiar spirit in the form of a huge toad,"
a surmise originated, I suppose, by " Pad-
dock" being in the singular, and followed
by " anon " — a servant's term for coming.
But it is possible " anon " may here be a
word of direction or command meaning
" quickly," " at once." Perhaps the im-
pression intended to be conveyed by the
witches' words is that they know by the
croaking of the frogs or toads that the
thunderstorm is breaking — the fair which is
foul to them gaining the upper hand — and
so, while the atmosphere about them is still
leaden, thick, and humid, the trio speedily
vanish.
In the other witch scene of the first act
the three degrees of the witches are well
maintained. Following Holinshed's ' The
Historic of Macbeth,' on which he based
his play, and whence he borrowed the
three weird sisters, Shakespeare makes the
first witch only salute Macbeth as Thane of
Glamis, a title he knows he already possesses
by his father's death. The second witch
goes a little further towards prophecy, but
it would be then known at Duncan's court
that Macbeth was Thane of Cawdor. It is
the third witch that gives the " more than
mortal knowledge " : —
Thou shalt be king hereafter J
To Banquo's questioning, the novice can
only answer : — •
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
The graduate's
Not so happy, yet much happier,
is not more satisfying. The mistress of
high degree alone tells Banquo really some-
thing:—
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
The ingredients thrown by the witches
into the cauldron in the opening cavern
scene of Act IV. display well, also, the
degrees of their powers. The first witch only
throws two ingredients, " poisoned entrails,"
and
Toad that under a cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Sweltered venom, sleeping got ;
afterwards adding two more —
sow's blood, that bath eaten
Her nine farrow : grease, that's sweaten
Prom the murderer's gibbet,
when Macbeth demands to see the appari-
tions. All these ingredients would be truly
local and comparatively easy to be got.
The second witch's quota is more numerous, .
totalling, with the cooling " baboon's blood,"
ten : —
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake ?
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing.
These, too, could mostly be got near at
hand, and without much trouble. The
most powerful share comes from the third
witch, an unlucky thirteen of ugly and
far-fetched things : —
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy ; maw and gulf
Of the ravined salt-sea shark ;
Root of hemlock, digged i' the dark ;
Liver of blaspheming Jew ;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Slivered in the moon's eclipse ;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips ;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-delivered by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab ;
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
W. H. PINCHBECK
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
FORGOTTEN MAGAZINES.
AN attempt was made by Pisanus Fraxi
(H. S. Ashbee), in ' Catena Librorum Tacen-
dorum ' (London, 1885), to compile a
bibliography of the numerous ribald mis-
cellanies which flourished at the end of the
eighteenth and the beginning of the nine-
teenth centuries. The list, however, is very
imperfect. Mr. Ashbee, very rightly, never
described a publication that he had not
examined, and these books are so seldom met
with that it is not surprising that many of
them escaped his notice. It is doubtful
whether even the British Museum thirty
years ago possessed a complete set, as I
believe it does now, of the three most
notorious of these periodicals. The parent
of them all, however, is no rarity, for owing
144
NOTES AND QUERIES.
m s. n. AC,;. 19,
-to its large circulation there is no difficulty
in procuring it. This is the familiar
" Town and Country Magazine ; or Universal
Repository of Knowledge and Entertainment.
Printed for A. Hamilton, Junior, near St. John's
Gate,"
from January, 1769, till November, 1780,
when it was printed for the same proprietor
" opposite St. Dunstan's Church, Fleet St."
Archibald Hamilton continued to conduct
the magazine until the end of 1790; and
afterwards, under W. Bradford, it ran for
some years longer. Its interest, however,
ceases with the twenty-second volume.
The " prodigious sale "of The Town and
Country Magazine in its early days naturally
brought forth a plentiful crop of similar
productions. In November, 1772, appeared
" The Macaroni and Theatrical Magazine, or
Monthly Register of the Fashions and Diversions
of the Times. Printed for J. Williams at No. 39,
next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street,"
followed in December of the same year by
" The Westminster Magazine, or the Pantheon
of Taste. Printed for W. Goldsmith at No. 24
Paternoster Bow."
These three periodicals, however, were far
surpassed in indecorousness by a succession
of magazines, which continued to nourish
for a great number of years, and which I
propose to describe in detail. The following
is a list of them : —
1. " The Co vent Garden Magazine ; or Amorous
Repository : Calculated solely for the Entertain-
ment of the Polite World. Printed for G. Allen,
No. 59 in Paternoster Row."*
The first number appeared in July, 1772,
and it ran until December, 1774, making
three volumes in all. The title-page of the
third volume bears the additional de-
scription : " Calculated solely for the Enter-
tainment of the Polite World and the
Finishing of a Young Gentleman's Educa-
tion."
2. " The Rambler's Magazine ; or The Annals of
Gallantry, Glee, Pleasure, and. the Bon Ton ;
Calculated for the Entertainment of the Polite
World ; and to furnish the Man of Pleasure with
a most delicious banquet of Amorous, Bac-
chanalian, Whimsical, Humorous, Theatrical and
Polite Entertainment. Vol. I. For the year
1783. London. Printed for the Author and
sold by G. Lister, No. 46 Old Bailey : Mr. Jackson,
at Oxford ; Mr. Hodson, at Cambridge ; Mr.
Frobisher, at York ; Mr. Slack, at Newcastle ;
Messrs. Pearson & Rawlinson, at Birmingham ;
Mr. Cutwell, at Bath ; and all the other Booksellers
'in Great Britain and Ireland."
It first appeared in January, 1783, and
there are three volumes, for the years 1783,
* The title-page of my copy of the first volume
is torn out, and so I am compelled to copy from
an advertisement in a contemporary newspaper.
1784, and 1785 respectively, with the above
title-page. In the next year there was an
alteration. For the year 1786, and also for
the year 1787, the magazine was " Printed
for the Authors by R. Randall, No. 4 Shoe
Lane, Fleet Street"; for the year 1788,
and for the year 1789 until the December
number, by R. Randall at " Xo. 1 " Shoe
Lane, Fleet Street. From December, 1789,
until its close in June, 1790. it was printed
by J. Bird, first at No. 11 Poppin's Court,
Fleet Street, and afterwards at Fetter Lane,
Fleet Street. Altogether it ran into eight
volumes.
In the year following the decease of The
Rambler's Magazine another publication of
the same species had made its appearance : —
3. " The Bon Ton Magazine ; or Microscope of
Fashion and Folly. (For the year 1791.) Vol. I.
London. Printed by W. Locke, No. 12 Red Lion
Street, Holborn."
The first number is dated March, 1791,
and it ran to March, 1796, making five
volumes in all. The fourth and fifth
volumes (for 1794 and 1795-6) were printed
by D. Brewman, No. 18 New Street, Shoe
Lane, who strangely enough is given by
Pisanus Fraxi es the printer of the first
number (' Catena Librorum Tacendorum,'
p. 322).
Another periodical of a similar kind, but
much more decorous, was published about
the same time. This was : —
4. " The Carlton House Magazine ; or, Annals
of Taste, Fashion, and Politeness .... London.
Printed for W. & J. Stratford, No. 112 Holborn
Hill."
It ran from January, 1792, until February,
1798, being printed all the time by the same
firm at the same address.
Twenty years later a New Bon Ton
Magazine appeared, a rather more respect-
able publication than the first. This was : —
5. " The New Bon Ton Magazine, or Telescope of
the Times. Vol. I. From May to October,
1818. .. .London. Printed for J. Johnston,
Cheapside, and sold by all Booksell- •< •-. "'
This periodical ran from May 1. 1818, until
April 2, 1821, six volumes in all. It is far
less rare than the original Bon Ton Magazine.
An attempt to revive The Rambler's Maga-
zine is described by Pisanus Fraxi in ' Catena
Librorum Tacendorum ' as follows : —
" The Rambler's Magazine ; or Fashionable
Emporium of Polite Literature, The Fine Aits —
Politics — Theatrical Excellencies — Wit — Humour
— Genius — Taste — Gallantry — and all the Gay
Variety of Supreme Bon Ton .... Vol. 1. London.
Benbow, Printer, Byron's Head, Castle Street,
1822."
Pisanus Fraxi describes only this one
volume ; " after which," he adds, " I believe,
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145
the publication ceased." There is, however,
in my possession what I think is the second
volume of the same magazine, the title-page
of which unfortunately is missing. It ir
called : —
6 . " The Ram bier's Magazine , or Man of Fash ion 's
Companion. Vol. II. 1823."
It was published at No. 9 Castle Street,
Leicester Square, also, I presume, as in-
dicated at p. 262, by Benbow, " the Radical
cobbler.' ' It ran from January to December,
1823.
A few years later another magazine
appeared with the same title : —
7. " The Rambler's Magazine, or Frolicsome
Companion .... Vol. I. 1826."
The first number appeared in August,
1826. The title-page of my copy is missing.
It was published by W. Dugdale* at No. 23
Russell Court, Drury Lane, and ran, at all
events, into ten numbers, that of June, 1827,
being the last I have seen.
In spite of their coarseness these magazines
are invaluable to students of the period,
supplying as they do a wealth of biographical
information that cannot be found elsewhere.
The Covent Garden Magazine (1772-4), the
original Rambler's Magazine (1783-90), and
the original Bon Ton Magazine (1791-5),
almost cover the last quarter of the eighteenth
century, and reveal a most varied picture of
the times. Their importance, in casting a
light upon our social history, cannot be
denied, and they should not be disregarded
because of their obscenity. As Taine ob-
served to Mr. J. E. C. Bodley : " II n'y a pas
de mauvais documents."
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PARISH
CHURCH OF ST. MARY,* BATTERSEA.
Abstracts made in July, 1914.
(See ante, p. 125.)
GALLERY, NORTH SIDE.
28. William Vassall, Esq., d. May 8, 1800,
a. 84. Margaret, his w., d. Feb. 6, 1794. Her
sister, Mrs. Ann Hubbard, d. Dec. 13, 1785.
Leonard Samuel, his inf. gr.s., and Margaret
Vassall, his dau.. d. Dec. 17, 1819.
20. Thomas Fletcher, Esq., of Battersea Rise,
d. Oct. 23, 1800, a. 49.
30. Olivero Nicolai St. John de Lydeard filio
sectmdo Eq. auratn | antiquissimis et illustribus de
Hello C;impo de Bletsoe Grandisonis e | Tregozue
familiis oriundo, terra mariq., domi forisq. belli
* For William Dugdale (1800-1868), r. ' Index
Librorum Prohibitonim,' pp. 127, 1!):.'.
pacisq. | artibus egregio, divac Eliza)>cthaB e-
nobilissima pensionariorum | cohorte suis iude
meritls et singular! divi Jacobi gratia in |
Hibernia, instruments bellicis praafecto conaciaa
propreside | quaastori summo et Regis Vicario,.
procomiti de Grandisonis et | Tregoziaj de Hy-
worth hi Anglia Baroni, eidem divo Jacobp et |
filio eius piissimo secretioribus et sanctioribua
consiliis | postqua is annos honoribus a-quaverat et
tranquilissime senuerat | somriienti similiter cx-
tincto. Joannes de St. John, Eques et |
Baronettus, ex fratre nepos et haeres, avunculo
merientissimo | maestissimus P. in ecclesia de
Battersey. Vixit | annos Lxx. Mor. xxix Decem-
bris MDCXXX. f Busts of him and wife.]
31. Angelica Magdalen St. John, dau. to Mr.
Pellisary, surintendent of all the ships and gallies
of France, and Treasr. General of ye Marine, w. of
the Right Hon. Henry, Lord Viscount St. John,
d. Aug. 5, 1736.
32. Henry St. John, in the reign of Queen Anne
Secretary of War, Secretary of State and Viscount,
Bolingbroke. In the days of King George I. and
King George II., something more and better..
Died Dec. 12, 1751 , a. 72. Mary Clara DesChamps
de Marcilly, Marchioness of Villette and Vis-
countess Bolingbroke. Died, a. 74, Mar. 18, 1750.-
[A portrait medallion.]
33. Robert Banks Hodgkinson, Esq., and
Bridget, his w., of Overton, Derby, some time of
Heston House, Heston, MX., second s. of Joseph-
Banks arid Ann Hodgkinson, his w., of Revesby
Abbey, Lines. She was eldest dau. of Thos.
Williams, Esq., and Anne Singleton, his w., of
Edwinsford, Carmarthen. She d. July 14, 1792,.
a. 57. He d. Dec. 11, 1792, a. 70. They left no-
issue.
34. Matthew Chalie, Esq., d. May 22, 1838, a. 91.
35. Mary Anne, w. of Matthew Chalie, Esq.,-
d. Dec. 13, 1796, a. 33. Her sister, Cath. Sarah
Hoper, d. April 12, 1828, a. 60. Elizabeth Hoper,.
d. Dec. 15, 1852, a. 92.
36. Sir John Fleet, Kt., Alderman of London,
Lord Mayor in 1693, d. July 6, 1712, a. 65.
37. Robert Vaugban Richards, Esq., d. July 2,.
1846, a. 55. Jane, his w., d. Dec. 11, 1822, a. 31-
38. John Chalie. d. Mar. 11, 1800, a. 10.
Matthew Chalie, d. Jan. 4, 1816, a. 21. Marianne
Chalie, d. an infant, Jan. 24, 1793. They, with
Jane, w. of Robt. Vaughan Richards, were the only
children of Matthew Chalie and Mary Anne, hisw.
WEST END OP GALLERY.
39. Richard Rothwell, Esq., Alderman, and
formerly High Sheriff of the City of London and
County of MX., d. July 26, 1821, a. 59. Eleanor,
his w., d. April 3, 1834, a. 69.
40. Margaret Susanna Pounsett, w. of Henry
Pounsett, of Stockwell, Surrey, eldest dau. of
Richard Rothwell, Esq., of this p., Alderman of
London and High Sheriff of MX. She d. Mar. 22,
1820, a. 31, leaving 2 sons and 3 daus. Ellen Anne
Pounsett, her 2nd dau., d. Dec. 7, 1834, a. 22.
SOUTH SIDE OP GALLERY.
41. William Young, Esq., of Chancery Lane»-
d. May 3, 1807, a. 55. Frances, his wid., d. at
Leed. Jan. 5, 1810, a. 56, and WBS buried in the
?. church of Ledsham, Yorks.
42. John Camden, Esq., d. Oct. 17, 1780, a. 57.
His eldest dau., Elizabeth, w. of James Neild,
of St. James Street, London, d. June 30, 1791,.
U6
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 19, me.
13. Harriet, dau. of John Cam den, Esq.»
d. Feb. 24, 1795. She was w. of John Mangles,
Esq., who d. at Bath, Feb. 21, 1837, and is bur. in
the Abbey Church.
14. Edward Wynter, Kt., India merchant,
forty-two years in India. He mar. Emma, dau.
of Richard Howe, ar., of Norfolk, and d. Mar. 2,
1685/6, a. 64. Catherine, relict of William
Winter, Esq., gr.s. to the above, d. Aug. 20, 1771,
a. 56. Her son. Wm. Woodstock Wynter,
d. Oct. 30, 1747, a. 14. Erected by Edward
Hampson Wynter, Esq., great-gr.s. of Sir Edward.
45. Holies St. John, Esq., youngest son of the
Right Hon. Henry, Lord Viscount St. John, by
his second Lady, Angelica Magdalena Pelissary,
• one of the Equerries to her late Majesty Queen
Carolina. He d. Oct. 6, 1738, a. 27. Erected
by his only sister, the Hon. Henrietta Knight.
ON THE GALLERY STAIRS.
46. James Bull, d. Aug. 16, 1713, a. — , leaving
a relict and two children. John Bull, only son of
James and Frances Bull, d. Feb. 2, 1729, a. 33,
leaving a wid. and two sons, John and Edmund.
47. Russell Manners, fourth s. of Lord William
Manners, a General in the Army and Colonel of
H.M. 26th Regt. of Light Dragoons, d. at Billericay
in Essex, Sept. 3, 1800, a. 62. Mrs. Mary Sneyd,
dau. of the above, d. Feb. 14, 1839, a. 73. Russell
Manners, Esq., s. of the above, d. Jan. 16, 1840,
-a. 68.
INDEX OP PERSONS.
.Ashness, 23
Astle, 21
Banks, 33
Bolingbroke,
Viscount, 32
Broadhurst, 14
Bull, 4, 46
Camden, 42-3
• Chali4, 34-5, 38
Connor, 1 , 25
-Crowder, 13
Oowe, 11
Dives, 6
Fitch, 15
Fleet, 36
Fletcher, 29
Prancis, 18
Franck, 2, 5
Gosling, 22
Hale, 24
Herbert, 8
Heylin, 22
Hodgkinson, 33
Hollingsworth , 5
Hoper, 35
Howe, 44
Hubbard, 28
Inglis, 7
Johnson, 16
Knight, 45
Mangles, 43
Manners, 47
Marcilly, 32
Middleton, 8
Mills, 22
Neild, 42
Pe(l)lis(s)ary,31,
45
Ponton, 10
Pounsett, 40
Rapp, 26
Richards, 37-8
Roberts, 10
Roth well, 39, 40
St. John, 30-32,
45
Scholey, 27
Singleton, 33
Sneyd. 47
Spice, 3
Vardon, 20
Vassall, 28
Verdon, 17
Williams, 3
Willis. 9, 11
Wix, 19
Wombwell, 12
Wynter, 44
Young, 41
INDEK OP PLACES.
Aldenhain, Herts, 11
Basle, 26
Bath, 43
Berkeley Square, 9
Billericay, Essex, 47
British Museum, 21
Leeds, 41
Lombard Street, 11
Madeira, 13
Mucross, Ireland, 8
Nine Elms, 5
Norfolk, 44
Brompton Cemetery, 12 Nova Scotia, 7
Chancery Lane, 41
Clapham, 13, 23, 27
Edwinsford, Cann., 33
Falmouth, 13
Prance, 31
Heston, MX., 33
.India, 44
Lambeth, 10
Xiedsham, Yorks, 41
Overton, Derby, 33
Revesby Abbey, Lines
33
St. James Street, 42
Stockwell, Surrey, 40
Tower of London, 21
Trin. Coll., Cambr., 13
Wandsworth, 9
Wombwell, Yorks, 12
G. S. PABBY, Lieut.-Col.
17 Ashley Mansions, S.W.
" MABU." (See 10 S. vii. 268, 311 ;
viii. 131, 376.) — The facts elicited by the
correspondence in these columns regarding
the meaning of this term will doubtless be
readily recalled by readers of ' N. & Q.' ;
but, inasmuch as the conclusion arrived at
was that the equivalent of the word was
not to be found in the English language, it
may be as well to quote some remarks which
I appended to an epitome of that corre-
spondence contributed by me to Lloyd's
List of June 13 last, at the request of the
Secretary' , Admiral E. F. Inglejield : —
MB. KUMAGUSTJ MINAKATA, an eminent
Japanese scholar, stated that mar a \\;'.<
already used as a term of admiration at the
end of male personal names in the seventh
century as maro, which in the tenth century
became maru, and that some time in the
fourteenth century a Japanese shipowner
thought it a good idea to add it to the names
of his sailing ships ; and as the practice soon
became general among shipowners, the
Japanese Government, perceiving that many
of their warships bore names in common
with merchant ships, issued an order that
for the future all ships engaged in tracte
should have the additional name maru.
My suggestion as to its English equivalent
is to the effect that
" to those acquainted with nautical matters the
old-fashioned custom of describing a ship first,
and then a steamer, both in conversation and in
such documents as charter-parties and bills of
lading, as the ' good ship ' Betty or Penelope,
must long have been familiar ; though the
signification of the appellation has doubtless
become far more correct and material since the
passing of the Plimsoll Act. It is evidently in
this connexion that maru is used by the Japanese
captain, who, like his brethren in other lands,
regards his ship reverently, as a sort of mascot ;
consequently the term maru is best translated
into English by the old familiar phrase ' good
ship,' without any regard to the vessel's actual
soundness or seaworthiness."
In order to show that the expression goes
back practically to Elizabethan times I -u-ill
add an extract from the first known English
insurance policy, which is given in exter<s<>
in ' The History of Lloyd's,' by Frederick
Martin, founder of ' The'Statesman's Year-
Book.' The original was discovered among
the Tanner MSS. in the Bodleian Library,
and bears the endorsement : " Mr. Morris
Abbot's pollesye of Assurance, dated the
15 of ffebruary 1613, 11 Jacobi." It begins :
" In the name of God Amen : Be it knowne
vnto all men by these presents that Morris Abbot
& Devereux Wogan of London, marchants, doe
make assurance & cause themselues & euerye
of them to be assured, lost or not lost, from
London to Zante Petrasse «fc Sapholonia, of any
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147
•of them vpon woollen & lynnen cloth leade
kersies Iron & any other goods & merchandize
heretofore laden aboarde the tcood Shipp called the
Tiger of London of the burthen of 200 tonns or
thereabouts, whereof is master vnder god in this
presente voyadge Thomas Crowderor whomsoever
«lls shall go for master in the said shipp or by
whatsoeuer other name or names the said shipp
•or the master thereof is or shall be named or
called."
N. W. HILL.
36 Leigh Road, Highbury, N.
SHAKESPEARE ALLUSION. — The following
mention of Shakespeare is not included in
any of the editions of " Shakespeare Al-
lusion " books ; but after appearing in your
pages this latest discovery will no doubt be
quoted in a new edition : —
JJISCELLANIA, OR POEMS OP ALL SORTS,
with divers other pieces. Dedicated to the
most excellent of her sex. Printed by J. R.
for the Author, 1653. FIRST EDITION, 12mo,
with the RARE Catalogue at end of TWENTY
PAGES, of books published by Humphrey Moseley.
A rare book of great merit and interest,
"especially to Shakespeare collectors. On page 141
we find the following : —
Poor house that in days of our grand-sires
Belongst unto the mendicant Fryers,
And where so oft in our father's dayes
We have seen so many of Shakespeare's playes,
'So many of Johnson's, Beaumont's, and Fletcher's,
Until I know not what Puritan teachers
{Who for their tone, their language, and action
Might 'gainst the stage, make bedlam a faction),
Have made with their Rayleighs, the players as
poore
As were the Fryers and poets before :
Since th'ast the trickes on't all beggars to make,
I wish for the Scotch Presbyterian's sake,
"To comfort the players and Fryers not a little,
Thou may'st be turned to a Puritan spittle.
MAURICE JONAS.
GEORGE NICHOLSON, PRINTER, 1760-1825 :
POTTGHNILL. — Many of the works which
issued from Nicholson's press bear the
imprint " Poughnill near Ludlow." I was
anxious to ascertain the exact position o1
Poughnill, but I could not find the name in
any gazetteer, directory, or local history, so
I came to the conclusion that it is the name
of a house. Accordingly I wrote to The
Ludlow Advertiser, asking for information
•and my letter brought me a communication
from Sir W. M. Curtis of Caynham Court
Ludlow, from which I make the following
extract : —
" Poughnill is the name of a small house on
this property, and of a farmhouse standing near
it. It is two miles from Ludlow. It stands on
a hill above the Ledwyche river (the house is now
known as Caynham Cottage), and at this part o:
the river the water is dammed back by a weir.
orming the mill pound for Caynham Mill below.
. . .It has always been said that there used to be
printing press at Poughnill."
I send this note because others besides
myself have attempted to locate Poughnill.
Nicholson was a printer of some importance
in his day, and is noticed in the ' Dictionary
of National Biography.' R. B. P.
WORDS FROM 'MERCURIUS Po uncos.'—
1. " Dead season.'" — In ' N.E.D.' the quota-
tion, s.v. 'Season,' 10, for " dead season" as
" the period when ' society ' has departed
From a place of resort," is dated 1789, from
' Triumph's Fortitude ' (i. 10) : " Be happy
in all the enjoyments this dead season can
afford." A far earlier use of the phrase is
to be found in Mercurius Politicus for Feb. 28-
March 6, 1656 : " There is little else to be
written from Paris in this dead season."
2. "Letter-case.'"— The 'N.E.D .'s' earliest
illustrative quotations for " letter-case "•
" a case to hold letters " — are of 1672, from
T. Jordan's 'London Triumph' (16): "By
Ladies Letter -case, [He] Shall have a
better place " ; and 1790, from Madame
D'Arblay's 'Diarj,' wherein reference is
made to " my letter-case." Mention of a
"Letter-case of Plush" is to be found,
however, in an advertisement in Mercurius
Politicus ot Feb. 15/22, 1655.
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
IMS.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
MRS. ANN BUTTON. — I am collecting in-
formation relative TO Mrs. Ann Dutton, an
eighteenth-century Dissenter, friend of White-
field, and editor of The Spiritual Magazine
for three years. I have such meagre
particulars as can be obtained from perusal
of her autobiography and from Whitefield's
letters, and quite a complete list of her works.
Could some of your correspondents aid me
as to the places of her residence, other than
Great Gransden, London, and Northampton,
and as to the date of her death ?
An identification of the Dissenting
minister whom she terms Mr. Sk — p could
be effected probably by a reference to
Wilson's work, if any reader with access to
a copy would be good enough to confer this
favour upon one whom the war has exiled
from civilization into Norfolk.
J. C. WHITEBROOK, Lieut.
148
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. AUG. 19, me.
BURTON AND SPEKE: AFRICAN TRAVEL. — I
shall be very much obliged for any help in find-
ing out the date of an article contributed by
Capts. Burton and Speke on their travels in
seeking the source of the Nile to one of the
Scottish quarterlies or monthlies, in which,
inter alia, I read a most interesting descrip-
tion of the rearing up of court favourites
at the courts of the numerous small poten-
tates. The women were fed, or rather
drenched, with pure milk from birth up-
wards, a certain number of wooden measures
being allotted to each in proportion to age,
and poured down their throats, just as
fowls are crammed in England. At maturity
great masses of adipose tissue hung down
from their jaws, elbows, and knees ; and they
got so fat that they could not stand upright,
and their only means of locomotion was by
means of either go-carts or rollers affixed
under then* knees and elbows. I most
distinctly remember reading this article in a
Scotch magazine in the Gateshead Mechanics'
Institute Library when house surgeon in
the Gateshead Dispensary in the years 1870-
71-72. Is any record of Burton and Speke's
writings kept in the British Museum ?
C. STENNETT REDMOND, M.D.
81 High Street South, East Ham.
REFERENCES WANTED. — 1. Where occurs
for the first time the expression " brilliant
second " as applied to Austria, and what is
the German for it ?
2. What is the exact wording of the phrase
credited to Frederick II. about taking what
he wanted and letting the diplomats fix it up
for him afterwards ? What is the reference,
and in what language, French or German,
was the phrase spoken ?
3. Matthew Arnold speaks in his 'Essays'
of " 1'homme sensuel moyen." In Granville
Barker's ' Madras House ' the expression
occurs several times.
I notice that some of my French scholarly
friends never heard of the phrase. Where
does it come from ? O. G.
THE CUSTODY OF CORPORATE SEALS. — Is
it customary for seals of corporate bodies
to be secured by duplicate or triplicate keys,
one or two of which are held by members ?
A biographical notice of an active public man
in the provinces says that at one and the
same time he held one of the keys of a County
Council seal, as a member, and also of a
borough seal, as an alderman, being selected
in each capacity for the purpose. One i
familiar with the resolution : " That the
common [or corporate] seal be affixed,'
&c. ; and my impression was that the
usual course is simply to entrust the metal
seal itself to whoever' fills the office of clerk,,
to be used when authorized and required.
W. B. H.
FRANCIS WHITTLE, M.P. — Who was
Francis Whittle, M.P. Westbury, January*
L809, till he resigned his seat the next year ?
W. R. W.
JOHN WILLIAMS, M.P. — Who was John,
Williams, M.P. Saltash, May to June, 1772r
when unseated on petition ? He was de-
'eated at Fowey, 1768, and Poole, 1774.
Would he be the grandson of John Williams
of Looe, M.P. Fowey, November, 1701, to
1702, when defeated ? A John Williams
of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, died Dec. 6,
1789. W. R. W.
" WINDOSE."— In Harl. MS. 847, folio 53,
is given a list of artillery stores, &c., required
in the field, amongst which occurs the
following item : " Windoses for the defence
of ordinnance." What was a " windose " 2
The date of the MS. is 1578.
J. H. LESLIE.
BOY-ED AS SURNAME. — To what European
or other language does this singular personal
name belong ? Had it not been borne by a
German emissary, albeit of tarnished reputa-
tion, I should have reckoned it a Yankee
combination of Boy and Edward. Can it
be Slavonic, or Hungarian ?
N. W. HILL.
RAYNES PARK, WIMBLEDON, SURREY. —
Can any reader tell me the origin of the
name of Raynes Park, Wimbledon, Surrey ?
Was it named after the Rayne family, who
owned the property of West Barnes Park,
Surrey ? LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
THOMAS CHACE. — The mansion on Bromley
Common, Kent, now belonging to Mr. A. C.
Norman, who resides there, and the
eighteenth-century house called Elm field >
which is on the same side of the road, about
200 yards nearer to Bromley, were onee the
property of Mr. Thomas Chace, who died in
1788, and whose monument is in Bromley
Church. \Ve are there told that he was in
the house in which he was born at Lisbon
during the earthquake of Nov. 1, 1755 ; and
in The Cornhill Magazine for May, 1910, the
Rev. P. H. Ditchfield gives extracts from
his manuscript account of " his sufferings and
escape " on that occasion.
12 s. ii. AUG. 19, WIG.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
149
He seems to have left Elmfield about 1765,
when the larger house, with land, was sold
to the Norman family. How long did he
retain Elmfield ? Did lie marry and have
descendants, and are any of them still living,
or has the family died out ? Perhaps some
reader of this query will be able to supply
information on the subject.
Bromley Common was enclosed in 1822-6.
KENTISH MAN.
WILLIAM THORNHILL, SURGEON. — The
' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (Ivi. 297) states that he
was " a member of one of the younger
branches of the great Dorset family of
Thornhill of Woolland, a nephew of Sir James
Thornhill." I should be glad to obtain
particulars of his parentage, and to learn the
place and date of his birth. Where in
Yorkshire did he retire, and when did he die
in 1755 ? G. F. B. B.
v MARY ANNE CLARKE. — Did the Duke of
York have any sons by this notorious
person ? If so, I should be glad to know
any particulars of them. The ' Diet. Nat.
Biog.,' x. 436, only mentions her daughters,
" who all married well." G. F. R. B.
EMMA ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF ' WHITE-
FRIARS.' — Is there a biography of Miss
Emma Robinson, the author of ' White-
friars ' and other works ? I cannot find any
account of her in the ' Dictionary of National
Biography ' and other authorities. She was
granted a pension on the Civil List of 151.
per annum in 1862, but I cannot discover
any reference to her life, death, or place of
burial. ARTHUR E. STEDMAN.
St. Edmunds, Sunningfields Road, Hendon, N.W.
[Some particulars about the author of ' White-
friars ' were supplied by MB. RALPH THOMAS at
10 S. iv. 535.]
' SABRING COROLLA.' — Who were the
editors of this well-known collection of
Greek and Latin verses by old boys of
Shrewsbury School ? The title-page and
the preface speak of them as " tres viri " ;
but their names are not given. B. B.
' THE LONDON MAGAZINE.' — Is anything
known of this long-forgotten periodical ? I
have the first volume without title-page and
index ; it contains six monthly numbers
dated February to July, 1840. The full
caption title reads The London Magazine,
CJuirivari, and Courrier des Dames ; it is not
in the British Museum Catalogue of Periodical
Publications. The unfinished serial story is
entitled ' The Diurnal Revolutions of Da vie
Diddledoft,' written under the nom de guerre
of Sir Tickelem Tender, Bart., and illustrated
by Phiz and John Leech ; one of the latter's
pictures is signed with a tiny drawing of a
leech in a bottle (p. 359). Other illustrations
are by Gillray the Younger (sometimes
signed with one I). One of the political
portraits is of Disraeli, with some spiteful
observations on him.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
ST. SEBASTIAN. — How was St. Sebastian
put to death ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
ROME AND Moscow. — 1. Is it still per-
missible to believe that Nero sang and played
on his lyre on the tower of Maecenas while
Rome was burning ?
2. Has it ever been definitely settled (and,
if so, when and by whom ?) whether the
Russians, or the French under Napoleon, set
light to Moscow ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
JOHN EVANS, ASTROLOGER OF WALES.—
I possess an early portrait plate taken from
Lord Cardiff's drawing of this character.
Particulars about the man, his home and
antecedents, will oblige.
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
BRITISH CRESTS. — Some fourteen years
ago your contributor MR. H. R. LEIGHTON
informed me through ' N. & Q-' (9
x. 374), in answer to a query of mine, that
he was then engaged upon, and contemplated
publishing one day, an ' Ordinary of British
Crests.' Four years later I ventured to ask
him through ' N. & Q.' if it had yet been
published, and he replied (10 S. v. 436) that
the work of indexing was still in progress,
but that no arrangement so far had been
made for its publication. Now, after ten
years, I venture to put my query again
(10 S. v. 308). CROSS-CROSSLET.
GIBBON'S DIARY. — " Gibbon," says Mr.
J. C. Morison in his volume on the great
historian, 1880, p. 75, " was such an inde-
fatigable diarist that it is unlikely that he
neglected to keep a journal in this crisis of
his studies. But it has not been published,
and it may have been destroyed." By the
crisis alluded to is meant the elaboration of
the first volume of the ' Decline and Fall
during the first period of its author's sojourn
in London, 1772-6. Is it too premature or
too late to ask, after the lapse of thirty-six
years, whether any such journal ever existed,
and, if so, what has been its fate ?
J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
150
NOTES AND QUERNS. [i2s.ii. AUG. 19, uie.
"NOSE OF WAX."
(10 S. viii. 228, 274, 298 ; x. 437 ; 11 S. v. 7.)
SEVERAL communications on the origin and
use of this expression have appeared in
' X. & Q.' during the last few years, but no
real addition has been made, so far, to what
can be learnt from the ' N.E.D.' and the
' General Index to the Publications of the
Parker^ Society,' 1855. The Dictionary,
a.v. ^ Nose,' I. 4, after defining a " nose of
wax " as " a thing easily turned or moulded
in any way desired ; a person easily in-
fluenced, one of a weak character," says that
the phrase is very common c. 1580-1700,
" especially in allusions to wresting the
Scriptures." The earliest quotation is dated
1532, from Tyndale's ' Expositions and
Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy
Scriptures,' Matt. vi. 23 : " If the Scripture
be contrary, then make it a nose of wax and
wrest it this way and that way, till it agree."
A further example is given/ of 1589, from
Thomas Cooper's ' Admonition to the People
of England ' (ed. Arber, p. 58) : " Affirming
that the Scriptures are darke because
they may be wrested euery way, like a nose
of waxe, or like a leaden Rule."*
Henry Cough's index to the Parker
Society's publications gives under " Nose
of Wax ; the Scriptures so called (by A.
Pighius, q.v.) " references to William Fulke,
Roger Hutchinson, and Tyndale ; and, under
Pighius (Alb.) : calls the Scriptures a nose
of wax," references to Fulke, Hutchinson,
Jewel, Thomas Rogers, Tyndale, and Whit-
gift. A passage from Jewel may be quoted :
"Neither do we so scornfully call God's holy
word a nose of wax,' ' a shipman's hose,' or ' a
dead letter,' as sundry of that side have delighted
to call it. --< The Defence of the Apology of the
Church of England,' part ii. Parker Soc. edit, of
Jewel s ' Works,' vol. iii. p. 431.
So much for the English form of the
expression. An extract from Albertus
Pighius (Pigghe, c. 1490-1542) is quoted by
the editor of the ' Works of Roger Hutchin-
son, Parker Society, p. 34 : —
" Sunt enim illae (ut non minus vere, quam
stive dixit quidam) velut nasus cereus, qui se
rsum, zllorsum, et in quam volueris partem,
rani, retrahl, flngique facile permittit : et tenquam
plumbeae quaedam Lesbiae aedificationis regula,
quam non sit difficile accommodare ad quidvis
•For "leaden Rule" see Aristotle, ' Nico-
machean Ethics,' 5, 10, 7, and ' N. & Q.,' 10 S. vii.
256, a. " Lesbian Lead."
volueris." — ' Hierarchiae ecclesiasticae assertio,"
lib. iii. cap. 3, folio 80, edit. 1538.
It will be observed that Pighius in this
passage professes to be borrowing the
application of the phrase " cereus nasus."
Another reference to Pighius, ' Explicatio
cathol. cont rovers.,' contr. 3, the preface
being dated Jan. 5, 1542, where the Scriptures
are called " muti judices " and " velut
cereus quidam nasus," is supplied by the
editor of Jewel's ' Works,' Parker Soc., vol. iv.
p. 748.
But the metaphorical " cereus nasus " was
applied not solely to the Scriptures, but also
to other documents and authorities, such as
texts in philosophy and law, that could be
" wrested " to the special purpose of an
argument. Examples can be quoted from
earlier writings than those of Pighius. Vives
in his ' De causis corruptarum artium,' lib.
i., about twelve-thirteenths through, has: —
" Ut jam etiamuulgo inter eos non omnino, ut
solent, inscite Aristoteles dicatur habere nasum
cereum, quern quilibet quo uelit, flectat pro
libito." — P. 61 of the 1538 Cologne ed. of the
' De disciplines libri xx.'
Erasmus, ' Encomium moriae,' about two-
thirds through, p. 101 in Levden edition of
1851, has :—
" lam illud quantae felicitatis esse putatist
dum « rearms litteras, perinde quasi cereae sint»
pro libidine formant ac reformant, dum con-
clusiones suas, quibus iam aliquot scholastic!
subscripserunt, plusquam Solonis leges videri
postulant."
" Cereus nasus " is used with reference to
laws in the Latin lines ' De conditionibus
hominum eius temporis,' by Filippo Vagnone,
printed at the end of Nevisanus's ' Sylva
nuptialis.' Vagnone died in 1499, according
to Tiraboschi, ' Storia della lett. ital.,'
tomo vi. parte iii. p. 1445 (ed. 1824) : —
Sportula iudicium totiens recidiua perennat,
Legibus et nasus cereus esse solet.
LI. 17, 18.
To pass to a much earlier writer : that the
metaphorical use of " cereus nasus " was not
unknown in mediaeval days is shown by a
passage in Alain of Lille (ob. c. 1203) : —
" Sed quia auctoritas cereum habet nasum, id
est in diversum potest flecti sensum, rationibus
roborandum est. — ' Contra haereticos,' lib. i.
cap. xxx., ' Quibus auctoritatibus gentilium
philosophorum probatur quod anima humana sit
imniortalis.'
For the knowledge that the phrase " cereus
nasus " was to be found in connexion with
" auctoritas " in Alain of Lille, I am in-
debted to M. de Wulf s ' Introduction a la
Philosophie Neo-scolastique,' pt. ii. chap. iii.
(p. 260 of P. Coffey's Eng. transl.), but no
reference wsa given.
K s. ii. AC«. 19, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
151
At 1 1 S. v. 7 a correspondent of ' N. &
•Q.' wrote : " I find the source of this
phrase was traced by VERTAUR at 1 S.
x. 235 to Apuleius." On turning to this, I
find the passage to be ' Metamorphoses,'
ii. cap. 30, where the witches deprive the
sleeping Thelyphron of his nose and ears, and
replace them with substitutes of wax : —
" Ceram in modum praesectarum formatam
•aurium ei adplicant examussim nasumque ipsius
•similem comparant."
When the victim is told of what has been
done he takes hold of his nose and ears, and
they come off : " Iniecta manu nasum pre-
hendo, sequitur : aures pertracto, deruunt."
VERTAUB quotes Beroaldus's comment on
"sequitur": " quia cereus erat nasus, faci-
lisque ob hoc sequelae ; cerae enim lenta
sequaxque matena." But Apuleius does
not employ the words " cereus nasus," nor
has the nose of wax in the story anything
metaphorical about it. I cannot see that
there is any question of tracing the phrase
to Apuleius. What is now wanted is an
earlier instance than that in Alain of Lille.
EDWARD BENSLY.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129.)
LiEur.-CoL. JOSHUA GUEST (ante, p. 86)
died a lieutenant-general, Oct. 14, 1747.
For details of his career see the ' Dictionary
of National Biography,' which mentions the
iact that his regiment was known as
" Caipenter's, afterwards Honeywood's,
Afterwards Eland's Dragoons (now 3rd
Hussars)." He was appointed a cornet in
the regiment, Feb. 24, 1704.
Lieut.-Col. William Bellenden (ante, p. 84)
"was residing at St. Quentin in 1752, as the
•death is recorded of his servant, Philippe
Ganson, " negre de nation, domestique du
sieur Debellenguens (sans doute Ballenden),
•colonel d'un regiment anglais," on Dec. 27.
He had lived in the parish of St. Catherine
for many years. As deceased was not a
•Catholic he was buried in a garden.
Col. Bellenden's decease is thus recorded: —
" 1759. Messire 1'honorable Guillaume Ballen-
•den, colonel des gardes du Boy de la Grande-
Bretagne, epoux de dame Jacomina Ballenden.
Ddcdde" le 21 fevrier, 1759, sur les 7 heures du
soir, rue Ste. Marguerite.* M« Michel Mallemain,
pretre cure" de Ste. Marguerite, dit que « depuis
cjuatre ans ou environs que le deffunt demeuroit
sur sa paroisse, il ne luy avoit fait apparoitre aucun
* Now rue du Palais de Justice.
acte de catholiciteV Inhume" dans le jardin de
Messire de Brissac."*
Wherever names occur in these lists of
officers which are obviously French, refer-
ence should be made to Agnew's work and
other authorities on the Huguenots.
R. W. B.
This Army List of 1740 is certainly not
the earliest list of our standing army. I have
a folio copy of the List for 1684. Its contents
are : —
The Royal Band of Gentlemen Pensioners (Gentle-
men at Arms).
The Yeomen of the Guard.
The King's Troop of Horse "\
Guards and Granadiers present
The Queen's Troop of do. f Life Guards.
The Duke's Troop of do. J
The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.
The King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons
(1st Royal Dragoons).
The Chaef Officers of the Ordnance and other
General Officers.
The Royal Regiment of Foot Guards (Grenadier
Guards).
The Cole-Stream Regiment of Foot Guards
(Coldstream Guards).
The Royal Regiment of Foot and Granadiers
(Royal Scots).
The Queen's Regiment of Foot (Royal West
Surrey Regiment).
The Lord High Admiral's Maritime Regiment
(reduced 1689).
The Holland Regiment of Foot (The Buffs).
The Duchess of York's Regiment of Foot (King's
Own Lancaster Regiment).
List of Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, &c.
Lists of the Army appear to have been
published only occasionally till the annual
series commencing in 1753. This ceased in
1868, being probably squeezed out by Col.
Hart. ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General.
Wm. Wade was the elder natural son of
George Wade.
Michael Armstrong d. Aug. 27, 1757.
Ruishe Hassel married Charlotte, only
daughter of 3rd Baron Stawel, and d. June 6,
1749.
A man called Ralph Pennyman d. Scamp-
ton, Yorkshire, Aug. 23, 1768.
Septimus Robinson was seventh son of
Wm. Robinson of Rokeby, Yorkshire, and
brother of 1st Baron Rokeby ; he was b.
* The death is also recorded of " James Nioceris
Craggs, gentilhomme anglais et ancien Capitaine
d'infanterie, 20 Oct., 1769." These notes .1 re-
taken from ' La R^formea Saint-Quentin,' pp. 271,
272, 275, by M. Alfred Daulle. The original docu-
ments, which are voluminous, were in the f'm<-
old Hotel-de-ville, bureau de 1'etat civil, in April,
1913, when I was courteously permitted to search
them. Let us hope that they were placed in
safety before the German invasion.
152
NOTES AND QUERIES. ;ti2 s. n. AUG. 19, 1916.
Jan. 30, 1710 ; entered French army, 1730 ;
served under Wade in 1745 ; left the army
with rank of lieutenant-colonel, 1754 ;
governor of Dukes of Gloucester and Cum-
berland, 1751 to 1760; Gentleman Usher of
the Black Rod; knighted April 10, 1761;
d. Brough, Westmorland, Sept. 6, 1765.
A man called Lucy Weston d. Frenchbay,
Devonshire, Jan. 30, 1759.
Henry de Grangues was colonel of 30th
Foot, Oct. 24, 1742, to April 1, 1743 ; of
9th Light Dragoons, April 1, 1743, to Nov. 1,
1749 ; and of 4th Horse, 1749 to death ;
lieutenant-general, May 3, 1754 ; d. Ireland,
June 23, 1754.
Gumley, a colonel, d. 1763.
Sir Thomas Hay succeeded as 2nd Baronet,
1706 ; d. Nov. 26, 1769.
George Preston, colonel 17th Light Dra-
goons, Nov. 2, 1770, to April 18, 1782 ;
colonel 2nd Dragoons, April 18, 1782, to
death ; lieutenant-general, Aug. 29, 1777 ;
d. Feb. 4, 1785.
Philip Honywood, the first colonel of
llth Light Dragoons, July 22, 1715, to
May 19, 1732 ; colonel of 3rd Dragoons,
May 29, 1732, to April 18, 1743 ; colonel of
1st Dragoon Guards, April 18, 1743, to
death ; general, Feb. 1, 1743 ; K.B., July 12,
1743; installed, Oct. 20, 1744; d. Jan. 17,
1752.
Joshua Guest, probably entered the
army, 1685, aged 23 ; closed a service of
sixty years by defending Edinburgh Castle
against the rebels, 1745 ; lieutenant-general,
May 27, 1745 ; d. Oct. 18, 1747, aged 87 ;
buried in east cloister of Westminster Abbey.
Foley, colonel Horse Guards, d. Jan. 2,
1742.
Henry Whitley, colonel of 9th Light
Dragoons, April 6, 1759, to his death ;
lieutenant-general, April 30, 1770; d. Jan. 14,
1771.
Daniel Leighton, b. 1694 ; major of 1st
Troop of Horse Guards till June 30, 1737 ;
served in Flanders, 1745 ; at Fontenoy and
against rebels in Scotland, 1746 ; left the
army, Feb. 4, 1747 ; M.P. for Hereford,
1747-54 ; d. end of January, 1765.
Samuel Browne, lieutenant-colonel 4th
Dragoons, d. April 6, 1790, aged 76.
FREDEBIC BOASE.
Ruishe Hassell, captain in Wade's Regi-
ment of Horse in 1740, was afterwards
major of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue). He
married firstly, in 1737, Jane, only daughter
of Sir John Tynte, 2nd Bart., of Halswell,
Somerset. She died in 1741. From this
marriage is descended the present Lord
Wharton of Halswell. Major Ruishe Hassell
married secondly the Hon. Charlotte Stawelr
only daughter of Lord Stawel of Aldermas-
ton, Berks, according to Collins's ' Peerage,'
where no mention is made of her having
contracted a previous marriage. In the
Register of Marriages in Gray's Inn Chapel,
however, is the following entry : " 1743/4r
March 17, Ruishe Hassell, of St. Giles in the
Fields, & Charlotte Mackerly, of St. Mary le
bone."
Who was she unless Lord Stawel' s
daughter ? And, if the latter, who was
Mackerly ? I should be glad of a solution
of this apparent mystery. CURIOUS.
HYMN-TUNE ' LYDIA ' (12 S. i. 309, 377,.
434).— Thomas Phillips, 1774-1841, men-
tioned by your correspondent MB. A. PAYNE
at the second reference as the composer of
the above, is evidently the same person as
Thomas Philipps (with one I), who was born
in London in 1774, died Oct. 29, 1841, and
was buried at St. Ann's, Soho.
This Thomas Philipps for several years held
a prominent position as a singer at the
principal London theatres, appearing for the
first time at Covent Garden, May 16, 1796,
as Philippo in O'Keeffe's opera ' The Castle
of Andalusia.'
He was afterwards at Drury Lane, and
the salary list of that theatre for the season
1813-14 shows that he was then in receipt of
18Z. weekly, as first singer.
When Kean made his first appearance
there, as Shy lock, Philipps was the Lorenzo,
a character which, like that of Jessica, it
was for many years the custom to give to a
singer — songs and a duet, not in Shake-
speare, being introduced.
The next season Philipps was replaced by
T. Cooke, at a reduced salary of 132. Once
assured of the great attraction of Kean, the
Committee of Management which then ruled
the theatre lost but little time in cutting
down general expenses.
In 1831 Philipps delivered, at the Concert,
Room of the Royal Academy, a course of
four lectures on ' Music,' which received very
favourable notice in The Literary Gazette.
Towards the end of his life he appears to
have fallen upon evil times, becoming so
reduced in circumstances as to accept tem-
porary employment, at the time when the
Greenwich Railway was projected, as an
enumerator of the traffic passing through the
Old Kent Road. WM. DOUGLAS.
125 Helix Road, Brixton Hill.
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153
AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii, 108). — The
lines,
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach,
are from one of Marvell's poems, ' The
Garden,' beginning : —
How vainly men themselves amaze.
It was included by Palgrave in his ' Golden
Treasury of Songs and Lyrics.' Lamb
quotes the greater part of it in his essay,
' The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple,'
and also uses a phrase from it in a letter to
Bernard Barton, dated Sept. 2 [1823].
A selection from the poems of the " garden-
loving poet " was published a few years ago
by Messrs. Methuen & Co. in their delightful
''Little Library" series.
S. BUTTER WORTH.
[Several correspondents thanked for supplying
this reference.]
FIRST ILLUSTRATED ENGLISH NOVEL (12 S.
ii. 90).— Alfred W. Pollard, in his ' Fine
Books' ("Connoisseur Library"), p. 294,
says : —
" It is a satisfaction that the plates to the first
edition of ' Robinson Crusoe ' (1719) were engraved
by two Englishmen, and not very badly. Their
names are given as ' Clark and Pine,' the Clark
being presumably John Clark (1688-1736), who
engraved some writing books, and the Pine John
Pine (1690-1756), who imitated some designs by
Bernard Picart to the book of Jonah in 1720, and
may have been a pupil of his at Amsterdam."
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
If the editor of Pearson's Weekly is
correct in his statement that ' Robinson
Crusoe ' was the first novel ever published in
this country to contain an illustration, he
might with greater exactitude have cited the
first volume (published April 25, 1719, and
containing a frontispiece by Clark and Pine,
representing the immortal hero on his island,
shouldering two guns and clad in sheepskins),
instead of the second, published Aug. 20,
1719. An earlier novelist than Defoe was
Mrs. Aphra Behn (born 1642, died 1689) ;
but whether any of her works of fiction
published before April, 1719, were illustrated,
I cannot say from memory.
GUNNER F. CURRY.
CHURCHWARDENS AND THEIR WANDS (12 S.
ii. 90). — It is a mistake to suppose that the
custom of churchwardens bearing wands is
extinct. It is done in the parish church
here (Weston, near Bath). The wardens
sit on opposite sides of the centre of the
nave, the vicar's warden on the left. The
wands are tipped with a cross patee.
ASTLEY TERRY, Major-General.
The old custom of carrying their wands of
office is still maintained every Sunday by
the wardens of Stratford-on-Avon Parish
Church. These wands consist of slender
brown rods, about five feet in length, with.
slightly ornamental tops.
WM. JAGOARD, Lieut,
SIR DAVID OWEN, KT. (12 S. ii. 107).— The
best account that I have met with of this
famous knight and his effigy — which, by the
way, is not in Eastbourne Church, but in
that at Easeboume, near Midhurst, in the
north-west division of Sussex — will be found
in a lecture read by Mr. W. H. Blaauw,
F.S.A., to the Sussex Archaeological Society
in 1854, and published verbatim in that
Society's Proceedings, vol. vii. 22.
The author shows that there is little or no
doubt that Sir David was an illegitimate son
of the great Owen Tudor, not his grandson,,
as usually stated, and he bases his conclusions
on two documents which are still extant.
The first is the report of the evidence given,
by Sir David before the Royal Commissioners
at the time when, in 1529, it became neces-
sary for Henry VIII. to adduce legal proof"
of the previous marriage of his queen,
Catherine of Arragon, to Prince Arthur-
This document is still in the British Museum
(Vitellius, B. xii. p. 124), and from it we
learn that he was then 70 years old — so>
we may place his birth in 1459, two years
before the death of Owen Tudor ; that he
was born and brought up in the county of
Pembroke ; and that he had lived for forty
years in Sussex, which would give the pro-
bable date of 1489 for his marriage with his
first wife, Mary Bohun, the heiress of Cow-
dray, where he lived for the rest of his
life. It also proves his intimate connexion
with the Court in the reign of his half-
nephew, Henry VII., as well as in that
of Henry VIII. He swears, among other
things, that he was present at the marriage
of Henry VII. with Elizabeth of York; that
he remembered the birth of Prince Arthur
at Winchester, and of Prince Henry at
Greenwich, was present at both their
baptisms, and was afterwards in attendance
upon the King in St. Paul's Cathedral, when
he saw Prince Arthur married to Catherine
" with his own eyes, being then and there
present " ; and he concludes by assuring the
examiner that he had given his deposition
" neither compelled by entreaty nor corrupted
by reward."
In the Burrell MS., p. 457, too, we leanx
that Sir David was one of the twelve knights
bachelor who held the canopy at the-
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coronation of Queen Elizabeth of York, in
1487. He was probably made a knight
^banneret in 1493, and as such was one of the
twenty-eight who in 1503
" attended the fiancells of Princess Margaret to
.James, King of Scotland, escorting the bride to
Scotland, and carving at the marriage dinner,
wearing a very rich chain."
He acted as chief carver to the King on
St. George's Day in 1517, and, together with
Lady Owen the second, attended him to
•Canterbury, when proceeding to meet
Francis I., while his son's wife, " Lady Owen
the younger," accompanied the Queen to
the interview.
The second document above referred to
is his will, dated Feb. 20, 1529, which (with
notes) takes up ten pages of small print at
the end of the lecture, and is of great interest.
Mr. Blaauw says that the original MS. was
then in private hands, and proceeds : —
" Though duly authenticated by the autograph
signature of the testator on the margin of each
sheet of parchment, as well as at the end, the
numerous interlineations and erasures in it prove
;it to have been superseded by a will of later date,
-a copy of which is extant in the Registry of Doctors'
Commons, the original being lost, and in which
-the dispositions relating to the real estate appear
•distinct from those of the personal property. To
this is annexed a schedule of legacies and bequests,
which his executors were, perhaps shortly before
his death, instructed by the testator verbally to
;pay, the whole being proved in the Archiepiscopal
Oourt on May 13, 1542."
The original monument was erected soon
after the death of his wife, Mary Bohun
-c. 1500, and in his will of 1529 he alludes to
the vault for his burial at Easebourne being
ready, and to the images of himself and his
first wife on his tomb, which he directs to be
new gilt and painted. As there is no room
for a second effigy in the recess where it
now lies, it is clear that the effigy of the
knight has at some time unknown been
removed to its present position frorr
.another where his first wife's image lay b
his own. We may be sure he would neve
have sanctioned such desecration of the
tomb which he had himself erected so long
before, and of which he was so proud, for in
the same will of 1529 he directs : —
" My body to be brought with my helmet an
.sworde, and my cote-armour, my standarde pen
-daunt and setton, a baner of the Trynyte, one o
our Lady, and one other of St. George, borne afte
"the order of a man of my degree, and set up in th
said priory [of Easebourne] after the observanc
done at my tombe."
ALAN STEWART.
The tomb of Sir David Owen is not
Eastbourne Church, but at Easeboum
sronounced Esbum) near Midhurst. Sir
)avid Owen was a natural son of Owen ap
leredith ap Tudor, who married Catherine,
•idow of King Henry V. Sir David married
lary, one of the daughters and coheiresses
f John de Bohun. His will was proved in
542, but the monument in Easebourne
Church is said to have been erected during
lis lifetime, some years earlier. The will
,nd a minute description of the monument
ire given in vol. vii. of the Sussex Archteo-
ogical Collections. H. CHEAL.
Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham.
PAPAL INSIGNIA : NICOLAS V. (12 S. i. 50,
^16). — In ' A Treatise on Ecclesiastical
heraldry,' by John Woodward, LL.D.,
Rector of St. Mary's Church, Montrose, 1894,
chap. ix. p. 158 et seq., are descriptions,
including tinctures, of the " Arms of the
Popes from 1144-1893." On p. 161 is
,he following blazon : " 1447, Nicolas V.
Parentucelli) Argent, two bends wavy, the
one in chief gules, the other azure."
P. 153, Dr. Woodward writes : —
" Nicolas V. seems to have used only the cross
teys in an escucheon crowned with the tiara.
Henetrier says that examples of this Pope's
escucheon were to be seen on the gates of the
Churches of S. [sic] Paul, S. [sic] Theodore, and
St. Laurent in Borne."
The cross keys looped together appear as
ie arms of Parentucelli (Nicolas V.) in recent
editions of Murray's 'Handbook of Rome,'
e.g., 17th edit., 1908, p. [120], i.e., of the
Introduction. By error the date is given as
1334, which is the date, as given in the 'Hand-
book,' of Nicolas V., Antipope, whose true
date is 1328.
The Pope Nicolas V. appears to have
been Tommaso Parentucelli, or di Sarzana.
Very probably he preferred the cross keys to
a family coat of arms. According to Gibbon
(' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,'
chap. Ixvi.), " from a plebeian origin.^he
raised himself by his virtue and learning."
As to the tinctures of the cross keys, the
indications which I have found are such
as : —
" Usually the Tiara is placed above the es-
cucheon ; and the keys (of which the dexter is of
gold, and the sinister of silver) are placed m
saltire behind the shield which bears the Pope s
personal arms." — ' Treatise on Ecclesiastical
Heraldry,' p. 150.
Apart from the field, about which I have
found nothing, I think that the blazon of
the arms used by Nicolas V. would be :
Two keys addorsed in saltire, the wards
upwards (i.e., wards in chief), the dexter or,
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155
•the sinister argent. Such keys are repre
sented in Woodward's ' Treatise ' as above'
Plate XIX., as external ornaments of the
arms of Pius IX. and Leo XIII., but being
behind the shield in the one case, and
behind the tiara in the other, they are partly
hidden. Compare the modern arms of the
Archbishop of York (Plate XX.), in which
both keys are argent ; and those of the
Bishop of Gloucester (Plate XXII.), in which
both keys are or ; addorsed, in saltire in each
case.
As to the tiara, the following is the de-
scription given in ' A Treatise on Heraldry,
British and Foreign,' by John Woodward
and George Burnett, 1892, p. 705 : —
" A white cap of oval shape, rising from an open
crown ; encircled by two other coronets, and sur-
fnounted by a small orb with its cross. The
tiara has infulce, or pendants, embroidered with
gold, and fringed."
A portrait of Nicolas V. might well have
both coats of arms, as given above, fixed on
its frame. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
AUTHOR WANTED : ' OTHO DE GRANDISON '
(12 S. ii. 108). — In Transactions of the Royal
Historical Society, Third Series, vol. iii., 1909,
pp. 125-95, there may be found a paper by
Mr. C. L. Kingsford entitled ' Sir Otho de
Grandison, 1238 ?-1328.' A. A.
If you can trust a soldier's memory,
kindly inform Miss GREENWOOD that I
believe she refers to an article on ' Oton
de Granson,' by A. Piaget, published in the
excellent French periodical Romania about
1895. Unfortunately, this volume is un-
obtainable in our Y.M.C.A. huts.
SEYMOUR DE RICCI.
Somewhere in Belgium.
ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY (12 S. ii. 29,
93). — MR. PENNY at the latter reference is, I
think, confusing St. George's, Bloomsbury,
with St. George's, Queen's Square.
Concerning this latter church, Chamberlain,
in his ' History and Survey of London,' at
p. 602, writes : —
" This church likewise took its rise from the
great increase of buildings. Several gentlemen at
the extremity of the parish of St. Andrew, Hoi-
bourn, having proposed the erection of a chapel for
religious worship, Sir Streynsham Master, and
•fourteen of the other neighbouring gentlemen,
were appointed trustees for the management of this
affair. These gentlemen, in the year 1705, agreed
with Mr. Tooley to give him 3,5001. for erecting a
chapel and two houses, intending to reimburse
themselves by the sale of the pews; and this
edifice being finished the next year, they settled
annual stipends for the maintenance of a chaplain,
an afternoon preacher who was also reader, and a
clerk, giving to the first and second a salary of
10W. each, and to the last 50/. But the commis-
sioners for erecting fifty new churches, resolving to
make this one of them, purchased it, caused a
certain district to be appointed for its parish, and
had it consecrated in the year 1723, when it was
dedicated to St. George, in compliment to Sir
Streynsham Master, who had been governor of Fort
St. George in the East Indies."
Speaking of St. George' s, Bloomsbury, the
author just quoted, at p. 602, mentions " the
statue of King George I. at the top of its
spire," and says that it was consecrated in
January, 1731.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
MR. PENNY and W. R. W., in their inter-
esting replies at the latter reference, have
confused this church with that of St. George
the Martyr, Queen Square : —
" Consecrated on the twenty-sixth of September
1723, by E. Gibson, Bishop of London, who dedi-
cated the same to St. George, in compliment to
Sir Streynsham Master, who had been Governor of
the fort of that name in India. It was called
St. George the Martyr, to distinguish it from St.
George's Church, in Hart Street, which was built
shortly afterwards (1731), and named in honour of
George!., whose statue is at the top of the steeple."
— 'The History, &c., of St. George- the- Martyr,
Holborn,' by J.' Lewis Miller, 1881, p. 5.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
THE FIRST ENGLISH PROVINCIAL NEWS-
PAPER (12 S. ii. 81). — The apparent discovery
of an earlier series of Jos. Bliss's Exeter
Post-Boy is interesting, but it does not
justify the aspersion cast upon a painstaking
and accurate antiquary. Dr. Brushfield, in
his valuable paper on ' Andrew Brice and
the Early Exeter Newspaper Press ' (Trans.
Devon Assoc., xx. 163-214), proves con-
clusively, by means of facsimiles of the titles
of early numbers, that Dr. Oliver's assertion
is correct. The first number of The Exeter
Mercury, which was apparently established
by Samuel Farley, but was printed by Philip
Bishop at his printing office in St. Peter's
Churchyard, was issued on Friday, Sept. 24,
1714; and Bliss's paper, The Protestant
Mercury : or, The Exeter Post-Boy, was
probably issued on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 1715.
The title of No. 4 (the earliest obtainable)
is as follows : —
"Numb. IV. The Protestant Mercury: or, the
Exeter Post-Boy with News Foreign and Domes-
tick : Being The most Remarkable Occurrences,
impartially collected, as Occasion offers, from the
Evening- Post, Gazette, Vottx, Flying- Post, We<>My-
Pacquet, Dormer's Letter. Po«t»cipt [«fc] to the Pout-
Man, &o. So that no other can pretend to have a
better Collection. Publish'd every Tuesday and
Friday. Price, seal'd for the Country, 10*. ptr
Annum [trie]. And for the Convenience of those
that will take the same but once a Week, it is so
order'd, that every Friday's Paper will contain
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three Posts, or the whole Weeks News. Advertise-
ment* will be incerted at Reasonable Hate*. This
Paper circulates Forty Miles round, and several
Hundreds dispers'd every Week. Friday, October
the 7th, 1715. Printed by Jos. Bliss, at his New
Printing-House near the London-Inn, without
East-Gate."
Dr. Brushfield was aware of Dr. Tanner's
letter, but he says: "How far the hearsay
report was correct we have no present means
of ascertaining. No other contemporary
writer alludes to it." There is a good
collection of early Exeter newspapers in the
Library of the Devon and Exeter Institution,
but it does not include a single number of the
earlier series of Jos. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy.
From the Rev. J. Ingle Dredge's series of
articles on ' Devon Booksellers and Printers
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'
(Western Antiquary, vols. v. and vi.), it
appears that Bliss and Farley were in
partnership in 1707, four works containing
their joint names as printers. From 1708
to 1710 Bliss's shop was " in the Exchange,"
which Dr. Brushfield says was a few doors
below the Guildhall, though the imprint on
the earlier Exeter Post-Boy seems to identify
this with the Exchange Coffee House, in
St. Peter's Churchyard. In 1711 he had
removed to the address given in The Pro-
testant Mercury. R. PEARSE CHOPE.
I am much indebted to your correspondent
MB. J. B. WILLIAMS for his notes on the very
interesting subject of early provincial
newspapers. I much regret that at the
moment I have not time to go minutely into
this subject, but I should like to call MR.
WILLIAMS 's attention to a contribution on
this subject by the late Dr. T. N. Brushfield,
entitled ' Andrew Brice and the Early
Exeter Newspaper Press,' which he will find
in vol. xx. of the Transactions of the
Devonshire Association, published in 1888.
H. TAPLEY-SOPEE.
Public Library, Exeter.
WILLIAM HOLLOWAY v!2 S. ii. 8). — In
addition to 'The Peasant's Fate,' 1802, he
published ' Poems on Various Occasions,'
1798 ; ' The Baron of Lauderbrooke, a Tale,'
1800 ; ' Scenes of Youth, or Rural Recollec-
tions,' &c., 1803 ; ' The Minor Minstrel,'
1808; and 'The Country Pastor, a Poem,'
1812. In some of these there are local
allusions to Dorset. A William Holloway
was collector of customs, notary, and
surveyor for the registry of shipping "at East
Cowes from before 1779 to his death in 1816 ;
but only the coincidences of name and date
suggest that he may possibly have been the
author. W. B. H.
PEAT AND Moss : HEALING PROPERTIES
(12 S. ii. 9, 96). — In confirmation of L. L. K.'s
statement that sphagnum moss is being
utilized in this war, three photographs
appeared early in July in a Devonshire paper
(The Western Weekly News, I think) illus-
trative of its collection on Dartmoor by Mr.
J. Durrant of Okehampton, who, being too
old to fight, had to date patriotically tramped
about 1,000 miles in quest of it. Those of
us who know Dartmoor bogs and mists
will say all honour to him.
W. CURZON YEO.
Richmond, Surrey.
The use of moss from a dead man's skull
I find mentioned several times in a MS.
book of recipes, and once in the preparation
of an ointment for dressing a weapon with
which a wound had been made, as " Take the
moss of a dead man's skull that was never
buryed" — this, with " two ounces of man's
fat" and other ingredients, to be "brayed in
a morter." THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
RICHARD WILSON, M.P. (12 S. i. 90, 158..
213, 277, 437, 516; ii. 34, 55, 74).— The
'Royal Kalendar' for 1800 and 1802:
gives Richard Wilson, M.P. Barnstaple
(1796-1802, defeated there 1790 and 1802),
as of Datch worth Lodge, Herts, and
Queen Street, Westminster ; for 1806 it
gives " Richard Wilson of Lincoln's Inn
Fields " as Principal Secretary to Lord
Chancellor Eldon (a post he held 1801-6),.
and as one of the sixty Commissioners of
Bankrupts (which he held 1802 till the
Commission was abolished, 1832) ; for 1810
it gives No. 47 Portugal Street as his
address. Lord Eldon gave him in 1806 a
third appointment as one of the Corporation
of Cursitors in Chancery (whose office was
in Rolls Yard), his district being London and
Middlesex, and his name appears as such
until 1834. The 'New Law List,' 1827, gives-
among the names of attorneys in London,.
" Richard Wilson of No. 47 Lincoln's Inn.
Fields, solicitor to the Lambeth Waterworks
Company." He was a trustee of the Law
Association in 1825. It appears clear to me
that the M.P. Barnstaple, 1796-1802, was
the Richard Wilson, attorney, who acted as
agent or steward to the second and third
Dukes of Northumberland from about 1786
(presumably) till he died, June 7, 1834, and,
from his address, I assume he was Lord
Eldon' s Secretary, Commissioner of Bank-
rupts, and Cursitor. Does Joshua Wilson's
' Biog. Index,' 1806, give any clue as to the
Richard Wilson who was M.P. for Ipswich.
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1806-7, when he was defeated at the poll ?
(Smith's 'Parliaments' gives both the
Richard Wilson M.P.s as Whigs.) Would he
be the Richard Wilson, eldest son of Rev.
Dr. Chris. Wilson, Canon Residentiary of
St. Paul's, London, who graduated B.A.
Trin. Coll., Camb., 177.<; M.A. 1778;
admitted to Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 23, 1771 ;
and called to the bar June 22, 1779 ?
W. E. W.
" HONEST INJUN" (12 S. i. 389, 458, 517).
— May I add to the testimony of MR. CORNER
and MR. SPARKE (quite accurate, and I also
never heard it used in Mr. Farmer's sense)
that the phrase was common among New-
England boys sixty years ago ? I think is
went from there West. Its use as a boy't
formula of good faith (with " cross my
breast," and the like) indicates that it was
much older among their seniors. For its
•origin, I think MR. CORNER is correct : the
reference was not to the Indian's " thievish
propensities," but to his lying (as the famous
" Sam Hill " story). It is probably eigh-
teenth-century. FORREST MORGAN.
Hartford, Conn.
COMMON GARDEN =COVENT GARDEN (12 S.
ii. 89). — The following are later instances of
-these equivalents.
1. 'Joseph Andrews,' iv. 6 (1742) : —
" ' Upon my word, ma'am,1 says Slipslop, ' 1 do not
-understand your ladyship.'
" ' I believe, indeed, thou dost not understand me.
Thou art a low creature, a reptile of a lower order,
a weed that grows in the common garden of the
creation.'
" ' I assure your ladyship.' says Slipslop, whose
passions were almost of as high an order as her
lady's, ' I have no more to do with Common
•Garden than other folks.' "
2. Richardson, writing triumphantly to Mr.
Edwards of Turrick on Feb. 21, 1752, says
{' Samuel Richardson's Correspondence,'
iii. 33):—
'; Mr. Fielding has met with the disapprobation
S>u foresaw he would meet with, of his ' Amelia.'
e is, in every paper he publishes under the title
of the Common Garden, contributing to his own
overthrow."
This was a reference to the newly launched
Covent Garden Journal.
J. PAUL DE CASTRO.
THE CITY CORONER AND TREASURE-
TROVE (12 S. i. 483; ii. 51, 91).— To the
several interesting notes and excerpts con-
tributed on this topic I hope to see
appended some record of finds made during
the last half-century within the jurisdiction
of the City Coroner. The fact that these
rarely included coins, jewels, articles made
of precious metals, or briefly anything of
intrinsic value, may explain some want of
interest on the part of the authorities, who
clearly have strictly adhered to the common
application of the term " treasure-trove."
Excluding Roach Smith, Dr. Corner,
Cureton, and some earlier harvesters of
the unearthed relics of past London, the
number of finds made have been innumer-
able. With few exceptions these articles
passed at once into private collections,
and are not only unrecorded, but largely un-
known to the authorities at the Guildhall.
The late Mr. F. G. Hilton Price endeavoured
to dispel this lethargy, but without success,
and it was only the advent of the London
Museum and its infinitely better methods
that brought about the desired reform. _
As DR. MARTIN remarks, the existence f>f
the casket of jewels had been known for
some time to several zealous antiquaries
in the City, but the civic authorities were
not thus to be tempted to take any interest
in such matters. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
" WATCH HOUSE," EWELL, SURREY (12 S.
ii. 9, 113).— The general terms of W. B. H.'s
reply at the latter reference are tantalizing.
" Two adjacent Midland counties " does not
convey much definite information. Will
your correspondent kindly give us the names
of the four places still retaining their watch-
houses ? And I shall be grateful if he will
further specify the names of the two where
the watch-house is contiguous to the village
pound — the latter, presumably, still in
existence. G. L. APPERSON.
Brighton.
' THE MAN WITH THE HOE ' (12 S. ii. 50,
96). — I have read with much interest the
correspondence in your columns on this
subject, but the bibliographical information
supplied is, I think, incorrect. I have before
me a copy of the first edition (8vo, 7 in. by
o-J in., paper wrappers), the title-page of
which runs as follows : —
" The Man | with the Hoe | Written after
seeing Millet's | World -Famous Painting . . . . |
By Edwin Markham | Originally published in
The San \ Francisco Examiner January the |
fifteenth Eighteen hundred and | ninety -nine.
Now first issued in | book form, March thirtieth,
Eighteen | hundred and ninety-nine. | San Fran-
cisco, California. Published | by A. M. Robert-
son."
Including the paper wrapper it runs to
12 pp. On the back of the title-page is :
" Copyright, 1899, | By Edwin Markham."
The poem ends on the ninth page, after which
there are two pages of advertisements, and
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the back cover is blank. The poem numbers
49 lines.
This remarkable poem took America by
storm in 1899. I well remember its publica-
tion in this pamphlet form ; indeed,! was in
Xi'\\ York at the time.
Mr. Markham is not only a distinguished
poet, but he is a very discriminating critic,
besides being a brilliant conversationalist.
It has been my pleasure to meet him more
than once. The last time we met was the
year before the outbreak of war, and I shall
long remember his great interest in the
younger school " of English poets. Few
American critics have done more to make the
work of this school of poets known in the
United States than Mr. Markham and the
late Edmund Clarence Stedman.
JOHN LANE.
The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
PRONUNCIATION OF " CATRIONA " (12 S.
ii. 110). — In the Gaelic diphthong io the o is
silent. Catriona = Catrina, which in modern
Irish is altered, by substitution of one liquid
for another, into Kathleen. All these are
Gaelic variants of Katharine or Catherine.
N. POWLETT, Col.
See 8 S. vii. 89, where it is said, referring to
Athenceum, vol. ii. of 1893, pp. 556, 664, that
Stevenson's pronunciation was " Catreena."
DIEGO.
DK. THOMAS CHEVALIER (12 S. ii. 109).—
The twenty-ninth Bulletin of the Societe
Jersiaise contains (pp. 44-56) a pedigree of
the family of Chevalier of St. Helier, from
which family the Suffolk Chevalliers are
descended. The Huguenot descent of Lord
Kitchener is a popular myth. R. J. B.
PORTRAIT OF A KNIGHT or THE GARTER
(12 S. ii. 108). — The old portrait mentioned
at the above reference is evidently that of
Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and
2nd Earl of Montgomery, who died Dec. 11,
1669, aged 77, and who was not a Knight of
the Garter nor Chancellor of the University
of Oxford. It was his father, Philip Herbert,
4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Mont-
gomery, who was installed a Knight of the
Garter on St. George's Day, 1608, before
succeeding his brother William in the
Earldom of Pembroke, and who, having been
elected Chancellor of the University of
Oxford, July 1, 1641, was deprived of the
office in 1643, and reinstated March 2, 1647,
by the authority of the Parliament. He
died at an advanced age Jan. 23, 1649/50,
and was well over 70 years of age in 1641.
F. DE H. L.
AN ANCIENT WELSH TRIAD (12 S. ii. 109)_
— Soon after having applied for your valued
help I happily found the required original
text in ' Williams ab Ithel, Barddas I.'
(Llandovery, 1862), on p. 302, as follows : —
Tri Dyn sydd :
1. Dyn i Dduw, & wna dda dros ddrwg ;
2. dyn i ddyn, a wna dda dros dda, a dnvg dros
ddrwg ;
3. a dyn i ddiawl, a wna ddrwg dros dda.
INQUIRER.
AN EARLY CIRCULATING LIBRARY (12 S.
i. 27). — Several notes on this subject, though
under another caption, appeared in the
10th Series. At 10 S. ix. 414 it was pointed
out that Francis Kirkman had such a
library in 1674 ; but MR. PEDDIE'S citation
carries it back to 1661.
Boston, U.S. ALBERT MATTHEWS.
THOMAS HUSSEY, M.P. FOR WHITCHURCH,.
1645-53 (12 S. ii. 88, 135).— Thomas Hussey
of Hungerford Park, Berks, died in the early
part of the year 1658. His will (P.C.C.
53 Wootton), dated July 3, 1654, has two
codicils, the latter dated Dec. 14, 1657 ;
probate was granted Feb. 25, 1657/8. In
the will he refers to his wife Catharine, his
eldest son, Thomas (under 15 at date of
will), his son William, and his four daughters^
Anne, Catharine, Mars7, and Cicely (all under
18) ; also to his lands in Chilton Folliatt,
Heywood, and Leverton, cos. Wilts and
Berks ; manors, rectories, and lands in
Highworth, Blunsdon, Marston, and Bushton,
co. Wilts ; Langford Ecclesia, cos. Oxon and
Berks ; manor and lands in Shipton Bellinger,
and farm lands in Freefolke and Freefolke
Priors, co. Southampton. He appoints his
friends Tho. Hawles, Robt. Mason, John
Elwes, and Giles Hungerford executors.
The first codicil mentions manors of Peinton
and Colehurst, co. Salop ; also " the five
children of John Savage, late of Kingscleare,
co. Southampton, gent., deceased (one of
whose executors in trust I was)." In the
second codicil he appoints his brother-in-law,
Mr. Francis Monday, of Wickham, co. Berks,
a co-executor, and refers to manors of
Moulsford, Streetley, and Ashton, and lands
in Cholsley and Munkenden, co. Berks.
The tomb of his wife Catharine is in Win-
chester Cathedral ; she died in October,.
1675, aged 62. Judging by the arms on the
tomb, she appears to have been a member
of the Yonge family of co. Wilts. She
outlived three husbands : John Vaux, M.D.,
Thomas Hussey, and Sir Robert Mason (of
Kingsclere, co. Hants, son of Robert Mason,.
Recorder of Winchester).
12 s. ii. AUG. 19, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
On March 23, 1651/2, Thomas Hussey
son and heir, and William Hussey, second
son, of Thomas Hussey of Hungerford Park,
Berks, were admitted students to Gray's Inn.
Giles Hungerford (fifth son of Sir Anthony
Hungerford of Black Bourton, co. Oxon),
afterwards Sir Giles Hungerford of Freefolk,
co. Hants, and Coulston, co. Wilts, married
Frances (third daughter and coheir of Sir
George Croke of Waterstock, co. Oxon),
relict of Richard Jervoise of Freefolk.
ALFRED T. EVERITT.
Portsmouth.
FARMERS' CANDLEMAS RIME (12 S. ii. 29,
77, 117). — With reference to the paragraph,
"It is exceedingly unlucky to experience a
fine Candlemas Day, &c On the contrary, a
cloudy and rainy Candlemas Day means that
winter is gone. This is not only English, but
French, German, and Spanish lore,"
it may be of interest to quote the following
old Neapolitan lines, which show that Italian
opinion differed from the above : —
Arrivati a Candelora
Dell' invernp semo fora,
Ma si piove e tira vento
Dell' inverno semo drento.
N. POWLETT, Col.
HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS (12 S.
ii. 89, 138).— 5. See 9 S. xi. 448 ; xii. 33, 234,
412. JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
THOMAS CONGREVE, M.D. (12 S. ii. 69).—
With reference to my query relating to
Thomas Congreve, I have since discovered
the following entry in ' Graduati Canta-
brigienses,' 1823, p. 110, which seems to refer
to him, and if it does not is a curious
coincidence : " Congrave (Thomas), M.B.
1687, Sid. Coll."
The slight difference in the spelling of the
word " Congreve " is probably not worth
noting — the mere substitution of a for e.
A. STANTON WHITFIELD.
High Street, Walsall.
" OlL ON TROUBLED WATERS " (12 S.
ii. 87). — I see your correspondent A. F. R
gives an account of the latest recorded
instance of the above. In the various notes
on this subject in ' N. & Q.' has mention been
made of the instance of the kind related in
Bede's ' Ecclesiastical History ' (iii. 15) ?
The chapter in question is headed : " How
Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen a
storm that would happen, and gave them
some holy oil to lay it " (A.D. 651). I wonder
if this is the earliest mention of the matter.
J. WILLCOCK.
Lerwick.
EDMOND DUBLEDAY (12 S. ii. 70). — I
much regret that I omitted to take a note of"
:he description, if any, of this man contained
in the pamphlet which I summarized ante,.
p. 25, and that I have no leisure to repair the
emission by a visit to the British Museum. -
[ have little doubt, however, that he is the
Edmund Doubleday to whom (with one
Andrew Bright) on March 30, 1604, were
granted the offices of distilling herbs and
sweet waters at the Palace of Whitehall and
of keeping the Library there. This Edmund
Doubleday subsequently became one of the-
two Wardens of the Mint.
There are frequent references to him in
the ' Calendars of State Papers (Domestic),.'
1603-10 and 1611-18.
JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT..
on IBooha,
Calendar of the Charter Rolls preserved in the Public •
Record Office.— Vol. V. 15 Edward III. to
5 Henry V., A.D. 1341-1417. (Stationery Office ,.
15*.)
THE text of this volume was prepared by Mr..
C. G. Crump and Mr. C. H. Jenkinson, assisted
by Mr. A. E. Stamp, under the immediate super-
vision of Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte. It contains a
General Index of persons and places, an index of
counties, and one of subjects, these being the work
of Mr. Maskelyne. To the text there is prefixed
a list of the charters printed in full in these pages,
as well as a Bibliography.
By far the greater number of the charters here
given in full were granted by the kings to religious
houses and churches, but we have also the
Empress Maud's charter to the burgesses of
Devizes, those of Richard I. to the burgesses of
Bedford and the citizens of London, and one of
John's to London. The most interesting and'
important is the famous charter to the University
of Oxford dated June 27, 1355, from the Tower
of London, in which — -doing the University
right after the violent and fatal riot between
Town and Gown on St. Scholastica's Day (Feb. 10),
1354 — Edward III. gave the University control
of the markets, and general jurisdiction over the
city. This charter, besides its intrinsic cla im to
attention, is rather a fine example of the rugged1
and barbarous, yet neither ineffective nor un--
dignified legal Latin of the Middle Ages. There
is much good detail concerning Oxford set forth
in other pages of this book, and other towns whose
historians and students might note it are Coventry
and Canterbury — to say nothing of London. A
large number of village names and names of
small towns appear, especially those belonging to
Kent, Suffolk, and Yorkshire. We may mention
hi conclusion one or two matters — among many —
of curious interest. There is an example, under
date Nov. 14, 1389, of the enhanced fine for offences
committed between noon on Saturday and fore-
noon on Monday (60*. and a halfpenny of gold to
be paid instead of 12(2.). A charter to the citi-
zens of Dublin makes mention of the poverty of
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the \rchbishop of that see, and another mentions
the Irish trade in old clothes, stating that altogether
their merchandise, which consists of those same
together with wool, hides, and other small matters,
is auite different from the merchandise of other
lands. This charter (Nov. 22, 1363) is instructive
as illustrating English methods of dealing with
Ireland. Under May 28, 1389, are interesting
particulars of costly royal gifts, in the way of
vestments of cloth of gold with elaborate jewels
and images, to the shrine of Edward the Confessor ;
and there is also a notification of the gift at the
same shrine of a " solemn jewel " by Richard II.
to wit, a gold ring with a ruby in it, which the
King shall have the use of during his lifetime,
•except when he is without the realm, when H
shall, during his absence, be fixed to the shrine.
Is anything more known about this ring ?
Jacob and losep : a Middle-English Poem of the
Thirteenth Century. Edited by Arthur S.
Napier. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2s. 6d. net.)
PROF. NAPIER tells us in his Introduction to this
rather charming little book that he had almost
finished preparing it when, in 1905, a German
•edition appeared (W. Heuser in " Bonner Beitrage
zur Anglistik," Heft xvii.). We are glad that he
has revised his first decision to lay his work aside.
We do not suppose that English students will con-
sult the "Bonner Beitrage," even where these are
accessible, in preference to an English edition.
' lacob and losep,' as we have it, is a poem of
538 lines, of which the only text is in the Bodleian.
A leaf of it is lost, which is the more to be regretted
since it probably contained a version of the curious
•old story — to be found in the ' Cursor Mundi ' —
about how the chaff from Joseph's threshing
floated down the Nile to where Jacob was, anc
'how it was the sight of it that caused him to senc
his sons up the Nile into Egypt for corn. ^" Ofte
of J>is smal chaf ]>is brej>ren broujten horn, is the
line that gives the clue to this.
The Introduction furnishes a summary of 1
contents, and comparisons between the story o
Joseph as told here and as we have it in the Bible
and in the ' Cursor Mundi.' The divergences are
partly in the way of abbreviation, by omission 01
contraction, partly in the way of invention
Here, for example, it is Pharaoh's wife, no
Potiphar's, who falls in love with Joseph. 1
grammar, notes, and glossary are provided
it seems superfluous to say they are thorough!}
well done.
The poem itself is distinctly attractive,
rises to no sublime heights ; but it is plain
good story-telling of a simple, lively kind, after
the convention to which the lapse of centuries
has brought a charm that does not grow stale.
There are one or two passages of pretty lyrical
-description, as, for instance, Joseph's entry into
Egypt ; many touches of real pathos, and once
•or twice a hint of epigram, as in the line,
He wende to sechen his brej>ren, > soujte his fulle
fon.
When lacob, at the end, hears that losep is still
living there is a quaint and pleasant account of
what he did : He cast away his crutch, his mantle
he seized, he plaited his hair with a silken string,
and he took his beaver (?) hat that was covered with
pall. He now could fly, he said, like an eagle,
.and he
rod singmde, such hit were a child.
When the brethren are stripping losep to cast
im into the pit, it is said,
Hi strupten of ]>e curtel, of swere > of chin,
4.nd we notice that "chin " is given in the glossary
,s having its ordinary modern meaning. Can
hat be right ? Should it not be = chine, back ?
'reland in Fiction : a Guide to Irish Novels, Tales,
Romances, and Folk-Lore. By Stephen J.
Brown, S.J. (Dublin and London, Maunsel &
Co., Is. 6d. net.)
FHE compiler of this work published six years ago
A Reader's Guide to Irish Fiction,' which is now
out of print. The book before us, though it covers
;he same ground, and has the same purpose, differs
rom the former one in that it deals with nearly
double the number of works, is arranged on a new
scheme, possesses a title and subject index, and
supplies numerous biographical notes. The Ap-
pendix of four sections is by no means the
least useful part of the compilation, and for those
who desire to make thorough acquaintance with
Ireland the six classified lists especially will be
a boon. The notes to the several novels pretend
to no literary quality, being designed simply to
state the general character of the book, and the
topics with which it deals, for the information of
the less experienced reader. If this is borne in
mind it will be found that the comments not only,
for the most part, are very cleverly calculated for
their end, but also in a number of cases furnish
a better guide in the matter of literary criticism
than they profess to do. One or two modern
authors, e.g., Somerville and Ross, are not, per-
haps, rated quite so high as we should rate them ;
and the merits of others, e.g., Katharine Tynan,
seem somewhat over-emphasized. But this re-
mark is not intended to qualify our general opinion
that this volume embodies a piece of very useful
work capably done.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUSTS, 1910.
CON TENTS.- No. 35.
NOTES :— Materials for a History of the Watts Family, 161
—An English Army List of 1740, 163-The Novels and
Short Stories of G. P. R. James, 167— Statues and Memo-
rials in the British Isles, 168 -Seals on Anglo-Saxon
Charters, 169— A Suburban Fair of 1816— Kingsway, 170.
•QUERIES: — "To have been in the sun " — " Written in
sunbeams "—" One's place in the sun," 170 — A Stewart
Ring— Cromwell : St. John— Francis Gregory— Richard
Duke— Rev. Meredith Haniner, D.D.— Joachim Ibarra-
Mackenzie Family— Shelley Genealogy—" With child to
«ee any strange thing," 171 — Thomas Cholmley, Mayor
of Carlisle-" Appreciation"— Portraits in Stained Glass
—Foreign Graves of British Authors— Sir John Maynard—
€apt. Bellains or Bellairs— William Wilson, M.P.— Henry
Whitaker M.P.— The Horse-Chestnut, 172.
REPLIES : — Rev. Joseph Rann, 173 — " Blue pencil " —
Kingsley Pedigree, 174—' The Working-Man's Way in the
World '—Gorges Brass— The Lion Rampant of Scotland,
175— Henriette Renan— Grave of Margaret Godolphin—
St. Luke's, Old Street : Bibliography, 176— St. Peter as
the Gate-Keeper of Heaven— " Feis "—Perpetuation of
Printed Errors, 177— Major Campbell's Duel— Cleopatra
and the Pearl— Calverley's Charades— " Hat Trick": a
Cricket Term— James Wilson, M.P.— Remiremont Hail-
stones, May, 1907, 178— Fieldingiana : Miss H— and—
"Tadsman"— Thomas Astle, 179.
"NOTES ON BOOKS:— 'The English Civil Service in the
Fourteenth Century.'
Jottings from Recent Book Catalogues.
Notices to Correspondents.
MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF
THE WATTS FAMILY OF
SOUTHAMPTON.
(See ante, p. 101.)
2. The Parents of Dr. Isaac Watts.
ISAAC WATTS, the father of Dr. Isaac Watts,
is the only child of Thomas Watts of whom
we have any record. He was born, probably,
-about 1650, and became a schoolmaster at
41 French Street, Southampton. This very
flourishing boarding-school was in such re-
pute that pupils from America and the West
Indies were committed to his care.
In or shortly before 1673 he married Miss
Taunton — of whom hereafter.
In 1674 his eldest son, the celebrated
Nonconformist minister and hymn-writer,
was born. We shall see later that Dr. Isaac
Watts inherited his love of poetry from his
father — a fact which, I believe, is not
mentioned in any of his many biographies.
In 1675 Isaac Watts was fined 31. for
refusing to renounce the Covenant and take
the oath, having been elected one of the four
beadles of Southampton. On being chosen
" bidell " again for the ward of St. Michael
and St. John, he was freed from the office
for seven years on paying a fine of 40*.
In 1683 his nonconformity resulted in his
imprisonment for six months in the gaol of
Southampton, situated at the bottom of the
town, and then known as the South Castle
and God's House Gate. During his im-
prisonment, his wife (with their child Isaac,
then aged 9 years), it is related, was fre-
quently seen at the door of the prison,
unwilling to be comforted, eagerly awaiting
a sight of her husband through the iron bars.
This incident was made the subject of an oil
painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy
about 1870.
After this imprisonment he was banished
the town for two years (1685—7).
On Aug. 3, 1688, he was elected Deacon
of the Above Bar Congregational Chapel —
a church of Protestant Dissenters in South-
ampton— an office that he held until his
death forty-eight years later.
On May 31, 1690, Robert Thorner of
Baddeley, near Southampton, made his will,
appointing as his trustees Bennett Swayne
of London, Isaac Watts of Southampton,
Thomas Holies of London, and John Brack-
stone of Southampton. Robert Thorner died
on July 17 of the same year.
In 1691 Isaac Watts of Southampton,
described as a clothier of the age of 41 years,
gave evidence in the Chancery suit " Brack-
stone v. Brackstone." This is our authority
for stating above that he was born probably
about 1650. It is said that Isaac Watts was
involved in legal proceedings which materi-
ally injured his private fortune, and deprived
him of the fruits of an industrious life ;
further, that the paternal property possessed
by the family would have been considerable
but for the intolerance of the times.
On Oct. 1, 1703, he was chosen for the
office of Constable of Southampton, but
excused on payment of five guineas. He
was not let off again under double that
amount.
On Sept. 16, 1735, he made his will, of
which the following is a full abstract : —
" The Will of Isaac Watts of the Town and County
of Southampton.
" My now dwelling-house called Little St. Dennis
in the parish of St. Michael, Southampton, with
the malt-houses, garden, &c., thereunto belonging,
to my son Enoch Watts, he cancelling a bond (of
the penalty of £1,200, which I gave him to secure
payment of £200 within one year after the death
162
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. u. Am. *, 1910.
of his mother and £400 more out of my estate
afterwards) and accepting a joint executorship.
If he refuses, then the said house, &c., to my
son-in-law Joseph Brackstone for him to sell for
the payment of my debts and legacies.
" To my daughter Sarah, wife of Joseph
Brackstone, my close of arable or pasture ground
called South Bernards Field with the moor there-
unto belonging, «fcc., in the parish of All Saints,
Southampton, now in the occupation of Widow
Langford, which I purchased of Mr. John Heather,
for her life, then to my granddaughter Sarah
Brackstone.
" To my granddaughter Mary Brackstone the
orcha rd or garden called King's Orchard with the
house therein standing, &c., in the parish of
St. Mary, Southampton, in the occupation of
Robert Lambert", which I hold by lease of Queen's
College, Oxford. Her mother shall enjoy the
profits during the remainder of the present lease
and shall pay the fine for renewing the same, but in
the name of the said Mary Brackstone her
daughter.
" To my daughter Sarah Bracltstone £50 to buy
the life of her daughter Martha into my copyhold
in Porch wood, in which her own life is already
purchased.
" My two tenements in North Street, Gosport,
Hants (one in the occupation of John Isger
and the other in the occupation of Godsell
Sherren, which was formerly mortgaged unto me
by John Isger, Senior, deceased, and since pur-
chased of the assigns of a statute of bankruptcy
taken out against him), to my executors to be sold
for the payment of my debts and legacies.
" The lease of the tenement in South Street,
Gosport, in the occupation of Mrs. King, formerly
mortgaged to me by John Brissett, deceased, and
taken up by me owing to non-payment of principal
and interest divers years past, to my son-in-law
Joseph Brackstone.
" To my eldest son Isaac Watts £300 to be paid
to him within two years after my death.
" I have paid my son Richard Watts a con-
siderable sum of money as a marriage portion, and
I now give to him and Mary his wife one guinea
each for rings.
" To my granddaughter Mary Watts, daughter
of the said Richard Watts, £10 to buy a piece of
plate.
" To my grandchildren, Joseph Brackstone,
James Brackstone, Mary Brackstone, Sarah
Brackstone, and Martha Brackstone, the children
of my daughter Sarah Brackstone, £200 each to
be paid to their father for their use, he giving a
bond to my son Enoch Watts to pay the same to
each of them at 21 years of age as mine and their
grandmother's legacies.
" If my granddaughter Sarah Brackstone dies
before her mother, then South Bernards Field to
Martha Brackstone my granddaughter.
" £100 to my son-in-law Joseph Brackstone for
the repairing and new building the forepart of his
now dwelling-house in Southampton.
" Horse, chaise, harness, &c., to my daughter
Sarah Brackstone.
" To my son Enoch Watts the bed in his
chamber and three silver spoons.
" To my grandson Joseph Brackstone my
watch.
" To my grandson James Brackstone one piece
of gold coin value five guineas.
" To my three granddaughters Mary Brackstone,.
Sarah Brackstone, and Martha Brackstone my
three best beds, all my plate, rings, china, &c.
" To my grandson Thomas Watts £100 afc
23 years of age.
" To my granddaughter Man,-, wife of John
Chaldecott, £50 to be paid her at the time when,
her brother Thomas's legacy is due.
" I have lately conveyed to Joseph Brackstone
a messuage.
" To the Revd. Mr. Henry Francis, minister,.
£5.
" To the poor of the Society to which I belong
40s.
" To the poor of St. Michael's parish, Southamp-
ton, 40s.
" My own manuscript of poems which I will to
my .s'o?t /.sooc Watt*, and if he think good to correct
them and print them or any of them, which I have
been desired to doe by xti'trodl Friend* who have
*een *ome of them.
" The residue of my personal estate between
my son Enoch Watts and my daughter Sarah
Brackstone."
The above will was proved by the ex-
ecutors on March 22, 1736, in the Preroga-
tive Court of Canterbury, and is to be found
in Register Wake, folio 71.
Isaac's wife, who is said to have had
Huguenot blood in her veins, was still
living on Feb. 16, 1693, but predeceased
her husband. She was the daughter of
Taunton, alderman of Southampton
(who died June 11, 1697), by , his wife
(who died March 30, 1700). I have not
succeeded in finding wills or administrations
in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury for
Alderman Taunton and his widow.
There was a -Richard Taunton, merchant
and alderman of Southampton, whose will
is dated Feb. 15, 1752. He was buried at
St. John's Church, Southampton, on April 7
of that year, and there is a memorial there to
his memory. Possiblj' he was Isaac Watts's
brother-in-law.
Isaac Watts's children were : —
1. Isaac, born July 17, 1674, baptized
about September of that year. Of him
hereafter.
2. Richard, born Feb. 10, 1675/6, bap-
tized about May of that year. Of him
hereafter.
3. Enoch, born March 11, 1678/9, bap-
tized about November of that year. Of him
hereafter.
4. Thomas, born Jan. 20, 1679/80, bap-
tized about March of that year. Of him
hereafter.
5. Sarah, born Oct. 31, 1681, baptized
about December of that year. Of her
hereafter.
6. Mary, born Feb. 13, 1683/4, baptized
in March of that year. Obviously died an
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163
infant, as Isaac named another daughter
" Mary " in 1686.
7. Mary, born April 10, 1686, baptized the
following month. Her father evidently
survived her.
8. Elizabeth, born Aug. 15, 1689, baptized
the following month. She died on Nov. 11,
1691.
9. Martha, born Nov. 4, 1690, baptized
Dec. 14 of the same year. Her father
evidently survived her.
The above dates of birth and baptism are
taken from the baptismal registers of the
Above Bar Church at Southampton.
WILLIAM BULL.
(To be continued.)
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122.)
THE next regiments (pp. 12-15) are the three regiments of Foot Guards.
The first regiment — now designated the " Grenadier Guards " — was fonned in
Flanders in 1656 by the adherents of Charles II., who was at that time residing on
the Continent : —
First Eegiment of Foot Guards. Dates of their present commissions.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
First Major
Second Major . .
(1)
Sir Charles Wills (1)
Charles Frampton
William Merick
Kichard Ingoldsby
( John Buncombe
John Buncombe
John Pitt
Richard Pierson
Thomas Inwood
Benjamin Huffam
John Jeffereys
Daniel Houghton
John Price
James Browne
John Laforey
Captains . . 4 Thomas Bagnel
Thomas Herbert, dead
Peregrine Lassells (2). .
James Long
Robert Brackley
Lord Henry Beauclerk (3)
John Lee
Charles Russel
Lord George Beauclerk (4)
William Swan
Alexander Dury
William Herbert
William Lettler
' Richard Hemmington
Charles Ramboulliet . .
Sir Edward Bettenson (5)
Edward Carr
Guideon Harvey
William Courtenay
Francis Gibbon
Samuel Mitchell
Lieutenants . . + William Daffy
John Rivett
Francis Hildsley
Joseph Hudson
Barnaby Dunston
.lohn Parker
Robert Greenway
Richard Rattue
John \Vils< >n . .
Lieut.-Geiieral Sir Charles Wills, K.B. Died in 1741.
Captain Lieutenant
26 Aug. 1726.
16 Nov. 1739.
ditto. ,
ditto.
2 Oct. 1715.
26 May
5 June
3 April
18 July
3 May
21 ditto.
7 July
15 Oct.
20 Feb.
11 Dec.
3 Jan.
23 Feb.
5 June
17 Nov.
5 July
13 May
13 April
23 ditto.
13 Aug.
25 Jan.
15 Dec.
ditto.
27 ditto.
23 Nov.
2 Mar.
20 June
.19 Dec.
13 Jan.
17 Feb.
11 Jan..
5 Oct.
24 Dec.
4 Mar.
18 ditto.
11 Oct.
26 Dec.
10 Mar.
17 F.-li.
1716.
1717.
1718.
1718.
1720,
1724.
1723.
1724.
1728.
1729-30.
1729-30..
1733.
1731.
1735.
1735.
1736.
1736.
1737-8.
1738.
1715.
1716-17.
1727.
1718.
1718-19.
1719-20.
1721.
1722.
1722.
1722-3.
See
12 Feb.
24 Nov.
D.N.B.'
1725.
1726.
1726-7.
1727-8.
1729-30.
1730.
(2) Proper spelling Lascelles. Colonel 47th Foot, 1743-72. Died 1772. Tablet in St. Mary's, Whitby
(3) Fourth son of the first Duke of St. Albans.
(4 ) Sixth son of the first Duke of St. Albans.
(5) Of Wimbledon, third Baronet. Baronetcy became extinct in 1786.
164
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First Regiment of Foot Guards (continued). Dates of their present commissions.
Richard Lord Coote (6)
17 Xov. 1731.
John Scott
24 Jan. 1731-2.
Edward Strutton
25 Dec. 1733.
James Durand
30 Oct. 1734.
James Baker
5 Xov. 1735.
Thomas Bruce
27 Feb. 1735-6.
Lieutenants
Robert Urry
13 April 1736.
(continued).
John Parslow . .
10 May 1736.
Richard Brewer
25 June 1736.
Charles Gordon
21 Jan. 1737-8.
Robert Waller
1 Feb. 1737-8.
George Boscawin
ditto.
John Waldegrave
8 Jan. 1738-9.
^ Robert Rich
9 July 1739.
John Worley
3 Dec. 1718.
.
John Windus
10 Feb. 1725-6.
John Meade
29 Mar. 1726.
• . •' -
William Browne
22 Feb. 1727.
Studhme. Hodgson
22 Jan. 1727-8.
Leniet Baugh (7)
20 Feb. 1729-30.
Thomas Newton
14 Feb. 1725-6.
Mark Anthony Jones
8 Jan. 1731-2.
Gilbert Vane
24 ditto.
Edward W7ynne
1 Nov. 1733.
George Gray
13 June 1734.
Ensigns
Lord George Bentick (8)
3 Nov. 1735.
John Colleton
10 May 1736.
Borlace WTallop
25 June 1736.
Michael Stephens
ditto.
1 Francis Boynton
2 July 1737.
Richard Wills
6 ditto.
Hon. — Pawlet
11 Aug. 1737.
Richard Bradshaigh
20 Dec. 1737.
William Ekins Piers
1 Feb. 1737-8.
Maurice Johnson
ditto.
Mathew Aylmer
ditto.
James WTilliams
17 July 1739.
(6) Eldest son of Richard, fourth Baron Coote of Coloony, and
third Earl of Bellamont. Died 1740.
(7) "Leniet" is a misprint for Lancelot. He became Lieutenant- General in 1779, Colonel
«I 6th Foot, 1787, and died in 1792.
(8) Proper spelling Bentinck. Second son of the first Duke of Portland. Died in 1759.
The Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was raised by Lieut. -Col. George Monk
{afterwards Duke of Albemarle) in 1650, and is the only regiment of Cromwell's Parlia-
mentary Army which survives to-day. In 1740 it consisted of fourteen companies; it is
now called the " Coldstream Guards " : —
Coldstreame Regiment of Foot Guards. Dates of their present commissions.
Colonel (1)
Lieutenant Colonel John Folliot . . . . . . . . 30 Oct.
First Major
Second Major
Captains
John Huske (2)
George Churchill
( William Hanmer
I WTilliam Douglass (3)
j John Parsons (4)
j Richard Legg . .
| Edward Braddock (5)
5 July
ditto
22 Dec.
3 May
6 Oct.
30 Oct.
10 Feb.
30 June
25 Aug.
15 Dec.
1734.
1739.
1717.
1720.
1729.
1734.
1735-6.
1737.
1737.
1738.
Samuel Needham
| William Southby
{ John Hodges
(1) The Colonelcy of {the regiment was vacant, Richard, second Earl of Scarborough, who had
held the appointment since June, 1722, having died on Jan. 29, 1740. H.R.H. the Duke of Cumber-
land was appointed on April 30, 1740.
(2) Became Colonel of 32nd Foot, Dec., 1740, and of 23rd Welsh Fusiliers, 1743. Governor of Jersey,
1760. Died 1761. See ' D.N.B.'
(3) Colonel of 32nd Foot in 1745.
(4) Colonel of 41st Foot, 1752.
(5) Colonel of 14th Foot, 1753. Commander-in-Chief, North America, 1755. Died 13 July, 1755,
from wounds received on July 9, in expedition against Fort Duquesne.
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165
Coldstreame Regiment of Foot Guards (continued).
'Maurice Bockland (6)..
Earl of Berkley (7)
Captain*
(continued).
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Ensigns
Iledw"'. Lambton (8)
Hon. Charles Fielding
William Lethullier
Thomas Corbett
Sir Harry Heron (9)
Robert Millner
William Kellet
Bennet Noel (10)
Robert Williamson
John Dives
John Twistleton
Thomas Hapgood
Francis Townshend . .
William A-Court
Duncan Urquhart
Charles Perry (11)
Henry Newton
Charles Churchill
Julius Caesar
John Lambton (12)
John Thomas
William Gainsell (13)..
Charles Craig
Lord Robert Manners (14)
John Robinson
Clavering (15) ..
Benjamin Rudyerd
Lord Robert Bertie (16)
Charles Vernon
Lord Viscount Bury (17)
Hon. Thomas Southwell
William Farrell
George Bodens
Thomas Burton
Wilmer (18) ..
Evelyn (19) ..
Dates of their present commission*.
15 Dec. 1738.
9 July 1739.
7 Nov. 1739.
ditto.
1739.
1727-8.
1728.
1728-9.
1730.
1730-1.
7 Nov.
20 Jan.
3 Oct.
17 Jan.
8 May
20 Mar.
10 April 1733.
25 April 1734.
8 July
10 Feb.
25 Aug.
21 Jan.
30 Dec.
31 Dec.
4 Jan.
3 Jan.
24 May
9 July
12 ditto.
7 Nov.
25 April 1734.
26 July '1735.
8 Jan.
10 Feb.
5 July
9 ditto.
25 Aug. 1737.
1 Feb. 1737-8
1 May 1738.
ditto.
24 May 1739.
9 July 1739.
17 ditto.
ditto.
1734.
1735-6
1737.
1737-8.
1738.
1738.
1738-9.
1738-9.
1739.
1739.
1739.
1735-6.
1735-6.
1737.
(6) Colonel of llth Foot, 1747-65. Became Lieut.-General in 1758. Died 1765.
(7) Augustus, fourth Earl of Berkeley.
(8) Second son of Ralph Lambton, of Lambton Castle, Durham. Colonel of 52nd Foot, 1755-
Died 1774.
(9) Of Chipchase. Fourth Baronet. He died in 1749, and the baronetcy became extinct in 1801.-
(10) Nephew of Edward Noel, lat Earl of Gainsborough. Colonel of 43rd Foot, 1762-6.
(11) Colonel of 57th Foot, 1755-7.
(12) Brother of Hedworth L., see note 8, supra, Colonel of 68th Foot, 1758-94. M.P. for Durham,
1761-87. Diedl7»4. See'D.N.B.'
(13) Correct spelling is Gansell. Colonel of 55th Foot, 1762-75.
(14) Fifth son of the second Duke of Rutland.
(15) John Clavering. Belonged to family of Clavering of Axwell Park, Durham. So<- ' D.N.B.'
(16) Fifth son of Robert, first Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. He became Colonel of the
2nd Regiment of Horse Guards in 1776, and died in 1782.
(17) George, eldest son of W'illiam, second Earl of Albemarle ; succeeded as third Earl in 1754.
Died in 1772. He was only 13 when he received a commission in the Coldstream Guards.
(18) Christian name Charles. (19) Christian name Evelyn. Colonel of 29th Foot, 1769.
The Third Regiment of Foot Guards was raised in 1662 as a Scottish regiment of foot.
It was brought on to the English establishment in 1686, and is now known as thfr
" Scots Guards " : —
Third Regiment of Foot Guards. Dates of their present commissions.
Colonel .. .. Earl of Dunmore (1) .. .. 10 Oct. 1713.
Lieutenant Colonel James Scott . . . . . . . . 17 Nov.
First Major . . Charles Legge 9 July
Second Major . . Henry Skelton 21 Aug.
(1) John Murray, second Earl of Dunmore. Died 1752.
1723.
1736.
1739.
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Third Regiment of Foot Guards (continued).
I George Byng (2 )
| James Steuart, San, . .
| Rowland Reynolds
| Thomas Murray
j John Mordaunt (3)
I Robert Carpenter
Captains . . . . -( James Stapleton
James Steuart, junior
I Charles Ingram
j Lord John Murray (4)
Earl of Loudoun (5) ..
Dates of their
present commissions.
25 Jan. 1720-1.
lit May 1724.
•2± Aug. 1727.
22 May 1730.
15 July 1731.
30 Oct. 1734.
2-2 May 1735.
9 July 1736.
5 July 1737.
15 Dec. 1738.
21 Aug. 1739.
Captain" Lieutenant
George Ogilvie 7 Nov. 1739.
f William Lister
Hugh Frazer
Samuel Lovell
William Kingsley (6 ) . .
John Lowrie
Charles Buckan
Andrew Robinson
Henry Powlett
William Strode
Lieutenants . . j Arthur Owens
Lord Lendores (7)
Court Knyvet
Gabriel Lapiper (8)
Thomas Burgess
Cuthbert Sheldon
Charles Erskine
John Edison . .
Thomas Stanhope
Simpson Wood
John Furbar . .
John Wells
Daniel Jones . .
Edward A'Court
Joseph Marshall
William Lindsay
Ensigns .. . . , John Maitland
I James Leslie . .
Edward Anderson
Montagu Blomer
Richard Littleton
John Whitwell
Hon. John Barrington (9)
John Predeaux
(2) Succeeded his brother Pattee, in 1747, as third Viscount Torrington. Died 1750.
(3) See ' D.N.B.'
(4) Eldest son of John, first Duke of Atholl, by his second wife. Appointed to the Colonelcy of
the Black Watch, 42nd Highlanders, in 1745. See ' D.N.B.'
(5) John Campbell, fourth Earl of Loudoun. See ' D.N.B.'
(6) Was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 20th Regiment of Foot in 1756. See ' D.N.B.'
(7) Alexander Leslie, fourth Lord Lindores. Died in 1765.
(8) Sometimes spelled " Lepipre."
(9) Second son of the first Viscount Barrington. Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 8th Regiment
of Foot in 1759, and died in 1764. His eldest son became third Viscount Barrington.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
25 April
1718.
6 Oct.
1719.
29 Mar.
1720.
29 June
1721.
2 Mar.
1727-8.
20 Mar.
1728-9.
17 Oct.
1729.
1 May
1730.
26 ditto.
1731.
29 Feb.
1731-2.
3 April
1734.
30 Oct.
1734.
13 May
1735.
7 Feb.
1735-6.
18 July
1737.
10 Aug.
1737.
26 Oct.
1738.
9 July
1739.
20 Sept.
1723.
22 Dec.
1727.
2 Mar.
1727-8.
8 Aug.
1729.
29 Feb.
1731 --2.
17 Mar.
1731-2.
18 May
1732.
23 Mav
1733.
21 Mar.
1733-4.
20 June
1735.
10 Aug.
1737.
2 Sept.
1737.
16 July
1739.
17 ditto.
ditto.
(To be continued.)
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167
THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES
OF G. P. R. JAMES.
VARIOUS mistakes have been made both
about this novelist and his writings. At one
time both the ' Dictionary of National
Biography ' and ' The Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica ' stated that he was born in 1801, and
died on May 9, 1860 : but I convinced the
editors of both that the dates were wrong,
and they have since been corrected. James
was born on Aug. 9, 1799, and died on June 9,
1860, as recorded by the newspapers of the
time. It was, I believe, The Gentleman's
Magazine that firot made the mistake of
placing the death on May 9 (which, by a
singular coincidence, was really the date of
his widow's death thirty-one years later),
and it was copied into 'The Annual Register'
•and other works. In reality, however, he
died exactly ten years before the death of
Dickens on June 9, 1870. I have heard
that the mistake about the birth arose from
the fact that he was not baptized till 1801.
Of his works ' The Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica ' says : —
" The two cavaliers who, in one form or another,
open most of his books, have passed into a pro-
verb ; and Thackeray's good-natured but fatal
parody of * Barbazure ' is likely to outlast ' Riche-
lieu ' and ' Darnley ' by many a year."
Now, as a matter of fact, only two of the
novels begin with two horsemen riding along
side by side, viz., ' Heidelberg ' among the
historical and 'The Gipsy' among the non-
historical. ' Darnley ' and ' The Gentleman
of the Old School ' each begin with a solitary
horseman ; and ' Agincourt ' begins with two
who, coming from opposite directions, meet,
talk, and separate again. ' Philip Augustus '
and ' The Brigand ' each begin with a large
party of horsemen. So much for the delusion
about the two cavaliers. In ' Barbazure '
Thackeray implies that the hero marries
a widow, which no hero of James ever does,
though three marry a second time, viz.,
those in ' The Fate,' ' Vicissitudes of a Life,'
and ' Leonora D'Orco.'
The ' Dictionary of National Biography '
>ays of him : —
" He is said to have written upwards of a hun-
'Ired novels, many of which have been repeatedly
reprinted, and the British Museum Catalogue
• -numerates sixty-seven."
L do not deny that he wrote over a hundred
stories if every short one be counted ; but he
certainly did not write a hundred novels in
the usual sense of the term, nor even sixty-
seven ; and, of course, the mere name of "a
story in a catalogue does not show whether
it is a full-sized novel or only a short story, or
— if the latter — whether it was afterwards (or
before) included in a collection also named in
the catalogue. The real number of his novels
is only fifty-six, and one of them — ' Adrian, or
the Clouds of the Mind' — was not written
entirely by himself, but in conjunction with
his friend Maunsell B. Field, though there is
nothing in the book to show which parts
were by James and which by his friend. I
have already stated in 'N. & Q.' (12 S.
i. 506) that I have a complete set of James's
novels and short stories, uniformly bound ;
and I will now first of all give the names of
the fifty-six in the order in which I believe
they appeared : —
1. Richelieu, 1829.
2. Darnley, 1830.
3. De L'Orme, 1830.
4. Philip Augustus, 1831.
5. Henry Masterton, 1832.
6. Mary of Burgundy, 1833.
7. Delaware, or the Ruined Family, 1833.
(Published anonymously ; but some years later
republished as ' Thirty Years Since ; or, The
Ruined Family,' with the author's name on the
title-page.)
8. John Marston Hall (a sequel to Henry
Masterton), 1834.
9. The Gipsy, 1835.
10. One in a Thousand, 1835.
11. My Aunt Pontypool, 1835. (Published
anonymously, but afterwards republished by the
author in America as ' Aims and Obstacles,' the
name of Lady Pontypool being changed to Lady
Malwark.)
12. Attila, 1837.
13.' The Robber, 1838.
14. The Huguenot, 1838.
15. Charles Tyrrell, 1839.
16. The Gentleman of the Old School, 1839.
17. Henry of Guise, 1839.
18. The King's Highway, 1840.
19. The Man at Arms, 1840.
20. Corse de Leon, or The Brigand, 1841. (The
two titles were afterwards reversed.)
21. The Ancient Regime, 1841. (Afterwards
republished as ' Castelneau ; or, The Ancient
Regime,' and in America as ' The Ancient Regime ;
or, Annette de St. Morin.')
22. The Jacquerie, 1841.
23. Morley Ernstein, 1842.
24. The Commissioner, 1842. (Published anony-
mously.)
25. Forest Days, 1843.
26. The False Heir, 1843.
27. Arabella Stuart, 1843.
28. Agincourt, 1844.
29. Rose d'Albret, 1844.
30. The Smuggler, 1845.
31. Arrah Neil, 1845.
32. The Step-Mother, 1845.
33. Heidelberg, 1846.
34. Castle of Ehrenstein, 1847.
35. A Whim and its Consequences, 1847.
36. Russell, 1847.
37. The Convict, 1847.
38. Gowrie, 1847.
39. Margaret Graham, 1847.
168
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. H. AUG. », ww.
40. Sir Theodore Broughton, 1848.
41. Beauchamp, 1848.
42. The Forgery, 1848.
43. The Woodman, 1849.
44. The Old Oak Chest, 1850.
45. Henry Smeaton, 1850.
46. The Fate, 1851.
47. Story without a Name. (First published
in The Home Circle in England and in The Inter-
national Monthly Magazine in America in 1850-1.
Then published as ' Revenge ' in London in
December, 1851, and under its original title in
New York early in 1852. Afterwards republished
in America as ' The Man in Black.')
48. Adrian (by James and Field), 1852.
49. Pequinillo, 1852.
50. Agnes Soreh 1852.
51. Vicissitudes of a Life, 1853. (Published
in America as ' Life of Vicissitudes.' There are
three short stories added at the end of this novel.)
52. Ticonderoga ; or, The Black Eagle, 1854.
(The titles were afterwards reversed.)
53. The Old Dominion, 1856.
54. Leonora D'Orco, 1857.
55. Lord Montagu's Page, 1858.
56. The Cavalier, 1859. (A sequel to ' Lord
Montagu's Page,' first published in America, and
afterwards in London in 1864 as ' Bernard
Marsh.')
James's short stories, not included in
collections, but published separately, are
' The Last of the Fairies,' 1847 ; and
1 Prince Life,' 1855. Also ' The Bride of
Landeck,' published only in America. James
wrote ten stories for Harper's Magazine,
the longest being ' The Bride of Landeck,'
which was afterwards published in a small
volume, included in my collection. The
other nine I cut from the magazines con-
taining them, and had them bound with
' Aims and Obstacles,' the latter being a
complete edition of ' My Aunt Pontypool,'
whilst that in the " Railway Library " is
much abridged. James also wrote a short
story called ' Norfolk and Hereford,' which
is in a collection called ' Seven Tales b
Seven Authors,' in consequence of which
have included the book in my set.
James's own collections of short stories are
the following : —
1. The String of Pearls, 1832.
2. The Desultory Man, 1836.
3. The Book of the Passions, 1838.
4. Eva St. Clair and other Tales, 1843. (There
were twelve stories in this collection ; but one oi
them called ' The Fight of the Fiddlers,' which
had originally appeared in Ainsicorth's Magazine
was afterwards printed in a small volume with
illustrations. Then ' Eva St. Clair ' and the other
ten stories were reprinted without it.)
5. Dark Scenes of History, 1849.
I have already mentioned the three shorl
stories at the end of ' Vicissitudes of a Life,'
and without counting them as a separate
work, but on the other hand counting the
nine stories cut from Harper as a work, I
lave sixty-six works bound in forty volumes..
Where I had to use the " Railway Library "
dition of any novels I had two bound in-
one volume ; and even then they did not
nake such a thick book as the three volumes
of an original edition bound together.
W. A. FROST.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IF
THE BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; US. i.-xii., passim ;
12 S. i. 65, 243,406; ii. 45.)
PIONEERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS
(concluded).
GEORGE PRITCHARD.
Broseley, Salop. — In 1862 a memorial
fountain was erected by public subscription,
to perpetuate the memory of Mr. George
Pritchard. It stands in the centre of the-
High Street (now named the Square), and is
an imposing structure of Grinshill stone, in
the Early Decorated style. The fountain
is octagonal in plan, with moulded arches,
and has ornamental gables on four sides.
The whole is surmounted by a terminal of
carved stone, with a weather vane. Over
one of the four arches is inscribed : —
In memory of George Pritchard, born 24 Dec..
1793, died 24 Dec. 1861.
Suitable texts of Scripture appear over the-
remaining arches.
Owing to neglect, the fabric of the monu-
ment is fast falling into decay. Its use as a
drinking-fountain has been discontinued
through the supply of water of a potable-
quality being found insufficient. It is now-
enclosed by an ornamental iron railing, and
for all practical purposes is useless.
(See US. xi. 61.)
JOHN COBY.
Cardiff. — A statue, the work of Mr,
Goscombe John, R.A., was erected during
Mr. Cory's lifetime. He is represented
holding a tall hat in his left hand. The
pedestal is thus inscribed : —
John Cory,
Coal Owner, Philanthropist.
This statue was erected by his friends and fellow-
citizens as a token of their appreciation of his-
world-wide sympathies, 1906.
SIR ERASMUS WILSON.
Margate. — Standing in the front quad-
rangle near the main entrance to the Royal
Sea-Bathing Hospital is a life-size bronze
statue of Sir Erasmus Wilson. It was
presented by Lady Wilson, and unveiled by
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169
Sir James Paget on May 22, 1886. The
statue was executed by Thomas Brock,
A.R.A. ; it is 8 ft. high, and stands on a
Cornish grey granite pedestal 5 ft. 6 in. high,
mounted upon two steps. Sir Erasmus is
represented in the robes of President of the
Royal College of Surgeons, and holds a book
in his left hand. His gaze is directed west-
ward, where stand the chapel, wards, &c.,
erected through his generosity. The pedestal
is inscribed : —
Erasmus Wilson
1809-1884
The following inscription is on a brass
tablet in the chapel, south of the chancel
arch : —
The Chapel
the New Wing and other additions
and improvements to
this Infirmary
were bestowed on the Institution
A.D. 1882
by
Sir Erasmus Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.
Fellow and President of
the Royal College of Surgeons
of England.
This Tablet is erected
by the Directors and Governors
of the Institution
as a Record of the Munificent Gift
so generously intended to relieve
the sufferings
and promote the cure of
the Scrofulous Poor of Gt: Britain
John Creaton, Lt. Col.
Chairman.
Swanscombe. — Sir Erasmus Wilson died at
The Bungalow, Westgate-on-Sea, Aug. 8,
1884, and was buried at Swanscombe,
Kent, on Aug. 1 3. He restored Swanscombe
Church in 1873; and in 1874 the Erasmus
Wilson Lodge of Free - Masons rebuilt the
porch, " as a tribute of affection to their
first Master, Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S."
A monument to his memory in the church
is thus inscribed : —
Sir Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., LL.D., &c.,
Fellow and President of the Royal College of
Surgeons of England, Born November 25th,
1809, Died August 8th, 1884, And is buried here.
It pleased Almighty God not alone to endow bun
with fine intellect, but to give him grace to utilize
his talent and the fortune that it earned for the
good of his fellow men and the advancement
of the noble profession which he loved so well.
" Well done, good and faithful Servant."
(See 9 S. v. 474.)
London. — On one of the bronze tablets
affixed to the obelisk known as Cleopatra's
Needle, Victoria Embankment, is the follow-
ing inscription : —
Through the patriotic zeal of Erasmus Wilson,
F.R.S., this obelisk was brought from Alexandria
in an iron cylinder ; it was abandoned in the
Bay of Biscay, recovered and erected on this
spot by John Dixon, C.E., in the 42nd year of
the reign of Queen Victoria.
JOSEPH STURGE.
Birmingham. — On June 4, 1862, this
statue was unveiled by Mr. Wm. Middlemore,
Chairman of the Memorial Committee. It
stands in a commanding position at Five
Ways, where Birmingham and Edgbaston
meet.
" The monument consists of a central figure
of Mr. Sturge, his right hand resting on a Bible
placed upon a dwarf column from which some
carefully arranged drapery descends. The left
hand is stretched forth as though he was address-
ing a meeting. On the right base is the figure
of Charity, her left arm encircling an infant,
while in her right hand she holds a bowl which a
youthful negro is pressing to his lips. To the
left is seated the figure of Peace, clasping a dove
to her bosom with her right hand and holding a
palm branch in her left, an olive wreath encircling
her brow ; beside her is a lamb, and at her feet are
ears of corn. At the base of the statue, in front
and back, are large basins for ornamental foun-
tains, and at either side are drinking fountains."
The memorial was designed and executed
by Mr. John Thomas. The statue and base
are of Sicilian marble, and the subordinate
figures of Portland stone. On the front of
the memorial is inscribed : —
Joseph Sturge
at the sides " Charity " and " Peace," and
at the back " Temperance."
(See 11 S. ix. 282.)
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
(To be continued.)
SEALS ON ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS. —
Nearly twenty-five years ago Mr. W. H.
Stevenson showed that the only preserved
Anglo-Saxon charters, as distinguished from
writs, which bear seals are forgeries. They
are two in number, and are drawn up in the
names of Kings Offa (790) and Edgar (960)
in favour of the monastery of Saint-Denis.*
Mr. Stevenson pointed out in The English
Historical Review for October, 1891 (vol. vi.
736-42), that they present features which
condemn them to any one with an el( mentary
knowledge of the forms of Anglo-Saxon
documents, not to speak of philology ; they
are of French manufacture, and cannot have
been written earlier than the eleventh
centurv. The seals are, if possible, still
1 See Birch, ' Cartularium Saxonicum,' Nos. 259
and 1057, where the seals are figured.
170
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 26, 1916.
more decisive as to the spuriousness of the
productions, because they are impressed on
separate pieces of parchment, which are
stitched on to the charters. In other words,
as Mr. Stevenson says,
" the fabricators of these charters, deeming
that seals were necessary to them, could only
procure them by cutting the seals and pieces of
the parchment to which they were attached from
other deeds, and then sewing the parchments
and seals on to these charters."
It is worth while to repeat that Mr.
Stevenson's exposure of these forgeries is
absolutely conclusive, because the seals in
question are still quoted as illustrations of
Anglo-Saxon usage. For example, Dr. K.
Brandi, Professor at Gottingen, draws special
attention to them in a contribution to the
Gottingische Oelehrte Anzeigen, 1905, p. 955 ;
and they are produced as evidence in the last
(eleventh) edition of ' The Encyclopaedia
Britannica,' xxiv. (1911), 540.
R. L. P.
A SUBURBAN FALB OF 1816. — The Observer
recently reprinted the following extract from
its issue of Aug. 4, 1816 : —
" West End Fair at Hampstead concluded on
Monday last. In two out of fifty or sixty of the
booths erected there were no less than two hun-
dred dozen of bottled porter drunk, beside wine,
tea, and other refreshments. All the others were
proportionately full of company, and the Village
of West End for the whole three days and nights
of the fair presented a scene of mirth and festivity
which was unalloyed by either accident or disturb-
ance."
The merrymakers in the " Village " of
Hampstead of those days would appear to
have been of a somewhat bibulous inclina-
tion. Let us hope the porter was light.
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
KINGSWAY. — It is perhaps worth noting
that there was a street called " Kings way "
or " The Kings way " a hundred and seventy
and two hundred years ago, though very
probably the London County Council were
aware of the fact when they named the new
street which runs south from High Holborn
to Aldwych. In Edward Hatton's ' Xew
View of London,' 1708, p. 43, we read : —
" Kings way, or road, betn Kings gate sir. or
Theobalds road W. and Grays inn lane E. It lies
on the X. side of Grays inn walks."
In the map called ' A Survey of London,
made in the year 1745,' reprinted by Mason
& Payne, it appears as " The Kings Way,"
being the eastern part of Theobalds Row
(now Road), between the corners of Bedford
Row and Graies Inn Lane. In later maps
its name is Kings Road, e.g., in Fairburn's
'Plan of London and Westminster,' 1796;
Langley & Belch's ' Xew Map of London,'
1816; Wallis's ' Guide for Strangers through
London, and its Environs,' 1824.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
1. " TO HAVE BEEN IX THE SUN." — The
earliest available reference for this phrase in
its familiar meaning of " to be drunk " is
The Oentleman's Magazine of 1770, vol. xl.
p. 559. Dickens, in ' The Old Curiosity
Shop,' chap, ii., has a variant : —
" Last night he had had the sun very strong in
his eyes."
There is no clue to the origin of these phrases,
unless it be contained in the following extract
from a sermon by the Puritan divine Robert
Harris, entitled ' The Drunkard's Cup,' 1619,
p. 21 :—
" They bee buckt [i.e., soaked] with driuke, and
then laid out to bee Sunn'd and scornd."
Does this refer to a practice of ejecting a
drunken man from a tavern and leaving him
to sun himself outside, to the scorn of passers-
by ? Can any evidence be produced as a
link with the modern phrase ?
2. "WRITTEN IN SUNBEAMS." — I have not
succeeded in tracking this phrase to its
origin. Jortin, in a sermon of 1751, says : —
" The great duties of life are written with a
Sun-beam."
Farrar, in ' Darkness and Dawn,'
chap, xlvi., writes : —
" Such words fall too often on our Cold and
careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity ;
but toOctavia they seemed to be written in sun-
beams."
Is the phrase known to readers of ' N. & Q.' ?
Can other examples be quoted ?
3. " ONE'S PLACE IN THE SUN.'' — This
expression is now a household word on
account of the German Emperor's use of it.
I should be glad to be informed of the date
of this, and what German words were used .
The phrase occurs in Italian form in 1879 in
Barrili's ' Cuor di Ferro,' chap. xix. : —
"Son debolezze e disdicono ad un uomo
chi ha da guadagnarsi ancora it suo posto al
sole."
12 s. ii. AUG. 26, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
171
It has been traced to Pascal's ' Pensees,'
| 73 (of autograph MS.) :—
"Mien, tien: — *Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces
pauvres enfants ; c'est la ma place au soldi.' Voila
le commencement et 1'image de 1'usurpation de
toute la terre."
And Littre quotes from B6ranger : —
D'un globe e"troit divisez mieux 1'espace ;
Chacun de vous aura place au soleil.
C. T. ONIONS.
Oxford.
A STEWART RING. — A ring has just come
into my possession bearing the inscription,
" Honble A. J. Stewart. Ob. 14th Nov. 1800.
JEtt. 18." It is evidently a memorial ring,
gold, with a circular band of white enamel,
within two black lines. The lettering of the
inscription is in gold upon the enamel. I
have been searching, but hitherto in vain,
for the identity of this person. Will some
•contributor in possession of any " Stewart "
records kindly help me here ?
KATHLEEN WARD.
Beechwood, Killiney, co. Dublin.
CROMWELL : ST. JOHN. — In the ' House of
•Cromwell,' by James Waylen, at p. 22, it is
stated that (in 1638) •
*' Cromwell [Oliver! had been making a brief
stoppage at Otes, where his cousin, Mrs. St. John,
happened also to be paying a visit."
On which side was the relationship ?
And who was Mrs. St. John's husband, and
what children did she have ? H. B.
FRANCIS GREGORY. — When was he
appointed head master of the Grammar
School at Woodstock, and how long did he
hold that post ? Was he head master of
Witney School until his death in 1707 ?
The 'D.N.B.,' xxiii. 96, does not give the
required information. G. F. R. B.
RICHARD DUKE, poet and divine, is
described in 'D.N.B./ xvi. 144, as "the son
of an eminent citizen " of London. I
should be glad to learn further particulars
of his parentage, and the date of his birth.
Was he ever married ? G. F. R. B.
REV. MEREDITH HANMER, D.D. — Dr. Alli-
bone's ' Dictionary of British and American
Authors ' states that he was author of
' Chronicles of Ireland,' ' Chronographie,'
&c. A ^second folio copy of the ' Chrono-
graphie,' 1585, has an inserted memorandum
mentioning that he was son of Thomas
Hanmer, Pentrepant, Oswestry. Are the
Hanmers of Bettisfield, Flintshire, of the
same family ? Facts about parentage or
descent will oblige. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
JOACHIM IBARRA. — Is there any life or
sketch in Spanish or in English of Joachim
Ibarra, the eminent Spanish printer of the
eighteenth century ? He was born in Sara-
gossa in 1725, and died in Madrid hi 1785,
doing his best work under the patronage of
Carlos III. I am able to find no account
of him outside of brief notices in French and
Spanish biographical dictionaries. Is there
any contemporary or modern notice of him,
and if so, where is it to be found ?
D. B. U.
MACKENZIE FAMILY. — Was there any
relationship or family connexion between the
Mackenzies of Langwell, parish of Loch-
broom, Ross-shire, Scotland, and the family
or house of Cromarty ? If so, I should be
glad of particulars. Probably the connexion
was established in the eighteenth or nine-
teenth century. R. MACKENZIE.
Portland, Oregon.
GENEALOGY OF SHELLEY. — Can any reader
of ' N. & Q.' help as to the identity of a
Shelley who married Mrs. Frances St. Barbe
before 1599 ? Frances was widow of Edward
St. Barbe of Ashington, Somerset, and ad-
ministered to the effects of her son Francis
St. Barbe in 1599 as Shelley. " Edward
Shelley, Justice of the Common Pleas," was
the trustee in 1547, under the will of Richard
Covert of Slaugham (Sussex), for 300 marks
bequeathed to the latter's granddaughter,
Jane Covert, who before 1557 was the wife
of Sir Francis Fleming, Kt., of Broadlands,
Hants.
Sir Francis (by a former marriage) was
father of William Fleming, whose daughter
Frances aforesaid married Edward St. Barbe
before 1576. Any information as to her
second husband " Shelley " will be
very welcome to SLAUGHAM.
" WlTH CHILD TO SEE ANY STRANGE
THING." — Pepys says, May 14, 1660, " I
sent my boy, who, like myself, is with child
to see any strange thing." He uses the same
expression again once or twice, but I have
never seen it anywhere else, nor does the
' Century Dictionary ' give any examples of
its use in the meaning of curiosity. I shall
be glad to know if any other writer uses it in
this way. G. A. ANDERSON.
[This figurative sense of the phrase had been
current for many years before Pepys made use of
it. The earliest instance noted in the Oxford
Dictionary, s.v. 'Child,' 17, is from Udall's trans-
lation (1548) of Erasmus's paraphrase of Luke
xxiii. 8 : " The man had of long tyme been with
chylde to haue a sight of lesus. Other examples
are cited from Spenser and Carew.]
172
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. n. AUG. 26, wie.
THOMAS CHOLMLEY, MAYOR OF CARLISLE
1654-5. — I shall be glad to learn his parent-
age, and his connexion, if any, with either
of the well-known Cheshire or Yorkshire
families of that name. He was, I believe,
the Col. Cholmley present at the siege of
Carlisle in 1644-5. At a by-election for
that city towards the end of the latter year
he was elected to represent it in Parliament.
The legality of his return was for some reason
questioned, and although on July 31, 1647,
he was ordered to attend the House till
further order there appears to be no proof of
his sitting. If he ever attended the House
he was excluded through Pride's Purge.
Under the Commonwealth he was appointed
J.P. for his county, and acted as one of the
Sequestration Commissioners in 1650. I
have not discovered the date of his death,
but it appears to have been shortly after
the close of his Mayoralty.
He had a son Thomas Cholmley jun.,
whose widow Rebecca petitioned the King
in 1660
" for a lease to herself for 99 years of the Irish and
Scotch tolls of Carlisle and Gockermouth devised
to her late father-in-law Thomas Cholmley, by him
to her husband, and now to her son Thomas, an
infant, she having no other means to provide for
her son and daughters. Her father, Rooerc Salvin
of Durham, lost 6,OOOL, all his property, in the
service of the late King."
On Sept. 4, 1660, licence was granted
(Vicar Gen.) to Henry Hearne of St. Andrew's,
Holborn, gent., bachelor, 21, to marry
Rebecca Cholmley of the same, widow, 28,
at St. Margaret, Westminster, or Putney,
Surrey.
I have not been able to discover this lady's
father, Robert Salvin, in any pedigree of the
Salvin family within my reach.
W. D. PINK.
" APPRECIATION." — The First Lord of the
Admiralty was invited in the House of
Commons on Aug. 3 to
" consider the appropriateness of circulating to
captains in the mercantile marine an appreciation
of the services of the late Captain Fryatt and of
the work they themselves are doing on behalf of the
Empire."
In ' The Concise Oxford Dictionary '
(published in 1911) this meaning of "apprecia-
tion"' is noted as derived from the French
appreciation^ critique ; but this is not put
as clearly in ' The Historical English Dic-
tionary,' the part of which containing this
word was issued in 1888. When did the
particular meaning begin to be favoured
here ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
[The second part of the 'N.E.D.,' containing
' Appreciation,' was published in 1885.]
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS. — I should
be much obliged if correspondents would
kindly communicate notes of the existence
of any English portraits in windows in.
churches or other public buildings or private
houses before 1750. The only portraits
known of two Speakers — namely, Sir Thomas
Hungerford, Speaker in 1376-7, and Sir
Reginald Bray, Speaker in 1496 — are to be
found respectively in Farleigh Hungerford
Church and in the Priory Church, Malvern,
There must be many other historical charac-
ters whose portraits are thus preserved.
JOHN LANE.
!iiie Bodley Head, Vigo Street, \V.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS. —
Can any one add to the following meagre
list ? — Keats, Shelley, Arthur Hugh Clough,
Smollett, Landor, and E. B. Browning, in
Italy ; Fielding in Portugal ; Freeman in.
Spain. J- B. McGovERN.
SIR JOHN MAYNARD (1592-1658).— Where
may I find the fullest pedigree of this knight's
descendants ? I know of the references in..
Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide.' Is there
a pprtrait extant of him ? If so, where is
it ? EDITOR ' BRADFORD ANTIQUARY.'
CAPT. BELLAINS OR BELLAIRS. — He took
great interest in architecture, 1730-40.
Who was he ? Any information will be
much valued. S. P. Q. R.
WILLIAM WILSON, M.P.— Can any one
supply any particulars of William Wilson,
M.P. Ilchester, December, 1761 to 1768;
Camelford, 1768-74 ? He was stated to be of
Keythorpe, co. Leicester. W. R. W.
HENRY WHITAKER, M.P.— What is known
of Henry Whitaker of Shaftesbury, M.P.
for that town, 1711-15 ? Was he the
son of Henry Whitaker, Recorder and also
M.P. for the same, who died 1696 ? And cnn
he be identified with the Henry Whitaker
who matriculated from New College, Oxford,
Feb. 16, 1704, aged 17, as son of William
Whitaker of Motcombe, Dorset ?
W. R. W.
THE HORSE-CHESTNUT. — Can you tell
me the reason, or the legendary reason, if
there is one, why the horse-chestnut has on
every branch the form of a somewhat round
horseshoe with its ten or twelve nail-marks ?
A man of this village, a bricklayer, brought
this to me the other day to solve.
AMY SAVAGE.
Littlewick Green, near Maidenhead.'
12 s. ii. A™. 26, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
173
Replug.
REV. JOSEPH RANX.
(12 S. i. 510; ii. 113.)
JOSEPH RANN was instituted Vicar of Hoi
Trinity, Coventry, in 1773. He issued in
1776 and four following years an edition o
Shakespeare's Works in six volumes. H
died Sept. 13, 1811, aged 79. He is buried
in the chancel of Holy Trinity, and his
monument is in the Archdeacon's Chapel.
Foster's ' Alumni ' says that he was the son
of John Rann of Birmingham, co. Warwick
gent. He matriculated at Trinity College
Oxford, Oct. 10, 1751 ; B.A. 1755 ; M.A
1758; vide Gentleman's Magazine, 1811
ii. 394, and 1815, ii. 380.
Members of the family are found in severa
parts of England. In 1790 some of them
were at Kington, Worcestershire ; in 1783
at Beaulieu, Hants (many Ranns lived at
Beaulieu) ; in 1748 at Wednesbury. A
Joseph Rann appears in the Registers o:
St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, in 1697. He is
described as of " St. Lawrence Jury." On
Sept. 2, 1712, Joseph Rann of Birmingham
married Frances Widmer ; see Parish Register
of Ettington, Warwickshire.
There is much about the Rann family in
Man- Willett's ' History of West Bromwich,'
1882 (West Bromwich)", pp. 39-42. As this
book is not well known I have transcribed
those port ions which deal with the subject: —
" On the death of Mr. Addenbrook, in 1710, the
Rev. John Rann was appointed to the vacant
Living [West Bromwich], and also subsequently to
the Lectureship. As in the case of Mr. Addeubrook,
this latter appointment M-as quite contrary to the
directions given by Walter Stanley in his Deed of
Endowment as to the election of a Preacher. No
doubt the cause of this deviation was this. The
Living was very poor — only 2u/. per annum being
paid to the Incumbent by the Impropriator out of
the tithes, and on this sum of money no man
without private means could exist — therefore, no
doubt, the Trustees, to assist the Incumbent, had
allowed him, from time to time, to hold the
Lectureship also.
" Mr. Hann's name is very much mixed up with
the unfortunate dispute which arose between his
son-in-law, the Rev. Peter Jones, and the Stanley
Trustees. During the time of Mr. Rann's In-
cumbency it was that the Church was ceiled ; this
took place in 1713, thus, no doubt, spoiling the
ancient roof ; again, in 1716, we find the Church
was, according to ideas of church decoration pre-
valent at that time, ' Clean whitewashed and new
butetied.' The latter seems to have consisted in
painting the Ten Commandments, the King's
Arms, the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, Moses and
Aaron, and six sentences in ' oyle work only with-
out gold."
" Mr. Rann 'married Damaris, daughter of John
Dolphin, of The Moss, in the parish of Shenstone ;
at the time, however, of his daughter's marriage
Mr. Dolphin was Clerk of the Peace at Stafford.
This fact must have escaped the notice of those
employed to find Mr. Rann's marriage certificate
about the year 1815, when search was made in the
registers or the principal churches in the neigh-
bourhood, but in vain. To find this certificate
was of importance to the parties concerned, as will,
be seen in the account of the Stanley Trust. Mr.
Rann was married at Stafford. The entry is as
follows: — 'Aprilis. 1711. Matrim. inter Job. Rann,.
Cler. de West Bromwich, et Damaris Dolphin — 3.'
Saunders, in his ' History of Shenstone,' says:
4 Damaris Dolphin, 3rd daughter of John Dolphin,
of The Moss, was the wife of Mr. Rann, of
Caldmore, Walsall, late of the Delves, and the
Minister of Wednesbury (?) yet Vicar of Rushall.
in 1769. Aged 82. She is yet living, but advanced
in years. Damaris, their daughter, was wife of
Peter Jones, Minister of West Bromwich, and:
Prebendary of Wolverhampton.'
"The following entries from the baptismal
Register relate to Mr. Rann : —
" John, the son of John Rann, minister, baptized-
llth March, 1711-12.
"Joseph, the son of John Rann, minister, bap-
tized June 26th, 1713.
"Mary, the daughter of John Rann, minister,
born June 10th, and baptized June 25th, 1714.
" Sarah, the daughter of John Rann, minister,
baptized Aug. 14th. 1715; born Aug. 8th.
" Elizabeth, the daughter of John Rann, minister,
born Nov. 8th, 1716, baptized 19th Nov.
" Damaris, the daughter of John Rann, minister,
born Nov. 20th, 1720 ; baptized Dec. 8th, 1720.
"Margaret, the daughter of John Rann,
minister^ born July 14th, 1722 ; baptized Aug. 3rd,.
1722.
' Richard and Henry, sons of John Rann,minister,
baptized Sept. 4th, 1723.
"In 1743 Mr. Rann, then holding both the
[ncumbency and Lectureship, resigned both, ajid
became Vicar of Rushall, where he died in 1771,
aged 84. His wife survived him three years, dying
n 1774, aged 83.
" Mr. Rann's son-in-law, the Rev. Peter Jones,
was appointed to the vacant Living, and soon after
;o the Lectureship, not however unanimously, but
)y the major part of the Trustees, who at this time
were reduced to only four in number.
" Mr. Jones was, as is stated in the quotation
rom Saunders's ' History of Shenstone,' a Pre-
bendary of Wolverhampton.
The dispute between the Stanley Trustees and
. Jones, which has already been referred to,
related to some land at Wednesbury, the property
->i the Trustees, but which had through great
eglect on the part of these Trustees become
mortgaged to Mr. Rann. (See account of dispute
at pp. 88-9.)
" This mortgage Mr. Rann handed over to Mr.
""ones on his marriage with his daughter Damaris.
"Neither Mr. Rann nor Mr. Jones appears to
lave come out of the transaction with much credit.
"Perhaps the lengthy and painful lawsuit had
omething to do with the sad termination of Mr.
'ones' Incumbency he, his wife and two children
11 died in one year. Mr. Jones was buried in the
Jhurch ; his gravestone is now in the belfry.
174
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. AUG. 26, me.
" Mr. Peter Jones and Miss Damaris Rann were
•married February 23rd (1743-4)."
On pp. 13 and 227 of the same book there
are two further references to the Rann family
which seem specially to the point.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
I am obliged to your correspondent MB.
-JOHN T. PAGE for correcting a slip of the pen
in my query. The title-page of Rann's edition
of Shakespeare describes him as Vicar of
<St. Trinity, in Coventry (not Holy Trinity),
which position he held from 1773 until his
death, Sept. 21, 1811. His father was John
Rann, of Birmingham, gent., according to
Poster's ' Alumni Oxonienses.'
The Rann Kennedys do not derive from
the Joseph Rann (1707-92) mentioned by
IR. B. P., as the following shows : —
Joseph Rann, currier,=pMary (?).
Birmingham.
.John Rann, 1687-1771,T=Damaris Dolphin, 1711.
probably a cousin of
Joseph Rann. 1707-1792,
Vicar of WestBromwich
1710-1743.
Vicar of Rushall
1743-1771.
I
Sarah (4th child), =pllledge Maddux, lawyer, of Birmingham,
1715. and Withington, Salop.
I
Sarah. =pBenjamin Kennedy, about 1771, died 1784.
I
iRann Kennedy, 1772-1851, 2nd Master=fJulia Hall, 1802
King Kdward's School, Birmingham, (1776-1856).
and Vicar St. Paul's, Birmingham.
"Benjamin Hall Chas. Rann George John Wm. James
Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy,
1804-1889, 1808-1867, died 1847, 1814-1.491.
Master Shrews- barrister. Master Rugby,
bury School.
Edmund Hall Kennedy.
(Sir) William Rann Kennedy,
1846-1915, Judge.
Edmund F. Chas. Rann=Bdith Nina?=Harold E.
Kennedy. Kennedy, Wynne Kennedy. Gorst.
dramatist. Matthison.
The Ranns seem to have been a family of
considerable standing in the Midlands. In
•* Memorials of the Old Square ' (Birmingham),
Tjy Hill and Dent, it is stated (p. 100) : —
"The Ranns had a long connexion with the
town. Originally butchers and graziers, and having
a small holding in the shambles, they amassed a
considerable property, and the family included
doctors, clergymen, and men of business. One of
the Ranns had a proclivity for developing local
claypits, and is said to have started a pottery
works" (in Birmingham).
In spite of considerable research, however,
I have not found any full or consecutive
record of the family or of any of its
members. I should be glad of any informa-
tion. R. CHESLETT.
105 Gipsy Hill, S.E.
"BLUE PENCIL" (12 S. ii. 126).— This
term, it may be permissible to mention,
applies very particularly to the pruning of
dramatic MSS., being, as a consequence,
much disliked by aspirants to fame in that
line. Perhaps this may offer a clue as to
date of introduction, to help MR. J. R.
THORNE in his researches.
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
In editorial and printing rooms alike the
blue pencil has for many years past been a
serviceable tool, and for a considerable time
the common phrase in which the term is used,
either as substantive or verb, invariably
signifies condensation or deletion. The use
of the blue pencil is chiefly the prerogative
of the sub-editor, but the' foreman printer
finds it handy in numbering the folios and
regularizing the style of his "copy."
In the Rev. A. L. Mayhew's compliment to
the Clarendon Press "reader" there is a
certain ambiguity in his terms of expression.
He tenders his thanks " for the accuracy with
which the proof -sheets represented the MS.,"
also for the "reader's" "judicious and con-
scientious use of the blue pencil." Possibly
the "blue pencil" in this case represents —
and the words " judicious " and "conscien-
tious" imply as much — suggested omissions
in the copy (in this instance prepared by the
" reader " ), or contractions to save space. In
such a work as a ' Glossary of Tudor and
Stuart Words ' a proof-reader in ordinary
circumstances would take no liberties with
the "copy," and "blue pencil" in this con-
nexion has evidently another than the
ordinary acceptation. J. GRIGOR.
THE KINGSLEY PEDIGREE (12 S. ii. 70, 136)
— The information with regard to the Kings-
leys might be found in the following : Hasted's
' Kent,' iii. 674 ; Berry's ' Kent Genealogies,'
306 ; Clutterbuck's - ' Hertford,' i. 223 ;
Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' ii. 90 ; ' The Wolfe*
of Forenaghts,' 59 ; Harleian Society, xxii.
70 ; xlii. 125. E. E. BARKER.
'Waterloo Roll Call' (Dalton), p. 141, 44th
East Essex Regiment, Lieut. Nich. Toler
Kingsley, March 29, 1814. E. E. COPE.
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175
' THE WORKING-MAN'S WAY IN THE
WORLD ' (12 S. i. 468 ; ii. 16, 110).— I wonder
if it is possible after so long a time to identify
the clergyman, " Dr. D e," mentioned
in ' The Working-Man's Way in the World.'
Or is anything known of the work of which
he was the author ?
The Doctor resided (in the thirties) at
Prospect Villa, near F d, sixteen or
seventeen miles from Bristol, in the direction
of Bath, and, purchasing press and types, he
had a small printing-office fitted up at his
Tiome in order that Charles Manby Smith
might privately print his book.
Vague hints are given as to the locality of
the Doctors residence, but the only clue
offered to the identity of the Doctor himself
is the statement : "he had long left off
preaching himself, having resigned his living
in Hampshire in favour of his eldest son."
Regarding the nature of his work, Smith
writes : —
" When all things were ready to begin, the
Doctor produced his manuscripts. These were
mostly in the shape of sermons, enveloped in
black shining covers. They had been written,
and no doubt preached, as sermons ; but they
had been digested into somewhat lengthy essays,
or disquisitions, by means of liberal erasures and
interlineations, and comprised altogether, the good
man informed me, a complete exposition of the
fundamental doctrines of Christianity, and a
vindication of the creed and practice of the Church
•of England."
By the middle of March, 1831, Smith had
printed the first volume, amounting to above
four hundred pages. " By the time the
harvest was reaped and carried " he had
finished the second volume. The third and
fourth volumes were completed in the course
of the next twelve months. The manuscript
for the fifth volume not being in a condition
for the press, Smith left the Doctor in March,
1833, to seek employment in London, and
did not again visit Bristol for three years,
when he returned to be married. He after-
wards settled in London, and if the fifth
volume of the work appeared, it is hardly
probable that it was printed by Smith.
Only once does he refer to the Doctor's
book after leaving him in 1833. The
Doctor, his wife, and Smith's sweetheart,
together paid a short visit to London in 1835,
and, referring to their departure for home,
Smith states : —
" I packed Ellen and the Doctor and his lady,
together with a hundred of his volumes of divinity,
which he had taken the opportunity of his visit
to town to get substantially bound, into the Old
Company's coach one cold, starlight morning."
Nowhere does Smith give a hint as to the
title of the book. The size was post octavo,
the text in small pica, the notes in brevier,
and only about seventy copies were printed.
Can any reader of 'X. & Q.' identify
either the Doctor or his work ?
B. GRIME.
GORGES BRASS (12 S. i. 488 ; ii. 13, 138).—
If MR. DENNY wishes for further information
as to the Gorges family he may find it in
Thorne George's ' De Georges Pedigree and
History of the Families of George and
Gorges.' I refer him specially to p. 178.
This book was issued in 1898 by Kentfield
& Harris of Folkestone. It is in the B.M.,
but is not catalogued under Gorges (as it
should be). It appears under De Georges.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
THE LION RAMPANT OF SCOTLAND (12 S.
ii. 71, 138). — A red lion within a red double
tressure on a gold field was the banner of
the King of Scots, and now forms a quarter
of the banner of the King of Britain. This
flag is strictly analogous to the three lions of
the Kings of England ; both flags are royal
banners, and not " national flags " in the
ordinary sense of the term. The national
flags of England and Scotland are respec-
tively the crosses of St. George and St.
Andrew. The crosses have always been the
national flags. In 1606, and again in 1707,
they were combined to form the national
flag of Great Britain ; St. Patrick's cross was
added in 1801, making the British flag of
to-day. Cromwell used the crosses of
St. George and St. Andrew in the great seal
of the Commonwealth instead of the royal
lions. It is true that the so-called " Scottish
Standard " (lion rampant) is frequently
flown by undiscerning people in Scotland ;
it is a fancy flag, and " 'cute " commercialism
has prompted English and German flag-
makers to foist it on Scotland. But the
misuse of this royal flag is condemned by
all authorities. See the booklet ' The
Scottish Flags ' (St. Andrew Society, Glas-
gow), also ' Heraldry in Scotland,' a large
work published by MacLehose, Glasgow.
JOHN A. STEWART.
The St. Andrew Society, Glasgow.
I do not think that the " lion rampant "
can ever have been considered to be the
national flag or banner of Scotland. That
is Azure, a salt ire (or cross of St. Andrew)
argent.
May I refer your correspondent to an
article of mine on ' St. Andrew's Cross ' at
10 S. x. 91, where I give an extract from
Lord Bosebery's very interesting and amus-
ing address to the children of the Edinburgh
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Board schools (early in 1908, I think) on
the occasion of his presentation to them, at
the instance of the Victoria League, of some
fifty flajjs or Union Jacks ?
Unfurling one of the flags and pointing to
it, Lord Rosebery said : —
" Do you understand what this flag represents ?
A great many grown-up people do not.... We
begin with the Scottish Hag. (Loud cheers.) The
Scottish lias has a blue ground with a white
St. Andrew's cross on it."
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
HENRIETTA RENAN r( 12 S. ii. 128). — The
letters referred to by Ernest Renan in the
tender little sketch of his sister which
appeared in 1895 were issued in the follow-
ing year, together with ' Ma Soeur Henrietta,'
under the following title : " Lettres intimes
(1842-5) d'Ernest Renau et d'Henriette
Renan, precedees de ' Ma Sceur Henriette,'
par Ernest Renan," Paris, Calmann-Levy,
1896, 8vo, 7fr. 50 c. HENRY GUPPY.
The John Rylands Library, Manchester.
Possibly the following may be of use : J. E.
and H. Renan, 'Lettres intimes, 1842-5';
3rd ed. 1896. Brother and sister. Tr.
Lady M. Loyd. 1896. A. R. BAYLEY.
[MR. G. F. ABBOTT thanked for reply.]
GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN (12 S. ii.
129).— She was buried, Sept. 16, 1678, in
Breage Church, in the parish of Godolphin :
" This funeral," says Evelyn, " cost not much
less than 1,000?.""
In Margaritam Epitaphium.
Here lyes a Pearle— none such the ocean yields
In all the Treasures of his liquid fields ;
Butt such as that wise merchant wisely sought
\Yho the bright genim with all his substance bought ;
Such to Jerusalem above translates
Our God, t'adprne the Entrance of her gates ;
The Spouse with such Embrodery does come
To meete her Nuptialls -the Celestial Groome.
On the copper plate sothered on the Coffin.
A. R. BAYLEY.
There were two Cornish ladies of old bear-
ing this name. I assume the one sought is
the more famous maid of honour to Queen
Catharine of Braganza, born Aug. 2, 1 652 ;
married May 16, 1675, at the Temple Church,
London, to Sidney, Earl Godolphin ; died at
Whitehall, London, Sept. 9, 1678 ; buried
at St. Breage, West Cornwall, Sept. 27, 1678 ;
and entered in the parish register in error
as " Catherine " Godolphin. For fuller
details see Evelyn, ' Life of Mrs. Godolphin,'
1847, reprinted 1848 and 1853 ; Boase and
Courtney, ' Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' 1874-
1882 (3 vols.), vol. i. p. 179, vol. iii. p. 1200.
If the other Margaret is desired, the St.
Breage Marriage Registers bear the following
entry, which may possibly help. Note the
singular spelling of William.
"15 Oct., 1638. Willimus Paynter de Antron in
parochia de Sithney, generosus, et Margaretta
filia Johannes Godolphin nuper de Silly [Scilly]
armigeri."
A letter to the Rector of St. Breage
might reveal whether the first-named Mar-
garet has a tomb still existing.
WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
IKONA will find this grave in the beautiful
(though over- restored) church of St. Breage,
near Helston in Cornwall. It is under the
altar - table in the South (or Godolphin)
Chapel, and affixed to the altar is a plate
worded by John .Evelyn, and bearing his
initials. It contains the unusual word
" denata " for died. There is a pentagraph
with the letters airaya in the angles, a
symbol occurring also at the head of Evelyn's
' Life of Mrs. Godolphin,' and on the vase
behind her in her portrait at Wootton.
IKONA will find a description of the church
in The Cornish Magazine, vol. ii., 1899, with
full transcript of the brass plate. YGREC.
This lady was buried at Breage, Cornwall,
on Sept. 16, 1675, and there, I have reason
to believe, her remains and memorial still
have place. ST. SWITHIN.
The tomb of Margaret Godolphin is to be
found in Breage Church, which lies mid-
way between Godolphin Hill and Helston,
in Western Cornwall.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
ST. LUKE'S, OLD STREET: BIBLIOGRAPHY
(12 S. i. 426; ii. 133).— I am obliged to
MAJOR YARROW BALDOCK for his useful
notes on my attempted bibliography. The
works he mentions in his first paragraph are
not, in my opinion, valuable contributions to
the subject, but examples of the book-making
resulting from the posthumous utilization of
Besant's material.
The Preface to Adams's 'History ' is three
pages, not two pages as I wrote. My friend
Mr. Chaplin has kindly sent me another copy
with this third page, and points out that the
borders help to identify the date of issue as
1864-9. This has been ascertained from his
well - known collection of Typefounders'
Specimen Books.
Miss Mitton's identification of the date
and architect of the church is correct, and
she might have added that it is the only
church in London with a steeple in the form
of a fluted obelisk. A small folio engraving
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177
of the church was published by T. Lester
about 1820. This local printer and pub-
lisher was also responsible for ' Lester's
Ancient Buildings, Monuments, &c., of
London,' a series of sixty illustrations, with
texts, issued in shilling parts. Some interest-
ing notes on the parish are provided in
Hughson's ' Walks through London,' ii. 300-
303. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
ST. PETER AS THE GATE-KEEPER OF
HEAVEN (12 S. ii. 90). — There are several
stories relating to St. Peter in this con-
nexion which I have heard at one time and
another, none very elevating, and some
decidedly blasphemous. I think, however,
the following may be excused. Toole, the
actor, is said to have been the originator of
the first. (It should be premised that Toole
and Irving were friends, and there have
always been playgoers who have pooh-
poohed the latter' s histrionic abilities.)
Toole, so the story goes, had a dream. He
dreamed he went to Paradise. The gates
were opened by St. Peter. "I am John L.
Toole, the actor, of Toole's Theatre, London,"
said the merry little gentleman. " That's
enough," came the blunt reply; "no actors
admitted." " But," expostulated Toole,
" my dear sir, be consistent. You do admit
actors. There was my friend Henry
Irving " " Irving," replied St. Peter,
" he's no actor," and the gates were forthwith
slammed in TooJe's face.
In Paris some years ago there was a
cabaret called Le Ciel. The saints were
represented in grotesque attire, including
St. Peter as the Gate-Keeper, who, if I
remember rightly, stood at the entrance and
took the money. The whole thing was as
stupid as it was blasphemous, and a disgrace
to the authorities who permitted it. It is to
be hoped that it has long since been dis-
continued. REGINALD ATKINSON.
Forest Hill, S.E.
I have met with the following version of
B. L. R. C.'s story in the west of Ireland.
Nicholas and John were two renowned
fishermen, and the latter particularly fancied
himself. This is their conversation as re-
ported to me: —
"Good morning, Nicholas I" "Oh! good morn-
ing, sir ! " " By the way. Nicholas, I had a great
dream last night." " Musha, had you, John ? What
were you dreaming about?" "I was dreaming I was
dead, and that I went to heaven, and, when I
reached the gate, St. Peter asked me who I was ;
and. when I replied that I was a fisherman, he said,
'Come inside, you are welcome.' It was not long
before I heard a great row outside the gate. Of
course, I was curious, and I went over, and who
should be outside but Nicholas ? St. Peter asked
who was there, and to be sure Nicholas replied,
' A fisherman,' giving his own name. St. Peter-
then said, 'You are no fisherman,' and when
Nicholas argued that he was, St. Peter again said,
' No ! ' and he added, ' Here, Nicholas, you go to
another place.' "
LEES KNOWLES, Bt.
Westwood, Pendlebury.
Stories about St. Peter are usually con-
nected with his office of Gate-Keeper. They
are, I fancy, generally transmitted by word
of mouth, and perhaps I may be permitted
to quote one.
It is said that a notable thief once applied
for admittance to heaven, but St. Peter,
looking out at the wicket, ordered him
sternly away, saying that heaven was not for
such as he. The thief, however, not to be
denied, put his mouth to the keyhole, saying,
" Cock - a - doodle - doo - oo " ; whereupon
St. Peter, hastily opening the door, said :
" Come in, come in, and let bygones be
bygones." G. H. P.
There are, I think, widely retailed a very
large number of (more or less) facetious
anecdotes which introduce St. Peter claviger.
I have also heard many stories of this type in
Italy. Really witty specimens (translated)
may be found in ' In His Own Image,' by
Frederick, Baron Corvo. See 'About Beata
Beatrice and the Mamma of Sampietro ' ;
also the conclusion of ' About the Preface of
Fra Cherabino,' and the following tale
' About the Insistence of Sangiuseppe.'
MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
"FEis" (12 S. ii. 71).— The meaning of
this word is given in the ' New Standard
Dictionary,' published by Messrs. Funk &
Wagnalls, as follows : —
" Feis [t'eise-anna] [Ir.l A festival ; a gathering at
which contests and exhibitions in singing, reciting,
acting, dancing, playing various instruments, and
displaying examples or handicraft are held. — feitt
ceotl, a musical festival ; specif., the annual national
musical festival and competition, held usually in
Dublin in the spring."
E. B. S.
PERPETUATION OP PRINTED ERRORS (12 S.
ii. 87). — The following extract from The
Law Times of July 29, 1916, is, perhaps,
pertinent to the note of PENITENT at the
above reference : —
" Mistakes in Acts of Parliament. — The state-
ment was made in the House of Commons on the
19th inst. by Mr. Forster, the Financial Secretary
to the War Office, that, owing to a misprint by
which the word ' prisoner ' in the Criminal
I .M M.-I tics Act, 1884, became 'person,' a mistake
which was copied into the Irish Lunacy Act, 1901,
soldiers committed as dangerous lunatics to
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a>yluuis in Ireland, whether they are prisoners or
not. became chargeable to the prison vote instead
of to the rate. The mistakes in the drafting of
Acts of Parliament are numerous, and have often
produced ludicrous or mischievous consequences.
To give a few illustrations. In the days of the old
watchmen, a Bill for the better regulation of the
metropolitan watch was brought into the House of
Commons. Among other provisions was a clause
that the watchmen should be compelled to sleep
during the day. When this was read in Committee
an old baronet stood up and expressed his wish
that it could be made to extend to members of
the House of Commons, as he should be glad to
come under the operation of the enactment.
Sometimes clauses have been struck out of Bills
without due attention to the connexion of the
remainder. Lord Stanhope, in the House of Lords
in 1816, stated that it had been enacted that the
punishment of fourteen years' transportation
was to be the penalty for a particular offence, and
that upon conviction one half thereof should go
to the King and one half to the informer."
LEONARD J. HODSON.
Kobertsbridge, Sussex.
MAJOR CAMPBELL'S DUEL (12 S. ii. 70,
118). — To prevent mistakes it should be
stated that the Army List for 1807 gives the
following information in its list of Captains
in the 21st Regiment of Foot (or Royal North
British Fuzileers) : John Levington Camp-
bell, Dec. 1, 1804 (rank in the army, March 9,
1800). Alexander Boyd, Nov. 28, 1805.
Alexander Campbell, June 12, 1806 (brevet
major, Jan. 1, 1805). The last was the
junior in the list of Captains, his immediate
senior being the unfortunate Boyd, who
became second lieutenant in the same
regiment, July 6, 1800, and afterwards
first lieutenant, thus spending all his military
career in the same regiment, whereas Major
Campbell was a new-comer. Curiously
enough, Major Campbell's name still appears
as a captain in the regiment in the Monthly
Army List dated April 1, 1808.
W. R. W.
CLEOPATRA AND THE PEARL (12 S. i. 128,
198, 238, 354, 455: ii. 37, 98).— I am
much indebted to MR. PENRY LEWIS for his
interesting reply, though it should be pointed
out that the action to which he refers was
partly, or possibly even entirely, a mechanical
one. The pearl would remain in the fowl's
gizzard, and there be subjected to the grinding
action of the pebbles normally there.
Some one learned in fowl physiology will
be able to tell us whether the gizzard con-
tains any acid gastric juice, or whether this
occurs in, and is confined to, the crop (which
the food enters before passing to the gizzard)
or the intestine (connected to the gizzard).
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
CALVERLEY : CHARADE IV. ( 12 S. ii. 128). —
It would interest others besides the inquirer
if answers to all six charades could be noted
here, for I, for one, have often vainly puzzled
over Xos. I. to IV. The answer to Xo. V. is,
I believe, " marrow-bones," the answer to
No. VI. is " coal-scuttle "; but my dull head
has never been able to decipher the other
four. V. DE H. L.
The answer is Drugget. (See 6 S. xi. 17.)
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
" HAT TRICK " : A CRICKET TERM (12 S. ii.
70, 136). — My friend Mr. Sydney H. Pardon,
long the editor of Wisden's Cricketers'
Almanack, gives me the following infor-
mation as from, a most accurate historian of
cricket : —
" 'Hat-trick' is so called because, when a
bowler got three wickets in three balls, a collection
was made for him, the money being dropped
into a hat. Later, a hat, instead of the money,,
was given to the successful bowler. It cannot be
said when or where either custom originated."
The writer of this explanation adds : —
" At one time it was customary for passengers
on a vessel to give ' hat money ' to the
captain at the end of the voyage." This
brings the term into relation with the slang
use of "cap" in ' H.E.D.,' recent examples
of which were given at 9 S. xi. 184, 297.
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
JAMES WILSON, M.P. (12 S. ii. 109). —
James Wilson, M.P. for York City 1826-30,
who died at Brunswick Place, Regent's Park,
on Sept. 7, 1830, had a residence in Cane
Grove in the island of St. Vincent, in the
West Indies, being a lieutenant-colonel and
member of the Council in that island.
Sneaton Castle, Yorkshire, was his English
country seat. G. R. Park, in his work entitled
' Parliamentary Representation of York-
shire' (1886), gives the date of death as
Sept. 2, 1833. WALTER HAYLER.
REMIREMONT HAILSTONES, MAY, 1907
(12 S. ii. 27). — Some time after the account
of these hailstones appeared in the news-
papers, I came on the story in a book
printed long before 1907. Unfortunately my
memory does not tell me whether the book
was in English, French, or German, but I
remember that the place at which the hail-
stones fell was far away from Remiremont,
at a great distance towards the east. Prob-
ably there are several versions of the folk-
tale. Why was it suddenly revived ? That
is the question.
Some few years ago during a drought a
story became current in North Lincolnshire
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170
that a farmer had been thrown into a pro-
found and long-lasting sleep. This sleep
was a judgment of God, because the man
had said he wished, that the Almighty
would let the weather alone. This sudden
reappearance of the first half of an ancient
tradition was very striking. B. L. R. C.
FlELDINGIANA : MlSS H — AND (12 S. i-
483 ; ii. 16, 38, 137). — It may be worth
nothing that this name on the monuments
remaining in Ipsley Church, Warwickshire,
is Hubaud, and not Huband. Hubaud and
Hubaut are, I believe, pretty common
French surnames, and forms of the Hubbald
to be found on p. 219 of vol. i. of Mr. Henry
Harrison's ' Surnames of the United King-
dom,' now in process of completion.
A. C. C.
"TADSMAN" (12S.ii. 129).— The individual
who in the days of Elizabeth enjoyed this
patronymic is nowadays usually known as a
" nightman." WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
THOMAS ASTLE (v.s. ' Inscriptions in
St. Mary's Church, Battersea,' 12 S. ii. 126). —
He was author of a book on old writing.
E. E. COPE.
0n
The English Civil Service in the Fourteenth Centurt/.
A Lecture delivered at the John Rylands
Library on Dec. 15, 1915, by T. P. Tout. (Man-
chester, the University Press ; London, Long-
mans and Quaritch, Is. net.)
PROF. TOUT expresses here the opinion that the
personal element in history is still " somewhat
overstressed." The context shows that he is
referring to the interest taken in exceptional
individuals, some part of which he would like to
see transferred to the " ordinary person." If the
said " ordinary person " has not been so well
known or well liked as he deserves to be by the
general run of students and readers, we think it is
largely because, hitherto, we have not had nearly
as many studies as we want of just the kind Prof.
Tout gives us. The personal element is strong
in them, and it is that which makes them at once
so lively and so instructive. He gives here an
excellent condensed account of the development
of the main branches of the mediaeval " civil
service " from departments of the King's house-
hold, tracing the history of clerical administra-
tii>n. and the gradual intrusion of the Laity into
office ; making distinct the several characters of
the Exchequer, the Chancery, and the Privy Seal ;
and giving some idea of the range of work and the
competence and the methods of the mediaeval
Gfovernment office. In conclusion, he sketches t<>r
us, in their capacity of civil servants, the three
figures of John Winwick, Geoffrey Chaucer, and
Thomas Hoccleve. He warns us not to consider
Chaucer's official work as merely nominal, remind-
ing us that he was compelled by the terms of his
appointment to write his rolls with his own handr
and to be " continually present " to discharge
his duties. It is, however, the case that he was
let off this particular work on occasion, for in 1377
we find him allowed to depute Thomas de
Eyesham to act for him and write the rolls of office/
with his own hand during Geoffrey's pleasure.
This, no doubt, was in reference to Chaucer's
part in the embassy into France of the following"
year, but later on he was allowed to have a per-
manent deputy.
Headers of ' N. & Q.' who are interested in the
history of words — and which of us is not ? — will
like Prof. Tout's discussion of the rise and growth
of the term " civil service." He is inclined to
think the ' N.E.D.' deals with the matter some-
what too summarily. We should think his con-
jecture that it was adopted through the — perhaps
unconscious — mediation of Sir Charles Trevelyan,.
hits the mark. The East India Company first
invented it, using this technical phrase to denote
those of their officials who were not of the military
profession. When, in 1853, there arose a movement
for reforming and reorganizing the public adminis-
tration of Great Britain, Trevelyan, who had been
a " civil servant " in India, drew up, with Sir
Stafford Northcote, a report on the situation and
its demands, in which occurs the first instance of
the phrase Prof. Tout has found. It became
current in the correspondence and discussion to-
which the report gave rise.
We trust Prof. Tout will forgive us for a sugges-
tion. Pleasant and vivacious as his pages are,
they would be yet pleasanter and not less vivacious
if he would go over them once with nothing but
grammar and the logic of sentences in his mind-
We quote two examples of the fault we venture to
complain of, and could furnish more. On p. 1
he speaks of gentlemen flocking to Government
offices " at hours varying inversely with their-
dignity." At p. 5 we have," No instances of the
use of these terms can be found in our language
before the reign of George III. It originated
apparently. . . .It seems first to have been used."
. . . .But we would certainly rather have a lecture
of Prof. Tout's a little hasty and ungrammatical'
than not have it at all.
JOTTINGS FROM RECENT BOOK
CATALOGUES.
THE new Catalogues which have come to our
hands strike us as above the average in interest.
We note first one or two items which may well
arrest the attention of millionaire collectors or
trustees of well-to-do institutions. Such is a fine
piece of fourteenth-century writing by an Anglo-
Norman scribe — ' Le Roman de Merlin ' — which
would appear to be Robert de Borron's version of
the story, and is worth noting, not merely as a long
11 nd well - executed MS., with many miniatures
and other decorations, but also as important in
the matter of text. This is priced by Messrs.
Maggs.who now own it, at 1.250J. A MS. of per-
haps yet greater general interest is also in Mes.-rs.
Maggs's possession, and they are asking 850J. for
it — Chaucer's ' Canterbury Tales,' followed by
Lydgate's 'Story of Thebes.' Between the two
is inserted n Chronological History of England,
which enables the date of the script to be lix.-d
at 1449-50. There are a few imperfections. We
note that a long poem, which the cataloguer
has not described, follows the Lydgate. If we
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•mention besides these a MS. of English Metrica
Homilies (fourteenth to fifteenth century, Northern
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for 251.
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to
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CONTENTS.-No. 36.
NOTES :— Shakespeare on Satan as an Angel of Light, 181—
Marshals of France, 182— Mansell of Muddlescomb, 184-
Capt. Cox's ' Book of Fortune,' 1575, 185—" Unthinkable,
186— Uncut Paper— Memorial of Cholera Victims, Bicester,
Oxon— Ancient Roman and Welsh Law, 187— Daylight
Saving, 188.
•QUERIES :— The Colours of the 56th Foot : Louclon Bar-
court Gordon— Sbeepsbanks's Biographies -Slonk Hill,
Sboreham, Sussex -Pork Butcher's Epitaph, 188— The
Removal of Memorials in Westminster Abbey— The Actor-
Martyr— Capt. Arthur Conolly— William of Malmesbury
on Bird Life in the Fens— Authors Wanted— Bardsey
Island: Conscription, 189— Bluebeard— Ladies' Spurs-
Bird Folk-Lore—Mother and Child— "Toothdrawer" as a
Name— Steyning : Stening— George Harris, Civilian-
Thomas Watts. M.P.— Nicholas Wood, M.P.— J. Rennie
on the Flying Powers of Birds, 190—" Stop the Smithfield
fires "—Sir Charles Price, Lord Mayor of London, 191.
•REPLIES :— An English Army List of 1740, 191 — Burton
and Speke : African Travel, 193— Folk-Lore : Chime-
Hours—Eighteenth-Century Dentists— Stones of London,
194— St. George's, Hart Street, Bloomsbury — Thomas
Congreve, M.D.— Heraldic Query: Silver Cup— Hebrew
Inscription, Sheepshed, Leicestershire — Raynes Park.
Wimbledon— Caldecott -Boy-Ed as Surname— Hare and
Lefevre Families, 195— Folk-Lore : Red Hair, 196—
Heraldic Query—' Sabrinse Corolla '—Village Pounds-
Christopher Urswick — Panoramic Surveys of London
Streets— Mrs. Anne Dutton— The "Doctrine of Signa-
tures," 197— Cromwell's Baronets and Knights— Ibbetson
or Ibberson— ' The London Magazine '—Postal Charges
in 1847— Rome and Moscow, 198— Ching: Cornish or
Chinese? -Emma Robinson, Author of ' Whitefriars,' 199.
NOTES ON BOOKS : — ' England's First Great War
Minister'— ' Armorial Bearings of Kingston-upon-Hull '
—"Old Mother Hubbard."
"Notices to Correspondents.
SHAKESPEARE ON SATAN AS AN
ANGEL OF LIGHT.
WITHOUT entering into the question as to
whether Shakespeare's knowledge of the
Bible was such as that which results from
careful and prolonged study, or was merely
such as a sharp-witted boy might pick up
from hearing it read in church, it is interest-
ing to notice that one passage in 2 Corinthians
was never long absent from his mind, and
appears over and over again in his plays. It
is the picturesque sentence in 2 Cor. xi. 14,
in which St. Paul, after speaking of false
apostles succeeding in passing themselves off
as true, says : " And no marvayle, for Satan
himselfe is changed into the fashion of an
Angel of light." For so ran the passage in
the Geneva Version, of which there can be no
doubt that the author of the plays made use.
It is interesting to notice how this sentence
fascinated him, and how often he reproduces
it in various forms. Thus we find it in
' Measure for Measure,' Act III. i. 89, where
Isabella says of Angelo : —
This outward -sain ted deputy.... is yet a
deVil ;
His filth within being cast, he would appear
A pond as deep as hell.
In ' The Comedy of Errors,' Act IV. iii. 48,
the reference to 2 Corinthians is direct.
Dromio of Syracuse is speaking of some one
described as " a light wench," and he puns
upon the word " light." He addresses her
as Satan, and says : " It is written, they
appear to men like angels of light."
In ' Love's Labour's Lost,' probably the first
of the plays wholly written by Shakespeare,
we find the allusion in a similarly direct form.
Biron says (Act IV. iii. 257) : " Devils soonest
tempt, resembling spirits of light." The use
made of the passage is much more elaborate
in ' The Merchant of Venice,' and there is
combined with St. Paul's simile an allusion
to the temptation of Christ in the wilderness,
and the quotation then made by the
Tempter of a passage in the Psalms. Shy-
lock has just quoted an incident in Scripture
to justify usury, and Antonio says (Act I.
iii. 98):—
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul, producing holy witness,
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ;
A goodly apple rotten at the heart :
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath !
Some have suggested the word " godly "
instead of " goodly " in this last line, and
have supposed the latter repeated by mistake
from the preceding line. It certainly would
be more in accord with the passage in
2 Corinthians.
If we now turn to the histories we find
fresh illustrations of the attraction which
St. Paul's words had for the dramatist. In
' King John,' Act III. i. 208, Constance says
to the Dauphin : —
O Louis, stand fast ! the devil tempts thee here
In likeness of a new uptrimmed bride.
There is here the same idea of a tempter and
of his ability to assume attractive shapes.
It is to be hoped that there are few so
ungallant as to assert that " a new uptrimmed
bride " is not synonymous with " an angel of
light."
In ' Henry V.,' Act II. ii. 114, the King
reproaches Lord Scroop for his treachery
hidden under the show of intimate friendship,
and savs that the
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Devils that surest l>y treasons
Do botch and bundle up damnation
With patches, colours, and with forms being
fetched
From glistering semblances of pi<-ty.
In ' Richard III.,' Act I. iii. 334, we have
again an allusion to the use made by the
devil of Holy Scripture in the Temptation in
the Wilderness, as well as to the Tempter's
assuming the guise of piety. Gloucester
says : —
But then I sigh ; and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that" God bids us do good for evil ;
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends stol'n out of holy writ ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devii.
It remains for us to notice the use made
of the passage in question in the tragedies,
and we find the most striking instance in
' Romeo and Juliet,' Act III. ii. 73, where
Juliet, on hearing of the death of Tybalt,
apostrophizes Romeo : —
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face !
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave ?
Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical !
Dove-feathered raven ! wolfish-ravening lamb !
Despised substance of divinest show !
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain !
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh ?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So;.fairly bound ? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace !
In ' Hamlet,' Act II. ii. 627, we have
St. Paul's words reproduced in a much
simpler form. Hamlet resolves to test the
truth of the Ghost's message, and to try " to
catch the conscience of the King " by the
play. He says : —
The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil ; and the devil hath power
T'assume a pleasing shape.
Our final passage is in ' Othello,' Act II.
iii. 354, and the words are appropriately
enough from the lips of lago, who openly
acknowledges that he is acting exactly as
St. Paul declares that Satan sometimes
does : —
How am I, then, a villain
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
Directly to his good ? Divinity of hell !
When devils will the blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now.
It is very interesting to see the mind of the
poet playing with this thought and repro-
ducing it in so many different situations.
J. WILLCOCK.
Lerwick.
MARSHALS OF FRANCE.
THE last of the 'French marshals was
Canrobert, who died in 1895. The French
Government recently revived the rank, and
it is expected that there will be at least one
new marshal of France at the conclusion of
the war.
I have been trying to put together a
complete list of the marshals of France from
the twelfth to the nineteenth century, with
the result as given below. My list is prob-
ably very incomplete, and may contain many
errors. I should be grateful for corrections
and additions. The date in front of the
name is the year of creation,* the date? after
the name those of birth and death. The
dignity of "Marechal de France" was
established in 1185, in distinction to that of
" Marechal de camp," and apparently the
office was a single one till Fran£ois I. raised
the number of Marshals of France to two.
Under Henri III. it was raised to four, and
under Louis XIV. to twenty (' Ency. Brit.').
1185. Albe>ic-Clement, 1140-91.
1390. Boucicaut, Jean le Maingre, sire de, 1365—
1421.
1454. Xaintrailles, Jean Poton, seigneur de, 1400-
1461.
1520. La Palice, Jacques de Chabanes, seigneur
de, 1464-1525.
Coligny, Gaspard de, -1522.
1522. Montmorency, Anne, due de, 1493-1567.
1536. La Marck, Robert de, seigneur de Fleur-
anges, 1491-1537.
1550. Coss4, Charles de, comte de Brissac, c. 1505-
1563.
1569. Tavannes, Gaspard Saulx, seigneur der
1509-73.
1574. Montluc, Blaise de Lasseran - Massencome,
seigneur de, 1501—77.
1574. Bellegarde, Roger de Saint Lary de, 1538-
1579.
Montmorency, Francois, due de, -1579.
1577. Biron, Armand de Gontaut, baron de,.
1524-77 (?).
Aumont, Jean d', 1522-95.
1579. Matignon, Jacques Goyon de, 152.K-97.
1590. La Noue, Francois de, 1531-91.
1608. Lesdiguieres, Francois de Bonne due de,.
1543-1627.
1619. La Guiche, Jean Francois d<% comte de la
Palice, 1567-1632.
La Force, Jacques Nompai du Caumont,.
due de, 1558-1652.
Schomberg, comte Henri de, -1632.
Ornano, Jean Baptiste d', comte de
Montlaur, (?t-1626.
1622. Bassompierre, Francois de, 1579-1646.
1630. Toiras, Jean de Caylard de Saint-Bonnet,.
1585-1636.
Damville, Henri de Montmorency, comte de,
1595-1632.
* Where there is a blank I have been unable to
ascertain the year of creation.
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183
1639. La Mcilleruyc, Charles de la Porte, due de,
1602-64.
Bre'ze', Urbain de Maill^, marquis de.
Coligny. Gaspard de, -1646.
1641. Gramont, Antoine de, 1604-78.
Itit2. (ruebriant, Jean Baptiste Budes, comte de,
1602-43.
La Force, Armand.
lf>43. Gassion, Jean de, 1609-47.
Ui45. Rantzau, Josias, comte de, 1609-50.
Schomberg, Charles de. due de Hulliun.
lr,51. Aumont, Antoine d', 1601-69.
1658. Fabert, Abraham de, 1599-1662.
1660. Turenne, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne,
vicomte de, 1611-75.
1669. Cre"qui, Francois de, 1624-87.
1675. Schomberg, Frederic Armand, due de, 1615-
1690.
1675. Duras, Jacques Henri de Durfort, due de,
1626-1704.
1675. Luxembourg, Francois Henri de Mont-
morency, due de, 1632—95.
Bellefonds, Bernardin Gigault, marquis de.
1693. Boufflers, Louis Francois, marquis de,
1644-1711.
1693. Noailles, Anne Jules, due de, 1650-1708.
1693? Catinat, Nicolas de, 1637-1712.
1702. Villars, Claude Louis Hector, due de, 1653-
1734.
Tallard, Camille d'Hostun, due de, 1652-
1728.
Marsin, Ferdinand, comte de.
Vend&me, Louis Joseph, due de, 1654-1712.
Villeroi, Francois de Neufville, due de, 1644—
1730.
Montreval, Nicolas Auguste de la Baume,
marquis de.
1703. Vauban, Sebastien le Prestre, marquis de,
1633-1707.
1703. Estrees, Victor Marie, due d', 1660-1737.
1706. Berwick, Jacques Fitz-James, due de,
1670-1734.
1709. Montesquieu d'Artagnan, Pierre de, 1645-
1725.
Huxelles, Nicolas du Ble", marquis d'.
1724. Broglie, Victor Maurice, comte de, 1647-
1727.
1734. Noailles, Adrien Maurice, due de, 1678-
1766.
1734. Broglie, Francois Marie, due de, 1671-1745.
1741. Belle-Isle, Charles Louis August Fouquet,
due de, 1684-1761.
1741. Coigny, Francois de Franquetot, due de,
1670-1759.
1742. Richelieu, Louis Armand du Plessis, due
de, 1696-1788.
1744. Saxe, Maurice, comte de, 1696-1750.
1747. Lowendahl, Fr4d£ric Woldemar, comte de,
1700-55.
1758. Soubise, Charles de Rohan, prince de, 1715-
1787.
Castries, Charles Eugene Gabriel de la
Croix, marquis de, 1727-1801.
1 7i!". Broglie, Victor Francois, due de, 1718-1804.
1783. Beauvau, Charles Juste, due de, 1720-93.
1783. Sdgur, Philippe Henri, marquis de, 1724-
1801.
1791. Rochambeau, Jean Baptiste Donatien de
Vimeur, comte de, 1725-1807.
1804. Augereau, Pierre FranQois Charles, due de
Castiglione, 1751-1816.
1804. Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules, roi HP
Suede, 1764-1844.
1804. Berthier, Alexandre, prince de Wagranr, .
1753-1815.
1804. Bessieres, Jean Baptiste, due d'Istria,
1768-1813.
1804. Brune, Guillaumc Marie Anne, 1763-1815.
1804. Davout, Louis Nicolas, prince d'EckmuhL
1770-1823.
1804. Jourdan, Jean Baptiste, comte, 1762-1833.
1804. Kellerman, Francois Christophe, due de
Valmy, 1735-1820.
1804. Lannes, Jean, due de Montebello, 1769-
1809.
1804. Lefebvre, Francois Joseph, due de Dantzig.
1755-1820.
1804. Massena, Andre", due de Rivoli, 1758-1817.
1804. Moncey, Adrien Jeannot de, due de Cone-
gliano, 1754-1842.
1804. Mortier, iSdouard Joseph, due de TreVise,
1768-1835.
1804. Murat, Joachim, roi de Naples, 1771-1815.
1804. Ney, Michel, prince de la Moskowa, 1769—
1815.
1804. Perignon, Dominique Catharine, marquis
de, 1754-1818.
1804. Serurier, Jean Mathieu Philibert, 1742-
1819.
1809. Macdonald, Alexandre, due de Tarente, .
1765-1840.
1809. Marmont, Auguste Louis, due de Raguse,
1774-1852.
1809. Oudinot, Nicolas Charles, due de Reggio,
1767-1847.
1809. Suchet, Gabriel, due d'Albufera, 1770-1826.
1809. Victor, Claude Perrin, due de Bellune,
1764-1841.
1812. Gouvion St. Cyr, Laurent, marquis de,
1764-1830.
1813. Poniatowski, Joseph Antoine, prince, 1762—
1813.
1815. Grouchy, Emmanuel, marquis de, 1766-
1847. \
1816. Beurnonville, Pierre Riel, marquis de,
1752-1821.
1816. Clarke, Jacques Guillaume, due de Feltre,
1765-1818.
1816. Coigny, Henri Marie de, 1737-1816.
1816. Viomenil, comte de.
1823. Lauriston, Jacques Alexandre Bernard
Law, marquis de, 1768-1828.
1823. Molitor, Gabriel Jean Joseph, comte, 1770-
1849.
1829. Maison, Nicolas Joseph, marquis, 1771-
1840.
1830. Bourmont, Louis August Victor, comte de
Chaisne de, 1773-1846.
1831. Clausel, Bertrand, comte, 1772-1842.
1831. Gerard, Etienne Maurice, comte, 1773-1855.
1831. Mouton, Georges, comte de Lobau, 1770-
1838.
1837. Vatee, Sylvain Charles, comte, 1773-1846.
1840. Sebastiani, Francois Horace Bastien, comte,
1775-1851.
1843. Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Thomas Robert,
due d'Isly, 1784-1849.
1843. Drouet, Jean Baptiste, comte d'Erlon,
1765-1844.
1847. Brunerie, Guillaume Dode, vicomte de la,
1775-1851.
1847. Reille, Honor^ Joseph, comte, 1775-1860.
1851. Exelmans, Remy Joseph Isidore, comte,
1775-1852.
1851. Harispe, Jean Isidore, comte, 1768-1855.
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1851.
Vaillant, Jean Baptist* Philibert, 1790-
1872.
CusU'llane, Victor, comtc dc. 1788-1862.
Saint- Arnaud , Jacques Achillc Leroy de,
1798-1851.
Magnan, Bernard Pierre, 1791-1865.
Baraguay d'Hilliers, Achille Catulle, 1795-
1878.
1855 Pelissier, Aniable Jean Jacques, due de
Malakoff, 1794-1864.
Bosquet, Pierre Francois, 1810-61.
Canrobert, Francois Certain, 1807-95.
1852.
1852.
1852.
1854.
1855.
1856.
1856. Randon, Jacques Alexamlre, comte, 170.5-
L871.
1859. iMaoMahon, Marie Edm<; Patrice Maurice
de, due de Matrenta. 1808-93.
1859. Xiel, Adolphe, 1802-69.
1859. Regnaud de Saint Jean d'Angely, Etienne,
1794-187H.
1861. Ornano, Comte Antoine d', 1784-1863.
1863. Forey, Elie Fr6de>ic, 1804-72.
1864. Bazaine, Francois Achille, 1821-88.
1870. Lebreuf, Edmond, 1809-88.
F. H. CHEETHAM.
MANSELL OF MUDDLESCOMB.
THE will of Sir Francis Mansell of Muddles-
comb, 3rd Bt., who died in 1654, has been
" lost " for so long that it was not known
until just recently to be in existence. It is
to be found, however, among the P.C.C.
wills at Somerset House. The reason for its
having remained so long in obscurity was the
'fact that it had been carelessly indexed as
that of " Francis Mandell, Carmarthen."
Those who may be interested will find it at
" 229 Alchin." Made Oct. 23, 1654, it was
proved the following Nov. 14 by the testa-
tor's only sister, Elizabeth Mansell, and one
of her co-executors (and the successor to the
baronetcy), Edward Mansell of Briton Ferry,
their co-executor, Walter Mansell of Iscoed,
TJaot acting.
Sir Francis, 1st Bt
The will enables me, with some other
matter, to solve that " obscurity in the
succession to this baronetcy " which G. E. C.
found to exist from c. 1651 to 1691, and
which, I am afraid I must say, his account of
the family tended to make worse.
Sir Walter Mansell, 2nd Bart., died
" suddenly " in April, 1639, when his only
son, Sir Francis, the subject of this note, wa's
a child of 2. Until the discovery of his will,
the only facts known to me as to the period
of his life were that he was still alive in
1651 and was dead before 1660.
The following abbreviated pedigree will,
I hope, explain the descent of the title to
1691 :—
(cr. 1622) t!629.
1. Sir Walter, 2nd Bt.,
tl639.
2. Sir Anthony, Kt,
tl644.
1
T?
3. Dr. Francis, D.D.,
t!665.
-i
4. Richard of Iscoed,
fl635.
1
1 1
Sir Francis, only son,
3rd Bt.,
11654.
1. Sir Edward, 2. Francis, 3. Arthur, 1. Anthony of Iscoed,
4th Bt., tv./., s.p. +v.f., s.p. fbefore 1690/1.
tFeb. 1690/1, s.p.s.
I
1. Anthony, f!679. 2. Edward, t!678.
1. Sir Richard of Iscoed, 5th Bt., fAug., 1691.
1. Sir Richard of Iscoed, 6th Bt.,
t (?) 1699.
2. Sir William of Iscoed,
7th Bt.
In his account of the baronetcy, G. E. C.
f;\lls Anthony (f!679)the son (and h. app.) of
Anthony of Iscoed, and elder brother, de-
• ceased, of Sir Richard of Iscoed (whom he
queries as 5th Bt.). In my little pedigree
I show Anthony as the elder (I believe) son
of Sir Edward of Muddlescomb, the 4th Bt.
That this Anthony was the son of Sir Edward,
-and not the so-called " eldest " son of
Anthony of Iscoed, may be inferred from
two things : (a) an undated letter in the
Penrice and Margam MSS. (No. 760), written
by this Anthony to his father, Sir Edward,
then living at Margam (the seat of another
Sir Edward Mansell of Margam, 4th Bt.) ;
(6) that in the pedigrees of the family
Richard is stated to be the first son of
Anthony of Iscoed, and Anthony is called
the second son.
Sir Richard of Iscoed, the 6th Bt., had
an unfortunate altercation in Gray's Inn
Walks, London, with an apothecary, one
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185
Pickering, soon after his accession to the
title. Pickering, in demanding payment of
an overdue account, used language that
nettled the young baronet, who, drawing
his sword, caused the apothecary to draw
hastily back, in doing which he fell off the
walk and broke his leg, and shortly after
died. Sir Richard was tried for murder, was
brought in guilty (of manslaughter only, I
think), imprisoned, and pardoned by the
King in 1693. Wotton (' Baronetage ') says
he died in London in obscurity. It was
probably he to whose estate the relict, Mary,
administered in 1699 (admons.. P.C.C.,
March 31, 1699), as the widow of " Richard
Mansell," late of St. Saviour's, Southwark.
AP THOMAS.
CAPT. COX'S ' BOOK OF FORTUNE,'
1575.
MBS. STOPES, in her recently published book
on ' Shakespeare's Industry,' has reprinted
two of her articles which originally appeared
in The Athenaeum in 1900: one under the
title ' The English Book of Fortune owned by
Capt. Cox in 1575 ' (May 19), the other on
' The Italian and English Books of Fortune '
(Aug. 25). I purpose to deal with her first
article only on the present occasion.
Robert Laneham, in his well-known letter
describing the festivities at Kenilworth in
1575, mentions among the books owned by
Capt. Cox ' The Booke of Fortune,' of which
evidently no copy has survived, but Mrs.
Stopes has made an attempt to identify it.
First of all, we have an entry in the
Registers of the Stationers' Company on
Feb. 6, 1560, recording the receipt of the
small sum of eightpence from William
Powell for his licence for printing a ' Booke
of Fortune ' in folio. The name of the
author is not given. No copy of this is
extant.
Next, we have the record of a licence
granted, also in 1560, to Purfoote for a book
entitled " Fortune a play to knowe each one
hyr condiciouns and gentle maners, as well
of women as of men." This title clearly
proves, as Mrs. Stopes surmises, that the
book was some kind of a game, and not a
theatrical piece. In support of this I may
refer to what appears to be a similar
Hungarian book, entitled ' Fortuna,' first
published in 1594, and republished times out
of number till 1868. This was also a " book
of fortune."
At an earlier date we have ' The Boke of
the fa}Te Gentylwoman that is to say
Lady Fortune,' the only extant copy of which
is in the Lambeth Palace Library. It was
described fully by Mrs. Slopes, and her
description is fairly accurate, judging by the
facsimile reproduced in the First Series of
Henry- Huth's ' Fugitive Tracts,' 1875.
Laneham, no doubt, would have given the
first title of the little tract, and we may,
therefore, dismiss it from our investigation.
It may or may not have been the book
owned by Capt. Cox ; if it was, all that sur-
vived of it is the Preface containing
" certain meters in english written by master
[later Sir] Thomas More in hys youth for the boke
of Fortune and [sic] caused them to be printed in
the begynning of that boke." — Sir Thomas More's
' Works,' 1557.
According to the late Dr. Furnivall, the
editor of Laneham's letter for the Ballad
Society (1871), it is a tract (without date)
probably made up by Wyer, the printer
(1527 to 1542). The preface concludes " Thus
endeth the Preface to the book of Fortune " ;
about the further contents and construction,
of it we know nothing.
Mrs. Stopes next describes the fragment
of a book formerly in the possession of the
late Mr. Davies, the antiquary of Walling-
ford. This fragment, alas ! also disappeared
after its owner's death, and no other copy is
known to exist. In his lifetime she was
allowed to show it to Dr. Garnett of the
British Museum, and having made copious
extracts from it she has now published these
in her book, more fully than in her original
communication, and they certainly form
most amusing reading. To judge by her
description, the fragment undoubtedly
formed part and parcel of a book of fortune;
but as the beginning and end were missing
when she saw it, it is difficult to guess how
she was able to identify it with either the
volume mentioned in Lowndes as ' The
Book of Fortune,' 1672, folio, or with that
other given in R. Cla veil's Catalogue as
having been " printed [also in 1672] for
Thomas Williams, Hosier Lane.". Mrs. Stopes
goes further than this, and considers it more
than possible that the fragment she saw
represented the remains of a copy of the
very ' Book of Fortune ' licensed to Powell
in 1560, handled with delight by Laneham
and Capt. Cox in 1575, and revised and
improved up to date in 1672. Why ?
There have been several publications of this
kind, as we have seen, and I know of at least
one other book in English which seems to
have equal claims to be identified with a
later edition of the volume mentioned in
Laneham's letter. A complete copy of this
186
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. SEPT. 2, me
is preserved in the British Museum Library.
Its title, very much abbreviated, is as
Tinder : —
"The Book of Fortune .... First written in
Italian, after translated into English, and now
newly compared in all the parts thereof and
much amended. [A large woodcut.] London,
printed by 31. Flesher, and are to be sold by H.
:Sawbridge at the Bible on Ludgate Hill, 1686."
The Italian author's name is not mentioned
on the title-page, but there is a statement in
the Preface to -the following effect : —
"This book was first drawn and made in Italian
by a noble and joyous knight, Laurence Spirit,
and translated into English."
This writer was no other than Lorenzo
Spirito, or L. Gualtieri of Perugia, a well-
known author, whose ' Libro del Sorte '
(The Book of Fate) was published in Vicenza
without date, but probably in 1473. Several
other editions appeared in various parts of
Italy, and at least one French translation,
before the end of the century ; subsequently
it was translated, besides French, into
Spanish, Dutch, and, as we see, into English.
The oldest Italian edition in the British
Museum bears the title ' Libro della Ventura
di Lorenzo Spirto ' (sic), and was printed in
Borne in 1535. The French edition I have
consulted is " Le Passetemps de la Fortune
des Dez. .. .compile par Maistre Laurens
L'Esprit " (Paris, 1637).
The English version issued in 1686 is not
strictly a translation, but rather an adapta-
tion of the original. The large woodcut on
the title-page represents the revolving Wheel
of Fortune. On the reader's left a man
wearing a cap is being carried upwards
clinging to the wheel, with the legend
" Regnabo " ; on the top of the wheel a
crowned monarch is sitting holding his
sceptre, and the legend in this case is
" Regno " ; on the right-hand side, a man is
moving downwards with the wheel, with the
legend " Regnavi " ; and, finally, at the
bottom of the wheel a man is hanging head
downwards, with the legend " Sum sine
regno." A similar illustration is shown on
the title-page of the Rome edition of 1535,
and on the second title-page of the Hun-
garian ' Fortuna ' of 1594 referred to above ;
in this case, however, the poor man at the
bottom is lying face downwards on the ground
under the wheel. The idea of the illustration
is very old. Mr. Bela Majlath, a Hungarian
bibliographer, who has made a special study
of the subject, saw similar designs in several
MS. books of fortune (Sortilegia), the oldest
dated j 1450, at Munich. In this case several
human figures are being carried up on one
side, and pitched down on the other side of
the wheel. The " roue de fort vine " figures
also on an old tarot card, the one numbered
X in some packs. L. L. K.
(To be concluded. )
" UNTHINKABLE." — There is a fashion in
the use of words which is as inexplicable as
fashion in dress. From time to time a word
or a phrase is selected from the immense
available stock in our language, and used
with a frequency out of all proportion to its
value, and often out of all relation to its
sense, until it becomes little better than
slang or meaningless interjection. At the
present moment two of the most emphatic
words in the language — " absolutely " and
" unthinkable " — are undergoing this process
of degradation. " Absolutely," in fact, is
now beyond redemption ; but " unthink-
able " is in a different position. It has a
pseudo-scientific air about it, since it is at
the moment rather favoured by sociologists
and politicians, and does not yet flow
trippingly from the tongue of ordinary con-
versationalists. But the degradation has
certainly begun, since the word has now a
great vogue in the newspapers, and is used
without regard to its- strict original meaning.
It is over twenty years since the writer
first made the acquaintance of this word in
the pages of Spencer's ' Synthetic Philos-
ophy.' In the second and third chapters of
' First Principles ' it occurs rather frequently
with a strictly literal meaning, and it was a
somewhat favoured word with Spencer at all
times. He may have borrowed it from some
earlier writer, but he, at any rate, gave it a
status which marked it out for the sociologist-
politician as a word to conjure with. Yet
not one man in a score or a hundred of those
who now use it pauses to think that in the
days of its dignity " unthinkable " did not
mean " unlikely," or " improbable," or
" incredible," but literally " beyond the
grasp of the human intellect."
There are, as a matter of fact, some things
which the human brain literally cannot
" think " or comprehend. It cannot con-
ceive of a limitation of space — of a sort of
wall or precipice inside of which there is
space and beyond which there is no space.
Nor can it grasp unlimited space.
It is the same with our conceptions of
time and eternity ; we cannot in our thoughts
pursue time through all eternity except by
the symbolism of a conception carried so far,
and left to be resumed on some future
occasion — a mere mental makeshift. Yet,
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187
oa the other hand, we are just as unable to
think of a cessation of time. These are
matters which to the human brain, being
what it is, are truly " unthinkable."
" Unthinkable " is not, it may be ad-
mitted, in any sense a pleasing word, but it
as a very apt one. Its very literalness, its
Anglo-Saxon directness, its uncouth con-
struction, all help to enforce its meaning.
Jt seems to have been, and quite possibly
was, coined for the occasion. To say that a
thing is " incomprehensible," for instance,
does not now convey nearly the same mean-
ing. It may merely denote that we do not
understand because we have not the neces-
sary facts before us upon which to form a
judgment. But to say that a thing is
" unthinkable " is to say that it is altogether
beyond the scope of mind.
Can we not make some effort to save this
•word for its legitimate use, instead of
having it applied in pure sensationalism to
any political occasion which presents factors
which are a little out of the common ? Does
the man who says that "it is unthinkable
that Germany will win the war," or that
" an election is unthinkable at this time,"
really suppose that the human mind is in-
•capable of forming a conception of either of
these contingencies ? W. A. ATKINSON.
UNCUT PAPER. — On Nov. 24, 1665, Pepys
paid a visit to Evelyn at Sayes Court, where
his host showed him some autograph letters
of Queen Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of
Scots. In his ' Diary,' under the above
date, Pepys makes the following entry :
"" But, Lord ! how poorly, methinks, they
•wrote in those days, and in what plain uncut
paper," from which it would appear that it
was then the practice to trim writing paper
by removing the rough or " deckle " edge.
I was not previously aware that this practice
was of quite so early a date. R. B. P.
MEMORIAL OF CHOLERA VICTIMS, BICESTER,
OXON. — In the year 1832 this town was
visited by a severe cholera epidemic, to
which upwards of sixty-four persons fell
victims. A headstone on the south side
of the churchyard was erected to their
memory. During the course of time many
of the names became worn away and needed
renewing. A former Vicar of Bicester, the
Rev. J. B. Kane, who was presented to that
living in 1881, had this stone restored at his
own expense, and the work was carried out by
Randell James Litten (junior), son of Randell
James Litten (senior), who were both monu-
mental masons in Bicester. As a few of the
names and figures are again showing signs
of decay and will soon need a second
restoration, I thought it advisable to tran-
scribe them and send them to ' N. & Q.' for
publication while they can still be read. The
inscription on the stone is as under : —
Erected at the public expense
to the memory of
sixty Eoui persons who died in this parish
by cholera morbus
A.D. MDCCCXXXII.
Their names are under written
James George
William Westbury
Samuel Clark
John Edmonds
Hannah Pallett
Mary Ann Mason
Mary Pritchett
Robert Spenser
Jane Horwood
Hannah Aston
Ann Plester
Levi Dormer
Jane Jackson
William Blinco
Sarah Aston
Sarah Jackson
Phoebe Clifton
Mary Pratt
William Bradley
Mary Steven
Thomas Plester
Dorothy Castle
Thomas Mauder
Samuel Clifton
William Stirman
Matilda Dormer
Martha Bradley
John Smith
Mary Smith
Thomas Miles
James Richardson
Elizabeth Hunt
53
19
67
18
39
7
16
50
21
12
2
4
3
63
52
54
52
6
63
38
4
67
54
52
47
1
62
19
15
35
63
30
Mary Pritchett 42
William Blinco 41
Harriett Grace
Thomas Roberts 45
Mary Ann Wheeler 9
George King 62
Ann Pritchett
Hannah Blinco 25
Edward Coxill 62
Martha Gaydon 47
Robert Timms
Emma Archer
Jane Auger
George Wiggins
Henry Tooley
Sarah Tooley
Rebecca Allen 27
Elizabeth Coleman 8
Jane Pitts 2
William Waddup 69
Mary Ann Gomm 25
William March 13
James Pallett 30
Ann Pallett 6
Richard Edmonds 55
Fanny Force
William Force
Ann Parker
Elizabeth Auger 26
Thomas Auger
Martha Waddup 69
James Parker 37
These persons all died within the space of two
months commencing June 7, 1832, and their
bodies are buried near this stone.
Bedford.
L. H. CHAMBERS.
ANCIENT ROMAN AND WELSH LAW. — It
may, perhaps, be worth recording that the
substance of ancient Roman law, which
has been summarized in its three tenets,
" 1. Honeste vivere ; 2. Alterum non
Isedere ; 3. Suum cuique tribuere," accord-
ing to Justinian's ' Institutiones ' (as correctly
stated in ' N. & Q.,' 10 S. xi. 38, by PROF. E.
BENSLY, in reply to a query of mine), must
have been not unknown to the lawgivers
of ancient Wales, and afforded one of the
chief sources for the law-book of King
Howel-Dda, i.e., Howel the Good, who
reigned A.D. 907-48. For the following
paragraph, almost verbally, in its sense,
agreeing with it, occurs in Aneurin Owen's
188
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 2, me.
edition of ' Ancient Laws and Institutes of
Wales, comprising Laws supposed to be
enacted by Howel the Good,' fol., Loncu,
1841:—
Tri phet a orchymyn Cyfreith y bawb
[i.e. Three things Law imposes upon everybody] :
(1) Dwyn y fowyt yn addfwyn
[To bear life meekly] ;
(2) Ac na wnelo coddyant y arall, na gostwng
[An i not to cause vexation, nor abasement, to
another] ;
(3) A roddi y ba-\vb a ddylya
[And to give everybody his due].
Cf. loc. cit., p. 724, paragraph xxiii.
H. KREBS.
Oxford.
DAYLIGHT SAVING. — Dr. Home, writing
from the R.H.S. Gardens, Wisley, Surrey,
on the subject of spraying gooseberry
bushes for the prevention of American
mildew, says : " Spraying took place on
May 20 at 5 P.M. (Willett's time), when the
bushes were just dry after gentle rain in the
afternoon." This is the first reference in
print I have seen to the new daylight
calendar as " Willett's time."
And, in passing, is not Dr. Home a little
" previous " in his reference, seeing that the
changing of the time did not take place until
2 A.M. the following day — Sunday, May 21 ?
ANDREW HOPE.
Exeter.
\VE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THE COLOURS OF THE 56TH FOOT: LOUDON
HARCOURT GORDON. — Through the courtesy
of Mr. Arthur Humphreys I have just
seen an entry in an old book-catalogue of a
book by Loudon Harcourt Gordon entitled
' Discourse on the Consecrating of the New
Colours to the Fifty-Sixth Regiment at the
Isle of France,' 1819. It was " privately
promulgated, amongst other reasons, be-
cause the Press teems with advocates for
Buonaparte." The volume is said, in a foot-
note, to be remarkable for containing in
the Preface " a most brutal and illiberal
hint regarding Napoleon while at Longwood,
whom in some verses he describes as
Alive, deserted, and accursed when dead."
Loudon Harcourt Gordon (1780-1831) was
the younger son of the Hon. Lockhart
Gordon (son of the third Earl of Aboyne).
He entered the Artillery as a cadet in 1794,
was superseded in 1803, and got an ensigncy
in the 56th in 1806. He and his brother,
the Rev. Lockhart Gordon, became the talk
of the town through " abducting " Mrs. R.
Lee, De Quincey's " Female Infidel," in 1804,
The report of the case, ' An Apology for the
Conduct of the Gordons,' is fairly familiar to
bookbuyers ; but I have never seen any
reference hitherto to the above ' Discourse/
Where can I see a copy ?
J. M. BULLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.VV.
SHEEPSHANKS' s BIOGRAPHIES. — De Morgan,
in his ' Budget of Paradoxes,' states that
Thomas Cooper attributes to the Rev. R.
Sheepshanks (1794-1855), F.R.S. and Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge, clever ficti-
tious biographies of public men which he •
successfully foisted on the editor of The
Cambridge Chronicle. De Morgan knew
Sheepshanks, and doubted his authorship.
Query, What were the biographies, when
did they appear in The Cambridge Chronicle,
and who was their author ?
In the same work (De Morgan's ' Budget ').
he refers to " Mr. Halliwell's profound book
on Nursery Rhymes." What were these
rimes ? J. O. Halliwell (1820-89) apparently
wrote them in 1842. II.
[Halliwell's 'Nursery Rhymes' — a compilation,
not original rimes — is a well-known book, published
by the Percy Society in 1842.]
SLONK HILL, SHOREHAM, SUSSEX. — There
is a hill so named situated to the north-east
of this town. Local histories and guide-
books derive " slonk " from the Saxon word
" slaught," and refer to a tradition that a
great battle was fought there in Saxon times.
The hill slopes towards the level ground
between the foot of the Downs and the sea.
There is a field named " Slonk-furlong " in.
the parish of Iford, near Lewes. What is
the meaning of the word " Slonk " ?
H. CHEAL.
Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham.
EPITAPH ON A PORK BUTCHER. — I have a
clear remembrance of having seen in some
church — not a very out-of-the-way church —
an epitaph on some one of whom it is said,
For killing pigs was his delight
Both morning, afternoon, and night.
It ended with an aspiration that the-
deceased might continue his favourite occu-
pation in the place to which he had gone !
Can any of your readers say whether the
epitaph is still in existence, and where, and
give it in its entirety ? H. B. S.
128. II. SEPT. 2, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
189
THE REMOVAL OF MEMORIALS IN WEST-
MINSTER ABBEY. — When recently in the
Abbey I was unable to trace the present
whereabouts of a memorial window to Robert
Stephenson, and of a bust of Major James
Rennell, Surveyor-General of Bengal (died
1830). I am under the impression that the
former looked down from the north wall of
the nave upon the old-style brass to Stephen-
son in the floor of the nave (depicting him
in modern trousers); and that the latter was
in the north-west corner of the nave, in the
position now occupied by the newly acquired
bust of Joseph Chamberlain.
I may be mistaken, but where are they now,
and (if removed altogether) is it usual to
displace memorials in the Abbey to make
way for others ?
The permanent loss of the window (with
a representation of a railway train) would be
no matter for regret, but R'ennell's bust was
of interest to Anglo-Indians, and if not
wanted for the Abbey might well be offered
to St. John's Church or to the Victoria Memo-
rial Hall, both in Calcutta.
My object in writing, however, is to inquire
whether it is possible for disappearances of
the kind indicated to occur, no record of them
being made available for general information
WlLMOT CORFIELD.
27 Longton Grove, Sydenham, S.E.
THE ACTOR-MARTYR. — Can any one give
particulars and name of the actor martyred
in the early days of the Church ? He
declared his faith from the stage. Is his
name in the Greek Kalendar ?
F. M. A. MACKINNON.
i/This story is related of St. Genesius, martyred
in the persecution of Diocletian 286 or 303. It was
a common practice to parody Christian rites upon
the stage, and Genesius, leader of a troupe of actors,
was performing before the Emperor at Rome in a
farce in which he had to go through a mock-bap-
tism. After the water had been poured over him
he suddenly proclaimed himself a Christian. Dio-
cletian at first applauded this as a bit of realistic
acting, but when convinced of Genesius's being in
earnest had him tortured and beheaded. His day
it Aug. 25. The historical evidence for the incident
is hardly conclusive, but at any rate Genesius was
venerated at Rome as early as the fourth century.
The story has been made the subject of at least
two oratorios.]
CAPT. ARTHUR CONOLLY. — Dr. Wolf gives
somewhere particulars of this man, who was
with Dr. Stoddart at Bokhara, and died for
his faith. Can any one tell me any book
where Capt. Conolly's story can be read ?
he a Roman Catholic ?
F. M. A. MACKINNON.
WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY ON BIRD LIFE
IN THE FENS. — In a work on British ornitho-
logy which has always been accepted as
accurate, William of Malmesbury is quoted
as saying that in his day (the twelfth cen-
tury) the fens of Lincolnshire were so covered
with coots and ducks, and the flashes with
fowl, that in moulting time, when they could
not fly. the natives were able to take from
two to three thousand at a draught with
their nets.
I should be very grateful for a reference to
this passage, which two or three antiquarian
friends are quite unable to discover, and
which certainlv is not in the ' De Gestis
Regum ' (1125). J. H. GURNEY.
Keswick Hall, Norwich.
AUTHORS WANTED. — 1. In a recent corre-
spondence in The Times the lines,
The waves became his winding sheet,
The waters were his tomb ;
But for his fame the ocean sea
Was not sufficient room,
were variously attributed to Prince (of
' The Worthies of Devon ' ) and Baraefield as
authors, and to Sir Francis Drake and Sir
John Hawkins in their application, and a
variant reading of the third line was sug-
gested. Can the verse be authoritatively
given, and its authorship and appropriation
determined ? It was asked about at 7 S.
iv. 367. W. B. H.
2. Who originated or first prominently
used the phrase, " Men cannot be made sober
by Act of Parliament" ? J. C.
3. Where can I find " Small sweet world
of wave-encompassed wonder" ?
MADELINE ARNISON.
Fellside, Penrith, Cumberland.
BARDSEY ISLAND : CONSCRIPTION. — In
an article published in the August number
of The Treasury Magazine, signed by the Rev.
Cecil Robinson, and illustrated by photo-
graphs, this island on the coast of Carnarvon-
shire is called " perhaps the most self-
;overning portion of the British Empire."
t is said that " every year the inhabitants of
Bardsey elect their "' king.' " The crown
was presented by the late Lord Newborough,
who is buried on the island. The article —
a most interesting one, by the way — states
that the inhabitants pay no rates and no
taxes, and have recently announced that
their position in the present great European
war is that of a " benevolent neutrality
towards the Allies " !
I hope that all fellow-countrymen of Mr.
Lloyd George are more patriotic than this
190
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 2, wie.
statement leads one to believe, and that the
young men of the island are " doing their
bit " in like manner to those on the main-
land. Surely the Conscription law applies
to them as well ? I should be glad to be
informed.
G. MlLNER-GlBSON-CULLUM, F.S.A.
Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds.
BLUEBEARD. — Who is originally respon-
sible— in illustration at least — for represent-
ing Bluebeard as an Oriental ? There is not
a word to imply this, either in Perrault's
original ' Conte ' or in any English version
of the tale. He is there simply " un gentil-
homme," presumably of France or Brittany.
Also why should Bluebeard's wife be styled
" Fatima " ? In the story as we first have
it she is nameless, though her sister goes by
the popular Breton name of Anne.
The tradition may be due to the fancy of
some artist, who first illustrated the story.
I have found, however, one version of the
tale, given by M. F. M. Luzel in his ' Contes
de la Basse Bretagne,' hardly differing at all
from Perrault's ' Barbe Bleue,' except that
the truculent hero is styled " Le Prince Turc,
Frimulgus, fils de I'Empereur de Turquie,"
while his wife is called Marguerite.
The adventures of Marguerite, by the
way, in her subsequent marriage, form the
second part of the story above quoted, and
present several points of great interest to
students of folk-lore.
MAUDE A. BIGGS.
3 Alexandra Road, N.W.
LADIES' SPURS. — In the collection of
spurs at the Guildhall Museum there are
several labelled " lady's." Are there any
references (except in the modern hunting
novel) in literature to show that a spur
formed part of the ordinary equipment of a
woman when riding on a side-saddle ? I do
not, of course, allude to Chaucer, as the
" merry wife " rode astride. EPERON.
BIRD FOLK-LORE. — 1. Nightingales and
yellowhammers are by some said to sing
with their breasts impaled upon thorns
What is the origin of this idea ?
2. What is the origin of the idea that
peacocks' feathers are unlucky ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[2. For peacocks' feathers see 8 S. iv., v., ix.
x., xi. ; 10 S. v.]
MOTHER AND CHILD. — It is frequently
asserted that a mother can voluntarily affect
intellectually her unborn child. Is there
any definite evidence in support of this ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
" TOOTHDRAWER " AS A XAME. — Joll.
Fothedrawer was among those who received
heir first tonsure from the Bishop of Exeter
on Dec. 18, 1373 (Brantyngham's ' Register,'
). 781). Is the name otherwise known ? My
vouthful recollection of the word is in the
mpersonal sense in which it was accustomed
o be used at Launceston, " He looked at me
ike a toothdrawer," implying a specially
dour and disagreeable expression of counten-
ance. DUNHEVED.
STEYNING : STENING. — I have heard from
;wo different sources that, first, the surname
Stening or Stenning is Dutch, and second,
;he village of Steyning was originally a
Dutch colony. Is there any truth in these
statements, and can any connexion be proved
jetween the family name arid the place-
name ? JESSIE H. HAYLLAR.
GEORGE HARRIS, CIVILIAN. — According
to the ' D.N.B.' xxv. 2, he was the son of
John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, and was
born in Westminster in 1722. I am desirous
of obtaining particulars of his mother, and
the full date of his birth. Was he ever
married ? G. F. R. B.
THOMAS WATTS, M.P. — Of what family
was Thomas Watts, M.P. St. Michaels, 1734-
1741 ; Tregony, 1741, till he died, Jan. 18,
1742, when Deputy Ranger of Enfield
Chase ? I take it that he was the same
person as Thomas Watts, appointed lieu-
tenant of the Grenadier Company of the
38th Regiment of Foot,- Dec. 30, 1710;
captain ditto Dec. 11, 1712 ; placed on half-
pay soon afterwards, so in 1714, but was
again captain of the same Grenadier Com-
pany of that regiment, Jan. 29, 1718, to
Feb. 12, 1723 (Dalton's 'Army Lists, 1660-
1727'). Was it his widow who died at
Enfield, Feb. 17, 1786 ? Possibly Robert
Watts, captain in the King's Horse in 1740,
from May 19, 1736, and previously lieutenant
therein (ante, p. 44), was his son.
W. R. W.
NICHOLAS WOOD, M.P. — Is anything
known of Nicholas Wood, M.P. Exeter,
1708-10, and an Alderman of that city ?
W. R. W.
J. RENNIE ON THE FLYING POWERS OF
BniDS. — In 1839 a book was published in
Leipzig in German on ' The Capabilities and
Forces of Birds ' which, according to the
title-page, was translated from the English
of J. Rennie. I have not yet been able to
discover a copy of the English original.
Did it ever exist ? If so, where can a copy
be seen ? L. L. K.
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191
" STOP THE SMITHFIELD FIRES." — In the
•description of the Barbor Jewel (' Memorial
of the Woodrooffe Family,' by Selina Mary
Woodrooffe) it is stated that on the reverse
of the jewel is carved the oak tree in Hatfield
Park under which Queen Elizabeth was
sitting when she heard the news of her
sister's death, and that upon receiving the
.intelligence she exclaimed, " Stop the Smith-
field fires." Is there any source which might
be considered as of historical credibility to
•confirm the statement that Queen Elizabeth's
first concern was to stop the Smithfield fires ?
LEO C.
SIR CHARLES PRICE, LORD MAYOR OF
LONDON 1803. — Can Sir Charles Price,
Bart., M.P., 1748-1818, Lord Mayor of
London, 1803, and probably a member of the
Ironmongers' Company, be the same person
as the Charles Price referred to (1) in ' George
Selwyn and his Contemporaries,' by J. H
Jesse, p. 409, vol. i., edition 1843 : " Your
f-riend Chas. Price had such a tumble last
night, that the whole Macaroni rings with
it" (1765) ; and (2) in 'The Early Diary of
Fanny Burney,' 2 vols. (A. R. Ellis), vol. i.
pp. 110, 171, as a macaroni and a young man
of fashion, a friend of George Selwyn, Sir
TVm. Hamilton, Horace Walpole, Sir Thomas
Clarges, &c., and a kinsman to Fulke Gre-
ville ? He had just returned from his travels
in 1771. LEVERTON HARRIS.
70 Grosvenor Street, W.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
\12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163.)
First Troop of Horse Grenadier Giiards
(ante, p. 43).
General Dormer was colonel till he d.
Dec. 24, 1741.
Charles Armand Powlett, brigadier-general
May 28, 1745; major-general Sept. 17, 1747 ;
•colonel of the newly raised 9th Marines,
Dec. 27, 1740, till disbanded November,
1748; on half-pay, 1748-9 ; colonel of 13th
Dragoons Jan. 26, 1751, till he d. Dec. 12 or
14, 1751 ; M.P. Newtown, I.W. (defeated
1727), April, 1729, to 1734; Christchurch,
April, 1 740, to 1 751 ; defeated at St. Ives, 1 734 ;
K.B., May 2, installed June 23 or 26, 1749 ;
of Leadwell, Oxon, having m. June 12, 1738,
the widow of Rich. Dashwood of Northbrooke,
Oxon. Query if he was second son of Lord
Wm. Pawlett, M.P. (or, according to Dalton,
a " son " of Charles, 3rd Dukeof Bolton),to
whom he was A.D.C. as Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland (from April, 1717) in the period
1717-18. He was Lieut enant-Governor of
the Isle of Wight, May, 1733, to 1751.
Lewis Dejean, captain and lieutenant-
colonel 3rd Foot Guards, May 10, 1740 ;
promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1st Troop
Horse Grenadier Guards, vice Powlett, Jan.,
1741, till appointed colonel 37th Foot, April 9,
1746 ; of 14th Dragoons, Nov. 27, 1752 ;
of 3rd Horse, April 5, 1757, till he died
Sept. 29, 1764 ; major-general Jan. 29, 1756 ;
lieutenant-general March 29, 1759 ; will pr.
at Dublin, 1764. Probably, like others
bearing French names at that period in
our army, the son of a French Huguenot
refugee.
Thomas Forth succ. Dejean as major of
the regt., May 10, 1740, to April 30, 1746 ; on
half-pay in 1750 and 1755, till he d. Jan. 14,
1757, having m. July 4, 1741, "Miss Bertie,
cousin to the Duke of Ancaster, with
10,OOOZ."
JohnDuvernet was first lieutenant-colonel
of the regt., April 30, 1746, till he died
March 21, 1756.
William Twysden, eldest brother to Thos.
T. (ante, p. 4), succ. his father Sir Wm. T. as
6th Bart., Aug. 20, 1751 ; b. about 1707 ; sub-
lieutenant (and rank of lieutenant of Horse)
in 1st Horse Grenadier Guards, Sept. 7, 1722 ;
guidon Oct. 2, 1731 ; captain May 10, 1740 ;
major of the regt. April 30, 1746, to March 27,
1751 ; d. 1767.
Courthorpe Clayton, ensign Coldstream
Guards, Feb. 16, 1725 ; cornet Royal Regt. of
Horse Guards, Nov. 17, 1727 ; lieutenant
2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards,
Oct. 2, 1731 ; captain and guidon do., May 10,
1740 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel 1st
Foot Guards, March 27, 1751 ; major 1st
Troop Horse Grenadier Guards, April 25,
1751 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof, March 23,
1756, till he d. March 22, 1762 ; brevet-
colonel February, 1762 ; M.P. Mallow (in Irish
Parliament), 17^27-60; also M.P. Eye, May,
1749, to 1761 ; a page to the Prince of Wales
till November, 1726 ; equerry to H.R.H,.
November, 1726, to 1727, and to the King, 1727
to November, 1760 ; avener and clerk
marshal, October, 1732, to May, 1734, and
December, 1757, to November, 1760 ; an
Esquire of the Bath to (Sir Andrew Foun-
taine, proxy for) Prince William Augustus.
afterwards Duke of Cumberland, when in-
stalled K.B. June 17,1725; of Shepherd's
Bush, Middlesex ; oon of Lieut. -General
Jasper C., and m. Aug. 6, 1745, the daughter
of Edw. Buckworth, with 20,OOOZ.
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William Strickland, lieutenant 1st Troop
Horse Grenadier Guards, July 18, 1732;
promoted to captain in the 2nd Troop there-
of, April 25, 1743 ; so in 1745. — Not, I think,
the M.P. Beverley, 1741-7, erroneously said
in Gent. Mag. to he.ve been appointed a
Commissioner of Excise in Ireland, June,
1740 ; of co. Gloucester and Boynton, Yorks ;
2nd son of Walter S. (b. 1667, 2nd son of
Sir Thomas S., 2nd Bart.) ; m. twice, and d.
1788.
Second Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards
(ante, p. 43).
Wm. Duckett (M.P. Calne, 1727-41 ;
colonel Wilts Militia in June, 1721 ; d.
Dec. 12, 1749 — M.I. Petersham ; 3rd
son of Lionel Duckett, M.P., of Hartham,
Wilts) ; retired from the army, and was succ.
as lieutenant-colonel of the regt., Jan. 28,
1741, to 1745, when he retired, by William
Elliot, who was also his successor as M.P.
Calne, 1741-54 ; was an equerry to the King,
April, 1743, to November, 1760, and d. 1764.
William Brereton succ. Elliot as major
of the regt., Jan. 29, 1741, and as lieutenant-
colonel, 1745, to May 18, 1747.
Thomas, Lord Howard, succ. his father
Francis (the colonel of the regt. till his
death) as 2nd Earl of Effingham, Feb. 12,
1743; was, like him, Deputy Earl Marshal
of England, 1743, till he d. Nov. 19, 1763;
brevet -colonel, June 6, 1747 ; A.D.C. to
the King, Aug. 20, 1749 ; second lieutenant-
colonel 2nd Troop Horse Guards, April 11,
1743 ; first lieutenant and lieutenant-
colonel do., July 24, 1749, to 1754 ; colonel
34th Foot, Dec. 2, 1754 ; and (captain and)
colonel 1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards,
Oct. 30, 1760, to 1764; major-general,
Jan. 15, 1758.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
(ante, p. 43).
Gregory Beake, who succ. Wyville as
lieutenant-colonel of the regt., Nov. 26, 1739,
till he retired May 27. 1745 : " a brave old
officer" (Gent. Mag.); fought at Malplaquet,
1709 ; at Dettingen, 1743 ; and at Fontenoy,
where he was wounded, 1745 ; A.D.C.
Extraordinary to the Commander-in-Chief
of Britain on the Continent, and brevet-
colonel, Aug. 11, 1742; M.P. St. Ives,
1741-7 ; Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey till
he d. June 19, 1749 ; will dated Nov. 3,
1745 ; pr. Sept. 6, 1749 ; was second son of
C'has. B. of Golden Square, Middlesex.
Charles Jenkinson succ. Beake as major
of the regt., Nov. 26, 1739, and as lieutenant-
colonel thereof, May 27. 1745, till his death
in 1750, and commanded it at Dettingen
and Fontenoy. He d. at Burford Lawn.
Lodge in the Forest of Whichwood, June,
1750, aged 57 ; bur. Shipton-under- Which-
wood, June 23 ; and was father of Charles
1st Earl of Liverpool (see the ' Parl. Hist,
of Oxfordshire, 1213-1899,' pp. 69-74).
Sir James Chamberlayne, 4th bart. of Wick-
ham, co. Oxford, 1699; succ. Jenkinson as
major of the regt., May 27, 1745 ; and as
lieutenant - colonel thereof, Nov. 29, 1750,
to Dec. 17, 1754, and d. 1767.
James Madan became 2nd major 2nd
Troop of Horse Guards, Jan. 13, 1741 (see
ante, pp.4, 131); ret. 1744 or 1745 ; and was
Yeoman of the Robes to the King in 1748,
and until 1783.
Charles Shipman was major of the regt.,
Dec. 17, 1754, to Dec. 29, 1758.
Theodore Hoste, second and younger son
of Jas. H. of Sandringham, Norfolk, where
baptized Jan. 28, 1708 ; ensign Coldstream
Foot Guards (as Theodoras Hoste), Oct. 2,.
1731, to 1734 ; m. Mary Helmore of Clench-
warton, Norfolk, and d. 1788.
Robert Ramsden of Osberton, Notts,,
baptized June 24, 1708 ; served in Flanders,
fought at Dettingen and Fontenoy; d»
Feb. 9, 1769 (brother to Lieut-Col. Freche-
ville Ramsden, 1715-1804, lieutenant-colonel
1st Horse Grenadier Guards, Feb. 8, 1762).
John Powlett, lieutenant in the Blues,.
Dec. 10, 1739.
Hon. John Fit zwilliam, cornet Royal Regt.
of Horse Guards, April 20, 1732 ; lieutenant
do., Dec. 11, 1739; captain do., 174- ;
captain and lieutenant-colonel 1st Foot
Guards, July 23, 1745, to 1755 ; colonel 2nd
Regt. of Foot, Nov. 12, 1755 ; of 2nd Horse
(5th Dragoon Guards), Nov. 27, 1760, till
he d., Aug. 31, 1789 ; major-general,
June 25, 1759 ; lieutenant-general, Jan. 19,
1761 ; general, March 19, 1778 ; Page of
Honour to the King in 1731 and 1734 ; Groom
of the Bedchamber to the Duke of Cumber-
land, 1747, till H.R.H. d. Oct. 31, 1765 ;
M.P. Windsor, 1754-61 ; of Langley, Bucks ;
third and youngest son of Richard, 5th Vis-
count Fitzwilliam ; b. about 1715.
Hon. John Needham, fourth and youngest
son of Robert, 7th Viscount Kilmorey ;.
b. January, 1710 ; succ. his brother Thomas
as 10th Viscount, Feb. 3, 1768 ; d. at
Shavington, Salop, May 27, 1791, having
attained the rank of colonel.
Thomas Swettenham of Swettenham Hall,.
Cheshire, took the additional surname and
arms of Willis on inheriting the estates of
his cousin Daniel Willis. He m. 1751,
Eliz., daughter of John Upton of Putney,
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193:
but d. s.p. at Sidburg, Yorks, July 28, 1788,
aged 73.
George Eyre of West Retford, and after-
wards of Doncaster, third son of Gervase
Eyre, M.P., of Rampton, Notts; became
captain in the Blues, and d. s.p., April 28,
1761. W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
I have a copy of this list as described by
MAJOR LESLIE. Bound up with it are two
lists of reduced officers entitled to receive
half-pay, viz., for 1739 and 1740.
First Troop of Horse Guards
(ante, p. 4).
John Elves (Elwes) was probably a son of
Capt. John Elwes, who was a younger
brother of Sir Hervey Elwes, and uncle to
John Meggott alias Elwes, the well-known
miser.
The King's Own Regiment of Horse
(ante, p. 44).
Henry Harvey, captain, was fourth son of
John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol. He be-
came a clergyman and took the name of
Aston in lieu'of Hervey ; b. 1701, d. 1748.
Further particulars of him will be found in
the Introduction to the Journals of Hon.
William Hervey, and in Shotley Parish
Records, pp. 329-32.
George Harvey, lieutenant in the same
regiment, I take to be his nephew, who suc-
ceeded as 2nd Earl of Bristol in',1751, and died
in 1775. But this is not quite certain. The
first I'ommission of each of them is dated on
the same day, March 11, 1726/7. George
would have been only 5 years old then, but
I suppose that is no objection. His com-
mission as lieutenant is dated Dec. 21, 1738.
On Dec. 20, 1738, his grandfather had written
to his father protesting against George being
sent into the army. That seems to settle the
identity of this George with the lieutenant.
In this same Army List, Hon. George Harvey
appears as ensign in Lieut.-General Dalzell's
Regiment of Foot, his commission dated
June, 1739. It looks as if his grandfather's
protest caused him to be taken out in 1738,
but allowed to go in a few months later.
S. H. A. H.
David Chapeau (ante, p. 122), lieutenant-
colonel, d. about March 29, 1763.
Thomas Fowke (ante, p. 123), colonel of
43rd Foot, Jan. 3, 1741, to Aug. 12, 1741 ; of
2nd Foot, Aug. 12, 1741, to Nov. 12, 1755 ;
of 14th Foot, Nov. 12, 1755, to Sept. 7, 1756 ;
Governor of Gibraltar, 1752-6 ; lieutenant-
general, April 30, 1754 ; d. March 29, 1765.
John Owen, colonel of 59th Foot, Xov. 27,
1760, to his death, Jan. 12, 1776 ; lieutenant-
general, May 26, 1772.
La Meloniere, lieut.-colonel, d. Dec. 13,
1761.
John Jorden, colonel of 15th Foot,
April 15, 1749, to his death, May 21 or 22,
1756.
Thomas Jekyl, major of Dragoons, d.
Aug. 31, 1744.
John Tempest, major Horse Guards,
d. Jan. 6, 1786.
Hugh Warburton (ante, p. 124), colonel of
45th Foot, June 3, 1745, to Sept. 24, 1761,
and of 27th Foot, Sept. 24, 1761, to his
death, Aug. 26, 1771 ; general, April 13,1770.
Guilford Killigrew (son of Charles Killi-
grew of Somerset House, who d. 1725) ;
lieutenant-colonel of Lord Mark Kerr's
Regiment of Dragoons, d. Feb. 18, 1751.
John Gore, colonel of 61st Foot, May 9,
1760, to Feb. 19, 1773, and of 6th Foot,
Feb. 19, 1773, to his death, Nov. 12, 1773 ;
lieutenant-general, May 26, 1772.
FREDERIC BOASE.
BURTON AND SPEKE : AFRICAN TRAVEL
(12 S. ii. 148). — Speke's ' Journal of the
Discovery of the Source of the Nile ' was
issued by Blackwood in 1863. In Black-
wood's Magazine for January, 1864, and
in The Edinburgh Review for July, 1863,
there were long articles upon Speke's
remarkably interesting book. I have looked
at both these articles, but I have not in a
cursory reading of them detected the passage
Dr. REDMOND is looking for. But I hazard
the suggestion that the passage he is seeking
may be found in Speke's book, pp. 209-10.
It is of such interest that it was probably
quoted in many reviews : —
" In the afternoon, as I had heard from Musa
that the wives of the King and Princes were
fattened to such an extent that they could not
stand upright, I paid my respects to Wazezeru, the
King's eldest brother — who, having been born
before his father ascended his throne, did not come
in the line of succession — with the hope of being
able to see for myself the truth of the story. There
was no mistake about it. On entering the hut I
found the old man and his chief wife sitting side by
side on a bench of earth strewed over with grass,
and partitioned like stalls for sleeping apartments,
whilst iu front of them were placed numerous
wooden pots of milk, and, hanging from the poles
that supported the beehive - shaped hut, a large
collection of bows six feet in length, whilst below
them were tied an even larger collection of spears,
intermixed with a goodly assortment of heavy
headed asaages. I was struck with no small sur-
prise at the way he received me, as well as with the
extraordinary dimensions, yet pleasing beauty, of
the immoderately fat fair one his wife. She could
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not rise, and so large were her arms that, between
the joints, the flesh hung down like large loose
stuffed puddings. Then in came their children,
all models of the Abyssinian type of beauty,
and as polite in their manners as thoroughbred
gentlemen. They had heard of my picture books
from the king, and all wished to see them ; which
they no sooner did, to their infinite delight,
•especially when they recognized any of the animals,
than the subject was turned by my inquiring what
they did with so many milk pots. This was easily
explained by Wazeeeru himself, who, pointing to
his wife, said, ' This is all the product of those pots ;
.from early youth upwards we keep those pots to
their mouths, as it is the fashion at court to have
•very fat wives.' "
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
In 1859 Speke, in two articles in Black-
wood's Magazine, openly assumed the main
credit of the Burton and Speke expedition of
1856-8, and expressed the view that the
Victoria Nyanza was the source of the Nile.
These articles were answered by Burton in
his book, ' The Lake Regions of Equatorial
Africa,' in which he criticized Speke's Nile
theory. A. R. BAYLEY.
The information which your correspondent
seeks will be found in Speke's ' Journal,'
pp. 209-10, and is quoted in The London
Quarterly Review for April, 1864, p. 118.
Capt. Speke was sent out by the Royal
Geographical Society, assisted by Capt.
Grant, to ascertain how far a former theory
by Speke and Burton was correct.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329,
417 ; ii. 136). — It may be well to read
again of the superstition which Norfolk
attaches to chime-hours. But surely I have
not so conducted myself during the many
years I have joyed in ' N. & Q.' that any one
should write himself down as being " greatl
daring " when he happens to differ from me.
I must mend my ways : full gladly do ]
lerne, and gladly teche. Y. T. has misunder-
stood my meaning. I did not deny that
Norfolk cherished the article of folk-lore
faith referred to by him and by MARGARET W.
but, in answer to the query of the latter,
-" What are chime-hours?" gave what ]
believed to be an accurate reply, and added,
" Chime-hours [i.e., the chosen hours for
chiming] hardly belong to folk-lore." They
did not arise from the superstition of ignoranl
people, but from the knowledge of learnec
men who sought to sanctify all time, by
connecting recurrent portions of it with
recollections of the Saviour. They chose six
nine, twelve, and three, perhaps/because oJ
he sacred number involved in them, and
Because of their importance in the catalogue
jf " Hours," marked as being occasions of
pecial devotion by the Church. Perhaps
'. need hardly say here that there are seven
of them altogether. ST. SWITHIN.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DENTISTS (12 S. ii.
89, 115). — Permit me to add the following
announcement to those gathered by MR.
HORACE BLEACKLEY, DR. CLIPPINGDALE,
and MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS. It is extracted
irom the advertisement columns of Fielding's
'ovent Garden Journal for April 18, 1752: —
"At the Two Heads in Coventry Street, between
Piccadilly and Leicester Fields, all Persons of what
Age, Sex, or Condition soever, who have had the
Misfortune of losing their Teeth, or only Part of
them, but more particularly their Front ones,
by any accidental Blow or Fall, or thro' Decay of
their Teeth or Gums, to the great Disfigurement of
their mouth, and Interruption of their Speech and
Pronunciation, may have such Deficiencies replaced
M'ith artificial ones, so admirably adapted as to
serve every Use of natural ones, and no way painful
or discernable, they being made, fitted, and set after
an entire new Method, never before put in Practice
by any other than Paul Tullion, Operator for the
Teeth, at the above place, who is the only and sole
Inventor of them,"
Those who have enjoyed the advantage of
visiting the Historical Medical Museum at
54 Wigmore Street, organized by Mr. Henry
S. Wellcome for theSeventeenthlntemational
Congress of Medicine, 1913, will recollect
the extremely interesting exhibits of surgical
instruments used by eighteenth -century
dentists. J. PAUL DE CASTRO.
Jacob Hemet, who is mentioned at the
first reference, took out a patent for his
dentifrice on Jan. 22, 1773 (No. 1031), the
specification of which has been printed, and
may be seen at the Patent Office Library in
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
London. He describes himself as residing
" in the parish of St. Pancras in the County
of Middlesex."
DR. CLIPPINGDALE, at the second reference,
mentions Von Butchell, but I think this
should be " Vanbutchell." In 1783 he took
out a patent (No. 1404) for harness, in which
he is described as surgeon-dentist " of the
liberty of Westminster." He is noticed in
the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'
R. B. P.
THE STONES OF LONDON (US. vii. 16, 77,
211 ; viii. 18). — A great deal of the granite
used for Waterloo Bridge came from quarries
on Helmentor in Lanlivery, Cornwall. See
Durell's ' The Triumph of Old Age,' p. 179.
J. H. R.
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ST. GEORGE'S (HART STREET), BLOOMSBURY
'(12 S. ii. 29, 93, 155).— It is worth noting that
this church, though it stands east and west,
is so seated that the congregation look north-
ward. The reason of this is that, when
Bedford House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed
icirca 1800), the Duke of Bedford presented
the wooden baldachino, which had stood in
his private chapel, to the church. This
baldachino was too large to stand in the small
recess where the altar had been, and there-
fore was placed in the north transept ; the
altar was placed under it, and the church re-
seated. G. W. E. R.
THOMAS CONGREVE, M.D. (12 S. ii. 69).—
A somewhat similar question was asked
many years ago in ' N. & Q.' by C. H. and
THOMPSON COOPER. I do not think it was
answered. Thomas Congreve was entered
at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1687.
He set up as a doctor in Wolverhampton in
1709. He is stated to have been a relative
of Congreve the dramatist. The fact that
Thomas Congreve issued his book through
Curll, the pub Usher, makes this probable.
The dramatist was associated with the same
publisher. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
HERALDIC QUERY : SILVER CUP (12 S. ii.
129). — Without supplying a complete answer
to the above inquiry it may be helpful to
point out that the arms of Banning-Cocq,
a Dutch family, are : 1 and 4, Azure, two
lance-pennons in saltire argent ; 2, Azure,
a swan argent ; 3, Azure, on a chief
quarterly two lions. Crest : a demi-swan
•rising. LEO C.
HEBREW INSCRIPTION, SHEEPSHED, LEI-
CESTERSHIRE (12 S. ii. 109). — I have been
Tioping to see some reply to this query ; but
none having appeared, I venture to ask
MR. ISRAEL SOLOMONS if the inscription as
printed in ' N. & Q.' is complete. The last
letter appears to be the definite article which
precedes the object to the verb " we wor-
ship," which object is not given. Was it
really wanting in the original inscription, or
is it omitted from motives of religious awe ?
N. POWLETT, Col.
BAYNES PARK, WIMBLEDON, SURREY
(12 S. ii. 148). — I remember reading, many
months ago, in The Wimbledon Boro' News a
letter from a local resident objecting to the
name of Raynes Park Station, and suggest-
ing that the L. & S.W.R. Co. should be
memorialized to change it to " West Wimble-
don."
Another correspondent wrote that the
Company had, not the power to change the
name of the station. Their original inten-
tion, as was well known to old residents, was
to call it " Cottenham Park" ; but "Farmer
Raynes " (Rayne ?) would not sell them the
site except on the condition that they named
the station after him. DARSANANI.
CALDECOTT (12 S. ii. 107). — Some partkm-
lars will be found in the ' D.X.B.,' vol. viii.
(by Mr. Austin Dobson), of Randolph
Caldecott the artist, who belonged to a
Cheshire stem of Caldecotts.
His father, Thomas Caldecott, was a well-
known Chester accountant, and author of a
manual of ' Book-keeping,' a copy of which
I possess. WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
Your correspondent O. A. E. may like
to know that the coat of arms he describes,
" a fesse, frety, between three cinquefoils,"
occurs at pp. 47, 97, and 123 of Washington
living's ' Old Christmas,' illustrated by
Randolph Caldecott, London, 1875. I know
nothing of the famous artist's family beyond
the fact that he was the son of an accountant
of Chester, and born there in 1846. I had
at one time a small block of boxwood with
the same arms cut by Caldecott himself.
G. H. R.
BOY-ED AS SURNAME (12 S. ii. 148). — It
is certainly not Hungarian. L. L. K.
HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES (12 S. ii.
128). — OLD FORD should look at ' Memorials
of a Quiet Life,' p. 84. Here it says : —
"Only two miles from the Vatche was the
beautiful estate of Chalfont St. Peter's, belonging
to a Mr. Lister Selman, who had no son, but two
lovely daughters. Of these one, Helena, married
John Lefevre, of Heckfield, and was the grand-
mother of the present Lord Eversley ; the other,
Sarah, married Robert Hare, in 1752, and died in
1763, of a chill leaving to the Hares a diamond
necklace valued at SO.CKXV. and three children,
Francis, Robert, and Anna Maria."
OLD FORD'S supposition that Mrs. Hare
was dead at the time of her father's will is
thus proved to be correct, as Lister Selman
died in 1779.
There is a tomb inside high railings in the
churchyard at West Ham, just east of the
east window of the chancel, with an inscrip-
tion to John Lefevre, his father-in-law
(Lister Selman), and his widow, Helena.
His first wife is also commemorated.
I see that the eleventh chapter of the
same book ('Memorials') opens with a
description of a visit to Heckfield Place,
and a laudatory critique of Lady Elizabeth
Whitbread.
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FOLK-LORE : RED HAIR (12 S. ii. 128).—
Red is a magic colour : Cain was anciently
represented with red hair, and Judas Is-
cariot (whatever that surname may mean)
was always portrayed upon, ancient tapestries
and in old paintings with a red, or yellowish-
red, beard and hair. Thus I saw him
represented in the Ober-Ammergau Passion
Play of 1890.
Rosalind. His very hair is of the dissembling
colour.
Celia. Something browner than Judas's : marry,
his kisses are Judas's own children.
Rosalind. I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.
' As You Like It,' III. iv. 7.
Fir*t Puritan. Sure that was Judas then with the
red beard.
Second Puritan Red hair,
The brethren like it not, it consumes them much :
"Tis not the sisters' colour.
Middleton's ' A Chaste Maid in Cheapside,'
III. ii. 43-7.
And Corporal Judas (sic) is spoken of as : —
That hungry fellow
With the red beard there.
Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Bonduca,' II. iii.
Worse than the poison of a red-hairM man.
Chapman's 'Bussy d'Ambois,' III. i.
" He has made me smell for all the world like a
flax, or a red-headed woman's chamber." — Massinger
and Field's 'Fatal Dowry,' IV. i.
" It is observed, that the Red-haired of both
Sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than
the rest."— Swift's 'Gulliver,' IV. viii.
The French, or some of them, say that a
red man commands the elements, and
wrecks off the coast of Brittany those whom
he dooms to death. He is fabled to have
appeared to Napoleon and foretold his
downfall. William II., that unpleasant
bachelor, was nicknamed Rufus from his
ruddy countenance (cf. David), and not,
apparently, from his hair, which was
yellowish. A. R. BAYLEY.
The strong antipathy to people with red
hair originated, according to some anti-
quaries, in a tradition that Judas had hair of
this colour. It is supposed that the passions
of such persons are more intense than those
whose hair is of a different colour. It has
also been conjectured that the odium took
its rise from the aversion to the red-haired
Danes and Scots. Or the colour was con-
sidered ugly and unfashionable, and on this
account a person with red hair would soon
be regarded with contempt. Red-haired
children are supposed to indicate infidelity
on the part of the mother ; they are conse-
quently looked upon as unlucky, and are
not wanted in a neighbour's house on the
morning of a Xew Year's Day.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
Did not the prejudice against red hair
arise from the fact that evil personages were
formerly depicted with yellowish-red hair — •
representing scarlet, the colour of sin
(Isa. i. 18)? A Cain-coloured beard is men-
tioned in ' The Merry Wives of Windsor,'
I. iv., and there is reference to Judas's hair
in ' As You Like It,' III. iv. Some years
ago I knew a red-haired and bearded
Lancashire policeman who was commonly
known as " Red Judas," though, as far as
I am aware, there was nothing against the
man except the pronounced colour of his
hair, and maybe his profession, to account
for his sobriquet. W. H. PINCHBECK.
The origin of the prejudice against red;
hair, according to Gerald Massey's ' Ancient
Egypt ' (Sign Language and Mythology),
dates from the conception of the evil deity
Sut or Typhon in the Egyptian mythology.
He was depicted as red, yellowish, or sandy,
because he was the representative of the
desert, the cause of drought and thirst,
Massey quotes Plutarch as saying that at
certain festivals they (the Egyptians)
" abuse red-headed men." Judas was always
figured as red-headed, and, down to the time
of Garrick, Shylock was always played in a
red wig. ARTHUR BOWES.
Newton-le- Willows.
The prejudice against red and fair-haired
persons as unreliable and unstable in dis-
position is fairly widespread over the British
Isles. Experience shows that, while there-
is some basis for the belief, it is unwise to
dogmatize, for dark-complexioned folk are
sometimes equally unreliable. The pre-
judice is of somewhat modern growth, for
Queen Elizabeth's ruddy locks caused that
colour, in her day, to be the fashionable tint,
and the prejudice then was against dark hair.
WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
There is a Magyar saying to the effect
that
A red dog, a red horse,
A red man : none of them good.
I do not think there is any objection to a
red-haired woman in Hungary. L. L. K.
There is also an idea that red-haired people
and chestnut horses are constitutionally
hot-tempered. Several of my acquaintances,
judging by their own experience, consider
this belief well founded. If I recollect
rightly, red-haired people are unpopular in.
French folk-lore. Was not the evil god of
ancient Egypt red-haired ? Loki, the mocker
and promoter of evil in the ancient Scandi-
navian mythology, on one occasion changed
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into a salmon. As, when bound in torment
•underground, he caused earthquakes by
struggling, his volcanic nature may have
suggested that the red -fleshed fish was an
appropriate shape for him to don.
It is to be noted that Jacob, not his red
brother Esau, was untrustworthy. Does
not general tradition consider Judas to have
"been red ? B. L. R. C.
MR. ACKEBMANN will find an interesting
chapter (viii.) entitled ' Red Hair ' in Mr. J.
Harris Stone's ' England's Riviera.'
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
" Red-headed Danes " used to be a term
of reproach in Cheshire. E. E. COPE.
[Our correspondent MR. ACKERMAKN desires us
to record his protest— made in a humorous letter to
us— against a misreading of his query. He had
written, not "When of the female sex, they [i.e.,
red-haired persons] appear to be particularly nice
and kind," but, "When of the female sex, they
appear to have particularly nice skins."]
HERALDIC QUERY (12 S. ii. 70). — The
arms mentioned by MR. ELLIS are those of
Pitt, Cureyard, co. Salop, and co. Worcester,
Barry of six or and az., on a chief as the
second three pierced estoiles of the first.
CURIOSUS II.
' SABRING COROLLA ' (12 S. ii. 149). — One
•of the editors was certainly Dr. Benjamin
Hall Kennedy, the Head Master of Shrews-
bury School. A. R. BAYLEY.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193,
275, 416, 474 ; ii. 14, 77).— There are two
pounds, built of brick, at Epworth, Lincoln-
shire. They are now used mainly for
storing metal for the roads. C. C. B.
CHRISTOPHER URSWICK (12 S. ii. 108). —
A copy of Alfred von Reumont's ' La
Bibliotheca Corvina,' Firenze, 1879, may be
seen at the London Library, St. James's
Square. E. E. BARKER.
PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS
{12S. ii. 5,135). — The two maps or panoramas
mentioned by W. B. H. do not belong to
the same category as the street views or
surveys described at the first reference.
These overhead or bird's-eye views must be
held distinct from the pedestrian or
vehicular outlook. They may be described
as two points of view, the roof downwards
or the pavement upward. There was some
attempted merging of the two purposes in
the drawings of the late H. W. Brewer, and
in a once popular guide-book, ' London in
1898.' This was reissued with change of
date on title for many years, and as recently
as 1913 the copyright was on offer with a
large number of woodblocks and the street
plans or panoramas that were the special
feature of the work, and at the same time an
ingenious medium for advertising.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
MRS. ANN (OR ANNE) DUTTON (12 S. ii.
147) was born at Northampton ; her maiden
name was Williams. When 22 years of
age she was married to a gentleman named
" C." (Coles), and resided with him about
five years at London and W-k (Warwick),
when he was suddenly removed from her.
In London Mr. John Skepp, author of ' The
Divine Energy,' and pastor of Curriers'
Hall, Cripplegate, who died in 1721, and was
buried in Bunhill Fields, was her great
friend. She married secondly Benjamin Dut-
ton, a Baptist minister, living with him at
Wellingboro and Whittlesea. At Wellingboro
she enjoyed the friendship of Mr. W. Grant
Jones, a [Baptist minister, her husband at
this time being in business as a clothier, and
only an occasional preacher until 1732, when
he became the pastor of the Baptist Church
at Great Gransden, Hunts, where a chapel
and house were erected (the former of which
is standing to this day). Mr. Dutton went to
America to collect funds to remove the debt ;
the money arrived safely, but he himself
was lost at sea on his return passage, October,
1747. His widow continued to reside at
Great Gransden — writing her life in three
parts, and many other religious works —
until her death, November, 1765, aged 74.
Mr. Christopher Goulding of London, in
1822, erected a memorial to her memory.
This falling into decay, Mr. James Knight
of Southport erected another in 1884, and
also at that time issued a volume of her letters
(ciii), with portrait. At his death a few
years later he bequeathed a volume of her
MS. letters and a nearly complete set of her
works to the library of the Baptist Church
at Southport. Mrs. Dutton made over all
her property for the good of the minister
and chapel at Great Gransden.
R. H.
THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES " (12 S.
ii. 128). — Information on this quastion will
be found in'MethodusMedendi,' by Dr. W. H.
Allchin (Lewis, 1908), who quotes a seven-
teenth - century writer, W. Cole, on ' The
Art of Simpling ' : —
" Though sin and Sattan have plunged mankinde
into an Ocean of Infirmities, yet the mercy of God,
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which is overall His works, maketh herbes for the
use of man, and hath not only stamped upon them
a distinct forme, but also given them particular
Signatures, whereby a man may read eueri in legible
characters the use of them. — Viper's Bugloss hath
its stalks all to be speckled like a snake or viper,
and is a most singular remedy against poyson and
the sting of scorpions. — Heart Trefoyll is socalled
not onely because the leafe is triangular, lik° the
heart of man, but also because each leafe contains
the perfection of the heart, and that in its proper
colour, viz., in flesh colour. It defendeth the
heart.
