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TWELFTH     SERIES.-VOLUME    II. 
JULY — DECEMBER,  1916. 


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OFFICE,  BREAM'S  BUILDINGS,  CHANCERY  LANE,  B.C. 
BY  J.  EDWARD  FRANCIS. 


Notes  and  Queries,  Jan.  27, 1917. 


12  8.  II.  JULY  1,1916.] 


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Scott :  Unpublished  Letter— William  Mildmay,  18— Latin 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.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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 


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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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•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 


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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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(@  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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"  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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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.] 


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"  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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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


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"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 


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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 


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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. 


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(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 


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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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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. 


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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 


i2s.ii.jcLY8.i9i6.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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 


12  S.  II.  JULYS,  1916.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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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, 


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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. 

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.' 


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. 

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,  so 
that  the  contributor  may  be  readily  identiSed. 

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 
put  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." 

MR.  ALECK  ABRAHAMS  and  LIEUT.  H.  J.  H. 
STEVENS. — Forwarded. 

P.  A.  R. — Many  thanks.    Anticipated  ante,  p.  18. 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


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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.) 


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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 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


56 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [123.11.  JULY  15,  wie. 


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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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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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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 


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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 


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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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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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•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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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. 


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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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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. 


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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 


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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. 


12  S.  II.  JULY  29,  1916.]  NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [is  s.  n.  JULY  20, 1916. 


"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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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. 


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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 


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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," 


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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 


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"  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. 


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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. 


12  S.  II.  AUG.  5,  1916.] 


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.) 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 

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'  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," 


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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, 


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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.] 


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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 


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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- 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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.' 


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128.  ii.  AUG.  12,  i9i6.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


121 


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 


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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 


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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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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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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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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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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 


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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, 


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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 


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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 


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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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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"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. 


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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. 


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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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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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•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 


160 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [12  s.  11.  AUG.  19, 1916. 


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 


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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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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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [12  s.  n.  AUG.  26,  ww. 


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. 


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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. 


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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." 


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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.] 


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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.' 


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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. 


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"  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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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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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 
English),  210L  ;  and  a  good  copy  of  Caxton's 
•  Gower — '  Confessio  Amanti.s  ' — 1483,  340Z.,  we 
may  give  the  impression  that  Messrs.  Maggs's 
latest  Catalogue  (No.  348)  contains  chiefly  luxu- 
ries in  the  way  of  literature.  This  is  by  no  means 
so — it  is  very  well  worth  perusal  on  the  part  of 
readers  whose  interest  in  books  is  of  the  practical 
-order. 

Messrs.  Leighton  have  sent  us  Part  II.  of  their 
Catalogue  of  Early  Printed  Books.  No  doubt  most 
of  our  readers  are  acquainted  with  this  work, 
which,  with  its  lavish  and  beautifully  reproduced 
illustrations,  its  numerous  indexes,  its  concise  and 
scholarly  descriptions,  and  the  excellence  of  its 

•general  arrangement,  forms  in  itself  a  biblio- 
graphical compendium  of  great  value.  Here 
again  collectors  and  students  will  find  plenty  of 

•good  things, both  useful  and  within  the  ordinary 
person's  reach.  Among  the  more  important  and 
raro  items  we  noted  a  copy  of  de  Lignamine's 
edition  of  the '  Herbarium  '  of  Apuleius  Platonicus, 
1483  or  1484,  100Z.  ;  a  most  interesting  copy  of 
Erasmus's  '  Paraphrases,'  probably  the  first 

•  edition,  1521,  101.  ;    and  the  Neapolitan  edition 
(1485)  of  Tuppo's  version  of  ^so^s  Fables,  140L 

Another  enjoyable  list  is  that  of  Mr.  Francis 
Edwards,  No.  366.  He  has  some  important 
works  on  Natural  History,  e.g.,  from  the  new 
'  Biologia  '  of  Central  America,  a  complete  set  of 
the  Zoology  in  52  vols.,  1151.  ;  Gould's  '  Birds  of 
Australia,'  8  vols.  folio  (1840-69),  1801.  ;  and 

•  Audubon    and    Bachmann's    '  Viviparous    Quad- 
rupeds  of     North  America '   (1845-54),   721.     He 

•  has  some  attractive  sets  of  works  by  nineteenth- 
>  century   historical   writers  :     thus,  J.    H.   Jesse's 

historical  works,  23  vols.,  in  first  editions,  301.  ; 
M.  W.  Freer's  works,  19  vols.,  first  editions,  321. ; 

-and  those  of  Lady  Jackson,  14  vols.,  30Z.  The 
section  headed  '  General  Literature  '  is  full  of 
interesting  things,  and  some  of  them  surprisingly 
cheap.  Thus  Mr.  Edwards  asks  no  more  than 
30s.  for  a  copy  of  the  '  Poems  '  by  "  Currer, 
•Ellis,  and  Acton  Bell,"  in  the  original  green  cloth, 
and  brought  out  in  1846.  A  first  edition  of 
Meredith's  '  Poems  *  in  a  sumptuous  illustrated 
copy  costs  181.  We  may  also  mention  the  Aldine 

•"  British  Poets  "  in  the  original  edition,  1830-53, 
361.,  and  a  first  edition  of  '  Pride  and  Prejudice,' 
B5L 

Miss  Mary  Nightingale  of  Tunbridge  Wells 
sends  us  a  list  (Catalogue  No.  4)  of  nearly  six 
hundred  items — chiefly  pictures  and  engravings. 

"She  has  a  number  of  good  originals,  as,  for  example, 
a  study  of  Gladstone's  head  by  H.  J.  Thaddeus, 
from  the  collection  of  the  late  Lord  Ronald  Suther- 
land-Gower  (101.  10«.),  and  an  oil  painting  of  an 
Italian  landscape  by  Richard  Wilson  (1714-82), 
521.  lOa.  The  most  attractive,  though  not  the 
most  expensive  item  in  the  list  is,  however,  hi 

•our  estimation,  the  original  tracing  by  Seymour 
Kirkup  of  Giotto's  portrait  of  Dante  in  the 
Palazzo  del  Podesta  at  Florence,  which  was  given 
to  the  Rossettis,  and  sold  after  Dante  Gabriel 
Rossetti's  death.  The  price  of  this  is  11.  Ten 
"  brulegravures  "  are  described,  among  them  an 
example  of  '  The  Bookworm,'  the  first  etching 
made  by  this  new  process.  The  prices  for  these 
as  given  here  range  from  12s.  6d.  to  21.  2s.  Miss 
Nightingale  ha*, besides,  interesting  collections|of 
portraits  and  engravings. 


Mr.  Macphail  of  Edinburgh,  also,  at  the  begin- 
ning of  his  Catalogue  No.  128,  describes  one  or 
two  good  portraits — those,  for  instance,  of  the 
Duke  of  Hamilton  (1606-48),  an  unsigned  minia- 
ture, 10Z.,  and  of  Lord  Newton,  a  copy  by  Rox- 
burgh of  the  Raeburn  portrait,  101.  Ids.  In  the 
way  of  books  we  noticed  a  copy  (once  belonging 
to  Alexander  Thomson  Grant,  "and  much  anno- 
tated by  him)  of  the  '  Fasti  Ecclesiae  Scoticanae,' 
brought  out  at  Edinburgh  in  1866,  31.  15s.  6d.;  a 
copy  of  Nisbet's  '  System  of  Heraldry,'  sound,  and 
containing  all  the  e'ngravings  (1816)",  Ql.  5s.  ;  and 
The  Scots  Magazine  from  its  commencement  in 
1739  to  1817—74  vols.  out  of  the  full  79— 31.  15s. 

Mr.  James  Miles  of  Leeds  describes  more  than 
1,200  books  in  his  Catalogue  No.  203,  and  these 
include  both  a  wide  range  of  subjects  and  many 
good  items.  We  may  mention  Whitaker's 
Histories  of  Craven  and"  of  Whalley,  both  in  the 
best  editions  (1812  and  1818  respectively),  and 
with  all  the  additional  engravings,  &c.,  101.  10s. 
for  the  two  together  ;  a  complete  set  to  1914  of 
the  Selden  Society's  Publications,  31  vols.  in 
all,  221.  10s.  ;  a  first  edition  of  the  three  volumes 
which  compose  the  original  '  Robinson  Crusoe  ' 
(vols.  i.  and  iii.  in  the  original  calf),  901.  ;  and  a  set 
of  Bentley's  "Standard  Novels  and  Romances," 
101. 

Messrs.  Sotheran  &  Co.,  in  their  Catalogue 
No.  765,  continue  to  describe  items  from  the 
library  of  the  late  Baron  de  Reuter — the  present 
list  being  of  books  on  Medicine,  Law,  Music,  and . 
Theology,  with  some  miscellaneous  addenda. 
From  these  last  we  may  mention  a  collection  of 
"  Romans  Grecs,"  translated  into  French — a  work 
which  was  never  finished,  vols.  vi.  and  vii.,  out 
of  15  vols.,  not  having  been  published — 1822-41, 
61.  1-Os.  Under  Music  is  a  copy  of  Fetis's 
'  Biographic  Universelle  des  Musiciens  et  Biblio- 
graphic Generate  de  la  Musique,'  not  dear  at 
31.  3s.  Under  Law  the  book  which  we  should  our- 
selves most  willingly  annex  is  a  copy  of  the  Hedaya, 
or  guide  to  and  commentary  on  the  Mussulman 
Laws,  translated  by  Charles  Hamilton,  and  pub- 
lished by  order  of  the  Governor-General  of  Bengal 
in  1791,"  51.  5s.  Nine  vols.  (A-L)  of  Richet's  great 
'  Dictionnaire  de  Physiologic  '  (1895-1913)  would 
be  a  valuable  acquisition  at  11.  10s.  ;  and  another 
important  work  of  this  order  is  Nagel's  '  Hand- 
buch  der  Physiologic  des  Menschen,'  which 
Messrs.  Sotheran  offer  for  4Z.  14s.  Qd.  Lastly, 
we  must  not  omit  to  mention  a  set  of  the  seven 
volumes  which  have  so  far  appeared  of  Gold- 
schmidt's  edition  of  the  Talmud,  to  be  had  here 
for  251. 