Another writer (T. Thompson, ' History
of Chemistry,' 1830) says :— .
" To discover the virtues of plants we must study
their anatomy and cheiromancy : for the leaves
are their hands, and the lines observable on them
enable us to appreciate the virtues which they
possess. Thus the anatomy of the chelidonium
shows us that it is a remedy for jaundice. These
are the celebrated signatures by means of which
we deduce the virtues of vegetables In the
corolla of the euphrasia there is a black dot ; from
this we may conclude that it furnishes an excellent
remedy against all diseases of the eye. The lizard
has the colour of malignant ulcers and of car-
buncle ; this points out the efficiency which that
animal possesses as a remedy."
Dr. Allchin gives other instances, as
hypericum or St. John's wort as an applica-
tion for injuries, from the minute dots on the
leaves and flowers giving it a wounded
appearance ; the hepatica, for diseases of
the liver, from its lobed leaves and fanciful
resemblance to the liver; the lungwort
(Pulmonaria officinalis), from its assumed
likeness to a lung ; red flowers generally
for disorders of the blood and vascular
system ; yellow flowers for jaundice. All
red substances were looked upon as heating,
and white ones as refrigerating. It was the
early form of treatment by likeness (similia
similibus), and was called the doctrine of
signatures. The use of each particular herb
was based not on its actual properties, but on
its real or supposed resemblance to the part
affected, on which it was supposed to have
a healing influence.
J. FOSTER PALMER.
8 Royal Avenue, S.W.
CROMWELL'S BARONETS AND KNIGHTS
(12 S. ii. 129). — Some particulars of these will
be found in Noble's.' Memoirs of the House of
Cromwell,' vol. ii. A more detailed account
of the baronets is given in G. E. C.'s ' Com-
plete Baronetage,' vol. iii. pp. 3-9. For a
fuller list of the knights see Shaw's ' Knights
of England,' i. 223-4 ; but some few correc-
tions or additions maybe possible, as certain
names among them are somewhat obscure.
W. D. PINK.
[F. DE H. L. thanked for reply.]
IBBETSON, IBBERSON, OR IBBESON (12 S.
ii. 110). — In this part of the country " Ibbey "
and " Libbey " are pet names for Elizabeth.
Ibbeson would be understood to mean " son
of Elizabeth."
Bardsley, in his 'Dictionary of Surnames,'
under the name Libbe, makes the statement
that " Elizabeth and Isabel are the same
name, and are interchangeable in mediaeval'
records." Is this true ?
W. H. CHIPPINDALL, Col.
Kirkby Lonsdale.
' THE LONDON MAGAZINE ' (12 S. ii. 149).
— Is it quite accurate to speak of the " first "
volume of The London Magazine as of date
1840 ? The natural tendency is to consider
The London Magazine of the ' Essays of Elia '
as the magazine of that name. But there lies
before me a volume of still another magazine
with this title, its date being 1735. This
periodical appeared monthly, and had a
useful news supplement called The Gentle-
man7 s Monthly Intelligencer.
The magazine itself was of a pronounced
literary character ; the volume referred to
contains, with other noteworthy subject-
matter, a poem and a letter of Pope, verses
by Swift, and illustrative passages from
' The Chace ' by " William Somervile, Esq."
W. B.
POSTAL CHARGES IN 1847 (12 S. ii. 90).—
This may have been for delivery. Sir
Rowland Hill, in his Life, under date of
1855-9, says : —
" Free delivery was rapidly extending through-
out the United Kingdom. At the present day
(1868) the work is so far advanced that to many
readers the very term ' free delivery ' must have
lost its significance. Formerly, to every office
there were limits, sometimes narrow ones, beyond
which delivery was either not made at all, or made
only at an additional charge, generally of one
penny per letter, an arrangement nowise inter-
fered with by the simple establishment of penny
postage." A H w FYNMORE
Arundel.
ROME AND Moscow (12 S. ii. 149). — A
foot-note to chap. xvi. of Gibbon's ' Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire ' (in which
allusion is made to the incredible stories
circulated at the time, citing especially that
relating to Nero playing his lyre while his
capital was burning) is given as follows : —
" We may observe that the rumour is mentioned
by Tacitus with a very becoming distrust and
hesitation, whilst it is greedily transcribed by
Suetonius, and solemnly confirmed by Dion."
It is tolerably clear from these remarks that
Gibbon attached but little credence to the
story7.
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It i.-^ a generally accepted historical fact,
hardly open to question, that Moscow was
set on fire by Muscovite incendiaries acting
under the orders of Rostopchin, the Governor
of the city. Napoleon himself is reported
to have said in reference to Rostopchin,
" The miserable wretch ! To the dire
calamities of war he has added the horrors of
an atrocious conflagration, created by his
own hand, in cold blood!" (See Bussey's
' History of Napoleon,' which gives full
particulars of the circumstance.)
WlLLOTJGHBY MAYCOCK.
1. Mr. H. Stuart Jones, in 'The Roman
Empire,' 1908, p. 78, says : —
"In A.D. 64 took place the burning of Rome.
It was neither the first nor the last of such
visitations, and no proof can be adduced that it
was other than accidental ; but it owes undying
fame in part to the rumour which gained credence
that Nero was its author and sang an aria from
his own opera on the Fall of Troy as he watched
the flames, in part to the fact that it led directly
to that persecution of the Christians which brought
to the apostles of the Jew and the Gentile the
crown of martyrdom To Nero the burning of
Rome seemed a fortunate accident, since it enabled
him to rebuild the city on a rational and healthy
plan, sweeping away its foul and dangerous slums,
and replacing them by wide arcaded thoroughfares,
and above all to create the palace of his dreams
the Golden House."
2. I understand that Dr. Holland Rose,
lecturing at the recent Cambridge Extension
Meeting, stated that Moscow was accident-
ally set alight by a party of drunken marau-
ders— much to the wrath of the reigning
Tsar. A. R. BAYLEY.
CHING : CORNISH OR CHINESE? (12 S. ii.
127.) — What about the well-known and old-
established firm of wholesale ironmongers
and manufacturers, Comyn Ching & Co., of
54 Castle Street, Long Acre, and elsewhere,
now a limited company ? This was an old
business in the eighties, and the founder was
certainly not a Mongolian.
W. H. QUARRELL.
EMMA ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF ' WHITE-
FRIARS ' (12 S. ii. 149). — There is an interest-
ing notice of her, extending to nearly a folio
column, in the sixth volume of Mr. Boase's
' Modern English Biography,' in which I
have had the honour of assisting (the word
collaborate to me is detestably ugly). The
volume is only in print up to " Wai " at
present, and not ready for publication. Miss
Robinson died at the London County Lunatic
Asylum of " senile decay," the certificate of
death says. Mr. Boase says her father
(query, when didhedie?) foralong time kept
her out of the proud position she had won,
by not allowing her to put her name to her
novels. RALPH THOMAS.
on
England's First Great War Minister. By Ernest
Law. (Bell & Sons, 6s. net.)
THOSE who are acquainted with the writings of Mr.
Ernest Law will open this book with the expecta-
tion of enjoying a vigorous piece of work, in which
it is not unlikely there will appear an element of
quite inoffensive, but well-pronounced truculence.
He will not here be found to disappoint such an
expectation. The faults of the book are the
roughness of the writing and the unsparing use of"
exhortation and reprimand, addressed, however,
not to the reader, but to the authorities responsible
for the all too numerous blunders in the conduct
of the present war. To which we would further
add the tediousness of too frequent and too
heavy praise of his hero. Mr. Law seems to
interweave a triple intention into his book : the
telling of a very good story ; the arousing and
admonishing of the English public and its leaders ;•
and the working off of certain vehement indigna-
tions, scorns, and enthusiasms which are or have
been surging within his own breast. Now, this
last purpose is no worse than the other two — far
from it ; but he has let it, time and again, balk
him of the others, chiefly by interference and
excess.
Nevertheless, we read this book with great'
interest, and are glad Mr. Law has given it us.
For he is well justified in thinking the parallels
between the present war and the brilliant cam-
paign organized by Wolsey and carried out by-
Henry VIII. in 1513 amply worth renewed study.
In those days, as in our own time, there was a
tendency on the Continent to regard the English
as more or less negligible from a military point of
view ; and over much the same ground as is
now the theatre of their activity — and after the
same sort of effort as we have lately been making
in the gathering, disciplining, and organizing
of an army, the very existence of which seemed
but a dim possibility a few months before it
appeared on the scene fully equipped and
efficient — English troops had demonstrated to
France and to their own allies, and perhaps also
to themselves, the falseness of the prevailing
opinion. Mr. Law sets this fine bit of history out
alter the plan of Brewer — reconstructing it, that
is, straight from the actual records of the time,
and he adds several telling and curious details
which have been recently unearthed. It is
instructive to realize how strong was even then the
disgust felt for German cruelty and " beastli-
ness," and to see how nearly the methods of the
" Almayn " resembled those of the present Borlir.
Mr. Law gives us the record — from a letter of a
Welsh officer — of the preparation, in the trenches
before The'rouanne, or " fumigations " to poison
and stop the assailants : a device which he ratht-r
naively imputes to the German mercenaries em-
ployed by the French and to them alone. A
minuter and more curious coincidenco which he
mentions is the presence at Tournay of an official'
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called " Sir Edward Grey," who furnished a man
of doubtful nationality with a passport.
Mr. Law is particularly good on the preparations
for the campaign — which, indeed, form his main
subject ; and also on the part played by the Xavy,
and especially on the daring action by Admiral
Howard at Brest. He is, perhaps, a little rash
and wanting in insight in his estimate of characters
and motives, though his accounts of such matters
are amusing. What we mean may be seen in his
account of Maximilian's appearance in Henry's
camp " wearing the cross of St. George and a
Tudor rose as the King's soldier " — where he does
not seem to see that this " pose " was a rather
clever solution of a somewhat difficult problem in
etiquette.
We may well wish that we had a Wolsey at the
head of our affairs in the organization of the
present war ; but we may at least congratulate
•ourselves that with all our shortcomings we have
not managed less brilliantly than he did the two
great businesses in which his administrative
capacity showed at its best — the commissariat and
the transport of troops.
The book is illustrated by three portraits of
Wolsey, of which two have not before been
published ; and Mr. Law also gives us facsimiles
of the beginning of Wolsey's memorandum on
requisites for the war, and of the end of Edward
Howard's last letter to Wolsey, and we heartily
agree with him as to their peculiar value to the
reader.
Armorial Bearings of Kingston-upon-Hull. By
J. H. Hirst. (Hull, A. Brown & Sons, 3s. Qd.
net.)
THE reader of a paper to a well-known society had
made, to his own satisfaction, seven points with
regard to the puzzles concerning the arms of Hull.
With the first of these — that the design of the
earliest known representation of any arms is the
one to be followed — the writer of the book before
us has, of course, no quarrel ; the rest he sets
himself to overturn, and successfully accom-
plishes his intention. Indeed, the contentions
about the shape of the shield to be used, and the
correct method of drawing the three crowns, to
which the first unnamed writer had committed
himself., cannot well be made to square with the
principles and practice of heraldry as we know
these directly from examples. It appears that in
1873 Windsor Herald, following the Heralds'
Visitation of Yorkshire anno 1665-6, stated, in
answer to a request from Hull for information,
that the arms of Hull were not Royal Crowns, but
ducal coronets. Mr. Hirst has no difficulty in
showing that the town used these arms many
years before dukes and their coronets were in-
vented ; and thus disposes also of their supposed
derivation from the arms of De la Pole. His
own suggestion as to the origin of the arms —
which seems as good as any other — is that the
three crowns were adopted from those of King
Edwin, differenced by being blazoned in pale
instead of two and one.
The book is lavishly illustrated, having four
coloured plates and a great number of cuts in the
text. All the early representations of the three
crowns of Hull are figured, and there is a good dea
of elementary but useful explanation of different
developments, and devices in heraldry. The
long chapter on the use of " three " is, however
largely unnecessary, and it does not bring out
what had certainly as much as anything to do
vith the use of that number — its giving the
maximum of decorative beauty with the minimum
of material — an economy which is of supreme
aesthetic force and also of importance in the
matter of catching the eye effectively from a
listance.
There are a few misprints : and we confess wo
hink " leopard " a convenient heraldic term,
and would rather speak of the " leopards " than of
the " lions " of England.
'Old Mother Hubbard": ihe Authoress buried at
Lorighton. By Z. Moon. (Reprinted from
The Essex Review, July, 1916.)
THIS little brochure of six pages tells pleasantly
the chief facts of the life of " Sarah Catherine
Martin, daughter of Sir Henry and Lady Martin,
who departed this life on the 17th Day of Decem-
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known — chiefly as the author of ' Old Mother
Hubbard.' Besides that, when a girl of 17, Sarah
Martin became well acquainted with the royal
sailor who was afterwards William IV., who
fell violently in love with her, and showed a
persistence in the wish to make her his wife,
which was defeated only by the most strenuous
resolution on the part of Sarah and her relations.
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' Mother Hubbard,' is set forth here by Mr. Moon,
who tells us that the Leyton Public Library has
a typewritten copy of a continuation of ' Mother
Hubbard ' which has never been published.
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201
LONDON, SATURDAY, .SEPTEMBER 9, 1916.
CONTENTS.- No. 37.
NOTES :— Will of Prince Rupert, 201— Capt. Cox'a ' Book
of Fortune,' 202 -An English Army List of 1740, 204—
Welch or Welsh ?—" Crowner's Quest Law"— "Quite all
right "—Table-Customs of Ancient Wales— The Apothe-
cary in ' Romeo and Juliet '— " Victory Handkerchiefs "—
London Topographical Handkerchiefs, 207.
4JUERIES :— "Lord Cecil "as Commander of a Genoese
Army—" Screed "—Shakespeare's Statue on the Portico
of Drury Lane Theatre— Thomas Arnold and America-
Heraldic Query, 208— Mrs. Griffiths, Author of 'Morality
of Shakespeare's Dramas ' — John Jones, Author of
•Kinetic Universe '—The Little Finger called "Pink"—
P. S. Lawrence, Artist and Sailor— Du Bellamy : Brad-
street^-" Yorker " : a Cricket Term— Theophilus Gale, the
Nonconformist Tutor — Reference Wanted — W. Robin-
son, LL.D., F.S.A., 209— Lincoln's Inn Hall— Snap Cards
—Gumming— Legends of the Navy— Nell Gwynne and the
Royal Chelsea Hospital — Headstones with Portraits of
the Deceased— Fisheries at Comacchio— " Bibllabebuxo '
— Hants Church Goods — Recorders of Winchester —
Theatrical M.P.s, 210.
REPLIES : — Portraits in Stained Glass — " Spiritus non
potest habitare in sicco." 211— Churchwardens and thetr
Wands— St. Sebastian. 212— Richard Wilson, M P., 213-
Mackenzie Family — House and Garden Superstitions -
Mundy : Alstonfleld, 214— Sem, Caricaturist— Calverley's
Cnarades — A Stewart Ring : the Hon. Alexander John
Stewart— "The Order of a Campe': Harl. MS. — Mrs.
Anne Dutton, 215 — Folk-Lore : Chime-Hours—Musical
Queries— The First English Provincial Newspaper, 216—
St. Peter as the Gate-Keeper of Heaven—" Consumption "
and "Lethargy": their Meaning in the Seventeenth
Century— Common Garden=Covent Garden— Cromwell :
St. John, 217— Fact or Fancy ?-The Grave of Margaret
Godolphin— ' One's place in the sun "—Eighteenth-Century
Dentists, 218.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' A Record of a Mediaeval House '—
• European and other Race Origins ' — Reviews and
Magazines.
1 L'lntermediare.'
Notices to Correspondent*.
flatcs.
WILL OF PRINCE RUPERT.
AMONG the many volumes published by
the Camden Society, one of the most interest-
ing is that entitled ' Wills from Doctors'
Commons' (1862), edited by John Bruce
and John Gough Nichols, which contains the
will of Prince Rupert. Although various
works relating to him have since appeared
in print, that remarkable man is less remem-
bered than he deserves, and it seems worth
while to print the will again with a few
comments. It should be added, perhaps,
that I have not seen the original, but as
the spelling in the Camden Society's version
has been modernized the following is taken
from what appears to be a contemporary
copy, and they agree in all essentials : —
In y« name of God Amen, I Rupert Prince
Palatine of y* Rhine, Duke of. Bavaria & Cum-
berland, & Constable and Keeper of y« Honour
•& Castle of Windsor, &c., knowing yc certainty
of Death, but yc uncertainty of y* time, doe
make & ordaine this my last Will &"Testament in
manner & forme following, revoking all former
Wills & Codicills to Wills at any time or times here-
tofore by me made .... I doe humbly resign my
Soul into y* hands of y8 Holy blessed & undivided
Trinitie, beseeching Almighty God for his own
Mercies & Christ Jesus infinite Meritts sake, to
remitt my Sins & receive my Spiritt into ever-
lasting Blisse. I desire my Bodie (in expectation
of an happy Resurrection) may be interred where
his Majesty shall be pleased to appoynte. And as
touching that worldly Estate wherewith it hath
pleased God to blesse me, I give and dispose the
same as followeth : Imprimis, I give & bequeath
unto Dudley Bart my Naturall Son, all that my
Messuage or Tenement, with th' appurtenances
thereunto belonging, scituate & being at Raynen
in y« Province of Utrich under ye States of Hol-
land, & also all those severall Debtes & Summes
of Money whatsoever, which are anie waye due
or oweing unto me by y° Emperor of Germany
& my Nephew ye Prince Elector Palatine, or
either of them, or by any other Person or Persons
whatsoever not Naturall borne Subjects of ye
King of England.
Item I give & bequeath unto & amongst my
Meniall Servants who shall be in my Service at y*
time of my Decease, all such Debts £ Summes of
Money as shall be their due & oweing unto me
by y* Kinges Majestie, the same to be divided &
distributed amongst them at y* discretion of my
Executor & Mrs. Margaret Hewes here after named ,
in such proportions as they shall think fltt &
meete with respect to their severall Qualities &
Salaryes, & time they have served me.
All y" rest of my Goods, Chattells, Jewells,
Plate, Furniture, Howsehold stuff, Pictures,
Armes, Coaches, Horses, Stock in Companyes,
Interests or Shares hi Patents to myselfe, or in
Copartnershipp with others, & all other my
Estate, Rights, Propertyes, & Interests whatsoever,
not hereby before bequeathed (my just Debts
being payd & satisfyed) I doe hereby give & be-
queath unto William Earle of Craven, in trust
nevertheless to & for y6 use & behoofe of y" said
Margarett Hewes & of Ruperta my naturall
Daughter begotten on ye bodie of ye said Mar-
garett Hewes, in equall Moyeties. The same or soe
much thereof as to ye said Earle of Craven shall
seem convenient to be sold & turned into money.
And att y° Discretion of y« said Earle of Craven
either putt out att Interest for their Severall
Uses, in moyeties as aforesaid, or otherwise to be
layd out in purchasing of Lands & Tenements
for y6 Use & Behoof of them y« said Margaret
Hewes, & my said Daughter & theire Heires in
Moyeties as aforesaid, And I doe hereby desire
charge & command my said Daughter upon my
Blessing to be dutifull & obedient to her Mother,
& not to dispose of her selfe in Marriage without
her Consent & ye Advice of y° said Earle of Craven
if they or either of them shall be then liveing.
And lastly I doe hereby nominate & appoynt ye
said Wra Earle of Craven Executor of this my
last Will & Testament, And doe humbly beseech
his Majestie that he will be gratiously pleased
to give his assistance & direction in what may be
necessary for the performance thereof as there
may be occasion. In Witnesse whereof I have to
this my Will contayn£d in two Sheetes of Paper
putt my hande this seaven & twentieth day of
November in ye fower & thirtieth yeare of y«
202
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 S.IL SEPT. 9.1018.
Beigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles yL Second
l>y \ Grace of ,God King of England, Scotland,
France & Ireland, Defender of yc Faith &c.
Annoque Dni 1682. RCPERT.
Signed sealed & delivered in y*
presence of
E. Andros. Will Button Colt.
Fra. Hawley. Hob* Wroth.
George Kirk. David Piker.
Ra. Marshall.
It thus appears that Prince Rupert left
the bulk of his property to his natural son,
" Dudley Bart " ; to Margaret Hewes, whose
name is usually now spelt Hughes ; and to
their natural daughter, Ruperta. Dudley's
mother was Francesca, eldest daughter of
Sir Henry Bard, who had been raised by
Charles I. to the Irish peerage as Viscount
Bellamont. He seems to have been a most
attractive boy, brave as his father, and of a
lovable nature. He was sent to school at
Eton, and afterwards to study under Sir
Jonas Moore at the Tower. After his father's
death he went to Germany to secure the
house and estate at Rhenen, mentioned in the
will, but we are told that, as it was entailed,
there was a difficulty about it. He came
back, fought bravely against Monmouth
at Norton St. Philip, and soon afterwards,
returning to the Continent, was killed,
August, 1686, when fighting against the
Turks in a desperate attempt to scale the
walls of Buda. He was then only 19 years
of age. Francesca, who, on the death of her
only brother, rightly or wrongly assumed
the family title as Lady Bellamont, was
much befriended by Prince Rupert's sister,
the Electress Sophia, and always maintained
that she had been his wife. The Emperor
of Germany paid her 20,000 crowns, which he
had owed to her son Dudley.
How in the summer of 1668 Prince Rupert,
heedless of his old love, fell a victim to the
charms of the actress Margaret Hughes, is
told with malicious wit in Hamilton's
' Memoirs of the Comte de Gramont.' As
regards the Earl of Craven, devoted friend
of Rupert's mother, the titular Queen of
Bohemia whose will is also among those
printed by the Camden Society, it is, perhaps,
enough in this connexion to state the follow-
ing facts. There is, or was, at Combe
Abbey a book of accounts of what was
paid and received by him as executor of
Prince Rupert, at the end of which a release
to Lord Craven is signed by Margaret
Hughes and Ruperta. One item runs as
follows : — " Of Mrs. Ellen Gwynne for the
Great Pearl Necklace, 4,620Z." Of the
witnesses to the signature the only one whose
name appears in the ' Dictionary of National
Biography ' is £>ir Edmund Andros, who had
been gentleman in ordinary to the Queen of
Bohemia, and major in Prince Rupert's
Dragoons.
Ruperta married Emmanuel Scroope
Howe, a lieutenant-general, and from her is
descended Sir Maurice Bromley-Wilson. A
topographical difficulty with regard to her
mother occurs to the writer of this note.
Eva Smith, in her ' Rupert, Prince Palatine/
1899, an interesting account of him, well
equipped with references to original docu-
ments, states that he purchased for Margaret
Hughes a house at Hammersmith. This
was the famous mansion, afterwards called
Brandenburgh House, where the unhappy
Queen Caroline breathed her last. Lysons^
in his 'Environs,' makes a similar statement.
He says that the nephew (really the grand-
son) of Sir Nicholas Crispe, who built the
mansion, sold it in 1683 to Prince Rupert,,
who gave it to Margaret. He adds in a note :
" The purchase was made in her name —
Court-rolls of the manor of Fulham." But
Mr. C. J. Feret, who, in the year 1900, pub-
lished an exhaustive history of Fulham
parish, says that he was unable to discover
that particular Court Roll. As Prince
Rupert died in November, 1682, it is a ques-
tion if he had anything to do with this pur-
chase, which may have been made under
the clause in the will giving power to Lord
Craven to lay out money " in purchasing
of lands and tenements for the use and
behoof " of Margaret Hughes and her
daughter. Mr. Feret quotes from a Court
Baron, showing that on June 9, 1 692, Margaret
Hewes, gentlewoman, and George Maggot
surrendered one messuage (undoubtedly
this) to "Timothy Lannoy of London,
merchant, and George Tread way " ; she
therefore held it for nearly ten years,
but survived until long afterwards. Her
burial is thus recorded in the register of
Lee, Kent : " Mrs. Margaret Hewes from
Eltham buried, Oct. 15, 1719."
PHILIP NORMAN.
CAPT. COX'S ' BOOK OF FORTUNE/
1575.
(See ante, p. 185.)
OUR English folio of 1686, and the method
of consulting any of Spirito's books of
fortune may now be described briefly as
follows : —
On the back of the title there is a list of
the twenty questions which are answered ill
s. ii. SEPT. a, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
the book. On the next page (signature A 2)
is the " Preface teaching the use and under-
standing of this book." Then follow the
portraits of 20 kings, 4 on each page. Next
we have 20 pp. of philosophers, a whole page
to each philosopher (A 5 recto to B 6 verso,
both inclusive). Each page is covered by a
diagram showing the 56 possible throws with
3 dice, and under each throw a direction, as to
how to pursue the inquiry further. Then
follow 10 leaves with a dial on each page,
20 dials in all, the last on E 4 verso. On the
next page begin the replies in quatrains, or
rather four-lined doggerels. There are, of
course, 20 groups of replies, 56 in each group,
to correspond with the 56 throws of dice.
Each group occupies 2ipp. in double columns,
and is marked with the name of an astrono-
mer, whose " portraits " embellish the book.
Haly has a woodblock all to himself ; the
other 19 worthies have to content themselves
with three blocks between them. Finally,
the last leaf (F 6) has some further poetry on
the front page in Latin, the same text in
French, and " out of French into English."
On the verso there is another large woodcut
representing Fortune, a lady with flowing
tresses and holding a well- filled sail in her
hands, while balancing herself on a sphere,
and two other figures, all three standing on
the top of the wheel of fortune ; then follow
more verses and a small woodcut, under-
neath, and the legend : " Here endeth the
Book of Fortune." Our volume is therefore
complete.
The working of the oracle can now be
shown on an example. In reply to the
query " if thy life shall be fortunate or
not,'' we are told to go to King Romulus,
where in turn we are referred to a philosopher,
in the present instance to Socrates. The
place is duly found, and we have to cast three
dice, which when thrown we assume to show
the combination of one on each of the three
top faces. In that case we are told to " go
to the Sun to the Spirit Gior." To under-
stand this, it should be explained that each
of the twenty dials is marked with the sun or
the moon or some other planet or a " sign
celestial " (those of the zodiac), and consists
of three concentric circles, the two outer
rings, the " uttermost " and the " middle "
rings, being divided into compartments or
cells by radial lines, the former into 30, the
latter into 26, that is 56 cells in all. Each
such compartment or cell contains a direction
for further search. In our case the Spirit
Gior sends us to Tolo, one of the astronomers,
to quatrain No. 1, where the following reply
to our question will be found : —
Almighty God for very kindness
Will give to thee both health and riches :
So by grace long for to endure
To thy great joy and perfect pleasure.
The reader is warned in the Preface
that
" this is no Astronomy, Necromancy, not
Witchcraft, but rather a conceit scorning privily
them that follow such false Illusions, and as I
said before [on the title-page] framed for recrea-
tion of the mind."
If any simple-minded maiden, for instance,
should take the author, or his English trans-
lator, seriously, she would receive rude
shocks when reading some of the answers..
Thus, e.g., should she want to know " how
many husbands a woman unwedded shall
have," and should the chance of the dice
send her to Ose 17, she would learn there
that " ye shall have husbands sixteen " ;-
another throw of the dice would send her to
the reply "twenty and four" (Acha 48);
or yet another would produce the replv
(Acha 38) :—
Husbands, Sister, ye shall have nine,
The first as lovely as a swine.
The book was evidently intended merely for
amusement.
On comparing now Spirito's book of for-
tune with the fragment described by Mrs.
Stopes it will be seen that in her book juries,,
and not astronomers, gave replies to the
questions, and that all the introductory
portion containing the rules and the ex-
planation of the scheme is lost. In
Spirito's scheme the reply is settled by dice,,
in others by cards, or, as in some of the
more simple German books of fate, by a
revolving disk.
In conclusion, I must join issue with Mrs.
Stopes in respect of her statement that the
folio was an unusual size for books of this
kind in this country. The size of the book
was naturally dependent on the size of the
illustrations. In Spirito's book the dials
occupy a full folio page each, as already ex-
plained, and the printing even here is quite
small, and barely legible in some cases. It
would have been hopeless to try to squeeze
the illustrations (the dials at any rate) on
to a quarto page. The alternative would
have been ten folding plates, soon worn into
tatters by constant use and by careless
folding. Folio, therefore, was the rule, and
smaller sizes were the exception.
As regards Fanti's book and Brunei's
statement, quoted by Mrs. Stopes, that it
compares with Spirito's book, I purpose to
deal with these on a future occasion, with the
Editor's permission. L L. K.
204
NOTES AND QUERIES.
11. BKR. 9, me.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163.)
PAGES 16 to 48 contain the lists of 33 regiments of infantry on the British establish-
ment, each regiment designated as " 's Regiment of Foot," except one —
'*' Colonel Peers's Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers," known later as the "23rd Royal Welsh
Fusiliers."
Lieut.-General Kirke's Regiment of Foot comes first (p. 16), now designated "The
-Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)." It was raised in 1661, and later became the
" Second Regiment of Foot." In 1755 only two officers remained who were in the regiment
in 1740 :—
Dates of their
present commissions.
, . 19 Sept. 1710
,. 25 Mar. 1723
. 10 July 1737
. 10 Aug. 1710
. 13 May 1735
ditto
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Lieutenant General Kirke's
Regiment of Foot.
Piercy Kirke (1)
William Graham (2)
Isaac Hamon . .
Captains
•Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Ensigns
r Benjamin Rudyerd
I Dimock Lyster (3)
I William Whitmore
•< John Howe
I Robert Napier
I Benjamin Theaker
\ Henry Vachell . .
^ John Arnot
William Wightman
William Remington . .
Robert Barton
Edward Windus
Charles Jackson
Ralph Compton
Gilfred Lawson
Joseph Hyland
William Taylor
George Alexander
William Arnot. .
Cleiland
Hans Fowler
Jonathan Forbes
Sir William Boothbey (4)
Samuel Collet
James Johnson
John Ridge
Blake
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 1 Jan. 1686-7.
Ensign, 1 Sept. 1706.
Lieutenant, 1 May 1708.
Lieutenant, 31 Aug. 1700.
Ensign,
1708-9.
5 Nov. 1735
Ensign.
21 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign,
22 ditto
Ensign,
7 Nov. 1739
Ensign,
ditto
Ensign,
24 May 1733
Ensign ,
14 Mar. 1733-4
Ensign,
13 Mav 1735
Ensign,
5 Nov. 1735
Ensign,
10 Dec. 1735
Ensign,
23 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign,
24 ditto
Ensign ,
ditto
Ensign,
1 Jan. 1738-9
Ensign,
7 Nov. 1739
Ensign,
5 Nov. 1735.
10 Dec. 1735.
8 Jan. 1735-6.
23 ditto.
7 Feb. 1737-8.
1 Jan. 1738-9.
17 July 1739.
7 Nov. 1739.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
6 April 1714.
9 May 172:.'.
1 May 1705.
1 Dec. 1710.
26 April 1715.
24 April 1717.
3 July 172).
10 Dec. 1726.
17 April 172!>.
7 July 1730.
2-1 May 1733.
12 Oct. 1732.
14 Mar. 1733-4.
11 July 173o.
20 June 1735.
(1) Lieut.-General. He had served in the regiment since 1684. He was the son of the better-
known Piercy Kirke, who had been Colonel of the regiment from 1682 to 1691. He died in 1741.
See 'D.N.B.'
(2) Of Balliheridon, co. Armagh. He became Colonel of the 54th Regiment in 1741, and of the
llth in 1746, dying in the following year.
(3) Of the family of Lister of Burwell Park, Lincolnshire.
(4) Of Broadlow Ash, Derbyshire. He was the 5th Baronet, and in 1773 was appointed to the
Colonelcy of the 6th Regiment. He died in 1787.
Major-General Howard's Regiment of Foot follows (p. 17). Originally formed (as a
"Maritime" regiment) in 1665, and then called the "Holland Regiment," it was brought
upon the strength of the standing army in September, 1667. It was later designated
"Third Regiment of Foot, or The Buffs," and is rnow styled "The Buffs (East Kent
Regiment)."
Major General Howard's Dates of their
Regiment of Foot. present commissions.
Colonel .. .. Thomas Howard (1) .. ..27 June 1737
Lieutenant Colonel James Bescheser . . . . 24 Nov. 1739
Major . . . . John Horseman . . . . 2 Sept. 1739
(1) Major-General. He had been Colonel of the 24th Foot from 1717 to 1737, when he was
appointed to the Colonelcy of the 3rd Regiment, which he resigned in 1749, 1 (ing succeeded by his
son George Howard. See note (3).
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 4 Feb. 1702-3.
Captain, 1706.
Ensign, 25 Aug. 1715.
12 8. II. SEPT. 9, 1916.) NOTES AND QUERIES.
205
Captains
Major General Howard's Regiment
of Foot (continued).
/"Gerard Elrington
I George Malcolm
I Robertson
*i Marmaduke Sowle
Charles Henry Collins (2)
Charles Barnes
I George Howard (3)
lieutenants
Captain Lieutenant Edmund Quarles
Charles Fieluing
William Crosbie
Lewis Turpin
Timothy Valade
Edward Northall
John Cole
Benjamin Day
William Langhorne . .
Bryan O-Rourke
Robert Dingley
'Sir John Mylne(4) ..
Cyrus Trappeaud (5)
Charles Tatton
Bud ing
Ensigns . . . . •( Samuel Creich
Rowland Hacker
Shuckbrough Hewit (6 )
William Fleming
^ John Barlow
(2) Was appointed Tower Major, Tower of London, Nov. 14, 1750.
and was buried in the Chapel in the Tower on March 31, 1778.
(3) Son of Major-General Thomas Howard, i see supra (1), whom he succeeded as Colonel of the
regiment in 1749. He was made a K.B. in 1774, and Field-Marshal in 1793. He died in 1796. See
4 D.X.B.*
(.4) Or Milne, Bart., of Barnton, co. Dumfries. He died in 1791, being then Captain of Cowes Castle,
(5) Or Trapaud. Was Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment in 1750, and afterwards (1760) waa-
appointed Colonel of the 70th Foot, and in 1778 of the 52nd Foot. He died in 1801, being then the
senior General Officer in the army.
(8) Of Melton Mowbray. He was father of -the Right Hon. Sir George Hewett, 1st Bart.
Dates of their
Dates of their first
present commissions.
commissions.
. . 26 Dec. 1726
Ensign, 12 April 1706.
. . 23 April 1730
Ensign, 24 Feb. 1705.
9 Mar. 1731-2
Ensign, 15 Oct. 1715.
, . 17 ditto
Ensign, 10 Dec. 1711.
.. 15 May 1735
Ensign, 5 July 1720.
4 Nov. 1736
Ensign, 28 April 1705.
1 Sept. 1739
Ensign, 28 Feb. 1724-5.
5 Nov. 1736
Lieutenant, 21 Nov. 1707.
. 10 Nov. 1722
Lieutenant, 27 June 1712,
. 23 Mar. 1725-6
Ensign, Sept. 1715.
. 26 Dec. 1726
Ensign, 2 April 1706.
ditto.
,
. 16 Mar. 1729-30
Ensign, 25 Dec. 1706.
9 Mar. 1731-2
Ensign, 4 Feb. 1721-2,
. 13 Dec. 1733
Ensign, '11 June 1723.
5 Nov. 1736
Ensign, 9 Nov. 1723.
. 21 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 26 Dec. 1726.
. ; 7 Feb. 1738-9
Ensign, 9 May 1729.
. 13 Dec. 1733.
. 20 June 1735.
6 July 1735.
5 Nov. 1736.
— _
. 21 Jan. 1737-8.
. 17 July 1739.
ditto.
ditto.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
He died March 23, 1778,
Lieut.-General Barrell's Regiment of Fcot was raised in July, 1680, being then styled
" The Second Tangier Regiment." In 1703 it was constituted a corps of Marines,
continuing as such until 1711. Four years later the title "The King's Own" was
conferred upon it, and to-day it is known as "The King's Own (Royal Lancaster
Regiment)."
Dates of their first
commissions.
Captain, 27 Mar. 1698.
Captain, 18 Oct. 1716.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Lieutenant General Barrell's
Regiment of Foot.
William Barrell (1)
John Lee
George Walsh . .
Henry Jefferys
John Knowles
Richard < 'orm . .
Henry De La Bene
John Nutt
Samuel Anthony
John Romer
Captain Lieutenant Thomas Moore
Dates of their
present commissions.
8 Aug. 1734
4 April 1730
3 Mar. 1735-6
17 May 1721
18 Mar. 1722-3
3 Mar. 1735-6
2 Nov. 1737
21 Jan. 1737-8
22 Dec. 1738
19 Jan. 1739-40
ditto
Ensign,
1709.
Ensign, 25 Mar. 1705.
Ensign, 13 Sept. 1708.
Ensign, 2 Jan. 1706-7.
Captain, 18 Dec. 1735.
Ensign, 29 Dec. 1705.
Ensign, 11 Jan. 17 1<».
Lieutenant, 26 Sept. 1715.
Ensign, 1708.
(1) Was Colonel of the 28th Foot from 1715 to 1730, and of the 22nd Foot from 1730 to 1734.
He died injl749.
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Lieutenant General Barrell's Regiment
Dates of their
Dates of their first
of Foot (continued).
present commissions.
commissions.
John Emmenes
. 17 Dec. 1724
Lieutenant, 23 Feb. 17 In.
William Williams
. 26 Dec. 1726
Lieutenant, 3 July 1717.
Robert King
. 20 Mar. 172P-30
Ensign, 23 Aug. 1711.
James Thorne
1 Xov. 1733
Ensign, 6 May 1720.
Lieutenants . . "
Thomas Collier
John Tucker
2 Aug. 1734
. 21 Feb. 1735-6
Ensign, 26 Feb. 1712-13.
Ensign, 20 April 1730.
John Pett
. 21 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 23 April 1724.
Wenman Nutt
. 22 Dec. 1738
Enxign, 31 Oct. 1723.
William Cosby
. 31 Jan. 1738-9
Lieutenant, 13 Aug. 1736.
. Charles Menzie
. 19 Jan. 1739-40
15 April 1734.
r James Edmonds
.. 25 July 1734.
Thomas Lee
2 Aug. 1734.
Henry Balfour
.. 11 July 1735.
John Shrimpton
.. 21 Feb. 1735-6.
Ensigns . . . .
William Xelson
9 July 1736.
Sheldon Walter
. . 8 Feb. 1737-8.
Thomas Schaak
.. 19 Jan. 1739-40.
William Scott . .
.. 25 ditto.
V Henry Williams ..
7 Feb. 1739-40.
* '
Brigadier Guize's Regiment was raised in Holland in 1673 for service in that country.
It came to England in 1685, being then brought on to the establishment of the British
Army as the " Sixth Regiment of Foot.'' It is now known as "The Royal Warwickshire
Regiment."
Brigadier Guize's Regiment of Foot.
John Guize, as Colonel (1)
Dates of their
present commissions.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Brigadier General
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . ,
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
John Murray . .
Nathaniel Mitchell
'Richard Miller . .
Arthur Brereton
Frederick Gore
k James Hamilton
Henry Southwell
Abraham Hunt
George Bell
James Dalton (2)
John Swetenham
Abraham Hamilton
Davis Baylie . .
John Boitoux . .
Francis Mercier
Ank. Moutray (3)
Oliver Walsh . .
John Lucas
George Holwell
Alexander Murray
' James Murray
Thomas Coote
Thomas Garaway
George Willan
William Richardson . .
Edward Wilson
Benjamin Foyster
Tomkins Powell
r William Maxwell (4)
(1) He died in 1765, having held the Colonelcy for twenty-seven years.
(2) Only son of John Dalton of Bedale, Yorkshire.
(3) Ancketill M. Possibly of the family of Moutray of Favour Royal, co. Tyrone, in which the
Christian name Ancketill is frequently found.
(4) Third Baronet, of Monreith. Died in 1771.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
Ensigns
1 Nov. 1738
Lieut. Col. 9 April 1706.
6 July 1726
Ensign, 23 July 1713.
19 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 14 Feb. 1714.
6 Feb. 1718-9
Ensign, 23 Dec. 1710,
29 Aug. 1721
Ensign, 29 Nov. 1705.
5 April 1726
Ensign, 1 Oct. 1705.
11 Jan. 1728-9
Lieutenant, 20 Oct. 1711.
28 Jan. 1735-6
Ensign, Feb. 1718-9.
14 Aug. 1738
Ensign, 1 Nov. 1705.
19 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 1 May 1719.
ditto
Ensign, 2 May 1718.
29 Aug. 1721
Ensign, 23 Feb. 1718-9.
11 Jan. 1728-9
____
25 Jan. 1729-30
Ensign, 31 Mar. 1731.
1.9 Aug. 1731
Ensign, 1 Feb. 1712-3.
16 April 1733
Ensign, 29 Aug. 1721.
3 July 1733
Ensign, 18 Jan. 1721-2.
26 Aug. 1737
Ensign, 1 Jan. 1726-7.
31 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 13 Sept. 1728.
14 Aug. 1738.
19 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 1 Oct. 1729,
25 Jan. 1729-30.
16 April 1733.
25 ditto
Ensign, 18 June 1709.
3 July 1733.
26 Mar. 1737.
27 Aug. 1737.
31 Jan. 1737-8.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
8 Feb. 1739-40.
See • D.N.B.'
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207
WELCH OK WELSH ?— The recent publica-
tion of ' A History of the Royal Welsh
Fusiliers,' by Mr. Howel Thomas, has
revived the question of the spelling of
the national name in the title of that
famous regiment. Mr. Thomas tells us,
on p. 19, that the officers of the senior
battalions insist upon the spelling " Welch,"
but that it has been definitely decided by
high military authority that the use of that
spelling shall be discontinued. Mr. Thomas
says " fortunately we have not to depend
upon the taste and fancy of the speller."
But upon what is it that the spelling
" Welsh " does depend ? Upon analogy
and orthographical rule ? Certainly not,
but upon custom, i.e., taste and fancy.
When the i of the adjectival formation is
retained we write Swedish, Spanish, Irish ;
and we write Scotch, Dutch, and French
-when that » has fallen out. Similarly we do
not spell belch, bench, squelch, tench,
wrench, &c., with ah. It is clear then that
in modern English, when a consonant im-
mediately precedes the representation of the
•O.E. adjectival sc, we ought to write ch.
Hence the Old English Welisc should be
regularly represented in modern English by
" Welch," and the officers of the senior
battalions are correct.
ALFRED ANSCOMBE.
tSee also 11 8. xi. 452.]
" CROWNER'S QUEST LAW." — A remark-
able instance of the exercise of this was
reported from Sunderland by The Yorkshire
Herald of Aug. 17, 1916 : —
" After lingering for fourteen years with a
fractured spine, caused by falling over cliffs at the
seaside, Thomas Wyatt died in the Sunderland
^Hospital.
" The evidence at the inquest showed that
Wyatt was a navvy, and 49 years of age. In
September, 1902, he accidentally fell over the
cliffs to the beach below, fracturing the lower
part of his spine. He was taken to the hospital,
and was never out of bed again, though his
appetite and intellect remained good, and he was
cheery to the end.
" A verdict of ' Accidental death ' was re-
turned."
ST. SwiTHlN.
" QUITE ALL RIGHT." — I heard this, to me,
objectionable pleonasm first in California
some two years ago, and supposed then that
it was of Western manufacture. Since my
return to this country, however, it has
assailed my ears far too frequently, being
uttered for the most part by unsophisticated
members of the weaker sex, who seemingly
look upon it as recherche. N. W. HILL.
TABLE-CUSTOMS OF ANCIENT WALES. —
" The pious and charitable people of ancient
Wales, in sacred memory of ' Holy Trinity,' were
fond of sitting down to table three together, and
used to reserve the first cut of every loaf of bread
for the poor." — Cf. Giraldus Cambrensis, ' Cam-
brise descriptio,' cap. xviii., ed. Powel, 1585; ed.
altera, Londini, 1806.
X.
THE APOTHECARY IN ' ROMEO AND JULIET.'
— The late Prof. Dowden, in his introduc-
tion to the International Edition of ' Romeo
and Juliet, ' makes rather a curious blunder
when, referring to the apothecary, he
names him Spolentino. Bandello, who was
Dowden's authority, merely mentions the
apothecary as coming from Spoleto to reside
in Mantua, and nowhere refers to him by
name. MAURICE JONAS.
" VICTORY HANDKERCHIEFS." — There are
to be seen in some London drapers' shop-
windows just now a variety of handkerchiefs
bearing war devices of divers kinds, even
including maps of the French front and the
Dardanelles ; but I have not yet come across
one claiming to be a " Victory Handker-
chief," in the sense used in England in the
fighting days of Anne. In The Post-Boy for
Dec. 1-3, 1709, appeared an advertisement
announcing the sale by various booksellers,
as well as " at the Shops in Westminster-
Hall," of
" A Silk Handkerchief, Printed, With a Draft of
the Roads of England, according to Sir. Ogilby's
Survey, shewing the Roads and Distances in
measur'd Miles from London to the several Cities
and Towns in England. Also the Victory
Handkerchief, which gives account of the Success
of five most Glorious Victories obtain'd by the
Confederates over the French. Ornamented with
the Arms of the Empire, Great Britain, Prussia,
and Holland. Both which will wash in a weak
Lather of Sope without Prejudice. Price 2s. 6d.
And the Victory Card - Table Japan'd white ;
having thereon the same Account and Ornaments
as the Handkerchief, very Legible, and will not
be damag'd by Water. Price a Guinea."
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
LONDON TOPOGRAPHICAL HANDKER-
CHIEFS.— The " Moral Pocket Handker-
chief " was the prototype that ultimately
developed into the Derby Winner Hand-
kerchief, for many years produced by Messrs.
Welch, Margetson & Co. of Cheapside. In the
forties several London subjects were intro-
duced. A map printed in red and black on
calico is still frequently met with, but of
greater rarity is a silk handkerchief with a
view of the Royal Exchange. A press
cutting attached to the example before me
is from The Railway Bell of Nov. 16, 1844.
208
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. SB*. 9, wie.
It is there described as showing the west
end with Clock Tower " from a beautiful
Drawing by William Tew, Esq., F.R.S. To
be had only of W. Tew, hosier, &c., 1 Birchin
Lane." The price was 5s. 6d. each.
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
dhwms.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
" LORD CECIL " AS COMMANDER OF A
GENOESE ARMY. — Cav. Quint o Cenni of
Milan, a great authority on military costume,
writes to me about " a Lord or Count Cecil "
who commanded a Genoese army in the war
of 1744-6. I can find no such person. Can
any reader help ? J. M. BTJLLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.
" SCREAD (SCREED)." — At the Fox Inn,
South Witham, near Grantham,apieceof the
old Great North Road has been used for build-
ing cottages, and the road diverted some thirty
or forty feet to the west. When this was
shown to me, the landlord referred to his inn
as occupying a " scread " of the road. I
asked him what a " scread " was, and he
told me that the word meant the same as
" shred." The etymology looks likely. Is
the word in common use ? J. C. W.
[Skeat's ' Etymological Dictionary' has " Screed,
a shred, a harangue. (E ) The Northern form of
Shred, q.v." In the latter sense given by Skeat,
and also somewhat in the sense of a " yarn," the
word is not uncommon.]
SHAKESPEARE'S STATUE ON THE PORTICO
OF DRURY LANE THEATRE. — I should be
grateful if any reader of ' N. & Q.' could
supply some reliable information as to the
early history of this statue. The ' Return
of Outdoor Memorials in London,' issued by
the London County Council in 1910, asserts
that it is a reproduction, but smaller, of
Scheemakers's statue. I doubt its being
smaller than the one in Westminster Abbey,
but, be that as it may, it is certainly not a
reproduction, the attitude of the two figures
being quite different. The one in Leicester
Square is an exact reproduction of Schee-
makers's, except in so far as the words on the
tablet differ. Nevertheless Mr. John Timbs,
in his ' Curiosities of London,' refers to the
statue on Drury Lane portico as by Schee-
makers, executed in lead by Cheere, and
presented to the theatre by Mr. Whitbread,
M.P. Now the present portico of Drury
Lane Theatre was not set up until some time
between 1819 and 1826, whereas Mr. Whit-
bread died by his own hand in 1815. Sir
Henry Cheere died in 1781. It would be
interesting to know at what date (assuming"
Mr. Timbs to be correct) Mr. Whitbread
presented the statue to the theatre, and
where it stood before the portico was built
in Elliston's regime.
WILI.OUGHBY MAYCOCK.
THOMAS ARNOLD AND AMERICA. — In Dean
Stanley's ' Life of Arnold of Rugby ' the great
bead master several times expresses the
fear that because of his outspokenness on
the subject of a truly Christian State, in
which religion was allowed fullest play in
the formation of the character of its citizens,,
he may be driven by the force of political
faction to cross the Atlantic and to settle-
in America. Strange to say, Stanley omits
to explain this mysterious phase of Arnold'^
mind, albeit he discusses it under nearly
every other aspect. Perhaps some one-
may be able to enlighten me as to it.
M. L. R. BRESLAR.
Percy House, South Hackney.
HERALDIC QUERY. — Would any reader
help me in ascertaining some dubious
identifications of Kentish coats of arms ':
These are in painted glass in an eastern
window of the south chancel in Bishops-
bourne Church. Every shield is surrounded
by a flowered wreath. Three of them are
dated 1550 ; the others bear no date, and
seem to be slightly later. Any heraldic
indication would be useful to make sure of
the date, which is of interest owing to certain
curious ornamental features, connected with
the history of Dutch engraving in the
sixteenth century. The shields impale the
arms of the family of Beckingham, which
are as follows : —
Quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure, on a fesse
crenellee between three escallop shells sabler
a star for difference ; 2 and 3, Azure, a
chevron between three bucks' faces gules.
1. Argent, three hawks' lures sable, 2"
and 1. Wakeringe (?) or Bromwich ( ?), 1550.
2. Argent, three birds' heads erased sable.
Hernway(?), 1550.
3. Barry of eight argent and gules, in a
canton of the second a cinquefoil of the
first. Beckingham (?), 1550.
4. Azure, on a fesse or, between three
spearheads argent, a greyhound courant
sable. Borne by Edward Umpton, K.B.,
temp. Elizabeth; also Umpton, Oxford-
shire, Farringdon and Wadley, Berkshire.
No date.
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200
5. Azure, a chevron between three escallop
shells or. Is it for Browne (Horton Kirby,
Kent) ? No date.
Westlake (vol. iv. p. 177) gives the illus-
tration of a shield which seems to be
the same, with a crescent for difference
and the .initials I. B. for John Browne (he
died in 1595). The similarity between this
and those in Bishopsbourne Church is
striking ; they seem to be by fhe same
artist. PIERRE TURPIN.
Folkestone.
MRS. GRIFFITHS, AUTHOR OF ' MORALITY
OP SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS.' — Information
about the lady is eagerly desiderated.
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
JOHN JONES, AUTHOR OF ' KINETIC
UNIVERSE.' — The work in question was
published in Dundee. Details and personalia
concerning him will oblige.
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
THE LITTLE FINGER CALLED " PINK." —
Several of the soldiers among the many
wounded under my care have called the
little finger " Pink." I have not made out
whether this name is confined to any
locality. Can it be an ancient name of the
fifth finger, as in the old sheep-counting :
" Yan, Tan, Tethera, Pethera, Pimp " =five 1
GEORGE WHERRY,
Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C.T.
1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge.
P. S. LAWRENCE, ARTIST AND SAILOR. — In
an edition (1811) of Falconer's ' Shipwreck '
in the British Museum, recently presented to
the Library, are four lithographs illustrative
of the poem, by P. S. Lawrence, R.N.
These drawings are quite distinct from the
engravings by Pocock in the same volume.
From the lettering " Sketches " being cut in
two, half the word appearing on one litho-
graph and the other half on another, it is
evident that they were originally produced
in one sheet. They show that P. S. Lawrence
was a first-class artist as well as being a
sailor, and to any one loving ships, the sea,
and art they are a joy.
I have never seen any other drawing by
P. S. Lawrence, and I should be glad if any
of your readers could tell anything about
him, or where any of his work can be seen.
In O'Byrne's ' Naval Biographical Dic-
tionary ' there is a very short notice of Paul
Sandby Lawrence, merely mentioning that
he entered the Navy in 1794, the names of
various ships in which he served, &c., and
that he became a retired Commander in
1845.
There is no mention of him in Bryan's
' Dictionary of Painters,' but I suggest that
he may have been a grandson or nephew of
Paul Sandby, and that from him he derived
his Christian names and inherited his art.
JOHN LECKY.
Du BELLAMY : BRADSTREET. — I should be
glad if any reader could supply the date and
place of marriage in England, about 1780, of
Charles Du Bellamy, described as a player,
and Agatha, daughter of Major-General
John Bradstreet, an American, with notes
on Du Bellamy's theatrical career.
E. ALFRED JONES.
6 Fig Tree Court, Temple, B.C.
" YORKER " : A CRICKET TERM. — What is
the origin of the term " yorker," applied in
cricket to an overpitched ball that is short
of a full pitch ? The most skilled cricket
authorities of my acquaintance cannot
supply the answer, though some of them are
ready with the traditional reply to this
question : " Why, what else would you call
it ? " ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
[See 9 S. viii. 284, 370.]
THEOPHILUS GALE, THE NONCONFORMIST
TUTOR. — According to the ' Diet. Nat.
Biog.,' xx. 377, he was the son of the Rev.
Theophilus Gale, D.D., Vicar of Kings-
beignton, Devon, and was born there in 1628.
What was his mother's maiden name, and
where did she come from ? Can the exact
date of his death in 1678 be ascertained ?
G. F. R. B.
REFERENCE WANTED. — " Things are what
they are, and the consequences of them will
be what they will be ; why therefore should
we wish to be deceived ? " Can any one
give me chapter and verse for this trite and
well-worn quotation, which is popularly
ascribed to Bishop Butler's ' Analogy.' I
have never run it to earth in the ' Analogy '
or elsewhere. H. BIRCH SHARPE.
Conservative Club.
[" Things and actions are what they are, and the
consequences of them will be what they will be ;
why then should we desire to be deceived ? "— Bp.
Butler, Sermon VII., ' On the Character of Balaam,'
last paragraph.]
W. ROBINSON, LL.D., F.S.A., 1777-1848.
— Intending to provide a detailed biography
of this industrious historian and topographer
of North- Eastern London, I am endeavouring
to obtain a sight of his correspondence,
and so learn more of his methods and
occupations. Two unpublished histories,
Hampstead and Stepney, are known to me;
but I have failed to trace his collections on
Camberwell, which came into the possession
210
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. SEPT. 9, igie.
of J. Bowyer Nichols ; and of his history of
Hornsey there is apparently only a reference
by Henry Ellis. Of letters by him there are
remarkably few in the public libraries ; my
own collections provide nine only, of which
three are important, and the others are
addressed to Gilks, the engraver, on the
illustrations for" his works. It is possible
that much material relating to him exists in
the scattered collections of Sir Frederic
Madden, who was his father-in-law.
Any references to MSS. or letters will be
greatly appreciated. ALECK ABRAHAMS.
51 Rutland Park Mansions, N.W.
LINCOLN'S INK HALL. — Mr. Underbill
states, in his article on ' Law ' contributed to
' Shakespeare's England,' 1916, " that the
halls and libraries of Lincoln's Inn and the
Inner Temple were rebuilt during the last
century." I always understood that the
present Hall of Lincoln's Inn dated from the
sixteenth century. Is Mr. Underbill's state-
ment correct ? MAURICE JONAS.
SNAP CARDS. — Who designed the illustra-
tions that appear on snap cards, and when
did they first appear ? Many of the illustra-
tive sentences have taken firm root in the
language, and as a general practitioner I
often appreciate the apposite remark of
" Who would be a doctor ? "
NIGHT WORK.
GUMMING. — A family of that name lived
in the parish of Kilmallie and at a place called
Lochalsh in Lochaber, near Fort William,
about the beginning of the eighteenth cen-
tury, a sept of whom migrated to the shores
of Loch Rannoch about that time. Any
information regarding the former would
oblige. R. S. CLARKE, Major.
Bishop's Hull, Taunton.
NAVY LEGENDS. — 1. Did Nelson as a fact
disobey any orders at the Battle of Copen-
hagen ? Did he place his telescope to his
bund eye in the same battle ?
'42. What was the origin of the pennant ?
One explanation that has been given to me
is that it represents the whip which Blake is
said to have fixed to the masthead of his
ship as a retort to Van Tromp's broom.
The story of the broom is apparently doubt-
ful, hence that of the whip is also.
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
NELL GWYNNE AND THE ROYAL CHELSEA
HOSPITAL. — Is it the fact that Nell Gwynne
induced Charles II. to found the Royal
Chelsea Hospital ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE
DECEASED. — I should be glad to know of
any headstones in churchyards bearing
medallion portraits of the deceased buried
beneath. The earliest instance I have come
across is at Ewell, Surrey, to Jane Challoner,
who died January, 1769 — in stone, an oval
in relief surrounded by emblems of death,
an hourglass and angels, &c.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
FISHERIES AT COMACCHIO. — In Murray's
' Handbook for Travellers in Northern
Italy ' (1891), under the reference to the
fisheries, at Comacchio, in the Province of
Ferrara, it is stated that
" the contrivances for enticing the young fish j[to
enter the lagoon] and for retaining the old trying
to return to the sea, which are very ingenious,
have been described by Tasso and Ariosto."
With due deference to the two illustrious
poets I should prefer a modern description
in prose of these contrivances, with illustra-
tions if possible. Can any reader recom-
mend me such a publication ? L. L. K.
" BIBLIA DE BUXO." — On March 1, 1582,
Mendoza reported to King Philip that Dr.
Sander's body had been found in a wood
with his breviary and biblia de buxo under
his arm. Does biblia de buxo mean a Bible
bound within boxwood boards, or what does
it mean ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
HANTS CHURCH GOODS. — In the 1916
volume of the Hampshire Field Club is an
inventory of church goods. Why are there
none for the north side of the county T
OBSEBVEB
RECORDERS OF WINCHESTER. — Is there a
complete list anywhere (giving the dates
of their appointment) of the Recorders of
Winchester? C. H. S. M.
THEATRICAL M.P.s. — I should like to have
biographical particulars of : —
1. William Collier, M.P. for Truro, 1713-15,
" Inspector of the Playhouses," a Gentleman
of the Privy Chamber to Queen Anne, " a
lawyer of an enterprising head and jovial
heart " (Cibber), who had a licence in 1709
for a theatre at Drury Lane, on surrendering
which he was granted by the Lord Chamber-
lain a sole licence for performing operas at
the Haymarket Theatre, 1709. With three
other managers, he had a new licence for
performing plays at Drury Lane, 1711, which
brought him in 700Z. a year, till the Queen's
death terminated the licence, 1714. Of
what family was he, and when did he die ?
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211
2. William Taylor, M.P. for Leominster,
1797-1802; Barnstaple, 1806-12; principal
proprietor and manager of the King's
Theatre, manager of the Opera - House,
London, before 1806; died May 1, 1825,
aged 71. Can any one give his parentage
and marriage ?
3. Joseph Richardson, M.P. for Newport
(Cornwall), 1796 till he died, June 9, 1803,
Aged 46 (see ante, p. 34). Whom and when
•did he marry ? He was a cornet in the
llth Dragoons, Sept. 27, 1775, to 1778.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS.
(12 S. ii. 172.)
THE famous windows of Long Melford
Church, in Suffolk, appear to supply that o
which MB. LANE is in search. They re
present Sir Thomas Clopton (died 1383) and
Katherine his wife, daughter of Sir William
Mylde of Clare, and afterwards wife of Sir
William Tendryng ; Elizabeth Howard, wife
of John de Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford (the
Master Philipson of ' Anne of Geierstein ')
Elizabeth Tilney, wife of Thomas Howard
afterwards Duke of Norfolk; Sir William
Howard, " Cheff Justis of England " temp.
Edw. I. ; John Haugh, serjeant-at-law, and
a justice; Richard Pygot, also serjeant-at-
law and judge ; Sir Thomas Montgomery,
Knight of the Garter, and Anne his wife •
Sir Robert Clifford, Elizabeth his wife, and
Sir Ralph Jocelyn, her former husband ;
Lady Anne Say and her two daughters ;
Lady Dynham ; Sir Robert Crane and Anne
his wife; John Denston, and Anne his
•daughter, wife of Sir John Broughton ;
Thomas Rokewode ; a Lady Howard ; and
others. For a complete list and further
particulars, supplied by the late Mr. Charles
Baily, with coloured plates of the windows
representing Sir Thomas Montgomery and
Dorothy Cureon, daughter of John Clopton,
who rebuilt the church in the fifteenth
•century, see the Proceedings at Evening
Meetings of the London and Middlesex
Archaeological Society for 1871, pp. 8-23.
E. BEABKOOK.
If MB. JOHN LANE will refer to F. S.
Eden's ' Ancient Stained and Painted Glass '
Cambridge, 1913, he will find on p. 123
notes of several such portraits. Amongst other
examples given are paintings on glass of
Charles I. and his queen at Magdalen and
Wadham Colleges, Oxford. At Brasenose
and St. John's are similar paintings of their
founders. Also at Harlow Church (Essex)
there are portraits of Charles I. and his
granddaughter, Queen Anne.
JOHN HABBISON.
At Penrith ( = Red-hill) Church the verger
pointed out to me, in the fragments of
superb mediaeval glass there preserved from
the barbarous destruction of the rest, con-
temporary portraits of King Richard II.,
and of a member of the Nevile family (Guy,
I think) and his lady. This subject ought
to attract a number of valuable and in-
teresting notes. E. S. DODGSON.
I have a record of the following : Nicholas
Blackburn and his wife in the east window,
and a priest, and two kneeling donors, all in
All Saints' Church, York (fifteenth century).
Head of an Archbishop in Canterbury
Cathedral (fifteenth century). Head of a
Bishop in York Minster. King Edward the
Confessor in St. Mary's, Ross.
The numerous specimens of stained glass
in the Victoria and Albert Museum will no
doubt provide other portraits.
ARCHIBALD SPABKE.
" SPIBITUS NON POTEST HABITABE IN
sicco " (11 S. iv. 488 ; 12 S. i. 490). — I take
great pleasure in acknowledging the acute-
ness with which PROF. BENSLY has found out
my motive for putting this question. I
actually meant to illustrate the very remark
about Swift as " anima Rabelaesii habitans
in sicco " in Coleridge's ' Table Talk,' ' and
vaguely remembered to have seen the phrase
" Spiritus non potest habitare in sicco "
attributed somewhere to St. Austin. As no
reply was forthcoming, I had to draw upon
my own resources, and, after one or two
attempts in other directions, I bethought
me of Sallengre's'6logede I'lvresse' (which
[ had not read at the time) as a proper
)lace for that particular quotation. Nor did
his facetious treatise fall short of my
expectations, for I not only found the
quotation itself , but a reference to Le Duchat's
edition of Rabelais, which, of course, settled
every difficulty (' Eloge de rivresse,' ed.
798, p. 92). " By different roads PBOF.
JENSLY and I have arrived at the same
conclusion : neither have I the slightest
doubt that Coleridge had in mind Rabelais
and the passage in the ' Qusestiones Veteris
et Novi Testamenti.' I have given utterance
to this conviction in an (as yet unpublished)
essay on Casanova's ' Icosameron,' where I
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employ the formula, calling Casanova
" anima Swiftii habitans insicco," and sub-
joining a note to this effect : —
" * En sec jamais Tame ne habite ' (Rabelais, i. 5).
Les mots de Rabelais se rattaohent i une reflexion
de 1'auteur des ' Qusestiones Veteris etNovi Testa-
menti,' attributes autrefois a Saint Augustin, mais
en realite plus anciennes : ' Anima certe quia
spiritus eat, in sicco habitare non potest ' (V. T.
qua?st. xxiii.1. C'est a ces deux passages que pense
sans doute Coleridge."
DR. BULL.
Foreign Office, Copenhagen.
CHURCH WARDENS AND THEIR WANDS (12 S.
ii. 90, 153). — I may add to my reply at the
latter reference that at the fashionable
resort of Salcombe, Devon, these wands are
also borne by the two wardens at the parish
church. They are slender, tapering rods,
cream coloured, of six feet in length, tipped
with four inches of brass at the points.
The church dates back only to 1843, but
they may have been in use at the chapel of
ease to Malborough, which existed at Sal-
combe before the modern and severely plain
church was thought of.
WM. JAGOARD, Lieut.
ST. SEBASTIAN (12 S. ii. 149).— The
Dominican Breviary, in the fifth and sixth
lessons of the Second Nocturn of Matins for
Jan. 20, the feast of St. Fabian, Pope and
martyr, and St. Sebastian, martyr, gives the
following account of the martyrdom of the
latter saint : —
" His [Christianis] Diocletiano delatis, Se-
bastianum accersit et uehementius obiurgatum,
omnibus artificiis a Christi fide conatur auertere :
eed cum nihil proficeret, sagittis configi iubet.
Bum omnium opinione mortuum, noctu sancta
mulier Irene sepeliendi gratia iussit auferri :
sed uiuum repertum, domi suae curauit. Itaque
paulo post confirmata ualetudine, Diocletiano
pbuiam factus, quern mortuum credebat. eius
impietatem liberius accusauit : sed ab eo tamdin
uirgis caedi iussus est, donee animam Deo redderet.
Eius corpus in cloacam deiectum Lucina ab eodem
in somnis admonita. ad Catacumbas sepeleuit : ubi
ad coemeterium Callisti uia Appia sancti Se-
bastiani nomine Celebris ecclesia, una ex septem
praecipuis Urbis, est aedificata."
MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
Prof. Marucchi, in his ' Basiliques et Eglises
de Rome,' gives two accounts of this saint's
martyrdom. At pp. 265-6, speaking of the
Church of S. Sebastiano in Palatino, he
writes : —
" Cette eglise doit son origine au souvenir local du
martyre de S. 8e"bastien. Une legende tres ancienne
rapporte qu' apres le supplice le corps fut jete dans
un e"gout ; on placait jadis cet egout pres de
St. Andre-della-Valle, mais on en a retrouve' un
au pied meme du Palatin, le long de la yoie-
Triomphale. Sebastien subit un double supplice r
d'abord ' in campo,' celui des fleches, puis ' in
hippodromo,' celui des fouets. Son corps fut
recueilli par la femme d'un employe* du palaif?
imperial, nominee Irene, laquelle demeurait atr
Palatin ' in scala excelsa.' II senible que dans ce
recit ' campus ' et ' hipnodromus ' designent un
meme lieu, le stade, qui fut apres le IVe siecle-
partiellement transforme en hippodrome, tandis
que le reste demeurait libre : un escalier le mettait
en communication avee le palais ; on en apercoit
encore les ruines."
At p. 488, when he is treating of the Church
of S. Sebastiano fuori le Mura, he writes :• —
"D'apres la tradition, Sebastien, tribun de la
premiere cohorte. commandait une compagnie de
la garde pr^torienne et demeurait au Palatin ; if
fut martyrise sous Diocle"tien, pendant la premiere-
persecution militaire (289-292), et subit sur le Palatin
meme. ' in hippodromo Palatii,' un double supplice,
celni des fleches, puis celui des verges. Son corps,.
jete1 dans un egout, fut recueilli par les soins d'une-
femme chre"tienne, Lucine, qui le transport* sur la
voie Appienne ' apud vestigia Apostolornm,' et le-
deposa ' in initio cryptae.' "
JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
The life and death of St. Sebastian of
Rome (M. 303, Jan. 20) will be found in
' The Golden Legend,' as englished by
William Caxton. On the saint's professing-
his belief in Christ, the Emperor Diocletian
"was much angry and wroth, and commanded him
to be led to the field, and there to be bounden to a
stake for to be shot at. And the archers shot at
him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is-
full of pricks, and thus left him there for dead."
But, being rescued and revived by a Chris-
tian woman, he again confronted the Emperor,
who said to him : —
" ' Art thon not Sebastian whom we commanded to-
be shot to death ? ' And St. Sebastian paid : ' There-
fore our Lord hath rendered to me life to the end1
that I should tell you that evilly and cruelly
ye do persecutions unto Christian men.' Then-
Diocletian made him to be brought into prison into-
his palace, and to beat him so sore with stones till
he died."
The martyr's body was then thrown into
" a great privy," but the saint appeared to
St. Lucy, bidding her rescue his body from
its ignominious resting-place, and bury it
" at the catacombs by the apostles." This
was accordingly done the same night.
His martyrdom is represented in innumerable-
works of 'art. A. R. BAYLEY.
According to the generally accepted
tradition, St. Sebastian was a native of Nar-
bonne in France, but migrated to Milan,,
where he was educated in the Christian
religion. He subsequently entered the army.,
and became a captain in the Pretorian Guard ~
While in Rome he employed himself itt
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converting soldiers and others to the Chris-
tian faith, in comforting the persecuted, and
in assisting those who were in want and
suffering ; and so conspicuous did he make
himself in these pursuits that he was
arrested and brought before the Emperor
Diocletian, who, incensed at his attitude of
firmness in the Christian faith, ordered him
to be tied to a tree and shot to death, which
sentence was carried out but imperfectly, as
the victim, not being quite killed, was
restored to health by his friends ; but, being
afterwards again carried before the Emperor
Diocletian, he was by his orders beaten to
death by clubs.
St. Sebastian is generally represented a.s
tied almost naked to a tree, pierced with
arrows, or with arrows at his feet; some-
times he is depicted with a helmet on his
head. F. DE H. L.
In ' The South English Legendary,' which
is published by the Early English Text
Society, the death of St. Sebastian is stated
to have taken place during the reign of
Diocletian, and to have been caused by beat-
ing with staves. The textual summary, com-
piled by me, has these sentences regarding
the manner of the saint's death : —
" He was ordered to be led to the stake, where
he was shot at by arrows till he was left for dead.
His unburied body was found at night without a
wound. He was seized and taken to the palace,
and beaten to death secretly."
W. B.
In art this saint is generally represented
almost nude, tied to a stake, and pierced all
over with arrows. According to his bio-
graphies, however, he recovered from his
wounds under the care of St. Irene, a widow,
and was finally put to death by blows with a
club. L. L. K.
St. Sebastian was beaten to death by
clubs by order of the Emperor Diocletian.
His body was thrown into the Cloaca
Maxima, whence it was rescued by a lady
named Lucina, and buried in the catacombs
near St. Peter and St. Paul.
WIIXOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
Information regarding the death of
St. Sebastian might be obtained from the
following works : ' Encyclopaedia Britannica.'
vol. xxiv. ; ' Acta Sanctorum,' Jan. ii. 257-
296 ; ' Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina '
(Brussels, 1899), n. 7543-9 ; A. Bell, ' Lives
and Legends of the Evangelists, Apostles,
and Other Early Saints' (London, 1901),
pp. 238-40. E. E. BARKER.
RICHARD WILSON, M.P. (12 S. i. 90, 158T
213, 277, 437, 516; ii. 34, 55, 74, 156).—
Though I have already had two turns at
this topic, perhaps I may be allowed a
third, mainly in order to reply to W. R. W.'s
communication at the last reference.
1. The M.P. for Ipswich 1806-7 cannot
have been the Richard Wilson (son of Dr..
Christopher Wilson) who was admitted to
Lincoln's Inn in 1771, and who seems to have-
been called to the bar in 1779, for that
Richard Wilson died on June 14, 1787
(Gentleman's Magazine, Ivii. i. 549). His
father had become Bishop of Bristol in
1783 ; his mother was a daughter of Dr.
Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London
(' D.N.B.,' xxi. 274) ; and his wife, who had
died on Jan. 10, 1786 (Gentleman's Magazine,.
Ivi. i. 84), was a daughter of Dr. John
Fountayne, Dean of York (' D.N.B.,' xx. 78).
For further information see Burke's ' landed
Gentry,' i. 436 (edition of ^1847), under
' Fountayne-Wilson of Melton.'
2. The M.P. for Ipswich is described in
the 'Royal Calendar' for 1807 as " principal1
secretary to the lord chancellor and a
commissioner of bankrupts " (p. 50), and
also as being of Lincoln's Inn Fields (p. 88)~
The reasonable inference, therefore, is that
he was Richard Wilson, the attornej' who-
died on June 7, 1834, and who is described
in the ' Annual Register ' for 1834 as " many
years an eminent solicitor in Lincolns- inn-
fields, and formerly secretary to lord
Eldon."
3. W. R. W. is correct in saying that the-
attorney was of No. 47 Lincoln's Inn Fields.
But so, too, was I in saying (at the ninth
reference) that he was of No. 35. The-
change from No. 47 to No. 35 seems to have
occurred during 1832. See the ' Law Lists.'
4. W. R. W. says that it is clear to him
that the M.P. for Barnstaple 1796-1802
was the attorney. Thnt, with deference,
seems a strange conclusion to reach as ^the-
result of a correspondence which has elicited
the following facts : —
(i.) The M.P. for Barnstaple had for his
country address " Datchworth Lodge, Herts.'r
See the ' Royal Calendars,' 1799 to 1802.
(ii.) Datchworth Lodge belonged from
1792 to 1802 to the Irishman Richard
Wilson of Tyrone, who married the Hon..
Anne Townshend, and was capsized in a sea
of matrimonial troubles. See Clutterbuck's
' Hertfordshire,' ii. 314-5. It was the locus
of his wife's alleged infidelity. See ' House
of Lords' Journals,' xli. 550.
(iii.) Deeming it a hardship that he could
not obtain an Act of Parliament freeing him.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 9, im.
from his wife and allowing him to marry
his mistress, he vented his feelings in
pamphlets. In two of them — those printed
in 1808 and 1813 — he stated that he had
formerly been a member of the British
Parliament. See the communications (at the
third and seventh references) from EDITOR
" IRISH BOOK LOVER ' and MR. A. ALBERT
CAMPBELL.
(iv.) With these facts to hand, is it not
tolerably certain that Richard Wilson of
Tyrone was the M.P. for Barnstaple ?
5. MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY mentioned
(at the third reference) that there was a
Richard Wilson who was " a proprietor of
Drury Lane Theatre." The theatre was
burnt down on Feb. 24, 1809, and on that
evening
" Mr. Richard Wilson gave a dinner to the prin-
cipal actors and officers of Drurv Lane Theatre,
At his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. All was
mirth and glee; it >vaa about 11 o'clock when
Mr. Wilson rose and drank ' Prosperity and Sue-
cess to Drury Lane Theatre.' We filled a bumper
to the toast ; and at the very moment when we
•were raising the glasses to our lips, repeating
'Success to Drury Lane Theatre,' in rushed the
younger Miss Wilson, and screamed out, ' Drury
Lane Theatre is in flames ! ' We ran into the
square and saw the dreadful sight The fire raged
•with such fury that it perfectly illuminated
Lincoln's Inn Fields with the brightness of day."
I copy the above quotation, not from
its original source, ' Reminiscences of
Michael Kelly ' (ii. 281), but from Mr.
A. M. W. Stirling's ' Letter-Bag of Lady
Elizabeth Spencer Stanhope' (i. 173). It
^appears to give us an anecdote about the
attorney.
6. His interests were not limited to law,
politics, and the drama. MR. J. C. HODGSON
said of him (at the ninth reference) that " he
made some name for himself as a breeder of
blood horses." Was he then the " Mr.
Wilson " who is enshrined in ' Ruff's Guide '
as owner of " Champion (out of PotSos),"
the horse which won the Derby and the
St. Leger in 1800 ? H. C.
MACKENZIE FAMILY (12 S. ii. 171). — There
was undoubtedly a near connexion in 1745
between the Earls of Cromartie and the
Mackenzies of Langwell (Lochbroom). ' The
INew Statist. Ace. of Scotland ' (1845) tells the
story (vol. xiv. p. 82) of the raid of English
soldiers, soon after the Battle of Culloden,
on the house of Mr. McKenzie of Langwell,
" who was married to a near relative of
Earl George of Cromarty [the third Earl]."
I cannot trace the exact connexion, for the
Langwell family is not included in Mac-
kenzie's great ' History of the Mackenzies '
(1894), as far as I can ascertain. In 1794
four out of the five landowners in Loch-
broom parish were Mackenzies, viz., Mac-
kenzie of Cromartie, of Dundonnell (the
only resident proprietor), of Coul, and of
Achitly. D. O. HUNTER BLAIR.
Fort Augustus.
HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITIONS (12 S.
ii. 89, 138, 159).— 2. In Tyndall's ' Lectures
on Sound,' viii. 332 (1867)," it was said : —
"If two clocks with pendulums of the same
period of vibration be placed against the same wall,
and if one of the clocks be set going and the other
not, the ticks of the moving clock, transmitted
through the wall, will start its neighbour. The
pendulum, moved by a single tick, swings through
an extremely minute arc, but it returns to the limit
of its swing just in time to receive another impulse.
By the continuance of this process, the impulses so
add themselves together as finally to set the clock
a-going."
I think one of the Brownings makes poetry
out of this fact.
5. The topsy-turvy primrose was long
ago a theme in ' N. & Q.' ST. SwrrnrN.
MUNDY : ALSTONFIELD (12 S. ii. 129). —
Vincent Mundy was the Lord of the Manor
of Alstonfield. It was forfeited by attainder
for his murder (Duchy of Lancaster —
Calendar of Pleadings, temp. Elizabeth.)
Vincent Mundy of Islington, in the county
of Middlesex, esquire, " sicke of bodie but
of whole mynde, all praise therefore be vnto
God, and of p'fitt remembraunce," made his
testament and last will May 30, 1571. After
the payment of debts and legacies, his daugh-
ter, Dorothy Mundy, was to enjoy all the
tithes of corn of Market on, Mackworth, and
Alestrie, in the county of Derby, towards her
preferment in marriage and come to the age
of 19 years. The rest of his goods and
chattels he gave to his son Edward Mundy,
sole executor. And he desired the worship-
ful and his very true friend Richard Harpur,
esquire, one of the Queen's Justices of
Common Pleas, to be the supervisor of his
will, and gave him 101.
This will was proved in London, Oct. 23,
1573. Where does any suggestion of his
having been murdered by his youngest son,
Henry, come in ? (See Nichols's ' History
of Leicestershire.') Yet in the year 19 of
Elizabeth (Pleas of Duchy of Lancaster)
reference is made, in connexion with Alston-
field, to the attainder of Henry Mundy. In
the year 1527 a Robert Mundi of Ashby-de-
la-Zouch gave property there for the per-
petual sustenance of an obit in the church
of St. Helen, which was afterwards appro-
priated to the founding of the Free Grammar
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215
School. Mundy's incised slab of alabaster
was found in the floor of the church when
it was repewed in 1829, whereon he was
represented with his two wives ('Ancient
Monument in the Parish Church of Ashby-
•de-la-Zouch,' by the late Rev. John Marma-
'duke Gresley, M.A.). A. J. M.
SEM, CABICATURIST (12 S. ii. 49). — I know
of only one " Sem," the well-known French
caricaturist, who is still very much alive.
His full name is Marie Joseph Georges
Goursat, and he is a Chevalier of the Legion
•of Honour. He was bom in 1863, so cannot
be the " Sem " who, MR. JOHN LANE says,
was doing caricatures as far back as 1850.
Possibly that may have been his father.
There was a long article about " Sem " in
The World of June 7, 1910, in which year he
-drew sundry cartoons for that paper.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
CALVERLEY'S CHARADES (12 S. ii. 128, 178).
— The answers to the complete set are as
follows : i. pierglass ; ii. target ; iii. outlaw ;
iv. drugget ; v. marrowbones ; vi. coal-scuttle.
I have often wondered why Sir Walter
Sendall did not give them in his collection
-of Calverley's ' Complete Works,' published
in 1901. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
fMR. BRIEN COKAYNE, G. W. E. R., and a Godal-
•imng correspondent thanked for similar replies.]
A STEWART RING : THE HON. ALEXANDER
JOHN STEWART (12 S. ii. 171). — The follow-
ing will serve as a first identification : —
" Mr. Stewart mi. Alexander John, Lieut. R.N. :
'brother of late Marquis of Londonderry, d. 1800."
— 'The Eton School Lists from 1791 to 1850,' by
H. E. C. Stapylton, 2nd edit., 1864, p. 9.
This is in the List of 1791. The said Stewart
appears in the " First Form." His name
•does not occur in the next given List, viz.,
1793. On reference to Debrett's ' Pierage '
•of 1820 I find that he was born Feb. 28,
1783, and died Nov. 14, 1800.
Taking into account his age, 8 years, when
the 1791 List was made up, he was in his
•right place at Eton, i.e., in the lowest form.
In the same List his " major " (elder
brother), Charles William, afterwards third
Marquis of Londonderry, appears (p. 5) in
the Fourth Form, and (p. 12) in the 1793 List
in the Fifth Form, Upper Division.
It will be seen that Mr. Stewart minor was
at Eton for a very short time. Midshipmen
in those days began very young. I need
scarcely say that in the Eton School Lists
il Mr." means " The Honourable."
The first Marquis of Londonderry married
twice. He was succeeded by his son by his
first marriage, Viscount Castlereagh. By
the second marriage with Frances, first
daughter of Charles (Pratt), 1st Earl Camden,
there were, with other children, Charles
William, eventually 3rd Marquis, and,
secondly, Alexander John. See Debrett's
' Peerage ' of 1820, and G. E. C.'s ' Complete
Peerage.' When Alexander John died his
father was Earl of Londonderry.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
The Hon. Alexander John Stewart, who
was born Feb. 28, 1783, and died Nov. 14,
1800, was the second son of Robert Stewart,
1st Earl of Londonderry, subsequently
(Jan. 13, 1816) created Marquis of London-
derry, by his second wife, Lady Frances
Pratt, and consequently was half-brother to
the renowned Viscount Castlereagh.
F. DE H. L.
[G. W. E. R. and W. R. W. thanked for replies.]
' THE ORDER OF A CAMPE ' : HARL. MS
(12 S. ii. 110). — There is an ' Order of the
Campe,' by Sir Robert Constable, Knight, in
Harl. MS. 847. The date of the " Order "
is 1578. L. L. K.
MRS. ANNE DUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197).—
Mrs. Anne Dutton resided successively at
Northampton, London, Warwick, Welling-
boro', and Whittlesea.
Mrs. Dutton was born at Northampton
" somewhat about the year 1695 " ; she
removed to London about 1717. In her
memoir she states : —
" The next providence I shall give some hints of,
relates to the Lord's removing my habitation from
Northampton bo London ; which was occasioned by
my entering into the marriage state when I was
twenty -tim years of age."
Mr. J. A. Jones says, in 1S:L'{, p. xiii : —
" She was married to Mr. Benjamin Dutton, who,
after living some time in London, removed to Emr-
xhall in Northamptonshire, and from thence in 1733
to Great Gransden in Huntingdonshire";
and at p. xxvi : —
" Thus this truly eminent, godly woman finished
her course at Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire,
on Monday, the 17th of November, 1765, aged about
70 years."
Another author, the late Rev. A. J.
Edmonds, Vicar of Great Gransden, states:
" Mr. Benjamin Dutton came here from
Eversholt, and commenced his ministry in
June, 1732." Mr. Dutton in 1743 crossed
the Atlantic on a visit to the Baptist-
churches in America, where he stayed several
years, but the poor minister was fated never
to see Gransden again, being drowned on the
voyage home, at the age of 56, in 1748.
216
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. IL SKPT. 9, me.
Mr>. Dutton continv;ed to reside at
Gransden after her husband's death, and
occupied herself chiefly in writing and
publishing a large number of religious books.
She died Nov. 18, 1765, and was buriedin
the Old Burying - Ground at Gransden. A
tombstone was erected to her memory by
Mr. Christopher Gold ing of London in 1822,
which was replaced in 1887 by a new stone,
ber.ring the following inscription : —
In Memory of
ANNE DUTTON,
Relict of Benjamin Dutton. many years Pastor of
the Baptist Church in this place. She resided
34 years in this parish, spent her life in the cause
of God, was the Author of 25 Volumes of Choice
Letters and 38 smaller works, and generously left
an Endowment for the preaching of the Gospel in
this Village. She entered into rest Nov. 18th,
1765, Agsd 73 years.
" The Memory of the Just is blessed."
I understand LIEUT. WHITEBKOOK has
" quite a complete list of her works." The
sixty-three works alluded to above, with the
later editions by other editors, should make
a good bibliography, interesting to Dissenters.
The identification of Mr. Sk — p seems easy.
He was, I think, Mr. John Skepp, member
of the church at Cambridge. He became
pastor of the Baptist Church meeting in
Curriers' Hall, Cripplegate, about 1715, and
died in 1721. Mrs. Dutton says: "and upon
my being fixed in London under the ministry
of the late Mr. Skepp, I soon found the truth
thereof."
Some further particulars of Mrs. Dutton's
career may be found in a memoir, pp. vii-
xxvii in J. A. Jones's new edition (1833) of
' A Narration of the Wonders of Grace in
Six Parts,' having a frontispiece portrait
by Hopwood (sculpt.) dated June 1, 1815 ;
and also in ' A History of Great Gransden in
the County of Huntingdon,' by the present
vicar of that parish, in monthly parts, 1892,
one hundred printed.
HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencester.
FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329,
417 ; ii. 136, 194).— Some portion of the
interest attaching to the superstitions con-
nected with chime-hours is to be found in the
apparent modernity of origin of the beliefs.
The accumulation of these beliefs must be
recent, if mechanical chimes are those in-
tended, inasmuch as mechanical chimes are
themselves modern. That clairvoyancy
follows birth at midnight chiming would,
therefore, be a superstition later than the
introduction of chiming clocks to country
parishes.
But what are chime-hours ? Clocks chime
ivery hour or at no hours. The phrase-
suggests some particular hours at which
bell-ringing took place prior to the intro-
duction of clockwork chiming. If these-
hours are, as I gather, morning and evening
Angelus and Curfew, the bell-ringing at ail
these times, save midnight, is easily ex-
plicable and of ancient origin. But for
what cause have chimes been associated
with midnight, and what sounding of a bell
habitually took place at midnight in the
days when beliefs such as have been men-
tioned originated ? MARGARET W.
MUSICAL QUERIES (12 S. ii. 49, 113). — 1.
Handel flourished when the old ecclesias-
tical modes were gradually giving place to
our major and minor keys. The association
of the latter with cheerfulness and sadness
respectively has, therefore, also been of
gradual growth. Hence we are not suqjrised
to find the air '' Come and trip it as you go 'r
in Handel's ' L' Allegro ' in the key of c
minor, or " He was despised " in E flat major.
In the latter there are poignant harmonies,
and all the more impressive in that
they are specially reserved for the words
" a man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief."
As to " another example " of a Dead March
in a major key, it is soon found. It is the
March Handel wrote for ' Samson,' for which
the ' Dead March ' in ' Saul ' was, however,
soon substituted as the more striking of the
two. J. S. S.
THE FIRST ENGLISH PROVINCIAL NEWS-
PAPER (12 S. ii. 81, 155). — It was not my
intention to start a controversy by setting
out a number of forgotten facts, but I cannov
permit MR. CHOPE to describe my " find "
of Bliss's first paper as merely an " apparent "
discovery. My discovery is a very real one.
I first drew attention to Jos. Bliss's Exeter-
Post-Boy of 1707 in 1912, in the " Print-
ing Number" of The Times.
The term " apparent disco very " is all the
more unfortunate in preceding a misstate-
ment of Dr. Oliver's error about Bliss..
Dr. Oliver's error lay in the assumption
that Bliss's The Protestant Mercury; or,.
Exeter Post-Boy, which appeared in 1715,.
was the first title of the paper started
by Bliss. Dr. Oliver was ignorant of
Jos. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy of 1707. If
to term this an "error" be to "asperse"
Dr. Oliver, then I must plead guilty, and
repeat that it is not Dr. Oliver's only error
about the early Exeter press.
12 s. ii. SEPT. 9, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
217
I had also noticed Dr. Brushfield's paper.
It is not a satisfactory performance. For
instance, Dr. Brushfield quotes from MB.
ALLNUTT'S preliminary article in ' N. & Q.'
(5 S. ix. 12), apropos of Dr. Tanner's letter,
und remarks : —
"How far the hearsay report [of Dr. Tanner]
was correct we have no means of ascertaining. No
other conteni|)orary writer alludes to it."
It is surely misdescriptive to vrite down
-as " hearsay " the report of a learned
antiquary made after inquiry ; and, as for
allusions by contemporary writers of the
early eighteenth and seventeenth centuries
10 the periodicals of their times, the trouble
is always to find any writer who does so
allude. I can speak feelingly on this subject,
after many years' research. Dr. Brushfield
then goes on, aided by Dr. Oliver, to identify
one printer as the printer of another man's
paper : —
" Samuel Farley has been termed by one of his
-descendants ' the father of journalism in the West
of England.' The history of the known Exeter
press certainly commences with him. His first
newspaper venture was The. Bristol Poatman [.sic]
in 1713. On September 24th, 1714, he started his
first Exeter newspaper, with the following title :
'"Numb. 1. The Exeter Mercury Printed
by Philip Bishop at his Printing Office in St. Peter's
•Churchyard. 1714.' "
I quite fail to see why the proof given
afterwards that Farley and Bishop in 1715
(the following year) agreed for the latter
always to print the news becomes proof
that Bishop's paper of 1714 really was
Farley's, Dr. Oliver to the contrary not-
withstanding.
The history of the Farley family, both at
Bristol and at Exeter, is undoubtedly im-
portant ; but since Bliss was printing a paper
in 1707, his life -story should prove very
much more so for the latter place, as I hope
to demonstrate shortly in a further article
in ' N. & Q.' J. B. WILLIAMS.
ST. PETER AS THE GATE-KEEPER OF
HEAVEN (12 S. ii. 90, 177).— The story' of
the Irish fishermen reminds me of one told
me by an Italian.
A fisherman who lost his life at sea applied
for entrance. St. Peter asked him if he
had received absolution. The fisherman
replied no ; he was lost at sea, and no priest
was there. " Very well," said St. Peter,
" you sit down outside, and the next priest
that comes in shall absolve you." This hap-
pened in the fourteenth century, but the
fisherman is still hitting outside.
H. A. C. SATJNDERS.
Ill Grosvenor Road, Highbury New Park, N.
" CONSUMPTION " AND " LETHARGY " :
THEIR MEANING IN THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY (12 S. i. 489 ; ii. 35).— MR. HILL
should consult
" Morbus Anglicns : or the Anatomy of Con-
sumptions to which are added some brief dis-
courses of melancholy, madness, and distraction
occasioned by love. By Gideon Harvey, M.D.
1672."
Chap. ii. deals with ' The Various Acceptions
of Consumptions ' ; chap. viii. ' Of an Hypo-
chondriack Consumption ' ; chap. ix. ' Of an
Amorous Consumption ' ; chap. xiv. ' Of a
Dolorous Consumption.' There are thirty-
six chapters in all.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
COMMON GARDEN =COVENT GARDEN (12 S.
ii. 89, 157).— In J. T. Smith's ' Book for a
Rainy Day ' there is an amusing anecdote told
of a mock knight known as " Sir " Harry
Dinsdale (or sometimes Dimsdale). He was
an itinerant muffin-man, and his portrait was
engraved and published by Evans, the
famous dealer of Great Queen Street and
later of the Strand. " Sir " Harry was
charged with unruly conduct. He was a
short, feeble little man : —
" ' What have you. Sir Harry, to say to all this ? '
asked the justice. The ' knight,' who had been
roughly handled, began, like a true orator, in a low
tone of voice, ' May it please ye, my magistrate, I
am notdrunk ; it is languor. A parcel of *' bloods "
of the Garden have treated me cruelly, because
I would not treat them. This day, sir, I was sent
for by Mr. Sheridan to make my speech upon the
table at the Shakespeare Tavern in Common
Garden ; he wrote the speech for me, and always
gives me half a guinea when he sends for me to
the tavern,' " &c.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
CROMWELL: ST. JOHN (12 S. ii. 171). —
Oliver St. John (1598 ?-1673), Chief Justice,
was married thrice : (1 ) to Johanna, daughter
of Sir James Altham of Marks Hall, Latton,
Essex, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
Francis Barrington. Elizr.beth Barrington's
mother was Joan, daughter of Sir Henry
Cromwell of Hinchinbro-ke, aunt both to the
Protector Cromwell and to John Hampden.
For St. John's four children by his first wife
see Noble's ' House of Cromwell,' ii. 24-9,
and ' D.N.B.,' 1. 156.
(2) On Jan. 21, 1638, to Elizabeth,
daughter of Henry Cromwell of Upwood,
the Protector's uncle. Henry Cromwell.
B.C.L., and Fellow of St. John's College,
Oxon, in 1588, aged 22, was a J.P. and M.P.
for the borough of Huntingdon in James I.'s
first Parliament. He was an adventurer in
the Virginia Company, and died in 1630,
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leaving a son Richard, who died without
male issue. By his second wife St. John
had two children : (1) Oliver, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of William Hammond ;
(2) Elizabeth, who married on Feb. 26,
1655/6, John -Bernard of Huntingdon.
A. R. BAYLEY.
The Cromwells had property at Hursley
in Hampshire, and the St. Johns at Farlej'
Chamberlayne (sometimes called Farley
St. John), the adjoining parish. I do not
know for certain whether Oliver Cromwell
was of Hursley. His son, I believe, cer-
tainly was. There were several Oliver
St. Johns, lords of the manor of Farley
see an article by Mrs. Suckling on ' Lords
of the Manor of Farley ' in the Proceedings
of the Hampshire Field" Club). It is possible
that some clue may be found here as to the
connexion spoken of. C. H. S. M.
Oliver St. John, Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas, married (as his second wife,
on Jan. 21, 1638) Elizabeth, daughter of
Henry Cromwell of Upwood, co. Hunting-
don, the Protector's uncle. By her he had
two children : ( 1 ) Oliver, who married
(Aug. 6, 1680) Elizabeth, daughter of
William Hammond of Nunnington, co. Kent ;
and (2) Elizabeth, who married (Feb. 26,
1656) John Bernard of Huntingdon.
A biography of the Chief Justice appears
in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' ;
and Cromwell's close friendship with his
cousin Mrs. St. John is referred to therein.
ALFRED T. EVERITT.
[MR. T. CRAIB and MR. W. D. PIXK also thanked
for replies.]
FACT OR FANCY ? (12 S. i. 509 ; ii. 17, 59.)—
1 . ' ' That an Englishman' s house is his cast le. ' ?
—On May 10, 1880, Mr. John J. Ingalls of
Kansas said in the U.S. Senate : " There is
an old saying that an Englishman's house is
his castle " ; and he added : —
" 1 think some orator commenting upon that
fact said that, though the winds of heaven might
whistle around an Enslishman's cottage, the King
of England could not." — Cong. Record, p. 3170/1.
An odd way of stating the proposition !
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
THE GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN
(12 S. ii. 129, 176).— The epitaph given by ME.
BAYLEY at the latter reference is probably
what Evelyn at first intended for his friend's
coffin. The plate on it when taken up in
1891 bore the same words as that on the
altar, the inscription being entirely in Latin,
and, like the other, signed " J. E."
YGREC.
" ONE'S PLACE IN THE SUN " (12 S. ii. 170).
— I have verified Pascal's phrase on the
original scrap of paper ; it was really written
as always printed : " Ce chien est a moir
disaient ces pauvres enfants ; c'est la ma
place au soleil." But, when analyzed, those
words are absurd. Several children cannot
say, " That dog is mine," nor can they claim
together a place in the svm, which would be the
beginning of communistic propriety, not of
usurpation. So Pascal rmist have intended
to write : " disait 1'un de ces pauvres en-
fants," and make another one claim a place
in the sun. But as there is no indication
whatever of the latter claim, a second
difficulty arises. " C'est la," in the text as
it stands, can only apply to the dog ! I
have thought, years ago, of reading coin
(corner) instead of cJiien, in spite of the-
manuscript, so that a translation might
read as follows : —
'"This corner is mine.' said one of those poor
children : ' that is my place in the sun.' Such is
the beginning and image of the usurpation of the
whole earth."
In fact, as Pascal deals with the origin of
individual possession of land (" usurpation
de toute la terre "), the mention of a corner
is more to. the point than that of a dog.
But I frankly admit that such tampering
with Pascal's notes is dangerous ; the fact
remains that the text, as it stands, is unin-
telligible to me. S. REINACH.
Boulogne-sur-Seine.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DENTISTS (12 S..
ii. 64, 115, 194). — Chamberlayne' s ' Present
State ' for 1727 gives in the list of Court
officials : " Operator for the Teeth, Mr. Pet.
Hemmet," and for 1755 Mr. William Green;
and from the 'Court and City Register,' &c.r
the following names appear as holding the
same position : In 1750 and 1753, Peter
Hemet ; in 1759 and 1765, William Green ;
in 1766 and 1783, Operators for the Teeth,
Thomas Berdmore, James Spence (" All in
Gift of Lord Chamberlain"); in 1784 and
1786, T. Berdmore, T. R, Spence; in 1787
and 1792, T. R. Spence, Tho. Normansell ;
in 1793 and 1806, Dentist in ordinary, Geo.
Spence, Esq. ; Dentists extraordinary, T. R.
Spence, Tho. Normansell, Esqs. In 1800r
however, George Spence' s name also appears
as Dentist to the Queen's Household ; in
1800 and 1806, Surgeon Dentists to the Prince
of Wales and to the Duke of Sussex,
Chevalier B. Ruspini & Son ; Dentist to the
same, Mr. Dumergue. The Duke and
Duchess of York had also a dentist apiece,,
as had likewise the Dukes of Clarence, Kent,.
and Cumberland. W. R. W.
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219'
plaits an ICooha,
European and other Race Origins, By Herbert
Bruce Hannay. (Sampson Low & Co., II. Is. net.)
THIS work may fairly be called " immense."
Immense is the industry to which it testifies ;
immense the boldness and the accumulative power
of the writer's imagination ; immense the con-
fidence with which he presents the results of his
mingled learning and imagination as indisputably
correct. We fear, nevertheless, that his work
will not command the adhesion of many serious
scholars. It might, no doubt, be a pleasure to
some of us to feel that we had no sort of kinship
with the Germans ; it may possibly be to many
people as satisfactory as it is wonderful to believe
that the ancient Greeks were derived from the
Hebrews ; and we know that the lost Atlantis and
the theory of the seven root-races connected with
that legend have furnished forth speculations
which have fascinated many minds. It is among
people of that turn of thinking — who handle
evidence and estimate its value on principles
peculiar to themselves, often cleverly enough, but
not in correspondence with the accepted principles
of ordinary historical study — that these pages will
find their public. We cannot here discuss the
differences between this account of the origins
of the European nations and those which ordinary
history supports as, at any rate, the least doubt-
fully authenticated : such a discussion would far
overrun our space ; but we are not speaking
ironically when we say that the constructive
activity of which this book is the outcome did in
itself, perversely though it seemed to us employed,
impress us considerably.
A Record of a Mediceval House. (Folkestone,
F. J. Parsons, Is.)
THIS little brochure is well worth an archaeologist's
attention. The mediaeval house in question was
known during the last period of its existence as
Nos. 31 and 33 The Bayle, Folkestone. It had
been so greatly altered, and had had so many of
its most interesting and characteristic features
transformed, obliterated, or at any rate hidden
away, that, when it was decided to demolish it,
no one realized that to do this was to commit a
minor act of vandalism, though in any case a
house which has stood since the fourteenth
century can put in a strong claim to stand still
longer, even apart from questions of beauty,
convenience, or instructive archaeological detail.
However, it seems the possibility of such a claim
in this instance displayed itself too late to be
taken advantage of, and we gather that these
careful pages, with their numerous illustrations
and their minute description, now represent the
only mode in which it will survive.
Mr. W. H. Elgar seems to have put together the
main part of the work ; with Mr. N. E. Toke to
afford assistance in the way of historical notes,
and Mr. A. H. Payne and Mr. I. N. T. Vachell in
the way of photographs. There are also several
good plans and drawings which contribute as
much as anything to elucidating the plan of the
housi-. As Folkestone of our day knew it, it was
a rather dreary place ; but not only — in the course
of demolition — have beautiful old fireplaces,
details of fine mouldings, and traces of scrollwork
and other ornamentation been discovered, but it
became clear that, in the sixteenth century, there
had been a rather charming garden front, with ;\
bay window both to the " bower " on the ground
floor and the " best chamber " above it.
The finds on pulling down the house were-
neither numerous nor striking, if we except the
unearthing of an adult skeleton lying about three
feet in front of the kitchen fireplace and about
four feet below the level of the kitchen floor.
This, we are told, is not an uncommon discovery
to make on The Bayle — and, indeed, the like has
been often recorded in other places — but it is
none the less arresting to the imagination.
The details of the construction of the house
have been very well worked out ; and we should
certainly hope for more work of this kind from
the author.
The Fortnightly Review contains one article
which readers of ' N. & Q.' will like to make a
note of as belonging to their own field : Sir
Edward Brabropk's careful and abundantly
documented justification of the use of the ex*--
pression Lord Chief Justice of England as sound
and historical. We do not see how it can easily-
be called in question again. Miss Eleanor Hull
writes with insight and sympathy on the late
Stopford Brooke. We much enjoyed Mrs.
Archibald Little's description of Salonica — it
should prove a really useful piece of popular
writing. Miss May Bateman's article on ' War
and Pain ' will, we imagine, be welcome to many
readers. It is an attempt to state the Catholic
theory of suffering, and though it is marred by
some lapses into sentimentality, it sets out with
eloquence the essential Catholic attitude in
regard to the problem. Paul Hyacmthe Loyson's
concentrated and fiery lines ' Pour un Chiffon de
Papier ' are given us, both in the original and
in a translation by Sir J. G. Frazer. For
Pourquoi
Ce tourbillonnement d'arme'es
Par mille milliers de milliers ?
— C'est pour un chiffon de papier,
the translator has : —
Why march embattled millions, to death or victory
sworn ?
Why gape yon lanes of carnage by red artillery
torn?
For a scrap of paper, for a scrap of paper,.
nothing more !
with the rest to correspond. The only reason we
can think of for this is that Sir James Frazer was
working to a tune. The rest of the number
contains articles on the war — and good ones, too :
though we think that as much as can be put into
words about the patriotism of France has already
been done, and we are a little doubtful about Miss
Winifred Stephens's account of patrie.
The Nineteenth Century for September keeps us
almost without exception strictly to the problems
and facts of our own time. Sir Francis Piggott
contributes the first instalment of a study entitled
'Belligerent and Neutral from 1750 to 1915,' and
into this, it is true, the historical element enters..
Mr. Norman Pearson invites us to contemplate,
and more or less to believe in, the existence of
f.-iirics, mermaids, and such like creatures — aline of
thought which will be refreshing and amusing or
disturbing according to the reader's temperament
and preconceived ideas. For ourselves we incline
to think that a priori there is indeed more to be
said for than against the reality of "subhuman
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•consciousness," but we do not think very cogent
the reasons urged by Mr. Pearson in its favour
from evolution. Mr. Christopher Tumor in
' The Anti-Small Holdings Mania ' (a paper which
;is well worth consideration) quotes from an
Australian a very neat illustration of the difference
between the English and the Australian attitude
towards the man who wants a holding of his
-own. Mr. W. ' S. Weatherley gives some good
advice as to the sort of memorials to erect to our
soldiers, but we think this is too largely con-
cerned with minutiae and externals ; to get a
satisfactory memorial — even if it be but a simple
-one — Art must go down a little deeper than he
has chosen to go. Bishop Bury's ' Recent Ex-
periences in Russia ' are interesting, picturesque —
m more than one passage touching. The other
papers are concerned either with the management
•of the war, or with politics, or with burning
questions, the most important of these last being
Father Vaughan's strenuous and admonitory
' England's Empty Cradles.'
The CornhiU Magazine is an unequal number.
•' The Kaiser as his Friends knew Him,' by a
Neutral Diplomat, and ' A German Business
Mind,' contributed by Sir John Wolfe Barry, are
both — and especially the latter — of some im-
portance as well as of great interest. Sir Herbert
Maxwell's ' Army Uniforms, Past and Present,'
.a gain, is well worth having — plenty of information
.and also plenty of entertainment in it. And the
stories and sketches about the war — especially Mr.
Bennet Copplestone's ' The Lost Naval Papers ' —
are all lively reading. But we cannot think what
we are meant to gather from ' The New Tempta-
tion of St. Anthony ' — a piece of crude and puerile
sentimentality, in which the woman who is
supposed to impersonate France is but a poor
-compliment to our Ally — would, indeed, but for
the label, fail altogether to suggest her ; and in
which the travesty of the underlying significance
of " St. Anthony seems nowadays old -fashioned.
Dr. A. C. Benson's counsels about the memorials
"to those who have fallen are not very concrete,
but they may serve to give the keynote for the
active performers — to use a metaphor from
another art — and perhaps that was all they were
intended to achieve.
' L'INTERM EDIAIBE.'
£' Intermediaire for August is a very interesting
number. It contains the full text of ' Le Soldat
par Chagrin,' by Gerard de Nerval, which we
;think some of our readers may be glad to have :—
I.
Je me suis engag6 (bis)
Pour 1'amour d'une blonde, (bis)
Pas pour mon anneau d'or
Qu'fl d'autre elle' a donne',
Mais c'est pour un baiser
Qu'elle m'a refused
Je me suis engage1 (bis)
Dans regiment de France (bis)
La oiic' que j'ai Iog6,
Un m'y a conseill^,
De prendre mon conge,
Par-dessous mes soulicrs.
Dans mon chemin faisant, (bis)
J'rencont' mon capitaine, (bis)
Mon capitain' me dit :
" Od vas-tu, Sans-souci ? "
" J'm'en vas dans le vallon,
Rejoiml' mon bataillon."
" Soldat. t'as dxi chagrin, (bis)
Par I'abandon de ta blonde (bis)
EH* n'est pas dign' de toi,
La preuve est a mon doigt :
Tu vois bien clairement,
Que je suis son amant."
v.
La-bas, dans le vallon, (bis)
Coule claire fontaine ; (bis)
J'ai mis mon habit bas,
Mon sabre au bout d'mon bras,
Et je me suis battu,
Comme un vaillant soldat.
VI.
Du premier coup portant, (bis)
J'ai tue mon capitaine, (bis)
Mon capitaine est mort,
Et moi, je vis-t-cncor,
Mais dans quarante jours,
Ca sera-t-a mon tour.
vn.
Celui qui me tuera, (bis)
£ a s'ra mon camarade ; (bis)
il me band'ra les yeux
Avec un mouchoir bleu,
Et me fera mourir,
Sans me faire souffrir.
vm.
" Que Ton mette mon coeur (bis)
Dans une serviette blanche, (bis)
Qu'on le porte a. ma mi,
Qui demeure au pays,
En disant : c'est le cceur
De votre serviteur.
" Soldats de mon pays,
N'le dit' pas a ma mere,
Mais dites-lui plutot,
Que je suis-t-A Bordeaux,
Prisonnier des Anglais,
Qu'a n'me r'verra jamais."
(bis)
(bis)
to
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G. B. and Y. T.— Forwarded.
MR. CECIL CLARKE. — Many thanks. You are
not a delinquent.
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LONDON, SAT I RD AY, SEPTEMBER 16, 191C.
CON TENTS.- No. 38.
3JOTES :— The Chaplains of Fromond's Chantry at Win-
chester, 221— Materials fora History of the Watts Family
of Southampton, 224— Saiuu«>l Wesley the elder : his Poetic
Activities, 226 — " Communique," 227.
•QUERIES :— Sir Alexander Fraser, Physician to CharlesJI.
£LllllallMI A\C» l»O.ill AUObllfV* 1*^1 1»1 nl w • «»w» •_«•.. **««
Frozen— " Great-cousin"— " The freedom of a city in a
gold box "— ' The Comic Aldrich '— Acco— St. Newly n East
—A Mediaeval Hymn— Tinsel Pictures, 228— Arnold of
Rugby and Hebrew — Old MS. Verses— Moone of Breda:
Jackson— Osbert Salvin, Naturalist— Dr. Thomas Frewen
—Author Wanted, 229.
REPLIES :— An English Army List of 1740. 229— " Watch
House," Ewell, Surrey, 233— Marshals of France— Uncut
Paper - Snob and Ghost — Capt. Arthur Conolly, 235 —
Cromwell : St. John— The Actor-Martyr—Richard Duke.
236 — ' Sabi inse Corolla ' — Caldecott — The Removal of
Memorials in Westminster Abbey— The Horse Chestnut,
237 — Sir John Maynard, 1592-1658 — John Evans, Astrol-
oger, of Wales — Authors Wanted — St. George's. Hart
Street, Bloomsbury— The Custody of Corporate Seals, 238
—St. Luke's, Old Street: Bibliography- Folk-Lore : Red
Hair— Perpetuation of Printed Errors— Ching: Cornish or
Chinese? 239.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' The Ancient Cross Shafts at
Bewcastle and Ruthwell '— • Sir William Butt, M.D.'—
"The Burlington Magazine.'
Notices to Correspondents.
THE CHAPLAINS OF FROMOND'S
CHANTRY AT WINCHESTER.
THE subjoined list of the Chaplains of John
Fromond's Chantry at Winchester College
is offered as a supplement to the list of the
College Chaplains (1417-1542) which was
printed at 11 S. x. 201, 221.
As has been indicated already at 11 S.
xii. 294, 433, Fromond's Chantry-Chapel
was built after his death by his executors.
Robert Thurbern, who was Warden of the
College from 1413 to 1450, was one of these
executors, and the building may justly be
regarded as his chief work at Winchester.
Following Fromond's example, he left the
building of his own Chant ry-Chapel to others,
-and Dr. John Baker was consequently en-
gaged between (say) 1473 and 1487 in
building Thurbern' s Chapel and in rearing a
belfry tower above it.
The moneys needed for the erection of
Fromond's Chapel were obtained mainly by
the selling of his landed estates. These had
been conveyed by him on Nov. 13, 1420
(the day before he made his will), to John
Harryes, Richard Wallop, and Richard
Seman, and their heirs, without mention of
the trusts intended, because of the great
confidence which he had in the feoffees.
What the trusts really were can be learnt
from the Chancery proceedings which Thur-
bern and John Halle (another of Fromond's
executors) had to bring against Wallop and
Seman in or about the year 1430, when
Harryes, the other feoffee, was dead. For
the bill of complaint, the subpoena to Seman
(who was an executor as well as a feoffee),
and Seman' s depositions, see ' Early Chancery
Proceedings,' P.R.O., bundle 8, Nos. 17-19;
see also the petition of Thurbern and Halle to
Cardinal Beaufort, telling the like story, but
with some variations of detail, a copy of
which is preserved at the College. These
documents show that Fromond had intended
that all his estates, other than those ex-
pressly disposed of by his will, should be
sold by the feoffees under directions from
the executors, and that the executors should
expend the proceeds in the building of a
chapel over Fromond's grave in the centre of
the College Cloisters. The occasion of the
litigation in Chancery was an alleged attempt
by Wallop to secure two of Fromond's
properties, the manor of Fernhill and some
lands at Alverstoke, for his own son, Richard
Wallop junior, without any payment being
made for them. Wallop senior was Fro-
mond's successor as Steward of the College
lands, but he vacated the office shortly
before the litigation began. (Cf. 12 S. i. 362',
No. 27.) The upshot was that the manor of
Fernhill eventually came to the College as
an additional endowment for the Chantry.
By the deed of Nov. 13, 1420, Fromond
divided his estates into no fewer than seven-
teen parcels. He disposed of only three of
them by his will : —
1. He directed that, after his wife's death,
what may be called his home property (the
manor of Sparsholt, &c.), which he had
inherited from his grandfather, Richard
Fromond, should go to John Esteney and
his heirs, but on the terms that a chaplain
should be provided at St. Stephen's Church,
Sparsholt, to celebrate daily at St. Kathe-
rine's altar for the souls of Fromond and his
wife and certain of their relatives and
ancestors. This property was duly con-
veyed upon these terms, by Harryes, Wallop,
and Seman, to Esteney by a deed dated
Tuesday next before the feast of St. George
the Martyr, 10 H. V. (i.e., April 21, 1422), a
copy of which was entered in our ' Registrum
rubrum,' fol. 126. As Fromond's widow,
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who had a life interest in the property, is not
mentioned in the deed, it may be presumed
he was then already dead. According
to Seman's depositions, Esteney was
Fromond's kinsman.
2. Fromond left to the College his tene-
ments and rents in the city and soke of
Winchester for the buying of clothes for the
Quiristers in perpetuity.
3. The College was also to have, after his
wife's death, his moiety of the manor of
Allington for the following purposes : —
(i.) For their anniversary to be kept
annually at the College. Each Fellow or
Chaplain celebrating it was to receive 2s., and
the Warden 40d., and each Clerk or Scholar,
if present, 2d. There was to be a pittance,
" pietancia eodem die in prandio per totam
aulam ad valenciam xiiis. iiiid."
(ii.) For the maintenance of a special
Chaplain, " Capellanum idoneum cele-
brantem pro animabus nostris ubi corpora
nostra quiescent," to be paid 10 marks
(6/. 13s. 4cL) a year. He was to come
" ad servicium et horas canonicas in choro
collegii ad legendum et psallandum secundum
quod custos et socii ei assignaverint si expediens
eis videatur."
He was to hold office at the pleasure of the
Warden and Fellows, and if the office re-
mained vacant through their default for a
month, the appointment was to lapse to the
Bishop of Winchester.
(iii.) Any residue from the Allington
income was to go towards the Quiristers'
clothes, if the Winchester income should
prove insufficient. Each Quirister was to
receive annually for livery at least three
yards of broad cloth of a colour different
from that worn by the Scholars. It is
stated in Thurbern and Halle's petition to
Beaufort that each Quirister had to be
supplied with " une hopelond et un chapron."
The hopelond was a tunic with a long skirt,
and the chapron was a hood. See the
' X.E.D.' under " Houpland " and " Cha-
peron."
Fromond left the residue cf his personal
estate, not specifically bequeathed, to his
executors : —
" Ut ipsi inde disponant in operibus caritatis
ad laudem et honorem Dei pro salute animarum
mee et Matildis uxoris mee patrum ac matrum
parentum amicorum et benefactorum nostrorum
et omnium fidelium defunctorum sicut in die
judicii respondere voluerint."
But, according to the petition I have just
mentioned, there was no such residue, and
for that reason (the lack of ready money to
meet expenses) Wallop, who had been named
as one of the executors, declined to join in
the application for probate. If he had any
plausible defence to the charge brought
against him with regard to Fernhill, it is a
pity that it has not come down to us. The
proceedings were probably compromised or
settled out of Court ; for our Account-roll
of 1437-8 contains the following entries
under ' Custus pro litibus defendend'is ' :—
" In solutis Haydoke pro ii brevibus yocatis-
subpena directis a cancellaria domini Regis Cus-
todi et Ricardo Seman pro dotacione Cantarie
Johannis Fromond, xiid. In datis Ricardo
Walopp equitanti cum Custode ad Dogmersh-
fylde xii die mensis Augusti ad testifican-
dum coram cancellaria domini Regis de fine-
placiti inter eundem Ricardum et executores
Johannis Fromund de manerio de Farnhyll cum.
xiid. datis famulo eiusdem, viis. viiid Et
in expensis Ricardi Barett equitantis ad Ricar-
dum Walopp ad rogandum ipsum interesse
coram cancellaria domini Regis cum Custode
xii die mensis Augusti pro materia concernente
executores Johannis Fromund cum vid. solutis-
pro i equo conducto pro eodem Ricardo, xxiid."
In the deed-poll of June 20, 1446, wherebjr
the College accepted Fromond's benefactions
with the conditions attached to them, it is-
stated that he' died on Nov. 20, 1420.
According to the Account -rolls of 1542-&
and 1543-4, where the dates of the various-
obits kept by the College are noted, Fro-
mond's anniversary was then being kept on.
Nov. 19. Kirby's " 9 November " (' Annals,'
166, 265) is a misprint.
In the following list of Fromond's Chap-
lains I use the same abbreviations as I have
used on previous occasions : —
L.Dom. William Clyff, the original Chap-
lain and the only one of whom there is any
known record before the above-mentioned
deed of June 20, 1446. Died March 24, 1433
(? 1433/4).
" Orate pro anima domini Willelmi Clyff primr
capellani istius capelle qui obiit xxiiii0 die mensis
marcii anno domini m° cccc° xxxiii0 cuius anime
propicietur deus. Amen."
Brass, now in the Chantry on the north
wall, but formerly (before 1898) on the west
wall of the Cloisters. His stipend was not
paid by the College, but he may have re-
ceived it from Fromond's executors.
2. Dom. William Wyke, 1447 (?)-62. The
Account-roll of 1447-8 (the earliest roll with;
items under ' Obitus Fromonde cum stipen-
dio capellani sui ' ) records his receipt of the
Chaplain's stipend " pro medietate anni
ultimi Ixvis. viiirf. solut. per manus magistri
Johannis Parke," who had been Bursar in.
1446-7. Last paid for half of 1461-2.
Fellow of the College, adm. April, 5 H. V..
12 B. II. SEPT. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
223
(1417), as M de Wyke in com. Dors." (Beg.,
L.A.) ; resigned Fellowship shortly before
Aug. 8, 1445, when Dom. John Robert
became Fellow in his stead (Reg. O. ; and
A.R. 1444-5, under " stipendia sociorum ") ;
" recessit ad obsequium in hospital! sancti
Johannis Baptiste Wynton et habuit cantariam
perpetuam Johannis Fromond in claustro collegii
nostil." — Keg., L.A.
3. Mr. John Gynnor, alias Chynnor, 1462-
1492. First paid for half of 1461-2, and last
paid for unspecified part of 1491-2. Scholar
of the College, adm. in 1434 as " de Castell
Eton in com. Wilts." (Reg.). Scholar and
Fellow (1441) of New College, Oxford, as
"' de par. de Heyworth, Sar. dioc." ; " Art.
Mr. et S. Theologise Scholaris " (Liber Succ.
et Dign.). Donor to New College Library
(Coxe, ' Cat. Cod. MSS. Coll. et Aul. Oxon.').
Fellow of Winchester College, adm. Oct. 5,
1452, as " de parochia de Eton Meysey in
com. Wilch." (Reg. O) ; resigned Fellowship
to become Fromond' s Chaplain on or about
March 27, 1462 (the date when his accounts
as Bursar ended). Founded an obit for
himself, which was first kept at the College
in 1492-3, and was kept annually on
Feb. 21 (see A.R. 1542-3).
4. Mr. John Dogood, 1492-9. First paid
for unspecified part of 1491-2, and last paid
for whole of 1498-9. Scholar of the College,
adm. in 1458 as " filius tenentis de Downton
in com. Wylts." ; " recessit ad Coll. Oxon.
A° dni. mcccclxi0 xii° die Febr." (Reg.).
Scholar and Fellow (Feb. 10, 1463/4) of New
College, Oxford, as " de par. S. Edmundi in
Sar., com. Wilts " ; vacated in 1474, M.A.
(Liber S. et D.). Fellow of Winchester
College, adm. in 1474, 14 E.IV. (Reg., L.A.) ;
vacated on being presented by the College,
Nov. 15, 1485, to Andover Vicarage, then
vacant by the death of Mr. John Hall
(L.A., f. 94c?.) : resigned Andover before
May 29, 1489, when Mr. William Gresley
was presented (ibid.). Fellow again, " 2°
admissus," May 8, 1490, and 6 H. VII.
(Reg., L.A., and Reg. O ; but the 6 H. VII.
did not begin until Aug. 22, 1490) ; vacated
upon becoming Fromond's Chaplain, Janu-
ary, 1491/2 (see A.R. 1491-2). Appointed
by the College in 1498 as Chaplain of Andrew
Huls' or Holes' Chantry in St. Mary Magda-
lene Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral in suc-
cession to Dom. Simon Brenfyre, alias
Bowyar (the original Chaplain there), with
annual stipend of 11. 6s. 8rf., last paid to him
in 1500-1. Will, dated Sept. 4, 1501
(witnesses, Mr. John Phyppis, M.A., Mr.
Robert Parker, B. Can. L., and Dom. Roger
Philpotte), proved Jan. 4, 1501/2, by Dom.
John Webbe, the executor, P.C.C., 6 Blamvr.
' De legatione bone memorie mri. Johannis
Dogood hoc anno, liiis. iiiirf." (A.R. 1501-2,.
under ' Receptio forinceca'). Confused by
Walcott (' Wykeham and his Colleges,' 393).
with John Dogget, Chancellor of Salisbury
[I486), and Provost of King's College, Cam-
bridge (1499), as to whom see Jones, ' Fasti
Eccles. Sarisb.,' 339 ; ' D.N.B.,' xv. 183.
5. Dom. JohnHayward, 1499-1507. First
paid for whole of 1499-1500, and last paid
[or first quarter of 1507-8. Apparently
never a Fellow7 of the College ; but perhaps
identical with a Scholar admitted in 1460 as
" Johannes Hayward de Romford in com..
Essex: recessit ad Coll. Oxon." (Reg.);
Scholar and Fellow (1467) of New College,,
Oxford ; vacated 1468 (Liber S. et D.).
6. Dom. John Curteys, 1508-10. First
paid for last three quarters of 1507-8, and
last paid for unspecified part of 1509-10..
Scholar of the College, adm. 1469. The
Register this year, instead of stating the-
places of birth, brackets thirteen names
(including his) against the word " vigent,"
short for " de locis ubi bona vigent,"
i.e., places where one or other of Wykeham's .
Colleges had property (see the College'
Statutes of 1400, rubric 2). Of St. Mary's
parish, Bath, Somerset, " filius tenentis de
Coleme " (Reg. O, under date Sept. 28, 1471,.
when he took the Scholar's oath). Scholar
and Fellow (July 10, 1476) of New College,.
Oxford ; vacated 1480, B.A. (Liber S. et D.)..
Fellow of Winchester College, adm. Oct. 7,-
1480 (Reg. O) ; vacated upon becoming
Fromond's Chaplain. Died Jan. 30, 1509/10.
Brass on west wall of the Cloisters. Be-
queathed to the College 61., " si bona sua ad
tantum extendent " (MS. note by Charles-
Blackstone).
7. Dom. John Clere, 1510-21. First paio7
for unspecified part of 1509-10, and last paid"
for first quarter of 1521-2. Apparently
never a Fellow of the College ; but possibly
identical with a Scholar of 1454 : —
" Johannes Clere de parochia sci. Johannis in,
Suburbio Winton hi com. Suth. : recessit ;id
Coll. Oxon. a° r.r. Edwardi IIII" primo." — Beg.
Scholar and Fellow (May 28, 1461) of New
College, Oxford ; vacated 1464 (Liber S. et
D.).
8. Dom. Richard Dunstall, 1522-4 (?).
First paid for last three quarters of 1521-2,.
and last paid by name for whole of 1523-4.
The Account-rolls of 1524-5 and 1525-6.
do not name the Chaplain paid for thoe
years. Scholar of the College, adm. 150&
as " de Wydynstrete, Northampton, filius
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. SKIT. ie. 1910.
t orient is Winton, xiiii anno rum in fe.sto Nat
dornini preterito " (Reg.)- Scholar anc
Fellow (July 24, 1511) of New College
Oxford, as " do villa de Wedonbrika in com
Northarnpt.," i.e., Weedon-Beck or Weedon-
on-the-Street ; vacated 1514, civilista (Liber
S. et D.)- Fellow of Winchester College
probably admitted in 1514, but the date of his
admission is recorded neither in Reg. O nor
in the ' Liber Albus,' and the Account-roll oi
1513-4 is missing. He accompanied the
Warden on several journeys during 1514-5.
Vacated Fellowship upon appointment as
•Fromond's Chaplain. Appointed as Huls'
•Chaplain in Salisbury Cathedral, Jan. 7,
1529/30 (L.A., f. 62), and was still acting
there in 1545-6, when Huls' obit was kept
for the last time.
In an inventory of 1556, relating to " ye
Stuff e that Mr. Warden hath in hys custody e
of the College," the following entry occurs : —
" Item in Dunstones Chamber [one standynge
bedstede, struck out], v cortaynes of yellow and
redde sylke, iii fether beddes, ii bovvlsters, one
mattryes, a payre of fustyan blankettes, one
standinge cowberde & olde hangynges of stayned
clothes."
I cannot say whether this chamber took
its name from St. Dunstan or from Richard
Dunstall. Possibly it took it from neither of
them, but from Mr. John Durston, who
became a Fellow on July 22, 1553, and
resigned before May 6, 1554.
9. Dom. Richard Phyllyps, 1524 (?)-46.
First paid by name in 1526-7. Probably
identical with a Scholar admitted in 1491 as
" Ricardus Philype de Eston, filius tenentis
in soka Winton, xi annorum in festo Annun-
ciationis preterito." Cf. will of Elizabeth
Fylip, 1508 (Bishop's Court), who desired to
be buried at Eston (Easton, Hants), and
mentioned " Sir Richard my son " (ex rel.
Mr. J. Challenor Smith). Apparently not a
Fellow at either of Wykeham's Colleges.
Rector of St. Swithun-upon-Kingsgate,
Winchester, in 1535 (' Valor Eccles.'),
being Rector there as early as 1520 and as
late as 1555 (' Archdeacon's Visitation Book,'
ex rel. Dr. S. Andrews). Remained Fro-
mond's Chaplain until the suppression of the
Chantry under the 37 H. VIII. c. 4 and the
1 E. VI. c. 14. The Account-roll of 1546-7
contains, under ' Custus Capelle,' the some-
what obscure entry, " Item pro obfuscatione
fenestre capelle fromonde, xrf."
Payment of the Chaplain's stipend was
revived in 1550-1, but the recipient is not
named. It was paid for the last time in
respect of the third quarter of 1558-9, but
was paid on that occasion to the Fellows and
Chaplains of the College : " item so hit. decem
sociis et capellanis celebrant ibus in capella
fromoncl hoc termino, xxxiiis. iiiirf." (' Sti-
pendia Capellanorum '). H. C.
Winchester College.
MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF
THE WATTS FAMILY OF
SOUTHAMPTON.
(See ante, pp. 101, 161.)
3. Isaac Watts, D.D.
ISAAC WATTS, the eminent Nonconformist
minister and hymn-writer, and the eldest
son of the foregoing, was born July 17, 1674,
at Southampton (house now called 22
French Street), and baptized at the Above
Bar Chapel, Southampton, about September
of that year.
From 1680 to 1690 he was educated at
the Southampton Grammar School under
the Rev. John Pinhorne.
Finishing his education in an academy
near London under Mr. Rowe, he became
at the age of 22 tutor to the son of Sir John
Hartopp at Newington.
In 1698 he was chosen assistant to Dr.
Chauncey, whom on Jan. 15, 1701/2, he
succeeded in his Meeting.
He then went to live with Sir Thomas
Abney, of Newington, and continued in that
family till his death in 1748. As we have
already seen, he was mentioned in his father's
will, 1735.
On July 23, 1746, he made his will, which
was proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury (384 Strahan) in 1748 by his
brother Enoch Watts and Nathaniel Neal of
London, the executors.
He died unmarried on Nov. 25, 1748, and
was buried at .Bunhill Fields. A handsome
tomb was erected over his grave by Lady
Abney and Sir John Hartopp.
For further particulars see his many
Biographies.
4. Richard Watts, Brother of Dr. Isaac Watts.
He was born Feb. 10, 1675/6, and baptized
about May of that year at the Above Bar
Chapel, Southampton. In 1735, as we have
seen, he was mentioned in his father's wiJl
as having received a considerable sum of
money as a marriage portion.
His wife, Mary , is also mentioned in
that will. She survived her husband.
Richard Watts died April 14, 1750. His
will is dated Nov. 27, 1746, and was proved
n the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
128. II. SEPT. 16, 1916.) NOTES AND QUERIES.
225
(['.>'2 Greenly) in 1750. From this we see
that ho was a physician. He left his widow
his salt works at Lymington, Hants.
Edmund Calamy (1697 ?-1755) was appointed
hi^ trustee. The witnesses to his will were
.los. Williams, Hugh Hardy, and John
Martin. It is interesting to note that
Edmund Calamy (1671-1739), father of the
trustee, married first, Dec. 19, 1695, Mary
(died 1713), daughter of a Michael Watts,
a cloth merchant and haberdasher (d. Feb. 3,
1708, aged 72) — no relation that I can
discover.
The following extract from Dr. Munk's
Roll of the Royal College of Physicians was
courteously supplied by Dr. Edward Liveing,
the Registrar of the College, on Dec. 19,
1C08:— '
" Richard Watts, M.D., a native of Hampshire,
then practising at Lymington, was admitted an
Extra-Licentiate* of the College June 26, 1703.
A few years afterwards, removing to London, he
presented himself at the Censors' Board, and on
Sept. 30, 1710, after the usual examinations, was
admitted a Ldcentiate-f
" He was created doctor of medicine at Cam-
bi-idice June 15. 1728 ; on Sept. 30 following was
••idinitted a candidate^ of the College; and on
s,pt.30, 1729, a Fellow."
His only child, Mary Watts, married
James Brackstone, a bookseller. As Mary's
aunt, Sarah Watts, married Joseph Brack-
stone, it is possible that James Brackstone
and his wife were cousins.
5. Enoch Watts, Brother of Dr. Isaac Watts.
He was born March 11, 1678/9, and
baptized about Xovember of that year at the
Above Bar Chapel, Southampton. He is
said to have been a sailor, but his will
describes him as " gent."
In 1735 lie is mentioned in his father's
will, which he proved in 1736/7.
From his own will, dated Jan. 27, 1755,
proved in the Prerogative Court of Canter-
bury (301 Paul), Nov. 6, 1755, it is clear that
he was either a bachelor or a widower without
surviving children.
He describes himself as of Southampton,
gent., and leaves all he possesses to his
sister, Mrs. Brackstone, her three daughters,
and his nephew Joseph Brackstone of
Covent Garden, London.
" Extra-urbem " Licentiate, one licensed to
practise outside the 7-mile radius from London
City.
f Licensed to practise in London and within
the 7-mile radius.
} Probationers for a year after obtaining their
University degrees before admission to the Fellow-,
ship. Fellows only are members of the Corporation.
IN- mentions a lease of ;! <• Custom House,.
Southampton, " given me by the will of my
kinsman Richard Taunt on, Esq., lately
deceased."
6. Thomas Watts, Brother of Dr. Isaac Watte.
He was born Jan. 20, 1679/80, and bap-
tized about March of that year at the Above
Bar Chapel, Southampton. As he is not
mentioned in his father's will, we may
presume that he died before Sept. 16, 1735.
I have not found his will or any grant
of letters of administration.
We may expect to find his marriage
between the years 1700 and 1712.
He had only two children : —
1. Mary Watts, who married before
Sept. 18, 1735, John Chaldecott. Her
grandfather, Isaac Watts, in 1735 left her
501. to be paid to her when her brother
Thomas Watts reached the age of 23.
Her children were : —
(i.) John Chaldecott, mentioned in the
will of his uncle, Thomas Watts, which will'
he proved on Dec. 15, 1773.
(ii.) Charles Chaldecott, mentioned in the-
will of his uncle, Thomas Watts.
(iii.) Richard Taunton Chaldecott, men-
tioned as being under 22 years of age in the
will of his uncle, Thomas Watts, and men-
tioned again in the codicil of that will dated
Feb. 27, 1772.
2. Thomas Watts, born after 1712, as-
under 23 years of age in 1735 when his
grandfather, Isaac Watts, left him the sum
of 1001.
His will, dated Nov. 16, 1770 (codicil dated
Feb. 27, 1772), was proved in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury on Dec. 15, 1773
(497 Stevens). In it he describes himself as
of Chichester, Sussex, gent., and mentions
his wife Anna, leaving her property at
Chichester and Selsey in Sussex, and at
Kingston in Surrey. He appoints his
nephew John Chaldecott his executor. He
leaves 1001. to each of his wife's sisters,.
viz. : Susanna, the wife of John Vernon
Penfold, and Mary, the wife of John Long-
man. To his kinsman Joseph Brackstono
of York Street, Covent Garden, he leaves
1001., but revokes this legacy in the codicil as
" he is now dead." He refers to a legacy
of Herring Fishery stock left to him by " my
good friend and relation Richard Taunton^
late of the town and county of Southampton,.
Esq., deceased." The property in Chi-
chester left, as stated above, to his wife is to
go after her death to his said nephew John.
Chaldecott. If he dies without issue, then.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. ie, wie.
to his other nephews, Charles Chaldecott and
Richard Taunt on Chaldecott.
It is clear from the above will that Thomas
"Watts, senior, has no Watts descendants.
7. Sarah Brackstone, Sister of Dr. Isaac
• Watts.
Sarah Watts was born on Oct. 31, 1681,
.•and baptized at the Above Bar Chapel,
•Southampton, about December of that year.
She was living a widow on Jan. 27, 1755,
tut died before Jan. 27, 1771.
In February, 1707/8, she married Joseph
Brackstone of Southampton. He was living
•on Sept. 16, 1735, but died before Jan. 27
1755.
Their children were : —
1. Joseph Brackstone, of York Street,
Tovent Garden, who died between Nov. 16,
1770, and Feb. 27, 1772. He had issue.
2. Mary, living unmarried r Jan. 2,7, 1755.
3. .Sarah, of Southampton. She died
funmarried. Her will, dated Jan. 27, 1771,
•was proved in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury (48 Trevor), Feb. 23, 1771.
4. Martha, of Southampton. Living un-
married Jan. 27, 1755, and Jan. 27, 1771.
From the above notes it is clear that
•nobody now living of the surname Watts can
trace descent from the father of Dr. Isaac
Watts. Any one descended from him must
prove his ancestry through the Brackstones
or Chaldecotts. WILLIAM BULL.
(To be continued.)
SAMUEL WESLEY THE ELDER : HIS
POETIC ACTIVITIES. — At 8 S. ix. 21 ; xi. 506,
I gave, about twenty years ago, an account,
under his own hand, of the political
trials of the Rev. Samuel Wesley the elder,
iather of the founder of Methodism. It may
prove interesting to try to add some in-
formation from contemporary sources about
his poetical activities, thus alluded to in an
incidental mention at the latter reference, to
be found in Dyer's News Letter, under date
" 1705, July 17, London. — Mr. Wesley, a bene-
•ficed minister in Lincolnshire, who formerly wrote
the Life of Christ, which he dedicated to Queen
Mary, but lately unhappily writing against the
Dissenters."
The date of this poem's publication thus is
placed before December, 1694, when Queen
Mary II. died, but the work was one of
•\vhich its author was obviously very proud,
imd not long before King William III.
passed away, just over seven years later,
it was being " boomed " [freely. It was
advertised in The Post Man of Aug. 14-16,
1701, that
" This day is published The Post Angel ; Or,
"Universal Entertainment for July. The Contents
arc these. 1st, A brief Account' of the Life and
Writings of Mr. Samuel Wesley. Author of the
Heroick Poem on the Life of Christ."
There were nineteen other items in the table
of contents of a singularly varied character,
and two of them of a type dealing with
subjects not usually referred to openly in
these more delicate days.
Later in the same year we have the poem
advertised again, but now in connexion with
a fresh effort in verse, thus : —
"The History of the new Testament, Represent-
ing the Actions and Miracles of our blessed Saviour
and his Apostles, attempted in Verse, and adorn'd
with 52 Sculptures. Written by Samuel Westly,
A.M. Chaplain to the most Honourable the Lord
Marquess of Normanby, and Author of the Life of
Christ, an Heroic Poem. The Cuts done by J. Sturt.
Printed for Cha. Harper at the Flower de Luce
over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street.
Where is also Printed and sold the Life of Christ,
an Heroick Poem, with 60 Copper Plates in Fol.
the 2d. Impression price 20-s. and a Treatise on
the Sacrament, in 12o. price 2s. both writ by
Samuel Westly, A.M."
This advertisement appeared in The Post
Man of Dec. 9-11, 1701 ; and, a little more
than thirteen years later, the following,
carrying on the succession, was to be found
in The Post Boy of Feb. 1-3, 1715, when
George I. had come to the throne : —
" Just publish'd, The History of the Old and .
New Testament, attempted in Verse, and adorn'd
with 332 Sculptures, in 3 Vols. By Sam. Wesley,
A.M. Chaplain to his Grace John Duke of Bucking-
ham, and Author of the Life of Christ; an Heroic
Poem. The Cutts by J. Sturt. Printed for Ben
Cowse, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's
Church-yard ; and John Hooke, at the Flower-de-
Luce against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street.
Pr. 10*."
Are there extant any contemporary
criticisms of these poetic efforts, and have
they in recent times been reprinted ?
ALFKED F. ROBBINS.
VOLTAIRE ON POLAND AND TUBKEY. — The
dissolution of the Turkish Empire and the
reconstruction of the Kingdom of Poland
will probably be two of the results of
the present war. Voltaire predicted the
great political mistake of the eighteenth
century : —
" Certainement [he wrote on Nov. 2, 1772,
concerning the Empress Catherine of Russia and
the Empress Marie Th^rese of Austria], puisque
ces deux braves dames se sont si bien entendues
pour changer la face'de la Pologne, elles s'enten-
dront encore mieux pour changer celle de la
Turquie."
is s. ii. SEPT. 16, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
227
If the great French philosopher's advice
Tiad been followed, many subsequent wars
including the present one, might have been
avoided. ANDREW DE TERN ANT.
36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.
" COMMUNIQUE." — Here is another word
frequently used in our own newspapers when
•conveying intelligence from the seat of war.
But why annex it when we have the more
suitable equivalents "dispatch," "report,"
and so forth ? "German communiques" a
term also employed, is surely quite an in-
excusable combination. CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
(Qiums.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
SIR ALEXANDER ERASER, PHYSICIAN TO
CHARLES II. — This rather pompous per-
sonage (inadequately accounted for in the
' D.N.B.') belonged to the Frasers of Durris.
I have just seen an old catalogue which
quotes a letter by him, written on Aug. 22,
1663, in which he implores speedy justice
upon
*' a gentilman of the name of Gordon, who hath
killed most iahumanly my uncle, Alexander
Lindsay, who married my aunt the Lady Barras :
I entreat your Lordship not to suffer so barbarous
a murther of an old gentleman of 72 yeares,
"without arms, to passe unpunished."
What does this murder refer to ? The only
aunt of Fraser I know of, Mary Fraser,
married the Rev. Andrew Ramsay, father of
Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall.
J. M. BULLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.
CLOTH INDUSTRY AT AYR IN THE SEVEN-
TEENTH CENTURY. — A member of my familv
— Abraham del Court (born 1623), a
Huguenot — after a preliminary visit to
Scotland in 1650, settled at Ayr about 1660.
His brother Jacob, at Amsterdam on June 12,
1663, signs before Notary Public Donckerts
a contract with a servant who is to take
Abraham del Court's children to Ayr in Scot-
land. This proves that he intended estab-
lishing himself in that country.
^ Abraham del Court's relatives were at that
time at the head of that famous cloth industry
of Amsterdam which is now entirely extinct.
Abraham del Court had presumably been
invited to come over to Scotland to found an
industry that at that period, except for the
manufacturing of plaids, could hardly be
said to exist in North Britain, lie Wiis a
man of importance. A look at the magni-
ficent full-length portrait group of himself
and his wife by Van cler Heist in the Museum
Boijmans at Rotterdam shows it at a glance.
Can any reader give me information con-
cerning the cloth industry at Ayr besides
what Prof. W. R. Scott mentions in his
' New Mills Records,' Scottish Historical
Society, vol. xxxiv., and in his book on
Companies, vol. iii. ? The least detail
concerning the textile industry of Ayr of any
period — but preferably of the seventeenth
century — will be welcome.
W. DEL COURT.
47 Blenheim Crescent, W.
" DON'T BE LONGER THAN YOU CAN HELP."
— Why is this phrase used ? It plainly
should be : " Don't be longer than you
can not help." It means " Do not be longer
than avoidable." The time " avoidable " is
the time you can not help taking.
This question I find among the notes of my
late brother, William Whitebrook, for many
years one of your occasional querists. I do
not see any easy solution to the difficulty
suggested. " The extent of use of the phrase
is also unknown to me. I have heard it in
London, from persons habituated to accu-
racy of speech. J. C. W.
ROBERT WILLIAM ELLISTON. — I should be
greatly obliged if some Latin scholar would
give the correct translation of these lines,
which appear on the monument of the above
actor in St. John's, Waterloo Bridge Road :
Dum pia Melpomene, nato pereunte querelas
Fundit, et ante alias orba Thalia gemit ;
Non minus in fletus fidi solvuntur amici, *
Non minus egregii pignora chara tori :
^Equum, et propositi deplorant grande tenacem
Eximiae fidei justitiaeque virum.
G. S. PARRY.
.While, as her son dies, leal Melpomene her plaints
fours, and Thalia wails beyond her sisters lorn,
No less his friends true-hearted into weeping break,
No less the pledges dear of his proud marriage-bed :
They mourn a man fair-minded, that which lie had
set him
Full strong to hold to, of high honour and
righteousness.]
THE REV. WARD MAULE. — I shall be much
obliged if any of your readers can give me
nurther information about this clergyman
than I possess at present. He was ap-
jointed by the Bishop and the committee
of the Additional Clergy Society of Madras
o the incumbency of Christ Church, Nag-
oore, in 1856 ; and in the following year to
he incumbency of Christ Church, Nellore.
He returned to England in 1859. I cannot
228
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. w, me.
find his name in any ( 'k-rgy Li>t of the period.
I shall be glad to know about his university,
college, degree, and employment after he
left India. FRANK PENNY.
3 Park Hill, Baling, W.
MARSEILLES HARBOUR FROZEN. — Can any
reader of ' X. & Q.' kindly inform me if there
is any record of the harbour at Marseilles
having been frozen some time during the
eighteenth century ? To me it seems in-
credible. A. T. CROSSE.
Arthur's, St. James's Street, S.W.
" GREAT- COUSIN." — Your readers have
always been so kindly encouraged to note any
new or uncommon words that I hope I may
ask if the word given in The Times of
Sept. 4 is known beyond the Xorth of
England.
In a paragraph concerning the will of a
Blackburn lady we read that she left a
legacy to her " great-cousin." I am fairly
conversant with family records, but I never
saw this word before.
I should be grateful to any one who could
inform me whether it refers to the third or
fourth generation, i.e., whether the ladies
descended from a couple who were their
grandparents or their great -grandparents.
Y. T.
" THE FREEDOM OF A CITY IN A GOLD
BOX." — What are the earliest records of the
presentation of the freedom of a city in the
now accustomed " gold box " ? The London
Gazette of July 7-10, 1679, contained the
following : —
" Edenburg, July 3. This evening his Grace the
Duke of Bucclugh and Monmouth was Treated by
the City at a very noble Collection of Meats ana
Fruits, after which the Lord Provost presented his
(irace with the Freedom of this City, the Letters
being in a large Gold Box."
Horace Walpole's famous reference to the
elder Pitt, " For some weeks it rained gold
boxes," suggests how firmly this practice,
when freedoms were presented, had become
rooted by the middle of the eighteenth
century. ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
' THE COMIC ALB RICH.' — This was an
Oxford skit published in 1866, and addressed
to undergraduates as an invitation " to chop
Logic instead of cutting it." The author is
doubtless the late H. D. Traill, who describe?
himself as " the Angelic Doctor." The
illustrations by " the Subtle Ditto " leave
greater room for doubt. They may have
been by Sidney Hall, who was Train's friend
and contemporary at Oxford. Presumably
many of the personages are real, for Dean
Vfansel is plainly and Prof. Wall vaguely
recognizable. Can any of your readers give
nformation, especially on the identity of
' the Subtle Ditto " ? The illustrator seems
•o have been gifted with prophetic powers,
;or in one sketch a lady in the garb of the
?resent day is seen working in the field.
L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
Acco. — Can any one tell me something of
Acco ? I met her in my childhood in the
Heathen Mythology ' section of ' Mang-
nall's Questions,' and, as far as I can
remember, have never found her elsewhere.
She was introduced as being " an old woman
remarkable for talking to herself at the glass,,
and refusing what she most wished for."
ST. SWITHIN.
ST. XEWLYN EAST. — In the churchyard of
this Cornish parish there is a cross bearing the
inscription : " God's visitation of Xewlyn
1880. Psalms 130-134." I have heard that
an epidemic raged in Xewlyn in 1880, and
shall be obliged to any correspondent who-
will kindly give me full details. The cross
is not of the usual Cornish pattern, and
appears to be an old one restored.
F. GODFERY.
Larnaca, Argyll Road, Boseombe, Hants.
A MEDIEVAL HYMN. — In a book on
stained glass in Rouen which was published
in 1832, Langlois, a French author, describes
a panel representing the Annunciation
(formerly in St. Leu Church, Paris) as one of
the joys of the Blessed Virgin, and quotes-
one strophe from an ancient hymn which he
attributes, I do not know why. to St. Thomas
a Becket : —
Gaude, Virgo, mater Christi,
Quse per aurem concepisti,
Gabriele nuntio.
I should be pleased to know if the other
strophes are to be found. What about the
date and attribution to St. Thomas ? It
seems to be very improbable.
PIERRE TTTRPIN.
TINSEL PICTURES. — Being interested in
old tinselled portraits of actors and actresses.
I should be pleased to learn the name of
the publisher of theatrical prints who first
introduced and supplied the tinsel foil;
ornaments for the embellishment of the
same. I should also be glad to know if there i?
any collection of these old tinselled portrait-
in any public gallery or museum in the
country. I have seen those in the London.
Museum. ANDREW J. GRAY..
138 Durham Road, Wimbledon, S.W.
12 8. IL SEPT. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND Q UERIES.
229
ARNOLD OF RUGBY AND HEBREW. — In a
letter to Whately which Arnold wrote in
1835 occurs a very interesting passage about
a Hebrew scholar
" of whom I took a few lesson-;, ninl who was
learned in the writings of the Rabbis, but totally
ignorant of all the literature of the West, ancient
and modern."
Can any one tell me who this person was ?
M. L. K. BRESLAR.
OLD MS. VERSES. — I have lying before me
a collection of verse in early eighteenth-
century writing. I wish to know if the
matter in it is original, or whether the poems
and jeu d1 esprit in it are copies. It contains
amongst other things : —
Dr. Lappeworth to the worthiest Dr. Budden.
On the chess-play.
Dr. Cprbett to the Lord Mordant.
In obitum Ho. Cecilii.
To the Comedians of Cambridge.
On young Tom of C. C. Dr. Corbett.
Dr. Donne on his departure from his loue.
I transcribe the following ; they may be
well known, but I have not come across
them : —
J. Stone's Epitaph on himselfe
whilst he lay sicke.
Lo here I lie strecht out both hands and feete
My Bed my graue, my shirt my winding sheete
You neede not carue a Tomb-stone out for me
A Tombe-Stone I unto myselfe will be.
Another.
Jerusalem's curse shall never light on me
For here a stone upon a stone you see.
On the remove of Queen Elizabeths bodie from
Richmond to Whitehall by water.
The Queene was brought by water to Whitehall
At everie stroake teares from the oares did fall
More clung about the barge ; fish under water
Wept out their eyes of pearle and swam blind after
I thinke the bargman might wth easier thighes
Have rowed her thither through the peoples eyes
For howsoever thus my thoughts have scan'd
Sh' had come by water had she come by land.
On Queene Anne who dying in March, was kept
unburied till Aprill and interred in May
March wth his winds hath strucke a Cedar tall
And weeping Aprill mournes the Cedar's fall
And May intends her month rio flowers shall bring
Since she hath lost the flower of the spring :
Thus Marches winds have caused Aprill showers
And yet sad May must loose her flower of flowers.
J. HAMBLEY HOWE, M.B.
[Is the poem by Donne Elegie XIIIL, which
first appeared in the 1635 edition of his poems?]
MOONE OF BREDA : JACKSON. — It is stated
in JJurke's 'Extinct Baronetage' that Sir
Abraham Cullen, the first baronet's father,
married Mrs. Abigail Moone, of a noble house
in Brabant ; and the Cullen family were also
an ancient family of Breda in the Duchy of
Brabant.
Was there any relationship between this
Moone family and Sir Anthony Jackson, who
was knighted at Breda in Holland in 1650 ?
WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.
Manor House, Dunclrum, co. Down.
OSBERT SALVIN, NATURALIST. — I should
be glad to learn the name of his mother, and
the date of her marriage. The ' D.N.B.',
First Supp. iii. 335, does not mention
her. G. F. R. B. •
DR. THOMAS FHEWEN practised at Rye
and afterwards at Lewes, and died at
Northiam, June 14, 1791. See 'D.X.B.,' xx.
274. I should be glad to ascertain par-
ticulars of his parentage and the place of
his birth. G. F. R. B.
AUTHOR WANTED. —
Etsi inopis non ingrata munuscula dextne.
F. P. B.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151,
163, 191,204.)
[!T has been suggested that this Army List,
when completed in the columns of
' N. & Q.,' should be reprinted in book-
form, embodying the " replies " con-
tributed, and furnished with an Index
of Names. If the volume should run
to about 96pp., an edition, say, of 100
copies might be sold at 10s. 6d. each,
the price per copy being much lower
if a larger number were disposed of.
Before coming to a decision it is neces-
sary to consider the question of the
number of copies for which a sale might
with fair certainty be expected. Will
readers, therefore, let us know if they
would be prepared to purchase copies ?
Such intimation involves no obligation,
and is only asked for in order to ascer-
tain whether there is in fact any demand
for such a reprint.]
First Regiment of Foot Guards (ante, p. 163).
Charles Frampton, colonel of 30th Foot,
April 1, 1743, to his death ; lieutenant-
general, September, 1747 ; d. Sept. 23, 1749.
Wm. Merrick, major-general, 1745 ;
d. Sept. 8, 1747.
Richard Ingoldsby, brigadier-general,
1744 ; d. Dec. 8, 1759.
230
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. H. SEPT. w, wie.
Richard Pierson, colonel Foot Guards,
d. Jan. 3, 1743.
Imvood, colonel Foot Guards, d. March 25,
1747.
Daniel Houghton, colonel of 45th Foot,
Jan. 11, 174L, to 1745, and of 24th Foot,
Jan. 22, 1745, to Dec. 5, 1747 ; brigadier-
general, 1745.
James Long, colonel of 44th Foot, Jan. 7,
1741, to March, 1743 ; d. July, 1744.
Col. Brackley, d. Church, Cobham, Surrey,
Jan. 3, 1758.
Alexander Dury, major-general, d. 1757.
Wm. Herbert, fifth son of 8th Earl of
Pembroke; he was M.P. for Wilton 1734 to
his death ; colonel of 14th Foot, Dec. 1, 1747,
to Jan. 27, 1753 ; and of 2nd Dragoon
Guards, Jan. 27, 1753, to his death, March 31,
1757 ; major-general, Feb. 21, 1755.
Littler, colonel in the Guards, d. Feb. 13,
1742.
Rambouillet, colonel Foot Guards, d.
November, 1747.
Sir Edward Bettenson succeeded his
cousin Oct. 17, 1733 ; and d. Nov. 24, 1762.
Edward Carr, lieutenant-general, Feb. 22,
1760 ; colonel of 50th Foot, May 5, 1760, to
his death about August, 1764.
A Wm. Daffy d. Weald, Essex, Aug. 3,
1771, aged 77.
John Parker, colonel of 41st Foot, Sept. 6,
1765, to death ; lieutenant-general, April 30,
1770 ; d. Twickenham, Dec. 10, 1770.
James Durand, colonel of 56th Foot,
June 12, 1765, to May 22, 1766 ; lieutenant-
general, Feb. 22, 1760.
James Baker, captain in the Guards,
d. April 21, 1744.
John Parslow, colonel of 70th Foot,
April 28, 1758, to July 10, 1760 ; colonel of
54th Foot, Sept. 11, 1767, to April 30, 1770 ;
and of 30th Foot, April 30, 1770, to death ;
Commandant of Gibraltar, 1761-2 ; general,
Nov. 20, 1782 ; d. Nov. 15, 1786.
George Boscawen, third son of 1st Viscount
Falmouth, b. Dec. 1, 1712 ; M.P. for Penryn,
1743-61, and for Truro, 1761-4 ; colonel of
29th Foot, March 4, 1752, to Jan. 16, 176],
and of 23rd Foot, Jan. 16, 1761, to death ;
lieutenant-general, Feb. 22, 1760 ; served at
Dettingen and Fontenoy ; d. May 3, 1775.
John Waldegrave, b. April 28, 1718 ;
ensign 1st Foot Guards, May 13, 1735 ;
lieutenant, Jan. 8, 1739 ; captain- lieutenant
3rd Foot Guards, April 11, 1743 ; first major,
May 9, 1749 ; M.P. for Oxford, 1747-54, and
forNewcastle-under-Lyme, 1754 and 1761-3 ;
colonel of 9th Foot, Jan. 26, 1751, to Jan. 22,
1755 ; of 8th Dragoons, Jan. 22, 1755, to
Oct. 23, 1758; of 5th Dragoon Guards,
Oct. 23, 1758, to Sept. 10, 1759 ; of 2nd
Dragoon Guards, Sept. 10, 1759, to July 15,
1773 ; and of Coldstream Guards, July 15,
1773, to death ; succeeded his brother as
3rd Earl Waldegrave, April 28, 1763 ; general,
May 26, 1772 ; d. of apoplexy in his carriage
near Reading, Oct. 15, 1784 ; greatly dis-
tinguished himself at battle of Minden,
Aug. 1, 1759.
Robert Rich, b. 1714 ; ensign Grenadier
Guards, July 5, 1735 ; lieutenant, July 9,
1739 ; sold out, June, 1744 ; lieutenant-
colonel 4th Foot, 1745, and colonel of it,
Aug. 22, 1749, to May 12, 1756; severely
wounded at battle of Culloden, April 16,
1746 ; Governor of Londonderry, April 24,
1756, to 1774 ; lieutenant-general, Dec. 10,
1760 ; succeeded his father as 5th Bart.,
Feb. 1, 1768 ; involved in a dispute with the
Government, 1768, which resulted in his
dismissal from the army, Oct. 3, 1774 ;
d. Bath, May 19, 1785.
Studholm Hodgson, lieutenant 1st Foot
Guards, Feb. 3, 1741, and captain, 1747 ;
served at battles of Fontenoy and Culloden ;
raised the 50th Foot, December, 1755 ;
colonel of it, May 20, 1756, to Oct. 23, 1759 ;
colonel of 5th Foot, Oct. 24, 1759, to Nov. 7,
1768 ; colonel of 4th Foot, Nov. 7, 1768, to
June 7, 1782 ; colonel of 4th Irish or Black
Horse (which became 7th Dragoon Guards),
June 7, 1782, to March 12, 1789 ; colonel of
llth Dragoons, March 12, 1789, to his death,
Oct. 20, 1798, aged 90, at his residence in
Old Burlington Street, London ; created
field-marshal, July 30, 1796.
George Gray, b. about 1710 ; colonel of
61st Foot, July 19, 1759, to May 9, 1768 ; and
of 37th Foot, May 9, 1768, to death ; lieu-
tenant-general, April 30, 1770 ; succeeded his
brother as 3rd Bart., Jan. 9, 1773 ; d. Feb. 14,
1773.
Maurice Johnson, colonel 1st Guards,
d. Dec. 4, 1793, aged 80.
Mathew Aylmer, b. April 10, 1724 ;
succeeded his cousin as 6th Bart., July 12,
1745 ; d. London, April, 1776.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
(ante, p. 164).
John Folliot, lieutenant-general, June,
1745 ; d. November, 1748.
John Folliott, colonel of 18th Foot, Dec. 22,
1747, to death ; lieutenant-general, January,
1758 ; d. Feb. 26, 1762.
George Churchill, lieutenant-general,
September, 1747 ; d. Aug. 19, 1753.
John Parsons, colonel of 41st Foot, March 4,
1752, to death, May 10, 1764, aged 90;
lieutenant-general, 1759.
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231
Legg, major Foot Guards, d. December
1740.
Charles Fielding, brother ,of Earl ol
Denbigh, colonel in the Guards, d. Feb. 6
1746.
Corbet, colonel in the Guards, d. Jan. 24
1750.
Milner, captain in the Guards, d. Oct. 14,
1739.
Bennet Noel, lieutenant-general, Feb. 22
1760 ; colonel of 43rd Foot, April 12, 1762
to his death, Sept. 21, 1766.
John Twisleton, officer in army, d.
Broughton, near Banbury, Dec. 22, 1763.
Wm. A'Court-Ashe, colonel of llth Foot,
Aug. 21, 1765, to death ; general, March 19,
1778 ; d. Aug. 2, 1781, aged 72.
Duncan Urquhart of Burdsyards, Scotland,
colonel Foot Guards, d. Jan. 11, 1742.
Charles Perry was not colonel of 57th
Foot, 1755-7, as John Arabin was ; George
Perry was colonel of 55th Foot, 1755-7.
Julius Caesar, major-general, May 14,
1759 ; d. Aug. 7, 1762.
Wm. Gansell, colonel of 55th Foot, Aug. 20,
1762, to death; lieutenant-general, May 26,
1772 ; d. July 28, 1774.
Lord Robert Manners, colonel of 36th Foot,
March 13, 1751, to Sept. 6, 1765 ; and of
3rd Dragoon Guards, Sept. 6, 1765, to death ;
general, May 26, 1772 ; d. May 31, 1782.
Charles Wilmer, son of 'the M.P. for
Northampton, d. Dec. 26, 1742.
Wm. Evelyn, colonel of 29th Foot, Nov. 3,
1769, to death : lieutenant-general, Aug. 29,
1777 ; d. Aug. 15, 1783.
Third Regiment of Foot Guards
(ante, p. 165).
Legge, colonel Foot Guards, d. June 7,
1753.
Henry Skelton, colonel of 12th Foot,
May 28, 1745, to death ; lieutenant-general,
•September, 1747 ; d. April 10, 1757.
James Steuart of Torrence, colonel Foot
•Guards, d. April 3, 1743.
Thomas Murray, colonel of 46th Foot,
June 23, 1743, to death ; lieutenant-general,
January, 1758 ; d. Nov. 14, 1764.
James Steuart, second son of 5th Earl of
Galloway, major 3rd Foot Guards, 1745 ;
lieutenant-general, Jan. 20, 1758 ; d. Callev,
April 27, 1768.
Charles Ingram, brother of Viscount
Irwin, colonel Foot Guards, d. Nov. 28, 1748.
George Ogilvie, major-general, d. 1779.
Wm. Lister, colonel, d. March, 1774.
Andrew Robinson, colonel of 45th Foot,
Sept. 24, 1761, to Nov. 11, 1761 ; and of
38th Foot, Nov. 11, 1761, to his death'
April 5, 1762, aged 79.
Henry Powlet, captain in the Guards,
d. May'll, 1743.
Burgess, colonel in the Guards, d. Aug. 18,
1760.
Cuthbert Sheldon, colonel in the Guards,
d. Fletwick, May 29, 1765.
John Furbar, major-general, June 10,
1762 ; d. July 6, 1767.
John Wells, colonel, d. November, 1779,
aged 82.
Daniel Jones, colonel of 2nd Foot, Aug. 7,
1777, to death ; lieutenant-general, Feb. 27,
1779 ; d. Nov. 18, 1793.
Edward A'Court, captain in army, d.
December, 1745.
Leslie, captain Foot Guards, d. Feb. 26,
1757.
Montagu Blomer, colonel in the army,
d. September or October, 1772.
FREDERIC BOASE.
The King's Oivn Regiment of Horse
(ante, p. 44).
John Brown, major-general, March 26,
1754; lieutenant-general, Jan. 15, 1758;
colonel 9th Light Dragoons, May 10, 1742 ;
and of 1st Regt. of Light Horse (afterwards
4th Dragoon Guards), April 1, 1743, till lie
sold it, Aug. 3, 1762.
Brown was succeeded as lieutenant-colonel
of the King's Horse by Major Martin
Madan, May 11, 1742, to Aug. 24, 1746. He
was first son of Martin M. of Isle of Nevis,
by Penelope Russell, great-granddaughter
of Archbishop Ussher ; b. 1700 ; lieutenant
and captain Coldstream Guards, Aug. 12,
1717, to 1721 ; captain in the King's Horse,
May 16, 1721, to 1734 ; defeated at Bridport,
December, 1746, but M.P. Wootton Bassett,
1747-54 ; equerry to Frederick, Prince of
Wales, 1736-49 ; Groom rof the Bedchamber
to the same, April, 1749, till H.R.H. d.,
March, 1751 ; m. before 1726 Judith,
daughter of Hon. Spencer Cowper, Justice
of the Common Pleas ; and d. March 4,
1756, aged 55 ; buried at Bath, M.I. Bath
Abbey ; father of Spencer Madan, Bishop
of Peterborough.
George Furnese, of kin to Henry Furnese,
M.P. Dover, 1720-34; cousin to Sir Robert
F., 2nd Bart., M.P., of Waldershare, Kent.
Timothy Carr, major of the regt., May 11,
1742 ; lieutenant-colonel do., Aug. 24, 1746,
to Feb. 13, 1759; brevet-colonel, April 9,
1746; one of the four Gentlemen Waiters
.100Z.) to Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1748,
ill H.R.H. d. March, 1751; an equerry to
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George, Prince of Walt>~. 1751-60; chief
equerry and clerk marshal to the same as
Geo. III., December, 1760, till he d. April 4,
1771.
William Thompson succ. him as major
of the regt., Aug. 24, 1746, and was lieutenant-
colonel July 13, 1757, to May 1, 1759.
The vacant captaincy had been filled by
Hon. Charles Feild ing' from Oct. 13, 1727,
till he was made captain and lieutenant
colonel Coldstream Guards, Nov. 7, 1739 ;
retired Jan. 23, and d. Feb. 6, 1746 ; pre-
viously lieutenant and captain in same regt.,
Jan. 24, 1721, to 1727.
Charles Bembow was in 1761 (as Benbow)
on half-pay of brigadier and lieutenant of
the 3rd Troop of Horse Guards from the
time it was reduced in 1746 ; but d. before
1770. Of kin to Wm. B., appointed captain
in the Queen's Regiment of Horse, June,
1712.
Philip Brown was also in 1761 on half-
pay of exempt and captain 3rd Horse
Guards from its reduction, 1746, but also
disappeared before 1770.
Hon. John Boscawen, fourth surviving
son of 1st Viscount Falmouth ; b. January,
1714 ; a Page of Honour to the King in
1738 ; lieutenant in the King's Horse, July 8,
1742 ; exempt and captain 3rd Horse
Guards, 1742, till reduced, Dec. 25, 1746 ;
adjutant 1st Horse Guards, Feb. 23, 1748;
captain and lieutenant - colonel 1st Foot
Guards, Feb. 23, 1748, to 1758; colonel
of 75th Foot, May 1, 1758; of 45th Foot,
Nov. 11, 1761, till he d. May 30, 1767 ;
Governor of Jersey, March, 1760 ; major-
general, March 4, 1761 ; Master of the Horse
to H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland, 1747-57 ;
Groom of his Bedchamber, 1757 till the
Duke d., Oct. 31, 1765; defeated for Tre-
gony, February, 1737 ; and said to have
been a candidate there the next month,
but M.P. Truro, 1747-67 ; m. Dec. 29, 1748,
Thomasina, first daughter of Robert Surman
of Essex.
The Queen's Own Horse
(ante, p. 45).
Richard Whitworth, a captain therein,
Jan. 2, 1711 ; major, Maj^ 28, 1713, renewed
by George I., Aug. 1, 1715 ; lieutenant-colonel
thereof, Jan. 1, 1718, to February, 1750 ; a
Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber
in 1734 (t appointed August, 1728) till
he d. 1750. A younger son of Rich. W. of
Adbaston, co. Stafford, and brother to Chas.,
Lord Whitworth (1675-1725), the ambassador.
Was he the father of Richard Whitworth,
M.P. Stafford, 1768-80, who died at
Batchacre Grange, co. Stafford, about Sept.r
1811, aged 77?
Peter Naizon, served at Dettingen,
wounded at Fontenoy, as lieutenant-colonel
1st Royal Dragoons,' Jan. 23, 1741, to 1746 ;
colonel 13th Dragoons, Feb. 17, 1746, till he
d., January, 1751.
Charles Otway (of kin to James Otway :
lieutenant -colonel of the same regt., May 28,
1713 ; colonel 9th Foot, Jan. 7, 1718, till
he d., 1725 ; and ? nephew of General Chas. O.,
who was brigadier-general Nov. 28, 1735 ;
major-general, July 2, 1739 ; lieutenant-
general, May 28, 1745; general March 9,
1761). He succ. Naizon as major 2nd Dragoon
Guards Feb. 9, 1741, to April 9, 1748, and
was on half -pay (as captain of Marines)
of the Duke of Montagu's Ordnance from
then till he d. between 1761 and 1770.
Query, the " Otway, lieut.-col. in the Guards,"
who died July 1, 1762, as mentioned by
MB. BOASE (ante, p. 75).
Anthony Rankine was still captain in
1745.
Wadham Wyndham, cornet June 8, 1720,
to 1732, still lieutenant in 1745; presum-
ably the son of Wadham W. of London, who
matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford,
April 6, 1722, aged 18 ; his father also of
St. Edmund's College, Salisbury, third son
of Sir Wadham W. of Norrington, Judge of
the King's Bench. The cornet's name is not
given in ' Landed Gentry.' The Gent. Mag.
under June, 1741, gives " William Wynd-
ham, Esq., son-in-law to the Bishop of
Durham, appointed Secretary to the Stamp
Office." Richard Chandler was Bishop of
Durham, 1730-50 ; but in the ' Court and
City Registers ' of the period the Secretary's
name appears as Wadham WTyndham, at
300Z. a year salary, until he resigned or d.
in 1758.* Would he be the cornet ?
Solomon Stevenson was Clerk of the Avery
(I25/.) under the Master of the Horse in 1748-
till 1761. (Many offices at Court were filled
by army officers.)
William Chaworth, cornet April 8, 1721,
to 1733; still lieutenant in 1745.
Hon. James Somerville, first son of James,
13th Lord Somerville, Premier Baron of
Scotland, whom he succ. 1765 ; b. about
1725; cornet in the Queen's Own Regt. of
Horse when a child ; lieutenant do., July 23,
1737 ; captain in the same (2nd Dragoon
Guards), Jan. 26, 1750/1, being senior
captain in 1761 ; major thereof, Dec. 31,
1761; retired Aug. 17, 1763; d. unm.,
April 16, 1796.
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233
Joseph Ash and C'lias. Hen. Lee were still
cornets in 1745.
Joseph Ashe of Ashfield, co. Meath, first
son of Rich. A. of same (M.P. Trim, d. 1727),
wasH.S., co. Meath ; m. Susannah, daughter
of Dudley Loftus of Killian, and had five
sons: 1. Richard Ashe, M.P. Trim, barrister,
d. s.p. and v.p. 2. Dudley. 3. Sir Thomas
Ashe, Knt., M.P., baptized Sept. 10, 1732.
4. Joseph, killed with his brother Dudley in
storming the battery of Moro Castle at the
Havannah, 1762. 5. Major William Ashe,
who m. 1793. But was he the cornet ?
James Mure Campbell of Rowallan, co.
Ayr; M.P. co. Ayr, 1754-61; son of Lieut. -
General the Hon. Sir James Campbell, M.P.,
K.B., killed at Fontenoy ; b. Feb. 11, 1726 ;
major llth Dragoons, June 26, 1754;
lieutenant-colonel do., June 2, 1756 ; lieu-
tenant-colonel 2nd (or the Queen's Own)
Regt. of Dragoon Guards, May 7, 1757, till
May 20, 1763; served in Germany in 1761 ;
brevet-colonel, Feb. 19, 1762 ; major-
general, Oct. 19, 1781 ; on half-pay of lieu-
tenant-colonel of late 21st Dragoons, or Royal
Forresters [sic], disbanded 1763, from that
year until he d., April 28, 1786; assumed
the surname of Mure on succeeding to (his
grandmother's) the Countess of Glasgow's
estate, Sept. 3, 1724 ; succ. his kinsman
John as 5th Earl of Loudoun, April 27, 1782.
William, 8th Earl of Home, captain and
lieutenant - colonel 3rd (or Scotch) Foot
Guards, 174- ; second major thereof, May 9,
1749, to 1752 ; brevet-colonel, Nov. 29, 1745 ;
major-general March 13, 1755; lieutenant-
general, Feb. 13, 1759 ; colonel 25th Foot.
April 29, 1752, till he d. s.p., April 28, 1761.
John Cope may have been son of John
Cope who was one of the four Gentlemen
Ushers of the King's -Privy Chamber (annual
salary 200Z.) in 1734 till 1760.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
In the list of Ensigns of the Grenadier
Guards, styled " First Regiment of Foot
Guards," (ante, p. 164), appears the name
" Studhme Hodgson," commission dated
1727/8. This name. I think, merits a
note, if it is, as I suppose, that of
Field-Marshal Studholme Hodgson, " the
conqueror of Belle Isle," concerning
whom MR. DALTON contributed an
interesting note at 8 S. xi. 265. He was
appointed Governor of Forts George and
Augustus in 1765, and in 1768 became
colonel of the 4th King's Own Foot. His
wife was Catherine, daughter of either
" Lieut.-Gen. Thomas Howard " or " Field -
Marshal Sir George Howard of Effingham.'"
John, his heir, WHS wounded while in. com-
mand of his father's regiment in Holland in
1799, and was subsequently Governor of
Bermuda and of Curagoa. In succession he
was colonel of the 3rd Garrison Battalion,
the 83rd, and of his old corps, the 4th King's
Own ; becoming a full general in 1830, and
dying in 1846, aged 90. Studholme John
Hodgson, John's eldest son, entered the army
in 1819 in the 50th Foot, and served many
years in India. Ceylon, and Burma, command-
ing the forces in Ceylon and the Strails
Settlements. In 1876", like his father, he
became colonel of the Royal Lancaster
Regiment (the King's Own), and died at
Torquay in 1890. John Hodgson's second son,
John Studholme Hodgson, major-general in
H.M.'s Bengal Army, served with gallantry
and distinction in India, and was wounded
at Sobraon. He raised the first Sikh regiment
embodied in^ the British service, and com-
manded the 1st Sikh Infantry in the second
Sikh War of 1848-9.
I am unaware if any descendants of this
martial group now exist, or are fighting at the
present time. The family was an ancient
one, settled for some centuries at Wormanby
in Westmorland, and Field-MarshalHodgson's
immediate relatives were Quakers.
F. P. LEYBURN-YARKER.
20 St. Andrew's Street, Cambridge.
"WATCH HOUSE," EWELL, SURREY,
(12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157.)
THERE are numerous allusions to Watch
Houses in parochial records. The Watch
House was used for petty malefactors and
vagrants. It sometimes bore the name of
" the cage." At Fulham there was one-
which stood close to the workhouse. An
old inhabitant, " Honest " John Phelps, \\<- -;
the last person to remember its existence in
Bear Street. He described it as a sin; 11
outhouse entered by means of iron doors.
In the parish books of Fulham there are a
number of references to it. Thus under date-
1630 :—
"ffor the burying of a boie that died in the _ cage-
and stripping viikC
The "cage" was taken down in 1718, and
there is an entry in the books in this year : —
" Paide for pulling down the old watch house
4s. 2rf."
At Islington there was a similar " cage "
and Watch House combined which, with the-
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.stocks, stood about the centre of the green.
A new Watch House was erected later at the
southern extremity of the green.
One of the most interesting allusions to
\\~atch Houses may be found in Dickens's
* Gone Astray.' This story appeared in
Household Words, Aug. 13, 1853. It was
reprinted in small book-form in 1912, with
an introduction by Mr. B. W. Matz. This
charming little autobiographical story, when
reissued under the capable editorship of
Mr. Matz, had pictures by Ruth Cobb and
photographs by T. W. Tyrrell, also repro-
ductions of old prints. Upon one of the
final pages is a picture of the old Watch
House in Welle lose Square, Whitechapel,
• alluded to by Dickens in this story.
The churchwardens of Stepney upon
• Jan. 15, 1661, ordered that
" \Villiam Bisaker parish clerke doe prepare a
•petic'on to bee presented to the next sessions of
the peace for this county for setting a Watch at
'Stepney and for building a Watch House in some
-convenient place for that purpose and that the
?ame may bee defrayed att the charge of the p'ish
• in generall."
In Bloomsbury the Watch House was
built in 1694 by Rathbone (from whom
Rathbone Place is named), and the sum of
SI. was paid to him by the parish, " due in
part for building the Watch House." This
first Watch House stood in the middle of
Holborn, a little to the west of Southampton
Street, leading to Bloomsbury Square. The
ground on which it was built was given to
the parish for the purpose by the Duke of
Bedford. The Watch 'House was probably
enlarged or rebuilt in 171 6, when the vestry
ordered
" that the Watch House in Holborn be ' viewed
and an estimate made of the expense to make a
Watch House and other conveniences for the keep-
ing of prisoners.' In the early part of the present
century the Watch House was situated in Smart's
Buildings, near Drury Lane." — G. Clinch's
•'Bloomsbury and St. Giles,' 1890, pp. 43-44.
In Pinks's ' History of Clerkenwell ' the
writer says: " A raised circular pavement,
with two lamp -posts in the centre, now
marks the spot where the old Watch House
stood." In The London Gazette, April 10,
1742, there is the following notice: —
" Whitehall — Whereas on Sunday the 4th
•instant, about two o'clock in the morning, five
men mounted on horseback loaded with goods,
inspected to be tea, passing through the road near
( lerkenwel] Green, one of their horses run against
the Constable, who holding up his staff to defend
himself, the person on the said horse discharged
divers pistols or blunderbusses at the said con-
stable and his watchman Isaac Crawley, and
wounded the said Crawley in his arm, which has
• since been cut off : and whereas another of the
said persons, returning back, fired four pistols
or blunderbusses at the said constable and his
watchman; and soon after divers persons came
to the watch house at Clerkenwell Green and dis-
charged several pistols or blunderbusses through
the door of the said Watch House and wounded
Richard Crpxall, another watchman there on his
duty, who is since dead," &c.
Adjoining the old pump on the east side of
Ray Street, Clerkenwell, was formerly one of
the parish Watch Houses erected in the year
1794. It continued to be used as a " lock-
up " for the temporary' confinement of mis-
demeanants until a late period.
The Spafields Watch House was erected in
1813-14 on a plot of ground leased of the
New River Company. It had two strong
cells, one for male and the other for female
prisoners. When the Metropolitan Police
Force was established that portion of the
premises which had served as a WTatch House
was converted into a police station, and so
continued until 1841 or 1842.
The ' Rules and Regulations to be ob-
served by the Beadles of the Parish of
St. Anne, Westminster,' printed in the year
1794, ordain
" That one of the Beadles in rotation shall be at
the Watch House on every night half an hour
before the time of setting the watch to see that
the constable set the watchmen in due time, and
that they are provided with a great coat, staff,
and rattle."
The St. Anne's Watch House still remains
close to the church, and bears the inscription :
" St. Anne's Watch House erected A.D. 1801."
It is now used as a parish mortuary. See
Rimbault and Clinch's ' Soho,' 1895. A
similar Watch House stood outsideSt. Martin's
Church, Charing Cross. See Macmichael's
' Charing Cross.'
Since Rimbault and Clinch's ' Soho ' was
issued in 1895 some rebuilding has taken
place in Dean Street, Soho. I submit that
the new Church House, numbered 57A Dean
Street, stands much where the Watch House
stood until a year or so ago.
Other districts issued printed rules for the
regulation of Watch Houses. In St. Pancras
there was published in 1826 'Rules for the
Conduct of Watch-House Keepers, Patroles,
Watchmen, and Street Keepers,' 22 pp.
There is an authoritative passage upon
Watch Houses in Colquhoun's ' Police of the
Metropolis,' third edition, 1796 : —
" Watch-houses (excepting within the limits of
the City) are placed at convenient distances all
over the metropolis, where a parochial constable
attends, in rotation, every night, to receive dis-
orderly and criminal persons, and to carry them
before a magistrate next morning. In each watch-
house also (in case of fire) the names of the turn-
cocks, and the places where engines are kept, are
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to be found. This circumstance is mentioned for
the information of strangers unacquainted with
the Police of the Metropolis ; to whom it is recom-
mended, in case of fire, or any accident or distur-
bance requiring the assistance of the civil power,
to apply immediately to the officer of the night, at
the nearest watch-house, or to the watchman on
the beat."— P. 216.
In many towns and villages what was
known elsewhere as a Watch House was called
a " lock-up." I know of one such place in
a small country town, which consisted of a
<lirty hole under the Market House.
Besides the works already referred to I
have drawn facts from C. J. Feret's ' History
of Fulham ' and Hill and Frere's ' Stepney.'
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
The four " round-houses " referred to at
p. 113 are at Breedon-on-t he-Hill arid
Packington, Leicestershire, and at Smisby
and Tickenhall. Derbyshire. The first two
adjoin more or less ruinous pinfolds. A
local work of 1907 says of the round-houses
that " the style of building seems peculiar
to the Midlands," and that there is another
example at Snarestone, Leicestershire.
W. B. H.
MARSH ALS OF FBANCE (12 S. ii. 182). —
There were apparently two Marshals Biron,
vide " Memoirs of the Reign of Queen
THizabeth. . . .from the Original Papers of his
intimate friend Anthony Bacon, Esquire, by
Thomas Birch, D.D. MDCCLIV."
Foot-note at p. 19 of vol. i. : —
" Armand Gontault de Biron, Marshal of France,
father of the duke de Biron ; killed at the siege of
Espernay in July, 1592."
Footnote, p. 234 : —
"Charles de Gontaut, dukede Biron, admiral and
marshal of France, son of Armand de (ion taut,
•marshal of France beheaded in the Bastile,
31" July, 1602."
As to Turenne, the date^ given are wrong,
according to Birch : —
41 Turenne in 1591 became duke of Bouillon and
prince of Sedan and the year following was made
marshal of France. He died 25th March, 1623."
GEO. WALPOLE.
A good many additions to the list pub-
lished could be gleaned from the following :
Le Feron, ' Catalogue des illustres mares-
ehaux de France,' Paris, 1555 ; and the
•edition of the same edited by D. Godefroy,
1658. Moreri, ' Grand dictionnaire,' nou-
velle edition, Paris, 1759, vii. pp. 218-20.
SICILE.
These lists may be considerably augmented
from the French almanacs published in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The
Almanack Royal for 1769 gives the following
names, in addition to those mentioned by
MR. CHEETHAM : —
1741. M. de Duras.
1746. M. de Balincourt. 16SO-
1747. M. de Clermont-Tonnerre, 1688-
1757. M. de Seneetere, 1685-
1757. M. de Biron.
17«">7. M. d'Estrees.
1758. M. de Bercheny, 1689-
1758. M. de Constans, 1690-
1758. M. de Contades, 1704-
1768. M. de Lorges.
1768. M. d'Armantieres 1711-
1768. M. de Brissac.
In this list the date of appointment of the
Due de Richelieu is given as Oct. 11, 1748,
and that of the Due de Broglie, Dec. 16,
1759.
The Almanack de la Cour for 1818 gives the
following additional names : —
M. le due de Conegliano.
M. le due de Trevise.
M. le prince d'Eckmuhl.
M. le due de Bel une.
M. le due de Tarente.
M. le due de Reggio.
M. le due de Raguse.
M. le due d'Albufera.
M. le marquis de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr.
M. le due de Valmy.
M. le due de Dantzick.
M. le due de Feltre.
Both these lists give also the address of
the Marshals' Paris residence.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
UNCUT PAPER (12 S. ii. 187).— I have two
letters of the year 1654/5 in which the edge
of the paper is cut quite smooth. In others
of 1626 and 1627 the edge is left rough, and
they are written on a rougher quality of
paper. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
SNOB AND GHOST (12 S. ii. 109).— Is not
"snob"=a botching tailor, and "ghost"
a perversion of his tool a " goose " = flat-
iron ? SUSANNA CORNER.
Waverley Military Hospital, Farnham.
CAPT. ARTHUR CONOLLY (12 S. ii. 189).—
If not the first, one of the first lectui-.-s I
heard in my belectured life was delivered
by Dr. Joseph Wolff, and therein he related
his experiences when he went to Bokhara to
ascertain the fate of Capt. Conolly and Col.
Stoddart, who were British envoys,
suppose the matter was a salmi of his
' Mission to Bokhara,' published in 18I.V
have tried to renew my acquaintance with
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thi< hook, but some of the unningedness.
of which the war makes people tolerant,
has pervaded the library where I sometimes
seek aid, and the volumes could not be
found.
The ' D.X.B.' has about three and a half
columns devoted to Arthur Conolly. It
says, moreover, that Kaye's ' Lives of Indian
Officers,' vol. ii., and The Calcutta Reriew,
vol. xv., have authentic particulars of him.
Mention is made of Wolff's ' Mission.' of his
' Travels and Adventures,' and of other
sources of information. ST. S WITHIN.
There is a notice of him in ' D.X.B.,' with
a reference to Kaye's ' Lives of Indian
Officers ' and other authorities. It was
Col. (not Dr.) Charles Stoddart who, along
with Conolly, was put to death at Bokhara
in June, 1842. In an article on Stoddart in
' D.X.B.' I pointed out that Sir John Kaye's
account was in some respects inaccurate. I
have a lithographed copy of the Koran
which belonged to Stoddart.
STEPHEN WHEELER.
Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W.
[MR. A. R. B.VYLKY and A. F. S. thanked for
replies.]
CROMWELL: ST. JOHN (12 S. ii. 171, 217).
— Elizabeth St . John was first cousin to
Oliver Cromwell, the Protector. According
to William Betham's ' Genealogical Tables,'
1795, Table 716, Henry Cromwell, brother
of Sir Oliver and Robert, had a daughter
(only child) Elizabeth, who married Oliver
St. John, Lord Justice of the Common Pleas.
The St. Johns had a daughter Elizabeth,
who married Sir John Bernard, Bart. Their
children were Sir Robert Bernard, who
married Anne, daughter of Col. Robert
Weld on ; and Joanna, who married Richard
Bentley, D.D., Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge.
For Lord Justice St. John and Dr.
Bentley &ee biographical dictionaries, e.g.,
Cates's. The Bernard baronetcy became
extinct in 1789. The representatives of the
family in the Table are the children of
Robert Sparrow, who married Man', great
granddaughter of Sir John Bernard, 2nd
Bart. The Table gives only one descendant
of the Bent leys, viz., a daughter, Joanna,
who married Denison Cumberland, Esq.
[? the Rev.].
There were, however, according to
Wotton's ' English Baronetage,' a son
Richard and another daughter Eliz., married
to Humphry Ridge of Portsmouth. The
Bernard baronetcy was " of Huntingdon."
Sir John reprr.-c-ntrd Huntingdon borough
in the Parliament- of 1054 and 1658/JL
At the same time Henry Cromwell was one
of the members for Huntingdon county.
This according to the Blue-book of Members
of Parliament. According to Waylen's
' House of Cromwell,' p. 16, this Henry was a
son of Henry, eldest son of Sir Oliver. As
to the Parliament of 1656, the Blue-book
gives under Huntingdon " no Returns
found." However, in k A Perfect List of the
Xames of the Several Persons returned to
serve in this Parliament 1656,' privately
reprinted by Edward Hailstone, 1880, Henry
Cromwell and John Barnard (sic) appear as
members for Huntingdon county and borough
respectively.
According to Waylen this Henry resumed
the original family name of Williams after
the death of his father, and sat in several
Parliaments, giving his vote in 1660 for the
restoration of Charles II.
As to the Parliament of 1660, under
Huntingdon the entry is again " Xo Return^
found," but in the 1661 Parliament Henr,
Williams appears as member for Huntingdon
county, elected April 27, 1661. A few lines
below is the entry : " Robert Appreece, esq.
vice Henry \\illiams, esq., deceased, date of
return, Xov. 22, 1673."
As to Sir John Bernard, although according
to the Blue-book and the reprint which I have
quoted lie was member for Huntingdon
borough, on his monument in Brampton
Church, as given in Thomas Wotton's..
' English Baronetage,' 1741, vol. iii. part ii
p. 365, he is described as " A Comitatii
Huntingdoniensi in Parliamentum lectus."
Wotton gays that Sir John had one son
(Sir Robert) and eight daughters, of whom
five died young and unmarried. Mary, the
fourth daughter, married Thomas Brown of
Arlsey, Bedfordshire; Joanna, the fifthr
married Dr. Richard Bentley ; one daughter
is not accounted for.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE ACTOR-MARTYR (12 S. ii. 189).—
St. Genesius continues to have his fame
as an actor -martyr held in esteem by
many members of the theatrical calling in
London, the Genesius Club of Freemasons,
composed very largely of actors, being held
weekly at Hammersmith for instruction in
Masonry. P. M., Xo. 1928.
RICHARD DUKE (12 S. ii. 171). — The notes
at 2 S. ii. 4 and 3 S. xii. 21, 69, may be of
use. Duke is stated to have been born
June 13, 1658. ROLAND AUSTIN.
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' SABRING COROLLA' (12 S. ii. 149, 197).—
The editors of the first edition, 1850, and
the second, 1859, were B. H. Kennedy,
William George Clark, and James Riddell.
See the lives of the first two in the ' D.X.B.,'*
and the preface to the third edition of
' Sabrinae Corolla,' 1867.
Riddel! died in 1866, and in the third
edition H. H., i.e., Henry Holden (see under
the life of Hubert Ashton Holden'in the First
Supplement to the ' D.N.B.'), was associated
with the two surviving editors. W. G.
Clark died in 1878, and Dr. Kennedy in 1889.
The fourth edition, 1890, was edited by
Henry Holden and R. D. Archer-Hind.
The British Museum Catalogue is curiously
defective, giving, under Benjamin Hall
Kennedy, the editors as " B. H. K. ? J.
Riddell and another," and under Shrews-
bury— Royal School : " B. H. Kennedy.
J. Riddell, and another."
EDWARD BENSLY.
The three editors were Dr. Benjamin Hal^
Kennedy, William George Clark, and the
Rev. James Riddell.
HERBERT WHITE.
CALDECOTT (12 S. ii. 107, 195).— The
place-name of Ogford in Huntingdonshire,
mentioned bv O. A. E., I do not know;
should it not be Offord ?
I have a scarce little tract by a Cawcutt
of Huntingdonshire, which may be one 'of
this family ; and as it is little known and
rather an interesting account of two persons,
mother and son, I give the title : —
*' A | Mother's Prayer Answered. | Being | Par-
ticulars | of a remarkable I Manifestation | wit-
nessed by | Ann Cawcutt, | of Stirtloe, Hunts, | on
Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th | February 1865, I
as narrated by herself. | D. R. Tomson, Printer,
ISt. Neots." 8vo, 8pp.
Two other variations of the name in
Huntingdonshire are Robert Calcott of
Waresley 'will proved 1589), and John
Cawcot of Great Staughton (will proved
1608).
Outside the county I may mention :
The Musters in Nassaburgh, 1536, contain
"' bylmen " — amongst them a Henry Cal-
cote ; and inscriptions in Bourn Abbey
Church include, on floor of north aisle :
Anns, Parled per pale, in chief three
* The error by which the notes on VV. G. Clark
in 'N. & Q.,' 5 S. x. 400, 438, by A. J. M., are
stated in Leslie Stephen's life ot W. (i. C. to be
by A. J. Munro, is corrected in the ' D. N. B.' vol.
of Errata. They are by Arthur Joseph Munby,
author of 'Dorothy,' who was a frequent contri-
butor to ' N. & Q.
leopards' heads ; Crest, a bird, perhaps a
falcon. " In Memory of John Caldecutt
who died | the 7th of April, 1755, aged 67
| years." HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencester.
THE REMOVAL OF MEMORIALS IN WEST-
MINSTER ABBEY (12 S. ii. 189). — The
memorial window to Robert St ephenson has
been recently removed, and will probably be
placed in some other position, either in the
Abbey or its precincts, in due course. The
bust of Major James Rennell is, however,
still to be seen, on a ledge immediately over
the recently erected bust of Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain.
It is obviously necessary to shift these
memorials about or reduce them from time to
time to make room for others, but the number
of occasions on which any have been ejected
altogether is irifinitesimally small. The
Dean is solely responsible for any changes,
they being effected only by his 'authority,
and it is his invariable practice to consult
the family interested when any move of
importance is contemplated. For example,
when the late Dean Stanley moved the
statue of John Kemble, he consulted Miss
Fanny Kemble before doing so. • MR. COR-
FIELD will find the whole subject and
procedure exhaustively set out in Dean
Bradley's evidence before the Royal Com-
mission .appointed to inquire into the want
of space for monuments in Westminster
Abbey. This Report was presented to
Parliament in 1890 in a, Blue-book (C. 6228)
which, in every sense of the word, is a
monumental work, embellished with ela-
borate plans of the Abbey and its precincts.
The extremely courteous and obliging officials
of the Abbey are always very ready to
furnish visitors with information respecting
the position of statues and memorials, and
this, with the aid of the excellent ' Deanery
Guide,' should surely satisfy all reasonable
requirements, without the necessity of a
notice in The London Gazette announcing that
the bust of A. has been shifted a few feet to
make room for the bust of B., or that the
monument of the Earl of Chatham had been
reduced in height and width — as in fact it
was — to meet the requirements of space.
WILLOUGIIBY MAYCOCK.
THE HORSE - CHESTNUT (12 S. ii. 172).—
The horse - chestnut (sEscultis hippocas-
tanum) derives its popular name, not from
any legendary reason, but from the miniature
horseshoe-like scars which mark the twigs
at the point where leaver have fallen.
F. A. RUSSELL.
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The mark like a horseshoe is simply the
scar where the stalk of a leaf has dropped
off, and the " ten or twelve nail-marks "
represent the points where the bundles of
sap vessels that ran up to the leaf have
become detached. I have not heard of any
legendary explanation. J. T. F.
Winter-toil, Lines.
SIR JOHN MAYNARD, 1592-1658 (12 S.
ii. 172). — See Selby's Genealogist, new ser.,
iv. 167, and other authorities mentioned in
' D.X.B.,' xxxvii. 161.
There are portraits of him in the National
Portrait Gallery, and at Exeter College,
Oxon. . A. R. BAYLEY.
Lady Warwick and Lady Algernon Gordon,
Lennox are the direct descendants and living
representatives of Sir John Maynard. Lady
Warwick i«* the owner of the house where Sir
John Maynard lived. He is described some-
times as of Estaines Parva, in Essex. That
place is now known as Little Easton. There
are many Maynard portraits at Easton
Lodge, and I shall be surprised if among them
there is not one of Sir John Maynard.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
JOHN EVANS, ASTROLOGER OF WALES
(12 S. ii. 149). — Is mentioned in William
Lilly's ' History of his Life and Times,' 1715,
as in 1632
" one Evans in Gun-Powder Alley, who had
formerly li%-ed in Staffordshire, that was an
excellent wise Man, and study'd the Black Art
He was by Birth a Welchman, a Master of Arts,
and in Sacred Orders ; he had formerly had a cure
of Souls in Staffordshire He was the most
Saturnine Person my Eyes ever beheld.''
Then follow details of many defects, physical
and moral. The portrait by Godfrey after
Bulfinch is lettered : " lohn Evans, the Ill-
fa vour'd Astrologer of Wales," and was
published in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory
in 1776. W. B. H.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 189). — 1. The
lines quoted from The Times were un-
doubtedly written by Richard Barnfield,
and were by him applied to Hawkins, not to
Drake. They occur in the Preface of ' The
Encomioii of Lady Pecunia : or The Praise
of Money,' 1598. I quote from Arber's
edition (1882), p. 83 : —
"I have giuen Pecunia the title of a Woman,
Both for the termination of the Word, and because
(as Women are) shee is lov'd of men. The brauest
Voyages in the World, haue been made for Gold :
for it, men haue venterd (by Sea) to the furthest
parts of the Earth : In the Pursute whereof,
d* Xe*tor and Xeplune (Haukin* and
Drake) lost their Hues. Vpon the Deathes of the
which two, of the first 1 writ thus :
The Water* were hi* Winding «heele, the Sea v;a»
math hi* Toome;
Yet for hit fame the Ocean Sea, teas not xutKcienf
roome.
Of the latter this :—
England hi* hart : hi* Corj)* tin- Water* haue :
And that which rayxed hi* fame, became his grave"
It is absurd to attribute the lines to
Prince, for he makes no claim to them, but
professes to quote from Risdon, and both
acknowledge the author to be one who wrote
on the occasion of Drake's death. Unfor-
tunately, both also apply them to the wrong
person. R. PEARSE CHOPE.
Most of the inaccuracies into which all
The Times correspondents but Mr. Lascelles
Abercrombie fell may, I think, be accounted
for by the error of the writer in the
' D.X.B.' in applying the following passage
to Drake : —
" In the words of an anonymous poet quoted by
Prince (' Worthies of Devon,' p. 243),
The waves became his winding-sheet ; the waters
were his tomb ;
But for his fame the ocean sea was not sufficient
room."
DARSANANI.
3. " A small sweet world of wave-encom-
passed wonder " is from the ' Garden of
Cymodoce ' in Swinburne's ' Songs of the
Springtides.' CHARLES J. BILLSON.
The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester.
ST. GEORGE'S (HART STREET), BLOOMS-
BURY (12 S. ii 29, 93, 155, 195).— The
identity of the statue is confirmed by a
contemporary reference in ' A Xew Guide to
London; or, Directions to Strangers,' &c.,
1726, p. 80:—
" From this [Montagu House] you may go to see
the new Church which is in Bloomsbury market j
the frontispiece of it is very fine, as well as its
Steeple, on the top of which they have whimsically
put King George's Statue, which is tolerably well
done, and is 1" foot high."
ALECK ABRAHAMS.
THE CUSTODY OF CORPORATE SEALS (12 S.
ii. 148). — From a few inquiries I have made
it seems to be usual for the corporate seal
to have two keys, both of which are required
to be used before the seal can be released.
These keys are generally in the possession
of the Clerk, who seals the various documents
ordered to be so sealed by the Council ;
officially, the keys are in the possession of the
Mayor and the Town Clerk. The sealed
document is useless as such without the
12 s. ii. SEW. io. i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
signatures of the two above-mentioned per-
sonages, but for convenience' sake the Clerk
uses the seal and signs the document, and
the Mayor adds his signature at his leisure.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
ST. LUKE'S, OLD STREET : BIBLIOGRAPHY
(12 S. i. 426; ii. 133, 176). — The following
work contains many references to the early
history of the parish of St. Luke : —
"An Account of the Almshouses of Mrs. Susan
Amyas in George Yard, Old Street, from the
foundation in 1650 to the present time. By John
B. Moreland. London, 1905."
The book was privately printed, and
therefore may have escaped the notice of
MR. ABRAHAMS and others. There is a copy
in the British Museum ; and I also have one
which I shall be pleased to show any one.
WALTER C. BROWN.
115 South Croxted Road, S.E.
FOLK-LORE : RED HAIR (12 S. ii. 128,
196). — -I have always understood that red
hair in children betokens good luck for them
in the affairs of life. CECIL CLARKE.
As a further instance of associating red
hair with evil I may mention that in H. P.
Grat tan's lurid drama of ' Faust ; or. the
Demon of the Drachenfels,' first produced
at Sadler's Wells, Sept. 5, 1842, the stage
directions regarding the make-up of Mephis-
topheles (played by Henry Marston) included
red hair, red beard, and red eyebrows.
A. J. GRAY.
PERPETUATION OF PRINTED ERRORS (12 S.
ii. 87, 177). — There used to be a tradition
that, in one of the numerous Acts of Parlia-
ment relating to the National Debt, the
punishment of death for forgery was re-
enacted after its abolition, and the then
usual provision for awarding half the penalty
to the informer was not omitted. I am
sorry I have not the means at hand to verify
or discredit this tradition.
E. BRABROOK.
CHINO : CORNISH OR CHINESE ? (12 S. ii. 127,
199.) — Neither Mr. John Lionel Ching, in the
advertisement quoted at the original re-
ference, nor myself in reproducing it,
intended to suggest, as MR. W. H. QUARRELI,
seems to think, that this name had a Chinese
origin. It was a bantering repudiation of an
idea which, if it became seriously current in
a Chinese-disliking district, might have
caused harm ; and it was well known to both
Mr. Ching and myself that his family was of
long settlement at Launceston.
DUNHEVED.
0n
The Ancient Cros-s Shafts at, Bewcastle and Rufhwell*.
By G. F. Browne, some time Bishop of Bristol..
(Cambridge, University Press, 7s. 6d.)
WE suppose it is not likely that any one will ever
be able to say the absolutely final word about the
date of those two majestic shafts which have made
the names of Bewcastle and Ruthwell illustrious.
But we do not think that, upon the evidence as it
is now before us, anything can well be said which
would avail to overturn the arguments and conclu-
sions which Dr. Browne sets out in this volume,
made by extending and illustrating the Rede Lec-
ture delivered. by him in May of this year.
About two years ago were published two books
which could claim careful consideration on the part
of archaeologists, assigning these crosses to the
twelfth century. Dr.TJrowne adds to the vigour
and grip of his exposition by throwing it largely
into the form of a refutation of this view, chiefly as
put forward by Prof. Cook of Yale University. He
himself — we might say, of course — adheres to his
opinion that the crosses are seventh-century'work,.
with a strength. of conviction increased by going
over the discussions and > the discoveries of new
material which have taken place since he first
formed it.
We cannot ourselves see that the arguments
against a seventh - century attribution have much
weight apart from a pre-conception to the effect tha t
such rich, refined, and beautiful work was beyond?
any artists who could have been procured at that
time in England to do it. The runes and the royal'
Saxon names are, prima facie, very strong evi-
dence in favour of the shafts having been carve*
when they say they were carved. We think that a-
disinclination to take prima facie evidence seriously
is one of the most perilous temptations of very
clever people : it sometimes reduces them to the
level of quite stupid ones. And it surely is a little -
unimaginative to think it likely that so laborious
a "fake " as these two crosses must be if they are-
really of the twelfth century should not only haver
been undertaken at all and executed so well, but-
also have proved so minutely correct, as we find*
them, in points where invention would hardly
serve.
Dr. Browne has no difficulty in showing that
there existed, in the ecclesiastical art of the
seventh century , in Italy and the East, traditions- -
of decoration—designs, subjects, methods off
working — amply sufficient to have made the •
Bewcastle and" Ruthwell carving possible ; while
the link between Northumbria and the churches
of Italy is the activity of Wilfred and Benedict
Biscop — so well known, but seldom perhaps, except
by specialists, adequately realized and allowed
for. The rapidity of our travelling ; the readiness
with which things can be transported ; the easy
spread of fashions, ideas, and ways of work from
one end of the world to the other, tend to make
many students greatly underrate the facilities of
early times and the considerable results that could
be obtained, when they were made use of by an
enthusiastic and wealthy personage such as
Wilfred. And, somewhat in the same way—-
except in regard to certain chosen periods — it is
probable that students underrate the range of
inventive artistic capacity. It is astonishing
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how quick many people are at working fi-oin just
the rudiment of an idea. We know that a good
•deal of very creditable carving was done in
England in the later Middle Age ; the enjoyment of
sculpture s.eems to have been spontaneous over
-the greater part of Western Europe. It must
have been in the blood : why should it not have
shown itself at a time when the inspiration imparted
by the arrival of Christianity gave a new impetus
•to intellectual and artistic activity ': There seems
no difficulty about it ; on the other hand, the
difficulty about how those nines and those names
came out so correctly in the twelfth century
•apropos de rien becomes more perplexing the
more one looks at it.
However, the opponents of the early date have
done good service. They have impelled its
supporters to get together and marshal into an
.argument the number of interesting particulars
iivailable concerning Anglo-Saxon crosses. Again,
if Prof. Cook had not made his somewhat sur-
prisingly feeble remark about the " Ravenna
.chair not having been sent to Ravenna till 1001,"
we might not have had Dr. Browne's fascinating
•chapter aboxit the chair and its monogram — nor
yet the excellent illustration of it which he gives
us in this book.1! The same thing may be said of
-the discussions concerning Alcfrith and the
spelling of the names — concerning the subjects
sculptured on the shafts, and the ' Dream of the
Holy Rood.' We should like to mention our
entire agreement with Dr. Browne in admiring
the skill with which the passages from the ' Dream '
•were chosen for the Ruth well Cross.
Only one thing gave us some disappointment
in a book which, with, this one exception, we
found a treasure-house of instruction and pleasure :
the great shafts themselves, and in particular
Ruthwell, are somewhat inadequately illustrated.
It would surely have been well worth while to give
the best of the photographs that have been taken
•of them.
Sir William Butt, M.D. : a Local Link tcith
Shakespeare. By S. D. Clippingdale.
COLI.ECTORS of " Shakespeariana " may like to be
told of this pamphlet, reprinted from The West
London Medical Journal. It puts together all
that is known of Henry VIII. 's physician, who lies
buried in the Church of All Saints, Fulham. It
is true that mention of him in ' Henry VIII.'
constitutes a somewhat precarious link with
Shakespeare, but it is fully justification enough
for this essay.
Dr. Clippingdale arranges his matter in
paragraphs, each with a title indicating its
subject-matter — a very good plan — and puts
down his statements under each heading in a
terse, lively way, interspersing his statements
with bits from Shakespeare. There are three
illustrations, of which one shows his brass,
thought to be the only representation of a medical
man in plate armour, and another his caduceus
crest, thought to be the first use of this figure in
heraldry.
THE interesting ' Portrait of a Man ' by Catena,
reproduced for the first time as frontispiece in the
September number of The Burlington Magazine, was
till recently in the collection of Dr. A. Brasseur of
Paris. The picture formerly bore the name of
Lotto, and the identity of the sitter is discussed by
Mr. Tancred Borenius. Mr. A. F. Kendrick deals
with two unique pieces from the collection of medi-
aeval silk fabrics purchased in J893 for the Victoria
and Albert Museum, and reconstructs the design of
one of them, a noteworthy fragment showing a
griffin's head. The portrait of himself by Daniel
Stringer (dated 1776), recently acquired by the
National Gallery, is reproduced with notes by
Mr. Collins Baker. Sir Claude Phillips discusses
the two companion ' Conversations Galantes,' now
for the first time brought forward as the work of
Jean Francois de Troy, having been hitherto attri-
buted to Fragonard. Five pictures of the former
painter are reproduced: 'La Surprise' (Victoria
and Albert Museum), 'La Chasse,' 'La Peche,'
' Le Dejeuner de Chasse,' and ' La Mort d'un Cerf '
(Wallace Collection). Some striking relics dis-
covered in the Hebrides (Lewis) by school-
children in the autumn of 1915 are described by
Mr. James Curie. The find consisted of bronze
brooches and other ornaments, and they exhibit
the association of Celtic and Scandinavian art.
Mr. Curie dates them as not earlier than the
middle of the ninth century. Mr. F. M. Kelly's
continuation of his ' Shakespearian Dress Notes '
treats of the ruff, and is accompanied by numerous
illustrations. Mr. G. F. Hill also continues his
learned notes on 'Italian Medals.'
The Athenteum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
We must call special attention to the following
notices : —
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dents, knowing that the letter exceeded the ounce,
put on an additional halfpenny stamp. Will they
please bear in mind that there is no three-halfpenny
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Co \VLARD. — MR. C. L. COWLARD, of Madford,
Launceston, Cornwall, desires to communicate with
Miss E. C. Holman, who in ' N. & Q.' of June 13,
1914, and later by letter, referred to a book in her
possession with this name.
WE learn from the Red Cross Gift House that
they have had presented to them for sale a Manu-
script on Robespierre, dated 1904, and running to
about 40 pages, by Lord Morley.
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LONDON, SAT I RD AY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.
OONTKNTS.-No. 39.
"NOT ES :— Almanacs printed at Cambridge in the Seven-
teenth Century, 241— An English Army List of 1740, 243—
—Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns,
246— Incunabula in Irish Libraries, 247 — The Dick
Whittington : Cloth Fair— An Illustrated Speech from
the Throne—" Jobey " of Eton, 248.
QUERIES :— Capt. John Charnley — " Court " in French
Place-Names— The Gordons : " Gay " or " Gey " ?— Author
Wanted— Henry and Edward Henry Purcell— Bifeld or
Byfeld, 249—" S. J.," Water-Colour Artist— Eev. David
Durell, D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral-
General William Haviland— "Coals to Newcastle "— Toke
of Notts— Inscriptions on Communion Tables— Rotton
Family — ' Cato ' and ' Anticaton ' — Edward Stabler—
"Conversation" Sharp— The Winchelsea Ghost, 250—
Unidentified M.P.s— The French and Frogs— Mose Skinner
—The Sign Virgo, 261.
KEPLIES :— Sir William Ogle : Sarah Stewkeley, 251—
William of Malmesbury on Bird Life in the Fens-
Joachim Ibarra— "Laus Deo": Old Merchants' Custom
—The Kingsley Pedigree, 253— Foreign Graves of British
Authors, 254 — Ladies' Spurs — The Novels and Short
Stories of G. P. B. James, 255— The Cultus of King
Henry VI. — Fairfleld and Rathbone, Artists — Emma
Robinson, Author of ' Whitefriars,' 256— Du Bellamy:
Bradstreet— A Stewart Ring : the Hon. A. J. Stewart-
Fisheries at Comacchio. 257— The Little Finger called
" Pink," 258— P. S. Lawrence, Artist and Sailor— Rev.
Meredith Hanmer, D.D.— Epitaph on a Pork Butcher-
Touching for Luck — Christopher Urswick — Ching :
Chinese or Cornish ? 259.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' A Classical Dictionary.'
Works on Theology.
Notices to Correspondents.
ALMANACS PRINTED AT CAMBRIDGE
IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
<See 6 S. xi. 221, 262, 301, 382 ; xii. 243, 323,
383, 462 ; 9 S. vi. 386.)
THE interesting paper o;i ' Huntingdonshire
Almanacs ' supplied by MR. HERBERT E.
NORRIS to the first number of ' N. & Q.' for
the present year needs a slight correction in
its opening statements. James I. extended
the privilege granted by Queen Elizabeth to
the Company of Stationers alone to print
almanacs, primers, Psalters, &c., to the
University of Cambridge, not to that of
Oxford ; and Archbishop Laud's attention
having been called to this inequality of
privileges, he took steps whereby a charter
of similar privileges was granted to Oxford,
dated Nov. 12, 1632, confirmed by another,
March 13, 1632/3. These allowed the
University to print Bibles, Prayer Books,
grammars, almanacs, &c., hitherto the
monopolies of the Stationers' Company and
Cambridge University. As a result of this
new privilege Lily's ' Grammar ' was printed
at Oxford in 1636, and three almanacs by
John Booker, Thomas Cowper, and John
Wyberd in 1637. But in 1637 the Stationers'
Company agreed to pay the University 2007.
a year to forgo these newly granted powers,
and that compact continued till after the
Restoration. No Bibles or Prayer Books
were printed at Oxford till 1675. See
Madan's ' Oxford Press,' 191, 192, 195, 197,
203. Of these three Oxford almanacs, that
of Cowper is only known in Brit. Mus. MSS.
Harl.
The Cambridge Press do not seem to
have run their London rivals very hard,
to judge by these facts. In a set of twenty-
seven almanacs which I have bound to-
gether for the year 1694 six only were
printed at Cambridge, and MR. H. R.
PLOMER, in his lists (6 S. xii.), allows the
Cambridge imprint to only twelve almanacs
during the century. He has omitted at
least one, and possibly more. It is signi-
ficant that Bowes's Catalogue of Cambridge
books does not contain a single almanac
till 1689, when a volume for that year
includes Dove, Pond, and Wing, with nine
others printed in London. Those that are
included in Mr. Jenkinson's list of early
printed Cambridge books may be seen at
9 S. vi. 386.
The imprint of all those printed in 1694 is
the same : " CAMBRIDGE. Printed by John
Hayes, Printer to the University, 1694."
(The set of type varies.) The titles are all
within the same border, with no academic
symbols, and not reproduced in Bowos's
' Ornaments.' It will be sufficient to print
in full two title-pages, the longest and
shortest of the set. A proportion of each
title is printed in red : —
1. " Culpepper Revived. \ BEING AN | AL-
MANACK | for the Year of our I BLESSED
SAVIOURS | Incarnation 1604. | And from the
Creation of the World according | to the best of
Ecclesiastical History 5645 | Being the Second
after Bissextile or Leap year. | Wherein is briefly
shewed, the general State of the Year, | the Solar
ingresses, Eclipses, Full Sea at London Bridge, |
Terms and their returns, the Sun and Moons rising
and | setting, with Astrological Observations, and
the probable I alteration of the air. | Also the
certain time of any Mart or Fair in the City or |
Town in England, with a description of the most
emi- I nent Roads thereto.
" To which is added Rules for Physick and
Husbandry with | many other usefull Observa-
tions necessary for the com- | pleating such a
work.
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 S.IL SEPT. 23,1916.
" Calculated and referr'd to the Meridian of the
famous | University and Town of Cambridge;
where the Pole | Artick Ls elevated above the
Horizon 52° 17m, but may | serve for any other
part of Great Brittnin.
" By Xathaniel Culpepper Student in Physick, |
and the Celestial Science.
God moves the Heavens, and His mighty Hand,
Both Planets, Earth, and Ocean doth command."
(Imprint.)
Plomer places the publication of this
almanac between 1680 and 1738. Nicholas
Culpeper, astrologer and physician, published
an ephemeris for the years 1651-3. He died
in 1654. Nathaniel may have been one of
his seven children, but he is unknown to
the dictionaries. Culpeper prophesies the
weather throughout the year, and tells what
portion of your anatomy is affected daily,
but he omits the human figure which is
usually at this date the single engraving of
each almanac. There are ' Remarks upon
the Honest Lawyer and his Country Clyent '
in verse.
2. " FLY | AN | ALMANACK | for the Year of
our | LORD GOD | 1694 | Being the Second after
Leap-Year | Calculated for the Meridian of I
Kings-Lynn, | Where the Pole Artick is elevated |
52 deg. 43 min. above the Horizon, and | mav
very well serve for any part of | ENGLAND. r>
(Imprint.)
Plomer gives the run of 'Fly' from 1653
to 1736. 'Culpeper' gives no saints in his
calendar, .' Fly ' has one almost daily. His
almanac proper consists of only 16 pp., but
it is followed by a " prognostication " with
a fresh title, containing among other things
" divers Observations for Physick, Husbandry
and Gardening : and also for the making of all sorts
of Bonds, Bills, Acquietances, Wills and Inden-
tures."
3. Another of the Cambridge almanacs is
called ' Dove, Speculum Anni.' Plomer says
it first appeared in 1643, and was continued
between 1 661 and 1 709. Like 'Fly,' ' Dove ' is
in two parts, and gives a copious list of saints
with comments on some of the principal
festivals. It has also tables of weights and
measures, of the value of foreign coins in
English money, of reversion for renewing
leases, and a list of the bishoprics in England
and Wales, with the number of parishes in
each.
4. ' Pond ' suits his almanac to the meridian
of Saffron Waldron. He gives his readers
full instructions how to manage their
gardens month by month, and in the latter
part prints several receipts, " shewing how
to cure many principal diseases, incident to
Horses, Cows and Sheep." In common with
many other almanacs he gives a list of the
principal fairs in England and Wales. One
of his features is some poetry applicable to
each month. This is for July : —
The Sun in's progress now returning (lack
A steed), he mounts upon the Lyons back,
Whose raging heat ripens the fruits o' th' earth,-
Without the which we should have little Mirth.
The personal advice for this month is : —
" Forbear superfluous drinking, but eat heartily;
use cold Herbs and Meat, abstain from Physick^
Perfume your house every morning with Tar, use
Carduus Benedictus boiled, and drink fasting."
5. ' Swallow,' calculated for " the famous
University and Town of Cambridge," gives
instructions for the measuring of land and
timber, with diagrams, a list of " meats good
for the whole body, and of a sanguine
juyce," " meat good to temper Choller and
to asswage heat with moistness," " rules for
drawing of blood," largely astrological, and
a list of medicines. This almanac, which
lasted from 1641 till 1736, was sometimes
printed in London.
6. John Wing published at Cambridge
'Olympia Dcmata' for 1694, "calculated
according to art and referred to the Horizon
of the ancient and renowned Borrough Towa
of Stamford." This was one of a long series
begun by John's uncle, Vincent Wing, in,
1641, interrupted after 1644, resumed in
1653, and continued by Vincent till 1672.
The annvial sale of this almanac is said to
have averaged 50,000 copies. The publica-
ion was continued bv his descendants at
irregular intervals till 1805 (' D.N.B.').
John Wing styles himself " Mathematician."
His almanac contains
" the Lunations, Conjunctions, and Aspects of the
Planets, the increase, decrease and length of the
day and night, with the rising, southing and
setting of the Planets and Fixed Stars throughout,
the Year, whereby may be known the exact hour
of the night at all times, when either the Moon or
Stars are seen."
Wing occasionally tries his hand at verse.
He opens thus in January : —
Welcome, good Header, to another year,
Th6 Sun and Mars in opposition are,
Let Subjects learn obedience to their Kings,
Since home bred factions (sic) always ruin brings^
He ends thk month with : —
Nascitur indique per quem non nasitur alter.
Wing's is the most astrological of the
Cambridge-printed almanacs. He gives a
long description of the eclipse of the siua
due June 11, 1694. Wing was a land-
surveyor, as an advertisement shows, and
lived at Pickworth, Rutlandshire.
A list of the almanacs collected by
Anthony Wood, many of them interleaved,
and from 1657 onwards used by their owner
for his notes, may be seen in Clark's ' Life-
12 B. II. SEPT. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
243
and Times of A. W.,' Oxf. Hist. Soc.,
i. 10-14.
Some of the almanac-compilers veiled their
own names, as Dove (Speculum Anni), Fly,
Poor Robin, Philoprotest (Protestant Al-
manac), Swallow. Perhaps some of these,
who gave their opponents hard knocks, had
scarcely the courage of their opinions. One
of them, which appeared as ' Old Poor Robin '
in 1777, continued, says Plomer, till 1824. I
have myself the issues for 1825 and 1826,
the latter claiming to be the 164th edition.
As it disappears from the uniformly bound
set of the next year, perhaps 1826 was the
last. It had become coarse and rather
profane. It was certainly not' worth the
2,<?. 3d. at which, owing to the foolish tax on
almanacs of a Is. 3d. stamp, it was charged,
and its extinction can have been no loss.
A list of almanacs in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, however complete, is
only of bibliographical interest, but a study
of their contents leads one into those bypaths
of our national history which we are too apt
to neglect. The new year's visit of the
chapman or pedlar must have been eagerly
looked for in many a country village and
lonely farmhouse, as, in addition to his usual
stock of trinkets, stationery, patent medi-
cines, and the like, there woukl be a choice
of popular almanacs, adapted to the special
fancy of the purchasers. And there was^
variety enough to satisfy all tastes. Here
we can find out what they really cared about
as one generation succeeded another, and
every religious and political movement finds
its echo in these constantly succeeding
ephemeral annuals. Mr. Plomer's principal
object in his careful bibliography compiled
thirty years ago was to attract students to a
neglected field. Perhaps the next generation--
may take some pains to cultivate it, just as
our diocesan historians may discover the
value of the neglected records of our Con-
sistory Courts, stored in our cathedrals and
Diocesan Registries. CECIL DEEDES.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204.)
MAJOR-GENERAL HARGRAVE'S Regiment of
Foot (p. 20) was raised in 1685 — the first of
the so-called " Fusilier " regiments.
The following short account of the forma-
tion and constitution of the regiment is taken
from Cannon's ' Historical Record of the
Seventh Regiment ' : —
" On the augmentation of the army during the
rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth, in the
summer of 1685, King James II. resolved that the
first infantry corps raised on that occasion should
be an Ordnance Regiment, for the care and protec-
tion of the cannon : of which corps His Majesty
appointed George Lord Dartmouth, then Master-
general of the Ordnance, colonel, by commission
dated the llth of June, 1685.
" The regular regiments of foot were composed,
at this period, of Musketeers— men armed with
muskets and swords ; Pikemen— armed with long
pikes and swords ; and Grenadiers — armed with
hand - grenades, muskets, bayonets, swords, and
small hatchets ; but in the Ordnance Regiment
every man carried a long musket called a fusil,
with a sword and bayonet, from which peculiarity
in the arming, the regiment obtained the designa-
tion of ' Fusiliers ' ; and the King, being desirous
of appearing publicly to patronize this new corps,-
eonferred upon it the title of ' Royal Fusiliers.'
" Regiments of infantry had, originally, a colour
to each company, which was called an ensign, and
was carried by the junior subaltern officer of each
company, who was styled ' ancient,' and afterwards
1 ensign,' which term signified ' colour-bearer.' The
regiments of Fusiliers did not have colours or ensigns
to each company, consequently the title of ensign
or oolour-bearer was not given to the junior
subaltern officer of each company ; but having, in
consequence of the peculiar services they were called
upon to perform, a care and responsibility equal to
that of a lieutenant, both the subaltern officers of
each company were styled lieutenants. They were-
both placed on the same rate of pay ; but the terms
first lieutenant and second lieutenant were used in •
their commissions for several years, and afterwards
discontinued."
In 1688 it ceased to be considered ex-
clusively as an Ordnance Regiment, and took
its turn of duty with the regular regiments
of the line. It is now designated " The
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment),"
and Ls one of the very few regiments winch-
retains the title under which it was originally
raised.
Major General Hargrave's Dates of their Dates of their first
Regiment of Foot. present commissions. commissions.
Major General . . William Hargrave, Colonel (1) 27 Aug. 1739 Ensign, 23 April 1694.
Li-ntenant Colonel Jame? Fleming .. .. 4 Aug. 1722 Lieutenant, 7 Sept. 1706.
Major .. .. John Aldercorn .. ..13 Dec. 1739 Ensign, 23 Feb. 1708-9.
(1) Was Colonel of the 31st Foot from 1730 to 1737. and of the Oth from 1737 to 1730. Died in-
1751.
244
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. SEPT. 23, wie.
Major Genera!
of Fc
• Captains
Captain Lieutenant
. Lieutenants
(2) Became Lieut
Hargrave's Regiment Dates of their Dates
>ot (continued). present commissions. co
/ Marcus Smith (2) .. .. 4 Nov. 1724.
Augustus Pvnvot .. ..26 Dec. 172<i Ensign,
Samuel Cluterbuck . . . . 3 April 1733 Capt. L\
Edward Butler . . . . 12 Nov. 173R Lieutena
Lord Glencairne (3) . . . . 3 April 1734 Ensign,
Matthew Hewit .. .. 1 Jan. 1735-fi Captain,
L John Darassus . . . . 13 Dec. 1739 Lieutena
John Crofts 12 Nov. 1733 Ensign,
John Marshall .. ..19 Oct. 1709 Lieutena
Richard Burchet .. .. 8 Oct. 1717 Lieidcna
Rupert Pratt 13 Julv 1718 Ensign,
Meredith Everard . . . . 7 Sept. 1722.
Henry Ormsbev . . . . 20 Mav 1723.
William Elves . . . . 20 Oct. 1726.
John Fleming 26 Dec. 1726.
Richard Rudverd . . . . 11 April 1733.
James O-Hara 13 Dec. 1732.
William Burton . . . . 1 Julv 1734 Ensign,
John Butler 31 Jan. 1735-6.
John Donaldson . . . . 10 Mar. 1737-8.
William Shuttleworth (4) . . 20 April 1738.
John Bon- Amy .. .. 7 Feb. 1738-9.
Thomas Fothergffl .. ..13 Dec. 1739.
John Heylin 17 Jan. 1739-40.
Congreve Chilcott . . . . 18 ditto.
James Smith . . . . 19 ditto.
Philip Legeyt .. ..22 Mar. 1739-40 Ensign,
snant-Colonel of the regiment on June 3, 1752. Appointed to
of their first
remissions.
18 Oct. 1703.
fut. H Julv 1729.
nt, 13 Mav 1709.
10' Jan. 1728-9.
5 Mar. 1707-8.
nt, 17 Nov. 1721.
6 Aug. 1706.
nt, 2 Aug. 1709.
nt, 23 Dec. 1711.
14 Mar. 1710.
26 Nov. 1717.
5 April 1732.
the Colonelcy of
the 60th Foot in 1761, and died in 1768.
(3) William Cunynghame, 13th Earl of Glencairn. Died in 1775, then being Major-General.
(4) Fourth son of Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley. Head of the branch
of the family, now of Hathersage Hall, North Derbyshire. Died Sept. 4, 1780.
Brigadier Read's Regiment of Foot was raised in Gloucestershire in 1685. It was
in later years known as the 9th Foot, and is now designated " The Norfolk Regiment."
Brigadier Read's Regiment of Foot.
Brigadier General George Read, Colonel (1)
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Offarell (2)
Major . . . . Michael Doyne (3)
/William Upton
| Stephen Otway
I Rowley Godfrey
Captains . . . . -| Joseph Dambon
! Francis Cayran
| Peter Dumas . .
( John Catillon
Thomas Bolton
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Steuart Nugent
Thomas Rainsford
j Thomas Crofton
I John Montgomery
j Thomas Carleton
John CatiHon . .
Phineas John Edgar
George Friend
James Ogilvie . .
Thomas Dalton
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
(1) Had served in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. Was Colonel of the 29th Foot from 1733
to 1739. In 1749 he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 9th Dragoons (Irish establishment), and
died in 1756.
(2) Sometimes spelt O'Farrell or O'FerraU. " He became Colonel of the 22nd Foot in 1741, and
died in 1757, then being Major-General.
(3) Belonged to the family of Doyne of Wells, co. Wexford.
Dates of their
present commissions.
. . 28 Aug. 1739
.. 20 Dec. 1722
... 4 Dec. 1739
.. 12 July 1718
.. 10 Mar. 1721-2.
. . 12 Sept. 1721
.. 20 Dec. 1722
5 July 1735.
.. 19 Dec. 1735
.-. 12 Jan. 1739-40
ditto
.. 10 Mar. 1721-2
. . 27 Sept. 1722.
4 July 1723.
5 Oct. 1732
.. 19 Dec. 1735
. . 13 April 1736
. . 13 Aug. 1736
.. 21 Jan. 1737-8
.. 30 Aug. 1739
.. 12 Jan. 1739-40
Dates of their first
commissions.
Captain, 16 Aug. 1703.
Ensign, 7 Mar. 1692.
Captain Lieut. Fe.b 1471-3.
Ensign, 10 Jan. 1706.
Ensign, 24 Feb. 1703-4.
Lieutenant, 20 Dec. 1707.
Ensign, 19 Feb. 1708-9.
Lieutenant, 1 June 1715.
Ensign, 28 Feb. 1710-11.
Ensign, 15 April 1707.
22 Nov. 1706.
18 Dec. 1727.
25 June 1729.
25 Dec. 1730.
14 Mar. 1733-4.
15 ditto.
11 Dec. 1735.
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245
Brigadier Read's Regiment of Foot
(continued').
Dates of their
present commissions.
1Q TV>/> 173-^
Dates of their first
commissions.
1 Hugh Smith . .
j John Meard
1 Jan. 1735-6.
13 April 1736.
1(1 Af.nr 17^f5
Ensigns .. . . 4 Richard Hill Cramer
Thomas Tracey
Joseph Lewis Feyrac
23 July 1737
11 Aug. 1737.
8 Feb. 1737-8.
Qn Auff 1730
Ensign, 20 Jane 1735
Richard Bowyer
4 Feb. 1739-40.
Col. Onslow's Regiment (p. 22) was raised in 1685, and was then designated " The-
Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of .Foot." In 1702 it was renamed " The Queen's
Regiment," and in 1716 " The King's Regiment of Foot." It is now styled " The-
King's (Liverpool Regiment)."
Dates of their Dates of their first
present commissions. commissions.
Colonel Onslow's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel . . . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . .
Captains . .
Richard Onslow (1) ..
George Keightley (2) . .
Edmund Martin (3) . .
f James Barry (4)
I George Banastre
John Grey
John Dallons (5)
Edward Cornwallis
I Peter Guerin . .
( Thomas Launder
Captain Lieutenant Peter Ribton
( Malcolm Hamilton
John White
John Lafaussille (6) . .
Thomas Nugent
Lieutenants .. J Charles Duterme
Theophilus Cramer
William Robinson
Arthur Loftus (7)
John Ekins (8)
, Nehemiah Donnellan . .
Charles Desclousseau
Maynard Guerin
j Henry Lewin
Nicholas Turner
Ensigns . . . . -\ Richard Knight
John Cook
Charles Thompson
William Rickson
{ William Catherwood . .
(1) Was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 1st Troop Horse Grenadier Guards in 1745, and died1
in 1760, then being Lieutenant-General.
(2) Wounded at Fonterioy, May 11, 1745, and died at Ghent shortly afterwards.
(3) Became Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment in 1745. Died in 1749.
(4) Major in the regiment Feb. 7, 1741. Died in 1743 from the effect of wounds received at
Dettingen.
(5) Wounded at Fontenoy, 1745, and died Feb. 16, 1746.
(6) Was Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment from 1749 to 1758, when he was appointed to the-
Colonelcy of the 66th Foot. Died in 1763.
(7) Died Aug. 25, 1753, then being Major in the regiment.
(8) Died Aug. 15, 1750.
6 June 1739
Captain, 14 July 1716.
1 Feb. 1731-2
Ensign, 1703.
6 Dec. 1739
Lieutenant, Jan. 1706-7.
7 Jan. 1720-1
Lieutenant, 20 Sept. 1 709..
23 Oct. 1724
Lieutenant, 23 Dec. 1709.
10 Dec. 1731
Ensign, 17 Feb. 1709-10,,
31 Aug. 1733
Ensign, 6 April 1720.
3 April 1734
Ensign, 30 Oct. 1730.
20 June 1739
Lieutenant, 3 May 1734.
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 1 May 1711.
ditto
Ensign, 5 Jan. 1715-10
2 July 1721
Ensign, 3 Sept. 1719.
23 Oct. 1724
Ensign, 12 July 1713.J
12 Nov. 1726
Ensign, 26 Aug. 1708.
Oct. 1725
Ensign, Aug. 1721.
23 Dec. 1726
Ensign, 23 Feb. 1708-9v
10 Dec. 1731
Ensign, 17 Aug. 1703.
20 June 1739
Ensign, 23 Dec. 1726.
23 Aug. 1735
Ensign, 23 Oct. 1724.
11 Sept. 1736
Ensign, 27 April 1726.
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 23 Dec. 1726.
29 May 1729.
5 July 1735.
11 Sept. 1736.
12 Jan. 1739-40.
1 Feb. 1739-40.
2 ditto.
3 ditto.
4 ditto.
20 June 1739.
246
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. n. SEPT. 23, me.
The next regiment (p. 23) was formed in June, 1685, in Derbyshire and Nottingham-
shire, and was first commanded by John Granville. 1st Earl of Bath (title extinct in
1711). It was later known as the 10th Regiment of Foot, and is now called "The
Norfolk Regiment." When first formed it was the only regiment clothed in blue coats,
but red' was adopted in 1688.
Lieutenant General Columbine's Dates of their
Regiment of Foot. present commissions.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieutenant General
.Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
.Lieutenants
Francis Columbine, Colonel (1)
Peter Hart
Thomas White
/ Edmund Tichburn
I Sherrington Talbot (2)
I John Preston . .
•j John Morgan
Edward Mombey
Goodwin Moreton
V Roger Debeze
James Villetes
' James Littlejohn
George Brereton
Gavin Cum ing
William Murray
Henry Boisragon
Loftus Bolton
George Colt
Henry Moore
Dansey Collins
James Hamilton
Thomas Uttler
Daniel Crowle
Richard Corbet
Robt. Cotton Fennington
James Forbes
Fergus Kennedy
William Tuder
Wyche
Alexander Hope
(1) Died in December, 1746, then being Lieutenant-General.
(2) Third son of Dr. William Talbot, successively Bishop of Oxford, Salisbury, and Durham. He
afterwards held the Colonelcy of the 74th, 43rd, and 38th Foot, and died in November, 1766, then
being Major- General.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
Ensigns
27 June 1737.
5 July 1737
25 Aug. 1734
26 Dec. 1726
25 Dec. 1728
13 May 1735
5 Nov. 1735
26 June 1739
7 Nov. 1739
12 Jan. 1739-40
ditto
1 May 1709.
10 April 1733.
22 Nov. 1733
13 May 1735
20 June 1735
23 July 1737
20 April 1738
7 Feb. 1738-9
7 Nov. 1739
12 Jan. 1739-40
20 June 1735.
11 Aug. 1737.
8 Feb. 1737-8.
20 April 1738.
17 Juh- 1739.
7 Nov. 1739.
12 Jan. 1739-40.
3 Feb. 1739-40.
4 ditto.
Ensign, 1605.
Captain, 23 May 1716.
Captain, 20 June 1721.
Captain, 12 May 1726.
Capt. Lieut. 21 Dec. 1727.
Ensign, 23 Oct. 1718.
Lieutenant, 11 June 1716.
Lieutenant, 9 Mar. 1716-17.
Lieutenant, 8 May 1723.
Lieutenant, 25 Dec. 1728.
Ensign, 25 Dec. 1728.
ditto.
Lieutenant, 26 Mar. 1729.
Ensign, 16 Jan. 1730-1.
Ensign, 2 Oct. 1731.
Ensign, 10 May 1732.
Ensign, 22 Nov. 1733.
Ensign, 20 June 1735.
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INCUNABXTLA IN IRISH LIBRARIES. — In the
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industrious German scholar, Dr. Ernst
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public and private, in Great Britain and
Ireland in which incunabula are preserved.
The writer did not visit Ireland, and appears
to have obtained his information on the
collections in that country from printed
catalogues and private correspondence. It
is remarkable that he should have entirely
overlooked the Royal Irish Academy. As-
sisted by the ever-obliging custodian of the
valuable library of that institution, Mr. J. J.
O'Neill, I have been able to discover four
incunabula on the Academy's shelves. They
are : —
1. [Hain 2500.] " De Proprietatibus Rerum
f ratris Bartholomei Anglici .... Impressus per
Nicolaum Pistoris de Benssheym et Marcum
Reinhardi de Argentina socios. Sub Anno
Domini 1480." 320 ff. in excellent condition.
2. [Hain 6693.] " Preclarissimus Liber Elemen-
torum Euclidis perspicacissimi .... Erhardus Rat-
dolt Augustensis Impressor solertissimus. Venetiis
impressit. Anno Salutis 1482." 137 ff.
This volume is preserved in the MS. Boom,
marked 24 E. 24. There are several MS.
fly-leaves at the beginning and end with
mathematical and genealogical notes, the
latter partly in Irish, with some Irish verses,
by a certain Francis Murphy, A.D. 1785.
Afterwards the book belonged to Marcus
Cronin of Tralee (1801), who has scribbled
in some curious memoranda, including some
amatory lines written in a very transparent
cipher, which are not remarkable for their
good taste ; these are followed by the
goliardic lines "Est mihi propositum in
taberna mori," &c., and at the bottom of the
page is the young lady's signature. This
is perhaps a unique instance of an edition
of Euclid being employed for so mundane a
purpose.
On the fly-leaf at the beginning is the
inscription : " A gift from a farmer of the
County of Kerry anno 1838 to E. F. Day."
The Kerry farmer was perhaps Mr. Marcus
Cronin of Tralee. In the margins of the
book are many mathematical notes and
genealogical accounts of great Irish families.
3. [Hain 2809.] " Supplementum Chronicharum.
Opus. . . .f ratris lacobi Philippi Bergomensis. . . .
Impressum autem Venetiis per magistrum
Bernardinum Ricium de Novaria : anno a nativi-
tate Domini 1492."
The unnumbered ff. at the beginning are
missing, the first extant folio bearing the
number 9 and the signature b. The last
folio is numbered 256, and there follow
248
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. SEPT. 23, uie.
twelve unnumbered Index folios. The
volume is much dilapidated, especially the
twelve folios of the Index.
4. [Hain 8543.] " ManipulusFlorumcompilatus
a magigtro Thoma de Hibernia .... Impressum
Venetiis per magistrum loannem Rubeum Ver-
cellensem." C. 1494, 288 ff.
Copinger, ' Supplement to Hain,' i., 1895,
p. 254, gives 1495 as the date of this book,
but Proctor, ' Index to Early Printed Books
in the British Museum,' 1898, p. 338, places
it in 1494. M. ESPOSITO.
THE DICK WHITTINGTON : CLOTH FAIK. —
This old public-house, a familiar landmark
in the intricate neighbourhood of the
Priory Church of St. Bartholomew, is now
being taken down. It has been the subject
of many drawings, photographs, and
sketches. The illustration in Mr. Hanslip
Fletcher's ' London Passed and Passing ' is
very useful; and of special interest are a
drawing by Herbert Railton and sketches
of detail by Mr. Barham Harris now before
me. In a measure these give it a tinsel glory
by reproducing its false ascriptions : " Esta-
blished in the Fifteenth Century," and
" The oldest licensed house in London."
The modern windows, " gin-palace " shop-
front, and plaster skin on the old timber-and-
brick walls are not of importance to the
artist unless he is also an archaeologist, but
because of the wide publicity its frequent
illustration obtained for the house some
record of its demolition may be useful.
Its claims to a pre- Reformat ion existence
and licence are false and impossible. The
site was originally in the burial-ground of
the Priory, and at a date inferred to be sub-
sequent to 1540 it was occupied by booths
" only let ten out in the Fayre time and
closed vp all the yeare after " (Stow, 1603,
p. 381). The Priory and all the ground
within its enclosure were purchased, May 19,
1544, for 1,064Z. 11s. 3d. by Sir Richard
Rich, and at the end of that century in
place of the booths
" there bee many large houses builded, and the
North Wall towards Long Lane taken downe, a
number of tenements are there erected for such as
will give greate rents." — Stow, 1603, p. 381.
This, I submit, is ample evidence that the
house and its licence did not exist before
Stow's record, say 1598. The name " Ye
Olde Dick Whittington " is probably quite
modern — an example of the late Mr. Andrew
Tuer's old English, introduced here when
the " antiente Fratemitie offe ye Rahere
Almoners " was founded, March 7, 1881,
and had a Chapter-House in Cloth Fair.
Even as a sign the Dick Whittington. would
not be earlier than about 1670, when the
legend was popularized by chapbooks. It
is even preferable to assume that this was a
shop converted into a drinking booth at
fair time, and not continuously a licensed
house until the eighteenth cent\iry.
Of greater importance and possible anti-
quity was the Hand and Shears, standing on.
the opposite corner until replaced by the
public-house now bearing that name. There
is a rather scarce engraving of the old house
badly reproduced at p. 237 of Morley's
4 Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair.' Here, as
early as the Commonwealth, was held the
Court of Piepowder, and from it issued the
leaders of Lady Holland's mob, who violently
protested against the early attempts to
restrict the fair to its legal term. The sign
of this house supports the belief in its earlier
origin, and its size and appearance give
greater probability to the tradition than that
hitherto belonging to its now demolished
neighbour, the Dick Whittington.
ALECK ABBAHAMS.
AN ILLUSTRATED SPEECH FROM THE
THRONE. — The opening years of the-
eighteenth century would seem to have been
distinguished by the appearance in London
not only of the first illustrated English novel
(as shown by your correspondents, ante,
pp. 90, 153), but of the earliest — and, perhaps,,
the only — illustrated Speeches from the
Throne. This was in the reign of Anne,
when what Macaulay termed in Victorian
times " that most unmeaningly evasive of
human compositions, a Queen's Speech,"
was put to pictorial use.
The Daily Courant of April 18, 1710,
advertised that
"This Day is Publish'd, Her Majesty's most
Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on
Wednesday the 5th of April ; with Her Picture
curiously Engraven, with the lively Figures of
Religion and Wisdom on her Right Hand, Justice
and Moderation on her Left Hand. Printed in a
very large Character, on fine Royal Paper, and
Roll'd. Sold by J. King, Map and Printseller,
at the Globe in the Poultry. Price 6d. Fram'd.
18d. N.B. At the same Place you may have the
Queen's Speeches Painted extraordinary in.
Frames and Glasses from 6s. to 14s."
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
44 JOBEY " OF ETON. — Letters concerning
successive 44 Jobeys," from Lord Aklenham
and others, are to be found in The Times,.
Jan. 13, 14, 15, 1916. This note may
anticipate future inquiry.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
12 S. II. SEPT. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
249
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
CAPT. JOHN CHARNLEY. — In the year 1804
there was a naval battle near Dominica
between the privateer Thetis of Lancaster
(Capt. John Charnley), with the Ceres and
Penelope (presumably of Cork), and the
Bonaparte Brig. In this encounter the
British ships were triumphant, and, as a
result, a silver cup bearing the following
inscription was presented by certain in-
habitants of the island of Dominica to
Capt. Charnley : —
"Presented
By the Inhabitants of the Island of Dominica to
John Charnley, Esquire, Commander of the Ship
Thetis of Lancaster, Letter of Marque, of 16 guns
and 45 men, for his bravery and judicious conduct
on the 8th day of November, 1804, when attacked
by the Bonaparte Brig of 20 Guns and 215 men,
which he beat off and disabled ; thereby preserving
his own ship, also the Ceres and Penelope, both
valuable ships, who sailed with him from Cork."
On the reverse are trophies of war, with
oak and laurel leaves, richly embossed ; and
on the lid is a gilt figure of Fame. The
inside is gilt, and the cup is valued at 60Z.
It Is desired, if possible, to ascertain the
present resting-place of this cup. Can any
of your readers help in this direction ? Any
information with respect to Capt. Charnley
will be appreciated. It is known that he
was born at Lancaster, the son of Robert
and Mary Charnley of that town, and was
married about 1807 to a Mrs. Sarah Peel
(formerly Armitstead) of Mytton, Yorkshire.
It is particularly desired to ascertain his
place of interment, and whether any port rait
of him is known. The family appears to have
died out here long ago, as he left an only son
who died without issue and intestate in 1855.
T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.
Lancaster.
"COURT" IN FRENCH PLACE-NAMES. —
What is the origin of this termination,
and what is the precise meaning to be
attached to it ? It occurs mainly, apparently,
in Picardy and along the boundary line be-
tween France and Flanders. Some of the
villages are comparatively modern, others
go back at least to Froissart's time. Their
number, however, would seem to exceed any
possible way of connecting the final " court"
with the cour or courty ard of a demolished
chateau. L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
THE GORDONS : " GAY " OR " GEY " ? —
Everybody in these days knows the allitera-
tive epithet of " Gay " as attached to the
Gordons (both members of the family and
the famous regiment). In an article on the
regiment in Life and Work, March, 1915, the
Rev. Lauchlan MacLean Watt says : —
"The Gordons as a race were notable for fear-
lessness and stubborn dourness, in consequence of
which they were spoken of as the ' gey Gordons,'
that is to say the terrible Gordons, for their fear-
less disregard of death and danger was proverbial.
The phrase has become, corrupted in later days,
through ignorance, into ' the gay Gordons,' a very
different idea."
Part of this statement is undoubtedly true,
for according to the old " fret " : —
The gule, the Gordon, and the hoodie craw
Are the three warst things that Moray ever saw.
On the other hand, gayness, insouciance,
call it what you will, has long been associated
with the family ; and the " corrupted "
adjective " gay " has been applied to them
for at least a hundred years. Robert
Chambers uses it in his classic ' Popular
Rhymes in Scotland.' What printed
authority is there for Mr. Watt's suggestion ?
J. M. BULLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.
AUTHOR WANTED.— Who is the author of
the following lines ? —
Oh that a man with common sense
Can think a bacon slice gives God offence,
Or that a herring has the charm
The Almighty's vengeance to disarm !
Wrapt in Majesty Divine,
Does He look down on what we dine?
TRIN. COLL. CAMS.
HENRY AND EDWARD HENRY PURCELL. —
The above persons were sons of Edward
Purcell, organist of St. Margaret's, West-
minster, and grandsons of the great Henry
Purcell. I wish to know if they were
married ; if so, can any reader give the
maiden names of their respective wives,
also the names of their children, if they had
any ? The date and place of their death are
also desired. Edward Henry Purcell was
organist of St. John's, Hackney, for some
years. Did he hold that appointment at the
time of his death ?
L. H. CHAMBERS.
Bedford.
BIFELD OR BYFELD. — Where can I find
particulars as to the pedigree of Robert
Bifeld or Byfeld, Alderman of London,
whose daughter Ann or Anna married Sir
Richard Haddon, Lord Mayor of London
1506 ? EDDONE.
250
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 23, wie.
" S. J.," WATER-COLOUR AKTIST. — Can
any reader help as to the identity of S. J.
on a water-colour drawing dated 1826,
supposed to be an original illustration for the
" Waverley Novels ? " I find that the dedi-
cation'of the "Waverley Novels" by Sir
Walter Scott to George IV. was dated from
Abbotsford on Jan. 1, 1829.
E. P. STEEDS.
Barkby Firs, Leicestershire.
THE REV. DAVID DURELL, D.D., PRE-
BEND AKY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. —
According to the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xvi. 251,
he was a native of Jersey, where he was
born in 1728. I should be glad to learn
particulars of his parentage and the full date
of his birth. Was he ever married ?
G. F. R. B.
GENERAL WILLIAM HAVILAND. — The
' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' xxv. 183, says that he
was the son of Capt. Peter Haviland, and
" was born in 1718 in Ireland, where his
father was serving in a marching regiment."
I should be glad to learn the place and full
date of his birth, the regiment of which his
father was captain, and the maiden name of
his mother. G. F. R. B.
" COALS TO NEWCASTLE." — " Labour in
Vain ; or, Coals to Newcastle : In a Sermon
to the People of Queen-Hith," was advertised
in The Daily Courant of Oct. 6, 1709, as
being that day published in Paternoster
Row. Are there earlier printed references
to this well-known phrase ?
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
TOKE OF NOTTS. — In a booklet entitled
' Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentle-
men in England," Wales, Scotland, and
Ireland.' by J. P. Neale (1826), occur the
following remarks apropos of Godinton
(Kent) :—
" In the Hall are four armorial compartments,
executed by T. Willement. (1) The Arms of Toke
of Notts: argent, a chevron gules between 3 horse-
shoes sable " ;
and again : —
" The family of Toke was settled at Kelham,
Notts, and had considerable possessions in that
county at a very early period — vide Tkoroton.
From them are descended the several branches of
the family settled in Kent, Essex, and Hertford-
shire."
I should like to find out what authority
Neale has for this statement, and what
Thoroton has to say.
There is a pedigree of Toke in the Visita-
tion of Kent in 1574. What mention does
this make of the origin of the Kentish family ?
PIERRE TURPIN.
INSCRIPTIONS ON COMMUNION TABLES. —
On the disused wooden Comnvunion table in
the Salusbury Chapel of Whitechurch, or
Eglwys Wen, by Denbigh, there is in-
scribed : —
NON INCOGNITO DEO
H B 1617
IB
Is this dedication " to the not unknown
God " to be found on other Anglican Com-
munion tables of the sixteenth or seventeenth
century? E. S. DODGSON.
ROTTON FAMILY. — Can any of your readers
inform me who was the father of John Rotton
of Oxley, Staffordshire, or perhaps of Mose-
ley, Worcestershire, who died before 1720,
and whether he made a will, and if so where
it was proved ? He was the father of Samuel
Rotton of Oxley, who died in 1724, and
whose will (of which I have a copy) was
proved in the same year.
J. F. ROTTON.
Godalming.
' CATO ' AND * ANTIC ATON.' — Where can I
find a description of ' Cato,' by Cicero, and
of ' Anticaton,' by Julius Caesar — the former
written in praise of, and the latter an accusa-
tion against, Cato Uticensis ? A. E. B.
(These works have been lost. Macrobius, VI. ii.,
speaking of passages which Virgil had^lifted from
other authors, quotes the following sentence
from Cicero's ' Cato ' : " Contingebat in eo, quod
plerisque contra so-let, ut maiora omnia re quam
i am a viderentur, id quod non saepe evenit, ut
expectatio cognitione, aures ab oculis vincerentur."
Of Caesar's ' Anti-Cato ' (called also ' Anti-catones '
from being in two books) the words " Unius arro-
gantise, superbiasque dominatuque," quoted to show
the dative in -u, seem to be all that has come down
to us.]
EDWARD STABLER. — Information re-
quested regarding Edward Stabler, born
1722, died 1786, Lord Mayor of York, 1779.
Is there a portrait of him in existence ?
GEO. MERRYWEATHER.
Park Lane, Highland Park, Illinois.
"CONVERSATION" SHARP. — Mark Patti-
son, in his essay on Macaulay, writes : " He
[Macaulay] was treated with almost fatherly
tenderness by ' Conversation Sharp.' " Who
was this personage ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.
[A full account of Richard Sharp (1759-1835) is to
be found in the 'D.N.B.' His talent for conver-
sation gave him his nickname.]
THE WINCHELSEA GHOST. — Can any
reader give me information about the
Winchelsea ghost — a negro in a red uniform —
supposed to be seen in the churchyard ?
J. W. JARVIS.
12 S.H. SEPT. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
251
UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s. — Can any one say
who any of the following M.P.s were ? —
Theobald Taaffe, Arundel, 1747-54.
Roger Talbot, Thirsk, 1754-61.
Clement Taylor, Maidstone, 1780-96.
John Taylor, Lymington, 1814-18.
John Bladen Taylor, Hythe, 1818-19.
John Teed, Grampound, 1808, 1812-18.
Richard Thompson, Reading, 1720-2,
1727-34.
Thomas Thompson, Midhurst, 1807-18.
Thomas Tomkyns, Helston, 1714-15.
Samuel Touchet, Shaftesbury, 1761-8.
Alexander Tower, Berwick, 1806-7.
John Townson, Milborne Port, 1780-7 ;
Oakhampton, 1790-1.
Henry Trail of Dairsie, co. Fife, Weymouth,
1812-13.
James Trail, Oxford, 1802-6.
George Treby senior, Dartmouth, 1722-7.
(Kinsman, sed quaere, to Right Hon. George
Treby, M.P., then Secretary at War.)
John Trevanion, Dover, 1774.
John Tuckfield, Exeter, 1747-67.
Wm. Horsemonden Turner, Maidstone,
1734-41, 1747-53.
Charles Vanbrugh, Plymouth, 1740.
David Vanderheyden/East Looe, 1807-16.
Wm. Chas. Vanhuls, Bramber, 1722-3.
Sir Charles Vernon, Kt., of Farnham,
Surrey, Wycombe, 1731-4 ; Ripon, 1747-61.
General Charles Vernon, Tarn worth, 1768-
1774 (died Aug. 3, 1810, aged 91).
Particulars as to parentage, and dates of
birth, marriage, and death, would oblige.
W. R. WIIXIAMS.
Talybont, Brecon.
THE FBENCH AND FROGS. — I should be
glad of some notes on the French custom of
eating of frogs. When is this practice first
referred to (1) in English, (2) in French
literature ? Are frogs, as a matter of fact,
still and often used as food in France ?
And is it only tne hind legs which are
'consumed ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
MOSE SKINNER. — I have just picked up a
booklet called ' Mose Skinner's Bridal Tour.'
In his prefatial remarks the author says : —
" The following Memoirs were written with a
view of touching the hearts of my fellow creatures,
at the reasonable price of ten cents a creature."
A terminal note says : —
" Mose Skinner writes for the Boston True Flag,
and his creditors can keep track of him by reading
that paper."
Who was Mose Skinner? His humour is
" just Amurrican." J. H. R.
THE SIGN* VIRGO. — T am anxious to know
what significance the Jews attached to this.
With tlie other signs of the Zodiac it was
engraven on the breastplate of the High
Priest. I hold that the whole of the
Zodiacal signs were intended by Seth to
teach mankind the scheme of redemption.
C. PENSWICK SMITH.
6 Regent Street, Nottingham.
fleplws.
SIR WILLIAM OGLE:
SARAH STEWKELEY.
(12 S. ii. 89, 137.)
STEPNEY GREEN 's allusion to the Stew-
keleys' manor of Dunster, mentioned in tlie
will (1758) of Sarah, daughter of Sir Hugh
Stewkeley (2nd Bart.) and widow of Ellis
St. John of Farley Chamberlayne in countv
Hants, raises a long - vexed question as
to his connexion with the Gore and
Chamberlain families. Ellis was himself
fifth in direct descent from William St. John
(1538-1609) and Barbara Gore, whose
arms, impaled upon her husband's tomb at
Farley, suggest that she was a Gore of
Alderston. But since she does not figure in
the pedigree of that family in the Visitation
of Wiltshire, it is supposed that she belonged
to the branch that early settled at Wallop in
county Hants. Her son Henry St. John
(06. 1621), by his marriage with Ursula,
daughter of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, Kt., of
Mersh in Dunster, in the county of Somerset
(by Elizabeth Chamberlain), was the direct
ancestor of Ellis St. John, who married
Sarah Stewkeley, fourth in descent from tlie
said Sir Hugh, whose wife was daughter of
Richard Chamberlain, Alderman of London.
The latter in his will, dated in 1588, says
with reference to his younger son John (born
1553, died 1627) :—
"I will commend him to my very loving arid
friendly cousin Thomas Gore, that he may have
the bringing of him up."
This was probably Thomas Gore of Wallop,
who is known to have been intimate with
" John the letter- writer."* John's sister,
Lady Stewkeley, baptized her daughter
Ursula at Dunster on Sept. 27, 1576, and
was herself buried in the Priory Church
there on Sept. 14, 1598. In her will, dated
Aug. 10 of that year, she gave 1,000 marks
* The "Letters" written during the reign of
Elizabeth by John Chamberlain are published by
the Camden Society. See ' D.N.B.'
252
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. SEPT. 23, 1910.
to her daughters Ursula and Margaret
Stewkeley, and left to her " brother John
Chamberlain 20Z. to buy him a bason and
ewer of silver for his chamber." Ursula,
apparently, became the wife of Henry
St. John prior to her brother Thomas
Stewkeley's purchase of the manor of
Michelmersh (adjoining that of Farley) ;
for Margaret Stewkeley, by her will dated
Oct. 28, 1606, left " ten pounds apiece
to Barbara and the two other daughters
of my sister Ursula St. John."
At Wonston, where the family of
William St. John spent much of their
time at the manor of Norton, several Gores
figure in the parish register. For instance,
John Gore there married in 1587; and a
Nicholas Gore, gentleman, was buried at
Farley Chamberlayne in 1637. The latter's
Christian name of Nicholas recalls the will of
a Thomas Gore of Wallop (proved in 1570),
who says that he was son of Nicholas Gore
and brother of Richard. It would be in-
teresting to learn if he was related to
Barbara Gore (Mrs. William St. John), who
was buried in Wonston Church on Jan. 3,
1613, " in the same grave with her sister
Margaret, wife of Leonard Ely." But be
that as it may. Barbara's descendant Ellis
St. John was undoubtedly a great-great-
great-great nephew of John Chamberlain,
the Elizabethan gossip, who died in 1627.
Hampshire genealogists are much indebted
to H. C. for pointing out that Sarah, widow
of Ellis St. John (after 1729), remarried to a
Capt. Francis Townsend, and will share his
desire for further particulars as to his
identity. In her will, dated Dec. 24, 1758,
and proved in 1760 (P.C.C. 407 Lynch), she
mentions her
" lands at Donnington in Gloucestershire, some-
time the estate of George Townsend, Esq., deceased ;
subject to 500Z. among the children of Rumney
Diggle, Esq., deceased, late of Yateley."
Rumney Diggle, according to Foster's
' Oxford Graduates,' was son of Samuel
London, gent., aged 16 in 1716, when he
entered Jesus College, Oxford, and in 1720
was a barrister-at-law. In the cathedra:
registers of Winchester is. the marriage oi
" Rumney Diggle, Esq., of Yatley, and Mrs.