The  Alhenceum  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 

ON  all  communications  must  be  written  the  name 
ind  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub- 
ication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

MRS.  SAVAGE. — Perhaps  the  book  you  areenquir- 
ng  for  is  '  The  Reason  Why  in  Science,'  by  Prof. 
J.  Scott,  published  by  Messrs.  Cassell. 


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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. 


12  K.  II.  SEPT.  2,  1916.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


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. 


184 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [12  s.  n.  SEPT.  2,  wie. 


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 


12  8.  II.  SKPT.  2,  1916.]  NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 


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 


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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 


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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 


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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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"  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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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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11)7 


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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


199 


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. 


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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- 
ber, 1826,"  as  the  inscription  on  the  family  tomb 
at  Lough  ton  tells  us,  and  is  known — or  rather  not 
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. 
All  this,  with  a  few  bibliographical  details  about 
'  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. 


The  Athenaum  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.' 


Jlotias  ia  Comsponfcmts. 

ON  all  communications  must  be  written  the  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub- 
lication, but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

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,  so 
that  the  contributor  may  be  readily  identiSed. 

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. 

POSTAGE. — We  would  call  the  attention  of  our 
contributors  to  the  recent  alterations  in  the  rates 
of  tetter-postage.  A  letter  weighing  more  than 
one  ounce,  but  under  two  ounces,  requires  two- 
pence in  stamps.  We  have  on  several  occasions 
had  to  pay  excess  postage  because  our  correspon- 
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 
Jetter-rate  ? 

R.  B.  B.,  H.,  and  W.  R.  W.— Forwarded. 

MR.  NORMAN  PENNEY.— MR.  A.  H.  W.FYNMORE 
writes  to  say  that  Thomas  Shiffner  (ante,  pp.  29, 94) 
was  of  Westergate,  Sussex,  not  Westergate,  Essex. 


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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« 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [12  8.  n.  SEPT.  9,  win 


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. 


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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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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 


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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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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 ~ 
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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. 


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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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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. 


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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. 


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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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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 

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,  so 
that  the  contributor  may  be  readily  identified. 

CORRIGENDUM. — '  Statues  arid  Memorials,'  ante, 
p.  168,  col.  2,  1.  27,  for  "  Dec."  read  Sept. 

G.  B.  and  Y.  T.— Forwarded. 

MR.  CECIL  CLARKE. — Many  thanks.  You  are 
not  a  delinquent. 


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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.. 


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(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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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 


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(['.>'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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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." 


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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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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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 


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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 : — 

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  ot 
disposing  of  them. 

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,  so 
that  the  contributor  may  be  readily  identified. 

POSTAGE. — We  would  call  the  attention  of  our 
contributors  to  the  recent  alterations  in  the  rates 
of  Ze^er-postage.  A  letter  weighing  more  than 
one  ounce,  but  under  two  ounces,  requires  two- 
pence in  stamps.  We  have  on  several  occasions 
had  to  pay  excess  postage  because  our  correspon- 
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 
letter-r&te  ? 

ST.  SWITHIN  and  W.  R.  W. — Forwarded. 

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. 


12  8.  II.  SEPT.  23,  1916.]  NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


241 


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. 



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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 
Transactions  of  the  Bibliographical  Society 
of  London,  vol.  xii.,  1914,  pp.  188  sqq.,  an 
industrious  German  scholar,  Dr.  Ernst 
Crous,  enumerates  a  number  of  libraries, 
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 


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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. 


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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. 


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"  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. 


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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.' 


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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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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. 

DUNHEVED 


A     Classical    Dictionary.     By    H.     B.     Walters.. 
(Cambridge,  University  Press,,  11.  Is.  net.) 

MR.  WALTERS  has  accomplished  a  useful  and 
important  piece  of  work.  One  of  the  best 
features  of  modern  classical  scholarship  is  its 
insistence  upon  things  as  of  equal  importance' 
with  words  and  the  arrangements  of  words. 
There  is  something  highly  "  uneducational  "  in 
letting  students  use  words  without  taking  pains 
to  ascertain  and  remember  their  meaning  ;  but 
we  fancy  that,  till  lately,  this  commonplace  of 
educational  theory  has  been  brought  into  practice 
more  carefully  in  regard  to  metaphors  and  abstract 
words  than  in  regard  to  names  of  objects.  If  a 
sixth -form  boy  could  translate  cothurnus  by 
"  buskin,"  and  knew  its  conventional  association 
with  tragedy  and  pompous  diction,  what  the 
cothurnus  actually  was  like  need  receive  but 
cursory  attention.  But  the  study  of  "anti- 
quities "  is  at  least  as  necessary  as  the  study  of 
words,  if  the  past  of  Greece  and  Rome  is  to 'live 
again  in  any  profitable  way  in  the  minds  of 
classical  students  :  and,  since  it  requires  somewhat 
more  trouble  and  a  more  elaborate  apparatus 
than  the  mere  study  of  a  text,  we  may  well  be 
grateful  to  Mr.  Walters  for  the  help  he  here 
supplies.  The  letter-press  bf  this  dictionary  is 
illustrated  by  580  figures,  most  of  them  suitable  for 
their  purpose — though  some  require  a  practised  eye 
to  read  their  meaning.  So  far  as  we  have  tested 
them  the  entries  which  would  be  comprised  under 
the  head  of  antiquities  are  exceedingly  well  done — 
those  on  laws  and  constitutional  matters  are 
excellent,  as  are  also  those  relating  to  religious 
rites  and  customs. 