Mary Coward of Winchester" on March 27,
1735.
I have been hoping to see a reply to my
query as to the ancestry of Sir William,
Viscount Ogle, the Royalist defender oi
Winchester Castle in 1645. But, although
I am still seeking that information, I think
I have discovered who was the " Catherine
Ogle " whom 1 mentioned, and that she was
not the daughter of Sir William Ogle, but of
John Stewkeley of Mersh. Sir Hugh Stew-
keley, 2nd Bart., in his will, proved July 28,
1719, left
"ten pounds per ann. to my cousins Cary» Carolina »
and Isabella, daughters of my uncle John Stewke-
ley, and to their sister Catherine Ogle."
In the burial register of Winchester
Cathedral for Jan. 14, 1775, is the name of
" Isabella Catharina, daughter of Chaloner
Ogle, Esq., and Catherine his wife"; also
on Aug. 1, 1780, that of " Isabella, daughter
of Dr. Ogle, Dean." From the ' Landed
Gentry' (1879), under Ogle of Kirkley Hall,
Northumberland, it appears that the Rev.
Newton Ogle, D.D., was Dean of Winchester
(born 1726, died 1804), and married Susanna,
eldest daughter of Dr. John Thomas, Bishop
of Winchester; also that the Dean's brother,
Chaloner Ogle, who married Hester, youngest
daughter of Bishop Thomas, " adopted the
naval profession," became an admiral, was
" knighted for his gallant services, and was
further rewarded by a Baronetcy on
March 12, 1816." He died at his residence
at Worthy, near Winchester, on Sept. 2,
1816, and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle (born 1775).
It will be a great help to Hampshire
genealogists if the identity of " Catherine
Ogle," cousin of Sir Hugh Stewkeley, can be
established, particularly since he was son of
Sir Hugh Stewkeley (1st Bart.) of Michel-
mersh and Hinton Ampner (Hants) by
Sarah Daunt sey, who remarried Sir William,
Viscount Ogle', before 1648. The latter's
memorial in Michelmersh Church, where he
was buried in July, 1682, apparently bears
the Ogle arms — a fesse between three
crescents. F. H. S.
In Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' under Ogle
of Kirkley Hall, co. Northumberland, there
are references to the baronial line of Ogle
(see Burke's ' Extinct Peerage '). Nathaniel
Ogle, M.D., of Kirkley, Physician to the
Forces under the Duke of Marlborough, had
four sons, of whom the third, the Rev.
Newton Ogle, D.D., was born 1726 ; Dean
of Winchester 1769 till he died, Jan. 6,
1804 ; Deputy Clerk of the Closet to the
King ; married Susannah, first daughter of
Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester. It
was their third daughter, Isabella, who died
unmarried 1780. The Dean's youngest
brother, Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, K.B.,
was made a baronet 1816, and died the
same year, having married Hester, youngest
daughter and coheir of the said Bishop of
Winchester. VT. R. W.
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To my reply I may add that I see by
the Visitation of Hampshire, 1622-34,
that the Stewkeleys hailed from Marsh,
which, I believe, is in the parish of
Dunst er, and one of them married a Luttrell.
It would be interesting to know if the
Luttrells, who, of course, have been asso-
ciated with Dunster Castle from " time
immemorial," were Lords of the Manor of
Dunster. The will says plainly Dunster, so,
presumably, it is not the Manor of Marsh
that is intended, but the Manor of Dunster.
Could any one throw light here ? It is,
indeed, quite possible that the Luttrells held
the Castle, and the Stewkeleys the Manor.
STEPNEY GBEEN.
WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY ON BIRD LIFE
IN THE FENS (12 S. ii. 189). — There is a
passage in his ' De gestis pontificum
Anglorum,' lib. iv., near the beginning of the
section headed ' De episcopis Eliensibus,'
where, after describing the abundance of
eels and fish in the Fens, he says : —
" Nee minor aquatic-arum volucrum vilitas, ut
pro uno asse de utronue cibo quinque homines et
eo amplius non solum lanieni pellant, sed et satie-
tatem expleant." — ' Rerum Anglicarum scriptores
post Bedam praBcipui,' Frankfort, 1601, p. 293.
The number of three thousand ducks
caught with one net is found in Camden's
description of Lincolnshire, in the part
dealing with Crowland : —
" Sed qusestum maximum faciunt et auium
aquatilium captura, quae tanta est, ut mense
Augusto in unum rete expansum semel simulque
tria railia annatum oogant, et lacunas suas suos
agros vocitent." — ' Britannia,' ed. 1607, p. 399.
EDWARD BENSLY.
JOACHIM IBARRA (12 S. ii. 171). — The exact
date of Ibarra's death was NOV. 23, 1785.
A reference to a Madrid paper of about that
date would probably yield some details.
In Techener's journal, the Bulletin du
Bibliophile, 1887, pp. 500-1, there is a very
brief article upon Ibarra. I presume that
your correspondent is acquainted with the
notice of him in Chaudon and Delandine's
' Dictionnaire Universel ' (1810). A close
examination of the productions of Ibarra's
press would yield some useful notes. He
produced a fine edition of the Bible and a
well-executed Missal. His ' Don Quixote '
of 1780 is considered one of his special
productions. Rarest of all is his ' Sallust '
of 1772. Ibarra is described as " imprimeur
de la chambre du Roi d' Espagne" ; and of the
' Sallust ' it is stated : " Cette traduction est
tres-rare parce que ce prince fit des presents
de toute ['edition."
Dibdin goes into one of his usual raptures
over Lord Spencer's copy of Mariana' a
' History of Spain,' published by Ibarra in
1780 : " a more beautiful book has rarely
issued from the Spanish press. It is worthy
in all respects of the reputation of Ibarra."
Ibarra made his own ink. The Bulletin du
Bibliophile says : —
"II fabriquait lui-meme son encre. On attribue i
1'adjonction d'uue certaine quantite de bleu de
Prusse la beaute" et la solidite exceptionnelle de
cette encre espagnole."
Ibarra's productions were the models
which Ambrose Didot set before him when,
he established his great Paris press.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
" LAUS DEO " : OLD MERCHANTS' CUSTOM:
(12 S. i. 409, 474; ii. 13). —In the Turner
Museum at Kirkleatham, Redcar, Yorks, the
vicar allowed me to inspect the ledger of Sir
W. Turner, Lord Mayor of London and mercer
of St. Paul's Churchyard in the reign of
Charles lit Each page is headed with the
words " Laus Deo," and a photograph of
such a page may be seen among the illustra-
tions of my ' Story of Bethlehem Hospital.'
E. G. O'DONOGHUE.
Bethlehem Hospital, S.E.
THE KINGSLEY PEDIGREE (12 S. ii. 70^
136, 174). — Nich. Toler Kingsley, paymaster
1st Battalion 8th or the King's Regiment of
Foot, Dec. 24, 1802, to 1812 ; ensign 1st
Battalion 44th Foot, May 15, 1812 ; lieu-
tenant ditto, March 29, 1814; placed on
half -pay, March 25, 1816 ; Waterloo Medal.
J. F. Kingsley, quartermaster to the-
31st Foot, Jan. 1, 1797, and to the 30th Foot,
July 9, 1803 ; so in 1820.
John Kingsley, captain in the Royal
African Corps, Dec. 25, 1803 ; junior major,
Dec. 29, 1809.
Charles Kingsley, ensign in same, Nov. 13,
1804 ; lieutenant ditto, July 17, 1806 ;
captain, June 13, 1811 ; half-pay, Dec. 25,
1818 ; in 1842 on retired full pay of captain
9th Royal Veteran Battalion (June 13, 1811).
William Kingsley, ensign 8th Foot, Nov. 7,
1805 ; last but one on list on Feb. 14, 1806 ;
left the regiment in 1806. Was he the same
as
Jeffries Kingsley, cornet 3rd Dragoons,
June 24, 1813 ; lieutenant ditto, Nov. 25,
1813 ; on half-pay thereof, Feb. 19, 1818 ;
so in 1842 ?
The only Kingsley at Waterloo was Lieut.
Nich. Toler Kingslev. Was he William's
uncle ? W. R. W.
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FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS
(128. ii. 172). — G. P. R. James (whose works
are dealt with ante, p. 167) was British Consul
at Venice at the time of his death (June 9,
1860), and was buried in the Protestant
cemetery in that city. In 1896 his remains,
-with those of other British subjects, were
removed to the new cemetery on the island
-of San Michele. From an account of the
removal (based on the British Vice-Consul's
Report) given in The Times of March 19,
1896, I extract the following : —
" The Vice-Consul had not heard from any one
in England on the subject, but he had the remains
reverently exhumed and reburied in a sunny piece
of freehold land in the new cemetery. The
memorial-stone was also removed. The epitaph
runs thus : ' His merits as a writer are known
wherever the English language is, and as a man
they rest in the hearts of many.' Owing to long
exposure the letters would now require to be
recut and refilled with lead, the iron railing to be
repainted, and some flowers planted on the grave
in order to put it in complete order."
I shall be glad if any of your readers can
furnish a complete «opy of the inscription,
And also say if the suggestions made by the
Vice-Consul as to the renovation of the
memorial-stone, &c., were carried out.
John Richard Green, the historian, died at
Mentone, March 7, 1883, and was buried in
the cemetery there. The inscription over
his grave was given at 7 S. vii. 105.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon=" L. E. L."
(Mrs. M'Lean), died at Cape Coast Castle,
Oct. 15, 1838. She is buried in the Castle
Yard. The Latin inscription there placed to
.her memory appears at 7 S. vi. 86.
Louise de la Ramee = " Ouida," died at
"Viareggio, Italy, Jan. 25, 1908. She is
buried in the English cemetery' at Bagni di
Lucca. Her relatives and admirers erected
-a monument over her grave in the following
year, consisting of a Gothic sarcophagus on
which is the recumbent figure of the novelist.
A photo-reproduction of the memorial
appeared in The Sphere of Oct. 9, 1909, and
on the side visible is inscribed : —
In memory
of
Louise de la Ratnee
" Ouida "
writer of incomparable novels.
(See also US. iv. 183.)
Oscar Wilde died in Paris, Nov. 30, 1900,
and is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
A remarkable memorial was placed over his
grave and unveiled on Nov. 4, 1913.
Edward Whymper died at Chamonix in
September, 1911, and was buried there. A
copy of the inscription over his grave is
•desired.
Dr. Philip Doddridge, the hymn-writer,
died at Lisbon, Oct. 26, 1751, and is buried
in the English Cemetery, where also repose
the remains of Henry Fielding (see 7 S.
viii. 8, 112, 177).
Robert Louis Stevenson died of apoplexy
at his home in the island of Samoa, Dec. 3,
1894. By his own desire he was buried at
the summit of Mount Apia. It took forty
men with knives and axes to cut a road
through to the top, and the site of his grave
is thus described by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, who
chose and prepared it : —
Nothing more bold or picturesque could be
imagined. It is a narrow ledge no wider than a
room and flat as a table ; the mountain descends
precipitously on both sides ; the vast ocean in
front and the white beaches on which the surf is
breaking everlastingly ; mountains on either side
adrift with mist."
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
The following is a list of some British
authors who were buried abroad : —
Buried in
Paris.
Samoa.
Damascus.
Staglieno Cemetery,
Genoa.
Rome.
Trichinopoly, India.
Lemnos.
Rome.
Lido Cemetery, Venice.
Avignon.
John Addington Symonds Rome.
Edward J. Trelawny . . Rome.
The following certainly died abroad, but
I am not sure as to whether they were also
interred abroad : —
Died.
Brussels.
Mentone.
Nice.
Cape Coast Castle.
Trieste.
At sea.
Cannes.
France.
Tegernsee, Bavaria.
Florence.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
These names may be added to the list :
Frances Trollope, Theodosia Trollope, and
Hugh James Rose, at Florence ; Dr.
Dionysius Lardner, at Naples ; John Richard
Green and Meadows Tavlor at Mentone.
G. S. PARRY.
Bishop Heber (Calcutta), L. E. L. (Cape
Coast Castle), Robert Louis Stevenson
(Samoa), Henry Fielding (Lisbon).
WM. H. PEET.
Oscar Wilde
Robt. L. Stevenson
Henry Thomas Buckle
Charles Cowden Clarke
Augustus Wm. Hare
Reginald Heber
Rupert Brooke
William Howitt
G. P. R. James
John Stuart Mill
Richard Middleton
John Richard Green
Julia Kavanagh
Letitia E. Landon
Charles J. Lever
Matthew G. Lewis
Sir H. G. S. Maine
Sir John Suckling
Lord Acton
Charles F. Leland
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John Kit to (1804-54) died at Cannstadt in
Germany. " His remains were buried in. the
cemetery there, a tombstone being erected
over them by Mr. Oliphant, his publisher"
('D.N.B.'). ' M.
Freeman, the historian,' and Aubrey
Beardslev, both buried in cemetery of
Mentone, France. W. C. J.
[Crashaw died at Loretto, and is buried there.]
LADIES' SPURS (12 S. ii. 190). — In Mrs.
Power O'Donoghue's 'Riding for Ladies,'
1905, pp. 347-50, appear the following
references to ladies' spurs : —
" I have pleasure in appending sketches of the
only three of these that I know of that are
manufactured ; they are the ' Rowel guard,' the
'Sewarrow,' end the 'Box-spur.' The Sewarrow
is, I think, excellent of its kind, but I am not
much in favour of spurs for ladies who ride in the
ordinary quiet way. Novices should never make
use of them either for road riding or when hunting.
Lady equestrians frequently use a small pair of
hunting spurs of the shape worn by men — the right
one having a knob in place of a rowel. These are
used with Hessian boots, and look well when dis-
mounted."
Another reference to ladies' spurs appears
in Belle Beach's ' Riding and Driving for
Women,' n.d. [1913], chap, vii., ' Correct
Dress for the Saddle,' p. 130 : —
"It is not safe for a woman, unless she is an
experienced rider, to wear a sharp spur, and one
should never be worn except with an open skirt,
as it is almost certain to catch in a plain skirt.
The spur, if worn, should be plain and of the same
pattern as a man's."
The following extract is taken from
Alice M. Hayes's ' The Horsewoman,' 1910,
pp. 204-10 :—
" The spur is inapplicable to the requirements of
ordinary side-saddle riding, because in order to use
it properly it should be applied, as nearly as
practicable, at right angles to the side of the horse,
so as to touch him only on one spot, in which case
the knee will have to be well brought away from
the flap of the saddle and the toe of the boot
turned outwards. This would necessitate the use
of a long stirrup leather, which would bring the
rider's weight too hmch on the near side and
would al«o render her seat insecure A lady who
rides with her stirrup leather at the correct length
can use the spur only in a more or less parallel
direction to the animal's side, in which case the
spur, if it is sharp, will be almost certain to tear
the skin instead of lightly pricking it. Lady
Augusta Fane, who is one of the best horsewomen
in Leicestershire is strongly opposed to the use
of the spur. She tells me that ' if a horse is so
sticky as to require a spur, he is no hunter for this
country, and if he is a determined refuser, no
woman, spur or no spur, can make him gallop to
big fences and jump. I consider the spur a very
cruel thing.' Lord Harrington, who is well
known as a fine horseman, also dislikes spurs, and
has advocated their abolition in the yeomanry
Mr. Whyte-Melville points out that my sex are
unmerciful in the abuse of the spur and a lady
who rides a horse in the ordinary way with this
instrument of torture, which she is unable to use
correctly, brands herself in the eyes of her more
experienced sister as an incompetent horsewoman.
It is the fashion to wear spurs with top-boots,
but many good horses go better without them.
Mr. Whyte-Melville remarks that 'a top-boot has
an unfinished look without its appendage cf shining
steel. Men wear spurs in hunting because it is
fashionable to do so, but there is no arbitrary law
laid down for ladies, and the presence of the spur
adds to the danger of dragging by the stirrup I
certainly think that no lady should subject her
hunter to the " insult of the spur." '
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
THE NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES OF
G. P. R. JAMES (12 S. ii. 167).— To the best
of my belief I have read none of this author's
books, and I do not mean to make a begin-
ning, but I feel that MR. W. A. FROST'S
complete list of his novels and collected
short stories is an interesting contribution to
literary history, and I venture to supplement
it by a few lines explaining that it was
James's misfortune rather than his fault
that his works did not far outnumber the
fifty-six enumerated by MR. FROST. If the
publishers of James's era had been as enter-
prising as the author was industrious, his
output would have broken all records.
Under happier auspices he might have pro-
duced a novel a month, to say nothing of
the short stories which he could have
knocked off in his leisure moments.
Even George Smith was not strong enough
to support the weight of this writer's
fecundity. The story of his connexion with
James, as set out in the ' Memoir of George
Smith ' prefixed to the First Supplement
(1901) of the 'Dictionary of National Bio-
graphy,' is as follows : —
In 1844 Smith, Elder & Co., in addition to
beginning an elaborate collected edition of
James's works already in being, entered into
a contract with him to publish any new novel
which he should write, he receiving 6001. for
the first edition of 1,250 copies.
In each of the three years following James
favoured the publishers with two three-
volume novels. This, however, was only
an earnest of his capacity; by 1848 he was
getting into his striae, and during that year
he supplied the firm with three novel-;.
Strange to say, they began to think that it
was time for James to moderate his Iran -
ports. Their books showed that between
1844 and 1848 they had offered the public
twenty-seven volumes from his pen, at a
total cost to the purchasers of thirteen and
a half guineas. A polite request that the
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author should " set some limits to his annual
output " was indignantly declined, but
George Smith stuck to his guns, and the
agreement came to an end. As MR. FROST'S
list shows that during the remaining eleven
years of James's life he published only
fourteen novels, it may be reasonably
inferred that in breaking with George
Smith he went further and fared worse.
The story as related in the ' Memoir ' is
strange and wonderful, but the particulars
given by your contributor are evidence that
it does no sort of justice to James's literary
industry. MR. FROST'S list tells us that the
novels put forth during the four years were
fifteen in number. Presumably the extra
six were not issued by the firm in Cornhill.
No doubt MR. FROST is accurate in his
assertion that the actual number of James's
novels was " only fifty-six," but, considering
all things, I do not think that the ' Dictionary
of National Biography ' can be censured for
stating that he was "said" to have written.
upwards of a hundred. The probability is
that the biographer was well below the
mark, for we may be sure that popular repute
had woven strange legends about an author
who had issued fifteen novels in four years.
CHRISTIAN TEARLE.
THE CULTUS OF KING HENRY VI. (12 S.
i. 161, 235, 372).— Following my reply on
this subject at the last reference, I should
say that Mr. N. H. J. Westlake mentions two
portraits of Henry VI. in stained glass ;
neither of them has anything to indicate
canonization. One is in the St. Cuthbert
window in the Choir of York Cathedral ;
the other — very remarkable as a piece of
glass, but rather dubious as an effigy — is in
the Hacomblyn Chantry in King's College,
Cambridge.
In a foot-note Mr. Westlake (iii. p. 81)
gives a long quotation from Canon Fowler's
monograph on the St. Cuthbert window
(Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, iv. 366).
It is full of information about the cultus of
Henry VI., but the note by MR. MONTAGUE
SUMMERS is really exhaustive.
The following extracts may be of interest
as to the decline of the said cultus, the
subject of ST. SWITHIN'S reply : —
" There were few large towns in England, it is
said, in which an image of Henry VI. was not set up
in the principal church. In Archbishop Booth's
Register is a monition against any persons
venerating some image of him in York Minster,
dated 27th October, 1479, when, perhaps, his name
was erased in the window (see p. 261 ), and his image
removed from the choir screen. The order seems
to have been issued mainly in deference to the Pope,
who had not canonized Henry, and to Edward IV.
who had superseded him as King. — ' York Fabric
Rolls,' Surtees Soc. vol. xxxv. pp. 208-82."
And this : —
" It appears that all the three Lancastrian
Henries had more or less reputation for sanctity,
and that they should be represented as they are in
the windoM7 would doubtless be felt very appro-
priate by Bishop Longley. the donor, and by the
Lancastrian party generally, which in Yorkshire
was particularly strong (ibid p. 268)."
PIERRE TURPIN.
Folkestone.
F AIRFIELD AND RATHBONE, ARTISTS (12 S.
ii. 27, 77). — If MR. LANE will refer to the
notice of John Rathbone in the ' Dictionary
of National Biography,' which I conclude he-
has not consulted, I think he will find some
of the information he desires. Since I wrote
that article I have occasionally come across
specimens of the work of John Rathbone, all
of which have confirmed the opinion I there
express of his work. Of Fairfield I unfor-
tunately can give no information, as my
notes, the result of many years' interest in
art and artists, refer mostly to those who
have practised in Lancashire and Cheshire.-
The figures in Rathbone' s landscapes being
put in by such of his contemporaries as
Morland and Ibbetson are quite what one-
would expect, as both of these artists spent
much time in our counties, where they had
some good patrons, particularly in Man-
chester and Liverpool. This friendly help
in dotting-in figures is often given even when
acknowledgment is not desired. Many in-
stances of it must have been noticed by those
who are acquainted with landscape art from
that time down to our own days.
ALBERT NICHOLSON.
Portinscale, Hale, Altrincham.
EMMA ROBINSON, AUTHOR OF ' WHITE-
FRIARS ' (12 S. ii. 149, 199).— -The father of
this famous novelist was a noted " character "
in London literary circles during the fifties
of last century. Dr. Strauss, in his ' Re-
miniscences of an Old Bohemian,' gives an
amusing sketch of the sham author : —
" In the olden times we had admitted to our set
that used to meet at the White Hart Tavern a
tall old gentleman in a tall old dress suit, with
a tall old chimney-pot, who went by the name of
Robinson, and by the reputation of the author of
' Whitefriars.' We admired him accordingly.
Halliday and self, more especially, positively
reverenced him ; and when he talked mysteriously
of the wondrous historic tales then still in gestation
in his brain, which would 'lick "Whitefriars"
into fits,' we could barely refrain from falling on
our knees to worship him. Literally there was no
end to the 'libations' poured out to him, which
he would graciously accept and freely imbibe with
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"the calm dignity of one conscious of his worth. It
so fell out that Halliday went one day to the
Exhibition of the Academy, where he chanced to
see a portrait of the 'Author of " Whitefriars," '
who turned out to be a lady. Well, we were
fierce in our wrath. It was such a base deception ;
but the old gentleman was equal to the occasion ;
he contended that, the part being included in the
whole, and he being the father of the author of
* Whitefriars,' he had not been guilty of any false
pretence. Halliday took hi* revenge, however, by
telling the story to the reading world in an
amusing skit entitled 'The Author of Blueblazes '
(Whitefriars=VVhitefires, Blueblazes)."
Miss Robinson's last novel was, I believe,
< The Hidden Million : or, the Nabob's
Revenge,' which appeared, with illustrations
by Fred Gilbert, in The Penny Illustrated
Paper in 1867. It was, comparatively
speaking, poor stuff ; though whether the
falling off in the talent displayed was due to
the loss of parental advice is a moot question.
HERBERT B. CLAYTON.
39 Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane, S.E.
Du BELLAMY : BRADSTREET : BRADSHAW
(12 S. ii. 209). — Charles Du Bellamy, whose
real name was Evans, made his first appear-
ance in London Xov. 12, 1766, at Covent
Garden Theatre, as Young Meadows, in
Bickerstaffs opera of ' Love in a Village.'
His first wife appeared at the same theatre
Nov. 5, 1766, as Lavinia, in ' The Fair
Penitent.' She died August, 1773.
Du Bellamy continued a member of the
Covent Garden company until 1776, acting,
during the summer recess, at the Haymarket
in 1769, 1770, and 1777. His name then disap-
pears from the bills until May, 1780, when he
was again at the Haymarket. In September
of that year he was engaged at Drury Lane,
•where he remained until 1782, when his
London career seems to have come to an
end.
He played, among other parts : Octavio,
" She Would and She Would Not ' ; Thomas,
* Thomas and Sally ' ; Capt. Macheath ;
Stanmore, ' Oroonoko ' ; Amiens, ' As You
Like It ' ; Autolycus, ' Winter's Tale ' ;
Mercury, ' Golden Pippin ' ; Hilliard, ' Jovial
Crew ' ; Leander, ' Padlock ' ; Hastings,
1 She Stoops to Conquer ' (of which he
was the original representative) ; Capucius,
' Henry VIII.' ; Artabanes, ' Artaxerxes ' ;
Apollo, ' Midas ' ; Bacchanal, ' Comus ' ;
Truemore, ' Lord of the Manor.'
It appears from his Benefit bills that in
1776 he lived at 29 Great Russell Street,
Blooinsbury, and in 1781-2 at 6 Queen's
Buildings, Brompton.
I have, among a quantity of material
which formed part of the Winston Collection,
a few playbills newspaper cuttings, and
.MS. notes relating to Du Bellamy. His
marriage with the daughter of General
Bradsliaw — not Bradstreet — is thus re-
corded : —
" Dubellamy Mr. of Great Russel St. at St. G.
Bloomsbury married to Mrs. Button an American
lady relict of a merchant and daughter to late
General Bradshaw— 11 May 76. M.P."
Winston's writing is somewhat difficult to
read, and I am not sure that the lady's name
is not meant to be Bretton, but the name
Bradshaw is quite plainly written. M.I'.
I understand as Morning Post.
There is a newspaper cutting, on which
the date April 7, 1777, has been written,
which runs thus : —
" Mr. Da Bellamy, who lately quitted Covent
Garden Theatre, in consequence of his marriage
with a widow lady of good fortune, is now at Bath,
giving concerts at half a guinea per head, which we
hear are well resorted, though it is the dearest
musical subscription ever known in that city."
According to another cutting, he was
living in America in 1787, had resumed his
real name, and was then H Member of
Congress.
He died in New York, August, 1793, and
his death is said to be recorded " E. M.
[European Magazine], 24. 487."
There is an engraved portrait of him with
Mrs. Cargill, as Young Meadows and Rosetta,
published by Lowndes as a frontispiece to
the opera. WM. DOUGLAS.
125 Helix Road, Brixton Hill.
A STEWART RING : THE HON. A. J.
STEWART (12 S. ii. 171, 215). — I submit that
the difficulty in this case could not have
arisen if Burke' s ' Peerage ' had not adopted
a plan of omitting younger sons who died
issueless.
I have come across several instances of this
lately, and I think it is an innovation.
G. W. E. R.
FISHERIES AT COMACCHIO (12 S. ii. 210). —
In reply to L. L. K., the following modern
Italian work, A. Beltramelli, ' Da Comacchio
ad Argenta : le lagune e le bocche del Po,'
Bergamo (Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche),
1905, price 4 lire, contains (pp. 38-55) curious
details of these fisheries. They include a
plan of a " lavoriero da pesca," for trapping
eels, with explanations of the terms used, and
illustrations, from photographs, of the fishing
grounds, some of which show the contrivances
employed. The book itself belongs to the
topographico-artistic series, "Italia artis-
tica," and mentions the historical authorities
upon the subject, including Tasso, Mgr.
Pandolfi, a seventh-century bishop of
Comacchio, Alessandro Zappata, and Arturo
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Bellini, whose ' II lavoriero da pesca nella
laguna di Comacchio ' is stated to be the
principal monograph on the industry. Space
would hardly allow of quotation of the details
given b\J Beltramelli; and as regards Tasso,
his lyric synthesis of the Comacchio method
amounts (in a stanza of eight lines) to this :
the fish flies the wild, rough wave, and seeks
a retreat in still waters, where our sea
becomes a marsh in Comacchio's bosom ;
but, as it happens, it shuts itself in a swampy
prison (palustre prigion), nor can escape
because that serraglio is by wondrous art
ever to entrance, wide — to exit, barred.
A copy of Beltramelli can be consulted in the
library of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A. V. DE P.
L. L. K. will find an account of these
fisheries — chiefly of eels — in Spallanzani's
works. An application to the amiable
Librarian of the Biblioteca Comunale at
Ferrara will put him on the track of a pretty
large literature on this subject.
NORMAN DOUGLAS.
THE LITTLE FINGER CALLED " PINK "
(12 S. ii. 209). — The following extract from
Barrere and Leland's ' Dictionary of Slang,
Jargon, and Cant ' seems to answer the
query propounded by COL. WHERRY: —
" Pinky (American), an old New York term
for the little finger, from the provincial English
pinky, very small. A common term in New York,
especially among small children, who, when making
a bargain with each other, are accustomed to con-
firm it by interlocking the little finger of each
other's right hand and repeating the following : —
Pinky, pinky bow bell,
Whoaver tells a lie
Will sink down to the bad place
And never rise up again."
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
I am glad COL. WHERRY has been moved
to tell us this, because as far as I can see —
and I see less and less as weeks go on — the
' E.D.D.' is unconscious of the existence of
such a term for the fifth of our five fingers.
I do not remember having heard it in use. I
presume that it means small. Our fore-
fathers marked their sense of this smallness
of the finger in question by calling it
Littleman ; and Halliwell, in ' Nursery
Rhymes of England ' and in ' Popular
Rhymes and Nursery Tales ' together, gives
examples of jingles in which " Peesy-weesy,"
" Mama's little man," " Little Dick," and
" Pinky-winky " find place. In Denmark,
the compiler shows, the little finger is Lille
Peer Spilleman=little Peter the fiddler; and
in Sweden Lille Gullvive, the meaning of
which he does not tell. I have sought for
it in vain in Hossfeld's ' Swedish Dictionary.'
I wonder if I err in fancying that " pink "
was in the first instance instinctively applied
to things small, quick, and acute ; and that
" pink," as an adjective, comes from the
original hue of little flowers so designated.
ST. SWITHIN.
The diminutive form "pinkie" is widely
used in Scotland as a name for the little
finger. In the ' Scottish Dictionary ' Jamie-
son notes its prevalence in the Lothians,
Ayrshire, and Lanarkshire; and Fifeshire may
be added to his list. As to origin, the
lexicographer's note is : " Belg. pink, id.
pinck, digitus minimus, Kilian." The term,
he further says, is used for the smallest
candle that is made, for the weakest kind of
beer brewed for the table, and for a person
who is blindfolded.
Another name for the little finger in
Scotland is " curnie," which is perhaps used
chiefly in the nursery and at school.
THOMAS BAYNE.
In the Tweedside border it is quite common,
to call the little finger the " pinkie." Some
years ago, discussing the similarity between
some of the words used in the Scottish
border and others bearing the same meaning
in Holland, I cited the word " pinkie " as an
instance, and my friend from Haarlem told
me the word had the same pronunciation and
meaning in his country. Probably the long
and regular intercourse between Rotterdam
and Leith, and between other ports on the
North Sea coast, led to the adoption of Dutch
and German words in the seaports on the
south-east of Scotland, which gradually
found their way inland to the border towns.
The schoolchildren invariably speak of their
little finger as their " pinkie."
ANDREW HOPE.
Exeter.
" Pinky " is a dialect word used both
substantively and adjectively in the northern
counties of Northumberland, Yorkshire,
Lincolnshire, and Lancashire, and as far
south as Oxford ; but it appears to be of
Lowland Scotch origin ; see Wright's ' Eng-
lish Dialect Dictionary,' s.v., where the-
following examples occur : " He had a
gowd ring on his pinkie " (Linlithgow) ;
" Never again should his pinkie finger go
through that warm hole " (Forfar) ; while
the phrase " to turn up the pinkie " is
lynonymous with tipping the little finger.
I judge its derivation to be the same as
that of the Scotch place-name Pinkie, where-
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259
the great battle took place to promote the
marriage of Edward VT. and Mary, Queen of
Scots, viz. A.-S. pynca, a point.
N. W. HILL.
The word " pink," with its variants
"pinkie" and " pinkey." is a common
dialect word, used chiefly in Scotland and
America, for the little finger and anything
diminutive, such as a " *^ee pinkie hole in
that stocking" (Scotland), and the smallest
candle, the weakest beer (American).
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
[Several other correspondents thanked for replies.]
P. S. LAWRENCE, ARTIST AND SAILOR
(12 S. ii. 209). — According to ' A Dictionary
of Artists,' by Algernon Graves, this artist
exhibited three seascapes at the Suffolk
Street Galleries between 1826 and 1828,
giving a London address. JOHN LANE.
Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
[MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE thanked for reply.]
REV. MEREDITH HANMER, D.D. (12 S.
ii. 171), was the son of Thomas, commonly
called Ginta Hanmer, and was born at
Porkington, Salop, in 1543. See ' D.N.B.,'
xxiv. 297, for an account of him.
John Hanmer (1574-1629), Bishop of
St. Asaph, born at Pentrepant, was of the
same family.
" The family of Pentrepant was of a different
stock from the more celebrated Flintshire Hanmers,
but took their name from the intermarriage of one
of them with a daughter of the Flintshire family."
« r» xr T* '
A. R. BAYLEY.
— « D.N.
EPITAPH ON A PORK BUTCHER (12 S. ii.
188). — This is to be found at Cheltenham
in memory of John Higgs, who died in 1825 :
Here lies John Higgs
A famous man for killing pigs
For killing pigs was his delight
Both morning afternoon and night
Both heats and colds he did endure
Which no physician could e'er cure
His knife is laid his work is done
I hope to heaven his soul is gone.
H. T. BARKER.
TOUCHING FOR LUCK (12 S. i. 430, 491 ;
ii. 13, 112). — Charles Dickens was familiar
with the idea. Four years before the
reference in ' Little Dorrit,' cited at 12 S.
i. 491, he had written in 'Bleak House'
(185.3), chap, xxxii. : —
" When all is quiet again the lodger says, ' It 's
the appointed time at last. Shall I go?' Mr.
fJuppy nods, and gives him a ' lucky touch' on the
back, but not with the washed hand, though it is
his right hand. He goes downstairs "
W. B. H.
CHRISTOPHER URSWTCK ( 12 S. ii. 108, 197). —
Shakespeare's ' Richard III.,' Act IV. sc. v.f
introduces Sir Christopher Urswick, a priest,
in conversation with Lord Stanley shortly
before the battle of Bosworth Field, where
the Earl of Richmond became Henry- VII.
Urswick was in Richmond's service, for
Stanley says : "... .tell Richmond this
from me " ; and "... .hie thee to thy lord."
By the way, some railway officials of
to-day might learn of Sir Christopher how to
pronounce Haverford-west.
S. GREGORY OULD, O.S.B.
CHING : CHINESE OR CORNISH? (12 S.
ii. 127, 199, 239.)— Mr. Thurstan Peter, in his
' Parochial History of Cornwall,' refers to a
series of photographs of Cornish churches by
a Capt. Ching of Launceston. W. AVER.
7 Coptic Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
I would make a correction in my note,
ante, p. 127. While Mr. J. L. Ching's father
and grandfather, as I stated, were Li turn
Mayor of Launceston, the latter was named
Thomas — not John, as was indicated.
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GENERAL INDEX OF THE ELEVENTH SERIES.
NOTES :— General Boulanger : Bibliography, 261— Land
Tenure : an Artful Stratagem— Statues and Memorial* in
the British Isles, 263 — The Butcher s Record — Old
American Geography, 265— C. Lamb : ' Mrs. Battle's
Opinions on Whist' — "Women in White" — German
Papers, Please Copy, 266.
, ..,
267— Arms cut on Glass Punch-Bowl— Restoration of Old
Deeds and Manuscripts— Certain Gentlemen of the Six-
teenth Century — Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, 268 — Jonathan
Bunks — Authors Wanted — Madame de Stael — Brassey
(Bracey) Family— Wreck of the Orantham, 1744 —
" Driblows "—" Who's Griffiths?"— Fau.st Bibliography,
269— Sir Robeit Price, Bart., 270.
REPLIES :— Henchman, Hinchman, or Hitchman, 270- A
Mediaeval Hymn — St. George the Martyr, Queen's Square
— "Biblia de buxo," 271— An English Army List of 1740,
272— Lincoln's Inn Hall— *<ere!, Caricaturist— St. Peter as
the Gatekeeper of Heaven, 273— Thomas Panton— Grave
of Margaret Godolphin, 274 — The Kffect of Opening a
Coffin — Mrs. Anne Dutton — Portraits iu Stained Glass,
275 — Nell Gwynne and the Royal Chelsea Hospital —
Panoramic Surveys of London Streets— •• Yorker '' : a
Cricket Term, 276— Fact or Fancy '?— Headstones with
Portraits of the Deceased — Materials for a History of the
Watts Family of Southampton — Bardsey Island : Con-
scription— Capt. John Warde, 277— Old MS. Verses— Dr.
Thomas Chevalier -Steyuing : Steniug, 278— Topp Family
Crest— Shakespeare Allusion — 'The Working Man's Way
in th« World '—" Reread," ''Screed "-Theophilus Gale,
the Nonconformist Tutor— Theatrical M.P.s— Marshals
of France, 279.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' Calendar of the Patent Rolls :
Henry VII.' — ' Wace, and the " Roman de Ron." '
Notices to Correspondents.
GENERAL BOULANGER:
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
THE twenty- fifth anniversary of the death
of General Boulanger, which falls to-day,
Sept. 30, may recall the somewhat curious
fact that no adequate biography of the
general, or history of the movement to which
he gave his name, has yet appeared. At
p.ny rate, nothing answering that description
is known to the present writer. It may be
that some such work has escaped my notice,
and it is largely with the hope of eliciting
information on the subject that I have
drawn up the subjoined bibliography. It is,
no doubt, very incomplete, and some of the
books and pamphlets mentioned in it are
known to me only by name. So far my
endeavours to procure these have been
unsuccessful.
262
NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 s.n. SEPT. 30,1916.
Among my own books and pamphlets are
the following : —
BOOKS.
I. Barbou. Alfred. Le general Boulanger :
l>i'iL,Taphie illustree de cinquante gravures et
in irt rait.-. I'm is, n.d. [but published Dec. 31,
1886]. 228 pp.
'2. Prison, Georges. Le general Boulanger juge
partisans ct ses adversaires (Janvier, 1886-
m-»rs. 1888). Xouvelle edition tres augmented du
' Dossier du general Boulanger.' Paris [1888].
iv + 568 pp.
3. Le proces du G*1 Boulanger. Rochefort-
Dillon devant la Haute Cour de Justice. Compte
rendu — jugeraent — condamnation. Edition illus-
tree. Paris, 1889. 266 pp.
4. Turner, F. General Boulanger : a Bio-
graphy. London, 1889. xii+276 pp.
5. X. du Figaro. Les Coulisses du Boulan-
gisme : revues et augmentees de plusieurs chapitres
inedits, avec une preface de Mermeix, depute de
Paris. Paris, 1890. xvi+380 pp.
<i. Millot, Maurice. La comedie Boulangiste :
comedies et satires. Preface de Emmanuel
Arene. Dessins de Steinlen. Paris, 1891. 352 pp.
7. Vt'rly, Albert. Le general Boulanger et la
conspiration Monarchique. Paris, 1893. 324 pp.
8. Cahu, Theodore. Georges et Marguerite.
Paris, 1893. 364 pp.
9. Denis, Pierre. Le Memorial de Saint-
Brelade. Paris, 1894. x + 366 pp.
10. Barres, Maurice. L'Appel au Soldat.
Paris, 1900. 552 pp.
PAMPHLETS.
II. Le general Boulanger. Paris, 1886. 8 pp-
and coloured illustrated covers. (First appeared
in the Royalist Paris- Journal, Oct. 1, 1881.)
12. Discours du general Boulanger, prononce a
la chambre des Deputes le 4 juin, 1888. Paris,
1888. 16 pp.
13. Almanach Boulanger, 1889. 66 pp. (Con-
tains speech of General Boulanger at Xt-vers.
Dec. 2, 1888. )
14. Josseline, P. La carriere du general
Boulanger. (Election pamphlet, January, 1889.)
12 pp., and portrait cover.
The Almanach Boulanger first appeared, I
believe, for the year 1887. Among the
books Barbou's is a fair and well-written
biography, but, of course, deals only with the
early years of the political career. Grison
brings together a number of extracts from
newspapers of all ways of thinking. The
compte rendu of the trial before the High
Court is a document pour servir. Turner's
book is the work of a partisan, and of little
account. As far as I know, it is the only
work in English dealing with Boulanger. It
appeared in September, 1889, just before
the general election which marked the end
of the Boulangist movement. Mermeix' s
' Coulisses ' are too well known to need
comment. They appeared in the Figaro in
the summer and autumn of 1 890. The works
of Baron Verly and Pierre Denis are serious
contributions to history ; and Theodore
( 'aim's book puts into the form of a romance
the story of Boulanger and Madame de
Bonnemain. Maurice Barres, in the second
volume of his ' Roman de 1'energie nationale,'
shows the best side of the Nationalist move-
ment of the eighties, and gives a sympathetic
portrait of its figure-head.*
I have also notes of the following books and
pamphlets, but have not seen them : —
15. Le general Boulanger (brochure). Paris,
A. Clavel, imprimerie-editeur, 1886. Price 10 c.
(125,000 copies are said to have been sold on the
boulevards in July and August, 1886.)
16. Lettre au general Boulanger, par le general
T. W. [? Wolff]. Paris, Jules Levy, 1886.
(Described as a serious military criticism of the
Minister of War. )
17. Histoire patriotique du general Boulanger
("by Michel Morphy] : edition populaire avec
gravures. 10 c. le livraison. Paris, 1887. (The
fifteenth part was issued about the middle of
Xovember.)
18. DerBcese Boulanger (brochure). Stuttgart,
1887. (Described as a heroi-comic poem in five
cantos.)
19. Iluhemann, Alfred. General Boulanger,
Lebensbild des franzujsischeu Kriegsminister.
Second edition, Berlin, 1887. (Described as a
sympathetic biography.)
20. Lermina, J. Le general Boulanger, bio-
graphic et discours (brochure). ? Date.
M. Barbou mentions al>o a work by M
Bois, ' La Campagne de Tunisie,' which deals
with Boulanger's career as Commander- in-
Chief of the Tunisian Army of Occupation
(1884-5), and a brochure by the Marquis de
Rochambeau entitled ' York-town,' in which
the centenary fetes of 1881, at which France
was represented by General Boulanger, are
described.
Among the periodical literature of the
day may be mentioned : —
(a) The Boulangist Movement, by Henri
Rochefort, in The Fortnvjhtly P.eeiew, July, 1888.
(b) General Bouianger : His Case, by Alfred
Xaquet ; and His Impeachment, by Camille-
Pelletan, in The New Bevieic, June, 1889.
(c) Will General Boulanger Succeed ? by M.
Xaquet, Madame Adam. Comte de Mun, Louise
Michel, and others, in The Ot/tvm// lievieic, June,
1889.
(d) General Boulanger : a Character Sketch, by
W. T. Stead, in The Revieic of Reviews, October,
1890.
There are references to Boulanger in Lady
Dorothy Nevill's ' Under Five Reigns '
(1910), chap, v., and Sir Henry Lucy's
' Sixty Years in the Wilderness,' chap. xv.
* See article on AJaurice Barres by Madame
Duclaux in The Quarterly Review, July, 1912,
p. 125.
i2s.ii. SEPT. so, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Lady Dorothy prints two letters of General
de Galliffet on Boulanger, written, in 1889.
The two recent (1914) biographies of Paul
Deroulede are singularly reticent regarding
his connexion with General Boulanger and
the Boulangist movement.
F. H. CHEETHAM.
LAND TENURE :
AN ARTFUL STRATAGEM.
THE custom of granting leases for lives was
wi-.lely prevalent during nearly three cen-
turies in many parts of England, and particu-
larly in the Western Counties, where down
to comparatively recent days it was almost
universally practised on the large estates
held by the Duchy of Cornwall, the Oxford
Colleges, the various bishops, and deans
and chapters, as well as on those of private
owners.
The only certain point about such
tenancies was the obvious uncertainty of
their duration, and various more or less in-
genious stratagems were devised by life-
holders in order artificially to prolong their
tenure. Concealment of the death of the
last outstanding " life" was an obvious and
popular dodge ; and the baptism of successive
children by the same Christian name was
by no means rare, in order that if, for
instance, John I., one of the lives in the
lease, expired prematurely, a John II. might
be forthcoming in substitution.
A still more crafty method of prolonging
these leases has, however, come under
my notice as having been worked,
apparently unchallenged, for very many
years in a Somerset manor, which formed
part of the endowment of the prebend
of W. in the cathedral church of S.
Here, from the reign of Elizabeth onward,
and perhaps from a much earlier date, the
prebendary in possession was wont to lease
the estate for three lives to a " lord-farmer "
at a trifling reserved rent, pocketing whatever
" fine " prebendal avarice could command
on the occasion. The manor, comprising
the whole parish save a small glebe estate,
was divided from time immemorial into
demesne and copyhold lands, the latter being
partitioned into thirteen " livings," such at
least being the number in the year 1690. By
the customs of the manor each copyhold
tenant was entitled to a grant for three lives,
but an ingenious lord-farmer hit upon the
following device for prolonging his own
tenure of the estate, and incidentally turning
the copyholders into rack-rent tenant*.
When a " copy " was extinguished by the
death or surrender of the last " life," the lord-
farmer, instead of making a fresh grant to a
bona fide new tenant, proceeded to make
some nominee of his own the apparent
tenant, but in fact the latter was to hold the
" living " in trust for the lord-farmer him-
self. At judicious intervals of time the
nominee would then surrender at the lord's
court-baron his interest, which was forthwith
regranted to a younger man, again a mere
trustee. Before very many years had
elapsed the whole of the copyholds became
thus vested in the lord-farmer, and so long
as one of the original lives for which he
held the manor was in existence, he was
enabled to put in as young lives as he
pleased for the copyhold lands, and, being
de facto the sole copyholder, could retain
that portion of the estate for his heirs
during possibly sixty, seventy, or eighty
years after the demesne lands had passed
back into the hands of the prebendary.
The plan, however dubious in its inception,
was so successfully carried out that it is
perhaps not unworthy of record in the pages
of ' N. & Q.' H.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE
BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii. passifn;
12 S. i. 65, 243, 406 ; ii. 45, 168.)
HEBOES AND HEROINES.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
London. — A statue of " the Lady with the
Lamp " was erected at a cost of 6,000/. in
1915. It forms one of a group of re-arranged
statuary in Waterloo Place. The central
position is occupied by John Bell's famous
Guards' Memorial, which is flanked on the
one side by the Sidney Herbert statue
removed from the War Office Quadrangle, and
on the other by that of Florence Nightingale.
The statue is of bronze, the work of Mr.
Arthur G. Walker, and represents the pioneer
army nurse wearing her familiar head-dress
and carrying a lamp in her right hand, while
with her left hand she slight I\ irises the folds
of her ample gown. The bi'se is of givy
granite, and on the sides of the red granite
pedestal are four bronze panels : —
" On the front panel in relief, MUs Nightingale
is shown amongst a group of olliri-rs and uthcr> ;
on the east she is seen in a w.,nl in consultation
with doctors ; on the \vr>t >hr .-ipprurs hi the
centre of night probation. i~ from the training
school of St. Thoma-."> Hn-pitil; and on the
fourth side of the pctli-.^t.il i> pn^.-ntr.l tin-
world's greatest nurse in th«- iniiUt of wounded
soldiers at night."
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The statue was unveiled by workmen,
without any formal ceremony, on Feb. 24,
1915.
Liverpool. — The memorial to Florence
Nightingale here was designed by Mr. C. J.
Allen. It was unveiled by Miss R. Paget in
October, 1913. Further particulars are
desired.
Derby.—- This Nightingale memorial,
erected by Derbyshire people, was unveiled
by the Duke of Devonshire on June 12, 1914.
The marble statue is the work of the Countess
Feodora Gleichen, and represents Florence
Nightingale as a hospital nurse, with her
right hand elevated and grasping a lamp.
The figure is placed on a pedestal, and behind
it rises a stone screen flanked by pilasters
which support an entablature containing
the words " Fiat Lux." From the pedestal
radiates a semicircle of stone seats. The
memorial stands in the grounds of the Royal
Infirmary.
London.— On Feb. 14, 1916, her Majesty
Queen Mary unveiled a memorial to Florence
Nightingale in St. Paul's Cathedral. It is
placed near the centre of the crypt between
the tombs of Nelson and Wellington, and is
the work of Mr. A. G. Walker : —
" Upon a central panel of finest Carrara marble
are two figures in bas-relief, representing Florence
Nightingale handing a cup to a wounded soldier.
The panel is flanked by beautiful pillars in
alabaster, the frame of the whole being a some-
what lighter stone."
Above the figures is inscribed : —
Blessed are the merciful,
and below them : —
Florence Nightingale, O.M.
Born May 12, 1820. Died August 13, 1910.
Before the unveiling the Archbishop of
Canterbury delivered a short address ;
afterwards a special memorial dedication
service was held in the Cathedral.
Florence, Italy. — Florence Nightingale
was born here in 1820, and in 1913 a
memorial was unveiled in the Church of
Santa Croce. It takes the form of a sym-
bolical statue of Watchfulness holding aloft a
lamp. The inscription in Italian is trans-
lated as follows : —
" Florence Nightingale, 1820-1910. Heroine
of the Crimea. ' The Lady of the Lamp ' as the
soldiers called her, whom she tended in hospital in
the night watches with wondrous, anxious care,
and thenceforward by the force of her example
was the moving soul of that voluntary work of
international piety known as the Bed Cross.
This tribute of veneration and respect is raised to
her memory in Florence, where she was born
and whose name she bore."
\\Vst Wellow, Wilts. — In the quiet church-
yard here Florence Nightingale's remains
were deposited in the family grave Aug. 20,
1910.
FLORA MACDONALD.
Inverness. — This statue is placed in a
commanding and ideal position on the Castle
Hill. It was raised at a cost of l.OOOZ. left
for the purpose by one of Flora Macdonald's
descendants, the late Capt. Henderson
Macdonald. The heroic woman is repre-
sented standing bare-headed with right arm
raised and a large dog beside her,
Kilmuir, Island of Skye. — Here Flora
Macdonald died March 5, 1790. In Novem-
ber, 1871, an lona cross of grey granite,
28 ft. 6 in. high, was placed over her grave
in the churchj'ard.
CATHERINE WATSON.
North Berwick. — On a grass - covered
mound close by the lifeboat house and
facing the harbour stands a Celtic cross,
bearing the following inscription : —
" Erected by public subscription in memory
of Catherine Watson of Glasgow, aged 19, who
was drowned in the East Bay, 27th June, 1889,
while rescuing a drowning boy. The boy was
saved, the heroic girl was taken."
QUINN AND SWINBURNE.
Gateshead - on - Tyne. — In the Durham
Road, near the Abbot's Memorial Schools
is a drinking fountain bearing the following
inscription : —
Erected by public subscription
in memory of Thomas Quinn
and Thomas Henry Swinburne,
for heroism displayed in
sacrificing their lives to save
John Lennon
at Newcastle Chemical Works
9 August 1886.
GRACE DARLING.
Bamburgh, Northumberland. — Grace Dar-
ling died of consumption on Oct. 20, 1842,
and was buried in the churchyard of her
native Bamburgh. An elaborate momiment
was erected close by her grave, the cost
of which was defrayed by Mrs. Catherine
Sharp of Barnstaple, widow of a former
vicar of Bamburgh. It consisted of an
oblong pedestal, supporting a recumbent
effigy of Grace Darling, surmounted by a
heavy stone canopy. The effigy was the
work of Mr. C. R. Smith, and as, owing to its
exposed condition, it suffered considerably
from the action of the weather, it was re-
placed by a replica executed by the same
sculptor in 1884. The original effigy was
removed to the church, where a stained-
glass window was also placed to Grace
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Darling's memory. In 1894, during a terrific
storm, the canopy was blown clown and the
monument otherwise damaged. Two years
afterwards the monument was repaired, and
the shattered stone canopy replaced by one
of bronze.
Fern Island. — In 1844 a stone cippus 6 ft.
high was erected in St. Cuthbert's Chapel.
On it are carved the cross of St. Cuthbert,
and the following inscription : —
To the memory of
Grace Horsley Darling,
a native of Bamburgh,
and an inhabitant
of these Islands,
who died Oct. 20th, A.D. 1842,
aged 26 years.
Pious and pure, modest, and yet so brave,
Though young so wise, though meek so resolute.
Oh ! that winds and waves could speak
Of things which their united power called forth
From the pure depths of her humanity !
A maiden gentle, yet at duty's call
Firm and unflinching as the lighthouse reared
On the island rock, her lonely dwelling-place ;
Or like the invincible rock itself that braves,
Age after age. the hostile elements,
As when it guarded holy Cuthbert's cell. —
All night the storm had raged, nor ceased,
nor paused,
When, as day broke, the maid, through misty air,
F-pies far off a work amid the surf,
Beating on one of those disastrous isles —
Half of a vessel, half — no more ; the rest
Had vanished.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
Exeter.— At 8 S. x. 141, my friend the
late MR. HARRY HEMS briefly recorded the
existence of a cenotaph to the memory of
Grace Darling at St. Thomas's Church,
Exeter. A more extended description would
1" v.-elcomed.
Cullercoats. — The fishing coble in which
Grace Darling and her father effected the
rescue of eight men and a woman from the
wreck of the Forfarshire steamer on Sept. 7,
1838, was deposited for permanent exhibition
in the aquarium of the Dove Marine La-
bo ratory in January, 1913.
also 8 S. ix. 486 ; x. 53, 118, 141, 405 ;
10 S. ix. 285.
JACK CRAWFORD.
Sunderland. — On Easter Monday, April 7,
1890, a statue of Jack Crawford was unveiled
by the Earl of Camperdown. It is erected
on Malakoff Hill in Mowbray Park, and is
the work of Mr. Percy Wood. The height of
the group including the pedestal is 20 ft. 7 in. :
" The sculptor lias selected the moment when
Jack is suppo.-i-d in have ascended the mast as far
as the cap. which ivst - on t lie summit of the pedes-
tal. The col. niis .:re thrown over his left shoulder,
and in his li^h) h md he holds a pistol, with the
butt end of which he drives in the nails."
The front of the pedestal is thus in-
scribed : —
Jack Crawford
the
Hero
of
Camperdown.
The sailor who so heroically nailed Admiral
Duncan's flag to the main-top-gallant-mast of
II.M.S. Venerable in the glorious action off
Camperdown on October llth, 1797.
Jack Crawford was born at the Pottery Bank,
Sunderland, 1775, and died in his native town
1831, aged 56 years.
Erected by public subscription.
JOSEPH OSBORNE.
North Coates, Lincolnshire. — A memorial
here contains the following inscription : —
To Jesus
Our Saviour and Pattern
and to the Memory of
Joseph Osborne
who
in Peril of Death
Chose the Safety of his Friend
before his own
and was drowned
Jan: 24, 1867.
(Vide The Spectator, Sept. 2, 1899.)
I am indebted to Mr. T. F. Donald for
much valued help.
Information is desired respecting memo-
rials to Lifeboatmen at Yarmouth (Caister),
Padstow, Southport, St. Ann's, &c.
I have photographs of these, but no copies
of inscriptions are obtainable therefrom.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
(To be continued.)
THE BUTCHER'S RECORD. — The Aberdeen
edition of The Peoples Journal, Aug. 26,
1916, contains a curious article on " killing
extraordinary," which seems worthy of a
note in these columns. It is there stated that
the world's record in slaughtering cattle was
made at Aberdeen (when ?) by P. Wyness,
R. Donald, and A. Rae, who killed and
dressed as for the London market three cattle
in 17 minutes 11 1-5 seconds. The individual
times were : first animal, 5 mins. 57 sees. ;
second, 5 mins. 55 4-5 sees. ; and third,
5 mins. 18 2-5 sees. J. M. BULLOCH.
OLD AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY. — A map,
measuring 6 in. by 7 in., was issued about
1720, in connexion with Law's Mississippi
scheme. Excepting the title, ' Lovisiana by
de Rivier Missisippi,' all the words are
French. Degrees of latitude and longitude
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are respectively given as 25 to 55, and 260 to
290. The river is traced from Lac St. Joseph
to its embouchure, being fed by R. de
Bceufs, R. Noire, R. Ouisconsing, R. de
Illionis, Hohio Riviere, and on the western
side by R. Otenta, R. Tariorca, R. Ouma,
and R. Hiens. The chief towns are Natchez,
Orleans nouvo camp, and Pensacoli ; with
Chiquacha, Axansa, Coenis, Taensa, La
Korsa, Quoaquis, Oumas, and Akansa.
Indian tribes : Nation du Chien, Changas,
Nadovessans, Issati, Illions, Kikapus, Mass-
norites. Lake Michigan is called Lac de
Illionis, an error for Illinois. The Saut de
St. Anthoine de Padoue marks the site of
St. Paul and Minneapolis. " Considering the
time of day/' this map is fairly accurate.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
C. LAMB : ' MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON
WHIST.' — In line 1 we have " A clear fire,
a clean hearth," &c. I venture to draw
attention to a similarity of expression
in ' Essays, Political, Economical, and
Philosophical,' by Benjamin, Count Rum-
ford, 3rd ed., vol. i., London, 1797,
Essay IV. Of ' Chimney Fire-places,' &c.,
p. 324 :—
" Those who have feeling enough to be made
miserable by anything careless, slovenly, and
wasteful which happens under their eyes — who
know what comfort is, and consequently are worthy
of the enjoyments of a clean hearth and a cheerful
fire, should really either take the trouble them-
selves 'to "manage their fires or they should
instruct their servants to manage them better."
J. A.
" WOMEN IN WHITE." —
" On Wednesday last 8 or 10 Women in White
went to White-Hall to Beg the Life of one Swan
condemned by a Court Martial last Wednesday
at the Horse-Guard, for Desertion, which would
not be Granted, he having dSended in thai
Nature twice before."
This appeared in The Pacquet-Boat for
July 2/5, 1695 ; and it is of curious interesl
as illustrating a phase of the custom oJ
pardon-asking by women in earlier times.
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
GERMAN PAPERS, PLEASE COPY. — We have
been amused by the receipt — through a
Swiss press-cutting agency — of a cutting
from the Frankfurter Zeitungoi Feb. 25 last
It is a paragraph headed ' Der 30 Februar
als richtiger Datum,' and gives the substance
of the'short note contributed to 'N. & Q."
of Feb. 23, 1907, about the menu — correctly
dated Feb. 30, 1904 — of a dinner on boarc
a ship which had gained a day sailing from
Yokohama to San Francisco.
The particulars of this little curiosity are
ntrocluced by the following words: —
" Ein Leser Her Zeitschrift 'Notes & Queries'
schrieb vor einiger Zeit an diese jetzt im Kriege
lingegangene englische Wochenschrif t. die es sich
,ur Aufgabe gemacht hatte alle kuriosen Dinge zu
registrieren, class," &c , i e., "A reader of the
leriodical ' N. & Q.' wrote some time ago to this
English weekly, now perished in the war, which
lad made it its business to keep a record of all
curious matters," &c.
Our Teutonic contemporary, we observe.
does not express regret at our supposed
demise, though we hope that he will rejoice
to see his statement disproved.
The short note in question was contri-
buted by MB. FRANK SCHLOESSER.
EDITOR ' N. & Q.'
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their emeries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
JAMES FENTON, RECORDER or LANCASTER.
— Can anyone reveal the present resting-place
of a portrait of this gentleman ? It was a three-
quarters-length in court dress. He was the son
of the Rev. James Fenton, Vicar of Lancaster
from 1714 to 1767. He was born on Aug. 15,
1716, was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1751,
and Recorder from 1758 to 1791 : he laid the
foundation-stone in 1783 of the Skerton
Bridge over the Lune, designed by the
eminent architect Thomas Harrison. He
died Nov. 14, 1791. His son John (born
Jan. 5, 1753) took in 1781 the name of
Fenton-Cawthorne from his mother, Eliza-
beth, daughter of John Cawthorne ; he was
Recorder from 1791 to 1796 ; and M.P. for
Lancaster 1806-7, 1812-18, 1820-31. He
died in 1831. Is any portrait of him
known ? What was his exact date of death,
and where was he buried ? His wife was the
Hon. Frances Delaval, third daughter of
Baron Delaval. Has he any descendants ?
T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A.
Lancaster.
PHILIP WINTER. — Can any one give any
information of Philip Winter, born (probably
in Hereford) about 1750 or rather earlier;
married Hannah North at Elland, near
Halifax, March 2, 1772 ; died about 1788 ;
said to have been in the army ? His eldest
child, James, is said to have been born at
Dumfries, Dec. 5, 1772 ; ensign in North
Middlesex Militia. xS. T.
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THE KING OF ITALY AND CHARLES I. OF
ENGLAND. — Is the King of Italy descended
from Charles I. of England 1 I have been
told that he traces back to Henrietta,
Duchess of Orleans, but have failed to find
the necessary links. Charles's daughter
married the brother of Louis XIV., and
one of their daughters married Victor
Amadeus II., Duke of Savoy. The King
of Italy, however, represents the junior
branch of Savoy Carignan, not the elder,
•which became extinct with the death of
Charles Felix, in 1831. The following table
will show the relationship : —
Charles Emmanuel I. (1580-1630),
Duke of Savoy.
Victor Amadeus I.
(1630-37).
Charles Emmanuel II.
(1637-75).
Victor Amadeus II. (1675-1730),
married Anna Maria, d. of Philip,
D. of Orleans, and Henrietta
of England.
Charles Emmanuel III.
{1730-73).
Victor Amadeus III. (1773-96).
I
Charles Emmanuel IV.
(1796-1802).
who was succeeded by his
brothers : —
Victor Emmanuel I. (1802-21).
Charles Felix (1821-31).
Elder branch extinct.
Thomas Francis,
Prince of Carignan.
iKmuel
Emmanuel Philibert,
06. 1709.
Victor Amadeus,
ob. 1741.
I
Louis Victor,
ob. 1778.
I
Victor Amadeus,
06. 1780.
Charles Emmanuel,
06. 1800.
I
Charles Albert,
succeeded as King of
Sardinia and Duke of
Savoy, 1831.
Charles Albert (1831 -49),
married Theresa, daughter of Ferdinand III.,
Duke of Tuscany.
Victor Emmanuel II.,
King of Sardinia, 1849, King of Italy, 1862-78,
married Adelaide, d. of the Archduke Rainer,
son of the Emperor Leopold II.
Humbert I., 1878-1900.
Victor Emmanuel III. (1900-).
If the present King of Italy can trace back
to Charles I. of England, he must do so
either through (1) his grandmother or
(2) his great-grandmother, or (3) one of his
ancestors, the Carignan princes, must have
married a distant cousin, descended from
Victor Amadeus II. and Anna Maria,
daughter of Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans.
Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' supply the
link ?
I may mention that my information has
been taken from ' The Cambridge Modern
History,' vol. xiii. (Genealogical Tables),
and ' Genealogical Tables, illustrative of
Modern History-,' by Hereford B. George,
5th edition, revised and enlarged by J. R. H.
Weaver. T. F. D.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, EARL OF STRIGUIL,
1197. — In a charter of that date I see him
described as Earl of Striguil. Could any of
your friends give me the present name of
that locality, and perhaps of the place where
he was buried, years after ?
C. R. GRAVILLE.
APOTHECARY M.P.s. — I can find only tno
instances of apothecaries sitting in the
unreformed Parliaments, and should like to
have some further particulars of them.
1. James Chase, M.P. for Great Marlow
1690 till unseated in a double return,
December, 1710, and defeated there
1715. He was described as of Great
Marlow, " formerly Apothecary to the
Crown," and died June 23, 1721 (' Hist.
Reg.'). Would he be brother to the Samuel
Chase who was admitted to Lincoln's Inn.
Feb. 14, 1685, as son of Stephen Chase of
Marlow, Bucks ('Line. Inn Reg.')? Guy
Miege's ' Present State of Great Britain,'
1707 and 1715, gi^es in the list of Court
Officials the Apothecaries to the Queen : —
" To the Person, James Chase esq. ; Mr. Daniel
Maltus. Their Salary, each 2151. 13s. 4d. To
the Household, Mr. Wm. Jones. Salary 2001. " ;
and the same names in 1718 (with the
exception of Mr. Grahme instead of Maltu- ) :
but by 1727 Chase had ceased to hold the
appointment. Was there some rivalry be-
tween him and
2. George Bruere, also M.P. for Great
Marlow 1710-22 ? For on Dec. 8, 1710,
" the name of James Chase esq. who was also
returned " (with Sir James Etheredge, Knt.,
and George Bruere, Esq.) "as having receix-ed
an equal number of votes with George Bruere,
esq., was erased by Order of the House "
(' Parl. Returns '). The poll was : Etheredge,
107 ; Bruere, 74 ; Chase, 74 ; Thomas
Coventry, 29; but Chase waived his claim,
and the indenture by which he was returned
was taken off the file. He had previously
succeeded in a double return, Xov. 21, 1690.
George Bruere, who was wrongly given as
Brewer in the Return for 1713, was described
as "an apothecary in Co vent Garden."
Would he be the son of the George Bruere of
the Middle Temple, London, gentleman,
aged about 25, who was licensed, May 14,
1673, to marry Mary, daughter of Alexander
Weld of Midberry Hill, Ware, Herts, spinst.T,
about 22, at St. Leonard, Shoreditch, or
St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London (' London
Marriage Licences, 1521-1869,' ed. Foster) ?
Can either of these be traced further ? And
what were the names of Sir JamesEtheredge's
parents and wife ? W. R. WILLIAMS.
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ARMS CUT ON GLASS PUNCH - BOWL. —
Identification is solicited of a coat of arms
cut on a handsome Waterford cut-glass
punch-bawl that has been for five generations
in the Studdy family, its present possessor
being the Rev. Hubert Studdy, recently
Bector of Chagford, and now Rector of
Cockington, Torquay.
The tinctures are not indicated by tooling,
but the charges are as follows : Quarterly :
First grand quarter (repeated in fourth),
1 and 4, a fesse between 3 rustres (i.e.,
lozenges round -pierced) ; 2 and 3, a chevron
between 3 beasts' heads ( ? griffins' or
wolves') erased ; Second grand quarter
(repeated in third), 10 roundels, 4, 3, 2, and 1,
in chief a lion passant.
Escutcheon of pretence, a cross of (? 9 or
? 10) lozenges conjoined.
In Papworth and Burke the only name I
find as bearing (arg.) a fesse between 3 rustres
(sa.) is Parry (Ireland).
A fesse between 3 lozenges is borne by
Parry (Exeter, co. Hereford, co. Warwick),
and between 3 mascles (i.e., lozenges lozenge-
pierced) variously tinctured, by Winde
(co. Norfolk), Champ, Hoker, Melville,
Bethune, Beaton, Hyde, Cleseby, Eschabor,
Constable, Hokeley, Michell, Whitaker, &c.
A chevron between. 3 wolves' heads is
borne by Meredith, Caston, Lovell, White,
How (co. Suffolk), De Routhe, Jacob, &c.
A chevron between 3 griffins' heads by
Winde (co. Northumberland), Tilney, Drake-
low, Ellison, Payne, Howes (co. Norfolk),
Adeane, Cop lest one, Cordall, Cotton, Hayes,
Skynner, Snaith, Jennings, Gassy, Pitys,
Laxton, Aldred, Bridges, Gedding, Ashpitel
(quartering Hurst), Aspinall, Campe, &c. ?!
Ten roundels (ogresses, plates, &c., accord-
ing to tincture), in chief a lion passant, is the
coat of Bridgman (Beswick has the lion pass,
guard.).
A cross of 9 or 10 lozenges is attributed only
to Stawell or Stowell, though crosses of fewer
lozenges and crosses lozengy are borne by
divers other families.
The fact that Windes are found bearing
(approximately) both the coats that appear in
the first grand quarter of the shield on the
bowl suggests that a Winde of co. Northumber-
land may have married a Parry and impaled
her arms, and that a Winde of co. Norfolk,
descended from them, may have assumed the
femme's instead of the baron's half ; but
evidence is better than surmise, and it would
be satisfactory to learn of alliances between
families possibly represented by any of the
quarterings under discussion.
ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.
RESTORATION OF OLD DEEDS AND MANU-
SCRIPTS.— I have a collection of old deeds
and manuscripts, many of which have been
injured by decay caused by dampness and
general neglect. I should be grateful if any
of your readers could refer me to any book or
treatise which will help me in restoring them
for future preservation. I have consulted a
number of works on bookbinding, but none
of them is of any value. Many of the deeds
in question are so firmly stuck together where
they have been folded that it is impossible
to open them without tearing them. Would
it be advisable to soak them in water or
steam them ? Others are so decayed and
fragile that they fall to pieces when touched.
Is there any transparent substance to which
they could be attached ? and after being re-
paired what is the best way to store them for
future reference ? Would it be advisable to
bind them into book- form ? Or should they
be kept folded and stored in specially made
boxes with ventilation holes ? Binding
leems feasible and safe except in the case of
those which have seals attached. I shall be
glad of any hints which your readers may be
good enough to give. It seems to me to be a>
subject of interest to many collectors.
CURIOSUS II.
CERTAIN GENTLEMEN OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY. — Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of
Shrewsbury, was buried in the Parish
Church, Sheffield, on Oct. 21, 1560.
Amongst those who took part in the funeral
ceremonies were the Lord Talbot, the Lord
Darcy of the North, Sir William Vavasour,
Sir Gervase Clifton, Sir John Neville, Sir
Thomas Eton, Nicholas Longford, Francis
Rolleston, Peter Frechvill, Arthur Copley,
Alexander Nevill, Francis Bailey, John Dod,
Francis Aston, George Massey, George
Scaldfield, Thomas Gascoigne, and Robert
Shakerley, about any of whom information
is asked for. j. H. LESLIE, Major.
CAPEL-LE-FERNE, KENT. — The church of
this remote village is dedicated in honour of
St. Mary and St. Mary Magdalene, but is
known by the name of St. Mary Merge or
Marge. About A.D. 1258 the "church is
called " Capella de Mauregge " in a deed by
which Hamo de Crevequer grants the
advowson to the Abbot of St. Radegund's.
About 1310, in a lawsuit between the family
of Avrenches and the convent, the church
is called " Capella of the Blessed Mary the
Virgin of Mauregge." In a will dated 1493
the testator wishes to be buried in the
" church of St. Mary Marige." In the
beginning of the sixteenth century the
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church is called "St. Mary Merge or Marge."
What is the origin of this appellation ?
Capel-le-Ferne, sometimes termed C&pel-
farne, I take to be Capol-la-Fernle, though in
a will dated 1526 the testator desires to be
buried in the " church of Our Lady of Capell
in the Feme." PIERRE TURPIN.
JONATHAN BUNKS. — In a foreign book-
seller's catalogue, a few years ago, a MS.,
written in 1795 by one Jonathan Bunks, was
offered for sale, containing stories of adven-
tures, including ' Mirus Omnivagus's Aerial
Flight to England in his Grand Balloon.'
According to a note the author was a school-
boy, and the MS. was illustrated with water-
colour drawings. Is anything known con-
cerning the author or the present whereabouts
of liis MS. ? L. L. K.
AUTHORS WANTED. — Who wrote a poem
entitled ' Links with Heaven ' ? The first
verse is as follows : —
Our God in heaven, from that holy place
To each of us an angel guide has given;
But mothers of dead children have more grace,
For they give angels to their God in heaven.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
Can any of your readers inform me where
the following quotation is taken from : —
He counted them at break of day,
But when the sun set where were they ?
Huddersfield Club. F" A" BROOKE.
[Byron: 'The Isles of Greece' in 'Don Juan'
Canto III.
MADAME DE STAEL. — According to M.
Pierre Kohler, M. Necker brought his wife and
child — then aged 10 years — to London- in
1776, as he was anxious that they should
become acquainted with the country of
which the Government excited his sympathy.
Has any reader come across any reference
to this first — and apparently unrecorded —
visit of the future Madame de Stae'l to this
country ? L. G. R.
Bournemouth.
BRASSEY (BRACEY) FAMILY. — Can anyone
enlighten me on the family of Brassey of
Hertfordshire ? It is distinct from that of
Lord Brassey. The family, I believe, pro-
nounced the name " Bracey," and claimed
descent from Sir Thomas de Bracy, one of the
murderers of St. Thomas a Becket. The
earliest name I have yet traced is John
Brassey of Roxford, Hertingfordbury, whose
son Nathaniel represented Hertford in four
Parliaments in the eighteenth century.
Chauncy (publ. 1700) mentions Roxford,
but not Brassev.
I should like any earlier names than the
above John, and any warrant for the family
tradition as to the ancestry.
Burke's ' General Armory ' gives the arms
of Brassey, "or Bracey," as: Sa.,a bend be-
tween 2 dexter hands arg.
G. H. PALMER.
Heywood Park, Maidenhead.
WRECK OF THE GRANTHAM, 1744. — There
is a tradition that the Grantham, an East
Indiaman, was wrecked at Folkestone in
1744 ; where can particulars be found ? As
to that date there is not entire agreement ; for
instance, there is a house near Folkestone
said to have been built from the wreckage,
and on it there is an inscription dated 1718 :
" God's Providence is my Inheritance."
Recently a piece of the wreck was presented
to the Folkestone Museum and the date given
as 1742 ; a discovery of remains in 1847 puts
the year as 1737; but Nicholas Bir-field tes-
tified in 1788 that he "particularly remem-
bered the Grantham, E.I., being stranded
or wrecked within the bounds of Folkestone,
1744." R. J. FYNMORE.
" DRIBLOWS." — I am interested just at
present in the history of a Merchant Taylors'
Company, and have found in an inventory of
1649, which has been put into print, that the
Society possessed " Eight dozen of Puder
drib lows great and small." " Puder " I take
to mean pewter, though I believe the word
has sometimes stood for copper ; but what
were " driblows " ? The company had a
marking-iron to mark the " Puder," and it
is sad to read that in 1664, when it was de-
sirable to make money by the sale of a silver
bowl, "all the Puder" was likewise sold.
It is delightful to read in the minutes of
June 24, 1683, the order that there should be
unity, peace, and concord among the Mer-
chant Taylors " for ever and A."
ST. SWTTHIN.
" WHO'S GRIFFITHS? " — I remember, dur-
ing the early sixties, seeing this interrogation
posted in whitewash on walls and other
prominent places at Hampstead and other
parts of the metropolis, but as a boy I never
could learn to what it had reference. Was
it in the nature of an advertisement, and,
if so, of what ? N. W. HILL.
[Sometimes the question was followed by the
answer: "The safe man." The firm of C. H.
Griffiths & Sons, safe-makers, still flourishes in
London.]
FAUST BIBLIOGRAPHY. — Can any n •;',(!< T-
recommend books dealing with the Faust
legend, and the place of the Faust story in
English literature ? _^. GWENT.
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SIB ROBERT PRICE, BART. — I am anxious
to identify Sir Robert Price, Bart., noted in
' Musgrave's Obituary ' as having died at
Richmond, July 27, 1773. To what family
of Price did he belong ? He is not mentioned
in Burke's ' Ext inct" Baronetage ' of 1841.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
HEXCHMAX, HIXCHMAX, OR
HITCHMAX.
(3 S. iii. 150.)
FIFTY years ago W. HITCHMAN, M.D., of
Liverpool, asked : —
" Are there any persons now living of the
name of Crosborougn ? Or was the original
patronymic quite merged, ab initio, in that of
Henchman, Hinchman, or Hitchman?"
A careful search of the indexes and of
numerous volumes of ' X. & Q.,' to the
columns of which the worthy doctor was a
voluminous contributor in the third quarter
of the nineteenth century, has failed to show
that »n answer was ever provoked by this
question.
For the reason that the Hitchmans of
Liverpool were until recently extant, and
that the " Henchman " controversy, both in
its personal and etymological aspects, covered
a period of many years in ' N. & Q.,' the
following data may be of interest as providing
a quasi, if belated, reply to the foregoing
query : —
The " Henchman " nomenclature is not
merely three- but six-fold, as the Hinxmans,
Henxmans, Hensmans, Henchmans, Hinch-
mans, and Hitchmans could all, if so dis-
posed, trace their ancestry to the same
source.
The Hinxmans appear to be confined to
a family long resident in the vicinity of
Salisbury. Edward Henxman was the ori-
ginal grantee of the arms (April 24, 1549), but
either as a proper or a common noun the
word seems to have fallen into desuetude.
The Henchmans are presumably extinct in
the male line in England, although persons
bearing this variant of the substantive have
for a long time been resident in the colonies.
The Hinchmans are probably to be accounted
for by the fact that Clarendon, in his ' History
of the Rebellion,' refers to the ecclesiastical
rescuer of the harassed monarch as Dr.
Hinchman, the present, writer having been
unable to discover the whereabouts of any
latter-day owners of the name. The Hitch-
mans enjoy the distinction of being the only
branch of the family whose arms bear a
motto, viz., " Pro amore Dei " ; but inas-
much as no such motto was recorded with
the original coat, it may be regretted that
Dr. Hitchman to whom the information is
to be ascribed, was not a little more ex-
planatory on the point. The Hensmans are
still largely to be found in Xorthamptonshire
and the neighbouring counties.
Indeed, there is an impression in some
quarters that the family have but a dual
identity, TheNortfiampton Independent having
contributed its quota to the persistence
of the fiction. Under a reproduction of
Lely's portrait of Bishop Henchman, who
formed the subject of a sketch in the midland
journal's issue for Aug. 6, 1910, were printed
the words : " Dr. Humphrey Hensman,
Bishop of London from 1663 to 1675"; and
in the text there appeared : " Humphrey
Henchman, D.D. (or Hensman as it is now
spelt)." The average reader would naturally
conclude from the above that Hensman was
derived from Henchman, and that the present
descendants of the bishop subscribed them-
selves as Hensman.
While the surname of Hensman is said to
have figured in the first testament of
John Crosborough (the henxman, hensman,
or henchman of Henry' VII., and progenitor
of the multifariously named family in
question), ' N. & Q.' affords evidence not
only that " henxman " is etymologically an
older term than " henchman," but that the
latter is the derivative of " hensman."
Thus the late PROF. SKEAT (7 S. ii. 246)
explained the ch in " henchman " as having
arisen " from turning a sharp s into sh, after
n, so that hensman became henshman, also
written henchman. . . .The process is precisely
the same as in linchpin for linspin." Con-
firmation of the professor's theory was
furnished by SIR J. A. PICTON, who wrote
(7 S. ii. 298) :—
" A small link seems wanting to render PROF.
SKEAT'S etymological chain complete, which I think
I can supply. The surname of Hensman is not
uncommon in these parts. We have, then, in
regular order, hengst-man, hengs-man, hensman,
henchman. Q.E.D."
If the Henxmans and Hinchmans are in
truth non est, and the Hinxmans, Henchmans,
and Hitchmans are to-day represented in
Britain solely in the female line, everything
points to the postulation that a few years
hence the original patronymic of Crosborough
will have become merged, not in that of the
triad enumerated in the opening quotation,
but in that of Hensman alone.
AUGUSTINE SIIVICOE.
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A MEDIJEVAL HYMN (12 S. ii. 228). — The
ancient hymn on the ' Temporal Joys of Our
Lady,' attributed to St. Thomas of Canter-
bury, runs as follows : —
Gaude, Virgo, Mater Christi,
Queni per aurem concepisti
Gabriele nuntio :
Gaude, quia Deo plena
Peperisti sine pcena
Cum pudoris lilio.
Gaude, quia Magi dona
Tuo Nato fenmt bona,
Quern tenes in gremio :
Gaude, quia reperisti
Tuum Natum quern qusesisti
In doctorum medio :
Gaude, quia tui Nati
Quern dolebas morte pati
Fulget resurrectio :
Gaude, Christo ascendente
Et in coslum Te tuente
Cum Sanctorum nubilo :
Gaude, quse post Christum scandis,
Et est Tibi honor grandis
In coeli palatio.
There is also attributed to St. Thomas a
beautiful hymn on the ' Celestial Joys of Our
Lady,' which commences thus : —
Gaude flore uirginali
Quse honore speciali
Transcendis splendiferum
Angelorum principatum,
Et Sanctorum decoratum
Dignitate munerum.
This may be found in full in an excellent
manual, ' Devotions in Honour of St.
Thomas of Canterbury,' published in 1895
by W. Knott, Brooke Street, Holborn.
The hymns are also given in the ' Life of
St. Thomas Becket,' by Fr. John Morris,
S.J., a book which may be consulted with
profit. MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
The complete hymn is given at the end of
a small book containing devotions, office,
hymns, &c., in honour of St. Thomas of
Canterbury, compiled by Miss Boyd, cer-
tainly before 1900. It is there attributed to
St. Thomas. I, unfortunately, forget the
title of the book, but I think it might be
got from St. Thomas's Abbey, Erdington,
Birmingham, as the book also contains a
hymn by Dom Bede Camm of that Abbey.
MARQUIS DE TOURNAY.
The hymn beginning : —
Gaude, virgo, mater Christi,
Qua; per aurem concepLsti
Gabriele nuntio :
is by St. Bonaventura. (See ' Corona
Marise ' in the Venice edition of his works,
xiii. 347.) This reference is taken from
vol. ii. p. 162, of ' Hymni Latini Medii
edited from MS. sources by F. J. Mom-,
Freiburg im Breisgau, 1854. In this work
three different modifications of Bonaven-
t ura's stanzas are printed : Xos. 454, 455,
460, in vol. ii. On p. 162 Mone mentions a
version in a fourteenth-century Mainz MS.
where it is ascribed to St. Anselm, Archbishop
of Canterbury. Another hymn beginning : —
Gaude virgo, mater Christi,
Quia, sola meruisti,
O virgo purissima,
is said in a fifteenth-century MS. at Munich
to be " composita a beato Thoma archiep.
Cantuariensi " (lib. cit. p. 177).
I would gladly send your correspondent
a copy of Bonavent ura's lines if he has not
access at the moment to collections of
mediaeval hymns. EDWARD BENSLY.
University College, Aberystwyth.
ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, QUEEN'S
SQUARE (v. sub ' St. George's, Bloomsbury,'
12 S. ii. 93, 155). — The confusion between
this church and that of St. George's,
Bloomsbury, recalled to my memory that,
among the ' Master Papers ' kindly lent to
me by Mr. John Henry Master, when I was
editing his ancestor's Diaries of 1675-80
(' Diaries of Streynsham Master,' " Indian
Records Series"), there is a list of the
Trustees as mentioned by Chamberlain
(ante, p. 1 55). But whereas the number given
in the ' History and Survey of London ' is
only fifteen, the list recorded in Sir Streyn-
sham Master's memoranda contains twenty
names. By the courtesy of Mr. J. H. Master
I give the document as it stands : —
List of the Trustees of St. George's Chapel, for 1716,
Sir Streynsham Master being one.
Francis Annesley, Esq. Mr. Robert Briscoe.
Daniel Child, Esq. Wm. Churchej , Esq.
The Bight Honble. the Wm. Ettrick, Esq.
Lord Dunkellin. Mr. Matthew Hall.
Wm. Gore, Esq. John Isham, Esq.
Paul Joddrell, Esq. Charlwood Lawton, Esq.
Charles Long, Esq. Sir Streyn,. M.-ist.-r, Ivt.
James Moody, Esq. Edw.ml Xclthorpe, Esq.
Jno. Offley, Esq. Tho. Trenchaeld, Es,,.
Peter Vandenut, Esq. Sir Manna, \\yvill.
The Honble. Thomas Bart.
^ Wentworth, Esq.
Then follows the signature (? of a copyist )
" Tho. King Clarke," and the date " Thurs-
day, April 12th, 1716." R. C. TEMPLK.
" BIBLIA DE BUXO" (12 S. ii. 210).—
Buxo is an obsolete form of boj, the shrub,
and " boxwood Bible " would be the obvious
translation. On the other hand, bujo (the
modern spelling of buxo), according to
Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena, is the
(modern) name for the wooden frame on
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which painters stretch their canvas, and
bujeta is the name for a box of boxwood or
of any other kind of wood. The root buj
also occurs in debujar (obsolete) or dibujar
(the modern form) — to draw, to design, and
dibujo = design, drawing. Es un dibujo=it
is a picture. Can, therefore, biblia de buxo
mean a picture Bible ? A copy of the
' Biblia Pauperum,' Vavassore's celebrated
blockbook, with 120 full-page woodcuts
within borders, would be such a picture
Bible. L. L. K.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740 (12 S'
ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191'
204, 229, 243). — MAJOR LESLIE'S notes on
the regiments in this Army List may be
supplemented, in some cases, by a reference
to Millan's ' Succession of Colonels.' My
copy of Millan is for 1744, but appears to
have been published on Aug. 1, 1743 ; it is
corrected in manuscript up to 1750.
In it the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier
Guards are described as " IId or Scotch
Troop Grandr Guards."
The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards are
called the Royal Horse-Guards, Blue, and
are stated to consist of nine troops. The
King's Regiment of Horse also contained
nine troops, but the Queen's and succeeding
regiments only six.
Referring to the King's Regiment of
Dragoons (p. 86), MAJOR LESLIE notes that in
the 1740 list the word "Own" is omitted
from the title ; in Millan's list it is included.
Lord Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons is
said (p. 122) to have been formed in 1689,
but Millan gives the date of Sir Arthur
Cunningham's commission as its first colonel
as Dec. 31, 1688.
Of Kerr's Dragoons Millan gives the follow-
ing account : —
" VIIth Queens rais'd in Scotland Unhors'd at
Dunkirk for the Ist Dragoons who sold theirs in
Spain to save Sea Carriage, Sent to Irland as Foot,
Broke 1714, The Private men made their Officers
& kept up the Reg1 till they Recd 12 Pound for
each Horse, Restor'd 31 J. 14/5 by 3 Troops from ye
Roy1 Scotch 2 from ye Roy1 Reg' & one new Rais'd."
The 1st Foot Guards are stated by Millan
to have consisted of " 3 Battal"8 & the Kings
Compy viz. 28 Company's," and against the
name of their first colonel, J. Russell, it is
noted that he sold his commission for 5,100Z.
Of the Coldstream Guards Millan says that
the regiment was " form'd bv O. Cromwell
for M. G1 G. Monk at Newcastle." By 1743
it appears to have increased to eighteen
companies, divided into two battalions.
The 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards is calle d
by Millan " IIId or Scotch Regim1 Guards.' '
He dates the commission of their first
colonel, the Earl of Linlithgow, as 1660.
Kirke's Foot is described as " IIcl Tangier
(or Queens own) Regiment formed from
4 Reduced there into One." In 1743 it
consisted of ten companies, containing 815
officers and men.
Of Guize's Regiment of Foot Millan says
that " This and the Fifth refused to come
from Holland in 1685 for which K. Ja. Hd
Broke them and their Rank was Disputed."
In Millan's list all the regiments, both
cavalry and infantry, have their numbers,
which seems to show that the system of
numbering was begun between 1740 and 1743.
At the beginning of my copy of the 1740
Army List is inserted a very interesting
double-folding sheet giving the rates of pay
and subsistence allowance for all grades of
officers and men in the Army and Navy.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
Richard Whitworth (v. p. 232), colonel
of the Queen's Horse, was the father
of Richard Whitworth, M.P. for Stafford,
his only son by his wife Penelope, widow cf
North Foley, Esq., of Stourbridge, and
daughter of William Plowden of Plowden.
Col. Whitworth owned land in Northamp-
tonshire, and had a house in Conduit Street,
but it was said that he lost a part of his
property through having to pay a heavy fine
levied upon him by the Government for
high treason, in consequence of his saying
he would rather raise a regiment for the
King of France than for the King of England.
No doubt he was a Jacobite at heart. His
wife's family were staunch supporters of the
Stuarts, and he may have imbibed these
principles also from his mother, whose
brother, Sir Oswald Mosley, had received
Prince Charles Edward at his house at
Ancoats during one of his secret visits to
England. It was owing to these Jacobite
principles that Lord Whitworth passed him
over and made his younger brother Francis
his heir. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.
Swallowfield Park, Reading.
I have recently received through a relative
an Army List of 1797 which belonged to
H.R.H/ Field-Marshal Frederick, Duke of
York, the alterations and additions being
in his own handwriting. Though of more
recent issue than the Army List which you
notice, the fact of its existence, coupled with
the name of its original owner, may be of
interest to some of your readers.
B. M'NEEL-CAIRD.
Edinburgh.
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LINCOLN'S INN HALL (12 S. ii. 210). — The
old Hall, where the Lord Chancellor sits in the
first chapter of ' Bleak House,' dates from
the early part of the sixteenth century.* The
new Hall against Lincoln's Inn Fields was
built by Philip Hardwick in 1843-5. See
Spilsburv's ' Lincoln's Inn,' second edition,
1873, chap, iii., and W. J. Loftie, ' The
Inns of Court,' 1893, pp. 54 sqq., and the new
Hall itself. The date 1843 is over the great
south window. EDWARD BENSLY.
The new Hall of Lincoln's Inn was com-
pleted in the Tudor style in 1845 under the
supervision of Hardwick. It contains a
large fresco of the School of Legislation,
by G. F. Watts (1860), and a statue of
L'jrcl Eldon by Westmacott. The Library-,
founded in 1497, is the oldest in London, and
rich in books and MSS.
The new Inner Temple Hall, opened in
1870, possesses a fine open-work roof, and is
adorned with statues of Templars and Hospi-
tallers by Armstead. A. R. BAYI/EY.
Mr. Underhill's statement is correct.
I saw the Hall from time to time as it was
being rebuilt in the forties of last century,
and I took part in a public dinner therein,
the only one, so far as I know, held there, on
behalf of the funds of King's College
Hospital, probably in the year 1850.
I have never entered the Inner Temple
Hall, but I was often in the Temple during
the rebuilding, which was about the year
1855. JOHN P. STILWELL.
SEM, CARICATURIST ^12 S. ii. 49, 215). —
Close on half a century ago, the original
" Sem " (may we style him Sem I. ?) had a
reputation as a portrait-caricaturist some-
what similar to Alf. Bry«m or " Ape." A
Frenchman by birth, he won his spurs in
London. He first came into notice in, or
about, 1868, by a series of big-head celebrities
of the time, displayed for sale in a Wych
Street shop-window. They were ill-drawn
and crude, but undoubtedly clever. The
price was, I think, one shilling each ; but it
may have been more. Three years later he
was cartoonist on The London Figaro. Here
he proved, to some extent, a failure. In the
very early days of " process," rough chalk
drawings on zinc plates did not make good
prints, and poor Sem's work was simply
ruined. James Mortimer is said to have
frequently expressed the wish to " got rid
of that conceited Sem." Whether Mortimer,
* Mr. H. J. Douglas Walker, K.C., in his Lecture on
Lincoln's Inn, says that the old Hall " seems to have
been rebuilt in whole or in part about 1489-91."
one of the kindest of men, really said so, is
more than doubtful, but towards the close of
1873 Sem was replaced on the paper by
Faustin and Frederick Waddy. As he seems
to have given up artistic work altogether,
at least so far as London was concerned,
about this time, it is probable that he went
back to France, or fell into a decline. He
was not of sufficient importance to leave a
big reputation behind him, so it was not long
before he was entirely forgotten.
I do not know whether the modern
" Sem," the talented artist who is so well to
the front at the present time, is related to his
earlier namesake. He is certainly a far
superior artist to his predecessor.
HERBERT B. CLAYTON.
ST. PETER AS THE GATEKEEPER OF
HEAVEN (12 S. ii. 90, 177, 217).—
" Julius, dialogue entre Saint Pierre et le Pape
Jules II. a la Porte du Paradis (1513). Attribue a
Erasme, a Fausto Andre liui et plus commune -
ment a Ulrich de Hutton."
This was published in Paris with a French
translation from the Latin text, side by
side, in the year 1875. Froude quotes it
in his ' Life and Letters of Erasmus,' and
says that "the MS. passed through ^the
hands of Faustus Anderlin, who was a friend
of Erasmus, and Erasmus may have seen it
before it was printed; but when you appeal
to the style, there were plenty of clever men
in. Paris, who could have imitated Erasmus's
manner."
I fear it is too long for ' N". & Q. in its
entirety, but I will give a portion of it which
those interested can follow up in Froude's
work : —
On the Stage in Paris, 1514. Scene : the Gate of
Heaven.
Julius. What the devil is this ? The gates not
opened ! Something is wrong with the lock.
Spirit. You have brought the wrong key per-
haps. The key of your money-box will not open
the door here. You should have brought both
keys. This is the key of power, not of knowledge.
'Julius. I never had any but this, and I don't
see the use of another. Hey there, porter ! I
say, are you asleep or drunk ?
Peter. Well that the gates are adamant, or this
fellow would have broken in. He must be some
giant, or conqueror. Heaven, what a stench !
Who are you ? What do you want here ?
Julius. Open the gates, I say. Why is there
no one to receive me ?
Peter. Here is fine talk. Who are you. I s.-iy ;
Julius. You know this key, I suppose, and the
triple crown, and the pallium :-
Peter. I see a key, but not the key which < 'hn-t
gave to me a long time since. The crown ? I
don't recognize the crown. No heathen king ever
wore such a thing, certainly none who expected to
be let in here. The pallium is strange too. And
see, there are marks on all three of that rogue and
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impostor Simon Magus, that I turned out of
ollioc.
Julius. Enough of this. T am Julius, the
Ligurian, P.M., as you can see by the letters if
you can 'read.
Peter. P.M. What is that? Pestis Maxima?
Julius. Pontifex Maxinvus, you rascal.
Peter. If you are three times Maximus, if you
are Mercury Trismegistus, you can't come in
unless yoxi are Optimus too.
Julius. Impertinence ! You, who have been no
more than Sanctus all these ages — and I Sanctissi-
mus, Sanctissimus Dominus, Sanctitas, Holiness
itself, with Bulls to show it.
Peter. Is there no difference between being
Holy and being called Holy ? Ask your flatterers
who called you these fine names to give you ad-
mittance. Let me look at you a little closer.
Hum ! Signs of impiety in plenty, and none of
the other thing. Who are these fellows behind
you ? Faugh ! They smell of stews, drinkshops,
and gunpowder. Have you brought goblins out
of Tartarus to make war with heaven ? Yourself,
too, are not precisely like an apostle. Priest's
cassock and bloody armour below it, eyes savage,
mouth insolent, forehead brazen, body scarred
with sins all over, breath loaded with wine, health
broken with debauchery. Ay, threaten as you
will, I will tell you what you are for all your bold
looks. You are Julius the Emperor come back
from hell.
And so the dialogue proceeds, but Julius
does not succeed in his endeavour to
persuade Peter to allow him to enter. There
is much more of the same sort of discussion
between the Pope and the Janitor. This,
perhaps, is enough to show the trend of the
argument. W. W. GLENNY.
According to my memory of the Toole and
Irving anecdote, MB. ATKINSON (ante, p. 177)
has omitted an important point. As I
heard it many years ago, Toole produced his
invented dream in a speech, in which he
proposed the health of his intimate friend
Irving, to the great delight of a festive
company, of whom Irving of course was one,
fully appreciating his friend's fun.
Some, perhaps fifteen, years ago there was
a conversation in one of the smoking-rooms
of the House of Commons, in which came up
our old friend, the derivation of " John
Dory." A certain M.P., Sir ,
gave his knowledge somewhat as follows : —
" John Dory, perfectly simple ; you know there
is a mark on each side of the fish ; these are the
marks of the finger and thumb of St. Peter :
St. Peter was the doorkeeper of heaven, in Italian
janitore ; there you are, Janitore, John Dory."
I have spelt the word like the Latin
janitor. There is, as far as I know, no such
word as janitore, gianitore, or giannitore in
Italian. I am not trying to revive any dis-
cussion as to the derivation of John Dory.
The late Prof. Skeat has dealt with it in his
dictionaries. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.
THOMAS PANTON (12 S. ii. 108).— I !•>.
Thomas Panton of Charles II. 's Life, Guards
was a successful gamester who,
" having in one night won a sum sufficient to ensure
him an estate worth 1,500/. a year, never tempted
Fortune again, but acquired a positive aversion to
both cards and dice." — Chester's ' Westminster
Abbey Registers,' p. 214 (quoted by Dalton).
His son Thomas Panton was made captain
in the Queen's Regiment of Horse (1st
Dragoon Guards), April 20, 1695, and held
that regimental rank until he became
lieutenant-colonel thereof, 1715, to March 26,
1718. He was on the Staff as A.D.C. to the
Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, 1704,
and as such received the Blenheim Bounty
of 30/., together with 64Z. 10s. regimental
bounty, March, 1705. He served in a like
capacity at Malplaquet, Sept. 11, 1709,
where he was wounded. He was promoted
brevet lieutenant-colonel of horse, Oct. 25,
1703 ; brevet colonel of horse, Jan. 1, 1706 ;
brigadier-general, Feb. 12, 1711 ; major-
general, May 1, 1730 ; lieutenant-general,
Nov. 5, 1735 ; and was serving as brigadier
at Ghent, Nieuport, and Bruges in 1713. He
was an equerry to Queen Anne, 1707 to
1714, and to George I. and George II., 1714
to April, 1743, with a salary of 300Z. a year.
He died July 20, 1753. His son, Thomas
Panton junior, was made cornet of his
father's troop of the Queen's Horse, Feb. 12,
1711, and is given in the ' Court and City
Register,' 1750, amongst " A List of the
Officers and Servants under the Master of
the Horse," as follows : " For keeping six
Running- Horses at Newmarket, Tho. Panton,
Esq. ; 600Z. a y." In ' The True State of
England,' 1734, he appears as " Thomas
Panton, Esq. : for keeping Six Race Horses
at Newmarket, with all Necessaries, 500Z.
per Ann." He held this post until 1782.
(His predecessor Tregonnel Frampton was
paid 1,OOOZ. by George I. in 1727 for keeping
ten racehorses.) Henry Panton, Esq., senior
of the three Pages of Honour to the
King (salary 260Z.) in 1734, was presumably
his brother. W. R. W.
GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN (12 S.
ii. 129, 176, 218). — I should be grateful if
YGREC (see ante, p. 218) would enlarge on the
subject of the taking up of the coffin in 1891.
1. Why was it done ?
2. Was it replaced in the same spot ?
3. Was the coffin opened ?
4. Does Lord Godolphin's (her husband's)
dust lie with hers — as she wished, &c. ?
5. If the coffin was opened, was the (em
balmed) body found intact, &c. ? IKONA.
12 s. ii. SEPT. so, i9i6.] N OTES AND QUERIES.
275
THE EFFECT OF OPENING A COFFIN (11 S.
xii. 300, 363, 388, 448, 465 ; 12 8. i. 91, 113,
192, 295, 471). — The following extract is from
the ' Remarks and Collections of Thomas
Hearne '* : —
"1723. Dec. 30 (Mon.). There are no remains
ni>\v of Missenden Abbey in Bucks, only a
Oloyster. . . .But there is a place which they say
the Church stood on. . . .Several Coffins have been
found here, and among the rest. near to the Place
where the Church stood, was found, some Years
agoe, one of Stone, wherein was an intire Corps,
which had not been expos'd to the Air above
lo Minutes before it was Ashes. In this Coffin
were found a Lamp and a Crucifix, which, with
the Ashes of the Corps, were committed to the
Ground at the Request of Mrs. Fleetwood.f
Mother of the then Lord of the Manor. Mr.
Fleetwood's House was built out of the Abbey
Materials."
R. W. B.
MBS. ANNE BUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197, 215).
— In reply to my inquiry I have received
several interesting- letters of information
concerning Mrs. Dutton. In particular I
am indebted to a copy of the inscription
upon her sepulchral memorial for some
particulars slightly at variance with those
contained upon p. 197 above cited. She died
on Xov. 18, 1765, aged 73 years, after having
been thirty-four years resident at Great
Gransden, and her husband died in 1748, if
the monument furnishes correct statements.
One of its assertions is amazing : that she
wrote and published twenty-five volumes of
choice letters to friends, and thirty-eight
tracts on divine and spiritual subjects. The
names of the tracts are easily recoverable,
but of the twenty-five volumes I have not
at any time seen a copy ; nor do I know where
one of the twenty-five is catalogued. Per-
haps " volumes " is an error.
In the British Museum Catalogue under
title of her name are three volumes of his-
torical, literary, and theological miscellanea,
which upon examination prove to bear the
heading of The Spiritual Magazine. This
name was, at other times, borne by publica-
tions not in any way connected with Mrs.
Dutton. In the three volumes — for the
years 1761, 1762, and 1763, so far as I
remember — correspondents, evidently ignor-
ant of Mrs. Dutton' s alleged editorship, refer
to her as the Rev. Mr. A. D.
* Printed for the Oxford Histminl Society,
viii. 150.
t Sarah, widow of William Fleetwood ; she
died March 23 and was buried AFarrh 31, 1711, at
Great Missrmlrn. Her s<i;i .luhn died ft. p. in 1745,
when the estate passed {<> liis >M.>r .Mary, widow
of Thomas Ansell.
I suspect that she attended the Tabernacle
ministrations at Moorfields, during the
period in which Howell Harris, Ingham, and
Mr. Adams officiated, and in which White-
field was absent in Georgia. If that con-'
jecture be correct, she was probably an
antagonist of Mr. John Cennick, hymn-writer
and poet of merit and charm. The identi-
fication would be of interest, for Mr. Cennick,
hitherto much neglected, must one day come
into his own. The years of her residence in
London, under this hypothesis, would have
nearly coincided with those of the absence of
Mr. Benjamin Dutton in America.
J. C. WHITEBBOOK, Lieut.
POBTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172,
211). — In Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,
in a small window near his tomb, is the
imaginary representation of Bishop King,
last Abbot of Osney and first Bishop
of Oxford. In St. Lucy's Chapel of the
same cathedral is the Becket window, in
which the head of the murdered prelate is
obliterated, it is said by royal command.
In Christ Church Hall, Oxford, is an oriel
window on the south side (by Burlison
and Grylls) with full -length portraits of
Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Erasmus,
the Earl of Surrey, Archbishop Warham,Dean
Colet, Linacre, and Lily. In 1894 the lower
lights of the window on the north side were
filled by the representations of Burton, Fell,
Aldrich, and Locke, seventeenth-century
Christ Church worthies. St. Paul's Church,
Oxford, built in 1836, has " a memorial
window to Canon Ridgway, containing
among its figures portraits of the Canon and
some of his contemporaries. St. John's
College Chapel, Oxford, east window, has
among its effigies Sir Thomas White, the
founder, and Archbishop Laud. Particulars
from Alden's ' Guide to Oxford.'
STEPHEN J. BAKNS.
Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.
'• In vol. xv. of the printed papers of the
Sunderland Antiquarian Society there is a
paper on ' The Historical Origin of some
Proverbs and Familiar Allusions,' by Mr.
G. W. Bain, a Vice-Presidetit of the Society.
One of the allusions refers to " She is a
proud Cis," and after explaining that the
phrase refers to Cicelv, the " Rose of R;il>v,"
daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of W.-t-
morland, wife of Richard of York and
mother of Edward IV. and Richard III.,
the writer goes on to say : —
" The only known portrait of Dame Cicely is in
a stained-glass window of Penrith Church, together
with that of her husband, Richard, Duke of York ;
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• hey were probably provided by her son Richard III.
Cicely's head is decorated with a garland of gems,
and her face gives the idea of a very handsome
•woman . past her first youth " (MS. Hardcastle,
.\fii-i-nsltf Weekly Chronicle, Supplement, Sat.,
Sept. 21, 1889)."
CHAS. L. CUMMINGS.
Sunderland.
A rather curious incident occurred upon a
memorial window being placed in Whit wick
Church, Leicestershire, in 1888. The subject
depicted was the granting, A.D. 1244, by
Grossteste, Bishop of Lincoln, to the above
church of the greater and lesser tithes — a
historical fact ; and the cartoon was designed
by a noted ecclesiastical artist in London.
Much local interest was aroused when
several senior inhabitants of Whit wick
recognized in the vicar of 1244, who is shown
as kneeling in front of Grossteste, the
portrait of a cleric who had been vicar
for a great number of years, and then
dead for about a quarter of a century. I can
say with certainty that the similarity was
pure coincidence, and that no thought of
any such was in the minds either of the artist
or of those who commissioned him.
W. B. H.
NELL GWYNNE AND THE ROYAL CHELSEA
HOSPITAL ^12 S. ii. 210). — According to the
note on p. 202 of the edition of Peter
Cunningham's ' Story of Nell Gwyn ' by
Gordon Goodwin,
"The supposition— to which much of her popu-
larity is due— that Nell Gwyn suggested the
foundation of Chelsea Hospital is altogether base-
less. It was Sir Stephen Fox, paymaster-general
of the forces, who inspired Charles II. with the
idea of the erection of a Royal Hospital 'for
emerited soldiers,' and Fox gave munificently to
the hospital, ' as became him who had gotten so
vast an estate by the soldiers.' The facts connected
with the history of the foundation are clearly set
forth by Evelyn in his ' Diary,' and he makes no
reference to ]Sfell Gwyn having had any concern in
the matter."
I have not Mr. H. B. Wheatley's notes at
hand, to which the above-named edition is
indebted.
.How far back can the tradition about Nell
Gwyim? be traced, a tradition perpetuated
in a well-known poem of Swinburne's ?
ED WABD BENSLY.
"There is an early tradition that Nell Gwynne
niateria'ly assisted in the foundation of Chelsea
Hospital, but it is unsupported by official records
or contemporary evidence." — 'London Past and
Present,' by Wheatley and Cunningham, vol. i.
1>. 385.
"The first idea of converting it into an asylum
for broken-down soldiers, according to popular tra-
dition, sprang from the charitable heart of Nell
(i\\ ynr.e. As the story goes, a wounded and destitute
soldier hobbled up to Nell's coach window to ask
alms, and the kind-hearted woman was so pained
to see a man who had fought for his country
begging his bread in the street that she prevailed
on Charles II. to establish at Chelsea a permanent
home tor military invalids. We should like to
believe the story ; and indeed its veracity may not
be incompatible with a far less pleasant report
that Charles made a remarkably good thing, in a
pecuniary sense, out of Chelsea Hospital." — 'Old
and New London,' by Edward Walford, vol. v. p. 70.
See also ' History of London,' by Loftie,
vol. ii. p. 264. A. GWYTHEK.
[MR. A. R. BAYLEY thanked for reply.]
PANORAMIC SURVEYS OF LONDON STREETS
(12 S. ii. 5, 135, 197).— The " once popular
guide-book " referred to by MR. ALECK
ABRAHAMS at the last reference was, I
believe, first published in 1880. It w.i-
compiled by Mr. Herbert Fry. My copy,
' London in 1884,' contains " eighteen
bird's-eye views of the principal streets.'.'
During my explorations of unfamiliar
localities, circa the eighties, I often found
this handbook exceedingly useful.
"JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
"YORKER": A CRICKET TERM (12 S-
ii. 209). — Some years ago the late Mr. W. J.
Ford, in an article in The Badminton
Magazine, stated that " yorker " was .
comparatively modern innovation for " tice,"
and he added : —
• "My father, I remember, was quite mystified
when we boys brought the phrase home front
school, ' familiar on our lips as household words/
Such a ball had always been to him and his
generation a ' tice ' (en-ticer?), and nothing but a
' tice ' : yet I warrant that a good many young
players of the modern day have never heard the
term."
One explanation of the origin of " yorker "
is that, in a match played by one of the old
touring teams at York, a player secured a
wicket by a ball which was overpitched, but
short of a full pitch. In a subsequent match,
when a batsman was making a stand, the
late H. H. Stephenson asked the bowler to
" give him a yorker " — meaning the kind of
ball that had got the wicket at York.
But I have a theory of my own as to the
origin of the term. The verb " to jerk :" i-
popularly rendered in native Yorkshirese as
" to yah'k " — to pull out by the roots, as it
were. " Yahk it aht," in English "jerk it out ,"
is quite a common expression, even after
forty-five years of a popular Education Act.
Years ago, when duties took me to police
courts, the effect of Saturday-night satur-
nalias was not infrequently reflected on the
12 s. ii. SEPT. so, i9ia] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Monday morning's charge-sheet, and the
grievance of one termagant against the other
was that she tried " to yahk my 'air aht."
The action of a successful " yorker " is
tantamount to the jerking of the stumps at
the roots, and as the term obviously has a
Yorkshire reference, this borrowing from the
patois of the county is quite a natural
theory. Many eminent professional crick-
eters have learnt their game on the village
green. As a rule the corners of what may be
called provincial speech are nibbed off by
-contact with their amateur colleagues, yet I
have heard famous native bowlers exclaim
with glee that they had " yahked out " a
batsman whose wicket every bowler coveted.
OLD EBOK.
The Yorkshire Po*t, Leeds.
FACT OR FANCY ? (12 S. i. 509 ; ii. 17, 59,
218.) — It would take up too much space in
* N. & Q.' to explain fully the maxim already
quoted in Latin, and which is properly
translated " Every man's house is his
castle," and is in such common use. Its real
meaning is fully explained in Broom's
i Legal Maxims ' (1911), pp. 336-43. What
Sir J. Mackintosh said is quoted on the
title-page: " Maxims are the condensed good
sense of nations."
HARRY B. POLAND.
Inner Temple.
In ' Tales and Sayings of William Robert
Hicks of Bodmin,' by W. F. Collier, 1893,
p. 55, is : —
" He heard a man say in a speech, ' An English-
man's house is his castle ; the storms may assail
it, and the winds whistle round it, but the King
cannot do so.' A ludicrous perversion of a well-
known quotation."
As the Cornish humorist died in Septem-
ber, 1868, his acquaintance with the ex-
pression used must have been long before
its virtual repetition in the United States
Senate in 1 880. Hicks' s ' Tales and Sayings '
are the subject of notes at 6 S. iv. 367 ;
10 S. ii. 188, 231, 355 ; 11 S. viii. 449 ;
ix. 51, 154. W. B. H.
HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE
DECEASED (12 S. ii. 210). — In the Cathedral
Burial-Ground at St. Andrews, Fife, are the
following four instances : —
Adam Ferguson, LL.D., Professor of Moral
Philosophy, Edinburgh, died Feb. 22, 1816,
medallion.
Allan Robertson (a golf champion of his
time), died Sept. 1, 1852, medallion.
Lieut.-Col. Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair,
Provost of St. Andrews, died "Jan. 21, 1861,
medallion.
" Tommy," son of Thomas Morris (father
and son both champion golfers of their time),
died Dec. 25, 1875. (A full-length figure
posed as putting at golf.)
ALEXR. THOMS.
7 Playfair Terrace, St. Andrews, Fife.
There are several such headstones in
Highgate Cemetery. Among them is that
of G. J. Holyoake, which is in the new part
of the cemetery, near to the grave of George
Eliot. C. C. B.
MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF THE WATTS
FAMILY OF SOUTHAMPTON (12 S. ii. 101, 161,
224). — Is the following anecdote irrelevant ?
About 1833 there rede in the South Notts
Hunt a Dr. Watts of Nottingham whose head
was hoary with hair-powder. One day his
performances were noted by a young lord,
who later in life became a Master of Hounds,
and he asked who the gentleman was.
" The celebrated Dr. Watts," he was told.
" Is that the Dr. Watts who wrote the
psalms and hymns ? " he inquired. " The
very same," he was assured, and went away
believing.
I have come on this story in a note ap-
pended to a sporting song written to the air
' With their Balinamona Ora.' These strange
words form the chorus, or a part of it.
ST. S WITHIN.
B AROSE Y ISLAND: CONSCRIPTION (12 S.
ii. 189). — It is quite correct that the
inhabitants of Bardsey Island pay no rates
or taxes, but the statement that they have
announced a "benevolent neutrality towards
the Allies" is a joke. From inquiries made
on the spot I find that all the men of
military age on the island have either
enlisted voluntarily or have duly appeared
before the local Tribunal.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
CAPT. JOHN WARDE (11 S. viii. 509;
ix. 56). — In connexion with the mediaeval
house recently demolished in Folkestone, of
which so excellent an account has been given
by Mr. Elgar (see ante, p. 219), one dis-
covery was a ceiling panel on which was
depicted a cross flory; the arms, I am in-
clined to believe, are those of Warde. It is
just possible that this was the residence of
Capt. Warde when Mayor of Folkestone,
1579. In his will, proved Feb. 13, 1601, he
mentions his lands, &c., situate in parishes
of Folkestone, Cheriton, Newington, and
River, co. Kent. At p. 32 Mr. Elgar states
that the Medieval House was " altered in
Tudor times, new fireplaces being inserted,"
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Arc. Probably Capt. Warde purchased the
house and made the alterations ; it is hardly
likely that any one else would place the arms
(.f Warde there. Owing to disputes with the
t hen lord of the manor, Warde removed from
Folkestone to Hythe, where he died.
It is shown at p. 44 that the house was
tenanted prior to 1701 by Capt. Jordan,
who was also an officer of Sandgate Castle
fur forty years. R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
OLD MS. VERSES (12 S. ii. 229). — Bishop
Corbet's lines, 220 in number, ' To the Lord
Mordant, upon his return from the North,'
beginning : —
My lord, I doe confesse at the first newes,
nnd those ' On Great Tom of Christ-Church,'
50 in number, beginning : —
Be dumb, ye infant- chimes, thump not your
mettle,
are on pp. 68-81 and 209-11 of Octavius
Gilchrist's edition of ' The Poems of
Richard Corbet,' London, 1807.
It might be easier to identify thepiece called
' To the Comedians of Cambridge ' if the open-
ing lines or some account of it were given.
Could it have been written on the occasion
<;f James I.'s visit to the University of
Cambridge in 1615, when two Latin comedies,
Cecil's ' ^Emilia ' and Ruggle's ' Ignoramus,'
an English comedy, Tomkis's ' Albumazar,'
r,nd a Latin pastoral, Brookes's ' Melanthe,'
were acted before him ? (See Cooper's ' An
nals of Cambridge,' vol. iii. pp. 71 sqq.;
Mullinger's ' University of Cambridge,' ii.
pp. 518 sqq.) Corbet's lines, beginning : —
It is not yet a fortnight since
Lutetia entertain'd our prince,
deal with this visit and mention the " six
hours' " performance of ' Ignoramus.'
The epigram on the removal of Queen
Elizabeth's body — the beginning of which is
quoted in Miss Strickland's ' Life of Queen
Elizabeth,' and the poem said to be pre-
served in more than one chronicle — as given,
with slight verbal differences, in Camden's
' Remaines concerning Britaine,' ed. 1636,
p. 393. The lines on Queen Anne are on
pp. 397-8 of the same book.
EDWARD BENSLY.
In ' Everybodv's Book of Epitaphs,' at
p. 99, I find :—
From Barrow Churchyard — on Mr. Stone.
Jerusalem's curse is not fulfilled in me,
For here a stone upon a STONE you see ;
while the epitaph on Queen Anne, wife of
James I., is given at p. 39.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
If the writing is " early eighteenth cen-
tury " (and not early seventeenth), so far as
the verse on " Queen Elizabeth's bodie Ir
goes, these " passionate dolefull lines " had
i'-ppeared in print long before. So described,,
and written by Hugh Holland, your corre-
spondent will find them on p. 342 of
Camden's ' Remaines,' 1623 (described fully in.
my v Shakespeare Bibliography,' on p. 707).
WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.
' An Easy Introduction to the Game of
Chess,' published in 1816, contains some
verses headed " The Famous Game of
Chesse-Play : Copied from a scarce little
Work 011 Chess, by Jo. Barrier, Printed in
1652." The first verse is :—
All you that at the famous Game
of Chesse desire to play,
Come and peruse this little Booke,
wherein is taught the way.
I will gladly copy out the " poem " for
MR. H AMBLE Y ROWE, if he will write to me.
GEO. WALPOLE.
26 Newlands Park, Sydenham, S.E.
DR. THOMAS CHEVALIER (12 S. ii. 100,
158).— Will R. J. B., who, at the latter
reference, advises me to consult the 29th
Bulletin of the Societe Jersiaise for the
pedigree, kindly tell me where I can obtain
this publication ?
I should be grateful if any correspondent
could give me any information as to whether
Dr. T. Chevalier had brothers and sisters,
and if there are any descendants of his living
at the present time.
He was born about 1767, and lived till
1828, became surgeon to the King, and was
a well-known writer on various subjects.
Whom did he marry, and had he' a family '!
I am very desirous of finding out FJ!! that is
known of this man. F. CHESHIRE.
Alma Cottage, Lynton, Devonshire.
[Our correspondent might communicate with the
Beresford Library, Jersey.]
STEYXTXG : STEXING (12 S. ii. 190).—
Steyning was a royal vill in the time of King
Alfred, who bequeathed it to his brother's
son ^thelwald. It is described in Alfred's
will as " ]>one ham.... set Steningum,"
v. Birch, ' Cartul. Saxon.,' ii. 1887, No. 553.
The e was long in Alfred's time (c. 885), and
so it still was, presumably, in that of
Edward III. ; v. Nonse Rolls, 1341, " Sten-
yng." Conception of thise has taken place,
and in Sussex we make Steyning nme with
" penning." Similarly we call Poynings
" Punnings."
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279
The change from Mid. Eng. ee to Mod. Eng.
e is quite normal ; cp. what Chaucer says of
the Clerke of Oxenforde : — •
For him was lever have at his beddes heed
Twenty bookes, clothed iu blak and reed,
than rich dresses and musical instruments.
Here " heed " and " reed " are forebears of
the modern " head " and " red."
In the Great Survey we get " Staninges."
If the slip giving the Domesday particulars
about Steyning had been prepared by a
Xorman steward, we should have found
Estaninges, with prosthetic e, as in " Estoc-
brige " and " Eslindon " ( = Stockbridge and
Slindon). It appears to me that the steward
was a West Saxon, and I believe he wrote
*Stseninges. A well- instructed native of
Kent or Sussexwould have written *Steninges,
which would not have yielded " Staninges "
in transcription. But with *Staeninges on
the slip before him the Norman-French
official, who had no ce in his script, was
constrained to set down a as he did in other
cases, e.g., " Estrat " for Street, now Street.
" Steningum " in Alfred's will is South-
East ern in dialect. A prototheme Stdn-
(cp. Sweet, ' The Oldest English Texts,'
No. 589), which occurs in Stan-wine,
Stan-mser, and the like, would yield a
patronymic *Stan-ing-, and that would
become the West Saxon St sen-ing- and the
Sussex and Kentish Sten-ing (cp. Wright,
' O.E. Grammar,' §§ 119, 134, 188).
In Asser (c. 895) we get Stemruga (with
em : : an and r : : i) for *Staningu, i.e.,
Staeningurn. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.
TOPP FAMILY CREST (12 S. ii. 128). — In
Wilts Notes and Queries, September, 1914,
' Notes on the Descendants of Edward
Combe of Tisbury, and Norton Ferrers
Manor, Somerset,' there is an account of
the family of Topp from information
supplied by Mr. R. G. Fitzgerald Uniake,
Upminster, Essex. Edward Topp of Whitton,
who was buried in 16P9 in Tormarton
Church, was grandson of Alexander Topp of
Stockton, Wilts. S. T.
SHAKESPEARE ALLUSION (12 S. ii. 147). —
The volume which MR. MAURICE JONAS cites
is by Richard Flecknoe. See ' D.N.B.'
H. DAVEY.
89 Moutpelier Road, Brighton.
' THE WORKING MAN'S WAY IN THE
WORLD' (12 S. i. 468; ii. 16, 110, 175).—
Perhaps F d may be identified with
Falkland Knoll, about fourteen miles south-
west from Bristol, and seven or eight from
Bath. \V. C. J.
" SCREAD," "SCREED" (12 S. ii. 208).—
In the variant forms " screed " and " skreed,"
this word is quite common in Scottish
authors, and in speech (whatever may be the
spelling implied) it enjoys favour at the
present time. It indicates variously some-
thing torn off, the sound made by such
action, the thing itself thus detached ; and it
likewise has metaphorical significance, as
when spoken of a harangue, a catalogue, a
bit of one's mind, and a drinking bout-
" Skreidis in men's claith " and " skreidis to
sleeves " are old expressions in reference to-
the tailor's art. In Mrs. Hamilton's
' Cottagers of Glenburnie ' occurs this meta-
phorical application : " If I warna sae sick.
I wad gae her a screed o' doctrine." In
Burns's ' Epistle to William Simpson ' he-
touches on a personal experience when he
says : " Lasses gie my heart a screed " ; and
in the ' Inventory ' he uses the verb in the
sense of " harangue " or " recite," describing
one who will " screed yoti aff Effectual
Calling." The student of Scott will
remember Dandie Dinmont's assurance in
' Guy Mannering,' chap, xxv., in " Naething
confuses me unless it be a screed o' drink at
an orra time." THOMAS BAYNE.
This word, which is still in common use, is
given on p. 278 of vol. v. of the ' E.D.D./
with illustrations of its use, in a sense similar
to that employed by the landlord of the Fox
Inn at South Witham : " He's got a screed o'
good land the tother side the planting " ;
" I've ta'en a screed of garden land " ; " At
Ashby (Lincolnshire) there was a long and
narrow pasture-field called the Skreeds " ;
" Them screeds o1 Scotch firs wants
fellin'." A. C. C.
THEOPHILUS GALE, THE NONCONFORMIST
TUTOR (12 S. ii. 209). — According to an
article by Mr. A. J. P. Skinner in Devon
Notes and Queries, vol. v. p. 71 (1908), Gale's
mother was Brigit, daughter of John
Walrond of Bovey, Seaton, co. Devon.
Prince (' Worthies "of Devon') says that
Gale died " in the latter end of February or
the beginning of March, 1677 " (i.e., 1677/8).
The burial was at Bunhill Fields. M.
THEATRICAL M.P.s. (12 S. ii. 210).— 3. For
" well-natured Richardson " see ' D.N.B.,'
xlviii. pp. 238-9. He married Sarah, a
relative of Dr. Isaac Watts.
A. R. BAYLEY.
MARSHALS OF FRANCE (12 S. ii. 182,235).—
Conspicuous by its absence from MR.
CHEETHAM'S list is the name of Marshal
Soult. N. W. HILL.
280
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a. n. SKPT. ao. wie.
0n 38 oaks.
Calendar, of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public
Record Office: Henri/ VII., Vol. II., A.D. 1494-
1690. (H.M. Stationery Office, 20s.)
THE text of this volume was prepared, under the
supervision of Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte, by Mr.
J. O. Black, who also made the Index. The
material does not afford so much picturesque detail
as we have sometimes lingered over in these
Calendars, but it includes particulars of the doings
and of the estates of several very interesting
persons, and the text of several good Plantagenet
charters, as well as here and there a document of
considerable historical importance. On Dec. 9,
1502, the King granted to Hugh Elyot and Thomas
Asshehurste, merchants of Bristol, and to John
Gunsalus and Francis Pernandus of " the islands
of Surrys," licence to sail on a voyage of discovery
under his banners with as many ships as they
pleased. The conditions and provisions of this
grant are set out at great length — as compared with
a grant more or less to the same effect made two
years before — and allow to the fortunate discoverer
advantages which might well tempt him. No
less interesting is the text of the commission to
the great Earl of Kildare to summon a Parliament
to take into consideration ten matters and no
more concerning the government of Ireland. One
of these is the enforcement of a rule that every
lord spiritual or temporal of a certain standing
within the precinct of the English pale shall ride
" in a sadyll after the English gyse," in order to
increase English manners and diminish Irish
usages ; and another provides for the cleansing of
the towns in Ireland. A very delightful item is
the long list of the household goods of Walter
Herbert, Knight, forfeited by reason of outlawry.
In 1503 we have a pardon granted to Roger
Vernon for the abduction of Margaret Kebull,
with whom are pardoned his aiders and abettors,
to the number of well over a hundred, which in
the first place suggests a considerable adventure of
a romantic sort, and in the next gives a good list
of names of yeomen and labourers.
We have here the licences to Lady Margaret
Tudor, the King's mother, for her university foun-
dations and some others : in 1497 the " perpetual
lectureships of sacred theology " at Oxford and
Cambridge ; in 1505 the refounding of " Goddes
house," Cambridge — or Christ's College, as it was
renamed the following year. On p. 433 in one of
these licences " Henry VII." is a slip for Henry VI.
Of matters in which our correspondents have
been recently interested we noted one or two
allusions to treasure-trove or hidden treasure ;
particulars concerning Christopher Urswick and
his divers appointments ; and concerning Cecily,
Duchess of York. In the way of smaller curious
matters we noticed a grant specifying the dwelling-
places within Westminster Palace known as
Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell, and a regulation
with a tremendously wordy preamble providing
that no singers should be taken from Westminster,
whilst Westminster might take them from any-
where, excepting the King's own chapel. There
are several interesting " denizations " of foreigners ;
the licence to the Bishop of Ely for the expulsion
of the nuns of St. Radegund, Cambridge, because
of the ruinous effect upon the convent of the
vicinity of the University : a commission to two
justices of pleas before the king to examine and
con-eel an error in the record and process of a
suit ; the mention of Honfieur as Humflewe ; and
one or two accounts of murder or manslaughter
which furnish unusual incidents.
Wace, and the ' Roman de Ron.' By de V. Payen-
Payne. (The Jersey Society in London,
Occasional Publications, Xo. 4.)
IT is surprising that there is neither a " definitive "
edition of Wace, nor any translation of his work
as a whole into English or modern French. We
echo Mr. Payen-Paj ne's hope that both these
enterprises may ere long be undertaken — and if
by a man of Jersey so much the better. This
brochure might well serve as the effective incite-
ment. It brings together in a delightful way the
little that is known of Wace and the facts and
circumstances surrounding him.
There is matter for a good essay in the subject
of " vulgarization " before the invention of
printing. The known workers in that field, if
not numerous, show a fail variety of rank, capa-
city, and learning, and, taken altogether, seem
two or three degrees more able and entertaining
than the body of corresponding workers in our day.
Their methods and diction, which to the ordinary
reader may appear merely fortuitous and quaint,
are really worth some consideration on their own
merits : modern hackwork — being done neither
for the King nor for the Church, but for a
publisher — has certainly dropped some of the
cleverness and verve which are apt to come from
direct contact with those whom one is writing for.
Here our good Wace — not an impressive figure
among chroniclers and historians proper — shows
himself a prince.
Mr. Payen-Payne gives a reproduction of about
a score of lines from the text of the ' Roman de
Rou ' in the thirteenth-century MS. in the Britis.h
Museum — the passage where," " se Ton demands
qui co dist," Wace explains who he is. He
quotes the. text of the well-known Taillefer story,
and the description of the comet, as well as the
last lines of the ' Roman de Rou.' A good
bibliography is supplied, and two appendixes —
the one on the name Wace, the other a genealogical
table of the Dukes of Normandy. A drawing by
Millais — of Maistre Wace sitting absorbed in his
writing — forms an attractive frontispiece.
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N . & Q.'
pottos to
EDITORIAL communications should be addressed
to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' "—Adver-
tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub-
lishers " — at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancerv
Lane. E.C.
CORRIGENDA.— Ante, p. 242, col. 1, 1. 8 from foot,
for " Saffron Waldron " read Saffron Walden ; col. '2,
1. 11 from foot, for " indique " read indigne, and
for "nasitur" read nascitur. — P. 253, col. 1, 1. 33,
for " et " read ex.
128. II. OfeT. 7, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 19VJ.
CONTENTS.— No. 41.
NOTES :— Contraband Two Hundred Years Ago, 281—
English Army List of 1740, 282— Gray : a Book of Squibs,
285 -Bibliography of Irish Counties and Towns, 286—
Americanisms? 287— Casaubon on Baskish— " Fare thou
well "-Joseph Wolff : Letter, 288.
QUERIES :— National Flags— Rev. Richard Bathbone—
Friends of Ignatius Sancho— Risby — ' Frederetta
Romney '— Farmers' Sayings, 289 — "Mr. Davis," Friend
of Mrs. Siddons — Authors of Quotations Wanted, 290—
Fleming Family— Author of Poem Wanted— Reference
Wanted — Dog Smith — John Stretton's " dauncinge
schoole "— Sandford Family, 291.
REPLIES :— First English Provincial Newspaper— Foreign
Graves of British Authors, 292—" Doctrine of Signa-
tures "—Moving Pictures— Mrs. Griffith on Shakespeare's
Dramas— The French and Frogs, 293— Ibbetson or
Ibberson — Horse-Chestnut, 294— " Jobey " of Eton-
Prebendary David Durell— Rome and Moscow— W.
Robinson, LL.D.— Sir John Maynard— The Dick Whit-
tington— "Great-cousin" — " L'homme sensuel moyen,"
295— Rev. Ward Maule— "Panis amicitire symbolum " —
Authors Wanted— Sir W. Ogle: Sarah Stewkeley—
Tinsel Pictures, 296— Unidentified M.P.s— Navy Legends,
297— Caldecott — Epitaph on a Pork Butcher—" Quite all
right," 293—" Blue Pencil "— " Coals to Newcastle," 299.
NOTES ON BOOKS:— 'The Races of Ireland and Scot-
land'— Reviews and Magazines.
Notices to Correspondents.
CONTRABAND TWO HUNDRED
YEARS AGO.
THE letter printed below was written by
John Fleetwood, British Consul at Naples
by patent. Xotes on his ancestry and
descendants will be found at 10 S. v. 48,
403-5 ; 11 S. vi. 331-3 ; xii. 321-2.
He was a partner in Peers & Fleetwood,-
merchants, his partner being John Peers
(under age), eldest son of Sir Charles Peers,
a strong Whig, who wat Lord Mayor of
London in 1715. The partnership was for
three years from arrival in Naples ; the firm's
capital was 4,0001. Part of John Fleet-
wood's capital was borrowed from his uncle,
Samuel Pargiter.* Two-thirds of the profits
were to be taken by John Fleetwood, and
one-third by John Peers. John Fleet \v«><>d
arrived in Naples about Oct. 15, 1708. The
partnership was renewed, and in July-
August, 1715, Thomas Withers, ah apprentice
to John Fleetwood, was made a partner,
* This led to Chancery proceedings, Fleetwood
v. Bird in 1726, and Fleetwood i: Pargiter in 1739.
The latter is referred to at 11 S. xii. 322.
each taking one-third of the profits. Withers
died in 1716 ; the surviving partners each
took a half share of the profits until Septem-
ber, 1720. Sir Charles Peers was John
Fleet wood's factor or agent in London.
John Peers returned to London about 1714,
but continued a partner, being John
Fleetwood's factor for his own private trade.
A Chancery suit was instituted in May, 1723,
by Fleetwood against his partner, who, he
alleged, owed him 6,0001.
In 1708 John Fleetwood was part owner
(with Thomas Ridge and Thomas Mis.-in^
of Portsmouth, and Joseph Boitt and
Thomas Blakely of London, merchants) of
the Ambuscade, Capt. William Thompson,
with the intent to send her as a privateer
to the Mediterranean against the French.
This venture led to another Chancery suit,
Fleetwood v. Ridge, in 1739, the plaintiff
being John Fleetwood jun. who had become
sole executor to his father's will.
John Fleetwood the elder returned to
London in 1721, and died Nov. 12, 1725.
Admiral Sir John Norris (see ' D.N.B.'),
to whom the letter is addressed, was of the
family of Norris of Speke, co. Lancaster.
Margaret, second daughter of Sir William
Norris of Speke, K.B., temp. James I.,
married Edward Fleetwood of Penwortham
(Chetham Society, O.S., Ixxxv. 220).
Our ancestors had the same difficulties to
contend writh in regard to contraband as we
are now experiencing. The same cunning
was displayed by the enemy, while the same
endeavour was made by us to treat the
property of bona fide neutrals fairly.
(British Museum, Addl. MS. 28153, fol. 161.)
Naples ye 7th August 1710.
SIR, — I have not had ye honr of a line from y°
but -hope shall not be long wthou' it w1'1' I ardently
Covet Y" is to advise y° that ye diligence Cap'
Brice undr y* Direction of Mr Plowman, bro' in
here some dayes Since a Venetian Ship Cap'
Mellickick bound from Venice to Messina w!)l
Iron, Nails, Steel, & othr goods Esteem'd contra-
band, there she took in 60 bales of Silk &c» for
Liv° & Genoa wch on Examinacon find to be for
Sicilian ace* notwthstandf< y* Cunning y* laders &
Neutral Capt8 have in make* bills of lade* in form
for Genovese & Venetians & florentines & indeed
it is wth some difficulty a man comes to find out y*
truth for ye Cap' he resolutely conspired to Conceal
their Effects however in y" Ship y1' Cap' has been
found a lyar 3 or 4 times on oath and bills of
lade" & lett™ wch they should have sent v» Rome
they have unluckily Sent by y° Ship by wl'h
means [one] may very reasonably suspect ye rest
is managed ye same way
I called a Consolate wch has found ye Ship guilty
for Carry* Countraband goods to an Enemys
country & for wta laden att Messina have given
282
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. n. OCT. 7, me.
21 d" time for ye Concern'd to prove their intrest
else all to be condemn'd & copy of ye Judgem1 will
be sent next week for England to have yc Con-
firmacon -of ye Admiralty w* goods were laden at
Venice are freed.
Some time before was bro* in a Genovese richly
laden from Palermo for Leg0 & Genoa by a Corsair
belong* to his Roy1 Highness y° D. of Savoy under
his patent A: bandiera <k directed to ye English
Consuls at Liv° <fc ye place to take care of ym A:
assist them sev1 Eng8 being concern'd in sd
Corsair ye Judgem' wch has been given is to free
ye bark to yc master wch has been done w* realy
by Authentick proofes belong to Genoese at
Genoa is restored & w' on good proof &c* be to
Sicilians has been Condemn'd as prize, indeed ye
•vvriteings wch have been produced to clear some
of ye Effects declare a great part for ye Palerm-
itaiis ace* & they are concern'd [illegible,? one-third
or less] in a part of ye Silk wch is 74 bales & so are
all ye Genovese & Venetians wch may Serve p'
Governo w' ever Industry they use to Stiffle ye
truth, & wta worse yn all ye Governm* notwth-
stand* my Lord Pembrooks ord™ to ye Contrary
wch I have by me undr ye Admirals seal would have
prizes come undr their directions & will meddle
wch is very Injui" <V derogatory to y' Ld high
Admirals honr & jurisdiction so y' they may do
w' they may repent off
we want y° here Sr wth ye fleet to regulate
matters relate8 to or Nation for tho they i/ive fair
words they have it in little Esteem.
It would be very well if y° would please to
procure ye Kings orders for hav* w* ever y fleet
wants from hence, duty free, as was in Admiral
Aylmers time, & noth« but w< is most Just &
reasonable ye dutys being very high here — "
I salute y° wth my best respects and reme
Sr your Hon™ most obed* & most
humble Serv*
JOHN FLEETWOOD.
To the right honble Sr Jn° Norris Admiral &
Commr in chief of her Maties fleet in the
Mediterranean
Endorsed : —
Mr Fleetwood's letter of the 7th of August
1710 from Naples giving accot of several
prizes bro* in there.
R. W. B.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243.)
BRIGADIER CORNWALLIS'S REGIMENT OF FOOT was raised in 1685 by Henry-, Duke of
Beaufort, and was composed of men from Devonshire, Somersetshire, and Dorsetshire;
Tt was later stvled the llth or North Devonshire Regiment of Foot, and is now the
Devonshire Regiment : —
Brigadier Cornwallis's Regiment of Foot.
Stephen Cornwallis, Colonel (1)
Robinson Sowle (2)
Edward Montague . .
John Edwards
Richard Scott
Charles Greenwood (3)
Arnoldus Tullekins (4)
William Mackintosh
Earl of Ancram (5)
Charles Guerin
Robert Browne . . . .
William Horneck
John Henry Bastide
William Lee
Lancelot Storey
Samuel Crich (6)
John Reed
John Dalgardno (7) . .
Joseph Comes
Thomas Browne
I Charles Fonjulian
(1) Second son of the 4th Baron Cornwallis — title extinct in 1852. He was Colonel of the
34th Foot from 1734 to 1738, and died on May 17, 1743, then being Major-General.
(2) Was Colonel of the regiment from 1743 to 1746, when he was appointed to the Colonelcy of
the 3rd Royal Marine Regiment.
(3) Became Major in the regiment, March 30, 1742.
(4) Or Tullikens.
(5) William Henry Kerr, elder son of William, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, whom he succeeded in
1767 as 4th Marquess. Was transferred to the 1st Foot Guards in 1741, and later held the Colonelcy
of the llth Dragoons. See ' D.N.B.'
(6) Or Oeiche. Captain-Lieutenant in the regiment, April 25, 1741.
(7) Or Dalgarno. Captain in the 12th Foot, Dec. 5, 1747.
Brigadier
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Dates of their
Dates of their first
•esent commissions. commissions.
9 Aug. 1738
Ensign, 19 Mar. 1719.
23 Jan. 1731-2
Ensign, 6 April 1704.
21. Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 27 May 1728.
15 April 1707
Ensign, 31 Dec. 1688.
6 Dec. 1721
Ensign, 20 Oct. 1711.
12 Oct. 1732
Ensign, Nov. 1710.
5 June 1733
Ensign, 15 April 1707.
21 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 4 Oct. 1727.
9 Jan. 1738-9
Cornet, 20 June 1735.
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 28 Nov. 1717.
ditto
Ensign, 6 Nov. 1712.
6 April 1708.
25 Feb. 1717-8
Ensign, 1711.
13 Aug. 1722
Ensign, 22 July 1712.
24 Mav 1723
Ensign, 5 Jan. 1715-6.
30 Jaii. 1727-8
Ensign, 10 April 1708.
5>ft Tan IT^-fi
— ' .ii n. ji (.i.i-'».
17 Mar. 1735-6
Ensign, 25 Feb. 1717-8.
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 24 May 1723.
19 ditto.
7 Feb. 1739-40
Ensign, 22 July 1718.
12 g. ii. OCT. 7, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
-283
Brigadier Cornwallis's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
Charles Laurence
Thomas Hall
John Elde
Nathaniel Hackshaw . .
Ensigns . . • • -{ Fleetwood Hawthorne (8)
Samuel Howe
Charles Montague
John Lockett
John Capell
Dates of their
present commissions.
26 Dec. 1726
15 May 1729.
10 May 1732
5 June 1733.
17 Mar. 1735-6.
5 Mar. 1738-9.
16 July 1739.
12 Jan. 1739-40.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 26 Dec. 1720.
Ensign, 8 Jan. 1731-2,
(8) Properly Rawstorne. Fourth soft of William Rawstorne, of Newhall, Lanes.
Roucoux, near Liege, Sept. 30, 1746.
Killed at
The regiment next following (p. 25) was raised in 1685, as the Duke of Norfolk's
Regiment of Foot. Later it was styled the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment, and is now the
Suffolk Regiment : —
Dates of their
^General Whetham's Regmient of Foot. present commissions.
General . . . . Thomas Wetham, Colonel (1) 22 Mar. 1724-5.
Lieutenant Colonel Scipio Duroure (2)
Major . . . . William Whitmore (3)
Dates of their first
commissions.
Captains
Lieutenants
f Edward Phillips (4) . .
John Copley (5)
I Charles Rainsford (6)
I George Stanhope
I Mathew Wright
I Edmond Harris
Captain Lieutenant Sampson Archer
' William Watson
Martin Emmenes
Basil Cockraine
Joseph Phillips
Henry Powell
Stan. Nevinson (7)
Maurice Gouldston
James Campbell
Richard Field
Charles Scott
Edmund Strudwick . .
John Romer
James Stevens
John Carter
Ensigns . . -( John Whetham
Jesse Shaftoe
John Salt
George Williams
j John Laborde . .
(1) Was Colonel of the 27th Foot from 1702 io 1725. Died in 1741, then being a General. See
Cli:<rlns Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714r27,' vol. i. p. 164.
(2) Became Colonel of the regiment on Aug. 12, 1741. Mortally wounde«^ at Fontenoy, 1745.
(3) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, March 30, 1742. Killed at Fontenoy, 1745.
(I) Killed at Dettingen, June 27, 1743.
(5) Misprint for Cossley. Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital [from 1748 until {his death
1765.
(6) Appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1750, holding the appointment
until Feb. 6, 1778, when he died. Buried in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower, i
(7) Christian name Stanwix.
"25 Aug. 1734
Ensign, Dec. 1705.
3 Sept. 1739
Ensign, 15 Nov. 1715.
11 Jan. 1721-2
Lieutenant, 2 Oct. 1712.
29 Nov. 1723
Ensign, 11 June 1706.
2 Oct. 1731
Lieutenant, 24 May 1705.
5 Jan. 1738-9
Ensign, 22 May 1733.
9 July 1739
Ensign, 5 Mar. 1707-8.
7 Nov. 1739
Ensign, 1706.
7 Nov. 1739
Ensign, 1704.
7 April 1726
Ensign, 26 Mar. 1710.
18 Feb. 1728-9
Ensign, 6 Dec. 1706.
25 Dec. 1726.
9 Dec. 1730
Ensign, 8 May 1723.
26 Aug. 1731
Ensign, 15 June 1710.
9 April 1733
Ensign, 4 Feb. 1722-3.
19 Jan. 1735-6
Ensign, 12 April 1723.
7 Feb. 1738-9
Ensign, 17 Jan. 1723-4.
9 July 1739
Ensign, 26 Aug. 1731.
7 Nov. 1739
Ensign, 10 Mar. 1731-2.
3 Nov. 1733.
on Tunp 1 7^
— '' '1 11 II* 1 lvv«
Ifl Tin 173^-ft
i •' .1.1 ri. i i t »•)-«».
11 Aug. 1737.
17 July 1739.
ditto.
Hitt.r>
lUlwv.
28 Aug. 1739.
"7 NWtr 17QQ
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 7, me.
Col. Pulteney's Regiment of Foot was raised in June, 1685 — the Earl of Huntingdon
being its first Colonel — in the southern counties of England, with head-quarters at
Buckingham. It was later known as the 13th Regiment of Foot, and in 1782
assumed the county title of the 1st Somerset Regiment. In 1822 it was constituted
a Light Infantry regiment, and is now designated " Prince Albert's (Somerset Light
Infantry) " : —
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 10 Jan. 1703.
Captain, 24 Aug. 1709.
Ensign, 25 April 1704.
Ensign, 11 Nov. 1709.
Lieutenant, 1708.
Ensign, 14 May 1706.
6 April 1709.
15 June 1716.
Colonel Pulteney's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Henry Pulteney (1) .
Moses Moreau
James Cunningham .
C James Stuart . .
Charles Walker
John Quinchant (2) .
< James Charleton
Thomas Cockayne (3)
Robert Bullman
t Maule
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Ensigns
Thomas Williams
Thomas Lister (4)
Daniel Nicholas
Christopher Legard
Samuel Beecher
John Hadzor
Edward Scott
John Farie
David Robert De Lajonquire
William Burnet
. George Mackenzie
Richard Hargrave . . "
George Middleton
William Jones
Peter Lyons
Charles Maitland
James Haliburton
Gilbert Gray
John Crawford
. John O-Carroll
(1) Younger brother of William Pulteney, Earl of Bath — see
Dates of their
present commissions.
5 July 1739
. 20 Jan. 1735-6
ditto
, 13 Oct. 1720
3 Feb. 1724-5
1 Feb. 1726-7
7 May 1729
5 July 1735
, 20 Jan. 1735-6
, 18 July 1737.
20 Jan. 1735-6
24 Nov. 1716
17 July 1717
4 Jan. 1717-8.
18 Nov. 1726
1 Feb. 1726-7
14 Sept. 1730
20 Sept. 1735
20 Jan. 1735-6
25 Jan. 1737-8
19 Jan. 1739-40
13 July 1728.
15 Mar. 1733-4
20 June 1735.
23 Aug. 1735.
20 Sept. 1735.
25 June 1736
11 Aug. 1737.
8 Feb. 1737-8.
19 Jan. 1739-40.
D.N.B.'
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
27 Jan. 1705-6.
Ensign, 8 Sept. 1708.
Lieutenant, Nov. 1716.
Ensign, 27 Jan. 1705-6.
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign, .
Ensign,
Ensign,
5 June 1704.
11 June 1712.
28 Feb. 1717-8.
29 Feb. 1709-10.
4 Aug. 1709.
14 April 1715.
1 Feb. 1726-7.
21 April 1725.
Ensign, 19 July 1735.
Had served in the l>t
and 2nd Regiments of Foot Guards. Governor of Hull. Died on Oct. 28, 1767, then being a General.
(2) Of Park Hall, Shropshire. The spelling of the name was later changed to Kinchant. Killed
at Fontenoy, May 11, 1745. In earlier lists of commissions the Christian names are given as Jean
Janvre.
(3) Younger brother of Francis Cockayne, Lord Mayor of London 1751-2. Lieutenant-Colonel
of the regiment, May 29, 1744. Died Oct. 9, 1749.
(4) Major in the regiment, Oct. 9, 1749.
The regiment next following was raised at Canterbury in June, 1685, by Sir Edward
Hales, Bart., of Woodchurch, Kent. Later it was called the 14th (or Bedfordshire)
Regiment of Foot, and in 1809 the Buckinghamshire. Since 1881 it has been designated
" The Prince of Wales' s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) " : —
Lieutenant General Clayton's
Regiment of Foot.
Lieutenant Gen. . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Jaspar Clayton, Col, (1)
Robert Moore
Per. Thomas Hopson (2)
f George Heighington
John Gough . .
Peter Carew . .
•< Jaspar Clayton
I John Severn
Andrew Simpson
( William Stanhope
Dates of their
present commissions.
15 June 1713
3 Jan. 1738-9
, ditto
26 May 1721
21 May 1725
26 Dec. 1726
13 June 1734
13 May 1735
11 Mar. 1735-6
10 Jan. 1738-9
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieutenant, 24 June 1695.
Ensign, 29 Nov. 1709.
Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1703.
Ensign, 29 Nov. 1704.
Captain, 5 Feb. 1710-11.
Captain, 18 Dec. 1710.
Lieutenant, 25 Mar. 1708.
Ensign, 26 Sept. 1715.
Ensign, 30 April 1711.
Ensign, 7 Feb. 1737-8.
(1) Lieutenant- Governor of Gibraltar, 1727-30. Killed at Dettingen, 1743. See note on p. 340,
vol. i. of Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-27.'
(2) Thomas Peregrine Hopson, Colonel of the 29th Foot, 1748-54, and of the 40th, 1754-9,
dying in 1759 at Guadeloupe. Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nova Scotia, 1752-4.
1'J S. II. OCT. 7, 1916. |
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285
Lieutenant General Clayton's Regiment Dates of their
Dates of their first
of Foot (continued). present commissions.
commissions.
Captain Lieutenant Nicholas West . . . . . . 23 July 1737
Ensign, 15 June 1715.
' John Scrivener
5 Mar. 1720-1
Ensign, 13 Oct. 1710.
Ventrice Columbine . .
12 May 1729
Ensign, 11 June 1708.
William Pudsav
24 June 1730
Ensign, 24 June 1710.
John Bell (3) '. .
5 April 1732
Ensign, 15 Jan. 1721-2.
r . , Alexander Grozet
Lieutenant* .. \ Edward Booth (3) ..
13 Nov. 1733
27 June 1734
Ensign, 18 Mar. 1722-3.
Ensign, 27 Jan. 1725-6.
1 Richard Russell (3) ..
31 Jan. 1735-6
Ensign, 8 Feb. 1727-8.
Stringer Laurence (4)
11 Mar. 1735-6
Ensign, 22 Dec. 1727.
James Montresor (5) . .
23 Juh 1737
Ensign, 5 April 1732.
Bartholomew Corneille (3)
19 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 13 Nov. 1733.
Henry Rollo
13 Mar. 1733-4.
Thomas Boyer (3, 6) . .
10 Dec. 1735.
Edward Browne
25 June 1736.
Thomas Hill
11 Aug. 1737.
Ensigns . . . . -
William Atkins
17 July 1739.
Thomas Baylies (7)
12 Jan. 1739-40.
Francis Lynd (7)
2 Feb. 1739-40.
!-> I.. •,.,.,, /O\
3rHttn
— i ii ii' i' \*jt • •
( Brereton
'111 1 ! 1 .
4 ditto.
(3) Still in the regiment in 1755, as Captain.
(4) The celebrated " father of the Indian army." See ' D.N.B.'
(5) Still in the regiment in 1760, then being senior Lieutenant. Was Lieutenant-Colonel in the
army, Jan. 4, 1758.
(6) Or Bowyer.
(7) Still in the regiment in 1755, as Lieutenants.
(8) Christian names George James. Still in the regiment in 1760, Captain.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be ccnttinued.)
GRAY: A BOOK OF SQUIBS.
GRAY was a writer of squibs as well as of
odes and elegies, and Mason, his faithful
Boswell, is credited with having sedulously
garnered them, but what fate, good or ill,
has befallen the fasciculus " no manknoweth
unto this day." Mr. Edmund W. Gosse calls
attention to it thus in his little volume on the
poet (" English Men of Letters Series," 1882,
p. 167) :—
" Mason appears to have made a collection
of Gray's Cambridge squibs, which he did not
venture to print. A ' Satire upon Heads, or
Never a barrel the better Herring,' a comic piece
in which Gray attacked the prominent heads of
houses, was in existence as late as 1854, but has
never been printed, and has evaded my careful
search. These squibs are said to have been widely
circulated in Cambridge, so widely as to
frighten the timid poet, and to have been retained
as part of the tradition of Pembroke common-
room until long after Gray's death. I am told
t hat Mason's set of copies of these poems, of which
I have seen a list, turned up, during the present
[nineteenth] century, in the library of a cathedral
in the north of England. This may give some
clue to their ultimate discovery ; they might
prove to be coarse and slight, they could not fail
to be biographically interesting."
One may perhaps be permit ted to express
wonder why Mr. <J<>s*r did not follow up
the clue himself, and so strive to enrich his
own pages, and those of literary history, with
an interesting discovery. However, it has
been my self-appointed task to do what,
thirty-four years ago, he left undone, with
the subjoined result.
Of the eleven Northern cathedrals, four
only — York, Durham, Carlisle, and Chester —
came, as likely points d'appui, within range
of my quest. As Mason had been (1762) a
Residentiary Canon of the first named I
approached the librarian thereof, the Rev.
Canon Watson, who courteously informed
me that, amongst other Mason personalia,
the Minster Library does possess a MS. Book
of Poems in Mason's handwriting containing
squibs, not by Gray, however, but by Mason
himself, which was presented to the library
in 1855 by the widow of Canon Dixon. Very
likely this is the " set " to which Mr. Gosse,
possibly misled by his informant as to its
authorship, refers ; the coincidence between
what he had heard and what I ascertained
certainly warrants the inference.
Gray, as we know, was a frequent visitor
to his old college friend Dr. Thomas Wharton
at Old Park, Durham. Could the " set,'\in
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consequence of this fact, have found its
way, by gift or legacy, into the Doctor's
hands and thence passed into the cathedral
library of that city ? This question
has been very kindly but disappointingly
answered in the negative by Mr. H. D.
Hughes, the librarian, who, further, in
his reply echoes my own plaint expressed
above : '' What a pity Gosse did not ex-
tend his inquiry ! I hope yours will be
more successful."
Turning next to Carlisle, the Chapter
Clerk, Rev. A. N. Bowman, tells me that a
diligent search through the Library Catalogue
reveals no trace of the volume in question.
A similar reply having reached me from Dr.
Darby, Dean of Chester, I can only infer, as
surmised above, that Mr. Gosse's " set " is
identical with Mason's in York Minster
Library, and that the latter has been
uncritically mistaken for the former.
Whether Mason's " set " merits publication,
and " could not fail to be biographically
interesting," is a question hardly germane to
my present inquiry. This, though but a
negative success, has at least the merit of
exploding a false hope and discouraging
further futile researches. There is no other
Northern cathedral library wherein the
{supposed) missing volume is likely to be
eashrined. It is just possible that, if it ever
had an existence, it formed part of the
' Mason Papers,' to which the late Rev.
D. C. Tovey refers, in the preface to his
invaluable ' Gray and his Friends ' (p. x),
as those
" from which Mitford drew most of these
materials* of which he speaks in the Preface to
the ' Correspondence of Gray and Mason ' as
having been placed in his hands by Mr. Penn of
Stoke Park. The fate of the originals I am unable
to trace."
With this statement all clues to the
existence and habitat of Mason's " set "
of Gray's squibs apparently vanish.
If I have failed in my quest, I undertook
it, to quote the closing words of Mr. Tovey's
Introductory Essay, as
" a sort of homage which seems to belong to
much greater names, and yet which inclines one
who has given much time to Gray, whilst, perhaps,
half smiling at his own enthusiasm, to repeat to
his fascinating shade the invocation,
Vagliami '1 lungo studio e '1 grande amore
Che m'han fatto cercar lo tuo volume.
J. B. MCGOVERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
* Mitford's Gray Collection in four volumes
(bound in two) in the B.M., MSS. 32,561 and
(Add.) 32,562.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See 11 S. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276, 375 :
12 S. i. .22; ii. 22, 141, 246.)
PABT XI. R— S.
RAMS ISLAND.
A Short Visit to Rams Island, Lough Neagh.and
its Vicinity in the Year 1853. By Henry Bell.
Belfast, 1853.
RANDALSTOWN.
MSS. relating to Randalstown Presbyterian Con-
gregation, Library of Presbyterian Historical
Society, Belfast.
RATHANGAN.
Rathangan, Castledermot, and Athy. 1864.
RATHCOPFEY.
The Wogans of Rathcoffey. By Denis Murphy,
S.J.
RATHCROGH AN .
Account of Ogham Inscriptions in the Cave at
Rathcroghan, County of Roscommon. By Sir
Samuel Ferguson.
RATHDOWN.
The Stones of Bray and the Stories they can tell
of Ancient Times in the Barony of Rathdown
(a careful summary of the history of Bray and
the surrounding coxmtry from the earliest
times). By Rev. G. Digby Scott. Dublin,
1913.
ROSCOMMON.
History of Roscommon. By J. Gibbon. Dublin,
1829.
Statistical Survey of co. Roscommon. By Isaac
Weld, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1832.
The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly
called O'Kelly's Country, in the Counties of
Galway and Roscommon. By John O'Dono-
van. Dublin, 1843.
Loch Ce and its Annals, North Roscommon and
the Diocese of Elphin in Times of Old. By Very
Rev. Francis Burke, Dean of Elphin. Dublin,
1895.
Antiquarian Handbook to the Antiquities of
Roscommon, &c. Royal Society of Antiquaries
of Ireland, Dublin, 1897-8.
ROSEGARLAND.
History of the Town and County of Wexford.
Vol. II. includes Rosegarland. By Philip
Henry- Hore, M.R.I.A. London, 1900-11.
Ross.
Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae. Vol. I. Part III.
includes Diocese of Ross. By Archdeacon
Cotton. Dublin, 1851-78.
Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne,
and Ross. By Rev. W. M. Brady, D.D.
Dublin, 1863-4.
The Abbey of Ross : its History and Details. By
Sir Oliver J. Burke. Dublin, 1868.
Index to Marriage Licences of Cork and Ross.
Cork Archa?ological Journal.
Register of Irish Wills. Vol. II. contains Diocese
of Ross. Edited by J. Phillimore.
12 S. II. OCT. 7, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
287
ST. DOLOUGHS.
Article in Proceedings of St. Patrick Society. By
J. S. Sloane. Dublin, 1857.
Memoir of Bishop Beeves. Dublin, 1859.
History of St. Doloughs. By W. S. Kennedy.
Dublin, 1892.
ST. MUIXINS.
Some Account of the Parishes of Graig-na-
Maiiagh, at St. Mullins, co. Carlo w. By Rev.
M. Comerford. N.d.
SAL.
Some Account of the Town of Magherafelt and
Manor of Sal in Ireland. By the Father of that
(Salters') Company. South wark, 1842.
SANTRY.
History of Santry (contains also much matter on
North Co. Dublin). By Rev. B. W. Adams.
1883.
SCATTERY.
St. Senan and Scattery. By Judge Carton,
M.R.I.A. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin,
1915.
See Inniscattery.
SHELBURNE.
History of the Town and County of Wexford.
Vol. IV. includes Shelburne. By P. H. Hore,
M.R.I.A. London, 1900-11.
SLANE.
The Hill of Slane and its Memories. By John B.
Cullen. Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
SLIGO.
Statistical Survey of co. Sligo. By James
McParlan. Dublin, 1802.
Account in Irish of the Tribes and Customs of the
District of Hy-Fiachrach, in the Counties of
Sligo and Mayo. Edited with Translation by
John O'Donovan. Dublin, 1844.
Sligo and the Enniskillcucrs. By W. G. Wood-
Martin, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1882.
History of the Town and County of Sligo from the
Earliest Age.s to the Present Time. By W. G.
Wood-Martin. Dublin, 1882-92.
The Rude Stone Monuments of Ireland (co. Sligo
and Island of Achill). By W. G. Wood-Martin,
M.R.I.A. Proceedings Royal Irish Academy,
Dublin, 1888.
The Exploration of the Caves of Kesh, co. Sligo.
1903.
The History of Sligo, Town and County. By
Archdeacon O'Rorke. Dublin, n.d.
STRABANE.
A List of Books, Pamphlets, and Newspapers
printed in Strabane in the Eighteenth Century
By E. R. MacC. Dix, M.R.I.A. Dun Emer
Press, 1908.
SWORDS.
Lecture on Swords. By Bishop Reeves. Dublin.
1860.
Articles in Parish Magazine. By Canon Twice.
Dublin, 1861.
WILLIAM MACARTHUR.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
(To be continued.)
AMERICANISMS ? — I have noted .it different
times the use in >Jew England and the
Southern States of many words and phrases
which were quite common in Devon in the
days of my youth ; for instance, " I reckon,"
" I guess," and also " cricket " for a three-
legged stool. Over a shop at Brattleboro',
Vermont, I once saw the legend, " John
Jackson, Razors honed," though I had never
before found the verb " hone " used out of
Devon. Then, again, some ten years ago in
Cornwall, at the hospitable table of a well-
known Professor of English Literature at one
of our Universities, I was asked if I liked my
beef " rare." On my claiming the phrase as
an Americanism, I was assured that in
Cornwall it was quite a usual term. Again,
to refer to my youth, if any one used the
word "autumn" instead of "fall," he
was told that it was a newfangled word.
Indeed, it is only since a modern poet,
Richard Le Gallienne, gave us his beautiful
poem ' Autumn,' with its immortal line,
Autumn, the faithful widow of the year,
that I have become quite reconciled to the
word.
A great authority on bridge has just told
me that he recently published a book on this
game, and his publisher was only able to
place an edition of 250 with an American
house. The American publisher informed
the English publisher that if the Knave had
been called the " Jack " he could have
disposed of 2,000 copies. In Devon we always
called the Knave " Jack."
Those who are familiar with American life
will realize that an American seldom carru s
a stick, and if he does, it is always a " cane,"
no matter what the wood. Is this a relic of the
sugar cane, or the emblem of slave-owning ?
Some years ago I was in Washington
Square, New York, when I caught sight of a
gentleman cariying a stick. At once I put
him down as an Englishman, and as he came
nearer I recognized the wrell-known featur* s
of Mr. St. George Lane-Fox-Pitt. Again, an
American never carries a purse. It is
invariably a pocket-book, this arising natur-
ally from the use of a paper currency.
Indeed, I have never seen an American gold
coin in circulation. There are many cunning
devices for holding the notes securely, and
some of these are necessarily coming into use
in this country.
I have also noticed that Americans
habitually use the word " office " in ivtVrrm_r
to a doctor's or dentist's surgery or consulting
room. Perhaps those who have an extensi \ . >
knowledge of Elizabethan English can tell
us if "office" was ever used l.erc in the same
288
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way, for it seems to me that many so-called
Americanisms were handed down from the
varying English dialects of the early colonists.
Stranere* to say, in democratic America,
where wealth counts for so much, the brewer
and distiller are seldom received in the best
society ; indeed, only a short time ago the
contribution from a well-known Boston
distiller to a Church fund was returned to
the donor. This is probably a survival of
the Puritan spirit. Here things are different,
for the brewer and the distiller seem to
enjoy an exalted position ; indeed, some wag
called our House of Lords the " Beerage " !
I wonder who it was who invented that term.
JOHN LANK.
The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.
[We should have thought Keats might have
anticipated Mr. Le Gallienne in reconciling Mr.
Lane's mind to " Autumn." It is true that the word
occurs only in the title of the well-known ' Ode ' ;
but could the ode as we have it have been
addressed to 'The Fall ' ?]
INCUNABULA IN IRISH LIBRARIES. — Since
writing the article which appears ante, p. 247,
I have been permitted to examine every book
on the shelves of the Royal Irish Academy,
and have discovered another " incunabu-
lum," if I may coin the barbarism. This
is : —
5. [Hain 3752.] " Salutifera [»ic] navis ....
per Sebistianum, Trant [lege Brant] .... Impres-
sum [Lugduni] per Jacobum Zachoni de Romano
1488 [lege 1498]," 156 ft.
At the foot of fol. la is the stamp of the
Biblioteca Colombina of Seville.
M. ESPOSTTO.
CASAUBON ON BASKISH. — I am permitted
to place on record the following note con-
cerning the Baskish language as mentioned
by the famous scholar Casaubon : —
Bodleian Library, Oxford, August 26, 1916.
DEAR MR. DODGSON,— With reference to the
Lord's Prayer and Apostles' Creed in Basque in
MS. Casaubon 12, fol. 297, these are given at the
end of a copy of Scaliger's ' Diatriba de Hodiernis
Francorum Linguis,' but are omitted from that
treatise in the printed edition of Scaliger's
' Opuscula,' edited by Casaubon, and published at
Paris in 1610. I have compared the text with
Leicarraga, and found variations ; but which are
linguistic variations, and which are clerical errors,
I cannot wholly determine, since there is an
element of both. So I make you a present of this
information, such as it is.
H. H. E. CRASTER, Sub-Librarian.
It is an interesting contribution to the
bibliography of Heuscara, as Leicarraga, in
his New Testament and its supplementary
documents in 1571, called his language, still
struggling for existence.
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
" FARE THOU WELL." — This, perhap-, i-
preferable to " Fare thee well."
Love, fare thou well, live will I now
Quiet amongst the greenwood bough.
This is the refrain of a lyric entitled ' De-
fiance to Love,'
"From 'Honour's Academy, or the Famous
Pastoral of the Fair Shepardess Julietta.' Done
into English by R[obert] T[ofte], Gentleman,
1610."
The refrain appears first ; then follows : —
111 betide him that love seeks,
He shall live but with lean cheeks ;
He that fondly falls in love,
A slave still to grief shall prove.
Love, fare thou well, &c.
See ' Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, from Romances
and Prose-Tracts of the Elizabethan Age/
edited by A. H. Bullen, 1890, p. 79.
On p. 169 is the following note : —
" ' Honour's Academy.' — A translation from
the French romance of Ollenix du Mont Sacr6,
i.e. Nicolas de Montreux, — ' Les Bergeries de
Juliette,' 1592."
I suppose that the extended form of
" Fare thou well " is " Mayest thou fare
well."
Assuming the correctness of the reprint,
and of the date, " Fare thou well " appeared
over sixty years earlier than " Fare them
well " and " Fare him well," and over two
hundred years before " Fare thee well," in
the quotations given in the ' New English
Dictionary.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.
JOSEPH WOLFF (1795-1862) : ONE OF HIS
LETTERS. — Anything that relates to this
eccentric and " multo-scribbling " man is
interesting. I have a letter addressed by
him to Mr. Hackman from Isle Brewers,
Somerset, June 25, 1857 : —
" ...The clergy hereabout assist me in my work,
and so does Archdeacon Denison. Pray shew to
Mr. Venables, and to that Lady to whom [he]
introduced me, the Documents, and send me some
mite. I do not despise pence, shillings, sixpences],
and halfpence and one pound contributions. I am
sure that the Bishop or Oxford will do something
I am going to-morrow to Taunton, to sign a petition
against the ' Divorce Hill,' which ought to be called
' The Adultery and Polygamy legalizing Bill!'
Lord Blandford stated in a meeting of the Jeru-
salem Mission, patronized chiefly by the London
Soc. for promoting Christianity among the JEWS.
that the Christians in the East were more degraded
than the savages in the Interior of Africa. I think
that the noble marquess must have thought, when
he made such a false and UNTRUE ASSERTION, that
[in] a speech made before a Society [for] promot-
ing the conversion of the Jews to the Exeter Hall
religion, a ' Credat Judcem' argument will [would!
serve the purpose. I send for perusal a letter I
received 2 years ago from the Greek Archimandrite
at Liverpool. Get it copied and published in
12 8. II. OCT. 7, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
289
several papers, and return to me the enclosed
original. Dont forget my church, and remember
me kindly to Mr. Venables. — Yours affectionately,
JOSEPH WOLFF.
" I am hard at work on my Commentary of Isajah,
and which I hope will be published before the
approaching winter."
I have corrected the punctuation. The
italics and capitals are the Doctor's own.
RICHAKD IT. THORNTON.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
NATIONAL FLAGS : THEIR ORIGINS. — Where
can one find any satisfactory account of the
historical genesis of the national flags or
" colours '' of the modern European States,
most of which appear to be almost as modern
as the political communities they are sup-
posed to represent ? For instance, does the
Greek blue and white national and com-
mercial flag in use at the present day date
from any period more ancient than the
outbreak of the revolt against Turkish rule
on the day of the Annunciation (March 25),
1821 , or has it any affinity with any standard
used by the Byzantine Emperors ? How did
the Russians and Servians come by their
" colours," which seem identified with the
Slavs ?
The French tricolour combines the ancient
blue standard of the Middle Ages, the white
flag of Henri IV., and the red republican
symbol (or, perhaps, the very ancient red
" Oriflamme of St. Denis").
How did the Spanish and Italian flags
come into existence ?
The German standard is supposed to be
derived from the white flag with a black cross
of the Teutonic knights.
The encyclopaedias merely describe the
recognized national colours without entering
into particulars of their origin or meaning,
with perhaps the exception of the Union
Jack, the expressed sentiment of which is
sufficiently well known.
G. J., F.S.A.
Cyprus.
REV. RICHARD RATHBONE. — Can any
particulars be given about this clergyman,
sometime Rector of Llanllyfni, who some-
where about 1765 exchanged with the Rev.
Ellis Thomas, Rector of LJangelynnin, both
benefices in the Diocese of Bangor ?
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
THE FRIENDS AND CORRESPONDENTS OF
IGNATIUS SANCHO. — Sancho's ' Letters,' when
published after his death in 1782, attracted a
list of subscribers " said to have been of a
length unknown since the first issue of The
Spectator," and subsequently ran through
five editions.
The friends and correspondents of a man
who, though born a negro slave, numbered
Garrick, Sterne, Gainsborough, Mortimer,
John Ireland, Nollekens, and J. T. Smith
amongst his acquaintances, can hardly be
devoid of interest to students of the period,
although apparently no attempt has yet
been made to prove the identity of those
persons whose names are represented in his
' Letters ' by initials.
For instance, twenty-nine are addressed
to " Mr. M — " (sometimes referred to as
"Johnny M "), but it would appear
rash to connect the talented, if eccentric
John Hamilton Mortimer with all, or indeed
any, of them.
Are the originals of these ' Letters ' still
in existence ? If not, can your readers
throw any light on the persons therein men-
tioned ? * GILBERT BENTHALL.
205 Adelaide Road, N.W.
RISBY. — Will any one enlighten my
ignorance by telling me who Risby was ?
He is mentioned on p. 58 of Gent's ' History
of the Famous City of York.' Speaking of
sculptures on the west front of the Minster,
the author says : —
" On one side of the little door is a man com-
pletely arm'd like a Knight Templar, lying in a
boat on the sea, whilst a swan is trailing it along
by a chain towards a castle, on the top of which is
a man wishfully looking towards them: which
seems to represent some enchantment like Risby's
being miraculously brought in his chains from a
dungeon beyond sea after a long imprisonment
to his lady in England, who was going to be
marry'd."
It may save trouble if I say that I do not
want information about Lohengrin, but about
Risby. ST. SWITHIN.
' FREDERETTA ROMNEY.' — Is anything
known of a novel published in the early part
of last century, either with this title or under
this pseudonym ? The writer is believed
to have been a Miss Wolferstan of Hart land,
North Devon. R. PEARSE CHOPE.
FARMERS' SAYINGS. — 1. What is the mean-
ing of the saying that " pigs can see wind,"
and how has it arisen ?
2. What Is the meaning of the statement,
and what gave rise to it, " The growing
moon sucks out the marrow of oxen " ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
290
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 7, wie.
" MR. DAVIS," FRIEND OF MRS. SIDDONS :
HIS IDENTITY. — A letter-writer sent in 1779,
in a letter to Mrs. Siddons, his best wishes to
" Mr. Davis." A correspondent in London
hi'- sent me the following suggestions ; but
I am still in doubt as to the real identity of
this " Mr. Davis," friend of the Kembles,
Siddons, and other theatrical folk. Further
references from your readers will be gladly
received.
(a) In the ' Green-Room Mirror,' anon.,
1786 (press-mark " Dramatical Tracts 4,
641. e. 26 "), " Clearly delineating our
Present Theatrical Performers," the third
name given is Mr. Davies, over the motto : —
New ways I must attempt, my grov'ling name
To raise aloft, and wing my flight to fame.
Then below (IF- follows : —
" As attention and study is a sure guide to
excellence, it would be unjust to reflect on an
adherent, who may, perhaps, when divested of
inanimation and a bustle for court dress, become a
respectable performer, and do more ample justice
to a superior character than a Dumb Lord."
(6) In ' Dramatic Miscellanies,' by
Thomas Davies, author of the ' Life of
David Garrick,' in vol. ii. p. 11, appears the
following : —
" Under the direction of Mr. Garrick in 1757
' All's well that Ends well ' was again revived
.... Davies =the King."
(c) In Baker's ' Biographia Dramatica '
there is : Mr. William Davies, author of the
comedies 'Better Late than Never,' 1786;
' Genero\is Counterfeit,' 1786 ; ' Man of
Honour,' 1786, &c., written for a private
theatre and published in one volume.
(rf) From ' Memoirs of the Life and
Writings of Samuel Foote, Esq.' (1778) :-
" When Mr. Foote was giving out the parts
of his New Pieces to the several performers, he
usually had something to say to each of them. In
delivering those of ' The Minor,' he gave of [sic
Loader to Mr. Davis. ' Now, Davis,' says he
' you will be at home to a hole ; only be yoursell
through the part, and you cannot play it amiss.' '"
—P. 48.
(This extract seems to show that the actor
w;>.s called sometimes " Davis " and some-
times " Davies.")
(e) ' The Thespian Dictionary,' 1805 :—
" Davies, Thomas, author of ' Dramatic Mis
cellanies,' &c. ; was an actor under the manage
ment of Henry Fielding, and the original repre
sentative of Young Wilmot. He played in the
tragedy of ' Fatal Curiosity,' at the Haymarket
in 1736. Afterwards he commenced bookseller in
Duke's Court : but met with misfortunes which
induced him to return again to the stage. Fo
several years he belonged to various companies
at York, Dublin, &c. At the former place he
married the daughter of a Mr. Yarrow, an acto
then belonging to the York theatre. He returned
to London 17.">2, when he and Mrs. Davies were
engaged at Drury Lane Thf.it n>. Mrs. Davids
w.-is sometimes c;ill<xl upon to perform Mrs.
Gibber's parts, particularly Cordelia (King Lear),
and her person, look, and deportment were so
correspondent with the idea of that amiable
character, that she was received with ....
approbation. She was a brtti-r performer than
her husband, who fell under the ridicule of
Churchill's ' Rosciad.' He quitted the stage in
17(i2 ;md returned to his former business, having
opened another bookseller's shop in Russel Street,
Covent Garden."
EI.BRIDGF. COLBY.
New York.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. —
Written (incised) on a window-pane in an
Id house at Culross (Fife) is the follow-
LOVEIVY BETTY.
She has no fault,
Or I no fault can spy.
She is all beauty,
Or all blindness I.
R. R. 1790.
Is it possible that Burns wrote these
mes ? Unhappily the signed initials read
1) R. R. and not R. B., but of course the
2) date is possible. Also (3) Burns visited
he above place and undoubtedly knew of a
4) Betty Thompson. Will some of yo\ir
readers clear up my suspense ?
WINDSOR FRY.
1. Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
2. Draw, Cupid, draw, and make that heart to
know
The mighty pain this suffering swain does for
it undergo.
3. Oh, do not forget me though, out of your sight,
To roam far away be my doom ;
My thoughts are stUl with you by day and by
night,
And will be till laid in my tomb.
The above appear on engraved coins, of the
class commonly known as " Love tokens."
IGNORAMUS.
[1. The authorship of "Though lost to sight, to
memory dear," has been discussed at some length
in « N. * Q.' See 10 S. xi. 249, 317, 438, 498, 518 ;
xii. 55, 288. Mr. Gurney Benham in the 1912
revised edition of 'Cassell's Book of Quotations,'
p. 450, says : " This occurs in a song by George
Linley (c. 1835), but it is found as an ' axiom ' in
the Monthly Magazine, Jan., 1827, and is probably
of much earlier date. Horace F. Cutter (pseudonym
Ruthven Jenkyns) uses the expression in the Green-
wich Magazine for Mariners, 1707, but this date
is fictitious." " Cutter " should be " Cutler," and
the words " this date is fictitious " will hardly con-
vey to the general reader the fact that the Green-
icich Magazine for Mariner*, or, as MR. H. P.
BOWIE names it at 10 S. xi. 249, the Magazine for
the Marine*, owes its existence to the imagination
of an American who died only a few years ago.
Mr. Benham's date of 1827 seems, however, the
earliest yet found for the line in question.]
12 S. II. OCT. 7, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
291
FLEMING FAMILY. — Can any of your
readers inform me who were the parents of
the Revs. James and Alexander Fleming,
who were brothers " in the same class " at
Glasgow University, 1696?
Their great-grandfather is claimed to have
been the Hon. Alexander Fleming, fourth
son of the 6th Lord Fleming, created 1606
Baron Cumbernauld and Earl of Wigtown
(vide ' The Scots Peerage,' vol. viii.).
The Rev. James Fleming was ordained by
the Presbytery of Armagh, Jan. 18, 1704
(vide, Reid and Killen's 'History of Congre-
gations of the Presbyterian Church in
Ireland,' 1886, p. 186; 'Records of the
Synod of Ulster,' vol. ii. p. 82 ; and 'Swift's
Works,' vol. xv. p. 286). He married first
— , by whom he had a daughter Mary;
and. second (settlements dated March 25,
1718), Mary, daughter of the Rev. James
Bruce of Killyleagh, and granddaughter of
the Hon. Mary Trail (nee Hamilton), sister
to the 2nd Viscount Claneboye, created 1647
Earl of Clanbrassil (vide Burke's ' Peerage,'
Bruce, Bart, of Downhill, and Marquis
of Dufferin). Mary Fleming (nee Bruce)
was great-great-granddaughter of Wm.
Bruce of Airth, who married, 1582, the Hon.
Jean Fleming, sister to the 1st Earl of
Wigtown and aunt to the Hon. Alexander
Fleming aforesaid.
The Rev. Alexander Fleming was great-
great-great-grandfather of the subscriber to
this inquiry. He was ordained at Stone-
bridge, by the Presbytery of Monaghan,
May 8, 1705 (vide Reid and Killen's ' Pres-
byterian Congregations,' p. 231 ; and ' Re-
cords of Synod of Ulster,' i. 343, 350, 357 ;
ii. 97). He married (settlements dated
April 20, 1709) Martha, daughter and coheiress
of Samuel Fixter, of Corick and Augher,
co. Tyrone, and his wife Susanna, daughter
of James and Mary Cairnes of Claremore
(vide ' A History of the Family of Cairnes,'
by H. C. Lawlor, from which, however, the
author, having failed to discover the Fixter
marriage, has omitted it). Susanna Fixter,
nie Cairnes, was cousin-german to Sir
Alexander Cairnes, Bart., and to David
Cairnes of Derry defence fame (vide
Baron Rossmore and Earl Cairns).
The before-named Rev. James and Mary
Fleming had a son Samuel, " Dr. of
Physick," of Mountmellick, who married.
Oct. 7, 1754, his cousin-german, Mary,
daughter of the Rev. Patrick Bruce of
Killyleagh (vide Bruce, Bart, of Downhill)
and Margaret his wife, fourth daughter of
John Hamilton of Ladyland, Ayrshire (m/r
Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' Hamilton of
Craighlaw). The third daughter of John
and Margaret Hamilton of Ladyland was
Elizabeth Hamilton, who married Malcolm
Fleming of Barochan, Renfrewshire, and
these Flemings owned a common descent
with the Earls of Wigtown, and carried the
same crest and motto.
W. ALEXANDER FLEMINC.
Buslingthorpe Vicarage, Leeds.
AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED. — There has
recently come into my possession an old
poem of 1776 on Ugbrooke Park, Devon,
the beautiful seat of the Clifford family.
The title-page bears the inscription " To
the Right Honourable Hugh Lord Clifford,
Baron of Chudleigh, &c., &c." But the
author's name is not given. I should be
grateful were any reader of ' N. & Q.' able
to supply it. CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
REFERENCE WANTED. — The following lines
are, I believe, by George MacDonald, but I
cannot find them in his ' Poems.' Where do
they appear ? —
While he who walks in love may wander far,
But God will bring him where the blessed are.
G. T. W.
DOG SMITH. — Algernon Sidney, in his
' Discourses concerning Government,' p. 52
(printed in 1698, but written about 1680),
says : —
" The Partizans may generally claim the same
Right over the Provinces they have pillaged : Old
Audley, Dog Smith, Bp. Duppa, Brownloe, Child,
Dashwood, Fox, &c. are to be esteemed Fathers
of the People of England."
Who was Dog Smith ?
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
JOHN STRETTON'S " DAUNCINGE SCHOOLE."
— I have an old deed dated 1625 relating to
property near Temple Bar. It contains a
reference to a tenement " called the
dauncinge schoole now or late in .the tenure
of John Stretton."
Is anything known of this dancing school ?
And might it have any connexion with the
Blackfriars Theatre ? E. WILLIAMS.
37 Newtown Road, Hove.
SANDFORD FAMILY. — Can any reader of
' N. & Q.' kindly send me a pedigree of the
Sandford family of Leonard Stanley, co. Glos.,
a branch of the Sandfords of Sandford,
co. Salop ? I am particularly in search of
the identity of one of their wives, sixteenth
or seventeenth century, whose family bore :
Parti per fesse gu. and az., a fesse arg., in chief
a chevron arg. C. SWYKNERTON.
Leonard Stanley, Glos.
292
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a. n. OCT. 7, 1916.
THE FIRST ENGLISH PROVINCIAL
NEWSPAPER.
(12 S. ii. 81, 155, 216.) ~
IT is rather odd that so much should be
known about Andrew Brice, and so little
about his master, Bliss. If all that is 'told
of him is accurate, Joseph Bliss must have
been a Whig, and, probably, a Dissenter.
No one seems to have remembered that he
kept a coffee-house, and I think that the only
record of this is to be found at the end of the
copy of his periodical in the British Museum.
But Dr. Tanner's letter points unmistakably
to the fact that some one, whose name and
periodical are yet to be discovered, preceded
Bliss.
The point I am anxious to lay stress upon
is that the solitary copy in the British
Museum of Jos. Bliss's Exeter Post-Boy
proves conclusively that The Protestant
Mercury ; or, Exeter Post-Boy, of 1715, stated,
by .Dr. Oliver, to have " commenced " in
September of that year, was nothing more
than the continuation of the same periodical
of 1707, with a prefix to the original
" catchword " in the shape of Protestant
Mercury.
The foundation of Dr. Brushfield's paper
on Andrew Brice and the early Exeter press
appears to have been the biography of
Andrew Brice, to be found in Trewmaris
Exeter Flying Post for Jan. 4, 1849. This
was " No. 7 " of a series of articles written
anonymously by the Rev. Dr. Oliver, under
the general" heading of ' Biographies of
Exonians.' I take the following extract
from it : —
" In his ' Itinerarium Curiosum ' [published in
1724] Dr. [William] Stukely mentions with com-
mendation the many booksellers' shops in Exeter.
Our readers may have met with Walter Dight in
1684, Mr. Osborne, near the Bear Inn, 1693, Samuel
Farley, 1701, Charles Yeo, 1701, Philip Bishop,
Joseph Bliss, Edward Score, James Lipscombe,
Nathaniel Thorne, John March, John Giles : and,
at a later period, the names of Thomas Brice,
Andrews, Trewman, Dyer, and Upham are familiar
to us. But to confine ourselves at present to
Andrew Brice. He was born at Exeter in 1690, and
was intended by his parents for a dissenting
minister; but on preferring the trade of a printer
was apprenticed to Joseph Bliss, the editor of The
Protestant Mercury; or, Exeter Pout-Boy. This
weekly journal commenced here in September,
1715, and at first was published on the Friday,
but shortly after on the Tuesday also. It was
introduced in opposition to Farley's Exeter Her-
civry," &c.
The truth appears to have been that the
prefixing to the " catchword " of the term
Protestant Mercury was the only thing
introduced by Bliss in 1715. One of the
illustrations to Dr. Bmshfield's paper shows,
it is true, " Number IV." of The Protestant
Mercury ; or, Exeter Post-Boy, in 1715, but
this may only be a renumbering (and in
Roman numerals), and may not even involve
a break in the issue of the periodical begun
in 1707.
In the same series of articles by Dr. Oliver,
" No. 13," published in Trewman' s Exeter
Flying, Post for Feb. 15, 1849, the biography
of Samuel Farley was given. And in the
number of this paper published on June 28,
1913, the editor wrote : —
" Last Saturday we recorded Dr. Oliver's state-
ment that Joseph Bliss started The Protestant
Mercury ; or, Exeter Post-Boy, in September, 1715,
in opposition to Farley's Exeter Mercury. There
is evidently something wrong about this assertion,
as the copy of Bliss's journal in the British Museum
is dated Slay 4th, 1711."
J. B. WILLIAMS.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS
(12 S. ii. 172, 254). — Thomas Coryate died
at Surat in December, 1617, " and was buried
. . . .under a little Monument, like one of
those are usually made in our Church yards "
(Edward Terry^ ' A Voyage to East India,'
1655, quoted on p. xi of the ' Publishers'
Note ' to the reprint of ' Coryat's Crudities,'
Glasgow, MacLehose, 1905).
" A humble tumulus marking the place of his
burial was shown half a century afterwards. It
is described in Sir Thomas Herbert's ' Travels '
(1634)." — Life of Thomas Coryate in the ' D.N.B.'
Sir John Suckling died in Paris in 1642,
and " was buryed in the Protestants church-
yard " (Aubrey's ' Brief Lives,' vol. ii., 1898,
p. 242).
Sir George Etherege died in Paris in 1691,
and was presumably buried there.
A more important writer than any of these,
William Tindale, was strangled and his body
burnt at Vilvorde in September, 1536.
EDWARD BENSLY.
Besides J. A. Symonds, buried in Rome,
another Bristol writer " of great renown and
greater promise," to quote his epitaph by
Lord Houghton, was buried abroad. This
was Frederick John Fargus ("Hugh Con-
way "), whose grave is at Nice. He died in
1885. CHARLES WELLS.
Mrs. Browning is entombed at Florence.
E. A. Freeman died at Alicante, and lies
buried there. W. C. J. errs in placing him
at Mentone. ST. SWITHTST.
12 s. ii. OCT. 7, me.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
293
THE " DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES " (12 S.
ii. lL'8, 197).— It is scarcely fair to the first
propounders of this doctrine to say that they
I) '.-od the use of each particular herb " not
t-n its actual properties, but on its real or
supposed resemblance to the part affected."
Paracelsus, to whom the doctrine appears to
have mainly owed its vogue, taught that the
virtues of plants depend upon the proportions
in which they contain the three principles or
elements of " sulphur," " salt," and ' mer-
cury," and that these inward virtues may
be known by " the outward shapes and
qualities " which are the signatures of
the plants. Similarly, Giambattista Porta
taught, in his ' Phytognomonica ' (Naples,
1588), that the healing properties of herbs,
no less than the spiritual qualities of men,
may be revealed by outward signs. The
virtues, however, are only indicated by the
signs ; they do not reside in them. William
Cole and Robert Turner, the great English
exponents of the doctrine, speak to the same
effect. The best herbalists even of the
sixteenth century rejected the doctrine, but
Ray, though he did not accept it as a whole,
admitted that there were some apparent
grounds for it : —
"I will not deny," he wrote, "that the noxious
and malignant plants do many of them discover
something of their nature by the sad and melancholy
visage of their leaves, flowers, and fruits.' '
A French writer contemporary with him,
Guy de la Brosse, points out that the resem-
blances upon which the idea is founded are
easily imagined. The subject is well dis-
cn--rd in Mrs. Arber's ' Herbals ' and
Folkard's ' Plant -Lore,' to both of which I
am indebted. The idea still lingers here and
there among our country herb-doctors, but I
do not suppose it is held now as a definite
doctrine by anybody. C. C. B.
MOVING PICTURES : THEIR EVOLUTION
(US. ii. 403, 456, 502, 517, 537 ; iii. 56, 125,
155, 194). — At these references are to be
found various allusions to and advertise-
ments of the earliest form of "moving
pictures," dating back to the time of Queen
Anne. These can now be supplemented by
an interesting extract from The Tatler of
that day, in the shape of a mock advertise-
ment, published in the issue for May 2-4,
1710, announcing that
" Whereas it has been signified to the Censor,
That under the Pretence that he has encouraged
the Moving Picture, and particularly admired the
Walking Statue, some Persons within the Liberties
of Westminster have vended Walking Pictures,
insomuch that the said Pictures have within few
Days after Sales by Auction returned to the Habita-
tion of their first Proprietors ; that Matter has
been narrowly looked into, and Orders are given
to Pacolet to take Notice of all who are concerned
in such Frauds, with Directions to draw their
Pictures, that they may be hanged in Effigie, in
Terr or em of all Auctions for the future."
I would note that the illustrative extract
given by MR. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL at
11 S. ii. 517, as being undated, is the adver-
tisement in The Spectator for Sept. 27, 1711,
a portion of which was quoted by MR. AXECK
ABRAHAMS at ibid., 456. To this can be
added another Spectator advertisement of
April 19, 1711, which proves the continuance
of Perikethman's connexion with the show,
originally exhibited two years earlier (ibid.-,
contribution of MR. A. RHODES). The later
advertisement runs as follows : —
" Mr. Penkethman's Wonderful Invention, call'd
the Pantheon : Or, the Temple of the Heathen-
gods. The Work of several Years, and great
Expence, is now perfected ; being a most sur-
prizing and Magnificent Machine, consisting of
5 several curious Pictures ; the Painting and Con-
trivance whereof is beyond Expression Admirable.
The Figures, which are above 100, and move their
Heads, Legs, Arms and Fingers, so exactly to what
they perform, and setting one Foot before another,
like living Creatures, that it justly deserves to be
esteem'd the greatest Wonder of the Age. To be
seen from 10 in the Morning till 10 at Night, in the
Little Piazza's Covent-Garden, in the same House
where Punch's Opera is. Price Is. 6d. Is. and the
lowest 6rf."
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
MRS. GRIFFITHS, AUTHOR OF ' MORALITY
OF SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS ' (12 S. ii. 209). —
Information with regard to Mrs. Elizabeth
Griffith (not Griffiths) may be obtained from
the following works : the ' D.N.B.,' vol. viii. ;
Robert Williams' s ' Eminent Welshmen ' ;
David Erskine Baker's ' Biographia Dram-
atica,' i. 301 ; Benjamin Victor's 'History of
the Theatres of London,' pp. 69, 76, 137;
David Garrick's ' Private Correspondence ' ;
John Genest's ' History of the Stage,'
vol. v. ; Robert Watt's ' Bibliotheca Britan-
nica ' ; Gentleman's Magazine, xl. 264 ;
Ixiii. 104 ; Miss Seward's ' Letters ' ; and
Allibone's ' Dictionary of Authors,' vol. i.
A collection of her works might also be
consulted at the British Museum.
E. E. BARKER.
THE FRENCH AND FROGS (12 S. ii. 251). —
In ' La Vie Privee d'Autrefois,' in the
volume labelled ' La Cuisine,' Alfred Franklin
draws attention to the fact that grenouittes
are an item of the dainty fare mentioned by
Rabelais, and tells us that a thousand of the
creatures were prepared in the establishment
of the Archbishop of Paris for a banquet
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[12 S. 11. OCT. 7. 1916
giv.-n in honour of Elizabeth of Austria on
March 29, 1571 (pp. 92, 102).
I fancy that few people who had once
enjoyed frogs done after the French fashion
would object to face the dish again. I liked
it well enough at an hotel at Tours, the one
place where, as far as I can remember, such
regale has been offered to me. I fancy the
legs, and part of the back, were the only
joints served up ; but in a note supplied by
Franklin (p. 92) Du Cham pier is cited as
saying : —
" J'ai vu un temps oh 1'on ne mangeait que les
cuissea ; on mange maintenant tout le corps except^
la t«te. On les sert f rites avec du persil."
A paragraph on our subject occurs in
Hackwood's ' Good Cheer ' (p. 299) :—
"As every one knows, the esculent or edible
frog is considered quite a luxury in France, Ger-
many, and Italy. Those brought to the markets of
Paris are caught in the stagnant waters round
Montmorency, in the Bois de Vincennes, the Bois
de Boulogne, and elsewhere. The people who
collect them separate the hind-quarters, and legs,
from the body, carefully skin them, arrange them
on skewers, as larks are in this country, and so
bring them to market. The dealers sometimes
prepare toads in the same way, and as it requires
an expert eye to detect the difference, the Parisians
are sometimes literally, if unconsciously, ' toad-
eaters.' "
One day I saw a market-woman at
Bologna bearing a pendent mass of some-
thing that looked strange to my English
eyes. I asked the nature of it, and was
answered Rane. Part of the good of travel
is to taste strange meats and to return with
thankfulness to one's native fare.
ST. SWITHIN.
At the end of a letter from Charles Lamb
to John Clare, dated " India House,
31st August, 1822," is the following sen-
tence : —
" Since I saw you I have been in France and
have eaten frogs. The nicest little rabbity things
you ever tasted. Do look about for them. Make
Mrs. Clare pick off the hindquarters ; boil them
plain with parsley and butter. The forequarters
are not so good. She may let them hop off by
themselves.!'
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
I have enjoyed a dish of edible frogs (Rana
eaculenta) on many occasions, both "in Paris
and Budapest. It is an expensive dish, as
only the hind legs are consumed. They are
either stewed or fried in breadcrumbs. In
the late John Hartley's ' Seets i' Paris '
(1878), describing in dialect the trip of two
Yorkshiremen to the Paris Exhibition,
Sammy well Grimes' s travelling companion,
Billy, unwittingly ate a dish of stewed frogs,
and thought he " nivver had owt as grand "
in his life and " wor meeaning " to have
another plateful, when he was told what lie
had eaten, whereupon his face " went as
white as mi hat, an' he dropt his knife and
fork" (p. 45). It is difficult to distinguish
fried frog from the best Vienna backhciull
(young chicken), so much extolled by tra-
vellers. L. L. K.
IBBETSON, IBBERSON, IBBESON, OR IBBOT-
SON (12 S. ii. 110, 198).— My great-grand-
mother, G. Ord Ibbetson, on my mother's
side (? maiden name) married Mr. Ibbetson
of St. Antony, co. Durham, a collector of
books, I believe. She had two daughters,
one married to Cuthbert Ellison of Hepburn
Hall, co. Durham, and called Isabella,
whose eldest daughter, Isabella, married
Lord Vernon.
Mrs. G. Ord Ibbetson died in London in
the early 1840's, aged 94. I have a good
lithograph of her, several Bibles and other
books, a diary of hers, a journal of a trip
from Antwerp to Lausanne, 1817 ; also some
Oriental china, much riveted owing to a
cat locked up accidentally in a large cup-
board. I saw her soon after the smash.
There is Jewish blood no doubt in the
Ibbetson and Ellison family. I fancy they
came to England, merchants from Holland,
in the seventeenth or eighteenth century.
FRANCIS N. LAMBTON.
THE HORSE-CHESTNUT (12 S. ii. 172, 237).
— For the popular name, the ' N.E.D.'
compares the German Roszkastanie, and other
words with the same prefix, and shows that in
names of plants, fruits, &c., it often denotes
" a large, strong, or coarse kind," and gives
over thirty instances of this, besides a few
in which the prefix appears to be used for
other reasons. Gerarde and Matthiolus are
cited as saying that the people of the East
" do with the fruit thereof cure their horses
of the cough, and such like diseases." But it
has always seemed to me to come under the
class of larger and coarser fruits, as compared
with the Spanish or edible chestnut. The
' N.E.D.' is not specifically committed to any
explanation in this case. The prefix seems
sometimes to include a pejorative suggestion,
as in " horse-godmother," a large, coarse-
looking woman. J- T. F.
Winterton, Lines.
MR. F. A. RUSSELL'S explanation of the
English name of this tree is scarcely to be
reconciled with the fact that in 1557. long
before the horse-chestnut was introduced
into Britain, Dr. Quackleben wrote to the
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botanist Matthiolus stating that the fruit
was esteemed by the Turks as a specific
against broken wind in horse*. The Turkish
name for the tree is atkastait, meaning horse-
chest nut. It differs, therefore, in sense
from the same prefix in " horse-radish,"
"horse-mushroom," &c., meaning "coarse,
large." HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
" JOBEY" OF ETON (12 S. ii. 248). — The
thanks of old Etonians are due to PROF.
RICHARD H. THORNTON for his references to
certain letters in The Times of Jan. 13, 14,
15, 1916.
On looking them up I have found that
certain dates should be added. The death
of Alfred Knock, known to Etonians as
" Jobey," was announced in a three-to-four-
line paragraph in The Times of Dec. 22, 1915,
p. 7, col. 6. Following this there were
letters concerning Jobey, or rather several
Jobeys, in The Times of Jan. 12, 13, 14, 15,
17, 19. The last letter, written by the author
of the first, is preceded by a short editorial
article headed ' Jobey as a Type.'
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE REV. DAVID DURELL, D.D., PRE-
BENDARY OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL (12 S.
ii. 250). — Was apparently born in 1729 ; son
of Thomas of isle of Jersey, arm., " and
seems to have been descended from Dean
(John) Durel, the controversial divine, who
rendered the Common Prayer Book into
Latin and French " (D. Macleane's ' History
of Pembroke College,' Oxford, 1897, p. 387).
He died Oct. 16, 1775, apparently unmarried.
A. R. BAYLEY.
ROME AND Moscow (12 S. ii. 149, 198). —
The question of the burning of Moscow has
often been discussed, and will probably
never be settled. Dr. Holland Rose, in his
' Life of Napoleon,' contents himself with
pointing out the contradictory nature of the
evidence available, but does not come to any
conclusion on the subject. Mr. Hereford
George, in his ' Napoleon's Invasion of
Russia,' examines the matter at some length,
and after discussing the evidence, &c., sums
up as follows : —
"On the face of the undoubted facts there is no
adequate evidence that the burning of Moscow was
deliberate, though there is, of course, no evidence
that it was not. The case against Count Ro-top-
chin rests mainly on the fact that his contem-
poraries believed it, chiefly on his own avowal, and
refused to believe his subsequent denial." — Op. cit..
p. 221.
I am afraid we must leave it at that.
T. F. D.
W. ROBINSON, LL.D., F.8.A., 1777-1848
(12 S. ii. 209). — His library was sold in part
by Puttick & Simpson, Sept. 20, 1848; ard
original manuscripts and interesting, valu-
able, and important collections made by
Robinson were dispersed by the same
auctioneers on June 12, 1857.
Sir F. Madden's collections were sold l;y
Sothebys, June 29, 1867, and (MSS.) Aug. 7,
1873. ' A. L. HUMPHREYS.
SIR JOHN MAYNARD, 1592-1658 (12 S.
ii. 172, 238). — I am disposed to think that
the references given by MR. BAYLEY in his
reply are not, correct, and it is possible that
he has confused two Sir John Maynards.
The Sir John Maynard about whom in-
formation was sought by the EDITOR OF
' THE BRADFORD ANTIQUARY ' is not the
Maynard whose portrait is in the National
Portrait Gallery. Nor are the references to
the ' D.N.B.' and to Selby's Genealogist
correct as referring to Sir John Maynard,
1592-1658. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
THE DICK WHITTINGTON : CLOTH FAIR
(12 S. ii. 248). — I am sorry to hear that the
Dick Whittington public-house is being
pulled down, though it had got into a sad
state of dilapidation. It appeared to date
from the first half of the seventeenth century.
Its claim, however, to be *' the oldest
licensed house in London " was altogether
apocryphal, if meant to imply that it had
been licensed for a long time. In the Grace
Collection at the Print-Room of the British
Museum, portfolio xxvi., there are two
sketches showing it as a shop. I have often
seen them, and believe that they are those
numbered 92 and 95, and described respec-
tively as ' Old House (a Butcher's) in Cloth
Fair ' and ' Old House (Hairdresser's) in
Ditto, Drawing by Shepherd, 1850.' A
water-colour of it by me is in the London
Museum, now closed. PHILIP NORMAN.
" GREAT-COUSIN" (12 S. ii. 228).— This most
probably merely means " great-nephew " or
" great-niece." In old wills nephews and
nieces are freq\iently styled cousins. It
would seem that the practice still continues
in the North of England. G. S. PARRY.
" L'HOMME SENSUEL MOYEN " (12 S.
ii. 148). — 1 have been anxiously awaiting an
answer to O. G.'s query as to the origin < f
this well-known phrase. I have al\va> -
understood that it occurred first in Flaubert ,
but I cannot lay my hand on the reference.
DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE.
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ISS. II .OCT. 7, 1916.
THE REV. WARD MATJLE (12 S. ii. 227) was
the eldest son of John Templeman Maule,
M.D. Ho was at Tonbridge School, 1849-50,
and afterwards at Cains College, Cambridge ;
S.C.L., 1854; LL.B., 1870; Trinity College,
Dublin, ad eundem graduin, LL.D., 1876.
Ordained 1856. A chaplain on the Bombay
Establishment at Colaba ; also acting Arch-
deacon and Commissary, and senior Cathe-
dral Chaplain ; Fellow of the Bombay
University. In 1892 or 1893 he was residing
in France. His brother, Amold Maule, was
also at Tonbridge School. After being in
the Royal Mail Service he was in the Woods
and Forests Service, India. LEO C.
He was son of John Templeman Maule,
surgeon Madras army ; born Mangalore,
Sept. 1, 1833 ; educated Warwick, Ton-
bridge, and Caius College, Cambridge ;
LL.B., 1871 ; LL.D., Dublin, 1876 ; played
in Cambridge University cricket eleven,
1853 ; incumbent of Church of Ascension,
Balham, London, 1880-82 ; died Sept. 23,
1913. FREDERIC BOASE.
" PANTS, AMICITLSC SYMBOLTJM " (12 S.
ii. 128). — Pope St. Gregory the Great
(' Dialog.,' lib. ii. cap. 8) tells how one
Florentius, priest of a neighbouring church,
being envious of the virtuous life or the
happy estate of St. Benedict at Subiaco,
wished to put an end to him. With this
intent Florentius sent him a poisoned loaf
or cake quasi pro benedictione — by way
of a friendly present or token of good-
fellowship, and St. Benedict accepted it cum
gratiarum nctione — with many thanks, as a
man of to-day might say. The custom
sending a cake to a friend must have been
common enough for Florentius to have been
able to count on the unsuspecting acceptance
of his deadly gift.
St. Benedict himself, in forbidding the
exchange of presents without permission
('Reg. Monach.,' cap. 54), uses the Greek wore
cuAoyia, which monastic tradition under
stands to be the equivalent of the benedictio
of St. Gregory's story — litteras, aut eulogias
vel quaslibet munuscula accipere aut dare.
Reference to the Vulgate Bible a
Gen. xxxiii. 11, 1 Reg. ( = 1 Sam.) xxv. 27
4 Reg. ( = 2 Kings) v. 15, will show the wore
benedictio used to mean very substantia
presents — mostly in kind.
S. GREGORY OULD, O.S.B.
Poujoulat, in his life of St. Augustine,
says :—
"Saint Paulin envoyait a Saint Augustin......
un pain en signe d'union et d'amitie". C'^tait
alors 1'usage que les e"veques et les pretres
nvoyassent a leurs amis des pains, en signe
e communion ; le plus souvent ces pains
vaient 4te benits a table. Une marque particu-
id-re d'honneur, c'etait d'envoyer un pain sans le
>enir, pour que T^veque ou le pretre qui devait le
ecevoir le benit lui-meme. En adressant un pain
Augustin, Saint Paulin le priait d'en faire un
ain de benediction."
What is his authority (1) for the bread
ieing usually blessed at table ; (2) for the
ending of unblessed bread as the greater
jompliment ? PEREGRINUS.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 229). — The
•v-ords " Etsi inopis non ingrata munuscula
iextrse " have a dedicatory air. Is it certain
hat they are a quotation ? In any case the
expression seems suggested by Catullus, Ixiv.
103-4 :—
Non ingrata tamen frustra munuscula diuis
Promittens tacito succendit uota labello.
EDWARD BENSLY.
(12 S. ii. 249.)
I believe that the lines are due, in an
amended version, to Jonathan Swift. As I
remember the epigram, it ran: —
Can we believe, with common sense,
A bacon-slice gives God offence ?
Or that a herring hath a charm
Almighty vengeance to disarm ?
Wrapt up in majesty divine.
Doth He regard on what we dine ?
ST. S WITHIN.
SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STEWKELEY
(12 S. ii. 89, 137, 251).— I would point out
that the Visitation of Hampshire, 1622-34,
states definitely that Barbara, wife of William
St. John of Farley, was " of Wallop in
Com. Southton." STEPNEY GREEN.
F. H. S. will, I think, get at the identity of
" Catherine Ogle " by consulting vols. iii. and
iv. of the ' Memoirs of the Verney Family '
(original editions, 1894 and 1899). The
indexes contain many entries about the
Stewkeleys. Your correspondent mentions
four sisters, Gary, Carolina, Isabella, and
Catherine. It can hardly be a mere coinci-
dence that Gary Verney, daughter of Sir
Edmund Verney (the Standard-Bearer to
Charles I.), by her second marriage to John
Stewkeley, had daughters Cary, Carolina,
Isabella, and Katherine. DIEGO.
TINSEL PICTURES (12 S. ii. 228).— MR.
ANDREW J. GRAY may care to know, if he
chances to be collecting, that there are two
perfect specimens of tinselled portraits of
actors in a small curiosity shop on Kew
Green (the end nearest Kew Gardens). The
pictures are overlaid in parts with velvet and
silk as well as -with tinsel. As I saw them
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on a Sunday, 1 could not make inquiries as
to their origin, or whether there were more
of their kind inside, but the proprietor might
possibly be able to give MR. GRAY some
interesting information.
E. K. LIMOUZIN.
Fifty years ago tinsel pictures were to be
seen in many cottage homes, and were highly
prized. Most of them were tawdry things,
the tinsel bits badly laid on. The subjects
were usually Scriptural — the Resurrection,
angels, saints, the Crucifixion — but others
were pastoral. I remember a large one of
' Mary and her Little Lamb.' None that I
saw had the artist's name, and for the
most part they were small, about a large
octavo size. If I remember aright, there
was a shop near St. Alkmund's, Derby,
where they were sold and also made.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.
UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s (12 S. ii. 2ol). —
Richard Thompson, M.P., of Jamaica and
Coley Park, Reading, was son of William
Thompson (of Bradfield, Berks, barrister-at-
law) by his wife Elizabeth ; grandson
of Sir Samuel Thompson of Bradfield,
Sheriff of London, by his wife Mary, daughter
and sole heir of - - Buller, son of Sir
Richard Buller; and great-grandson of Sir
William Thompson, alderman, knighted at
the Hague, who was the uncle of the 1st Lord
Haversham (1696).
Richard Thompson, M.P., left no male
issue. Two of his daughters who died
unmarried are mentioned by Fanny Burney
(Madame d'Arblay), living at Coley in 1760.
The third daughter, Ann Thompson, married
Sir Philip Jennings-Clerk.
In the parish church of Bradfield, Berks,
are memorials of the Thompson family,
where, no doubt, the dates required would
be found. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.
Swallowfield Park, Reading.
Henry Trail, M.P. for Weymouth, 1812-13,
purchased the estate of Dairsie, in Fife, from
Sir James Gibson Craig of Riccartoun, Bart.,
in 1806. His daughter and heir, Henrietta,
married in 1814 the Right Hon. Thomas
Erskine, Judge of the Common Pleas, and
fourth son of Lord Chancellor Erskine.
HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
John Trevanion. — The freedom of Folke-
stone was conferred on him Oct. 23, 1770,
for soi in- si rvice rendered. He was a candi-
date for 'l )OVT in that year, but was defeated
by Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Bart.
In a diary of Thomas Pattenclen of Dover
it is stated that Trevanion, the popular Whig
resident, who had been a great benefactor to
Dover, and had contested ten elections
between the years 1769 and 1806, was finally
rejected, " the secret," which eventually
leaked out, being that his money was all
gone.
William Horsemonden Turner,
" esqr. of Maidstone, of which town he was
recorder, and twice represented it in Parliament.
He was son of Anthony Horsemonden of .M.; id-
stone, by his second wife Jane, daughter (if Sir
William Turner of Richmond." — Hasted's ' His-
tory of Kent,' 8vo edit., vol. v. p. 450.
W. H. Turner married, 1723, Elizabeth,
widow of Thomas Bliss of Maidstone ; she
had previously married Ambrose Warde of
Yalding, who died 1674. She was the
daughter of J. Kenward of Yalding, and died
1730, aged 81. W. H. Turner re-married
Elizabeth Read of Lenham, and died in April,
1753, s.p. Will dated March 20, 1750.
R. J. FYNMORK.
Sandgate.
NAVY LEGENDS (12 S. ii. 210). —
1. " Parker hoisted the signal to ' discontinue
the action.' Nelson did not obey the signal.
Clapping his telescope to his blind eye, he declared
that he could not see it, and his conduct has often
been adduced as an instance of glorious fearless-
ness. It does not detract from the real merit uf
Nelson, who never sought to avoid responsibility,
to learn that the performance was really a jest,
and that the commander-in-chief had sent a
private message that the signal should be con-
sidered optional — to be obeyed or not at the
discretion of Nelson, who might be supposed to
have a better knowledge of the circumstances than
he could possibly have at a distance (Ralfe, ' Nav.
Biog.,' iv. 12 ; ' Recollections of the Life of the
Rev. A. J. Scott,' p. 70)." — Vide Prof. J. K.
Laughton in ' D.N.B.,' xl. p. 201.
2. Pennant : apparently a compromise
between "pendant" and "pennon," repre-
senting the usual nautical pronunciation of
these words, of which it is now the most
usual form. " Pennant " has been the most
common non-official spelling since c. 1690.
1485. Nav. Ace. Hen. VII. :—
Pendauntes of say for the Crane lyne.
1627. Drayton, ' Agincourt,' Ixvii. : —
A ship most neatly that was lim'd,
In all her sailes with flags and Pennons trimM.
Probably derived from the pennon — a long
narrow flag or streamer, triangular and
pointed, or swallow-tailed, usually attached
to the head of a lance, or a helmet, formerly
borne as a distinction by a knight uiu'cr the.
rank of banneret, and sometimes \r,-.\ ing his
cognizance upon it ; now a military ensign of
298
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 7, we.
the lancer regiments. Prof. J. K. La nghton
in ' D.X.B.,'"v. 175-6, says :—
" It was at this time that, according to the
popular story, he [Troinp] wore the br, mm at the
masthead, as signifying that he had swept, or was
going to sweep, tln> English from the seas. There
is no reason to believe that he ever did anything
of the sort. ; the statement is entirely unsupported
by contemporary evidence ; not one writer of any
credit, English or Dutch, mentions it even as a
rumour ; but months afterwards an anonymous
and unauthenticated writer in a newspaper
wrote : ' Mr. Trump, when he was in France, we
understand, wore a (lag of broom ' (Daily In-
telligencer, Xo. 113, 0 March, 1652/3). The story
was probably invented as a joke in the fleet,
without a shadow of foundation."
A. R. BAYLEY.
2. " What was the origin of the pennant? '
I have not been able to trace the origin of
the pennant , but it was certainly in use during
the reign of Henry VII., because amongst
the fittings of the ship that took Beauchamp,
Earl of Warwick, to France in that king's
reign was a " grete stremour for the shippe,
XI yardes in length, VII j yardes in brede."
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
2. Commander Robinson in ' The British
Fleet ' says : —
" The pennant has always denoted the rank of
the commander of the vessel. In ancient times
he was a soldier and, in the smaller craft, a man-
at-arms, bearing on his lance a single-tailed pennon
which he transferred to the ship. In more im-
portant vessels he was a knight, carrying a
swallow-tailed banner, now the distinguishing
burgee or flag of a commodore, or captain in
command of a division. On more important
occasions a knight-banneret went afloat, and his
square flag is now carried by our admirals."
A. G. KEALY, R.X.,
Chaplain (retired).
CALDECOTT (12 S. ii. 107, 195, 237).— In
the church of Stanford-on-Avon, North-
amptonshire, is an elaborate memorial
inscribed as follows : —
" To the Memory of Mr. James Calcutt, | Who |
Having first approved his Fidelity in the Family
of John Brown of | Eydon in this County E.?qr,
Clerk of the Parliament, was afterwards | for the
Space of 40 Years & upwards, successively
Steward to Sr Roger J Cave, Sr Thomas Cave.
Sr Verney Cave, & >Sr Thomas Cave, of | Stanford
in this County Baronets, whom he served with
Industry, | & Integrity, always preferring Their
Advantage and Interest whensoever They | came
in Competition with his own. He died the 24th
day of February | 1734 in the 82nd Year of his
Age, leaving Issue an only Child James Calcutt, |
whom He educated to the Profession of the Law,
<fc for whom during so long | a Stewardship He
chose to Provide a moderate Fortune only, with
the | durable Blessing annex'd to it of having
been Honestly acquired ; Who | in Duty &
Gratitude that his Remains may rest with Those,
In whose | Service \; Esteem he spent his Life,
by his last Will appointed this Monument | to be
erected ; <.v. according to his own Desire lies
interr'd in the same Vault. | He died Sept. I9t,
1751 | ^Etatis suae 58."
In the upper part of the memorial was
subsequently inscribed: —
" Mrs. Mary Calcutt died January 22nd, 1769,
aged 71."
At the west end of the south aisle, on a
diamond-shaped slab in the floor, is recorded :
J. C.
Obiit Sept* 1
1751
JEtatis suae
58.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
The following announcement appeared in,
The Clare Journal of Monday, Oct. 19, 1807 :
" On Tuesday, 13th inst., William Calcutt,
Esq., 5th Dragoon Guards, to Miss Macnamira,,
only daughter of Francis Macnamara of Wellpark,
co. Galway, Esq."
Mrs. Calcutt was a member of the Mac-
namara family of Doolen and of Eanis-
tymon House, co. Clare. Her son, Francis .
Macnamara Calcutt, was M.P. for co. Clare
fifty or sixty years ago.
ALFRED MOLOXY.
48 Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W.
EPITAPH ON A PORK BUTCHER (12 S. ii.
188, 259). — As monumental inscriptions con-
taining references to pork butchers are not
very common, the following may be worth
recording. It comes from the churchyard at
Bickleigli (near Tiverton), co. Devon, a place
well known in connexion with the Carew
family. A further point of interest is the
mention of the day of the week on which the
death occurred. The monumental inscrip-
tion reads : —
" Edward GIBBONS of this parish killed by the
stab of a knife at Little Burn in this parish by the
hand of Robert Husaey as he was assisting him in
butchering of a swine-hog of which wound in his
right thigh through the immense loss of blood he
expired within 15 minutes on Monday 21st Dec.
1789, aged 32."
M.
" QUITE ALL RIGHT" (12 S. ii. 207). — The
expression " quite all right " has been, in
circulation in London, to my knowledge,
for a number of years — probably ten or
more — as have also " quite nice," " quite
good," and similar expressions. Your corre-
spondent's ungallant suggestion that it is
mainly confined to the " weaker sex," I
traverse. Pleonasms, solecisms, " howlers,"
slang, false grammar, and bad English
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generally, come from the mouths and pens
of men and women of all ages and in all
s-ations of life, and even, as will be observed,
fr.>m myself. The distinction between the
uneducated and the educated is not so much
in grammar or choice of words, as in
pronunciation and accent. There are ex-
pressions in everyday use by educated
people who never drop an h and always use
\ he fashionable " one," from which " quite all
right " would recoil in horror.
But these things will all be changed —
after the war. REGINALD ATKINSON.
Forest Hill, S.E.
" BLUE PENCIL" (12 S. ii. 126, 174).—
I sent the numbers of ' N. & Q.' containing
the discussion of this phrase to a friend who
is a proof-reader at the Clarendon Press.
His comment is : —
" We underline with blue pencil all our queries
to authors on press proofs, and this is no doubt
the blue-pencilling the Rev. A. L. Mayhew refers
to."
This explains satisfactorily Mr. May hew' s
use of the term " blue pencil " in his preface
to Prof. Skeat's ' Glossary of Tudor and
Stuart Words,' though it is not the meaning
"blue pencil" generally bears in the world
of journalism.
I may add a recent example of " blue
pencil " as a verb. " Spero," discussing in
Ihe August number of The London Typc-
yraphical Journal some pitfalls in English,
said (p. 5) : —
" Prof. .Lounsbury once did me a rather good
turn. Our head-reader brought to my box his
most funereal face with, ' Look here !. . . .You've
passed two split infinitives on one page.... The
book is being privately circulated. Its author
kiio\ys nothing about grammar, and he gave us
the job on condition that we would correct his
errors. Some of his kind friends will be sure to
pounce on these splits, and then he will consider
th;it we have defrauded him.' ' Well, somebody
should have blue-pencilled his copy.' "
" Box," it may be explained, is short for the
; iny room in which the corrector of the press
usually works. Its more dignified descrip-
tion is " reading-closet."
J. R. THORNE.
" COALS TO NEWCASTLE " (12 S. ii. 250). —
' The Oxford Dictionary ' gives quotations
from Graunt's ' Bills of Mortality,' 1661, and
Fuller's 'Worthies' before 1661 ; also from
Heywood's ' If You Know Not Me,' second
part, 1606, the following : " as common as
coales from Newcastle."
G. L. APPEHSON.
Brighton.
Jiotis on
The Races of Ireland and Scotland. By W. C.
Mackenzie. (Paisley, Gardner, Is. Qd. net.)
WE welcome this learned treatise upon the origin,
of the Celtic races, an admittedly difficult subject,
which has baffled many. Mr. Mackenzie claims
that his book is one of independent research, and
grounds himself largely upon a study of place-
names, which he says cannot lie. They may not
lie, but they can deceive xis, as, indeed. Mr. Mac-
kenzie has to admit. They are the keys on which
we have to rely for unlocking the treasures of
truth, but they come down to us often so rusted
with the accretions of ages or warped by rough
usage that they refuse to enter the wards to which
they belong. However that may be, it is on the
study of place-names that the author is content
to base his researches into race-origins and pre-
historic antiquities. The results are always in-
teresting if sometimes too speculative. How far
mere guesswork weakens the inquiry is manifest
from the pages of possible solutions of the word
" cat " (pp. 278-82).
He is met at the threshold of his investigations
by those enigmatical tribes the Fomorians, the
Firbolgs and the Tuatha, de Danann, whose
obscurity has repelled many from further inquiry.
These he patiently tackles with abundance
of philological skill and daring, and comes
to the conclusion that the Fomorians were
Phoenician pirates, their name meaning " sea-
refugees," being derived from Cymric ffo, flight,
and m6r, sea. Hitherto the word has been inter-
preted mythologically as " giants " and " beings
under the sea," which, Mr. Mackenzie objects,
cannot both be correct. See, however, Job xxvi. 5.
As to the Fir-bolg or " Bag-men," whom some
imaginative writers have identified with the
Bulgars or Bulgarians, he arrives at no satisfac-tory
conclusion : and he likewise gives up the Tuatha de
Danann. He rejects Sir John Bhys's theory that
the Scoti may have had their name from " scotch-
ing " or tattooing themselves (Gaelic sgath), and
thinks they may rather have been " shooters "
(Icel. skjota). The mysterious St. Kilda, who is
unknown to the hagiographers, seems to have been
evolved from a mere misunderstanding of the
name of the well Kelda (childa) imagined to be
sacred to him (p. 269).
As the scope of the work embraces mythologyr
and philology, folk-lore and tradition, history and
anthropology, it would be a marvel if there were
not occasional errors, but we are bound to say
they are neither so serious nor so numerous as they
might have been in the hands of a less learned and
patient investigator. We are surprised that Mr.
Mackenzie has a hankering after the old derivation
of Beltine from Baal (p. 5). Some of his obiter
dicta we have no hesitation in rejecting. " Old
Nick" certainly does not represent the Scandi-
navian Ndk, the water-horse (p. 49) : and "ape "
has as little to do with Cymric ab. denoting quick-
ness of motion (p. 274). The explanation of the
name Carmichael as a " great marsh " (p. 298),
instead of " favourite of Michael " (like Cardew,
" dear to God "), will commend itself to few.
The Fortnight It/ h'<rii'n- provides us with two
quasi-literary character sketches, which, with M>HH>
qualifications, we liked well, especially Mr.
Edward Clodd on Sir Alfred Lyall, which gives, if a
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partial, yet ;i really lively picture of a fine mind.
Mr. S. P. B. .Mais writes about the late Richard
Middleton, and, to our thinking, rather misses
some of Middleton's characteristic merits, while
he exaggerates others, and shows no critical
feeling for his author's weak points. M. Eca de
Queiroz wrote some fifteen years ago an article
on the Kaiser, which is given here in a translation,
and is well worth bringing forward again. Mr.
P. E. Matheson on ' Education To-day and To-
morrow ' seems to us at once too vague and too
minute. The first thing we have to come to is,
in our opinion, a revision of the fundamental
principles and assumptions which have, so far,
governed English education ; and the second thing
is a revision of educational administration ;
neither of which topics is adequately dealt with.
Dr. Courtney's parallel between Venizelos and
Demosthenes, which includes under its title
' Patriotism and Oratory ' some good observations
on other political orators, is the most attractive
of the articles of academic interest. Dr. Dillon on
' The New Situation ' ; Mr. Archibald Hurd on
' The British Empire after the War ' ; and Mr.
H. M. Hyndman on ' The Awakening of Asia ' are
the three most striking contributions towards a
knowledge of present international developments
and problems.
WE congratulate The Nineteenth Century, in its
October number, on the fine piece of criticism
entitled ' Faust and the German Character,' the
work of Mr George Saunders. The analysis of
' Faust ' is clever, suggestive, and, in our opinion,
true ; and we find ourselves in agreement with the
writer in his conjectures as to the direct influence
of the ideals set forth in ' Faust ' upon the forma-
tion of the German character as this war has
revealed it. M. Fernand Passelecq's article,
' Belgian Unity and the Flemish Movement,' should
attract careful attention. We noticed some useful
remarks about the error of taking linguistic affini-
ties between peoples as implying resemblance of
character and internal sympathy. Sir Malcolm
Mcllwraith contributes an important and also
delightful account of the recent improvements in
the working of the Mohammedan Law Courts
of Egypt. This includes an extract from El
Mokattam of last June, giving details of the unre-
formed procedure of the religious courts- How
strange and entertaining some of these are may be
gathered from one custom which we will quote :
" Where a Cadi had, say, twenty cases to hear, he
usually began by hearing, successively, the twenty
plaintiffs and then adjourned, to future sittings,
the hearing of the twenty defendants respectively."
The article contains a short but noteworthy tribute
to Lord Kitchener's services to Egypt in respect of
the reform of judicial affairs. Lady Kinloeh-Cooke's
'A Visit to Paris on the Eve of the Revolution'
consists of fourteen or fifteen letters written by
Frances Julia Sayer on a visit to Paris during the
summer of 1788. She was in the position to see
most of the interesting things going on, to hear the
opinions and forebodings, and share in the gaiety
of the external life of the higher classes of French
society at that time of crisis. The letters are full
of good particulars. Sir Francis Piggott gives us
the second instalment of his ' Belligerent and
Neutral from 1756 to 1915 ' ; and our correspondent
" Lewis Melville," a weighty and well-documented
study of ' German Propaganda.' M. Eugene
Tavernier has a fascinating subject in the life and
work of Vladimir Soloviev, and — so far as this is
liossible within the limits of a magazine article —
he does it justice. The articles more strictly on
military and social topics are fully on a level with
these, ^ind we may record with pleasure that this
new Nineteenth Century is one of the besi, and
should prove one of the most valuable, of its recent
numbers.
THE October Cornhitt contains, we think, no paper
which is quite as good as the best things in the
September and August numbers, but it has three
sets of reminiscences which we found of interest,
and an article called ' The Voice of the Guns,' by
Mr. F. J. Salmon, which gives just the kind of
detail that most of us want now and again to have
made vivid to the imagination. The reminis-
cences are, first, Sir Charles P. Lucas's account of
the late John Llewelyn Da vies and the Working
Men's College — a good subject of its kind, and
rendered the more attractive here by some unusual
firmness in the writing. It was much — it was a
significant feat — for one man to have accomplished
both the practical, social work implied in Davies's
activity as one of the Founders of the College, and
the valuable translation of Plato's ' Republic.' Then
there is Mr. Gathorne-Hardy's ' Ihlliol Memories '
— various and rather sketchy, containing some
goodstories and the text of a clever charade by Scott
of the Lexicon. The third of these articles is a
record of experience in the war: Lieut, the Hon.
W. Watson-Armstrong's ' My First Week in
Flanders,' very good stuff. Sir Frederick Pollock
writes ingeniously and amusingly about ' War and
Diplomacy in Shakespeare.' Lady Bagot contri-
butes a simple and touching story of a military
hospital ; Mr. Arnold Lunn a rather amusing
schoolboy yarn called " ' Sweep ' Villers." Of
Mr. Boyd Cable's ' The Old Contemptibles : the
Rearguard,' we need merely say that his admirers
will not be disappointed in it.
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made M'hereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
to (E0msprmtoirts,
To secure insertion of communications corre-
spondents must observe the following rules. Let
each note, query, or reply be written on a separate
slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and
such address as he wishes to appear. When answer-
ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous
entries in the paper, contributors are requested to
nut in parentheses, immediately after the exact
heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to
which they refer. Correspondents who repeat
queries are requested to head the second com-
munication " Duplicate."
S. K. and TWYFORD — Forwarded.
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363, 432. The RF.V. A. L. MAYHEW, at the latter
reference, thinks it is derived from munita, Med.
Lat. for immunitcM, a privileged district, one
"immune" from seignorial rights.
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CONTENTS.-No. 42.
.NOTES :— ' The Morning Post,' 1772-1916, 301 — Negro, or
Coloured, Bandsmen in the Army, 303— London's Enter
tainment to " Four Indian Kings." 304—' The Tragedy of
Caesar's Revenge,' 305— Garrick's Friends— Lewisian Epi-
taphs at Llanerchaeron, 307 — ''Cadeau" = a Present —
Gloves : Survivals of Old Customs — War Words in News-
papers—Napoleon and Sugar, 308.
•QUERIES: — Fishing -Rod in the Bible or Talmud —
William Bell— Epitaphs in Old London and Suburban
Graveyards, 308— Welthen— Author Wanted— Abell Bar-
nard of Windsor Castle and Clewer — Drake's Ship —
Quaker Grammar — "Tefal" — Kepier School, Houghton-
le-Spring, 1770-90, 309— Sir Herbert Croft and Lowth—
Plumstead Lloyd— Badges : Identification Sought— Ear
Tingling : Charm to " Cut the Scandal " — Madame de
Stael : Louis Alphonse Rocca— Eighteenth-Century Rate-
Books, Fleet Street — "Septeiu sine horis," 310 — Mary,
Queen of Scots — John Jones, Author of 'Natural or
Supernatural '—Boccaccio's ' Decameron,' 311.
REPLIES :— An English Army Listof 1740, 311— Acco, 314—
Dr. Thomas Frewen— Watch House — S. J., Water-Colour
Artist— William Marshall, Earl of Striguil, 315— Author
Wanted — The Sign Virgo - Restoration of Old Deeds and
Manuscripts— Mother and Child, 316— Osbert Salvin—
St. Newlyn East— Slonk Hill, Shoreham, Sussex— Por-
traits in Stained Glass, 317— '"Court" in French Place-
Names — Apothecary M.P.s, 313— "One's place in the
sun " — Erasmus Saunders, Winchester Scholar — Village
Pounds, 319. •
NOTES ON BOOKS: — 'Le Strange Records '— "The
Burlington Magazine.'
Notices to Correspondents.
' THE MORNING POST,'
1772-1916.
NOWADAYS it is impossible to conceive of
London without its multitude of morning
papers, yet, when The Morning Post was first
issued on the 2nd of November, 1772, there
were only two other morning papers pub-
lished in London, and these with but a very
limited circulation, viz., The Public Advertiser,
associated with the printing of the Jtinius
letters, which expired in 1793, and The
Morning Chronicle, founded by " Memory
Woodfall " in 1769. It is true that there
was The Public Ledger, founded in 1759, and
still flourishing ; but it was and is exclusively
commercial, and is only of interest to the
merchant and the large trader.
On the 9th of August last The Morning
Post issued its 45,000th number, and this
it commemorated by an article over the
signature of M. T. I., in which are
some reminiscences of itscareer. Its full ti:l<;
was originally The Morning Post and Daily
Advertiser, and it has appeared, with the
exception of one day, when the editor wa.s
indisposed, " as regular as the morning sun,
and has outlived all its contemporaries "
(' Lord Glenesk a,nd " The Morning Post," '
by Reginald Lucas).
Among the original proprietors was John
Bell, ever to be remembered by his beautiful
edition of the " British Poets." In order
to evade the stamp duty, he brought out the
paper in pamphlet form, consisting of four
pages, each measuring twenty inches by
fourteen, published at one penny. But the
Board of Inland Revenue, which, as long as
the taxes on the press remained, kept a
keen eye on all newspapers, was " down " on
him, and in a fortnight this paragraph ap-
peared : —
" This present paper will be delivered for only
one halfpenny more than the former, and although
every paper stands the proprietor in a penny
extraordinary, the various publishers will be
established in various parts of the town, and it
will be sold for three half pence."
In 1775 that extraordinary man, Henry
Bate, " the fighting parson," became editor;
in 1780, however, he quarrelled with the
proprietors, and founded The Morning
Herald. He had, in the course of his
career, been engaged in several duels, and
The Morning Post had to defend many
actions for libel. The most serious of these
was Bate's charging the Duke of Richmond
with treasonably communicating with the
French, invasion by whom was then feared.
For this Bate was sentenced to twelve months'
imprisonment. He is better remembered as
Sir Henry Bate Dudley. He took the name
of Dudley in compliance with a will, and for
his defence of the Prince of Wales was re-
warded with a baronetcy. Referring to his
editorship, Mr. Escott, in his ' Masters of
English Journalism,' says : —
"Buffoonery, scurrility, riskiness of language*
reeking of scandal, and only falling short of the
obscene, had formed the staple of the imregenerate
Morning Post under Bate's editorship."
The paper was unfortunate in having a yet
more unworthy clergyman to succeed him,
William Jackson, an Irish revolutionist
(' D.N.B.,' xxix. 110), and preacher at
Tavistock Chapel, Drury Lane. He had
charge of The Morning Post in 1784, when, as
" Scrutineer," he fiercely attacked Fox on the
occasion of his election for Westminster, but
in such a way as to keep clear of an action
for libel.
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Following him John Taylor, who had been
the dramatic critic, became editor. He was
the author of ' Monsieur Tonson,' and was
avowedly promoted to the editorship that he
might forward the cause of a clique at Court,
in return for a substantial bribe. Dr.
Wolcot (Peter Pindar) used to write verses
and whimsical articles, and John Taylor, in
his memoirs (vol. ii. pp. 265-70), relates that
" they often remained at the office till three
in the morning," when they " were pleasantly
supplied with punch." Taylor held the posi-
tion for only two years, and was dismissed by
the proprietor, whose name is not known,
because he " thought I had not devil enough
for the conduct of a public journal."
In 1791 the paper was cast in heavy
damages for libel, the action being brought
by Lady Elizabeth Lambert, daughter of the
Countess of Cavan. in consequence of a gross
charge made against her. The jury awarded
her 4,OOOZ: damages, probably the largest
amount up to that time given against a
newspaper.
In the following year Richard Tattersall
became proprietor, and the paper was chiefly
known for advertisements of horses and
carriages. He was reimbursed for any loss
by the Prince Regent, but he was not
satisfied ; the circulation was only 350, and
in 17 95 he sold the paper to Peter and Daniel
Stuart for 600Z., this amount including the
entire plant. Daniel took sole control, and
he may be regarded as the real founder of
The Morning Post, as from the date of his
management its prosperity was established.
He made the paper independent of party,
but he and his brother do not appear to
have been over-scrupulous, for in the year
following its purchase Timperley records : —
" 1796, February 7th, a forged French news-
paper, called L'£rlair, circulated in London. On
the 3rd of July a verdict of 100Z. was given against
D. Stuart of The Morning Post for sending the
paper to the proprietors of The Telegraph ; and on
the following day a verdict of 1.5007. was given
against Mr. Dickinson for falsely accusing Mr.
Goldsmid, the money broker, of the forgery."
Stuart secured a strong staff of contri-
butors, including his brother-in-law James
Mackintosh (afterwards knighted), Coleridge,
Southey, Lamb, and Wordsworth — all
young men. Daniel Stuart at this time
was only 29, while Mackintosh was
but a year older ; Coleridge was 25 ;
Charles Lamb but 25 when he joined in
1800 ; and Southey only a year older than
Lamb. With such a staff the circulation of
the paper rapidly increased, and Fox
Bourne, in ' English Newspapers,' devotes a
chapter to Daniel Stuart's writers, and re-
cords that Coleridge's ' Fire, Famine, and"
Slaughter,' which appeared in the paper on
the 8th of January, 1798, " caused some-
excitement and not a little indignation by
its allusion to Pitt — ' letters four to form his
name.' ' Another of Coleridge's poems,
' The Recantation,' appeared on the 16th of
April of that year. To get Coleridge to do
any regular work was an impossibility ; lie
wrould not attend to his engagements, and
went off to Germany with Wordsworth,.
Southey in his absence supplying the de-
ficiency. In the autumn of 1 799, on his return
to England, Stuart tried to fix him, taking a
room for him in King Street, Covent Garden,
and for some months he wrote a series of
articles on French politics. In these he so
denounced Bonaparte, and so severely
criticized the peace of Amiens, that Fox
referred to them in the House of Commons as
a principal cause of the renewal of the war
(' Biographia Literaria,' vol. i. p. 222).
Grant, in his ' History of the Newspaper
Press/ devotes much space to Coleridge's
connexion with The Morning Post, and his
" sterling honesty " as a journalist. He used
to insist that if he became editor of t he-
paper he " should not be interfered with as
to the manner in which he would conduct it.'r
Writing to Stuart on Catholic Emancipation^
he said : " If I write, I must be allowed to
express the truth and the whole truth."
Of Stuart's high opinion of Coleridge there
can be no question, and but for the latter's
unfortunate habit — entirely due to ill-health
and nervous depression — he would have-
gladly taken him into partnership. Un-
happily, as we all know, quarrels arose, and
when, in 1835, Coleridge's ' Table Talk '
appeared with the statement that in one year
he had raised the sale of The Morning Post
to 7,000 copies, Stuart, in The Gentleman'?
Magazine, disputed this ; and Grarit shows
the impossibility of such an increase, as
" no morning paper ever attained a circula-
tion of even 5,000 for many years after-
wards."
I have confirmed this statement by
reference to the Stamp Returns, and I find
that in 1837 the sale was under 2,600, and,
although it showed a steady increase until
1846, had then only reached 3,350. In
the year of the Great Exhibition it had
fallen to 2,600, and 1854, the last year for
which the Stamp Return was issued,
showed only a very slight increase.
Charles Lamb, as readers of ' Elia ' will
remember, in his essay ' Newspapers Thirty-
Five Years Ago,' speaks of " Dan Stuart "
as " one of the finest-tempered of editors ""
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and " frank, plain, and English all over."
The papers of that day kept an author
" bound to furnish daily a quantum of witty
paragraphs. Sixpence a joke — and it was thought
pretty high too — was Dan Stuart's settled
remuneration in these cases."
The length of no paragraph was to exceed
seven lines. Fox Bourne gives a specimen
of one of these which appeared with the
pen-name of " Tabitha Bramble," and may
or may not have been written by Lamb ; it
was printed in The Morning Post of April 19,
1798:—
Impromptu on reading a notice to the creditors
of Homer, a linendraper, and lately a bankrupt :
That Homer should a bankrupt be
Is not so very Od-d'ye-se,
Since (but perhaps I'm wrong instructed)
Most Ill-he-had his books conducted.
Lamb relates how he would get up at five, so
as to turn out his witty paragraphs before
breakfast, and leave home for the India
Office at eight o'clock.
Stuart was proprietor of the paper for only
eight years, during which, according to
Grant's estimate, the yearly profits were
from 5.000Z. to 6,OOOJ. In 1803 he sold the
property for 25.000Z. In 1826 the paper was
considerably enlarged, so as to give more
space for Parliamentary and other reports.
Thus it was among the first to print notices
of music and the drama.
In October, 1821, The Morning Post had a
poem by Macaulay, ' Tears of Sensibility.'
He intended it as a burlesque on the style
of the magazine of the day, but the editor
evidently took it seriously, as did Macaulay's
mother, *o whom he replied somewhat
indignantly : —
" I could not suppose that you could have
suspected me of seriously composing such a
farrago of false metaphors and unmeaning
epithets." — Trevelyan's ' Life,' new edition, vol. i.
p. 109.
The poem obtained "more attention and
received more praise in Cambridge than
it deserved." Here is the first verse : —
No pearl of ocean is so sweet
As that in my Zuleika's eye.
No earthly jewel can compete
With tears of sensibility.
In 1835 Disraeli became a contributor, and
in August he writes to his sister that in its
" columns some great unknown has suddenly
ari-en. . . .all attempts at discovering the writer
have been bullied, and the mystery adds to the
interest the articles excite."
This was just the sort of mystery that
Disraeli would revel in, and the secret re-
mained until divulged in the first volume of
his ' Life ' by Monypenny. When Disraeli
made his maiden speech on the 7th of Decem-
ber, 1837, The Morning Herald and The
Standard passed it over in silence, but The
Morning Post reported it, and 'complained
that it was delivered " amid discourteous
interruptions from the Radirv.N."
JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.
(To be continued.)
NEGRO, OR COLOURED, BANDSMEN
IN THE ARMY.
WHAT is their history ? This question might
appear to be answered to some extent by a
paragraph which was published in The Pall
Mall Gazette of July 1 9 last ; but apart from
one's general doubt as to newspaper para-
graphs concerning history, there is in this a
glaring error which may well destroy all
belief in the story. It will be seen that the
Duke of York is spoken of as Commander-in-
Chief in 1783. In that year Prince Frederick
was 20 years old, and was usually called
the Bishop of Osnaburgh. -In 1784 he was
created Duke of York and Albany, and
having in 1780 been commissioned a colonel
in the army, he was in 1 784 made Lieut enant-
General Colonel of the Coldstream Guards.
In 1795 he was appointed Field-Marshal on
the Staff, and in 1798 Commander-in-Chief
in Great Britain. (See ' A History of the
British Army,' by the Hon. J. W. Fortescue,
vol. iv. part ii. p. 876, and the ' Dictionary
of^National Biography.')
Here is The Patt Mall Gazette paragraph : —
" The announcement that a negro has enlisted
in the Welsh Guards recalls the days when many
of our regiments had black bandsmen. These
were first attached to the Army in 1783 owing to
one of the Guards' bands having refused in a
body to play at an entertainment organized by
the "officers. As none of the men was attested
they could not be punished for insubordination,
so the officers petitioned the Duke of York, then
Commander-in-Chief, that bandsmen should in
future be made subject to military law. The
Duke would not agree to this, but he brought over
from Hanover for the Guards a complete German
military band, which included negn> players for
the bass drum, cymbals, and triangles. Nearly
every regiment in the Service hastened to re-
organize its band, engaging coloured performers
for all percussion instruments. Down to 1841
the band of the Scots Guards included a negro
musician."
It is not clear whether the writer means
one band for one regiment, or one only f,,r
the brigade.
In a little book called ' The Natural His-
tory of the "Hawk" Tribe,' by J. W.
Carleton, illustrated by A. Henning (no date,.
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Taut, according to Kirk's ' Supplement to Alli-
bone's Critical Dictionary',' published 1848),
p. 48, is a woodcut of a negro (big) drummer.
HI- is wearing a much ornamented shell
jacket, a large turban-like headdress with a
chain, crescent, and tuft, also earrings.
The drum is slung over his right shoulder.
I assume that he is a drummer in a military
band. The only reference to him in the
letterpress (p. 47) is : " If there were no
niggers, who would make sugar for us, and
beat the big drum ? "
Coloured musicians in military bands were
apparently not exclusively in the English
and Hanoverian armies, as there is, or was
recently, in the Musee Carnavalet (Paris) a
small coloured drawing of a " Timbalier de
la musique du regiment des gardes fran-
gaises," a negro. He has cymbals in his
hands. The drawing is not dated, but as it
is in the Salle de la Bastille, it belongs,
pre-umably, to the Revolutionary period.
It is worth mentioning that in the West-
minster Tournament Roll (Tournament,
Feb. 12 and 13, 1509/10, in honour of Queen
Katherine of Aragon and in celebration of
the birth of Henry, Duke of Cornwall) one
of the six mounted trumpeters is a negro, or
at least a coloured man, wearing a greoi
turban, the others having no headgear, i tie
trumpeters are sounding " Le son des
Trompettes. A Ihostel." The roll, lent by
the College of Arms, was to be seen recently
in the heraldic exhibition at the Burlington
Fine Arts Club in Savile Row.
The band attached to four companies
of the West Middlesex Militia is described in
an extract from a letter dated July 2, 1793,
given at 1 S. xii. 121 : —
" It consisted of five clarionets, two French
horns, one bugle horn, one trumpet, two bassoons,
•one bass drum, two triangles (the latter played by
boys about nine years old), two tambourines (the
performers mulattos) ; and the clash-pans by a
real blackamoor, a very active man, who walked
between the two mulattos, which had a very
grand appearance indeed."
There may be some true statements in The
Patt Mall Gazette story, but this letter written
in 1793 makes it clear that the Duke of York
us Commander-in-Chief was not the originator
of negro bandsmen in the English army.
Granting that The Patt Mall Gazette made
the small error of writing 1783 for 1784, it is
•conceivable that as Colonel of the Coldstream
Guards, Lieu tenant-Genera 1? and a son of the
King, he did that which he is alleged to have
done as Commander-in-Chief.
No doubt there are many pictures in which
appear negro Drummers, &c., in military
bands. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.
LONDON'S ENTERTAINMENT TO
" FOUR INDIAN KINGS."
THERE was announced in The Public Adver-
tiser for Jan. 3, 1759, as having
" just arrived from America, and to be seen at the
New York Coffee-house in Sweeting's Alley, a
famous Mohawk Indian warrior. .. .a sight
worthy the curiosity of every True Briton."
It was added that this was " the only Indian
that has been in England since the reign of
Queen Anne " ; and it is curious to note how
certain Indians then were welcomed.
In The Post-Man for April 20-22, 1710, it
was recorded that
" The Four Indian Kings, or Chiefs, of the
5 Nations of Indians laying between New-
England, New- York, Canada or New-France,
who arrived here some days ago, had on Wednes-
day last [April 19] their Publick Audience of Her
Majesty in great Ceremony, being conducted
thereunto in 2 of her Majesties Coaches by Sir
Charles Cotterel, Master of the Ceremonies. They
went yesterday to Greenwich and were Entertain'd
on Board one of Her Majesty's Yatchs [sic]."
But this was only the beginning of their
round of entertainment, which was a marked
feature of London's social life during their
stay; and the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-
market was particularly in evidence in this
direction. ' The Old Batchelor,' with
Betterton in the leading part , was announced
to be given there for "the Entertainment of
the Four Indian Kings lately arriv'd from
America," on Monday, April 24; but this
was altered — probably because of the serious
illness of Betterton, who died a few days
later — to "a play call'd Macbeth," though
" the Tickets deliver' d for the ' Old Batchelor '
will be taken at this Play." The manage-
ment seems to have been so well satisfied
with the experiment that, on the next night,
it gave an opera entitled ' Almahide,' again
" for the Entertainment of the Four Indian
Kings," though Drury Lane had advertised
for the same evening, and likewise " for the
Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings
lately arriv'd from North America," the
play of ' Aurungzebe ; or. The Great Mogul,'
presumably from some odd mental associa-
tion of Red Indians with natives of India.
It is uncertain from the manner in which
the advertisements were lumped together in
The Daily Courant for the Wednesday —
April 26 — whether ' Venice Preserv'd ' at the
Queen's or ' The Emperour of the Moon ' at
Drury Lane, though probably the latter, was
designed specially to be
" For the Entertainment of Four Indian Kings
lately arriv'd from Northern America, &c. Tee
Yee Neen Ho Ga Bow, Emperour of the Six
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Nations, Sa Ga Yean Qua Hash Tow, King of the
Maquas, E Tow oh Kaoni. King of the Riv.-r
Nation, On Xee Yeath Tow no Biow, King of
Granahjoh-Hore."
Drury Lane, however, certainly carried on
the competition, by playing on the Friday
evening a comedy " never acted but once,"
named ' Squire Brainless, or Trick upon
Trick,'
" For the Entertainment of the Four Indian
Kings lately arriv'd from Northern America,
being the last Time of their appearing at a Play."
Their entertainment was not yet at an
end, for on the Saturday, and specifically
once more " For the Entertainment of four
Indian Kings lately arriv'd in this Kingdom,"
was to be seen
" At the Cockpit Royal in Cartwright-street the
South side of St. James's Park, the Royal Sport
of Cock-fighting for 2 Guineas a Battle, a Pair of
Shagbags fight for 51. and a Battle Royal."
The drama and the cockpit thus having
done their best respectively to elevate and
enliven the visitors, music was afforded its
chance, it being announced that
" At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality,
and for the Entertainment of the Emperor of the
Mohocks, and the 3 Indian Kings, (being the last
Time of their Appearance in Publick) on Monday,
the 1st of May, for the Benefit of Mrs. Hemmings,
at the Great Room in York-Buildings, will be
presented a Consort of Vocal and Instrumental
Musick, by the best Masters."
Sport reasserted two days later its claims,
for on May 3, and once again " For the
Entertainment of the Four Indian Kings,"
a trial of skill was announced to be fought at
the Bear-Garden at Hockley-in-the-Hole,
" between John Parkes, from Coventry, and
Thomas Hesgate, a Barkshiro-Man, at these
following Weapons, viz. Back-Sword, Sword and
Dagger, Sword and Buckler, Single Falchon, Case
of Falchons, and Quarter-Staff."
Whether it was that the novelty of their
attraction had worn off, or that our Indian
visitors had left town, this seems to have
been the last pastime advertised for their
entertainment. But the Londoner, ever
desirous, like the Athenian of old, to tell or
to hear some new thing, was speedily pro-
vided with a not dissimilar show, as the
Queen's Theatre announced for May 4 a
revival of " The Play of King Harry the 4th,
with the Humours of Sir John Falstaf,"
'* for the Entertainment of Don Venture Zary,
the Emperor of Morocco'* Minister, and Elhaz
Guzman the Royal Messenger from the said
K'mpei-or Muley Ismael to Her Majesty, with
their Attendants in their several Habits, &c.,
having never as yet appeared in Publick."
It was ;-.|>rciaJly noted in the advertisement
that " There Will be no Play in Drury Lane
this Xight " ; but " Old Drury " made up
for this lack a week later by announcing to-
be acted " A Novelty ; or Three Plays in
One. .. .[with] Six Entertainments of
Dances," " for the Entertainment of several
Foreigners " — this last brings not improbably
a satiric touch. And one wonders, in the end,
what " the Four Indian Kings " thought of,
and how far they enjoyed, their very varied
entertainments in London.
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
'THE TRAGEDY OF CESAR'S
REVENGE;
UNDER this title the Malone Society in 1911
reprinted, the play originally issued as ' The
Tragedie of Caesar and Pompey or Caesars
Reuenge ' (1607). The reprint was pre-
pared by Dr. F. S. Boas, with the assistance-
of the general editor, Dr. W. W. Greg.
In its 'Collections,' I. parts 4 and 5, the
Society gave some of the author's obliga-
tions to Daniel, Spenser, and Marlowe,,
detected by Mr. C. Crawford. Indepen-
dently Dr. Wilhelm Muhlfeld reprinted
the play in the ' Shakespeare - Jahrbuch '
of 1911 and 1912, and in hisMunster
inaugural dissertation of 1912. Both the-
Malone editors and Dr. Muhlfeld sug-
gested certain emendations, neither party
being acquainted with the work of the other..
But the original text was so corrupt that
both left a good deal to exercise the brain,
of their successors, as perhaps the present
paper will show.
My notes are intended to supplement those-
of the Malone editors. I have, therefore, not
touched on any passages which they, in my
opinion, have satisfactorily emended. On
the other hand, I have included Dr. Miihl-
feld's suggestions (many of which had alsa
occurred to me) on passages not corrected
in the Malone edition. They are indicated
by " M." Many of the new suggestions
were no doubt considered by the Malone-
editors either too doubtful or too obvious to
be made by themselves. I think, however,
that it may be convenient to future students
of the play to have them in black and white.
I should add that my attention was
recalled to this play, and particularly to Dr.
Miihlfeld's work in connexion with it, by a
paper on the sources of the play kindly sent
me by the author, Prof. H. M. Ayres of
Columbia University, New York.*
* ' Cit-sar's ReM-riLi-.' ii-prinli-d fn.m the
" Publications of the Modern Language Association,
of America," xxx. 4.
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TEXTUAL XOTKS.
I. 19. troonkes. — Perhaps " rankos," influenced
by " troupes " preceding.
II. 20, i!l.
He whose proud Trophies whileom Asia field,
And conquered Pontus, singe his lasting praise.
— Head " fild " (" filled ") and " Pontus singes."
Op. 1. 216, " Pharsalia doth thy conquest
sound."
1. 24. his high hang'd lookes. — Query " his
high haught lookes " ?
1. 27. haires. — Query " chaires " ? Gods and
men may be bound to the chairs of the Pates by
adamantine chains, but hardly to their hairs.
Cp. Bacon, ' Adv. of Learning,' I. i. 3 : " According
-to the allegory of the poets, the highest link of
nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of
Jupiter's chair."
1. 38. What Lawes, Armes and Pride. — Query
" What Lawles Armes," &c., or " What Lawes
and Armes," &c. ?
1. 120. Oh, what disgrace can taunt this
worthinesse. — Query " taint " ? (Cp. " blemish "
above). Cp. 1. 2239,
What Bastard feare hath taunted our dead hearts,
•where " tainted " seems required ; and ' II. Tam-
burlaine,' IV. i. 24, " our taintlesse swords."
I. 143. My fall augmented. — Query " My
fall's augmented " ?
II. 150-51.
Thy former haps did Men thy vertue shew,
But now that fayles them which thy vertue knew.
— Query " which they vertue knew " ? The
reverse error, " they " for " thy," is found in
11. 410, 646, 1846. Perhaps " them " should, be
*' thee."
1. 171. Tis but discomfort which misgreeues
thee this. — Read " misgeeues " ( =misgives).
€p. 11. 1729-30, " Brutus too | Doth geeue thee
this," and 1. 2229. The word was affected by
" Greefe " following. M. shows that the lines are
suggested by Spenser, ' F. Q.,' I. vii. xli.
1. 263. goaring. — Perhaps " goarie " ; and in
1. 1988, " Blood-thirsting," perhaps " Blood -
thirstie."
1. 311. was. — Query "wast"? Cp. 1. 2139.
1. 318. no while. — Read " no whit " (cp.
1. 871).
1. 329. The Meroe.— Read " That Meroe."
I. 335. Scythia. — Query " Scythian " ? For
the reverse, cp. 1. 1438.
II. 348-9. — M. shows that these lines are
suggested by Lucan, vii. 449-50 : —
Scilicet ipse. . . .petet ignibus Oeten,
Immeritseque nemus Rhodopes.
This makes it likely that " underringing " should
be " undeseruing."
1. 356. Furor in flame. — Query " Enrold in
flame " (cp. note on 1. 2265). M. shows that the
line is suggested by Spenser, ' F. Q.,' I. viii. ix. : —
Hurles forth his thundring dart with deadly food
Enrold in flames and smouldring dreriment.
1. 357. blast. — Read " plast " (placed). Cp.
Span. Trag.,' III. i. 3. The word was affected by
blase " immediately above.
1. 372. it seuers. — Read " vs seuers " (M.).
1. 394. O.— Read " Or."
/&. pleasure. — Read " presence."
1. 398. those mis-fortunes. — Read " these." &c.
11. 404-6.
Thy rented hayre doth rent my heart in twayne,
And those fayr JSeas, that rainc il<.ure *},(.v« is cf
tears,
Do melt my soule ....
—In 1. 783 we have :—
rent thy wretched haire
Drowne blobred cheekes in seas of saltest teaivs.
We must apparently accept the mixed metaphor
n 1. 4(15, and not suppose that " Sc.-is " should be
' Eies."
. 425. Let me in this (I feare) my last request
Not to indanger thy beloved life. .
— Can " Let " stand in the sense of " yield,"
;< grant " ? " Let me have my way."
I. 494. her flowery fayre. — Apparently " fayre "
= "fere," companion. Cp. 1. 503.
II. 498-9. So hath your presence ....
---- comforts poor JEcripts Queene
— Query " doth. . . .comfort," "hath ... .com-
fort " (= comforted), " hathi .. .comforts for
gipts Queene " ?
I. 525. eleuen yeares tedious seege. — Can
" eleuen " be right ? Should we read " the ten " ?
Cp. 1. 1257, " that same ten years Troians warre."
II. 573-7. Might all the deedes ----
It shall not be the least ....
— For " Might " read " Mogst " ( ='mongst).
1 588. staind white. — Query " staine-white " ?
624. prosecuting. — Perhaps " persecuting."
700. — Defective.
741. presant. — Query " message "
. — rbabl
1
1
1 750. ambitions wings. — Probably right, cp
1. 1468. If the word should be " ambitious "
cp. 1. 2014.
1. 774. Thee to behold. — Query for " Thee "
read " Thee " (Thenc, Thence) ?
I. 789. Vnhappy long to speak. — For " long "
read " tong " (M.).
II. 802-3. his Ghost
That now sits wandring by the Stygian bankes.
— " Sits wandring " is suspicious. But it is
unsafe to emend it in face of 11. 24GS-9. " Brutus I
come to company thy soule | Which by Cocytus
wandreth all alone," and ' I. Tamburlaine,'
V. ii. 402, "Millions of soules sit on the bankes
of Styx." One must suppose that " sits " =
remains.
1. 829. which. — The Malone editors suggest
" mine," but, in spite of the loose grammar,
" which " is perhaps sound.
1. 844. Cleops. — Read " Cheops " (M.).
1. 864. pretest. — Read " profest " (M.).
1. 883. Nemean toyles. — The word " Nemean "
seems to have crept in from the line above and
displaced a longer word.
1. 896. these murtherous. — Query " those,"
&c. ?
1. 900. The purple Hyacinth of Phasbus Land.