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The  biographical  entries,  on  the  other  hand,  are 
for  the  most  part,  in  our  judgment,  far  too  slight 
•to  be  of  use,  and  not  always  of  the  kind  required 
in  a  book  of  reference  for  students,  who  want  to 
be  able  tp  turn  to  it  for  facts.  The  following 
account  of  the  death  of  Socrates  may  serve  as  an 
illustration — a  single  one  must  suffice :  "  A 
representative  of  the  '  moderate  '  party  in  politics, 
he  was  brought  to  trial  and  put  to  death  in  399, 
by  the  restored  democrats  who  disliked  his 
reactionary  politics,  all  the  more  dangerous  be- 
cause they  were  not  extreme,  more  than  his 
supposed  false  teaching  in  religion  and  education." 
This  is  all  very  well  for  people  who  already  know 
about  Anytus  and  Meletus  and  the  Apology — about 
the  refusal  to  escape,  and  the  hemlock,  and  half-a- 
dozen  other  things  so  familiar,  to  the  writer  that 
he  thought  them  not  worth  putting  down.  But, 
in  a  reference  book,  the  aim  is  surely  to  inform 
those  who  do  not  know.  By  the  way,  is  it  not 
also  curious  that  this  particular  article  should  not 
contain  a  word  about  Plato  ?  The  old  friend  of 
our  childhood,  Smith,  who  even  in  the  '  Smaller 
Classical  Dictionary  '  amasses  a  surprising  number 
-of  facts,  really  does  better  than  this.  One  gets, 
in  fact,  from  the  biographical  entries  an  impression 
that  their  contributor  aimed  rather  at  interpreting 
his  subject  afresh  than  at  setting  down  concisely 
what  is  known  about  him  or  her  ;  haying  virtually 
adopted  the  point  of  view  of  the  critic  or  essayist, 
rather  than  the  distinctive  point  of  view  of  the 
compiler  of  a  dictionary. 

We  should  expect  this  work  to  go  through 
many  editions,  and  therefore  hope  that  it  will  be 
found  possible  at  some  future  time  either  to 
extend  or  to  recast  the  biographical  entries  ;  and 
we  would  further  suggest  that  all  the  illustrations 
(not,  as  now,  only  a  certain  number)  should  have 
a  note  of  their  origin  subjoined. 

Lest  we  should  seem  to  stint  praise  that  is  due, 
and  show  ourselves  all  too  lavish  of  criticism,  we 
had  better  repeat  that  this  is  a  really  valuable 
book  ;  and  we  may  add  that  if  there  has  been  any 
intention  to  avoid  dryness  in  the  making  of  it, 
that  intention  has  been  fulfilled.  In  fact,  we 
•  cannot  call  to  mind  any  dictionary  of  the  sort  in 
•which  there  is  quite  so  much  "  go.' 


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is  '  Lord  Lyons  :  a  Record  of  British  Diplomacy,' 
2  vols.  (E.  Arnold). 

MR.  C.  E.  STRATTON.—  The  New  York  Sun  is 
perfectly  accurate  in  stating  that  the  quotation 
about  a  negress,  Maria  Lee,  having  given  her  name 

—  as    "Black    Maria"  —  to    the    prisoners'    van 
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sent  to  us  nterely  as  a  curiosity  ;  we  have  no  reason 
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similar  to  the  last  could  not,  considering  the 
rise  in  price  of  material  and  labour,  be  less, 
though  probably,  by  strict  ecoaomy,  it 
would  not  exceed  (say)  260£. 

The  proprietor  is  not,  however,  in  a 
position  to  incur  this  fresh  outlay  at  present 
on  his  own  account. 

It  appears  to  be  obvious  that  the  money 
recently  subscribed  as  a  guarantee  fund  to 
keep  '  Notes  and  Queries '  going  in  its  old 
form  and  in  its  present  hands  cannot  be 
touched  in  the  interests  of  the  General 
Index,  especially  as  that  Index  would  be  of 
a  Series  all  but  completed  before  the  money 
was  subscribed. 

The  cost  of  the  Index  might  be  nearly 
halved  by  the  omission  from  it  of  the 
authors'  names,  which  would  be  a  reversion 
to  the  practice  in  the  General  Indexes  of 
the  first  eight  Series.  Cost  (say)  14<M. 

It  has  been  suggested  that  a  fund  should 
be  raised  among  those  who  are  interested  in 
the  paper,  and  especially  in  the  Eleventh 
General  Index. 

Seeing  that  these  Indexes,  including  the 
last,  the  payment  for  which  still  awaits 
completion,  have  heretofore  more  than 
covered  their  expenses,  there  is  every 
likelihood  that  the  money  subscribed  would 
be  repaid  gradually.  In  these  circumstances 
the  proprietor  appeals  to  the  readers  of 
*  Notes  and  Queries '  for  their  assistance. 