— For "Land read ""Lou'd " (loved). M. and
Crawford show that the passage is based on
' F. Q.,' III. vi. xlv. : —
Fresh Hyacinthus, Phoebus paramoure
And dearest love ;
Foolish Narcisse, that likes the watry shore,
Sad Amaranthus, &c.
1. 903. of.— Read "and" (M.).
1. 908. — M. shows that these lines follow
Spenser, ' F. Q.,' III. i. li.
1. 922. Winde.— Read " Wende." Cp. 1. 597.
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307
1. 925. these. — Query " those " ?
1. 954. rang'd. — Read " raign'd." The rime-
word is " const raynd." M. and C. point out that
11. 948-54 arc based on Spenser's poem to 'Sir Chr.
Hatton, prefixed to the ' !•'. Q.' : —
Those prudent heads ....
And in the neck of all the world to rayne.
1. 981. End of the sentence.
1. 1000. There.— Query " Where " ?
G. C. MOORE SMITH.
Sheffield.
(To be continued.)
GARRICK'S FRIENDS. — Under this heading
-there appeared in The Times of July 8 last
^p. 5, col. 2) the following announcement : —
" The chief interest at Messrs. Christie's sale of
pictures yesterday centred in the family portraits
sent by Lieut. B. A. Wallis Wilson. There can be
little doubt that the Sir Joshua Keynolds, ' Por-
trait of a Boy of the Wallis Family,' in mauve
slashed dress and Vandycke collar and cuffs,
sketching in a landscape, represents Albany Charles
Wallis, the son of David Garrick's friend and
•executor, Albany Wallis. He was a Westminster
scholar, and was drowned in the Thames on
March 29, 1776, at the age of 13, a year or so after
the portrait was painted. Garrick erected a
monument to the boy's memory in Westminster
Abbey, where he is described as ' amantissimi
Patris unica Spes.' The portrait was purchased
by Messrs. Pawsey & Payne, who also acquired
Hoppner's portrait of the boy's father, Albany
Wallis, who, in his turn, defrayed the cost of
the monument to Garrick, also in Westminster
Abbey. Wallis was a solicitor, of Norfolk Street,
London — ."
Albany Wallis being thus, for the moment,
in the public eye (at any rate of the artistic
•world), it may be due to him to recall his
services as an intermediary in bringing to
light a lost play written by Fielding. His
part is best told in the words of the ' Adver-
tisement ' prefixed to the nearly thirty-years-
lost comedy, ' The Fathers ; or, The "Good
Xatured Man ' : —
" The author had shown the play to his friend
Mr. Garrick, and entertaining a high esteem for the
taste and critical discernment of Sir Charles
f Hanbury] Williams, he afterwards delivered the
manuscript to Sir Charles for his opinion. Ap-
pointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of
liussia, Sir Charles had not leisure to examine the
play before he left England. . . .He died in Russia
iin 1759], and the manuscript was lost.
" About two years ago [i.e.. in 1775] Thomas
Johnes, Esq., member for Cardigan, received from
a young friend, as a present, a tat t< -red manuscript
play. . . .Mr. Johnes took the dramatic foundling
to his protection ; read it ; determined to obtain
Mr. Garrick's opinion of it ; and for that purpose
sent to Mr. Wallis of Norfolk Street, who waited
upon Mr. Garrick with the manuscript, and asked
him if he knew whether the late Sir C'harles
Williams had ever written a play. Mr. Garrick
east his eye upon it. ' The lost sheep is found 1
This is Harry Fielding's comedy ! f cried .M>
Garrick in a manner that evinced the most friendly
regard for the memory of the author."
The play was staged at Drury Lane in
1778, and Garrick, though ill, wrote an
excellent Prologue and Epilogue for the
occasion. Garrick died the following year,
and almost the last words he penned were : —
" Mr. Fielding was my particular friend : he had
written a comedy, called ' The Good Natured
Man,' which being sent to his different friends was
lost. It luckily fell to my lot to discover it. Had
I found a mine of gold on my own land it could
not have given me more pleasure."
This cordiality of sentiment towards a
brother artist who had passed into the shade
a quarter of a century earlier, and his delicate
sympathy with Albany Wallis when he lost
his boy, are signal proofs of the genuineness
of Garrick's hope that " my likings and
attachments to my friends may be remem-
bered when my fool's cap and bells will be
forgotten." J. PAUL DE CASTRO.
LEWISIAN EPITAPHS AT LLANERCHAERON.
— On the west end of the Parish Church of
St. Non, the mother of St. David, at
Llanerchaeron ( = clearing - on- the - River-
Aeron, at its confluence with the rill Mydyr),
in Cardiganshire, there are two epitaphs,
one being : —
Here lieth the Body
of lohn Lewis of
Lanerchaeron Gent.
Deceas'd the 8th of
Septemr 1738 Ag'd 43
O BI02 BPOTOI2 AAHAOZ
This is interesting to the public as showing
that Greek was not unclear to some mortals
who passed their life in Wales when
George II. was king. The other is older : — •
Behold ye tombd ! Interrd lies one
While liv'd on Earth, made heaven his horn
Obedient to his God : faithfull to his kin
True to his trust: Abhorring sin
A space confin'd in silent dust
Till y° Trumpet sound, y' call yp just
In this we remark the anonymity ; the
elliptic grammar; the use of / instead of t ;
and the singular economical combination of
the bottom of 6 and d in " tombed " ; as
well as the unusual invocation of the other
sepulti. Below it is incised the bust of an
angel-trumpeter, facing to the spectator's
right ; and above a lion ( = llew) rampant,
looking to his left. The latter engraving is
the crest, and play upon the name, of the
Lewis family, which has its part in the
nomination of the Vicar, and is represented
in the parish by a widow, aged 103, wh<»t>
husband died in 1855, and is commemorated
by the only other epitaph inside that church.
E. S. DODGSON.
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"CADEAU" = A PRESENT. — The ' X.E.D.'
furnishes, no earlier instance of the introduc-
tion of this word than that found in the
' Ingoldsby Legends.' Fanny Burney, not
yet Madame D'Arblay, had written in
August, 1790 : " I believe [the Princess] had
no cadeau that gave her equal delight "
(' Diary,' &c., ed. 1905, iv. 415).
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
GLOVES : SURVIVALS OF OLD CUSTOMS. —
In the third volume of ' L'Archeologie Fran-
caise,' by M. C. Eulart, which deals with
costume in the Middle Ages, I read at
p. 256: —
" II etait considere comme scandaleux a la tin du
XI* siecle d'entrer gante k 1'eglise, et c'etait encore
une grave insulte au XI Ve de ne pas se deganter
pour sejrer la main d'un ami."
I think we may see the remains of the former
custom in the Catholic practice of removing
one's gloves before approaching the Com-
munion-rail to receive the Sacrament. The
latter custom seems to survive in England,
where the forrmila "Excuse my gloves"
always astonishes a Frenchman when he first
comes across it. P. TURPIN.
Folkestone.
WORDS IN NEWSPAPERS. — I am
glad that ' X. & Q.' is protesting against the
needless, and in some cases incorrect, use of
certain words that are constantly appearing
in the newspapers. I am offended by the
following — to select but a few : —
Annihilate. — E.g., " After a body of men
have been annihilated, there is always a large
number that escapes."
Decimate. — This word is generally made to
imply almost entire destruction.
Asphyxiating Gas. — Written inaccurately
instead of " irritant gas," a very different
matter.
. Orienting. — This word is used in a way
that sometimes becomes utterly ridiculous,
as, e.g., we were told some months ago that
" Bulgaria was orienting towards the Central
Powers." W. B. S.
NAPOLEON AND SUGAR. — The present high
price of sugar in England may recall the fact
that there was a similar scarcity in France
during the later period of the Napoleonic
wars. The emperor sought to aim a blow
at British commerce and the colonies by
encouraging the manufacture of sugar from
beet-root. A smart caricature was pub-
lished on the occasion, in which the little
King of Rome was represented sitting on his
nurse's lap, chewing a huge beetroot, while
the nurse encouraged him by saying :
'; Mangez, mangez toujours, mon petit roi ;
votre papa dit que c'est du sucre." Beet-
root sugar was then, of course, a novelty.
ANDREW DE TERNANT.
36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.
(Q items.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
FISHING -ROD IN THE BIBLE OR TALMUD. —
There is no express mention of a fishing-rod
in the Old Testament or New Testament r
though some passages have been supposed to
imply its use. Nor, to judge by S. Kraus>
(' Talmudische Archaologie,' 1910), is the rod
mentioned in the Talmud. The opinion of
your learned correspondent MB. M. L. R.
BRESLAR on both points would be much
valued. S. LANE-POOLE.
WTILLIAM BELL. — I shall be glad of in-
formation about William Bell, described in
S. Redgrave's ' Dictionary* of Artists of the
English School ' as " portrait and history
painter." J know what is said about him
there, and also in Bryan's ' Dictionary/ It
appears that
he found a patron in Lord Delaval, and painted!
two views of his Lordship's mansion, Seaton
Delaval, and several whole-length portraits of his
family."
Do these pictures still exist, and if so, where
are they ? PHILIP N GERMAN.
45 Evelyn Gardens, S.W.
EPITAPHS IN OLD LONDON AND SUBURBAN-
GRAVE YARDS. — Is there any comprehensive
collection of such inscriptions made before
the general craze for their destruction set in
at the end of last century ? The collections
for Lambeth, Battersea, &c., recently pub-
lished in ' N. & Q.' are most interest ing and
valuable, and should excite imitation. L'n-
fortunately, so many of our old London
churchyards have, I fear, disappeared f
leaving no trace behind them.
Can any contributor to ' N. & Q.' kindly
inform me if a collection has been made
of the epitaphs in the churchyard of
St. Anne's, Limehouse ? When I visited
that interesting old church, now in the
midst of an asphalted playground — looking
far more dismal than when it was sur-
rounded by a " God's Acre " — I noticed that
almost all the tombstones were more or less
defaced, and covered up with rubbish against
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the churchyard wall — a truly deplorable
sight.
In the Liverpool Public Library there is
a most admirable collection of the city
churchyard inscriptions (I think made
anonymously). If only we had been so
fortunate as to have similar enthusiasts in
bygone London ! G. J., F.S.A.
WELTHEN. — Can any one give me any
information about the name Welthen ? I
have come across only one instance of it. I
find it as a female Christian name of a
married woman who died in 1737. She had
several children, and I have seen records of
their baptisms and their mother's name in
the registers of two different parishes in
North Somerset. The dates of the baptisms
of her children are from 1 690 to 1698. In the
registers of one parish the name is spelt con-
sistently throughout as Welthen ; in the
registers of the other parish the spellings are
Welthen, Wellin. Welt h in, Melthin (?). I
should be glad to know of any other in-
stances of this name, or to receive any
information as to its derivation and proven-
ance. Is it a true name or a corruption or
misreading of a true name, or an arbitrary-
invention ? E. J. D. HELLIER.
Enfield, Albert Road, Clevedon.
AUTHOR WANTED. — Can any of your
readers give me any information as to the
" poem " from which the subjoined lines
were taken ?
I believe there was a small book full of
verses of the same character published in the
seventies or thereabouts, and I should be
glad to get hold of a copy : —
The Ancestor remote of Man,
Says Darwin, is the Ascidian,
A scanty sort of water beast,
That for ninety million years at least
Before Gorillas came to be
Went roaming up and down the sea, &c.
T. V. HODGSON, Curator.
Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth.
ABELL BARNARD OF WINDSOR CASTLE AND
CLEWER. — 1. Information is sought con-
cerning Abell Barnard, described in his will
'(1658) as " of Windsor Castle Gent." Are
there any published records which might
show what appointment he held at the
( 'a.st le, and who his father was ?
2. In the printed Somerset wills (1653)
there is mention of a " Mr. Joel Barnard our
Parson (of Clewer, Berks)." In Foster's
' Alumni ' there is mention of Dudley, son of
Abel Barnard, Vicar of Clewer, Berks, who
matriculated 1639. A few years ago,
however, I was informed that there was no
record of a Barnard having been vicar of
Clewer. I shall be extremely obliged if any
of your readers will kindly direct me how to
obtain further information on this subject.
I presume Abell Barnard of Windsor Castle
would not have been described as " Gent."
had he been a parson. H. C. B.
DRAKE'S SHIP. — Information is desired on
the following points in connexion with the
ultimate fate of Drake's famous ship " that
compassed the world " : —
1. What is known of " John Davis of
Deptford, Esq.," who presented to the
University Library in Oxford a chair made
from her timbers ?
2. When did this presentation take place ?
3. What is the authority for the statement
that a serving table made from the timbers
of the same ship is preserved in the Hall of
the Middle Temple ?
R. PEARSE CHOPE.
QUAKER GRAMMAR. — Was it in conse-
quence of some conscientious objection to
the ordinary rule of English speech that
members of the Society of Friends ignored the
nominative of the second person singular and
used the accusative instead of it, with a verb
in the plural ? I should like to be able to
follow their reasoning. " Mary, are thee
there ? " jars on an ear educated beyond the
pale, and so does " How nice thee look ! "
I take these examples from the ' Life and
Letters of Mrs. Sewell.' She died some
thirty-five years ago, since when Quaker
syntax may have been revised.
ST. SWITHIN.
t
" TEFAL." — In a document dated July 4,
1620, mention is made of a lease procured
from the King " of the artillery yard near
unto the minorits [Minories, J. H. L.] under
an antient obsolete name of the Tefal yard."
What Ls the word '.' tefal " ?
J. H. LESLIE, Major.
KEPIER SCHOOL, HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING,
1770-90. — During this period two Queen's
College men occupied the post of head master
in succession at this school. The first was
William Cooper, who in 1780 was succeeded
by William Fleming. Under their guidance
there were many paying scholars, some
boarding at the school, others residing in
different parts of the neighbourhood. The
' Victoria History of the County of Durham '
states of that time. " The school wasmainly
a boarding school, and a good many county
families resorted to it." Can any reader
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furnish me with a list of the names of those
boarders and day scholars who attended at
this school during this period, giving some
particulars of each, and the families to which
they belonged ? Any references or inform a-
t ion, even of a scanty nature, will be grat efully
received. E. THIRKELL-PEARCE.
York Road, Edgbaston.
[Some information about the school will be found
atlOS. vii. 68, 116.]
SIR HERBERT CROFT AND LOWTH. —
Charles Nodier became the secretary to Sir
Herbert Croft, a very interesting personage,
a fine classical scholar, and a disciple of
Lowth, who wrote a celebrated ' Essay on
Hebrew Poetry.' In some mysterious way
Lowth is associated by Sainte-Beuv.e in his
foreword to Nodier' s writings, with Johnson.
I should like to know more of these two
men, and if any reader possesses a copy of
the ' Essay on Hebrew Poetry ; ' I should be
extremely indebted to him for the loan of it
for a few days. M. L. R. BRESLAR.
Percy House, South Hackney, N.E.
PLUMSTEAD LLOYD. — Charles Lloyd (1748-
1828) of Bingley, had a numerous family, of
whom Charles and Robert are well known
through their friendship with Charles Lamb.
There was also a son called Plumstead.
Was he by any chance a brewer, or employed
in a brewery ? Is there a genealogical table
of the Lloyds to be found anywhere ?
G. A. ANDERSON.
BADGES : IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT. — Can
any one help me to identify the following
badges, which occur with others in a church
in North Wales, or tell me whether they are
to be found elsewhere ? —
A fool's head ; an interlaced pattern
resembling two " B "s back to back ; a
peacock's head pecking at a pomegranate ;
a goat's head ; two dolphins crossed.
LEWIS PRYCE.
Vicarage, Colwyn Bay.
EAR TINGLING : CHARM TO " Cur THE
SCANDAL." — It is, I believe, common to all
parts of the country for people to affirm that
when their ears tingle some one is talking
about them. If the right ear is affected, they
are being "bragged about" ; if the left ear,
they are being " ragged." But, until within
the past day or two, I was not aware that
there was any ceremony by which an end
could be put to the bragging or the ragging.
Shakespeare, in ' Much Ado about Nothing,'
says : " What fire is in mine ears ? " but does
not instruct us how to remove the irritation.
Brand tells us a good deal about tingling
ears. He, too, is silent on the point. My
wife has a domestic sen-ant who is a native
of Whipton, near Exeter. A few days ago
she saw the maid tying a knot in the corner
of her apron, and asked her the reason.
" To cut the scandal ! " she replied. On an
explanation being requested, the maid said
her ear was tingling and somebody was
talking about her, and the way to put an end
to the conversation was by tying a knot in
her apron. This is quite new to me either in
Devonshire or Somerset, where such pictu-
resque forms of superstition abound, and
where the most delightfully interesting "folk-
lore is to be met with. May it never disappear !
But I wonder if any other reader of ' N. & Q.'
has met with a similar charm " to cut the
scandal." Perhaps I have made a discovery.
W. G. WILLIS WATSON.
38 Park Road, Exeter.
[At 7 S. x. 7 MR. S. ILLIXGWOKTH BUTLEK said =
*' In the case of the right ear I have been advised
to pinch it, and the person who is speaking spite-
fully of me will immediately bite his or her
tongue."]
MADAME DE STAEL : Louis ALPHONSE
ROCCA. — In M. Pierre Ivohler's volume on
this lady which has just been published
(Lausanne, Payot ) will be found the results of
the author's careful research, which upset
the assumptions of previous biographers.
In the archives of the tribunal of Aubonne
(Vaud) he discovered the entry of the
baptism of the son of " Theodore Giles" of
Boston (Mass.) and " Henriette (nee Preston)
son epouse," born 7 April, 1812." This child
M. Kohler identifies as Louis Alphonse Rocca,
son of John Rocca and Madame de Stael, for
whom fictitious parents had to be found, as
according to the same archives Rocca and
Madame de Stael were not married (secretly
at Coppelt) until Oct. 10, 1816. What be-
came of Louis Rocca ? L. G. B.
EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY RATE - BOOKS,
FLEET STREET. — Can any one say whether
the Rate-Books of the Fleet Street parishes
during the years from 1768 to 1800 are still
in existence, and if they are so, where they
are deposited, and whether they can be
seen ? F. DE H. L.
" SEPTEM SINE HORIS." — I have been
asked for the meaning of these three words,
alleged to have been the complete motto on
a sundial.
Can any reader give me a translation of the
motto as it stands, or supply the missing
word or words ? (Rev.) F. j. ODELL.
Lapford, Morchard Bishop, N. Devon.
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311
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. — Where can I
read the most fully detailed accounts of the
battles fought on behalf of Mary, Queen of
Scots : Dunbar, Borthwick, Carberry Hill,
Langdyke, Annan ?
A. J. MITCHELL, Major.
9 Fourth Avenue, Hove.
JOHN JONES, author of ' Natural or
Supernatural ; or, Man, Physical, Appari-
tional, and Spiritual,' printed 1861. Any
information about this person will greatly
oblige. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
BOCCACCIO'S 'DECAMERON.' — WTio is the
author of the following work ? —
" Spirit of Boccaccio's Decameron, comprising
Three Days' Entertainment : Translated, Selected,
Connected, and Versified from the Italian. Lon-
don, 1812. 3 vols."
A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.
Waltham Abbey, Essex.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191,
204, 229, 243, 272, 282.)
Lieut.-General Kirke's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 204).
WM. WHITMORE (third son of Wm. Whit-
more of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire,
M.P. for Bridgnorth, 1715 to his death,
May 24, 1725), b. 1714 ; raised 53rd Regiment
of Foot, 1755, and was its first colonel,
Dec. 21, 1755, to Oct. 23, 1758, or April 5,
1759 ; colonel of 9th Foot, Oct. 23, 1758, to
his death, July, 1771 ; M.P. for Bridgnorth,
1741-7, and 1754 to death ; lieutenant-
general, Feb. 22, 1760 ; Warden of the Mint,
February, 1766, to death,
Robert Napier, colonel of 51st Foot,
Dec. 19, 1755, to April 22, 1757; and of
12th Foot, April 22, 1757, to Nov. 21, 1766 ;
lieutenant-general, April 17, 1759 ; probably
died 1771.
Hans Fowler, an officer in Prussian army
some time, succeeded his nephew as 5th
Bart., Nov. 25, 1760 ; and d. March 1, 1771.
Jonathan Forbes, captain Invalids, d.
April, 1787, aged 84.
Major-General Howard's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 204).
Thomas Howard, lieutenant-general,
Feb. 1, 1743; d. March 31, 1753.
Gerard Elrington, captain, d. Litchfield,
October, 1735.
Sowle, major, d. 1766.
Benjamin Day, J.P. for Middlesex, d.
Feb. 23, 1773.
Dingley, colonel in the Guards, d. Oct. 16,
1755.
Cyrus Trapaud, general, Feb. 19, 1783.
Shuckburgh Hewett, b. 1719 ; major in
army ; d. Dec. 10, 1759.
Wm. Fleming, colonel in Guards, d.
April 25, 1776.
John Barlow, colonel of 61st Foot, Feb. 19,
1773, to May 14, 1778 ; major-general,
Aug. 29, 1777.
Lieut.-General Barrett's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 205).
George Walsh, lieutenant-colonel, d.
Oct. 30, 1753.
George Walsh (fourth and youngest son of
Richard Walsh of Ardagh House, Louth),
major-general, May 14, 1759 ; colonel of
49th Foot, Jan. 22, 1754, to his death,
Oct. 23, 1761, aged 72 ; buried in east cloister
of Westminster Abbey.
Delabene, colonel, d. 1763.
John Pett, captain^ in the army, d.
February, 1750.
Sheldon Walter of Tremeal, South Pether-
win, near Launceston, Cornwall, d. Feb. 4,
1750, aged 29.
Brigadier Guize's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 206).
Alexander Murray, lieutenant-colonel, d.
1762.
Sir Wm. Maxwell, b. about 1715 ; suc-
ceeded his father as 3rd Bart., May 23, 1730 ;
d. Aug. 22, 1771.
Major-General Har grave's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 243).
Wm. Hargrave, son of Capt. Wm.
Hargrave, baptized Dec. 26, 1672 ; colonel
of ,7th Foot, Aug. 27, 1739, to death ;
Governor of Gibraltar, 1739 to 1749 ;
lieutenant-general, Feb. 1, 1743 ; d. Bath,
Jan. 21, 1751 ; buried near the choir gate in
Westminster Abbey.
James Fleming, colonel of 36th Foot,
Jan. 9, 1741, to death ; major-general,
September, 1747 ; d. Bath, March 17, 1751 ;
buried near the choir gate in West minster
Abbey.
Marcus Smith, colonel commandant of
60th Foot, Nov. 11, 1761, to his death,
Dec. 16, 1767 ; major-general, June 10, 1762-
John Fleming, b. 1702 ; created baronet,
April 22, 1763 ; d. Nov. 5, 1763 ; buried in
middle aisle of Westminster Abbey.
312
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8. n. OCT. u,
Brigadier Read's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 244).
George Bead, colonel of 29th Foot,
June 3, 1733, to Aug. 28, 1739 ; of 9th Foot,
Aug. 28, 1739, to Nov. 1, 1749; and of
9th Dragoons, Xov. 1, 1749, to death ;
lieutenant-general, August, 1747 ; d.
March 28, 1756.
Richard O'Farrel, colonel of 22nd Foot,
Aug. 12, 1741, to death ; major-general,
March, 1754 ; d. July 6, 1757.
Michael Doyne, lieutenant-colonel, d.
December, 1748.
Dumas, major in army, d. 1765.
Thomas Rainsford, lieutenant-colonel, d.
Sept. 7, 1754.
George Friend, d. Lower Grosvenor Street,
London, Jan. 6, 1772.
Col. Onsloufs Regiment of Foot.
(ante, p. 245).
Richard Onslow, M.P. for Guildford, 1720
to his death ; colonel of 39th Foot, Nov. 1,
1738, to June 6, 1739 ; of 8th Foot, June 6,
1739, to April 25, 1745 ; lieutenant-general,
August, 1747 ; d. March 17, 1760.
Edmund Martin, lieutenant-colonel, d.
April 18, 1749.
John Grey, colonel of 54th Foot, April 5,
1757, to his* death, March 10, 1760 ; major-
general, June 25, 1759.
Edward Cornwallis, fifth son of 4th Baron
Cornwallis and twin brother of Frederick
Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1768-
1783 ; b. Feb. 22, 1713 ; colonel of 40th Foot,
March 13, 1750, to Feb. 8, 1752 ; and of
24th Foot, Feb. 8, 1752, to death, Jan. 14,
1776; Lieut enant- Governor of Nova Scotia,
1749-52 ; lieutenant-general, Feb. 22, 1760 ;
Governor of Gibraltar, 1762-70.
John White, captain Horse Guards, d.
November, 1738.
John La Fausille or Faussile, colonel of
66th Foot, Aug. 24, 1758, to his death,
Dec. 30, 1762 ; major-general, March, 1761.
Nehemiah Donnellan, lieutenant-colonel
38th Foot, d. June 19, 1789.
Maynard Guerin, regimental agent, d.
Feb. 14, 1749.
Maynard Guerin, regimental agent, d.
May 7, 1760.
Wm. Rickson, lieutenant-colonel, d.
July 19, 1770.
Lieut. -General Columbine's Regiment of Foot,
(ante, p. 246).
John Preston, captain and town major of
Gibraltar, d. Feb. 27, 1759.
Henry Boisragon, major 8th Regiment,
d. Feb. 20, 1785. FBEDEEIC BOASE.
Fourth Troop of Horse Guards (ante, p. 5).
Thomas Goddard was of Swindon, first
son of Ambrose Goddard of same (d. 1755),
baptized March 6, 1722 ; captain Wilts
Militia in 1762 (? appointed June 20, 1759) ;
M.P. Wilts, March, 1767, till he d. unmarried,
Aug. 12, 1770.
Wade's Horse (ante, p. 84).
Hon. Wm. Bellenden was afterwards
second lieutenant and lieutenant -colonel
3rd Troop of Horse Guards till reduced,
Dec. 25, 1746, and on half -pay thereof from
then until his death after 176L
Wm. Wade (? nephew of Field -Marshal
Sir Geo. Wade, his colonel, and son of
Jerome Wade of Killavalley, co. Westmeath,
and m. the daughter of Wm. Osbrey of
Dublin).
Hon. Roger Townshend, fourth and
youngest son (by second wife) of the 2nd
Viscount Townshend, b. 1708 ; cornet in
Evans's Dragoons (4th Hussars), Dec. 25,
1726 ; captain of Wade's Horse, Feb. 14,
1729 ;-. captain and lieutenant-colonel 1st
Foot Guards, Feb. 8, 1741 ; retired February,
1748 ; A.D.C. to Geo. II. (and rank of
colonel), June 3, 1745, having been his
A.D.C. at Dettingen, 1743 ; governor of
North Yarmouth Fort, February, 1745, to
1760; M.P. Great Yarmouth, February,
1738, to 1747 ; Eye, 1747-8 ; Receiver-General
and Cashier of the Customs, February, 1748,
till he d. unm. Aug. 7, 1760.
Michael Armstrong (see Dalton, vol. vi.
p. 309).
Certainly it is Ruishe Hassell, after-
wards major of the Royal Horse Guards
Blue, son of John Hassell (by Anne, daughter
and heir of Thomas St. Quintin, son of Sir
Wm. St. Quintin, Bart,). He m., 1737,
Jane, only daughter of Sir John Tynte,
2nd Bart, ; and their only child Jane suc-
ceeded her uncle, Sir Chas. Kemeys Tynte,
5th Bart,, M.P., of Halsewell, Somerset, in his
estates, 1785, and having m. Col. John-
stone of the 1st Foot Guards, who took the
name of Kemeys-Tynte, was ancestor of
Lord Wharton.
Wm. FitzThomas was major of the
regiment, May 31, 1751, to Jan. 20, 1759.
Hon. Richard Cornwallis, cornet in the
regiment, Dec. 25, 1726 ; lieutenant, Aug. 13,
1736, till he d. unm. at Rotterdam (before
10) January, 1741 ; gentleman usher and
daily waiter to the Queen Consort till her
Majesty's death, Nov. 20, 1737 ; and equerry
to H.R".H. the Duke of Cumberland, 1737-41.
Ralph Peanyman of Beverley, Yorks,
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313
fifth and youngest son of Sir Jas. Pennyman,
3rd Bart, (who d. Nov. 17, 1745), and father
of Sir Jas. Pennyman, 6th Bart., INI. P.
Beverley.
Septimus Robinson, seventh and youngest
son of Wm. Robinson of Rokeby, Yorks, and
brother to Sir Thos. Robinson, 1st Bart.
(Wotton's ' Baronetage,' 1741, vol. v.
pp. 227, 409), became captain-lieutenant arid
lieutenant-colonel 1st Foot Guards, May 29,
1754 ; captain and lieutenant-colonel,
Aug. 27, 1754, till he retired before 1761 ;
was one of the two Gentlemen Ushers dailv
waiters to George, Prince of Wales, in
1755 (? appointed 1751) till 1760 ; knighted,
1761 ; and Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod (in succession to his lieutenant-colonel's
brother, the Hon. Sir Henry Bellenden),
April, 1761, till he d. at Brough, West-
morland, Sept. 6, 1765.
Isaac Merrill — ? of kin to John Merrill,
solicitor to the Coldstream Foot Guards,
Feb. 23 or July 4, 1711; and (as John
Merryl), M.P. Tregony, 1715-27 ; St. Albans,
1733-4 ; Deputy Paymaster-General till
September, 1714 ; Deputy Secretary at War,
November, 1715, to April, 1717 ; Deputy
Cofferer of the King's Household, May, 1723,
to May, 1725 ; d. Dec. 19, 1734.
Marlborough'1 s Dragoons (ante, p. 85).
Henry de Grangues, formerly of a Dutch
regiment in English pay (see Dalton, vol. vi.
p. 377), was promoted colonel of one of
the new regiments, Jan. 21, 1741 ; major-
general, Sept. 24, 1747 ; d. June, 1754 ; will
proved at Dublin same year.
Francis Best of Elmswell, Yorks, J.P. and
D.LI., son of Chas. Best of same; b. 1699 ;
cornet in the Royal Dragoons, October,
1703 ; m., 1727, Rosamond, daughter of
Yarburgh Constable of Wassand (' Landed
Gentry ').
Samuel Gumley, M.P. Hedon, November,
1746, till unseated February, 1747 ; defeated,
1747 and 1754 ; only surviving son of
John Gumley of Isleworth, Middlesex ;
became lieutenant in army, 1718 ; captain,
1720 ; lieutenant and captain Coldstream
Guards, Sept. 11, 1721 ; captain 10th Dra-
goons, May 28, 1723 ; captain in 1st Royals,
March 28, 1724 ; major thereof, Feb. 5, 1741
(v. Best, made lieutenant-colonel of the
regiment) ; captain and lieutenant-colonel
1st Foot Guards, April 22, 1742, to 1749 ;
first major thereof (and brevet colonel),
April 27, 1749, to Dec. 22, 1753 ; fought at
Dettingen and Fontenoy ; succeeded his
mother in her considerable estate, Jan. 25,
1751 ; d. 1763.
Wm. Wentworth, only surviving son of
Peter Wentworth of Henbury, Dorset, was
b. 1699 ; was a minor in 1711 or 1712, when
he had leave of absence as cornet in his
uncle the Earl of Stafford's (Royal) Dragoons
(Dalton, vol. vi. p. 381), his commission being
dated Feb. 13, 1702, and given him " in
consideration of his brother's death, who
was killed at Liege " (ibid., p. 389). He
was then an infant, for
" he had a Cornet's commission in the Royal Regi-
ment of Dragoons when he was but two years oW,and
continued in the regiment 43 years, being Captain
of a Troop therein at the battles of Dettingen and
Fontenoy." (Barton's 'Peerage,' 1772, p. 451.)
(It is surprising what an amount of interest-
ing information is found in these old works. )
He was the (sole) Gentleman Daily Usher to
Frederick, Prince of Wales (130Z.), in 1750,
tillH.RH. died, March 20, 1751 ; and one of
the Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber
to the Princess Dowager of Wales (150Z.),
1751 till H.R.H. died, Feb. 8, 1772. He-
m., Oct. 23, 1731, Susanna, daughter of
John or Chamberlayne Slaughter of Upper
Slaughter Hall, co. Gloucester. His only
son, Fred. Thos., succeeded his cousin as
3rd Earl of Strafford.
Henry Gore, guidon and major 2nd Troop
of Horse Guards till cornet and major
thereof, Aug. 1, 1749 ; second lieutenant and
lieutenant-colonel thereof, Dec. 1, 1754, ta
July 15, 1757.
James Surtees, " a captain in the Dragoons,
d. s.p. 1775," fifth and youngest son of
Edw. Surtees of Mainsforth and Crawcrook,
co. Durham. His next brother, Hauxley
Surtees, was grandfather of Robert Surtees,.
the co. Durham historian (' Landed Gentry ').
B. Gallatin was major of the regiment,
Dec. 1, 1754, to 1759 ; and lieutenant and
lieutenant-colonel 2nd Troop of Horse
Grenadier Guards, April 7, 1759, to June 28,
1771.
North British Dragoons (ante, p. 85).
Sir R. Hay retired 1742.
W. Laurence d. Nov. 15, 1740.
Wm. Wilkinson was appointed one of the
eight Gentlemen Ushers, Quarter Waiters in
Ordinary to the King (50J.), in 1755, but
resigned or d. 1760 or 1761.
Mark Renton, major 14th Dragoons,
March 2, 1751 ; lieutenant-colonel 54th Foot,
Dec. 25, 1755, to Jan. 16, 1765.
Geo. Preston (? of kin to Geo. Preston,
lieutenant-general, July 2, 1739 ; d. July 7,
1748, aged 88 ; who was lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment till 1706 ; see Dalton, vol. v.
. 24) ; was made major of the regiment
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. OCT. u, wic.
Nov. 29, 1750; lieutenant-colonel thereof,
Feb. 25, 1757, to Nov. 14, 1770; brevet
colonel, Feb. 19, 1762.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
Cornet Francis Rainsford, 1727 (ante,
p. 85), was the second son of Lieut-Col.
Francis Rainsford of the 7th Regiment of
Foot (Royal Fusiliers). He d. 1720, and
was buried in the Tower Chapel, leaving an
only son, viz.,
General Charles Rainsford, who was aide-
de-camp to the King, 1761, and was colonel
of the 44th Regiment of Foot for twenty-
eight years. As a cornet of Horse he was at
the Battle of Fontenoy, 1745. Died 1809,
and was buried in the Tower Chapel beside
his father, his uncle, and his first wife.
Lieut.-Gen. William Barrell (ante, p. 205),
colonel of the 22nd Regiment of Foot, d. 1749,
and was buried in Westminster Abbey, where
a monument was erected by his only son
and executor, Savage Barrell.
A portrait of this officer appears in
Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-
1727.' His daughter was the wife of Charles
Rainsford, the elder brother of the above
Francis Rainsford.
F. VINE RAINSFOED.
Acco (12 S. ii. 228). — 'A/c/cw is a personage
in ancient Greek folk-lore. She is described
by the Scholiast on Plato, ' Gorgias,'
497 A, in Zenobius's collection of proverbs,
in the ' Etymologicum Magnum,' and in
Suidas's ' Lexicon,' as a mad woman (from
Samos, according to the ' Et. Mag.') who
used to talk to her own reflection in a mirror.
From her name was said to be derived the
verb aKKi£«r#cu} meaning to affect ignorance
<>r indifference, to dissemble one's desire, to
be coy ; and the noun a/c/ao-/ia or a/cKtcrjuos.
In Plutarch, ' De Stoicorum repugnantiis,'
cap. 15, 1040 B, Acco is a bugbear with
whose name little children are frightened.
There is a very interesting article under
' Akko,' by Otto Crusius, in the Pauly-
Wissowa ' Real-Encyclopadie.' From the
abundant references there given to books and
scientific journals, it will be seen that Acco
lias been the object of much investigation.
The view held by Crusius reconciles her
character as a bugbear with the story of the
mirror by supposing her to be a kind of
stupid daemon. The lower daemons, as he
remarks, usually come off worst when
opposed by human wit and art. He com-
pares the story of the mirror with such stories
as that in /Elian, ' De Xatura Animalium,'
xvii. 25, in which monkeys are dazed by a
mirror and so caught by the Indians.
Jeremy Taylor introduced Acco in ' The
Worthy Communicant,' chap. v. sect. 3 : —
" The Greeks tell of a famous fool among them ;
her name was Acco ; who when she saw herself in
a glass, would discourse as wisely as she could to
the other woman, and supposed her own shadow to
be one of her neighbours, with whom sometimes
she had great business, but always huge civilities ;
only she could never agree which of them should
go away first, or take the upper hand."— Vol. viii.
p. 162, in C. P. Eden's ed. of the ' Whole Works.'
Burton's mention is wanting in accuracy: —
" A ceo, an old woman, seeing by chance her face
in a true glass (for she used false flattering glasses
belike at other times, as most Gentlewomen do)
animi dolore in insaniam delapsa eM (Cselius
Rhodiginus, 1. 17, c. 2) ran mad." — ' Anat. of
Melancholy,' 1, 'J, 4, 7, ed. 6, p. 170.
Caelius Rhodiginus, in the chapter of his
' Lectiones Antiques ' to which Burton
refers, gives the account of Acco from the
' Epitome parcemiarum Tarrsei ac Didymi,'
that is, from Zenobius ; the version or
inference of Burton and the Latin words
which he quotes are not found there.
" Accismus " has found a place in the
' Stanford Dictionary,' and in the ' N.E.D.,'
where the meaning is defined as " a feigned
refusal of what is earnestly desired." An
example is quoted from the Supplement to
Chambers's ' Cyclopaedia ' (1753), and another
from a translation of Jean Paul Richter's
' Levana.' EDWARD BENSLY.
In the ' Adagia ' of Erasmus and others*
in the locus entitled ' Simulatio, Dissimu-
latio ' (1599 edition, col. 1669), is a short
dissertation headed ' Accissare,' in which
Erasmus says that AicKtfctv, i.e., Accissare,
is said (from a Greek proverb) of those who,
while they greatly desire something, feign
to refuse it, and that it is said that Acco was
a foolish woman who was in the habit of
talking to her reflection in a mirror, as if to
some other woman. Hence those who act
foolishly are said accissare. Erasmus gives
references for aKKtfav and ciK/acr/tos. For
the Latin words accissare, accismus, see
dictionaries which give Greek-Latin, Bar-
barous, &c., words, e.g., Josephi Laurentii
' Amalthea Onomastica,' 1640.
Nicolas Lloyd in his ' Dictionarium His-
toricum,' &c., begun by Charles Stephens,
editio novissima, 1686, gives Acco, saying
that she was a decrepit woman who lapsed
into madness when she saw in a mirror her
face deformed by old age. He refers to
Ccelius Rhodiginus, xvi. 2. Lloyd adds that
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•on seeing her face in a> mirror she would
talk to it as though to another woman,
and that she would take partly woven
garments off the loom and put them on ;
•whence came the proverb : CTTI TOIS oVAo6s
''AKKi^erai. Michael Apostolius in ' Cen-
turiap. XXI Proverbiorum ' gives this proverb
at Cent. viii. 78 ; and 'Ax/ci^co-flai pot SOKCIS
-at Cent. i. 71. In the explanation of the
first-mentioned proverb Acco is said to be of
Samos. Lloyd adds that Acco is the name
of a bugbear, by fear of which mothers are
wont to keep their girls to their duty, and
frighten them from doing wrong. A some-
what similar meaning is given in Liddell and
Scott,
It is, I think, interesting to note the
meanings in Modern Greek. The following
are extracts from ' A Greek-English Dic-
tionary,' by A. Kyriakides, Nicosia, 1892: —
'A/wftfo/im, to be affected, to be coy ; to
coquet.
"AKKia-jia — A/v-Kttr/xb?, affectation, coyness,
mincing manners ; coquetry.
ROBERT PIER-POINT.
[SiR WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK thanked for reply.]
DR. THOMAS FREWEN (12 S. ii. 229).— In a
pedigree belonging to the Frewen family
Dr. Thomas Frewen is shown as son of
Thankful Frewen, Rector of Northiam
{born 1669, died 1749), and Sarah, daughter
of Capt. Luke Spencer of Cranbrook, Kent
{she died 1734). The doctor's birth is given
«.s June 20, 1704, and his death June,
1 790( ? ). His wife was Philadelphia, daughter
of Joseph Tucker of Rye. His son was Rev.
Edward Frewen, D.I)., Rector of Frating-
cum-Thorington in Essex; born Oct. 27,
1744; married June 25, 1789, Sally, daughter
of Rev. Richard Moreton of Little Moreton
Hall, Cheshire. LEO C.
Perhaps the following extract from
Chester's ' London Marriage Licences ' may
help G. F. R. B. to establish the parentage of
Dr. Thomas Frewen : —
"Frewen, Thomas,' of Northiam, Sussex, Esq.,
•widower, and Dame Jane Wymonsolde, of Putney,
Surrey, widow, at Putney aforesaid, 15 Dec.,
1681."
For arms and descent see Burke's ' General
Armory.' S. D. CLIPPINODALE, M.D.
36 Holland Park Avenue, W.
" Thomas Frewen, M.D., born June 20, 1704,
author of a treatise on ' The Practice and Theory
of Inoculation,' London, 1747 ; son of the Rev.
Thankful Frewen, Rector of Northiam, and Sarah,
dau. of Capt. Luke Spenser — ho married Phila-
delphia, dau. of Joseph Tucker of Rye, and dying
in June, 1790, left issue surviving, a dau. Phila-
delphia, and a son, the Rev. Edward Frewen,
D.D." — Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 4th edit.,
1862, part i. p. 519.
"Jan. 15,1701/2, a bill was presented for re-
storing the harbour [Rye] to its ancient goodm-ss,
for the benefit of the nation, which was opposed
by Thos. Frewen, Esq., and other landowners." —
Durrant Cooper's ' History of Winchelsea, p. it 7.
R. J. FYXMOKK.
Sandgate.
WATCH HOUSE (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233).—
There is a small example of a watch house
still standing in the village of Lingfield in
Surrey. It is known as the village cage, and
is overshadowed by an ancient tree.
DE V. PA YEN-PAYNE.
S. J., WATER-COLOUR ARTIST (12 S. ii. 250).
— The S. J. inquired for by MR. STEEDS is
probably Samuel Jackson, who died in 1869.
MR. STEEDS might compare the style with
Jackson's ' Llanberis ' and ' View looking
down the A\on ' in South Kensington
Museum. W. H. QUARRELL.
MR. STEEDS does not explain the subject
of the water-colour. I suggest, however,
that Samuel Jackson, 1795-1870, who, living
at Bristol (and a pupil of Francis Danby,
A.R.A.),was elected in 1832 an Associate of
the Water-Cokmr Society, may be the name
of the artist sought for. It was on May 11,
1828, when Sir Walter Scott was dining with
the King, that intimation was given him
that the dedication of his collected novels
" will be highly well taken."
HAROLD MALET, Col.
Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, EARL or STRIGUIL
(12 S. ii. 267). — The name Striguil was the
earlier name of Chepstow Castle, which in
Domesday Survey was written Estrighoiel.
Your correspondent will find much valuable
information in Orrnerod's ' Strigulensia,'
published in 1861, which contains a paper on
' The Identity of the Norman Estrighoiel of
the Domesday Survey with the Later and
Present Chepstow,' printed, with additions,
from Archceologia, xxix. 25-31. He should
also consult J. F. Marsh's 'Annals of
Chepstow Castle; or, Six Centuries of the
Lords of Striguil,' which was edited by Sir
John Maclean and published in 1883. Ac-
cording to the ' Complete Peerage,' vi. 200,
William Marshall died at Caversham (Ox-
fordshire— not Berks, as stated), M;iy 14, and
was buried in the new Temple Church on
May 16, 1219. His will is dated 1219.
ROLAND AUSTIN.
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The 1st Earl of Pembroke and Striguil
(Chepstow) and Regent of England died on
May. 14, 1219 (aged over 70), at Caversham,
near Reading. Shortly before his death he
had assumed the habit of a Templar, and
by his own directions he was buried in the
Temple Church at London, where his recum-
bent effigy is still preserved. Camden quotes
one line of his epitaph, thus : —
Miles eram Martis, Mars omnes vicerat armis.
A. R. BAYLEY.
Striguil is Chepstow in Monmouthshire.
William Marshal was buried in the Temple
Church in London in 1219. For his epitaph
see Weever's ' Ancient Funerall Monuments,'
1631, p. 442, and Gough's edition of Cam-
den's 'Britannia,' 1806, vol. ii. p. 97. There
is a less important castle in the same county,
between Usk and Caer Went, with a name
which I have seen spelt as Striguil, Strignil,
Strignal, Strugle, and Strighill, alternatively
Troggy Castle. EDWABD BENSLY.
AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 249, 296).—!
think I remember the lines more correctly
than they appear in the query : — •
Can man believe with common sense
A bacon slice gives God offence,
Or that a herring hath a charm
Th' Almighty anger to disarm ?
Wrapt up in Majesty Divine,
Does He regard on what we dine ?
When a young man, away back in " the
sixties," I used to smoke and spend delightful
evenings with an old gentleman, Mr. Alex-
ander Cockburn (he was a nephew of Lord
Cockburn), in Edinburgh. At that time the
Ritualist controversy was agitating the
Church. It pleased him immensely to recite
this verse. I always understood that he was
the author of it — though he never definitely
said so. G. C. C.
THE SIGN VIRGO (12 S. ii. 251).— At the
risk of being jeered at for my ignorance, I
should like to ask what proof there is that
Seth knew anything whatever about the
zodiacal signs. I am also curious as to the
authority there is for saying that these
symbols were on the breastplate of the
Jewish High Priest. Cuneiform characters,
Saracenic numerals, or tokens of early
Esperanto would scarcely have been a more
surprising attribution. ST. SWITHIN.
RESTORATION OF OLD DEEDS AND MANU-
SCRIPTS (12 S. ii. 268).— Chivers of Bath
would be able to restore or preserve old
deeds and MSS. He has done some excel-
lent work for me in the preservation of
old parish [registers, by covering both sides
of the pages with a tnmspareiit vellum. He
did this ulso with an old township book, the
hand-made paper of which was fast crumbl-
ing away. The writing seems, if anything,.
clearer than before ; anyhow I was able to
transcribe the MS. for the Chetham Society,.
having before been unable to handle it with
safety. ARCHIBALD SPARK K.
MOTHER AND CHILD (12 S. ii. 190). — This
is a subject upon which much . has been
written and published in many languages.
In the middle of the eighteenth century a
considerable controversy took place between
three or four well-known doctors. It was
begun by Daniel Turner (1667-1741), who
in ' De Morbis Cutaneis ' (1714) asserted his
disbelief in the occurrence of maternal
impressions on the unborn child. This was
followed by three pamphlets issued in
further defence of his disbelief. Dr. J. A.
Blondel, a Frenchman by birth, but practis-
ing as a physician in London in the er.rly
eighteenth century, published in 1720 anony-
mously .' The Strength of Imagination in
Pregnant Women Examined.' In further
reference to Turner's theories Blondel issued
in 1729 ' The Power of the Mother's Im-
agination over the Fcetus examined in Reply
to Dr. Turner.' This created much dis-
cussion, and the book was translated into
several European languages. A third dis-
putant arose in John Henry Mauclerc, who
in 1740 published (in reply to Blondel)
' The Power of Imagination in Pregnant
Women Discussed : with an Address to the
Ladies on the Occasion.' This was issued a
few years later with a new title-page, when
it was called : —
" Dr. Blondel confuted ; or, the ladies vindi-
cated, with regard to the power of imagination in
pregnant women, together with a circular and'
general address to the ladies on this occasion^
London, 1747."
The Gentleman's Magazine had a good deal
to say upon the subject, and in the volume
for 1764, pp. 455-7, there is a long letter
(anonymous) entitled ' Effects of Imagina-
tion upon Pregnant Women disproved in a
Letter from an Eminent Physician to a
Married Lady.'
Within recent years Mr. W. Bodenhamer
issued in The Medical Record, New York,
1892,
" A few brief reflections upon the ancient
dogma of maternal imagination or impression as a
factor or a disturbing element in the production
of various and numerous abnormalities of the
fcetus."
So much for the history of the subject, which.,
however, may be pursued very much farther.
12 s. ii. OCT. 14, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
At the pre>ent day the chief authority upon
the subject is a well-known Scotch doctor,
John William Ballantyne. The chief books
by him which relate to this subject are :
* Teratologia, Quarterly Contributions to
Antenatal Pathology,' 1894, &c. ; ' Manual of
Antenatal Pathology and Hygiene,' Edin-
burgh, 1904 ; and ' Teratogenesis :_an Enquiry
into the Causes of Monstrosities,'~Edinburgh,
1897. Dr. Ballantyne contributed to the
Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical
Society, 1891-2, xvii. pp. 99-108, ' A Series
of Thirteen Cases of Alleged Maternal
Impression.'
Further cases of maternal impression are
found in various medical books and papers.
I give one or two : Mr. J. G. Harvey pub-
lished in The Medical Record New York,
1888, xxxiv. p. 535, a remarkable case which
he called ' Circumcised by a Maternal Im-
pression.' Other cases of maternal im-
pressions may be found in The British
Medical Journal, 1899, vol. ii. p. 760 ; and
in The Lancet, 1863, ii. p. 27.
I recommend Ms. ACKERMANN to look
through The Eugenics Review.
At the moment of finishing this reply I see
I have a note of another book by Hester
Pendleton, called ' Parents' Guide for the
Transmission of Desired Qualities in Off-
spring,' Xew York, 1884.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187, Piccadilly.
OSBEKT SALVIN (12 S. ii. 229). — His
mother's name was Anne Xesfield, a sister
of William Andrews Xesfield. She was
married July 26, 1826. See ' D.X.B.,' 1909
edition, vol. xvii. 715, and supp. vol. xxii.
1207. LEO C.
ST. XEWLYN EAST (12 S. ii. 228). — The
outbreak of typhoid fever at Xewlyn is
described in The Times, Oct. 19, 1880, p. 3,
col. 6 (' Collect. Cornub.,' by G. C. Boase).
LEO C.
SIXDNK HILL, SHOREHAM, SUSSEX (12 S.
ii. 188). — In the dialect of North-East
Lancashire the word " slonk," now almost
obsolete, was nearly synonymous with
" slink," and may possibly be a corruption
of it.
v. a. To slink about in an idle, shiftless
manner : " 'E's doin' nowt but slonk abaat,
an' 'is wife keeps 'im." " Spends 'is time
slonkin' an' drinkin'."
n. One who slonks : " A slonk, that's what
"e is."
adj. " A gert lazy slonkin' fella."
Also used as an adjective for dubious
meat, especially of prematurely cast lambs
and calves, and of beasts killed to forestall
death in another form ; eke of the purveyors
of such stuff, e.g., " slonk beef," " slonk
butcher." In this latter form it was exactly
interchangeable with the word " slink."
JOHN H. BALDERSTONE.
11 Fair View Road, Burnley.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S
ii. 172, 211, 275).— I am afraid, if all who
have access to representations, imaginary or
otherwise, in stained glass of actual person-
ages send you an account of them, the list
will be a very long one. I give, as a sample,
an account of such representations to be
found within this College.
In the chapel the second window from the
entrance on each side is largely occupied with
three figures of ecclesiastical personages. On
the north side is an archbishop between two
bishops. The archbishop is almost certainly
Wolsey, who three years before 1518 (the
date upon the window) had substituted
the crown for the papal tiara in the arms
of the see of York, which appear more
than once in other windows in the chapel.
Under the figure, also, is a rough reproduction,
with some variations in detail, of Wblsey'fJ
arms, which are now those of Christ Church.
One of the bishops is almost certainly in-
tended for Thomas Langton, Bishop of
Winchester, the uncle of the donor of the
windows. The uncertainty as to whether of
the twain is intended to represent I^angton
is enhanced by the circumstance that the
head of the westernmost bishop is a restora-
tion of 1717.
The opposite window on the south side has
three similar effigies of a bishop and two
Popes, the two latter being probably the
two Pontiffs under whom Robert Langton,
the donor of the windows, exercised the
function of proto-notary apostolic.
In the Hall, before the present windows
were inserted, the lunettes which form the
uppermost part of each window once
contained, along w:ith some heraldic matter,
portraits of Robert Eglesfield, King
Edward III., Queen Philippa, another king
(conjectured to be either Henry IV. or
Richard III.), King Edward IV., King
Charles I., Queen Mary his wife, King
Charles II., Queen Catherine, Sir Joseph
Williamson, and Provost Lancaster. These
pictures are probably by William Price, the
last of the firm of van Linge, to which the
large pictures in the chapel windows and
many other chapel windows in Oxford are
to be ascribed. It is possible, however, that
the portraits of the two Charleses and their
wives may have been adapted from paintings
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on gln-s which the College accounts show to |
have been procured during the reigns of
those sovereigns.
Of the above representations, the pictures
of Robert Eglesfield, Queen Philippa, King
Edward III , King Edward TV., King
(.'h.irles T., Queen Mary his wife, Sir Joseph
Williamson, and Provost Lancaster have
been placed in the heads of the new windows ;
the rest and the heraldries have been placed
in the lunettes in the southernmost windows
on either side of the upper library.
The library also has in its northern window
representations of King Henry V. and Cardinal
Beaufort, under whose tutelage the king is
said to have studied in the College. These
pictures formerly were in the room over the
gate of the old College which is said to have
been Henry's place of residence when in the
College.
Wood says that in the old library, removed
when the College was reconstructed, there
was a representation in one of the win-
dows of Robert, Six, a beneiactor of the
library ; but of this picture no trace has been
found. JOHN R. MAGBATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
There are portraits of Bishop King and
others in the windows of the narthex of
All Saints', Clifton, Bristol; and in the
Roman Catholic church of Kenilworth is a
window containing several portraits of the
Amherst family.
FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
54 Chapel Field Road, Norwich.
I see that your correspondents have not
mentioned the fact that there is an interesting
collection of family portraits in the east
window of the Fit z Alan Chapel of Arundel
Castle. I cannot give the particulars off-
hand, and therefore merely send you a note
of the fact, but some one else will probably
supply the details. WILLIAM BULL.
Archdeacon Wat kins of Durham has a
portrait of the late Bishop Lightfoot in
enamel glass placed in one of the windows of
his study in the College there. J. T. F.
Winterton, Lines.
" COURT " IN FRENCH PLACE-NAMES (12 S.
ii. 249). — The deuterotheme court in the
connexion indicated represents an Old
French curt, cort, and that is the Latin
cort-em, the abbreviated form of cohort-em,
the accusative of cohors. Cohors has a heap
of meanings — inter alia, a court, enclosure,
cattle-yard, crowd, multitude, company (of
soldiers), train, retinue, bodyguard. In
popular Latin curtem was synonymous with
aulam (Gr. avAij, any court or hall). The
literary word aula did not maintain itself irt
Frankish speech, and in Northern France it
was displaced by curt-em at least as early
as the time of Charlemagne (c. 800). It is
found in Asser, who makes several references
to the "court" of King Alfred; cp. Mr.
W. H. Stevenson's Introd., ' Asser,' 1904,
and capp. 22, 75, 81, 100. The Frankish
form also appears in the ' Saxon Chronicle ' ;.
see ann. 1154, where we are told that Henri
of Angsou (Anjou) " held micel curt in
Lundene."
When we get an ancient personal name
preceding -court the inferences may justly be
drawn that the bearer of the name was a
landowner to whom his prince had conceded
the right to hold what we should call a
manorial court, at his manerium, or manor
house. ALFRED ANSCOMBE.
The suffix " coxirt " in French place-names
is the exact equivalent of the suffix " ton "
in English ones. In both syllables the root
meaning is an enclosure. Just as there are-
hundreds of places in Great Britain with
names ending in " -ton " which have never
grown into towns, so there are as many in
France ending in " -court " without any
connexion with a chateau. In modern
French place-names the suffix is usually
-vitte, for the Latin villa was the term for
a farmhouse. In Matt. xxii. 5 we read in
English : " They went their ways, one to his
farm, another to his merchandise." The
word our translators rendered " farm "
stands in the original Greek apyov ; in the
Latin vulgate it is rendered viltam, and in
the Anglo-Saxon version tun. In Scotland
we not only preserve the Anglo-Saxon sound
by pronouncing it " toon," but in some
districts the farmyard with its buildings i>
still spoken of as " the farm-toon."
HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
APOTHECARY M.P.s (12 S. ii. 267). — Some
years ago, when collecting material for a
' Court Medical Roll,' I obtained from the
State Papers and from Barrett's ' History
of the Society of Apothecaries ' the following
details of the family of one of the apothe-
caries mentioned by MR. WILLIAMS, to
whom they may perhaps be interesting and
possibly useful.
The Chace family. — Mr. Stephen Chace,.
who had been Apothecary to Charles I., was
reappointed at the Restoration. He seems
to have died in 1665, for in that year his
three daughters applied for relief. In their-
petition, the daughters proclaim the loyalty
of the family, refer to their father as having:
12 s. ii. OCT. 14, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
been Apothecary to the late king, and to
their mother as having been " Rocker " to
the present king (Charles II.). Xo reply to
this petition was given, but in 1666 John
Chace, son of Stephen Chace above men-
tioned, was made Court Apothecary at an
annual salary of 115Z., with reversion of the
post to his son, James Chace. Three years
later, however, John Chace had to apply for
arrears of salary, which he, by calculation or
miscalculat ion, found amounted to 7,OOOJ. (!),
together with 4?. 19s. 6c?. a month for
" Laboratory Fuel."
S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.
Another apothecary M.P. would be Samuel
Batteley of Bury St. 'Edmunds. A vacancy
in the representation of Bury being caused
by the death of Joseph Weld in January,
1712, Batteley was chosen to fill it as
" trustee " for Carr Hervey, who was then
r.broad. Carr Hervey came to his own in
September, 1713. Batteley died in July,
1714. Particulars of this family will be
found in several volumes of the Suffolk
Creen Books. Two brothers of Samuel
(with some errors of date) are in the ' D.X.B.'
S. H. A. H.
James Chase, son of John of Westminster,
arm. Christ Church, matriculated Dec. 15,
1665, aged 15 ; one of these names M.P.
t'.reat Marlow in nine Parliaments, 1690-
1710 (Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ').
A. R. BAYLKY.
"ONE'S PLACE IN THE SUN" (12 S.
ii. 170,218). — Compare ' Correspondance Lit-
teraire par le Baron de Grimm,' tome iii.,
Paris, 1813, " Copie d'une lettre du Roi de
Prusse au Marquis d'Argens, datee de
Horensdorf, pres de Breslau, le 27 aout,
1760," p. 71 :—
" Ma maison it Breslau a pe>i durant le bombarde-
ment. Nos ennemis nous envient jusqu'a la lumiere
du jour, ainsi que 1'air que nous respirons : il
faudra pourtant bien qu'ils nous laissentune place,
et si elle est sure, je me fais une ide"e de vous
y recevoir."
As the German Emperor is probably
familiar with the writings of Frederick the
Great may not this be the origin > of the
expression " One's place in the sun " ?
J. P. H.
ERASMUS SAUNDERS, WINCHESTER
SCHOLAR (12 S. i. 466). — Jane Saunders, wife
of Erasmus Saunders of Raveningham,
Norfolk, Esq., is mentioned in Recusant
Roll, So. 1, Mich., 1592-3; and Erasmus
Saunders himself is mentioned in the same
roll as " nuper de Pannyngham in com'
Xorff ," and as being possessed of properties
at Eglwys Cymmin, Pendine, and Laugharne-
iii Carmarthenshire, and at Crunwere and
Tenby in Pembrokeshire. See Cath. Rec,
Soc., xviii. 228, 376.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193V
275,416,474; ii. 14, 77, 197).— I saw one
such recently in actual use on the high road
between Blakedown (near Kidderminster)
and Harvington Hall, at Chaddesley Corbet t,
Worcestershire. J. B. McGovEBN.
Jiofcs cm
Le Slranye Record*. A Chronicle of the Early
le Stranges of Norfolk and the March of Wales,
A.T>. 1100-1310, with the lines of Knockin and
Blackmere continued to their Extinction. By
Hamon le Strange. (Longmans & Co., II. Is. net.)
THIS is a sound and solid piece of work. We do
not remember having seen anything of its kind
better done. Mr. le Strange has made it less of an
annotated pedigree, and more of a history, than are
most recent compilations of family records : and
there seems no single stray mention of any person
belonging to these two centuries to whom the name
" Kxtraneus " was attached which he has failed to
weave in. A name obviously applicable to many
scattered individuals who might have noconnfxion
with each other, it has been found in several quarters
where it seems independent of the chief family that
bore it : these instances are duly noted.
The first le Strange, to whom legend gave a
descent from an apocryphal Duke of Brittany,.
would seem to have been an Angevin. He came
into Norfolk and married an heiress there, and in
Norfolk the line continues to the present day. But
in the Middle Ages it was in the Western Marches
that the family distinguished themselves. Brought
over to England, we may well suppose, as the
Plantagenet's man, the first le Strange handed
down to his sons and sons' sons an extraordinarily
firm attachment to the House of Anjou. Not only
vicissitudes of fortune, but also, if 'we may so put
it, vicissitudes of character, found the le Strange
loyalty unswerving. The king might be a John,
might be a Henry III. — he could still count unon
the support of the men of the le Strange family. The
service rendered by one generation of them after
another was, during the two centuries chiefly
dealt with, much the same. They kept their portion
of the Welsh march safe at the price of pretty
constant fighting, .and one or the other of them was
almost always to be found acting as Sheriff. Of
Knockin Castle, the principal stronghold entrusted
to their keeping, hardly anything now is loft —
humps and traces of old walls beside the road fronv
Shrewsbury to Oswestry. And the line that settled
there is itself now extinct.
To try to make a summary of -their achieve
ments would be to summarize the history of the
relations between England and Wales during the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries. But a few of
the more picturesque details may be mentioned
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In the early thirteenth century lived one William
le Strange, grandson of the founder of the family,
third brother of John (II.), who was a clerk in
holy-orders and married. In the next generation
we have Hamon le Strange the Crusader, a gallant
knight, who accompanied Edward I. to the Holy
Land, whom we find borrowing money of one
•" Hagim, son of Master Mosseus the Jew," and
who left his bones in the East. But the most
interesting fact about him, and one recently dis-
covered, is that he married a Queen — Isabelle
•d'Ybelin, that is, Queen of Cyprus. Hamon was
brother of John le Strange (I V.), who had a some-
what shorter life than his predecessors ; he was
•drowned with his horse in the Severn. Of Robert,
Another brother, who also went on the Crusade,
it is related that on the journey home he lost his
«ealf a serious matter, which led him to appear at
the Curia Regis, and have a petition entered in
two separate Rolls to the effect that if any docu-
ment should be found sealed with that seal " id
pro nullo habeatur " — which Mr. le Strange com-
pares with our modern device of stopping a cheque.
This Robert had to wife one Alianora de Whit-
church, whose monument existed in High Ercall
•Church as lately as 1860, and has since disappeared.
A yet more famous brother, who with John (V.)
his nephew served Edward I. through the strenuous
times of the Welsh wars, was Roger le Strange of
Little Ercall and Ellesmere. This man was the
leader on the Royal side in the skirmish near
Builth where Llewelyn was slain, and his brief
report to the '.King is given both in facsimile and
verbatim in the text. The mention of the facsimile
•suggests a word about the illustrations : there are
10 plates, all good, the best being those of the five
seals, the brass of John, eighth Lord Strange, and
his wife, and an Indenture showing the original
and counterpart in juxtaposition.
The le Stranges of Blackmere descended from the
Robert and Alianora above mentioned. In the
fourth generation the male line failed, and Ankaret,
Baroness Strange, the heiress of her niece, carried
the title and the estates into the family of Talbot of
Shrewsbury, with whose extinction in 1616 the
"barony lapsed. The Barony of Strange of Knockin
— the elder branch— devolved at the death of
John, the 8th Lord, upon his daughter Joan, whose
marriage with George Stanley united it to the
Earldom of Derby. In 1594, upon the death of the
5th Earl of Derby, it fell into abeyance between
his three daughters, William Stanley, his brother,
succeeding to the earldom. In 1628 the fact of the
abeyance was forgotten, and the eldest son of the
6th Earl was summoned to Parliament as Lord
Strange of Knockin ; and this writ, though erro-
neous, was held to have created a new barony_ of
Strange, with precedency of 1628, which, not with-
•out vicissitudes of abeyance and reversion, has
come down to the present day in the line of the
Murrays of Athole, through the marriage with
the first Marquess of Athole of the daughter of
the famous Charlotte de la Tr^mouille.
It may be true, as Mr. le Strange says, that no
member of this family came quite into the forefront
either as a statesman or as a military leader ; yet
the group of men whose history forms the chief
part of this book is a noble and impressive one.
They were brave, capable, and, as we have said,
unswervingly loyal ; they held their own admirably
among their equals ; and their numerous benefac-
tions to the Church attest the fullness with which
they shared the mediae%'al readiness to refer this
world to the terms of another.
It will be seen that this work has much that is
important to offer, both to the social historian and
to the genealogist ; nor should it be without great
interest to the general reader.
The Burlington Magazine for October contains
the first instalment of a discussion of the theory
of ' ^Esthetic,' by Mr. Douglas Ainslie. This is
mainly an exposition of Benedetto Croce's view
that art is " vision " or " intuition," and, in this
part of it, the writer does not assert or define any
special relation between the artist and rerum
natura as being essential. Mr. W. R. Lethaby
devotes his second section of ' English Primitives '
to Master William of Westminster, and gives
two good photographs of the remarkable — we
might say the haunting — figure of St. Faith
painted, with a strange skill and a masterly
boldness and delicacy, on the wall above the altar
in the Revestry at Westminster Abbey. H.V. S..
contributes a review of the work of the late
Henri Joseph Harpignies — a sympathetic ap-
preciation which will doubtless recall good
moments of admiration to those who have learned
to love this master's work. Dr. Tancrcd Borenius
describes two very interesting North Italian
drawings, never before published, from the
collection of Sir Edward Poynter : the one, a
pen-and-bistre drawing over red chalk, depicting
two groups of ecclesiastics, by Carpaccio ; the
other, a brush drawing — in India ink and white on
blue paper — of a woman, whose characteristic
drapery betrays Mantegna. M. Osvald Sir^n
discusses Giuliano, Pietro, and Giovanni da
Rimini ; Mr. Lionel Gust and Mr. Archibald
Malloch write about portraits by Carlo Doice and
S. van Hoogstraaten ; and on minor arts we have
' Spanish Embroideries,' bj Mr. George Saville,
and ' The Van Diemen Box,' by Mr. H. Clifford
Smith — both papers of some importance in their
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: Notices to Correspondents.
RALPH BOHUN :
CmilSTOPHER BOOXE.
READERS of John Evelyn's ' Diary ' will
remember two gentlemen of the name of
Bohun, to whom fairly frequent allusion is
made, but whose Christian names are no-
where given.
The one was tutor to Evelyn's son, and
the other a relative of his, a rich Spanish
merchant.
1. The first was Ralph Bohun, eldest son
of the Rev. Abraham Boun, Rector of
Elmedon and Vicar of Foleshill, Warwick-
shire.
Ralph Bohun entered Winchester College
as Corvsanguineus Fundatoris from Counden,
Warwickshire, aged 14, in 1655. He claimed
to be Founder's kin through his mother,
Elizabeth, daughter of George Bathurst of
Hothorp, Northamptonshire, and sister of
Dr. Ralph Bathurst, Dean of Wells, and
President of Trinity College, Oxford, and of
Sir Benjamin Bathurst, father of Allen,
1st Earl Bathurst.
Ralph Bohun matriculated at Oxford
from New College, Dec. 8; 1658, and took the
degree of B.C.L. in 1665.
Under date Aug. 4, 1665, John Evelyn
writes : —
" I went to Wotton to carry my sonn and his
tutor Mr. Bohun, Fellow of New Coll. (recom-
mended to me by Dr. Wilkins and the Pres. of
New Coll. Oxford), for feare of the pestilence,
still increasing in London and its environs."
Under date Jan. 29, 1667, he writes : —
" To London in order to my son's Oxford
journey, who being very early enter'd both in
Latin and Greek, and prompt to learn beyond
most of his age, I was persuaded to trust him under
the tutorship of Mr. Bohun, fellow of New College,
who had been his preceptor in my house some
years before ; but at Oxford under the inspection
of Dr. Bathurst, President of Trinity Coll., where
I plac'd him, not as yet 13 years old. He was
newly out of long coates."
Under date Jan. 10, 1671, he writes : —
" Mr. Bohun, my son's tutor, had been 5 yeares
in my house, and now Batchelor of Laws and
Fellow of New College, went from me to Oxford
to reside there, having well and faithfully per-
form'd his charge."
In 1671 Mr. Bohun wrote a ' Discourse on
the History and Nature of Wind ' : and in
1674 he became Rector of West Kington,
Wiltshire. In 1685 he took the degree of
D.C.L. Several letters from Mrs. Evelyn
to Dr. Bohun are printed in the second
edition of Evelyn's ' Memoirs,' as well as
' A Character of Mrs. Evelyn,' by Dr.
Bohun, dated Sept. 20, 1695.
Under date Jan. 27, 1701, Evelyn writes : —
" Mr. Wye, rector of Wotton, died, a very
worthy good man. I gave it to Dr. Bohun, a
learned person and excellent preacher, who had
been my son's tutor, and liv'd long in my family."
On Aug. 18, 1701, Bohun took possession
of this living.
Under date Mav, 1704, after recording the
death of Dr. Ralph Bathurst, President of
Trinity College, Oxford, he says : —
" He gave a legacy of money and the third part
of his library to his nephew Dr. Bohun, who wen
hence [i.e. from Wotton] to his funeral."
Dr. Bohun had on Aug. 8, 1701, become
Prebendary of Chisenbury and Chute in the
Cathedral Church of Salisbury, and he died
July 12, 1716, leaving the sum of 20Z. to the
poor of Wotton, and a similar sum for the
decoration of the altar.
2. The second was Christopher Bohun or
Boone. On Aug. 31 , 1679, Evelyn writes : —
" After evening service to see a neighbour, one
VIr. Bohun, related to my sonn's late tutor of that
name, a rich Spanish merchant, living in a neate
slace, which he has adorned with many curiosities,
especially severall carvings of Mr. Gibbons, and
•ome pictures by Streeter."
On July 30, 1682 :—
" Went to visit our good neighbour Mr. Bohun
^Lea, Kent), whose whole house is a cabinet of all
322
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elegancies, especially Indian ; in the hall are
contrivances of Japan skreens instead of wainscot :
and-there is an excellent pendule clock inclos'd in
the curious flower-work of Mr. Gibbons in the
middle of the vestibule. The lands kips of the
skreens represent the manner of living, and
country of the Chinese. But above all, his lady's
cabinet is adorn'd on the fret, cieling and chimney-
piece with Mr. Gibbons's best carving. There are
also some of Streeter's best paintings, and many
rich curiosities of gold and silver as growing in the
mines. The gardens are exactly kept, and the
whole place very agreeable and well water' d.
The owners are good neighbours, and Mr. Bohun
has also built and endow'd a hospital for eight
poor people, with a pretty chappell, and every
necessarie accommodation."
On Sept. 16, 1683, Evelyn writes :—
" At the elegant villa and garden of Mr. Bohun 's
at Lee. He shewed me the zinnar tree or platanus,
and told me that since they had planted this
kind of tree about the Citty of Ispahan in Persia,
the plague, which formerly much infested the
place, had exceedingly abated of its mortal effects,
and render'd it very healthy."
The late Mr. F. H. Hart in his ' History of
Lee ' (Lee, 1882), pp. 7-11, gives an account
of " Boone's Mansion " (an ancient red-brick
mansion in the Old Road, which was sur-
rounded by a moat, and pulled down in
1824), the Boone estate generally, and the
old Boone's Almshouses, built in 1683 and
designed by Sir Christopher Wren. These
were pulled down in 1876, leaving only the
ancient chapel.
The founders were Christopher Boone,
merchant, of London, and Mary his wife.
What was the precise relationship between
the Rev. Ralph Bohun, D.C.L., and Mr.
Christopher Boone ? And how precisely did
the former derive his kinship with William
of Wykeham ? What happened to the
Gibbons carvings when the mansion was
demolished ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
'THE
MORNING
1772-1916.
POST,'
(See ante, p. 301.)
IT is not known when Peter Borthwick first
became connected with The Morning Post,
but it was somewhere about -1848, when
Michele was editor. Borthwick had been
member for Evesham 1835 to 1847, and had
made his mark ; he was strongly opposed to
the abolition of slavery. In 1845 he got into
disgrace with the Queen. The Morning
Chronicle had printed a paragraph stating
that the title of King Consort was about to
be conferred on Prince Albert, and Borthwick
asked Peel in the House of Commons as to
its truth. The Queen wrote to Peel on the
18th of February : —
" The Queen was much hurt at Mr. Borthwick's
most impertinent manner of putting the question
with respect to the title of King Consort, and
much satisfied with Mir Robert's answer." —
' Letters of Queen Victoria,' vol. ii. p. 34.
Peter Borthwick was remarkable for his
good looks ; these he transmitted to his son
He was of olive complexion, with a profusion
of black hair. Although his first speeches in
the House commanded attention, Sir Robert
Peel being much impressed by them, they pro-
voked later on not so much cheers as yawns,
which once called from him a retort less
felicitous than funny. " If," he said, " I
am not allowed to conclude at my own time
and in my own way, I am determined not
to conclude at all " (Escott's ' Masters of
English Journalism,' pp. 186-7).
Borthwick was 44 when he began work on
the paper with which his own and his son's
names were to be so long associated. He at
once interested himself in all matters relating-
to the Press, and in 1849, on my father's
founding the London Association for the
Repeal of the Advertisement Duty, he
became its chairman. He worked with alF
his might to mend the fortunes of the Postr
and he soon brought in his son Algernon to
help him. On the 25th of September, 1850,.
when the boy was only 20, his father ap-
pointed him Paris correspondent. The
young man showed such capacity that two
years afterwards he was appointed acting
editor in London. In that same year, 1852,
on the 18th of December, his father died sud-
denly, at the early age of 48. Bravely he had
struggled, and an increased revenue showed
the result of his control ; but his own
monetary difficulties were too much for him,,
and although friends showed every kindness,
nothing could save the broken man. He
worked to the end, and the last leader he
wrote appeared in the week of hu death.
T. B. Crompton, to whom the paper was
mortgaged, at once confirmed Algernon
Borthwick's appointment as editor, with
full control. The young editor also re-
ceived a promise that the property should
not be sold without his first having the
refusal. He well deserved such a promise,
for while in Paris at the time of the
Coup d'Etat he had been able to supply the
most private information, and at the special
request of the Prince President had called on
him at the Elysee, and been thanked by him
for the impartial view taken by the Post in
French affairs. That Algernon was far-
seeing is shown in a letter he wrote to his
father in February, 1852 : —
" France ..:. is the natural ally of England.
England wants the friendship of France. If this
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323
be true, it is still more true that France needs the
friendship of England."
While The Morning Post was a firm sup-
porter of Palmerston, it was not slavishly so.
Peter Borthwick said of it, " it was Postite
before all things," and so it remained under
his son's control. Palmerston's bishops,
appointed as they were under the influence
of his relative Lord Shaftesbury, came in for
Morning Post criticism.
Algernon Borthwick frequently got in
advance of his competitors in the matter of
early news. During the war in the Crimea
he possessed special sources of information ;
thus on the 8th of August, 1855, General
Simpson, who had succeeded Lord Raglan
in the chief command, complained that The
Morning Post had given the exact strength
of our guards, and particulars of the trenches
and the times of relief, which were read by
the Russians in Sebastopol " some days
before they reach us here."
During the negotiations for peace in 1856
many difficulties arose, and The Morning
Post became very indignant about the part
Prussia was playing, and openly threatened
that if she did not join the allies in making
war on Russia, the allies would make war on
her. Greville refers to the article as being
" indecently violent and menacing," and
continues bitterly : " The Morning Post
derives its only importance from being the
Gazette of Palmerston and of the French
Government " (' The Greville Memoirs,'
vol. viii. pp. 1, 2).
On the 14th of January, 1858, the Orsini
attempt to assassinate the French Emperor,
which had been planned in this country, took
place in front of the Opera-House in Paris.
Great indignation was expressed against
England, and indiscreet addresses from
French colonels nearly led to war. Borth-
wick had predicted that " the Anglo-French
alliance was failing." When Palmerston
brought in his Conspiracy Bill, although it
received the strong support of the Post, and
was a moderate measure, merely making
conspiracy to murder a felony instead of a
misdemeanour, it was defeated on the second
reading by 19, although on the first reading
it had received a majority of 200 (Ashley's
' Life of Palmerston,' vol. ii. p. 354). The
friendship shown by the Post for the French
Emperor led to the accusation that the paper
had been " nobbled " by Napoleon, and sub-
sidized by Walewski (' Memoirs of an Ex-
Minister'). This Borthwick emphatically
denied, and, as proving that the conduct of
the paper was independent, pointed out that
after January, 1859, the Post was being
seized and prohibited in France, on account
of its strictures upon the Imperial policy at
Villafranca. The fact is that the whole-
action of the paper has been from first to
last patriotic, seeking to associate France-
and England in permanent friendship.
When Crompton died in September, 1858,.
Borthwick found, to his dismay, that
Crompton had not left the paper to him,
although he had always been led to believe
that he was to be his heir and successor in the
ownership of The Morning Post. Still, he
remained editor, and wrote to his mother
that he was " too much blessed not to bear a
cheery and hopeful and happy heart...."
During the war of 1870 the Post strongly
supported France. On the 2nd of July the
Emperor of the French said to Prince
Metternich that he now felt confident of the
peace of Europe and of transmitting the-
crown to his son at his death. Two days
only elapsed before The Morning Post
announced the Hohenzollern candidate for
the throne of Spain. Borthwick, who had
been married on the 5th of April, went
to Paris to watch events, and on the 24th of
August the Post made the statement, in a
leading article, that it was proposed by
Prussia to transport convoys through Bel-
gium. The writer gave expression to strong
indignation against such a violation, and
used arguments so convincing that Borth-
wick was able to write to his wife : —
" The leader was so conclusive, and so
thoroughly did its work, that Granville and
Gladstone, who had given in to the Prussian
proposition, have to-night withdrawn their
sanction, and have by telegraph altered the
position of our guaranteed neutral state."
The files of The Morning Post for 1870-71
give evidence of " the diabolical frightful-
ness " which has been recently recalled by
devastations in Belgium. The traditions of
soldierly honour were then, as now, dis-
gracefully flouted. The Post of the 9th of
February, 1871, said : —
" The Union of Germany points to an era of
physical force in which all who desire to hold
their own must be prepared to meet such force
with something more than moral arguments or
diplomatic negotiations."
On the death of the Emperor at Chisle-
hurst on the 9th of January, 1873, the paper
contained an appreciative obituary notice : —
" The exile had achieved everything, and had
seen it all collapse in utter wreckage .... but one-
fact remains — he left behind him the most
magnificent and fascinating capital in Europe."
JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.
(To be continued.)
324
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AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282.)
THE regiment next following (p. 28) was raised in Nottinghamshire in June, 1685,
Sir William Clifton being its first Colonel. It was later known as the 15th Foot, and in
1782 received the additional territorial title " Yorkshire, East Riding." It is now " The
East Yorkshire Regiment " : —
"Major General . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
-Captains
•Captain Lieutenant
'Lieutenants
tl Harrison's Dates of their
Dates of their first
of Foot. present commissions.
commissions.
Henry Harrison, Colonel (1).. 8 Feb. 1714-15
Ensign, 22 Feb. 1695.
Samuel Daniel (2) . . . . 2 July 1737
Ensign, 27 Oct. 1704.
Simon Loftus (3) . . . . 10 Dec. 1739
Ensign, Sept. 1708.
"Robert Thompson
25 Dec. 1726
Lieutenant, 16 Mar. 1710.
Henry De Laune (4)
26 ditto
Captain, 1 Dec. 1705.
Charles Campbell
5 April 1733.
George Dawson
9 July 1733
Ensiqn, 1 Mar. 1703-4.
John Dennet . .
23 April 1736
Lieutenant, 28 Jan. 1733-4
Arthur Mainwaring
25 June 1736
Cornet, 16 Dec. 1724.
L William Selbie
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 21 Mar. 1712-13.
George Sharpless (5) .
ditto
Ensign, 24 Feb. 1709-10.
f William Strachey (2)
21 May 1720
Ensign, 19 Aug. 1715.
John Bell
26 Dec. 1726
Ensign, 13 Aug. 1718.
Gabriel Sedieres
24 Feb. 1738-9
Ensign, 25 Oct. 1713.
John Grant
6 June 1733
Ensign, 1 Jan. 1718.
John Maitland (5)
1 Jan. 1735-6
Ensign, 25 Dec. 1726.
Andrew Pringle (2)
23 April 1736
Ensign, ditto.
Thomas Gregson
25 Oct. 1739
Ensign, 1712.
John Morris
12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 2 Oct. 1712.
LTheophilus Johnson
19 ditto
From Half Pay.
(Robert Bell ..
20 April 1732.
Musgrave Briscow
6 June 1733.
1 Jan. 1735-6.
j onn xxiensou . .
Daniel Richardson
17 July 1739.
Job Walker
25 Oct. 1739.
i q Mnv 1 73Q
.\ii;ui jj-Oroe • •
Robert Hooley
J O * > UV. Ji I O V»
12 Jan. 1739-40.
T 41- TIT 4 • i\
3 Feb. 1739-40.
•J llSLlG y W ii coOIl
I Thomas Davenport Da vies
4 ditto.
.Ensigns
This regiment suffered severe losses in the expedition against Carthagena, South
America, in 1741. R. Bell and M. Briscoe, who were ensigns in 1740, were captains in
.April, 1741, with two captains below them who were not in the regiment at all in 1740.
(1) Died in 1749, then being Lieut.-General.
(2) Died at Carthagena, South America, April 24, 1741, when on active service.
(3) Died, 1741, from wounds received at Carthagena.
(4) Became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 6th Regiment of Marines on May 14, 1741. Died in 1746.
(5) Killed at Carthagena, 1741.
Handasyd's Regiment of Foot (p. 29) was raised in the southern counties of England
in October, 1688, and in due course became the 16th Regiment of Foot. In 1782 it
received the additional title " Buckinghamshire," which in 1809 was changed to
" Bedfordshire." It is now " The Bedfordshire Regiment " : —
Major General Handasyd's Dates of their
Regiment of Foot. present commissions.
Major General .. Roger Handasyd, Colonel (1). . 9 July 1730
Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Peachell (2) . . . . 26 Nov. 1739
Major . . . . John Adams 2 Nov. 1739
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 1694.
Ensign, 1701.
Lieutenant, 1706.
(1) Was Colonel of the 22nd Regiment from 1712 to 1730. Died in 1763, then being Lieut.-
•Oeneral.
(2) Died in 1750. He belonged to the old family of de Pechels, and was father of Sir Paul
Peachell, the 1st Baronet, created in 1797. The name is now spelt Pechell.
is s. ii. OCT. 21, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
325-
Major General Handasyd's Regiment of Foot
Dates of their
Dates of their first
(continued).
present commissions.
commissions.
(John Chalmers
.. 25 Dec. J1726
Ensign,
1704.
(if.n'u'r Collingwood . .
.. 12 Sept. 17:51
Ensign,
1700.
Fenwick Dornier
.. 23 April 173<;
Ensiyn,
1721.
Captains . .
Edward Thurlow
4 Nov. 1730
Ensign,
1704.
John Mostyn . .
6 ditto
Ensign,
29 Feb. 1732.
ThoMins Middleton
.. 18 Julv 1737
Ensign,
23 Mar. 1730-31
t George Richardson
.. 12 Jan. 1730-40
Ensign,
1709.
Captain Lieutenant Walter Devereux
ditto
Ensign,
1706.
i Robert Bradford
.. 15 July 1710
Ensign,
1704.
Hugh Patrick
.. 22 Dec. 1726
Ensign,
1709.
Robert Donworth
3 Oct. 1732.
Williaiu Whiting
. . 12 Sept. 1734
Ensign,
1720.
William Scot ..
5 Nov. 1736
Ensign,
24 Aug. 1715.
Lieutenants . . ") Mathew Revnolds
7 Feb. 1738-9
Ensign,
1709.
Peter Campbell
ditto
Ensign,
25 Dec. 1726.
John Jennings
5 Nov. 1739
Ensign,
26 Dec. 1726.
Sir William Fleming (3)
.. 12 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign,
ditto.
(, Woodroff Gascoign . .
.. 19 ditto
Ensign,
17 Jan. 172S-9..
( David Duvernet
. . 20 June 1735.
William Charters (1) . .
5 Nov. 1736.
/liffr*
Griffith
1 John Maylin . .
• * UlttO*
.. 17 July 1739.
Ensigns . . . . -{ James Agnew . .
5 Nov. 1739.
01 T)(>{, 1 7QQ
wuuam •Mvetuer-
William Agnew
. . — 1 j >i-i . j. i.i.>.
.. 12 Jan. 1739-40.
John Younee
.. 19 ditto.
I Mathew Watkins
4 Feb. 1739-40.
(3) Third Baronet, of Rydal, Westmorland. Died in 1756, in which year he had been elected1
M.P. for Cumberland.
(4) The only officer, besides the Colonel, who was still serving in the regiment in August, 1755,
then being a Captain.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
'THE TRAGEDY OF OESAR'S REVENGE.'
(See ante, p. 305.)
Cp.
1. 1021. With.— Read " Which." Cp. 1. 1443,
note.
1. 1046. vertues. — Perhaps " vertuous." Cp.
1. 1455. If " vertues " stands, cp. 1. 750, note.
1. 1057. my. — Seems to have crept in from the
line above.
1. 1060.— Defective.
1. 1072. which.— Query " it " ?
1. 1077. and. — Read "end."
1. 1079. fearest. — Read " farest " (M.).
1. 1082. songes. — Query " signes " 'i
1. 1462.
1. 1092. hand.— Query " hart " ? Cp. 1. 1100,
" A brest."
1. 1112. favor. — Query " sauor " ? Cp. 1. 1538,
note.
1. 1114. He.— Query " Ide " ?
1. 1121. constant vertues. — Query " vertue " ?
Or may " constant vcrtues " mean " men of
constant vertue"? Cp. "noble bloods," &c.
1. 1156. Rome. — Vocative case.
I. 1176. come. — Query "comes"? (M.)
II. 1181-2. Pluebus Mounted vpon the firy
Pbiegetons l>ark«-s. — For " Phlegelons " query
'• 1'hactoiis " ? Cp. ' Od.,' xxiii. 246 : —
' oi'r' 'Hw irwXot dyovcriv.
Cp.
M. points out that the passage is based on ' F. Q.,-
I. v. 2.
1. 1189. whose. — Query "whom"?
1. 1197. these. — Query " those " ?
1. 1207. it bound it. — M. would omit the first,
" it " : better to omit the second.
1. 1215. these. — Query " those " ?
1. 1219. my. — Query " thy " ?
1. 1224. from. — Query "from [forth]"?
1. 1229. Africans. — Query " Africane " ?
1. 289.
1. 1245. Persius. — Read "Perseus" (M.).
1. 1254. by.— Read "by."
1. 1264. fetch.— Read " fetcht " (M.). Perhaps
"fecht" (cp. 1. 857).
1. 1275. Saramna. — Read " Garumna."
1. 1285. to the field. — Query " tokc the field " 'f
1. 1321. winde [minde, Malone edd. and M.J
depressing. — One would expect for "depressing'
a word of contrary meaning, e.g., " refreshing."
1. 1325.— Cp. 1. 2215, note.
I. 1340. bondes. — Read " boule " (bowl).
II. 1380-81. — I think the words " thy courage
dead " are an intrusion from below, and tin-so
lines are only one : " O vtinam Brute
Wrhat meaneth this ? "
1. 1399. neere=" ne'er." — Cp. L 2440.
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11. 1425-6. the fatall Vrne | That lotheth death.
— Tl e Malone editors suggest " bodeth " for
"Intheth." Read " lotteth." Cp. 'Spanish
Traircdy,' I. i. 36 : —
^Tinos, in grauen leaves of Lotterie,
1 >i-.-w forth the manner of my life and death.
1. 1438. Armenians. .. .Medians. — Read " Ar-
menias. . . .Meclias." Cp. 1. 335. note.
1. 1440. there. — Read "their" (M.).
1. 1443. Which in. — Read " Within." Cp.
1. K124, note ; 1. 1657.
1. 1450. lookes. — Query " backes " ? The word
" lookes " is suggested by " lookes " above.
1. 1451. sorrowing. — Query " soaring " ? Cp.
I. 1489.
1. 1455. vertues. — Query " vertuous " ? Cp.
1. K'46. The same correction is required in Kyd s
' Soliman and Perseda,' III. i. 35.
1. 1459. ciuill. — The word seems to be suggested
by " Sibilles."
I. 1462. songes. — Query " signes " ? Cp. 1. 1082.
II. 1481-2. The Malone editors suspect a
lacuna. Rather for "expeld " read " exceld "
(Dyce's correction in ' II. Tamburlaine,' IV. i. 177),
;and transfer 1. 1482 to stand after 1. 1450.
1. 1512. crowne. — Perhaps suggested by " dia-
•dem " below. Query " hand " ?
1. 1538. f auor = object of favour.
1. 1540. nurse. — Query " nurst " ?
1. 1547. Hecatombs. — Read " Hecatombas."
1. 1550. spoyles. — Query " smyles " or
-' browes " ? Cp. 1. 2385.
1. 1566. had. — Query " has " ?
1. 1582. a peerce to flint. — M., " to peerce a
flint." Perhaps rather " a flint to peerce."
1. 1586. finnish. — Query " findish " (fiendish) ?
1. 1594. boe = "bow." Cp. 1. 1968.
1. 1597. hast.— Query " hadst " ? (M.).
1. 1599. Blod-slaughtered. — Query " Blody,
•Slaughtered " ? Cp. 1. 1861.
1. 1601. to thrust thy life to dangers mouth. —
If the reading were not confirmed by 1. 382, one
-might suppose " thrust " stood for " trust."
I. 1607. But these were but. — Read " And
-these were but." The first " But " has crept in
from the second.
II. 1612-13. let not thy woful teares
Bode mee, I knowe what thou wouldest not
haue to hap.
— If the reading is right, " thou wouldest " is
-syncopated to " thou 'dst," and the line means
" forbode for me what I know thou would'st not
"wish to happen."
1. 1637. steeps = steps (M.).
1. 1669. girdes. — Query " guiles " ?
I. 1675. wrong. — Query " wrongful death] " ?
II. 1677-8.— An "aside."
1. 1691. the Hearse. — Query " thy Hearse " ?
1. 1704. — The line should be indented.
1. 1715. lend. — Read " bend." Influenced by
" Leaue " following.
1. 1726. for them='fore them. Cp. 1. 800.
'The reverse error in 1. 1925.
1. 1729. I, bloody Caesar, Caesar. — Query "I
-Caesar, bloody Csesar " ? or "I bloody Caesar,
•Ceesars Brutus too."
1. 1742. I doe. — Read " doe I."
1. 1744. was. — Query " was't " ?
1. 1751. heard =hard (M.).
1. 1785. in thy top. — Query " in thy lap " ?
1. 1829. deathes. — Query " deathe " ?
1. 1863. those. — Query " his " ? The error is
•due to " those " below.
1. 1902. soundes= swoons. — The passage, as
M. and C. show, is based on Spenser, ' F. Q.,'
III. iv. xvii. : —
Like as the sacred Oxe that carelesse stands.
It is possible " soundes" here should be "standos."
1. 1905. hasted. — Query "hated"?
1. 1926. Spare.— Query " Spared " ?
I. 1936. these.— Query " those " ?
II. 1945-6.
No more I Fortun'd, like the Roman Lord,
Whose faith brought death yet with immortall
fame ,
— Read " No more ! " (cp. 1. 1804, " Caesar, no
more ! I hear," &c.) and put a full stop at
" fame."
1. 1961. hast commanded. — Query " hast com-
mand of " ? Cp. 1. 69. The sentence ends with
" Thessaly," 1. 1965. LI. 1961-70 are taken from
Appian, 88, 373.
1. 1971. And all the Costers on the Mirapont. —
The word " Mirapont " presents difficulty. After
the passage just quoted, Appian proceeds : —
jj.iv ffrparia. rcus a/j.<f>i rbv "Kdffffiov £vl TOV
K6\irov
Is " Mirapont " a corruption of " Melapont," or
of " Mizopont," suggested by ' Tamburlaine,'
III. i. : —
And I as many bring from Trebizon,
Chio, Famastro and Amasia,
All bordring on the Mare-maior sea
(i.e., on the Black Sea). Or did the author coin a
word " Mesopont " (="the midland seas,"
1. 622) ? He has omitted the Iberians from
Appian's list of Cassius's forces. Perhaps they
come in here.
1987. Heros=Heroes (Herpes). Cp. 1. 2569.
1988.— See 1. 263, note.
1999. — Defective.
2014. discentions. — Read " discentious." Cp.
1. 750.
2024. trophes =- trophies (M.).
2036. these. — Query " those " ?
2054. cease =seize.
2055. Fathers. — Read " Father."
2068. Light-shining Treasons. — Read" Light-
shuning " (" light -shunning ").
2073. shild gainst shild. — Omit " gainst."
2098. thee="the" (probably).
2100. the="thee." Cp. 1. 1361.
2103. worthy death. — Perhaps right. But
1. 2050, " My death which seem'd vnworthy to the
Gods," would suggest " vnworthy."
1. 2112. JSmathian fieldes ---- her. — Perhaps
" jEmathia's " and " their." Cp. 1. 270, " To see
Pharsalias fieldes to change their hue."
1. 2114. Stremonia. — The Malone editors sug-
gest " Strymon " (which would not scan). Prof.
H. M. Ayres, however, shows that the dramatist
is following Spenser, ' F. Q.,' I. vii. xvii. : —
renowned snake
Which great Alcides in Stremona slew.
1. 2119. sight = fight (M.), as in 1. 1082. See
I. 2312, note.
I. 2121. woundes. — Query "moundes"? Cp.
II. 265, 2203-5. For the corruption cp. 1. 1321.
II. 2136-7. — The Malone editors here see a
lacuna. It is simpler to suppose that " And " in
1. 2137 should be " In."
1. 2139. rides (=ridest). Cp. 1. 311.
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11. 2156-7.
that braue monument of Perseus fame
With Tursos vaild to vs her vanting pride.
— " Tursos " is of course " Torsos " (so M.). As
Torsos claimed to be founded by Perseus, it is
itself the " monument," and the word <; With "
seems to have replaced an epithet like " Wide," or
" Great," or " High."
I. 2168. Fauonia. — Query " Fauonius " ?
II. 2175-6.
"Vnto the Sea which yet weepes lo's death
Slayne by great Hercules repenting hand.
— Unless these lines cover a lacuna, which they do
not appear to do, they are hard to understand.
The " Ionian sea " was connected with lo's
wanderings, hardly with her death, and she was
not slain by Hercules. The last line would seem
to apply to Iphitus, but it is hardly possible to
suppose that the dramatist confused Iphitus and
lo.
1. 2178. Zanthus=Xanthus.
1. 2196, Daercean =Dircean.
I. 2199. ^Erastusr=Erastus.
1. 2215. thou«then. — For the reverse corrup-
tion see 11. 1325, 2288, 2493.
1. 2221.— Cp. I. 1019.
1. 2239.— Cp. 1. 120, note.
I. 2249. And.— Query " All " ? The " And "
•seems to have crept in from the line above.
II. 2264-5.
As when that Boreas from his Iron caue
With boysterous furyes Striuing ih the waues. . . .
-For " furyes " read " Eurus " (cp. note on
356). Cp. Hor., ' Carm.,' I. iii. 12, " praecipitem
Atricum Decertantem Aquilonibus " ; Ovid,
•' Tristia,' I. ii. 25-30 ; Seneca, ' Agam.,' 495-7 :—
Undique incumbunt simul
Rapluntque pelagus infimo eversum solo
Aduersus euro zephyrus, et bore* notus.
1. 2276. vpbraues. — Query " vpbrades " ?
1. 2288. See 1. 2215, note.
1. 2312. to shunne the honour of the fight. —
"For " honour " read " horror." Cp. 1. 2119, " the
terror of thy dismall sight" ( = fight) ; 1. 2397,
"' shunne the horror of this dismall day " ;
1. 2441, " the horror of this dismall fight " ;
1. 1082, " Hilias dismall sight" (=fight). It is
possible that here and in 1. 2441 " fight " should
t>e "sight.""
1. 2327. dismall triumphes sound my fa tall
knell. — For " triumphes " read " trumpets."
•Op. 1. 03, where " triump " stands for " trump,"
and 1. 2353, " the dreadful trumpets fatall sound."
1. 2352. armes. — Read " armies."
1. 2360. — Should this line follow 1. 2368 ?
2363. When Echalarian soundes. — Read
"' When ech alarum soundes."
1. 2375. foyld. — Read " soyld " (M.).
1. 2398. colour'd. — Query " cloth'd " ?
1. 2415. lost. — Read " toss." Cp. Shakspeare,
Rich. II.,' III. ii. 3.
1. 2440. protected. — Query ?
1. 2441. fight,— See 1. 2312, note.
1. 2460. hearts-thrilling. — Query " hearte-
thrilling " ?
1. 2493.— ^Cp. 1. 2215, note.
1. 2500. — " this " is possessive ( =" this's ").
I. 2552. But, — The Malone editors suggest
Nor, but " But " may stand. The line
qualifies the word " like " above : " Like, except
in this that "
1. 2559. Elysium pleasure. — Read " Elysian
pleasure." The mistake is perhaps due to 1. 2541,
" Elisium." In three passages in the old editions
of ' Tamburlaine ' we have the reverse mistake,
" Elisian " standing for " Elisium " (cp. ' I.
Tamb.,' V. ii. 184, 404 ; ' II. Tamb.,' IV. ii. 87),
where it is impossible to attribute the mistake to
Marlowe.
1. 2564. breath = breathe (ui passim).
Sheffield. G' C" MOOBE SMITH'
GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE
— The death of Dr. Edward Atkinson, Master
of Clare College, Cambridge, brought into
public notice last year the remarkable fact
that there have only been three holders of
that office since 1781. In that year Dr.
John Torkington was elected, and he held the
post until 1815, when he was succeeded by
Dr. Webb, who was Master until 1856, when
Dr. Atkinson, who died last year at the age
of 95, became his successor. Thus the
official lives of these three Masters of Clare
cover no less a period than 134 years.
I know of only two other cases that can be
compared with this, but doubtless other
readers could supply more, although the list
is hardly likely to become a very lengthy
one.
The .first of these falls a year or two short
of the Cambridge example, but is unique in
another respect, because the three men were
grandfather, father, and son. They were the
first three Professors of Anatomy in the
University of Edinburgh. All of them
happened also to have the same name —
Alexander Monro — and, to prevent confusion,
they are described in the University Calendar
as primus, secundus, and tertius. The same
nomenclature is applied to them in the
' Dictionary of National Biography.'
Monro, primus, was professor from 1720
till 1754, when his son, Monro secundus,
succeeded him. He held the chair until
1798, and was followed by his son, Monro
tertius, who occupied the position until 1846.
The three rulers in this remarkable Monro
dynasty thus covered a period of 126 years.
The other instance of a like lengthy tenure
was established in the Church of Scotland a
vear or two ago. The death then of Dr.
Duke, the minister of St. Vigeans in Forfar-
shire, completed an extraordinary length of
service on the part of the three successive
ministers of that parish. The first of the
:rio was the Rev. Mr. Aitken, who was
ordained minister in 1754, and held office
intil 1816. The Rev. John Muir succeeded
aim in that year, and preached, until 1865.
The Rev. Dr. Duke, who had been already
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assistant minister since 1859, followed, and
he was in harness until his death in 1909.
Their combined years of service accordingly
extended to 155 years, which, as regards
mere number of years, is certainly the most
memorable of the three instances referred to
in this article, and one that can be safely
considered as likely, to require a lot of beating.
CHARLES MENMUIB.
25 Garscube Lane, Glasgow.
"To WEEP IRISH " : "To WAR." — On
p. 363 of the eighth edition of ' Scholse
Wintoniensis Phrases Latinae,' by Hugh
Robinson (1673), we find : —
" 1404. To weep Irish, or feign sorrow. 1114.
Lacrymas falsas, confictas dolis fundere. Ad
novercae tumulum flere. Vultu gaudium tegere,
& frontem obnubilare dolorem simulans. Ex-
primere gemitus la-to pectore."
In which English books can we see the use
of this phrase ? It does not occur in the
' Oxford Dictionary ' under " Irish." Other
notanda in the book are, p. 299 : " hogherd,"
which is not represented in the Dictionary
between 1704 and 1562 ; p. 372 : " To war
or grow worse and worse." Are other
instances known of " to war " with this
meaning ? At pp. 377 and 383 the number-
ing of the pages, at least in some copies,
went wrong, so that the book consists of
one leaf more than appears.
E. S. DODGSON.
[Hugh Robinson is recorded in the ' Dictionary
of National Biography ' as dying in 1655.]
INFLUENZA. — The subjoined clipping from
The Manchester Weekly Times, Saturday,
Sept. 2, 1916, seems worth reproducing in
' N. & Q.' :—
" Another item of extreme interest [in an eigh-
teenth-century diary discovered among a lot of old
books belonging to Mr. Jas. Spratley, a member
of an old family of Kingston-on-Thames] is the
discovery that .the word ' influenza ' was used in
those days to indicate a very severe cold : —
' I was seized with a violent fever and cold
Nov. the 4, 1775. about 3 o'clock in the morning.
Laid in bed till half- past one o'clock Sunday.
Remained ill some time. The name of the disorder
was called ye influenzi.' "
FRED L. TAVARE.
22 Trentham Street, Pendleton, Manchester.
[The 'N.E.D.' notes that the word became popu-
larized in England from the severe visitation of the
disorder in 1743.1
" DUG-OUT " : VARIOUS MEANINGS. — One
or two meanings are being attached to the
expression " dug-out " other than its ap-
plication to " dug-out " canoes and dwell-
ings as given in ' N.E.D.' In one journal
recently I read of " The Downing Street
' Dug-out,' " implying a resting — or evert
hiding — place for statesmen, a use which may
bo associated with the sense of " dwelling-
place." A very different sense, however, is-
conveyed in the following passage from the
London Letter of The Birmingham Daily
Post of July 22 :—
"It is being cynically suggested in political,
circles that the Prime Minister should hang out
a sign at No. 10 Downing Street, while the list of
the two Special Commissions [on Mesopotamia and
the Dardanelles] is being drawn up, ' No " dug-
outs " need apply.' Attempts have been made
by friends of various ex-Indian officials to
persuade the Cabinet that they ought to be
brought once more into the open and assigned the
task of investigating the alleged faults of their
successors in Indian officialdom. . . .What Parlia-
ment and the public will demand are ' live '
men and not ' dug-outs.' "
This meaning was usual at the beginning
of the war, when the sudden demand for-
trained military officers was so great that
many on half -pay were " dug out " from
their retirement, and placed in command.
POLITICIAN.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
PALLAVICINI : ARMS. — At US. ix. 511 i
attempted a description of the coat of arms
which appears on the monument of Horacio-
Pallavicine in Chipping Ongar Church. I
wrote : —
" I know little of heraldry, but I describe the
arms as best I can. About three-quarters of
the lower part of the field, chequy ; above this is
what looks like a fesse bretessed."
The arms on the next monument, i.e., of
Jane Pallavicini, daughter of Sir Oliver
Cromwell, mother of Horacio, are far from
distinct, having been much broken. They,
however, certainly represented the arms of
Pallavicini impaled with those of Cromwell.
In The Gentleman's Magazine, 1796, vol. Ixvi.
p. 278, is what is given as a copy of the in-
scription on the Jane Pallavicini monument.
Then : " Arms at top : A cross pierced, on a
chief a bar, over all three billets in pale,
impaling a lion rampant." The lion rampant
is, of course, for Cromwell!
This description is very much more likely
to be correct than mine. I should be more
inclined to accept it if the copy of the
inscription and that of the Horacio Palla-
vicine inscription given on the same page
did not bristle with errors ; e.g., " Bal-
niensis " for Balneensis, " Cantabrigiensis "
12 s. ii. OCT. 21, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
329
fur ( antabrigiensi, " honovrable " for noble.
Perhaps the most remarkable error is in the
copy of the second inscription. The seventh
line runs : " day of May, in the yesere." An
asterisk attached to " yesere " points to a
footnote, " So on the stone." It is not so on
the stone, of which I have a rubbing. The
word is " YEARE," but the A and the R are
joined together after the manner of the
diphthong M. Including stops, omitted or
inserted, u for v, &c., there are thirty errors
in the copies of the two epitaphs given in
The Gentleman's Magazine.
Can any correspondent describe the
Pallavicini arms, which I have not been able
to find in any book of heraldry ?
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
AUTHORS WANTED. — I am looking for the
author of '' It is the Mass that matters." An
Irish priest, professor in a North American
university, lately quoted it in a graduation
sermon as from Thomas Carry le. Two
English friends ascribe it respectively to
Augustin Birrell and to Cardinal Gasquet.
S. GREGORY Ouu>, O.S.B.
[A similar question was asked at 10 S. x. 470.
A reply at xi. 98 derives the saying from the well-
known story of Plowden in Elizabeth's reign, " No
priest, no mass."]
Can any reader give me author's name and
other references for following lines ? —
The great ennobling Past is only then
A misty pageant, an unreal thing,
When it is measured in the narrow ring
And limit of the present by weak men.
Also for the following, which may not be
correctly quoted : —
Heaven would not be Heaven were thy soul
not with mine ; nor would Hell be Hell were our
souls together.
CHARLES PLATT.
60 Stapleton Road, S.W.
" RELIGIOUS " AS A SUBSTANTIVE. — The
meaning of this expression is obvious
enough, but what literary or historical
authority is there for its use ? A good
example of it occurs in ' John Inglesant,'
chap, xxxv., closing paragraph : " He was
brought under the influence of Molinos's
party, and. . . .he came to me to know
whether he should become a religious."
W. B.
[Religio in Mediaeval Latin has commonly the
meaning of " vita monastica, seu voto, ut vulgo
dicimus, religionis adstrMa " (v. Ducange) ; the
corresponding term reli</i»Ki wis commonly used
for persons under vows. The English equivalent
" religious " — in singular as well as in plural —
quite usual term. It is illustrated from
century to century in the ' N.E.D.' from ' The
Ancren liiwle ' downwards.]
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER'S HYMN : ' O DEUS,
EGO AMO TE ' : TRANSLATIONS. — Prof. J.
Fitzmaurice-Kelly , in his ' History of Spanish
Literature,' p. 192, considers this hymn,
which he says " is familiar to English readers
in a free version ascribed to Dryden" : —
O God, Thou art the object of my love,
Not for the hopes of endless joys above.
Nor for the fear of endless pains below
Which those who love Thee not must undergo :
For me, and such as me, Thou once didst bear
The ignominious cross, the nails, the spear,
A thorny crown transpierced Thy sacred brow,
What bloody sweats from every member flow !
For me, in torture Thou resign st Thy breath,
Nailed to the cross, and sav'dst me by Thy death :
Say, can these sufferings fail my heart to move ?
What but Thyself can now deserve my love?
Such as then was and is Thy love to me,
Such is, and shall be still, my love to Thee.
Thy love, O Jesus, may I ever sing,
0 God of love, kind Parent, dearest King.
Remembering something similar in Pope,
1 find in vol. iv. p. 499 of his ' Works '
(Murray), 1882, a poem entitled ' Prayer of
St. Francis Xavier,' thus : —
Thou art my God, sole object of my love ;
Not for the hope of endless joys above ;
Not for the fear of endless pains below,
WThich they who love Thee not must undergo.
For me, and such as me, Thou deign'st to bear
An ignominious cross, the nails, the spear :
A thorny crown transpierc'd Thy sacred brow,
While bloody sweats from ev'ry member flow.
For me in tortures Thou resign'dst Thy breath,
Embrac'd me on the cross, and saved me by Thy
death.
And can these sufferings fail my heart to move ?
What but Thyself can now deserve my love ?
Such as then was, and is, Thy love to me,
Such is, and shall be still, my love to Thee —
To Thee, Redeemer, mercy's sacred spring !
My God, my Father, Maker, and my King !
In a foot - note to the poem in Pope's
' Works ' it is said that it was first published
in The Gentleman's Magazine for October,
1791, with the following letter : —
" Mr. Urban,— The perusal of a small book lately
printed by you has revived an intention which I
have often formed of communicating to the public
an original composition of the celebrated Mr.
Pope, with which I became acquainted near forty
years ago. I was a student at that time in a foreign
college, and had the happiness of conversing often
with a most respectable clergyman of the name of
Brown, who died soon after, aged about ninety.
This venerable man had lived in England as
domestic chaplain in the family of the Mr. Caryl to
whom Mr. Pope inscribes the ' Rape of the Lock in
the beginning cf that poem, and at whose house he
spent so much of his time in the early and gay part
of his life. I was informed by Mr. Brown that,
seeing the poet often amuse the family with verses
of gallantry, he took the liberty one day of request-
ing him to change the subject of his composition,
and to devote his talents to the translating of the
Latin hymn, or ' rhythmus,' which I n'nd in the
330
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227th page of a ' Collection of Prayers and Hymns '
lately printed. The hymn begins with these words :
' O Deus ego amo t e,' kc. , and was composed by the
famous missionary Francis Xavier, whose apos-
tolical and successful labours in the East, united
with his eminent sanctity of life, procured him the
title of ' Apostle of the Indies.' Mr. Pope appeared
to receive this proposition with indifference ; but
the next morning, when he came down to breakfast,
he handed Mr. Brown a paper with the following
lines, of which I took a copy, and have since
retained them in my memory. — SENEX."
Is the translation in Prof. Kelly's book by
Pope, or, as he says, by Dryden ? and which
is the better authenticated rendering ?
ARCHIBALD SPAKKE.
NAVAL RECOBDS WANTED, c. 1800. —
Would any genealogist tell me how to set
about finding out facts about my great-
grandfather, who was a lieutenant in the
Royal Navy about 1800, and served during
the Peninsular War ?
His name, and that he was on the Statira
under Commander Boys at the siege of
Walcheren and received some medal, is all
that is known.
What naval records are there accessible
to the public ? D. B.
" THE HIGH COURT OF CHIVALRY." — On
Sept. 14, 1699, Dawks's News Letter contained
the item : —
•' We hear that to-morrow a Court is to be held
at the Heralds Office near Doctors Commons,
where several Persons are to be Tryed before his
Grace the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of
England, for Assuming Coats of Arms that do
no ways belong to them."
This was added to two days later by the
statement that
" Yesterday the High Court of Chivalry sate at
Doctors' Commons, where several Gentlemen paid
for Assuming Coats of Arms," &c.
Does the Duke of Norfolk of to-day, the
present Earl Marshal, or his deputies at
Heralds' College, hold anything approaching
to similar Courts of Chivalry now ?
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
BARNABD FLOWEB : BISHOP Fox OF
WINCHESTER. — Could any reader inform me
in what year Barnard Flower, King's Glazier
to Henry VIII., received that appointment ?
What foundation is there for the statement
that Bishop Fox of Winchester was appointed
to supervise Flower's work at King's College,
Cambridge ?
Who were the executors of King
Henry VII.'s will ? I understand that
Bishop Fox of Winchester was one. Who
were the others ?
JOHN D. LE CONTEUB.
Plymouth.
TOUCH WOOD. — I should be deeply obliged
if any reader of ' N. & Q.' would kindly give
me information concerning the origin of the
practice of touching wood after having made
a boast, or having congratulated oneself
upon having escaped a danger.
C. EDGAB THOMAS.
Sion College, E.G.
[Our correspondent will find a good deal of in-
formation as to the prevalence of the practice, and
as to verbal formulae accompanying it, at 10 S.
vi. 130, 174,230. The reason why wood in particular
should be touched is not, as HKLGA, the original
querist, points out, made clear.]
AUTHOB AND TlTLE WANTED : BOYS'
BOOK c. 1860. — Can any reader tell me the
title and author of a boy's book of adventure,
published, probably, about 1860 ? It related
the voyage of a ship called the Leda,
and was illustrated with woodcuts. One :
prisoners suspended by ropes over a precipice,
one falling, a savage with uplifted axe ready
to sever the rope of another. A second : the
cabin of a ship frozen-in in the Arctic, the
dead captain seated at his table. A third :
boats leaving a burning vessel ; this last is
also used in ' Sea Sketches about Ships and
Sailors,' Religious Tract Society, 1863.
N. D. F. PEARCE.
Cambridge.
UDIMORE, SUSSEX. — I shall be greatly
obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who can
furnish me with any information (other than
that to be found in printed histories of
Sussex and other well-known sources) re-
lating to the following families formerly
settled in this Sussex parish, viz. : Freebody,
Waters, Burdet, Bromfield, Dulvey, and
Sloman. Any other information likely to
be of service in the compilation of a history
of the parish would also be welcome. Please
reply direct. LEONARD J. HODSON.
Robertsbridge, Sussex.
MBS. EDWARD FITZGEBALD'S PICTURES. —
Can any one tell me what became of the
pictures (particularly one by Crome and one
by Cotman) belonging to Mrs. Edward
Fitzgerald, after her death at Croydon in
1890 ? G. A. ANDERSON.
DICKENS'S ' BLEAK HOUSE.' — I have been
under the impression that there was a
concurrence of opinion in accepting Rocking-
ham Castle (though in an adjoining county)
as the original or prototype of " Chesney
Wold," and works of some writers on
Dickens have contained illustrations of
Rockingham in that connexion. But the
' Illustrated Guide to Lincolnshire,' by G. J.
i2s. ii. OCT. 21, me.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
331
Wilkinson (1900), has this of North Willing-
ham, near Market Rasen : " the Hall of
North Willingham, the ' Chesney Wold ' of
Sir Leicester Dedlock of Charles Dickens' s
•* Bleak House ' " ; and a small illustration of
the Hall, is lettered underneath " Chesney
Wold." Is there any authority for the
ascription to North Willingham ? " The
place in Lincolnshire " was, of course,
regarded as a negligible expression of
Dickens by those to whom it indicated
Rockingham. W. B. H.
DRAWING OF THE MERMAID TAVERN
ORIGINALLY BELONGING TO MR. WlLLIAM
UPCOTT. — Can any reader of ' N. & Q.'
inform me where I could see the original
•of the print of the Mermaid Tavern which
appears in Mr. James Walter's ' Shake-
speare's True Life,' illustrated by Gerald E.
Moira, large paper, 1890 ? On p. 325 it is
stated that the sketch was formerly possessed
by Mr. Upcott, and traditionally considered
to be the noted Mermaid. I have gone
through the William Upcott Catalogues of
Prints and Drawings (1846), but it does not
.appear as having been sold, and therefore I
imagine it remains in private hands. I
should be very grateful to know where it
may be seen. A. W. GOULD.
Sfcaverton, Briar Walk, Putney Park Lane, S.W.
EepUes.
MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY.
(12 S. ii. 26, 93.)
A LIKE query (Were the families Meux of
Kingston, I.W. ; Mewes of Winchester, who
changed their name to St. John and subse-
quently to Mildmay ; and Mew or Mews of
Purse Candle, co. Dorset, related, and, if so,
how ?) was submitted in an earlier issue of
* N.&Q.' (6 S. xii. 269).
The following illustrative pedigrees set
iorth broadly the descent of the main line of
the several families, but no family relation-
ship between the Isle of Wight and the
Dorsetshire Meuxes is shown, and, as far as
my knowledge goes, none such has yet been
traced.
Of the Kingston Meuxes. — The last member
of the de Kingston family — Sir 'John, living
1356 (' Cal. Pat. R. 1354-60,' p. 165)— left an
only daughter Eleanor, wife of William
Drew, who (her two brothers having died
childless) inherited the Kingston estate.
The Drew family also ended in Alice, only
daughter of William Drew, who married,
before 1441, Lewis Meux or Mewis, a well-
known military commander (idem, 1422-9,
pp. 327, 553 ; 1429-36, pp. 472, 536), son of
Richard of Wanstead, co. Essex, and grand-
son of Sir Walter Meux, buried in the church
of the Augustin Friars. The Meux family
are said to have come from Yorkshire, taking
their name from Meaux Abbey, near Bever-
ley. Alice survived her husband, dying in
1472, and was succeeded by her grandson
William (1) (later Sir William), son of
Thomas Mew, who had died vita matris. Her
other sons were : Henry, who married
Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Savage, and
Ralph, likewise married, both alliances,
apparently, without male issue. Sir
William (1) Meux married Jane, daughter of
Richard Cooke of Rushington, co. Sussex,
and at his death in 1512 (Chanc. Inq. p.m.
Ser. 2, xxii. 10) he left the Kingston estate
to his third and voungest son John ( 1 )
(Anct, D., P.R.O., A. 12439), who married
Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerh asset,
and, dying s.p. in 1568 (Chanc. Inq. p.m.,
Ser. 2, clii. 143), left the manor to his nephew
William, eldest son of his brother Richard
(the eldest brother William had died abroad
in France, childless) and his wife Dorothy,
daughter of Thomas Cook of Harebridge and
Somerley, co. Hants.
William (2) Meux was next in possession of
the manorial estate, and married Eleanor,
daughter of Sir Henry Strangeways, and
had Issue an only son, Sir John, of whom
later, and two daughters — Eleanor, wife of
William Okoden, and Anne, wife of Edward
White of Winchelsey. His two brothers
were both married — Thomas of Bishopstown,
co. Wilts, to Ellen, widow of Young,
whose family name has not been traced ; and
John to a daughter of Hill of the same
place. Apparently no issue followed these
marriages.
Sir John (2) Meux and his two sons,
William and Bartholomew, issue of his
marriage with Cecilie, daughter of Sir
William Button of Alton Priors, co. Wilts,
seem in some way to have incurred the
dislike of our island worthy, Sir John
Oglander, who describes the father, in his
' Memoirs ' written about the time, as being
" of a homely behaviour, as nevor havinge
anie breedinge or good naturales," and
" the veryest clown (of a gentleman) that evor the
Isle of Wight bredd. As he was destitute of
learninge, soe of humanitie and civilitie, yet al-
though his clownisch humour a good honest man.
If you will see ye picture of him, you may truly
fynd it in his sonn Bartholomewe. Sir William
wase as well quallified a gentleman as anie owre
countery bredd, but of no spirite."
332
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 21, 1916.
Sir John died in 1629, and was interred at
Kingston. His second son, Bartholomew
(ancestor of the Hertfordshire Meuxes),
m'arried Radcliff, daughter of William
Gerrard of Harrow-on-the-Hill. He died in
1650, and was buried at Kingston.
Sir William (3) Meux, the eldest son,
married firstly Winifred, daughter of Sir
Francis Barrington, Bart., co. Essex, and
had issue an only son Sir John, " the
Royalist," and two daughters: Joan, wife of
Mead of Lofts, co. Essex, and Cecilie
Meux of Swaffham Priors, co. Cambs, who
died in 1697, unmarried. The second wife
was Elizabeth, daughter of William Gerrard
of Harrow-on-the-Hill. There was no issue
from the second alliance. Sir William died
in 1638 (Chanc. Inq. p.m., Ser. 2, ccxxii. 47).
Sir John (3) Meux, only son and heir, was
created a baronet in 1641. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Worsley
of the Isle of Wight. She died in 1652,
and was interred at Kingston. Sir John
died in 1657, and was buried at Kingston,
leaving issue three sons: Sir William, who
succeeded ; John, who died in 1649 ; and
Henry in 1702, both being interred at
Kingston ; and two daughters, Anne and
Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and were
buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster.
Sir William (4) Meux, 2nd Bart., was twice
married : firstly, to Mabella, daughter of Sir
Robert Dillington of Knighton, I.W., by
whom he had issue John, who died vita patns
in 1669, and was buried at Kingston, and
three daughters — Mabel, died an infant,
Frances died in 1660, and Elizabeth in 1664 ;
secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of George
Browne of Buckland, co. Surrey, having
issue by her two sons and three daughters.
Lady Meux died in 1732, and was interred at
St. Margaret's, Westminster. Sir William
died in 1697, and was buried at Kingston.
Sir William (5) Meux, the eldest surviving
son, succeeded as 3rd Bart., and died un-
married in 1706, when the baronetcy became
extinct and his property was divided between
his three sisters. Elizabeth, the eldest,
married Sir John Miller of Froyle, and she,
on the death of her two sisters, Jane and
Ann, unmarried, became sole heiress.
The small brass on the chancel floor of
Kingston Church, alluded to by MB. S.
GBEEN, represents a sixteenth - century
(fifteenth century, J. Chas. Cox, " County
Churches," I.W., p. 93, publ. 1911) civilian
in a furred gown, apparently a lawyer's ; a
small plate on the dexter side of the figure
is engraved with four sons, the three elder of
whom have similar furred robes, and on the
other side is a shield of the Mewes arms —
Paly of 6, on a chief 3 crosses pattee. The
inscription is : " Mr Rychard Mewys which
decessyed the iii day of March in the yere of
or lord God MCCCCC and xxxv."
Mewes family of Dorsetshire. — Ellis Mews
of Stourton Caundle, one of the four sons of
Peter Mewe or Mews of Caundle Purse, who
died before March 6, 1597/8 (11 S. iii. 105),
married a daughter of John Winniffe of
Sherborne and sister of Thomas, sometime
Bishop of Lincoln, and left, with other
children, a son Richard of Winchester, who
had to wife Grace, daughter of Ford
of the same city. Dying in 1646, aged
upwards of 60 (see ante, p. 94), he left a son
Ellis, married to Christiana, only daughter
of Oliver St. John (ob. 1665) of Farley
Chamberlayne, and having issue a son and
namesake, Ellis. He married, Dec. 6, 1699,
his cousin Frances, only daughter of Oliver
St. John (ob. 1689), and sister and heir to a
third Oliver St. John, who died childless in
1689. Frances's husband — on his marriage
— took the name and arms of St. John by
Act of Parliament. Frances died childless
in 1700, and her husband married, secondly r
Martha, daughter of John Goodyear of
DogmersfiekC co. Hants, and, thirdly,.
Sarah, daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh
Stewkeley (ante, p. 137). At his death in
1728/9, Ellis St. John of Farley Chamber-
layne and Dogmersfield, co. Hants, left his
eldest son by his second marriage, Paulet
St. John, to succeed. He was created a
baronet in 1772, and died in 1780. He was
twice married : firstly to Elizabeth, daughter
of Sir John Rushout, and secondly to Mary,
daughter of John Walter and widow of Sir
Henry Tynte, Bart., and had issue Sir Henry
Paulet St. John, who married Dorothea
Mary. She died 1768, aged 26. Their son.
Sir Henry, on his marriage with Jane, eldest
daughter of Carew Mildmay of Shawford
House, Twyford, took the name of Mildmay.
Of the Mildmay family. — Sir Henry
Mildmay of Wanstead, co. Essex, a supporter
and favourite of Charles I., married Janer
daughter of Sir Leonard Holliday, Knt.,
Alderman and Lord Mayor of the City of
London, and had with her the Twyford estate,
specially purchased on her marriage. Their
son Henry married Alice, daughter of Sir
Mundeford Bramston, Knt., and had issue by
her a son Holliday Mildmay, who, by his
wife Anne, daughter and coheir of Sir John
Bowden, Knt., left an only daughter and heir,
Letitia. She married Humphrey, second son
of Carew Mildmay of Marks, co. Essex, and
had issue, with other children, Carew, who
12 S. II. OCT. 21, 1916.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
333
married Jane, daughter of William Pescoc
of Winchester, and died in 1768 without
male issue, when this branch of theMildmay*
became extinct (see Duthy's ' Sketches o]
Hampshire,' p. 300). Jane, eldest of the
three daughters, married Sir Henry St. John
of Dogmersfield, who assumed the name ol
Mildmay. The other daughters were named
Ann and Letitia. J. L. WHITEHEAD.
Scholastica de Meux and John de Meux
her son, temp. Edward III., are mentioned
in Whalley's ' Northamptonshire,' vol. i.
pp. 262-3. A copy of that work is in the
exteasive historical collections of the New-
berry Library, Chicago.
The pedigree of Mewce of Holdenby, tra-
cing from John Mewce of Calais, is given
in the ' Visitations of Northamptonshire,'
London, 1887, p. 114. Can any reader give
the earlier history of the Mewce family in
Calais 1 A query inserted in L'lnterme-
diaire some years ago brought no response.
EUGENE F. McPiKE.
1200 Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
BBASSEY (BRACEY) FAMILY (12 S. ii. 269)'
— John Brassey would seem to be the first
of his family who became a landowner in
Hertfordshire. He bought the Manor of
Roxford in 1699, and this property remained
in the possession of his family till 1802, when
it was conve\7 ed by his great-grandson
Richard John Brassey to William Baker of
Bayfordbury (Clutterbuck's ' Herts,' ii. 201).
Nathaniel Brassey, son of John, was a
banker of Lombard Street (Cussans's ' Herts :
Hundred of Hertford,' p. 104). Perhaps
John had made money as a merchant or
tradesman, and thus became practically the
founder of his family. Many of them are
buried at Bengeo and Hertingfordbury,and
their alliances with the local families of
Caswall, Dimsdale, and others may be traced
through the indexes of Clutterbuck and
Cussans.
I should be glad to be corrected by MR.
PAXMER or others, but I fear the family is
now extinct. In my own boyhood "Mr.
George Brassey lived on a small property of
which he was owner at Bram field, near
Hertford, of which parish my father was
then rector. He had married a lady who
was very kind to us boys, especially when we
returned to school. She was Jane, daughter
of Richard Emmott, Esq., of Goldings,
Bengeo, and died in 1857, aged 80. Her
husband died in 1862, aged 82. They had
no children, and the estate devolved on his
nephew, Nathaniel Brassey, who had been, I
believe, conveyancing-clerk to Lord Chief"
Justice Coleridge. He sold the messuege
and the rest of the property to Abel Smitli
of Watton Woodhall, the owner of all the
rest, of Bramfield parish, and died, I believe,
unmarried, but when and where I know not-
It may be worth noting that the present
Rector of Bramfield is only the third in
succession since 1800, in which year Edward
Bourchier was appointed. Lewis Deedes
succeeded in 1840 and resigned in 1882,.
since which year the Rev. F. L. Harrison
has held the benefice. MR. PALMER is right
as to the uniform pronunciation of the name-
(Bracey). CECIL DEEDES.
Chichester.
It appears to me that the Brasseys of
Hertfordshire were probably descended from
the same stock in Cheshire as Earl Brassey.
On locking at the latter's pedigree hi
Crisp's ' Visitation of England,' Notes,,
vol. xi. p. 87, it will be noticed that Tho.
Bressie, haberdasher, and his brother
Edmund Bressie, merchant, settled in
London before 1613, their other brothers,.
Richard, Randle, and Ralph, remaining in
Cheshire. Edmund's pedigree was appar-
ently recorded in the Visitation of Bedford-
shire in the year 1634.
Sir Francis Morton of the Island of Nevis,
then of London, in his will, made in 1679,.
names
" Mrs. Susanna Bressy, dau. of the worshipful
Balph Bressy, merchant of Dort, deceased. The
Hon. Madam Adriana Bressey of Dort. The
worshipful Eichard Bressy of Dort & his wife-
Mr. Bandolphus Bressy."
Now these three Christian names are the
same as those used by the Cheshire family.
Richard Bressii, son of Ralph of Dordrecht,.
Holland, Esq., matriculated from Christ
Church, Oxford, on July 23, 1668, aged 1&
(Foster).
There is an allegation, dated March 30r
1680 (Vic. Gen. of Archb. of C.), for the-
marriage of Tho. Plott, Esq., Secretary to
the most Hon. Sydney, Envoy to
Holland, aged 23, with Mrs. Susanna Bresey
of Dort, spinster, aged 25.
Randall Brassey of Watling Street, haber-
dasher, buried Oct. 13, 1665, at St. Manv
Aldermary (his surname indexed as Brane),
made his will, and gave his wife Man- 20<>/.,
his son Nathaniel 100J. at age of 21, and also
named his son John and daughter Sarah
King (P.C.C. 108 Hyde). Nathaniel Bra-s.-t v
accompanied George Fox the Quaker to
Holland in 1683 (' Life of Fox,' ii. 269).
In Howard's Misc. Gen. et Her., New
Series, ii. 577 (with additions in vol. iii.), is a
334
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 21, i9ie.
rgood pedigree of Brassey of Hertfordshire,
dmwn up by Mr. R. S. Boddington in 1877.
It commences with John, who purchased
Roxford in 1699, was a wealthy goldsmith
-and banker in Lombard Street, and died in
1737. He names in his will of 1731 his
brothers, Nathaniel, William deceased, and
Thomas decease, and desires to be buried
in the Quakers' ground.
Testator's son Nathaniel, the M.P., died
in 1765, and the arms on his tomb are the
same as those of Earl Brassey, viz. :
Quarterly, per fesse indented sa. and arg.,in
the first quarter a mallard (or sheldrake).
His arms and crest are also on his Chippen-
dale book-plate. Some City register would
probably provide proofs for the above
suggested line of descent, and the records of
the Goldsmiths and Haberdashers should be
searched.
The arms of Bracey, as quoted, are from
•co. Hereford, and I saw them in Harl. MS.
1140 without pedigree.
V. L. OLIVER.
Sunninghill.
EDWARD STABLER (12 S. ii. 250). — I fear
that the following will not add much to
what MR. MERRYWEATHER already knows : —
" On Wednesday evening died, to the great
grief of his family and friends, Edward Stabler,
Esq., one of the Aldermen of the City of York,
-and who served the office of Lord Mayor in the
year 1779. A gentleman who discharged the
•duties of public and private life with the most
-conscientious integrity, and in whom were happily
united all the amiable virtues that could dignify
human nature and constitute the character of the
~fcrulv good man. His loss to society, to his
family and his friends, will be long and severely
felt and deplored." — Leeds Intelligencer, Sept. 11,
1786.
The Gentleman's Magazine refers briefly to
the death of Edward Stabler in the volume
ior 1786, p. 908.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
FISHERIES AT COMACCHIO (12 S. ii. 210,
257). — The reply signed A. V. DE P. is so
good and so satisfactory that I hesitate to
Add anything further. For bibliographical
reasons it may be worth while to note
additional references to the subject. There
Are two most illuminating articles on the
Comacchio fisheries in the Revue Contem-
poraine. They are headed ' La Lagune de
•Comacchio, ses Pecheries, son Commerce,'
par Coste [membre de 1'Institut], Revue
dontemporaine, Paris, torn. xiv. pp. 187-
215, 405-35, June 30 and July 15, 1854.
Bellini's book, already referred to, is ' II
iavoriero da pescanella laguria di Comacchio,'
by Arturo Bellini, Venezia, Vissentini, 1899,
pp. 117. Other references are: Ett. Fried-
laender, ' La pesca nelle lagune di
Comacchio,' Firenze, Le Monnier, 1872,
pp. 100; F. Carlo Ballola,' Soprauna lettera
di Ett. Friedlaender sulla pesca delle mani
in Comacchio,' Bologna, Mareggiani, 1876,
pp. 36. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
ROYAL ARTILLERY (US. xii. 401). — 1. I
am informed that Lieut.-Col. Thomas Arscott
Lethbridge died on June 17, 1856, at Chelsea,
and was buried in Nunhead Cemetery.
J. H. LETHBRIDGE MEW.
Barnstaple.
AMERICANISMS (12 S. ii. 287). — "Rare"
was used, with regard to beef, &c., underdone,
when I was a lad in the Midlands, 1850-60 ;
and my recollection is that it was generally
from persons who had some pretensions to
what was in those days quite favourably
called " gentility " that I heard it. I never
heard " the fall," as meaning autumn, in
English use ; though the American word
became somewhat known through the late
Henry Russell's entertainments, and the
Christy Minstrels epoch of popularity which
followed after. W. B. H.
With a longer experience of life and a
wider knowledge of provincial English
speech, MR. JOHN LANE would hardly have
written as he has done. It is a far cry from
Devon to Lincolnshire, but there, too, the
Knave card was a Jack, though I distinctly
remember my surprise at being told that it
was vulgar so to call it. I believe, too, that
we. usually spoke of our walking staves as
sticks ; but termed tHem canes, if canes they
chanced to be.
A writer in The London Chronicle, 1762,
quoted by Fairholt (' Costume in England,'
p. 604), remarks : —
" Do not some of us strut about with walking-
sticks as long as hickory poles, or else with a yard
of varnished cane scraped taper, and bound at one
end with waxed thread and the other tipt with a
neat turned ivory head as big as a silver penny,
which switch we hug under our arms?"
It was earlier than this, in Pope's day,
that the dandy learnt " the nice conduct of
a clouded cane."
I never heard the word " fall " used for
autumn in Lincolnshire ; its significance had
to be explained when I came to read ' The
Wide, Wide World,' or some other American
story. I think it was at Nottingham that
I first noted that " rere " or " rare " meant
underdone. ST. SWITHIN.
t2 s. ii. OCT. 21. i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
335
LADIES' SPURS (12 S. ii. 190, 255).—
Though unable to refer to antique notes on
the use of spurs by ladies, as asked for by
EPERON, may I state my experiences thereon?
In 1875, when at a Newmarket race meeting
I observed Lady Cardigan getting out of her
travelling chariot, and, from the steps,
mounting her horse. She wore two straight
dre^s spurs, recognized as those of her late
Hussar husband's, only one of which she
«ould use. My wife's spur is without rowel,
and only by pressure does the point appear
out of its cover from the short straight neck,
thus preventing any abuse to horse or habit.
Whyte- Melville hunted without spurs. My
painful experiences by being dragged taught
me that they were due to the projecting
knobs on the spurs to which the straps are
fastened. My lady's spur — like those issued
to cavalry — has in place of knobs a flat oval
with a bar across, through which the strap
passes under and over, and such are safe
-against the horrors of a drag.
HAROLD MAI/RT, Col.
LOCAL ALMANACS OF THE SEVENTEENTH
•CENTURY (12 S. ii. 241). — As a small con-
tribution to the bibliography of local
almanacs I may call attention to one
•compiled in 1642 by Nathanael Nye,
" Practitioner of Astronomy," and published
for
*' the faire and populous Towne of Birmicham
in Warwickshire, where the Pole is elevated above
the Horizon 52 degrees and 38 minutes."
So far as I know, this is the first book
printed for Birmingham ; and N"athanael
Xye is conjectured with some probability to
have been of a Birmingham family. The
imprint is: ''London. Printed by R. H.,
for the Company of Stationers." A copy is
in the Birmingham Reference Library.
HOWARD S. PEARSON.
LEGAL MACARONICS ( 7 S. i. 346 ; ITS. iii. 6).
— I wish to add a few examples of " Law
French " to those already noted. In the
•case of the Earl of Arundel v. Lord Lumley,
.24 Eliz., a previous case of Sir John
Throgmorton was cited, in which it was
sought to amfnd a writ " ou les ratts ou tiel
semble casualty ussent eat in le moyte del
Parchement," but the damage was beyond
•cure.
In 26 Eliz., December (1583), a case was
heard which involved the name of Arden of
Warwick, and the report says
" Sm le Fyne del Case il apperoit de estre tiel»
scilicet quo un Somervile intend et compasse le
mort le Reign, et a ceo executer a son mansion en
le County de Warr prist un daggc powder et
pellets efc oue eux prist son journey vers le Roign
adonques esteant a Saint James's, a quel fait le
dit Somervile fuit procure per Edward Arden et
son femme a Perke-Hall en le dit County."
It appeared, however, that Somervile was
insane, and the question arose
" Si un apres que est indite & al temps quant
il veign a son arraignment appier en open shew
de estre lunatike ou madd que serra f rtit."
It was agreed that in such a case an inquest
of office ought to be held, to determine
whether the lunacy is real or counterfeit.
The inquest found that Somervile was
shamming. So he pleaded Guilty, and the
Ardens pleaded Not guilt y, but were con-
victed. Finally, the three prisoners were
delivered
"a les Viconts [sheriffs] de Londres, et eux
command de fair execution, & devant Execution
Somervile soy-mesme strangle & Arden [fuit]
execute apres ceo," &c.
Perhaps some further light may be thrown
on the Ardens of Perke-Hall.
During Hilary Term, 26 Eliz., the question
of burglary was examined : —
" Tous les Justices assembles a Serjeants Inn
agree que si un enfreint le glasse en un window
en le Mansion House de ascun esteant, & la oue
hooks trahe Carpits hors, & eux felonieusment
emble, que ceo est burglary sil soit fait en le nuit,
coment que le home que ceo fist ne enter ou
enfreint le mease auterment."
A case was cited as follows : —
" Si I^rons en le nuit veign a un Mansion ascun
person esteant la deins, que vient & over le dore,
& quant est appiert, un de les larons intendoit
[intendant] a tuer le home sagitta a luy oue un
gunn, le pellet de que misse le home <fc enfreint
le wall de Tauter part del mease, et fuit agree per
touts que ceo nest burglary/'
In another cited case,
" En le nuit, un que intend do tucr auter en un
meason enfreint un hole en le mure de le Mansion
& percevant ou le person fuit shot a luy thorough
\he hole oue un gun & misse le person, que ad estre
ajuge pur burglary : issint ou un enfreint un hole
en le mure & percevant un que avoit burse oue
Argent pendant per son girdle veignant per le
aole, il snaccha a le purse <te ceo prist, ceo auxint
ad estre agree pur burglary, quel avient en
Essex."
These cases are to be found in Sir Edmund
Anderson's Reports, printed in 1664, pp. 80,
L04, 114. I append a curious one from
Serjeant Bendloes, 1661, p. 171 :—
" Judgment : si home oue petit chien chase
mrbitts hors de son torr, & il pursua eux hors &
nchase eux in ter d'autrui, accon ne gist v.
>wner del chien per le owner del barbitts, neque
'owner del terr. Car le chaser fuit legal, & il ne
poit restraine son Chien quant il voil, mes fuit
trove que il appell luy back & que il fist son
indeavour pur faire le Chien eraser le poursuite."
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
-NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. 11. OCT. 21, MI&.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.
ii. iMJO}.—
1. Though lost to sight, to memory dear.
Sir David Duridas, M.P. (1799-1877), went
through life offering ol. to anyone who could
produce the origin of this line. He used
to quote it as part of a couplet : —
Though lost to sight, to memory dear,
The absent claim a sigh, the dead a tear.
G. W. E. R.
2. The song beginning : —
Draw Cupid draw, and make fair Sylvia know
The mighty Pain her suffring Swain does for her
undergo,
is to be found, without the name of the
author of the words, in D'Urfey's ' Pills to
purge Melancholy,' 1719, vol. v. pp. 305-6,
with a tune by Mr. Motley. It was a
favourite song in the eighteenth century, and
I am sure that it is found in other song-books,
where, perhaps, the author's name may be
given. The tune was used in the ballad
operas ' Silvia ' '(by George Lillo, 1731) and
' The Merry Cobler ' (second part of ' The
Devil to Pay,' by Charles Coffey, 1735).
G. E. P. A.
"CARDEW" (12 S. ii. 299). — In your
review of ' The Races of Ireland and Scot-
land ' on the 7th inst. your reviewer states
the meaning of tne surname Cardew is
" dear to God." Is not the obvious meaning
" Black Fort " ? Cor = fortified place ; Dliu
=black. Also Carmichael=Fort Michael.
H. K. C.
Du BELLAMY : BRADSTREET : BRADSHAW
(12 S. ii. 209, 257).— I am much obliged for
MR. WILLIAM DOUGLAS'S valuable informa-
tion.
May I point out that the second marriage
of Charles Du Bellamy was to Agatha,
daughter of General John Bradstreet (not
Bradshaw), as is proved by the American
loyalist documents in the Public Record
Office (A. O. 13/44) ?
E. ALFRED JONES.
6 Fig Tree Court, Temple, E.C.
CHING : CHINESE OR CORNISH ? (12 S.
ii. 127, 199, 239, 259.)— The accidental
similarity of the name of the Cornish family
Ching to the Chinese word ching (to plough)
is not a unique instance. One of the
members of the Cornish family Tangye was
told by a Chinaman in San Francisco that
Tangye was a Chinese word : tang, I believe,
means a lamp. Other names found in
Cornwall, but not peculiar to that county,
have a resemblance to Chinese words r
Cann (fcan — dry) ; S\van=garlic ; Lang =
cold ; Han (more frequently Hanne)=cold.-
Years ago I was often asked if the firm
Comyn Ching was Chinese. The Cornish
names Nanfan and Panchen would have a
sufficiently Chinese ring for some of the-
plays and operettas connected with China..
LEO C.
THE MOTTO OF WILLIAM III. : " RECEPIT,.
NON RAPUIT " (12 S. ii. 26, 96). — There is an
interesting variant of the legend, quoted by
PROF. BENSLY at the second reference, in
Rap in' s ' History of England,' continued by
Tindal, vol. iii., in that part called ' The
Metallick History of the Reigns of King
William III.,' &c., 1747, p. 1.
No. 5 medal of Plate I. is thus described
(the inscriptions are given in capitals) : —
" Bust of the Prince armed ; facing him is the
crown royal, and round both these words :
' Guilielmus III. Dei gratia Princeps Auraniav
Hollandiso et Westfrisiae Gubernator ' :
'' William III. by the grace of God, Prince of
Orange, Governor of Holland and West-Priezland.
" Upon the edge is this legend :
" ' Is tua recipit, non rapit imperium.' He
recovers what had been forced from you, but does
not usurp dominion.
" On the reverse is seen the fleet at distance, the-
troops landing, who occupy the shore, and thi
Prince intent upon raising up Justice, who is
thrown down upon the ground. The legend is an
imitation of Ovid. Metam. 1. i. v. 150 ; though
quite opposite in sense.
Terras Astrea [sic] revisit.
Justice revisits the earth."
I give the full description, so that some-
correspondent (perhaps PROF. BENSLY) may
inform us whether this medal, apart from
the edge legend, is that referred to ante, p. 96.
On Plate I., facing p. 1, the obverse and
reverse are given. On the obverse are the
abbreviations D. G. Prin. Aur , &c. On the
reverse " Tera Astrea reuisit " appears
instead of " Terras Astrea revisit." The
edge legend is identical with that given
above.
' The Metallick History ' has some two
hundred and fifty medals celebrating William
or Mary or both. Those concerning William
predominate. There are scores of legends,
any one of which, I suppose, might as well
be taken to be his motto as that in question.
In view^ of the error " Tera " for " Terras,"
I do not place implicit faith in ' The Metallick
History. " Astrea " is given both on the
plate and in the description.
" Non rapui sed recepi " is the motto o£
the Cotterell family of Herefordshire. In
Debrett the translation is " I did not seize it,,
I recovered it." In the ' Royal Book o£
12 s. IL Oct. 2i, MM.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
',37
Crests,' 1883, and in ' Proverbs and Family
Mottoes,' edited by James Allan Main, 1891,
it is " I stole not, but received." This
translation is half way to Swift's gibe quoted
by SIR HARRY POLAND at the first reference.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
FAUST BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ii. 269). —
)Cotterill (H. B.). The Faust legend and Goethe's
' Faust.' London, Harrap. I*, fid. net.
-Oswald (EJ. Goethe in England and America.
English Goethe Society, vol. xi. London, De
La More Press, 5*. net.
Paligan (Ernest). Histoire de la legende de Faust.
Paris, 1888.
Walsh (W. S.). Faust, the legend and the poem.
Philadelphia, 1888. 8vo.
Brown (M.). From Faust to Pickwick. In Con-
temporary Review, vol. xxxviii. p. 1G2.
•Casartelli (L. C.). Goethe's, Calderon's, and Mar-
lowe's Faust. In Dublin Review, vol. xciii.
p. 245.
Dr. John Faustus. In 'Early English Prose
Romances.' Edited by W. J. Thorns. London,
Routledge, 6*.
Taust Legends. In Theatre, vol. vi. 1885.
'Garnett (R.). Faustus. In ' Encyclopaedia Britan-
nica,' 9th ed. 1879.
Redford (R. A.). Shakespeare and the Faust
Legend. In Gentleman's Magazine, New Series,
vol. Ixi. p. 547.
Symonds (J. A.). Legend of Faust. In 'Renais-
sance in Italy — Revival of Learning.'
*W right (T.). Legend of Faust. In 'Narratives of
Sorcery,' vol. i. p. 133. 1851.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
Henry Morley's Edition of Marlowe's ' Faustus,'
followed by Goethe's ' Faust,' from the German
by John Anster. Pp.316. Lond. 1883-91. Tenth
edition.
iRichards (Alfr. E.). Studies in English Faust
Literature : The English Wagner Book of 1594.
Pp. 176. Heft xxxv. of " Literarhistorische
Forschungen," edd. Jos. Schick u. M. v. Wald-
berg. Berlin, 1907.
Wood (Henry). Faust - Studien. Pp. viii + 294.
Berlin, 1912.
H. K.
See Prof. Henry Morley's Introduction to
Routledge's edition of Marlowe's ' Faustus '
-and Goethe's ' Faust ' in " Morley's Univer-
sal Library " series.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
I believe the most complete bibliography
of Faust is that by Carl D. L. Engel,
' Zusammenstellung d. Faust - Schriften :
der Bibl. Faustiana ' (1874), 2nd ed., small
8vo, Oldenburg, 1885.
This is in the London Library, the Cata-
logue of which contains nearly three columns
of the titles of various works on the subject.
A. COLLING WOOD LEE.
Waltham Abbey, Essex.
•
Mr. T. C. H. Hoddorui.'k's ' Doctor
Faustus ' (an English version of the German
puppet play so called, with an introduction,
appendix, &c.) contains information on the
place of the Faust story in English dramatic
literature. This work was published by
Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. in 1887.
C. C. B.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS : PENRITH
(12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317).— The portraits
of Richard, Duke of York (certainly not
Richard II.), and his wife, Cecily Neville
(sister of the Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and
aunt of the "Kingmaker"), in Penrith
Church, are figured in Jefferson's ' History
of Cumberland,' i. 468, i.e., ' History of
Leath Ward.' The introduction of a Guy
Neville in the modern legend is an interesting
example of the tendency, existent in Tudor
days, to transfer to Nevilles or to the War-
wick title the attributes of the Beauchamps.
A. D. G.
The great east window in the Church of
St. Margaret, Westminster, contains con-
temporary portraits of Arthur, Prince of
Wales (son of Henry VII.), and his consort,
Katherine of Aragon. The wonderful story
of the vicissitudes of this beautiful window
is told by Mrs. J. E. Sinclair in her ' History'
and Description of the Windows of the
Parish Church of the House of Commons '
(1895).
The glory of Stanford-on-Avon Church,
Northamptonshire, is its ancient stained
glass. In the east window, in the uppermost
tracery light, is a royal head supposed to
represent that of Edward I. It bears a close
resemblance to the head which figures on
that monarch's coinage.
The famous timber-built church of Green-
sted, Essex, contains a fragment of old
stained glass on wnich is represented a
head, probably that of Henry VII. Some
aver that it is a portrait of St. Edmund, but
it is doubtless coeval with the rebuilding of
the chancel at the end of the fifteenth
century.
In the small church of Cold Ashby,
Northamptonshire, are two very modern
windows containing undoubted ortraits.
The first commemorates a former vicar, the
Rev. Gregory Bateman, who died in 1882.
There are two lights, in one of which, is seen
the vicar, fully vested, standing beneath the
lych-gate, and in the other he is depicted
conducting service in the church. The
second window commemorates Mrs. Bateman,
who died in 1880. In the two lights tho
lady is represented (1) playing the organ
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in the church, and ^2) tending flowers in her
garden. The portraits of several well-
known parishioners are also introduced in
the backgrounds of the pictures.
JOHN T. PAGE.
TORE OF NOTTS (12 S. ii. 250). — This family
is mentioned by Thoroton under the variant
names of Touc, Touk, Toke, Tolka, Tuke,
Tuc, and Thucke, chiefly in the Kelham
section of his History. A Touk was en-
feoff ed before 1163 by Robert Ferrers, and
another was fined by Richard I. for being out
with John in the rebellion of 1194. In 1218
Henry de Tuc (of Leake ?) witnesses a
Staythorpe deed of gift to Rufford Abbey
(p. 105). The chief references to this family
will be found in vol. iii. of Throsby's edition,
but various members of the family are also
noted on pp. 45 and 46 of vol. i.
EDITOR ' LOCAL NOTES AND QUERIES,'
' NOTTS WEEKLY EXPRESS.'
MRS. ANNE BUTTON (12 S. ii. 147, 197,
215, 275). — The following books and tracts
written by Sirs. Anne Dutton were sold by
George Keith in Gracechurch Street. They
are taken from a printed list. The items
marked by an asterisk are included in the
' James Knight " Collection : —
*1. Poems, containing a Narration of the Wonders
of Grace, in Six Parts. 1735.
*2. A Discourse on Walking with God, and
Joseph's Blessing. Pp. 170. 1*. 6d. 1735.
*3. A Discourse on God's Act of Adoption. 1735.
4 A Discourse on Justification. 1741.
5. A Discourse concerning the New Birth, with
LXIV. Hymns. 1740.
*6. Occasional Letters on Spiritual Subjects.
14 vols. Various dates.
*7. Letters to an Honoxirahle Gentleman, for the
Encouragement of Faith, under Various
Trials. 3 vols.
8. A Sight of Christ by Faith, absolutely neces-
sary to Faithful Ministers and True Chris-
tians. 1743.
9. Thoughts on Faith in Christ. 1743.
10. Meditation on the Song of Solomon. 1743.
11. Hints on God's Fatherly Chastisements. 1743.
•12. The Hurt that Sin doth to Believers.
2 editions. 1733 and 1749.
*I3- An Account of God's Gracious Dealings with
the Author. 3 parts. 1743.
•14. Hints concerning the Glory of Christ. Pp. 100.
9»L 1748.
15. Thoughts on the Lord's Supper. 1748.
*16. Thoughts on Sandeman's Letters on Hervey's
Theron and Aspasio. Pp. 54. 1761 .
*17. Letters against Sandemaneanism, with a Letter
on Reconciliation.
*18. A Letter on the General Duty of Love amongst
Christians. 1741.
19. A Letter to Mr. Wesley, in Vindication of the
Doctrines of Grace. 1743.
20. Letters to Mr. Wesley, against Perfection.
1743.
21. A Letter to the Converted Negroes in America
1742.
*22. A Letter of Apology on a Woman's Printing.
Pp. 12. \d. 1743.
23. A Letter to the Lovers of Christ in Phila-
delphia. 1743.
*24. A Letter to Christians at the Tabernacle
25. Letters on the Ordinance of Baptism. 1746.
26. A Letter to Mr. Cudworth. 1747-
27. A Letter on Perseverance, against Mr. Wesley _
28. A Letter on Justification.
*29. A Letter on the Application of the Holy
Scriptures.
30. Five Letters of Advice to Parents and Chil-
dren, the Young and Aged, &c.
31. A Letter on the Saviour's Willingness to
Receive and Save all who Come to Him.
32. A Letter on the Dominion of Sin and Grace.
33. Letters on the Divine Eternal iSonahip of Jesus
Christ, and on the Assurance of Faith.
34. Letters on the Chambers of Security for God's-
People, and on the Duty of Prayer.
*35. Five Letters to a New- Married Pair. 1759.
36. Three Letters on the Marks of a Child of God.
37. A Letter against Sabellianism.
*38. Letters on Spiritual Subjects, sent to Relations-
and Friends. Prepared for the press by the
Author before her death. To which are
prefixed, Memoirs of God's Dealings with her
in her last illness. In 8 vols., now publishing.
(Only 2 vols. printed.)
I have several of the foregoing, and most
of them have at one time or another passed
through my hand. Part III. of her * Life '
and the Appendix consist mostly of an
account of her publications, with dates of
issue up to 1750. Her connexion with The
Spiritual Magazine is quite new to me.
R. H.
HENCHMAN, HINCHMAN, OR HITCHMAN
(3 S. iii. 150 ; 12 S. ii. 270).— The Hinxman
family is not yet extinct in the male line in
England. Mr. James Hinxman of this city
has two sons and several grandsons living.
The fate of another grandson, Lieut. Alfred
Hinxman of the Wilts Regiment, is unknown,,
as he was reported " missing " at Gallipoli
in 1915.
Mr. Hinxman informs me that many males
bearing the name, but more distantly related
to him, live at Winchester, Amesburv,
^aterham, &c. ; also that still others, with
whom he claims no connexion, ha,ve their
lomes in Hants, Devon, and the neighbour-
hood of London. CHARLES GILLMAX.
Church Fields, Salisbury.
CLOTH INDUSTRY AT AYR IN THE SEVEN-
TEENTH CENTURY (12 S. ii. 227). — My grand-
father, Mr. William Dunn, of Barterholm, in
Renfrewshire (who was born in 1770), told
me, when I was a boy, that the " hodden
sjrey " worn by the Scottish peasantry was
.voven at Ayr, and had been so for many
generations. He said that the manufacture
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339
was reported to have been introduced into
Scotland from Flanders or Holland. Through-
out Ayrshire and Renfrewshire the woollen-
weaving industry is the principal one in all
the towns and villages.
As the plaids were worn by all the Scottish
clans, it is probable that they were woven
in the cottages of the various districts
throughout Scotland. Women's dress was
also woven there, as well as blankets and
bed-linen, &c.
ARCHIBALD J. DUNN.
ST. PETER AS THE GATEKEEPER OF
HEAVEN (12 S. ii. 90, 177, 217, 273).—
Froude's remarks on ' Julius Exclusus,'
quoted at the last reference, treat the
authorship of the dialogue as uncertain.
But see More's letter to Erasmus of Dec. 15,
1516 ; F. M. Nichols, ' The Epistles of
Erasmus,' vol. ii. 446 sqq. ; and P. S. Allen's
' Erasmi Epistola?,' torn. ii. pp. 502 sqq. : —
" From this direct statement [says Mr. Allen]
of the existence of a copy written by Erasmus's
own hand, there can be no doubt that he was the
author of it ; although by many equivocal
utterances — none of which is a direct denial — he
attempted to conceal the fact."
EDWARD BENSLY.
The following story was told me by a
Yorkshireman some thirty years since.
St. Peter, at the gate of heaven, was sum-
moned to open the door. Firmly grasping
his keys, he asked the new-comer : " Where
have you come from ? " Pudsey." St. Peter
exclaims : " There is no such place" ; but
on inspecting his map, and finding the
village, grumbles; "Well, no one has ever
come here from Pudsey before."
SUSANNA CORNER.
SIR JOHN MAYNARD, 1592-1658 (12 S.
ii. 172, 238, 295).— Peccavi ! I much regret
having stupidly confused the judge with the
earlier courtier and royalist.
A. R. BAYLEY.
BLUEBEARD (12 S. ii. 190). — To my regret,
I cannot tell your correspondent who it was
that orientalized Bluebeard ; but I think it
will interest her to hear that in an edition of
Permult's ' Contes de Fees ' published at
Lyons in 1865 the illustrator used Occidenta.1
costumes of the seventeenth or eighteenth
century. Folk-lorists have a tendency to
identify Bluebeard with Gilles de Rais, a
monster of iniquity, who was born on the
confines of Bretagne and Anjou about 1404,
and who made charnel-houses of his castles of
Machecoul and Tiffauges. For my part " I
hae ma doots " concerning this identification.
Mr. Nelson Lee or some other pantomime-
writer may have bestowed the name of
'• Fatima " on the inquisitive wife.
ST. SWITHIN.
SNOB AND GHOST (12 S. ii. 109, 235).— I
have never known a tailor to be called a
snob in regard to his trade ; but shoemakers,,
in particular those who cobbled, were-
" snobs," and in their case it was a trade
name. The goose of a tailor, otherwise a
"prick-a-louse," was known as a "gowse,"
often pronounced " gowst." I knew one of
the fraternity who travelled around twice a
year in Derbyshire tot mend and make
clothes at out-of-the-way houses. He would
sit on a kitchen dresser and while away part of
his time by singing a ditty about himself,,
some lines of which ran : —
Of his sleeve-board he made a mare
And rode her off to Winkum Pair —
Cast threads away.
And so the proud prick-a-louse went prancing
away.
THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Worksop.
'COURT" IN FRENCH PLACE-NAMES-
(12 S. ii. 249. 318). — Two consonants have-
been transposed in my reply. The word
for "farm" in the Greek of Matt. xxii. 5-
is d-ypov, not dpybv.
HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
on
Thf, Academ Roial of King James 7. By Ethel M^
Portal. From the Proceedings of the British-
Academy, Vol. VII. (Humphrey Milford, ls.6rf.
net.)
THEKK is some entertainment, if nothing else, to be
gained by trying to imagine how the seventeenth
century would have gone in England if politics and'
the Civil War had not diverted to themselves a dis-
proportionate share of the nation's energies.
Suppose James I. — not sixty when he died — had
lasted another fifteen years, we should at any rate
have had a British Academy, known as the Academ
Roial. This would have been an imposing institu-
tion " for the study and encouragement of history,
of literature, and of heroick doctrine." and it will
depend on each individual student's rpading of the
complex and rather incalculable English intellectual
character whether he considers that it would or
would not have made much difference to English
letters and learning. Perhaps it would have kept
alive so accurate and eager an interest in mediaeval
things that the revival of attention to them, of
which Scott was the main instrument, would have
been unnecessary.
Miss Portal gives us here a pleasant and scholarly
account of the attempt which was frustrated by
the death of James and the indifference of his
successor. It was made by the members oi the
first Society of Antiquaries in Elizabeth's dav,
who had failed to obtain a charter from her. There-
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is plenty of material by which to reconstruct the
steps they took, to be found chiefly in the writing
of the worthy Edmond Bolton, who, if not the one
animating spirit of the enterprise, wielded the
principal active pen on its behalf.
The "Academ Roial" was to have been incor-
porated under the Great Seal, and to have been
granted
seal ; a
a mortmain of 200Z. a year, and a common
description of the design for this ac-
cording to Bolton's entertaining proposal will
be found here. The Academicians — the " essen-
tials " — were to number eighty-four, exclusive of
"titularies" (Knights of the Garter, the Lord
•Chancellor, and the Chancellors of the two Univer-
sities) and Auxiliaries. The first provisional list of
the " essentials " is given under three headings, with
brief biographical notices of the less well-known
personages. As Miss Portal observes, a revision
• of the list by the leaders of the movement would
probably have eliminated some of Bolton's rather
undistinguished Roman Catholic friends, and sub-
tituted for theirs names of greater weight now
conspicuous by their absence.
The Origin of the Cult of Artemis. By J. Bendel
Harris. (Manchester, the University Press ;
London, Longmans & Co., Is. net.)
' THIS is a reprint, from the Bulletin of the John
Rylands Library, of a lecture delivered at the
Library last March. The writer had previously
investigated the cult of Apollo, and by a most
ingenious series of conclusions from rather slender
but significant data had made out for Apollo a
•quasi-medical origin, of which the apple-tree is to
be considered the central piece. He begins this
new essay with some enlargements on this —
•pointing out the wide range of names of places
which can be referred to the word " apple," and
which, on his theory, might indicate a correspond-
ing prevalence of the cult of Apollo. He has an
idea that " apple," accented on the second syllable
(abdl), is the root of Balder ; that the story of
Balder's death by an arrow of mistletoe is con-
nected with the mistletoe of the apple ; and that
Balder and Apollo are in truth identical. They
both represent originally the magic-medicine of
the witch doctor. Later on, discussing the use
•of animals in medicine, Dr. Rendel Harris has an
interesting conjecture concerning the meaning of
Apollo Smintheus.
What are the corresponding elements in the
•cult of Artemis ? Artemis is to be considered the
women's witch doctor, and what the apple is to
Apollo is to her Artemisia, the mugwort or
wormwood. Copious references to old herbals,
traced back to Dioscorides and Pliny, show that
Artemisia was considered a sort of All-heal — but
predominantly for the troubles of women ; and
that the epithets apph'ed to Artemis have the
magico-medical ring about them. Like Apollo's,
then, the cult of Artemis is to be considered as
•originating in a herb-garden, to which animals
believed to contain healing principles are attached.
A pleasant conjecture, backed up by quotations
from modern recipes of a traditional sort, makes
Artemis use swallows. This is, however, left as
no more than a conjecture. Perhaps the most
Interesting paragraphs are those on Artemis as
«Xei3oOxoj — holder of the key — and on the
connexion between this epithet and that mysteri-
ous plant, the spring-wurzel, before which all
3ocks and gates flew open.
We cannot indicate even in outline the wealth
)f subsidiary detail with which Dr. Rendel Harris
has enlivened his essay. Having read it, one will
always see much that one did not see before in the
conception of Artemis.
As to his main conclusion, however, we feel
more than doubtful. In order to make it
credible it is necessary, in the first place, to make
certain that Artemisia has in reality the con-
spicuous effects that the herbalists attribute to it.
We think that the cleverness of the students who
reconstruct the beliefs of prehistoric peoples runs
rather to waste through taking these people to be
more stupid from a religious point of view than
they were. It is one thing to worship sun, and
thunder, and fire — or even wine — as gods. The
effects of these are seen, and they are great ; and
they are also beyond man's power of control.
There is no unreasonableness in the ignorance
which takes them for deities. But to sav that the
origin— not the gift or the attribute, but the
origin— of a great goddess is a plant no more
conspicuous, even as to its predominant qualities,
than many others, is surely to exaggerate the
foolishness of ancient man, and to ride the theory
of the " magical " origin of religions — itself not
very convincing psychologically — to death in
absurdity. Given the goddess, and you may make
play with mugwort as being even a" manifestation
of her proper self, that is, represented as such by-
witch doctors. But an account of this the other way
about is an altogether different thing. What we
decline to believe is that the mugwort came first,
and out of it the cult of Artemis and the general
conception of Artemis. For one thing, it is to
be supposed that the myth -makers had some
knowledge about the breeding of wild animals ;
and while they believed that the mother dropped
her young safely through the protection of
Artemis, they might observe that the use of
mugwort had nothing to do with that, since it
took place as well in regions where mugwort did
not grow as where it did.
We found this essay fascinating reading, and,
as to several minor things, most suggestive, even
instructive ; but it occurred to us, once or twice,
to wonder whether it was not intended, as to its
main contention, as something of a jeu d'esprit.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER tS, 19JQ.
CONTENTS.— No. 44.
TS'OTES:— St. Paul's School and the • D.N.B..' 341-'The
Morning Post,' 342 -Shakespeare and Ephesus— Statues
and Memorials, 345— 'The Islington Gazette.' 346 -Last
Use of Stocks at La unceston— Richard Russell, Bishop
— Bookbinders' Words, 347.
^QUERIES:— Papyrus and its Products— Edward Herbert
M.P.— Authors Wanted— St. Inan, 348— Poem Wanted—
"French's contemptible little army" — Hertfordshire
Surnames — Painting hy Benjamin West — Heraldic Query
—Bombay Gra(>— ' Bride of Lammermoor '—St. Genewys,
349— Edward Hayes, Dublin—" News-Collector "— Gillray
— " Faugh-a-Rallngh "— Eyes'changed in Colour by Fright
— Lovelace: Vanneck— John Bradshaw, Regicide — Hard-
ing of Somerset— Exchequer Bond, 1710—" Felon," 350
— "To give the mitten "—Arthur Collins, 351.
REPLIES :— The French and Frogs, 351— English Army
List of 1740. 353— ' Vanity Fair '—Drake's Ship— Bishop
Richard of Bury's Library, 355 -Gloves : Survival of Old
Customs— Author of Poem Wanted— Authors of Quota-
tions Wanted—" Mr. Davis," Friend of Mrs. Siddons,
356 — Old MS. Verses— Dog Smith, 357— National Flags-
Faust Bibliography— Sir Edward Lutwyche— Farmer's
Sayings— King of Italy's Descent from Charles I., 358 —
" Don't be longer than you can help "—Grave of Margaret
Godolphin, 359.
TtfOTES ON BOOKS:-1 Political Ballads illustrating the
Administration of Sir Robert Walpole.'
Jottings from Recent Book Catalogues.
'Notices to Correspondents.
ST. PAUL'S SCHOOL AND THE
'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL
BIOGRAPHY.'
THE ' DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIO-
GRAPHY ' contains the names of more than
two hundred men who obtained their educa-
tion at St. Paul's School, but of this number
some 25 per cent are not given the credit
of being Old Paulines. In some cases their
identification as pupils of St. Paul's was
subsequent to the publication of the volume
of the ' D.N.B.' in which their career is
recorded, but in the majority of instances the
omission of any mention of the school at
-which they were educated from the account
of their careers can only be attributed to the
incomplete researches of their biographers.
I append a list of Old Paxilines of whom
accounts are given in the. 'D.N.B.' and of
•whom it is not there noted that they were
alumni of Dean Colet's- foundation : —
Andre, John. Born 1751. Major in the army.
Taken prisoner in the American War, and
executed as a spy October, 1780. A monument
was erected to his memory in Westminster
Abbey b> King George III. in 1782, from the
design of Robert Adam.
Arnold, Thomas James. Born 1803. Died 1877.
F.R.S. Metropolitan Police' Magistrate.
Baber, Henry. Born 1775. Died 1869. Keeper
of Printed Books at the British Museum, 1812-
1837.
Bellamy, Daniel, jun. Born 1718. Died 1788.
Divine.
Blackmore, William. Born 1618. Died 1684.
Puritan divine. Rector of St. Peter's, Corn-
hill. Ejected 1662.
Boyce, William. Born 1710. Died 1779.
Musical composer. Organist to the Chapel
Rojal.
Boyle, Charles, 4th Earl of Orrery. Born 1675.
Died 17.31. Knight of the Thistle. Soldier,
diplomatist, and man of letters.
Boyle, John. Born 1563. Died 1620. Bishop of
Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.
*Boyle, Michael. Died 1635. Bishop of Water-
ford and Lismore.
Boyle, Richard, Bishop of Cork, CHoyne, and Ross,
1620. Archbishop of Tuam, 1638.
Bridges, John. Bom 1666. Died 1724. F.R.S.
Antiquary , Bencher of Lincoln's Inn.
fBroughton, Thomas. Born 1705. Died 1774.
Reader in the Temple. Prebendary of Salis-
bury. Man of letters.
Browne, Samuel. Born 1578. Died 1632. Divine.
Calamy, Edmund. Born 1635. Died 1685.
Puritan divine.
Campbell, Lord Frederick. Born 1730. Died
1816. Second son of the 4th Duke of Argyll.
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, 1767. Lord Clerk Register for Scot-
land, 1768.
Carew, Sir Peter. Born 1514. Died 1575.
Constable of the Tower. Gentleman of the
Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.
Chaloner, Sir Thomas. Born 1561. Died 1615.
Tutor to Prince Henry, the son of James I.
Chamberlain, William. Born 1772. Died 1807.
Portrait painter.
Champion, Joseph. Born 1709. Died 1762.
Writing Master at St. Paul's School, where he
taught Sir Philip Francis and H. S. Woodfall,
the publisher of The Public Advertiser, in which
appeared the letters of " Junius."
Chiswell, Richard. Born 1673. Died 1751.
Director of the Bank of England. M.P. for
Calne.
Clerke, Richard. B.A. Cambridge. 1582. One of
the translators of the Authorized Version of the
Old Testament.
Compton, Spencer, 1st Earl of Wilmington. Born
1675. Died 1743. Speaker of the House of
Commons. First Lord of the Treasury. Knight
of the Garter.
fCowper, Spencer. Born 1669. Died 1728.
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. .
Cranfield, Lionel, 1st Earl of Middlesex. Lord
High Treasurer, 1621 to 1624.
Culverwell, Nathaniel. Died about 1650. One
of the " Cambridge Platonists."
Dance, George. Born 1700. Died 1768. Archi-
tect. Designed the Mansion House in the C'ity
of London.
Dandridge, Bartholomew. Flor. 1750. Portrait
painter.
* Was also probably at Merchant Taylor's.
t Was also at Eton.
j Was also probably at Westminster.
342
NOTES AND QUERIES. 1128.11. OCT. 28,1918.
Douglas, Archibald, 2nd Earl of Forfar. Died
1715. Envoy Extraordinary to Prussia.
•Brigadier-General.
Duncon, Eleazar. Died 1050. Divine.
Elder, Charles. Born 1821. Died 1851. Por-
trait painter.
Gower, Humphrey. Born 1638. Died 1711.
Master of St. John's College, Cambridge, and
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity.
Greene, Maurice. Born 1096. Died 1755. Or-
ganist of St. Paul's Cathedral and of the Chapel
Royal. Professor of Music at Cambridge.
Hammond, Anthony. Born 1660. Died 1738.
M.P. for the University of Cambridge.
Heath, Christopher. Born 1802. Died 1876.
Succeeded Edward Irving as " Angel " or Chief
Pastor of the Catholic Apostolic Church in
England.
Horton, Thomas. Died 1673. President of
Queens' College, Cambridge.
Meggott, Richard. Died 1692. Dean of Win-
chester.
Montagu, Charles, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of
Manchester. Died 1722. Ambassador and
Secretary of State.
Owen, John. Born 1766. Died 1822. One of
the founders of the British and Foreign Bible
Society.
Paltock, Robert. Died 1757. Novelist. Author
of ' The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins.'
*Parkhurst, John. Born 1728. Died 1797.
Hebrew lexicographer.
Parsons, William. Born 1736. Died 1795. Actor
and painter. Known as " The comic Roscius."
Pollock, Sir Jonathan Frederick, 1st Baronet.
Born 1784. Died 1870. Lord Chief Baron of
the Exchequer.
Pollock, Sir William Frederick, 2nd Baronet.
Born 1816. Died 1888. Queen's Remem-
brancer.
Postlethwayte, Matthew. Died 1745. Arch-
deacon of Norwich.
fRawlinson, Richard. Born 1690. Died 1755.
Non-Juring Bishop. Antiquary. Benefactor
to tbe Bodleian.
Reynolds, Edward. Born 1629. Died 1698.
Archdeacon of Norwich.
Rosewell, Samuel. Born 1680. Died 1722.
Dissenting divine.
Sharp, Thomas. Died 1758. Prebendary of
Durham. Author of the ' Life of Archbishop
Sharp of York ' (his father).
Sterry, Nathaniel. Died 1698. Puritan divine.
Stillingfleet, Edward. Born 1660. Died 1708.
F.R.S. Gresham Professor of Physic.
Strange, Sir John. Born 1695. Died 1754.
Master of the Rolls.
Taylor, Thomas. Born 1759. Died 1835. Trans-
lator of Plato and Aristotle.
Thesiger, Sir Frederick. Born 1758. Died 1805.
Captain in the Royal Navy. Aide-de-camp to
Nelson at Copenhagen.
Trevor, Sir John. Died 1717. Speaker of the
House of Commons and Master of the Rolls.
Troubridge, Sir Thomas, Bart. Born 1758.
Died 1807. Rear- Admiral and friend of Nelson.
Vere, Sir- Francis. Born 1560. Died 1609.
General of the victorious English forces in the
Low Countries in 1600. Monument in West-
minster Abbey.
* Was also at Rugby,
f Was also at Eton.
Vince, Samuel. Born 1749. Died 1821. Senior
Wrangler. Plumian Professor of Experimental
Philosophy at Cambridge.
Warner, John. Born 1735. Died 1800. Chap-
lain to the British Embassy in Paris during the
French Revolution.
Wetherell, Sir Charles. Born 1771. Died 1846.
Attorney-General in two administrations.
MICHAEL F. J. MCDONNELL.
Bathurst, Gambia, British West Africa.
'THE
MORNING
1772-1916.
POST,'
(See ante, pp. 301, 322.)
IN 1876 Mr. Rideout, Crompton's nephew
to whom The Morning Post had been left,
died. Borthwick was again doomed to dis-
appointment, but Mr. Andrew Montagu came
to the rescue, and, by lending him the money
to purchase the paper, prevented him from
seeing all the fruits of his life's work snatched
from him. He had made three fortunes out
of the paper for others. Some years later he
was able to write to his generous friend : —
" The hour has come when prosperity has
enabled me to repay all that you have advanced-
. . . .But I feel more in debt than ever, for in no
way can I requite your friendship or offer you
more tlmn truest gratitude."
In one codicil to Rideout's will the price
of the paper was fixed at 25,OOOZ. In an-
other Mr. T. L. Coward, the manager, was
given his position for life, or an annuity
equivalent to his then salary. This made
matters rather complicated ; but Coward's
friendship with Borthwick enabled a pleasant
arrangement to be made, and Coward (who
was one of the most amiable of men, and an
enthusiastic worker in the interests of the
paper) remained manager.
At last Borthwick was able to look forward
to the accomplishment of what he had so
long desired — the reduction of the price of
the paper from threepence to a penny. He
had urged Crompton to do this, but
Crompton had not been inclined to take the
risk, although Borthwick told him that
" the new generation had come to look on the
Post as a mere fashionable paper, and are con-
sequently as amazed at real news appearing in its
columns as if it had been published in The Court
Journal."
In making the change Borthwick had
a strong supporter in Coward, whose
professional sagacity he found very helpful.
Coward told me that he had not looked for
the large additional expenses that had to be
incurred in obtaining a greater variety of out-
side news ; but happily this difficulty was
overcome, and both Borthwick and Coward
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343
reaped a rich reward. The reduction in price
took place on the 27th of June, 1881, and
Punch gave out a sorrowful remonstrance
through the mouth of the redoubtable
" Jeames " : —
Sir Halgernon 1 Sir Halgernon I I can't believe it
true,
They say the Post's a penny now, and all along of
you ;
The paper that was once the pride of all the swells
in town,
Now like a common print is sold for just a vulgar
brown.
In 1894 Borthwick's son Oliver was asso-
ciated with him, and on the death of
the editor, Mr. Moore, Oliver filled the
vacancy until the appointment of Mr. Locker
in May. On his retirement in 1897 Locker
was succeeded by Mr. J. N icol Dunn, who in
turn was succeeded in 1905 by Mr. Fabian
Ware. Oliver Borthwick was only 21 when
his connexion with the paper began. Both
his father and mother had from the first
brought him up to feel interest in it, and
when Mr. Locker was appointed editor, and
Oliver coached him for a time, the father
expressed a hope that the new man would do
his work half as well. On the 16th of
November, 1895, Borthwick became a peer
wirh the title of Glenesk ; he had been created
a baronet in 1887.
On the 28th of March, 1898, Lady Glenesk
died. In all matters connected with her
husband's work she had been a helper and
H'l riser, and had occasionally contributed to
the paper. She is of interest to our readers
as being the stepdaughter of Sir George
C'ornewall Lewis, who, with Dilke of The
Athenaeum, and our founder Thorns, devoted
much study to the question of longevity.
I am the happy possessor of a presentation
c-npy of Thoms's book on the subject. Lady
Glenesk was a faithful disciple, and in 1897
an article on the ' Duration of Life ' appeared
from her pen in The Nineteenth Century.
The year 1 898 was one of grave anxiety to
Britain. In January there were rumours of
a French expedition under Major Marchand
to Fashoda, and both here and in France
very serious tension existed. Lord Glenesk
had an interview with the Queen, who ap-
pealed to him to do all in his power to
retrain the press, especially his own paper.
The Morning Post counselled moderation,
but tiie ill-feeling long continued. Happily
Marchand was met by Kitchener, and The
Morning Post of the 27th of October was able
to announce that the Fashoda bubble had
hurst.
A heavier trouble was to come, however,
in 1899. At the close of March a letter
appeared in The Morning Post on the
gathering war gloom in South Africa. This
was the first intimation that our Colonial
Office received of it ; Lord Selborne wrote
to know if he could be put into communica-
tion with the writer, and this was done. It
was not until the 9th of October that the
Boers presented their ultimatum. Lord
Salisbury referred to Kruger as " an amiable
but very sensitive old gentleman," but this
levity did not agree with the grave speech
made by Chamberlain two days afterwards.
Young Borthwick, who then had full control
of the Post, recognized the danger at once.
He proceeded to obtain the best military
advice, and set matters before the public
with unsparing frankness. He did not work
without knowledge, as he had studied the
Transvaal for years. He saw no good
in concealing difficulties, and warned the
Government of the large force the Boers had
at command, while our own was quite in-
adequate to meet it. Such boldness was
resented by some, who looked upon the
attacks made on the Government as " a
wilful and disloyal attempt to embarrass it,"
but, as Borthwick explained, " it was the
organization of the War Office that must be
changed, not the Government." He asked
for patience, and his forecast was indeed
fulfilled : " The Morning Post will be
amply vindicated."
Mr. Winston Churchill wos one of its
correspondents during the South African
War, and it was while acting in that
capacity that he was taken prisoner on the
15th of November, 1899. He escaped from
Pretoria on the 12th of December, and, as he
wrote to The Morning Post, had to main-
tain himself for some time on nothing but
chocolate.
The Morning Post has consistently adhered
to its hostility to Free Trade. When.
Chamberlain on the 15th of May, 1903,
made his Tariff Reform speech, Borthwick
was among the first to hail the new evangel ;
and although his friend Mr. Winston
Churchill implored him not to support the
scheme, as if it succeeded " it would break up
the Empire," Borthwick was firm, and The
Morning Post remains to this day true to its
old traditions.
Oliver Borthwick's brilliant management
of the paper was to be but a short one. He
had long suffered from bad health, which he
fought against courageously, determined
r.ot to be an invalid. In June, 1904, he had
promised to preside at the Newsvendors'
dinner, but was unable to do so ; and on the
23rd of March following he died.
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It was due to his energy that the present
•"handsome offices of The Morning Post were
Tauilt, although he had not the satisfaction
-of seeing their completion, as this was not
accomplished until 1907. The offices of the
paper were first in Fleet Street, and after-
-wards in the Strand, opposite Somerset
House. True to its traditions, the proprietors
refused to have the front illuminated when
the rejoicings took place on the occasion of
the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832, and
the mob attacked the building, to the great
alarm of Mr. Barton, the manager. The
Athenceum was at that time published in
Catherine Street, and my fat her, being a near
neighbour, went to Mr. Barton's assistance,
and remained with him all night.
In 1843 The Morning Post moved to
"Wellington Street, on the right-hand side
going up front the Strand, adjacent to that
big failure, the Exeter Arcade, which ran
through to Catherine Street. I believe that
only two of its shops were ever let, and this
proposed rival to the Lowther Arcade rarely-
had more than its solitary imposing beadle
^depicted in Punch) to admire its contents.
On the Gaiety Theatre being built, that and
the Gaiety Restaurant, with entrances in
the Strand, occupied the site of the Arcade.
Subsequently the offices of the Post were
further enlarged, and part of the work was
for a time carried on in a temporary7 building
opposite, with the Lyceum at the back of it.
Coward, when I called upon him there, told
me that it was always his luck to have
theatres round him, and so be compelled to
pay extra fire insurance. He died on
the 28th of June, 1894.
A lasting memorial to Borthwick exists
in "The Oliver Borthwick Memorial
Morning Post Embankment Home," largely
subscribed for by readers of the paper. It is
situated on a freehold site in the New Kent
Road, its object being to help men struggling
with adversity.
On the death of his son, Glenesk, who
was then 75, at once resumed control of the
paper, but it was only for three years. He
died on the 24th of November, 1908, at his
house 139 Piccadilly — the house where Byron
had lived in his early married days, and
where he wrote ' The Siege of Corinth.'
Glenesk will be gratefully remembered for
the practical interest he took in the various
institutions for the benefit of those connected
with the press. In 1885 he succeeded Lord
Houghton as President of the Newspaper
Press Fund, and the funds during his
presidency were increased from 16,OOOZ. to
• 54,000?., whilst its membership, which had
been only 439, was increased to 1,956. He
also took interest in the Newsvendors, and
presided at their festival on three occasions:
June 18th, 1884; May 21st, 1892; and, on
behalf of his son, June 1st, 1904. In addition
he showed warm sympathy with the correctors
of the press, and, as President of the Reader-;1
Pensions Committee, took the chair at the
dinner en the 6th of March, 1897, when he
said : —
" The whole literary world would testify in the
favour of the proof-reader. He himself had per-
sonally seen his patient toil, and had marvelled at
his attention ana accuracy. ...He remembered Ouida
coming to see The Morning Post produced, and she
was struck by the airy room of the editor, which
she said the readers ought to occupy in his place.
She even said she would write a novel about
them."
Oliver Borthwick showed the same good
feeling towards the readers, and, when pre-
siding at their dinner on May, 1902, men-
tioned that it was the first occasion on
which he had taken the chair at a public
dinner.
To his daughter, Lady Bat hurst, Glenesk
bequeathed The Morning Post, well knowing
that in her hands the traditions of the paper
would be maintained. The management was
controlled by that veteran of the staff Mr.
E. E. Peacock, who, unfortunately, survived
his chief only twelve months. During his
long connexion with the paper he was held
in the highest regard. It is pleasant to
know that his son now fills the same position.
The present editor is Mr. H. A. Gwynne,
who had been editor of The Standard from
1904, but resigned that post in 1911, when
he became editor of the Post. He was
correspondent in the Balkans and Roumania,
in the Turco-Greek War, and in the Boer
War, and accompanied Chamberlain on his
visit to South Africa. He has the advantage
of a brilliant staff. Andrew Lang was a
contributor for many years, as was also
Mr. Spenser Wilkinson. A feature of The
Morning Post has always been its leading
articles, and people who may be opposed to
the views advocated must at any rate
recognize that the "leaders" are bold, well
considered, and written without fear. This
feature is well maintained at the present day.
In closing these notes one is glad that the
struggles of the elder Borthwicks have met
with their reward, and that The Morning
Post, to which they devoted their lives,
should be at the present day so prosperous.
That it may long continue to occupy its
honoured position in the press of Britain is
the wish of every one to-day.
JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS.
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SHAKESPEARE AND EPHESUS.
IT is interesting to notice that Shakespeare,
before proceeding to write ' The Comedy of
Errors, the scene of which is laid in Ephesus,
evidently tried to get some " local colour"
by reading up what is said about that city
in the Acts of the Apostles (chap. xix.). He
found there a narrative of the attempted
exorcism of the evil spirit from a man
supposed to be possessed by it. This may
be thought to have suggested the attempted
exorcism of an evil spirit from Antipholus
of Ephesus (Act IV. sc. iv.). He also found
that the town was haunted by sorcerers and
conjurers and people of that kind. And so
we find Antipholus of Syracuse saying : —
They sa y this town is full of cozenage ;
As nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,
Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,
Soul-killing witches that deform the body,
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
And many such like liberties of sin.
Act I. sc. ii.
And again (in Act III. sc. i.) : —
There's none but witches do inhabit here.
And (in Act IV. sc. iii.) : —
Sure, these are but imaginary- wiles,
And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.
And here we wander in illusions :
Some blessed power deliver us from hence !
The same person goes on later in the same
scene to say to a woman : —
Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress.
The idea of sin as connected with sorcery
being a Scriptural one, it may well have
been suggested to the dramatist by the action
of the penitent sorcerers in burning their
books of magic (Acts xix. 19).
In this chapter of the Acts of the Apostles
mention is made of the fact that St. Paul
"disputed daily in the school of. one
Tyrannus " (v. 9). This evidently suggested
the introduction into the play of a school-
master, who is a conjurer as well, and to
whom is given the Dickensian name of
Pinch. In so doing Shakepeare departs from
\lemechmi' of Plautus, on which 'The
Comedy of Errors ' is based, for the
corresponding personage in it is a doctor. I
think the observation and use of the small
point about Tyrannus indicate a careful
reading of the chapter in question. It would
scarcely come up in a vague memory of
having heard the chapter read.
It is almost amusing to think of Shake-
speare as proceeding to read the Epistle to the
Ephesians to get suggestions for his purpose,
when one remembers how little he was likelv
to obtain there. But that he did turn to it
is quite evident. It contains an elaborate-
statement of the relations of husbands and
wives, and of their mutual duties towards
each other, and this is reproduced in the
play. The passage in question is Eph. v. 22-
33. Compare w. 28, 29 :—
" So ought men to love their wives as their own
bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh ; but
nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord"
the Church " ;
v. 31 : " They twain shall be one flesh )r
(Geneva Version), with Adriana's speech to
her supposed husband : —
How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it>-
That thou art thus estranged from thyself ?
Thyself I call it, being strange to me,
That undividable, incorporate,
Am better than thy dear self's better part.
Ah, do not tear thyself away from me !
For know, my love, as easy mayst thou fall
A drop of water in the breaking gulf,
And take unmingled thence that drop again,
Without addition or diminishing,
As take from me thyself, and not me too.
Act II. sc. ii.
It will scarcely be maintained that the-
above are all mere coincidences, and that I
am wrong in saying that Shakespeare sought,
for suggestions in the above-mentioned por-
tions of Holy Writ. J. WILLCOCK,
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN
THE BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii., passim ;
12 S. i. 65, 243, 406 ; ii. 45, 168, 263.)
HEROES AND HEROINES.
REV. GEORGE WALKER.
Londonderry. — A monument to the-
saviour of Londonderry in the historic siege-
of 1688-9 was erected about the year 1827
at a cost of 4.000Z. on the " Royal " Bastion^
" which bore during many weeks the
heaviest fire of the enemy." It consists of
a Doric column 81 ft. high, surmounted by a
statue of Walker rising 12 ft. higher. The
square enclosure on the summit is protected
by iron railings. Macaulay describes the
statue of Walker,
"such as when, in the last and most terrible
emergency, his eloquence roused the fainting
courage of his brethren. In one hand he grasps a
Bible. The other, pointing down the river,
semis to direct the eyes of his famished audience
to the English topmasts in the distant bay." w
At the base is the following inscription : —
" This Monument was erected to perpetuate
the memory of the Rev. George Walker.fwho,.
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aided by a garrison and brave inhabitants of this
"City, most gallantly defended it through a pro-
tracted Siege, viz : from the 7th December, 1688,
to the 12th of August following, ;i gainst an arbi-
trary and bigoted monarch, heading an army of
upwards of 20,000 men, many of whom were
foreign mercenaries, and by such valiant conduct
in numerous sorties, and by patiently enduring
extreme privations and sufferings, successfully
resisted the besiegers and preserved' for their
posterity the blessings of civil and religious
liberty."
The pedestal also bears the names of the
other leaders : Butler, Murray, Mitchel-
burne, Cairnes, Leake, arid Browning.
JEMIMA NICHOLAS.
Fishguard, Pembroke. — A memorial, in
shape exactly like an ordinary upright grave-
stone, is placed on the north side of the
Market Square, contiguous to the wall of the
parish church. It is thus inscribed : —
In
Memory of
Jemima Nicholas
of this Town
" The Welsh Heroine "
who boldly marched to meet
The French Invaders
who landed on our shores in
February 1797.
She died in Main Street July 1832
Aged 82 years.
At the date of the invasion she
was 47 years old, and
lived 35 years after the event.
Erected by subscription collected at
the Centenary Banquet July 6 1897.
Near the spot where the French landed is
a roughly hewn stone, on which is inscribed
•as follows : —
1897
CARREG GOPPA
QLANIAD-Y-FFRANCOD
CHWEFBOR 22 1797
MEMORIAL STONE
OP THE
LANDING OP THE FRENCH
FEBRUARY 22 1797
(See also 11 S. vi. 386 ; x. 290, 350.)
DAVID KEWLEY.
Douglas, Isle of Man. — A drinking fountain
near the Victoria Pier is thus inscribed : —
Erected by
Public Subscription
in memory of
David Kewley (Dawsey)
as a tribute of
Admiration for his bravery in saving
at various tunes 23 "lives
from drowning.
May his example prove an
incentive to like heroic deeds.
A.D. 1904.
WILLIAM WALTON.
Ferryhill, co. Durham. — A monument,
designed by R. Swinburn, was unveiled by
John Johnson, Esq., M.P., in April, 1908.
It stands in front of the Town Hall, and is
thus inscribed : —
" Erected by the Officials and Workmen of Dean
and Chapter Colliery to the memory of the late
William Walton (Overman), who sacrificed his life
in saving the lives of two boys at Dean Bank,
August 8th, 1906."
PEECY H. GORDON.
Rochester.— On Nov. 2, 1912, Lady
Darnley unveiled a memorial tablet on the
Esplanade to Percy Henry Gordon, aged 26,
a visitor, who was drowned on April 5, 1912,
in attempting to rescue a little girl from the
Medway.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (ante, p. 264.)
I am informed by a correspondent that
Florence Nightingale's burial-place is at
East Wellow, Hampshire, and not at We.st
Wellow, Wilts, as stated at the .above
reference. I may add that my information
was obtained from The Daily Graphic of
Aug. 19, 1910, in which issue photo-repro-
ductions appeared of
" The Grave and Church of West Willow,
Wiltshire, where the funeral of the late Florence
Nightingale will take place to-morrow."
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
(To be continued.)
NEWSPAPER HISTORY : ' THE ISLINGTON
GAZETTE.' — The Islington Gazette, one of the
oldest of London's so-called local papers,
has just celebrated its Diamond Jubilee
(1856-1916), the actual 60th birthday being
Sept. 21. The outward and visible signs of
the event appeared in the form o; a resume
of its history in the paper itself, while during
the week a,few short commemorative articles
with appreciative letters from old readers
and correspondents were printed. The inner
man was not, however, forgotten, for on
the evening of Sept. 22 the staff were
entertained by the proprietors — the Trounce
family — to a "substantial English dinner at
the Old Bell Restaurant in Holborn. Three
journalistic personalities stood out in the
course of this function. Two gent lemen were
present who will long be remembered in the
Press Gallery of the House of Commons —
the present editor of the paper, Mr. Henry
Trounce, who was in the chair, and
Dr. Lauzun-Brown of The Lancet; while
128. ii. OCT. 28, me.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
347
allusions were made to Sir Edward Russell as
former editor of The Islington Gazette, and
the third member of a famous triad.
The following is the resume of the history
of the journal : —
" It is sixty years since a small print — The
Islington Gazette. — first saw the light of day as a
•weekly newspaper. The first publishing office
•was half of a pie-shop in High Street, between the
Angel and Liverpool Road. The Gazette was a
small sheet of four pages of four columns each ;
the size of the publishing office about 6 ft. square.
The first editor was the late Mr. F. J. Minasi, the
proprietor of a flourishing school in Islington.
'Six months later, owing to a difference with the
proprietor, Mr. Minasi resigned, and forty-eight
hours later Mr. Russell (now Sir Edward Russell)
accepted the position, which he retained until he
became editor of The Liverpool Daily Post. On
March 21, 1857, six months after the first copy
appeared, the Gazette was enlarged. It was again
•enlarged on April 3, 1858. On May 30, 1865, the
Gazette was published twice a week; on Jan. 1,
1877, it appeared three times a week ; and on
Sept. 26, 1881 — three and a half years after the
death of the founder, William Trounce — his only
son and successor, William Samuel Trounce,
decided to publish the journal five times weekly.
At the same time the number of columns was
increased from 28 to 32. Originally published at
4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of publication
was advanced to 9 a.m. The growing demand for
fresh and up-to-date news induced the proprietor,
in the early part of 1901, to enlarge his journal to
•eight pages, comprising 48 columns, and publish
at the same time as the other morning newspapers.
The outbreak of war in August, 1914, was respon-
sible for increasing the cost of paper something
like 300 per cent, and a rise in the price of all
materials necessary in the production of a news-
paper compelled the proprietor, in conjunction
"with other daily newspaper owners, to reduce the
size of The Daily Gazette. This is only a temporary
measure, and we hope to return to the status quo
when the glorious day of peace shall arrive."
The roll of editors from the commencement
to the present time is : 1856, F. J. Minasi ;
1857, Edward Russell ; 1873, Dr. Garvey ;
1873, William S. Trounce; 1875, Charles
Townley ; 1905, Henry Trounce.
G. YAKROW BALDOCK.
South Hackney, N.E.
LAST USE OF STOCKS AT LATJNCESTON. —
The Daily Chronicle of Nov. 11, 1915, had
the following : —
" At Crantock, in Cornwall, with the object of
preserving the form of stocks as they were used
in olden times, a bas-relief is being prepared, and
will be placed in the church as a memorial.
These characteristic features of the English village
are now seldom to be found in situ. So much
importance was attached to the penalizing and
admonitory power of the stocks that the Commons
prayed Edward III. to establish them in every
village. In later times each parish appears to
have had its stocks, and the last in London was
removed from St. Clement Danes in 1820. The
final record of their use was at Rugby in 18G5."
There were stocks in use at Launceston as
late as 1859. On Sept. 8, 1806, when the
bounds of that borough were beaten witli
great solemnity, a rimed account of the
proceedings, written contemporaneously by
a local hand, mentioned : —
The parish gossip's cucking stool,
Down here, right by St. Thomas' pool,
Held scolds and shrews in stocks.
Two men in 1859 were ordered for
drunkenness to be placed in the stocks, when,
the pair belonging to St. Mary Magdalene's
parish, in the centre of the borough, having
disappeared, those of the neighbouring parish
of St. Stephen (St. Thomas, already men-
tioned, lying in the Kensey Valley between)
were borrowed for the occasion and placed
in Broad Street, the town's principal
thoroughfare. A bonfire in Castle Dyke the
same night made an end of this particular
ancient institution. DUNHEVED.
RICHARD RUSSELL, BISHOP OF PORTA-
LEGRE, 1671, AND ViSETi, 1682. — Under date
Nov. 28, 1661, Evelyn records :•—
" There din'd with us Russell, Popish Bishop of
Cape Verde, who was sent out to negotiate his
Majesties match with the Infanta of Portugal after
the Ambassador was return'd."
Similarly under date Dec. 4, 1661 : —
" I took leave of the Bishop of Cape Verde, now
going in the Fleet to bring over our new Queene."
There is an account of this prelate in the
' Catholic Encyclopaedia,' from the pen of
the Rev. Edwin Burton, D.D., which states
that he was nominated Bishop of Santiago
de Cabo Verde in 1661, but declined the
honour. He died Nov. 15, 1693.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
BOOKBINDERS' WORDS. — 1. " Stab." — The
' Oxford English Dictionary ' quotes no
instance of the verb " stab," as used by
bookbinders, earlier than the year 1863.
Therefore it is interesting to quote from the
advertisement of " School Books in Chirm's
Binding," which is bound into the copy of
" The New English Spelling-Book : By
the Rev. J. B. Pike, A.M." (London, 1788),
belonging to the Bodleian Library, the
following sentences : —
" It is called the punch'd or stabb'd Binding,
and is done as follows : The Sheets being folded
into a Book two Holes punched thro' them near
the Back, and a String drawn thro' each Hole,
into the Pasteboard Sides is the chief Fastening
and " as must be that of abolishing the deceitful
Practice of stabb'd Binding."
This advertisement was issued by " Geo.
Herdsfield, Stationer and Bookseller, At the
Golden Heart, (No. 112) Aldersgate Bars, near
Charterhouse-Square, London."
348
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. as. 1010.
2. " Banded binding." — On the second
page of tliis advertisement there is a
declaration, by twenty-two schoolmasters
and one " Mrs. Clarkson, at her Boarding-
school," beginning thus : —
" We whose Names are underwritten, do hereby
certify that the Spelling-books, &c. now used in
our Schools, are in Chirm's Binding ; and we find
bis Method of binding upon Bands so much
stronger, and more lasting than those bound the
common Way, that we believe one of his will do
more service than two of the others."
It ends as follows : —
" N.B. — Many Names are left out for Want of
Room. KS" To prevent Mistakes and Imposition,
these printed Bills are placed in the Front of
every Book in the banded Binding, and no other."
The ' Oxford English Dictionary ' quotes not
" banded " between 1813 and 1488, nor at
all as a binder's word. " Bands " in this
sense it illustrates from 1759 and 1879.
E. S. DODGSON.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
THE PAPYBUS AND ITS PRODUCTS. — For
several years past a series of economic plants
have been grown at Westfield, Reading, in
order to give the townspeople (and especially
the older children of the borough) an oppor-
tunity of studying some of the important
plants used in industry and commerce.
The Egyptian papyrus (Papyrus anti-
quorum) attracted special attention this
summer, owing to its luxuriant growth, and
its historic interest as an article of diet, as
a source of fibre, and particularly as the
origin of the earliest form of writing material.
The question was asked as to whether it
might not still be possible to use the plant
for these various purposes. Can any reader
tell me where the necessary details may be
found for the preparation of the above-
mentioned products ?
JAMIESON B. HURRY, M.D.
Westfield, Reading.
EDWARD HERBERT, M.P. — Can any of
your readers say whose son the above Edward
Herbert was ? He was M.P. for Monmouth-
shire, 1656-8. Mr. W. R. Williams, in his
' Parliamentary History of the Principality
of Wales,' 1895, says of him : —
" Edward Herbert was a prominent supporter
of Cromwell in co. Mon., which he representec
Sept., 1656-58 Jan., but little more can be gleanec
ibout him except from some references in the CaL
State Papers, by which it appears that he was
app. a member of the High Court of Justice
25 June, 1651, and that on 4 Sept., 1655, he was in
jossessiou (probably by lease from the County
Uommrs. of Sequestration) of The Grange ana
other lands in co. Mon., the property of Henry,
Lord Herbert of Raglan, who petitioned the
London Committee 24 July, 1655, begging to be
illowed quiet enjoyment of the same, as they had
jeen bequeathed to him by his relative Elizabeth
Somerset, 'who died six months ago,' and 'in>
which he is disturbed on pretence of her recu-
sancy.' On 10 Nov., 1661, Sir Robert Mason
ivrote from Kingsclere, co. Glouc., to Secretary
Nicholas, saying : ' The person whom he has taken
into custody is Edw. Herbert, late of the Grange,
near Magor, co. Mon., where he was Cromwell's
;enant of part of the Marquis of Worcester's
estate, but since the Marquis had power to recover
t, he retired to Bristol. He was Cromwell's right
land, was talked of for Knighthood, and is an
[ndependent. Suspects him now as an instrument
of new mischief, for he corresponds with malcon-
tents and nonconformists in Wales, Bristol, and
other places. Has sent the papers about these
matters to the Lord Treasurer as Lord Lieutenant
of co. Gloucester.' "
Can this Edward Herbert be identified
with Edward Herbert who married Anne
Ellis, and was son of Edward Herbert of
Merthyr Gerin, whose will was proved 1667,
and who was son of Walter Herbert of
ihristchurch, which Walter was an illegiti-
mate son of George Herbert of Newport, who
was M.P. for Monmouthshire in 1563, and
was of the family of Herbert of St. Julians ?
T.
AUTHORS WANTED. — May I ask for the
assistance of readers of ' N. & Q.' in placing
the following quotations ? —
1. Sines, tangents, secants, radius, cosines,
Enough to prove that he who read 'em
Was just as mad as he who made 'em.
Horse-pleas, traversers, demurrers,
Jeofails, imparlances, and errors,
Averments, bars, and protestandos,
And puis d'arreign continuandos.
(A search through ' Hudibras ' has proved
unsuccessful.)
2. "Truth, like a torch, the more 'tis shook,,
it shines."— From the title-page to Sir W. Hamil-
ton's ' Discussions on Philosophy.'
TERTIUM Q.
ST. INAN. — 1 should be glad to hav&
references to sources of information as to the
life and writings of St. Inan, called the
patron of Irvine. A fair in Beith (Ayrshire),
vulgarly called " Tenant's day " or " Tin-
nan's day," is usually associated with his
name. R. M. HOGG.
Irvine, Ayrshire.
12 s. ii. OCT. 28, 1916. j NOTES AND QUERIES.
349
POEM WANTED. — Wanted, a poem called
' From the Indies,' beginning : —
Oh ! come you from the Indies, and, soldier, can
you tell
News of the gallant 90th, and who are safe and
well?
It is supposed to be by Alfred Noyes, but
I cannot find it in his collected, poems.
C. A. ANDERSON.
The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.
" FRENCH'S CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE ARMY.'
— Does any one know where first appeared
the phrase, credited to the Kaiser, about
" the miserable little army of Marshal
French " ?
There was also a statement on the part
of the Wolff agency denying that the Kaiser
had ever said it. Can any reader give the
date of this statement, which appeared be-
tween September and November, 1914 ?
OTHON GUERLAC.
HERTFORDSHIRE SURNAMES. — Will some
generous reader give me information, or
kindly refer me to published registers for
information, anent Cooper of Mill End,
Herts (c. 1780) ; De la Hunt of Bushey,
Herts ; and Se'Nell ? I have heard the
latter names spoken as Delaunt (two
syllables) and Seneel, but I spell them as
given to me in writing.
S. GREGORY OULD, O.S.B.
ALLEGORICAL PAINTING BY BENJAMIN
WEST. — In Sabin's ' Loyalists of the
American Revolution,' vol. ii. pp. 171-5,
reference is made to Dr. Thomas Bradbury
Chandler (1726-90) and to the address which
he made to the King. In connexion with
this, it is stated that Benjamin West
depicted the scene in an allegorical style, and
that the picture was in the possession of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts. Inquiries have been made at
the Society, but they neither have the picture
nor do they know anything regarding it.
Can any correspondent help me to trace
its present whereabout
E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.
4 Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.
PRICE : HERALDIC QUERY. — What were
the arms and crest of Sir Herbert Price,
usually styled " knight," though in the
letters of administration to his estate dated
Nov. 6, 1679, he is .called " baronet," as was
also his son Sir Thomas Arden Price in
similar letters dated Dec. 23, 1689; while in
the marriage licence of this son from the
Vicar-General's office, dated June 16, 1675,
the father was described as " Knight i
Baronett." His baronetcy is not recognized
at the College of Arms, and no patent for it
has been discovered. He was colonel in the
army, and Master of the Household to Queen
Henrietta Maria and King Charles II. ;
M.P. for Brecon in 1640. Under ' Members '
Privileges,' he is said to have been committed
to the Tower with Sir William Widdrington
merely for bringing in candles into the House
when the august assembly did not wish to
have them. He was son of Thomas Price
of Herefordshire, Esq., and married Goditha,
daughter and coheir of Sir Henry Arden of
Park Hall, co. Warwick, and died 1677/8.
I should be grateful for any information
respecting him. LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
BOMBAY GRAB : TAVERN SIGN. — This is
the name of a tavern which adjoins the
Middlesex side of Bow Bridge in the East
of London. It must be a rare sign, as I have
not come across it in connexion with another
house. What is its origin ? I shall be glad
if any reader can inform me. The name is
so obscure that 1 have known men bet with
each other as to its being " Bombay Grab "
or " Crab." Certainly Bombay is a very far
call from a London tavern, but what seems
more strange is the word " Grab." What
does it refer to ? A reliable answer to this
query would settle many a dispute.
H. RICHARD WRIGHT
64 Carpenter's Road, Stratford, Essex.
[This was discussed at 10 S. iv. 177. " Grab "
was said to be an old slang term for a foot soldier,
but was better explained as derived from gitrdb,
the name of a two-masted coasting vessel formerly
employed by the Bombay Government against
pirates.]
MS. OF * THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.'—
It was recently stated in the press that Sir
Walter Scott's manuscript of ' The Bride of
Lammermoor ' had been bequeathed to some
Scottish institution. If I remember rightly,
Sir Walter's handwriting does not app?ar in
this MS. because Lockhart says it was
dictated to James Ballantyne and William
Laidlaw while Scott himself was suffering
from severe illness. Can some one throw
light on this interesting question ?
W. S.
ST. GENEWYS. — The church of Scotton,
Lincolnshire, is dedicated to St. Genewys.
Is this a form of Gwynws ? A saint of that
name is given in Stanton's ' Menology of
England and Wales,' 1887, Appendix I.,
p. 631 : " Gwynws (fifth century), of family
of Brychan, Patron of Llanwnws, Cardigan
(R, 327, 153)." M. P.
350
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 28, WIG.
EDWARD HAYES, DUBLIN, AND HIS
SITTERS. — I have a series of axitotype photo-
graphs of portrait studies, done in 1848-51,
by Edward Hayes, 4 Salem Place, Dublin.
Can any reader give me information about
either artist or sitters ? The portraits are
spirited sketches of " dashing blades " of the
period. Their autographs are appended to
the sketches : —
J. D. Brett, 17th Lancers, June, 1848.
Win. R. A. Campbell, 9th Lancers, March, 1851.
Castlemaine, Nov., 1849.
Conyngham, March, 1850.
Lieut. Gust, June, 1848.
J. Farrer, 1st Life Guards, March, 1851.
Wm. Fitzgerald, Jan., 1848.
Matthew Fortescue, May, 1848.
J. F. Wittel Lyon. Greys, May, 1850.
J. B. Macdonald, Nov., 1849.
J. S. Mansergh (?), Queen's Bays, Oct., 18oO.
Charlie B. Molyneux, 4th Light Dragoons, Feb.,
1848.
George Paget.
Wm. St. (?) Sandes, llth Hussars, Aug., 1849.
J. Goosey Williams, Scots Greys, March, 1851.
The patronymic of the last named is
suggestive of the style and social appearance
of the lot, as they sport " side-galleries " and
are garbed in the latest fashion of their
period. DUN SCOTUS.
" NEWS-COLLECTOR." — In The Times Liter-
ary Supplement of April 27, 1916, appeared a
letter from Mr. Robert S. Mylne, B.C.L.,
F.S.A., giving an account of some interesting
documents with particulars relating to
St. Paul's Cathedral from 1760 to 1810.
Among these is this strange document, un-
signed : —
"Sir Davis the plasterer in Blackfriars says you
are confederate with the two fellows that attempted
to murder the Banker's Clerk in Water Lane.
John Swan newscollector to the London Evening
Post declares that Davis told him so. 8 Aug..
1780."
A " news-collector " to a daily journal
thus seems to have been a recognized calling
at that period. Is there any other illus-
tration of it ? ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
GILLRAY. — An undescribed caricature by
him and dated 1810 is lettered ' The
Dandy.' It is not mentioned by Wright
and Evans. Who was this ? I have seen one
impression with " Mr. Lloyd " written upon
it in pencil. XYLOGRAPHER.
" FAUGH-A-BALLAGH." — I should be
obliged if some reader of ' N. & Q.' would
give the origin of the motto of the old
87th Regiment (now the Royal Irish
Fusiliers), " Faugh-a-Ballagh " (clear the
way). H. S.
Dublin.
EYES PERMANENTLY CHANGED IN C'OLOrR
BY FRIGHT. — When Princess Clementina
Sobieska was on her adventurous journey
from Innsbruck to her bridegroom,
" the roads had become better, but the new postilion
was worse, and nearly upset them [the lady and
her rescuers] over a precipice. OToole's blue eyes
turned permanently green with fright, and he
would have killed the man had not the drawn
berline blinds saved the Princess from knowing her
danger." — 'The King over the Water,' by A.
Shield and Andrew Lang. 1907, p. 327.
. re other instances of such modification
of the colouring matter of the eyes known ?
How does such a change come about ?
B. L. R. C.
LOVELACE : VANNECK. — Can any one give
me any information concerning the family of
Lovelace, two members of which married
into the Vanneck family ?
The Hon. Maria Vanneck, daughter of the
1st Lord Huntingfield, married, May 1, 1817,
Charles Lovelace ; and her brother, Hon.
Gerrard Vanneck, married, Dec. 29, 1810,
Charlotte Lovelace, daughter of Robert
Lovelace, who died April 9, 1875, surviving
her husband about forty-six years.
*F. DE H. L.
JOHN BRADSHAW THE REGICIDE. — 1. Can
any one tell me which house in Marple was
his birthplace ? Earwaker, in his ' History
of East Cheshire,' gives it as " Wibbersley
Hall, nr. Marple." Local tradition says he
was born at the farmhouse opposite the
Jolly Sailor Hotel, Stockport Road, Marple.
2. He left 700Z. to be expended in pur-
chasing an annuity for maintaining a free
school in Marple, Cheshire. Can any one
say what became of this sum ? There is no
such school in the village of Marple at this
day. ARTHUR HULME.
Marple.
HARDING or SOMERSET. — Can any one
tell me where John Harding, Sheriff of
Somerset in 1752, was born and lived ? I
should also be glad of any information con-
cerning the Harding family of Cranmore,
Som., before 1780. R. D. R.
EXCHEQUER BOND, 1710. — I have one of
these for 51., dated Sept. 29, 1710. Can any
one tell me whose is the portrait on it ?
J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.
4 Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, N.W.
" FELON." — Would any Welsh scholar say
whether jelen or velen could be the ancestor
or relative of this word, which has never been
satisfactorily derived ? H. C — N.
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351
" To GIVE THE MITTEN." — Equivalent
apparently to giving his conge to an un-
welcome admirer. The expression occurs in
an American story of which the scene is
laid in Kansas city. How did the idea travel
so far West ? It sounds like the alternative
to kissing a lady's hand. But that practice
does not seem to have ever taken root in the
most Western states of the Union.
L. G. B.
ARTHUR COLLINS. — I should be obliged to
any reader who would tell me the birthplace
of Arthur Collins, compiler of the ' Peerage.'
M.
THE FRENCH AND FROGS.
(12 S. ii. 251, 293).
THE frog may not be a social success in the
animal world, but he has found many
apologists among writers on culinary
dainties. I will first give a few early re-
ferences to the esculent frog. JStius, the
Alexandrian physician, recommended frog
broth mixed with salt and oil. Pliny, in his
' Natural History,' confirms this, and (in
Philemon Holland's translation/ says that a
decoction of frogs
" sodden in wine and vinegre, is a soveralgne
drinke for all poisons, but especially for the venom
of the hedge toad and salamander. As for the
froggs of rivers and fresh waters, if a man either
eat the flesh or drink the broth wherein they were
sodden, he shall flnde it yerie good. . . .moreover,
Democritus saith that if a man take out the
tongue of a frog alive so that no other part stick
there to, and after he hath let the frog go againe
into the water apply the said tongue unto the
left pap of a woman whiles she is asleepe, in the
very place where the heart beateth, she shall
answer truly and directly in her sleepe to any
interrogatione or question that is put to her."
This, if true, seems too good to be passed
over, and ought to be made further known.
Tom Coryat, who in 1608 set out on foot
from the village of Odcombe in Somerset
to travel in that manner through Europe,
and earned many nicknames, including that
of " The Odcombian Legstretcher," relates
in his famous ' Crudities,' when giving an
account of Cremona in Italy : —
" I did eate Progges in this citie, which is a dish
much used in many cities of Italy : they were so
curiously dressed that they did exceedingly delight
my palat, the head and the forepart being cut
off." — 'Crudities,' vol. i. p. 258, 1905 reprint
(MacLehose).
Dampier, another Somerset man, born a
generation later, says that in Tonquin he
found a New Year's entertainment going on,
and his host,
" that he might better entertain me and his other
guests, had been in the morning a-fishing in a
pond not far from his house, and had caught a
huge mess of frogs, and with great joy brought
them home as soon as I came to his house. I
wondered to see him turn out so many of these
creatures into a basket, and, asking him what they
were for, he told me to eat ! But how he dressed
them I know not. I did not like his dainties so
well as to stay and dine with him."
In ' The Boke of St. Albans ' (circa 1486)
there is a sentence " a frogge for to eete."
The Witches' cauldron in ' Macbeth ' con-
tained
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog.
Poor Tom, the fool in ' King Lear,' may well
be recalled here : —
" Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the
toad, the tadpole."
In the Ayscough MSS. in the British
Museum is a treatise ' On the Prolongation
of Life,' and after a discourse upon the
excellence of " frog broath," the writer goes
on, still alluding to frogs : —
" In Fraunce I once, by chance, eate them
fried, but thought they had been another meate,
otherwise I had not bin so hastie .... it might bee
that thosse were frogs from standing-pooles and
marshes .... but be they of what sort you will, I
think penurie made some use them, and luxurie
others, whose fat feeding and wanton stomacks
crave unnaturall things, mushrups, snailes, &c."
The wife of Galvani, the philosopher, was
ill, and was recommended as a restorative
soup made of frogs. Several of the animals,
skinned ready for use, lay on the table in
her husband's laboratory near an electrical
machine. An assistant touched with the
point of a scalpel the nerve of one of the
frogs as it lay near a prime conductor. It
was observed that the muscles of the frog's
limb were instantly thrown into convulsions.
The result of Madame Galvani's frog soup
was that Galvanism was discovered from
that moment.
Grimod de la Reyniere, the witty and
eccentric Frenchman, published his ' Al-
manach des Gourmands ' between 1803 and
1812. No more ardent apologist for the
frog has ever written. In various issues of
his ' Almanach ' he returns again and again
to the subject of ' Les Grenouilles ' : —
" Au XIII* siecle, les habit, m(s dr la France se
montraient tellement friinds de ce batracien que
les Anglais les avaic-nt surnomm^s ' Mangeurs de
grenouillos' surnom qui occiisioniuiit souvent des
querellcs cntrc !<>s ^nts <!«•« deux nations. Les
Anglais du XVIII8 siecle memo croyaient bonne-
ment, sur la foi de quelques voyageurs sans doute,
que tous les Fran cats etaient maitres de danse et
se nourrissaient de grenouilles."
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He goes on to point out all the districts
in France where les grenouilles are eaten, and
also where they are unknown, and he comes
to the conclusion that in those parts of
France which are farthest from Great
Britain the frog is most popular. Then there
follows this passage, which goes far to answer
MR. ACKERM ANN'S question : —
" En Italie et en Allemagne, on mange les
grenouilles en entier, la tete exceptee, apres les
avoir ecorchees. A Rochefort, ville renommee par
1'abondance et la qualite^ des grenouilles qui
habitant ses environs, on les coupe au-dessous des
pattes de devant, de fac.on que toute la peau du
petit animal suive la partie anWrieure ; ainsi on ne
conserve que 1'epine dorsale, les cdtes, et les pattes
de derriere parfaitem entdepouill^es ; quelquefois
on laisse aussi les pattes de devant ; mais elles
offrent peu de chose & manger.
" Ces grenouilles, apros avoir d^gorge deux ou
trois heures dans de 1'eau froide, sont egoutttSes et
generalement frites. On les fait prealablcment
rrmriner une heure avec da vinaigre, du sel, du
poivre, du persil, du laurier, de la ciboale et du
thyni ; on les farine avant de les mettre dans la
poele.
" Lorsqu'on veut les servir & la sauce, on les
fait sauter un instant dans une casserole avec du
beurre, on les roule ensuite dans la farine, et on les
remet dans la casserole avec du beurre, un peu de
vin blanc, du sel, du poivre, des 6chalotes hache'es.
On fait reduire vivement cette sauce, on la lie
avec des jaunes d'oeufs, et on sert.
" Le potage de grenpuilles s'pbtient en les
faisant bouiller, prepares comme ci-dessus. Dans
la marmite, on ajoute des legumes ; si 1'on veut
fa ire un bouillon gras, on met du lard ; sinon, du
beurre. Au bout de quatre ou cinq heures de
cuisson lente, on obtient un assez bon bouillon,
mais le bouilli est fade."
In another volume Grimod de la Reyniere
refers to an innkeeper named Simon, living
at Riom in Auvergne, who had " un talent
particulier pour accommoder les grenouilles."
The secret of how it was done was kept in
M. Simon's family : —
" alors le precieux de'pdt seroit remis a ses
h^ritiers, s'ils vouloient continuer ce commerce,
ou rendu public a la grande satisfaction de
1'Europe Gourmande."
This story is told in the fourth issue of the
' Almanach,' pp. 123-30.
In the early forties Benson Hill published
an English ' Almanach des Gourmands '
under the title of ' The Epicure's Almanac.'
He remarks : —
" With due reverence for the noble sirloin, I
cannot but think that the hind legs of some
half-dozen good-sized frogs, taken out of a fine
crystal pool, fried with an abundance of cream
and parsley, well crisped, would make a convert
of the most bigoted John Bull, provided you did
not tell him the name of the dish until he had
accustomed himself to the flavour."
Any one who cares to visitf Les Halles
Cent rales in Paris at a matinale hour would
see frogs' legs strung on skewers ready for
the kitchen. The Paris markets have in the
past been supplied with frogs from Quievraiu
in Belgium, where the frogs are caught at
night with nets and hooks baited with
worms. " La chasse aux grenouilles " is a
considerable sport in various parts of France
also. A statement appeared some years ago
to the effect that one Belgian frog merchant
alone sent two hundred thousand frogs to
France during the space of three weeks.
It is said that when only the thighs of the
frogs are roasted the other parts are utilized
as components in mock-turtle soup ; so we
may conclude that we have all of us at one
time or another eaten frog. In case MR.
ACKERMANN wishes himself to stimulate his
appetite with a dish of frogs I give two
recipes : —
Fricassee of frogs. — Skin and prepare the
hind quarters, blanch and throw them into
cold water ; drain and put them, into a
saucepan with a piece of butter, a clove,
parsley, onions, sweet herbs, and spices ;
let them soak a little on the fire, but not to
brown ; add a thickening with a glass of
wine, a little stock, and salt ; stew them
slowly for twenty minutes ; add a little
cream ; finish with yolk and lemon juice ;
garnish with lemon.
Fried frogs. — Prepare as above, and laj*
them in a pickle of equal parts of vinegar
and water, with sweet herbs, garlic, shallot,
Earsley, and onions shred small, and spices ;
jave them for an hour or two ; fry them in
oil or top pot, or shake them in a floured
cloth, or dip them in butter or egg, and then
fry them.
In the United States there are, I under-
stand, more frogs eaten even than in
France. The bull frog of the States is, I
am told, edible. See F. M. Chamberlain,
' Notes on the Edible Frogs of the United
States,' 1897.
I could add a considerable bibliography
of the esculent Ranidae, but this article
has already exceeded the length I intended.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
Some years ago I ate frogs' legs served in
white sauce when I was visiting an English
family at Tours. The dish resembled boiled
chicken, but according to my palate it had
also a flavour suggestive of musk. Have all
edible amphibians and reptiles this taste —
the iguanas of South America, for instance,
which are stated to be tender, and of a
peculiarly delicate flavour, not unlike the
breast of a spring chicken ? African croco-
diles are said to have a very strong odour
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353
resembling musk. Whether this is observed
at the breeding- season only, or at other
times too, I am not certain.
While I was at Tours I once noticed a man
nea/ the bridge who had evidently been frog-
fishing. He was carrying a large bunch of
watery-green batrachians, all slung together,
somehow, by their hind legs. As they hung
head downwards in a wriggling mass the
sight was not a pleasant one, although it may
be supposed that the nervous system of a
frog is scarcely capable of acute suffering.
Frogs' legs may be seen exposed for sale in
the markets of Switzerland near the French
border.
I have heard a Dutchman say that his
nation would not eat them. P. W. G. M.
A short time ago I talked over this subject
with a French interpreter attached to the
British Army in France. Frogs are eaten
occasionally, and the hind legs only. There
is a restaurant in Paris which has a reputa-
tion for preparing this dish, but I cannot give
its name, and cannot tell the mode in which
the dish is prepared. It is a fact that the
French have the reputation of being great
eaters of frogs, but it is no more right to say
this than it would be right to say that the
English are great eaters of lark pie. An
amusing result of the British Army s arrival
in France is that the price of frogs has gone
up enormously, as Thomas Atkins considers
it the proper thing to partake of this dish.
In the Far East I have often eaten frogs'
legs fricasseed, and a very delicate dish it is,
rather like chicken. Roy GAKART.
AX ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151. 163,
191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311.)
The King's Dragoons (ante, p. 86).
JOSEPH GUEST of Halifax, Yorks, lieu-
tenant-general, May 27, 1745 ; defended
Edinburgh Castle against the rebels, 1745 ;
d. Oct. 14, 1747, aged 85; buried West-
minster Abbey.
Major Foley left the regiment, Aug. 1,
1741 : brevet lieutenant-colonel, June 5,
1743.
Alex. Mullen left the regiment or d. before
1745.
Wm. Ogle served at Dettingen, 1743.
Philip Honywood of Mark's Hall, Essex,
nephew of Field-Marshal Sir Philip Hony-
wood, K.B., the colonel of his regiment, was
b. about 1711 ; cornet of Lord Mark Kerr's
Dragoons, July 5, 1739; captain-lieutenant
of Honywood's Dragoons, July 12, 1739 ;
captain thereof, July 11, 1741 ; major of the
same, Aug. 1, 1741 ; lieutenant-colonel (of his
uncle's) 3rd Dragoons, July 23, 1743, to
1755 ; when major, received twenty-
three broad-sword wounds and two musket
shots (never extracted) at Dettingen, 1743 ;
and, when lieutenant-colonel, was severely
wounded in the head at Clifton, Lanes, by
the Scotch rebels, 1746. He was M.P*.
Appleby, 1754-6, void, and March, 1756,-
to 1784 ; A.D.C. to the King (and brevet
colonel), March 17, 1752 ; major-general,.
May 17, 1758 ; lieutenant-general, Dec. 18,.
1760 ; general, Aug. 29, 1777 ; governor of
Hull, July, 1765, till he d. s.p. in London,.
Feb. 2.0, 1785, aged 73 ; colonel 20th Foot,.
April S, 1755 ; of 9th Light Dragoons, May 22,.
1756 ; of 4th Light Horse (now 7th Dragoon
Guards), April 5, 1759, to 1782 ; of 3rd Dra-
goon Guards, June 7, 1782, to 1785; m..
April 22, 1751, Eliz. Wastell of Tower Hill ;
succeeded his nephew Richard Honywood of
Mark's Hall in an estate of 6,OOOZ. a year in
Essex, Sept. 24, 1758.
Capt. Thomas Brown, Lieut. Robinsonr
and Cornet Dawson were wounded, and Lieut ..
Baily was killed at Dettingen, 1743. Brown
was major of the regiment July 23, 1743, to
1746 or so.
Henry Whitley, majcr of Eland's 3rd1
Dragoons from about 1746 ; lieutenant -
colonel 10th Dragoons, March 15, 1748 ;.
colonel 9th Dragoons, April 6, 1759, to
Jan. 14, 1771 ; major-general, Aug. 13, 1761-
John Parsons (?sonof Lieut. -Gen. John
Parsons, who d. 1764) was made captain-
lieutenant 2nd Horse Grenadier Guards,.
May, 1747 ; and was major 3rd Dragoons,
March 5, 1751, to May 5, 1756.
Hon. George Carey, the younger son of
5th Viscount Falkland, lieutenant and
captain 1st Foot Guards, May 25, 1744 ;
captain- lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel,.
Nov. 20, 1750 ;' captain and lieutenant-
colonel, March 28, 1751 ; third major thereof
and brevet colonel, June 18, 1759 ; colonel
64th Foot, Dec. 20. 1759 ; colonel 43rd Foot,
Sept. 26, 1766, till he d. April, 1792 ; major-
general, Aug. 15, 1761 ; lieutenant-general^
April 30, 1770 ; general, Nov. 26, 1782.
Hon. Josiah Child had two horses killed
under him at Dettingen, and was made
lieutenant in the regiment, Aug., 1743.
Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Dragoons
(ante, p. 86).
Daniel Leighton, fourth son (first son by
second wife) of Sir Edw. Leighton, 1st Bart.r
M.P., of Wattlesborough, Salop, baptized at
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Alberbury, June 21, 1694 ; matriculated
Waeiham College, Oxford, Oct. 20, 1710 ;
Admitted to the Inner Temple, Feb. 12,
1 709 ; declined to go into Holy Orders and to
take the rich family living of Worthen,
Salop, but entered the army as exempt and
captain 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards,
Feb. 6, 1716 ; guidon and to rank as eldest
major, Dec. 24, 1717; cornet and major
thereof, May 19, 1720, to 1737 ; lieutenant-
colonel of Rich's (4th) Dragoons, June 30,
1737, till he left the army, Feb. 4, 1747 ;
served in Flanders at Fontenoy, 1745, and
in Scotland, 1746 ; lord of the manor of
Bausley, co. Montgomery, having succeeded
to the family estates in that county ; seated
at Boreham,Chelmsford; m. Jane (d. June 9,
1 759, a Bedchamber Woman to the Dowager
Princess of Wales), daughter of Nathaniel
Thorold of Lincoln, and widow of Capt.
Michael Barkham ; and d. January, 1765;
buried at Alberbury, Feb. 1. His portrait in
military uniform is at Lotbn, Salop (private
information from the late Mr. Stanley
Leighton, M.P.).
Richard Hartshorne d. 1742.
Geo. Macartney (? son of Lieut.-Gen. Geo.
Macartney, who d. 1730 ; see Dalton, vol. vi.
p. 302).
Francis Boggest of Hawley, Suffolk, major
of the regiment, 1742, till he resigned
Sept., 1746, was the senior of the eight
Gentlemen Ushers, Quarter Waiters in
Ordinary to the King (salary 50Z.), in 1737
Appointed after 1734) until 1760.
Wm. Higginson was son of Capt. Wm.
Higginson, wrho was killed at Lille, 1708.
Matthew'Sewell, lieutenant-colonel in the
?rmy, Oct. 4, 1745 ; captain, in Jeffries's new
10th Regiment of Marines, Jan., 1741 ;
lieutenant-colonel of the Duke of Bolton's
new- raised (67th) Regiment of Foot, which
was raised Nov. 15, 1745, and reduced
June 15, 1746, then placed on half-pay ;
major of Richbell's 39th Foot, 1747 to
Feb. 14, 1754 ; captain of the Independent
{'ompanv of Invalids at Pendennis, Julv 24,
1754, to"May 5, 1769.
Charles Rich, third son of Sir Robert
"Rich, 3rd Bart, of Sunning, Berks.
Cecil Forester of Rossall, Shrewsbury, the
younger son of Wm. Forester, M.P., of
Dothill and Willey, Salop, was promoted to
captain in Lascelles' Foot, March 17 (1744 or)
1745 ; major of Price's (48th) Foot, Feb. 24',
1748 ; lieutenant -colonel 46th Foot, Jan. 24,
1752 ; lieutenant-colonel llth Foot, Dec. 30,
1755, to May, 1760 ; M.P. Wenlock, 1761-8 ;
m. (? 1761) Anne, daughter and coheir of
Robert Townshend of Christleton, Cheshire,
Recorder of Chester. She survived him,
and d. at Quarry Bank, Slirewsbury, May 24,
1826, aged 84. Their eldest son was created
Lord Forester, July 17, 1821.
Capt. Douglas, appointed major of the
regiment, Sept., 1746 ; and Capt.-Lieut.
Brown made captain of a troop therein the
same time (Gent. Mag.).
Samuel Horsey was one of the four
orporals (or exons, salary 150Z.) of the
Yeomen of the Guard in 1748 till 1757 ; and
Bath King at Arms, January, 1757, to 1770.
(Query, son of Sam. Horsey, lieutenant
and lieutenant-colonel of the 4th or Scots
Troop of Horse Guards, 1715; d. 1738.)
W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To'be continued.)
Henry Vachell (ante, p. 204). — There was a
Henrv Vachell, captain, at St. Mary's,
Reading, Oct. 10, 1694 ; son of Tanfield and
Dorothy Vachell, Coley Park, Reading,
Berks, described in pedigree as ensign,
Jan. 3, 1717, d.s.p. Mentioned in mother's
will, Nov. 6, 1719 (proved Nov. 28, 1726).
See Berks Archaeological and Architectural
Society's Journal, vol. iii.
Francis Columbine (p. 246). — Ensign in
Capt. Goodwyn's Company, Col. Colum-
bine's* Regiment, July 5, 1695 ; captain
Col. Columbine's Regiment, Dec. 22, 1701 ;
major Col. Columbine's Regiment, March 18,
1704 ; lieutenant-colonel in Col. Rooke's
Regiment, Feb. 24, 1705 ; colonel, brevet,
Oct. 17, 1706. On half-pay : lieutenant-
colonel and captain Brigadier Henry Grove's
Regiment, Aug. 4, 1715 ; brigadier-general,
March 2, 1727 ; major-general, Oct. 29, 1735 ;
colonel of Grove's Regiment, June 27, 1737 ;
lieutenant-general, f July 2, 1739. (Copy of
War Office record by Rev. A. B. Baldwin,
1914.)
See also US. ix. 499 for other references
to members of the family.
R. J. FYNMORE.
General Charles Rainsford, M.P. (see ante'
p. 314).— General Charles Rainsford, Governor
of Chester, was returned to the House of
Commons for Maldon at a by-election in
1773, at another for Beeralston in 1787,
and at the General Election of 1790 for
Newport (Cornwall). The last two boroughs
were in the patronage of Hugh, second
* Probably Col. Ventris Columbine of the
6th Bed Regiment, June 23, 1695. See Millan's
' Army List,1 1773, ' Succession of Colonels.'
f See US. ix. 478. Gen. Francis Columbine
d. Sept. 16, 1746, aged 66, and is buried at
Hillingdon, Middlesex.
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355
Duke of Northumberland, a circumstance
to be noted when writing a striking acco\mt
of Rainsford, who was an exceedingly active
Freemason, in ' Notes on some Masonic
Personalities at the End of the Eighteenth
Century,' published in ' Ars Quatuor Coro-
natorum ' {the Transactions of the Quatuor
Coronati Lodge, No. 2076), vol. xxv. pp. 152 et
seq., and ' Notes on the Rainsford Papers in
the British Museum,' ibid., vol. xxvi. pp. 95
et seq. For his career, see ' D.N.B.,'
vol. xlvii., p. 183. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
' VANITY FAIR ' (12 S. i. 467 ; ii. 13).— The
quotation from Lewis Melville in MR.
SPARKE'S reply about the " suppressed "
woodcut of Lord Steyne at the second refer-
ence, is, I know, in the usual way of
speaking of the omission of the cut, but there
is no propriety whatever in calling it " sup-
pressed." For some unknown reason, pro-
bably an injury to the block, it was omitted
from the second edition of 1848, and the
third of 1849, but these are the only illus-
trated editions of ' Vanity Fair ' which have
appeared without this cut. The editions of
1853, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1863 were
all published without illustration. In 1867
* Vanity Fair ' was published as the initial
volume of the " Library Edition " of the
' Works ' of Thackeray, and it contains the
missing woodcut of the marquis. There
was, however, another omission, or sup-
pression, which, as far as I know, has never
been referred to by the bibliographers. At
the beginning of chap. vi. there are three
vignettes by Thackeray, with a page of text,
to be found in all the editions of 1848 or
1849, but not in any subsequent edition.
FREDERICK S. DICKSON.
New York.
DRAKE'S SHIP (12 S. ii. 309).— The donor
of the chair is described in Macray's ' Annals
of the Bodleian Library ' as " John Davies,
of Camberwell, the storekeeper at Deptford
dockyard." The year of the presentation is
given as 1668. At 11 S. i. 368, MR. C. E. A.
BEDWELL, the Librarian of the Middle
Temple, after mentioning Davies's position,
wrote : —
" From the Domestic Series of the Calendar of
State Papers it appears that he held the post only
for a short time. It would seem to be probable
that he made the gift in his official capacity."
MR. BEDWELL'S communication was headed
by a reference to 3 S. ii. 492.
Apropos of the serving table in the Middle
Temple Hall said to have been made from
the timbers of the Golden Hind, it may be
noted that there was tin interesting dis-
cussion in 11 S. iv. and v. on the subject of
Drake's connexion with the Middle Temple,
and with the Inner Temple.
EDWARD BENSLY.
" In the mouth of the river Ravensbourne, the
skeleton of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigating
ship " The Golden Hind " was laid up by command
of Queen Elizabeth, though in a short time after-
wards nothing was left of her : but the fame of her
captain and steersman cannot perish so long as
history shall last." — ' Philipot,' p. 160.
"2. Elizabeth visited the ship April 4, 1581, and
after dining on board, knighted Drake. The ship
was broken up, and a chair was made of the timber,
and presented to the University of Oxford." —
Drake's 'Hundred of Blackheath,' 1886, p. 2, note.
According to Shrimpton's ' Handbook to
Oxford,' p. 212, the chair was " presented to
the Library, 1668, by J. Davis Esqr. King's
Commissioner, Deptford." It bears a brass
plate, having the following lines by Cowley,
1662 (almost illegible) inscribed on it : —
To this great ship which round the globe has run
And matched in race the chariot of the sun,
This Pythagorean ship (for it may claim
Without presumption so deserved a name)
By knowledge once and transformation now
In this new shape this sacred part allow
Drake and his ship could not have wished from Fate
A happier station, or more blest estate :
For lo ! a seat of endless rest is given
To her in Oxford, and to him in heaven.
R. J. FYNMORE.
BISHOP RICHARD OF BURY'S LIBRARY
(11 S. viii. 341, 397, 435 ; ix. 17).— As there
is no statute of limitations in corrigenda, and
if there were 1 am well within its boundaries,
I am anxious to offer an amende to the
memory of Mr. E. C. Thomas, with whose
fine edition of the ' Philobiblon ' I have
recently made a closer acquaintance. At
the third reference I had written in the
second paragraph : " This was Thomas's
mistranscription, not mine." It was I who,
in the hurry of copying a passage from
Thomas (' Introduction,' xl.) mistranscribed
it and erroneously attributed the error to him.
Though not a matter of great moment—
merely a substitution of " Richard o " for
Ricardo, and of " Burs' " for Buy -
hasten, on discovery of my error, to
acquit Thomas of the imputation. Let
me also add, whilst finally dealing with
this matter, that as I had quoted Burton's
' (The Book Hunter,' p. 199) statement
(at the first reference) that the ' Philo-
biblon ' was " the first fruit " of the press of
Badius Ascensius in 1499, I hereby accept
Thomas's better informed opinion that
' the story will not bear inspection." And it
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is fart JUT worihy of record that this writer
quotes ivfcivurc- to the book he so worthily
edited (' Introduction,' Ixii., Ixiv.) in 1 S.
ii. 203 ; 4 S. ii. 378. J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
GLOVES : SURVIVALS OF OLD CUSTOMS
(12 S. ii. 308). — The mediaeval custom of
baring a hand for the shake and of going
glovele.ss into a church was still prescribed
in France in the eighteenth century ; and I
should doubt if even now such formalities be
altogether extinct in the provinces. I do
remember, however, a delicately tinted glove
being dipped in a holy -water stoup at Morlaix
towards the latter end of last century.
In ' Les Magazlns de Nouveautes,' torn. ii.
pp. 115, 116, Franklin quotes as follows
from a " Civilite" of 1782 : —
" Quaiul on donne la main a quelqu'un pour
marquer d'amitie il faut toujours presenter la main
nue et il est centre la biens£ance d 'avoir alors un
gant a la main. Mais quand on la pre"sente pour
tircr quelqu'un d'un in nivais pas, ou meme a une
fenime pour la conduire il est de I'hoiinetete' de la
faire le gant a la main
" II faut oter ses gauts quand on entre k 1'eglise
avant que de prendre de 1'eau bdnite, quand or
veut prier Dieu, et avant que de se mettre k table."
In ' Habits and Men,1 a former editor of
' X. & Q.,' Dr. Doran, tells a story of " the
late Duke of Orleans " visiting wounded men
in a hospital at Antwerp and kindly shaking
hands wTith them. One bluntly remarked
that when the Emperor so saluted the
wounded he ungloved his hand (p. 192).
There is a pleasant though sketchy chapter
on ' The History of Gloves ' in Disraeli's
' Curiosities of Literature ' (vol. i. pp. 235-9).
ST. SWITHIN.
I remember in 1887, when on my way as
a Doctor of Divinity to attend upon the
Chancellor of the University, who was to
present an address of congratulation to
Queen Victoria upon the occasion of her
jubilee, in the train between Oxford and
Windsor, Dr. 'Bellamy, President of St. John's,
who was then Vice-Chancellor, observing
that I had gloves on, said : " You'll have to
take those off when you come into the
Queen's presence." He explained, I think,
at the same time, that it was this court
regulation which was the cause of the fashion
of taking gloves off when going into church.
I have always supposed that the cause of the
court regulation was to obviate the risks to
the royal person which might arise from
poisoned gloves, or a concealed weapon like
the celebrated tiger-claw of Shivaji. Any-
how, ten years later, when, on a similar
mission to Windsor on the occasion of the
diamond jubilee, I had as Yk'i--( 'hancellor to-
" kiss hands," it was a bared right hand I
lifted with the palm downward for the Queen
to rest her hand on while I saluted it.
Soldier officers on duty are, as I understand r
the only men allowed to wear gloves in the
presence of royalty.
JOHN R. MAGRATH.
AUTHOR OF POEM WANTED (12 S. ii. 291)-
— The poem on ' Ugbrooke Park,' published
in 1776, was written by Joseph Reeve (1733-
1820), Father, S.J., who was chaplain there.
A second edition was published in Exeter in
1794. A list of Reeve's works will be found
in the ' D.N.B.,' and in Gillow's ' Catholic
Bibliography.' M.
Kindly allow me to mention that, through
the courtesy of the City Librarian of the
Royal Albert Memorial Public Library at
Exeter, I have been supplied with an answer
to my query as to the authorship of ' Ug-
brooke Park : a Poem.' It was written by
the Rev. Joseph Reeve, and the second
edition, issued in 1794, gives his name.
CECIL CLARKE.
[MR. HEXRY GRAY and MR. H. TAPLEY-SOPER
thanked for replies.]
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.
ii. 290). — Lines by Christopher Codrington
in Garth's ' Dispensary ' : —
Ask me not, Friend, what I approve or blame i
Perhaps I know not why I like or damn ;
I can be pleased, and I dare own I am.
I read thee over with a lover's eye ;
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy r
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
R, H. C.
[Mr. C. B. WHEELER, who gives the dates,
(Codrington, 1668-1710, ' The Dispensary,' 1699),
thanked for reply.]
" MR. DAVIS," FRIEND OF MRS. SIDDONS -
His IDENTITY (12 S. ii. 290). — There is no
doubt in my mind but that the letter to Mr-.
Siddons, mentioning " Mr. Davis," though
the name . wras wrongly spelt, referred to
Thomas Davies, mentioned in the extracts
cited by MR. COLBY. Further information
about his record is to be found in the
' D.N.B.,' wherein he is said to have been
driven from the stage by a sneer in Churchill's
' Rosciad.' Perhaps the fullest record is
that given in the ' Dictionary of the Drama/
by W. Davenport Adams, which, owing to the
death of the author, unhappily never got
beyond the letter O, or it would certainly
have proved one of the most valuable con-
tributions to dramatic literature ever com-
piled. As MR. COLBY may not have access
12 s. ii. OCT. 28, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
•to it, I may perhaps be allowed to quote the
notice in extenso : —
" Davies, Thomas, actor, publisher, and mis-
cellaneous writer, horn ahout 1712, died 1785, was
-educated at Edinburgh University, and made his
histrionic debut at The Haymarket in 1736. After
this he became a bookseller, but, not succeeding,
resumed his old profession, being seen at Covent
<Jarden in 1746 as Pierre in ' Venice Preserved.'
Going into the provinces, he met and married a
young actress named Yarrow, to whose beauty
iDhurchill afterwards paid homage in the well
tnown lines : —
On my life
That Davies hath a very pretty wife,
In 1753 both were employed at Drury Lane very
much in the character of ' understudies.' That
Davies was really but a poor performer may be
inferred from Churchill s pronouncement in ' The
Rosciad ' : —
In plots famous grown
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
In 1762 Davies returned to bookselling, publishing
in 1777 ' A Genuine Narrative of the Life and
Theatrical Transactions of Mr. John Henderson,'
written by himself. He was bankrupt in 1778, and
through Dr. Johnson's influence had a benefit at
Drury Lane, figuring as Fainall in ' The Way of
•the World.' To 1779 belongs his edition, with a
memoir, of the works of Massinger, and to 1780
his biography of (larrick, in which he was again
assisted by Johnson. This was followed in 1785 by
his ' Dramatic Miscellanies, consisting of Critical
Observations on Several Plays of Shakespeare :
with a Review of his Principal Characters and
•those of various Eminent Writers as represented
fcy Mr. Garrick and other Celebrated Comedians,
with Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, <Scc.'
In 1789 an edition of Downes's ' Rosoius Angli-
canus ' was published, with additions, by the late
"Mr. Thomas Davies. Mrs. Davies, who survived
her husband, died in 1801."
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
MS. VERSES (12 S. ii. 229, 278).—' To
the Comedians of Cambridge ' in the collec-
tion described by MR. J. HAMBI.EY ROWE
is, I suspect, the short piece that J. S.
Hawkins printed in his notes on Ruggle's
''Ignoramus,' p. 259 (' Epilogus ') : —
" The passage in the text,* however, contains an
allusion to a poem, written, as it should seem,
between the time of the first ;m<l second repre-
sentations of tliis comedy, in the character of
John a Stile, student in the common law, and
;ifldressed to the comedians of Cambridge in
•consequence of this play. It has been Lately
recovered from a manuscript collection of mis-
cellaneous poems in the MUM-UIH, Sloinn .MSS.
No. 1775, and is as follows :
"' To the comedians of Canthriili/c, \vhoin 3 acts
before the king abused the lawyers with an
imposed Ignoramus, in two ridiculous per-on-.
I<l>\or<ii)uix the master, and Dubinin 1 lie clerk;
John a Stile, student in the common law, wislielh
" Sed sine protectione regali non audet ire ultra
Barkeivay, aut Ware, ad plus, ut eleganter quidam
•legalis poeta.''
a more sound judgment and more reverent opinion
of their betters :
Faith, gentlemen, I do not blame your wit,
Xor vet commend, but rather pity it ;
Ascribing this, your error and offence,
Not unto malice, but to ignorance ;
Who know the world by map, and never dare,
If beyond Barbara >/ ride past Ware,
But madly spurgall home unto your schools,
And there become exceeding learned fools.'
"Very unfortunately the sixth line of the above
poem, which is also that referred to by the text,
is defective in the manuscript, and a space is
left for the. insertion of a word to fill up the line ;
perhaps we should read,
If beyond Barkeicay gone, to ride past Ware."
Should my conjecture as to the identity
of the poem be correct, it would be interesting
to learn whether MR. ROWE'S copy fills the
gap, and whether it differs in any other deteil
from the Sloane MS.
EDWARD BENSLY.
DOG SMITH (12 S. ii. 291). — I do not know
whether this will throw any light on MR. R. H.
THORNTON'S query, but a certain Smith left
a charity (date forgotten) to the parishes of
Farleigh, Warlingham, &c., in Surrey, and
the recipients most ungratefully call it
" Dog Smith's Charity."
I should add a word as to its history.
Dog Smith passed through the villages in
question as a tramp and left in his will money
to each parish that gave him money — to the
others he left a kick. I do not know whether
his executors carried out this last bequest !
F. B.
See 6 S. xii. 230, 354, and in earlier series ;
also in Surrey histories. Recently the
Secretary of the Harleian Society stated that
he had discovered
i pedigree which shows the ancestors and
collaterals of Henry Smith, l;.te Alderman of
London, who died in 1627, and w.-.s buried at
Wandsworth. He was a great benefactor to the
poor. This find is unique, since no historian, to
my knowledge, knew anything anent the origin of
the family. The MS. in question was formerly in
the possession of Peter le Neve, Norroy King of
Arms, who died in 1720, and whose library was
dispersed in 1730-31. It is now in my possession.'f
I have some extracts from Arnold's
' Streatham,' pp. 88, 89 : —
" Dog Smith. — Mr. Henry Smith, a London
silversmith, so c;-,ll<-d as a dog was in constant
attendance on him."
' The Family Topographer,' by Samuel
Tymms, 1832, p. 174, vol. i. : —
' In Wandsworth Church i- a bemtiful monu-
ment to .Mr. Alderman Henry Smith, generally
known as Dog Smith, the u'reat benefactor to
Sin-rev, \c., who died of the plague in U',27."
R. J. FYNMOKE.
358
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. ii. OCT. a, wia
NATIONAL FLA (is : THKIR ORIGINS (12 S.
'ii. 289). — The following is a list of books
which will probivbly give a satisfactory
account of the historical genesis of the
national flags, or " colours," of the modern
European States : —
Bland (William). National Banners : their history
and construction ; with an illustration in colours.
1892. 8vo.
Griffin (James). Flags, National and Mercantile
Second edition enlarged, &c Ports-
mouth, Griffin and Co., 1891. 8vo.
Holdeu (Edward Singleton). Our Country's Flag
and the Flags of^ Fo-eign Countries. With
coloured plates. New York, D. Appleton & Co.
1898. 8vo.
Hulme (Frederick Edward). The Flags of the
World : I heir history, blazonry, and associations,
from the banner of the Crusader to the burgee of
the yachtsman ; flags national, colonial, personal ;
the ensigns of mighty empires ; the symbols of lost
causes. With coloured plates. London, F. Warne
& Co. 1897. Svo.
MacGeorge (Andrew). Flags : some account of their
history and uses. London, Blackie and Son. 1881.
4to.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
The present Greek flag dates from about
1832, in which year Otto of Bavaria was
made king. He adopted for the flag of his
new country the tinctures of the arms of his
native country (argent and azure) ; the
stripes are in" imitation of the American flag,
and the cross takes the place of the stars.
The Rumanian flag is an imitation of the
tricolour of France and Belgium, but the
tinctures are those of the Principality of
Transylvania, i.e., red, gold, and blue. The
question of the common flag gave rise to
long and angry pourparlers among the Great
Powers when the union of the Danubian
Principalities (Wallachia and Moldavia) was
discussed at the Paris Conference in 1858.
The flag of America is, of course, based on
the arms of the Washington familv.
~L. L. K.
' The Flags of the World,' by F. Edward
Hulme, F.L.S., F.S.A. (F. Warne & Co.),
states : —
''The Greeks adopted the blue and white, the
colours of Bavaria, as a delicate compliment to
the Prince who accepted their invitation to ascend
the throne of Greece."
The book contains much useful and
interesting information about flags of all
nations. J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.
4 Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, N.W.
FAUST BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ii. 269, 337).
— For the study of the Faust legend, refer-
ence to the following works might be useful :
Ernest Faligan's admirable work, ' Histoire
de la Leg end e de Faust,' 1888 ; Ristelhuber,
' Faust diuis I'Histoiiv <>t dans, la Logende,'
1863 ; p,nd H. S. Edwards, ' The Faust
Legend, &c.,' 1886. Articles on the subject
might also be found in the ' Encyclopaedia
Britannica,' vol. x. ; ' The New International
Encyclopaedia,' vol. vii. ; Chambers' s ' En-
c\clopoc-dia,' vol. iv. ; and the various his-
tories of English literature and drama.
E. E. BARKER.
SIR EDWARD LUTWYCHE, JUSTICE OF THE
COMMON PLEAS (12 S. ii. 90).— Sir Edward
Lutwyche, Judge of the Common Pleas, was
the only son of William Lutwyche of
Lutwyche, cp. Salop (1601-35), by his wife
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lyster of
Rowton, in the parish of Alberbury. He was
baptized on Aug. 21, 1634, at Alberbury, so
I presume he was born at Rowton. His two
sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, were also bap-
tized at Alberbury. The Judge's wife was
Anne, daughter of Sir Timothy Tourner of
the Hall of Bold, co. Salop ; and they were
married on Nov. 21, 1653, at Aston BotterilL
I have a good deal of material about the
Lutwyche family, and can no doubt give-
more information if required.
W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A,
Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.
FARMERS' SAYINGS (12 S. ii. 289). — The
saying " That pigs can see the wind " is not
confined to farmers, but is common through-
out the Midlands. Pigs do not like wind,,
either in face or behind them, and they are
known to run from it squealing. It is said
that they do not fear it as a terror, but that
any wind feels hot to them, and to their sight
appears as a sheet of flaming fire. I have
known this bit of folk-lore all my life, and
have seen pigs turn tail and scamper from
gusts of wind with a noise which certainly
did not seem to indicate pleasure. I have
often heard it said that wind looks like fire
to a pig, and that only a pig can see the
wind. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
THE KING OF ITALY'S DESCENT FROM
CHARLES I. (12 S. ii. 267).— The present King
of Italy is certainly descended from our King
Charles I. The descent is through his
mother, Queen Margherita. Her mother,
the Duchess of Genoa, was a Saxon princess,
whose grandmother was Caroline, DucL*
Maximilian of Saxony, born a Princess of
Parma in 1770. She, in turn, was the
granddaughter of Marie Louise, Duchess of
Parma, the only married daughter of King
Louis XV. of France. The last -mentioned
king was the only son of Adelaide of Savoy,
12 S. II. OCT. 28, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
359
" la Duchesse de Bourgogne," so much
beloved by Louis XIV. and Madame de
Maintenon. She was the elder daughter of
Anne, Queen of Sardinia, who was originally
Duchess of Savoy and younger daughter of
Philip, Duke of Orleans (brother of
Louis XIV. of France), by his beautiful first
wife, Henriette Anne (Stuart) of England,
who was^herself the youngest child of King
Charles I., and the idol of her brother King
Charles II. until her untimely death.
A. FRANCIS STEUABT.
79 Great King Street, Edinburgh.
" DON'T BE LONGER THAN YOU CAN HELP "
(12 S. ii. 227). — This error is common every-
where, and was noted by Whately in 1862.
But see the ' N.E.D.' under 'Help,' B. lie.
where instances from Newman and others
are given. C. C. B.
GRAVE OF MARGARET GODOLPHIN (12 S.
ii. 129, 176, 218, 274).—!. The church was
under restoration in 1890 and 1891. To
examine the grave was the outcome of
natural curiosity.
2. I understood from the late vicar, the
Rev. Jocelyn Barnes, that the coffin was
replaced in the same spot.
3 and 5. Speaking from memory of what
Barnes told me, I think it was opened, and
nothing recognizable found.
4. I never heard any suggestion about
Lord Godolphin's remains being laid with
hers according to her wish. What does
' D.X.B.' say ? YGREC.
0n
Political Ballads illustrating the Administration of
Sir Robert Wai-mole. Edited by Milton Percival.
Vol. Vlll. of " Oxford Historical and Literary
Studies." (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 8«. 6d.
net.)
STUDENTS of the earlier half of the eighteenth
century may be recommended to make a note of
this book. It contains seventy-five ballads in
full, with an Appendix which gives the titles,
provenance, first two lines, and a few particulars
of one hundred more. No such collection was
before in existence, and to bring this together
Dr. Percival has ransacked the Harvard Library,
the Public Record Office, Prof. Firth's private
library, and the greatest libraries of England. It
may be useful to note that the material of which
tliis book is the fruit is now deposited in the
Harvard Library.
The series begins with ' Robin's Glory ; or, The
Procession of the Knights of the Bath '—ridiculing
the revival of the Order of the Bath, and belonging
to the year 1725. This is the first political ballad
directly aimed ut Walpolo which Dr. Percival has
ound. Thenceforward these ballads come thick
and fast, various in their points of attack, unequal
in wit and skill, but, taken together, forming a
pretty formidable assault upon the Government.
To the Government, we think, Dr. Percival renders
somewhat less than justice, as he is perhaps
inclined to rate the ability displayed in the best
of these skits somewhat too high. He rates the
second and third best at their proper worth.
A good Introduction sets out the place and
function of the ballad in days when the possi-
bilities of the newspaper were still unrealized, so-
that these verses were esteemed a political engine
of at least equal force. It is justly noted that in
order to appreciate them fully one should know
the tunes to which they were written, and we are-
sorry that these have not been included in the
volume. The ballads which go to ' Packington's
Pound ' especially need their tune.
We should be inclined to support Dr. Percival's
opinion that four or five of the anonymous ballads
against the Government are Pulteney's work.
Not that we discover all the wit and irresistible
funniness that he, their editor, does in them —
but that, upon a comparison with the rest, they
certainly show superior ability and verve, and if
they are not Pulteney's it is difficult to imagine
whose they can be. Two ballads, for the same-
sort of reason, he would assign to Hervey, the best
wit on the Government side. To him is thus
imputed the ' Journalists Displayed ' which, with
' The Negotiators,' ascribed to Pulteney, we agree
with Dr. Percival represents the high-water mark
of the book so far as pure satire is concerned,
' Admiral Hosier's Ghost ' being a masterpiece of
a different order.