If  the  promised  subscriptions  amount  to 
only  the  smaller  of  the  sums  named,  he  will 
then  decide  whether  the  Index  had  better 
be  issued  without  the  authors'  names, 
though  as  to  this  important  question  he 
invites  opinion. 


LONDON,  SATURDAY,  SEPTEMBER  SO,  191(1. 


CONTENTS.-No.  40. 
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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [ia  s.  n.  SKPT.  so,  me. 


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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267 


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. 


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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 


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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." 


12  3.  II.  SWT.  30,  1916.]  NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


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. 


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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.] 


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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.  | 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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. 



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—  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. 


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RATHDOWN. 

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1829. 
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Weld,  M.R.I.A.     Dublin,  1832. 
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(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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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295 


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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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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 


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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. 

M.  P.  —  "  Meend"  has  been  discussed  at  11  S.  vii. 
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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [12  s.  n.  OCT.  w,  1916. 


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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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [I2s.ii.ocr.i4.i9i6. 


"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. 


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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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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. 


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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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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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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. 


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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: 


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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 
respective  subjects. 


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CONTENTS.— No.  43. 

TfOTES:  —  Ralph  Bohim  :  Christopher  Boone,  321  — 'The 
Morning  Post,'  322— An  English  Army  List  of  1740,  324— 
'  The  Tragedy  of  Csesar's  Revenge,'  325— Greatest  Recorded 
Length  of  Service,  327— " To  weep  Irish":  "To  war"— 
Influenza— "  Dug-out "  :  Various  Meanings,  328. 

•4JUERIES:— Pallavicini:  Arms,  328— Authors  Wanted  — 
"  Religious"  as  a  Substantive— St.  Francis  Xavier's 
Hymn,  329— Naval  Records  Wanted— "The  High  Court 
of  Chivalry  "—Barnard  Flower :  Bp.  Fox  of  Winchester- 
Touch  Wood— Author  and  Title  Wanted  of  Boys'  Book— 
Udimore,  Sussex— Mrs.  Edward  Fitzgerald's  Pictures— 
Dickens's  '  Bleak  House,'  330— Drawing  of  the  Mermaid 
Tavern,  331. 

'REPLIES  :— Mews  or  Mewys  Family,  331— Brassey  (Bracey) 
Family,  333— Edward  Stabler— Fisheries  at  Comacchio— 
Royal  Artillery— Americanisms,  334-Ladies'  Spurs- 
Local  Almanacs  of  the  Seventeenth  Century  —  Legal 
Macaronics, 335— Authors  of  Quotations  Wanted— "Car- 
dew  "  —  Du  Bellamy :  Bradstreet :  Bradshaw  —  Ching  : 
Chinese  or  Cornish '?— Motto  of  William  III.— Portraits  in 
Stained  Glass,  337— Toke  of  Notts— Mrs.  Anne  Dutton— 
Henchman  or  Hinchman— Cloth  Industry  at  Ayr,  338— 
St.  Peter  as  the  Gatekeeper  of  Heaven— Sir  John  May- 
nard— Bluebeard — Snob  and  Ghost — "Court"  in  French 
Place-Names,  339. 

•Jf  OTES  ON  BOOKS  :— '  The  Academ  Roial  of  King  J  ames  I. ' 
—'The Origin  of  the  Cult  of  Artemis." 

:  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 


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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 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [is  s.  n.  OCT.  21, 


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  " 


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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 


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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. 


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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." 


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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 


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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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [12  s.  ii.  OCT.  21, 


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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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. 


The  Athenaum  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  m  'N.  &  Q.1 


to  Cormpontoirts. 

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.C. 

C.  C.  B.  ("Back  to  old  Blighty  ").— See  12  S.  i. 
194,  292. 

MR.  M.  L.  R.  BRESLAR,  Miss  S.  CORNER,  and 
MR.  R.  PIERPOINT. — Forwarded. 
CORRIGENDUM.— Ante,  p.  315,   col.  1,  1.  23,  for 


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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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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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345 


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 


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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." 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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"  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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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. 


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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.] 


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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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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 


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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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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.) 


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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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [12  s.  n.  NOV.  i,  me. 


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. 


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-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."] 


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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.] 


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-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. 


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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 


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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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'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. 


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-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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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 

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. 

KENTISH  TOWN.— Forwarded  to  GENERAL  ASTLEY 
TERRY. 

CORRIGENDUM.— Ante,  p.  246,  1.  4,  for  "Norfolk" 
read  "  Lincolnshire." 


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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- 
tenham Guide  '—Sir  William  Perkins  School,  Chertsey— 
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- 
cellaneous Charters  relating  to  Sheffield  and  Rotherham  ' 
— "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. 


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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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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. 

Robert  Malet, 
uncle  of 
Lucy. 

Alan  of  Lincoln,=f 

uncle  of  Lucy 


Earl  Algar,=j 
(1000), 
d.  1059. 

i  ' 

Earl         E 
Edwin     Mo 
d-1063. 