If we were asked to give some general idea of
the character of the English political mind in the
eighteenth century as revealed or implied in this
collection, we should not be able to say much
that was favourable. There is a striking absence-
of political instinct ; and a strident note of heavy
self-complacency which reminds us of the old
widely current accusation against us of hypocrisy.
The political ballad went out, we think, because —
apart from the mordant wit of a few masters of
satire — it rather misrepresented than fairly
rendered the general character of the people or
the truth of a situation. We do not seem — as a
nation — ever to have had a genuine turn for
satirical verse on political as distinguished from
social or domestic subjects. Perhaps our sense of
humour is not sufficiently detached to be gay or
to simulate gaiety, and yet is too great to allow
us often the full effectiveness of bitter wrath or
hatred.
JOTTINGS FROM RECENT BOOK
CATALOGUES.
WE have read many tempting descriptions of goodL
books in Mr. Reginald Atkinson's Catalogue No. 21.
He has a first edition (1597) of Boissard's ' Icones
quinquaginta virorum ' — the first of four similar
collections — which includes portraits of Columbus,.
Erasmus, Dante, Petrarch, and Albertus Magnus
and is not dear in good condition, at 31. 3s. An
inexpensive item which some student of the
eighteenth century may be glad to note is a first
edition of Glover's ' Leonidas ' (1737), 10s. Qd.
For 4J. Mr. Atkinson offers an early eighteenth-
century ' Recueil d'estampes ' (tome premier),
which contains 135 engravings, many _ by \\rll-
known engravers and suitable for framing or for
360
NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.ii.ocT.28,iow.
-a collection. Two attractive works on Costume
.are Shaw's ' Dresses and Decorations of the
Middle Ages ' (2 vols., 1843, 31. 12s. Gd.) and ' Les
Modes Parisiennes ' (4 vols., 1854-6, 21. 10s.).
We also noticed a first edition of ' Matthew of
Westminster ' (1567, 21. 2s.) and eight volumes of
' The Present State of Europe ' (1692-1701, vols. vi.
and x. missing) to be had for three guineas. A
supplement to this Catalogue gives particulars of
about a hundred items, many of which are very
attractive ; we have only space to mention a copy
of Mr. Foster's work on the De Walden Library s
published at six guineas and offered here for two.
No. 256 is the most important of Messrs. Dobell'8
-Catalogues that we have yet seen. It begins with
fifteen items of first- class interest, from which we
select for mention an exceptionally fine copy of
Brant's ' Stultifera Nauis ' (1570), 40*. ; a first
edition of ' Paradise Regained,' 281. ; and a first
edition of Randolph's 'Poems,' bound by Riviere
(1638), 14L Messrs. Dobell have further seven
or eight of Richard Braithwaite's books, including
the ' Epitome of the Lives of the Kings of France '
(1639), 51. 5s. ; and ' Time's Curtaine Drawne '
(1621), 4L 10s. ; Marmion's ' Holland's Leagver,'
from the Huth Library (1632), 61. 6s. ; and, also
from the Huth Library, ' The Maid's Petition,' a
tract of four leaves, sm. 4to, in half calf, issued in
1647, and priced at three guineas.
In Messrs. Myers's Catalogue No. 213 we
observed a set of 150 plates of designs of ' Carpets
from the Jaipur Palaces ' — work of the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries — and noted that they
are on a scale large enough to work from. This
book, which has letterpress by Col. T. H. Hendley,
and was printed by W. G. Griggs, is to be had for
101. ' Collectanea Hibernica ' is another attrac-
tive item. It consists of engravings, portraits,
MS. pedigrees, original documents, autographs,
music, and other such things, ranging in date from
1599 to 1900, arranged in five thick folio volumes,
and costs 251. We also liked the two volumes of
Gillray's 'Caricatures' (1851), 31. 15s.; the
collection of views and other matters relating to
Bath (1645-1895), 31. IQs. ; and the copy of Viollet-
le-Duc's ' Dictionnaire Raisonne de 1' Architecture
Francaise du Xle au XVIe siecle,1 31. 17s. 6d.
Mr. Meatyard sends us a Catalogue (No. 8) of
Drawings and Engravings. Among the portraits
we noted Valentine Green's ' Duke of Buccleuch '
after Reynolds, 4Z. 4s. ; J. R. Smith's ' Admiral
Duncan,' 11. 10s. ; and Conde's ' Mrs. Fitzherbert '
after Cosway, 161. 16s. From a pleasant collection
of Old Views in Great Britain we take the set of
four aquatints of London Markets, painted by
Pollard, and engraved by Dubourg (1822),
61. 18s. There are a few Colonial and Foreign
views, of which the ' Taking of Quebec by General
Wolfe ' — a line engraving in body colours — is
perhaps the most interesting (11. Is.). In the
way of eighteenth-century engravings of general
subjects Mr. Meatyard has Bartolozzi's ' Judgment
of Paris ' from Angelica Kauffman (101. 10s.) and
Agar's ' Princess Czartoryski ' from Isabey
(20 guineas). Among the original drawings is_a
piece — ' A Toreador ' — by Constantin Guys, in
colours, 131.
Mr. Horace G. Commin of Bournemouth
(Catalogue No. 59) offers for 31. a run of The
Annual Register from 1758 to 1844 (90 vols.). He
has also Britton and Brayley's ' Beauties of
Enirlaiul, Wales, and Scotland,' 30 vols., in large
paper edition, 31. 15s. ; the first series of Curtis's
Botanical Magazine, vols. 1 to 16 (1790), 21. 5s. ;
and a good collection of works on Dorset.
It is perhaps worth making a note of where to
find a complete set of Punch. Mr. Albert Sutton
of Manchester (Catalogue No. 226) has one from
1841 to 1914 (146 vols.), offered for 26Z. 10s. He
has also the 13 vols. of Sir Walter Scott's edition
of the Somers Tracts (11. Is.).
William George's Sons of Bristol (Catalogua
No. 359) have a good copy of Nisbet's ' System of
Heraldry ' in the best edition (Edinburgh, 1816),
51. 5s. ; and we marked in the same catalogue, as
offered for twelve guineas, the 131 vols. of Petitot's
Collection of Memoirs relating to French History
from Philip Augustus to the beginning of the
seventeenth century.
Messrs. E. Parsons £ Sons send us, just in time
for inclusion in this notice, a really fascinating
illustrated Catalogue of Old Engravings and
Original Drawings. We have spent some time
upon it, but must confess that it is difficult out of
nearly a thousand items to pick out half-a-dozen
to serve as specimens. The collection is repre-
sentative of most countries, times, subjects, and
schools, and, not less important, its range of
prices condescends to the limited capacities of the
pockets of some of us. Thus a spirited drawing
of Dante and Virgil passing over the Sea of Ice, by
Cambiaso, costs 4L Is. ; and a delightful mezzotint
of Rembrandt's son Titus as Mars only 187. 18s.
Of the more expensive works we may mention
' A Garden Scene, Naples,' by Fragonard — a
drawing in red crayon — 1501. ; Morland's 'Giles,
the Farmer's Boy,' engraved by Ward, 58 guineas ;
Green's ' Duchess of Devonshire ' after Reynolds,
65 guineas ; and McArdell's ' Duchess of Ancaster,'
±51.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant an(J wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
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heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to
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munication " Duplicate."
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— Forwarded.
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CONTENTS.— No. 45.
"NOTES :— Queen Elizabeth's Palace, Enfleld, 361— English
Army List of 1740, 364— ' The Reading Mercury,' 366— Poe,
Margaret Gordon, and "Old Mortality "—Henry Faunt-
leroy, Forger, 367— A Few Pickwickiana, 368.
'QUERIES :— Garland and Lester M.P.s, 368—" The Holy
Carpet "—Letter of Keats : St. Jane-Butler's ' Analogy '
—Authors Wanted—' The Land o' the Leal,' 369-Grace
Darling— John Carpenter—" Holme Lee " : J. Morgan-
John Bradshaw's Library— Books Wanted— "Margarine"
—Definite Article with Names of Ships, 370.
-.REPLIES :— Sir Philip Perceval, 371-Certain Gentlemen
of the Sixteenth Century, 372— Bird Life in the Fens-
Arms on Glass Punch-Bowl-Portraits in Stained Glass—
Eighteenth-Century Artist in Stained Glass, 874— Author
Wanted— Samuel Wesley the Elder— Naval Records—
" Hat Trick," 375— Welthen— The Sign Virgo—" Yorker,"
376— Drawing of Fort Jerome and H.M.8. Argo and
Sparrow— Watch House— " Septem sine horis"— Head-
stones with Portraits— Epitaphs in Old London and
Suburban Graveyards, 377— The Butcher's Record-
Negro Bandsmen in the Army—' London Magazine '—
World's Judgment— Brassey Family— Marshals of France,
378— English Pilgrimages— Red Hair—" Tefal," 379.
:NOTES ON BOOKS:— 'The Institution of the Archpriest
Blackwell'— Reviews and Magazines.
^Notices to Correspondents.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE,
ENFIELD :
DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR
AND BOTANIST:
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.
I. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD.
I SUPPOSE few persons would be otherwise
than surprised at the end of but a ten miles
journey from one of London's eastern railway
termini, passing meanwhile through a
ceaseless stream of bricks and mortar, to
find themselves within a stone's throw of not
only one of Queen Elizabeth's old palaces, but
of the first cedar of Lebanon ever planted in
England, and now, after some two centuries
and a half of growth, still flourishing.
Yet it is so ; for standing but little back
from the High Street of the now prosperous
modern town of Enfield, in the county of
Middlesex, are to be seen the still substantial
remains of one of Elizabeth's so-called
hunting-palaces, now for some years occupied
by the Enfield Constitutional Club, and
previously used as the post office. F JHB
The history of the old palace is very
interesting, and looms largely in the history
of Enfield ; whilst its connexion with the
famous seventeenth-century botanist Dr.
Robert Uvedale, who had a flourishing school
there in the latter part of that century, lent
it additional attraction in my eyes.
It was this connexion that led me, ac-
companied by a lineal descendant of the old
botanist, to pay it a visit last year, in the
hope of recovering and recording something
of interest before it was all swallowed up
in the rapid outward spread of ever-growing
London.
At the time I paid my visit I was unaware
of the existence of Robinson's ' History of
Enfield,' published so far back as 1823, and
accordingly made many notes that perhaps
I need not have done. But, whilst deferring
to the excellent description that Mr. Robinson
has given of the old palace, my account of
what is still to be seen there — nearly a
century later — seems to me not unworthy
of your readers' attention. Taking Mr.
Robinson (who was a member of the Middle
Temple, and an LL.D. and F.S.A.) as my
authority for many early deta-ils of the old
building which do not now exist, or which are
scarcely traceable, I will shortly state what
I have gathered of its early history.
Mr. Robinson gives two engravings of the
old Manor House, afterwards called " Queen
Elizabeth's Palace," as existing in 1568 :
one showing a large stone-mullioned building
of two main stories, with two wings enclosing
the approach to the main entrance, as usual
in Elizabethan and Jacobean houses ; the
other showing a north-east view of the same,
with a handsome central column of mullioncd
windows reaching to the roof. The house
is said to have been anciently known as
" Worcesters," and formerly belonged to
the Tiptofts, Earls of Worcester. Rebuilt
in Edward VI. 's time, it was by him given
to his sister, the Princess Elizabeth, who
was indeed resident at Enfield at the time
of the death of her father, Henry VIII.,
at what was probably known then as the
Manor House.
Mr. Robinson tells us that a great part of
the structure of the Manor House, after-
wards known as Queen Elizabeth's Palace,
was pulled down in 1792, and separate
buildings were erected with the old materials
on the site. The remaining part had al-o
experienced many alterations, but the
interior which then remained had preserved
many vestiges of its former splendour.
He speaks of the Palace, which formerly
stood on the south side of the street, opposite
the church and market-place, called Enfield
362
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Green, as having consisted of a centre and
-two wings fronting the west, with bay win-
dows and high gables. The wings were
decorated with the arms of England,
crowned and supported by a lion and dragon,
with the letters E. R. at the sides. And
he goes on to say that that portion of the
ancient structure which then remained —
comprising, amongst other features, a
spacious apartment on the ground floor,
which evidently constituted one of the
principal rooms of the Princess — together
with that part of the garden in which
the famous cedar still flourished, was occu-
pied by a Mr. Thomas May, who had for
several years, and still kept, a boarding-
school there of great respectability. Mr.
Robinson describes this large room as
existing in his time, and still remaining in
its original state, with oak panelling and a
richly ornamented ceiling with pendent
ornaments of the crown, the rose, and the
fleur-de-lis. The freestone chimney-piece
in this room, handsomely carved and em-
bellished with foliage and birds, was sup-
ported by columns of the Ionic and Corin-
thian orders, and decorated with the rose
and portcullis crowned, and the arms of
France and England quarterly ; with the
Garter and royal supporters — a lion and a
dragon — underneath being the motto : —
SOLA SALVS SEKVIKE DEO
SVNT CETERA FRAVDES.
The letters E. R. are on the bottom corners
of this chimney-piece.
In the same room part of another chimney-
piece with compartments is preserved, which,
Mr. Robinson says, was removed from one of
the upper apartments, with nearly the same
ornaments as the other ; it is placed on the
wainscot over the door, and has the following
motto — on the one side, vr BOS SVPEK
HEKBAM ; and on the other, EST BENE-
VOLENTLY EEGTS — alluding, no doubt, to the
royal grant. In one of the upper rooms, of
which there were four or five of good size,
there was also a decorated ceiling ; and
amongst the pendent ornaments, similar to
those of the ceiling below, were the crown,
the rose, and the fleur-de-lis. Excellent
engravings of these two chimney-pieces are
figured in Mr. Robinson's book.
It is said that after the Princess Elizabeth
became queen she frequently visited Enfield
and kept her court there in the early part of
her reign, but that some years after her
accession she quitted the Manor House and
fixed her residence at Elsynge Hall.
After referring to various owners and
occupants of the house, Mr. Robinson states
that about 1660 it was let to Dr. Robert
Uvedale, master of the Grammar School,,
who, being much attached to the study of"
botany, had a very curious garden* con-
tiguous to it, in which he had
"a very large and the choicest collection of
exotics in England, and amongst the trees a cedar
of Libanus, which was considered one of the finest
in the kingdom."
The measurements or dimensions of the tree
in 1779 are given. A large portion of the top
was broken off in a high wind in 1703, but it
continued a very handsome tree until the
whole of the upper part was destroyed by a
strong gale in November, 1794, and in "its
fall many of the lower branches were injured.
Mr. Robinson relates how, when the old
palace was purchased later by a Mr. Callaway,.
the cedar had a very narrow escape of being
grubbed up, but that its admirers, particu-
larly Richard Gough, the antiquary, and
Dr. Sherwen, interfered, and at their request
the tree was spared. This tree is stated to
have been planted by Dr. Uvedale about
1670, tradition asserting that the plant was
brought to him from Mount Libanus in a
portmanteau by one of his scholars, f
The dimensions of the tree appear again
to have been taken in 1821, and a sketch is
given. Also a double plate showing the cediM
standing in the Palace garden and bearing
the marks of the havoc caused by the gale.
Mr. Robinson says (p. 119) : —
"The tree is still a grand object on the north
side ; on the south and east, where it is seen from
the road on approaching the town, it is sadly
mutilated ; but it may be seen from almost any
part of Enfield, whether on the hill or in the
valley."
May I add that, nearly a century later, it
still merits Mr. Robinson's appreciation ?
From the drastic alterations that, as we
have seen, have been carried out in the old
building, it is scarcely surprising if we find
now but little of what once formed so
marked a feature in the representations or
the old Palace, more especially so far as the
exterior is concerned. As one passes down
the sheltered and narrow entrance that leads
from the High Street to the Constitutional'
Club, one sees but little of the old description
that one can recognize, new brickwork being
evident in many places, both at the back
and the front of the buildings. There would
appear to be few of the old windows remain-
ing. From what is now a gravelled court-
ground at the rear of the main building — no
* See Archipologia, vol. xii. pp. 188-9 (179i).
t See Gent. Mag., 1779, p. 139, and note to p. 148
in vol. iii. of Hutchins's ' History of Dorset.'
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363
doubt, formerly part of the old garden —
and close to the cedar tree, one obtains the
best view of what is left of the old Tudor
brickwork — a fine chimney-stack of that
period still surviving.
I was courteously accorded permission by
one of the officials of the club to see over the
house ; and passing through a somewhat
restricted entrance hall, which had evidently
once formed part of the large room which
now is the principal room or lounge of the
club, one realized that the interior of the
old structure which remained did still
present " many vestiges of its former
splendour." The room is handsomely
panelled with old oak right up to its finely
plastered ceiling. On one side of the room
— opposite to the large window overlooking
the courtyard or open space at the back —
there is still, in fine preservation, the hand-
somely decorated fireplace of stone already
alluded to, inset with marble, and reaching
to the ceiling in three compartments, the
centre one containing the royal arms of the
period — Edward VI. or Elizabeth — France
(modern) and England quarterly. The
Latin motto, in Roman capitals, though in
two lines, forms a complete hexameter verse,
and is a splendid incitement to us in these
present troublous times. Will somebody
kindly give its author ? The large Roman
letters E and R, in the left and right bottom
corners respectively of the entablature, are,
of course, equally applicable to either
sovereign, Elizabeths Eegina or Edwardus
Rex. So, also, are the supporters — the lion
of England with the red Tudor dragon and
badge of Wales.
During my visit to the house I was in-
formed that an enterprising American citizen
had offered the large sum of 3,OOOZ. for the
decorated interior of this fine room ; but,
happily, the present owner of the place — a
private individual — had proved superior to
the temptation. All honour to him ! En-
field can now — and I think, perhaps, with
more justice — hold up its head with Strat-
ford-on-Avon, Stonehenge, and (can I add ?)
Tattershall Castle, though some of these have
had very narrow escapes. I wonder how
much longer we shall have to wait before an
enlightened Government, on behalf of an
enlightened public, will make contemplated
crimes like these an impossibility !
This room opens into another, and even
larger one, perhaps, but more oblong in
shape, which has evidently been largely
modernized.* It is now used as the
* It said that this once formed the class-room in
which Dr. Uvedale taught his pupils.
principal billiard-room of the club, the other
billiard -room occupying what was once the
old kitchen. On the other side of the
entrance hall is a much smaller oak-panelled
room, now used as a reading or writing room.
A handsome — but to some extent
modernized — staircase leads to a large upper-
room with a very fine plastered ceiling,
decorated with regal crowns, Tudor roses,,
and fleurs-de-lis in the various partitions.
This room, too, has a handsome stone fire-
place. Another, but smaller, room on this
floor also has a fine plastered ceiling, but with
simpler decorations. These rooms appear to
be now used as card-rooms. On the floor
above are several roomy attics, one of which
contains four wooden partitions, or cubicles,,
which, tradition says, were occupied by
certain Indian princes when at school there,,
so as to keep them distinct from the other
scholars.
At the back of the Palace is a large open
space consisting of a grass and gravefied
enclosure, in the centre of which stands the
famous cedar tree. It is now shorn of much
of its former size — except the actual trunk —
and beauty, having evidently lost some of its
finest branches ; the larger ones which remairx.
are propped up by wooden supports, so as
to relieve the strain which the winter gales
must bring to bear upon so large a tree.
It is impossible without an actual survey
to compare its present condition and size-
with the measurements taken so lately even
as Mr. Robinson's time — nearly a century
ago — but to all appearances it is still a
vigorous and flourishing tree. In historic
interest it is scarcely equal, perhaps, to
the Boscobel oak — now no longer in
existence — but is certainly worthy of com-
parison with the great vine — its junior by
some years — at Hampton Court, which may
be said to be the oldest of its species in
England still bearing good and abundant
fruit. Surely it is at least equal in interest
as an historic memorial of old-time arbori-
culture, and as worthy of preservation. It
may be hoped, then, that as our new loca)
government authorities have already taken
over the financial control of one of the old
schools presided over by Dr. Uvedale, they
may keep their eyes, on the last living link
connecting him with the mastership of the
other. The site of the other trees planted
by the botanist and of his famous ' physic
garden " appears now to be covered by
encircling roads and modern buildings.
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
Inner Temple.
(To be continued.)
364
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AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324.)
THE next regiment, later known as the 17th Regiment of Foot,
in 1688. In 1782 orders were issued for it to assume the additional
shire Regiment," and this title it retains at the present day : —
Lieutenant General Tyrrell's
Regiment of Foot.
Lieutenant General
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
j Ensigns
James Tyrrell, Colonel (1)
Henry Dabsac
Edward Tyrrell
Aman. Du Perron (2)
John Leighton
John Browne . .
( 'harles Scot . .
J ohn Dumaresq
Joseph Dussaux
I Richard Radley
Roger Pedley
James Marquis
Thomas Morris
Andrew Booth
Arthur Morris (3)
Peter Fleury
Christopher Russell (4)
Sir Robert Innis (5)
William Hunter
Edward Forster
I Hugh Craig
William O'Farrell
William Howard
George Fullwood
John Beaghan
Alexander Murray
Robert Campbell
Thomas Symons
Lydall Peyton
Thomas Pemberton . .
Dates of their
present commissions.
. -2r, Oct. 1722
. 20 Nov. 1739
. 31 Aug. 1739
. 16 April 1718
. 15 Jan. 1725-6
8 April 1727
9 July 1733
5 July 1735
. 13 Aug. 1739
7 Nov. 1739
ditto
1 Nov. 1718
. 23 May 1720
. 20 Nov. 1722
. 27 May 1732
5 July 1735
. 25 Jan. 1737-8
7 Feb. 1738-9
. 13 Aug. 1739
. 14 ditto
. 7 Nov. 1739
. 24 Feb. 1733-4.
5 July 1735.
. 25 Jan. 1737-8.
ditto.
. 17 July 1739.
. 13 Aug. 1739.
. 14 ditto.
7 Nov. 1739.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
was raised in London
title of " The Leicester-
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 16 Feb. 1693-4.
Lieutenant, Jan. 1704-5.
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
1 Aug. 1703.
1 Aug. 1715.
28 Nov. 1705.
24 May 1702.
21 July 1721.
12 June 1705.
23 Feb. 1711.
1 Aug. 1704.
1 May 1705.
24 June 1703.
20 Mar. 1709.
31 Oct. 1711.
Ensign, 23 May 1720.
Ensign, 29 Feb. 1723-4.
25 Dec. 1727.
25 Jan. 1730-1.
29 July 1731.
Ensign, 27 May 1732.
Ensign, 24 May 1733.
(1) Died in August, 1742, then being Lieut.-General. Son of James Tyrrell, historical writer
(see ' Dictionary of National Biography '), and grandson of Sir Timothy Tyrrell, Knt., of Oakley in
Buckinghamshire. He was M.P. for Boroughbridge from 1722 until his death.
(2) Christian name Armand. Died in 1749.
(3) Major in the regiment, Aug. 20, 1751.
(4) Captain in the regiment, June 1, 1750.
(5) Fourth Baronet, of Balveny and Edengight, co. Banff. Died in 1758.
The regiment next following " existed," says Cannon, " many years, as independent
companies of pikemen and musketeers on the establishment of Ireland, previous to the
formation of the regiment in 1684." These independent companies were, in 1684, formed
into seven regiments of infantry, of which this was one, Arthur, Earl of Granard, being
its first Colonel. It is the only one of the seven regiments which survives to-day.
In 1695 it received a new title, " The Royal Regiment of Foot of Ireland," which was
afterwards changed to " The Royal Irish Regiment of Foot."
In 1713 it was ordered to take rank as the 18th Regiment of Foot, as from the time of
•its first arrival in England in 1688.
To-day its designation is " The Royal Irish Regiment " : —
Major General Armstrong's Dates of their
Regiment of Foot. present commissions.
Major General .. John Armstrong, Colonel (1) 13 May 1735
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Pujolas (2) . . . . 4 Sept. 1734
-Major .. .. Stephen Gillman .. .. ditto
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieutenant, 25 Aug. 1704.
Ensign, 1 May 1693.
Ensign, 1 Aug. 1702.
(1) Died in 1742.
(2) Died in 1741.
m a. IL NOV. 4, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
365
Major General Armstrong's Regiment of Foot
(continiwl).
Dates of their
present commissions.
Dates of their first
commissions.
''harles Hutchinson ..
.. 13 July 1718
Lieutenant, April 1710.
Anthony Bessiere
.. 27 May 1725
Captain, 20 May 1712.
Thomas Borrett
.. 11 Oct. 1725
Captain, 10 April 1710.
Captains . .
George Martin
.. 11 April 1726
Lieutenant, 6 July 1712..
Thomas Dunbar • . .
4 Sept. 1734
Lieutenant, 3 Dec. 1723.
Robert Pearson
.. 11 Mar. 1735-6
Ensign, 10 Aug. 1709.
[.Lord Maitland(3)
. . 14 Jan. 1739-40.
Captain Lieutenant James Latour ..
.. 11 Mar. 1735-6
Ensign, 4 Nov. 1703.
f Henrj' Barrett
.. 13 July 1718
Ensign, Mav 1707.
Peter Laprimaudaye (4)
James Rietfield
. . 20 June 1727
.. 28 Dec. 1721
Ensign, 16 Feb. 1715.
Ensign, 17 Aug. 1694.
Abraham Pinchinat . .
9 Nov. 1723
Ensign, 19 Feb. 1708-9
Lieutenants . . J Bobcrt Cotter
.. 23 Dec. 1727
Ensign, 27 Sept. 1715.
John Cunningham
.. 25 Mar. 1729
Ensign, 20 April 1718.
Robert Sterling
4 Sept. 1734
Ensign, 28 Nov. 1710.
Edward Corneille
.. 11 Mar. 1735-6
Ensign, 25 Mar. 1729.
William Nethersole
.. 23 July 1737
Ensign, 14 May 1729.
^ John Armstrong
. . 20 June 1739
Ensign, 20 June 1735-
William Wyville
8 July 1731.
George Owens
. . 4 July 1733.
John Moody
.. 11 July 1735.
Charles Ramsay
.. 11 Aug. 1737.
Ensigns
Bigoe Armstrong
. . 20 June 1739.
Robert Hamilton
.. 16 July 1739.
Benjamin McCullock . .
2 Feb. 1739-40.
Richard Hyde
3 ditto.
_ William Carleton
4 ditto.
.
(3) James, elder son of Charles, 6th Earl of Lauderdale. He succeeded {his father, as 7th Earl, in.;
1744. Died in 1789.
(4) Died when on active service at Carthagena,, April, 1741 ; he was then serving as an
" Engineer-in-ordinary."
Col. Howard's Regiment of Foot (p. 32) follows. It was formed early in 1689 from
some companies of pikemen and musketeers which had been raised at Exeter in 1688..
Francis Luttrell of Dunster Castle, Somersetshire, was the first Colonel, and the regiment
in due course took rank as the 19th Foot. In 1782 its title was expanded, and it became
the " 19th or the 1st Yorkshire North Riding Regiment." It is now " Alexandra, Princess
of Wales' s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) " : —
Colonel Howard's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Dates of their Dates of. their first-
present commissions. commissions.
Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Hon. Charles Howard (1)
Lord Sempill (2)
Richard Hawley (3) . .
/James Phillips . .
Joseph Stistcd. .
I I Vtcr Franquefort
I William IVtitot(4)
Thomas Burton
"William Mercer
Sir Warren Crosbie (5)
1 Nov. 1738
11 June 1731
28 June 1710
10 Jan. 1709
11 Jan. 1714
10 May 1732
2ii Mar. 1737
1 Mar. 1737
31 Mar. 1737
Aug. 1707
10 Aug. 1715.
July 1709.
May 1692.
Sept. 1702.
1 May 1709.
April 1694.
1721.
1724.
Jan. 1702.
18 Oct. 1703.
(1) Second son of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. A.D.C. to the King, 1734. Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon
Guards. 1748-65. Died at Bath, Aug. 25, 1765. See ' Dictionary of National Biography.' It was
from this otlicci- thai the rc-ginu-nt. about the year 1744, became known as the " Green Howards,"
BO i-.- lied to distinguish it from the " Buffs," which from 1737 to 1749 was commanded by Col. Thomas
Howard.
(2) Hugh, 12th Lord Sempill. Colonel of the 42nd Foot, 1741-5, and of the 25th Foot, 1745-6.
Died at Aberdeen, Nov. 25, 1746.
(3) Younger son of Henry Hawley of Brentwood.
(4) Colon. •! c,f th, 71st Foot, 1758 to 1763, when the regiment was disbanded. Died] at Northaller-
lon. .Julj 20, 1764.
(5) Third Bart., of Crosbie Park, co. WickloW. Retired in June, 1746, and died Jan. 30,
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Colonel Howard's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
/Michael Legge
I William Rousby
Roger Crymble
James Grove . .
.Matthew Bunbury
\ Richard Hawley
I George Coote . .
Thomas Leake (6)
Nicholas Forde (7)
Henry Goddard
George Sempill (8)
Thomas Maiawaring
James Campbell (6)
Daniel Legrand (9)
Thomas Cuthbert
Hugh Sempill (8)
Patrick Cockran
Robert Douglass (10)
.Charles Lumsden (11)
(6) Killed at the battle of Roucoux, Oct. 11, 1746.
misprint.
(7) Fourth son of Matthew Forde of Seaforde, co. Down.
*' right hand man."
Ensigns
Dates of their
present commissions.
23 Jan. 1711
30 May 1720
11 July 1732
3 May 1728.
16 May 1733
18 Nov. 1736
31 May 1737
1 Sept. 1725.
7 Nov. 1739
19 Jan. 1739
25 Sept. 1732.
16 May 1733.
20 Nov. 1734.
31 Mar. 1737.
ditto.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Oct. 1703.
April 1715.
Dec. 1717.
May 1720.
Sept. 172.".
Nov. 1729.
23 Dec. 1726.
1 Aug. 1728.
19 Jan. 1739-40.
7 Nov. 1739.
4 Feb. 1739-40.
Year of commission is possibly 1735— a
Brother of Francis Forde, Clive's
(8) Probably son of Lord Sempill (see above), whose second and third sons were named George
and Hugh, respectively.
(9) Killed at the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745.
(10) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, April 10, 1758.
(11) Major in the regiment, April 23, 1758.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
' THE READING MERCURY,' VOL. I. NO. I.
-AN early group of provincial newspapers I
Tiave already noticed in ' N. & Q.' (11 S.
ti. 481). I wish to add one more to the
Jittle circle of pioneers in journalism.
The St. Ives circle commenced with the
publication of The St. Ives Post, March 18,
1716, to June 16, 1718, by J. Fisher; The
St. Ives Post-Boy, June 23, 1718, to Feb. 6,
1719, by Robert Raikes ; and The St. Ives
Mercury, vol. i. No. 6, Nov. 16, 1719, printed
%y William Dicey ; followed by The North-
ampton Mercury, May 2, 1720, and The
Gloucester Journal, April 9, 1 722 ; the group
concluding with The Reading Mercury of
July 8, 1723. This newspaper I am greatly
interested in, and as I have lately seen the
only extant copy of the first number I
venture to describe it. It is in the Bodleian
Library, and the title-page is as follows : —
Vol. I. Numb. I.
The
Reading Mercury
or
Weekly Entertainer
Monday, July 8, 1723 (To be continued Weekly)
Reading :
•Printed by W. Parks, and D. Kinnier, next
door to the Saracen's Head in High- Street.
Where all manner of Printing Business is hand-
somely done, as books, advertisements, Summons,
Subpoenas, Funeral-Tickets, &c. Shop -Keepers
Bills are done here after the last manner, with the
Prints of their Signs, or other proper Ornaments.
Also Gentlemen may have their Coats of Arms,
or other Fansies curiously cut in Wood, or en-
grav'd in Mettal.
[Price of this Paper Three-Half-pence per week.]
Part of the Introduction seems worth
reproducing as it gives a history of the
birth of the paper : —
To the Gentlemen of Berkshire and Counties
adjacent ; more particularly to the Right Worship-
ful the Mayor, the Worshipful the Aldermen, and
the rest of the worthy- members of the ancient
Borough of Reading —
GENTLEMEN, — The art of Printing having been
found out near 400 years, is now so much im-
prov'd and become so generally useful to all
Mankind of what station soever, that to give you
a tedious account of the advantages It conveys to
the world, would be needless. We shall only
acquaint you (as to Its Progress and success) that
Printing for above 200 years has found a kind
Reception in the City of London ; and for many
years in the cities of York, Bristol. Norwich,
Worcester, &c. Where the Printers finding
success others have been encourag'd to set up at
smaller Places as Cirencester in Gloucestershire,
St. Ives in Huntingdonshire, Gosport in Hamp-
shire, and several other Places : which makes it
to us a wonder that Reading (a Place of far greater
Note than any of the last-nam'd) should be so
long slighted by our Brother-typos — We have
however pitch'd our Tent Here induc'd by the
12 8. II. Nov. 4, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
367
-good character this country bears, for Pleasure
•and Plenty ; and intend with your Leave to
publish a Weekly Newspaper under the title of
'The Beading Mercury or Weekly Entertainer :
•containing Historical and Political Observation on
"the most remarkable Transactions in Europe ;
•Collected from the best and most authentick
Accounts written and printed ; with the Imports
• and Exports of Merchandizes, to assn' from
London and other remarks on Trade ; also the
beat Account of the Price of Corn in the most-noted
3Iarket-Towns 20 or 30 mile circular. And
when a scarcity of News happens we shall divert
you with something merry. In a few words, we
shall spare no Charge or Pain to make the Paper
generally useful and Entertaining, since we find
•ourselves settled in a Place which gives all the
Encouraging Prospect of success : a Description of
which we think ourselves oblig'd to give, in Justice
and Respect to the Country, and for the better
^information of Persons who live remote from
•honve ....
The Reading Mercury is the same size as,
and agrees in nearly all particulars with,
'the papers mentioned above. The three
-asterisks mark where there are woodcuts.
I have before alluded to the fact that certain
-woodcuts are used more than once. 'The
Post-Boy ' is one of these. The Flying-Post :
or Post Master, July 2 to July 4, 1723, and
The Post-Boy, July 4, 1723, of London, both
•use it, and their woodcuts are signed " F.
Hoffman, fecit." It occurs to me that
•possibly Hoffman engraved some of the
woodcuts for The Reading Mercury, as
-perhaps also for The St. Ives Post, as they are
of similar design or may be copies. It
would be rather interesting to know these
•early engravers of newspaper woodblocks, and
at is likely that others besides the London
* Post-Boy 'are signed.
My little group of papers all appeared
within about seven years of each other,
1716-23. It is personally interesting to me
to find that The Reading Mercury referred to
St. Ives, my native town, and to Cirencester,
the town of my adoption. I might thus
^almost include the Cirencester one in my
-circle, and it is of the same period. The
'Cirencester Post, or Gloucestershire Mercury.
the first Gloucestershire newspaper, appeared,
say, Nov. 17, 1718, to 1724. The Gosport
paper I do not know. I have only mentioned
those I have seen or possess. If I included
The Exeter Post-Boy of 1707, and others I
know something about, but have not per-
sonally examined, the circle of early pro-
vincial newspapers would be nearly complete.
In conclusion I may suitably give a
-quotation from a cutting, July 10, 1906,
before me : —
" NEWSPAPER'S 183RD BIRTHDAY. — The staff
of The Reading Mercury and Berks County
.Paper, have just celebrated the 183rd birthday of
that journal at Kingston Lisle. In the course of
his speech at the dinner at the Bed Lion, Lam-
bourn, Mr. Alfred Smee, who has served the paper
for fifty years, mentioned the interesting fact that
eleven members of the staff had worked at the
Mercury for an aggregate of 400 years. The
paper has been in the present proprietor's family
for upwards of 100 years. The only copy of the
original number is to be seen at the Bodleian
Library, Oxford."
HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencester.
POE, MARGARET GORDON, " BETSY "
BONAPARTE, AND " OLD MORTALITY." — It is
well known that Edgar Allan Poe as a
two-year-old child was adopted in 1811 by
John Allan, a native of Irvine, Ayrshire,
Scotland, who had settled in Richmond,
Virginia. In 1830 estrangement was estab-
lished between them. This seems to have
been partially due to Mr. Allan's second
marriage to Miss Louisa Gabriella Patterson,
whose father (according to Harrison's bio-
graphy of Poe) was John William Patterson,
a lawyer of New York and a son of Capt.
John Patterson of the English army.
Perhaps the following facts are worth
assembling. An elder brother, Walter, of
Capt. John Patterson was the first Governor
(1770-86) of Prince Edward Island (as it is
now called), Canada. Governor Patterson
had a granddaughter Margaret Gordon, who
was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island, and has been called " Carlyle's First
Love." This is the Margaret Gordon familiar
to readers of Carlyle's ' Reminiscences ' — she
who, according to Froude, was the original,
so far as there was an original, of Blumine
in ' Sartor Resartus,' and who returned to
the island of her birth as wife of the Lieu-
tenant Governor, Sir Alexander Bannerman.
Governor Patterson was a second cousin of
William Patterson, whose brilliant daughter
" Betsy " married Jerome, Napoleon Bona-
parte's brother, who became King of
Westphalia.
Furthermore, I am persuaded by various
evidence that the forbears of this Patterson
family and that of Robert Paterson, who has
been immortalized by Sir Walter Scott as
" Old Mortality," were the same. My proofs
of the connexion are, however, not yet
complete. The difference in the spelling of
the names has no significance.
R. C. ARCHIBALD.
Brown University, Providence, R.I., U.S.A.
HENRY FAUNTLEROY, FORGER. (See 1 S.
viii. 270 ; ix. 445 ; x. 114, 233 ; 2 S. iv. 227 ;
8 S. x. 173, 246; xi. 231.)— I possess a
catalogue of the library of Henry Fauntleroy,
the banker of Berners Street, who was
368
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is B. n. NOV. 4, me.
hanged for forgery at Newgate on Nov. 30,
1824, from which it appears that he was a
large collector of Grangerized or extra-
illustrated works. His library was sold
" by Mr. Sotheby, at his House, Wellington
Street, Strand," on April 11, 1825, and the
three following days. According to a con-
temporary MS. note in my catalogue, the sale
realized the sum of 2,7147. 14s. The most
important item is thus described : —
"PENNANT'S LONDON, MOST SUMPTUOUSLY AND
KLEUASTLY ILLUSTRATED WITH ABOVK TWO THOU-
SAND PRINTS AND DRAWINGS, embracing a brilliant
assemblage of PORTRAITS of the most eminent
characters, VIEWS of the most remarkable PLACES
and ANCIENT BUILDINGS of London, now nearly all
destroyed ; above THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
FINELY EXECUTED DRAWINGS, of the ANCIENT
ARCHITECTURE of various parts of the metropolis,
many of which have never been engraved, and
consequently are highly interesting to the lovers of
Topography : including also a few original auto-
graphs of illustrious persons. The whole are
elegantly bound in SEVEN VOLUMES ATLAS FOLIO,
in rus-iia, with gilt leaves"
Another MS. note states : " This copy of
Pennant's ' London ' was purchased by the late
Sir John Soane and was' given to the Nation
with his Museum, Library, and Curiosities."
It realized 6821. 10s. at the Fauntleroy sale.
Although the newspapers of the period
contain full accounts of the trial and
execution of the forger, with innumerable
biographical details, and the various " New-
gate Calendars " also give a complete
summary of the case, I have only found
references to Fauntleroy in three or four
contemporary memoirs. Perhaps some of
the readers of ' N. & Q.' could supply a fuller
bibliography. The case certainly ought to
be included in the " Notable Trials Series."
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
A FEW PICKWICKIANA. — As a lifelong
devotee of the ' Pickwick Papers,' I venture
to bring briefly before the readers of
' N. & Q.' the following few points, premising
that I have not myself seen mention of these
points elsewhere : —
1. Dickens, with the engaging passion for
verisimilitude which pervades the opening
of his immortal book (but which is almost at
once exhausted !), informs us that the events
recorded in the second chapter, up to the end
of the dance, took place on May 13, 1827.
Was he or was he not aware that that day
was a Sunday ? It seems almost incredible
that this point has not been raised before,
for the ' Papers ' were published at a date
sufficiently near to 1827 to set at least a
few curious minds examining the times and
seasons of the early part of the book.
2. Dickens had no initially clear conception.,
of what he wanted to make of Sam Weller —
I might almost say, of what Sam would,,
with hardly any conscious help from Dickens,.
become, in the course of the ' Papers.' On©
proof of this statement will be found in.
recalling that, on the occasion of the fete-
champetre at Mrs. Leo Hunter's, Mr. Pickwick
finds his servant discussing a bottle of
Madeira which he had stolen t Think, now,,
of how Dickens, later on, loved his Sam
(this love for Sam Weller is probably the
most widely spread love in the work! for a
book-character), and maintain if you can that,
if he had loved him in the earlier part of the-
book, he would have made him a thief, even
merely of food or drink ! (My "even
merely " is a concession to those not infre-
quent folk who think it far more venial to
steal " grub " than anything else.)
3. Certain Exeter enthusiasts have made
an urgent claim that " Eatanswill " was their
city, but the bottoni seems to be knocked
clean out of their case by Mrs. Leo Hunter's
(chap, xv.) : " At Bury St. Edmunds, not
many miles from here " (" here " being, of
course, Eatanswill) ; and no doubt the
claims of any other towns, not in Suffolk or
one of the contiguous counties, to have been
the Eatanswill of the book, are disposed of"
by the same sentence.
H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX.
Devon and Exeter Institution.
(irams.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,.
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
GARLAND AND LESTER M.P.s. — I have
been puzzled in trying to solve the exr^ct
relationship between the following M.P.s,..
and should be glad of particulars of them.
Joseph Garland was sheriff of Poole, 1779,
and M.P. 1807 in a double return, but un-
seated on petition the next year. Was he
the Mr. Garland who married at Bath, Aug.
24, 1790, Miss Woodman ? And was his f on
the Aid. Joseph Garland, jun., who married
at Poole, Nov. 6, 1825, the widow of John
Slade, and as Joseph Garland was sheriff
of Poole, 1814, as was Joseph Gulston.
Garland, 1827?
George Garland, M.P. Poole, April, 1801, to
1807, sheriff thereof Michaelmas, 1784, was
of Poole, and of Stone, Dorset, high sheriff
Feb., 1824 — younger brother of Joseph Gar-
land, M.P., and married before 1791 Amy
128. II. Nov. 4, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
369
(who died Feb. 24, 1819), relict of — Lester
(arid query sister to Benjamin Lester, M.P.).
His son John Binglev Garland (1791-1875)
was high sheriff Dorset, 1828, and Speaker
of the first House of Assembly, 1855 (query
in which of our colonies ?).
Benjamin Lester, M.P. Poole, 1790-96 ;
sheriff, Michaelmas, 1777: died there Jan. 24,
1802. (Query grandson of John Lester who
was sheriff of Poole, 1737, and brother
to Sir John Lester, Kt., who was sheriff
there 17S1, knighted June 2, 1802, and died
at Bath, Jan. 12, 1805?)
Benjamin Lester Lester, M.P. Poole,
Feb., 1809, to 1834 ; sheriff thereof (as B.
Letter Garland), Michaelmas, 1804; mayor
thereof in 1819, 1821 ; Captain in the Poole
Volunteer Infantrv (as Benjamin Garland),
Aug. 22, 1803;' Captain 2nd Battalion
Dorset Volunteer Infantry, 1804 ; Major
thereof (as B. Lester Garland), May 16, 1805,
to 1808; described in 1835 as "a Newfound-
land merchant, born and residing at Poole."
Son of George Garland, M.P., and took the
surname of Lester between 1805 and 1809.
His mother Amy died Feb. 24, 1819, having
married as her second husband George Gar-
land, M.P. A Thomas Garland was made
Ensign in the Milton and Dorchester Volun-
teer Infantry, Sept. 1, 1803. W. R. W.
" THE HOLY CARPET."— In The Times,
Oct. 7, a paragraph states that " The Holy
Carpet has arrived at Mecca after an un-
eventful journey from Jedda."
A little information about this Holy
Carpet would be much appreciated.
G. A. ANDERSON.
The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.
[A short account will be found in the eleventh
edition of ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' s.v.
'Mecca,' vol. xvii. p. 953. A military escort for
the procession is generally provided.]
A LETTER OF KEATS : ST. JANE. — In a
letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey,
November, 1817, he says in a postscript : —
" Yesterday I called at Lamb's. St. Jane looked
very flush when I first looked in, but was much
better before I left."
What does Keats mean by the words I have
italicized ? G, A. ANDERSON.
BUTLER'S ' ANALOGY '
I should be obliged to
who would give me
notices or criticisms
work, (2) of translations
cially desirous to hear
other than Anglican, and
: BIBLIOGRAPHY. —
any correspondent
particulars (1) of
of Butler's great
of it. I am espe-
of any criticisms
other than English.
PEREGRINUS.
AUTHORS WANTED. — Can you tell me the
author of the following stanza, and under
what title it is to be found ? —
From the heretic girl of my soul shall I fly
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ?
No, perish the and the thought that would try
Love, valour, and truth by a standard like this.
It is almost fifty years since I heard it
quoted, and the speaker was an Irishman now
deceased.
I always thought that Thomas Moore was
the author, but I cannot find the words in
any of his poems. THOMAS WILSON.
17 Newport Terrace, Manningham, Bradford.
Can any of your readers give me any in-
formation of a poem or song which contains
the following (or similar) line ? —
How sweet the echo of the music sounds !
J. P.
Who is answerable for the following utter-
ance which I found the other day on one of
my hanging calendars ? The idea of the
game is not new ; but the assertion I have
italicized is strange to me. And it is
false : —
"The World is a Chessboard. The Player on the
other side is hidden from us. We know that his
play is always just and patient. But we. also know
to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes
the smallest allowance for ignorance ."
ST. SwrrHiN.
[Abbreviated and slightly misquoted. Huxley —
' A Liberal Education ; and where to find it.' An
address to the South London Working Men's
College, 1868. See * Science and Education,' vol. iii.
of Huxley's ' Collected Essays ' (Macmillan, 1895).
' THE LAND o' THE LEAL.' — The words are
by Lady Nairne ; is anything certainly
known of its melody ? My present informa-
tion (not verified) is that Lady Nairne wrote
the words to a melody adapted from the air
to which Burns wrote the song ' Scots wha
hae wi' Wallace bled.' The tunes seem too
much alike to be capable of explanation by
coincidence. It is my misfortune to be far*
from a file of ' N. & Q.'
S. GREGORY OULD. O.S.B.
[Lady Nairne's ballad was the theme of much
discussion in the first four volumes of the Sixth
Series of « N. & Q.,' but few references were made
to the music with which it is associated. MR.
C. A. WARD stated at 6 S. i. 139 that Finlay Dun
had supplied symphonies and accompaniments to
Baroness Nairne's ' Lays of Strathearn,' in which
the poem appeared, but added : "It is done to the
air ' Hey tutti taiti,' and though Dun is a good
musician, the air is hurt by his skilful harmony."
W. C. J. said at 6 S. ii. 51 : " There is considerable
detailed information as to the authorship, circum-
stances of composition, and publication of this
song, in Dr. Rogers's memoir of Lady Nairne,
prefixed to the collection of her pongs published
(second edition) by. Griffin & Co , 1872."]
370
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 4, une.
GRACE DARLING. — The Illustrated Lon-
don News for June 3 and June 10, 1865,
records that Grace Darling and her father
saved nine lives from the wreck of the Forfar-
shire, in 1838. The ' D.N.B.' gives the
number saved as five. ' Haydn's Dictionary
of Dates ' gives the number saved as fifteen
(ed. 1873). Which of these statements is
correct ? W. L. KING.
Paddock Wood. Kent.
[MR. FREDERIC BOASE, at 10 S. ix. 285, gives the
text of the inscription on the silver medal pre-
sented to Grace Darling by the Glasgow Humane
Society, where the number of persons saved is said
to have been nine.l
JOHN CARPENTER. — At 9 S. xi. 261 it is
stated that Anne, widow of James A^eitch,
married John Carpenter, and that their son
John was educated at Westminster School,
became an officer in the King's Dragoon
Guards, and married Theresa, daughter of
George Fieschi Heneage. I should be glad
to learn when John Carpenter, jun., was born,
when he obtained his commission in the
Dragoon Guards, and when he died.
G. F. R. B.
"HOLME LEE": J. MORGAN. — 1. Who
was the novelist who bore the pen-name
"Holme Lee" ? A few particulars will
oblige.
2. Where was J. Morgan, author of
' Phoenix Britannicus,' 1732, &c., born, and
what was his profession ?
ANETTRIN WILLIAMS.
[I. "Holme Lee" was the pseudonym of Miss
Harriet Parr, who died Feb. 18, 1900. She is in-
cluded in the First Supplement to the ' D.N.B.']
JOHN BRADSHAW'S LIBRARY. — John Brad-
shaw (the president of the court which
sentenced Charles I. to death) in a codicil to
his will dated March 23, 1653,
•'bequeaths all his law books and such divinity,
history, and books as shee [his wife the executrix]
shall judge tit for him, to his nephew Harry
Bradshaw."
The library thus bequeathed continued at
Marple, and was augmented by later genera-
tions of the Bradshaws. It was then sold to
a Mr. Edwards of Halifax. It was subse-
quently offered for sale by Messrs. Edwards of
Pall Mall, being joined in one catalogue with
the libraries of N. Wilson, Esq., and two
deceased antiquaries ; and the entire collec-
tion, according to a writer in The Gentleman's
Magazine, vol. Ixxxvi. part i., is described as
being more splendid and truly valuable than
any which had been previously presented to
the curious, and such as " astonished not only
the opulent purchasers, but the most ex-
perienced and intelligent booksellers of the
metropolis " (see Ormerod's ' History of
Cheshire,' vol. hi., under heading ' Marple ').
Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give any in-
formation respecting this library ? Is it
still in existence, and if so who possesses it ?
A. HULME.
Willow Grove, Marple.
BOOKS WANTED. — I should be glad to be
informed whether any reference library in
the United Kingdom contains the following
works : —
1. Ranghiasci - Brancaleone. " Metnorie isto-
riche della citta di Nepi e de' suoi dintorni."
Todi, 1845-7.
2. ' Revue des questions heraldiques, 5e annee,
1902-3; or article excerpted therefrom upon the
family and arms of Pope Urban IV., by Vte. de
Poli.
Apparently the British Museum possesses
neither of the above. SICILE.
PRONUNCIATION OF " MARGARINE." — A
word much in evidence now owing to war
economies is " margarine." How should it
be pronounced ? Grocers and housewives
of all degrees with one accord make the g
soft as in " marge " ; it seems to me it
should be hard as in " Margaret." But, like
the current mispronunciation of " cinema,"
the former manner of speech, even if it is
erroneous, has probably become so firmly
established that it is hopeless to attempt the
other. Who invented the word ?
PENRY LEWIS.
[The ' N.E.D.' says that " margarine " is a forma-
tion from the " margaric acid " of Chevreul. The
hard g is the correct sound. The history of the
word is supplied by the quotations in the Dic-
tionary.]
THE USE OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE WITH
NAMES OF SHIPS. — What is the rule in
speaking of the ships of the Royal Navy ?
I was rather disturbed, in reading the
Admiral's dispatch on the 'Jutland Battle,
to find that in no case did he speak of ships
with the definite article prefixed. The
effect, to my mind, was as if the authorities
were endeavouring to describe a great naval
battle in the language which a provincial
reporter might use in describing a local
regatta. I find, however, that a century
ago Lord Exmouth, in his instructions for
the disposition of the Fleet in their attack
upon Algiers, dated Aug. 6, 1816, sometimes
uses the article and sometimes not : " The
Superb, Impregnable following " ; " the
rear-ship, the Albion " ; " the Leander will
keep nearly abreast the Superb " ; " Hebrus
12 8. II. Nov. 4, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
371
-will attack battery No. 7 and 8 " ; " Mind en
will attack the large battery, No. 4 " ;
"' Heron, Mutine, Cordelia, and Britomart
will consider it their first duty," &c. In his
dispatch of Aug. 28, however, in the few
•cases where he speaks of individual ships, he
uses the article ; it is always " the Prome-
theus," " the Queen Charlotte," " the
Impregnable." In some ' Observations '
printed on p. 430 of Osier's ' Life of Ex-
mouth,' an officer who served on the Queen
Charlotte speaks of " the Queen Charlotte "
•{or " the Charlotte "), and also of " Leander,
•Granicus, Glasgow, Severn, and Melampus,
irigates." It looks as if in formal docu-
ments it was then the custom with naval
•officers to use the definite article, but not
necessarily in informal documents. I believe
that historians and publishers of prints al-
-ways used the definite article. Is there any
rule in the matter ? G. E. P. A.
SIR PHILIP PERCEVAL, M.P.
(11 S. i. 262, 372; 12 S. i. 250.)
AT the first and the third of these references,
I expressed a desire to know whether any
Sight could be thrown on the election for
Newport, Cornwall, on May 10, 1647, of Sir
Philip Perceval, as I could trace no Cornish
or other special connexion of any kind to
explain his choice for a Cornish borough.
The account of him given in ' D.N.B.,'
vol. xliv. pp. 373-4, affords no light on this
head, not even mentioning the date when
lie was returned, though there is a slight
gleam in its showing that he threw in his
lot with the moderate Presbyterians, and
was at enmity with the Independents in the
Long Parliament. I noted, however, at the
last reference that
•" he came in for Newport when an Edgcumbe
<and that Edgcumbe a brother of the younger
Piers and a nephew of Lady Denny of Trale*)
•went out " ;
.and I asked : "Is it possible that this
supplies the link of connexion hitherto
missing ? " That was drawing the bow at
A venture, but — thoxigh at the time I was
not aware of the slightest evidence to
support the guess — the chance shot in some
-degree may have come near to hitting the
To establish this idea, one has to cast the
net wide ; and the first point of interest is
that a personal and direct association can be
made out between Sir Philip Perceval and
Sir Edward Denny of Tralee, beginning in
apparent friendship and ending in personal
enmity. According to the Historical Manu-
scripts Commission's Report on the MSS. of
the Earl of Egmont, one Thomas Bettes-
worth, writing from Mallow on Feb. 2,
1634/5, to " Philip Percivall " in Dublin,
observed : —
" I have no news worthy your knowledge, but
cannot let Sir Edward Denny go without a
salutation. He has been snowbound here for
some days, during which we have had an in-
credible depth of snow and blustering winds." —
Vol. i. p. 81.
This indicates at the least a friendly interest
as existing between the two men ; but on
Aug. 5, 1639, Sir Edward Denny wrote to
" Sir Philip Percivall " from " Traley,"
bitterly complaining of his
" carriage of a business so hardly against me in
the Court of Wards, that you were pleased
earnestly to express yourself to my prejudice,
whereby no favour at all was extended to
me,"
a charge which Perceval at once, but not
conclusively repudiated (ibid., pp. 109-10).
For the purpose of my inquiry, I next
come to the filling, in 1647, of the electoral
vacancy for Newport, when, owing to the
illustrious John Maynard having elected to
sit for Totnes (for which borough also he had
been originally sent to the Long Parliament)
and the disabling of Richard Edgcumbe by
the House of Commons on Feb. 9, 1646/7,
Perceval and Nicholas Leach — of the latter,
a Cornish man, I should like to know more
— were returned to Parliament. Early in
the year named Perceval was expecting
to be brought in for some constituency, as
is evidenced by a letter of his of March 23,
1646/7 (ibid., p. 376); but another, of
May 4, written apparently from Dublin,
repeats the idea expressed in the earlier that
he was so much disliked by some and feared
by others, " because he would not desert an
oppressed friend, which troubles much some
of them," that his election would be opposed
(ibid., p. 398). Fifteen days later, however,
he was returned without seeming difficulty
for Newport, and six days afterwards he
took his seat. His Parliamentary troubles,
which were speedy and severe, need not
here concern us, though the key to ^hem
seems largely to lie in his own memorandum
of July 17 :—
" On May 25, I was admitted into the House of
Commons, and twice voted for the disbanding of
the army, of which notice was taken by divers
who were of another mind " (ibid., p. 430) ;
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and his speech defending himself from various'
cliarges of ill-faith towards the Parliament,
delivered on July 14, is well worth study
(ibid., p. 426). The point of immediate
interest, however, is a communication to
him by Sir Francis Drake from Buckland
(Devon) of the following Sept. 10, saying :
" I intend this evening to send your letters to your
town of Newport, which takes your remembrance
for a great favour " (Ibid., p. 462).
This letter, I think, supplies a key to the
mystery hitherto surrounding Perceval's
return for that remote Cornish borough.
For who was Sir Francis Drake ? He was
the second baronet , and was at that time
re-possessed of the neighbouring estate of
Wt-rrington (which up to the present
generation dominated the Parliamentary
represeritation of the now disfranchised
boroughs of Launceston and Newport) after
it had temporarily been taken from the Drake
family by Sir Richard (" Skellum ") Gren-
ville in the Royalist interest in 1645-6 ;
and he acquired the manor of Newport in
1650 (Lady Eliott Drake, 'Family and
Heirs of Sir Francis Drake,' vol. i. p. 208).
He was one of those moderate Presbyterians
with whom Perceval politically was allied,
though, unlike the latter, he throughout had
been openly faithful and even zealous in the
Puritan cause ; and he was closely associated,
both in public and private affairs, with Sir
William Morice, Charles II. 's Secretary of
State, who bought Werrington from him,
the two working together — though Morice in
the far superior role — for the Restoration
(ibid., pp. 420-21). Drake, therefore, was
the dominating figure in Newport's electoral
affairs at the date of Perceval's election in
1647, as he was the next year, when, because
of that representative's death, William
Prynne, a politician of the same " stripe,"
was elected. Drake himself was returned
for Newport to the Convention in 1660, and
again to the " Pension Parliament " of 1661 ;
but he died on Jan. 6, 1662, adhering to the
last to his moderate views. He had been in
favour of the Parliament's cause on its
original lines, as his work on the Devonshire
Committee attested early in the Civil War ;
and in his will he made a bequest to his
" noble friend and kinsman, Sir John
Maynard " (ibid., p. 433), a predecessor in
Newport's representation, and always an
illustrious confessor of liberty. Thus it is
to the special interest of Drake, therefore,
that I should now attribute Perceval's brief
and i stormy Parliamentary appearance for
a Cornish constituency.
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
CERTAIN GENTLEMEN OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
(12 S. ii. 268.)
THE identification of many of these names
must be partly a matter of conjecture, but
I think we may safely assume that the
funeral of the Earl of Shrewsbury would
have been attended by the heads of the
leading families in South Yorkshire and the
neighbouring counties. On this basis the
following notes may be of use to MAJOK
LESLIE : —
Lord Talbot. — George (Talbot), Lord
Talbot, eldest son of the Earl of Shrewsbury,,
who now succeeded his father as 6th Earl,
was principal mourner at the funeral.
Afterwards K.G. and Earl Marshal. One of
the judges of Mary, Queen of Scots, and
husband of the celebrated Bess of Hardwick-
Died in 1590.
Lord Darcy of the North. — This was
probably John (Darcy), Lord Darcy de-
Darcy '(1529-87), grandson of the Lord
Darcy who was " Warden of the Scotch
Marshes," and Governor of Bamburgh
Castle. There was at the same time another
Lord Darcy, of an Essex family of that name.
Sir William Vavasour. — This may have
been Sir William Vavasour of Haslewood,.
who was knighted at Flodden, and was
High Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1564.
Sir Gervase Clifton. — A member of a
Nottinghamshire family whose pedigree wil)
be found in vol. iv. of the Harleian Society's
publications, p. 16.
Sir John Neville. — High Sheriff of York-
shire in 1561, was convicted of nigh treason
in 1569, and his estates confiscated. See
Foster's ' Yorkshire Pedigrees.'
Sir Thomas Eton. — In the account of the
funeral printed in Gatty's edition of Hunter's
' Hallamshire ' he is called " Mr. Thomas
Eton, and is said to have carried the
standard. He may have been the Thomas
Etton or Eyton, of Eyton in Shropshire.,
whose great - grandmother was Katherine,.
daughter of a former Earl of Shrewsbury.
Nicholas Longford, of Longford, co.
Derby ; Francis Rolleston of Lea ; and Peter
Frechvill of Staveley, were the heads of their
respective families at the Visitation of
Derbyshire in 1569. This is printed in The
Genealogist, New Series, vols. vii. and viii.
Arthur Copley. — The Copleys were settled
at Batley and Sprotborough in Yorkshire,
but the name Arthur does not seem to occur
in the family. The head of the Batley
branch in 1560 was an Alvery Copky.
12 S. II. Nov. 4, 1916.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
373
Alexander Xevill. — 'Probably Alexander
Nevile of Mattersey (a Nottinghamshire
branch of the family), who made his will in
1565. His son Anthony was " servant to
the Countess of Shrewsbury." See Hunter's
' Familife Minorum Gentium,' p. 1232.
John Dod. — There is a long pedigree of
tli is family in Miscellanea Oenealogica et
Heraldica, i. 169. The head of it at the
time of the funeral was John Dod of Cloveley
and Calverhill, in Shropshire, who died in
1579.
Francis Aston. — This family was of
Cheshire and Staffordshire. Thomas Aston
of Aston, who was married in 1512, and was
High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1551, had a son
Francis. See Burke's ' Extinct Baronetage.'
George Massey. — Several branches of the
family were settled in Cheshire. This was
probably George Massey of Potington, head
of his branch at the Visitation of 1580.
Thomas Gascoigne. — This might be
Thomas Gaskon of Burghwallis, who was
married to Jane, daughter of Thomas
Reresby of Thribergh, in the Sheffield neigh-
bourhood.
Robert Shakerley. — Lord Shrewsbury
married as his second wife Grace, daughter
of Robert Shakerley of Little Longston,
co. Derby. This was probably his father-in-
law, or his wife's half - brother, another
Robert.
I am not able to find any clue to Francis
Bailey or George Scaldfield.
H. J. B CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridgc.
I send these notes, though very scanty,
in the hope that they may prove of some
assistance to MAJOR LESLIE.
Lord Talbot was either George, 6th Earl
of Shrewsbury, or his eldest son Francis.
Leonard [Dacre], Lord Dacre of Gilsland
or of the North, became involved in the
Northern Rebellion, and fled to the Low
Countries, where lie received 1,200 ducats a
year from the King of Spain. He died at
Brussels, Aug. 12, 1573, whereupon his
brother Leonard assumed the title.
Sir Gervase Clifton of Clifton, Notting-
hamshire, born about April, 1516, was
knighted on or before Nov. 15, 1538, and
was " generally styled Gentle Sir Gervase."
He married (1) Man-, daughter of Sir John
Neville of Chete, Yorks ; and (2) Winifred,
daughter and co-heir of William Thwaites of
Oulton, Suffolk, and widow of Sir George
Pierrepoint of Holme. He was a J.P.,
described by the Protestant bishop as being
" in religion very cold," in 1564. He seems
to have been in high favour with Queen
Elizabeth. He died about Jan. 20, 1587/8..
Sir John Neville, of Leversege and
Billingley and Leeds, married (1) Dorothy,
daughter of Sir Christopher Danby of
Thorpe, by whom he had a son and heir and
a daughter ; and (2) Beatrice, daughter of
Henry Brome of Wrenthorpe, by whom he
had ten children. A Protestant under King
Edward VI., he was reconciled to the Roman
Catholic Church by Dr. Thomas Robertson,
Dean of Durham, under Queen Man-.
Possibly he was the person of these names
admitted to Gray's Inn in 1534. He was-
knighted May 8, 1544. He took part in the
Rebellion of 1569, and was attainted, but
managed to escape to Scotland and thence
to Paris. From Paris he went to Flanders.
He left Flanders for Rome, 1571/2. He-
arrived in Madrid from Rome in November,.
1572, and received 200 ducats, with a
promise of 30 ducats a month. He left
Madrid May 10, 1573, and in 1574 he was
receiving a pension of 60 ducats a month
from the King of Spain. In 1575 he was at
Brussels. In both 1574 and 1575 the
English Government demanded his expulsion
from Spanish territory. Both he and his
son Robert had died abroad before 1588.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
Lord Talbot, probably George Talbot,.
6th Earl of Shrewsbury, 1528 ?-90 (vide
' D.N.B.,' Iv. 314).
Lord Darcy of the North, probably George,,
son of Thomas, Lord Darcy, statesman and
rebel (vide ' D.N.B.,' xiv. 49).
Peter Frechvill, probably father of or
Sir Peter Frechevile of Staveley, co. Derby
(father of John, Lord Frescheville of
Staveley, 1664).
The 5th Lord Shrewsbury married
secondly, before August, 1553, Grace,,
daughter of Robert Shackerley of Little
Longsdon, Derbyshire. A R BAYLEY.
Gervase Clifton was in the royal garrison
of Nottingham in 1536, at the time of the
Pilgrimage of Grace. A letter written by
him at Nottingham is given in (he ' Letters
and Papers of Henry VIII.,' vol. xi., No. 1042.
Sir John Neville seems to have served under-
the Duke of Norfolk when the latter WHS
administrating the disaffected Northern,
counties in 1537. A letter from Sir John
Neville to Thomas Cromwell is given in the
'Letters and Papersof Henry VIII.,' No. 1317.-
Of course it is impossible to say definitely
that these were the same men who attended
the Earl of Shrewsbury's funeral in 1560, but
374
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 4, WIG.
Francis Talbot, then Lord Talbot and after-
wards fifth Earl of Shrewsbury, held a com-
mand in the royal army sent against the
rebels in 1536, and thus there is a possible
•connexion. See ' The Pilgrimage of Grace,'
by M. H.and R. Dodds.vol. i. pp. 250-51,295,
306 ; ii. 255. M. H. DODDS.
Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.
In my younger days I made an attempt to
identify some of the persons named in the
-account of the funeral ot Francis, Earl of
Shrewsbury. Shortness of time prevented
.my going very fully into the matter. MAJOR
LESLIE may, however, find something like an
answer to his question in my notes which
appeared in the ' Sheffield Miscellany,' pub-
lished in 1897. CHARLES DRURY.
12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY ON BIRD LIFE
XN THE FENS (12 S. ii. 189,253).— Fuller, in
repeating the legendary number, makes a
•characteristic comment on it : —
" Lincolnshire may be termed the Aviary of
England, for the Wild-foule therein ; remarkable
for their,
" 1. Plenty ; so that sometimes, in the month
•of August, three thousand Mallards, with Birds of
"that kind, have been caught at one draught, so
large and strong their nets ; and the like must be
the Reader's belief." — ' The Worthies of England,'
ed. 1811, vol. ii. p. 2.
EDWARD BENSLY.
ARMS CUT ON GLASS PUNCH-BOWL (12 S.
ii. 268). — Apparently the original owner of
the punch-bowl must have been William
Winde of Bexley, Kent, esquire, Chamber-
lain to the Princess Sophia. He died
Intestate about the end of 1741 " without
any known relation." He was of the
Norfolk stock, and was son of Capt. William
Winde, the noted architect, by Magdalen,
•daughter of Sir James Bridgeman. His
wife was Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of
•George Stawell of Cotherston, Somerset,
-esquire, and widow of Sir Robert Austen of
Bexley, Baronet. See Surrey Archceol. Col-
.lections, x. 292, and Genealogist, N.S., xxxi.
243. J. CHALLENOR SMITH.
•Silchester.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172,
211, 275, 317, 337).— In one of the windows of
the hall of Manchester College, at Oxford, are
portraits of several of the tutors of Warring-
^on Academy, from which well-known but
short-lived institution (1757 to 1786) Man-
•chester College is lineally descended. I
cannot give a list of them, but recollect
likenesses of John Aikin, D.D., and of Gilbert
Wakefield, B.A., editor of Lucretius. The
others would probably represent Dr. Taylor
of Norwich, Dr. Priestley, and Dr. William
Enfield, who were also at one time or
another tutors of the Academy. B. B.
Kippington Church, near Sevenoaks, con-
tains a number of portraits on glass of
members of the family of the late Mr. W. J.
Thompson, the founder.
I noted in ' N. & Q.' some years ago the
interesting modern portrait on glass in a
small window in the tower of Cropthorne
Church, in Worcestershire, the subject being
a former sexton. W. H. QUARRELL.
The following is a list of the portraits in
the stained-glass windows of the narthex of
All Saints' Church, Clifton, Bristol : Canon
Newbolt, Bishop King of Lincoln, Canon
Body, Dean Randall, Canon T. T. Carter,
Father Benson, S.S.J.E., Dr. Liddon, Pre-
bendary Montague Villiers, Archbishop
Benson.
I may edd that all these portraits are
remarkably good.
FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
54, Chapel Field Road, Norwich.
There is an authentic portrait of Henry VI.
in Provost Hacomblen's Chantry, King's
Chapel, Cambridge. A. G. KEALY.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARTIST IN STAINED
GLASS (11 S. xii. 379 ; 12 S. i. 174).— Stained
glass, like manuscripts, does not surrender its
secrets at once, and you have sometimes to
affirm successive convictions of your own
before reaching the truth — which you are
never certain of finding out.
In a recent examination of the glass in
Upper Hardres Church (Kent) I had the
pleasure of finding the real name of the
eighteenth - century restorer scratched, as
usual, with a diamond on a bit of white glass.
I read it " L. T. Son," if I do not make any
mistake.
As for the Lombardic letters around the
thirteenth-century medallion representing
the Blessed Virgin between two kneeling
figures, the words " Salamoni " and
" Philipi" must be the respective names of
these. Salamon is the patronymic for
well-to-do Jews in mediaeval times ; Philip
would be the unknown Christian debtor who
was killed and afterwards brought to life
again by St. Nicholas, according to the
' Legenda Aurea,' by Jacobus de Voragine.
I quote the following passage from the
Caxton edition : —
" There was a man that had borrowed of a Jew
a sum of money and sware upon the altar of
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
375
'St. Nicholas that he would render and pay it
again as soon as lie might, and gave none other
•pledge. And this man held this money so long,
-that the Jew demanded and asked his money, and
he said that he had paid him. Then the Jew made
him to come tofore the law in judgment, and the
•oath was given to the debtor. And he brought
with him a hollow staff in which he had put the
money in gold, and he leant upon the staff. And
when he would make his oath and swear, he
delivered his stuff to the Jew to keep and hold,
whilst he would swear, and then sware that he had
delivered to him more than he ought to him. And
when he had made the oath he demanded his staff
again of the Jew, and he, nothing knowing of his
malice delivered it to him. Then this deceiver
went his way, and anon after, him list sore to
.sleep and laid him in the way, and a cart with four
wheels came with great force and slew him, and
l»rake the staff with gold which he spread abroad .
And when the Jew heard this, he came thither
:sore moved, and saw the fraud, and many said to
iiim that he should take to him the gold ; and he
Tef used it saying : But if he that was dead was not
•raised again to life by the merits of St. Nicholas,
he would not receive it, and if he came again to
•3ife, he would receive baptism and become
-Christian, Then he that was dead arose, and the
Jew was christened." — Dent edition, vol. ii.
3>p. 117, 118.
PlERBE TURPTN.
Folkestone.
AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 329). — "It is
the Mass that matters." — This was said by
Mr. Augustine Birrell in a paper called
' What, Then, "Did Happen at the Reforma-
tion ? ' It was published in The Nineteenth
•Century of April, 1896, and was answered by
me in the same review, July, 1896.
G. W. E. RUSSELL.
SAMUEL WESLEY THE ELDER : HIS POETIC
ACTIVITIES 112 S. ii. 226). — Wesley's poem
' The Life of Christ' was announced in The
'Gentleman's Journal, May, 1693, p. 166.
Verses on his poem appeared in the number
for July, 1693, p. 233.
" An Ode on St. Cecilia and Music in
Devotion by Mr. Wesley " was printed in
The Gentleman's Journal for April, 1694,
T. 67. (See The Musical Antiquary, July,
911, p. 234.) See also Husk's ' Account of
the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia's
Day/ 1857, p. 85 and p. 157, where the poem
is printed. Mr. Husk says : —
" Nothing has been found to show that this ode
•was furnished with music anterior to the year 1794,
when the author's grandson, Samuel Wesley, set
at. If set, it was possibly performed at Oxford."
I think, however, that this was the ode set
by William Xorris of Lincoln in 1702 (Husk,
p. 51), which is preserved in the Bodleian
Library (Bod. MS. Mus. c. 28). The first
•-words are " Begin the noble sonjz."
a. E. p. A.
NAVAL RECORDS WANTED, c 1800 (12 S.
ii. 330). — D. B. might find the information he
seeks in the Navy Lists published since 1772,
' Biographia Navalis,' 'Royal Naval Bio-
graphy' (12 vols.), or O'Byrne's 'Naval
Biographical Dictionary.' For other sources
of information he might consult Sims's
' Manual for the Genealogist, &c.,' 2nd ed.,
pp. 440 and 441.
HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.Hist.S.
D. B. should consult at the Public Record
Office the following : —
1. Officers' Services, 1781-1862, indexed.
2. Lieutenants' Passing Certificates, 1691-1832;
from 1789 they have baptismal certificates filed with
them.
3. Records of Services, retrospective from 1817.
4. The Naval Board's Records of Lieutenants'
Examinations, 1795-1832. indexed ; from these can
be obtained date of examination, age, and particu-
lars of service.
5. Full Pay Registers, 1795-1858.
6. Bounty Papers.
At the library of the Royal United Service
Institution or the British Museum old Navy
Lists can be consulted. A. G. KEALY,
Chaplain R.N., retired.
Bedford.
D. B. might find it useful to consult ' The
Records of Naval Men,' by Gerald Fothergill,
published by Mr. C. A. Bernau, Walton-on-
Thames, in 1910. It is a little handbook to
the chief sources of information relative to
the genealogy of naval men. If D. B. finds
any difficulty in obtaining it, and will com-
municate with me, I shall be glad to send
him my copy. G. L. APPERSON.
97 Buckingham Road, Brighton.
" HAT TRICK " : A CRICKET TERM (12 S.
ii. 70, 136, 178). — The explanations appearing
in your columns of this phrase as applied to
cricket have appeared to me somewhat in-
complete. Most of us know that a bowler
taking three wickets with successive balls
used to earn a hat or its equivalent, and we
also know that the phrase " the hat trick "
originally appertained to conjuring, when by
sleight of hand the performer appeared to
draw rabbits and other things out of a hat.
I think it was in the seventies or eighties
that some enterprising newspaper reporter,
wearied with repeating the statement that
Smith or Jones had earned a hat, first thought
of applying to cricket the phrase properly
belonging to conjuring, and since that time
he has been followed by practically every
other reporter of the game, and thus the
phrase is now part of the vocabulary of
cricket. E. BASIL LUPTON.
37 Langdon Street, Cambridge, Mass.
376
NOTES AND QUERIES. U-H.II NOV. 4, 1916,
-WKLTHEN (12 S. ii. 309).— MR. HELI.IER
not 'j.ive the names of the two Somerset-
shire villages to which lie refers, but I have
notes of the occurrence of this name in that
county at Cannington, near Bridgwater, and
Pitminster, near Taunton, both of earlier
date than the instances he gives, and one, at
the former place, as late as 1807.
They are as follows : —
Marriages.
Wyllyam Sterne and Welthyan Noorth, 13 June,
1597.
John Rawlin and Welthian Duddinge, 2 June, 1634.
John Stowe and Wealthing Bond, 17 Aug., 1807.
PlT MINSTER.
John Bradbeare and Welthen Holcombe, 9 Nov.,
1620.
William Penny and Welthian Northam, 17 Jan.,
1631.
Humphery Pirn and Welthian Atnill, p. West
Buckland, 21 May, 1666.
Of the derivation of the name I cannot
speak, but believe it to be local to Somerset,
not having noted it elsewhere.
'STEPHEN J. BARNS.
Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.
I do not think that this name could have
been very uncommon in Somersetshire. At
any rate, twelve infants received it at bap-
tism in the parish of Wedmore from 1583
to 1674, each one belonging to a different
family, and all but one with a different sur-
name. Welthiana or Welthian is the visual
form. The name is not given by Miss Yonge,
nor have I ever met with it in the east of
England. S. H. A. H.
THE SIGN VIRGO (12 S. ii. 251, 316).— The
constellation Virgo is supposed in its earliest
human origin to have symbolized the Great
Mother of Life, a conception afterwards
elaborated and developed in the forms of
Xeith, Isis, Eve, Ishtar, Astarte, Venus, and
other deities. It is impossible to say when
or by whom the signs of the Zodiac were
originated. They are of immense antiquity,
and were described in one of the works in
Sargon's library, B.C. 3800, and are also
named in the Vedas of approximately the
same age. In a work entitled ' The Zodia,
or the Cherubim of the Bible and the
Cjjerubim of the Sky,' by E. M. Smith
(Elliot Stock, 1906), an attempt is made to
show that the knowledge of the constellations
was of divine origin, and was supplementary
to and in agreement with the message of the
Holy Scriptures. This argument is sup-
ported by a large number of analogies and
correspondences. Whatever view may be
taken of the theory of the book, it is one which
contains much learning and curious know-
ledge.
Any connexion of Seth with the constella-
tions is unknown to me, except so far as mrsy
be inferred from the familiar story from
Josephus, wherein the children of Seth art
said to be " the inventors of that peculiar
sort of wisdom which is concerned with the
heavenly bodies and their order," to preserve
which knowledge they erected those two
famous pillars, one of brick and the other of
stone, so that if the brick one should be
washed away, the stone would survive — much
on the principle of Sir Isaac Xewton's two
apertures in his backyard door, one for the
hen and another for the chickens.
There is a marked correspondence between
the signs of the Zodiac and the banners of
the twelve tribes of Israel, and as the breast-
plate of the Jewish high-priest contained
twelveprecious stones, each engraved with the
name of one of the tribes, one of these jewels
would correspond with the sign Virgo in the
constellations. In the work referred to it is
pointed out that the star Spica in one of
Virgo's hands represents not only an " ear
of corn," but " offspring " generally, or, in
Arabic, " the branch," and the author-
connects this with the idea of the promised
Messiah. ARTHUR BOWES.
Newton -le- Willows .
ST. SWITHIN is apparently unaware of the
part Seth plays in rabbinical and Mussulman
mythology. He is represented as a volu-
minous author, divinely inspired, and as the
originator of astronomy and many arts. It
is doubtless to these legends that your
querist refers, and to ask for their authority
is asking a good deal. It is strange, however,,
that anybody should take them, or affect
to take them, seriouslv at the present day.
C. C. B.
"YORKER": A CRICKET TERM (12 S..
ii. 209, 276). — A much-respected former
member for York was caricatured in Vanity
Fair with the word " Yerk " beneath the
presentment. That I took to be a hit at the
way in which he pronounced the name of his
constituency, and it shows how easily
" yerk " and " york " may be substituted
for each other. When I read ' Othello ' last
week I noticed that lago thought nine or ten
times " to have yerk'd " his adversary under
the ribs. This would have entailed a thrust
with "a sudden and quick action," as Dr..
Schmidt of the ' Lexicon ' declares. Such
should be that of the dentist who " yorke.
out " a tooth.
12 S. II. Nov. 4, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Nevertheless, a ball which is calculated
deceive a batsman may well be called a
'"'yorker," for, as I need scarcely repeat, to
'"come Yorkshire" over anybody is to
" bite " him. ST. SWITHIN.
DRAWING OF FORT JEROME AND H.M.S.
ARGO AND SPARROW (12 S. i. 328). — Unless
I mistake, MR. A. J. FISHER'S query has not
yet been answered.
In 1793 the British Government dispatched
an expedition from Jamaica to San Domingo
under General Maitland, for the purpose of
protecting British interests when the blacks
rose in revolt against their French masters.
This may give MR. FISHER a clue ; to
whom also I would recommend ' Splendid
Failures,' by Harry Graham (published
by Edward Arnold, 1913).
F. GORDON BROWN.
WATCH HOUSE (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233,
315). — At Bradfield, Yorkshire, there is a
building close to the churchyard gates, now
used as a dwelling-house, and known locally
as the Watch House.
In a short guide to the church, written by
the rector and printed in 1912, it is said : —
" The multangular cottage at the Church Gates
was built as a Watch House, to prevent body-
snatching. Within the memory of people still living
men sat up at nights with loaded guns for some
time after an interment."
It is quite probable that the building was
used for the purpose stated, but would it be
•e -ected specially for this ? Is it not more
likely that its original purpose was that of
the " lock-up " ? CHARLES DRURY.
12 Ranmcor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
" SEPTEM SINE BORIS" (12 S. ii. 310).—
Even at Midsummer there are seven hours
between sunset and sunrise (approximately
8.30 P.M. to 3.30 A.M.) when a sundial is of
no use to tell the time. I have an old Dutch
sundial on which these hours of darkness are
•entirely omitted y and it is doubtless the case
on others too. I would suggest that it is to
these missing hours that the motto refers.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
Killadoon, Celbridge.
These Latin words mean " except, without,
minus seven hours." They would express
the dumbness of a dial, during the shortest
night of the year, at a particular latitude
M'hich an astronomer could at once indicate.
They record, therefore, either the place
where the instrument was made, or thet
where it was intended to obey the sunshine.
E. S. DODGSON.
I venture to suggest that the meaning of
this elliptical .sentence is : " Leave the
seven (days of the week) to the hours."
Cf. Verg., ' ^Eneid,' ix. 620 : " Sinite arma
viris." The sense conveyed is identical
with that of the common aphorism : " Take
care of the pence, and the pounds will take
care of themselves."
N. POWLETT, Col.
The meaning of this bald inscription pro-
bably is that there are in the longest days
seven hours (and a trifle over) in wnich the
dial is useless. The inrtt-o is to be found on
a dial declining west, en cted on a gable at
Packwood House, Warwickshire.
ARCH in AID SPARKE.
HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE
DECEASED (12 S. ii. 210, 277).— In the
cemetery at Folkestone there is a handsome
monument, on the front face of which is
inserted a medallion portrait, in the finest
statuary marble, of the late Mr. Challis,
surmounted by his coat of arms, crest, and
ribbon bearing the motto of his family. On
the left hand of the portrait medallion is the
following inscription : —
In affectionate remembrance of
John Henry Chajlis
Son of the late John Henry Challis of the 9th Regt.
Born at Shorncliffo
Died at Mentone, February 18th, 1880,
In the 74th Year of his Age.
Sandgate. B- J" FvNMORE.
In Blackburn Cemetery there is a tomb-
stone the inscription on which is as follows :
Erected by public subscription to the memory of
William Billington,
Author of ' Sheen and Shade '
(Lancashire Songs, Poems, Sketches, &c.),
who was born April 3rd, 1827, and departed this
life Jan'. 3rd, 1884.
On the end of this tombstone is a medallion
portrait of Billington. JOHN DUXBURY.
2 Shear Brow, Blackburn.
EPITAPHS IN OLD LONDON AND SUBURBAN
GRAVEYARDS (12 S. ii. 308). — During the last
five years some amateurs, members of the
Society of Genealogists of London, of
5 Bloomsbury Square, have between them
copied many thousands of monumental
inscriptions in London, in various parts of
England, particularly in Bedfordshire, "Devon,
Kent, and Middlesex, and also abroad. They
have, in addition, compiled a bibliography of
about 1,500 slips (MS.), showing what lias
been done by themselves and others \\ith
reference to this subject in all parts of the
world. • M.
378
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. NOV. 4, me.
Some years ago I copied all the inscriptions
iii Stepney Church and all the more impor-
tant ones in the adjoining churchyard. I
presented many copies in slip to readers of
' X. cV Q.' 1 was at the time quite familiar
with Limehous3 Church and churchyard, and
it was my intention to carry out a similar
work there ; but removal from London
rendered this impossible. So far as I am
aware the task has never been accomplished,
and I am truly sorry to learn of the
present neglected condition of these valuable
memorials of the past. JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
THE BUTCHER'S RECORD (12 S. ii. 265). —
At the above reference MR. BULLOCH gives
the Aberdeen edition of The People's Journal
for Aug. 29, 1916, as the authority for the
world's record in slaughtering cattle, where
it is stated that three men (there named)
killed and dressed three cattle in 17 minutes
and 11 seconds, the individual times for
each animal being : 5 min. 57 sec. ; 5 min.
55 sees. ; and 5 mins. 18 sees., respectively.
It is not stated, however, whether each
animal was killed and dressed by a single
man, or whether the three men participated
in the slaughtering, &c., of each animal.
I remember when passing through Chicago,
nearly twenty years ago, going to see one of
the sights of the world, as it was then
considered, at Armour's slaughter-yards, in
which several thousands of cattle, sheep,
and pigs were killed and dressed in the space
of three to four hours of a morning. I asked
the attendant who showed us round if he
could tell me what was the shortest time —
in other words, the record — that any man
had taken in killing and dressing ready for
market a particular beast. I understood
him to say that a really clever man with his
dresser or helper (I think there was only one)
could kill and dress a beast within 5 minutes,
but there had been one man there of ex-
ceptional skill and activity who had done
the same in from 3 to 4 minutes. That
would be, I think, from the time the animal
was handed over to him from the truck
where it had been pole-axed.
J. S. UDAL.
NEGRO, OR COLOURED, BANDSMEN IN THE
ARMY (12 S. ii. 303).— In his ' British Military
Prints' (1909) Mr. Ralph Nevill says that
early in the nineteenth century there were
about four or five black musicians in the
Grenadier Guards' band, who wore special
costumes and turbans ; that they were not
abolished, but died out about 1838, when
the last survivor, " Francis," who was the
drummer, died ; and that Francis used to-
sport a silver collar as a special distinction,,
which ha.s apparently been lost, not having-
been for years in the hands of the regiment.
Mr. Xevill's illustrations include " Grenadier-
Guards, Drummer (1829), from a lithograph
by E. Hull," showing in black and white a
coloured man in English uniform, with white-
trousers, but wearing a high turban, with
lofty plume resting upon a crescent fixed on.
the turban's front.
I have several small hand-coloured con-
temporary lithographs depicting scenes at
Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, one of
them showing members of a Guards' band
playing in front of Buckingham Palace,.
with a black drummer in blue jacket and
yellow breeches and turban. W. B. H.
'THE LONDON MAGAZINE' (12 S. ii. 149,.
198). — I think this first appeared in 1732"
as an imitator of The Gentleman's Magazine^
started the previous year, and it met with
deserved success, some of its plates, especially
of American places, being still sought after..
I believe it lasted till 1770 or 1780. Another
excellent rival was The Scots Magazine,.
which had a long run — from 1739 to 1817..
The European Magazine, also noted for its
fine plates, ran from about 1780 to 1826.
W. R. W.
WORLD'S JUDGMENT (4 S. vii. 456 ;
viii. 197). — As it is never too late to mend,,
and suum cuique tribuere, let me correct an
erroneous reply given to a query concerning
the author of the saying : " Die Weltge-
schichte ist das Weltgericht." It is not
Goethe, but Schiller to whom it is originally
due. Cf. Schiller's poem 'Resignation' (last
line of last stanza but one). This first
appeared in 1786, when Schiller was in the-
27th year of his life. H. KREBS.
BRASSEY (BRACE Y) FAMILY (12 S. ii. 269,.
333). — The following appears in the Subsidy
Roll for Hertfordshire, 1545 : " Hertyngford-
bery : John Bracye, in goodes vijli. xiijrf."
R. FREEMAN BULLEN.
Bow Library, E.
MARSHALS OF FRANCE (12 S. ii. 182, 235,.
279). — As the omissions in the list given are
very numerous, it would be well to consult
some of the authorities for the earlier history
of the Marshals, such as Jean Le Feronr
Bernard Gerard, Jean du Tillet, Denis
Godefroi, Jean Pinson de la Martiniere,
P. Anselme, Louis Moreri, Andre Favin,
Boxiteillier, Faucher, M. A. Mathas, and
Andre de Chesne. R. B.
Upton.
12 5. II. Nov. 4, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
379
ENGLISH PILGRIMAGES : SANTIAGO DE
COMPOSTELA (12 S. i. 275 ; and sub ' Sir John
Schorne,' ibid., 396, 455). — The late Richard
Patrick Boyle Davey, in ' The Tower of
London ' (abridged edition, 1914), at p. 85,
writes that the Constable of the Tower of
London, " in King Edward II. 's reign at
least,"
" was entitled to levy a tax of twopence on each
person passing by the Thames on pilgrimage
to or from the shrine of St. James of Compo-
stella."
JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.
FOLK-LORE: RED HAIR (12 S. ii. 128, 196,
239). — Hereabout a deep-rooted popular
belief is that red-haired people are the issue
of lepers. KUMAGUSU MINAKATA.
Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
"TEFAL" (12 S. ii. 309). — May I suggest
that the yard may have been used for
" teazles " ? They were required for woollen
manufacture. The / in this case would be
a long s. SUSANNA CORNER.
Lenton Hall, Nottingham.
on 5Cooks,
The Institution of the Archpriest Blackwell. By
John Hungerford Pollen, S.J. (Longmans &
Co., 5s. net.)
THERE are dry books against which the mind of
every reader worth the name naturally and justly
revolts. And there are also books which, in
virtue of their very dryness, possess a peculiar
attractiveness. We would place among these
latter this careful and scrupulously well-balanced
study of an instructive and rather curious episode
in English Catholic history. The story extends
from 1595 to 1602 ; its interest lies not so much
in the characters or events concerned as in the
attempted solution of a problem — the problem as
to what should be the form of Church government
for those English who, the breach between Eliza-
beth and the Papacy being now complete, ad-
hered to the Roman communion. It was affected
by several intricate political complications.
Henry IV. of France, about the beginning of our
period, was relieved from excommunication —
little to the satisfaction of Spain, but to his own
considerable advantage in the way of influence
and adherents. France and Spain thereupon
became rivals throughout the Catholic world ;
and Henry IV., as a punishment for alleged in-
triguing with Spain against him, banished the
.Ti -suits out of France. The cause of the Jesuits
became in a manner identified with Spain. But
(li«- .Ji-suits were the chief and most active agents
in the Roman mission for the retrieval of England.
There grew up in. England a party which looked
rather to France than to Spain for support, and
was inclined to be less intransigent towards
Elizabeth's government, and even in some degree
hopeful of modifying the persecution. After the
di-.-ith of Cardinal Allen it was decided to institute
an Archpriest as head of the clergy in England.
For this office Blackwell was chosen, a man of"
promising qualities who yet proved a rath<-r
dismal failure. An opposition formed itself
against him. and the two parties ranged themselves
on the political lines, Blackwell with the Jesuits
and Spain, the Appellants against him with
France. There was much pamphleteering of a
far from edifying character, and the case was at-
length taken to Rome, where Henry IV. 's am-
bassador actively assisted the Appellants. Ifc
will be seen that Clement VIII. had a delicate-
task to perform — the more delicate because he-
had hopes both from France and England which
it would be easy to prejudice by imprudent zeal..
The episode had no appreciable consequences :
it is interesting, as Father Pollen points out in the-
Introduction, chiefly as a question of Church
government. And here comes in our main criti-
cism of this scholarly and attractive study. That
reference to general principles, that tracing of
the improvement or necessary modifications in.
government and of the course of constitutional de-
velopment, that explication of the mistakes made on
either-side, which are promised in the Introduction,
are by no means effectively worked out in the body-
of the text. It is clear that Blackwell's Archi-
presbyterate turned out ill ; but it is not clear,,
upon the showing of this book, whether we are to
consider that it was the scheme itself, or the
disposition and conduct of the priests to whom ifc
was applied, which caused the failure. There is
almost no discussion of the matter from the-
practical and constitutional point of view.
THE new Quarterly Review will have been ex-
pected with some eagerness by many readers for-
the sake of the continuation of Mr. J. M. de
Beaufort's ' Voyage of Discovery in Germany.'"
The second part is more picturesque and no less
enlightening than the first, giving some amusing
anecdotes of German sailors and naval officers
encountered by the writer, a deeply interesting and
vivid description of the German fleet seen riding-
at its anchorages, and* again a description of
manoeuvres in the Kiel Canal — the whole illus-
trated by three most instructive maps. Of papers
more or less literary there are three. The first is
on ' The New Poetry,' by Mr. Arthur Waugh — ttie-
best, we think, of his recent essays in criticism.
He does not, indeed, quite eliminate the petitio
principii which commonly lurks in reasoning about
the relation of poetry to " beauty," but he puts his
finger with exactness on the intellectual weaknesses
of the " new poetry " ; and though we do not
imagine that, upon first reading him, the " new
poets " will feel anything but indignation, we
should be surprised if, in five years' time or so, the
more solidly gifted among them had not advanced
more or less into his point of view. The second'
of these papers is Mr. Algernon Cecil's study of
Disraeli in ' The Middle Phase ' — a clever per-
formance. Perhaps the strain of purely literary
ability — the special imaginative quality of a
competent writer of fiction — is not given its full
value in the attempt at interpreting the ever-
fascinating problem of Disraeli's character. This
faculty — since Disraeli, as we are never allowed
to forget, was isolated by race — was not without
the internal detachment requisite for coming into
play within his own mind and judgment even when
it was not externally exercised. ' Mrs. Hughes of
Uffington ' — the third — is an unsigned paper,
written round the notices of that lady which occur
'380
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 4, im.
in Mr. H. G. Hutchinson's edition of the ' Letters
and Recollections of Sir Walter Scott ' — a very
pleasant paper upon a delightful subject. Mrs.
Hughes was the grandmother of Thomas Hughes
of ' Tom Brown ' fame ; beloved by Scott for the
beauty of her singing and — to begin with — for her
kindness to a ha If -starved cur. But there was
much more " to " Mrs. Hughes than that— more
• even than the power to make Barham write the
' Ingoldsby Legends.' One of the most useful of
the articles before us should be that of Mr.
William, Miller on the mediaeval Serbian empire, a
subject upon which it may be taken that the
• general reader's ignorance is almost total, while
some accurate idea of it on the part of people in
Western Europe would seem to be an essential
condition of settling the Balkans in any sort of
fairly stable peace. Another paper with a scope
both historical and practical is contributed by
Prof. C. H. Firth—' The Study of British Foreign
Policy.' We should like particularly to endorse
his protest against the secretiyeness of the
Government with regard to historical sources for
the history of British foreign policy during the
nineteenth century. At the present moment
historians have access without a permit only to
Foreign Office papers written before 1837, and
with a permit only to those written before 1860.
Mr. Charles Singer has an illustrated article, fall
of curious detail which should particularly interest
readers of ' N. & Q.,' on ' The Early Treatment of
Gunshot Wounds.' This curious detail, it need
hardly be said, is much of it pretty grisly. Mr.
Albert M. Hyamson pleads for a British protec-
torate for Palestine when the Turks have been
made to relinquish it : a plea which will stir the
imagination of persons of many_ schools of thought.
In another line hardly less stirring, and worth most
careful consideration, is the article by Mr. C.
Ernest Fayle entitled ' Industrial Reconstruction,'
with which the number begins.
The Fortnightly Review for November is mainly
political or sociai ; but it fias three or four papers
on more general topics that should meet with
attention. We should put side by side — as
equally good, though diverse — Mr. Edmund
Gosse's story of a visit paid last September to
Reims, and Prof. Foster Watson's article on
' Richard Hakluyt and his Debt to Spain.' It
was a happy idea to take that angle from which
to survey Hakluyt's achievement, both in respect
of Hakluyt himself and as illustrating aspects of
Spanish arid English intercourse which popularly
are often neglected — to the considerable loss of
the general reader. The Cathedral at Reims is not
utterly destroyed: we have long known so much;
but Mr. Gosse shows it to us less damaged —
though so badly damaged — than we had imagined,
even half the glass of the great rose-window
being still in place. It is natural both that the
courageous Cardinal who watches over it should
wish the Cathedral restored, and that the innumer-
able people who love it should tremble at the
thought of restoration. There, too, Mr. Gosse saw
•\ et intact both Jeanne d'Arc, at her station by the
West front, and " le Coq de Reims." Mr. J. A. R.
Marriott is making a study of English history and
Shakespeare, of which this number has the first
instalment. Mrs. Aria delivers a flood of turgid
l>ut rather amusing English, supposed to be about
our clothes and food and gas and domestic duties,
hut the manner attracts the reader's mind away
from the matter. Mr. Brudenell Carter writes
about science and education, in our opinion
wisely, on the whole, and has a pleasant and
useful comparison between the discovery of
young Achilles, when disgaised as a girl, by his
interest in weapons, and the possibility of dis-
covering the philosophers of the future by their
response to the highest rather than to other forms
of knowledge.
THE November Cornhill is a very good number.
The first instalment of 'Fly-leaves; or, Tales of
a Flying Patrol (1915),' is sure, we think, to
attract the attention it deserves. To say that
what it tells is wonderful, and also that it gives
a fine picture of gallantry, proud good-humour,
and resource, is but to mention what is matter
of course. Besides the descriptions of fights,
there is a deeply interesting account of a thunder-
storm, and a curious story of meeting an eagle
in the air — who, amazed at the strange appari-
tion of the aeroplane, " side-slipped " and fled
tumbling away. E. Hallam Moorhouse writes
an inspiriting account of Hakluyt in honour of
the tercentenary this month. We liked much
Mr. A. G. Bradley 's article on ' Squires and Trade
in Olden Times ' — though it might, perhaps,
have cut out some repetitions in favour of more
concrete examples. It is a subject which should
interest alike the social historian and the
genealogist. Mr. Claude E. Benson's story,
' The Brink of Acheron,' is a sort of Harrison
Ainsworth performance — quite good too. Mr.
Gathorne - Hardy has occasion to make a few
statements about the ' Balliol Memories ' which
he contributed to the October number of the
Cornhill, and takes the opportunity to tell a
good story. Aboat the war we have Miss
Beatrice Harraden's account of her experiences
and discoveries as Honorary Librarian at the
Endell Street Hospital. These are very in-
structive, and seem to carry with them, to other
hospitals, something of the admonition to go and
do likewise. Mr. Boyd Cable's new sketch of ' The
Old Contemptibles ' 'is called ' Fighting Strength '
— very painful to read and very glorious.
Then there is a slight but rather graceful
paper by Lady Poore about an Australian
in the Highlands, and a delightful picture of
veld experiences with horses — ' Lost Horses ' —
by Mr. R. T. Coryndon. ' The Tutor's Story,'
which Lucas Malet has revised and completed
from a MS. left by her father Charles Kingsley,
is in this number brought to an end.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
to
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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1916.
CONTENTS.— No. 46.
TJOTES :— Mrs. Boutell, 381— Dr. Robert Uvedale, Scholar
and Botanist, 384— The Lady Godiva and the Countess
Lucy. 387— John Curwen, 388— A Prize at Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1789— Earl's Court, a London Suburb, 389.
•QUERIES:— Substitutes for Pilgrimage, 389 — Irish
(Volunteer) Corps e. 1780— Coloured Book- Wrappers-
Mayoral Trappings— Lead-Tank Lettering— ' The Chel-
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Sir Andrew Richard Scoble— Thirlwall, Chaplain to
•Queen Anne Boleyn — John Prine, 1568— Authors Wanted
— Bible and Salt, 390— Walter Wilson, the Nonconformist
Biographer— Palavicini Family -Binnestead in Essex—
J. T. Staton-Sons of Mrs. Bridget Bendysh— Sheppard
Family of Blisworth, 391.
BEPLIES :— An English Army List of 1740, 391—" Jobey •'
of Eton, 394— "Blighty "— Sandford Family— Foreign
Graves of British Authors, 395— Pallavicini : Arms-
Matthew Shortyng, D.D.-St. Madron's Well, near
Penzance, 396— Greatest Recorded Length of Service-
Author and Title Wanted : Boys' Book c. I860—" Cardew "
— Poem Wanted— London's Entertainment to "Four
Indian Kings "—Hare and Lefevre Families— Folk-Lore :
Chime-Hours, 397— Legal Macaronics— Plumstead Lloyd
— Authors Wanted— C. Lamb : Chimney Fireplaces-
Naval Records Wanted-'1 Driblows," 398— Authors of
§uotations Wanted — Eighteenth-Century Dentists-
ray : a Book of Squibs, 399.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' A Descriptive Catalogue of Mis-
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— "The Burlington' — "The Nineteenth Century.'
Notices to Correspondents.
MRS. BOUTELL.
MBS. BOUTELL,* one of our earliest actresses,
•whilst quite a girl, joined Killigrew upon the
opening (May 7, 1663) of the new Theatre
Royal, Bridges Street, Covent Garden, a
liouse, for convenience' sake, generally spoken
of by us as the first Drury Lane Theatre, but
not actually known under that name until
«bout 1690. Downes, it is true, says that
she joined the theatre about the same time
«s Nell Gwyn, Mrs. James, Becke Marshall,
Mrs. Rutter, Mrs. Verjuice, and Mrs. Knight.
Nell Gwyn's first recorded part was Cydaria,
in Dryden's ' The Indian Emperor,' produced
circa March, 1665, and we may safely assign
Mrs. James's appearance to the same year.
We have, however, a cast of ' Rule a Wife
and Have a Wife,' in which Mrs. Boutell is
* Genest gives Mrs. Boutell scant notice. He
iurther supplies a very incomplete list of her roles,
a selection only, as he allows ; his dating moreover
Is most inaccurate throughout. The article in
the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' which
largely bases on Genest, is inadequate save for the
merest general reference.
playing Estefania to the Margarita of Mrs.
Ann Marshall, with Mohun as Leon; Hart,
Michael Perez ; and Walter Clun, Cacafogo.
On Tuesday night, Aug. 2, 1664, Clun,
having played Subtle in ' The Alchemist,'
and subsequently spent a jovial evening, was
riding home to his country house at Kentish
Town, when near " Tatnam Court " he was
set on by robbers, wounded, bound, and
flung in a ditch, where, owing to his struggles
to release himself, he bled to death.
Downes's chronology, although he has been
only too faithfully followed herein by stage
historians not a few, is his weakest point,
and we must be especially careful with
regard to the sequence of his statements
concerning the early history of the Theatre
Royal. It must be remembered that the old
prompter was writing many years after; and
that he officiated at Dorset Gardens, not at
Killigrew's house. We can certainly assign
this production of ' Rule a Wife and Have
a Wife ' and Mrs. Boutell's appearance as
Estefania to 1663. Says Davies : —
" Hart and Mohun were much celebrated for
their excellent action in this comedy : the latter in
Leon, and the former in Michael Perez. Mrs.
Marshal, the greatest tragic actress of that com-
pany, represented Margaretta* ; and Mrs. Boutel,
celebrated for the gentler parts in tragedy, such as
Aspatia in ' The Maid's Tragedy,' and Statira in
' Alexander,' played Estifania with applause."
It was in the same year 1663 that Mrs.
Boutell sustained Aspatia to the Amintor
of Hart, the Melantius of Mohun, and the
Evadne of Mrs. Marshall, a cast which has
perhaps never been surpassed. It was in this
tragedy that she had to appear (probably for
the first time) in male attire, which proved so
becoming that the poets invariably desid-
erated her when in their dramas some
faithful heroine disguises herself as a page
to follow and win her lover. Her fragile
beauty in a boy's coat and hose seems
particularly to have fascinated the house,
and saved many a poor comedy. In the
' History of the Stage ' which Curll, in 1741,
published under the name of Betterton, she
is spoken of as follows : —
" Mrs. Boutel was likewise a very considerable
Actress ; she was low of stature, had very agreeable
Features, a good Complexion, but a Childish look.
Her Voice was weak, tho' very mellow ; she gener-
ally acted the young Innocent Lady whom all the
Heroes are mad in Love with ; she was a Favourite
of the Town."
She was especially famous for her blue eyes
and lovely hair ; ' chestnut - maned Boutel"
a contemporary ' Satire on the Players '
(unprinted MS.) dubs her.
This is also the spelling of the quarto, 1040.
382
NOTES AND QUERIES.1 [i2s.iLNov.ii.i9ia
In 1663 Mrs. Bout ell also played Lilly in
' The Elder Brother.' Downes, who has
greatly confused the cast of this piece, writes
Lilia Bianca. Lillia Bianca is the " airy
clnughter of Nantolet " in ' The Wild-Goose
Chase.' It is probable there was about the
^;'ine date a revival of this excellent comedy
with Mrs. Boutell in that role.* In 1664 she
certainly played in Killigrew's racy ' The
Parson's Wedding,' when it was " acted all
]>y women."
Owing to the calamity of the Plague the
theatres were closed from the first week of
June, 1665, to the end of November, 1666.
In 1668 Mrs. Boutell created Donna Theo-
dosia in Dryden's sparkling ' An Evening's
Love,' produced June 18. In the spring of
the following year she acted St. Catharine,
a part of rarest beauty, in that magnificent,
if somewhat extravagant tragedy, ' Tyrannic
Love.' It is still often misstated! that Nell
Gwyn created St. Catharine. The cast,
however, was Mohun, Maxim in ; Hart,
Porphyrius ; Kynaston, Placidius ; Beeston,
the wizard Nigrinus ; Cartwright, Apollonius ;
Bell Amariel, the Guardian Angel ; Mrs.
Marshall, Berenice ; Nell Gwyn, Valeria, the
emperor's daughter ; Mrs. Knepp, Felicia, the
Saint's mother. Mrs. Knepp doubled this
role with Nakar to Mrs. James's Damilcar,
the two astral spirits of the Incantation
Scene in Act IV., an episode whose exquisite
if fantastic lyricism met with some terrible
parody in ' The Rehearsal.'
In 1670 Mrs. Boutell played Aurelia in
Joyner's ' The Roman Empress,' J and the
same year she appears in ' The Conquest of
Granada ' as Benzayda, the gentle daughter
of old Selin, a pleasing character. In the
spring of 1671 she acted Christina, with
Kynaston as her jealous lover Valentine, in
Wycherley's witty ' Love in a Wood.' Circa
May of that year she is cast for Semena in
Corye's ' The Generous Enemies,' an undis-
tinguished piece, to which she spoke a good
epilogue. 1671 also saw a revival of Fletcher's
fine tragedy ' The Double Marriage.' The
probable cast was : Virolet, Hart ; Duke of
Sesse, Mohun ; Ascanio, Kynaston ; Juliana,
Mrs. Boutell ; Martia, Mrs. Marshall.
On Jan. 25, 1672, the Theatre Royal was
destroyed by fire, and Killigrew's actors
* Pepys saw ' The Wild-Goose Chase,' Jan. 1 1
1668. He speaks of it as " a famous play," and
from his account it had obviously been revived
several years before.
t E.g., by Saintsbury in his life of Dryden»
" English Men of Letters."
J Possibly this tragedy was even pr. duced in
the late winter of 1669.
were glad to take refuge in the Lincoln's Inu
Fields Theatre, which the Duke of York's
company had vacated for their new theatre
in Dorset Gardens.* In 1672 there was
produced at Lincoln's Inn Fields one of
Dryden's best comedies, ' Marriage a la
Mode,' in which Mrs. Boutell played the
superb coquette Melantha. ' Philaster ' and
' The Maiden Queen ' were also revived ,
both " all by women." Mrs. Boutell, " in
man's clothes," spoke the prologue to the
latter comedy, whilst the epilogue was de-
livered by Dryden's mistress, Anne Reeve,
likewise " in man's clothes." Prologue and
epilogue, from the Laureate's pen, were
printed the same year in ' Covent Garden
Drollery.' Although it is obvious that these
actresses played male parts on that occasion,
it would be purely conjectural to assign them
any two out of the three male characters in.
' The Maiden Queen.' For some unaccount-
able reason ' The Assignation ; or, Love in a
Nunnery,' which was produced the same
year, failed. Mrs. Boutell acted Laura.
In 1673 she had a first-rate comic char-
acter, Mrs. Margery Pinchwife in Wycher-
ley's brilliant ' The Country Wife,' which ,
being produced with an all-star cast, won the
triumphant success so fine a masterpiece
amply deserved. In the New Exchangef
scene Mrs. Boutell delighted the house by
appearing as a boy, Mrs. Pinchwife visiting
the Exchange disguised as her brother, little
Sir James, in order to save herself whilst
sight -seeing from the gallantries of the town
sparks, a ruse which has little or no effect,
Circa November of the same year Mrs.
Boutell played Alcinda in Duffet's riming
comedy ' The Spanish Rogue.' Early in
1674, perhaps January, she sustained Fidelia
in ' The Plain Dealer,' a " breeches " role
from start to finish. In February of the
same year she acted Clara in Duffet's ' The
Amorous Old Woman.' At the beginning of
the play Clara dresses as a boy, and calls her-
self Infortunio, " a shepherd's son in Sicily."
This false page, who has two songs, ' If Love
enjoy'd 's the greatest Bliss ' and ' I never
shall henceforth approve,' wears male
clothes throughout most of the five acts.
" A very Pretty Youth " one of the characters
calls him. In the spring of 1675 Mrs.
Boutell appeared as Cyara, a Parthian
princess, mistress of Britannicus, in Lee's
* For views of this theatre, both interior and
exterior, see the copperplates illustrating Settle's
' The Empress of Morocco,' quarto, 1673.
f The New Exchange was a kind of bazaar on
the south side of the Strand. It continued popu-
lar until the reign of Queen Anne.
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' Nero, Emperor of Rome.' In the late
suit um n she acted in Lee's heroic tragedy
' Sophonisba,' sustaining the languishing
Rosalinda, " a Roman lady, Mistress of
Hannibal," to the Hannibal of Mohun. In
the winter of the same year she played
Bellinganna in Sir Francis Fane's capa y
espada comedy, ' Love in the Dark.' In
January, 1677, she acted Clarona in Crowne's
heroic tragedy in two parts, ' The Destruction
of Jerusalem.' Clarona, the daughter of the
High Priest, has in this effective drama for
lover a Parthian king, Phraates. This hero
was sustained by Hart. Kynaston played
Titus, and Mrs. Marshall Berenice. The same
year Mrs. Bout ell was cast for Glorianda in
Chamberlayne's tragi-comedy, ' Wits led by
the Nose.'
In 1677 also she created what was
perhaps her most famous role, Statira in
Lee's superb tragedy ' The Rival Queens ;
or, Alexander the Great.' Alexander was
Hart ; Clytus, Mohun ; Hephestion, Clark ;
C'assander, a conspirator, Kynaston ; Statira,
Mrs. Bout ell ; and Roxana, Mrs. Marshall.
" The original Rival Queens," says Da vies,
" Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Bout ell, were much
celebrated." Although, after the retirement
of Hart and Mrs. Marshall, Cardell Goodman,
Mount fort, and Betterton himself all played
Alexander to the Roxana of Mrs. Barry, none
of them was able to approach the original
representatives of those two roles. Curll's
' History of the Stage ' has a celebrated
anecdote in regard to Lee's tragedy : —
" Once at the acting the last scene of this Play
Mrs. Barry wounded Mrs. Boulel (who first played
the Part of Statira) the Occasion of which I shall
here relate. It happened these Two Persons
before they had appeared to the Audience, un-
fortunately had some Dispute about a Veil which
Mrs. Boviel, by the Partiality of the Property -Man,
obtained ; this offending 'the haughty Roxana,
they had warm Disputes behind the Scenes, which
spirited the Rivals with such a natural Resentment
to each other, they were so violent in performing
their Parts, and acted with such Vivacity, that
S In lira on hearing the King was nigh, begs the
Gods to Jtelp her for that Moment ; on which
Ho.rana hastening the designed Blow, struck with
such Force, that tho' the Point of the Dagger was
blunted, it made way through Mrs. BoideVs staves,
a nd entered about a Quarter of an Inch in the
Flesh.
" This Accident made a great Bustle in the
House, and alarmed the Town ; many different
Stories were told ; some affirmed Mrs. Barry was
jealous of Mrs. Boutel and Lord Rochester, which
made them suppose she did it with Design to
destroy her ; but by all that could be discovered
on the strictest Examination of both Parties, it
was only the Veil these two Ladies contended for,
and Mrs. Barry being warm with Anger, in her
Part she struck the Dagger with less caution than
at other times."
The satires of the day spefk in broad terms
of Mrs. Boutell's amours, many and free,,
and there is little doubt that the veil was a
pretext, and jealousj' of some admirer lured
from her mercenary toils nerved Mrs. Barry's
arm. A somewhat similar anecdote is
related of George Ann Bellamy and Peg
Woffington whilst acting in the same play.
Angered at two gorgeous dresses that Bellamy
had procured from Paris wherein to act
Statira, Roxana in the assassination scene
fairly rolled her rival in the dust, tore her
fine clothes, and pommelled her soundly with
the handle of her dagger.
Circa November, 1677, Mrs. Bout ell acted
the Princess Matilda in Ravenscroft's ' King
Edgar and Alfreda.' The following February
she played Cellida in ' Trick for Trick,'
D'Urfey's lively alteration of ' Monsieur
Thomas.' About March she created Se-
mandra in Lee's ' Mithridates, King of
Pontus.' In 1677-8 she was the original
Cleopatra to the Antony of Hart in Dryden's
magnificent tragedy ' All for Love.' la
1677-8 also Mrs. Bout ell acted Marcellina
in a version of Rochester's alteration of
' Valentinian.' Hart was the Emperor,
and Mrs. Marshall Lucina.*
During the following three years grave
internal dissensions and material changes at
the Theatre Royal came to a head in open,
strife, difficulties which were not finally
settled until the union of the two theatres,,
on which event the Duke's Company mi-
grated from Dorset Gardens to Drury Lane.
Here the amalgamated companies opened
Nov. 16, 1682. After the union Mrs.
Boutell's name infrequently occurs.
.In February, 1687, Mrs. Bout ell played
Mrs. Termagant in Shadwell's highly ap-
plauded ' The Squire of Alsatia.' Circa
March, 1688, she acted Aurelia to the
Cocklebrain of Nokes in D'Urfey's ' A Fool's
Preferment ; or, The Three Dukes of
Dunstable,' which, although a mere adapta-
tion of Fletcher's ' The Noble Gentleman,'
is by no means deserving of Sir George
Etheredge's bitter censure. In the spring
of the following year she created in Shad-
well's ' Bury Fair ' a good character, Mrs.
Fantast the precieuse, who, however, owes
her existence to Moliere. Circa February,
1690, she was seen as Lady Credulous in
Crowne's unworthy satire ' The English
Friar.'
About 1694 fresh quarrels broke out
in the theatre. The patentees unwisely
* The veteran Wintershal, who played Maxi-
mus, died in July, 1679.
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Tjegan to cut down salaries, and more un-
wisely still tried to shelve some of the most
distinguished and best-paid members of the
-company. The consequence was that Bet t er-
ton, with a strong following, seceded, and on
March 25, 1695, a licence was granted him to
perform in a theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
Here in the winter of the same year Mrs.
Bout ell played one of her favourite
*' breeches " roles, Constantia in Granville's
witty ' The She Gallants.' In the early
spring of 1696 she appeared as Semanthe,
Queen of Cyprus, in Powell's robustious
' The Treacherous Brothers.' About March
she acted Thomyris, the Scythian queen in
Banks' s ' Cyrus the Great.' The same year
we find her cast as Dowdy, Squire Wouldbe's
wife, in ' She Ventures and He Wins.'*
Dogget, the famous low comedian, played
Wouldbe. She also acted Clare in Harris's
' The City Bride,' an indifferent alteration of
Webster's 'A Cure for a Cuckold,' which
met with scant success. After 1696 Mrs.
Boutell's name is not found. For nearly a
decade her appearances had become less and
less frequent, and she retired before the
spring of 1697. She was moderately wealthy,
and lived many years more in comfort and
ease. " Besides what she saved by Playing,
the Generosity of some happy Lovers enabled
her to quit the Stage before she grew old."
The date of her dea+h is unknown.
MONTAGUE SUMMERS.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE,
ENFIELD :
: DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR
AXD BOTANIST:
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.
(See ante, p. 361.)
II. DR. ROBERT UVEDALE. (PART I.)
THERE is an excellent biographical account
of Dr. Robert Uvedale contributed by Mr.
G. S. Boulger to The Journal of Botany
(1891), vol. xxix. N.S., in which full refer-
ences are made to Robinson's ' History of
Enfield ' ; Hutchins's ' History of Dorset ' ;
the late Mr. Granville Leveson - Gower's
' Notices of the Family of Uvedale,' in vol. iii.
of the ' Surrey Archaeological Collections '
(1865); and other authorities.
We learn that lie was born on May 25,
1642, his baptismal entry at St. Margaret's,
Westminster, being set out in full in the late
* Anon. The preface is signed " Ariadne."
Rev. Mackenzie Walcott's ' Memorials of
Westminster' (1849, p. 158), as follows:
" 1642. May 31. Robert Uvdale, son to
Robert, baptized." It is stated that his
father was of St. Margaret's, died in 1683,
and that he had two sons besides the
botanist — one who died young ; and the other,
Thomas, born in 1650, is said to have been
the author of ' The Memoirs of Philip de
Comines,' in 2 vols., published in 1712. I
find that the title-page ascribes this book to
" Mr. Uvedale " ; and in the list of sub-
scribers appear the names of " Robert
Uvedale, LL.D.," and of other members of
the family. His mother's name is given as
Margaret, but it is not stated what her
maiden name was.
Mr. Robinson in his ' History of Enfield,'
as we have seen, states that Uvedale took
possession of the old Manor House about
1660 for the purposes of his new school,
which he afterwards carried on there under
flourishing conditions, he being at that time
master of the Grammar School at Enfiek1,
founded just at the end of Queen Mary's
reign.
I think Mr. Robinson must be mistaken as
to this having taken place at so early a date.
Indeed, all that is known of Uvedale' s
scholastic career precludes the possibility of
this. He was elected a scholar of Trin. Coll.,
Camb., on April 29, 1659, from Westminster
School, his name being then registered as
" Robert Udall " (see ' List of Queen's
Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster,'
collected by Jos. Welch, new edition, 1852).
At Westminster he was a pupil of the
celebrated Dr. Busby ; and during his school
career there it is recorded of him that at
the funeral of Oliver Cromwell in 1658 he
snatched one of the escutcheons from the
bier of the Protector, which, framed and with
a Latin inscription recording the circum-
stances of its capture, was preserved in the
family at least till 1794* (see Gent. Mag.,
vols. Ixii. 114; Ixiv. 197). When he
graduated as B.A. in 1662 his name seems
to have been entered as " Uvedall " (see
Luard's ' Graduati Cantabrigienses,' where
his sons and grandsons appear as " Uve-
dale").
* Since I wrote the above Mr. Algernon Ashton,
a lineal descendant, on the female side, of the
botanist, has informed me that he himself saw the
escutcheon — about the year 1885 — when in the
possesfcion of the late Rev. Washbourne West, then
Bursar of Lincoln College, Oxford, who was also a
descendant, in the same line, of Dr. Robert Uvedale.
He believes that it is still in the keeping of a
member of the family.
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385-
I have not had the opportunity of con-
sulting the original authorities upon which
Luard makes this statement, but I have in
my possession a receipt dated Aug. 3, 1667,
in Uvedale's handwriting — which was given
to me by my friend who accompanied me to
Enfield, and who obtained it, I understood,
from one of the former governors of the
Grammar School — which purports to be an
acknowledgment of the receipt of 101
" due for teaching the school " from the
previous Christmas to Midsummer of that
year, and in which the signature is unmistak-
ably " R. Udall." At that period the inter-
changeability of the u and the v was un-
doubtedly very common. Perhaps some
Cambridge correspondent of ' N. & Q.' would
kindly verify Luard's statement as to this.
"He was elected a Fellow of Trinity in 1664,
tirst as a Divinity and afterwards as a Law
Fellow. This latter fellowship he obtained,
it is said, in competition with Mr. (afterwards
Sir) Isaac Newton, mention of which is
made in Hutchins (iii. p. 148), and I have
myself referred to it in ' N. & Q.' (11 S.
i. 434). He proceeded M.A. in 1666, relin-
quishing his fellowship some years later on
his marriage with Mary Stephens, grand-
daughter of Sir Matthew Hale, L.C.J. of the
King's Bench. She was born in 1656, and
died in 1740.
Mr. Boulger, in citing from Mr. Leveson-
Gower's work as to the different ways of
spelling the botanist's name, accepts his
solution of " Uvedale " as being the correct
one, and states that the record of the name
can be traced back to the thirteenth century.
For this descent is claimed through the Dorset
branch of the Uvedale family, a cadet of the
Hants and, still earlier, the Surrey branches ;
whilst the original home would appear to
have been East Anglia, as the name itself
would rather suggest.
Robert Uvedale's grandfather is said to
have been Richard Uvedale, a younger
brother of Sir William Uvedale of Horton,
co. Dorset. This claim appears in the
pedigree of the Uvedale family of Horton,
contained in the second edition of Hutchins's
' Dorset,' vol. ii. p. 503 (1803), which pedigree,
indeed, together with a full account of his
family, appears to have been contributed by
the Rev. Robert Uvedale, M.A., of Trin. Coll.,
Camb., and Vicar of Fotherby, co. Lincoln,
great-grandson of the botanist, to whom the
editors of that edition expressed their
acknowledgment.
It has been suggested that Richard Gough,
the eminent antiquary, who lived at Enfield,
had some part in the compilation of this
pedigree. Inasmuch as he was one of the-
editors of that edition, and probably a friend
of the family, this is quite possible. The-
first edition of Hutchins, in two volumes
only (1774), contains no reference to any
Uvedale pedigree. This pedigree, repro-
duced in the third edition, is, I am afraid,,
faulty in many respects ; and I have strong
grounds for believing that Richard UVedale,.
the alleged grandfather of the botanist, died
without issue. This belief is confirmed by
the fact that Mr. Leveson-Gower, in his more
recent and full account of the pedigree of the-
Dorset Uvedales, published some few years
ago in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica,,
accords no issue to Richard Uvedale's
marriage with Joane, daughter of Robert
White of Weymouth. If this be so, the
Westminster and Enfield UVedales must find
some other Dorset scion through which to
trace their ancestry. My own idea, formed
so far without any real investigation or-
research, is that they may represent a
branch which was left behind in the south-
western migration from East Anglia in the
late thirteenth century. For it is there — in
Lincolnshire and in Suffolk — that we find
the descendants of the old botanist — now
themselves, I believe, extinct in the male
line — continuing until well within the last
century, and being the last of them, so far-
as I know, to bear the name spelt and
pronounced as " Uvedale."
But, be this as it may, it is scarcely a
subject that I can pursue further in the-
restricted pages of ' N. & Q.,' but is one
rather for the freer and wider scope afforded
by some Dorset or other genealogical or-
antiquarian publication.
It is not clear when Uvedale first came-
to Enfield, and in what capacity. Local
historians have stated that it was between
1663 and 1665, and that it probably was on
his appointment as master of the Grammar-
School there. Mr. Boulger suggests that the
fact that the advowson of Enfield was in
the possession of his college probably
directed his attentiontp the place, and that
almost on first going*fTiere he took a lease
of the Manor House, commonly called Queen
Elizabeth's Palace, in order to supplement
nis salary as master of the Grammar School.
That he was certainly there at the outbreak.
of the Great Plague of London in 1665 is
shown by the precautions that he appears to
lave taken in order to prevent his scholars
ncurring the infection, namely, by pouring'
vinegar upon red-hot bricks, and causing
hem to inhale the rising vapour by way of a
ebrifuge or disinfectant. By this means,.
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•we are told, lie succeeded in keeping the
plague from invading the school. What
scholars were these ? It would seem to me
more likely that he so acted in loco parentis
towards the pupils of his own private school
at the old Palace rather than at the
Grammar School, where, probably, few, if
any, of them were boarders.
What evidence is there that Uvedale ever
was appointed master of the Grammar School
at Enfield ? His name occurs in Mr. Robin-
son's list of masters of the school, which he
gives at p. 188 of vol. ii. of his book, though
no date is afforded of his appointment ; but
there is a long note of his family, taken
from Hutchins and elsewhere. Reference
is made (p. 169) to a deed of feoffment, dated
Sept. 1, 1621, under which the school appears
to have been reorganized — the revenues
being derived from land — and a salary of
20Z. was provided for the
" maintenance of a learned, meet and competent
schoolmaster to keep a free school for the teaching
and instructing of children of all the inhabitants
of the parish in the new built schoolhouse."
The master would appear to have resided in
the schoolhouse. The salary seems to have
remained at this figure until 1810, when it
was raised to 100Z., and an usher at 401. a
year was appointed, with an additional
gratuity. This was the amount in Mr.
Robinson's time, when a Mr. Milne was the
master.
The first master mentioned was one Brad-
shawe, in 1600, at a salary of 20Z. per annum.
Richard Ward was master at the time of the
deed of 1621, and continued master until
1647. Then appears William Holmes, who
died in 1664 ; and, later, Wilh'am Xelson,
clerk, appointed in 1676. The interval be-
tween these two might well be accounted for
by Uvedale's mastership. That this latter
date would denote his severance with the
Grammar School is confirmed by Mr.
Robinson's note on Uvedale (p. 189), in
"which it is stated that legal proceedings took
place in 1676 upon a dispute between him
and some of the parishioners of Enfield ;
when it was made a master of accusation that
lie had neglected the children of the free
school and deserted the schoolhouse, having
taken a large mansion to accommodate
numerous boarders. Uvedale appears to
have got the better of his opponents, and was
honourably reinstated in the school from
which he had been ejected by some of the
feoffees. This, however, could not have
been for long, if William Nelson was ap-
pointed master in that year. There is
-another note by Mr. Robinson (p. 170) where,
after referring to the deed of feoffment of
1621, he states that " Dr. Uvedale was
appointed schoolmaster at this time, and is
nentioned in the deed by name as such." I
nave not seen the deed, but there must be
some mistake here, as Uvedale was not even
born at that time ; and if the name of any
master of the school was mentioned in that
locum ent, it would rather be that of the
jontemporary one, Richard Ward.
That Uvedale did actually receive the
salary granted under the deed of 1621 is
lear from the terms of the receipt which I
liave already mentioned as being in my
possession. It runs as follows : —
August 3d 1667
Received then of Mr. Wilford
the sum of ten pounds due for
Teaching the school fro Xmas* [
to Midsummer last past
p. m.
R. UDALL )
I think, therefore, we must take it that
Uvedale was both master of the Grammar
School and of the Palace school, though at
first I was inclined to think that the converse
of Mr. Boulger's suggestion was the more
likely, and that Uvedale may have devoted
some of his spare time from his own private
school to lecturing or " teaching " at the
Grammar School, of which Mr. Wilford
(from whom -he received his salary) might
have been the master, instead of, in all
probability, the clerk to, or one of, the
feoffees. For although Goldsmiths vicar
may have considered himself as " passing
rich with forty pounds a year," yet I could
hardly imagine a Fellow of Trinity, Cam-
bridge, being content with half that sum !
But at that time, of course, he had his
fellowship to fall back upon until such time
as the success of his own school enabled
him to forego it and to marry ; which event
probably occurred not long after he left the
Grammar School (as it would appear) in
1676.
That the Palace school under Uvedale's
mastership soon became a flourishing in-
situation and was of a high-class character
we can gather from the names of some of the
pupils who are said to have been educated
there, namely, Theophilus. Earl of Hunting-
don ; Robert, Viscount Kilmorey ; Sir
Jeremy Sambroke ; William Sloane, and
another nephew of Sir Hans Sloane (Sloane
MS. 4064).
* This is interesting, as showing that in the
middle of the seventeenth century this form of
contraction for the word " Christmas," so common
at the present time, was in use.
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387
The date of his marriage to Mary Stephens
and consequent relinquishment of his fellow-
Ship at Trinity is not given, but it was
probably, as I have said, not long prior to
1679 ; for althotigh no dates are given of the
birth of any of his children in the pedigree in
Hutchins, I have been able to obtain that
information from another source — to which
I will refer later, and from which it is clear
that none of his numerous family was born
before that year.
In 1682 he took the degree of LL.D. at
Cambridge ; and in 1696 his friend and
neighbour at Enfield, Archbishop Tillotscn,
presented him to the rectory of Orpington in
Kent, together with the chapelry of St. Mary
Cray. This appointment, apparently, did
not involve any obligation of residence.
Uvedale continued to li/e at Enfield,
where he died on Aug. 17, 1722, and was
buried in the parish church of St. Andrew,
the year after his son, Robert Uvedale, D.D.
— also a Fellow of Trin. Coll., Camb. — had
been appointed to the vicariate there, a
college living.
Mr. Boulger states that on a recent visit
to Enfiejd he could find no monument to the
botanist then in existence. This may be
accounted for by the fact that, according to
the statement of his great-grandson — the
last of the Robert Uvedales, and author of
the pedigree in Hutchins — his " hatch-
ment " had been removed to I^angton Church,
co. Lincoln. This probably was on the
occasion when the botanist's grandson, the
third Robert Uvedale — also a Fellow of
Trin. Coll., Camb., and D.D. of that Uni-
versity— was presented to the living of
Langton by Bennet Langton, Esq., of that
parish, whose daughter Diana, the sister of
Bennet Langton the younger, the friend of
Dr. Johnson — as to whose sisters inquiry was
recently made in ' N. & Q.' (11 S. xii. 342)—
this Robert Uvedale married.
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
Inner Temple.
(To be continued.)
THE LADY GODIVA AND THE
COUNTESS LUCY.
THE pedigree of the Countess has been a
great puzzle to genealogists, who have even
suggested — to get over the chronological
difficulties — that there were two Lucys,
mother and daughter. They never seem to
have suspected that a father and a daughter,
orn in his old age, could so upset reasonable
ates as they do. There are, however, well-
authenticated instances in modem times.
In the following pedigree suggested dates of
birth are given in parentheses, which clearly
show that such was the case in regard to the
Countess, and nearly all the difficulties
vanish.
The Coventry legend is not unlike the
daring freak of an old widower's lively,
charming, and impulsive young wife, acting
more in opposition to her husband's wishes
than even from a desire to show her sympathy
with the townsfolk. This may have hap-
pened in the very year Earl Leofric died
(1057), leaving by her a young child named
Lucy, or Lucy may have been born even
some months later. The Earl's son, and
perhaps some unrecorded daughters, by a
former wife, were evidently, by a study of
dates, already grown up. On the other
hand, Lucy must have been last a mother as
late as 1095.
The statement that she was the daughter
of Earl Algar — made by the forged ' Ingulph '
-. — is untenable^ because a sister of Harold's
Queen was hardly likely to remain unre-
corded, in some chronicle at least.
This was written before I had seen the
late Chancellor Ferguson's most interesting
' History of Cumberland,' but he adopted the
two Lucy theory.
Dr. Round has shown that Thorold of
Lincoln, as sheriff, was living 1076-9, as
limited by the other witnesses to the docu-
ment quoted (' Feudal England,' p. 329).
Ivon, it appears, gave the church of
Spalding to the Abbey of St. Nicholas at
Angers for the souls of King William and
Queen Matilda, himself, his wife Lucy, and
the ancestors of Thorold, namely, his
wife's — a statement which seems to confirm
her being a daughter of Thorold's sister
Godiva, at least if he had only one.
In November, 1088, Rufus instructed
Ivon Tailbois and Ernes de Burun to take
possession of Durham Castle — the bishop
having been exiled — which they did on
14th inst., according to Simeon. In 1090,
if we may trust the date to his charter,
Rufus summoned the bishops and magnates
to meet him at Lincoln. Ranulf Meschin
and Ivon both witnessed it (' Moil. Angl.,'
vi. 1270). The King was considering
how he could best deal with the lawless
condition of Cumberland and reduce it to
peace and order. He first arranged, for
safe communication with Richmond Castle
and York, two ward -baronies. One was
Kentdale ; the other and more important one,
the route of the Roman road from York to
Carlisle. The former he entrusted to Ivon
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pEarl Leofric (995),=
d. 31 Aug., 1057.
pGodiva (1040),
sister of
Thorold, sheriff
of Lincoln.
Thorold, sheriff
of Lincoln,
dead 1086.
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uncle of
Lucy.
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uncle of Lucy
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a countess
1119,
d. about 1141;
if so, set. 84.
=(2) Roger fitz=
Gerold de
Roumare,
d. c. 1094.
p[3) Ranulf Meschin,
Earl of Chester
1119,
d. 1129.
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arl Algytha, =
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of
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^Beatrix William de Ranulf, Ea
(1075). Roumare Chestei
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Earl of d. 17 Kal. J
Lincoln. 1153.
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Alfred,
nepos
Toroldi,,
1086.
Radulf fitz Ribald
of Middleham,
v. 1154.
Gilbert son of=pGodith
Ketel, (Godiva).
son of Eldred.
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*
and the latter to Ranulf Meschin. Rufus
seems to have made it a condition that they
should give the churches to St. Mary's Abbey
at York, in which he was taking great interest
at that time, and this they both did.
It was not until 1092 that the King with
a large army got to Carlisle, repaired the
city and the castle, and left a garrison under
the command of Ranulf. This is the last we
hear of Ivon, as the romance of ' Ingulph,'
written two centuries after, cannot be
trusted. He was either declared a traitor
and managed to escape abroad or, more
likely, died, because very shortly after
Lucy is found to be already the wife of
Ranulf Meschin at Carlisle. Yet in this
short interval she had married and lost her
second husband, Roger fitzGerold, by whom
she had a son, afterwards Earl of Lincoln.
At last, in 1119, she herself became a
Countess, her husband having succeeded to
the Earldom of Chester.
Ivon left by Lucy a daughter and heiress,
Beatrix, whose heirs for several generations
held the barony of Kendal. Ribald of
Middleham, her husband, it is stated in a
contemporary document, " gave the church
of ' Optone ' to Spalding fifteen years before
he gave the manor with his daughter to
Gilbert." This was undoubtedly Gilbert,
the son of Ketel, son of Eldred. Yet the
Cartulary of St. Mary's at York made a
strange error by making Eldred the son of
Ivon ! This was copied into another Cartu-
lary, and adopted by the historians of
Westmorland, even the last, Mr. Ferguson.
"Chetel," son of Eldred, was the most
influential thane in Cumberland, and we
find him soon after giving the churches of
Workington and Corby to St. Mary's Abbey,,
with lands in both places.
We learn from a charter of Gilbert that his
wife was named Godith, so after her great-
grandmother. Godith was the Norman for
Godgifu, as Edith was for Eadgifu, but very
rarely occurs.
The Coventry legend is called by the late
Prof. Freeman (' Old English History,"
p. 278) " a silly story," but as Godiva is
always called " Lady," not " Countess " —
a title unknown before Norman times — this
fact is suggestive of the story being much,
older than is suspected. A. S. ELLIS.
Westminster.
JOHN CTJRWEN. — The centenary of the
birth of John Curwen, founder of the Tonic
Sol-Fa Association, will be fittingly celebrated
this year, so it may not be out of place to
record a few words concerning this notable
man in ' X. & Q.'
John Curwen was born at Heckmondwiker
Yorkshire, Nov. 14, 1816. He was educated
at Coward College and fniversity College,
London. In 1 838 he became an Independent
minister, and soon afterwards his attention
was drawn to the subject of teaching singing
to children in his Sunday school. He
visited Miss Glover's School at Norwich in
1841, and, having tried her system, he
devoted the remainder of his life to its
12 s. IL NOV. 11, i9i6.ii NOTES AND QUERIES.
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development. From 1844 to 1865 he was
pastor of the Congregational Church,
Plaistow, Essex. In 1862 he founded the
Tonic Sol-Fa College, and in 1865 established
the Tonic Sol-Fa Press at Plaistow.
John Curvven died at Upton, Essex,
May 26, 1880, and was buried in the City of
London Cemetery-, Ilford. His grave may
be found by proceeding through the main
entrance directly to the chapel, and then
taking the path which bears to the right —
it is soon observed in a secluded nook on the
left, near the eastern boundary of the
cemetery. An obelisk of polished red granite
about fourteen feet high makes an imposing
monument, its beauty being greatly en-
hanced by a background of trees and
shrubs. It is thus inscribed : —
In affectionate remembrance of
John Curwen,
Born November 14, 1816, Died May 26, 1880,
who developed and promoted
The Tonic Sol-Fa Method
of teaching music.
" Let the people praise Thee, O God, let all the
people praise Thee."
And of his loving wife
Mary Curwen,
Born March 24, 1820, Died Jan. 17, 1880.
" They were lovely and pleasant in their livesi
and in their death they were not divided."
This stone is erected by their children.
Mr. John Spencer Curwen, who succeeded
his father as President of the Tonic Sol-Fa
Association, died, aged 69, at 6 Portland
Place, W., on Aug. 6 last. He was born at
Plaistow, Sept. 30, 1847. Mr. J. S. Curwen
was for some vears an occasional contributor
to 'N. & Q/ (See 10 S. xii. 313, sub v.
' Wm. Gush.') JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire.
A PRIZE AT TBINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,
IN 1789. — At the beginning of a copy of
" C. Cornelii Taciti Opera .... Glasguae :
1753," there is a printed form worded as
follows : —
" Ingenup magnseque spei AUOLESCENTI Arthur
Perry Sociorum Commensali Procter insignes in
ARTIBCS progressus in CLASSE tertid Premium hoc
literarium dederunt PR.*;POSITUS et Socii Seniores
Collegii sacrosanctse & individuae Trinitatis juxta
DUBLIN Examinatione habita init.io Termini Paxchm
A.D. 1189. Quod tester J. Waller Profr Prio."
I have put in italic the words inserted by the
pen. At the top of this testimonial there is
the seal of the said " Coll. sancta; in-
dividuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. juxta
Dublin," The seal is also stamped upon the
binding on both sides.
EDWARD S. DODGSON.
EARL'S COURT, A LONDON SUBURB. —
" Earle's Court in Middlesex " is carefully
described in an advertisement in The Daily
Courant for July 5, 1712, as " situated be-
twixt Kensington and Little Chelsea, and
3 Miles from London, in a very good Air."
The latter fact seems to have been vouched
for by the fact that included in some
property to be sold there are " an Orangeree
and above 100 Orange-Trees in Tubs."
Something like forty years later it was still
felt necessary carefully to define the location,
for in an advertisement of " Hull's
Academy " in The General Advertiser of
Feb. 3, 1749/50, it was described as
" At the Great House, in Earl's Court, situated
between Knightsbridge, Kensington, Hammer-
smith and Chelsea."
The proprietor, it may be noted, was a
worthy predecessor of Mr. Wackford Squeers
in the art of alluringly advertising a boarding
school. His floridity of style even exceeded
that of his later rival, while his cheapness
could not be gainsaid, for, declaring himself
satisfied with moderate profits for his offered
advantages, he announced his
" resolve henceforth to take Young Gentlemen
at Ten Guineas a Year for Boarding and Instruct-
ing them in all Particulars."
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
SUBSTITUTES FOR PILGRIMAGE. — I remem-
ber having seen it suggested, in some work
which I have now forgotten, that a visit to the
Stations of the Cross — particularly the early
reproductions of the Via Dolorosa at Jeru-
salem set up at Louvain, Nuremberg, and
other Continental cities — was allowed as a
substitute for the greater pilgrimage to the
Holy Land. Indeed, if I rightly recollect,
the writer stated that the Stations of the
Cross were introduced into Europe for that
express purpose.
Further, it was said that the following-out
of the mazes or labyrinths, examples of
which are yet to be found in some Continental
churches, constructed in parti - coloured
marbles on some portion of the floor of the
church, and called in France Chemins de
Jerusalem, was also reckoned as a simple
substitute for a longer pilgrimage. I should
be much indebted to any one who can
confirm this, and supply me with further
information on the subject. COLET.
390
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IRISH ( VOLUNTEER) CORPS c. 1780. — Can
any reader give me information about the
following corps : ( 1 ) The Killarney Indepen-
dent Light Horse; (2) The Tipperary Light
Horse ; (3) The Tipperary Light Infantry ?
They appear to have been independent
Irish Volunteer Corps, and to have existed
about 1782, but not to have had official
recognition, as I cannot trace them in any
Army Lists of the period.
S. G. EVERITT, Major.
New Barracks, Lincoln.
COLOURED BOOK-WRAPPERS. — Is anything
being done by librarians to preserve the
coloured paper wrappers which now enclose
cloth-bound books, notably novels ? Some
of them are admirably drawn and reproduced
in colour, and often constitute the sole
illustration of a volume. In rebinding a book
I have adopted the method of getting the
front cloth cover or back pasted on to the
inside of the back board, but so far have not
tackled the preservation of the paper cover.
J. M. BULLOCH.
MAYORAL TRAPPINGS . — In which boroughs
in the United Kingdom do mayors wear a
scarf, stole, or tippet of office, and of what
material is it made ? E. BEAUMONT.
Brinsop Grange, Oxford.
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEAD-TANK LET-
TERING.— Can any one explain
B
F S
on a solid lead tank dated 1716, 45 in. long
and 30 in. high, with a blazing phoenix over
a crown twice stamped on it ? The side
with all this on it is also much ornamented.
It is believed that there are other specimens
of the same work and nature in Gray's Inn
and Lincoln's Inn Gardens. This one is in
a private gentleman's garden at Hampstead.
H. C— N.
[Our correspondent has sent us a drawing of this
tank, which we shall be glad to forward to any one
who will undertake to return it.]
' THE CHELTENHAM GUIDE.' — Who was
the author ? It reads like Anstey in « The
New Bath Guide,' and the author's intent
is to carry the characters from Bath to
Cheltenham. XYXOGRAPHER.
THE SIR WILLIAM PERKINS SCHOOL,
CHERTSEY. — Is there any biography, or pedi-
gree, of this founder ? *I see that Sir Albert
Rollit recently discovered that Sir William
had no crest or arms — an unusual thing for a
man in his position — and consequently the
school governors are considering what is to
be done about his supposed arms on the
school. What are these ? What is called
" the Prussian eagle " figures in them. As "an
eagle displayed " appears in the coat of the
old armigerous family of the same name, of
Orton Hall, Leicestershire, he may have
been thought to belong to it. One member
of this family was Sir William Perkins,
mentioned at US. ix. 25, who was born
1638, and was executed for high treason,
1696. CHARLES S. KING, Bt.
St. Leonards-on-Sea.
RIGHT HON. SIR ANDREW RICHARD SCOBLE,
K.C.S.I., K.C.— He died on Jan. 1 of this
year. Born in London (1831), he was the
second son of John Scoble (the name is
apparently also found as Scobell), of Kings-
bridge, Devon, sometime member of the
Provincial Parliament of Canada. Where
could I find a pedigree of this family ?
J. E. D. HILL, General.
THIRLWALL, 1536, CHAPLAIN TO QUEEN
ANNE BOLEYN. — What is known of him ?
What was his Christian name ? He is said
to be the author of an account of her last
days, printed at Antwerp in 1547. What is
the title of this book, and where may a copy
be seen ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
" JOHN PRINE, 1568." — Who was the man
who left this inscription in the Beauchamp
Tower of the Tower of London, with the
addition : Verbum Domini manet ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
AUTHORS WANTED. — A French lady asked
her correspondent at what age the education
of her child should begin. The sage asked
the age of her infant. The answer was, let
us say, three. " Then, madam," he replied,
" you have begun three years too late."
Where is this story told ? C. S.
Who wrote
Out of the stress of the doing
Into the peace of the done?
EDWARD COWARD.
17 Waterloo Place, Leamington Spa.
BIBLE AND SALT. — According to an
acquaintance of mine, between fourteen and
fifteen years ago a Lancashire man of good
position brought a Bible, and some salt also,
carefully packed, from his native county to
a house which one of his relations had taken
in Lincolnshire. The action, which was
carried out seriously, seemed to depend on
some traditional reason not clear to my
informant. The salt was put into the
kitchen. In which room the Bible was left
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is not known. Is this custom generally
observed in Lancashire or in other counties ?
Among Lancashire Roman Catholics does
any other object fill the place of the Bible ?
B. K. G.
WALTER WILSON, THE NONCONFORMIST
BIOGRAPHER. — Can any correspondent of
* N. & Q.' furnish me with particulars of
Wilson's parentage ? The ' Diet. Nat.
Biog.,' Ixii. 144, states that he was born
4 ' about 1781," but does not mention his
father's or mother's name.
G. F. R. B.
PALAVICINI FAMILY. — Can any one give
me any information respecting the ancestry
and the descendants of Francesco Palavicini,
Duca dell' Albaneto in the Kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, who married July 1, 1845, Miss
Harriet Vanneck ? F. DE H. L.
BINNESTEAD IN ESSEX. — In Noble's
* Memoirs of the Protect oral House ' the
following note occurs on p. 327 : —
"At Bower-hall, in Binnestead, in Essex, is the
original appointment of Sir Thomas Bendysh,
ambassador to the Porte, with many other writings
and pictures of that family ; in the church of Binne-
stead is a very fine monument of Sir Henry Bendish,
the last heir male, and another of his sister, Mrs.
Pike, who limited the estate with many remainders ;
several having dropped, it is now possessed by a
gentleman whose name was Bishop, but who has
changed it to Bendysh in compliance to the will of
Mrs. Pile."
Can any one identify " Binnestead " ? I
have failed to find church, post office, or
station of that name. It will be observed
Noble spells the sister's name both " Pike "
and " Pile." F.
J. T. STATON.— Who was J. T. Staton ?
He appears to have written a number of
dialect pieces. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' is
silent. J. P.
SONS OF MRS. BRIDGET BENDYSH. — Are
there any annals in which the following
points can be cleared up ? Dates of both
marriages of Thomas Bendysh. Dates of his
departure for West Indies, and death. Had
he a daughter ? Had Henry Bendysh a
daughter named Sarah ? Did either of his
sons, Thomas and George, marry ?
E. F. WILLIAMS.
10 Black Friars, Chester.
SHEPPARD OR SHEPHARD FAMILY OP
BLISWORTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. — I should
be greatly obliged for any information of
the above family, said to have owned con-
siderable property at Blisworth, and to
have been related to the Wake Baronets of
Courteenhall, of the same county. Samuel
Sheppard died at Blisworth, Oct. 22, 1759 ;
and William Rugge, Esq., of Conduit Street,
London, married Sept. 1, 1763, Mrs. Eliza-
beth Sheppard of Blisworth, and was living
there in that year. Mrs. Rugge died Aug. 27,
1768. Is there any pedigree of the Shep-
pards to be found anywhere ?
LEONARD C. PRICE
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191,
204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324,353, 364.)
Lord Cadogan's Regiment of Dragoons
(ante, p. 122).
JAMES GARDINER was lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment until made colonel of the 13th
Dragoons, April 18, 1743 ; and as such was
killed at the battle of Prestonpans, in
Scotland, Sept. 21, 1745. There is a
reference to his death in one of Scott's
romances. Col. Gardiner's sudden conver-
sion to deeply religious principles has been
often related. He m. Lady Frances Erskine,
younger dau. of the Earl of Buchan.
Sir John Whiteford became major of the
regiment, September, 1743, and lieutenant-
colonel thereof, March 9, 1745 ; and was
colonel of the 12th Dragoons, Jan. 18, 1750,
till his death in 1763 ; major-general, Jan. 19,
1758 ; lieutenant-general, 'Dec. 12, 1760.
John Dalrymple, " Captain of the Ennis-
killen Dragoons " till his death, in or about
April, 1751, fourth son of the Hon. Sir
Hew Dalrymple, 1st Bart, (a younger son of
James, 1st Viscount Stair), m. Mary, eldest
daughter of Alex. Ross of Balkaile, and left
an only son, General Sir Hew Whiteford
Dalrymple, who was created a baronet, 1815
(the third baronetcy in the family).
The captain-lieutenant of the same name
was his kinsman, John Dalrymple, second
son of Col. the Hon. Wm. Dalrymple, M.P.,
of Glenmure, and brother to Wm. Lord
Crichton of the same regiment, afterwards
4th Earl of Dumfries and Stair, and to
James, 3rd Earl of Stair. He was M.P.
Wigtown Burghs, March, 1728, to 1734, when
he was defeated and petitioned ; and d. v.p.
unm. at Newliston, Feb. 23, 1742.
William Nugent, made captain in Howard's
Foot, July, 1744 (Gent. Mag.).
Charles William Tonyn succeeded John
Dalrymple as captain-lieutenant, Aup\ist,
1742 ; and was made captain, October, 1743
(Gent. Mag.) ; major of the regiment
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(v. Whiteford), March 19, 1745 ; and suc-
- ceeded him as its lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 24,
1750, to Jan. 5, 1754. Presumably son of
Charles Tonyn, who was lieutenant 10th
Foot in 1717.
George Brodie, who was made captain-
lieutenant, October, 1743, was a kinsman
of Brigadier-General Alex. Grant through
Grant's mother (who was a Brodie), and was
made ensign in Grant's Regiment of Foot,
April 11, 1711; on half -pay, 1713; again
ensign in Grant's new Regiment of Foot,
July 22, 1715 ; and again on half -pay, 1718
to 1726. (Query, third and youngest son
of George Brodie of Brodie, co. Moray, and
brother to Alex. Brodie, who was b. Aug. 17,
1697, and was Lord Lyon King of Arms of
Scotland, 1727, till his death, 1754.)
David Chapeau became lieutenant in
the regiment, October, 1743 ; captain in
Pulteney's (13th) Foot, July, 1744 ; major,
April 5, 1757 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof,
Aug. 1, 1759, to March 17, 1761.
Li"Mt. -General Kerr's Regiment of Dragoons
(ante, p. 123).
Col. Fowke raised a new regiment, the
43rd, and was made its first colonel, Jan. 3,
1741 ; and died a lieutenant-general at Bath,
1765 (see Dalton, vi. 243). Only son of
Thomas Fowke, 4th son of Roger Fowke of
Gunston Hall, Stafford
He was succeeded as lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment by Major William Erskine
(from the 2nd Dragoons, ante, p. 85), from
Jan. 21, 1741, till he resigned, March 3, 1751,
probably by purchase, over the head of
James Agnew, who remained major till
July 23, 1748, and d. 1770. William
Erskine of Torry, co. Aberdeen, M.P.,
Perth Burghs, 1722 to 1727, was the
son of Col. William Erskine, M.P., of the
same place (who d. 1697), and wasb. May 19,
1691 ; captain 2nd Royal North British
Dragoons till made its major, March 21,
1723 ; was wounded in command of the 7th
Dragoons at Fontenoy, 1745 ; and m.
Henrietta, relict of Robert Watson of
Muirhouse, co. Edinburgh, second and
youngest daughter of William Baillie of
Lamingtoii, and had an only son, Lieut.-Gen.
Sir William Erskine, created a Baronet, 1791.
Mathew Swiney of Swillington, Yorks,
major Oct. 4, 1745, was made major of the
Duke of Montagu's new Regiment of
Carabiniers, the 9th Horse, which was
raised Oct. 22, 1745, and reduced June 21,
1746 ; and d. at Pontefract, 1766.
John Owen of Bath, second son of Sir
Arthur Owen, 3rd Bart., M.P., of Oriel ton
co. Pembroke (see ' Parl. Hist, of Wales,
1536-1895'), became ensign 3rd Foot Guards,.
Jan. 10, 1725 ; lieutenant of an additional
troop in Gore's 1st Royal Dragoons, Dec. 25,
1726; captain in Whetham's (afterwards.
12th) Foot, Aug. 25, 1730 ; captain in Kerr's
7th Dragoons, Dec. 15, 1738, till made
lieutenant-colonel of Rose's 12th Dragoons
Feb. 18, 1748, to 1760; major-general,
July 10, 1762 • lieutenant-general, May 26,
1772; colonel of the 59th Foot, Nov. 27,
1760, till he d. Dec. 29, 1775 ; M.P. for West
Looe, February, 1735, to 1741 ; m. his cousin
Anne, daughter of Charles Owen of Nash,
co. Pembroke, and was father of Sir Arthur
Owen, 7th Bart., and of Corbetta, who m.
Joseph Lord of Pembroke, and had a son,
Sir John Owen, 1st Bart., M.P.
James Legard ( ? tenth son, third son by
second wife, of Sir John Legard, 2nd Bart.,
of Ganton, Yorks).
Bernard Granville, the elder son of
Lieut.-Col. Bernard Granville of Buckland,
co. Gloucester ( Lieutenant-Go vernor of Hull,
July 20, 1711 ; M.P. for Camelford, 1710 to
1713, and Fowey, 1713 ; one of her Majesty's
Carvers ; d. 1723 ; younger brother to
George, 1st Lord Lansdowne), was ensign in
Christopher Fleming's, late Lord Slane's,
Regiment of Foot in Ireland, March 22, 1711,
till disbanded in 1712, when he was placed
on half-pay. He bought the Calwich Abbey
estate, co. Stafford, from the Fleetwoods,
and d. unm. 1775, the last male heir of his-
family.
James Shipley became lieutenant in the
regiment, August, 1743, and afterwards
captain.
John Guerin became captain, August,
1744 ; major of the regiment (vice Agnew),
July 23, 1748 ; and was its lieutenant-colonel
March 3, 1751, to May 14, 1757. His pro-
motion must have been exceptionally rapid.
He was kinsman (? son) of the Ensign
Menard Guerin who, on July 8, 1709, was
absent from Brigadier Sybourg's^ Regiment
of Foot in Spain and Portugal, " by leaver
from the Colonel. Perhaps a child "
(Dalton). He was the Maynard Guerin of
Crown Court, St. James's Park, army agent,
who was agent to the 2nd Dragoon Guards,
4th and 7th Dragoons, and 10th Foot, till
he d. Feb. 14, 1749 (Gent. Mag.), and whose-
son Maynard Guerin, also an army agent,
appointed agent to Rich's Foot, March, 1751,
d. May 7, 1760 (ante, pp. 245, 312).
Lieut. Falconer and Cornet Hoby were-
killed at Dettingen, 1743.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
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Lieut. -General Columbine's Regiment, not
Lincoln Regiment (ante, p. 246).
Lieut. George Brereton, afterwards captai
in this regiment. — His will, dated May 7
1754. was proved in the Prerogative Court
Dublin, on Nov. 15, 1758, by the executors
his niece Mary, wife of John West o
Drumdarkin, co. Leitrim, gent., and daughte
of Rev. Edward Munns, Vicar of Drumcliffe
co. Sligo, and the said John West.
Lieut.-General Clayton's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 285).
Captain-Lieut. Nicholas West, " of New
town, co. Wexford," was eldest son o
Tichborne West of Ashwood, co. Wexford
by his wife and cousin Mary, daughter o
Nicholas Ward (vide Bangor, V.), anc
grandson to Major Roger West of Bally
dugan, co. Down, and the Rock, co. Wicklow
by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry
Tichborne, P.C., Field-Marshal, in Ireland
Capt. Nicholas Westd. intestate and appar
ently s.p. in vitapatris, andadministrationo
his estate was granted out of the Prerogative
Court, Dublin, on Nov. 26, 1747, to his sister
Jane West.
Major-General Harrison's Regiment of Foo
(ante, p. 324).
Just ley Watson (?the same as Justlej
Watson, afterwards lieutenant-colonel R.E.,
elder son of Col. Jonas Watson, R.A. ; see
'Diet. Nat. Biog.').
ERSKINE E. WEST.
Brigadier Cornwallis's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 282).
John Edwards, officer in Army, d.
March 25, 1755, aged 86.
Greenwood, lieutenant-colonel, d. Sept. 20,
1748.
John Henry Bastide, lieutenant-general,
April 30, 1770 ; d. 1770.
Charles Lawrence, captain-lieutenant 54th
Foot, 1741 ; major of it, 1747 ; Lieutenant-
Governorof Nova Scotia, 1754-6 ; brigadier-
general, Dec. 3, 1757 ; commanded a brigade
at siege of Louisburg, July, 1758 ; colonel-
commandant 60th Foot, Sept. 28, 1757, to
Dec. 20, 1757 ; d. Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Oct. 17, 1760 ; monument to him in St. Paul's
Church, Halifax.
General Whetham's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 283).
John Cossley, Lieut enant-Governor of
Chelsea Hospital, July 3, 1748, to death,
Nov. 4, 1765.
Col. Pulteney's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 284).
Christopher Legard, lieutenant-colonel,,
d. Oct. 11, 1765, aged 74.
Lieut.-General Clayton's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 284).
John Severn, colonel of 8th Dragoons,.
Nov. 27, 1760, to death ; general, Nov. 20,.
1782 ; d. July 6, 1787, aged 88.
Major-General Harrison's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 324).
Henry Harrison, lieutenant-general, Feb. 1,.
1743 ; d. March, 1749.
Major-General Handasyd's Regiment of Foot
(ante, p. 324).
Roger Handasyde, general, March, 1761
d. Jan. 4, 1763.
John Mostyn, son of Sir Roger Mostynr
3rd Bart., b. 1710 ; educated Westminster
School and Christ Church, Oxford ; captain
2nd Foot Guards, 1743 ; colonel of 7th Foot,.
Jan. 26, 1751 ; of 13th Dragoons, July 8,.
1754 ; of 5th Dragoons, 1758 ; of 1st Dragoon
Guards, May 13, 1763, to his death ; M.P..
for Malton, 174 -68 ; Governor of Minorca,.
1768 ; also Governor of Chelsea Hospital,.
1768 ; general, May 26, 1772 ; d. Dover
Street, London, Feb. 16, 1779.
FREDERIC BOASE.
Ante, p. 283.
Sampson Archer, ensign, 1704 ; captain-
ieutenant, Nov. 7, 1739. Dalton's Army
Lists have the following references to
Lieut. Sampson Archer, of Colonel Skeffington's-
1-ondonderry Regiment of Foot, " The Antrim
Volunteers,'' which regiment served during the
siege, and was disbanded 1698.
1697, June 20. Cocklebury. Sampson Archer to-
>e Lieutenant to Captain James Waller in Major-
general Win. Stewart's Regiment of Foot. He-
eft the regiment, 1702.
1706, Sampson Archer, Lieutenant in the Earl
f Inchiquin's Regiment of Foot, raised in Ireland,
March, 1704, and disbanded 1712.
G. H. R.
St. Annes-on-Sea.
Ante, p. 285.
A further note to be added to (5) against
he name of " James Montresor " might be r
ee 'D.N.B.' for life of this officer.
F. M. M.
Ante, p. 324.
Major-General Handasyd. — The following:
s the inscription on the monument in.
*aines Chapel, Great Staughton, Hunting-
onshire, to the memory of this general : —
394
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. n, wie.
Here also lies the body of the
HOSIU,E. GENL. ROGER HANDASYDE,
Eldest Son of the above Thos. Handasyde, who
•died Jany. the 4th, 1763, a^ed 78. He was General-
in-Chief of all his Majesty's foot forces, was
formerly Governor of Berwick in the rebellion in
1745, who during his many years' disinterested
Service shewed his great skill in military affairs
and his zeal and attachment to the present
•Government. He died greatly lamented by all who
had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencester.
" JOBEY " OF ETON
(12 S. ii. 248, 295.)
ETONIAN readers of ' N. & Q.' will be grateful
to MB. THORNTON for his reference to the
letters which appeared in The Times during
January this year about various attendants
of the boys at Eton who were called by the
nickname " Joby " or " Jobey," but he did
not extend the list beyond that month, nor
did MR. PIERPOINT in his reply at the second
reference. I should like to add that further
letters on the same subject appeared ~i
February, and that the final and authorita-
tive one, on Feb. 10, signed A. C. A., reviewed
the whole matter under the heading ' A
Statement of Facts.' The gentleman who
wrote that letter has spent most of his life at
Eton, and probably knows as much about
the school as any man now living, and he
points out that
"" the habit adopted by Etonians since 1870 or
thereabouts of calling all those who minister to
their wants on the cricket grounds, at the fives
courts, bathing- places, or elsewhere, by the
generic name of ' Joby ' is no doubt convenient
to them, but it plays havoc with the recollections
of O.E.'s."
The net result, indeed, has been that the
previous letters teemed with inaccuracies.
I shall venture to quote a little more from
A. C. A.'s statement, and, having been hi
•contemporary at Eton for five years, and
having always kept in touch with my old
school, to add a few words of my own. He
continues thus : —
" In the middle of last century two Eton
•families, bearing the surnames of Powell and Joe
respectively, performed certain services for Eton
boys. There were three of the former and two
of the latter. Let us take them in order.
" The elder Powell, generally known as ' Picky
Powell, was a somewhat ragged and disreputabl
old man — the champion supposed to have fought
' Billy Warner ' of Harrow at Lord's."
To this I can add that he had been a good
•cricketer. He was bowling to the boys in
practice before my father left Eton in 1810
and afterwards played a few times in first
class cricket, appearing for the Player
against the Gentlemen at Lord's in 1819'
1820, and 1821. He was an underhand
jowler of some skill, before the time of
ound-hand bowling, and in the match of
820 he bowled six wickets. In spite of
ather bibulous habits, he reached old age,
md retained his bodily vigour until late in
ife. A. C. A. continues thus : —
" Edward Powell, his son, sometimes called
fat ' Powell, sometimes ' Dick ' Powell, was a
rery familiar figure in his velveteen coat and tall
lat. He had charge in the fifties of football at
;he ' Wall ' and in College generally, at a later
Late of nearly all the football in the school."
After enumerating other duties performed
by " fat " Powell, A. C. A. adds that " he
was a most valuable and faithful servant of
Eton for fifty-two years," and that he died
in 1899, at the age "of 79. The third Powell
mentioned by A. C. A. was " Ned " or
' thin " Powell, who at one time was em-
aloyed in the playing fields, and in character
;oo much resembled " Picky." A. C. A.
calls him " a brother or perhaps a cousin of
Edward Powell." I always believed them
to be brothers. In spite of the difference in
their bulk, a strong family likeness seemed
to confirm this, and I was told in my school
days that they were nephews of " Picky,"
but A. C. A. has had exceptional oppor-
tunities of ascertaining the truth. I had a
great regard for " fat " Powell, who, on my
leaving Eton, presented me with a pint
" pewter," which I still possess. He often
made similar presents to boys who were on
friendlv terms with him, and who played at
the " Wall." f s
Having described the Powells, who, in
spite of assertions to the contrary, were not
associated with the nickname " Joby,"
A. C. A. gives a graphic account of the two
Joels, sons of Samuel Joel, " formerly butler
to the Rev. Francis Plumptre, fellow of Eton
College." The elder, christened William
Henry, was always known by the family
nickname " Joby," and was in his prime in
the fifties and early sixties. He used to have
employment in football arrangements among
Oppidans, sold " sock " on the wall in front
of Upper School, and stood umpire in such
cricket matches as Collegers v. Oppidans and
Aquatics v. Lower Club. I remember that,
quite unjustly, he was once ducked in the
Thames by the Aquatics, because in a match
between the latter clubs he was supposed to
have given a wrong decision. In A. C. A.'s
words : —
" He was the original, and in former times
the only, ' Joby.' The use of his name as a
general term for those performing similar services
belongs to a much later date."
12 s. ii. NOV. 11, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
395
He was probably bom in 1800, and died in
1883.
" John, or ' Jack,' Joel was the brother of Joby.
He was a small man, who hirpled about with a
straw hat like his brother's and a squeaky voice.
He was employed on the cricket grounds, and had
some knowledge of bowling underhand. He had
a single-picket match with ' Picky ' Powell in
1858, which the latter won. He could play the
fiddle, and on one occasion, after hearing Joachim
At a concert in College Hall, he had the privilege
•of handling the great man's violin. He ended a
useful life in 1902 at the age of 84."
Those are A. C. A.'s words, but I think he is
mistaken about " Jack " Joel's age. On
•June 4, 1897, I met " Jack " in Windsor, at
the foot of the " hundred steps " leading up
to the Terrace. He mistook me for my
eldest brother, many years my senior and
long ago deceased, who when a boy at Eton
hit him a violent blow on the head with a
•cricket ball — an accident which he never
forgotr. After a pleasant chat I bought from
him a little pamphlet called ' Reminiscences
of John Joel,' which is now before me, and,
though written in artless style, records some
interesting facts. He says that he was born
at Cotton Hall near Eton, Dec. 2, 1815,
•which would make him 86 or 87 at the time
of his death, instead of 84, thus lessening
what appears too large a gap in age
between him and his elder brother, whom
A. C. A. has shown to be the true and
original " Joby " ; the others (Alfred Knock
included) are all imitations.
PHILIP NORMAN.
"BLIGHTY" {12 S. i. 151, 194, 292).— I
liave just returned wounded from France,
«*nd should like to add a little to the in-
formation you have already published.
Apart from all constructions upon, and
suggestions made in regard to, the word
" Blighty," it doubtless originated through
the numerous cases of " Trench feet " and
other limbs rendered useless owing to frost-
bite. During the earlier part of the war
the expression of " having got the Blight "
was a common one — always referring to the
incapacity caused by the reason stated.
Such cases were at that time invariably sent
home for treatment, resulting in the other
3xpression of " having got Blighty."
HARRY LAMSLEY.
Croxley Green, Herts.
SANDFORD FAMILY (12 S. ii. 291). — For the
pedigree of this family see George W.
Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide,' 1903, which
-contains a list of sources.
E. E. BARKER.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS,
&c. (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292).—
"Thomas Campbell died at Boulogne, 5, Rue
St. Jean, where he lived for several years, on the
15th of June (1844), aged 67, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey. The Doctor Beattie, the
biographer and friend of Campbell, in concert with
Mr. Hamilton, the British Consul, placed the fol-
lowing inscription above the door of the bed-room
in which the poet expired :
ICI EST MORT THOMAS CAMPBELL,
AUTEUK DBS PLAISIRS DE L'ESPEKANCE,
XV JUIN M DCCC XLIV.
The inscription in [*ic for is] engraved on a black
marble slab in letters of gold.
— The poet Churchill, surnamed the Juvenal of
England, died also at Boulogne, in the month of
December 1764. He lived for many years in the
Rue Neuve-Cliaussee." — ' New Guide to Boulogne-
sur-mer,' by J. Brunet, 6th edition, Boulogne-sur-
mer, 1856, p. 52.
In ' Merridew's Illustrated Guide to
Boulogne-sur-mer,' llth edit., 1898, p. 33,
it is said that Charles Churchill died, Nov. 4,
1764, " in Rue Adolphe Thiers, most pro-
bably at the Hotel d'Irlande (now pulled
down) " —
" He was on his way to Paris to join his friend
John Wilkes, He died of miliary fe%-er, on the
second day after his arrival, and his remains were
removed to Dover, where they were buried in the
churchyard of St. Martin-le-Grand."
Excepting that Rue Adolphe Thiers is Rue
Neuve-Chaussee under another name, these
two accounts of Churchill do not agree.
Merridew's ' Guide ' gives (pp. 86, 87) the
names of some of the English who lie buried
in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise of Boulogne,
adjoining the St. Omer Road : —
General Sir John B. Hearsey, the hero of
Seetabuldee.
General Sir C. M. Carmichael.
General Sir T. H. Page.
General Pennel Cole, R.E.
General John Kettlewell, R.A.
Sir Nicolas Harris Nicolas, the historian.
Basil Montague, the vegeiarian.
C. Purton Cooper, Q.C.
Katherine, Countess of Dundonald.
Smithson Tennant, M.D., lecturer on
chemistry at Cambridge.
Sir William Ouseley, envoy to Persia.
Capt. W. Tune, who for many years com-
manded the first English steamer plying
between London and Boulogne.
Thomas Green, commander, officers, pas-
sengers, and crew of the English ship
Reliance, wrecked off Merlimont, Nov. 12,
1812, seven persons only having been saved
out of 116.
Some members of the O'Mahoney and
Loughnan families, the latter being great
aenefactors of the new cathedral.
396
NOTES AND QUERIES. u-> s. 11. NOV. n, me.
Lieut. -General Hart, compiler of ' Hart's
" Army List.'
Sir William Hamilton, for upwards of
fifty years H.M. Consul at Boulogne.
Henry Melville Merridew, the founder of
the ' Guide.'
Eighty-two bodies from the female convict
ship Amphitrite, lost with all hands off
Boulogne, Aug. 31, 1833.
Gilbert a Beckett of Punch was temporarily
buried here previous to the removal of his
remains to England.
The spelling of the names is that of the
' Guide.'
" The burial-ground contains the remains of many
well-known families,, especially those of retired
officers of the English and Indian armies."
Possibly the inscription over the door of
the room in which Campbell died still exists.
ROBEBT PlERPOINT.
PALLAVICIXI : ARMS (11 S. ix. 511 ; 12 S.
ii. 328). — Burke's ' Armory ' gives arms of
Palavicini (an Italian family settled in
co. Cambridge) : Or, a cross quarter-pierced
azure, on a chief of the first a ragged staff
fesseways sable. In the 1634 Visitation of
Essex (Harl. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 536) there is a
foot-note to the Young pedigree referring to
the marriage of Robert Young of Ongar with
Alice Ploot, and quoting Harl. MS. No. 1541,
fol. 166b, for the second marriage of Robert
Young with a daughter of Horatio Pallavi-
cini, the arms of the latter being described as :
Or, a cross quarter- pierced azure, in chief
a trunk ragulee sable. In the Sedgewick
pedigree (Harl. Soc., vol. xiv. p. 600) there
is a marriage of Edward Sedgewick of
Chipping Ongar with Susanna, daughter of
Tobias Pallavicini.
The description of the arms in Italian is :
" Cinque punti d'oro alternati con quattro
d'azzurro ; col capo del primo caricato da
una fascia contro doppio addentellata e
scorciata di nero." When it is explained that
the punti are punti di scacchiere (chessboard
squares) the blazon will be less perplexing.
In the ' D.X.B.' account of Sir Horatio
allusion is made to Sir Peter Palavicino,
knighted 1687, as another member of the
family, but Le Xeve describes the latter as
coming to England as a poor lad who became
butler to Charles Torreano, merchant in
London, and to him were ascribed arms,
" Blew, an eagle dif-plaid arg.," which have
no resemblance to any Pallavicini coat.
The family of " Horatio Palavazene who
robbed the Pope to lend the Queene," and
who was struck down to Beelzebub by
Hercules with his club, did not make much
of a mark in English history LEO C.
At 7 S. ix. 152 there is a copy of an in-
scription from the church of St. Dunstan-
in-the-East, London, on the monument to
Sir Peter Parravicin, 1696. Arms : Gules, a
swan argent. R. J. FYNMORE.
Five coats under this name are described
in Rietstap's ' Armorial General.'
DRAGON VERT.
In an old manuscript armorial in my
possession there is a description in French.,,
and a small pen-and-ink sketch, of the arms
of " Palavicini a Genes." The description,
reads as follows : —
d'az au chief d'o charge
est de pals liez les uns,
which I take to mean " Azure, on a chief or
pallets joined together." The sketch, which,
is headed " Marq de Palavicini," I should
blazon : " Chequy of nine or and azure, on a
chief of the first a barrulet bretessed couped
sable." I think it is clear that this and the
two descriptions quoted in the query are
merely different readings of the eame shield..
I could send MR. PIERPOINT a copy of the
sketch if he would care for it.
H. J. B. CLEMENTS.
[MR. CHARLES DRURY also thanked for reply.l
MATTHEW SHORTYNG, D.D. (US. ix. 406)~
— May I be allowed to supplement my con-
tribution at the above reference by the
following extract from the Grantchester
Register, for which I am indebted to tie-
Rev. W. R. Harrisson, the present vicar ? —
" Mrs. Grace Shorty ng, eldest daughter to
Thomas Goad, Dr. of Lawes and Regius Professour
in ye University of Cambridge, first married to
John Byng, Esquire, late of this parish, by whom*
she had one only son, Mr John Byng, y' survived
her : afterwards ye wife of Matthew Shortyng, M:A:
Vicar of this parish, dyed on Sunday April yc 26t!V
was buried on Wednesday ye 29th 1691."
A reference to Collins's ' Peerage,' ed. 1812.
vol. vi. p. 81, shows that this John Byng,
who was born at Grantchester in 1663, left
issue by Frances Shortyng two daughters r.
Winifred, married to Richard Burr, doctor
in divinity, and Catherine, to Henry Oborne,
chirurgeon and citizen of London.
ERNEST H. H. SHORTING.
ST. MADRON'S WELL, NEAR PENZANCE
(12 S. ii. 9, 58). — Edmund Gibson, in his
translation of Camden's ' Britannia,' 1695,-
col. xxii. note 1, writes of the ease men-
tioned by Hall: —
" I know not whether this be a distinct instance
from another that is undoubtedly true. Two per-
sons that had found the prescript ions of Physicians
and Chirurgeons altogether unprofitable, went to
this Well (according to the ancient custom) on.
Corpus Christi Eve, and laying a small offering-.
i2s.ii.Nov.il, 19.6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
.".97
-upon the Altar, drank of the water, laid upon the
ground all night, in the morning took a good
draught, more, and each of them carry'd away
some of the water in a bottle. Within 3 weeks
they found the effect of it, and (their strength in-
creasing by degrees) were able to move themselves
•upon crutches. Next year they took the same
course, after which they were able to go up and
down by the help of a staff. At length, one of
them, being a Fisherman, was, and, if he be alive,
is still able to follow that business. The other was
a Soldier nnde- Colonel William Godolphin,* and
<3y'd in the'service of K. Ch. I.
" After this, the Well was superstitiously fre-
quented, so that the Rector of the neighbouring
Parish was forc'd to reprove several of his
Parishioners for it. But accidentally meeting a
•woman coming from it with a bottle in her hand, and
'being troubl'd with colical pains, desir'd to drink of
it, and found himself eas'd of that distemper.
"The instances are too near our own times, and
•too well attested, to fall under the suspicion of
"bare traditions or Legendary fables : And being so
-very remarkable, may well claim a place here.
Only, 'tis worth our observation, that the last of
them destroys the miracle ; for if he was cur'd
-upon accidentally tasting it, then the Ceremonies
•of offering, lying on the ground, &c., contributed
•nothing ; and so the virtue of the water claims the
whole remedy."
Gough, in the ' Additions ' to his transla-
tion of the ' Britannia,' says, vol. i. ed. 1806,
p. 17, that according to Dr. Borlase, ' Nat.
Hist, of Cornwall,' p. 31 , " the water can only
fxct by its cold limpid nature, having no per-
ceivable mineral impregnation."
EDWARD BENSLY.
GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE
{12 S. ii. 327). — Public positions in Boltpn
have been marked by long family associa-
tions, and a record of these may be of some
interest to your readers.
James Winder became Clerk to the
Borough Magistrates in 1839, and held the
position until his death in 1862. His son,
Robert Winder, succeeded him, and holds the
office to-day after fifty-five years' service.
John Taylor was Borough Coroner from
1839 to 1876, when he was succeeded by his
son, who held the position until 1904.
John Hall was Borough Prosecutor from
1858 to 1887, when he was succeeded by his
son, who still holds the office.
Thomas Holden was Registrar of the
€ounty Court from 1846 to his death in 1887,
when he was succeeded by his sons C. H. and
A. T. Holden, who held the position, either
jointly or separately, until 1915.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
* Presumably William Godolphin, " Colonel in
the service of Charles I.," a younger brother of Sir
Francis Godolphin, and uncl epf Sidney, first Earl
of Godolphin. See Table II. in E. W. Harcourt's
edition of Evelyn's ' Life of Mrs. Godolphin.'
AUTHOR AND TITLE WANTED : BOYS'
BOOK c. 1860 (12 S. ii. 330).— From the
description given, it is possible the book
required may have been one of the earlier
productions of that prolific writer of ocean
stories, the late William Clark Russell. His
publishers were Messrs. Sampson Low & Cc.
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
"CARDEW" (12 S. ii. 299, 336).— I
consider that the account I have given of
this word at the first reference, and of Car-
michael,as personal names, is more probable
than that suggested by H. R. C. So far as
they are place-names of course he may be
right. THE REVIEWER.
POEM WANTED (12 S. ii. 349). — The author
of the poem ' From India ' was William Cox
Bennett, the brother of Sir John Bennett,
the watchmaker. DAVID SALMON.
Swansea.
LONDON'S ENTERTAINMENT TO " FOUR
INDIAN KINGS" (12 S. ii. 304). — In this
interesting note mention is made of the per-
formance of ' Macbeth ' at the Haymarket at
which the " kings ' ' were present . In Genest's
' History of the Stage ' an account is given of
the mob, which shouted from the gallery
that they could not see them. Wilks
came forward and said they were in the
front box. The mob shouted back : " We
paid our money to see the kings." ' Mac-
beth ' was evidently quite a secondary
matter. To pacify the mob, four chairs
were brought on the stage, followed by the
kings, who sat down on them. That show
over, the play began. J. S. S.
HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES (12 S.
ii. 128, 195). — Charles Lefevre of Beckenham,
Kent, was M.P. for Wareham, 1784, till he
resigned in 1786. Did he die unmarried soon
afterwards, and at what age ? Was he the
only son of John Lefevre of Heckfield Place,
Hants, a partner in the banking firm of
Curries, James & Yellowsley in Cornhill,
who died at Old Ford, Jan. 16, 1790, aged 67,
leaving an only daughter, heiress to the
immense fortune of three families (Gent.
Mag.) ? Particulars of Charles will oblige.
W. R. W.
FOLK-LORE : CHIME-HOURS (12 S. i. 329,
417; ii. 136, 194, 216).— MARGARET W. says at
the last reference " Clocks chime every hour
or at no hours," but this is by no means true
of all clocks. The church clock at Haxey, in
Lincolnshire, chimes every third hour only,
at 6, 9, 12, and 3. The word " chime "
398
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. NOV. n, me.
however, i . u-ed in more senses than one.
"We used to distinguish, in South Nott>,
between ringing and chiming ; the bells
were rung when they were fully swung —
chimed when they were half-swung, as was
usually t he c:i,se when calling us to service. I
do not mention this as having any bearing on
the matter under discussion, but I should
like to know the reason for such a distinction.
C. C. B.
LKCAL MACARONICS (7 S. i. 346; 11 S-
iii. »; ; 12 S. ii. 335). — MB. THORNTON, at the
last reference, inquires about the Ardens.
For Edward Arden see the ' D.N.B.' and
10 S. ix. 1S4, and for the family generally see
the Harleian Society's Publications, vol. xii.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGKT.
PI.VMSTEAD LLOYD (12 S. ii. 310).—
Plumstead Lloyd, born Oct. 7, 1780, married
first Frances Isabella, daughter of J. Beten-
son, Esq., of Ipswich, and by her (who died
Sept. 18, 1816) had surviving issue : (1) Mary
Elizabeth, married her cousin Edward Lloyd,
Esq.; (2) Emma; (3) Isabella, married
Henry Russell, Esq., of Toronto, Canada.
Plumstead Lloyd married secondly Jane,
daughter of John Howell, Esq., and
by her had issue a daughter, Jane Howell.
Mrs. ANDERSON will find an account of
Plumstead Lloyd in the ' Pedigree of the
Lloyds of Dolobran, co. Montgomery,' re-
printed from Burke' s ' Landed Gentry,' 1st
ed., 1836, with some corrections and addi-
tions, by Mrs. Richard Harman Lloyd —
for private circulation, 1877.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
Would ' Charles Lamb and the Lloyds '
(Smith <fc Elder), by E. V. Lucas, published
about [November, 1898, assist ?
R. J. FYNMORE.
1 can give a reply to my own question, as
since sending it to ' N. & Q.' I have been
fortunate enough to see a manuscript letter
of Robert Lloyd to Manning, dated May 4,
1801, in which he says: "My brother
Plumstead is settled here in a large brewery."
G. A. ANDERSON.
The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.
The references at the end of the article
on the elder Charles Lloyd in ' D.N.B.,'
xxxiii. 410, may be helpful.
A. R. BAYLEY.
For the pedigree of the Lloyd family
consult George W. Marshall's 'Genealogist's
Guide,' which contains a list of references.
E. E. BARKEB.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 329). —
"Heaven would not be Heaven wpre thy soul
not with mine ; nor would Hell be Hell were our
souls together."
See Baptista Mantuanus (Spagnolo)r
' Eclogue ' iii. 1 08, sqq. : —
Sive ad Felices vadam post funera campos,
Sen ferar ardentem rapidi Phlegethontis ad undam,.
Nee sine te felix ero, nee tecum miser unquara.
We may compare Bardolph's wish when he-
hears that Falstaff is dead : —
" Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is,
either in heaven or in hell ! " — ' K. Henry|V.,' Act II.
sc. iii.
EDWARD BENSLY.
The same sentiment appears in Sir Walter
Scott's translation of one of Burger's ballads r
O mother, mother, what is bliss?
O mother, what is bale ?
Without my William what were heaven,
Or with him what were hell ?
SUSANNA CORNER.
Lenton Hall, Nottingham.
C. LAMB : ' MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ONT
WHIST': OF CHIMNEY FIREPLACES (12 S.
ii. 266). — On the marble mantelpiece in the
drawing-room at Cefn Mably, Glamorgan-
shire, the ancient seat of the Kemeys family,,
is the following inscription : " Tan da, parfh
glan, a llodes llawen." Translated : " A
good fire, a clean hearth, and a merry lass ""
D. K. T.
NAVAL RECORDS WANTED ( 12S. ii. 330, 375).
— D. B. should write to the Admiralty and
War Office for permission to inspect the Naval
and Military Records at the Public Record
Office, Chancery Lane, stating particulars of
his search. The earliest returns of naval
officers' services begin in 1817. There is also
a complete index to all the officers' corre-
spondence with the Admiralty, which might
prove of great interest. I believe the earliest
returns of military officers' services begin in
1828, although there are some of an earlier
date of officers of the highest grades.
O'Byrne's ' Naval Biography ' should be
consulted if D. B.'s ancestor was living about
1840. A. H. MACLEAN.
14 Dean Road, Willesden Green.
"DRIBLOWS" (12 S. ii. 269). — This may,
I think, be a misreading, or (as the inventory
referred to is printed) a typographical error,
and the word should perhaps be " doublers,"
i.e., dishes " great and small." See Halli-
well's 'Dictionary of Archaic Words' (fifth
edition), vol. i. p. 312, and the ' E.D.D.,*
vol. ii. p. 133. In the form " dobler " the
word is as early as 1360; and in Cumberland
12 g. ii. NOV. ii. 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
399
and Westmorland a dish of earthenware;
wood, or metal is known as a " dibbler.'
As a "dribbler" is a tippler, and "dribb-
ling " means tippling, drinking, or " boosing,"
the word " driblow " (assuming the word l<>
be correctly transcribed) might be thought to
denote a pewter drinking vessel or tankard,
but I am afraid this assumption would only
supply another illustration of " false ety-
mology." A. C. C.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S.
ii. 290, 336).— The couplet given at the
latter reference : —
Though lost to sight to memory dear,
The absent claim a sigh, the dead a tear,
wherever it originated, is clearly an echo of
Pope's
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear :
A sigh the absent claim, the dead a tear.
N. W. HILL.
If G. W. E. R. consults ' Douglas' j 40,000
Quotations ' he will find the line
Though lost to sight to memory dear
attributed to " George Linley." The second
line there is : —
Thou ever wilt remain.
WILLIAM L. STOREY.
1 Harden Villas, Rosetta, Belfast.
[The reference to Linley's song was included in
the editorial note, ante, p. 290.]
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DENTISTS (12 S.
ii. 64, 115, 194, 218).— The quack mentioned
by DR. CLIPPINGDALE at the second
reference is not an isolated example
of an eighteenth-century dentist engaged
in general practice. As a distinguished
Casanovist, MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY will
remember that the adventurer during a
visit to Parma found himself in need of
medical advice. The following extract from
the ' Memoires ' is of interest : —
" My case was not one for an empiric, and I
thought I had better confide in M. dc la Haye
This man, whose age and experience demanded
respect, put me in the hands of a clever surgeon,
who was also a, dentist." — Ed. Flammarion, ii. 155.
Ed. Gamier, ii. 251.
J. D. ROLLESTON, M.D.
GRAY : A BOOK OF SQUIBS (12 S. ii. 285).—
It may perhaps interest your correspondent
to know that the Gray MSS. referred to in
the quotation from Tovey's ' Gray and his
Friends ' were sold at Sotheby's in August,
1854. They formed the subject of an article
in The Athenaeum of July 29, 1854, and an
account of the sale appeared in the issue of
the same journal of Aug. 12, 1854. The
collection appears to have been dispersed
into various hands, but only one name is
given — Mr. Wrightson of Birmingham, who
purchased the ' Elegy ' for 13H.
JOHN T. PAGE.
on
A Descriptive Catalogue of Miscellaneous Charter*
and other Documents relating to the Districts of
Sheffield and Rotherham, with Abstracts of
Sheffield Wills, 1554 to 1560. Compiled by
T. Walter Hall. (Sheffield, W. Northend.)
THE Miscellaneous Documents included in this
work begin with the Kilnhurst deed of covenant
belonging to the later twelfth century, which is
followed by the charter of William de Lovetoty
the treasure in the possession of the Town Trustees
of Sheffield, the date of which is prior to 1181.
The various other documents which come under
this heading are spread pretty evenly over the next
three centuries, and are both interesting and, for
the restricted area to which they belong, fairly
numerous. The Wills, as the title-page indicates,,
are mostly of the mid-sixteenth century, but a
few later ones have been added, and chief among;
these is that of William Burton of Boyds Mill —
dated 1734/5 — important for the light it throws
on the history of Wadsley Hall and Ecclesfield.
Mr. Walter Hall appends to this two or three pages
of useful notes on the different owners of that
estate, and on the structure of the house, and
mentions a curious custom said to have been
kept up there through mediaeval times : every
Christmas twelve men and their horses were
entertained at the Hall for twelve days, and
each man, before he left, stood by the hearth,
where the ashes of departed ancestors were
supposed to be buried, and drove a large pin
into the oaken beam forming the lintel of the fire-
place.
The charters, leases, and other like documents
of which the bulk of the volume consists, are
mainly of interest to the local antiquary ; the
families most abundantly illustrated are Mpntfort
(under several variations), Kilnhurst (in the
earlier years), and Creswick. Under date 1381
is an acquittance of Agnes del Thwayt to John
Moumforth for forty pounds and one gown with
one fur, in payment for certain things he had
bought from her. In 1405 we have an abstract of
the lengthy will of William Cresewyk of London,
of which most of the details concern London —
the testator being of the Sheffield family of
Creswick and mentioning his cousin John of that
town. To the prior and convent of Holy Trinity
called " Crichirche within Algatc," William left,
among other things, his Mass book, vestment,,
chalice, two new books called " Greylles " (grail-
books, graduals) and a large " porthors " (i.e.*
portiforium, a breviary). Another good document
Is a View of Frankpledge (April 15, 1448), having;
several noteworthy names among the jurors, to
establish a right of way upon which encroachment
had been made ; this deed, dated at Norton,
remains in the custody of the vicar. A deed
which it would be instructive to have explained
is the licence to one Robert Brommefy and
Margaret his wife to depait from the house of
St. Robert of the order of the Holy Trinity. Two
inventories occur, the one of 1549 (goods of
400
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. NOV. n, wie.
Elizabeth " Mowmfurthe " of Kilnhurst), the
•other of 1599 (goods of Anthony Marryat of
' Over Haughe). Anne Fenton, whose will is dated
1552, has nine daughters, of whom the fourth
and the eighth were called Anne, and have to be
formally distinguished as Anne the elder and
Anne the younger. We may also mention the
-deed of Partition, made in 1579, between Anne
Bray and Thomas Barber, as one of the richest of
these documents in respect of local detail.
To the main body of the work is added a
-valuable set of abstracts of documents relating to
Barnes Hall, transmitted to Mr. Hall by Sir
Alfred Gatty, and following these we have Mr.
Hall's interesting paper on ' Ye Backer Way.'
This compilation had been laid aside at the
beginning of the war ; it is now published in aid
of the Sheffield Hospitals — in the hope that by
-the sale of 100 copies a sum of 251. may be raised
for that purpose. For this reason we recommend
rit to the particular attention of our readers — but
by no means for this reason only. It is a piece of
work upon which the compiler is much to be
congratulated. There are five facsimiles of early
deeds, and one of an eighteenth-century plan of
York Street, Sheffield. The transcript in extenso
of William de Lovetot's charter makes uictu,
victualiorum.
The Burlington Magazine for November gives
us the conclusion of three good studies — that on
Giuliano, Pietro, and Giovanni da Rimini by
M. Osvald Siren ; that on Spanish embroideries by
Mr. George Saville ; and the ' Theory of ..Esthetic,'
by Mr. Douglas Ainslie. The last is rather
stimulating than convincing ; but when one
disagrees — as is fairly often the case — the exact
definition of and reason for the disagreement form
profitable meditation. M. Siren makes to
•Giovanni Baronzi da Rimini one or two new and
'important attributions. About the Spanish mind
as expressed in art-^-even if it be in what is
•commonly called a minor art- — there is a fascina-
tion not only great but distinctive, and Mr.
Saville's discussion conveys that successfully.
Mr. Paul Buschmann offers a suggestion concern-
ing two drawings in the Christ Church Library at
Oxford, for which an author has long been
wanting : he would provide them with Cornelius
Bos in that capacity ; and would render the same
•service to two grotesque masks in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, by attributing them to
'Cornelius Floris. Mr. Bernard Rackham writes
upon ' Wirksworth Porcelain,' and Mr. Herbert
Cescinsky upon ' English Marqueterie.' The first
article in the paper is by Sir Martin Conway— a
very interesting analysis of Gerard David's
' Descent from the Cross,' which was exhibited in
-the "Old Masters" in 1912. Once in the
Dingwall collection, and now in the possession of
. another private collector, it is an important picture
• of which hitherto only a somewhat unsatisfactory
photograph had been published. The frontispiece
to this number of the magazine furnishes a much
more worthy one, of which all lovers of David will
be glad to take note.
THE November Nineteenth Century has three or
four rather dull papers, and as many of somewhat
unusual interest. Railways are a prominent feature
in the number, and the articles connected with this
topic are among the (best — Mr. M oreton Frewen's
"* The Economics of James J. Hill,' and Mr. H. M.
Hyndman's 'The Railway Problem Solved'— to
which we may add as kindred Captain G. S. C.
Swinton's 'Castles in the Air at Charing Cross.'
The first and the last especially of the three
contain a good deal of matter worth noting by
readers of ' N. & Q.' Mrs. Stirling brings to a
conclusion the Diary of Charles Hotham — 'Fight-
ing in Flanders in 1793-1794 ' — of which the first
instalment appeared in the May number of this
review. Brigadier-General F. G. Stone has worked
out a parallel between the situation and conduct
of Frederick William III. of Prussia and those
of King Constantine. The correspondences are
numerous and striking, and also more substantial —
so to put it— than such comparisons often are.
Captain Philippe Millet's ' Twelve Months with
the British Army ' is sure to be read with gratitude
and pleasure. He is a French " Officer of Liaison,"
and there is no position from which criticism or
appreciation of our army can be more welcome,
interesting and valuable. He speaks generously
and shrewdly, now and then showing up a differ-
ence between British and French which strikes one
as, fresh — for instance, in his remarks about the
treatment accorded an unpopular character. Mr.
S. P. B. Mais has put together some rather
rambling dicta about the poets of to-day. He could
not fail, being a clever writer and saying so many
things, to say several of these well and truly ; but
he tends sadly to exaggeration in praise, and
thereby becomes unconvincing. He singles out as
a "gem" the stanza of a song from Mr. Gordon
Bottomley's 'King Lear's Wife '•:
If you have a mind to kiss me,
You shall kiss me in the dark :
Yet rehearse, or you might miss me —
Make my mouth your noontide mark :
Dare we confess that the last line makes us
laugh ?
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
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401
LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER W, 19 1C.
CONTENTS.— No. 47.
:NOTES :— George IV. and the Prerogative of Mercy, 401—
An English Army List of 1740. 402— Dr. Robert Uvedale,
Scholar and Botanist, 404 -Bibliography of Histories of
Irish Counties and Towns, 406—' Some Fruits of Solitude,'
407— The Name Tnbantia — William Day, Bishop of
Winchester : his Wife— " Swank/' 408.
QUERIES :— Second Fortune Theatre—" Dr." by Courtesy,
408— Monastic Choir-Stalls—Lost Poem by Kipling-
Marat : Henry Kinsrsley— William Cumberland— Sir Nash
Grove— Malet — Paul Fleetwood — Marten Family —
Officers' "Batmen," 409— The Sight of Savages— Ninth
Wave— Ferriage, a Priest— Colla da Chrioch— Constable
Family — Bishop, Private Secretary to George III. —
Operas performed in the Provinces — ' Sir Gammer
Vaus,' 410— " Privileges of Parliament," 411.
REPLIES : — Ralph Bohun : Christopher Boone, 411 —
Greatest Recorded Length of Service, 412— Ear Tingling :
Charm to "Cut the Scandal"— Edward Hayes, Dublin,
and his Sitters, 413— Americanisms, 414— The Wardrobe
of Sir John Wynn of Gwydyr— The French and Frogs—
Fourteenth-Century Glass, 415 — " Faugh-a-Ballagh " —
" Hat Trick " : " Yorker "—Philip Winter, 416— Cardew
—Naval Records Wanted— James Fenton. Recorder of
Lancaster, 417— St. Newlyn East — Perpetuation of Printed
Errors— St. Francis Xavier's Hymn— Touch Wood— St.
Genewys, 418— Mary, Queen of Scots — House and Garden
Superstitions— Mews or Mewys Family, 419.
NOTES ON BOOKS:— 'Proceedings of Cambridge Anti
quarian Society '—' Outside the Barn well Gate' —
' Centenary of Waterloo ' — ' " Daily News " Any Year
Calendar.'
GEORGE IV. AND
THE PREROGATIVE OF MERCY.
THACKERAY, referring to the stories about
George IV., makes in ' The Four Georges ' the
following statement : —
" One storjr, the most favourable to him of
all, perhaps, is that as Prince Regent he was
eager to hear all that could be said in behalf of
prisoners condemned to death, and anxious, if
possible, to remit the capital sentence."
Thackeray refers to this story as one " of
some half-dozen stock stories. . . .common to
all the histories." This story is certainly not
common to all the histories ! When the
Recorder, at the end of the Old Bailey
Sessions, took his report to the Prince Regent
from 1810 to 1820, and to him when King
until his death in 1830, in order that he (the
Recorder) might learn in what cases he was
to issue his warrant for the execution of the
condemned prisoners, the King had always
to be present, and his conduct on such
occasions is thus described in The Morning
Herald of June 14, 1832 :—
" We have it on the authority of one who
heard the fact from a member of the Privy
Council (at present a Cabinet Minister), that lie
frequently saw George the Fourth in a state of
extraordinary agitation at the meeting of the
Council, when the fate of a criminal was under
consideration. He would contend the matter
with the ministers and leave the table, and lean
sometimes on the chimney-piece, advocating the
cause of mercy, until overruled by his responsible
advisers."
Let me refer to some instances to show
how earnest and sincere George IV. was to
mitigate the Draconian severity of the
criminal law. The cases mentioned in
Parker's ' Life of Sir Robert Peel ' prove
that he was far in advance of his ministers,
and show how he was overruled by his
Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, when
endeavouring to get the most barbaroxis
sentences mitigated. Here is a specimen of
the King's kindly feeling. On May 21, 1822,
he wrote as follows : —
" Tuesday Evening, half-past nine. The King
has received Mr. Peel's note, and he must say,
after the deepest reflection, that the execu-
tions of to-morrow, from their unusual numbers,
\veigh most heavily^ and painfully on his mind.
" The King was in hopes that the poor youth
Desmond might have been saved."
On May 22 Mr. Peel wrote to him as
follows : —
" It is the unanimous opinion of your Majesty's
confidential servants who met at the Cabinet
this day, that the law ought to be permitted to
take its course on Friday next in the case of
Ward and Anson, and- that the boy Desmond
may have his sentence commuted to transporta-
tion for life."
There are two other cases two years later
also referred to in which the King en-
deavoured to save the lives of two youths.
On another occasion
" the King expressed great regret that there
were no circumstances to induce the Chancellor
and Mr. Peel to recommend mercy, a word more
consoling to the King's mind than language can
express." — Vol. i. pp. 316, 317.
Again in 1828 the King tried to save the life
of Hunton, a " Friend," who had forged
acceptances to bills of exchange. He had
a wife and ten • children, and was recom-
mended to mercy by the jury. The King
wrote to Mr. Peel : —
" The King is very desirous (if it can be done
with any sort of propriety) to save the life of
Hunton, at present under sentence of death and
confined in Newgate for forgery, bv commuting
his punishment into transportation for life."
The whole body of Quakers were in motion
to save this man's life, and one petition alone
had five thousand signatures. Mr. Peel
thought that the King had been approached
privately about this man. Hunton was
executed (vol. ii. pp. 42, 43).
402
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. 11. NOV. is,
I will refer to one other remarkable case
in 1830. Peter Comyn had been sentenced
to death for burning his house in Ireland.
The King, without consulting the Secretary
of State, thought fit
" to write express to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland ordering him to remit the capital sentence
on Comyn." — Vol. ii. pp. 147 to 151 inclusive.
This was clearly wrong on the part of the
King, and he got into sad trouble over the
case, and was obliged to give way, and
Comyn was accordingly executed.
The faire-it biography of George IV. that
I know of is in Wade's ' British History,' but
no mention is made there of his aversion to
the carrying out of death sentences except in
cases of murder.
The excuse for the various biographers
must be that they had not the definite
evidence contained in Parker's ' Life of Sir
Robert Peel,' vol. i. of which was first
published in 1891, and vol. ii. in 1899, being
the two volumes from which I have quoted.
There was a discussion in the House of
Commons on March 22, 1816, with regard to
convicts under sentence of death, in which it
was stated that the Prince Regent
" felt a peculiar repugnance to that part of hi*
duty which referred to the sanction of any exe-
cution. That in truth his Uoyal Highness
never sanctioned such a sentence without the
most poignant regret." — Cobbett's ' Parlia-
entary Debates,' vol. xxxiii. p. 538.
It seems to me to be only fair that the-
conduct of George IV. in this matter should
be placed to his credit.
I should like to add a few words more
about George IV., as I think his biographers
have not made sufficient allowance for cir-
cumstances which go to some extent to
mitigate his vices. His father was insane,,
and he himself at times suffered from de-
lusions. He had, unfortunately, as his
companions in early life men who were
much older than himself, who were hard
drinkers and gamblers. He was humane,
kind to his servants and young people. He
was also charitable ; and let it never be for-
gotten that " charity shall cover the multi-
tude of sins." HARKY B. POLAND.
Inner Temple.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364.)
COL. CAMPBELL'S Regiment of Foot, which in 1916 is the Royal Scots Fusiliers, was
formed in Scotland in 1678. In 1694 it was ordered to rank as the 21st Regiment and
was then styled the " North British Fusiliers." About the beginning of the eighteenth
century, the regiment was designated "Royal," although the date of and authority for
the conferment of this distinction has never been ascertained. It retained the title of
"21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment" until 1877 when " Scots " was substituted
for "North British," and in 1881 " 21st" was discontinued: —
Colonel Campbell's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
John Campbel ( 1 )
Sir Andrew Agnew (2)
Peter Halket (3)
John Crosbie . .
Alexander Burnet
Mungoe Mathie
Barnaby Purcell
William Leslie
Thomas Oliphant
William Nodding
Gabriel Laban
Dates of their
present commissions.
6 June 1739
2 Nov. 1739
2 Nov. 1739
25 Mar. 1724
26 Dec. 1726
5 May 1727
8 Feb. 1731-2
16 Jan. 1736-7
1 Sept. 1739
7 Dec. 1739
7 Dec. 1739
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieut. Col. 19 April 1712.
Ensign, 13 May 1705.
Captain, 12 June 1717.
Ensign, 1 Mar. 1703-4.
Ensign, 1705.
Ensign, 25 Aug. 1704.
Captain, 26 June 1710.
Ensign, 26 Dec. 1726.
Ensign, 3 June 1721.
Ensign, 1 Jan. 1707-8.
1st Lieut. 23 Jan. 1722-3.
(1) Eldest son of the Hon. John Campbell, of Mamore. He had been Colonel of the 39th Foot
from 1737 to 1739. In 1752 he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 2nd (or Royal North British)
Regiment of Dragoons, which he held until his death in 1770. He had succeeded his cousin as
4th Duke of Argyll on April 15, 1761.
, (2) Of Lochnaw, 5th Baronet. He was Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Marines from 1746 to
1748, when it was disbanded. He died in 1771, then being Lieutenant-General.
(3) Succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet, of Pitfirran, in 1746. Colonel of the 44th Regiment in.
February, 1751, and was killed when commanding it, in action, against the Indians in North America
(Braddock's expedition) in 1755.
12 s. ii. NOV. is, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
403
Colonel Campbell's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
Lau06 Drummond
William Boss
Charles Clarke
George Hay
First Lieutenants David Kerr
Alexander Sandilands
Alexander Younge
Pat. Wemys
John Maxwell
Thomas Brudenal
James Murray
Thomas Collins
Wynne Johnson
John Gordon
William Flood
John Campbell
Norton Knatchbull (4)
Richard Newton
John Campbell Edmunston
Second Lieutenants
Dates of their
present commissions.
. 26 Oct. 1710.
. 24 Mar. 1728-9
5 Jan. 1722-3
7 June 1733
. 13 May 1735
1 June 1739
1 June 1739
7 Dec. 1739
. 19 Jan. 1739-40
. 19 Jan. 1739-40.
. 25 Nov. 1710.
. 22 April 1735.
. 13 May 1735
. 16 Jan. 1736-7.
1 May 1739.
1 June 1739.
2 ditto.
7 Dec. 1739.
19 Jan. 1739-40.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 18
Ensign, 23
Ensign, 25
Ensign, 20
Ensign, 5
Ensign, 1
Ensign, 3
Ensign, 29
Mar.
June
April
Jan.
Jan.
June
Apiil
Dec.
1708-9.
1710.
1718.
1731-2.
1 732-3.
1733.
1734.
1729.
Ensign, 4 April 1734.
(4) Fourth son of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 4th Bart.
April 30, 1752 ; left in 1757 ; and died on May 10, 1782.
He became Major in the regiment on-
The regiment here following (p. 34) was raised in 1689, and later was designated
" The 22nd Regiment of Foot." In 1782 the additional title of " Cheshire " was given to
it. In 1881, when the numbers of regiments were discontinued, the territorial title b^r
which it is now known — " The Cheshire Regiment " — was retained : —
Brigadier General Pagett's
Regiment of Foot.
Dates of their
present commissions.
Brigadier General
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . .
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Ensigns
Thomas Pagett, as Colonel (1)
William Pinfold
Edward Molesworth (2)
{ Henry Crof ton
! Charles Handasyd
I Jeremiah Schaak
Newton Barton
Richard Ellis . .
i William Congreve
{ John Hargrave
Archd Campbell . . . .
I John Lyon
I Robert Maynard
I Richard Brady
Peter Chapelle
Charles Archer
James Burleigh
Richard Nugent
Thomas Handasyd, Sen.
Henry Erskine
Archibald Carmichael
I William Horler
John Coats
Sir John St. Clair (3)
Thomas Handasyd, Jun.
•( Henry Malcome
John Campbell
John Dunbar
George Kelly
John Millar
15 Dec. 1738
23 Dec. 1717
9 July 1737
13 Aug. 1725
29 Sept. 1729
6 Dec. 1731
5 Nov. 1735.
13 Aug. 1736
1 May 1738
26 Oct. 1739
13 Aug. 1736
14 Oct. 1719
29 Sept. 1729
6 Dec. 1731
19 Oct. 1732
13 May 1735
5 Nov. 1735
1 Jan. 1735-6
7 Feb. 1735-6
13 Aug. 1736
9 July 1739
19 Oct. 1732.
13 Mar. 1733-4.
11 July 1735.
5 Nov. 1735.
8 Jan. 1735-6.
17 July 1739.
3 Feb. 1739-40.
4 ditto.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Captain, 8 Mar. 1707.
Captain, 30 Aug. 1708.
Ensign, April 1707.
Lieutenant, If? May, 1712.
Lieutenant, 1 Oct. 1715.
Ensign, 1706.
Lieutenant,
Captain, 25
Ensign, 14
Ensign, 20
Ensign, 27
Ensign, 22
Ensign, 21
Ensign, 6
Ensign, 28
Ensign, 8
Ensign, 29
Ensign,
Ensign, 20
Ensign, 10
27 July 1717.
Aug. 1737.
Feb. 1710.
Aug. 1718.
Aug. 1708.
July 1715.
May 1708.
April 1709.
May 1710.
Mar. 1725.
July 1712.
April 1725.
June 1735.
May 1732.
Ensign, 7 May 1729.
(1) Was Colonel of the 32nd Regiment from 1732 to 1738. Died May 28, 1741.
(2) Fourth son of Robert, 1st Viscount Molesworth. Died Nov. 28, 1768.
(3) Is shown as Captain (Sir John St. Clair, Bt.) in the regiment in the Army List of 175.",.
commission dated Aug. 7,1749. Existence of Baronetcy is doubtful. Became Major in 1754, and
liter served in America as Quartermaster-General, with local rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. Died at
Elizabeth Town, New York, December,1 1767.
404
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Newsham Peel's (1)
Cuthbert Ellison (2)
John Waite
The next regiment (p. 35) was raised in 1689 in Wales and the adjacent counties, and
has at various times been designated " The Prince of Wales's Own Royal Welsh
Fusiliers," " The Royal Welsh Fusiliers " (as it is called to-day )," The 23rd (or Royal) Regi-
ment of Welsh Fusiliers," and "The 23rd Regiment of Foot (or Royal Welsh Fusiliers)."
It should be noted that in 1740 there was only one Welsh-named officer in the regi-
ment — Pryce : —
Colonel Peers's Regiment of
\\Vlsh Ku-i
•Colonel .. ..
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . .
I George Jackson
! Roger Lort
William Hickman
•< Richard Bendyse
James Carey . .
j John Sabine
^ Henry Hickman
Arthur Taylor
I Alexander Johnson
James Drysdale
i John Bernard . .
1 John Weaver (3)
\ John Pryce (3)
Thomas Rodd
', William Izard . .
i Gregory Earners
! Arthur Forster (3)
( John Gregg
( Thomas Baldwin
| Nathaniel Bateman
! Charles Goodall
' German Pole . .
-< Joseph Sabine
William Bolton
I WilUam Aubrey
i Phineas Bowles
\ Horatio Sharpe
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
First Lieutenants.
Second Lieutenants
Dates of their
present commissions,
. 23 Nov. 1739
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 25 April 1706.
. ditto
Captain, 11 April 1723.
4 Sept. 1739
Ensign, Mar. 1719-2n.
. 25 Dec. 1726
Lieutenant, 1 Jan. 1707.
. 16 July 1730
Lieutenant, 11 April 170S.
. 23 Mar. 1730-1
Ensign, 1 July 1717.
1 Nov. 1733
Ensign, 17 Sept. 1721.
. 10 Aug. 1737
Ensign, 1 May 1710.
. 28 Dec. 1738
Ki/xign, 24 June 1712.
3 Sept, 1739
Ensign, 24 Dec. 1710.
ditto
Lieutenant, 21 Aug. 1718.
. 14 Mav 1720
Ensign, 23 May 1712.
. 24 Sept. 1730
Ensign, 1 Aug. 1707.
. 25 Nov. 1731
Ensign, 13 Mar. 1718-19.
8 Nov. 1732
Ensign, 25 June 1722.
. 10 Aug. 1737
Ensign, 16 Mav 1729.
3 Sept. 1739
Ensign, 24 Dec. 1720.
. 17 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 1 Feb. 1735-6.
. 16 Jan. 1739-40
Ensign, 10 Dec. 1735.
18 ditto.
." 19 ditto
Ensign, 31 Jan. 1735-6.
3 Mar. 1735-6.
17 ditto.
23 July 1737.
'. 10 Aug. 1737!
17 Julv 1739.
31 Aug. 1739.
2 Feb. 1739-40.
3 ditto.
4 Hi tin.
(1) Died in 1743 from wounds received in the battle of Dettingen.
(2) Eldest son of Robe.rt Ellison, of Hebburn, co. Durham. Was M.P. for Shaftesbury, 1717-51,
Died Oct. 11, 1785, then being General.
(3) Killed in the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745. .
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD :
DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR AND BOTANIST:
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.
(See ante, pp. 361, 384.)
II. DK. ROBERT UVEDALE. (PART II.;
THERE nas been some question as to
Uvedale's merits as a botanist. The writer
in the ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' who was Mr.
Boulger himself, describes him as " school-
master and horticulturist." He has also
been spoken of by other writers as " more of
a florist " than a " botanist." I do not
think that these attributes should be allowed
to detract from his reputation as a botanist.
In Hutchins's ' Hist, of Dorset ' (vol. iii.
p. 148) he is described, indeed, as " one of
the greatest botanists of his day in Europe."
Dr. Pulteney, however, speaks in more
measured terms when he says (' Sketches of
the Progress of Botany,' vol. ii. p. 30) that
although Uvedale
"was not known amongst those who advanced the
indigenous botany of Britain, yet. his merit as a
is 8. ii. *ov. is, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
405
botanist, or his patronage of the science at larare>
was considerable enoxtgh to incline Petiver to apply
his name to a new plant, which Miller retained in
his ' Dictionary,' but which has since passed into the
genus Polynmia of the Limueau system : the author
has, nevertheless, retained Uvedalia as the trivial
epithet. "
" Horticulturist," " florist," and " arbori-
culturist " he certainly was, his garden of
exotic productions at Enfield being especially
famous. It was noticed in Archceologia,
vol. xii. p. 188 (1794), where it is stated that
in tne matter of greenhouses and stoves —
which were rare in England before the close
of the seventeenth century — Charles Watts
at Chelsea and Uvedale at Enfield led the
way. Apparently at the time when this
article was written, though the garden was
still extensive, all traces of the greenhouses,
or indeed of anything but the cedar, had
disappeared. The same may be said of his
" physic garden," if that ever was a distinct
and separate one.
Uvedale' s success as a botanist, however,
does not rest solely upon his exotic gardens
at Enfield, for he seems to have compiled
during his long and busy life a collection of
dried plants — or, as he calls it, his hortus
siccus — which, it is believed, was sold on
the death of his widow in 1740 to Sir Hans
Sloane, and now, in fourteen folio volumes,
forms part of the Sloane Herbarium in the
Natural History Museum at South Kensing-
ton, and represents vols. cccii.-cccxv. in that
fine collection. I have heard it said that
this acquisition of Sloane's Herbarium was
the primary cause of the formation of the
present Natural History Department of the
British Museum.
Through the courtesy of Dr. A. B. Rendle,
the Superintendent of the department, I was
enabled — notwithstanding that it was war-
time— to inspect this most interesting col-
lection on a visit which I paid there last
January for that purpose. I was much
surprised at the wonderful state of preserva-
tion in which the specimens were, many of
which must now be more than two centuries
old. I cannot do better than describe it in
Mr. Boulger's own terms : —
" This collection, in fourteen thick volumes'
having generally several specimens on a page, is as
varied as it is extensive. It is arranged according
to Ray's classification, and contains specimens of
the earlier genera, alyce, lichens, mosses and ferns,
though mainly made up of flowering plants. The
plants are in admirable preservation, most of them
being labelled in Dr. Uvedale's own handwriting."
It would rci'in as if the specimens had
originally been preserved in smaller folio
pages than those now shown, and were
probably remounted when Sir Hans Sloane-
acquired them. I copied the following MS.
title-page from the first of these volumes : —
Collectio
Plantarum siccatarum et dispositarum
juxta methodum
Joh : Raii ( in red ink)
in Historia plantarum generali
et synopsi methodico Stirpium Britannicarum
a
Roberto Uvedale M.D. * Enfieldiensi (in red ink)
et aliis.
Again, I prefer the description " scholar '*"
to that of " schoolmaster " in the ' Diet. < f
Nat. Biog.' That he was a scholar of some
eminence is clear — apart from his academic
distinctions — from the fact that he was
invited to, and did, contribute the ' Life of
Dion ' to the translation of Plutarch's
' Lives,' edited by Dryden and others, which
appeared in 1684.
Many of Uvedale's letters are extant ;
some in the Sloane MSS. in the British
Museum, which are very cursorily alluded to
in Hut chins. Mr. Boulger speaks of these,,
the earliest of which is dated 1671, and the
latest 1716/17, and of numerous others of
his given in Nichols's ' Literary Illustra-
tions' (vol. iii. pp. 321-57) and in the
' Richardson Correspondence,' ranging from
1695 to 1721. They would appear, however,
to contain little of general interest.
I have recently been afforded the oppor-
tunity of inspecting the originals of some of
these letters to Dr. Richard Richardson, the
eminent Yorkshire physician and botanist, by
the fortunate circumstance of the ' Richard-
son Correspondence,' which formed part of
the library of the late Miss Richardson
Currer, having been offered for sale in May
and June last by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. of
London, where it was on view for a few days
previously, and I am accordingly able to
make a few slight additions to Mr. Boulger's
remarks. This very interesting collection
fell to the substantial bid of 200J. offered by
Mr. Quaritch, and I was at first very much
afraid that this meant that it would " cross
the pond." But I was much relieved when
I learnt subsequently that it had been
purchased for the Bodleian Library at
Oxford, so that it will not, at all event s.leave-
the count ry. I think that it is not very
difficult, perhaps, to surmise why the
governing body of the Bodleian should have-
been anxious to secure this treasure, for the
'most voluminous of all Dr. Richardson's
* This degree is incorrect. The "Dr." was cer-
tainly entitled to one of Divinity or of Laws, or oi
both, but not of Medicine.
406
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•correspondents is here shown to have been
William Sherrard, the founder of the Chair of
Botany at Oxford University. At the same
time I could not help regretting that, if the
Bodleian in its, comparatively speaking,
financial straits, could afford to make this
patriotic purchase, our own British Museum
authorities should not have seen their way
to secure it for the nation, so that it might
have found its place there amongst the
Sloane MSS.,and thereby have enriched that
collection by some fifty fetters from the great
physician and collector which it contained.
In May, 1 699, Uvedale speaks of seventeen
members of his household having had the
«mallpox within the compass of less than
three months, eleven of them, including six
of his own children, being down together-
He seems, however, to have been as success,
ful in their treatment as he was in warding
off the plague from his school, for he reports
them then as " all safe and well." In the same
•letter he speaks of his northern (?) plants
being soon gone, and of their having given
him only a "ghost visitt." In 1718 he
refers to his hortus siccus, and speaks of
plants in which his collection is weak or
-deficient. In his last letter in the collection
— of Dec. 12, 1721 — when in his 80th year, he
speaks pathetically of his having been for the
first time in his life seriously attacked by
gout supervening on other trouble, and
appeals to his friend for directions in
" regiment or pharmacie." He complains
that in consequence his garden is being neg-
lected, as the weather has prevented him
from going into it for some time ; his chief
remaining pleasure, apparently, then con-
sisting in turning over the leaves of his
•hortus siccus. He also speaks of a visit
recently paid him by William Sherrard,
the first Professor of Botany at Oxford,
another of Richardson's correspondents.
Sherrard himself, in writing to Richardson in
November, 1719, speaks of having recently
seen his friend " Dr. Uvedale, who has got
over an ugly fevour " ; but this, apparently,
•did not prevent them from " daily drinking
your health."
The body of Uvedale' s letters would seem
to be in the ordinary handwriting of the
period, with the clear copperplate signature,
' Rob Uvedale " — embellished somewhat
"with flourishes — at the end of each ; his
usual conclusion being the conventional
" your obliged humble servant," softened in
one or two instances into " affectionate
liumble servant." Nearly all the letters
appear to have been written from " Enfeild,"
had evidently been closed by seals in
red wax bearing the Uvedale arms — Argent,
a cross moline gules — fragments of which
still remain.
I agree with Mr. Boulger in his conclusion
that, if we had no other knowledge of its
collector, his herbarium alone would be
sufficient to vindicate Uvedale from Dawson
Turner's description of him as " more of a
florist than a botanist."*
And I would like, further, to believe with
him that not only these species (genus
Uvedalia of Petiver), but also the cedar that
he planted and the herbarium that he col-
lected, may for centuries to come keep alive
the memory of Robert Uvedale.
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
(To be continued.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See US. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276, 375 ;
12 S. i. 422 ; ii. 22, 141, 246, 286.)
PART XII.— T.
TAGHMON.
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TALLAGHT.
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TAMLACHT.
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TABA.
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MSS. relating to Templepatrick Presbyterian
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"History of the Town and County of Wexford.
Vol. V. includes Templetown (or Kilclogan)'
By P. H. Hore, M.R.I.A. London, 1900-11.
TERMONFECHIN.
Notes on the High Crosses of Termonfechin. &c.
Proceedings Royal Irish Academy. By Miss
Margaret Stokes. Edited by T. 3. Westropp.
Dublin, 1901.
THOMOND.
See Limerick.
TIPPERARY.
Social State of the Southern and Eastern Counties
of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century, being
Presentments of the Gentlemen, Commonalty,
and Citizens of Tipperary, &c. Edited by
Herbert J. Hare and Rev. J. Graves. Dublin,
1870. (Annuary of the Kilkenny Archaeo-
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THoly Cross Abbey : Triumphalia Chronologies
Monasterii Sancte Crucis in Hibernia. By
Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J. 1891.
History of Clare and the Dalcassian Clans of
Tipperary, &c. By Very Rev. Dean White.
Dublin, 1893.
History of the Ely O'Carroll Territory, or Ancient
Onnond, situated in North Tipperary and
North-Western King's Co., Ireland. By Rev.
John Gleeson. Dublin, 1915.
"The " Santa Croce " of Ireland, or Holy Cross
Abbey. By John B. Cullen. Catholic Truth
Society, Dublin, 1915.
TlRCONNELL.
Inis-Owen and Tirconnell : being some Account
of Antiquities and Writers of co. Donegal. By
Wm, J. Doherty, M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1895.
•See Donegal.
TRIM.
History of Trim. By Dean Butler. Trim, 1861.
A Ramble round Trim, with Notices of its
Celebrated Characters. By E. A. Conwell.
1878.
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of Trim. By John B. Cullen. Catholic Truth
Society, Dublin, 1915.
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"Restoration of St. Mary's Cathedral, Tuam.
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The History of the Catholic Bishops of Tuam,
from the Foundation of the See to 1881. By
Sir Oliver J. Burke. Dublin, 1882.
Notes on the Early History of the Dioceses of
Tuam, Killala, and Achonry. By H. T. Knoz.
Dublin, 1904.
-•St. Jarlath of Tuam By R. J. Kelly, K.C.
Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 191 o.
TULLAROWAN.
Survey of Tullarowan, or Graces Parish, in the
Cantred of Graces Country, and County of
Kilkenny. By Sheffield Grace. 1819. (Only
50 copies printed.)
TULLYRIJSK.
The Story of United Parishes of Glenavy, Camlin,
and Tullyrusk. By Rey. Chas. Watson, M.A.
TYRAWLEY.
Sketches in Erris and Tyrawley. By Rev. Caesar
Otway. Dublin, 1841.
TYRONE.
Statistical Survey of County Tyrone. By John
MacEvoy. Dublin, 1802.
Report on the Geology of the Co. of Londonderry,
and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. By
J. E. Portlock. 1843.
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WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
(To be continued.)
' SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE ' : ' MORE
FRUITS OF SOLITUDE.' — The anonymous
editor of ' A Collection of the Works of
William Penn,' 2 vols., folio, 1726, in the
' Life ' prefixed to the first volume, under
the year 1693 refers as follows to the publica-
tion of the first part of this little book of
maxims, of which R. L. Stevenson was such
an enthusiastic admirer : —
"Reflections and Maxims, relating to the Con-
duct of Human Life : an useful little book, which
has also passed many Impressions."
A second edition was published the same
year, a few months before Penn's first wife
Gulielma Maria died, " with whom he had
liv'd in all the Endearments of that nearest
Relation, about Twenty One Years." King's
Farm, Chorley Wood, an old timbered house
where they were married in 1672, still exists.
In the year 1701-2 the Princess Anne of
Denmark ascended the throne : —
'Our Author, being in the Queen's favour, was
often at Court, and for his conveniency took Lodg-
ings at Kensington : where he writ More Fruits of
Solitude, being a second Part of Reflections and
Maxims relating to the Conduct of humane Life.
Although it was written at this date, he
does not seem to have published it till the
year of his d£ath, 1718, when it was added to
the seventh edition of the first part. It was
a copy of this edition which was with
difficulty procured for the reprint of 1900,
edited by Mr. Edmund Gosse, and bore the
imprint : " London : Printed and Sold, by
the Assigns of J. Sowle, at the Bible in
George-Yard, Lombard Street, 1718."
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. is, ww.
The imprint of my own copy of the
'- Seventh Edition " differs from the fore-
going : " London : Printed and Sold by Luke
Hinde, at the Bible in George- Yard, Lombard
Street fn.d.]."
Apparently both were styled " Seventh
Edition." and issued from the same shop,
but by different booksellers.
C. ELKIN MATHEWS.
Shire Lane, Chorley Wood, Herts.
THE NAME TUBANTIA.— The recent sinking
of the largest American liner belonging to the
Koninklijke Hollandsche Lloyd aroused my
curiosity in respect of its name, Tubantia,
Being unable to gain any satisfaction about
its source, but finding that a Teutonic tribe
which inhabited part of the lower Rhine
lands was known as the Tubantes, I applied
to my friend Mr. J. F. Bense of Arnheim,
who kindly wrote me as follows : —
" As regards the name Tubantia, your surmise
is correct. The Tubantes were a tribe in the east
of Holland, the part which is- now known by the
name of Twente (or Twenthe), the east of the
province of Overijssel, north of Gelderland, and a
couple of hours' journey by rail from Arnheim.
This district of Twente is the main seat of the
industries in oxir country, and there is all our
cotton industry. The Tubantia plied between
Amsterdam and Buenos Ay res, and used to bring
home large cargoes of cotton."
The principal towns of this region appear
to be Enschede, Almelo, Hengelo, and
Rijssen. N. W. HILL.
WILLIAM DAY, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER :
HIS WIFE.— The ' Dictionary of National
Biography,' in the lives of William Barlow,
Bishop of Chichester, whose five daughters
married five bishops, and his two sons-in-law,
Herbert Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford,
and William Day, Bishop of Winchester,
states consistently that Anne Barlow married
Westphaling and Elizabeth Barlow married
Day. The source of this information is
Cooper's ' Athense Cantabrigienses ' (vol. ii.
p. 219). Cooper quotes from Day's will as
if he derived his information from thence,
whereas this, although it mentions Day's wife,
does not give her name. The will can be
seen at Somerset House (Prerogative Court,
Drake 72).
On the other hand, I have before me two
original deeds, in both of which her name is
given as Anne. The one is a feoffment of
William Cox, gent., William Day, mercer,
Robert Silitoe, and William Raynor, by
Robert Scrope, Thomas Ridley, and Francis
Pigott, in the manor of Ockholt, near Bray,
Berks, and bears date Aug. 30, 1583. At
this time William Day was Provost of Eton,
and the feoffees were to hold the manor for-
the sole use and enjoyment of his wife Anne
for life, and after for his son and heir ap-
parent William.
The other deed is an indenture of Nov. 7,
the same year, between the Provost and his
wife Anne of the one part and Thomas Ridley
of the other part, relating to a fine to be
levied of the same manor.
We have thus indisputable proof of the
lady's name. It now remains to find a
correction for that of Mrs. Westphaling.
HERBERT C. ANDREWS.
" SWANK." — In September, 1916, I was
told by a maidservant that the well-knowrv
slang word " swank " had now an added
signification : —
" When a man at the front and his young lady,,
or his wife if he has one, write to each other, they-
put ' Swank ' outside their letters. It means
' Sealed with a nice kiss,' because the initials of
the words spell ' swank.' "
Crosses put in letters to represent kisses
have, I think, already received notice in
' N. & Q.' L, C. N.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest?
to affix their names and addresses to their queries
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
SECOND FORTUNE THEATRE. — Sir Walter
Besant, in his survey of London, refers to
the above theatre as meeting with a disaster
similar to that which overtook the first
Fortune Theatre, namely, destruction by
fire. I have searched all the authorities, but
cannot find any corroboration of this state-
ment. Can any one supply it ?
MAURICE JONAS.
" DR. ' BY COURTESY. — Poe in his tale of
' William Wilson ' speaks of his old school-
master, the Rev. John Bransby, as Dr.
Bransby, though he did not hold that
degree. Perhaps some of your readers can
say if it was customary in England to address
clergymen by the title of " doctor," even
when they were not entitled to it. In
Scotland there would appear to have been
some such practice, as Gait in his ' Annals of
the Parish,' chap, xlvii., makes Mr. Cayenne
address the Rev, Micah Balwhidder as
" doctor," but the Rev. Micah is careful to
say, " though I am not of that degree."
Possibly Poe was following an American
custom. In the old Grammar Schools of
Scotland the assistant master was styled
" the doctor." R. M. HOGG.
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MONASTIC CHOIR - STALLS. — Why, in
monastic churches, are the stalls in the choii
arranged to face one another north and
south, and not, as would seem more reason-
able, to face the altar ?
I am aware that in our cathedrals and
parish churches the choir-stalls are arranged
on the monastic plan, but I believe that it
was not always so — that in pre-Reformation
times the choristers were placed in the loft
of the choir-screen, facing the altar.
Possibly this use was discontinued when
people were taught to disbelieve in the Real
Presence ; but why should monks and other
religious sit vis-d-vis ?
M. R. KINSEY.
Frensham Place, Farnham, Surrey.
A LOST POEM BY KIPLING. — Prof. Turner
prefaces his book on ' The Influence of the
Frontier on History ' with the following
lines of Kipling's : —
And he shall desire loneliness, and his. desire
shall bring
Hard on his heels a thousand wheels, a people, and
a king ;
And he shall come back o'er his own track, and by
his scarce cool camp
There he shall meet the roaring street, the derrick,
and the stamp.
Mr. Kipling himself has forgotten where
the poem was published, or what the rest
of it is ! Do your readers know the poem ?
ERIC BATTERHAM.
16 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, N.
MARAT : HENRY KINGSLEY. — Had Henry
Kingsley any historical authority for making
out, in ' Mademoiselle Mathilde,*' that Marat
once lived in Dorsetshire ? STUDENT.
WILLIAM CUMBERLAND. — According to
The Gent.'s Mag., 1792, pt, ii. p. 676, Lieut.
William Cumberland, R.N., fourth son of
Richard Cumberland, died July 9, 1792.
According to the same authority for 1833,
pt. i. p. 83, Rear-Admiral Cumberland,
youngest son of the celebrated dramatist,
died Nov. 15, 1833. The' Book of Dignities'
gives William as the Christian name of this
Rear-Admiral. Had Richard Cumberland
two sons bearing the same Christian name ?
G. F. R. B.
SIR NASH GROSE, PUISNE JUSTICE OF THE
KING'S BENCH. — According to the ' Diet.
Nat. Biog.,' xxiii. 274, he was a son of
Edward Grose of London. I wish to learn
further particulars of his parentage, the date
of his birth in 1740, and the date of his
marriage with " Miss Dennett of the Isle of
Wight." G. F. R. B.
MALET. — 1. Can any reader enlighten me
as to the connexion of the Uffords and Pey-
tons and Dashwoods of East Anglia, with the
Malet family ? I have seen somewhere that
the real name of the Uffords, Earls of
Sussex, was Malet de Ufford ; is this so ?
2. Who were the following, and what
connexion have they with the Somerset
Malet s? (i.) Sir Hugh Malet, styled first
miles and then dominus, who witnessed
documents at Salisbury from 1210 to 1223.
Is he the same as Hugh Fichet or Malet of
Enmore, Somerset, who died early in the
century? (ii.) Francis Mallet, Dean of Lincoln
during the reigns of Henry VIII. and Mary.
3. Can any one tell me where the Malets
of Normanton, Yorkshire, came from, and
whether there are any descendants alive
to-day ? If not, when did they die out ?
4. Can any one supply me with the
pedigrees of (i.) the Malets of Irby. Lincoln ;
(ii.) Mallets of Willoughby, Nottingham ;
(iii.) Mallets of Berkeley, Gloucestershire;
(iv.) Malets of Normanton: Yorkshire ?
G. MALET.
37 Porchester Square, Bayswater.
PAUL FLEETWOOD. — I am anxious to
ascertain whether a certain Paul Fleetwood
(baptized at Leyland, Aug. 9, 1688 ; buried
at Kirkham, 1727) had any male descend-
ants. He was a son of Richard Fleetwood
of Rossall, grandson of Francis Fleetwood of
Hakensall, and great-grandson of Sir Paul
Fleetwood of Rossall. I have reason to
believe that he had a son Henry Fleet-
wood, and a grandson Paul Fleetwood (born
1746, died 1808) ; and if any of your readers
could help me in the matter, I should be
very much obliged.
>H. E. RUDKIN, Major.
MARTEN FAMILY. — I should be pleased to
receive any information regarding : Edward
Marten, Mayor of Winchelsea in 1700 ;
W. Marten and Thos. Marten, who in 1753
signed the account book belonging to the
Chamberlain of the Winchelsea Corporation ;
Edward Marten and his heirs, who in 1716
owned property in Winchelsea called the
Firebrand. A. E. MARTEN.
North Dene, Filey, Yorkshire.
OFFICERS' " BATMEN." — There has been
some correspondence lately in the English
papers about officers' " batmen." I under-
stand a " batman " is a personal attendant.
I have been to India and other places in the
Indian Ocean where Indians act as personal
attendants. My " boy " or " bhoy " at
one place in India was an elderly gentleman
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with a heavy moustache ; and in an Eng-
lish colony I had a chokrah to look after
"my personal comforts, but never heard
the name " batman." Is it in ' Hobson-
Jobson ' ? I,. L. K.
[Batman is in the ' N.E.1).,' the first quotation
being from Wellington's dispatches in 1809.]
THE SIGHT OF SAVAGES. — Is it a fact that
in savages the sense of sight is exceptionally
keen ? What accounts of the matter are
the best to refer to ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN
THE NINTH WAVE. — Is it still believed that
the ninth wave is always the largest, and is
there any scientific reason for the belief ?
I have been told that it is referred to in
Tennyson's ' Holy Grail ' and in Virgil's
' ^Eneid/ but cannot find the quotations.
Will some reader kindly give me the exact
references ? Apparently it is also in
Ovid's ' Tristia,' Bk. I., but again I have
failed to find it, though I well remember
reading the statement in one of the well-
known Latin authors.
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[The allusion to the ninth wave in Tennyson
occurs in ' The Coming of Arthur '—in Bellicent's
story of the naked babe cast upon the shore by the
ninth wave,
gathering half the deep
And full of voices.
See also the discussion at 10 S. x. 445, 511 ; xi. 58.
At the second reference DB, MAIDLOW supplied
the lines in the ' Tristia,1 I. Eleg ii. 49-50.]
PORDAGE, A PRIEST, 1685. — On Jan. 27
and 28 in this year Evelyn heard this man
sing, after dinner, at the houses of Lord
Sunderland and of Lord Arundel of .Wardour.
He was then " newly come from Rome,"
and Evelyn says : " Pordage is a priest, as
Mr. Bernard Howard told me in private."
What was his Christian name, and what
is known of him ? Was he one of Samuel
Pordage's brothers ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
COLLA DA CHRIOCH. — In Joyce's ' Irish
Names of Places ' we are told that Colla da
Chrioch was one of the three Collas
(brothers) who in A.D. 332 conquered the
King of Ulster, and formed a new kingdom
called in later times " Uriel," comprising
the modern counties of Armagh, Louth, and
Monaghan. Joyce says the name " Colla-
da-Chrioch " means in Irish Colla of the
Two Territories, and that many noble
families in Ireland and Scotland reckon their
descent from him. Can any of your readers
supply information on the following points I—
1. The names and situation of the two
territories which formed his surname.
2. Did he at any time reign as King of
Uriel ?
3. When did he die, and where was he
buried ?
4. When and how did his descendant
MacUidhir become the possessor of the
county Fermanagh ?
R. M. MAGUIRE.
Bolckow Street, Middlesbrough.
CONSTABLE FAMILY. — Can any reader
kindly send me a pedigree of the Constable
family of Essex ? John Maurice Constable,
born in 1766-7, died at Wix in that county
in 1843, his wife Mary having predeceased
him in 1822. Their son, John Maurice, who
died at an early age, is commemorated by a
marble tablet in the ehurch at Wix ; and in
the same churchyard is buried their daughter
Mary, who married John Deane of Harwich
in 1816. Probably these Constables are
connected with John Constable, the artist,
born in 1775, within a few miles of Wix.
H. R. LINGWOOD.
15 Richmond Road, Ipswich.
BISHOP, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO
GEORGE III. — Can any reader supply, or
suggest means of obtaining, the following
particulars relating to a Private Secretary
of George III. whose name was Bishop ? — -
1. The date of his death.
2. Where he died.
3. His Christian name.
4. His birthplace.
5. The names of his father and mother,
and where they resided.
6. Any information relating to his family.
H. L. H. B.
OPERAS PERFORMED IN THE PROVINCES. —
It was advertised in The Flying Post of
Jan. 20/3, 1700 :—
" On the 17th of January the Opera Dioclesian,
was acted at Norwich, by Mr. Dogget's Company,
the Duke of Norfolk's Servants, with great Ap-
plause, being the first that ever was attempted out
of London."
Is there any evidence to show that this
claim was ill-founded ? A. F. R.
' SIR GAMMER VATJS.' — I have for a long
time been acquainted with fragments of an
old nonsense story which goes under the
above name. It is made up of all manner of
absurdities, and to the best of my recollection
opened like this : " T'other night, Saturday
morning about four o'clock in the afternoon
a little before sunrise," and goes on in the
same strain of contradiction. Are any of
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411
your readers acquainted with this remark-
able production, which, notwithstanding its
nonsensical character, has a good deal of
wit about it as it goes on ? W S.
" PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT." — Can any
reader teU me what was the origin and
meaning of " Members' Privileges," and the
•date when they were first started and when
they ceased, such as the right of franking
letters, which appears to have had its rise
•soon after 1660 ? An old writer says : —
" We may notice that though members' privi-
leges and immunities were numerous and im-
portant, they have frequently been counterbalanced
by some little peril. That same touchy jealousy of
Anything that looked like an infringement of
Parliamentary rights, or a touching of Parlia-
mentary dignity, was apt occasionally to turn
rather severely on individuals within the House as
well as without. A member was once sent to the
Tower for 'speaking out of season,' and Sir
William Widdrington and Sir Herbert Price were
•similarly committed merely for bringing in candles
when the august assembly did not wish to have
them."
I shall be grateful for any information.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
RALPH BOHUN :
CHRISTOPHER BOONE.
(12 S. ii. 321.)
THE special privileges which Founder's kin
formerly enjoyed at Winchester College were
abolished by an Ordinance, dated June 5,
1857, which the Oxford University Com-
missioners framed for the College under
powers given by an Act of Parliament of
1854, 17 and 18 Viet. c. 81. I say that, at
the outset of this attempt to answer MR.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT'S query concerning
Ralph Bohun's pedigree, because there is
one at least of the College officials who
continues to receive applications based upon
the idea that the privileges still exist.
When Ralph Bohun became a Founder's
Kin Scholar here in 1655, two rules, which
lasted until 1857, were already in force : —
1. The number of the Scholars of this class
who might be at the College at any one time
was limited to ten.
2. A candidate who was neither a Fiennes
nor a Bolney had to prove his descent from
an ancestress who had belonged by birth to
one or other of those families. The family
of Fiennes descended from the Founder's
own sister Agnes, and the family of Bolney
from Alice, his father's sister. The Fiennes
pedigree was the subject of a note of mine
at 10 S. xii. 123. The Bolney claim was
recognized as early as 3 Hen. V. (1415),
when Bartholomew, son of John Bolney of
Bolney, Sussex, was admitted to the College
as " C. F." (Consanguineus Funflatoris).
This Bartholomew Bolney became a Bencher
of Lincoln's Inn, and there used to be a brass
in West Firle Church, Sussex, commemorat-
ing him and his wife Eleanor. See Gage's
' Antiquities of Hengrave in Suffolk,' p. 227.
Some of his descendants in the male line
were of Witheringsett, Suffolk, and others
were of Tilehurst, Berks. See Metcalfe's
' Visitations of Suffolk.' p. 10, and ' Visita-
tions of Berkshire ' (Harl. Soc., vol. Ivi.) i. 72.
There was a third family, the Wykehams
or Wickhams of Swalcliffe, Oxfordshire, who
more than once made strenuous efforts to
establish their claim to be a root C. F. stock,
but they were never able to produce con-
vincing evidence in support of their case,
which was that our Founder, William of
Wykeham, was descended from a cadet of
their house.
The College possesses a manuscript book
of C. F. pedigrees, now kept in the muniment
room. It is the book which the late G. E.
Cokayne, the Herald, mentions in his
' Barker of Great Horwood, Bucks, and
Newbury, Berks ' (see ' Miscellanea Genea-
logica et Heraldica,' 3rd S., vol. iii.). I
value a copy which he gave me of the Barker
pedigree. The College book was, no doubt,
compiled with care, from the best available
sources, for practical use whenever a claim
to be C. F. needed consideration ; but it is
after all only a compilation, written mainly
in the earlier part of the eighteenth century,
and caution must be exercised in the ac-
ceptance of its contents. According to this
book, Ralph Bohun, the Scholar of 1655,
was C. F. whether he relied on his father's
descent or on his mother's.
According to the book (pp. 3, 13, 21), his
father Abraham was son of an earlier Ralph
Bohun, of Counden (or Coundon), Warwick-
shire, and Prudence, daughter of William
Howel or Hovel by Prudence, daughter of
John Danvers of Culworth, Xorthants ; and
the said John Danvers, whose wife wa-*
Dorothy, daughter of William Rainsford of
Tewe, Oxfordshire, was son of William
Danvers of Culworth and Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Fiennes, great-grand-
father of the Richard Fiennes who obtained,
in 1603, a patent recognizing his right by
inheritance to the ancient Barony of Saye
and Sele. The foregoing pedigree agrees
with that of Bohun or Boun of Coundon, as
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. n. NOV. is.
printed in ' Visitation of Warwickshire,
. 1682-3 ' (Harl. Soc., vol. Jxii.), pp. 39-41.
According to the same book (pp. 3, 13,
21, 29), Ralph Bohun's mother Elizabeth was
daughter of George Bathurst of Howthorpe,
Thedingworth, Northants, and Market
Harboro', Leicestershire, and Elizabeth,
daughter of Edward Villiers of Howthorpe
by Mary-, daughter of George Turpin ; and
the said George Turpin, whose wife was
Anne Quarles of London, was son of Sir
William Turpin of Knaptoft, Leicestershire,
and Elizabeth, sister of the above-mentioned
Richard Fiennes who obtained the patent of
1603. So says the book, but mark the
sequel.
As MB. WAINE WRIGHT has already stated,
and as the book also states (pp. 29, 45), the
said George Bathurst, Ralph Bohun's ma-
ternal grandfather, who had thirteen sons*
and four daughters, was the father of Sir
Benjamin Bathurst, father of Allen, 1st Earl
Bathurst ; and the Earl and his brothers
Peter (of Clarendon Park, Wilts) and Ben-
jamin (of Lydney, Gloucestershire) were
each of them blessed with issue — in fact,
Benjamin, who married twice, had no fewer
than thirty - six children (see Baker's
' Northamptonshire/ ii. 203 ; 1 S. vi. 106 ;
ix. 422). Between 1742 and 1838 fourteen
members of the Bathurst family, all descen-
dants of Sir Benjamin, the Earl's father,
became Scholars at Winchester, and nine of
these were admitted to the College as C.F.
Six of the nine afterwards proceeded as C. F.
to Wykeham's other foundation. New
College, Oxford, where also there were
privileges reserved for Founder's kin. Two
of the six were Henry Bathurst, that liberal-
minded Bishop of Norwich, and his son
Benjamin Bathurst, the British envoy to the
Court of Vienna who was mysteriouslv
murdered in 1809 (see 2 S. ii. 48, 95, 137";
7 S. xii. 307, 354 ; 11 S. iii. 46, 90). So the
family provided the Colleges with some
notable alumni.
However, in or about the year 1836 the
authorities at New College requested Heralds'
College to scrutinize the pedigree upon which
the Bathursts had been relying, with the
result that a flaw was found in it, and their
claim to be C. F. was upset. What the flaw
was I do not know, but if Kirby (' Annals.'
p. 106, n. 1) is to be trusted, it was dis-
covered that George Bathurst' s wife Eliza-
beth Villiers was not descended from Sir
William Turpin and his wife Elizabeth
Fiennes. This discovery affected not only
* See 3 S. viii. 127, 177, 217.
the Bathursts, but other families also, such
as the Pyes, the Bragges, and the Bullers,
whose claims had rested on theirs.
It is stated in Nichols's ' Leicestershire,'
iv. 225, that George Bathurst's wife Eliza-
beth Villiers had for her mother, not Mary,,
daughter of George Turpin, Sir William
Turpin's son, but Sibilla, sister of Sir George
Turpin, Sir William Turpin's father. If
Nichols was right on this point, then the
flaw in the Bathurst pedigree, as given in
the College book, is clearly disclosed.
If the Bathursts were not C. F., it follows
that Ralph Bohun had no valid claim to
be C. F. through his mother. H. C.
Winchester College.
There is a pedigree of Boone in Drake's
' Blackheath,' p. 223, not, however, precise.
There is on p. 222 an account of Christopher
Boone, merchant : " Born at Tauntonr
Somerset, a member of the Devonshire
f'emily seated at Boone' s Place, Dart-
mouth."
A foot-note states that according to
Evelyn " Mr. Boone was related to Dr.
Bohun, Fellow of New Coll."
Dr. Drake states : —
"Mr. T. Streatfeild sketched these arms in the
chapel at Lee : Bohun (ancient). The bend differ-
enced or, and charged with three escallops gulesr
impaling the ancient coat of the Barons Brewer
differenced by a chief vairee. (The arms of Sir
Gilb. de B., t. Edw. II., and of Gilb. B., Serjeant-
at-Law, t. Chas. I.— Dugd., ' Origin. Ju.,' 331).
Crest, a pair of bull's horns or, issuing from a
ducal coronet gules."
C. Boone married Mary Brewer.
"Mark Noble states that Tho. Boone, M.P., to-
conceal his obscure origin, pretended descent from
the Earls of Hereford. The arms certainly re-
sembled those of the great Bohuns. The transition
from Bohun to Boon can be seen in the parish
register of Bishop's Teignton, Devon."
It is stated that Lee Place was sold Oct. 22»
1824. R. J. FYNMORE.
GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE
( 12 S. ii. 327, 397).— Although it falls short by
four years of the longest tenure recorded at
the above reference, the case of the last three
incumbents of Hart land, North Devon, is
worthy of record. The Rev. Francis Tutte
was appointed in 1755 and resigned in 1796r
although he did not die until 1824, at the age
of 94. The Rev. William Chanter, who had
been assistant curate since 1787, succeeded
him, and held the living until his death in
1859, at the age of 92. The Rev. Thomas
How Chope followed, and continued until his
death in 1906, at the age of 81. Thus be-
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413
tween them they covered a period of 151
years.
What, however, is still more remarkable
is that the last two served the same church
over a period of nearly 120 years, viz. from
Feb. 11, 1787, when Mr. Chanter first signec
the Register, until Oct. 30, 1906, the date of
Mr. Chope's death, though it must be ad-
mitted that the former was non-resident from
1842 until his death, the duty being actualh
performed during that period by a succession
of assistant curates. With regard to the
first, it does not appear that he was ever
resident, though he visited the parish at
Christmas, 1755, and baptized two children
there. It is worth noting that Mr. Chanter's
son, the Rev. John Mill Chanter, who married
Charles Kingsley's sister, was Vicar of Ilfra-
combe for fifty-one years, and died in 1893, at
the age of 84. R. PEARSE CHOPE.
EAR TINGLING : CHARM TO " CUT THE
SCANDAL" (12 S. ii. 310). — There is an old
Derbyshire couplet which runs : —
Left for love, and right for spite ;
Either left or right is good at night.
A good many years ago an old lady wa_
heard to say on the occasion of her ear
"burning " :'" I'll wet it.and then they will
bite their tongue,"; arid, suiting the action
to the word, she wet her finger and touched
her ear with it. CHARLES DRURY.
12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
" Right for love, left for spite," is a
saying that I have known all my life. To
cut the spell the person whose left ear
tingles should tie a loop in a piece of string
or a leather lace. Some used to tear up a
tuft of grass and throw it away, and this
was common in parts of Derbyshire. To
do something in a rough or violent manner
was often considered a good way to stop the
working of a spell. THOS. RATCLIFFE.
Southfield, Worksop.
EDWARD HAYES, DUBLIN, AND HIS
SITTERS (12 S. ii. 350).— He was a member
of the Royal Hibernian Academy. I have
a clever miniature by him, signed ; his son
Michael Angelo was also a member, and was
secretary to that Academy, 1856-70.
Of the fifteen " sitters " I find the follow-
ing :—
J. D. Brett was Capt. John Davey, of
1842, and retired as major in 1852.
Wm. R. A. Campbell was William Richard
Newport, captain 1842.
Castlemaine was the 3rd Baron, then aged
58, dying in 1869.
Conyngham was th" 2nd Marquis then
aged 53, dying in 1 876 as a major-general.
Lieut. Cast wn-* ensign and lieutenant
Coldstream Guards, Horace William ; and
having just joined was — by adding rank to
his name — appreciative of the extra privilege-
enjoyed by Guardsmen.
J. Farrer was Capt. John, of 1847.
Wm. Fitzgerald was William Henry r
paymaster, ranking as lieutenant, of 1833,
2nd Battalion 60th King's Royal Rifle
Corps, aged then about 35.
Matthew Fortescue was the Hon. George-
Matthew, captain on half-pay, 25th Light
Dragoons.
J. F. Wittel Lyon was Henry Dalton
Wittit, lieutenant of 1847, 2nd Royal North
British Dragoons.
J. B. Macdonald was the Hon. J. W.
Bosville, a major on half-pay.
J. S. Mansergh was John S., a retired
lieutenant, 1850.
Charlie B. Molyneux was Charles Berkeley,
then a lieutenant, obtaining his troop in
1850.
George Paget was Lieut.-Col Lord George-
Augustus Frederick, commanding the 4th
Light Dragoon^, 1846.
Wm. St. (?) Sandes was Capt. W. Stephen,.
1847.
J. Goosey Williams was Samuel Toosey, a
captain 2nd Royal North British Dragoons,
1847. HAROLD MALET, Col.
Two of the sitters can easily be identified
as Lord George Paget, son of the 1st Marquis
of Anglesey, and at the period in question
commanding the 4th Light Dragoons, then
quartered in Ireland.
C. B. Molyneux was an officer in the same-
regiment, and the illegitimate son of a
certain Hon. George Molyneux, brother or
uncle of the Lord Sefton of that day.
Castlemaine and Conyngham are presum-
ably the peers bearing those titles. H.
E. Hayes, who worked chiefly as a
portrait painter in water colour and minia-
ture, was born in the county of Tipperary
in 1797. He studied drawing under J. S.
Alpenny or Halfpenny and at the Dublin
Society's School. Early in life he taught
drawing at various schools, and also practised
as a miniature painter in Clonmel, Waterford,.
and Kilkenny. In 1830 he sent his first
contribution to .the Royal Hibernian
Acaderm , and in the following year he went
to Dublin and practised as a miniature
painter.
From this time until 1863 he was a con-
stant exhibitor in the Royal Hibernian
Academy. He was elected an Associate
that Academy in March, 1856, and a Member
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in February, 1861. He died in Dublin on
Ma. 21, 1864, and was buried at Glasnevin.
Hayes was married in 1819, and was father
•of Michael Angelo Haves, a well-known
painter of horses and military subjects. A
portrait of Edwai-d Hayes a* a boy, executed
by J. S. Alpenny or Halfpenny, io in the
National Gallery of Ireland.
ARCHIBALD SPAEKE.
«
DUNS SCOTUS will find a biographical
sketch and two portraits of this painter in
vol. i. of W. G. Strickland's ' Dictionary of
Irish Artists,' 8vo, London and Dublin, 1913.
Castlemaine was evidently Richard, 3rd
Baron (1791-1869) ; and Conyngham, Francis
Nathaniel, 2nd Marquess (succeeded 1832,
died 1876). They were both soldiers, and
probably the other sitters were their fellow-
officer? stationed in Dublin in the years
mentioned. A reference to the Army Lists
of those years would doubtless give some
additional information.
EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'
AMERICANISMS (12 S. ii. 287, 334).— At
first I imagined that our good friend MR.
JOHN LANE was in a jocular mood when he
wrote under this head, but presently it
occurred to me that he has spent the greater
part of his life in London, where English of
the most anaemic kind is current, and many
genuine English words which are used in
Devon and elsewhere are unknown. '' Rare,' '
as meaning underdone, is usual in Scotland
and the North of England, and I have used it
in other parts of the country without being
misunderstood ; it may be that if food prices
continue to go up, " rare " meat will have
.another meaning, and we shall have to alter
our dictionaries.
" Fall " I have always regarded as an
Americanism. It is not even now in common
use in most parts of the country for the season
from which we are now suffering. It is not
as good a word as " autumn," which has been
in general use in our time and long before.
Not only Keats, but Chaucer, Tindale,
Shakespeare, Walton, Milton, Phillips,
Southey, Tennyson, Morris, Donne, Lang-
home, Fuller, Burns, Thomson, Hood, and
Logan used it ; and doubtless many others.
Since 1810, Liverpool has had an annual
Autumn Exhibition of pictures, &c., a long
record which almost establishes the some-
what unusual employment of the word as an
adjective.
" Jack " is good old English for " Knave,"
and in common use.
Hie cam-ing of a stick or umbrella
in town streets is usual in London and
in Edinburgh in my youth we should
have expected to catch cold as the result of
going out without one. But in many parts
of provincial England, including Liverpool,
this reminiscence of the ancestral anthro-
pomorphous ape is unusual — here, as in Xew
York, a man carrying a stick is at once
recognizable as a stranger, or a person out of
employment. Some of us used to carry
purses, but not many, except perhaps watch-
chain attachments for gold. The latter are
now of necessity quite out of use, and in
these war-times few of us have much need
for purses.
In Glasgow doctors in a middling practice
affect (or used to affect) consulting rooms in
busy streets, usually in buildings intended
for shops, where they attended at fixed
hours. These were, I believe, styled offices,
but I have never heard the word applied to a
" surgery " or consulting room attached to
a doctor's residence.
E. RlMBAULT DlBDIN.
64 Huskisson Street, Liverpool.
" Rear," signifying " underdone," is, or
till lately was, commonly to be heard
in North Lincolnshire. " Fall," meaning
" autumn," was constantly used by elderly
villagers thirty-five years ago. Though I
have not heard either of the words lately,
it is probable that they are still generally
current among farm-people. The rapid
decay of dialect is not so noticeable on out-
lying farms as it is in large villages and little
market town*;. Many words erroneously
considered as mere Americanisms are still
current in the rural districts of the British
Islands.
I may add that " fall " occurs in a Lincoln-
shire " print-book " : —
" Th' esh-tree 'at grew i' th' hoss-cloase blew up
i' th' wind last fall."—' Tales and Rhymes in the
Lindsey Folk-Speech,' by Mabel Peacock, 1886.
Surely, the word is also used occasionally in
ordinary English literature. R. E.
In mid-nineteenth-century days I used
frequently to hear the word "cricket" in
Northamptonshire. It, however, referred
to a low, four-legged stool, which is the
meaning given in Miss Baker's 'Northamp-
tonshire Glossary ' and also in Wright's
' Provincial Dictionary.'