=  Ivon  Tailbois  (l),=i 
?  dead  1094. 

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. 

7      1 

arl     Algytha,     = 
rkar.    wife  of 
King 
Harold. 

r  Ribald,  lord= 
of 
Middleham 
1086. 

^Beatrix           William  de            Ranulf,  Ea 
(1075).             Roumare                     Chestei 
(1094),                         (1095), 
Earl  of                d.  17  Kal.  J 
Lincoln.                          1153. 
.  _  1 

Alfred, 
nepos 

Toroldi,, 
1086. 


Radulf  fitz  Ribald 

of  Middleham, 

v.  1154. 


Gilbert   son  of=pGodith 

Ketel,  (Godiva). 

son  of  Eldred. 


-K 


* 


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 


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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. 


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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  :  — 


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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." 


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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. 


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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 


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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.' 


llottas  to 


We  must  call  special  attention  to  the  following 
notices  :  — 

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. 

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.C. 

MR.  W.  JACKSON  PIGOTT  and  MRS.  STEPHEN.  — 
Forwarded. 

MR.  J.  HARRIS  STONE.  —  The  epitaph  "Fare- 
well, vain  world,"  was  set  out  in  various  forms  at 
9S.  ii.  306,  536;  iii.  191. 

CORRIGENDUM,  p.  340.  —  In  consequence  of  an 
accident  to  the  type  of  the  last  line  on  this  page, 
'AKKur/j.bs  appeared  instead  of  'AKKiff/j.bs.  The 
corrigendum  should  have  been  :  "  Ante,  p.  315, 
col.  1,  1.  23,  for  AKKurfj.&s  read  'A.Kicur/j.t>s." 


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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). 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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. 


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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. 

History  of  Wexford,  Town  and  Countj.  Vol.  V. 
Chapter  on  Taghmon.  By  Philip  H.  Hore, 
M.B.I.A.  London,  1900-11. 

TALLAGHT. 

Victory  of  Tallaght  Hill.     Dublin,  1867. 
History  and  Antiquities  of  Tallaght.     By  W.  D. 

Handcock.     Dublin,  1877  and  1899.     (Includes 

data  on  villages  in  district.) 

TAMLACHT. 

Two  Ulster  Parishes,  Kilrea  and  Tamlacht :  a 
Sketch  of  their  History,  with  an  Account  of 
Boveedy  Congregation.  By  J.  W.  Kernohan, 
M.A.  Presbyterian  Historical  Society,  Cole- 
raine,  1912. 

TANEY. 

The  Parish  of  Taney  :  a  History  of  Dundrurn , 
co.  Dublin,  and  its  Neighbourhood.  By 
Francis  Ellington  Ball  and  Everard  Hamilton. 
Dublin,  1895. 

TABA. 

On  the  History  and  Antiquities  of  Tara  Hill.  By 
George  Petrie,  M.B.I.A.  Vol.  XVIII.  Pro- 
ceedings Royal  Irish  Academy,  Dublin,  1839. 
(A  learned  and  exhaustive  treatise  on  the  Hill 
of  Tara,  the  chief  seat  of  the  Irish  monarchs, 
from  the  earliest  dawn  of  their  history  to  the 
middle  of  the  sixth  century.) 

A  Short  Description  of  the  Hill  of  Tara.  Dublin 
(privately  printed),  1879. 

Tara,  Pagan  and  Christian.  By  Archbishop 
Healy.  Catholic  Truth  Society,  Dublin,  1915. 

See  Meath. 


*  See   'Extracts   from    Richardson  Correspond- 
ence,' edited  by  Dawson  Turner  (1835),  p.  15. 


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TEMPLEMORE  (co.  LONDONDERRY). 
'Ordnance  Survey  co.  Londonderry.  By  Col. 
Colby.  Vol.  I.  Parish  of  Templemore  (all 
published).  Includes  Essay  on  its  Antiquities, 
by  Petrie  and  O'Donovan,  with  Account  of  the 
Old  Palace  of  Aileach,  the  residence  of  the  Kings 
of  Ulster.  Dublin,  1837. 

TEMPLEPATRICK  . 

MSS.  relating  to  Templepatrick  Presbyterian 
Congregation.  Library  of  Presbjterian  His- 
torical Society,  Belfast. 

'The  Old  Session  Book  of  Templepatrick.  Articles 
in  Journal  of  Royal  Society  of  Antiquaries  of 
Ireland,  vol.  xxxi.  By  Rev.  Dr.  W.  T.  Latimer. 

TEMPLETOWN  (OR  KILCLOGAN). 
"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- 
logical Society,  only  125  copies  printed.) 

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. 

The  Hill  of  Slane  and  its  Memories  and  the  Castle 
of  Trim.  By  John  B.  Cullen.  Catholic  Truth 
Society,  Dublin,  1915. 

TI-AM. 
"Restoration    of    St.    Mary's    Cathedral,    Tuam. 

1861. 
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. 
Parliamentary     Memoirs     of     Fermanagh     and 

Tyrone,  1613-1855.     By  the  Earl  of  Belmore. 

Dublin,  1887. 

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." 