The word " Jack"=the knave of cards,
has been familiar to me all my life, both in
Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. It
also duly appears in Baker and Wright.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Itchington, Warwickshire
128. ii.
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415
THE WARDROBE OF SIR JOHN WYNN OF
•GWYDYR (11 S. x. 469, 518). — A question was
Basked at the former reference as to the
meaning of "Pteropus" in the following
extract from an inventory of the year 1616 :
'"' One suite of Pteropus, laced with silke and
_!<)lde lace ; another suite of Pteropus, laced
with greene silke lace."
It was suggested that Thomas Pennant,
\vho printed the inventory in his ' Tours in
Wales,' 1783, put the word in italics as he
Avas puzzled by it. His son David Pennant
in the edition of 1810, and Sir John Rhys, in
his edition of 1883, kept the word in italics
and offered no explanation. It is certain
that the material is " Peropus." See the
~ X.E.D.,' where "Peropus" is defined a;
" a kind of fabric used in the early part of the
.seventeenth century, the same as or similar
to Paragon." " Paragon," by the same
authority, is denned as " a kind of double
•camlet ; a stuff used for dress and upholstery
in the seventeenth and early eighteenth cen-
tury." Among the varieties of spelling for
"Peropus" the 'N.E.D.' gives " Piropus "
-and " Pyropus."
The date of Sir John Wynn's inventory is
1616, and that the material in question was
fashionable at this time is shown by the
occurrence among the dramatis personse of
Kuggle's " Ignoramus,' first acted on March 8,
1614/15, of a tailor (vestiarius) with the name
Pyropus. J. S. Hawkins, in his commentary
on the play, does not give the explanation.
EDWARD BENSLY.
THE FRENCH AND FROGS (12 S. ii. 251,
293, 351).— In
"A Treatise of all Sorts of Foods Written
originally in French by the Learned M. L.
Lemery, Physician to the King and Member of the
"Royal Academy Translated by D. Hay, M.D
The Third Edition London MDCCXLV."
•chap. Ixix. is entitled ' Of Frogs,' and begins
thus : —
" There are several Sorts of Frogs, which differ
•in Bigness, Colour, and according to the Place where
they are bred. Your Sea-Frogs are monstrous, and
not us'd for Food. Your Land-Fro^*, called in
Latin Rauae Sylvextrc*, are very near like unto your
Water-Frogs, only that they are smaller : They are
not eaten neither : But Water- Frogs are much
us'd ; and you ought to chuse those that are plump,
fat, fleshy, green, and such as have been catched in
clear end pure Water."
After stating their medical properties as
food, and recommending them to" young and
bilious People, who have a good' Stomach,
and are wont to much Exercise," the writer
proceeds to ' Remarks,' the first of which is :
"' The Water-Frog is an Insect well known."
JOHN B. WAINKWUHJHT.
Although I have sat out many table*
(Vhote in France, I can only remember being
offered frogs' legs upon one occasion. This
was at the well-known Lille et D' Albion,
Paris, so largely patronized by English
travellers. The dish did not appear to
" catch on " with the guests. The delicacy
was so disguised in sauce, it was difficult
to tell what we were eating.
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS (12 S. i. 267,
335, 375, 457). — The question of the bishop's
ring is connected with another, formerly
studied in ' N. & Q.,' that of the ' Wedding
Ring and Left-Handed Marriage.' (See US.
xii. 258, 310, 366.) Both the bishop's ring
and the wedding ring had to be worn on the
fourth finger of the right hand ; as for the
bishop, the ring was a symbol of his spiritual
marriage with his church.
That the ring was sometimes worn on the
second finger of the same hand is shown in
the example in stained glass and in the
painting by Giotto, the only document of an
early date quoted by your correspondent
(12 S. i. 375). The apparent contradiction
between these two different facts is explained
by M. C. Enlart in his ' Dictionnaire
d'arch6ologie fran9aise, III. Costume.' p. 344.
According to Guillaume Durand (' De Ritibus
Ecclesiae,' II. ix. 37) the bishop had to wear
his ring on the fourth finger, when he was
officiating, but in any other circumstance —
for instance, when only blessing — he wore it
on the second finger " because this one was
called silentiarius or salutaris." But, as a
rule, it had always to be reserved to the
right hand ; the Pope Gregory IV., at the
beginning of the ninth centiiry, ordained so
in his ' De cultu Pontificum,' and forbade
any account being taken of the old idea about
the fourth finger of the left hand and its
onnexion with the heart by means of a
vein (loc. tit. C. Enlart), being adopted as the
'ing-finger for that reason.
It is very likely that the monuments upon
which Prof. Macalister grounded his opinion,
quoted at 12 S. i. 376, are of a rather late
period, as are most of the examples given by
the MARQUIS DE TOURNAY. The rules of
liturgy were then in full decay. On the
other hand, the precious stone on the ring
had an increasing importance, though the
amethyst was not yet, as far as I know, the
only jewel to be worn, as it is now, by the
bishops in Catholic countries. In old times
the ring of a bishop might be of any shape or
design, as, for instance, that of a cable, no
416
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. NOV. is, IOUL
rule existing ;,,buut. tl;ut ; 1 would
tiiat the rings in the form of a cable
should be studied, and I recommend for that,
of course, the precious works of Gay and
Dom Cabrol.
As for the dimension of the rings, they had
to be large enough to be worn, above the
liturgical gloves, because the bishops \isually
wore gloves both in reverence for the sacred
unction, and in order to prevent them from
touching anything with their naked hands
(according to the ceremonial for consecrating
the Kings of France written by order of
Charles V., quoted by C. Enlart, loc. cit.,
p. 384). PIERRE TURPIN.
Folkestone.
" FAUGH- A-BAIXAGH " (12 S. ii. 350). —
*' The Faugh- a-Ballagh Boys " was, and
probably is, cne of the nicknames of the
1st Battalion Princess Victoria's (Royal
Irish Fusiliers). John S. Farmer in ' The
Regimental Records of the British Army,'
1901, p. 203, says that the nickname came
from the war cry of the 87th at Barossa :
" Fag an Bealac "=" Clear the way." The
name is apparently changed familiarly into
" The Old Fogs." See ' Nicknames &
Traditions in the Army/ published by Gale
& Polden, 1891, p. 106.
At the time of the tattle cf Barossa the
regiment was " The 87th (The Prince of
Wales' s Irish) Regiment of Foot."
The nicknames of the 2nd Battalion, the
89th, were, and probably are, " Blayney s
Bloodhounds " and " The Rollickers."
ROBERT PJERPOINT.
In a foot-note to a poem of this title (recte
" Fag an Bealach ") by Sir Chas. Gavan
Duffy, he says " Fag an Bealach " (" Clear
the road "), or, as it is vulgarly spelt," Faugh
a Ballagh," was the cry with which the
clans of Connaught and Munster used in
faction fights to come through a fair with
high hearts and smashing shillelahs. The
regiments raised in the South and West took
their old ^hout with them to the Continent.
The 87th or Royal Irish Fusiliers, from their
use of it, went generally bv the name of
" The Faugh a Ballagh Boys." " Nothing,"
says Napier in his ' History of the Peninsular
War, " nothing so startled the French soldiers
as the wild yell with which the Irisn regiments
sprang to the charge" ; and never was that
haughty and intolerant shout raised in
battle, but a charge swift as thought, and
fatal as flame, came with it, like a rushing
incarnation of " Fag an Bealach."
EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'
| [MR. ARCHIBALD SPAKKE thanked for reply.]
" HAT TRICK " (12 S. ii. 70, 136, 178, 375)..
When I first went to Eton in 1863, the
getting of three wickets with successive ball-
was called " bowling a gallon," and the-
bowler was supposed to be awarded a gallon
of beer. Wrhether this was a local phraet
or not I cannot tell.
" YORKER" (12 S. ii. 209, 276, 376).— In
those days what is now called a " yorker "
was universally called a " tice," as the
batsman' was enticed to hit at it as if it
were a half- volley. I believe the word arose
from the fondness of some Yorkshire
players for this particular ball. The deriva-
tion " yerk " would appear to indicate some
difference in its delivery, whereas the bowlerV
action is exactly the same whether he sends
down a half-volley or a yorker.
JOHN MURRAY.
50 Albenmrle Street, W.
PHITJP WINTER [sa'c, but recte WINTON]
(12 S. ii. 266). — I am much interested in tht
subject of this queiy by S. T., but, from,
Winton family papers and MS. notes in my
possession, it is evident that " Winter''
must be either a mistake or misprint foi
Winton.
I have a copy of the entrv of Philip
Winton's marriage with Hannah North, at
Elland, March 2, 1772 ; and an original letter
from Capt. James Winton, dated March 26,
1841, in which he mentions that his father
married Hannah, daughter of Isaac North.
a farmer and coal-merchant at Wibsey, near
Bradford, co. York. In another letter hi
states that
"Philip Winton, my father, was born in Hereford-
shire ; where he was christened I do not know,
but from what I have heard he was not more than,
ii2 years older than myself. Therefore it mast be..
I presume, about the year 1750, or a little before."
Strange to say, he did not know his grand-
father's Christian name. " My late father's
mother was living when. I was a young man,"
he writes in another letter, " but I never saw
her, nor do I know where she was buried ;.
but, I believe in Herefordshire."
James Winton, the first child of Philip
Winton by Hannah North, was bom Dec. 5,.
1772, at Dumfries, where his father's regiment
(presumably the 4th or King's Own Regiment
of Foot) w«s then stationed. He obtained
a commission as ensign in the North
Middlesex Militia, March 26, 1798; served
with the 17th Foot in the expedition to
Holland, August to October, 1799, when
" H.R.H. the Duke of York was pleased to
promote him to a Lieutenancy, Signed in the
Field of Battle " ; captain and adjutant
12 s. ii. NOV. i8,i9ifi.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
417
2nd Salop Militia, 1803 ; and adjutant 3rd
(Wisbech) Battalion Cambridge Volunteers,
1807-8. He was on the half-pay list from
1 802 to 1 852 ; and died at Bonningues, near
Calais, Feb. 5, 1852, aged 80.
The Wintons were an old Herefordshire
family. A pedigree of the Wintons of
Thornbury was entered at the Visitation in
1683, but no Philip Wiriton appears to have
been baptized there between 1740 and 1750.
Perhaps .-some local antiquary can supply the
missing Jink. R. G. F. U.
Services Club, W.
"CARDEW" (12 S. ii. 299, 336, 397).— In a
pedigree among my late father's papers, he
being F. B. Garnett, C.B., the descent is
described of Dr. Cornelius Cardew (1748-
1831) as seventh from John Cardue, who
married Margaret Moore, Aug. 15. 1564 ;
together with a communication, dated
July 30, 1886, to my father, by Dr. Richard
Garnett, C.B., British Museum, enclosing a
<copy of a singular entry in the Parish
Register of St. Erme, county of Cornwall,
respecting the death and resurrection of
Francis Cart hew, rector in 1699, as follows : —
"Francis Carthew, minister of St. Erme, died
one night and revived the next morning, by the
-operation of the mighty God, and now records this
truth. He was not put into a coffin, but died in
his bed. And unless thou believes that God can
rise the dead, He will damn thee forever. He
died lastly in July. 1731."
" Mary Lukey Cardew, daughter of Samuel and
Blanch Warren, died at Saint Erme on Sep-
tember llth, 1808, in the ooth year of her age, and
was inhumed at Truro. her native place. As a
memorial of her friendly disposition, unaffected
piety, and faithful discharge of her various duties
as daughter, sister, wife, and mother this marble
was erected by her husband, Cornelius Garde w.D.D.,
Hector."
This latter was known as the " School-
master of the West," and his first wife,
Elizabeth Brutton, was an ancestress of
mine, as also of Sir Frederic Cardew,
K.C.M.G. , who has lately compiled a list
numbering over one hundred descendants of
this union now serving as commissioned
officers in the present European war.
From lines written for the anniversary of
Tniro Grammar School in 1829, quoted in
Polwhele's ' Biographical Sketches in Corn-
wall,' vol. i., are these : —
And thou, Cardew, dear venerable sage !
O rich in virtue as thou art in age ;
Shall we forget from whom instruction came
Which pointed thus to fortune and to fame ?
Ah no ! as long as learning shall endure
Amidst these walls still classically pure,
So long her sons shall own thy dignity,
Themselves still honouring while they honour
thee.
In my early days, when staying with the
late Surgeon-General Turner, who had
formerly been the medical officer of my
grandfather Sir John Laurie's battery of
Bombay Horse Artillery, I used to visit a'
his house in Marlborough Buildings, Bath,
Inspector-General Cardew, the retired chief
of the Indian Medical Service.
Dr. Turner, who was a jocular local
character, said Cardew was pronounced as if
spelt Cadew, the reverse of " You cad."
But this, of course, although true, wa?
intended for a joke, as he was a great friend
of the Cardew family, which has given so
many gallant sons to the service of the State.
I hope my remarks, including several
different spellings of this surname, may
interest your correspondents and help to
elucidate the real meaning of the name.
F. W. R. GARNETT.
The Wellington Club.
NAVAL RECORDS WANTED, c. 1800 (12 S.
ii. 330, 375, 398). — There exist at the Record
Office the following naval records, among
others, of the date in question : —
1. Steele's (printed) ' Royal Navy List ' —
to be seen by permission only. Students
have no right to it.
2. Royal Navy and Marine Commission
Lists.
3. Ships' Muster Books.
4. Ships' Log Books.
The books of the Statira would show when
D. B.'s great-grandfather was first borne on
her, and when he left, and the names of the
ships from and to which he was transferred
on those respective occasions.
The Commission Lists would give the date
of his first and subsequent commissions and
retirement.
I have myself worked out in this way
the whole naval career of John Thurtell,
the murderer, who was for some years in
the Marines, and have been able to show
that on the day when San Sebastian fell,
he was not there, as was alleged, but his ship
was moored in St. Helen's Road?.
ERIC R. WATSON.
JAMES FENTON, RECORDER OF LANCASTER
(12 S. ii. 266). — John Fenton Cawthome,
M.P. Lincoln, January, 1783, till expelled the
House, May 2, 1796 '(see Gent, Mag., 1796.
part ii. pp.' 839, 928) ; M.P. Lancaster, 1806
to 1807, 1812 to 1S18, and 1820 till he died,
March 1, 1831 ; defeated candidate a.
Preston, 1780, Lancaster, 1780, 1802, 1807,
and 1818; seconded the Address, Jan. 21.
1790; of Wyerside, Lancashire: son of
James Fenton, who married Elizabeth
418
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 «. n. NOV. is,
. daughter of John Cawthorne, and took th
surname of Cawthorne in May, 1781 (whon
he succeeded as Recorder of Lancaster
December, 1701) ; matriculated from Queen'b
College, Oxford (as Fenton), April 29, 1771
aged 18 ; created M.A., June 1, 1775
admitted to Gray's Inn, Feb. 9, 1792 ; took
the additional surname of Cawthorne between
1775 and 1780 ; married Hon. France?
Delaval, third daughter of Lord Delaval,
and came into a large fortune on that
nobleman's death, May 21, 1808. He was
colonel of the Westminster Battalion of the
Middlesex Militia from May 21, 1791 (being
granted the rank of colonel in the array so
long as that regiment was embodied,
March 14, 1794), till April, 1796, when he
was tried by court martial and found guilty
on several charges. His successor was
made colonel July 25, 1796. W. R. W.
ST. NEWLYN EAST (12 S.ii. 228,317).— The
cross in the churchyard of St. Newlyn East
was erected as a memorial to those who died
of typhoid fever in 1880. The disease raged
in the little village, and 130 were stricken,
though only between twenty and thirty died,
and " many of these were taken away for
burial." The diocesan chaplain of Truro
(Rev. A. L. Price) sends me the following
particulars of the memorial : —
" The disease was evidently caused by the drink-
ing of bad water. The village is still badly supplied
with drinking water, having only three wells from
which to obtain its supply. The cross was erected
in the churchyard during the vicariate of Arch-
deacon Du Boulay. I gather that practically all
the parish contributed to the fund tor a memorial
It is said that the stone upon which the cross
stands is the base of the eld. churchyard preaching
cross, which was dug up from the south porch,
where it had served for many years as a paving
stone. On December 31, 1880, Dr. Benson, first
Bishop of Truro, preached at a solemn service in
the church in remembrance of God's visitation in
an epidemic of typhoid fever."
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
PERPETUATION OF PRINTED ERRORS (12. S.
ii. 87, 177,239). — Attentionmay fitly be called
under this head to an error in the printing of
the well-known hymn " Jesus shall reign
where'er the sun," which, though it entirely
alters (and spoils) the sense of the original,
is very common : the word l< princes " is
put for " praises " in the line,
And. praises throng to crown His head.
The alteration would almost seem to have
been in the first instance intentional,
although the Psalm paraphrased has : " For
him shall prayer be made continually, and
daily shall he be praised."
Another misprint occurs in the same-
hymn as given in the collection, ' Church
Hymns,' where we read : —
The prisoner leaps to loose his chains,
an error which persists in successive editions..
C. C. B.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIEB'S HYMN (12 S_
ii. 329). — The first version quoted is probably
only Pope touched up b^ some bold anony-
mous editor after 1791. It figures in many
prayer-books and hymnals of Catholics in
England to this day. The better (second)-
version seems to be Pope's beyond doubt.
The ascription to Dryden looks like a rather
natural slip of Prof. Fit zmaurice- Kelly, who
must have known of the strong tradition that
Dryden translated a number of Latin.
Breviary hymns into English. L. I. G.
TOUCH WOOD (12 S. ii. 330).— To touch
wood as a sign of success, or to clinch a
bargain, is not so often done as was formerly
the case. In the course of a hand at whist
I have seen a player, when he and his
partner have taken the odd trick and secured
honours as well, dump his thumb on the
table and say in a tone of triumph : "I
touch wood." The same would be done on
other occasions when a winning point or
score has been made. To touch wood in a
demonstrative way is a token of a win or a
:riumph over an opponent. In some games
to exclaim " I touch wood " makes the player
ixempt from penalties, and if he forgoes his
ixemption it is done by exclaiming : "I
touch — no wood." A couple of men on
oncluding a deal or a bargain will both
ouch wood with their thumbs, thus ratifying
or clinching it, and in most cases it is looked
on as binding with both. I never knew any-
one explain the why and wherefore of it, and
. should be glad to know the origin, as the-
labit has always interested me.
Worksop. THOS' RATCUFTE.
ST. GENEWYS (12 S. ii. 349).— Baring-
ould and Fisher in ' The Lives of the
British Saints ' (iii. 247) say : —
" In the Demetian Calendar (S)t of which the
earliest copy is of the sixteenth century, are
entered two brothers, Gwynen and Gwynws, who
re said to have been sons of Brychan ; but the
name of either does not occur in any one of the
lumerous lists of Brychan's children. They are
jommemorated on December 13.
" Of Gwynws but next to nothing is known. It
s quite possible that he was the Guinnius men-
ioned in the ' Vita S. Paterni ' as one of the four
jersons (duces) whom that Saint set over the
monasteries and churches ' that he [had founded
n Ceredigion."
12 a. ii. NOV. is, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
419
The passage referred to in the ' Life of
St. Paternus ' is : —
" Tune Paternus monasteria et ecclesias per
totam Cereticam regionem edificavit, quibus
duces statuit, idem Samson. Guinnius, Guipper,
Nimanauc." — 'Cambro-British Saints,' 191.
Of a saint of whom so little is known as of
Genewys it is possible to believe anything.
DAVID SALMON.
One wonders, and ventures an hypothesis
as to this saint with the professed Scotton
dedication in co. Lincoln — is he a possible
variant of Genys, Bishop and Martyr ?
According to Fisher and Gould's ' Lives of
British Saints,' vol. iii., he is connected with
the church deanery of Trigg Minor in North-
East Cornwall, and is supposed to be a
substitute for Gwynys, son of Brychan.
Llandough in Glamorganshire was formerly
dubbed Llangenys. Identity remains un-
solved. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
Miss Arnold-Forster discusses the question
in ' Studies in Church Dedications,' vol. i.
pp. 477-8, and assumes, " in the absence of
more particular knowledge," that this saint
is Genesius, Bishop of Clermont.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
MARY, QUEEN or SCOTS (12 S. ii. 311). —
The best account of the battle of Langside
("Langdyke") is to be found in 'The
Battle of Langside, 1568,' by the late
Alexander M. Scott (Glasgow, Hugh Hopkins,
1885). Besides a detailed account of the
battle itself, this narrates the events that led
up to it ; gives a description of the disposition
of the Queen's and the Regent Moray's
forces ; the roads leading to Langside from
Hamilton and Glasgow ; of the battlefield
itself ; and of the subsequent events. There
are also chapters on the armour and
weapons of the period, relics of the battle,
and last (but not ^east) an excellent map of
the locality.
It may interest those who are not ac-
quainted with the locality to know that
the battlefield, though now actually in the
city of Glasgow, and largely built over, can
stiil be traced. One can- follow the road by
which the Queen's forces advanced, and
walk up the actual road, formerly the
" Lang Loan," but now dignified with the
name of Battlefield Avenue, which her army
pushed up to come to grips with Moray s
men. It is only a few years since one could
see the hedges, or rather the successors of the
hedges, behind which Kirkaldy of Grange
posted his hagbutters ; and portions of the
buildings where Moray drew up his left
wing still exist. T. F. D.
HOUSE AND GARDEN SUPERSTITION'S (12 S.
ii. 89, 138, 159, 214). — 5. It io generally
believed in this part — and my repeated ex-
periments tend to its confirmation — that the
cuttings of the sweet-potato stems, if planted
upside down, will unerringly bear copious
flowers and en revanche poor roots.
KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.
Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 26, 93,
331). — I should like to ask DR. J. L. WHITE-
HEAD, after thanking him for his deeply
interesting communique, why he says that
Peter Mewys or Mews died before 1597.
Was his will proved in that year ? And if
so, where ? STEPNEY GREEN.
Jlofcs 0n
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
October, 1914 — May, 1915. No. LXVII.
(7s. 6d. net.)
Outside the Bamirell Gate : Another Chapter in
the Intimate History of Mediceval Cambridge.
By the Hev. H. P. Stokes. (Cambridge, Bowes
& Bowes ; London, G. Bell & Sons, 5s. net.)
DR. STOKES'S pamphlet is printed for the Cam-
bridge Antiquarian Society, a learned body which
finds, doubtless, a sufficient local public for its
transactions, but which is well worth the attention
of the outside world. The papers in the number
before us offer several points of interest. Prof.
McKenny Hughes returns to a subject he has
already discussed in a paper ' On Some Objects
found in the King's Ditch under the Masonic
Hall.' Cambridge, owing to its low-lying position
on the river, was from early times abundantly
provided with ditches, and older plans of the
town show how numerous they were. In the
days when sanitation was not in vogue, these
ditches gradually filled up with either mud or
rubbish, or were strengthened with more solid
matter in order to bear a building. When cleaned
out, the ditches began to fill in again, and some-
times received some of their old contents. So
the succession of objects left for archaeologists
is not always a regular sequence by date. The
King's Ditch has a very respectable pedigree,
for it was ordered to be cleaned by Henry IV.
The portion examined in 1914 is close to Pem-
broke. It included an extraordinary number of
horses' heads, the animals being, the Professor
suggests, killed for food. The remains of sheep,
and a blade of a pair of shears, he refers to a
Scotch form of a dish praised by Sir Walter Scott,
" sheep's head," in which the wool was first
clipped and then singed off. Some tobacco pipe-
stems were found embedded in earthenware, and
are illustrated, but the most curious discovery
u-.-is that of two book-covers, which have been
identified as the work of Garrett Godfrey, 1525-30.
The design on them shows the gateway <>t
the castle of Castile and the pomegranate of
Catharine of Aragon.
In her Notes on ' Cambridgeshire Witchcraft '
Miss ('. E. Parsons explains the practices of this
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tnagic as it exi-ts to-day in a small parish in the
•count >. Mr. (i. (J. Conlton has a well-illustrated
-article on (!><• casual inscriptions which idle hands
in medi;eval clays made on the chinch-built
churches of the Eastern Counties. They are not
so foolish as the remarks left in public places by
Tom. Dick, and Harry to-day, but some of them
are trivial, fond records which gain a new interest
after many centuries. The drawings are mostly
rude in outline; the archer, for instance, ligured
from Whittlesford might have come from the
nursery. There are some puzzles to be solved
which have so far evaded Mr. Coulton and his
learned helpers. Finally, we notice, again by
Prof. Hughes, a paper on ' Acoustic Vases in
Churches traced back to the Theatres and Oracles
of Greece,' which gives a useful list of literature
bearing on the subject, and raises various sug-
gestive queries concerning the uses of such vessels.
They are often found in a position which renders
them useless for resonance, but the Professor
conjectures that they played an important part
in the oracles of the Pythian priestess. In fact,
she sat on such a vase because its resonance added
to what Milton calls the " hideous hum " of the
shrine.
Dr. Stokes's reconstruction of Cambridge
outside Barnwell Gate in the fourteenth century,
with a map, should interest all those who know
the ground and have a taste for history. Here
again we come across the King's Ditch, and learn
of the foundation of the God's House which
became Christ's College, and of the Black Friars'
Monastery, which, after the despoliation of Henry
VIII. .passed ultimately into Emmanuel College.
Dr. Stokes ranges over a period both earlier and
later than his map, and marshals skilfully the
scanty evidence available. Hostels, old estate
-deeds, chapels, the watercourses still specially
characteristic of Cambridge, and the Spinning
House which held notorious characters at the end
of the nineteenth century — all yield up their lore
under the author's eye, and we learn shocking
things of the unreformed Corporation of Cam-
bridge in the nineteenth century. Dons and
tradesmen were both pretty casual in those days,
as readers of the free-and-easy reminiscences of
Gunning will readily believe.
The Centenary of the Battle of Waterloo : Hmc it
was commemorated at Certain Places in England,
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales by the Royal
Regiment of Artillery. By Major J. H. Leslie,
R.A. (Woolwich, printed at the Royal
Artillery Institution Printing House.)
THE compiler of this booklet, whose name is very
familiar to our readers, was himself the originator
of this commemoration. Search was made in
the early part of June, 1915, for the graves or
monuments of officers and men of the Royal
Regiment of Artillery who had served at Waterloo,
and on the centenary day of the great battle a
wreath of laurel leaves, red roses, and dark blue
iris (or cornflowers) was laid upon each of the
forty that had been discovered. Artillery officers
or their relatives for the most part performed
this function, with so much in the way of cortege
and ceremony as each several place could pro-
vide. Naturally, these were most impressive at
Woolwich. A white card, printed in red and
blue, and bearing a drawing of a Waterloo ar-
tillery-man (by Col. E. A. P. Hobday, R.A.), was
attached to each wreath, and expressed verbally
the salutation of their " brother officers of to-
day" to 1h<- mane.- of Hie Waterloo men.
Major Leslie gives us a full list of the forty
whose memory was thus honoured, with bio"-
graphicalpArticulai>. several full-page portraits,
a norp-nfttie person to whom in each case it fell
to lay the wreath in its place, and some account
of the ceremony with which it was done. Every-
where the plan seems to have been carried out
as happily as it had been conceived.
Those of our readers who are interested in the
detail of military biography should certainly
make a note of this brochure.
The 'Daily New*' Any Year Calendar for T »-o
Centuries. Compiled by Herbert Atherton.
(London, The Daily News Office, M. net.)
WE should like to draw our readers' attention to
this compilation, which we ourselves have already
found useful. It consists of a sheet of moderate
size, bearing seven lettered calendars with a table
of the years which belong to the several letters,
and the requisite corrections for leap years. The
two centuries are 1800-2000. It is thus "possible, by
means of three glances, to find the day of the week
upon which fell any date within this period. One
could hardly have the business of verification made
simpler or easier. The Calendar may also be ob-
tained printed in colours, and mounted on card-
board for hanging ; and we certainly think it would
be worth acquiring by most people whose business
is with history, or with records of the past.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
ON all communications must be written tne name
and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub
Ucation, but as a guarantee of good faith.
To secure insertion of communications corre-
spondents must observe the following rules. Let
each note, query, or reply be written on a separate
slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and
such address as he wishes to appear. When ans%yer-
ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous
entries in the paper, contributors are requested to
put in parentheses, immediately after the exact
heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to
which they refer. Correspondents M-ho repeat
queries are requested to head the second com
munication " Duplicate."
Miss S. CORNER, MR. R. PIERPOINT, and
G. W. E. R.— Forwarded.
M. HENRI VIARD.— Forwarded to MR. F. H.
CHEBTHAM.
MR. J. ARDAGH.— A bibliography of articles on
the present war is being compiled in The Athenaum
Peiiodical Index ; and our correspondent MR. R. A.
PEDDIE is also compiling one of books with the
assistance of a friend.
CORRIGENDUM. — Ante, p. 373, col. 1, 1. 12 from
foot, for " brother Leonard " read brother Edward.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER :.'.:, 191G.
CONTENTS.— No. 48.
:— Payment of Members : a Zone System of Allow,
ance, 421— The Grammar School, Entield, 423— Inscrip-
tions in the Burial-Ground of the Chapel Royal, Savoy,
425— Cyprus Cat— Hardv's 'The Three Strangers '— War
Jewellery of Iron— Midsummer Fires and Twelfth-Day
Fires in England, 427— German and Austrian Princes
killed in the War -Magic Drum, 428.
•QUERIES :— Forrester, Simpson, Dickson. and Anderson,
428 — Author Wanted — Stevenson -Peirson — Manora,
Manareh— Nances of the Moon—" ffoliott "and " ffrench "
—The Ghazel— Col. J. Suther Williamson, R.A.— Prof. T.
Winstanley— Boat-Race won by Oxford with Seven Oars-
Bath Forum, 429— Effect of War on a Nation's Physique-
Spanish Women and Smoking— Tiller Bowe : Brandreth :
Rackencrookp : Gavelock : Maubre— Timothy Constable-
Numbering; Public Vehicles— Chapels of Ease : Tithe
Barns — Hungary Hill, Stourbridge — John Prudde :
" King's Glazier," 430.
'REPLIES: — An Euglish Army List of 1740— Mews or
Mewys Family, 432 -Harding of Somerset. 434— Farmers'
Sayings— Will of Prince Rupert^The Third Yellow quilt,
435 — Edward Herbert, M.P.— " Septem sine horis "—
Authors Wanted— Certain Gentlemen of the Sixteenth
Century, 436— ' The Morning Post,'— Restoration of Old
Deeds and Manuscripts, 437— Right Hon. Sir Andrew R.
Scoble— St. Inan, 438.
NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' The True History of the Conquest
of New Spain.'
'Books of the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century.
Notices to Correspondents.
PAYMENT OF MEMBERS:
A ZONE SYSTEM OF ALLOWANCE
IN EARLY TIMES.
IT is a commonplace of our Parliamentary
Tiistory that members of the House of
•Commons, in its earliest days of directly
representative existence, were paid for their
services, 4«. daily being chargeable upon
the localities concerned for each knight
of the shire, and 2s. for each burgess. The
usual assumption has been that the number
of days paid for in the respective instances
indicated the number of attendances put in
at the Parliament House ; but examination of
. the writs would seem to show that it really
•embraces the official estimate of the time
occupied by members in travelling to and
from the place of meeting, which" was not
invariably Westminster, as well as the actual
period of sitting. It looks, indeed, as if
there were recognized by the authorities
•concerned a kind of zone system, members
^receiving a steadily increasing allowance the
farther away they dwelt ; for the Parliamen-
tary representative in those times \vas
regarded as coming directly from the con-
stituency he was chosen to represent, and
returning thither immediately his legislative
work was done.
This theory can be tested from various lists
of the writs de expensis preserved in the Close
Rolls ; and one of the most complete — that
of the Parliament of 37 Edward III., sum-
moned to meet at Westminster on Oct. 6,
1363 — specially deserves analysis on that
head. On Oct. 30 an order was issued at
Westminster to the sheriffs of counties, and
the mayors and bailiffs of cities and boroughs,
for payment of the expenses of members in
coming to Parliament, there abiding, and
thence returning, for a specified and varying
number of days. The maximum allowance
was for forty-one days ; and the following
table will illustrate my theory of a zone
system of allowances : — D
Middlesex 24
Herts and Surrey . . . . . . 27
Beds, Berks, Bucks, Cambs, Essex, Hants,
Hunts, Kent, Northants, Oxon, and Sussex 29
Leicester, Rutland, Suffolk, Warwick, and
Worcester . . .... . . . . 31
Gloucester, Hereford, Norfolk, Notts, and
Staffs 33
Dorset and Salop . . . . . . . . 35
Somerset . . . . . . . . 37
Westmorland . . . . . . . . 39
Cumberland and Northumberland . . . . 41
Only four writs for cities and boroughs are
given in the ' Calendar of Close Rolls,
Edward III., 1360-64,' pp. 556-8, from which
I have taken the above figures ; and these
show thirty-nine days as the time allowed
for members coming from such constituencies
situated in Devon and forty-one for those
from Cornwall, " Chepyngetoriton " (Great
Torrington) supplying the former illus-
tration, and ' Dounhevedburgh " (Dun-
heved, otherwise Launceston) the latter.
The writ for neither Cornwall nor Devon
is preserved, but the fact that the members
for the towns of Bedford and Oxford
were allowed for twenty-nine days, the
same as their respective knights of the
shire, may be taken as proving the exist-
ence of a regular system applicable to
members all round, precisely according to the
time they could be considered legitimately
to take, not only in abiding at the place where
Parliament assembled, but in coming thereto
and thence returning.
It may be noted that, beyond the orders
for payment, thus made, allowances were
directed for longer periods for certain
legislators " who by order of the king abode
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at London seven days longer to take part in
orders made in the said Parliament " ; and
here again a zone system is to be detected in
the following figures : —
Days
Beds and Berks . . . . . . . . 36
Wilts 38
Derby 40
Lincoln . . . . . . • . • • 42
Yorks 44
Lanes . . . . ... • • • • . . 46
Beds and Berks, it will be observed, appear
in both lists, but that is because one member
was taken and the other left for each of these
shires, while both representatives were
ordered by the king to remain for each of the
other shires just named ; and it would be
interesting to know the cause. This, in-
deed, was not the earliest example of such
special detention, for to the Close Roll of
Feb. 14, 1338, dealing with the first Parlia-
ment of that year, summoned to meet at
Westminster on the 3rd of that month (the
second being summoned to meet at North-
ampton on the following July 26), a memoran-
dum was attached noting that certain of the
knights, citizens, and burgesses stayed at
London three days beyond the time of the
first licence, by reason of a proclamation of
the king, and, therefore, they had that
number of days allowed to them in the
writ de expensi's (ibid., 1337-9, p. 389). The
explanation I would suggest is that these
members remained behind their colleagues
in order to sit as a committee appointed for
a special purpose. Josef Redlich, in his
monumental study of ' The Procedure of the
House of Commons ' (edition of 1908), gives
precisely this period as that at which com-
mittees first seem to have been appointed,
furnishing extracts from ' Rotuli Parliamen-
torum' of 1340 and 1341 in support of this
view (vol. ii. p. 203) ; and I submit these
facts from the Close Rolls in further aid of
the argument.
One more illustration may be given of the
working of the zone system of payment, and
that is from the Parliament summoned to
meet at Westminster on Feb. 24, 1371,
when the number of days paid for varied
from thirty-five to fifty-one, as follows : —
Days
Middlesex and .Rutland .. .. ..35
Herts, Kent, and Surrey . . . . 37
Beds, Berks, Bucks, Cambs, Essex, Hants,
Hunts, Northants, Oxon, and Sussex . . 39
Gloucester, Leicester, Norfolk, Suffolk, Wilts,
and Worcester . . . . . . 41
Derby, Dorset, Hereford, Lincoln, Notts,
Salop, Staffs, and Somerset . . . . 43
Yorks 47
Devon, Lanes, and Westmorland . . 49
Cornwall, Cumberland, and Northumberland 51
Here again the writs for cities and boroughs
give like allowances as for the counties in
which they were situate, as, for example : —
Days
Guildford 3T
Oxford 39
Leicester and Warwick . . . . . . 41
Kingston-upon-Hull . . . . . . . . 47"
Donhevedburgh (Launceston), Lostwithiel,
and Newcastle-upon-Tyne . . . . . . 51
Ibid., 1369-74, pp. 288-90.
There is a fresh point to be noticed, how-
ever, in regard to this later Parliament. The -
original writ of expenses was issued in
February ; but when, two months later, it
was felt desirable to consult the legislature
again, a " warning " was issued by the king
that,
"as it would be burdensome for all the lords,,
knights, citizens, and burgesses who at his com-
mand came to the Parliament last holden to be
assembled a second time for that cause, in order
to spare them labour and expense, he had ap-
pointed to hold speech and treaty with certain of
them touching the premises."
Only one of the two members for each con-
stituency, therefore, was summoned to this
resumed Parliament, and he apparently the
first on the list, " if yet living, or otherwise -
their fellows who were elected with them so
to do"; and such were to come without
excuse to Winchester in the ensuing
octaves of Trinity to make a grant to the-
king (ibid., pp. 297-8).
This care for the comfort of the member
as well as for the cost to his constituency is
— at all events, in the latter respect — of a
piece with the systematic graduation of the-
allowance for expenses to the days it was
necessary for the legislator to be away from
home on business of State. One would like
to find, however, whether any check existed
on such members as represented two con-
stituencies— a not uncommon occurrence
in our early Parliamentary days — so as to
ensure that they did not draw a double
share of allowance. I am the more moved
to raise this point because on March 21, 1332,
there was issued a writ to Roger Byle, as
member for Tavistock, for 36s., his allow-
ance for eighteen days' service, and one to
Roger Byle " of Lenecote," as member for
Launceston, for 40s. for twenty days'—
the Devonshire borough thus, in the way
already shown to have been usual later,,
having to pay two days' less allowance than
the Cornish. As the constituencies named
are not twenty miles apart, I suspect that
these writs were given to the same man ;
but the Tamar was so very decided a
boundary between Devon and Cornwall, and
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423
the intercourse between the two towns was
so markedly and even jealously limited, even
down to our own day, that he would have
had no great difficulty in getting his expenses
paid by each place without detection (ibid.,
1330-33, p. ,552). The whole story, indeed,
presents various problems of interest, to the
local as well as the constitutional historian,
and it is worth examination in the light of
both local and constitutional records.
ALFRED F. BOBBINS.
QUEEX ELIZABETH'S PALACE,
ENFIELD :
DR. ROBERT UVEDALE, SCHOLAR
AND BOTANIST:
THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.
(See ante, pp. 361, 384, 404.)
III. THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, ENFIELD.
Now that the old Palace forms no part of any
educational establishment at Enfield, the
present Grammar School is the sole repre-
sentative of anything appertaining to Uve-
dale's genius as a schoolmaster in that town ;
and whatever may have been his actual
position with regard to it, it now claims him
as one of its pious founders. How this has
come about I do not quite know. At all
events, my recent visit to Enfield has shown
me that this is the fact. This school, as I
have stated, was founded in 1557, late in
Mary's reign, though, it is said, there have
been traces discovered of an earlier scholastic
foundation. It lies just across the High
Street, at a very little distance from the old
Palace, and practically adjoining the church-
yard of the parish church of St. Andrew ;
so that its old master lies buried within a
stone's throw of where a very important
part of his life's work was carried on. In
1875 the school seems to have undergone
restoration, and in 1 909 the greater part of it
was rebuilt ; the old school or classroom in
which Uvedale taught or lectured is now
used as the dining-room, being retained,
together with the very interesting spiral
staircase of old brick and stone work. The
whole is now under the financial supervision
and control of the Middlesex County
Educational Committee ; whilst considerable
progress has been made in its advancement,
the scholars now numbering nearly three
hundred.
I am inclined to think that it was under the
late mastership of Mr. W. S. Ridewood,
B.A., B.Sc., that the influence of its old'
master, Uvedale, began to be resuscitated in
the school ; and it was, I believe, largely at
the instance of Mr. J. W. Ford, formerly of
Enfield Old Park, a zealous local antiquary,
magistrate of the county, and a former
Governor of theschool — who had taken a great
interest in its welfare and development — that
the Uvedale arms, conspicuous in their sim-
plicity— Argent, a cross moline gules — were
adopted as the school badge, and so
worn on the boys' school caps. A repre-
sentation of the arms appears on a large
shield in the fine new classroom ; whilst they
also have a place in the old classroom — now
used as a dining-room — as well as over the
front entrance door to the school.
Mr. Ridewood, who was master there for
thirty -two years, has composed the words of
a school song, in which the Uvedale motto,
Tant que je puis, is used as a refrain, or
chorus, to each verse. It is set to stirring
music by Mr. W. T. Trusler, an old boy.
This is sung on the annual speech day by
the boys, much as ' Dulce Domum ' is sung
to this day at Winchester College, the old
school of the Uvedales.
A very interesting relic of the botanist is
preserved in this old classroom, kept under
lock and key in a small glazed wooden box
or case over the fire-place, which, through the
kindness of the present head master, Mr.
E. M. Eagles, M.A., I was allowed to inspect.
It consists of a fragment of an old Hebrew
Bible* in which, on a single blank page, were
entered the names of all the botanist's
children — five sons and six daughters — born
whilst he was at Enfield. The dates are
filled in — with the pedantry of a school-
master— according to the Roman calendar
in Ides and Kalends.
In the pedigree in Hutchins — which, as
we have seen, was furnished by Uvedale's
great-grandson — the children are given as
three sons and five daughters only. This
*I believe amongst Dr. Uvedale's accomplish-
ments may be classed the study of Hebrew, in
which study his great-grandson, the Rev. Robert
Uvedale, M .A., is also said to have been proficient.
It is noteworthy how this gift or predilection for
Hebraistic scholarship appears to run in a family
in which, so far as I know, no Semitic trace has
ever been found. Another branch of the family
comprises the famous and unfortunate John Udall. .
the subject of a recent article by me in ' N. & Q.
(II S. xi. 251), the author of the first Hebrew
grammar published in English (the first edition of
which was printed at Leyden in 1593), and his son
Kphraim. also said to have been a good Hebrew
scholar— the one a Puritan and the other a
Royalist divine.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
n. NOV. 35, igie.
shows, to my mind, that the botanist's
descendant was unaware at that time of the
existence of this MS. genealogical entry, or
he would surely have supplied the missing
names amongst the children, as well as, ona
would have thought, the dates of their birth.
For this reason, then, and because it forms
a very valuable adjunct to that pedigree, I
would like to reproduce it here : —
Edwardus Uvedale, natus Enfelde in comit :
Middlx Kalendas Julij Anno Dm 1679. Obiit
Idus Octobris 1679.
Kobertus Uvedale, natus [4to?] Kalendas Septein-
bris hora nona vespertina 1680.
Jacobus Uvedale, natus 15to Kalend : August!
hora sexta matutina 1682.
Maria Uvedale, nata 8™ Idus Maij hoia 5ta Pome-
rid : 1684. Obiit 4<° Idus Feb : 1691.
Joanna Uvedale, nata 5to Idus Aprilis paulo ante
hora 5ta Post meridie : 1686.
Johannes Uvedale, natus 9"° Calendas Martii inter
horas 8va et 9im vespertina anno 1687.
Margaritta Uvedale, nata 6to Calend : Martii hora
uudecinia nocturna 1689.
Anna Uvedale, nata 7timo Idus Novembris hora
octava matutina 1691.
Maria Uvedale, nata Prid : Non : Octob : inter
horas 2da et 3tia Post meridie. [No year men-
tioned. ? 169').]
Elizabetha Uvedale, nata 6to Idus Decembris hora
octava vespertina Anno 1695.
: Samuel Uvedale, natus 5 (?) . . Junij anno 1699
paulo post octava vespertina.
The history of this little book is very
interesting. An inscription inside it states
that it formerly belonged to Dr. Uvedale,
and was found amongst a collection of old
pamphlets, &c.,on a bookstall in Farringdon
Street, London, in the summer of 1900,
and was restored by the purchaser to the
library of the school of which Uvedale was
at one time master. It is fortunate that it
found such a discerning purchaser. But I
am tempted to ask, Was it handed back to the
right school ? At the date of those entries
Uvedale had in all probability severed his
connexion with the Grammar School, though
it must be remembered that when the
book was discovered the Grammar School
was probably the only school that represented
Dr. Uvedale. May it not then be that from
that time we may date the resuscitation of
the Uvedale tradition in the school ? Any-
how, it has now found a fitting resting-place.
I made a very careful examination of the
old Bible, which was printed at Amsterdam
in 1661, and found the signature "Rob:
Uvedale " at the bottom of the page in a
clear copperplate handwriting. But I also
noticed at the top of the same page — what,
apparently, had not been observed before —
the remains, almost erased, of what looks
like the signature " R. U. .11 " in a more
crabbed handwriting, and not unlike that of
some of the earlier entries presumably made
by the botanist himself, and somewhat
resembling the undoubted signature of his
in the 1667 receipt for salary before men-
tioned. Since I have had the opportunity
of comparing these signatures with those
in the original letters in the ' Richardson
Correspondence,' I am strongly inclined to
think that Dr. Uvedale was the author of
both these signatures, and that he himself
may have made all the entries in the Bible ;
the bottom signature being added when the
upper one was partially erased and he had
made up his mind to call himself " Uvedale."
To this Mr. Ford has added, in 1902, a MS.
pedigree, which is bound in with the frag-
ment, supplying the omissions in Hut chins
to which I have called attention. But, inas-
much as he has followed the same lines in
showing the botanist's descent from the
Dorset Uvedales, it must, of course, be
subject to the same comment that I have
already made as to that connection.
Immediately adjoining the still existing
older part of the Grammar School buildings
is a small old-fashioned house or cottage of
red brick, now occupied by the caretaker
of the school, on the entrance pillars of which
is painted " UVE. . . .HOUSE," one word on
each pillar. The cottage itself is covered
with old-time creepers, with numerous
old-fashioned shrubs and flowers filling
up the small garden in front ; whilst a long
narrow one at the back is full of herbaceous
plants and bushes, together with a few old
fruit trees, evidently indicating a cultivation
of some antiquity, and one much unlike that
ordinarily apparent in any modern suburban
garden.
It would be interesting if any connection
could be traced between this old garden —
now evidently much reduced in size — and the
gardens at the old Palace, rendered so famous
by the lavish care and attention of the old
botanist. And why should this cottage have
been called " Uvedale House " unless Uve-
dale had himself lived there ?
By the kindness of the school caretaker I
went all through both cottage and garden,
and it needed no great effort of my imagina-
tion to picture the old Doctor retiring here
to end his days in peace amidst surroundings
which he loved so well, after he had given up
active work both at his own school and at
the Grammar School.
The connection of the family with Trinity
College, Cambridge, was kept up for several
generations ; his eldest surviving son, Robert,
being also a Fellow of Trinity, Cambridge,
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425
and D.D. of that University, and having been
appointed to the college living and vicariate
at Enfield only the year before his father's
death there. His grandson, also a Robert
Uvedale, D.D.,was the third member of the
family in direct succession to hold a fellow-
ship at Trinity (is not this a record in such
matters ?) ; whilst his great-grandson, Rev.
Robert Uvedale, M.A., was also a member of
Trinity, though neither a fellow nor a doctor.
With him the direct male issue of the botanist
may be said to have become extinct, though
his youngest son, Samuel, became the father
of Samuel Uvedale, Rear-Admiral of the
Blue, who rendered good service under
Rodney in the French wars, and died in 1808
without issue. He lived at Bosmere, co.
Suffolk, and is said to have had in his
possession there a portrait in oils of both the
botanist arid of his wife. It would be
interesting to know what became of these
pictures. Mr. Algernon Ashton, another
representative of a female descendant of the
botanist, has in his possession a small
portrait in oils of the Dr. Robert Uvedale,
Vicar of Enfield, who died there in 1731,
together with a very interesting old ma-
hogany or walnut secretaire, which to this
day is known to him as " the Vicar's cabinet."
Mr. Ashton also owns another portrait,
attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds, of his
great -grandmother, the wife of the botanist's
grandson, the Rev. Robert Uvedale, D.D.,
and one of the sisters of Bennet Langton
the younger, already referred to.
There is no doubt that several of the
family portraits have passed to representa-
tives of female lineal descendants of the
botanist — of whom several still survive —
and I know that not many years ago a sale
of Uvedale and other portraits of value took
place upon the death of one of these de-
scendants, when, I am afraid, the pictures
were more or less dispersed. It would be a
great thing if this long and somewhat
discursive article of mine should result in
the recovery of the original portrait of the
botanist for the National Portrait Gallery.
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
Inner Temple.
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE BURIAL-
GROUND OF THE CHAPEL ROYAL,
SAVOY.
Abstracts made in August, 1916.
1. [Four-aided.] William Willoughby, Esq., of
Serjeants' Inn, cl. Jan. 28, 1830, a. 71. Hubert,
hi- ^iul s., by Mary, his w., d. April 15, 184(4),
a. 4(». •
Julia Mary, dau. and firstborn of Edward
Willoughby, of Lane-aster Place, Esq., and Lucy,-
his w., d. Oct. 26, 1843, a. 16.
Laura Harriet, youngest dau. of Henry
Willoughby, Esq., of Dartmouth Grove, Black-
heath, and Maria Ann, his w., d. Jan. 25, 1852,
a. 18.
To the memory of Edward Willoughby, Esq.,
High Bailiff of the Manor and Liberty, and of
Lucy, his w., 1882.
2. Mary Ann, w. of Robert Bipnell, of the
Strand, d. March 1, 1832, a. 32. Emma, w. of
Robert Richard Bignell, the yr., of Great Windmill-'
Street, d. April 22, 1849, a. 34.
3. Elizabeth, w. of Duncan McParlane, Esq.,
Advocate, Edinburgh, d. Sept. 6, 1831, a. 59.
4. George Archibald, s. of Francis and Ann
Turner, d. Sept. 27, 1845, a. 25. Francis Calcraft
Turner, artist, his father, d. June 12, 1846, a. 63.
Ann, wid. of F. C. Turner, d. June 27, 1854, a. 57.
5. Brother James Smith, of Lancaster Place,-
surgeon, d. Dec. 15, 1835, a. 36. \Masonic
emblems.]
6. Mary Hilton, mother of William Hilton,.
Esq., R.A., d. April 12, 1835, a. 76. Justina, w.
of Wm. Hilton, R.A., d. Oct. 8, 1836, a. 34. Wm.
Hilton, R.A., Keeper of the Royal Academy,,
d. Dec. 30, 1839, a. 53. Peter de Wint, Esq.,
b. Jan. 21, 1784, d. June 30, 1849.
7. Mr. Flather Appleyard, of Duke Street, -
Adelphi, d. Aug. 26, 1834, a. 56. Mary Appleyard,
his sister, d. May 13, 1836, a. 49. William Flather, .
his s., d. June 27, 1840, a. 35. Sarah, w. of
Flather Appleyard, d. Nov. 6, 1843, a. 61.
8. Elizabeth, w. of Samuel Smith, of Fountain
Court, Strand, d. Jan., 1847, a. (38).
9. Elizabeth Wright, d. July 10, 1843, a. 42.
10. Mrs. Elizabeth Edmonds, d. Aug. 1, 1810,.
a. 70. Mary Edmonds, d. April 27, 1824, a. 53.
Sarah Edmonds, d. April 4, 1830, a. 51. Two
sisters and 10 gr. children. Thomas Edmonds,.
husb. of the above, who was 44 years S of this
parish ....
11. Emma Martha Spillman, d. Oct. 29, 1830, a.
1 y. 11 m. Ellen Spillman, d. Mar. 12, 1839,
a. 4 y. 3 m. Clara Fanny Spillman, d. Oct., .
1841, a. 1 y. 9 m. Thomas Spillman, d. Feb. 25,
1849, a. 9 m.
12. Charles Gilbert, Esq., of Kenwyn, Cornwall,,
d. May 30, 1831, author of Gilbert's ' Historical
Survey of the County of Cornwall.'
13. Henry Perlee Parker, d. Aug. 17, 1836, a. 16,,
eldest P. of H. P. Parker, artist, of Newcastle-on- -
Tyne.
14. Charles Baddeley, d. Nov. 24, 18(3)6, a. 69.
15 Mr. George Cross. . . .a. 64.
16. Robert Ashford, of Lyons Inn, d. May 4,.
18(4)3, a. 35. Miss Emily March, d. Dec. 18,.
184(5).
17. Henry (Emlers) The remains found in
1878 under this stone in the German Lutheran
chapel, formerly in the Savoy, were reinterred in
the Great Northern Cemetery at New Southgate, .
Mr,
18. A German Lutheran, but name entirely
one. [Inscription as in No. 17.]
19. James Lowe, of Duke Stsret, Adelphi,.
d. Nov. 18, 1838, a. 43. Harriet Phillips, sister-
in-law of above, d. Aug. 12, 184-, a. 33.
426
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20. Ann Brown, Feb. — , 18 — , a. 34. Mrs.
[Ha]rriet Brown, ....
21. Richard Broughton, d. Mar. 22, 183-, a. 77.
Mary, his w.. d. Aug. 25, 183-, a. 56. Elizabeth
Ellis, d. June 1. 18(4)5, a. 34.
22. Sarah Isabella, only child of Charles and
Matilda Crowley, d. April 22, 1846, a. 14 y. 9 m.
23. Mrs. Elizabeth Jaggars, d. Nov. 21, 1833,
a. 55. Charl. Matilda, her dau., d. Jan. 28, 1835,
a. 17. William, her s., d. Feb. 17, 183(5), a. 21.
Mr. John Jaggars, d. Jan. 9, 1837, a. 60.
24. Sarah Charlotte McFarlane, d. Mar. 4, 1817,
a. 3 y. Thomas Robert McFarlane, d. Jan. 19.
1818, a. 2 y. 6 m. ; children of Thomas and
Charlotte McFarlane. William Craig McFarlane.
d. July 20, 1819, a. 19 m. Sarah McFarlane, aunt
to the above children, d. Nov. 27, 1834, a. (4)5.
Also
25. George Buckmaster, d.'June, 1817, a. (8).
Diana Buckmaster, his mother, d. Mar. 5, 183(0),
a. 58.
26. Mr. Joseph Whitaker, of the Thatched
House, Strand, d. June 26, 1833, a. 42.
27. Ann, w. of Lieut. Zachariah Willton, of the
8th Royal Veterans, d. in Guernsey, Aug. 29,
1803, a. 47. Their children : Mary Martha,
d. Jan. 21. 1789, a. 3 y. 10 m. ; Thomas, d. June 6,
1792, a. 2 y. 2 m. ; George, d. Mar. 24, 1793,
.a. 1 y. ; James, d. July 8, 1813, a. 16 y.
28. Collings
29. Mrs. Sarah Pratt, many years a performer
. at the Theatres Royal, Drury Lane, Haymarket,
and Covent Garden, d. Jan. 16, 1800, a. 57. A
good dau. , a sensible woman, and a sincere friend.
IJut
"To tell her worth tears, M ords, in vain are spent ;
Who knew her lov'd, who lov'd her must lament.
JMrs. Catherine Susanna Pesey, d. Mar. 30, 1800,
- a. 53. Mrs. Mary Webb, d. April 22, 1808, a, 72.
30. Mr. John Brelleston Mr. Adam B —
31. Mr. Francis Wadbrook, d. Feb., 1838, a. 61.
32. Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Finlay, d. Jan. 19,
1833, a. 26. Richard, s. of Richard Lander, the
African Traveller, and nephew of the above,
d. Jan. 29, 1834, a. 13 m. 4 days. William, s. of
William Finlay and the above Mrs. Finlay,
<«L Feb. 4, 1834, a. 15 m. 4 days.
33. Robert Menzies, d. Feb. 12, 1792, a. 39.
Robert Menzies, d. Oct. 16, 1796, a. 9 y. ; Henry
Menzies, d. June 19, 1799, a. 10 y. ; Archibald
/Menzies, d. Dec. 24, 1802, a. 28 ; sons of the above
Robert. Mr. Thomas Burgess, d. May 19, 1829,
•. a. 63, husb.of Elizabeth, dau. of above. Elizabeth
Burgess, d. Feb. 14, 1830, a. 54. Miss Agnes Mary
Menzies, dau. of Edward and Mary Menzies,
d. Dec. 16, 183(0), a. — .
34. John Wm. Bittlestone, of the Middle
Temple, d. May (3)0, 1818, a. 27.
35. Jane, w. of William Eyre, of St. Martin-in-
- the-Fields, d. Jan. 3, 1847, a. 31.
36. In memory of Anne Eliza and Martha Price,
daus. of Thomas Price, Esq., David Price, their
uncle, and Martha Price, their mother. Also of
'Thomas Price, Esq., Donald Mackinnon, Esq.,
M.D., and Jane, his w., dau. of Thos. Price.
Kyrie Eleison. [No dates.}
37. Mrs. Eleanor Spikin, d., a. 73, Dec. 27, 1835.
Placed by her dau., Mary Stilart.
38. John Mitchell, M.D., of this precinct,
^d. June 17, 1830, a. 50. James, his youngest s.,
1. Aug. 17, 1830, a. 5 y. 7 m. Eve Mitchell,
d. April 14, 1837, a. 15 y. Mrs. Eve Mitchell, d.
Aug. 19, 1838, a. 46.
39. Thomas Prosser, of St. James's Street,
d. Mar. 25, 1816, a. 68. Thomas William, s. of
Charles and Ann Prosser. d. May 20, 1821,
a. 10 m. 5 days. William Childs Treadgold, their
2nd son, d. Jan. 1, 1824, a. 1 y. (4) m. Louisa
Ann, their youngest dau., d. at Cambridge,
Jan. 1(0), 1839, a. 11 y.. and was buried in the
parish church of St. Giles, Cambridge. Alfred
(Albertus) Joseph, gr.s. of the above Thos. Prosser,
was drowned in the London Dock on Sunday,
Aug. 29, 1840, a. 17.
40. Samuel Newman, d. Nov., 18(11), a. (4)1.
Mr. Charles Webb, d. April, 18(1)6, a. — .
41 William Banfield Creed, d. April (9),
1827, a. 68. Elizabeth Creed, d. June
42. James Lees, d. Nov. 21, 1821, a. 88. Anna
Maria Lees, his gr.-dau., d. April 17, 1833, a. 3(0).
Anna Maria Lees, her mother, d. Aug. 29, 1833,
a. 63. William, s. of the above James, d.
Feb
43. Mr. Thomas Alexander], (39) years in this
precinct, having served various offices therein ....
44. [On Ihe chinch u-all.} Thomas Britton,
d. Nov. 12, 1839, a. 101.
45. [A slab.-] John Cochr(an) Mrs. Mary
Imray, mother-in-law of above, d. June 12. 1£29,
a. 70. Eliza, w. of John Cochran, b. July 28,
179(6), d. May 4, 1833. John Cochran, husb. of
above, b. April, 1792, d. Mar. 6, 1844.
NEXT SOUTH RAILING.
46. William West Fenton, d. Aug. 17, 1836*
a. 24.
47. William Pettett, Esq.. of Lancaster Place
b. June 13, 1776, d. April 25, 1841, a. 65.
48. Charles Byrne, Esq., of Lancaster Place,
d. Aug. 8, 1833, a. 24.
49. Susannah, relict of Thomas Landifield, Esq.,
of the Bank of England, d. Feb. 29, 1840, a. 92.
Rebekah Samman, sister of T. Landifield, d.
March 8, 1841, a. 86.
50. Clarissa Stephens, d. Aug. 13, 1833, a. 15.
James S — phens, father of Also Sarah
— shall, great. . . .Also Ma — , ....
INDEX OF NAMES.
Alexander], 43 Ellis, 21 Parker, 13
Appleyard, 7 (Emlers), 17 Pesey, 29
Ashford, 16 Eyre, 35 Pettett, 47
Baddeley, 14 Fenton, 46 Phillips, 19
Bignell, 2 Finlay, 32 Pratt, 29
Bittlestone, 34 Gilbert, 12 Price, 36
Brelleston, 30 Hilton, 6 Prosser, 39
Britton, 44 ' Imray, 45 Samman, 49
Broughton, 21 Jaggars, 23 Smith, 5, 8
Brown, 20 Lander, 32 Spikin, 37
Buckmaster, 25 Landifield, 49 Spillman, i:
Burgess, 33 Lees, 42 Stephens, 50
Byrne, 48 Lowe, 19 Stilart, 37
Cochran, 45 McFarlane, 3. 24 Turner, 4
Collings, 28 Mackinnon, 36 Wadbrook, 31
Creed, 41 March, 16 Webb, 29, 40
Cross, 15 [Marshall, 50 Whitaker, 26
Crowley, 22 Menzies, 33 Willoughby, 1
De Whit, 6 Mitchell, 38 [ Willton, 27
Edmonds, 10 Newman, 40 Wright, 9
12 a. n. NOV. 25, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
427
INDEX OF PLACES.
Bank of England, 49
Blackheath, 1
'Cambridge, 39
Duke Street, 19
Edinburgh, 3
Fountain Court, 8
Guernsey, 27
"Great Northern Ceme-
tery, 17, 18
•Great Windmill Street, 2
Kenwyn, Cornwall, 12
G. S.
17 Ashley Mansions, S
Lancaster Place, 1, 5, 48
London Dock, 39
Lyons Inn, 16
Middle Temple, 34
Xewcastle-on-Tyne, 13
Boyal Academy, 6
St. James's Street, 39
St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
35
Serjeants' Inn, 1
Thatched House, 26
PARRY, Lieut.-Col.
.W.
CYPRUS CAT. — In the ' New English Dic-
tionary,' s.v, "Cypress," 3 c., we read:
"' Dark grey with darker markings ; hence
cyprus-cat, a variety of tabby cat (local)."
"The references are : —
" 1857 Wright Prov. Diet., Cypress-cat, a tabby-
cat. East. 1879 Lubbock Fauna of Norfolk 7 An
immense cat of a cypress colour. 1887 N. & Q.
"7th Sen. iv. 289/1 While discussing the merits of
a new kitten recently with a lady from Norwich,
she described its colour as ' Cyprus '—dark grey,
with black stripes and markings.
In John Chamberlayne's ' Present State
•of Great Britain,' 22nd edition of the South
Part call'd England, and 1st of the North
Part call'd Scotland, 1708, p. 34, Part I.,
Book I., chap, iv., is the following : " Cats
-are here [in England] very curious to the
Eye, the Cyprus and Tabby Cats especially."
In the index the reference is " Cats, very
fine." It may be that the passage quoted
appears in some other editions of ' The
Present State of Great Britain,' but it does
\not appear in those of 1710, 1726, 1755,
-or in Edward Chamberlayne's ' Present
:State of England,' 1684.
Apparently a Cyprus cat is a cat, as it
were, in mourning. It may perhaps be
umed, from the use of the term by John
Chamberlayne over two hundred years ago,
that it was not then " local." I have seen
lately two or three Cyprus cats, as probably
they might be called. I think that in the
•definition " Dark grey " should be " Grey,"
but of -course it is practically impossible to
know when " Grey " becomes " Dark grey."
At 7 S. iv. 289 is a query about " Cyprus
•Cat," with replies p. 432, giving no early
•quotation. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
HARDY'S ' THE THREE STRANGERS.' —
Hardy bibliographers do not seem to have
noted that an episode in this story has
been set to (orchestral) music bv Mr. Balfour
•Gardiner under the title of ' Shepherd
Fennel's Dance.' It is a wonderfully vivid
piece of work, bringing out the rustic spirit
of the story as few other mediums could do.
It is not infrequently done by the Queen's
Hall Orchestra, to the programme of which
Mrs. Rosa Newmarch contributes an admir-
able account of it. Literary bibliographers
are usually weak on music.
J. M. BULLOCH.
123 Pall Mall, S.W.
WAR JEWELLERY OF IRON. — At 7 S. ix, 30,
254, 337, will be found an account of finely
cast Berlin ironwork, often set in gold, the
tradition among the curiosity dealers being
that the manufacture was begun at least to
supplement the jewels given up by the
Austrian and German ladies in the great
Napoleonic wars.
Thus history repeats itself, for we are told
that the German ladies are now invited to
give their gold trinkets and receive in
exchange an ornament made of iron,
corresponding as nearly as possible to the
articles from which they have parted.
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
MIDSUMMER FIRES AND TWELFTH-DAY
FIRES IN ENGLAND. — It may be well to
enshrine the following extracts from ' The
Manor and Manorial Records,' by Nathaniel
J. Hone, in the pages of ' N. & Q.' : —
" Many other days owed their observance to
pagan origins, such as Mayday and Midsummer,
the festivities of which had been consecrated by
the Church, in accordance with the advice of
St. Gregory. In the time of Henry III. the
ploughmen and other officers at East Monkton,
between Warminster and Shaftesbury, were
allowed a ram for a feast on Midsummer Eve,
when it was a practice to carry fire round the
lord's corn. This form of the Beltane festival
was observed in the North of England well into
the eighteenth century, and a similar custom
prevailed in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire,
fires being lighted at the ends of fields just sown
with wheat, on the eve of Twelfth Day." — P^ 98
The Glastonbury Custumals, circa 1250,
afford evidence of a similar practice at
Longbridge : —
11 And whether the said Geoffrey be ploughman
or harrower he ought, together with the rest of the
said tenement, to watch with the hayward on
St. John's Eve at the extremity of the lord's
culture, and participate with the others of a lamb,
and he shall have a branch from the lord's wood
for fire that night."— P. 235.
Towards the end of the nineteenth century
I was present when a Peter-and-Paul's-tide
bonfire was lighted in a village not far from
the northern coast of Brittany. The parish
428
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. IL NOV. 25, ioie.
priest was the chief functionary on the
o?casion, preaching an excellent sermon
before the unkindled pyre, in which he
informed the faithful that the fire was in
honour of St. Peter, patron of fishermen.
There was no allusion to its heathen origin
in connexion with midsummer.
According to my memory, German folk-
lorists have recorded numerous instances of
fires being lighted near cornfields, or of
burning torches being carried round them,
so such observances are not limited to
Western Europe. B. L. R. C.
GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN PRINCES KILLED
IN THE WAR. — The ' Almanach de Gotha ' for
1916 gives the following names of princes
who have been killed in battle. For one
reason or another, some of those who fell in
1914 are still included. Among these are
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Lippe, Count
Ernest of Lippe, Prince Nicolas of Radziwill,
Prince Henri XL VI. of Reuss, Prince Fried-
rich of Saxe-Meiningen, and Count Ottocar
of Seyn-et- Wittgenstein.
In 1915 there fell the following; and it is
worth noticing how few belonging to the
greater houses had been killed up to the
time the ' Almanach' was issued, all except
one appearing in the second and third sec-
tions of the book : Prince Henri Aloyse
Marie Joseph of Liechtenstein ^at Warsaw,
Aug. 16) ; Prince Louis Godefroi of Auer-
sperg (in Poland, Aug. 6); Count Adolphe
of Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg (at Krasnick,
Aug. 14) ; Count Adolphe Kraft Louis of
Erbach-Furstenau (in Russia, Aug. 13) ;
Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Schilling-
fiirst, brother of the reigning prince (at
Zywaczo,in Galicia,Mar. 9); Count Georges
Marie Joseph of Waldbourg (May 30) ; and
Count Sigwart Bolko Philippe of Eulenberg-
Hertefeld (at Jaslo, Galicia, June 2).
These are the names that I have happened
to remark, though the list may not be quite
exhaustive. A. FRANCIS STEUART.
[See also the list at 11 S. xii. 217.]
i
MAGIC DRUM. — An old magic drum from
Swedish Lapland was recently found in the
cellar of a castle in Ostergotland, Sweden.
It is a very long time since such a rare ethno-
graphical object was brought before the
public. All the genuine drums of this kind
hitherto known are kept in museums, where
they are safe from the private curiosity-
hunter. The drum which has now been
found is in the possession of Mr. Math.
Lehman of Stockholm. E. B.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interestr
to affix their names and addresses to their queries
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
FORRESTER, SIMPSON, DICKSON, "
ANDERSON. — I should be most grateful to
any reader who could supply me with
genealogical details of the ancestry of : —
1. Nell Forrester. She claimed descent
from the Lords Forrester of Corstorphine,.
who built Corstorphine Church in 1385 A.D-
She married about 1774, at Cramond, James
Simpson or Simson, who was born c. 1746-9,.
and died April 27, 1819. I understand that
either Simpson or his father had been factor,
or something of that sort, to Sir Williarm
Foulis of Ravelston, Bart.
2. James Simpson or Simson. There is
a tradition that Simpson was a descendant
of the Simson family, which was noted for the
number of its clergymen. He married, as his-
second wife,
3. Isabella Dickson, at Colinton, Nov. 26,-
1790. She was, I believe, either sister or
cousin to Samuel Dickson, a builder and
contractor. He built a very large portion,
of the new town of Edinburgh, and died in,
1793, aged 44 years. He married Agnes
Baillie, a daughter of Thomas Baillie, who,.
I understand, was connected with the-
Baillies of Lamington. I should be glad if
these connexions could be established.
4. John Anderson, married Helen Simp-
son, July 23, 1824. She was the second
daughter of James Simpson by his wife
Isabella Dickson. She was bom Sept. 24,
1795, and died at Bantaskine, Falkirk, in
1863. John Anderson was a boot- and shoe-
maker, and had a shop at 8 or 9 Young Street,.
Edinburgh. His father, Christian name un-
known, was a shepherd in or near Hadding-
ton, and lived to be 87 years of age. The
latter's father also lived at or near Hadding-
ton. He was 90 when he died. It is said
that the father or grandfather of John
Anderson married, as his second wifer the
illegitimate daughter — or the daughter of the-
illegitimate son, Charles — of George Seton...
fifth and last Earl of Winton. If the exact
connexion between the Andersons and the
Setons could also be established I should be
grateful.
I should be glad if your correspondents
would communicate with me direct, suppos-
ing the replies are not considered of suffi-
cient genealogical importance to warrant
publication. JAMES S. ANDERSON.
Jesmond, 18 Culverden Down, Tunbridge Wells.-
128. ii. NOV. 25, 1916.} NOTES AND QUERIES.
429
AUTHOR WANTED. — I shall be much
obliged if any of your correspondents can
indicate the source of the words : " Who
hath seen the flower of a fig ? " W. I. F.
STEVENSON = PEIRSON. — Can any reader
supply me with particulars of the marriage
of William Stevenson and Sophia Peirson,
circa 1790-1806 ? Louis R. LETTS.
57 Dollis Park, Church End, Finchley, N.
MANORA, MANAREH. — What is the origin
of this female name ? In the first form it is
the name of an actress in a film production
of ' The New Clown ' I saw recently ; in the
other, that of a relative.
ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
NAMES OF THE MOON. — In Glasgow the
November moon is spoken of as the Hunter's
Moon. We all know the Paschal Moon and
the Harvest Mooit. I should be glad to
known of any other such names — especially
of any that can be shown to be ancient and
are of somewhat restricted local use.
RENIRA.
" FFOLIOTT " AND " FFRENCH." 1 should
be glad of some information as to the origin
of such proper names as " ffoliott " and
" ffrench." I recently heard a discussion
during which various theories were put for-
ward relative to the peculiar usage of the
small initial letter. The fact that this occurs
only in the case of names beginning with ff
was also noticed. S. H. HARPER.
[The substitution of "ff" for an ordinary capital
in certain names has been already discussed in our
columns (see 5 S. xi. 247, 391 ; xii. 57, 157, 392, 438 ;
11 S. x. 276). It was originally no more than the
full form of the capital letter, of which the usual
F is an attenuation.]
THE GHAZEL. — In James Elroy Flecker's
' Collected Poems ' there is a " Ghazel," a
Persian form of verse. Do your readers
know of any other ghazels in English
literature, barring the one by Mangan, called
' The World ' ? ERIC N. BATTERHAM.
16 Fonthill Road. Finsbury Park, N.
COL. JOHN SUTHER WILLIAMSON, R.A. —
I should be glad to ascertain full particulars
of his parentage, concerning which the ' Diet.
Nat. Biog.,' Ixii. 2, gives no information.
Was he ever married ? If so, when and to
whom ? G. F. R. B.
THOMAS WINSTANLEY, CAMDEN PRO-
FESSOR OF HISTORY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
— I should be glad to ascertain when and
whom he married. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,'
Ixii. 209, states that he had four sons, but
does not mention his marriage.
G. F. R. B.
BOAT-RACE WON BY OXFORD WITH SEVEN
OARS. — I want to know the date of, and the
names of the crews in, this race (including
that of the Oxford man who could not row).
Sir Robert Menzies and his brother Fletcher
were two of the Oxford crew, and the race
was at Henley. Bishop Browne in his recent
reminiscences suggests that the story is a
legend founded on the incident of an Oxford
crew of seven oars beating a London crew
which rowed in a boat called " The Cam-
bridge," But this is inconsistent with the
account given formerly by survivors of the
race. B.
BATH FORUM. — Is anything ascertainable
as to the origin or antiquity of the appella-t
tion " Bath Forum," which is at the present
day the official name of the hundred in
which the City of Bath is locally situate ?
In publications relating to the city in
question it is accepted as a matter of course
that there was no kind of continuity between
Roman Bath and Anglo-Saxon Bath, and
further, that a long period intervened during
which the site lay unoccupied. All this —
however possible — seems to rest on no better
positive evidence than the discovery, in (I
think) the last century, of the egg of a
waterfowl in the immediate vicinity of the
Roman bath. This egg is assumed — per-
haps with justice — to be considerably more
than a thousand years old ; and on it is
based the conclusion that, when it was laid,
the place was an uninhabited swamp.
But (a) waterfowl often lay, if the spot be
suitable, quite close to towns ; (6) water-
fowl often lay in captivity ; and (c) water-
fowl's eggs often serve for human food, and
are consequently transported to localities
remote from the place where they were laid.
Therefore I dispute the conclusion.
I am aware that the term " Forum " is
not peculiar to Bath. Wherever it occurs
in modern England, it would be interesting
to know its origin. Recent investigation as
to the City of London has — without demon-
strating anything — cast such suspicion ou
the previously current theory that there was
no continuity between the London of the
Romans and the London of the Anglo-
Saxons, that one is tempted to go further
afield. " Forum " is so distinctively Roman
as a part of place-names (e.g., Forum Jidii
= Frcjits) that, prima facie, the onus is on
those who, in any particular case, would
attribute to it a non-Roman origin. The
possible alternative origin — Latin, but not
Roman — of " Forum " in the term " Bath
Forum " is the language of mediaeval clerics
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and lawyers. But, in the Latin which they
knew was " Forum " in use as a constituent
'of place-names ? In their mouths would not
" Bath Forum " or " Forum de Bath " have
merely meant either " the law-court of
Bath " or " the public square of Bath " ?
I ask simply for information.
R. J. WALKER.
EFFECT OF WAR ON A NATION'S PHYSIQUE.
— It has been claimed that war improves the
physique of a nation. What evidence has
been found to bear out the statement ? And
if it has been shown to be true, how is it to
be explained ? The contrary seems more
likely to be the case, and it has also been
stated that the Napoleonic wars lowered
the average stature in France by one inch —
or, perhaps we had better say, 2*5 cms.
Is this a fact ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
SPANISH WOMEN AND SMOKING. — Is it
usual for Spanish women of the upper and
middle classes to smoke ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
TILLER Bo WE : BRANDRETH : RACKEN-
CROOKE : GAVELOCK : MAUBRE. — The above
unusual words occur in a document which
was shown to me recently by an old friend,
and which is entitled : —
" The INVENTORIE of all the goods and chattels
vr^ were John Sleddall's, late of Skalthwattrigge
deceased taken and prized the xiiiith Day of
February Anno Dni. 1620, by mr Charles Benson
Robert Edmondson Tho'n8 Doddinge and Thomas
Docker."
The headings in which the words occur
are as follows : —
Itm a Tiller Bowe, vjd.
Itm girdle, brandreth, rackencrooke, tongs, a
spitt and an axe, vij" vjd.
Itm a gauelock, V.
Itm Maubre, xx8.
The value of money at the time may be
judged by the following items : " one yoake
of Oxen vu " ; " 40 olde Sheep xj1 tf (i.e.,
5s. 6d. each) ; " a table Clothe & a To well
ijV
I find in ' N.E.D.' that one of the meanings
in which tiller bow is used in the sixteenth
century is that of a long bow with an
attachment to enable it to be used somewhat
like a cross-bow. In 1620 this would be
antiquated ; hence the low value of 6d. put
upon it would be accounted for.
The " brandreth " was, I think, a trivet
or tripod to stand in the ashes and support
the griddle used for baking oatcake — the
bread of those parts.
A " rackencrooke " was the pot-hanger
with step adjustment used over the fire.
The " gavelock " was probably a lever.
" Maubre " puzzles me. Perhaps your
readers can help me and throw light on the
other words, and the particular use of such
articles about a Westmorland farm three
hundred years ago. H. W. DICKINSON.
TIMOTHY CONSTABLE. (See 11 S. xi. 150.)
— I shall be glad if any reader can give me
any information relating to the ancestors of
Timothy Constable, who married on Jan. 13,
1736/7, at St. James's Church, Westminster,
Elizabeth Hunting, and who was buried
at Melford, Suffolk, in March, 1750. The
marriage certificate reads as follows : —
" Timothy Constable of Bradfield Combust in ve
County of Suffolk and Elizabeth Hunting of this P.
L. A. B. C. 1736/7."
CLIFFORD C. WOOLLARD.
68 St. Michael's Road, Aldershot, Hants.
NUMBERING PUBLIC VEHICLES. — In The
London Post for Feb. 2/5, 1699/1700, it was
related that
" On Tuesday [Jan. 30] in the afternoon, a
Hackney coach man rid over a man at the corner
of Catherin street in the Strand, and gushed him
to death, and drove away so fast that he got clear
off, No body by having been able to take Notice
of the Number of the Coach."
When did the practice begin of placing
identifiable numbers on vehicles licensed to
ply for hire ? A. F. R.
CHAPETS OF EASE : TITHE BARNS. —
What books enter thoroughly into usages,
connexions,fand curiosa jelicitas appertain-
ing to Chapels of Ease ? And what works
might be judiciously consulted for general
information as to the construction and
antiquity of tithe barns ?
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
HUNGARY HILL, STOURBRIDGE. — This
name is to be found in an official report just
issued on the geology of the district. Is any-
thing known about the origin of the name ?
L. L. K.
JOHN PRUDDE : " KING'S GLAZIER." — In
the year 1440 one John Prudde, glazier
(i.e. glass painter), was granted for life " the
office of Glazier of the Kinge's Works to
hold in such fees and wages as Roger Glou-
cester had," &c. (Patent Rolls).
In the years 1443-4 two of his men were
working in the newly erected Fromond's
Chantry in Winchester College, probably
inserting glass designed by their employer
(US. xii. 295).
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Between 1445 and 1450 Prudde did much
•work at Eton College, both in the old Chapal
and in the Hall (Willis Clark's ' Architec-
tural History of Cambridge').
In 1447 we find him working at Green-
wich Palace, both inserting new glass and
repairing older work (see Hasted's' Kent') ;
and in the same year he undertook " to
glase all the windows in the New Chappell
in Warwick " (the Beauchamp Chapel),
•which contract was duly carried out (see
Dugdale's ' Antiquities of Warwickshire ').
Could any reader give me information
concerning other work done by Prudde else-
where ? Also any record of his death, or the
appointment of his successor as " King's
•Glazier " ? JOHN D. LE CONTEUB.
Plymouth.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
•(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191,
204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353,
364, 391, 402.)
Lieut. -General Churchill's Dragoons *.
(ante, p. 123).
Anthony Lameloniere was the junior of
four Gentlemen Ushers Quarterly Waiters
(1001.) to the Queen Consort (as Anthony
la Meloniere) in 1734, till her Majesty's
-death Nov. 20, 1737. He appears, as Col.
Mellionere, as one of the three Grooms of the
Bedchamber (400J.) to the Duke of Cumber-
land in 1741, till 1753 or 1754. He trans-
ferred to second lieutenant-colonel 3rd Troop
of Horse Guards, Jan. 13, 1741, till it was
reduced, Dec. 25, 1746 ; was wounded at
Dettingeri, 1743, and Fontenoy, 1745 ; and
was second lieutenant-colonel 1st Troop
thereof, April 15, 1748, and first ditto,
July 12, 1749 to Aug. 21, 1754.
John Jordan was lieutenant-colonel of the
regiment, Jan. 13, 1741, till made colonel
8th Marines, March 15, 1748 ; colonel 15th
Foot, April 15, 1749 ; and colonel 9th
Dragoons, April 2, 1756, till he d. shortly
before May 22, 1756. (Was he of the same
family as William Jordan of Buckland,
•Gatewicke, Surrey, M.P. Reigate, March,
1717, till he d. April 7, 1720, and Thomas
Jordan, his son, M.P. for the same place,
April, 1720, to 1722, as to whom I should
like to find further particulars ?)]
Thomas Jekyll, major of the regiment,
Feb. 24, 1741, vice Jordan, but committed
.suicide at Canterbury, Aug. 31, 1744. (Was ,
he a nephew of Sir Joseph Jekvll, Master of
the Rolls, 1717 to 1738 ?)
Peter Chaban, major of the regiment, vice
Jekyll, Aug. 31, 1744, to Jan. 28, 1755.
Charles Hamilton made captain therein,
August, 1743.
Robert Walkinshaw bore an unu.sual
name, and it is not too far-fetched to con-
jecture that he was the son of Robert
Walkinshaw, who was made major of the
25th Foot, July 17, 1717.
Edward Goddard, who was next brother
to Thomas Goddard (ante, pp. 5, 312), was
baptized Oct. 16, 1725, and d. unm. ; was
made captain - lieutenant in the regiment,
August, 1743 ; and in 1770 was on half-pay
of captain of Col. Dejean' s Additional Com-
panies, reduced 1748, till 1789 or 1790.
John Tempest became lieutenant in the
regiment, March 19, 1741. Not one of
the Tempests of Sherborn, co. Durham ;
nor the John Tempest mentioned ante,
p. 193, who was of a later generation.
John Tempest, " a Cornet in General
Churchill's Dragoons," was third son of Sir
George Tempest, 2nd Bart, of Tong, Yorks,
m. before 174lEliz.,dau. of Scrimsticke
of Notts (Wotton).
Query if Samuel Gowland was of kin to
Ralph Gowland, M.P. Durham, 1761 to
1762, whose parentage I should be glad to
find ? John Gowland was appointed in 1761
one of the two Apothecaries to the King's
Person, with a salary of 3201. 5s.
Thomas William Mathews of Llandafi
Court, Glamorgan, was the only son of the
famous Admiral Thomas Mathews, M.P. (see
' D.N.B.'), was b. 1711 ; captain in Hough-
ton's new Regiment of Foot, Jan. 26, 1741 ;
captain in Fleming's Foot, April 19, 1742;
major of Fraser's 2nd Marines, May 14, 1744,
but quitted it when his father was dismissed
the Navy, 1747. He was on half-pay in 1753.
He m. Anne, daughter of Robert Knight
of Congresbury, Somerset, and Suttunn,
Glamorganshire ; and was M.P. for Glamor-
gan, December, 1756, to 1761 (' Parl. Hist,
of Wales,' p. 101). He was the Maj. Matthews,
son to the late Adml., who d. June 25, 1768.
(Gent. Mag.)
Thomas Carver became lieutenant in the
regiment, August, 1743.
Lord Mark Kerfs Dragoons
(ante, p. 124).
Hugh Warburton of Wilmington, Cheshire,
was the son of Thomas Warburton of
Runnington, Cheshire (who was third son of
Sir George Warburton, 1st Bart., of Arley
and Winnington), by Anne, daughter of Sir
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Robert Williams, Bart., of Penrhyn, co.
Carnarvon. He was major of Ligonier's
'Horse (now 7th Dragoon Guards), July, 1731,
to 1734 ; colonel 45th Foot, June 2, 1745, to
1761 ; of 27th Foot, Sept. 24, 1761, till he
d. shortly before Sept. 5, 1771 (when his
successor was appointed); major-general,
Feb. 25, 1755 ; lieutenant-general, Jan. 29,
1758 ; general, April 13, 1770. He was
appointed by patent, July 16, 1727, Chan-
cellor and Chamberlain of the counties of
Anglesea, Carnarvon, and Merioneth, at an
annual fee of 2QL, in succession to his father,
who had held the office from Oct. 7, 1715,
through the Penrhyn influence ; and received
a fresh patent from George III. on Sept. 3,
1761, retaining it until his death. General
Warburton's sister Jane was second wife to
John, 2nd Duke of Argyll. The General m.
the daughter of Dr. Norriti, and his daughter
and heiress m. to Richard, Lord Penrhyn
(' History of the Great Sessions in Wales,
1542-1830').
Robert Rickart Hepburne became major
of the 6th Dragoons, April 25, 1755 ; and
lieutenant-colonel thereof, March 18, 1763,
to June 24, 1768, serving in Germany in 1760
to 1763, when it moved to Ireland ; brevet
lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 1, 1761.
William Gardner was b. at Coleraine,
March 24, 1691, and promoted major of the
llth Dragoons, April 23, 1746 ; and was
lieutenant-colonel thereof, June 26, 1754,
till he d. Aug. 14, 1762.
WTilliam Robert Adair of Ballymenagh,
co. Antrim, eldest son of Col. Sir Robert
Adair, Knt., of same, who d. Feb. 9, 1745,
was described as a captain of Dragoons
in Debrett's ' Baronetage,' 1840. He m.
Catherine, daughter of Smallman of
Ludlow, Salop ; and d. April 19, 1762.
(Query if he was the William Adair, army
agent, Pall Mall, agent for the 1st and 3rd
Dragoon Guards, Coldstream Guards, and
19th, 23rd, and 33rd Foot, in 1750, and for
the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 3rd Dragoons, 5th,
7th, 9th, 12th, 19th, 23rd, 40th, 63rd, and
72nd Foot, and for the Garrisons of Fort
Augustus, Fort George, and Landguard Fort
in 1760.) His great-grandson, Robert Shafto
Adair, was created a Baronet, Aug. 2, 1838,
whose son was created Lord Waveney,
1873.
George Whitmore of Apley, Salop, fourth
son of William Whitmore of Lower Slaughter,
co. Gloucester, and Apley, was b. 1715 or
after, and d. s.p. 1775 ; younger brother to
Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B., and Lieut.-Gen.
William Whitmore.
Guilford Killigrew was perhaps the " C..
Killigrew, Esq.," who was in 1734 the junior-
of the three Pages of Honour (100Z. per
annum each) to " their Royal Highnesses the
Princess Royal, the Princess Emilia (Amelia)^
and the Princess Caroline, &c." (' The True
State of England,' 1734). He quitted the
post before 1737. I cannot trace him as
lieutenant-colonel of Kerr's Dragoons (ante,
p. 193), and think that must have been a
clerical error.
Was Gabriel Bilson related to Leonard
Bilson of Mapledurham, Hants, first cousin
to the 1st Earl of Dartmouth, who willed his
estates, 1754, to the Earl's fourth son, the
Right Hon. Henry Legge, M.P., who then
took the prefix surname of Bilson (see ante,
p. 137)?
John Gore, who was a younger son of
William Gore, M.P., of Tring, Herts, was
promoted to captain of Col. Powlett's
Marines, Jan. 27, 1742 ; captain of Kerr's-
May, 1746 ; captain-lieutenant (with rank of
lieutenant-colonel) 3rd Foot Guards, April 1
or April 11, 1750 ; captain (and lieutenant -
colonel) therein, Jan. 29, 1751 ; second major
(and brevet colonel), Oct. 23, 1 759 ; first major,.
Sept. 1, 1760 ; lieutenant-colonel of that
regiment, Sept. 25, 1761, to 1768 ; colonel of
the 61st Foot, May 9, 1768 ; of the 6th Foot,.
Feb. 19, 1773, till he d. Aug. 4, 1773 ; major-
general, July 10, 1762 ; lieutenant -general ,,
Jan. 26, 1772 ; M.P. Cricklade, 1747 to 1754,
Lord Robert Kerr, the younger son of
William, 3rd Marquis of Lothian, and great-
great-nephew of the colonel of the regiment,,
was killed at Cullcden, April 16, 1746, being
then a captain. W. R. WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
Ante, pp. 84, 152.
In Army List, 1754, p. 62, ' List of
Garrisons ' : " Capt. Lucy Weston, 19 June,.
1752, Jersey." R. J. FYISTMOBE.
MEWS OR MEWYS FAMILY.
(12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419.)
THE deeply interesting and carefully com-
piled communication of DR. WHITEHEAI>
has furnished us with some valuable facts.
There are, however, one or two minor errors
which I wish to be allowed to correct.
The third Oliver St. John referred to died
unmarried in 1699, not 1689. It was his father
who died in 1689. The second wife of
Ellis St. John was the daughter and heiress
not of John Goodyer but of Edward Goodyerr
lord of the manor of Dogmersfield. Edward,.
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433
who was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1679,
had considerable estates in Hampshire and
one or two other counties. His will was
proved at P.C.C. in 1687. He had four sons
and two daughters (John being his eldest son
and heir), but all the property ultimately
came to Martha St. John, as none of the
sons left issue. His other daughter Mary
married John Delavall, one of the sons of
Sir Ralph Delavall, Bart., and died, aged 23
(before her father), Oct. 19, 1683. There is
a tombstone to her memory on the floor of
the tower of the old church at Dogmersfield.
Sir Paulet St. John, the 1st Bart., married
three times. His first wife was the daughter
and coheir of Sir James (not John) Rushout,
2nd Bart. His second wife was the daughter
and heiress of John Waters of Brecknock, co.
Brecon, and widow of Sir Halswell (not Henry)
Tynte, 3rd Bart., M. P., of Halswell. There is a
pedigree of the Waters family, terminating
in this heiress, in The Herald and Genealogist,
vol. vii. p. 336. Sir Paulet's third wife was
Jane, daughter of R. Harris of Silkstead,
M.P. for Southampton, and widow of
William Pescod, Recorder of Winchester. This
lady's daughter by her first husband, Jane
Pescod, married Carew Mildmay of Shawford
in 1761, so that when in 1786 Sir Henry
St. John, 3rd Bart., married the great
Mildmay heiress, Lady St. John's step-
grandson married her granddaughter.
Dorothea Maria, the wife of Sir Henry
St. John, 2nd Bart., was the daughter and
coheiress of Abraham Tucker of Betchworth
Castle, Surrey, a leading thinker and meta-
physician of the eighteenth century, a full
account of whom is given in the ' Dic-
tionary of National Biography.' The pro-
perty at Betchworth Castle came to Sir
Henry St. John-Mildmay, 3rd Bart., on
the death of his aunt, Judith Tucker, in
1794. He shortly afterwards disposed of
it, but first of all, if the statement in the
' Victoria County History ' is accurate,
)ld the box on Box Hill for 10,000?. I have
10 reason to doubt the reliability of this
statement, which I remember to have seen
mentioned elsewhere. Indeed, this sale was
referred to some years ago in the daily
press. The ruins of the old castle still
stand near Dorking, and are now included
in the Deepdene estate. There is a fine
monument to Abraham Tucker and his wife
in Dorking church.
Sir Henry Mildmay of Wanstead married
Anne (not Jane, as stated), daughter of
William (not Leonard) Halliday, Alderman
of London, at St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield,
April 6, 1619. Her mother was the daughter
of Sir John Rowe, Lord Mayor of London,,
and, after Halliday's death, remarried
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Lord
High Admiral of England. Lady Warwick
was, however, buried with her first husband
in St. Lawrence Jewry, where there is a-
superb monument showing busts of William
Halliday, his wife, and their daughter, Dame
Anne Mildmay. A pedigree of the Halliday
family is found in a work called ' Burke' s
Commoners,' published some years ago in
four volumes.
William Halliday was Alderman, but not,,
as stated, Lord Mayor, of London. I believe-
he was the first chairman of the East India
Company. Halliday's daughter brought not
only the Twyford estate, but also what is
now known as the "Mildmay Park " estate,,
to the Mild mays.
The old family house is standing to-day,
having been divided into two, and is known as
9 and 10 Newington Green, N. It is a home-
for nurses. Until recently there was in this
house a beautifully panelled room, with a
most splendid ceiling, and with the Halliday
arms carved over the mantelpiece ; but a
few years ago, I am sorry to say, this was
sold for thousands of pounds, and is now,.
I believe, in the U.S.A.
The Mildmay Park estate was disposed of
in 1858, after the death of Dame Jane
St. John-Mildmay, the heiress who had
married Sir Henry St. John, 3rd Bart., of
Dogmersfield. This estate had been settled,
on her marriage in 1786, on her younger
children. As, after having sixteen children,,
she lived to be over 90, this property had
acquired, before her death in 1857, a value-
which no one had at all anticipated, and of
this the younger children got the advantage.
Lady Methuen, Lady Bolingbroke, and the-
Countess of Radnor were her married
daughters. A HAMPSHIRE MAN.
In the fourth volume of Hutchins's
' History of Dorset,' under the article labelled
c Purse Candel,' there occurs : —
"Peter Mew, LL.D., Bishop of Winchester, was
a native of this place ; son of Elisha Mew, and'
born March 25. 1618. He was educated at Merchant
Taylors School bjr Dr. Winniffe, his uncle, then
Dean of St. Paul's,'' &c.
After this follows a review of the Bishop's
career.
Would DR. J. L. WHITEHEAD kindly
animadvert ? No doubt " Elisha " is for
" Ellis." Ellis may have been rendered into
Latin, perhaps, as Elisseus, and this re-
translated as Elisha by mistake. But,,
according to DR. WHITEHEAD, the father of
Ellis Mews of Stourton Caundle (who is the
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first person mentioned in the Mews pedi-
gree of the 1686 Visitation of Hampshire at
• the College of Arms) was Peter Mews, who
<lied before 1597. Are we to have it that
the Bishop's father and Ellis of Stourton
•Caundle were brothers, and that the uncle
who educated the Bishop was thus really his
great-uncle ? M. M.
Paulet St. John (son of Ellis Mews who
took the name of St. John) married as his
second wife Mary, daughter of John Waters
'(not Walter) of Brecon, and widow of Sir
Halswell (not Henry) Tynte of Halswell,
Somerset. This lady retained her title of
Lady Tynte during her married life with
Mr. St. John, as may be gathered by the
following extract from vol. xxviii. of The
• Gentleman's Magazine : —
DEATHS.
-1758, Dec. 17. Hon. Lady Tynte, at Farley, near
Win ton. Her jointure of 2,OOOZ. per Ann. comes
to Sir Charles Kemeys Tynte, Bart.
Mr. Paulet St. John was not created a
i baronet until nearly fourteen years after
her death, viz., Sept, 9, 1772. Lady Tynte's
being designated " Hon." is of course a
.mistake.
Their son Sir Henry Paulet St. John,
.2nd Bart., married Dorothea Maria Tucker's
(surname omitted by DR. WHITEHEAD),
-daughter of Abraham Tucker of Betchworth
•Castle, Surrey, esquire.
CROSS-CROSSLET.
HARDING OF SOMERSET (12 S. ii. 350). —
The facts relating to this family, as far as I
know them, are as follows : —
Alnod, a thane in the reign of Edward the
'Confessor, and a landowner in Somerset,
Dorset, Wilts, and Devon, bought of Bishop
Alwold (1041-56) a lease for life of certain
flands of the see of Sherborne, and in King
William's time took land in Burstock from
-a thane who had held it in King Edward's
time.
Harding, son of the above Alnod, held in
1066 manors in Somerset, in Meriet, Lopen
(the two places adjoin), and four other
places mentioned in Domesday. Harding,
•alleged father of Robert fitz Harding, died
Nov. 6, about 1115, and from him descended
the present great house of Berkeley.
i JVThe Meriets of Meriet. — The Fitznichols of
Tickenham and the Baronial De la Warrs
are also descended from Alnod. See Green-
field's ' Pedigree of the Meriets of Meriet '
.and 5 S. xii.
The Domesday entry about Cranmore
.(Crenemella) indicates that at the date of the
Inquisition the king had in hand the whole
of East and West Cranmere (or Cranmore).
Within the next two years the whole estate
was restored to Glastonbury Abbey and to
Harding, the abbot's tenant. The estate as
held in 1066 and 1086 by Harding under
Glastonbury Abbey cannot now be accurately
defined. It probably consisted of both the
parishes now distinguished as East and West
Cranmore. See Ey ton's ' Somerset Domes-
day/ i. p. 161.
It is important to note here that from
1066 to 1086 there was more than one
Harding in Somerset. Two Hardings, at
any rate, were great thanes, and one held
a highly placed position at Court. The
Hardings we know of definitely were : —
1. Harding of East and West Cranmore.
2. Harding of Meriet, who held many
Somerset manors.
3. Harding or Hardinc, who was on
Feb. 28, 1072. attendant upon Queen
Edith's Court at Wilton (Wilts).
It is only reasonable to think that these
three, living within a limited area, were
connected, but I hazard the statement that
the precise connexion will not easily be
established.
Of the three Hardings named above, the
one placed second is the most important.
Around Harding of Meriet much has been
written, probably because from him has
descended the great family of Fitzhardinge.
1 will give references to various authorities,
and be content to quote the latest remarks
upon him, which were contributed by Mr.
J. H. Round to his Introduction to the
chapters upon Domesday in the first volume
of. ' The Victoria County History of Somer-
set,' pp. 417-18 : —
" Of the King's theyns, that is the Englishmen
who in 1086 were still allowed to hold land,
Harding, son of Elnod or Alnod, was clearly the
greatest. He has been the subject of much discus-
sion, rather because he was the probable ancestor
of the historic race of Berkeley than because he
was certainly the founder of the Somerset house of
Meriet. In the Geld-roll of Crewkerne Hundred
(1084) he is styled Hardinus de Meriet, taking his
name from his chief manor, as did his descendants.
Mr. Freeman established the identity of this
Harding, son of Elnod or Alnod, with the Heardinc
or Hierdinge, son of Eadnoth, who is found in
Anglo-Saxon documents, and with the Herdingus,
son of Ednod, who was alive when William of
Malmesbury wrote, and whose father, that historian
tells us, fell in repelling the descent on Somerset
by Harold's sons in 1068. This identifies the
latter with the Eadnoth Stallere of the chronicle,
the Eadnothus Haroldi Regis Stallarius of Florence,
who commanded, they tell us, William's troops on
that occasion. The Domesday holder of Meriet is
also clearly the Harding n'lius Elnodi who acted as
justice itinerant for Devon and Cornwall in 1096.'
12 B. ii. NOV. 25, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
435
Your correspondent may be glad to
have as full a list of references as possible, so
1 refer him first of all to R. W. Eyton's
* Somerset Domesday,' London, 1880.
2 vols. Eyton stands alone as a county
historian; and specially in his various works
-on Domesday. In 5 S. xii. and 6 S. i.
there is A discussion upon Harding,
to which R. W. Eyton contributed an
important article and Mr. A. S. Ellis a
valuable pedigree. Mr. Freeman in his
' Xorman Conquest,' vol. iv. p. 164, and in
the same volume (a long appendix note),
pp. 757-60, gives a mass of facts. Mr.
Freeman's long residence in Somerset made
him take special interest in local history.
John Smyth's 'Lives of the Berkeleys '
•contains numerous "Harding" references;
-and in this connexion your correspondent
should read the Rev. W. Hunt's biography
of Robert Fit zharding in the ' D.N.B.' Mr.
Hunt demolishes some legendary stuff
which found a place in Seyer's ' History of
Bristol,' and in Collinson, too. The long
paragraph at the foot of p. 124 of vol. ii.
of ' The Complete Peerage ' ( Vicary Gibbs
• edition) should be seen by your corre-
spondent.
John Harding, Sheriff of Somerset in 1752,
is stated in the official list of sheriffs (P.R.O.)
to have been " of Charterhouse Hinton "
'(near Bath). A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
FABMEKS' SAYINGS (12 S. ii. 289, 358).—
In ' Lean's Collectanea,' 1902, vol. i. p. 437,
the late Vincent Stuckey Lean gives " Pigs
see the wind,. i.e., the coming tempest, which
makes them the most restless of animals.
— W-" W- means " Withals, John, Diet.
:>i English and Latin, by W. de Worde
[1521], 4to ; numerous editions up to 1634."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
Pigs seeing the wind formed the subject of
-cveral communications in 1889-90. See7S.
viii. 367, 457 ; ix. 14. JOHN T. PAGE.
WILL OF PRINCE RUPERT (12 S. ii. 201). —
May I venture to suggest one or two altera-
tions or amendments in MR. PHILIP
XORMAN'S interesting article on the will of
Prince Rupert, Duke of Bavaria and
Cumberland, who died in 1682 and was
buried in Henry VII. 's Chapel in West-
minster Abbey ?
1. MR. NORMAN states (p. 202) that the
name of the mother of " Dudley Bart " was
Francesca, eldest daughter of Sir Henry
Bard, Bart., created Viscount Bellamont by
•Charles I. In a foot-note to the printed
will by the editors, John Gough Nichols and
John Bruce, at p. 142 of the selection of
' Wills from Doctors' Commons ' published
by the Camden Society in 1863, from which
MR. NORMAN takes his material, the name is
given as Anne.
2. MR. NORMAN gives " August, 1686,"
as the date when Dudley Bard was killed at
the siege of Buda. The above note states
that it was " on the 13th July, 1686."
3. This is a very trivial correction. MR.
NORMAN gives 4,62<M. as the sum paid by
" Mrs. Ellen Gwynne " for the " Great
Pearl Necklace," whereas in a foot-note at
p. 144 it is stated as 4,5201.
I presume MR. NORMAN made his state-
ment on the authority of the above notes ;
if not, it is only right that I should call his
attention to them. J. S. UDAL.
THE THIRD YELLOW QUILT (12 S. i. 248).
— There has so far been no reply to my query
about a Yellow Quilt supposed to have been
given to a member of the Bloxam family by
the Emperor of China, and I thought that
possibly some information I have lately
gleaned on the subject might be of interest.
In July, 1824, King Tamehameha II. of
the Sandwich Islands and his Queen both
died of the measles while on a visit to London,
and their bodies were conveyed back to
Hawaii on board the Blonde frigate (Captain
Lord Byron). The Rev. Richard Rowland
Bloxam went with the expedition as chaplain,
and his brother, the Rev. Andrew Bloxam,
as naturalist. After the funeral ceremonies,
the Queen's mother, Kahumanu, presented
the Rev. Richard Bloxam with a costly
feather war-cloak, which was always greatly
prized by himself and his family. At his
death, most of his collection of antiquities
went to the Rugby School Museum, but the
war-cloak remained in the family. I have
not yet learnt which particular member
has it, but I feel pretty certain that the
Yellow Quilt tradition must have been
founded on this war-cloak. There is an
interesting account of the illness and death
of King Tamehameha and Queen Tame-
hamelu in The London Magazine for August,
1824. The 'D.N.B.' gives a notice of
Andrew Bloxam, but for the information
about the war-cloak I am indebted to Mr.
Treen, Chairman of the Museum Committee,
Rugby.
(Lovers of Lamb may be interested to
know that the above-mentioned Richard
and Andrew were nephews of Sam Bloxam,
schoolfellow and friend of Charles Lamb.)
G. A. ANDERSON.
436
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EDWARD HERBERT, M.P. (12 S. ii. 348).
— The parentage of this M.P. has long per-
'plexed me. That he was a member of the
great house of Herbert -cannot be doubted,
but so far as my researches lead me none
of the more important lines of that family
gives him a place. He was high in favour
with Cromwell, by whom in 1656 he was
appointed Overseer or Chief Manager * of
His Highness's lands in Wales. He was
returned as one of the three members for
Monmouthshire to the Parliament of 1656-8,
in the proceedings of which he seems to
have taken little or no active part, being
named on none of its numerous Committees.
The only mention of him in the Commons'
Journals is on Jan. 2, 1656/7, when as
" Sir " Edward Herbert he received leave
of absence, doubtless to attend to his duties
in connexion with the Protector's lands in
Wales. His prospective knighthood was
possibly then " talked about " ; there is not
the slightest evidence that it was ever con-
ferred. In addition to the information
quoted by your correspondent from Mr.
Williams's valuable book, it may be men-
tioned that the M.P. was appointed one of
the Commissioners for Monmouthshire in
the Commonwealth Scandalous Ministers
Act of 1654, and an Assessment Commis-
sioner for the same county in 1656.
After the Restoration he retired to Bristol,
where he died about 1667. There can, I
think, be no doubt that the Edward Herbert
whose will, dated June 27, 1666, was proved
in the following year, was the ex-M.P. In
it he is described as " late of the co. of
Monmouth, but now of the City of Bristol."
He held lands in the parish of Redwick in
Biston alias Bishopstown,and Llanorghrolt( ?)
&c., all in co. Monmouth. Names his sons
Edward, Isaac, William, and Abraham (the
last three under age), his daughters Eliza-
beth and Anne. Executors, Charles Venn,
Esq., Henry Rumsey, Samuel Jones, and
Thomas Ewens, minister of the gospel in
Monmouth. Proved " in the Strand, co.
Middx.," Nov. 29, 1667, by Rumsey, Jones,
and Ewens. His wife is not mentioned, so
probably predeceased him.
His " relative Elizabeth Somerset," who
died early in 1655, from whose bequest he
received " the Grange and other lands in
co. Monmouth," would be the Hon. Eliza-
beth Somerset, the only daughter and heiress
of Sir Thomas Somerset, Viscount Somerset
of Cashel (died 1651) ; she died unmarried
in 1655 or thereabouts.
The suggestion of T. that the M.P.
•was descended from Walter Herbert of
Christ church, an illegitimate son of George-
Herbert of Newport, M.P. for Monmouth-
shire in 1563, appears to me to be highlv
probable, onh he would, I take it, be the
Edward who died in 1667, and not his son
of that name, who must have been too-
\oung for Parliament in 1656.
W. D. PINK.
Lowton, Newton-le- Willows.
" SEPTEM SINE HORIS " (12 S. ii. 310, 377)..
— May I support COL. POWLETT'S reading
of this sundial motto, " Leave the seven
(days of the week) to the hours " ; that isr
" Take care of the hours, and the week will
take care of itself" ? The order of the
words favours this reading, and, as the
Romans did not measure time by weeks,
septem, at any rate on a sundial, will stand
for " week " better than any Low Latin
word. Besides, sundials are sententious.
The figures for the hours of darkness may
be lacking, as in the case of MR,. CLEMENTS' s-
old Dutch dial ; but the motto, while stating
that small fact, is intended, like most of its
fellows, to preach economy of time.
B. B.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 369). — The
quotation
From the heretic girl of my soul shall I fly, &c.,
is from one of Thomas Moore's ' Irish;
Melodies,' commencing : —
Come send round the wine, and leave points of
belief
To simpletons, sages, and reasoning fools.
It is to be found, I believe, in every
complete copy of Moore's ' Works.' I have
verified the melody in the edition of 1843,..
10 vols., printed by Longman, Green &
Brown, Longmans, London.
A. GWYTHER.
Windham Club.
If MR. THOMAS WILSON will again turn,
to the Irish melody entitled ' Come send
round the Wine,' he will find the verse
sought for at the end of the second stanza.
The reference is to the poet's wife Bessy,,
who was a Protestant, whilst Moore was a
Roman Catholic.
EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.'
[L. A. W. thanked for reply to the same effect.]
CERTAIN GENTLEMEN OF THE SIXTEENTH
CENTURY (12 S. ii. 268, 372).— MR. H. J. B..
CLEMENTS and your other correspondents
have fallen into a very natural error in
identifying " Lord Talbot " as George,.
6th Earl of Shrewsbury. Had they had
the full account of the funeral in front of
them this would not have happened.
12 s. ii. NOV. 25, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
437
It is necessary, for the sake of future
sreaders, to rectify this mistake. George,
6th Earl of Shrewsbury, as chief mourner,
followed in the procession immediately after
the corpse, his train being borne by a gentle-
man usher. Then followed the Lord Talbot.
This was Francis Talbot, the eldest son and
heir of George, and Lord Talbot by courtesy.
He married in 1563, possibly at a very early
-age, Ann Herbert, daughter of William,
Earl of Pembroke, and, dying without issue
in 1582, was buried at Sheffield. His brother
Gilbert, who subsequently succeeded to the
title, was born in 1553, and consequently
•only about 7 years old at the time of the
funeral, evidently too young to be present,
his name not being mentioned.
CHARLES DRURY
12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
'THE MORNING POST' (12 S. ii. 301, 322,
342). — May I, as a student of eighteenth-
'century history, add a few notes to the
interesting sketch by MR. JOHN COLLINS
FRANCIS of the origin and earlier years of
The Morning Post ? I think that the Rev.
Henry Bate (afterwards Sir Henry Bate-
Dudley) became editor of the paper some
time before 1775, and that he probably held
that position from its foundation in 1772.
When he was tried for the libel on the Duke
•of Richmond in 1781, the printer of The
Morning Post swore that Bate had been its
•editor " from its first institution," except for
an interval cf two or three months. He was
sentenced, as MR. FRANCIS says, to twelve
months' imprisonment for the libel, but it is
not generally known that he only served a
portion of this time. Long before it expired
the Duke of Richmond sent Dr. Brocklesby
to Bate to say that if he would express in
writing his desire to be released, the Duke
would place the letter before tne King.
However, he declined to make any con-
ditions, and soon afterwards a messenger
-arrived at the prison at three o'clock in the
morning with an order for his release. Bate's
action on this occasion agrees with the
estimate of his character given by John
Taylor, that he was " wholly incapable
of degrading concession or compromising
artifice."
Xo journalist of his time was more fiercely
attacked than Bate, and probably in some
respects his record was not unassailable.
But the attacks seem to have come in many
cases from the editors of rival prints whose
-circulation and advertisements had suffered
through his enterprise and journalistic skill.
Some of the bitterest of these attacks
-appeared in The Morning Post soon after he
had severed his connexion with that journal
and founded The Morning Herald. Their
tone is not surprising in view of the fact that
Bate carried with him to the new paper a
large proportion of the readers of The
Morning Post. A month after the founda-
tion of The Morning Herald he claimed that
its circulation was already larger than that
of The Morning Post had ever been, and
offered to prove it at the Stamp Office.
Bate brought an action for libel against The
Morning Post, whose editor was sentenced
to three months' imprisonment and to pay
a fine of a hundred pounds.
It is curious that none of the histories of
newspapers mentions The New Morning
Post, which has sometimes been confused
with The Morning Herald. The New
Morning Post, to oppose which Bate led the
procession down Piccadilly which Walpole
observed from his window, was founded in
1776 as a rival to the original journal, but
its career was short. At this time The
Morning Post was the property of Bate,
Mr. Bell, and that voluminous writer the
Rev. Dr. Trusler ; but in 1779, when Bate's
hold on the paper was becoming precarious,
the owners are said to have incfudeed,
" Mr. Skinner the auctioneer, Mr. Mitchell the
grocer, Mr. Bell the bookseller, Mr. Tattersall the
horse-jockey, & Mr. James Hargrave of the Rain-
bow Tavern."
The date of Bate's marriage is wrongly
given as 1780 in the ' D.N.B.' He was
married in 1773, a few weeks after the
famous affray at Vauxhall that gained for
him the title of " the fighting parson."
The Morning Post, in 1777, was the first
paper to champion Gainsborough, and most
of our knowledge of the great painter's life
in London is obtained from Bate's notes
written in The Morning Post and The Morning
Herald. To Gainsborough, and to Mrs.
Gainsborough after her husband's death,
Bate was the most faithful of friends. Some
aspects of his life may have been unsatis-
factory, but in the memoirs of the time in
which he is mentioned (such as those of
Angelo and Parke) he is referred to always
as a kind-hearted and generous man.
WILLIAM T. WHITLEY
57 Gwendwr Road , W.
RESTORATION OF OLD DEEDS AND MANU-
SCRIPTS (12 S. ii. 268, 316). — Fazakerly,
bookbinder, of Manchester, and late of
Liverpool, did an excellent piece of work in
repairing the Churchwardens' Minutes and
Accounts of the parish of Childwall. Much
of the MS. was in so brittle a state that it
had to be dipped in a bath of size before
438
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. NOV. 25/1916.
" it could be handled, and it was repaired with
transparent vellum. I believe women do
this kind of work better and more neatly
than msii, Fazakerly also repaired in a
marvellous way a piece of the church register
which I found, It had been missing for
upwards of one hundred years, being folded
up inside some other documents, and having
got very badly torn and stained.
R. S. B.
RIGHT HON. SIB ANDREW RICHAKD
SCOBLE, K.C.S.I., K.C. (12 S. ii. 390).—
GENERAL HILL will find an interesting ac-
count— some four or five pages — in ' Ancient
"West- Country Families, vol. i. pp. 214
et seq., and frontispiece, by B. H. Williams,
published this year by J. A. D. Bridger,
112 Market Jew Street, Penzance, wherein
the death of the above is recorded as occur-
ring on Jan. 17 last, not as stated.
HOWARD H. COTTERELL, F.R.Hist.S.
Foden Road, Walsall.
I regret that I am not able to refer
GENERAL HILL to a pedigree of the family
of the late Sir Andrew Scoble, but he
will find some details of the family in
a volume published in 1874, entitled
' Kingsbridge and its Surroundings,' by
S. P. Fox. A few references to persons of
the name of Scoble will also be found in
Vivian's ' Visitations of Devon and Corn-
wall.' Whilst this information is not exactly
what is sought, it may help your correspon-
dent on to a track which will lead him in the
right direction. H. TAPLEY-SOPER.
City Library, Exeter.
ST. INAN (12 S. ii. 348). — This saint is a
very shadowy personality, whom it is not
possible to identify with any degree of
certainty. The only authority for his
existence is Adam King, a regent in the
University of Paris towards the end of the
sixteenth century. In 1588 he published a
translation of the Catechism of the Jesuit
Canisius, and prefixed thereto
" Ane Kallendar perpetuale contininn baith the
awld and new Kallendar, With dyuers vthers
thingis pertininj* thairto, verie profitable for all
sort of men : maid be M. Adame King, professeur
of Philosophe and Mathematikis at Paris."
He assigns Aug. 18 to
" S. Inane, confess: at iruine [Irvine] in Scotland
vnder king kennede ye I [anno] 839."
Needless to say that this is very late and
untrustworthy authority, unsupported by
any other. If there ever was a Confessor
Inan of Irvine, Adam King must have had
access to records to which we have none. H
there never was such an individual, we are
compelled to suspect that King invented him
to fill a blank day in his calendar. Bishop
Reeves, the erudite editor of ' Vita
S. Columbse,' mentions a St. Enan as holding
a place in the Irish Calendar (' Ecclesiastical
Antiquities of Down,' &c., pp. 285, 377).
Intercourse between Ulster and Ayrshire
was frequent and close in early times, but the-
day assigned to the Irish St. Enan was not
Aug. 18, but, March 25. As for the personal
name embalmed in "Tenant's Day" or
" Tinnan's Day," it may belong to one of
several saints. Personally I should incline
to identify it as Wynnin, the name of a
saint closely identified with Ayrshire and
the epouymus of Kilwinning. For this, see
Bishop Forbes' s ' Kalendars of Scottish
Saints,' pp. 463-6.
In the ' New Statistical Account of
Scotland ' (Ayr, p. 577) the brief description
in King's ' Kallendar ' is expanded into a
biography of some detail, but the particulars
existed only in the writer's imagination.
It may be mentioned that Adam King,,
who alone is responsible for the personality
of St. Inan, became Protestant, returned
from Paris to Edinburgh, was admitted
advocate, appointed a commissary in 1600,
and died in 1620. HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
Jiofcs 0n
The True History of the Conquest of New Spain. •
By Bernal Diaz del Castillo. Edited and
published in Mexico by Genaro Garcia. Trans-
lated into English, with Introduction and Notes,
by Alfred Percival Maudslay. Vol. V. (Hakluyt
Society.)
WE have here the concluding volume of Dr. .
Maudslay's translation of Bernal Diaz del Castillo.
All those interested in the subject know that the
original is one of the most important documents
for the expedition of Cortes into Mexico and the
establishment of Spanish dominion there. In
Bernal Diaz are combined an extraordinary
number of the qualities and advantages which go
to make the competent and successful historian
of a great adventure. We would place not last
among these his persistent, but not overwhelming, .
ill-luck. A man of quick wits, faultless and
dogged courage, great common sense and trust-
worthiness, for years administrator of the district
in which he had been given lands, turned to by
Cortes to help him put of straits on the march
when other men failed him, he was the close
friend of the leaders, and in a position both to
observe their doings and to estimate their
characters ; but he never himself attained to a
foremost place, nor yet to settled wealth and ease.
In addition to a remarkably strong memory he
possessed a sound judgment, which, through his
being always in a relatively subordinate position, .
was not subject to that warping which is apt to
12 3. ii. NOV. 25, Me.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
439-
result, in greater or less degree, from responsi-
bility. He is also blessed with what we may
perhaps call an excellent pre-literary style.
This volume contains the account of the ex-
pedition to Honduras. It is a tragic story, un-
relieved by the glamour of gold and conquest.
Nothing succeeded, and when, after many months
of difficult march, untold hardships, and much
wandering out of the way, the expedition arrived
at Naco, it was to find that Cristobal de Olid, the
captain for whose chastisement the enterprise
had ostensibly been designed, had long since been
beheaded. Bernal Diaz, as usual, did good
service, especially in tight places, but it is not
difficult to perceive that Cortes and most of the
Conquistadores who accompanied him had
suffered some deterioration both as to stoutness
of heart and practical judgment. It was on
this expedition that Cortes committed the crime,
with which his memory has so often and severely
been reproached, of putting to death Guatemoc,
the Great Cacique of Mexico, whom he had forced
to follow him.
Bernal Diaz was indignant at this ; and he
gives us a striking picture of the remorse of
Cortes — who could not sleep for the thought of it,
and, walking restlessly about at night, fell from a
platform — in a house where the Indians kept their
idols — about twice the height of a man, and badly
hurt his head. But, if the expedition was gloomy
and ill-fated, it did not altogether lack achievement
of which the Spaniards could be proud ; and what
Diaz himself most admired was the excellent
building of the wooden bridges which Cortes
caused to be made over the rivers. For their
line of march they had to trust much to the
interpreter Dona Marina, whose wedding with one
of the Spanish captains was celebrated on the
march ; and it may be that mistakes on her part
or the wilful misleading of her by the natives,
account for more than Diaz tells us of the
miseries undergone.
^ Following the account of the expedition, we
have a description of the setting up of the Royal
Audiencia for the government of New Spain.
The first men who constituted this either died, or,
being taken from among the settlers, proved
unsatisfactory ; but a new commission sent out
from Spain proved worthy of their task.
Last comes a list of the Conquistadores, drawn
up in order to vindicate the honour of the men
who could justly claim that proud designation.
This is not the least interesting part of the whole
work ; and it is indeed astonishing how numerous
are the details of name, fortune, personal ap-
pearance, character, even of health and manner
of death, which Diaz is able to recollect. He
tells of seven men, good soldiers and rich, who
gave up everything and became Franciscan or
Dominican fnars ; and of one who became ?
hermit. There was Pedro Gallego, " a pleasant
man and a poet, who also owned an inn on the
direct road from Vera Cruz to Mexico " ; there was
a soldier named Espinosa, who " was callec
Espinosa of the Blessing, for he always brought it
into his conversation, and his talk was vcr\
pleasant, thanks to the good blessing " ; there
was " the brave and daring soldier named Lerma
who was annoyed because Cortes ordered him to
be reprimanded for no fault whatever, went away
among the Indians," and was never heard of
again. Lively detail, of which these are small
examples, is abundant.
Of the great captains, such as his own friend
Sandoval, or Cristobal de Olea — whom he admires-
most of all, and who gave his life for Cortes — he
draws portraits at greater length. To Cortes
rimself, naturally, many paragraphs are devoted,-
and they are interesting not only as depicting the
great leader, but also as showing the honesty of"
mind and justice of the writer himself. The
Conclusion of the book deals with the general
results of the conquest in the matter of the-
jeneflts conferred by the Spaniards upon the
[ndians — among which is counted the introduction
of bull-fights — and the government of the country. .
Cortes — in his fifth letter — sent to Spain a
report of the Honduras ; Expedition, and this is
jiven as an appendix.
In these five volumes of Bernal Diaz's ' Conquest
of New Spain ' we have, it is hardly necessary to-
say, one of the most important of the publications
of the Hakluyt Society, and one upon which the
translator and all concerned are much to be-
congratulated.
BOOKS OF THE LAST QUARTER, OF THE:
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
OP the half -sco re or so of great names which in-
ptantly occur to every one with the thought of
the eighties and nineties, most are well represented
in the long and highly interesting Catalogue
(No. 350) which we received a few days ago from
Messrs. Maggs. If we turn to the Brownings we
find some fifty items, every one good. Of those
within our present limits we liked best the first
editions of ' Dramatic Idyls ' (1879-80), 261., and
the two volumes of Browning's ' Letters to Various
Correspondents," which were privately printed
(on vellum), in 1895, under the editorship of
Mr. T. J. Wise — only about five copies being done.
This book, bound by Ramage in olive levant
morocco, is offered for SI. 8s. There are ten items
connected with Randolph Caldecott. The most
important is a copy of Mr. Blackburn's Memoir •
of the artist, which is unique in that it contains
no fewer than fifty autograph letters of Caldecott
— all addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Blackburn —
illustrated by a number of amusing sketches, .
many of them the source of the illustrations in
the text of the book (1886), 1051. Another at-
tractive Caldecott book is a first edition of the •
' Washington Irving' with his illustrations (' Old
Christmas,' 1876 ; ' Bracebridge Hall,' 1877),
2 vols., bound by Riviere, 4Z. 4s. The list under
Fitzgerald includes a first edition of that writer's
' Agamemnon ' (1876), 4L 4s., and a copy of
W. Aldis Wright's collected edition of his works, .
' Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitz-
gerald' (1889), 21. 5s. We were interested to
notice that as much as 161. 16s. may be asked for
the first edition, in four vols., of ' Daniel Deronda.'
The Kelmscott Press publications form another
pleasant series, and we may mention as examples
Ellis's ' Shelley,' printed in 1894-5, 15*. 15s., and
the ' Godfrey of Boloyne ' (1893), III. Us. A
first edition of ' Roderick Hudson ' (1876), con-
taining Henry James's autograph, is offered for
31. 3s. A considerable prize for the buyer who-
affects this sort of collecting, and can afford 175i. .
for it, is the original MS. of ' Jump to Glory Jane.'
The Stevenson items include a first edition of
' A Child's Garden of Verses ' (1885), 61. 6s., and
the rare ' Story of a Lie ' (1882), 18/. 18s. There
is a long and entertaining list of presentation
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'Copies from Swinburne's library, and several
good things in the way of the poet's own works.
An item worth noting is a set of the French ' Court
Memoirs,' brought out from 1878 to 1890 by
Lady Jackson — fourteen volumes in all — 34Z.
Messrs. Hill send us what they modestly call
' A Rough List ' of second-hand books (No. 126).
It is a good one, and of varied interest. The
following may serve as specimens of the works
there described belonging to pur period : nine
volumes of the ' Arabian Nights' Entertain-
ments ' (1882) (Payne's translation), with a
volume containing ' Aladdin ' (1889), ten volumes
in all, printed for the Villon Society, Ql, 9s. ; a
complete set, in 16 vols., of A. H. Bullen's edition
of ' Old English Dramatists ' (1885), 12?. ; Spencer
Walpole's ' History of England,' from 1815,
5 vols. (1879-86), 31. 15s. ; Kaye's ' A History
of the Sepoy War in India' (1880), Malleson's
' History of the Indian Mutiny ' (1878), and
Pincott's ' Analytical Index ' to these two works
(1880), 5 vols. in all, 21. 12s. 6d. ; Grosart's edition
-of the 'Complete Works' of Daniel (1885-96),
47. 4s. ; Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' in T. Helsby's en-
larged edition of 1882, 31. 15s. ; and Aubrey
Beardsley's ' King Arthur ' — Malory's text, edited
by Prof. Rhys— 2 vols., 1893, 11. 15s.
In the new Catalogue which Mr. John Grant
-of Edinburgh has just sent us we noticed the
following items which fall within our present
purview, and may be of interest to our readers :
Wright and McLean's ' Eusebius ' (1898), 5s. ;
Swete's ' Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Minor
Epistles of St. Paul ' (1882), 5s. ; Searle's ' Anglo-
Saxon Bishops, Kings, and Nobles ' (1899), 5s. ;
Key's ' Latin - English Dictionary" — "dealing
primarily with those words which require novel
-or special treatment " (1888), 10s. 60. ; Jessopp
and James's ' Life and Miracles of St. William of
Norwich,' edited from the unique MS. in the
Cambridge University Library (1896), 5s. ; and
O'Hanlon's ' Laves of the Irish Saints,' 51. 5s.
(Messrs. Hill, by the way, have also a copy of this
offered at the same price.)
Mr. C. Richardson of Manchester, in his Cata-
logue (No. 80), describes between three and four
hundred books, among which we noticed a copy
of Leo Grindon's ' Lancashire ' offered for 11. 2s. 6d.
(1882) ; a copy of ' Le Livre d'Or de Victor
Hugo par 1' Elite des Artistes et des Ecrivains
Contemporains ' (1883), offered for 11. 10s. ; ' The
Life and Works of Pope,' as compiled by Croker,
and issued 1871-86, with Elwin and Courthope's
Introduction and notes, 10 vols., 21. 10s. ; and
Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses,' 4 vols., for 1Z. 10s.
(1888).
Mr. Barnard's highly enjoyable Catalogue (No.
Ill), describing Autographs, Manuscripts, Docu-
ments, and Drawings, deals for the most part with
things further from us than the last quarter of the
nineteenth century ; we marked, however, a few
items which fall within it. Thus he has a copy
of ' The Governor's Guide to Windsor Castle '
(1895), bearing inscribed on the fly-leaf, " From
' the Governor ' to A. Lang, with affectionate
good wishes for the New Year, 1896 " — the said
Governor being the late Duke of Argyll, II. 15s.
A good copy of William Bell Scott s ' Poems,
Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, &c.,' in
"the original white cloth, published in 1875, costs
1Z. 10s. ; and there is Andrew Lang's copy of the
1878 Hibbert Lectures — ' On the Origin and
Growth of Religion, as illustrated by the Religions
of India ' — the fly-leaves of which are covered
with his notes, 16s. This Catalogue contains
some interesting illustrations.
Messrs. Sotheran & Co. have sent us Part VI.
and last (Catalogue No. 766) of their extensive
Bibliotheca Reuteriana. This, " containing
modern standard works on the exact sciences," is
not perhaps so much in our line as the previous
ones, but we have picked out a few works which
in one way or another may be considered to be
of general interest. Such are Ambronn's ' Hand-
buch der Astronomischen Instrumentenkunde '
(1899), 2Z. ; Dr. Venn's 'Logic of Chance ' (1888),
offered for Is. ; the same author's ' Symbolic
Logic,' in the revised edition of 1894, 7s. ; and
Flammarion's edition of Dien's ' Atlas Celeste '
(1897), 1Z. 5s.
We may conclude with a mention of the Cata-
logue of Messrs. Simmons & Waters of Leaming-
ton. They have about a score of important extra-
illustrated :; books in good bindings, of which the
following belong to the period we are considering :
' A New Calendar of Great Men ' — Frederic
Harrison's edition of Comte, 1892, one volume
extended to two, and bound by Bayntun of Bath,
51. 5s. ; J. R. Green's ' Short History,' the Illus-
trated edition of 4 vols., extended to 8 with addi-
tional views and portraits (1892-4), 10Z. Tnis
is bound by Bayntun, as is also Lecky's
' History of England in the Eighteenth Century,'
extra - illustrated (1878-90), HZ. 11s. The last
we will note is a copy of ' The Inns of Old South-
wark,' the work, as our correspondents know, of
Messrs. W. and P. Norman, to whom our own
columns have frequently been indebted ; this,
extended from one volume to two, and bound by
Birdsall of Northampton, is here to be had for
4Z. 17s. Qd.
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
to
DR. J. B. HUBBY. — Many thanks. If the book
contains historical or other matter falling within
the scope of ' N. & Q.' we shall be glad to see it.
MBS. M. D. BUTLER DANA (New York). —
Forwarded.
MRS. ANDERSON. — Many thanks for your
bibliographical suggestion. We hope to carry it
out.
MR. H. DUGDALE SYKES. — Many thanks for
letter.
W. H. C. — " Here lies our good Edmund,
whose genius was such," <kc This will be found
in Goldsmith's ' Retaliation.'
CORRIGENDA.— Ante, p. 362, col. 2, first note, for
"pp. 188-9 (1794)" read "p. 188 (1896)."— P. 386,
col. 2, 11. 13 and 12 from foot, for " in-situation "
read inatitution. — P. 389, col. 1, 1. 8 from foot,
for " Pricg. " read Princ*-(= Principally).
12 B. ii. DEC. 2, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
441
LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER :.', 1916.
CONTENTS.— No. 49.
NOTES :— Fieldingiana, 441— English Army List of 1740,
443— Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and
Towns, 445— Sir Thomas Browne : Counterfeit Basilisks
— Walter or Walters Family of Pembrokeshire. 446—
Addendum to Note on Dr. Robert Uvedale-The Decay of
Dialect— The Polish Word for " Resurrection "— Seize-
Quartiers, 447.
•QUERIES :— Byron's Travels— Bull-baiting in Spain and
Portugal, 447— De la Port* Family— Derham of Dolphin-
holme— Statue of Queen Victoria— William B. Parnell, a
London Architect — William Morris : ' Sigurd the
Volsung' — The "Old British Dollar," 448 -"Saint"
Theodora— Major Walter Hawkes— " Public Houses " in
London and Westminster in 1701— Samuel Petrie— Payne
Family— Sir John Baker, Chancellor of the Exchequer to
Henry VIII.—" Talking through one's hat"— Hannafore,
a Cornish Place-Name—Thomas Plumson, Watchmaker,
449— Western Grammar School, Brompton— Plate-Marks
— Mew or Mews — Mittan, Engraver— Suffix "Kyn"—
J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Works, 450.
REPLIES :— Fishing-Rod in the Bible or Talmud, 450— The
Motto of William III.— "To give the mitten"— Employ-
ment of Wild Beasts in Warfare, 454— National Flags:
their Origins, 455 — Unidentified M.P.s — Sons of Mrs.
Bridget Bendysh— Epitaphs in Old London and Suburban
Graveyards— 'The I,and o' the Leal'— "To weep Irish,"
456 — " Felon "—Eyes changed in Colour by Fright-
Village Pounds — Rev. Richard Rathbone — Hare and
Lefevre Families— Bombay Grab : Tavern Sign — Influenza,
457— Eighteenth-Century Lead-Tank Lettering— Portraits
in Stained Glass— Welthen— Henry Fauntleroy, Forger,
458— Earl's Court, a London Suburb — 'The Cheltenham
Guide ' — Headstones with Portraits of the Deceased, 459.
UOTE8 ON BOOKS :— ' Tokens of the Eighteenth Century
connected with Booksellers '— ' Greek Manuscripts in the
Old Seraglio at Constantinople.'
Notice* to Correspondents.
PROPOSED LIST
OF CORRESPONDENTS OF ' N. & Q.'
ON ACTIVE SERVICE.
WE think it could not but be interesting to
readers of ' N. & Q.' in years to come to
know who among their number have been
on active service in the Great War, and
in what part of our (or our Allies' ) forces
they served. We therefore propose, if the
correspondents concerned approve of the
plan and will furnish the requisite informa-
tion, to print a list of their names, with
their regiments (or ships) and rank.
Should the idea meet with acceptance,
the list will appear on Jan. 1.
FIELDINGIANA.
I. IN his celebrated ' Essay en Conversation'
(' Miscellanies,' 1743) Fielding supports one
of his propositions by remarking, " as is
sufficiently and admirably proved by my
friend the author of ' An Enquiry into
Happiness'"; and in advancing a further
thesis he avers, " the truth of which is in-
contestably proved by that excellent author
of ' An Enquiry,' &c., I have above cited."
A search for this ' Enquiry ' was unsuccess-
ful, no book or pamphlet with a like title
from the pen of any contemporary of
Fielding being discoverable. On turning to
the first edition of the ' Miscellanies,'
however, it is found that a foot-note is
appended to these references stating that
" the treatise here mentioned is not yet
public." This observation, omitted from
all reprints, affords a clue to the authorship,
for in 1744 was published, in one volume,
' Three Treatises,' by James Harris of Salis-
bury, the third treatise bearing the title
' Concerning Happiness : a Dialogue.' In
1801 James Harris's ' Works ' (with a short
biography) were edited by his son, the Earl
of Malmesbury. On the title-page of the
reprint of the ' Treatise on Happiness ' there
occur, within brackets, the words " Finished
15 December, 1741." This editorial com-
ment (for the words do not appear in the
original, or 1744, edition) would seem to
solve the difficulty.
The point, though a small one, is of som e
biographical interest, indicating as it does
considerable intimacy between Fielding and
Harris in 1742, and enabling us the more
easily to appreciate their association in the
case of Walton v. Collier in 1745 (' Fielding
and the Collier Family,' ante, p. 104).
II. The ' Essay on Conversation ' (supra)
provides incidental detail upon another
matter. The date of birth of Dr. Thomas
Brewster, Bathonian physician and trans-
lator of Persius, is given in ' D.N.B.' as 1705,
but no date of death is there recorded.
Similarly Hyamson's ' Dictionary of Uni-
versal Biography,' Routledge, 1916, gives no
date of death. Brewster was alive in 1742
(' Fieldingiana,' 12 S. i. 483), but Fielding in
the above essay, after quoting Persius in the
original, adds : " thus excellently rendered by
the late ingenious translator of that obscure
author," and cites a passage beginning : —
Yet could shrewd Horace, with disportive wit.
An examination of Brewster's translation of
Persius shows that the quotation constitutes
442
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11. 258-63 of the First Satire. Consequently,
Brewster died late in 1742 or early in 1743,
nnd was no longer alive when Fielding
referred to him in ' Tom Jones ' (xviii. 4).
It is curious that neither The Gentleman's
Magazine nor Musgrave has any record of
Brewster' s death.
III. In a long and most interesting note,
' "Jonathan Wild the Great" : its Germ '
( 1 1 S ii. 261 ), your corraspondent MR. ALFRED
F. ROBBINS sought to establish that Fielding
was the anonymous author of two articles
published in Mist's Weekly Journal for
June 12 and 19, 1725, which describe, with
an admirably ironic touch, the mental
characteristics of this Newgate hero, executed
the previous month.
At that date Fielding had recently left
Eton, but probably had not yet betaken
himself to Lyme Regis. The articles, if by
him, would constitute his first literary ad-
venture, and afford some evidence that he
was then in London.
The contributions in question are so witty,
and exhibit such finished workmanship, that
they would add no little even to his
reputation. At first blush they seem to be
his handiwork : there is a like train of thought,
and some similarity of diction, in the Mist
articles and in his ' Jonathan Wild the
Great ' of the ' Miscellanies,' as a few com-
parisons indicate : —
Mist (1725). ' JonathanWild'(ni3).
§ 5. — Yet it will be Book IV. chap. xv. —
granted that a person While a great man and a
may be a rogue, and great rogue are synony-
yet be a great man. mous terms, so long shall
Wild stand unrivalled on
the pinnacle of greatness.
§ 9. — It is certain he Book I. chap. iii. — But
understood no Latin, though he woald not give
for he had employ'd himself the pains re-
his time to greater quisite to acquire a corn-
advantage than in petent sufficiency in the
learning words; but learned languages, yet did
.... he consulted me he really listen with atten-
in explaining to him tion to others, especially
the Annals of Tacitus, when they translated the
classical authors to him.
§ 21. — As to religion, Book IV. chap. xiii. —
he was a little inclined Ordinary. As little as
to atheism. you seem to apprehend
it, you may find yourself
in hell before you expect
it. You will then be
ready to give more for a
drop of water than you
ever gave for a bottle of
wine.
Jonathan. Faith, well
minded. What say you
to a bottle of wine ?
Ordinary. I will drink
- no wine with an atheist
Mist (1725). ' Jonathan Wild' (1743
§21. — As to party, he Book I. chap. viii. —
was a right modern Mr. Wild immediately
\Vliii* according to the conveyed the larger share-
definition which is ex- of the ready into his
pressed in this their pocket according to an
motto — Keep what you excellent maxim of his —
get, and get what you First secure what share
can. you can before you-
wrangle for the rest.
The fact that the Rev. Arthur Ccllier of
Salisbury occasionally contributed to Mist's
Journal, and might have introduced Fielding
to the proprietor, lent some colour to MR.
ROBBINS'S suggestion, but on the whole the-
f olio wing considerations militate strongly
against the Mist articles being Fielding'V
work : —
(a) Fielding's use of " hath," " doth,"
" mayst," " wilt," &c., which abound in his
writings from ' The Masquerade ' of 1727 to
his ' Comment on Lord Bolingbroke's Essays '
of 1754, is so characteristic that its entire
absence from the Mist articles is an almost
sure criterion that those articles are not his.
A similar conclusion respecting this word-
usage is arrived at by Prof. Jensen in his
edition of The Covent Garden Journal, vol. i-
p. 103, Yale University Press, 1915. Field-
ing, of course, employed the common usages
of " has " and " does " as well.
(6) Fielding was so ardent a Whig in later
life that it is unlikely to find him deriding the-
party as a whole. Even were his political
inclinations less marked in adolescence, he
would scarcely have ventured to express his
views in print, seeing that his father, a justice
of the peace for Dorset, had declared in 1721
that
" he made very good proof of his strict adherence
to the present Government, particularly in
Eunishing all such persons as were brought before-
im that were in the least suspected to be dis-
affected to his present Majesty King George."
(c) The last two paragraphs but one of the
second Mist article contain the following
criticism : —
" I think it will not be amiss to inform the world'
that for some years past he [Wild] employed him-
self in writing the ' History of his own Times,'
which History he was pleased to put into my hands,
having first exacted a promise from me not to-
publish it till seven years after his death .... It is,
as to style and truth, matter much preferable to
another History of the same kind lately published,,
and is free both from the vanity and rancour
which makes up the greatest part of that History."
This refers unquestionably to Bishop
Burnet's ' History, published in the previous
year, 1724. Although Fielding possessed a
copy at the time of his death, it cannot be
supposed a youth just free from school
would either travel through so voluminous a-
12 S. II. DEC. 2, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
443
work, or have gained sufficient knowledge of
the world to enable him to express an
opinion on it. Fielding was not a prig.
Yet, admitting that Fielding may, for some
special reason, have studied Burnet's ' His-
tory of his own. Times,' would he have
attacked it thus ? Assuredly not. The
work was edited by the Bishop's son,
Thomas Burnet, later a judge, whom
Fielding, in his ' Voyage to Lisbon,' calls
" my ever-honoured and beloved friend."
In his ' Vindication of her Grace the Duchess
Dowager of Marlborough ,' 1742, Fielding
cites Burnet as an authority, and terms him
" so impartial an historian." Consider, too,
that there was no person for whom, in his
younger days, Fielding entertained so sincere
a regard as for his cousin Lady Mary
Wort ley Montagu, whom he addressed in
1728 a,s " one whose accurate judgment has
long been the glory of her own sex, and the
wonder of ours." Now Lady Mary had a
very decided opinion of William III.'s trusted
counsellor : —
" The Bishop of Salisbury (Burnet, I mean), the
most indulgent parent, the most generous church-
man, and the most zealous assertor of the rights
and liberties of his country, was all his life defamed
and vilified, and after his death barbarously
calumniated, for having had the courage to write
a history without flattery. I knew him in my
youth, and his condescension in directing a girl in
her studies is an obligation I can never forget." —
In Paston's ' Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and
her Times,' p. 505 (Methuen).
(d) Finally, in the preface to the ' Mis-
cellanies ' Fielding wrote : —
"I would caution my reader that it is not a very
faithful portrait of Jonathan Wild himself....
Roguery, and not a rogue, is my subject....!
have not, to my knowledge, ever seen a single
paper relating to my hero, save some short
memoirs, which about the time of his death were
published in certain chronicles called newspapers,
the authority of which has been sometimes
questioned, and in the Ordinary of Newgate his
account, which generally contains a more particu-
lar relation of what the heroes are to suffer in the
next world than of what they did in this."
Had Fielding in fact been the author of the
Mist articles in 1725, would he not by writing
in this strain in 1743 have been guilty of a
suppressio veri, a defection, from all we
know of him, that strikes one as alien to his
nature ? Furthermore, he appears to have-
had some little contempt for Mr. Mist
personally (Covent Garden Journal, No. 51).
IV. Fielding in his ' Essay on Nothing *"
in the ' Miscellanies ' of 1743 writes (see II. ) : —
" The inimitable author of a preface to the
posthumous Eclogues of a late ingenious young
gentleman says : ' There are men who sit down to
write what they think, and others to think what
they shall write.' But indeed there is a third, and
much more numerous sort, who never think either
before they sit down or afterwards ; and who,
when they produce on paper what was before in
their heads, are sure to produce Nothing."
I find that Fielding 15 here quoting
from
" Love Elegies, by Mr. H nd. Written in the
Year 1732. With a Preface by the E, of C d.
London, Printed for G. Hawkins at Milton's Head
between the Temple Gates, Fleet St., and sold by
T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater Noster Row
1743."
The author was James Hammond, who
died in June, 1742 — a date which assists irt
fixing the time at which Fielding composed
this essay — and the preface-writer was Lord
Chesterfield. In a second edition, which
appeared in 1754, both names are given in
full.
V. Writing of the first appearance of
Fielding's 'Tom Thumb' (10 S. vi. 76), a
correspondent, who sets out in full a
theatrical announcement from The Craftsman
of April 29, 1732, with a Miss Robinson
playing the title-part, suggests that this
actress " must have been the unfortunate
Maria Robinson, pupil of Hannah More."
As Maria Robinson (Perdita) was not bom
till 1758, clearly the suggestion cannot be
accepted. J. PAUL DE CASTRO.
1 Essex Court, Temple.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402.)
BRIGADIER WENTWORTH'S REGIMENT OF FOOT (p. 36) was raised in Ireland in 1689, aan
was later known as " The 24th (or the 2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot." Since 1881
it has been designated "The South Wales Borderers" :—
Brigadier Wentworth's Regiment Dates of their Dates of their first
of Foot. present commissions. commissions.
Brigadier General Thomas Wentworth, Colonel (1) 27 June 1737 Captain, 10 Mar. 1704.
Lieutenant Colonel Theophilus Sandford (2) . . 18 Aug. 1739 Lieutenant, 1713.
Major . . . . Hector Hamon . . . . 3 Nov. 1735 Ensign, 1 April 1707.
(1) Colonel of the 39th Foot, 1732-7, and of the 6th Regiment of ;Borse (5th Dragoon Guards),
1745-7. He commanded the forces in the expedition against Carthagena (South America) in 1740-41. .
Died at Turin in November, 1747, then holding a diplomatic appointment there.
(2) Killed before Carthagena, 1741.
444
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. DEC. 2,
Brigadier Wentworth's Regiment of Foot Dates of their
(continued). present commissions.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Thomas Pollexfen . . . . 20 Mar. 1693-4
Lieutenant, 12 Mar. 1688.
Christopher Garcv (3 ) .. 18 June 1723
Ensign, 1 Mar. 1704.
H.',n\ Herkeley " .. ..20 May 1732
Ensign, 17 Dec. 1692.
•Captains . . . . •; Robert Maynard . . . . 3 Nov. 1735
Lieutenant, 23 Jan. 1715
1 Anthony Harman (4) . . 20 Jan. 1735-6
Ensign, 29 Sept. 171!).
William Rufane (5) .. .. 27 Sept. 1737
Ensign, 8 Feb. 1722.
i, Lord Ossulstone (6) . . . . 1 Sept, 1739
Ensign, 30 Oct. 1734.
•Captain Lieutenant
John Gore (7) . .
. . 26 Aug. IT.'iT
Ensign, 14 June 1716.
' Thomas Boswell
.. 23 Oct. 1724
Ensign, 3 April 1716.
Samuel Lane . .
. . 30 Mar. 1729
Lieutenant, 23 Aug. 1712.
Anthony Pinsun
.. 10 Mav 1729
Ensign, 11 April 1722.
William Godfrey (8) .
7 April 1731
Ensign, 15 Mav 1723.
lieutenants . . ->
Holt Stanley .'.
Ralph Lumley (7)
.. 27 Jan. 1731-2
.. 20 Mav 1732
Ensign, 18 June 172:;.
Ensign, 16 April 1724.
Thomas Jones
.. 20 Nov. 1736
Ensign, 10 May 1729.
Edward Whitwell
.. 2() Aug. 1737
Ensign. 13 April 1730.
Boucher Cole . .
.. 27 ditto
Ensign, 27 Jan. 1731.
Henry Rufane . .
. . 27 Sept. 1737
Ensign, 17 Nov. 1732.
1 Robert Pemberton
3 Nov. 1735.
Samuel Parr
.. 23 Jan. 1735-6.
Samuel Speed . .
. . 12 Nov. 1736.
John Keefe
.. 20 ditto.
Ensigns , . . . •( James Holt
.. 27 Aug. 1737.
John Wright . .
27 Sept. 1737.
George \Vingfield
. . ditto.
George Monk . .
2 June 173P.
John Riggs
4 Feb. 1739-40.
(3) Died before Carthagena, 1741. His name was possibly " Geary."
(4) Fifth son of Wentworth Harman of Castle Roe, Co. Carlow. Died 1749.
(5) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, Feb. 27, 1751. Colonel of tho 76th Regiment 1761-3
-when it was disbanded. Colonel of the 6th Regiment, 1765-73. Died 1773, then being Lieutenant-'
•General.
(6) Charles, elder son of Charles, 2nd Earl of Tankerville. He succeeded his father as 3rd Ear
in 1753.
(7) Died before Carthagena, 1741.
(8) Major in the regiment, March 4, 1751. Died 1763, then being Major in the 28th Foot.l
The regiment which next follows (p. 37) was formed in Scotland in 1689, as " The
Cameronian Regiment of Foot." Later it was designated " The 26th Regiment of Foot,"
" Cameronian " having dropped out, although it was again introduced in 1786, and still
remains, the present title of the regiment (since 1881) being "The Cameronians (Scottish
Rifles) " :—
Major General Anstruther's Dates of their Dates of their first
Regiment of Foot. present commissions. commissions.
Major General
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . . .
Captains
•Captain Lieutenant
Philip Anstruther, Colonel (1)
William Hooke
Robert Anstruther (2)
/ Adam Fergusson
Francis Graham
1 John Blair
•I Charles Colvill (3)
i William Henderson
Richard Foley
George Moncrieff (4)
Richard Harris
31 Mar. 1720.
15 Dec. 1738
ditto
21 Mar. 1718-19
25 Dec. 1730
17 June 1731
20 June 1735
11 Aug. 1737
27 Dec. 1738
12 July 1739
ditto
Ensign, 1 June 1702.
Ensign, 13 Dec. 1715.
Ensign, 20 May 1717.
Ensign, 23 April 1705.
Ensign, 24 June 1708.
Ensign, 19 June 1710.
Ensign, 29 May 1718.
Lieutenant. 26 Dec. 1726.
Lieutenant, 18 June 1723.
Ensign, 28 Aug. 1711.
(1 ) Only son of Sir James Anstruther of Airdrie.
General.
Died in November, 176Q, then being Lieutenant-
(2) Colonel of the 58th Foot, 1755. Died in 1767, then being Lieutenant-General.
(3) Younger brother of 6th Baron Colville of Culross. Colonel of the 69th Foot, 1758.
Edinburgh, Aug. 29, 1775, aged 85, then being Lieutenant-General.
(4) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, December, 1755.
Died in
12 S. II. DEC. 2, 1916.]
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445
Lieutenants
Ensigns
Major General Anstruther's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
f George Anstruther
j George Browne
John Dyer
Charles Erskine
David Erskine
James Thompson
Alexander Michelson . .
David Linds.-i y
Alexander Aytone
John GUchrist
( Robert Arnot (5)
| William Henry Cranstone
John Steuart
liobert Preston
John Skeys
Hon. Alexander Murray (6)
Philip Skeene
Nicholas Kelleway
Keneth McKenzie
Dates of their
present commissions.
12 Dec. 1720.
25 Dec. 172!)
25 Dec. 1730
17 Mar. 1731-2
3 Nov. 1733
28 June 1735
11 Aug. 1737
ditto
ditto
12 July 1739
17 June 1731.
20 June 1735.
19 July 1735
1 Jan. 1735-6.
11 Aug. 1737.
ditto.
ditto.
8 Feb. 1737-8.
12 July 1739.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
22 April 1713.
13 Dec. 1715.
29 April 1729.
25 Dec. 1726.
28 Mar. 1727.
31 Jan. 1728-9.
25 Dec. 1729.
3 Nov. 1733.
20 June 1735.
(5) Of Dalginch, co. Fife, son and heir of Major William Arnot. In Army List of 1760 he is still*
in the regiment, as Captain, of May 23, 1746, and is described as Sir Robert Arnott, Bart. He died in,
1767. The existence of the baronetcy is by no means clear.
(6) Fourth son of Alexander, 4th Baron Elibank. Died hi 1777. See ' D.N.B.'
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List)*
(To be continued.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See 11 S. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276, 375 ; 12 S. i. 422 ; ii. 22, 141, 246, 286, 406.)
PART XIII.— U.
ULSTER.
Compleat Collection of the Resolutions of the
Volunteers, Grand Juries, &c., of Ireland, which
followed the Resolves of the First Dungannon
Diet : with the History of Volunteering. By
C. H. Wilson. Dublin, 1782.
Historical Tracts, with Life of Author : Part III.,
Letter to the Earl of Salisbury, in 1610, giving
an Account of the Plantation of Ulster. By
Sir John Davies. 1786.
Pieces of Irish History. By Wm. James
MacNevin. New York, 1807.
Sketches of History, Politics, and Manners in
Dublin and the North of Ireland. By John
Gamble. 1826.
The Lives and Trials of A. H. Rowan, Rev. Wm.
Jackson, The Defenders, Wm. Orr, Peter
Finnerty, and other Eminent Irishmen. By
Thomas MacNevin. Dublin, 1846.
Tours in Ulster : a Handbook of Antiquities and
Scenery of North of Ireland. By J. B. Doyle.
1854.
The United Irishmen : their Lives and Times. By
Dr. R. R. Madden. Dublin, 1857-60.
History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland,
•omprising the Civil History of Ulster from the
Accession of James I., with Appendix of
Original Papers. By Rev. J. Seaton Reid, D.D.
Belfast, 1867.
The Plantation of Ulster at the Commencement
of the Seventeenth Century, 1608-1620. By
Rev. George Hill. Belfast, 1877.
The Ulster Civil War of 1641 and its Consequences:
with History of the Irish Brigade under Mont-
rose in 1644-6. Dublin, 1879.
Derry and Enniskillen in the Year 1689 : the-
Story of some Famous Battlefields in Ulster..
By Rev. Thomas Witherow. Belfast, 1885.
Fate and Fortune of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of
Tyrone, and Rory O'Donel, Earl of Tyrconnell.
By Rev. C. P. Meehan. Dublin, 1886.
Life of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Prince of Tirconnell,
1586-1602. By Lughaidh O'Clery. From the
Irish MS. in Royal Irish Academy. Translated
by Rev. Denis Murphy, S.J. Dublin, 1893.
Ulster as It Is, or Twenty-Eight Years' Ex-
perience as an Irish Editor. By Thos..
Macknight. Belfast, 1896.
Illustrations of Irish History : Chapter on the
Gratfcan Parliament and Ulster. By C. Litton
Falkiner. Dublin, 1902.
The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature. By Miss
Eleanor Hull. London, 1903.
Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster. By Miss Eleanor
Hull. London, 1903.
The Bloody Bridge, and other Papers relating to-
the Insurrection of 1641. By Thomas Fitz-
Patrick, LL.D. Dublin, 1903.
The Broken Sword of Ulster. By Richard
Cunninghame. Dublin, 1904.
Plantation of Ulster, in ' Studies in Irish History Y
Lectures delivered before the Irish Literary
Society of London.' By Rev. S. A. Cox..
Dublin, 1906.
" 1641," in 'Studies in Irish History: Lectures
delivered before the Irish Literary Society of
London.' By Arthur Houston, K.C. Dublin,.
1906.
The Death Tales of the Ulster Heroes : Part XIV.
Todd Lecture Series. By Kuno Meyer. Dublin,.
1906.
446
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. DEC. 2,
The O'Noills of Ulster. By Thomas Mathews.
• Dublin, 1907.
The History of Belfast Shipbuilding. Paper
read at Meeting of Statistical and Social
Inquiry Society of Ireland, Dec. 20, 1910. By
Prof. C. H. Oldham. Dublin, 1910.
'The Ulster Land War of 1760. By F. J. Bigger,
M.R.I.A. Dublin, 1910. (Deals exclusively
with a phase of Ulster life never hitherto fully
written about.)
Cuchulain of Muirthemne : the Story of the Men
of the Red Branch of Ulster. By Lady
Gregory. 1911.
The People and Language of Ulster. By C. C.
Russell. Belfast, 1911.
The Ulster Calendar of Persons and Events. By
Alex Riddell, Sandown Road, Knock, Belfast.
Belfast, 1911.
The Story of the Irish Society. By John Betts.
London, 1913.
Ulster Folk-Lore. By E. Andrews, F.R.A.I.
London, 1913.
Ftolen Waters : a Page in the Conquest of Ireland.
By T. M. Healy, M.P. Dublin, 1913-16.
(Deals with the title to the two great fisheries
in Northern Ireland, and includes State Papers,
MSS., Inquisitions, &c.)
Ulstermen : their Fight for Fortune, Faith, and
Freedom. By Rev. T. M. Johnstone. Belfast,
1914.
The Ulster Scot : his History and Religion. By
Rev. James B. Woodburn. 1914.
•O'Neill and Onnond : a Chapter in Irish History.
By Diarmid Coffey. Dublin, 1914.
Aileach of the Kings. By Bishop O'Doherty.
Catholic Truth Society, Dublin, 1915.
Craobh Ruadh : or, the Red Branch Knights. By
M. J. O'Mullane, M.A. Catholic Truth Society,
Dublin, 1915.
.Journal of Ulster Archaeological Society. Belfast.
Memories of '98. By Rev. Wm. S. Smyth.
Belfast.
History of the Volunteers of 1782. By Thos.
MacNevin. Dublin, n.d.
Ulster Round Towers. Belfast, n.d.
WILLIAM MACARTHUB.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
(To be continued.)
SIB THOMAS BBOWNE : COUNTERFEIT
BASILISKS. — Readers of the ' Vulgar Errors '
may remember ,the reference in Bk. III.
chap. vii. to the fact that counterfeit basi-
lisks were frequently contrived out of the
skins of " Thornback skaits or maids" ; and
the following directions for their manufac-
ture from Misson's ' Nouveau Voyage
d'ltalie,' 1691 (1st ed.), pp. 117-^8, may
be interesting. Misson is speaking of the
collection of rarities in the cabinet of the
Comte Mascardo at Verona : —
"Je ne scay si vous n'avez jamais veil de ces
pr^teudus animaux qu'on appelle des Basilica.
Cela a uncertain petit air dragon qui est assez
plaisant : 1'invention en est jolie, et mille gens y
eont trompez. Cependant ce n'est rien autre chose
qu'une petite raye : on tourne ce poisson d'une
certaine maniere, on luy eleve les nageoires en
forme d'ailes: on luy accommode une petite langue
en forme de dard ; on ajoiite des griffes, des yeux
d'email.avec quelques autres petites pieces adrpite-
ment rapport/es ; et voila la fabrique du Basilic."
MALCOLM LETTS.
THE WALTEB OB WALTERS FAMILY OF
PEMBROKESHIRE. — The following extracts
are taken from Titus & Eliz. Evans MSS.,
vols. i. and xxviii., which contain transcripts
made by me of the two earliest Church
Registers now belonging to St. Mary's,
Haverf ordwest. The first Register is marked
No. IA (and includes a fragment of two
leaves), and the other No. IB. The frag-
ment and the two registers are ragged and
rotten.
Baptisms.
1601. "Seeundo Aprilis, Henrieus Waters filius
Johannis Waters."*
1603. "Jacobus filius Johannis Wafillegiblel."
Jan. 12.
1691. Ann Walter, dau. of Thomas Walter. Born
Dec. 13, bapt. Dec. 16.
1692. Lydia, dau. of James \Valter. Bapt.
Oct. 24.
1695. Elizabeth ..Walter, dau. of Tho. Walter.
Bapt. July 17.
1696. A Child of James Walter's. Born Oct. 30.
1696. John Walter, son of Thomas Walter. Bapt.
March 3.
1697. William Walter, son of Morgan Walter.
Bapt. April 16.
1698. KogerWalter, son of Morgan Walter. Bapt.
April 24.
1699. Fronces, dau. of Morgan Walter. Bapt.
June 22.
1702. Francis, son of Morgan Walter. Bapt.
April 26.
1705. Frances, dau. of Thomas (? Walter). Bapt.
Jan. 20.
1708. John, son of John Waters.* Bapt. Oct. 2.
1709. Jane, dau. of Thomas Walter. Bapt.
Nov. 27.
1712. Henry, son of John Waters.* Bapt.
June 21.
Burials.
[1594.] Owen Walter. Dec. 23.
L?1599.] William Waters.* April 25.
1683. Elizabeth Walter. July 4.
1684. Jane Walter. Buried in ye Chancell, Feb. 27.
1685. William Walter, Gent. Buried " in
Jesus lie," Feb. 15.
1686. Evan Walter. Buried in churchyard,
Feb. 20.
1688. Fransis Walter, dau. of Mr. Henry Walter.
Buried in ye Chancell, July 23.
1690. William, son of Henry Walter. Buried in
ye Chancell, May 16.
1695. Jane Walter. May 5.
1697. Will, son of Morgan Walter. May 11.
1698. Roger Walter, son of Morgan Walter. May 5.
1701. Mrs. Walter. Buried Oct. 3.
1703. Fronces Walter. Buried Nov. 12.
J. T. E., Rector of Stow-on-the-Wold.
Newport Castle, Pern.
* Possibly a scribal error.
12 S. II. DEC. 2, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
447
ADDENDUM TO NOTE ON DR. ROBERT
UVEDALE. — Since my remarks on p. 405
appeared as to the purchase of the Richard-
son Correspondence by the Bodleian au-
thorities at Oxford, I have received a letter
from Mr. F. Madan, the Librarian of that
institution, in which he tells me that the
actual purchasers of that MS. collection were
the Radcliff e Trustees, who have deposited it
in the Bodleian. So that although I am
not correct in assuming that the collection is
the property of the Bodleian Library, it
will be able to be consulted there, together
-with other Radcliffe collections on deposit
there. The library which belongs to these
Radcliffe Trustees — who are the owners of
" the great Oxford dome known as the Rad-
cliffe Camera," which has, I understand,
been lent to the Bodleian — has been moved
to the University Museum,
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
THE DECAY OF DIALECT. — Is it not ad-
visable that people who remember how
villagers who were born early in the nine-
teenth century pronounced their native
tongue should record the differences to be
noted between their inherited dialect and the
speech of their descendants as affected by
modern schools?
A North Lincolnshire shepherd whose
work is disorganized by the scarcity of
labourers, caused by the war, said to me
recently : —
"I have n't 'ad time to see to th' feet of th
sheep, I've been that busy runnin' about after
th' tatie-people an' things."
His grandfather would have said : —
ft A hev n't 'ed noa time te see te sheep feet,
A 've been that throng wi' runnin' aboot efter
taatie-han's, an' things."
It may be noted that the u in " runnin' " is
still pronounced like the u in " bull." When
people try to pronounce the letter in the
fashionable way it is still apt to become e.
R. E.
THE POLISH WORD FOR " RESURREC-
TION."— It may be worth pointing out
that the Polish compound noun signifying
" Resurrection," viz., Zmartwych-wstanie,
i.e.> literally " from the dead arising," is an
expression quite peculiar to the Polish
language, without an analogous paraphrase
in other Slavonic languages. For in Old
or Church Slavonic the proper term for
" Resurrection " is Vskr'seniye, and, after
it, in Russian Voskreseniye (being also the
Hussian common name of Sunday, or
Resurrection Day), Bulgarian V'kr'muvane,
Serbo-Croatian Vaskrseniye or Uskrs, and
Chekh " Vzkf-i&eni." The other name of
Sunday in Old Slavonic, which is common
to all Slavonic languages, including Polish,
and may be added here, viz., nedelya=~Po\.
niedziela, originally meant the day " without
work." H. KREBS.
Oxford.
SEIZE-QUARTIERS. — I have always under-
stood that the right to " Seize- Quartiers "
meant that the claimant of this privilege
could show that his sixteen great-great-
grandparents were all entitled, in their own
right, to bear arms — see ' A Complete Guide
to Heraldry,' by A. C. Fox-Davies, chap,
xlii. p. 618. Similarly a claimant of "Trente-
deux- Quartiers " must be able to prove that
his thirty-two great-great-great - grand-
parents possessed the same qualification.
I notice, however, that the author of
' Omniana : the Autobiography of an
Irish Octogenarian,' seems to think that it
is sufficient to prove descent from sixteen
or thirty-two named ancestors in order to
qualify for this right. Surely this is to con-
fuse genealogy with heraldry. T. F. D.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
BYRON'S TRAVELS. — In ' Beppo,' stanza
xlvii., Byron writes : —
" England, with all thy faults I love thee still,"
Isaid at Calais, and have not forgot it ;
and in ' Don Juan,' canto xv. stanza Ixxiii. :
The simple olives, best allies of wine,
Must I pass over in my bill of fare ?
I must, although a favourite plat of mine
In Spain, and Lucca, Athens, everywhere.
Is there any evidence, apart from these
lines, of Byron's having visited either Calais
or Lucca ? I find nothing on the subject
in his ' Letters and Journals,' or in any
account of his life. W. STRUNK, junr.
Ithaca, New York.
BULL-BAITING IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. —
I shall feel obliged if any one will kindly
refer me to the best accounts of bull-baiting
in Spain and Portugal. I am specially
anxious to learn if any religious or magical
intention can be traced in any part of the
performance. A friend tells me that it is
essential that one of the horses used should
be killed. I shall be glad to learn if this is
the case, and if so whether any explanation
of it can be suggested. EMERITUS.
448
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 2,
DE LA PORTE FAMILY. — The following extract relates to the de la Porte family pedi-
gree from La Chenaye des Bois, from 1602 up to 1760 : —
Charles de la Porte. Marquis, puis Due de la Meilleraye, Pairie et Marechal=r= (?)
de'France, b. 1602, d.8 Feb., 1664. The Seigneury of the Meilleraye was
erected into a Duche-Pairie in his favour by King Louis XIV., Dec., 1663.
Amand Charles, second Due de la Meilleraye, &c., and tirst=f=28 Feb., 1661, Hortense Mancini, niece
Duke of Rethel-Mazarin et Mayence, for himself and his
descendants male and female in the order of primogeniture,
took the additional name of Mazarin on his marriage.
and heiress of Cardinal Mazarin, b.
Rom e 6 June, 1646, d. Chelsey(Chelsea>
en Angleterre 16 July, 1697-
Paul Jules de la Porte-Mazarin, third and second Duke,=f= (?)
b. 1666, d. 1731.
dau.
Guy Paul Jules, fourth and third Duke, last male of his family^?)
dau.
l
Charlotte Antoinette, fourth Duchess of Rethel-Mazarin=r=l June, 1733, Emmanuel de Durfort,
Duke of Duras.
Louise Jeanne, fifth Duchess=r2 June, 1707, Louis Marie Guy d'Aumont, Marquis of Villequier and
sixth Duke of Aumont, and^'wre uxoris Duke of Rethel-Mazarin.
Sixth Duchess Louise, 2 Oct., 1759.
I should be glad to have further particulars both ascending and descending.
DEBHAM or DOLPHINHOLME. — In The
Bolton Daily Chronicle of Nov. 16, 1897, it
is said that " Mr. Robert Derham and Mr.
James Derham were wool-staplers and
brokers in Leeds and in Dolphinholme, near
Lancaster." It was Robert Derham who,
in 1784, established at Dolphinholme the
first wool-spinning mill worked by water-
power ; in fact, it was to the Derhams that
Dolphinholme owed both its name and its
existence. What had the site been called
before ? What is the origin of the word
Dolphinholme ? And what may be taken
to be the Derhams' reason for choosing this
name ? B. HAMILTON.
Canute House, Old Fishbourne, Chichester.
"? STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA. — I should
be glad of particulars of the statue of Queen
Victoria in the Medical Examination Hall,
Strand. J. ARDAGH.
WILLIAM B. PARNELL, A LONDON ARCHI-
TECT.— He designed a number of important
buildings in London and the provincial
towns, amongst them being the Tyne Theatre
at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1867. ^Believed to
have held the position of president in one of
the Architectural Associations. Biographical
information is desired. LONDONER.
WILLIAM MORRIS : ' SIGURD THE VOX-
SUNG.' — In this poem, of over 9820 lines in
riming couplets, there is one line lacking
its fellow. It is in Book II. (Regin), 1. 1365,.
ending with the words " God alone " (edi-
tion Ellis & White, 1880, p. 133). Is this
an oversight of the author's, or an accident
of the printer's ? The former seems to me-
most unlikely : perhaps some one could re-
store the missing line from MS. or other
source. H. K. ST. J. S.
THE " OLD BRITISH DOLLAR." — The
British agent at Trengganu, one of the
Unfederated Malay States, in his recently
published Annual Report for 1915, states
that the Trengganu Government undertook
to redeem all the "old British dollars"
brought to the Treasury between May 15
and Aug. 11 last year, on which date the
British dollar ceased to be legal tender ; and
67,582 such dollars had been redeemed,
some at 66 cents, others at 70 cents. These
were all shipped to Singapore and disposed
of at market rates, in addition to which local
traders shipped large quantities of them to
Siam and China. Let me explain that there
is a dollar currency in Malaya, but the dollar
is only worth 2s. 4d., hence the "old"
128.11. DEC. 2, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
449
British dollar was redeemed at about 1 9 to
1 9.6 British pence. As far as I have been able
to ascertain the " old " British dollar is not
older than 1863, when Great Britain began
to mint dollars — for the trade with China —
at Hong-Kong, in imitation of the Spanish
piastre. They were known at one time as
Hong-Kong dollars. The issue was discon-
tinued in 1868. Am I right ? L. L. K.
ST THEODORA. — Was " Saint " Theodora
really a saint ? Has she been canonized ?
If not, how did the title come to be associated
with her name ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[St. Theodora was the wife ot the Emperor
Theophilus in the ninth century. Gibbon tells the
story of the manner in which she was chosen for
that high estate. After her husband's death she
ruled the Eastern Empire very successfully as
regent for her son, but, desiring to retain the
government as long as possible, neglected his
education. Her last years were spent in a monas-
tery. Her claim to rank as a saint was founded
on her energetic and effective opposition to the
iconoclastic heresy.]
MAJOR WALTER HAWKRS was drowned
with his wife on their voyage home from
India, Nov. 20, 1808. His memorial tablet,
which was formerly in the East Cloister of
Westminster Abbey, has lately been re-
moved to the Dark Cloister. I should be
glad to obtain the date and particulars of
his marriage, and to ascertain in what Indian
campaign he was severely wounded.
G. F. R. B.
" PUBLIC HOUSES " IN LONDON AND
WESTMINSTER IN 1701. — The minutes of the
S.P.C.K., under date June 16, 1701, contain
the following entry: —
" Mr. Serjeant Hook reported that the Society for
Reformation of Manners had dispersed above thirty
thousand printed Papers throughout all the publick
Houses in and about London and Westminster, and
that these Papers were well received in all these
Houses, tho' between six and seaven thousand in
number, except in about twenty of them."
Is it possible that in 1701 thero could lave
been between 6,000 and 7,000 public houses
in the comparatively small area of London
and Westminster ? Was the expression
" public house " then used in a different
sense from that in which it is now employed ?
R. B/P.
SAMUEL PETRIE. — This individual was the
friend and associate of John Wilkes for
many years. He was a merchant of Token-
house Yard, and was declared bankrupt in
April, 1776. Later he was imprisoned in
the Fleet, and afterwards went abroad.
I am anxious to discover the date and place
of his death. He survived until the year
1805, for in that year he was much annoyed
because some letters of his, which appeared
in Almon's ' Life of Wilkes,' vol. v. pp. 21-38,
had been " incorrectly printed, with omis-
sions, for which there existed no reason,
whatever." I shall be obliged for any in-
formation respecting him.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
PAYNE FAMILY. — James Payne of Bage-
nalstown and Fenagh, co. Carlow, and
Queen's Co., born c. 1780-3, married Rachel
Lambe, at Dublin, c. 1815, and died in
Carlow, Dec. 4, 1875, buried at Hacketts-
town. He had a brother or first cousin
George Payne, who married Jane Bell Labat,
June 6, 1816, St. Peter's Church, Dublin,
and died 1865, in co. Galway ; also sisters
( 1 ) Jane, married a son of Rev. — MacNamara
of Cork (?) (2) Elizabeth, married W. Hope,
in 1814, Carlow. (3) Fanny, who married
Lieut. Wm. Russell (army or navy officer),
in 1814, St. Werburgh's parish, Dublin. The
father (Edward or Wm. Payne, wife's name
Elizabeth Sibthorpe) of James or George
Payne was killed in 1798, near Castlecomer,
co. Kilkenny.
I should be grateful for any particulars
about any of the above families.
E. C. FlNLAY.
1729 Pine Street, San Francisco, California.
SIR JOHN BAKER, CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER TO KING HENRY VIII. — About
1760 his portrait in oils was in the possession
of the Rev. William Baker, Chancellor of
Norwich Cathedral. Can any of your readers
kindly give its present position ?
C. E. BAKER.
" TALKING THROUGH ONE'S HAT." — -Some-
times a person making a statement is said
to be " talking through his hat." What is
the meaning of this curious phrase ?
A. M. S.
HANNAFORE, A CORNISH PLACE-NAME. —
The main quay and market-place at Looe in
Cornwall is thus known ; can any reader
make clear the origin of this place- name ?
Looe was sometimes called Bian ; and Hann
occurs as a family name in Cornwall, Dorset,
and Somerset. H. W. B. W.
THOMAS PLUMSON, WATCHMAKER, LON-
DON.— I possess an old verge watch in a
green shagreen outer case. The maker's
name, engraved within, is Thomas Plumson,
London. Can any reader tell me when this
watchmaker was in business ?
DUN SCOTUS.
450
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 a. n. DEC. 2. iwe.
WESTERN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROMPTON.
. — This building still exists, adjacent to
Alexander Square, and near by the Bells
and Horns recently demolished. My father,
the late F. B. Garnett, C.B., was educated
there, before going to King's College (to
which this local school was affiliated), and
he carried off the Cadogan Prize, consisting
of a set of handsomely bound volumes pre-
sented by the then Earl of that name to the
head boy of this school. Are there any
records kept of this school, where so many
of the boys of old Brompton were taught
their rudiments ? F. W. R. GARNETT.
The Wellington Club.
PLATE-MARKS. — I have some very ornate
and heavy (3£ oz. av.) silver forks. The five
marks on them seem to be very unusual.
They are : ORY '•> a cross and triangle ; DON '•>
S (black letter) ; 6*
Can any one fix the date, and say why the
usual marks are absent ? G. S. PARRY.
MEW OR MEWS. — It was stated in ' N. & Q.'
many years ago that this family was of
Huguenot origin, but I cannot trace the
reference. As it may be under a different
heading, I should be obliged if any reader
could give particulars.
J. H. LETHBRIDGE MEW.
Barnstaple.
MITTAN, ENGRAVER. — I have a portrait
by this engraver about the early part of the
last century. What was his Christian name ?
I should be much obliged for the date of his
birth and death, and a few biographical
details. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
SUFFIX "KYN." — Can any one tell me the
period when this suffix first began to be
used with surnames ?
H. E. RUDKIN, Major.
The Wynd, Woking, Surrey.
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU'S WORKS. — Can
any of the readers of ' N. & Q.' tell me
whether there has been any edition of Le
Fanu's works since the one published by
Downey & Co., 12 York Street, Covent
Garden, in 1896 ? I should be glad to know
whether any of his novels have been pub-
lished separately.
FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
54 Chapel Field Road, Norwich.
[Cheap editions of several of Le Fanu's novels
»,ve aPPeared in recent years, e.g., ' Uncle Silas '
(Macmillan, 6d.) ; « Wylder's Hand,' 'The Wy-
vern Mystery,' ' The Dragon Volant,' and ' Green
lea (Newnes. 6d. each); and 'The Cock and
Anchor (Duffy, Is. net).]
FISHING-ROD IX THE BIBLE OR
TALMUD.
(12 S. ii. 308.)
WITHOUT incursion into a wide area of
investigation, I fear, no categorical reply can
be given to DR. LANE-POOLE'S interesting
query. What the bias of my own personal
views may be will become apparent with the
progress of the criticisms I shall endeavour
to submit, for and against the point raised.
I will begin with the Talmudic section of
the subject, since it throws light and is of
perennial interest to scholars universally.
Some passages I propose to cite from the
Talmud should vivify with increased illumi-
nation the miraculous events recorded in
John xxi. 1-9 ; Luke v. 1-7 ; and Matt,
xv. 34-9, as happening by the Sea of
Galilee. That inland sea or lake, otherwise
known as the Sea of Tiberias, with its
newei tannim (Isa. xxxv. 7*), rendered tl
R.V. " the habitations of dragons," is
surrounded by creeks and caverns and caves
(mechillous), which are mentioned in Yeba-
moth, 121a, and form a most interesting
feature in its topography. In size and con-
formation it resembles Winder-mere, and
from its waters the fishermen of the New
Testament drew various kinds of perch,
gurnard, pike, mackerel, mullet, and salmon.
On the south-west of its basin lay anciently
Tiberias, a city of renown among the
Hebrews, and close by was Minyeh, identified
as Capernaum, where the " Minim," an
ancient sect of advanced Hebrews — probably
the Essenes, the progenitors of the early
Christian communities — had their local and
centre. In the same neighbourhood are
the tombs of the prophet Nahum, Hillel
Shammai, and Shimmon Ben Yochooee, one
of the accredited authors of the Zohar. For
the Hebrews, Shimmon Ben Yochooee is a
name to conjure with. Hadrian set a big
price on his head — the head of him who
was one of the last princes of our Church !
According to Weiss, who narrates one of the
most thrilling episodes in the history of
letters, Shimmon, in the dead of the night,
met four of his disciples in one of the caves
(mechillous) on the shore of this inland sea,
and conferred upon each of them Semichah,
[* The references to the Old Testament are to
the divisions used in the Hebrew Scriptures, not
to those in the Authorized Version of 1611, which
are retained in the Revised Version.]
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or the authorizing power to paskan (give
judgment), and to make new laws in emer-
gency for their brethren, whereby historic
continuity from Mosaic times onwards was
ecclesiastically secured unto the latest
generations.
There are several minor references to
fishing tackle in the Talmud, mainly of a
ritual tendency. Two must be quoted.
One shows the Rabbins in an amiable light,
.as true sportsmen, willing to give even a
fish a fair chance for its life ; the other is no
Jess interesting as it corroborates events
recorded in Matt. xv. 34, 36 ; Luke v. 5 ;
and John xxi. 6, regarding the incertitude of
the " catches " in the Sea of Galilee. We
take the last-mentioned reference first.
" Fishing," we read in Baba Kamma, 81b,
" is allowed in the Sea of Tiberias provided
anchors are not dropped to stay the ship's
progress ; but fish may be taken in nets
and drags." It is founded on an ancient
rescript. In former times, the Rabbins
say, all the tribes entered into a com-
pact to that effect. The Sea of Tiberias
being in Naphtali's territory, the custom
arose in accordance with an ancient prophecy
(Deut. xxxiv. 23) : " The sea and the South
is your exclusive inheritance."
The other passage is extracted from
•Sanhedrin, 81b : " Resh Lokish, taking his
text from Psalm xxxiv. 22, 'The wicked are
destroyed by their own misdeeds/ said,
* Seeing that no man knows the hour or the
manner of his dying, he is in no better case
than fishes " caught in a trap " (bimmet-
zoodo rongo).' On his disciples inquiring
what that was, he answered, ' I meant to
say, " on a hook " (bechakko).' '' In Keilim,
30a, a list of piscatorial devices is given. The
modof, palstur, metzoodous, hasakrin, are all
species of " hooks," while the okkun, roloov,
and kloov are nets and gins for trapping the
finny tribes. Keilim, 36a, and Baba Basra,
75a, give chayrem&n.d kennigia, as nets only.
We have now to discuss the question of
rods or handles. It has been stated that
there is no mention of "a fishing-rod " in
the Old and New Testaments. If it means
that the R.V. does not render any of the
numerous passages of Scripture by that set
phrase, this cannot be contradicted. Yet
there are places, such as Job xl. 31, where
the Hebrew words are translated " barbed
irons " and " fish spears," and in Job xl. 26,
" a thorn." A fishing-rod, in the strict
modern sense, no one could reasonably
demand, though I opine that in agmoun
(Isa. Iviii. 5), used in that sense in Job. xl. 26,
we have the nucleus of one. Now the ancient
Hebrews were a practical body of men, and
would bring a certain amount of mentality,
proportional to their knowledge, to bear on
operations by which they obtained their
livelihood. And unless I am mistaken, they
must have devised some rude instrument of
wood, iron, or copper to aid them in casting
their hooks from banks into the deeper
parts of streams, and the mechillous
referred to in Yebamoth, 121a, where the
bream and jack skulked and sulked. An-
other general consideration may be ad-
vanced, based upon an excellent Rabbinical
canon of criticism in favour of circumstantial
evidence in literary problems: Im ein
rahyo leddovor, zeicher leddovor. " When
direct evidence is difficult to produce,
indirect evidence is not to be ignored."
Nevertheless in real life the rule was not
allowed to govern " case law " (Yebamoth,
121a), as the following anecdote indicates ;
it also proves how the Rabbins strove to
.prevent bigamy, by demanding first-hand
evidence of death. Two friends went a-
fishing along the banks of the Jordan, and
as one of them failed to return home, he
was regarded as dead. Next morning at
sunrise he found his way out of one of the
caves where he had passed the night, and on
approaching his homestead he heard loud
shrieks and lamentations. Had he gone to
sea and stayed away for some years his
wife would not have got relief to many
again, whereas had this man been drowned,
search parties might have been able to
recover the body in a reasonable tune.
I di not know how far this psychological
trait was common to other ancient nations,
but the Hebrews of Scripture and of Talmudio
tunes ignored the means, and concentrated
the mind on the end. So chakko (hook)
necessarily had " a line," not mentioned,
though it is inferred, and a handle-bar.
One can hardly imagine that in Job xl. 25
the animal was attacked at close quarters
with the chakko, without a pole of some kind.
But in the Hebrew's judgment it was not the
pole that did execution, so he did not stop
to give it any credit, nor did he deem it
worthy of record in the Holy Books. Yet
I think I can show indications there of the
presence of terms suggesting that a rod was
employed.
We find several words which tacitly imply
" a rod " in the Old Testament : konay,
klee, and chayvel. Ezek. xl. 3, 5 provides us
with knei hammiddo (measuring rod) and psil
pishtim (flaxen threads). We have only to
add a chakko, and we get the rudiments of our
modern fishing-rods. Now let us go a step
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further. The Hebrew language is economical
ih the matter of " word-power," making one
form and several derivatives do an immense
amount of work. I could give dozens of
examples in illustration of this fact. But let
us confine ourselves to chayvel only. In
Josh. ii. 15 it means " a rope " ; in 2 Sam.
viii. 2 "a measuring rod " ; also " a net "
and a province. Chovoleem = " hand-lines "
for fishing ; chovile = mariner ; and in Prov.
xxiii. 34 it means a long pole or mast, made
out of whitethorn, an excellent material for
constructing harpoons with copper or iron
heads, to attack whales, sharks, and croco-
diles (tannineem). Such may have been the
tzilzal dogeem and sookous mentioned by the
author of Job xl. 31, those made of wood,
perhaps, being shot from a bow (kayshess), if
Isa. xviii. 1, tzilzal kenofahyim (flying shafts),
permits of the inference we draw from the
phrase. A similar weapon was the choach, or
" thorn," used for spearing fish, such as
salmon, sturgeon, and dolphins ; but choach
also means " a hook " ; the duality of use
should not be overlooked from which the
" rod idea " is mentally deleted. Besides
these termss we have rayshess, a hand-net ;
michmouress, a drag-net ; chayrem, a hook
which was worked " with line and rod "
in the Sea of Tiberias (Baba Kamma,
Sib). But the rod might have been called
by the Hebrew writers klee in conjunction
with gomeh (cork), Isa. xviii. 2 ; klei kayseff—
silver vessels ; klei milchomo (munitions) ;
klei sheer (musical instruments). So that
we have only to add klei melzoodo, and we get
" fishing-rods."
That this or a similar phrase is not
found in the Bible is merely an acci-
dental omission like, I believe, that of the
name of Jehovah from the Book of Esther. I
go further and say this. Supposing that
l>y magic and enchantment I could recall to
life Chounay Hahmaggol, the Rip Van
Winkle of Talmudic times, and were to ask
him to describe all the parts of the vehicle
(angolo) from which he derived his name, he
would describe the sides as tziddim, but would
have to call the boards composing them
eife = wood, and the axle and the shafts klei
hoangolo — the Hebrew language wanting at
that time the analytical faculty of assigning
words for every separate part of the article in
question. Similarly we might safely apply
the word chayvel, or klee, or yod (handle), or
konay, to the part of the fishing tack'e not
explicitly mentioned in the Scriptures.
Futhermore, in Keilim, l-6b, we find the
term knei mouznahyim to indicate the wooden
bar that connects " the weighing scales."
But against Chounay 's imaginary rep lies r
I have also to set down here the actual
responses sent me by a friend of mine, Mr.
William Pyle of Denmark Hill, in answer to
my inquiries on that subject. He writes
that large fish may be taken with hand-lines
only (i.e., without any kind of rod) from the
bank or a boat. A pike weighing 10 Ib. was
caught in this way near St. Ives, with live
bait attached to hand-lines. A countryman
will attach these lines (reminding us of the
klei gomeh in Isa. xviii. 2) to large corks, and
catch fish in this fashion from a boat (a
practice which in Baba Kamma, 81b, it was
the object of the Rabbins to prevent, as the
reader will remember). Fish weighing 80 Ib.
have been taken with hand-lines in the sea.
The corks prevent the lines drifting with
the currents out of the reach of the fisherman.
Mr. Pyle has himself seen men working from
the shore at Aldeburgh and other places near
Saxmundham, with four lines which had been
cast with a rod — a thorn stick cut from the
hedgerows, about 4 feet in length, which had a
V-shaped head for holding the lines during
the act of throwing (lehashlich) them. Corks
are, apparently, discarded in this mode of
fishing, but a heavy stone is attached to the
end of the line on the shore, to prevent its
being dragged into the water when cast,,
or being carried away by the fish. This is
referred to in Shobbos, 18a.
So far as I can see, there is nothing in these
observations that directly invalidates the
reasonings I have adduced for some rudi-
mentary type of fishing-rod in the Scriptures :
and in further confirmation of my theory I
would respectfully refer the reader to
Isa. xix. 8 and Amos iv. 2 for verbal forms
suggestive of throwing, casting, and pulling
out by means of a rod, and for another
expression for " line - fishing " in seerous
doogo (Amos iv. 2).
Now with regard to the New Testament,
according to our Rabbins (Baba Basra,
73a) the seerous doogo were light craft similar
to the cobbles used by the fishermen of
Bridlington, with and without oars, roped
to the bigger vessels sailing the Mediterranean
and the Spanish seas, the Yom Aspamia
of B. B., 74b. These were known to
them as bitsis, and were used for line-
fishing with rod and hook in the open sea
to catch pilot-fish, mackerel, salmon, &c.;
to convey their takes to shore, for trans-
portation overland to the markets of
Jerusalem, Safed, or Tiberias (ibid., 75a) ;
to bring back fresh water in barrels (ibid.f
73a) ; and to act as tenders for the convey-
ance of provisions, goods, and passengers
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between the larger trading vessels (ahneeyous)
standing in the roadsteads (Shobbos, lOlb),
for which purpose they carried ladders
(B. B., 73a). It was one of these fishing
.smacks that conveyed a gleeful party of
fishermen to a floating island, on which they
lit fires preparatory to frying the freshly
caught fish, when, to their consternation,
the island turned turtle and flung them all
into the sea. It was an aged shark or whale,
a huge monster on whose back there had
sprung up trees and herbaceous grasses
(ibid., 73b).
The episodes related above of Rabbi
Hoonah, who was one of the actual sufferers,
point conclusively to the swordfish, which
is caught by harpoons or in a specially
constructed net called the palamitare.
Swordfishes usually weigh about a hundred-
weight ; and the flesh makes excellent feeding.
It is eaten fresh or cured in salt and oil
(Moed Kotoun, lla). Probably this estim-
able scholar was a master smacksman
trawling the Spanish seas for tunnies, or
the Mediterranean for pilot-fish, flying-fish,
wrasse, sturgeon, halibut, &c., all of which
were tohour (fit for consumption by the
Hebrews). Other kinds were dolphins, por-
poise, and trigger-fish, and were known
under the generic title of kavara (Chulin,
63b). Hundreds of others were declared by
the Rabbins not edible, and were rejected as
" unfit." Some of the better kinds of fish,
such as carp, bream, and salmon, were
angled for with rod and line, rather than
taken with the michmouress or net, because
the more beautiful specimens realized high
prices and could be guaranteed as tohour
(edible) by the salesmen (Chulin, 63b), on
whose integrity the public were wont to
rely, as not all the fishmongers in Jemsalem,
&c., were Israelites (Neh. xiii. 16).
The story of the living island, incredible
though it may seem, corroborates the state-
ments recorded by Procopius, in 562, of a
dreadful monster caught in the Propontis
after it had been wrecking vessels for over
fifty years in those waters. Extraordinary
stories are related (B. B., 73b) of the white
shark, and of the file-fish and saw-fish
(Pristis antiquorum), called by the Rabbins
izza (B. B., 74a), met with in the Red
Sea and the Mediterranean, and a constant
source of danger to the pearl-diver.s (ibid.,
74a). The izza may also be the squid, the
gigantie sea-serpent " with a great horn,
spouting streams of water," and described
(ibid.) as being " 300 parasangs in length."
The habits of the snake-bird seem pointedly
outlined under the name of tsiffra in B. B.,
73b. Independent research demonstrates
the probability of the existence of these-
cetaceaixs. One of them is reputed to have
gripped a ship in its dorsal fins for 72 hours
before finally releasing it (B. B., 73b), and
this is a feat of which the swordfish, sturgeon,,
or trigger-fish was quite capable, especially
if the vessel were merely abitsis, or row-boat.
The problem of the izza and of the-
tsiffra, " whose head reached to the skies,,
while its nether Limbs lay submerged in the-
waves " (ibid., 73b), invites some considera-
tion of the remarkable verse in Isa. xxvii. 1
in which leviathan is referred to in the R.V.
as " this piercing serpent, even the leviathan
that crooked serpent," of which the Hebrew
words are these : Livyoson nacliash boreeach^.
livyoson nachash akkalosoun. Now the;
terms in which leviathan is described fit the-
squid most effectively, with its starlike
structure, resembling, so to speak, the cross-
bars and transverses of a gigantic gate
jbereeach). In depicting these amphibious
or cetaceous monsters of the deep as belong-
ing to two different sets or schools of
mammalia, the R.V. is unconsciously fol-
lowing the line of criticism adopted by
Ibn Ezra in loco, which, curiously enough,.
is in alliance with a similar theory advanced
(ibid., 74a) by Rav Ashee, that there are-
two kinds of leviathans, &c., all possessing"
similar traits and habits, whether they have
their haunts and habitations on land or not,,
included under the order of tannineem, or
cetacea. Not so, however, Kimchi, who
discerns in liiyoson, &c., some mighty
amphibious creature, now roaming over the-
land, seeking whom it may devour, with
extended proportions and terrible circular
coils, now floating on the bosom of the sea, a
colossal swan, or huge sea-snake with hood
erect and eyes shooting fire, filling the horizon,
with its majestic outlines — perhaps the-
" ribbon-fish." Whatever the monster was
at sea, on land it would assume the twisted
interlacing form of the poisonous serpent
known as the Elaps fulvius, which when coiled
up and enfolded suggests a gate (bereeach)^
lifts its head to the skies in the manner of the-
tsiffra, and has beautiful ring-markings which
suggest the derivation of livyoson from livyo,.
a garland, in Prov. i. 9 ; and when it is coiled
up becomes a nachash akkalosoun as well-
as a nachash boreeach. In this connexion
Kimchi's own words deserve to be quoted
here : " This creature is thus designated
because it is capable of expanding its body
to indefinite lengths, but the moment it is
constrained, it curls itself up into huge
spirals," with its frightful hood projecting.
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like the rattlesnake or the horrible cobra de
•capello, which glides along slowly when
seeking its prey. " This attitude," observes
-a distinguished naturalist, " is very striking,
and few objects are more calculated to
inspire awe than a large cobra when, with
Tiis hood erect, hissing loudly, and his eyes
glaring, he prepares to strike." The physical
correspondence between the livyoson
boreeach veakkalosoun and the izza and
tsiffra of the Talmud is most extraordinary ;
-and when it is pointed out that its awe-
inspiring effects on its hapless beholders
form one of the direct causes of its being
called by the ancient Hebrews livyoson, be-
•cause it leiv-yittein, will " excite " fear in
the " hearts of all," we have another re-
markable testimony to ther acuteness of
•observation and powers of pictorial nomen-
clature when applied to the phenomena of
Nature, in which they saw that nothing was
superfluous, useless, or redundant (Shobbos,
77b) ; that all things fulfilled the eternal
laws of their being (Chulin, 127a) ; and that
no evil existed without an overriding good,
-which somewhere, somehow, will sooner or
later vanquish and destroy it, just as a gnat
•destroyed Titus, or an earwig will madden
leviathan when Nature so ordains it for the
.universal good (Shobbos, 77b).
M. L. R. BBESLAB.
Percy House, South Hackney.
THE MOTTO OF WILLIAM III.: " RECEPIT,
ON BAPUIT" (12 S. ii. 26, 96, 336). —
Hawkins, Franks, and Grueber describe
several medals that commemorate the
landing of William of Orange at Torbay.
See No^. 61-7 under the reign of James II.
Their account of that mentioned at p. 96,
•ante, is as follows : —
" Bust of William III. of Orange, r., hair long,
in lace cravat, armour, and scarf across the body ;
the truncation is marked, 1688. Leg. GVILIELMVS.
III. D.G. PBIN. AVB. HOL. ET. WES. GVB. Below,
« B. F. (George Bower fecit.). Rev. The Prince on
horseback at the head of his army, drawn up on
the beach ; his fleet lying near at anchor. In the
foreground a warrior is raising the fainting figure
of Justice. Leg. TERRAS. ASTRJSA. REUISIT.
Edge. NON. RAPIT. IMPERIUM. uis. TUA. SED.
RECIPIT."
The specimen described is one of bronze in
the British Museum. The writers add : —
" Somewhat rare. This medal was struck in
England ; casts of it, without the inscribed edge,
^re common. The plates referred to [Rapin, i. 5 ;
Van Loon, iii. 353] represent a crown in the field
before the Prince's face, but no such specimen is
now known."
The diameter is gi^en as 2 inches. The
use of TT and v is inconsistent, if the inscrip-
tions are correctly given. George Bower, or
Bowers, who is included in the ' D.N.B.,'
is said in a biographical notice in vol. ii.
of Hawkins, Franks, and Grueber to have
worked in London from 1650; to have been
appointed in January, 1664, one of the
engravers to the Royal Mint and Embosser
in Ordinary ; and to have died before March,
1689/90.
The plate in Rapin referred to in the above
work, and described by MB. PIEBPOINT,
certainly differs in several respects from the
medal in the British Museum. The varia-
tions in the inscriptions might be due to the
carelessness of a copyist ; the reading " is
tua recipit, non rap it imperium." is no longer
a pentameter. But the real difference is in
the presence or absence of the crown. If
the engraving in Rapin (and Van Loon) is
correct in this particular, could there have
been two issues ? EDWABD BENSLY.
" TO GIVE THE MITTEN " (12 S. ii. 361).
This expression, according to J. S. Farmer,
is of French origin, as it was the custom to
present mitaines to an unsuccessful lover,
instead of the hand to which he aspired.
This author, as well as other authorities,
says that the euphemism is commonly
colloquial throughout the English-speaking
portion of North America, and several
instances are recorded by them, all from
American sources, including the following
from Will Carleton's ' Farm Ballads ' : —
Once, when I was young as you, and not so smart,
perhaps,
For me she mittened a lawyer, and several other
chaps ;
And. all of them was flustered, and fairly taken
down,
And I for one was counted the luckiest man in
town,
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
EMPLOYMENT OF WILD BEASTS IN WAR-
FABE (US. xii. 140, 186, 209, 463 ; 12 S.
i. 74, 94, 311).—
" The Hottentots have a sort of Oxen called
Bakkeleyers, or Fighting Oxen (from Bakkelei/,
War), which they use in their Wars, as the Asiatic
Nations use Elephants, to break and trample
down the Enemy. These Oxen are of great
Service to them in Managing their Herds, and
defending them both against the Attacks of the
BttakTa, or Robbers, and Wild Beasts. On a
Sign given, they will fetch in Stragglers, and bring
the Herds within Compass. Every Kraal has at
least half a Dozen of them. They know all the
Inhabitants of their own Village, to whom . hey
pay the same Respect as the Dog, and will never
hurt them ; but if a Stranger appear without the
Company; of a Hottentot belonging) to the Village,
the Bakkelei/er presently makes at him, and will
demolish him, unless whistled off, or frightened
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•by firing a Gun. They train them by tying a
young Oxen and an old Bakkeleyer together by the
Horns, using also Blows to make them tractable.
What these animals perform is amazing, and does
Honour to the Hottentot Genius." — Astley, ' A
New General Collection of Voyages and Travels,'
•vol. iii. p. 362, 1746.
Do such fighting oxen still flourish ? Are
the Hottentots the only people who have
•ever raised so remarkable a bovine strain ?
KUMAGUSTJ MlNAKATA.
Tanabe, Kii, Japan.
NATIONAL FLAGS : THEIR ORIGINS (12 S.
ii. 289,358). — I am not aware of {any special
•work which treats of the " historical
genesis," or origin, of national flags or
" colours " of the modern European states,
*is asked for by G. J. ; but I think that he
will find some very useful information in the
•late Dr. Woodward's ' Heraldry : British
•and Foreign' (1896), vol. ii. pp. 306 et seq.
But as this work is now out of print and
scarce, and may not be easily accessible to
your correspondent in Cyprus, perhaps I may
foe allowed to give what I have gleaned from
it on this subject.
1. England : America. — The history of
the English national flag is, as G. J. says,
sufficiently well known ; and so, I think, is
that of the " Stars and Stripes" of the
United States of America.
2. France. — G. J. states that the French
tricolour combines
u< the ancient blue standard of the Middle Ages,
*he white flag of Henri IV., and the red republican
symbol (or perhaps the very ancient red ' ori-
.flamme of St. Denis')."
Dr. Woodward says (p. 312) that the
royal flag of France was white, le drapeau
blanc. He says that the origin of the tricolour
of France, with its vertical division into
blue, white, and red, is found in the union
of the drapeau blanc with the colours of the
•city of Paris. In July, 1789, it was deter-
mined that a garde civique should be raised,
to be called the Parisian militia ; that its
•colours should be those of the city, blue and
red, to which, on the proposal cf La Fayette,
the white from le drapeau blanc was added.
A few days afterwards Louia XVI., returning
to Paris, was presented by the Maire with a
tri-coloured cockade, and placed it in his
hat, as having become, as Bailly said, " the
distinguishing symbol of Frenchmen."
With respect to G. J.'s suggestion that
the red of the tricolour may have been
derived from the " very ancient red ori-
flamme of St. Denis," this is not confirmed
by anything that I can find in Dr. Wood-
ward's book. That author tells us (p. 309)
that the celebrated oriflamme of France is
said to have originated in the cfiape de
S. Martin, which became the banner of the
Abbey of Marmoutiers. The vulgar tradi-
tion was that this was part of the actual
blue cloak of the saint, which he divided
with the beggar of Amiens, as in the well-
known story. Dr. Woodward goes on to say
that when the kings of France fixed their
residence at Paris their devotion to St. Martin
was insensibly transferred to St. Denis, who
thus became the patron taint of the realm ;
and the chape de S. Martin ceased to be the
oriflamme of France. " L'oriflambe de Saint
Denise" was composed of crimson silk, with
green fringe and tassels, and the common
idea that it was seme of fleurs-de-lis is entirely
erroneous. It would, therefore, seem that
the oriflamme of St. Denis has nothing to do
with the red in the French tricolour.
The Imperial Standard of France was the
tricolour seme of golden bees, and bearing
In the central compartment, i.e., on the
white portion of the flag, the Imperial eagle
crowned.
3. Germany. — The description given by
G. J. of the German standard as " derived
from the white flag, with a black cross, of
the Teutonic knights," would seem to apply
more to the -German naval flag, which is:
" Argent, a cross cctised sable, on the
centre a round shield bearing the arms of
Germany." The national colours are
" sable, argent, and gules." The German
Imperial Standard is used in a double form —
both of yellow silk — one bearing the German
single-headed eagle displayed, charged with
the arms of Prussia and Hohenzollern ; the
other being seme of sable eagles displayed,
with the Iron Cross on the field, bearing upon
its centre the escutcheon of the Empire, as
above.
It should be noticed, says Dr. Woodward,
that the term Royal (or Imperial) Standard
is now applied to the rectangular flag known
in mediaeval times as a " banner."
4. Greece. — With reference to G. J.'s
remarks as to the origin of the blue and
white national and commercial flag of
Greece in use at the present day, it should-
be remembered that the national arms are^:
" Azure, a Greek cross couped argent,"
with the Danish arms en surtout.
5. Russia. — The Russian Imperial Stan-
dard is " of yellow, bearing the Imperial
arms. The naval flag is of white, charged
with St. Andrew's cross— -St. Andrew being
the patron saint of Russia as of Scotland.
The mercantile flag has three horizontal
.stripes, white, blue, and red. The white
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. IL DEC. 2, IQI&
and blue colours of these flags presumably
bespeak the connexion with St. Andrew,
wliose cross was " Azure, a salt ire argent."
Dr. Woodward gives no indication of any
Slav origin as suggested by G. J.
6. The Spanish and Italian flags would
seem to be derived from their national
arms ; and so with other nationalities
not mentioned by your correspondent,
(-.-/-. Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway.
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
To the list of books given ante, p. 358,
should be added ' Flags of the World , Past
and Present : their Story and Associations,'
by W. J. Gordon, illustrated, F. Warne &
Co., 1915. This book is a natural sticcessor
of Hulme's book. J. H. L.
UNIDENTIFIED M.P.s (12 S. ii. 251, 297).
— John Bladen Taylor, Hythe, 1818-19,
second son of John Taylor of Townhead,
Lancashire, and Abbott Hall, Kendal,
Westmorland, Esq., by Dorothy his wife,
only daughter of William Rumbold, Esq.,
and sister of Sir Thomas Rumbold, first
Baronet, Governor of Madras, and widow
of Capt. Xorthall, R.A. Born July 2, 1764,
he married Rachel, daughter of Sir William
Dunkin, Judge of the Supreme Court, Cal-
cutta. He died at Ambleside, near Kendal,
Aug. 20, 1820 ; his wife died March 31, 1814,
leaving an only child and heiress, Eliza
Alicia, who married her cousin Hugh Clerk,
Esq., of Burford, co. Somerset, J.P.
LEONARD C. PRICE
Essex Lodge, Ewell.
A predecessor of J. Bladen Taylor as M.P.
for Hythe was Matthew White. This man's
election address was dated June 17, 1802,
from Finsbury Square ; see Kentish Gazette
(Canterbury), June 25, 1802 ; and, in the
same journal, Sept. 7, 1802 : —
" Lately at his seat at Crouch End, Middlesex,
the lady of Matthew White, Esq., M.P. for Hythe,
was safely delivered of a son."
Pigot's ' Directory, 1823-4,' has " Matthew
White, merchant, 44 Lothbury."
In ' The Barons of the Cinque Ports,' by
the late G. Wilk-s, Town Clerk of Hythe
the election is described as an exciting one,
but there is nothing to show who Matthew
White was, or why he should have, any
claim on the electors ; he was returned,
however, at the top of the poll. At the
annual assembly on Feb. 2, 1803, a motion
for conferring the freedom of the town on
Matthew White and Thomas Godfrey, the
two boron.-* in Parliament, was, as the
minute expresses it, " Carried in the nega-
tive," there being six for the motion anct
seventeen against it.
At the next election, 1806, White was not
returned ; Godfrey was, and the freedom
of the town given him.
In 1812 White was returned and t
Freedom conferred. He was finally rejected
in 1818, when J. Bladen Taylor and Sir Joint
Perring were elected ; the former only sat
for one year, accepting the Chiltern Hun-
dreds. R. J. FYNMORE.
SONS OF MRS. BRIDGET BENDYSH (12 S*
ii. 391). — According to J. WTaylen's ' The-
House of Cromwell' (1897), p. 107 :—
" Henry Bendysh of Bedford Row, London,,
where he died in 1740, married Martha Shuter
sister of the first Viscount Barrington, and had
(1) Henry of Chingford, and of the Salt-pans at
Southtown, died unmarried in 1753, when the
name of Bendysh became extinct in this branch,
of the family ; (2) Mary, married to William
Berners and had issue ; (3) Elizabeth, married,.
1756, to John Hagar of Waresley Park, son of
Admiral Hagar."
No issue of Thomas, elder brother of Henry r
are given. A. R. BAYLEY.
EPITAPHS IN OLD LONDON AND SUBURBAN
GRAVEYARDS (12 S. ii. 308, 377).— The
whole of the churchyard inscriptions in the-
graveyards within the precincts of the City
of London were copied and edited by Mr.
Percy C. Rushen, and issued by Messrs-
Phillimore & Co., 124 Chancery Lane,
W.C., in 1910. The price of the volume
is 8s. 6d. O. E. MARKWEIX.
17 Osborne Road, Brimsdown, Enfield Highway.
' THE LAND o' THE LEAL ' (12 S. ii. 369).—
Contributed anonymously, about 1825, to
R. A. Smith's ' Scottish Minstrel,' vol. iii.y
Lady Nairne's song is described in the table
of contents as being set to the tune ' Hey
Tutti, Taiti.' In the text the phrase " with
tender feeling " is placed at the head of the-
melody. Its special movement, together
with one or two small variations of setting,
distinguishes the tune in this application
from that which it presents through Bums' s
vivid and energetic war ode, ' Scots whahae.'
Owing to diversity of deliverance, the melody
in each case has distinctive value.
THOMAS BAYNE.
"To WEEP IRISH": "To WAR'' (12 S.
ii. 328). — I never heard the second, but when
any one was making a pretence of .sorrow
I have often heard it described in derision
as " crying Irish." " A sham " is spoken o£
as " Doin'~Irish." THOS. RATCLIFFE.
12 S. II. DEC. 2, 1910.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
457
"FELON" (12 S. ii. 350). — The masculine
of the Welsh adjective for yellow is melyn.
According to the dictionary the feminine is
melen, but jden (pronounced velen) is what
I have always heard in the speech of South
Wales. I had concluded that there could
be no connexion between this word and
" felon " before consulting the ' N.E.D.'
There it is expressly stated that " the Celtic
words often cited " as rocts of " felon "
" are out of the question.'
DAVID SALMON.
EYES CHANGED IN COLOUR BY FRIGHT
'12 S. ii. 350). — Change in the colour of
the iris, though rare, is not unknown.
Cases of it will be found scattered through
medical literature. (Consult Xeale's ' Medical
Digest ' and the standard works on
ophthalmology.) The change is probably
produced in the same way as the bleaching
of the hair through shock, namely, by the
action of the sympathetic nerve upon the
pigment cells. F.R C.S.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193,
275, 416, 474 ; ii. 14, 77, 197, 319).— Around
here (Talybont) there used to be a pound
in every parish, and the little roofless walled
enclosures, the size of a small room, still
stand, disused, by the side of the highway in
the adjacent parishes of Llanfigan, Llan-
thetty, Llansaintffraed, Llanhamlach, and
Llanfihangel-Talyllyn, and, doubtless, in
many more. They might be compared to
the sheep-pens erected on hill-farms, rather
than to the more ambitious village pound in
which Charles Dickens placed Mr. Pickwick.
They seem to have fallen into disuse after the
establishment of County Courts in 1847
<see ' Old Wales,' vol. iii. p. 217).
W. R. W.
Talybont, Brecon.
REV. RICHARD RATHBONE (12 S. ii. 289). —
Foster's ' Alum. Oxon.' gives : Thomas
Rathbone, son of Richard, of Conway, co.
Carnarvon, cler., matriculated from Jesus
College, Oxford, March 26, 1779, aged 19;
B.A., 1783 (?died Vicar of Llandebrog,
Anglesea, December, 1812). W. R. W.
HARE AND LEFEVRE FAMILIES (12 S. ii.
128, 195, 397). — I certainly do not think that
Charles Lefevre, who was M.P. for Wareham,
1784-6, was the son of John Lefevre of
Old Ford and of Heckfield Place. John left
an only daughter and heiress, who married
Charles Shaw, Lord of the Manor of Burley,
near Ringwood. He took the name and
arms of Lefevre by royal licence in 1789
and was for many years M.P. for Reading.
This Charles Shaw- Lefevre was the father of
the late Viscount Eversley, G.C.B., and the
grandfather of the present Lord Eversley.
John Lefevre died in 1790 at Old Ford,
and was buried at West Ham. His will, a
lengthy one, is at P.C.C. This might throw
some light on the question. But I think
that I am right. There is no mention in a
pedigree I have of any son of John's.
, MASTER OF ARTS.
BOMBAY GRAB : TAVERN SIGN (12 S. ii.
349). — There is a story to the effect that the
old Bow Brewery obtained the first Govern-
ment contract for the export of beer to India.
The vessel which conveyed the precious
cargo bore the name of The Bombay Grab,
and this name was adopted for the name of
the tavern eventually opened adjacent to the
brewery. Concerning the word " grab " the
late Col. W. F. Prideaux has written as
follows : —
" Ives in his ' Voyage from England to India,' in
the year 1754, p, 43, says : ' Our E. I. Company
had nere (Bombay) one ship of 40 guns, one of 20.
one grab of 18 guns, and several other vessels.'
This may have been the identical grab after which
the tavern was named. Orme, the historian of
India, described the grab as having ' rarely more
than two masts, though some have three ; those of
three are about 300 tons burthen ; but the others
are not more than 150 ; they are built to draw very
little water, being very broad in proportion to their
length, narrowing, however, from the middle to the
end, while instead of bows they have a prow, pro-
jecting like that of a Mediterranean galley.' It
appears to have been modelled from an Arab
vessel, which was known as a ' ghurab,' or raven,
a name analogous to our own ' corvette.' The
name constantly occurs in the naval annals of
India, from the arrival of the Portuguese down to
the near end of the eighteenth century."
JOHN T. PAGE.
The query of P. M. (10 S. iv. 107) was well
replied to at ibid., 177. As an instance of the
uses these boats were put to by the Indian
Government I can tell how my grandfather
Sir Charles Malet, when in 1785 he was sent
from Calcutta by the Government as their
minister to the Maharatta Court at Poona,
via Bombay, travelled on the Nancy grab,
taking two and a half months on the journey.
HAROLD MALET.
INFLUENZA (12 S. ii. 328). — I have a copy
of ' Medical Vulgar Errors,' bv John Jones,
M.B., London, 1797. At p. 80 we read :—
"That the influenza is a very dangerous dis-
temper, and a new one ; never known in this
country till a few years ago ; at which the College,
by their circular letters, cried out for help from all
quarters ; were themselves greatly alarmed ; and
spread a general terror."
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. H. DEC. •_>, me.
Having thus enunciated the fallacy, Dr.
Join's iroes 011 to show it is a fallacy, stating
that "it is neitlior a new nor a dangerous
distemper," and devoting three 8vo pages to
the matter. Much of this is to illustrate
the practice, even in those days, of calling
simple things by high-sounding names, e.g.,
" there are no women to be had at present ; even
those at a two-penny puppet-show of a ^ country
village, forsooth, are all called the Ladies."
ALFBED S. E. ACKEBMANN.
ElGHTEENTH-CENTTJKY LEAD-TANK LET-
TERING (12 S ii. 390). — I cannot explain the
phoenix or the crowns ; they may be a crest
and a trade -mark. But the arrangement
of letters is not uncommon at that date, and
in the instances which I have been able to
test by contemporary documents the upper
letter is the initial of the surname, the letter
to the left the initial of the husband's Chris-
tian name, that to the right of his wife's ;
they denote the persons for whom the tank
was provided.e.gr.,
E
A E
1715
stood for Eason, Andrew, Elizabeth.
J. HAMLET.
Barrington, Ilrainster.
The initials were commonly those of the
owner. The S in this case probably stands
for Seymour. The crest of the Somersets
is — out of a ducal coronet or, a phoenix or
in flames proper. SUSANNA CORNER.
Lenton Hall, Nottingham.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172,
211, 275, 317, 337, 374). — The church of
All Hallows, Allerton, now in Liverpool,
contains many stained - glass windows by
Burne-Jones and Morris. When asked by
the donor to introduce portraits of two
deceased children into a stained - glass
window intended as a memorial, Burne-
Jones declined the commission as bad art,
and this window was therefore designed by
another hand. See ' History of the Manor
of Allerton,' &c. B. S. B.
In the east window of Saintbury Church,
Gloucestershire, there is a small figure of an
ecclesiastic in the attitude of prayer with
the legend " San Nicolas priet pur W. L."
Richard Graves, the antiquary, of Mickleton,
considered this to be a portrait of William
Latimer, the learned Vicar of Saintbury,
who died and was buried there in 1545.
In Norton Church, Derbyshire, there has
been placed, within the last few years, a
window to the memory of the wife of the
present vicar, which contains a portrait of
the deceased lady. It is a very pleasing^
window, and the portrait is readily noticed
amongst the other faces delineated.
CHARLES DRUBY.
12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
At Stanton Lacey Church, Salop, there are
two figures (copies of those by Sir Joshua
Reynolds in the ante-chapel of New College,
Oxford) of Hope and Faith ; the centre-
figure is a portrait of the Hon. "R. H. Clive,
at one time M.P. for Ludlow.
St. Peter is the patron saint of the church,
and the late vicar, Dr. Bowles, personates
him in another window alongside St. Paul,
which is a portrait of Mr. Clement, late M.P_
for Shrewsbury. H. T. BARKER.
Ludlow.
A very beautiful window was placed in
the church of Brompton, in Northallerton,.
during my incumbency, in memory of John
Kettlewell, the Nonjuror, who was a native
and benefactor of the parish. The work was
C. E. Kempe's, and, at my request, he-
introduced a portrait of Kettlewell, taken
from the engraving in the folio edition of:
his works. S. R. C.
The Precincts, Canterbury.
WELTHEN (12 S. ii. 309, 376). — I notice
this name occurs twice in Gloucestershire.
Harry Ellye of Newland, whose will was
proved in the year 1553 at Gloucester P. C.,.
mentions his wife Welthianr ; and there is
also an entry in the King's Stanley Parish
Register : " Symon Awood was married to
Welthian Tratman, June 30, 1603."
W. A. S. ELY.
HENRY FATJNTLEBOY, FOBGEB (12 S.
ii. 367). — On the assumption that modern as
well as contemporary references will be-
acceptable, I send the following : —
' The Invisible Avenger, or Guilt's Fatal
Career,' no date, but catalogued G. Vickers,.
London, 1851 ; full narrative of the forgeries
at pp. 234-42.
' The Romance of Crime/ published at
148 Fleet Street, about 1865 : account of
the trial, with portrait of Fauntleroy in the
dock.
Serjeant Ballantine's ' Experiences,' 1882 ;.
in chap. xxv. it is told how Fauntleroy figures
in Bulwer Lytton's ' Disowned ' : the scheme
for escaping from Coldbath Fields Prison.
' Old and New London,' c. 1884, vol. ii.-
455 : Dickens's anecdote relating to Faunt-
leroy's famous curagao ; popular rumour that,
the execution had been evaded.
W. B. H..
123.11. DEC. 2, 1916.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
In a ' Handbook to Sandgate,' published
1911, p. 6, occurs the following statement :
' At Hatton House, lived Faultneroy [sic]
the banker, who was the last man hanged for
forgery."
Is there any corroboration of this ?
Probably he took the house only for the
summer months ; it is a fairly large old-
fashioned house. R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
EARL'S COURT, A LONDON SUBURB (12 S.
ii. 389). — In connexion with this subject
the following extract from an advertise-
ment in Churchill's ' Medical Directory ' for
1845 may be of interest : —
"Mrs. Bradbury's Establishment, Earl's Court
House, Old Brompton. near London.— Mrs. Brad-
bury receives a limited number of ladies labouring
under nervous complaints. The house is sur-
rounded by extensive gardens and pleasure grounds
in which a farm and cows are included, combining
All the advantages of rural cheerfulness with quiet
and repose. It was long the favoured residence of
the celebrated John Hunter, and is considered by
the faculty, from the salubrity of its temperature,
the excellence of its springs, with many other
advantages, to be the Montpelier of the Metropolis.'
S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D. »
' THE CHELTENHAM GUIDE ' (12 S. ii. 390).
— " The Cheltenham Guide ; or, Memoirs
>f the B-N-R-D Family continued. In a
Series of Poetical Epistles," 1781, is not in-
cluded in Anstey's Collected Poetical Works.
The article on William Fordyce Mavor in
the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' includes in his list of
works " Poetical Cheltenham Guide, 12mo,
1781," and this is, I think, the guide just
mentioned. It is not a guide in the proper
sease of the word. The first of the numer-
ous guides to Cheltenham was published
also in 1781, and is given by Halkett and
Laing as the work of W. Butler, the elder.
ROLAND AUSTIN.
Gloucester.
The author of this work was Weeden
Butler, the elder, i.e., " The Cheltenham
Guide, or useful companion. . . .to the Chel-
tenham Spa [By W. Butler, the elder].
London, 1781, 8vo." An account of his life
will be found in the ' D.N.B.,' vol. viii.,
which also contains a list of his works. A
copy of the guide might be seen at the
British Museum. E. E. BARKER.
HEADSTONES WITH PORTRAITS OF THE
DECEASED (12 S. ii. 210, 277, 377).— The
headstone of the grave of Hector Berlioz
(1803-69), in Montmartre Cemetery, Paris,
bears a bronze portrait medallion of the
composer. F. H. C.
0n Docks,
Tokens of the Eighteenth Century connected toitff
Booksellers and Bookmakers (Authors, Printers^
Publishers, Engravers, and Paper Makers). By
W. Longman. (Longmans & Co., 6s. net.)
MR. LONGMAN has in this small volume made a
valuable contribution to the history of book-
selling. This is the first time that a work has
been written treating on tokens associated with
booksellers and bookmakers, and, curiously
enough, no reference to such tokens is to be found7
in Timperley. The works hitherto published on-
this subject have usually dealt with it geographi-
cally, or else are merely catalogues alphabetically-
arranged ; but, as Mr. Longman points out, Mr.,
A. W. Waters has in his two works (' Notes re-
specting the Issuers of the Eighteenth -Century
Tokens struck for the County of Middlesex ' and
' The Token Coinage of South London ') included"'
interesting information concerning the persons
who issued those pieces. In addition, Mr. Waters
in The Publishers' Circular for May 11 and 18,.
1901, gave a list of booksellers' tokens, with
brief notes, but he had not space to deal with the-
matter fully.
Tokens are usually divided, Mr. Longman tells
us, into three groups : 1. Seventeenth Century,.
1648-73 ; 2. Eighteenth Century, 1787-97 ;
3. Nineteenth Century, 1807-21. In all these it
is the general rule to find the name of the issuer-
and the town, while many give the issiier's trade-
and place of residence. No doubt there is in-
formation concerning the book trade to be gleaned
from each of these three groups ; but, as a collector-
of the second or eighteenth-century series, Mr..
Longman deals only with the pieces issued be-
tween 1787 and 1801. In 1787 there was a great
lack of regal small change ; coins of debased
metal were in use, manjr forgeries were in circu-
lation, and the inconveniences were so great that
at last traders took the matter in hand, and the-
result was a most interesting series of tokens..
" During the ten years up to 1797," we are told,
" many millions of tokens were struck (one firm
alone, the Anglesey Mines Company, issued 250-
tons of pennies, and 50 tons of halfpennies), most
of which were inscribed with the name and
address of the issuer as a guarantee of good
faith." In 1797 the Government took up the-
matter, "and a fine series of copper coins was
issued through Matthew Boulton, of the Soho
Works, Birmingham." The first to be issued was
the well-known twopenny piece. To carry many
of these must have required strong pockets ; we
have just weighed one, and it turns the scale at
two ounces.
Thus the issue of tokens during the ten years
had been enormous, and Mr. Longman, having'
made a careful estimate, based upon Pye's book
issued in 1801, calculates that three million were
circulated by the booksellers and allied trades
alone, without including the one and a half mil-
lions of the Shakespeare halfpennies. It should
also be remembered that Pye gives genuine trade •
tokens only, and " makes no mention of political
pieces, pieces struck for collectors, or forgeries,.
of which there were a large number."
The principal section of the book is devoted to
the tokens issued by authors, booksellers, circu-
lating libraries, and others. This opens with an
460
NOTES AND QUERIES. 112 s. 11. DEC. 2, UNA.
Account of William Clachar, chief proprietor of
The Chelmsford Chronicle, and the only token
issuer of that town, at which over 100,000
pieces were struck. He died in 1813, aged 80,
but had retired twenty years previously in
favour of his partners, Messrs. Meggy <t Chalk.
Circulating libraries at fashionable places at the
seaside provided, in those days, not only books,
but also reading lounges -with all the London
newspapers, music, and billiard tables. One
of the most noted of these was Fisher's, situated
on the western side of the old Steyne at Brighton,
of which an illustration is given.
"William Gye. printer of Bath, issued tokens to
further his charitable aims on behalf of the debtors
lodged in Ilchester Gaol, whom he visited weekly.
He is referred to in The Printers' Register of Jan. 6,
1879. The token represents a female seated, in-
structing a boy with a key to unlock the prison
doors, and bears the inscription : " Go forth.
Remember tho debtors in Ilchester Gaol." It is
good to know that the name is still retained, and
"that the business is carried on by the Dawson
family on the same spot in the Market-Place.
The illustration given of the shop shows that
subscriptions were received for the .State lottery.
It is unfortunate that it is not definitely known
who were the issuers of the Franklin tokens, but
Mr. Longman does not think it " unreasonable
to assign the piece to the firm of Watts in Wylde
•Court, where Benjamin Franklin worked as a
journeyman printer."
Among many other notable tokens, that of the
famous Lackington must be mentioned. It bears
his bust, a figure of Fame blowing a trumpet, and
the words : " Halfpenny of J. Lackington & Co.,
•cheapest booksellers in the world. Payable at
Lackington & Co.'s, Finsbury Square, London."
Nor must we omit the Miller halfpenny, of
which only a few copies were struck. It is very
finely engraved, and bears a strong profile likeness
of Thomas Miller. His own business was at Bungay,
but his son William came to London and became
an eminent bookseller in Albemarle Street, and on
Tiia retiring in 1812, John Murray, as is well
known, became his successor. A fine portrait of
"Thomas Miller is given.
In the second section of his book Mr. Long-
man describes tokens which were struck by people
not connected with the book trade, but which
refer to authors, and frequently bear their like-
ness ; and in the third he enumerates a few mis-
cellaneous tokens of interest from the subjects
•depicted on them.
Some of the illustrations have already been
Incidentally named. There are in addition several
portraits, a good view of Lackington's Temple of
the Muses, and three excellent plates of reproduc-
tions of tokens.
The Greek Manuscripts in the Old Seraglio at Con-
stantinople. By Stephen Gaselee. (Cambridge,
University' Press, Is. net.)
THE writer of this lively brochure was at Constanti-
nople in 1909, from Monday, April 13, to the following
Saturday, his stay covering a considerable and. for
the time being, successful mutiny of the soldiers
as&inst the Committee of Union and Progress.
These pages give us his notes as they were taken
immediately after witnessing the scenes he
describes. His experiences were sufficiently
stormy, and not without some peril to his own
life and limb. His main object in going to Con-
stantinople was the inspection of the collection of
Greek MSS. in the Old Seraglio. It was supposed
that important treasures would be revealed when
the expected Catalogue was published. The like-
lihood that this publication will now be long
delayed has caused Mr. Gaselee to give us his own
list, of what he found in the library ; and though
this is very brief, and bare of detail, it is
sufficient to show that, except perhaps for the
Critobulus, the collection contains nothing belong-
ing to the first rank of its kind.
More than two -thirds of the MSS., which
number thirty - three, would seem to be work of
the fifteenth century or later. Of the early
ones, a twelfth - century leetionary, in a fine
Byzantine hand .with headings in gold, appears
the most attractive. There is a Euclid which Mr.
Gaselee also assigns to the twelfth centurv ; an
Iliad with scholia and a ' Catena patrum de_ Veteri
Testamento ' are assigned by him to the thirteenth
centurv. A great proportion of the works are
scientific — as science was understood in the latter
Middle Age ; and since two or three MSS. seem to
have been written out in the sixteenth century, it
seems reasonable to connect the collection, as Mr.
Gaselee suggests, with some doctor or professional
man living in Constantinople in the sixteenth or
seventeenth century. It would perhaps form no
bad working library for a person who could
supplement it by consulting other books not in his
own possession. We are grateful to Mr. Gaselee
for giving us the particulars of it, and at any rate
setting doubts and some unwarranted assumptions
at rest.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WAR.— MR. PEDDIE
informs us, with reference to our not* to MR.
ARDAOH on p. 420, that he contributes only the
preface to ' Books on the Great War,' which is being
compiled by Mr. F. W. T. Lange and Mr. W. T.
Berry, of the St. Bride Foundation Libraries.
Vols. I.-IIL, containing the titles of about
1,500 books, and covering the first year of the
War, have been issued by Messrs. Graftpn & Co.
bound together with a general index, price Is. 6d.
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PROF. MOORE SMITH. — Forwarded.
Mn. F. T. HIBOAME. — ' The Tapestried
Chamber ' is not included in any novel. It was
published in ' The Keepsake,' 1828, and will be
found with the short stories ' The Two Drovers '
and ' My Aunt Margaret's Mirror,' which begin
the first series of ' Chronicles of the Canongate.'
It is indeed a horrifying story.
CoRRKiEDNtJM. — Ante, p. 354, col. 2, 1. 2 sub
' Henry Vachell,' for " captain " read baptized.
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CONTENTS.-No. 50.
NOTES : — Eighteenth-Century Fires in Cornhill, 461 —
Peel's Authorship of ' Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,'
464— William King, LL.D., President of St. Mary Hall,
Oxford — Richardson Correspondence — Anachronism in
' The Newcomes,' 467 — St. Hilda Colds— Transparent
Bee-hives, 468.
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
IN CORNHILL.
FIRES
FITZSTEPHEN, who wrote in Henry II. 's
reign a eulogy of London, describes as its
only pests " immodica (immoderata) stul-
torum potatio et frequens incendium," and
whilst a history of the frequent fires in
London must be postponed to more spacious
times, some brief notes as to the fires in
Cornhill previous to 1800 may be of interest
to the readers of ' N. & Q.'
Whether the fire of 1136, which started
in the house of one Alewarde, near London
Stone, and spread westwards to St. Paul's
and eastwards to Aldgate and old London
Bridge, damaged Cornhill or not, Stowe does
not relate ; but there is no doubt as to what
befell Cornhill in 1666. On Sept. 5 Pepys
walked into the City, and found Fenchurch
Street, Gracechurch Street, and Lombard
Street all in dust, and nothing left of the
Exchange but Sir Thomas Gresham's statue.
Evelyn records clambering through Cornhill
-with extraordinary difficulty over heaps of
yet smoking rubbish, and frequently mis-
taking where he was. His Diary vividly
portrays the awfulness of the catastrophe,
which he likens to the destruction of Sodom,
or the Day of Judgment.
Cornhill rose from its ashes, and seems for
some eighty years to have enjoyed com-
parative immunity from fires. In 1748
1765, and 1788, however, there were three
disastrous outbreaks, and it is more especially
to these that the present notes refer.
In the eighteenth century Cornhill pro-
bably resembled the High and Market
Streets which we still find in the smaller
boroughs. It consisted almost entirely of
shops (whose tenants lived over their
premises), taverns, and coffee-houses, whilst
the cross lanes were similarly occupied.
It has always been one of the most important
streets in the City ; near the east end of the
Royal Exchange was the Conduit — also
used as a prison called the Tun. — the site of
which is marked by the present pump, to
the cost of which the Sun, London, Royal
Exchange, and Phoenix Fire Offices con-
tributed; and at Cornhill's eastern end stood
the famous Standard Conduit.
The fire of March 25, 1748, commenced at
Eldridge's, a peruke - maker in Exchange
Alley. It destroyed the south side of
CoTnhill from where the Commercial Union
now stands to St. Michael's Alley, and also
all the property at rear thereof (Exchange
Alley, Birchin Lane, Castle Court, and the
west side of St. Michael's Alley and George
Yard) to the back of the houses in Lombard
Street. Notwithstanding the width of Corn-
hill, some of the buildings on its other side
were badly scorched, and the house on the
east side of Finch Lane twice took fire. The
offices of the London Assurance in Castle
Court were burnt, though most of the records
appear to have been saved ; and according
to the plan three other insurance offices —
King's Insurance Office in Change Alley,
and Fletcher's and Deacon's Insurance
Offices in Birchin Lane — were also burnt,
but I can find no reference to these in Mr.
Relton's book on ' Fire Insurance Com-
panies ' or in Walford's ' Cyclopaedia.'
Other notable properties destroyed were the
Swan, Fleece, and the Three Tuns Taverns,
and the following famous coffee- 1 ouses —
Toms', the Rainbow, Garraway's, Jonathan's,
and the Jerusalem. No. 41 Cornhill, now
the Union Discount Company's < ffices, the
birthplace and property of the poet Gray,
was included in the conflagration. It was
insured for 500?., and Gray writes that he
received indemnity in full, subject to a then
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LEADED HALT, STREET and
on Thursday ffir'^^/jfy.
(FROM THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE OF 1795.)
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customary discount of 3 per cent, and
reinstated it at a cost of 650Z. At his death
the annual rental was 65Z. Baker's Eating
House and the George and Vulture were
damaged, and in connexion with the latter
it is interesting to note from the plan that at
the date of the fire the main premises, at
least, of the George and Vulture were on the
«ast side of George Lane and opposite
Thomas's and the George and Vulture Chop
House.
Eighty houses were burnt and fourteen or
fifteen damaged, and the property loss was
stated to have been 200,OOOZ. A fund for the
sufferers was opened, and 5,1151. collected ;
claims on this were lodged for 8,OOOZ., 172
householders not applying, and a committee
was appointed to distribute the fund.
Losses up to 20Z. were paid in full, and in the
case of those above 201., 10s. in the 1Z. was
-paid up to 350Z. For the benefit of the
sufferers ' Othello ' was performed at Covent
Garden Theatre and Quin came up from
Bath to play the title r6le. Cornhill and its
taverns must have had melancholy associa-
tions for Quin, for at the Pope's Head in
1718 he had been attacked by a jealous actor
named Bowen and in his endeavours to
disarm his antagonist he mortally wounded
him. Quin was tried and honourably
acquitted, Bowen, before his death having
admitted that he alone was to blame.
The City authorities were empowered to
permit as many non-freemen in the building
trade as seemed necessary to be employed
in the rebuilding of the destroyed premises,
.any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
The fire of Nov. 7, 1765, broke out — also
at the house of a peruke maker — in Bishops-
gate Street. It set alight the four corner
1 ouses of Cornhill, Bishopsgate, Leadenhall,
and Gracechurch Streets, and spread up
Bishopsgate Street nearly to the back of
Threadneedle Street, damaging St. Mary-
Out wich (on the site of which the Capital
and Counties Bank now stands) and Mer-
chant Taylors' Hall. It extended down the
north side of Cornhill nearly to Sun Court,
destroying White Lyon Court and the White
Lyon Tavern, which had been sold the night
before for 3,OOOZ. Both sides of Bishopsgate
Street were involved, and the Nag's Head
Tavern and a block of buildings on the north
side of Leadenhall Street.
More than a hundred houses were de-
stroyed, the damage, according to The Annual
Register, amounting to 100,OOOZ., and more
than that of the fire of 1748 (which does not
tally with the 200,OOOZ. property loss referred
o above) ; the salvage was by the Lord
Mayor's orders deposited in the Royal
Exchange.
A subscription of 3,OOOZ. was raised for the
relief of the sufferers, to which the King
contributed l.OOOZ.
The Annual Register of 1773 records on
June 6 a fire which occurred at one Kent 's, a
nosier, in Cornhill, which, after destroying the
two neighbouring houses, spread to Lombard
Street and burnt three houses there. I have
not been able to trace the situation of the
shop of the unfortunate Kent, but, from the
description of the fire, it was probably at the
extreme west end of Cornhill.
The last fire to which I propose to refer,
that of Dec. 1, 1778, covered to some extent
the area of that of 1748. It broke out in
Pope's Head Alley, extending almost to
Lombard Street, burnt through into Change
Alley, and damaged the back parts of the
houses in Cornhill. Seymour's and Sam's
Coffee - Houses, the Pope's Head Eating
House, and several lottery offices were con-
sumed. Baker's Eating House, still, we are
thankful to say, with us, was again damaged,
but the fire was not of the extent of, nor
seems to have caused, as much damage as,
those of 1748 and 1765.
Before closing I should like to bear
witness to the valuable assistance received
from Mr. F. G. Hilton Price's prper on
' Cornhill and its Vicinity,' published in The
Institute t>/ Bankers' Magazine in 1 887, and
also to express regret that the very limited
spare time at my disposal has not permitted
of the researches which I had originally hoped
to have been allowed to make in the records
of the older insurance companies. Perhaps
when peace has been achieved and normal
conditions return, some supplemental notes
on this subject may be forthcoming.
Louis R. LETTS.
Phoenix Fire Office.
PEELE'S AUTHORSHIP OF
' ALPHONSUS,
EMPEROR OF GERMANY.'
' THE Tragedy of Alphonsiis, Emperor of
Germany,' was published by Humphrey
Moseley in 1654 as Chapman's. It was in
the same year that the publisher Richard
Marriot fraudulently issued Glapthome's
' Revenge for Honour ' with the same
author's name on the title-page. That both
these dramas should ever since the date of
their publication continue — even though
more or less diffidently — to have been
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465
associated with Chapman's name affords a
striking illustration of the tendency of critics
to cling to the most dubious scrap of external
evidence as to the authorship of an Eliza-
bethan play, notwithstanding that the
internal evidence is altogether against it.
The attribution of a late publisher alone
ought never to be accepted in the absence of
corroborative internal evidence. And there
is particular reason that Moseley's testimony
should be regarded with suspicion, for, if
not deliberately dishonest, he was at any
rate utterly reckless in his attributions. It
was he who ascribed Massinger's ' Parliament
of Love ' to Rowley, and ' The Merry Devil
of Edmonton ' (to say nothing of the non-
extant ' History of King Stephen,' ' Duke
Humphrey,' and ' Iphis and lanthe ' ) to
Shakespeare.
Xow nothing can be more certain, if
internal evidence counts for anything at all,
than that Chapman could not possibly have
been the author of ' Alphonsus, Emperor of
Germany.' In no respect does the play bear
the slightest resemblance to any authentic
work of his. Just as ' Revenge for Honour '
betrays its late date in the abundance of its
feminine endings and its clear traces of the
influence of the " Beaumont and Fletcher "
plays, so the end-stopped lines and archaic
phrasing and vocabulary of ' Alphonsus '
clearly show that it belongs to a date within
a few years of 1590. The construction
" for to " with the infinitive, which is to be
found four times in this play, and the use of
the words " the same " in place of a pro-
noun—
Julio Lentulus
. . . .Gave me this box of poison,
. . . .And what's the special virtue of the same ?
Act I. (Pearson's ' Chapman,' vol. iii. p. 204)*
Come, Princes, let us bear the body hence,
I'll spend a million to embalm the same.
Act IV. p. 260.
— are sure marks of an early date. Then,
again, we have a sequence of lines ending
on the word " revenge " (Act V. p. 273), as
in ' The Spanish Tragedy ' and ' Locrine,'
and speeches of which the first line echoes the
last of the preceding speaker : —
Alphonaits. Thou wilt not scorn my counsel in
revenge.
Alexander. My rage admits no counsel but
revenge ? Act II. p. 222.
Empress. Doubt not the Princes may be
reconcil'd.
Alexander. 'Tmay be the Princes will be recon-
cil'd. Act V. p. -7.-..
*A11 subsequent references to ' Alphonsus,
Emperor of Germany,' are by the pages of this
edition.
These features are characteristic of the
pre-Shakespearian drama of Kyd, Marlowe,
Greene, and Peele, and are deserving of notice*
inasmuch as those who accept Chapman's
authorship of ' Alphonsus ' invariably assume
it to be one of the latest of his works.
' Alphonsus ' is a Machiavellian revenge-
play clearly showing the influence both of
Marlowe and Kyd. The style is neither that
of Marlowe nor of Kyd, but the author is
obviously one who followed close in their
steps. All the internal evidence, as ha&
already been indicated, and will presently
appear more fully, points to 1590 or there-
abouts as the date at which it was originally
composed. And, as it happens, there actually
is external evidence, certainly not less trust-
worthy than Moseley's, that it was written
by a dramatist of this very period. Kirkman.
(1661), Winstanfey (1687), and Wood (1691),
all state that its author was Peele. The-
diversity of opinion amongst • the early
biographers of the English dramatists with,
regard to the authorship of this play has not
received the attention it deserves. Peele' s
modern editors do not even trouble to record
that it has been ascribed to him. It must be-
admitted that Kirkman is no more trust-
worthy than Moseley, but his statement is
at least valuable as showing that ' Al-
phonsus ' was reputed Peele' s, although it
had been published as Chapman's only seven,
years previously. When we turn to Win-
stanley (' Lives of the Most Famous English
Poets ' ) we find that he mentions ' Alphon-
sus ' as one of the " three plays " that Peele
" contributed to the Stage," the two others
being ' Edward I.' and ' David and Bethsabe.'
Next comes Langbaine (' Account of the
English Dramatick Poets,' 1691), who, like
Winstanley, only mentions ' Edward I.' and
' David and Bethsabe ' of the dramas now
assigned to Peele, but adds : —
" I am not ignorant that another tragedy, t»
wit, ' Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,' is as-
cribed to him in former Catalogues, which haa
occasioned Mr. Winstanley's mistake, but 1 can.
assure my Readers that that Play_ was writ by
Chapman, for I have it by me with his Name affizt
to it."
That Langbaine had a copy of the play
with Chapman's name affixed to it is no
proof that Chapman wrote it. His copy
was doubtless one of Moseley's edition of
1654. However, the editors of the ' Bio-
graphia Dramatica ' seem to have con-
sidered Langbaine's statement conclusive,
for they assert that both Winstanley and
Wood were "misled by former catalogues."
Even supposing the conjecture as to the
source of their information to be correct, the
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former catalogues are, as Mr. Fleay has
<>l>s -i-\vd. a better authority than Moseley.
But there is no ground for supposing that
either Winstanley or Wood was indebted to
former catalogues ; and so far as Anthony
a Wood Is concerned, his own words seem to
negative any such supposition. As his is
the fullest and most accurate of these early
biographical notices of Peele, it will be well
to see exactly what he says : —
"....His comedies and tragedies were often
acted with great applause, and did endure reading
vitli due commendation many years after their
Author's death. Those that I have seen are only
these folloictng,
The famous Chronicle of K. Ed. I.~\ Lon(j
sirnamed Edic. Longshank. > , ~Qo *
Life of Llewellin of Wales. ) *
The sinking of Q. Elinor at
•Char ing-cross, and of her rising
again at Potters-Hith, now named
Queen-Hith, Lond. 1593 qu
The love of K. David and fair
Bathsheba, with the Tragedy of
Absalom &c. Lond. 1599 qu.
Alphonsus Emperor of Germany, Trag.
Besides these Plays he hath several Poems extant,
as that entit. The Honour of the Garter, vide
Athmolean, p. 30.
A farewell to Sir Joh. Norrys and Sir Fr. Drake,
Lond. in qu. and some remnants of Pastoral
Poetry in a collection entit. England's Helicon ;
but such I have not seen, nor his book of Jests or
Clinches. ..."
' Athenae Oxonienses,' 1721 ed. vol. i. 300.
Here Wood makes the definite statement
that ' Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,' was
one of the tragedies of Peele that he had seen
— presumably, in MS. with the dramatist's
name attached, since he does not (as in the
case of the other plays seen by him) specify
the place and date of publication, nor is there
any reason to believe that a printed edition
other than Moseley's edition of 1654 (with
Chapman's name on the title-page) existed
in Wood's time. All the other works
enumerated in his list are properly assigned
to Peele, and in the absence of some better
evidence to the contrary than that of
Moseley (clearly not a disinterested witness)
we are not justified in assuming that he was
mistaken with regard to ' Alphonsus.' That
its attribution to Peeje was due to mere con-
jecture on any one's part is most unlikely.
Its superficial characteristics are rather those
that one would associate with Marlowe or
Kyd in preference to Peele. But when its
language is examined and compared with
Peele's acknowledged works, we shall find
conclusive evidence — and that of a kind
which cannot be supposed to have attracted
the attention of any seventeenth-century
writer or compiler of catalogues — that it is
his.
Mr. Fleay accepts Peele's authorship of
' Alphonsus", Emperor of Germany,' because
it was attributed to him by Wood and
Winstanley, and is " palpably " of his period.
These circumstances are at least sufficient
to warrant us in preferring Peele's title to
Chapman's. If, in addition, we find that
the author's vocabulary resembles Peel'
and that the text of the play shows numerous
connexions of one sort or another with his
acknowledged work, there can be no valid
reason for doubting his authorship.
Up to the present the only critic who has
dealt with the internal indications of Peel< •'>
hand in this play is Mr. J. M. Robertson, to
whose chapter on ' Peele's Unsigned Work '
in ' Did Shakespeare write " Titus Androni-
cus " ? ' I here acknowledge my indebtedness
for a few of the points noted in the following
examination of its text. To take first its
vocabulary, Mr. Robertson gives a list of
eighteen of Peele's " favourite or special "
words met with in ' Alphonsus.' These are :
Ate, doom, emperess, gratulate, hugy, manly,
massacre, policy, progeny, sacred, sacrifice,
solemnized, successively, suspect (noun),
triumph and triumphing, underbear, wreak
(noun), and zodiac. Now, without exagger-
ating the significance of this list, it may
without hesitation be stated that it raises a
strong presumption of Peele's authorship.
It is not that the words are peculiar to Peele.
There are a few that are rarely to be met
with outside Peele's works — such, for in-
stance, as " wreak " used as a substantive —
and are for that reason important, while
others are used fairly frequently by some
of his contemporaries. But even these les-^
uncommon words may afford equally valu-
able evidence either from the frequency with
which, or the manner in which, they are used.
It is not necessary to deal with this list of
Mr. Robertson's in detail, but the word
" sacred " is deserving of particular notice
because it occurs no fewer than ten times in
' Alphonsus.' In one instance the author —
in a fashion, it may be remarked, character-
istic of Peele — actually uses it twice in the
space of four lines. This is in the speech in
which Alphonsus simulates grief at the death
of the Bishop of Mentz : —
Over thy tomb shall hang a sacred lamp,
Which till the day of doom shall ever burn,
Yea after-ages shall speak of thy renown,
And go a pilgrimage to thy sacred tomb.
Act IV. p. 260.
In Peele's acknowledged works " sacred "
appears, according to Mr. Robertson, at
least thirty times. At any rate, I have
found it five times in ' The Arraignment of
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
467
Paris ' alone, and ten times in his not very
voluminous poems. Twice in ' Alphonsus '
the Emperor of Grermany is addressed as
" sacred emperor," and once as " your sacred
majesty." In Peele's ' Speeches to Queen
Elizabeth at Theobalds ' the queen is ad-
dressed as " your sacred majesty," and in
' The Device of the Pageant ' she is referred
to as " London's sacred sovereign."
Another special word of Peele's found in
Alphonsus ' but not mentioned in Mr.
Robertson's list is " scour "=to pass swiftly
-over, to overrun in search of a thing or
person : —
. . . .we both with our light horse
Will scour the coasts and quickly bring him in.
' Alphonsus,' Act V. p. 278.
This occurs twice in ' Edward I.' : —
And scour the marches with your Welshmen's
hooks. ii. 357.*
.... methinks 'twere very good
That some good fellows went and scoured the
wood. x. 92.
and in ' The Tale of Troy,' 1. 255 : —
Now merrily sail these gallant Greeks to Troy
And scour the seas, and keep their compass right.
H. DUGDALE SYKES.
Enfield.
(To be continued.)
WILLIAM KING, LL.D., PRESIDENT OF
ST. MAKY HALL, OXFORD. (See 12 S. i.
132.) — At the given reference I mentioned
the "striking likeness" of Dr. King in Wor-
lidge's picture of the installation of Lord
Westmorland as Chancellor of the University
of Oxford.
In ' Biographical Anecdotes of William
Hogarth,' 3rd edition, 1785, p. 320, John
Nichols writes concerning Paul before
Felix, designed and scratched in the true
Dutch taste " : —
"This was the receipt for Pharaoh's daughter,
and for the serious Paul and Felix ; and is a satire
on Dutch pictures. It also contains, in the character
of a sergeant tearing his brief, a portrait of
Hume Campbell, who was not over-delicate in the
language he used at the bar t9 his adversaries and
antagonists. This, however, is said by others to be
the portrait of William King, LL.D., Principal of
St. Mary Hall, Oxford."
A foot-note says : —
"Of Dr. King, who was 'a tall, lean, well-
look) n* man,' there is a striking likeness in
Worlidge's View of the Installation of Lord West-
moreland f*ic] as chancellor of Oxford in 1761.
Some particulars of his life and writings mav
be seen in ' Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer,' p. 594."
* For all Peele's works, except where otherwise
indicated, I have used Bullen's edition, the Arabic
numerals here referring to the numbers of the lines.
See also ' Hogarth Illustrated,' by John
Ireland, 1791, vol.ii. p. 340, and 'Hogarth's
Works,' by John Ireland and John Nichols
(new edition, c. 1873), second series, p. 75,
and third series, p. 306. At this last refer-
ence, which is in the ' Chronological List of
Works,' Hume Campbell is not mentioned,
but the advocate, described by Ireland (ut
supra) as " Tertullus arrayed in the habit of
an English serjeant-at-law," " is said to be
designed for Dr. King."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
RICHARDSON CORRESPONDENCE. (See
ante, pp. 405, 447.) — I have no reason to
complain of JUDGE UDAL'S criticism and
supplementing of my work on Robert
Uvedale, done mostly, as it was, five-and-
twenty years ago. Incidentally he expresses
a very natural regret that the twelve volumes
of the correspondence of Dr. Richard
Richardson recently sold by auction were
not acquired by the British Museum. As to
this, I would point out, first, that the
Museum Trustees did empower an agent to
bid up to a considerable amount for these
volumes ; and, secondly, that their value
to the general public is les^s than might be
supposed, because a considerable portion of
them has already been printed. All the
seventy-five letters from Dr. William Sherard
to Richardson are in Nichols's ' Illustrations '
(1817), vol. i. pp. 339-403. In 1835 Dawson
Turner printed privately ' Extracts from
the Correspondence,' containing 174 letters,
not a very rare volume. It is true, however,
that Dawson Turner admits that the twelve
volumes now at Oxford " would, if printed,
probably form eight of the same bulk as "
his selection. G. S. BOULGER.
12 Lancaster Park, Richmond, Surrey.
ANACHRONISM IN ' THE NEWCOMES.'—
In chap. xxii. vol. i. of ' The Newcomes,'
Arthur Pendennis, writing to Clive Newcome,
asks, "Why have we no picture of the sove-
reign and her august consort from Smee's
brush ? " (vol. i. p. 258, ed. 1868.) The
letter is without date, but the context shows
it to be a prompt answer to a letter from
Clive dated "May 1, 183 — ." In chap. viii.
p. 89, it is stated that Col. Newcome " has
no mufti-coat except one sent him out by
Messrs. Stultz to India in the year 1821 " ;
and farther down on the same page it ifl
said that " he had been in the habit of con-
sidering it a splendid coat for twelve years
past," thus indicating that the action takes
place in 1833. Now in that year William IV.
was King of England, Victoria succeeding
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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 9, wie.
to the throne on June 30, 1837. She
'married Prince Albert Feb. 10, 1840, and
in 1833 both she and Albert were but four-
teen years of age. Therefore Mr. Smee could
not very well paint a portrait of the sovereign
and her august consort at any time during
the thirties. FREDERICK S. DICKSON.
New York, 215 West 101st Street.
ST. KTLDA COLDS : TRISTAN DA CUNHA.
— Shortly after coming across a comment
(11 S. viii. 126) on ' St. Kilda and Influenza,'
I happened to be reading Mrs. Barrow's
'Three Years- in Tristan da Cunha.' She
writes in her diary, shortly after her arrival :
" It is curious how, whenever a ship is boarded,
colds go the round of the settlement. We were
talking to Repetto [the most educated inhabitant |
about this, and he told us he did not at first believe
it, but has seen it proved again and again. The
usual thing has happened after the visit of ^ the
Surrey, and many are now laid up with colds."
I think this shows that the peculiar sus-
ceptibility to " cold " germs is not limited
to St. Kilda islanders, but is possessed by
the inhabitants of any settlement remote
from the outside world. It would be in-
teresting to know whether the same phe-
nomenon has been noticed in Pitcairn Island,
to which a mail was dispatched in October
last.
I see the same idea is mooted at 10 S. vii
307, where a quotation from Mrs. Edgeworth
David decidedly supports the theory.
G. A. ANDERSON.
TRANSPARENT BEE-HIVES. — Glass bee-
hives, in which the bees could be seen at
work, were shown at the International Ex-
hibition of 1862, and were then regarded as
a novelty, but they are in reality more than
two centuries old. In 1679 Moses Rusden
Apothecary, and Bee-Master to Charles II.
published a tract entitled ' A further dis-
covery of Bees. . . .with the experiments
arising from the keeping them in transparent
boxes instead of straw hives.'
I have recently renewed my acquaintance
with Charles and Mary Lamb's ' Mrs. Leices
ter's School,' published originally in 1809
and at p. 44 of an undated edition issued by
Swan Sonnenschein & Co. I find the fol
lowing : —
"Before I came away from grandmamma's, '.
grew so bold, 1 let Will Tasker hold me over thi
glass windows at the top of the hives, to see then
make honey in their own home."
The above extract is taken from the accoun
given by " Louisa Manners " (a town child
of a visit to a farmhouse. R. B. P.
(Queries.
WK must request correspondents desiring in-
ormation on family matters of only private interest
10 affix their names and addresses to their queries
n order that answers may be sent to them direct.
AN ARTIST'S SIGNATURE : THACKERAY
AND ' PUNCH.' — About sixty years ago, an
able artist contributed drawings to Punch,
many of them being ingeniously made initial
etters. He signed them with a mark some-
what like a trident, or a Greek le ter Psi~
0 was he ? He dealt largely in birds
and quadrupeds. One of his best things
was a picture (July 4, 1857) of two Egyptian
ishermen, one of whom has hooked a croco-
dile, which to its astonishment finds itself
in mid-air.
In December, 1856, and January, 1857,.
there were three papers, ' Set a thief to catch
a thief,' written in a mode not very far
distant from that of Jeames Yellowplush.
Each one has an illustration, the first one-
signed W. T. in a blurred fashion, the second
with the trident-mark already mentioned,
while John Leech did the third. I dare not
attribute these three papers to Thackeray r
t>ut he did contribute much to Punch in.
its earlier days, and all of this has not yet
been identified. He took serious offence at
Leech's cartoon, 1850, representing Na-
poleon III. as riding over a precipice to ruin.
But I think he supplied material for some
years after that. Perhaps it is not too late,
even now, to obtain light on this topic.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
DICK ENGLAND (See 4 S. v. 403; 8 S.
iv. 429; v. 13V— When and where did
" the notorious Dick England " die ? The-
latest mention of him that I have found is
in a paragraph in The Morning Post on
Jan. 10, 1799. HORACE BLEACKLEY.
KANYETE. — A textile frequently men-
tioned in Fountains Abbey Accounts, among
other things which the servants received as
wages in kind, and which are named in the
accounts with their estimated money value.
Thus in 1454 Robert Harope the barber
received in one pair of spurs, 6d. ; in one
pair of shoes, Qd. ; in money, 6d. ; in three
ells of kanyete, 3s. ; and in one horse,
27s. 8d.
1 have not been able to find kanyete in
the ' N.E.D.' nor in any glossary that I have
consulted, but should be glad to know what
it was, and whether it is mentioned in other
accounts or anywhere else. J. T. F.
12 s. ii. DEC. 9, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
469
IBSEN'S ' GHOSTS ' AND THE LORD CHAM-
BERLAIN.— Can any correspondent give the
date on which the Lord Chamberlain forbade,
or was alleged to have forbidden, the per-
formance by a German company of Ibsen's
' Ghosts.' It was some time during the
Boer War. I have a newspaper cutting, not
dated, containing the following : —
("From our own correspondent, Paris.")
" Mr. Chamberlain, who, in addition to being
Minister of the Colonies, is also censor of plays, has
forbidden the performance of Ibsen's Ghosts by a
German troupe in London.
" In an article headed ' Chamberlain-Macbeth '
the Nineteenth Si&cle says : ' Mr. Chamberlain is
not fond of the living, having made so many corpses
whose bones whiten at the foot of the kopjes of the
Transvaal and the Orange Free State. He likes
ghosts still less, and will not allow them to ap-
proach him. A luckier man than Macbeth, Mr.
Chamberlain has the power to prevent the spectre
of Banco [sic] from seating himself at his side.
Mr. Chamberlain is a happy man.'
" The Echo de Paris says ; ' Chamberlain is
becoming terrible. He is declaring a new war.
This time against Ibsen.' "
The back of the cutting comments on the
' Dance Macabre,' the prelude to Act III.
of ' Lohengrin,' Mr. Percy Pitt's " pretty
Air de Ballet," . . . .and " The vocal numbers
interpreted by Miss Maggie Davies, Miss
Jennie Goldsack, and Senor Paoli."
I have a considerable collection of carica-
tures, &c., mainly French, concerning the
,Boer War, but this little extract, probably
from The Standard, lacks its date.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE REV. JAMES CHELSUM. — When and
whom did he marry ? Where and when in
1801 did he die ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,'
x. 183, does not give the required information.
G. F. R. B.
SIR THOMAS ANDREW LUMISDEN STRANGE.
— I should be glad to ascertain the actual
dates of his appointment as Chief Justice of
Nova Scotia in 1789, and as Recorder of
Madras in 1797. When and where did his
second marriage take place ? The ' Diet.
Nat. Biog.' (Iv. 28) does not give the desired
information. G. F. R. B.