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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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409 


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 


410 


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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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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 


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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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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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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 


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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 


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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 


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.  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." 


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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- 
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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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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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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. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [12  s.  n.  NOV.  25,  wie. 


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 


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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 


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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.- 


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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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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.' 


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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. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [12  s.  n.  NOV.  23, 1916. 


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. 


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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 


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"  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 


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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 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         1 12  s.n.  DEC.  2,1916. 


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- 


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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. 


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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.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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. 


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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. 


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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.] 


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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. 


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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 


12  8.  II.  DEC.  2,  1916.] 


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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 


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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. 
net.  Vol.  IV.,  containing  about  the  same  number 
of  titles,  will  be  published  in  a  few  days  at  the  same 
price.  It  is  provided  with  both  Subject  and 
Author  Indexes,  and  includes  many  foreign  works. 


The  AthenfEum  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  <&0msp0tt>*ntfi. 


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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LONDON,  SATURDAY,  DECEMBER  9,  1916. 


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. 

•QUERIES  :— An  Artist's  Signature  :  Thackeray  and  'Punch  ' 
—Dick  England— Kanyette'468— Ibsen's  '  Ghosts'  and  the 
Lord  Chamberlain— Rev.  James  Cbelsum — Sir  Thomas 
Andrew  Lumisden  Strange  —  Napoleon  and  Nicholas 
Girod— Fellows  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  -  Scotch 
Universities— A  Tartar's  Bow,  469— Sargent:  Duncan— 
To  Play  "  Crookern  "—Payne  Family — Verdigris— Snakes 
and  Music— George  Turberville,  :470— Authors  of  Quota- 
tions Wanted,  471. 

REPLIES :— Mrs.  Anne  Dutton,  471— An  English  Army 
List,  of  1740,  473— Author  and  Title  Wanted— Lost  Poem 
by  Kipling— Marat :  Henry  Kingsley — Col.  J.  S.  William- 
son, 475— Edward  Hayes— George  IV.  and  the  Prerogative 
of  Mercy — 'Some  Fruits  of  Solitude'— Monastic  Choir- 
Stalls,  476— Sheppard  Family— '  The  London  Magazine' 
— Price :  Heraldic  Query  —  Author  Wanted— Prize  at 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  477— Names  of  the  Moon— Bible 
and  Salt— Coloured  Book- Wrappers— "  Yorker  " — Mayoral 
Trappings,  47S. 

UOTES  ON  BOOKS :—' Great  Victorians:  Memories  and 
Personalities  '—Reviews  and  Magazines. 

Notices  to  Correspondents. 


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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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 


12  S.  II.  DEC.  9,  1916.] 


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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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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. 


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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. 


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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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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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


477 


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 


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.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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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., 


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•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 


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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. 


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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. 


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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 


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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  : 
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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. 


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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 


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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 


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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 


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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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"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' 


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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.. 


,2  s.  ii.  DEC.  lo.  1916.]          NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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. 


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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. 


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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. 


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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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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


i*  s.  n.  DEC.  23.  me. 


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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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 


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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 


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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. 


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-  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 


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-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. 


ON  all  communications  must  be  written  the  namQ 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub- 
lication, but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

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. 

MR.  G.  W.  G.  BARNARD-  —  Forwarded. 

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 


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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. 

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A  Personal  Narrative  of  those  transactions  in  co. 
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Memoirs  of  Joseph  Holt.  Edited  from  his  MS. 
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General  History  of  the  Rebellion  of  1798.  By 
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History  of  the  Irish  Rebellion  in  1798.  By 
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History  of  the  Irish  Rebellion  of  1798.  By 
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The  Irish  Confederates  and  the  Rebellion  of  1798. 
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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [i2s.ii.DKj.ao.i9i6. 


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Guide    to    Wicklow.      By    Heffernan.      Dublin, 

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With   Notes   by   Rev.   W.   J.   Loftie.     Dublin, 

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(Feracualan),   Fertire,  and    Imale.     By    John 

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Guide  to  St.  Mary's  Collegiate  Church,  Youghal. 
By  Rev.  S.  Hayman.  Cork,  1868. 

Council  Book  of  the  Corporation  of  Youghal,  from 
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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. 

12  s.  ii.  DEC.  so,  i9i6.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


525 


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. 


526 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [12  s.  n.  DEC.  so,  wie. 


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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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. 


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•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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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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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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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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535 


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 


12  s.  n.  DEC.  so,  i9i6.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


-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. 


540 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [12  s.  n.  DEO.  so,  igie. 


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- 
cally  speaking,  the  main  prize  of  all  described 
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- 
selves rather  possess  a  fine  Flemish  illuminated 
-1  Horae  '  of  the  fifteenth-century  School  of  Bruges, 
with  25  miniatures,  and  many  other  fascinating 
details,  which  costs  125L  ;  and  alongside  of  that 
for  desirability  we  would  put  an  illuminated 
Persian  MS.  of  the  eighteenth  century — Nizami's 
'  Sikanda  ' — full  of  delights,  and  encased  in  a 
lacquer  binding  beautifully  adorned  likewise  with 
Persian  work,  of  which "  the  price  is  Q21.  10s. 
Messrs.  Myers  have  three  particularly  good 
autographs :  a  letter  of  Queen  Eliza.beth's 
Leicester  giving  directions  to  a  keeper  of  Windsor 
Forest  for  a  buck  to  be  sent  as  a  present  to  Mr. 
William  Davison  (1579),  211.  ;  a  letter  of  Dorset 
-to  that  same  Richard  Staffarton,  keeper,  about 
felling  trees  within  his  charge  (1595),  10L  10s. ; 
and  one,  signed  "  Henry  de  lorraine,"  from  the 
famous  Due  de  Guise,  murdered  at  Blois  in  1588, 
801. 