NAPOLEON AND NICHOLAS GIROD. — From
a Louisiana source I learn that in various
memoirs written by Napoleon's attendants
at St. Helena, there are indications that the
Emperor knew and approved of a plan of
rescue which was being organized by Nicholas
Girod, a millionaire ex-Mayor of New
Orleans. A vessel was to be fitted out
and a select crew was to effect a landing at
night, and to carry' the prisoner away. The
expedition was cut short by the news of the
Emperor's death, but Girod, in 1821, had
already erected the house at New Orleans in
which he intended that Napoleon should
reside, and it remains to this d&y one of the
show places of that city. Is the story an
authentic one, and in whose memoirs is the
suggested escape mentioned, or hinted at ?
J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.
Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.
FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.
— I shall be obliged to any reader who can,
furnish me with information as to the dates
of birth and death, and references to the
works, of the undermentioned Fellows of
the Society of Antiquaries : —
John Chichley, an original Fellow.
William Sheldon, elected 1769.
John Motteux, 1770.
William Cooper Cooper, 1838.
Augustus William Gadesden, 1840.
E. BRABROOK.
Langham House, Wallington, Surrey.
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES : UNDERGRADUATES.
GOWN. — Have the universities of Scotland
any gown for their students, and if so, what
is the colour ? If they have abolished the
wearing of the gown what colour used it to
be ? Dr. Venn in his ' Early Collegiate
Life ' at Cambridge, says the Scots wore a
red gown when they chose to put any on.
Was that colour the same for all ?
A. G. KEALY.
A TARTAR'S Bow. — Possibly some of your
readers may be able to enlighten me on the
following : —
In ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ' (iii. 2)
Puck is made to say : —
Look how I go, swifter than arrow from the
Tartar's bow,
meaning that he will do the message of
Oberon and be back instantly.
In the ' Advancement of Learning '
(Book II.), Bacon observes that : —
" Words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon
the understanding of the wisest, and mightily
entangle and pervert the judgment."
And in one of his speeches (on the ' Motion of
a Subsidy ') says : —
' Sure am I it was like a Tartar's or Parthiin's
bow which shooteth backwards."
Was a Tartar's bow so constructed as to
shoot in such a way that the arrow curved
in its flight and returned in the direction of
the archer ? And what was the source of
this information upon which the poet and
the philosopher drew the simile ?
RODERICK L. EAGLE.
470
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SARGENT : DUNCAN. — Can any one give given in ' Specimens of Cornish Provincial
me any information about two William Dialect,' by Uncle Jan Trenoodle (W. Sandys)
Sargent's who settled in Gloucester, Massa- j published in 1846 — the invocation is made
chusetts ? | "to chase the buck and doe," which would
The first William received a grant of land ; seem to be here personified by the Stalbridge
in 1649, married Abigail Clark, and died in j folk in their preliminary game of " Hunting
1717, aged 90. Sons: John, Andrew, ! the Buck."
What is the etymology of the word
cr'ookern " ? Can it have anything to do
with the old town of Crewkerne in Somerset,
frequently spelt "Crookhorn" in old maps,
on the borders of which county the parish of
Stalbridge abuts ? Or it may, perhaps,
with more probability have something to do
with " Crokern Stoke," a hamlet of the
parish of Lydlinch, which adjoins Stalbridge.
I shall be glad of any other or further
reference to this custom, as I have now
reached my chapter on " Local Customs,"
in my long-contemplated and long-delayed
work on ' Dorset Folk-Lore.'
J. S/UDAL, F.S.A.
PAYNE FAMILY. — Some years prior to
1798, Henry and James Payne of Notting-
ham [sic[ went to Ireland, where they owned
lands, which they lost during the rebellion
of 1798. James Payne died in Ireland,
aged 98. Henry Payne returned to North-
ampton, and died aged 96, leaving issue
John, William, Henry, Alfred, and Joseph
(born in Northampton, and died in South
Africa, in 1911, aged 89), Alice, Hannah,
Elizabeth, and Caroline.
Any information about the above will be
appreciated. E. C. FPNLAY.
1729 Pine Street, San Francisco. California.
. VERDIGRIS. — It has been suggested that
the formation of verdigris is not entirely a
chemical action, but is partly due to the action
of bacteria, and hence the practice of shaking
up imitation Roman coins with a few genuine
ones in order to inoculate the new ones and
start the formation of the patina much
valued by numismatists. Further informa-
tion will oblige.
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
SNAKES AND Music. — Is there any definite
evidence to show that snakes like music, and
that they are " charmed " by it ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
GEORGE TURBERVILLE. — What was the
, but it has an ancient 1 birthplace of George Turberville ? I gather
IT about it, and seems to me to bear the from the ' Dictionary of National Bio-
est^ resemblance to the Cornish " Furry , graphy ' that unceitamty exists as to the
that I can find in Dnrsot Tt ;a ii..it..~ Xr»+Vi <->* v,;0 Kif+v* onA ,!.,.-.,i, Any
William, Samuel, and others.
The second William received a grant of
land in 1677, married Mary Duncan, and
died in 1706-7. Sons : FitzWilliam, An-
drew, Samuel, FitzJohn, and others. The
similarity of the children's names would
point to their being of the same descent.
The second William is said to have come
from Bristol or Exeter, and his wife was a
great grand-daughter of Ignatius Jordan,
Mavor of Exeter.
Family tradition tells of the two men
being brothers. Was this a case of two sons
being given the same name ?
Peter Duncan (see Foster's 'Index'),
B.A., April 27, 1574; M.A., June 5, 1576;
incorporated at Cambridge, 1578 ; instituted
to the rectory of Lidford, Devon, on the
presentation of Queen Elizabeth, 1580 ;
vicar of Crediton, 1584 ; rector of Kenn,
1595. In the register books of Kenn he is
spoken of as of Essex. In the same books
are recorded his death and that of his wife
Margery, and the baptism of their children.
Wanted : his parents names, his birth, and
his marriage. M. D. B. DANA.
1 Fifth Avenue, New York.
To PLAY " CROOKERN." — In a pam-
phlet by the Rev. W. S. Swayne on ' The
History and Antiquities of Stalbridge,' pub-
lished in 1889, at p. 37, is the account of the
following old Dorset custom : —
"There is a custom at Stalbridge for the in-
habitants to play 'Crookern' on the Ring on
Easter Monday. About four o'clock in the after-
noon a body of men and women would congregate
on the Ring to the number of about fifty. They
first joined hands and played a game called
Hunting the Buck ' ; one member of the party
was selected as 'Buck,' and others knelt down
at intervals to represent obstacles. After a certain
period the whole party joined hands and danced a
secies of country dance down the Stalbridge High
btreet and on until they reached the Virginia Ash at
Henstridge, where every person had a pint of beer,
and so homewards."
Hutchins in his ' History of Dorset ' is
silent as to this custom, nor can I find any
other reference to it ' ' ' '
.
noteworthy that in the " Furry Day Song "
the words of which, and also the tune, are
dates both of his birth and death,
further information would be welcomed.
M. CRAIG.
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471
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. —
Could ai\y reader tell me from whence are
drawn the two following : —
1. a privilege to kill,
A strong temptation to do bravely ill.
2. The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot,
And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
The first occurs in Fielding's ' Jonathan
Wild ' (iv. 15), and the second in his ' Amelia '
{ii. 9). J. P. DE C.
MRS. ANNE BUTTON.
(12 S. ii. 147, 197, 215, 275, 338.)
THE bibliography of R. H. supplies a list
of the thirty-eight volumes mentioned upon
Mrs. Dutton's monument. I venture to
think that I can extend the list. Nothing
would justify me in adding to the ample
information already furnished, save that
Mrs. Dutton's pamphlets are now very
scarce, and obtain prices much above any
she could have ever anticipated.
I have retained the numeration of R. H.,
and affix an asterisk to denote the works
once in the James Knight Collection. I
am informed that some of these have been
lost since they were bequeathed to the
Baptist Church at Southport. The dagger
indicates a reference in Mrs. Dutton's auto-
biography.
\ BIBLIOGRAPHY OP MBS. ANNE BUTTON.
1. A Narration of the Wonders of Grace in Verse.
.... To which is added a poem on the special
work of the Spirit in the hearts of the elect.
As also, sixty-one hymns composed on
several subjects, <kc. London, 1734, 8vo.
B..M. Cat. 11631 bbb. 12.
Second edition. B.M. Cat. 1162 b. 42.
Pp. 143. 1734, 8vo.
Third edition. See 12 S. ii. 338. 1735. *
Fourth edition. Corrected by C. G.
London, 1818, 12mo. B.M. Cat. 11644 ee. 33.
.\c\v- edition. Revised, with a preface by
J. A. Jones. London, 1833, 8vo. B.M. Cat.
11633 e. 12.
Another edition. With a recommendatory
preface by W. Savory, &c. Brighton, 1831
12mo. B.M. Cat. 11644 aa. 56.
The work is mentioned by her in her
own bibliography. See No. 13.
2. A Discourse on Walking with God, and Joseph's
Blessing. Pp. 170. Is. 6d., 1735. Probably
published at the request of Whitefield.*f
3. A Discourse concerning God's Act of Adoption,
to which is added, A Discourse upon the
Inheritance of the Adopted Sons of God.
Among anonymous works, B.M. Cat. 4256
bb. 18 ; heading ' Discourse.' 1735. *t
4. A Discourse concerning Justification, 1741.
Perhaps dated 1741, but certainly published
in October, 1740. f
5. A Discoursejconcerning the New Birth, to which
are added two poems l>\ A. I). B.M. C'at.
4226 aaa. 24. 1740, 12mo.f The pamphlet
has " an epistle recommendatory " by J.
Rogers.
If the " LXIV. Hymns " of ante, p. 338,
is not an error, there must have been a
second edition in 1740. The work was pub-
lished under the title given in October. See
biography, No. 13.
6. Occasional Letters upon Spiritual Subjects.
Many volumes. Various dates. Vol. I.,
October, 1740 ; Vol. II., Feb. 9, 1742/3 ;
Vol. III., 1743 or 1744 ; Vol. IV., 1746 ;
Vol. V., 1747 ; Vol. VI., June 6, 1748 ;
Vol. VII., 1749. Vol. VI. is B.M. Cat.
4402 bbb. 29. It is entitled 'Letters on
spiritual subjects and divers occasions sent
to Relatives and Friends By One who has
tasted that the Lord is Gracious.' J. Hart,
Popping's Court, and J. Lewis, Bartholomew
Close, 1748. 2s. *f
The work is easily to be confused with
No. 38. Vol. III. contains various letters
to Whitefield.
Reprint of some letters, edited by j Jas.
Knight, 1884. See 12 S. ii. 197.
7. Letters to an Honourable Gentleman, for the
Encouragement of Faith under Various
Trials. 3 vols.
Vol. I., c. 1743 ; Vol. II., c. 1749 ; Vol. III.,
later. *f
8. A Sight of Christ necessary for all True
Christians and Gospel Ministers. 1743. t
9. Thoughts on Faith in Christ. 1743.
The existence of this pamphlet is doubtful.
The correct title is probably ' Some Thoughts
about Faith in Christ. Whether it be re-
quired of all men under the Gospel. To prove
that it is.'t This pamphlet was followed by
another. See No. 39.
10. Meditations and Observations upon the
eleventh and twelfth verses of the sixth
Chapter of Solomon's Song. 1743. London,
Angus Library, 21 g. 38(a).f
A later pamphlet on the same theme was
written in 1748. See No. 14.
11. Brief Hints on God's Fatherly Chastisements,
Shewing then? Nature, Necessity and Useful-
ness, and the Saint's Duty to wait upon God
for deliverance when under His Fatherly
Corrections. 1743. f
12. The Hurt that Sin doth to Believers, \-c.
First edition, 1733 ; second edition, 1749. *t
13. A Brief Account of the Gracious Dealings of
God with a poor, sinful Creature, Relating to
the Work of Grace on the Heart in a Saving
Conversion to Christ and to some Establish-
ment in Him. Part I., 1743. *t
A Brief Account . . .sinful Creature. Relating
to a train of Special Providence attending
Life, by which the Work of Faith was carried
on with Power. Part II., 1743. *t
A Brief Account .... sinful Creature.
Part III., 1750. *t
Parts I., II., and III. form B.\l. C.,t.
4902 bb. 33. All are replete with biblio-
graphical details; and Part III., p. 149, con-
tains a list of pamphlets published prior to
1750.
472
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. n. DEC. 9, 1916.
14. Hmte of the Glory of Christ as the Friend and
Bridegroom of the Church : From the Seven
last Verses of the Fifth Chapter of Solomon's
Song, &c. 1748. Pp. 100. 9rf.*f Angus
Library, 21 g. 38 d.
15. Thoughts on the Lord's Supper. 1748.
London. Angus Library, 21 g. 38 c.f
16. Thoughts on Sandeman's Letters on Hervey's
Theron and Aspasio. Pp. 54. 1761.*
17. Letters against Sandemanianism, with a
Letter on Reconciliation. Later than 1755.*
18. Letter to all Men on the General Duty of Love
amongst Christians. 1741. *t
19. A Letter to the Reverend Mr. John Wesley :
In Vindication of the Doctrines of Absolute
Election, Particular Redemption, Special
Vocation and Final Perseverance. Pp. 88.
1742, 8vo. B.M. Cat. 4139 c. 2 (3).
20. Letters to Mr. Wesley, against Perfection.
1743. f
21. A Letter to the Believing Negroes lately con-
verted to Christ in America. 1742. t
22. A Letter to such of the Servants of Christ who
may have any scruple about the lawfulness of
printing anything written by a Woman.
Pp. 12. Id. 1743. *t
23. A Letter to all those that love Christ in
Philadelphia. To excite them to adhere to,
and appear for, the Truths of the Gospel, f
Published prior to August, 1743.
24. A Letter to Christians at the Tabernacle.
This Tabernacle was, no doubt, Whitefield's.
In view of the obscurity that surrounds the
differences prevalent during Whitefield's
voyage to Georgia, a recovery of this tract
is most desirable. .
25. Letters on the Ordinance of Baptism. 1746.
This is probably identical with ' Hints con-
cerning Baptism,' London, 1746. Angus
Library, 21 g. 38 p. ' Brief Hints concerning
Baptism, 1746,' are mentioned in her auto-
biography.
26. A Letter to Mr. William Cudworth. In
Vindication of the Truth from his Mis-
representations. Being A Reply to his
Answer to the Postscript of a Letter lately
Published, &c. April 23, 1747.t
The Postscript referred to is No. 41 in this
list.
27. A Letter on Perseverance against Mr. Wesley.
28. A Discourse on Justification. October, 1740.
29. A Letter on the Application of the Holy
Scriptures. 1754. Printed by J. Hart,
Popping's Court. Sold by J. Lewis of
Paternoster Row.*
Seen by J. C. W. at Messrs. Dickinson's,
89 Farringdon Street, B.C.
30. Five Letters of Advice to Parents and Children,
the Young and Aged, &c.
31. A Letter on the Saviour's Willingness to
Receive and Save all who Come to Him.
32. A Letter on the Dominion of Sin and Grace.
33. Letters on the Divine Eternal Sonship of
Jesus Christ and on the Assurance of Faith.
34. Letters on the Chambers of Security for
God's People, and on the Duty of Prayer.
35. Five Letters to a New-Married Pair. 1759.*
36. Three Letters on the Marks of a Child of God.
37. A Letter against Sabellianism.
88. Letters on Spiritual Subjects, sent to Relations
and Friends. Prepared for the press by the
Author before her death. To which are
prefixed Memoirs of God's Dealings with her
in her last illness. In 8 vols., now publishing.
(Only 2 vols. printed.)* ..J^ .J
39. Letters on the Being and Working of Sin^inja
justified Man. c. 1745.f
40. Letter on the Duty and Privilege of a Believer
to live by Faith ; and to improve his Faith
unto Holiness. June 12, 1745. f
41. A Postscript to a_ Letter on the Duty and
Privilege of a Believer to live by Faith, &c.
July 7, 1746.f
To this pamphlet William Cudworth
replied. Mrs. Dutton was much angered
with the reply, " a very sophistical per-
formance," and retorted with No. 26.
William Cudworth's dialogue, ' Truth de-
fended and cleared from Mistakes, 1746,
B.M. Cat. 1355 c. 11, closes the controversy'
so far as it took the form of pamphleteering,
42. A Caution against Error when it springs up
together with the Truth, in a Letter to a
Friend. 1746-t
43. Some of the Mistakes of the Moravian Brethren.
in a Letter to another Friend. 1746. f
44. Wisdom the first Spring of Action in the
Deity. A discourse in which among other
things the absurdity of God's being acted
upon by natural inclinations of unbounded
liberty is shewn, &c. 1734, 8vo.
This is ascribed to Anne Dutton by an
American bibliographer. The style differs
from anything she has elsewhere written.
B.M. Cat. 4224 cc. 17.
'45. Divine, Moral and Historical Miscellanies, &c.
Edited by A. D. 1761, &c., 8vo. B.M. Cat.
4409 h. 15 (1).
This is The Spiritual Magazine for 1761-3.
Whether it is a continuation of ' The Divine
Miscellany' published by Withers of Fleet
Street hi 1745 is worthy of investigation.
46. Salvation Compleated and Secured in Christ
as the Covenant of the People, Considered in
a Discourse on that Subject.
Conjecturally Anne Dutton's. Cong. Lib.
B. b. 36. London, 1753.
47, A Discourse on the Nature, Office and
Operations of the Spirit of Truth. (No copy
known. Reference in advertisement in the
above No. 46. Published c. 1754.)
J. C. WHITEBBOOK, Lieut.
I have referred to ante, p. 197, and find
no sepulchral memorial there of Mrs.
Dutton. Perhaps LIEUT. J. C. WHITE-
BBOOK intended to refer to p. 216, where I
gave an inscription copied by my friend, the
late vicar of the parish of Great Gransden,
from the memorial erected by Mr. James
Knight about 1887, which replaced an earlier
one erected there by Mr. Christopher
Goulding. I have no reason to doubt its
accuracy or truthfulness. If the MS. variant
is different, one of them must be wrong. The
inscription states that Mrs. Dutton " resided
34 years in this parish." She arrived at
Great Gransden in 1732, and died there in
1765. Her husband was away in America
from 1743 until his death in 1748. LIEUT.
12 S. II. DEC. 9, 1916.
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473
WHITEBROOK says (p. 275) : " I suspect that
she attended the Tabernacle ministrations
at Moorfields"; and again: " The years of
her residence in London under this hypothesis
would have nearly coincided with those of
th'. absence of Mr. Benjamin Button in
America." But her memoir and bio-
grapher say she spent all these years at
Great Gransden. Even visits to London in
those days would be extremely difficult.
It was while in this quiet Huntingdonshire
village she did an immense amount of
literary work. It was amazing to all who
personally knew her that her eyes, which
were naturally weak, should hold out for so
many years at such constant writing !
I was pleased to see the excellent list of
her works given by R. H. at p. 338. I have
a similar list. It may be a useful contribu-
tion to a bibliography. Many of her
writings were published anonymously, and
so there is difficulty sometimes in identifying
them. The title of one, a second edition
of R. H.'s No. 1, I subjoin : —
A | NARRATION | of the | WONDERS of GRACE
In Verse. | Divided into Six Parts .... To which
is added, j A POEM on the Special Work of the
Spirit in the | Hearts of the Elect. | as also, |
Sixty One HYMNS composed on several Subjects, j
with | an ALPHABETICAL TABLE. The Second
Edition. Corrected by the Author, | with ad-
ditions.
London :
Printed for the AUTHOR, and Sold by John Oswald,
at the | Rose and Crown in the Poultry, near
Stocks-market, 1734. | (Price Bound Is. 3d.).
This, it will be seen, was published anony-
mously, but the Preface is signed A. D.
A new edition of the work was issued by
J. A. Jones in 1833, with xxvii. pp. of
Memoir.
Mr. Christopher Goulding, in his Preface
to ' Letters on Spiritual Subjects sent to
Relations and Friends by tne late Mrs.
Anne Dutton,' part i., ed. 1823, says, p. v :
" I have been twice at Great Gransden in
Huntingdonshire, where she lived thirty-four
years," and had " information of Mrs. Tibbet,
who was personally acquainted with Mrs.
Dutton and followed her to her grave."
HEBBEBT E. NOBRIS.
Cirencester.
Of the many works mentioned by R. H.
at the last reference, only ten are accessible
in well-known libraries. The advertisements
of Keith are not exact in their titles.
The library of the Strict Baptist Church at
Princess Street, Southport, does not contain
any of her works, in print or in MS., except
the modern edition by James Knight.
There is also a volume of manuscript copies
of letters to him appreciative of that edition^
The catalogue suggests that there was once
an odd volume of her miscellanies, but
diligent search fails to bring it to light.
W. T. WHITLEY.
3 Stanley Terrace, Preston.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740v
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191r
204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353r
364, 391, 402, 431, 443.)
ADDENDA AND COBBIGENDA.
(Ante, p. 130.)
THBOUGH the courtesy of Mr. J. B. King,
Lincoln, I am now enabled to state that
contemporary lists of the field officers of the
various regiments are to be found in the
pages of The Gentleman's Magazine for
February, 1745, and January, 1747.
1st Horse Guards (ante, pp. 4, 130).
Lord Carpenter succeeded John Blathwayt
as first lieutenant-colonel April 15, 1748
(not 1742).
Jonathan Driver was first lieutenant-
colonel 4th Horse Guards, May 15, 1742,
till reduced, Dec. 25, 1746 ; then on half-pay
till made major llth Dragoons, Dec. 1, 1747,
to June 26, 1754 (and not as stated on,
p. 130).
Capt. Eaton succeeded Lord Wallingfordr
deceased, as second major, June, 1740 (Gent.
Mag.) ; and was first major, May 15, 1742,
to Sept. 1, 1742.
Justin McCarty became guidon and
second major of the regiment, October, 1743 ;.
first major, October, 1746 ; lieutenant-colonel
in the army, April 9, 1748 ; went on half -pay,
1749.
John Elwes was cornet and first major,
June 5, 1754, to September, 1754.
William Ryder became brigadier and
lieutenant, October, 1743.
Peter Shepherd became lieutenant (briga-
dier), April, 1748 (Gent. Mag.).
2nd Horse Guards (ante, pp. 4, 131).
Yes, Philip Roberts did succeed Cot
Wardour as first lieutenant-colonel, April 1,
1743, till 1749 ; and Lord Effingham followed,
him as second lieutenant-colonel, April 11,.
1743, and as first lieutenant-colonel, July 24,
1749, to Dec. 2, 1754 ; and was made brevet
colonel, Aug. 20, 1749 (see p. 192).
Arthur Edwards was first major, Jan. 25,
1741, till he d. June 22, 1743; and Jamea
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was second major, Jan. 25, 1741
probably till Aug. 31, 1744 ; and query, first
major from then to May 1, 1745 ? He was
perhaps father of James Russell Madan
(p. 132).
Mark Anthony Saurin was wounded at
Dettingen, 1743, when a captain in the
King's Horse ; was made Assistant Gentleman
Usher to the King (salary 66?. 13*. 4d.),
1715 ; and in 1727 was the junior of the
four Gentlem n Ushers, Daily Waiters to
George I. He was one of three similar
officials in the Queen Consort's Household
(150?.) in 1734, probably from 1727 till her
Majesty's death, Nov. 20, 1737. He was
one of the four Gentlemen Ushers of the
Privy Chamber (200?.) to George II. from
1750 till the King's death, 1760.
Charles Clarke became cornet and second
major, Aug. 31, 1744 ; guidon and eldest
major, May 1, 1745 ; second lieutenant-
colone1, July 24, 1749; and first lieutenant-
colonel, Dec. 2, 1754, to 1757.
John Brattle became " Chief Exempt,"
September, 1744 (Gent. Mag.).
Francis Desmarette was promoted from
brigadier to exempt, May, 1745.
Joseph Scudder is said in Gent. Mag. to
have been made brigadier and ceased to be
adjutant, September, 1744; but as it again
says in November, 1748, that Adjutant
Scudder then became lieutenant, he may
.have been made sub-brigadier, September,
1744.
3rd Horse Ghiards (ante, pp. 5, 131).
Christopher Kien was still first lieutenant-
colonel 3rd Horse Guards in February, 1745,
apparently till it was reduced, Dec. 25, 1746.
Mr-. Jane Kien, or Keen, who was the
King's Housekeeper (100?.) and also Standing
Wardrobe Keeper (100?.) at Kensington in
1734 till 1762, may have been in some way
related to him.
Francis Otway succeeded John Lloyd as
second major in Lord Albemarle's 3rd Troop
f (Life or) Horse Guards, October, 1740
(Gent. Mag.); and was first major thereof,
1741; and apparently second lieutenant-
colonel, March 9, 1745, till reduced, Dec. 25,
1746 ; then on half-pay till lieutenant-colonel
3rd Dragoon Guards, March 26, 1748, to
1751. The Gent. Mag. on May 20, 1753,
gives the marriage of " Col. Otway to Miss
Haye, but as there were three officers of
this rank and name at the time it is uncertain
which it was.
John Johnson was made second major of
tho regiment, 1741 ; first major, March 9,
1745, till reduced, 1746 ; and was wounded
at Dettingen, 1743.
Capt. Wills was wounded at Dettingen,
and was second major, March 9, 1745, till
reduced, 1746.
Capt. Bradshaigh was not an equerry
(the statement in Millan's List of Officers,
1751, to that effect being incorrect), but he
was in 1748, and until 1760, a Gentleman
Usher to the Royal Princesses. Second son
of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 2nd Bart., M.P., of
Haigh, Lancashire.
William Peter became second major 4th
Horse Guards, February, 1743 ; first major,
Sept. 19, 1743 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof,
May 27, 1745, till it was reduced, Dec. 25,
1746.
Edwrard Jeffreys, promoted from brigadier
to exempt of the regiment (then in Flanders),
February, 1743.
Was there any connexion between William
Hollingworth, who d. January, 1744 (pp. 5,
76), and William and John Hollingsworth of
Battersea (p. 126) ? A Fred. Hollingsworth
was made lieutenant and captain 3rd Foot
Guards, Sept. 2, 1757. A John Holling-
worth was in 1761 a captain in Col. Hugh
Morgan's (new) 90th Light Infantry from
Dec. 10, 1759.
4th Horse Gitards (ante, pp. 5, 132).
John Stevenson, second lieutenant-colonel
4th Horse Guards, February, 1743, till
reduced, December, 1746.
Capt. Hilgrove was wounded at Fontenoy,
1745.
Francis Martin was promoted exempt and
captain, Sept. 19, 1743.
Thomas Goddard was cornet and major,
February, 1743, to Sept. 19, 1743 (see also
p. 312).' W. R.WILLIAMS.
(To be continued.)
Ante, p. 403.
Brigadier - General Thomas Pagett. — He
was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince
of Wales in 1722, and continued as Groom to
him as King in 1727 ; member of Parlia-
ment for Ilchester, 1722; and deputy gov-
ernor of Minorca, where he died at Port
Mahon, April 29, 1741, as I have ascertained
from the British Consular Records there.
He owned Randalls, near Leatherhead. His
wife Mary-, daughter and coheiress of Peter
Whitcomb of Great Braxted, predeceased
tier husband, dying Feb. 15, 1741 ; she was
buried at Leatherhead, Feb. 23 (P. R.).
Their only child Caroline, appointed maid of
honour to Queen Caroline, November, 1732,
married Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bart. The
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elate of this marriage is given in G. M. as
April 20, 1737, but, according to the register
of St. George's, Hanover Square, it had taken
place as early as May 23, 1736.
The eldest son of Sir Nicholas and Lady
Bayly succeeded in right of his mother to
the barony of Paget on the death of Henry,
the second and last Earl of Uxbridge of the
creation of 1714 — and it is noteworthy that
no Peerage appears able to give any reliable
data respecting the marriage or deaths of
Thomas Paget's parents, although it would
seem certain that, before Henry Bayly could
have obtained his summons, January, 1770,
to the House c,f Peers as Baron Paget, such
evidence would have been indispensable.
Jacob's ' Peerage' (1767) vaguely records
the brigadier as son of the Hon. Henry
Paget, who " married a daughter of
Sandford of Sandford in Shropshire," and
settled in Ireland. It is also curious that
Henry Bayly became seized of Beau Desert
and Drayton, in fact of the whole of the
great Paget patrimony in 1769, if, as stated
in ' D.N.B.,' the Earl of Uxbridge, who
died that year, was intestate ; for Mr. Bayly
was only a second cousin once removed,
whilst there were certainly equally near next
of kin in the Irby family . H.
(Ante, p. 403.)
William Pinfold, lieutenant-colonel : —
"Sir Thomas Pinfold, Kt., LL.D., King's Advo-
cate, Chancellor of Peterborough, Commissary of
8t. Paul's, and official of London, purchased the
manor and estate of Walton, A. D. 1690. He m.
Elizabeth, dau. of Ralph Suckley, and d. 1701,
leaving issue two sons :
"1. Charles, LL.D., Provost of Eton.
"2. William, col, in the army, who d. unmarried"
Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' 4th ed., p. 1199
(Pinfold of Walton Hall, Bucks).
(Ante, p. 404.)
German Pole, see Chandos-Pole of Rad-
borne Hall co. Derby. R. J. FYNMOBE.
AUTHOR AND TITLE WANTED : BOYS'
BOOKS, c. 1860 (12 S. ii. 330, 397).— I would
suggest that the book referred to is ' Jack
Manby : Adventures by Sea and Land.' In
this work a shipwrecked crew are taken
prisoners by savages in Africa, and some of
them are tied to ropes and then thrown
over a precipice. I seem to recollect a
woodcut of this, though I cannot remember
the other pictures mentioned at the first
reference.
Did Clark Russell begin to write his sea
stories as early as 1860 ? T. F. D.
A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409). —
This question was raised in The Illustrated
Century Magazine of January, 1909, in an
open letter from a Mr. Edmond S. Meany of
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., but, so far as
I am aware, it elicited no response. The
letter seems of sufficient interest to quote
textually, especially as it cited two additional
lines to those supplied by MB. BATTEBHAM :
" A few years ago I noticed that Professor
Frederick Jackson Turner, of the University of
Wisconsin, prefaced his well-known essay on the
influence of the frontier on history with a beautiful
and apt quotation of poetry. It was credited to
' The Foreloper ' by Rudyard Kipling, and ran as
follows : —
And he shall desire loneliness, and his desire shall
bring
Hard on his heels a thousand wheels, a people, and
a king ;
And he shall come back o'er his own track and by
his scarce cool camp ;
There he shall meet the roaring street, the derrick,
and the stamp,
For he must blaze a nation's ways, with hatchet
and with brand,
Till on his last, worn wilderness an Empire's bul-
warks stand.
"Professor Turner astonished me greatly by
declaring that he not only did not know the rest
of the poem, but that he had been unable to find
the lines in any of the works of Kipling. I wrote
to Mr. Kipling at Bateman's. Burwash, Sussex,
England, and in due time received this reply from
his secretary : ' In answer to your letter of May 6,
Mr. Kipling has asked me to say that the lines to
which you refer are his, but he cannot remember
when or where they were published, or what the
rest of the poem is."
This is very remarkable, and it will
certainly be interesting if any readers of
' N. & Q.' can go one better than the author,
and succeed in running it to ground.
WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
MABAT : HENBY KINGSLEY (12 S. ii. 409),
— Henry Kingsley's mention of Marat having
resided in the Stour Valley probably rests
on no sounder basis than numerous other
legendary incidents during his residence in
this country, such, for example, as his having
been a teacher of French at Warrington
Academy ; a bookseller at Bristol ; .and
finally his condemnation to a long term of
imprisonment for a theft from the Ashmolean
Museum at Oxford. All these fables were
ruthlessly exposed in an able and exhaustive
article by Prof. Morse Stephens, which ap-
peared some years ago in The Pall Mall
Magazine. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.
COL. J. S. WILLIAMSON (12 S. ii. 429).—
It may interest G. F. R. B. to know that Col.
Williamson's second Christian name was
Sutherland. J H. LESLIE.
476
NOTES AND QUERIES. i )•-> «. n. DEC. 9, me.
EDWARD HAYES, DUBLIN, AND HIS SITTERS
(12 S. ii. 350, 413). — To supplement COL.
MAXET'S interesting list of the late Edward
Havre's works, I have a large signed drawing
1>\ Hayes of the late Thomas Francis
Meagher, signed by him in Richmond Prison
"as a member of the Irish Confederation,"
1849. In Meagher's handwriting is an
inscription dedicating the drawing to his
friend, Sir Benjamin Francis Wall. The
exact words are : —
" To Sir Benjamin Francis Wall from nis
and sincere friend Thomas Francis Meagher. Mem-
ber of the Irish Confederation, Oct. 23, 1848."
On the right hand side " Richmond Prison,
Nov. (?) 4, 1849." The drawing is signed
" Edwd. Hayes, 1842."
RICHARD J. KELLY.
45 Wellington Road, Dublin.
I should be much obliged to any of your
correspondents who could give me informa-
tion regarding the grandchildren of Edward
Haj es, the painter. Now many years ago
I knew some members of his family ; I met
a Mrs. Benham-Hayes at Naples, and re-
member her son Michael Angelo, named doubt-
less after his father, and a little girl called
Gemina. Later on I lost sight of them, but
seeing the name of Edward Hayes recalled
their memory and reawakened the interest
I took in them. MARIE GOSSELIN.
Bengeo Hall, Hertford,
GEORGE IV. AND THE PREROGATIVE OF
MERCY (12 S. ii. 401). — SIR HARRY POLAND
has done well to bring forward so many
instances " to show how earnest and sincere
George IV. was to mitigate the draconian
severity of the criminal law." According to
statements in the newspapers, he was anxious
to save the life of Henry Fauntleroy in"
November, 1824, in spite of the fact "that
this incomparable forger, whose frauds ran
into many hundreds of thousands, and
involved a loss of over a quarter of a million
to the Bank of England, was regarded by
public sentiment as a very unfit object for thie
prerogative of mercy.
jtn a most entertaining volume Mr. Shane
Leslie has told us, with reference to
Thackeray's ' Four Georges,' that the author
" could not be received at Court for de-
scribing the nature of their wallowing "
(' The End of a Chapter,' p. 72). In spite of
the charm of the book many critical readers
will agree that the punishment was appro-
priate to the crime of publishing these
unhistorical biographies. For many years
George IV. (when Prince of Wales) was " the
rising hope" of the Whig party, and the
Whig historians never forgave him because,,
when he became Prince Regent, he did not
bring their party into office. Hence the
" dusting of his jacket," which has continued
to the present das. It was ungrateful of
them, at all events, for the lethargy and
lack of statesmanship of George IV. in his
latter days were responsible for the declension
of the power of the Crown from the high
level to which George III. had raised it.
SIR HARRY POLAND gives an illustration of
the King's want of discretion in the case of
Peter Comyn. when George IV. acted on his
own initiative without reference 1o his
Council or his Secretary of State. The
Royal Prerogative of Mercy, however, was
untouched by the Revolution Settlement,
and if the King had refused to authorize the
execution of the convict the minister would
have had no alternative but to submit or to
resign. Although in these days the Sovereign
no longer presides in Council to receive
" the Report " of the Recorder he appears
still to have the right (since it has been
abrogated by no statute) of pardoning a
criminal after conviction.
HORACE BLEACKLEY.
' SOME FRUITS OF SOLITUDE ' : ' MORE
FRUITS OF SOLITUDE ' (12 S. ii. 407). — I am
afraid that MR. C. ELK.IN MATHEWS has not
consulted Joseph Smith's ' Catalogue of
Friends' Books,' 2 vols., 1867, and ' Supple-
ment,' 1893. An edition of ' More Fruits,'
dated 1702, is recorded in vol. ii. p. 309, and
several copies of this are in this Library.
The next edition of ' More Fruits ' was
brought out by the Assigns of J[ane] Sowle
in 1718, and another was printed by Luke
Hinde, not earlier than 1750 when he took
over the business, and erroneously called
" Seventh edition^'
Another reference to Smith's ' Catalogue r
reveals the fact that the " anonymous "
editor of Penn's \ Works ' was Joseph Besse*
For several years before his death William
Penn's condition of mind would preclude his
either writing or publishing books.
NORMAN PENNEY.
Friends' Reference Library,
Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, E.G.
MONASTIC CHOIR-STALLS (12 S. ii. 409). —
In all churches of monks and canons,
cathedral and collegiate churches, &c.,
stalls were placed in the choir — not neces-
sarily in the architectural choir. These
stalls were occupied either by the monks or
by the canons and their deputies, and by
men singers and choristers ; there was also
a limited lay use. In the centre, between
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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the stalls, a considerable space had to be
left free, in order to leave roomfor processions
from the High Altar to the lectern and to
the ecclesiastics in their stalls ; as well as
for processions of the whole ecclesiastical
establishment on Palm Sunday, Corpus
Christi Day, Easter Sunday, and other
festivals, and on every Sunday in the year.
The lectern also was often of great size, and
«, gangway had to be left on either side of it.
In Lincoln Minster — so styled, from time
immemorial, together with York and South-
well, although none of them was a monastic
•church — the space from one chorister's
desk to its vis-a-vis is 1 8 feet ; from the back
of the northern to the back of the southern
stalls is 40 i feet, which is above the average
breadth of an English cathedral or monastic
choir. The breadth of the ehoir conditioned
the whole of the planning of the church ; for
as a rule the nave and transepts were
naturally given the same breadth as the
choir, in order that the central tower should
be square.
See Mr. Francis Bond's ' Stalls and
Tabernacle Work ' (1910).
A. R. BAYLEY.
SHEPPAKD OB SHEPHERD FAMILY OF BLIS-
WOBTH, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE (12 S. ii. 391).
— Your correspondent would do well to con-
sult the first six volumes of Northampton-
shire Notes and Queries, wherein are to be
found numerous and voluminous notes on
the Sheppard family. JOHN T. PAGE.
Long Iruliington, Warwickshire.
For the pedigree of this family consult
George W. Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide,'
1903, which contains a list of references.
E. E. BARKER.
'THE LONDON MAGAZINE' (12 S. ii. 149,
198, 378). — The origin of The London Maga-
zine is given in much detail in an article by
the lat e W. Roberts on ' The Rivals of The
Gentleman's Magazine,' in The Bookworm,
vol. iii. 281-7 (1890). W. B. H.
PRICE : HERALDIC QUERY (12 S. ii. 349).
— All that is known of the baronetcy of Sir
Herbert Price maybe found in ( ! . E. Cokayne's
' Complete Baronetage ' (iii. 18). The dig-
nity does not appear in most authorities
because conferred by Charles II. before
the Restoration. Sir Herbert was son of
Thomas Price of the Priory, Brecknock, by
Anne, sister and heir of John Rudhall of
Rudhall, and grandson of Sir John Price,
Knight, of the Priory-, M.P. for Brecknock-
shire in 1547. He was returned M.P. for
Brecknock Town to both the Short and
Long Parliaments of 1640, until disabled as
a Royalist, May 8, 1643. He was an active
officer in the King's army, and held Hereford
for Charles I. till its surrender to Sir William
Waller, April 25, 1643. He afterwards
fought at Naseby as a colonel, and enter-
tamed the King at his Priory House, Aug. 6,
1645, when he was knighted. His estates
were ordered, before May, 1649, to be se-
questered, and although he petitioned to
compound, the matter was referred to a
sub-committee, and apparently his petition
not allowed, his estates being sold by the
Treason Trustees in sections in 1654. Later
on he joined the King in exile, and from
about 1658 is styled baronet. No patent
of creation exists, but Mr. Cokayne was of
opinion that the honour was conferred about
June of that year. He unsuccessfully con-
tested Brecknock at the election to the
Convention Parliament, 1660, but was
elected as a baronet to the Pensionary Par-
liament of 1661, retaining his seat till his
death. He was buried in Westminster
Abbey, Feb. 3, 1677/8. The baronetcy
failed on his son's death in 1689. In Burke' s
' General Armory ' the arms of " Price of
the Priory and Fonmon, co. Brecknock," are
Sable, a chevron between three spearheads
argent, embrued or. W. D. PINK.
AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 369). — The
poem required is probably Tom Moore's
' How sweet the Answer Echo makes.' A
musical setting will be found in No. 16,
Curwen's ' Choruses for Equal Voices,' by
H. Engels (2rf.). The poem is beautifully
expressed. I quote the first stanza : —
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To Music at night !
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And, far away, o'er lawns and lakes
Goes answering light.
It is probably included in Moore's pub-
lished poems. CURIO Box.
A PRIZE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,
IN 1789 (12 S. ii. 389).— I have in my pos-
session a much older prize-book of Trinity
College, Dublin, than your correspondent's,
an edition of the satires of Juvenal and
Persius. At the foot of the title page,
which is printed alternately in black and
red, we find : —
Dublinii
Ex officina Georgii Grierson
1728
The book, a small one, is handsomely and
strongly bound in red leather, and stamped
on both sides with the arms of the University
seal. It retains a printed testimonium
478
NOTES AND QUERIES. ii2s,ii.D*c.9,i9i6.
.similar to the one set out, but the name of
the recipient has been erased. He took a
second class. At the foot is the signature
" N Grattan, Pro?lr Princ8," and the date,
" Paschse, 1741." J. Fox, B.A., T.C.D.
17 BelRrave Crescent, Bath.
NAMES OF THE MOON (12 S. ii. 429). —
In the Lennox — the district round Loch
Lomond — the full moon is, or used to be,
known as " Macfarlane's lantern," I presume
because it was favourable for raiding. I
have never met with the term the Hunter's
Moon, except in literature ; and the only
instance I can remember is in the first
stanza of the modern glee, ' All Among the
Barley,' which begins : —
Come out, 'tis now September,
The hunter's moon's begun.
HERBERT MAXWELL.
Monreith.
BIBLE AND SALT (12 S. ii. 390).— The
object of taking salt into the kitchen would
be to bring luck. It figures as such in the
" childs almings " of the northern counties
of England. Over thirty years p.go I
remember seeing a woman, upon taking up
the tenancy of a house, go from room to
room with a block of salt under one arm
and a loaf of bread under the other and
sprinkle salt in each corner.
A. E. OUGHTRED.
Castle Eden.
COLOURED BOOK-WRAPPERS (12 S. ii. 390)-
— For a long time collectors and librarians
thought nothing of wrappers, but efforts are
now made by all bibliophiles to preserve the
book as it was issued by the publisher, a
handsome binding being considered as a
casket made to preserve the gem enclosed
in it.
Few keepers of public institutions are
really careful in this respect, the librarians
of the Bodleian making a laudable exception.
At Oxford, since the days of the late E. W. B.
Nicholson, all wrappers, covers and adver-
tisements are carefully preserved and bound
up in each book.
Continental bibliophiles began to pay
proper attention to wrappers and covers
about 1872, when they started collecting
early editions of nineteenth-century authors.
They had the paper covers bound in — not
only the front and back covers, but also the
labels from the narrow back of the book.
There Is a celebrated anecdote about
Baron James E. de Rothschild who thought
such fastidiousness somewhat childish and,
one fine afternoon, showed his admiring
friends an uncut and unopened copy of
Beranger's ' Chansons,' not bound, but
carefully enclosed in a " pull-off " morocco
case. What he then considered as an
amusing freak, is now a time-honoured custom
among bibliophiles; and it is hardly worth
reminding readers what high prices have been,
paid for really fine sets of Dickens's works in
part s, with the earliest issue of each wrapper —
as much as 400Z.-500Z. having been given
for absolutely perfect copies of ' Pickwick.'
In the eighteenth century wrappers, when
used, were of plain, unlettered marbled
paper, although a few instances may be
quoted of books published about 1770 with
printed labels or printed wrappers.
I believe that a few printed labels have
been discovered pasted on the leather
bindings of fifteenth-century books.
A history of wrappers and labels would
prove an interesting chapter of the annals
of book-making. SEYMOUR DE RICCI.
"YORKER": A CRICKET TERM (12 S
ii. 209, 276, 376, 416).— ST. SWITHIN says
" yerk " and " york " may easily be sub-
stituted for each other. In the Isle of
Axholme, which is virtually in Yorkshire,
the two sounds are sometimes confused.
The family name "Torr," for instance, is
pronounced as if written " Turr," and
' cork " becomes " kurk." I once heard a
woman ask a chemist (a newcomer to the
neighbourhood) if he sold " kurks." Evi-
dently not understanding what was meant he
said " No." " Then," asked the woman,
" what do you stop your bottles wi' ? "
" Oh," was the answer, " you mean corks."
" Well," said the woman, " didn't I say .
kurks ? " I do not think, how.-ver, that I
ever heard this mispronunciation reversed :
I doubt whether " yerker " would ever
become " yorker " there. C. C, B.
MAYORAL TRAPPINGS (12 S. ii. 390).—
For the trappings (extra to the usual gown)
of the Mayors of Bristol, Great Yarmouth,
and Oxford, see the ' Introduction,'
p. Ixxxvii., to Jewitt and Hope's ' The
Corporation Plate and Insignia of Office of
the Cities and Towns of England and Wales '
(1895). For Wells, p. Ixxxviii. ; Maiden-
head, p. 24 ; Cardiff, p. 212 ; Bristol, p. 245 ;
Andover, p. 266 ; and in vol. ii., Stamford
p. 88 ; Norwich, p. 195 ; Great Yarmouth,
p. 213 ; Oxford, p. 252 ; Wells, p. 299 ;
Worthing, p. 281 ; Worcester (a belt), p. 438 ;
York, p. 476 ; Hull, p. 535 ; Southampton,
E. 566. The use of most of these appears to
e now discontinued.
S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.
Wallsall.
.28. ii.i)K«.9, urn,.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
479
0n Uoohs,
Cr^nl Victorians : Memories and Personalities.
By T. H. S. Escott. (T. Fisher Unwin, 12s. Qd.
net.)
MB. ESCOTT from an early age has had the advan-
tage of knowing most of those who had influence
during the Victorian era ; and his memory
extends back to the days of that very High Church-
man Phillpotts of Exeter, who predicted that
" Peel's apostasy over Catholic Emancipation
would surely be followed by vengeance from on
high." Among other early memories we find
' The Duke of Wellington at a School Treat,' and
Mr. Escott says that " the feature that impressed
me even more than the historic aquiline nose was
the beautiful, very round, very large blue eyes,
which seemed to take in everything at a glance."
Before the party broke up, a clerical voice gave
out something
the refrain
between a song and a hymn, with
God bless the squire and all his rich relations,
And keep us poor people in our proper stations.
" By all means," grimly murmured the Duke as
a chorus. " if it can be done."
Another boyish reminiscence was his breaking
bounds and rushing off to the hustings at Tiverton
to hear Palmerston chaff his champion heckler,
Rowcliffe, the butcher, who, as some may yet
remember, appeared at all Tiverton elections
in butcher's costume, " with certain articles of
cutlery dangling from his side." Bowcliffe, of
course, has been immortalized by Punch. " Pam "
thoroughly enjoyed the fun ; indeed, some play-
fully accused him of being in conspiracy with
Rowcliffe. Years afterwards Mr. Escott visited
Palmerston' when he was Prime Minister, in
Downing Street, and was struck by the arrange-
ment by which the inkpot was placed on a table
xiiiie three or four yards distant from the writing
desk at which he stood. Every fresh dip of the
pen thus involved a series of pedestrian exercises.
Palmerston told him that he " believed in getting
whatever exercise one can ; and one can do a mile
in one's room as well as in the street."
Mr. Escott records that on a fine afternoon in
the summer of 1875, as he was walking in Rich-
mond Park, he " caught sight of a little old
gentleman seated on a spacious wicker chair
under the veranda of Pembroke Lodge." This
turned out to be Earl Russell. Escott was met by
Sir Henry Calcraft, who offered to take him in
and introduce him, and he found Froude, Lecky,
Hooker of Kew Gardens, and Ca.rlyle already
there. Kiissell said to him, " I recollect your
uncle," and, pointing to a medal, he said : " There
is ;i memorial of a cause in which I had his co-
operation, though in his time nothing came of
il." The medal contained the inscription: —
Have we not one Father ?
Hath not one God created us ?
Before Carlyle left, he led Mr. Escott to a corner
<>f the veranda, and gave him a few words entirely
to bin !..-<• If : " You may hear it said of me that I
am cross-grained and disagreeable. Dinna believe
it. Only let me have my own way exactly in
everything, with all about me precisely what I
your name, let me tell you I met some one bearing
it, maybe your father, on board the steamer by
which some time ago I was voyaging to Scotland,
t was Sunday ; we had a little religious service
on deck. He read from the Church of England
Prayer Book, delivered a short and sensible
discourse, leaving me, like others, with the feeling
that the English Establishment is the best thing
of its kind out."
Tennyson had been introduced to Mr. Escott
by his old friend Henry Sewell Stokes, and while
the Laureate was on a visit to Stokes at Tniro,
he would frequently meet " the great man, then
in a remarkable vigorous middle age, conspicuous
chiefly for his brilliantly jet-black eyes and dense
crop of hair to match." Tennyson's favourite
walk was on the banks of the Fa'l. and he would
often stroll up to Mr. Escott, and they would both
watch the fishermen repairing their boats.
Tennyson on one occasion took out a pocket
edition of the ' Odyssey,' and opened it at the
description of Ulysses constructing his raft, and
turned to the operations then in progress before
him. Then, with the Greek classic in one hand,
and the other pointing to the details of the boat-
tinkering, he mouthed out, in his deep-chested
sing-song, the features of their industry common
to the Cornish tribes and their Homeric prototypes.
Their next meeting was in Sir James Knowles's
suburban garden, where the poet was sitting
with Browning in a little tent on the lawn. He
still retained his picturesque appearance, with all
the added impressiveness of years, and wore his
old slouch felt hat and capacious cloak.
Another memory is of that " clever and kindly
Irishman," W. McCullagh Torrens, "who had long
shared the social life of St. Stephen's with
Palmerston, and had so caught his phrases that
the terse sayings often attributed to Palmerston
himself were really those of Torrens." It was
Torrens, not Palmerston, who said to Patrick
O'Brien, " Eh, Pat, if it weren't for the whisky
we'd have you in the Cabinet." Torrens died
April ?6, 1894, from a hansom cab accident, and
not long previous to this he had been our genial
companion at the annual Readers' Dinner.
Towards the close of his reminiscences Mr.
Escott reminds his readers that next year will
witness the centenary of Blacku-ood. This will be
in April, when, we feel sure, ' N. & Q.' will wish
for it a second centenary. It seems only the other •
day when, on the 4th of February, 1899, we
congratulated Maga on its thousandth number.
Mr. Escott has given us a book full of plea. -ant
reading; his descriptions of his friends are so
vivid that they are truly word-portraits. Facing
the title-page is an excellent likeness of the author.
THE December number of The Fortniiiht/i/
Review contains a dozen weighty articles upon as
man> aspects of war, government, and inter-
national relations. The names of Sir Frederick
Pollock, Mr. R. Crozier Long, Mr. Archibald
Hurd, Mr. Sidney Low, Mr. J. D. Whelpl.
Mr. J. K. Kennedy, and Mr. Laurence Jerroid
are both familiar to readers of this review, and
wont to raise expectations justified by previous
experience of their counsels. With 'them are
those redoubtable anonymities, Auditor T.mtum
and Politicus ; and between them all they have
collected a great store of facts and wisdom, whi< h.
wish.," ml a Mmnii i <>i plca-jmter creature does not however, is not within our scope. Two articles
And now," he said, " that I have heard ' only — and even these not exclusively — deal with
live.
480
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. DM. 9. wie.
subjects of which the interest is permanent and
intrinsic, and not merely relative to the present
situation. The first is a description, by Mr.
W. F. Bailey and Jean V. Bates, of the Rumanian
Danube. We have already enjoyed several of
Mr. Bailey's sketches of scenes and peoples of the
Near East and admired the combination in them
of breadth and " go," with a vivid appreciation of
detail and delicacy of choice in the words and
phrases with which the pictures are touched in.
This Rumanian Danube, save that perhaps it
lingers a little, is as well done and charming as
any. The second of the two articles is Mr.
J. A. R. Marriott's study of ' The Troublesome
Reign of King John,' as given us by Shakespeare.
This is the second member of a series, which is
certainly interesting and suggestive.
SIR PHILIP MAGNUS, in the December Nineteenth
Century, having some suggestions and reflections
-to make about education, has incorporated them
in a study of Emerson's views on that subject.
Emerson's limitations are well known and have
often been pointed out, but, allowing for these and
remembering he is a counsellor for the beginnings
rather than the middles and ends of things, we
certainly think that those who are engaged in the
scheming of reconstruction might do worse than
renew their acquaintance with his sane and
hopeful individualism. This article has some-
•thing to say about thinking, and something to say
about manners : but Sir Philip does not quote the
shrewd saying in which Emerson hits out a
connexion between the two : " We are awkward for
want of thought." Mr. H. M. Paull's paper on
' The Personal Element in Fiction ' seems entirely
to ignore the fact that fiction is primarily " story-
telling." The intrusions of the writer's personality
which he complains of are tantamount to an
admission that reading is after all but a pis aUer ;
the ideal — unattainable — is actual speech. Miss
Constance E. Maud gives a good account of Miss
Agnes Weston's work — which would have been
yet better if there had been no side-glances of
reproach towards the authorities in such matters
who have omitted to decorate Miss Weston, as
they omitted to decorate Florence Nightingale.
Petty Officer H. J. G. Merrin, R.N., gives a most
spirited account of the first German raid on
England — that on Lowestoft on Nov. 2, 1914.
Sir Charles Waldstein contributes a thoughtful and
well-informed paper on ' The Social Gulf between
England and Germany,' in which he comes near to
striking out a good definition — or, perhaps, we
might call it sub-definition— of a gentleman as a
man " not naturally pre-occupied in his attitude
towards his fellow-men." The other articles deal
with current problems ; we can but say that they
are by writers of weight, and deserve, as they will
probably receive, careful attention.
No better number of The Cornhill than this for
December has come into our hands. There is
hardly a weak page in the whole of it. It begins
with the second part of ' Flyleaves ; or, Tales of
a Flying Patrol — a narrative of fighting, a de-
scription of scenes, experiences and risks when
flying, which is even better than the first part.
The account of the last battle, in which the patrol
came down in a burning machine only just in
time, leaves the reader so breathless that it is only
after reflection that he realizes how good it is,
merely as a piece of vivid writing. Next in order
comes a singular and most charming story, on-
titled ' Charalampia,' by Mr. John Meade Falkner
•a story of the Christian East in the sixth cen-
tury, which might be a Byzantine jewel. Sir
Sidney Lee's paper on the Anzacs in London is
not only entertaining, but calculated to set one
musing. " What was he beheaded for ? " askcil
one of them about Charles I. ; and the question
illustrates the Anzac's serene unconsciousness of
history, so curiously combined with his pride of
patriotism. ' The Children of Egypt ' is a de-
lightful study of the Egyptian peasant and minor
official, pointed by quotations from letters and by
the telling of yarns which, if we had not Mr.
Weigall to vouch for them, would, some of them,
seem too good to be true. Mr. Boyd Cable sketches
for us ' The Old Contemptibles ' again — this
time ' In Rest.' A short and spirited hunting
story — 'A Rogae Bison' — is contributed by Mr.
Edwin L. Arnold. Mr. Bennet Copplestone has
done a good and lively piece of work in ' How
the Sydney met the Emdeu ' and it is worth
noting that it includes a chart of the running
made by the two ships during the action, worked
out together by Capt. Glossop and Capt. von
Miiller. Lieut. E. Hilton Young's poem ' Sunset
at Sea ' is stately and moving. Again, a good
paper — a thrilling subject vigorously handled —
is Mr. Lewis R. Freeman's ' The Passing of a
Zeppelin.' Finally, we have a somewhat long
drawn out but very sympathetic and human
character-sketch called ' The White Hart,' from
the pen of S. G. Tallentyre. Certainly a collec-
tion of good things on which the Editor is to be
congratulated.
WE have to announce with very great regret the
death of our valuable contributor, MR. WILLIAM H.
PEET. An obituary notice will appear in our next
issue.
WE learn that our correspondent MB. A. L.
HUMPHREYS is issuing immediately a work
embodying material which he has been collecting
for many years. This is ' A Handbook to County
Bibliography '—a bibliography of bibliographies.
Besides well-known books it includes notes of
items in the Transactions of local Archrcological
Societies, and in county manuscript collections ;
particulars concerning local typography and
journalism, as well as ballads and chapbooks and
the like. ' We note that a volume on Calendars and
Indexes of Wills is promised later on.
The Athenceum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
to Correspstttonts.
ON all communications must be written the nanvj
and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub-
i cation, but as a guarantee of good faith.
REV. H. A. HARRIS, SIR H. A. PITMAN, MR.
J. E. NORCROSS, and MR. C. J. S. STOCKER. —
Forwarded.
CORRIGENDA.— Ante, p. 452, col. 1, 1. 28, for
"chayrem, a hook" read chakko. — P. 453, col. 1.
11. 14, 15, for "Rabbi Hoonah" read Rav ffoonah.
12 8. n. DEC. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
481
LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER !•>,
CONTENTS.— No. 51.
TNOTES :— Danteiana, 481— An English Army List of 1740,
482 — Peele's Authorship of ' Alphonsus, Emperor of
Germany.' 484— Belleforesf,, 486— "Taking it out in drink
—Metal-bridge, Dublin— Notes on the Mussel-Duck—
don't think," 487.
•QUERIKS -—A Naval Relic of Charles I., 487-Jennings
and Finlay Families— " Sheridaniana "—" Carrstipers :
"Correll": " Whelping "- Rev. William Churchill^
Rev. Michael Ferrehee. 488- An Old Regimental Spirit
Decanter-Sarum Missal— The Depository of Royal Wills
—Authors Wantecl-Govane of Stirlingshire, 489— The
Beggar's Opera '-The Speaker's Perquisites-pdours--
Poland in London-Ochiltree Family-G. Snell, Artist,
490.
CHEPLIES : — Ladies' Spurs, 490 — General Boulanger :
Bibliography. 491— Boat-Race Won by Oxford with Seven
Oars 492-Binnestead in Essex, 494-Bath Forum-
Foreign Graves of British Authors— A Lost Poem by
Kipling-Authors Wanted- Officers' "Batmen," 495— The
King of Italy's Descent from Charles I.— Americanisms,
496—" Privileges of Parliament "—Substitutes for Pil-
grimage, 497— " ffoliott " and " ffrench "— Poe, Margaret
Gordon, and 'Old Mortality '—Touch Wood-Inscriptions
in Burial - Ground of the Chapel Royal, Savoy— Sir
Gammer Vaus '—Village Pounds, 498.
•NOTES ON BOOKS :— The Oxford Dictionary.
-OBITUARY :— William Henry Peet.
'Notices to Correspondents.
DANTEIANA.
1. ' INT.,' xxii. 14, 15 : —
Ahi fiera compagnia ! ma nella chiesa
Co' santi, ed in taverna co' ghiottoni.
'Textually these lines are almost negligible :
Witte has " coi santi " and " coi ghiottoni,"
and the Bodleian MS. I. (Bat. 488) " in
chiesa." As a proverb it is smartly quoted
and is simple enough, yet has had its meaning
strangely distended and distorted by, in my
view, unwarrantably juxtaposing it with an
altogether dissimilar English saying. Thus,
the late much regretted Rev. H. F. Tozer
explains it : —
" i.e., adapt yourself to your company ; the
proverb corresponds to the Engl. saying ' When
you're in Home, do as the Romans do.' "
And Dean Plumptre : —
" The proverb of 1. 14, the Italian equivalent
•of like proverbs in well-nigh all languages (' When
at Rome, do as Rome does," <fcc.), reads almost like
an apologia for the absence of all the conventional
•dignity of poetry."
I submit that to parallel the two proverbs
is to distort Dante's meaning. The Italian
implies no more surely than an accidental or
enforced consorting with company which
may be good or ill ; the English denotes an
inculcated participation in the conduct of
either. Where, then, is the alleged corre-
spondence between the two proverbs ? I
marvel greatly that two such eminent
Dante scholars should (by coincidence or
connivance ?) read the meaning of one
proverb into another, one of which is the
exact converse of the other. " Birds of a
feather flock together" is akin — in speech
wholly, in drift partly — to the former, but in
no sense to the latter.
To the poet's own countrymen the proverb
he cites has no ambiguity. Says Scartaz-
zini : —
" Questo proverbio popolarc vuol dire che la
convpagnia corrisponde sempre al luogo in cui
1'uomo si trova, onde nell' inferno non poteva
aspettarsi compagnia migliore."
And Bianchi : —
" Proverbio, che significa, che 1'uomo trova
sempre la compagnia conveniente al luogo dove si
porta : nell' Inferno npn poteva aspettarsi di
trovare che gente di quei costumi."
Also Lombardi : —
" Proverbio a dinotare che secondo il luogo
hassi la compagnia : volendo dire che come nella
chiesa si hanno compagni gli uomini santi ciod
dabbene, e nell' osteria i ghiotti, cosi nell' luferno
i demoni."
No hint here that Dante, by his use of a
popular proverb, would have us imply that
he and Virgil when in hell did as hell does,
still less that " they went to their own
company " (the 1j\0ov irpor rot/s Idlovs of
Acts iv. 23), but that being in hell accident-
ally they found themselves surrounded by a
fiera compagnia of beings — died dimoni —
whom they expected to find there, as one
expects to find saints in a church and
gluttons in an inn. Just this and nothing
more.
As to Dean Plumptre's discovering in the
proverb " an apologia for the absence of all
the conventional dignity of poetry," I
presume he refers, to quote his comment on
1. 36, to " the grotesque element " which
" becomes less and less restrained." I am
not so sure of a lurking apology therein as
I am that there is no violation by the
" grotesque. element " of " the conventional
dignity of poetry." If there be such, then a
similar apology was due to the world of
letters from the illustrious author of ' The
Dream of Gerontius ' — and others.
2. ' Inf.,' xxiii. 4, 6 :—
V61to era in su la favola d'Isopo. . . .
Dov' ei parlo della rana e del topo.
482
NOTES AND QUERIES. ii28.ii.DEtM6.i9i6.
Dante here voices an ignorance common to
his time which attributed this fable to
But modern knowledge is divided as to its
source and facts. The matter is, perhaps, of
minor importance, yet is instructive as an
instance, if not ot the " Quarrels of Authors,"
at least of their differences. Xo two (at
least of those 1 quote in behoof of students
whose time and libraries are limited) are
agreed on either the narrative itself or its
origin. To take Mr. Tozer first : —
" The story of the Frog and the Mouse which is
here referred to is not one of vEsop's Fables, but is
found in some of the various collections of tales
which passed current under that name in the
Middle Ages. It appears in somewhat different*1
fi priii-, but as the point of Dante's comparison is
that a person who was conspiring against another
(Alichino against Ciampolo) brought disaster
upon himself, the following seems to be the nearest
01 the versions which have come down to us to
that which Dante had in his mind. A mouse and
a frog came together to a, river which they had to
cross, and as the mouse could not swim, the frog
proposed to convey her across by tying her to his
leg. During their passage the frog tried to drown
the mouse, but at this moment a kite swooped
down and carried off the frog, setting the mouse at
liberty. This is found in the collection translated
by Marie de France in the twelfth century. See
Toynbee, ' Diet.,' p. 219."
Scartazzini's version is a decided variant
of the tale : —
" La favola non e di Esopo, ma passava per
tale hi quei tempi. Buti e Benv. affirmano che
si leggeva ' in un libello che si legge ai fanciulli che
imparano Grammatica.' Una rana promette ad
un topo di passarlo di la da un fosso, se lo lega al
piede con un filo, e nel fosso lo annega. Scende
un nibbio, afferra il topo ed anche la rana che se
lo ha legato al piede."
Bianchi's narrative is still more diver-
gent : —
" Raccontasi che una rana avendo in animo di
annegare un topo, se lo reci) snl dorso, dicendogli di
volerlo portare di 14 da un fosso ; ma mentre-
andavano per 1'acqua, un nibbio calntosi ratto
sopra di loro li ghermi e se gli mangi6. Dante
dice questa favola di Esopo, forse perch.6 ai.
suoi tempi passava per tale ; ma ell' e d'autore
incerto, e trovasi riportata nella 'Mythol-
.<Esopica.' "
Lombardi tells the tale similarly, but.
boldly follows his master in his mediaeval
simplicity as to its source : " Ei, Isopo, il
quale, tra 1'altre fa vole, racconta che, &c.
Even our own Gary can only remark that
" it is not among those Greek fables which
go under the name of /Esop " ; whilst Tom-
linson says nothing thereon. Most satis-
factory of all is Dean Plumptre's note : —
" The fable is not found in those commonly
ascribed to _32sop, but appears in the life of that
writer by Maximus Planudes, a monk of Con-
stantinople, in the fourteenth century (d. after
1340), and is now commonly included in the
appendix to Phcedrus as Fable VI. It runs
thus : ' A mouse invited a frog to supper in a
rich man's larder. After the feast the frog gave a
return invitation, and as the mouse couldn't
swim, proposed to take him in tow, tied by a
string, to his home in the water. The mouse, as-
he was drowning, foretold that an avenger would
appear before long. An eagle, seeing the body
floating on the water, swooped down and devoured
them both.' The fable had probably found its
way into a Latin reading-book of the thirteenth,
century."
The italics in the quotations are mine to
emphasize the variant details of the fable.
J. B. McGovEBN.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402, 443.)
" THE ROYAL INNISKTTJJNG FUSILIERS," as the regiment is now called, was formed in.
Ireland in 1689. From 1751 to 1881 it was designated " The 27th (or Inniskilling) Regi-
ment of Foot," and from 1881 has been known by its present title : —
Dates of their Dates of their first
present commissions. commissions.
.. 27 Jan. 1737 Ensign, 14 Sept. 1695.
Colonel Blakeney's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
William Blakeney (1)
Francis Leighton (2)
William Stamer
I Lewis Gwin
Solomon Blosset (3)
Robert Forster
John Caulfield..
Thomas Smith
Edward Todd . .
v William Rutherfoord
Richard Kellet
8
July
1737
Captain,
10
June
1716.
1
Dec.
1739
Captain,
5
Mar.
1706-7..
12
July
1718
Ensign,
9
Sept.
1710.
28
Oct.
1726
Ensign,
17
Julv
1722.
3
April
1733
Ensign,
28
July
1708.
9
Jan.
1735-6
Ensign,
1705.
14
Jan.
1737-8
Ensign,
20
May
1711.
12
Jan.
1739-40
Ensign,
2
Aug.
1705.
8
Mar.
1739-40
Ensign,
10
July
1717.
8
Mar.
1739-40
Ensign,
30
Aug.
1710.
Captain Lieutenant
(1) See ' D.N.B.'
(2) Fourth son of Sir Edward Leighton, Bart., M.P. for Hereford. Colonel of the 32nd Foot,
1747-73. Died in 1773, having been promoted to the rank of General in May, 1772.
(3) Died in 1749.
12 s. ii. DEC. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
483'
Lieutenants
Colonel Blakeney's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
f Richard Knight
William Hall ..
John Corneille
William Grinfield (4) . .
William Hendrick
Thomas Griffith
Edward Johnson
I Robert Dalrymple
I Frederick Hamilton . .
{ John Boucher
I Whitwronge Whitlewrong (5)
William Bainbridge . .
Claudius Alexand. Carnac .
•^ William Edmondstoun
I Edward Creed
John Dalrymple
V Edmund Fielding
(4) More probably " Greenfield."
(5) The name was usually spelt " Wittewrong,"
to be incorrect. He was out of the regiment in
which became extinct in 1771.
Ensigns
Dates of their
present commissions.
. 30 Mar. 1709
1 Feb. 1721
. 12 Feb. 1733
5 July 1735
1 Oct. 1736
. 27 Aug. 1737
. 14 Aug. 1738
. 26 Dec. 1739.
. 12 Jan. 1739-40
8 Mar. 1739-40
1 Oct. 1736.
. 28 Oct. 1737.
. 14 Jan. 1737-8.
. 14 Aug. 1738.
. 20 June 1739. »
. 12 Jan. 1739-40.
22 Mar. 1739-40
Dates of their first
commissions.
May 1700.
Lieutenant, \ May 1703.
Ensign, 6 May 1708.
13 Mar. 1718.
17 Nov. 1721.
27 April 1722.
20 Mav 1732.
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign, 30 April 1733.
Ensign, 27 Aug. 1737.
Ensign, 27 Nov. 1733.
but in any case the Christian name (appears
1742. There was a " Wittewrong " baronetcy
The next regiment (p. 39) was raised in 1694 and disbanded in 1698, the officers being
placed upon half-pay. When, in 1702, it was reformed the officers were brought back
to full pay. Later it was known as " The 29th Regiment of Foot," and in 1782 received
the territorial title " Worcestershire," a title which it retains at the present time
— " The Worcestershire Regiment " : —
Ensigns
Colonel Fullar's Regiment of Foot.
Francis Fullar(l)
William Kennedy
Charles Crosbie
f Lord George Forbes (2)
I James Kerr
Daniel Calland
Hugh Scott
Henry Symes
Nicholas Budiani
V Edward Bradshaw
James Dezieres . . .
I William Kerr . .
XVilliam Clenaham
I Archibald Cunningham
j George Chalmers
\ James Douglass
John Lewis Duponcet
Maurice Weyms
Andrew Nesbitt
James Hill
{ Bartholomew Blake . .
( William Skinner
John Svmes
James Lockart
Boyle Tisdale ..
Edmund Bond
Robert Stenart
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Dates of their
present commissions.
.. 14 Nov. 1739
9 Dec. 1717
.. 14 July 1737
. . 25 April 1729
.. 10 Jan. 1729-30
8 May 1730
. . 16 Sept. 1731
5 July 1735
.. 21 Jan. 1737-8
9 July 1739
ditto
.. 27 Dec. 1727
.. 25 Dec. 1728
8 May 1730
. . 25 June 1731
. . 10 May 1732
. . 14 June 1734
.. 25 ditto
.. 21 Jan. 1737-8
7 Feb. 1737-8
9 July 1739
8 May 1730.
. . 22 May 1733.
. . 14 June 1734.
5 July 1735.
. . 20 Sept. 1735.
.. 17 July 1739.
ditto.
ditto.
ditto.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Captain, 19 July 1719.
Captain, 6 Mar. 1707.
Ensign, 1703.
Ensign, 6 Oct. 1726.
Capt. Lieut. 30 Nov. 1715.
Lieutenant, 18 Sept. 1721.
Ensign, 24 Dec. 1720.
Lieutenant, 21 Dec. 1708.
Lieutenant, 1 Jan. 1705-6.-
Ensign, 10 Sept. 1719.
Lieutenant, 9 June 1710.
Ensign, 12 Aug. 1722.
Ensign, 5 June 1711.
Ensign, 6 May 1728.
Lieutenant, 5 Dec. 1709.
Lieutenant, 15 Jan. 1711-2.
Ensign, 9 May 1723.
Ensign, 1 Feb. 1711.
Ensign, 9 April 1724.
Ensign, 1716.
Ensign, 27 Dec. 1727.
I John Corrance
j Francis Throgmorton . .
( Thomas Ma Hone
(1) Died 10 June, 1748, at Cape Breton, whilst on active service.
(2) Elder son of George, 3rd Earl of Granard, whom he succeeded as 4th Earl on Oct. 29, 1765..
He was Colonel of the 29th Foot from 1761 to 1769, in which year he died, then being Lieutenant*
General.
J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
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PEELE'S AUTHORSHIP OF
ALPHOXSUS:
OF CKKMAXY:
(See ante, p. 464.)
PEELE is notably diffuse in his style, often
using two or three almost synonymous verbs
or adjectives in conjunction, and obviously
• employing words or phrases merely for the
purpose of filling up a line. As an illustra-
tion of this we may note the addition of
the superfluous words " in the (this, that)
•cause " at the end of a line : —
"Then may I speak my conscience in the cause.
• Hattlc of Alcazar,' II. ii. 22.
Your wisdoms would be silent in that cause.
' Edward I.,' xxv. 61.
Other examples might be quoted from
' The Arraignment of Paris.' I cannot find
that this trick is characteristic of any cf
Peele's contemporaries. But we have two
vlines of this sort in ' Alphonsus ' : —
Now speak, and speak to purpose in the cause.
Act I. p. 202.
We do admire your wisdoms in this cause.
Act II. p. 213.
Such a small point as this may seem hardly
worthy of notice, but trifling peculiarities of
style are often quite as useful in determining
a question of authorship as striking parallel-
isms of phrase, such as that between the
following line of ' Alphonsus ' : —
And fill'd thy beating veins with stealing joy.
Act III. p. 245.
and ' The Arraignment of Paris,' II. i. 176 : —
To ravish all thy beating veins with joy.
So obvious a resemblance is as con-
sistent with a supposition of plagiarism as
with identity of authorship, and it is
necessary therefore to examine the play
carefully as a whole with a particular eye to
such correspondences of phrase or pecu-
liarities of style as cannot reasonably be
supposed to be due to plagiarism.
A phrase several times repeated in
' Alphonsus ' is " kill my heart " : —
O me, the name of Father kills my heart.
P. 212.
But grief thereof hath almost kill'd my heart.
P. 226.
'The sound whereof did kill his dastard heart.
P. 281.
Once the word " slay " is used : —
My body lives although my heart be slain.
P. 252.
When we find this expression four times in
this one play, we should naturally expect it
to be used elsewhere by Peele, if the play is
his. Nevertheless, we should not be justified
in drawing any inference from the circum-
stance that it nowhere occurred in his
acknowledged plays ; for though we often
find that a dramatist of this period will use
some pet phrase in one after another of his
plays, it is by no means unusual to find that
he will repeat a phrase over and over again
in the course of a single play> and yet never
once use it elsewhere. If ' Edward I.' had
not survived we should not have known that
such an expression as " kill my heart " or
" slay my heart " was ever used by Peele.
But twice in that play we have " slay my
heart " :— «•
How this proud humour slays my heart with grief!
x. mo.
. . . .this wonder needs must wound thy breast,
For it hath well-nigh slain my wretched heart.
xxv. 165-6.
In Act V. of ' Alphonsus ' the Emperor
alludes to the Empress as
That venomous serpent nurst within my breast
To suck the vital blood out of my veins. P. 269
" Vital blood " occurs twice in Peele's
' David and Bethsabe ' : —
And to our swords thy vital blood shall cleave.
ii. 45.
Her beauty, having seiz'd upon my heart,
Sets now such guard about his vital blood.
iii. 14.
It is so unusual that its ccr-virrence in
' Titus Andronicus ' (V. i. 39) has been noted
as a probable indication of Peele's hand in
that play. It is important to notice that the
words used in ' Alphonsus ' are " suck the
vital blood," for it is again in ' David and
Bethsabe ' alone of Peele's acknowledged
works that the expression " to suck one's
blood " is used, and here it occurs three
times : —
To suffer pale and grisly abstinence
To. . . .suck away the blood that cheers his looks.
iii. 6-8.
Thou art the cause these torments suck my blood.
viii. 4.
Now sit thy sorrows sucking of my blood.
xv. 192.
A few other less important correspondences
may be grouped together : —
1. In Act II. of ' Alphonsus ' the Bishop of
Mentz addresses Prince Edward as
Brave Earl, wonder of princely patience.
In ' The Battle of Alcazar ' (II. iv. 93)
Stukeley calls King Sebastian
Courageous King, the wonder of my thoughts.
2. In Act II. of ' Alphonsus ' (Palsgrave's
final speech) we find : —
. . . .the better to dive into the depth
Of this most devilish murderous complot.
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485-
la ' Anglorum Ferise,' 11. 275-6 : —
. . . .nor shall it me become
To dive into the depth of his device.
3. ' Alphonsus,' Act III. p. 245 :—
The king of Bohem. . . .
Hath from my knife's point suck'd his deadly bane.
' Edward I.,' xxv. 112 :—
Tin- wanton baits that made me suck my bane.
4. ' Alphonsus,' Act V. p. 268 : — •
. . . .we will perform our oaths
With just effusion of their guilty bloods.
' Edward I.,' v. 156 :—
T 'avoid the fusion of our guilty blood.
5. ' Alphonsus,' Act V. p. 278 :—
Hath Alexander done this damned deed ?
' Edward I.,' xxv. 130 :—
If once I dream'd upon this damned deed.
These parallels are at least valuable as
showing that the phraseology of the author
of ' Alphonsus ' is just such as we find in
Peele's acknowledged works.
In Act IV. of ' Alphonsus ' there is a line
for which a parallel of a different kind may
be cited. The Emperor here speaks of the
poison which he pretends has been ad-
ministered to him as a " mineral not to be
digested,"
Which burning eats, and eating burns my heart.
P. 257.
A line of similar structure will be found in
' The Battle of Alcazar,' IV. ii. 8 :—
We come to fight, and fighting vow to die.
In Act I. the Empress Isabella, appealing
to the electors to make peace between her
husband and her brother, Prince Richard,
begs them to excuse her tears : —
Bear with my interrupted speeches, lords,
Tears stop my voice. P. 207
In just such a fashion does the Queen-
Mother in ' Edward I.' ask indulgence for
her inability to restrain her emotion at the
return of Edward and his soldiers from their
expedition to the Holy Land : —
Bear with your mother, whose abundant love
Witli tears of joy salutes your sweet return.
i. 50-51.
In Act III., immediately after the murder
of the Palatine, Alphonsus, addressing the
electors, exclaims : —
. . . .suddenly a griping at my heart
Forbids my tongue his wonted course of speech.
P. 248.
We have just noted " Tears stop my voice "
in an earlier part of the play, and later on
(p. 260) we have " Grief stops my voice."
In like manner, in the last scene of
' Edward I.,' Queen Elinor exclaims : —
Shame and remorse doth stop my course of speech-
xxv. 56.
I have so far confined myself to the com-
parison of passages drawn from this play and
from the plays and poems of which Peele's.
authorship is acknowledged. But there are
several other plays in which there are strong
reasons to suspect that he was concerned,
amongst them the three parts of ' Henry VI.,'
' Titus Andronicus,' ' Locrine,' and ' Se-
limus.' In regard to all these the most
probable supposition is that Peele was
associated with one or more collaborators, or-
that his work has been revised by others.
There are, however, two dramatic pieces
never yet published among Peele's works, of
which I am convinced that he was sole
author. These are ' The Troublesome Reign
of King John ' — a chronicle-play in two parts,.,
first printed in 1591, upon which Shakespeare
founded his ' King John ' — and ' The Life
and Death of Jack Straw,' published two
years later. There are clear marks of the
presence of the same hand in both parts of
' The Troublesome Reign,' and the uni-
formity of style points to their being the
work of a single author. It should be men-
tioned that Peele's claim to ' Jack Straw '
has already been strongly supported by Mr.
J. M. Robertson, and more particularly by
the late Mr. H. C. Hart in his introduction to
the " Arden " edition of ' King Henry VI.,'
Part II. I hope on some future occasion to
deal fully with the evidence with regard to
both these plays, but for the present must
content myself with noting certain con-
nexions between them and ' Alphonsus.'
At the close of Act I. of ' Alphonsus,^
Alexander de Toledo, the Emperor's page,,
thus laments the death of his father : —
Dead, ay me dead, ay me my life is dead,
Strangely this night bereft of breath and sense,
And I, poor I, am comforted in nothing,
But that the Emperor laments with me.
Note the " I, poor I," which we meet with-
again in Peele's ' Arraignment of Paris '
(CEnone's lament at the faithlessness of
Paris, Act III. sc. i.) : —
. . . .would these eyes of mine had never seen
His 'ticing curled hair, his front of ivory,
Then had not I, poor I, been unhappy.
and in ' The Troublesome Reign,' Part II. : —
Grief upon grief, yet none so great a grief
To end this life, and thereby rid my grief.
Was ever so infortunate
The right idea of a cursed man,
As I, poor I, a triumph for despight ?
' Six Old Plays,' 1779, vol. ii. p. 304.
It will be observed that the triple repeti-
tion of " grief " in the first line of this
passage is paralleled by the triple repetition,
of " dead in that quoted from ' Alphonsus.*
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Twice the author of ' Alphonsus ' uses the
expression " Imlf dead " : —
Thus will I vrx tln-ir souls with sight of death,
'Loudly exclaiming in their half (load ears.
Act V. p. 269.
[lest]
. . . .after wound received from fainting hand
Thou fall half dead among thipe enemies.
Act V. p. 275.
Its appearance twice in this play at once
struck my attention, as I could not recall
any instance of its use by Peele, and it is
just such an expression as this, apparently
insignificant in itself, that often affords a
valuable clue to a writer's identity. But
although it is not in any signed work of
Peele' s, it crops up again in ' Jack Straw ' : —
If then at instant of the dying hour
Your grace's honourable pardon come
To men half dead, .who lie killed in conceit.
Hazlitt, ' Dodsley,' v. p. 208.
and as Peele is usually credited with a share
in the First Part of 'Henry VT.'it is interest-
ing to note its reappearance here (III. ii.
55) : —
And twit with cowardice a man half dead.
Note again the explanatory " I mean "
in the following passages : —
. . . .conspiring all your deaths,
I mean your deaths, that are not dead already.
' Alphonsus,' Act III. p. 249.
But ah the sweet remembrance of that night,
That night, I mean, of sweetness and of stealth.
Act IV. p. 261.
Mr. H. C. Hart has drawn attention to
this as a " weak unpoetical trick of Peele's."
It will be found three times in ' Jack
Straw ' : —
.... so good a gentleman
As is that knight, Sir John Morton I mean.
Hazlitt, ' Dodsley,' v. p; 389.
I mean against your manor of Greenwich town.
P. 392.
Excepting namely those his foremost men,
I mean the priest and him they call Wat Tyler.
P. 410.
It occurs also in ' King Henry VI.,' Part I.
(V. v. 20) :—
*ho is content to be at your command,
Cdmmand, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents ;
and in ' Titus Andronicus,' II. iii. 269, a
strong case in favour of Peele's part-author-
ship of which has been made out by Mr.
Robertson.
Another mark that points to Peele is
the use of the words " short tale to make "
(equivalent to the popular modern phrase
To make a long story short ') in
Alexander's account of the circumstances
surrounding the death of Alphonsus :—
Short tale to make, I bound him cunningly,
Told him of his deceit, triumphing over him,
And lastly with my rapier slew him dead.
Act V. p. 281.
which will be found again in Peele's ' Tale
of Troy,' 1. 474 :—
Short tale to make, when thus the town of Troy,
&c.
and twice in Part II. of ' The Troublesome
Reign ' : —
Short tale to make, the see apostolick
Hath offered dispensation for the fault.
' Six Old Plays,' vol. ii. p. 292.
Short tale to make, myself amongst the rest
Was fain to fly before the eager foe.
Ibid., p. 303.
Note that the phrase always takes the same
position at the beginning of a line.
Another phrase common to ' The Trouble-
some Reign ' and ' Alphonsus 'is " heir
indubitate." In ' Alphonsus,' Act IV.
p. 263:—
For good thou hast an heir indubitate ;
and in ' The Troublesome Reign,' Part I.
(p. 221):-
If first-born son be heir indubitate.
In Act I. of ' Alphonsus,' p. 209, we find
the line : —
But private cause must yield to public good ;
and again, a few lines before the close of
the play : —
Let private sorrow yield to public fame.
The appearance of two lines so closely akin
disposes us to expect something similar
elsewhere in Peele, and, sure enough, in
' The Tale of Troy ' (1. 219) we find :—
But private cause must common cause obey ;
and in ' Jack Straw ' (p. 392) : —
I hope, my lord, this message so will prove
That public hate will turn to private love.
H. DTJGDAXE SYKES.
Enfield.
(To be continued.)
BELLEFOREST. — Recently I purchased
a set of seven volumes of Belief orest's tales.
On looking through the sixth volume, dated
1583, I Discovered that the book was iden-
tical in subject-matter with the fifth, dated
1572. Obviously the error was a printer's
one. Luckily an odd volume, the genuine
sixth, was already in my possession.
At 12 S. i. 126 I solicited information re-
garding a substituted tale which appeared
in the first English version of the ' iJecame-
rone,' the original tale being omitted. Al-
though MR. LEE, the author of 'Sources of
the Decamerone,' replied to my note (ibid.,
12 s. ii. DEC. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
487
•p. 196), he was unable to enlighten me on
the subject. Fortunately, I can now supply
the information myself. The substituted
tale will be found in the fourth volume of Belle-
forest, numbered 75, the original story being
taken from the Latin of Saxo Grammaticus.
MAURICE JONAS.
" TAKING IT OUT nsr DRINK." — The
*N.E.D.,' s.v. "Take," p. 46/3, cites Hey-
^wood, 1631, " What they want in meate, let
them take out in drinke." Skelton, in his
' Ware the Hauke,' 11. 151, &c., complains
that the Scribes and Pharisees of his day,
taking bribes, would not redress injuries, and
in particular ignored the desecration of his
church at Diss by a sacrilegious parson, " as
3iow nameles" : —
And of the spiritual law
They made but a gewgaw,
And toke it out in drynke,
And this the cause doth shrynke :
The church is thus abused,
Reproched, and pollutyd.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
METAJL-BRIDGE, DUBLIN. — The lease of
this bridge (formerly the Wellington or cast-
iron bridge), a footbridge of a single span of
140 feet with steep gradients, over the Liffey
expired on Sept. 29, and it is believed the
halfpenny toll will now cease. The bridge
^vas built in 1816, and leased by the Cor-
poration to Mr. Wm. Walsh at a yearly rent
of 329Z. 4s. Id. Some years ago it was pro-
posed to build an art gallery on its site
(Dublin Evening Mail, April 2, 1913). The
curious jumble of advertisements on the
«ast side of the bridge formed a subject for
a Punch drawing some years ago. The lease
of the city ferries also expired on Sept. 29.
J. ARDAGH.
NOTE ON THE MUSSEL-DUCK. — Fisher-
men at Overstrand in Norfolk impute habits
to this bird that will be of interest to students
of folk-lore. They say it lays its egg in air,
dives after it, catches it before fall, and
hatches it, after many days, under its whig ;
and this accounts for its ungainly flight.
J. C. W.
" I DON'T THINK." — In the thirty-sixth
chapter of Henry Kingsley's novel, ' Raven-
shoe,' this phrase is used as it would be used
now. Lieut. Hornby, of the 140th Hussars,
when receiving good advice from Charles
Ravenshoe replies, laughing : " You are a
pretty dutiful sort of a groom, I don't think.
What the dickens do you mean cross-ques-
tioning me like that ? "
The earliest edition of ' Ravenshoe ' of
which I know anything is that of 1862, but
I have not a copy at hand, to see whether
it was the first published. M. P.
(fiiwms.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
A NAVAL RELIC OF CHARLES I.
IT is with pardonable pride that we treasure
any relics of our navy in the past, and doubt-
less it would be of interest to the public in
general, and to naval students in particular,
to 'learn what has become of an old naval
gun, dated 1638, which formerly stood at
the north-west corner of the Horse Guards
Parade.
As far as can be ascertained, it was placed
there during the latter part of the seven-
teenth century, when St. James's Park and
its vicinity was a fashionable promenade
for the gallants of the day. It therefore
occupied a prominent position, and must
have been one of the sights of that part of
the metropolis. The Latin inscription that
it bore : " Carolus Edgari sceptrum stabilivit
aquarum " (The sceptre of Edgar was estab-
lished on the waters by Charles), may have
puzzled many, to whom its history was
probably never known and never troubled
about. - Nevertheless, our forefathers re-
garded the relic with veneration, and owing
possibly to the fact that there was no counter
attraction on the Parade, it was always
proudly and emphatically referred to as
" the gun." As such, it was known during
the eighteenth century, when it attracted
the attention of a patriotic Briton, who,
under the pen-name of " Patina Antiqua-
rior," made it the subject of a curious and
laudatory communication to The London
Chronicle in 1764.
"Oh that this cannon [he pleaded] were
crowned with garlands on the anniversary of our
Kins, and placed on the terrace of his Palace,
amidst the shoutings of our sailors and soldiers,
brethren gallant above all other, to announce forth
his praises for ever ! "
In spite of the pious wish of the writer, how-
ever, its glory was soon to be eclipsed. Less
than half a century afterwards " the gun "
was unceremoniously removed, and on the
spot which it formerly occupied, another,
but less historic piece, was placed in 1803.
This was the Turkish gun captured at Alex-
andria in 1801, which may be still seen on
488
NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. u. DM. M, me.
-the Parade, though not in the position it
originally occupied.
A- to the origin of " the gun," there is
every reason to believe that it belonged to
the Sovereign of the Seas, the famous three-
decker launched in 1637. In the Public
Record Office there is still to be seen an
estimate, dated April 16, 1638, of the charge
for engraving 102 pieces of brass ordnance
for the Sovereign of the Seas, with the rose
and crown ; the sceptre and tridens ; and
the anchor and cable. Under the crown
there was a compartment with the inscrip-
tion " Carolus Edgari sceptrum stabilivit
aquarum," identical to that on " the gun,"
the reference being to the ship-money fleets
established by Charles I.
' The Sovereign of the Seas,' a full account
of the vessel, by Thomas Heywood, was pub-
lished in 1637. In 1652 she was cut down a
deck lower, and became one of the best men-
of-war in the world. She was then, as a con-
temporary records, " so formidable to her
enemies, that none of the most daring among
them would willingly lie by her side." She
took part in almost all the naval engage-
ments between England and Holland, and
on account of her elaborately gilded stern,
and her fine fighting qualities, she was nick-
named by the Dutch the " Golden Devil."
In 1696 she was accidentally burned at
Chatham while undergoing repairs.
If the gun of this famous warship is still
in existence, the discovery of its present
whereabouts, and restoration to one of our
naval museums, would meet with universal
approval. Besides being a valuable addi-
tion to the naval relics of the country, it
would help to remind us of the maritime
enterprise of that unfortunate, and much
abused monarch, Charles I.
G. E. MANWARING.
JENNINGS AND FINLAY FAMILIES. —
Charles Jennings (-on of Charles Jennings),
born at Southampton, Long Island, U.S.A.,
Dec. 22, 1774, married Dorothy Meeker,
died in 1831. He had a brother David
and sisters Elizabeth and Sarah. Charles
Jennings was a direct descendant of John
Jennings of Colchester, England, who
sojourned for a time at Leyden, Holland,
and emigrated to America, 1623-43 ; settled
at Plymouth and Southampton, Long
Island ; said to be related to Paul Jennings
of Acton Place, England. Charles Jennings,
born 1774, had a cousin Mary Finlay.
Elizabeth Jennings, born c. 1782, married
Charles Finlay, Aug. 6, 1809, St. Bride's
parish, Dublin, Ireland ; and died in 1825 in
Dublin. I should be glad to have any
further particulars as to the identity and
connexion of the several persons mentioned
above. E. C. FINLAY.
1729 Pine Street, Sail Francisco.
" SHERIDANIANA : or Anecdotes of the
life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan : his table
talk, and bon mots. London, 1826, 8vo,"
published by Colburn of New Burlington,
Street.
In 1825 had been issued ' Memoirs of the
Life of Sheridan,' by Thomas Moore, and
' Sheridaniana ' was started by the author
to be published to supply omissions from,
those ' Memoirs.' ' Sheridaniana ' is, I be-
lieve, very scarce. It is certainly a most
amusing book, and I want to know who is
the author of it ? (See 5 S. ix. 257.) Walter
Sichel in his ' Sheridan,' vol. i., p. 329, refers
to " the partly mythical ' Sheridaniana.' "
HARRY B. POLAND.
Inner Temple.
" CARRSTIPERS " : " CORRELL " : " WBKLP-
ING." — Above words occur in the Household
Account Book of Sarah Fell of SwarthrW>or
Hall, in Furness, 1673-9 :— \
July 2, 1674. by m° pd for 3 : Bakes '& 2 p' of
Carrstipers ... ... ... 000 00 05-
Mar. 7, 1677. by m° pd for bringing mee a
letter & 2:corrells from Tho : Curwen
y' went to London to mend ... 000 00 (4
Apr. 27, 1678. by m° pd eistr Lower y* I owed
her, y' left from 1 : stone of Woole price
of 7s for mending 2 : corrdla i<f her at
London 000 00 02
Dece. 23, 1673. by m° pd for 3 : dayes in lattinge
. & whelpinge petty kill [kiln] . 000 01 02
July 30, 1678. for latting & ivhelping the kill
atPetties 9 dayes ... ... 000 04 0&
What is the meaning of these words ? I
have searched several dialect dictionaries
without result. NORMAN PENNEY.
Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, E.G.
THE REV. WILLIAM CHURCHILL, Viear of:
Orton-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire. — Accord-
ing to the short obituary notice in the Gent,
Mag. for 1804, part ii. p. 692, he died some
time in June, 1804, and was a brother of
Charles Churchill the poet. I should be
glad to obtain further information about his
career. G. F. R. B.
THE REV. MICHAEL FERREBEE domestic
chaplain to John, fifth Earl of Cork. — When
and whom did he marry ? It would appear
from the ' Orrery Papers ' that his wife died
earlj in 1739. Did he hold any livings in
Ireland or elsewhere ? When and where-
did he die ? G. F. R. B.
12 s. ii. DEC. IB, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
489
AN OLD REGIMENTAL SPIRIT DECANTER. —
When I was at Foochow in 1914 I had the
pleasure of meeting Mr. John Fowler, the
Consul for the United States of America at
that port. He there showed me a bottle,
which I photographed. It is about 16 in. in
height, about 7 in. in diameter at the widest
part, and shaped like a wine decanter. It is
divided into four parts inside, with four
necks in one, and four stoppers. The four
portions have engraved on them respec-
tively : " Brandy," " Gin," " Rhum,"
" Wiskey."
Mr. Fowler told me that that bottle is
one of a pair, which have been in the family
for about 135 years. The two bottles were
found at the Black Horse Tavern, South
Woburn, now called Winchester, and in
Colonial days called Charleston, a district of
Boston. Mr. Fowler's family have lived in
Bostor. and Winchester since the days of the
Revolution. These bottles, he says, must
have been left behind by some British regi-
ment after the fight at Bunker's Hill, and
he is quite prepared to give up his bottle to
the regiment which can prove a claim to it.
I sent these facts to The United Service
Journal for August, 1914, but every one
was too busy, and no notice was taken of the
letter. I wonder if any military historian
cm throw a light on the subject. Perhaps
if may be claimed by some unit of the Royal
.Artillery, of which regiment I am a member.
Though there is no crest or other indication
to give a clue, the place where it was found
may help. ROY GARART.
SARTTM MISSAL : MORIN, ROUEN : COPY
SOUGHT. — I have a Sarum Missal issued from
thepressof Martin Morin, Rouen, 1514, small
4to. My book has neither title-page nor
colophon leaf, otherwise it is a perfect and
clean copy. There is an indifferent copy
with a title-page in the British Museum, but
I am wishful to secure a facsimile of the
colophon leaf, and I wondered if any reader
of your journal could tell me where it is
possible to see another copy of this particular
edition ?
I have searched the libraries of the
United Kingdom and can learn nothing ;
also on the Continent. So it resolves itself
into meeting with a copy in a private
collection. AMAXECON.
THE DEPOSITORY OF ROYAL WILLS. —
May I inquire if any of the companionship of
' N. & Q.' know where Royal wills are
deposited ? Every one knows that they are
not placed in the P.P.R. at Somerset House.
Is any record of them kept ? Is there a
private registry for them ? If so, where ?
I wanted to find the will of the Duchess of
York some time ago, but utterly failed,
although The Times reported some details
after her death. I inquired of several firms
of solicitors who are known to act or to have
acted, for members of the Royal family,
but failed to obtain any satisfactory result.
I may add that my inquiry was purely
literary. WILLIAM BULL.
House of Commons.
AUTHORS WANTED. — In his recently pub-
lished volume of reminiscences, ' Forty
Years at the Bar,' Mr. Balfour Browne, in
his account of Sir Edmond Beckett, after-
wards Lord Grimthorpe, compares him to
Achilles, as described by Horace : —
Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer,
a lina which, he says, has been " excellently
translated into Scotch by Allan Ramsay : —
A fiery ettercap, a fractious chiel,
As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel."
Chap, iv, p. 54.
In ' Waverley ' the Baron of Bradwardine
applies the same description to Fergus
Maclvor, adding " which has been thus
rendered (vernacularly) by Straan Robert-
son " (see vol. ii. chap. xxxv.). Which is
right as to the name of the translator — Sir
Walter or the K.C. ? T. F. D.
Where do the following lines occur ? —
There shall be no more snow
No weary noontide heat,
So we lift our trusting eyes
From the hills our Fathers trod :
To the quiet of the skies :
To the Sabbath of our God.
UNIQUA.
[At 10 S. iv. 96 MR. THOMAS BAYNE, replying to
a similar query, said that these lines are from
Mrs. Hemans's 'Evening Song of the Tyrolese
Peasants.']
There is a saying to the effect that " a lie.
travels round the world while Truth is
putting on her boots," and it has been stated
that it appears somewhere or other in
Bacon. I have not come across it in the
course of my reading of his works and
should be glad to know where it can be
found. F. R. CAVE.
GOVANE OF STIRLINGSHIRE. — Could any
reader of ' N. & Q.' let me have particulars
regarding this family of Western Stirling-
shire ? One of them (Catherine) is men-
tioned as the mother of the first Graham
Moir, Laird of Leckie (died 1819). They
were a prominent family in the district from
about 1600 onwards. Is their pedigree to
be found in any book ? C. G. C.
490
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.n. DEC. w, 1910.
4 THE BEGGAR'S OPERA.' — Can any reader
of ' X. & Q.' inform me whence Gay took
the following airs in ' The Beggar's Opera' ? —
Act I., Air 15. Pray, fair one, be kind.
Act I., Air 17. Oin thou wert mine own thing.
Act II., Air 1. Fill ev'ry glass.
Act II., Air 6. When once I lay.
Act III., Air 2. South Sea Ballad.
Act III., Air 8. Now, Roger, I'll tell thee.
Act III., Air 10. Would Fate to me Belinda give.
Act III., Air 17. Happy Groves.
A. E. H. SWAEN.
Amsterdam.
THE SPEAKER'S PERQUISITES. — Has the
Speaker of the House of Commons any
perquisites by virtue of his office, and if so,
what are they, and what was their origin ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
ODOURS. — Can any reader give examples
of odours which, though not disagreeable,
are nevertheless injurious to health ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
POLAND m LONDON. — 1. How did Poland
Street, Oxford Street, acquire that name ?
2. When Stanislaus, the last king of Poland,
came to London" where did he reside ?
C. TYNDALL WULCKO.
OCHILTREE FAMILY. — Can any reader give
me information as to the origin of the name
" Ochiltree " as a surname ? A family of
the name formerly in the north of Ireland
claim to be descended from the Royal Stuarts
of Scotland, through the Lords of Ochiltree.
But, if so, why did they retain the name
Ochiltree, when the lands ceased to be
theirs ? Is there any other origin for the
name ? FODHLA.
G. SNELL, ARTIST. — I shall be very grate-
ful for any information concerning this artist.
In my collection of early water-colours is
an exquisite drawing by him — 'The Town
Hall of Louvain,' signed " G. Snell " (9J by
6 J in. ). All that I have been able to discover
about him is that he exhibited a drawing
of St. Pierre, Caen, at the Royal Academy
in 1844, and that he lived at 1 Belgrav'e
Road, Pimlico. My example of his work
is so admirable that, in the matter of finish
and refinement, he may be regarded as on
a level with such masters of his time as
Mackenzie and Frederick Nash, and would
hold his own even with earlier giants of the
standing of Hearne, Malton, and Rooker.
It seems strange that so delicate and learned
a draughtsman could be forgotten. He
must have produced other works, and in all
probability they were engraved ; but I have
never come across an engraving after him.
F. P. BARNARD.
LADIES' SPURS.
(12 S. ii. 190, 255, 335.)
WHETHER Greek and Roman ladies used
spurs is a question impossible to decide,
though it finds a ready answer in modern
dictionaries, all copying or abridging Saglio's
article ' Calcar ' in ' Diet, des Antiq.' The
ever-recurring documents are but three in
number ; I propose to show that they are all
worthless.
(1) A red- figured amphora of late style
(Bull. Acad. Bruxelles, xi. p. 76=Roulez,
Melanges, v., with a plate). An Amazon
is fighting on foot against two Greek war-
riors ; she wears the Scythian costurie and
trousers. A little over her left ankle, the
drawing shows a kind of horizontal leaf
(that part of the painting reproduced in
Saglio, fig. 1006), which can be anything,
even a spot or a mere accident, but is cer-
tainly not a spur. Roulez, in the desbrip-
iton of that vase, which seems to have dis-
appeared, does not even allude to that derail,
which he would have certainly commented
upon if he had thought it was of sor»e
interest.
(2) The left foot of the Mattel Amazoi
in the Vatican (Clarac, 811,2031) is adorned
with a broad strap which has been con-
sidered, since Visconti, as a spur-holder
(German Sporn-haUer). Visconti (' Mus.
Pio Clem.,' ii. p. 262, pi. 38, of the 8th ed.)
describes it thus : —
" Qne bandelette avec sa boucle, destined a
soutenir un seul 4peron, Ktvrpov, selon la coutume
qu'avaient, peut-etre, anciennement les cavaliers."
Here he refers to Virgil, ' ^En.' xi. 714, where,
however, j 'errata calce in the singular. does
not prove that the rider had only one spur,
as is occasionally the case with Arabs in
Northern Africa and elsewhere (see Ols-
hausen, ' Verh. Berl. Ges. f iir Ethnologie,'
I860, p. 201). Amelung, with whom I had
communicated on that subject, declared in
his catalogue of the Vatican sculptures
(1908, vol. ii. p. 457) that there is not the
slightest trace of a spur on the strap, neither
in the Mattel statue nor in the Amazon of
the Capitol. The latter's foot has been
described as follows : " Round the ankle is
fastened by a buckle a spur, though the
actual point is omitted" (H. Stuart Jones
and others, ' Capitoline Museum,' 1912,
p. 342). In fact, the buckle is there, but
the spur is not. Amelung added, referring
12 s. ii. DEC. IB, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
491
-to my paper Revue Archeol., 1895, i. p. 191:
first, that a single spur, on the left foot,
-could only be justified if the Amazons rode
sideways, which they never do in ancient
•art ; second, that, even if they had done
so, the spur would have been attached to
the right foot, as female riders in ancient
art almost always sit to their right. Now,
Amelung found it impossible to account for
the buckle and strap on the left foot only ;
but similar examples have been collected by
myself (' Bronzes figures,' p. 65), and later
-also by Amelung (Pontif. Accad. Romano,
di Archeologia, 1905, p. 123 foil.)- Both
texts and works of art bring cases of men
and women with one foot bare and the other
more or less covered (see, for instance,
Macrobius, ' Saturnalia,' v. 18, who takes
great trouble to explain it). Some odd
superstition may be involved, as appears from
Virgil's unum exuta pedem (' ^En.' iv. 518)
and Ovid's nuda pedem ('Metam.' vii. 183).
(3) An epigram in the ' Greek Anthology '
(v. 203) by the poet Asclepiades. A female
called Lysidice dedicates to Aphrodite a
spur, " golden sting affixed to a beautiful
foot," which she says she has often used
when riding ; but what she adds about her-
self as being axei/T^ros (ungoaded) is
•enough to show that the epigram should
never have been quoted as evidence upon
the question before us. The learned reader
may be referred to Juvenal, vi. 311.
Female riders, other than Amazons, are
by no means a scarcity in ancient art ; but
not a single one could be quoted wearing a
spur.
In the gallery at Oldenburg, No. 310,
there is a painting by W. Tischbein, Ama-
•zons riding out for the chase or the war.
The leading lady, seated astride, has a spur
fixed by a buckle and strap to her right foot
— a contrivance imitated (with the addition
of the spur) from the Amazon in the Vatican,
but devoid of any foundation in ancient art.
Early paintings and miniatures, as far as
I know, yield no evidence. The two oldest
documents which can be relied upon are
dated 1408 ' and 1468 (Gay, ' Glossaire
Archeologique ' ) : —
" 1408. Un 6peron de fenime dor£, k courroie de
soie vermeille.— 1468. Sept e"perons, 1'un pour le
service de Madame (la duchesse d'Orleans) quand
•elle ya & cheval, et les autres six pour les six
demoiselles d'honneur de ladite dame."
Here we have the single spur for side-saddle
riding. Perhaps some earlier mention could
be discovered in English or Italian docu-
ments of which I am ignorant.
S. REINACH.
Boulogne-sur-Seine.
GENERAL BOULANGER :
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
(12 S. ii. 261.}
THE following forty-eight titles — not in-
cluded in the list given by MR. F. H.
CHEETHAM at the above reference — may
prove useful towards the bibliography he is
compiling : —
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Haute Cour de Justice. Affaire Boulanger,
Dillon, Bochefort. Procedure. Depositions des
temoins. Annexes. B^quisitoire lu par M. le
Procureur-Ge'ne'ral (Quesnay de Beaurepaire) a la
Chambre d'accusation. Note sur la competence.
Paris (no date, but probably 1889), in 4o.
L6on Kirn. Essai sur 1'organisation de 1'in-
struction militaire pr^paratoire preVue par la
loi ovganique d6pos4e le 25 mai, 1886, par M. le
general Boulanger, ministre de la guerre. Paris,
1886, gr. in 80. Piece.
A. Laisant. A mes ]£lecteurs. Pourquoi et
comment je suis boulangiste. Paris, 1887, in 16.
Piece.
Pierre Monfalcone et Andr6 Castelin. La
Premiere Bataille franco-allemande. Le 18 Aout,
18 . . B^ponse a la brochure ' Die erste Schlacht
im Zukunftskriege ' par le Gdn^ral ***. Commen-
taires sur la prochaine guerre. Theories tactiques
du g^n^ral Boulanger. Paris, 1887, in 80.
de Grammont. M. Bouvier et le g^n^ral
Boulanger devant le pays. Publication d'ac-
tualite. Paris, 1887, in 80.
Fernand de Jupilles. Le g£ne>al Boulanger
Histoire populaire complete. Paris, 1887, in 80.
Anonyme. Le dossier du g4n£ral Boulanger.
Paris, 1887, in 18.
Henry Buguet. Au g£ne>al Boulanger. Re-
vues et Bevuistes. Paris, 1887, in 18.
Saint-Ernan. L'Exite, po6sie dediee au general
Boulanger. Paris, Juillet, 1887, in 16. Piece.
Anonyme. Der Skandal Caffarel. Boulanger,
Wilson, und die Corruption in Frankreich. Berlin,
1887, in 80.
Anonyme. Be"publique et Boulangisme. Tou-
louse, 1888, in 80. Piece.
Yves Guyot. Le Boulangisme. Paris, 1888,
in 16. Piece.
Veritas. Bassesse ! ou la v£rit6 sur 1'affaire
Boulanger. Paris, 1888, in 80.
Victor von Bosny. Boulanger der Held des
Tages und seine Politik. Wien, 1888, in 16.
Piece.
Anonyme. La B6novation Francaise. Pro-
gramme avant-garde, pr6ce'd6 d'une lettre au
g4n6ral Boulanger. Paris, 1888, in 80. Piece.
A. L. A. Pourquoi nous aurions le general
Boulanger. Tours, Aout, 1888, in 16. Piece.
Louis Maury. M. Bouhnger devant 1'opinion
publique. Poitiers, 1888, in 80.
John Labusquiere. Le g^n^ral Boulanger.
Paris, 1888, in 12. Piece.
Louis de Jonquieres. Le g6ne"ral Boulanger,
d4put<§ du Nord, chef du Parti National. Paris,
1888, in fol. Piece.
H. C. P. B. Le ge"ndral Boulanger (actes et
paroles). Paris et Limoges, 1888, in 16.
Louis Bernard. Le geW-ral Boulanger devant
1'opinion. Toulouse, 1888, in 80. Piece.
492
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 B. 11. DEC. IB, me.
Robert d'Arcyspe. Le Hoy <-<l, mort. La
"hionarchie moderne. Le roi dtoyen. Le g^n^ral
Boulanger. Paris, 1888, iu 18. Piece.
Constantin von Boste. Der Boulanger-
Srlnvindel und lie Patrioten-Liga. Wiesbaden,
1889, in 80.
A. Bue\ La main da general Boulanger, sa
predestination, avec portrait, figures kabbalis-
tii|ii<'s, et tableau symbolique de 1'horoscope.
Preface de Theodore 'Cahu (Theo Critt). Paris,
1889, in 18.
Albert Miche. Conference sur la Republique
Xationale ---- Bordeaux, 1889, in 80. Piece.
(Dedie au g^n^ral Boulanger.)
Charles Chincholle. Le g£n4ral Boulanger.
Paris, 1889, in 18.
Charles du Hemnie.* Le gtee'ral Boulanger et
le parti re"publicain. Preface de M. le Herisse.
Paris, 1889. Piece.
Haute Cour de Justice. Affaire Boulanger,
Dillon et Rochefort. Compte rendu in extenso.
Audiences des 12 Avril, 8, 9, 10 et 14 Aout, 1889.
Paris, 1889, in fol.
L. de Luce\ Lettre d'un rural aux agriculteurs
norraands. Boulanger, le Catilina franeais. Caen,
1889, in 80. Piece.
Michel Morphy. Histoire complete du g£ne"ral
Boulanger, 1837-1889. Paris, 1889, in 16.
Quesnay de Beaurepaire. Haute Cour de
Justice. Affaire Boulanger, Dillon, Rochefort.
Audiences des 8, 9, 10 et 14 Aout, 1889. Requisi-
toire du Procureur-G^ne'ral Quesnay de Beaure-
paire. Arrgt. Bordeaux, 1889, in 80.
Joseph Reinach. Les petits Catilinaires. Le
Cheval noir. Deuxieme serie. Paris, 1889, in 18.
Lieutenant-Colonel Villot. Le general JBou-
langer et le plebiscite. Poitiers, 1889, in 80.
Piece.
Anonym e. Will General Boulanger be the
French Csesar who is to form the Ten Kingdoms
Confederacy by 1892 (as predicted in Daniel
vii. 24) which will be the eighth wonder of the
world ? London, 1889, in 80.
P. Cordier. Boulangisme et Bonapartisme, ou
la Reaction masquee. Paris, 1889, in 80.
Th^odule Pdcheux. Les elections g4n6rales de
1889. R4publique, boulangisme, empire, royaute.
---- Paris, 1889, in 80.
G. Veran, A. de Guny, H. Marchand, Comte
L. de Blavette. Le Boulangisme devant la
legitimite, r«5ponse a M. le Comte d'Andigne".
Paris, 1889, in 80.
Anonyme. La v£rit6 sur le Boulangisme par
un ancien diplomate. Le boulangisme, son
origine, sa forme, ce qu'il sera, ce qu'il ne peut
etre. Paris, Septembre, 1889, in 80.
Paul Gilbert. Au Dicta teur rate. Montreuil,
1890, 4o. Piece.
Paul fimile Laviron. Causes de la decadence
du Boulangisme. Paris, 1890, in 80. Piece.
Anonyme. La Philosophic du Boulangisme.
par un democrate. Paris, 1890, in 80. Piece.
Anonyme. Comment on devient Boulangiste.
Le dossier de M. Aimelafille, depute boulangiste de
la Gironde, sa demission forcee, les accusations et
to picuves, la condamnation de M. Aimelafille.
Pans et Bordeaux, 1890, in 80.
Boulanger-
Paul Copin-Albancelli. Le Boulangisme du
peuple. Paris, 1891, in 18. Piece.
Jorge Lagarrigue. Lettre a M. Georges
Thiebaud sur 1'avenir du parti boulangiste-
Paris, 1891, in 16. Piece.
Anonyme. Le general Boulanger. Reflexions
et pensees extraites de ses papiers et de sa corre-
spondance intime. Paris, 1891, in 18.
Le Journal de la Belle meuniere. Le general'
Boulanger et son amie, souvenirs vecus (Mai.
1895). Paris (1895), in 18. La preface est
signee " Marie Quinton."
HENRI VIABD.
22 Rue de Belleville, Paris.
BOAT-RACE WON BY OXFORD WITH SEVEN
OARS (12 S. ii. 429). — There is no doubt about
this race having taken place. It was rowed
at the Henley Regatta in 1843. The names-
of the crews are : —
OXFORD.
2. Sir R. Menzies, Bart. University.
3. E. Royds, Brasenose.
4. W. B. Brewster, St. John's.
5. G. D. Bourne, Oriel.
6. J. C. Cox, Trinity.
7. R. Lowndes, Christ Church.
Stroke.— G. E. Hughes, Oriel.
Cox.— A. T. W. Shadwell, Balliol.
The original stroke, Fletcher N. Menzies,
University, fainted as he was preparing to
take his seat ; and a rule having been made-
in the previous year that only those men.
whose names were entered could row, a
proposal to substitute H. E. Chetwynd-
Stapylton of University could not be ac-
cepted. Lowndes was the original bow, and5
Hughes the original 7.
CAMBRIDGE.
1. W. H. Yatman, Caius.
2. A. H. Shadwell, Lady Margaret (St. John's).
3. G. Mann, Caius.
4. J. M. Ridley, Jesus.
5. R. H. Cobbold, Peterhouse.
6. W. M. Jones, Caius.
7. Hon. L. W. Den man, Magdalene.
Stroke.— C. M. Vialls, 3rd Trinity.
Cox.— T. S. Egan, Caius.
It was not strictly a University race, asr
though the Oxford boat represented the*
University Boat Club, the Cambridge boat
was put on by the Cambridge Subscription
Rooms, a London rowing-club confined to
Cambridge men. The University Boat Club-
had, however, withdrawn their entrance that
their crew might be used to strengthen that
of the Cambridge Rooms, who, if they had
won the race for the third time, would
become the possessors of the Challenge Cup.
Full details of the race are to be found in
C. M. Pitman's ' Record of the University
Boat Race,' London, 1909, pp. 43-6 ; and in
W. E. Sherwood's ' Oxford Rowing,' Oxford
and London, 1900, pp. 71-4.
I have myself seen Bourne and Cox of the-
winning crew. A chair, the back of which.
12 S. II. DEC. 16, 1916.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
493
is made of a section of the boat cut from
about the coxswain's seat, is now the
official chair of the President of the Oxford
University Boat Club ; and there are other
souvenirs of the race preserved in Oxford.
JOHN R. MAGRATH.
Queen's College, Oxford.
The race was for the Grand Challenge
Cup at Henley in 1843. The names of the
Oxford crew that actually rowed, and won
by two lengths, were : —
— No bow. st,.
2. Sir R. Menzies, University
3. E. Royds, B. N. C. ...
4. W. B. Brewster, St. John's
5. G. D. Bourne, Oriel ...
6. J. C. Cox, Trinity ...
7. R. Lowndes, Christ Church
Stroke.— G. E. Hughes, Oriel
Cox.— A. T. W. Shad well, Balliol
11
12
13
13
11
11
11
10
Ibs.
3
0
0
12
12
2
11
8
In the original crew Lowndes was bow
and G. E. Hughes 7, F. N. Menzies rowing
stroke. Menzies being unable to row from
illness at the last moment, in the final heat,
and the stewards forbidden, under their
rules, to allow a substitute, the crew of
seven men was rearranged as above. A full
account of the race will be found in Sher-
wood's ' Oxford Rowing,' p. 71. The
Cambridge crew was : — , ,,
1. W. H. Yatman, Cains ...... 10 12
2. A. H. Shadwell, Lady Margaret . 11 0
3. G. Mann, Caius ......... . 12 0
4. J. M. Ridley, Jesus ....... 12 6
5. R. H. Cobbold, Peterhouse .12 5
6. W. M. Jones, Caius ....... 11 12
7. Hon. L. W. Denman ...... . 10 11
Stroke.— C. M. Viales, Third Trinity 11 13
Cox— T. S. Egan, Caius ...... 9 6
Surely Bishop Browne cannot have
suggested such an utter repudiation of
history as B. attributes to him.
S. R. C.
Canterbury.
A full account of the ' Septem contra
Camum,' 1843, will be found in George G. T.
Treherne's ' Record of the University Boat
Race' (1884), pp. 33-7. The "seven-oar"
won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in
1843 by beating the holders, the Cambridge
Subscription Rooms' eight-oar. The Oxford
stroke, F. N. Menzies of University College,
was too ill to row. In 1867 Alderman
Randall of Oxford, who had purchased the
winning boat, presented to the O.U.B.C. a
chair, the back of which is composed of that
part of her which contained the coxswain's
seat. The yoke-lines are still (1884)
religiously preserved in the coxswain's
house.
The following inscription 'is engraved in--
parallel columns upon a silver plate let into-
the chair : —
Left.] Hano quam spectaa
sedem ipsam gubernatoris
in sellam transformatam
Carinse
in qua apud Henlegam Tamesianam
anno MDCCCXLITI
septem Remorum
victoria reportata est ;
quibus honoribus
In Scholis, in Senatu, in Foro, in Ecclesiay.
Artibus, Armis,
Ludis campestribus vel aquaticis,
ubique alumni potiti sunt,
horum care et jucunde memor,
'Gratiarum haud oblitus,
Academise Oxoniensis Remigum Consortio
Civitatis non ignobilis
Oxoniae civis
D.D.
Thomas Randall
MDCCCLXVII.
Right.] Septem.
II. Robertas Menzies, e coll. Univ.
III. Edvardus Royds, e coll. JEn. Nas.
IV. Gulielmus B. Brewster, e coll. D. Jo. Bapt-
V. Georgius D. Bourne, e coll. Oriel.
VI. Joannes Carolus Cox, e coll. Trin.
Vll. Ricardus Lowndes, ex sede Christi, olim I.
VIII. Georgiua Edvardus Hughes, e coll. Oriel",.
olim VII.
vice Fletcher Norton Menzies, e coll. univ. qua-
inter sodales remigii facile princeps. febri furenti-
ipsa hora certaminis.parumper succubuerat.
Arturus Thomas W. Shadwell e coll., Ball-
Gubernator.
Eneas Gulielmus Mackintosh e coll. Univ. Magister
January 29, 1868.
The five survivors of the " seven-oar "
crew were all present at the Commemoration
Dinner of 1867 given by Alderman Randall.
Col. Brewster, after good service as captain:
and adjutant of the Rifle Brigade, became-
the first colonel of the Inns of Court Volun-
teers, and subsequently died of cholera.
George Hughes is the subject of ' Memoir of
a Brother,' by Tom Hughes, the author of"
' Tom Brown's School Days.'
A. R. BAYLEY.
I take the following sentences from the-
account of this race — rather too long for full
quotation — which is given in the Rev. W..
Tuckwell's ' Reminiscences of Oxford ' : —
" It was, I think, in 1842 that a new oar, Fletcher
Menzies, of University, arose, under whose training
the Oxford style was changed and pace improved,
with prospect of beating Cambridge, which had
for several years been victor ; and the '43 race at
Henley between the two picked crews of Oxford
University and the Cambridge Subscription Rooms:
was anxiously expected as a test. In the last week
Men/ies, the stroke, fell ill, and the 'Rooms'
refused to allow a substitute. The contest seemed.
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ITI end, when someone — Royds of Brasenose, it
was said— proposed that the Oxford Seven should
pull against the Cambridge Kight. The audacious
gallantry of the idea took hold ; George Hughes, of
Oriel, brother to Tom Hughes, was moved from
«even to stroke, and his place taken by the bow,
Lowndes, of Christchurch."
Then comes a description of the race and
of the subsequent rejoicings, not very
orderly, of the winners and their friends.
In an appendix, Mr. Tuckwell says that the
Septem Contra Camum were [ut supra].
Mr. Tuckwell, whose book was published in
1900, adds that " one of the seven, John
Cox, of Trinity, who pulled six, is still alive."
The boat itself was long preserved, and from
such of its timbers as remained sound in
1867 a chair was made for the use of the
President of the Boat Club, and was placed
on the University barge. B. B.
The details of the celebrated seven-oar
race are given by Tom Hughes in his
' Memoir of a Brother' (pp. 68-71, 5th ed.,
1873). The event took place in 1843, and
the opposing eight were a crew from a club
styled " The Cambridge Rooms," a London
"body composed of oarsmen who had left,
and of the best oars still at, the University.
George Hughes stroked the seven-oared
(Oxford) boat, and, writing an account of
the race, says : —
" Anyone who cares about it will find the names
of the Rooms' crew at p, 100 of Mr. MacMichael'a
book, and by consulting the index will be able to
form a judgment as to the quality of our opponents.
We had a very great respect for them. I never
attempted to exaggerate the importance of the
' seven-oars' race," and certainly never claimed to
have beaten a Cambridge University crew on that
occasion."
It would seem from the above that if B.
can now trace " Mr. MacMichael's book "
he will obtain the information he is seeking.
H. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX.
[G. F. R. B., COL. FYNMORE, and MR. A. G.
KEALY thanked for replies.]
BINNESTEAD IN ESSEX (12 S. ii. 391). —
The parish referred to is Steeple Bumpstead
in Essex, where the Bendishes settled in
1432, and continued in occupation of Bower
Hall until the death of Sir Henry Bendish
in 1717. Bower Hall is figured in the second
volume of the ' History of Essex,' by a
" Gentleman," wherein an account is given
of the monuments of various members of the
family, with the inscriptions on the monu-
ments, which are still in the church, and also
" some anecdotes re-pecting the Bendish
family," Pedigrees of the Bendish family
-will be found in ' The Visitations of Essex,'
published by the Harleian Society, vol. i.
pp. 316 and '346. The sister referred to was
Sarah, who married John Pike of Baythorn
House in Birdbrook, an adjoining parish.
STEPHEN J. BARNS.
Frating, Woodside Road, Woodford Wells.
See Fuller's ' Worthies ' (ed. 1811), vol. i.
p. 361, ' Essex,' ' Observations ' : " Thomas
Bendysh, Ar. — Bomsted in this Count y^was,
and is, the habitation of his Family."
Bower Hall is in the parish of Steeple
Bumpstead, in the hundred of Hinckford,
Essex, about three miles south of the Suffolk
town of Haverhill.
One would like to think that this place
gave its name to the family of that most
delightful of curates and good fellows, the
Rev. John Bumpstead.
EDWARD BENSLY.
This is no doubt a misprint for " Bume-
stead," or, as it is now usually called,
Steep le-Bumpstead (formerly Bumsted-ad-
Turrim), in which parish the manor of
Bowers Hall lies. See Morant's ' Essex,'
vol. ii. p. 348, and for the Pyke family, ib.,
pp. 345 and 401. Canon Thomas White-
head, rector for many years of the neigh-
bouring parish of Birdbrook, left a small
sum for the poor of Bumsted-ad-Turrim in
1548. If F. comes across any particulars
as to him not already in print, I shall be
much obliged if he will let me know. He
(Canon Whitehead) at one time held land at
Bumsted. BENJAMIN WHITEHEAD.
Temple.
Undoubtedly a printer's error. Bower
Hall, the old seat of the Bendysh family, was
situated close to the village of Steeple
Bumpstead, also known in former times
as Bumpstead-ad-Turrim, and sometimes
written simply Bumpstead. Pike is an
Essex family name, and Pile is probably a
misprint.
E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G.
4 Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.
Binnestead = Bumpsted, known circa 1768
as Bumpsted-Steple, now as Steeple Bump-
stead. It lies three miles south of Haver-
hill. Bowers Hall lies therein, and was,
according to Morant, the county historian,
" undoubtedly so named from some noted
Bower, or arbour thereto belonging. This
Manor is ancient, or at least the house was
so, for it went by that name in the year 1323."
The Hall seems to have become vested in
the Bendish family in 1432, when the next
heir to Robert Cooke, the owner and Rector
of Little Shelford, released all claim in and
12 s. ii. DEC. 16, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
495
to the same to Thomas Bendish ; this family
'' enjoyed it for many generations, making
it their seat and residence. It has or had,
a Park round it, and stands a little way
south from the Church."
ARCHIBALD SPABKE.
This place is certainly Steeple Bumpstead'
near the northern boundary of the county'
with memories of the Bendish family and
t heir seat at Bower Hall.
, EDWARD SMITH.
[A. E. S. thanked for reply.]
BATH FORUM (12 S. ii. 429). — Forum is
derived by a scribal error from the contracted
form of jorinseca, or foreign. The word was
always contracted to /o§ in documents
(§ being intended to represent in type the
peculiar r with a crossed tail which generally
stood for -rum,, but occasionally represented
other r- terminations), and the reader, whose
knowledge of Latin was often superficial,
extended it as forum, on the analogy of such
words as 6ono§ (bonorum). A similar process
has given the word Sarum for Saresberia.
Bath Foreign is the hundred outside the city
jurisdiction. A. E. S.
FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS,
&c. : CHURCHILL AND CAMPBELL (12 S. ii.
172, 254, 292, 395).— It is stated that
Charles Churchill's friends placed a stone
over his grave in the churchyard of St.
Martin's, Dover, containing the line : —
Life to the last enjoyed, here Churchill lies.
It will be recalled that Hogarth made use
of this line as an epitaph for his dog Pompey ,
buried at Chiswick.
Does any memorial to Churchill now exist
at Dover ?
With respect to the Boulogne memorial
to Thomas Campbell, see 9 S. iv. 304.
JOHN T. PAGE.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes died at Bale,
Jan. 26, 1849, and was buried in the ceme-
tery of the hospital there.
SUSANNA CORNER.
Lenton Hall, Nottingham.
Philip Thicknesse was buried at Boulogne,
where he died 1792. See 9 S. ii. 341.
R. J. FYNMORE.
A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409,
475). — In The Century for January, 1909, is
.a full account of the circumstances relating
to the lost poem.
W. Arthur Young's ' A Dictionary of the
Characters and Scenes in the Stories and
Poems of R. Kipling, 1886-1911 ' (Routledge,
n.d., but without doubt 1911), says the verses
were published in The Daily Telegraph of
Jan. 1, 1909. These were quoted, according
to that newspaper, by Prof. F. Jackson
Turner in an essay on ' The Influence of the
Frontier on History,' and they go on to give
the same account of reference to Kipling as
given in The Century.
THOMAS JESSON.
31 Parkside, Cambridge.
AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ii. 348). — 1. The
text of the quotation asked for by Tertium
Q., with other entertaining matter, is to be
found in Lecture I. Book II. of ' The
Pleader's Guide,' which appears as an.
Appendix to my copy of ' The Comic Black-
stone.' JOHN E. NORCROSS.
Brooklyn, U.S.
OFFICERS' " BATMEN " (12 S. ii. 409). —
In J. H. Stocqueler's ' Military Encyclopaedia,'
1853, I find :
" Bat, a pack saddle ; Bat- horse, a baggage horse,
which bears the bat or pack ; Bat-man, a servant
in charge of the bat-horses. At present it usually
means a soldier from the ranks allowed to act as
servant to an officer."
The Rev. H. Percy Smith in his ' Glossary
of Terms and Phrases,' 1883, gives :—
"Bat-man [Fr. bat, pack-saddle, L. bastum.]
Soldier-servant of a non-commissioned officer; also
one who attends an officer's horse, or the bat-
horses provided with pack-saddles for carrying the
tents and light luggage of the troops."
" Bastum " for Clitellce is among the
Greek- Latin, Barbarous, &c., words in the
second volume of Bailey's ' Facciolati's
Lexicon.'
Napoleon Landais in his ' Grand Dic-
tionnaire,' 14th edition, 1862, derives the
French Bat from the Greek pd/crpov, which
he interprets as a staff with which one carries
burdens. The meaning which he gives to
bat is a sort of wooden saddle which is placed
on asses, mules, and horses, for the fitting of
the panniers on it.
I doubt the derivation from pdicrpov,
although I remember the staff, which used to
be carried by pedlars, a hook at one end and
a flattened part to lie on the shoulder.
In Italian and Spanish basto means a
" pack-saddle," and bastone and baston
respectively a " staff " or " stick."
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
" Batman," pronounced " borman," is the
name in our army for an officer's servant
provided from the ranks ; one for valeting
and a second for the stable in cavalry. A
bat animal carries your equipment.
HAROLD MALET, CoL
496
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• THE KIKO OF ITALY'S DESCENT FROM
CHARLES I. (12 S. ii. 267, 358).— Through the
kindness of MR. A. FRANCIS STEUART I have
now been supplied with the missing links in
the pedigree. I accordingly subjoin the com-
pleted table showing the descent, which
mav perhaps interest some readers of
' Nl & Q.' :—
TABLE SHOWING TJIK DESCENT OF THE KING OF ITALY
FROM CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND.
Charles I. of England=pHenrietta Maria, d. of
I Henry IV. of France.
Henrietta, of England-y Philip, Duke of Orleans.
Anna Maria=pVictor Amadeus II., Duke of
| Savoy and King of Sardinia.
Mary Adelaide=f=Louis. Duke of Burgundy,
I Or '
Grandson of Louis XIV.
Louis XV. of France-f Marie Leszczynska.
Marie Louise=f Philip, Duke of Parma.
Ferdinand, Duke of Parma Amelia, d. of Maria Theresa,
.-pAmeua, a. or Diana M.I
| Empress of Austria.
Caroline of Parma=pMaximilian, son of Fredk.
I Christian, King of Saxony.
John, King of Saxony^Amalia, d. of Maximilian I.,
| King of Bavaria.
Elizabeth Ferdinand, Duke of Genoa,
brother of Victor Em-
manuel II., King of Italy.
Margherita=rHumbert I., King of Italy.
Victor Emmanuel III., King of Italy.
T. F. D.
AMERICANISMS (12 S. ii. 287, 334, 414). —
It seems odd that any one acquainted with
English literature should have been first
reconciled to the term " autumn " by a
writer of these latter days. Shakespeare's
" childing autumn " (' Midsummer Night's
Dream,' II. i. 112) is a standard proverbial
phrase, and there are two or three more in
other plays that readily recur to the memory.
Then Milton's " autumnal leaves that strew
the brooks," &c., furnishes an illustrative
reference that must have been used bv
countless writers and speakers. The opening
line of Thomson's ' Autumn ' : —
Crowned with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,
i- only one of many finely pictorial touches
with which the poet enriches his stimulating
theme, and the poem with its due place as an
integral member of ' The Seasons ' has been
before the public for nearly two hundred
years. Were it but for these three great
poets alone, the name associated with the-
third division of the year should have been
long familiar, but, as has been already said^.
it receives due recognition from many others.
As to " the Fall," it is in use in provincial
Scotland at the present day in the charac-
teristically contracted form " the fa' o' the
year." Along with " the back end " it has
held its place from early days to the present
time. Thomas Smibert (1810-54) very
effectively uses " the fa' o' the year " as
refrain in his touching p^em, ' The Widow's
Lament," which consists of eight melodious
stanzas, of which this is the first : —
Afore the Lammas tide
Had dun'd the birkeii tree
In a' our water-side
Nae wife was bless'd like me.
A kind gndeman, and twa
Sweet bairns were 'round me here,
But they're a' ta'en awa
Sin' the fa' o' the year.
THOMAS BAYNE.
When a word or a phrase is found in an
American book or paper at an earlier date
than that of any known English example of
the same sense, this is presumptive evidence
of its being an Americanism. But the-
converse, namely, that an earlier English
use proves the word or phrase not to be an.
Americanism, will not hold. The 'reason is,
that many expressions which are obsolete
in England, or which survive only in village
dialects, are very much alive in the U.S., and,
it may be added, ia Canada also, for the
Canadians within the last thirty years have
learned to " talk American."
By the way, I cannot agree with MR.
DIBDIN (p. 414) that " English of the most
anaemic kind is current " in the metropolis,,
but let that pass.
Sir John Harrington, who died 1613>
wrote thus : —
There [in England]. ,we comyilaine of one reare
rested chicke ;
Heere [in Ireland] viler meat, worse cookt, ne're
makes me sicke. 'Epigrams,' IV". 6 (1618).
Moufet and Bennet, 1655, write of " a rare
Egg " ; and Dryden in 1717 gives us : —
New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare.
No English poet within living memory
would have written, as Lowell did in his
' Indian-Summer Reverie ' : —
Another change subdues them in the Fall,
But saddens not ; they still show merrier tints,
Though sober russet seems to cover all.
As to this word " fall," see 7 S. xi. 228,.
395. The full phrase is " the fall of the-
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
497
"leaf." Ascham uses it, 1543, in ' Toxo-
philus.' Dekker, in ' The Wonderfull Yeare,'
Bk. IV., tells us that Queen Elizabeth
" came in the fall of the leafe, and went
^away in the Spring " (1603). Robert
Armin, 1609, ' Two Maids,' Sig. D., has :
' 'Tis the time of yeare, the fall of leafe,
Sir." So Webster in ' The Devil's Law-
•Case,' 1623 : " With me, 'tis Fall o' th'
Leafe."
Perhaps I may add that I expect shortly
to be in the United States, and hope to confer
-with possible benefactors who may enable
TOO to produce a third volume of ' An
American Glossary.' If sufficiently en-
-couraged, I am ready to recast the entire
•work. I am hopeful, though not sanguine.
RICHARD H. THORNTON.
MR. PAGE says that " cricket " is in
common use in Northamptonshire for a low,
four-legged stool. The variant, a " crackie,"
•or " crackie-stool," is in common use in the
Lowlands qf Scotland.
I have always understood the stool to be
so called because it was a low, cosy seat used
"by housewives when having a friendly and
^confidential " crack,'' or tete-a-tete con-
versation. The name or derivation seems
ieasibte. ANDREW HOPE.
Exeter.
"PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT" (12 S.
ii. 411). — As for the privileges of members
•generally MR. PRICE should consult Stephen's
' Blackstone,' vol. ii. pp. 340-45 of the
1880 edition ; and Sir William Ansqn on
' Law and Custom of the Constitution,'
vol. i. pp. 47 and 184. The privilege of
franking letters was claimed by the House
of Commons in 1660 in a bill for erecting
and establishing a post office. The clause
embodying this claim was struck out by the
Peers, but with the proviso in the Act as
passed for the free carriage of all letfers to
;and from the King and the great officers of
State and the single inland letters of the
members of that present Parliament during
that session only. The practice seems to
have been tolerated until 1764, when it was
legalized, each Peer and Member of Parlia-
ment being allowed to send free ten letters
a day, not exceeding an ounce in weight, to
«ny part of the United Kingdom, and tc
receive fifteen. The Act did not restrict the
privilege to letters either written by or to a
member, and it was easily abused, members
receiving and sending letters for friends,
<ince all that was necessary was the signature
of the peer or member in the corner of the
•envelope. In 1837 the scandal had become
so great that stricter regulations were en-
forced; On Jan. 10, 1840, parliamentary
franking was abolished on the introduction
1 of the uniform penny rate. See ' Encyclo-
j paedia Britannica,' llth ed., under 'Frank-
ing.' A. GWYTHER.
In 1429 the Commons were allowed to
have freedom from arrest, though this right
was not established by statute, and in 1433
they obtained definite recognition of the
right to immunity from molestation for
" members of either House coming to Parlia-
ment or Council by the King's command."
Freedom from arrest and liberty of speech
were asserted with varying success in the
sixteenth and the early part of the seven-
teenth centuries.
Sir William Widdrington, 1st Baron
Widdrington (1610-51) was sent to the
Tower by the House of Commons for bringing
in candles on June 8, 1641, without authority,
but was released on the 14th.
A. R. BAYLEY.
An interesting chapter on this subject
will be found in Macdonagh's ' Parliament :
its Romance, its Comedv, its Pathos'
(pp. 406, London, P. S. King, 1902, 8vo).
On pp. 145-58 the author dates privileges
back to Henry VIII. The legal aspect of
such privileges is considered by Sir T. E.
May in ' A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges,
&c., of Parliament,' p. 44, et seq. ; and the
same subject is discussed by Dr. Rudolf
Gneist in ' Student's History of the English
Parliament,' 1887, at p. 240 et seq.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
SUBSTITUTES FOR PILGRIMAGE (12 S. ii.
389). — Several illustrations of mediaeval
labyrinths still existing in French churches
are to be found in Enlart's ' Manuel d'arche-
ologie fran?aise,' vol. i. chap. vii. (Acces-
soires de 1' architecture religieuse). In con-
nexion with them he remarks : —
" Parmi les ornementsaignificatifsdes pavements
d'e'glises, le labyrinths nierite une mention
sneciale. On appelle ainsi un motif de rosace
circulaire era de polygone rempli d'une seule ligne
contournee d'une facon savante et symetrique.
Avec quelque habileU et surtout beaucoup de
patience, on peut suivre nette ligne de la cir-
conference au centre, et telle est sa longueur qu'il
fallait parfois une heure pour en suivre a genoux
tous les detours. Le jeu de patience qui consistait
a le parcourir etait un exercice de piet£ procurant
des indulgences :\ defaut de pelerinages lointains.
Certains labyrintlies sont tres petite, et il en est
m£me qui sont appliques sur un paroi verticale,
comme k la cathedrale de Poitiers. C'est du doigt
quo ceux-lk e"taient destines <\ etre parcourus."
Langstone, Erdington. BENJ'
498
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. II.IDEC. ie, wie.
The principle that two local pilgrimages
rn- • •c|uivalent to one to a more distant
shrine was well recognized in mediaeval
days. For example, two pilgrimages to St.
David's, in \Va!es, equalled in merit one
made to Rome. This popular belief was ex-
pn-ssed in the saying " Roma semel quan-
tum, dat bis Menevia tantum." Cf. Heath,
' Pilgrim Life in the Middle Ages,' pp. 39,
268. JAMIESON B. HURRY, M.D.
Westfield, Reading.
From ' The Franciscan Manual,' 9th edi-
tion (Dublin, James Duffy & Co., Ltd., n.d.),
at pp. 424-7, it appears that the first
Stations of the Cross were erected in Europe
by the Franciscan Fathers of the Observance
in the fourteenth century, when visits
to the Holy Places became practically im-
possible : —
•• The first Indulgences, for this devotion, were
granted by Innocent XL, 6 Nov., 1686 : these were
renewed by Innocent XII., 24 Dec., 1692, but only
for members of the three [Franciscan] Orders,
and of the Cord of S. Francis. Benedict XIII.,
13 March, 1726, extended this privilege to all the
faithful who performed the Way of the Cross in
the churches of the Friars Minor. Clement XII.,
3 April, 1731, authorized the erection of the Stations
in churches and oratories not belonging to the
Franciscan Order, provided it were done by the
Friars Minor, subject to the General of the
Observance, to the exclusion of all others This
was confirmed by Benedict XIV., 10 May, 1742."
"Now the faculty for erecting the Stations is
ordinarily granted to Bishops for their Dioceses, and
frequently to other Religious, or to secular priests
where the Franciscans have no house."
" Those who perform the Way of the Cross can
uain all the Indulgences accorded to a personal
visit to the Holy Places at Jerusalem."
Further information concerning this de-
votion can be obtained from the pages cited
above, and from ' The Catholic Encyclo-
paedia.' JOHN B. WAESTE WRIGHT.
In Mr. A. B. Cook's ' Zeus,' vol. i. pp. 472-
490, there is a full discussion of the origin
and meaning of ecclesiastical and other
mazes. He refers to their use for penitential
purposes, and gives a number of references
to other books and articles upon the subject.
M. H. DODDS.
"FFOLIOTT" AND " FFBENCH " (12 S.
ii. 429). — The ft is, as the editor points out,
only the original form of the capital /. My
fore-elders in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, who did not affect gentility,
always used it in signing their name.*. But
it is not " only in the case of names." In a
fifteenth-century MS. now before me it is
sometimes used in ordinary words, as
ffrumentum, ffrater, ffessum, though more
frequently in proper names. Like other
capitals, it seems to be used on no definite
principle. Thus in the same MS. the small
a and the capital E are scarcely ever used
as initial letters, and we have Averia, Agni,
&c., and ebor (York), Joh. esby, &c., con-
stantly. So we have S'ci and S'ce, or s'ci
and s^ce, •within a line or two of one another,
so again ffrumentum and frumentum, &c.
J. T. F.
POE, MARGARET GORDON, " BETSY "
BONAPARTE, AND " OLD MORTALITY " (12 S.
ii. 367). — I am afraid your correspondent
will have some difficulty in connecting the
Bonaparte Patersons with the " Old Mor-
tality " Patersons. Is he acquainted with
the lengthy ^'correspondence on the subject ?
See 4 S. vi. 70, 187, 207, 243, 290, 354 ; vii.
60, 264 ; 5 S. ii. 97 : also Andrew Lang's
Introduction to " Old Mortality " in the
Border Edition of the Waverley Novels.
W. E. WILSON.
TOUCH WOOD (12 S. ii. 330, 418).— Com-
pare ' Wisdom of Solomon,' xiv. 7 : " For
blessed is the wood whereby righteousness
cometh." The Vulgate version is : " Benedic-
tum est enim lignum per quod fit justitia."
Here the allusion is obviously to Noah and
the Ark. K-. S.
INSCRIPTIONS IN THE BURIAL-GROUND OF
THE CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY (12 S. ii. 425). —
Within the Chapel itself, not far from the
altar, under an oblong slab, rest the remains
of the Scotch poet, Gawin Douglas (1474-
1522), who was living in the parish of
St. Clement's at the time of his death.
N. W. HILL.
' SIR GAMMER VAUS' (12 S. ii. 410). — Under
the name of Sir Gammer Vans, W. S. will
find this in Halliwell's ' Nursery Rhymes,'
and told by Joseph Jacobs in his inimitable
manner in ' More English Fa>'ry Tales,' with
a note giving references to analogues.
YGREC.
VILLAGE POUNDS (12 S. i. 29, 79, 117, 193,
275, 416, 474 ; ii. 14, 77, 197, 319, 457).— At
West Derby, the village stocks have been set
in the site of the ancient pound, with this
inscription : —
To Commemorate the Long and Happy Reign of
Queen Victoria and the Coronation ot King Ed-
•ward VII.
this site of the ancient pound of the Dukes of
Lancaster and others Lords of the Manor of West
Derby
was enclosed and planted and the village Stocks
set herein Easter 1904.
J. ARDAGH..
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on Itoohs,
A New English Dictionary on Historical Prin-
ciples.—(Vol. X., TI— Z) F— Verificative. By
W. A. Craigie. (Oxford, Clarendon Press,
5s. net.)
THE main historical interest of this new section
of the ' N.E.D.' is romantic. The letter V itself
carries a suggestion of romance. Its description
and changes contain more of a story than other
letters boast ; it eludes exact definition, and its
very symbol is uncertain. It represents not so
much a true, independent sound as an utterance
in which three sounds meet, now one and now
another of the three predominating. In the
English of the present day it is sufficiently stable,
and as an initial letter belongs to words of other
than Teutonic, principally of Latin, origin. Of
these Latin words a great proportion have come
to us not through direct borrowing from the classics,
but by way of mediaeval Latin and, still more
largely, of mediaeval French. Many of them have
grown obsolete ; and the obsolete words and uses
in this section are both unusually numerous and
unusually picturesque. In order to avoid tedious
repetition we may also say that this section strikes
us as particularly good in the wealth, appositeness,
and intrinsic interest of the illustrative quotations.
One of the first words noted is " vac " — the
familiar University abbreviation for " vacation,"
allowed the dignity of separate existence. It
goes back to 1709. " Vacancy " is used by
Johnson in The Rambler, of the mind, in a
curiously good sense : " Nor was he able to
disengage his attention, or mingle with vacancy
and ease in any amusement." The deplorable
use of " vacate " in the sense of " spend a
vacation " is recorded from Chicago. " Vaccina-
tion " is one of the principal words of historical
interest : a statement of the date of the intro-
duction of vaccination might have been given,
either in a quotation or in the definition.
" Vacillant," found in 1521 and 1662, drops for
two centuries and reappears in Blackwood's
Magazine, 1901 ; " vacillation " goes back as far
as c. 1400. Under " vacuity " we have an
amusing dictum of Cobbett's : " A great fondness
for music is a mark of .... great vacuity of
mind." That " nature abhors a vacuum "
(" Naturall reason abhorreth vacuum ") seems
first to appear in English in Cranmer's ' Lord's
Supper ' (1550). " Vagabond," with its cognate
words, makes a good series of articles ; and
" vagary," a favourite word of the late sixteenth
and the seventeenth centuries, contains a good
deal of entertaining matter. " Vague " we think
somewhat over-divided. We observe that its
first use in connexion with the EgyptiaVi reckoning
of time was found in Ussher, a. 1656. One or
two modern writers seem to be trying it as a
verb — not, perhaps, very happily. " Vail " as
substantive, and yet more as verb, makes one of
the best articles, and in its second use — the sense
" to lower " — it may serve as a good example of
the interesting obsolete words of which we have
spoken. The well-known phrase " To take the
name of God in vain " comes from a literal
rendering of the Vulgate in Exod. xx. 7 : assumere
... .in vanum, and the first instance is from the
' Cursor Mundi.' The account of " vair,"
heraldic, is well selected ; from the point of view
of tin- fur, while Cotgrave's definition of it as " of
Ermines powdered thicke with blue haires " is
dismissed, the variety of the squirrel from which
it is now thought to be derived is not identified,
nor is the authority for its being grey illustrated —
we think rather a regrettable omission. " Valance,"
which appears first in the fifteenth century,,
remains of obscure origin, the Dictionary inclining
towards a connexion with O.F. avaler, to descend,
which is taken as the source of "vail," v. 2.
Among American words of the dignified order
we have "valedictorian," recorded by Webster
in 1847, and applied to the student in an American
college who is appointed to deliver the valedictory
oration on Commencement Day. It may not be
commonly known that on Feb. 14 two saints —
both Italian — of the name of Valentine are •
commemorated. The custom of a " Valentine "
for the year seems, according to the quotations
under this word, to go no further back than the
mid-fifteenth century. The application of the
word to God or to one of the saints is curious, and
is found early (c. 1450, ' Godstow Register,' " O
true valeyntyne is oure lord to me "). Curious,
too, is its use, not merely for a folded paper in-
scribed with the name of the person to be drawn
as a valentine, but in a Scots Act of Parliament :
" To draw lottis and valentines 3eirlie at ilk
parliament for thair places." Was Gray indeed
the first to introduce Valhalla and the Valkyrie
into English literature ?
The numerous words derived ultimately or
directly from the Latin valere — especially
" valiant " and its cognates — have furnished
occasion for many instructive columns which bear
witness to the variety of works consulted by
the compilers. We are rather sorry they did
not allow The Pall Mall's attempt at using
" valid " as a substantive opposed to " invalid "
to perish in well-merited oblivion ( ' ' Kuristen and
valids "). " Vallar," a finely suggestive military
word, though not marked as obsolete, seems not
to have been taken up by poets in search of fresh
verbal aids to metaphor. The article on " value "
affords a most instructive example of the popular
development of the sense of a common abstract
word. We should hardly have marked as
obsolete the use illustrated in the quotation :
' ' Men of learning have always had a proper value
for the Greek language." " Theory of values "
is a phrase which should have received notice.
" Vampire " occurs first in an early eighteenth-
century travel-book ; in 1741, however, and, by
Goldsmith, in 1760, we find it used in a manner-
which indicates that it was by then well estab-
lished. Surely one of the quotations showing
the modern use of the word should have been
drawn from ' Dracula.' The first use of " vanish "
illustrated is with " away " of rapid and mysterious
disappearance ; but, alas ! ' The Hunting of the
Snark' is not quoted. "Vanishing point" in
perspective is quoted first from 1797. "Vanity
Fair," after its invention by Bunyan, seems not
to be found again till the beginning of the
nineteenth century — J. Scott in 1816 being the
first author to revive it. The words aphetic from
" avant " form a very striking group ; and so do
those derived from vapor and from rarixtt.
" Variation " in its biological sense is somewhat
inadequately illustrated.
" Vassal " and its cognate words — as need
hardly be said — make one of the most important-
historical groups, and the quotations for such.
500
NOTES AND QUERIES. ii2s.iLDisc.ie.i9i6.
forms as " vassalize " and " vassalate " bear
•renewed witness to the industry of the compilers.
We confess ourselves surprised to find that
*' vast " goes hack no further than to the last
quarter 'of the sixteenth century. " Vat,"
orii:iii;illy a Southern variant of "fat," sb., is
Illustrated first from Mother Juliana — a passage
about St. John in the boiling oil. "Vatican^'
and " Vaudeville." " vault," " vavasour,
" Vauxhall " — we can but suggest by naming
these the attractiveness of the articles concerned.
A word of great interest in which the Dictionary
has scotched an old mistake is " veer " in the
nautical sense of running out a sheet. This is
not to be referred, as often heretofore, to the
French virer, the origin of the second sense of
the verb — " to turn, to change a course " — but to
the M.Du. vieren, which is found in O.H.G. as
fteren. " Vein " is a good piece of work ; the same
may be said of '" vellum," " velocipede," and
"" velvet." Under " venal " is a curious ex-
pression from Prescott's ' Ferdinand and Isa-
bella ' : " the venal sale of office." Under
•" venerable," 4b, we are given examples of the
use of that word for " antique " or " ancient "
without notice that this is slightly, when not
-entirely, ironic. " Veneration " as an ecclesiasti-
cal word has a quasi-technical sense which should
have been noted. The definition of " ventricle,"
though better than the curious ineptitude to be
found in Skeat's ' Etymological Dictionary ' —
4< a part of the heart " — leaves something to be
desired.
We have marked a large number of articles and
quotations which we have not space to mention,
but any reader who will run through some of the
familiar words which fall alphabetically within
the limits of this section may obtain some notion
of the wealth here offered. Three thousand, two
hundred and two words are recorded, illustrated
by quotations numbering 15,684 : the correspond-
ing numbers for Johnson's Dictionary being 268
and 713.
WILLIAM HENRY PEET.
ON Sunday, Dec. 3 — as we noted with deep regret
in our last issue — William Henry Peet, one of our
oldest and most valued correspondents, passed
away, peacefully , we are glad to learn, and without
I i,i in', though after a sadly prolonged illness. On
Nov. 15, unable to come yet a last time to " the
Row," he had sent his old friends and colleagues
•of the publishing house of Messrs. Longmans,
Green & Co. a letter of goodbye. His connexion
with that firm went back to 1878, when he came
to them from Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co.,
whose employment he entered in 1865 as a lad
of 16. He was born in 1849 at Barnet, and was
educated at the Brighton Grammar School. It is
as Mr. Peet of Longmans that ' N. & Q.' knew
him, and what is, perhaps, his principal contri-
bution to literature first saw the light in our
columns. This was ' The Bibliography of Pub-
lishing and Bookselling,' which ran through the
first volume of the Tenth Series, and was after-
wards embodied in Mr. F. A. Mumby's ' Romance
of Bookselling.' The earliest article of his that
we have traced in ' N. & Q.' appeared in April,
1890— a " Long Note " entitled ' Booksellers' Sales
in the Eighteenth Century.'
What he had to say about publishers and book-
, and about the technicalities connected
with the handling of books, had the unmistakable
quality and authority of one who is a master in
his line of work. He had had charge of the pub-
lishing department of Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall
& Co. before he passed on to Longmans, and witli
the latter firm his main work was that of head of
the Advertisement Department. He was a Iso, how-
ever, for many years one of their " Readers,"
sub-editor of Longman's Magazine, and editor of
their periodical Notes on Books. Although what
was peculiar to him was his knowledge of the
history and the inner detail of the publishing of
books during the last quarter of the nineteenth
century, he had amassed, as many a querist in
our columns has come to know, a great store of
curious learning, and was no inconsiderable stu-
dent of literature. What he possessed he gladly
imparted ; and by those who knew him personally
to any extent, it is not so much the capable man
of business or the accomplished judge of books
that will be chiefly remembered, but rather the
loyal and generous friend. A little brusque and
abrupt in manner, he had the gift of inspiriting ;
and we have heard of the representative of a
newspaper who, when he had a difficult day before
him, generally called on Mr. Peet first — not in the
hope of getting anything, but for the sake of the
unfailing cheery word and kindly smile which
would hearten hinvon his way. He had a fund of
delightful conversation relative to the books and
writers of the times just before our own ; and,
besides, was a lover, keen and well-informed, of
gardens and plants.
Mr. Peet married in 1877 Miss Margaret
Da vies. Mrs. Peet and two children out of a
family of five survive him. He had had his share
both of ill-health and bereavement, and there is
no doubt that his health was seriously impaired
by grief for a sad loss in the present war.
WE are glad to learn from MR. ALECK ABRA-
HAMS that our correspondent W. B. H. is in error
in writing of Mr. W. Roberts as "the late" (ante,
p. 477). MR. ABRAHAMS assures us that Mr. Roberts
is very much alive, and that we may expect many
more interesting monographs from his pen.
The Athenaeum now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in ' N. & Q.'
tc
OK all communications must be written the name
and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub
lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
MR. M. L. R. BRESLAR. — Taura Oeuv tv yotivatri
Kelrat occurs several times in Homer — twice, for
instance, in ' Odyss.' i. (267, 400), and in ' Iliad ' xvii.
514. For ira.8-fina.Ta puO^ara. see Herod, i. 207,
and ^Eschyl. ' Agamemnon,' 470.
FOURTEENTH-CENTURY GLASS: EPISCOPAL RING
(12 S. i. 267, 335, 375, 457 ; ii- 415).— MR. JOHN T.
PAGE notes that an article on ' The Episcopal Ring '
appeared in The Church Times of Nov. 21, 1902.
12 s. ii. DEC. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
501
LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2,1, 1916.
CONTENTS.— No. 52.
S :— A Warwickshire Inventory of 1559, 501— The
Royal Arms in Metre, 502 — Peele'a ' Authorship of
' Alphonsus. Emperor of Germany,' 503— Casanova in
England, 505—' Csesar's Revenge ' : Additional Note—
" Donkey's Years " = Very Long Time — " Rosalie " =
Bayonet -Popular Speech : " Relics," 506.
QUERIES :— Edward Alleyn of Dulwich College, 506—
Legends on " Love Tokens'"— Dean Turner's Commonplace
Book— Pigeon - eating Wagers— Ardiss Family— Francis
Timbrell— Francois, Hue de Guise— "Terebus y Tereodin"
— Winton Family, 507— Sir William Trelawny, 6th Bart.
—Samuel Wesley the Younger— Burry and Adamson
Families— Wm. Hastings. 1777— Disraeli and Empire—
Busbe: Spencer— Cleypole. Cromwell, and Price Families,
508— Edmund Wyndham, J.U.P.— Sir Hugh Cholmeley—
4 Kate of Aherdare '—Risk of entering New House—
" Duityoners "— " Gray's Inn pieces " — Author Wanted
— " Epheds"— "Skull Slyce" (a Fish), 509— Sister of the
Conqueror: Budd— Dominican Order, 510.
'^REPLIES :— Papyrus and its Products, 510— English Army
List, 512 — Cotton's ' Compleat Gamester ' — Sir T. A.
Lumisden Strange, 514— Henry Fielding: Two Corrections
—Eyes changed in Colour. 515— John Prine— J. T. Staton
—Christopher Urswick — Tiller Bowe, Brandreth. Ac., 516—
John Prudde : " King's Glazier "—Portraits in Stained
Glass— Hungary Hill, 517- St. Inan— Sir William Ogle-
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries— Irish (Volunteer)
Corps—' Sir Gammer Vans '—Midsummer Fires, 518.
NOTES ON BOOKS :—' Pepys on the Restoration Stage'
— Bibliographical Society of America : Papers — ' The
Burlington."1
-Jottings from the December Catalogues.
A WARWICKSHIRE INVENTORY
OF 1559
AMONG the records belonging to Holy
'Trinity Church, Coventry, is a large book:
•containing various documents pasted within
its leaves by the late Thomas Sharp.
One of these is an inventory of the goods
of one Thomas Cast el, taken in 1559. The
Tiouse was evidently that of a well-to-do
-citizen, containing a hall, two parlours, three
chambers, a kitchen, and a buttery ; and the
inx'entory shows the sort of furniture people
had in Shakespearian England.
Some of the kitchen utensils and household
goods are rather difficult to identify. " Four
battelments and the hangings, 3s.," refers
probably to some crenellated cornice from
which the tapestry hung ; " four dep-
porenchers brod beenge " is read by Mr. Oliver
Baker of Stratford-on-Avon, to whom I am
indebted for help in this inventory, as " foxir
deep porringers being broad"; "four bell
candlesticks ' means four candlesticks of
bell shape. " Yerde dishes "—earthenware
•dishes; " tornde "=turned with a lathe.
A " lead " is a salting-trough ; " trappes " are
-dishes or pans for baking. A " mays-fat "
is a mash- vat used in brewing, and a
" kemnel " or kimnel is a tub. A " cowl "
is a water-pail, often carried by means of a
cowl-stick. A " carpet " is a table-cover,
though there is in the hall no mention of a
table ; indeed, one of the peculiarities of the
inventory is the prominence given to the
" parlour by the buttery door," where
evidently meals were taken and not in the
hall, as the mention of the table proves.
The hall had degenerated into a washing
place. The combination of settle and chest
(see the first item) is common in Elizabethan
furniture. The " spruce " coffer was also
known as a Flanders chest ; and the
" medylyng " or " midylyng " (an i is
written over the e) pan is presumably a pan
of middle size. I am not quite sure of the
meaning of " cuvers " in the chief bed-
chamber. The word may be derived from
L. cupa=a cask, vat ; but cannot refer to
the coverings of wood and plaster which
conducted the smoke from the mediaeval
fire. " Chafurn " = saucepan ; " gaun " =
gallon. " Dobnet " or " dabnet " is not in
any of the dictionaries, and eludes inquiry.
A " pair of cobberds " are cob-irons, or fire-
dogs. A " crost shet " may refer to some
peculiarity of the weaving of the sheet ;
" fylet " = ? felt.
INVENTORY OP GOODS, 1559.
Vestry MSS. A. I. f. 60.
Thys ys the Inuytory of Thomas Casteles
goodes in Sent Myheles parysh, mayd in the yerc
of our Lorde God a thowsand fyve hvndrythe
f yftye and ix in the xij day of Sepfcerber.
The haull.
Item, a greyt cobber with a setles vpon yt»
vjs. viijd'.
Item, the hanggeyngs of the haull and a form.
vs.
Item, a washyng bason and a hanggynge layer.
iijs.
Item, a carpet . . . . . . . . xxd.
The parler at the buttrey dur.
Item, a greyt tornde cheyr . . . . xijd.
Item, a cobberd . . . . . . . . xv.jd.
Item, a tabu 11 and a form .. .. \d.
Item, the hanggynges aboue yt . . viijd.
Item, a carpet, vi cowshyns . . iijs. iiijd.
The leytell parler.
Item, a tabull, a benche, a form
Item, the hanggynges .. ..
The chamber by the churcheard syed
[churchyard side].
Item, a fether bed, a peyre of blankeytes, a
coverynge . . . . . . . . . . xvs.
Item, ij cvvers, a cobberd, ij grejtspnis rnfiVrs
and pelowes of fosteon [fustian] . . vijs. iiijd.
Item, a peyr of bedstydes and a form xijd.
Item, the tester and ij cortenes with the hang-
geynges of dammaske werke •- .. XP.
xijd.
xvjd.
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NOTES AND QUERIES. 1 12 S.H.DKC. 23,1916.
The m:iy.leyns chain IKT.
It,. ia. a i i.olster, ;i blanket of wyt
[white ruir- 1. ;i mvei-ynge .. .. viijs.
The kechen chamber.
Item, iiij battolmentes and the hanggenges* iijs.
The Imttrey.
Item, vj greyt platters, iij puter dyssliys. iiij
(ieppofenchers \)rod beenge [deep porringers be-
ing broad], ij yerde dyssheys, iiij savssers, ij
i-li.-,\ yiiLre tly->hys f chafing - dish], a layten
[latten] K-iMtii iiij bel candell-steykes.
Item, a neyllfat [oil-vat], iij greyt lommes
i \-e--els], ij sester a peas [sextary = 6 gallons].
iijs.
Item, ij Mii.iyll lomes, a cobberd .. xiiijd.
Item, ij puter potes . . . . . . ijs.
The kechen.
Item, a greyt leyd, ij hvndrythe and a half
[2J cwt.].
Item, ij leyddes in [? iij] trappes .. xxijs.
Item, a maysfat [mash —vat], a ur (?) kemnel
under [smudge] yt, a trapys . . . . ys.
Item, a tornde cheyr . . vjd.
Item, ij greyt pones the wyght xviij li.
Hem, if ketteles and a medylyng pan
vis. viijd.
Item, ij greyt pottes and a smayll pot of a gaun
[gallon] and a halfe, a chafurn of a gaun, the
wyght Ix li.
Item, a posnet [a pot] and a dobnet, a skemmer,
a mydlyng skemmer . . . . . . vjs.
Item, a greyt spyt, a small spyt, a peyr of
cobberdes [cob-irons er fire-dogs], a fyer sholl, a
payr of tonges, a greyt bronderd [gridiron] vjs.
Item, ij peyr of "pot-okkeys [pot-hooks], ij
peyr of chaynes, a |dryppynge pan, a fryn pan, a
marbull morter . . . . . . iijs. vjd.
Item, a cowll, a knedynge tob . . xijd.
For hys rayment.
Item, a mvster goun fvrd with fox thorerew
xxvd.
Item, a fylet govn forde with blak lam xxs.
Item, a nold govne of brysto frys [Bristol frieze]
forde with blake lame, iij kotes . . . . vjs.
Item, a crest cap and a wod [hood] to weyr
upon his sholder. iiijs.
Item, a crost shet . . . . . . vs.
Item, a dyeper towell iiij elns.. .. ijs.
M. DORMER HARRIS.
THE ROYAL ARMS :
A METRICAL DESCRIPTION.
A METRICAL description of the arms of the
English sovereigns from the Conquest
onwards has been lately discovered in an old
manuscript school-book of a lady who in
the early forties of the last century attended
a well-known Lancashire school kept by a
family named Aston. One member of this
family was Joseph Aston, who wrote the
well - known ' Metrical Records of Man-
" Reserved for ij battelments over the alter,
ijs." (Coppers' Company Accounts in Sharp, ' Antic],
of Coventry,' 31).
Chester,' and who is also believed to have*
written that metrical aid to memorizing the
dates of the kings of England commencing
with the lines : —
William ten hundred and sixty-six
Himself on England's throne did fix.
It therefore seems very probable that this
metrical description of the arms of England
is from the pen of the same writer. So far as
is known, it has never been published, but it
is too good and too quaint to be entirely lost.
A few extracts will give some idea of its
interest.
Students of heraldry will remember that
William I. is said to have assumed the " two
golden lions, or leopards," of his Norman
duchy. This is referred to in the opening
verse as follows : —
The Norman Standard, and the Shield
That Norman William wore,
Two golden leopards on a field
Of Royal ruby bore.
Henry II. is considered to have added a
third lion to the shield, the single golden lion
passant gardant on red being also considered
to be the armorial ensign of the province of
Aquitaine acquired by Henry in right of his
wife. This is described thus : —
When Second Henry came to reign,
The first Plantagenet,
The Golden Lions rose again
To flourish brighter yet,
For where the Royal Banners flew
In Eleanora's train
He charged, with Conquering William's two,.
A third for Aquitaine.
* * *
The Royal Ensigns, always famed,
So passed from reign to reign
Until King Edward boldly claimed
The crown of Charlemagne,
And Shield and Ensign marshalled hence
With England quarterly
On Azure field of Gallant France
The Bourbon fleur-de-lys
When Agincourt triumphantly
Did England's lion crown
With laurels, &c
The Royal Banners waving o'er
Each new-made Knight displayed
The lily that the Bourbon bore
Remarshalled and arrayed.
The last two lines refer, of course, to the
change in the first and fourth quarters of
the shield from Azure, sem.ee de lis or, to
Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or.
On the succession of James I. of Scotland
to the English throne the royal arms were
altered to : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Grand
quarters, quarterly France modern and
England. Second grand quarter, Or, within
a double tressure flory counterflory, a lion
rampant gules for Scotland. Third grand
quarter, Azure, a harp or, stringed argent.
i28.ii.DKc.23, i9i6.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
503'
for Ireland. This last-named change is
referred to in the verses as follows : —
King .lames the First to England brought
The Arms her might liad braved,
A bold ally as ever fought
Where freedom's banner waved,
And he did charge the Shield beside
With Erin's harp of fire.
* * *
Tho' silent now, tradition's words
Do tell how sweet it rung
When native bards attuned the chords,
And native minstrels sung.
The next change in the shield, namely, the
charging by William III. of his paternal
shield of Nassau, Azure, billeted, a lion
rampant or, in pretence upon the royal shield,
is thus referred to :—
When Nassau in the pomp of War
Bode proudly to Torbay,
And landing under freedom s star
Drove dastard James away,
The Royal Shield escutcheoned bore
The Dutchman's lion bold;
For He and Lady Mary wore
The people's Crown of gold.
The change in the shield made in the
reign cf Queen Anne, namely, England
impaling Scotland in the 1st and 4th grand
quarters, France modern in the 2nd, but re-
taining Ireland in the 3rd, is described thus :
When Anne's transcendent glories burst,
And held the world in awe,
She bore the Shield of James the First
Unburdened by Nassau,
And soon with Albion's ancient foe
A solemn contract sealed.
* * *
And when that bond the people hailed
With shouts from shore to shore,
The Scotch and English Arms impaled
The same Grand Quarters bore —
referring, of course, to the union of the two
kingdoms of Ireland and Scotland.
When Koyal George — th§ First so named —
Did England's Sceptre wield,
The Hanoverian ensign claimed
A fourth of Britain's Shield.
* * *
King George the Third for forty years
IIi> drandsiiv's arms displayed,
Till common cause the Irish peers
With England's Senate made.
Then vanished Gallia's lys forlorn
From Britain's flag, and hence
The King's Germanic Arms were borne
On 'scutcheon of pretence.
The last change of all is thus described : —
When time to Albion's sceptre bore
A young and lovely Queen,
On Albion's Standards now no more
Were foreign ensigns seen;
And where Victoria's banners wave
The Hfi-alds charge alone
The symliul- of those Kingdoms brave
Great Britain's name that own.
In the original copy each change of the-
arms is shown by a very carefully drawn
escutcheon .correctly blazoned in its proper
tinctures, from which, and from other
manuscript books containing instructions
and exercises in heraldry which were found
in this collection of papers, it can be inferred
that the proprietors of the old Lancashire -
school held the same views on heraldry being
a necessary branch of education as the
charming Diana Vemon did when she said
to Frank Osbaldistone : " What ! is it
possible ? Not know the figures of"
heraldry ! Of what could your father be-
thinking ? " A. B.
OF
PEELE'S AUTHOKSHIP
' ALPHONSUS,
EMPEROR OF GERMANY.'
(See ante, pp. 464, 484.)
MR. H. C. HART AND MR. J. M. ROBERTSON
are both of opinion that the hands of Greene
and Peele are to be found at work together
not only in ' Locrine,' but in the kindred
tragedy of ' Selimus,' which appears to be of"
a later date and contains a number of iden-
tical lines ; and certainly a comparison of"
their texts with the independent works of"
these dramatists seems to support this
conclusion. With regard to ' Locrine ' the
internal indications of Peele's handiwork
are so conspicuous that Prof. Schelling has
been led to declare that his authorship " ha,s -
long been accepted." As, however, it
possesses many characteristics pointing al-
most equally strongly to Greene we are
scarcely warranted in saying more than that
the presence of Peele's hand in ' Locrine '
has been established beyond reasonable
doubt. At any rate, ' Alphonsus, Emperor -
of Germany,' is like all the rest of Peele's
works in that we find in it a number of links
connecting it with ' Locrine.' Considera-
tions of space forbid notice of all these, but
there is one too important to be overlooked,
connected as it is not only with ' Locrine,'
but with an acknowledged production of"
Peele's. Dyce long ago noticed that two
lines in Act III. sc. ii. of ' Locrine ' : —
To arms, my Lord, to honourable arms,
Take helm and targe in hand,
are paralleled in Peele's ' Farewell to Norris
and Drake,' where (1. 50) we have : —
To arms, to arms, to honourable arms,
and (11. 10, 11) :—
Change love for arms ; girt to your blades, my
boys,
Your rests and muskets take, take helm and forget'
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It is soinethinc more than a mere
• coincidenof that at the end of Act IV. of
'Alphonsus ' wr find Alexander exclaim-
ing :—
T» arms. invat'Duke of Saxony, to arms.
P. 267.
and at the beginning of the same act (first
speech of the Bishop of Mentz) : —
Brother of Collen, no more churchman now,
Instead of mitre and a crosier staff,
Have you beta'en you to your helm and targe ?
The association of Peele's name with
' Selimus ' may be held to receive further
justification in the occurrence in this play
and ' Alphonsus ' of the same allusion —
• certainly not a stock allusion with the
dramatists of the period — in a precisely
similar situation. The first scene of ' Alphon-
sus ' introduces us to the Emperor indulging
in a " Machiavellian " soliloquy. To him
enters the crafty Lorenzo, his confidant and
secretary, who instructs him in certain
maxims by which to regulate his conduct
in his dealings with his enemies. The first
maxim is : —
" A prince must be of the nature of the lion and
the fox, but not the one without the other."
Upon this Alphonsus comments : —
' The fox is subtle, but he wanteth force ;
'The lion strong, but scorneth policy ;
I'll imitate Lysander in this point,
And where the lions hide is thin and scant,
ril firmly patch it with the fox's fell.
Let it suffice I can be both in one.
Lorenzo's second maxim is : —
" A Prince above all things must seem devout ;
' but there is nothing so dangerous to his state, as
to regard his promise or his oath."
And the comment of Alphonsus : —
Tush, fear not me, my promises are sound,
But he that trusts them shall be sure to fail.
dompare this with ' Selimus.' Selimus, in
a soliloquy, reveals his bloodthirsty designs
for compassing the crown. To him enters
" Abraham, the Jew " (a poisoner like
Lorenzo), who undertakes to dispatch
Bajazet. On his departure, Selimus, con-
tinuing his meditation, observes : —
. . . .nothing is more doubtful to a prince
' Than to be scrupulous and religious.
I like Lysander's counsel passing well;
" If that I cannot speed with lion's force,
To clothe my complots in a fox's skin."
And one of these shall still maintain my cause,
Or fox's skin, or lion's rending paws.
' The Tragical Reign of Selimus.'
("Temple Dramatists f-d. 11. 1731-5, 1742-3.)
This repetition is of so significant a kind
that it can only be explained either on the
supposition that one of these plays is
indebted to the other or that Peele was con-
cerned in both.
' Titus Andronicus ' and the three parts of
' Henry VI.' also display many affinities
with ' Alphonsus,' but as my object is merely
to show that ' Alphonsus ' is Peele's it will
be well in this concluding portion of my
paper strictly to confine myself to those
works which are universally acknowledged
to be his.
I have already shown that the peculiarities
of vocabulary and phrasing of the author of
this play are such as we find elsewhere in
Peele's dramas. The same may be said of
its versification, which is indistinguishable
from that of ' Edward I.' and ' The Battle of
Alcazar.' To illustrate the fundamental
resemblance of ' Alphonsus ' to these plays
both in its diction and the movement of its
verse, I cannot do better than to place the
following extracts from speeches in ' Al-
phonsus ' side by side with speeches de-
livered in similar circumstances by characters
in ' The Battle of Alcazar ' and ' Edward I.'
The Bishop of Collen urges the Duke of
Saxony to make war upon Alphonsus : —
Stir now or never, let the Spanish tyrant
That hath dishonoured us, murder'd our friends,
And stain'd this seat with blood of innocents,
At last be chastis'd with the Saxon sword.
' Alphonsus,' Act I. p. 206.
Muly Mahomet urges King Sebastian to
make war upon Abdelmec, King of Morocco :
Now, now or never, bravely execute
Your resolution sound and honourable,
And end this war together with his life
That doth usurp the crown with tyranny.
' The Battle of Alcazar,' IV. ii. 57-60.
Alphonsus expresses his grief at the death
of the Bishop of Mentz : —
Come, princes, let us bear the body hence ;
I'll spend a million to embalm the same.
Let all the bells within the empire ring,
Let mass be said in every church and chapel,
And that I may perform my latest vow,
I will procure so much by gold or friends,
That my sweet Mentz shall be canonized
And numbered in the bead-roll of the saints.
I'll build a church in honour of thy name
Within the ancient famous city Mentz
Fairer than any one in Germany,
There shalt thou be interred with kingly pomp,
Over thy tomb shall hang a sacred lamp.
Which till the day of doom shall ever burn. &c.
' Alphonsus,' Act IV. p. 260.
Edward I. laments the death of Queen
Elinor and Joan of Aeon : —
You peers of England, see in royal pomp
These breathless bodies be entombed straight,
With tired colours cover'd all with black.
Let Spanish steeds, as swift as fleeting wind,
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Convey 11ic.sc princes to their funeral:
Before them le.t a hundred mourners ride.
In every time of their enforced abodo.
Hear up a cross in token of their worth,
Whereon fair Elinor's picture shall be placed.
Arrived at London near our palace-bounds,
Inter my lovely Elinor, late deceased ;
And in remembrance of her royalty,
Erect a rich and stately carved cross,
Whereon her stature shall with glory shine.
' Edward I.,' xxv. 234-47.
With Mr. Robertson's suggestion, that
' Alphonsus ' — the English portion of the
text — shows traces of other hands than
Peele's, I do not agree. There are doubtless
one or two words and phrases somewhat
suggestive of Greene or Marlowe, but then
Peele was an imitative writer. Mr. Robert-
sou says that the opening scene of the play
can hardly be Peele's. It is, on the contrary,
this very scene that most plainly bears his
stamp. In the Emperor's first speech there
is a passage, referring to Lorenzo : —
... .1, not muffled in simplicity,
Haste to the augur of my happiness,
To lay the ground of my ensuing wars.
He learns his wisdom, not by flight of birds,
M'.l /"'.'/'".'/ into sacrificed beasts,
By hares that cross the way, by howling wolves,
By gazing on the starry element,
Or vain imaginary calculations ;
But from a settled wisdom in itself
Which teacheth to be void of passion,
for which a parallel of the most striking
kind is to be found in sc. xv. of ' David and
Bethsabe ' : —
Thou power
That now art framing of the future world,
Know'st all to come, not by the course of heaven,
By frail conjectures of inferior signs,
My monstrous floods, by flights and flocks of birds,
Ji>j bowels of a sacrificed beast
Or by the figures of some hidden art;
But by a true and natural presage,
l.mjiny the ground and perfect architect
Of all our actions now before thine eyes.
With this evidence before us it is scarcely
necessary to note one of Peele's characteris-
tically I'fpi'titive lines in the next long
speech of Alphonsus : —
They ward, they watch, they cast and they con-
spire. P. 202.
with which we may compare ' Edward I.,'
v. 3:—
They fear, they fly, they faint, they fight in
vain,
or the following lines from the same
speech : —
Thou knowest how all things stand as well as we,
Wh<i ar ii- enemies, and who our friends,
Wlm must IM- threaten'd, and who dallyed with.
Wlid wdii l>y xvi.ids.'and who by force of arms. \,-.
P. 202.
which should be compared with another
passage from the scene of ' David and
Bethsabe ' from which I have just quoted :
It would content me, father, first to learn
How the Eternal framed the firmament ;
Which bodies lend their influence by fire,
And which are fill'd with hoary winter's ice ;
What sign is rainy, and what star is fair, £c.
xv. 11. 74-8.
The more closely one examines the play
the more palpable do the marks of Peele's
hand become, and they are nowhere more-
evident than in this first scene.
The German dialogue, however, of which
there is a considerable quantity, presents a
real difficulty. One of the characters (the
Princess Hedewick, daughter of the Duke of
Saxony) is made to speak German through-
out. There are also many passages that
reveal an intimate knowledge of the domestic
life and political institutions of Germany..
Nowhere else does Peele display the
slightest acquaintance with the German-
language or German customs. The play was
revived on May 5, 1636, at the Blackfriars
" for the Queen and Prince Elector.' ' Doubt-
less, as Mr. Fleay conjectures, it was selected
for performance on account of the Teutonic
part in it. One is tempted to suggest that
some person conversant with the German
language may have been commissioned to
revise the play for the express purpose of this
revival. Perhaps some one familiar with the
older German literature may be able to say
whether the German portion of the text was
written in 1636 or forty or fifty years earlier.
If it is contemporaneous with the remainder
of the text it would seem difficult to escape
the conclusion that a German writer, or some
Englishman who had lived in Germany,
assisted Peele in the composition of the play.
H. DUGDALE SYKES.
Enfield.
CASANOVA IN ENGLAND. (See 10 S. viii.
443, 491 ; ix. 116; xi. 437; 11 S. ii. 386;
iii. 242 ; iv. 382, 461 ; v. 123, 484 ; 12 S. L
121, 185, 285, 467.) — Casanova men-
tions " une cantatrice au theatre de
Haymarket " named Calori, and describes
how she and Giardini, the director of
the Opera - House, managed to prevail
upon the importunate husband from whom*
she was separated to betake himself
to the Continent (Gamier, vi. 478-80).
It is often difficult to identify the performers
at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
Contemporary newspapers did not advertise-
the cast, as in the case cf Drury Lane and
Covent Garden. Genest's ' Account ' of
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•stage gives no particulars. There appears
to be no collection of playbills of the Opera.
In this particular instance, however, the
Appendix to the ' Reminiscences of Michael
Kelly ' (vol. ii. 394) supplies the deficiency,
from which we learn that in the season
of 1760 " Signora Angiola Calori " was
" second woman," and performed " the
serious parts in the burlettas." Xo further
information about her is given, but there
seems no reason to doubt that she continued
to perform at the Opera-House until Casa-
nova's visit to England in June, 1763. The
King's Theatre or Opera-House (Vanburgh's
theatre), of course, occupied the site of the
present Carlton Hotel and His Majasty's
'Theatre. HORACE BLEACKLEY.
' THE TRAGEDY OF CJESAR'S REVENGE ' :
ADDITIONAL XOTE. (See ante, pp. 305,
325.) — My notes on this play have brought
me a kind letter from DR. HENRY BRADLEY.
I venture to send you his valuable criticisms
on some of the points I raised : —
I. 24. — " Haught " seems hardly possible : a
•compound appears to be required. I do not know
whether " high-rang'd " would do.
II. 150-51. — The emendation seems to yield no
very good sense. I incline to think the text can
:stand.
[1. 1462.— This note should be deleted.]
1. 1586. — " Fiendish " seems to have been a
very rare word, and I am not sure that it would
be quite in place here. Perhaps the text is right
" finish " in the sense " carry to the end."
1. 1971. — Can " Mirapont " represent some
form of " Negropont " ( =Euripus) ? [This sug-
gestion had also occurred to me.]
1. 2121. — I do not think " mound " had the
required sense so early. Perhaps the text will
stand. I have an impression that " woundes '
in the sense of Lat. ccedes could be paralleled.
1. 2199. — ,"f JErastus " = " Adrastus." [A bad
slip on my part.]
1. 2375. — The emendation is not necessary,
^though " soyld " is equally possible with " foyld."
Sheffield. G- c- MOORE SMITH.
"DONKEY'S YEARS "=A VERY LONG
TIME. — This piece of punning slang, the
allusion in which is obvious, has come
recently and rapidly into London use
Possibly through the original medium of a
' gag " in some popular musical farce. ]
do not find it in either Camden Hotten'
' Slang Dictionary ' or Farmer and Henley'_
^Dictionary of Slang,' though the latter has
" Donkey 's-ears " in an altogether different
sense ; while it is of sufficiently twentieth
•century use not to be included in Ware'
"' Passing English of the Victorian Era.'
A. F. R,
" ROSALIE " = BAYONET. — Somewhere
lave I seen in print the assertion that French
soldiers speak of a bayonet as " Rosalie,"
Because St. Rosalie is the patron of Bayonne,
he place from which the weapon derives
ts dictionary name. Elsewhere it was as-
serted that " Rosalie " came of the ruddy
lue acquired by the spike in doing its work ;
and this theory is encouraged by Th. Botrel's
song ' A la gloire de la terrible baionnette
tran§aioe,' of which I quote two verses : —
Toute blanche elle est partie,
Mais, a la fin d' la partie,
Verse a boire !
Elle est couleur vermilion,
Buvons done !
Si vermeille et si rosee
* Que nous 1'avons baptisee,
Verse a boire !
" Rosalie " a 1'unisson
Buvons done !
I get this from ' Les Chansons de la Guerre,'
p. 48 {Librairie Militaire Berger-Levrault).
ST. SWITHIN.
POPULAR SPEECH : " RELICS.'' — The young
wife of a soldier, describing humorously the
proceedings in the payment of her allowance,
said to me the other day : —
"I am always having to show my marriage
certificate, and they do all sorts of things with it
— stick pins in it, and stick it on to other papers,
and fold it : in fact, it is now all in relics."
J. H. H.
WE must request correspondents desiring in-
formation on family matters of only private interest
to affix their names and addresses to their queries,
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
EDWABD ALLEYN, FOUNDER OF DULWICH
COLLEGE. — In Walford's ' Old and Xew
London,' vi. 296 (ed. c. 1884), this famous
actor and friend of Shakespeare is described
as having been Lord Mayor of London. Xo
date is given, and the statement is apparently
a mistake. The name does not occur in the
published list of Lord Mayors at or about
his date, nor is there any mention in the
' D.N.B.' of Alleyn's ever having held any
high office in the Corporation of London, as
might have been expected if the statement
were correct. And yef, curiously enough,
the name of Edward Allen is found as one of
the Sheriffs of London in 1620, just six
years before the actor's death. Ben Jonson
and others of his contemporaries frequently
spelt Alleyn as Allen in his lifetime, and that
spelling is now firmly established as correct
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at Dulwich College. It would be interesting
to know whether the actor and the Sheriff
were one and the same person, and how, if
that was so, the fact of his having held that
office corner to have been omitted by his
biographers. Perhaps somebody would
kindly explain this and put it beyond doubt
whether the above-mentioned Mr. Sheriff
Edward Allen really was the actor or not.
ALAN STEWART.
LEGENDS ON " LOVE TOKENS." — 1. Is it
possible to complete the following legend,
'which appears on an " engraved coin " or
'" love token " of 1778 ? — " My Love shee
. . . ." [unfinished]. There is nothing to
help it in the type, which merely represents
a man and a woman holding hands, the
latter handing the former a goblet.
2. On many of these pieces occur variants
of a legend beginning : " When this you see,
remember me." Are these opening words
taken from any known source ? Examples :
(a) " When this you see, remember me, Though
many miles we distant be." (1798.)
(6) " When this you see, remember me, when
I am dead and rotten. Take up this heart and
think of me, when I am quite forgotten." (With
•the type of a heart inscribed with initials. 1840.)
(c) " When this you see, remember me, and
keep me in youi mind. Let all the world say
what they will, speak of me as you find." (18th
•century.)
The opening words were probably used
on valentines and on posy rings, but I
have not met with an instance of the latter.
F. P. B.
WILLIAM TURNER'S COMMONPLACE BOOK'
— In an undated catalogue of books for sale
by Thomas Kerslake of Bristol belonging, I
Relieve, to 1856, Lot 4877 is the Common-
place Book of William Turner, Dean of
Wells, " Father of English Botany," who
died in 15 — . It is described as a thick
quarto in old stamped calf, with green edges,
and a long account of its contents is given,
from which it is obviously of supreme
mterest to the biographer. Can any reader
say anything as to its present whereabouts ?'
G. S. BOULGER.
12 Lancaster Park, Richmond, Surrey.
PIGEON-EATING WAGERS. — In ' La Tulipe
Noire,' by Dumas, Gryphus the gaoler says
to Cornelius : —
" Un homme si robuste qu'il soit no saurait
manger un pigeon tons los jours. II y a eu des
paris de laits, ot los parlours ont renonce."
I remember reading in the paper some years
ago of a man who was eating a pigeon every
•day for a wager, and wondering at the time
what was the great difficulty in performing
this gastronomic feat. No one has been able
to tell me. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.'
give me details of such wagers ? On how
many consecutive days did a pigeon have
to be eaten, and was the wager ever won ?
G. A. ANDERSON.
ARDISS FAMILY. — Information would be
welcomed on old branches of the Ardiss
family. Please reply direct to Mr. R. W.
Walsh, 3 Grove Gardens, Spring Grove,
Isleworth, London, S.W.
WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR.
Dublin.
FRANCIS TIMBRELL. — Who was Francis
Timbrell, author of an engraved oblong book,
' The Divine Musick Scholars Guide,' circa
1715-23 ? The British Museum has a copy.
It is mentioned in S. S. Stratton's ' Musical
Biography ' (1897), but not a word about
the author. One plate is signed " M. D.
Derby," but the name Timbrell is not a
Derbyshire name. I have references to it
in Gloucestershire. A. H. MANN.
FRANCOIS, Due DE GUISE. — Was the Due
de Guise wounded (aged 26) at the siege of
Boulogne in 1545, as many state ; or, as
Balzac states, at the siege of Calais in 1558 ?
N. C. D.
" TEREBUS Y TEREODIN." — In the Border
songs sung at Hawick the refrain of one
specially used in June is : —
Terebus y Tereodin,
Sons of heroes slain at Flodden, &c.
The mysterious words are locally believed
to be very much older than the rest, possibly
Norse, having reference to Thor and Odin ;
but an expert says they are absolutely unlike
any personal names known to him ; they
could have nothing to do, he thinks, with
Thor and Woden, though the latter has a
faint resemblance to the genitive of these
names. Can any correspondent throw light
on them ? ALFRED WELBY.
[See 6 S. ii. 446, 495 ; iii. 58.]
WINTON FAMILY. — I made some reply, in
your issue of Nov. 18 (ante, p. 416), to an
inquiry by S. T. (ante, p. 266), but I omitted
to mention that the descendants of Capt.
James Winton believe that his grandfather
(i.e., the father of Philip Winton, who was
born in Herefordshire about 1750) was
named Seton, and changed his name to
Winton for political reasons. Or, perhaps,
he may have married one of the Hereford-
shire Wintons, and his son Philip may have
taken his mother's maiden name.
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There is a romantic tradition in the
family in connexion with this alleged change
of name, but I have not been able as yet
to find any contemporary reference to or
confirmation of the story that has been
handed down, which is my chief reason for
again opening this subject.
If any of your contributors or readers
have noted any mention of a Philip Winton
(living 1750-88), I shall be greatly obliged
for the reference. R. G. F. UNIACKE.
Services Club, VV.
SIB WILLIAM TRELAWNY, 6TH BART. —
When did he enter the Navy, and to what
rank in the service did he attain ? He is
said to have married, in or before 1756, his
cousin Laetitia, daughter of Sir Harry
Trelawny, 5th Bart. When and where was
the marriage solemnized ? Neither the
' Diet. Nat. Biog.' (Ivii. 175) nor G. E. C.'s
'(Baronetage ' (ii. 45) gives the desired in-
formation. G. F. R. B.
SAMUEL WESLEY THE YOUNGER. — The
' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Ix. 318, states that he
married " a daughter of John Berry (d. 1730),
Vicar of Watton, Norfolk." I should be
glad to learn her Christian name, and the
date and place of her marriage.
G. F. R. B.
BURRY AND ADAMSON FAMILIES. — Col.
Thomas Burry of Leighsbrook, co. Meath,
had a daughter Emily ; married Rev.
Arthur Smyth-Adamson as his second wife.
He was Rector of Grange Gorman parish,
Dublin, in 1839. I should be glad to have
the dates and particulars of birth, marriage,
and death of the above. To which family
did Col. Thomas Burry belong, and what
was the maiden name of his mother ?
E. C. FINLAY.
1279 Pine Street, San Francisco.
WILLIAM HASTINGS, 1777. — In The Folke-
stone Herald of Sept. 30, 1902, there is a list
of officials, &c., of the town for 1777, in
which occurs the name of William Hastings,
chief gunner at the Battery, at 2s. per day,
and 51. per annum for coals. A plan of the
Bayle, in the Manor Office of Folkestone,
dated 1782, mentions Hastings as gunner
at the Bayle Fort.
The Kentish Gazette, April 6 to April 9,
1790, has the following : —
" A few days since died at the Countess Dowager
of Huntingdon's, Lord George Hastings, only son
of Mr. Hastings, of Folkstone, to whom the title of
Earl of Huntingdon has lately devolved. The
Countess Dowager, wishing to improve the educa-
tion of Lord George, had requested he might be
placed under her immediate inspection, when ha
was most unfortunately taken with the smallpox ,.
which proved fatal."
In ' The Universal British Directory,'
1792, William Hastings is described *as
' Esq.," Chief Gunner of the Castle ; and
in ' The Kentish Companion ' for 1799 as
' W. Hastings, Chief Gunner, Folkestone."
Lieut. Benson Earle Hill in his ' Recollec-
tions of an Artillery Officer ' relates how on
visiting the Folkestone Battery in the course
of his duties he had an interview with the
' master-gunner," who was a claimant to
a peerage, and although his name is not
iven, he evidently refers to the same man..
The lieutenant does not give the date, but
entered the service Aug. 1, 1810, and
retired about a dozen years later. I any
anxious to know when Hastings died, and
where he was buried ; also where his son_
eorge, who died 1790, was buried.
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
DISRAELI AND EMPIRE. — A writer in The.-
Gentleman's Magazine for April,- 1879,.
states : —
" During the debates on the Eastern- Question, it
was a favourite occupation among hon. members to
wager that Mr. Disraeli would conclude his speech
with the word ' Empire.' Eventually it became so
imperially regular that no odds coutd be got
against it."
The writer adds that the two last words
pronounced by Disraeli as a speaker in the
House of Commons before he was trans-
lated to a more exalted sphere of activity,
were : " the Empire." I should be glad if
any one will kindly endorse these state-
ments. M. L. R. BRESLAE.
Percy House, South Hackney.
BUSHE : SPENCER. — I shall be glad of any
information regarding the parties to whose
marriage the following blazon applies r
Argent, on a fess gules between three boars
sable armed and langued gules, a fleur-de-lis
argent between two eagles displayed or
(Bushe). Impaling, Quarterly, argent and
gules, in the second and third quarters a
fret or ; on a bend sable three escallop shells
of the first (Spencer). I have not been able-
to refer to any pedigree of the family o£
Bushe. CHARLES DRTJRY.
12 Ranmoor Cliffe Road, Sheffield.
CLEYPOLE, CROMWELL, AND PRICE FAMI-
LIES.— John Cleypole, Esq., of Norborougli
House, co. Northampton, Master of the-
Horse to Oliver Cromwell, created a baronet
by him July 20, 1657 (which title was dis*
allowed after the Restoration), married first.
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Elizabeth, second daughter of Oliver Crom-
well, and secondly, in 1671, Blanche (the
rich) widow of Lancelot Staveleyof London,
merchant, by whom he had an only daughter
Bridget Claypole, married to Charles Price,
Colonel in the Guards, and died his widow
in October, 1738. To what family of Price
did he belong, and what were his arms and
crest ? I shall be grateful for any informa-
tion respecting him.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
EDMUND WYNDHAM, J.U.D., is mentioned
in Sander's ' De Visibili Monarchia ' as
having been deprived of a benefice by Queen
Elizabeth. One of this name compounded
for the first fruits of the rectories of Aylmer-
ton and Runton in Norfolk on Dec. 21, 1554.
In February, 1579, a letter reached the
English College at Rheims, in^which it was
stated that : —
"The Suffolke and Norfolke gentlemen, that
weare committed for there consciens sake in her
ma*' prograce, remayne style prisoners in ther
country, except D. VVyndam that is close prisoner
on the fieete. '
Dr. Wyndham was still in the Fleet,
July 31, 1580, but was removed to Wisbech
Castle in or before October in that year. In
1595 he was at large in or near Norwich.
Is anything more known of him ?
JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.
6 Grand Avenue, Hove, Sussex.
SIR HUGH CHOLMELEY. — Could any of
your readers inform me if an engraving or
portrait of Sir Hugh Cholmeley. the defender
of Scarborough Castle in the time of King
Charles I., exists ? JOHN L. S. HATTON.
70 Hermon Hill, Wanstead.
' KATE or ABERDARE.' — In a paper by
Mr. Austin Dobson on ' Old Vauxhall
Gardens,' it is stated that one of the
" hymns " favoured at that resort was
' Kate of Aberdare ' (' Eighteenth Century
Vignettes,' First Series, p. 237). What are
the words of the song ? And why was it so
named ? I am given to understand that
it appeared in ' New Songs of Vauxhall,' so
frequently reprinted in the magazines of the
period. B. D.
Aberdare.
RISK OF ENTERING A NEW HOUSE.
Among seme of our English peasantry cer-
tain precautions are taken on entering a
new house. In India this takes the form
of the ceremonial expulsion of the demons
which are supposed to occupy it. Some
time ago in ' N. & Q.' an interesting article
appeared showing that this was based on
practical reasons, and that the "demons"
were really bad air, or some other form o f
danger to health. I shall feel obliged for a
reference to this article, or to any work in
which the question is fully discussed.
EMERITUS.
" DUITYONERS." — In a deed of acquit-
tance of 28 Elizabeth the guardians of
infant children are described as " duity-
oners," a word I have not met with before
and which I cannot find in a dictionary. I
shall be glad to know if any of your readers
have come across it. T. WALTER HALL.
" GRAY'S INN PIECES." — In Farquhar's
comedy ' Sir Harry Wildair,' Act I. sc. i.,
Col. Standard giving his wife's maid a tip
of five guineas, she exclaims : " Are they
right*? No Gray's Inn pieces amongst
them ? "
Is anything known of the expression —
which seems to imply base coin — and does
it occur elsewhere ? WM. DOUGLAS.
AUTHOR WANTED. — Who was the author of
" God is on the side of big battalions" ?
Napoleon has been credited with the author-
ship, but, I believe, wrongly.
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
[The tenth edition (1914) of Bartlett's 'Familiar
Quotations ' supplies the following (p. 430, note 4) :
"On dit que Dieu est toujpurs pour les gros
bataillons (It is said that God is always on the side
of the heaviest battalions).— Voltaire : Letter to
M. le Riche. 177Q. J'ai toujours vu Dieu du cote
des gros bataillons (I have always noticed that God
is on the side of the heaviest battalions). — De Is
Ferte to Anne of Austria."
The revised edition (1912) of 'Cassell's Book of
Quotations' has also an earlier example (p. 715)
than Voltaire's : " Dieu est d'ordinaire pour les
gros escadrons centre les petits (God is generally
for the big squadrons against the little ones).—
Letter by Bussy-Rabutin, Oct. 18, 1677."]
" EPHEDS." — I should be glad of an ex-
planation of this word, which occurs in a
claim for allowances made by a tenant of
Fountains Abbey, c. 1450 : —
'It' for epheds a yere xiijs. iiijrf. H'm for
twa yere at yon had skragfald for epheds to
mende 6:8."
._ d. 1, X1.
Durham.
" SKULL SLYCE " (A FISH). — In the House-
hold Accounts of the ancient family of
Lestrange of Hunstanton (Norfolk), which
have been fortunately preserved from 1519
o 1578, many kinds of fish are mentioned,
and among them one called the " skull
slyce." Mr. H. le Strange, the present
owner of these MS. accounts, also finds it
spelt " sculleslyes," and " skulk, slyce " in
one passage.
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" Skull " is probably the plaice ; skolla
and sand-slcddda are Swedish names for this
species, and skulder Danish ; but the second
word " slyce " is a complete puzzle, and
assistance in explaining it would be welcome,
as no word in the dictionary seems to
answer to it. J. H. GUBNEY.
Keswick Hall. Norwich.
A SISTER OF THE CONQUEROR : BUDD. —
Will readers of ' N. & Q.' learned in Norman
history reply if anything is known of Jean
Budd, a Baron during the time of Charles
the Great ? —
" As a reward for his military services, Jean
Budd was given a domain on the Norman sea coast.
His descendant, William Budd, founded the town
of Rye, and during the Norman invasion of France
he housed the King. His descendant, Richard
Budd, had four sous, three of whom became sailors,
and subsequently settled in the town of Rye,
Sussex. Jean Budd, who succeeded to the barony,
came over at the time of William the Conqueror,
and landed at Rye, where his relatives were living.
He distinguished himself during the Norman inva-
sion of 1066, and married a sister of William the
Conqueror. He subsequently became Earl of
Sussex."
The above is a quotation from a pamphlet,
published in America, by W. C. Rucker,
entitled ' William Budd, Pioneer Epidemi-
ologist.' Any light upon this subject and
the family of Budd will be welcome to
A DWELLER IN KENT.
THE DOMINICAN ORDER. — What books
best throw insight on the history of the
Dominican Order, its tradition and training ?
Information will oblige.
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
THE ^PAPYRUS AND ITS PRODUCTS.
(12 S. ii. 348.)
IN Ancient Egypt there was much pairs
bestowed upon the cultivation of the papyrus
plant. It grew in marshy lands and in
shallow brooks. The right of growing it
belonged to the Government, and they made
a very good thing out of the monopoly.
The mode of making papyri was this : the
interior of the stalks of the plant, after the
rind had been removed, was cut into thin
slices in the direction of their length, and
these being laid on a flat board, in succession,
similar slices were placed over them at
right angles; and their surfaces being
cemented together by a sort of glue, and
subjected to a proper degree of pressure and
well dried, the papyrus was completed. The
length of the slices depended, of course, on
the breadth of the intended sheet, as that of
the sheet on the number of slices placed in
succession beside each other ; so that, though
the breadth was limited, the papyrus might
be extended to an indefinite length.
Wilkinson's ' Ancient Egyptians ' (Birch's
edition) is the best authority upon papyrus
in connexion with the different uses to which
it was put. In vol. ii. pp. 180-81 there are
given a number of illustrative quotations
from Pliny. Pliny says that the roots of
the plant were made into firewood, and he
says further that the Egyptians constructed
small boats out of the plant, and from the
rind they made sails, mats, clothes, bedding,
and ropes : —
"They ate it either crude or cooked, swallowing
only the juice ; and when they manufacture paper
from it they divide the stem, by means of a kind
of needle, into thin plates or laminae, each of
which is as large as the plant will admit."
There then follows Pliny's account of how
the paper was made (Wilkinson, vol. ii.).
The monopoly of the papyrus in Egypt
increased the price of it, so that persons in
humble life could not afford to use it. Few
documents, therefore, are met with written
upon papyrus except funeral rituals, the
sales of estates, and official papers, which
were absolutely required ; and so valuable
was it that they frequently obliterated the
old writing and inscribed another document
upon the same sheet (Wilkinson, vol. ii,
p. 183).
Theophrastus says that papyrus was used
to make garlands for the shrines of the gods.
It was from the stem of the plant that boats
were made. Priests' sandals were also made
of it, and it was used as tow for caulking the
seams of ships. King Antigonus made the
rigging of his fleet of the same material.
The rush and the bulrush of the Bible were
identical with papyrus. See Tristram's
' Natural History of the Bible,' 9th edition,
1898, p. 433.
Since the seventeenth century attempts
have been made to revive the use of the
papyrus, and although the cultivation of the
plant is extinct or almost extinct in Egypt,
it exists elsewhere. It flourishes, for in-
stance, in Palestine, and grows luxuriantly
in a swamp at the north end of the plain of
Gennesaret. It is still to be found in
Syracuse, but it was doubtless transplanted
thither from its original habitat, as there is
no reference found to it in Syracuse before
1674. Wilkinson confirms its use and the
attempts to revive it. He says : —
" Some few individuals, following the example
of the Cavaliere Saverio Landolina Nava of
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511
Syracuse, continue to make it [papyrus paper],
and sheets from the plant which still grows in the
small rivulet formed by the fountain of Cyane, near
Syracuse, are offered to travellers as curious
specimens of an obsolete manufacture. I have
seen some of these small sheets of papyrus. The
manner of placing the pieces is the same as that
practised in former times ; but the quality of the
paper is very inferior to that of Ancient Egypt,
owing either to the preparation of the slices of the
stalk before they are glued together, or to the
coarser texture of the plant itself, certain spots
occurring here and there throughout the surface,
which are never seen on those discovered in the
Egyptian tombs."
The manufacture of papyrus at Syracuse
in modern times is further referred to by M.
Dureau de la Malle in the Memoir es de
r Academic des Inscriptions for 1851. He
says : —
"Un jeune Anglais, M. Stoddhart [sic], quo j'ai
connu en 1834 quand ce me"moire e"tait acheve', a
fabrique" & Syracuse avec le papyrus de Sicile un
papier tout semblable aux anciens papyrus
recueillis dans les tombeaux egyptiens : il a donne
aux Bibliotheques du roi et oe 1'Institut deux
tableaux contenant des e"chantillons de toutes
sortes de papiers propres a 1'e'criture ou i 1'im-
pression qu'il a tires du papyrus syracusien," &c.
I beg to add a few bibliographical notes
which I hope will be useful to DR. HUBBY.
Wilkinson is specially valuable. He is
brief, but he is accurate in describing the
methods used. I fear that comparatively
few people are aware what a vast body of
knowledge is contained in Birch's edition
of Wilkinson. The most complete survey of
the whole subject is by M. Dureau de la
Malle, and is in the Memoires de V Academic
des Inscriptions for 1851, vol. xix. pp. 140-83.
This paper has the substance of a whole
book in it, and various headings deal with
' Limites de la croissance et de la culture du
papyrus,' ' Limites extremes de 1'usage et
de la duree du papier de papyrus,' ' Usages
du papyrus,' ' Fabrication du papier,' &c.
Pliny has much to say about the making of
papyrus; and with Pliny should be read
Guilandini's Commentary upon these
special papyrus chapters in the naturalist's
book.
In The Library Journal, New York, 1878,
vol. iii. pp. 323-4, is a brief but very useful
article, by Ezra Abbot of Harvard Univer-
sity, upon ' Ancient Papyrus and the Mode
of making Paper from It. The special value
of this article is that it points out some
absurd errors into which previous writers
on the subject have fallen. The article is
filled with useful references. For the
manufacture of the paper in Sicily there is
Parlatore's ' M^moire sur le papyrus des
anciens et sur le papyrus de Sicile,' 1854.
Wattenbach's ' Das Schriftwesen im Mittel-
alter,' Leipzig, 1896, has several pages
(96-111) packed with references. He agrees
in placing Dureau de la Malle's article first
in his list of authorities upon papyrus.
The Comte de Caylus contributed to the
twenty-third volume of the Academic des
Inscriptions a ' Memoire sur le papyrus
et sur la fabrication,' pp. 267-320. This is
historical and botanical. There is also
Montfaucon's ' Dissertation sur la plante
appellee papyrus ' in the Academic des
Inscriptions, vol. vi. (1729). The article
' Papyrus ' in the last edition of the ' Ency.
Brit.' is by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson,
and is specially good, dealing in detail with
the various qualities of papyrus and their
names, and also with their various sizes
and thicknesses and geographical distri-
bution. The article in Larousse's ' Dic-
tionary ' is packed with facts and a
marvel of condensation, and gives among
his authorities ' Essai sur les livres dans
1' antiquit6,' par Geraud, 1838, and also
Egger, ' Le papier dans 1'antiquite et
dans les temps mod ernes,' 1866. Mr. R. W.
Sindall's book on ' The Manufacture of
Paper,' 1908, is one of the few illustrated
authorities. It gives on p. 3 a picture of a
sheet of papyrus showing the layers crossing
one another. This illustration is, I believe,
taken from Mr. L. Evans's ' Ancient Paper-
Making,' London, 1896. This appeared at
the end of a book upon the Dickinson paper-
making firm. Bodoni of Parma issued
Domenico Cirillo's ' Cyperus Papyrus ' (now
a very rare book).
There is an article in The Pharmaceutical
Journal, vol. xv., 1855, ' On Papyrus and
Other Plants which can furnish Fibre for
Paper Pulp.' Matthias Koops's ' Historical
Account of the Substances used to convey
Ideas from the Earliest Date to the Invention
of Paper ' may contain some facts, but I
have not looked at it. There are a few
modern books, specially Karabacek's ' Das
Arabis^he Papier,' Vienna, 1887; C. Paoli,
' Del Papiro,' Florence, 1878 ; G. Cosentino,
' La Carta di Papiro ' (in Archivio Slorim
Siciliano, 1889, pp. 134-64) ; G. Ebers,
' The Papyrus Plant,' in The Cosmopolitan
Magazine, vol. xv. C. M. Briquet, who is the
greatest authority on water- marks, issued at
Berne in 1888 ' Le Papier Arabe au moyen
age et sa fabrication.' Last and by no means
least, Cross and Sevan's book upon the
manufacture of paper (Spon) is by two
eminent paper analysts and chemists.
A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187 Piccadilly, W.
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AX ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740
(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151. 163
191, 204, 229,243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353
364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473,482.)
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA (continued).
2nd Horse Grenadier Guards
(ante, pp. 43, 192).
William Brereton was wounded at Fon
tenov, 1745 ; and was lieutenant-colonel o:
the regiment, April 9, 1746, to May 18, 1747
Royal Horse Guards (ante, pp. 44, 192).
Lieut. -Col. John Wyvill m. Frances (tire-
woman to Queen Caroline), daughter o:
Peter Goode, and relict of Richard Pigot o:
Westminster (who d. Dec. 31, 1720, father
of George, Lord Pigot).
Thomas Markham is an error for Marcham
(see Dalton, vol. vi.). The London Mag.
says : " Died 4 Sept., 1753, Capt. Thomas
Marcham, who served 40 years in the Royal
Regiment of Horse Guards Blue, and whose
family have had commissions in that corps
for above 90 year.?."
Capt. John Lloyd was wounded at
Fontenoy.
Henry Miget (presumably son of Henry
Miget, exempt and eldest captain 3rd Horse
Guards, July 17, 1714) is said to have been
made, as " Henry Migil, Brigadier and Major
in the Blue Guards," October, 1743 (Gent.
Mag.), but this seems clearly a mistake.
The London Mag. for October, 1743, says :
" Henry Migil, app. Brigade Major of the
Blue Guards v. Major Goddard deceased."
He appears as " Captain Lieutenant Migges,"
wounded at Fontenoy, 1745 (Gent. Mag.).
Died April 20, 1755, " Henry Migett, Esq.,
captain in the Horse Guards Blue who during
40 years' service in the army was never known
to do an arbitraiy act, or heard to swear an
oath " (London Mag.).
Major John Powlett, who d. July 2, 1740
(p. 132), could not have been the cornet in
the Blues, John Powlett, who was made
lieutenant therein, Dec. 10, 1739.
Hon. John Needham was exempt and
captain 2nd Troop of Horse Guards till he
resigned, November, 1748.
William Campbell was M.P. for Glasgow
Burghs, 1734-41 (' Parl. Returns'), but
Foster's ' Scots M.P.s ' says nothing more
about him. I suggest he was the William
Campbell who was one of the four Gentlemen
Ushers, Quarter Waiters to the Queen, with
a salary- of 100Z. in 1734 (1 appointed 1727)
till her Majesty's death, 1737 ; and one of
the two Equerries (300Z.) to the Duke of
Cumberland in 1741.
George Eyre became captain-lieutenant,
and was further gazetted captain in the
regiment, Sept. 1, 1753.
Hugh Forbes was major of the regiment,.
Dec. 17, 1756, to Dec. 29, 1758.
The King's Horse (ante, pp. 44, 231).
Major Carr is said by The Gent. Mag. to-
have been killed at Dettingen, 1743, though
this was a mistake (see p. 231) ; but Capt.
Meriden, Lieut. Draper, and Cornet Allcroft
were killed, and Lieut. Wallis was wounded
there.
Capt. Nathaniel Smith (first reported
killed) was wounded at Dettingen, 1743. He-
was Deputy Governor of South Sea Castle
(91Z. 5s.) in 1748, till 1765; appointed
Comptroller of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea
(100Z.) between 1750 and 1753 ; and was
major thereof (" 1501. a year, 5 chaldron of
coal, 100 Ib. of candles "), December, 1761,
to 1765; and lieutenant-governor thereof
(400Z.) from Nov. 6, 1765, till he d. Jan. 14,
1773 (see p. 132).
" Thomas Strudwick, Esq. ; a Gentleman
of a large Estate in Sussex, m. Oct. 1743 to
Miss Caroline Onslow, a Relation to the Lord
Onslow " (London Mag.).
In August, 1743, William Lacombe was
made captain, v. Meriden ; Charles Shrimpton
Boothby made captain-lieutenant ; James
Wharton and Wilh'am Lightfoot made-
ieutenants. The last named was serving in
ermany in 1761 ; and was captain in the
regiment, Dec. 25, 1755, till he d. Sept. 24,.
1762.
Henry Devic was presumably father of
Henry Devic, captain-lieutenant 1st RoyaV
Dragoons, Nov. 18, 1760, to Nov. 18, 1768,
rom lieutenant in the same ; served in
jrermany in 1761.
The Gent. Mag. says James Wharton was
made major 2nd Dragoon Guards, January ,.
754, but this was an error.
The Queen's Horse (ante, pp. 45, 232).
Capt. Robert Stringer d. shortly before
an. 26, 1751.
Capt. Wyndham resigned January, 1751..
William Chaworth of Umneoton, Notts,
m. April 6, 1755, Miss Julia Blake of iEaston,
somerset, " with a fortune of 30.000Z."
Solomon Stevenson was made Clerk cf the
.very between 1734 and 1737. He resigned
s captain in the regiment, January, 1751.
James Mure Campbell was captain and;
ieutenant-colonel 3rd Foot Guards (not
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lieutenant-colonel llth Dragoons), June 2
1756, till May 7, 1757.
Earl of Home, captain and lieutenant
colonel 3rd Foot Guards, April 10, 1743
captain and lieutenant-colonel, July, 1743
brevet-cc lonel, Nov. 29, 1745.
John Cope, Gentleman Usher to George IT.
was the second and younger son of Sir John
Cope, 6th Bart., M.P.', of Hanwell.co. Oxford
who d. Dec. 8, 1749.
Wade's Horse (ante, pp. 84, 312).
Hon. William Bellenden, apparently seconc
lieutenant-colonel 3rd Horse Guards, 174"
till reduced, Dec. 25, 1746.
Delete the paragraph on p. 312 relating
to William Wade.
Ruishe Hassell was never major of the
Blues, but he was major of Wade's Horse,
July 11, 1741, to June 1, 1744. He died
" in Hassel's Buildings, June 6, 1749 ;
he bequeathed his estate of above 2,OOOZ.
per aim. to his wife, sole daughter and
heiress of late Lord Stawell of Alder-
maston, Berks " (Gent. Mag.). She was his
second wife. Her father was William, 3rd
Lord Stawell, who d. 1742, when the title
went to his brother, Edward, 4th and last
Lord Stawell, who d. 1755 (when it be-
came extinct), leaving an only surviving
child, Mary, created Baroness Stawell, 1760.
She married (1) the Hon. and Right Hon.
Henry Bilson Legge, M.P., Chancellor of the
Exchequer, 1754 to 1755, and 1756 to 1761,
who d. 1764 ; and (2) the Earl of Hillsborough
(see ante, p. 137).
John Ball was major of the regiment,
June 1, 1744, to March 26, 1748. The Gent.
Mag. records the death on Feb. 11, 1768, of
" Major Ball, who commanded Wade's horse
at the taking of the Highland deserters in
Ladywood. (See vol. xiii. p. 273.)"
Marlborough' s Dragoons (ante, pp. 85, 313)-
Samuel Gumlev's marriage is given in The
Gent. Mag., Sept. 10, 1751, as " Hon. Col.
Gumley, brother to the Countess of Bath, to
the relict of late Colvil, Esq."
Robert Abbott, major of the regiment,
April 24, 1742 ; cornet and major 4th Troop
Horse Guards, June, 1745, till reduced,
Dec. 25, 1746 ; first major 1st Horse Guards,
July 17, 1749 ; second lieutenant and
lieutenant-colonel thereof, June 5, 1754, till
Aug. 8, 1755.
William Wentworth was one of the Prince
of Wales's four Gentlemen Waiters (100Z.)
in 1734 (? appointed 1727), but not in 1741 ;
and one of his two Gentlemen Ushers, Daily
Waiters (150Z.), in 1745 till 1751.
Henry Gore, guidon and major 2nd Horse-
Guards," May 1, 1745, to 1749. Query son
of Humphrey Gore, colonel of the regiment,.
1723 to 1739.
Elias Brevet was in 1761, but not in 1770,.
on half-pay of captain of Brigadier-General
Pocock's Foot (reduced).
Francis Rainsford was on half-pay of cor-
net en second in Hawley's Royal Regiment
of Dragoons, reduced 1748, from that date*
until he d. between 1772 and 1777.
James Surtees became lieutenant in Haw-
ley's Dragoons (the 1st Royals), Aug., 1743,..
and afterwards captain.
Lieut. B. Gallotin made captain in the-
regiment, December, 1744.
North British Dragoons (ante, pp. 85, 313).
In July, 1740, " Sir Thomas Hay, Bart., a
captain in the Scotch Grej-s, m. the Lady.
Byron " (London Mag.). She was Frances,,
widow of William, 4th Lord Byron, whose
third wife she had been, second daughter of
William, Lord Berkeley of Stratton. The
London Magazine gives the death, on
Dec. 20, 1751, of " Hon. Sir Robert Hay, of
Linplum, in Scotland, bart., who had served
many years as lieutenant-colonel of the-
Scots Greys, and behaved as a brave and
gallant officer."
Alexander Forbes was major till he suc-
ceeded Sir Thomas Hay as lieutenant-colonel
of the regiment, June, 1745, to Feb. 3, 1747.
George Macdougal succeeded Forbes as
major, June, 1745, and as lieutenant-colonel
Feb. 3, 1747, till Nov. 29, 1750.
George Mure, second son of James Mure-
>f Rhoddens, Ireland (and brother to William
Mure, who succeeded to Caldwell, co. Ayr,
and d. 1722), was lieutenant-colonel Scots
Greys, and (with his brother Capt. Alexander
Mure) was wounded at Fontenoy. He mar-
ried Jane Rattray of Craighall, widow of.
Sir J. Elphinstone of Logie, co. Aberdeen,
and his descendants settled at Herringswelh
House, Suffolk (' Landed Gentry '). I think,
however, that Burke made a mistake in
stating that he was lieutenant -colonel of
the Scots Greys. He succeeded William
Laurence as captain-lieutenant of that regi-
ment in December, 1740 (Gent. Mag., where
is called More), but I cannot trace him.
as holding field rank.
William Wilkinson made captain in Lord
Bury's 20th Royal Regiment of Foot,,
March 18, 1750 ; major 56th Foot, Dec. 21,,
L755 ; lieutenant-colonel (new) 72nd Foot*
April 19, 1758 ; lieutenant-colonel 50th
Foot, Aug. 24, 1758, till May 22, 1761 ;
serving in Germany, 1761 ; a Gentleman.
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her, Quarter Waiter in Ordinary to the
' King, May. 1758 (not 1755) till 1761.
Jenkyn Lcyson was evidently a Welsh-
man. It is st ill a family name in Glamorgan,
e-pecially at Neath and Swansea.
James Erskine succeeded Mure, promoted,
as lieutenant, December, 1740.
John Forbes succeeded Macdougal as
major of the regiment, Feb. 3, 1747, and as
lieutenant-colonel, Nov. 29, 1750, to Feb. 25,
1757, and had served on the staff as a deputy
quartermaster-general with the rank of
brevet lieutenant-colonel from Dec. 24, 1745.
He was colonel 17th Foot, Feb. 25, 1757, till
•death ; local brigadier-general in America,
.Jan. 1, 1758 ; took Fort'du Quesne, Nov. 24,
1758 ; and died on his return from there,
May 23, 1759 : " That worthy officer,
Brigadier-General John Forbes, commander
of his Majesty's forces in the southern pro-
vinces of North-America, at Philadelphia,
49 " (London Mag.).
The King's Dragoons (ante, pp. 86, 353).
Joshua (not Joseph, p. 353) Guest was
Brigadier to the Forces in North Britain
(II. 10s. per diem) in 1737, and also Barrack-
master-general there (ll. per diem) in 1727,
both till he d. Oct. 14, 1747.
John Parsons (query son of Col. John
Parsons, Coldstream Guards, ante, p. 164)
was a Gentleman Usher, Quarterly Waiter
(100J.) to the Princess Dowager of Wales,
1763 till her death February, 1772.
W. R. WILLIAMS.
( To be continued. )
CHARLES COTTON'S ' COMPLEAT GAME-
STER ' (6 S. ix. 321, 381, 498; 7 S. vii. 461).
— Two more editions of this work should bo
-added to the list given by MB. JULIAN MAR-
SHALL. One, with title : —
"Instructions | How to Play at | Billiards,
Trucks, Bowls, | and Chess. | Together with all
Manner of | Games I either on | Cards or Dice.
To which is added the | Arts and Mysteries | of
Riding, Racing, Archery, | and Cockfighting.
London, | Printed for Charles Brome, at the Gun
| at the West End of S. Paul's. 1687."
•Collation, as in the edition of 1680. It will
be noticed that the words ' The Compleat
•Gamester ' are not on the title-page, but
they are at the head of the frontispiece,
which is the same as that of 1680 ; " printed
for Hen. Brome " at bottom.
I have always thought it strange that of
-a book which was so much in demand as to
have run through four editions between 1674
-and 1687. and five between 1709 and 1726,
.there was no edition between 1687 and 1709,
but in Prof. Arber's ' Reprint of the Term
Catalogues, 1668-1709,' I find a record of
another edition which in one respect is more
important than any of the others. It bears
the title of : —
" The Compleat Gamester, or Instructions how
to play Billiards. Trucks, Bowls, and Chess.
Games at Cards, Picket, Gleek. L'Ombre, Crib-
bidge, All Fours, Whist, French Ruff, Five Cards,
Costly Colours, Bone Ace, Put, Wit and Reason,
Art of Memory, Plain Dealing, Queen Nazareen,
Lanterloo, Penneech, Post and Pair, Bankaleet,
Beast. Games in the Tables, Irish, Back Gammon,
Tick-Tack, Doublets, Sice-Ace, Ketch-dolt. Games
without the Tables, Inn and Inn, Passage, Hazard.
With the Art of Riding the Great Horse, or any
other. Also Racing, Archery, and Cock -Fighting.
By Charles Cotton, Esq. Price 18d. Printed for
C. Brome at the Gun at the West End of St. Paul's."
This was entered in May, 1699, and is the
only entry of ' The Compleat Gamester '
bearing the name of Charles Cotton as the
author, and is 35 years earlier than what
had been supposed to be the first mention of
his name in connexion with the book. I
have never seen or heard of a copy of this
edition, and I should be very glad to know
of one if it exists.
MR. MARSHALL was uncertain whether Cot-
ton was also the author of ' Leathermore, or
Advice concerning Gaming. . . .1711 ' (see
6 S. ix. 321), or whether there was an earlier
edition about 1667. The latter suggestion
is the correct one. I have a copy of
" The Nicker, Nicked ; | or, the j Cheats I of |
Gaming | Discovered. | The Third Edition | Felix
quern faciunt aliena pericula fcautum. | Licensed,
Novemb. 4th, 1668. I London, [ printed in the year
1669." (12 pp. 4to).
The subject-matter is ^headed ' Leather-
more's Advice ; concerning Gaming,' and is
identical with that of the edition of 1711,
concluding with the Sonnet by the Lord
Fitz-Gerald. The pamphlet is reprinted
" from the third edition, 1698," in ' The
Harleian Miscellany,' vol. ii. F. JESSEL.
52 Park Mansions, Kuightsbridge.
SIR THOMAS ANDREW LUMISDEN STRANGE
(12 S. ii. 469).— About 1877-80 there was
published a work entitled either ' Burroughs
and Newburgh ' or ' Strange and Newburgh,'
which dealt with the families of Burroughs,
Strange, and Newburgh. I was shown a
portion of this work by Mrs. Edmund
Ffoulkes, the wife of the then Vicar of the
University Church (St. Mary's), Oxford,
herself a daughter of Sir Thomas Strange,
granddaughter of Sir William Burroughs,
Bart., and like my grandmother, Mrs.
Nicholas Skottowe, a cousin of the then Lord
Waterpark. I should think this work, if it
can be identified, would give the information
12 s. ii. DEC. 23, 1916.] N OTES AND QUERIES.
515
desired. Sir Thomas's second wife was
Louisa Burroughs, daughter of Sir William
Burroughs, Bart., sister of Letitia, Lady
Ogle (wife of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle,
Bart., of Worthy, Hants), and cousin of
Admiral Sir William Burroughs. My father,
Thomas Britiffe Skottowe (3rd Baron
'Skottowe), was on the most intimate terms
with his cousins the young Stranges and
their parents, but I have lost sight of the
survivors, so am unable to apply to them.
I have a print of Lawrence's portrait of Sir
Thomas as Recorder of Madras, and also
portraits of Lady Strange, Letitia. Lady
Ogle, and Lady Burroughs (nee Skottowe).
The print of Sir Thomas gives merely the
year of his appointment, and adds " after-
wards Chief Justice of Madras." I have no
data as to date and place of his second
marriage. B. C. S.
Sir Thomas married at St. Mary's Church,
Fort St. George, on Oct. 11, 1806, Miss Louisa
Burroughs, youngest daughter of Sir William
Burroughs, Bart. See Mrs. F. E. Penny's
' History of Fort St. George,' Madras, p. 113 ;
or her ' Marriages at Fort St. George,' Madras
(Genealogist, N.S., vols. xix.-xxiii.).
As to the date of his appointment as
Recorder of Madras, it was reckoned ac-
"cording to the Company's rule from the date
of arrival in Madras, which was in 1798, as
the ' D.N.B.' records. FRANK PENNY.
HENBY FIELDING : Two CORRECTIONS
(2. ' Voyage to Lisbon,' 12 S. i. 284).— The
discovery- by MR. DE CASTRO of the item in
The Public Advertiser rioting the arrival of
the Queen of Portugal at Lisbon on Aug. 6,
1754, as related by MR. AUSTIN DOBSON, is
of great interest, confirming as it does the
chronology of the voyage as indicated by
internal evidence alone. Fielding's dates
from Wednesday, June 26, 1754, when he
went aboard ship at Rotherhithe, until
Fri'lay, July 19, when he went ashore at
Ryde, are manifestly given correctly. The
next date in the ' Journal,' however, is
Sunday, July 19," and this is as manifestly
an error, as in 1754 July 19 was not a Sunday,
and the correct date must be either July 14
or 21. To select the later date would be to
suggest that he remained in Ryde twelve
:l;i,ys, and that for seven of them his ' Journal'
u^.s not touched. This is most imlikely,
x-cially as the text indicates that this
Sunday, which he calls the 19th, was
obviously the second day at the ale-house.
Kii.rly in the morning he summons Mrs.
Francis with her bill, whicn on this first
occasion he reproduces in full, and when he
settles his final bill he is charged with a
pound of candles, observing " we had only
burnt ten in five nights." This is conclusive
as to the length of his stay, and if we correct
the date of this Sunday to the 14th, as they
leffc on the following Thursday, which was
the 18th, it allows just the five nights re-
quired by the text. The error, however, is
continued until Sunday the 21st, which he
calls the 26th. After that he avoids the day
of the month altogether, giving the weekday
only, save that in the first edition Wednesday
the 24th is called the 20th. If these correc-
tions are made in the text, as they should be
in future editions, they will show that the
vessel cast anchor in the Tagus on Tuesday,
Aug. 6, about noon, and this agrees wholly
with che record in The Public Advertiser.
It is more than likely that when Fielding
went ashore at Ryde he did not take with
him the manuscript of his journal, and hence
had not that reminder of the day of the
month, but continued his writing with fresh
sheets. On the vessel also he would pro-
bably have access to the ship's almanac, a
convenience which we may conclude the
ale-house was without. Fielding must have
discovered his error on his return to the
ship, but being disinclined to correct the
errors at this time he postponed the revision
of the text until he should grow stronger,
and therefore it was never performed at all.
FREDERICK S. DICKSON.
215 West 101st Street. New York.
EYES CHANGED IN COLOUR BY FRIGHT
(12 S. ii. 350, 457). — Ocular heterochromia
is discussed in a recent volume of the
'American Encyclopedia and Dictionary of
Ophthalmology,' viii. pp. 5807-10. Nearer
the point in this query was the issue raised
in a cause celebre at St. Louis early in 1912 ;
on a question of identity, experts testified
that there is no case on record wherein the
eyes of a man have changed colour, but a
deposition was introduced to the effect that
the deponent's had changed colour after he
had reached maturity. The following item,
which I sent to counsel, was stated by them
to be very material then, and it seems
directly to the point here, to wit : a clipping,
indirectly from (London) Mail of about
Dec. 10, 1911, runs as follows : —
" The possibility of a man's eye changing colour
as the result of a mental shock or physic.il ill-
treatment was the subject of an intc-n^t intr dis-
cussion in the eye ward of one of the great London
hospitals. One of the surgeons said : ' 11 is
common knowledge that great physical hardship*
may suddenly turn the h'lir white. The loss of
colour here follows on certdn chemical change's,
due to disturbances of nutrition, takii\g place in
516
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. DEC. 23, ioi&
the tiny particles of colouring matter which give
the hair its colour. All infants at birth have blue
< yi >. In some babies immediately after birth
pigment granules begin to develop in the iris.
Thus they become brown- or black-eyed. In
others, however, no such pigment formation takes
place and the eyes remain blue or grey through-
out life.
" ' If this, at present blue-eyed former convict,
is really the missing brown-ejed banker, a rea-
sonable explanation of the discrepancy in the eye-
colouring would be that under the stress of phy-
sical and mental shock the colouring matter,
which had in early life developed in such iris, had
atrophied or disappeared, leaving the eyes the
original blue colouring present at birth.' "
ROCKINGHAM.
Boston, Mass.
JOHN PRINE, 1568 (12 S. ii. 390). — There
is a lithographic engraving of the inscription
in ' Inscriptions and Devices, in the Beau-
champ Tower, Tower of London,' by William
Robertson Dick (preface dated 1853),
Plate XXX. The letterpress, p. 28, says :—
" This person is said to have been a Romish
priest, confined during the reign of Elizabeth, for
adhering to the Romish plots against her govern-
ment."
In the inscription, according to the
lithograph, the date 1568 does not exhibit
the same care as that given to " Verbum,"
&c., and the name. Before 1568 is what
may be " 6 Fb."
As the T at the end of " manet " is un-
finished, apparently formed by shallow
incisions only, it may be that " 6 Fb " was
hurriedly scratched by Prine. Possibly he
was put to death on Feb. 6, if what appears
to be "6 Fb " means that date.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
J. T. STATON (12 S. ii. 391). — James
Taylor Staton was born Jan. 16, 1817, in
Bradshawgate, Bolton, and was early left an
orphan. He was sent to Chetham's College,
Manchester, to be educated, and there acted
as servant to the Governor. On leaving
that institution he was bound apprentice
to Mr. Holden, letterpress printer, Bolton,
and eventually started in business for him-
self, occupying two or three different ad-
dresses in the town until 1863, when he
removed to Manchester, and entered the
employ of John Heywood. He returned to
his native town in 1867 as a journalist to
his former fellow apprentice, John Tillotson,
acting as sub-editor and overseer of The
Bolton Evening News until 1871. After a
short engagement as editor of The Farn-
worth Observer (1872-3), he again went to
Manchester, and continued in the service
of Heywood as reader until his death on
May 26, 1875. He was twice married, and'
had ten children by his first wife. He was
one of the most prolific dialect writers Lan-
cashire has produced, and my Bibliography
of him (which may not be complete) has
forty titles. He put into the Lancashire-
dialect, as spoken in Bolton, the Song of
Solomon at the request of Prince Lucian
Buonaparte, and he edited The Bowton
Luminary, un Turn Foiut Telegraph, which
ran into 14 volumes (1852-62), and which
was continued as The Lankishire loominary,
un wicldy lookin-glass, when he went to
Manchester in 1863. It ceased publication
with the second volume in 1865. Several
of his sketches went into a second edition,,
and most of them were " comic " or " hu-
morous," and enjoyed considerable popu-
larity in a day when dialect literature had
a " vogue," and especially so at the famous
" penny readings " of the time.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
[Particulars will also be found in our corre-
spondent's work ' Bibliographia Boltonensis'
(Manchester University Press, 1914-)].
CHRISTOPHER URSWICK (12 S. ii. 108, 197,.
259). — At the first reference mention was
made of a statement by Alfred von Reumcnt
that Christopher Urswicfc of Bambridge was
Henry VIII. 's ambassador to Hungary. Is
there not some confusion here between
Christopher Urswick (1448-1522), who went
on several embassies for Henry VTL, and
Christopher Bainbridge (1464 7-1514), who
was Henry VIII. 's ambassador to Pope-
Julius II. ? Cooper, ' Athense Cantabri-
gienses,' vol. i. ' Additions and Corrections,'
p. 526, says that the two individuals are
confounded in Giustinian's Despatches, and
the ' D.N.B.' gives a warning in its life of
Christopher Bainbridge.
At p. 259 ante, the occurrence was noted
of Christopher Urswick among the dramatis
personce of ' Richard III.' He is a much
more prominent character in Ford's ' Perkin
Warbeck.' EDWARD BENSLY.
TILLER Bo WE, BRANDRETH, &c. (12 S. ii. .
430). — All these terms are fully explained
and illustrated in ' N.E.D. ' ; for " Bran-
dreth," see also ' Glossary to Durham Acct.
Rolls ' (Surtees Society). " Maubre " is an
obsolete form of marble, which sometimes
denotes a marble vessel or slab. J*. T. F.
Durham.
' DictionariumBritannicum,' by X.-Bailev>-
London, 1730, has : —
" Brandrith, «, rail or fence about a well."
" Gavelock, a Pick or Bar of Iron to entcc
Stakes into the Ground."
. B. H.
is s. ii. DKC. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
517
JOHN PRUDDE : " KING'S GLAZIER " (12 S.
ii. 430). — May I refer your correspondent to
The Antiquary, August, 1915, p. 291, where
the question of Prudde's office is dealt with
in relation to the Patent of Utynam for
glazing the King's Chapels at Windsor
^and King's College, Cambridge ? Whether
Prudde was superseded by Utynam or to
•work under his directions is uncertain. On
July 20, 1461, Patent 1 Ed. IV. pt. 1, m. 16,
Thomas Bye, citizen and glazier of London,
was appointed to the glaziery of the King's
-works, but by 1500, and probably earlier,
the influence of the Flemish School had
reasserted itself — Barnard Flower being at
work at Westminster and Greenwich with
Andreano Andrew and William Ashe
(Lethaby, ' Westm.,' p. 238), and soon after
this we find a Flemish colony established
firmly at Southwark. I think there can be
no doubt that the introduction of this
foreign element into, English stained glass is
connected with the dispute over the Fairford
glass, which was probably smuggled into
^England notwithstanding the protective
Act of 2 Ric. III., cap. 2, which forbade the
importation of painted glasses, i.e., ready-
made stained-glass windows.
Sevenoaks.
E. WYNDHAM HULME.
Prof. W. R. Lethaby in his ' Westminster
Abbey and the King's Craftsmen ' (1906),
p. 304, says : —
" John Pruddle, or Prudde, of Westminster,
wa s another famous glazier, who is named in the
Eton accounts in 1445-6 as chief glazier to the
King. About 1450 Prudde glazed the Beau-
champ Chapel at Warwick. About the same time
he supplied glass for GreenwicH Palace ' nourished
with marguerites, hawthorn buds, and daisies,'
the flowers of Henry VI. and his queen.
"In 1440-41 (19 Hen. VI.) John Prudde was ap-
pointed to ' the office of glazier of our works,'
"to hold it ' as Roger Gkmcestre ' had held it,
• with a shed called the glazier's lodge, standing
upon the west side within our palace of West-
minster.' A. R. BAYLEY.
PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172,
-211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458).— The north
^transept window, Luton Church, Beds :
Rev. James O'Neill, B.D., and Elizabeth
O'Neill.
Above the tomb of Bishop King, last
Abbot of Osney and first Bishop of Oxford,
in south aisle of Christ Church Cathedral is
an old window with his portrait.
In the vestibule of the Library at All
Souls' College, Oxford, are portraits of
Henry VI., Archbishop Chichele, and others.
I think there is also some portrait glass in
the chapel and hall.
All Saints' Church, York, has in its east
window Nicholas Blakeburn, Mayor 1429,
and his wife, and also Nicholas Blakeburn
junior, Sheriff of York, and his wife.
In the west oriel of the hall of Christ's
College, Cambridge, are figures representing
the benefactors and distinguished members
of the College.
In the Chapel of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, are figuras of John Harvard and
other College members.
The porch to the Lady Chapel at Liverpool
Cathedral has portraits of modern ladies.
A. G. KEALY.
Bedford.
A modern portrait in stained glass may be
seen ii.i the centre light of the chapel of
Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Carmelite
Church, Kensington. Below the Madonna
and Child is a round portrait of Herbert
Railton, a benefactor of the church. I am
unable to supply any details of the erection
of the window, but no doubt the Prior or
any one of the Fathers would give full
particulars.
It is worth noting that one lancet re-
presents St. Herbert, a figure who very rarely
appears in art of any kind.
MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.
In the east window of St. Peter, Hungate,
Norwich, is the effigy of Master Tho.
Andrew, the last rector to be presented by
the college of St. Mary-in-the-Fields before
its suppression. He died in 1468.
FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
54 Chapel Field Road, Norwich.
HUNGARY HILL, STOURBRIDGE (12 S.
ii. 430). — Harborne Hill in Birmingham was
in time past called Hungry- Hill, and the
name has generally been held simply to
mean barren land. It is alluded to, with a
slight difference in name, in Grafton's
' Chronicle,' where, speaking of " woe-
waters," the writer says there is one
" vij. mile a this syde the castle of Dodley, in
the place called Hungerevale ; that whenne it
betokenethe battayle it rennys foule and trouble
watere, and when betokenythe derth or pesty-
lence, it rennyth as clere as any watere."
This luckless water is running still, but
whether foul or clear it is little worth while
to inquire, since it is equally bad either way.
HOWARD S. PEARSON.
A full answer to this query will be found
on p. 74 of ' Worcestershire Place-Names,'
by the late W. H. Duignan, published in
1905. A. C. C.
518
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 ».n. DEC. 23,1916.
- ST. IXAN (12 S. ii. 348r 438).— Adam King
have invent rd this saint, but his
D r»uM not have been to fill a gap in
the calendar, because he had at least half-a-
dozen other saints at his disposal whose
fea-;t was celebrated by the Church on
Aug. 18. Sir Harris Nicolas has duly
included St. Inan in his ' Alphabetical
Calendar of Saints' Days ' (p. 154), but net
in the ' Roman and Church Calendar ' for
August (p. Ill), where on the 18th of that
month only the names of Agapitus, martyr,
and Helena, queen, are given. Cf. his
' Chronology of History.' Your correspon-
dent does not state whether he has consulted
the Bollandist Fathers' ' Acta Sajictorum '
under the date. L. L. K.
SIR WILLIAM OGLE : SARAH STJEWKELEY
(12 S. ii. 89, 137, 251, 296).— I beg to thank
W. R. W. and DIEGO for their helpful
replies. From the ' Verney Memoirs '
(vol. iii.) it appears that John Stewkelev
(b. 1612, d. 1684), brother of the 1st Bart",
was married for the second time, about 1653,
to Can,-, fourth daughter of Sir Edmund
Verney' (b. 1590, d. 1642), and that they had
daughters : Penelope, b. 1654 ; Gary, b. 1655 ;
Carolina, b. 1660; Isabella (?) ; and Cathe-
rine, who was called " Kitty Ogle " in 1695.
Who could her husband have been, and
when did she marry ? Before my attention
was drawn by DIEGO to the ' Verney
Memoirs ' I had noted that Dr. Newton
Ogle, Bishop of Winchester (b. 1726,
d. 1804), was a son of Nathaniel Ogle of
Northumberland, and that the Dean's
brother, Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, died at
Worthy, near Winchester, in September,
1816, aged 88. Who, then, was " Admiral
Sir Chaloner Ogle " of the ' Dictionary of
National Biography,' b. 1681, d. 1750 ?
Unfortunately, I only possess the Index of
that work, and in a remote country village
have no hope of seeing the original, cr any
book of reference likely to clear up the
mystery.
Then, with regard to Sir William, Viscount
Ogle (an Irish title), who died in 1682, was
he possibly related to
• Sir John Ogle (b. 1569, d. 1640), military
commander .... in the Low Countries, 1591;
knighted 1603 ; Governor of Utrecht for the
Stadtholder Maurice, 1610-18 ; granted coat of
armour by James I. ; member of the Council of
War, 1624 ; employed in Ireland under Went-
worth " ? — See ' D.N.B.'
Sir William Ogle was guardian of Sir
Thomas Phelips (slain on the Royalist side,
1644-5), and married Sir Thomas's mother,
Dame Ch arity Phelips.before May, 1 627. She
died October, 1645, during the siege of
Winchester Castle. I mention this because
Foster, in his ' Oxford Graduates,' under
' Ogle ' says : —
" William, B.A. 'from Merton College, 1st April,
1628. One Sir Wm. Ogle M.P. for Winchester
(L.P.) till disabled June, 1643. Created Viscount,
Ogle in Ireland, 1645."
(See also Foster's ' Parliamentary Dic-
tionary-.') He married Sarah, Lady Stewke-
ley, between 1645 and 1648. She was
Sarah, daughter of Sir John Daunt sey cf
Lavington, co. W7ilts, and was 11 years of
age at the Herald's Visitation of that
county in 1623. Any help to the solving of"
these difficulties will be gratefully received
by F. H. S.
[The ' D.N.B.' describes Admiral Sir Chaloner
Ogle, who died in 1750, as " brother of Nathaniel
Ogle, physician to the forces under. Marlbprough.
and apparently also of Nicholas Ogle, physician of
the blue squadron under Sir Clowdisley Shovell in
1697 He was married, but seems to have died
without issue."]
FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES
(12 S. ii. 469).— Augustus William Gadesden
(1840) of Ewell Castle, Surrey, J.P. and
D.L., Lord of the Manor of Fitznells,
Ewell. Born May 10, 1816 ; died Aug. 15,
1901. Buried at Ewell.
LEONARD C. PRICE.
Ewell, Surrey.
IRISH |( VOLUNTEER ) CORPS- c. 1780
(12 S. ii. 399). — There are numeeous relics
of the Irish Volunteers in the National
Museum, Dublin, some of which are described
in Museum Bulletin, vol. iii. part i., Dublin,.
1913, pp. 8-11. See also 'Lady of the
House,' ^Dublin, Christmas, 1914.
J. ARDAGH.
' SIR GAMMER VAUS ' (12 S. ii. 410, 498)..
— Like W. S. I have a distinct recollection
of this curious production. Strange to say,
it appeared in a school reading-book, and
though it was avoided in class it was in
constant request in leisure hours. I have
never met with it since. The surname was
Vans, not "Vaus." JOHN T. PAGE.
[H. K. ST. J. S. thanked for reply.]
ZJlDSUMMER FlRES AND TWELFTH-DAY
FIRES IN ENGLAND (12 S. ii. 427).— Thirty
years ago it was the custom to light bonfires
on Midsummer Night on Carn Brea Hill,
Cornwall. Customs die slowly in the WTest,.
and probably this is still observed.
W. AVER.
12 s. ii. DEC. 23, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
519'
Jlofcs 0n Itooks.
Pepys on the Restoration Stage. Edited by Helen
Mi- \tee. (Yale University Press, $3 ; London,
Milford, 12s. 6d. net.)
THIS is a somewhat too mechanically constructed
book which, we regret to say, though it is beau-
tifully got up, seems to us of doubtful utility.
It contains an Introduction in three sections,
dealing respectively with the Critics and Pepys's
Material on the Stage ; Pepys as a Dramatic
Historian; and Pepys and the Restoration
Theatre. Though slight, this part is clear and
pleasingly written. If it had been filled out with
more numerous quotations, had contained some
thing more in the way of discussion, and had,
perhaps, been extended by a section on the plays
Pep\s saw performed, it would have made quite
as satisfactory a piece of work as we now have
before us, running to about five times the length
of the Introduction, and containing — with the
many repetitions which the plan makes unavoid-
able— the verbatim text of the scattered references
to the stage in the Diary, grouped under a dozen
headings and annotated. It may here and there
in*a decade save somebody the trouble of looking
up a set of pages from an index, but even that
person, if he is working with any purpose, will
probably have to turn to his Pepys to get the
atmosphere and setting of the detail he wants.
There is a good Bibliography.
Bibliographical Society of America : Papers.
Vol. X. No. 1, 1916! (Chicago, and Cambridge
University Press, 4s. net.)
THE principal paper of this number is that by
Mr. R. J. Kerner, entitled ' The Foundations of
Slavic Bibliography.' We are not quite prepared
to agree with this writer that " the burden of
impartial scholarship for the next generation has
fallen upon American scholars," but \ve are glad
to call attention to a careful and solid piece of
work, embracing the several fields of Slavic Litera-
ture, which should be of very definite use to
librarians and bibliophiles. It is followed by a
pleasing sketch of the work of the Norwegian
bibliographer, M. Pettersen, from the pen of Mr.
J. C. M. Hanson.
The Burlington Magazine begins with a very
attractive frontispiece — the reproduction by
Messrs. Duveen of Piero di Cosimo's tondo ' The
Virgin and Child,' which till lately was in the
collection of .Mr. A. K. Street. Alike in its detail,
in its massing, and in what it says, it is worthy of
close study, and this reproduction conveys as
much of the quality of the picture as any of its
kind could. Mr. W. B. Lethaby in his third study
of ' English Primitives ' deals with the Master of
the Westminster altarpiece, and after a learned
and deeply interesting discussion, making clear
that the Westminster retable is the work of the
greatest master of the day, invites us, and we
think with reason, to identify him with the
.Master of la Sa into Chapelle, and suggests that this
splendid work was a gift of St . I,<niis to Henry III.
This is a. most attractive article. Mr. F. .M. Kelly,
of whose work on costume readers of ' N. & Q.'
know something from our own columns, con-
tributes a second instalment of ' Shakespearian
Dress Notes,' this being on the farthingale. !!•
provides some amusing illustrations ; and we note-
particularly the cuts from Hoefnagel and an early
seventeenth-century Dutch print, which show
the farthingale without its overskirt. A series
of small bronzes by Pietro da Barga forms the-
topic of Signer Giacomo de Nicola's notes for this
month on the Museo Nazionale of Florence.
These are reduced replicas of great works of"
art — with hardly more than one exception
classical. The function of the artist was popu-
larization ; and his methods of rendering and
reduction, his understanding of the spirit of"
the work he was dealing with, as well as his
own temperament and skill, combine to make a
very interesting study. A new copy has been
discovered of the ' Lovers ' ascribed to Titian,.,
and this is reproduced side by side with the
Buckingham Palace version, which, since it was
discussed in The Burlington in 1906, has been
repaired and restored. Mr. Lionel Cust writes
a. short note upon it. The remaining articles are
Mr. Herbert Cescinsky's ' On Chippendale and
Hepplewhite,' and Mr. J. D. Milner's ' Two English
Portrait Painters ' (Dugy and Leigh). Mr. A.
Van de Put in an interesting and decisive letter
shows that Mr. Widener's picture ' Portrait Bust
of an Elderly Warrior,' attributed to Francesco
Bonsignori, is in fact a portrait of Francesco-
Sforza.
JOTTINGS FBOM THE DECEMBER
CATALOGUES.
MESSRS. MAGOS send us two Catalogues this;
month, the one (No. 351) describing over five
hundred engravings and etchings, the other
(No. 352) continuing from Catalogue No. 349
their list of autograph letters and MSS. The-
former includes some interesting caricatures, and'
some no [less noteworthy pictures on subjects
which the cataloguer has aptly grouped together-
under the heading ' Locomotion.' It contains
also a good list of aquatints, and we found some
of the topographical items among these pirticu-
larly attractive. Thus there is a fine impression
in colours of J. Carwitham's south-east view of
Boston (c. 1750), 351. ; and a pleasing view of
Quebec, by J. W. Edy after Fisher (1795),
181. 18s. Part II., which consists of ' Decorative
Engravings,' is also well worth looking through,
and contains, among other things equally
pleasant, Adam Buck's ' Mother's Hope and
' Father's Darling,' engraved by Freeman and
Stadler — unusually good impressions in which the-
colour-printing is remarkably pure and brilliant —
(1807), 631. the pair ; Peters*s ' Sophia,' engraved
by J. Hogg (1785), 121. 10s. ; and llembrandt's
' Standard - Bearer,' a mezzotint by W. Pother
(c. 1760), 45i. Of the portraits we may mention
the following examples of the work of J. B. Smith :
Gabriel Stuart's ' Earl of St. Vincent ' (1797),
31Z. 10s. ; Romney's ' Mrs. Carwardine and Child '
(1781), 571. 10s. ; and Lawrence's ' Mrs. Siddons '
(1783), 35Z.
If any of the recipients of Messrs. Maggs's
Catalogues are in the habit of presently throwing
them awaj , we would advise them to make an
exception in favour of the new list of autographs
and MSS. now before us, which goes beyond the
average in the high intrinsic interest and value of
a large proportion of the items. ' We confess
ourselves surprised to find how cheap are historical
520
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. DEC. 23. wie.
-originals of the early fifteenth century. Here
is a large folio vellum page, bearing four very fine
-wax seals, inscribed with a commercial treaty
between Henry V. and the Duke of Burgundy at
-Calais, Oct. 12, 1416, to be had for no more than
13?.: whilst another, concerning a commercial
treaty bi-tween England and Flanders, with the
of six ambassadors attached to it, belonging
1.. the previous reign, costs 21. less. The com-
piler of these Catalogue* supplies brief bio-
graphical and historical mites to his pieces — some
excellent and most useful, some of them, we think,
of a rather too naive type ; and we wonder, for
.•\aiuple. that it is still thought consonant with
the dignity of the sort of work these Catalogues
.in general present to remark of Philip II. of
Spain: "Married 'Bloody' Queen Mary of
England." An original Bull of the great Pope
Innocent III. is something worth having for 251.
It has the leaden Papal seal, and concerns the
excommunica tion of the burgesses of St. Omer for
wrongs towards a monastery, its date being 1202.
We noticed an autograph letter of James II. —
is Duke of York — to Pepys, with Pepys's own
hand in endorsement (Oct. 5, 1677), 151. ; that
letter of Dr. Johnson's to Fanny Burney (Nov. 19,
1783 : " Have we quarreled ? ") which Fanny
3t ts out in her diary, and which she endorsed
" F. B. flew to him instantly and most gratefully,"
offered for 3U. 10s.; and that pathetic letter
written bj Edmund Kean in his last illness which
brought his wife to his side to nurse him (Dec. 6,
1832), 251. Among several other good Kean
letters is one of about nine years earlier from that
same injured wife in vain offering reconciliation.
It is to be had for six guineas ; and if Edmund and
Mary Kean know about all this, how odd it must
. seem to them !
Mr. Reginald Atkinson, whose Catalogue
No. 22 has lately come to our hands, has several
learned works by modern editors which students
may like to hear of : thus, the 1910 edition of the
Paston letters, cheap at 11. Is. ; Prof. Wright's
' English Dialect Dictionary,' with Supplement,
• 6 vols. (1898-1905), 11. 10s. ; Skeat's ' Chaucer '
(1894-7), 6L 6s. ; and the facsimile of the First
• Quarto Shakespeare done under Dr. Furnivall's
supervision (1881-91), 131. 13s. Collectors of
original drawings are offered some good things
in sets of water-colours and pen-and-ink sketches
made for the illustrations of sundry publications
— principally for children — of Grant Richards.
Among old books Mr. Atkinson has ' Biblia Sacra
Latina,' in gothic letter, printed at Venice (1478),
51. 5s. ; and a ' Boccaccio ' printed at Venice
(Valgrisi, 1555), 31. 3s. The list of Autographs
contains many good items, and we were interested
to observe that a letter of two pages, dated last
year, by Mr. Joseph Conrad to Mr. Arthur Symons
is already in the market and may be expected to
fetch 21. 12s. Qd. There are autograph scores of
five songs by Sir Henry Bishop — all signed by him
at the top with the date 1835 — to be had for
21. 2a. ; a collection of some five hundred signatures
of historical personages belonging to the period
c. 1684 to c. 1780, 51. 5s. ; a " holograph " poem
of four stanzas signed by William Morris, written
on the same sheet with one of six lines signed by
Christina Knssetti (1874), 21. 2s.; and a MS. of
Christina Rossetti's, with a note of hers to
Ingram dated 1883, 11. lls. 6d. We may further
mention three good sets of ' Works ' : Stevenson,
^wanston Edition (1911-12), 12L 12s. ; Synge
(1910), 31. 15s. ; and those of Mr. W. B. Yeats
(1908), 31. 15s.; and an original water-colour
drawing of the 'Plains of Waterloo' made. ;:p-
parently, soon after the battle, and a collection
of 54 Japanese prints depicting scenes in the
Russo-Japanese War, each for 31. 3s.
M' .-.srs. Ellis begin their Catalogue No. 165 witli
an article on ' British Armorial Bindings,' of
which they have an important collection running
to 445 vols. and exhibiting over 380 stamps,
among which are nearly 250 not recorded in Mr.
Davenport's work on that subject (1909). The
collection is for sale en bloc. In the body of the
Catalogue appear three or four items which may
tempt the more opulent collector : such, for
example, is an early thirteenth-century Psalter of
150 leaves, having six full-page miniatures, and
many and various minor decorations. The
character is gothic, and, though no direct in-
dication is given as to the country from which it
comes, we gather it is Dutch or Flemish. It
belonged at one time to the Carthusians of
Buxheim. In the way of fifteenth-century work
there are a missal according to the vise of Utrecht,
with good decorated borders, 84/. ; and a Flemish
'Horse,' having two full - page miniatures, six
large illuminated initials, and 29 smaller ones,
with many other decorations, 3151. A very
interesting item is Nicholas Jensen's ' Macrobius,'
the " editio princeps " in Roman letter (1-172),
175Z. Later work is also represented, and wo
marked a first edition of Goldsmith's ' Good-
Natured Man ' (1768, 101. 10s.) ; and Dr. T. F.
Dibdin's ' Bibliographical Decameron ' (1817,
121. 12s.), which may serve as specimens of it.
(To be concluded next week.)
The Athenmim now appearing monthly, arrange-
ments have been made whereby advertisements of
posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to
publish weekly, may appear in the intervening
weeks in 'N. & Q.'
to (Eomspotttais.
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and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub-
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EDITORIAL communications should be addressed
to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries' " — Adver-
tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub-
lishers " — at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery
Lane, E.G.
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MR. S. A. GRCNDY-NEWMAN. — Many thanks.
We should like to have it.
MR- JAMES HOOPER. — For " that blessed
word ' Mesopotamia ' " see 11 S. i. 369, 458 ;
ii. 253.
MR. W. H. Fox. — Notes upon the opening of
King John's tomb will be found at 11 S. ix. 63,
155, 257. The story of the fish caught with
maggots taken from the shroud is given at the
last reference.
CORRIGENDUM. — P. 475, col. 1, 1. 10 from foot,
f or " Manby " read Manly.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1916.
CONTENTS.— No. 53.
:NOTKS :— Witchcraft : Case of Mrs. Hicks, 521— Biblio-
graphy of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns, 522—
English Arniv List, 524 — Gray : a Book of Squibs—
"Wipers": Ypres, 526— Addendum to Note on Dr.
Uvedale, 527— Kngland, Germany, and the Dye Industry
—Rev. John Williams, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford,
528.
•QUERIED :— William Monk of Buckingham in Old Shore-
ham, 528 — Heraldic Queries — Elizabeth Mael — C. R.