We  note  that  the  same  work,  in  the  original 
Latin  only — '  Anglorum  Praelia  ' — appears  in  the 
Catalogue  No.  204  of  Mr.  James  Miles  of  Leeds, 
printed  "  Londini,  apud  Radulphum  Nuberie. . . . 
1582,"  and  offered  for  21.  10s.  Mr.  Miles  has  also 
Thiers's  '  Histoire  de  la  Revolution  Franchise  '  and 
•  Histoire  du  Consulat  et  de  1'Empire,'  32  vols.  in 
all,  half-bound  in  scarlet  morocco — a  large-type 
library  edition  which  belonged  to  Lord  Holden 
(1874-80),  11.  Is.  ;  a  first  edition  of  Walter  Pater's 
'  Marius,  the  Epicurean,"  in  the  original  cloth 
(1885),  21.  10s.  ;  Ixivelace  and  Davies's  translation 
of  Voiture,  the  first  edition,  in  an  old  calf  binding, 
which  is  possibly  the  original  one,  and  having 


beneath  Voituro's  portrait  eight  lines  by  Lovelace 
not  found  in  his  '  Lucasta  '  (1657),  3/.  3s.  :  and 
the  '  Tour  through  North  Wales,'  published  first 
in  1817,  with  the  coloured  plates  after  Turner, 
Prout,  and  others,  61.  6s. 

A  great  feature  of  Mr.  Charles  J.  Sawyer's  new 
Catalogue  (No.  43)  is  the  number  of  its  extra- 
illustrated  works.  For  OOZ.  he  is  offering  a  copy 
of  Bryan's  '  Dictionary  of  Painters,'  extended,  by 
moans  of  2,062  plates,  some  of  them  rare  and 
valuable,  from  the  2  vols.  of  1816  to  21  vols. 
Then  there  is  I^ady  Theresa  Lewis's  '  Extracts  ' 
of  Miss  Berry's  '  Journal '  and  correspondence, 
extended  to  6  vols.  by  the  insertion  of  over 
300  engravings,  151.  10s.  ;  Madame  D'Arblay's 
'  Diary  '  and  letters,  similarly  illustrated,  7  vols., 
122.  ;  and  one  or  two  moro.  One  of  the  best 
items  in  the  Catalogue'  to  which  the  name  '  John 
Ruskin's  Original  Study  Book  '  has  been  attached, 
is  a  collection  in  two  elephant  folio  volumes,  made 
by  John  Ruskin,  of  some  650  old  engravings  of 
English  and  Welsh  cathedrals  and  abbeys,  used 
by  him  as  material  in  his  early  study  of  archi- 
tecture, and  in  several  instances  annotated  by 
him.  This  is  certainly  not  expensive  at  30Z.  A 
first  edition  of  Borrow's  '  Zincali '  (1841),  10L  10s. ; 
the  Oxford  edition  of  Defoe's  '  Works  '  (1840-41), 
121.  12s.  ;  a  copy  of  the  Grolier  Bible,  one  of  the 
edition  "  de  grande  Luxe,"  limited  to  86  copies, 
and  printed  entirely  on  Japanese  vellum,  18Z.  10s. 
— these  may  serve  as  specimens  of  an  enjoyable 
collection  of  rare  or  remarkable  books. 


WE  have  much  pleasure  in  announcing  that  our 
new  volume  will  be^in  with  the  first  instalment  of 
a  valuable  and  most  interesting  contribution,  which 
we  owe  to  the  generous  kindness  of  Sir  Richard 
Carnac  Temple.  This  is  the  original  private  cor- 
respondence, now  at  the  India  Office,  of  a  factor  and 
merchant  of  Bengal,  towards  the  end  of  the 
seventeenth  century.  The  letters  have  never 
before  been  published,  and  would  appear  to  be 
unique  of  their  kind.  Sir  Richard  Temple  has 
not  only  transcribed  them,  hut  has  added  numerous 
biographical,  topographical  and  other  notes  in 
order  to  make  complete  the  lovely  picture  they  give 
of  the  Anglo-Indian  life  of  the  period. 

The  Athenrvum  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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ii.  461).—  MR.  CKCIL  CLARKE  writes  :  "The  highly 
interesting  article  n]x»n  this  subject  prompts  one 
to  hoi»e  that  MK.LKTTS  may  be  enabled  to  carry  out 
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period,  embracing  the  destruction  by  fire  of  the 
second  Royal  Exchange  on  Jan.  10,  1838." 


Notes  and  Queries,  Jan.  27,  1917. 


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, 

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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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