Maturin— Wriuley of Saddleworth— Riming History of
England—' The Union Star '—Colonels and Regimental
Expenses— Author Wanted — Cromwell : Gun Accident—
Marmadnke B. Sampson of ' The Times '—Dickens and
Henry VIII.— John Varley of Hackney, 529 -Fire putting
out F'"ire— 'The Regal Rambler': Thomas Hastings— Tod
Family— Peterborough Quarter Sessions — Fitzgerald —
Pronunciation of " ea " — Peacock Lore, 530 — Capt.
Edward Bass, 531.
(REPLIES : — " Dr." by Courtesy, 531 — Bath Forum —
"French's contemptible little army," 532— De la Porte
Family— Snakes and Music, 533— vvill of Prince Rupert—
"ffoliott" and "ffrench," 534— The Ghazel— Paul Fleet-
wood — Byron's Travels — Fieldingiana — The Western
Grammar School. Brompton, 535— The Sight of Savages
— Derham of Dolphinholme— Rev. Richard Rathbone—
Perpetuation of Printed Errors — Queen Elizabeth's
Palace, Enfield— Ibsen's ' Ghosts ' and the Lord Cham-
berlain, 536 -Second Fortune Theatre— National Flags
—Scotch Universities : Undergraduates' Gown, 637—
" Kanyete "— Watch Houses, 538.
\NOTES ON BOOKS :— ' History of the Cutlers' Company
of London ' — ' Bicentenary Commemoration of the Royal
Regiment of Artillery.'
. Jottings from the Deceiriber Catalogues.
WITCHCRAFT: CASE OF
MRS. HICKS:
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
'(See 1 S. v. 395, 514 ; 2 S. v. 503 ; 3 S. iii.
300 ; iv. 508 ; 10 S. iii. 468 ; iv. 38 ;
11 S. v. 251.)
ACCORDING to records contained in con-
temporary pamphlets there were four im-
portant trials for witchcraft in Huntingdon-
shire. The first was the celebrated one of
the witches of Warboys in 1593 ; I gave a
list of the literature on that subject at
12 S. i. 283, 304. The second case is de-
scribed in a scarce pamphlet in the B.M.,
' The Witches of Hvntingdon,' 1646, E.
343/10. The third trial was that of Mrs. Hicks,
1716, which forms the subject of this note.
The fourth pamphlet is the Paxton report
I mentioned under ' The Witches of War-
boys,' ante, p. 30. There were many other
instances of witchcraft in this county, but
-about these no pamphlets were specially
published. The notorious Matthew Hopkins
<{d. 1647) set up as " witch- finder general,"
and made journeys to Huntingdonshire ;
and Hutchinson specifies many executions
there in 1646. To John Gaule, Vicar of
Great Staughton, is due the credit of ex-
posing these proceedings. He published a
book on this matter called ' Select Cases
of Conscience touching Witches and Witch-
craft ' in 1646. For his career see ' D.X.B.,'
xxi. 72.
The case of Mrs. Hicks, the reputed witch
of Huntingdon, has for many years inter-
ested the readers of ' N. & Q.,' as the above
references show. So far back as 1 S. v. 395
(April 24, 1852), J. H. L. wished to know if
there was extant any account of this trial.
Although this is sixty-four years ago, no con-
clusive reply has been received by ' N. & Q.'
Many other writers, including local authors,
on Huntingdonshire topography have briefly
alluded to Mrs. Hicks, of whom I may men-
tion the following : —
Brayley's ' Beauties of England and Wales,
1808.
Cooke's ' Topography,' n.d., part xxxii. 92.
B. C.'s ' History of Huntingdon,' 1824, p. 161.
The Mirror, July 24, 1830, pp. 88-9.
The Quarterly for March, 1852.
Blackwood's Magazine, May, 1859.
Ross's ' Epochs in the Past of Huntingdonshire,'
1878.
The Peterborough Advertiser, March 2, 1901 ;
Sept. 13, 1P13.
' Wrycroft's Almanac,' 1904.
Cox's ' Parish Registers,' 1910, p. 228.
All these writers give their authority as
Gough's ' British Topography,' vol. i. p. 439.
The following authors, quoting from the
same authority, discuss various points aris-
ing from the subject : —
The Foreign Quarterly Journal, in referring
to the case, concludes with the remark : —
" With this crowning atrocity the catalogue
of murders in England closes, the penal statutes
against witchcraft being repealed in 1736."
'The Encyclopaedia Britannica' (9th. ed.,
vol. xxiv. p. 621) says, '' A case said to have
occurred in 1716 does not rest on good
authority."
In 1858 (2 S. v. 503) J. J. P. discussed
J. H. L.'s query of 1852 ( 1 S. v. 395). J. J. P.
had recently seen Charles Phillips's work
on ' Capital Punishments,' and consulted him
about his reference to Mrs. Hicks's case.
Phillips referred J. J. P. to Dr. Parr's
' Characters of Fox,' p. 370, where the date
July 17 is given, Parr giving as his authority
Gough's ' British Topography,' vol. i. p. 439.
J. J. P. continues his excellent note by stat-
ing:—
" I am myself inclined to think that Gough was
imposed upon by some ninnnl. no more veracious
than 'an evening edition of Sebastopol ' ; [and
522
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further on says:] I have searched- extensively to
"lind an original reference to the case, but without
suco
In Mr. W. H. Bernard Saunders's ' Legends
and Traditions of Huntingdonshire,' 1888,
there is a chapter (xix.) referring to the
trial of Mrs. Man- Hicks at the Huntingdon
Assizes. Mr. Saunders says (p. 166) : —
" The pamphlet which is supposed to record all
the particulars is not now in existence, or, if it is,
it has escaped the attention of all local collectors.
Lord Esm6 Gordon's library, one of the finest
Huntingdonshire collections in England, contains
no copy of it. The Rev. E. Bradley (' Cuthbert
Bede ), who has been a collector of matters
relating to Huntingdonshire for upwards of 40
vears, has stated that he has never yet been able
to lind one and a descendant of Judge Powell,
who is alleged to have passed sentence of death on '
the alleged witches, also declares that although
he has taken every means to ascertain the
existence of such a pamphlet, he has never seen
one nor has he found any one else who ever
had."
The best account of this reported execu-
tion I have seen is contained in that care-
fully written book, ' Side-Lights on the
Stuarts,' by F. A. Inderwick, Q.C., 2nd
edition, 1891, pp. 177-80. The full excerpt
is rather too long to give here. The author,
in an interesting discussion about the day
of the week on which it happened, says : —
" Amongst other persons who doubt the
authority of this case is Mr. Justice Stephen
(' State Trials,' iv.'828), who assumes the date of
execution to have been reported as Saturday,
17th July, 1716, and suggests, as one reason for
discrediting the story, that the 17th July, 1716, was
not a Saturday, but a Thursday. Applying the
learned judge's calculation to the 28th July, as
well as the 17th, the former day would then have
been a Monday, and not, as alleged, a Saturday. I
find, however, on turning to an old file of news-
papers for 1716, that the 17th July was neither
Thursday nor Saturday, but Tuesday, and that
the 28th was accordingly Saturday, as stated."
Two other quotations I must give : —
" The story of this conviction seems to me to
be by no means improbable, considering also
that in the year 1712 a woman was sentenced to
death at Hertford, and five others were hanged at
Northampton."
" Some difficulty has also been raised as to
the identity of the Justice Powel referred to in
the report of the case, and no wonder, for there
were in fact no less than four Justices of the name
of Powel about this time."
It will be noticed that all the authorities
above mentioned obtained their information
from Gough's ' British Topography,' i. 439
Mr. Inderwick, however, used a later edition
published in April, 1780. The Bodleian
Library possesses a copy of Gough preparec
for the third edition, with MS. notes, which
was purchased of Mr. J. Nichols for 100Z. in
1811, and also a copy of "A Catalogue of
he Books relating to British Topography
Bequeathed to the Bodleian in the year
MDCCXCIX. by Richard Gough. Esq., F.S.A.
Oxon, MDCCCXIV." I consulted this catalogue,
and found entered amongst the bequests the
jamphlet ' The whole Trial of Mrs. Hicks.'
'. visited the Bodleian, and at once found the
ong-unknown pamphlet. It is most singular
hat it should have been in the library for
a period of over 100 years without being
dentified, eluding all the above researchers.
Gough has always been recognized as the
authority for the story, but no one realized
.hat the title he gave was the actual one of
.he original pamphlet ; and so the source of
all we know about Mrs. Hicks is the pam-
phlet he bequeathed to the Bodleian. The
itle of the pamphlet is : —
" The whole | Trial and Examination | of |
MBS. MARY HICKS | and her Daughter | ELIZA-
BETH, | But of Nine Years of Age, who were
condemn'd the last Assizes held at Hunting-ton
or Witchcraft ; and there executed on Saturday
the 28th of July, 1716.
" With an Account of the most surprising pieces
of Witchcraft they play'd, whilst under their
Diabolical Compact, the like never heard of
before ; their Behaviour with Several Divines who
came to converse with 'em whilst under Sentence
of Death ; and last Dying Speeches and Con-
fession at the place of Execution.
" London : Printed by W. Matthews in Long-
Acre." 12mo, 8 pp.
The press-mark is Bod. Gough Hunt. 1.
HERBERT E. N ORRIS.
Cirencester.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HISTORIES OF
IRISH COUNTIES AND TOWNS.
(See 11 S. xi. 103, 183, 315 ; xii. 24, 276, 375 ;
12 S. i. 422 ; ii. 22, 141, 246, 286, 406, 445.)
PART XIV. W— Y.
WARINGSTOWN.
An Ulster Parish : being a History of Donagh-
cloney (Waringstown). By Rev. E. D. Atkin-
son. Dublin, 1898.
WATERFOKD.
Ancient and Present State of the County and City
of Waterford. By Charles Smith. Dublin,
1746.
Magna Charta Libertatum Civitatis Waterford.
Transcribed with English Translation and
Notes. By Timothy Cunningham. Dublin,
1752.
History of the County and Town of Waterford.
By Charles Smith. Dublin, 1774.
The History, Topography, and Antiquities of the
County and City of Waterford, with an account
of the present state of the Peasantry. By
Rev. R. H. Ryland. London, 1824.
The Beauties of the Boyne, and its Tributary
the Blackwater. By Sir W. R. Wilde. Dublin,.
1850.
12 s. ii. DBC. so, i9i6.i NOTES AND QUERIES.
523
Fasti Ecclesise Hibernica^ : Vol. I. Part I., Dio-
cese of Waterford «nd Lismore. By Arch-
deacon Cotton. Dublin, 1851-78.
The Social State of the Southern and Eastern
Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century :
being the Presentments of the Gentlemen,
Commonalty, and Citizens of Waterford, &c.,
made in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Eliza-
beth. (Annuary of the Kilkenny Archaeological
Society, only 125 copies printed.) By H. J.
Hore and Bishop Graves. Dublin, 1870.
History of Waterford. By Joseph Hansard.
Dungarvan, 1870.
History of the Huguenot Settlers in Ireland.
Chapter on the French Settlement in Water-
ford, reprinted from Ulster Archaeological
Journal; also contains other interesting earlier
Waterford data. By Rev. Thomas Gimlette,
D.D. (Only few copies printed for private
circulation.) 1888.
History, Guide, and Directory of County and
City of Waterford. By P. M. Egan. Kil-
kenny, 1894.
Antiquarian Handbook to the Coast of Waterford,
&c. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland,
Dublin, 1897-9.
The Place-Names of the Decies (The Ancient
Decies corresponds roughly to the modern
County of Waterford). By Rev. P. Power,
M.R.I.A. 1907.
The Story of Waterford, from the Foundation
of the City to the Middle of the Eighteenth
Century, with sketches, maps, plans, and
portraits. By Edmund Downey. Waterford,
1914.
Register of Irish Wills : Vol. III., Waterford. By
W. P. W. Phillimore.
WESTMEATH.
Description of Ireland. Chapter on Westmeath.
By Hogan. 1598.
A Chorographical Description of the County of
Westmeath, in No. 1 of Vallancey's Collectanea
de Rebus Hibernicis. By Sir Henry Piers.
1682.
The Beauties of Ireland. Chapter onjWestmeath.
By J. N. Brewer. London, 1826.
The Dead Watchers and other Folk-Lore Tales of
Westmeath. By Patrick Bardan. Mullingar,
1893.
Annals of Westmeath, Ancient and Modern. By
James Woods. Dublin, 1907.
Grand Juries of Westmeath : with Historical
Appendix.
The Confiscated Estates of Westmeath.
Westmeath Ordnance Survey, MSS. in Library,
Royal Irish Academy, Dublin.
MSS. on Westmeath in Down Survey. Public
Record Office, Dublin.
WEXFOBD.
Statistical Survey of co. Wexford. By Robert
Fraser. Dublin, 1807.
The Banks of the Boro : a Chronicle of the
County of Wexford. By Patrick Kennedy.
Dublin, 1867.
A. Glossary, with some Pieces of Verse, of the old
Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies
of Forth and Bargy, co. Wexford. By Jacob
Poole. Edited with Notes, &c., by Rev. Wm.
Barnes, B.D. 1867.
Notes and Gleanings relating to the County of
Wexford. By Martin Doyle. Dublin, 1868.
The Social State of the Southern and Eastern
Counties of Ireland in the Sixteenth Century r
being the Presentments of the Gentlemen, Com-
monalty, and Citizens of Wexford, &c. By
H. J. Hore and Bishop Graves. Dublin, 1870
History of the County Wexford. By P. H. Hore.
London, 1900-11.
Annual Report, Irish Board of Public Works.
(Details of Wexford antiquities.) Dublin,
1911.
Chronicles of the County Wexford down to the
year 1877. By George Griffiths. Enniscorthy.
Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, with the -
Register of its House at Dunbrody (Wexford).
By Sir John T. Gilbert. Dublin.
Wexford in the Rising of 1798.
Memoirs of the Different Rebellions in Ireland
from the arrival of the English. By Sir Richard
Musgrave. Dublin, 1802.
Insurrection in the County of Wexford. By
Edward Hay. 1803.
Researches in the South of Ireland : Appendix
contains a private narrative of the Rising of
1798. ' By T. Crofton Croker. London, 1824.
A Historv of the Irish Rebellion of 1798 : a Per-
sonal Narrative. By Charles Hamilton Teeling.-
1832.
A Personal Narrative of those transactions in co.
Wexford in which the Author was engaged,
with a full account of his Trial by Court-Martial.
By Thomas Cloney. Dublin, 1832.
Memoirs of Joseph Holt. Edited from his MS.
by T. Crofton Croker. London, 1838.
General History of the Rebellion of 1798. By
P. O'Kelly. Dublin, 1842.
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. By
W. H. Maxwell. London, 1845.
History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. By
Philip Harwood. 1848.
The Irish Confederates and the Rebellion of 1798.
By H. M. Field. New York, 1851.
The Sham Squire and the Informers of '98. By
W. J. Fitzpatrick. Dublin, 1866.
Ireland in '98 : Sketches of the principal men
of the time, based on the published volumes
and some unpublished MSS. of the late Dr.
R. R. Madden. By J. Bowles Daly, LL.D.
Dublin, 1888.
With the " Thirty-Second " in the Peninsular
and other campaigns : being the Memoirs of
Major Harry Ross Lewin, of Ross-Hill, co.
Clare. (Describes life in an Irish regiment,.,
and casts some interesting side-lights on the
Rising of 1798.) Edited by Prof. John
Wardell. Dublin, 1904.
Memoirs of Miles Byrne. Edited by his Widow
Dublin, 1907.
The War in Wexford : an Account of the Rebel-
lion in the South of Ireland in 1798. By
H. F. B. Wheeler and A. M. Broadley. London,
1911.
WlCKLOW.
Statistical Survey of co. Wicklow. By R. Fraser.
Dublin, 1801.
Guide to Wicklow. By Radcliffe. Dublin, 1812.
Guide to co. Wicklow. By G. N. Wright. Dublin,
1822
Guide to Wicklow. By Curry. Dublin, 1837.
Illustrated Handbook to the County of Wicklow.
By G. O'M. Irwin. Dublin, 1844.
524
NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.ii.DKj.ao.i9i6.
The Mines of Wicklow. Dublin, 1856.
Guide to Wicklow. By Heffernan. Dublin,
1865.
Views in co. Wicklow. By T. L. Bowbotham.
With Notes by Rev. W. J. Loftie. Dublin,
1876.
History of the Clan O'Toole, and other Leinster
Septs. By Rev. P. L. O'Toole. Dublin, 1890.
Glendaloch : its Story and its Ruins. By Sir
John R. O'Connell, LL.D. Catholic truth
Society, Dublin, 1909.
The Stones of Bray, and the Stories they can tell
of Ancient Times in the Barony of Rathdown.
(I).'.iN with the history of a large part of co.
Wicklow.) By Rev. G. Digby Scott, M.A.
Dublin, 1913.
The O'Tooles, anciently Lords of Powerscourt
(Feracualan), Fertire, and Imale. By John
O'Toole. n.d.
YOUGHAL.
Notes and Records of the Ancient Religious
Foundations at Youghal, co. Cork, and its
Vicinity. By Rev. S. Hayman. Youghal, 1854.
History of Youghal. By Pagan. Youghal. 1858.
Guide to Youghal, Ardmore, and the Black Wati-r.
By Rev. Samuel Hayman. Youghal, 1860.
Guide to St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal.
By Rev. S. Hayman. Cork, 1868.
Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal, from
1610 to 1659, from 1666 to 1687, and from 1690
to 1800. Edited by Richard Caulfield. Guild-
ford.
N.B. — An account of every Irish County,
Town, Parish, and Village is in ' A Topographical
Dictionary of Ireland,' by Samuel Lewis
London, 1837. WILLIAM MACABTHUK.
79 Talbot Street, Dublin.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See ante, pp. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402, 443, 482.)
THE regiment next following (p. 40) is one of the six regiments of Marines raised in 1702,
with headquarters at Taunton and Bridgwater, its first Colonel being George Villiers.
These six regiments were included in the reductions of 1713, but thiee of them were
reinstated in March, 1715, incorporated with the regiments of the line, and authorized to
rank in the line from the dates of their original formation, this regiment becoming the
31st Foot.
In 1782 it received the territorial title "Huntingdonshire," and since 1881 has been
designated " The East Surrey Regiment " : —
Colonel Handasyd's Regiment of Foot.
Dates of their
present commissions.
27 June 1737
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieutenant,
1705.
Captains
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Colonel .. .. William Handasyd (1)
Lieutenant Colonel Beckwith
Major . . . . Anthony Ladeveze
f Edward Legard (2)
Robert Blakeney
William Williamson
William Drummond
Robert Douglass
j Peter Haviland
^ James Baird . .
John Pollock (3)
( Frederick Porter (4)
I Charles Vignoles (5)
| Francis Mears . .
i Richard Abbot
J Robert Ryves . .
| James Vignoles (6)
Henry Hvat
Charles O"'Hara
Charles Cockburne
Walter Pringle
(1) Was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 15th Foot before being appointed to the Colonelcy of [this
regiment. Died at Hammersmith, Feb. 27, 1745, then being Brigadier-General.
(2) Major, Feb. 3, 1741.
(3) Captain, Nov. 15, 1740.
(4) Captain, April 25, 1741.
in 17(55 Captain'Lieutenant> APril 25' 1.741 5 Major, July 22, 1751. Still serving in the regiment
(6) Captain, April 1, 1744. Still serving in the regiment in 1755.
2 July 1737
Ensign, 1695.
. . 29 May 1732
Lieutenant, 2 April 1706.
20 Dec. 1717
Captain, 20 Dec. 1717.
23 April 1720
Ensign, Sept. 1715.
25 July 1726
Ensign, 28 Aug. 1711.
Mar. 1726-7
Lieutenant, 1686.
29 May 1732
Ensign, 1721.
Aug. 1727
Lieutenant, July 1714.
20 June 1735
Lieutenant, 1 Oct. 1717.
21 Feb. 1735-6
Ensign, 11 Feb. 1716-17
17 Nov. 1721
Ensign, 22 June 1719.
22 Oct. 1723
Ensign, 1 Mar. 1717-18.
11 Aug. 1730
Ensign, 17 Nov. 1721.
Sept, 1730
Ensign, 26 May 1704.
30 Nov. 1730
Ensign, Oct. 1721.
6 Nov. 1732
Ensign, 15 Dec. 1721.
23 Feb. 1732-3
Ensign, 21 Mar. 1723-4.
20 June 1735
Ensign, 1710.
21 Feb. 1735-6
Ensign, 1712.
14 Jan. 1737-8
Ensign, 20 June 1735.
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Ensigns
Colonel Handasyd's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
/Alexander Dallway (7)
! George Dalrymple (8)
James Hamilton
Robert Wynne
•^ Samuel Davenport
Pat. Clarke
John Ta tern
Peyton Mears
Egerton Stafford
Dates of their
present commissions.
5 Dec. 1729
. 23 Feb. 1732-3.
, . 21 Feb. 1735-6.
.. 26 Aug. 1737.
. 14 June 1737-8.
2 June 1739.
. 17 July 1739.
3 Fel
4 ditto.
Dates of their first
commissions.
Ensign, 20 Jan. 1724-5.
Lieut. -Col. Edward Montague was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment>_
Aug. 12, 1741.
The following were appointed Ensigns on the dates shown against their names t
Frederick Porter, Nov. 15, 1740 ; Roger Handasyd, Jan. 26, 1741 ; William Cholmondeley,
Jan. 27, 1741 ; Robert Pigot, July 11, 1741 ; Gardener Bulstrode, April 25, 1742.
(7) Lieutenant, Nov. 15, 1740.
(8) Lieutenant, April 25, 1741.
The next regiment (p. 41) is another of the six regiments of Marines which were raised
in 1702. It was raised in Sussex and the adjacent counties, its first Colonel being
Edward Fox.
These six regiments were included in the reductions of 1713, but three of them were
reinstated in March, 1715, incorporated with the regiments of the line, and authorized
to rank in the line from the dates of their original formation, this regiment becoming
the 32nd Foot.
In 1782 the territorial title " Cornwall " was given to it, , and since 1881 it has been
designated " The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry " : —
Colonel Descury's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major . . .'.
Captains . .
Simon Descury (1)
Bernard Dennet
Samuel Stone . .
f Mel. Guy Dickens (2)
William Ridsdale
Christopher Adams
John Graydon . .
Hugh Jones
George Gordon
{ John Butler
Captain Lieutenant Peter Margarett (3) .
I Dawney Sutton
William Bryan
Knowles Kensey
Robert Graydon
First Lieutenants ., Peter Parr
I Hugh Farquhar
I John Monro
Charles Douglass
John Roper
{ Thomas Barlow
(1) Was formerly Lieutenant-Colonel of
was appointed Colonel on Dec. 25, 1740.
(2) First Christian name is Melchior.
(3) Captain, April 25, 1741.
Dates of their
present commissions.
. 15 Dec. 1738
. 15 Sept. 1731
. ditto
9 Aug. 1717
1 Oct. 1717
2 July 1719
7 June 1720
. 26 Dec. 1726
,. 15 Sept. 1731
. 14 Aug. 1738
. ditto
8 Mar. 1724
1 Dec. 1726
8 Dec. 1731
, . 31 Mar. 1733
8 Aug. 1734
. 27 Sept. 1735
. 19 Dec. 1735
. 14 Aug. 1738
ditto
June 1739
Dates of their first
commissions.
Lieutenant, Feb. 1702.
Captain, 30 May 1707.
Ensign, 22 Jan. 1712.
Ensign, 9 Feb. 1709.
ditto, 20 Dec. 1710.
1st Lieutenant, 10 Mayl7H
Captain, 24 Dec. 1710.
2d Lieut. 24 Oct. 1704.
1st Lieut. 25 Mar. 1716.
2d Lieut. 15 Feb. 1701.
ditto, 6 Jan. 1717.
ditto, 22 June 1719.
ditto, 2 June 1720.
ditto, 29 Aug. 1721.
ditto, 1 Dec. 1726.
Ensign, 26 June 1706.
ditto, 10 ditto 1725.
2d Lieut. 1 Oct. 1729.
ditto, 4 Nov. 1730.
ditto, 20 May 1732.
the 13th Foot. Died Oct. 4, 1740. Col. John Hus-k.
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Colonel Descury's Regiment of Foot
(continued).
John Kendall (4)
Charles Bailie (5)
Sir George Suttie (6)
Peter Desbrisay
d Lieutenants (8)
William Douglass
James Weyms
Andrew Agnew
John Macdowall
Henry Descury (7)
Dates of their
present commissions.
31 Mar. 1733.
Sept. 1736.
26 Aug. 1737.
14 ditto 1738.
ditto.
1 June 1739.
2 ditto.
3 Feb. 1739-40.
4 ditto.
Dates of their first
commissions.
The following were appointed Ensigns on the dates shown against their names : John
Lindsay, Feb. 27, 1741 ; John M^lin, March 7, 1741 ; Thomas Morgan, April 25, 1741.
(4) Lieutenant, Feb. 25, 1741.
(5) Second Lieutenant, Feb. 26, 1741. The name is also spelled " Boyley."
(6) Third Bart. Lieutenant, April 25, 1741. Died Nov. 25, 1783.
(7) The only officer still serving in the regiment in 1755, then being the junior Captain, Nov. 27,
1752.
(8) Probably should be " Ensign." J. H. LESLIE, Major, B.A. (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
GRAY : A BOOK OF SQTTIBS. (See ante,
p. 285.) — May I, not to multiply headings
and references, add the subjoined, which
-concerns the dispersion of Gray's books and
MSS., to the above reference ? In ' N. & Q.,'
1 S. i. 221, W. L. M. wrote :—
" At the sale of [Mason's collection of Gray's
books and MSS. in December, 1845, I purchased
Gray's copy of Dodsley's collection (2nd edition,
1758), with corrections, names of authors, &c., in
his own hand."
Mr. Gosse does not seem to have been aware
of this sale, and refers only to some
" unpublished letters and facetious poems,
many of which were sold at Sotheby & Wilkin-
son's, on the 4th of August, 1854";
neither does Mr. Tovey — at least in his
volume referred to in my previous note.
One wonders what was the nature of these
MSS., and where they and the books now lie.
Let me remind levers of Gray that De-
cember 26 was the bicentenary of his birth,
and that, in the plaintive words of Mr.
Gosse in 1882,
" No monument of any kind perpetuates the
memory of Gray in the university town where he
resided so long, and of which he is one of the most
illustrious ornaments Not a medallion, not a
tablet within Pembroke College bears witness to
any respect for the memory of Gray If
strangers did not periodically inquire for his
room, it is probable that the name of Gray would
be as completely forgotten at Pembroke as at
Peterhouse, where also no monument of any kind
preserves the record of his presence."
Two centuries since Gray's birth and
nearly (1921) one and a half more since his
death, and yet nothing to commemorate
him in Cambridge, where he resided for
twenty-nine years ! J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
" WIPERS " : YPRES. — The superior person
has fairly often of late made game of our
soldiers' pronunciation of Ypres as Wipers,
but, at the same time, he seems generally
unaware that this is by no means a product
of the present war. It almost appears a
pity to deny Tommy's originality in this
matter, but, as a matter of fact, " Wipers "
dates some centuries back to the time when
Ypres was one of the great commercial cities
of Europe and did a large and nourishing
trade with this country.
Our close connexion with this famous city
not only led to its name being pronounced
in the manner which our soldiers have made
familiar to us, but it also became actually
raised to the dignity of a proper name in
Scotland. The surname " Wyper " cannot,
of course, claim to be in any way a common
one, but it certainly has existed in Scotland
for many generations now. In the Glasgow
Post Office Directory for 1916-17 there are
eleven Wypers, and the name occurs three
times in the Edinburgh and Leith Post
Office Directory. Slater's Directory for
Scotland, 1915, mentions four Wypers: two
from Glasgow and two from Motherwell.
It is a curious fact that this surname
seems practically non-existent in England,
for it does not appear in any of the direc-
tories which the present writer has consulted,
and he has looked through those of nearly
all the leading cities. Its rarity as a sur-
name is likewise proved by the fact that it
has escaped the notice of all the compilers
of books dealing with surnames. The pre-
sent writer has examined quite a formidable
array of such works, including Smith's
' Cyclopaedia of Names,' Long's ' Personal
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527
and Family Names,' Ferguson's ' Surnames
as a Science,' Bardsley's ' English Surnames,'
and Weekley's ' Romance of Names,' but in
all of them Wyper is conspicuous by its
absence.
Regarding the quaint transformation of
Ypres into " Wipers," it may be pointed
out that there is really nothing ridiculous,
nor even essentially ignorant, about such a
change made in a word that is foreign to
our ears and strange to our eyes. The
supposedly greater learning of the superior
person already referred to might have en-
abled him to recognize the change as merely
an illustration of the natural tendency in
language to transform the unfamiliar into
something that has a familiar appearance.
The classic example may be mentioned of
our Jack Tars of Nelson's day rechristening
the captured French battleship Bellerophon
3>y the more homely, but very picturesque
name of " Billy Ruffian."
CHARLES MENMTTIR, M.A.
25 Garseabe Lane, Glasgow.
ADDENDUM TO NOTE ON DR. ROBERT
UVEDALE. (See ante,pp. 361, 384, 404, 423,
447, 467.) — May I be allowed to make what
I hope may be a final addendum to my long
note on Dr. Uvedale of Enfield ? Several
correspondents have been kind enough to
"write to me — rather than trespass, I pre-
sume, on the valuable space of ' N. & Q.' —
making a few interesting emendations and
additions to what I had written above . But
I feel that anything in the nature of a cor-
rection of, or of an addition of any value to,
what has appeared in ' N. & Q.' is also worth
its preservation there, if only to save possible
mistakes in future.
With reference to the suggestion I had
advanced {p. 424) as to Dr. Uvedale's con-
nexion with the old garden and house at
Enfield, now known as " Uvedale House;"
the present head master of the Enfield
Grammar School, Mr. E. M. Eagles, has sent
me the following note : —
" In speaking of ' Uvedale House,' you refer
to the interesting collection of plants in the garden
thereof- When I first came to Enfield (January,
1909) ' Uvedale House ' was occupied by a Miss
Boswell. She gave me to understand that the
excellent collection of plants in her garden was
due to a former curate of the parish church (Mr.
Egles) who used to lodge with her. He was
devoted to gardening, and introduced many rare
plants into her ground."
The " Miss Boswell " mentioned in Mr.
Eagles's letter was, I understand, a descen-
dant or a connexion of Dr. Johnson's Bos-
-well. An early copy of the great Dictionary
and other Johnson papers were formerly on
the premises.
With reference to my account of the find-
ing on the bookstall in the Farringdon Road
in 1900 of the old Hebrew Bible formerly
belonging to Dr. Uvedale (p. 424), your old
correspondent MR. C. HALL CROUCH writes
to me as follows : —
" With reference to your valuable articles in
' N. & Q.' regarding Dr. Robert Uvedale, it may
interest you to know that it was. I who found the
fragment of Dr. Uvedale's Hebrew Bible, and after
having had it bound and inserted the notes you
mention, I presented it to the Enfield Grammar
School through my friend Mr. Ridewood.*
" A reference to the gift appeared in The
Enfield Grammar School Magazine for May, 1902 ;
and I also wrote a short account of the find —
more particularly to put the entries on record —
for The Genealogical Magazine. It appeared in
vol. vi. p. 109."
Generally on my paper Mr. J. W. Ford,
a former Governor of the Enfield Grammar
School, to whose interest in the school I had
referred at p. 423, has sent me the following
interesting letter : —
" Yes, it was entirely my doing that the
Uvedale arms were worn on the boys' caps, and
I got the matter approved and passed by my
fellow Governors.
" The etching of the Palace cedar (I measured
the cedar circa 1900, and found it much grown
since 1821) — a very clever thing — was done by
F. C. Lewis, who lived for many years in Enfield ;
he was drawing master to the Princess Charlotte,
and etched the ' Rivers of Devonshire ' ; he was
the father of ' Spanish Lewis ' and George, the
engraver who engraved most of Landseer's
pictures.
" Archbishop Tillotson lived in Edmonton, not
Enfield ; his house in the high road was pulled
down about thirty years ago.
" The garden you saw beyond the school, which
you fancied might have been Uvedale's retreat,
was lived in for many years by the Rev. C. H.
Eagles, a curate at the church, a great botanist
and lover of herbaceous plants and shrubs, who
planted everything you saw, and called his home
' Uvedale Cottage.'
" None of the old school has ever been pulled
down ; its restoration, in the best sense of the
word, was superintended by my father, one
of the Governors ; and he built and gave to the
school the house in which the master lives at a
cost of 1,2001., in memory of my mother. Tho
next building is the hall, and next the chemical
annexe and laboratory, which was built to please
Mr. Ridewood.
" ' Worcester's ' (p. 361) is one of Robinson's
mistakes ; that name and ' The Manor House '
belonged to the other Enfield Palace pulled down
by the Commonwealth, built by Sir Thomas
Lovell, Marquess of Worcester, Chancellor to
Henry VIII., to whom he left it."
J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.
* The preceding head master.
NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. 11. DM* so, ma.
•ENGLAND, GERMANY, AND THE DYE
INDUSTRY. — The announcement of a re-
organization of the colour chemistry and
dyeing department of Leeds University,
luiu'rly in order to win back and maintain
an industry Germany long has made almost
her own, will add interest to an advertise-
ment more than two hundred years old
which shows that this is not the first
recognized effort to put German knowledge
of dyeing materials to English advantage.
In The London Gazette, March 13-17, 1678/9,
was the statement : —
"His Majesty having been pleased to Grant by
His Letters Patents to Eustace Barnaby, or his
Assigns, the sole Use and Art of Planting Safflower
(for Dyers use) which he hath acquired by great
pains and travel in Germany. These are to give
Notice, That they that please, may have Seed and
Licence for 25*. the Acre ; the Seed to Sowe at
half-profit."
ALFRED F. ROBBINS.
THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS, M.A., FELLOW
OF JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD. — It is note-
worthy that in a long list of 286 names of
Fellows of this College, a list which extends
from A.D. 1653 to 1898, which Hardy gives
in his history of the College, only the name
of the above Fellow is left without there
being supplied the year both of his election
to and of the cessation of his Fellowship.
In this case only the year of election is
given, thus : " 251. John Williams, 1783
- ? (Cam.)." This is regrettable, for
the year of the cessation also appears to be
obtainable The Rev. W. Hawker Hughes,
the present Senior Bursar of the College,
writes to me and says that the Register of
Fellows, referring to the case under the year
1786, has this entry : " vac. 15 Dec. 1786."
Possibly the defect is due to the fact that
this man is referred to sometimes as of
Denbighshire and at other times as of
Carnarvonshire, leading searchers to think
that the name referred to two different men.
Foster's ' Alumni Oxon.' has : " Williams,
John, H. John of Llanrwst, co. Denbigh, gent.,
Jesus Coll. matric. 15 Mar. 1777, aged 17,
B.A. 1781." The list of Scholars of Jesus
College, under year 1777, gives : " 11 June,
Carnarvon, John Williams, 18, s. John, gent.
Llanrwst," and the name appears in the list
of Scholars every year until he took his M.A.
It appears among the Fellows in 1783,
continuing to do so every year until he
vacates the Fellowship in December, 1786.
The town of Llanrwst, and most of the
parish, is in the county of Denbigh. One
township of the parish, however, that of
Gwydyr, is in the county of Carnarvon. It
is more natural to connect Llanrwst with the-
county of Denbigh, though the Gwydyr part
of it is strictly in Carnarvonshire. Hence-
the above discrepancy of connecting John
William-> of Llanrwst with both counties..
He was from the township of Gwydyr, and so
of Carnarvonshire. In Llanrwst C hureh there
is a mural monument : " In | Memory | of"
John Williams, Gent. | Agent of Gwydir j
He was buried | Underneath | April 26, 176
| Aged 48." This was the father of our man
He was probably ordained on his Fellowship..
He married Sarah Lloyd Dolben, of Rhi-
waedog, Bala, Merioneth. In 1791 he-
became Head Master of Llanrwst Grammar-
School, and remained there till 1812, when
he became Rector of Llanbedr, in the Conway
Vale, where he died and was buried " on the
9th of Oct. 1826, aged 66." He was a noted
scholar, a good musician, and a great collector
of Welsh books. I wish I could find out more-
about the family of his wife, Sarah Lloyd
Dolben. T. LLECHID JONES.
Llysfaen Rectory, Colwyn Bay.
WE must request correspondents deshrhag in-
formation on family matters of only private interest;
bo affix their names and addresses to their queries^
in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
WILLIAM MONK OF BUCKING-HAM,. IN OLD-
SHOREHAM, SUSSEX. — Was he the son of
John Monk, M.P. for New Shoreham in.
1688-9 ? His mother was Susanna, the-
only daughter of William Blaker of Bucking-
ham; He married Hannah, daughter of
Stephen Stringer of Goudhurst, in Kent..
His memorial in Old Shoreham Church
informs us that
"William Monk of Buckingham Esu. liesinterr'd
in a vault at the foot of this wall. He died May 2nd
1714 in the 29th year of his age, whose prineiples of
Honour & Justice Laid concealed by Reason of his-
early Fate, tho long since Implanted, & which Shone
out so Gloriously in one of His Illustrious family,.
Generally Beloved & Esteemed while He lived and
Lamented by all at his death."
The arms of Monk of Buckingham House
in Old Shoreham were : Gu., a chevron
between three lions' heads erased, arg., and
these are given as the arms of Monk of
Ashington and Hurston Place, Storrington,.
Sussex. Can the connexion between these-
various branches of the family be traced ?
And to whom do the words, " which shone-
out so gloriously in one of his illustrious
family," refer ? Is it to General Monk, and
what was the connexion ? H. CHEAL.
Montford, Rosslyn Road, Shoreham, Sussex.
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529
HERALDIC QUERIES. — The following crests
appear on " engraved coins " of the eigh-
teenth century. Can anyone give the pro-
bable surname with which No. 1 is associated,
and throw further light upon Nos. 2 and 3 ?
1. Obverse, crest of a talbot's head
issuant from a crest-coronet ; reverse, SW
(or WS) in double cipher.
2. Obverse, " Walls, Hereford " ; reverse,
crest of an eagle statant. (According to
Burke, ' General Armory,' 3rd edition, in
the coat of Wall of Derbyshire eagles
are borne as charges.)
3. Obverse, " John White, Oxon." ; re-
verse, crest of a horse's head bridled.
F. P. B.
ELIZABETH MAEL. — Thomas Buckworth,
sixth son of Theophilus Buckworth of Spald-
ing, married at Spalding, on Jan. 6, 1728/9,
Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Lot Mael
of Spalding. She died Jan. 10, 1771, cet. 63,
and was buried at Spalding. Can any of
your readers refer me to a pedigree of the
Mael family, or inform me who was her
mother ? G. J. A.
C. R. MATURIN. — Where is to be seen the
original, or a copy, of Sir Walter Scott's
letter to Mrs. Maturin, 2J pp., 4to, Edin.,
Feb. 19 (year omitte '), with reference to a
Biography of the Rev. C. R. Maturin (1782-
1824), novelist and dramatist, which formed
lot 408 in Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods's
sale, July 4, 1906 ? DANIEL, HIPWELL.
WRIGLEY OF SADDLEWORTH. — Can any
reader give any information about the
Wrigleys of Saddleworth before 1600 ?
George Wrigley was born in that year, and
his son George was baptized at St. Chad's,
Saddleworth, in 1633. W. A. HIRST.
RIMING HISTORY OF ENGLAND. —
In 43 a Roman host
From Gaul assailed our southern coast.
Can any of ' N. & Q.' readers tell me what
English History this is to be found in ? I
learned this at school in 1865.
HUBERT GABLE, F.S.A.
Alresford, Hants.
[These verses are included in ' Outlines of English
History,' by Henry Inee and James Gilbert
(W. Kent & Co., 1867). a popular school-book of
its day. See 11 S. iv.278.J
' THE UNION STAR.' — Can any reader of
' N. & Q.' tell me where a file of this publi-
cation may be seen ? According to Dr. R. R.
Madden ('The United Iri-hmen') The Union
Star was set up in Dublin by the famous
Watty Cox in the summer of 1797, and was
printed in a cellar in Little Ship Street. The
publication has been described as "a
Murder Gazette," as it advocated the
assassination of prominent members of the
Government, the Church, and any persons
obnoxious to the editor and proprietor.
GERTRUDE THRIFT.
79 Grosvenor Square, Rathmines, Dublin.
COLONELS AND REGIMENTAL EXPENSES. —
Can any one direct me where to find an
account of the system of paying regimental
expenses through the colonels : the pay-
ments made to them, and their disburse-
ments, and the profits made by them ?
J. F. R.
AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. — In the
little volume ' Poetry of the Crabbet Club,'
privately printed and published in 1892,
there is a poem on p. 36 entitled ' Charma
Virumque Cano,' and commencing : —
Charms and a man I sing, to wit — a most superior
person,
Myself, who bears the fitting name of George
Nathaniel Curzon.
Who wrote it ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
CROMWELL : GUN ACCIDENT. — I have been
told that Oliver Cromwell met with a gun
accident — injuring his hand. I have never
seen an account of this in any life of Crom-
well that has come under my notice, but I
understand that there is some record of it
in existence. Can any reader supply in-
formation ? JOHN BEAGARIE.
Brighton.
MARMADUKE B. SAMPSON OF ' THE
TIMES.' — When did he die ? Mrs. Sampson
died March 19, 1882, and was described as
late of Hampton House, Hampton Court,
and Beach Rocks, Sandgate.
R. J. FYNMORE.
Sandgate.
[Marmaduke Blake Sampson died Oct. 8, 1876-
There is a short notice of him in vol. iii. (R — Z)
of Mr. Frederic Boase's extremely useful ' Modern
English Biography.']
DICKENS AND HENRY VIII. — Did Dickens
ever describe the reign of Henry VIII. as
" a spot of grease and blood on the fair pages
of English history " ? If so, where is the
description to be found ?
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
JOHN VARLEY OF HACKNEY. — In an
interesting paper on J. Mulready (the Irish
painter, whose uncle was a shoemaker) in
The Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1879,
the writer informs us that he became
acquainted with John Varley, the friend of
Blake. Varley and his brother were, if I
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remember rightly, residents of Hackney.
Besides his artistic proclivities, and his pen-
chant for astrology, which made him an object
of admiration to the mystic poet, John
Varley was — a pugilist ! Did he ever give
public exhibitions of the " noble science,"
like my countrymen, Dutch Sam and
Mendoza ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.
FIRE PUTTING our FERE. — In ' Romeo
and Juliet,' I. ii. 45, we read : " One fire
burns out another's burning." This seems
to refer to the practice of holding, say,
a burnt finger to a fire " to draw out the
inflammation " — homoeopathy carried to an
extreme ! I saw this done only a few months
ago, and that by a man of military age.
Can it also refer to the common idea that
the " sun puts the fire out " ? If the
former, how did the idea arise ? Is there
any other meaning to the quotation ?
ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN.
' THE REGAL RAMBLER ' : THOMAS HAST-
INGS.— I have before me an octavo volume
of 103 pp., with the following title : —
" The Regal Rambler ; or, Eccentrical Adven-
tures of The Devil in London : with The Manoeuvres
of his Ministers, towards the close of the Eigh-
teenth Century. Translated from the Syriack MS.
of Rabbi Solomon, recently found in the Foundation
of the Hebrew Synagogue London : Printed for
H. D. Symonds, No. 20. Pater- Noster- Row ; and
Owen, Piccadilly. M.DCC.XCIII."
On the title-page of this copy a former owner
has in pencil inscribed " By Thos. Hastings."
Who was this author ? 1 cannot trace a
copy in the B.M. library. Parts of the
work are of Anglo-Jewish interest. The
editor refers to David Levi (' D.N.B.') in
the preliminary leaves, and in the concluding
chapter gives a description of the last trial
of Lord George Gordon when he appeared
before the judges attired as a Jew.
ISRAEL SOLOMONS.
TOD FAMILY. — I shall feel obliged for in-
formation as to the name and address of the
gentleman who now represents the family
of Col. James Tod, the author of the ' Annals
of Rajasthan ' and ' Travels in Western
India.' The information is required solely
for literary purposes. EMERITUS.
PETERBOROUGH QUARTER SESSIONS. —
The Times of Nov. 7 last contained a report
of a divorce case, in the course of which
counsel stated that one of the parties had
been in 1913 convicted at Peterborough
Quarter Sessions of a long series of frauds
on women, and sentenced to twenty years'
penal servitude, afterwards reduced to ten
years'. It seems startling, in these days of
light and lenient punishments, to find that
it is within the competency of any inferior
court to pass such a sentence ; though I have
heard, or read, that Quarter Sessions for the
Liberty (not the City) of Peterborough could,
within at least living memory, try murder
cases, and order the death penalty. There
may still be some exceptional jurisdiction,
as to the nature and extent of which infor-
mation would be of interest. W. B. H.
FITZGERALD. — Can any one inform me as
to the parentage of Lieut.-Colonel James
Fitzgerald, who commanded the 1st Madras
Native Infantry as a captain in the attack
on Madura on June 26, 1764 ? His daughter
Frances married Capt. Steven Swain,
H.E.I.C.S., at Trichinopoly on Feb. 13,
1777, and, after the latter' s death in 1790,.
married secondly Capt. Stewart, H.E.I.C.S
H. E. RUDKIN, Major.
The Wynd, Woking.
PRONUNCIATION OF "EA." — Pope invari-
ably, I believe, rimes " sea " with " obey,"
" day," &c., and never with words such as
" flee " and " be " — thus showing that the
derivative pronunciation from the Dutch
" Zee " and German " See " was current
in his time. We are all familiar with the
Georgian " tay " for " tea," and this, with
"teach," " creature," " each," &c., is current
in the Sister Isle to this day. A look in a
good dictionary will tell one that, with few
exceptions, there is strong derivative war-
rant for tne ea being pronounced a whether
at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.
I think this a subject of some interest, and
should be very glad to know of any work
or treatise bearing on these and other
"progressive" changes in pronunciation.
Conservative Club. FRASER BADDELEY.
PEACOCK LORE. — " E. V. B." in her
work ' The Peacock's Pleasaunce ' mentions,
in sketch headed ' The Peacock's Prologue,'
an extraordinary occurrence connected with
the reoccupation of a country mansion un-
tenanted for years somewhere in Wales.
While joyous glee attended the event, a
lady's grey horse brought on the scene
capered and careered, fell down, and suddenly
died. The newly resident tenant wrote to
the owner, attributing the terrifying in-
cident to the dazzling brilliance of an over-
mantel decorated with a design of peacocks
above the fireplace in one of the rooms of
the house, and, fearful of any further
ominous happenings, craved the removal of
the glittering, gorgeous, and variegated hang-
ings— a present from India. The landlord
assented. He ordered his aged head gardener
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531
to execute the command. With lantgrn
and tools the gardener at dead of night
repaired to a wooded spot, and, digging deep
down, came across the carcase of the grey
horse, and proceeded to deposit the clean,
stripped, sparkling drapery over the remains.
Henceforth, comparative peace followed.
Where in Wales did all these peculiar
incidents happen ? ANEUBIN WILLIAMS.
CAPT. EDWARD BASS c. 1818. — Can any
reader inform me if there was one of
H.M. ships in 1818 or 1819namedCluckhead,
or some similar name ? also to what family
•Capt. Edward Bass of such ship belonged ?
He was a native of Shropshire. The name
of the ship mentioned on his tombstone in
Minster Abbey Churchyard is almost un-
readable.
PERCY F. HOGG, Lieut. R.G.A.
Minster-in-Sheppey.
"DR." BY COURTESY.
(12 S. ii. 408.)
INSTANCES of the title of " doctor " applied
to 'clergymen innocent of that degree are
furnished by plays, novels, memoirs, and
letters in the eighteenth century and earlier,
though the tendency seems never to have
been so common as the modern practice of
"" doctoring the apothecary."
In Act IV. sc. i. of Vanbrugh's ' Relapse '
U 696), Tom ^Fashion speaks of " Mr. Bull
the chaplain," and in sc. iv. addresses him as
' Mr. Bull." Later in this scene he prefaces
•a request to him with the words, " Prithee,
dear doctor." In sc. vi. the Nurse appeals
to " Mr. Bull." In Act V. sc. iii. Fashion both
refers to him and addresses him as " doctor,"
while the Nurse talks of " Mr. Bull." In the
final scene of the play we have Fashion's
Prithee, doctor," and Lord Foppington's
Pray, dactar, one word with you." The
list of characters gives simply " Bull,
Chaplain to Sir Tunbelly."
In Farquhar's 'Beaux' Stratagem' (1707),
Foigard^ " a Priest, Chaplain to the French
Officers," is, on first entering (Act III. sc. ii.),
Addressed as " doctor " by Gibbet, the high-
wayman, and by Aimwell. In Act IV. sc. ii.
Aimwell says : " Pray, doctor, may I crave
your name ? "
In Fielding's ' Grub Street Opera ' (1731),
in a scene between Lady Apshinken and
Puzzletext the chaplain (Act III. sc. iv.), the
lady sings : —
. Oh doctor, oh doctor, where hast thou been ?
In Act III. sc. xiii. the Butler and Groom style
him " doctor." Puzzletext's character does
not encourage us to believe that he was a
Doctor of Divinity.
In 'Joseph Andrews' (1742), Book II.
chap, xvi., Parson Adams is called "doctor"
by a perfect stranger, who gives him false
hopes of a living. In Book III. chap. iii.
his new acquaintance, Mr. Wilson, replies
to a question of his : " What leads us into
more follies than you imagine, doctor —
vanity." The title is a compliment to his
guest's scholarship, for we have been told in
the preceding chapter that Wilson, who had
at first been " not quite certain that Adams
had any more of the clergyman in him
than his cassock," was so astound ed at the
readiness of his Greek quotations that " he
now doubted whether he had not a bishop
in his house."
In ' Jonathan Wild ' (1743) the hero
addresses the Ordinary of Newgate as
" doctor " (Bk. IV. chap. xiii.).
Did Fielding mean " Mr. Supple, the
curate of Mr. Allworthy's parish " (' Tom
Jones,' 1749, Bk. IV. chap, x.), to be a
D.D. ? Squire Western calls him " doctor "
in the chapter where he makes his first
appearance; and in Bk. XVI. chap, ii., after
Western has sent the parson on an errand —
" Do, doctor, go down and see who 'tis. ..."
— the author continues : " the doctor re-
turned with an account," &c. But possibly
this is no more than echoing the title given
by Western. An excess of scepticism, how-
ever, in such matters might lead one next
to dispute the right to his doctorate of the
Rev. Charles Primrose. Horace Walpole,
in writing to Mann (Feb. 27, 1752) of the
Duke of Hamilton's marriage to Elizabeth
Gunning, says : " He sent for a parson. The
doctor refused to perform the ceremony
without licence or ring." Was the parson
a D.D. ? And was Walpole aware of this
when writing ?
Lady Mary Coke noted in her ' Journal '
that she heard Lcrd Ossory announce the
death of " the famous Dr. Sterne " (March
18, 1768). See W. L. Cross, ' The Life and
Times of Laurence Sterne,' p. 461.
Swift in the ' Journal to Stella,' when
mentioning the death of Richard Duke
(1658- 1711), calls him "Dr. Duke" (Feb.
14, 1710/11). The ' D.N.B.' does not men-
ion that he took this degree.
No doubt it is difficult to make sure
n each instance, especially in the case of
ictitious personages, whether or not the
title is incorrectly applied, but sufficient
evidence remains to show that at one time
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" doctor" was more freely used in address-
ing the clergy than it is at the present day.
It would be interesting, at the same time,
to learn what statistics can tell us about the
proportion of University graduates in the
eighteenth century who proceeded to degrees
in Divinity.
That the undeserved appellation of
doctor was sometimes deliberately courted is
shown by a letter in The Spectator, No. 609,
in the course of which the correspondent
! : —
" As I was the other Day walking with an
honest Country-Gentleman, he very often was
expressing his Astonishment to see the Town so
mightily crouded with Doctors of Divinity :
Upon which I told him he was very much mis-
taken if he took all those Gentlemen he saw in
Scarfs to be Persons of that Dignity ; for that a
young Divine, after his first Degree in the Uni-
versity, usually comes hither only to shew him-
self ; and, on that Occasion, is apt to think he is
but half equipp'd with a Gown and Cassock for
his publick Appearance, if he hath not the addi-
tional Ornament of a Scarf of the first Magnitude
to intitle him to the Appellation of Doctor from
his Landlady, and the Boy at Child's.
EDWABD BENSLY.
BATH FORUM:
CONTINUITY BETWEEN ROMAN AND
ANGLO-SAXON BATH.
(12 S. ii. 429, 495.)
THE earliest documentary evidence of the
use ot Bath Forum that I have met with is
in a Bath chartulary, as follows : —
" Quitclaim or remit by Thomas, Prior, of an
estate at Ludicumbe, in the Hundred court of
Bath Forum. Dec. 1, 1246."
Ludicumbe, now known as Lyncombe, is
one mile S.E. of Bath.
As regards any continuity between Roman
Aquae Sulis and Saxon Bath, there was an
absolute hiatus between the departure of the
Romans, early in the fifth century, and the
arrival of the Saxons subsequent to their
victory at Deorham (Dyrham), A.D. 577.
This is borne out by the evidence of ex-
cavations of diverse dates, which show that
the storm-swept debris brought down the
slopes of the northern hills covered the
streets of Aquae-sulis, and invaded its struc-
tures and baths.
There was, however, a certain continuity
as regards the Roman buildings, inasmuch
a- the huge Basilica was adopted as the
Saxon church, the " St. Peter's Minster,"
as it is termed in various deeds of gift by
Saxon monarch s and others.
Later still, in Norman times, John de
Villula, after removing a length of sixty
feet from the western end of the Basilica-
devoted the remainder to serve as the nave*
of his cathedral, he being the first Bishop>
of Bath. Portions of the Roman baths
he also arranged for use in the monastery ,,
others for public service.
Again, the site of the Roman shops on the
north side of the Forum has been recognized
as followed by the Saxon " chepe " or
market, the successor to which is the Cheap*
St., of to-day.
With regard to the egg, it has a slight
association with the desolation period, in
this way. The hillside debris previously
alluded to made its way into the huge reser-
voir of the " hot springs," an octagon 45 feet
in diameter, with a depth of 9 feet, which
in time being filled, the debris, still pouring
in, was carried with the stream of hot water,
through the lead channels, into the north-
west corner of the large bath recently
opened out. Accumulating there, it gradu-
ally rose to the surface, a warm swamp in
which vegetation quickly throve, the hazel
predominating. Amongst the undergrowth
was found a fowl's nest, the group of eggs-
having been smashed by the superincumbent
earth tipped in at some subsequent time,
probably in connexion with the work of
John de Villula, when he destroyed the-
Roman structures hard by. Through the-
debris of the mortar a stream of water must
have coursed, carrying with it the finer
particles, which it deposited upon the pave-
ment in the corner of the ambulatory ad-
jacent to the nest. From the nest the egg
had been apparently borne away by the
swirl of the stream, and was found intact
embedded in the sandy ooze. Adjacent on
this same pavement there still rest two" large
portions of a Roman arch of red brick that
once spanned from pier to pier, some 30 ft.
The bath itself, 82 ft. 6 in. by 40 ft. 3 in.,
being hypsethral — open to the sky — the
ambulatory at all four of its sides, arched
with hollow bricks, formed a cloistered court.
This the Saxon poet strikingly pictured as,,
gazing upon it, he wrote : —
Therefore these courts are dreary,
and its purple arch
with its tiles shades
the roost, proud of its diadem.
RICHARD MANN.
32 Paragon, Bath.
" FRENCH'S CONTEMPTIBLE LITTLE ARMY 'r
(12 S. ii. 349).— Surely part of this affront
to the British Expeditionary Force consisted
in the description of its commander as
" General " French. K. S.
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53$
DE I.A PORTE FAMILY (12 S. ii. 448). — I am very glad to answer RENIRA'S query,,
and subjoin the genealogical details she asks for. The Dues Mazarin were as written —
never de Mazarin, as most people write them. Forneron (' La Duchesse de Portsmouth, T"
p. 97) says: " Quand le commis du Chiffre met la particule, le ministre (Cardinal Mazarin)
a soin de la biffer."
Armand Charles de la Porte, Due de la Meilleraye=rHortense Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
and Rethel-Mazarin et Mayence.
d) (2)
~T
I
1
Dec., 1685, Char-=pPaul Jules, = June 14, 1731,
Marie Charlotte,
Marie Anne, Marie Olympe,
lotte Felicite"
Due, &c. Francoise
b. March 28, 1662,
Abbess du
b. 1665.
Armando de
de Mailly,
d. May 13. 1729.
Lys.
=Sept. 30, 1681,
Durfort, dau. of
widow of
= Armand Jean
b. 1663,
Louis Christophe-
Jacques Henri,
Louis
de Wignerot du
d. 1720.
Gigault,
Due de Duras,
Mareehal de
Phelypeaux,
Marquis de la
Plessis, Marquis
• de Richelieu
Marquis de
Bellefonds et de la
France,
Vrilliere.
(an interesting
Baillaye,
by Marguerite
marriage connect-
Governor of the
Felicite de Levis-
ing the tw > great
Chateau de
Ventadour.
Cardinals
Vincennes and
She died at Paris,
Richelieu and
" Premier iScuyer de-
Dec. 27, 1730,
Mazarin).
Mme. la Dauphine.'"
aged 58.
Guy Paul Jules^May 5, 1717, Louise
Due, &c. Francoise de
Rohan, dau. of
Hercule Meriade,
Due de Rohan,
Prince de Soubise,
by Anne Genevidve
de Levis-
Ventadour.
Charlotte=rJune 1, 1733, Emmanuel
Antoinette,
only child
and heir.
Felicite,
Due de Duras et de
Durfort, her cousin.
SNAKES AND Music (12 S. ii. 470). — When
in Queensland while my cousin was playing
the piano in the drawing-room, opening out
on to the veranda, I saw a snake glide in,
and it at once placed itself in an erect posi-
tion behind her chair. We allowed it to
remain so for some minutes before dis-
patching it. It wore a sleepy expression,
but as if enjoying the music.
Upon another occasion, in the Bush, I had
been playing the harmonium for some little
time, and on my moving away from the
instrument, a snake about 4 feet long
emerged from under the pedals.
E. C. WlENHOLT.
10 Selborne Road, Hove, Brighton.
A few years, ago a friend of mine whd was
in New Zealand went to see some of the
curious native lizards of the country.
Whether these creatures are now considered
Henri Jules Armande Felicite, An infant dau-
Mazarin, Due b. Sept. 3, 1691. who died
de Mayenne, = April, 1709, Louis de without bein^
b. March 12, Mailly, Marquis de Nesles, named,
1703, by whom she was mother Dec. 23, 1699,
d. June 28, of the famous four sisters though aged
1715. who were all mistresses of 18 months !
Louis XV. :
1. Louise Julie, Comtesse de Mailly ;
2. Marie Anne, Duchesse de Chateauroux ;
3. Pauline Felicite, Comtesse de Vintimille ; and:
4. The Duchesse de Lauragais. .
Their mother had been the mistress of the-
minister Louis Henri, Due de Bourbon, by whonv
she had Henriette de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de
Verneuil, Comtesse de Laguiche.
GERY MILNER-GIBSON-CULLTJM, F.S.A.
to be true lizards I am not certain. Their-
structure is in some respects very archaic j
yet notwithstanding the out-of-date type of
their organization, they are sensitive to-
music. The people who owned the speci-
mens seen by my friend explained that they
would not leave their hiding-place unless
they were attracted by a tune. One of the
visitors who had come to examine then*
sang, and the animals emerged from their-
lair. L. D.
The Rev. G. C. Bateman in ' The Vivarium*
says : —
" I think the general belief that snakes can be-
charmed by music should be added to the list of
fallacies about thorn. Snakes have no exposed
ears, and, seemingly, their powers <>f hearing, like
their powers of sight, are very limited. When a
piccolo was played softly and shrilly before a case
eontainintc snakes, neither the music nor the-
noise made any impression upon them as far as
I could see.
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" Probably the so-called dancing to music of the
•cobra, for inst.-uicc. is clue simply to excitement
of some kind, such as anger or fear. The Indian
and Egyptian snake-charmers are very clever
jugglers, and, no doubt, are able to deceive, with-
out any difficulty, by far the greater proportion
of their observers,"
A, N. W. FYNMORE.
Arundel.
WILL OF PRINCE RUPERT (12 S. ii. 201,
435). — I gladly answer JUDGE UDAX'S re-
marks about my article on Prince Rupert's
•will, for I feel that communications of this
kind should be as accurate as possible. I
studied the notes which Messrs. J. Gough
Nichols and J. Bruce attached to their
transcript of the will, but much has been
written about Prince Rupert since their
time, and I did not feel bound in all cases
-to agree with them. Besides the earlier
•work by Eliot Warburton (1849), I have
glanced through ' Rupert, Prince Palatine,'
by Eva L. Scott (1899), Mrs. Steuart
Erskine's ' A Royal Cavalier, the Romance
of Rupert, Prince Palatine ' (1910), a volume
by Lord Ronald Gower. and the account in
* Diet. Nat. Biog.' I will take my friend's
criticisms in their order.
1. Dudley Bard's mother was undoubtedly
Frances, Francesca, or Francisca (thus vari-
ously spelt), daughter of Sir Henry Bard,
Viscount Bellamont. Her mother was Ann,
•daughter of Sir William Gardiner of Peck-
ham by Frances, daughter of Christopher
Gardiner of Bermondsey. (See the ' Com-
plete Peerage,' by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs.)
Nichols and Bruce doubtless confused the
-daughter's Christian name with that of the
mother. She must have been called Frances
after her maternal grandmother.
2. As to the date of Dudley Bard's death.
The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' following Nichols
and Bruce, gives it as July 13, 1686, but my
confidence in the accuracy of the writer was
shaken because he says that the event took
place at the siege of Breda. I accepted
Miss Eva Scott's statement. She says :
"In August, 1686, young Dudley fell in a
desperate attempt made by some English
volunteers to scale the walls of Buda."
To make sure one ought to look up original
•documents.
3. As to the price paid by Nell Gwynne
for the "Great Pearl Necklace," I have
mislaid my reference, but 4,5207. is the price
generally mentioned, and I am quite willing
to agree — with apologies if I have made a
slight clerical error. The book of accounts
should still be at Combe Abbey.
I take the opportunity of adding a little
*o my former note. It is, I think, worth
while to record in these pages the discovery
of an interesting document, of which an
illustration based on a photograph is given
between p.p. 342 and 343 of Mrs. Steuart
Erskine's volume. She says at the beginning
that it was brought to light by Miss Eva
Scott, and was reproduced by permission of
Mrs. Deedes of Saltwood Castle, also that
it " has been preserved for generations in
a family which is descended from Persiana
Bard." This is a small discoloured piece
of paper, on which the following words are
written in ink now much faded- : —
" July ye 30th, 1664.
"These are to certifie whom it may concerne
that Prince Rupert and the Lady (Frances Bard
were lawfully married at petersham in Surrey
by me,
" HEXRY BIGNELL, Minister "
Mrs. Steuart Erskine asks the questions,
*' Is this document genuine ? Is it contem-
porary ? Is it official ? " The character of
the handwriting suggests to my mind that
the date is accurate. It seems, however,
that there was then no minister belonging
to Petersham named Henry Bignell, though
there was a curate of that name at Crow-
hurst. It is not an extract from a parish
register. On the other hand, we are told
that two pages have been cut out from the
Petersham register which include the entries
for the year 1664. It really looks as if there
was a marriage of some sort, but if it had
been valid Prince Rupert would hardly have
spoken in his will of " Dudley Bart, my
naturall son," and during his lifetime
Francesca appears to have made no claim
for recognition, though in later years she
was treated with kindness and respect by
the Electress Sophia. PHILIP NORMAN.
" FFOLIOTT " AND " FFRENCH " : " FF "
OR " FF " FOR F (12 S. ii. 429, 498).— A
good many examples of " ff " and " Ff " are
given at 11 S. vi. 166, 214, s.v. ' ffairbanck,'
&c. ; vii. 183, s.v. ' English Officers,' &c. ;
ix. 126, s.v. ' St. James's Square,' &c. ;
x. 228, s.v. ' ffrancis,' &c. ; 269, s.v. ' Rum-
ney Diggle,' &c. ; 276, s.v. ' ffrancis,' an
example and a criticism.
In a foot-note concerning the title of
Baron Ffrench of Castle Ffrench, the late
G. E. Cfokayne], in his ' Complete Peerage,'
vol. iii., 1890, p. 344, makes some very
caustic comments. Inter alia he says :
" This (triple X) ffoolish {fancy has happily
not been repeated by any other member of
the peerage."
Those who refer to the foot-note should also
refer to ' Corrigenda ' in vol. viii. p. 399,
where Cokayne adopts for insertion in the
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foot-note a line or two from a note which
appeared at 8 S. iii. 24, as follows, a duplica-
tion [i.e., of /] presumably arising from " a
prolongation of the vertical tick at the
•extremity of the upper horizontal line of the
•capital F." The note from which he took
this was written by the late Canon Isaac
Taylor.
In 'Calendar of the Manuscripts of the
Marquess of Ormonde, K.P., preserved at
Kilkenny Castle,' Historical Manuscripts
Commission, New Series, vol. iii., 1904, no
fewer than twenty- four names begin with ff —
see the index. Some of the names, e.g., Fingal
and Finch, are, in the body of the book,
spelt indifferently with F or ff. Seeing that
all the other spelling in this book, as far as
I have examined it, is modern, it is curious
that ff was not modernized too. It may be
that the ff was a " ffancy " very much
delighted in in Ireland.
The ' New English Dictionary ' under F
says : —
" In MSS. a capital P was often written as ff.
A misunderstanding of this practice has caused
the writing of Ff or ff at the beginning of certain
family names, e.g., Ffiennes, Ffoulkes."
It is of course well known that in the
•eighteenth century and earlier, when capital
letters were used as the initials of common
nouns, the capital F was frequently written
ff in common nouns as well as in proper
names. ROBERT PIERPOINT.
THE GHAZEL (12 S. ii. 429).— In Smith,
^Elder & Co.'s edition of Thackeray's ' Works,'
^vol. xxi., * Ballads and The Rose and the
Ring,' among the ' Love-Songs Made Easy '
{p. 136) is ' The Ghazel or Oriental Love
• Song,' entitled ' The Rocks,' and beginning :
I was a timid little antelope,
My home was in the rocks, the lonely rocks.
M. H. DODDS.
Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.
Thomas Moore in ' The Twopenny Post
Bag ' (1813), Letter VI., sings :—
The tender jjazel I inclose
Is for my love, my Syrian Rose, &c. ;
;and his ' Gazel ' itself begins : —
Rememberest thou the hour we past ?
That hour, the happiest, and the last.
A. R. BAYLEY.
PAUL FLEETWOOD (12 S. ii. 409). -
According to an esteemed contributor
to ' N. & Q.,' the late Col. Henry
Fishwick, F.S.A., in his ' History of the
Parish of Poulton-le-Fylde ' '(Chetham
Society, 1885), Paul Fleet wood was one
-of six children of Richard Fleetwood
(died 1709) ; he was baptized at Leyland,
on Aug. 9, 1688, and after his father's death
went to live at Wharles in Kirkham. He
married Mary and was bxiried at Kirk-
ham, May 7, 1727, and had issue (1) Paul,
baptized May 14, 1711 ; in 1742 he was
described as innkeeper, and in 1762 as a
labourer ; he had issue, five sons, viz., Paul,
Thomas, Edward, Francis, and Richard ;
(2) Francis, baptized at Kirkham, July 18,
1714 ; (3) Henry, baptized at Kirkham,
May 20, 1717 ; he had a son Paul who was
living in 1762.
A Henry Fleetwood appears in the
Broughton Parish Registers as having mar-
ried Ellen Eccleston on Dec. 10, 1745. They
were both of Barton, which is about seven
miles from Kirkham. He is the only Fleet-
wood recorded in the Registers between
1653-1804, and may probably be the in-
dividual MAJOR RtTDKiN is seekinsr.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
BYRON'S TRAVELS (12 S. ii. 447). — There
is evidence that Byron at least thought of
visiting Lucca. Writing from Pisa, where
he then was, on June 4, 1822, Shelley said
to his wife : —
" Lord Byron is at this moment on the point
of leaving Tuscany. The Gambas have been
exiled, and he declares his intention of following
their fortunes. His first idea was to sail to
America, which was changed to Switzerland, then
to Genoa, and last to Lucca."
He was at Genoa not very long afterwards,
but he may have gone to Lucca first. Canto
xv. of ' Don Juan ' appeared in 1 824. If
ever Byron was at Calais it would perhaps
be in 1816, on his way to Flanders and the
Rhine before joining Shelley in Switzerland.
C. C. B.
FIELDINGIANA (12 S. ii. 441). — I venture
to suggest that MR. DE CASTRO mistakes the
meaning of the phrase " the late ingenious
translator." In the English of to-day,
doubtless the sense would imply the death
of the translator. For Fielding's meaning
we should have to say " the recent trans-
lator." It can, I think, be proved that
Brewster was alive at a later date. It can
certainly be proved that in Fielding's day
" late " had the sense in which I take it.
J. S.
THE WESTERN GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BROMP-
TON (12 S. ii. 450). — Alexander Square,
Brompton, and the small streets off it, \\rrr
built between 1786-1830, on an estate held
by Smith's Charity. The Western Grammar
School was founded in 1828. It was one of
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the many inexjKMisivr local educational
establishments whirl i were characteristic of
the time, and were mainly extinguished by
the larger Grammar Schools and Board
Schools, or absorbed into them. Application
to the Trustees of Smith's Charity would
probably lead to the particulars desired
by MR. 'GARNETT. B. C. S.
THE SIGHT OF SAVAGES (12 S. ii. 410). —
Some observers believe that the men of wild
countries recognize objects at a considerable
distance, when a stranger cannot do so,
because they are familiar with what they see,
rather than because they see it very clearly.
Vague indications may be sufficient to
suggest that a certain object is a group of
ostriches or a herd of antelopes. We in
England are able to conclude from a distance
that an animal is a cow, when we should not
recognize the less familiar camel. I do not
possess W. H. Hudson's ' Naturalist in La
Plata,' but according to my memory he
makes some interesting observations on this
subject. M. P.
During the Zulu War General Pearson, of
Ekowe fame, while in command of that
isolated post, wrote a dispatch in which he
stated that he was utilizing his native troops
for outpost and sentry duties by night,
because experience had proved their eyesight
to be much keener than Europeans'.
In the Basuto War also of 1880-81, in
which I took part as an irregular, Col.
(afterwards Sir Frederick) Carrington when
on the march always sent forward his
friendly Basutos to act as scouts on account
of their quickness in detecting the presence
of the enemy in the open veldt ; on some
occasions I have noticed them fully three
miles ahead of the column, busy at work
locating the enemy.
In Natal, too, a Kaffir will travel by night
through the bush with his legs and feet bare,
holding only a knobkerry in his hand,
relying solely on his sight to pass along clear
of cobras, puff-adders, and other wild
creatures that molest the path of the
wayfarer. N. W. HILL.
DERHAM OF DOLPHIXHOLME (12 S. ii. 448).
1 tho allusion is to Dolphinholme in the
north ot' N'other \\Vresdale Forest, the name
occurs in 1591 when some dispute arose over
it ; also in 1588 in an inquiry into the weirs
on the Wyre, where the mill-weir at Dolphin-
holme is mentioned ('V. C. H. Lanes ' vii
270. 304).
^ The same name occurs in a fourteenth- or
fifteenth-century deed as a place on the Sea
Bank in the Townfield of Liverpool. I am
away from papers and cannot give the exact
date or reference now. A " holm " is a piece
of flat ground by the waterside. Perhaps,
traditionally, or actually, porpoises had
rested or been observed at such a place. It"
it was at Dolphinholme on the Wyre that
mills were established in 1784, it cannot have
been to the Derhams that it owed either its
name or existence, as stated by your corre-
spondent. R. S. B.
REV. RICHARD RATHBONE (12 S. ii. 289,.
457). — With regard to the particulars kindly
furnished by W. R. W., Thomas Rathboner
son of the foregoing, died Vicar of Llanbadrig,.
Anglesea, his successor to the benefice J.
Ellis, M.A. being instituted March 1, 1813,
ANEURIN WILLIAMS.
PERPETUATION OP PRINTED ERRORS (12*
S. ii. 87, 177, 239, 418).— In justice to the
editor and publishers of ' Church Hymns,v
I may say that in my edition (preface dated
April, 1881) both the errors mentioned by
C. C. B. as occurring in Dr. Watts' s hymn
*' Jesus shall reign," &c.,are conspicuous by
their absence. Verse 2 gives " praises," not
" princes," and verse 4 gives " lose," not
" loose." Though I have searched several
other hymnals, in no case can I find the
latter error, though one or two favour the-
word " princes." JOHN T.. PAGE.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD-
(12 S. ii. 361, 384, 404, 423),— An article,,
accompanied by reproductions of two old
plates of views of Enfield Town, appeared
in Middlesex and Herts Notes and Queries
for January, 1897. An engraving of the
Palace was given in The Mirror of Feb. 20r
1830, and one of the chimney-piece (re-
ferred to ante, p. 362) in the same journal of
Oct. 15, 1836. JOHN T.. PAGE.
IBSEN'S ' GHOSTS ' AND THE LORD CHAM-
BERLAIN (12 S. ii. 469). — It was in October,.
1900, that a German company performing
at St. George's Hall, Langham Place, an-
nounced ' Gespenster ' (the German title of
Ibsen's ' Gengangere,' otherwise ' Ghosts'),
for production, but it was prohibited by the
late Mr. Redford, of the Lord Chamberlain' &
Department. The Daily Mail of Oct. 8,
1900, published the story of the confounding
of the Lord Chamberlain with Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain in almost the same words a?-
the extract cited by MR. PIERPOINT.
MR. PIERPOINT will find a most interesting
and illuminating history of this play down
to 1901, and its reception, both abroad and
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-when it was first performed privately by the
-'Independent Theatre" at the Royalty ori
March 13, 1891, in Mr. William Archer's
Introduction to the English translation,
published by the Walter Scott Company in
Paternoster Square. The first licensed public
p >rformance was given at the Haymarket
Theatre on July 14, 1914.
WILLOUGHUY MAYCOCK.
SECOND FORTUNE THEATRE (12 S. ii. 408).
— In Timbs's ' Curiosities of London' (1855),
p. 717, the author, after mentioning the
•destruction of the first theatre of this name
by fire on Dec. 9, 1621, describes the second
•one, and continues : —
" The interior was burnt in 1649, Pry_nne says
by accident, but it was fired by Sectarians. In
the Mercurius Politicus, Feb. 14-21, 1661, the
building, with the ground thereunto belonging,
was advertised ' to be lett to be built upon,' and
it is described as standing between ' Whitecross
'Street and Golden Lane,' the avenue now known
as Playhouse Yard."
ALAN STEWART.
I think Sir Walter Besant made a mistake.
Mr. W. J. Lawrence, in ' The Elizabethan
Playhouse and Other Studies ' (1912), p. 26,
says of this playhouse : —
" Unroofed, brick theatre ; erected on site of
•older house, c. 1623 ; dismantled in 1649, and
never afterwards used as a playhouse ; serving
as a secret conventicle in November, 1682 ; later
used as a brewery. For exterior view in final
stage, see Wilkinson's ' Londina Illustrata.' "
A. R. BAYLEY.
NATIONAL FLAGS : THEIR ORIGINS (12 S.
ii. 289, 358, 455).— The little Jaibliography
on the subject contributed by MR. SPARKE
is of value, but the remarks of L. L. K. and
•J. DE 13. SMITH seem hardly conclusive.
The blue and white flag of modern Greece
is certainly older than 1832. It is supposed
to be the flag, or " standard of rebellion,"
raised by Bishop Germanos of Patras in 1821
(March 25), which, according to a Greek
acquaintance of mine, is referred to in a
modern Greek school-hymn, in words some-
thing like the following : —
O Child of Germanos * 0 Banner beautiful !
Godchild of the Panagia, compassionate and
merciful !
Blue and white are the colours of the B.V.M.
or Panagia.
The national flag of the Greek Republic
(1821-33) was, presumably, the blue flag
with a white cross now used as the naval
flag of Greece, and considering the Russian
influence in the Levant of those days, it is
presumable that the blue and white naval
flag of the great Slav race may have had
something to do with its design. The stripes
may have been copied from the " star-
spangled banner." The blue and white
tinctures" of Bavarian heraldry could
have little to do with the national colours —
they happened to resemble each other by a
mere coincidence.
A vulgar legend has it that Miaoulis, the
famous popular hero of the Greek revolution,
being asked to make a flag for his people,
tore up his shirt (white) and breeches (blue)
and pieced them together for the purpose.
What I chiefly want to find out is if there
is any mediaeval or earlier history of the
Greek flag. What were the " colours " of
Byzantium ? We hear of the factions of
" blues and whites " opposed to the " reds
and greens," up to the seventh century.
Were these the ' colours " surviving amongst
Greek Christians and Turkoman Moslems in
the eighteenth and nineteenth centimes ?
The American flag (according to ' Cham-
bers's Encyclopaedia ') appears to originate
in our old English " colonial flag " of red
and white stripes, the " jack " in the corner
replaced by the stars, and dates from an
Act of Congress in 1808. The old flag
referred to is still' flown by the Eastern
Telegraph Co. as their " house flag."
G. J., F.S.A.
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES : UNDERGRADUATES'
GOWN (12 S. ii. 469).— Students at the
University of Glasgow have, if not always,
at all events from an early date, been
in the habit of wearing red gowns. In 1634
Charles I., in a letter to the Archbishop,
writes that members of the College should
attend services in the Cathedral " in their
gowns," and should also wear their academic
habits in the University, and in the streets.
In 1642 the Visitation from the General
Assembly directed that every student should
have a Bible, and wear a gown. The Com-
missioners of the Visitation of 1664 enjoined
masters and students to wear their gowns
in College, and students to do so in the street
as well. In 1696 students were required
to wear red gowns constantly during the
session, and the masters to wear black
gowns. See ' A History of the University
of Glasgow,' by James Coutts — passim.
(Glasgow, James MacLehose & Sons, 1909.)
In modern days the red gown \\as only worn
by students of tin- Faculty of Arts. Those
who attended the faculties of Divinity,
Medicine, and Law were not supposed to
wear it. The enforcement of the rule was
not very strict in some classes, a good deal
depending on the views of the Professors.
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NOTES AND Q UERIES. [12 s. n. DEC. 30, 1916.
In one class, however, it was practically
universal, as the Professor intimated that
if he saw any student attending his lectures
without a gown lie would not mark him
present when the roll was called.
T. F. D.
The Arts students of the University of
St. Andrews wear a red gown. Those be-
loiuiiiur to the Faculty of [Divinity have one
of black, while the medical students do not
affect a gown. Andrew Lang, who was an
alumnus of St. Andrews as well as of Oxford,
brings in more than one literary reference
to the academic dress in Arts at the former
University, the best known being that of his
' Almse Matres ' : —
The college of the scarlet gown.
The distinctive phrase takes a heightened
interest, especially to St. Andreans, f rom its
probably having given R. F. Murray the
title for his volume of graceful lyrics, ' The
Scarlet Gown.' W. B.
"KANYETE " (12 S. ii. 468). — This must be
for cannette, an old French word which means
a sort of silk, according to the ' Manuel
d'Archeologie francaise,' by M. Camille
Enlart, vol. iii., ' Le Costume,' p. 236.
The so-called " Table alphabetique " gives
the word (p. 546) with this definition : —
"Cannette, c'est 1'objet que nous nommonsbobine
etqui etait originairement un troncon de bambou.
La cannette donne son nom a la soie cannette ou
soie plate qui se vendait surbobine.,etalaca?me<i7Ze
qui s executait avec cette soie."
We have there a valuable glossary, which I
take the liberty of recommending to any
student of mediaeval documents.
PlERRE TURPIN.
Folkestone.
It at once occurred to me on reading
DR. FOWLER'S query that I had heard
Canete used in Spain, as the name of a kind
of cloth. So I referred the question to
Senor F. de Arteaga, of Baskish descent, who
teaches Castilian in the University of
Oxford, although he was born in Barcelona,
among the Catalans. He tells me that the
cloth made at Canete, in the Provincia de
Cuenca, is sold under the name of that town.
As England at the date in question received
wine from Alicante, on the south coast of
Spain, it seems possible that such cloth may
have reached the monks of Fountains Abbey,
even if they altered its Spanish name in
spelling. There was another kind of cloth
called " Cadiz." The name of Laon, in
France, survives in the English " lawn."'
That of Tafalla, in Navarra, where linen is
still made, became dafaila = la nappe in
Baskish. E. S. DODGSON.
WATCH HOUSES (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233,
315, 377).—
London.
Giltspur Street, Smithfield. Now occupied
by sexton of St. Sepulchre's Church ; with
inscription : —
WATCH HOUSE,
ERECTED 1791.
' Some Old London Memorials,' by W. J.
Roberts, p. 185.)
Bishopsgate Street. At corner of parish,
churchyard, afterwards a tobacconist's shop..
Dublin.
14A Chatham Street. Afterwards used as
police station.
Newmarket. Afterwards used as police
station.
Fleet Street. Back of College Street
police station.
Chancery Lane. Afterwards used as
police station.
Sackville Place.
Vicar Street. Scene of tragic death of
Lord Kilwarden. J. ARDAGH.
on
History of the Cutlers' Company of London and of
the Minor Cutlery Crafts, icith Biographical
Notices of Early London Cutlers. — Vol. I. From
Early Times to the Year 1500. By Charles
Welch (Master of the Company, 1907-8).
(Printed privately for the Cutlers' Company.)
THIS fine volume embodies what has evidently
been a labour of love, but must none the less have
been costly both in time and pains. The earliest
fact recorded concerning cutlers in London would
seem to be the existence of one Adam the Cutler
(there is a quaint propriety about his name), living
in the parish of St. Michael in " Bassiehage," and
revealed by a deed belonging to the end of the
twelfth century. From this Adam onwards to the
beginning of the sixteenth century and beyond
there is not a London cutler of whom so much
as the name has come down to us who does not
find a place here. The biographical details thus
carefully collected are derived in great part from
sales or leases of property ; in considerable part
from wills ; and again, though in lesser proportion,
from records of judicial proceedings and other
systems of public administration. No individual
history emerges as of special interest and im-
portance, if considered apart from the Mistery ;,
but we discover the cutlers of some three centuries
as a worthy and prosperous body of men. They
cherish jealously the reputation of their craft,-
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now with greater, now with slacker zeal. They
show themselves compassionate towards brethren
who have failed in life, and of a fatherly mind
towards apprentices. As their corporate life
develops they develop in due measure a taste for
corporate magnificence ; and these honest men
yielded nothing to the other London guilds in
their liberality, especially as testators, towards
their own body.
One of the most interesting aspects of the
Cutlers' history is that of their relations to certain
subsidiary crafts — those of the Purbours, Hafters,
Sheathers, Grinders, Bladesmiths, and one or
two others. To the novice in these matters it
will not for a time be eisy to realize what trade it was
which constituted the cutler proper. His calling
consisted first in the assembling of the productions
of the bladesmith and sheather, and fitting the
blade with its handle, and next in acting as
responsible to the public for the workmanship
and quality of the finished article. The hafters,
who provided the handles, were among the most
important members of the Mistery.
Whether a determination to keep up the
standard of work in a craft arises from mere good
policy or from a lofty disinterested ideal, it can
achieve its end only by means of training soundly
the oncoming members, and the Cutlers display
the usual sagacity of mediaeval men in this
respect. We may perhaps observe in the
mediaeval system of apprenticeship some in-
fluence from the general familiarity with the
monastic system ; and still more reasonable is it to
suppose that the great community life in the
monasteries affected what we may call the
orientation of the corporate life of the Misteries.
Questions of origin or evolution are beside the mark ;
our point is that it must have been, in the centuries
we are dealing with, difficult for unlearned practical
persons to dissociate the very conception of a
community or corporation, for whatever purpose,
from some implication of " religion." The
Fraternity, which was the Mistery under its
religious aspect, ensured that no member, however
scantily provided with kith and kin, should go
hence without funeral comfort, and without
continued remembrance in masses and prayers,
and we do not find the Cutlers in any way remiss
as to this.
The history of the Company in the period dealt
with in this volume may be said to fall into two
divisions, that before and that after Dec. 4, 1416.
On that date did the Cutlers receive their Charter
of Incorporation from the hands of Henry V.
It is unfortunate that the records at Cutlers' Hall
do not furnish any information as to what led up to
this grant. It had a considerable effect on the
government of the. Mistery, which, until this time
had been administered by four Rulers, apparently
equal in authority and elected annually. Hence-
forward, its officials have been a Master and two
Wardens, to whom was added a Court of As-
sistants. The Master and Wardens must them-
selves be of the livery of the Mistery — which now
comes into prominence, and is distinct from the
livery of the Fraternity — but the right of electing
them belonged to all the freemen of the Company.
This last is perhaps rather a loose expression,
considering that there were women (single as well
as widows) who held the freedom, and some of
the most interesting entries in these records
relate to women cutlers. There is even a
mysterious Lady Agnes " le Cotiller," who was.
assessed in Walbrook Ward at the then (early
fourteenth century) considerable sum of 33s. 4d..
We may collect a few — it will be understood
they are a few out of many — instances of pic-
turesque or otherwise attractive details which
we have noted.
The rules concerning each man's retail trade
were, as is well known, numerous and strict, and
no freeman might be engaged in more than one.
But he might deal in whatever wholesale mer-
chandise he pleased, and we find that brewing as a
second trade was much affected by the cutlers
of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The
value of their own goods might be illustrated by
several quotations — we take an example of 1361,.
which is rather curious : one John Nasyng,.
brewer, ordered in his will that all the knives
attached to his girdle should be sold and the-
proceeds given to the work of two City churches.
Here and there we get some hint of the relation,
between London cutlers and those of other towns
— as in the admission of Adam de Thakstede to the
freedom of the City. Thaxted was an important
centre for the cutlery trade, and Adam had so far-
prospered as to be able to move into London.
Still more interesting are the particulars of the
share taken by the Cutlers' Company in various
civic demonstrations or responsibilities : in the-
reception of kings or queens, and maintaining"
watch and ward, or, as in 1402, furnishing-
delegates to attend an inquiry into the manage-
ment of the City prisons, held in the Tower of
London. In 1422 three hundred members of the
divers Misteries, in white gowns and hoods, and
bearing torches in their hands, attended the funeral
procession of Henry V. The torches were the
great expense in this, and the Cutlers' Company
provided four. No doubt they appeared among
their fellow-citizens as personable men, for their-
ordinances required that an apprentice should
be not only " of free birth and condition," but-
likewise " formosus in statura habens membra
recta & decencia." In chap, iv., which deals with
the inner life of the Company in the latter half of"
the fifteenth century, are to be found not only a
good account of the Company's property in the-
Cutlery and of how it was acquired, but also a
number of pleasant particulars relating to Cutlers"
Hall and its appurtenances.
As an appendix to the text of the volume Mr-
Welch prints in detail the principal pieces of
evidence upon which his work is grounded, giving:
both the original Latin or French, and an English
translation. This very greatly adds to the value
of the book. Another admirable feature is the
illustrations, especially Mr. Emery Walker's
fine engraving of the Hall and the reproductions of
the seals. By the way, the Company is now the
only City Company which has a French motto ::
Pcrvenir (I), so it should be a bonne foy.
Mr. Welch has thrown his material more or-
less into the form of a running narrative, and
renders it fairly easy for reference by means o,
plentiful marginal indications. The writing is),
perhaps, a little unequal ; and the following (p. 123f
may serve as an example of its occasional laxity :
" The task of preparing such a list, though easier
now than in the days of this sixteenth-cent ury
scribe, is practically impossible." But apart from
one or two minor lapses of this sort the work has
been as well carried out as it was planned and.
accumulated.
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Bicentenary Commemoration of the Royal Regi-
mi-nt of Arlilli ri/.
A BROCHURE of 8 pages gives a brief account of
the origin of the Royal Reghnenl of Artillery,
.ind of the presentation of a silver casket for use
in Sheffield Cathedral in commemoration of this
— on May 26 last — the 200th anniversary of the
Koy.-i 1 Warrant by which its first two Companies
•were formed. There are portraits of Lieut.-
Oneral Albert Borgard, the first colonel of the
Regiment, and of Lieut.-Col. Shrapnel (a pleasing
reproduction), as well as illustrations of the arms
of the Regiment, and of the casket.
JOTTINGS FROM THE DECEMBER
CATALOGUES (Concluded.)
A COLLECTOR who might have for the asking his
choice of the 225 items described in Messrs.
Myers's latest Catalogue (No. 214) would be
reasonable in hesitating a day or two among its
attractions. He would have to consider a
number of delightful bindings, several of them by
Samuel Mearne, and would probably linger most
over that binder's ' Eikon Basilike,' in black
morocco, with a portrait of Charles I. in the
middle of the front cover — a work executed
especially for Charles II., which since that day
has been the treasured possession of a Congre-
gational minister, and again of the father of
•Queen Victoria, and is now offered to the pxiblic
for the sum of 151. Then there is, bibliographi-
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here : Dame Juliana Beraers's ' The Booke of
Haukyng, Huntyng and Fysshyng,' in the edition
of W. Copland of Lothbery (1565-7). This seems
to be literally unique, and is in a fine state of
preservation, and for it is asked the sum of 450L
This is tempting, of course, but we would our-
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-1 Horae ' of the fifteenth-century School of Bruges,
with 25 miniatures, and many other fascinating
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' Sikanda ' — full of delights, and encased in a
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Forest for a buck to be sent as a present to Mr.
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TWELFTH SERIES.-VOL. II.
SUBJECT INDEX
[For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WOKKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED,
EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORK, GAMES, HERALDRY, MOTTOES, OBITUARY, PICTURES, PLACE-
NAMES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS, SURNAMES,
and TAVERN SIGNS.]
Acco, of ancient Greek folk-lore, 228, 314, 340,
400
Actor-martyr, St. Genesius, c. 286, 189, 236
Adamson and Burry families, 508
" Agnostic " and " agnosco," use of the words, 16
Aitch stones built into fireplaces, Northumber-
land, 8, 57
Aleichem (Sholoum), d. 1916, his will and epitaph,
83
Alleyn (Edward), founder of Dulwich College, 506
Almanac*, local, in the seventeenth century, 241,
280, 335
' Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,' the author
of, 464, 484, 503
Alstonfleld and the Mundy family, 129, 214
American geography, map of, c. 1720, 265
Americanisms, so-called, the derivation of, 287,
334, 414, 496
Anderson, Forrester, Simpson, and Dickson
families, 428
Anonymous Works: —
Frederetta Romney, a novel, c. 1810, 289
Sheridaniana, 1826, 488
Spirit of Boccaccio's Decameron, 1812, 311
Wanted a Governess, verses, c. 1845, 16
Antiquaries, Fellows of the Society of, 469, 518
Apothecaries who have been members of Parlia-
ment, 2H7, 318
" Appreciation "= critique, use of the word, 172
Archer and Bowman, their use as surnames, 15,
135
Arden family, 335, 398
Ardiss family, 507
Arms. See Heraldry.
Anns. Royal, a metrical description of, 502
Army List. English, of 1740, 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129,
151, 163, l!tl. 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324,
353, 3IH. :<su. :5<J1, 402, 431, 443, 460, 473, 482,
Army, Negro or coloured bandsmen in the, 303,
378
Arnold (Thomas), D.D., of Rugby : and America,
208 ; and a Hebrew scholar, 229
Arthington (Henry), a " prophet of Judgement,"
c. 1591, 107
Artist in stained glass, eighteenth century, 374
Ashbee (H. S.), and Caliari's picture, 69
Asia go, Vicenza, Italy, some customs, 48, 134
Assisi (Blessed William of), English Franciscan,
c. 1232, 50
Aston (Francis) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 373
Astronomy at Oxford, Observatory begun, 1772,
42
Austen (Jane), " horrid " romances mentioned in
her ' Northanger Abbey,' 9, 56, 97
Austrian princes fallen in the War, 1916, 428
Authors, British, foreign graves of, 172, 254, 292,
395, 495
Autumn, use of the word, 287, 334, 414, 496
" Aviatik," origin of the word, 38
Ayr, the cloth industry, in the seventeenth cen-
tury, 227, 338
B
Bacon (Francis) : erroneously called " Lord
Hacon." !."> ; sentencing a pickpocket, 1612,
25 ; his ' Histoire Naturelle,' 1031, 49
Badge of the Earls of Warwick, the colours of,
49, 95, 134
Badges, description and identification of, 310
Bainbridge. See Bambridge.
Baker (Sir John), Chancellor of the Exchequer to
King Henry VIII., 449
Bale, English prelates at the Council of, 28, 74,
111
Bambridge (John), M.D., physician and astro-
nomer, 1582-1643, 41
Hambridgf (Mrs. Mary), of Oxford, her will, 1646,
41
542
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
Bambriduo family, "41, 108
•• Bunded binding," bookbinders use of the word,
O A *T
Bandsmen, Negro or coloured, in the Army, 303,
..-^
Bards. -y Island, the government of, 189, 277
Barnard (Abell), of Windsor Castle and Clewer,
Baronets 'created by Cromwell, book on, 129, 198
" Barring-out," account of, by C. Manby Smith,
c. 1853, 111
Barrington (George), notes on convictions and
acquittals of, c. 1780, 56
Basilisks, counterfeit, 1691, Sir T. Browne and,
446
Baskish language, note on, by Casaubon, 288
Bass (Capt. Edward [recte Boss]), c. 1818, and
H M. Cluckhead [recte Gluckstadt], 531
Bate (Henry), editor of 'The Morning Post,' 301,
322, 342, 437
Bath Forum, origin of appellation, 429, 49o, o32
" Batmen," of officers, use of the word, 409, 495
Batteley (Samuel), apothecary M.P., c. 1712, 319
Battersea, inscriptions in parish church, St.
Mary, 125, 145
Battles fought on behalf of Mary, Queen of
Scots, 311, 419
Bayonet called " Rosalie " in France, 506
Beaconsfield (Lord), his speeches concluded with
the words " the Empire," 508
Bear and ragged staff, badge, the colours of, 49,
95, 134
Beasts, wild, employed in warfare, 454
Beauchamp (Henry de), Duke of Warwick, his
badge, 49, 95, 134
Bede (" the Venerable "), his reports about the
Jutes, 102
Bee-hives, transparent, the first use of, c. 1679,
468
* Beggar's Opera,' origin of some airs in, 490
Bell (William), portrait and history painter, 308
Bellains or Bellairs (Capt.), and architecture,
c. 1730, 172
Bellamy (Charles Du)=Agatha Bradstreet, c.
1780, 209, 257, 336
Belleforest, the sixth volume of his tales, 1572,
486
Bell-ringers, their rime at Spetisbury, 25
Bendysh (Mrs. Bridget), her sons, 391, 456, 494
Bendysh family and Binnestead, Essex, 391, 456,
•"494
Bentley (Richard), his interpretations of Milton,
Bevere," engine-name, its origin, 12
Bible : mention of fishing-rod in, 308, 450, 480
Bible and salt, superstitions, 390, 478
Bibles : " Biblia de buxo," the meaning of, 210,
271
" Biblia de buxo," the meaning of, 210, 271
Bibliography : —
Almanacs, local, printed c. 1640, 241, 280,
885
Belleforest, his tales, c. 1572, 486
Boulanger (General G. E. J.), 1837-91,
261, 491
Bradshaw (John), his library, 370
Burv (Bishop Richard of), his library, 355
Butler (Joseph), his ' Analogy,' 369
Cotton (Charles), his ' Compleat Gamester,'
1687, 514
Cox (Capt.), his ' Book of Fortune,' 1575,
135, 202
Bibliography : —
Dutton (Anne), her books and tracts, 1735-5' >,
117, 1!»7, 215, 275, 338, 471
Fanu (J. Sheridan L/e), his works, 450
Fauntleroy (Henry), forger, his library, 367,
458, 476
Faust legend, 269, 337, 358
Hardy (Thomas), his ' The Three Strangers,'
427
Hicks (Mrs. Mary), witch of Huntingdon-
shire, 1716, 521
Histories of Irish counties and towns, 22,
141, 246, 286, 406, 445, 522
Incunabula in Irish libraries, 247, 288
James (G. P. R.), his novels and short stories,
167, 254, 255
Magazines, forgotten, of c. 1770, 143
Markham (E.), his ' The Man with the Hoe,'
50, 96, 157
Murray (John), F.S.A., F.L.S., his lecture on
chemistry, 1822, first edition, 27
Parker (Martin), his works, c. 1630, 127
St. Luke's Parish, Old Street, 133, 176, 239
Toldervy (William) and the word-books, 77
' Tragedy of Caesar's Revenge,' 1607, 305,
325, 506
' Vanity Fair,' first edition of, 13, 355
Witches of Warboys, 30
Bicester, memorial of cholera victims, 1832, 187
Bicheray ( ), portrait painter, c. 1752, 70
Bifeld or Byfeld (Robert), of London, 1506, 249
Binnestead, Essex, and the Bendysh family, 391,
494
Bird life in the Fens, William of Malmesbury on.
c. 1150, 189, 253, 374
Birds, folk-lore of, 190
Bishop ( ) private secretary to George III.,
410
Bishopsbourne Church, arms in painted glass,
c. 1550, 208
" Black Maria " = prisoners' van, origin of the
name, 260
" Blighty," meaning and origin of the word, 340,
395
Bliss (Joseph), his paper ' The Protestant Mer-
cury,' 1707, 81, 155, 216, 292
" Blue pencil," editorial use of the phrase, 12(3,
174, 299
Bluebeard as an Oriental, the origin of, 190, 339
Boat-race won by Oxford with seven oars, 429,
492
Boccaccio (Giovanni), a book on his ' Decameron,'
311
Bohun (Rev. Ralph), D.C.L., and Christopher
Boone, c. 1700, 321, 411
Boleyn (Queen Anne), her chaplain Thirlwall,
1536, 390
Bombay Grab, tavern sign, origin of, 349, 457
Bonaparte (" Betsy "), Poe, Margaret Gordon,
and " Old Mortality," 367, 498
Bonaparte (Napoleon) : his ' Biography ' by
Thomas Holcroft, 1814, 24, 118 ; and sugar
from beet-root, 308 ; Nicholas Girod's plan to
rescue, 469
Bond, Exchequer, dated 1710, the portrait on,
350
Book for boys, voyage of the ship Leda, c. I860,
330, 397, 475, 520
Bookbinders, their use of the words "stab"
and " banded," 347
Book- wrappers, coloured, preservation of, 390,
478-
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
543
Books recently published :-
Bibliographical Society of America : Papers,
Vol. X. No. 1, 1916, 519
Bradley's (H.) The Numbered Sections in
Old English Poetical MSS., 60; A New
English Dictionary on Historical Prin-
ciples: (Vol. IX., Si— Th) Stead— Stillatim,
78
Brown's (S. J.) Ireland in Fiction, 160
Browne's (G. P.) The Ancient Cross Shafts
at Bewcastle and Buthwell, 239
•Calendar of the Charter Bolls preserved in
the Public Record Office : Vol. V., 15
Edward III. to 5 Henry V., A.D. 1341-1417,
159
•Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in
the Public Record Office: Henry VII.,
Vol. II., A.D. 1494-1509, 280
•Calendar of Treasury Books, 1681-1685, pre-
served in the Public Record Office :
Vol. VII., Parts I., II., III., prepared
by W. A. Shaw, 39
•Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Proceedings
of, 1914-15, 419
•Charters, Catalogue of Miscellaneous, relat-
ing to the Districts of Sheffield and Rother-
ham, 1554 to 1560, compiled by T. W.
Hall, 399
'Cheetham's (F. H.) The Church Bells of
Lancashire : Part I., The Hundreds of
West Derby and Leyland, 60
Clippingdale's (S. D.) Sir William Butt,
M.D. : a Local Link with Shakespeare, 240
Close Rolls of the Reign of Henry III. pre-
served in the Public Record Office, A.D.
1242-7, 59
Coleridge (Samuel Taylor), Selections from
the Poems of, 139
€ox's (E. M.) Sappho and the Sapphic Metre
in English, 20
•Craigie's (W. A.) A New English Dictionary
on Historical Principles ; (Vol. X., Ti — Z)
V — Verificative, 499
Diaz (B.) del Castillo's, The True History of
the Conquest of New Spain, 438
Dick's (F. J.) Ancient Astronomy in Egypt
and its Significance, 59
Douglas's (N.) London Street Games, 139
Escott's (T. H. S.) Great Victorians : Me-
mories and Personalities, 479
•Gaselee's (S.) The Greek Manuscripts in the
Old Seraglio at Constantinople, 460
Hannay's (H. B.) European and other Race
Origins, 219
Harris's (J. R.) The Origin of the Cult of
Artemis, 340
Hirst's (J. H.) Armorial Bearings of
Kingston-upon-Hull, 200
lacob and losep : a Middle-English Poem
of the Thirteenth Century, ed. by A. S.
Napier, 160
-Jackson's (Rev. C. E.) The Place-Names of
Durham, 99
Kurz's (H.) European Characters in French
Drama of the Eighteenth Century, 19
Law's (E.) England's First Great War
Minister, 199
Leslie's (Major J. H.) The Centenary of the
Battle of Waterloo, 420
Longman's (W.) Tokens of the Eighteenth
Century connected with Booksellers and
Bookmakers, 459
Books recently published:—
Mackenzie's (W. C.) The Races of Ireland
and Scotland , 299, 336, 397, 417
Mediaeval House, Record of a, 219, 277
Moon's (Z.) " Old Mother Hubbard " : the
Authoress buried at Loughton, 200
New English Dictionary on Historical Prin-
ciples : (Vol. IX., Si— Th) Stead— Stillatim,
by Henry Bradley, 78
New English Dictionary on Historical Prin-
ciples : (Vol. X., Ti — Z) V— Verificative,
by W. A. Craigie, 499
Payen-Payne's (de V.) Wace, and the
' Roman de Rou,' 280
Pepys on the Restoration Stage, ed. by H.
McAfee, 519
Pollen's (J. H.) The Institution of the Arch-
priest Blackwell, 379
Portal's (E. M.) The Academ Roial of King
James I., 339
Royal Regiment of Artillery, Bicentenary
Commemoration of the, 540
Smith's (G. E.) The Influence of Ancient
Egyptian Civilization in the East and in
America, 20
Spens's (J.) An Essay on Shakespeare's
Relation to Tradition, 119
Stokes's (Rev. H. P.) Outside the Barnwell
Gate : Mediaeval Cambridge, 419
Strange's (H. le) Le Strange Records, 319
Taylor's (T.) The Celtic Christianity of
Cornwall, 139
Tout's (T. F.) The English Civil Service in
the Fourteenth Century, a Lecture, 179
Walpole (Sir Robert), Political Ballads illus-
trating the Administration of, edited by
M. Percival, 359
Walters's (H. B.) A Classical Dictionarv,
259
Welch's (C.) History of the Cutlers' Company
of London and of the Minor Cutlery Crafts,
538
Booksellers' Catalogues, 7.9, 179, 260, 359, 439,
519, 540
Boone (Christopher) and Dr. Ralph Bohun,
c. 1700, 321, 411
Boulanger (General G. E. J.), 1837-1891, biblio-
graphy, 261, 491
Boutell (Mrs.), actress, c. 1663, her roles, 381
Bowman and Archer, their use as surnames, 15,
135
Boy-Ed, origin of the surname, 148, 195
Boys, book for, voyage of the ship Leda, c. 1860,
330, 397, 475, 520
Bracey (Brassey) family, 269, 333, 378
Bradshaw ( Agatha )= Charles Du Bellamy, c.
1780, 209, 257, 336
Bradshaw (John), c. 1653, the regicide, his birth-
place, 350 ; his library, 370
Bradstreet. See Bradahaic.
" Brandreth." meaning of the word, 1620, 430,
516
Brass of Gorges family, 1674, 13, 138, 175
Brass plate in Newland Church, inscription, 90,
138
Brassey (Bracey) family, 269, 333, 378
Bread as a symbol of friendship, history of the
custom, 128, 296
Brereton (R.), artist, exhibition of his works,
c. 1835 and 1847, 20
Breviary, Sarum, Latin verses in calendar, 71,
117
.VI 4
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
' Bride of Lammermoor,' whereabcmts of the
MS. of, 349
Bridges or dc Brugge family, 29
•• Brilliant second," first use of the phrase, 148
British herb, and herb tobacco, the prices of, 16,
76
British Isles, statues and memorials in, 45, 168,
lii'O. Ufa, 345
Brompton, Western Grammar School, records of,
450, .">:{.->
" Brooch," " broach," the spelling of the word,
100
Browne (Sir Thomas) and counterfeit basilisks,
1691, 446
Bruere (George), apothecary and M.P., c. 1710,
267
Brun (Madame E. L. Le), French artist, 27
Buckworth (Thomas) = Elizabeth Mael, c. 1728,
529
Budd family, 510
Bull-baiting in Spain and Portugal, 447
Bunks (Jonathan), his MS., 1795, 269
Burges (Francis), printer of ' Norwich Post,' 1701,
81, 216, 292
Burial customs : iron nails driven into skull, 75
Burke, " to burke," metaphorical use of the
word, 100
Burry and Adamson families, 508
Burton and Speke (Capts.), article on their
African travel, c. 1870, 148, 193
Bury (Richard, Bishop of), d. 1345, his library,
355
Bushe and Spencer families, the arms of, 508 •
Butcher, epitaph on, 188, 259, 298
Butchers, record in slaughtering cattle, 265, 378
Butler (Joseph), his ' Analogy,' criticisms and
translations of, 369
Butler (W.) the Elder, author of ' The Cheltenham
Guide, 390, 459
Buxton (Elizabeth) = Samuel Parker, c. 1780, 70
Buxton and Parker families, 70
Byfeld or Bifeld (Robert), of London, 1506, 249
Byron (Lord), his travels, 447, 535
"Cadeau"=a present, early use of the word,
308
Caesar (Julius), his lost work ' Anticaton,' 250
Caldecott family, 107, 195, 237, 298
Calendar, Latin verse on superstitions, 71, 117
Caliari (P.)t the warrior in his picture, and H. S.
Ashbee, 69
Calverley (C. S.), the answers to his charades,
128, 178, 215
Cambridge, almanacs printed at, in the seven-
teenth century, 241, 280
Campbell (Major Alexander), c. 1820, his duel
and trial for murder, 70, 118, 178
Candia (Cecilia Maria De), c. 1872, and Bishop
Wilberforce, 10
Candlemas rime of farmers, 29, 77, 117, 159
Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, the name of the church,
268
" Cardew," meaning of the word, 299, 336, 397,
417
Cards, playing cards : Great Mogul on, c. 1800, 19
Cards, illustrations on snap cards, 210
Carpenter (John), of the Dragoon Guards, 370
Carpet, " The Holy Carpet," its arrival at Mecca
369
" Camstipers," 1674, meaning of the word, 488
Casanova in England, 505
Casaubon on the Baskish language, 288
Castel (William), inventory of his goods, 1559,.
501
Cat, cyprus-cat, variety of tabby cat, 427
" Catafalque," " cenotaph " wrongly used for,.
127
Cathcart (J. Fawcit), actor, and Mrs. Charles
Kean, 1866, 26
' Cato ' and ' Anticaton,' descriptions of, 250
" Catriona," pronunciation of the name, 110, 158
Cecil, " Lord Cecil," of the Genoese army, c. 1744,.
208
" Cenotaph," wrongly used for " catafalque," 127
Centenarian, epitaph, 1725, at Gussage St~
Andrew, 47
Chace (Thomas), of Bromley, d. 1788, 148
Chalice, Italian, c. 1380, arms on, 70, 197
Chapel Royal, Savoy, inscriptions in the burial-
ground, 425, 498
Chapels of Ease, usages appertaining to, 430
Chaplains of Fromond's Chantry, Winchester, 221
Chapman (G.), and the authorship of ' Alphonsus..
Emperor of Germany,' 464, 484, 503
Charles I. and the King of Italy, 267, 358, 496
Charles II., his physician Sir Alexander Fraser,
227
Charnley (Capt. John), cup presented to, 1804,.
249
Charters, Anglo-Saxon, seals on, 169*
Chase (James), apothecary and M.P., c. 1690,
267, 318
" Check," and " cheque," origin of the word, 128
Chelsea Hospital, Royal, Nell Gwynne and the,.
210, 276
Chelsum (Rev. James), d. 1801, his marriage, 469
' Cheltenham Guide,' the author, 390, 459
" Cheque " and " check," origin of the word, 128-
Cherries, heart-cherries, place of the hyphen, 6
Chevalier (Dr. Thomas), 1767, and Lord Kit-
chener's mother, 109, 158, 278
Chichley (John), Fellow of the Society of Anti-
quaries, 469
Child, unborn, mother's influence on, 190, 316
Chillingham, North Northumberland, founder of
the barony of, 8
Chime-hours, effect of being born in, 136, 194r
216, 397
Ching, Cornish surname, mistaken for Chinese,.
127, 199, 239, 259, 336
" Chivalry, The High Court of," held 1699, 330
Choir-stalls, monastic, the arrangement of, 409r
476
Cholera victims, memorial to, Bicester, 1832, 187
Cholmeley (Sir Hugh), defender of Scarborough
Castle, c. 1640, portrait of, 509
Cholmley (Thomas), Mayor of Carlisle, 1654-5, 172
Christian names : Catriona, 110, 158 ; Elizabeth,.
198 ; Manora, Manareh, 429 ; Welthen, 309,
376, 458
Chronograms in Oxford and Manchester, 7
Church, bishops' orders about seats in, before
1800, 10
Church goods of Hampshire, inventory of, 210
Churchill (Rev. W.), Vicar of Orton-on-the-Hill,.
d. 1804, 488
Churchwardens and their wands, 90, 153, 212
Churchyards, headstones with portraits, 210, 277,
377, 459
Cicero, his lost work ' Cato,' 250
Cinematograph, its evolution, 293
Circuses and menageries, history of, 68
City Livery Companies, records of, 67
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
545
Clark (William George), editor of ' Sabrirue
Corolla,' 1859, 149, 197, 237
Clarke (Mary Anne), her family, 149
Clay or gravel soils, the most healthy to live on,
17, 59
•Clement (William Innell), founder of ' The Ob-
server,' 1791, 124
Cleopatra and the pearl, 37, 98, 178
Clerks in holy orders as combatants, 36
Cleypole, Cromwell, and Price families, 508
Clifton (Sir Gervase) of Nottingham, at the Earl
of Shrewsbury's funeral, 1560, 268, 372
Cloth Pair and the Dick Whittington public-
house, 248, 295
Cloth industry at Ayr in the seventeenth century,
227, 338
Clubs : Daubigny's Club, its history, c. 1789, 28
" Coals to Newcastle," early references to the
phrase, 250, 299
Coffin, effect of opening, 275
Coffin, garden beds shaped like, 134
Coins, engraved, of the eighteenth century, 529
Colds, germs brought to islanders, 468
Colla da Chrioch, A.D. 332, his biography, 410
Collier (William), M.P. 1713-15, • theatrical
manager, 210
Collier family and Fielding, 104
Collins (Arthur), compiler of the ' Peerage,' 351
Colonels and regimental expenses, 529
Colours of the 56th Foot, ' Discourse on the Con-
secrating of,' 1819, 188
Comacchio, descriptions of the fisheries at, 210,
257, 334
*' Comaunde," military meaning of the word,
1786, 89
4 Comic Aldrich,' Oxford skit, 1866, the illustrator
of, 228
Common Garden = Covent Garden, so called c.
1686, 89, 157, 217
Communion tables, inscriptions on, ,250
" Communique," use of the word, 227
Compostela, Santiago de, the relics, 379
Congreve (Thomas), M.D., c. 1717, of Wolver-
hampton, 69, 159, 195
•Conolly (Capt. Arthur), story of his martyrdom,
189, 235
Conscription in Bardsey Island, 189, 277
Constable (Timothy), d. 1750, his ancestors, 430
Constable family, 410
•" Consumption," meaning of, in seventeenth cen-
tury, 35, 217
Contraband difficulties in the eighteenth century,
281
Cooper (W. Cooper), Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, 1838, 469
Copley (Arthur) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 372
Coppinger (Edmund), a " Prophet of Mercy,"
c. 1591, 107
Cornhill, fires during the eighteenth century, 461
Coroner of the City of London and treasure-trove,
51, 91, 157
Corporate seals, the custody of, 148, 238
" Correll," 1677, meaning of the word, 488
" Cotte "= workman's or peasant's overall, 115
Cotton (Charles), his ' Compleat Gamester,' 1687,
514
Covent Garden called Common Garden, c. 1686,
89, 157, 217
41 Court " in French place-names, 249, 318, 339
Coverlo, place close to Venetian territory, 33, 94
Cox (Capt.), his ' Book of Fortune,' 1575, 185,
202
Crests : a demi-lion rampant gules, 107, 195, 237 ;
gauntlet clasped, grasping a naked hand couped
at the wrist, 128, 279 ; out of a naval crown a
dexter arm in armour embowed, 90 ; swan's head
between two rods, 129, 195
Crests, British, the publication of a book on, 149
Crests on engraved coins, eighteenth century, 529
Cricket, origin of the term " hat trick," 70,
136, 178, 375, 416 ; meaning of the term
" yorker," 209, 276, 376, 416, 478
" Cricket "= three-legged stool, use of the word,
287, 334, 414, 496
Croft (Sir Herbert) and Lowth, 310
Cromwell (Oliver), book on baronets and knights
created by, 129, 198 ; his cousin Mrs. St. John,
171, 217, 236 ; his accident with a gun, 529
Cromwell, alias Williams (Rabsey), a relative of
the Protector, 136
Cromwell, Cleypole, and Price families, 508
" Crookern." etymology of the word, 470
il Crowner's Quest law, exercised 1916, 207
Crystal Palace, Sir Charles Fox and, 108
Cumberland (Bear-Admiral William), his Christian
name, 409
Cumming family, 210
Cunningham (Sir W.), temp. George IV., 29, 94
Cup, silver, coats of arms on, 129, 195
Curwen (John), b. 1816, founder of the Tonic
Sol-Fa method, 388
Cyprus cat, variety of tabby cat, 427
Danteiana, 481
Darcy (Lord) of the North, at the Earl of Shrews-
bury's funeral, 1560, 268, 372, 420, 436
Darcy (Thomas), Kt., b. 1506, of the King's
Artillery, 128
Darling (Grace), number of persons saved by,
1838, 370
Darvell Gadarn, Welsh saint, 27
" Davis (Mr. Thomas)," actor, friend of Mrs.
Siddons, c. 1779, 290, 356
Day (William), Bishop of Winchester, his wife, 408
Daylight - saving calendar, called " Willett's
time," 188
Daubigny's Club, its history, c. 1789, 28
De la Porte. See Porte.
Dead, " good-night " to the, custom of early
Christians, 70
" Dead season," early use of the phrase, 1656, 147
" Dead secret," early use of the phrase, 107
Decanter for spirits, belonging to an old British
regiment, 489
Deeds and manuscripts, restoration of, 268, 316,
437
Denmark Court, London, its situation, 50, 119
Dentists of the eighteenth century, 64, 115, 194,
218, 399
Derham family of Dolphinholme, 448, 536
Dialect, the decay of, 447
Dickens (C.) : his use of the phrase " How not to
• do it," 17 ; reminiscence of Macready in his
' Edwin Drood,' 25 ; his ' Bleak House,' 330 ;
notes on his ' Pickwick Papers,' 368 ; his
description of the reign of Henry VIII., 529
Dickson (Ellen), " Dolores," composer of songs,
1819-78, 71
Dickson, Forrester, Simpson and Anderson
families, 428
Dick Whittington public - house, c. 1598, its
demolition, 248, 295
546
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917-
' Dictionary of National Biography,' additions
and corrections, 8, 156 — 42, 70—90, 358 — 171—
is-.). 238 — 190 — 209, 259 — 227 — 229, 317 —
250, 295 — 341, 370, 381—391, 516 — 408 —
429, 475 — 437 — 441, 535—469, 470, 506, 508
• Dictionary of Slang,' additions and corrections,
69
DiMvidi. See Beaconsfield.
" Dr.," courtesy title for clergymen, 408, 531
Dod (John) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's funeral,
1560, 268, 373
Dollar, " old British dollar," redeemed at Treng-
ganu, 1915, 448
" Dolores," Ellen Dickson, composer of songs,
1819-78, 71
Dolphinholme, origin of the place-name, 448, 536
Dominican Order, books on the history of, 510
" Donkey's years "=a very long time, use of the
phrase, 506
" Don't be longer than you can help," use of the
phrase, 227, 359
Dorton-by-Brill as a health resort, 77
Drake (Sir Francis), the ultimate fate of his ship,
309, 355
" Driblows," meaning of the word, 269, 398
Drum, magic, from Swedish Lapland, 428
Drury Lane Theatre : statue at, c. 1794, 71, 136 ;
statue of Shakespeare on the portico, 208
Du Bellamy. See Bellamy.
Dubleday (Edmond) of Westminster, 1612, 70, 159
Dublin, Metal-bridge, expiration of the lease of,
487
" Dug-out," various meanings of the word, 328
" Duityoners "=guardians, Elizabethan word,
509
Duke (Richard), b. 1658, poet and divine, his
biography, 171, 236
Duncan and Sargent families, 470
Durell (Rev. David), D.D., of Canterbury Cathe-
dral, b. 1728, 250, 295
Dutton (Anne), editor, d. 1765, her residences and
death, 147, 197, 215, 275, 338, 471
Dye industry, England and Germany and the,
c. 1678, 528
" Ea," the pronunciation of, 530
Ear tingling, a charm to " cut the scandal," 310,
413
Earl's Court, a London suburb, 1712, 389, 459
Easter custom, pace-egging, 12, 76
' Edwin Drood, reminiscence of Macready in,
25
Elder tree, folk-lore of, 136
Elizabeth (Queen), her exclamation, " Stop the
Smithfleld fires," 191 ; her palace at Enfleld,
361, 384, 404, 423, 440, 527, 536
Elliston (R. W.), lines on his monument, 227
Enfield, the Grammar School at, 361, 384, 404,
423, 527 ; Queen Elizabeth's palace at, 361,
384, 404, 423, 440, 527, 536
England (Dick), c. 1799, date of his death, 468
England, Germany, and the dye industry, c. 1678,
528
England, history of, with riming verses, 529
" Englishman's house is his castle," legal truth of
the saying, 17, 59, 218, 277
Entertainments in London to " four Indian
kings," 1710, 304, 397
" Epheds," meaning of the word, 509
Kph.-.sus and Shakespeare's ' The Comedy of
Errors,' 345
Epigram : —
When Henry the Eighth left the Pope in the-
lurch, 93
Epitaphs : —
A simple Israelite here lies, 83
Behold ye tombd ! Interrd lies one, 307
Dum pia Melpomene, nato pereunte querelas,.
227
Farewell, vain world, 400
For killing pigs was his delight, 188, 259, 298;
Grudge not my laurel, rather blesse that
Bower, 71, 116
Gulielmus Williams de Woodcotte Generos*"
extremu, 47
Here lyes a Pearle — none such the ocean1
yields, 176
Lo here I lie strecht out both hands and feete,
229, 278
Epitaphs at Llanerchaeron of the Lewis family,.
307
Epitaphs in old London and suburban graveyards r
308, 377, 456
Errors in print, the perpetuation of, 87, 177, 239r
418, 536
Espiard de la Borde (Francois Ignace), the
translator of his ' L'Esprit des Nations,' 1753, 28-
Eton (Sir Thomas) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 372
European travel of the seventeenth centarj r
33, 94
Exchequer bond dated 1710, the portrait on, 350
Evans (John), c. 1632, astrologer of Wales, 149,.
238
Evans (Mary Anne), " M. A. E.," author, d. 1877r
38
Evelyn (Elizabeth) and the Evelyn family, 13
Evelyn (John), Ralph Bohun and Christopher
Boone in his ' Diary,' 321, 411
Evelyn family, 13
Eyes permanently changed in colour by fright,,
instances of, 350, 457, 515
" F " and " ft," the use of, in surnames, 429, 498r
534
Fair at Hampstead, 1816, 170
Fairfield (Charles), artist, d. 1804, 27, 77, 256
Family likenesses, inherited, the persistence of, 10'
Fanu (J. Sheridan Le), his works, c. 1896, 450
" Fare thou well," early use of the phrase, 288
Farmers : Candlemas rime of, 29, 77, 117, 159 ;
meanings of some sayings of, 289, 358, 435
" Faugh-a-Ballagh " (clear the way), regimental
motto, 350, 416
Fauntleroy (Henry), forger, hanged 1824, his
library, 367, 458, 476
Faust, books dealing with the legend, 269, 337, 35»
Fazakerley, meaning of the surname, 59, 78
Fazakerley family, 59, 78
Feasts of Huntingdonshire men held in London r
c. 1678, 61
" Feis "=festival, meaning of the word, 71, 177
" Felon," derivation of the word, 350, 457
Fenton (James), 1716-91, Recorder of Lancaster,
266, 417
Ferrebee (Rev. Michael), c. 1739, kis marriage,
488
" ffoliott," origin of the surname, 429, 498, 534
" ffrench," origin of the surname, 420, 498, 53-i
Votes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
547
Fielding (Henry) : and John Ranby, 11 ; and the
Collier family, 104 ; corrections in his ' Voyage
to Lisbon,' 515
Fieldingiana : Miss H— and, 16, 38, 137, 179;
' Essay on Conversation,' Dr. Thomas Brewster,
' Mist's Weekly Journal,' &c., 441, 535
Field-names, the origin of, 129
4 56th Foot, Discourse on the Consecrating of the
New Colours of,' 1819, 188
Finger, the fourth, called " pink," 209, 258
Finlay and Jennings families, 488
Fire putting o\it fire, 530
Fireplaces, " aitch " stones built into, in Northum-
berland, 8, 57
Fires in Cornhill during the eighteenth century,
461
Fires lighted near cornfields in England, 427,
518
Fisheries at Comacchio, descriptions of, 210, 257,
334
Fishing-rod, mention of, in the Bible or Talmud,
308, 450, 480
Fitzgerald (Mrs. Edward), d. 1890, her pictures,
330
Fitzgerald family, 530
Flag, national, of Scotland, and lion rampant, 71,
138, 175
Flags, national, their origin, 289, 358, 455, 537
Fleet, histories of the river, 106
Fleet Street parishes, rate-books of, 1768 to 1800,
310
Fleetwood (John), his letter on contraband, 1710,
281
Fleetwood (Paul), b. c. 1688, d. 1727, his descen-
dants, 409, 535
Fleming family, 291
Fletcher family, 48
Flower (Barnard), King's glazier, and Bishop Fox,
c. 1510-20, 330
41 Fly "=vehicle becoming extinct, 32, 95
Folk-lore: —
Asiago, some customs of, 48, 134
Bible and salt, 390, 478
Birds: nightingales, yellowhammers, and
peacocks, 190
Bull-baiting superstitions, 447
Calendar, Latin verses on superstitions, 71.
117
Chime-hours, effect of being " born in," 136,
194, 216, 397
Ear tingling, charms to " cut the scandal,"
310, 413
Elder-wood, superstitions about, 136
Farmers, weather rimes of, 29, 77, 117, 159
Blair, red, the prejudice against, 128,
196, 239, 379
Horse-chestnut, horseshoe marks on, 172,
237, 294
House and garden superstitions, 89, 138, 159,
214, 419
House, new, risks of entering, 509
Midsummer and Twelfth Day fires, 427, 518
Mussel-duck, some supposed habits of, 487
Peacocks, 530
Babbit, superstitions relating to, 10
Sea folk-lore, 10
Touch wood, origin of the superstition, 330,
418, 498
Touching a sailor for luck, 13, 112, 259
Touching for the kind's <'vil, 114
Ford Castle, Northumberland, built in 1287, 8, 36
Ford, Northumberland, " aitch stones " built into
fireplaces in, 8, 57
Forest (Blessed John) and the image of Darvell
Gadarn, 1538, 27
Forrester, Simpson, Dickson, and Anderson
families, 428
Fort Jerome, St. Domingo, and H.M.S. Argo and
Sparrow, drawing of, 377
Fortune Theatre, the sceond, disaster to, 408,
537
" Forum " of Bath, origin of the term, 429, 495,
532
Fox (Bishop Richard) and Barnard Flower, c.
1510-20, 330
Fox (Sir Charles) and the Crystal Palace, 108
France : travels in, during the Revolution, 108 ;
the Marshals of, from 1185 to 1870, 182, 235,
279, 378
Fraser (Sir Alexander), physician to Charles II.,
227
Frederick II., his phrase about " the diplomats,"
148
Freedom of a city in a gold box, earliest records of,
228
French, their custom of eating frogs, 251, 293,
351, 415
" French's contemptible little army," first ap-
pearance of the phrase, 349, 532
Frewen (Dr. Thomas) of Rye, d. 1791, his paren-
tage, 229, 315
Frogs, the French custom of eating, 251, 293, 351,
415
Fromond's Chantry, Winchester, the chaplains of,
221
Gadesden (Augustus W.), Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries, c. 1840, 469, 518
Gale (Theophilus), Nonconformist tutor, b. 1628,
209, 279
" Galoche," description of the game, 115
Game, largest bag for a day's shooting, 55, 139
Games :—
Cricket, origin of the term " hat trick,"
70, 136, 178, 375, 416
Cricket, meaning of the term " yorker," 209,
276, 376, 416, 478
" Crookern," origin of, 470
" Galoche," 115
Playing cards, 1857, 19
Snap cards, 210
Garden and house superstitions, 89, 138, 159, 214,
419
Garden bed shaped like a coffin, 134
Garland family, M.P.s of, 368
Garrick (David), 1717-79 : date of grant of arms
to, 49 ; his friends, 307
Gascoigne (Thomas) at the Earl of Shrewsbury s
funeral, 1560, 268, 373
Gavelkind, the survival of the custom, 15
" Gavelock," meaning of the word, 1620, 430,
516
Gay (John), 1688-1732, his ' The Beggar's Opera,
490
Gennys family of Launceston and Plymouth,
114
Gentlemen present at the funeral of Earl of
Shrewsbury, 1560, 268, 372, 420, 436
Geography, map of America, c. '1720, 265
George III., his private secretary, Bishop, 410
George IV. and the prerogative of mercy, 401,
476
German papers and ' N. & Q.,' 266
German princes fallen in the War, 1916, 428
548
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 191T.
("•rmany, Kngland, and the dye industry, c. 1678,
(iliazels in English literature, 429, 535
(iho-t df Wiiiclit-lsoa, negro in red uniform, 250
<iil>bon (Edward), a diary of, r. 1772-6, 149
(iillray (.lames), his caricature ' The Dandy,' 1810,
350
Girod (Nicholas), his plan to rescue Napoleon, 469
" (iive the mitten "=giving his conge, 351, 454
(•lass, stained : portraits in, before 1750, 172, 211,
275, 317, :«7, 374, 458, 517 ; artist of legends of
St. Nicholas, 374 ; of the fourteenth century,
415, 500
Glazier, King's, 330, 430, 517
Gloves, old customs connected with, 308, 356
Gloves, scarlet, worn by Tractarians, 50, 116
Godiva (Lady) and the Countess Lucy, 387
Godolphin (Margaret), temp. Charles II., her grave,
129, 176, 218, 274, 359
" Gold box," earliest records of freedom of a
city in, 228
" Good-night " to the dead, custom of early
Christians, 70
Gordon (Loudon H.), 1780-1831, his ' Discourse '
on the colours of the 56th Foot, 188
Gordon (Margaret), Poe, " Betsy " Bonaparte,
and " Old Mortality," 367, 498
Gordon family, the epithet " gay " or " gey, 249
Gorges (Henry), d. 1674, brass with inscription,
13, 138, 175
Govane family of Stirlingshire, 489
Gown of undergraduates at Scotch Universities,
469, 537
" Grab," meaning of the word, 349, 457
Grammar, Quaker syntax, reason for its use,
309
Grammar School at Enfield, 361, 384, 404, 423,
527
" Gray's Inn pieces," meaning of the expression,
509
Grandineau (F.), Professor of French at West-
minster College, c. 1835, 10
Grandison (Otho de), magazine article on, 108, 155
Grantham, East Indiaman, wrecked at Folkestone,
1744, 269
Gravel or clay soils, the most healthy to live on,
17,59
Graves, foreign, of British authors, 172, 254, 292,
395, 495
Graveyards, old, the epitaphs in, 308, 377, 456
Gray (Thomas), collection of squibs by, 285, 399,
526
" Great-cousin," meaning of the word, 228, 295
Gregory (Francis), master of Woodstock Grammar
School, d. 1707, 171
Griffith (Mrs. E.), author of ' Morality of Shake-
speare's Dramas,' 209, 293
Griffiths (C. H.) & Sons, safemakers, and " Who's
Griffiths ? " 269
Grose (Sir Nash), Puisne Justice of the King's
Bench, his birth c. 1740, 409
Guardians called " duityoners," Elizabethan
word, 509
Guise (Francois, Due de), date when wounded,
1545 or 1558, 507
(iun, naval, dated 1638, its whereabouts, 487
Gunfire, its effect on the weather, 38, 74, 113
Gunpowder, percussion cap, its history, 27
Gussage St. Andrew, epitaph of centenarian, 1725,
47
Gwynne (Nell) and the Royal Chelsea Hospital,
210, 276
H
Racket (William), a false Christ, c. 1591, 107
" Hackney-carriage," vehicle becoming extinct, 32'
Haddock (Admiral Nicholas), 1686-1746, M.P. for
Rochester, his marriage, 12
Haggatt family, 109
Hailstones that fell at Remiremont, 1907, 27, 178-
Hair, red, the prejudice against, 128, 196, 239r
379
Hall (Bishop J,), his reference to St. Madron's
Well, 9, 58, 396
Hampstead, fair held at, 1816, 170
Handkerchiefs : London topographical, c. 1844,.
207 ; " Victory handkerchiefs," 1709, 207
Hanmer (Rev. Meredith), D.D., his parentage, 171,
259
Hannafore, Cornish place-name, the origin of, 449
Harding family of Somerset, before 1780, 350,-
434
Hardy (Thomas), his ' The Three Strangers,' 427
Hare and Lefevre families, 128, 195, 397, 457
Harl. MS., ' The Order of a Camp,' 1518, the
number of, 110, 215
Harlech, origin of ' March of the Men of Harlech,'
49, 113
Harris (George), civilian, b. 1722, his mother, 190'
Harrow School, arms of, 88
Hastings (Thomas) and ' The Regal Rambler,'
1793, 530
Hastings (William) of Folkestone, 1777, 508
" Hat trick," origin of the term in cricket, 70r
136, 178, 375, 416
" Have," early colloquial use of, 33
Haviland (General W.), b. 1718, his mother, 250-
Hawkes (Major Walter), drowned 1808, his
marriage, 449
Hayes (Edward), Dublin, sitters for his portrait
studies, c. 1848, 350, 413, 476
Hayler (Henry), sculptor, c. 1870, 36
Headstones with portraits of the deceased, 210,.
277, 377, 459
Heart-burial in churches, 33
Heart-cherries, place of the hyphen, 6
Hebrew inscription, Sheepshed, Leicestershire,-
109, 195
Hemet family, dentists, 64, 194
Henchman, Hinchman, or Hitchman family, 270r
338
Henley (or Shenley), Herts, the whereabouts ofr
33,99
Henry VI., the cult of, 256
Henry VIII. : his Glazier, 330, 430 ; his Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir J. Baker, 449 ;
his reign described by Dickens, 529
' Heraldiques, Revue des questions, 5e annee,'
1902-3, copies of, 370
Heraldry: —
Arg., a chevron gules between three horse-
shoes sable, 250
Arg., a cross moline gules, 406
Arg., a fesse azure, frety or, between three
cinquefoils gules, 107, 195
Arg., on a fesse gules between three boars
sable, 508
Arg., three hawks' lures sable, 208
Arg., three six-pointed pierced molets sable, 74
Arg., two bends wavy, the one in chief gules,.
the other azure, 154
Arms, royal, a metrical description of, 502
Az., a chevron between three escallop shells or,.
209
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
549
Beraldry : —
Az., on a fesse or, 208
Az., a lion rampant argent, 88
Az., three chevrons interlaced, and a chief
or, 74
Barry of eight, argent and gules, 208
Barry of six, or and azure, 70, 197
Barry wavy of six, or and azure, 90
Bear and ragged staff, badge, 49, 95, 134
Bishopsbourne Church, arms in painted glass,
c. 1550, 208
Bushe and Spencer families, the arms of,
508
•Caldecott family, the arms of, 107, 195, 237
Chalice, Italian, c. 1380, arms on, 70, 197
Chivalry, the High Court of, held 1699, 330
•Crest of an eagle statant, 529
Crest of a horse's head bridled, 529
Crest of a talbot's head issuant from a crest-
coronet, 529
Cup, silver, coats of arms on, 129, 195
Fesse between three rustres, 268, 374
Garrick (David), grant of arms to, 49
•Gu., a chevron between three lions' heads
erased, argent, 528
Harrow School, arms of, 88
Neville family, arms of, 50
Out of a ducal coronet or, a phoenix or in
flames proper, 458
Pallavicini family, arms of, 328, 396
Papal insignia of Nicolas V., 154
Price family, arms and crest of, 349, 477
.Sable, a chevron between three spearheads
argent, 477
'.Sable, three braced chevrons and a chief gold,
28
Salisbury Cathedral, monumental inscriptions
in, 47
Seize-quartiers, 477
Shakespeare (W.), his falcon crest, 35
Silver, a cross gules with a bezant in the
centre, 28
Toke family of Notts, arms of, 250, 338
Topp family, the crest of, 128, 279
Two flags in saltire, 129, 195
Wright family, arms of, 77
Herb tobacco, the cultivation of, 16, 76
Herbert (Edward), M.P. 1656-8, his father, 348,
436
Herbert (Philip), Earl of Pembroke, c. 1641,
portrait of, 108, 158
Hertfordshire, some surnames of, 349
Hewitt or Hewett family, pedigrees, 51
Hicks (Mrs. Mary), witch of Huntingdonshire,
c. 1716, 521
Hinchman, Henchman, or Hitchman family, 270,
338
Histories of Irish counties and towns, bibliography
of, 22, 141, 246, 286, 406, 445, 522
History of England with riming verses, 529
Hitchman, Henchman, or Hinchman family, 270,
338
Holcroft (Thomas) and the biography of Napoleon,
1814, 24, 118
Holloway (William), author of ' The Peasant's
Fate,' 1802, 8, 156
" Holme Lee," pen-name of Harriet Parr, d. 1900,
370
Holmes family of co. Limerick, 90
" Honest Injun," origin of the expression, 157
Hopkins (Elizabeth), b. 1761, British heroine in the
American War, 121
Horse-chestnut, the horseshoe mark on its branches,
172, 237, 294
House and garden superstitions, 89, 138, 159, 214,
419
House, new, risks of entering, in India, 509
" How not to do it," origin of the phrase, 17
Hudson (James), his position at Court, 1832, 29,
94
Hungary Hill, Stourbridge, origin of the name,
430, 517
Huntingdonshire Feaets in London, c. 1678, 61
Hussey (Thomas), M.P. for Whitchurch 1645-53,
88, 135, 158
Hymn, mediaeval, attributed to St. Thomas &
Becket, 228, 271
Hymn-tune ' Lydia,' 152
" I don't think," use of the phrase, 1862, 487
Ibarra (Joachim), 1725-85, Spanish printer, 171,
253
Ibbetson, Ibberson, or Ibbeson, meaning of the
surname, 110, 198, 294
Ibsen (Henrik), his ' Ghosts,' and the Lord
Chamberlain, 469, 536
Incunabula in Irish libraries, 247, 288
" Indian kings, four," entertainments to, in
London, 1710, 304, 397
" Influenza," use of the word, 1775, 328, 457
Influenza and colds, germs brought to islanders,
468
Inscriptions : monumental and heraldry in
Salisbury Cathedral, 47 ; at Poltimore alms-
house, Exeter, 71, 116 ; on brass plate, Newland
Church, 90, 138 ; Hebrew, at Sheepshed, Lei-
cestershire, 109, 195 ; in the parish church,
St. Mary, Battersea, 125, 145 ; in churchyard
of St. Newlyn East, Cornwall, 228, 317, 418;
on Communion table, 1617, 250 ; in Tower of
London, " John Prine, 1568," 390, 516 ; in the
burial-ground of Chapel Royal, Savoy, 425, 498
' Interme'diaire,' notes from, 220
Inventory of a house in Warwickshire, 1559, 501
Inventory of goods, 1620, words occurring in, 430,
516
Irish counties and towns, bibliography of his-
tories of, 22, 141, 246, 286, 406, 445, 522
Irish legend of the two isles, 27
Irish (Volunteer) Corps, c. 1780, 390, 518
Iron, war jewellery made of, 427
' Islington Gazette,' Diamond Jubilee of, 1910, 346
Italy, King of, descended from Charles I. of
England, 267, 358, 496
" J. (S.)," water-colour artist, c. 1826, 250, 315
Jackson (Sir Anthony), c. 1650, and the Moone
family of Breda, 229
Jackson (Samuel), water-colour artist, c. 1826,
250, 315
James (G. P. B.), 1799-1860, his novels and short
stories, 167, 254, 255
Jennings and Finlay families, 488
" Jennings Property " case, genealogical details,
16
Jewellery in war-time, made of iron, 427
" Jingle," vehicle becoming extinct, 32
" Jobeys " of Eton, 248, 295, 394
John (King), the opening of his tomb, 520
550
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917,
Jones (John), author of ' Kinetic Universe,' 209
Jones (John), his ' Natural or Supernatural,'
1861, 311
Jonson (Ben), his reference to torpedoes, 7
Jutes, the Venerable Bede's reports about, 102
Kanyete, a textile used c. 1454, description of,
•id's. r>3S
K in (Mrs. Charles) and Cathcart, 1866, 26
Keats (John), " St. Jane " in a letter of, 1817, 369
Kennedy (Dr. Benjamin Hall), d. 1889, editor of
' SabrintB Corolla,' 149, 197, 237
Kepier School, Houghton-le-Spring, 1770-90, 309
Ker (H. B.), artist, c. 1812, 49
Kerry, derivation of place-names of, 14
King (W.), LL.D., of Oxford, portraits of, 467
King's evil, " touching " for, 114
King's Own Scottish Borderers, history of the
regiment, 92
Kingsley (Henry), Marat in his ' Mademoiselle
Mathflde,' 409, 475
Kingsley family, the pedigree of, 70, 136, 174, 253
Kingsway, use of the street-name, c. 1708, 170
Kipling (Rudyard), a lost poem by, 409, 475, 495
Kitchener (Lord), his mother's familv, 109, 158,
278
Knight, the ceremony of degrading a, 1621, 68
Knight ( ), his picture ' Waterloo Heroes,'
11, 134
Knight (Joseph), his poem ' The Heart's Summer,'
1871, 21
Knight of the Garter, portrait, c. 1641, 108, 158
Knights created by Cromwell, book on, 129, 198
" Kyn," first use of the suffix with surnames, 450
Lace patterns, pin-pricked on parchment, 13
Lamb (C.) : his ' Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist,'
1797, 266, 398 ; and Richard and Andrew
Bloxam, 435
Lancashire pedigrees, book of, its whereabouts, 29
Land tenure, leases for lives, 263
Landmarks of London, disappearance of, 248, 295
Latin contractions in parish accounts, 1627, 19.
57, 134
Latin, English dictionary of words in mediaeval
documents, 12
Launceston, last use of stocks at, 1859, 347
" Laus Deo," heading for ledger folio, 14, 253
Law, ancient Roman and Welsh, 187
Lawrence (P. S.), artist and sailor, c. 1794, 209,
259
Le Brun. See Brnn.
lie Fanu. See Fanu.
Lead tank, 1716, lettering on, 390, 458
Lee (Holme). See Holme.
Lefevre and Hare families, 128, 195, 397, 457
Legal macaronics or law French, 335, 398
Legend, Irish, of the two isles, 27
Legends on " love tokens," 507
Lennox (Col. Charles), 1764-1819, 4th Duke of
Richmond, 28, 89, 138
Lester family, M.P.s of, 368
" Lethargy," meaning of, in seventeenth century,
DO
Lethbridge (Lieut.-Col. T. Arscott), Royal Regi-
ment of Artillery, d. 1856, 334
" Letter-case," early use of the word, 1655, 147
Lewis family epitaphs at Llanerchaeron, 307
Libraries, Irish, incunabula in, 247, 288
Library, early circulating, 1661, 158
" Like," in Milton's ' Tetrachordon,' 7, 58
Likenesses, accidental, in natural scenery, 15
Likenesses in a family, the persistence of, 10
Lincoln's Inn Hall, the date c. 1840, 210, 273
Lion, belief that pain is not felt when mauled by,'2T
Lion rampant of Scotland, 71, 138, 175
Livery Companies, records of the City, 67
Lloyd (Plumstead), c. 1790, his family, 310, 398
Locke (John), 1632-1704, his mother, 70
Lockhart (J. G.), unpublished letter of, 18, 57,.
114
Lockyer (Nicholas), his marriage, 70
" Loke," meaning of, in street-names, 18, 56
London : panoramic surveys of streets, c. 1835, 5,.
135, 197, 276 ; St. George's Church, Bloomsbury,
the statue on, 29, 93, 155, 195, 238 ; The Mount,.
Whitechapel, 31 ; Denmark Court, its situation,.
50, 119 ; Coroner and treasure-trove, 51, 91,
157 ; Huntingdonshire Feasts held in, e. 1678, 61 ;
Ratcliff Cross, the restoration of, 87 ; St. George
the Martyr Church, 93, 155, 271 ; River Fleet,,
histories of, 106 ; inscriptions in St. Mary's
Church, Battersea, 125, 145 ; St. Luke's, Old
Street, bibliography of the parish, 133, 176,.
239; the stones of buildings and monuments,.
194 ; topographical handkerchiefs of, 207 ;
vanishing landmarks, 248, 295 ; epitaphs in old
graveyards, 308, 377, 456 ; Fleet Street parishes,,
rate-books of, 1768 to 1800, 310 ; Earl's Court,,
a suburb, 1712, 389, 459 ; Tower of, inscription,.
" John Prine, 1568," 390,f516 ; " public houses "
in, in 1701, 449 ; Poland Street, origin of the
name, 490
' London Magazine,' the history of, 149, 198, 378,.
477
Longford (Nicholas) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 372
" Love tokens," legends on, 507
Lovelace and Vanneck families, 350
Lowth (Bishop R.), his ' Essay on Hebrew
Poetry,' 310
Lucy (Countess) and the Lady Godiva, 387
Lutwyche (Sir Edward), Justice of the Common
Pleas, 90, 358 .
' Lydia,' hymn-tune so called, 152
M
" M. A. E.," Mary Anne Evans, author, d. 1877, 38"
Macaronics, legal, 335, 398
MacGaurans or McGoverns, the Book of the,.
Irish MS., c. 1340, 65, 127
McGoverns or MacGaurans, the Book of the,.
Irish MS., c. 1340, 65, 127
Mackenzie family, 171, 214
Macready (W. C.), reminiscence of, in ' Edwin*
Drood? 25
Madan (Patrick), b. 1752, memoirs of, 77
Mael (Elizabeth) = Thomas Buckworth, e. 1728,.
529
Magazines c. 1770, a bibliography of, 143
Magic drum from Swedish Lapland, 428
Major key, in music, used to express cheerfulness,.
49, 216
Malet family, 409
Malmesbury (William of), c. 1150, on birdHife in
the Fens, 189, 253, 374
' Man with the Hoe,' poem by E. Markham, 1899,.
50, 96, 157
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
551
Manchester, title of Earl of, Montagu family and,
73
Manora, Manareh, origin of the female name,
429
Mansell family of Muddlescomb, 184
Manuscript, Irish, the Book of the MacGaurans or
McGoyerns, c. 1340, 65, 127
Manuscripts and deeds, restoration of, 268, 316,
437
Marat (Jean Paul) in H. Kingsley's ' Mademoiselle
Mathilde,' 409, 475
" Margarine," pronunciation of the word, 370
Markham (E.), his ' The Man with the Hoe,' 1899,
50, 96, 157
Marriage lines, supposed effect of losing, 71
Marshall (W.), Earl of Striguil, 1197, 267, 315
Marshals of Prance from 1185 to 1870, 182, 235,
279, 378
Marseilles harbour frozen, eighteenth century
228
Marten family of Sussex, 29, 409
Martineau (Louis), 1st lieutenant, Royal Artillery,
d. 1859, 29, 78
" Maru," meaning of the word, 146
Mary, Queen of Scots, battles fought on behalf of,
311, 419
Massey (George) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 373
Maturin (Rev. C. R.), 1782-1824, novelist and
dramatist, 529
" Maubre," meaning of the word, 1620, 430, 516
Maule (Rev. Ward), c. 1856, of Nagpore, 227, 296
Maximilian (Emperor), his father " Maltre Luc
dit Transilvain," 88
Maynard (Sir John), 1592-1658, his descendants,
172, 238, 295, 339
Mayor, the title " Right Worshipful," 111
Mayors of the United Kingdom, trappings of, 390,
478
Mediaeval Latin words, English dictionary of, 12
Medicine, the use of steel in, 69, 138
" Meend," derivation of the word, 300
Members of Parliament, unidentified, 251, 297,
456
Memorials : in the British Isles, 45, 168, 220, 263,
345 ; of cholera victims, Bicester, 1832, 187 ;
in Westminster Abbey, the removal of, 189, 237
Menageries and circuses, history of, 68
Merchant custom, " Laus Deo " on ledger folio,
14, 253
' Mercurius Politicus,' words from, " dead
season " and " letter-case," 147
Mermaid Tavern, original print of, 331
Mesopotamia : " That blessed word Mesopotamia,"
520
Metal-bridge, Dublin, expiration of the lease of,
487
Mew or Mews family, 450
Mews or Mewys family, 26, 93, 331, 419, 432
" Midge," vehicle becoming extinct, 32, 95
Midsummer and Twelfth Day fires in England.
427, 518
Mildmay (William) of Harvard College, 1647, 18,
76
Mildmay and Mews family, 332, 432
Milton (John), his sonnet on ' Tetrachordon,' 7, 58 ;
his works interpreted by Bentley, 107
Minor key, in music, used to express sadness, 49.
216
Mittan, engraver, his Christian name, 450
Monastic choir-stalls, arrangement of, 409, 476
Monk (William) of Buckingham, his memorial in
Old Shoreham, Sussex, 1714, 528
Montagu family'and the title Earl of Manchester,
73
Montgomery (Roger de), first Earl of Shrewsbury,
1066, his descendants, 29
Monuments, inscriptions on, in Salisbury Cathe-
dral, 47
Moon, the names of the, 429, 478
Moone family of Breda and Sir Anthony Jackson,
c. 1650, 229
Morgan (J.), author, c. 1732, his birthplace, 370
Morin (Martin), Rouen, 1514, Sarum Missal
printed by, 489
' Morning Post,' 1772-1916, its history, 301, 322,
342, 437
Morris (William), his poem 'Sigurd the Volsung,'
1880, 448
Morris family, 31
" Mort " =a large quantity, use of the word, 77
Moscow, the burning of, under Napoleon, 149,
198, 295
Moss and peat, healing properties of, 9, 96, 156
Mother, her influence on her unborn child, 190,
316
Motteux (John), Fellow of the Society of Anti-
quaries, c. 1770, 469
Mottoes: —
Faugh-a-Ballagh (clear the way), 350, 416
In utrumque paratus, 107, 195
Populo dat jura volenti, 96
Recepit, non rapuit, 26, 96, 336, 454
Septem sine horis, 310, 377, 436
Vix ea nostra voco, 134
Mount, Whitechapel, early references to, 31
Moving pictures, their evolution, 293
" Mum bo Jumbo," origin of the expression, 47, 114
Mundy (Rev. John), d. 1653, his parentage, 91
Mundy family and their connexion with Alston-
field, 129, 214
Murray (John), F.S.A., F.L.S., his lecture on
chemistry, 1822, 27
Music : ' March of the Men of Harlech,' 49, 113 ;
use of the major and minor keys, 49, 216 ;
founder of Tonic Sol-Fa method, 388 ; its power
to " charm " snakes, 470, 533
Mussel-duck, some supposed habits of, 487
N
Names of ships, use of the definite article, 370
Napoleon. See Bonaparte.
Naval records accessible to the public, c. 1800,
330, 375, 398, 417
Navy legends : Nelson at the Battle of Copen-
hagen, 210, 297 ; origin of the pennant, 210, 297
Navy, relic of, temp. Charles I., 487
Negro, or coloured, bandsmen in the Army, 303,
378
Nelson (Lord) at the Battle of Copenhagen, 210,
297
Nerval (Gerard de), his ' Le Soldat par Chagrin,
220
Nevill (Alexander) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 372
Neville (Cecily), Duchess of York, her will, 109
Neville (Sir John) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 372
Neville family, arms of, 50
' New English Dictionary,' additions and correc-
tions, 26, 78-47, 114—69, 138—71, 177—
79, 138 — 126, 174, 299—147, 308 — 328, 456 —
347 — 468, 538
552
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
New-land t'hurch, inscription on brass plate in,
. no, i:<s
" News-collector," use of the word, 1760, 350
N \\-pa per, first English provincial, 1701, 81,
1 .V,. L'lti. li'.lli
Ne\\M>aner placard, tin- history of, 114
Newspapers, histories of, 81, 155, 216, 292—124—
301, 322, 342, 437—308, 346, 366
Newton (Lord), his ' Lord Lyons,' 260
Nicholson (George), printer, 1760-1825, 147
Nicolas V., Pope, papal insignia of, 154
Ninhtinir.ilcs, folk-lore relating to, 190
Nortiiampton and Southampton, the shires of, 29,
111
' Xort hanger Abbey,' by Jane Austen, romances
mentioned in, 9, 56, 97
• Norwich Post,' first English provincial news-
paper, 1701, 81, 216, 292
" Nose of wax," origin of the phrase, 150
1 Notes and Queries ' and German papers, 266
" Notice " given out of doors to domestic servants,
108
Nut r«- Dame de Tresor, whereabouts of statue of,
27, 178
N. .\vl, English, the first illustrated, 90, 153
" Xumerally," the word used in 1808, 25
Obituary : —
Peet (William Henry), 500
' Observer,' Sunday paper, founded 1791, 124
Ochiltree family, 490
Ochiltree, origin of the surname, 490
Odours not disagreeable, but injurious to health,
490
Ogle (Sir William), c. 1645, his ancestry and
posterity, 89, 137, 251, 296, 518
" Oil on troubled waters," the belief in, 87, 159
" On the fly "= prolonged drunken bout, 69
" Oorlog," Dutch word for " war," primal sense
of the word, 8
Operas performed in the provinces, 410
' Order of a Camp,' Harl. MS., 1518, the number
of, 110, 215
Owen (Sir David), Kt., print of his monument,
1784, 107, 153
Oxford boat-race, won with seven oars, 429, 492
Oxford in the great Civil War, 1646, 41
Pace-egging, origin of the Easter custom, 12, 76
Palatine (Rupert, Prince of), his will, 1682, 201,
435, 534
Palavicini or Pallavicini family, arms of, 328, 391
396
Palmer (John), Archdeacon of Ely, d. 1614, 108
4i Panis, amicitiee symbolum," history of the
custom, 128, 296
Panton (Thomas) of Fen Ditton, his mother, 108,
274
Papal and Spanish flags at sea in sixteenth century,
Papal insignia of Pope Nicolas V., 154
Paper, writing paper cut and trimmed, c. 1665, 187,
Soo
Papyrus and its products, 348, 510
Parishes in two or more counties, 36
Parker (Martin), bibliography of his works, c. 1630,
127
Parker (Samuel) = Elizabeth Buxton, c. 1780, 70
Parker and Buxton families, 70
Parliament : members of, unidentified, 251, 297,
456 ; apothecaries who have been members of,
267, 318 ; " members' privileges," the origin
of, 411, 497 ; payment of members in early
times, 421 ; the Speaker's perquisites, 490
Parnell (William B.), London architect, c. 1867,
448
Parr (Harriet), d. 1900, her pen-name " Holme
Lee," 370
Payne family, 50, 449, 470
Peacock, folk-lore, a Welsh story, 530
Peacocks, their feathers unlucky, 190
Pearls, the effect of vinegar on, 37, 98, 178
Peas Pottage, origin of Sussex place-name, 90, 139
Peat and moss, healing properties of, 9, 96, 156
Pedigrees, Lancashire, book of, its whereabouts, 29
Peele (George), 1552-98, his ' Alphonsus, Emperor
of Germany,' 464, 484, 503
Peirson (Sophia) = William Stevenson, c. 1790-
1806, 429
Pembroke (Philip Herbert, Earl of), c. 1641,
portrait of, 108, 158
Penn (William), his ' Some Fruits of Solitude ' and
' More Fruits of Solitude,' c. 1693, 407, 476
Pennant, legend of its origin in the Navy, 210, 297
Perceval (Sir Philip), Royalist M.P., his biography,
371
Percussion cap and lecture on chemistry by John
Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S., 1822, 27
Perkins (Sir W.), founder of Chertsey school, 390
Peterborough Quarter Sessions, 1913, a sentence
passed by, 530
Peters (Hugh), a lost ' Life ' of, 11, 57, 98
Petrie (Samuel), merchant, bankrupt in 1776, 449
Peyron (Abbe Paul), his ' Antiquities of Nations,'
the translator of, 50
Philips (William), Welsh antiquary, d. 1685, his
MS. of pedigrees, 71
Physique of the nation, effect of war on, 430
Pickpocket sentenced by Bacon, 1612, 25
Pickwickiana, 368
Pictures : —
Waterloo Heroes, 11, 134
"West's (B.) allegorical painting, 349
' Woodman of Kent,' oil painting, 71
Pigeon-eating for a wager, 507
Pilgrimage, substitutes for, 389, 497
Pilgrimages, English, history of, 379
" Pink," name for the little finger, 209, 258
Placard, newspaper, its history, 114
Place-Names : —
Asiago, 48, 134
Caldecott, 195, 237
" Court " in French place-names, 249, 318,
339
Dolphinholme, 448, 536
Fazakerley, 59, 78
Hannafore, 449
Hungary Hill, 430, 517
Kerry, 14
Northampton and Soxithampton, 29, 111
Peas Pottage, 90, 139
Raynes Park, 148, 195
Slonk Hill, 188, 317
Steyning, 190, 278
Striguil, 267, 315
Transylvania, 48
Plate-marks, the date of, 450
Plumson (Thomas), watchmaker, London, 449
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
553
" Pochivated," term used c. 1600, its meaning, 26,
78
Poe (Edgar Allan), Margaret Gordon, " Betsy "
Bonaparte, and " Old Mortality," 367, 498
Poland, origin of the street-name in London, 490
Poland and Turkey, Voltaire on, 226
Polish word for " Resurrection," 447
Poltimore almshouse, Exeter, inscription at, 71,
116
Pordage, a priest, 1685, his Christian name, 410
Pork butcher, epitaph on, 188, 259, 298
Porte (De la) family, 1602 to 1760, 448, 533
Portraits, in stained glass, 172, 211, 275, 317,
337, 374, 458, 517 ; theatrical, with tinsel
ornaments, 228, 296
Postal charges in 1847, 90, 198
Poughnill, Ludlow, the location of, 147
Pounds in villages, their construction, 14, 77, 197,
319, 457, 498
Prelates, English, at^the Council of Bale, 28, 74,
Price (Sir Charles), Lord Mayor of London, 1803,
191
Price (Sir Bxabert), Bart., d. 1773, his family,
270
Price family, arms and crest of, 349, 477
Price, Cleypole, and Cromwell families, 508
" Prine (John), 1568," inscription in Tower of
London, 390, 516
Print of Newland Church, Gloucestershire, 90, 138 ;
of monument in Easebourne Church, 1784, 107,
153
Printed errors, the perpetuation of, 87, 177, 239,
418, 536
Prize at Trinity College, Dublin, 1789, 389, 440,
477
Pronunciation of " ea," 530
Proverbs and Phrases : —
As dead as Queen Anne, 57j
Blue pencil, 126, 174, 299
Brilliant second, 148
Coals to Newcastle, 250, 299
Dead season, 147
Dead secret, 107
Donkey's years, 506
Don't be longer than you can help, 227,
OO<7
Englishman's house is his castle, 17, 59, 218,
277
Every Englishman is an island, 11, 58, 78
Fare thou well, 288
Give the mitten =giving his conge1, 351, 454
Government for the people, of the people, by
the people, 14
Gray's Inn pieces, 509
Growing moon sucks out the marrow of
oxen, 289
Homme sensuel moyen, 148, 295
Honest Injun, 157
How not to do it, 17
I don't think, 1862, 487
Mumbo Jumbo, 47, 114
Xose of wax, 150
Oil on troubled waters, 87, 159
On the fly, 69
One's place in the sun, 170, 218, 319
Patellae dignum operculum, 7, 58
Pigs can see wind, 289, 358, 435
Quite all right, 207, 298
She braids St. Catherine's tresses, 18
Sick as a landrail, 1 1
Similes habent labra lactucas, 7, 58
Proverbs and Phrases: —
Taking it out in drink, 487
Talking through one's hat, 449
Tartar's bow, 469
Theages' bridle, 9, 76
Three-a-penny colonels, 18
To burke, 100
To have been in the sun, 170
To war = to grow worse and worse, 328
To weep Irish, 328, 456
Who's Griffiths ? 269
With child to see any strange thing, 171
Written in sunbeams, 170
Prudde (John), " King's glazier," 1440, 430, 517
" Public houses " in London and Westminster,
1701, 449
' Punch,' an artist's signature, his identity, 468
Punch-bowl, glass, arms cut on, 263, 374
Purcell family, 249
Quaker grammar, reason for the use of, 309
Quarter Sessions and penal servitude, 530
Quilt, the third yellow, whereabouts of, 435
" Quite all right," use of the phrase, 207, 298
Quotations : —
A fiery ettercap, a fractious chiel, 489
A good fire, a clean hearth, and a merry lass,
266, 398
A lie travels round the world while Truth is
putting on her boots, 489
.... a privilege to kill, A strong temptation
to do bravely ill, 471
A wise old owl lived in an oak, 129
All you that at the famous Game, 229, 278
And he shall desire loneliness, and his desire
shall bring, 409, 475, 495
And I still onward haste to my last night, 78
Can man believe with common sense, 249,
296, 316
Charms and a man I sing, to wit — a most
superior person, 529
Die Weltgeschichte 1st das Weltgericht, 378
Draw, Cupid, draw, and make that heart to
know, 290, 336
Dum pia Melpomene, nato pereunte querelas,
227
Education, age a child should begin, origin
of the story, 390
England, with all thy faults I love thee still,
447
Eodem animo scripsit quo bellavit, 113
Etsi inopis non ingrata munuscula dextrse,
229, 296
Every one of these islanders is an island
himself, 11, 58, 78
Faith, gentlemen, I do not blame your wit,
229, 357
French's contemptible little army, 349, 532
From the heretic girl of my soul shall I fly,
369, 436
Gaude, Virgo, Mater Christi, 228, 271
God is on the side of big battalions, 509
Government for the people, of the people, by
the people, 14
He counted them at break of day, 269
He never overlooks a mistake or makes the
smallest allowance for ignorance, 369
Heaven would not be Heaven were thy .-.ml
not with mine, 329, 398
554
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
Quotations : —
Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was
such, tin
Homine sensael nioyen, 148, 295
How sweet the answer Echo makes, 369, 477
I doat on Ringers, and on such, 25
If thou wouldst know thy maker, search the
seas, 33
Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer, 489
It is the Mass that matters, 329, 375
January — Prima dies mensis et septima
truncat ut ensis, 71, 117
Je me suis engaged, 220
.March with his winds hath strucke a Cedar
l.-.ll, 229
Men cannot be made sober by Act of Parlia-
^rnent, 189
Nihil ardet in inferno nisi propria voluntas,
10, 57
O Deus, ego amo te, 329, 418
Oh ! come you from the Indies, and, soldier,
can you tell, 349, 397
Oh, do not forget me, though, out of your
sight, 290
One is never in love save the first time, 108
Our God in heaven, from that holy place, 269
Out of the stress of the doing, 390
ira.0rifLa.Ta /MaOrifMra, 500
Scribenda et legenda, 113
Septem sine horis, 310, 377, 436
She has no fault, 290, 356
Sines, tangents, secants, radius, cosines, 348,
495
Small sweet world of wave-encompassed
wonder, 189, 238
Spiritus non potest habitare in sicco, 211
Stop the Smithfield fires, 191
Taking it out in drink, 487
Tavra. Otiav 4v yovvaffi /ce?rat, 500
That blessed word Mesopotamia, 520
The Ancestor remote of Man, 309
The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot, 471
The great ennobling Past is only then, 329
The nectarine and curious peach, 108, 153
The Queene was brought by water to White-
hall, 229, 278
The waves became his winding sheet, 189, 238
The World is a Chessboard, 369
There are three kinds of men, 109, 158
There shall be no more snow, 489
These the qualities that shine, 48
Things and actions are what they are, 209
Though lost to sight, to memory dear, 290,
336, 399
Truth, like a torch, the more 'tis shook it
shines, 348
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib, und Gesang, 89
When this you see, remember me, 507
While he who walks in love mav wander far,
291
Who hath seen the flower of a fig, 429
You must save on Candlemas Day, 29, 77,
117, 159
Rabbit, a reputed Norman introduction to our
country, 10
" Rackencrooke," meaning of the word, 1620, 430,
516
Rain caused by heavy gunfire, 38, 74, 113
Ramsay (Allan) and Thomson, 29, 72
Ranby (John), F.R.S., serjeant-surgeon, 1703-73,
his mother, 11
Ranghiasci-Brancaleone, ' Memorie istoriche della
citta di Nepi e de' suoi dintorni,' Todi, 1845-7,
370
Rann (Rev. J.), 1732-1811, his parentage, 113
173
" Rare " = imderdone, use of the word in America,
287, 334, 414, 496
Ratcliff Cross, the restoration of, 87
Rate-books of Fleet Street parishes, 1768 to 1800,
310
Rathbone (John), artist, b. c. 1750, d. 1807, 27,
77, 256
Rathbone (Rev. Richard) of Llanllyfni, 1765, 289,
457, 536
Raynes Park, Wimbledon, origin of the name, 148,
195
' Reading Mercury,' Vol. I. No. 1, 1723, 366
Recorders of Winchester, list of, 210
Records of the City Livery Companies, 67 ; naval,
accessible to the public, c. 1800, 330, 375, 398,
417
Reddesford (Emeline de), Lesceline de Verdon,
c. 1200, 112
' Regal Rambler,' 1793, the author, 530
Relhan (Richard), jun., c. 1800, his death, 138
" Relics," curious use of the word, 506
" Religious," use of the word as a substantive
329
Remiremont hailstones, 1907, 27, 178
Renan (Henriette), c. 1842, publication of her
letters, 128, 176
Rennie (J.), his book on the flying power of birds.
c. 1830, 190 •
" Resurrection," the Polish word for, 447
Revolution in France, travels during the, 108
Richardson (Joseph), M.P., 1796-1803, theatrical
manager, 211, 279
Richardson (Dr. Richard), his correspondence, 405,
447, 467
Richmond (Col. C. Lennox, 4th Duke of), 1764-
1819, 28, 89, 138
Riddell (James), d. 1866, editor of ' Sabrinae
Corolla,' 149, 197, 237
Riding: side-saddle, books on, prior to 1880, 28,
73, 99 ; spurs worn by women, references to, 190,
255, 335, 490
Ridley (Bishop Nicholas), burnt in 1555, 9
Rimes : Farmers' Candlemas rime, 29, 77, 117,
159 ; for bell-ringers, 25 ; left for love and right
for spite, 413
Ring with name Hon. A. J. Stewart, d. 1800, 171,
215, 257
Risby, story of his enchantment, 289
Robinson (Emma), author of ' Whitefriars,'
c. 1862, 149, 199, 256
Robinson (W.), LL.D., F.S.A., 1777-1848, his
letters, 209, 295
Rocca (Louis Alphonse), son of Madame de Stael,
b. 1812, 310
Rocks, the action of vinegar on, 38
Roman law and ancient Welsh law, 187
Rome, Nero and the burning of, 149, 198
" Rosalie "= bayonet, so called in France, 506
Rotton family, 250
Royal Regiment of Artillery, deaths of officers, 29,
78, 334
Royal wills, the depository of, 489
Rupert, Prince Palatine, his will, 1682, 201, 435,
534
Russell (Richard), Bishop of Portalegre, 1671,
347
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
SUBJECT INDEX.
555
* Sabrinae Corolla,' Greek and Latin verses, the
editors, 149, 197, 237
Sailor, men ning of stripes on his collar, 13 ; touching
him for luck, 13, 112, 259
St. Barbe (Mrs. Frances) = — Shelley, c. 1590, 171
" St. Bunyan's Day," St. Swithin's so called, 129
" St. Catherine's tresses," Spanish saying about,
18
St. Domingo, drawing of Fort Jerome, 377
St. Francis Xavier, translations of his hymn, 329,
418
St. Genesius, actor, martyred c. 286, 189, 236
St. Genewys, patron saint of a Lincolnshire church,
349, 418
St. George the Martyr, Queen's Square, 93, 155,
271
St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, the statue on,
29, 93, 155, 195, 238
St. Inan, his life and writings, 348, 438, 518
•" St. Jane," in a letter of Keats, 1817, 369
St. John (Mrs.), a cousin of Oliver Cromwell, 171,
217, 236
St. Kilda and influenza colds, 468
St. Luke's, Old Street, bibliography of the parish,
133, 176
St. Madron's Well, Penzance, cures since 1641, 9,
58, 396
St. Mary, Battersea, inscriptions in the church,
125, 145
St. Newlyn East, cross and inscription in church-
yard, 228, 317, 418-
St. Nicholas, legends of, in stained glass, 374
St. Patrick, English carvings of, 17
St. Paul's School and the ' Dictionary of National
Biography,' 341
St. Peter as the gatekeeper of heaven, stories of,
90, 177, 217, 273, 339
St. Sebastian, the manner of his death, 149, 212
St. Swithin's Day called " St. Bunyan's Day," 129
St. Theodora, her canonization, 449
St. Thomas A, Becket, hymn attributed to, 228,
271
Salisbury Cathedral, monumental inscriptions and
heraldry in, 47
Salt and Bible, superstitions, 390, 478
Salvin (Osbert), naturalist, his mother, 229, 317
Sampson (Marmaduke B.) of ' The Times,' his
death, 529
Sancho (Ignatius), his friends and correspondents,
289
Sandford family, 291, 395
Sargent and Duncan families, 470
Sarum Breviary, verses in calendar, 71, 117
Sarum Missal, printed by Morin, Bouen, 1514, 489
Satan as an angel of light, 181
Saunders (Erasmus), Winchester scholar, 1547,
319
Savages, the keen sight of, 410, 536
Savoy Chapel Royal, inscriptions in the burial-
ground, 425, 498
Scoble (Right Hon. Sir Andrew R.), K.C.S.I.,
K.C., 1831-1916, 390, 438
Scotland, national flag of, and lion rampant, 71,
138, 175
Scott (Sir W.) : reference to 2nd baronet in un-
published letter, 18, 57, 114; MS. of his 'The
Bride of Lammermoor,' 349 ; his ' Old Mor-
tality,' 367, 498; his letter to Mrs. Maturin,
629
*' Scread " or " screed," meaning of the word, 208,
279
Sea : folk-lore relating to the, 10 ; ninth wave
always the largest, 410
Seals: corporate, the custody of, 148, 238; on
Anglo-Saxon charters, 169
Seize-quartiers, meaning of the right to, 447
" Sem," caricaturist, c. 1850, his identity, 49,
215, 273
" Septem sine horis," meaning of the motto, 310,
377, 436
Service, greatest recorded length of, 327, 397, 412
Shakerley (Robert) at the Earl of Shrewsbury's
funeral, 1560, 268, 373
Shakespeare (W.) : his falcon crest, 35 ; a usion to,
1653, 147, 279 ; his statue on the portico of
Drury Lane Theatre, 208
Shakespeariana : —
' Comedy of Errors ' and Ephesus, 345
' 2 Henry IV.,' Falstaff and the Fleet
prison, 1
' Macbeth,' the three witches in, 142
' Richard III.,' Act IV. sc. v., Sir Christopher
Urswick, 259, 516
' Romeo and Juliet,' the apothecary in, 207 ;
Act I. sc. ii., " One fire burns out another's
burning," 530
Satan as an angel of light, 181
Sharp (Richard), 1759-1835, " Conversation
Sharp," 250
Sheepshanks (Rev. R.), 1794-1855, his biographies,
188
Sheepshed, Leicestershire, Hebrew inscription,
109, 195
Sheffner <Thomas), his position at Court, 1832, 29,
94, 200
Sheldon (William), Fellow of the Society of Anti-
quaries, c. 1769, 469
Shelley ( ) = Mrs. Frances St. Barbe, c. 1590,
his genealogy, 171
Shenley, Herts, the whereabouts of, 33, 99
Sheppard or Shepherd family of Blisworth,
Northamptonshire, 391, 477
' Sheridaniana,' published 1826, the author of,
488
Ships, use of the definite article with the names
of, 370
Shooting, largest bag of game for a day, 55, 139
Shortyng (Matthew), D.D., of Merchant Taylors'
School, d. 1707, 396
Shrewsbury (Roger de Montgomery, Earl of),
1066, his descendants, 29
Siddons (Mrs. S.), her friend " Mr. Davis," c. 1779,
290, 356
Side-saddle riding, books on, prior to 1880, 28, 73,
99
Signatures: symbols attached to, 50, 117 ;'
"doctrine of signatures," in connexion with
medicinal plants, 128, 197, 293
Simpson, Forrester, Dickson, and Anderson
families, 428
' Sir Gammer Vans,' old nonsense story, 410, 498,
518
Skinner (Mose), American humorous writer, 251
Skull, iron nails driven into, 75
" Skull slyce," a fish, mentioned c. 1519, 509
Sleddall (John), inventory of his goods, 1620,
words in, 430, 516
Slonk Hill, Shoreham, origin of the name, 188,
317
Smith (C. Manby), his ' The Working-Man's Way
in the World,' 1853, 16, 110, 175, 279
Smith, Dog Smith, mentioned in ' Disci >ursrs
concerning Government,' c. 1680, 291, 357
558
SUBJECT INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 2", 1917.
Welch or Welsh, "spelling of the national name,
I'D 7
W.-Uh l.i\v, ancient, and ancient Roman law,
187
Welsh table-customs, quotation, 1585, 207
Welthen as a female Christian name, 309, 376,
168
Wesley (Samuel), the Elder, his poetic activities,
220, 375
Wesley (Samuel), the Younger, c. 1730, his wife,
508
West (Benjamin), his allegorical painting, 349
Western Grammar School, Brompton, records of,
450, 535
Westminster Abbey, removal of memorials in, 189,
237
Westminster College, F. Grandineau, Professor of
French, c. 1835, 10
Westminster, " public houses " in, in 1701,
449
Westminster, whereabouts of views of, 108
" Whelping," 1673, meaning of the word, 488
Whitaker (Henry), M.P.for Shaftesbury, 1711-15,
172
White (Matthew), M.P. for Hythe, 1802-6, 1812-18,
129
Whitechapel, early references to the Mount, 31
Whittle (Francis), M.P. Westbury, 1809, 148
Wilberforce (Bishop Samuel) and Cecilia Maria
De Candia, c. 1872, 10
" Willett's time," new daylight calendar so called,
188
William the Conqueror, his sister married to Jean
Budd, 510
William III., his motto " Becepit, non rapuit,"
26, 96, 336, 454
Williams (John), M.P. Saltash, 1772, 148
Williams (Rev. John), M.A.» Fellow of Oxford,
1783, 528
Williamson (Col. J. Sutherland), R.A., his paren-
tage, 429, 475
Wills, Royal, the depository of, 489
Wilson (James), M.P. for York, d. 1830, 109,
178
Wilson (Richard) of Lincoln's Inn Fields, M.P.,
c. 1750, 34, 55, 74, 156, 213
Wilson (Walter), Nonconformist biographer,
b. c. 1781, 391
Wilson (William), M.P. for Ilchester, 1761-8,
172
Winchelsea ghost, negro in red uniform, 250
Winchester, list of the Recorders of, 210
Winchester (William Day, Bishop of), his wife,
408
Winchester College, ' The Trusty Servant,' 10 ;
the chaplains of Fromond's Chantry, 221
" Windose," meaning of the word, 1578, 148
Winstanley (Thomas), Camden Professor, Oxford,.
429
Winton (Philip), b. c. 1750, in Hereford, 266, 416,.
507
Winton family, 507
" Wipers," pronunciation of Ypres, 526
Witchcraft in Huntingdonshire, bibliographical
note, 521
' Witches of Warboys,' bibliographical note, 30
" With child to see any strange thing," early use
of the phrase, 171
Wolff (Joseph), 1795-1862, one of his letters,
288
Women of Spain and smoking, 430
" Women in white," custom of pardon-asking,
1695, 266
Wood, the superstition of touching for luck, 330,
418, 498
Wood (Nicholas), M.P. Exeter, 1708-10, 190
' Woodman of Kent,' picture in oils, 71
Wordsworth (W.), his friend Jones, 60
' Working-Man's Way in the World,' 1853, 16,
110, 175, 279
Wreck of the Grantham at Folkestone, 1744,
269
Wright (Goode), and the invention of the per-
cussion cap, c. 1823, 27
Wright family, arms of, 77
Wrigley family of Saddleworth, 529
Wunderer ( Johann D.), his travels in Europe, 1589,
33
Wyndham (Edmund), J.U.D., c. 1580, prisoner ia
the Fleet, 509
Wynn (Sir J.) of Gwydyr, his wardrobe, 415
Xavier. See St. Francis.
Yates (Thomas), M.P. for Chichester," 1734-41,
109
Yellowhammers, folk-lore relating to, 190
" Yoghurt," mentioned in a letter from Turkey,
1555, 106
York (Cecily, Duchess of), her will, 109
" Yorker," meaning of the term in cricket, 209,
276, 376, 416, 478
Ypres, pronounced as " Wipers," 526
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHOR S' INDEX.
A. (A.) on author wanted : ' Otho de Grandison,'
155
A. (G. E. P.) on authors of quotations wanted,
336. Use of the definite article with names of
ships, 370. Wesley (Samuel) the Elder : his
poetic activities, 375
A. (G. J.) on Elizabeth Mael, 529
A. (J.) on C. Lamb : ' Mrs. Battle's Opinions on
Whist,' 266
Abrahams (Aleck) on City Coroner and treasure-
trove, 157. Dick Whittington : Cloth Fair,
248. London topographical handkerchiefs,
207. Panoramic surveys of London streets, 5,
197. River Fleet, 106. Robinson (W.), LL.D.,
F.S.A., 1777-1848, 209. St. George's, Blooms-
bury, 155, 238. St. Luke's, Old Street: bib-
liography, 176
Ackermann (Alfred S. E.) on author wanted, 509.
Bird folk-lore, 190. Cleopatra and the pearl,
178. " Doctrine of signatures," 128. Effect
of war on a nation's physique, 430. Farmers'
sayings, 289. Fire putting out fire, 530. Folk-
lore : red hair, 128. Fox (Sir Charles) and the
Crystal Palace, 108. French and frogs, 251.
Gwynne (Nell) and the Royal Chelsea Hospital,
210. House and garden superstitions, 89.
In the lion's jaws, 27. Influenza, 457. Lion
rampant of Scotland, 71. Marriage lines, 71.
Mother and child, 190. Musical queries, 49.
Navy legends, 210. Ninth wave, 410. " No-
tice ' given out of doors, 108. Odours, 490.
Rome and Moscow, 149. St. Sebastian, 149.
St. Theodora, 449. Sight of savages, 410.
Snakes and music, 470. Spanish women and
smoking, 430. Speaker's perquisites, 490.
Verdigris, 470. " Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib,
und Gesang," 89
Aitcho on portrait : Capt. Taylor, 1 1
Amaxecon on Sarum Missal : Morin, Rouen, 489
Anderson (C. A.) on poem wanted, 349
Anderson (Mrs. G. A.) on Mrs. Edward Fitz-
gerald's pictures, 330. " Holy Carpet," 369.
Letter of Keats : St. Jane, 369. Lloyd (Plum-
stead), 310, 398. Pigeon-eating wagers, 507.
St. Kilda colds : Tristan da Cunha, 468. Third
yellow quilt, 435. " With child to see any
strange thing," 171
Anderson (James S.) on Forrester, Simpson,
Dickson, and Anderson, 428
Andrews (Herbert C.) on William Day, Bishop of
Winchester : his wife, 408
Anscombe (Alfred) on " Court " in French place-
names, 318. Latin contractions, 134. Steyn-
ing : Stening, 278. Tacitus and the JutishB
question, 102. Welch or Welsh ? 207
Apperson (G. L.) on " Coals to Newcastle," 299-
Naval records wanted, 375. " Watch House,"
Ewell, Surrey, 157
Archibald (R. C.) on Poe, Margaret Gordon,
" Betsy " Bonaparte, and " Old Mortality,"
367
Ardagh (J.) on Irish (Volunteer) Corpse. 1780,518.
Metal-bridge, Dublin, 487. Statue of Queen
Victoria, 448. Village pounds, 498. Watch
Houses, 538
Arnison (Madeline) on authors wanted, 189
Atkinson (Reginald) on " check " and " cheque,"
128. " Quite all right," 298. St. Peter as the
gatekeeper of heaven, 177
Atkinson (W. A.) on " unthinkable," 186
Atkinson (W. G.) on village pounds, 77
Austin (Roland) on ' Cheltenham Guide,' 459.
Duke (Richard), 236. Marshall (William), EarL
of Striguil, 315
Aver (W.) on Ching : Chinese or Cornish ? 259.
Midsummer fires and Twelfth-Day fires in
England, 518
B
B. on boat-race won by Oxford with seven oars,
429
B. (A.) on royal arms : a metrical description,
502
B. (A. E.) on ' Cato ' and ' Anticaton,' 250
B. (B.) on boat-race won by Oxford with seven
oars, 493. Portraits in stained glass, 374.
' Sabrinse Corolla,' 149. " Septem sine horis,"
436. Wellington at Brighton and Rottingdean,-
35
B — t (B.) on author wanted, 48
B. (C. C.) on Byron's travels, 535. "Consump-
tion " and " lethargy " : their meaning in the
17th cent., 35. " Doctrine of signatures," 293-
" Don't be longer than you can help," 359.
' Faust ' bibliography, 337. Folk-lore : chime-
hours, 397. Headstones with portraits of the
deceased, 277. Peat and moss : healing pro-
perties, 96. Perpetuation of printed errors^
418. Sign Virgo, 376. Steel in medicine :
the ' N.E.D.,' 69. Village pounds, 197.
" Yorker " : a cricket term, 478
B. (D.) on naval records wanted, c. 1800, 330
B. (E.) on magic drum, 428
B. (F.) on Dog Smith, 357
B. (F. P.) on author wanted, 229. Hci.ildic
queries, 529. Legends on " love tokens,"
507
560
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
H. (G. F. It.) on John Carpenter, 370. Chelsum
(Key. James). 469. Churchill (Rev. William),
488. Clarki- (.Alary Anne), 149. Cumberland
(William), 409. Duke (Richard), 171. Durell
i Kev. David), D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury
Cathedral, 250. Ferrebee (Rev. Michael), 488.
Fivwt-n (Dr. Thomas), 229. Gale (Theophilus),
the Nonconformist tutor, 209. Gregory
(Francis), 171. Grose (Sir Nash), Puisne Justice
of the King's Bench, 409. Harris (George),
civilian, 190. Haviland (General William), 250.
Hawkes (Major Walter), 449. Locke (John), 70.
Lockyer (Nicholas), 70. Lutwyche (Sir Edward),
Justice of the Common Pleas, 90. Palmer
(John), Archdeacon of Ely, 108. Panton
(Thomas), 108. Salvin (Osbert), naturalist,
229. Strange (Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden),
469. Thornhill (William), surgeon, 149. Tre-
lawny (Sir William), 6th Bart., 508. Wesley
(Samuel) the Younger, 508. Williamson (Col.
John Suther), R.A., 429. Wilson (Walter), the
Nonconformist biographer, 391. Winstanley
(Thomas), Camden Professor of History at
Oxford University, 429
B. (G. O.) on Mews or Mewys family, 94
B. (H.) on Cromwell : St. John, 171
B. (H. C.) on Abell Barnard of Windsor Castle
and Clewer, 309. Haggatt family, 109
B. (H. L. H.) on Bishop, private secretary to
George III., 410
B. (J. J.) on Latin contractions, 19
B. (R.) on Marshals of France, 376
B. (R. J.) on Dr. Thomas Chevalier, 158
B. (R. S.) on Derham of Dolphinholme, 536.
Portraits in stained glass, 458. Restoration
of old deeds and manuscripts, 437
B. (R. W.) on contraband two hundred years ago,
281. Effect of opening a coffin, 275. English
Army List of 1740, 151
B. (W.) on Bentley on Milton, 107. ' London
Magazine,' 198. " Religious " as a substantive,
329. " St. Bunyan's Day," 129. St. Sebastian,
213. Scoljeh Universities : undergraduates'
gown, 538
Baddeley (Fraser) on pronunciation of " ea,"
530
Baker (C. E.) on Sir John Baker, Chancellor of the
Exchequer to King Henry VIII., 449
Balderstone (John H.) on Slonk Hill, Shoreham,
Sussex, 317
Baldock (Major G. Yarrow) on newspaper history :
' The Islington Gazette,' 346. St. Luke's, Old
Street : bibliography, 133
Barker (E. E.) on ' Cheltenham Guide,' 459.
Faust bibliography, 358. Griffith (Mrs.),
author of ' Morality of Shakespeare's Dramas,'
293. Kingsley pedigree, 174. Lloyd (Plum-
stead), 398. St. Sebastian, 213. Sandford
family, 395. Sheppard or Shepherd family of
Blisworth, Northamptonshire, 477. Urswick
(Christopher), 197
Barker (H. T.) on epitaph on a pork butcher, 259.
" Loke," 18. Portraits in stained glass, 458
Barnard (F. P.) on G. Snell, artist, 490
Barns (Stephen J.) on Binnestead in Essex, 494.
Portraits in stained glass, 275. Welthen, 376
Batterham (Eric N.) on Ghazel, 429. Lost poem
by Kipling, 409
Bayley (A. R.) on apothecary M.P.s, 319. Boat-
race won by Oxford with seven oars, 493.
Burton and Speke, African travel, 194. Certain
gentlemen of the sixteenth century, 373. Crom-
well : St. John, 217. Durell (Rev. David),
D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral, 295.
Folk-lore : red hair, 196. Ghazel, 535. Grave
of Margaret Godolphin, 176. Hanmer (Rev.
Meredith), D.D., 259. Lincoln Inn's Hall, 273.
Lloyd (Plumstead), 398. Marshall (William),
Earl of Striguil, 316. Maynard (Sir John),
1592-1658, 238, 339. Monastic choir-stalls,
476. Navy legends, 297. Oxford in the great
Civil War : Mrs. Bambridge's estate, 41.
" Privileges of Parliament," 497. Prudde-
(John): "King's glazier,'v 517. Renan (Hen-
riette), 176. Rome and Moscow, 199. ' Sa.
brinte Corolla,' 197. St. Sebastian, 212
Second Fortune Theatre, 537. Sons of Mrs.
Bridget Bendysh, 456. Theatrical M.P.s,
279
Bayne (Thomas) on Americanisms, 496. ' Land
o' the Leal,' 456. Little finger called " pink,"
258. " Scread," " screed," 279. Southey
(Robert), 30. Thomson and Allan Ramsay,
72
Beagarie (John) on Cromwell : gun accident,
529
Beaumont (E.) on mayoral trappings, 390
Beaven (Rev. Alfred B.) on Richard Swift, 58
Bensly (Prof. Edward) on Acco, 314. Authors
wanted, 296, 398. Binnestead in Essex, 494.
Coverlo, 94. " Dr." by courtesy, 531. Drake's
ship, 355. Foreign graves of British authors,
292. Gwynne (Nell) and the Royal Chelsea
Hospital, " 276. Lincoln's Inn Hall, 273.
Malmesbury (William of) on bird life in the
Fens, 253, 374. Marshall (William), Earl of
Striguil, 316. Medieval hymn, 271. Motto of
William III., 96, 454. " Nihil ardet in inferno
nisi propria voluntas," 57. " Nose of wax,"
150. Old MS. verses, 278, 357. ' Sabrina?
Corolla,' 237. St. Madron's Well, near Pen-
zance, 396. St. Peter as the gatekeeper of
heaven, 339. " Scribenda et legenda," 113.
Urswick (Christopher), 516. Wardrobe of Sir
John Wynn of Gwydyr, 415
Benthall (Gilbert) on friends and correspondents
of Ignatius Sancho, 289
Biggs (Maude A.) on Bluebeard, 190
Billson (Charles J.) on authors wanted, 238
Blagg (T. M.) on British herb : herb tobacco, 76
Blair (Sir D. O. Hunter). See Hunter- Blair.
Bleackley (Horace) on bibliography of forgotten
magazines, 143. Campbell's (Major) duel, 118.
Casanova in England, 505. Eighteenth-century
dentists, 64, 115. England (Dick), 468.
Fauntleroy (Henry), forger, 367. George IV.
and the prerogative of mercy, 476. Petrie
(Samuel), 449. Wilson (Richard) (of Lincoln's
Inn Fields), M.P., 34
Boase (Frederic) on English Army List of 1740,
75, 132, 151, 193, 229, 393. Hayler the sculp-
tor, 36. Maule (Rev. Ward), 296. Swift
(Richard), 73
Boulger (G. S.) on Richardson correspondence,
467. Turner's (William) Commonplace Book,
507
Bowes (Arthur) on folk-lore : red hair, 196.
Sign Virgo, 376
Brabrook (Sir E.) on Fellows of the Society of
Antiquaries, 469. Perpetuation of printed errors,
239. Portraits in stained glass, 211
Bradley (Dr. Henry) on " still life," 48
Breslar (M. L. R.) on Sholoum Aleichem : his
will and epitaph, 83. Arnold of Rugby and
Hebrew, 229. Arnold (Thomas) and America,
208. " Conversation " Sharp, 250. Croft (Sir
Notes ami Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHORS' INDEX.
561
Herbert) and Ix>wth, 310. Disraeli and Empire,
508. Fishing-rod in the Bible or Talmud, 450.
Varley (John) of Hackney, 529
Brooke (F. A.) on authors wanted, 269.
Brown (F. Gordon) on drawing of Fort Jerome
and II. M.S. Argo and Sparrow, 377
Brown (Walter C.) on St. Luke's, Old Street:
bibliography, 239
Bull (Dr. J. E.) on " Spiritus non potest habitare
in sicco," 211
Bull (Sir William) on depository of royal wills,
489. Heraldic query : silver cup, 129. Ma-
terials for a history of the Watts family of
Southampton, 101, 161, 224. Portraits in
stained glass, 318
Bullen (R. Freeman) on Brassey (Bracey) family,
378
Bulloch (J. M.) on butcher's record, 265. Coloured
book-wrappers, 390. Colours of the 56th Foot :
Loudon Harcourt Gordon, 188. Fraser (Sir
Alexander), physician to Charles II., 227.
Gordons : " gay " or " gey " ? 249. Hardy's
' The Three Strangers,' 427. " Lord Cecil "
as commander of a Genoese army, 208. ' Man
with the Hoe,' 97. Menageries and circuses, 68
Butterworth (Major S.) on author wanted, 153
C. (A. C.) on " driblows," 398. Farmers' Candle-
mas rime, 77. Fieldingiana : Miss H — and, 179.
Hungary Hill, Stourbridge, 517. " Scread,"
" screed," 279
C. (B. L. R.) on eyes permanently changed in
colour by fright, 350. Fireplaces : aitch stones,
Ford, Northumberland, 8. Folk-lore : red
hair, 196. Midsummer fires and Twelfth-Day
fires in England, 427. Remiremont hailstones,
May, 1907, 178. St. Peter as the gatekeeper
of heaven, 90
C. (C. G.) on Govane of Stirlingshire, 489
C. (F. E.) on Dr. Thomas Chevalier, 109
C. (F. H.) on headstones with portraits of the
deceased, 459
C. (G. C.) on author wanted, 316
C. (H.) on Ralph Bohun : Christopher Boone, 411.
Chaplains of Fromond's Chantry at Winchester,
221. Haddock (Admiral Nicholas), 1686-1746,
12. Hussey (Thomas), M.P. for Whitchurch,
K.l.WjU. 88. Ogle (Sir William): Sarah
Stewkeley, 137. Wilson (Richard), 55, 74, 213
C — n (H.) on correct designation of War Minister,
38. Eighteenth - century lead-tank lettering,
390. Fact or fancy ? 59. " Felon," 350
C. (H. R.) on " Cardew," 336 .
C. (.1.) on authors wanted, 189
C. (J. P. de) on authors of quotations wanted,
471
C. (Leo) on arms of Harrow School, 88. Ching :
Cliinoc or Cornish 'i 336. Frewen (Dr. Thomas),
315. Heraldic query: silver cup, 195. Maule
(H.v. Ward), 296. Pallavicini : arms, 396.
St. Newlyn East, 317. Salvin (Osbert), 317.
" Stop the Hrnithlicld tires," 191
C. (H. H.) on authors of quotations wanted, 356
C. (S. K.) on boat-race won by Oxford with seven
oars, 493. Portraits in stained glass, 458
C. ( W. A.) on Milton's sonnet on ' Tetrachordon ' :
" like," .->s
Cameron (D.) on Thomson and Allan Ramsay, 29
Campbell (A. Albert) on Richard Wilson (of
Lincoln's Inn Fields), M.P., 34
Castro (J. Paul de) on City Coroner and treasure-
trove, 51. Common Garden =Covent Garden,.
157. Eighteenth-century dentists, 1!)4. Field-
ing and the Collier family, 104. Fieldingiana,.
441. Garrick's friends, 307. Ranby (John):
Henry Fielding, 11
Cave (F. R.) on authors wanted, 489
Chambers (L. H.) on memorial of cholera victims,
Bicester, Oxon, 187. Purcell (Henry and
Edward Henry), 249
Cheal (H.) on William Monk of Buckingham, in
Old Shoreham, Sussex, 528. Owen (Sir David),
Kt., 154. Slonk Hill, Shoreham, Sussex,
188
Cheetham (F. H.) on General Boulanger : biblio-
graphy, 261. Marshals of France, 182
Cheshire (F.) on Dr. Thomas Chevalier, 278
Cheslett (R.) on Rev. Joseph Rann, 174
Chippindall (Col. W. H.) on Ibbetson, Ibberson,.
or Ibbeson, 198
Chope (R. Pearse) on authors wanted, 238.
Drake's ship, 309. First English provincial
newspaper, 155. ' Frederetta Romney,' 289.
Greatest recorded length of service, 412
Clarke (Cecil) on author wanted, 129. Author of'
poem wanted, 291, 356. Author and title
wanted: boys' book, c. 1860, 397. "Blue
pencil," 174. " Communique," 227. " Fly " :
the " Hackney " : the " Midge," 32. Folk-
lore : red hair, 239. French and frogs, 415.
Suburban fair of 1816, 170. Village pounds,.
14
Clarke (Major R. S.) on Gumming, 210
Clayton (Herbert B.) on Emma Robinson,
author of ' Whitefriars,' 256. Sem, caricaturist,
273
Clements (H. J. B.) on certain gentlemen of the
sixteenth century, 372. English Army List of
1740, 272. Marshals of France, 235. Pallavi-
cini : arms, 396. " Septem sine horis," 377.
Uncut paper, 235
Clippingdale (S. D.), M.D., on apothecary M.P.S,
318. Earl's Court, a London suburb, 459.
Eighteenth - century dentists, 115. Fact or-
fancy? 17. Frewen (Dr. Thomas), 315. Steel in
medicine, 137
Colby (Elbridge) on " Mr. Davis," friend of Mrs.
Siddons : his identity, 290. Holcroft (Thomas)'
and the biography of Napoleon, 24
Colet on substitutes for pilgrimage, 389
Coolidge (Rev. W. A. B.) on Asiago, 134. Coverlo,.
94. English prelates at the Council of Bale,.
Ill
Cope (Mrs. E. E.) on Thomas Astle, 179. Folk-
lore : red hair, 197. Kingsley pedigree, 174
Corfield (Wilmot) on " Flyr> : the " Hackney " :
the " Midge," 95. Removal of memorials in
Westminster Abbey, 189
Corner (Susanna) on author wanted, 398. Eigh-
teenth-century lead-tank lettering, 458. Foreign
graves of British authors, 495. St. Peter as
the gatekeeper of heaven, 339. Snob and
Ghost, 235. " Tefal," 379
Cotterell (Howard H.), F.R.Hist.S., on naval
records wanted, c. 1800, 375. Scoble (Right
Hon. Sir Andrew Richard), K.C.S.I., K.O.,
-438
Cotterell (S. John) on postal charges in 1847,
90
Court (W. del) on cloth industry at Ayr in'the
seventeenth century, 227. Largest bag of
game for a day's shooting, 55. " Steer of
wood," 138
562
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Ja.i. 27, 1917.
<',. \vanl (Kdward) 011 authors wanted, 390
(-'i-.iiir (M.) on George Turbcrville, 470
slct on British crests, 149. Mews or
Mewys family. 434
Crosse (A. T.) "on Marseilles Harbour frozen, 228
Cmsse (Gordon) on reminiscence of Macready in
• Edwin Drood,' 25
Crouch (Chas. Hall) on Dorton-by -Brill, 77,
Henley, Herts, 99
Cummings (C. L.) on portraits in stained glass, 275
Ctwingham (Granville C.) on ' Histoire Naturelle,'
bv Francis Bacon, 49
Curio Box on author wanted, 477
Curiosus II. on heraldic query, 197. Restoration
of old deeds and manuscripts, 268
Curious on English Army List of 1740, 152. Topp
family crest, 128
Carry (Gunner F.) on first illustrated English
novel, 153
D
D. (B.) on ' Kate of Aberdare,' 509
D. (L.) on snakes and music, 533
D. (N. C.) on Francois, Due de Guise, 507
D. (T. F.) on author and title wanted : boys'
books, c. 1860, 475. Authors wanted, 489.
King of Italy and Charles I. of England, 267,
496. Mary, Queen of Scots, 419. Rome and
Moscow, 295. Scotch Universities : under-
graduates' gown, 537. Seize-quartiers, 447
Dana (M. D. B.) on Sargent : Duncan, 470
Darsanani on authors wanted, 238. Raynes Park,
Wimbledon, Surrey, 195
Dauglish (A. F.) on Calverley : Charade IV., 128
Davey (H.) on Shakespeare allusion, 279. Well-
ington at Brighton and Rottingdean, 98
Deedes (Prebendary Cecil) on almanacs printed at
Cambridge in the seventeenth century, 241.
Brassey (Bracey) family, 333
Denny (Rev. H. L. L.) on Gorges brass, 138
Dibdin (E. Bimbault) on Americanisms, 414
Dickinson (H. W.) on Tiller Bowe : Brandreth :
Rackencrooke : Gavelock : Maubre, 430
Dickson (Frederick S.) on anachronism in ' The
Newcomes,' 467. Fielding (Henry) : two cor-
rections, 515. ' Vanity Fair,' 355
Diego on Sir William Ogle : Sarah Stewkeley, 296.
Pronunciation of " Catriona," 158
Dodds (M. H.) on authors of quotations wanted,
78. Certain gentlemen of the sixteenth century,
373. Ghazel, 535. ' Northanger Abbe y ' :
" horrid " romances, 56. Scarlet gloves and
Tractarians, 50. Substitutes for pilgrimage, 498
Dodgson (Edward S.) on " Aged 100 " at Gussage
St. Andrew, 47. Bookbinders' words, 347.
Casaubon on Baskish, 288. Chronograms in
Oxford and Manchester, 7. English carvings of
:St. Patrick, 17. English prelates at the Council
•of Bale, 74. Grandineau (F.), Professor of the
French Language at Westminster College, 10.
Inscriptions on Communion tables, 250. " Kan-
yete," 538. Lewisian epitaphs at Llaner-
chaeron, 307. " M. A. E. : who was she ? 38.
" Xumerally " in 1808, 25. Portraits in stained
glass, 211. Prize at Trinity College, Dublin,
in 1789, 389. " Septem sine horis," 377.
' Spirit of Nations ' : its translator, 28. " To
weep Irish " : "to war," 328. Touching for
the king's evil, 114
Douglas (Norman) on fisheries at Comacchio, 258
Douglas (W.) on Du Bellamy : Bradstreet :
Bradshaw, 257. " Gray's Inn pieces," 509.
Hymn-tune .' Lydia,' 152. Statue at Drury
La'ne Theatre, 136
Dragon Vert on Pallavicini : arms, 396
Drury (Charles) on Bushe : Spencer, 508. Certain
gentlemen of the sixteenth century, 374, 436.
Ear tingling : charm to " cut the scandal," 413.
Portraits in stained glass, 458. Watch house,
377
3un Scotus on Edward Hayes, Dublin, and his
sitters, 350. Plumson (Thomas), watchmaker,
London, 449
[hmheved on Ching : Cornish or Chinese ? 127,
239, 259. " F!y " : the " Hackney " : the
" Midge," 95. Last use of stocks at L;tunces-
ton, 347. " On the fly " : a prolonged drunken
bout, 69. " Toothdrawer," 190
Dunn (Archibald J.) on cloth industry at Ayr in
the seventeenth century, 338
Duxbuiy (John) on headstones with portraits of
the deceased, 377
Dweller in Kent on sister of the Conqueror :
Budd, 510
Dyer (A. Stephens) on Elizabeth Evelyn, 13
E. (J. T.) on Walter or Walters family of Pem-
brokeshire, 446
E. (O. A.) on Caldecott, 107. Parker (Samuel) :
Buxton family, 70
E. (B.) on Americanisms, 414. Decay of dialect,
447. Identity of Emmeline de Bedesford, 112.
" Panis, amicitise symbolum," 128
Eagle (Boderick L.) on Tartar's bow, 469
Eddone on Bifeld or Byfeld, 249
Editor ' Bradford Antiquary ' on Sir John
Maynard, 1592-1658, 172
Editor ' Irish Book Lover ' on authors wanted,
436. Campbell's (Major) duel, 119. " Faugh-
a-Ballagh," 416. Hayes (Edward), Dublin,
and his sitters, 414. Swift (Richard), 138
Editor ' Local Notes and Queries,' ' Notts Weekly
Express,' on Toke of Notts, 338
Editor ' N. & Q.' on City Coroner and treasure-
trove, 52. German papers, please copy, 266
Edwards (C. E. H.) on travels in Revolutionary
France, 108
Ellis (A. S.) on Lady Godiva and the Countess
Lucy, 387
Ellis (H. D.) on heraldic query, 70
Ely (W. A. S.) on Welthen, 458
Emeritus on bull-baiting in Spain and Portugal,
447. Risk of entering a new house, 509.
Tod family, 530
Enquirer on seats in church : orders by bishops, 10
Eperon on ladies' spurs, 190
Equestrian on side-saddle, 28
Esposito (M.) on incunabula in Irish libraries,
247, 288
Everitt (AlfredT.) on Cromwell: St. John, 218.
Hussey (Thomas), M.P. for Whitchurch, 1645-
1653, 158
Everitt (Major S. G.) on Irish (Volunteer) Corps,
c. 1780, 390
F. on Binnestead in Essex, 391
F. (J. T.) on accidental likenesses, 15. " Epheds,"
509. " ffoliott " and " ffrench," 498. Horse-
chestnuts, 238, 294. Kanyete, 468. Portraits
in stained glass, 318. Tiller Bowe, Brandreth,
&c., 516
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHORS' INDEX.
563
F.B.C.S. on eyes changed in colour by fright, 457
F. (W. I.) on author wanted, 429
Fairbrother (E. H.) on British heroine in the
American War, 121
Finlay (E. C.) on Burry and Adamson families,
508. Jennings and Finlay families, 488.
Payne family, 50, 449, 470. Wright family
arms, 77
FitzGerald (G. V.) on authors wanted, 108
Fleming (W. Alexander) on Fleming family,
291
Fletcher ( Carson W.G.D.), F.S.A., on Sir Edward
Lutwyche, Justice of the Common Pleas, 358
Fletcher (W. J.) on Fletcher family, 48
Fodhla on Ochiltree family, 490
Fox (J.), B.A., T.C.D., on prize at Trinity College,
Dublin, in 1789, 477
Francis (J. Collins) on ' Morning Post,' 1772-1916,
301, 322, 342. ' Observer,' 1791-1916, 124
Frost (W. A.) on novels and short stories of
G. P. B. James, 167
Frv (Windsor) on authors of quotations wanted,
290
Fynmore (A. H. W.) on postal charges in 1847,
198. Snakes and music, 533
Fynmore (Col. R. J.) on Ralph Bohun : Christopher
Boone, 412. Campbell's (Major) duel, 118.
Drake's ship, 355. English Army last, 1740,
76, 354, 432, 475. Fauntlerpy (Henry), forger,
458. Foreign graves of British authors, 495.
Frowen (Dr. Thomas), 315. Hastings (William),
1777, 508. Headstones with portraits of the
deceased, 377. Kingsley pedigree, 136. Lloyd
(Plumstead), 398. Pallavicini : arms, 396.
Sampson (Marmaduke B.) of ' The Times,' 529.
Smith (Dog), 357. Symbols attached to signa-
tures, 117. Unidentified M.P.s, 297, 456.
War jewellery of iron, 427. Warde (Capt.
John), 277. Wreck of the Grantham, 174,
26!)
G
G. (A. D.) on portraits in stained glass: Penrith,
337
G. (B. K.) on Bible and salt, 390
G. (L. I.) on St. Francis Xavier's Hymn, 418
G. (O.) on " Every Englishman is an island," 11.
References wanted, 148
G. (P.) on Ford Castle, 8
Galbreath (D. L.) on English prelates at the
Council of Bale, 28
Garart (Roy) on French and frogs, 353. Old
regimental spirit decanter, 489
Garle (Hubert), F.S.A., on riming history of
England, 529
Garnett (F. W. R.) on " Cardew," 417. Western
Grammar School, Brompton, 450
Gatty (Charles J.) on Edmond Dubleday, 70
Genealogist on Kingsley pedigree, 70
Gillmun (Charles) on Henchman, Hinchman, or
Hitchman, 338
Gladstone (Capt. Hugh S.) on Sick as a landrail,"
Glenconner (Pamela, Lady) on folk-lore at sea: the
rabbit in Britain, 10. ' Trusty Servant,' 10
Glenny (W. W.) on William Mildmay, Harvard
College, 18. St. Peter as the gatekeeper of
heaven, 273
Gn. (S.) on William Mildmay, Harvard College, 19
Godfery (F.) on St. Newlyn East, 228
Good (J.) on ' Waterloo Heroes,' 11
Gosselin (Marie) on Edward Hayes, Dublin, and'
his sitters, 476
Gould (A. W.) on drawing of the Mermaid Tavern,
331
Gower (R. Vaughan) on " Loke," 18
Graville (C. R.) on William Marshall, Earl of"
Striguil, 1197, 267
Gray (A. J.) on folk-lore : red hair, 239. Tinsel
pictures, 228
Green (S.) on Mews or Mewys family, 26, 94,
419
Greenwood (A. D.) on authors wanted, 108. Will
of Cecily, Duchess of York, 109
Grigor (J.) on "Blue pencil," 174. 'Man with
the Hoe,' 96
Grime (R.) on first illustrated English novel, 90..
' Working-Man's Way in the World,' 175
Grimshaw (W. H. M.) on largest bag of game for a
day's shooting, 139
Grundy-Newman (S. A.) on Major Campbell's
duel, 118. Colours of badge of the Earls of"
Warwick, 134. English prelates at the Council-
of Bale, 74. Garrick's grant of arms, 49.
Mayoral trappings, 478. Shires of Northampton*
and Southampton, 111
Guerlac (Othon) on " French's contemptible little
army," 349
Guillemard (F. H. H.) on playing cards sixty
years ago, 19
Guiney (L. I.) on " Every Englishman is an.
island," 59. " Good-night " to the dead, 70
Guppy (Henry) on Henriette Renan, 176
Gurney (J. H.) on William of Malmesbury on,
bird life in the Fens, 189. " Skull slyce " (a
fish), 509
Gwent on Faust bibliography, 269
Gwyther (A.) on authors wanted, 436. Fact or-
fancy ? 17. Ford Castle, 36. Gwynne (Nelly
and the Royal Chelsea Hospital, 276. " Hat
trick": a cricket term, 136. "Privileges of"
Parliament," 497
H
H. on English Army List of 1740, 474. Hayes
(Edward), Dublin, and his sitters, 413. Land
tenure : an artful stratagem, 263
H. (F.) on bell-ringers' rimes, 25
H. (H. K.) on brass plate in Newland Church,-
Gloucestershire, 138
H. (J. C.) on mediaeval Latin, 12
H. (J. H.) on popular speech : " relics," 506
H. (J. L.) on ' Wanted a Governess,' 16
H. (J. P.) on " One's place in the sun," 319
H. (R.) on Mrs. Ann (or Anne) Dutton, 197,.
338
H. (S. H. A.) on apothecary M.P.s, 319. English
Army List of 1740, 193. Welthen, 376
H. (W. B.) on Americanisms, 334. Authors
wanted, 189. Custody of corporate seals, 148..
Dickens's ' Bleak House,' 330. Evans (John),,
astrologer of Wales, 238. Fact or fancy ? 277.
Fauntleroy (Henry), forger, 458. Holloway
(William), 156. " Loke," 18. ' London Maga-
zine,' 477. Negro, or coloured, bandsmen in
the army, 378. Panoramic surveys of London
streets, 135. Peterborough Quarter Session--.
530. Portraits in stained glass, 276.
St. George's, Bloomsbury, 29. Tiller B<i\\v.
Brandreth, &c., 516. Touching for luck, li.V.i.
" Watch house," Ewell, Surrey, 113, 235
H»ll (H. I.) on colours of badge of the Earls of
W;irwick, 49
564
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
Hall (T. Walter) on " duityon.Ts." 509
Hamilton (B.) on Derham of dolphinholme, 448
Hamlet (J.) on eighteenth-century load-tank
Mtt>riiig, 458
Hampshire Man on Mews or Mewys family, 432
Harper (S. H.) on " ffoliott " and " ffrench," 429
Harris (Right Hon. Leverton) on Sir Charles Price,
Lord Mayor of London, 1803, 191
Harris (M. 'Dormer) on Warwickshire inventory of
1559, 501
Harrison (John) on portraits in stained glass,
211
Hatton (John L. S.) on Sir Hugh Cholmeley,
509
Hayler (Walter) on James Wilson, M.P., 178
Hayllar (Jessie H.) on Steyning : Stening, 190
Heffer (R.) on Richard Relhan, jun., 138
Hellier (E. J. D.) on Welthen, 309
Hewitt (H. F.) on family of Hewitt or Hewett, 51.
Montgomery (Roger de), created Earl of
Shrewsbury by William the Conqueror, 29
Hibgame (Frederick T.) on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's
works, 450. Portraits in stained glass, 318,
374, 517
Hie et Ubique on fact or fancy ? 17. " Loke,"
18. Theager's girdle, 9
Hill (General J. E. D.) on Right Hon. Sir Andrew
Richard Scoble, K.C.S.I., K.C., 390
Hill (N. W.) on authors of quotations wanted, 399.
Bacon (Francis) : Lord Bacon, 15. Boy-Ed as
surname, 148. Inscriptions in the burial-
ground of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, 498.
Little finger called " pink," 258. Marshals of
France, 279. " Maru," 146. Name Tubantia,
408. " Quite all right," 207. Sight of savages,
. 536. " Who's Griffiths ? " 269
Hillman (E. Haviland), F.S.G., on allegorical
painting by Benjamin West, 349. Binnestead
in Essex, 494
Hipwell (Daniel) on C. R. Maturin, 529
Hirst (W. A.) on Wrigley of Saddleworth, 529
Hodgson (J. C.) on Kingsley pedigree, 136.
Wilson (Richard), 75
Hodgson (T. V.) on author wanted, 309
Hodson (Leonard J.) on perpetuation of printed
errors, 177. Udimore, Sussex, 330
Hogg (Percy F.), Lieut. R.G.A., on Capt. Edward
Bass, c. 1818, 531
Hogg (R. M.) on Major Campbell's duel, 70.
" Dr." by courtesy, 408. St. Inan, 348
Hone (Nathaniel J.) on Gavelkind, 15
Hope (Andrew) on Americanisms, 496. Daylight
saving, 188. Little finger called " pink, 258
Hughes (T. Cann), M.A., F.S.A., on Capt. John
Charnley, 249. Fenton (James), Recorder of
Lancaster, 266
Hulme (Arthur) on John Bradshaw the regicide,
350. Bradshaw's (John) library, 370
Hulme (E. Wyndham) on percussion cap, 27.
Prudde (John) : " King's glazier," 517
Humphreys (A. L.) on Burton and Speke : African
travel, 193. Common Garden =Covent Garden,
217. Congreve (Thomas), M.D., 195. "Con-
sumption " and " lethargy " : their meaning in
the seventeenth century, 217. Fisheries at
Comacchio, 334. French and frogs, 351.
Gorges brass, 175. Harding of Somerset, 434.
Ibarra (Joachim), 253. Maynard (Sir John),
1592-1658, 238, 295. Mother and child, 316.
Papyrus and its products, 510. Rann (Rev.
Joseph), 173. Robinson (W.), LL.D., F.S.A.,
1777-1848, 295. Stabler (Edward), 334.
" Watch House," Ewell, Surrey, 233
Hunter-Blair (Sir D. O.), O.S.B., on colours of
badge of the Earls of Warwick, 134. Mackenzie
family, 214. Scarlet gloves and Tractarians,
116.
Hurry (Jamieson B.), M.D., on papyrus and its
products, 348. Substitutes for pilgrimage, 497
I
Ibberson (W.) on Ibbetson, Ibberson, or Ibbeson,
110
Ignoramus on authors of quotations wanted, 290
Ikona on grave of Margaret Godolphin, 129, 274
Inquirer on ancient Welsh triad, 109, 158. Irish
legend of the two isles, 27
J. (G.), F.S.A., on epitaphs in old London and
suburban graveyards, 308. National flags :
their origins, 289, 537
J. (W. C.) on foreign graves of British authors,
255. ' Working-Man's Way in the World,' 279
Jaggard (Lieut. W.) on Caldecott, 195. Church-
wardens and their wands, 153, 212. Folk-lore :
red hair, 196. Grave of Margaret Godolphin,
176. Lost Life of Hugh Peters, 57. Old MS.
verses, 278. " Three-a -penny colonels," 18
Jarvis (J. W.) on Winchelsea ghost, 250
Jenkins (Rhys) on Mount, Whitechapel, 32
Jessel (F;) on Charles Cotton's ' Compleat Game-
ster,' 514
Jesson (Thomas) on lost poem by Kipling, 495
Jonas (Maurice) on apothecary in ' Romeo and
Juliet,' 207. Belief orest, 486. Denmark Court,
50. Lincoln's Inn Hall, 210. Second Fortune
Theatre, 408. Shakespeare allusion, 147
Jones (E. Alfred) on Du Bellamy : Bradstreet,
209, 336
Jones (Rev. T. Llechid) on Rev. John Williams,
M.A., Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 528
Jones (Tom) on gunfire and rain, 113
K
K. (H.) on Faust bibliography, 337
K. (L. L.) on Asiago, 48. " Aviatik," 38.
" Biblia de buxo," 271. Boy-Ed as surname,
195. Bunks (Jonathan), 269. Cenotaph :
catafalque, 127. Ceremony of degrading a
knight, 68. Cox's (Capt.) ' Book of Fortune,'
185, 202. Fisheries at Comacchio, 210. Folk-
lore : red hair, 196. French and frogs, 294.
Gunfire and rain, 114. Holcroft (Thomas) and
the biography of Napoleon, 118. Hungary
Hill, Stourbridge, 430. " Laus Deo " : old
merchants' custom, 14. Maximilianus Transyl-
vanus, 88. National flags : their origins, 358.
Officers' " batmen," 409. " Old British dollar,"
448. ' Order of a Campe ' : Harl. MS., 215.
Peat and moss, healing properties, 96. " Pochi-
vated," 78. Rennie (J.) on the flying powers
of birds, 190. St. Inan, 518. St. Sebastian, 213.
Urswick (Christopher), 108. " Yoghurt,', 106
Kealy (Rev. A. G.) on naval records wanted, 375.
Navy legends, 298. Portraits in stained glass,
374, 517. Scotch Universities : undergraduates'
gown, 469
Kelly (Richard J.) on Edward Hayes, Dublin,
and his sitters, 476
Kemp (JohnT.) on scarlet gloves and Tractarians,
116
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHORS' INDEX.
565
Kentish Man on Thomas Chace, 148
King (Sir Charles S.), Bt., on Sir William Perkins
School, Chertsey, 390
King (W. L.) on Grace Darling, 370
Kinsey (M. R.) on monastic choir-stalls, 409
Knowles (Sir Lees), Bt., on St. Peter as the gate-
keeper of heaven, 177
Krebs (H.) on ancient Roman and Welsh law, 187.
" Ooiiog," Dutch for " war," 8. Polish for
" Resurrection," 447. World's judgment, 378
L
L. (F. de H.) on Calverley : Charade IV., 178.
Eighteenth-century rate-books, Fleet Street,
310. Lovelace : Vanneck, 350. Palavicini
family, 391. Portrait of Knight of the Garter,
158. St. Sebastian, 212. Stewart ring, 215
L. (J. H.) on national flags : their origins, 456
L. (J. L.) on statue at Drury Lane Theatre,
c. 175(4, 71
Lambton (Francis N.) on Ibbetson, Ibberson,
I bin -son. or Ibbotson, 294
Lamsley (Harry) on " Blighty," 395
Lane (John) on Americanisms ? 287. Bicheray,
artist, 70. Fairfield and Rathbone, artists, 27.
Ker (H. B.), artist, 49. Lawrence (P. S.),
artist and sailor, 259. ' Man with the Hoe,'
157. Portraits in stained glass, 172. Sem,
caricaturist, 49
Lane-Poole (S.) on fishing-rod in the Bible or
Talmud, 308
Lavington (Margaret) on farmers' Candlemas
rime, :>'.(
Lawson (Richard) on St. George's, Bloomsbury,
93
Le Conteur (John D.) on Barnard Flower : Bishop
Fox of Winchester, 330. Prudde (John) :
'• King's glazier," 430
Lecky (John) on P. S. Lawrence, artist and sailor,
209
Lee (A. Collingwood) on Boccaccio's ' Decameron,1
311. Faust bibliography, 337. " Laus Deo " :
old merchants' custom, 14
Lega-Weekes (Ethel) on arms cut on glass punch-
bowl, 268
Leslie (Major J. H.) on certain gentlemen of the
sixteenth century, 268. " Comaunde," 89.
Darry. Master of the King's Artillery, 128.
English Army List of 1740, 3, 43, 84, 122, 163,
204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402, 443, 482, 524.
Ma Hint-aii (Louis), 29. ' Order of a Campe ' :
Harl. MS., 110. Stewart (Mervyn), 29.
" Tefal," 309. Williamson (Col. J. S.), 475.
" Windose," 148
Letts (Louis R.) on eighteenth-century fires in
Cornhill, 461. Stevenson =Peirson, 429
Letts (Malcolm) on Sir Thomas Browne : counter-
feit basilisks, 446. Coverlo, 33. Torpedo : an
early reference, 7
Lewis (Penry), C.M.G., on Cleopatra and the
pearl, 98. Pronunciation of " margarine,"
870
Ley burn -Yarker (F. P.) on English Army List of
1740, 233
Limouzin (E. K.) on tinsel pictures, 296
Lingwood (H. R.) on Constable family, 410
Londoner on William B. Parnell, a London
architect, 448
Lucas (J. Landfear) on Napoleon and Nicholas
Girod, 469
Lupton (E. Basil) on " hat trick " : a cricket
I.TIV.. 'Mr,
M
M. on author of poem wanted, 356. Collins-
( Arthur), 351. Epitaph on a pork butcher, 298-
Epitaphs in old London and suburban .grave-
yards, 377. Foreign graves of British authors,.
255. Gale (Theophilus), the Nonconformist
tutor, 279
M. (A. J.) on Mundy : Alstonfield, 214
M. (C. H.) on Mews or Mewys family, 93
M. (C. H. S.) on Cromwell: St. John, 218. Re-
corders of Winchester, 210
M. (F. M.) on English Army List of 1740, 393
M. (M.) on Mews or Mewys family, 433
M. (P.), No. 1928, on actor-martyr, 236
M. (P. D.) on book of Lancashire pedigrees
wanted, 29. Mundy : Alstonfield, 129. Mundv
(John), d. 1653, 91
M. (P. W. G.) on French and frogs, 352
M. (W.) on Morris, 31
M. (W. J.) on Gorges brass, 13
Me. on Mount, Whitechapel, 31. Ratcliff Cross
restoration, 87
MacArthur (William) on Ardiss family, 507.
Bibliography of histories of Irish counties and
towns, 22, 141, 246, 286, 406, 445, 522
McDonnell (Michael F. J.) on St. Paul's School and
the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' 341
McGovern (Rev. J. B.) on ancient Irish manu-
script : the book of the MacGaurans or-
McGoverns, 65, 127. Bury's (Bishop Richard
of) library, 355. Danteiana, 481. Foreign
graves of British authors, 172. Gibbon's diary,.
149. Gray : a book of squibs, 285, 526. Renan
(Henriette), 128. Village pounds, 319
Mackenzie (R.) on Mackenzie family, 171
MacKinnon (F. M. A.) on actor-martyr, 189.
Conolly (Capt. Arthur), 189
Maclean (A. H.) on Louis Martineau, 78. Naval
records wanted, 398. ' Waterloo Heroes,' 134
McMurray (William) on records of the City
Livery Companies, 67
M'Neel-Caird (B.) on English Army List of 1740,
272
McPike (Eugene F.) on Mews or Mewys family, 331
Magrath (Dr. John R.) on boat-race won by Oxford
with seven oars, 492. Gloves : survivals of old
customs, 356. Portraits in stained glass, 317.
Sarum Breviary : verses in calendar, 117
Maguire (R. M.) on Colla da Chrioch, 410
Malet (G.) on Malet, 409
Malet (Col. Harold) on Bombay Grab : tavern sign,
457. Hayes (Edward), Dublin, and his sitter.-,
413. J. (S.), water-colour artist, 315. Ladies'
spurs, 335. Officers' " batmen," 495. Peas
pottage, 139. Side-saddle, 99
Mann (A. H.) on Francis Timbrell, 507
Mann (Richard) on Bath Forum, 532
Manwaring (G. E.) on naval relic of Charles I.,.
487
Markwell (O. E.) on epitaphs in old London and
suburban graveyards, 456
Marten (A. E.) on Marten family of Sussex, 29, 409
Martin (William) on City Coroner and treasure-
trove, 91
Master of Arts on Hare and Lefeyre families. 1">7
Mathi-\vs (C. Elkin) on ' Some Fruits of Solitude ' :
' More Fruits of Solitude,' 407
Matthews (Albert) on early circulating library,
158. " Government for the people, of the
people, by the people," 14
Matthews (A. Weight) on shires of Northampton
and Southampton, 111
566
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries. Jan. 27, 1917.
Maxwell (Sir Herbert) on " Court " in French
- place-naiiu's, 318, 339. Horse-chestnut, 294.
Kerry place-names, 14. Lennox (Col. Charles),
138. " Names of the moon, 478. St. Inan, 438.
Unidentified M.P.s, 297
Maycock (Sir Willoughby) on Calverley's charades,
215. Campbell's (Major) duel, 118. " Davis
(Mr.)," friend of Mrs. Siddons : his identity, 356.
" Hat trick " : a cricket term, 137. Ibsen's
' Ghosts ' and the Lord Chamberlain, 536.
Little linger called " pink," 258. Lost poem by
Kipling, 475. Marat : Henry Kingsley, 475.
Removal of memorials in Westminster Abbey,
237. Rome and Moscow, 198. St. Sebastian,
213. Sem, caricaturist, 215. Shakespeare's
statue on the portico of Drury Lane Theatre,
208. Statue at Drury Lane Theatre, 136.
" Tadsman," 179
Member of Trinity College on Hare and Lefevre
families, 195
Menmuir (Charles) on greatest recorded length of
service, 327. " Wipers " : Ypres, 526
Merryweather (Geo.) on Edward Stabler, 250
Mew (J. H. Lethbridge) on Royal Artillery, 334.
Mew or Mews, 450
Middleton (W. B.) on churchwardens and their
wands, 90
Milner-Gibson-Cullum (G.), F.S.A., on Bardsey
Island : conscription, 189. Porte (De la) family,
533
Milward (Graham) on symbols attached to signa-
tures, 50
Minakata (Kumagusu) on employment of wild
beasts in warfare, 454. Folk-lore : red hair,
379. House and garden superstitions, 419
Mitchell (Major A. J.) on Mary, Queen of Scots, 311
Molony (Alfred) on Caldecott, 298
Morgan (Forrest) on " Honest Injun," 157
Morgan (Gwenllian E. F.) on William Philips,
Town Clerk of Brecon, antiquary, d. 1685, 71
Murray (John) on " Hat trick," 416. " Yorker,"
416
N
N. (L. C.) on " swank," 408
Nicholson (Albert) on Fairfleld and Rathbone,
artists, 256
Nicholson (Col. Edward) on heart-cherries, 6
Night Work on Snap cards, 210
Nisbett (Hamilton More) on Sir Walter Scott : an
unpublished letter, 18
Norcross (John E.) on authors wanted, 495
Norman (Philip) on William Bell, 308. Dick
Whittington : Cloth Fair, 295. " Jobey " of
Eton, 394. Will of Prince Rupert, 201, 534
Norris (Herbert E.) on Caldecott, 237. Dutton
(Mrs. Anne), 215, 472. English Army List of 1740,
393. Huntingdonshire feasts .in London, 61.
' Reading Mercury,' vol. i. No. 1, 366. Witch-
craft : case of Mrs. Hicks : bibliographical note,
521. Witches of Warboys, 30
O
O. (H.) on Thackeray and ' The Times,' 47
Observer on Hants Church goods, 210
Odell (Rev. F. J.) on " Septem sine horis," 310
O'Donoghue (E. G.) on " Laus Deo " : old mer-
chants' custom, 253
Old Ebor on " Yorker " : a cricket term, 276
Old Ford on Hare and Lefevre families, 128
Oliver (V. L.) on Hr;iss<>v (Bracey) family, 333
Onions (C. T.) on " One s place in the sun," 170.
" To have been in the sun," 170. " Written in
sunbeams," 170
Oughtred (A. E.) on Bible and salt, 478. Field-
names, 129
Ould (S. Gregory), O.S.B., on authors wanted, 329.
Hertfordshire surnames, 349. ' Land o' the
Leal,' 369. " Panis, amicitiac symbolum," 296.
Urswick (Christopher), 259.
II on Sheepshanks's biographies, 188
P. (A. V. de) on fisheries at Comacchio; 257
P. (G. H.) on St. Peter as the gatekeeper of
heaven, 177
P. (J.) on authors wanted, 369. Staton (J.T.),391
P. (M.) on " I don't think," 487. St. Genewys,
349. Sight of savages, 536
P. (N. L.) on picture : ' The Woodman of Kent,' 71
E. (R. B.) on Common Garden = Covent Garden,
89. Eighteenth-century dentists, 194. Nichol-
son (George), printer, 1760-1825 : Poughnill,
147. " Public houses " in London and West-
minster in 1701, 449. Rann (Rev. Joseph), 113.
Transparent bee-hives, 468. Uncut paper,
187
P. (R. L.) on seals on Anglo-Saxon charters, 169
P. (W. A.) on " agnostic " and " agnosco," 16
Page (John T.) on Americanisms, 414. Bombay
Grab : tavern sign, 457. Curwen (John), 388.
Elizabeth's (Queen) Palace, Enfield, 536.
Epitaphs in old London and suburban grave-
yards, 378. Farmers' sayings, 435. Field-
ingiana : Miss H — and, 16. Foreign graves of
British authors, 254, 495. French and frogs,
294. Gray : a book of squibs, 399. Henley,
Herts, 33. House and garden superstitions,
159. " Loke," 56. Panoramic surveys of
London streets, 276. Perpetuation of printed
errors, 536. Portraits in stained glass, Penrith,
337. Rann (Rev. Joseph), 113. St. George's,
Bloomsbury, 93. Sheppard or Shepherd family
of . Blisworth, Northamptonshire, 477. ' Sir
Gammer Vans,' 518. Statues and memorials
in the British Isles, 45, 168, 263, 345. Symbols
attached to signatures, 117. Thome's ' Lon-
don,' 33. Toldervy (William) and the word-
books : " Mort," 77
Palmer (Francis B.) on portrait of a Knight of the
Garter, 108
Palmer (G. H.) on Brassey (Bracey) family, 269.
Gunfire and rain, 74. Sarum Breviary : verses
in calendar, 71
Palmer (J. Foster) on " doctrine of signatures,"
197
Parry (Lieut.-Col. G. S.) on accidental likenesses,
15. Elliston (Robert William), 227. Foreign
graves of British authors, 254. " Great-
cousin," 295. Inscriptions in the burial-ground
of the Chapel Royal, Savoy, 425. Inscriptions
in the parish church of St. Mary, Battersea,
125, 145. Plate-marks, 450. " She braids St.
Catherine's tresses," 18
Payen-Payne (de V.) on " L'homme sensuel
moyen, 295. Watch house, 315
Pearce (N. D. F.) on author and title wanted :
boys' book, c. 1860, 330
Pearson (Howard S.) on Hungary Hill, Stour-
bridge, 517. Local almanacs of the seventeenth
century, 335
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHORS' INDEX.
567
Peet (W. H.) on foreign graves of British authors,
254
Penitent on perpetuation of printed errors, 87
Penney (Norman) on " Carrstipers " : " Correll " :
" Whelping," 488. Sheffner : Hudson : Lady
Sophia Sydney : Sir William Cunningham, 29.
' Some Fruits of Solitude,' 476
Penny (Rev. Frank) on "Dolores," 71. Maule
(Rev. Ward), 227. St. George's, Bloomsbury,
93. Strange (Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden),
515
Peregrinus on Butler's ' Analogy ' : bibliography,
369. Panis, " amicitiae symbolum," 296
Pierpoint (Robert) on Acco, 314. Cleopatra and
the pearl, 37. Colours of badge of the Earls of
Warwick : Beauchamp, 95. Cromwell : St. John,
236. Cyprus cat, 427. Daubigny's Club, 28.
" Fare thou well," 288. Farmers' savings, 435.
" Faugh-a-Ballagh," 416. Fieldingiana : Miss
H — and, 137. " ffoliott " and " ffrench " :
4' Ff " or " ff " for F, 534. Foreign graves of
British authors, 395. Gunfire and rain, 38.
' Heart's Summer,' by Joseph Knight, 21.
" How not to do it," 17. Ibsen's ' Ghosts ' and
the Lord Chamberlain, 469; " Jobey " of
Eton, 295. King (William), LL.D., President
of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 467. King's Own
Scottish Borderers, 92. Kingsway, 170.
" Loke," 18. Montagu and Manchester, 73.
Motto of William III. : " Recepit, non rapuit,"
336. Negro, or coloured, bandsmen in the
Army, 303. Officers' " batmen," 495. Palla-
vicini : arms, 328. Papal insignia, : Nicolas V.,
154. Prine (John), 1568, 516. Right Worship-
ful the Mayor, 111. St. Peter as the gate-
keeper of heaven, 274. Stewart ring, 215.
Swift (Richard), 112
Pigott (W. Jackson) on Moone of Breda : Jackson,
229. Walsh (Sir Patrick), 10
Pilcher (G. T.) on " Every Englishman is an
island," 78
Pinchbeck (W. H.) on folk-lore : red hair, 196.
Throe witches in ' Macbeth,' 142
Pink (W. D.) on Thomas Cholmley, 172. Crom-
well's baronets and knights, 198. Herbert
(Edward), M.P., 436. Hussey (Thomas), M.P.
for Whitchurch, 1645-53, 135. Price : heraldic
query, 477
Platt (Charles) on authors wanted, 329
Poland (Sir Harry B*) on fact or fancy ? 277.
George IV. and the prerogative of mercy, 401.
Motto of William III., 26. ' Sheridaniana,'
488
Politician on " dug-out " : various meanings, 328
Potter (G.) on Richard Swift, 9
Potts (R. A.) on Mumbo Jumbo, 114
Powlett (Col. N.)on farmers' Candlemas rime, 159.
Hebrew inscription, Sheepshed, Leicestershire,
195. Kerry place-names, 14. Pronunciation of
" Catriona," 158. " Septem sine horis," 377
Price (Leonard C.) on Madame E. L. lie Brun,
French artist, 27. Cleypole, Cromwell, and
Price families, 508. Cromwell's baronets and
knights, 129. Fellows of the Society of Anti-
quaries, 518. Headstones with portraits of the
deceased, 210. Holmes family, co. Limerick,
90. Lloyd (Plumstead), 398. Price : heraldic
query, 349. Price (Sir Robert), Bart., 270.
" Privileges of Parliament," 411. Raynes Park,
Wimbledon, Murrey, 148. Sheppard or Shep-
hard family of Northamptonshire, 391. Un-
identified M.P.s, 456. " Watch House," Ewell,
Surrey, 9
Prideaux (H. Maxwell) on boat-race won by
Oxford with seven oars, 494. Few Pickwickiana,
368. ' Working-Man's Way in the World,' 16
Pryce (Lewis) on badges : identification sought, 310
Q. (Tertium) on authors wanted, 348
Quarrell (W. H.) on " Severe," 12. Ching :
Cornish or Chinese ? 199. J. (S.), water-colour
artist, 315. Portraits in stained glass, 374
Quien Sabe on inherited family likenesses, 10
R. (A. F.) on "Donkey's years "=a very long
time, 506. " Feis," 71. Numbering public
vehicles, 430. " Oil on troubled waters," 87.
Operas performed in the provinces, 410
R. (G. H.) on Caldecott, 195. English Army List
of 1740, 393. Fieldingiana : Miss H — and,
29. Shires of Northampton and Southampton,
38.
R. (G. W. E.) on authors of quotations wanted,
336. St. George's (Hart Street), Bloomsbury,
195. Side-saddle, 73. Stewart ring : the Hon.
A. J. Stewart, 257
R. (J. F.) on colonels and regimental expenses,
529
R. (J. H.) on Mose Skinner, 251. Stones of
London, 194
R. (J. P.) on Gorges brass, 13
R. (L. G.) on Archer : Bowman, 135. ' Comic
Aldrich,' 228. " Court " in French place-
names, 249. Scott (Sir Walter) : Lockhart's
unpublished letter, 57, 114. Stael (Madame
de), 269. Stael (Madame de) : Louis Alphonse
Rocca, 310. " To give the mitten," 351
R. (R. D.) on Harding of Somerset, 350
R. (S. P. Q.) on Capt. Bellains or Bellairs, 172
R. (T. E.) on Snob and Ghost, 109
Rainsford (F. Vine) on English Army List of 1740,
314
Ratcliffe (T.) on British herb : herb tobacco, 16.
Ear tingling : charm to " cut the scandal," 413.
Farmers' Candlemas rime, 118. Farmers'
sayings, 358. House and garden superstitions,
138. Peat and moss : healing properties, 9,
156. Snob and Ghost, 339. Tinsel pictures,
297. " To weep Irish " : "to war," 456.
Touch wood, 418
Redmond (C. Stennett), M.D., on Burton and
Speke : African travel, 148
Reinach (S.) on ladies' spurs, 490. " One's place
in the sun," 218. Side-saddle, 73
Renira on names of the moon, 429,. Porte (De la)
family, 448
Reviewer on " Cardew," 397
Ricci (Seymour de) on author wanted : ' Otho de
• Grandison,' 155. Coloured book-wrappers, 478
Robbins (Alfred F.) on "appreciation," ITi'.
"Coals to Newcastle," 250. "Dead secret,"
107. Earl's Court, a London suburb, 389.
England, Germany, and the dye industry, 528.
English Army List of 1740, 354. " Freedom of
a city in a gold box," 228. Gennys of Launoes-
ton and Plymouth, 114. " Hat trick " : a
cricket term, 178. " High Court of Chivalix -."
330. Illustrated Speech from the Throne, 248.
London's entertainment to " four Indian
kings," 304. Moving pictures : their evolution,
568
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
293. " \c\vs-cullcctor," 350. Payment of
members : a /.our system of allowance in early
' Urn.'-. llM. Perceval (Sir Philip), M.P., 371.
•• Victory Handkerchiefs," 207. Wesley
(Samuel) the Elder : his poetic activities, 226.
Wilson (Richard) of Lincoln's Inn Fields, M.P.,
34. " Women in white," 266. Words from
• Mercurius Politicus,' 147. " Yorker " : a
cricket term, 209
Buckingham on clerks in holy orders as com-
batants, 36. Eyes changed in colour by fright,
515
Bodway (Alfred) on lion rampant of Scotland,
138. Neville heraldry, 50. Shakespeare's
f.- 1 Icon crest, 35
Bolleston (J. D.), M.D., on eighteenth-century
dentists, 399
Rollins (Hyder E.) on Martin Parker, 127
Rotton (Sir J. F.) on Rotton family, 250
Bowbotham (G. H.) on Archer and Bowman, 15
Bowe (J. Hambley), M.B.,on old MS. verses, 229
Budkin (Major H. E.) on Fitzgerald, 530. Fleet-
wood (Paul), 409. Suffix " kyn," 450
Bussell (Constance, Lady) on English Army List
of 1740, 272. Unidentified M.P.s, 297
Bussell (F. A.) on horse-chestnut, 237
Bussell (Bight Hon. G. W. E.) on author wanted,
375. Candia (Cecilia Maria De), 10
S. (A. E.) on Bath Forum, 495
S. (A. M.) on " talking through one's hat," 449
S. (B. C.) on Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden
Strange, 514. Western Grammar School,
Brompton, 535
S. (C.) on authors wanted, 390
S. (E. B.) on " Feis," 177
S. (F. H.) on Bambridge family, 108. Ogle (Sir
\Villinm) : Sarah Stewkeley, 89, 251, 518
S. (H.) on " Faugh-a-Ballagh," 350
S. (H. B.^ on epitaph on a pork butcher, 188.
Inscription at Poltimore Church, 71
S. (H. K. St. J.) on William Morris : ' Sigurd the
Volsung,' 448. Shakespeare's falcon crest, 35
S (J.) on Fieldingiana, 535
S. (J. S.) on London's entertainment to " four
Indian kings," 397. Musical queries, 216
S. (K.) on " French's contemptible little army,"
532. Touch wood, 498
S. (W.) on MS. of ' The Bride of Lammermoor,'
349. ' Sir Gammer Vans,' 410
S. (W. B.) on war words in newspapers, 308
Sadler (Hugh) on " pochivated," 26
St. John-Mildmay (C. H.) on William Mildmay,
Harvard College, 1647, 76
St. Swithin on Acco, 228. Americanisms, 334.
" As dead as Queen Anne," 57. Author wanted,
296, 369. Bluebeard, 339. Colours of badge
of the Earls of Warwick : Beauchamp, 96.
Conolly (Capt. Arthur), 235. " Crowner's-
Quest'law." 207. " Driblows," 269. Fire-
places : aitch stones, Ford, Northumberland,
.">7. Folk-lore : chime-hours, 194. Foreign
graves of British authors, 292. French and
frogs, 293. "Giiloche": " cotte," 115.
Gloves : survivals of old customs, 356. Grave
of Margaret (Jodolphin. 176. " Have " : collo-
quial use, 33. Heart burial, 33. House and
garden superstitions, 214. Little finger called
" pink," 25S. Matori vis for a historv of the
Watts famify of Southampton, 277, Quaker
grammar, 309. Bisby, 289. " Bosalie "=
bayonet, 506. Shakespeare's falcon crest, 35.
Sign Virgo, 316. Skull and iron nail, 75..
Touching for luck, 13. Tree folk-lore : the
elder, 136. " Yorker " : a cricket term, 376
Salmon (Principal David) on " felon," 457.
Poem wanted, 397. St. Genewys, 418
Sandys (Sir J. E.) on " Theager's girdle," 76
Saunders (H. A. C.) on St.. Peter as the gate-
keeper of heaven, 217
Savage (Amy) on horse-chestnut, 172
Sharpe (H. Birch) on reference wanted, 209
Shorting (Ernest H. H.) on Matthew Shortyng,.
D.D., 396
Sicile on books wanted, 370. Marshals of France,.
235
Simcoe (Augustine) on Henchman, Hinchman, or
Hitchman, 270
Slaugham on genealogy of Shelley, 171
Smith (C. Penswick) on sign Virgo, 251
Smith (Edward) on Binnestead in Essex, 495
Smith (Prof. G. C. Moore) on ' Tragedy of Caesar's
Bevenge,' 305, 325, 506
Smith (J. Challenor) on arms cut on glass punch-
bowl, 374
Smith ( J. de Berniere) on Exchequer bond, 1710,
350. National flags : their origins, 358
Smith (W. F.) on Milton's sonnet on ' Tetra-
chordon ' : " like," 7
Solomons (Israel) on Denmark Court, 119. He-
brew inscription, Sheepshed, Leicestershire,.
109. Manora, Manareh, 429. Mittan, en-
graver, 450. ' Begal Bam bier ' : Thomas
Hastings, 530
Sparke (Archibald) on authors wanted, 108, 269,
529. Bardsey Island : conscription, 277.
Binnestead in Essex, 494. Burton and Speke :
African travel, 194. Custody of corporate
seals, 238. Fairneld and Bathbone, artists, 77.
Faust bibliography, 337. Fazakerley : mean-
ing of name, 59. First illustrated English
novel, 153. Fleetwood (Paul), 535. Folk-
lore : red hair, 196. Foreign graves of British
authors, 254. Grave of Margaret Godolphin,
176. Greatest recorded length of service, 397.
" Hat trick " : a cricket term, 137. Hayes
(Edward), Dublin, and his sitters, 413. Ladies'
spurs, 255. Little finger called " pink," 259.
•' Loke," 18. 'London Magazine,' 149. 'Man
with the Hoe,' 97. Musical queries, 113.
National flags : their origins, 358. Navy le-
gends, 298. Pin-pricked lace patterns, 13.
Portraits in stained glass, 211. Privileges of
Parliament, 497. Restoration of old deeds and
manuscripts, 316. St. Francis Xavier's Hymn i
' O Deus, ego amo te ' : translations, 329. St.
Newlyn East, 418. " Septem sine horis," 377.
Staton (J. T.) 516. " Tadsman," 129. " To
give the mitten," 454. ' Vanity Fair,' 13
Stedman (Arthur E.) on Emma Bobinson, author
of ' Whitefriars,' 149
Steeds. (E. P.) on " S. J.," water-colour artist,
250
Stepney Green on Sir William Ogle : Sarah
Stewkeley, 137, 253, 296
Steuart (A. Francis) on German and Austrian
princes killed in the War, 428. Italy's (King of )
descent from Charles I., 358. Sydney (Lady
Sophia), 95
Stewart (Alan) on Edward Alleyn, founder of
Dulwich College, 506. Owen (Sir David), Kt.r
153. Second Fortune Theatre, 537
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
AUTHORS' INDEX.
569
Stewart (Helen Hinton) on Falstaff and the Fleet
Prison, 1
Stewart (John A.) on lion rampant of Scotland,
175
Stilwell (John P.) on Lincoln's Inn Hall, 273
Stone (J. Harris) on St. Madron's Well, near
Penzance, 58
Storey (William L.) on authors of quotations
wanted, 399
Strunk (W.), jun., on Byron's travels, 447
Student on Marat : Henry Kingsley, 409. Pro-
nunciation of " Catriona," 110
Summers (Montague) on Mrs. Boutell, 381.
Contributions to the history of European
travel : Wunderer, 33. Mediaeval hymn, 271.
" Nihil ardet in inferno nisi propria voluntas,"
67. ' Northanger Abbey ' : " horrid " romances,
9,97. Portraits in stained glass, 517. St. Peter
as the gatekeeper of heaven, 177. St. Sebas-
tian, 212
Swaen (A. E. H.) on ' Beggar's Opera,' 490
Swynnerton (C.) on Sandford family, 291
Sykes (H. Dugdale) on Peele's authorship of
' Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany,' 464, 484,
503
T. on Edward Herbert, M.P., 348
T. (D. K.) on C. Lamb : ' Mrs. Battle's Opinions
on Whist ' : of chimney fireplaces, 398
T. (S.) on Topp family crest, 279. Winter (Philip),
266
T. (Y.) on folk-lore : chime-hours, 136. " Great-
cousin," 228. Touching for luck, 112
Tanner (L. E.) on Westminster views, 108
Tapley-Soper (H.) on first English provincial
newspaper, 156. Scoble (Bight Hon. Sir
Andrew Richard), K.C.S.I., K.C., 438
Tavar6 (Fred L.) on Rabsey Cromwell alias
Williams, 136. Influenza, 328. Pace-egging,
76
Tearle (Christian) on novels and short stories of
G. P. R. James, 255
Temple (Sir R. C.) on St. George the Martyr,
Queen's Square, 271
Ternant (Andrew de) on Napoleon and sugar, 308.
Voltaire on Poland and Turkey, 226
Terrill (B.) on ' Northanger Abbey ' : " horrid "
romances, 97
Terry (Major- General Astley) on churchwardens
and their wands, 153. English Army List of
1740, 151
Thickbroom (John) on " Jennings Property,"
16
Thirkell-Pearce (E.) on Kepier School, Houghton-
le-Spring, 1770-90, 309
Thomas (Ap) on Mansell of Muddlescomb, 184
Thomas (C. Edgar) on touch wood, 330
Thomas (N. W.) on Mumbo Jumbo, 47
Thomas (Ralph) on H. S. Ashbee, 69. Kean
(Mrs. diaries) and Cathcart, 26. Robinson
(Emma), author of ' Whitefriars,' 199
Thorns (A.) on headstones with portraits of the
deceased. 277
Thome (J. R.) on " blue pencil," 126, 299. ' The
Working-Man's Way in the World ' : Charles
M.mby Smith, 110
Thornton (Richard H.) on Americanisms, 496.
- Artist's signature : Thackeray and ' Punch,'
468. " Cadeau " = a present, 308. Dog
Smith, 291. Fact or fancy ? 218. " Jobey "
of Eton, 248. Legal macaronics, 335. Old
American geography, 265. " Taking it out in
drink," 487. Wolff (Joseph), 1795-1862 : one
of his letters, 288
Thrift (Gertrude) on ' Union Star,' 529
Tickencote (G. C.) on " agnostic " and " agnosco,"
16. Tide-weather, 26
Toumay (Marquis de) on mediaeval hymn, 271
Trin. Coll. Camb. on author wanted, 249
Truyens (Henri) on " hat trick " : a cricket
term, 70
Turpin (Pierre) on Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, 268.
Coffin-shaped garden bed, 134. Cultus of King
Henry VI., 256. Eighteenth-century artist in
stained glass, 374. Fourteenth-century glass,
415. Gloves : survivals of old customs, 308.
Heraldic query, 208. " Kanyete," 538.
Mediaeval hymn, 228. Toke of Notts, 250
U
U. (D. B.) on Joachim Ibarra, 171
U. (R. G. F.) on Philip Winter, 416
Udal (J. S.), F.S.A., on butcher's record, 378.
Colours of badge of the Earls of Warwick :
Beauchamp, 96. Elizabeth's (Queen) Palace,
Enfield : Dr. Robert Uvedale, scholar and
botanist : the Grammar School, Enfield, 361,
384, 404, 423. Addenda to note on Dr.
Robert Uvedale, 447, 527. Lion rampant of
Scotland, 175. National flags : their origins,
455. To play " Crookern," 470. Will of
Prince Rupert, 435
Uniacke (R. G. F.) on Winton family, 507
TJniqua on authors wanted, 489
Vaux (G. B.) on William Vaux and Nicholas
Ridley, 9
Viard (Henri) on General Boulanger : biblio-
graphy, 491
W
W. (G. T.) on reference wanted, 291
W. (H. B.) on supplemental list of monumental
inscriptions and heraldry in the Cloister, Salis-
bury Cathedral : Baker Manuscripts collection,
47
W. (H. W. B.) on Hannafore, a Cornish place-
name, 449
W. (J. C.) on " Don't be longer than you can
help," 227. Note on the Mussel-duck, 487.
" Scread (screed)," 208
W. (L. A.) on William Holloway, author of ' The
Peasant's Fate,' 8
W. (Margaret) on folk-lore : chime-hours, 216
W. (T. E.) on newspaper placard, 114
W. (W. R.) on Major Campbell's duel, 178.
Eighteenth - century dentists, 218. Fenton
(James), Recorder of Lancaster, 417. Garland
and Lester M.P.s, 368. Hare and Lefevre
families, 397. Kingsley pedigree, 253. Lennox
(Col. Charles), 89. ' London Magazine,' 378.
Ogle (Sir William) : Sarah Stewkeley, 252.
Panton (Thomas), 274. Rathbone (K. \ .
Richard), 457. St. George's, Bloomsbury, 93.
Sheffner : Hudson : Lady Sophia Sydney : Sir
William Cunningham, 94. Village pounds, -l.~>7.
Watts (Thomas), M.P., 190. Whitaker (Henry),
M.P., 172. White (Matthew), M.P., 129.
570
AUTHORS' INDEX.
Notes and Queries, Jan. 27, 1917.
Whittl.- (Frauds), M.P., 148. Williams (John),
M.I'.. 1 I--. Wil-on (.James), M.P., 109. Wilson
(llirhanll. M.P.. 1 .-><>. Wilson (William), M.P.,
172. Wood (Nicholas), M.P., 190. Yates
(Thomas), M.P.. Id'.'
Waiiu-uTiirlit (John B.) on action of vinegar on
rocks, 38. Bacon sentencing a pickpocket, 25.
• Hihlia de buxo," 210. Blessed William of
;. Vi. Bohun (Ralph): Christopher
Boone, 321. Certain gentlemen of the six-
teenth century, 373. Coverlo, 94. Dickens
and Henry VIII., 529. DubledayJ (Edmond),
159. English pilgrimages : Santiago de Com-
postela, 379. Faust bibliography, 337. Folk-
lore : red hair, 197. French and frogs, 415.
Gadarn (Darvell), 27. Hacket (William), 107.
Legal macaronics, 398. " Nihil ardet in in-
ferno nisi propria voluntas," 10. Old MS.
verses, 278. Papal and Spanish flags at sea in
sixteenth century, 71. Peas pottage, 90.
Pordage, a priest, 1685, 410. " Prine (John),
1568," 390. Bemiremont hailstones, May,
1907, 27. Russell (Richard), Bishop of Porta-
legre, 1671, 347. St. Genewys, 419. St.
George's, Bloomsbury, 155. St. Madron's
Well, near Penzance, 9. St. Sebastian, 212.
Saunders (Erasmus), Winchester scholar, 319.
Substitutes for pilgrimage, 498. Thirlwall,
1536, Chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn, 390.
Wyndham (Edmund), J.U.D., 509
Walker (Benj.) on substitutes for pilgrimage, 497
Walker (R. J.) on Bath Forum, 429
Walpole (Geo.) on Marshals of France, 235. Old
MS. verses, 278
Ward (Hon. Kathleen) on Stewart ring, 171
Watson (Eric R.) on George Barrington, 65.
Madan (Patrick), 77. Naval records wanted,
c. 1800, 417
Watson (W. G. Willis) on ear tingling : charm to
" cut the scandal," '
117.
310. Farmers' Candlemas
Inscription at Poltimore Church,
rime,
116
Welby (Col. Alfred) on "Terebus y Tereodin," 507
Wells (Charles) on foreign graves of British
authors, 292
Wellstood (Fredk. C.) on Fazakerley, 78
West (Erskine E.) on English Army List of 1740,
393
Wheeler (Stephen) on Capt. Arthur Conolly, 236
Wherry (Lieut.-Col. George), R.A.M.C.T., on little
finger called " pink," 209
White (Herbert) on ' Sabrinse Corolla,' 237
Whitebrook (Lieut. J. C.) on Mrs. Anne Button,
147, 275, 471
Whitehead (Benjamin) on Binnestead in Essex,
494
Whitfield (A. Stanton), F.R.Hist.S., on Thomas
Congreve, M.D., 69, 159
Whitley (W. T.) on Mrs. Anne Dutton, 473.
' Morning Post,' 437
Wienholt (E. C.) on snakes and music, 533
Wilkinson (J. H.) on side-saddle, 99
Willcock (Rev. Dr. J.) on ' Man with the Hoe,' 50.
" Oil on troubled waters," 159. Shakespeare
and Ephesus, 345. Shakespeare on Satan as
an angel of light, 181
Williams (Aneurin) on brass plate in Newland
Church, Gloucestershire, 90. Chapols of ease r
tithe barns, 430. Dominican Order, 510.
Evans (John), astrologer of Wales, 149,
Griffiths (Mrs.), author of ' Morality of Shake-
speare's Dramas,' 209. Hanmer (Rev. Mere-
dith), D.D., 171. " Holme Lee " : J. Morgan,.
370. Jones (John), author of ' Kinetic Uni-
verse,' 209, 311. Owen (Sir David), Kt., 107.
Parishes in two counties, 36. Peacock lore,
530. Peyron's (Abb4 Paul) ' Antiquities of
Nations,' 50. Rathbone (Rev. Richard), 289,
536. St. Genewys, 419
Williams (E.) on "John Stretton's " dauncinee-
schoole," 291
Williams (E. F.) on sons of Mrs. Bridget Bendysh,
oy j.
Williams (J. B.) on first English provincial news-
paper, 81, 216, 292. Lost Life of Hugh Peters,
11, 98
Williams (W. R.) on apothecary M.P.s, 267.
English Army List of 1740, 191, 129, 231, 311,
353, 391, 431, 473, 512. Swift (Richard), 73.
Theatrical M.P.s, 210. Unidentified M.P.s,
^aOJL
Williamson (F.) on pace-egging, 12
Wilson (Thomas) on authors wanted, 369
Wilson (W. E.) on Poe, Margaret Gordon, " Betsy"
Bonaparte, and " Old Mortality," 498. Scott
(Sir Walter) : an unpublished letter, 18
Woodrow (T. J.) on " Loke," 56
Wopllard (Clifford C.) on Timothy Constable, 430
Wright (H. Richard) on Bombay Grab : tavern
sign, 349
Wulcko (C. Tyndall) on Poland in London, 490
X. on table-customs of ancient Wales, 207
Xylographer on ' Cheltenham Guide,' 390. Gillray,
o50
Yeo (W. Curzon) on peat and moss : healing
properties, 156
Ygrec on grave of Margaret Godolphin, 176, 218r
359. Latin contractions, 57. ' Sir Gammer
Vans,' 498
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